process to eliminate ineffective we have many young, capable educators who are being laid off and we are retaining people that you would be embarrassed to be employ. you could ask any parent and they would be able to give you the names. i recommend a performance management program that works. we know from the statistics that it doesn't, the one you have now. the second thing is that central office reduction should take precedence over cutting classroom resources and to continue to focus on the classroom resources is an error in judgment, in my opinion. and lastly, we run a lot of small schools. they have very high fixed overhead. consolidation of schools from a size perspective i think would be an effective solution. thank you. [applause] president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening. my name is kayden crantser,

field staff for local 1021. as of last week, we start receiving phone calls with our folks being approached by their various supervisors informing them of layoffs. much to our amazement because we had not been notified by labor relations or by ajar, neither did we receive a list of folks being laid off. now, i have contacted, today, and some of those folks being targeted are members of our bargaining unit, which we will deal with that. i contacted today labor relations and the answer i received from labor relations was this was the practice in the past. that's not the case. i'm hear to tell you that we would feel rather respected if we could have a list of folks being laid off prior to any conversations occurring with these individuals since they have not yet received any notices so that when we receive phone calls from our members asking us what is going on, we actually have a cogent answer to

give these individuals. that's where we're at at this point. thank you. [applause] >> good evening, superintendent garcia, president mendoza, members of the board, my name is ken trey and i'm on the executive board of the united educators of san francisco. my colleagues were in san francisco participating in the c.t.a. state of emergency. the sense of emergency is something we share. we know that the problem is statewide and that there are funds in california to keep the schools running and those moneys happen to be in the hands of the very wealthiest members of our state and we have to move toward a fair taxation system ultimately. but in the short term, we're going through hard times, and many of us from middle class working families experience hard

times. those are the times when our old man gathered us around the table or our mother and said look, we're all going to tighten our belts and we're going to get down to essentials and all the frills are going to go away for a while and we had a sense of family and we pulled together. unfortunately, in san francisco unified school district, that's not happening. all the cuts we're hearing, the parents and the teachers and the students tonight talked about that, all the cuts are impacting the classroom. the layoffs are going to continue. the pink slips are going out. where are the cuts at the top? show us. show us where the money at the top, the money furthest away from the classroom, the money that is least essential, where are those cuts? there's $18 million in san francisco ready to keep people in the classroom, paraprofessionals and teachers and principals for that matter.

we have $8 million of rainy day fund and $10 million for federal funds for educational jobs. it's time to spend that money now. it's time to heal the family if we're going to fight the fight in sacramento together, if we're going to shake hands as we did yesterday as the bus went off to jeat, we have to make the cuts where may belong, at the top, and spend the $18 million now, rescind the layoffs. we have two teachers from el dorado, two parents, and another teacher from marina middle school to comment on the board and the superintendent's lack of action, refusal to rescind those god awful pink slips when you have the money to recall them now. thank you. [applause] >> superintendent, deputy superintendent, commissioners, and student delegates, ladies and gentlemen, my name is lori

fetzer. i work at el dorado elementary school. i'm also the mother of two students at fairmont elementary. once cedric douglas, an american abolitionist said, find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong that will be imposed on them. i am here tonight with the sole purpose of raising awareness in the hopes that this awareness may somehow lessen injustice and wrongs. i refuse to quietly is submit. i understand and believe that it is the goal of this board to strive for equity and social justice. to that end, at a board meeting around the same time last year, a slightly different mayor's disability council up of this board, it was recommended or requested an equity report. perhaps commissioner norton or

commissioner wynns would remember that. in absence of this said equity report, i feel compelled to, one, in the name of accountability, also a goal of this board, request followthrough on such a document. and, two, in the name of equity and social justice, bring to your attention the state of affairs at el dorado elementary school. this year, eight of 14 classroom teachers received pink slips on march 15. they received eight of the 37 that were given to elementary classroom teachers. last year, 11 of 14 classroom teachers received pink slips on march 15. the year before, the case was eerily similar. i am sure you can imagine what this does to staff morale. i am sure you can imagine what

