urban communities that we have all come to know. it is where they come down from mcclaren down toward bayshore. it would be nice to have something right here that wasn't selling liquor and cigarettes but milk and eggs and the things most of us count on in our daily lives. next is the community gardening. it would get to some of the public health issues. we don't expect a public service farm that raises food for every aspect of life, but we think we could do something there. and last but not least, trying to break down the border between the pool and the surrounding sunnydale neighborhood and troog to do that with the -- trying to do that and pull folks in from the development at a common location where people can interact, get to know each

other. we have seen this around the country as one of the key issues. at that border between the housing property and the surrounding neighborhood getting people to come together in a normal fashion around every-day needs like going swimming or getting a jug of milk as opposed to something more contrived and more difficult to sustained. chair maxwell: that's why i was thinking about that pop-up like in hayes valley. a little pop-up here and a pop-up there. >> we would love to facility -- facilitate more retail. i want to make sure i'm not over-stepping myself. i think the housing authority and we would love to have as much retail as we can. our biggest challenge is trying to determine how much retail we can attract. one of our big efforts now is improving our partnership with

the school district. we all are very aligned at the 10,000-foot level. the plan and efforts on closing the achievement gap is so deeply connected to what we are trying to do, the idea of doing joint use, the idea of trying to invest in a gym together or community garden together, the deputy superintendent, the principal, everyone, has been incredibly enthusiastic, and we have been trying to do out-reach i think the next step is trying to figure out how it occurs. again, the interagency council is one of the places we would do this because we have so much happening with clips, with the promise -- promised neighborhood application. we are trying to remain coordinated. these are things that the members have led in terms of the collaboration on site with the mall com -- malcolm x theme.

we are excited about the associate superintendent or assistant superintendent and the southeast, and expect to be working with all them to move that forward. mber, and december, but we are actually actively working with them on that type of detail. >> supervisor march -- supervisor mar? supervisor mar: can you share with me the information from the fifth graders, their mapping and their ideas? i would be curious what vision they have of their ideas. that would be helpful at a later time. i would be happy to see that. >> it is pretty exciting stuff, and fun to look at. i am sure there are some of those folks that would come to visit you in your office if you wanted a life, in-person presentation. in terms of thinking about what's going to happen here, hunter's view will be working on what's happening in the fall. one of the things we haven't

talked about is that hunters view will have a tight relationship with the p.u.c. around storm water. we are working with them on the cistern and working with them on run-off and water conservation efforts. if the shipyard is approved, then that's ahead of you this week. we are happy to work with you, depending your decision on that. as we mentioned, sunnydale and potrero are moving through that environmental review process. eventually you will find your way back in terms of plain unit developments. and last but not least, craig has been doing a lot of work with ed harrington's team in things that seemed like compatible themes, but given the fact these places are hilly, the access bit issues, and the run-off and new things we are

trying to do as a city plays out in some ways on these sites. they have been generous in their staff time in helping us figure this thing out. so on the surfaces of community building, i think amy highlighted it well. we have had growing pains, as are always the case with these projects. the nice news is, we haven't had growing pains on the nice things like the jobs. or relocation. i think that has been a tremendous zess. it -- success. i think we threw everything but the kitchen sink at these things in the last years because we didn't want to fail in the most critical elements. now that we have learned lessons, hopefully it will be clearer for us to learn this with more efficiency. we are about to implement a data tracking system. september could probably tell you more about this, but this is going to be critical in terms of following up on this. again, it is just going to

continue the interagency council work, particularly around fiscal development. it is a tough time for all of us fiscally. that means if we can help phil ginsburg or rec & parks, we are trying to see how we can use our projects to help more than one goal at a time. the community engagement process around these is never over. it is the beginning of the process. the goal really is to get to a place where these developments never feel like an us and them mentality. that really happens if you move in on the work. i would be remisnot to mention we have had a tremendous amount of work from our philanthropic founders. but a tremendous amount of work. again, we know we have an

