of truancies, because you cannot force the parents to bring them to school until they are six. she has also worked on high schools, and we have made several referrals. it is highly publicized. it is known that this is a concerted effort, and parents are responding, and as a result, we are improving attendance theory -- attendance. >> i think making sure we do improved upon that dropout rate is one of our end goals. we know that has impacted a lot of what you do see in schools. we have to engage our students. we need to make sure there is a readiness to learn. we are making a commitment to make sure we provide opportunities to be successful when they transition graves.

we are taking a close look at grading policies. there are a number of safety nets so not only are they gittins into the college of their -- getting into the college of their choice, but they are succeeding post- secondary are there district attorney's meetings, and a flood -- are succeeding pose secretary. >> are the district attorney's meetings? >> there was a 90% dropout rate in 2007 that has declined to 9% rate over the past two school years, which is outstanding. >> this is not the first year of this effort has been made. the mayor has worked with me, and it expanded to a group that has been focusing on this and a

partnership with the police department and the school districts. >> we have had a number of hearings about truancy and new programs that have been opened up. can you talk about the beacon schools in both areas? we have had quite a bit of focus on commission begin, and there was some push and pull -- commission beacon, and there was some fresh and cold, and we are in the final stages of our review, which i think found that none of the other schools are interested in hosting, so it is going to be going back. there will be of process to see who can operate. it is currently operated on a contractual basis, but this

process has also opened a bigger conversation about the awareness other schools have ended area about what a begiacon is supposd to be. i just wonder to what extent it is being incorporated. >> i do not think we have one in the superintendent zone. there is one atherton high school. revere has an after-school program, but we do not have one. >> are due have awareness over this process, and perhaps one

reason the community did not express the appetite, i think if there is an appreciation. it is specifically because we are placing a focus of expanded learning time, so we have an opportunity to enhance these after-school programs for building from scratch, so in speaking to the parent groups or principles, they feel we are really going to be able to make each site offers robust programming, so you might have seen a lot more interest in competing. >> let me add in the mission context that it feels as if

there were expectations that have not been adequately communicated,and hopefully this process where they have decided they wanted to do it, so it is clearly going to go back to everett. we can communicate what we want the beacons to do i think it has been a building block for improvement that has taken place. it is important to me that there is kind of of frustration that

takes place. if there has not been the documentation saying it is attendance numbers, then lay that out and have it signed by the school district and mission neighborhood district, so that is my goal moving forward, that they be more clearly articulated. we have had a robust community meeting, and the letters were distributed to parents, signed by superintendent garcia, so i do feel there is a much higher awareness of the existence of the beacon and the possibility. certainly, there is going to continue to be programming across schools, but i would like for it to be a model, and i

think it is going to take a certain awareness level as to the fact that they can articulate what are the classes and programs they would like to see, because adults can be served as well as children can, so i think there is a tremendous potential. >> we certainly are open to the conversation of having one in the near future in bayview. >> i agree there is an opportunity to work tightly with all after-school providers, so all of our principals would agree the goals have to also support what we know the students face. that is another opportunity to serve them and certainly to be aware of academic goals. we are going to make it a focus to make sure we connect with whoever the provider is have

ever read. >> my last question -- is there -- whoever the provider islam at everett -- is at everett. >> my last question -- we have groups like parents and public schools, chariot ferguson's group, and then you have businesses such as wells fargo or other stakeholders that are active in the area, so i wonder to what extent can you have a list to understand these are things to enhance success of individual schools or sewn- wired -- zone-wide in terms of

the district. >> we can put together a list. i have to say they have had a series of meetings -- one of which was held in the bay view -- of the community-based organizations, who let us know what they were doing, and we documented it currently, and they talked about what they can offer the schools. she had been working diligently to make sure our community based partners know what we need and what they are doing, but we will put together and ask list. >> it is a timely question. this morning we met with a program, met with a number of --

we were presented with city college, the city, and school districts, getting to that question, and what came back was, can you pull together what is your highest priority? we are actively working on that as well. >> any other questions? >> it is really great to see the report and to get a sense of what the outcomes are and how we plan to measure the success. it was really great to see, and i assume most of -- much of this is coming through the grant. >> i only have two schools, so i am asking for some additional resources.

