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e regular meeting of of october 11, 2016. >> thank you, mr. koffman no public speakers on this item any questions or comments from the board. >> so i have a couple of questions i mean a number of questions how this will work i'm wondering so i see the courses for that we're offering in the spring who decided what courses and what courses will be offered like how are we're going to decide what courses we'll offer this year. >> so the courses are actually no wonder between cc sf and sfusd in alignment with our
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current courses so the idea that to bui to build fidelity for opportunities for certification programs and to build our college and pathway too big build a solid foundation and moving forward we'll look at other courses that are available and really a negotiation between cc sf and the office of college of careerness. >> do they limit the number. >> i don't believe so but in the beginning we wanted to start with a small very directive and targeted classes we set up with and just building on the current existing classes in the pathways programs to the school sites. >> is there a little limitation on like only juniors and seniors can enroll or allow
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freshmen and others too. >> i'm going to defer to may i hudson i know they have 16 years and older as part of agreement to enrolled students in the programs doesn't the change in the state law allow us to give credit to younger students. >> for this agreement it allows tenth and 11 and 12 graders to take other classes thank you. >> dr. murase. >> one question so the students that take the courses will they be awarded college credits. >> yes. their offered not only college credits but a cca. >> i appreciate that that very much there's been an ongoing
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discussion at the board about access for students that point college credit scissors through the app program that has an uneven sustainability in the district i support this as another way for students to get college credits thank you. >> ms. fewer. >> that is wonderful actually, i think this is the director we should be going instead of education classes it is an a t class i know that a t class actually, you don't get college credits necessarily you score i mean the scale is one to 5 you get a 5 to get college credits so no guarantee. so i then as direction actually, we should go with all our seniors it would be fabulous if all the students have college
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courses it proves they can succeed with college the first generations to attend college i think outside the box this gives them the added confidence and an a t class is tact for text not the depth and the breathe of a full class and he also think that if they can get college credits it helps them to alleviate some of the costs of college and want to see all the students have a year of college credit under their pellet by the confidence i'm a graduate of city college and i went from george washington high school and didn't think i/had the confidence there were classes i failed and learned a lot from that but the opportunity i had
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and this is another plug for city college the opportunity to take the classes at city college was my father thought when i was 14 it was my opportunity to go to college but it changed my life quite frankly and gave me a second chaplain i think that when we have this opportunity for our students to take those classes i think that we should give it expanded and the partnership is what i've looked for many years and pushed this this is remarkable this is the right thing to do it is the right constriction for our kids and actually, i think that helps us level the playing field so thank you very much >> thank you. i agree i think this is really important step in the right direction we should be
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aware of and work on we have students that are are who are allowed to lots of students in high school to take classes in college and high school we've done life things to facilitate and that was one the original reasons for moving the school year forward was to be more closely offsite or i understand with institutions of higher learning like city college with our students and like our educators to be able to participate some of the special development of other institutions of higher learning but we - this was supposed to be a huge opportunity for students to be able to take classes at city college and they to this day and high-end achieve students adding more to their transcript and to
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their experience it is great but didn't address the equity issues so this is a very important step in the right direction to make sure that we don't i remember what we have in place is the best intention is something that gives an opportunity and take advantage of the students we want to take advantage but not those who need it for credit recovery or an opportunity to assess higher education and career, etc. i'm hoping that will be another lever in that work we'll be working on this relationship will help us to work more on things that we can do some of it may require we'll talk about that but looking at more flexibility and scheduled in high school for students they can do things off the campus
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more i don't know the answers or not i'm sure there are plenty of people with wisdom but this is important but i think the bigger issue about maximizing an opportunity for that the students is still unresolved we have a lot of experience we'll go with that and this work being a step in the right direction but hopefully help us too. >> student delegate. >> thank you yeah yes. i echo my school - i know yeah city college sorry i know that is really great and goes into this college my school didn't have a t classes it is a great way to experience college and this is
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great kind of like to double check and also the students are not required; right? to take those for anything and information sharing didn't doesn't state what - didn't say a lot but my concern is personally documented to how maybe you can answer this how city college followed up with with keeping the information private and safe. >> so that's one of the beauties of this agreement now a shared partnership agreement with that as well so the instruction with the legal department i don't know that the legalities but i i know that our legal department with sfusd is a single department working closely with our data shairl or sharing agreement that is all safe and secure and that
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protects our dehumanized students and other students that is a primary reason for being involved in it as well. >> thank you. >> i actually appreciate you're raising that that was previously a barrier for some of the students to be able to take the classes at city college we had to go up to sacramento and get a bill back to address that issue to make sure that was 2540 it was attending to high school students and make sure that continues to be monitored and have access for all the students i want to say one thing echoing from the entire board how excited we are about this work and hope that continues move forward and to expend tendered and debris to see the growth in the number of students that are enrolled it is extraordinary and appreciate a sweat shi shout ou
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education portfolio city college must be a foundation for what we can offer in educational experience for children and youth and young people in the city of san francisco we can't have that conversation without starting with both sfusd and city college together and opening up the entire portfolio there is potential for us to do incredible things in terms of what we offer the students and the ultimate goal a pathway to high field careers here that allows them to stay and broadened in san francisco and city college is a unique position to provide those pathways so thank you with that, i think we'll take a vote on this roll call please. thank you for your work. >> ms. ing.
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>> ms. fewer ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and mr. haney 7 i's. >> (clapping.) >> all right. item l discussion of other education issues two thank you, everyone again for your patience and commitment in staying with us for those two important conversations i'm pass it now to superintendant lee we believe we have a power point. >> thank you, president haney i'm going to just make a few introductory remark our fabulous ali team and superintendant guerrero will make remarks as well the first thing i'd like to do it already happened by all the
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commissioners or most of i to thank the apac for some of the apac members that are still here i believe we're all very appreciative of the work and the momentum that is building with apac and most of us have made at least within visit not apac this year and echoing other comments that commissioners have made i was really blown away by the turn out the deputy of the conversation, the engagement and the following through so i want to thank you, mr. link you're work and all the members of the apac we're encouraged to see such moementd building i want to thank reverend brown for his comments tonight and for
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extending himself so consistently and honestly to all of us including me personally i respect everything he said to us and shared with us tonight and agree with all of it certainly want to society myself with the point of view that we live and work in a deeply i think equal and unfair and racist society and we have to accept we situate our work in the context and doing everything we can to acknowledge it and combat it at the same time, we have to manage the tension i think this is a struggle for us and true with the ali team as well between being clear eyed about
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the status quo that is not acceptable and haunts all of us we must own and not paralyzed by the devastating status quo and celebrating the successes and investing in a acceptable self self-defense a tricky balance for all of us and comes through in the discussion over the next several minutes and want to say remarked on that a few meetings ago i believe are commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell have made president haney referenced vision 2025 vision 2025 is a vision so for our students is absent of a repeat of some comments i made at an earlier meeting centered around this graduate profile once the graduate profile represent to us
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and to me and then steering wheel efficient vision of every graduate including every brake student that we serve to not just graduate not just have contact knowledge but to have a sense of belonging creativity and ability to collaborative and to be a digital citizen with a sense of belonging empathy and finally most important to be filled with a sense of purpose and value if this vision is something we can deliver as reverend brown and others said to all the teacher the african-american students every african-american student can excel i wholeheartedly agree every student in the district can excel this is a two part the apac presentation and the discussion was part one that is
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part two but the discussion definitely do hand in hand i will also like to thank the ali team they'll introduce themselves mr. dickey may lead the introduction to the team but a fantastic team we're lucky to have you and see how hard you're working and how much of yourselves you're throwing into this work and certainly not alone and superintendant guerrero will comment how some of the ali team fits between a broader set of fofrtsdz that all of us in the district are engaging in i've about this been to enough event this fall and i just can't say enough about the personal candidates that each the members of the team is throwing into each event and the continuity of events together and the work that happens in
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between the two their here and there all over the place xoouft the events so skillfully and passionately in a way that deeply is connected to the community and their breaking down the apparatus of every events they're working really, really hard that is gives us a sense of belonging appreciation and gratitude and inspires us to be working as hard i'm going to turn it over to superintendant guerrero. >> thank you superintendant lee i will only add tonight commissioners you'll be hearing a rotator that captures the leadership by mr. landon dickey and expanded to the african-american leadership team that will report will provide for you an important baseline the status of a.m. student outcomes and provide an overview
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for school years 2016-2017 this is important work i two want to undermine also the accommodations to mr. dickey and his team for providing leadership capacity to continue to stay focused on the works but i want to recognize reverend browns earlier remarks that echo loudly for all of us we understand and only be successful by adapting a more expensive and collective approach to this work clearly this important work is not solely the responsibility of our apac and team we all have to share opener and accountable for this work i want to undermine there is an elevated level of priority this is telegraph hill been placed across all the conversations and leadership
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structures in san francisco unified in addition to the ali lead activities you'll hear about in a moment i'll name a couple of examples you'll hear some of these referred to tie in the presentation they everything just a pointed out a couple number one your superintendents leadership team by superintendant lee has selected as a key area of focus for the african-american students achievement and okay in the underserved community with the key focus for the school year, and, secondly, our deputy superintendent has initiated the year-long studies of identifying african-american students at a vocal school to understand the challenge and the impact of your support and intervene and where we need to increase those
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third, i also want to make sure that it is clear we continue to monitor and provide direct support and intervene to schools like lowell high school for african-american students themselves have voiced concerns within their community and learn how they maybe providing lessons not only within the community but how those practices might be expanded across many more schools commissioners in our in box you will find also a lengthy all of a variety of ways that staff is placing the emphasis often the african-american achievement a summary and update of the work at lowell and the board will be hearing at an upcoming meeting and hear an assessment the work
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commenced and coordinated by the superintendent and along with the clorox of many central office departments we're putting a reenthused focus negative impact that the bayview community with that, i'm going to turn it over to mr. landon dickey to present the fall 2016 for the african-american achievement thank you >> thank you intern superintendant lee and deputy superintendent superintendant guerrero for that introduction and thank you for having us i want to commend our parents advisory council and the hard working to make sure our black students are supported and vacated forfeiture for that presentation i really like to start off by expressing my apologies i'm too close to the my case by expressing gratitude for the people in the audience tonight for people sitting in
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front of me this work and this team we're surrounded by everybody that care deeply about our children and not to do better he can't express enough the presentation for all it community partners our families our department of within the district, you are funderers and city department all the incredible people that come together to move 24 work my name is is a landon dickey the personal assistant for the african-american leadership i'm joined by the ali and to my left is - our to my right is post secondary pathway supervisor and our junior assistant and teacher our peeking coordinator and only because there was not enough seats i'll say it go anthony our
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program coordinator. >> to share should some of the objectives for the presentation tonight there is 3 main things we're to accomplish one establishing a database sign for african-american achievement and demographics at the usf and illustrating the way in which the african-american is a priority coons the decision making and provide a even if of the african-american achievement bodies of work over the 2016-2017 school year. >> so for some of you joining us for the fit so when i joined the district nearly two years ago at this point one of the - well the first thing to
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acknowledge a robust body for african-american students but one of the things that we wanted to lift up the need to bring greater coherence and understanding to the work that was going on as well bio it possible to launch how to demonstrate how to do better by the african-american students one of the initial things establish a resolution with the boards support to lead-out a pathway for the african-american achievement and way you anonymously supported as i really a team combined with districts that some community partners and a parents representative developed a theory action that was shaped where we put our focus over the last two years the main component without reading verbatim how to raise the exception in the african-american students and thinking about a gross mindset
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and professional development how we elevating the fact that in college it is something you yes for students and educators we're focused on engaging a philanthropic empowering the african-american to - a lot of events worthwhile and in which we enjoy working with the families and partnership and clorox into the events and some of the 09 work that happens in the background we are committed to have wrap around support for readiness for learning and you think front about the needs of students bring to the classroom and making sure they're receiving support and addressing oversee needs and providing rigorous instruction we believe if we do all those things we'll have rebuilt trust with the african-american students and
