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Things that we believe that the best way to provide Language Access is actually having staff in staff to provide it and we make every effort that in every clinic whether San Francisco general or Community Based clinics we have that capability. If we dont have the capability we have an Interpreter Service thats actually run by the San Francisco general automatic transfer seem less transfer the patient themselves probably wont know that and then the dmi i dont know if you have seen the vmi the vid...

Process. Determination of substantial number of thresholds by obtaining evidence from reliable data sources such as the American Community survey or anything else that we can get our hands on that is being validated information and validate this information having it analyzed by by the San Francisco Planning Department and compare with previously published data studies. The step may include a Baseline Study if there is no Information Available or the margin of error places the threshold in quest...

To garden ers and park patrol officers so we are all day every day interacting with the public in various ways. Currently this year our budget for translation and interpretation was set at 40,000 of which so far we spent close to 30 thousand compared to last year at 15 thousand so doubled the amount of Language Translation Services we provided. Was that deliberate that you started to translate more materials . Yes. One of the largest barriers that i think weve had a great leap in is providing Sc...

Started to translate more materials . Yes. One of the largest barriers that i think weve had a great leap in is providing Scholarship Applications so we now have the Scholarship Application available in chinese spanish russian and vietnamese and tagal will be coming towards the end of the summer now that thats on board there so along with the application for scholarship were also providing some written email communication weve been translating to be able to communicate with our scholarship clien...

Information available or the margin of error places the threshold in question as in the case of filipino where there was a difference in the threshold and certification after we validate the data we issue written notification to all City Departments as with the original amendment in 2009, 18 months to implement citywide. Were very pleased this year to to be able to certify filipino as a language. Now the margin of error is plus or minus 930 and this is the specific reason why ocea wanted to do a...

The volunteers and staff that have been working with the city for many, many years to make sure with we equal access to all the Cities Services and president chiu reminded me it didnt used to be called this but the continental access to all the serviced. Im a Firm Believer but were an International City and a city of immigrants the u. S. Consensus bureau said we speak many different languages and were youll san franciscans. We have an obligation weve strongly felt was a good purpose of governmen...

Language. and bay we are noteding with each and every you have a board of supervisors they fighting with you im excited to be part of this because first and foremost todays announcements is an credible vishgdz for the Filipino Community who has make sure in working with your policymakers we have a City Government thats responsive to all of our community. Im also excited like supervisor avalos and supervisor kim im the first childhood of a firstgeneration immigrants english was not theyre first l...

Helped people to get food stamps and get Legal Assistance to fight for their reporters. A lot of the folks are doing this in district 6. I want to thank you naomi kelly for your work and supervisor avalos for proposing the amendment and passing it in 2009. Your staff amy and so many folks to thank supervisor kim and supervisor avalos and april and supervisor avalos office staff and also a couple of supervisors not here supervisor campos and his office and supervisor ed mar were helpful in the pr...

For citizens and the one thing i can say about the community they persevere were fighting the displacement again and the filipinos are leading this so the fight never dies and the leadership and advocacy still sustains so congratulations to every one i want to thank the mayor and naomi kelly we couldnt have done that without you and thank you to everyone. clapping. thank you supervisor kim next id like to introduce supervisor avalos who represents district 11 we can clap for that clapping distri...

Was a difference in the threshold and certification after we validate the data we issue written notification to all City Departments as with the original amendment in 2009, 18 months to implement citywide. Were very pleased this year to to be able to certify filipino as a language. Now the margin of error is plus or minus 930 and this is the specific reason why ocea wanted to do a baseline study. And at that time the 2000 census provided a lot more detailed information there were a hundred quest...