two schools are carver and paul revere. i have four other schools. we are leveraging professional development so if those schools have professional development they conducted in a way that the other schools can send teachers or principals to professional development. partners and school innovation is working with them, but we are networking so they can do it, but we find they need additional resources, although i do have a wonderful team there is very powerful in doing some interventions and professional development. >> is that what is the mission

came to hire, or is it that they were developed differently? >> the powerpoint presentations were developed differently. however, i have two coaches her school but not coaches from the grant, and i did not include that in the grant. the district does have seven schools, so they get two coaches, english, two masked, survey and up with seven times do -- two omath, so they end up with seven times. >> how does a community outreach happen? >> i think it is a great, but when you only have seven of them funded by the sagig.

>> they can be family positions? >> part of our logic in our application base reorganization, so part of that central theme needed to include this director for community outreach as well as a project manager and a couple of necessary fiscal analysts to deploy and manage the resources, but that is one way we are able to fund our small team. the rest are reallocated from the district, so our teachers on special assignment are working in another department, so our area teams have a similar number of personnel. >> the director does focus on the schools, but she does also visit the other schools. >> we really do appreciate the

focus on restorative justice. thank you very much. >> commissioner mendoza? >> i want to give a sense -- get a sense of how they are moving along, if we are getting strong candidates. >> i have my director of community outreach, but for each of the schools, that is coming along very well. it is a slow process, because we have so many applicants, and we wanted it to be a transparent process. there is paper screening for well over 100 candidates. after that, there will be a central office level going to those candidates and entering the ones that past. then those will come to the assistant superintendent. the interview process has not

come up yet, but i think they are close to that. i have not had a chance to see if that did begin. >> do you know when there will be bringing them on board? >> each of the coordinators' as well as the director are hoping that after the break our schools were beginning the process. our hope is by the end of january the directors and community coordinators are in place. we discussed yesterday their entry plan, some things that we believe would be really important, so our hope is that a month or two from now, we are well under way. i also wanted to ask about teachers. when i went to the first meeting, there was a large turnout of teachers, and that

was telling and encouraging. i wonder if we could speak a little more about a teacher response, a teacher input, things that reflect their perspective on what would make the superintendent zone succeed in ways that you feel there is a positive by end -- buy-in. >> there are multiple examples of how their voices being heard. we're going to continue expanding on that. i mentioned our leadership network, where we are bringing together not only the administrative team but teacher leaders as they talk about strategy. wheeler also putting together instructional design teams made up of our best price -- we are also putting together instructional design teams made up of the best people to talk about the survey topics, -- about specific topics, so we are

trying to get input, and there is certainly opportunity to continue to do more of that. >> i have given a few teachers surveys, so we can see what kind of things are important to the teachers. >> colleagues, any additional questions? we will open this item to public comment.

opportunity to bring forward a lot of the positive work we're doing together. i just want to thank you supervisor dusty because oftentimes when we are dragging our feet and don't feel like we're prepared to have these meetings you have reminded us how valuable and important these meetings are and your leadership has been tremendous. we have managed to meet at least once a month. and i think sharing of information like this really builds on the partnership that we have. and we will continue to strengthen the relationship between the city and the school district. so thank you so much for the last couple of years that you served as the chair for this committee. it's been really wonderful. >> thank you. all right, colleagues, with that we will adjourn the meeting. i will thank my colleague supervisors as we are all nearing the end of our terms and

madam, i thank you for leading us through this. and with that we are adjourned.

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor chu: good morning. welcome to the regular meeting of the city operations neighborhood services committee. madam clerk, are there any announcements today? >> yes. all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to submit speaker cards, please place them in the

container by the rail to your left. if you wish to submit copies of material for members of the committee, please submit an extra copy for the file. i will actually be calling items out of order. madam clerk, please call this item. item #4. >> item #4. ordinance amending the san francisco health code by adding section 114.1 and section 114.2 to require that the health department and department of aging and adult services adopt a pilot project to provide further care for mentally ill community members. supervisor chu: thank you very much. this item was provided by our sponsor, and she has requested that we tabled this item. do we have a motion to table it? let's go to public comment first. are there any members of the public that wish to speak on this item?

