the grants have not been written. we want support of the options or recommendations to develop an alternative proposal. this is what i share with you. this is where we are right now. and they have identified a grant writer to gather the school input from the schools for the grants. and we continue to press upon the federal department of education to reconcile differences between the federal guidelines and the state -- the state grant restrictions. and by may 21st, we will have reorganized all of our prek 12 schools into clusters and have opportunities for direct support. this is important because in the reorganization of the district which we shared, we will be making a superintendent's zone. and -- what is important about that is that we will have the schools in the bay view in empowerment and the school grofment grant schools will be part of the superintendent's zone and that's a new cluster of schools that will receive intensive support from all of the offices in the district. by june 1st, we'll submit the grant an

and several grants. and then you go to other grants from other institutions like san francisco beautiful. so then to further emphasize the community challenge portion of the match, we then score applications once they come in. with a heavy emphasis on community building and community benefits. if you have the application package it's self explaintory 35 points to community benefits. 20 points to neighborhood participation. 30 pounts toward project feasibility. the paps, 20 points is sort of furthered by 10 points in the community benefit's section. a lot is geared toward projects that have a lot of neighborhood involvement. >> go through that one more time. >> it's on you have the package? >> it's there in the box up there. there is also it's on s fcc gp. org has the application the community challenge grant web page. so, let's see. it's a highly competitive grant. there are 200 officially recognized neighborhoods in the city of san francisco. check it out if you go to sfgov. org and click on agencies an

i can speak to this grant, however.heir spending rate and status has remained very consistent, inline with their performance. in fact, as they have moved through this process, working with lowe's -- as you said, it previously was an agreement with home depot -- that y.c.d. had that, and it was transferred to lowe's as the facility actually changed. they have actually exceeded their hiring goals with regard to retail employment both for folks in the main targeted neighborhood as well as the surrounding neighborhoods. i know they are actively working on seeking new leadership. supervisor maxwell: thank you very much. anyway, as you heard, they are doing that. thank you for that. any further public comment on this? thank you. then, colleagues, items one through four as a committee report without objection. so moved. thank you. item number five, please? >> item number five, resolution authorizing the port commission to accept and expend a grant for $1 million to assist if a shoreside power facility. >> i can speak to that.

. >> item 7 is an ordinance authorizing the department of the environment to authorize a grant from $75,000 from the california department of toxic substances control and the amending of the ordinance to reflect the addition of one grant funded position. >> this ordinance is passed. >> item 8, ordinance amending the police code for increasing the fines of would ring, pursued, concealed weapon, for certain crimes on vehicles, platforms, or bus zones of the mta. >> aye/ >> aye/ >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> no. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> the motion passes. >> a -- item 9. >> resolution authorizing the sheriff's department to retroactively entered into the third amendment to the agreement between the city and county of san francisco. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >>aye. >> of the item passes. >> item 10 is a resolution approving a loan through these and the skin is pulled transportation association for a quality improvement. >> the motion is adopted. >> item 11, resolution adopting findings and of the california environmental quality act to extend a grant

item 31, resolution authorizing the same office to except and expend a grant in the amount of 400,000 from wal-mart to plan and manage an employment program. item 32, a resolution to retroactively except and expand a grant in the amount of $100,000 from the california public utilities commission to support the implementation of californians low income energy efficiency program. item 33, authorization to retroactively except an expanded grant in the amount of $200,000 from the evelyn and walter haas jr. fund. >> these are adopted. item 34. >> a resolution authorizing the port commission to accept and expand a grant from the united states in fermenta protection agency in the amount of $1 million under the diesel emissions reduction act. >> same house, same call? this is adopted. now will call for introductions. -- will call for introductions. >> sadly for many families, this is elastic of summer vacation. i am having my daughters look for items that are related to the ordinance that i am introducing today. i was horrified to find prickings bunch bob and horrible comic characters that ar

