life, it's children's life. these fair pricing is crucial because of the skyrocketing cost. i'm going to kaiser to spend $200 on a breathing treatment. working class people can't pay this and they are struggling and they shouldn't have to choose between paying medication and someone's life. san francisco has always stood up for families and this resolution supports this type of family to help the families and make a difference in their life and no one has to choose from their health and their lives and this will help make life affordable. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. my name is jessie brooks. i'm an

hiv/aids advocate and also hiv positive. i have seen the impact that high drug pricing has had on patients. i have seen pricing co-pays where have to decide whether to pay the co-pay or to eat. those situations. i was very active on prop d and so glad that san francisco passed it. this drug traffic is a run away train. how do you stop a run away train? you stop it. before long if we let it keep going it's going to collapse our system. it's one of the issues that wasn't taken care of in the affordable care act. it should go hand in hand with drug cost. also i have seen

patients, i'm one of those lucky patients where the city and state are paying for it. in the end, many are paying and there are a lot of people that don't qualify just by a margin for city and state help. so they are struggling each month to pay for their drugs, life sustaining drugs and in 98 they created hiv medicine that help people live. these are drugs they have to take everyday. as someone said earlier they created a hep c pill but it's $1,000 a pill. if federal insurances try the old treatment which is harsh and doesn't work like the new drug first and then maybe offer them the new drug. in the end patients that are poor are going to suffer. thank you.

>> thank you. let me ask are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on this topic? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i want to thank those who came to speak today and i appreciate you come here and show casing our voices from our disabled community, senior communities and individuals living with hiv and aids and representing their families from every part of our diverse city. i also know that we have a lot of work to do and i want to thank the staff and the department of public health for your creativity and attorney staff to move this topic forward. this is a topic that has been around for many many years and there is not head way at the state level that we want to see. my guess

is i share the perspective that support proposition d that we hoke -- hope that san francisco can lead the way to the counter parts around the state and country. i want to thank my aid catherine russia who has attended lots of meetings for understanding this topic and john, thank you. with that, colleagues i ask for your support that we move this out to the full board for a positive recommendation and move this issue forward. >>supervisor london breed: colleagues, can we take this without objection? the motion passes with positive recommendation. thank you all for coming today. >> madam clerk call the next item, please. city clerk: [hearing - drought preparations] sponsor: breed hearing with the public utilities commission and

department of the environment to review their plans for preserving water, and protecting san francisco's watershed from drought and fire, given we are in the midst of the worst dry spell in 100 years, and governor brown has asked all californians to reduce their water use by 20 city clerk: [hearing - drought preparations] sponsor: breed hearing with the public utilities commission and department of the environment to review their plans for preserving water, and protecting san francisco's watershed from drought and fire, given we are in the midst of the worst dry spell in 100 years, and governor brown has asked all californians to reduce their water use city clerk: [hearing - drought preparations] sponsor: breed hearing with the public utilities commission and department of the environment to review their plans for preserving water, and protecting san francisco's watershed from drought and fire, given we are in the midst of the worst dry spell in 100 years, and governor brown has asked all californians to reduce their water use by 20 okay. give me 1234 -- give me one moment. i call for this issue with the department of environment and we as a board and city are facing a biggest drought in many many years. 2014 is projecting to be even drier. it's funny that it reigned for almost a week straight after i called for this hearing and maybe even yesterday. maybe this hearing was designed for good luck. >> keep calling for more hearings. >> unfortunately even with those rains we are still way below average. the necessary levels at hetch hetchy. at the february levels in february

2014, water shed was at 40 percent of the snow level and snowpack was 22 percent of it's normal level and we have some of the best tap water in the country. it can be easily forgotten and the water has to come from somewhere. the hetch hetchy reservoir system through a marvelous civil engineering is still dependent on the river and the snowpack in the sierra nefd nevada and 2.6 million people depend on this. and it's going to make the state vulnerable to fires. as you know the rim fire burned for 69 days and threatened the hetch hetchy reservoir and was saved

thankfully tourette fire -- to the fire departments. governor brown declared a state of emergency and called on californians to reduce their water energy by 20 percent. the sf puc is asking can ustomers to voluntary reduce their water usage by 10 percent. the department is outlining actions to reduce the water and develop alternative sources of water. today i would like to ask puc and department of environment to address the topic. no. 1, the current water supply and projection for 2014 and 2015. and the plans how we will meet the puc's goal of a 10 percent usage reduction. no. 3, and

