Limited English Speaking top 56 languages by individuals are chinese and spanish and followed by filipino, vietnamese and russian then if you look at the language mandates, of course, there are over one thousand laws in the looks at of the United States covering language assess those are the critical major laws and impacters on the federal, state, and local level so everything from title 6 of the civil rights title 4 of the 1964 in the case oils i know that supervisor eric mar is familiar with the president ial executive order and the dodge guidelines to the state laws and the local level San Francisco has by far the largest assess law in the nation that is through hundred percent to our Community Partners and through the work with the board of supervisors and then, of course, our priority with our diverse population following the priorities always at the front is crisis emergency Public School Public Safety situations wherewith we must community e communicate effective with all our re
Of the ethnicity thank you very much at 917 in the evening since 6 oclock that morning my brain gets shadow but neighborhoods within San Francisco maybe many body should send a memo to the board of supervisors for review on the on that notice issue bus given the 50 percent of at least by ascertaining maybe not having the english only the board of supervisors should review that issue hell let someone else put forth the motion. For consistency we that this permit was issued in error the same motion unless someone else want to make that guess not. Commissioner honda your motion to grant the appeal and deny it on the base it was defective commissioner fung commissioner president lazarus no commissioner wilson commissioner swig that motion carries and commissioner president lazarus that concludes our business this evening were adjourned supervisor london breed . Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting. Madam clerk, please call the roll. City clerk [roll call. Supervisor wi
A and health care the language assess thank you so much they dont only focus on the prelims of this but use is spirit of law versus nick he lives and Language Quality for other campaigns and the organizing center for example, focused on the School District and won tremendous victories for arabic and other languages for the School District thats an example i want to call up one of the key folks from is affirmative action to give a presentation. Hi good afternoon ill try to keep this brief we have a lot of folks who are here to give testimony in the Public Comment position thats where the highlighting of the human access we have people that will be 12 in language im grace lee the director of affirmative action we have a history we work with the board of supervisors in 2001 to pass the kuwait equal access to the Service Ordinance and in 2009 we worked again, when it was renamed and always worked that supervisor tangs office to pass ordinances from this year as adrian mentioned a citywide
Of that money. Let me catch up to my notes here. For Foreign Trades notes provide the foreign supply trade a weekly entry a benefit that only is vertebral to Foreign Trade zone users an import erica take any number of shipments from the airports or seaports on a weekly basis and instead of having to file a customs entities they can wait and aggregate them into one weekly shipment it saves them costs of customs entries but perhaps a greater benefit it allows them to review their processing fees a federal fee that an importer has to pay based on the value of imports a minimum of 25 per customs sgri or a maximum of 485 by a congratulating having one thing entry rather than one over the course of a week and foreign trait yourself can also tampering of the direct delivery from goods from the ports that saves goods typically have to wait for customs clearance but acceptance for direct delivery they can save a day or two on the delivery of their goods for the reduce of the supply chance and p
Us so that is the most effective way to outreach us as many of the people have been calling me i even have my phone number posted so that they can contact me i shouldnt be the only person doing that. Thank you. Hi my name is grace lee i just want to quickly thank supervisor chiu he has been a long time champion of this issue and we know this is slow going and it takes a lot of collaboration so these hearings are very important for us we appreciate this committee has been holding these hearings. We have been meeting with them on a quarterly basis but were happy to have all stakeholders at the table to hear their struggles and bring the Community Needs to them. Were in the second year of our work some of our colleague are also here. Representing the arabic speaking and french and a whole host of african immigrants and the community does not know about the language ordinance and dont know that they have the right to receive critical forms in language so our key role is to get the informat