In 1997, i had an opportunity to work on an educational project with a gentleman named doctor samuel proctor. A number of you know him as a form present of North Carolina a t, hbcu, former president of Virginia Union university, private hbcu. He spent time in washington, d. C. , as a kennedy appointee to the peace corps but a number of you know him to his work as a pastor of the baptist church. In 1997 when opportunity to sit at a very lovely room similar to this with a donor and a donor who owns a very large and Famous Family foundation. The head of the walked into the room and made exchange niceties she said and ask you one question . He said yes. Is there a need for black colleges today . And doctor proctor leaned back in his seat having her discretion of most of life and he said maam, if you make him can restructure the question . The question is not whether there is a need for hbcus today. The question is, what would america be today without the hbcus . And so she nodded to dr. Pr
Or cspan 2. This is a great day to have a conversation about Higher Education and typically the role of black universities and colleges in it. In 1997 i had an opportunity to work on educational project with dr. Samuel dewitt proctor. Many of you know him as president of north carolina. Some of you know him as president of university. He spent time in washington, d. C. As a kennedy appointee to the peace corps but a number of you know him as pastor of an stenian church. We had an opportunity to sit in a lovely room similar to this with a donor its a donor who owns a large and Famous Family sfwrags. The head of that walked into the rooms. We exchanged niceties. She said can i ask you one question . He said yes. Is there a need for black colleges today . And dr. Proctor leaned back in his chair, having heard this question for his life. The question not whether there is a need for h fwrvegs cus today. The question is where would america be today without the hbcus. She nodded. He returned
Here. Chairperson rosales. Here. The next order of business is item two, announcements. A, the next regularly scheduled meeting will be june 7th, 2016 at 1 00 p. M. At city hall room 416. B, announcements of prohibition of souped producing Electronic Devices during the meeting. Please be advised the ring and use of cellphones, pagers and similarly sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal of the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of cellphone, pager or a similarly sound producing electronic device. C, time alotment for Public Comments. Please be advised a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to make comments on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. Its recommend the members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and give to the Commission Secretary. The next item of business is item three. There are no
[inaudible] city librarian and like to welcome to the visitation branch library. We are very thrilled to be here today with mayor lee and just a little bit of context about the neighborhood branch, this july will mark the 5th anverseraphy of the library and we are vore proud of it because the community has fully imbraused itment serves about 23,000 residents and it is in deed the most diverse neighborhood in all of San Francisco so we are proud of that. Great partner shch with the community and will see a lot of children today see proud it severs many daycare centers, middle school, high school, we work with Community Partners to make this a private anchor for our neighborhood. With that, again welcome to visitation Valley Library and like to introduce very proud of the support for the library, mayor ed lee. Thank you lieu ease and welcome to the visitation Valley Branch library. This is one of those gems that way back in public works days luis teamed up together with Public Works Depa
Who live there when we all walk around, we lock along tompkins on her way of two like either wait depending on whether were going to all the bipolar two bernal hill. You can look down you can see scott. If the house were to put right there, you would create a problem. It would make an unattractive you and its disheartening to hear recently some of said viewed as a matter of you can see a little bit of you. You know, its a workingclass neighborhood. We are a workingclass neighborhood. And we dont get a lot of views. So, to have a little bit of to keep to maintain the integrity would be appreciated and commissioner commissioner when that project 2020 will was talked about this morning, were earlier today, commissioner wu said he was the commissions like goal to put neighborhoods and communities first. The only people who would benefit by doing such an outrageous project would be the people who own appeared someone who is making money. Ive lots of friends who are contractors, who are wiel