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Clarifying when some of the timelines would be for compliance. Just to quickly go over that we are adding into our definition section advisory body, city boards and city commissions. We are giving formerly tier 2 departments until next fiscal year to comply with the parts specifically regarding interpretation and translation. We recognize they may need to make some budget asks to comply so we want to encourage them to do so. We are clarifying telephonic messages do not include employee mailboxes...

We were going to show. What i can tell you is right now police have two scenes that are two miles apart. They learned of the car accident first about 2 30 this afternoon. Shortly after that, they were called to an address on great elm, which is just about two miles north of here for a fire they discovered the body of a woman, according to sources. Police tell us they are at this time waiting for a search warrant to search that home on great elm. They are identifying the next of kin of the deceas...

Investigators say he took off after shooting a classmate and was on the run for several hours. Police immediately cleared out the school after this mornings attack, and you can see here on the video students walking out with their hands on their heads. The victim is now recovering in the hospital, and is okay. But its not clear yet if the students knew the shooter or if the suspect even attended that school. This was the Second School shooting in the southeast. Today a 15yearold boy in North Car...

I actually dont have any questions because i worked with mr. Pemberton, he is my nominee so obviously i support him. He has not only grown up in the district gone to Public Schools but hes spent his whole career working with children, youth, families. Now in his new role, in the sunset beacon, its a huge nonprofit. Im so excited that you wanted to serve and dedicate what little time you have to doing this so i really look forward to working with you in this capacity if you are approved today. Th...

Estimated 30 million in additional funding to meet our annual operating needs. The citys population is growing, density is increasing, and that means that our parks are being used at an increasing rate. And we are actually adding new parks in order to meet that increased population growth and density. We acquired three new properties in calendar year 2013 and expect to add more parks over the next ten years. As we do so, well need additional gardening, could you have had , we have been able to g...

Toleron, i work for the veterans equity but i also come here, a San Francisco resident who has applied for Affordable Housing and i have applied to the Mayors Office of Housing Community development below market rate rental program and i have stood in line in some of those developments trying to drop off an application and ive seen folks who have been turned away because their primary language is not english. And ive seen families struggling like filling out housing applications so i really do w...

Well, why dont they sign up . And they said, well, i have no idea. I guess they dont need it. Well, how could they sign up if they dont know about the program and even when they sign up, everything is in english and they dont know how to fill out these forms. Thats when i went ahead with my organization and say, well, were going to do it ourselves. Within two years they went up with the percentage that was a lot more what it looked like in the city in terms of going for the Chinese Community in ...

Programs . Oh, not too many. They dont feel like they need it. What do you mean they dont need it . Certainly income eligible they are. Well they never sign up. Well, why dont they sign up . And they said, well, i have no idea. I guess they dont need it. Well, how could they sign up if they dont know about the program and even when they sign up, everything is in english and they dont know how to fill out these forms. Thats when i went ahead with my organization and say, well, were going to do it...

Were back in Public Session San Francisco Ethics Commission month to month for february 23, 2015, having been in closed session the Commission Vote not to disclose the concept of the closed session other than to say that it voted and requested that supervisor farrell file a response no matter march 15 inform the commission forfeiture letter served on him. Pardon me. That needs to be voted on. I so moved mr. Chair. Second any Public Comment . There being no Public Comment commissioners have comme...

Services really look like to the people who are trying to access them. Thank you. Hi my name is teresa imperial, im for the bill for housing program. We are very appreciative of these Language Access ordinance amendments. Kind of want to give an idea of what we do what we do is help in filling out applications having people have greater access to housing. And when the article said no more tiers, with this amend about no more tier departments and all departments would require Language Access as o...