Come february 16th and join with us new year day. Thank you. Next, another ally in building strong connections across San Francisco cultures. Someone i have been grateful to collaborate with in my career in San Francisco. I want to welcome chinese Newcomer Service director george chan. Hello everyone. Im george chan, the executive director of Newcomer Service center. Thank you for letting us join this event. speaking chinese applause okay. Our next speaker is someone i have had the pleasure of working with, we have worked together on crosscultur crosscultural collaborations, please welcome sarah wong. I want to shout out to all the Community Based organizations, helping out and walking along in chinatown to talk to merchants about safety during new year. I want to shout out to all the special volunteers. Thank you for their work. I wish everyone well, health and happiness in the year of the dog. Thank you. applause now i want to Welcome Assembly member choy, representing chinatown. Goo
Television, please help. Thank you. President turman thank you. Any further Public Comment . Thank you, mr. Salinas. Thank you, president , chairman, commissioners. Jim salinas. Im here to thank the chief through the chair for the respect and the attentiveness hes given the Latino Community the last few months. I truly appreciate the fact that this chief is in great demand, and as i said earlier is working favorishly to try to reinstill the trust and the confidence and to build the Community Relations that were once much much better. I just wanted to come down here. I know that hes very busy, and i know that hes taking time. I also want to thank while im here deputy chief sainz, when hes not able to come down and answer questions and continue to build on this relationship, that theyre there. And again, despite the fact that all of them have a great many duties. Lastly, i just want to say in december, commissioners, i read an article in the Mission Local regarding some issues with the s
And i was going to talk a little bit about Family Resource centers but somebody beat me to it. laughter excellent, youre hired. So good morning everyone. Before i say anything more, out of respect for someone who helped us lead the process for this site to become a reality, honorable mayor lee. Without his support we wouldnt be here this morning. With that being said, i would appreciate it if i could use one of my five minutes specifically in honor of mayor lee. A minute of silence, please. moment of silence thank you everyone. Much appreciated. So, we are here at the site called southeast families united. This is an early care and family facility, one of 11 Sites Mission operates in various neighborhoods in San Francisco. This site is introducing a Family Resource center with one goal in mind, that is to provide our children attending these classrooms with the necessary support for our families to thrive. It is the parent who is the First Teacher and the First Teacher must always be r
We have a wonderful adult ceramic class. We offer over 10 Adult Classes in morning and evening. It accommodates people who work in the day, people who work in the evening, people who are day people and night people. We try to cater to the whole group. Its beyond just a clay lesson. Its really a lifeless on. When you meet people you never know whats underneath. Sometimes they show you what they want to. And you kind of expect that its just going to be that. But its never really whats on the surface. Its really whats underneath the surface. Thats what i try to get at when i do my clay. The camaraderie that we have here. We have students that have been for for many many years. We have students here for the first time. We share our skills, our formulas. This is how we learn. How did you do that . Let me show you. Thats the attitude that the students and the teachers have here. Its a really wonderful nurturing place. Thank you all for being here this morning. I want to touch upon the encour
But there is also a long history of workers and unions coming together to address the injustices. This policy will make sure we use dollars to employ companies that treat workers humanely. Thats why teamsters are strong spouters. Thank you. Supporters. Thank you. Good morning, my name is ruth. Im here on behalf of stop slavery, a Northern California coalition. Catholic sisters against Human Trafficking. As opponents of coerced labor we are in support for good purchasing of a valued workforce and its goal of achieving healthy working conditions and fair compensation for all workers and producers in the Food Supply Chain. Among those working in the Food Supply Chain are Migrant Workers, including agricultural labors who are vulnerable to risk forecasts for Human Trafficking. A study published by San Diego State university found in 2010, among undocumented Spanish Speaking Migrant Workers in san diego county, over 30 were subjected to practices meeting the Legal Definition of Human Traffi