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coalition code section do you want me to read the somewhere resolve courthouse u class it is earthquake code 424 point is that 1. >> correct wow, that was good you that was very good so roll call vote please. mr. haney ms. maufas ye yes? ms. mendoza-mcdonnell >> dr. murase. >> more than minnesota president fewer 7 i's. >> okay. thank you now this is institutional listing ethnic studies misquote sfusd may you are a motion and second. >> second.
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>> thank you, colleagues that is referred to the before you get i budget committee in support of the proposition 47 the safe orientation tried by mr. haney do we have a motion and second for first action roll call vote vote. >> mr. haney ms. maufas ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns president fewer arrest 7 i's. >> okay thanks we have a reading of the resolution motions and second for formal resolution reading by commissioner mr. haney. >> in support of this the safe organization for act whereas the
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san francisco unified school district is fully committing to a save environment and vvlt in them the skills to thrive in the community and whereas sfusd emphasize positive spaces over accomplishment particularly for positive behavior intervention and support and recent implementation of the schools policy and whereas sfusd seeks to end the pipeline by investing in education and restore the health and wellness program where's whereas in the past 20 years the spending for prisoners has increased several time and in the past years the state of california build 22 prisons and higher than the san francisco state university and 5 times more people in state prisoner
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when state crimes were up and where was your people of color or ethnics disprospering are xhard and in 2011 african-americans were arrested 8 times the rate of whites and whereas to be smarter on crime emerging best practices must focus the law enforcement resources and whereas the research in the criminal justice show that the behavorial and drug treatment increases the public safety and whereas the safe neighborhood will change low level crime like petty theft to misdemeanors and reduce the
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prisoner costs to k 12 schools and victim services and whereas sfusd should join the countless law enforcement and george moscone including the business leaders for the safe leaders in support for proposition 47 therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district supports this safety neighborhoods act that improves public safety and invests in our schools. >> no public comment? any comments from the board or - superintendent?. >> commissioner maufas so scomplaen can i inquire why
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you have the city attorney's office name on here and no other my name is on the petition and good question he's one of the main proponents of it in the face of campaign along with the chief of san diego one of the two co-chairs of the campaign. >> so i'm historically have been concerned about supporting political positions as a non-partisan body in situations i appreciate you putting this forward it is important and has huge impacts on the population i mean, i'll support it is a tricky one i wanted to note that
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especially seeing none, no other comments oh, commissioner maufas. >> i would like the author to consider alexander commissioners, if they'd like to be at you'll have to ask. >> i think everyone ongoing groovy ready for a vote and mr. haney ms. maufass ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns president fewer 7 i's. >> now standing board member's reports may we have a report from the buildings committee. >> thank you so we had two reports one was on the expansion
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of the water bottle station from nick that is going well, we're going to get more in our schools and the facilities local hiring program for career paul mccartney a light discussion about the opportunities our students will be receiving through the internship program to the career patrick's and - pathway that's slowly growing and nice to see. >> great could you have report from the city and school elect committee i guess that's me (laughter) okay. we had a reports on the services for unaccompanied immigrant children and then we had a discussion on the cities policy for new enrollment due to increased community development
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we've learned that san francisco's population has been growing by 10 thousands residents a year for for o the last 10 and in 9040 we will be adopting so for the now residents this is an ongoing discussion so okay are there any other reports from board members? yes commissioner haney i'm not sure i have a report and this is from personnel and labor >> oh, yeah. forgot that. >> (inaudible). >> is that okay and it's not agenda dis. >> standing committees right
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okay commissioner haney you're on. >> give me 5 votes (laughter) can i resubmit that (laughter) is it okay. >> yeah. >> okay. all right. we had a. >> i'm sorry, i waiting want a motion you need 5 votes (laughter) no do you want to read this okay so we had a meeting of the ad hoc labor committee that was our first meeting of the year i'm the chair of the committee and the meeting it feels like a long time ago but it was last time i've not left since then and the one item that was on the agenda was the 2014-2015 hiring report actually, the majority of board was interest i won't say
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too much but i recommend you get a copy there's a lot of information some of the highlights were some certificate areas of focus and concern we did p have an increased number of resignations over this year more spots to fill and a lot of late resignations and some of the concerns and some of the drain over or on our hiring process obviously folks who might we might go after in the process obviously those are picked up jobs if we're hiring in september we started the year with less vacancies but had concerns around the vacancies that exist as of today that was like 19 vacancies that exists have teachers we excused at
