i have two children at buena vista horace mann.is very sad on a daily basis to see the problems at the school from minor to severe. i totally support commissioner alexander's proposal to see the money given to buena vista for total renovation. i thank you chair ronen and making stuff move forward in a manner that my kids can witness the changes that will happen and how school supposed to look when is a school and properly funded. i appreciate all the teachers at buena vista horace mann. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you so much. do we have any more speakers in the queue? >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> chair ronen: thank you, so much. public comment is now closed. i want to express my gratitude to all of the bvhm parents and families who not only took the time in the middle of very busy time to listen to this hearing, to advocate, file williams complaints to beg and scream for attention for your students and your school community. you're an inspiration. we hear you. we will watch until your students and communi

i have two children at buena vista horace mann.is very sad on a daily basis to see the problems at the school from minor to severe. i totally support commissioner alexander's proposal to see the money given to buena vista for total renovation. i thank you chair ronen and making stuff move forward in a manner that my kids can witness the changes that will happen and how school supposed to look when is a school and properly funded. i appreciate all the teachers at buena vista horace mann. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you so much. do we have any more speakers in the queue? >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> chair ronen: thank you, so much. public comment is now closed. i want to express my gratitude to all of the bvhm parents and families who not only took the time in the middle of very busy time to listen to this hearing, to advocate, file williams complaints to beg and scream for attention for your students and your school community. you're an inspiration. we hear you. we will watch until your students and communi

so, first, buena vista horace mann. i want to just start off by saying that nothing that i've seen at buena vista horace mann that those conditions do not meet our standards of what we should be providing as care for any school sites within sfusd. my hope today is that with $15 million we are more than able to complete design for a modernization project, but that design process will take somewhere between 12 to 18 months to complete and will be around $7 million to $8 million to just spend that -- i'm sorry. it will take 12 to 18 months to expend that $7 million to $8 million and then also leaving another half, $7 million to $8 million to expend on immediate near term improvements to the site. i feel good about that amount in that a lot of the issues that have been surfaced are not necessarily requiring major system replacements at this point, but often times, again, the result of deferred maintenance that has accumulated and that with $7 million to $8 million invested over the next few months, we will be able to delive

then it would shift to buenavist take horace mann then it shifts to mission bay. that adds clarity to view this in an easier way. >> first of all, i appreciate your team for all of this work and your dedication to trying to fix these big wrongs that are historic. i do have a question specifically about the mission bay project around the $15 million. remind me. i may have missed it. this is extra money not allocated from the 2016 bond to do what? >> commissioner, to date there has not been an allocation for the mission bay project outside of the bond measures specify construction of new schools and sets aside up to $100 million for sites including mission bay and bayview. we at the board with the board's support presented a number of times on the program developed internally with s.f.u.s.d. staff as well as community feedback. we would like to have an elementary school and learning lab. professional development spaces. we have gone through design process and are now at 30% design. we feel comfortable the budget for this vision we have outlined is $115 million. that

hello, maribell. >> i'm a first grade teacher at buena vista horace mann. i want to talk you about an experience last april. i came in in the morning to get started with my day and found my sink in my classroom full of sewage water and thankfully it was plunged and we hoped it would be the end of it but it wasn't. that afternoon when i was teaching a small reading group it happened again. the putrid disgusting smell forced us outside in the hallway. this is one example of all the things that happen in our school that this is not an appropriate learning environment for my students. they need a safe school where they look forward to going to and not having to deal with sewage water in their classroom. please, vote yes. >> thank you. >> hello. my name is bob armstrong the coordinator at buena vista horace mann and ask you to support commissioner alexander's amendment. i'm calling attention to the conditions our teachers work under at our school and the substandard conditions our children have to endure. our middle school art teacher teaches in a classroom with

horace mann. they show trash everywhere. a water leak peeling floor, tiles and even read droppings. we reached out to the school that time. officials responded then saying the district focuses most of his efforts on addressing, quote, critical life safety issues still ahead tonight has been 18 long months since the last cruise ship sailed into the bay area. >> when you can expect to see them back sailing again. >> weekend looks nice. but fire danger will soon be running high. we will show you where next. >> this is a nice sight. take a look at this. the first snowfall of the season has finally arrived. this video was taken earlier today along interstate 80 and near highway 50 where the elevation is more than 7,000 feet. the snow storm only lasted for a few hours, but obviously still very welcome. >> thank god because with the even the fires are contained. there's a small fires under the trees and stuff in. it's creating a lot of spot fires. so we're still home-is smoky air. >> despite the snowy conditions there. the fire danger is actually about to grow here in the bay area. >> that

hillary ronen is calling for a hearing on the safety conditions at buena vista horace mann elementary the city's mission district. that's right. there have been reports of gas leaks there, a student receiving an electric shock from us. will outlet. >> and some other injuries due to the poor conditions of the campus grounds at that school. in a statement the district says, quote, we recognize the rundown nature of the facility and challenge in the dressing day today. conditions such as peeling paint, cracked floors and overheating rooms all contributes to a feeling of neglect in the school community. the district is working to remedy this through our request for funding from the san francisco board of education. now, this is not the first time this particular school has gotten attention for its poor conditions just 2 years ago we received these pictures from buena vista, horace mann. they show trash everywhere a water leak peeling floor tiles and even some rat droppings on campus. we reached out to the school district at that time. officials responded back then saying the district focu

>> yes, i'm bob armstrong, the art coordinator at horace mann. i've worked at that school 11 years, 10 years previously at buena vista. i want to speak up to not only make it a safe place for our students, with the electric shock and gas leaks, but in favor of the renovations so badly needed. we have an art teacher who is currently holding her classes in one-third of the old girl's locker room. and she has had to, herself, renovate that space to make it sort of semi-habitable. we need the board's support for making that school much better, much safer and renovated for our students. thank you. >> thank you. hello, meredith. >> thank you. this is meredith with the parents coalition. and now that we're six weeks into the school year, i want to congratulate the district on the incredible work it's done. the data is clear. now you've done keeping everyone safe if school. thank you. and also work with the air purifier distribution, thank you for that, too. we want to note that many families are contacting us for improvements on the online learning prog

the supervisor called a hearing focused on the point of vista, horace mann community school she's heard in their classrooms. she was also told about a student who received an electrical shock from an outlet at the school. the school serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade teachers say they've been complaining about conditions for at least five years now, and supervisor ronan is now calling for a full renovation of that school. this week, marin county is easing its mask mandate in limited indoor settings with fewer than 100 people. those locations include gyms, offices, religious meetings and college classes. everyone though, must be fully vaccinated, and these locations cannot be open to the general public. the host employer organizer must also maintain a list of everyone present. the city of san jose has plans to begin to take action against city employees who have not been vaccinated for covid-19. the city's director of communications, tells ktvu that notices about plans for discipline will begin to go out this week to employees have who have not shown proof of getting sh