>> commissioner wynns? >> yeah, i leave this to you commissioner wynns? >> okay. sorry. it was a while ago. >> december 11th, after school. >> did we actually have that meeting? >> i think that we did, ways not there though. >> i am sorry, i can't. >> that is all right. >> pull that, actually. >> so how about a report from the committee of the whole january 7, 2014. which was last week, you think that i would remember that? i do and i already commentsed on that, that is right. and so, item t. report of the closed actions. >> sorry, president fewer, under board members reports, i just wanted to i didn't have an opportunity to give any remarks at the beginning, my colleagues for supporting me, you know, in the leadership position and i wanted to acknowledge and i think that it is appropriate to acknowledge the outgoing president, norton for the leadership this past year, and for vice president's leadership and the two of them and i have to confess that i gave the leadership a hard time about the five additional retreat meetings that we had, to build the relationships among

commissioner wynns? >> thank you, i would like to thank you for the questions and answers that were raised. my question about the increase in in instructional time with ms. flemming and we'll figure out where we can have that discussion on an on going way, unrelated to this plan but for the future in a more appropriate setting like curriculum committee or whatever we decide would be appropriate. i want to thank you for the answers and the staff responses. >> commissioners, any other comments, questions before we have the vote? yes. deputy superintendant? speaker: i would like to thank the commissioners for the feedback and input. hopefully the changes the staff was able to incorporate reflected those documents. >> now that i would like to pick out one item is the funds we have allocated because the way the student formula to address the state budget shortfall. i think it's time that we look at this reserve and wh

yes, commissioner wynns? >> i want to announce that the budget committee is meeting tomorrow evening mere at 6:00. >> great. >> would i like to say that... >> it is going to stay here for the whole week. >> why don't you guys just sleep over there. >> i was just going to say that commissioner haney and wynns and i had the pleasure of attending csba in san diego and one of the items that i feel as a board we desperately need to discuss and maybe at the budget committee you can map out a way to do this, i feel like we really need it start to get our heads around the lcsf and the cap and the local control accountability plan that we required to put together. the state has not done a lot of guidance with what we need to do with that but it feels like a real opportunity for s to graple with and to decide how we are going to deal with this kind of unprecedented flexibility that we are going to have and apply the dollars in the most equitable way and i am excited about it from all of the sessions that i attended. bu

>> aye. >> thank you. >> and miss wynns? >> aye. and miss norton? >> yes, except abstain on 1, 312-10 b4. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. all right, we are now on item p, consent calendar resolutions severed for board discussion, there are none, this evening. >> item q, may i hear a motion and a second please on 1312-10 sp 1 and endorsement of creating a world class and city wide arts education center to be located in the center of the civic center artistic hub at the 135 van ness block site to continue the support of the goal of equity and access for arts education for every student >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> this item, will be referred to a committee of the whole meeting, in january. >> mr. superintendent. >> i would like to point out that this continues the theme of the effective use of our properties. >> thank you, mr. superintendent. >> okay, we are on item r, board members' proposals for first reading. i am going to... >> no there was no, yeah. and okay, so i am going to do the quick ones first and then there are severa

>> commissioner wynns? >> yeah, i leave this to you commissioner wynns? >> okay. sorry. it was a while ago. >> december 11th, after school. >> did we actually have that meeting? >> i think that we did, ways not there though. >> i am sorry, i can't. >> that is all right. >> pull that, actually. >> so how about a report from the committee of the whole january 7, 2014. which was last week, you think that i would remember that? i do and i already commentsed on that, that is right. and so, item t. report of the closed actions.

