president kim: commissioner fewer. commissioner fewer: i wanted to clarify that these services are free to our students? >> o', yeah. commissioner fewer: and treatment is also free? >> uh-huh. commissioner fewer: so i -- do you have any sort of professional development for educators and administrators and school staff? >> we are doing our presentations per the audience. so actually for our solve program, i mentioned, we are doing one for the wellness coordinateors and that's in december and they are doing one -- a prepare presentation for the wellness coordinators. we will have them covered -- and this is where i could use some help from the board is setting up presentations for staff at each school outside of the

wellness coordinator. .& all on the same page framing it. >> yes. >> i would like to ask if as of right now the presentations are peers around 14 through 27, or older older people. >> as far as who's giving the presentation? >> as far as the presentation goes. >> for the prep program, it's going to be kat doing the

presenting a. for the salt program we have people, our youngest is 22 or 23. i'm looking for 18 and 19-year-olds to come join us. >> is it possible to get the youth outreach workers involved somehow, like in schools, it's a lot easier to get teachers to sign up for presentations instead of contacting other people because i don't think this program is really known around the district yet. >> yeah. give us a call. we'll book it. >> other questions or comments? >> two folks i would love to introduce you to, judson steele, the student advisory council reation and kevin true it of student support services so they can both work with you in terms

of getting presentations out to students and staff and i just want to thank you so much for coming out today to educate the board on this issue. i did have a really quick question, i'm sorry i don't know this. i was curious what you meant by 15-minute medication management. i don't know what that is and what cognitive behave i can't recall therapy was. >> i'm not a clinician but medication management is the management of meds and i think what prep, and i mentioned dr. rose at ucsf who developed an algrit. , so it's a much more comprehensive approach than the number and cognitive behavioral therapy, dewpoint to talkle that one -- do you want to tackle that one? >> as far as cognitive behavioral they aretive, i don't

know a ton about it myself either, being the marketing director, but it is -- they call it a strength-based approach, so using each client's individual strengths and you know kind of helping their brain work in a certain way that acts toward those strengths is my understanding of it. the medication management piece of it, i think the standard of care is every two to three months, somebody with psychosis would go in and have a meeting with their therapist, maybe make some adjustments to their medication, it was every once in a while, the algorithm method uses a scientific approach to adjustment the medication and make sure they're getting the correct levels of each medication and the correct combination of medication and it just, you know, let's that be going on on an ongoing basis rather than just once in a while

and they can come in and meet with their therapist. >> thank you again. i think this is really important that we do as much early education and intervention as possible with our students. i know you had other slides in here but showing that early intervention, preventing substance abuse and memory loss, so many things are important to us to make sure we're graduating adults that are ready to be committed members of our community and i know that in particular, there is a stig in a around mental health issues, particularly in our communities of co-loffer -- of color, which is the majority of the school district so any outreach is great. >> thank you very much. prep does have bilingual capacity too. >> that would be great. thank you. >> our next item, item n, consent calendar resolutions.

there are none tonight. item o, vote on consent calendar, which has been moved and seconded under section f. may we have a roll call please. >> this has fan. >> yes. >> ms. creer. >> eyes. >> ms. mendoza. commissioner maufas: yes except -- vice president mendoza: yes except on items k-1, 8 and 29. because they're retroactive. >> thank you. ms. norton. commissioner norton: yes. >> ms. wynns. commissioner wynns: yes. >> mr. yee. commissioner yee: yes. >> and ms. kim. president kim: yes. next is item p, consent calendar resolution zehred for speakers, there are none tonight. item s, board member reports.

our first is from the budget committee, commissioner yes. commissioner yee: there were no -- commissioner yee. commissioner yee: there were no action items at our last meeting. we discussed the state budget updates just to get rolling in terms of our next school year budget development. of course at the time, the state had not passed the budget yet, so that was a very quick discussion. one of the concerns, and i still don't know, this should be a concern, but there was the governors' suggestion to cut all the unaccounted government funds which would have meant as much as $25 million that would have been cut out of our budget and so i don't think it happened but i don't know at this point. >> you would have heard. commissioner yee: i'm sure my friends would have notified me.

