you work all day and have to go to a workshop, it's tiring. >> three workshops. >> okay. >> we tell you in advance what to bring. >> uh-huh. >> bring the green card, all the addresses you have lied. a resume. >> a laundry list. >> huh. >> here's a check list you need to bring to come into the workshop. they free and run by non-profit organization. >> how long does it take and can i sit down with one person and start my paperwork? >> if you bring that paperwork that day, you will leave with a package. you need to write a check to homeland security. it costs $650 to be naturalized. >> yikes. does anyone help with that? >> not yet. >> it's a chunk of mean. >> per person. >> yeah. >> unless you over the age of 75, in which case there is a marginal decrease in cost. if you're financially strapped, you can petition for a waiver. another process, which takes time. >> takes time. >> and which this group can help you with. what is important here, susan, is that not only do we want people who are eligible for natural situation to be naturalized, to become part of our civic community, to vote and

one of the workshops is actually about tools for measuring effective family engagement. maribel is the expert on this. >> just to add there are a couple of one of the things. of this process for these new areas. are they more likely to have that one on one understanding contextual knowledge of the school sites. so things like asking the question of having a consistent protocol it also provides information two way communication channel to the central office to then try to figure out how do we tailor professional development. >> i'm sorry. commissioner mendoza mcdonnell? >> i want to thank you both for this presentation. it's been at least a year since the board of the update. i'm really glad to see the tremendous progress made. how can i connect? >> you can go to the website. it's the second topic and it will give you a link which will give you information to call or fax or register online. i'm just curious if the families are and if you have a sense of what the divisions are in middle. it always gets down and i'm just curious. i have to give a lot of credit to america co

. >> you provide workshops. >> yes, we do. we have workshops that help them deal with the day to day and explain, okay, the person is going to be confused. even in the beginning stages, they are not necessarily going to get up the way they used to and go brush their teeth and do their daily things. they think oh, when family doesn't understand, they are thinking when their memory is gone, they can remember more complex things, why can't they just get up. explaining the initiative goes away, a bit of depression, understandably so. they know the disease. >> let me ask, michelle, how valuable would this information have been to your family? >> very, very helpful. as she states, there are times, for instance, my grandmother's clothes there. she wouldn't get dressed, undressed and into pajamas again. like hello. you also don't understand what's going on in their mind. she just goes in the shower, she doesn't get a shower. they become babies again. very, very helpful to have somebody guide you, support you and understand you on the

, a financial workshop in which we will bring experts around california into the financial workshop to look at the local power work and show how that billion dollars over 10 years can happen. and what you can do as a commission that would help us more than anything else is send the communication to the local agency formation commission that you support the idea that works and would like the lafco to work very closely and cooperatively with the advocates to make sure that workshop is successful. thank you. >> thank you. ~ workshop next speaker. >> could i just observe that i'm extraordinarily moved and impressed by eric burks' comments. i remember sitting in the ground floor of the old sfe offices. >>> yes. >> in the dark. [laughter] >> on really uncomfortable chairs. >>> i remember. >> and hearing eric excoriate the puc? don't you love that word? i never get to use it. >> i was like wow. >> i mean, he was really as hard on them as i have been on federal agencies in my career, and that is saying something. and to have him come here and say that the program that we're talking about -- th

this is the location of the workshop. the patios are interconnected, and focus on the main patio and the house of the noble. the noble is the head of the compound. he is the patron of everyone living here. david webster is the archaeologist who excavated much of the noble's house. this man probably had about 200 to 300 people who were dependent on him in some way, including his wives, his brothers, his political retainers, his economic specialists, living in this patio group and the other patio groups. they're buried here. there are about 250 or 300 burials here. which are the people who were his dependents. and essentially what this is is an elaborate household. keach: the maya noble could support his household because he controlled the rich farmland surrounding the compound. the land was so fertile it could produce a surplus which fed the noble's dependents, including specialists like the artisan, who were not themselves farmers. this was the basis of the economic system of the elites in ancient copan. for the noble, th

and which with the help of the actor's son, we held a free workshop at the auditor um at the library regarding the affordable care act, which i keep calling obama care for better offer worse in coverage california. there were 30 people in attendance and the questions that were raised during this workshop indicated a large gap in, understanding this topic. i think that there is a huge information gap regarding aca across the board and so we may have another workshop in the future, and this city, and they brought it together and discussed how the city was going to move forward to the healthy san francisco and how that is going to merge with coverage california and without getting into too much detail, there will be materials out there, and lots of information coming out, the state is a little behind, and we intend to do a workshop for sure in concert with the small business commission and there is information about how the small businesses are going to be affected by the aca and because i think that many of our, our most of ours are really just small businesses. and so we will do our b

