such as john o'connell alternative high school of technology, john o'connell alternative high, john o'connell alternates high school, john a. o'connell high school. a is his middle name, but people believe it stands for alternative. [laughter] the new proposed name change does not change the john o'connell honorific to the name in order to give respect to the 1930's teamster member for grew the school was named. the o'connor family believes that as we continue to make our quest to be the place it needs to be, which will continue to work with the superintendent to officially designate the name to be john o'connell high school. >> be it resolved that the sfusd approves the modification of the school to john o'connell high school. i know that the school community was prepared to turn out this evening. they have elected a representative body of an apparent leaders to speak. you can learn what is happening tomorrow on the morning radio show. president mendoza: i do have some speakers. aaron yam, roberto bob, gamino, joann and steven bonnacorso. you each have two minutes to speak. >> hello

[applause] we have excellent teachers at john o'connell. mr. kelly was not one of our teacher award recipients. >> i go back a while. it was a different award in those days. i would just like to point out that john o'connell is the leader of the labor council in san francisco throughout the mid-century. he is one of the people who was critically important in making sure that teachers and professionals saw and had a union in california at a time when that was not necessarily a going idea. we really appreciate maintaining the name of john o'connell. it has been a tremendous school over the years. we very much appreciate the presentation by the students, the parents, the teachers, the prince of paul, and the alumni. thank you very much. we look forward to the new name going forward. president mendoza: comments by the board? commissioner wynns: i want to thank everybody for coming tonight. i want to say, in san francisco, alternative referred to schools that did not have any attendance area. it has a legal definition on related to o'connell and unr

you the man leading the academic work in collaboration with all the wonderful teachers here at john o'connell high school. [applause] >> it is a lot more full than it was five minutes ago. as principal, i want to welcome everyone to this event. it is important, not only for o'connell students, but all of san francisco. the district is making a push to include, improve, and pushed toward education. today, we are here to celebrate another reason of how o'connell is supporting and encouraging all students to be prepared for college and for a career. while some people are spending their time looking at what students are going to college, which are going to a career, with this new tech 21 program, the courses will support students to be prepared for a career, and for college. that is the difference between the programs of before and now. the new tech 21 courses will require students to be able to apply tougher math concepts. the program will recruit students that are college-bound and students that want to go straight into the workforce. the whole purpose is to make sure that these students are pr

thank you for all of the efforts you're putting in to promote it john o'connell. we are also going to have a ceremony, a brooding cutting for the new facility -- ribbon cutting for the new facility. they will be training and apprentice ship programs. thank you for that. any other comments? >> thank you for these teachers. i want to mention that our student delegates would love one. could i get a small ind? [laughter] >> if there are no other reports, item t is a closed session action. do you want me to do november 1 quarter to want to recess tx should we recessed? we have some -- we have one more agenda item on our closed session. we're going to recess and the board meeting now. we're going to finish are closed session and we will come back to report on our items and then adjourn the meeting. at this time i would like to recess this board meeting temporarily. we will be back and probably 20 mi

you the man leading the academic work in collaboration with all the wonderful teachers here at john o'connell high school. [applause] >> it is a lot more full than it was five minutes ago. as principal, i want to welcome everyone to this event. it is important, not only for o'connell students, but all of san francisco. the district is making a push to include, improve, and pushed toward education. today, we are here to

this is item 111 in support of a permanent name change for the high school to john o'connell high school. i need a motion and a second. thank you. this item is going to be referred to buildings and grounds. item r, none. item s, board members report on the school district select committee. commissioner fewer or norton? >> we heard a report about the summer program at the candlestick shipyard benefit agreement. it was very successful. it served many of our ninth graders with a very high rate to its participation and success. >> thank you. a report from the budget and business commission? commissioner fewer: the budget and business committee met on october 27. we heard an update on the state's budget, are there any updates about this budget? i think it was pretty much the same we have gotten. >> yes, it was pretty consistent with previous reports. staff gave an update about state revenue collection. the key question is whether the state will project there will be a large enough shortfall compared to the assumptions for this year to create midyear cuts. that is the major question. we have m

i would like to remind everyone that at 1:00 today, john o'connell high school is having the ribbon cutting ceremony. i will be there and other members will be there. we're very excited about that. i would like to also mention that as part of my report, i would like to have the san francisco redevelopment agency, might gristle, given update to the board on the most recent bid we received on one of our parcels. as you know, the state department of transportation transferred 12 acres to the city of san francisco for the purpose of developing and using the proceeds to fund the new transit center. most recently the redevelopment agency put out a bid for block 6 and 7, and it was very successful. i will have mike report on that. >> thank you, and good morning, directors. and i am senior product manager of the redevelopment agency. as maria said, we issued and rfp for two of the parcels i will show on this map here. block 6 and 7 of the transbay redevelopment project area. they are right here. block six and walked seven. -- block 7. these of the first market rate developments we are proceeding wi