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
Committee. First, and i cant exactly remember where this was and on the Surplus Property or list or examined by the boe about the site and i know there were conversations about the current [inaudible] campus and its a huge site and a lot of it is open space and i know there was a grade issue with that site but what is the status of that site . Okay. So that i mean that potential is still there, so right now the current strategy would be if all the cards fell into place would be to relocate the school of the arts to 135 van ness. We are currently investing a fair amount of money into the macktier campus and going to take a number of years to make it happen and we dont want the students to have a heating system, not have lights that work and for all of the time to make that happen and we think the campus even in soto moves to 135 the academy is going strong. We expect it to grow. We expect to colocate another school there because the campus will be great and we think soda will use some o
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
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 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 S