support their dr request >> sir as part of the dr requesters team your opportunity to speak is contained within the 5 minutes, however she can afford the 2 minute rebuttal at the end. >> you'll have two minutes if she wishes to give you. >> okay any is there any additional public comment okay. i'm sorry. project sponsor your team has 5 minutes. >> good evening commissioners i'm greg hear on behalf of the project sponsors i do have a digital presentation so if we could bring that up please project does comply with the planning code and the residential guidelines we had a project and from the outset come

in came in with a modest project there's a ground floor pop out the height of a fence and commonly permitted a light court matching the one that on the dr requesters property the upper story is set back well, from the front facade and away from the building wall the rear building wall is able to be average between the walls on the adjacent properties new upper story per the residential guidelines is set back even though the prominent block phase is 4 story is permitted if it's sub amenity to the roofline on the block phase you can see the shaded area it

is across the street from the adjacent property it's unfair to show you a drawing that didn't account for the apparent reduction in height for the distance we've shared the light well for the residential guidelines their rather faint on the right and the dr requesters light well is here and we share the element his office in the same space a lot of talk about the rear building wall and how that works let me show you here this is the volume of the existing building the upper story is mr. lindsey mentioned has a bay and the second story up would accommodate a 5 foot extension to the edition here at it 11 the building wall and

we're proposing a bay as permitted by about the planning code planning code so based on the survey that the project sponsors 0bd the qualifying wall is where the red dash like like that and the dr requesters property they a significant one story to their house the average give us the 5 foot area rear building line here in red the 5 feet is often easier to see this in section you see the different depth and stack the floor plans mentally ill there is the bay area as well as the polyp out as section 36 c that gives us a prospective view it rains the harm new of the

block totally habitualable the ground story shows the pop outs on the neighbors area and above the deck i see the significant 12 foot set back from the rear towards the upper story edition the project sponsor architect is apparently concerned about the offer ride and i'm willing to leave it to staff the building height is 38 feet one inch tall to the level that's called out on the plans how far the escalator elevator can be 50 photo high the planning code 0 allows an additional 10 feet flafkt the offer ride is 2 feet above the new roof it is almost 9 feet lower than loud the

elevators don't need the 8 or 7 foot override as seen on commercial elevators the override would be that at all the neighborhood is to the opted to the project i wasn't aware of the 3 letters i got 3 additional neighbors letter i'll submit the green stairs are the letters of support from the property owners and the speaker is opposed to the - >> thank you are there members of the public in support of project sponsor? okay. seeing none dr requester our team has a two minute

rebuttal >> i'm an architect and been retained by the august man's. >> it will come on when you speak. >> what i have are the existing plans of the building the blue is the 5 foot set back from the ned residence of dr requester the outline of the existing kitchen is the space that is exist in 238 the hatch to the right is what's allowed as far as an edition without expanding to the property line to the north that hatch area is 81 and a half square feet

this is the existing plan of the third floor where the difference between the north and south retains is 10 feet the plans show that the expectation for 238 should be - it is at the 5 foot line this is a time for the second floor and it is really showing there's this usage stairway and elevator for circulating a lot of people up to the fourth verizon expansion they've expand the kitchen to the north property line but the kitchen is

only increased in the area by 4 percent thank you your time is up commissioners may i ask you if you have questions. >> project sponsor you have to minutes. >> the rear yard he didn't use the proper qualifying wall a 3 inch delineate between 9 dr requesters qualifying wall and the qualifying wall to the setting this gives us the volume to expand 5 feet into that buildable area other than that i don't have anything to address there's no extraordinary or exceptional circumstances it was

presented to you as a indication that staff believes the dr is without merit to please not take dr. >> with that the public hearing is closed. >> commissioner antonini the staff what's the set back in the front and rear how far are we from the street. >> from the front of the wall 15 feet and at the rear. >> it looks like it's a little bit visual from the student one of the views their sun shining if you're across the street you'd the straight on view the elevation the reality if you're

on the street the sidewalk level you're going to see much less with a 15 foot set back there's a form at the front of the building 82 you may see a few feet of the top. >> i was a wondering if there should be a full roof on the top as we have on the third floor because it looks like it fits with the neighborhood instead of a box on the top. >> it may make it more visible by adding the mass. >> it won't make it look bigger there's a style architecturally and i'll be interested in seeing i think the rest of it seems like it come politics as are there's a light well been established for four feet is that in in addition to the light

well. >> the neighbors light well currently looks at into the side notch of the subject property that side notch is supposed to be filed in they'll provide a matching light well the one that will lose the access to that side notch. >> so it matches what they have. >> yeah. it seems like most of the things i'm seeing he agree with staff it looks like the editions z don't have a major impact. >> is there a motion? >> i'll make a motion not to take dr unless another commissioners asia commissioners, we have a motion

and a second to not take dr commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and places you under general public comment i have no speaker cards. >> is there any general public comment okay public comment is closed meeting

