2 e is your positive certification for your finances. there's a line that talks about your positive certification going into the future because you're going to be able to maintain reductions. we are curious about those reductions that you see. we are very pleased that there's the positive certification and that we expect the positive certification now with the passage of prop 30 to continue out for at least the next several years. it means to me that we probably don't need to have things like lay offs, probably don't need to have things like furlough days. and with any luck, we'll be able to get away from the hideousness of the kind of non reelections that people go through. and let me just mention for a moment why non reelections are so harmful and hurtful to an

individual. and that's because there's no reason given. a man or woman comes into the schools and gives his or her all to the students and then gets a non reelection which tells them for no reason -- offers them no reason for being let go. i think the effort that the district is apparently committing to try to help support the special ed teachers so they aren't in the position where this happens to them is admirable. we bring in special ed teachers as interns. that means they haven't finished their credential yet. we put them in a classroom with the most needy of our students, we tell them they have to go to school and to also do the job and then we find them lacking or wanting. that is unconscienceable and it's something we need to stop.

with some money coming in i believe we can work in that direction. we, as the union, are happy to work with you in that direction. we hope that you will also join with us. thank you very much. >> thank you president kelly. there are no other speakers for public comment. i am going to move to item g. may i hear a motion and a second please. thank you. are there any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? there are none. any items removed for first reading by the board? no. any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion and votes this evening? none. okay. roll call vote will take place under section o. at this time with the indulgence of board

members, i'd like to rearrange things on the agenda a little bit. i would like to move item i, board members proposals ahead of item h. sorry mr. davis. and within item i i would like to rearrange the order of items so i'd like to take the credit recovery -- take that first and then move on to the higher resolutions. so seeing no objections from the board, we will now consider item 132 urging the board to look at [inaudible]. commissioner, vice president fewer or your designee, will you please read the resolution? >> i was asked to author this with our student delegates, wendy lee and megan wong. it

seems that the whole resolution being read in by our student delegates. >> [inaudible] each student with an equal opportunity to succeed by promoting intellectual growth, [inaudible] economic confidence and physical and mental health so that each student can achieve his or her maximum potential and whereas the [inaudible] every student who enrolls in our schools will graduate from high school ready for college and equipped with the skills necessary for 21 century success and whereas students must be educated in a rigorous high school curriculum in order to compete and be

conduct /seszful in today's society and whereas the future of san francisco depends on having an educated work force and maintain the vitality of the city. and whereas in accordance with their mission statement in 2008 [inaudible] and whereas a through g courses are the high school courses necessary for students to take and pass to be able to enroll in any university in california and whereas the previous graduation requirement did not fully prepare students for college it was possible to graduate and not to be eligible for admission to uc's and csu's. 2014 will be the first class to [inaudible] data from the [inaudible] shows that almost half of students in class of 2014 are not on track to graduate with 45 percent of

students not on track to graduate and to be eligible for uc's and csu's and whereas /ko*f write [inaudible] more students by giving students who have fallen behind a chance to recover credits through a multitude of different strategies. >> budget cuts have reduced the amount of funding given to summer programs. and whereas there are currently online credit recovery opportunes for [inaudible] and such as the online options are the main platform for all track students

to graduate in a timely manner and it is imperative that the [inaudible] prioritizey or [inaudible] due to the questionable student satisfaction and lack of information for english language learners and whereas an evaluation of current credit recovery programs offered would identify the problems that inhibit its current use [inaudible] therefore be it resolved that the sfufc student council urges the school district to provide current credit recovery programings to improve the quality and accessibility of these aforementioned programs. [inaudible] between the city of

san francisco, the sfufc and the community based organizations regarding student achievement and the reduction of the achievement gap. >> thank you. are there any -- well, there's one public speaker signed up for this item. christian sinclaire. >> my name is christian. thank you for your time. i am a two year member on the student advisory council a senior at [inaudible] joint committee that [inaudible]. it came about when we got information about the achievement gap and the amount of students that were off track to graduate in 2014 and we really worried by

it and we appreciate that the district and the city are now implementing more credit recovery options and we thought that was important but with this resolution we wanted to ensure that students were getting the biggest amount -- the best amount of education possible and that the funds were being allocated and being used best. thank you for your time and i urge you to vote yes or this resolution. >> thank you. any comments or questions from the board? vice president fewer. >> yes. so i just wanna thank our student delegates for bringing this forward and i am honored to have been asked to coauthor it with them. i am also looking forward to hearing their feed back on the credit recovery options. >> i also wanna thank the student dell -- delegates for

bringing this forward. for acting students to go across the city or the courses they need are not on site or they're not at the level we need them to be and the students are telling us we need to switch something up. i absolutely agree that we do this. i also say the degree we're relying on credit recovery is -- we need to fight for our students to take the courses they need during the regular school day. i know we've talked about this in the past, but a 7th period, an opportunity for the student to know that the courses are there for them during the day, but while we're in a place where we need to have the credit recovery programs, we need to make sure they're working for our students. please update us on how it goes. >> thank you. commissioner [inaudible].

