of education for august 10 is now called to order. roll-call, please. >> thank you. commissioner fewer: here. vice-president mendoza: here. >> thank you. >> please join me if you like in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under

god individual with liberty and justice for all. >> the first item is approval of board minutes. i i have a motion and a second? any corrections? roll call, please. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. president kim: yes.

>> superintendent garcia. >> i would like to welcome everybody. this is like the premier of a new season. we are starting off a new season in the adventures of the san francisco unified school district. it is kind of exciting. we want to remind all of the parents and teachers that i feel like ringing the bell at school. this coming monday, august 16 is the first day of school. we have never quite started this early. we are going to end a lot earlier. we will be attending the school year on memorial day weekend. we are sorry that everybody had such a short summer. we are ready to start all over again. there are a lot of good things to be celebrating, in spite of how the economy is going. today, the house passed the jobs

bill. we could do a lot in the school district. you probably have heard the school improvement grants. we were going to get $47.5 million. there were rumors that other districts were not in the next. we work with superintendents across the state. we are standing together on

taking a scare off of everybody else. most school districts will sign on. that will be good for us. all 10 of our schools are persistently low achieving students. schools will be funded. there was a group of a schools funding california. i am told that we had a very good interview. that could bring a lot of

resources to our school district. we are hoping that move forward. we will need to do a lot of work with our partners and different unions to try to come up with a good plan. that is on the horizon as well. all of those things are great. the most exciting thing is that monday the state will be lifting the embargo on our test results. i am not of liberty to discuss them. they are pretty good news. people are going to be really surprised on what we are doing in closing the achievement gap. last year, we did well. we talked about setting up goals that nobody thought that we could achieve with double digit growth. for those naysayers, gephardt of the way. there are great teachers and administer -- get out of the

way. there are great teachers and administrators that believe in this. i want to thank everybody for the fabulous work that they did, despite the worst economic crisis we have had. ensuring that the students are going to be successful. without your efforts, everybody is going to have a lot to be proud of in san francisco. thank you and have a great school year. >> i just wanted to thank you for that, superintendent. i have had the opportunity to look at a number of buildings on school sites were a number of buildings are working out this summer. i wanted to thank all of the people who have worked on this and the people of san francisco that have the bonds that we are

issuing. >> tonight, we do not have any recognitions or resolutions. this is normally a time for reports. i did want to introduce our new stew -- student delegates, cheryl fattah -- cheryl chan and elise a fan. -- elvina fan. >> i want to start off by city -- saying i'm excited to be here. i am looking forward to a really good year. >> i am the elected student delicate. i second what she is saying.

i am looking forward to helping students, teachers, and talking about what is going on with the schools. >> what grade are you both in? >> i am may sr. and i am a junior. >> we are excited to have you on board. the board of stewards have student input on all of our policies. we look forward to what you bring forward as well. the next is our parent advisory council report. we will move on. item f is public comment on consent items. i do not have any speaker cards tonight. item g, do i have a motion and a second? any items withdrawn or corrected

by the superintendent? >> could you repeat that? >> any items removed for first readings by the board? this is for discussion and vote tonight. this is the first meeting. i am having trouble enunciating. seeing none, roll call will take place. item h, superintendent proposals. there are none tonight. item j, request to speak regarding general matters. this is a record. at 6:30. public comment. i have no cards.

item k, advisory committee reports by the board members. you have the appointments tonight. item l, special order of business. i call this a tentative agreement between the district and international federation of professional technical engineers. may i have a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> may we have a reading by the superintendent or staff. >> i am sorry. >> this special order of business requests that the board agreed out of this money to give

each member of the local unit and a one-time payment of $1,000. the required documentation from the department -- budget department is also enclosed. >> thank you. are there any public speakers for this item. roll call, please. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. >> aye. vice-president mendoza: --

president kim: yes. we wanted all of the board members to hear some of those priorities. that is why we did not schedule one. consent calendar resolutions. there are none. this has already been moved and seconded. roll call, please. >> yes. >> yes. commissioner maufas: yes. >> yes. president kim: aye. consent calendar resolutions. there are no speaker actions. the superintendent's proposal for first reading. do we have a motion and a second? this is for 108-10sp1. this is authorizing the levy of

a special tax on community facilities districts. this would be held over to action for the next board meeting. item r, there are none tonight. we have a report from commissioner fewer on the city and school district committee. commissioner fewer: i was not present at that meeting. president kim: we had a discussion on truancy and initiatives. this was by the state and county of san francisco. we got to share a little bit more on the truancy center. the truancy assessment referral center. they had begun their work in may. they had begun working with

students and our staff to work with them. commissioner maufas, you were at that meeting. that has begun developing plans. hopefully, we will start to get some data from this group to find out what is stopping the students from coming to school and to help them reintegrate back into our schools. that will be held over. the next item was muni safety. some discussion about concerns that our students have about concerns from home to school and after-school programs and what kind of work we're doing with the city to ensure greater safety for students. we had muni thre. -- there. i would love to hear more from our student advisory council on that issue. that was our only committee.

