analysis and i don't in any way mean to imply -- let's just say that ones we have had in the past have been more just hitting points without the context being explained, so i really appreciate this. i think it's an excellent document that explains to us in the community. >> commissioner fewer. furefure so ms. richards, just -- fewer fewer -- commissioner fewer: so ms. richards, for context, this was brought to us for first reading, we were going to take it to committee, we wouldn't have been within the timeline, we went back to the petitioners and said it's the desire of the board to hear it in committee and then they decided not to accept that and now we are before us to make this decision yes or no, is that correct? >> that's exactly correct.

few few i wanted to be -- commissioner fewer: i wanted to be sure because it's been several months. i'd also like to thank staff for this in depth and very lucid and easy to comprehend the document on this, on all your findings. thank you very much. >> thank you. other comments? commissioner yee. vice president yee: i want to thank the staffers and -- for the analysis and i really appreciate the practice of analysis for an english language learner piece of this which really gives me a lot of concern about this proposal, or this petition, so just, thank you. president mendoza: other comments? >> i want to thank -- mr. cohen,

i actually wanted to thank you guys also for this. i don't have any questions, i just have a comment for you. this is one of those things where, i actually spent time with preston to talk through this. i was disappointed that my other board members have not been reached out to or didn't have the same find of information i had. i think it's aen -- it's an interesting concept, but i was disappointed not to have a deeper conversation either in committee, both in curriculum as well as in budget, because i really would have liked to have supported this and been a little more open to hearing more about what you're doing in other parts of northern california. so it's unfortunate that we couldn't find a place to actually have a longer dialogue on this but i do appreciate the efforts that the -- that our staff made to help us clarify some of those questions, it was

a little disappointing that the outreach didn't happen pe the way i would have liked to have seen it happen. superintendent? superintendent garcia: i think this board and all of us worked diligently to work closely with charters. i just didn't get it in terms of the timeline. this isn't happening this school year. i was -- i have to be honest with you, i was completely disappointed in the lack of having the initiative to work with us to develop this instead of basically trying to ramrod it down our throats and i don't like that. i think that we don't need to have a relationship like that. i hope that we will not have a relationship like that. it takes two to try to develop a relationship and i, quite frankly, feel that you folks fell short of your side of that relationship in this case. >> thank you. roll call, please. >> on the recommendation, ms.

sams. >> yes. >> ms. tom. delegate tom: yes. ms. fewer. few few yes. ms. norton. ms. wynns. those in favor say aye. ms. mendoza. those in favor say aye. >> six ayes. president mendoza: item i, board member's proposals, none tonight. item j a request to speak regarding general matters. i have a list of folks who wanted to speak. come on up as your name is called. r.t. choice. jerry, we're going to hold you. pam rah rouse, elaine meriwether, sharon kennedy, elizabeth conley, chantae rogers, betty robinson harris, and alyssa, do you want to speak at this point? ok, come up.

>> my name is archie choice. i live here in san francisco for about 50 years and i've been having a problem with you -- your lottery system for placing kids in schools from junior high, elementary, and it just seems like it's not a fair system and doesn't seem like it's really effective, relying on somebody to wait on a lottery system. it's like going to the store and buying a ticket to see if you're going to win some money for your kid to get an education. i filled out a form and it had six different schools for my kid to pick to go to. i filled out three. you didn't give him any one of those, you know. it's like, why have this form if you're going to have a lottery system and i'm filling out a form, you know. the school that was picked for my son was on the other side of town. i live in richmond you gave him a school over by bay shore and silver.

a lot of people don't have cars to be taking kids to where the school district is sending their kids. you have single parents, people with different siblings going to different grade level of schools and we're relying on a lottery system? that doesn't seem fair. my son was given a social security card when he was 2 days old in the hospital. he's already in the system. you should know if i'm staying at a house for 20 or 30 years he's going to be going to school in that area. there should be room for him in that area until he goes to high school or college, not relying on no lottery system. it's not working. all the schools that closed over the years, i don't know what reason, the budget or what, but those teachers in those schools, they lost their jobs. you know, i don't know what for but those teachers wanted to be teachers and those schools should be filled. all schools are good schools, all teachers are good teachers.

