and their ability to learn, grow and thrive in every available facet of the san francisco unified school district regardless of their land of origin, parentage and documentation status. whereas on june 15, 2012, the department of homeland security secretary janet napolitano issued a memorandum to the u.s. customs and border protection u.s. citizenship and immigration services and the immigration and customs enforcement in accordance with that same philosophy announcing the consideration for defered action for the child program which offers defevered action to immigrants who were brought to the united states as children and who meet other specific requirements and whereas mission high school community members came before the board of

education on august 14, 2012 to announce their leadership efforts in making this national opportunity a reality for not just mission high school students but all eligible students in sfusd as rapidly as possible recognizing this program has no accompanying federal funding nor state allocated resources, to understand the guidelines, apply for consideration and ward off fraudulent prospectors in this arena. therefore be it resolved with the board of education with the san francisco unified school district hereby encourages the superintendent and staff to volunteer their free time and expert's to assist mission high school with its two-day action forum. friday september 7, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. and saturday september 8, 9:00 to 12:00 p.m.

including but not limited to the translation of materials and provision of interpretors to assist with the provision of information to families. further be it resolved that the board of education encourages them to represent the board of education support for the full implementation for childhood arrivals program whenever and wherever possible and further be it resolved that the board of education recognizes and applauds the efforts of our community partners, e.g., affirmative action, asian law caucus. fsop. san francisco immigration network. asia pacific islanders. legal outreach. central american resource center. a whole host of community experts in making this national opportunity a dream come true locally for our students and

their families. so i believe that we have community members who could speak to this action from the mission community. thank you. >> thank you. >> public speakers? that signed up for today, jim, ava, wade, emanuel, clarissa. come on up. press the button and you have two minutes each. >> hi commissioners. my name is jen, i'm a communitied a and i work with our immigration program with undocumented pacific islander youth. i'm very grateful this resolution was presented today. thank you so much commissioner maufas and those of you in support of defered action. we not only represent the mission high school community but the overall san francisco community and the thousands of students that would benefit from

this program and just to add on that, we are hoping not to have just one community forum at mission high school but a several and hope that the school district can identify a pointor contact for our community members so that we can host other forums and workshops for students in the future. secondly, we would also like to clarify that we will be -- commend you for interpretation services and to also hopefully host other weekend events and possibly cover the cost of facilities and workers just to keep the doors open on saturdays if we do the workshops for families then. over the last couple of weeks, our agencies have been filled with interested applicants. there are approximately 4,000 potential applicants within san

francisco and we want to serve each and every one of them and make sure they keep them away from those encroaching on them and all of our agencies in the san francisco legal education network are not charging a fee to support our students. there is a $465 fee already just for employment authorization and we can't ask for anymore from he's student -- these students that have already been impacts. -- impacted. thank you. >> thank you, jen. >> hello, my name is wade. i'm 23 years old. i'm the class of 2007 and also part of aspire.

an asian student promoting immigrant rights to education. the group that supports each other and also advocates for immigrant rights and i just want -- i'm here today to thank board for the sport of the action because as undocumented student i had a lot of difficulties getting through high school without the proper guidance and resources. i had my counselor from the high school. sneffs support of me but i could tell that she wasn't -- she didn't have the resource or the proper training to deal with students like me and it was really difficult. it wasn't difficult to graduate high school but it was difficult to live through it. i'm really happy to know that -- my benefit from the resident lucian so they won't have to go -- resolution so they won't have to go through what did. i graduated from high school and

graduated from college with a psychology degree and hope other student consist benefit and pursue education the same way i did. thank you. >> thank you. >> good yaverp, everyone. my name is anna avenue lows. -- avelos. i'm a mission high school graduate. currently i'm attending u.c. it is going to be my second year. i represent the 4,000 students in the city that qualify fd this defered action and i'm representing miss tom, my former chemistry teacher. unfortunately she is not here. she is in hawaii visiting her family though she asked me to speak for her. i'm here representing the students because i know i work in the immigration office and i know how much they have to pay. some lawyers are asking them to pay $1,000 plus the $465 for the

application. some lawyers are asking them to pay $1,500. we know they are just students. they are already paying for college or high school or something else. they can't pay for this. i'm here to ask you to please keep supporting this kind of event because mission has -- we should not be the only school doing this. thank you for your support. have a good evening. >> anna. >> thank you. >> good evening. i am here representing san francisco organizing project. we work with schools throughout the city. we have many, many families who are members who have children and students in different schools in the district and we are here with mission high school can the the community partners and we urge you to help us in sharing this defered action information with the 4,000 students in the city who

qualify for different action and in particular we are working the asset fund to help these eligible students also participating in small lending circles which will help them pay for the legal fee to help them apply for the status. as you know, these students will be able to apply and receive a two-year work permit and will no longer fear deportation and will be able to focus on achieving their dreams. thank you. >> good evening. my name is clarissa sanchez. it is great to be here amongst this wonderful group of commint activists and other community-based organizations. we were not provided a grant. taking part in this clinic is extremely important to us

