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Southeast Community Facility Commission

M I N U T E S

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2000
6:00 P.M.
1800 Oakdale Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94124


I.          Call to Order:

          Commission Vice-President Millard Larkin II called the Monday, November 20, 2000 meeting to order at 6:05 p.m.


II.          Roll Call:
          
          Present:                    Commissioner Bobbrie Brown
                                        Commissioner Heidi Hardin
                                        Commissioner Millard Larkin II
                                        Commissioner Enola Maxwell
          
          Not Present:          Commissioner Kim Nguyen

          Staff Present:          Robert Bryan, Dep. City Atty.; Toye Moses, Exec. Dir., SECF;
                                        Kathy Basconcillo, SECF Commission Secretary


III.          Approval of Minutes:

Minutes of Thursday, September 14, 2000 were tabled.

Commissioner Brown moved and Commissioner Hardin seconded to accept the minutes of Thursday, November 9, 2000 as mailed. Motion passed.


          Commissioner Larkin then moved to Item VI. - Director’s Report out of order to accommodate the presenter’s schedule.


VI.          Director’s Report:

a) Unlike last meeting heat to the Community Room is no problem due to the progress of the HVAC project. However, we are experiencing minor technical problems which we hope to address at a meeting with the contractor tomorrow (11/21). The project is currently expected to be complete closer to the end of the year. The Commission will be kept abreast.
b) Re: the ADA upgrade - we await finale plan approval from the Dept. of Architecture, then the staking process and heavy (earth-moving) equipment can be scheduled.

Action: Commissioner Hardin moved and Commissioner Brown seconded to accept the Director’s Report. Motion passed.


V.          Communications:

a) The Commission Secretary read letter from Stephen Herman, Director of Administrative Services at City College of San Francisco to Gary Dowd, Director Bureau of Commercial Land Mgmt/Public Utilities Commission requesting approval for sublease of Room 123 at the Southeast Community Facility. This item will be on the agenda for the next Commission meeting;
b) Invitation to HERC II Open House on Mon. 11/20 from 12 noon - 4 pm.


VII.          Presentation: Dr. Veronica Hunnicutt, Dean, City College of San Francisco/ Southeast Campus (presenting for Chancellor Phillip R. Day who was not able to make it) - requests the Commission endorsement of the plans City College of San Francisco has for the Southeast corridor, a plan which envisions a closer collaboration between Southeast and Evans campuses in terms of dual-campus program participation. This vision also encompasses further development of the career program at the Southeast campus Career Center comparable to the Mission Career Center.

          Dean Hunnicutt then referred to the Report to the Community by City College of San Francisco: Plans for the Southeast Corridor, Southeast Campus and Evans Campus, pg. 3. At the Southeast Campus "the plan is to initiate or expand on a cluster of educational offerings that will be coordinated with the Evans Campus":
1) Expand the Working Adults Degree Program (WADP), adults with jobs getting a degree thru the CSU (either San Francisco State University or Cal. State Hayward) system;
2) Develop a Southeast Campus Career Link fusing City College courses with DHS and EDD services;
3) Establish telecourses (distance learning) program to both receive and send instruction/services in collaboration with the CSU system and the Historical Black Colleges and Universities as well as the "smart classroom" ling to other City College of San Francisco campuses;
4) Establish ’information technology’ program leading to certification in a number of key technology fields;
5) Develop a support system for and expand the ’biotechnology’ courses to coincide and assist in meeting with the needs of the Mission Bay biotechnology project/complex;
6) Initiate an entrepreneurship program for potential small business owners in the Community;
7) Expand the GED/Invest lab courses for pre-collegiate students needing to improve basic skills before enrolling in transfer and/or occupational programs;
8) Offer short-term job readiness classes.

          At Evans Campus, the plan is to:
1) Expand the Construction and Maritime Trades Training Center;
2) Develop Evans into a transportation hub including automotive, aeronautics, railroad, maritime and intelligent transportation systems (including training for mass transit workers: BART, SamTrans and MUNI);
3) Establish Evans campus "smart class" link according to the (CCSF) district-wide education technology plan;
4) Expand the custodial training program (where the City hires from);
5) Expand the Garment 2000 apparel production program;
6) Establish a library relying primarily on computer links library collections.

          After summarizing the programs to be expanded at Southeast and Evans, Dean Hunnicutt then opened the floor for questions from the Commissioners and audience:

          Commissioner Larkin expressed his appreciation for a well-constructed plan for expansion of the City College of San Francisco system; however also inquired about a monitoring and follow-thru or tracking system of the students participating in these programs. He also reiterated a request for ’specific statistics’, a break out by ethnicity and where these students are from so "if we know where there are groups that we are serving, it will better facilitate to reach the ones that we’re not."

