course in the eighth grade, they're far more likely to drop out later. and so we've identified 182, i believe it is, aggete graders who now that they're moving to high school, we know who they are, we know that they're at risk and we can follow these students and support them better. so i found that data really interesting and i don't know was it provided to the rest of the board? or could we provide that to the rest of the board? i think that would be interesting for people to see. the next meeting will be on may 2. we will be discussing the plans for inclusive practices and i've asked uesf for their concern and asked for special ed to talk about their concerns and issues surrounding the inclusive practices and we will follow up the next night with staff at the committee of the whole on the special ed redesign. >> the crick -- the curriculum

committee we start at 5:30. president mendoza: thank you. augmented rules and policy and legislative commission. commissioner murase: my report will be brief. we reviewed legislative proposals and relied allegation on csba recommendations. i have that available if there are members of the board who would like to review the specific legislation. the committee is looking at a formal process for appointments to different committees that we have and the first step was really developing a full roster of the various committees and task forces that we appoint to. so i want to thank nancy for her staffing of this particular effort and it's still in process. we will continue to keep you updated as we come closer to a

formal written policy. president mendoza: thank you. and a report on the committee of the whole, we had a presentation on the 2011-2012 budget overview of the developments since the tax extension has not quite yet gotten onto the ballot. so we're looking at an additional $25 million in cuts in addition to the $113 million that currently exists and we're also having our schools consider their schedule b or their budget b with, option b, b for bad. and so we're preparing for the storm that's going to be hitting us very soon and these tax extensions, if this doesn't happen, is really going to devastate our school quite significantly. and i know that the superintendent and staff has -- have met with the principals and

we're just preparing for next year. and then we -- i think that's actually all that he covered on that. item t is a report on the closed section actions. -- closed session actions. commissioner wynns: i just wanted to very quickly mention an event that i was able to attend last friday which was kind of ribbon-cutting, i guess, for the project at gordon j. lowe which is a joint project with a number of city partners including the public utilities commission which is rainwater collection project, where water is collected off the roof of the school, held in sis alternatives, comes down a pipe system and is used to warden the gardens, -- wattwater the gardens, one of those that i was amazed and pleased we were able to do at all, gibbon the

neighborhood and the size of the school yards. so it was really quite extraordinary and a mural describing the sistern and water collection system. this is a project, one of our green school yard partners, but it's a living library project. and it was rling amazing and there were a lot of people there and i think we do a lot of wonderful projects just of this nature except what's unique about this is that it was funded by the p.u.c. this is about managing groundwater, diverting water, even in, again, the most densely populated neighborhood in san francisco and according to board of supervisors, president david chiu, who was present, the second most densely popularitied in the country second to china toub in -- chinatown in new york. it was quite wonderful and i wanted to refer to that and to really give kudos to the people involved in it. but more to the model that we

actually, working with something that clearly is of great benefit to our students and to our schools, with limited resources, but that actually is a kind of perfect model of collaboration with other agencies because it meets their goals, using mostly their resources with a little -- the minimum amount of resources from us. and has great benefit to us and to our students. that's it. president mendoza: thank you. other commissioners? commissioner ye. -- yee. vice president yee: thank you. i just wanted to add another happy note to our board meeting. this is an opportunity for may 7 , we're going to have five schools participating in this program on a saturday. a city college from one to three. and -- from 1:00 to 3:00. and basically it's to take off

from the documentary about the kids in new york ske citi where they learned partner dancing in the fourth and fifth grade. this is going to be about 50 or 60 fourth and fifth graders from these five schools that will be participating and they're going to be dancing things that they'd never think they'd be dancing. they're going to be doing salsa and swing and it's going to be great. i've seen them practice for the last two months, basically, and they're getting pretty excited about coming and if you have time, please come and support them because this is the first in san francisco and you're going to be basically missing history because i anticipate that this is going to grow and grow and grow and also if that's not enough, the middle school jazz band will be there to accompany them. so please come if you have time. >> where at city college?

vice president yee: yeah, i'm so sorry. city college at the new wellness center, it's the beautiful place and they have these huge, humongous dance classrooms and studios and it's in room 301. president mendoza: is this this an organization that you started? [laughter] vice president yee: yes. as most of you know i have a passion for this and i just love the fact that when i saw that movie, the positive stuff that comes out of this, it's not just about dancing, it's really about a lot of other things in terms of the discipline that they acquired to learn this and it gives them some focus, just like any other art form, this is going to give a lot of kids opportunities to do things that they really enjoy. so i'm right in the middle of forming this thing. if any of you want to

participate in informing it, just -- in forming it, just let me know. i need some help. commissioner murase: i wanted to report that last thursday i attended an indian family night held at horris mann middle school. there are 350 native american families in our school district and i'm pleased to report there's an active parent advisory council that meets monthly in the indian resource room at horris mann and i was able to report about the decision to change the burnett campus to the havard school because as we learned peter burnett, the first governor of california, has been very -- has some very racist policies, including extermination of native people. so they welcomed that news. i just wanted to share that the cam county of science haas has some upcoming free day -- the california county of science has some upcoming free days.

