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
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
Quickly. And unfortunately, mr. Lee passed away that evening. That had a great impact on brian and me. It was very sad, but it was so touching that he had seen mr. Lee and mr. Lee had confirmed that brian was number one driver. This is San Francisco paratransit. Its not perfect; we have our ups and downs late trips, frustrated customers, stressed out drivers. But at our best, we get our riders where they need to go on time and with a smile. And when we Pay Attention real carefully and notice whats happening on the van, taxi, or at the senior center, we notice that our drivers make a difference in the riders lives and the riders make a difference in the drivers lives. 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
Its leadership on this issue. We wouldnt be where we are today without your leadership. Thank you, miss pond. Are there any further comments from members of the civil grand jury, mike from the civil grand jury on the responses that you heard from the departments . Very briefly, i want to thank everybody in the Mayors Office for hearing our report and responding to it and taking action on it. I think what we were most concerned about is that government be inclusive. And im hearing that were making progress in that way. And my crossreferencing of all of the lists that i, think at one time i had five lists and came up with 38 of the commissions. So that is the number i was working with, we did 32 out of 38, but i appreciate that some change is happening there, too. Thank you very much. Great. And also, i would just like to make a comment, just for clarity. For example, the mayors list that provides the attendance and lists the names and numbers of days that they might have attended out of
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 the clerks and we are going to call the item so that any members of the public that have presentations can still do so and then we can have Public Comment and that we will have to reagendize this item for next months joint select Committee Meeting in order to take action on this item. Committee members who does make it here will be sure to ask questions during Public Comment to extend your time period and of course any members of the public can speak after that so this hearing oh i guess we should take roll call first. On the call of the roll. Supervisor kim. Here. Kim present. Supervisor avalos. Avalos absent.