they are at many sites, and this person is an expert on what date collin destructive demolition, were you actually go drill alcohol region -- drill a hole and say there is more work. there is a process that is supposed to be followed commo, f which is to say we did it correctly. >> if you could think about this process a little bit more and the way we get the information. the reason we have 15 contracts is it goes that is what we do, and i do appreciate that.

the page before talks about the certification, and i know that is trustworthy, but we can have more information if we knew what they are doing and why there is a reason to be 15 contracts. >> thank you. can we vote on 15 please bowma? [calling votes] >> thank you. good night. good iteitem s is a board membe. city and school districts select committee. >> i believe i was the only commissioner in attendance. >> i want to make an objection

to the report we got, because this was not a meeting, and i do not think it should have taken place. i do not think they can say, let's sit down and talk and issue a report. >> this is the city it school. waxman and now commissioner wayne is a practice -- >> commissioner wynns is correct. you need a form. >> are you speaking of the city college school district? we had a quorum of the body but not the sandford cisco unified board -- of san francisco unified board. we heard a presentation, which

is lovely, and i appreciated there was a student and teacher and principal, and it was a nice presentation, so that is my report. >> should we have the presentation done to the full board of some point? >> i think it would be worthwhile. it is about all the efforts being made in some of those neighborhoods, and there are some wonderful improvements being made. >> maybe we can check and see if there is a milestone point where they can come and present to one of our board meetings. commissioner fewer on budget?

>> it was a lovely meeting except that we have our report on the budget but was not about lovely, and i blame the deputy superintendent on fivethat. we did have an interesting reports. gjust to give you an overview that the educational placement center where it is funded, so approximately their budget is $224,000, and i am hoping the board receives this power awpoi.

if not we can give every board member a copy. thank you very much. >> a report from the ad hoc meeting. city college? >> it is from commissioner yee, and he is not here. >> there would have been a quorum of the body. were there four people there? >> i was not. >> there were only three people there. >> we will have that when we get back. he already did this, so he is

providing us with copies on this, and commissioner norton on curriculum. he brought with him and seven people. there was a lot of discussion about african-american students and lack of participation and lack of achievement in math and science thos, and we were interd in some of the ideas they brought us.

they were identifying african- american achievements, really pointing out what they have achieved in these areas, and we asked staff to bring up these ideas. goowe got a lot of data, and it seems obvious from the data we are given that we have a lot of students identified as gay in this district, and as we've

probably are not surprised, there is a difference among races. there are more white students being identified times -- identified as gifted. also, how are we identifying high achievers? it still is clearly a sorting mechanism in a lot of our schools, so this is a discussion we need to return to. i think we will bring it back to curriculum. we asked a lot of questions of staff, and i davis is a

discussion -- i think this is a discussion. we are very concerned. some parents want their students to have access to an honors track. what is the promise we are going to make too high achievers? what does this take away from other students? and i do not think we have all the answers. it was an interesting discussion, and we will continue to talk about that. >> i wanted everyone to know that the matrix of programs available in middle schools and we saw when we saw the proposal and discussion and everyone was enthusiastic about out, has now been done, and all the parents

were really excited about that, so we asked information people to make sure that was widely disseminated and put on the website. >> there was, and i think that is a lesson to us that parents really want to know what their choices are pure good the last item is a discussion of our work around math and core curriculum and aligning vat with standards, and one thing i thought was interesting is that many of them are constructed answers, so we are not preparing students for multiple choice as much as encouraging them to solve problems and think creatively, so this sounds very

exciting. it sounds like it is going to allow us to build on the body of knowledge as kids get progress through the gravesdes and are nt going to be as discreet about focusing on subjects and focusing on math as building blocks. the committee will meet again on november 7. we will hear a report on our progress. we will also be hearing about the early warning system, which is some data we are pinpointing students who are at risk academically as they enter high school so we know in eighth grade who the students are, and we know the students who may encounter problems, so we will

hear a report on that. >> let's hear all of the committee's first, and i will give you a chance to do your updates. we will work to figure out with some holidays. we do not have an ad hoc on committee assignments. commissioner wynns: the committee has not met. the next meeting is on the 19th, which is not our normal meeting. yesterday would have been our normal meeting, but it was on holiday. >> do we have a committee meeting on labor relations? >> no meeting in october. i will check with our legal partners to see if they would like to for november.

good >> you have an update on your trip? commissioner maufas: i will speak more at the next board meeting, because i have materials to present. i was at the annual conference, urban schools council, but it was specifically our legislative -- i do not know what it was, and a fascinating component of that is going to new orleans, everything particularly with regards to education is talked about in of pre-katrina, a post- katrina construct, and that was so incredibly intriguing and how they are dealing weswhich is res

on what they believe of the residents that are still there, how to educate them to again live in new orleans, but i will speak at that at the next meeting. president mendoza: thank you. commissioner wynns? commissioner wynns: this past weekend, i was at the unity conference, of the latino school board members association and the coalition of black school board members. a lot of people -- they asked me about that, and i have a lot of interesting material. then i just wanted to say this, because i just got this. san francisco has been named number one in "barron's" magazine as the 10 healthiest cities for families -- in " parents" magazine.