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families and we heathen the relationship themes it is important as you may know offer the last 40 years that a series of efforts that haven't taken us to a place mental illness we need to work hand in hand with the community partners to rebuild that and owner that trust back in terms of doing we we need to do for the african-american families and the students will be prepared for work beyond high school. >> so just to spend - briefly on this slide met the 5 individuals including myself of our tame that function out of superintendents office and fortunate to have the support of peace and to expand to support we have four insofar as working at school sites directly with
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african-americans so to start to permitted some of the context one of the things that we set out with our african-american oversight committee the teams holding outcomes for african-american students what to develop a score card and to be frank and transparent about where we stood with african-american students and to really start to train ourselves in a district with specific goals 3re7 to see how the goals with the goal of closing the achievement gaps for african-american students in the district and rewe aligned those to a specific measure to track and
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the 3 columns to the right on 2014-2015 what was the target for 2015-2016 and actually land at the end of this on this particular slide more measures and on the following one a bio measure in some cases not a measure we want to call it out it is important to move towards murray and tracking and on the initial slide around the kindergarten readiness and increasing the high school readiness you see some progress there in terms of our high school readiness race but unfortunately on other indicators you'll see stagnant and moving in the wrong direction on the score card you have the student readiness indicator for special education
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and chronic absenteeism and their geared towards i'm sorry the majority are here the final two are referring our graduation rate and your uc eligible graduation retails and again so when it comes to fact results at the most we saw increases of 2 percent in the third grade we saw our greatest success in terms of graduation rates increase in the usc u eligibility rates so again, it is important that we are transparent and frank about the data within the district and i know with your community partners we're all in agreement this is not sufficient and the process is not fast enough to close the achievement gap we've committed to tie in our resolution and part of emphasis
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is the heightened activities that we are putting in place for this year i want to say that while the data what about - one thing that brings me solis is meeting the families and knowing they're ready for us and waiting to catch up to our ability and intelligence and their capacities i believe the district we can do that. >> so for african-american students and sfusd overal we have about 45 hundred african-american students and 8 percent of the overall student population the greatest proportion off our african-american families in bayview hunters point followed by visitacion valley and sunnyvale and the western edition as deputy superintendent guerrero mentioned one of our vocal areas we want to say we're looking for how are we thinking
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about supporting our bayview and wrapping around the partnering with all the departments and you'll hear a little bit more about that next meeting. >> and then again, just quickly to give people a sense of belonging this slide shows where our african-american students are in greatest number in schools within the district abltd of a breakdown of how he break out by elementary school and high school you have from ranging from mission high school and the greenish hash you see the greatest number of african-american students the presentation will talk about how we look at instant change and the specific programs launched? where that is striving to create within an initiative and the department we work with
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a misrepresent layer approach this slide i'll not spent a lot of time but pre-k through 12 we made efforts over the last seven years and initiative to the mission high school and elementary school level and in the initiatives in the district and making a connection for success and through the r tyranny through the entire system on ecology and planning sniebt how we are working internally with the superintendent and the office making sure that we have the information we need to make intelligent discussions in supporting our students he and having a strong sense of belonging haggle the priorities for african-american students to
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talk about a little bit through the program you'll turn to our assistant. >> good evening the data is an internal place of business for all departments district wide in partnership with the research and accountability we're feeding data on track status math and other data into an illustration what you say before you is a snapshot of a data illustration on the interface and through interest is mock data to protect the student identity but this will give you something about what the data looks like this interface enables us to look at the programs and policies - good evening
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everyone you'll roanoke that our students faculty. >> staff posed unique assess for the proficient we had long invites with a particular lens around african-american achievement and lifting up stakeholders voices on the campuses how do we do that with school claimant visits and faculty and staff to lennar about the visits - on campus with our team and see this connect work we're gathering information and getting feedback from administrators to develop that emerge from the work in a
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timing fashion and plan think continuing this work and throughout the school year but in partnership with the directors to insure we're having a conversation about the african-american students and family experiences and activities here on the slide as you can see this is what we did last spring and the schools we attended. >> so to the point of african-american entrepreneurial oversight one of the key areas was how are we're going to elevate the african-american k450u6789 at the a priority really in overview table throughout the district i've been encouraged and i think we all have been to see the priority elevated cross the decision making bodies in the will district had the opportunity to work with the will superintendents leadership team to assure that the
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african-american achievement and action goals score card with utilized spevenlg with a lens serving the bayview and provide culturally and rigorous instruction within our schools we had the work lead belittles superintendent and director - we'll be carrying that conversation throughout the year within the monthly meeting that queens with our principals and our supervisors and principals as deputy superintendent superintendant guerrero mentioned identified case study 7 in total we're looking at identified and african-american data achievement in e l a and
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talking about moving forward with the score card that is one thing to insure we're making pointing out specific strategies to support of the african-american in e l a and highlighted within the resource management we're kaifrd what is going on in investment we support the african-american students specifically around literature. >> so just to go a little bit deeper into that we broke out or tried to give sight one the different teams within the district what are some of the things the use are for active measures looking at the he academic support so for the strategy development in the bayview ongoing case management
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activities for the students and community support teams within the bayview schools and as well as success for recruitment of african-american students within the superintendent the group of 25 mists across the district that work to support and to the policies and recommendations for the superintendent we're working to develop the schools and enhance the other for african-american i shared about resource management and looking to that body and within the family empowerment carving forgot the camera for stakeholder and having the opportunity to center that less than applied to african-american families - we shared that elevating the things in place to to the
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policies to program we're going to share about 9 partnerships but ask mr. irving to talk about that that. >> i'll speak to empower the african-american students for informed collaboration we're striving to increase the african-american families that indicate a sense of belonging belonging and ownership in the school sites the collaboration with the parents and community and district partners and successfully hosted the third hpd or c and the college signing event and supported the african-american honor roll together we're looefrp into the expertise and concerns of families to provide engagement and resource sharing and to lift up the narrative for the
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african-american students and their families an important part of our work has been supporting the african-american community citizens advisory but thinking about how we are empowering all families and if 24 pleads to apac we'll be supporting them in that work and during the blank family day i'm going to call outburst something the way we're moving forward with the african-american family engagement during black family day we held a supplement with the support of the black family resource and apac and the district cca and was of family partnerships and empowerment engaging our community to come together with african-american parents site administrators and family liaisons and teachers to look at creating the engagement with black families and
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certainly pushing opportunities and assess points for the african-american families doing so we know this work can't rest with families; right? a small group of families or just the mist or the family liaison but involving all the families to be kwaemd in a mature there's a two-way not just informing the black participants what they need to be involved before you ms. fewer said whether the engagement since the last time we talked in june there has been a development of 5 additional aids apacs you'll see up there and it is also the remaining 7 of the apacs at the school sites the list on the right the potential apac those are schools that
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reached out to us we want to focus on african-american family engagement and making sure the families are at the table we're thinking about how to first bring a stakeholder theme together to talk about african-american family engagement and if they're interested in creating an apac site. >> as we continue to think about the partnerships as we shared in the first 5 things in front of you we've been working to develop an initiative in front of you the partnerships with the bridge to success with the focus only insuring that we're doubling the numbers of sfusd students underrepresented that graduated for college and career and working with the city college and sfaifrment and
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continuing to carry forward the african-american high school students and graduates to be my brother's keeper and post secondary pathway to say about my brother's keeper and brothers and sisters and benefits through the brothers and sisters keeper to develop the partnership with multiple organizations some of the other things to note with moving forward with the brothers and sisters keeper we're seeing resources directly citywide for a pathway for the my brothers and sisters and the public utilities commission and we're also mar that ongoing priorities we're better late than never how are we varnsz infrastructure and across all the projects within the district within the city to make it so we're held accountability for the work happening within our strategy and make sure that that we are
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thinking carefully how to lift up information in realtime or what throughout all of the partners what is our early warning carts to help to offset the students in need whether cameras safety or health one of the things our group is strooifrl to lift up the instant number of families we focus the effort to make sure that the reality of my brothers and sisters keeper is directly with the families. >> the last section of this presentation is amongst the leadership the work we're doing directly or impacting students within our communities and one thing to share before we go into that has we reflect on the goals score card and some of the work we'll about to share a
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lot of what we share is categorical the work with the african-american students and help to lift up the lessons that are ground in data as you think that impacting the results on that goal score card we are able to work with our broader districts fast to make a realty we see those as demonstration what we can do for the students and in learn mode to make sure we're sharing those lessons we can see the ground need for african-americans. >> one of the projects we
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launched in order to build this advocate for african-american from k through 12 walled the african-american round table this is a process we're speaking to support the development of action plan informs african-american students in school sites and wrap up around those sites with the ability to carry the goal for participant that holed up the goals of those students and make sure they're provided support throughout the school year on the left-hand side the breakdown of the graphics for the students involved in that work in the breakdown by grade level and gender and sites in the data we've collected for the students as we've cerebrothe fall of this year we've seen greater interests as part of sunlight looking to remedy indicate the model and working will be working with the assistant
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superintendant to think about how you can brings to the action plan to multiple sites to make sure that the students are supported and this is one of the key things we'll be measuring the growth that the students are looking at throughout the school year. >> good evening i'd like to talk about the african-american development course we have the course in 4 of our schools one high school and 4 memorial day with the direction this course provides a sense of belonging identity as a learn helped them to evaluate the self-that a madam chair man, you fundamental outlet to provide to the young mena curse that is agreed pooven to petite the g requirement of
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the a through g we have four insofar as that were hired one at the high school and middle school they're learning african-american history it is the rigorous course where this course is part of a their day we hoping in the future to do some refinement around the course to expand it out possibly into the other areas within the next if i few years. >> we have one and 42 students engaged in this course cross the four campuses one of an additional thing of the black star leadership academy and that is a series of 6 workshops for in coming negligent grader that was developed in 1910 as part of u n
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a the announced negatively act to encourage the folks in the united states and to limit an in global expiration we used it tilted so our young people will take on somewhat of that we provide dedicated person guidance in a way for the freshmen around course selection a through g requirements and truants they're able to complete tare course work and detainee their student engage for higher education and the first workshop theory equipped the african-american students with vital skills to navigate high school and encourages the african-american students to become an independent learn and folks of their own education we have excellence we have our
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freshmen enter not reilly the priority of completing invite grade with passing grades with not a c but higher we're building awareness that the african-american ninth graders and taking high school as a serious task if you look at the chart right here that is a trends we ask the students 4 questions prior to the workshop as you can see question no. 3 gaurtsdz garners the largest response connecting to their council they were not on key with the other questions which were all singular in context one we provided the workshop with the young people that is amazing that the same question they were able to respond to with a completely different mindset and acquired the knowledge not prior
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we find this is quite helpful and looking forward to the next series of workshops we plan on what are any a g courses and how can i select courses and understanding the transcripts and exactly what is on it and the spring semester a fall review and some of them understand the transcripts and others understand how colleges might look at that transcript and provides them with summer enrichment and a year-end reflection through the sores of workshops we've been able to partner with a number of your community-based organizations and one the prep u.s. fire and scholars and selected impact and college track a you few usf those people are is a history of gaementd with students so
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bringing them into the collaboration to we feel this black star academy much stronger. >> greetings and good evening everyone what i want to talk about the black student units with the high schools and mission high school to the left with the social emotional and culture compliments secondary survey of 2016 african-american students are in orange within those surveys we see that there are definitely room for improvement in terms of our students experiencing the perspective of grow mind sets and academic learning and a sense of belonging belonging the items we're mostly focusing on the black union engagement with the black mindset a sense
