And welcome to the special meeting of the joint city and School District select committee. First of all we would like to thank the staff at sfgtv that record our meetings and make the transcripts available on line. And a special thanks and our clerk today and are there any announcements . There are none. Thank you. And i will have a motion to excuse supervisor avalos who couldnt be here at todays meeting. We have a 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 its 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
There is a perception in the community and in the city that we have lots and lots of empty buildings, and the reality is thats simply not true. Currently there are only three sites with structures that are vacant and not in use. 200 middle point road, 1950 mission and the former site on 42nd avenue. We only own two sites with no buildings on it, seventh and loton and on connecticut so part of the message that the School District is trying to get out to the community, particularly for instance from Charter Schools who think we have an abundance of empty buildings we actually have vibrant School Communities in the buildings and even if the population of those schools is lower we have expanding special needs, expanding child care, we have prek and programs filling up these classrooms. For those of you that ausknow the Education Code makes it hard to sell School Property and thats on proper because in the 50s and the 60s School Boards popped up and we can have a fire sale and raise money a
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 School District can develop and has a lease for as well so this is an overall strategy around Surplus Property to learn a little more about t the mayor of San Francisco has made a commitment to see what we could do on the citys end and how we strategize our Surplus Property as well and we david golden from the School District here today
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 its 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 tha
And welcome to the special meeting of the joint city and School District select committee. First of all we would like to thank the staff at sfgtv that record our meetings and make the transcripts available on line. And a special thanks and our clerk today and are there any announcements . There are none. Thank you. And i will have a motion to excuse supervisor avalos who couldnt be here at todays meeting. We have a 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 its 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