the city by the bay rose to the top of our list in part because of its gutsy move to bring healthier foods to schools. san francisco booted soda and high-calorie, empty food five years before the state did and was one of the first places in the country to push for school gardens. california's with whole grain breads debuted in 2007. now, at least have have them. skipping, it says san francisco also goes the extra mile to keep kids active, with playgrounds, recreation centers, and 60 soccer fields, and there are miles of car free roads during designated times so families can get without traffic worries. there is more, but congratulations. president mendoza: congratulations. commissioner fewer? commissioner fewer: i wanted to

say that i could not be at the conference because i was judging a contest, and i saw many of our principles there. and then i attended the 11th annual conference, and i went to many workshops, and i met many people. they had 1600 acree registered attendees, and i am sure there were many more there, like people like myself who just happened to to stop in and did not free register, but it was overwhelmingly a success. they fed everybody lunch. it was completely free. they had over 20 workshops, and every session, it was excellent, and i look forward it to their 12th annual. and i just want to give a shout out to mission high school and the principal there for welcoming the conference back to

their school, and it is a fabulous location to have been in. i think next year, they might outgrow that location, quite frankly, just because of the amount of people that game, and i also like to mention that they are not only educating our teacher or our staff or people interested in education and san francisco but those in sacramento and davis, coming very far to attend this. commissioner: commissioner fewer, many come from across the country to that conference, and they have an amazing history of attracting educators on the cutting edge of what is in education, and i just want to hear more about what happened, and i will talk to you. congratulations. president mendoza: superintendents?

superintendent: we are hosting an event that is actually sold out. we have about 670 people registered for it, and we were planning for less than 500, but the organization is, you know, tenfold in a very, very short time period. it should be great. we have people from all over the country here. they are working with ell students, everywhere in the country. it should be very exciting and very worthwhile. president mendoza: thank you, i want to thank warren again for the bluegrass festival, which was fabulous, and he again retreated our middle schoolers with respect and brought out lots of fun people, including m.c. hammer, and i also want to thank the marshall middle

school -- the middle school, and we have a lot of folks come out, and we have a lot of folks participate on walk to school day. it was an exciting. and the other announcements? item t is a report of a closed session action, with by a vote of 6 ayes, the approve the expulsion of six students. they also approve the stipulated expulsion agreements for three high school students. item u is one informational item. may i announced in first? i would get to you when i am done. ok, item u are in for mensural items -- are informational

items. one is the acceptance of gifts for the month of july and august. we had one speaker, but she has left. commissioner norton? commissioner norton: there are a number of special ed para's that have been added, so why that was. president mendoza: great. this meeting is adjourned.

>> san francisco is home to a renowned civic art collection that includes a comic works -- iconic works by local and national artists integrated into our public buildings and six basis. the arts commission has struggled to take care of the priceless collection because of limited resources. in an effort to gather more funding for the maintenance of the collection, the art commission has joined forces with the san francisco art dealers association to establish

art care, a new initiative that provides a way for the public to get involved. the director of public affairs recently met with the founder and liquor -- local gallery owner to check out the first art care project. ♪ >> many san franciscans are not aware that there is a civic art collection of numbers almost 4000 works of art. preserving the collection and maintaining it is something being addressed by a new program called art care. it is a way for citizens to participate in the preservation of the civic art collection. with me is the creator of the

art care program. welcome. the reason we wanted to interview you is that the artist in question is peter volkas. why is he so important to the history of san francisco art? >> he is a very famous ceramic ist. knowing the limitations of clay, he got involved in bronze in around 1962. he was teaching at the university of california, berkeley. >> your gallery celebrated the 50th anniversary of continuous operation. you are a pioneer in introducing the work and representing him. >> i have represented him since 1966. i was not in business until 1961.

he made a big deal out of working in clay. the things he was doing was something never seen before. >> it is a large scale bronze. it has been sitting here of the hall of justice since 1971. talk about what happens to the work of art out of the elements. >> the arts commission commissioned the piece. they did not set aside money for repair. it has slowly changed color. it was black. it has been restored. >> it has been restored to the original patina. >> there was no damage done to its.

i do not think there were any holes made in it. they have been working on it for six or eight weeks. it is practically ready to go. i am very excited to see it done. >> over the course of the arts in richmond program, we have added almost 800 works of art into the public space. maintaining that is not something that the bond funds allow us to do. this is why you came up with the idea of art care. >> i hope we get the community going and get people who really like to be involved. we will give them a chance to be involved. if you are interested in art, this is a marvelous way to get involved. there is work all over the city where every year ago. -- there is artwork all over the

city wherever you go. my idea was to get people in the neighborhood to take care of the pieces and let the art commission have the money for the bigger pieces. >> i was talking to the former president of the arts commission yesterday. the 2% ordnance is something he helped to champion. >> it is all over california and other states now. we really were the forerunners. it is a wonderful thing to bring the community into this now. people have seen art being put into the community. this has not been touched by any graffiti. 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