coherence and consistency to the work being done. one of the major reasons we are so excited about being to go to -- going to scale with this work is what they have shown in their partnership since 2007. when you look at the schools they have worked in, they have had significant results with our teachers. our teachers have said that the work that they performed has helped them to establish a great level of consistency, a great amount of articulation teams. they are functioning at a very high level. that is one of the indicators that we are looking for. how do we build internal capacity? i do not know if they would like to comment further. >> i think the deputy captured a

lot of reasons why we felt it was important to identify partners and innovation. one of the reasons is why we identified a lead agency in our performing schools and building a capacity. the work of the partners have been doing and has been expanding on working with the superintendents on schools is working with the structures and systems within our school sites as well as the work they're doing within area teams as well as the support of the director. we have the ceo of four partners in school innovation. >> thank you very much for the opportunity. >> i am happy to do this.

i have to say, this has been extraordinary for me, for my experience. thank you all for the opportunity to hear you and to see your commitment to the community. i am happy with this question. one of the real challenges with the work of comprehensive school reform is the question with responsibility. the times when it has been successful, you will find sometimes 10 years later. the schools look like they began in the work. we have designed this to resolve that issue from the very beginning. it requires an exceedingly transparent implementation style. a lot of what our organization

due to support schools, they hold them very close. they do not allow folks to share or to see or to copy. we designed this work so transparently. i have staff directly supporting leaders in the organization at every level with the expressed objective to align those levels and to use the partner tools and structures to bring coherence to the work that happens from the structural cow that all the way down to the individual classrooms. we have a high dosage amount of reform and support. when you talk to principals and teachers to work with us, they are kind of shocked at how much of a stacy and how clear we are with them about what we are here to help them do.

when you look at those analysis, you are looking at your teachers and your leaders. our work is putting our shoulder to their wheel. this starts with something called the school transportation review -- transformation review. also, leadership clarity in each one of the buildings. they have to have the ability to transform itself. in this work, as we implemented over time, we will see the capacity of the schools. they change. we all lie in the planning infrastructure to the priorities that the building leader is responsible for. we are tracking every day, every meeting, every structure. those who do this work know that we are transparent about our review as well.

both are owned and what we provide with great double teams looking at their data. in summary, the clarity with which the district leadership has decided a more community focussed and community and howard strategy for supporting reform in the schools is natural for our style approach. our approach is about adaptation. i decided to concentrate a lot of the partners and intellectual and human capital behind the energies of the doctors because i have a strong sense and commitment and belief in their ability to empower the leaders. they know their teachers and to actually hold them accountable for the kinds of results that we

know that they need to have moving forward. they have been a partner in san francisco for a long time. i see that this is a good transition opportunity for us to impart to the district everything that we have learned. thank you. >> thank you. i appreciate that. i am still interested more in -- all of that is great. that is exactly what i wanted to hear. i wanted for the district to tell me, what structure and what mechanisms we have for assessing our building. i am particularly interested because while i have great confidence in our ability to have a big impact on the schools and the superintendent to make

serious and real progress here. we also know and surely as we're sitting here that there are going to be other considerations of school improvement proposals, grants, requirements to the state, maybe our own internal ones. in all of the time i have been involved in this, there has been this presumption that systems cannot improve themselves. whether we call them the external e valley waiter experts or whatever the term of art is at the moment, from our point of view, we want to think about how we structure and train and invest in and conceived of and talk about what we learned and how we can apply it to sustainability.