>> i want to echo my colleague's comments and thank the student delegates for bringing this forward and the student community and thank you for being individual . those are the people who are in positions to make decisions if /-r your benefit and you want them doing that and that's you telling us on a regular basis and speaking to us on a regular basis. i want to thank you for that and encourage ongoing -- make sure you are telling the generation of students behind you that this is something they need to stay up to date on and that they are reminding us

continually to do the best we can possibly do for all of our students. so thank you very much. >> thank you. i just wanna thank you for my own part for the really incredible advocacy. you do an excellent job representing your students so i'm just really appreciative and happy to vote for this resolution. with that, roll call please. >> thank you. [inaudible]. it's five i's. >> thank you. and i want to apologize earlier as i misspoke. we're gone that quickly take 13226 sp 1 the adoption of the revised board policy 1000 series. this was

already moved. we're gonna take that first. it's very quick i think. you don't think it's quick. all right. we'll keep going. please make it quick. so it was already moved and seconded on february 26. mr. davis, can you just read the requested action please? >> thank you president norton. what you have before you is, as you said, 132-26 sp 1 a [inaudible] community relations to replace current board policy. the requested action is that the board of education and the san francisco unified district adopts revised board policy 1000 series and include the revisions of p 120 article three relating to [inaudible]

committees. /tkpwhr >> there are no public speakers. mr. wynn. >> members of the rules committee have had time to go over this so i just ask everybody to look at this. i don't know if you've done this that already. i didn't get this form until it's right here on the table. maybe i did get it sent to me, but i had gone over everything before. but this will give you a summary about what you're doing in the red column. i think the main thing is -- i think we've tried

very hard to go over these and to not -- to make sure everything's included that should be included and that reflects our interactions with the school districts. so that's what i wanted to say is a lot of work's been done on this. thank you. >> any other comments. okay. roll call please. >> thank you. miss lee, miss wong, miss fewer, mr. haney, miss [inaudible], miss lee, thank you, miss mendoza, ms. norton. that's 6 is. >> okay. we are going to move back to item i and call for

creating 121211 a 3 creating an equitable [inaudible] if i hear no objections from the board we will be hearing the substitute motion tonight that was also distributed to the public. you have a copy, a red line and the copy that the public has. seeing no objection we will be considering the substitute motion. commissioner mendoza, may we have a report from the buildings and grounds committee. >> we heard this item and put it forward with a positive recommendation and at that moment decided not to include some of the amendments that were been put forward because it was only information that the board members had at the time. so we put it forward with a

positive recommendation in its original form. >> thank you. may we have a reading of the substitute motion by commissioner fewer or commissioner haney please. >> commissioner haney, if you would. >> therefore be it resolved, the board of education of the san francisco unified school district requested the superintendent and his staff to draft [inaudible] contract with san francisco based minority owned and women owned businesses and to hire local residents with the goals outlined below. this policy shall be developed with

community, labor and contractor stake holder participation and shall address the following goals. /pwhreurbl minimum transportation levels for san francisco [inaudible] minority owned firms and women owned firms on school bond construction where mandating is not legally permitted the district will engage in extensive outreach to facilitate these groups to successfully bid on government projects. develop an outreach to engage in [inaudible] contractors on all projects sub contracting, explore direct contracting with qualified community contractors through design build or select school construction projects. encourage local minority and women owned contractors to

participate with /staoeut certified apprenticeship programs at locations such as john o connel high school. also require responsible bidders that participate in state certified programs and provide healthcare to workers and their families. [inaudible] especially sfusd graduates equal to the average local participation level projects funded by the 2006 bond or equal to the overall local hire inging policy. require that -- require that at least 70 percent of the project work hours performed by the apprentices shall be performed by local residents, require that crack tors work for a

