i think that the director will talk to the staff yes. >> [inaudible] >> right. the commission can request another abatement board hearing. >> can you repeat your name again please? >> [inaudible] >> if we could somehow get some information and an update. you are on the mailing list? terrific. we will follow up. >> thank you. >> further public comments? >> good morning, commissioners.

my name is gene and i am here on 201227 its first street. i would like to keep my ladder, which is attached to the outside. i have it inspected by a certified contractor. approximately five years to six years ago i had an inspection and as usual they noticed that treads on the stairs. i voluntarily redid the stairs and the deck with an architectural drawing, structural revision, engineer and permit. btus the latter half of the inspection three years ago. -- the lattdder passed inspectin three years ago. this year in the inspector said that the stairs did not pass. i explained.

he cited me for the latter, which i also explained. this commission had decided that the ladder utility was a problem. so, i explained that i have also read all of the end -- information they had, that they sent this information out to help us understand that the permit plans for the deck did not list the ladder and that was posted as a garage extension. i said that was because when we went to building, i had to go back to taking pictures and they told me i could not take down the garges because they had allowed a loft lying window next door. since they improve that, i told

them that had nothing to do with that. i kept bringing them pictures showing them what i would do. consequently i paid $350 for a permit. i wrote in and buys citation notice, the information that was apparently approved by this commission of regarding the supervisors' request to have them taken off because they could be dangerous because a child had hurt themselves. they had been there three times to talk to the commission about this. she was nice enough to send me the information about today's hearing. thank you.

>> did you receive a notice of violation from our department? >> in the traditional inspection they had my building listed as a rooming house. i do not know why. it is not a rooming house. >> [inaudible] >> i received a notice stating i was in violation and when i explained to him that i had this done with a permit, he said that he would go back to check of lands. -- check of plans. -- check the plans. >> any dispute that they would have on a notice of violation would go in for inspection during. >> there is an opportunity there to explain. >> so, i would go to a

directors' meeting? >> sonya would inform you of the process. come here if you do not resolve it. >> thank you. any additional public comments? >> [inaudible] >> thank you. >> item #7 is the review and approval of the regular minutes from june 15, 2010. is there a motion? >> approved? for the meeting? >> [inaudible] >> second. >> any public comments?

>> can i have a vote on that? is everyone in favor? a ye -- >> aye. >> the item is approved. item number eight, commissioner inquiry questions regarding various documents, policies, and procedures of interest to the commission. >> i would like to bring up one item. could you update the committee commission on transit bay? >> i can do that right now, if you like. they broke ground last week. over the weekend the demolitions started on the rance. we are currently checking the plans and we will be approving

them for actual construction as soon as the groundwork begins. >> that is one of the big projects really moving forward. >> it certainly is. >> anyone else? >> item 8b, at this time the commission can set the schedule date of the next meeting and determine the items to be placed on future meetings of the building inspection commission. the next one would be the third wednesday of september. >> ok. >> i think that there are some sub committees that i need to check with you on in terms of nomination. >> litigation.

>> litigation. let either myself or ham will contact you. if there are no other items, item number nine, adjournment. >> move the adjournment. >> the meeting is adjourned. >> meeting adjourned.

>> thank you.

ms.aufas. ms. mendoza. >> here. >> ms. norton? >> here. >> ms. wynns. mr. yee. ms. kim? >> yes. ms. chan >> yes. >> ms. fan >> yes. please join me in the plenl of allegiance. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. if you'd like. [no audio] >> we usually end our meeting in memory of staff members who have been a part of our family who have passed away. so we do have many members of some of the schools here today presently, so i'm going to actually pull this up to the beginning. and so i want to ask the principal of mission high school to come up first.

