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On the phones. Have to wait for the sergeant to come with the phone so they can call the Language Line. Now every officer has the phone so they are using it, which is what we want. And the phone has google language on the phone so they can figure out who they need to talk to the person to. None of us have to talk to each other any more face to face. My take away. I guess the push one thing i would stress is if theres a way to increase the number of direct bilingual officer interactions, i dont k...

I cant anybody whos worked with ria, could you stand up please . Okay so its really an you see that . Okay. Down. Down. I know ria has family here so if her family could stand. [applause] thank you for teaching us a lot, thank you for your quiet way of teaching us. She didnt pound your head on the desk around it she just quietly and quietly moves it forward and makes sure we are doing what we need to do. Ive always got questions so shes always willing to take my questions and we always get back ...

Contact those officers by using dem or contacting dem directly and finding out who is available that has that skill set. As i look at it, it looks like theres a decrease in the number of sort of bilingual officer contacts. In 2013 it looks like there were more sort of face to face interactions between a bilingual officer and a client. In 2014 the vast majority of the contacts were through the phone interpreters, about 2700 out of the 2954, right . So there was an increased use of the phone lines...

Negotiations are going on right now to get these things passed . Guest what has happened so far is that the senate has pushed for this trade bill and got an advance only with lastminute maneuvering on the Chamber Floor yesterday. You had a band of senators who really want to get the Exportimport Bank passed and that also has a time sensitive deadline at the end of next month. And mcconnell got these senators on board and that bill was advance. Now they are tried to push through today and bunch o...

Schmidt. The Advisor Committee didnt meet in december and will be reconvening on january 21. The next item on the agenda is the joint legislative committee report. We did not meet in december so in february well have a full report long term coordinating council report. The long term coordinating council didnt meet in december. Our next meeting is tomorrow afternoon. Thank you. Youre making this meeting very efficient. [laughter] next item on the agenda is the tack report. Kathy russo. Good eveni...

Kim ill be chairing todays meeting unfortunately supervisor yee will not be present we want to acknowledge the staff jim smith who records our meeting as he transcribes them on line and our clerk steve mr. Clerk any announcements. None. Please call roll. Supervisor breed supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent we have quorum. Thank you. Do we need to take a motion to excuse supervisor yee or is that not necessary for this committee that i. To the call of the chair. ...

Were getting 4,000 in the Community Just on violence against women you guys are getting probably more and just anything we can do to Work Together to collect those stats, i know dem has put a lot in place to help that and also i think thats bilingual officer contacts, we need a way to really capture those. Im a little bit concerned just as one of the commissioners was that this is a little bit heavy on Language Line and i think its easier to track. So i think theres an opportunity to get a clear...

Center. This is another sample of the meals. Of course this is very common and culturally well accepted. Now, this is a picture of the seniors at graduation and what they did was that because they couldnt volunteer getting volunteers was different in the islands than here. They train the seniors, theyre able to use them as food service aids helping with the new service. These are just some very few highlights of the visit back in january of last year. On the very top is the chief ali and he met ...

Teaching us. She didnt pound your head on the desk around it she just quietly and quietly moves it forward and makes sure we are doing what we need to do. Ive always got questions so shes always willing to take my questions and we always get back to where she started, which is interesting for me. I just cant thank you enough. I think the departments pet better for the work and im very sure that the individual people you worked with are as well. Now, who brought the flowers . Who was the person w...

Islands than here. They train the seniors, theyre able to use them as food service aids helping with the new service. These are just some very few highlights of the visit back in january of last year. On the very top is the chief ali and he met with the seniors at the Samoan Community Development Center to get their insights and also get their feedback of what works for them here in the city and they took a lot of the ideas back. And we visited several new sites, including 30th street. This is a...