mission with everyone. i'm accepted the award but it's really for all of us. because it wouldn't happen without all of us. the kids always say, you know, you're always in my business, you're doing too much. and i tell them, yeah, carlos garcia pays me to do too much, you know. i'm supposed to be in your business. because being in your business helps you stay focused. and the parents, you can't do it without the parents. we put together educational plan for our students. we put together activities but without that parental input or that caregiver input. no matter what we do, it's not going to happen, you know. so i thank you. what i wrote i'll probably never read. but i wanted to say thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, ms. jordan. at this time we'd like to call

up nick casser, our environmental futures contest and we have the certificates here. >> you want to call them? >> you get them and i'll do a quick introduction. so when i first saw the job posting for my position, i was scared but also excited to notice that every possible task had been included on that job description and included not just the operational side of the house, energy, for example but the environment of education which of course in an institution such as ours is equally if not more important. and as a side note, i'm happy to announce tonight that we have hired an environmental content specialist in the suric -- curricular department through the generosity of numerous foundations and they'll be taking half of my job and doing it even better than i've been able to do in the last three years, that is environmental education. but during my tenure as the head of the environmental education at the district, i decided to float a contest that

had been started by some outside partners before i started and that was the environmental futures contest. the goal of the contest is really recognize environmental education that happens outside the science classroom where environmental education normally is housed. and so here tonight we have the three recipients of the award, actually, i think two of them are here tonight, the other is heading back from a meeting in sacramento. those recipients will tell you briefly what they did with their students to implement environmental education in their nonscience classroom, so let me start by calling up megan mercuio. [applause] . >> and the rest of you can come up now, just that you wait along the wall. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> thank you, megan. congratulations. >> hi. so my name is megan, and before i start, i just wanted to say i share this award with my colleague constance walker who

has been working tirelessly on the project i'm about to describe. i work atwoodside learning center and that's the school located inside juvenile hall here in san francisco. so my students are incarcerated 24 hours a day and they don't have access to things like sunlight and fresh nutritious food because the food is very institutionalized. and it's very important. these are very important issues to my students. and so we started to have conversations about these things in my english class. we started to look at curriculum about food justice, environmental justice, sustainability. and from these conversations, the students decided they really need to have a garden at juvenile hall. and so constance and i said ok, we'll try. it's very hard to get things done up there. and in the meanwhile, the students each planted seedlings they cared for in our classrooms and they wrote poetry to their seedlings as they watched them, you know, grow.

and then the students decided they wanted to start advocating through writing letters for grants to get this garden going and they did that and we've actually been very successful in raising money. and the next couple weeks, the raised beds for the garden are going to be starting to be built so the students are elated. and i just thought i'd close by reading one of the poems one of my students wrote as she planted her son zia's seedling. dear sunzia, hear me out. i speak with love so my intentions please do not doubt. my hope is for you to grow tall, healthy, long and strong. therefore, i give the advice and wisdom by song. look to your mother for guidance and support. stay clean from weeds, thorns, pests and things of the sort. for they do not want you to thrive as i do. instead, embrace the rain that

will turn into morning dew. reach to the sun, don't be afraid for that is the purpose from god you were made. some nights may be long and some days may be rough, but do not frequent, you are built from strong stuff. [applause] >> thank you. >> is joseph alder here tonight? he did send me an email saying he was coming. maybe he's going to the other boardroom i don't know about. joseph is from independence high school. he did a video project with his students encouraging starbucks to move towards -- or move away from paper cups and then valerie ziegler at lincoln high school did a project that taught the students about the development of the new green marketing guidelines the f.t.c. recently announced. with that i'd like to say jim lecure in the back of the room was the inspiration of the contest and i look forward to working with the environmental

specialist in the curriculum department to do more in the environmental education field coming up. so thank you for the evening. >> thank you. there's actually a speaker -- i have a speaker card for this item. james lecure. come on up. >> dr. garcia and kim-shree maufas and jill wynns and the others that may or may not know me. i'm james lecure and taught at soda for 10 years and began advocating for the futures contest in the late 1990's trying to push environmental education in the schools which seemed to be lacking. some of the students and teachers being honored tonight for their environmental work stem partly from my and many other people's efforts.

