Public Notice and Agenda
SAN FRANCISCO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COMMISSION
PROGRAM AND ACCESS COMMITTEE
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
6:30 PM City Hall, Room 370
Committee Members:
Committee Members:
Gilberto Alexander, Chair
Felix Fuentes and Vera Haile.
Note: All action items will be preceded by discussion and public comment.
1 Call to Order and Roll Call
2 Public Comment
3 Community Survey
(Information/Discussion/Action Item)
4 EAS 2009 Compliance Revision Update
(Information/Discussion Item)
5 EAS Ordinance Amendment Updates
(Information/Discussion Item)
6 Adjournment
Gavin Newsom, Mayor Edwin M. Lee, City Administrator
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:
Administrator
Sunshine Ordinance Task Force
City Hall – Room 244
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102-4683
(415) 554-7854(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 chemicalbased
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 3-1-1
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 Sally Leung at (415) 554-4884. 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.
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