it has helped to concentrate the underserved students in the same school. this system is what the policy as a whole from the tiebreakers in kindergarten tosh can disrupt. it is what we adopt. it increases our opportunity to &e%ei effectively build a strong middle schools that will accelerate the achievement of our most underserved students. based on your feedback and community feedback, we have altered the feeder patterns and we have listened to the feedback. entering kindergarten families will know exactly and what their child could have the option of continuing on with their classmates until the eighth grade. our recommendation supports other initiatives in the san francisco unified school district that is designed to create and support quality students in every neighborhood. we will respond to any questions the board may have. and the board discussions as needed, i would like to remind the board that we can bring this back to the committee as a whole. or the ad hoc committee meeting. we know this has been a dance presentation, a lot to consider. that wil

it is already an underserved community. we are already working with a significant lack of services, and to cut the few we have to be detrimental to the help of our residents and communities. [applause] >> as a community leader, i am seeing the golden years for our seniors are not so golden. many of our seniors have to make choices, like buying food or paying the pg&e bill. or buying a prescription they need. our many food pantries are filled to capacity. however, we continue to work on systems to make sure that people are not going to multiple food pantries. our senior lunch program in the excelsior and omi injures our seniors have at least one good meal a day and have some socialization. please continue to fund these programs and especially the transportation for our seniors to get to these programs. that is being threatened with one third to one-half being cut. our neighborhoods have lots of hills. the senior center in the omi had to remove from ocean avenue to beverly street, so transportation for seniors is a problem. s

share to the city to address the impacts from our project and provide health care to the poor and underserved. we need to be realistic. we are a not-for-profit hospital system and provide health care services in a compassionate environment that is supported by and stimulated by education and research. we currently provide before any of these asks, over$100 million every year in services to the poor and underserved. our project is about rebuilding st. luke's at a cost of over $270 million and building a new hospital to replace our existing california and pacific campuses in all in response to a state seismic mandate to continually serve the citizens of san francisco or be threatend with delicensing. we reviewed the city's proposal in detail and it does contain a framework for us to move forward. and based in our review and discussions with the mayor's staff and i would call them frank discussions, we have resolved about half of those requests and the other half is going to require more discussion and little bit of flexibility. before we submit our formal response to the city -- president olagu

efforts have been made to address the specific overwhelming housing needs of underserved populations, such as use aging out of the foster care system, or seniors struggling to age in place. in the past, there has been a pattern of affordable housing development being built where land is less expensive. what ideas or policy proposals do you have to build or finance housing that is affordable in areas where real-estate values are higher, but the need is present, such as in my district, the richmond district. what specific programs to you envision your administration to explore to buy housing for underserved populations but also for all the needed, like families in the richmond district? >> thank you for that question. i would like to work with you because this is a complex issue when we're talking about affordable housing in the city. we face this not just in richmond but the whole city. the first challenge is the lack of land for development. the second challenge is the shortage of public funding to help pay for affordable housing. when the opportunity is available, the mayor's office

in the city where youth service providers work in the city to establish a sense of belonging for underserved youth by building bridges that go beyond cultural divides and socio-economic berries. working collaborative despite the absence of funding, we have been able to develop a model for youth support. this created culture for empowerment which encourages youth to give back to society. as they mature into adulthood, this investment grows exponentially, providing a vast, sustainable energy source for san francisco. the earlier we invest in a young person's life, the more likely they are to succeed. we challenger not to be shortsighted in your view about the long-term impact of budget cuts and their consequences. the youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow. investing in the now addresses current problems while giving them a tool needed to find solutions we have yet to realize. thank you. [applause] them and let's give it up for the -- >> let's give it up for the youth. i'm so proud of your presentation and seeing what a difference all the students make in the community. thank you for being

