a lot changed since a number of us including i called for the cities first hear ings on city colleges accredidation crisis over 2 years ago and the crucial economic impacts that we identified from our budget analyst report thot shows how much benefit the city has because of the city college system. not just to the the city economically, but also the work force. at that time we are also learning about the anticoffs the accreding commission for the junior colleges, but we also focused on the importance of city college as a economic driver and helping people out of pover ety in the city. we stood up to [inaudible] from english classes. english learners need and rely on city college. non credit and skill building technology class jz other courses while they don't always lead to a degree gives san franciscans the skill and job and profession develop needed. that is what st. is about reflecting the cities needs. in our bijt and legislative analyst office report in 2013 we quantifyed the econom ic impact of city college is more than 300 million kls annually to the city. 2 years later a trial

i support the city college coalition too. i know with the college communications, they don't know how the civic center campus is affecting our community. i don't know if they know how important the class is for all the students and all the people who live in this tender loin area. i'm here to say thanks to supervisor kim and supervisor campos for their support. and when i asked all of the residents, and supervisors to please help our community open the city for district 6. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> hi. good afternoon. my name is derrick brown. i'm in support of the housing and i want to also talk about opening up city college in tender loin and how important it is especially for those who speak another language. i want to also thank supervisors kim, campos, lee and hope that others support this free education in san francisco and better jobs. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is james tracy, i'm the director of community organizi

we ask for your continued vigilance and leadership as we hold the whole community to make sure city college is here for all of our students for another 80 years. thank you >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm with the community housing leadership. i believe the closing of this college is preparation was not -- i just know that it should be left open. if they're going to close it due to the earth quake retro, they should have another place for these students to go while that's happening. i'm just all for it to be open. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm /ro ma with the community housing partnership. i just want to remind everybody that some of the barriers that the folks face from the tender /hroeupbs. we have families that have children that need to find child care. we have immigrants that have to travel to other communities to go to different places and s r o residents most of the days are made up with doctor's appointments and other appointments. so it's not as simple as just saying oh, you can go across town to another campus. and

. >> i would like to pull out the city college item. >> 30? >> yes. >> >> madam clerk, can you please call the roll for 31 and 32? >> mar. >> yea. >> tang. >> yea. >> yee. >> yea. >> avalos. >> yea. >> breed. >> yea. >> campos. >> yea. >> christensen. >> yea. >> cohen. >> yea. >> farrell. >> yea. >> kim. >> yea. >> kim yea. there are ten yeas. >> okay. those items passed unanimously. madam clerk, can we go back to item 29. >> item 29 is a resolution to declare. it is the intention of the board of supervisors to work with other cities to sell these at risk loans to qualify non-profits that have the funding and infrastructure to purchase and structure and withhold the property and help /kwaoep struggling home owners in their homes. >> supervisors avalos. >> thank you supervisor breed. the seatbelt southeast part of san francisco, there are millions of distressed mortgages, of course, not millions in our part of san francisco but many thousands. there's been a plan in place to assure there can be greater local control and support from nonprofit o

i'm sorry, you said you were a student at city college? >> yes, ma'am. >> you are transferring at usf to go to law school? >> yes, ma'am. >> your service was in the navy? >> yes, ma'am. >> have you ever attended a commission meeting? >> i have not. >> okay, and maybe you can talk to me about some of the issues that you'd like to work on, on behalf of veterans, specifically maybe something around housing, transportation or health care. >> i am, i know that the city does offer to its disabled veterans the free transportation. i have that. i feel that as far as the housing, we need to do more to look at to see, we're getting more of an influx of veterans and i know every year we grow by 225 each semester so that number is going to increase in the fall because there will be no more out of state tuition for veterans which means we have the best bah so we're going to triple those numbers. housing wise i don't feel the city is doing enough to help the current veterans. we're still trying to get the homeless veterans from the vietnam era into hous

earlier this year the civic center campus of city college of san francisco closed suddenly due to an emergency seismic safety concern the friday before classes were scheduled to begin and many of the students didn't find out about the closure until they saw the sign posted on the building door. the esl the esl class provided a vital service for many of our large immigrant communities and the campus offered a computer class to the surrounding tenderloin community helping to address the digital divide and having a central city campus is essential for working class families to help prepare for further training and education. i've heard as many as a third of students were unable to continue their education either because they could not afford the cost of transit to another campus far away or they could not fit the commute time into their work schedules as they balance families and other obligations. it's important that city college do what it can to help our dedicated san francisco residents in receiving the best education possible. they still have not identified these classrooms and so

