i use the words of members of the samoan community to uplift this brother. it is a pleasure to stand up in this chamber and honor you for this commitment to not only san francisco but specifically to the samoan community. putting the pacific islander in asian pacific islander. welcome to the board of supervisors' chambers. i am so humble to bestow this simple expression of love and gratitude. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome -- [applause] >> i think i can fate now. -- faint now. i am humbled for this honor. who would think? my mother came from samoa as a single woman and raised two kids. we never left these housing projects for five or six years. when we moved, we always seemed to move around district 10, never leading district 10. 54 years old and i'm still in district 10. that says a lot for my community service. i worked 23 years in the hotel industry and it was a job. this was because of the disability. i became disabled and i did volunteer work. that has been the most in powering work i have ever done. -- empowering work i have ever done. to give ba

for example, samoan. inc. special education students unhinged in plans for expanding the language programs. identify the needs and strategies related to resources and the trade-off. goo>> the challenges regarding student assignments are adding to the -- they were added to the student policy at the last minute and without discussion. there is a projected increase in the middle school population. uneven enrollment now means we have some oversubscribed and under-enrolled in middle schools. there is no middle school and a few and not enough in the southeast part of the city -- in a vero -- in bayview and not enough in the southern part of the distcity. people will not trust it is really going to happen. it is complicated to implement language pathways in the context of the system. when schools are under unrolled, it is usually because parents believe they are not high quality. now the recommendations regarding student assignment. do not implement feeder patterns. strengthen the quality of all middle schools. stren

or are they written by members of the samoan community, the african-american community, the asian community? >> i know a number of the statements were prepared by members of the community, qualified historians within the community. i believe there is a philippine -- there is a filipino context statement. there is a gay, lesbian, career, and transgender context statement. we are happy to provide you a list of those. supervisor cohen: japanese lgbt? >> i believe there is a filipino context statement. i can provide you a comprehensive list. supervisor cohen: that would be great to have. chairperson mar: it would help me if you could be more specific on, for example, the fillmore jazz district, the african american or jazz cultural history of involvement in the development of plant and for japan town -- development of planning for japan town, how the asian communities were involved in that context. but just some general sense for those examples. >> the fillmore area context statement was before my time, but i am happy to look into it. in terms of japan town, that was also prepared by another me