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And welcome to the special meeting of the joint city and School District select committee. First of all we would like to thank the staff at sfgtv that record our meetings and make the transcripts available on line. And a special thanks and our clerk today and are there any announcements . There are none. Thank you. And i will have a motion to excuse supervisor avalos who couldnt be here at todays meeting. We have a 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...

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...

Do with them . But now our enrollment is up and people are choosing our Public Schools because they know that this is the finest School District in the United States, so i think we will with all of the extra housing being built particularly in that area were going to need, so it would be helpful if we could look at this with a projection of maybe what San Francisco may look like so we can arksz comidate before we get rid of properties we may need that property to swap it out to build schools where the most of the housing is being done you know. And just in response to that, so one of the steps...

There are no further questions or comments can i ask something . Sure commissioner wynns. I wanted to see and i see mr. Armtrout is here and i dont know when the appropriate time is but to have a hearing on the after school yes. After School Coordination program pending. Supervisor farrell did call for this hearing i believe in november. At the beginning of november i planned to agendize this in february. Supervisor farrell if you have any additional comments but we will make sure that dcyf as well as the School District is there. I am assuming that supervisor farrells office will be organizin...

Affordable a mix. People disagree what it should be but everyone agrees were not building enough housing in the city but this seems to me that we have a responsibility to really explore. I mean both as a board of supervisors, as the board of education to really say this is a prime site in a prime neighborhood, residential neighborhood near transit. It just would make sense that we move on that. And i couldnt agree more, and its interesting every single time we have a hearing that mentions the word Surplus Property this is the only time that 14 neighbors havent come out that their desire is thi...