. >> at the took classes at city college i'm sorry, i guess i didn't hear it right. >> their city college courses waldo called transitional studies that are off track to graduate they'll not graduate unless they take courses so they take courses in extended learn through city college transitional studies might be able to do that before they come to us the majority of students are students in the city college credit recovery we're not able to assess their data. >> i think probably we probably should have a conversation about that and also about the health and the college to you know if it is on this offered in any event 9 of the grade if that's an issue it seems like it is if there's no opportunity for them to take it during the school days this is an issue two but we don't want to see a large amount of students pointed out to the fte for the school year that's what we're trying to prevent maybe have another conversation and maybe close some the loopholes thanks. >> commissioner norton. >> so to follow up on this this is actually, the conversation i had i'm going to put this i saw the supe

like our local hire is important for the san francisco workforce and what's the significance of city college because i know you mentioned ufls by the way, by the way, whatever the support for pathway and listing the middle wage incomeers. >> there are career training and having the local partner skills for people like i mentioned mobility and the packet to increase the earning potential they've been critical partners in our skills and building construction stay an construction we talked about on that board and the city is implementing the hire ordinance that addresses that issue you've mentioned supervisor the construction jobs that are being created are going to san franciscans and marrying that we're not just having a mandate but insuring the local workforce is trained and rode to work with the skills at the job site so to partnership with the city college and other partners is up. >> colleagues, any further questions. >> okay. thank you again for your work and looking forward to discussions. >> thank you, supervisor. >> at this time open up for public comment any public comment on item 2

of san francisco. >> one, two, three, city college! >> reporter: the speech and debate team is among the top in the country. >> i think our students have a drive to be the best at what they do. >> reporter: they are not only the top community college debaters, they are among the best in the united states. >> the fact that this debate team can rise to the level of stanford, harvard oracle is remarkable. >> reporter: ccsf will be going to the nationals in april against such teams after coming in first in the when region. >> you just leave me alone. >> no, i cannot leave you alone. >> why. >> reporter: specialty is oral interpretation. when competing against schools with budgets that can be up to a million dollars, they win. >> we are sometimes first generation immigrants, our parents don't speak english so it's hard for people to actually pay attention to us. so this is an outlet for us to let our voice be heard. >> reporter: practice comes when it can. mixed in with school work and jobs. anywhere it can. on the bus, in the shower, outsi

and they plan to have classes in chinese in chinatown and the city college campus and wanted to have a mixer so in chinatown it will be sponsored by the east west bank i told her to meet with the east west bank they're a provider as well as the. >> okay. >> i'll let adam know about that. >> any other commissioner reports. >> i have a question about the come back to the economic interact analysis is bart going to be part of the agency we'll be talking to. >> it's too far from what we're trying to do. >> i think in terms of it's not that it should be k4ri9d but in terms of what we're able to influence mostly is really around the city infrastructure project that's not to say that we couldn't use what the commission end up doing with the recommendations once bart is with the infrastructure project this is a discussion point or have the city have that as a discussion point with bart. >> okay. thank you. >> i think it was brought up that people think they should coordinate with mta so because it is coordinating a schedule. >> okay any other reports? seeing none we'll move on to the next it

next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm daniel brown i'm a former college professor from city college i'm just retired range okay i agree with what the last man said i live on the terrace it is very noisy and going to be worse with all the cars double parking and loading and unloading and my biggest concern a at the scene inside the park structure before you come out into the street i walk down there everyday and people come out without looking both ways someone is going to get killed other thing their break ins on deferring r0d terrace i see it every single day or every other day put up video cameras someone go out at night but for their own safety and the safety for the people using the streets they should investigate that it there was criminal behavior after school a few blocks down kids are harry's people and they're going just going to move down the street and go into the store there is shoplifting at cvs so for targets own business purposes they need to do something to anticipate the behavior of the kids that are nationally nasty and vicious they're all kinds of break-ins and theft

more bank for their buck at a safe way so even worse that the whole foods that is located near city college i see the same situation obviously there's going to be detriment in the community we talked about the parking has been stated it is primarily for community use the local institutions the neighboring community i don't see much of american people adverse but one thing that bothers me i see a lot of marijuana dispensary locations in the immediate area it sure with about noise to level the playing field and have target that has a say is an impact on home value and things like that so thank you very much for your time. >> thank you>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> if ami i've called your name. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm dan weaver speaking as executive director of the oracle ocean avenue association i've got copies of a letter that i worked on and prepared as part of the formula retail process because in the past in the present not target is coming in new target has done nothing wrong i've worked with them well however the history of formula retail on ocean avenue and other

i would respectfully suggest that since sunnyside, westward park, city college all have seats as impacted neighbors that our high school which has been there since 1949 also vadesignated seat. thank you very much >> thank you, roger. >> thank you. i just wanted to point out it is called community advicery committee and really hope the xhitey makes the committee a voice of the community and doesn't do that too much. thank you >> my name is roger [inaudible] resident of westward park. would like to thank you for considering getting the community involved on this. i understand this hearing is about building a xhuty not a discussion about the projject itself. in the proposed item 573 the membership there are members identified from many of the constituents but the source of those numbers coming from appointments. it is more efoketive if the sourcef the members of the committee came from the constip wnts represented there. i ask the proposed megz be changed to have the members of the committee come from the constituents. section 17-5175 and powers of duties, there are a number of things appear