and the nice thing was, you know, our local reps assure me that was not going to happen. so the other thing that we talked about was revealing the -- reviewing the administratively approved consultant resolutions that we talked about, making sure that we, first of all we said we would allow for administrate orrs, for the administration to approve certain contracts, that's under $25,000, i believe and cumulatively up to $50,000. so there's been a mechanism, there was a report, but there was also some loopholes we had to look at in terms of how do we actually know who is keeping track of the accumulation, what if -- and commissioner wynns sort of brought this up, what

happens when different sites are contracting with particular vendors and they don't actually know who is contracting what and yet we're finding things that are showing up that are contrary to our policy. so the staff said they'd look into it and see how we can close those loopholes. the third item was talking about resources for the superintendents' zone and as you know, there's 15 schools in those zones and the biggest piece of the resources besides some of the title one funding we moved around to support that effort will be the improvement money, state improvement grant money. because 10 of the 15 schools in these zones are going to get funding in the number of $45 million over three years.

that's going to help a lot. then the discussion really becomes, how do we make sure that the other five don't have a lack of resources, and i think one of the things that is key, i mean, to all this, was in terms of the priorities, in the work areas, a lot of it was consistent to our strategy planning and so forth and it's a matter of move regular sources wrong and doing it more efficiency so without going through all the priorities, one thing we talked about as relevant to money was that there was one of the priorities said resource alignment and so there was a little confusion, what do you mean resource alignment? it could be at a high level but we also, what we found out from the staff was, we're also talking at the site level, too,

a lot of times we might know what's going on at the higher level, not we, but the staff, and -- we know what's going on too. but at the site level they don't know what they can move around and what resources can be used more efficiently. so one of the ideas was that there's going to be a lot of coaching around this particular item. so one of the things -- so the report was good, but it was not complete. and we wanted to know more about the title one money in terms of what was flex and all this, so what really are we using to support the central staff to support our effort with these zones and we asked for a report for our next meeting for that one. so our next budget committee meeting will be october 28, and one of the items we were hoping to discuss for information on

was the budget around special ed and there was a conflict of staffing in terms of her -- what's her name? cecilia dodge, being able to attend because she had already committed to some other venue system of we're going to postpone that discussion to make sure she's there for november and we're going to move up some items and we'll be getting -- all of you will be getting this -- the unaudited actuals and we'll have some brief discussion around this because where it's going to be showing, actually some positive results that we weren't anticipating and we'll have that discussion in our next meeting, ok? >> thank you, commissioner yee. the next report -- commissioner yee: deputy superintendent lee. >> thank you.

i wanted to make one addendum to commissioner yee's report, this is maybe a sore subject at this point but on the issue of the administratively approved k resolutions, so what we reported to the committee was the loopholes that i think the commissioners are all familiar with have been addressed so we should not see, and this is true as of the last regular board meetings, as well as tonight's regular board meeting, we should not see items of multiple sites or multiple departments submitting k resolutions for the same contractor in excess of those cumulative thresholds or the $25,000 thresholds. i think the committee discussed wanting to have more information about how we've done that or evidence that we've done that or seeing some of the tools we've used to handle that. we can do that for the next committee meeting but just in case people are wondering if, in the meantime, the loopholes are still unaddressed or if they had

been addressed, the answer is they have been addressed. commissioner yee: thank you. president kim: commissioner fewer. commissioner fewer: the curriculum program committee met on october 4 we we had one action item, which gave it a positive recommendation and forwarded it to the board and we had two informational items, one oo-- on the clip grant and one about shape up and what we are doing with shape up with our p.e. department and we actually have agreed that we would call the clip grant back in the spring for an update to find out more about it and also to see, because there's sort of -- they're sort of in a planning stage now to get an update on that, and also we spoke about shape up and our p.e. department collaborating on getting a sur -- on doing a survey on how well we're meeting the needs of our

studenting concerning p.e. and the p.e. master plan. the next curriculum meeting will be on november 3, wednesday. we were going to hold it the first monday of every month but that monday, there is no school, there is a furlough day, so we are now scheduling a meeting for wednesday, november 4. thank you. president kim: commissioner norton. commissioner norton: i wanted to announce the next meeting of the rules policy and education committee will be october 18 at 5:30. correction, november 3 -- wednesday is the third. right. thank you very much. president kim: the day after election day. item t is report of closed session actions. as of october 7, 2010, the board of education by a vote of five ayes and two absence approved the expulsion of one high school student. they have approved the filing of one civil action. the board of education by a vote of seven ayes approved an