forum was very well received by the council and so we are actually moving forward with a five-part workshop series to assist the hotels, to green themselves so this is a very industry specific out reach that we are trying to do here. and other items that the program is moving forward with, is a set of translated checklists for the office/retail and the restaurant sectors we will be having those created in spanish and chinese and those are currently in the process at the moment and so we are hoping to complete them shortly and as wells the second thing that we are working on further is the businesses work very hard to receive this recognition and to achieve, the high environmental standards of the program and so we created a video to help the businesses market their green recognition to the clients and customers, so they understand what to do with the green recognition once they have received it. >> and, to conclude, the san francisco green business program does offer many benefits to businesses in san francisco. we as a program do strive to help the businesses go green and take advantage of

what we think is the key is the small business conference and we provide 50 different workshops this past year at sfstate downtown campus we really pushed ourselves to come up with some new topics that we had, and we worked with the san francisco economic development alliance and the chamber of commerce to do some success stories ora they are we called them failure stories to bring the panels of small business to talk about what worked and didn't and you can learn what didn't work than what did and we had great feedback >> the small business award ceremony at city club was a really fun event. we raised the level, i think a little bit from years past, and this was our second annual event and the first year was hosted by rocology in the open space and due to increased fund-raising and we were able to take the penthouse and staoet club and mayor lee was in attendance and it was really elegant and fun night and all of the awardees and from the san francisco business alliance and the mayor's award really felt were very appreciative about the opportunity for them to be put on such a stage

workshop on the recognized obligation payment schedule for january 1, 2014 to june 30, 2014, rops, 13-14 b, discussion. >> i want to announce that i will to leave soon and if you don't think that it is rude i will turnover to rosales, when i step out. okay. sorry go ahead. >> thank you. commissioners, members of the public, as you are aware, although, you approved the budget, the board of supervisors and the mayor approved our annual budget, in july, of this year, and there are other layers of authority, and per state disillusion laws that provoids for a 6-month look at proposed expenditures for what is called a recognized payment schedule or the ropses. a number of these have been approved by the over site board over the fiduciary obligations and ultimately the state department of finance has the final say and this is an informational presentation and no action today, but we will come back to you prior to final action, by the over site board and with that, the deputy director, will present this item. >> good afternoon commissioners, my pleasure to be before you once again, with the r

>> i wanted to update the commissioners who are not present that we did in fact have the healthcare workshop on the 9th of september. and which with the help of the actor's son, we held a free workshop at the auditor um at the library regarding the affordable care act, which i keep calling obama care for better offer worse in coverage california. there were 30 people in attendance and the questions that were raised during this workshop indicated a large gap in, understanding this topic. i think that there is a huge information gap regarding aca across the board and so we may have another workshop in the future, and this city, and they brought it together and discussed how the city was going to move forward to the healthy san francisco and how that is going to merge with coverage california and without getting into too much detail, there will be materials out there, and lots of information coming out, the state is a little behind, and we intend to do a workshop for sure in concert with the small business commission and there is information about how the small businesses are going to be affect

and which with the help of the actor's son, we held a free workshop at the auditor um at the library regarding the affordable care act, which i keep calling obama care for better offer worse in coverage california. there were 30 people in attendance and the questions that were raised during this workshop indicated a large gap in, understanding this topic. i think that there is a huge information gap regarding aca across the board and so we may have another workshop in the future, and this city, and they brought it together and discussed how the city was going to move forward to the healthy san francisco and

so, i encourage you to attend this workshop. the other is that we have concurrent enrollment for high school students, junior and high -- junior and senior high school students, and these are courses that are offered by ccsf. we're still open, accessible, affordable, accredited. don't let the mainstream media fool you, all right. we're one of the best bargains in town. and we have courses that transfer to u.c. and csu. so, if any of you have students or are a student interested, they're being offered. they are three units. you will have fulfilled the requirement at csu american cultures and ethic is studies. at berkeley and any of the other uc systems. i encourage you, you will have a leg up in transferring or graduating into a four-year college ~ by having these courses under your belt. so, i just wanted to encourage folks to know that these possibilities are there for the students and they should take advantage of them. and city college is there to support both san francisco unified school district and the entire community. th

