So what a glorious day. [applause] Rene Dunn Martin who is responsible for todays event promised me she is never know had rain on a day like today of support so whatever is between her and the guy upstairs lets give her a round of applause. Good afternoon and welcome to the city and School District select committee for september 25, our first regularly scheduled meeting post legislative recess. I want to thank the staff at sfgtv and Jennifer Lowe for making the transcript available on line and recognize our clerk derek evans. I am your chair and joined by our board of education commissioners hide dra mendoza and commissioner wynns. I am notified that we dont have a quorum today to take actions today but have a quorum from the board of education members. I would like to apologize to the members of the city family that worked so hard to prepare for the meeting today but given everyone has taken the time to come out and present on the issue before us also to speak on this i worked with th
Sf, doca, grantees, pathways to grantees and the Language Access network so you know we have been were in year two of our pathway to Citizenship Initiative which is to try to get as many of the estimated 100,000 legal permanent residents in San Francisco on naturalized and thus far this collaboration of Community Based organizations has reached over 5,000 san franciscans who are eligible. They processed 15 new applications for citizenship and the doca grantees have reached almost all of the 5,000 estimated doca eligible youth and processed 600 applications and i have to commend the Unified School District because without christina and the School Districts partnership we wouldnt be able to get any of this done as well as lonnie. We also have 14 doca dream sf doca fellows on board this year and for them funding it and theyre doing outreach and education to their own constituency so we place them in the cbos to help with the outreach and of course were around partnering with the immigrant
Initiative which is to try to get as many of the estimated 100,000 legal permanent residents in San Francisco on naturalized and thus far this collaboration of Community Based organizations has reached over 5,000 san franciscans who are eligible. They processed 15 new applications for citizenship and the doca grantees have reached almost all of the 5,000 estimated doca eligible youth and processed 600 applications and i have to commend the Unified School District because without christina and the School Districts partnership we wouldnt be able to get any of this done as well as lonnie. We also have 14 doca dream sf doca fellows on board this year and for them funding it and theyre doing outreach and education to their own constituency so we place them in the cbos to help with the outreach and of course were around partnering with the immigrant partnering groups and on sanctuary city and immigrant rights. We were asked recently by one of the Senate Offices to provide information on immi
Which languages are required for support by authorizing our office to determine whether 10,000 residents share a language and there are three now, chinese, including cantonese and mandarin and tagalog and korean and these are the languages used by the department of elections in their materials, but the voters guide does not determine which languages should be mandated. It is the Language Access ordinance that was implemented and passed by the board of supervisors and initiated by the board of supervisors that determines that. That concludes everything that i wanted to say. I wanted to add that we have been working with city departments, particularly with the Mayors Office on disability. They have been fantastic in really working with us to make sure that were not only ensuring accessibility from the ada perspective, but also from Language Service and support. And again, we want to thank the civil grand jurys attention to Language Access issues, which we consider critical to full and me
Colleagues, same house, same call. This item is approved. Item 46 to the board of appeals for a term ending july 1, 2018. Same house same call. This motion is approved. Item 47. Item 47 is a motion to appoint steven lee to the Entertainment Commission term ending july 21, 2018. Same house, same call. At this time id like to go to our 3 00 pm special order regarding the university of mountain neighborhood. Could you first call item 72 in order for us to sit as a committee. Item 72 is a motion to sit public hearing on the urgency ordinance approving an interim zoning moratorium on constitutional changes of use in the University Mountain neighborhood. We first have to pass a motion and order to allow us to sit at this moment. Let me ask if there are any members of the public that wish to speak in public comment. This is only about whether we should have a hearing today so if you want to talk about the item itself, well have please step up. Needs to be to that matter. Sure. I think if the