commission made it -- in 2010, for example, 75% of students who had a gpa of 2.0, 75% of them received a d or f. when you look again into that in 2011, and it dropped to 46%. in other words, the students who still had the indicators, the red flags for the low gpa and the spotty attendance rate got a much better grades of the following year because mission had put the supports in place. >> other comments?

any other announcements? commissioner murase: 3 announcements. on october 27, the district attorney's office collaborated on a town hall at marina middle school. unfortunately it was not well attended but i urge parents to take a look at the common sense and media website. it has a lot of great information for families about cyber bling -- bullying and social media. just a shout out to be imagine bus project. they held a fund-raiser on november 3. they do work with the students, the juvenile justice center, malcolm x, bringing art to those classrooms. we appreciate their efforts in supporting our students.

finally, this friday the friends of the mission campus are having a celebration with sylvia mendez. there will be a reception at that campus of city college from 5:30 to 7:30. i did not know this history about mendez being a six year old in an orange county public school who was denied admission before the brown vs. board of education decision. has the sense left a legacy of desegregation throughout the country. there was a resolution that mary hernandez, when she was serving on this board, get together on the anniversary of the court victory.

commissioner fewer: i also wanted to let the public know that tomorrow night, aim high summer program will be celebrating 25 years. we wish them much success. thank you for partnering with us. also, i had the pleasure to go to el dorado school and is sought children making day of the dead alters about the memory of their very close family members. and had the pleasure of going into room 9 and enjoyed a great day.

>> i have a couple of things. this last week i attended the equity summit. crosshead. -- go ahead. >> i am hoping to lead a campaign in san francisco with a nonprofit organization. it is trite to bring peace to the congo and we are urging " vote to appoint a special envoy to the congo before the next election -- pogresident obama to appoint a special envoy to the condo before the next election. the picture would be e-mailed to you. on human rights day, december 10, there will be a common wall

in san francisco. i can tell you guys that if you want to know. you put out your picture and you put your face is side-by-side. december 10 at 6:00 p.m. >> i attended the equity summit in detroit, michigan. it was interesting. it was focused on poverty and community development. we have been trying to add the element of education in to those conversations. i want to congratulate the bay area fine -- science festival. it was fantastic and putting that together. they had their final -- 20,000 kids and their families at at&t park. i wanted to congratulate you speakers who celebrated their

anniversary. a partner with us as well. and richard, one of our teachers. he has the coral collaborative project which is our public schools and private schools, they have a chorus. they were invited to sing at the tree lighting ceremony in washington, d.c. they will be going to d.c. next month. we are fundraising for them. any other? commissioner yee: i wanted to congratulate all of the schools and communities that participated in the student enrollment fair. it was attended by thousands of people. it was packed. >> that was a terrific event.

i know that all of the teachers and parents came out on a saturday. i also wanted to point out there was a packet put together for you. thank you for making this effort to ensure that our families and know that john o'connell is one of our high schools. and the great things that going on over there. he has distributed quite a few disks to the eighth grade families. we have teachers they have redesigned call the o.c., which are really cute. thank you for all of the efforts you're putting in to promote it john o'connell. we are also going to have a ceremony, a brooding cutting for

the new facility -- ribbon cutting for the new facility. they will be training and apprentice ship programs. thank you for that. any other comments? >> thank you for these teachers. i want to mention that our student delegates would love one. could i get a small ind? [laughter] >> if there are no other reports, item t is a closed session action. do you want me to do november 1 quarter to want to recess tx should we recessed?

we have some -- we have one more agenda item on our closed session. we're going to recess and the board meeting now. we're going to finish are closed session and we will come back to report on our items and then adjourn the meeting. at this time i would like to recess this board meeting temporarily. we will be back and probably 20 mi