>> thank you. my name is douglas [unintelligible] and i have lived in san francisco for 28 years. i would like to speak in favor of this item. in my daily activities around san francisco, it is unfortunate that there are so many obviously mentally ill community members by their living in san francisco or passing through. something like this is urgently needed and i think that the supervisor is justified in proposing this item. also i would like to take this opportunity to urge the department of public health to use their money efficiently to

help the obviously need, rather than going after whistle- blower's like myself, with in my opinion, fake charges of mandatory sick leave and being mentally ill. as many people have noted in my basement here at city hall for the past year, if douglas is mentally ill, it says a lot about all of the other people here at city hall. thank you. supervisor chu: are there any other members of the public that wish to speak on item number four? seeing no one, public comment disclosed. bill, did you want to say a few words? do we have a motion to table the item? without objection. madam clerk, please call item no. 1. >> item #one. hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 48 on-sale general public premises liquor license from 730-732 broadway street to 163 jessie street (district 6) to jon gasparini

for jessie street cafe will serve the convenience of the people of the city and county of san francisco. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have the chief inspector here. you might want to turn on the microphone. in speaking to it. -- and to speak into it. >> beer, wine, distilled spirits for consumption. also offering food service. no letters of protest. no letters of support. the department recommendation is as follows -- approval with conditions recommended by be liaison unit. proposed condition, number one,

the sale and service consumption of alcoholic beverages provided between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. each day of the week. the sale of these beverages for off sale consumption is strictly prohibited. the petitioners shall not make structural changes without prior written approval from the department. four, no eyes. any sound produced in such a manner or degree as to disturb the peace, quiet, and comfort of the persons in the neighborhood. no. 5, loitering. those found to be standing idly by or lingering without business, prohibited on any of the sidewalks under the control of the licensee. thank you. supervisor chu: let's open this item to public comment. are there any members of the public that wish to speak on this item? seeing no one, public comment is

closed. we have a motion to approve this item with the condition provided. without objection. madam clerk, please read item #2. >> item #2, resolution authorizing the san francisco arts commission to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $70,000 from the national endowment for the arts for the installation of zhang huan's three heads, six arms at the civic center plaza. >> -- supervisor chu: thank you very much. jill [unintelligible] from the art commission is here. >> good morning, supervisors. if you have any questions, i would be more than happy to answer them supervisor chu:chu please provide -- answer them. supervisor chu: please provide a

brief presentation. >> certainly. to celebrate our sister city could with shanghai we sought the work of an artist from shanghai to bring to the civic center. we knew that it would be costly. one of the first hurdles that we overcame was a local company in san francisco called waterfront containers stepped up to say that they would provide the containers and would arrange for the free shipping. we knew that bulk of the costs would be covered privately through donations. at the same time, we have the application submitted to the national endowment for the arts. everything went seamlessly. we got the sculpture here in time for the dedication. we needed a little bit of intervention from senator

feinstein to have customs lived be agricultural inspection hole that they placed when it arrived. at this point, we are planning to return the sculpture a little bit earlier than the expected duration in the city. we have been informed by customs officials in china that they will not issue another extension for the sculpture. we have attempted to involve, through our various connections, to try to address this issue. it seems like it is a very big hurdle to overcome. the sculpture has been tremendously popular. between the grant and the money provided by the huntington hotel to put up the artist, i would have to say more than 50% was provided from other city

sources. >> so, the $70,000 covers about half of the cost? >> no, it probably covers about one-quarter of the cost or one- third of the cost. about $100,000 worth of private funds was provided by waterfront leasing and shipping. supervisor chu: all right. this is a resolution from the national endowment of arts in the amount of $40,000 to primarily helped to fund the monument sculpture in shanghai. this is retroactive, no new employees have been hired. this is simply a contractual cost? >> that is true. it is simply a formality to formally accept the funds. supervisor chu: