there's no new costs vs. it will be up to muni and the manufacturer b will do whatever the sprefgss are. i hope as this is successful i think it will be we'll consider that and we'll have r v where we'll run 3 car trains in the subway speaker i want to mention there's a reference for disability access. i think because there are 0 seats for disabilities and citizens are challenging if i don't get a seat it's such a narrow way to get through if you have any kind of equipment with you are you're not particle mobile it's challenging and the more you open up the r vs you have alters more space that's better for citizens and people

with disabilities. i want to thank mr. haley i know that when supervisor breed and i suggested this the agency was not sold and i thank you for giving it thought in moving it forward >> i know that voice chair hale i didn't has talked about the access and hopefully, this allows a pilot project. so when supervisor wiener and others went to mexico city at any time clear you get on and off a lot call your next witnesser so that would be helpful as well. thank you very much i like our

honesty about not knowing your answer to the question and your flowery words you called it the perpetuate team >> very quickly i know you've got to take public comment but we're only talking about one train and i was wondering can he do more than one train for a pilot? >> if you accounted repeat question. >> so we were talking about potentially connecticut doing one train for point pilot and i think potentially we get a lot better data if we account do more than one train could we do are more than one train. >> we're trying to balance the car count and because i want, you know, we're at 1 fourteen i clearly don't want to reduce the schedule and i want to get the 3

car trains and put away a unsettle into the schedule. so i suggested the timing two rec that are come back. so if we could do the design make up to make sure we can make changes safely and then agree on, you know, some of the evaluation criteria harassing as to how we'll see how this works certainly the ridership but if there's some other benefits cheaper maintenance or whatever we'll put that in as well. so i guess to answer your question those two are come back together. you know, there's not in our system it's not practical right now for a variety of reasons we couldn't say this car is going to be on one line and the other

>> so the answer is no. >> yeah. we can designate them but the answer to our question yeah, i'll certainly look at your question and the interest >> thank you so much mr. haley and gentleman we have to move the meeting along. colleagues that is an informational item and i hope there will be a review sometime. now anyone from the public that wishes to speak? >> okay we've already had public comment and it's closed. ms. chang >> the major project update. so we're going to continue this

informational item to the next meeting and we'll open this up to the public. anyone from the public wish to speak. sorry for the wait on this one >> and i apologize for taking our time. what i want to do briefly is to attract our attention to the last item in the packet. this doesn't have any resemblance. we had 6 hundred and 8 million but there is $400 million disappearing i don't see the 4 hundred million. the 3 things are on the land

files we're down to 18 million and there's a 1 and $5 million that have disappeared and we have $377 million in tiffier we're down to 1 hundred and 34. money has disappeared i presented a different alignment. we've designed the tunnel to trans bay. we initialing assumed this to be a $600 million envelope. that tunnel can be done we have the tunnel dynamics we have the alignment fixed. and we've also loud for a potential future mission bay

station if the city wishes to go that way. if the board so desires i'll sit down with you >> monthly on the public wishes to peculiar seeing none, public comment is closed. >> informational item. >> anyone from the public wishdz to speckle. item 12 public comment >> anyone from the pun wishes to speak. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> any other item on the agenda. >> no adjournment. >> we're

i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive.

volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time

to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will

think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land

that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full.

it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of

view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take to make them happy, to get them there, that's the main goal. if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in san francisco. we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park, the me

everybody can take their seats.

>> good evening. i would like to call to order this special meeting of the san francisco unified board of education for tuesday september 17, 2013. >> miss casco would you please take the roll. >> miss fewer, haney, mr. mendoza, murase, wynns. >> i would like to call upon our superintendent mr. carranza to set the stage for us. >> thank you, i would like to welcome everybody to this special meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district. i can't help but being giddy

tonight. i'm so excited about our agenda this evening. not that i'm not excited about every board meeting agenda, but i'm particularly excited about this evening's agenda. many folks who are watching and the public, this is a long time that has been coming and building momentum and at this time we have the opportunity of san franciscans and specifically as san francisco unified school district members to lead in nutrition addition. i want to share if you were to right now use a search engine and search the westbound for some of the destination cities for food, for food easy, san francisco would pop to the top of the list in pretty much every search engine. the question that is begged is if

san francisco is a destination food city, why shouldn't san francisco's public schools be a destination food district? >> there is irrefutable evidence that links student achievement and healthy foochld you can't have a healthy mind without a healthy body. what you are going to hear tonight is going to be some new ideas and not so new ideas. you are going to hear some ideas that have been discussed in the past from our members of our committees, our community, you are also going to hear some new voices that are added to the mix. i think one of the most exciting aspects of this process has been the authenticity to which our students, community, food service workers, our parents have all engaged in this conversation to build a vision around what nutrition should

like like around san francisco public schools. a vision is always a vision. it's where the rubber meets the sky. tonight's conversation is going to start to bring that conversation to where the rubber meets the road. while i'm going to give us a note of caution, where we could spend considerable time picking apart the vision as to how are we going to pay for that, how are we going to get around that regulation, this rule doesn't permit this or that, i'm going to ask you to goes with the process tonight. i'm going to ask us to go and respect the work that countless of students, adults and community has done to define our nutrition in our school system. i will tell you what is exciting about that. it's that very rare in this school district that we have a vision

and start taking care of things. we need to take care of that regulation, we need to take care of that cost structure and this and that associated with the vision. what's important is that we have a vision that we can all get behind and then we can start work to making that vision a reality. quintessentially the rubber meeting the road. i'm very excited for this board. i don't want to steal the thunder because she's going to introduce many of our partners who have been very instrumental in this support. i would like to express my -- sincere thanks to evans williams.

