Wont do that after the meeting is called. First item is approval of the minutes. So moved. Second. Roll call vote. [inaudible] ms. Fewer. Here. Ms. Mendoza mcdonnell. Yes. [inaudible] ms. Norton. Yes. Mr. Walton. Yes. [inaudible] mr. Haney. Yes. Seven ayes. The next item is the interim superintendent report and the first one. Thank you mr. Haney and if i commissioners would indulge me tonight i wanted to share some perspective as i take the roll of the interim superintendent for the first time officially in this Board Meeting tonight so this is an usually long comments on my part and i want to do it in two part and one is share some Broad Perspective and also some exciting reports about two events, one of which took place earlier this week last night and another one on saturday both at Mission High School as part of the africanamerican and Leadership Initiative and first i want to start by thanking audio is not clear and i want to thank superintendent carranza for his leadership and he
Objective third party accord toog city planning standard and believe it is accurate. Just trying to look at your plans. You got that setback on the third floor against the park of like 3 foot 7 where the master bedroom is. Im looking at page 3 of your plans in our package. Jes yes if that is extending ed to had walk in closet and that is adjusted and shortened to where the bedroom is, to give a sense what does that to do to the shadow . If you look at the shadow pattern and typically going cast toward the north and towards the east as the sun was sinking in the southwest. What you are talking about will reduce a nominal corner oof that shadow that may fall outside the baseline of the north side the tennis court. Im speculating, but looking at the shadow, the new shadow will take the shape the building. You with see that. What you are suggesting would cut the corner off that shadow. It would nt be an enormous impact. I dont think think there is net benefit to the public. That is a issue
Energy efficiency coordinating committee, the Small Business seat. I feel like this position and this seat and serving the committee could be in line with my personal and professional life in addition to the advocacy in my history being in the city for Small Businesses and affected communities. So my family has a corner store and building in San Francisco. I grew up there so ive been around the business since i was young and now im taking more of an ownership managerial role. We have equipment dating back to the 1970s in our store, and this is a pretty common reality for a lot of old Sole Proprietor independent businesses in the city. So ive had to assess upgrades for that establishment on its own in addition to working with other grocers and i sit on the board of the Arab American Grocers Association so i have a lot of relationships with Small Businesses and weve had interface with the department of environment on several different issues that relate to Small Businesses. So it is an a
For people of all races and incomes and races. When we lose families we are losing diversity. While diversity is a value for it in and of itself, the loss of diversity also threatens the following areas middle income jobs and workers, environment and sustainability, social integration, social capital and citizen engagement. Over the past two months my office has been working with the Mayors Office, the School District and a diverse dwruep group of stake holders to further specify what this council should look like. So at this moment id like to thank the Childrens Funds coalition, the our children and our city stake holders group, the Mayors Office, the Superintendents Office, supervisor avalos ofrs and the Youth Commission and many other people that were involved. We have made a number of amendments to the composition of the council and to further clarify its functions and duties so we had introduced this over a month ago and been working with all these different people to strengthen t
Businesses to the area. So kind of a broad overview with that. Through this experience working through the state of california in various regions and across the nation on some nationwide projects such as with the recovery act grants working on green jobs Training Programs and such, have a broad variety of knowledge to be able to bring to the San Francisco experience and im excited to see how they can develop in San Francisco. Very good. What do you see as the conditions and opportunities in San Francisco for really maximizing our Energy Efficiency work and green jobs . Yeah, so in San Francisco theres, in looking at the Green House Gas analysis of San Francisco, for example, i see commercial buildings as being one commercial electricity use as being one of the big areas. That seems like a big opportunity for being able to improve the Energy Efficiency, reduce the Green House Gas emissions in the area, and that also creates a lot of Job Opportunities with retrofits and with doing Energy