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Revised Notice of Meeting and Agenda

 

 

Date:

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

 

 

Time:

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m

 

 

Place:

City Hall – Room 305 (new meeting room)

 

 

 

San Francisco, CA 94102

 

 

 

AGENDA

 

 

 

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II.

 

 

III.

 

IV.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

V.

 

 

 

 

 

 

VI.

 

                                                                           

VII.

 

 

VIII.

 

 

 

 

 

 

IX.

Roll Call

 

Approval of minutes of September 8th meeting

(Explanatory Documents/Discussion/Action Item)

 

Public Comments

 

Presentation:

(Informational/Discussion Item)

·        Ms. Rosemarie Melville, District Director of USCIS

New Citizenship Test

·        Ms. Cindy Carla Avitia of Congresswoman Lofgren’s Office

            Bipartisan Immigration Bill Recaptures Unused Visas

·        Shake It Up SF – Disaster Preparation

Krista Slanker – Department of Emergency Management

·        San Francisco Coalition for Asylee, Immigrant and Refugee Services (SFCAIRS)

·        Tomas Lee – Director of the Office of Language Services (OLS)

      EAS Revision

 

Next Neighborhood Meeting

(Informational/Discussion/Action Item)

·        Planning Process

·        Key issues

·        Flyers in Chinese, Spanish and Tagalog

·        Invite key city departments

 

Officer Election

(Informational/Discussion/Action Item)

 

Director’s Report

(Informational/Discussion/Action Item)

 

Committee Report

(Informational/Discussion/Action Item)

a.      Executive Committee

b.      Program & Access Committee

c.       Outreach Committee

d.      Immigration Reform Committee

 

Adjournment

 

 

( 5 minutes)

 

 

( 5 minutes)

 

(70 minutes)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(15 minutes)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(5 minutes)

 

 

(10 minutes)

 

 

(10 minutes)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For questions about the meeting please contact 415-554-4789.  The ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting.  Please be advised that the Chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE SUNSHINE ORDINANCE


Government’s duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public.  Commissions, boards, councils, and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people’s business.  This ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that City operations are open to the people’s review.
For information on your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance (Chapters 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code) or to report a violation of the ordinance, please contact:


Frank Darby, Jr., Clerk
Sunshine Ordinance Task Force
City Hall – Room 244
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102-4683
(415) 554-7724 (Office)
(415) 554-5163 (Fax)
E-mail:
[email protected]

Copies of the Sunshine Ordinance can be obtained from the Clerk of the Sunshine Task Force, the San Francisco Public Library and on the City’s website at www.sfgov.org.

* Copies of explanatory documents are available to the public on the Commission’s webpage:
www.sfgov.org/immigrant; or, upon request to the Commission Secretary, at the above address or phone number.

ACCESSIBLE MEETING POLICY

American Sign Language interpreters will be available upon request.  Every effort will be made to accommodate requests to make a sound enhancement system available at the meeting, to provide meeting materials in alternative formats and/or provide a reader, and to provide simultaneous translation in Spanish and Chinese during the meeting.  For these requests, please contact Marie Mitchell, Commission Secretary at 415-554-4789, at least 72 hours before the meeting.  Late requests will be honored if possible.  The hearing room is wheelchair accessible.

 

In order to assist the City’s efforts to accommodate persons with severe allergies, environmental illnesses, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other attendees may be sensitive to various chemical-based products.  Please help the City to accommodate these individuals.


DISABILITY ACCESS
The Immigrant Rights Commission meeting will be held in Room 416 at City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco.

The meeting location is between Grove and McAllister Streets and is wheelchair accessible.  The closet BART and Muni Metro Station is Civic Center, about three blocks from the meeting location.  Accessible Muni lines nearest the meeting location are:

42 Downtown Loop
49 Van Ness-Mission
F-Market & Muni Metro (Civic Center Station)
For more information about Muni accessible services call (415) 923-6142.
There is accessible on-street parking available in the vicinity of the meeting location.
For assistance with special needs (large print agendas, sign language interpreters, etc.) call Dang Pham at (415) 554-7583.
In order to assist the City’s efforts to accommodate persons with severe allergies, environmental illnesses, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities, attendees at public meetings are reminded that others may be sensitive to various chemical based products.  Please help the City accommodate these individuals.

LOBBYIST ORDINANCE

Individuals and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Lobbyist Ordinance[SF Campaign & Governmental Conduct Code 2.100] to register and report lobbying activity.  For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the San Francisco Ethics Commission at 30 Van Ness Street, Suite 3900, San Francisco, CA   94102, (415) 581-2300, FAX  (415) 581-2317, web site: sfgov.org/ethics.