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length some of our efforts around attracting candidates and how we recruit eastern exists candidates there are 3 focuses of our h.r. department highlighted as priorities one was to shift to year round krout and diversely our sdraejz we're in the process of setting another meeting i think a lot of what we explored we'll continue to go deeper and the second thing we've talked about the intermits so as i'm sure you're aware there's a huge challenge
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to fill the substitutes spots and schools have been reaching out we've heard about the streams that have been used and explored and also some in particular concerns around the proposal development and things that are taking teachers out of the classroom and doing a better job cooperating that and other strategies corporal so the foul wore to have h.r. through the superintendant come back with a proposal and plan for the board to how we're going to address that and really make sure we don't have the intermit crisis on an ongoing basis members i saw commissioner maufas you have something to add you if i may commissioner haney the packet
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you have before you probably with the other commissioners that were not present they've received this but i really want to stress that information in there was just a small snip even though of all the information that i know the h.r. department has housed and has been presented before us so i would encourage the confirmations were not there to look forward to the mexico bring your attention in the h.r. depth we really asked for the full compliment and complex breathed of information that house and that should be the babies where we start the conversation which was based on older meetings and
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again dr. murase was the first person on the committee i think we need a solid baseline of where the conversation begins and looked to higher he level questions it's imperfect for the commissioners that were not present and the h.r. department to be aware of thank you >> okay superintendent. >> yes. thank you to commissioners so i had a briefing of last times meeting i'm working with the staffer of 3 pages that came you're not going to get 3 pages but a plan. >> you couldn't ask for a ball park plan. >> that's not going to happen there's a plan for the staffing of substitutes which i will bring to the board didn't need board approval but i'll least
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you know in the final process and want to remind the browns board two years ago when we have the steven report we hired a partner to work all year on bringing information from the system the antiquated system we don't have that kind of american people fte so restructuring and pulling people off tasks like staffing our staff to pull that data so we'll be able to i'll able to bring forward a recommendation how to address that as we go forward. >> commissioner maufas. >> i want to emphasize the crisis we're facing and i wanted to echo the story that the commissioner norton and president fewer relied in committee of a fifth grader
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assigned to a kindergarten classroom because there was a teacher shortage that is not acceptable it really, really not acceptable. >> i'm going to make a plea we're about to approach veterans day and thanksgiving please ask tour educators to come to work before those holidays we see historically a significant spike in absenteeism on those days so i'm going to ask you to keep kids fifth graders from being in kindergartener classes please come to work. >> through the chair superintendant of president be to specific about the information is information they actually have which is so we have that - i wasn't going to
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reintensity the wheel if we have the information it was created for a reason didn't appear after the person left it's in our house and that should be the baseline of where we start. >> i want to make sure we're not assuming what we have and don't have i'll come back to the board. >> i appreciate that. >> interest so that was a long report on that committee okay so, now the board will now go into closed session so i call a recess of regular meeting on
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november 4th. >> hello, i'm nona melkonian with sfgovtv along with the legacy of women voters here to talk about measure f a ballot measure on tuesday november 4th measure f is an ordinance that increases the heeblth limit on the acre site from 40 to 90 feet it provides all aspects of the development other than the height limit will be for subject including the environmental review the height limit will not become until after sequa approves the plan that makes it city policies for the development of the site 9 acres of waterfront parks and
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recreational areas for the bay and one thousand to 2 thousand for unit most of them will be rentals and thirty percent below market rate for low income folks and restoration of the historic struts and nonprofit and small-scale manufacturing and retail and the prestige located in the pier 70 between one pea 20 million square feet parking and transportation improvements and a significant number of jobs and revenue for public housing facilities if i vote yes. you want to increase the height limit for new building inspections on the pier 70 from 4 to 900 feet and ugly are courage the environmental review
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and make that city policy to clus include the job creations for to site if you vote no, not to increase the height limits or adapt the city policy i'm here where kelly pressor with the fair market value measure f and a property and the intellect to the coalition of san francisco neighborhood and a proponent of the measure thank you for being here he i'm to start with opening remarks kelly would you like to go first day f first. >> thank you very much fourteenth uh-huh tuntd to be here i support it and stand for the coalitions dmrug the form mayor and the essentially and the resident and associations to support measure f and create jobs and housing pier 70 is in
