speakers and supervisor avalos has been a strong leader for tagalog. supervisor avalos >> thank you naomi was going to do a hearing on the certification of tagalog harassing as part of the language cease program and yesterday supervisor chiu was throbbing how many hearings we've been doing now i don't have to do a hearing because of the great leadership of the filipino community but all across san francisco i represent district 11 naomi said we have 3 thousand tagalog speakers and many more filipino speakers and in district 6 supervisor kim rival yaech in the filipino population but your government should be responsible to everyone and canoeing had k347d in 2009 was about that it's lived up to the promise we want to make sure that the residents can take advantage of the federal benefits and the determination that wouldn't have come about without the support of the mayor and naomi and one who wasn't mentioned was a gentleman who (clapping) has done a lot of outreach in district 11 and in the filipino community and the young people that's served and than

i'm not a fluent tagalog speaker i want to ucla but with my limited focuscy i had to do we have to help our filipino members access service and helped people to get food stamps and get legal assistance to fight for their reporters. a lot of the folks are doing this in district 6. i want to thank you naomi kelly for your work and supervisor avalos for proposing the amendment and passing it in 2009. your staff amy and so many folks to thank supervisor kim and supervisor avalos and april and supervisor avalos office staff and also a couple of supervisors not here supervisor campos and his office and supervisor ed mar were helpful in the process. there are so many people that helps to make this happen we're standing on the shoulder the filipino community that's been here almost a century fighting for housing and workers to live in san francisco. i i know supervisors that have been representing their districts 6 and 11 we know we've hit the 10 thousand folk people saipg i don't speak enough english and the united states is so important there is an under count of folks so we're very happy to

do we call the neighborhood for our lowest income people but mom for the vietnam and russian and tagalog and spanish and have that neighborhood and create and development a healthier and positive neighborhood we do that with the organizations here. roornd talked about how we fought for the tenderloin that will make that a safer place to walk this is one of the worse neighborhoods to walk in we're happy to have our chief from the tenderloin and our watch program and we have residents from the healthy i didn't neighborhood campaign we've got a lot of liquor stores. this is from tobacco to highway traffic act produce fruits and vegetables and bread we're able to do that on sixth and howard and the owners say not only can i make money on the healthy foods but my health has improved. we are going to have a museum dedicated tothe residents of the tenderloin. whether it's barbara he will hemet or mell davis or mohammed ali a little known attorney willie brown and i forgot to mention the grateful dead you society that with the ashbury bureau but we're going to bring the story to everyone in the

our staff speak several languages including cantonese, mandarin, berns, tagalog and spanish. two are our staff are bilingual spanish speakers because a large number of our cases of non-english speakers are spanish speakers. for languages other than the ones i mentioned we will have interpretive services and we'll make sure we understand each other. our office is located at 25 van ness on the 7th floor very close to the corner of van ness and market. we are easily accessible by public transportation and receive walk in complaints between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.. we also receive compliant by telephone, e-mail, mail and fax. we have an answering service for after hours complaints. feel free to call us then. you can also file a complaint at the district police station and district personnel will forward us the information immediately. if you would like more information we have brochures here and i believe one of our investigators was supposed to be here. [ laughter ] . the person does show up i will make sure and introduce him or her. in any event thank you very much