and since our community is mainly speaking tagalog, we try to provide them a linguistic competence and culturally sensitive information with them, and we try to be with them one- on-one in assisting them with housing applications. we also provide the resources, so our community really needs your support. we are basically the only organization for the latino communities for housing assistance. and we have our clients here that can support our program. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. the heritage foundation affordable housing subprogram needs your support to continue the program for the families, seniors, and low-income. all these people are hard- working and sacrifice for the clients to find affordable housing programs. thank you very much, supervisors. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker. >> i will be presenting for the manilasound foundation and appealing to all of you to please not cut the budget of the asia foundation. the only person we can come to in moments of frustration. there are difficulties in life. it was them who will help out. i am appealing

we are looking at the growing populations in tagalog. vietnamese is also commonly requested. supervisor chiu: thank you. i appreciate that work. supervisor kim: i just had questions about some of the vacancies that exist in the department, some of which have been vacant since 2000. has that impacted your ability [inaudible] what do you think is some of the reasoning behind that? what are some of the positions you have had trouble filling? >> we are trying to clarify the one or two ago by, and there are some part-time vacancies. but the vacancies -- we built into the budget an attrition rate. last year, we noticed a decline in our revenues, so we needed to make sure we did not go into this year with a deficit, so we had to freeze some of the hiring, and we were able to do that by virtue of deploying staff from branches that were closed during renovations, but we will no longer have the luxury of doing that, so we have begun to fill those positions, and we've had great support from the department of human resources. it does take time to recruit, so we have made great headway on

we are looking at the growing populations in tagalog. vietnamese is also commonly requested. supervisor chiu: thank you. i appreciate that work. supervisor kim: i just had questions about some of the vacancies that exist in the department, some of which have been vacant since 2000. has that impacted your ability [inaudible]

another challenge facing his department some of those being laid off from his office speak spanish and tagalog. it will make policing that much tougher. george kiriyama bbc bay area news. >>> southern california police arrested a computer repairman who took spying on his customers to a whole new level. police say trevor hartwell installed software that took control of computer webcams and then sent fakeror messages telling users to fix the internal sensor. that error message asked victims to take their laptops into the bathroom of all places suggesting exposure to steam might fix the problem. police say that's when the factor took photographs and video, usually of women that were partially clothed or in the process of undressing. after he was arrested it turns out that a father noticed the suspicious error message on his own daughter's computer and then took it to police. >>> well, game night is back once again. a big family event. but of course this time with a high-tech twist. but electronic gaming systems have a not so family-friendly feature. you see, kids can hop on the internet through m