the work that is done by external partners and the schools does not erode quickly. also, our own capacity in the system to move towards a mode of continuous improvement. along the road, we are going to be talking about that. >> along the road, we are going to be talking about that. >> i think along the road you have to take into account, when we bring in extra people, that is focused on that. to say that we should not be focused on that. staff are generally multitasking. if we think we can do that without the extra people, then

we are fooling ourselves. >> any other comments or questions? i am grateful to see an influx of resources coming to our district as well. that is good news. roll call, please. vice-president mendoza: yes. commissioner wynns: aye. commissioner yee: aye. president kim: yes. thank you so much for staying through our meeting. this is superintendent's proposals. resolution authorizing a change of quick claim deeds with the city and county of san francisco. we do allow five minutes for public testimony under this

item. i see none tonight. >> madame chair, for resolution 1012 we were requesting that the board waived the first meeting and enact this item tonight. >> i did not look at the white page that actually said that. i thought it was just a suggestion. all right. may we have a motion and a second on suspension of the rules to share this item? commissioner maufas: yes. vice-president mendoza: yes. commissioner wynns: aye. president kim: yes. may we have a motion and a second for formal introduction? >> second.

president kim: thank you. now they reading of the resolution. >> of the city and county of san francisco hold leader -- a legal titles to the properties including the land and school facilities including the school properties that require dedication for school purposes. the common names and street addresses are attached to your resolution. the san francisco unified school district is the beneficial owner of the school property. the city is merely a passive trusty with an ability to deliver on the deed. the school district has requested that the city deliver on the school property to the school district and where so long as the city continues to hold legal title to the school

property, the ability to hold the property to secure financing for capital projects may be limited. they are identified by certain title issues on certain properties listed at identified in this resolution. the school district in 1984 gave the key to the city which held the following facilities, the richmond police station, the tarovol police station and the former juvenile hall. this is on file with the state court of the board of supervisors is declared to be part of this motion. this contains a revision. interest in the school's favor that could impair the school's ability to use such property for securement of capital for

financial projects. when the city's director of project and the city manager have hyde -- agreed on a quick lead -- deed, the school prayer -- when the agreement that the property is of limited value to the school and the city and the school district, it is appropriate to a change of the deeds for the property interests. be it resolved that the superintendent is authorized to execute for the city property. be it resolved that the superintendent is directed to accept a quick deed from the city. the superintendent is hereby authorized to take any and all actions that the general counsel may be necessary in order to effectuate the purpose of this

resolution. >> thank you. comments? vice-president mendoza: thank you. i just wanted to acknowledge her to get this done. this has been long overdue. it is nice to have the property in our name now. and really recognizing or acknowledging what belongs to us. i really want to commend you for your efforts and pushing forward on this and working closely with amy brown's office. commissioner wynns: i have a couple of questions about this. what's the cultural college

center? is that the park? i would love to know how that became a college center. that used to be eight children's center. my other question is more about our properties. i am not clear about how we got them. the one i have a little bit of concern about this 150 otis. i think that is the bill -- the building that we were getting revenue from for a while. do you know about this? >> to the best of my knowledge, the five properties that we are actually quick deeding to the

city, if we ever knew -- owned them, it was a long time ago. if those properties were ever used for anything other than the public use, it would revert back to us. it has made it difficult for them to move forward on financing. the one at the otis site is scheduled to be a veterans' homeless shelter. all of those sites have a long and hopefully a good potential history as a police station, a fire station, and hopefully will be good moving forward.

>> outside of this process, can you investigate this issue of some building that we were holding and the city was leasing back from us at some time in the last 10 years? >> that property will eventually -- there are some cop's involved. hopefully, that property will revert back to us. hopefully, they will work out some of the details. >> i have one other question. this past weekend, the specific region of the school board association, we have a presentation on the school land trust -- it is a very interesting subject. the land that that was set aside by the federal government for

schools, in exchange for these lands that schools were supposed to get revenue from, that is the reason that states are not allowed to tax federal land. that was the trade-off. all of the eastern states have sold off all of their land. there are no school trust in eastern states. we have an ability to identify 55,000 acres of land in california that we could put in the trust and get revenue to fund the schools in california. a person who is an expert on this says that it includes a downtown building in san

francisco, a building that is available to the land trust. we need to be able to work with the state. this is very interest. i would wonder bank any of these properties were part of this at that time. >> it will take some historical digging, but we will find out. commissioner yee: in regards to the site for this, do we have any other property in simular situation with another entity? >> to our knowledge, every other piece of property are under the

