-- commissioner: the of our established cbo's, some of the folks to do this on a regular basis, as well, folks that are ready have things set up. i feel like this is a big chunk of change, so i do not want to spend this money to rebuild something when we have so many resources, to agree with folks that want to help in these communities. our priority and our focus.

starting something new and bringing in new folks, but working more closely with the community. this means bringing in people who are well established and doing the kind of work that we want to support. commissioner fewer? commissioner fewer: yes, thank you for doing this. now that i have had an explanation, i have some questions. what about the engagement plan that we really have, -- we already have. i worry about this going off in fragments, for example -- i understand why we would not hire a financial person that we know, that we actually have control over about their knowledge of college applications and updated college education, so i guess i do not

-- i can see some of these coordinations before school programs. when you start talking about things like. engagement, -- like parents engagement, we have that. i would hate to say this not run by our director of parent engagement. at different sites, we invent what we want to invent for these sites, so this money, quite frankly, is for a very short time. we will not always have it. i worry about spending it on things that is not going to build a foundation for our schools to be able to do it themselves. when we contract out, it means that we're not teaching school site to do it themselves, and it is the same thing with community

schools, that we are trying to teach sites on how to get those resources themselves, and when this money is gone, it is gone, and if we just say, "oh, we have not gotten any more -- got it anymore," we have lost our ability. i am always worrying that we only have so much. it is only for a short period of time, and i think we are given this to set up an infrastructure so we can do it on our own and that we can build on our own, too, so this is not something that once you pull the money out, nobody knows how to coordinate with other people or to work with community members because we have hired someone to do it for us rather than teach us how to do it. that is my only real concern, and also, with our parent

engagement plan so that we do not have one school doing something and another school doing something else. i have met many. there are many organizations and have spoken with many parents and never graduated. i mean, -- spoke with many parents and who have graduated. constantly, i see things being bought with some of this money that is not teaching us how to do it ourselves, so what are we going to do when this money is gone? really? do we have that $125,000 to keep on this? that is what i am worried about. commissioner: i would differ a little bit because i think this is about capacity building. we had this before, and i assume

we will have it when this is gone. this is about not only transforming the during the day school day and building this between teachers and counselors administrators and others, but it is also changing the way some of these after-school programs operate in ways they can continue to do with the finding they have after this is gone, so i think, and i just want to be very clear, this is not funded under this particular. i mention this as one that they would be coordinating, collaborating wrath. not trying to -- collaborating with. not trying to recreate the wheel. i think it is about to pass the building, both at the site and in terms of the counselors, and

they are trying to do this, as well, and i know everett and other schools are very concerned with crisis kinds of management. they are not doing counseling around college going. they are worried about truancy rates that have been talked about. there are so many things that are consuming them that they almost need an opportunity to have colleagues come in and breathe some fresh air into what it means to think about some of these other issues and pull yourself out a little bit and actually create a college-going culture, and i think that will build capacity that was day after the funding is gone, and there are some specific ways, with the instructional leadership team, of trying to do that, so they are very aware of trying to build capacity, i believe. president mendoza: so i just want to emphasize that this money is for a very short period of time, and if you say it is

capacity building, then i expect to pass the building, and i expect that when this money is pulled, everything is not going to fall apart, because we have to start teaching our folks out to do some of these things that we have not done before, or we are losing an opportunity to train them, so what does this look like with the way it is sort of written, it was to look a little bit like someone else was doing it, quite frankly, so if you're telling me in his capacity building, then i believe you, and then we can expect capacity building, right? that is fine, thank you. commissioner: commissioner, thank you. you say that the $125,000 is going to be used for the advisers, that a person is going to be court notting all of these other efforts with tracy? >> yes -- that is going to be

coordinating all of these efforts with tracy? >> yes. commissioner: this is one of the things that was being pushed, around college readiness, too. you guys really hesitated. you do not like it? it is not the strategy? >> it is great. it is great. it was more -- there is just some confusion about the appropriateness of working with the esl students, so that has been coming up recently, and that is why i hesitated, because that is what we have been thinking about recently, but in terms of avid, avid is great. president mendoza: commissioner maufas? commissioner maufas: i to turn

this from president mendoza. $125,000 is going to one person -- i just heard this from president mendoza. >> is part of our work. we are six months in. we are being mindful of those milestones. commissioner maufas: i just want to know the salary. the $125,000, what is going to a person and their benefits. i want to know what their money is pulled out of this contract amount, and then what is left to do this. that is what i want to know. >> right, we would have to pull it. i do not have that off the top of my head. i have seen it before, and it did not look unreasonable. i will have to look it up. commissioner maufas: maybe we

should have the budget for this, because it is a long laundry list. we are not sure how this is going to get allocated. what we want to see and be able to report. >> just to shout out, everett is our most improved middle school in our district. also, i appreciate there is always a balancing act, because you ask for a very short dollars for things that are often very complicated, and then you do not -- because you ask for budgets for things that are often very complicated. commissioner maufas: it sticks out, kevin. this is one about priorities and what we are trying to change

across the board, and if this is all it takes to make this happen at everett, maybe we need to be thinking about these kinds of investments at all about other middle schools. it is malta and layered in my mind, but i just to understand all of this stuff, what the $125,000 is going to go for -- it is multi layer. -- lay herridge. -- layred. -- layered. people are reaching a lot of other schools. building that capacity, as well. president mendoza: any other questions or comments? thank you, you guys. if you can share that budget with us. >> absolutely. president mendoza: ok, we need a vote.

