The meeting will come to order happy first ever october everyone that is thursday, october 1, 2015, of the San Francisco full board of supervisors please keep the comments down until we start with the Public Comment that is the Public Safety of the board of supervisors our clerk mr. Derrick evans to my right it supervisor campos trust fund is supervisor christensen any announcements mr. Evans devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you, mr. Evans this is a new hyphenated name i want to thank sfgovtv herb and joshua for televising this today mr. Evans only one item on the agendas push item number one is a hearing with the release of the 2015 language ordinance assess ordinance compliance to receive a upgrades on the compliance with the ordinance and requesting the Legal Affairs and other agencies to report. Thank you colleagues flven you is the annual advancing language report thank you it it from the immigrant affairs and st
Continued practice and documents were unavailable to provide adequate documentation to the specific aspects of the contractor were fulfilled. There was one audit, the 583 million the laguna honda hospital replacement and found that department of water and power was unable to verify compliance with 8 of 34 close out procedures. So what we are saying is that documentation was inadequate for 24 of the items in a contract that exceeded a half billion dollars. That is not acceptable. The civil grand jury request City Departments to proceeds and use a close out checklist and the City Department maintain documentation that contractors have read in complied with the contract. The city is not to issue the controller the recommendation of the policy. They responded that it was not going to be implemented because its not warranted. How can it not use a close out for documentation that contractors have fully complied with the construction contract before they receive the final payment. No. 6, thes
Limited English Speaking top 56 languages by individuals are chinese and spanish and followed by filipino, vietnamese and russian then if you look at the language mandates, of course, there are over one thousand laws in the looks at of the United States covering language assess those are the critical major laws and impacters on the federal, state, and local level so everything from title 6 of the civil rights title 4 of the 1964 in the case oils i know that supervisor eric mar is familiar with the president ial executive order and the dodge guidelines to the state laws and the local level San Francisco has by far the largest assess law in the nation that is through hundred percent to our Community Partners and through the work with the board of supervisors and then, of course, our priority with our diverse population following the priorities always at the front is crisis emergency Public School Public Safety situations wherewith we must community e communicate effective with all our re
A and health care the language assess thank you so much they dont only focus on the prelims of this but use is spirit of law versus nick he lives and Language Quality for other campaigns and the organizing center for example, focused on the School District and won tremendous victories for arabic and other languages for the School District thats an example i want to call up one of the key folks from is affirmative action to give a presentation. Hi good afternoon ill try to keep this brief we have a lot of folks who are here to give testimony in the Public Comment position thats where the highlighting of the human access we have people that will be 12 in language im grace lee the director of affirmative action we have a history we work with the board of supervisors in 2001 to pass the kuwait equal access to the Service Ordinance and in 2009 we worked again, when it was renamed and always worked that supervisor tangs office to pass ordinances from this year as adrian mentioned a citywide
And fighting in kenyas parliament over a knew security law, giving the government sweeping new powers. Indias government has condemned a decision by a court in pakistan to free the alleged master mind of the mumbai attacks. He has been held in a pakistan prison for more than five years. He has now been released on jail. He is one of seven people accused of planning and carrying out the attacks in 2008. Well get the details of this decision from our correspondent in just a moment. But first we have the indian reaction. Reporter condemnation across the political spectrum here in india, at the pakistani courts decision to grant bail. Both parties have come out to condemn this decision. Here is what indias home minister had to say. Translator he has been granted bail, which is very unfortunate, i think it shouldnt have happened. I believe that all of the evidences that have been provided by the Indian Government are enough to convict him. Reporter he also said that both he and Indias Exter