>> good afternoon but i am kathy davis, executive director of bayview hunters point senior

services. we run an adult health care center for 26 years. and like all of you out there, we want to continue to run our adult health care centers in san francisco, right? that is why we are here today. we're here to tell the governor to stop the elimination of adult day health care, right? ok. all right, now. we're very, very fortunate in san francisco, because we have an amazing director of our department on aging and adult services, as well as a wonderful neighbor who cares about seniors. i want to introduce to you the person who has really been working hard on your behalf, who is the director of the department of aging and adult

services. she is the director of adult services, and i really want to thank her. when you have an issue of problem and you run a program, you can go to ann hinton, and she will get the job done. she is here to introduce the mayor for you. they have been working on this issue. the have seen with the problem is. even though san francisco did not start the problem, san francisco is going to help resolve the problem. so here is ann hinton. [cheers and applause] >> you know, it is hard to remember, but on the other hand, fairly easy to remember. the sadness in my heart and the despair i felt in july when i

heard that the bill was vetoed by the governor and that come december 1, 55,000 californians would lose an adult day health care. i have been working and have had the opportunity to work with older adults for over four -- 40 years in that time, certainly and the beginning, there were not options for folks other than nursing homes. i remember watching grandparents go into nursing homes because there was nothing else for them. i remember being in a nursing home and listening to an older stoic farmer who cried every day because all he wanted was to go back to the farm because there was nobody there during the day because his family was in the field, so he had to stay at the nursing home. i remember working with two women who became very close friends here in san francisco who had, after 10 years in nursing home, the well-being to go home, but the have lost their home when the time that they had been there. so there they were.

in 40 years, we have seen a lot of other things happen. we have seen the introduction of pace, the social day, social work services and case management. we saw the introduction of home care. most importantly and why we were here today as we saw the introduction of adult day health centers. at that moment, we saw the beginning and the bringing together of what people wanted, but -- what older adults wanted, and the health care folks are realizing that you could actually get good health outcomes of people stayed at home but came to an adult day health centers during the day. but our work really was not done then. we were focusing on keeping people at home, and we suddenly realized, with help from the folks from the disabled world, that there were a lot of folks that institutional care who really could live at home. we just needed to apply the same services to them as we were directed people who were at

home. especially in san francisco, we have spent the last eight years bringing people out of laguna honda hospital, younger adults and older adults alike, and helping them to live in the community and be successful there. [applause] yes, i agree. i agree. [applause] yes, we should rejoice in our accomplishments. so when we began to see the dismantling of services for older adults and younger adults with disabilities a few years ago, it began with the disk drive -- the languages program, and we started seen the attacks on ihss, on workers, and consumers using the program. all of that culminated than in july, with the retelling of the cafe program and the recognition that, again, 55,000 people around california, 1200 people

in san francisco, with loose adult day health come december 1. but, you know, san francisco is a city filled with people that are very, very hopeful. look at the ground today. it is a hopeful crowd, am i right? [cheers and applause] i will tell you that today i have a joyous heart, and i am very grateful to the mayor of san francisco. and i really want you to join me and welcome him for his announcements to you, mayor ed lee. [cheers and applause] >> hello. hello, hello. some weeks ago, when ann and kathy and annie and others approached our office about this impending doom that the

state was imposing on us, we were reminded of what we did in our budget, working closely with the board of supervisors. i want to thank these relationship that the mayor has with the board. i see supervisor avalos is here. thank you, supervisor of a los, for being here. [cheers and applause] i.t. supervisor mar here. thank you. i know supervisor kim is registered and has her staff here, but she does not feel well. but they give farmers than for being here today. i think there may be other supervisors who want to join with you to tell sacramento, stopped making bad decisions. [cheers and applause] you know, this decision that they made to eliminate adult day care not only eliminates in

valuable services to a vulnerable population of our city, but it puts added pressure on working families. parents, sons, and daughters who are trying to get to work and need the center is open for the people that they care about. so they can have an income to afford the things that they need to do to support their senior families. that is why this decision is so negative, so bad. and we have to tell them to make better decisions. will you do that with me? [cheers and applause] well, i know that the board of supervisors and the mayor's office put some special money in reserve in the past budget. we balanced it, but we knew this bad decision was coming. so we made a reserve, and next week, as your mayor, i will ask

the board to release some thatr 1, our adult day care centers can survive and not be eliminated. [cheers and applause] but i am going to ask you, going to ask all of you here today, please work together with us as one city. we need to work together. we need to work together with the board of supervisors. we need to work together with our senators, the state senators, the state assembly people, and the governor's office, because we needed them to change the way they make those decisions. they cannot be hurting the city's where all of our elderly live on very limited income. we cannot stand for that. we have to change the way they make those decisions. [cheers and applause] that is why, with the support of