it's not the schools or the teachers, it's the kids that are going there. you have to start figuring out how to get the kids out of the school if they don't want an education. if they ged f's or d's, or getting expelled, don't give them two or three chances, just like the federal law, three strikes, same with the school. if they don't want to go to school to get an education, this is not a day care, leave the room for the kids who want an education. president mendoza: thank you, mr. choice. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent. i'm pamela rose, i'm in the u.e. assist and i'm addressing the child development program layoffs that are proposed. during the early years of almost a quarter of century of substituting, i spent a great deal of time in children's centers and they're now known as child development centers,

teaching both preschool and after school groups. and one of the challenge in the centers and one of the challenge teachers and paraprofessionals developed was coordinating overlapping shifts so that every educator was part of a team. and people worked at being part of a team. so to change those components causes problems. at the same time, especially with young children, the continuing relationships between educators and children became very important. young children do not understand when an adult in their life leaves and their level of trust in adults is sometimes harmed and the result is insecurity that affects their education. while some change in a faculty

is inevitable, that should be kept to a minimum and at the same time, it is not only unfair to the educators to be abruptly removed from the positions, but it is also detrimental to the students and one thing i will say about kalw is that i have listened a great deal during my retirement and they are unique in presenting a very balanced -- presenting very balanced programs about learning, the brain, educational politics and they have had interviews and programs with participation by the audience and i would like to especially recommend your call by rose aguilar. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening, superintendent, school board members.

as you know, many of you know i wear many hats but tonight i am here as uesf and i am the treasurer of uesf. but i'm also the child development representative. so i've been in this district for 27 years and so i know a lot about the ins and outs but tonight i'm here to talk about what's happening in our department right now. our early education department philosophy states that we believe that all children have a right to be treated with dignity and respect. and to play and learn in a safe and healthy environment. we strongly believe that families and school staff are partners in building this -- in building the children's social and emotional well being to ensure a successful school experience for them. but right now, this philosophy has been shattered. if you remember the board

approved layoffs back in march, and so now, k-12 has been called back, they got a letter, in fact, some of our people got letters too, saying congratulations all the layoffs have been called off, but that's not the reail -- reality for us. our teachers and parents are not being treated with dignity and respect. how can we believe that our children who we say we should treat with dignity and respect if we're not treating the adults that way? so we have layoffs going on in our department and we have been trying to work with the district for the last four or five months, trying to find some real members. how many people are going to -- real numbers. how many people are going to be laid off. in our department, it's detrimental. families are enrolling their children right now. they're having new children come into our program and on friday, people are going to be leaving.

so the young children are starting with one teacher and next week, they're having another teacher. that is a terrible experience for our families and our children in this program. president mendoza: for the record, can you state your name? >> elaine meriwether. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening, superintendent, commissioners, i'm elizabeth conley, vice president for substitutes at eu -- at uesf. at 12:00 noon today i discover that a small but vital core of substitutes were on the separation list under your consideration this evening. by 3:00 this afternoon i was told they would be reporting to -- for professional development tomorrow morning. at the present time they have no contracts. they are still on the separation list and i am seriously

concerned as some of the previous speakers have mentioned, substitutes are vital also to our school district and this group of 14 core, some of whom have 20 years of seniority in the district, play a vital part in keeping our schools together when other teachers are ill or gone for one reason or another. i would like to be reassured that these people will have contracts in hand and that their names will not be on the separation list. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening, my name is chantae roberts, i have four children, and my concern is in reference to the layoff, i see

that teachers who have been there for 10 years, who have seniority, are being laid over teachers who have been there two or three years. they are laying off teachers who care about their families and parents but you're keeping the teachers who are yelling and screaming at the kids and have no desire to be in the educational field, they're there as a job and not a career. then you have teachers who are only there because there's nothing else to do. they pick who they want in their classrooms and those they don't want, they send them out to the hallways or to another class. you're laying off teachers who are getting the students off the school bus. one of my children is severely emotionally disturbed and needs help getting off the bus and into the classroom. it's dependent on parents an kids to got their kids into the classroom or if a teacher can come out of their classroom to

substitute -- to supervise kids who belong to another classroom. something needs to be done, it needs to be taken into consideration when -- how the parents are going to feel when you're sending out pink slips to teachers who really want their jobs versus teachers who are just there. there are kids there not learning anything because they're with the wrong teacher, the teachers who just don't want to teach them. it's a difference when a child go into a classroom and doesn't want to learn and when they go into a classroom with a teach whore doesn't want to teach them. i don't think it was taken into consideration when pink slips are sent out. i have one teacher who was there for 10 years, when i had my third child, we were pregnant together, and she came back right after her baby was born. i'm upset and devastated that these decisions were made. but i'm taking into

consideration how the parents will feel. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioner. commissioners and superintendent. i am betty robertson harris, i'm the chair of the child development committee. i share a lot of the same feelings that several people have spoken about. one thing that i really would like to bring to your attention is that our department has been experiencing major changes for the past five years and change in itself can be extremely challenging and difficult but change that is not meaningful, thoughtful, is not including all participants, is change that is led to destruction. transparency, social justice,

building trust in relationships and building relationships are key and critical parts of a child development education. it's particularly important for young children. i'm here to talk about specifically over 94 of my peers have gotten either consolidation notices or layoff notices. to date, none of those staff members have gotten written verification of where they're going to be on monday. now that's immoral. we're talking about people, as chantae indicated, she is one of my family members, one of my parents, who have been on site for 10 or more years. they have developed long-term relationships with families and you, representing our district,