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of belonging belonging within the campus and the goals and sustained programming we found that at one time the black students unions will be strong one by one one year but students transitioning out of programming this is something we're directly to engage with the poor black student leadership is necessary for any type of african-american students success to truly be a success in which the direction we want some of the activities were district wide african-american experience bringing in leaders from the black student leadership to be a leadership council and advocacy for their needs and work with the black leadership to execute the reality for our success for the brake african-american and forming the activities within the - supporting the b issues
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within the high schools whereas that could mean building up a entirely new structure for black students and a funding for the brilliant ideas that black students excellence is supporting within our direction in addition the black submit bringing together the black student leaders. >> and before i move on to that slide i want to acknowledge one hundred college prep in the black school educators that is taking place this friday we urge encourage you to go out and support the advocacy and other important thing we carried forward this year to that about our support of the all black student union that is one
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specific black student union a team made an effort making sure the students get on the ground and provide additional activities to enhance that and to the power point of the heightened priorities that by the placed on african-american achievement school is an example of a place we are collaborating with the family community support across curriculum instruction to respond to some of the dances and including the placement of professional development we started last spring through sf set support educators and including the convections about equities a welcome day that was held forever african-american parents and introduction to academic support or african-american ninth grades by the staff this fall semester take care and outlined additional activities in a document that can be
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carried with you all i want to share call out the fact we appreciate you bringing up the demands and we're to address those. >> college and career access is a vocal point and fortunate to collaborative with the department in the district to promote awareness and assess what the goal of closing 9 gap we see on this slide specifically our collaborative work stream to increase the rate at which at african-american students are eligible for the admission to the completion as always as we do in the team we're informed as part of this line of work are informed by data not to exceed to an track and higher education enrollment
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plan and completion projects include invited to the affordability counseling and continued work to provide services to the students so we're nearing the homestretch that is a longer presentation so in terms of our upcoming areas on terms we are thinking through moving forward how we are conducting the level policy analysis and recommendations for reform when it comes to our students having access to the enrollment as we look at trends in disproportionately and then a conversation that we're engaged west-northwest our peeking student system and also the high school and this is the sum of
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the select processes we also want to make sure with with continued report from the school sites how to have training for staff to address tloorns and respect for african-american students and families some of our families are sharing their hostile environments and want to make sure we are thinking about that in a coordinated way and think that developing more a framework of cultural tapes that the conversation take place in the instruction that the families need for support and as shared earlier we're thinking how to better use the data that will identify and respond that have academic and social e emotional use
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a summary of lessons learned so one we feel strongly where there is a concerted focus on the african-american students we've seen that positive change in the district for the increasing the dwraugs rates and momentum of the street goals and project we've been fortunate to have support in african-american achievements for independently school sites and spur for additional investment hiring the staff and peeking to encourage i'm encouraged to see the work a broader work level and we know that will be critical we're continuing to build buy in for strategies to continue to get the ferry building from the community partners on the
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priorities and really thinking but how we are doing this a improving our communication internally and extraordinarily and i think through the quality of the program we're providing is essential a big focus of the solid first day workshops and want to be aware how we are identifying and following students in terms of being aware of the full number of african-american students at the site and remaining the families within the district. >> a one thing we'll be looking to engage our partners one of the things that of called out in the resolution an annual report on all the different activities take place for the african-american achievement across all departments and have a draft we wanted to insure
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we're sharing that and getting feedback on that from the community partners so one of the things that will take place over the course of november holding office hours according with some of our anchor communities partners to make sure that report will be a feedback from are partners before finalizing the publication so again, thank you for our families and face bans organizations and board of education commissioners fewer support and again, it is a - it - i was hesitant to name groups but the educators are in the crowd our naacp and reverend brown for his support 100 percent college prep and mo'
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magic and shouldn't are started down the street but for all the broad support in moving forward and. >> thank you for your presentation a couple of folks signed up public comment. virginia marshall, are you sure you want to follow reverend brown. >> (laughter). >> thank you
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mr. president, and mr. vice president and members of the board and my friends i applaud the team for the great effort they have married before this provision that is here a great book of wisdom the proverbs says where there is no vision the people perish and that vision phrase and the pages in the transmission of bible no discipline the people perish i don't say this in a majority way but a role expression of the fact we are not on the witness stand with socio metrological
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and the black history if you're not at the table you're on the menu. >> now sociology realty must be underscored if you want to do something in the black community the black faith community can't be an epitomize but at the center of the table that man that wrote that book the people's religion that great poster gallop underscores it every sunday morning every holy day 55 percent of black people are in some commune or faith
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maybe thirty percent of the latino percent 25 percent in asian community friends that's a fact and if you want to really impact the said and psyche and turn around this you have to specifically hook up with those black preachers and that black faith communicated that community i'm talking about process if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. some of us have too much religion we're so heavenly minded no earth be good but solid substantive ongoing relationships
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why because many of the grandmothers and uncles reagan the children and many of them are nfl crack. >> addicted babies if you want to get the hearts of people the reverend to the partners you made a good effort a good gesture like getting the parents involved but after 25 ain't happening we are 45 hundred black students in the district according to the statistics we also have last but not least to deal with that problem a hundred if you can't grate one hundred parents those are the ones not coming to the school house and their understand the language and culture of school and if we
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don't lovelyly respectfully get them into the gaze and they understand that we are working to make it a good thing in the educational process for their children we will be like jack and the bear making tracks but getting no where. >> good evening i didn't want to follow reverend brown but bear with me president haney and commissioner walton and we have to go home and do their homework
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superintendant lee and superintendant guerrero. >> i have a lot for the reverend brown and the members of naacp and ladies and gentlemen, and boy and girl i stand before you and say thank you on behalf of the educators and thank to mr. dickey it is as though to watch his work and work with you on behalf of our students in sfusd and to know that to me the great measure of success we hire someone that comes through our district that mr. dickey spent a lot of time and back home to work to know that mr. irving is one of ours and back to work and to your apac patterns every thursday they are working hard and as mr. superintendant lee
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and wanting meaning e haney and commissioner walton said and other commissioners they remember supposed to meet once a week he watch and run back upstairs the custodian is not will happy but the third thursday our room is filed with african-american parents and supporters is wonderful this is had been it's a 90-year-old educator in the school district and for reverend brown to have this named after her she's honored she can't see the work but i want to call attention to the peeking parents this john a new co-president and ms. teresa richmond so that who's the laid in the green dress and
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potentially coming to us and others are not here by working hard to get this off the ground and we're very happy for part of that team to get this show off the ground i want you to know the superintendents have been supportive of this initiative but as said to the community this is not just the responsibility of the dickey team but the responsibility of all of us to make sure that all african-americans child leaves us with career and college ready how do we do that recommendations is that every african-american child before they leave third grade they're able to read at grade level how do we do that by getting voting against guns and if he's working
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with jim we don't want that ever to occur in our schools how do we do that a sense of belonging wellness on third street the decoration has thanked president obama how do we do that work with our schools with the social health initiatives so before i take my seat we want to thank again reverend brown and the members of the naacp for that standing by our sides to always being there to support the african-american children and thank you to the team lead by mr. dickey and this great body and thank linda jordan we have begun to spread out the work she does at the other schools one of the nights of all one and 16 schools have this where linda is
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working with us to meet program a couple of days ago you're a principal and he's here somewhere but he always opens up his doors to come with our alliance programs thank you for being there for us again, thank you, thank you thank you. we want to keep this program going and it would be nice that every child with superintendant lee a latino descent that is struggling leaves third grade ready to go to fourth grade and to graduate high school that can be done if we continue this great program thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, ms. marshall and reverend brown and the team for your presentation i'm sorry to open up to the board i'm sure there are
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questions or comments. >> ms. fewer. >> yes. thank you for this presentation and an update on this i think i first want to direct any comments to the academic data that is present to us and at our last presentation that was a less of structural challenges that were listed i don't see that included in this presentation today but i think that is essential to actually reinvite those structural challenges we presented to the board at the last presentation because those are the special challenges we have to change if we want this data to change this data is not
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pro tem with we can do much better we look at our target and we look at actually how we done on i know i know that if when we look at this it is falls short i think of our start and i think that in order to change this and have the significant change in this data we need to look at the structural challenges that actually recommended last time and i see i think that although i love the effort that is being put into this i feel like more elizabeth i didn't but maybe by this board and our district i think when we don't get to the structural challenges what is -
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this academic achievement it the pathway i think we agree if they don't have academic achievement we can't complete in the 21st century when i look at the increase in the graduation rate with the greatest year better i see 31.7 percent so for clarification are you telling me that 31 plus percent of a class of 2017 graduated with a grade of c or better with the graduation requirement? >> so someone can definitely correct me so the 31.7 perris is refers to having an a through g course so the other percent of
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the students have one d in the course. >> i think the analyze it probably will give us a better indicator of what we've closed the opportunity gap or we're clolths closing the opportunity gape feel like everything around the african-american students about achievement so to leave them to have a lifelong career for them to the successful in the 21st century that will be challenging to them but to all the students and especially to the students that may see themselves 2, 3, 4 college situation not a lapsing population they'll have to have the scott wiener's success to compete
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that's what it is telling me me 70 perce 70 percent am i reading that wrong this is a alarming so this means 70 percent have thought graduating students are not graduating with a c or better and we purposing actively as a board set the standard fairly high but which we firmly believe that the board in this district that students need to be educated at that level in order to be successful from which to launch an educational career and so and be successful at it so of the 31.7 percent of the class of 2017 how many enrolled if
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college and have we tracked with their success in colony from that, we, thenfromthat, we, t5t get any information what was - how can we - our job to truly evaluate after graduation we have the tools actually to craft our students track them how well they've done in a two year or 4 year to see where the students and how have we prechtd them have we been successful in 31 percent and also mr. dickey do you know the number i see that
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is as a percentage but the actual number of 31.7 percent is. >> so with the caveat it is put in front of you that number is one and 19. >> so we looked at the class of 2014 be 24.6 percent and the number of that the actual students i'm sorry can you repeat that question. >> when we look at the class of 2014 and it says 24.6 percent do we know the actual number of students there. >> i'm sorry i'll have to get back with you. >> i was wondering how many
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individuals we are and if we're that's a great question their success with a requirement with the c or better is about college entrance about opportunities because we know eligibility is for college entrance is the standard i would yeah, i'll ask how many of those individuals enrolled in college and how did the individuals do and do we have information about how well, we served them and do we do any sort of tracking of them to see maybe that we can then as we're doing a lot of different - approaches quite frankly could - are those approaches actually i
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understand with what they'll need to be successful in college i think this is how we sort of track ours through the voices of our own students so it is we can't talk about product absenteeism without looking at out of class time teacher referrals because crop be absenteeism is one thing when a student attends school but then it has a large enough of out of class time because of referrals then i think that is something we need to look at so chronic absenteeism is out of class time; right? now and then instruction time but we have to look at that together as you
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know, together as a group and then i'm wondering you know that sense ever belonging which i think is reprofound and very significant it is sadly i also a manifestation of our african-american community in san francisco in general and that sense of belonging belonging that is lacking once you leave our school so this is not just something that is happening internally in the school environment i think that there many african-american adults and students that feel a lack of sense of belonging belonging
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and this is impairment upon us as a society to build a stable economic base for our black community that in turn strengthens our black families and strengthens the foundation for academic success for our students i know some of this is i don't understand our control and some of it within our control i think that if we are working with other partners and city partners i think this has to be in the forefront because we are not educating african-american students in isolation we're doing it within the society of san francisco and so those things we're trying to compensate or give me in our bureaucracy is to effects what is happening outside of the