amendment to the superintendent of school's contract which eextended the term by one year. altered the terms of the additional retirement clause from a contribution to a supplemental plan, to contribution to a retirement plan as selected by the superintendent which includes an option to purchase the nonqualified plan. there are no other changes to the existing contract and thank you, carlos for staying with us at least one more year beyond your contract. we're all excited that you are committed to sfusd. yes, go ahead, commissioner wynns. commissioner wynns: i want to congratulate the superintendent and express my support for his contract extension and provisions but i also need to ask a question. i have been concerned since we took this vote because unless something has changed in the law, i have been told for a

number of years, and we have behaved for a number of years, and it was changed five or six years ago and in those intervening years we have voted on the superintendent's contract in open session. having been told by our attorneys that we were required to do that. so if we -- i need to have something in writing that tells me either we were wrong before or the -- we're wrong now or the law has been changed, i need a legal basis for that vote to be valid. i think we need that for our record. too. i have no issue with the vote but i want to make sure we did it legally and if we didn't, if we did, we've been doing it illegally or unnecessarily for years and we need to know that. president kim: i will absolutely provide you that. generally, you cannot discuss compensation itself in closed session and any modifications to compensation has to take place in open session but since that

was not discussed. president kim: item u, other informational items, it is pested in the agenda, quarterly report on williams uniform complaints, now we're at item v, meeting is adjourned. have a good evening.

>> i like to welcome you to the multipurpose room. we did a ribbon cutting with the -- on friday. it houses the health center and child development center.

this is a gorgeous green building and we are happy to be in this building to make a special announcement. many of you have already heard what was embargoed for about one month. i have to say that to have the superintendent and the mayor keep this quiet for a month and a half has been working for them. we are very excited to be here this morning, to make a special announcement. one of the core values of the administration, they are reaching out in more. -- more places than i can mention to make certain to leverage every possible resource that we have to make things right for our children in san francisco. this will continue with the mayor's office and the school

district, and with the city college. and then with san francisco state. we are very proud to be here today to leverage more resources to make certain that our children get exactly what they deserve. i was wanting to acknowledge a few people that are here. the president and the board of trustees is here, thank you, milton. natalie bird and steve no. he has been working with us, sylvia yee as well as eric mcdonald and -- from the united way. lisa spinelli from colemand advocates, and they are strong advocates of this. thank you. i am hydra mendosa, the

education adviser and a vice president of the board of education. parent of two children in the school district. one is a high schooler. thank you and join me in welcoming gavin newsom. >> thank you for all of your leadership and hard work and taking the time to be here. this is an innovation center. paul the dreamers and the doers, this is a multi-purpose and multi dimensional. faint you. this is good work and you should keep this going, and thank you very much for being here, even if you do not want to be here.

you are doing good work. helping us to get to this next level. we're wanting to help and this is what this is all about. this is the time of declining resources. what you do is you have a press conference asking the world to change. and did you say, when i was younger things were better. you'll be able to win on this. you just point fingers and give responsibility. or, you could take the obligation to say that i am is part of the solution. by definition, i am part of the problem. you cannot live a good life in the just society. -- in the unjust society.

what are you going to do about this? this is what is always short changed. what we have tried to do it in san francisco is to answer this question. they say that we will take over school districts and this will solve problems. this may work in some cities but did not understand this. i ask what you will do when you take this over? and then they do not have an answer. just because they are in control, somehow things are going to change. and what are you specifically going to do? we decided that this was a solution and when we actually spoke to one another about this, we realize we had more in common than we thought. we had the same, fundamental values. it began with a different partnerships and coming

together, in this case in a public partnership. we do not talk enough about public partnerships, community organizations coming together. the unified school district and the capacity-building. leveraging the resources. not just using these conditions, as the opportunity to make better decisions. that is not the decisions that affect the future -- if you do not like the way that things are, you should do something about it. you can ask a better question. we have a partnership with the public schools and universal preschool. we are talking about this and if you want to get serious about

this and the achievement gap, but you have to begin at the beginning. and then we said, we have to supplement everything because everyone is so upset about this but what will we do about this? we're providing the resources for comprehensive education. we want to help the students with physical health. and we realize this is not enough. the wellness center is have a ball. with her work and the work of other people in the department, partnering with the public schools. this is the only one that we have in the state of california. we allocate enough resources that at the end of the year, this will be 97%. this is not just universal preschool.