we will be able to expand that next year. i know this has come up at board meetings when we had questions about expulsions. so many of the students that we see have very few credits in comparison to the grade level they are at. in the future, i would love to get the number of students that we have that are in need of credit recovery and the number of on-line courses and saturday school openings that we have, just to get a sense of the gap between what we have and what the need is. thank you. commissioner fewer: i have one question. i noticed under the prop. 8 funding that we are going to fold our reserve. another part is on the budget.

that is about $4.80 million. i want to know about the way it is informal. is that correct? how will that be allocated? will it be allocated for that fiscal year? what is the foremost allegation -- allocation? is it in addition to what schools will be getting? >> the reference to that part of this funding plan in the general uses category -- it is $4.60 million -- is $4.76 million. that supports allocations that have already been provided to schools. but for this use of that amount of the spending plan we would have to make deeper cuts --

significantly deeper cuts in the way the student formula is allocated. commissioner fewer: thank you for that clarification. it sounded like we had this extra money. we do not. president kim: another question from commissioner wynns. commissioner xynnswynns: could u clarify the additional steps for the budget about the meeting we are having next week, to reiterate the code requirement? i thought we should publicly talk about the tier 3 retirement. i do not know if there is anything else we have to do, either. >> the state requires that we submit our budget for all school

districts in california in what is called a standardized accounting code structure for matt. these budgets are required it is mandatory that they be submitted to the state by july 1. most school districts submit them to their county office of education. since we are a single district county we are reviewed at the state level. for the first time i think in a long time we will be able to -- since we do have a meeting on june 28, we will be presenting our district and county budgets to you for approval and subsequently submit them on a timely basis to the state of california.

commissioner wynns: could somebody talk about the new requirements? i want to know. >> part of it requires -- allows school districts, because of the reductions from the state in both our general revenue as well as in our state categorical fund, which at one point there were 46 categorical funds. most of them were made flexible in 2008-2009, i.e. school districts could backfill some of the cuts made by the states by use of the categorical fund. most of the reporting and compliance requirements surrounding those funds were raised for a period of five years from 2009 through 2013.

as part of the receipt of those funds, school districts are required to hold a public hearing at an open public meeting, indicating the use of those funds at any given year. that is a resolution that will be brought again to the board meeting on the 28th. president kim: thank you. my final comments, adding to the positivity around the board tonight -- i want to thank our board. i am so thankful to be a part of a very functioning elected body here in san francisco. i think we really appreciate that in this city. that does not mean we do not disagree but that our battles are not power matches. this is a very, very tough and challenging budget year. this could have been so much worse than it was. we really stood unified and very

focused on what we needed to do, and i am glad that we stayed aligned to a specific plan, which is about achievement and access and closing our opportunity achievement gap. even though we are defunding so many support programs we still make sure we prioritized those programs and services and are doing a lot of change in the central office in terms of how we deliver services so we can be more effective on the ground despite all of these cuts. i want to thank our board for that. i also commissioner wynns: want: -- i also commissioner wynns: wan -- i also want to thank commissioner wynns and commissioner yee for leading the budget process this year. i am glad that we are starting earlier. i know commissioner yee will

get the budget process started again in the fall. a month to think our budget committee members, commissioner norton: ann an fewerd fewer as . i want to think the public for relief pitching in, starting community forums on their own and doing their own out reach, and also their own independent research to try to understand our budget, what is going on at the state and local, instead of it being a shouting match on who is to blame for this and this. it has been amazing despite the cuts that we have gotten so much support from the community. i know a lot of that has to do with our staff and the outreach we are doing. i wanted to appreciate a lot of the parents and community based organizations that did the work and give us a lot of great recommendations on how to

improve the budget process for this year and next. it is good to get independent research and is on our process and -- and eyes on our process and our funding. although we do not have tax coming up until november to bring additional funding to our school district, which can start talking about it in our community so we are not starting a campaign in september 2011 where we are trying to scramble to get a two-thirds majority. we need to invest in education. it benefits everyone. it closes the opportunity gap here in san francisco. let us start doing that work now. but hopefully, we will have something for next year that we will bring -- next year that will bring greater investment in the city of san francisco. we need to do it for our youth. our city is more successful when our young people are successful,

college ready, and job ready. our city is much safer and a better place to live. hopefully we can all start doing that work now. i see no further comments or questions. roll call, please. [roll is called] , >> sev>> seven ayes. president kim: itmem i -- board member proposals. there are nine tonight. we are now at item j, which is request to speak on general matters. i have a number of speaker cards tonight.

i am first going to call up a speaker from horace mann. sylvia hernandez, melissa anderson, alma merlin, david johnson, gayle eagle. >> there should be more that called in today, too? president kim: amy lee, jose ramos, pricilla ameren. i am going to give one minute each. >> what happened to three minutes? >president kim: i can give 15 minutes to the group total. there are 10 speakers. would you rather have 15 minutes for the group or a minute and a half per person? 15 as a group?

