alicia johnson, the most recent to our department of emergency management. about one month on the job now, and she has hit the ground running. >> thank you. we have two events coming up. one on october 17 in commemoration of the loma prieta earthquake in 1989. the department of emergency management is partnering managementkqed -- partnering with kqed to present a symposium that will feature a keynote from fema's deputy administrators and will additionally include a panelist discussion and question and answer session from the audience regarding the aspect of whole community preparedness and

disaster recovery itself. that will take place beginning at 8:30 on the 17th, as i mentioned before, here in city hall, and it is by invitation only. the second event we also have coming up is the fourth annual great california shake out, the drop, cover, and hold drill that will be held on october 20 at 10:30 a.m. right now, we have slightly over 290,000 attendees registered for that particular drill. we would like to exceed our number from last year, which was 350,000. we are looking this year to cap off at about 375,000. we would appreciate any help you can give us from your department

level in creating back milestone -- creating that milestone. thanks. >> thank you. any questions? hearing none, i will just open it up to disaster council members. announcements? things you're doing in your own departments or agencies? >> i represent the building owners and managers association. we have had, since the 9/11 crisis, 30 different programs in conjunction with the police department and department of emergency management, fire department, and i would just like to thank the city on behalf of boma and the private sector for working collaborative with the private sector to make us ready -- working

collaboratively with the private sector to make us ready. not long ago, we had a shooting -- shooter/hostage situations here those kinds of things happen. we need to be ready. we are proud and appreciate the partnership we have with the city, so i just wanted to say that. >> i will go this way. michael? and if you could identify what organization you are representing. >> executive director of the san francisco benefit council. on behalf of the council and the san francisco opera, we want to extend our thanks to director cronin burke and her staff -- cronenberg and her staff for their help. we also want to thank the chief

and staff for their inspiring words. >> thank you for all your hard work. >> want to talk a couple of minutes about the good samaritan ordinance that was passed and signed by the mayor recently. the good samaritan ordinance allows people that have been displaced from rent-control housing to find additional housing after they have been displaced for up to a two years at their pre-disaster rent. when someone is living in a rent-control unit, they lose their housing to the fire. working with american red cross and we are trying to find additional housing for people. this will allow us to go to landlords that want to participate in a program -- in the program to allow folks that want to read for a short time a

unit that they are able to afford. the mayor just signed off allowing hsa to be the designee to sign off on the certificate. when there is a fire now, we will be able to sign off and refer people to a corporate -- appropriate housing providers that have agreed to work with us. i will be working with the apartment owners association in doing some and hopefully we'll be able to get that going in the next couple of weeks. >> the other important component is that folks who participate and offer their units, the tenants who temporarily occupy their space at that rate would not establish tent ants's rights.

it would allow landlords to offer these units and not be locked into a lower rent for a long period of time. >> thank you. are there? yes. >> bill walton of the san francisco national airport. we're having our annual aircraft exercise. we're doing it with the office of emergency services. we're partnering in that respect. thank you. >> more good news. i'm sorry, mayor's office on disability, san francisco is continuing to lead the way in many ways on disaster and disability prepareness. just last week a team from san francisco was chosen to present at a conference in d.c. the head of office disability and coordination and the head

of fema were there addressing the conference and reflecting a real change in our current administration's emphasis on disaster preparedness for disabilities as a civil right. the team that came from san francisco included ben ames from the human services agent si. rod stengel from the department of emergency managements. carle and jill from the mayor's office on disability. they highlighted not only the wonderful things the mayor's office is doing but also collaboration with so many community groups and nonprofits to have a really grassroots ground-up approach to preparedness. i thought you'd want to know that. >> very good, thank you. other? yes. thank you for sharing that. i just wanted to record that

it's the 22nd anniversary of [inaudible] the neighbored emergency response team is always a great option for people to consider investing about 1 hours of their time. it's a wonderful program and on october 14 there will be a large-scale drill at fisherman's who i have about 8:00 until 9:00 and on the 16th, there will be drilts throughout the city for members who have gone through the program and to bone up on and practice their skills. thank you. >> thank you, chief. yes? >> harold of the american red cross. this is her first meeting so i want to introduce meredith who is replacing aaron, who has gone to the dark side. he's now a fundraiser with the organization. >> hello. >> happy to have you on the team. >> is representative bart here?

