Okay, so we will be calling item 2 first. Madam clerk, can you please call item 2. Thank you, file number 130159, the hearing on shared scho scho schoolyards project. By member farrell. Thank you, i want to call up supervisor farrell and to make comments first. Thank you, chair kim, much appreciated. And its great to be here with all the school board members. Colleagues, today we will do a hearing and update on a shared schoolyards project. I have worked on this closely over the last two years with hydra mendoza and a number of people as well as rec and park and denny. And other folks from rec park as well. I want to thank all of those involved over the last two years. To give you background, i have talked about this a lot publicly. For me the impetus came up when first in office. And my children were learning to ride there, with the training wheels off of their bikes, and we lived close to roosevelt and thought that would be a great place to learn. We went over there on a saturday mor
Sfgov and those taping todays session. Madam clerk, any announcements . Seeing none. I would like to change order of the agenda and call up item 2 first, if thats okay with the committee . Okay, so we will be calling item 2 first. Madam clerk, can you please call item 2. Thank you, file number 130159, the hearing on shared scho scho schoolyards project. By member farrell. Thank you, i want to call up supervisor farrell and to make comments first. Thank you, chair kim, much appreciated. And its great to be here with all the school board members. Colleagues, today we will do a hearing and update on a shared schoolyards project. I have worked on this closely over the last two years with hydra mendoza and a number of people as well as rec and park and denny. And other folks from rec park as well. I want to thank all of those involved over the last two years. To give you background, i have talked about this a lot publicly. For me the impetus came up when first in office. And my children wer
Residents next up we have supervisor mark farrell from district 2. Actually, supervisor cohen, i actually had another institute thats connected to excuse me. Eric mar has another award. Thank you, supervisor. [laughter] this is another important connection. I learned about black studies at sf state through this institute, and id like to share in honoring them with supervisor breed from district 5 who is kpoo or kpoo has a strong history. But i learned about black studies through a lot of leadership. I see that Arnold Townsend is back there and a number of kpoo community jj parsons, if you could come forward. Its my honor with supervisor breed to acknowledge kpoo radio 89. 5. applause and im really hoping that in future airwaves well be hearing youre listening to kpoo radio, kpoo 89. 5fm in San Francisco. We could hear that broadcasting our San Francisco board of supervisors meetings like they did historically for many, many decades in our city. And im hoping to work with jj parsons, th
Ride there, with the training wheels off of their bikes, and we lived close to roosevelt and thought that would be a great place to learn. We went over there on a saturday morning, and very frustrated by the fact that the schoolyard was closed and locked up. Huge black top, although asphalt great place for families on the weekends. And came back to city hall and talked to the head of Public Schools, and rec and park and hydra. And i said, if we could open up the schoolyards on the weekend, and it was closed because of the budget cuts. I know that growing up here in San Francisco, i grew up playing ball in the neighborhood in the local schoolyard. And if kids and families are not given that opportunity. I think its a real shame. We have embarked on a project and have had fundraisers over the last years, that have been very successful. And thank you to the sponsors that helped participate. And wouldnt have happened without all of those involved. And i am glad to say that we have 24 schoo
Okay, good afternoon and welcome to our first city and School District meeting for the year. I am jane kim and joined by supervisor mark farrell. And we will be shortly joined by supervisor avalos from the city end. And we have from the board of education, hydra mendoza and Rachel Norton and jill wynns. Our clerk today is rana calonsag. And we would like to recognize sfgov and those taping todays session. Madam clerk, any announcements . Seeing none. I would like to change order of the agenda and call up item 2 first, if thats okay with the committee . Okay, so we will be calling item 2 first. Madam clerk, can you please call item 2. Thank you, file number 130159, the hearing on shared scho scho schoolyards project. By member farrell. Thank you, i want to call up supervisor farrell and to make comments first. Thank you, chair kim, much appreciated. And its great to be here with all the school board members. Colleagues, today we will do a hearing and update on a shared schoolyards proje