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a prefer al cool. whether it be staff out here >> thank you very much, we appreciate it. >> the supporting intend enter has one other item. we want todz give you an update. there's a lot of issues to bet
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the communities. we've asked any of those shoes coming up. when we start planning this, it's not going to be done in isolation. this is really going to be cored nating. they are involved because of the facilities issue i've been seeing a lot of pressures. obviously we are trying to deal
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fairly saying that this is a phase out of the program. kids that have already applied will be admitted we've explained that to the staff. in the future years, it will be opened as we explained it last week where we explain part of the feeder is to have a k school there. i did explain to the staff that the horse man name would stay there. if we were going to work on the
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program very reaccept tiff about having those kind of discussions. there's still a lot of different things we are looking at. we did need to start moving forward. the more time we have, the better transition. the smoother everything will go. >> before others ask. i'm stuck not asking the question. i'm curious in terms of how the out reach is going. i'm sure the super intend nt has
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done his presentation. i'm curious how the community has responded since. i had one other after school piece for next year is already in motion. i meant to ask that and kevin slipd out. in general. that was part of my previous piece that i missed. >> good evening, i did ask veronica chavez to join us. some require a more immediate game plan in order for planning for next school year to go
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smoothly. staff has started to flush out the work. we need to do all of our best. this week, i know my team was where we can talk more at this point. good evening, as carlos has said. we do want to answer their questions about the application process as many families have turned into that.
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trying to answer those questions right now. we do want to ensure the community that when they come over to horse man, they can avail themselves there's very careful times. always done for the community we
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had them come out. we try to korver all the bases. >> we are also trying to coordinate our efforts. there was also some more widespread communication that went home last wednesday. it went home to the communities. all of the neighborhood schools and applying for some of those grade six seats coming up and
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making it an option. >> which sounds like could have some affects on other schools >> the horse man is a sick school. it's now going into rebuilding it into a new school and bringing the population in. that doesn't jep ardize some of the funding. >> that is an excellent question. the significant redesign jo you
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have to 5accelerate. >> any other questions? >> i don't know if anybody knows this but at some time i'd like to know legally what the status is this going to be. we are spending a lot of our day. that's all part of the project plan we developed to get through.
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we are going to keep the horseman name and work buena vis visita into it. we want some of the communities to be here. >> thank you so much. the resolution for the second reen action tonight in the item mass, roll call please.
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>> is the consent calendar resolution set for immediate discussion. we had k 1? >> the reason i called this one because i looked at the funding source. it's paying for the art sdan residence den si.
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i just wanted clarification of why this was used in this way. >> thank you. we asked those to develop mainly as you mentioned schools need to develop plans.
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one is to engage stu departments in learning they group the students together and combine classes. they are being very creative really to support the work that
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they do thank you. it says all the funding. >> this is the portion from there. thank you. >> roll call, please. >> seven ayes. the next item is dpfrn 5 pulled by commissioner yi. i was curious myself in terms of
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the questions around this in terms of why we are using a contract rather than hiring our staff to do this work. i understand that. sports for kids is a program that a lot of our elementary schools because it doesn't have the teachers there to teach during the day.
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organizing. it has services that are not reply indicating jo thank you. roll call, please. >> one of the programs as a member of the road side council it was presented to us closer to pe. he was a great roll model for the kids, he worked on leadership. this is not a good sdrepgs of what play works does.
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there was some this is a really good program that helps students during unstructured time to really build those skills. >> thank you, roll call, please. >> seven ayes. q, none tonight. item r, board members proposals, none tonight. commissioner yi, if you could
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sum port on the committee as a whole, please. >> it's going to be a long report. >> thank you for your report. >> i'm sorry. there were two itemser were discussing. there was a lot of discussion agreed to the staff pursuing the work. we chose the action that would actually do things. the other option is just do anything the goal is to reduce
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the amount of money spent on transportation. looking at cutting all transportation to phase it in over the next three years dropping it 44-48.
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>> that was sort of it in a nutshell. thank you. item t, it will come up. >> is it mo williams mo williams mo williams > a board member? >> are these reports? i wanted to congratulate the high school graduates at the event. i passed around book marks you
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are all invited to the february 20 day of remembrance february 25 is the founder's day dinner. that is at 6:00. george washington high school is having a dance finally, i want to call the attention of my colleagues. attending classes there and interviewing students >> thank you, i wanted to briefly acknowledge that president mend owesa and i were at the black history mo kick off
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at city hall. coming up is a presentation. kinzie collection that collection depicts 400 years of african-americans in america. i know we'll have a more rebust presentation and how we can involve our school children in that. thank you. >> i wanted to briefly -- because it is 1:a.
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i'm going to make available, i have a hard copy of the review of waiting for superman which is wonderful. she was one of the speakers there. mainly this is the thing i want to say. preparing some of the extraordinary background term. we need to have a legislative platform. proposals and a lot of talk there are principles in that that i don't think will agree
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with. we started to prepare those principals probably flew the rules policy that would be my recommendation. we have the opening for the representative to the elections commission. if anyone is interested in applying for this sent your information to 555 franklin street room 106, san francisco
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94102. email your information to ecafcoe at sfusd call 2 # 1-6493. lsz information about the elections commission on the sfgov website. we'll be taking application until february 16th. i wanted to announce that the middle school soccer championship will be playing the
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board wins per the appointment. our adjournment this evening is in memory of the long-time employee hired in 1954 and retired in 1958. we express our condoll evenses. tonight's meeting is adjourned. go
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>> welcome to "culture wire." today we're headed to smpling f. camera works, a premiere venue for artists working in photographer, video, and digital media. the latest exhibition lists clearness as a set of political alliances and possibilities that it is behind the sphere of dominant gay and lesbian
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culture. the curator fills us in on the process of creating this thoughtful exhibition. and what she would like you to take away from it. >> i co-cureated with danny, a chicago-based writer and curator. the conceptual framework is what it means to be clear and radical for our generation. clearness as a set of political alliances and possibilities, not necessarily related to institutions of gender and swam formativity. danny and i wanted the show to feel funky and to have a really tangible quality to it. so part of that was incorporated handmade objects and installations and
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beautifully printed photographs and videos. there is also a lot of opportunities to participate and to take postcards or to get the photo taken or sit within a tent made out of afghan blankets to watch videos. the exhibition is organized in three distinct galleries. in gallery one, which is the gallery designated to clear activism, there is an installation by the oakland-based collaboration and it's called "unleashed power." it's all focused on one protest that happened in chicago in 1991 with the activist organization act up, which was protesting the inadequate health care for people living in aids, and specifically it focuses on an act of police violence that occurred at that protest. the thing that is really interesting for me about that piece is that it brings us