>> paint me a picture here. how many of those would be available to help disperse the crowd if a crowd showed up in excess of 1000 people? >> i am not the security company, but i can say that securing the interior would be securing all the doors or the exit in case of fire, earthquake, or whatever. i think a majority of those g aurds -- guards would be there. he does very large events including most of the events in the civic center. they are one of the companies, one of the several companies we are lucky enough to have in the city that know how to do large

events. what i was going to ask for is 18, and i was going to specifically ask them to ask him to make it 18 experienced guards. sometimes, they hire off of the streets. 18 experienced guards. that is what my thing was going to be. >> if you think 18 is the right number -- >> if they disperse them down the hill, commissioner roja, where would they go? columbus? it would be busy, and there are restaurants and businesses that might be able to benefit from that. having said that, does somebody have a motion?

>> i would like to make a motion to approve with the times stated and the language with regard to security personnel as commissioner joseph has stated on the record, when the language on the record that includes distributing a letter to all members within a 500 foot radius. one more chance. any other specific conditions? that is my motion. >> there is a second. >> commissioner benetti has seconded. any further discussions? commissioner benetti: aye. commissioner meko: aye. commissioner perez: aye. commissioner roja: aye. commissioner joseph: aye. president newlin: have a good

time. did somebody really applaud? how cool is that? commissioners questions and comments. commissioner roja: i would just like to applaud your efforts, using your expertise for all of the different sound equipment. you are speaking latin. you lost me for about 10 minutes. with your expertise, it was incredible for this type of event. it is a very sensitive area, to be able to have that kind of expertise and ask the right question, and it is great. i hope you pull this off. president newlin: commissioner meko?

commissioner meko: no more comment. president newlin: the only thing i want to say with regard to this really quickly, we have come out of a recession. the city wide events that engaged people and businesses that put our city in front of the news has got to be good for everyone. small businesses, jobs, it has to be good for income. i encourage these events. it is daytime. i really encourage more city- wide events for the vibrancy of this city. the city has been hurt so badly. that is my comment. her new business? anybody? without objection, we are

thank you. the want to welcome everyone to the regular board meeting of the san francisco unified school district. commissioner fewer: here. commissioner maufas: here. commissioner murase: here. commissioner norton: here. commissioner wynns: here. vice president yee: present. president mendoza: here. elvina fan: here. athena creer here. president mendoza: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to

the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> item a is the approval of board minutes. there are nine tonight. item b -- there are none tonight. item b is the superintendent's report. >> i am not superintendent garcia. he is representing san francisco unified school district at a meeting of all california superintendents, where they are talking about lots of matters of importance to our budget. he wanted us to send his salutations this evening. i would like to remind everyone in the superintendent's said that we want to wish you a happy and prosperous lunar new year,

in celebration of this year of the hare. schools will be closed on thursday, february 3. on friday, february 4, school and district offices will also be closed for a furlough day. february 3 and 4, there will be no school. speaking of furloughs, it is unfortunate that they are necessary. there may be students and families looking forward to this upcoming weekend. we do realize it is a burden for others. we do not take these furlough days lightly, but we could not balance our budget and operate our district in a way that is best for our students without the furlough days. we appreciate your understanding and community support. speaking of the budget, at our next board meeting we will have a longer presentation on the budget and the possible implications for san francisco unified school district. in the meantime, i would like to call on deputy superintendent

lee to share additional information, and a brief preview of what the budget road ahead looks like. before he starts, i want to say [unintelligible] >> thank you, deputy superintendent and acting superintendent. this will be short. we are going to flash a few bullet points by way of a timely but abbreviated preview of future discussions based on the budget proposal that governor brown recently made. this is, i believe, our first board meeting since we have gotten a semblance of a sense of budget proposals for k-12. for the communities benefit and also for the board, we wanted to highlight a few key points.