this is an interesting grant. if this was 10 years ago, it would not be a problem, but it is not 10 years ago. we have four furlough days. this is at a time when they are suggesting extending the school year. we are letting go of teachers. the student teacher ratio is out of whack, and we have a $1.5 million grant to enhance the learning experiences of two ethnic groups. it does not make sense. if we need the money, let's allocate it so it is keeping schools open and programs intact. i wrote letters to a number of commissioners. i have not received a response. i would call on san francisco unified to rescinds this grant and reallocate the funds so it is keeping schools open and keeping things active in the district. we have a quick response. >> for the record, we have no say. that grant is for that purpose. we do not have the freedom to take that grants and move it in any other direction. we did not write the rules. that grant was put out, and we applied for it, because we have a need, but we do not have a choice

we came to you in 2006 asking approval to accept the grant. at that time, you did approve of us to do that. that was with the exception of having us come back after we completed the environmental review. we are here today because we have completed the ceqa approval for the project and are back to ask for your approval to extend this grant. we are excited to move forward with this project which would minimize future flooding in the caesar chavis -- caesesar chave area. >> this resolution would simply approve an expenditure you authorized of $477,900 in grant funds from the u.s. epa.

item 11, resolution adopting findings and of the california environmental quality act to extend a grant in the amount of approximately $470,000 from the u.s. environmental protection agency and the cesar chavez a sewer improvement system. >> this resolution is adopted. >> item 12, resolution adopting the fire department to enter into a 10-year agreement with presidio trust to provide fire and emergency services. >> same house, same call? the resolution is adopted. >> item 13, resolution adopting -- authorizing the fire department to enter into a 10- year agreement with the national park service to provide fire and emergency medical services to national park service managed areas within san francisco. >> this is adopted. >> item 13 -- 14, the hiring of permanent career severely and federal firefighters displaced by the closure of the national park service fire station in presidio. >> this resolution is adopted. >> item 15, ordinance amending the planning code to allow new full-service and small self- service restaurants with a conditional use authorization to permit some said especially

we came to you in 2006 asking approval to accept the grant. at that time, you did approve of us to do that. that was with the exception of having us come back after we completed the environmental review. we are here today because we have completed the ceqa approval for the project and are back to ask for your approval to extend this grant. we are excited to move forward with this project which would minimize future flooding in the caesar chavis -- caesesar chave area. >> this resolution would simply approve an expenditure you authorized of $477,900 in grant funds from the u.s. epa. those funds would reimburse the puc for a similar amount from waste water revenue bond fund money, which the board of supervisors previously appropriated. we recommend you approve this resolution. chairperson avalos: thanks, mr. rose. public comment on item 7? no public comment. motion from supervisor mirkarimi for approval. that will go to the full board with the recommendation. if it could call items 8 through 10. >> item 8, resolution authorizing the san francisc

item number one, an ordinance to retroactively extend a grant for $1,670,000 from the esteban of energy and amending the annual ordinates for fiscal year 2010-2011. chair maxwell: thank you. department of the environment. >> i want to first thank the supervisors for rushing this into the process, and also, thanks to the mayor's office and controllers who helped in this all along. we are trying to play catch up with other counties that are participating in multi county statewide efforts that have successfully garnered $1.70 million for san francisco of a $30 million allocation for california from the u.s. department of energy for promoting single-family retrofits, so our part here, we're going to be focusing on multifamily and single-family structures. we are particularly interested in two-unit to four-unit buildings, and we are working with a small, hardware-store version, whereas there are big box stores. we are doing marketing and taking a more home and neighborhood approach. chair maxwell: then what is our goal? >> our goal is approximately 2000 homes retrofitted. actually, that quan

>> what i have in writing is the full fund and grant agreement, the full fund and grant agreement road map that addresses all of the items and the schedule and the responsible party and when each activity will be completed by the agency and ultimately approved by the federal transit administration and there's also elements in there like when the federal transit administration will review documents, when they will review the full fund and grant agreement and when they anticipate the scheduled approval of the full fund and grabt agreement. i will respectfully disagree with you on that and my point is simply this, that those of us who are supportive of this project, i think we also need to push forward addressing some of the issues that were identified by the fta and i think that those issues are very specific and i think that they're required deliverables that have not been attained. and i think it requires some of the additional reforms that many of us have talked about and as someone who is supportive of this project, i think it's important for us that we go on parallel tracks, that pu