what are the 4 major languages >> there's 3 arrest spanish mandarin and tagalog. >> is that what you propose all the education material being made available in. >> yes commissioner hur's commissioner andrews. >> i would i was wondering about resources i totally get how we create the unfunded mandate is there an opportunity to go to the city to find resources that we can do this this is could we go to the mayor's office and at least the staff and is that the commission has identified a particular need or the grand jury identified a need and we agree with that we want to move forward with those 3 languages is there a culture cultivated in the mayor's office or use a department of public health be able to use their resources just thinking of kind of 3 ways. >> if the department agreed to do it we will have to pay them. so if there's a large cost we'll have to go to the mayor's office and question a supplemental appropriation that goes through the board. >> any further comments from the commissioners. in favor of commissioner keane's motion >> i oppose. on the grounds i'm concerned about

think over the coming months this board will be asked to evaluate whether chinese or vietnamness and tagalog as well as for a pathway into high school i want to flag that as an issue as we try to expand some predictability but we're aware for the privileging a couple of schools over other schools for the right reasons. >> commissioner haney. >> thank you. i have a couple of questions to clarify so and commissioner maufas brought this up what exactly with the breakdown if every gateway eight grader were to go to ninth grade i know that's your hope but if they made the choose you how many spaces for non-gateway middle school students ways the percentage i know that commissioner maufas said 50 percent. >> absolutely so the we have one hundred students in our eight grade and one hundred and 70 if the ninth grade in pooling our families not all our eight graders will choose our high school and we really do help our students see lots of choices we encourage them to visit the high schools we think that choosing should be about choice and they're lots of things that gateway didn't offer that the sch

. >> and feinstein finally they've developed strong connections so we can expand the languages tagalogietnam are some of the languages. >> good evening, commissioners and the superintendent we're honored to receive the special award this means a lot to our team the interpretation team is lucky to have talented and committed employees our work is not easy it is some translations some clients e think we translate but it is carefully done we have bad days but our interpreters strife to do the best once the interpretation start is in the background they get the message across and get us to meaningful conversations tonight we are being recognized and beyond gratified for the important work we do everyday we are proud to get this report card with the board of education and we'll share that with our coworkers that are not able to be here thank you (clapping.) thank you very much. >> my name is an online liquify i work in 70 san francisco unified school district for 3 years and a half many times i was asked you are listening to one language and interpreting it into another at the same time how

residents share a language and there are three now, chinese, including cantonese and mandarin and tagalog and korean and these are the languages used by the department of elections in their materials, but the voters guide does not determine which languages should be mandated. it is the language access ordinance that was implemented and passed by the board of supervisors and initiated by the board of supervisors that determines that. that concludes everything that i wanted to say. i wanted to add that we have been working with city departments, particularly with the mayor's office on disability. they have been fantastic in really working with us to make sure that we're not only ensuring accessibility from the ada perspective, but also from language service and support. and again, we want to thank the civil grand jury's attention to language access issues, which we consider critical to full and meaningful civic participation. and especially i want to thank the board of supervisors for its leadership on this issue. we wouldn't be where we are today without your leadership. >> thank you, miss