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an area along the waterfront where people have no access to water measure f will increased the access to the waterfront tearing down the fences that have blocked the access and open it up for parks that's why people have coverage and i did not think the essentially and the democratic and republicans and this for park advocates by coming out to the poodles and supporting measure f. >> tanner's. >> the coalition for san francisco neighborhood which a is large organization of civic clubs they slit wide open on the issue with no exorbitant it involves and several of the dpw things it san francisco is a small peninsula we have the
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density population of any of the 48 county as a result people want to increase the population to one million people it is currently 8 hundred and 50 thousand approximately it's a matter of how much in san francisco we'll pay a price for to in terms of accident the and it's accompanying with the right population for san francisco if we go too high a lot of problems. >> kelly how will this impact the city's future development. >> first, i'd like to be clear the proposition only permanence to pier 70 no other waterfronts on san francisco pier 70 plan has come out with many, many years of community input and outreach and measure f is really an additional step in the possess the ballot measure itself is
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very clear that the environmental review process sequa as well as the mr. larkin process are not shorthand or limited are subject gaited there will be a thorough study this is an additional check in with 9 county and stakeholders to make sure that folks feel good about what's happening on the pier and good reviews see for the years to come. >> tanner's. >> the reason for measure f they want to wave the height limits the city chapter was amended where they have the height limits that are binding and have to be waved by public vote that's the problem in terms of a public waiver is needed to build higher than the buildings and one of the problems is this is earthquake country we have
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seismic problems and the 1906 san francisco earthquake the 1489 earthquake in mri yet and so on as a result, the more high-rise we have the more dangerous for the public we've had a lot of problems over the years and 1906 was the worse how big do we want to build and what's the long term politicians the less high-rise the less people going to be hurt if we have a serious earthquake like 1906. >> it reduced the demand for the pricing of housing in san francisco. >> as mentioned measure f is fully client with proposition g
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and san francisco is in serious housing countries today part of the plan for pier 70 is thirty percent of the housing opted below market rate to middle-income and low income folks this is 3 times such as city lay requires but in addition to building housing measure f includes other public benefits 9 acres of parks and playground and that triples the amount of space in dog patch and there's rehabilitation and historic buildings on the register in the historic district a preservation of an artist community currently at pier 70 by building now studios the investment of $20 million for transportation improvements and 2 hundred million for infrastructure including for earthquake safest and addressing
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the seawall rise and and terrance. >> the more density in san francisco and we have the highest per family per space and more traffic problems and automobile and diseases and san francisco as some people know 19 hundred to 190 six the bubonic practically they were able to stamp it out it was based on largely the density of our population we were the largest city on the west coast at the time and basically, what we need to do it st. is keep the population being two dense for a lot of reasons especially we're earthquake country but san francisco has a donates
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population too much high-rise next to the santa ana dresses fault line and two the north american and we've been hurt but it before and could be again, the last high-rise we had the satisfactory the people. >> we have a little bit of time i'm to get our final remarks first kelly gave the opening statement so terrance. >> this is what we want to see are for the future of san francisco this was was the board was talking about this was slit wide open a lot of people are concerned about the housing density and all the problems in terms of the earthquake safety and all the issues and automobile accidents, etc. it's
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a matter of what we want to do for the future of san francisco if we want to pile one million and a half in san francisco this will hurt our mobility and ♪ the event of a major earthquake it could lead to disaster >> kelly your thoughts. >> thank you, again pier 70 was an hub of vibrant activity that is now forgotten and measure f will revitalized this unacceptable area with waterfront parks and jobs and housing the revitalization needs an investment of $20 million to comploch the transportation and includes the affordable housing 9 arsz or acres will triple the amount of parks in dog patch today and thousands of new jobs
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that's why measure f has united people to create a consensus it is jiepd by the sierra club and the democratic-republican and green party the affordable housing alliance and many, many organizations and civic leaders i'm to encourage the as follows to vote yes on measure f. >> thank you both to your comments and time we hope this has been forgive for more information go to sf election.org remember earlier vote at city hall from 8 to 5:00 p.m. or vote two we understand from election day if you don't vote early be sure to vote on election day, tuesday