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appreciate it. >> the supporting intend enter has one other item. we want todz give you an update. there's a lot of issues to bet the communities. we've asked any of those shoes coming up. when we start planning this, it's not going to be done in isolation. this is really going
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to be cored nating. they are involved because of the facilities issue i've been seeing a lot of pressures. obviously we are trying to deal fairly saying that this is a phase out of the program. kids that have already applied will be admitted we've explained
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that to the staff. in the future years, it will be opened as we explained it last week where we explain part of the feeder is to have a k school there. i did explain to the staff that the horse man name would stay there. if we were going to work on the program very reaccept tiff about having those kind of discussions. there's still a lot of different things we are looking at. we did need to start moving
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forward. the more time we have, the better transition. the smoother everything will go. >> before others ask. i'm stuck not asking the question. i'm curious in terms of how the out reach is going. i'm sure the super intend nt has done his presentation. i'm curious how the community has responded since. i had one other after school piece for next year is already in motion. i meant to ask that and kevin
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slipd out. in general. that was part of my previous piece that i missed. >> good evening, i did ask veronica chavez to join us. some require a more immediate game plan in order for planning for next school year to go smoothly. staff has started to flush out the work. we need to do all of our best. this week, i know my team was where we can talk more at this
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point. good evening, as carlos has said. we do want to answer their questions about the application process as many families have turned into that. trying to answer those questions right now. we do want to ensure the community that when they come over to horse man, they can
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avail themselves there's very careful times. always done for the community we had them come out. we try to korver all the bases. >> we are also trying to coordinate our efforts. there was also some more widespread communication that
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went home last wednesday. it went home to the communities. all of the neighborhood schools and applying for some of those grade six seats coming up and making it an option. >> which sounds like could have some affects on other schools >> the horse man is a sick school. it's now going into rebuilding
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it into a new school and bringing the population in. that doesn't jep ardize some of the funding. >> that is an excellent question. the significant redesign jo you have to 5accelerate. >> any other questions? >> i don't know if anybody knows
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this but at some time i'd like to know legally what the status is this going to be. we are spending a lot of our day. that's all part of the project plan we developed to get through. we are going to keep the horseman name and work buena vis visita into it. we want some of the communities
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to be here. >> thank you so much. the resolution for the second reen action tonight in the item mass, roll call please. >> is the consent calendar resolution set for immediate
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discussion. we had k 1? >> the reason i called this one because i looked at the funding source. it's paying for the art sdan residence den si. i just wanted clarification of why this was used in this way. >> thank you.
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we asked those to develop mainly as you mentioned schools need to develop plans. one is to engage stu departments in learning they group the students together and combine
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classes. they are being very creative really to support the work that they do thank you. it says all the funding. >> this is the portion from there. thank you. >> roll call, please.
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>> seven ayes. the next item is dpfrn 5 pulled by commissioner yi. i was curious myself in terms of the questions around this in terms of why we are using a contract rather than hiring our staff to do this work.
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i understand that. sports for kids is a program that a lot of our elementary schools because it doesn't have the teachers there to teach during the day. organizing. it has services that are not reply indicating jo thank you. roll call, please. >> one of the programs as a
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member of the road side council it was presented to us closer to pe. he was a great roll model for the kids, he worked on leadership. this is not a good sdrepgs of what play works does. there was some this is a really good program that helps students during unstructured time to really build those skills.
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>> thank you, roll call, please. >> seven ayes. q, none tonight. item r, board members proposals, none tonight. commissioner yi, if you could sum port on the committee as a whole, please. >> it's going to be a long report. >> thank you for your report. >> i'm sorry. there were two itemser were
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discussing. there was a lot of discussion agreed to the staff pursuing the work. we chose the action that would actually do things. the other option is just do anything the goal is to reduce
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the amount of money spent on transportation. looking at cutting all transportation to phase it in over the next three years dropping it 44-48. >> that was sort of it in a nutshell. thank you. item t, it will come up.
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>> is it mo williams mo williams mo williams > a board member? >> are these reports? i wanted to congratulate the high school graduates at the event. i passed around book marks you are all invited to the february 20 day of remembrance february 25 is the founder's day dinner.
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that is at 6:00. george washington high school is having a dance finally, i want to call the attention of my colleagues. attending classes there and interviewing students >> thank you, i wanted to briefly acknowledge that president mend owesa and i were at the black history mo kick off at city hall. coming up is a presentation. kinzie collection that
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collection depicts 400 years of african-americans in america. i know we'll have a more rebust presentation and how we can involve our school children in that. thank you. >> i wanted to briefly -- because it is 1:a. i'm going to make available, i have a hard copy of the review of waiting for superman which is wonderful. she was one of the speakers there. mainly this is the thing i want to say. preparing some of the
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extraordinary background term. we need to have a legislative platform. proposals and a lot of talk there are principles in that that i don't think will agree with. we started to prepare those principals probably flew the
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rules policy that would be my recommendation. we have the opening for the representative to the elections commission. if anyone is interested in applying for this sent your information to 555 franklin street room 106, san francisco 94102. email your information to ecafcoe at sfusd call 2 # 1-6493. lsz information about the elections commission on the sfgov website.
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we'll be taking application until february 16th. i wanted to announce that the middle school soccer championship will be playing the board wins per the appointment. our adjournment this evening is in memory of the long-time employee hired in 1954 and retired in 1958.
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we express our condoll evenses. tonight's meeting is adjourned. go
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>> i have 2 job titles. i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of
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1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's
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place in the world. he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states. it's now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the united states capital. >> you could spend days going around the building and finding something new. the embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that san francisco is famous for. >> the wood you see in the board of supervisor's chambers is oak and all hand carved on