year, six months, to try to figure out strategically where this money could be spent and how it could be spent the most effectively. supervisor cohen: for the record, could you state the amount of money received? the first pot of money we have received from our community benefit agreement is half a million dollars, $500,000 $500 thousand. there are some problems structurally with a lawsuit, etc.. if the lawsuit is resolved and the project goes forward, we will be getting the $8.50 million to continue the work, plus another $27 million we will get for affordable housing. those are the components of the community benefit agreement. targeting the half a million dollars, we decided strategically to target youth, youth in district 10 who needed the services right now, as fast as possible. the really exciting part of this project to me is that with this little bit of money we combined it to enhance the already existing programs the city has, and made them better and more specif
african-american youth. 30% of them received f s in ninth grade, so i would be interested to find out the racial breakdown of the students participating, how successful at the end is the program. because you are offering them about a $599 stipend is that correct? so that is if they participate for the full summer school. our summer school and your summer program? right. commissioner fewer: also, are you providing lunch for the students? of what actually is a summer launch site. the students have access to free summer lunch, which is sponsored by dcyf. also a couple of nuances because of the great relationship we actually have with balboa summer school administrators. they have also identified some that may not be in summer school that have failed or are in danger of failing because they work within the school system. so they have the opportunity to come to the after-school portion as well, and they have been identified in terms of subject areas they have issues and conc
figure out strategically where this money could be spent and how it could be spent the most effectively. supervisor cohen: for the record, could you state the amount of money received? the first pot of money we have received from our community benefit agreement is half a million dollars, $500,000 $500 thousand. there are some problems structurally with a lawsuit, etc.. if the lawsuit is resolved and the project goes forward, we will be getting the $8.50 million to continue the work, plus another $27 million we will get for affordable housing. those are the components of the community benefit agreement. targeting the half a million dollars, we decided strategically to target youth, youth in district 10 who needed the services right now, as fast as possible. the really exciting part of this project to me is that with this little bit of money we combined it to enhance the already existing programs the city has, and made them better and more specific to district 10. the ninth
launch site. the students have access to free summer lunch, which is sponsored by dcyf. also a couple of nuances because of the great relationship we actually have with balboa summer school administrators. they have also identified some that may not be in summer school that have failed or are in danger of failing because they work within the school system. so they have the opportunity to come to the after-school portion as well, and they have been identified in terms of subject areas they have issues and concerns with. again, our teacher our students are with teachers during the day to reinforce an enhanced the curriculum that they get during the daytime. commissioner fewer: ok, we also i am just concerned because i know the development is in the bay view here primarily, community benefits. we have there been marshall students going to john o connell, so we have a lot of students at risk of not graduating. those students go to school right in the bay view. most of them li
million to continue the work, plus another $27 million we will get for affordable housing. those are the components of the community benefit agreement. targeting the half a million dollars, we decided strategically to target youth, youth in district 10 who needed the services right now, as fast as possible. the really exciting part of this project to me is that with this little bit of money we combined it to enhance the already existing programs the city has, and made them better and more specific to district 10. the ninth grader we have heard about the a to g program. we wanted it to be successful. so we added the things that ycd is built around, the stipend, the extra tutoring, the bus passes, all of those things. plus we will take an evaluative approach. we are monitoring the program as it goes up. we are going to evaluate it. we are going to have a post- program evaluation and then see what we could have done better, what we did right, what we did not do right, to hopef