>> good afternoon and happy new year. welcome to the january 22nd, 2015 meeting of the city and school joint select xlit . i am your chair, supervisor jane kim. i am joibed by supervisors john afrl afl and john farrell and this

is their last meeting with our committee this year. it's really been great to have two parents sit on the city select committee. parents are very interested in public school issues but also issues surrounding youth and their families, whether it's our expanded green shared schoolyard program to making sure that we are servicing our youth that are undocumented within our school district. they have been reassigned to other committees and we will be joined by supervisor david campos and david yee sandra mendoza-mcdonnell and joel fewer will be staying on with us. i want to recognize sf gov tv for filming our event today

and making it available to the public online and want to recognize jim low and jen smith. >> can we please call the first item. >> file no. 150040 update on willie brown junior middle school development. sponsored by you, supervisor. >> this is an item we heard last year when the school was under construction and we do have an update from sfusd on the opening, which is set for the fall of 2015 including an enrollment and facilities update. we have the principal, jimmy hoffman but while they are setting up their presentation i want to give the floor to commissioner sandra fewer to give an intro deduction and some background on the sharing request. she really pushed this project when i was on the board of education

to make building a comprehensive middle school in the bayview neighborhood a reality, one that we don't have today. this is the first time in a very, very long time the school district is actually constructing a new school. so it's really exciting to see what the modernizing of technology and science and the physical structure means for the learning of our children. commissioner fewer. >> thank you, supervisor kim. yes, so we are very excited about willie brown which is going to open in august, 2015. to give everybody a little background on it, we have not opened a brand new school, i think, the last one to open was diane feinstein in the sunset which was a long time ago. willie brown is at the site of our old willie brown in the bayview. the old site had been originally a police academy, it was condemned and then we had children in it as part of our

21st century school and then also it was one of our dream schools. so instead of putting ada money into remodeling that school we decided that that community could also use a brand new school, since we have a lot of school age children in that area. so there has not been a middle school now in the bayview district for a couple of years. so this is very exciting to us, i think, that we're opening a brand new school, that it is going to encompass some of our best practices. we are over resourcing the school meaning we are giving it more resources than we would normally a school of this size, but san francisco unified school district would like to target really children who live in that area, which is 94124. so i think a wonderful thing about willie brown is that we already have some partners that have come on board to really support the learning that's happening there and that we are looking at this school to be a

showcase of our middle schools and encompassing many of our best practices, as i said, but also a very diverse learning environment in the bayview and we hope to capture most of the school-aged children that are middle school age at willie brown. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner fewer. so i want to bring up either mr. hobson or miss bach. >> good afternoon, supervisors and commissioners, thank you so much for having us here today. my name is julia bach, i am director of special projects for san francisco unified supervisors focusing on the reopening of willie brown middle school and i'm excited to introduce you to demetrius hobson, the founding principal of willie brown. today we're

going to talk about our staffing approach and open it up for questions. without further ado, principal hobson. >> good afternoon. >> i know it's not a big room but i want to greet you formally, board of supervisors, and commissioners. thank you for this opportunity to share the willie brown middle school opportunity for the students of san francisco unified school district. i'm also thankful for the opportunity to come work here under the leadership of superintendent carranza and deputy superintendent guadalupe guerrero i am from chicago, i attended chicago public schools and enrolled in morehouse school to study history, returned to chicago as a teacher. i taught for 7 years before going to the harvard graduate school of education. as a teacher i

taught for 7 years. i became a principal and the north lion dail unit in the chicago community had a health care clinic. after that i was asked by the cpo to run a school in west inc. inglewood and it was there that we began to implement common core standards to help our students prepare for the new assessments that were coming out nationwide. i'm an urban educator. that means that i have a special commitment to myself, to our families and to the communities that we serve. especially the children we work with. i attended chicago public schools k-12 and i was blessed to have multiple engaged and qualified and committed teachers during

