hunters point foundation, with cbos which support the direction the ymca, with all of these you want to go with organizations. we are trying to get started superintendent zones. looking at this, i am very first. hopeful, but i echo what we are supposed to have sort of commissioner norton said. i would like to see what it a brainstorming session with some of the community-based means on the ground. organizations this week. the only reason that i pushed i am, at least. back a little on it is these >> we are about four weeks from schools have been persistently and consistently lower the school year. performing. this summer, most of it was that have not been reaching spent on the streets. elements of this presentation their potential. we have a great opportunity here. we have also given this -- we have been in dialogue the least in this last week with community, these communities, dozens of groups of parents, many false promises. many of which have been enrolled we have failed in our promises in specifically the kinds of multiple times. parent leadership institutes and i think i need to remind this district of our failures. groups that i am hoping will begin to form the troops of i am anxious about this. folks that will be engaged in our schools, having a clear i am hopeful. understanding of what our reform

i hope that we can get updated effort is about. a lot of what is here on the on a regular basis about it. slides were not on slides at the i hope this is truly a reform time when i got to rehearse it them will be successful to tonight. i have been hearing their transform not only our schools concerns. a lot of what you are seeing but the lives of our students here is based on some of what that we have not been able to they have voiced. there are other voices that still remain to be heard as see it reached academic success. there is a lot in your hands. well. our community and neighborhood commissioner wynns: think you organizations and neighborhood agencies, many of which have longstanding partnerships -- we for the presentation. i was listening while doing have made a commitment to meet around the table no less than something back there. i appreciate the work and the monthly. we know and we have models focus, which i think is important. across the country, like the harlem children sound. the think we can learn lessons i am entirely supportive of the there. -- like the harlem children's idea that we needed to form zone. we think we can learn lessons these groups for schools that there. need extra help and support. we know we cannot do it without the community. this is an equity issue. things have not been equitable.

>> truancy is a huge issue in many of the schools. there is an issue of federal i have actually met a couple of government intervention. we have mixed feelings our prutruant students. generally. what i wanted to do is ask if you can help us in an ongoing what is the next step? way for the board by setting up i do not want the police coming in picking them up. some way of communicating with what do i do when i meet these us by e-mail, letting us know students? what is going on. they go to the schools in both i would particularly interested of your zones. in those professional >> you can always call emily development opportunities, and weighed thompson -- wadwade some advice for when you think it might be helpful if we are available to show up to show support. i do not think it is appropriate for board farmers to be at all thompson. the meetings you have -- all she is our community outreach board members to be at all the meetings you have. supervisor. she will call the school and the parents. not only do i want to see how >> talking to the students it this is working and the potential implications, but is more they do not want to go to the school that are out right

also i think it is important for now, whether because of a fight the people working at these or some issue. schools to understand how they want another placement. important we think this is. >> that is for students support if you can in the coming weeks services. >> i know you told us a couple figure out a way to do that, of months ago. give us some advice. i would appreciate that. every team has someone from hr >> we would be glad to do that. to deal with the teacher. who is in everyone's team again? >> our area teams are quite lean. each of the assistant commissioner yee: thanks for the superintendents has a right hand person, an executive director report. i have been anxious to hear about these for a while now. for instruction. we have started off the school year with a few content a couple of things that would be helpful for me -- i would like specialist. we are working with the teachers to get an update of the in our school sites. bayview has a director for organizational chart. community our reach. the mission team has yet to i know you have given some identify that person. when you look at the team organizational charts before, expanded, if you think about the but it would be nice when i am walking to the schools that i centro contacts, we grow that

see that. team to about three dozen. we have a specific lead person to help us in all of those also, this thing between mthe areas which our principals zones -- that would be really and families can rely on. we have several other key helpful. a comment about your professionals that will help us to serve the schools. we are hoping that attendance professional development and york cluster meetings you are is an important area we need to having -- your cluster meetings have capacity to do. you are having. i am right now trying to work i think they are great. with our students support the question in my mind is if services to make sure we have indeed these were not bilingual folks who can help us with that effort. successful and were meeting with >> we do have an independent each other to find out, are they liaison in the bayview hearing other ideas? district. president kim: i know we talked do you have any plans to cross pollinate into other zones or about this. the piece i am most concerned possibly there are ideas that can use? with more than what the plan looks like is that we need a i am not hearing that. you might take that into comparison. i would love to see an consideration. educational placement center in mission that is very accessible one of the things i have seen on to the families so they can

