allocated the funding to the school sites and said, "here is the funding bill you will get. they know how to do this. they are having a really good results. if we're going to have more inclusion programs, we need to win power at our school sides to make those decisions, so that was a good thing. and deputy superintendent ca rranza brought up why do they

not try to organize a meeting for special ed. it is basically what are the factors contributing. i do not think there is not anything you know necessarily, but when you look at those numbers, it stairs right into

your note -- it stares right into you. there was the one started giving his perspective. my freshman year, i was walking to school with 20 friends, and now, there are three of us. it was interesting because we have always taken the social justice perspective or in moralistic perspective -- or a moralistic perspective. if we do not address this, it does two things. the other thing is, as you all

know, they are in jail, which cost society a lot of money. for me, personally, i think it is a good argument. the social justice piece. and in the article, it talks about the superintendents', in 2001, the average stay was 2.5 years. it actually went up in 2010. you almost made it to the average. and then it talks about the pay and the salary. it also goes to the ethnicity of the urban areas.

this one is really heavy, so please take a look at it. it really breaks down the surveys, according to the business operations, and this is coded by numbers, so it does not tell you which schools are involved. i hope i did not mis-hear him, because i did not see a single entry. i was excited. where are we with all of these indicators. once i started comparing with other districts, -- i hope we

can get involved in it. one last thing. the cool thing about this conference is that every attendee received a computer, a laptop. it was pretty powerful. would you are supposed to do -- what you are suppose to do is to bring it back and donated to a worthy student. -- and donate it to a worthy student. a student that is needy and so

forth, and since i am hoping that is going to happen, we had a keynote speaker, and he was from new york, and commissioner wynns, what does he have to do with education? different people have different passions. he was great. he has a very high passion for education, especially for african-american high school kids, so this whole book is called the "younger brother." -- called "young brother." i bought five of them. the nice thing about this is it is targeted towards high school kids, and he was explaining. it was basically letters he had

written to them, mentoring. it was kind of nice that i bought it and was hoping it was a good. i have copies, so whoever gets this will get this from me, so that is it. that is my report. commissioner: i was not at the conference this year, but i think it is worth noting that a former commissioner received an award, which carried with a $10,000 scholarship that she can award to a student in a district. so congratulations to her. vice president mendoza: under this item, i would like to just take the privilege of being the chair of this board meeting to just make a couple of comments on an article that came out this week in regards to the board, and i just really want to defend

the integrity and commitment of this board, and i think that commissioner yee just demonstrated what professional development does for a board like ours, and this is really important to ensure the we are on top of a lot of the work that is happening, especially nationally, and with all of the guidelines that have come out more recently, it has been very important for us to stay on top of this, and we anticipate more federal grants than we ever have before, and i think it is through our efforts of understanding and learning through multiple venues that we have been able to do this, and i also just wanted to make a comment about the work that goes into that, because it really does help us to work better as a board, and i am thinking that all of this is that all of the students receive high quality

education, in many students have been working hard over many years that this stays intact, and i just want to mention the work of the board. clearly, we need to tighten our protocols and make some very clear changes. beyond a reasonable and responsible, and we have all committed to doing that. the current leadership has had sessions to make sure the we are looking more closely into that, and we will be working it closely with others it and presenting something to the rules committee to make sure that the integrity and commitment of this board once again remains intact, and i suggest very strongly that we have all made efforts to make sure that what we're focused on is the achievement of our students. with the bat, i want to say, " go, giant," and, unfortunately, i would like to pass this over to commissioner wynns about a

loss we have had. commissioner wynns: one person passed away on friday evening, surrounded by his family. there were also his siblings and his mother, maria. many of you know mauricio. he was active in a number of things. he was a mainstay of the vernal heights community. where i have lived for 35 years. he ran for the board of education. i was happy to support him. mauricio was a really special