          Dean Hunnicutt also clarified that several courses required by the UC and CSU systems are already offered thru the AA program. Expansion of the WADP program will provide a "core set of general education transfer courses" required by the UC and CSU systems. Eventually we hope to expand the program so these classes are transferable to any college throughout the nation including the Historical Black Colleges and Universities.

          On another point of clarification: the Computer Technology that was held in Room 123 and moved to Phelan campus this past semester, is scheduled back at Southeast Campus in Room 306 effective the spring semester. The plan will be revised to incorporate this campus and room change.

          As a point of information: there is now a Dean of Outreach and Recruitment Services, Elizabeth Brandon (a BVHP resident) who is currently inundated with college outreach activities. However, many ministers in this community - whose priority is education - are interested in mentoring particularly to college bound youth. One of Dean’s projects is developing a "public relations piece" to be shared in the congregations about the offerings of the Southeast and Evans campuses. She will also be developing outreach mechanism geared towards high schools, middle schools and other community organizations.
          The governor’s new CalGrant Program makes education very affordable and accessible. So this is the message we want to take to the Community.

          Upon the summary of the presentation, and in response to the request of what is being requested from the Commission, Commissioner Brown moved to have staff prepare a letter of endorsement for CCSF’s Plan for the Southeast Corridor, Southeast Campus and Evans Campus. Commissioner Maxwell seconded the motion, which was passed unanimously.


VIII.          Presentation: Mr. John Bellanca, Human Resources Manager, Decorative Plant Services distributed a packet of their Facility Quarterly New hire Report, 3rd Quarter, 2000, statistical figures and other pertinent information. To expand on the report, Mr. Bellanca stated that the date of capture for the information was a week behind ’publication’. After a few details about the report for the 3rd quarter and a brief update of 4th quarter hiring statistics (temporary hiring for the holidays, 6 from Community, 2 African-Americans), he asked for questions from the Commission.

          Commissioner Larkin commented that although very thorough, the report does not reflect a strong outreach into the local Community for any of the positions, temporary, seasonal or not. As he delivered a couple copies of a mailing list, Mr. Bellanca responded that heretofore Decorative Plant was dependent on this list for job notification, but would appreciate the Commission updating, augmenting or adding to the list to assist in this outreach.

          Commissioner Brown reiterated that after reviewing the 3rd quarter hiring list and although the permanence of the full-time staff is a compliment to the stability of the company, she was also disappointed to see that none of the recent hires were from this Community.

          Mr. Bellanca stated that Decorative Plant has had a better Community-hiring record in the past and expects to do so again by working with the Commission on the outreach list. Mr. Ed Rathbun, President of Decorative Plant reiterated that he also expected hiring practices to improve thru the 4th quarter and into the new year. Then Mr. Bellanca closed his presentation by listing a number of other Community outreach projects Decorative Plant either has recently engaged in or expects to in the near future: sponsor an environmental science class; conduct tours and lectures explaining greenhouse operations; distributed applications to community thru community organizations; held trick-or-treat festivities/celebration for the Headstart Program on-site; contributed to the San Francisco food bank drive; contributed cash and food baskets to feed 10 local families for a week; contributed to: SF Police Assn., New Direction, Community Awareness & Action, NAACP (Alex Pitcher Fund); March of Dimes, Marin Special Olympics, and throughout the year have contributed plants to several Community Events held here in the Facility as well as care for the Facility’s atrium plants.
          Commissioner Larkin thanked Decorative Plant for their presentation and explanation of the 3rd quarter report and invited them back to update on future recruiting efforts.
          

IX.          Old & On-going Business: None offered at this meeting.


VIII.          Introduction of New Business by Commissioners:

Dr. Moses reminded Commissioners that Election of Commission officers will be on the agenda for Wed., December 20, 2000.


IV.          Public Comment:
          
          James Morrison, student at CCSF/Southeast campus and recent Decorative Plant Service temporary hire expressed that he did not feel that the "infrastructure (of Decorative Plant) was not contusive to blacks being hired" mainly because the infrastructure is basically Hispanic (instruction needs to be translated into English, everyone/workers speak to each other in Spanish, non-Spanish speakers are left out of conversations).

          On another note, Mr. Morrison informed the Commission that he would be sending a letter requesting endorsement of proposal he would like to make.

          The Commission Secretary also informed the Commission that Mr. Morrison was kind enough to provide the copies of the "Action Memorandum, Parcel E Landfill Fire, Emergency Removal Action, Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, CA" that are included in the Commissioners packets.

          The Commissioners thanked Mr. Morrison for his comments and referred him to the Decorative Plant representatives present.


IX.          Adjournment:

Action: Commissioner Maxwell moved and Commissioner Hardin seconded to adjourn the meeting at 7:07 p.m. Motion passed.


Respectfully submitted: _________________________
                               (Commission Secretary)