>> commissioner wynns? >> i would like to nominate murase for vice president? >> are there any other nominations? seeing none, i now declare the nomination for the vice president closed and i would like to renew the motion for vice president. >> second. >> and commissioner wynns, i would like to... >> roll call please? >> yes. >> fewer? >> no. >> mr. haney? >> yes. >> miss maufas? >> no. >> mendoza-mcdonnell, dr. murase? >> aye. >> norton. >> aye. >> wynns. >> four votes for emily murase for vice president. >> i announce that emily murase has been voted vice president for the board of education for 2014 and i am going to relinquish the chair to the new chair of the board of education. thank you, commissioner norton. >> thank you, commissioner norton. and thank you colleagues. i am honored to represent the school board, and also the school district of prioritizes a high level of education for all students. along with social justice values, and real compassion for our student and their families. and i look forward to working with everyone here, staff and fellow b

>> seeing none, oh,, commissioner wynns? >> i just want to thank the superintendent for bringing this to us. and i want to thank him for his leadership on this and i want to thank everybody for being here. i want to thank all of my colleagues for their support, at least as far as we know. but i also just want to say, that i agree with some of the things that have been said this evening, that this is the moment for us. and it is a very, important moment for us. and some of us in this room have been working on this for many, many years. but, all of us understand how important it is, how important this school and with the legacy but also, the commitment of our or of the san francisco community to the arts and arts education is an integral part of what san francisco is. and so, it takes or going to take all of us to get this done. and this is, yet another beginning, but for the most important thing and so thank you to everybody. >> commissioner? >> thank you. >> i just want to kept for the committee of the whole, we heard from m

. >> commissioner wynns? >> i had a discussion of the at the committee of the whole meeting but i think that this we are going to pursue, this is a big israelsue issue, and again, one of the disincentives to encourage the students to stay for a 5th year taken care of through the waiver work and that is it will be different and, it will be a different part of our district accountabilities system. i understand that that is not why we did it, but it made everything else harder, i mean the state and all kinds of things were really making it practically impossible to have fifth year plans for students, but, so that issue about, if we could say to the kids, now what we say to them, here is your option and it is continuation high school because it is the only way to get those credits in there so that you can graduate on time and if we could do better about suggesting you will be far more likely to be able to reach the a, to g, requirements and including getting cs in those course and repeating them if you want to an

murase. >> yes. >> miss wynns? >> yes. and miss norton, yes. >> i wanted to recognize director bill san der son for the long leadership in this area and being so attentative to all of the feedback and to our deputy superintendent as well. and to our graduation task force for sticking with us, so thank you all. thank you. >> i just wanted to add to the appreciation and this was possible because of a lot of internal collaboration not just from the support office and the high school support team and i think that you saw our administrators are fully on board with making sure that we realize the potential here and our counselors, who really worked hard to give us a much more accurate sense of the student by student, about what some of those factors are and i think that all of that information is going to be very helpful, and put as we design a support strategy moving forward. >> okay. thank you, very much. >> we will now move on to item i. board members proposals. there are none. this evening. >> and item j. request to speak re

commissioner norton and then commissioner wynns. >> thank you. i just want to thank you for the presentation. i mean a lot of this information i'm aware of but to see it all collected like this is really, really helpful and partly just to help you dispel that kind of disconception that we have tons of empty properties lying around the city so i really thank you for that. i guess i want to explore a little bit the seventh and loton discussion a little bit moamplt i think i heard you just say to supervisor kim that site could accommodate -- did you say hundreds of units of housing? >> seventh and loton. >> [inaudible] >> oh the sota site. >> [inaudible] >> i think seventh and loton actually could accommodate -- >> about 120. okay. >> yes. >> and i mean i know when this comes up we sort of talk about the neighborhood opposition to this, but it does seem like given -- i mean what is happening in the city right now and just the that there does seem to be so much agreement on the need to build more housing whether it's market rate, affordable -- a mix.

