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Us so that is the most effective way to outreach us as many of the people have been calling me i even have my phone number posted so that they can contact me i shouldnt be the only person doing that. Thank you. Hi my name is grace lee i just want to quickly thank supervisor chiu he has been a long time champion of this issue and we know this is slow going and it takes a lot of collaboration so these hearings are very important for us we appreciate this committee has been holding these hearings. We have been meeting with them on a quarterly basis but were happy to have all stakeholders at the t...

Part of long forgotten part of San Francisco. Thank you. First i want to thank supervisor cohen for helping to move this along. My name is fran martin. We won that battle and over the years our group advocated to bring Affordable Housing improve Public Transit to our under served community. We started the entire process that brought us here today. Schlage lock has been a toxic site. It is essential with this proximity to the bayshore this sight will be a transportation and our community has been in the forefront of advocating for Affordable Housing. Most of the neighborhoods do not want high d...

Actually have staff here today who can help. I would like to introduce myself i live in the Visitacion Valley. Im happy to receive this letter letting me know i can attend this meeting today. Speaking chinese. Translator this english is in english. This is very difficult for us to read this english letter. Speaking chinese. Translator i am 77 years old i am a long time resident in the Visitacion Valley so im so concerned of things in my neighborhood. Speaking chinese. Translator i have so many friends its really important to provide bilingual services to our residents. Speaking chinese. Transl...

These programs going. On the table 4 page 19 we actually show the 15year amount for each contract over the 15year term the 6 contracts will be general fund costs and in the Human Services budget subject to board approval and note the variation in costs has more to do with the size of the project itself and the economies smaller housing development. We do recommend approval of these 6 resolutions these 6 agreements however we do based on our audit from 2012 at that time we found it was very hard for the board of supervisors to actually get good information on supportive housing. At that point i...

Your leadership the Language Access Community Grants program. Then we have with us today our small but highly Competent Team of inhouse language specialists who id like them to stand up. Okay. So you can see we only have two fulltime chinese specialists one doubles as the outreach and Education Media and production coordinator and then we have one spanish person speaking person whose position is temporary wed love to make her permanent and one filipino tagalo speaker who is also our research and a backup spanish interpreter. Shes the unit leader and supervisor and our lao Compliance Officer an...