affairs commission supports the global pacific islander movement and the illegal trafficking and it is the chinese government who have confiscated ivory and other major chinese markets have ended ab is co-sponsored by speaker atkins and chair laura and leon no and assembly members i got wrong we thank supervisor wiener and commissioner chan for their leadership and san francisco's important support nor ab 9 of and protecting rhinos and elephants it is an clooit which i say the government has identified as an international contra costa choice and new york is been identified and by clarifying the i've very that will help to battle terry rich it is circle for terrorist groups like the michelle and other army in uganda it is increasing taking part in the lucrative that market the elephant and rhino population has declined we 50 percent and the elephant population is reduced to half of what it was more 50 thousand elephants were reduced to the second largest market in the world 1/3rd of ivory offered for sale was not - a staggering 2 thousand rhinos were purchased in africa and only 29 t

affairs commission supports the global pacific islander movement and the illegal trafficking and itese government who have confiscated ivory and other major chinese markets have ended ab is co-sponsored by speaker atkins and chair laura and leon no and assembly members i got wrong we thank supervisor wiener and commissioner chan for their leadership and san francisco's important support nor ab 9 of and protecting rhinos and elephants it is an clooit which i say the government has identified as an international contra costa choice and new york is been identified and by clarifying the i've very that will help to

the celebration of the parade but also for the most part you're here at the empire jeff asian pacific islanderecause the emperor is here he has lots of fun this is one of the opportunities to step out of his suit and the real suits he always want to be in and his cowboy boats at the same time the dallas rams thank you to you and the ownership here the investors here your been wonderful partners not only on this event but this year with the kinks e connections to our chinese community you're wonderful large community of operations with or that we have going for this new year please come out and enjoy the community fairs the 10 k run autopsying all of the flowers being sold longing stockton street with the goodies give a red envelope to the person that are still single and younger than you i seven hundred younger (laughter) and anita and i wanted to say to all of you who a great spirit of our new year>> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) yum, yum. >> yeah. right all right. >> and really a joyous new year to everyone thank you to the police officers for being here and keeping people safe

chiang that the president of the asian pacific islander foundation in san francisco on organization that is dedicated to promoting a difference cultural and heritage of the community and celebrating the asian pacific islander community every year ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming california law deny chang (clapping.) thank you. good morning everyone this is my greater time of the year we started this talking about the postage stamp it is - since i see we have a lot of san francisco school children with us i want to thank you the story how you get a stamp it is not easy to get a stamp print bits united states postal service a year and a half there are a lot of applications about ideas so it is competitive, however, we're lucky in this chinese asian community sometimes, we ask make a difference we have i believe we were fortunate many of our members a member of the chapter james is a person that came up with the idea and why not have something to commemorate and honor the history and contribution of the chinese-american in this country so you can could it, too so the ideas

no supporting this resolution and many say noted the california pacific islander which is the statewide body of api leaders from all the states as well as the passion, prejudice alliance a world winning alliance and their here to urge your support thank you. >> thank you very much >> next speaker and then the names i've called feel free if you'd like to listen up along the far wall. >> i'm amy linda resident in the city. >> speak closer to the microphone. >> i'm amy lining a resident in want city asking you to support the ab 96 bill. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi my name is jean in aim the leading lead elephant keeper at the zoo i have the privilege of wall street those complex socially dynamic elephants not a day goes but they don't teach me something new whether it's the interaction and use the tools like a stick to scratch they're eagerly i'm challenged and complicated by their behavior on the forefront of elephant conservation biff on the the cutting-edge to taking care of those animals and travel to african to educate people of their compliekt 96 elephants with the wi

horses we welcome the ram and then mayor ed lee also former mayor willie brown and jeffrey asian pacific islandergreat honor to invite the honorable mayor ed lee to say happy new year also will say it in chinese. >> thank you doris. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and everyone in mandarin. >> all right. right. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> >> first of all, everybody welcome to the kickoff of our wonderful chinese new year the year of the ram i'm so happy to joined by former mayor willie brown give willie a hand (clapping.) supervisor christensen is here thank you julie for being here and sxhaifshg thank you for being here did i miss any other supervisors or rams here gosh what a wonderful kickoff this just gets more eloquent every year i want to say thank you to the san francisco chinese chamber of commerce for their leadership we're going to have a wonderful two weeks of celebration actual very much to the asian presiding officer's you saw their display along with the chinatown youth center the youth fair with their we have displays you'll be seeing repeated and more eloquent during the

>> pacific islander berry this proposal adds debombardments from c from for impermissible hides i bids this will debar a contractor from a city contractor for a specific period of time this is a hash penalty when applied to regulatory schemes such hash penalties should are for penalties and decreeing from for other penalties and violations. >> we shall move to number 6 oh i'm sorry. >> good evening, commissioners i would speak against addressing the penalty of c from commissioner andrews talked about in my view is the have you you have a volunteer of a board of directors that gets money from the city is the completely unaware their nonprofit gets money and decides to support a captioning candidate and makes a hundred dollars contribution the result is a nonprofit that otherwise is doing negotiating for the city debarred and that's a bit harsh it seems like this will allow the city upon the recommendation to go after the worse violators if you had a city contractor laundering money to a campaign i would think the city process and you think the city officials will seek the department in

pacific islanders coffee i knew him when we was working in a coffee store he was playing around with coffee but more than it's coffee growing up we didn't have money when the construction boom slowed down any mom would say can you go to thildz and get some coffee i didn't have the money to pay so phil give us credit so maybe next week there are a lot of businesses in the city that have been around a long, long time that has the center specialness that makes san francisco special i urge you working on this project to that about that you know, i figure it will do a lot of good for the people and especially the people that survived; right? let's be honest >> anticipate maybe something as a commission and as an agency i've talked with the mayor about it and you know he thinks this is good so i think as a city family and as a community as and people that come and do business with us maybe we'll make a concerted effort for people that have been here a long time that's all i ask. >> commissioner mondejar yes this is great your proposal is exciting and wonderful by i was wondering if you've

the california commission on asian and pacific islanders voted in support of ab 96 and two members of the assembly man david chew and phil tang have both joined as coauthors of ab 96. this will put the county of san francisco on this important bill. colleagues, i ask for your support. we heard in committee from the amazing advocates who have been working very hard to call attention to what is happening in africa and elsewhere. this city in san francisco has always been a refuge for many kinds of people and also where we are passionate about the mistreatment of animals and for san francisco to be the leading market of a sale of a product that only comes into existence by killing elephant or killing a rhinoceros is unacceptable. so it is very important for san francisco and all cities to be firmly on record. i ask for your support. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, supervisor wiener, supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: thank you, i want to echo supervisor wiener's comments and that can him for taking the lead on this. i know it is a resolution but that strong message that san f

look at the mall or the you know, i know it's not going to be all the big name stores by like pacific islanders coffee i knew him when we was working in a coffee store he was playing around with coffee but more than it's coffee growing up we didn't have money when the construction boom slowed down any mom would say can you go to thildz and get some coffee i didn't have the money to pay so phil give us credit so maybe next week there are a lot of businesses in the city that have been around a long, long time that has the center specialness that makes san francisco special i urge you working on this project to that about that you know, i figure it will do a lot of good for