ongoing need to keep the public and our city partners and our private partners informed. it's one of the great challenges of hope s.f. our goal through the web site, hope-sf.org and through the fiscal presence of partners is to keep the communication level up. we realize there is no way to ever sort of be done with this process, and that's again part of our goal in coming here today is to try to surface these issues so that if people don't know about it or they are getting bad information, or if there are things people need us to work on, we can spot these issues and keep moving forward. i will stop there. i think you scr been asking questions along the way. obviously, if there are members of the public. just to say, we know the work

ahead of us is big. we are excited about where we're out, and we are hopeful the next year will yield quite a bit. chair maxwell: thank you. that was great. public comment on these issues. ok. this is just an informational hearing. there will be no action taken on these issues. >> supervisors, i really have enjoyed the out-reach going on with the potrero rebuild. i have been somewhat involved trying to make sure there is a true integration with the neighborhood. by the way, sometimes i get in trouble using that word "integration." i mean it in the right way. we have, i think, achieved quite a bit just this week.

the potrero merchant's association contracted with the giants to send 50 kids to ball games this summer, realizing there aren't that many things going on. those things happened because there is good communication and good education. so with that, i really am looking very much forward to rebuilding that whole community. the one thing supervisor maxwell knows, i have been mr. electricity and sewage and everything else. i think we can use powtrare owe -- potrero and sunnydale as examples on how to save millions of dollars. chair maxwell: that's why i was glad to see the p.u.c.'s

involvement, and hopefully involved in more than just the regular ways, but involved in bringing some new programs to that new community as well. >> we have been doing a fine job of educating the p.u.c. on what programs are available. some of it was straight out of a box. but we are making progress. i'm not slamming t chair maxwell: thank you, joe. that's what it takes, it takes a community. the streets are so often lined. the streets in those housing developments don't go anywhere, just around and around. with this new project we are aligning them, so tennessee will go all the way, and hobbs. and i think those are the things that go toward making a complete community and making people feel tied in. >> since you just raised some of the issues with regard to

potrero terrace, are they the oldest buildings? why weren't they kind of closer to the top in their rebuild? and also a little more about the dead end streets and how steep it is there. what you are going to do to make the residence feel more connected to the potrero hill community as well. max mack well, continuing those streets and bringing the grid. >> henry alvarez from the housing authority. the placement of what moved first, we attempted to move those that were most obsoles cresm nt. upon my arrival, i discovered that alice griffeth had a significant amount of challenges, so the mayor's office agreed to move it fompled it is likely from there one of the other properties on the west side or potrero will move next,

although it does have some challenges in terms of slopes, it has the most challenges in terms of obsolescence. when we lose a boiler at alice griffeth, it affects 60 residents. we have 60 residents that can't take a shower, can't get their kids off to school. so in that particular analysis, that's how we got to the scheme that bethesda today. in terms of the architectural design and street escape and linkages, i leave that up to experts who are more equipped to do that, because if doug wants to tackle the streetscape thing, we should do that, but basically, anything that keths to services is better than a cul du sac that doesn't give us eyes on the street.

supervisor mar: just a little bit of detail. >> maffers, my nime is -- >> supervisors, my name is margaret campbell. there are similar sites that deal with steep terrains. how we're dealing with this at hunters view is how we're dealing with this at potrero. to the extent possible we are creating a street grid that will feel more like a typical san francisco neighborhood. where we can't connect those streets because there are buildings on the site, we are creating pedestrian kecks, and where -- a lot of those pedestrian connections are already there, but they are a little more informal. we are formalizing them. we are making them safe. we have the lighting. and we will also be maintaining them. chair maxwell: and i think for those of us who -- i mean, san

francisco is built on hills. we are used to that terrain. i keep hearing it, but that should not be any -- i don't think that should be a deterrent to connecting streets. we managed to do it on lump barred and all the other streets. here it has been, no excuses, get it done. that's what architects and designing is about, finding out a way, planning how to do it. so we have been doing that. supervisor mar, do you have anymore questions? ok. questions, comments. public comment is closed. this is a hearing. madam clerk, why don't we continue this hearing to the call of the chair. madam clerk is there any further business before this committee? the clerk delon: there are into further items. chair maxwell: then this meeting is adjourned.