commissioner -- wynns? speaker: i want to ask about the findings. >> when you have as many sites as you have. >> i think you understand why we might be concerned because we had these findings for a number of years and they it turned out it was really and the explanation was it was a hard program to get at what you are saying now, it's complex and we have a lot of sites, it's hard to do. it didn't seem like it might be that bad and when we found out how bad it was, we were legitimately concerned. do you have a way of telling us what you think of the scope of this is? >> do you mean district wide? >> no. i don't mean district wide. is that some of doing a terrible job of

so commissioner, wynns, are you requesting that it be on the march agenda? will you be here for that? >> it wasn't postponed. it wasn't on the agenda and postponed. i don't know if there is some other way to take it up. i'm not trying to postpone when we act on it. i would like to be here when the program mattics are discussed.? anything else? happy new year. >> item t. report of closed session actions. in the matter of sf of the san francisco school district. the board of education by vote one absent, gives authority to the district to pay up to a stipulated amount. other informational items posted on agendas the quarterly report on the complaints october to december 2013, the meeting is adjourned. >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco local agency formation commission. today is january 24, 2014, >> i would like to acknowledge our clerk of the committee, lisa miller. i don't have our sfgtv names here, but i would like to thank them for their assistance today. call the roll. >> avalos, present, commissioner bree

and now we have another acknowledgment for tonight's adjournment, wynns. >> thank you. so, we would like to adjourn the meeting in memory of elizabeth deovin who served on the board of education from 1981 to 1993, and was elected three times and served as president and in 1988. she was born in 1930 in colombia missouri and attended the university of missouri and met her husband, robert there and was an elementary school teach ner florida and then in 1957 they moved to san francisco. she was involved with community organizations all of her life, and she was dedicated to things which in those days were not ubiquitus in the community, early childhood education, mental health services and one of the first supporters of the development of hospice and the services for aids and hiv patients and was, actually along with her close friend, the creator of the children's network of children services and the idea that there ought to be a group that worked together to coordinate the services for children and families. and she was actually the, she was the president of the san francis

commissioner norton and then commissioner wynns. >> thank you. i just want to thank you for the presentation. i mean a lot of this information i'm aware of but to see it all collected like this is really, really helpful and partly just to help you dispel that kind of disconception that we have tons of empty properties lying around the city so i really thank you for that. i guess i want to explore a little bit the seventh and loton discussion a little bit moamplt i think i heard you just say to supervisor kim that

. >> commissioner wynns? >> thank you. >> i talked to mr. true man about this before, and i just want to for the record talk a little bit about the did was about the arrests on the school campuses which is section 16 and according to mr. which is undoubtly true it has not changed from the earlier mlus and so i am doing this only for the record and i am not going to object to it. as we move forward i would like, and we would have it and i would like to have it and i would like to know how many times are arrested in schools, and if any of those arrests are for things that don't happen in schools. and because basically our idea that there should not be any arrests in schools, for something that happens outside of the schools. unless i would like us to pay attention to this and about whether how that standard is working and what the results are by telling us. and the things that happened outside of school. one of our we have had to do it and we have the police department, about if the purchase and it is part of the police department's community

>> sure commissioner wynns. >> i wanted to see and i see mr. armtrout is here and i don't know when the appropriate time is but to have a hearing on the after school -- >> yes. >> after school coordination program pending. >> supervisor farrell did call for this hearing i believe in november. at the beginning of november i planned to agendize this in february. supervisor farrell if you have any additional comments but we will make sure that dcyf as well as the school district is there. i am assuming that supervisor farrell's office will be organizing the series of presentations along with you because i know commissioner wynns you also sponsored the same resolution at the school district and looking forward to that as well so if we can have a motion to continue the item to the call of the chair i will make sure that we have another presentation from the city's perspective and what is happening with the developer's perspective and also the city's perspective as well and i think it's good to have a 101 in how affordable housing gets built and ther

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motion and i want to recognize that we have supervisor farrell as well as president fewer, commissioner wynns and commissioner norton and happy new and it's great to be here and i am looking forward to chairing the process again this year. madam clerk can you call the first item. >> thank you. this is a hearing on the unified school district surplus property portfolio and sponsored by you. >> thank you madam clerk. so this say hearing that our office had last year working with commissioner mendoza and i worked on many years ago at the board of education when we examined the list of surplus property from the school district and started to look at what are ways that we could utilize district district property in a way that benefits the school district. we had a achievement a couple of months ago. i know the commissioners worked on a resolution which included a swap with the city and county of san francisco to build affordable housing on 1950 mission as well as 1101 connecticut. am i getting that address correct? for sf hope strategy in exchange for the parking lot site on 555 franklin and the s

