to look at what's happening in the bayview and the seating part of san francisco we're coming out in the winter some consider a dictate neutrons i believe that one day this corridor is going to be the engine of san francisco where families with going to be able to stay in san francisco and businesses like high tech in the dog patch neighborhood that continue to grew and look for their future employees right here at this middle school so without further ado i'd like to bring a man that truly needs no introduction noted former mayor willie brown but mayor ed lee another mayor that needs to abstraction bridging the gap between technology into the neighborhood so who is filling the nature of the community and

making sure they're making systemic and institutional investment in our neighborhood ladies and gentlemen, mayor ed lee. (clapping.) >> thank you for that introduction sxhoemg i'm only gag going to sthufls a couple of things i was talking to woesh that feels good to open this up i asked him did you get a chance to do this i remember remember you you were responsible for opening up the tenderloin when you recognize how important you can realize this is similarly as important let me say this to those the school board and the superintendent and all the

elected officials but patrolling to principle hobnobbing so that i'm existed at this time for our city to have to be able to have continued viewing confuses with virtually every area of success and education is at the center of everything to be a world-class city is such an inviting conversation that last night sitting around the table with 15 ceo's of companies and talk about what what we are doing with our school district is an incredible picture that we're painting for our senate file i can't see of the future because i look at her and i know she's going to be successful whether my job or melissa's job or a ceo of a company it school

will make a difference in fact our school system is making a difference this why i'm so combrifrd to have a relationship with statue of liberty we have the unique opportunity to talk about the future when i meet with the ceo's and companies as i do on a weekly basis we talk i talk about the mature investment the companies are looking for talent the school district is creating that talent for them this is the unique connection we have with our education system this is why the campus is important it is forward-looking and as principle hobnobbing so that has said we're not only going to be a great learning center but establish the creators of the future when you have that as the goal

for a middle school you're talking about the most critical thinking to have to happy with the youngest challenged age of our school district the middle grades that's why i met with mr. benny hoff a couch years ago and asked him to make the biggest education investment investment they could possibly do he's done with with our promises and teachers be principle hobnobbing so that you're in the line of middle school principles that embraces our schools i know you treasure and stanley have us visit every grades on a periodic basis to make sure our creatorors are creating the kinds of things this the future that critical thinking is possible the stem thinking is future the 2025 is a future for

our world-class city that's why the investment a happening and that's why we've gone beyond the benny hoff foundation and asked all the 2 thousand technology companies to circle our schools in doing so they said okay. if you invite us to p do that mayor ed lee what are you going to do well today's announcement is more than the opening of the school the anticipation this willie brown jr. middle school will be the 9th beacon center for the city and county of san francisco (clapping.) what did he mean i don't think we've opened the beacon center what do you do what well 20 years ago then former mayor willie brown invited new york

state and he saw schools this were embraced by the school with supportive after-school programs with entities that existed beyond the hours of the school that brought talent to the school site at all hours whether for health support or more creation those days you'll find cody's to help with the center that's created here with all the after-school programs that make that a beacon this is what we mean by beacon center lead by the investing of the city and county of san francisco we're pouring in over $4 million in each and all of beacon centers that's y where superintendent wants me to go each - but it's

our city investment that demonstrates to the private sector we're putting in our investment here our kids are our investment join us in making them your investment do more than watch invest and you'll see the parent and community come alive more than in the past so this is where we are going to make a difference for bayview this is a beacon center a central place marie a sue lined the agencies to be part of the beacon center along with the city agencies we're going to have a heavy dose of philanthropic support when willie and i talk with ceo's we'll be in unison but snavn in unison about what we're doing where the board of education

because the more we talk about us obey the world-class education center the more inviting it is for the investments to want to be here and this is why we're the center of attention the mayors will want to know what's happening in this school but how this dream comes about as such an inviting investment to all the ceo's in the city we will make a difference in a very short future for all our kids that's why i wanted police officers families to live in san francisco fire department families to live in san francisco the teachers to be able to afford more as we aggressively build more for the nickel and dimed folks we want to grow all the tenant and have it supported last night i was asked the question and continuing be asked

