Continuance to october 24. It is now proposed for continuance to october 10, 2019. No other items for continuance and no speaker cards. President melgar do any member of the public wish to speak on the matter of continuance . Jonas i apologize, commissioners. Items 14a and b, for case number 2016001794, 95 hawthorne street, shadow findings, we received a request to continue this matter to october 10th, 2019. And under your discretionary review, 19a and b for case numbers 002545env90 at 2417 green street president melgar sorry to interrupt you. Commissioner richards needs to recuse himself from one of the items proposed for continuance, so i believe we have to vote on that first. Jonas we do, but if i could just read them into the record. You could let us know which one you need to recuse yourself from. Again, items 19a and b for case number 2417 green street. An appeal of the preliminary negative declaration and discretionary review. We received a request from the Supervisors Office to
One of our Public Offices who has joined us. David, thank you for being here this evening. As always speak pelosi is a champion of immigrant rights and immigrant needs, so we thank you for being here on her behalf. Okay, our next speaker is carol bisharat from kids in need of descents. Good evening. I am a direct representation attorney, my name is carol bisharat, for kids in need of defense and from our San Francisco i offices. We are a National Nonprofit that has ten offices across the country dedicated to the representation of unaccompanied minors, who are in proceedings for the Immigration Court. I have some prepared remarks, which i am willing to share, in an electronic fashion i will forward them to elaina for distribution to each of you. There is more information than i can relay in of short amount of time that i have to speak with you. There are so much to say, for what is going on on the ground, what kinds of changes both policy and procedures that have detrimentally affected
Street w. This new data and focus on the 200, we can make a difference. I think when people are ready for treatment and volunteer for treatment, that is key. I also think we need to recognize that one of our challenges on the streets that some people will refuse treatment. Some people in the most dire needs of treatment will refuse treatment. So we need to be there when people are ready to go into the services and meet them. When theyre ready. But we also need laws like the conservatorship law to provide people with the support for shorttime conservatorship to help them save their lives. These are lifesaving interventions. And that persistent compassion is what we have seen here and what weve come to expect from our director of Mental Health reform in. A few short months, hes transformed the way many of us think about caring for people experiencing the intersection of homelessness, serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse disorders. This is a population, as youve heard of 4,000 peopl
It also looks at all cachet, just not federal cachet, but state or local cash assistance programs and barring some of them getting a green card or entering the United States. It English Proficiency as a positive factor or lack of proficiency has a negative factor. It would look at medical conditions, whether or not they have private Health Insurance and whether or not theyve ever used a fee waiver to waive a filing fee for past immigration application. It would also allow to potentially overcome a public charge determination if they pay a bond, the minimum amount of which would be 8,100. The rule will not take effect until midoctober, until that time, all pending green card applications and those that are postmarked before that date, october 15, 2019 will be adjudicated under what our current standards for public charge. As i mentioned, under existing policy, the only programs i look at our federal cachet that people receive, and whether or not they are in long term institutionalized c
Information in workshop. What we are giving you here are these mandatory six hour workshop that we were hard to take. Those x hours talk about what does it mean to get your credit ready. What does it mean to get a loan. What is a down payment. What are monthly payments. What is danceable and interest in taxes and insurance. What does that mean when i want to sell the property. Do i get to buy it in the next year and flip it and sell it for market rate . No area you need to know that before you go through the process. We completely understand that we are targeting one third of our population. We also understand that maybe not all of those people want to buy home. That is what we are trying to find out. I think if theyve never bought a home, sometimes people just dont know the questions to ask. What we are trying to do is take one of the six hour classes. The great thing is that these are the mandatory classes for the certificate. All of these organizations offer these great two hour cla