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continent with the african-americans that live in san francisco i want to comment i think on maybe you know those scores are - just disappoint. >> every time we see those scores they're very disappointing and i'm not disappointed in the students at all i'm disappointed in our system and the efforts we've put in and our system that gives us those disappointing outcomes anyway, i would like to see more focus i think on those
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structural things and that quite frankly we have been our control some things outside of our district we have no control over but those structural things we have in our district we are absolute control over them we have absolute control over racial isolation we have control over those things i think that those structural things and i forgot what all of them are but if we concentrated often those structural things i think that we quite possibly could see a different impact report the next time i'll not say it will be easy and quick but i do think we can do better than this and this
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is a good report card and and think that everything that everybody is doing is great work but unless we attack those structural things which we have control over then we are probably doing a continue to do a disservice for educating our students to the best of our ability and to the best of their ability is thank you and thank you to the team. >> is it okay if i responds briefing okay. >> so i want to make a comment on the structural comment and share that was not covered from the presentation as the initial superintendent leadership team the document as well as our series of score cards were the main thing reviewed by the chief of the department and thought about honing in on a focus and
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supporting the bayview schools we pulled up the concept of our concept to the human capital and how are we thinking about promoting students from grade to grade before the mastery and some of the superintendents i wanted to say we can definitely give you a report so to the post secondary pathway we followed this the class of 2017 and have data on some of the students we'll be getting clearing house data so i've recorded those we can get that information to you. >> thank you, mr. dickey. >> commissioner wynns. >> thank you that is a very interesting report from the last time all of the discussions we had are interested in the this concept
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of building all this structures and support after students individually and as a group for the district and it seems to me that what we are doing is building a good foundation that is interesting and important i think for us to be able to ourselves look at it and think about and then also talk to others about that the purposeful thoughtful way we're going about what kind of support structures do we need some of them things should occur naturally and for whatever reason a lack of institutional support and so consequently trying to build that 0 support is important i feel from at impacts i'm interested if continuing that i want to say something about the
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follow-up on some of the things that commissioner fewer said because - i'd like age doesn't have to be now clarity on some of the academics last year, we talked about and few recall i was surprised that we began by working with the partners to have the actions took not just planning to really do things that follow-up with students after they leave us not just what they do but what we learned from that and where they're going those in - that are actually, you see are eligible i would point out our goal that everyone meets the standard that's not our requirement but this means actually eligible to
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go to uc. >> the masters plan for higher education adhesives identifies that 10 percent will - the system doesn't have the capacity for that and additional i think 15 percent are supposed to be be or work to be accommodated 25 percent higher than that we do understand we use that as a standard to be excessive that is the important thing all the students - i'm hoping
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to know i want to know how many of our students have gone on to higher education in the last year and y where they've gone as well as eventually know something about how they're doing i'd like to know that but i will concur that you know we have and talked about a lot of the actives between ass permissible goals and sustainable goals and the improvements are the kind - i'd like at sometime maybe the next time i'm presuming all of you are talking about and - you know when we look at this and say we've not met all the target do we think those targets are doable and are continuing target
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on the same rates and have an increasing kind of momentum that we think will get us a bigger increase in subsequent year i'd like to i'm presuming and by the way, i appreciate you have a reflection part but hoping the academic achievement we'll hear about that and we want to ask one other question about the map that shows the distribution of african-american students so since the reference here is say key points where they live that that is what this maps shows where they live but not necessarily where they go to school we have a list of schools with the highest concentration i think this can be taken a back
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how integrated the african-american students are in san francisco look at the concentrations of where people live but i'm hoping actually kind of assuming even though i think the distribution of city hall's reflect it is not quite as segregated as this for one thing schools not in the high concentrations areas by our standards for a large number of african-american students that might help us i'd like to know if you overlay this where they go what that looks like and also how they're doing in most schools that tells us what kinds of services and where we'll put the resources to develop overseeing kinds of resources
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so i really want to thank you for this ongoing work i know it has been a lot of work but also within a lot of you've done a lot and i see i've things that really are the things we know we have wanted to go for a long-term i'm very grateful and hopefully, you'll be able to as we go forward have more in depth analysis of academic achievement puzzle. >> to the point about the the shared detail i have a secondary packet that will be a starting point for us one of the things
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we'll be looking at is or having deeper conversation are the target that are set and exactly what is sustainable going forward and keeping in mind i think that we need to push ourselves towards the tellers and not in a given year we have school sites it is important to push to think boo-hoo to chief that district wide and i think that victor had a comment about where the students go to school. >> to respond to the location and take into account if you look at the map at top right a filter for school sites and include all the schools we're aware how far our african-american students are traveling especially to the west side of san francisco and so through the tab lightwell dabbed or the satellite mapping
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in terms of trying to take into account how far and where. >> dr. murase. >> thank you for this tremendous it is thorough will it takes time to absorb i wanted to give you an invitation to the folks go from the parents advisory council i'm chairing the student ad hoc on student assignments we could really use your input how that assignment helps or hurts different communities this year we are taking a listening year because we are working with an acting superintendent and hiring a permanent superintendant but want to engage the community on where the pinpoints and the right questions to be requesting as we been preps for a year in
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which we'll be making specific represents he know your team is on the agenda but expend the invitation to attend that infrastructure. >> commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell thank you for your efforts as someone that has to sit in on our mooefrg on the b f.k. meeting start the bridge to success years ago and it is again, i want to commend you for working closely is the partnership because part of what we're trying to do is not only create better opportunities for young people first-class their achievement and their assess but also trying to get everybody on
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the same page to do this together over many, many years we certainly didn't center the infrastructure and the safety net that i think we've been building over the last year year and a half that i think that speaking volumes i don't want to pies that or not notice bus really critical for us to have those places you have community-based organizations who are actually collaborating with you and are sharing their outcomes for the young people they're serving we've discovered a lot of things in the meeting; right? discovered how to so many of our kids are not doing well and many kids have no access so any of the agencies those are agencies located in the neighborhood across the street from many of our kids and not served at all so there is something to be said about to commissioner wynns point the
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infrastructure that our building in other words, to do the work we want to do going forward - the data is dishastening to encouraged we're going in a different direction seeing little bumps up not meanwhile our target but going in the right direction the only place we didn't go up was to increase the 11 grade back the la proficiency everything else a couple of points here and there but in the right direction and that i think that symbolic of
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what having can happen if we support the people for the african-american kids so i wanted to note that because as hard as it is to see those numbers it is encouraging to know that you know your meeting regularly you're talking your collaborating and building infrastructure our finding resources, that your finding champions that people that have been very hard on us are starting to see that come together that matters so thank you making all of those pieces happen and wanted to note on page a 7 you have 11 percent living in 94134 visitacion
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valley and sunny side that is sunnyvale on page 8 the student distribution i have a question on the right-hand side you have the type of institution and the types of students and elementary high and middle the 72.3 percent elementary school and 53 percent of our students in elementary school are what is the 52.3 percent or is that all of the what's the 52. >> that composition out of iuoe all african-americans 52 are in all - that's the percentage out of all and much smaller number in high school and then smaller in mission high school. >> great, thank you.
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>> i want to clarify that. >> i think those are all my questions for now. >> in particular i want to you know note on my my brother's keeper the idea we're not only looking this within our own district bull looking at this regionally and nationally and that has been you know brought up to the top of the list for our president and for many others and think would have learned from shakespeare across you know the region and it is funny because we're actually, we oftentimes are looked at as leaders in the work we've been doing and that many other cities and counties and district don't have the fun relationships we have in san francisco in order to move this work forward take
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advantage of that and continue to be you know champions for our kids and i think all of us are game for doing whatever we need to do to make that happen. >> thank you commissioner walton. >> thank you, president haney first thank you to mr. dickey and the entire team and emphasis team i remember when you first got started and gave the presentations by yourself 0 it is important to highlight effective team in place and you know we have to walk and chew gum in terms of understanding the relationships we have a hand but not paralyze it is important to choose hope
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over fear at the end of the day now and then none of us would be up here we want to be mindful i want to say a few things but deputy lee will play xhaevengz but everyone understand that black kids learning their environment is replaced of in terms of that piece it is important and that the cultural is represent as we do this work without that we'll have a lot of issues that's why i ask the questions of apac and talked about really 2013 having conversations what schools with the best for quiz people think our kids can't learn in their environment it is just them that's a total fallacy the reason we created a lot of things specifically for us there was a period of time in history we cannot be involved too
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important to have things that belong to black children what do we need to do for them, yes. we know that fist is reflective of more intrusive and better education but we also know their places in this country we demonstrate you can have children that look like me in learning and focus on the work with that said, we know we have major work to do and hitting our goals for achievement and like commissioner wynns alluded to i really love the emphasis on high goals. >> make sure that our i think structural strategy have to align with the high goals the cultural we create and again, the academic instructional
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compose that align with us to put the goals in place their achievable but fee needs to take the investment in the right place some people will is we need to focus on being more diverse and i'm not unnecessarily in agreement but we need to put the strategies in place to center the high impact and be mindful, and, secondly, surprised from this presentation corresponding we're counting charter schools in our graduation rate? that's what that looks like to me. >> which side are you referring to. >> slide 64 thousand students and charter schools included. >> so on slide 8 we gave an
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overall distribution. >> that's 8 i'm sorry. >> that's not map to the graduation rate the graduation rate is specific to within district schools. >> we put overseeing charter schools here to represent the numbers of where black students are. >> i remember a piece of why we kept in the data points as we have this conversation about african-american families in our schools and you see dips across the grade we consistent the questions why students are choosing the schools that's one of the reasons to lift up the data points number two and three on the list are charter schools. >> and there's a fact that has i look at any role and my colleagues role there has to be something we're not doing for the data to move you know very
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incele i'll be interested 2, 3, 4 knowing what you think we can do better if we push harder for resources or the predicament - i mean we need to know that in order for this to work we'll have to develop strategies that push is there has to be something we're not doing for this to continue to look like this you don't know i don't care how long or short a time there is something we're not doing right for our students and have to take responsibility i'd like to know more of that if i don't feel comfortable find a group of parents at the don't mind telling us how they feel (laughter) but to be successful and as we talk about the bayview strategy and the bayview plan i want to remember within as chair
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of personnel and lash pushing hard on the recruitment whatever we're doing as far as the bayview plan so hopefully human resources is working with us and most of others ones within the future of the hope sf to make sure there is alignment with the wloif specific to the bayview with those groups because the chief financial officer work with the black students and families are working together collaboratively and we're on the front end and it will be greater to include a broader strategies in the school stand point within the collaborative's so we're doing things that align strategical and then number 7 what i if so and i'll push and push and punish on this literacy
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he specific strategies have we listened to many marshall said and as we talk about why our students are behind they have to be able to reader racial profiling by third grade and have strong some strategies in place to help to play catch up and we have to push hard and still don't see enough grateful strategy i've had that conversation with you, mr. dickey this is something many concerning again, we have to up play our xhaechlz those strategies are important we're talking to our families in apac
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to help - with that, said again, it is great to see a team in place and a vision in place and great to have focus in terms of the outcomes and refine some of those or push us harder to hit an achievement but commend the team because there's been a lot of work done in a short term and building infrastructure for secretary we can't down play the analogy with the teachers in the schools and the continued growth in terms of staffing throughout the district that have a focus and again, it it takes time to recultural a system and bureaucracy so it is good to see that we are aligning and people are coming together and coming to the table got to push hard and make sure that stays that way and continue to push and
