[unintelligible] andrea romero, and [unintelligible] >> good evening again. this is specifically on the budget proposal. there are concerns during this time of cutbacks and austerity that austerity must be seen and felt everywhere. we are particularly concerned about some of the things we see in the budget. for instance, your recitals for proposition a lay out $23 million in cuts. 20 feet -- $23 million in expenditures. there are $25 million available

and the others are not laid out there. you have six departments which altogether are asking for $600,000 in other outgo with the specification of what that money can or will be used for. it is referred to as a parking lot and other times as a slush fund. you have $1.30 million for support for dream schools. they were the product of the consent decree and the consent decree is gone. if you want the additional hour after the teachers work day, there needs to be some consultation with the union over adding that two peoples day. there has not been that consultation. we note with concern that despite the flawed reporting in the papers, central office has grown by 4.29%.

and the human resources cut that was recorded in the paper as being 30% is actually 0.9 of one position and not the 30% that was quoted in the paper. there are things in here with -- that we would expect you to address. those other outgoes, the d.r.e.a.m. schools. we want with some clarity what is going on. >> good evening. i am a parent of a student. i am here because i heard about drastic cuts that are being proposed to the early education program. i need to speak up for my 4- year-old daughter because she is too young to speak up for herself about the quality of her education.

i heard each classroom will have to change teachers dressier. i can imagine that would be -- twice a year. i can imagine that would be hard for young children to handle. that is difficult to make the kind of social and emotional project -- progress she needs to make. there are 218 teacher days at my daughter's year-round school. there is a proposal to reduce the teacher days to 191. that means my daughter will have 27 more days without her amazing teachers and a lot of instructional time will be lost. with so many non-teacher school days, i feel like what you are proposing is to actually replace early education with babysitting. my daughter pose a -- my daughter's development is important. you cannot replace it with

people who are not monitoring her goals that we worked collaborative lead with teachers to said. mostly, i want to know why are you not involving parents in these decisions? parents want transparency so we can work together and be partners. including discussion about our youngest children features. thank you. -- our young best children's futures. thank you. >> iour -- our african american and latino students cannot wait for budgets to get better. students are failing and your graduate as with little opportunity for a successful future. thank you. students do the appreciate you for finding money for recovery although a lot more needs to be done in order for students to be more successful in the future.

thank you. >> i am about to be a senior at balboa high school. i am also a member at coleman advocacy for children and youth. i want to thank you all as members of the board of education for supporting our budget demands and having money go toward credit recovery. with the support, you will be making social justice a reality. i personally feel that what -- with your support, you will be giving hope for not just only 2014 and 2015 students but also for the next generation and the next and the next. you will hold -- uplift the struggles of families and students. thank you. >> i go to the school for

equity. i would like to say i appreciate your funding and support toward our budget demands. i encourage you to keep fighting for education and justice this is important to me because it ensures me the 20% of students that were failing are going to be getting the support they need and on their way to graduating. i think i speak for all of us when i say we do appreciate it. and although we appreciate your efforts, we do want to encourage you to keep fighting and the battle has not been one. this is not the end, this is only the beginning. thank you. >> [speaking spanish]

my name is andrea and i will be a senior at balboa high school. i come here to thank you for your support. for students like me. we still have a lot of work to do. make san francisco a better place for all students. we look forward to continuing to work with the board of education

to realize [unintelligible] thank you. >> i come to this meeting room more often than not and it is my privilege to be here tonight. we have been in this fight, the fight for equality in education for long time, right? it did not just start with a strategic plan but i will say that as people can testify, i was really scared to come here tonight. i was scared that the board of education for another year was not going to really hear us when we talk about the lowest performing students. it is a hush hush conversation sometimes in many communities in san francisco. why do we need to do credit recovery? why do we need to be focused on the lowest performing students that because they have been robbed when more than anything

you have experience in the last four years -- where more than anything you have experienced in the last four years. we have graduate them without an opportunity to submit an application for college. they were robbed when they took the placement test and could not get to college level there. there were a lot -- they were robbed for a long, long time. some people think they are winning a slice of the pie because it is a good year for us to do this. no. this is not an easy process. we have read through that budget document just as much as you. we have walked through the process of trying to figure out how do we take care of students who we are setting up for failure? tonight, you kept her promise. you kept your promise and we appreciate you but it is just the beginning. we have to figure out a way to unify across the state and fight budget cuts. we have to find a way to put aside our differences on the board and outside the board and we have to do it now, not tomorrow, not yesterday.

