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Rules Committee advances expanded language-access ordinance to full Board
Summary
The Rules Committee advanced an ordinance to broaden language-access requirements across city departments, adding "tier 1" public-facing agencies, annual compliance plans and 311 complaint tracking; the Committee moved the item to the full Board for consideration on Aug. 11, 2009.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee on July 30 considered an ordinance to expand citywide language-access obligations and voted to forward the measure to the full Board with a recommendation.
President Carmen Chu, who introduced the measure, told the committee that San Francisco is linguistically diverse and that updates are needed to close gaps in existing law. "We would place into this new tier 1 category departments like the airport, the assessor and treasurer's offices, the library, Rec and Park, our zoo, the PUC, [and] the department of public works," Chu said, summarizing the ordinance’s core elements. The proposal would also require departments that anticipate health emergencies to…
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