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Center and f ad s when is our sponsor today and bishop there are members of active leadership and grassroots we want to thank everyone for coming again, this is a big step forward a century of filipinos in the United States and this is right. Step to recognize the contribution and the strength of our community in San Francisco. Thank you all for coming here today and all your work clapping. thank you terry. I would like to introduce grass lee for affirmative action dpras focuses on Racial Justice issues. C aa is part of the Language Access network and is with the immigrant affairs. Grace clapp...

Of government and i joined board president chiu and supervisor kim and Councilmember Avalos will be here they have a late night meeting debating important issues i know each of the that have a very strong filipino and other asian the minority and latin populations in their district and certainly right here in this district a extremely strong presence and with the city comes to the clear obligation we must be able to make sure our Vital Services are ones that reach all our citizens when they have a language barrier by many who dont have english as the first rang indicate to the American Survey ...

The outreach it wont be just to the spanish and to going we need to work with our south American Communities that are growing so when we do big captions we want to reach attest to folks in competent ways this is the thrust of our city and ill proud of this we reach everyone we can to make sure that language is not a barrier or culture. I want to thank naomi for your leadership i know the city leads this effort and over the next 18 months n reflected in our budget well have the resources to make sure that the to going will be the focus. In the a great city one im very proud of and proud to anno...

Important to know that treld that we as a city will then make sure we give the serviced to be transmitted properly and people what make did access. Gone are the days i used to translate for my mom and dad whether a hospital or benefits. I know virtual everyone standing with me today at sometime did the same things you were nerve because they didnt have the transmission and you were nerve whether a medical term was accurate or access Public Safety whether effectively or not to you the filipinoamericans her 90 in San Francisco that went throw things im not that david chiu and the Chinese Communi...

Mirrors the numbers from the acs Population Estimates again 87 percent of the client served by tier one departments are chinese and Spanish Speaking with the majority 48 percent chinese and point 02 percent speak tagalo theres a slight difference in the numbers reported by tier one departments having russian slightly higher at point 03 percent but that could be because of the Services Provided or the requests that are made. And as you know our leo is a very robust ordinance with tier 1, 26 main departments and tier 2 which are all the rest of the departments that service the public and in gene...