i get an opportunity it answer what do you want what do you really want out of our school system in san francisco i want a school system that's embraced our community and our city to embrace that that means that you'll never have teachers reaching into their own pockets to buy things the companies will do that the talent that sophia wants matched by those who are here physically engaging with the students and parents that more than hope that they believe and they'll be here because that parental engagement in this school will be at the highest level because of what we're investing is this is more than the promise the physical manifestations of one of the best schools that will produce

and reset the standards of the schools so the entire is system joins us in our world-class standards for the future if so what i believe and i'm so happy that that is got the name willie brown jr. when i was working for him he demanded the best out of all all of us through that effort we knew we could challenge all the coworkers in the city with that i'd like to welcome former mayor willie brown his main school for the future we only have to fill in the glass and maybe we'll get gold in the future (laughter) (clapping) >> mr. mayor

supervisor cohen elected members of the school board and, of course, the instructor demetrious and families particularly sophia and her mom and the families and even though people that live in this neighborhood you have no idea how proud i am at the moment and how proud i will be this is on the first 2 hundred walk through the door and look at it what we have here and to see how far we've come mr. mayor that was i don't know 2005 i think when then superintendent arching man came up along with the school board

of something called the dream schools all in that you are not of trying to make it possible with the quality education in san francisco's public schools to be equal to any collection of schools anywhere in the describing country and a pioneering effort by the school board and that superintendent their eliminates were imposed there was actually zero money mr. mayor there were almost no companies or ceo's that had any interest in public education to the dennis degree that you've be able to drive that 1y5ur7bd among them in san francisco be that as it may but a wonderful

school board and superintendent arching man did her best i was in a facility to train cops to be cops it proved to be not productive for cops cops moved on to something better and left the facility and school board and the superintendent tried to make it into a school it proved not to be a good match and fortunately for all of us the city and the school board and the people had the courage to shut it down and attempt to conceive of something far greater i can remember mr. superintendant i don't think you were superintendent snafbs you were not rode by you brought me out for this first occasion in a room when the architects had what they had in mind and

believe me what they had in mind was like yesterday compared to what we're looking at today, the effort was made starting with the concepts that had been done by those combiftdz and talented and well trained people they invited senate file i can't see mother and you'll the other mothers they invited did school board members and invited people from every agency of city government and my daughter susan got the responsibly to show up particle for every meeting i don't know the total number of month to month but prosecute a transformation of that concept to the reality that you have so logically described mr. mayor and to what we're standing in so what we're looking at and the projections of things that will come this august when the first 2 hundred students are not

limited to an incredible journey a journey that's been carefully clagsd cataloged and videoed and recorded it's been careful written about and will be written about because mr. superintendant i think henceforth, in every future bond measure that will be the book that the citizens of the city will be able to look at and see what's possible if they're willing to do with what they've done with the projects called schools and mr. mayor you were right when you asked me did you get a chance to open a school i said no, i didn't i thought and thought and thought mayor ed lee is so blessed everything good happens on his watch

(laughter). >> it's like the lord was mad at gavin not me but really great things and mr. mayor this is one of the great things i look forward mr. principle you are recruited no warrant were issued for you in chicago (laughter) pursue i came out to san francisco long before this building was to be opened and you started the process of doing what you need to do to make sure that not only does the building reflect the dreams that the board and the superintendent and the citizens had when they said let's do that but you notified the community to get to know you on a firearm basis i said someone you going to demetrious

school it's not demetrious school (laughter) i don't care what he's been telling you i am just overjoyed and ion above the entire willie brown jr. willie brown clan we are looking forward to the first day of school and i can't imagine ever having as many people as you said that made applications i can only assume the concept that has been so appropriately described has caused the families of senate file i can't see and others to sign on but the physical realty of walking through those fabulous doors i agree there ought to be goals (laughter) somewhere maybe around my portrait