great. if you can monitor yourself. you have to press a button. >> good evening. thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with you. i am a member of the san francisco chapter of parent voices, longtime resident of the mission district, and mother of two children, one of whom will be entering the h eighth entering theorace mann -- one of whom will be entering the eighth grade, entering horace mann in the fall. we are concerned with the abrupt decision to share the campus with metro high school. everyone in this room can agree that the key to success is preparation. as professionals, we spent hours preparing for meetings and interviews, in hopes that the outcome will be favorable. as parents, we prepare meals the night before and lay out clothing for small children and help the next morning will be uneventful and everyone will get where they need to be on time. the teachers in this room spend

hundreds of hours per school year during their evenings, weekends, and school breaks, preparing curriculum so the academic year will be a successful one. the faculty, parents, and students at the middle school have not been given adequate time to prepare for this transition to be successful. the majority of parents -- [applause] the majority of the parents have not been informed, nor have the parents. logistics have not been worked out and no one is really sure of what to expect, come august. the san francisco unified school district mission statement says it is to provide each student with an equal opportunity to succeed. we, the community, are deeply concerned that without the time to properly prepare, horace mann middle school students will not succeed in the fall of this academic year. thank you. [applause]

president kim: thank you. >> my name is jose ramos, father of a soon-to-be eighth grader. i just want to get down to the point, especially to mr. garcia, regarding the goals of an equity, keeping promises to parents and staff. promises have been broken. i do not know if you remember me from when i gave the boot to paul jacobson. you mentioned parents were a priority. you want to keep us informed of what goes on. anyways, i am not big on speeches or anything of that sort. but the thing i want to say is mattress students knew about this before the parents at horace mann knew. they are coming in with a hard

fist. we are going to come in here, whether you guys like it or not. it seems to me the district is favoring them. they could have sat down, face to face, the step from the other school and the staff of horace mann. let them know what is going on. i ran into mr. sanchez and found out about this. i found out about this thing coming to -- this thing with metro coming to horace mann. i thought it was quashed. now they need the whole first floor. we have to squeeze our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders into the second and third floor. students are not going to know what is going on. it is going to be confusing. the program that is going -- i like it.

all you have lied to us. the district does whatever the hell they want. that is the way i see it. [applause] i am not here to offend nobody. as a parent, i am frustrated. we have been lied to. we are not being taken into consideration. that is pretty much what i have got to say. thank you. [applause] >> my name is melissa anderson. i have a soon-to-be eighth grader in horace mann middle school. i do not know if any of you guys are parents of any child from the age of 11 to 14. it is a very scary age. when my daughter was first going into sixth grade, there were going to send her to ifp. they were doing the same thing. i would not let my daughter go in. my daughter was sheltered. she went through a tender to

fifth grade in a very small public school, where she knew everybody growing up the whole time. even if she was going in from sixth to eighth grade, it was very scary to her. it was also scary to me as a parent. my daughter going into a school with high schoolers is even more scary. my doctor will be having to walk through the high schoolers to get to her classes. i think it is -- i just found out also about this yesterday from mrs. hart. i had no idea. i do not think i am happy with my daughter going to this school, because i do not think middle schoolers and high schoolers should be in the same school. like i said, it is a very -- from 11 to 14 is a scary age. having to also defend yourself

from high schoolers -- i am just not for it. [applause] >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. my name is larry weir. i am with the neighborhood council of the public libraries. i work with a lot of young people. i have been fortunate to know some educators and scholars who taught me. i have been a historian almost 50 years. it is very disheartening and very sad that the things that are going on -- i do not think middle school kids should be mixed with high school kids. as you know, you have conflicts. when you are 17 or 18 in the eyes of the law a young man is an adult. a young lady is an adult at 21.

you have the propensity for -- a high propensity for conflicts of interest and statutory laws like contributing to the delinquency of a minor if older children smoke and drink or whatever and younger children are nearby. the propensity is there. i just want to say that music should not be cut. music is the universal language acknowledge all over the world. sports programs should not be cut. i benefited from a sports program. we had safe passage as children. we could go to any neighborhood. we could play down at the beach. all the neighborhood theaters -- the president kim: are you speaking about horace mann? >> i am. i am just generalizing. it is a serious condition.

i do not think middle school kids should be mixed with high school children because we should focus on education. if we have quality education and quality instructors and equality curriculum you cannot help but to be an eager, willing young person to learn. you cannot help but be a success. we must focus on that. education first. [applause] president kim: we will give extra time for translation. >> [speaking spanish]

[applause] >> i am the mother of an eighth grader at horace mann. because the principle made decisions that he did not communicate to us, for those i am not in agreement. -- the principal. he should have told all the parents. we all have the voice and the right to vote for anything related to the education of our children. [applause] president kim: thank you. >> my name is julio ramirez.

