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[applause] hello i am john davey with the Maritime Department. Infectious smile but yes linda really helped out the Maritime Department as elaine said no job was too complex or disdainful for her to take on, and one of those really unspoken one but important to me she is the might have roof the cell phones. When the cell phone got broken or took a walk in the water linda was there to sort it out and get it back in your hands as quickly as possible and i know twice she saved me and thank you very...

Or it would go to any of our 64 Customer Service reps and the rep would connect them to the Language Line interpreter at this. 311 we have 5 bilingual chinese rep and 3 Spanish Speaking rep and when we put any posts for employment we always encourage the sign Language Interpreters and others. We have nearly 1. 5 million calls and have those we have 16 thousand plus that required assistance other than english. This represents about 1. 1 percent of calls that were placed to 311. We did incur the l...

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 exci...

Required to apply for cal works. We would not require them to apply. Its something that would be a waste of their time and something we dont want them to do, however, we do have a number of families where the parents are undocumented, but the parents are citizens. They are eligible for cal works, theyre eligible for grants on behalf of their children and for food stamps and medcal. I appreciate the intent behind this modification that you dont require undocumented families to apply for it becaus...

Supported by the mayor, by this board, by the planning commission, so i think this will be similarly coming with a lot of broad support from all the key policy makers in the city which should get us all moving quickly. Thank you. Members of the board anything else . Any final comment . [inaudible] michael schwartz. Good afternoon. I am with the sfmta and based on Public Comment want to make sure people know where we are in the very near term and the final environmental document is available and ...

Included most recently in the living with dignity plan that was done through the department of aging and Adult Services and we added a couple things that i think totally dub neatly with your work trying to insure that accessible units pows people who need accessible units layers subsidies on new construction, accessible units so that they are also affordable. Often new construction buildings are not subsidized with section 8. Theyre tax credit buildings so while theyre lovely and new and accessi...

And in july, several of the students themselves actually participated in the codesign of the new experience at the both the middle school and High School Levels and this process allowed greater for them to build on the idea of these concepts and also to have a greater active role and also provided increased Student Leadership opportunities the way that this model projected itself. Several of our pac families, children are actually featured in the radio that is on the website of the district unde...

The issue here is simple and direct and concrete, its formula retail, no matter how we slice it, pet food express is formula retail, i know they started off small, i applaud them for growing big, the issue is one particular location, the location that this commission dealt with, what is it, four years, i cant even keep track. Thank you. Hello, commissioners, my name is megan johnson, im a native san franciscan, i own one of the pet stores on market street, i would call myself more of a hobbyist ...

That under the current system, because we have so many of those individuals who were once incarcerated at the state level, being pushed down to the counties, theres no room at the end in terms of the county jails. So misdemeanors arent going to be sentenced to county jail but will be sentenced in Community Service or whatever. And for those individuals who do need some measure of control and supervision to deal about deal with their conviction problems, its not going to happen at the misdemeanor...

Into the media, into the communities, into families so that people kind of understand this process of another way of learning and becoming an educated person. A couple of other things i do i work with anne on the board and with the foundation. That has been exciting. I do advising for sesame street. If you have small children the next seafn sesame street you will see some of the favorite characters and breathing and learning problem solving models and were very excited [inaudible] and theyre foc...