in addition, district 11 also has the highest number of schools in one district alone. a high population of youth resides here. they come to the district to attend school and after-school programs. [applause] >> good evening. i'm the program director at out of sight youth arts center. i want to talk about the curve needs of the district 11 youth that we work with and that many of our organization work with. with our current budget cuts on education, school aren't being cut, furlough days enacted, resources diminishing, we know that school is not enough. today, are you is faced with many challenges, peer pressures at school, other issues. you get involved with an after- school programming in order to learn more, make friends, feel empowered, develop leadership skills, and become more active in the community. these programs are not playtime. they are -- they offer real opportunity for the youth to have a hand in better in their own district community. they are also programs for you to have no other areas in the life for meaningful connection, to foster powerful karen rela

it was not just my district. that was a magical time for this region. >> in your regdistrict, deal have any particular projects to give us insight on? >> one was a basic infrastructure thing that was a big deal. san francisco circle. not a lot of people realize that more cars travel through one of those intersections than any other in san francisco. we had to shut that down and completely rebuild the intersection for the muni winds utilities, and overheads. we pulled it off. we got through it. now we have pedestrians walking through safely. we have the trains going through. it is cleaner, faster, safer. vehicles can get through there. it is a small thing, but quality of life when you do not have to deal with a bus stuck in the intersection -- that was a big deal. i am proud of the way the mta got through the major project without causing major problems. >we have lots of park improvements happening that will definitely benefit our youth. playgrounds the within the last few years have been renovated. for the entire

since it is the intent that the district grant them the benefits, the district recommends this action by the board of education. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. i see no speakers. any comments from the board or superintendent? seeing none, thank you, roll call? [roll call vote was taken] [the motion passed unanimously] president mendoza: thank you. thank you, mr. ruiz. >> i would like to thank tom reese for all his hard work and the team and the collective bargaining units, it took a while but we're there. president mendoza: i need a motion and a second on the resolution of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district levying the special tax within community facilities district number 90-1 for fiscal year 2011-2012. >> moved. >> second. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening. with your permission, may i read the relevant portion? thank you. president mendoza: yes. >> resolution of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district levying the special tax within the community facilities district number 90-1 for the fiscal year 201

come to district 3 and district two and districts 6 and 10 when the america's cup comes to town and see what type of influx of economic activity these events drive to us. i think that is something that is not talk about enough. both the community aspect, the intangible fact of who we are as san francisco, coming together around sports teams, that is an incredible opportunity, but then, the economic drivers in our neighborhoods is very real, and i think something that we are lucky right now, certainly in district 2. we have the blue angels every year, but the america's cup will become a large economic boom, and we need to pay attention to how much that benefits us as a city. >> it looks like we are just about out of time, and it sounds like there is a lot happening in city hall today, so we are going to wrap this up. >> there is. >> always. are there any other issues or things you would like to share briefly with respect to your new position as supervisor, or thoughts you have about san francisco before we wrap up our conversation? >> i touched on it earlier. for me, personally, especial

in your district? how do you think the police department is doing, and how do you think the city is doing in general with respect to crime? supervisor chu: i know we have been acting chief at this moment and the police commission is working to try to find an individual who can step in and lead the department. we know there are many things going in the right direction with the police department, but there is a lot of things to work on. technology is something we really need to focus on and make investments in in order to allow our police forces to be more effective, to be able to communicate more clearly with other law-enforcement agencies. that is something that we do need to work on. with regards to crime in the district, i would say that our district is more impacted by a lot of property crime. we see many cars being broken into. many quality of life issues -- graffiti. we see cars being stolen, those kinds of issues. we do have other kinds of incidences. shootings that might have occurred, but they

we're here with david chiu from district 3.hat includes chinatown, fisherman's wharf, and part of the russian hill neighborhood. he was elected to the board in november of 2008 and has served as board president since january of 2009. we will get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing them. thank you for joining us today. tell us about your background. >> my parents immigrated to the united states in the 1960's. i was the first kid born in the u.s. my parents sacrificed everything so that their kids could have the opportunities that they wanted when they came here. i grew up in the boston area and lived in different parts of boston. i went to catholic price school in dorchester, a section of boston. -- i went to catholic high school in dorchester, a section of boston. because of my parents, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. that is where i went to school. it was intense. i stayed there for law school and have a master's in public policy from there. those are subjects i decided to stud

