and in 1992. the improvements will allow us ñbñe capacity of hundred 40 million gallons per day, even after a major seurq9 major components include upgrades throughout the entire plant. we will add five filters, include handling system, and replace the components of the ozonation system. after following extensive seismic assessment, we made the decision to replace the two existing reservoirs with aú#:z w 11 million gallon reservoir. this ise it is one of our largest.

if you approve it today, we will issue an mtp? in april of 2011. it will take four years to construct all of the improvements. it will be slated to be completed inl] 2015. implementation will require a termination of the lease with the skyline stables before it expires in 2014. the project eir did not find the removal of the stable to be a significant impact because of to the watershed and within 35 miles of the existing site. to minimize the inconvenience to skyline stables and facilitate the timely transfer -- transition, staff has engaged in lease termination discussions with skyline stables over the

last several months. upper management has also been involved closely negotiations oq agreement. qi am pleased to report that yesterday, puc and skyline reached an agreement in negotiate in good faith towards the finalizationéwx of the settlement agreement. that is all i have. commissioner crowley: thank you very much. i invite any members of the public that wish to comment. >> we have one speaker card representing skyline stables. commissioner crowley: if you have your phone on, please turn it off. >> good morning. i am christine hanson, i am on the board of the nonprofit skyline

located for over 60 years at the site of the now harry tracy water treatment plant. we have entered into good-faith negotiations with staff. p'we are hopeful that this will eventually lead to a new for the stables. this will require us to take a big leap of faith and clear the way for the water department's well before our new home is ready. we have many hurdles but are willing to face the challenges as a group inwzwñ order to conte to provide low-cost cooperative stabling and our area, something that is unique. someday soon, you may be asked to consider issues that directly affect our future. at that time, we would like to remember our willingness to work towards a win-win solution for our group and the water needs of the community. i would like to thank you for 60

years full of wonderful memories. thank@3 you. speaker, please. >> i am going to comment on the last two items. i am going to focus on the areas where we contained our water and treat our water. i want to link this with the u.s. geological service. i would prefer tojr see a review by experts from the agency. nihaving reviewed those comments in whatever way they give it to us, you have the heart and you have the wings. the heart.

then you get a first opinion, a second opinion, a third opinion. when we have amendments of the last moment, it is processed. this is the city and county of san francisco. we have certain laws for transparency incorporate -- and incorporating these amendments to those who will participate so second, they can check. thirdly, the to give qualified input -- they can give qualified input. not everybody has the ability to give qualified input at the last commissioners, you are fully aware that a lot of the deliberations on the bonds and how we spend our money are

taken to certain bodies. i have known mr. jensen for a long time. he brings some qualified information here. he not only represents ha as general manager. he also worked diligently for us. -- for the water apartment. this is the city and county of san francisco. it is not just the city of san francisco like the city of hillsborough. this is the city and county of san francisco. we need to get qualified input from the citizens. deliberations should not be done at the last moment. i know the matter will be revisited.

i hope the commissioners here will be here for that so they do not have to reinvent the wheel and new commissioners be educated on this very vital issue. thank you very much. u=t[tone!] >>. jensart jensen. it is an important project. i realize there have been tremendous challenges for staff and the community. i applaud the way your staff has applied itself to both of those. nvóit is a good project. i hope it moves forward. >> commissioners, now that we are towards the end of these three items, i wanted to make a couple of general statements. most agencies would be working hard to get one or two of these

through in the year. !tntto think that we're running three eir's for the commission in one day is pretty stunning for most agencies to be able to do that. it does not just&2(t() magic. i want to thank the folks we have been working closely with that skyline stables and hillsborough. they have helped us out. they've come together to make sure this works. i appreciate that. i also want to thank the staff and all the people who worked on thissc to put these projects together. that includes the city planning staff and the consultants. they made sure we have been burma to impact statements and reports that were appropriate, detailed, and complete to make this work. -- the environmental impact app. last but not least, steve

ritchie, davewxgiñi briggs folko are operating the system and have done such a good job the believe they can still operate the system and make it work for all of our customers. oa!7?rwsóñiii want. thank you for your consideration. it is a big day for the puc. we should not let that go by. thank you all. ifáe should give a round of applause to everyone on this day. [applause] >> there are some attorneys.

no offense taken, but there have been in number of attorneys who have worked long hours with your these issues and bring the link the resolutions -- link -- hopefully, we will not be asked to do three of these in a row again. public comments? hearing and seeing none, i will the long- term improvements project. >> so moved. commissioner crowley:2" all thoe in favor, please signify. the ayes have it. so ordered. [applause]

