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different point of view. most kids, by the time they are teenagers, to be realistic, are behind on the learning curve. especially in the public schools. i think that the teen center of learning lab should emphasize remedial education and give all of these kids a chance to catch up, since a lot of them enter junior college, csu, even you see -- uc, requiring remedial courses, which many people tell me kind of ruins the college experience like their parents had. i think that this learning laboratory should stress remedial education. another part that it should have is a kind of questio...

and items coming before the committee, but they are retroactive, and the board is also asking why things come to us later. sometimes it is our process, but sometimes it sounds like a negotiating issue, a problem, or something else that happens. i think we need a better understanding of that. supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i want to reiterate that as well. it is an issue with an item that comes to us later. if there is a system in place where there are lease termination dates in the database, there is almost an automatic trigger in advance of negotiations. my question, and i am not s...

square foot, while they were at $3 per square foot and they came down to $2.80 per square foot. we said, ok, we will have to look for something else. they put the location on the market and i think they realized what the market rate was, they came back at $2. us realizing the cost and disruption to relocate, we came to the dollar rate. supervisor kim: well, i appreciate the work that went behind that. sounds like he started negotiating early? >> about one year before. probably september or november of 2010. we went back and forth and did a lot of analysis. supervisor chu: let's go to...

at one point we were thinking of moving, but then the landlord came back and said they would decrease the rent for you. it took a while to negotiate. i understand that you probably wished it should have started six months prior, so that the time would not have lapsed so much. supervisor chu: i think that on a larger point, whether it is property or different that is owned and managed by different entities, there are city departments and properties that have fallen into the jurisdiction of real-estate. it would be interesting for us to get a sense of how many leases, amongst other thi...

probably fear asking elsewhere. in a sense of it being educational, i think it would also encourage kids to realize that even though they are promoted from grade to grade and level to level, realistically speaking, they are not getting a good education. we should be man enough to face the fact that -- why send a kid to high school, junior college, and college, when realistically you are just going to subject them to even more disappointed when they finally realized, on their own, that they did not get a good education in san francisco. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. are there ...