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push every year so thank you for the presentation and thank you for you're conditioned work and we'll be pay your fair share in supporting you and want to note we're not doing - i don't want to sleep at night i want to be able to be thinking about what i can do with a bigger role if there is something i'm not doing thank you. >> it is late i don't want to talk a lot i really appreciate seeing the work and how the team has grown as we last had the presentation it is really important as commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell said to look at this data and report it out and be honest we'll not change it if we don't put it out and it is painful to see but again a lot of things happening to try to
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reverse some of the trends and i really appreciate our beloved ms. marshall saying this is issues job all the students are everyone students are our students and it is important to remember that and for the board to be very clear about that and all of you are doing great work by not just your work all our work thank you for leading and thank you to the leadership of the district to continue to support and fund this project that one of the most important industries i appreciate hearing our update. >> so i also won't speak for that too long it is late i want to echo the gratitude for you, mr. dickey and the team i know that going out to school sites and talking with the principals
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and teachers that students feel there's a different level of prioritization there is more support there is real changes their courses that the district is prioritizing this work in way we haven't before and changes that are happening we obviously want to see that reflected in the experiences of our students and what their telling us and our families but also in the actual data we offered this policy and resolution we said we'll close the racial gap in 6 years and echo with commissioner vice president walton said we're relying on you to tell us how to make that happen a reality so i appreciate everything that we are doing and think a lot of this is tremendous and feels like the right stuff but if you who are living that every day feel this is not going to get us there tells you what
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is and help to empower us to support you better that is incredibly important and echo the points around ms. fewer said there is a set of things i'll rattle them off quickly i hope can be addressed at some level in the report we'll be receiving one thing i think i want to hear about is retention and recruitment of educators in our schools with a higher percentage of african-american students referred to at some level but address that challenge we're looking at all the questions and if we are losing half of the teachers i don't see how we'll be successful how to prioritize that and get that right where are we being successful who programs, what schools where we see the fwoelz and how we
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understand to understand to replicate those those are something the board talked about certain things we're doing it feels like points we can raise and continue i was interested in the data that you shared a lot of that data seems to be looking at school trends one of the things i was excited about looking at individual students a lot more and their experiences and they're connected to and making sure our kids don't fall throat cracks and being able to look at that approach we're talking about a multiple group of students that are effected a couple other things you know, we are we tausht ore resources the right way i was at a school they didn't have the book to do do literacy and trashth for the
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african-american students so here we are in a reality we're thrilled meeting the needs of african-american students and don't have the books to support those students over-the-counter or; right? are we members of the commission the day to day realities of trying to support the students on the ground and making sure we think about the broader experience of the families and students in the city housing, poverty, you know how do we call on our city partners to help to meet the needs of families and be under and cooperate i know some of that that happening but so much is our responsibility but make sure that is happening outside of our schools early child education is something i wanted to be here more about and mentioned segregation and the safe and
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supportive schools everywhere we've called out our responsibilities to think and the specific impacts of that we're supposed to be much more responsive of the drorlt and want to know how we are drawing what is on the resolution and policy and aligning if it with our work around the african-american achievement leadership and directly aligning that work that is quick kind of you know sort of list of things but i do think the foundation you have before you and the work we're doing is feels to the board the right steps but we also feel the sense of urgency and building you all and building in the community to -
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if we get this right we have a responsibility to the students and families so thank you i don't know if i'm not going to ask you to responds to those list of things but receiving a report and i'd like to see some of the things sort of thought about or addressed that in some ways superintendant guerrero. >> just a shout out to the team make sure our board commissioners are aware of last week was the council of great schools conference in miami, florida from oakland prenltd and shared our best practices and this work we're focused on in san francisco the presentation was very well received i think many of our other top 50 inner districts shared a lot of positive feedback i know that a lot of people are watching
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because all of the districts in america are trying to tackle this dilemma and we're impressed with the amount of work we've been able to do in a short amount of time. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> all right. oh, wow. we have more. >> okay so we'll try to move through that quickly the next item a overview of focus impact on key funding. >> superintendents. >> commissioners we have some information to share given the lateness of hour we can try to go through that fairly quickly but we did in
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response to questions over the past few weeks been one of the ballot measures on the local ballots proposition s there is an effect that would take place on existing baselines including set aside with the public education british this is the last full board meeting two between now and election day we wanted to provide a objective nonpursue scuff discussion of the focus impact acknowledge proposition s with the public education enrichment fund that is a hard right turn or left turn from the conversation he feel walked being math and
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numbers and budget stuff based on the heels of that very important conversation this is important in a different way different way so really quickly what you the item before you and for the members of the public that are here we have a handful in the entryway to the board room unfortunately for the community members listening or watching not a presentation and follow along with but just to describe we have a mrimemorandums with the proposition s including on baseline and then on the backside are some figures about what the impact will be on each the baselines if i could just
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take 5 minutes to go through that and commissioners have questions then happy to address them and i will also say i believe this topic will be place on the agenda for the method opportunity to have a deeper discussion as controller as states the main idea for proposition s to take a molt tax and change the allocation of some of the revenues within that source and dedicate to two particular purposes one for families homelessness and the siblings second for art those are the new direction to be fair
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with respect to the arts that has a short hotel revenues that are earmarked for the investment in the past that is less try for a variety of reasons i'm not the best person to summarize but in terms of the effect on the baselines in the third paragraph sorry any eye sight is going a little bit i'm sorry the second paragraph so the effect of the money that would be looked at will start at $69 million in 2017-2018 and grow to estimate one and $5 million in fiscal year 2020, 2021 that would have an effect on existing baseline
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because that would reduce what is known as aggregate discretionary revenue in layman's terms the amount of each of those baselines is based on the overall size of pie of discretionary revenue for the city just in concept that is an existing revenue source some of that becomes not discretionary but it reduces the amount of pie the size of pie in which many of the baselines are based so if you flip to the second side we're not going to attempt to go through all the numbers but the highlighted numbers as you can see that the top set of numbers represent projections from the controller a those are subject
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to change but over the course of 4 years can change how much will be allocated to piece and the other baselines under the status quo. >> so as you can see in the highlighted area that is public education intermittent fund and 2016-2017 the appropriation is $97 million projected to grow to $99.8 million and the next fiscal year to one and 2.9 and so on overseeing are projections for all 3 thirds of which the district as you will know receives 2/3rd's if proposition s were to pass then there would be an effect of that reduction or division of discretionary revenue not discretionary revenue so the resulting numbers again those are estimates are on
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towards the bottom of page that that the appropriation for piece will be lower from the 7 unchanged for that 2016-2017 and the ballot measure has no effect on 2016-2017 but in the next year's beginning with 2017-2018 so if you look at the very bottom the various important perceive this is over $2 million in 2017-2018 growing to 2 1/2 million dollars in the following years 2014, 2019 and r69d 2019 and 20 that is in general we wanted to commissioners to be aware of so if there is the
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ballot measure is successful we want you to not be uninformed about the results of what the effect of this measure and we've been looking for the right time to share the information we were talking about a cow earlier and plans have changed so we didn't want to wait before sharing this information so everyone is aware. >> so i'll leave it at that if there are questions. >> commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell. >> thank you so self-looks like should this pass and change it will impact fiscal years 2017-2018 so it will take effect immediately and if so that's the taggihe case h will it impact the budget mr.
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haney planning, and, secondly, two other departments that be impacted by this as well that includes the children's funds and the library and mta and how will their funding impact, impact us so dcyf is the fuchdz they'll get a hit i think to the tune of $6 million or $4 million i can't remember that is significant is that going to be adjusted introduce cbos or money that he allocate to us. >> commissioner i'd like say that well, let me take the dcyf
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first in terms of dcyf support we receive from the city the most directly form is through what is called the public education services baseline as you can see elsewhere on the table not highlighted but to rely that and try to make that has simple and clear as possible under the category of children's services line 3 public education services baseline that amount which right now is $9.2 million projected to grow to 10 plus over the next 3 years that's the bulk of the directly financial assistance through the dcyf from the general fund and the children's fund so there will be an effect if you look at the bottom set of numbers instead of
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of growing but more but subtle two or $300,000 every year whereby the effect and also sometimes receive finland's from dcyf outside of the baseline for proposals or uses and to the extents the dcyf flexibility will be constrained conceptuallyly that will be more difficult to provide discretionary support but it is a little speculative regarding the planning circle election day is november 8th in case people forgot and close enough to that tuesday november 8th not the 28 but tuesday november 8th we will be advising the peace cca ms.
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fleming is aware the general concept last not gone through those analysis with the cca meeting but we're early enough we know that the planning for 2017-2018 can be informed by the known outcome of the ballot measure by certainly be different. >> all right. thank you okay more if you want to know more be there in the budget committee >> item m consent calendar resolution removed for second reading, there is none tonight. and item n vote on the consent calendar what moved and seconded. >> ms. fewer and equip on items k one and k 52 and 53.
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>> thank you dr. murase ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and mr. haney thank you all right. item organization vote on consent calendar severed for consideration under item g commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell. >> so really quickly it is late i pulled those items that are going to the same vendor thank you who is someone we working closely with but i think there is a process of pulling those and questioning them there has been a history over the last several months of many of the education outside grants being retroactive it is created a question around whether or not how very could are handling
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those are 44 sites that are getting monies and if i look at all the funding sources those are very different so, you know, some schools use their concentration grants and some use ways and formulas and some block grants and some pta we really have to figure out in terms of identifying the funding sources early and helping our principals so we can be sure those get brought throw in a reasonable amount of time according to mr. buck lands the ceo for the education outside he knows who the commitments or who shall be working with i know in may and so i just want to brought to your attention of
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the board we have the bulk mous and with the time with the after-school programs we are using one vendor we should be pulling those together to the principals do have to do those individually but this is again perfect example of just from the funds are not there and we're engaging vendors service without having a contract in place it is just not a good best practices for us i know those are a pain in the ass because we've been pulling those that results in good analysis from our deputy superintendent guerrero that is giving you a full kind of run down of what we'll be doing next and to the need forever all of our folks to be using an online
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program you know when they're submitting those there handwritten type of memos that take a tremendous amount of energy and it is ridiculous we're not all on the sampling on that so - you know unfortunately, it was education outside that we are using as an example but want to thank arrest done for working alcohol with the superintendent and making that workout but got to be carefully with those guys. >> commissioner walton. >> thank you and just to emphasize a point because i side agree that note the best best practices but at the same time the reason why i don't took the same tune as commissioner
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mendosa-mcdonnell on those i'm highly aware that is an efficiency problem with the district i don't want to blame the vs.s for something the district has not be able to do for how many years i don't know how hard it is to fill out the mou it would be a beginning of the school year or over the summer and eave surrender it and witnessed that working with the cvos i don't want to blame the organizations but something is not right there and we have to do better. >> all right. >> commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell voting an k-43 and 44; is that correct. >> that's correct.
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>> thank you ms. fewer commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell oar no dr. murase ms. norton. >> mr. walton ms. wynns mr. haney that's 5 i's. >> item p introduction of all proposals and assignment to committee director the superintendents proposal for fl reading adoption of issuance and management can i hear a can i have a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> i'll defer to the rules committee there are no board members proposals that's fine and introduction for proposals for the extension of board rules there is none tonight. and no standing committee reports tonight can i see a report of board presentation to
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the memberships or other reports commissioner wynns. >> i'm to defer i the president to report on the council schools meeting and he will just it's a little bit late for that but i'll protein any reports to the next meeting equip for one thing we had a fairly large number of staff outstanding i want to express on behalf of the boards gratitude and thanks for all the staff people representing did district really well, i appreciate that and if i may sky saying together at 6:30 not our regiment of the rules committee that is the meeting we'll talk about what is going on with the lvngs exception o meeting come to the meeting or be sure to read the materials that come out that have meeting and please let me
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know if you be at the meeting or e-mail or call me if i have an interest in the legislation thank you. >> thank you commissioner wynns. >> commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell. >> so i just he didn't center a billings and grounds meeting with we've move to next month but i wanted to invite everyone to the filipino heritage month celebration this friday the mayor will say hosting the filipino community at 6:00 p.m. at city hall this friday the 29. >> 8. >> dr. murase. >> just a couple of announcements thanks to the leadership of ms.
