Good evening well call tonights board of education meeting to order tuesday, april 4, 2017, roll call. Please ms. Casco. Thank you mr. Cook mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Sanchez mr. Walton ms. Eng and ms. Zaragoza thank you thank you. Ms. Casco will everyone please please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Section a accessibility information for the public as has been announced excuse me munoz are reminded if they wish to address the board of education an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item and present it to say the executive assistant speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board section b were going to hear if superintendant lee thank you thank you president walton and once again sort of like renovate my comments will be on the longer side please bear with me and thank you for being here. From the bottom of my heart let me be the first to congratulate doctor matthews as the next superintendent of sfusd applau
Sustainable future. San francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e citys land area more than all the parks combined theyre far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. Through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the Municipal Transportation Agency pavement to parks is bringing Initiative Ideas to our streets. So the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public rightofway meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. Im here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to Parks Program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban
Sustainable future. San francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e citys land area more than all the parks combined theyre far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. Through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the Municipal Transportation Agency pavement to parks is bringing Initiative Ideas to our streets. So the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public rightofway meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. Im here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to Parks Program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban
Need the leno. Bill. This is not easy that is not lost on me im feel an urgency as a city and School District i would like to see mirrored. I dont know what else to say. Supervisor its always aurgency. I know that. From missions 2020. I cant build it fast enough. I cant build enough of it. We want to build Affordable Housing. In terms of this because were doing something new and Something Different we we need the time to do it right so we can make sure we replicate it. Once we figured this model out we can replicate it. Then the big policy question is, where does the money come from . I need the time to make sure that im going to accomplish four the School District for the city and for the board what we intend it to did. Sure. I understand that and you aring hard on this and i know its incredibly complicated with you beneed interim strategy that is going to deal with the crisis between now and five years and then we need Start Building at a pace that matches the urgency. Im committed t
Keeping rates on hold. It is 8 00 a. M. In dubai, 5 00 in london, and this is Bloomberg Markets middle eas. We are just under two hours away from the opening of the emirates markets. Dubai and abu dhabi. Lets run you how they last closed last week. Take a look at dubai, abu dhabi and qatar. You can see a mixed picture. Youre going to the earnings season. We have a couple of big bang results in abu dhabi. Also must recommend in dubai. We will see how this open. Elsewhere in the gulf, lots of optimism off the back of that makeup saudi funded sale. More about that later in the show. And over in egypt, up 1. 4 . We are waiting for a potential currency devaluation, has not happened yet. In israel, tel aviv stocks relatively unchanged. Looking at how markets closed in the u. S. , we have the s p 500 pretty much treading water, despite the middle of earnings season, and some pretty decent corporate results. The dow jones also in the middle of change. Nasdaq up one third of a percentage point.