this does to the sustainability of programs. i am sure you can imagine what this does to building capacity. president mendoza: i need you to wrap up. >> i'm sure you can imagine what this does to the social emotional needs for stability that is inherent in elementary school children, i'm sure you can therefore imagine what this must do to student achievement. the negative effects would be felt in any community. in this case, it furthers the predictive powers of demographics. we have a burden, let's share it. [applause] >> my name is megan cluesa and i'm a special education teacher at el dorado elementary school. i was also here last year for pretty much the same reason. year after year, the predictive power of demographics comes back

to el dorado to show us that we will lose a significant number of teachers in the layoff, whether it's de facto because they can't wait until august to know how they're going to feed their children the next year or because the layoffs finally do go through, we lose staff every year. you heard from art teachers that work with us earlier, you heard from a former art teacher, a music teacher that worked with us. these are people that bring joyful learning to our school. that's another one of the important values that this district holds, along with social justice and equity and accountability and we're asking you to follow through with those things because those are important to our district and they're important to our school. we hold those values strong at el dorado. we believe in them and we follow through with them. we're doing everything we can

despite the fact that we're facing huge layoffs and huge cuts to ensure that it won't affect our children. we are going to make sure we to everything we can next year to provide a free, appropriate public education for every child that we come in contact with and we're asking this school board to ensure that they do the exact same thing for our students. our students deserve the same free, appropriate public education that every student in the state and the district deserves. we don't have parents available to donate $10,000 to our school program. we have parents willing to dedicate time and action to get what our children need. what we need from you is the same commitment. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. my name is lisa kimble and i'm

also from el dorado. i'm the president of the p.t.o. at el dorado and i come with our vice president, mr. xavion anderson, and i'm the mother of two children at el dorado, a kindergartener and first grader and as our teachers teachers hae mentioned, our school is facing the loss of half of our teaching staff next year. as we're in the process of creating a vibrant school community and working with our extremely dedicated teachers and principal, can you imagine any business losing half their staff? i mean, what kind of an impact would that have? i mean, many businesses would fall apart. it's going to be very difficult for us to continue creating a connected community when we lose half the staff. so we're here to ask you to do anything you can to prevent those layoffs for our school. we need our teaching staff.

our principal, mr. schuman, does an incredible job at retaining staff. last year he prioritized keeping the staff, entirely cutting our supply budget. we had essentially zero supply budget so that we could retain the staff because he cares so much about creating that connectedness in that community and we put a lot of money into professional development and continuity across grade levels. all that work will be lost if we retain only half of our staff. so i'm here to ask you to do anything you can to prevent those layoffs and find the money elsewhere in the budget. we need our people. we need our teachers. thank you. [applause]

>> good evening. i am a teacher at marina middle school and also the parent of a student at lowell. i'm addressing you this evening regarding the $10 million from the federal funds that are available to our district, and the $8 million in the rainy day fund. we at marina have three vappa teachers. all three of whom have received consolidation notices. and that predicts the loss, the complete elimination, of our vappa program. please think about what happens down the road with the removal, the complete absence, of high-interest electives like these. what will keep our at-risk youth from dropping out of school before graduating from high school? second, watching administrative

positions proliferate in the district in this time of austerity is hard to understand. i consider myself politically astute and i have yet to hear any convincing reasons that justify this kind of staffing and this kind of spending. i ask you two things. please use the money, all of the money from these two funds to rescind the layoffs now. and to keep the cuts away from the classrooms. thank you. [applause] president mendoza: thank you. this closes public comment. next item is item k, the advisory committee reports and appointments to advisory committee by board members. board members, any appointments to committee? seeing none. item l, special order of business, public hearing and

adoption. i call the public hearing and adoption to the tentative agreement between the district and service employees international union, seiu, local 1021. i need a motion and second for the tentative agreement, please? thank you. reading by the superintendent. >> the requested action is that the board of education adopts the public hearing and tentative agreement and the related public disclosure document that has been ratified by seiu local 1021. i want to thank president karen bishop of the seiu and their bargaining team as well as the district bargaining team. president mendoza: that's your reading? do we need to put anything in the record? is that just the recommendation. >> to approve. president mendoza: o.k. thank you. i don't have any public speakers signed up for this item.

