is it the eighth street side? the side that has the playground. sixth. the side that has the playground. in the 1950's, somebody came in and poured concrete all over the bricks on the outside. that side got completely stabilized. but the other three sides did not. so we've taken down the bricks at the ends and we're going to pour big, massive concrete walls and then put the bricks, some of the bricks back and the center portion will look essentially the same. the goal for these really fine old buildings is when we're done, to have a brand new modern school on the inside and respect the tradition of the outside. it's kind of a commitment we made to the neighborhood. they don't want to sort of show up and find suddenly the building turned into something else. >> i appreciate that. commissioner wynns: i appreciate that. for the public if you -- you should go look at roosevelt and the brickwork is extraordinary

there which is why i was told they decided to make a big investment in that. it's a beautiful art deco kind of brick work. if you look, you'll see small metal, looks like rectangles, very expensive, even in those days, steel structure built on the inside with these rods coming out and things that hold the bricks on the facade and in the 1989 earthquake, that brick building, not one brick fell off, yet right along the area, there are houses like many in san francisco, stucco, one story above garage with brick facades around the garage and when you walked down the street you saw houses where the bricks all fell off. you know there was enough shaking that the bricks would have come off in the case of roosevelt, which is a brick build, would have probably fallen down.

so i appreciated that and love that building. it's an extraordinary building. i want to say that we're so lucky to have these buildings. they are, you know, some of it is really things that you just never think about. but almost every child in california goes to school in a building that has no hallways. there are just classrooms that open outside to the weather and i understand that we're lucky that the weather is mild and we can do that and build cheaper schools in this state because it doesn't snow here or there aren't hurricanes and things like that and we don't need air-conditioning, for the most part, at least we don't here, which we're lucky about that too but these buildings are an extraordinary resource and make the educational experience for the students profoundly different, i think better, because they go to school, you sewallenberg here and downtown, which are elementary schools,

built with big common spaces, auditoriums, gymnasiums, things that schools don't have today, and most of the schools in california are modern because the suburbs didn't exist when these schools were built. so the investment we're making and the wonderful work you and your staff have done are really something that we should all as a community treasure and luckily we do. i thank you for all this. >> vice president yee. vice president yee: on the one hand, we are lucky to have these buildings and on the other hand, prior to renovation, we're not so lucky because they're so old. i walked into most of these buildings prior to renovation and it didn't feel good. it was drab and you wondered, why are our kids going to these

schools when, whenever i see a movie or watch tv, which i want to do a little of, they show schools and what it could look like. this is what all the kids deserve. more recently when i've gone into some of the ones you've shown, cleveland, cobb, and so forth, it feels like those schools i see in movies and on tv where it's what the kids deserve. and these are the schools that we have worked on recently. unfortunately, we've had several bond measures to support this work and yet, you know, as happy as i am with what we've done, we

have almost 50 other buildings we have not touched and all our kids need to have the same feeling, as those kids that go to cobb and so forth. so hopefully, you know, i'm bordering on probably not -- probably shouldn't be saying anything but there's an opportunity for people in san francisco to sare about this stuff and maybe support it. >> thank you. other commissioners? commissioner murase: i want to congratulate your team for their work. i was a fifth and sixth grader at wallenberg when it was an

elementary school, i was shocked when i heard they were making it a high school. it's wonderful to see that now it's designed for the state of the nsgo there. i've seen the work at modernization at rosa parks, it's made a huge difference. the really nice way that the school was structured contributed to a good school community. i'm glad to hear those things have been taken into consideration for the chinese immersion school there. and just along with vice president yee, i think it is important that people know that there is a bond measure in november to fund the last group of schools. >> commissioner fewer? commissioner fewer: i want to say the schools are beautiful. i'm a fourth generation san

franciscoian and my parents went to schools in san francisco and one of them was stockton, which we just saw the other day, what a beautiful school, also that you redid there too. anyway, i want to say thanks, it's beautiful, great news, everything is on time and budget so thanks so much. >> commissioner maufas. commissioner maufas: i can pretty much speak just to the transfrmation of the middle schools into high schools. just like you saw for wallenberg that long, narrow corridor, it's really meant for smaller bodies and the work done there to widen the hallway, high schoolers, when that bell rings an they get to walk down without bumping into each other, it's great. the same thing for thurgood marshall, the difference in the hallways, they're wider, high school is still more