expect for someone who has been at a site for 10 years to all of a sudden disappear from children's lives on friday. and reappear on monday. or not even know where they're going to be until friday. we can do better than this. we talked about social justice, we're talking about meaningful relationships with our families and children and right now, we're doing the opposite. in the past, we've had a collaboration where the teachers and the district has worked together cooperatively but that's not happening today. we are operating in a cloud of dark dust. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening, superintendent and commissioners. my name is alyssa may, i'm manager of youth services at the american red cross bay area

chapter. i'm here in reference to the readiness agreement that you have on your agenda, on page 9, and i just would like to begin by saying that hearing from all these people is quite moving and i appreciate their thoughts and listening to them, what i have heard and i know is a reality for many of these teachers that are losing their jobs, i'm here to talk about how to keep the children safe. so with this reduction in staff, it's a little more challenging in the event of a disaster to keep the children safe in the schools. so i would encourage you to vote to renew the agreement for the next two years. i would like to thank you all for voting to have the agreement in this previous year. we actually signed up 30 of your schools, around 30 of your

schools, to be members of this program, it's a free program that the red cross offers, and i hope that when you all are in the schools, this school year, you encourage the schools that have not become members to do so. it helps them to increase their preparedness level and keep the children safe in the schools. as well as the young adults in the high school. thank you for allowing me to speak and thank you. >> thank you. one final speaker, sharon kennedy. >> i don't have permission to speak but can i ask for 30 seconds? i didn't follow protocol, i didn't know. i spoke here before but never handed one of these in. >> you always have to have one of these in order to speak. go ahead. >> i've been here lots of times. thank you.

appreciate it. my name is china carter, i have a boy going into sixth grade, he doesn't have a school assigned yet, so he has no place to go on monday. it's great everybody is excited about monday being the first day back at school but we're not. we're assigned a school across town, it's physically impossible to get there, i'm not sending him on a bus, thank you for your time. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening, everybody. my name is sharon kennedy, you probably recognize me, i've been here about four times this year. i figured i might as well come again because it seems no one is listening to me. i just sent in, you know, the round three forms with 11

schools on them, including my attendance area, and still, nothing. so i'm getting very frustrated. i was assigned a school over five miles awhat from -- away from the house, you guys have heard my sob story here. it's really far away, i've got a kindergartener, i don't know how you expect me, with the time it would take to get and the cost, i can't send my kid on a bus. i think that's a lot for the district to ask of a family to make them go so far away. i sent an email to ms. wynns because the last time i was here, someone asked her to get my name so she replied with a generic email back to you, well, as many of you in your neighborhood are experiencing the same thing.i would like to n my neighborhood would be able to

attend a school so far away. i responded in a heartfelt e- mail explaining many things. one thing was why was i given such of generic response to my medical appeals. i feel like a faceless number, and i am coming to prove i am not. it is upsetting. i feel like no one is listening. we are trying to put people on this or that, and some families are being shut out of the system, and i do not know what to do. i just feel the people who have gone through the rounds, that have already gotten a chance of selection, i am going against them because they did not do

the. i hope you will consider it his term next year when you devise a new system, and because this is not working. thank you >> item k is appointments by board members. >> i want to thank linda, my appointee to public education and richmond fun. she has had to resign her position, so in her place of would like to appoint magdalena. she is on staff. >> thank you superior -- thank

you. can someone note about to make sure she dips brought in to your kitchen? next item is the plan addendum to your your -- addendum curator >> so move triggered an -- so moved. >> i am herewith our liaison, barry kaufman. good for a little bit of context, in the spring we received notice but our county office was going to go into improvement, if for if, and those are the school the turn

now going into program improvement if. the process has been fairly easy. because we haven't been including these schools, and because we have been a fixture you are aware of. >> 7 cisco is the only one in the area, but the powers of nbc? as two separate entities -- powers the nbc them us to separate entities.

it is required to write an addendum to the plans. i called on them to explain the unique relationship no, and in e bureaucratic sense, they said to make sure we include that in the addendum, so a few things are want to mention. one, the addendum that is here is pretty much the same post no work for the unified school district, -- the same as the work for the unified school district, and section 6 is the work you approved last spring for the title three sections, so

this was a giant cut and paste, so we were able to put this together. i think the challenging thing was understanding budget allocations and revenue and how it is allocated, and in the addendum but hopefully you will approve, all of the programs and services currently offered are also offered to the county education. what has been an eyeopener, i have worked in several offices of education, and the community's schools are not marginalized. they are absolutely integrated into the aspirations of the school district as well as day

to day activities, and i want to thank janet, who has been the superintendent in charge of the schools and the work she has gone. gov superintended garcia talked about the people in the district as super heroes. git is wonderful to work and be able to go into the offices on van ness and be able to understand a complex and budgetary system so i want to acknowledge the support of those who have made this and worked manager phone to -- manageable, so what we are asking for is your approval. there are certain action items that are specific