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
Waiting a month or two. They went to the pta, hey, look, we invested a lot of time on the Community Garden and would it be okay to hold off. I thought thats what it meant. And can you clarify pasara, a school in my community. Do they do the cleanup . Do they get the same level of service from the city . Yes, okay, good. Now i have a question. Is there you know you say you are looking for more schools to participate. So you have capacity for growth, because you know i look through this. And there are neighborhoods that are over represented and some that are clearly underrepresented. You have a bunch of school in the valley and in richmond and none in the intermission. So i think we need to do some specific outreach. If we want to have equity past who is interested. And we need to target some school and talk to some principals. And maybe other people in the community. And i would be happy to help with that. But also paying attention to that kind of balance is important. I will add to tha
Important part as well. Commissioner wynns. Thank you, i want to thank everyone, the report is very interesting. I have a few questions, can you tell me what hold means listed after argon . Argon we went and they were finishing their Community Garden project. They are on board, we are waiting a month or two. They went to the pta, hey, look, we invested a lot of time on the Community Garden and would it be okay to hold off. I thought thats what it meant. And can you clarify pasara, a school in my community. Do they do the cleanup . Do they get the same level of service from the city . Yes, okay, good. Now i have a question. Is there you know you say you are looking for more schools to participate. So you have capacity for growth, because you know i look through this. And there are neighborhoods that are over represented and some that are clearly underrepresented. You have a bunch of school in the valley and in richmond and none in the intermission. So i think we need to do some specific
First of all attend principal meetings, sfusd, let them know about the program and say, who wants to sign up in the beginning. The goal was to get a big pool and choose a geographic first group to start with. Thats how we attacked it from the beginning. And how its played out so far. We are pretty much in the mode of seeking more principal growth and buyin. Thats why having a hearing like this and having good stories from our principals. I want to thank eve and david for coming today. And good stories from the ptas, and that positive impact on the school and grow that. Thank you, would you like to respond to the question . Commissioner mendoza. Thank you. There we go, thank you. I want to thank chris for the survey he did at the end of the year after supervisor farrells generous fundraising efforts. We had 11 schools on line and had one in every district, and we did that intentionally. Actually david was the only one not on at that time. That was a really positive experience, i think,