>> thank you very much. thank you, demigsers -- commissioners. on behalf of the mission high school community, i want to read a bit about kathleen cecil. sadly she passed away on wednesday evening after suffering a brain aneurysm monday on the opening day of school, which has really rocked the community, though we are blessed to have a wonderful, supportive community that rallied around each other, including families, staff, and most importantly students who have been very strong and wonderful. so i'll read this. kathleen cecil, beloved english teacher was a kind, caring, quite funny, sometimes painfully honest and loving teacher, colleague and of course friend to all of us here at mission high school. kathleen spent much of her life dedicated to teaching and nurturing students with a passion that is rare.

ms. cecil develop the lessons that challenged and inspired all other students. she was a lifelong and fierce advocate for social justice for everyone. it was not an unfamiliar sight to see ms. cecil move gracefully from the classroom to a march in the streets advocating for civil rights and equity for everyone. to put it plainly, kathleen was a loving force of nature. once you met her, you never forgot her. having had the blessing of working with ms. cecil the past 12 years at mission we have all gotten to know and love this incredible woman who touched so many students and staff in so many ways. her spirit will echo through these hallways for a very long time. ms. cecil's family and loved ones are in our hearts in the difficult days to come. in addition i would like to invite anybody that would like to attend monday from 4:00 to 6:00 at mission high school in our beautiful auditorium, we will hold a memorial service for ms. cecil and her family as well. thank you very much. >> thank you, principal. and behalf of the district and the board of education, we send

our condolences to kathleen's family and also to the mission high school community. also, we actually lost two members of our family last week and the second was another teacher from everett middle school and i don't think principal carochi is here but we also lost cassandra roberts and i'll read a little bit about her on behalf of principal carochi. cassandra roberts was an outstanding language arts teacher at everett middle school who began teaching in august of 1997. in her time at everett she touched the lives of all that knew her and was an inspiration to the entire community. her favorite phrase was with "i believe in you." all students listened and admired her. her lessons were engaging. many students tried to tell her what a positive influence she had on their education and life. at everett she was awarded the cesar chavez peace award which

is given to outstanding individuals for exemplary services to the community. she's always been a caring, loving, knowledgeable and dedicated educator, the kind of educator you remember for a lifetime. ms. roberts was a master teacher with a huge heart and never gave up on any child, infired them to go to college and become lifelong learners. she'll be greatly missed. and on behalf of the board of education and the district, we want to send our condolences to the family of ms. roberts as well. so we move on to our meeting. but maybe we could have a short moment of silence. [moment of silence] president kim: thank you. item a, approval of board

minutes. do we have a motion and a second? >> second. >> second. president kim: are there any corrections? seeing none, roll call, please. >> thank you. ms. chan? >> yes. >> ms. fan? >> yes. >> ms. fewer? >> why. ms. fauf as? >> yes. >> mr. yee? >> aye. >> ms. kim? >> seven ayes. president kim: the presentation to the board of education, the superintendent's report. >> that's a little tough to follow after that, but i have to tell you, though, and i think both those people who were true educators would be proud to know that we had a great opening day of the school year. this last week was a fabulous week for all our children and parents and i really want to congratulate the leadership, the faculties, the teacher, the staff the custodians, maintenance workers,

landscaping people, everybody who came together and with one week left, usually they have a longer summer to try to put everything together so that when school starts, it's show time and it's a magical place for kids so it takes all these people who went out and cleaned our schools in a short time, made sure that if you're like me and had a chance to go visit our schools, they were spotless. so i really want to thank all the folks that it took to open up the school year and i know that everybody put in a lot of time and energy and we couldn't have done it without you. so on behalf of this great district of ours, i want to say thank to you everybody that helped us, including the parents who brought those great kids to us. i also -- [applause] >> the first thing is always exciting, one of my favorite things is to go out and see schools and i have to tell you, this year was really fun. to walk in at drew elementary school to see their scholars that the principal calls and

you know, go to that school because believe it or not, in the bay view and they showed double-digit growth in both math and language arts for all students at their school, so you know, we can close the achievement gap and they're living proof of that faculty, their hard work and principal and everybody around there who believed in those kids. and to watch them sit there and just be kids the first day of school, watch a few kindergarteners cry, it comes close to home thinking of my own kids when they started school. and then to have a chance to go over to mission high school and i think make was really tough about starting out the meeting like that is i actually was in her classroom. i spent a little bit of time and it was really exciting to watch kids come in and hug ms. cecil and all be excited about being in her class, some of them for the second year and they were so excited and unbeknownstth to us 20 minutes after we left is when all this occurred. so that made it tough for us.

