process. all of these public funds are intended to be used with construction contracts in competitive processes with prevailing wages and all of the things embodied in chapter 6. the budget analyst report recommended that we make an advantage -- recommended that we make an amendment, it has been submitted and reflects their concern is for the projects. >> that was the only thing i was going to add, that we had made a recommendation that the bottom of page 9 on the report, to amend the ordinance to require scope of work for all contracts awarded by or assigned to the tourism district for the work on the moscone improvement center in changes be subject to the

approval review in writing of the two and we recommend approval of the ordnance -- dtw and we recommend approval of the ordinance as recommended. supervisor avalos: thank you. any public comment? please come forward. >> ♪ moscone center i hope you fix it and i hope you can hardly wait to be right there don't you remember you told me you love the george moscone convention center said you would be coming back and you would like to fix it up greatly. i hope that you do it, do a good center i love that center yes i really do i hope you fix

it up and the convention center from all over the world people will visit there right now don't you remember you told me you love the the moscone convention center said he would be coming back to visit their i love that center i really do ♪ supervisor avalos: any other member of the public that would like to comment? we will close public comment. without objection, recommendation. wait, let's back that up. we need to make some amendments. >> actually, mr. chairman, i

believe that the department submitted an amendment on whole that reflects our recommendation, which is stated on page 4-7 supervisor avalos: to give the scope of the work -- 4-7. supervisor avalos: to give the scope of the work? that's get the vote and accept the amendment as a whole and move it forward to the full board with recommendation. thank you, mr. rose. on item number one, i am told that since that was amended up, we will have to rescind that vote and continue in one week. any comments? >> no. supervisor avalos: we will rescind the vote on item number one and bring it up in a week. okay?

mr. clerk, please call item no. 5. >> item #5, ordinance amending section 105.3 of the san francisco administrative code to change the timelines and standards under which the controller is directed to review and adjust the cigarette litter abatement fee. supervisor avalos: mr. wagoner? >> budget director, mr. gregg wagner, the item is clarification of the process for adjusting the cigarette lighter abatement feet. when this legislation was passed, it had a provision that would require the controller to adjust the feed based on data on recoverable expenses. in the original legislation they patted the controller to make those legislation's specific beginning in fiscal year 2011 and 2012. this amendment would allow the controller to make adjustments

to move up the time line. sooner based on updated data. that is the primary change. i have a couple of amendments recommended by the city attorney that are not substantive which you have before you, but i am happy to read them into the record of that would be appropriate. the first is to add a section one untitled findings -- entitled findings, finding that the analysis of the sidewalk street litter conducted by mgm management inc. reveals that the audit found that cigarette butts and related packaging constitutes 22% of all such litter on san francisco sidewalks and street gutter's. and then there are adjustments to the section headings and sub-

section headings reflecting the addition of that section. then on page 3, the section formerly g, it is now f, subsection one, the comptroller shall determine whether the current is produced or projected to produce revenues for service and activities described in section 105 and that the current fee has not produced or projected to produce revenue which is significantly more than what is needed to support the services and a sentence would be added following that in making such determinations the comptroller shall use the most recent data available concerning the percentage of litter on city sidewalks streets and similar outdoor public spaces that is cigarette butts and related packaging at the time of the enactment of this ordinance such

as indicated that 22% of a similar outdoor public spaces consist of cigarette butts and related packaging littered the controllers held periodically share updated data concerning the percentage of litter in such areas with a related packaging. again, the city attorney has suggested those amendments, determined that they are non- substantive but a said -- essentially had -- essentially helpful in establishing the controller going forward. >> very good. please open it up for public comments. supervisor avalos: public comments? >> ♪ i passed the cigarettes on the aground, pledge to clean it up. cigarettes glow in the dark and

i think it is time you clean up the city with cigarettes and made it better all of the way around and that is the way i have always heard it should be. would you clean it up, please? your cigarette blows in the dark and i think it is time you clean up the city, made it better all of the way all around well i would sure like to see it that way, won't you please make it sound save?

supervisor avalos: thank you very much, we will close public comment and move this forward. motion to adopt the amendment as a whole and move forward? take it without objection. mr. young, any other items? >> that completes the agenda for today. supervisor avalos: we are adjourned, thank you.

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embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the

holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the spaces are. you might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50 spaces. >> what other areas can a licensed street artist go to? >> they can go to the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union square. we have space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a

week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping.

>> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use cell? >> we have these lovely constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder bowls. they can have a lot of color. >> york also using your license. -- you are also using your license. >> this means that i can register with the city. this makes sure that our family participated in making all of these. >> this comes by licensed

artists. the person selling it is the person that made it. there is nothing better than the people that made it. >> i would like you to meet michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you. what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see. the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i see. i have mostly worked in cuba and work that i shot here in san francisco. >> what is it about being a street artist that you particularly like? >> i liked it to the first day

that i did it. i like talking to mentum people. talking about art or anything that comes to our minds. there is more visibility than i would see in any store front. this would cost us relatively very little. >> i am so happy to meet you. i wish you all of the best. >> you are the wonderful artist that makes these color coding. >> nice to me to. >> i have been a street artist since 1976. >> how did you decide to be a street artist? >> i was working on union square. on lunch hours, i would be there visiting the artist. it was interesting, exciting, and i have a creative streak in me.

it ranges from t-shirts, jackets, hats. what is the day of the life of a street artist? >> they have their 2536 in the morning. by the end of the day, the last people to pack the vehicle probably get on their own at 7:30 at night. >> nice to me to condemn the -- nice to meet you. >> it was a pleasure to share this with you. i hope that the bay area will descend upon the plaza and go through these arts and crafts and by some holiday gifts. >> that would be amazing. thank you so much for the hard work that you do.

