progress? what are the evaluative tools that are being used to measure the progress? how often is the progress measured with those tools? what are the evaluations telling us? what is the timeline for progress and achieving these goals that are identified with in the strategic initiatives? these are the discreet management systems that we think should be addressed within the report. there is also kind of a squishy thing i want to mention about trust. we hear that from the district a lot. wanting to build trust with parents, with teachers, with the community. i would suggest that, as a result of answering a lot of these questions, that i hope for in the report, i think the district would go a long way towards building more and more trust as we undertake these strategic initiatives together. thank you for your consideration

and your time. president mendoza: thank you. anything else? questions from the board? seeing none, i wanted to move off the one other item on the appointment for one member of the pac. that would be moving up item l, an appointment of one member to the advisory council. recommendation is that we free up 0.1 regular member to serve from january 2012-in june 2013. the member recommended for appointment is roderick mills. i need a motion and a second. any public speakers on this?

seeing none, comments from the board? commissioner murase: i want to thank you for stepping up. i think you'll have a good experience with the pac. it is such an important body for us, advising us in our work. i want to thank you for stepping up. >> you are welcome. president mendoza: did we hear whether you have children in our schools? >> i have a seventh grader at herbert hoover middle school and a 10th grader at wallenberg. president mendoza: excellent. seeing no other comments, roll call please. commissioner tom: yes. commissioner fewer: yes.

president mendoza: yes. commissioner wynns: yes. vice president yee: yes. commissioner murase: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. president mendoza: 90. is there anything else you want to say, mr. millis? >> i look forward to working with the pac and making a big impact. president mendoza: thank you. item g is the consent calendar. never mind, i take it back. we have no public comment on item f. we have been off for a little while so i am a little slow

around here. he before we go to item g, as a reminder to the public, and individual wishing to address the board on an individual matter can call the board office by 4:30 on the day of the meeting or by completing a speaker card, which looks like this and we have it in the doorway entrance. cards need to be -- cars turned in at the same time an item is discussed will not be accepted. please keep that in mind. item g is the consent calendar. i need a motion and a second. thank you. are there any corrections by the superintendent? >> not tonight. president mendoza: any items severed by the board or remove for the first reading?

>> i need a clarification on k2. president mendoza: that is it. we are going to take roll call. item h is the superintendent proposal. this has been moved and seconded on november the 15th. a report on buildings and grounds. it was a positive recommendation from the bng committee. we need a reading of the resolution by the superintendent. >> i would like to call on guadalupe. >> good evening. we are bringing back for a second reading the superintendent's proposal in support of a permanent name change for john o'connell alternative high school of technology to john o'connell high school. i am here to read an abridged

version of this proposal. >> good evening. john o'connell currently has six different official or unofficial names referenced in different places such as john o'connell alternative high school of technology, john o'connell alternative high, john o'connell alternates high school, john a. o'connell high school. a is his middle name, but people believe it stands for alternative. [laughter] the new proposed name change does not change the john o'connell honorific to the name

in order to give respect to the 1930's teamster member for grew the school was named. the o'connor family believes that as we continue to make our quest to be the place it needs to be, which will continue to work with the superintendent to officially designate the name to be john o'connell high school. >> be it resolved that the sfusd approves the modification of the school to john o'connell high school. i know that the school community was prepared to turn out this evening. they have elected a representative body of an apparent leaders to speak. you can learn what is happening tomorrow on the morning radio show. president mendoza: i do have some speakers. aaron yam, roberto bob, gamino,

joann and steven bonnacorso. you each have two minutes to speak. >> hello. i am day 4.0 junior at john o'connell. when i first got the acceptance to the high school, i was a little turned away from the alternative. as i give it a chance, it is a great high school. though some of my friends did not give it a chance and tried to go somewhere like washington or mission or something along

the lines of just a high school, i even hear a lot from some of my other friends who were just discussing our school. they always ask me, is a continuation school? or is it just a high school? it is called by a lot of names, as dr. gomez said. it is quite confusing, actually. it would actually be good for the school to drop the alternative, in case people are turned away from the general name. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. what grade are you and? >> 11th.

