Meeting Information

Full Commission

Notice of Meeting and Agenda

Date: August 3, 2000

Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Place: City Hall - Hearing Room 416

One Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

AGENDA

Note: Decisions on any and all action items will be preceded by discussion and public comment

I. Roll Call

II. Approval of the minutes (Action Item) (5 minutes)

(Explanatory Document: Minutes of July 14th meeting)

III. Public Comment (Information Item) (10 minutes)

IV. Presentation: (Information Item) (15 minutes)

1. African Immigrant & Refugee Resource Center

2. Day Labor Program

V. By Laws (Action Item) (30 minutes)

Adopted of the proposed By Laws (Commissioner Chronis)

VI. Community Public Meeting (Action Item) (10 minutes)

Time and places of the next community public meetings for the year 2000

VII. Future Activity (Action Item) (30 minutes)

A. Prioritize of policy issues (Commissioner Huie)

Commission to decide which issues effecting immigrants to focus on for the fiscal year 2001 and the priority of these issues.

B. Annual Immigrant Pride Day (Commissioner Mallare)

Commission to consider organize the annual Immigrant Pride Day in San Francisco to highlight the valuable contributions of the immigrants.

VIII. Next Steps (Information) (20 minutes)

A. Community Public Meetings

B. Meeting with the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor

IX. Adjournment

For questions about the meeting, or additional copies of By Laws

please contact Dang Pham at 554-7583

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:

Donna Hall, Clerk

Sunshine Ordinance Task Force

City Hall - Room 244

1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

San Francisco, CA 94102-4683

(415) 554-5184 (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 http://www.sfgov.org.

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 (Administrative Code Section 16.520-534) to register and report lobbying activity.

For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, contact the Ethics Commission at 1390 Market Street, Suite 701, San Francisco, CA 94102, (415) 554-9510, FAX (415) 703-1021, or visit their web site at http://www.sfbos.org/sunshineethics