i assume we all understand that our world is severely threatened by a decaying environment and that this threat is equal to or worse than any other threat that we may face. how do we bring home environmental issues to all students? only repeated contact in class gives credence to such studies and empowers each student with the tools they'll need to act and vote intelligently. environmental education is real because it involves personal survival. it is interdisciplinary. it keeps kids in school. i suggested that sfusdd not only straight its strong support for an environmental program, but i suggest the board, one, set aside a time on it to meet with environmental educators throughout the district with nick and the new person that's coming and consider what more can be done

to promote environmental education. and two, encourage not demand environmental lessons be given in all subjects as part of each teacher's regular course . mr. kasner, nick, director of sustainability and i have funded an environmental futures contest out of our own pockets for two years. and one thing the board might consider is helping with that. you will say there's no money or spare time for the environment, but the cost of effectively doing something now is infinitely less than the cost of future environmental catastrophes. this is a really inexpensive request. we've been doing this anywhere from $5,000 to $3,000 a year. and it will do a world of good and much good for the world we live under a dark and terrible cloud. our children and grandchildren must understand what to do about that cloud even if we do not.

and dr. garcia, i'd like you to go fishing because the salmon are really running now. [applause] >> thank you. let's move on to the next item. we're con. -- we're done. item d, student delegates report, elvina fan and karissa tom. >> ok. so yesterday was our first s.e.c. meeting of the year and were able to see returning members and meet new s.a.c. representatives, and we also were able to finalize the s.a.c. calendar which you should all be getting right now. thank you. >> and also at our s.a.c. meeting yesterday we talked about having our retreat with the youth commission at city hall and it's going to be again on august 27 and also august 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at

city hall where we're going to review how to write resolutions, have diversity training and also have some public speaking courses. >> ok. thank you. fnished with reports. so item e, parent advisory council p.a.c. report. there will be no report tonight. they will start giving us a regular updated report starting at our next meeting. so item f, public comment on consent items. ms. plaque, linda plaque and mr. dennis kelly.

>> mrs. plaque's item i don't think was on the consent calendar, it has to do with pars. i'm dennis cutty, president of the united educators of san francisco and am pleased to be here this night to hear mr. garcia is now dr. garcia. [laughter] >> well, kind of. all right. all right. i wanted to talk about a number of items. i'd like to group them together in three groups for you. first is items k-16, 17 and 18. they have to do with after-school programs at three of the schools. each one of these programs comes with an evaluation that costs $1,250 or $2,250, in that range for each one of them. and the question i have really is, what is being evaluated in

these programs? are these programs being evaluated on the basis of whether or not specific children in specific schools who are in these programs are being helped to move forward in terms of their achievement, or is the evaluation an evaluation that simply notes how many meetings there were and how many people attended and all that? so it would be helpful for us to know what kind of an evaluation there is for that. on k-28, 29, and 42, you have three items which have to do with a particular math program which is being brought in for $30,000 of one school and $60,000 at one school, $80,000 at a third school. for $60,000 and $80,000, the district is turning to the era and to the s.i.g. grants in order to fund that.

for $30,000 at the one school, you're doing this through weighted student formula. and the question really is, what schools -- what other schools have this kind of wealth that they're able to spend $30,000 on a math program as good as it may be when there's so many other cutbacks people let go and all that and as we're just clawing back up to full employment again, where do these people get $30,000 additional? the third grouping starts with 2-c. and it includes k-11, k-46, k-49, k-50, k-53. 2-c asks that you pass a resolution to accept memoranda of agreement or understanding

