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>> all right, if everyone will come to order, i want to apologize for the late start. we have four members, so we had to wait to get a quorum before we could begin the committee meeting , so the thank you very much for your patience. i would like to call to order this meeting, this meeting of the ad hoc committee. this means that all members of the board have been invited, and we welcome the commissioners who are not members of the committee, as well as the staff. this is the meeting for monday, september 13, 2010. 4 board, the attendance areas and

elementary to middle school feeder patterns and a general education transportation policy, so we will with the staff presentation, and and public comment. so there are a lot of people here tonight. w=i am glad you are here. the subject is very important to all of us, so we are going to the answers are available, and we will begin with the staff presentation. superintended? >> yes, before we turn it over to arlene and archie, i really do want to commend one person for taking on this challenge and j this great input over a long time, actually, but particularly in the last couple of months. i think this has been very valuable for us, and i think you will see this evening that we

have taken the time to really hear what our community has to say, so thank you. thank you, commissioners, and superintendent, and the public. i have a presentation tonight that is divided intongd three attendance areas. the third is the transportation policy. i begin, i wanty that there has been a lot of information made available over the last two years. i know it is always great tp;! have more data, but it is good for people to have an idea of how to access the data, so there is a website, at sfpuc. in the objectives tonight are two sure we have heard from the and we are thankful

particularlt couple of months, have invested a lot of time for this feedback. what we are doing is preventing this as a very high dashon level summary, and a written report will be shared by the end of september, -- a very high level summary. we want to incorporate this into the resolution so it can be incorporated for action on september 28, so that is the objective. in terms of the staff presentation, we will start with the attendance areas, and we have three areas that we are making recommendations to change the boundaries, and we will go through those in detail.

we also love a recommendation from the middle school feeder and pattern -- feeder pattern. we will provide a high-level review and share our proposals for the approach in the interim plan for allocating these that need to accompany any delay. we are going to propose a new timeline. instead of bringing it back to the board on september 28 for the second reading, we will bring it back to the board in november and have it by january, so we will not throw the long term goals off in terms of the implementation, but we will allow more time for feedback.

we want to share some implications of the policy. we want to make sure vote before we go any further about the bus stops for transportation, -- >> i just want to clarify. when we talk about a new timeline, so they will know before they submit their applications. >> yes, thank you, commissioners for pointing that out. we are delaying the amount of time between the first and second reading, but we are not delaying the ultimate goal, and january, to submit applications.

so these are really just there for context. i think we have covered these before. every student would have in attendance area school. they are necessary if they wish, but it is not possible to accommodate all. there is actually a mismatch between where people live and where the schools are located, and when we were drawn the attendance area boundaries, we looking at the attendance of schools, avoiding natural highways and the typography, and creating a single area and maximizing diversity. i am action going to refer mostly to this larger map, because i think it will be a better idea.

it is not possible to of schools in the center of attendance areas, and because of the distribution of students across the area, and not borrow -- all schools are ideally located, and there willvrúz=7adá3-mt3é located within one or two blocks of the boundary, and there are a lot better on the edge of the boundary, and there are a lot of reasons for that. ñuhçabout some restrictions, se constraints, given the distribution, it is impossible to avoid that scenario. in some cases where the attendance areas are small, it either means that there is another school close to iû9í÷z- with larges either not densely populated or further from another school, and

that is where you see these attendance areas. the community on the attendance areas, most of the conversations _xthat were focused on the midde schools as feeder patterns, but with email and with in-person meetings, we got a lot of feedback, and where we got specific feedback with regard to them, the first two bullets that are in blue, we evaluated the feedback we received and do not have a recommendation based on that, but we have recommendations for the last three in certain areas of the cityép come -- areas of the cit, and i want to make sure that members of the board can see this, too.

>> can you turn the microphone on there in front of you? ok, thank you. góit will not be recorded if its not on the microphone. >> ok, so is the microphone putting -- picking it up? and there was a suggestion from the community thatel this attendance area, -- they have got one-way streets. mwkjrthereg@ are three streets e small and on a hill, and maybe, darlene, if you can push the

powerpoint, it shows, and we are recommendations has to do with -- " >> when you do that, could you point to it, too, because on television, the laser pointer does not show. it looks like you are pointing to somewhere far to the left. >> ok. it is this small area right here that we are suggesting become part of the area. the next area recommendation two, i believe, has to do with the sunnyside, so this is the area of the city that is here that is color coded in yellow, blue, and light blue, so we are actually recommending to move the boundary further north, and

that will move this boundary out to this area here, and to incorporate, i believe is the par+r"tqpip 6 c1 westwood park. >> so this puts all of west would park in there. >> -- all of the west would park -- westwood park. >> we are increasing our ability to have diversity, so that is the recommendation that is here, and it obviously impact sunnyside. the next side has to deal with

this other area, and we were trying to make sure that we were increasing diversity and enrollment. the intended area was really small, and this other one was very large, and it was designed that way because of a major street, but in looking at this more closely again, we had people who brought us in a lot of information. safe passages in this area, so we are able to make their recommendation to have the attendance area follow up this way, followed the no. 67 bus, to the seventh part and then go this way. it actually creates a larger attendance area. it more evenly distribute the area and would balance enrollments.

we then looked at the glen park area. this area is again designed, not taking into account that there are these overpasses and underpasses, which do make it impossible to cross over, so when and ends up being a relatively small attendance area given the densities that are there. -- so it ends up being a relatively small attendance area. mission street, and cut it across here, and by doing that, it would create an island, so we are proposing to put this part into monroe, and this attendance area actually becomes smaller. it is a very densely populated area of the city, so it would actually alleviate some of the attention of those who live near it and the site of the school. this is