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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 want to push for looking at Language Access as one of the barriers to access to affordable housing. Thank you very much. Are there any other member s of the public who...

Several introductions today. First as you may have followed in the press in the last few weeks, we are seeing a situation where more and more drugs including hiv drugs are being placed or reclassified as socalled specialty drugs. By various insurance providers, and which means that instead of paying your standard 15 or 25 or 50 copay you have to pay a significant percentage of the cost of the drug which could be hundreds or even approaching 1,000 dollars a month. And in january we learned or i a...

The ethics laws were out dated or confusing and not inadequately addressing the regulations so the Ethics Commission spent the last 11 months discussing this with the public and city officials and legal experts cross california proposition e is a result i urge you not reimpact any of the confusions of prop j. Any other Public Comment all in favor of the motion. I. I. Opposed the motion is passed turning to 5 which is environment as a penalty. Commissioner. This proposal the idea is to add a pena...

Office. They did analysis on things we can improve on oh see ya. I want to thank lee network. They have provided some very helpful feedback to make sure weve been working throughout the years in truly serving our community. And of course, the office of immigrant affairs. We really hope they can provide a stronger and better role for all of us in the community. And of course, my staff. So at this time, ill turn it over to supervisor yee who i know has good amendments to add to make this an even b...

Want, i know you have signage at the recommendation but i want you to also look at applications, you know, access and try to bring that to inaudible . Thank you. Next speaker please. Hi, my name is carolyn 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 ...

Is not english. And ive seen families struggling like filling out housing applications so i really do want to push for looking at Language Access as one of the barriers to access to affordable housing. Thank you very much. Are there any other member s of the public who would like to comment . Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. Supervisor tang thank you again so much for everyone who came here and shared your comments. Just speaking on the issue of applications, thats certainly part of th...

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 want to push for looking at Language Access as one of the barriers to access to affordable housing. Thank you very much. Are there any other member s of the public who would like to comment . Seeing none, we will close...

24th street bar will serve the public convenience of the city. Same house, same call. Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Call item number 12. Item 12 is an ordinance to expanded the administrative code by a language of the ordinance to apply to all city departments that provide information or services to the public and enhance the departmental is complaint plan requirement. Supervisor tang. Thank you. I wanted to speak on are we on item 12 . I want to really set the bar h...

70s and 80s. Nothing was translated and when i asked for it, ill give you a good example, they had a couple thousand slots for subsidized child care and they would come and say, well, how many, you know, people from this community are actually in these 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 n...

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 terms of being enrolled in these programs, going from less than 10 percent to near 30 percent. So a lot of it is because of the Language Access and i get it, you know . In fact, as this stuff is happening even today a neighbor knocked on my do...