president mendoza: good. thank you. >> good evening. i am a teacher at o'connell, but tonight i come to you as an alumni. i graduated in -- i went to school in 1969 and it was called john o'connell alternative technological school. my family said i was not for going there. the reason i went there is because they had vocational programs that got people employed. my goal coming out of junior high school was to become a very employable architect and i thought, looking at all the schools in san francisco, that o'connell would serve me the best. i went to san francisco state and came back as a teacher, thinking i was going to be an architect. i came back and talk trade

drafting and worked as a civil engineering design draftsman for years before i came back the second time. as part of the alumni and the people i speak to, it has been quite a struggle when people ask me what it is. in my heart, it is the school i went to carry it is not the same building, but it is john a. o'connell technical institute. since the earthquake, we decided to get away from that. as part of the group that wears his jacket, we went out and purchased a 13,000 $to put in front of the school and it rates -- and it reads john o'connell high school. i am hoping you see fit to make the name change. i am very proud of the school. because of going to john o'connell in the 1960's and 1970's, i eat, sleep, and brief

blue, white, and gold. so thank you for your time. [applause] president mendoza: that looks great. thank you very much. >> good evening. my kid is aaron and he is a 10th grader. he is a comedian. i want to tell you that i have a volunteer of the ptsa. i do my volunteer what every friday. i just come along the school a lot to see how things are going. one day, a couple of parents came up to me and wanted to see what john o'connell was like. they ask me if it is not an alternative school. i said no, it is a high school.

i decided, this is not -- when i was talking to this apparent, a couple of parents had come up to me already and that is the time of was volunteering. i did not like the way alternative meant for the school. it is not a continual school. it is just a high school. children are brought in to learn and the teachers are awesome. they are really, really good. we have a great and support -- a great principal. we want to bring in the kids at john o'connell high school, not an alternative. i am hoping when my son graduates, he has one more year to go, i am hoping that this school will change to john o'connell high school.

i will tie it into my computer and said, high school, no more alternative, no more technology, we want a plane high school. thank you for your time. president mendoza: thank you. >> i am here to represent the teachers at john o'connell high school. i am a member of our leadership team. we voted unanimously in favor of the change it. the instructional literacy team also voted unanimously in favor of the change as did the entire staff. we firmly believe this is the right move and we hope you all agree with us. we are very committed to making it a place to be. thank you. president mendoza: it is good to see you, steven. he was one of our teacher of the month award recipients. [applause] we have excellent teachers at

john o'connell. mr. kelly was not one of our teacher award recipients. >> i go back a while. it was a different award in those days. i would just like to point out that john o'connell is the leader of the labor council in san francisco throughout the mid-century. he is one of the people who was critically important in making sure that teachers and professionals saw and had a union in california at a time when that was not necessarily a going idea. we really appreciate maintaining the name of john o'connell. it has been a tremendous school over the years. we very much appreciate the presentation by the students, the parents, the teachers, the prince of paul, and the alumni. thank you very much.

we look forward to the new name going forward. president mendoza: comments by the board? commissioner wynns: i want to thank everybody for coming tonight. i want to say, in san francisco, alternative referred to schools that did not have any attendance area. it has a legal definition on related to o'connell and unrelated to any alternative school in san francisco. the alternative school used to have it in the name -- rooftop, lakeshore, william paul. that was all that it meant. i think this is a really good idea. it clarified that we probably ought to do that. we ought to think about the principles of our names and those words that remain outdated, do not mean anything anymore, confuse people, or send a different message and what we

want. i appreciate o'connell taking the lead on doing that. i want to say that my husband went to an apprentice school at the old o'connell and so did almost every other union construction worker in san francisco for many years. commissioner murase: i want to thank the community for the t- shirts that we received and just to report that at the november 28 meeting of the building and grounds committee, we heard a compelling argument about the reasons for the name change and the community made a positive recommendation area. commissioner fewer: congratulations and best of luck. commissioner norton: i want to thank dr. gomez for the shot in the arm, the energy. there has been a lot of good things going on at all, before you were there. your effort and trying to raise the profile of the school and

