The Potrero Hill Parents who saved Daniel Webster from closure have launched a new campaign … endorsing Jane Kim & Kim-Shree Maufas for School Board (both candidates are also endorsed by the SF Bay Guardian).
You may have already seen flyers posted at neighborhood stores including Klein’s, Thinkers Cafe and Chat’s, as well as posters along the major merchant corridors on the hill.
Why should I vote?
Early this year, every single public school on Potrero Hill was targeted for merger or closure. Daniel Webster was saved, but Enola Maxwell middle school was closed. International Studies Academy was moved to Enola Maxwell, and Downtown High School was moved into ISA.
Daniel Webster would have been closed if not for the early encouragement by school board members Eric Mar and Sarah Lipson (who met with parents at the library). Both Jane Kim and Kim-Shree Maufas are endorsed by Eric & Sarah.
By voting these two candidates into office on Nov 7th, you’ll help plant the seeds for a vibrant educational future for Potrero Hill and our city.
Add your support to this public evite:
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/info@potrerohillsf.com/votenov7
Read more about the candidates:
Jane Kim
Kim-Shree Maufas
Just received an e-mail today about the launch of outside.in, a website aiming to capture and organize all the neighborhood-centric information on the web.
Potrero Hill is a featured neighborhood (the only one in SF), and the site is pulling in content from this here blog, so check it out.
• Potrero Hill [ outside.in ]
Letter to the Community from the Esprit Park People/Dog Task Force:
Dear Dogpatch neighbors and friends:
As you may know there is a neighborhood task force comprised of members of the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association, Dogpatch Dogs, and Friends of Esprit Park, made up of both dog owners and non-dog owners, meeting to work out an acceptable use of Esprit Park with respect to people and dogs.
You may also be aware that there has been considerable tension between park users over the issue of off-leash dogs. While this task force is meeting to work out a longer-term solution, we see the need for an interim community agreement to help defuse the situation so we may all enjoy the park.
The balance we’re trying to achieve is an area of the park that is completely free of dogs and their leavings, in return for an area where dogs can be off-leash. There is no official off-leash dog area in the park, but in order to keep the south lawn dog-free (and dog feces and urine-free) we ask that everyone accept well-behaved off-leash dogs on the north lawn. To that end we’d like your support of the following interim agreement:
- Please keep all dogs off the south lawn at all times.
- Dogs are welcome on leash on the entire perimeter gravel path.
- If you are going to let your dog off leash, please do so only in the north lawn. Dogs should be well-behaved, and under the voice control of their owners.
- Clean up after your dog. Please try to have your dog “go” before coming to the Park and pick up after them in any case.
- And most importantly, PLEASE be respectful of others who are abiding by this agreement. Remember that these are your neighbors!
Please inform and encourage your neighbors and other park-goers to abide by this agreement.
Our task force is co-sponsoring a neighborhood Esprit Park maintenance/clean-up day with San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Department. Please join us Saturday Nov. 18 , 9am - noon. We will be replacing some dead bushes and various other small projects. Join in for all or part of the morning. Pizza lunch and beverages will be provided.
Thank you Esprit Park People/Dog Task Force
A recent SF Chronicle article was written about home prices slipping for the first time in four years.
Included in the article was a Potrero Hill homeowner, Leslie Nakajima, who hasn’t had a single offer on her three-bedroom house in Potrero Hill.
If she hasn’t received any offers by month’s end, Nakajima said she’ll stop trying to sell the house, which she bought 2 1/2 years ago.
“They aren’t building single-family homes up on the hill in San Francisco any more,'’ said Nakajima. “If I absolutely had to sell, that would be one thing. But I’m not desperate, and just breaking even is not really what I had in mind.”
On the surface, the article seems to point to a concrete example of a soft real estate market on the Hill. But the comments about this article on Socketsite (a local blog), seem to indicate that location is the cause of the lack of offers. Comments on the blog include those of the realtor representing the sale of this house, and a local realtor.
Chronicle photo by: Christina Koci Hernandez
• Home prices slip after 4 hot years [ SF Chronicle ]
• The Article (And The House) [ Socketsite ]
The SF Chronicle recently featured the Mandarin immersion program at Potrero Hill’s Starr King Elementary school, which is the first of it’s kind in San Francisco’s public schools.
Much is riding on the experiment. Success could mean more Mandarin and other immersion programs across the city, luring families to underenrolled schools they might have otherwise ignored. Failure might mean the closure of the school on Potrero Hill.
The program has thus far brought more Asian American and white students into the school, which predominantly consists of African American and Latino students. The school’s principal, Chris Rosenberg, aspires for the school to eventually become more integrated.
Chronicle photo by: Frederic Larson
• Kindergarten Immersion [ SF Chronicle ]
Search
New! View historical photos.