snap benefits, formerly known as food stamps, and other food assistance benefits if people from underserved who have these benefits choose to spend them at a farmers market on locally grown fruits and vegetables. it increases affordability of healthier foods, and then gives that extra revenue to farmers who are often an underserved community in and of themselves. many of our farmers are actually on snap benefits or food stamps. >> all right. michel nischan, appreciate you taking the time with us. so good to talk to you. you enjoy your weekend. >> thank you, t.j.. >> our eatocracy coverage continues in our 2:00 hour, when andrew zimmerman, the host of travel channel's "bizarre foods" is going to join fredricka. you can find out more about what's making news in the world of food at cnn.com/eatocracy. i'm right back after a quick break. stay here. yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can now come from any faucet anywhere. introducing the brita bottle with the filter inside. >>> i'm meteorologist reynolds wolf. you're watc

has helped bring that in underserved areas. we're connecting communities together to create jobs by having broadband capacity. it's also helping us create more small business opportunities which is what we find the dominant economic growth engine -- we know it's in the nation's small businesses, but when you're dealing with underserved communities, small business growth is critical to their economic future. these insistments go toward revitalizing expansion and upgrading of physical infrastructure in order to attract new industries, encourage business expansion an diversify local economies. in so doing e.d.a. seeks to establish foundations that enable communities to develop their own economic development programs for sustained development. the e.d.a. has an established and proven record of using increasingly limited resources to complete projects in a timely manner that leverage -- leverage private-sector investment. senator boxer pointed out that. we're leveraging private sector investment with a relatively small amount of pub

recognize that we may not have done our fair share in previous years, but our services to the poor and underserved, including charity care and other benefits are now very fair at more than $100 million a year and we would like to work with the city staff to find the appropriate benchmarks to measure our ongoing effort. in relation to targeted community health programs near our proposed hospitals, cp mmp c is a thoughtful and well developed program at st. luke's and we have a strong unique program at bayview. today we have focus programs in pediatric health in the tenderloin and our partnerships with glide and others and these programs are effective, accessible and we would say measurable. we would like to continue to assist these strong programs. and with the new hospital, we would like to add van ness and geary, which we will staff with case management and social work resources to facilitate access to the uninsured and underinsured. we appreciate the role that the consortium plays, which is why we currently partner and support nine of the 10 clinics in that consortium. we provided $1.5 million in

these programs would serve our children and families and are an integral part for the underserved and should be given strong consideration. i believe the move of the main hospital to a centrally-located place at the doorstep of the tender line would only enhance our ability -- tenderloin would only enhance our ability to improve health care. serving on the board, i have worked hard to help expand quality health care. thank you very much. >> good evening. i am a staff nurse at st. luke's hospital. nearly's proposal is a food stepping stone, but san francisco -- the mayor's proposal is a good steppingstone, but sun francisco needs more. a labor contract expired four years ago. there has been minimal effort to return to the bargaining table. this is unacceptable in a union city like san francisco. the current proposal benefit of predominantly male profession. resident nurses are predominantly female, and at st. luke's, there female nurses as well as minorities and nurses, and we serve with pride. we enjoy the same deal building personnel were given. the surrounding community deserves a f

speaking to the larger needs of the city as well as the larger needs of the community that has been underserved historically. i am proud of the fact that in district 5 we are doing everything we can to bring community centers online, like hamilton community center which has the best public swimming pool in the city. others within that area -- we rely on booker t., not just in district 5, we are now familiar with district 1 and district to as people who go there as well. there is a conglomerate reason why this project should continue in the discussion that has been advanced this far. we realize what is before us in appeal to the board of supervisors, maybe more should come to life and we will be open-minded when that occurs. but at this point, right here and now, let us continue moving forward what is with us and i thank you for your time from all perspectives that have been here today. supervisor mar: i want to thank the young people who came out today. the former foster use, to put a human face on it, and the children from the booker t. washington center and the members of the community who ca

