highlights around the ada outrrights klw. december 22 was the brochure. good commissioner julie, -- commissioner dooley, i will let you make note, and commissioner dooley will elaborate on that, and scott has been promoted to the commission on disability access, as a business representative, and i am very pleased, because scott is very knowledgeable about the situation and i think it will push the commission to start picking up the pace.

they have a heavy work load in front of them. i did a tent -- attend one of the fairs. but it is interesting to know there are a least 10 different vendors, three of them right in san francisco, or very close to the bay area, so the car and foot print is not far in terms of getting this delivered, -- they carbon foot bridge is not far in terms of getting this delivered. there already have been clients in san francisco, businesses that have purchased from them, so they are working with the businesses to make this transition, so the next step is because the implementation date is october 1 does do what is going to be the consumer campaign -- as to what is going

to be the consumer campaign, because businesses have a good idea of where they can go. i think we can do some more out of reach, but i am not sure the consumer knows this is coming, so i do not want businesses to be in the place of taking the time to educate consumers. that is going to slow down the business. we will work with the department of the environment and give you a verbal update on their outreach campaign, and section 3, my last section update, we have hired a person for our position. his name is christian murdoch. he has been out -- he has the

program, and he will be starting september 4 commo, and a correcf the total for fiscal year 2011- 2012. i provided you with a tentative at the first meeting in july, so these are final totals, so in 2010 and 2011 we had 20,011 cases. there was an 8% increase, ju and fromly an -- and from july, 2011, we haven' an increase from the previous year. we are going to be closing the office to do some cleaning and

organizing of things, and the last thing i want to make note, in our newsletter we are adding one thing to the small business connection, and we will be highlighting businesses that have recently opened who first came to the small business center, so we did our first one with august, so be on the lookout for that as well, so that concludes my report. i would be happy to take any questions if you have them. >> any questions four commissioners? any questions for the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> item 8, legislation>> most oe

heard in discussion today. >> item 9, the committee report? >> we had our first meeting last month and we review the potential for vacancies, legislation which would be part of creating a data base for people interested in opening of business or realtors, and this of the use with what the fee would be used for, and they would participate in this. we'll be looking into that legislation, which was based on the supervisors -- supervisor chu's legislation. and organizing a group, friends of the small business commission, but the

complications of opening a nonprofit -- we would go with contrasting groups which may work with us, we will try to go that way -- and you heard from the director, we have discussed the situation and how it is ongoing. >> the next item? >> item 10 is the president's report? >> just for the record, with the business report -- >> no report. >> the commission report? any reports from the commissioners? >> two things to report on. the director mentioned that i

have attended meetings with the merchants association. with senator feinstein's office and we feel encouraged that we're interested in the idea, and we will work on this problem in a more coordinated manner. we have more on how we will arrange this first meeting. and the small businesses. this would be a great one going forward. and i was interviewed last month by dr. matsui, a professor of commerce and she was doing a study on the leadership -- and i

was surprised to hear about this, there were looking to us for tips on how to revitalize small businesses, using tourism, and getting regional and local visitors. trying to find diversity to draw people in with small businesses and unique businesses, and she seemed pleased to get that information back to japan. and that is set. >> thank you. the next item? >> item 13 is general public comment. >> is there any general public comment? public comment is closed. >> item 14 is new business.

is there any new business? the next item? item 15 is adjournment. >> do we have a motion to adjourn? >> i moved. >> i second. >> thank you. >> commissioners, the meeting is adjourned at 6:34 p.m.. please. >> thank you. ms. fewer. ms. maufas, >> here. >> dr. >> here. >> misnorton? here.

>> mr. yee? >> here. >> thank you. >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> what happened to the student delegates? are they here? >> all right. welcome. sprint carranza -- superintendent carranza to his

first official meeting as board superintendent of the san francisco unified school district and welcome as he assumes the position of deputy superintendent. >> thank you. >> let's see. would the student delegates quickly introduce yourselves. >> ok. >> my name is min wang, a senior at lowell high school. i'm really excited to work with everyone to change school ways for the better. thank you. >> hi, jaden braswell, a senior at balboa high school, i'm the interim student delegate until we have our s.a.c. elections on september 10.

president yee: ok. so here we go. we'll go right through this first meeting. we never had any summer break. approval of the board minutes approval of tonight, the superintendent's report, called to superintendent carranza. your thoughts for the evening. >> thank you, president yee, members of the board, ladies and gentlemen, members of the public. it is just a great honor for me to welcome you all back for the 2012-2013 school year. i can tell you that the district has been abuzz over the summer preparing for the school year. we have many of our teachers and para professionals and central office administrators working very hard to have a smooth and seamless start to the school year.