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fewer and wanting matt haney and the board for passing a food policy the center for good food purposing we say assigning celebration with folks at the teamsters union hall it was interesting that folks there were based in la and watched our school board meeting to pass the policy in the spring but i wanted to thank the board for that he had the opportunity to attend the wellness two day wellness on childhood experiences and was delighted that school health programs were recommended at the conference as well dr. harris was really a leader in this important movement that
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is focused on trauma informed approaches and finally the fire department is interning one is he 50 years old this year and the president of the fire commission asked me to announce the children's film festival on sunday a double feature beginning at the 12:00 noon with the fire rescue followed by a reception and by the chief and try to get the notice into envelope nearby the elementary school finally the next meeting the ad hoc meeting is scheduled for november 29th that's a tuesday. >> great there are some other announcements of bucket and service meeting meeting on november 2nd you're welcome all
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over the place the curriculum and program committee will be meeting on november 10th. i believe all the others oh, the ad hoc the exciting ad hoc on personnel will meet on october 27th any other announcements commissioner walton >> one correction it is actually exciting and x human right no other in memoriam adjournment so dr. murase. >> thank you the lowell alumni suffered a loss on october 13th with the passing of lucky at the age of 93 she was born in massachusetts in the va at the
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brown university trained a fighter pilot in the cornerstone war and retired from the marines as a colonel and served as a principal for thirty years an retirement became the first executive director the alumni association a volunteer position he held for another 24 more years in 2008, he moved to main to live with his drought and plunged into volunteer dealing meals on wheels and staffing the transportation museum and as active member of the korean and the marine corp and the marine of the double dog and in the
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arlington national cemetery when i tell focal points o folks that mr. lucy passed away asked them when i was at food being a boy only the kids in trouble know mr. lucy but remembered for wearing the fire engine red jacket as the alumni organization so association that was handled down to the kirpt executive director terry abag on behalf of the board of education i want to express your condolences to his daughter and paul lucy of hawaii and their family. >> thank you for that dr. murase item u closed session the board will go into closed session until he call a recess
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of the regular meeting >> now resume the board meeting the closed session action he read the action if tonight closed session the board by a vote of one absent ms. fewer with within intern education site director by a veto of one section of ever intern executive director and the board by a vote of one absent if you ever approved the intern assistant principal and the board by a vote within absent sandra fewer has given during the course of anticipate
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litigation the meeting is adjourned
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can good morning everybody and welcome to this beautiful day in san francisco. we're so excited to have everybody here, and i want to just say before we begin, we're just thrilled, absolutely thrilled that nancy and the mayor could be here today. and so thank you for taking time in your busy schedule to honor us at dreamforce. this is our biggest and most exciting dreamforce and we have more than 175,000 people registered to attend the event and there is more than 15 million people joining us online as well. that is incredible. almost 5 million people joined us yesterday online here at dreamforce. and as part of dreamforce,
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of course we have incredible advancements in technology. we have got all of these incredible programs and events. there are 2700 sessions happening, but perhaps the most important thing we do at dreamforce is remind to do something for somebody else. this has been part of the core philosophy since the first day we introduced our company and 111 "pacific seasonings' gold shield brand" that is 1% of your equity, your profit and time and when we started salesforce it didn't seem like much because we didn't have any equity, profit or time, but now we have 20,000 employee and this incredible company. so we have been able to give back more than had a million-and-a-half hours of volunteerism and $130 million in grants much to the k-12 system here in san francisco and oakland. and also, we run 28,000 non-profits and ngos for our service. every year we love to dedicate and focus dreamforce to a specific cause. it's a
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very important part of us and we get to see all of these great causes around the world and so many people doing god's work and so thrilled to partner and unite with them and we celebrate red, and ceo of red who has fought aids tirelessly throughout the world and celebrating her with this incredible red store, selling hundreds of thousands of red's products more than we expected on the dreamforce campus. tonight one of the founders of red bono is going to perform for us tonight at the cow palace. it's exciting and we're very, very excited and i want to turn it over to nancy and ed and to hear from the leaders of red as well. nancy. >> thank you very much for everything, thank you marc benioff and to salesforce
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and dreamforce for making the tremendous difference you are making. we have been here before whether when we tried to end hunger and you always pick up a cause of such urgency and helping aids for good, for good meaning what it means in the lives of people and in the lives of country and for good, what it means in terms of our society. i have a message about marc benioff that i want to read. it was something that was said about mozart when they tried to explain how brilliant he was. and when i was reading it, it reminded me of marc. i asked how -- was mozart a genius and mathematician, marc said an ordinary genius is a fellow whom you and a would be just as good as if we only were many times
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better. there is no mystery about how his mind works. once we understand what genius has done, we feel certain we, too, could have done it. it's different with magicians. even after we understand what they have done, it is completely dark. mozart, marc benioff is a magician. benioff's work is like a series of lightning strokes producing one uninprovable masterpiece after another and was said of mozart and can be received marc benive. the generosity of lynn and marc benioff to our schools and in so many ways and education and growing our economy in ways that is fair. they are magicians. i have only said this about one other person, and guess who that is? bono.
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that was a few years ago and here we are book ends of these magicians starting the morning, ending the day with two magicians, who have the magic to make such a difference in our world. and part of their magic is the spell that they cast enabling other people to join in in philanthropy, in justice, in ending hiv/aids as we know it now. our city responded in a wonderful way and we'll talk about it at the theater in a little while. got to have my glasses on -- but for right now, this dreamforce that we're all here about, make us part of something very magical. that will make a tremendous,
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tremendous difference in the world. thank you marc benioff for being the magician that you are, and working your magic spell. >> thank you. >> thank you [ applause ] let's hear it for marc. >> thank you, nancy. >> thank you, dear. now it's my pleasure and marc has 111 and salesforce. our mayor has continued the tradition of the fight against hiv/aids with his 000 and 0 deaths and 0 discrimination against those with aids. thank you, mayor lee. >> thank you, member pelsingo. peluso. pelosi. i associate myself with every remark that nancy pelosi has said. welcome to dreamforce san francisco! [ applause ]. >> this is one of the most
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exciting periods of the year and marc with your salesforce, welcoming in 175,000 people and i don't even feel congested. i feel great because the innovative spirit that everybody has, their excitement coming together to not just talk about products and how to help each other out. but also coming together to do great things. this is what cities dream of doing is having people come to their cities, working and collaborating to do great things for each other. and i will tell you, it's not bad to receive $200 million in revenue while this conference going on during the week. [ applause ] >> yes. that is how much impact this has for our city. but you know, when people talk about the company of salesforce, it's much more than the economics. in fact, i would say the
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best way to describe is that we really have the true civic partnership with salesforce. the civic partnership that produces an infusion of support for all of our public schools. you know our middle schools because of five years' of investment, marc, that you have made and salesforce foundation has made, the performance by all standards is way up. the highest performing urban schools in the entire state of california because of you are infusion. [ applause ] i have never seen teachers and principles talk as if they were hired for their jobs just yesterday. because they get this innovation money to really change the culture of their campuses, not only the middle schools, but all of the schools. this is what caused the civic partnership to happen. yesterday marc, i have to
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say watching the news at night and kind of being tired and maybe complaining to my wife about how hard things are to get things done. then you see the blue angels at the benioff hospital with the kids going through their life trauma and to see the smiles with people going through the most difficult periods of their time and they are at benioff hospital and the kind of support that this hospital and the medical profession you have partnered with ucsf is an incredible story that should resonate in every city around the world. education, health care, last year the salesforce movement turned out 1 million books for our students in the entire bay area. 1 million books [ applause ] that is the kind of dna that we're creating with this civic partnership. this year, i'll say as
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leader pelosi has said, aids has been a complicated disease tackle. and we have spent countless hours. we have had thousands of people come in whether they are doctors, health care professionals, community activists, community-based organizations, companies, or non-profits like the san francisco aids foundation doing great, terrific work. creating a community planning clinic of leadership to do all of this. and for red to now join in this marvelous opportunity with the salesforce and dreamforce, to say that they are going to contribute $1 million to this effort to end the aids epidemic, to end new cases. last year -- we're on our way by the way because of the community activism that we have had. only 330 cases -- new cases last year. we need to get to zero.
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we need the promise and to fulfill that promise just like marc and leader pelosi have always said, when we make a promise we're going to be able to keep it. zero new cases, zero infections and zero stigma, and with that, i want to introduce our senior vp at the san francisco aids foundation, james. [ applause ] . >> thank you. thank you, mr. mayor, leader pelosi and marc, it's an honor to be here and share the stage with you. we appreciate the invitation and good morning everyone, welcome to dreamforce. i will start by telling a personal story. a few years ago i was confronted by an unexpected divorce from my partner of seven years. the news understandably knocked me to my knees and depression is normally triggered by hitting one of life's rough.s and hiv experts call this "the season
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of risk." it can happen to any of us. personally i got to mine thanks to san francisco's network of free services for sexual health, mental health, substance health, that were available to me on-demand without shame or judgmentment, the question am i worthy of love and belonging is one of the most fundamental we confront in our work and represents a human desire to be seen and to be valued and to connect. our city's name is synonymous with the model of care that is designed to restore dignity and heal wounds that are inflicted by poverty and racism and homophobia and violence. see here in san francisco for 30 years we have believed that people who are gay, people who are trans, people who are homeless, people engaged in sex work, people who use drugs, we are all
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first and foremost people. and we're all worthy of love and belonging. [ applause ] and while that is certainly not unique to san francisco, it is not nearly common enough. and with commitments from people like marc and leadership by the astonishing leaders to my left, and from this wonderful woman who you are about to meet, i know, i know that we'll get there. this city was ground-zero for the aids epidemic, and recently just a week or two ago, san francisco department of public health released updated numbers reporting in 2015 there were 255 new infections and let's be clear, that is 255 too many and make no mistake our hardest work is ahead of us as we work to reduce
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seemingly intractable health disparities and bring more people in from the margins. that means developing innovative approaches to better need our transbrothers and sister and aids populations and communities of color and of people struggling to keep a roof over their head. but momentum is on our side. because that number represents tremendous progress. that number is why we can stand here flanked by extraordinary leaders and see generous commitments from people like marc, who share our determination to get to a day when san francisco becomes the very first city to end hiv transmission. [ applause ] >> thank you. and now it's my great honor to introduce
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my new friend deb duggan, ceo of red. [ applause ] . >> thank you. oh, my gosh, hi everybody. this is a tad overwhelming for me, as you can see. welcome, welcome to dreamforce and i'm truly honored and humbled to be with this esteemed crowd. when you think of san francisco in the '80s, it's so fitting we're here now because it was the courageous city that said, you know, this is all impossible that all of these people are dying, and great leaders like you, nancy, held it up like this, when nobody wants to see it. and said this cannot be. and so this proud city rallied, and here we are 30 years later, would you have ever thought and i just have to say it nancy, that you would be here at this beautiful tech conference
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170,000 people hearing about red, where we are in the fight against aids? and what you can go to help? it's just astonishing and so i thank you marc for putting on this sun spotlight and this megaphone to let people know where we are today. [ applause ] ? >> so red is an organization that actually came to be to solve a problem. so the global fund which fights malaria, tuberculous and aids and countries came and gave $5 billion, but companis did not company and in the first year $5 million came from companies and bono and bobby schriber had the idea to create a brand, a brand for good, that people would look at and be able to somehow participate. but the main thing was to bring companies and get them to be involved in the fight against aids. here we are ten years later and we have given $360
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million to the global fund in fight against aids, and 70 partners have come on-board. salesforce is one of those partners that lets all of this be possible. so we started talking in 2015, and typical fashion marc comes to the table with funds for the global fund. but then with his marketing team we started thinking, well what if there were tools that could help red run better? because we're a small group of 20 people in new york city and we actually, you know are still using spreadsheets and stuff. so there is a lot of data as everybody said here, it's incredibly complicated. we now have tools to track where is the red money going for that country, how are they in the fight against mother-to-child transmission of hiv? are they having the right ultimate return on investment, saving lives? so we do that with marketing. we do that with social media.
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we do that with our partners sales. we're in such a different place a year later because of salesforce tools that we use. thank you for that as well. so why are we here today? two big reasons. one is the donations; right? so you have heard that we're trying to raise a million dollars. you can donate in various booths. you can go to the pop-up shop and buy some red things, hint. you know, and the idea is that we would try to make a million dollars. but then marc and lynn benioff have graciously said they would match that and then the bill and melinda gates would double match it and talking $4 million in four days [ applause ] that is a lot of lives saved, just got to say that outloud. the other reason we're here is for companies.
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to have this platform to be able to talk to companies, and say, partner with us, join us. we can't do it alone. we want to eliminate mother-child transmission of hiv by 2020 and 30 million people have died of this disease. 37 million still have it. it is the no. 1 killer of women of reproductive age, and the no. 1 -- no. 2 killer of adolescents world and my second request, if you can donate, but if you are a company tweet at us@red. and come join us and let's make the impossible, possible. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, deb. thank you, james. thank you, ed, thank you, nancy and i will tell you what a great team we have
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right here and we have a great team with our whole dreamforce community as well. everyone can do one thing to make the world a little bit better and that is certainly salesforce' philosophy and we try to put that in action right here at dreamforce and a great way to do that is to make a contribution to red, buying a t-shirt or cash contribution, whatever works for you is great where us and another thing we have to do is adopt a public school, because nothing is more important than our children's education. all of us have public schools within a few blocks of our home and if we just knock on that principal's door and ask how i can help? thank you very much for everything that you are duke we'll see you at keynote at 1:00, thank you and tonight with bono 8:00! [ applause ]hello.