[roll called] >> mr. yee? >> present. >> ms. kim?

>> here. >> thank you. president kim: if you'd like, please join news the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance recited] president kim: frank you. first on the agendas is approval of minutes for the meeting of august 24, 2010. may i have a motion? >> so move. >> second. president kim: are there any corrections? roll call, please. >> thank you. [roll call]

president kim: next is a presentation by superintendent garcia. >> yes. thank you. first of all, if you didn't catch it on the news yesterday, i think we have a lot to celebrate this year. not only did we start out the school year getting our great test results and seeing student achievement increase tremendously. but in the a.p. rankings, we learned that our district went up 16 points, the largest gain in the past five years, with schools serving some of the most vulnerable students in our district and actually had the highest gains in the entire school district. it's really exciting to see that in spite of all the challenges, schools have really focused, the parents, the community, on really taking to heart what we talked about on our strategic plan of really doing something about the achievement gap or the opportunity gap and it's a good indication now for two years in a row that we've demonstrated a

lot of success. sometimes there's a bubble and something that occurs and you're not certain why, well now we have good data that shows that we're constantly improving. i want to thank all the teachers, counselors, administrators, everybody in our organization that worked so diligently last year to make sure our students would be successful. for those of you who weren't here last night and it was more crowded than it was this evening. the district should take an additional year to further develop the middle school placement changes and postpone the decision on the middle school feeder patterns. we went ahead with creating the areas for the elementary schools and we're moving that forward for the board meeting -- what is that, september 28? and that will come forward. for those of you that sometimes are critical that the district isn't listening to your input,

a lot of it had to do with listening to all of community partners, everybody out there, parents, schools, and we decided that it would be premature to move the middle school when we have a lot of issues that we still need to resolve. we're waiting to hear about magnet school programs, all these different funding mechanisms that might kick in later on and they'll have an impact on the development of programs in our school district. so we're going to take a little bit more time with that. last, i want to mention that this evening i think it's exciting. you're going to have an opportunity to hear from our assistant superintendents and our deputy superintendent about the superintendent zones. this is a vision and a plan that this school board, all of administration, all of us have been working on foor a long time and it's exciting to be able to present that this evening so you get an understanding of what's going to be different, where we're going, what are the thoughts behind doing something like this. and we believe that in looking

at our data, by focusing in a little bit more and having the support that schools have to have in order to be successful, by developing these two zones in our areas that need the most assistance, because that's where our persistently low-performing schools are at. we need to intervene, we need to do something, and we can't wait any longer. even though they've shown phenomenal growth, i want to give a little shout-out to malcolm x. because malcolm x elementary school, believe it or not, has an a.p.i. score of 800 this year. applause plause so they've grown by over 200 in two years. [applause] so it can be done. for those who don't believe it can't be done, get out of the way. because we at san francisco unified, we're getting it by the help of everybody. so i'm excited to do this presentation later on. i hope that the community and that the board has lots of questions, because that's what

we're here for this evening. thank you very much. president kim: thank you, superintendent. actually, speaking about malcolm x, we want to take a moment, because we recognize often teachers and educators in our district, and we want to take a moment to bring up one of our malcolm x teachers, rebecca evans. [applause] and we do want to recognize you today. in 2009-2010 -- oh, no, you don't have to come all the way here. i'm sorry. 83% of the students in our classroom scored proficient or above in math, and 72% scored proficient or above in english language arts, and i believe the year before you had very similar scores as well. and we just want to recognize you and also give you a moment to talk a little bit about the work that you and the malcolm x community was able to do to

bring up the a.p.i. 108 points, so that we as a board can kind of learn from the best practices that are already going on in this district. >> thank you. definitely. first, i'd like to say good evening to superintendent garcia, president kim, all the other board members, faculty, staff, students, teachers, everyone who's in the crowd right now. it is truly an honor to be up here action accepting this award on behalf of my students. and i say that, because they're the ones that deserve the recognition for all the hard work they put in to achieve those scores. but not surprisingly, i offer them a pizza and smoothie party, and they took that. so i'll be the one that shares these words with you guys. when dr. kim first asked me to speak, i was a little bit nervous, because i figured i'd be in a room with people who have been educators for far longer than i have. so i won't go and give you guys a laundry list of things i did

in my classroom, because i'm sure you've heard of everything. formal assessments, yes. tracking student data, yes. planning lessons with clear objectives -- you know, if we're not doing that, then we have bigger issues. so i'll just go and give a few of my experiences as a classroom teacher. i was fortunate enough to have a really great support team from my team at teacher america, to district mentors to the two principals i worked under who had strong and clear visions for malcolm x academy. we worked really hard -- and i mean really, really hard on our balance scorecard, making sure that our access an equity and student achievement goals were clear. we internalized our goals and really took them to heart. you know, we heard superintendent garcia and many others speak on many occasions about eliminating the predictive power of demographics, and we knew that what people were saying about

our kids, that they were failures, they couldn't learn, they weren't smart, they weren't going to go to college, they weren't going to get good jobs, and we took that to heart. i actually spoke frankly with my second graders about that. one day we were doing a social studies lesson studying map skills, a second-grade standard, and i had a printout of our city and we were locating the bay view hunters neighborhood on the map. we got into this discussion about why people would assume such terrible things about our children, and they, the students themselves, they vowed to be different, and they vowed that they weren't going to be that demographic. and they really took it to heart to be better. and 7-year-olds, they understood what equity meant. they understood that equity didn't mean giving each child the same thing. they knew that equity meant giving each child what they needed to have in order to succeed in the classroom. so, for example, if china needed a timer on her desk that she flipped every minute and go