it is not necessarily new, but we felt there were other ways to rectify that in the past, and this was our attempt to try our best. >> whether it was a k resolution, i am not sure how it was done, but this is my attempt. this is current, and this is just funds used in the past. now, part of the reason why i thought this was going to be ok is that we have 18 months to use those funds. we do have the academic year, so, technically, this is still current according to the california department of education. commissioner wynns: then the term of this issue before last year. it should be really retroactive.

-- then the term of this is truly for last year. >> a handful of others that are similar. commissioner wynns: i would have staff postpone this so that we can fix this. thank you. >> it sounds like we also have a current contract, and it seems to me that we have already started services on the after- school program, so you're going to be presenting us with two red director of resolutions. >> also, the new contract is for just this year. each of our school sites, or at least a high-school, is awarded -- any resolution that is reflective of that is just for the 2010-2011 academic year, which started on august 16.

>> correct, which makes it retroactive. i am not going to say what i really want to say. this is so frustrating. if they have no idea of how to present this to us in a way that is accurate, then we're going to start denying these, so if we could please provide this support to our programs to make sure that these are taken care of, and i am going to recommend that we pull this item in bringing back with the correct information. vice president mendoza: thank you. commissioner wynns: i think the record should show that this is being removed, because we do not want it to come back at all, so

there will not be a second reading of this item. can we not just removed it? -- remove it? >> we are going to withdraw this. we're going to withdraw this reso until the next board meeting. vice president mendoza: so that was item p. item q, superintendent's proposal for first reading, the approval of revisions to board education policy p120. i need a motion and a second. commissioner wynns: so move to

vice president mendoza: . -- so moved. vice president mendoza: item r, closing the opportunity gap, adopting a vision statement policy to establish sfusd school facilities as public assets that support our strategic plan and our community. i will speak with present -- president kim. did you want to speak? you do not have to if you do not want to. >> the equality of opportunity is a way of saying that there are other things in life instead of -- in place of just schooling

or academics, but it takes a lot of things to get a child ready for school and through school successfully, and i appreciate that this has been brought forward, and i look at a lot of the things that have been phased in toward the end, and i am pleased to see it, and i think this is a great resolution for the entire district. i commend you. vice president mendoza: thank you. item s, board members' reports. commissioner wynns? commissioner wynns: we met on october 13, and we had the following items, the transportation policy being the big issue, and the outreach and rieker and plans for the 2011- 2012 school year, so i want to

do a couple of games. the presentation i believe that we had at the committee is on line. we did specifically ask for it to be put online. in particular, the transportation policy is something that we're very interested on getting feedback on. postponing this until december in order for it to go through committee and to have been put it from the community on this issue, -- to have input from the community on this issue. we have heard from the parents advisory council tonight about the recommendations for the redesign of transportation. i am just going to say a few things about it, and it will lead a major impact in the district -- it will have major

impact in the district. there will be a baseline of transportation which will be significantly less than we currently have. one of the recommendations is that we reduce from 44 buses to 25 buses. that will result in many, many fewer routes and trips being provided to students and to families, that we phase out these roads and stops over the next three years and phase in some new things that are being recommended by staff to meet our goals, and those goals include providing transportation to racially isolated schools that have traditionally been underenrolled, creative person relent -- create diversity -- to reverse -- create diverse

enrollment, and the second area of reduction of the staff is proposing we adopt to be phased in over three years is a severe reduction in transportation after-school programs, so that is a big deal. we really, really what members of the public to comment on that, to think about the, -- to think about that and give us feedback. i want to commend the parents advisory council on their comments, because it will have a huge impact. it is probably needed just based on updating and on our desire to spend less money so we can focus more on the classroom, so we have another meeting on november 8, the ad hoc committee, and we

will have more specific information and get feedback from the board, so all of you have received the presentations that we got, i believe, at the meeting, but everybody has got in the presentation, and this is the time now to give feedback to re-staff on these proposed changes to the transportation policy and also for the public to do that, so that is the transportation plan currently in development, and second, i just want to take a moment, the other was about outreach comment and there is also in the presentation and outreach plan, which we thought were very good, which includes a number of things which are not new this year, and we will be trying to gather information and be able to navigate a new system. november 13, as you all know, will be the attendance fair.

