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both of those you are approved in prior months. resolution receiving actual cost information in connection with the sale and the issuance of san francisco unified school district general-obligation bonds and authorization the submission of such actual cost information to the california debt and investment advisory commission. i will jump to the -- be it resolved by the board of education city and county of san francisco as follows, section 1, all of the above are true and correct and this board of education. section 2, actual cost information, and the board receives the atomize summary of the cost of the sales and issuance as set forth on exhibit a. that is two pages over.
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section 3, submission of the actual cost information. this board ratifies and that proves this cost information in connection with the report of final sales filed on behalf of the district. section 4, other actions and approvals, officers of the board and staff are authorized and directed to do any and all things and to execute and deliver any and all documents which are deemed necessary in order to carry out and comply with the resolution. such actions here to four taken by such officers are hereby ratified and approved. that is the first resolution as it relates to the refunding.
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>> did you do both of them? >> i did not. >> that is what i thought. i wanted to make sure. no public comment or speaker cards. superintendent? brokaw. -- roll call. commissioner mendoza: aye. commission norton: aye. president yee: aye. >> seven ayes. >> the general obligation bonds, 2012 and authorizing the
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submission of such actual cost information to the california debt and investment advisory commission. is there a motion? >> second peri. >> the resolution in connection with the sale, general obligation bonds, proposition a, series a 2012, authorizing the submission of such actual cost information to the california debt and investment advisory commission. let it be resolved by the board of education of san francisco
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unified, section one, all of the above are true and correct and this board of education finds and determines represents. section 2, the actual cost information. the board receives the summary of the cost of the sale as set forth on exhibit a here to the actual cost information. section 3, submission of the actual cost information. this board ratifies and approves the submission of the actual cost information in connection with the report of the final sale filed on behalf of the district. section 4, other actions and approvals. officers of the board and staff
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are hereby authorized and directed to do any and all things and to deliver any and all documents which they may deem necessary in order to carry out in comply with the resolution. such actions are hereby ratified, confirmed and approved. any questions? >> there is no public cards for this. any comments from the board? commissioner fewer: aye. commissioner maufas: aye. commissioner mendoza: aye. commissioner murase: aye. commissioner wynns: aye. president yee: aye. seven ayes. >> initial proposal, i would like to announce the sun shining
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of the 2011 initial proposal for a successor agreement from the international union of operating engineers, iuoe, local 39 to the san francisco unified school district. public hearing will be held at the regular board meeting of april 24. discussion of other educational issues. consent calendar resolutions, we do not have any. a vote on consent calendar. it was moved and seconded under section f. commissioner fewer: aye. commissioner maufas: aye. commissioner mendoza: aye. except items 2, 3, 8, and 14. there were retroactive. commissioner murase: aye. commission norton: aye.
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commissioner wynns: aye. president yee: aye. >> consent calendar resolution for immediate action. there were nine tonight. -- none tonight. item q, superintendent's proposals. revisions to the comprehensive health education policy. board policy resolution 68- 13sp1, new policy number p6302. is there in motion? >> i so move.
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>> emotion and a second -- a motion and a second. since this was already heard at a committee, we will hold it over for the next board meeting. this will be the revision of brp 9150 and brp 9000a to correct all references to student board members to read student delegates instead. >> since i am going to give my report in a few minutes, can i give it here? >> let me have a motion. the head. commissioner wynns: -- go ahead. commissioner wynns: this
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reference is a mistake, and overstate we've made when we adopted the new form of our own internal rules. it changes all of the references to delegates. it should be just a technical thing. >> board members' proposals, first reading. none tonight. reports for the augmented budget and business services. march 19, 2012. commissioner morosity -- murase. commissioner murase: we discussed the facilities bond, which is going smoothly.
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the north panhandle association and community focus from the neighborhood, who were concerned that the school, were they to occupy a that facility, would not serve the neighborhood. there was a lot of discussion about ways in which the school would need to conduct additional outreach and get feedback and demonstrate their commitment to the neighborhood.
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that discussion item will be returning to the committee in may. >> a report from the augmented rules, policy, and legislation committee. reporting is commissioner wynns. commissioner wynns: the three items that we voted on, that was the student use of technology policy, the board policy regarding immigrant and non- immigrant visa petitions. and the reference to student board members. our other action item was the legislative overview. i wanted you know that we had an impressive array of sacramento powerhouse folks here that night.
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our new advocacy contract, kevin gordon, he used to be the executive director for government to act -- government relations. he has two clients as far as lobbying for sfma. one of them is us. he assures us he wants to handle our contract. we should be happy about that. it was the first time we have had a rules committee meeting in considered legislation since their contract began. he came down with everybody. his whole legislative staff. there were five people here. including their general counsel who also represents other cases.
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some of that were circumstantial. they happen to be in town for a court hearing. they all stayed. i wanted to communicate to the board how important it is that we actually have a group of people that think our advocacy is important, not only to their company, but to the state. what we do is an example for others. we need to think about what we want to do with legislation. and also, to commend to you that everybody -- did everybody get the materials? we are talking about the form, since it is a new contract. the reason we have a new contract is that our former contract was with our former advocate who has been, he got a
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new job. we should be happy about that. i am happy about this since i work with him. we have a new format for looking at our legislation. i would ask you to look at that so you are sure the information you're getting is the information you want. and also we had a discussion about how are advocates, the number of bills they review, and also how they decide which ones we should take a position on, how they work with our staff, how that is reflected in the recommendations they make to west. and we asked for some recommendations, and one wasn't -- one that would ask which proposals have been reviewed. and what our own staff expertise and legislative
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advocates. i would ask you to look out the bills. we did not take positions on bills because we were not ready. they are not cooked yet. we will be reviewing those. i will ask you to look at them. then, the last item, we had informational items. one is the next series of reviews of our board policies. this is our work to try to get them on line and also to make them searchable and more accessible to everybody and hopefully compliant, which has been a problem for us. we have not looked at our policies for decades. if all of you have the series 1000 proposals, we will be going over them in detail as we did with the 900 series.
