reports, pitch it to the media, the same people who were very concerned about printing a lot of things, not all of them true, by the way, but very legitimately concerned about the management of bond funds at one time, and it would be really a service to the public for them to know about the expenditure of public funds, maybe we could work on that and we're proud of the work we've done but i think it also, some ofous might help with this, it might behoove us to mention to the public the record, the financial record, as well as the construction, of our bonds program compare to other programs, but we really stand out with all these projects not only being beautifully done but on time an on budget and that is

not common. so congratulations. >> vice president yee. vice president yee: this is a true story, real quickly. we understand when you walk into the schools how much pride the kids and staff take with the new repaired schools and i was driving, one of them is glenn park, of course. two weekends ago on a sunday, i was driving by there and somebody was sweeping the street outside the school, i said, who is doing that? and so i stopped the car and said, are you a neighbor? she said, no, i'm a teacher here. i want to make sure it's clean.

i said, oh, my, it was so good to see that, this is like a great example of the pride that people take when something is worth taking pride for. >> thank you. i wanted -- bruce hart was in the audience, i want to acknowledge him also, looks like he stepped out. he's been really great. we want to wish bruce hart a happy birthday and bruce has been instrumental in helping to guide a lot of our work. so when he comes back in, we can sing happy birthday to him. superintendent garcia? superintendent garcia: i want to thank david and his crew, fabulous work, incredible. most of you know, i was the superintendent in clark county, las vegas, i opened up 65 schools in five years. i know how to build schools. but i'll tell you, none of those schools have the character and really just the feeling of art,

of, you know, great a tech the history, the legacy, that the schools that david and his crew have been working on. when you look at them, i just hope, you know, the voters, everybody, i get a chance to visit schools twice a week i go out and visit schools. i remember working here in the late 1980's and our schools didn't look anything like this. i think every citizen in san francisco, when you drive around and see the schools, that's something you genuinely should feel really, really proud about. that's great work, brings that legacy to the next century, it just, it stands up for the most important thing on the planet with -- which really is our children and to invest in them, when i went to cobb, when i've been to all the school, cleveland, you ask the kids, what do you think about your school? the gleam out of their eye, the big old smiles, the excitement that -- wow, people really care

about us. that's what this is about. it's great to be in a city where the voters really care about the children. and you show it by passing the bonds an doing these wonderful things and you know, we have a third to go but you know, you ain't seen nothing yet. it's been wonderful work an it always seems to get better. every year we do a project you look at it and think, that's fabulous. and the thing, the credit i have to give, i don't know how david can put a presentation like this together and figure out which schools he wanted to highlight because when you go to our high schools, you know, go to balboa, go to lincoln, go to washington, go to, you know, galileo, any of them and you sit there and go, wow, these are world class, stunning, beautiful landmarks. they're not just schools, they're sacred temples almost for our beautiful city and i think they help enrich the city and so kudos to all the voters for standing up for children.

>> thank you, superintendent. needless to say, we are very pleased. thank you for your hard work. >> item n. as in no more. consent calendar resolutions. removed for first reading by the superintendent at the last board meeting. we're going to continue that, is that correct? so we don't need to do anything on that. that is the item n, we're going to continue that. item o, vote on the consent calendar, moved and seconded under section f. roll call, please. >> ms. zhang. ms. tom. miss wynns, ms. norton, ms. murase, mr. yee, ms. mendoza.

>> yes except on items k 1, 12 and 19. >> item p, we have one item. >> on page 113, k-22. the reason i pulled this actually, i have already spoken to the folks submitting it but the reason i pulled this was because i wanted to just discuss, not discuss but highlight, i think, the need for our parent engagement department to actually review and at least review the curriculum that is being presented to our students, our parents to make sure it is aligned with our overall parent engagement plan and aligned to the goals of our strategic plan.