>> yes. >> ok, so i wanted to welcome mark lewis, member of the disaster council. if you'd like to introduce yourself. >> good afternoon. i'm the deputy chief of r.p.d. >> we're thrilled to have you. thank you for coming. thank you. other comments from disaster council mexico? any announcements? -- council members? any announcements? ok, how about public comments? supervisor farrell has joined us. actually quite a while ago. we were not able to introduce him at the beginning of the meeting. anything you would like to say, supervisor? supervisor farrell: i'm fine, thanks. have a good weekend. >> if there's no public comment

and no further comment, this meeting is adjourned. thank you all so much for thank you all so much for coming. announcer: this is a family that was almost fed by neighbors by neighbors who almost volunteered to help them out. almost volunteered. when it comes to giving... almost doesn't count.

>> thank you very much. thank you, everybody for attending. it is approximately 3:30, 3:40. i want to thank you for your service. thank you very much. we have supervisor chu, we have commissioner norton and supervisor avalos. it has been a while. it is like the first day back at school. we are back in business. clerk, please read our first agenda item. >> the hearing to review and discuss the ongoing partnership between the san francisco

unified school district and hope sf. is there anything that you would like to say, colleagues? let's get this started. >> good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to be here, board members as well as board of supervisor members. we have the exciting opportunity to share with you the partnerships that we have put the school district. i will start by giving a general overview of hope sf. we will have the principal at malcolm x, which is a elementary school which is adjacent to our first development site. we will talk about the partnerships we have had with her school. we will have somebody come up to talk about the task force recommendations that have come

out. it has come up with education recommendations that we would like to share with you. they are going to share a little bit more about an exciting partnership about our choice neighborhoods grant. with that, i will get started. for those of you who do not kow what hope sf, it is the public housing transportation effort that is aimed at renovating that sites. currently have 8 sites. ultimately, at the end of the revitalization effort, which could be a 20-year process

because of the scale of magnitude, we are hoping to create 2500 public housing units. we want to bring those back on line. we are going to create 1000 new affordable housing units and new units. we want to create a mixed in common environment where you have housing at each strata. the thing we but like to bring up is something that is very important to the team. hope sf is guided by a very distinct principles. it was developed by a diverse group of people. that was convened by supervisor maxwell. but that task force consisted of community-based organizations, advocates, residents, the business community, experts on affordable housing. if this is going to be a 20-yr

initiative that is going to have an impact on one neighborhood, it could have an impact on other neighborhoods. the impact will be on one neighbor could. this will be on the social and the physical aspect of that. we are going to have very important government principles that we are going to develop over the next 20 years. what we did is we develop those principles, which i will share with you later. in addition to building desk, we wanted to make sure that there was an appropriate structure as well. we located this initiative within the mayor's office of housing. this is in partnership with the housing authority and the redevelopment agency. because there is a physical and human aspect of this, we are trying to it change the lives of this as well. we worked with several different service organizations as well

as agencies to create a whole service connection program to the site. we have assembled a development team that is among the best in the business. it is not about physical, it is about the social. we have partnered with a lot of nonprofits as well as for profit organizations. some are partnering with us to raise $25 million for the initiative. what got us here? about five years ago, we looked at the public housing portfolio and realize to bring it up to the point where people cannot live in affordable, decent housing it was going to take a certain amount of money to do that. this was at a time when the housing organization was operating at about 80% of its

bubble. it was not operating at the level it needed to in terms of funding. that was unacceptable to us. we decided i would cannot depend on the federal government to do that, we would launch hope sf. that is how we got here. we are serving families that are dealing with some of the most challenging social issues that exist. we took guidance from a seven corners study. if there are seven corners of san francisco that has the largest concentration of folks that interact with their system. four of those are run public housing. it was the confluence of all of those factors that we need to do something.

housing is one of our top priorities. we were able to do hope sf and create this mixed in come model. most of these are at a mill or density than most san francisco neighborhoods. we were able to add density which allowed us to add market rate to the equation. the market rate is going to allow us to have the public housing validation. this came together to create a situation that was feasible to us. we are going to have affordable housing, market-rate ownership and below market rate ownership. as i mentioned before, we continue to be guided by these principles. i will not bring you through the list. i want to make sure that my other partners tell you about the great things we are doing with the schools. i wanted to make one thing very clear.

we are ensuring that there is no loss of public housing. when we started this initiative, that is what we said we would do. the second thing, i want to make sure it is very clear, we are here to minimize displacement. in previous transformations, what has happened was that section 8 vouchers were given to families. families gets settled where they are. you are lucky to get about 30% of the individuals coming back to the development where that happens. if you like to stay here during construction, you can stay here during construction. you have the opportunity to stay. we want you to come back. that is what we will continue to do, to try to make that happen. we have three distinct goals for hope sf.