bert understand how we as a city can keep supporting our city college. thanksgivings to supervisor kim whos district highly impacted civic center and [inaudible] campus closeier occurred and also supervisor campus who advocate #d for city college. i think a number of you know that san franciscos school districts arts festville is this week. i believe young artist make san francisco fun vibrent and a great place to live and the art festville is a city wide demonstration of creative diversity and vision. formally called youth at art, they celebrate the work of student all over san francisco and it is celebration especially of our ueke san francisco unified school district arts master plan which where know a number were on the board. when i was on the board we developed it looking at models like la and other cities. i believe it is a master plan and document and road map so we use art as a force in the school district so every child has a well rounded education. it is also a unifying force in the schools and cities as well. one of the quotes given by [inaud

internship and adding visiting bay area colleges and including some of the programs at skyline and city college. i will take some questions after this presentation if you have anymore but that is the two slides that i was talking about for the project labor agreement with the school district. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> so we have some exciting stuff we're planning for this upcoming summer. we're building on three years of success. we want to expand door way services and we started the last school year to provide work based learning experience and this is some of the cross over of school and work experience that we have been building with summer jobs plus and that is bringing employers into the classroom. an example of that is hour of code and we worked with the department of to bring tech companies school to help writing code in january. this year at the youth resource fair which i will tell you about on the next slide we're going to have a focus on job interviews and in the past we did mock swriew interviews and employers there were and there is a push for that so we have at least 1

carranza what hospital show that tremendous supporting for united 70 that excludes landlord from our city college and amps and uc heather's the university of san francisco and the university of the patrick and golden state university many are here to unit with us i'd like them all to stand up if we can give them a special hand of applause to applaud them what they do everyday to help our children and youth please stand up our education leader (clapping) i would also like to thank automobile nonprofit like united way and beyond 12 and year up to invest in our youth finally a special thank you to san francisco chamber of commerce and their board president and their president ceo bob for taking the lead on this important effort and strategize education well, i've said it before and i'll continue to say education is the best involvement of investment into our future and our chamber foundation will unit and keep education a priority 0 that san francisco students are prepared for careers here 90 in san francisco and prosper here together to make sure that everyone shares in the city's prosperity with t

subsidized child care centers and schools. 26% are from our public agencies, the school district and city college. we have 5% pfa are in child care homes and 3% from private nonprofit. this slide shows about our kindergarten readiness. we did -- worked with applied research to do an external evaluation of incoming kindergartens and compared to them in the preschool for all to those that didn't come from pfa and those participated showed an increase in early literacy skills and early mathematics skills and more impressively in their self regulation skills so with this research and a battery of tests we are feeling and have evidence that children who participate in the high quality pfa program are getting closer to kindergarten readiness. okay. >> thank you lawr a hello members of the committee. i am barbara karlson director of the early childhood and education. on the next slide we tried to represent the number of four year olds in the city and county of san francisco which is to your left. 6209 so i'm going to bring you to the right side of the slide. currently the projected enrollment in prescho

he was a senior at city college of new york and editor. its newspaper at that time. he heard about a rally in alabama and knew the importance of being there to document the event. >> it is directed to create an effective change in society that people will have their opportunities opened up. and my photography had to share the limelight of not only the people on the march, but the people to which the march was directed. the photographs go on display thursday. some of his shots were models for scenes in the movie "selma." he said they will be included in the dvd package release. >> one year later new details on the airline flight malaysia flight 370 as family and friends mark the one year anniversary of the disappearance. and here's a look from the sutro cam. thick cloud cover giving way today to continued warm, dry weather. but a hint of rain one day this week. which day? lisa argen will be along with your forecast in just a few. ooooh... i can hear that sizzle. getting louder! and louder! philly cheesesteak and egg sizzling with prime rib and gooey cheese. i better (

our systems which are geared towards the clients self-sufficiency and employment training and city college and so we agree with the final recommendation. >> thank you supervisor tang. >> just going back to in terms of the missed appointment that kind of an issue i think it is good to have a 3 strikes rules our trying to implement is there a way we can make it easier for the appointment to be located all in one place so they don't have to go to excessive appointments with the navigation one of the goals that they could pass all the resources at the at hands i don't know if there's thought about that. >> thanks for the question one of the most reason for the discontinues is the workfare we can't do much about that that is dph or rec and park but some appointments we require around recertification or another job search or other things we require for clients we're looking at the rate the reasons of discontinues and the rates of each so so what we can change for example when a client gets on a brown they get their cash assistance to go to the orientation at a different time and location very of