person. i will miss him tremendously. i have to tell you that if you go to progress of grounds and have coffee in the morning, which i, awesome it -- if you go to the whole borrow heights community go by and i almost always saw mauricio there in the morning, which was pretty often. he was born in san francisco december 18, 1959. he went to catholic schools in san francisco though his two sons attended public schools and he went to u.c. berkeley. he served, he was the youth and senior organizer for the bernal heights neighborhood center from 1989 to 1999 and executive director to 2004. he has sat on various boards and commissions, president of the coleman advocates for children and youth for 10 years, was on the jamestown

board and others and in recent years has been the leader of efforts to in quotation marks save the bernal preschool and the bernal mural campaigns. he really was an extraordinary organizer. i can tell you that if you wanted a bus load of kids on saturday you called mauricio and he was there. he was usually driving the bus and i will end by saying he would be so happy that the giants are in the world series and i'll be thinking of him when i'm watching those games. so the board wants to express our condolences to him and to his family and the community and a rosary will be held tomorrow evening during the world series at 7:00 at driscoll's, 1465 valencia street, and a funeral mass thursday, october 28 at 10:00 a.m., st. paul's church, 29th and church street and a gathering will follow.

and i just want to express my love of mauricio. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner. meeting adjourned.stiff >> helle

san francisco league of women voters and i'm here today to discuss proposition a, a proposition that voters will be voting on on november 2nd. this will authorize the city of san francisco to issue general obligation bonds the bonds would be used to finance earthquake retrofitting on affordable housing and some of room occupancy buildings that currently deemed to be at risk during an earthquake, this will allow an increase of property taxes to take the bonds. i have the chairmen of the san

francisco republican party and an opponent of proposition a. >> first of all, generally speaking, bonds are used for government buildings. part of this building is a government owned but part of them are privately owned income- producing buildings. we don't think that the taxpayers should have to pay to retrofit privately-owned buildings. the landlords own knees and they did not have to pay these bonds -- the landlords own these and they did not have to pay these bonds back. san francisco has roughly six and a half billion dollar annual budget. the infrastructure is always the last thing.

you wait till it crumbles rather than fixing it well over funding some other things. we don't think that those people will be charged to pay for those bonds should have to pay to retrofit privately owned buildings. >> what are the costs and benefits to san francisco citizens if this was to pass? >> this is usually about double for the bonds. a $46 million bond, this will be close to 100 million by the time they're done paying interest and everything else on it. the benefit is that the buildings are retrofitted but they should be retrofitted by income at the city has been tell -- that the city has.

this is very high for any city. >> thank you. i am now with the deputy director of the urban planning and research center. why do you support this measure? >> the reason that i support the measure is that it is very difficult to think about earthquakes or even talk about them. often, we just want to put our head in the sand and pretend that they are not coming. unfortunately, we know they are coming. there is a 53% chance that we will have a major event here in the bay area in the next 30 years. what we need to do now is to get prepared. part of that is thinking about the resilience of our city. the ability of our city to

rebound quickly. in order to do that, we need to shore up our buildings and our lifelines'. we can have buildings here in san francisco. that is why the department of building inspection has been working on a program. they have done a report that is all about -- buildings. contrary to the name, their buildings that have a seismic vulnerability right on the ground floor because of many window openings were garage door openings. those are the buildings that collapsed or tilted during the last earthquake. we had a lot of those buildings right in san francisco. it is estimated that we have 2800. this proposition provides $46

million worth of financing to retrofit these buildings that house low-income people. these of the most vulnerable. this will allow us to retrofit those buildings so the collapse rate goes from between 11%-33% to between 1%-3%. that means we will not end up like new orleans after katrina. >> how will this benefit san francisco voters? >> this is a very modest bond. extremely modest general obligation bond. the cost per $5 thotho,000 of assessed value is $7.94. the important thing to remember is there is a big cost to doing nothing because if these buildings fall down not only do we have to rebuild them at a huge cost to us and all society

but they're a major fire risk. the gas lines can break and they can cause a big fire, which is why the fire persons are very concerned about this measure as well and want to see it passed. >> thank you, sarah the please visit the league be women voters web site for all voting information and don't forget to vote on -- on november 2. >> proposition aa would amend the city's business and tax regulations code to add $10 to the existing annual registration fee for vehicles registered in san francisco to fund transportation projects. this increase would apply to vehicle registrations and renules beginning may 2, 2011. -- renewals beginning may 2, 2011. 50% of the fee would be used for street repairs and

