the teacher education fax -- act. >> thank you for being at this meeting on your birthday. happy birthday. >> ♪ have a birthday to yea -- happy birthday to you ♪ >> thank you so much. 18 of my 49 years have been here, and i plan on as many more as possible, so thank you so months -- so much. i have had the privilege to

serve as staff liaison for the oversight committee, and tonight's report is the first in the series, so i was given their role of convening the committee last year, and we had our first meeting november of last year. before i introduce the cochairs, and you have the final report in front of you now. its analysis at the top of the members of the committee who -- it lists at the top the members of the committee. they sent their wishes for a successful report tonight, and i want to also acknowledge that we have planned on four meetings a year, and we got started a little late last year. we will have before meeting

sequence this year. they are pretty intense. i want to acknowledge staff members, most especially, and the budget department and are cfo and his team. they came to each of our meetings with no less than six and budget team members and provided the oversight committee with copious amounts of information, so over all the expenditures from the beginning, i want to be really appreciative and answer as many questions as they have, and they are pretty formidable, so they have many questions. i want to acknowledge other staff members, other department staff but whenever the committee had questions, i brought those

questions to staff members, and they were answered, and i give those back to the committee, or the staff members came to that meeting and also, and i want to especially a knowledge as a member of the public, our representatives, most especially lynn the plaque, who also served as a member of the public hearing all of our meetings, and i want to appreciate that. without further ado, i would like to acknowledge are very organized and impressive cochairs, and they will be facilitating tonight. >> good evening, commissioners. we are glad to be here to do our first report to the board.

i just want to give you an idea of the purpose of this, and it is to give an introduction and to communicate our role to the public who is listening and watching. we will have further reports at a later time. >> good evening, commissioners. is great to be here tonight. i am going to give of a brief overview of the oversight committee. the voters approved proposition k in june of 2008, which sought to establish and maintain a quality education for all district students, and as stated in the board policy, the board of education of established and appointed proposition a oversight committee, and this would be charged to actively

review and report on proper expenditures generated by the parcel tax. in december of 2008, as adopted by the board of education and resolution 811-12, the oversight committee was going to consist of a police said seven members and no more than a 11, and that they would serve for two years and no more than two terms, and that policy that all meetings are open to the public. we are really offering transparency as to how tax dollars are spent. lastly, the first six members were appointed to the oversight committee by the board of

education, and now we have eight members, and they are listed in your report. >> i wanted to give a little bit of historical context for what has been going on with the committee. when the board put this hour on the ballot, you work on a lengthy negotiations and received significant public input common and and the result is a spending plan based on projected revenues beginning in spring of the 2008-2009 school year. after the initiative passed. as the receipts are received, spending is adjusted. the spending plan has been updated three times since then you worry of 2009, june, may, as part of the overall

negotiations. in may of 2010, there were substantial changes to devote more resources. several items were substantially reduced or suspended for the 2011-2012 school years. there are a few papers that have been written on the development of the tax, and those links are on the document, and we will make sure they are accessible to the public so anyone can read those. >> the review of the first year of the oversight committee, the committee met three years, once in november followed by february and lastly in may. at each of our meetings, we were

honing in on the discussion of our role and the scope of the committee. we received extensive presentations by district finance staff on the budget and expenditures, and that will also be presented when the reports are final. we also had a presentation followed by approval of the report for fiscal year 2008-2009 and 2009 until 2010. the impact report was also provided. the committee had additional questions and clarifications in response to committee members around expenditures and in low use for staff retention. that occurred in spring of 2010. i want to refer back to those

questions and clarifications by the oversight committee. this happened in may of 2010. >> the purpose of this committee is to ensure the proceeds from proposition k are extended for the purpose described and to inform the public concerning the tax revenues. we wanted to remind the public what the intentions of this measure our, to actually go through the list that was given in the ballot when this measure was passed, so i will quickly go over those for the record for the public. the proceeds of this show be authorized to be used to strategically raise the salaries of teachers so the district can

compete with other districts, to provide additional compensation to teachers who work out schools with high teacher turnover, provide additional training for staff, including a child development, who provide benefits to other person now, and develop a master teacher program and provide incentives for exceptional teachers to stay in the classroom, expand and improve the peer review program, support the best practices by providing additional resources to schools who show the most growth in student achievement, improve academic resources to assure growth and learning opportunities and to provide students, parents, and teachers access to resources to promote student achievement, to allocate

a portion of funds to charter schools and conduct the election and make sure the proceeds are only spent in a way approved by voters. >> the committee was not formed during the first year and at half of passage of the measure, and the committee did not give input to the process, and we want to recognize thad, and moving forward, we want to fulfill our responsibilities of reporting expenditures to the public and to take an active role in reviewing those expenditures going forward. clthe committee seeks to make reports available to the public. we will make meeting dates and times well known. guerdowe will maintain the webse

with all information provided to the public, and we would like to report a least twice a year to the board of education, so this concludes the first report to the board of education, and we are happy to answer any questions, and staff is also here to answer any questions as well. >> thank you for your report. commissioner norton. >> thank you for the report, and i am so glad we finally got his committee to gather, a little late, but better late than never. i am a little curious about the discussion or reading through the lines. did you review the expenditures prior to the formation of the

committee? you did not look at those? >> before the committee was formed? are you asking if the committee members of the expenditures before the committee was formed to? >> we had been getting revenues before, and you refer to the agreement as part of the budget deficit, the budget shortfall we had in 2009-2010, but i also think it is important for the committee to review the way the district spend those funds and the time the committee was not actually formed, so i am curious. will we be getting our report on that? >> there was a lot of discussion on that. there were some concerns brought up about how funds were to be senpent, and that is when we