is some continued capacity to encourage these activities across our schools, particularly in the underservedd that is why we are making investments. we'll be working closely with the parent to engagement office on this situation. president mendoza: ok, that includes -- pet we cannot have -- vice president yee: i have a comment. in some of these things are going on appeared to engagement office, i guess, superintendent, can we get a report of what is going on there? a reduction apparently is on in the district? what are we doing? >> yes, and pretty soon, the board is going to get a report from that office, and what their strategic plan and what they're going to be working on, but we will get this information before that. president mendoza: thank you. i am concerned about, and i have raised this concern before, communities being taken by surprise, so i would like to see that put into place. president mendoza: has any action been taken yet? no action has been taken yet. commissioner: we do not want the communities to be taken by surprise. if there is a decision, we want them to know that. presi

this is especially true for underserved young children that may be a part of this new booker t. washington childcare center. many over, a core component is is creating a core community that values different life experiences and we believe it would bring important diversity to the neighborhood. thus we urge your support of the project. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, board. i'm john chapman. i'm here to approve -- got nervous. i'm sorry. i'm going to speak from my heart, honest limit i was homeless for about a year and y'all should approve this because it gives children and people my age a chance to honestly better themselves. if you do not approve this puts more people on the street and more foster child children just like out back without a chance or a fighting chance. so you should approve this four stories, six stories, or five stories. to be honest. y'all should do it. regardless. that's all i have to say. >> mr. president, members of the board. i'm brad paul and speaking today as a father and individual with over 30 years of experience in housing and land

first of all, and racial isolation and the concentration of underserved students in the same schools have an equitable access to the district's range of opportunity. >> [speaking foreign language] >> and having systems that are very transparent and having systems that work for families. and having access to the range of opportunities. in fact, many of the feeder patterns seem to do just the opposite. >> [speaking foreign language] >> for example, some of the feeders would concentrate from lower performing elementary schools and the same middle school. >> [speaking middleforeign lang] >> others will block students from getting into higher performing schools in the west side. our question is, are we missing our question is, are we missing something? >> thank you, pac and parents. >> in the recommendations presented on may 9 of district staff, we needed time to develop plans for the master schedule. including services for special education students. plans to address these issues should be in place before you adopt this policy. [applause] people ask a lot of questions at the community fo

the cultural equity grants program is a program that helps, with the historical and underserved communities to really expand their reach and fill their cultural programming. the proposed budget will be reduced by $88,000, and this means that we will probably see seven fewer grants, we will see about 75 different cultural activities, less than the year before. there will be 400 artists that will not be helped, and about 51,000 participants or audience members that will not be able to see. this is the anticipated impact and i wanted to highlight a number for you there, and this is the leverage number. the arts commission is not the only sponsor of many of these grants that are given. they get the grants from the city and they will leverage other funding, and so, it is very important to note that -- for instance, with the 2 million that the city has invested, there have been at least 7 million that have been leveraged on the part of the different grant recipients. in wrapping up, we receive a modest increase to the collections and the maintenance. for a long time, the arts commission has been

another isoçd work with district initiatives to avoid isolation of underserved students.the third is to support the strategic limited resources and quality schools in every neighborhood. the fourth is to provide equitable access to the range of the opportunities. creating robust enrollment at all schools. to be simple and easy to understand and provide transparency at every stage of the assignment process. offer families a degree of predictability. minimize the degree that families must invest. prevent the cost effective use -- implement and sustained over time. these are the policy goals of the the board unanimously approved for student assignment in march 2009 after years of debate, discussion, review of data. the next part of the presentation will illustrate the proposal to create the feeder infrastructure. i am now going to cost to christina who will present the next portion of the presentation. >> in regards to facilitating student diversity, we have heard that they are very concerned that the patterns themselves don't seem to achieve the goals for student assignment

i think for so long, people have felt that this district has been overlooked and underserved. i'd not remember seeing this many department heads ever hear just on behalf of lake view and the young people i work with, it is an investment you will definitely get a return on. it is definitely an investment you will get a return on. it is worth it. they are worth it, and this city is worth it, so thank you so much. [applause] supervisor avalos: that is what i was going to say. thank you very much, and thank you all for the public comment, and for the presentations, showing us our needs and what our assets are and what we feel our solutions to our budget crisis. i want to thank mayor lee for being here. . chu, you're doing a great job here you're coming out here is above and beyond, so thank you very much for your hard work beard and all our department heads and city staff, thank you for your presence here. it means a lot to us to be able to share with you our stories about our district and what it is like for us. we want to build a partnership. we can find the solutions to make ou