overview of city water unl by the department. what are the departments doing in terms of consumption and conservation and who is doing well and not. no. 4, how are we protecting the water system, maintaining and updating and improving the water structure and guarding for fire and funding for immediate projects. no. 5, long-termplanning. how are we planning for population growth. what are we doing to find sources water whether it be desaulization and i know puc grant was putting a proposal on hold and i would like to hear more about that. what are the departments doing to educate water customers, no. 6, to educate customers

about the needs to previous and the methods to preserve. those are my objections today. thank you all for being here and with that, i want to turn it over to richie, assistant general manager for water. >> thank you, madam chair and supervise ofrments -- supervisors. the last time we called for reduction it rained. when people start paying attention, we get somewhere. i would like to start off with this slide that will answer your questions but i will answer those as i go along. what i'm basically going to talk about in the water supply condition and outlook for us our volunteer 10 percent reduction effort. what the departments are currently doing as well as our users in the city itself. our

recent water system improvements to get to that reliability system that you talked about and state and federal legislation that are in the works that hopefully can provide funding for some of the activities that we need to engage in to really save more water here. first, on the water supply conditions, the current water supply in our reservoir is 98 billion gallons which sounds like a lot of water but when you need about 32 million gallons per day, it's not a lot of water. we have 12,000 acre feet in our system which is a back up water supply. i will talk about how we plan to access that if we need it. and we

have water basically is what we used to supply the irrigation districts with water to maintain water in hetch hetchy reservoir. that water depends on the reservoir. it didn't look like much in flow and that water wasn't worth much. precipitation has been normal for february. more is needed. we basically need this weekend storm to be strong and one or two more series of storms so i will be able to sleep throughout night. until then, we have to worry about the water conditions. we'll continue to evaluate the water conditions on weekly basis. the graphs are what we update on weekly basis. this is

cumulative precipitation at hech hech eechlt . this is normal precipitation. anything above that is wet and below is dry. what we have included on this well is the green line which was 2013. that was last year last water year. as you pointed out >> >> >> february 27, 2014, >> good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the city and school district committee. i'm joined by supervisor mark alvarez and farrell and sandra feuer who will now join our

community for 2014. i would like to that have sf gov. tv. san francisco television and our clerk mr. derek evans. mr. clerk are there any announcements? city clerk: yes. please silence all electronic devices. >> thank you. commissioner mendoza did let us know she is sick. may i entertain a motion to excuse commissioner mendoza mcdonnell and we'll do that without opposition. mr. clerk, please call the first

item. item 1: agenda1401421.[hearing - update on the 2012 supplemental appropriation to fund a credit recovery program for san francisco unified school district]sponsor: kimhearing to receive an update on the 2012 supplemental appropriation to fund a credit recovery program for san francisco unified school district sfusdd students at risk of not graduating in school year 2014-2015; and requesting sfusd to present a progress update on how many students participated, current graduation rates, and how funding was spent. 2/25/14; received and assigned to the city and school district select committee.pending introduction at the board of supervisors meeting on february 25, 2014 sf 11234 thank you. this hearing is on a follow up on a supplemental appropriation in the previous year to fund a credit recovery program at san francisco unified school district and to learn a little bit more about the progress of this program. in the appropriation of course these are funds that were previously dedicated to the school district. i think that both bodies are interested in how the credit recovery program went and the incoming classes with the graduation

requirements. i would like to give any member and opportunity to speak before i call up our presenters. we have steven coffman who is the director of student learning and support and julie chan educational policies. if sf gov. tv. san francisco television can help support the presentation, that would be great. >> good afternoon supervisors and commissioners. good afternoon and thank you for allowing us to present the 2012 supplemental fund credit recovery program in san francisco. i would like to

introduce julie chan in student support. this is a new office focused on credit recovery issues on summer school and online learning and various other programs that we have up and going. thank you very much for the thank for the opportunity. we are going to walk you through exactly what the presentation is going to be. we are going over the initial challenges and information about our credit recovery options and our 4-year cohort graduation rate and e through g graduation requirements and the credit program today and talk about where we are going with the

office of extended learning and support with our evening school, summer school, online learning and sprout funds and summer bridge program. so challenges at san francisco unified school district is a number of students have not been meeting the requirements to graduate on time. as you know 2014 was the first year that the policy came into play that the students had to be a through g compliant to graduate in the school district. in the past we that had deliver forms models and graduation was for all students because one of the key goals for san francisco unified was access and equity and we wanted to ensure that all students had access to credit recovery programs and there was no data tracking

system that was going to support the program of accountability and funding and improvement. that is now what we have and we have the data moving from this point. past systems delivery systems lacked funding and that has been luckily eased by the p funding and the commitment by the very wise commissioners of the board of education by funding the a through g recovery efforts which is very exciting for us and a brand new division in the office of the curriculum instruction.

ms. chan will go over the graduation cohorts for you. >> these are the graduation cohorts for 9-11 and 12. there is an increase in the general cohort graduation rates and you can see the breakdown for different subgroups and african and latino or hispanic students and there is a slight dip for english language learners. i'm going to tell you a little bit about the overview of the graduation requirements. a couple years ago we approved the graduation requirements that are implemented for the class of 2014. in this chart you can see the requirements itself. all these are from courses, different courses and their credit requirements for each of the courses.