clerk: ms. fewer, maufas, doctor, ms. norton, ms wynns, ms mendoza, mr. yee. president mendoza: item s, the board members reports. you already commented. commissioner: we had a very interesting presentation from the information technology department on the information systems. this is going to cost us a little over $8.50 million, and so, we looked at the budget. we looked at what it was going to be spent on. everyone i think on the committee agreed that this is

needed, because we needed a new information system, but, however, it is going to be a very expensive one, a little over $8.50 million, and if other board members would like a brick out of it, i think it is actually fairly interesting -- if other members would like a break out of it. i think we can get a copy. oh, and then we had a very dismal report, yes, and, in fact, actually, i think it is worth spending may be about three minutes now so that the deputy superintendent can give us sort of the bleak outlook for our school district in the next coming years. would you mind? it does not have to be really fancy. >> i will keep it short for tonight, because i think your plans for the retreat on sunday

also include some discussion on budgetary issues and planning and the like, but just in a nutshell, we provided staff a report to the committee about the state budget, which i believe the commissioners did receive some information along these lines, but just to recap, there were about $4 billion of revenues that were basically speculative in the final state budget that was passed by the legislature and signed by the governor, and in the language of the budget act, there were cuts that were identified for shortfalls if they should occur, so this is for revenue is through the end of the year. if the department of finance makes a determination that the

state will likely be short by some amount of revenues, then there are a certain amount of cuts that are predetermined as part of the budget act. the cuts would need to be at least $2 billion, so -- i am sorry, the shortfalls would need to be at least $2 billion. there is a laundry list of things. if it is between $2 billion and $4 billion, that is where the cuts start to be triggered, and we can provide more information about that, but in essence, the major cuts that we are at risk of seeing in that type of scenario are cuts to general- purpose revenue funding. the same types that were mentioned earlier, and there is also one other earmarked cut for transportation, categorical funding for transportation, which is also not a good thing

for us, so we will see monthly updates about revenue collections statewide, and i think we are about to see updates for august revenue collections, but the one month that we have received information about, which is july, was quite bad. it was quite discouraging. i think the estimates are about 10% off for that one month, so there is some time for that to be made up, but it is not an encouraging sign, as much as that one month's worth of data goes. it is not a great backdrop at this point in the fiscal year, and we're going to keep close watch on it from now until december. president mendoza: commissioner? commissioner: we were talking about that today, but could be set up in our budget discussion

about ab-114, about the bill that incorporates a trigger? as a political reality, i think it is unlikely that even if anything, the worst-case scenario takes place, there are probably going to be some legislative changes to what gets cut when the triggers are pulled, because, for instance, the transportation would wait -- would wipe out home them as good transportation, and there are so many in the state where they would just have to close their doors if they did not have this transportation money in the middle of the year. at any time, but in the middle of the year. the students could not get there, period, so that is kind of bizarre that that happens, but what it means is there is a reopening of the discussion about how they could make cuts, so we need to look at that, but

there are also some structural changes to the budgeting process in 114 that i think we should understand, the board members should understand, so i think it is something that we should at least think about. president mendoza: thank you. any other questions? thank you for that depressing report from the deputy superintendent. >> the next budget meeting will be held on september 22. president mendoza: curriculum committee, we covered the metro. commissioner: correct. we had two other informational issues. on the district's efforts for community schools, they had actually, tracy brown was there and other community school coordinators, and it was a really interesting presentation actually about what we are doing at some of the schools,

and particularly, and hillcrest, they were cited as two sides that if you want to see kind of what our efforts are to go visit those two sites and talk to them because they are the first in these efforts, and then we had a presentation, an informational presentation, on response to intervention and positive behavior support, and we got kind of an overview on what some of the strategies lookalike, quick responses, various concepts, or having various issues. we are not very far along at all in implementing this, so we kind of thought was here is what it would look like in a perfect world, and, yes, we are not anywhere near close to doing that yet, and it is not clear given the budget that we were just reminded of when we will be there, but if we are ever in a position to move them forward, i

think there is some pretty interesting stuff that can be done, so i know it is not really a cecilia'a department that is doing it, -- it is not really cecilia's department. the next meeting is monday the 19th at 4:00 p.m., and i wanted to take special note to the board. we are going to get an update on transitional kindergarten. board members heard, i believe, recently, so card but is actually not going to be there. they have been working on it, and it should be pretty interesting, so i am going to augment the meeting and invite any interested board members to come to that. it is going to be monday, the 19th, at 4:00 p.m.. president mendoza: thank you.

are there any other updates? commissioner: the rules committee will be convening at 5:30 and -- instead of 6:00 p.m. commissioner: we were hoping you would meet -- that will be a problem. can we do 5:45? commissioner: that is a very fair compromise. president mendoza: thank you. and then buildings and grounds is scheduled for 6:00 on september 26, and i also wanted to make two other quick announcements on some of the work we have been doing with our city partnership. we got detroit's neighborhoods grant, which was a big deal, $30.5 million -- we got the choice neighborhoods koran.

they will come to the school district to help support the efforts at the public housing community, and we just applied to two promise neighborhood grants, one for the mission neighborhood community, the mission-promise neighborhoods, and the greater chinatown promise neighborhoods, so those applications were due today at 1:30. they got out. we got all of our signatures, so now everybody has to cross their fingers. any other comments? commissioner maufas: the ad hoc meeting between the san francisco unified district and the college district is scheduled for monday, september 26, and it will be at city college. 33 gulf stream at 6:00. thank you.

-- 33 gulf street. president mendoza: any others? item t, we have no other. item u, none. this meeting is adjourned. thank you. good night.