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everyone thanks for your patience today is tuesday, october 18, 2016, budget and finance committee i'm supervisor katie tang will be chairing for supervisor farrell and clerk victor young and from sfgovtv thank you jennifer lowe and nona melkonian mr. clerk, any announcements? >> completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the october 25th board of supervisors agenda board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> >> thank you before we begin can we get a motion to excuse supervisor farrell without objection item one. >> item one retroactively arthur's the district attorney's office to accept and expend a
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grant in the governor's office of department of emergency management for the elder abuse program. >> thank you. i believe we have someone from our city attorney's office district attorney's office i'm chief of the adoption services i want to thank for hearing this item and give you a little bit of background information on it we currently are a team in the unit that works with elderly independent adults and disabled victims of crime in san francisco we serve 7 thousand victims of crime a year with that unit and other unit we took the opportunity for this grant in order to booster our services in the area we choose to focus own two issues under resources for elderly the first is pedestrian fatalities we are working closely with vision zero to target and outreach and gave me our elderly disability adults
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victims of accidents and fatalities for public waernsz of information campaign, outreach and also provide services four those who have been victimized the other areas are financial scams we have a great relationship the stewards for victims in but the compensation in cover the victims of fraud we have targets for financial fraud with those funds we'll do a lot of preservation work and engagement in the community to make elderly in a variety of services and facilities and housing developments to be aware of kind of scams that are happening and targeting them and give them information and resources to help to protect their confidentiality they're not continued to be victimized
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by financial fraud and help to undo some of the challenges with their finances, with their credits and with the list they get put on once they're targeted we'll take care of that issue. >> thank you for your presentation i work with several of our staff it is effective can you talk a little bit about a matching fund of 5 thousand dollars how that will be provided for . >> we're building on the existing unit that serves the elder and adults with disabilities we'll be using staff time for the match and volunteer hours we have a robust volunteer program and victims in the division those volunteers have 2 weeks of full training before they work with our office and assigned to one of the unit and working closely with the advocates probation officer support them and dribble with
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our victims so they'll be part of our match. >> thank you all of that was the non-volunteer part included in the budget. >> great. all right thank you very much any other questions or comments okay. seeing none and there was no budget analyst report so open up item one, if anyone is here please come on up seeing none, public comment is closed. a motion on that item. >> motion to move this out with a positive recommendation. >> without objection. >> item 2. >> item number one is recommended without objection was with supervisor farrell being absent i wanted to note his asbestos. >> item 2. >> the water revenue bonding not to exceed 200 and $95 million to be issued by the public utilities commission of the city and county of san
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francisco pursuant to prior ordinances and the charter of the city and county of san francisco thank you so we received a request from the puc to continue this item to october 26th so at this time we'll hold off on the budget analyst report and open up for public comment on item 2 seeing none, public comment is closed. get a motion to continue. >> continue. >> all right. without objection with supervisor farrell absent. >> all right. mr. clerk, call item 3 through 7. >> item 3 a intention to establish the city and county of san francisco infrastructure and revitalizetion and project areas to finance the construction or acquisition of facilities on yerba buena island and directing the director of public finance to prepare an infrastructure consent of the city and county
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of san francisco in district one and item 5 intention to issue the bonds for the city and county of san francisco infrastructure and revitalization finance district one and other matters in connection there with and next the intention to establish the city and county of san francisco district number 2016 improvement area and a future aggregation and determine those matters in connection and item 7 resolution of intention to incur bobtd indebtedness not to exceed $5 million for the city and county of san francisco for the district number 2016 dash one and determining other matters. >> thank you very much. we have director beck from the transportation authority. >> for more than the past year tida has been working with the
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public office of finance with the outside consultant and the treasure island to develop treasure island to talk about the districts participated as part of treasure island and bringing those of intent tic did has been a apron and the project was entitled in 2011 beginning in 2014 the developer ramped up they're predevelopment design work submitting 89 first phase and sub phase application to the city to review and approval in anticipation of the first land transport happened in may of 2013 with the sub phase application we transferred the first parcels to the developers in february of this year
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and they have commenced on demolition on yerba buena island and treasure island and issued the first subcontractors - the documents approved in 2011 included a number of related plans and documents the critical to the financing of the program are the disposition and agreements and the attached financing plan that called for the formation of those districts the development program of the island as a whole includes the development of 8 thousand new homes actually more than 25 percent of which will be affordable up to 5 hundred new hotel rooms and half a million square feet of office space and significant range of public benefits three hundred acres of open space entirely new roadway systems and transportation facilities including a new ferry terminal
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on, on the island and improving treasure island and preps for current aid future sea level rise the financing and d da called for them to provide all the public and private improvements on the island and for the city to provide for the formation of an infrastructure and revitalization financing for districts and the community facilities district for public financing for improvements to reimburse - with the beginning of the activities on the island it is time for us to go through the process of forming those district and we're issuing that process with you today in terms of backward on the collections that finance that
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flow to the ifd and efd starting with the operational within tpr the district that's the one percent property taxes and the go bond gas stations out of the property taxes 35.3 percent of that goes to the state and other regional agencies and roughly 65 percent is for the city of san francisco under our financing plan 56.7 percent of that tax is dedicated to the infrastructure financing district and an additional 8 percent of that flows to the general fund but subordinated to the financing of district helps
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to provide a ratio for the debt issued the bonds issued against the district the cf z is the special tax assessed on properties within the cf d in addition to the traditional property taxes so the recommendations is that we have before you are 3 resolutions to fibrillator the formation of index rfp and two resolutions for the frorms of cf u those will be followed by a number of resolutions which we're introduced at the full board yesterday as well as two ordinances one of these recesses approving the infrastructure financing plan will come back to this committee in november and the additional resolutions in ordinance will be held -
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heard before the full board at a public hearing anticipated on december 6th this lays out the timeline for some of the actions as i mentioned the introductions happened yesterday for the follow-up resolutions and those will be heard here in committee or the one resolution will be heard in committee on november 2nd and then the hearing before the full board on december 6th including the public hearing and the election for the formation of the districts. >> a little bit of update on the status of program this map is the portion of the island that have been transferred boy tida to the navy and the bottom of the map have been transferred and there is a significant additional areas that will be transferred over the next 18 months with the final happening
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at the end of 2020 and 2021 we as i mentioned have the gun demolition on the island all the obsolete structures an yerba buena have been demolished and the demolition will start on the waterfront and treasure island is on the way the developers is also advertised or awarded several contracts with the reservoir contract have been bid the yerba buena island utility and right-of-way infrastructure is expected to mobilize next month the dbi technical package is out for bid right now and the utility and right-of-way infrastructure in the sub phase on treasure island is expected to steady the bid before the end of the year. >> so more detail on the i f r
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d works with the city's share the property taxes 56.9 percent of the pledged to the district and 8 percent is subordinated the i r f d is reimbursed quality and our source for public if his honor please, our the affordable housing development this map shows the project will be formed a total 55 project areas one of the advantages the ability to establish different project areas that will have different periods of time over which the tax increment will be approved for the financing as we move forward an additional sites is prepared for
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development we'll continue to annexation those this is a special tax for the rates put forward progression and similar to the i f r d with the public improvements and there is also our long term source for the maintenance of the parks and open space on the island and intended to develop a capital reserve for the implementations of sea level rise adaptation as we move forward so as i mentioned first 42 years of bond issues are going to be committed to the reimbursement of public infrastructure as part
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of the development as well as continuing to fund ongoing park maintenance costs but then after that the initial period we'll develop a capital retail use or reserve up u up to a quarter of a million dollars for the sea level rise adaptations and after 99 years if not triggered earlier we'll convert to the c to continue in perpetuity for the parks and open spaces this map shows the initial improvement areas for the suggestion of the parcels on yerba buena island as we move forward we'll annexation additional properties on treasure island into the cf d. >> so we stand before you today sapgsz we have been working on the project for for over a year to bring the measures to the board and if we're able to move forward we intend to hold the
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public hearing on december 6th and move forward to validate the formation next year and initiate the cf d i'll be happy to take questions and nadia from the office of financing. >> thank you director beck supervisor yee first. >> thank you for your presentation i want to understand the rate for the cf d is one percent? >> or is it variable. >> the cf d there are per square footage assessments from based on the type of development
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so not set as a percentage of property taxes in most cases that will equal between one .5 and one .6 percent i'm sorry .5 a .6 of the assessed value on top of the assessed one percent. >> is that in the taxation. >> i did not include that that the presentation part of the resolution of intention to form the cf d and exhibit that to the r m a the rate of proportion. >> once the proposed rate a set initially it is pretty much the rate at move forward or would that change. >> it would be the rate that will moved on the properties within the initial improvement
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areas agreement or each time an annexation of properties the rates will be reexamined and increased if appropriate based on escalation of the property values. >> so the estimate is 10.5 million annually that will go into the general fund to support infrastructure that the amount that will be for this particular parcel of land? >> the 10.5 is i believe the amount of review in $2,016 that will flow to the general fund in excess of all project obligations and in excess of all
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newly new general fund expenses generated as a result of the project as much as the new police and fiction on the island that $10.5 million a requester is the current assess of all project and project driven general fund that expenses versus in any general fund reviews. >> i get that part but the calculation is it based on the first annexation of parcels or based on that we'll annexation a lot more. >> that's based on the entire program and in terms of the cf d it nor create a general fund obligation as a supplemental
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taxation in addition to the standard at the property taxes. >> the i r f d that effects the general fund also. >> thank you so i know that in your presentation and talked about building up to 89 thousand homes that will three percent of them are affordable my understanding there is a target of maybe 27 percent in terms of affordability and just in general for the affordable housing portion my understanding is that the i f d would not necessarily cover essentially there will be a gap in funding affordable housing on treasure island can you talk a little bit about issue and how we'll address that in the future. >> and so two points in terms of number of affordable housing units the development plan the d da and the housing plan called
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for minimum of 25 percent affordable but it provides the city the option to increase from 2000 to 2000 one and 73 housing units that will be the 27 percent you registered we can exercise that option in terms of the number of units that will be built singles the financing plan was adopted in 2011, we seen an excavation - so that's contributing to a gap and a few other factors that factor into our debt certain funding sources available in 2011 at the federal level not currently available we
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have a base gap we've been working with the office of public financing and the mayor's office and the mayors budget staff to analyze alternatives to fill the gap that includes local resources some will be generated by the state with the motorist license vehicle fees and seek support at the state level for the reconstitution of a redevelopment level of support where the state will attribute some of the rap share generate as a result of the project and grant opportunity like the sustainable community which is a carbon tax that certainly million dollars to the project area.
