bocce ball courts. he said the association represents the tenants of the gateway, the largest planned rent controlled facility in the city, 2 did, 1,245 units. he said we fully support construction of bocce ball courts as a sound means to preserve and enhance recreational space in the most population intense neighborhood in the city. we're grateful to the generous gift to the filmly strapped city by union members. our support for this project was approved by the golden gate tenants association and anyone taking a contrary position does not speak for our association. so that's from golden gate tenants. i am speaking on behalf of the neighborhood network today. when i learned of this proposed project i took information to the next neighborhood network

meeting and all of those present at the meeting were supportive of this project. first of all, it's supportive -- not -- it's a passive recreational use on the embarcadero and i think everyone i know of who lives on the east side of the city wants more recreation on the embarcadero. it would have a calming effect. it's a sport where people of all ages can participate. it's not difficult to learn how to play bocce ball. you can be 4 years old or 90 years old. it would a -- have a calming effect on the area. we envision office tournaments, families playing together, neighbors playing together. visitors even playing together. currently just in herman plaza in the median strip located

between the two embarcadero roadways are very busy and management has received complaints from farmers market patrons and building tenants about the noise of the skate boarders and the so-called music. i have encountered this first hand so -- i see my time is up but i would definitely support and my neighborhood network supports the bocce ball courts. thank you. >> -- supervisor maxwell: any further public comment on this item? seeing none, then public comment is closed. planning department? would you please come forward? oh, rec and park, i'm sorry. i believe had you some comments, you were hearing some things and wanted to make some clarifying comments? >> sure. just a few quick comments. there is absolutely no plan for a fence as part of this.

it's very open. the analogy i've been using is it's like one of our city basketball courts where people can come and bring their basketball and play. it's just a pickup game spot. and we do have an existing m.o.u. between d.p.w. and boston properties to maintain justin herman plaza and this bocce ball court if accepted will continue to be maintained as it is currently. supervisor maxwell: any other colts? supervisor chiu and then supervisor mar. supervisor chiu: so the local 61 students and apprentices willing involved in constructing the field and the boston properties is the, kind of course the management of the area. is local 261 going to be involved with any of the maintenance of the courts afterwards? >> yes.

supervisor mar: yes. supervisor maxwell: supervisor chiu? supervisor chiu: just closing comments. first i want to address some of the issues that were raised in public comment. ernestine, i am very open to considering a business improvement district for the downtown area as i have a strong proponent in fisherman's whatever and other parts of the district and i have let the business community and property owners know that if that is of interest they would need -- i would need their support to move forward with that. i think it's approximately important to emphasize that this is a gift we can give back. if at some point down the road we decide as a city than it's

not the best use, i am very open to having that conversation and i look forward to having the conversation with where rincon hill and others are going to go advise is -- vis-a-vis the open space. and it is ms. crowley's birthday and i want to thank you for taking part of your day to come here and be a hart of this with it -- is. supervisor maxwell: happy birthy, yes. and i too want to thank the union folks for coming down and looking at this as something you can do. i hope you will consider maybe other projects you can be part of in our estimate i want to thank all of you involved in bringing this together. it's giving a gift. seems like it should be an easy thing but in san francisco

there are a lot of people that want to be a part of that giving, that you're giving to so they all want to have a say in that. supervisor mar in supervisor mar: i did have one other question. i want to thank the donors for creating a beautiful spot that gets people out and moving with a sport i'm not that familiar with, but i did see the youtube display of what bocce ball is and i'm looking forward to getting out there and trying it. i'm glad that this hasn't become an issue of pitting bocce ball players with children's playgrounds. i know that's an issue with some of the residents but my hope is that the businesses and others that support this will look at this as -- look at also good sites for potential playground spaces but i know that will take some time. thank you for bringing this forward.

supervisor maxwell: and i have played bocce ball and it's fun. it's a good sport to play. after that, colleagues, without further -- actually, if we could adopt the amendment? supervisor maxwell: all right. why don't we accept the amendment and the legislation as amended. so moved. madame clerk, is there any further business before -- before this committee? >> no, there are no further items. supervisor maxwell: colleagues, this meeting is adjourned.

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 what we are proposing in

terms of modification to the attendance areas, and i will go back to my microphone. commissioner norton: is that a revised map online, on the website? >> that is a good question. as you can see, we have done it by hand. we are trying to be economical. it is very expensive to hire cartographers. this incorporates all of that into a revised map that we put on the web page and put in the agenda for the 28th, which will go to print the week of the 20th, so we essentially have the rest of the week to make the changes and get something online if the board approves this. commissioner norton: members of the question -- public of questions of the issue.

haute >> we actually have it on the powerpoint. we have listed the names of the street. we talk about the border following the 67 bus route. at least we have the description and the school. >> this is what we would like to do, and this may be difficult, but we so appreciate your being here. we have these three areas, the elementary attendance area that we just got the attendants on, the proposed feeder patterns, excuse me. [phone buzzes] we cannot do this, this is not going to work, and we do not

have the capacity to do that, and i went to first reiterate and remind everybody and think this step in particular and also all of the members of the public who have given feedback on the elementary school feeder pattered on all of these proposals. thank you so much for your concern and your participation and the hard work that everyone has done, so you can see that there have been some responses to the community feedback, which is great. we have had oral reports as well as summaries. however, if there is nothing that has not been brought up this evening for us to take into consideration or for the board to know, or if you want to comment, if you are prepared with this new information on these proposed changes, we will take testimony on these issues. we will see how many people want

to come and speak on those things, if any, and we will have to make some judgments about the time and about whether or not we can follow this and then take testimony later on the feeder pattern and take testimony on the transportation, so if anybody has anything they would like to say about these changes and about the elementary school attendance areas, please come to the podium. i am going to ask you, please, please, please to try very hard not to say at a community meeting what you said or what you have given online, because all of those things are being summarized to us, and the board will have all of that feedback already. i know this is difficult, but we also have a lot of people, and we want to be able to hear from as many people as possible, and right now, we are only talking about the elementary school

attendance area. if you would not mind, if anybody has any other clarifying questions, we could do that now. >> i was just curious because you have noted in the presentation that there are a number of areas, so, specifically, the peabody area, i actually heard from community members today. if people have put in a request or have given some feedback to us that is not reflected here, where does that stand? is that done, and we consider we are not going to make the change? how is that? >> thank you, commissioner. yes, we listened to and reviewed all of the feedback that was shared with us, and we've evaluated whether or not it was something we would want to evaluate as a change in boundaries, and so, for example,

it was in the interest of time that i did not go through all of them, but just as an example, with peabody, the small attendance areas, schools that are very close to each other, with a big part, and wanting to balance enrollment at both, there are some areas of the city, and there are some schools that both would like to have in their attendance area. we wanted to do what was most equitable in balancing enrollment, so that is an example, and i could go through all of them, but i just got in the interest of -- commissioner: i did not know that it was going to be, "thank you very much for your feedback, but we have considered it." is that it? >> we have bringing for the recommendations, so everything we have heard, we are not recommending. commissioner: we are not going

to take any more feedback? >> i think that is a good question for the board. our sense is that we have had a period of feedback and have evaluated. we are really eager to finalize these by september 28. this is the process it was on. commission: having a report that they would have given on the peabody. anybody else? i know this is a short time. commissioner yee?

commissioner yee: thanks for the report. we may not have the answer for this. this is contrary to policy. i am speaking of the bungalows. then, when i went around to some of the schools, have the new bungalows, it seems that for the st