it just faded over time. it is so open here. there is nobody watching this. i think that is a plus to the community. i hope the graffiti people do not go out there now that i am opening of my mouth. >> i want to thank you for the 50 years you have already given to the city as an arts leader. >> i started in to briberon, i's only been 45. >> you have championed his work over these years. >> it has been exciting working with him. it is one of the highlights of my life. >> thank you for being part of "culture wire" today. >> to learn more about the program and the list of public arts in need of maintenance,

visit the website. thank you for >> 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. he had a wonderful opportunity to work with the architects and do some work. i am trying to see what i need to say that would give you some understanding of what we do at malcolm x and the importance of this partnership. with the students that we serve and the families that we serve, there are lots of changes happening in the community. instead of having a disconnect with the change, being a part of that change. we can see ourselves in the growth and the change taking place.

the architects, and at the end of the spring. they spend the da-- a day a week working on this. if you are going to spend time here. what do you want to happen? one thing that was shared at one of the last meetings was that the students are seeing part of the change. i have had parents come up to me and say, i have got a job. it is so nice to know it is not something from the outside coming in and taking over. it is all of us doing it together. with that, i am not born to talk anymore. i will ask them to explain the

benefits that day reaped. >> the benefits i have reaped from this wonderful partnership is to be able to take california academic content standards and to be able to apply them to a project that affects our lives. i worked with the architects and the groups and i put forth standards that i need to cover. this past year, i worked with world presentation ratios. area, perimeter, all of those things are woven into the project. it allows students to see this discreet thing that we are trying to teach them. it shows them that it is not

discreet. it is part of your world. it is part of your community. under -- another wonderful thing that has happened is that has forced me to look into the community and forge relationships for our students. this is a relationship that i am continuing to develop for our students. it is a resource that is close to us. it showcases some of the sustainability features that students are thinking about in terms of water conservation. it is wonderful for my students for six weeks to get to work with my architect. it is one thing to have job day when people come in and give

their spiel. it is different when it minority architects come into the classroom and forge relationships with my students and show them the possibilities of what is out there and the choices that they can make. tell us some of the exciting things that you learn. >> one of the exciting things i've learned doing architecture is how good it can be explored and what you can make in in- house. you can have a green roof. a rain chain is where you save and collect water you can use for washing your clothes or

washing the dishes i guess. while we were making our projects, say we made this whole building two inches tall. and then it is two feet. that is our model. one ouf our models, when you go on your model, say it is two feet, you go on there. i made a bike thing that you use as a bike. you can get energy as electricity. >> he had a very important question that he asked the audience that came to see our presentation. some of the features that we were designing, solar panels, do

you remember what you ask them? why do we not see these features in our homes? why am i not seeing these features in the buildings around me? it was a really powerful thing. >> why are we not seeing it? will we see it? that is an integral part of it. when i go past park, am i going to see that? are we going to see these ideas that we are talking about? i would love to see that. we create these things and then it goes away.

>> what was the answer? when they raise the question, did they get an answer? >> they said, that is a good question. >> having those types of discussions with children. they have to make sense of it. they have to know that this is not just a one shot deal. it is tied into our academic achievement. we are going for 900. before i retire, we needed to be 1000. it is taking life and talking about it and creating change and using the skills we have gotten along the way as far as academic

standards for being able to make oral presentations. it is not just creating, but sustaining change. we are the change engine. it does not happen to us, it happens because of us. >> i am going to flip through the slides that show some of the pictures that the children made at malcolm x. i am the director of the executive policies for the school district. i have been working with small compacts and on the city's services committee. >> i just wanted to say thank you for the presentation. to show how it is integrated into the school site and the great energy that you are

exhibiting. thank you. >> i will quickly flipped through some of those slides. some of the older students that participated in summer programs came and share their talents. that is their field trip. that is some of the work that the architects provided inspiration to the students. this is some other models that they built. you can see this. when they presented to the group, the presentations. as we walked around and they gave us individual presentations that they have done and gave some scale models. moving on from that, when we look forward, we know that there are a lot of