comfortable. this is made, this is my lane and i'm in here and i love that we recognize that and make these accommodations for older kids or different student bodies. i cannot, that's my experience, and i love, absolutely love that we care for the murals that are on our school buildings. they are beautiful characterizations of the neighborhoods that they are in. i'm so grateful that we are stewards of that artwork and take special care in maintaining it and preserving it for the generations of students and families that come to those schools. they're just beautiful. they're beautiful. whether it's a cloudy day or sunny day, it's gorgeous. i'm so glad you took the special care at cleveland. that definitely took, i'm sure, some negotiating and finessing

and again that just shows the love and attention that we here as well as your department and deputy superintendent lee, i want to commend you as well for really overseeing the work and superintendent garr see yo -- garcia, you too, monitoring the process and making sure that everything fits in the puzzle. it's a puzzle that has to get put together and a combination domino effect. that's the tall -- that's a talent. it's not just something you have automatically. it takes skill and talent and know-how. it's savvy and political will. you all have been able to do that. these schools reflect that effort. thank you so, so very much. we talk about it, not only here

in san francisco, i want you to know it is a pleasure to speak to staff in the schools and they're so pleased but also to people who come and visit san francisco and see our school sites because they are amazed. thank you. >> by the way in conclusion, i want to apoll jidse for the heat. i should have had my tool belt on and fixed that. >> we'll be talking to you about that later. i want to make a couple of comments. i missed fairmont, was fairmont good. the changes to the learning environment for our students is just tremendous and for our kids to walk into this beautiful, clean space, with a lot of lighting, and the whole idea that we're doing this to

standards and greening, i want to thank the communities because for our communs and homeowners and our businesses that surround our schools, what a big difference it is for them also to see this big, beautiful site that's now in their community, many times they overlook, they've everlooked the school, didn't even know they were there, if they did and weren't fixed up yet, they never wanted to see them system of now, what i'm hearing from businesses and just neighbors is what a great addition it is to have a newly remodeled school in your community. and then just our families and our students that take ownership of our sites, you know, it's been really wonderful to see the care that our kids and their families have taken on the sites and particularly around the investment we've had on the greening and on the gardens and

wanting to make these spaces, you know, not just a good, strong learning environment academically but also touching them in ways, when you're living in an urban environment, to bring gardens to our schools has been tremendous. and then lastly, this was really all about a.d.a. and safety and modernizing and technology and doing all of these things that all of our schools should have and so i just want to commend you for your amazing work. i know you have a fantastic bond team, also, that helped do this center, they're just remarkable and i always loved the story, david, once upon a time when we couldn't get people to come to our bidding sessions and now we can't -- we fill a room and people are really coming in and billing us some beautiful schools. so thank you for all your efforts in making that happen. i think it really speaks to the quality of san francisco unified

school district. so commissioner -- that's the wrong -- >> still not correct. >> superintendent. >> i want to emphasize one aspect i don't think has been brought up as much as it deserves to be which is that the financial management of the program has been stellar and for members of the public who may be interested in these aspects, every dollar of both the 2003 and 2006 projects is accounted for every month and very detailed reports, financial reported prepared by david's team and subject to both regular eversight by the citizens, bond oversight committee, that the board of education has appointed , which has done great work in

this regard, they have been very diligent over the years, 17 years they've been in place and met much more often than they're required to by state law, they have twice the number of members they're required to by state law thanks to the board and they received very good professional information from members of the bond team and the work is also subject to an annual audit and every year for seven years the audit has come in clean i wanted to emphasize that the money has been accounted for very carefully and is squeaky clean and if any member of the public wants to look at the reports themselves, they can go to www .sfusd.edu and look for themselves at all the financial reports. >> thank you for that, deputy superintendent lee. i wanted to say, we have a bond on the ballot in november, i

