More good things to come. Thank you thank you supervisor avalos. So were here at the bye hi, 91 had an center. One the programs is the veterans Equity Centers to honor the veterans in world war ii to provide culturely and listen giving justice. The leaders is a woman that should why in the community for many years please welcome the director clapping. thank you frrment i would like to thank the community for role moving this issue forward in a bye tin spirit we are resilient and making sure that everybody comes together in moving forward. I want to thank did leadership of the board of supervisors who are present karen downey. Supervisor avalos and supervisor kim for listening to the constitutes and your responsive to whatever theyre asking for the Language Access. We thank you to our mayor, mayor ed lee for making sure he supports our community. I know about decades it is so telling how will i other people but a Service Provide out of market inform 23 years and i see the mayor smiling
Speaking residents we work with all our safety departments to make sure very have Accurate Information thats trailed and kaebltd on site when people need that service and our Human Services whether health or other important things are translated when thats right written materials or big meetings we provide translators and electronically or physically or make sure that every Outreach Program is culturely competent. When you reach f that mask 10 thousand person level thats important to know that treld that we as a city will then make sure we give the serviced to be transmitted properly and people what make did access. Gone are the days i used to translate for my mom and dad whether a hospital or benefits. I know virtual everyone standing with me today at sometime did the same things you were nerve because they didnt have the transmission and you were nerve whether a medical term was accurate or access Public Safety whether effectively or not to you the filipinoamericans her 90 in San Fra
Good afternoon. Im naomi kelly the administer for the city and county of San Francisco and im joined here today with me board supervisor president chiu and many members in the Filipino Community here in San Francisco. And today, we have a huge amazement that represents San Francisco value. For the fit since our ordinance was enacted were adding a new language to the shared list of languages that makes our city safer and better able to serve our residents this is Language Access for limited folks t is mandated and our city enacted the ordinance in 2001 in that 2009 the organized was required to over our ordinance to determine which los angeless meets the threshold and thats 10 thousand san franciscans that speak a limited language and this must be made by the immigrant affairs to all the departments and the city rights commission. It is now my honor to introduce mayor edwin lee telephones the administrator in 2003 when the amendment happened and continues to xoond opportunity as mayor t
Number of more than 3 thousand tagalog speakers and supervisor avalos has been a strong leader for tagalog. Supervisor avalos thank you naomi was going to do a hearing on the certification of tagalog harassing as part of the language cease program and yesterday supervisor chiu was throbbing how many hearings weve been doing now i dont have to do a hearing because of the great leadership of the Filipino Community but all across San Francisco i represent district 11 naomi said we have 3 thousand tagalog speakers and many more filipino speakers and in district 6 supervisor kim rival yaech in the filipino population but your government should be responsible to everyone and canoeing had k347d in 2009 was about that its lived up to the promise we want to make sure that the residents can take advantage of the federal benefits and the determination that wouldnt have come about without the support of the mayor and naomi and one who wasnt mentioned was a gentleman who clapping has done a lot of
Of government and i joined board president chiu and supervisor kim and Councilmember Avalos will be here they have a late night meeting debating important issues i know each of the that have a very strong filipino and other asian the minority and latin populations in their district and certainly right here in this district a extremely strong presence and with the city comes to the clear obligation we must be able to make sure our Vital Services are ones that reach all our citizens when they have a language barrier by many who dont have english as the first rang indicate to the American Survey under the under the circumstances keens bureau over 10 thousands of them reach the point theyre not having english as theyre first language we have to among Services Accessible to them. That means was we down for chinesespectro and Spanish Speaking residents we work with all our safety departments to make sure very have Accurate Information thats trailed and kaebltd on site when people need that s