part of this is noting that a lot of what we are hearing in the community dialogue about education is a little bit different than what seems to be the case. there is a perception that k-12 is baird -- is spared. there is a big qualification to that general motion. i will describe that in a moment. the governor has proposed a state budget for the next fiscal year that is responding to an estimated $26.70 billion budget gap for the state. the proposals have several broad parameters. one is deep cuts, about $12.50 billion of cuts, to non-k-12 areas of the budget, shifts of government services to the local level, and some reliance on one- time savings and borrowing, not

nearly as much as has been proposed by his predecessor in previous years. there are about $12 billion of revenues. the largest portion of those are an extension for an additional five years of temporary taxes that were voted on by the legislature two years ago, specifically a 0.25% surcharge on income tax, a 1 cent increase on sales tax, a 0.5% increase in vehicle license fees, and a reduction in dependent deductions. these are part of his budget proposal. it is a combination of revenues and expenditure reductions. with respect to k-12 education, the proposal does protect funding for k-12. that is based on an

acknowledgement that education has borne a disproportionate share of the cuts in the past few years. we will show more statistics about that. it is very interesting to see how that breaks down into specific numbers. that is especially over the last few years. for tonight's purposes, there are a couple of features of that flat funding proposal. one is that there are no mid- your cuts. -- mid-year cuts. we had been worried about that earlier, and that is not proposed right now. flat funding is basically proposed by the governor. that does mean that there would be no cost of living adjustment. that has been calculated as being scored are tabulated for k-12, which is 1.67%. that is not proposed to be

funded for next year. even in his scenario, which would protect education funding, there would be no cost- of-living adjustment. the biggest point is that the protection from the cuts requires those revenues to materialize. there is about $2 billion of revenues of that $12 billion i mentioned before that are linked to k-12 education. in order for those to occur and to be made available, at two things would have to happen. one is that the legislature would have to agree by a two- thirds vote in both houses to place on the june special election an extension of those temporary increases in revenues. if that were to happen, a majority of voters would need to approve the ballot measure. so that is a major question for

all school districts in the state, and because we do not know whether those revenues will materialize, we and other school districts have to plan for two specific scenarios. one scenario is the more hopeful scenario, which is that tax increases would be placed on the ballot and approved by voters, and funding would be more or less similar to what we have for the current year. under that scenario, the average unified school district could still see -- there are a lot of technical reasons for this. but there are small reductions in that scenario of about $19 per ada, a little less than $2 million for a district of our size. in the second scenario, either the legislature would not place the ballot measure on the

special election in june, or, even if they did that, it would not be approved by the voters. in that situation, there would be an additional reduction of about $330 per ada, per unit of average daily attendance. that would be more than $20 million of additional cuts for scenario b. as is always the case, and maybe now more than in a typical year, there are changes in other assumptions. the pace of revenue collections, expenditure forecasts being updated. even aside from this question about the tax packages being proposed and/or approved, there are other assumptions that will be changing between now and the adoption of the state budget. that could be in either direction. things could get better. things could get worse.

that could of easily change the political context. in terms of looking ahead, we want to remind the commissioners and community members of where we were last june. the board passed a budget for the current year, for 2010-11, based on a projection of a $130 million budget deficit over two years. -- $113 million budget deficit over two years. even the scenario -- though scenario a is much better than scenario b, that does not completely bridge the gap between revenues and expenses for our district, as well as other districts. there are expiring school stimulus funds from the federal

government. we still continue to fund step and colorado increases for employees, health and retirement -- step and [e = -- stepped cost of living increases for employees, health and retirement programs that are increasing at an alarming rate -- all of those things coupled with slightly reduced funding combine to create continuing budget reductions. one event which is coming up on february 12 -- will be holding a school planning summit. representatives from all of our school sites and many district offices will gather to begin the site planning process for next school year. in that regard, we will be doing a lot of analysis, and trying to do the best job we can of paring

school site budget allocations. we will contemplate both scenarios. all the school community members will hear more from us before then. i will leave it at that for now. as the deputy superintendent mentioned, we will talk about some of this more at our next meeting. thank you. >> thank you, deputy superintendent lee. we really want to emphasize that on february 12 we will be bringing our school communities together, and representatives from school site councils, to begin the budget process. we want to encourage a turnout for that session. president mendoza: you have a question? commissioner murase: i had a question for mr. lee.

thank you for that synched presentation. you went over the tax package. i am concerned about the dependent deduction. by definition, the families of our school districts take a vintage of the dependent deduction. we are asking them to give up part of the dependent deduction to be able to fund schools at a reasonable level. is that correct? >> commissioner, i believe in certain respects that is correct. i am not totally clear what the amount of that is. i imagine this is part of the state income tax proposal. i believe that all of these are currently in place, or have recently expired. so all of these tax extensions -- they would not be, for the most part, additional tax increases right now. they were passed two years ago.