11 and in district 9. both communities -- ronald heights and excelsior -- burn all heights -- bernal heights and excelsior. we are also in chinatown and other impacted neighborhoods. this also leads to the relationship between green skills job training and education and improving the public realm. i think we have the local is thickly, systemically, and not be arbitrarily cutting at backs. i think it is really important that you look critically at all of these important programs that dcyf funds for the children and youth especially. i'm going to give you some paperwork on this matter. thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening, everybody. 32-year resident of the english side neighborhood. not a native, as my daughter's tell me, but 32 years is a long time. thank you for being here tonight and listening to us. here are some items i would like you to consider. first of all, let's get back balboa park station fix that. as we do it, let's not forget about pedestrian improvements. we have to make sure that

district. it is very important to pay attention to the district, be engaged in the projects in the district. we also represent the whole city. any district supervisor that focuses on the district without addressing the citywide issues is not doing his or her job. every day, i make sure i am working on the major citywide issues and the district issues. i try to be disciplined about that. >> how will you approach the tough choices? >> i think we have to start by looking at the most critical city services that we cannot do without. what are the ones that if they deteriorated, we will pay the price on? public safety falls into that category as a basic critical service. transportation, making sure we have the functional muni is critical. core public health services like dealing with mental on this on our streets -- with mental illness on our streets. if we do not provide services, we will pay the price. it works out from there in terms of budget priorities. >> with your plans on dealing with homeles

district five is by far one of the most interesting drawn districts of the whole city. my western border goes almost into the sunset. my eastern border is goss street, my northern border is california street, our southern border is waller and as you mentioned earlier, all of the neighbors in between. from our inner sunset, the challenges there have been very, very different than say on the other side of the district in the western addition. one of the most pronounced and high-profile challenges that had vexed my predecessors in the city is i think the completion resignation that the western addition had to be engulfed in crime in public safety. borrowing from my past and working in the criminal justice industry and my determination to no capitulate the fact that people in public housing deserve the same public safety i think advocacy and people in the most aflupet parts of san francisco. chronically before i came into office, the western addition for 20 years previously ranked either second or third highest in the homicide rate. i made sure when a homicide, murder had h

10 and district 5. we cannot let these artificial barriers separating us. i am dealing with the african- american population. it does not matter if ibm in district 10 or the fillmore. i am still sicker than other parts of our population dealing with these illnesses. we are dealing with the black coalition on aids. if the way the contracts are designed, it is indeed someone from the fillmore comes over to get services, we are not supposed to give the services because of the way the contracts are designed. i just think we need help with things like that. last, but not least, and i really want to emphasize this -- bca has been around for 25 years. this will be the first year that we will not have hiv prevention services for our community. that is just unacceptable. i need help. supervisor cohen: i need you to get to the question. >> i did. all three of them. you know, can we get some help around the budget that looks at social capital? can we get some help that brings together all of our programs across di

enigmatic district 10. this district has great weather, a football stadium, beautiful views of the bay, colorful history, and a community of outspoken activist, but the area is struggling over how to deal with environmental health problems, crime, poverty, and concerns about a i have one great grandchild. i think that should tell you i have been here a while. >> have always loved this neighborhood, and it just so happens that i married someone who loved this neighborhood, too. sort of the fall of each arm and the history of the buildings. the trees and the architecture resonated with me. >> i stayed in the neighborhood, went to school year, and i just continue to work in the neighborhood. it is a great neighborhood. >> i think we probably have more children and most seniors than most other districts. i would say we have energy and wisdom. we have a great deal of new asian families and older italian families, people would have been here for 80 or 90 years. and then leland avenue, which is very interesting be

