only spanish design in an arts building. there are no records about how many people worked on this building. the workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. and what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. of the board

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.

directors and parking authority commission. >> director beach. director beach: present. >> director lee. director lee: present. >> oka. director oka: present. >> director nolan. chairman nolan: present. >> you have a quorum present. the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. any personal responsible for one going off may be removed. please be advised that cell

phones on vibrate will cause static. approval minutes of the july sfmta. chairman nolan: is there mokes to a-- a motion to approve. >> second. >> minutes of the march 2, 2010, parking authority regular commission. chairman nolan: is there a motion. >> second. chairman nolan: those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> item five, communications. i know of none, mr. chairman. chairman nolan: ok. new unfinished business. ok. that's not me. ms. boomer. excuse me.

ok. thank you. a couple of announcements, communications. we have a special order in today's agenda and that's at 1:00 this afternoon or as soon as possible thereafter but not before. the board secretary will call item 11 about the taxi issue. and if the board has another agenda item, they'll complete that and then go back to that and then we'll continue the agenda as regularly scheduled. and also on september 21 this year the board of directors will be holding a workshop rather than a regular meeting. the meeting will begin at 9:00 in the morning and will be held in the conference room at 1 south van buess. secretary boomer: item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. chairman nolan: director

heinicke, did you want to raise the issue under this section? director heinicke: sure. is that ok with you? chairman nolan: sure. that would director heinicke: what chairman nolan is referring to is something that will come as no surprise to those in the taxi community as an area of interest to me. and that is briefly with now sort of us having wrapped up or begun to wrap up the switch in the medallion issuance process, i think we need to look very carefully, as i've discussioned, with director ford and chairman nolan and the deputy director is the issue of peak time taxi cabs and how we use the flexibility given to us by prop a to meet what i view is two very significant demands, related demands. one, there is a huge demand for consumer usage on friday and

saturday nights and other peak times, certain holidays, certain event days. and given that demand there is a demand for drivers who want to drive that shift. and so what i suggest we do much in the way before to have significant community and industry input but to look at how we can together put a proposal, molding medallion drivers to drive those peak time shifts and allow the color schemes become corrective to meet the needs of the consumers who want cabs at those times. so i look forward to working with the chairman and staff on that. chairman nolan: would members consent or perhaps we could schedule sometime the next meeting the discussion about taxi priorities? >> that will be fine. i will take it one step further and even lay out some road map of some sorts in terms of how

soon we can get there. chairman nolan: thank you, director heinicke. director beach. director beach: chairman nolan, members of the board, in putting together a budget of this year and next year, one of the things that was a key component to that was the math -- was the m.t.a. being the only parking permit. if staff could bring back a status of where we're at of being the sole issuer of parking permits. this building was surrounded by permits we didn't issue. and my travels throughout the issue i see other parking permits issued by other kinds of public agencies. if we are going to in fact control that we need to get with that and -- because it was a key component of our budget. chairman nolan: would members consent? mr. ford, could you bring something back to us? director ford: yes. chairman nolan: any new unfinished business? seeing none, ok. ms. boomer. secretary boomer: item 7, executive directors worm

report. >> good afternoon, mr. chairman, m.t.a. board and the public. i begin by recognizing our staff for the contributions they have made to the agency for the month of august. under our transit division we have two awards that are very, very special. as you know, our civic center station is one of the busiest stations within our transit system and it serves as a transfer point for many of our riders within the san francisco bay area transit network. on two separate occasions m.t.a. employees that we are recognizing, the two m.t.a. employees that we are recognizing today responded courageously in preventing harm or life-threatening injuries to two of our patrons who had fell into our mini train tracks. our first award goings to aramedes rivera. could you please step up to the podium? come right up here.

arcamedes has been with the agency for over 12 years. on june 12 he witnessed a visually impaired man fall into the tracks as his train was approaching the civic center. because of his quick reaction he was able to stop the train and avoid any harm to that individual. his outstanding dedication, determination and excellence in train operations proved invaluable during this critical, life-saving incident. he takes great pride of performing his job as a transit operator and has a great attendance record and safety record. he is dedicated to his job and always places safety first. before you have john haley, our director of transit authority, to present the award. chairman nolan: good afternoon. >> thank you. i'd just like to point out to the board that we regularly report to you when you review on a regular basis and evaluate our safety performance.