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i hope he will give us input on that before our next meeting. we have an issue about, which we have been asked to look at, related to a technical change related to state disability insurance. then, of course, we have an update on the state budget. that goes before the budget committee. the outlook is bleak. we will be keeping you updated on that. that is an interesting issue because it does crossover. it is the legislative advocate to comment talk to us. they do our budget work. we want you to be aware of that and think about where you want to go to talk about that and learn about it. as well as for the public.
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i want to thank the deputy superintendent for substituting that night and coming here and acting as liaison. thank you. >> don't forget we have to continue are close to session meeting. >> we are still broke. >> a good summary. a report on city and school districts elect committee. march 22. i guess it was commissioner fewer and mendoza. >> it was a great meeting, i have to sit. the got a lot of wonderful information pureed with three new supervisors we have.
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they are all engaged in our schools. it was great to have one. -- have them. guadalupe gave a description on where we are on that. we are involved in the city and school district. we should have a presentation at some point. they are preparing for our planning grant. it will be looking at an additional $6 million for five years. we had a good discussion about the job preparation initiative,
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it was another great conversation. there will be, attached to that, an announcement on thursday with regard to some jobs for our youth, taking the president's challenge. >> a report on the program committee. commissioner fewer: we had a great meeting. we had three informational items. one was english language services and pathways, which we thought was interesting. each one of you received a manual. it is -- the last one we had was in 1947. then we had a report from a high school which sounds promising. they have been doing a lot of new things. i think most of us felt like we
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needed to take a visit to actually see it. president yee: a report from the committee of the whole meeting. commission norton: we had an update on our restored of practices. there are some promising data and more progress than i had previously realized. i was pleasantly surprised by the report. there are three demonstrations, among them rosa parks to talk to us about that. it is not well-founded.
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it is uneven but overall it was a positive report and i think it is having the effect of transforming the way we approach student discipline and reducing expulsion. >> a report of closed session actions. approving the expulsion agreement with one high school student. 3 ayes and 3 absents. disembowelled to expulsion -- this involved the expulsion of
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one middle school student. alameda court case -- the board, authorized the representative to enter into an agreement on specific terms. in an existing link -- litigation matter, 20120086, the board authorized a settlement of $16,500. they approved the contract of one site manager.
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i have to re-read the second item. the board, by a vote a fouryes -- a vote of four ayes, involving the expulsion of one middle school students. that is it for close to session of march 20. now i have to report these actions of april 3, 2012. the board, by a vote of 6 approved to the expulsion of one middle school student. the board approved one director. in the matter a faz vers -- of fz, the board authorized a
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settlement of $25,000. in a matter of -- versus sfusd, the board authorized a $25,000 section statutory offer. in the matter of aeg vs. sfusd, the board authorized a settlement of $46,000. item u. >> before you go further, some of us have announcements. president yee: why don't we do that right now? thank you for reminding me.
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any announcements for committee meetings and so forth? commissioner maufas: -- commissioner mendoza: we were just returning from washington, d.c. some of us have received an implementation grant, or a planning grant, and several of us went to washington to meet with geoffrey canada and others. i just wanted to acknowledge that carlos garcia, our superintendent, was honored at the event because he was retiring and stepping down for the council. i want to remind people that all of our high school students will be going to three sites, most of whom will be going to city college. those who have not registered
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for anything, we will register them for city college no matter what. there will be a large group going to street mary's -- st. mary's. then mission day has opened their campus for all of the kids going to a uc system. this will be an opportunity for them to burn about the transition from high school to college. -- learn about the transition from high school to college. the asia-pacific celebration is on may 8. there is a challenge to submit a community service or art project that relates to asian heritage. that deadline is april 13. a club can win $750 for their
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club, which is a pretty big deal. we have over 90 nominations for the teacher of the month award. it was probably one of the largest we have had. we will be narrowing down those nominations and we will be making an announcement at the giants' game on may 16. the mayor has been hosting a town hall strauss san francisco. there are six of them. they were being posted throughout the city. i have attended the last three of them. it was nice to be part of the city family. there were several questions about the budget that we have been able to answer and for them to understand the challenges are district is going through. that has been a great connection we have made.
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that is it for now. commissioner murase: a couple of announcements. this saturday, april 14, and the second district sampras cisco pga will have an asset -- san francisco pga will have an awards ceremony and reception. and a shout out to supervisor eric mar recognized pam for women's history month. and a couple of upcoming events, and the association of chinese teachers is having their annual scholarship dinner on april 27 at the restaurant. and the latin american teachers association is having their scholarships celebration on friday, may 4.
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commissioner wynns: i was at the council with commissioner mendoza. i wanted to say that there is not much likelihood that the -- will be reoffered rising. it is is are we are saying we want it when it is not going to happen. that is the one thing. i wanted to mention two things that are related to us. one is that the governor came and met with the school board association board of directors last month. it was interesting. trying to convince us to support his tax initiative. i'm going