we thought that it was important to lay out goals from the beginning. we are going to evaluating the ourselves throughout the life of the initiative. to improve the existing conditions of the residents to create a thriving, sustainable neighborhood. and make sure that they receive the benefits of the public housing transformation and to make sure that we create the most sustainable affordable housing that we can. four of our five active sites are in the bay view. our fifth site is in the court. a couple of highlights to catch you up on some of the emerging things happening. we are excited to announce that out of our five active sites, we

have two substantially funded. we were honored just recently by the department of housing and urban development by a grant which was able to allow us to support the development in a way at a point where we can say we are substantially funded. it is a very good time for those two sites. we are continually committed to our service connection. we have a service connection team that is working with the residents' everyday to make sure they have everything they need. we are finding that effort. we will continue to fund that effort throughout the entire construction process. our goal is physical revitalization. it is also making sure that the

families are supported to stay in the development. with that, i will briefly talk about hunter's view. just so you all know, most of our work with malcolm x, it is adjacent to hunter's view, has been our most exciting work when it comes to education. on the physical side, i just wanted to make sure that you guys knew what was going on at hunter view. we will be starting at vertical construction at hunter's of the next week. they will come on line and they will be a blend of public housing and tax credits. 18 months from now, there will be new units at the site. we have started a great partnership with the school.

we are in a good place. knock on tax is one of our strongest partnerships. that is where it is starting with hope sf. >> i have two questions before i make the transfer. the goals about evaluating, i am curious if they are going to be evaluating the housing or city partners or if bay are also going to be evaluating the capacity built in the residence. >> the way the evaluation is laid out, it is laid out in the three goals. the most important is whether or not we have been able to better the conditions of the residence. we are doing a considerable amount of work with each of the departments to get the data to create a baseline for the residents that are on our site.

we have been able to tell the story about changing the outcomes of the residence. the evaluation team is creating a base line. we are evaluating ourselves, not only on the residents, how we are serving the residence. you have the evaluation on the jones family about where they started and how far they have been able to go. this is also a tax evaluation that will tell us how the service delivery to that family needs to change. it is a little bit of informing us and letting us know the impact we are having. >> can you also report on what the local hire numbers are? >> that is another one of our most exciting announcements. as i said, i am excited because

of hunter's view is finishing up with this phase. we have 34% of the work that has been completed by hunter's view residents. 60% has been completed by 90124 residents. 34% by hunter's view. 26% by the general san francisco population for a total of 67% of the work to date has been done by san francisco residents. >> 67% of all the work that has been done has been conducted by san francisco in stocks -- san franciscans? >> that is good numbers.

>> we have set a very high president for ourselves. we are actually doing work to prepare workers currently on the site for the vertical base to make sure that we can continue that work. if there is not work on the site that fits with the residents, we are working with fitting that what developments. we are capturing them as outcomes so we can tell the story, even if the resident is not hired on the site. absolutely. we are hoping we can continue the same trajectory. >> that is great. what are the main traits that have been actively part of the construction? >> it right now, we have security. we have laborers.

the department is doing a lot of work and a lot of the infrastructure work. it is a lot of hauling. we recently had the largest number of laborers on the site. >> for the residents of hunter's view that are involved in construction, what are the traits actually involved? >> most of them are laborers. we actually do have a couple of carpenters and plumbers actually it locating into the canfor structure phase. we have quite a few of the individuals that are in specialty training. we had a class of 10 where 3 of them are going to are

affordable housing projects elsewhere. a lot of them are doing a asbestos removal. we are working with the residents to increase some of the skill levels. we feel like a lot of the residents have the skill levels to go from the point where they are a labor to be trained on the trade. there is not distinct work in front of office. it is a blend. we are being very deliberate about this. as the work ends, we are looking at the site as an option and around the city as well. we want to place those who have been trained into more skilled abort and use some of the service connection dollars to do that training and get them where they need to be. if they are not, we are going to try to find them. >> the purpose of this hearing

as about the connection with the school district. i appreciate your responses. >> i will invite up the principle. >> good evening. this is a pleasure to hear about the wonderful partnership that we have had the honor of experiencing over the last three years. i am the principle of power complex academy. i will introduce some people that i brought with me that are very much involved with the goings on at the partnership's we have development. this is a fourth grade teacher. he is a fourth grade student. he is a fifth grade teacher.