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Immigrant Rights Commission
Minutes of January 11, 2001
The Immigrant Rights Commission (IRC) meeting was
held on Thursday, January 11, 2001 at San Francisco City Hall, Conference Room
421, at 5:00 P.M.
Members Present Samuel Assefa, Penelope Chronis,
Isabel Huie, Dale Jimenez, Marie Lorraine Mallare, Thou Ny, Philip Nguyen, Richard
Ow and Reenee Saucedo.
Members Absent Renato Ecarma, Anita Friedman,
Natividad Ramirez, Martin Schenker, Lee Sprague, and Nam Thai.
Others Present Dang Pham, Executive Director
of the IRC
Committee Report Chair Saucedo reported to
the Commission the status of the Language Access Ordinance. According to Sandra
Lee, Legislative Aide to the Former Supervisor Mabel Teng, a few steps have
been taken concerning the Language Access Ordinance. The Mayor’s Office wants
some amendments because of the projected high cost of the ordinance. The Board
of Supervisors and the Mayor are sending out surveys to 15 tier 1 departments
to ask for a specific cost estimate and methodology used to arrive at their
estimation. When the surveys are returned and the Mayor’s Office and the Board’s
budget analyst are satisfied with the cost figures, it will be scheduled for
a committee hearing. Chair Saucedo reported that President Ammiano and Supervisor
Sandoval has indicated that they support of the Language Access legislation
and might be willing to take over the role of sponsor from Supervisor Teng who
is no longer on the Board.
Chair Saucedo also reported that President Ammiano
had not yet introduce the public housing legislation to the Board in the last
session because the City Attorney’s Office is reviewing the ordinance. Hopefully,
he will be able introduce the ordinance in the very near future.
No Actions were taken.
Annual Report The Commissioners review and
made various revisions to the draft annual report include the list of community-based
organizations attended the community meetings, the Census 2000 Outreach activities
and the advocacy role to the Board of Education to keep Newcomer High School
remains at the same location. The Director will incorporate these changes into
the Report and present the Report with the revisions for the Commission’s approval
in the February meeting. No action taken.
Miscellaneous The Commission meeting was adjourned
early because Vice Chair Mallare and Commissioner Ow had to leave early thereby
causing the Commission to lose quorum for the meeting.
Next Meeting: The Commission approved next
meeting to be held in City Hall, Room 408 on February 1, 2001 at 5:00 P.M.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:40 p.m.