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To have some real positive changes for the mission. Shortly after i took Office Supervisor kim and i started tag teaming on one off exemptions to the mission alcohol special use district because while this isnt just my view that this special use district served an important purpose when it was first enacted 20 years ago in terms of combating alcohol blight in the mission. Over time in my view out lived its usefulness, and we saw a few years ago at the Bowling Alley that went on at 17th and south van ness that project was going to fall apart because they werent going to be able to serve beer so...

Over due, and i think im going to have some real positive changes for the mission. Shortly after i took Office Supervisor kim and i started tag teaming on one off exemptions to the mission alcohol special use district because while this isnt just my view that this special use district served an important purpose when it was first enacted 20 years ago in terms of combating alcohol blight in the mission. Over time in my view out lived its usefulness, and we saw a few years ago at the Bowling Alley that went on at 17th and south van ness that project was going to fall apart because they werent go...

Werent going to be able to serve beer so did did a one off exemption for movie theaters. When the roxy theater which is a treasure of Community Institution wanted to serve wine and beer to help survive such a unique San Francisco Mission Institution they were prohibited and we did another exemption for that and each time i gave the standard speech while its great to do the one off exemptions its not good policy and we need to fundamentally address of the problems that were caused and that valencia whole foods cant get a license but a large store can and a lounge has trouble becoming ada compli...

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 advanced no, that that he contract with city vendor for that thank you very much thank you any questions...

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 exciting percentages by limited proficient owners what do i attribute to that low English Speaking clien...