. >> miss angela wei, logan, murase, mcdonalds, norton, wynns, fewer, 5 ayes. >> thank you very much. item i. board members proposals and then we have request to speak regarding general matters. please come up to the podium. you have 2 minutes each, please. >> good evening, my name is rachel treb a. i'm the parent advisory committee pack chair. last november we were here and we were looking to get a permanent location for our program. and we did get some recommendations from the central office facilities and they recommended three locations, one being everett, sanchez and the sf education hill top on brian street. none of them are permanent. they offered us a certain period of time, but nothing permanent. that's kind of what we are looking for. we are looking for a permanent location for our program. and having presented to you last november, we have moved four times since the reinstatement of the education program in the last 4 years. we have moved every year to a different location. that's it. thank you. >> good evening, my name is an tone on the parent committee for education progr

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. >> commissioner wynns? >> thank you, i want to first announce that the budget committee will meet next wednesday on february 5th in this room at 7:00 and second to acknowledge that there were at the last meeting we talked about the state board of education meeting coming up a few days after that and i was there testifying and i was wanting to sta say the board of education voted. i wanted to say this was a fantastic turnout by school board members and administrators from around the state. there were 370 speakers at the state board of education including the governor who showed up unexpectedly. that was a really, of that probably 300 of them were board members and superintendants and other administrators. it was quite a remarkable thing. this past weekend at the csba board of directors meeting thanked everybody but also said we know who are the leaders of the education in the state. even though they are all over the states. my thanks and admiration to all the board members and administrators who came to test

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. >> and miss wynns. >> aye. >> five ayes. item y. the request to speak regarding general matters, and i have one speaker card, michelle pence please come up to the podium, you have two minutes, miss pence. >> and okay, high, good evening, i am michelle pence and i am a parent of students at the claritan elementary in lincoln high school. and okay. i am here on behalf of a diverse student body who depend on the bus transportation from the excelcier district to the claritan elementary, the students use the bus from hill crest elementary to claritan elementary and their feeder school is prosidio middle school and we would like to request bus service for our students to continue to prosidio school for the under served community, the students are only given first choice for our feeder school prosidio it is the only school that they get priority at. and it is about nine miles from the bus stop at hill elementary and the students would like to attend the feeder school with their friends and benefit from the education at the middle school. b

will go back to discussing the main motion and commissioner murase was next and then commissioner wynns. >> luckily my comments were spoken about and i appreciate you coming forward and what i was going to say which is, pardon me for any students in the continuation system that fall under this category, as we have explained what is happening in their education, and as we discussed within their education plans to graduate and we let them know what they can get and what they are eligible get and where they are in the spectrum of graduation, i hope that if and when we hear from the students, well i want to attain the energy course schedule and complete it before i graduate and we provide them with options and encourage them to do that and so we may have to restrategy and give them the opportunities be it at their continuation school or as we develop, our own option, or other alternative option of accessing courses, and let them have those opportunities. >> and i know that you are shaking your head, mr. san der son, because i totally believe that we are of that mind, and we have that sort o

commissioner wynns, did you have any comments or dr. murase? >> no. i did not mean to, you did not have to share it with the class i just wanted to make sure. >> we were having a discussion about that here. okay. so seeing no comments or questions from the board members, roll call please. >> wie. >> yes. >> logan, >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> mr. haney >> yes. >> murase. >> yes. >> mcdonald. >> yes. >> aye. >> miss wynns. yes. >> and nis norton. yes. >> seven ayes, thank you. and all right we move on to item n m, discussion of educational issues wait a minute. i wish, right? oh, we can come go. there is another special item order of business. >> may i hear a motion for the district,pursuant to the requirements of the california education code, offer for sale to the city and county of san francisco, acting on behalf of the san francisco lviayor's office of housing and community development, the properties located at 1950 lviission street and 1101 connecticut street and receive fee interest title to the "central freeway parcel en from the city and count