i would hope we would have evaluations for training such as this that we would hold our own selves accountable to which is really the impact and are we moving our parents from a dependency model to an empowerment model. also hopefully once we have the capacity ourselves as a district to do these type of workshops ourselves we will have our folks doing it also. to make sure that everything is aligned to our strategic plan and also to our overall district goals around parent engagement an our beliefs. i wanted to mention that, i'm ready to approve it, i understand we don't have the capacity to do it now but we do have the capacity to do our director of parent engagement review the curriculum that will be taught to parents. >> commissioner maufas. commissioner maufas: i mentioned

yerler -- earlier to the parent advisory council i was hoping that they would marry their desire to do stronger parent engagement with their department of parent engagement but i also, now that i'm looking at this really and hearing the commissioner's comments and i see you're nodding with ms. desmond also, i cannot tell you how much i also agree and really would like to see us going so much from a dependent model to us really doing and building this work ourselves and having us be the experts in this area, bringing in someone who needs information from us on how we work with our families so that means we've got to, in my mind, use those funds to build up what we have here. within our own district. that's what i wanted to add. >> thank you. any other comments? roll call.

>> ms. zhang. ms. tom. mmaufas. item r is the board members proposal for first reading. there are no one tonight. item s are the board members reports. we have one from the augmented curriculum and augmented rules and i'd like toad reports from the joint city college and the joint city school district. so they can't talk about the reports even though they're not posted? we've always been able to talk about other stuff on where we are and what we've done and places we've been and under this

category. >> it's informational. president mendoza: it's informational. >> you generally can make announcements without having to agendize the item under the brown act, but if it's a report from one of your standing committees under the brown act, it would require that we post that report, as well, but you are free to make an announcement if the committee has an announcement rather than a report from its committee meeting. president mendoza: if the committee leaders have an announcement they'd like to make about their committee meeting, you're welcome to do that at this time. let's start with commissioner norton? commissioner norton: the curriculum and program committee met on september 19. we had two informational items. we heard a really interesting presentation put together by janet schultz, so thank you for that, on the various aspects of our summer school, how students did in our summer school, some things lincoln did last year.

they married funding and built a program for all this students that was innovative. we heard from the special ed department about extended school year and some of their planning. we also heard a report on the planning for transitional kindergarten and ms. plack raised concerns about the various options that were presented to us and i think the committee shared those concerns and requested that the full board take a look at this sooner rather than later so i understand it's on the october 11 agenda. is that correct? that we're supposed to hear a report from staff, the full board, about what our options are and give direction. president mendoza: we'll make sure -- can you make sure it's part of agenda review next week? thank you. >> so the next meeting of the curriculum meeting is coming up soon, next monday, october 3, at 530. we are going to begin the conversation on honors and gate

and middle school and there will be a presentation on that and i know members of the public are interested in this as part of the quality middle schools so i want to make sure people are aware of that. we're also going to hear about the district's new math initiatives, the grant that we got. there was a big article on the front page of the "crennicle" yesterday about that so we'll hear more about that and we also will have a guest presentation from a community member, john templeton, on african-american success in math and science so hopefully we'll see everybody on the 3rd. president mendoza: thank you. commissioner murase on the rules? commissioner murase: the rules committee met monday september 19 with three informational items. the first was a review of the policy for admitting non-san francisco residents to alice school of the arts. this was a question that came up from one of the previous board

members on the policy on interdistrict transfers and i wanted to share two pieces of data. there was discussion around two pieces of data. first is the original admission policy approved by the board of education on october 23, 2001. and there are two provisions from that policy. one is that 10% of the slots for incoming freshmen would be reserved for students who demonstrate extraordinary potential as opposed to refined skill. and also the policy delineates that the school will limit non-san francisco enrollment to 10% with exceptions permitted based on low enrollment or requirements of certain departments. and the data we saw had non-san francisco enrollment as high as 16%, and so the committee has asked for additional information, including a discussion with the

administration about the enrollment policy. secondly, we discussed the board of education policy revisions, we're trying to put online all of the breast cancer -- board of education policies and the committee will be taking a careful look at recommendations of what to put on the web in alignment with recommendations of the school board association and finally update on advocacy request for proposal. our next meeting will be on october 17 where we'll take up the enrollment policy issue and the board of education policy revisions again. president mendoza: thank you. any other reports? commissioner wynns? vice president yee riley? commissioner wynns: i wanted to make an addition to the rules committee report because all the members of the board have gotten or are supposed to get the 9,000 series, the one that's in detail proposed because we wanted