you can see a list of the so- called discovery workshops. i am holding in here. you cannot see it, but it is on the website. this will go through january 29. there will be a mobile educational placement center in a bus. i think that is kind haute -- kind of cool, and there will be an opportunity for people to file their so-called satellite collection, to put in their applications not only here but at other locations. all of that is also on the website, and there are a number of other things in the plan that are there, so i want to thank the staff as well as the public. i see some representatives are still here. thank you very much. and just to say that this has

been a long, difficult process. i think the staff work has been exemplary. the committee meetings have been really good. we have gotten a lot of good feedback. we will continue to work on this, and i encourage all members of the public to really pay attention to this. thank you. vice president mendoza: thank you. and, needless to say, we will continue to have meetings of the ad hoc committee. commissioner wynns: the next one is november 8. vice president mendoza: a report from the city and school districts elect committee, with commissioner fewr, -- fewer, commissioner kim, and myself. social workers for our students that are being touched by multiple departments and about shared data.

claude b. anderson from the school district was present and were sharing with us what the protocol was on the school district side, and we and others who were sharing the work, so we're going to continue this conversation about how we can be better at sharing data and streamlining information that comes to both sides. a report from the augmented ad hoc committee on personnel and dashon labour relations, commissioner -- on personnel and labor relations, commissioner? commissioner norton: it has been quite positive. i am just looking for my notes. we had a report on the new teacher project staffing, and i

cannot find the notes right now, but it was very positive, and we are building our capacity to recruit teachers in some of our highest in the areas. we also heard some issues related to secretarial, custodial, in mailroom services that work clarified for us, -- and mailroom services, and the local gave us a report, which now both sides of declared an impasse. would you like the work was committee report? -- the rules committee report? we did hear a legislative overview, not a lot of legislation in front of us. we did get a little bit of a report on moving the hvac -- moving the age back on kindergarten.

there are going to be some effects. 18 is monitoring this -- a team is monitoring this. we also have a report from susan wong, and this is really going to be a great effort. they are working on a contract right now, and at the end of the year, we should have updated policies complete the online, searchable -- completely online, searchable. it seems like a small thing, but she is doing great work. and finally, we had a small change to the board rules. it was for first reading, and it will be for second reading next time. there is not going to be a meeting for the rules, policy, and legislation committee until january. vice president mendoza: thank

you. item t is a report of those things in closed session. the board voted by two ayes and -- the approve the expulsion of one high school student, wrote -- they approve the expulsion of one high school student -- they approved the expulsion of one high school student, j.w. commissioner yee: i just came back from a conference, and i would just quickly summarize. it was kind of an interesting time to go there because the mood was very somber.

it just seemed like nobody knew how to move forward with their items in the agenda, and everybody was just sitting around, waiting for their election to happen, how to react to it. they did mention the children's nutrition reauthorization coming up. there will be a slight increase in reimbursements of about 30 cents, and most people sitting around the room were pretty upset by that. this will really not help urban schools. there were some workshops related to bilingual and immersion programs and recruitment in developing a pathway to being a teacher to

and so forth. i would like to say for that particular amount of workshops, it makes me so proud of san francisco in terms of what we are doing. our immersion programs, are pathwayso -- ur path -- our pathways. that was the discussion we have like 15 or 20 years ago. the other i went to was a bit more informative for me, and in light of the fact the we just had an audit, i went to some workshops related to special ed, and one was fairly good presented by the baltimore school district, and basically when i listened to their audit and other audits, when they talked about boston in austin,

but baltimore really really has a similar type of findings that we find. almost every district has similar findings, it seems like, but baltimore has been added for a few years, and they are basically a few years ahead of us -- but baltimore has been at it for a few years. we might be thinking like this anyways, but they basically allocated the funding to the school sites and said, "here is the funding bill you will get. they know how to do this. they are having a really good

results. if we're going to have more inclusion programs, we need to win power at our school sides to make those decisions, so that was a good thing. and deputy superintendent ca rranza brought up why do they not try to organize a meeting for special ed.

