Us so that is the most effective way to outreach us as many of the people have been calling me i even have my phone number posted so that they can contact me i shouldnt be the only person doing that. Thank you. Hi my name is grace lee i just want to quickly thank supervisor chiu he has been a long time champion of this issue and we know this is slow going and it takes a lot of collaboration so these hearings are very important for us we appreciate this committee has been holding these hearings. We have been meeting with them on a quarterly basis but were happy to have all stakeholders at the table to hear their struggles and bring the Community Needs to them. Were in the second year of our work some of our colleague are also here. Representing the arabic speaking and french and a whole host of african immigrants and the community does not know about the language ordinance and dont know that they have the right to receive critical forms in language so our key role is to get the information out there and helping them with direct assistance and help them file complaints and just document their needs so we can bring it back to the supervisors and city departments so were here to continue working on this and happy to support the supervisors and please reach out to us if we can be of assistance. Thank you. Good afternoon chairperson and president chiu and supervisor breed. Im the executive director of the be rna l heights neighborhood. Our organizations work closely with agencies and often we do end up playing the role of translators and interpreters just an example alone providing hundreds of hours of translation and as a native filipino speaker myself im an immigrant as well and its important that the Language Access ordinance continues to get enforced and as a member of the Language Access network and we and the other organizations who are doing the daytoday on the ground work are committed to work closely with ocea and city agencies to make sure that the city is able to provide the highest Quality Services and Accessible Services as possible. I know were talking about language right now but as someone who is an immigrant there is cultural context so i was a little bit dismayed to hear the chief talk about Google Translate i understand the inadequacies of that program. Requires Human Connection to properly address Community Members who just want to access City Services so thank you all for your support. Good afternoon supervisors i am the Language Access coordinator we are part of the Language Access network as well and even though we have Different Reasons 75 to 80 percent of our Members Services are sometimes the key to breaking the cycle of violence and they can even be life or death and death. Death. [inaudible]. But at that point lack of Language Services for housing are unnecessary obstacles for the survivor even though there have been many improvements in terms of Language Services theres still a lot more to be done as well as lowering wait times which are still significantly higher than wait times in english. Thank you very much. If there are any other members of the public who wish to speak please step up. Good morning supervisors im the Program Director of the African Advocacy Network a program of Community Services and we are dedicated to providing immigrant Legal Services to all africans across the continent so all the way from north africans all the way down to south africa and i believe with diversity we are speaking about and also the san franciscan population and i want to thank you for the fact that you know we have been included most of the time we classify ourselves as the face less and voiceless and a community in the making and the fact that with the assistance of oci and you know to include the africans this tells a whole lot about the city of San Francisco but sometimes at our Network Meetings we also tried to look at the situation not from the standpoint of our also you know and we always give the example of someone who is suffering from a contagious disease and who by a language barrier and we understand its going to be a process that year after year i saw here the police chief talking about the Language Access but at the same time that should go along with the work of education how do you convince the new immigrants that are traumatized and again you know we like to thank you and then you know and we like to continue supporting counting on your support so that this becomes [inaudible] thank you again. Just a second. Well i was going to say if there are any other members of the public who wish to speak i want to thank you for your work and staff i dont know if you have any final comments based on what you have heard i want to take a moment and thank all the members of the public who have been working and fighting for more Language Access in our city. This was one of the very first ordinances that i worked on in my first months in office and also with ocea and our city departments i think weve come a long way but i think its fair to say we have a long way to go and we still have a lot of conversations to improvements in the ordinance and enforcement there are many ways in which departments are trying to comply and as a city were investing in language capabilities i think is something thats very important and i also want to say as a city weve been a beacon to the rest of the world and i think the way we really become a National Model of diversity in large part rests in how we as a City Government interact with our residents in their full diversity and i do think and hope that we can get there but i know there is a lot of work to be done so i look forward to the partnerships that all of us and the board and with that supervisor tang has some comments but i would like to table this item this is a yearly update and i know i look forward to working with folks supervisor tang and others. Okay a motion to table this item so without objection. Without objection. Oh i apologize. President chiu, before we take any further action, you will need to rescind the vote to excuse me from the meeting. Happy to make that motion. Okay without objection that motion passes. Oh yes. I just wanted to make a few comments. Growing up with immigrant parents i served as their interpreter so this issue is very near and dear to me as well and we try to make sure we incorporate dual language capabilities so for example we work to translate our newsletters and notices to Community Members in chinese as well and i would say the professional work they do to help us better reach our community so i know that there have been a number of recommendations that have been made those are all things that our office is very interested in continuing to work on with supervisor chiu and put in a request for budget Analyst Report and improvements that we can make so ill be calling another hearing at another time to further discuss that and again in partnership with supervisor chiu and i would say translation is different from interpretation we have to understand the cultural differences why some communities dont participate in Community Meetings may be a cultural issue there and maybe reach them in other ways. I look forward to working to provide a centralized resource and at the same time recognizing some of the city departments sfpd and others actually do need to embed as well culturally competent staff within their own departments so looking forward to some sort of a hybrid model there. Thank you very much for participating today. Thank you so theres a motion to table this item. Without objection this item is tabled. Madam clerk is there any other items before us today. That concludes our items for today. Okay this meeting is adjourned thank you. clapping. i think we have more companies anywhere in the United States its at the amazing statement were not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. The most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think hes a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think were not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. I thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are Great Stories for on opera. I was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. A friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. Why isnt it are that i have the support now we can do that. I realized that was something that wasnt being done in San Francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in San Francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision thats the final product felt opera. I was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. So much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work theres great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs weve worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. I had a model they have a professionally music yes, maam assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor id be able to work with them and its helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. Thats part of the opera lab i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so thats why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. There were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and its different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and thats part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. So one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. Thats what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people dont like it and some people do were concerned about that. Its about thirty something out there thats risky. You know, disliked by someone torn apart and thats the whole point of what were drying to do you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. On december 28, 1912, San Francisco mayor stared into a sea of 60,000 of constituents that gathered at geary. The berth of the first publicly owned Transit System in the city, the San Francisco municipal railway. Good afternoon. And welcome to san fra rns Planning Commission regular