welcome to "meet your district supervisor." we are here with supervisor mar, who was elected in 2008 and is about halfway through his first term. we will get to know them and talk about the toughest issues they have been facing. welcome, supervisor. thank you for joining us. let's start by talking about your background, where you grew up. >> i grew up in sacramento, california, in the south area. went to public schools. ended up in uc-davis. made my way out to san francisco when i was a college student, and i sat in the class is in san francisco state as well, and i remember growing up at that time around clement street. we call the richmond district the new chinatown in the 1980's at that time. just being around the tremendous unique neighborhood, and discovering san francisco in the 1980's as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. i worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the mental health center in the richmond area multi services in the 1980's, and i was also a staff are at the chinat

many school districts, i think we should be reminded -- many school districts have been taking over all over the state. we suspect that there will be hundreds of school districts in the state of california that would be taken over as state. we must keep a 2% reserve at all times, and if we cannot keep the reserve, we should not be in this business. because that is not even enough to keep you solvent. so we are asking, i think -- you know, we have had to send a lot of layoff notices. frankly, we do not know whether or not we laid up of -- as we said, we said enough notices out. >> how many were sent out? >> we sent out 500 -- i don't know. i think it is about 500 of them, though. we think we cut it maybe a little too close to balance our budget. we are cutting transportation. we are cutting everything. we have seen some districts in california that have cut football. i mean, you cut football, you are really, you know, getting a lot of people mad. so, of course, we are trying to protect that. our media students, the ones the farthest behind, to bring them up. we also implemented a new gra

district creates the schools the same. even parents to support this had questions for how they could meet the individual needs of students. i have two children in middle school who have different needs. how are you going to serve their needs if you take away their choice of where they can go? >> participants expressed the same range of interests. in addition, people are concerned that despite having the highest concentration of children in the city, they have the fewest middle schools. with the closure, gave you will have no middle schools at all. students will be sent across town to go to other schools. i am upset there will be no middle school in the neighborhood. many wonder whether transportation would be provided for the students being sent across town. everybody understands the district is scaling down school bus services and wonder how their children will get to school on time. they said, our kids will be almost in the ocean. parents and educators felt their students do not receive the same level of support as well

the district developed formative assessments. >> district -- formative assessments aligned to state standards. so we do have a strategic plan to improve the middle schools, again using the findings from gaining ground in the middle grades and the recommend tations, the following are the components of our strategic plan to improve all middle schools along with high leverage actions that currently are being implemented. number one, a school wide focus on improving academic outcomes. we have already implemented online support programs in all of our middle schools for students coming into sixth grade, who are below proficient in mathematics to they will be ready to take algebra. >> just quickly -- i can't find where it is. >> the handout. that's correct. >> achievement levels? >> that's correct. >> thank you. >> so again, administering math assessments for e.l.a. and math. number two, criminal lunchtime closely in line with academic standards. we are going to be implementing the common core curriculum in e.l.a. and math and making sure that all the middle schools are implementing the math assessm

in district 1 -- in district two, alexander ong, district three, mr.ng, district four, the store manager of the sunset district good will, martin lamb, in district 5, rodney chen, district 6, steven lee, the leader of aspire, district 7, a longtime democratic activist, district 8, the founding executive director of the chinatown community development center gordon chen, strychnine shirley chen, district 10, a community leader and visitation valley, and last but not least, the business woman and president of an iron works co., florence kong. could you join me in thanking all of their leadership? [applause] the last thing i want to say is we have been celebrating our heritage for 163 years, and i look forward to another 163 years of celebration. thank you very much for being here. >> supervisor chiu, thank you very much. this is the seventh year that san francisco has held an official celebration for asian americans. the plans are the culminated efforts of the members of the mayor's asian-pacific american heritage celebration committee. please welcome me

there are 11 article 10 districts and six article 11 districts. this comes out to roughly 2000 properties under these sections of the code. the city is designated just over 1% of the overall building stock under articles 10 and 11. these are the only buildings that are under the purview of the hpc. just to briefly focus on survey , our survey -- this is a survey tool. supervisor weiner: given that there could be additional historic district in the future , within a historic district, the historic preservation commission is essentially supplants the planning commission -- >> in terms of article 10 districts? the hpc only has purview over certificates of appropriateness, related primarily to design review. all other land use entitlements lay with the planning commission. supervisor weiner: what about building work or you would need to get a building permit? would that go to the hpc? >> it depends on the designating ordinance. the majority of the work has to receive hpc approval. supervisor weiner: any appeal of that would go to the board of appeals,