making sure people know that there are some great things going on there, that leadership is really helpful. thank you for your energy. it has been great. president mendoza: i want to ditto what commissioner norton just said. you have come into a school where you have not been before and have in still pride. it is fantastic. i want to thank you for coming in full on and i want to acknowledge the ct announcement we made at your school this past week. tech education is back and you have been wonderful at opening that up at john o'connell. i almost said john o'connor. och -- i apologize for that. in a speech to the partnerships we are building in the community and what we are trying to do for

our students, to give them as many options as possible. it is great having you in that leadership role, knowing that this place is a haven where many kids will be able to interact with our labor community and many of the progress that are going on and get internships out of it during the summer. it is fantastic. congratulations on coming in and kicking some butt. i was going to say something else, but you know what i am saying. thank you. >> it is very time-consuming but a lot easier when you have an excellent staff and an excellent student population that are there. all we do is go out there and publicize will we are currently doing at o'connell. they have been doing it the whole time. thank you. president mendoza: i know that janet schultz has been here also, the former principal. you guys have done a great job.

we really want to thank you for that. let's remove all of the other school names that we have had on the school. roll call. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. commissioner murase: yes. president mendoza: yes. vice president yee: yes. commissioner norton: yes. president mendoza: great. welcome to john o'connell high school. item j is a request to speak regarding general matters. i have quite a few folks who are on our list. i am going to read off the names i called off earlier on the list and follow it up with cards that were submitted. jessica goyo, francisco

hernandez, taraa lopez, start coming up to the podium, please. i apologize for fudging up people's names. and then i have quite a few others. tom, adam, anna, grenady,

eveling, antoine, floridas, give me one second before you guys start. ok. so i have almost 40 people on this list. you are all speaking about the same item. i'm going to allow each of you to speak for one minute. and i'm going to remind you -- i know this is a sensitive issue, but i'm going to remind you here, as community members, to be mindful about names that

you use and anything that may be slanderous to any staff member or any personnel that you may be considering talking about. if you could use that -- he very mindful about that. we would appreciate that. i will not have to stop you in the middle of your comments should that not be honored. , all -- come on up. >> [speaking spanish] >> good evening, my name is jessica. i have a child in the first grade. his name is joshua. >> [speaking spanish] >> i was one of the mothers that

was not agreeing to the changes that were taking place at the school at the beginning. >> [speaking spanish] >> because of that, i have been involved in a lot of the meetings and participating. now we have a person who is an intermediary and is helping us to resolve a lot of our doubts and differences. >> [speaking spanish] >> i respect all of the parents that have said that the case has been mistreated, but i cannot witness -- i cannot say that i have seen what has happened. because i have never seen anything. all i have hat -- all i've heard is their complaints. >> [speaking spanish]

>> at the same time, i am asking each one of those parents to please get involved in the meetings and to participate. there is much to learn. there are programs that have talked us to measure so that we with more clarity some of the points we have been ignoring. >> [speaking spanish] >> please, i want to call everybody to stop this now. we are adults. we can resolve our differences

in different ways. i notice has turned into almost a personal thing between the parents and the principle. >> [speaking spanish] >> any person that may come around, whoever he is, is going to be the same. there are always going to be rules and discipline. discipline starts at home. president mendoza: thank you. your time is up. thank you. >> [speaking spanish]

>> good evening. my name is francisco. i have two children. they have been in paul revere for four years. several years ago, someone called me to affirm that i had problems at paul revere. i do not know how this started or how he got my phone number. >> [speaking spanish] >> i come here to talk about paul revere. i have had a good experience. i have seen no problems. i have heard the comments of some parents. but i personally have had no

problems. >> [speaking spanish] >> i am asking the members of the board of the san francisco unified school district, i know we have an intermediary, but we would like to have another mediator that will help us deal with these issues. i know it is hard. i know that a teacher should love what they do and if they do, they do it with passion. >> [speaking spanish]

>> thank you very much a. i am here to support the staff of paul revere. [applause] president mendoza: thank you. >> i have a current member of the building bridges team in response to concerns raised at recent meetings korea i am concerned that every student will suffer irreparable harm if the board removes the principle. parents need to know if this is a serious decision that the board is considering so we can make a decision about their educational future. i like the board to publicly respond to this request. i want to know if the board and district are investigating the allegations that have been spurred by a political action group that knows little about the educational history of paul revere. i attended these meetings and when i attended to challenge innuendo and rumors or to