may 13, 14 and 15 will be free for families in zip codes 94127, 94131 and 9413 and families can look that up on the academy of science website. president mendoza: thank you. i attended the district four, district seven budget town hall. i'm not attending fun stuff like you guys. but it's been really great that the mayor and supervisors have been including the school district in that discussion and i know that others have been going to the district meetings and there are a couple more left and then we also attended their rec and park egg hunt that they had for 4,500 students and many of our students actually performed onstage as part of the entertainment. and we got to be part of the rib cookoff which was really fun and then we attended a really great event last night held by mo-magic and they were celebrating, it was their fourth year and it was just a really wonderful event to see our

students performing and to see so many community members in the western edition come out and support their efforts. that was great. >> rosa parks school community invited me to be on their v.i.p. cable car in which i did. and also with chris and his son quinn and we had a fabulous time. i wanted to thank the rosa parks community for the invitation and i hope to join them next year. vice president yee: sometimes i don't remember when things happen. not sometimes, always it seems like. but did the visit from -- that visit was in between -- ok, i should mention that. madam leo is from china and she's, i guess, we couldn't figure out exactly, but she's like the equivalent of hillary

clinton and very high level official that came to san francisco but -- after -- visiting the president. and they made it a decision to visit one of our child development centers and when they were planning it they had anticipated that, ok, she's going to be there only half an hour, it's a tight schedule and once she got there she wouldn't leave. she just loved it there. the kids were great, the staff was great. i have to give a lot of credit to the facilities people who went in there for several days to get the place prepared for the visit and she actually stayed there for about an hour. not even then, when she was ready to leave, they jumped into the car and everybody thought, she jumped back out. and she brought out her photo

album with of her grandkids to show us. it was so cute. all that, she really made an argument of how important child development is in preschool and so forth and when she was talking about the fact that they're going to expand their budget because they're doing so well in china and expand 50% of the -- you know, into their child development budget. they're going to train, this is bizarre, they're going to train next year, what, 800,000 new teachers. >> 800,000 preschool teachers. vice president yee: yeah, next year. superintendent garcia: did you ask her for foreign aid for news is vice president yee: i should have. >> she said they were going between 2010 and 2012, that they were going to increase their education budget, not just preschool. by 50%. president mendoza: any other

reports? thank you. so we have item t is a report on closed session actions. and a claim against the district in title p.b. case number 2011010277. the board of education by a vote of five ayes and one ncaa. and one absent. approved a settlement. item u is other informational items and in our agenda we have the quarterly report on the williams uniform demraints january through march 2011. informational ncaa notice, classified personnel transactions. item v, this meeting is adjourned. good night, everyone.

>> hello. welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance subcommittee meeting. my name is karimen chu. joined by ross mirkairmi and supervisor jane kim. our clerk is victor young. do we have announcements today? >> if you wish to speak during public comment, submit the card and present them to myself. please provide a copy to the clerk.

items not appearing today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we will lose quorum if we don't take a quick recess. the mayor will be announcing the police chief and i believe a number of folks will be on hand for that announcement. so what i'd like to do before i call our agenda items is to take a brief recess. we'll say that we will return roughly around 10:20 or so. that probably will be enough time, i imagine. , before we are -- we return. so if we can we'll just take a brief recess, roughly about 10, 20 minutes and we'll be back. thank you. supervisor chu: i thank everybody for their patience as we watch the new chief get sworn in. we want to say congratulations

to chief suhr. if we can call item number one. >> resolution approving the execution of lease number 11-0049 with cargo warehouse and support office space in building 648 at san francisco international airport. supervisor chu: thank you very much. i believe we have kathy white from the airport. >> good morning, chair chu, vice chair mirk reama. we are trying -- mirkarimi. the new lease would carry a term of five years from may 5, 2011, to may 5 -- may 4, 2016. the lease is for a total scare footage of 2,608 of cargo space, ramp space at the airport. this is the exact same space that the airline currently has

with us. there has been some reconfiguration from cargo space to office space but the scare footage remains the same. under the proposed lease, the asi anna airlines would pay a rental rate of $it 2 per square foot for a total of $800,000. as the budget analyst report it is a rent reduction of approximately $94,000 a year. we saw a similar rent reduction when the committee approved our cargo lease with china airlines. we'll see this as things come before you where at the end of a few 10-year leases, particularly with some of our cargo tenants and the cargo market is substantially different. much smaller than it was a year ago. so the new lower rental rate is the result of a negotiation between airport staff and the airlines. and we feel that it is a fair

