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The bayview redevelopment plan. Other recommendations are more tangible and can relate to Development Projects. This is where the consistency determination process comes into play. Those projects that involve medical uses of a certain size which collene touched on earlier would be subject to consistency determination. The consistency determination process will weigh the projects merits against these recommendations. The task force encouraged us to explore an incentive base system that would enco...

In 2018. Again, the current radio system we have now is 13 years old. It needs to be replaced. Its end of life, so, were very pleased that through coit and through the Mayors Office in the city is supporting this effort for our First Responders on the street. You asked about proposed legislation. We have one piece of proposed legislation, which i believe is item 9 on your calendar today, and was called in conjunction with this, and thats to transfer the administration of the Police Emergency ala...

Facility rental costs and thats the our satellite as well as the bernal street. And there is the replacement of vehicles that were required by city ordinance. So, were replacing 12 vehicles. Major initiatives that were involved in, the creation of the db unit which was in part by your support. Were getting ready actually to get that unit rolling this month. Well be inviting all of you actually to our opening. Another thing that we started this year is we started with a d. A. Staff. Its the begin...

Its an excellent point, supervisor breed. And it is something that is on our mind. We are very good about salvaging what we can to put into the new stations. Case in point. When we moved from third and howard, station 1 over to folsom between fifth and sixth, we brought a lot of equipment and furnishings over to the point that it would fit and it would work. But we did need to invest some additional dollars because of sort of the different set up and layout of the station. So, similarly particul...

Filing out the forms. The process are state mandated the files have to be in english but then those that dont require that requirement we do have a city id we have other forms in chinese and others as well. For in person we have a staff our department is small but our staff is basically bilingual and their fluent a in spanish and mandrin and that make ups more than half of our staff. We utilizes the Language Services and in person and over the phone. And if required we also offer a s l with adva...

Hi, my name is malia cohen and im the current elected representative of the San Francisco board of supervisors representing district 10. Im one of five girls raised by my parents in the southeastern neighborhoods of San Francisco. And i know the history of the difficult challenges that the southeast has faced as my family has faced them, too. However, what i see is what many residents see. Neighborhoods that are unlike any other. Contradict 10 is comprised of communities where people are familia...

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...

Want to be on this committee the men in the morning want to play golf. Theyve all said no, we dont want to and someone else said well, you have no color. I have idea when this committee almost exploded in 20034 when everybody on the committee quit and i was ready to quit and john said i expect you to quit and i said ive put in seven years already then our ballot handbook will look like the states which is biased in any aspects and i went to every single group and begged them to come up with peop...

Will have their guns and i understand that california we have a crossreference checking, so if there is an order of Domestic Violence or something, put in place, then it is matched up with if he owns a gun if the person owns a gun or not. Right. Do we have a unit that actually goes and takes the gun from them . What we were doing is we were having some of the frat officers do that and act in concert with our plain clothes officers on the days that we had an overlap and we did net several guns, t...