[at 2:45 the meeting was adjourned] i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest

neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families.

their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends.

we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park.

other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take to make them happy, to get them there, that's the main goal. if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in san francisco. we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th

anniversary of the park,k, supervisor dufty: captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chu: good morning. welcome to city operations and

neighborhood services committee. victor, are there any announcements today? [no audio] supervisor chu: thank you, please call item no. 1. >> i did not have it on. ordinance authorizing the department of the environment to expend a grant in the amount of e department of public library to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $80,000 from the california state library as part of the federal library services and technology act for the out- of-school-time online homework help program. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors.

my name is toni bernardi. this program is serviced under my direction. i wanted to say a couple of important things about the program. the assistance is provided in two different ways. worksheets are provided, with tutorials and study guides with said proxy components. more important and more heavily used, the program connects students to a tutor that will provide them with one of one help. students enter their subject and grade level and the tudor provides expertise at that level and within that subject. in tabling these students to access homework assistance

outside of school hours. and to receive assistance from trained tutors i ever. grade level subject expertise, enabling the expansion of fun assistance that a parent might provide, which might be limited to education, language, subject matter, expertise, or the need for that parent to be at work in the hours that the student needs help. it also enables the students to seek assistance at any location that has internet access to connect to the library website. 20,951 students used this program at the library. that was in 2009. students may enter an evaluation of the program that are consistently positive and grateful for the help, the only complaint being that the tudor will not do the homework for them. it is my earnest hope that you

will approve this resolution and that these funds will assist us in continuing to provide the service that we need. supervisor chu: you mentioned locations where services were provided. were there any locations where there was public access for computers? how many of them have that connection? >> all of our branch libraries allow this. offsite is allowed, fine with us. online libraries also allow for access. supervisor chu: services are also online? >> correct. supervisor avalos: do you have any data as to how often the

students back to the program? are there ongoing users of the system? >> we do not have hard data. it is important that we do not provide anything for specific students and their privacy. i can tell that a substantial number of them repeat. they talk about using it again. as far as hard data, we do not have that particular information. supervisor avalos: in terms of outreach to specific populations in san francisco? >> we provide fliers to the students, posters, and for the last few years we have hosted a meeting of the school principal at the library, and that both of those we have highlighted this program that teachers can access

and use. supervisor avalos: this is something that trickles down for teacher knowledge as well? >> we have provided training. some of them have allowed us to go in to their schools to demonstrate the program. almost all the schools in the city are visited at least once per year. they talk about the online program and what it can do for the students and how they can use it. supervisor avalos: every school has a library as well, hookups for computer technology. it seems like the librarians and the schools could find a good place for those as well? >> yes. supervisor avalos: great. supervisor chu: are there any members of the public that wish to speak on item number one?

>> good morning. my name is douglas shepard and i have lived in san francisco for 15 years. i would like to speak in support of this. i think it is something that is noteworthy and i would like to make a suggestion that four students who are kind of close to dropping out of school, i think that this sort of program should be offered in writing to the parents of students and that the school should get a written reply as to whether that student is going to accept the help or reject it. something like this, rather than simply being suggested, should be done in writing in order to basically make the student and parents aware that they need to use the process.

i would also like to pose two questions to the department public library. the first is if they have ever investigated allegations made by a public comment her that comes up to make presentations on video regarding friends of the library. i have always wondered if these allegations are true or false and i think that they should be publicly taking care of. i would also like to pose a question to the public library about whether they have adequate safeguards against child pornography. since there has been so much publicity about the front -- planning department passing pornography, i would like to make sure that the public library has adequate protection for children against child pornography, especially as there was a police department

investigation into alleged child for being viewed at the san francisco general hospital. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. are there any other members of the public? seeing no one, public comment disclosed. we can move this item forward with recommendations. >> item #one will be recommended to the board of supervisors on august 23. supervisor chu: item number two, please. >> item #2 ordinance authorizing the department of the environment to expend a grant in the amount of $74,500 from the california department of toxic substances control to coordinate the green business tracking and measurement tool and amending ordinance no. 183-09 to reflect the addition of one (1) grant funded position at the department of the environment. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. mark west, department of the environment. the city operates a mottled green business program with the