from a variety of community based organizations, although it may be retroactive -- excuse me, these are actually proactive, that you're actually accepting these from a variety of organizations for a variety of different purposes, some very school-specific, some say that they affect virtually every school, some say that, you know, a lot of schools, some things like that. and yet it seems to wave your oversight of these activities by passing something that would simply say, know, these are going to be ok eventually. now, you compare that to k, 11, 46, 49, 50 and 53 all of which are retroactive resolutions and all of which had to come before you specifically in order to say that yes, it was ok to make these changes or to work with this program. we didn't intend to fund it

under the table or anything like that, but, you know, we are looking at it separately. so the question really is why do you have 2-c? why is 2-c being handled in that matter instead of being handled in the matter of k-11, 46, 49, 50 or k-53? thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. kelly. >> ok. before i get to g, then, i've been asked to announce this for

the following -- not the following, but for a few meetings. as a reminder to the public in accordance to 11-2 of board policy page 120, and an individual wishing to address the board on agenda items or matters other than those calendarred for board action can call the board office. by 4:30 on the day of the meeting or by completing a speaker card on the evening of the meeting prior to the item being called. cards being turned in at the same time an item is being discussed will not be accepted. so that was just an announcement. let's move on to g. consent calendar. can i have a motion for the consent calendar? >> move the consent calendar. >> second. >> any items corrected by the superintendent? >> yes. there's a number of

corrections. the first set of corrections are to the summary page or the table of contents on roman numeral page 21 for k-42. the requesting department should read "the baby zone." and for the summary page on roman numeral page 22 for k-51 and 52, the requesting department should read "i.t." instead of student support services department. there's a correction to item 118-23-k-2 on page 72 and 73. the consultant's name should read "adriannaklein" spelled k-l-e-i-n and also the roman numeral should reflect the change as well. there are three withdrawals, on resolution 118-23-w-28 on page

54. we'd like to withdraw that. as well as for item 118-23, k-25 on page 118. and item 118-23-k-48 on page 166. so that's item w-28, k-25, and k-48. >> do you have all those noted? any items removed for reading by the board? any items set up by the board or superintendent for discussion invoked tonight? commissioner wynns? >> i'd like to sever 2-e-c-2 on page 25. and actually how about -- i prefer just so sever the whole

2-e because i'd like to ask a question what mr. kelly asked and that's earlier in the 2-e item. >> commissioner maufas? >> i'd like to sever k-28, 29 and 42. 28, 29, and 42. [inaudible] >> correct. thanks. >> ok. let's move on, then. just move on to next item which is -- oh, the roll call vote will take place under section o . and item h, superintendent proposal held for speaker card and action. none tonight. item i, board members' proposal held for speaker cards and action. already moved and seconded on

august 9. report from the rules and joint meeting of curriculum and ad hock personnel labor. and this is an item that is 11 8-9-a-1, reconsideration of 115-20-24-sp-2, amendment of resolution number 95-2-a-26-a-2 permitting jrotc students to utilize independent study to obtain physical education credit to extend the independent study option for jrotc students through the 2012-2013 school year. so it's been moved and seconded. so the report from the rules committee, please. >> the rules committee met to review the resolution and voted to forward to the board with a

positive recommendation. >> also the curriculum and ad hock committee on -- >> so i can give the curriculum report and commissioner maufas can give the personnel committee report if you want that. >> that's what i with us going to do. go ahead. >> so the curriculum committee heard that last night. we forwarded it back to the board with a positive recommendation, and with a request that the board consider amending the item to extend the window for hiring of these people. i don't think we specified but were thinking november 1. right? yeah. >> so reading of the resolution by myself? >> i'm sorry, by president yee.

