member of one of these unions. >> state your name and go ahead. >> good evening, fellow employees. i have been employed by the san francisco unified school district for 32 years. i am here tonight to talk to you for myself, my fellow plumbers and other crafts. for the last seven years we have gone back on our salaries. we have had to pay more for our health benefits, retirement, and we have had to take five furlough days. while in the same time, board members, teachers, and managers have gotten a raise. if the district says they don't have the money to give us a raise, where did they get the money for their raises?

as a result of this action, several unified school district employees have left the district to go elsewhere, including people from a jar, maintenance managers, shop supervisors, craftspeople. all we want is to be treated the same as the other city plumbers. the superior court of san francisco has made a judgment in favor of the classified employees of the san francisco unified school district. they are the same in shall be equal to the civil service rules and regulations. we do not want to be put in the same bargaining unit as the teachers as they are certified and we are classified. we currently have a plumbers with the combined experience and knowledge of over 150 years with the san francisco unified school district.

that is such a big asset to the district and the kids. we would hate to lose. in closing, i would like to say the rest of the city did away with the furlough days and got a 3% raise over three years. we just want to go forward instead of backwards. please help us so we can continue our dedicated service with a smile and contentment. [applause] >> i just wanted to comment, thank you for your help. >> i am a 7347 civil service

plumber. i wanted to speak tonight about equity. it is a big word that appears on your agenda. as he stated, for the craftworkers. even when you talk about the unsung heroes, there are lots of craftworkers there. we are skilled professionals, which makes 50 the number one priority, we make the instruction flow as best we can and will work with hall members of the school. everyone knows that when the toilets are overflowing, you need a plumber. unless we come before the school board, we can't always they lay.

with all of our dedication and patients, who haven't really provided anything. we have furlough days without pay. no extra holidays or anything. the rest of the city plumbers will be $20,000 above my salary. i think that is kind of pathetic. the bond money hasn't totally renewed this school. there are still rotten pipes we are working on inside the world. you still have things that we have to replace. i think that you have an idea of plumbing. to plumbers spent three days recently running 100 feet of the

four-inch cast iron pipe where the rain leader had gone bad. basically, i want to give you one more example. there is a botched job or the contractor kept the drain line from the bell tower. water had no place to go. we have a lot of options. you can hire and non-union handyman that would endanger the students. at least give us some type of equity in these negotiations. [applause] >> good evening, superintendent and the board. i have been a carpenter for 33 years and i wanted to put a face

on carpentry. all of you who have seen me before, could you please stand. 25-26 years. all of the folks that are now mobile's a month the board of education. i am struggling, putting kids through college and a wife through college and i am blessed. i want to thank you for the opportunity to be able to work 25 years with the company as prestigious as the school district. i know you will do the right thing. you won't scrape and whittle and take away a few dollars from our income to make your budgets have been. i have felt it and i see it in the contract. i was the fifteenth carpenter hired. the gutsy 15 carpenters, you have maybe eight or nine at the most. i am good, but i am not that

good. it is just attrition and we need to replace personnel. we need to be paid with the city. i decided to work with unified. i like it. i like ministry, i like church, i like youth groups. i have been background check. i would just like to see my boys grow and teach carpentry. we don't have that anymore and i feel sad from us. i am just a small little face. you don't see very many chocolate carpenters running around. i want ask what the civil service carpenters' get. that is what i accepted what i applied here. why should you pay for something that cost go and get less?

why would you pay more and get less? i have had my time. it doesn't make sense to offer this and not give it to us. you can let us go on and we can get a pay raise in the city. we were the crew you were thinking earlier that got ahead of you two weeks without vacation and overtime. the decision. thank you. >> my name is larry brown. i could go on about what everybody has already said. a lot of it is about the kids. that is why we are here. i enjoy my job very much. it is nice to serve the kids and teachers, and give them a space

so they don't have to worry about doors or windows not working. i tried to put that service and so they don't have to think about that stuff. they can concentrate and do their job. that is why i am here and i am proud to do that for them. it would be nice to get compensated what other people are getting paid to do. but it is a good job have, i am glad to do it and i hope that when you come time to redo our budget, you will remember us and give us some benefits to that. thank you. >> excuse me, did you sign up to speak? >> i did not. >> i will give you one minute. >> i appreciate it. i am a sheet metal worker and i

have been here 12 1/2 years. most of my colleagues have been here 10 years. we are all educated, we went through an apprenticeship program. i went to six years of school to learn by trade. it is a craft. we work very hard for you people as carpenters, plumbers, we work together. a constant back-and-forth of working together and doing different things. you have a lot of very old buildings here. they are not easy to maintain. when we go out there, we see things that are old and we have to bring them out today. it is a craftsmanship and you have some very dedicated people. we want to be paid in the same throughout the city. when we came here, because i tuck, i chose the school

district. we should be paid the same as all the other sheet metal workers throughout the city. >> i don't think we are slated to have discussion. >> point of clarification i think there is an issue of pay scale between the district and the city and i would love to have that be looked at home for labor and personnel. >> i will adjourn the public hearing for now. let's move on to a discussion of other educational issues. none. consent calendar resolutions.

we moved the previous meeting for second reading and action. 1 tonight. voter and consent calendar moved and seconded under section f. roll call. [roll call vote] >> yes, except k22 which is retroactive. [continued roll call vote] >> thank you. >> consent calendar resolutions severed for board discussion.

we will start with a 3-7. >> i can certainly take them all together but looks like they are separate may be under the latter ones. probably under the mission zones. certainly the first group 3-7. >> also an item removed by commissioner norton. >> why don't we do that first. this is page 67. >> i just wanted to find out the answer to the question that mr. kelly raised about the big

increase. >> mr. kelly confuse this issue with a construction contract. and as i have come before you several times, this one has the one piece of information that commissioner wynns had me add to all the others. we enter into an agreement with five different soil firms, five different cleaning firms. the five different environmental firms. we enter into one contract and each time we give them a project, we bring the amendment for that project back to the board. the master agreement starts said zero and there is often a fixed dollar amount limit and sometimes there is not.

this is not a condition where there is a change order to a construction contract, this is a condition where the contractor was given water to other sites before and we have added peabody and result, a very large project. one of the things i committed to before, if you look at page 63 as an example, in the background, it lists the other 14 sites for this item that has been modified. that was brought up previously as it looked as if the contract had 15 modifications all at the same school. this is a 2011 project and contract. we need to start showing all those things. >> we should expect to see the contract come back to us time to time.