reconstruction with priority given to streets with bicycle and public transit routes under the plan. 25% of the fee would be used for pedestrian safety including crosswalk improvements, sidewalk repair or upgrade and pedestrian countdown signals and lighting. 25% would be used for transit reliability improvements including transit stop improvements, consolidation and relocation, transit signal upgrades, travel information improvements and parking management projects. the san francisco county transportation authority would add $10 to the annual registration fee to fund transportation projects. a no vote would not allow adding $10 to the annual restrictions fee. please visit the league of women voters website at ffvotes.org to get all of your voting information. early voting is available weekdays at city hall from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. if you don't vote early, make sure to vo

hi, my name is virginia grandy with the league of women voters of san francisco. i'm here today to talk to you about proposition b verages which will appear on the ballot november 2. proposition b is a measure that would increase the contributions made by city and county employees made to the city's retirement system and health care system. the city's share of funding these services would be reduced. >> i have with me here today michael hennessey, sheriff of san francisco, who is on -- an opponent to proposition b. sheriff, do you oppose proposition b? >> first of all, thanks to the league of women voters for having me be able to speak on this issue.

i strongly urge san francisco voters to vote against proposition b because of the unfair adverse grim pact -- impact it's going to have on san francisco's lowest paid employees. i know proposition is being sold as a pension reform measure and if that's all it did, it would probably be a positive measure but the real negative impact is goinging to -- to be on the health care. people think city employees get paid a lot and frankly some do but 50,000 get -- 6,000 get less than $50,000 a year. if a person has blue shield, which is one of the option involved and not the most expensive one, a person will have to pay $5,000 more a year out of pocket if they have a

dependent, a child or a spouse. i've got 57 employees called cadets. they do security at city hall and the hat -- hall of justice, other places, help check bags. they make at most $37,000 a year. if problem sigs b passes, $5,000 of the $3 p,000 -- $37,000 will have to go to the new health costs on the blue shield program. take for example an entry level school teacher here in san francisco. their pay is $45,000 a year. they are also going to be impacted by the increased health care costs. i think that's the main reason here that proposition b is imposing greater health care costs on city employees than ever before and it's going ton -- to have an impact on their ability to provide health care to their children, to keep their same doctor and health plan and to do all the thicks a person wants to do to take care

of their family. >> thank you, sheriff. so if this measure were to pass, how would the citizens of san francisco be impacted in sflb the citizens of course, a number of citizens are city employees and they'll be impacted in their pocket book because they'll have to pay a lot more to maintain health care. some are going to drop health care, drop a dependent off their health care or they're going to have to drop their long-term family doctor they were able to choose under one health plan but won't be able to choose if they go to the cheapest health plan available. it's going to impact health care proifers, nurses, teachers, people who provide health services in san francisco and i think it's an brear -- arbitrary number that's been put in this measure. 50%. who came up with that as opposed to 45% or 55%? it's an arbitrary number trying to be put into law and i

strongly vote people to vote no on proposition b. >> thank you, sheriff. i am now with craig weber a former member of the san francisco civil grand jury who is here to talk as a proponent of proposition b. mr. weber, why do you support proposition b? >> i became involved in pension reform nearly two years ago as a member of the san francisco civil grand jury. at that time the grand jury elected to investigate pensions within the safety, police and fire departments. we investigated pension distributions for the 10-year period 1998 to 2008 and we were -- we paid particular attention to the practice of pension spiking. pension spiking is the end of career promotion or temporary assignment into a position where one earns a higher compensation and a higher

retirement benefit from that compensation. we found within safety a significant number of retirees who spiked their pension in their final year and created tens of millions of dollars of potential pension obligations for the citizens of san francisco. the findings and recommendations be that report were largely ignored by city officials and administrators of city departments. for that reason i decided to continue my involvement with the grand jury and served a second year on the grand jury. we extended the scope of our investigation of the retirement system to include pension costs, pension distributions, and the projections of pensions through the next five years. >> if proposition b were to pass, how would th