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>> debris know that today, the items are to set up the the r f d so keeping the board posted by celebrations or considerations of how we're going to address that funding gap that would be great. >> we're looking forward to abrogating on the first affordable project in 2018 and looking forward to put our fencing plan in place. >> supervisor yee. >> yeah. this is not a budget question but in regards to the affordable housing piece of it what are we looking at in terms of the ami. >> so the range of affordability it is intended for treasure island is from zero to one and 20 percent of ami with the main medium to be 50 percent
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of ami. >> thank you. >> at this time let's going to the budget analyst report yes on package 15 of the report bans the assessed value of initial project areas over 43 years if 2018, 2019 to 2000 61, 62 it estimates one billion dollar and one and $52 million plus of conditional increment will be generated for is revitalization financing district that is over the 43 year term that otherwise have would have been allocated to the general fund using those
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estimate the maximum amount that is allocated to the general fund is billion dollars plus we also note that the proposed community facilities district will not have fiscal impact it levies an assessment paid by the property owners this is in addition to the pharynx and on page 16 of the report we noted it is shown in figure 7 that the overall project is amended to generate surplus to the general fund of approximately $338 million and plus a surplus of 6 hundred thousand per year and amended to generate surpluses of 200 and one million dollars plus an annual surplus on build out of three hundred thousand to the mta and the
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resolution fund and in conclusion on page - because of the proposed infrastructure and revitalization financing district in the community facilities district are consist with the extremity agreement between the city and the transportation authority and the disposition between the yerba buena island and yerba buena island, llc as previously approved by the board of supervisors we do recommend approval of those resolutions. >> thank you, very much. mr. rose at this time opening up for public comment i have one comment card from chair wiener williams but if there is anyone else please come on up. >> i'm with the treasure island initiative we're here to urge your support the formation of those district is very important in terms of generating the funds that will allow our
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affordable housing project to go forward we have our first project is funded and as supervisor tang noted there is still a gap there we're hopeful through all the mechanisms we'll be able to fill those gaps it is critical important we have those mechanisms available to obtain the yes, i did. >> funds we urge your support and in terms of the community facilities district a lot of the maintenance work we are currently done on treasure island done to the workforce training opportunity programs we support that as well thank you >> anyone wish to comment on item number 3 through 7 please come on up seeing none, public comment is closed. if we can get a motion items 3 through 7. >> i'll make that motion to
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pass item 3 to 7 with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> all right. without objection and with supervisor farrell absent. >> thank you very much for being here. >> mr. clerk item 8. >> resolution authorizing the transportation authority to execute a communication with the bart to negotiate licensed agreement with carriers to extend the ground commercial fiber and infrastructure to the sfmta underground system. >> thank you very much and i see we have coner johnston from supervisor president london breed's office. >> thank you vice chair coner johnston chief of staff with london breed about 3 and a half years ago i was complain on the n judah i can't text or read the
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news and couldn't answer her calls but there are 200 thousand people everyday that ride not - who ride the muni who are deprived of cell coverage and before supervisor president london breed asked me to work on that project to see what we can do i began working with muni and are we there yet? and the project started to gain steam with director nick of the bart board and then the mta chief financial officer came on board and the 3 of us pushed this and what the item before you i think i'm quoting harvey rose correct me if i am wrong mr. rose the most phenomenal deal i've seen in any 60 years of budget analyst because what bart will do is negotiate with those carriers they'll pay for the approximate $6 million in capital costs to provide the service in the tunnel and also
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pay annual fees to the mta so we'll be able to provide cell services so for the 200 million muni riders to text their family and work if their train is detailed and not only that service but we'll make money this is truly a win-win been great to work on. thank you to nick and others and on london breed ask for your support. >> thank you very much and mr. johnson i remember my legislative aide bringing this up and someone is running late they can't tell their boss with all due respect we've seen no movement but glad to see an agreement before us with that, i don't know if none from sfmta is so provide a presentation. >> gail i'm joined by travis
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from bart we just want to say we're excited to be moving forward with that project and mr. rose office has a complete report. >> i know that mr. johnson talked about that but can you in terms of the i guess the license fee contribution that will result from this contract how does that work. >> bart will be leading the discussion so i'll let the gentleman address that. >> thank you travis manager of information systems with the bay area rapidly bart has been doing a study the revenue is dependent upon on the number of hosts to the idea we the evidence will then show existing radio equipment and add cellular and build to large enough for the carriers to join the next i don't know that is reasonable to
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say whether the participation may save one to $3 million that will be divide between the agencies. >> in mr. rose's report it said mta for example, would receive 20 percent of license fees for areas controlled and or used by bart and 50 percent the license fees controlled by sfmta; is that correct. >> the decision it bans ownership of the property. >> the construction period. >> estimated between 12 and 18 months anticipate after the city and county of san francisco approves it will go to the bart board and begin negotiations and hopefully construction on the cellular early in the summer of next year. >> okay. on the mta side i think i read in the resolution that it will not only benefit customers but sfmta in terms of our own equipment can you talk a little bit about that and how
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that will be helpful to improve mta reception. >> i'll talk about that the idea was a neutral host system it is shared infrastructure before the transit and the commercial carriers the antenna have shared by the groups there is a lie helpful the tuning to have accurate cell phone calls and hundreds of thousand of people on the network it greater than the needs of radio purposes there is maintenance of the equipment there will be teams of r f radio frequency engineers to help to solve the problems and cellular connectivity you're talking about extending cellular
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phone also core benefits. >> did mta have anything else to add maybe you can translate this to improvement of customer service. >> you've phone will work in the underground areas you'll be able to look at schedules and send and receive e-mails to get on the web and another thing that ground will provide finally location service center that is key a rider want to know where they are and where to go to find their designation. >> i meant your equipment or procedures will improve on given the new reception will the new riders see improvements. >> it is really to address the cellular system i'm not the it
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expert i can't give you an answer but we expect to see cellular improvements and also not just to help you with work but also emergencies if people needs to call home or a larger emergency that is more assess to phones if you want a more technical response we'll get it to you. >> thank you very much supervisor yee. >> yeah. so in regards to the services for the cell phone is the great if it is along the bart line i'm curious because connor was talking about the n judah going through the tunnel and the twin peaks will that cover that area. >> it covers all underground mta property the ones currently ground and the ones built to extend the network to all the regions the above ground network
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is covered with the antennas it is difficult to penetrates 3 stories underground that's what we're focused on. >> so it includes the twin peaks tunnel and n judah that tunnel. >> right. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you last question might be more rhetor rhetorical can don't care to long. >> that's a good question for the city and county of san francisco and mta bart has been - it's been a shame we don't have the cellular service on the muni level what the downtown bart stations and montgomery and embarcadero the agencies have wanted to do a deal and e-mails and communications back and forth but it took i think the right amount of juice to get it over the goal line. >> thanks connor i guess (laughter) no, thank you i shouldn't take
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credit but director and others were phenomenal in making this happen and bart deserves a lot of credit they were enthusiastic about making it happen. >> thank you bart now let's go to our budget analyst report on the best deal mr. rose has ever seen. >> madam chair and supervisor yee owe didn't use the precise words that connor stated this is an outstanding deal for the city i agree with them and noted that mr. connor used in one reference uses the word steam he hope he was not steamed over this. >> (laughter). >> on page 21 we report that sfmta 123e789s the construction for extending the bart network will take between 12 and 18 months once an agreement is
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reached the total estimation cost 2 had the $9 million and paid by the cellular carriers no anticipated costs to bart or the sfmta and as i've stated sfmta didn't have an estimate at this time as to the fee revenues to be received by the sfmta we do recommend that i approve that resolution. >> thank you very much and so at this time i don't see any other questions or comments opening up for public comment anyone wish to comment on improved cell all right. public comment is closed. mr. clerk i'd like to add any name if we can get a motion. >> i can make a motion a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> and without objection with supervisor farrell absent item 9 please. item 9 resolution to authorize
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the department of emergency management and the department of technology to enter into a citywide meg hurts with the mortuary role not to exceed $76 million. >> i see someone in the department of emergency management. >> i'm michelle with the department of emergency management that the project sponsor for the radio replacement an jackson and want to come and talk about the program and give you a little bit of background with the system currently the city owns and maintains the public radio system that is used a daily by over 20 city departments and outside agencies that system is use daily one hundred thousand talks on a daily basis from integer with police
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communicating with police in the field and talking to capture and the services did not like the puc that use the system as they operate around the city the systems that are currently in operation 15-year-old in 2000 and are now becoming out of vendor support and the emergency radios that are carved by the police officers and firefighters are breaking at a considerable rate and now more and more unreliable so to address that problem fiscal year 2014-2015 approved an it project to replace the system at this point we had estimate the project was roughly $28 million and convened an steering committee and convened a project team with the
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department of emergency management and department of technology second the company to replace the system we've been in negotiation with them and as part of negotiations process we've been able to combine both the public safety and the public service radios and combine with the airport radio systems to create and bold one network that will be supported by all city departments and we feel this is the most efficient way to build 9 network and several benefits as part of the new system more importantly the radios that are used by the police and firefighters are going to be able to be inoperable not only in san francisco but if they are called out on a strike team
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outside of city limits throughout but fwaur they'll be able to take their radios the radios have battery life not only in buildings but building two new radio sites in the bayview and the san bruno jail the systems hinduism redundant and also be able to implement a gps to track officers in times of emergencies there are a lot of benefits with that system and so we're here today with a request to approve a contract with the motorola but the majority of radios that operate over 9 thousand radios we're anticipating as also part of the progress it is a large contract
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large dollars value and several others competing projects that are happening throughout the city so what coit recommended a financing arrangement we're able to finance the deficit the counteracting and ask an approval to enter into a contract for $35 million to - we've been able to obscure a 10 year financing arrangement very low interest rate so this is a good feel for the city and we would like to enter into a long term maintenance argument with motorola that will not - 24/7 technical support, onsite on downtime but upgrade the network
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every two years it is critical so we continue to use and operate on a current supported vendor platform by entering into the maintenance agreement we had 20 percent savings by this multi year contract and have the opportunity to get back finances for the outdoor agency that use this system. >> as far as the budget and schedule the budget analyst office did an excellent job in going through the cost estimate which you see in the report but originally coit approved a $78 million project we're under that that includes the finances into the contract as of now on budget with the program and then
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in order to build the system a project that will take several years we're anticipating 4 years for the transition but if we approve that contract in the next several weeks here we're on track to ship 26 hundred affordable radios for the police and fire department so they'll be able to start using those radios as early as next year. >> that's all i had for the presentation i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> okay. thank you very much and i know you mentioned the systems would be integrated across the departments it is really a great thing i. >> is a that was mentioned the sfmta has a system with a different company it appears the systems will be compatible so. >> and also important that the same technology so the public safety radios what about programmed to prerequisite on
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the muni network and our anticipation is that we use it as a back up for the public safety and public service radio system we're planning to trj of many feasibility. >> thank you. great supervisor yee. >> yeah, this will be really exciting we'll fund and upgrade our system i have one question in regards to the length of the contract for maintenance of 18 years couldn't think of a logical reason 18 years why a reason 18 years. >> that's a great question the first 3 years of the maintenance agreement so maintain our current system as we start to build the new system the first 18 are lower costs and to maintain the current network and then we have roughly a year of
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warranty and 15 years arrangement to maintain the new system and 15 years based on looking at our current system right now our current system is over 16-year-old we we use that a benchmark to guide obvious on the length of the maintains a very xeevens combraefr so we're not having to renovate, upgrade and replace all our network. >> would it make sense to make that a 10 year contract and the option to extend 5 more years so 10 years from now you could - right now, we're thinking we're senateer in the future and we'll
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protect the future with the rated in which technology is approving seems like 18 or 10 years from now the base will be different i can't imagine. >> that's an excellent point we did look at different models of how we would do the maintenance arrangement and looked at it upgrades in 6 years and again in 12 years but arrangement that motorola said a 15 years there was a savings by the bundles and have the option to modify that and standard provisions for termination of non-appropriation as part of program if we have a change or major technology shift there is flexibility that the city has i will say if you look at public safety radio communications in
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general the market didn't move and quickly as you see in the consumer electronics a little bit different type of technology. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. i think that supervisor yee was getting to some of the points i was going to raise i'm glad to see the built in upgrades and have currently we're not doing that at all out of curious so we're purchasing the equipment or the any models for leasing equipment so again, we're not in a situation maybe 18 years down the line we need a significant amount of money to purchase new equipment and invest in upgrades that is for over a shorter are period of time. >> we did ask for that type of arrangement and different arrangements as part of rf
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process models in some instances motorola has a model they own the network and city and counties use the network they have different models with the standard traditionally model. >> i'm guessing because with the proper maintenance we're hoping that will still be beneficial in a pretty - i mean new term for a long term. >> yes. absolutely and the system will be upgraded the bay stations will be upgraded we'll still have to tie in a 10 year period look at a refresher program for the affordable radios and working with the mayor's office roadway on how we can look at long term replacement strategy for the actual portable radios on the network. >> i think this is obviously very, very important for our city and you know, i think we're
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all pretty sure behind that given that is a large dollar amount it it takes time and resources to refresh our system and trying to make sure whatever agreement make sense for us in the long term. >> all right so at this time oh, supervisor yee something else mr. rose. >> yes. madam chair and supervisor yee on page 31 the first 4 years of maintenance agreement the maintenance costs will be the same three hundred and 20 thousands annually as motorola maintains the system but in 2021 to 200022 plus over one million dollars unanimously and on page 32 of our report a
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table 8 shows the estimated cost for the radio replacement is one and $5 million plus and we do are recommend you approve that resolution. >> thank you, mr. rose. >> so at this time opening up for public comment if anyone is here to speak on item 9 seeing none, public comment is closed. (laughter) oh, i'm sorry was there someone oh, okay sorry we'll reopen public comment for item 9 my apologies >> good morning tom president of the firefighters i'll wear my sneakers next time i'll here to speak on behalf of the firefighters we totally support this radio system it is transmittal for the firefighters going forward that allows the fire department to replace our radios upgrade the
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infrastructure to a modern public safety standard i'll include radio coverage by especially in the below market rate and more importantly for firefighters tolerated our ability for communication and lastly that provides improved technology for lost firefighters in an emergency situation as the san francisco fire department we approve that. >> anyone wish to comment on item number 9 i'm scanning the room all right. now public comment is closed. all right. supervisor yee. >> i'll make a motion to pass that out of committee with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> without objection. >> mr. clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> that completes the items for today. >> thank you. we're adjourne.
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