hope everybody will vote for it but you know, a number of years ago, the situation you just described was not as true then as it is now. and so there was a lot of media coverage of that and maybe we should, you know, generate some reports, pitch it to the media, the same people who were very concerned about printing a lot of things, not all of them true, by the way, but very legitimately concerned about the management of bond funds at one time, and it would be really a service to the public for them to know about the expenditure of public funds, maybe we could work on that and we're proud of the work we've done but i think it also, some ofous might help with this, it might behoove us to mention to the public the record, the financial record, as well as the construction, of our

bonds program compare to other programs, but we really stand out with all these projects not only being beautifully done but on time an on budget and that is not common. so congratulations. >> vice president yee. vice president yee: this is a true story, real quickly. we understand when you walk into the schools how much pride the kids and staff take with the new repaired schools and i was driving, one of them is glenn park, of course. two weekends ago on a sunday, i was driving by there and

somebody was sweeping the street outside the school, i said, who is doing that? and so i stopped the car and said, are you a neighbor? she said, no, i'm a teacher here. i want to make sure it's clean. i said, oh, my, it was so good to see that, this is like a great example of the pride that people take when something is worth taking pride for. >> thank you. i wanted -- bruce hart was in the audience, i want to acknowledge him also, looks like he stepped out. he's been really great. we want to wish bruce hart a happy birthday and bruce has been instrumental in helping to guide a lot of our work. so when he comes back in, we can sing happy birthday to him. superintendent garcia? superintendent garcia: i want to thank david and his crew,

fabulous work, incredible. most of you know, i was the superintendent in clark county, las vegas, i opened up 65 schools in five years. i know how to build schools. but i'll tell you, none of those schools have the character and really just the feeling of art, of, you know, great a tech the history, the legacy, that the schools that david and his crew have been working on. when you look at them, i just hope, you know, the voters, everybody, i get a chance to visit schools twice a week i go out and visit schools. i remember working here in the late 1980's and our schools didn't look anything like this. i think every citizen in san francisco, when you drive around and see the schools, that's something you genuinely should feel really, really proud about. that's great work, brings that legacy to the next century, it just, it stands up for the most important thing on the planet

with -- which really is our children and to invest in them, when i went to cobb, when i've been to all the school, cleveland, you ask the kids, what do you think about your school? the gleam out of their eye, the big old smiles, the excitement that -- wow, people really care about us. that's what this is about. it's great to be in a city where the voters really care about the children. and you show it by passing the bonds an doing these wonderful things and you know, we have a third to go but you know, you ain't seen nothing yet. it's been wonderful work an it always seems to get better. every year we do a project you look at it and think, that's fabulous. and the thing, the credit i have to give, i don't know how david can put a presentation like this together and figure out which schools he wanted to highlight because when you go to our high schools, you know, go to balboa, go to lincoln, go to washington, go to, you know, galileo, any of them and you sit there and go,

wow, these are world class, stunning, beautiful landmarks. they're not just schools, they're sacred temples almost for our beautiful city and i think they help enrich the city and so kudos to all the voters for standing up for children. >> thank you, superintendent. needless to say, we are very pleased. thank you for your hard work. >> item n. as in no more. consent calendar resolutions. removed for first reading by the superintendent at the last board meeting. we're going to continue that, is that correct? so we don't need to do anything on that. that is the item n, we're going to continue that. item o, vote on the consent calendar, moved and seconded

under section f. roll call, please. >> ms. zhang. ms. tom. miss wynns, ms. norton, ms. murase, mr. yee, ms. mendoza. >> yes except on items k 1, 12 and 19. >> item p, we have one item. >> on page 113, k-22. the reason i pulled this actually, i have already spoken to the folks submitting it but the reason i pulled this was because i wanted to just discuss, not discuss but highlight, i think, the need for our parent engagement department

to actually review and at least review the curriculum that is being presented to our students, our parents to make sure it is aligned with our overall parent engagement plan and aligned to the goals of our strategic plan. i would hope we would have evaluations for training such as this that we would hold our own selves accountable to which is really the impact and are we moving our parents from a dependency model to an empowerment model. also hopefully once we have the capacity ourselves as a district to do these type of workshops ourselves we will have our folks doing it also. to make sure that everything is aligned to our strategic plan and also to our overall district goals around parent engagement an our beliefs. i wanted to mention that, i'm ready to approve it, i understand we don't have the