they were intended to expire in two years. the proposal is that they would remain in place for another five years. we can do some research on that. commissioner murase: it is important for us as a board to be able to articulate how important revenue measures are. president mendoza: thank you. commissioner maufas: deputy superintendent lee, i know as we move through the budget ourselves, our families and staff -- we have a web site folks can send questions to. questions that would be broader public questions can get answered. >> yes, commissioner. we can do that. i think we did a fair amount of multi-modal engagement last year

as well. we had a series of workshops, opportunities for community members to come and talk with us in person, including in my office. we had a variety of documents on our website. we will certainly build on those here. commissioner maufas: thank you. my second question was -- you mentioned the shift on some government programs to the local level. i know we do not have the full breadth of understanding of what those things will be, but will we have some idea of what is involved? >> we can certainly give a more detailed description of those specific proposals. we can do that either at the next board meeting on february 8 as part of our budget update -- commissioner maufas: i think

probably as we go along, anything you know and that we can let our families and staff know would be appreciated. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> great. commissioners, this evening we have two distinguished service and special service awards. to present the first distinguished service award, i would like to call the assistant superintendent to talk about the first award. >> good evening, commissioners. it is my privilege to recognize principle chris rosenberg. this acknowledgement is well- deserved. [applause]

chris rosenberg has been a longstanding instructional leader in our district, most recently as principal of star king. he answered the call to action to come served in the superintendent's zone, leading the changes at john muir elementary. we are very pleased to have him there. some individual comments from teachers and parents frequently recognize some of the positive changes that are occurring there at john muir elementary. we know "the chronicle" has been documenting it in a year-long series. chris rosenberg has been successful because of the elevated expectations and accountability that he holds for each and every one of the students who walk through the front door, as well as educators

who served in the school, for his colleagues, as well as himself. i think that is what is making all the difference as he engages in this new charge. i do want to invite chris up to say a few words, because he is never short for something to say. [applause] >> thanks, boss. i appreciate it. thanks so much, guadeloupe. it is a pleasure to be up here. i will be short with my comments tonight because you set me up like that. it is thrilling to be up here. i appreciate it. it is great to be acknowledged by your colleagues and peers. i feel like the real key to success is the people we have working for us. i have been blessed at starke king and john muir to have a remarkable stuff that works for me. i am lucky.

my success is due to them. i am thrilled to have a fantastic supervisor to add to that as well. i think my performance review is coming up soon, so keep that in mind. [laughter] thank you also much. i appreciate it. -- thank you all so much. i appreciate it. [applause] >> congratulations, principal rosenberg. we would also like to call up to present and say a few words on the special service award marlena from our payroll finance department. [applause] >> good evening. i want to thank the payroll operations department for their

fantastic job, especially during the time when we had the famous fire at 135 van ness. i think the staff for the wonderful job they do. they support everyone who works for the school district. i also want to thank joe for his continuous support. thank you. [applause] >> could we have the staff come up so you can present this to everyone? [applause] >> nice meeting you. >> nice to meet you. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> on their behalf, here you go. can we have a round of applause?

if you are an employee, please stand. [applause] >> thank you all. item d is our student delegates report. elvina fan? >> so far, we have been continuing on summit planning. we are trying to get community- based organizations to have workshops that would help future student leaders to be better prepared for teachers, especially with the budget being so bad. we have stood indelicate applications -- we have a student delicate applications for anyone who would like -- we have student delegate

applications for anyone who would like to sit here next year. a former youth commissioner came by to talk about a resolution urging the san francisco board of education to create a task force charged with improving health education curriculum's at all high-school, where there would be a comprehensive re- evaluation of health education in public schools. also, on the weekend of february 5 and february 6, there will be a youth leadership program, where students from all around san francisco get to attend, basically, a huge workshop, seeing how the school district is like in different districts in the community. president mendoza: thank you. did you give the date on that and the time? >> the youth leadership weekend is saturday february 5 and sunday february 6, and saturday

is from 9:30 to 5:30. sunday is from 9:30 to 3:30. president mendoza: where will it be located? >> at south beach harbor appear -- harbor pier 40a. >> we have our pac representative. >> good evening. thank you for having us. we have kind of a longer board report because this year there are so many things going on. we have so many priorities. as your advisers, we are working ho