brought in the staff. we have had the staff to come to ask questions. what we agreed upon a search committee was to acknowledge those concerns. we do feel it is really important that the district maintains trust with our voters. we have a number of things coming up, so we want to be transparent, but we also realize we were not around when those decisions were made. we do want to acknowledge that, but it was very helpful when we have staff answer some of those questions about the district. >> my other question was there was a reference to the impact of support, and i have heard

reference -- i think when commissioner referred to this. i wanted to ask the staff if the board could get a copy of that report, because i am interested in seeing some of the positive effects on teacher preparation and evaluation. >> there are three different reports of the committee chair people but were done, including the last one, an evaluation of the year one, so in reports on the progress of all the different areas, and the league is on our website. -- the link is on our website. >> is that the report you

referred to when you said you had seen some kind of impact? >> i do not believe so. >> i think we should not hesitate to bring that back to the board.

when you are reviewing expenditures, if you are questioning it, they are going to be reviewing it, too. it is a litmus test. you are right we are going to go back to the voters. i am glad we are meeting and have met. i would like to hear more about the expenditures themselves, what sorts of questions you had, and staff can explain it to you, but you as a committee have your own opinion about how or why, and those are very important. >> i was trying to get on the

web site, and delete is not working. if we can get those -- is not working. if we can get that fixed, we would love to have that report. >> lisa has access. >> why did it take 18 months to convene? the kinds of things i am interested in hearing about as we go forward, what is working? does it work? is that keeping people in schools? are the incentive programs and working? a major change taking it to a

one-year program. is about working? capturing some of those stories from beyond teachers who might have otherwise gone to nevada and decided to teach here. also, humanizing some of the success stories or unsuccessful stories. it really is a major investment by folks in san francisco in the public education system, so those are the types of things i am looking for in your report. >> commissioner, no comments. >> i share all of these other concerns, but i guess we are

going to be spending the money and the way we like to, because we have not been able to in the last couple years, so i am interested in discussions you have had about this before we are faced with the same decisions next year, and i presume it is hard conversation, and i would like to find a way to have some communication about that. if you have a comment about that, great, but i would be more interested in the discussion about the coming school year, so we will have the benefit of your

insight. >> i just want to provide a response. i think all of the commissioners feedback about what would be most useful in providing the reports next time are definitely things that we will bring back to the committee and also detailed a meeting minutes are available, but we will be sure to bring a more detailed capturing of the conversations are rising. i did want to raise that the oversight committee did feel constrained. as far as the allocation of funds had been decided, and we will make sure to continue those responses. we will be able to answer directly those questions that have been requested.

>> did you have an answer about why it took so long to convene? >> may be the staff could answer that. why did it take so long to form a committee? >> i do not have a great dancer for that, but it certainly took longer who -- a great answer for that, but it certainly took longer. it took longer than it should have. i think there were a combination of factors. one was pulling the information together to support the committee's work. it was not a small task. we have to get all of that.

it showed a great deal to do that. we have been going through what kinds of candidates, what was the profile of the members but should be serving in this committee i, and we had many things going on in general, so all of these things converge. i think the membership of the committee does reflect a good use of some of that time. it took longer than it needed to come of but there was an open

process, so i am happier. i agree it is better late than never. >> just piggybacking on that, i really do appreciate that the membership is very strong but also work with us at a different capacities. there are also members of those organizations that are going to be on the west side, and i am

not indicating they do not have issues with teachers in schools or have access to information about how parents feel about teachers in schools, but lots of areas on the southeast sector, and i would like to compare the southeast sector and also building a very strong committee, maybe they have the component as well. they have something the committee needs, but they are also involved in a school on the east side of town. i think this is the way it fell

into the mix. i think it is great, but do these folks give vetted through the rules committee and eventually it? how do we get to the final? >> i can answer that question. what happens is there is an application process, and there was targeted out rates to different organizations, organizations and not -- out reach to different organizations, so they had to reach different criteria to submit an application, and some of those included financial background, so i have to say that 95%, maybe 100% of members have a strong financial

background, and it might even be a professional capacity, and we did have -- it was two months. i started in august, and we really hit the pavement at certain points to try to get that. there was nothing that precludes a board member also supporting the type of thing, and we do in our regulations for the committee, the total capacity we can have as many as 11. the terms are helpful at the beginning, to cover so we have already had allayed admission -- of late admission, so it is an application process. staff reviews it based on criteria, and a ultimately, the

resolution is presented with those names for final improvement -- final approval by the board. >> is there a possibility that board members could get the application again, but also you know there are gaps, so if we know there are organizations that have access to those folks, we could possibly fill the gaps that are specific to the needs of the committee. i think that would be very helpful. we want to remain strong and eager to do the work, and it takes work, and we want to fill every possible space. >> thanks again. i guess in hearing a lot of comments, i want to make sure the oversight committee is there to really look at finances and make sure we spend it according

to what we have dictated in the proposition itself when we passed it, so i think in regards to the issue of the effectiveness of certain programs and funding, you can expand that as a committee to look at that, a five that is not the main thing. -- but that does not the main thing, and i am expecting staff to carry the ball on that and come up with the evaluation peace. that is my short comments on vests -- comment on this. i hope to see you in two months. let's move on. we are almost there. special order of business. that is item l.