>> one more committee report very briefly. the ad hock committee on personal relations forted it back to the board. we were missing one commissioner, president mendoza. so we forwarded it back to her without recommendation. >> thank you, commissioner maufas. any more reports? ok. reading of resolution by norman yee. so basically says further be it resolved hence fortney new instructor of jrotc will have the necessary certification and/or credential to provide general supervision of the independent study in p.e. and this reconsideration request is for the purpose of adding the following language after the paragraph above.

and it says, be it further resolved the above requirement for new ars to jrotc shall not apply to three instructors currently in the process of completing school district hiring procedures to begin p.c. in the 2011-2012 school year as long as the following three requirements are met. number one, each instructor must become a qualified intern in physical education to provide general supervision of physical education, independent study within six months of their date of hire. number two, each instructor's date of hire must be on or before september 1, 2011. and number three, each instructor's full compensation costs, including salary and benefits shall be paid entirely by the department of defense, funding, and private designated matching funding obtained by

the school site and/or jrotc. [inaudible] shall not end expend funds for these three instructors for the 2011-2012 school year. if these three conditions are not met, the instructors have failed to meet the conditions or who do not have funding to pay their full compensation costs shall be terminated immediately. so that's the reading. i have one speaker. a speaker card for this. and that's jerry paratori. so you have two minutes. >> good evening, jerry paratori, director for the jrotc program in the district and i'd like to provide a quick overview and update on the program at this point. there are some numbers i called around and got for all the schools. i sent an email to all the

board members. hopefully you are able to get the data. my numbers are slightly higher than what is being reported at f.i.s. i have 946 people -- students enrolled in jrotc at this time. notice that every program is above the threshold of 50 students which was set by the school board several years ago as a viability threshold. as far as inclusion into the programs for credentialing, the district has set up a c-best training preparation class and i have five of the teachers who will be there friday for that. tomorrow i have seven folks going down to alliant for the orientation. one of those individuals can't even join the program because he hasn't been hired yet but he's leaning forward as we say and anxious to go and get things done.

and as far as hiring dates, the navy guy is unavailable to technical reasons until october 3. funding still is problematic. and november 1 if you'll give that to me is the day i'll work with for the funding. we're still having some issues. as the district know, it's tough economic times everywhere. but i remain optimistic we'll be able to get the funding in order to complete these hiring. and thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. board comments? commissioner wynns? >> thank you. i want to thank commissioner yee because we've had to resolve some issues that have come up recently so we appreciate this and also want to make a motion that we change the september 1, 2011 hiring date to november 1 because it's

on or before so if they come before, that's fine. this will just allow for the one or two people that may not be able to brought onboard until close to that date. >> i'd like to second the motion. >> discussion? commissioner maufas? >> so i guess i want to begin with indicating that because mr. paatori wasn't here yesterday when he had the ad hoc, there were a few questions we couldn't get answered and if you can come forward, you can just come and sit and we can get some of the questions answered i had yesterday and then if we have somebody from our h.r. department who can also be available to us to answer questions. and i appreciate you coming back to the microphone. >> ms. maufas? >> go ahead. >> procedurewise, there's been a motion to amend, so let's --

>> so it's around the date, right? i understand that. >> ok. >> that's what my discussion is about so i thought i'd ask him to come and sit if that's ok. ok. so if i understand it correctly, and i want to make sure i clearly understand. so there is someone who can come right away and join our program before the september 1 deadline, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> just one, though? >> there's actually two of them here at this point. one has been funded by the alumni association at lowell and he's ready to start on september 1. there's another individual who has retired. he's in the area. he is past his threshold as far as the government is concerned to be hired. he's the one i am waiting on funding for. he's available on september 1 but my funding is not. the other person is a navy program and he's not available until october 3. >> ok. >> there are some technical

things with the date of retirement and when you can actually go into the teaching and have the government provide matching funds. >> ok. so to cover everyone, you're asking for the date of november 1, is that correct? >> yes, ma'am. >> and that's solely it, and that was what was commissioner wynns just asked for an extension or you asked for november 1? >> to change the september date to november 1 but it says on or before, so that wouldn't, you know, it wouldn't mean it has to be november. >> right. that's fine. ok. and the person who is around october, have you -- is there a certain -- are we certain of the funding for that person as well or that's sort of in the works, also? >> in the works. >> ok. buno