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Mayor Lee tells supervisors city is expanding language access, piloting participatory budgeting and targeting services in OMI
Summary
Mayor Edwin Lee told the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on April 23 that San Francisco has strengthened language‑access services, is piloting neighborhood participatory budgeting and is coordinating multiple city agencies on a neighborhood violence‑prevention plan for OMI.
Mayor Edwin Lee told the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on April 23 that San Francisco has strengthened language access for limited‑English residents, has launched a participatory budgeting pilot in one district and is coordinating multiple city agencies to address increased violence in the Ocean View/Merced/Ingleside (OMI) neighborhood.
Lee opened the special policy discussion by citing the city’s emergency‑planning and public‑safety posture after the Boston attacks and then outlined city programs that he said aim to improve access for people with limited English, increase public participation in budget decisions, and expand youth and reentry services in neighborhoods that have experienced spikes in violence.
Why it matters: San Francisco’s population is highly multilingual, city officials said, and supervisors said language access, civic engagement and neighborhood public‑safety…
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