>> i will be identifying all the previous schools, but i think it was a very good item the commissioner brought up previously. >> someplace on the agenda, we would probably have a definition as opposed to a construction contract. the public can understand what the difference is. i am sure you can figure out how to put that somewhere. >> i am happy to do that and work with counsel to that effect. >> [roll call vote] seven ayes. >> thank you. back to k three through seven. commissioner maufas: i do not

know who is going to speak on the ones 3-7. a queue. that is great. there is more. i will talk about the first set. in looking at the descriptions, you know, each one has a different description. there might be a couple that are close. they are $27,000 each, but ultimately, i am wondering why

we are not using our own physical education teachers. i feel like we have people do this work. i do not know if it is a split schedule. i want to know openly, why are we not using unknown, especially when we have this physical education master plan? i think they are a great organization and they do great work. but i am wondering why we are not using our own well-trained understanding, all of our school communities and staff. why schools are choosing to go with an organization verses' picking from our own crop. gosh i can answer that a little bit by saying that the time the play works staff work with our children is during recess in

unstructured time and after- school time. it is not when they are doing physical education as dictated by the master plan. that is part of the reason. every year, the school's submit a resolution to continue this work because it provides for a positive school climate and has been very beneficial in a lot of the schools that are using the non-profits. >> just to clarify, play work provides structure game time, not physical education. it is structured to game time for the children during non- instructional times.

we have 200 kids in each yard. if we don't have certificated teachers, we have this organization that provides the structure games in different areas of the school for those 150 students that are at recess at that moment. if it is that commitment and they work after school with the same type of mentality. structured in games where children can play and learn to socialize together but it is not physical education. >> first and foremost, commissioners, playwork does not replace p.e.

the organized games, they are also somewhat students during recess and lunch time. logistically, it is very difficult to hire a peaty turf to try to support so many different recess, lunch, after- school. and he looked at a cost, $27,000. you're not going to be able the higher five teachers to spread the hours throughout the day to do this. most importantly, it is not instructional based. it is mainly organized place for children. commissioner who wfewer: it is t

instructional, it is recreational and similar to something with my contract for the ymca. i think this board has approved of many play works contracts before. it is a school site decision many times. and this board, play works is not new to us. we have approved this many times before without discussion and approved unanimously. this does not displace our teachers. there are programs that do. this is not one of them. >> if i may, since you were sitting here, are you also sitting here for the 22--- 19 and 20 as well?

>> if the solutions are related, then i am representing them. >> that was the clarification on my part. that really does help me better understand the times. i have seen that in the schools and i think, it totally correlates with what i recall at the school site. it really does make sense to me now. >> commissioners, i wanted to add one additional point that aren't assistant superintendents were making. it is funded through a variety of sources of schools lights that make that a priority. we have the good fortune that the grande schools have not only decided to support play works for cooperative play, but have added to our physical education

instruction and teacher positions as well. there is also a commitment there to physical education from works as well. >> roll call, please. k three through seven. >> [roll call vote] miss fewer has recorded hers. [roll call vote continues] seven ayes. >> would you like to take all three of them? 19, 20, 22. >> this really is something i could have commented on during the other component. when i look at the last one and i look at the description compared to the other

descriptions, i believe that this is the same work, but this is really a full description which is what i was looking for. i assume is the same activity or close to the same activity. but the description is so full and robust and completely as wages and concerns that i have. maybe this is just going for that descriptions like this are very helpful to my understanding of what is going to happen to be presented in shared with these other folks because that is where the flag was raised. when i looked at 22 and the supplemental explanation provided, i completely understand. i don't really have much questions because it is fully described here.

>> any comments? roll call, please. >> [roll call vote] seven ayes. item>> item 1, superintendent - te item q, a motion and a second? this resolution was heard at the ad hoc committee on student assignment meeting held last night. the report will be held later on tonight.

in support of the consideration for deferred deportations for child the arrivals, a program encouraging in the unified school district of volunteer to assist all our students at the mission high school action form. is there a motion and a second? for suspension of the rules. >> for suspension of the rules. [roll call vote] seven ayes. >> so motion and a second for formal introduction. we will be using 84 revision. this version has been made available to the board and to the public.

a reading of the resolution. is there a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> i second. >> of the reading of the resolution. >> in support of consideration of the further deportation of childhood arrivals, encouraging the unified school district to volunteer to assist all of our students, deferred action form. on the timber 22, at the san francisco unified school district board of education and a board resolution no. urged the city and county of san francisco to remember its status as the city and county of refuge as set forth in the san francisco administrative code via adopted the ordinance no.

37589 on october 24, 1989, and whereas in board resolution no. 992 to 82, the final whereas clause where denial of access to an sfusd education to undocumented student would impose a lifetime margin on a discrete class of children not accountable for this disabling status. the stigma of a literacy will mark them for the rest of their lives. by denying these children their education, i get the ability for foreclosing any realistic possibility that they will contribute in even the smallest way to the progress of our nation as recognized by the supreme court. and whereas