. >> and feinstein finally they've developed strong connections so we can expand the languages tagalog and vietnam 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 ti

the xroir neighborhood we the community assessment we did over 20 community groups in spanish and tagalog and chinese to get the development needs in the neighborhood and out of that came some city funding quite frankly to do the deems project that brings together the worker rights and education of investing in policies that provide career opportunities for residents and the employment for port services and building economic assets in our neighborhood in particular that has focused on the could open community cooperation and incubation it is ruled in our members last year launched a catering mississippi license number and other members launched another food establishment for the food this evening and as well as other used bikes and fixing skills to young people and giving away bikes to low income residents in the neighborhood and really developing and promoting a vision of alternative transportation modes and having an impact on our environment and in doing the work we're reenvisioning what the green jobs and having a green economy it's not just a hard hat it's day to day work from the gr

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

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 pond. are there any further comments from members of the civil grand jury, mike from the civi

is really wonderful to honor [speaker not understood] given that san francisco recently certified tagalog as a language covered under our city's language access ordinance. with mr. [speaker not understood]'s family here today, i wanted to share with them that our office has been working to build upon his legacy by improving language access for all through strengthening the language access ordinance to something that was spearheaded by supervisor chiu here. mr. [speaker not understood]'s legacy will continue to impact our communities. he was a gem in our district and has impacted so many through his service to our city. and i don't know if this is up and running now, but we recently, mr. [speaker not understood] was actually honored by asian, inc., so, we do have a video that they played there as a tribute to him, his life, i'd like to show a short clip of that. [video presentation] >> he what in the personal page. he was a [speaker not understood] very accessible. [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. so, they he were able to not only able to be successful [speaker not under

ilid along with many other filipino leader in the city has also advocated to make tagalog the lang warren buffettv certified in san francisco, a great achievement for the filipino community and a necessary and important language access issue. when looked at in its entirety, it is clear that ilid's organizing work is not just a job for her. it is truly a passion. it is something that is deep, genuine, and personal. lift as you climb has always been her motto, lift as you climb. she is a true daughter of san francisco and our diverse community and i want to thank her for everything she has done for district 9, for bernal heights and i am honored to have worked with her, to call her friend, and i know that she is here surrounded by community, the community that she continues to impact on a daily basis. congratulations, ilid. [cheering and applauding] >> the floor is yours. >> thank you so much, supervisor campos. i work with both john and david, and i really want to thank you for having this day and time in recognizing all of the filipino -- honoring everybody else that has done so much work

san francisco, any population of over 10,000, that means chinese, spanish, and the mayor just added tagalog. have i the screen shots of those reports where you can see there is no intention of rec and park being part of the community that is the fabric of san francisco. you have to as commissioners start talking to task and taking the seriousness that we are not an english-speaking mono lingual society here, all right? [ applause ] . >> thank you. >> good morning commissioners. thank you for hearing the community today. my name is gabriel medina and i'm the president of the san francisco latino democratic club when we saw and heard about this injustice to the youth, we knew they were leading and we are here to get their back. we're here for them. they have composed a variety of demands that they composed with mission-based agencies. and we would like to you respect those demands. we appreciate general manager ginsburg and being swift to reach out to us, to try to address these youth, as well as our commissioners. we thank you. but we want to make sure that we don't end here. because it's gr

if you're fluent in hindi, vietname vietnamese, or tagalog, they need your help. anybody registered to vote in california is eligible. >>> a big debate and it's happening right here at nbc bay area. congressman mike honda will face off with ro khanna, their one and only debate before the election. the 17th congressional district, which is the silicon valley, i'll be moderating this debate monday evening at 6:30. congressman honda is seeking his eighth term. what's the future of the silicon valley? we want to hear from you. go to our nbc bay area facebook page and ask a question you'd like answered by the candidates. we might use your question next monday night. >>> it's happened again. the new security breach that has one bank sending a message to 76 million customers. >>> i'm jody hernandez. in oakland, firefighters pulled off a dangerous high-stakes rescue. and i do mean high. after window washers found themselves in quite a predicament. >>> that will probably be the thanks i can give her. >> a heartwarming story, a second chance for a high school sports star wh