Actually have staff here today who can help. I would like to introduce myself i live in the Visitacion Valley. Im happy to receive this letter letting me know i can attend this meeting today. Speaking chinese. Translator this english is in english. This is very difficult for us to read this english letter. Speaking chinese. Translator i am 77 years old i am a long time resident in the Visitacion Valley so im so concerned of things in my neighborhood. Speaking chinese. Translator i have so many friends its really important to provide bilingual services to our residents. Speaking chinese. Translate or besides this letter i think this kind of meeting should be provided in different languages. Speaking in chinese. Translator so that we know whats going on in these meetings and we can express ourselves freely in this meeting. Speaking in chinese. Translator not only for this meeting but and the meetings in the future. Thats it thank you very much. Thank you very much. I think that exactly p
Is it chinese or spanish whats the date for that . Approximately 6 months from now approximately. As you know every time weve talked about this 4 years ago i hate to bring that up but thats been the approximate reality around this conversation so let me provide some Additional Information were on schedule right now were building the English Version and as you can see we have the physical hardware in place and so the next step is building out the template thats going to be used by the various departments and getting the information from the various department but i think really its going to be dependent on the information or how quickly we can get the information and its going to be in place probably within the next 30day and see this mock up demo we were able to build this fairly quickly with the information gathered inhouse so im confident within the 6 months period we will be able to deliver on the five language that we identify. You said then 3 months when in 3 months this will be r
Toy . What about rodney king . By the way, not only is this a long train of abuses. It goes back further than Commission Report which said our nation is moving toward two society, one block, one white, separate and unequal. 50 years ago, we were dealing with this same issue, and it is on us today and we must make a call to action to reverse this trend so that every american, allamericans, can feel that the government really is liberty and justice for all. So instead of a system of justice that works for some, it doesnt work for all, this injustice takes place within a social and economic context and i have to say that when officer wilson confronted Michael Brown on canfield drive in ferguson, the interaction did not take place in a vacuum. Ferguson, missouris Unemployment Rate is 13 , over double the national average. The number of poor people in ferguson doubled over the last 10 years. In 2012, almost all of fergusons neighborhoods had a poverty rate of over 20 . The fact is if we res
Things that we believe that the best way to provide Language Access is actually having staff in staff to provide it and we make every effort that in every clinic whether San Francisco general or Community Based clinics we have that capability. If we dont have the capability we have an Interpreter Service thats actually run by the San Francisco general automatic transfer seem less transfer the patient themselves probably wont know that and then the dmi i dont know if you have seen the vmi the video medical interpretation but also we have i know i hear information from members of the community about challenges they have and i wondered is there some way for a complaint based system to get feedback after the fact there are san franciscans who feel like the language needs werent met but thats probably a longer term conversation that we need to have with other departments. Last year we actually had 10 complaints and 10 of the complaints were resolved. What were the nature of those complaints
To garden ers and park patrol officers so we are all day every day interacting with the public in various ways. Currently this year our budget for translation and interpretation was set at 40,000 of which so far we spent close to 30 thousand compared to last year at 15 thousand so doubled the amount of Language Translation Services we provided. Was that deliberate that you started to translate more materials . Yes. One of the largest barriers that i think weve had a great leap in is providing Scholarship Applications so we now have the Scholarship Application available in chinese spanish russian and vietnamese and tagal will be coming towards the end of the summer now that thats on board there so along with the application for scholarship were also providing some written email communication weve been translating to be able to communicate with our scholarship clients to remind them to renew or remind them that they are signed up for a particular program so weve done a lot of work in try