the ground, more so this year learn about process and how to apply and all of that. than in previous years -- that is something i would love to see in the plans. i note that this is a planning. executive directors. i have seen several of them meeting with principleals. period for extended learning and all of those things. generally, when i am visiting, in essence, the board has prioritized certain priorities the principal would drop everything. in several cases, they did not -- restored to justice, parent seem to want to drop it. it was good there were engaged engagement, and english-language learners. in the process. -- restorative justice. that is what i am sensing on the ground, immediately from the it would be great if we could help to realize some of these beginning of the school year. i guess it is to complement your priorities in the schools. that was meant to close our efforts. that is sort of missing. achievement and opportunity gap. i know you have talked about a lot more details on -- maybe some of the cbos. the best of what we want, lowering our expulsions and from my point of view, when we suspensions, parent engagement, talked about initially trying to

english language learning. that could be realized so we can look at the whole community, launch them in other schools. like bayview, and that was a the thing that would be the best place for us to implement a lot of these initiatives. priority for us last year, one having that be more specific of the things that stuck in my would be helpful. head was this is not just about also, something that would be the school issue. helpful for me is what the goals it is a community issue. it is about everything in the are that we hope to accomplish every year, even if we achieve community. them or do not achieve them, even though we are talking about just to know that we can measure cbos that can help the kids whether these are working. we want to lower truancy by 10%. academically, we started with a we want to lower expulsions by few meetings and did not go too 5%. at the end of the year, we know far in regards to -- how does whether we are meeting our goals are not. it does not mean that if we do the city get engaged in the not meet them wheat were other issues? unsuccessful, but at least we know what is possible and have a maybe there are discussions about it that are not showing means to keep us accountable to here. i think it is important that we what we are promising the community. do not isolate ourselves as an in terms of the parent institution. empowerment, we definitely want

the plan in the schools you have looks really good, but it is alignment to the plan we have been working on. silly to think we can do everything by ourselves and not i really wonder how we can do a engage the city with some of the lot more parent visits. issues of families have. that is important to me. maybe you are doing that, but obviously, i would love our you did not mention it. staff to do this as well. >> i totally agree with the if we are empowering parents and apparent agreement peace. community based organizations, we need to shift things where we but they can help us reach out. are not looking at there are parents who are not [unintelligible] protected to anything -- no it would be good if we looked organization or a school. outside at training that parents the only way we can reach out to can get that would empower them. them is by knocking on their doors. there are a bunch of i think that is the feedback i organizations that do this type of work. had. my other question -- are the commissioner yee: what is working with all the schools in missing here is, again, how do the superintendent zone? is that what was meant by the

we change the culture of the school to embrace the whole community's schools approach? >> it was helpful in having parent empowerment peaciece? their technical assistance as we engage the communities around if we do not do anything to the sig. new day off helps us think change the culture of the school, nothing is going to happen. do you want to address any of about the community's schools these issues? >> yes, sir. approach. we have continued to attend their functions and to get one on one support making sure we maybe not daily, but weakly and approach that. sometimes daily, we meet with >> last night, we attended a community-based organizations. we have had an education summit meeting and committed to in bayview where community-based knocking ondoors. we also committed to having epc organizations were there. we have let them know that we come out to the bayview zone to are not dragging our feet. we are trying to first get the help. a lot of the things you are instructions started while we are meeting with them to see how they can contribute to what we saying we did not mention in actually need. we do know they can. detail. president kim: the board is just commissioner yee: are you hungry for all this information. planning further community we want more and more. [applause] meetings like that for the city -- [laughter]

departments? i think that is it for now in >> we are. we are also meeting with the mayor's truancy program. terms of questions. thank you so much for the presentation. are there more questions and i know we are meeting with the comments from staff? >> i just wanted to clarify -- are the superintendent zones schools mainly in mission and bayview, or does it struck out two different districts? >> they are mainly in the bayview and mission, but we have two schools that are not -- john muir and paul revere. commissioner yee: could i follow up on my question about the cross pollination? >> we absolutely decided to do that back in june. we have not started to do it yet. right now, we are using our tsas that our experts for doing

professional development and not counting on teachers within the zone to do it. >> another important way we communicate our efforts across the district -- the deputy affords us opportunities to meet regularly with our colleagues assistant superintendents and teams so we can share practice there. president kim: just one more thing about student assignments. i suggested this earlier, but it would be great to have parent leaders. they understand each other's frustrations and can communicate with one another around the process. i think we really need to have zones dedicated to those families. i know that is additional work. i think our reach is so

important. >> last night at the meeting, chablis was there. she and emily are going door to door along with someone from jump. president kim: seeing no more comments, thank you so much. moving on to item n, calendar resolutions. there are nine tonight. now item o, consent calendar. >> akin to the meeting late. -- i came to the meeting late. k-14? >> we would like to move for first reading to item 109-k14 and 109-14k16.