capacity to do it now but we do have the capacity to do our director of parent engagement review the curriculum that will be taught to parents. >> commissioner maufas. commissioner maufas: i mentioned yerler -- earlier to the parent advisory council i was hoping that they would marry their desire to do stronger parent engagement with their department of parent engagement but i also, now that i'm looking at this really and hearing the commissioner's comments and i see you're nodding with ms. desmond also, i cannot tell you how much i also agree and really would like to see us going so much from a dependent model to us really doing and building this work ourselves and having us be the experts in this area, bringing in someone who needs information from us on how we

work with our families so that means we've got to, in my mind, use those funds to build up what we have here. within our own district. that's what i wanted to add. >> thank you. any other comments? roll call. >> ms. zhang. ms. tom. mmaufas. item r is the board members proposal for first reading. there are no one tonight. item s are the board members reports. we have one from the augmented curriculum and augmented rules and i'd like toad reports from the joint city college and the joint city school district.

so they can't talk about the reports even though they're not posted? we've always been able to talk about other stuff on where we are and what we've done and places we've been and under this category. >> it's informational. president mendoza: it's informational. >> you generally can make announcements without having to agendize the item under the brown act, but if it's a report from one of your standing committees under the brown act, it would require that we post that report, as well, but you are free to make an announcement if the committee has an announcement rather than a report from its committee meeting. president mendoza: if the committee leaders have an announcement they'd like to make about their committee meeting, you're welcome to do that at this time. let's start with commissioner norton? commissioner norton: the curriculum and program committee met on september 19.

we had two informational items. we heard a really interesting presentation put together by janet schultz, so thank you for that, on the various aspects of our summer school, how students did in our summer school, some things lincoln did last year. they married funding and built a program for all this students that was innovative. we heard from the special ed department about extended school year and some of their planning. we also heard a report on the planning for transitional kindergarten and ms. plack raised concerns about the various options that were presented to us and i think the committee shared those concerns and requested that the full board take a look at this sooner rather than later so i understand it's on the october 11 agenda. is that correct? that we're supposed to hear a report from staff, the full board, about what our options

are and give direction. president mendoza: we'll make sure -- can you make sure it's part of agenda review next week? thank you. >> so the next meeting of the curriculum meeting is coming up soon, next monday, october 3, at 530. we are going to begin the conversation on honors and gate and middle school and there will be a presentation on that and i know members of the public are interested in this as part of the quality middle schools so i want to make sure people are aware of that. we're also going to hear about the district's new math initiatives, the grant that we got. there was a big article on the front page of the "crennicle" yesterday about that so we'll hear more about that and we also will have a guest presentation from a community member, john templeton, on african-american success in math and science so hopefully we'll see everybody on the 3rd. president mendoza: thank you.

commissioner murase on the rules? commissioner murase: the rules committee met monday september 19 with three informational items. the first was a review of the policy for admitting non-san francisco residents to alice school of the arts. this was a question that came up from one of the previous board members on the policy on interdistrict transfers and i wanted to share two pieces of data. there was discussion around two pieces of data. first is the original admission policy approved by the board of education on october 23, 2001. and there are two provisions from that policy. one is that 10% of the slots for incoming freshmen would be reserved for students who demonstrate extraordinary potential as opposed to refined skill. and also the policy delineates that the school will limit non-san francisco enrollment to 10% with exceptions permitted based on low enrollment or requirements of certain

departments. and the data we saw had non-san francisco enrollment as high as 16%, and so the committee has asked for additional information, including a discussion with the administration about the enrollment policy. secondly, we discussed the board of education policy revisions, we're trying to put online all of the breast cancer -- board of education policies and the committee will be taking a careful look at recommendations of what to put on the web in alignment with recommendations of the school board association and finally update on advocacy request for proposal. our next meeting will be on october 17 where we'll take up october 17 where we'll take up the enrollment policy issue and