(laughter). >> but i think when we walk through the doors you're going to be inundated there won't be 365 next time around but multiples and believe me mr. mayor i suspect the sdieshltd of this school at the middle school level will exceed the desirability of families trying to get into school it will be the power point of the rest of the schools reflecting the commitment you've made mr. mayor to the development the families in this city and i'm more than over enjoyed that that carries the name that my mother gave me thank you (clapping).

>> so how in the world does anyone follow willie brown mr. mayor we're so proud that building that be fitting our legacy so thank you for honoring us today, there maybe a lot of folks that drive over the bridge that don't call it the willie brown bridge but under will be a lot of the kids going to the willie brown jr. middle school before i turn it over to principle hobson ladies and gentlemen, this didn't happen without enlightened people policymakers people that are elected and i'm very, very proud to introduce the members of the board of education our president emily murase and our commissioner shamann walton and

our immediate past president of the board urban forestry and hydra mendosa thank you, thank you for being here (clapping) i want to thank someone he likes to work behind the scenes and didn't wear his hard hat but david golden with that i'm going to turn it over to principle hobson we'll go through the rest find our program. >> thank you all very much. >> thank you supervisor cowen, superintendent carranza mayor ed lee and mayor brown thank you for that president to expand beacon site in the fall of 2016 and i want to acknowledge our families the silver family and her son gregory and ms. walker

and ms. christine the mother i'm excited i'm nervous that is a huge task it's monumental the district has put a lot of love into this to the o spot i've been in situations where i see schools close and it tells the community that community cares about the citizens this city's leaders care and thank you all for this opportunity and we can conclude have a great day

>> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it host it share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005 she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of species species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long

detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. >> of course the overall mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. one of which is the nature of life. how did we get here? the second is the challenge of sustainability. if we are here how are we going to find a way to stay? these questions resonated very

strongly with maya. >> on average a species disappears every 20 minutes. this is the only media work that i have done. i might never do another one because i'm not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. memorials to me are different from artworks. they are artistic, but memorials have a function. >> it is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from water tanks in clear lake. that is the scupltural form that gives expression to maya's project. if you think about a cone or a

bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd often to communicate an important message. this project has a very important message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we don't even know is gone. >> so what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of this cone is whether you want to call it like the r.c.a. victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look at the past, the present and the future? >> you can change what is then missing by changing the software, by changing what is projected and missing. so missing isn't a static installation. it is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. and she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researchers ers--

group of researchers at the california academy. >> this couldn't have been more site specific to this place and we think just visually in terms of its scupltural form it really holds its own against the architectural largest and grandeur of the building. it is an unusual compelling object. we think it will draw people out on the terrace they will see the big cone and say what is that. then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context a context that really allows people to

appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. >> we could link to different institutions around the globe

maybe one per continent maybe two or three in this country then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. in 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to by 2011, invite people to add a memory. so in a funny way the member rely grows and there is something organic about how this memorial begins to have legs so to speak. so we don't know quite where it will go but i promise to keep on it 10 years. my goal is to raise awareness and then either protect forests from being cut down or reforest in ways that promote biodiversity. >> biodiverse city often argued to be important for the world's human populations because all of the medicineal plants and uses that we can put to it and fiber

that it gives us and food that it gives us. while these are vital and important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars, the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotional emotional, psychological spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. >> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memberorial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe don't

commit the same mistakes. . >> good morning, everyone, welcome to the it san francisco board of supervisors budged and finance subcommittee meeting for wednesday , april 1, 2015. my name is mark farrell, i will be chairing this meeting, joined by supervisor katytang, joined by supervisor mar and supervisor scott weiner. madam clerk. >> yes, mr. chair, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards and copies of all documents