my matriculation. i believe that a quality education should not be a crap shoot. there is no gamble in developing schools. staffing them with committed quality teachers and building family investment in the education of our children. we know what works and we have to be willing to do what works. i think that's what is happening here with the willie brown middle school, as president fewer suggested earlier. i believe schools should be safe, non-threatening environments with students and we must have positive relationships with our students for them to thrive. our schools must be safe and civil learning communities, psychologically and socially safe. we have a partnership with stanford university, we have to remain mindful of our thought

processes as we engage this work and we have to have a growth mindset for ourselves before we can incorporate it in our practice. negative thoughts abound around this particular project because we're doing something new, so our school is the place where our students will be affirmed, our families will be affirmed, and all peachers involved, our stake holders will be affirmed. a productive value which means the growth mindset in a non-threatening environment prepares our school to be high performing academically and behaviorally. the entire organization will be able to perform at high levels over time in order to produce the results of our vision. students will learn to work hard so that they can do the hard work. i want our children to be productive students now so that they become the productive citizens our families need in the future. personally i believe that educate is liberation.

fundamentally quality teaching and quality learning is education. but the freedom of choice, the freedom to choose your high school, choose your college, choose your career, that's liberation. so i became interested in sfusd primarily because of superintendent carranza's narrative around redemption, equality, equity and justice. his compelling vision of 2025 by which our first class of seniors will be -- our first class of students will be seniors in 2025. it is very evident during the administrator's institute over the summer that the goal is to create a type of school system that will support all children. very few districts have a top level administrator focused on social justice. that appealed to me and that's why i applied for the willie brown middle

school. something different is happening here. the board and the district wants different results, better outcomes, improved academic performance. there is no shame in leveling the playing field nor in setting prefaces to balance the educational opportunities of the unpreferred. i applaud the board of education of sfusd for having the bold and couragous values to be leaders and protect the futures of the children we will serve at willie brown middle school. our next faisz -- phase of work is in recruiting staff. i am looking for teachers who are disciplined, creative and ethical. i find teachers who possess these qualities help students access the content andy become leaders of their own learning. i want teachers who can build trusting relationships with their colleagues and with our students. we have to have teachers who are facilitative

and will guide our students through the learning process. finally, our students will grow in our instructional program. we will guide our students to develop skills that we use every day as professionals. i expect to hear students questioning the teacher, discussing their work with each other, and giving presentations of their projects. our families will be partners and engaged in the designing and supporting of our students' learning in the school and our social academic program. i will have an open door policy for parents to share their concerns, comments and resources with me directly. so over the last 3 months i visited 20 elementary schools, met with fellow educators and district leaders, attended 40 community meetings and events and participated in dozens of district leadership -- district professional and development

sessions and conferences. we have engaged over 500 families before i crafted the mission of willie brown middle school. i bring to the table a wealth of experiences and knowledge. however, we are moving forward with building our staff and our teachers will have the expertise and knowledge needed for us to serve the children of san francisco in the bayview at willie brown middle school. thank you. >> thank you, mr. hobson. you are walking us through the powerpoint presentation? >> yes, it's somewhat lengthy. >> be mindful of the time. >> welcome to willie brown middle school. as you can see by our rendering it's a gorgeous and state of the art facility. however, it is still under construction. just like our buildings under construction, our faculty is

also under construction. as you can see from this slide our building is under construction and so is our academic development. this fall we identified our founding school leader but we also initiated conversations around the academic program and with the department of public health. moving into the spring it's all about hiring on boarding our staff and on boarding our families. . >> so a part of our theory is that we need to make sure we are prepared for the children who are walking into willie brown middle school. children are applying from across the city with diverse backgrounds, not just (inaudible) but also academically so we designed an academic program that will push all our students no matter what level they are. we are also building psychosocial and emotional supports. ultimately

our children will walk out with the healthy habits of mind and lifestyle so they can be healthy in high school and career. guiding us in that is the graduate profile from the vision 2025 document i mentioned earlier, as well as the 10 shifts that our school district is making over time. this is the mission statement and i want to read it aloud for the record. willie brown middle school's mission is to provide an education that uses the engineering practices as a guide for students to develop the foundational skills and beliefs needed to successfully major in science, stem, engineering and math degrees. we want our students to secure stem professional careers. students who use technology as a tool to explore their identities expand their possibilities and be of service to others. ultimately our students will become advocates of social justice,