happen across the country. this particular project is wonderful. it is serving those who have been on the streets along time. there are folks who have really suffered. we do not want to forget them as young girl men and women are coming home. we do not want to forget the folks who have been on the streets along time a long time. they have aged beyond their years. we want to help them. this is the type of program that does it. does it with special plans. the whole program has built over 1 million units in 20 years. it is a fabulous program. it helps extremely low income people all the way to home ownership for people just beginning. this is an incredible example of that. the couple of days ago, the president made a huge announcement about housing. one thing that does not get as much play in the press is the focus on the very poor. he made a $1 billion commitment to the first affordable housing trust fund. he has said it will be included in his budget in a few weeks to congre
welcome to the rules committee for thursday, february 2. i will be the chair today. i am joined by supervisor campos and supervisor farrell. our clerk is linda wong. thank you to jennifer and carolyn from sffd. the record the meeting senate the transcripts available online. are their announcements? yes, the item and it the items recommended will go to the full board on tuesday, february 13. please call item number 1. the motion to appoint supervisor olague, a term ending june 7, 2013, to the reentry council. supervisor kim: thank you. this seat was previously held by supervisor mirkarimi and is now vacant due to his new office. we have a motion to appoint supervisor olague to complete the rest of his term on the reentry council. colleagues, is there any discussion. seeing none, we will open it up for public comment. if there is any public comment for this item, please step up. public comment is now closed. motion to move this forward with recommendation
situation that we need to fix. that is a situation that we need to know about, that the commission needs to know about an address. yes. commissioner turman: thank you. commissioner thank you. there are those that provide this really important service, and they can lead us know. the request is not even catalogs because the person did not receive the service. the response you really get. it is important to have. commissioner turman: i agree with you wholeheartedly, and i appreciate the comments. i also want to make sure that we have summoned from the office of citizen complaints present the recommendations that were outlined. good afternoon, from the office of citizen complaints. the evening, vice president marshall, director, members of the public. after the december 7 hearing, and met with stakeholders and talked with the police department and formulated some recommendations to address the kind of issues that you heard about tonight and on december 7, as well, and t
comments from the commissioners? thank you. president mazzucco: any public comment regarding language access? commissioners, good evening once again. very briefly, as a resident of the city and county of san francisco, i think you are going backwards here. i do not expect the sfpd to know the 160 different languages on the planet let alone that some of them do not even know their own language. according to something four years ago. they do not even know their own language properly. for a certain dialect of spanish, you have to translate it into english. that is not the job of the sfpd. and then you create problems when you try to translate some of its report into english and then take a report out of it to possibly be used in a court of law. throwing out 1200 cases related to tainted dna and other items. you re justcreating amount of paperwork here that is going nowhere. i think part of citizenship and part of a citizens obligation is that if they want to fill out a police
the other thing i wanted to tell you is the children. they were just fabulous. if we went into we went into a tent shaped like a hut. they were being well taken care of and there were so happy to see us, kind of a novelty to them. i ask them if they were happier here or if they would rather be in school. i got a resounding they would rather be here. they were being taken care of. when the big one hits in san for cisco, i think that we will probably show the same care for our children. that was very heartwarming. there were a lot of vignettes that were in cadbury the were incredibly heartwarming. i m glad to do as much follow up as we possibly can. are there any questions for the from the disaster councilmembers? what kind of assistance were we able to give to the people of van? we are still in the buildup of that. the logistics of and are rather complicated, as you might imagine. we are in the process of, with our partners in fleet week, planning a fund raiser. th