everybody to give us input before the october 17th meeting. tell us what you think of it. >> i didn't get a copy of it, i don't think. i didn't see it in my mailbox. president mendoza: can we get them resent? thank you. commissioner yee? vice president yee: i wanted to make an announcement that we had a meeting yesterday, the joint committee, and the reason why i want to make the announcement is because i won't be here to report it at our next meeting. and so but i do want to say that the two items of the three that were on the agenda i heard and i have paperwork. i would recommend actually that for one of our educational discussion pieces that we have our staff and maybe invite city college also to talk about the

bridge to success program, because it's really interesting. they have a lot of great data that is worth looking at and the nice thing about it is that there's a real collaboration between the two institutions in using stafford to share the data so if anybody's interested, i have it. president mendoza: thank you for that information. >> the budget and program committee of the san francisco board of education had a meeting. i'll report on it at our next meeting when it is sunshined or whatever but to make that announcement, so, we don't have enough money. president mendoza: any other announcements from board members? this is the informational place that if i were to announce something that's coming up, this is the right place to do that?

>> we can as a matter of moving forward, we can agendize all the committees that met in the previous two weeks as a place holder so we can properly compile it. >> we're usually pretty good about it. let's make sure that the committees -- whatever -- whenever we have any meetings set, let's put it in the agenda. and i want to make a quick announcement that this weekend is the 11th annual harley strictly blue grass festival put on for free for the city which is a huge contribution to our city and he, every year, kicks it off by taking all of the middle schoolers to listen to blue grass music so he's going to do that again. he's moving it up to a thursday because friday is going to be all day he's actually adding acts so all day friday will be the festival itself. so once again, m.c. hammer will be performing for the kids on thursday from 10:30 to noon if

anybody would like to come out and join the kids. commissioner norton? commissioner norton: i wanted to say that many of the schools located around golden gate park have turned this into a fundraiser and are allowing people to pay to park on their schoolyard grounds so if you want to support your local schools and are looking for a place to park, of course we always recommend public transportation first as city policy but if you do find yourself in a car going to the festival, you can support a school and park on the schoolyard. president mendoza: i love that we're opening school yards for parking. commissioner murase? commissioner murase: ruth asal school of the arts had a dedication ceremony on september 14 and i wanted to congratulate that community and tonight actually comcast is going to present sort of with donation, they're having a precedent tonight, announcing new asian-american media content

so we're very proud of soda and the contributions they're receiving and support from the community. president mendoza: commissioner yee? vice president yee: wherever these schools have celebrations, especially the 100th anniversary celebration, one of the most difficult things to do is find alumni, because we don't have a list. if anybody know of somebody actually went to school at gene parker at any time, let them know that there's going to be a 100-year celebration of gene parker tomorrow night at 6:00. so please join us there. president mendoza: i also wanted to share that the college track did their groundbreaking for their new facility site on third and gerald which is really exciting so it will have a big college track sign which is on the corridor which will set the tone for our kids in the bayview

so i want to thank college track for their partnership and the work they're doing with our kids and there was a backpack give-away this weekend at garfield park that was put on by the city that benefited so many of our kids in our superintendent zone, the mission superintendent zone. thank you for doing all of that, as well. are there any other final announcements? great. thank you. yes? sorry. are you ok? item t is the report of closed session activities. this is the closed session actions of september 20, 2011. the board of education approved a credit for one direct, one principal and two assistant principals. in the existing litigation case oah case no. 20011160521, the board, by a vote of 7 aye's, approved a settlement. in the existing litigation of

case no. 2011060361, the board, by a vote of seven aye's, approved settlement in $3,000. in the existing litigation case of jh versus sfusd oah case 2011060553 the board approved settlement in the amount of $3,000. in a public employee discipline release matter the board resolved by a vote of seven aye's to accept the resignation of a classified employee and to waive certain damage claims against the employee in exchange for the employee's agreement to reimburse the district the sum of $14,300.34. we also have -- do you have a question? >> i was at that meeting. i arrived late. president mendoza: you were absent for that vote. yes, thank you. and then we also had a closed