because as a community-based organization, i am one of five people in our department. we have an extremely high volume of cases and we have done everything within our power to be able to provide weekly clinics. unfortunately we have to assess a fee because we do not apply for and receive a grant. so taking part in these clinics that are being offered throughout san francisco, also in other counts, we took part in one in san mateo and it was great to see so many applicants lining up as early as 6:00 a.m. for this service. it is great to be able to help another no cost. i'm simply here to stress poverpbes having this and having the community and these students come together to make these

applications to rid themselves of the fear that they have in submitting their applications so i would respectfully urge everyone of you to please provide an aye vote in this and pass in re-resolution. coming from an oh,, as i'm sure we all have mentioned, we're flooded and we want to do everything within our power to continue to provide these services, especially with no cost. thank you for your time and hopefully we'll be able to have you onboard to come and see our clinic on september 7 and september 8. thank you. >> thank you. commirgs maufas? >> thank you. commissioner maufas: miss wong is here and i was hoping that you could share some of the district activities that have to

happen because of the passing of the -- thank you. >> several weeks ago, actually more, i think they have been working on this project for the last summer and in waiting for more information. as we have been working with the group, one thing that they did identify was to be able to enis that your the counselors at the high school have this information so we are going to be planning counselor trainings through the month of september and making sure that the flier that they have already translated into chinese and spanish is also out there at all of the high schools and in anticipation of the events on friday and saturday, translation department is going to be preparing interpretors for this event. >> thank you very much. what i also wanted to let the commissioners and public know is that i reached out to the members of the board of supervisors because not only does it affect our students, it affects other citizens in san

francisco up to 31 years of age and they are being met again with this unfunded opportunity and how can the board of supervisors and our partners n the city and county of san francisco work with us so we are able to share resources but also do as much as we can for as many as we can. as quickly as we can. i know -- let me ask. are they still on break? hence the no response? i understood that. that's fine. i know that they will respond. i wanted to mention that i did reach out to them and and also some of our community partners. i know that we have many, many folks that will be probably with us on friday and saturday. i want to encourage other folks

to either -- i hate to target you. are you the point person for sfusd? >> actually, commissioner maufas, we're going to convene as a staff to figure out who is best prepared to be the point person, not that miss wong is not. >> correct. she has an awful lot on her plate. i'm well aware of that. you have been in communicationss with her and myself throughout this process. when we discovered that point person, hopefully we'll be able to filter that information out so they can partnership with us on friday and saturday, but really, primarily to make certain that our students -- i'm sorry, are just protected from the folks that are trying to take advantage of this situation and we know that they are oppressive lant out there. i want to -- prevalent out there. i want to thank community and i appreciate you for giving me

guidance. i want you to know i wrote this resolution after watching you all at the board meeting. i was sick at home and i was watching the board meeting and i appreciate that miss tom came to that board meeting and spoke to you. you listened in such a heart felt manner and i appreciate that from my colleagues and i was able to produce this at home. commissioner fewer: i would like to thank commissioner maufas for bringing this forward. and also wanted to reiterate friday september 7 from 5 to 8:00 p.m., saturday, 9 to 12:00 p.m. at mission high school. what can people expect if they come to the forum and is it limited in any way the students or san francisco residents or --

>> we actually wanted to -- the community forum. not just mission. we know that san francisco is well known as a -- city. san francisco is a city of immigrants. we know that. so we want to be bridged to the parents. not just the mission parents. we know there is a lot of parents out there that don't know situation. it broke my heart when i went to oakland and i don't know what this is but my son can explain it to you. we want to talk with the parents so they know they can have this information that will benefit them. we don't have a limit or things like that. hopefully as well as many lawyers as we can have to reach many students in san francisco. >> there are still many parents that don't understand exactly what this is. an explanation of what it is and then how they can participate

and with their family. >> commissioner fewer? commissioner fewer: thank you, president yee. i meant to say thanks for putting on this forum. i have been hosting a student for going on three years now. i will definitely tell her about this. it is true she has consulted an attorney and the attorney said it was $1,000. so i would definitely direct her to this. thanks very much. >> yeah, it will be great. just tell anyone we would love to have anyone from the board to see what it means because you will love it. the community from different country of origin, different languages will be there. different organizations helping us. students like me, i'm not part of money this of them but i'm just here because i think this is a need in the community. >> commissioner mendoza?

commissioner mendoza: thank you. so i actually had a brief conversation with her before she left. but the city is in motion on this. i think we were waiting to find out what the final instructions are going to be from the feds. i don't know if that has already come down or if we are prepared to address that. i know there was going to be a briefing given to the mayor. adrian pawn from the immigration office or offices. immigrant rights and community engage jment is deeply -- engagement is deeply involved with that. this will impact a lot of services that the city currently provides, particularly around workforce. it will really give the city an opportunity to actually start paying some of our kids who have been part of the paid programs and allow so much more for many

of our youth in the city. most of whom attend the san francisco unified school district. i know the city is deeply engaged in putting a strategy together. i reach out to adrian and maria and i knee the mayor wanted to do an announcement of some sort around this. i'm a little -- i was just surprised that it was coming up so quickly and i don't know if you have had a chance to connect with adrian or maria. i don't know if anything has been fully flushed out of their office but it would be great in addition to this forum if something else could happen in partnership with the city because i know we would all love to be able to support the efforts around us. again, a lot of the funding sources that we have with our youth have been -- many of our immigrant youth. we have some restrictions around and so this allows us to lift