with that in mind, i want to remind the public the first day of school is monday, august 20. yes, monday august 20th. so we should all be practicing getting to bed early and preparing for our school year and we're very, very excited to have our students join us back in our schools, adding life to the schools. we're excited tomorrow is our teacher's third day back and are happy to welcome them back though many have been doing professional development over the summer. just an update what we've been doing over the summer. two weeks ago we held our administrator institute to welcome back our returning and new administrators and the energy and the excitement was palpable in the room. i can tell you folks are excited and absolutely enthusiastic about the school of the year. we are absolutely looking forward to our teachers returning and the rest of our

one of the questions as i traveled around the city of san francisco and spoken to many groups, and i will continue to do that throughout the month of august and september is listening to what our constituents have to say about our school district and hear their thoughts about what is working well, what should we have on our radar, what are the things we should consider to do differently. one of the things i've heard very clearly is that our community is very, very excited about staying the course and not starting over or going in a different direction. they're actually looking

forward to sticking with the vision that the board and the community has adopted for student learning in our district and our community and want us to go deeper and want to see more support for ensuring that will happen in our system. so with that, i do want to share a few of my thoughts in terms of where we're going in this school year and that is that there will be no change in the vision. i think the vision is an extremely engaging vision that all children will graduate career or college ready and our students will be joyful learners and we will as a matter of social justice all students are learning to their potential. we're committed to three goals and they are access, equity, achievement and accountability and that won't change but what we will change is how we accelerate the work we do as a district to ensure that that's the experience for all of our students and our teachers and our educators and our schools. i've also heard very clearly from our community that our community wants and expects focus, especially given our current financial situation is what it is. we need to focus and be clear on the key strategies that are going to move our district, and this is to build and implement a strong instructional core. as we speak to our community

and present to the board and the community in the coming weeks and months, we're going to speak about an instructional core and what we mean by that is we're talking about the relationships and the learning that happens when you have parents and teachers, students, and the curriculum that they engage in. that constitutes the instructional core and we'll share more details what we mean by that. all the work we do, whether it's creating a very enriching and engaging environment for students to learn and what students learn in schools is all encompassed by the instructional core. and of course there are going to be some changes. and as we do this work it will require us to work not necessarily harder because we are working hard and our teachers are working hard and our administrators are working hard but it's going to require us to work smarter. how do we leverage the work we're doing. how do we leverage each other's particular strengths. and as we go forward, how are we going to make sure we don't

keep the status quo? i have coined a term we used with our community as i've spoken to the community and it's very simply the elacticity of the status quo and what that really means is that as we go deeper and we push our vision of ensuring all students have equitable opportunities to be successful. there's an elacticity of the status quo wanting to pull us back to the way it's always been. and we are irretrieveably down the road we will never go back to the way it's been because we want to make sure every student has access to a highly rigorous instructional core and our teachers and administrators have the training to make it possible. that's going to require change and require us doing things that we've never done before. it's going to require us doing things that we think are better for student learning and empowering our teachers and administrators as well. so the vision of the district you'll hear more about in the

coming weeks and months. i just want to say to you we are so excited about our students coming back. as we look at our interim assessment data, as we look at our informive assessment data, formal and informal, there's a great energy in our district because we're predicting we will have substantial growth, we will have significant growth in many of our subgroups based on that interim assessment data and we're very excited for the results to commence so we can prove what we think we know already. we can prove that our students are in fact moving forward and we're accelerating student learning like we're so proud of doing in san francisco. now, some of the challenging issues for us. our families are interested in the calendar for the next year, especially they want to know so how many instructional days are we going to have next year? i am so grateful and extremely happy to report that the

district and the united educators of san francisco have reached a tentative agreement and we'll know by august 20 whether our members in our uesf family have ratified that agreement. but as part of that tentative agreement we're looking at restoring our school year by all of the days that were cut by the forced closure days and will only have half a day that will be reduced this coming school year which we're planning to be the last day of the school year which would be cut by half a day. we would be back to 179.5 days. in this kind of a fiscal environment to be able to work shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm with our labor partners to restore the school day well, still meeting our educational needs and financial needs is a testament to what happens when adults and educators work together over a common goal. so i want to thank everyone for that. again, there's a big caveat