any comments from the -- she's been asked to be removed. are there any comments from the board or superintendent? seeing none, roll call please? thank you. [roll call vote was taken] [the motion passed unanimously] president mendoza: i need a motion and the second on the wage benefits for board-designated unrepresented classified management employees who are not members of the district bearing unit? >> move. >> second. president mendoza: thank you. reading by mr. ruiz. i need your microphone on, please. >> the requested action is that the board of education grants classified employees working in classifications designated as unrepresented management the

same retirement benefit as its largest classified civil service bargaining unit. this classification is not represented in the district and as a result these employees are not covered by a capital collece bargaining agreement and the district's policy is to have all employees pay a fair share of their retirement. the requested action is that the board approve this motion. president mendoza: thank you. i see no public speakers signed up. any comments from the board or superintendent? seeing none, thank you. roll call? [roll call vote was taken] [the motion passed] president mendoza: i need a motion and a second for the wage benefits for board-designated unrepresented and confidential

employees who are not members of the district bearingianing unit. >> the board of education grants employees working in classifications designated as unrepresented and confidential the same wages benefits as its largest classified civil service bearingianing unit. these classifications are not represented in the san francisco school district and the employees are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement. since it is the intent that the district grant them the benefits, the district recommends this action by the board of education. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. i see no speakers. any comments from the board or superintendent? seeing none, thank you, roll call? [roll call vote was taken]

[the motion passed unanimously] president mendoza: thank you. thank you, mr. ruiz. >> i would like to thank tom reese for all his hard work and the team and the collective bargaining units, it took a while but we're there. president mendoza: i need a motion and a second on the resolution of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district levying the special tax within community facilities district number 90-1 for fiscal year 2011-2012. >> moved. >> second. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening. with your permission, may i read the relevant portion? thank you. president mendoza: yes. >> resolution of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district levying the special tax within the community facilities district number 90-1 for the fiscal year

2011-2012, the board here by levies the special tax within cfd91 pursuant to the act set forth in ordinance 108-10sp1 which ordinance is by reference incorporated herein. president mendoza: thank you. i don't see any public speakers signed up. any comments from the board or superintendent? seeing none, thank you. roll call please? [roll call vote was taken] [the motion passed unanimously] president mendoza: thank you, mr. armentrot. i need a motion and second on the resolution to adopt soisted layoff hearing proposed decision to issue final certification layoff notices. reading by mr. bushman? i'm sorry.

i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. president mendoza: thank you. mr. bushman? >> good evening. it's with great regret that i sit here before you with this request. this evening, we recommend that the board adopt the administrative law judges proposed decision in the district's certified layoff hearing. we also seek your approval to send final notices that services will not be -- that services will not be required pursuant to the administrative law judge's proposed decision and in accordance with the education code. as you recall, the board adopted a resolution to initiate these layoff proceedings at its march 1 meeting and at that time the board approved a reduction of 279 certified f.t.e.'s, full-time equivalents, 139f.t.e.'s were in administrative services and 140 were in instructional service.

in accordance with the provisions regarding certified layoffs, the district held a certified hearing on april 4th and 5th of this year and as a result of the hearing, the administrative law judge issued the proposed decision that's before you. the district now seeks approval based on this proposed decision and the relevant provisions of the education code to issue final notices for services that will not be required for the 2011 and 2012 school year. exhibit b contains a list of individuals who the district is determined -- has determined to receive final notices of layoff as follows: 13f.t.e.'s and administrative services and 139.5 f.t.e.'s in instructional services, total certified layoff

f.t.e.'s for 2011-2012, 152.5. now, executive director angie sagasumi will read the relevant portions of the formal resolution for the record. >> in the interest of time and because the entire resolution is available to the public and is included in the agenda, i will only read one whereas clause and then the be it resolved sections. whereas, as a result of the certified layoff hearing, the administrative law judge issued a proposed decision attached hereto as exhibit a dated may 2, 2011, proposed decision which authorized the board of education to reduce the certified staff of the district by a total of 79 full-time equivalents, now, therefore, be it resolved that -- 279 -- i'm sorry. i'm sorry, 279 full-time

equivalents. now, therefore, be it resolved that the proposed decision set forth in exhibit a is hereby adopted as the decision of the board ofployed for the ensuing 2011-2012 school year and be it further resolved that the district superintendent or his designated representative is hereby directed to send final notice that services will not be required for the 2011-2012 school year, to the certified employees identified in exhibit b in accordance with education code sections 44949 and 44955 and the proposed decision, be it further resolved that this resolution and the adoption of the proposed decision is effective immediately.