many of those so i just want to commend all of you for being here and commissioner maufas for putting this together and i'll be supporting this tonight. >> roll call, please. >> sorry, i just wanted to make one more comment. i know they reach out to parents from all across the city, will connect with our superintendent to find out where that connective issue can be made. thank you very much. >> i'm sorry. are we going to be putting everybody's name on this? i invite the commission if they would like to add some names. >> sure. >> thank you. >> will this forum be posted on our website? do you know? do you know? >> in terms of the information? are you referring to the information around the order? the forum. oh, the forum.

>> let's put it on our website. ok. thank you. roll call, please? [roll call vote] >> seven ayes. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you miss maufas for bringing this and supporting this and being an ally with us. thank you. >> thank you. >> ok. we go to item s, i think. item s. board members reports. standing committees. any tonight? board delegates to membership organization and sbacgs.

seeing none. all other reports by board members. ok. all i have to say is that many of us probably went to visit schools last week and probably this week and it has been a great opening week last week. i personally had visited about eight or nine schools and hope to see a few more this week. commissioner mendoza? commissioner mendoza: thank you, yeah, i wanted to thank the superintendent for allowing me to tag along as well as the mayor. we had a great school opening with commissioner wynns. it was just so exciting to see all of the fun stuff happening on the first day. i also wanted to acknowledge the mission promised neighborhood back pak giveaway that we -- backback pack giveaway that we did with the organized group

with the -- kevin and his crew. so we served four of our schools in the mission community and gave away quite a few backpacks with our partners at target. i wanted to congratulate our newly appointed city college trustee who was appointed by the mayor to fill the position that was left by trustee milton marks and he is diving into the work over there and then i also wanted to thank all of the schools that are participating in our shared schoolyard project. we are expanding. we have been doing this since 2007 and we are expanding from 11 schools to 22 schools and we have gotten great feedback from all of the zhools have indicated an interest -- schools that have indicated an interest to be part

of this. starting on the weekend after labor day through october, every other weebled we're going to be opening up a -- weekend, we're going to be opening up a couple o more schoolyards for communities to come in and play on our schoolyards. i want to thank supervisor for the fundraising efforts to create a budget that will give every school that participates $1,000 to their p.t.o. or p.t.o. or trust account and we'll do two deep cleanings provided by the department of public works. they will help us continue to close the cards are. any graffiti damage that is zone will be covered by the city. it allows so many more kids to come on to our school sites to learn how to ride their bikes and play basketball on weekends and do those types of things and there is also a small pot of money for schools to do

activities on the weekends and encourage community members around the schools to come and join in. i want to thank chris for his efforts on that and we will be letting -- post wrg the school sites are located over the next several months. >> thank you. let me backtrack. when i asked the standing committees for committee reports, we just skipped over two of them. a report from the augmented buildings, grounsd and service committee, reporting would be -- >> we discussed three informational items. the first one about local hire for district construction projects, the second on proposed housing options for 1950 mission and we had a report on construction and maintenance. i want to thank the dozens of people who showed up to give the committee feedback on local hire

>> so to report from that committee on student assignment august 27, 2012, reporting with commissioner wynns. >> going to start this but i'm going to ask commissioner mendoza to help me at the end because i have to leave the meeting early. we had three items on the agenda. we took them out of order. it doesn't matter what order they came. we had an update on the current

year process and of course we don't have all the results at all of who -- what percentages got what choices, etc., because school had just started and that is not completed. and really, one of the issues that we had on the agenda, which i urge all the members on the board to look at was a proposal about what would be lookinged at. if you recall, we had a very robust complete report looking into every question every board member asks us to collect data on last year and we also had a report that we could not afford to, nor do we have the expert's to look at every one of those data -- and it is not necessary really. what we agreed to is that we would focus on certain things each' year and add to our knowledge base about how the process is working. there is a suggested list of

things that we would look at this the annual report this year. i ask you all to look at that and give feedback to the committee. the other issue that came up related to the current year is about the current cuts to transportation which we snow very difficult for parents and they are dealing with it now. particularly the cuts for transportation for afterschool programs so we have been busing kids to lots and lots of after school programs. this year that is really affecting families that we are not taking kids to afterschool programs. we haven't stopped completely but there are far fewer of them and there will be even fewer of them next year. that is an issue for a lot of

parents. some questions were raised. i'm sure that you all have gotten feedback or input from parents who are unhappy about some of the stops that are not bg being serviced any longer this year. we did ask the statue to give us a list of comments that have come from parents so that the word will be aware of what the issues are more than just whoever sends the most emails. so that should be helpful to us too in thinking about that. i just want to -- the issue, the real issue on the agenda that was contentious was the issue about the proposal that you saw before you tonight for the changes and the international studies academy, phasing out of the middle school. as you all know, there also has been a proposal from a group of activists related to daniel webster and they wer