instead of starting with the what, starting with the why? why are we doing this? what's important for us? to get to a place where we imagined without boundaries is what evan and sarah williams have in that and they will develop a vision that we can all get behind. i want to thank you on behalf of the 56,000 children today and hundreds of thousands of children that will be impacted for the better in future years. you are making a difference and you are touching the future. with that, president norton, i'm so excited to get the meeting started. i would like to with your permission turn microphone over to our executive director. >> thank you very much, superintendent and thank you commissioners. i'm too really excited to be here and to share as part of the team. we are going to have a powerpoint.

sorry about that commissioner and superintendent. that was a bit abrupt. we wanted to do the large screen as well for the powerpoint for the audience because the recording on the smaller screens might not make it possible for the public to see the presentation as we are moving through it. so, you know, this has been a really exciting journey. i'm still kind of blown -- away by what we've come with ido. of course that would not be possible, as the superintendent just mentioned. it's a building process. we started our collaboration with i do 5 months ago and it's a lot of work that we have done before

and led and initiated by many of the commissioners who are here this evening. i want to take a moment to thank you for what you have done and making it possible for us to continue on this journey and evolve on these ideas. i'm going to do introductions and then i will review the objective for the night and then go over the outline of the presentation because it's been a massive team effort and a small represent ation of that team is here tonight to share that information with the board. i would like to start by acknowledging and maybe if those folks are here, if you can kind of just stand up so the board can get a sense of the team that's involved. in no particular order because it was a genuine team and everyone collaborated together. court

knee graham, mike young and i were part of that committee, as well as paula jones. those that i mentioned earlier were representative of the district. paula jones who is the director of food systems, environmental health protection, equity and sustainability and health division of the san francisco department of public education. it's fantastic that we have such a great partner in the city. this is all about the students health and well being and we need partnership to make this kind of work come to fruition. and the food and district committee which we share and i believe those members are here this evening. i want to thank them for their on going support. it's phenomenal. on the ido team, i'm going to mention some of the folks involved. tim brown who is the ceo, sandy speaker

who i'm hoping i'm pronouncing her last name correctly. gabe climb an, kaleta stafford, lindsey weithorn and roseta. we are fortunate that we have a tremendous number of students that are engaged. it is a school night. so we want to call out a special thanks to a couple of the student ambassadors who have come tonight and are going to share some of their experience on this work. vanessa tran, marco ponce and joyce gu. we also have some nutrition coordinate oris who are here. we have jettison steal who played a role when he started as a coordinator and helped us get

involved and engaged in a broad array. last but not least we have some of our s and s cafeteria staff. we cooperate -- couldn't do it without their support. dolly is here and julia garcia. they will be saying something later nont presentation as well. that is to give the board a sense of the number of people who were involved with the presentation. i'm sorry, i'm getting distracted. the number of different teams members involved. as you can see it's a very broad team. we also -- i want to share what our objectives for tonight are because there is a lot of information we are going to share with the board and we want to make it as meaningful and engaging as possible and we want to acknowledge this is the first of many conversations. our primary objective tonight

is to share our vision and we can launch the work to start securing resources and begin to implement the recommendations. that's our goals for tonight. they are our objectives. >> i just wanted to ask you, that fabulous list of people, you will send us at the mail. i just wasn't able to get those names. >> absolutely, commissioner. i wanted to give the presentation outline. to help give you a sense of what we are going to cover tonight, there are a couple different artifacts. one is an executive summary which is a couple of pages and it looks like this and everybody in the audience has one and there is in this book which has all the recommendations in it and this is the road map that everyone involved in the district is going to use this as a guide going forward and to implement this and bring this

to fruition. we are going to get additional copies and make them available to other key partners and other stake holders. we are going to follow sequence in this book. there is chapter one which is student center values and chapter two talks about the operation of student nutrition services, chapter three is the dining experience. inform are those three chapters we are going to move quite quickly because we want to invest more time in going more deeply in the design recommendations we are going to share with the board and the road map. we know the majority of the board members went through dining experience and you get a sense of the big picture level of the recommendations that are before you tonight. we want to move quickly to move more deeply into the recommendation. the

next person on the team is going to be mark --el kin who is going to introduce the students which is student centered values.w as we are going through the powerpoint we put in the bottom left-hand corner the page numbers of the book, when you want to move a particular slide up and get more detailed information on the bottom left side of the powerpoint are the page numbers in the book that you can reference. i will hand the mic over to mike. >> good evening, my name is mike -- elkind and a teacher of special health programs. i used to be a kindergarten teacher. i used to walk the children to the cafeteria. i was thrilled this summer to be able to work with sdunts students to work

on workshops and we're guiding by four different values. they are up here on the screen. senses stimulated and values and connection to food and active voices. we have three of the students here who were involved this summer. i'm going to let them introduce themselves. they are going to tell a little story and in it, i hope you will see reflected these specific values. they may not be stories about school food but they are about food that is important to them. let's start off. introduce yourself and school. >> hi. i'm vanessa and i'm a