. >> and then, there is a list of series of workshops and conferences and i am going to include this because you are not necessarily aware that martha once a month goes to give how to start a business 101 at the sba and also does that periodically at our economic development organizations and i think that quarterly, also, does that, at the library. and so, and then, commissioner, yee riley is going to talk about a workshop that is taking place towards the end of the month. and i want to highlight that, and i briefly mentioned last month, about the shops small campaign which is part of the small business saturday and so the office is sponsoring the and you have it in your binder but these will be going up. and these are baners on the light poles. >> and they will be going up in the city throughout the targeted area to encourage between now and the holiday season, to shop small. >> and where will they be placing the baners? >> i... >> we do have. >> they will be all over the place. >> and we don't have the money to be able to have them all over the place and in certain areas have alrea

we offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. we offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. there is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. >> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. >> actually, i have been here a lot. i have never looked closely enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >> we want to try to get them to be more creative with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool. >> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of th

singer billy ray cyrus is defending his daughter's much talk about a workshop performance. he told cnn's pierce morgan the-ours is just reinventing herself and she is passionate about her art. he also says she was just trying to do something special at the villa maze. >> i knew that she wanted to do something really special and something that everyone was going to be talking about. i knew that she had put in a great deal of practice and a fog into what was going to happen in new york. again it became that moment of a singer songwriter entertainer finding that special moment in the can sometimes controversy lies in the special moment. i've never known any great artists that was lukewarm and the fans were just in the middle on it. >>james: cyrus says what to say and that his daughter has risen

the day will include workshops to include initiatives and how they affect classrooms and how to build bridges between cultures and families. child care for the day promises to be engaging as well from the sf fire department. this is a great day for all of our families. this will happen this saturday september 28, starting at 9:30, 350 gerard street at the middle school. the best things come when families learn from each other. the highlights of the even is i had a pleasure of introducing you to one of our many great high school students. this is valdez, she participated in the program in the science and health care partnership. each student on this program was paired with a mentor and committed scientific reach are research for eight weeks for the summer. it's a program by sfusd and i also want to recognize our director of science technology engineering and math mr. jim ryan who is here this evening to support jasmine. this program is active in 90 percent of our school district's k-12 schools and provides benefits to our teachers in more than 250 scientist role models to our student e

at its peak, the alvarado arts workshop was in 50 public schools in san francisco. it employed artists musicians and gardners and recruited thousands of parents to be involved in public education and certainly was the precursor to our elementary arts program. out about the same time ruth became a member of the san francisco arts commission and began lobbying politicians and charitable foundations to support arts programs. she would go on to serve on the california arts council, the national endowment for the arts and become the first artist trustee of the fine arts museum of san francisco. later ruth was instrumental in founding the san francisco school of the arts, a public arts school. (applause) >> her belief that having working artists in public schools working with students has spread around the country and is embedded in our own master plan for arts education. in 2010 after decades of discussion, ruth finally allowed us to rename the school of the arts as the ruth [speaker not understood] san francisco school of the arts. we promised her that we would be the t

the mentor couples, if we can get some communication workshops going, we did them in different par,s last year. those are some of the things we hope to do. >> you have your work cut out for you. >> yeah. >> do you have much of a staff? >> i have a wonderful woman named betty reichmann working with me. we are doing t they are hiring a new director for young adult ministry. before a director for youth ministry that we also recently hired. all three of us are new. we hope to work together closely because when we talk about marriage preparation, we see the couples a few months before marriage. really, preparation is a life long thing. you learn about marriage from your family but hopefully you learn from your experiences in the church. hoping to work with the youth and young adult ministries directors to try to get people thinking about marriage. so if they are dating in their high school and teenaged years and college years, they are thinking what kind of things might i be looking for in a potential spouse. marriage is a vocation and we want them to have that in the back of their mind.

earlier this month movements planned and use a workshop around heath rirpz with to police. where we introduced the review to the community. this being our fifth summit based on the police and public relationships we've educated a lot of what the parents feel to be healthy relationships between youth and police. we work closely with the youth commission on a general order and have been doing this for 5 years to make sure that the youth and public voices is where our community members are effected. during our most recent summit we had four officers in attendance that work on housing and poverty who assisted in this workshop. and the pamphlets and other general information and the ruling role of the school community. at burn heights center we're striving for public accountant ability for the community. where the language binds the s r o sz to the contact is important. school officers should be a rows. it shouldn't be a threat to any student and m l o should frame the model relationship that us the community want to see between the public and police >> thank you. >> thank you a