president mendoza: thank you. i have one public speaker signed up. mr. trey? >> thank you, president mendoza. so, tonight, we heard from parents and children and educators from all over san francisco saying that these pink slips are wrong and this final statement of layoffs is wrong, it's the wrong thing to do. one of my political heroes a long time ago wrote a book called "profiles in courage" that had a big impact on me when i was in high school and in that book he documented times when public officials went against the tide, sometimes the tide means those people who apparently are in authority. members of the school board and student delegates chosen either by the citizens, the adults of

san francisco, or their student peers to represent the best interests of the students in this district and the families and the people who do the work. there is $18 million available to rescind these layoffs. they're unnecessary and they're wrong. it's time to say no. each one of you can vote no. let's get the people back, there are lots of young teachers out there and there's a lot of paraprofessionals out there who don't know if they're going to have work come next school year. and there are thousands of students as we heard tonight who are going to suffer the ultimate betrayal of what's happening in the state of california and what you could do tonight is at least put a small band-aid on it and stop the pain. you've got the money, rescind the layoffs. thank you. president mendoza: thank you.

comments from the board? commissioner wynns? commissioner wynns: i just want to clarify or ask the superintendent to clarify that not only what's in our budget projections that we've looked at, but just to be clear for me that the budget numbers that we presented to the administrative law judge include spending all that $18 million. superintendent garcia: yes, it does. i mean, maybe i should elaborate a little bit. i mean, i keep hearing this all evening. the reality, folks, as much as i hate saying this, if you add the $18 million from both the rainy day fund and the jobs bill and luckily we didn't use it because we're carrying it over for next year. even with that, the amount of cuts that we're going to have to make in the next two years will be $84 million in addition to that. so, you know, i hate this meeting every year.

i think it's an absolutely deplorable meeting. but the reality is that we don't even know what our budget's going to be for next year. that's just the fact. there's the main revised comes out monday. unfortunately, the way the law's written, if we don't take this action this evening, then what we do is we put ourselves in limiting any options that we have which could put us -- if the budget comes out even worse, what do we do? i don't like this. i think it's -- this is the most dysfunctional way to run a state. but that's, unfortunately, we become victims of that as a school district and if we tonight do this, most school districts in our position aren't a county, as well. we are both a county and a city and as a school district if we were not to approve these things, then we would have a county office in most districts down our throats saying then you're going to submit a budget

that's not going to be balanced because we have to show how we're going to manage this. because we are a county, who would do that to us would be the state. so, yeah do, we have options? can we be courageous? yes, we could be courageous but then we open the door for the state or someone else to come in and take us over and then they'll make these decisions. nobody here likes what we're doing this evening. but if we don't take this action, and there's always an outside chance, depending on how the budget turns out, once we get more information, that we have the opportunity to rescind as many as possible of these layoffs. but until we know what a budget is, you know, it's a whacky system but until we know what our budget is, how can we say responsibly that we shouldn't do this? we absolutely have to do this because we're given no choice under the current statute of how things operate in california.

president mendoza: thank you. can i ask a clarifying question and then i'll get to you, dr. murase. the last time we went through this, we had this conversation in the actual resolution it talks about because of lack of services versus lack of funding. can that be added into the resolution because this really is about lack of funding. we have a lot of work. we just don't have the money to pay for it. i want to be really clear. >> we'll make that change right away. president mendoza: thank you. commissioner murase? commissioner murase: i hear the bottom line is we need more money and i really appreciate ideas and i think earlier tonight we heard an idea from one of the commenters, if everyone donated a dollar, you know, wouldn't that go some way to fixing this problem. well, that would raise $750,000, $800,000, and what we're looking at is a $25 million