[inaudible] ever 5 million dollars of construction cost if such graduates are available, establish an overall local participation target that will [inaudible] contractors [inaudible] such as a bonus payment. monitor local higher compliance on an on going basis and [inaudible] met and sustained concurrently develop processes and procedures for dealing with contractors who fail to meet their targets. this will be crafted [inaudible] on future projects. establish an oversight committee made up of community labor contractor and [inaudible] review compliance with these contracting and hiring requirements and make recommendations to ensure achievement of the district's policy goals as well as timely completion of construction

projects. [inaudible] raise funding for the support of the san francisco unified school districts such as tech 21 recruiting potential contractors and [inaudible] and any other activities to develop a comprehensive local hiring framework in san francisco. implement this policy through a project labor agreement or basic facts agreement. further, the district will

enter into a [inaudible] construction trade which to the degree and extent permitted by law contains mandatory local [inaudible] further this policy will be presented and approved by the board no later than april 23, 2013 and that no labor agreement is [inaudible]. >> nice work. we will now give the commissioner's voice a rest and call for public comment on this item. i have quite a number of public speakers so as i call your name please line up alongside the wall here. you will each have two minutes to speak. so we have stew [inaudible], craig [inaudible] and i apologize in advance if i mispronounce your name. darius

[inaudible], i'm not sure. sorry. the painters allied trade council. mark [inaudible], randy [inaudible], mark gleeson, anthony [inaudible], michael [inaudible], tony rodriguez, ed reyes and dan prince. so please approach the mic, push the button to turn the line on. >> good evening commissioners. i'm not going to get into the eight digit of pi. when you get into these new calculators, i think they only go out to eight digits so it's hard to go out after that. i'm stew,

construction division director with teamsters for the western part of the united states. and here tonight to speak briefly on this. teamsters local 8 looks forward to continued work with the community [inaudible] project labor agreement with the san francisco building trades council and all construction trades unions for all work performed in the execution of such school construction work. we stand in solidarity with the san francisco building trades council. thank you. >> good evening, may name is craig. i was appointed originally as a representative advocating for the disability

community, and tonight i'm here because i'm on the committee. at the last couple meetings this has been discussed and our mandate is very simple on the committee, it's also quite narrow. it's to ensure that all funds expended from bonds are done so pursuant to the language that was approved by voters pursuant to prop 39. our concern -- i'll just personally -- this has the potential to increase the cost of projects and it will cost between 200 and 300 thousand dollars a year to administer this program. our concern is that any incremental costs be identified and assessed first before coming up with a policy. anything short of that would be of concern to the committee and i would just ask that the board make that consideration

before reviewing the policy by staff and enacting this. and for the record, i support local hire. i hope that means more jobs for san francisco citizens and i want to do whatever i can as a citizen to make that happen and i look forward to hearing whatever that policy might be. thank you. >> my name is randy, i'm a representative with the elevator constructers union 8. any agreement you enter into should be done with all the construction trades. thank you. mark gleeson with

teamsters. we also want to add our voice to the call for the project labor agreement entered into by the school board to include all the crafts that are under the san francisco billing and [inaudible] council. we greatly appreciate your [inaudible] as this agreement is executed. >> my name is mark [inaudible] local 16. as business agent, i'd like to tell you that all of our members are solidarity behind the san francisco building trades in this project. we also, out of our 119 apprentices, 55 percent of 'em are minority and we also have 7 [inaudible] members too and we advertise in san francisco for apprenticeship every three months and we have

applications. >> [inaudible] san francisco building and construction trades council. i have -- since i took this office in 2005, had 15 project labor agreements signed off, most of which i helped negotiate myself. i might need to ensure you that we are assigned to every one of those project labor agreements and tomorrow morning i have called for caucus on local hire and negotiation for the [inaudible] and all trades are invited. for 14 years i made my living with these and i've supported a family of four and put my wife through cal so she can now teach science in your schools. i made it to foreman by

straight dealing and producing quality work that commanded respect. that is my ethic. i think we will produce a quality agreement for you, a functional agreement for you and i think the advocates of local hire are afraid of that because they don't want to give us credit for anything. they want to be able to declare victory and they want bragging rights. that should not be the concern of this district. it should be what works for its students. thank you. >> good evening. i'm here for the same reason -- to formulate a pla that's best for san francisco. i think the disagreement or discussion is how we get there. i represent local 43, fire sprinkler unit. we long to the san fr