those are on page 101 and 105. our assistance superintendent for special education is unfortunately out of town. we know there are questions and would like to be able to answer them. if we sever them for first reading, get your questions, get them answered, we will bring them back for action at the next meeting. >> those are the translation once. i also want to make sure she is aware of the feedback from the members of the public we got that is in or folders. president kim: there will be removed for first reading and will come back to us at the next board meeting. a vote on consent calendar item has already been moved and seconded. [roll call] ms> ms. mendoza left her vos

in a written statement. she is voting aye on all except [list] commissioner norton: yes. commissioner wynns: yes. president kim: yes. what about commissioner fewer? president kim: item p. consent calendar resolution severed for speakers and immediate action. we will hear kate first.

commissioner wynns: i severed this as an example. i have had this discussion with all the deputy superintendents. i do not have a problem with this contract. however, i think i made reference to it at an earlier meeting. i started the practice of reviewing before the meeting all the administratively approved resolutions. we had questions about how in my work. this is only one example. there are others where in this agenda there was a contract on the board agenda for items for us to vote on. all those items are on the administratively approved list. my concern is that what we have got are things on the same agenda which cumulatively go above the threshold. when we talked about there being a cumulative threshold that

would bar administrative of provo, we presume, all of us -- would bar administrative approval, we assumed, all of us , that they would be removed in time. we do not have a mechanism for doing this. there are items on the administrative late approved list which are not on the same agenda, which in a previous meeting we approve large contract for contractors. now smaller contractors with that same contract appear on the administratively approved list. we do not even have a list on people's desks. some of them are kind of obvious. that is why in bringing that up. we need to develop such a mechanism. since my discussion yesterday, it occurred to me that i would

like device. we might put it on the rules committee or the budget committee. we definitely need discussion for how to do this. what we anticipated is not working. now we have some examples. >> i would like to specifically request that the legal counsel provide us with draft language for the next meeting in october. i think we need to get on this. commissioner wynns: i am sure there does need to be some regulation, but the issue is for a technical one as far as i am concerned. that does not mean i do not want to regulation. but i am asking before we discuss this wherever we discuss it, somebody has to tell us how this could actually happen. we have made the presumption that they would happen in some way. we do not have a mechanism for this to work. this group of administratively

approved contracts alone has revealed huge loopholes if they are on the same agenda and add up above the threshold. obviously one of the problems is the people who initiative contracts. if they came from the same person's desk the might be able to know that. but some school the months to hire this contractor and pay them $8,000 -- school who wants to hire this contractor and pay them $8,000, but they do not know where they are relative to the threshold. i hope there will be at that venue -- tell us where we are going to get some technical issue of how it is gone to work. president kim: i do not want

another board meeting where we are asked to approve contracts that could in the same meeting go over the threshold. until there is a regulation in place of want to ask staff to monitor us and not administratively approve resolutions that could put it over the threshold. the board was very clear when we said we were raising the threshold. we wanted to watch and make sure there were not loopholes for this to be abused. this is a huge loophole. i am very concerned. commissioner fewer: the staff think they can grab something over the next few weeks? >> just to see if commissioner norton is in agreement, the policy is already written. but you are looking for is a computer mechanism that will flag the same -- what you are

looking for is a computer mechanism that will flag the same vendor. commissioner wynns: there has to be regulatory language at the same time. there has to be something in the regulations. i do not think we need a new policy that says "here is the way." some departments somewhere along the line has to be identified in a regulatory way. it is not happening without that. >> we will do it in a two-step process. the finance to permit will come up with a policy and legal will draft the language -- the finance department will come up with a policy and legal will draft the language. commissioner norton: we have resolutions in process. i would like some backtrackicheg

so we can make sure whatever is administratively approved before the next board meeting is not going to push us over. it is making sure we close this loophole, and to make sure until we get that language down that we are not approving more than the limit at a given point. i am not being very clear. >> we as staff are violating the policy the board approved if we are going aboave the