we can prevent budget cuts from happening. i am sincere about that. president yee: other comments from the board? -- are there comments from the board? >> are we revising the three- year projections that we got two weeks ago or are they pretty much the same? >> let me say two things. our baseline projections, if we

do nothing, the natural course there was depicted in the numbers last tuesday, there has not been much reason to change that, to change those projections. having said that, another item on your agenda tonight, it is a few items further into the agenda is the approval of the forms which are the official mechanism that we submit our budgets to cdc. so that contains and you will see that if you see your -- if you have your document. these documents, you can see one of the tabs in the district. one is for the city and the county. they do depend on and we will entertain questions and we will

get a lot -- will probably have a lot of dialogue with the folks from cde who reviewed these assumptions. they count on being able to take steps primarily in expenditures to lecture we close the gaps that are included in our baseline projection. they do not appear in the official forms. it is what we are committed to to doing to maintain our reserves. >> and then another question i had asked last week that still kind of is leftover. for the medicare -- metical billing unit -- medial billing -- medical billing unit. i want some more specificity. it does not seem specific enough. >> if i understand the issue in the process correctly, that is

held in that area and i think there was a little bit of discussion on tuesday as in some ways a place where that money has not been allocated yet. i believe the process by which the decisions are made to allocate those funds are made through a collaborative. a number of people -- i am looking at dr. blanco. it is a process that has been in place for several years by which people, a staff that are involved in the work that is done that is reimbursable by medical and the work to document reimbursable services are claimed and who have made decisions about what the highest priorities are for the use of those funds. that is done through a

collaborative effort. it is literally called the lea collaborative. that body has not at least completed its deliberations about how to allocate those funds. that is a process issue. that is the reason why it has not shown up in a different way through positions. >> i am trying to make a point which is that it is hard for the board to pass a budget when there is 900 tricky million dollars that we know will go to something and it is probably really good stuff. we do not know what it is. did i say million? that would be nice. sorry. my order of magnitude is off. you know what i am trying to say. that is the one that i found. there may be other ones in here. i guess what i am saying is, i

do not like to vote on a budget that has that amount of money sitting in a category that i know it is not going to be used for. if there is a way to be more transparent about that amount specifically. i talked to dr. blanco. it does not feel very transparent to me. >> thank you. so i want to thank everyone for the work and thank everyone for coming to the meeting we had last week which i thought was great. i measure success by how many people come to the budget meetings. i think not know if people pay attention to this, frankly. it is difficult to understand at best for everyone, including us. it is -- thankfully, we have staff who are able to explain

things to us. we need the public to be more involved in this discussion and thank you all for that. i will think the -- thank the coleman folks for being here. even though -- i am glad to see we have been able to reallocate some money but is not enough and not what we wanted. there is not enough there. given the budget situation, it is pretty good and i am pleasantly surprised we were able to find that much. also the other staff for doing that. we have -- i and my meeting, i said this. we need to get more data into the details so it is not just this amount of money for credit recovery. how are we targeting it effectively and those kinds of things. we should and must work on those things. but i am -- i think the public should know that in -- we had

information hear about the increase in the projected cuts per pupil cut if the tax initiatives do not pass. an additional $900,000 to us is devastating. it is already a horrifying. in the last several weeks when we have been doing the advocacy we needed to do for around the state budget, things have gotten worse every turn. our own representatives who have crucial leadership roles but who we met in the past few weeks have said, we understand how difficult that is and how bad it is. we will help you. here is what has happened since the may revise came out. the deal cut by legislative leadership, we have been advocating. the education committee -- community since january for better and different distribution for revenue that comes with the tax initiatives

passed. the governor's people were saying we want to put that into what they call repayment. we call it changing their arithmetics. in the beginning, the governor's people were saying the governor himself, this is money that districts could choose how to spend. we got it through to him that they cannot say that. it is no more money to school districts. it is about the arithmetic and the state budget. we spent that money years ago. it was in that year's budget. we have advocated for more of a split. not all that going to deferrals, and doing, even though that is important, and some of it coming to school districts so we might have some money. what has been the change, what was the deal made by the democratic leadership of the legislature? we will put less into deferral payment and we will use that money for non-k-12 services.