market rate. supervisor chu: ok. let's go to the budget analyst report. >> madam chair, members of the committee, debra newman. as she indicated and as shown in our report on page 4, table 2, the current lease with asi anna airlines is at a rate -- asiana airlines it is a result the $943,146 per year under the new lease. although the square footage would remain the same, the rental rate per square foot will go down to $21.40 so there will be a total of annual estimated revenue of $849,000 or a reduction of $94,037 per year.

however, because of the airport's residual rate setting methodology that there will not result in any budgetary shortfall overall for the airport because the cost will be reallocated and rerecommend approval of the proposed lease. supervisor chu: why don't we open this up for public comment? are there any members of the comment who would like to speak on item number one? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we move this item forward with recommendation? we'll do that without objection. thank you very much. item number 2, please. >> item number two, ordinance appropriating $6,995,000 of loan funding from the california department of boating and waterways to the renovation of west harbor of san francisco, arena yacht harbor for fiscal year 2010-2011. supervisor chu: thank you.

i believe we have katie from the recreation department. >> thank you, commissioners. i'm here this morning to ask for your approval of a sublamental appropriation in the amount of $6.9 million which is the final installment of a $23.5 million loan that the city is receiving from the california department of ++ --

supervisor chu: let's go to the member. >> it would appropriate $6,995 loan from the california department of boating and waterways to the recreational and park departments. this would complete the $23,495,000 loan in addition at a 4.5% interest rate. interest is calculated at $222,583 or a cost to rec and park of $46 million. it is estimated to make increasing amounts of loan payments, increasing up to $1.4 million annually over a total of 35 years. as katie indicated, the

rec-park department would repay the employee posed state loan from the west harbor operations from the marina yacht harbor fund. and given the state requirements, the proposed cash flow analysis that is shown on page 9 of our report does indicate that the recognize park department would be able to complete the loan as indicated and note that the board of supervisors previously approved a 37% rate increase in the rental rate in the west harbor which are anticipated to begin in fiscal year 2012-2013 when the project would be completed and with the rent increases, the birth rental rate increases, they are projected to be sufficient funds to meet the state's debt obligation under the proposed loan agreement and we therefore recommend approval of the proposed supplemental.

supervisor chu: thank you very much. why don't we go to public comment on this item? are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item number 2? seeing none, public comment is closed. ok, we have a motion to send the item forward with recommendation and also a second and we'll do that without objection. thank you very much. item number three, please. >> item number three, resolution authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing to accept and expand an economic development initiative special projects grant from u.s. department of housing and urban development in the total amount of $750,000 to assist with the redevelopment of the sunydale housing site into a mixed housing community. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have amy from the mayor's office for this item. >> thank you, chairman chu. supervisor mirkirimi and supervisor kim. i am director of the mayor's

office of housing and i would like to ask for your approval today of an extend of $750,000 of an economic development initiative grant from the department of housing and urban development. this grant would be for the sunydale revitalization project which is one of the five active hope f.s. sites that exists today. hope f.s. is the program where the city is revitalizing one of the most distressed housing sites into mixed income communities. sunydale had been working with the mayor's office of housing for the last three years to preprayer pour the revitalization process. they are at the point which they have completed the master planning process and are working towards completing their entitlements by summer 2012. sunydale currently is a 785 unit public housing development which once revitalized is planning to be a 1,700 unit

project which will actually have 25 square feet of life center, a 15,000 square foot neighborhood serving retail component and a 15,000 square foot community serving retail which will serve for job training and resident services for existing residents on the site. we ask for approval because the city financing is very important to the overall project as it is a very large and ambitious effort to revitalize this project. especially during these very difficult times. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you very much for your presentation. this item does not have a budget analyst report with it so why don't we go directly to public comments. are there any members of the public who wish to speak on item number 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor mirkarimi: motion to accept with recommendation. supervisor chu: ok, we have a motion to accept this item with recommendation. we will do that without objection. thank you. do we have any other items before us? >> that completes the

subcommittee agenda. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned. >> about four years ago, [inaudible] look at how beautiful this was. there is our relationship to the planet. these regions are the

wealthiest, the most powerful. that really has impacted the planet. it is almost impossible now to go anywhere and had it really be completely dark. there are very few locations that you can find. that means our relationship to the sky, there is a way where we dominate the sky. we cannot see anything really. we are blinding ourselves in a way. >> you can look at the images, they are beautiful.