session action on today this evening september 27, 2011, the board by a vote of seven aye's approved joining the california school board association's los angeles unified school district turlock unified school district and association of california school administrators in initiating litigation against the state of california, anna j. monte santos and her capacity of director of finance, director of public instruction and john chang as state comptroller. item u are other informational items, there are no one tonight. and we are going to adjourn our meeting in memory of elaine fong. elaine was a retired district administrator who passed away on december 16. she started her career as a teacher at sherman elementary. she served as principal of treasury island.

elaine remained active after retirement and belonged to church choir, taught yuk laely lessons and was interested in any hawaiian activities in the bay area. she served as a day-to-day substitute after retiring in 1997. the board of education and superintendent of schools express sincere condolences to the fong family. meeting adjourned.

♪ >> hello, and welcome to the department of elections right choice voting instructional video. it is part of the department of elections right choice voting outreach campaign and is designed to educate san francisco rig franciscoht choice

voting. today we will learn what it is and who is elected using this voting method. we will also talk about with the ranked joyce l. looks like and how to market correctly. finally, we will see how the ranked joyce voting process works and to you an example of an election using ranked choice of voting. so, what is ranked joyce voting? in march 2002 san francisco voters adopted a charter to implement ranked choice of voting, also known as instant runoff voting. san francisco voters will use it to elect most local officials by selecting a first choice candidate in the first column on the ballot and deborah second and third choice candidates in the second and third columns resect to do -- respectively. this makes it possible to elect local officials with the majority of votes. more than 50% without the need for a second runoff election.

in san francisco, ranked choice of voting is for the election of members of the board of supervisors, the mayor, sharon, just -- district attorney, city attorney, treasurer, this is a recorder, and public defender. ranked joyce voting does not apply to elections for local school and community college board members. number the election of state or federal officials. ranked choice of voting does not affect the adoption ballot measures. when voters received their ballot, either at a polling place or an absentee ballot in the mail, it will consist of multiple cards. voters will receive cards with contests for federal and state offices, as well as for state propositions and local ballot measures. for ranked choice voting contest, voters will receive a separate ranked choice ballot

card. it will have instructions to rank three choices, which is new. the ranked choice ballot is designed in the side by side column format that lists the names of all candidates in each of the three columns. when marking the ranked choice ballot, voters elect their first choice in the first column by completing the aero pointing to their choice. for their second choice, voters selected different wind by completing the arab pointing to their choice in the second column. for their third choice, voters elect a different candidate by completing the arrow pointing to their choice. voters wishing to vote for qualified write-in candidate can write it in on the line provided. and they must complete the arrow pointing to their choice. keep in mind, it voters should select a different candidate for each of the three columns of the ranked choice ballot card.

if the voters elect the same candidate in more than one column, his or her vote for that candidate will count only once. also, a voter's second choice will be counted only if his or her first choice candidate has been eliminated. and a voter's third choice will be counted only if both his or her first and second choice candidates have been eliminated. we have talked about how to mark the ranked choice ballot. now let's look at how ranked choice of voting works. initially, every first choice vote is a candidate. any candidate that receives a majority, more than 50% of the first choice to vote, is determined to be the winner. if no candidate receives more than 50% of the first choice votes, a process of eliminating candidates and transferring votes begins. first, the candidate who received the fewest numbers of

first choice votes is eliminated from the race. second, voters who selected the eliminated candidate as their first choice will have their vote to transfer to their second choice. there, all the votes are recounted. fourth, if any candidate receives more than 50% of the votes, he/she is declared the winner. if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the process of eliminating candidates and transferring votes is repeated until one candidate has a winning majority. now let's look at an example of an election using ranked choice of voting. in this example, we have three candidates. candidate a, b, and c. after all the first choice votes are counted, none of the three candidates has received more than 50%, or a majority of the than 50%, or a majority of the first choice vote cast.