>> the only other item on calendar is if any commissioner has any new business item they may wish to bring up at this1:ki >> i do. i think we should all say "go, giants!" [applause] [laughter] commissioner crowley: that has been moved and seconded. i know there is no debate. sorry to the phillies fans. no further business, i will entertain a motion to close the special meeting of october 14. >> so moved. commissioner crowley: all those in favor. the ayes have it. go, giants. >> sfgtv, san francisco

government television. ♪ >> good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of city school districts's. i'm the chair of the committee joined by fellow supervisor

chris damey. our scol board members here with us are commissioner kim and fewer and mendoza. i want to acknowledge and thank our clerk who is here clerking for us and acknowledge that the great folks at sfgtv are making it possible for the people of san francisco to see their city government at work. and could we call our first item. >> item number one, hearing to consider how we are addressing the needs of students who are being served in the wm system and the city and county of san francisco. >> thank you. and i want to acknowledge that crisis here as always to represent the school district. today we are continuing our hearings on looking at how various city agencies are

addressing the needs of students who are being served by multiple systems within the san francisco unified school district and the city and county of san francisco. we will focus how we partner with the juvenile probation department to make sure our youngsters remain on the right track and adequate support between ours schools and city departments to succeed. i have acknowledged our clerk and chris. today we are joined by the department of youth, children and families, jim, who is a san francisco unified county schools, claudia from san francisco unified school district, support services and probation chief, bill, the director of our juvenile probation department. our goals are to look at the operational logistical partnerships between the school district, juvenile probation and children, youth and families to

ensure we don't lose students between these systems and make sure we are managing and supporting them towards susan looking at the current partnership, are we in a state where it is more reactive and already looking at young people who have to get in trouble in the justice system or are there ways to be more proactive to ensure we are engaging those young people who are at risk. so with that, i think i will start and invite di and n and from d.c.y.f. to start us off here. >> thank you and good afternoon board of supervisors, members. i would like to start off with saying that we provide many different opportunities and partnerships to be able to address the needs of at-risk youth. this question, we thought it was so broad that we narrow it to a

couple of examples that we support in coalition with a couple of city departments. and i would like to start off were stating in 2008, we -- as the department of children, youth and families, department of public health decided to merge our funding streams to better support some of the c.b.o.'s, the strategies to reduce violence. we merged dollars, children's fund, general fund and other dollars all together to support 60 different programs that address alternative education, case management, detention alternatives, detention bay services diversion and gender women's services. we are talking about 40 different organizations in san francisco that support young people through the ages of 13 through 25 so they have a wrap-aaround approach and don't

fall through the cracks. within the disciplines, there are different meetings that occur at the community-base level and systems level. we work with j.p.d. and d.p.h. and meet as joint funders to talk about what are some of the trends going on, what are some of our funding decisions and how we are making sure that the money we are investing is providing the best service. so those are a couple of things at the systems' level that support some of these efforts. now more at the community level, what we try to do with providers is provide a monthly check-in in order to ensure there is cross communication and ensure there is a strong referral process with some of the young people we are working with and targeting. another example just to be brief, because i know you have more questions you would like to ask us, any other example of

where we combine our efforts with j.p.d. and dcyf is with the workforce development strategy. we supported a school partnership model where we work with four different schools to provide not only support on specific four school sites but provide opportunities for employment, people who are coming out of high at risk situations. there are slots to assist young people and the teachers along side teachers, providers, all come to the table either on the performance of a young person or just to simply track some of the issues they might be facing and where the needs are and where they need the most support. another example within our youth employment efforts is our actually our high risk youth workforce development strategy that specifically targets young people coming out of log cabin ranch and provides job slots and

opportunities with five different community-based agencies. we selected five different agencies that can provide anywhere from 10 to 15 slots for young people to get trained on employment -- different aspects of employment and to ensure they complete their g.e.d. or high school diploma through the services and case management of this agency. there are actual specific support. another key initiative, i know you have heard multiple times about and i will mention it once again that really addresses some of the gaps and the needs of young people within our school, true answery reduction initiative. and i won't explain what we have done in the past, because i know you have heard it multiple times -- >> it would be helpful because we are still -- it would be great to know is a little bit about the overview and a little

bit of the status of implementation because those are things we have consistently asked and it is not full throttle out. and if you could share it. i welcome supervisoral yeto pier. >> we are serving over 40 young people. , this program addresses case management services to reduce chronic and habit you'll tru and ncy. and some of the new partners have been the adult probation department. some of the existing partners that have supported us are the district of attorney's office, department of children, youth and families and existing partner sfusd and the san