>> i noticed that those two items are listed as action items. i understand that we distinguish between informational and action items. we may put that it is a calling of a hearing. it is a little bit misleading to list that they are action items when the committee is not going to take any actions. >> commissioner maufas. commissioner maufas: i just had an announcement. i just wanted to announce this past weekend i was invited to attend our chinese parents -- our chinese university. it is an amazing educational event, the conference that

happens for our families. that happened this past saturday. the second part of it will happen at that location on the 14th. the time is, if i could ask the translation unit, the time it starts this coming saturday is? 9:00 and it goes until when? 1:30. the generous -- in generosity of the community and with the food and the community, this creates the first up for most families in learning most of the things we need to impart to them. they will not readily have that information. i would like to thank the amazing staff for participating. i know our president will be going this coming saturday to attend.

the deputy superintendent, i know last saturday that did the opening at last saturday's event, i wanted to extend a special invitation to superintendent garcia. the parents have said that they would love to see you. that would be an amazing thing. our executive staff have gone to let those families know that every parent and every family is important. we want to make every bit of knowledge that we have here accessible and to understand ways to integrate into our schools and also to find information so that there are choices that are made that are based on knowledge and information. i want to thank the translation unit and the lead staff.

they have done so much amazing work to build the community up. and for parents and public schools. president kim: thank you. commissioner fewer: president kim, the deputy superintendent has an important announcement to make. we have long awaited to hear. >> we just received word that the uc system approved ethnic studies as an elective grades 9- 12. >> many thanks to sanchez and her team to bring it as a requirement to all of the students in san francisco. >> a big congratulations. i know that they were huge in

pushing this. that is great news on one of our policies. any other announcements? do the student delegates have any announcements? >> school starts on monday. president kim: report of close section actions. this was -- closed session actions. the approved the appointment of one chief, one program administrator, one principle, and one assistant principalnor -- the votes by the board approved the stipulated expulsion agreement for high- school student ka. the board by a vote of six ayes and one absentee approved a settlement of $8,000. the board by a votes of six

ayes approved a settlement. the board approved a settlement in the amount of $51,000. the board approved a settlement in the amount of $11,902. other informational items. there are none tonight. the meeting is adjourned at 6:42 p.m.

>> would the public please turn off their cell phones? the first item is roll call. [reading roll] commissioners, the quorum is established. item number two, consent calendar. all items listed here under are considered to be routine by the small business commission and will be acted upon by a single will call vote. there will be no separate conversation unless a member so

requests, at which time it will be considered as a separate item later in the meeting. the approval of the meeting minutes. explanatory documents. the, approval of the meeting minutes. c, approval of the june minutes, explanatory documents, the special meeting minutes. these are action items. [ayes] >> for the past three years, i have had a candy store.

i welcome the opportunity to be a part of the commission, and i hope i can learn some insight from the group. thanks. president yee riley: 50 p.m. welcomed. next item, please. clerk: this allows members of the public to vote mentioned things. general public comment. but they can suggest new agenda items for the commission's future consideration. president yee riley: any public comment? seeing none, next item, please. clerk: item number four, a presentation of the small business commission said in its of honor recognizing a local small business as part of the small business recognition program. commissioner: commissioners, it

is my distinct privilege and honor to give the small business recognition to the gallery and the owners, jeffrey frankel. this is a 30-year business that showcases photography and has been a pioneer for this effort. they have worked with many people, well recognized and pioneering cryptographers, but i have to say that this gallery came to my attention through their community service work. there are saturdays for teenagers, at educating hundreds of area teenagers every year in the art of photography. their parents are welcome to come along, but i have to say that this work, introducing young people from the ages of about 11 through college, about

art, photography, and connoisseurship is unprecedented, so i would like to read this. one of the partners in the gallery. would you come up? too serious about this. it has been a long day. i would like to read this because i think it expresses it very eloquently their contribution to the small business community in san francisco. on this night, august 9, 2010, we are recognizing their contribution. they have presented over 300 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other arts. in addition, the gallery is also renowned for their exceptional catalogs, which spans generations of photography and art. by maintaining relationships with museums, private

collectors, and others, this gallery provides visitors in san francisco and the general bay area an opportunity to view a diversity amount of work. the gallery exemplifies the energy that it brings to the arts community, and the small business commission is honored to recognize them for their over 30 years of service in the city and county of san francisco. so thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, janet, and think you, commissioners. this is very nice. we both individually moved here about 36 years ago or so, both of us having had a similar story. we have come here in teenagers and could not get it out of our system.

we have a pretty funny business model, which is that our idea is to be there for people who come in, to look at photographs, to like them or not like them, and to a of other questions, so we are very honored. we could not do this anywhere else the way we could do in san francisco. just today, a visitor from canada talked about opening up the space in new york, also, and i said, no. it had entered our mind, yes, but we really did not feel the need to do what we do at the level we do it. we work with colleagues in new york and paris and tokyo and switzerland, around the world, and thank you. we can think of no better place to be doing business. thank you very much. to show our thanks, we published a book from the 1840's, a

photograph from the george from san francisco, and i brought copies for the commissioners. thank you very much. [applause] >> i would also just like to point out that right now, the frankel gallery is coasting to a show that is four galleries, three other galleries. i do not know how long the show runs. >> it is another two weeks, i guess. it ends one week from saturday, but was a way to outreach. we believe in congeniality, not competition, so we are working with three other galleries. we have chosen people from all of our holdings together, so it has allowed some of the newer galleries to have visitors instead of the mormon church galleries.