we will use it for health services, child-care services. that is not what that money is for. this is more cuts to k-12 and just this week, by the way, we found out that our calculation was wrong so we will propose more cuts in mid-year. we have said so many times we cannot absorb these cuts and they keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. with leadership and concurrence of our friends in the legislature. are they in a difficult position? they have to choose between services for poor people and services for poor kids in school, yes. our job is to make them make the right choice. as hard as we try, we have not done a good enough job or we have to admit we failed and say to my kids are the lowest priority. the lowest priority of the

state, not the highest. we need to change. people need to engage in this and they need to know what is going on. this is so veiled and difficult. i am urging that we in our school district tried to make this as clear as possible which is tough. and find ways with our partners and others to get this message out and to say, this is not ok with us and not ok with us that this is being apparently championed by our friends and representatives. please, i want us to work on that and asked the staff to help us with that. i want to say something i said last week and i will try to make it short. i think we need an entirely different discussion about flexing money. i do not want to again and i will keep saying this. if the staff keeps saying, that is the only way we can do it and it is ok with the rest of the

board, ok, and the public. every year, we do not look at all the money we can select and save and say what we want to do with that? we look at the percentage cut to this program and that program. one of the things that is the target instructional improvement grant block money, he appropriately because we hardly ever do that, made reference to one of the things we're spending. in the book -- it does not say what schools get it and how much. we have to go back and look at the school budgets which are almost impossible to understand and see where it is without any read french trade you have to do that on your own. i would like us to look at some of those things and now when this book comes up but much earlier and say, is this -- there was a piece i just read in a blog about a study that was done about what school districts are doing with their new

flexibility. people were criticizing school districts for not taking money that was previously categorized for certain programs and spending it on innovative other programs. instead. this is what people were criticizing. school districts are spending it on keeping teachers in the classroom and paying their utility bills. people are criticizing the district. for prioritizing, keeping the lights on instead of looking for new and innovative things to do. when your budget has been cut 20% or 25%. let's please be clear that that is what we're doing. we have been doing it without having that discussion. we have been doing it because we know we are desperate to do it and i want to have a discussion. i do not want another budget that says pier 3. we're not talking about whether it is going to our priorities.

all this is going to keep the lights on and keep teachers in the classroom. that is the way we should have this discussion. do you want to spend it for that purpose and do you want to spend 6%. we do not know what we are doing but it would be nice if we did. that is my comment about how we continue to budget in a way that is the same old way. we have to do it differently. and i would -- i am sorry to have to repeat this. this is the hardest thing we do. this is heartbreaking. i am doing everything but it is not enough. please help us, everybody and let's figure out how we can do it better because we're feeling. -- failing. >> yes.

deputy superintendent lee, if you could explain to me, i know that we, the board, passed a resolution to have funds set aside for lgbtq work and we are increasing that number. the board in their wisdom originally voted to drop the down 2.5 fte and we have had discussions of looking at our survey. sort of a upping that to a full position. can you tell me, briefly update where that is in this budget as islet -- i am looking in that

program. >> i am scanning the room to try to find kevin truett. he may be hiding from me. we did have a fairly thorough discussion about this issue and he is in more direct contact. if he can join us, i will cleverly look to him to elaborate. when we were looking at the needs in school health programs which are many, we did talk about the lgbt resolution and the support of staff resources and non-staff resources as you are familiar with. pursuant to that resolution. we also discussed in a slightly broader context with the health

curriculum, write? which is related in some respects to the lgbt resolution. as the associate superintendent will explain, we did find in looking at these priorities, the lgbt resolution itself, the tsa support for health content specialist and another aspect which is an investment in case management tools for bullying and other social and emotional support that we could not fund all of the spread they're not all included. in this recommended budget but a good portion of the mark. it is not the other 0.5 of the lgbt specific staff person as such. but the health content special is and the additional tool for the case manager will definitely

help. can you take the ball from there? >> see how good you are? you are very good. >> i ran down as soon as i heard you. there was not enough funding for both so the lgbtq stayed at 0.5. because the resolution was passed to support that. we have to figure as it -- we know it is very inconsistently being implemented at schools and a identified that as an area of need. randel and to create tension. to support the revised resolution, that is where we had to choose and the department to keep the 0.5 with the lgbtq. we had to limit because everyone was cutting back and we chose to use that for the health. the data management system that deputy lee was referring to.

it was brought to our attention that any of the new legislation that is asking us to track incidents of -- i am hopin g commissioner wynns would tell me. we do not have a system that contracts are online pro- business system that is being used. we did not have the resources to expand that system. it is being used very effectively right now by many of the middle school counselors. although middle schools and high school counselors, if we can build in that feature to track incidents of harassment,

bellying -- bullying not only of lgbtq but everyone else. we do not have the system that tracks those electronically. i want to make this a memorable for carlos' -- this memorable for carlos's last term. >> there is the health requirements we have but also covers some of the issues around diversity. >> use the only -- she was the only health-certificate good teacher. >> this is a very good budget the past. we do not know if it is enough to keep it going. this is hard to pass knowing th