for example, within the historic district, if you happen to live outside the historic district or a potentially historic district, the standards are also imposed in a broad brush manner. the time delays, the actual costs, the evaluation of consultants all apply even if there is a possibility that any work being done on a property could effect either the historic nature of the property or the historic nature of properties around it. there's no judicious approach and how it is being used in balance with other priorities such as the housing element, the transportation element -- [tone] that is the biggest challenge, there is no balance. supervisor wiener: thank you. >> supervisors, chamber of commerce -- [tone] [laughter] that must mean i get three minutes. this is an important and sensitive issue. san francisco needs to tread carefully on this issue. every neighborhood, downtown, all the way out to the sense that is an area of historic importance. but we cannot block the city into one generation's vision of what it is. if the 1950's had blocked the produce market at the foot of sacramento, we wou

>> welcome to district -- need your district supervisor. we're here with supervisor john avalos, from district 11, which includes the excelsior, and will sign, our mission, and crocker amazon neighborhoods. supervisor avalos was elected to the board in november of 2008. we are going to get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing the city. welcome and thank you for joining us today. tell us a lot about your background, where you grew up, went to school, the job you worked. >> i was born in a town called and los angeles. it was a lot of working-class folks. my father was a shore worker, my mother was an office worker at usc. my parents were divorced when i was 10 years old, and i moved to the east coast for six years before going back to california after high school. i went to school at uc santa barbara, graduated in 19988 -- 1988. i have lived in the excelsior since 1999. i have had lots of different jobs, but my main job is doing social work force and a disco, i have been a community organizer, i worked at a labor organization

the district has invested in language programs. all parents want their kids to have access to a multi language education. in addition to providing materials to accommodate the expanding language programs, there is a shortage of qualified most bilingual teachers region will fly lingual teachers. our recommendations are to regional bilingual teachers. our recommendations are to establish priorities to meet the needs of students to speak languages besides spanish, cantonese, and mandarin. for example, samoan. inc. special education students unhinged in plans for expanding the language programs. identify the needs and strategies related to resources and the trade-off. goo>> the challenges regarding student assignments are adding to the -- they were added to the student policy at the last minute and without discussion. there is a projected increase in the middle school population. uneven enrollment now means we have some oversubscribed and under-enrolled in middle schools. there is no middle school and a few and not enough in the southe

district 1. the organizing committee and claudine have brought this to city hall, and we will be doing it every month in may. recognizing an amazing leader, and this is also at the richmond area. this is right next door to the balboa theater on balboa on 38th. i am a former staff member, and there was the richmond district in 1974. it is the largest nonprofit be a role and mental health area that -- the largest nonprofit behavioral and mental health area. angela is an amazing leader. she is a licensed clinical social worker who has been working in the community for over 10 years. she has worked there for over six years. in addition to the program, she also served on the committee for the asian american alliance against domestic violence. she is tremendous. i have seen her in action. she is helping to organize a festival with our office and many other community-based groups. she also provides supervisions two master's students, and i know that supervisor -- to masters students, and i know that sup

one thing in terms of the language in these districts, how it affects permitting one of the districts that was recently adopted, you run into a problem very quickly. $20,000, you hit a threshold pretty quickly when you are doing a window project. with the language of this district, it requires a certificate of appropriateness when you are doing window replacement. it requires a hearing, a very simple hearing, but a hearing just the same. the planning fee for the certificate of appropriateness on a $20,000 job is -- >> which district? >> i have run into that problem down there. but it just goes to the broader view that you need to make sure that the small homeowners are not adverse limb pacted, especially when most people really want to maintain their houses. >> thank you very much. mr. whitaker. >> i have -- my name is jamie whitaker. i'm the president of the rankin hill neighborhood association. i have an overhead. i think we have a transportation problem. i think we have a problem holding up development. right now we have a plan at treasure island, and the san francisco business tim