i want to address these words directly to the district. show us common courtesy to us parents. [applause] the whole school year -- the whole sixth grade year -- was fine until a broken by. april was fine until metro came in. i found out metro was coming in. who is metro? excuse my ignorance, but who is metro? come this weekend, i find out it is a done deal. it is going to happen. i feel as a parent -- i feel this respected that it was -- i was not aware of this happening. i want to address these words to you directly, carlos. just like you, i am very emotionally attached to horace mann because of what you told me

17 years ago. you came to me. you brought me into your office. you sat me down and you said, " my house that i live at is always going to be open for you. i live in half moon bay." is this true or not? ever since, i got emotionally attached to that school because of what you said. now that my kids, 17 years later, can have the opportunity to go to any other school, i told them to go directly to horace mann because of what you told me 17 years ago. and with this happening, with the parents being treated this way, i am not with that. carlos, as a parent, as a new parent of a new 11 year-old, just show us a little more

respect to all of you. let us know. let us know what is happening. do not be sneaky about what you guys are doing, you know? [applause] that is what it feels like. president kim: you have 5 more minutes. [applause] >> my name is priscilla. i am a teacher at horace mann. i am not speaking on behalf of all features. i am speaking from my heart. the school district has put oarsman families and teachers in a very difficult position. if it had been made clear from the beginning of the year that metro would have been sharing our campus we could have worked toward a smooth transition. instead, the plans we made for next year have to be hastily revised. the scorecard promises to create better communication with parents and families. when the district make major decisions without full

communication we are unable to involve parents in our plans. this affects the trust parents have in the teachers and the trust teachers have with the administration. when we have the same administration at the same time -- the same information at the same time, we can work together to make the situation beneficial for everyone involved. in the future, please do not rob us of this opportunity. i believe sharing a campus can have positive outcomes, but now we have to do with trust issues. it is imperative that superintendent garcia and each member of the school board put him or self -- put him or herself in the shoes of our community. there is a very good possibility that some of our families will not know until the first day of school that we also have metro high school on our campus. you will not be there to answer questions or to address any misgivings. people are capable of change. but the big surprises can have

serious ramifications. what do you expect me to say to my students and their families on the first day of school? [applause] president kim: thank you. >> my name is stella landry. larry weir was my kid's father. we have two kids at horace mann. when you hear something not from your family and you hear it from the outside -- it is very hurtful for me to find out from my friend that her doctor was supposed to attend my kid's school, which for a 12th grader was pretty strange for my sixth grader and a traitor. it was strange for me to have my kids. i do not feel we have a voice. you made your decision. i want you to know we do have a voice. you made your decisions. we have to let you know.

we do have a voice. i want you to feel this. if you had a little girl that was 11 years old and you have kids that get retained to the 12th grade, a 19 year-old, how would you feel if your sixth grader was abducted by a 19 year-old? they are scared. my son is scared to go to school. i want you to feel that in your hearts. think about it. what about their rights? what about the parents and the teachers? they did not ask the 12th grade and the 11th grade. they went to teach sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. we all have a choice here. parents and teachers and the community have a voice. they are staying to speak up. i am speaking for them from my heart. we have a voice here. we are willing to work with you, but please let us know again. give us a choice to make.

president kim: thank you. we are going to try -- >> we are going to try to stick together. we are teachers at horace mann. >> i made a little poster. on one side, it has metro's website. it says, "we are coming to the mission. come and toured the school on these days." when you go into the classroom and you open your computer, it says "metro house." is their internet already. many of our parents do not know. those who do note know because teachers individuals -- teachers called those individuals. to me, there is no equity in what is happening. there can be. prop 39 does not say school

communities cannot know about what is happening. if you want to keep your promises, you need to do something about it. [applause] >> i am -- when superintendent garcia -- three or four years ago, when you took the job and we had a middle school, we had all the middle school teachers had to sit and listen. i was your biggest fan. when you talked about the balanced scorecard and we put that together as a school and is a community and look at the promises kept to families -- one thing we talked about doing was establishing better communication with parents. this is the ultimate breaking of that promise, to know that june 15 -- i am ready. i am not doing summer school. i am going to have a good summer this year. i got june 15, midsummer.

we got an e-mail. horace mann -- it is almost like horace mann is moving to metro. we only get the second and third floor. i know we are in school that is small. we have to wonder kids. we had to justify that big building. when you talk about sixth, seventh, and eighth graders confined to a upper floor and the bus turns are on the first floor, how did the kids use the bathroom? these are things we do not have time to talk about. we have not had a chance to talk about it. the first day of school, imagine the news. people come down. what is going to look like? consider that? [applause] president kim: >i was hoping to talk about the process. >>