we are trying to look at smaller, underserved departments that have come to us begging for use computers, whenever they could get to improve their usage, and see if perhaps this supervisor kim: i do not want to discourage looking into that. those are just some of the concerns i had about moving in that direction. i am happy looking at that direction. the last question i have is not an area i am super familiar with, but looking at open source software. i know for a lot of the software we by there is often a free alternatives. worrying about security and all of that, -- >> we actually passed a policy encouraging departments that any time they do and rfp for a solution, that they consider open source software for their solution and hope we can save the city money. we have had some limited success and there is concern about the sustainability of that model, there is a concern it will adopt a big critical to the operation and maybe the people whose support will go away, but we are continuing to look at those opportunities to see if there is perhaps an expensive commercial version or free open

figure out what the right strategies are and making sure we are hitting all of the groups, including underserved useyouth, but this s obviously something that is key. i would also know they have been great in developing curriculum for schools. we would like to see that if we can massage that forward and create that link for youth as well. supervisor campos: i think it is great you continue to involve the district two and the supervisors and the community. i am also wondering how you are engaging other parts of the community. in one of the slide to noted u.s. -- noticed you had 35 community meetings. i was wondering if you could say where those meetings have been located, and what kind of outreach is being done city- wide. this is something that all neighborhoods in san francisco can really be involved in. >> sure. the vast bulk of those 35 have really been people-planned focused, so we focused on the most-directly impacted neighborhoods, and those have primarily been in district two and three, and along the port waterfront as well, a number of advisory fronts involved as well. we have had meetin

the needs for substance abuse programs to remain open is vital to the community, and already underserved, fragile community. also, other communities throughout san francisco. a reduction of treatment services will add additional cost to our already overburdened health system and increase crime and incarceration rates. the bayview/hunters point substance abuse program was designed to address needs of individuals entering our outpatient program, and should remain in place of resource, support, and encouragement to the community. substance abuse services in the bay view and the city at large should be increased instead of reduction in funding. supervisors, i urge you to add back our funding. treatments work. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jacob moody, chairman of the congress of african american organizations. "what to think the mayor, supervisor -- i want to thank the mayor, supervisor chu, and the board of supervisors for a more open process. there are cuts to the mental health services in the mayor's proposed budget. i oppose the proposed cuts as

safety users but also there will be a dedicated broadband network for the -- what they are calling underserved areas, anchor institutions like libraries, churches, schools. we'll be able to have access to the internet as well. that's the second component of this. commissioner mirkarimi: what do we expect after this? once the creation s. there any other kind of process -- creation, is there any other kind of processing to help further along -- >> we have already been working on boon negotiations which is build, operate, own, and maintain -- boom negotiations. commissioner mirkarimi: the federal government is into acronyms. >> it's true. but until the j.p.a. is up and operational, we can't negotiate with motorola. we are trying to set the framework right now, but motorola as a private -- is part of private industry, we want to make sure that we get the best deal for what they are going to be able to provide us. and through the boom we will be able to negotiate and i believe really be able to provide the best services for san francisco. one of the questions you asked miss gettis while she was up

programs dedicated to addressing the economic and environmental concerns of low-income residents from underserved marginalized communities. the economic prosperity jobs and environmental justice advisory panel supports the city's climate action planning efforts and recommends that the city formally link climate planning to social equity and job opportunities in the following ways -- i'm going to read an excerpt here. integrate social equity goals and environmental justice into the city sustainability and climate action planning efforts, include a public participation process aimed to reach the communities most impacted by pollution and climate change. and for any planning and decision-making during implementation of the city's climate action strategy. continuing supporting and incentivizing businesses to go green, with a focus on san francisco's small local businesses with an eye toward their expansion and the resulting local job creation. and finally, leverage the city's climate planning actions to achieve health benefits in community addition proportionally impacted by toxic pollution. given th