Personal commits commitments what can i do to join the revolution thank you to the girls and others wrooik our messages of how to contribute here in San Francisco i made a personal commitment along with all the other Department Heads we have a program called interrupt to predict and organize against violence in the city we want to make sure we end Human Trafficking in San Francisco every opportunity clapping i just want to say im so proud of the da and the public defenders and our Police Department Work Together with me and our Community Based on organizations with leaders in the women group to make sure we do everything we can and examining everybody we can weve got a justice and courage Oversight Panel that worked together for 13 years making over one hundred and 20 recommendations thank you for your wonderful work the very first time we were spriemd that took this long did first time our did dependent on the status of women are able to start collecting even better data on Human Traf
All forms of violence keep up the great work get up and dance and yell and shout address join the world lets end violence for everybody thank you clapping . Thank you, mayor ed lee another round of applause for our mayor. My name is marily mondejar i am with the filipinos Womens Network ive privileged to introduce to you our Community Partner a partner who has added a lot of resources to end violence against women hes added more das to this so important prosecution and really be vigilant in ending violence against women help me welcome San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon clapping thank you, thank you marily and beverly and thank you to the incredible prosecutors in my office and susan and everyone that has put this event together speaking foreign language. can you hear that now okay. I was thanking everyone that is making n this day possible today, i have to tell you as a father of too young women im krib8 proud of and obviously a son and husband i look forward to the day we
Welcoming in the new year. I want to give a hearty thanks to the Chinese Chamber of commerce who are here today. Thank you very much. [applause] eddy raise your hand. I see a lot of the Chamber Members here and i wanted to thank the Chinese Benevolent Association who are here and thank you to all of the departments here represented. How about a hearty hand for these department . Ses yeah and we have our special guest that are performing all day long. Theyre going to remind everybody not to trash the place, make sure all of the tourists and people coming from neighborhoods enjoy the great few weeks coming up. Make sure they are also keeping the neighborhood clean. I want to congratulate again introduce our new direct supervisor Julie Christensen for being here and the hilton and a big sponsor of these teams and always here and making sure the youth is working together with our businesses. I had the pleasure of being able to join all of you at the different events the next few weeks. I a
All right. Good morning everyone. How about a big hand for our dancers . I cant hear you. [cheers and applause] yeah, give it up to them as they head back to the hilton. Let me begin by thanking all of you for coming out today. Its such a Beautiful Day in chinatown, is it not . I see larry excited to go clean. First of all i want thank all of you for coming out. Its very important and from our department, the department of public works. We are so excited that you guys have come out today to join hands with us to keep our city clean and green, and every year for the Chinese New Year we always hear and the chamber of commerce and all of the chinese organizations here always work with us to make sure that they bring a lot of people out to help us clean the community so thank you everyone. All right. Also earlier this morning our agency has been all over chinatown preparing for the Chinese New Years festivities. There are so many events and chinatown is the mag nent of bringing tourists in
Of Housing Community development below market rate rental program and i have stood in line in some of those developments trying to drop off an application and ive seen folks who have been turned away because their primary language is not english. And ive seen families struggling like filling out housing applications so i really do want to push for looking at Language Access as one of the barriers to access to affordable housing. Thank you very much. Are there any other member s of the public who would like to comment . Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. Supervisor tang thank you again so much for everyone who came here and shared your comments. Just speaking on the issue of applications, thats certainly part of the scope of the ordinance in terms of document translation. So whether you are the Planning Department that has permit applications or Mayors Office of housing with housing applications, those are all things we do want to see brought in line. I think our goal and why we