Im supervisor yee and supervisor christensen and supervisor breed. We would look to acknowledge the staff at sf govtv. Jonathan. We record each of our meetings and make the transcript available online. Madam clerk, dow do you have any announcements . Yes, please make sure you silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the july 21st, boards board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Can you call item no. 1. City clerk [administrative code language assistance and services at board of supervisors meetings] sponsors yee; avalos, campos, mar and breed ordinance amending the administrative code to require the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs to provide Interpretation Services upon request at every meeting of the board of supervisors between september 1, 2015, and july 31, 2016; and to require the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs to translate agendas of board of supervisors meetings and the Public Document li
Are often interchanged and i want to clarify, the interpretation is spoken and translation is written in another language and orally converted in another language while retaining the meaning. Interpretation is spoken and translation is written document of replacement of written text from one language to another language. These are completely different skills but are small staffed and actually perform both of these functions and all of our staff must have a College Degree in order to understand termination and complex and have to be competent in both languages and all of our interpreters have to be certified interpreters and in addition they go through Extensive Research and preparation for every single meeting and document so they understand what they are interpreting. Normally or in the past our office has interpreted an entire proceeding end to end start to finish so that participants understand whats being said and what policies are being made. Ms. Hooker is going to give you more d
House will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. July 14, 2015. I hereby appoint the honorable Carlos Curbelo to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Roskam for five minutes. Mr. Roskam 00 thank you mr. Roskam thank you, mr. Speaker. Ladies and gentlemen of the house, we ought not bet against ukraine and we ought not bet against georgi
Supervisor christensen and supervisor breed. We would look to acknowledge the staff at sf govtv. Jonathan. We record each of our meetings and make the transcript available online. Madam clerk, dow do you have any announcements . Yes, please make sure you silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the july 21st, boards board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Can you call item no. 1. City clerk [administrative code language assistance and services at board of supervisors meetings] sponsors yee; avalos, campos, mar and breed ordinance amending the administrative code to require the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs to provide Interpretation Services upon request at every meeting of the board of supervisors between september 1, 2015, and july 31, 2016; and to require the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs to translate agendas of board of supervisors meetings and the Public Document listing all legislation
So just to close, supervisors. Our work is is is is to better serve the monolingual; communities and low income and Housing Residents because we also work with them. Our goal is to create ways for the vulnerable and under served communities and residents to participate in meaningful way. So Language Access helps with communication of local law enforcement, Emergency Responders and City Department and most of all it goes a long way to building trust. We look forward to working with the clerk and the board to make sure this pilot is successful. We are going to do our very best and well be glad to answer any questions you may have. Supervisor norman yee supervisor christensen . Thank you for the work you do. Being from district 3, i know how valuable it is. Are there methods to allow people to know that these services that are available for us to build on this program . Yes, absolutely. Not only do we have our own inhouse crew of interpret terrace and translators, we have our Community Am