district's name. president kim: roll-call. commissioner maufas: yes. vice-president mendoza: yes. commissioner wynns: yes. commissioner yee: aye. president kim: yes. thank you. should we now move on to item r. board member proposals, which there are none. we are now at proposals and announcements. >> if you notice a milk only looking gentlemen in the audience, i did want to introduce the superintendent. he was not sure the chief technology officer had been

introduced to the board. i want to do that with apologies for having this a little bit later. you have seen his qualifications. he has been with the district for two months or so. >> how have your first eight weeks been? >> i have been learning a lot and having a lot of fun. i look forward to working here. >> this is from the status lost county office of education and -- stanislaus county office of education where he worked for six years. i would like to offer my thanks and congratulations to president

kim. it has been such a great experience to work with you. as you know, all of us are really happy about the success you had on election day and look forward to working with you in the future. >> my pleasure. thank you. president kim: now we move onto a board member reports. we have a report from our adhoc committee. commissioner maufas: as i understood, the reason why our newest addition to the staff was here was to hear about mark

components of this report for school moves. that is not my phone. this item has been carried forward to the next meeting. it was a combination of our labour partners and family members in regards to the implementation of the school loans. to rule out what is happening on the time spent. there needs to be more coordination between school sites and which staff is using it. ok. carryforward. i will let them know that they can come forward and speak again. because there are so many questions about what is

happening with the budget crisis and how it affects our staff and the concerns that families bring forward and staff members bring forward, it allows an opportunity to discuss publicly with as much transparency as legally can be allowed, oftentimes we are in negotiations with the labor partners, what we can speak on is that the committee has an opportunity to speak about issues in as much capacity as weekend and to hear from the public on many issues. as issues and then flow through the district and that relationship with personnel and labor often generates topics for a meeting. the meeting as every other month instead of every month. if we need to have a conversation on the labour matter, we try to meet more

frequently. the vice president of the united educators of san francisco, they come to an agreement with our school district leadership. that will work out for our professionals. we are very happy about that. a for discussion was the discussion -- and finding funding just to restore a little bit. we are in discussions between a labor partner and the district and what we have accessible to us in terms of money. are we able to use it to restore from what is a 14% cut for 2010. that is the security guards. we all had to accept a certain cut. as it turned out for them, it equaled about 14%.

we are still in discussion. that item will carry forward to the next meeting. discussion of the t10 work schedule. scie brought forward a concern. this is the perfect opportunity to bring forward a concern regarding that the school had made cuts to its staff regarding the budget plans. labor had some concerns about certain personnel doing the job of other personnel. under our contracts, that is not permitted. that was brought forward to school staff. they investigated it. there was something in the area that was not clear. in that conversation were our parent volunteers. when do they stop becoming

volunteers and start supplanting some of the work that was previously done by an employee that is the logger budgeted at the school site? there was a clear message from our labour director ruiz. because we have these cuts, and to be mindful that parent volunteers are much appreciated. community volunteers are appreciated. the level of their volunteerism, there is a line. sometimes it is blurry. we have to make sure that they and the school staff understands that. the information was brought forward and addressed and publicly been noted the results of that. the memo went out to all schools about that. president kim: i am going to

take the liberty to take our city and school district reports. they are both on student assignment. most of the action items have already been reported. i know that there are updates that each of the meetings. the next is the service committee. vice-president mendoza. vice-president mendoza: we are going to be going forward in november, 2011. that has been an ongoing discussion to finalize. we would love to support going out in november for the alumnus. -- alumnists. we talked more about the property development on teacher housing and brought up the child development facility on k

street. there were some proposals brought forward by affordable housing developers. we also have an update on the demographic for directions. i was really pleased with the report. it indicated that we were actually going to have a very large increase over the next few years. that is a very different report than what we have gotten over the last several years about the increases in enrollment. there was a lot of affordable housing that would include the ability for many of our families to stay in san francisco. that was a discussion in november. >> could you provide us with