francisco police department. what we have done is we work on a weekly basis meeting about what are some of the issues going on with this initiative, what is each department actually committing to in order to be able to reduce to of this that is going on with some of the young people inside sfusd. we have had joint meeting on a twice a month basis where we talk about the coordinated aspect of it. what we have done is -- all these departments have come to brainstorm how we can best serve through a family wraparound approach the families that come in. those are the new things going on with some of the initiative. and i wanted to mention it to you. this is a brand new effort to sharpen some of the services for those young that fall through

the cracks or multi systems use. in general, i would like to say claudia is here and so is the chief so that they can also express a little bit about what other initiatives or efforts that we have. i would wrap this segment with stating that we meet on a quarterly basis on general violence prevention efforts and given some of the funding strategies and plended funding, we are meet -- blended funding, we are meeting consistently to ensure we are doing the best work possible. if there are other recommendations, we would appreciate them. >> we will go through the speakers and have all the presentations and hopefully have questions at that point. jim will present next from sfusd county schools. >> let me explain, the umbrella

organization is county schools and then core schools. i will explain a little bit. >> there are people that watch these hearings on-line, could you explain what county schools are. >> county schools in california, actually every state, in california, the county schools are foyer those students, specific county schools we have right here, civic center secondary school and that is for expeled probation and homeless youth. and i was the principal of that for many years and i have moved back to the core schools. two county schools we have right now are civic center secondary school and larkin street youth services that are serving them. jay cunningham is the principal of that school. court schools are years ago, we

decided to separate the county system into those students who are on probation and those students who weren't. there are students at probation at the county schools, but the court schools are purely probation and that is woodside learning center, that is the school inside juvenile hall. the number fluctuates there. it is usually around 90, lower than 100 students. that is a real high school diploma program, special ed, english learning, g.e.d., partnerships with community-based organizations there. that's woodside learning center. log cabin high school, that is 50 miles south. the students are from the probation department, generally sentenced there for let's say nine months to a year, depends on how they're doing down there.

and there is a high school that's there. high school diploma program, g.e.d. and vocational, of late. those are possibly our -- in terms -- i don't want to say risk, some of the most serious students. and those students are deemed to go to a place that needs to be far away for x amount of time. for me permly, one of my favorite schools and service the students who need to be away from the city and get mental health treatment and intensive education. they have added vocational training of late. there are a lot of different partnerships, city college, san francisco state, the probation department, san francisco conservation corps and urban sprouts are some of the big programs there now. and there is early morning

study, g.e.d. program that is next to juvenile hall. not necessarily probation, but most of the students seem to be. i think it's a great program. it's really successful every year. there were 48 students who got their g.e.d. from that program. inside juvenile hall, there are partnerships that are given via grant and they bring out a teacher who is able to do that. the study program has 30 to 40 students at a time and spend three months, six months, however long it takes them to practice for and pass the g.e.d. that is the early morning study academy. we have been working close with those partners forever. 19 years for me. and i spent last time talking about the collaborative, a nonresidential court school.

80 schools around the u.s. and around the country. that's going very well. and supervisor said earlier, it's interesting that what we are trying with that school -- we are trying to make it an alternative school but don't have to get in trouble to get the services of a school like that. that is our thrust there. i have been working with claudia and partners in the alternative schools and we were looking at how to get alternative schools off the punishment phase for a long time and i think we have done it. that's the county and court schools right now. >> supervisor, what i was hoping to do is we only have two more speakers and then have a round robin. thank you so much, jim. next, claudia anderson from the san francisco unified school district and director of support

services. >> good afternoon members of the select committee. a lot of things are going on within the school district right now but people who aren't familiar with the stupid support services, i want to give you that lay of the land very briefly. it's a very large department and has some subdivisions within it that has a lot of crossover, but distinct areas. one section deals primarily with issues related to health and health broadly defined as physical, social, emotional health, all manner of programs and grants address those issues for students throughout the school district. another section deals with after-school programming. just about every school in the district now has after-school funding so they can provide youth in after-school hours with a safe place so they aren't out

on the streets in harm's way. and they are there to engage in enrichment activities, but increasingly to also engage in credit recovery because if we are trying to prevent students from dropping out, they have to have hope that they can reach the end of the tunnel. many of our students who have become discouraged because of being behind, become discouraged because of being behind, the after-school program has restored hope so they can actually finish. the last section addresses most of the issues related to pupil services kinds of activities. intervention you have heard about in the past, issues around school safety, issues around disciplinary issues. and i think in every one of these departments right now, we have got some interface going with the city. and looking from a historical