here, this assumes the governor's tax measure would pass and if it doesn't pass we'll have an additional five forced closure dates because of insufficient funding for our public schools added to a total of 5.5 instructional days for the year. so it really depends on folks coming out and voting your conscience. but we're happy to report that will happen this year. i can tell you as a former teacher and principal, i know it's often important to repeat the most important thing and i'm going to repeat this again. students and families, we can't wait to see you monday, august 20 for the first day of school. we're excited to welcome you back into our schools and we're excited to start the school year. and with that i want to say welcome back. [applause] president yee: thank you very much superintendent carranza. it seems like we never left the school year for many of us, and

i know that the -- my colleagues on the school board will enjoy having you as our leader for many, many years. and i think what is important to note is that we did not stop but met as a group in july to discuss all these things that superintendent carranza was talking about and we didn't even take a break. as we were discussing these values and these goals and wanting to stay the course, we got very, very excited because we know that that if we do this, the traction is beginning to happen now in terms of what we can do with our students. so i'm looking forward to it. i think everybody on the school board is looking forward to having a great, great year. i think we probably had a great year last year but until we get our test scores we won't know exactly, so thank you very

much. so let's move on to item c, which is recognitions and resolutions of commendations. none tonight. item d, student delegates's report, megan wang and jaden braswell. do you have a report today? >> yes. president yee: go ahead. >> the s.e.c. will be having its first meeting of the 2012-2013 skl year on monday, august 20. the meeting will be here at 555 franklin and will run from 5:30-7:00 p.m. >> and i want to report that the s.a.c. will be collaborating with the youth commission from august 25- august 26 at city hall and is a two-day retreat where we'll discuss government structure and school district structure and get familiar with each other, so i think it's important for the youth commission and the s.a.c. to have a close relationship.

that's it. president yee: good report. let's move on to item e, parent advisory council. the p.a.c. report. there's no p.a.c. report tonight. and their next report will be given at our next board meeting. so item f, public comment and consent items. >> commissioner yee? president yee: yes. >> we have a proposal that we change the rules of the board so that the p.a.c. report would be given once a month instead of every meeting so we're going to defer that to the rules committee and will be bringing a proposal. so in the meantime we'll operate that way. so they're planning to report at every other meeting. president yee: thank you. commissioner wynns? for public comment on consent item.

i don't seem to have a card for any public comments on consent items. >> ms. solomon appears to be waiting. president yee: it doesn't indicate anything. welcome to the new school year. [inaudible] president yee: i'll help you write it in. go ahead >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent, i'm susan solomon, executive vice president of uesf. there are just a few consent items that i wanted to bring to your attention. one is k-11 on page 21 is the short synopsis. and this is about providing service security personnel at various athletic events. and is being provided by black

bear security services. last year when we raised this issue with the district and asked whether our security aides could do that work, the answer was yes. i believe we worked with kevin truitt on this. and especially in consideration of the fact that the security aides are still working with one less hour a day, we'd be very appreciative to see them doing the work. it's at their schools where they work. next one is on the next page, k-19 the bottom of the page, superintendent zone bay view district. it's to provide online k-12 math,al gentlemen break and language arts writing courses -- algebra and language arts writing courses at their own rate. this could be good but wanted to make sure it doesn't take the place of teachers and supplements the teachers do and

not supplant the teachers. the final one is k-40 in the superintendent zone, the mission district, to provide students with culinary instruction, experiment learning opportunities and more. again, this appears to be the work a uesf member could do, that a teacher could do. thank you. president yee: thank you, ms. solomon. item g, consent calendar. a motion and a second on the consent calendar. >> motion the consent calendar. president yee: any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? >> yes. we have a number of withdrawals. so the first is we'd like to withdraw budget transfer numbers six and eight of consent item 2-b, 128-14.3-2 on

pages 9 and 10. that's just the numbers six and eight. we'd like to withdraw 128-14-k-21 on pages 141 and 142. actually, the dates of service will be changed from august 14-17 to august 28-31. so this resolution is no longer retroactive and therefore doesn't need to be put into this board agenda but can be administratively approved so it will go through that process. we have a couple other corrections. we have corrections to k-27, 28, and 29 on pages 155-159. for all three of these pages, the contracts will begin the first day of school. that's on 8/20/2012. so for k-28 and 29 it's a

correction. and for k-27, it's similar to k-21. we'll actually withdraw it and submit it as an administratively approved and go through that. so if you want me to repeat those, i can. >> yeah, can you. >> ok, sure. >> those that were retroactive? president yee: the names and dates. >> the four k's that are being changed from retroto nonretro. the first one is k-21 on page 141 and 142. the second is k-27. the third is k-28. and the fourth is k-29. >> ok, thank you. >> ok. you're welcome. president yee: 27 will come back to us? >> yes, you are correct. president yee: any items removed for first reading by

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