>> so what are the credit recovery programs? they are to ensure graduation rates and that all our graduate students are college ready and uc and csu requirements to go to a university. most of the students who have fallen behind on classes are retaking courses to graduate on time. there is various programs provided through various instructional strategies online and night classes. we offer classes saturday and summer months and critical courses required for graduation. through peef and through the wisdom of the board of education, the office of

extended learning and support was developed. the mission is to urge best practice to maximize results and credit portfolio credit recovery whose options and rigor and tan giblity and micro funding for local school site design and program. this is all along to the rti model with an academic focus on primarily tier 2 and now tier 3. this puts into perspective the

intent with the division of curricular instruction rti model. this is the summer school that the fund that the supervisors provided. in 2013 we had four sites. wallenberg high school, balboa and burton. we had 2290 students and of which 92.2 percent -- i'm sorry, 2296 students of 2489, this is 92.2 percent completed one course with a d or higher. which is 976 of the 243 were offtrack to graduate before the program. we completed 3821,

821 courses which is 97 percent of the 2012 attempted. >> you just through out a lot of numbers. i understood that. how many students i guess last summer they were rising seniors and rising injuries. -- juniors? how many were not on track to graduate? >> 72.7 percent of the students that completed courses in summer school were offtrack to graduate. >> okay. but my question is how many students were not on track to graduate? total in

the whole district. i'm curious how many were enrolled in these programs? >> i don't think we have that data, but i think we can get that data to you. >> that would be great. so you had 2489 students enrolled and of those 2096 completed courses. we don't know how many students were not on track to enroll in these programs. >> the total number of students offtrack? >> yes. it would be helpful to know of the 2489 that enrolled, they were not on track. so you got every student that was not on track in the program or there were 5,000 not on track and you only got 60 percent of those not on track into program?

>> we can get that information for you. i have two charts here, looking back at the presentation. that shows the outcome of the summer school outcomes. in this chart we are looking at the class of 2014-2015. during summer 2013 there were 11th graders. this shows on track students who completed courses before and after summer school. it shows how many students were on track through central summer school. if you look at the green bar, it shows how many are on track after summer school. as you look at the total, before it was 29 percent on track, but now there is 41 percent on track to graduate. if you look at the second chart, it shows the change in graduation status of offtrack students which means as you know in the on track offtrack

status there is different statuses and as you gain more credits you are moving up a level in your status. here i'm trying to show the different types of changes whether there is a positive change and whether the student moved up closer to graduate and no change and negative change. you can see the difference, i looked at 10th graders and 11th graders, all the grades are around 35 percent which achieved positive change which means they moved up in graduation status. students are able to move from improvement of their overall graduation status. >> are there any questions about that data? okay. i just want to make sure. yes, sir?

>> commissioner wynns? >> as for all the kids offtrack, do you have data that mernls -- merges all the information. they have other date of courses too. what i want to know is do we have somewhere that tells us here is where we were last spring, here is where we are now with those same students. i appreciate the grand alar information about program and it's effectiveness, but i want to know generally is how are we doing in the percentage of kids that are on track towards graduation from all the programs. is that going to be at the end of this presentation or are they all just separate? >> they are all separate but we can provide you with that.

>> okay. thank you. because we won't have one way of knowing to use the horrible term that we now have to get used to. they are not unduplicated students so someone didn't take a course or online. you will be able to do that, but you don't have it today? >> we can provide you that data. >> okay. >> moving forward through the public education enrichment fund that was generally approved by the residents of san francisco voters this summer we are offering summer school at four sites. marshall, galileo and balboa

and washington high school. the communication to really establish a uniform process and policies in terms of procedures of how to enroll students through the new synergy program and more intervention with the counselors at the school sites and just a more uniformed approach is unique because before there wasn't really that central control, not control in a bad way but to organize it to ensure that the students are getting what they need i think what's also important is at balboa we are going to have a specific school for new comers for english language development. we are funding eight teachers to specifically work with

those population at galileo as well. they also have eld special english language development specialized program to support our new comers as well. we have three sites this year for schools. washington, oh conel and burton. we have enrollment of 212 students and of those 211 completed at least 1 course.