but from there we had a chance to go and visit some of the great things that are going on in our district, and we had a chance to also go to sherman elementary school, that also showed some phenomenal double-digit growth and really are doing some incredible work there. and that was great. and we also had an opportunity to visit one middle school, and that was a fun trip because, as you know, my favorite is middle school, so we had an opportunity to go over where your son was, you know. and i didn't see him, but it was -- we went to james lake middle school and it's great to have a board member who actually has a son there. yeah, i think he was avoiding me. but anyway, you know, it was a wonderful -- to really showcase all the great work that's going on in our schools was really fascinating and exciting.

and just so that you know, sometimes the voters, we can't thank you enough for passing these bonds. i know you have to pay for it, but i'll tell you, really every penny is so well spent because of the 2003-2006 top a facilities bonds, the work that just happened this summer is incredible. just think this summer the facilities department and bond program had over $100 million of renovation work being done in over 50 schools and child development centers throughout the school district. the students in wheelchairs have easier access now as a result of this work. students have great yards, green yards. the students can explore their environment, learn -- make joyful learners of kids where they get to grow things and use it in all their classes, not just in science but math and reading, social studies, everything. to be able to walk those hallways and see the support

for wiring of technology throughout our district, just think by the end of this year we're going to have every single school in our entire district wired with broadband a thousand times faster than what they have right now and have some wireless going on, if coffee shops can have it, i think our schools ought to be having these things. so you know, we're trying to create a different environment but we couldn't have done it without the supporters and voters here in san francisco who actually stand up and believe in children, not like the rest of the state but here in san francisco. you know, people sometimes laugh about our valu laugh about our values. laugh about our values. laugh about our values. well, they're not laughing now because in san francisco people do believe in public education and they showed it going out and voting and supporting our children. it does make a huge difference. and when you look at later on this evening, we'll have a presentation about our test scores. folks, we're hitting it out of the park. we're starting to turn it

around. we're nine years in a row growth in test scores but what we're really proud of is the last two years african-american, latino and pacific islander students are outperforming, showing more growth than anybody in the district and that's what our strategic plan was all about and getting everybody moving ahead. i'm really proud of the work and when you see that, i think you'll be as proud as we are. the last thing i want to share is, you know, the student assignment program, we had a special meeting just last week about it. we want to start hearing more about it and we want to post so you're aware of the community and we want you involved in this. this isn't just a done deal. we want to hear people's input and we're going to flash up these dates on the screen, the first is wednesday, august 25 at 6:00 p.m., at dr. charles drew elementary school, 50 pomona avenue. if you can't make any of these meetings, go online. we've set up a lot of different ways for you to give us your

opinion. we put it up here and if you go on that webpage you can have a survey and answer questions and give us your ideas. so we know, no matter what system we come up with won't be perfect but is as good in giving us good, constructive ideas. last but not least i want to mention today i had a great opportunity this afternoon at around noon to walk out in the mission district over on 24th between brine and florida street and went out there with the mayor and we were putting up signs in all the merchants' windows about the truancy assessment resource center windows about the truancy assessment resource center which is new and we're putting up the signs everywhere -- they're bigger than this. but we're putting them -- we're encouraging all the merchants that if they see -- because truancy is not just a school district problem but a community problem and we're asking the merchants throughout the city to get involved, put these posters up and if they see children during school

hours hanging out to please call this number so we can get them back in school. it's not about punishing kids. it's about getting them, meeting with their families, finding out what's getting in the way but we can educate our kids to be 21st century learners and successful if we don't have them in our schools. so we're glad we partnered with the mayor and gavin newsom and everyone, the board of supervisors, everybody's come forward to support this and i think it really is taking a community -- taking the responsibility for all our children because i don't know about you, but there's nothing more important in this city or any other city in the world than our children. thank you. [applause] >> one more thing. before i forget, as you heard today we got rejected on race to the top fund. that's not good news but there is good news this afternoon, w