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Minutes of Meeting on August 12, 2002
The Immigrant Rights Commission (IRC) meeting was held on Monday, August 12, 2002 at San Francisco City Hall in Room 416, at 5:00 P.M.
I. Roll Call:
Members Present The meeting was called to order on 5:00 pm. Commissioners Lau, Huie, Benjamin, Berumen, Gonzalez, Gusukuma, Haile, Nguyen, Ow, Tran, and Zheng were present. Commissioner Nwadibia arrived at 5:33pm.
II. Approval of minutes for July 8, 2002:
Commissioner Tran stated some corrections on the following names: Lin Chi Wong, Pelosi & Igasaki. Commissioner Haile moved to approve the amended minutes, & Commissioner Gonzalez seconded the motion. The minutes, as amended, were adopted unanimously.
IV. Housing Authority: Tony Ucciferri & Beverli Marshall from the Housing Authority came to the commission to address some concerns of the commissioners. Commissioner Tran recommended if the application forms could be translated into Chinese, so the people can at least fill out the information to apply for housing. Commissioner Tran also stated that if the Housing Authority look into getting the language in a gentler form so that the landlords would sign off & the public can receive low cost housing.
V. Resolution: Renee Saucedo director of San Francisco Day Labor Program came to the commission ask to pass a resolution to support the La Raza Centro Legal to maintain the SF Day Labor Program. Hector Valdez came to the commission to tell his experience & how the SF Day Labor Program helped him. Ms. Saucedo asked if the commission pass this resolution recommending to the Mayor & Board of Supervisors the continuation of La Raza Centro Legal as administrator of the San Francisco Day Labor Program & its establishment at the proposed site on 3358 Cesar Chavez Street. Commissioner Gonzalez amended the resolution on the resolved which states: Resolved, the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission recommends to the Mayor & Board of Supervisors that La Raza Centro Legal, based on its outstanding commitment to San Francisco’s day laborers and its successful administration of the City and County’s Day Labor Program, be allowed to continue to manage the project. Commissioner Gusukuma also amended the resolution to added a further resolved which states: Further Resolved, that the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission strongly urges the San Francisco Planning Commission through the Mayor to allow the San Francisco Day Labor Program to establish its operations at the propose site on 3358 Cesar Chavez Street, San Francisco, California. Commissioner Gusukuma made a motion to pass the amended resolution which was seconded by Commissioner Gonzalez. The Resolution was approved unanimously.
First San Francisco Immigrant Rights Summit
Director Pham talked about the program development & gave the commission information on the honored guest speakers. Nancy Pelosi & Zoe Lofgren could not attend. Mike Honda & Paul Igasaki could attend. Quiduc Nuygen the Program Director of Pacific Research will cover the story for the Summit.
Commissioner Gonzalez briefed the Commission that the letters have been sent out to the panelist, but need to confirm if they can attend.
Lucky Choi, coordinator of the summit sent out e-mails to commission on who they should contact. Mr. Choi, Mr. Pham & Ms. Loi met with Thaddeus Watkins at the Bill Gram Auditorium to see how many rooms were needed for the event. We decided that we needed to use both sides of the Bill Gram Auditorium.
Also met with the AV person, Mike Samonte who put the cost together for the summit which would cost $8,000.
Commissioner Huie from the nomination committee told us that the committee came up with 9 nominations. Commissioner Benjamin asked if all nomination were Community Based Organizations & not individuals. Nominations would be awarded to those organizations that provided outstanding services to immigrants during the past year. The Awards committee was authorized to make the final decision.
Adjournment: The Commission meeting was adjourned at 8:00 p.m.