And use of cell phones and Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. The chair may order removal from the room. Item 4, approval of minutes for february 6, regular meeting. Directors, any changes to the february 6 Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, open Public Comment for item 4, february 6 Meeting Minutes and close Public Comment. Could i have a motion and second . So moved. Second. Please call the roll. Motion to approve the minutes, henderson aye. Hinze, aye. Tarlov, aye. Eaken, aye. Thank you. The minutes are approved. Places on item 5, communications. I have none. Moving to item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Colleagues, any new or Unfinished Business on todays agenda . Seeing none, no need for Public Comment. Item 7, the directors report. Thank you. First i like to introduce transit director julie curshbalm for our staff recognition. Good afternoon. It is mytransit director, it is my profound pleasure to be recognizing miriam surel today. She
And use of cell phones and Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. The chair may order removal from the room. Item 4, approval of minutes for february 6, regular meeting. Directors, any changes to the february 6 Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, open Public Comment for item 4, february 6 Meeting Minutes and close Public Comment. Could i have a motion and second . So moved. Second. Please call the roll. Motion to approve the minutes, henderson aye. Hinze, aye. Tarlov, aye. Eaken, aye. Thank you. The minutes are approved. Places on item 5, communications. I have none. Moving to item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Colleagues, any new or Unfinished Business on todays agenda . Seeing none, no need for Public Comment. Item 7, the directors report. Thank you. First i like to introduce transit director julie curshbalm for our staff recognition. Good afternoon. It is mytransit director, it is my profound pleasure to be recognizing miriam surel today. She
And use of cell phones and Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. The chair may order removal from the room. Item 4, approval of minutes for february 6, regular meeting. Directors, any changes to the february 6 Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, open Public Comment for item 4, february 6 Meeting Minutes and close Public Comment. Could i have a motion and second . So moved. Second. Please call the roll. Motion to approve the minutes, henderson aye. Hinze, aye. Tarlov, aye. Eaken, aye. Thank you. The minutes are approved. Places on item 5, communications. I have none. Moving to item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Colleagues, any new or Unfinished Business on todays agenda . Seeing none, no need for Public Comment. Item 7, the directors report. Thank you. First i like to introduce transit director julie curshbalm for our staff recognition. Good afternoon. It is mytransit director, it is my profound pleasure to be recognizing miriam surel today. She
Clarifying when some of the timelines would be for compliance. Just to quickly go over that we are adding into our definition section advisory body, city boards and city commissions. We are giving formerly tier 2 departments until next fiscal year to comply with the parts specifically regarding interpretation and translation. We recognize they may need to make some budget asks to comply so we want to encourage them to do so. We are clarifying telephonic messages do not include employee mailboxes. We are including for complaints received through city boards, city commissions and advisory bodies they will be part of the complaint process. We are adding Additional Information that ocea will provide specifically on complaints to the irc, and so again i know that supervisor yee has additional comments but we really want to emphasize that our goal is not to overburden our departments with these requirements. Many of them exist already but we want to make sure that everyone has the ability to
Well, why dont they sign up . And they said, well, i have no idea. I guess they dont need it. Well, how could they sign up if they dont know about the program and even when they sign up, everything is in english and they dont know how to fill out these forms. Thats when i went ahead with my organization and say, well, were going to do it ourselves. Within two years they went up with the percentage that was a lot more what it looked like in the city in terms of going for the Chinese Community in terms of being enrolled in these programs, going from less than 10 percent to near 30 percent. So a lot of it is because of the Language Access and i get it, you know . In fact, as this stuff is happening even today a neighbor knocked on my door two weeks ago, hes about 90 something and he was shaking and everything and he said oh, last night somebody at midnight tried to break into the back of my home. It was locked and after a little while they left. Did you call the police . No, no, i said wh