the board, we put on propositions for the voters this year. i want to remind you, that is why i worked really hard with the board, to make sure we had proposition g, so we could have a little bit of our sales tax come back, so that we can have a more secure public safety and some social services that work. i need all of you to work together with us to make sure that we do even better than just a stop-gap measure could because this will not go away. if we do not stop them from making bad decisions, they will continue to make -- make more decisions for this city and we will not have the resources to deal with that. hopefully you will work with all of us and the board and the mayor together. will you do that? [cheers and applause] all right, let's stop bad decisions. let's make better ones. thank you very much. [cheers and applause]

[crowd chanting] >> ok. now the mayor has to leave. but did you hear what he just said? did you all hear that? how are we grateful that we have the mayor we have in san francisco? [cheers and applause] ok. and we had the network of services that we have in this town. we're very grateful for that. let's give the mayor one more big cheer and thank him. [cheers and applause] for coming up with a solution. he did not just come up with one solution. we have a present for the mayor. ok. but we have a lot more to thank him for.

because he did not just come up with one solution. he came up with something else to keep it going lager. did you hear what that was? what was it? his proposition g. g is good for seniors. remember proposition g, because that is going to bring more money into the city. we have to defend ourselves against these cuts from the state. the mayor give you two good things today that we need to make sure we work on. ok? we also have a very progressive and active board of supervisors who are working with the mayor to save this program, and we have with us supervisor eric mar, who got the podium and the set up for us today. he is a man of the people, and we appreciate you. >> thank you, everyone. are we an aging-for in the city

in san francisco? yes. thank you for standing strong to defend our program. the 11th adult day day care centers in the city, we have to defend it and make sure that on december 1, we have all the programs in place and that we not think about cuts, but that we're strengthening these programs so that everyone can live in dignity as they grow older in the city of san francisco. i wanted that i applaud the senior organizations for standing strong and organizing themselves to make sure that we have better funding streams from the city. not just looking at budget announced that have been satisfied by the mayor and others, but that we have strong money strains so that as the aging population doubles, so that in 20 to 30 years when they become senior boomers, we can show that everybody can aged with dignity in its san francisco and that we're an aging-friendly city. i am look forward to working

with the other supervisors. thank you so much. >> thank you. [applause] so we have some other members on the board of supervisors. we're going to let them come up and address you, because they have some work to do next week. did you hear the mayor say there is some work for them to do? they're going to talk about it. our next supervisor is supervisor john avalos, another man of the people who cares about you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. how're you all doing? buenos dias. it is very simple. you work for us. you pave the way for us. and now we need to pave the way for you. [cheers and applause] your contributions to our lives

are so great, and we need to recognize that. that we provide a city that supports you a round the clock if you are in retirement or you are aging. [applause] and adult day health care is part of what we need to provide as a city. so i am proud to stand here with my colleague, president david chiu, eric mar, and you're going to have all the other supervisors as well supported adult day health care. i want to thank the mayor for his work on this as well. it is something we had to do together to protect seniors and make sure we have our families behind them as well. thank you very much. [applause] >> all right. now we have the president of the board of supervisors coming up to talk to you. our very own david chiu.

he does a fabulous job, and he is going to talk to you about saving adult day health care. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for representing the beautiful mosaic that is san francisco. i want to tell you that along with my colleagues at the board of supervisors, along with the mayor, san francisco is coming together on this issue. we have to make sure that something that happened that was very special in the 1970's, when california stood up and said we want to look to the future, we respect and value every one in our community, when we created these centers. we wanted to make sure that we were respecting our seniors and what you have done to raise us, what you have done to build our communities, what you have done it to take care of this generation's that came out behind you.

we have to remember that california is not going to forget all of you. [cheers and applause] and i have to say, we like to do things differently in san francisco, but sacramento has to change. and when we come together with one voice, talking with 10 of voices, talking with thousands of voices, governor jerry brown -- can you hear us? can you hear us? we have these incredible adult day health centers in every community in our city, reflecting every part of diverse san francisco. and i want to let you know that your elected officials are standing with you. we're standing behind you. we're going to go to san francisco -- sacramento and make