it is basically what are the factors contributing. i do not think there is not anything you know necessarily, but when you look at those numbers, it stairs right into your note -- it stares right into you. there was the one started giving his perspective. my freshman year, i was walking to school with 20 friends, and now, there are three of us. it was interesting because we have always taken the social

justice perspective or in moralistic perspective -- or a moralistic perspective. if we do not address this, it does two things. the other thing is, as you all know, they are in jail, which cost society a lot of money. for me, personally, i think it is a good argument. the social justice piece. and in the article, it talks about the superintendents', in 2001, the average stay was 2.5

years. it actually went up in 2010. you almost made it to the average. and then it talks about the pay and the salary. it also goes to the ethnicity of the urban areas. this one is really heavy, so please take a look at it. it really breaks down the surveys, according to the business operations, and this is coded by numbers, so it does not tell you which schools are involved. i hope i did not mis-hear him,

because i did not see a single entry. i was excited. where are we with all of these indicators. once i started comparing with other districts, -- i hope we can get involved in it. one last thing. the cool thing about this conference is that every attendee received a computer, a laptop.

it was pretty powerful. would you are supposed to do -- what you are suppose to do is to bring it back and donated to a worthy student. -- and donate it to a worthy student. a student that is needy and so forth, and since i am hoping that is going to happen, we had a keynote speaker, and he was from new york, and commissioner wynns, what does he have to do with education? different people have different passions. he was great. he has a very high passion for education, especially for african-american high school kids, so this whole book is

called the "younger brother." -- called "young brother." i bought five of them. the nice thing about this is it is targeted towards high school kids, and he was explaining. it was basically letters he had written to them, mentoring. it was kind of nice that i bought it and was hoping it was a good. i have copies, so whoever gets this will get this from me, so that is it. that is my report. commissioner: i was not at the conference this year, but i think it is worth noting that a

former commissioner received an award, which carried with a $10,000 scholarship that she can award to a student in a district. so congratulations to her. vice president mendoza: under this item, i would like to just take the privilege of being the chair of this board meeting to just make a couple of comments on an article that came out this week in regards to the board, and i just really want to defend the integrity and commitment of this board, and i think that commissioner yee just demonstrated what professional development does for a board like ours, and this is really important to ensure the we are on top of a lot of the work that is happening, especially nationally, and with all of the guidelines that have come out more recently, it has been very important for us to stay on top of this, and we anticipate more federal grants than we ever have before, and i think it is through our efforts of

understanding and learning through multiple venues that we have been able to do this, and i also just wanted to make a comment about the work that goes into that, because it really does help us to work better as a board, and i am thinking that all of this is that all of the students receive high quality education, in many students have been working hard over many years that this stays intact, and i just want to mention the work of the board. clearly, we need to tighten our protocols and make some very clear changes. beyond a reasonable and responsible, and we have all committed to doing that. the current leadership has had sessions to make sure the we are looking more closely into that, and we will be working it

closely with others it and presenting something to the rules committee to make sure that the integrity and commitment of this board once again remains intact, and i suggest very strongly that we have all made efforts to make sure that what we're focused on is the achievement of our students. with the bat, i want to say, " go, giant," and, unfortunately, i would like to pass this over to commissioner wynns about a loss we have had. commissioner wynns: one person passed away on friday evening, surrounded by his family. there were also his siblings and his mother, maria. many of you know mauricio. he was active in a number of

things. he was a mainstay of the vernal heights community. where i have lived for 35 years. he ran for the board of education. i was happy to support him. mauricio was a really special person. i will miss him tremendously. i have to tell you that if you go to progress of grounds and have coffee in the morning, which i, awesome it -- if you go to the whole borrow heights community go by and i almost always saw mauricio there in the morning, which was pretty often. he was born in san francisco december 18, 1959. he went to catholic schools in san francisco though his two