us more information at that time about the new teacher project. >> absolutely. >> and we can augment that committee. >> i also would like to add that the last school year we went to visit many schools together, and he also asked do you have any teachers for america teachers, and he asks about how this project is working. overwhelmingly, they said it was really working. i can't remember every school, but i do remember bessie carmichael who said they thought it was great. this is the new teacher project. he asked two questions. and overwhelmingly, they said it was great, that there was a point of contact, that they were able to streamline the hiring, and i just heard great reviews about it. but i look force to hearing it at the labor committee. >> role call, please.

>> thank you. >> yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, aye, aye, and yes. >> seven ayes. >> our next item is item q, first reading of plopesals. we give a total of five minutes for public testimony for all of these resolutions. we won't have a discussion tonight. may i have a motion and second on 1083-point. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> i will be referring this to budget and buildings and grounds. and then -- actually, do we want to refer this to student assignment?

>> yes. >> we will just refer this to budget and student assignment and not to buildings and grounds. is that all right? or can we include a begget area analysis. i am -- a budget area assignment. may i have a motion and second for 108-24 fp 2. moved, >> second. >> ideology move this to our student assignment committee, and that meeting is on monday, september 13 at 6:00 for members of the public. i do have two speaker carts for this item are cards for this item. i have david robinson and hunter cutting. two minutes, please. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent. as the support said, no plan is perfect, and i'm sure that

through the community outreach process that you're going to engage in, because we have common goals and values, we will be able to address the problems with this plan. but i do need to highlight for you that this plan really does not implement the principles that you articulated for emerging kids in the district with regard to middle school assignments, particularly with regard to spanish immersion middle school assignments. as the public process goes forward, i would like you to be thinking about how this plan, if it were implemented would actually affect next year's sixth graders, particularly in spanish immersion. is it fair to assign those kids next year to a school that has no immersion program when we know how difficult it has been

to build those programs? is it fair to those students to close one of two actually working spanish immersion programs based on a hope of implementing more programs simultaneously across multiple sites when we know how difficult it is to do that historically? and is it fair that the current spanish immersion kids will be assigned to the valley, and the kids from the mission will not be? we can work through this with a speakered process, but i really hope you will listen to the input you will get from the immerse parents in particular. it was very surprising to the immersion parent community that this proposal came forward in the form it did. we did not see it coming.

>> would you identify yourself? >> i am david robinson, and i have a fourth grader his school. >> thank you, mr. robinson. [inaudible] >> well, i am hunter. thanks for letting me talk. i have a couple of kids in the district. i wanted to also address the assignment proposal for middle schools. i apologize, but i am going to be a lot more blunt than david robinson. this proposal is a disaster in the making, and i want to highlight three problems for you. i think it is worthwhile highlighting it now because you have a very impressed schedule for considering this in a couple of weeks. one, the assignment provisions are going to basically lock the east side families into poor

performing middle schools, and that hurt is going to mostly fall on low income families and latino families. two, as david pointed out, this proposal is going to tear apart the spanish language immersion program in the middle schools in san francisco. and three, this proposal essentially abolishes the sibling preference program in middle schools. i realize it is a complicated program, but all you have to do is take a look at the math that got produced. almost without exception the elementary schools on the west side are being assigned to the high-performing middle schools, and the east side schools are almost all going to poor performing middle schools. i think who are as mann is a great example. it is one of the most trouble middle schools, and it is going to be fed entirely by east side schools. the parents in those elementary

schools may have made the devil's choice when their kids were young to send them to a poor-performing but local elementary school, but under this plan, they are going to lose their choice to send their kids to a better performing middle school that might be further away when their kids are older. this plan takes away choice for families. lastly we talked about the sibling preference. it is going to tear families apart. if i may quickly, there is no spanish immersion program at mann. mann lists them of as having.

>> may we have a motion and second for a recommitment of students for military recruitment? >> moved. >> refer it though curriculum committee. >> the board members' report. we already got a report on this. our next report is from the augmented rules policy and legislation committee. commissioner norton? >> yes. we did not consider any legislative propose always. we did hear an update on our various title grant applications, most of which the superintendent updated us on earlier. and we heard a short update from susan wong on the ongoing review of board of education policies, and we will be taking that up in the next few sessions of the legislation committee. >> the next is a report from the augmented ad hoc committee

on student assignment. commissioner wynns? >> i would like to take this opportunity if i may to read or highlight a lot of the time line of the actual meetings that are listed here in the agenda because the substance of the meeting was that we had the presentation of the draft proposals for the elementary attendance areas and the middle school feeder pattern. you have heard about that, and the point is not to discuss substance, but to highlight feedback. those were just introduced, as well as the transportation policy this evening for a first reading. on september 28, the theory is that we will be voting on those policies, that then by october 13th, that what will be

presented to the board of education will be outreach, and on november 8, a monitoring and evaluation plan, and administrative regulations related to transportation will be presented to the committee. and then in addition, i just want to repeat that we have a series of community conversations and other vehicles for feedback from the public. the meetings -- you saw them tonight. but just for the public, august 5, which is tomorrow 6:00 to 585 charles drew. 28th at frons scott -- france scott key. august 1, 6:00 to 58 -- september 1st at marina middle school. we have opportunity to give fee back on line at the district's

website. and also the staff and i want to -- and i want to thank the staff for this, is making themselves available for individual appointments, drop-in appointments, and we are facilitating meetings with school communities or others interested in talking to the staff about the work they have done that has brought us where we are today. i hope all members of the public will avail themselves of that. lastly, i want to repeat that commissioner kim said that the next meeting of the committee will be september 13 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. here in this room. >> thank you very much. i one-and-one to thank -- want to thank staff for the website. it is great. glad to be online. next is a report from the

budget and business service committee. commissioner yee? >> sure. basically we had one discussion which would be consider an informational item. the discussion really was to come back around to what we had discussed earlier in the year when we were going through our budget development. there were a lot of -- many of the commissioners wanted us to look at our priority areas or programs in a way that is more comprehensive. a lot of times when we look at budget line items, it is just one item. for example, parent engagement, there are many sources of funding which support that effort. yet when we have the discussion, we generally focus on one particular source of funding rather than looking at it more conferencively.

-- conferencively. >> we may the decision that every budget committee meeting we would take on a topic for exre hencive discussion efments >> if we have time, if it is not a packed agenda, and it looks like it is not packed, then we will also discuss the resources of our federal programs. then in october we decided to take on or discuss the special education program and the budget that supports that, and also the community schools.

we chose in october to go over the special education budget. wented to recommend to president kim -- we wanted to recommend to president kim or vice president mendoza that we have a discussion on specialed cation redesign. we are hoping that would happen in september. >> we are definitely on it. >> i wanted to mention our committee wanted to start the budget development for the new year starting next month. we are going to have an early start. >> thank you so much, commissioner yee. item t is report of closed session actions. close session actions of august 19, 2010, the board of education by a photo of 6-1 approved the appointment of two

supervisors and one supervisor. other informational items have been posted in the agenda. acceptance of gifts in the month of june. quarterly report on complaints. and information, no notice of classified personal transactions. we are at item v. we are adjourning our meeting tonight in memory of miss kansas dra roberts and katherine. our condolences go outs to everett and mission high schools. thank you very much, meeting is adjourned.