President scott, breslin excused; supervisor farrell excused, commissioner ferrigno, follansbee, commissioner sass excused. We have a quorum. Well now proceed to item 1. Clerk item 1. Approval with possible modifications of the minutes of meeting setforth below regular meeting of may 12, 2016. Are there any questions or comments to the board on those minutes . I think it was a remarkable translation process to get it all down particularly with all the Public Comment. So im ready to entertain a motion. I move approval. Second. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . That motion carries unanimously. Discussion item 2. Clerk item 2, discussion item, general Public Comment on matters within the boards jurisdiction not appearing on todays agenda. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We will now move to the rates and benefits committee. We are now the committee as a wh
Today, but to take care of up to 150,000 trees which would then give us an opportunity to expand our streetscape scape population by 50 over a period of years and to have the resources to take care of those trees and the sidewalks and assume liability. The funds will be funded in two ways. First, it sets a baseline in place, which is the average of what of the inadequate amount San Francisco has spent over the last 10 years. We havethe city spending on street trees has ranged over last 10 years from about 6 million to about 10 million so that this sets aside the average. About 8 million a year. Then, creates a modest and progressive parcel tax where overwhelmingly Property Owners will pay about 35 a year, the condo owner will pay 29. 50. A single typical singlefamily home or small permanent building will pay about 35. Larger buildings will pay more and large commercial buildings will pay significantly more good so it is a progressive parcel tax. The parcel tax is conditioned on the cit
Children represent 61 of our total enrollment and i think you see why this is is because weve had a real emphasis on helping children from low income communities accessing preschool and we started that way rolling out. This next slide which i think is impressive when you compare it to other communities in california and the nation shows that we have increased preschool attendance of four year olds in San Francisco and 80 enrollment in San Francisco which is really high but were proud that we have seen an increase in our africanamerican students from 68 to 79 and for latino students from 54 to 80 . This slide talks about family income. We compared children who are pfa when entering kindergarten compared to non pfa students and you can see these students earn 35,000 per year or less and again thats because we really try to reach out to the low income communities first including all the children in the district and in head start. This slide just gives you a little break down of where our
There are no announcements. Can you call the first item. Item 1 is hearing requesting San Franciscos prekindergarten and the transitional kindergarten from the San Francisco Unified School District and department of children, youth, and their families and control control and the Mayors Office of education on the current citizen of the programs. Thank you. We called this meeting at a request of one of the commissioners and with the coalescing of the prek programs under department of children, youth, and their families and the commission this committee is interested in hearing a little more on the demographics of students who are served in this these programs and analysis of the acheivement gap of students that attended our program and those that didnt and information how we can achieve universal pre k where the vision that every prekindergarten student has access to education in San Francisco can be realized, something they know many people in the room have worked hard to attain. Before
There are no announcements. Can you call the first item. Item 1 is hearing requesting San Franciscos prekindergarten and the transitional kindergarten from the San Francisco Unified School District and department of children, youth, and their families and control control and the Mayors Office of education on the current citizen of the programs. Thank you. We called this meeting at a request of one of the commissioners and with the coalescing of the prek programs under department of children, youth, and their families and the commission this committee is interested in hearing a little more on the demographics of students who are served in this these programs and analysis of the acheivement gap of students that attended our program and those that didnt and information how we can achieve universal pre k where the vision that every prekindergarten student has access to education in San Francisco can be realized, something they know many people in the room have worked hard to attain. Before