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>> >> good afternoon to everyone that is here today. welcome to the city and school district select committee meeting. commissioner mendoza has called for this hearing. i will turn it over to her. to get some background i want to get to what is dedicated over the last year to ensure that we are one of four cities in california that was awarded this incredible grant we'll be hearing about in the next hour 1/2. i plan to touring the --

this time. i look forward to seeing how these federal dollars are being put to use by the collaborations that we'll be hearing about today. i think it's important that when we think about the city district select committee that we really think about how we can strengthen the relationships between the city's resources and our schools. these are all our families whether they are constituents coming to city hall or they are coming to the schools for their education services. we need to figure out ways to better serve our parents. we are really excited to hear the presentation today and want to create more awareness around this program and see how we can have a best successful partnership. this is something we want to sustain

beyond the 5 years and we have to start having that discussion now to ensure that we are able to commit to that longevity. we have supervisor avalos and david campos and mark ferrel could not make it here today and i want to recognize commissioner wynns here today also. before we do that, i want to see if we can take a motion to excuse supervisor ferrel. so moved. we'll do that without opposition. >> great, thank you so much, supervisor kim. i want to thank you for an allowing us to giving us this opportunity to show you what good partnership looks like and i want to thank supervisor campos for being here because in the very early days we wondered whether or not this was going to work and the

team that you will hear from the mission economic development agency who is our leadation lead agency came to the school district as we know with dating that it takes a while before you go on a second or third date. i'm glad this worked out and this really demonstrates what it means to think about a particular community in our city and what we can do for not only our kids but our families and the impact it has between the economic status and the ability of our families and that correlates with the education goals for our kids. we always want to make sure our kid s do well and learn. when we look to the city

has primarily been around the social services issues and what we can provide to the families, but when we combine those efforts and really think about how we get everybody on board to target a very dense population of families where low income, low test scores, and i apologize for saying low because it makes it sound really negative, but it's been a huge challenge in the community and the mission. we have so many families that don't own homes in the communities and are getting pushed out. it really makes us stop and reflect as to what we can do collectively. the mission promise neighborhood is a great reflection of many of our city departments who already invested in the community to come together and say what are we doing and how can we leverage this amazing grant of $30 million over the

next 5 years to show a great difference in the mission. on the school district side we were grateful for the $45 million grant from the improvement grant that we received from the feds that got us started and will continue to improve the mission schools that have already benefited with the dollars. with that i would like to introduce victor corral who is the director of the mission promise neighborhood and has been with us from the very beginning and shepherd this process. before we start, the one other thing i want to be able to say is that when you bring more than two people together, you are always going to have the challenge of agreement and to be able to think about how do we best serve the community. i just want to commend for sticking it out and really find a way. we

still have some challenges and some steps to go over, but in the room sits a lot of very caring committed and passionate people. secretary donovan from hud was just here and he wanted to see another program but he decided he wanted to come see the mission promise neighborhood grant that we had and how it going to be implemented . we had an opportunity to show off what we had. mr. corral, show us what you got. >> good afternoon. i really appreciate the kind words calling out the collaboration. i think this is the beginning of a beautiful partnership between all of us, all of our community partners, the city agencies, the school district to really create lasting change

in the mission. so with that, i will go ahead and get started. i guess the first thing as with most of these claksz #z collaborations and initiatives, we came together about a year 1/2 ago to discuss what we want to see for our community. we call a bunch of community based organizations and leadership. we had maybe a hundred people or so in the room and we discuss what had we wanted to see. this represents some of the things we had and we want to make sure every child succeeds and prepare every student for success and graduate from college. we want the mission to thrive as a healthy and safe community and

allow the children to prosper economically and call san francisco their permanent home. as you are all familiar with, there are a lot of challenges, one of the chalice -- challenges in the city, we know about 37 percent of latino adults in san francisco work in low wage service industry. we know that over 50 percent are asset poor, meaning they don't have enough money in their bank account to cover 3 months of living suspensions -- expenses. nationally it's 18 of that of latino families same for african american families and i won't even go into the native american families. this is some of the data we looked at last

year in the mission. the majority in the mission group are latino and about 68 percent of those children are living in low poverty. >> before you go on what are the boundary lines? >> we did it by census tracts. i don't remember all the numbers. this is, i'm going to skip just a couple slides. this is essentially what it looks like. those are the boundaries. about 1.86 square miles. we'll get more specific as we move forward. so as commissioner mendoza mention, a lot of mission schools have been

struggling for the last few years but fortunately for the sig, prior to that we had lots of under performing schools and fortunately that's changing with the sig. the majority of students are of color and poverty. most children are entering school not ready to learn and a lot of students are not graduating or not graduating ready for college. i think a lot of the work that sig has done and a lot of the work that city agencies has done is a perfect convergence of a lot of great initiatives. right now to leverage the work that is happening, the option with promise neighborhood and up to us to figure out how far

we can take this. in a 0-5 phase, we have done a lot of work. we have raced to the top. we have fortunate to have preschool for all which has increased. enrollment for students of color that are around 4-5 years old. there is still a gap for 0-3 age. we have after school programs. we are implementing the full community school models which is transforming schools into community hubs. in the treasurer we have community colleges that allows us to have a savings account for every entry student. like wise the work that bridge has done for sf puc city college and a lot

of us will call here through our spark point center through the united way partnership and the broadband intentional -- technology program. there is a lot of investment and there is an opportunity to collaborate more effectively to have funds from dcys to matching from the health and services agencies. you name it. all the great resources. but what a lot of the values had in the umbrella is the opportunity to work together more effectively and have that be a truly data driven collaborative approach. internally rs at met a we've been integrating all of our funds fr