4156550001. Enter access code dial 14156550001 access code 2594 606 8619 password sfgov speak clearly. I will now call the roll. President ahn . Here. Vicepresident , wan . Commissioner stephenson . Here. I will start with the land acknowledgment. The commission of the environment acknowledges the homeland and recognize the mother earth and as well as all other people who reside in their territory. We recognize we benefit from living on their land and wish to pay our respects to the ancestors and elders and the environment of the community. We must embrace indigenous knowledge around how we care for San Francisco and all its people. Thank you for attention during this important acknowledgment. Welcome to tonights meeting. We should know that the worlds meteorology cal report according to the forecast there is a 98 chance that one of more of the next five years will be hotter. We simply adhere to Sustainable Practices and make sure we continue our mission here at the department of the e
This turns out to be a huge mistake. It turns east germany into a pressure cooker. Theres a series of like to take leadership the lens why. If you live under dictatorship you basically have three choices as to how you conduct your life. Those our loyalty, exit, or voice. Loyalty, exit or voice. What that means is you can be loyal and put up with it and not complain and stay quiet which have happened during long periods of east german history, or you can exit, tried to flee. When the border opened between hungary and austria, exit became an option. When the east german regime sealed off these germany exit was withdrawn and loyalty was no longer tall there will. The only remaining option was voice of protest. Or start a massive protest, particularly in the southern part of east germany a region historically known as saxony. People had been trying to get to czechoslovakia or hungary just got stuck there. A huge number of people whod put everything taking everything they can ensue cases th
Another claung. So, i mean something tells me a lot of those folks are not aware or dont feel like they can call 311. I know your office dont great work Human Resources how do you publicize the 311 service so it wloongz to everyone not just the english speaker well, we dont have marketing funds so the best way to advertise is to make sure that every department has the 311 logo. We try to get brochures to them. One of the things we do is partner with the School District and part of their third grade curriculum is to learn about San Francisco so we worked on two of the plans four did School District so the teachers will teach and under government section plan were teaching them about 311. If children learn about it theyll go home and tell their parents about that interest so particularly i know that for myself my grandmother would come to me we recognize thats part of the culture so if we teach the children they, educate their parents. We try to have the brochures at the library but it i
With the kind of investment its worth it so as we recognize the need thats one way we can educate people by transferring them to 311 i completely agree with what youre saying. Thank you. I appreciate it. The next speaker is from the department of children and youth. I dont see and then right afterwards we have 3 more folks. So thank you for the slides and. It would be easier for me okay. Thank you. Good morning supervisors from the department of youth and their families. Maria our director had a meeting scheduled so im going to be here. Im going to go over what were doing were a two Tier Department we realize that language assess it is important. Particularly in educating services. We make sure that our children can access our services we work closely with other departments. All of the services we provided are done through partnership with the Community Based organizations. So one of the ways we mayor to get out the information to the community is by working with our cb o partners. So
Proficient and 8 periods of time spoke spanish and 8 percent were chinese services. The office of Small Business provides over 25 forms etc. , translated in chinese and spanish and the materials are around especially the disability the ada compliance packet have been translated in spanish and vietnamese and russian and others i know youre a small office but 40 percent of your staff are bilingual especially in chinese dialogues or spanish but your 12 percent is a much smaller number than the exciting percentages by limited proficient owners what do i attribute to that low English Speaking clients . Some of it is that i mean, we have emphasized more on the chinese because were able to provide those services and as i said well bring in interpreters. We also find that many Business Owners they may have limited english capabilities they know they have to be communicating with freshen in english so they also while the conversation may happen in other language their how do i want to say it th