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One of the appointees, professor bill hing and thank him for mentoring generations of immigration and immigrant rights lawyers like myself and Asian American leaders as well from founding of the immigrant Legal Resource Center to many other organizations and really giving advice to so many of the various justice struggles within immigrant communities. I wanted to thank him and say its an honor to have him serve on our immigrants rights for our city. Thank you. Supervisor cohen. Thank you very mu...

[inaudible conversations] i think we will get started. I want to thank julia ott before introducer for allowing me to say a few words. Welcome the new school. Welcome to one of the featured events of the Harvard Center for capitalism studies. For a couple of years i taught a course at eugene college, our undergraduate division, on understanding Global Capitalism. The first day we become in and everyone had to look at the tag of the shirt to the person, shirt of the person to their loved and tell...

Permanent residents to encourage them to get to the citizenship, enjoy all those benefits. Those benefits are numerous. Youre going to be able to situate yourself in better jobs. Youre going to get qualified for Training Programs that are only offered sometimes to citizenships. Youre going to always obviously we want to improve your language capabilities so that youre able to navigate these employment Training Programs and all the other engaging programs that we have. San francisco is the Innova...

In the two events supervisor wiener talked about brings a very important perspective, and this is someone who knows how to be successful in entertainment, at the same time responsible. So, im very excited about this appointment. I know that this is an individual that had applied previously and i think its great for the city that he will be serving in this role. Thank you. And with that, colleagues, can we take this item same house same call . Without objection, this motion is approved. [gavel] n...

Women that were felt important it was important for them to come out today to make the point that the issue of pay equity has been an issue for way too long. The fact is that the equal pay act of 1963 has been in effect for more than 50 years. It requires that we have equal pay for equal work, and yet there is a gender gap in pay. Census data from 2011 shows that the average woman still earns 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. The pay gap is even greater for africanamerican women and latin...

Employees and all city contractors with a Grant Agreement of 50,000 and more to submit an annual equal pay report to the citys Human Rights Commission. The report will include summary compensation information for employees, identify by gender and race. Please note that we are aware that 14,000 vendors with the city and county of San Francisco in fiscal year 2014 would meet this requirement and the Controllers Office estimates that 11 of city vendors have 20 or more employees. Therefore, we estim...

Like mayor lee and the supervisor, im a proud daughter of american immigrants. They came to this country with odds stacked against them to build a Better Future for my siblings and my cousins. My father served in the army, but more important to him was that he served at every polling station in every election from the time he was legally able to do so. And at breakfast before every election was a very, very, very engaged, vivid, enlightened conversation about how my mother should vote, even thou...

Well, good morning, everybody. Thank you, adrian. I want to appreciate you, mayor lee, supervisor chiu, and really all of our Philanthropic Partners that are launching this extraordinary pathway to citizenship in San Francisco. The San Francisco foundation for over 60 years has held very central to its core mission the notion that we need to engage every citizen, every resident in order to make our democracy better. And all of the philanthropic organizations that are part of this Pathway Initiat...

Foundation, dr. Sandra hernandez and tessa rivera, [speaker not understood], Senior Program officer for immigrant rights and integration, walter and alise fund, also known as the haase senior fund. Pam david, the Wallace Alexander gabode foundation, stacey ma and thomas, concerned with immigrants and refugees represented today by felicia barto, deputy director. Also present today are commissioner canali vicechair of the San Francisco immigrant rights commission, city librarian, luis herrera, [sp...

Thank you, mayor lee. We would not get all these things done in San Francisco without the leadership and support of the San Francisco board of supervisors. And supervisor david chiu is a former criminal prosecutor, civil rights, and immigration attorney, technology, entrepreneur, Senate Judiciary aid, and democratic council. Hes done a lot of things in his life. Hes also talented and highly effective leader of the San Francisco board of supervisors where he has served as president since 2009. Pr...