acknowledge jennifer's leadership in facthat and know t she is going to be doing with waterfront projects, we are in good hands with that, and to congratulate todd in his appointment. next i am going to move on to legislative and policy matters. as you note, the business tax reform was passed by the board of supervisors on july 31 and has been placed on the ballot. he did send an e-mail and reminder. there is a fine line. the commission cannot write an argument for this particular matter, knowing that the election season is coming up, please read. is a nine page memo.

some of it does not pertain to you, but some key things do pertain to you. please make sure you read that to make sure there are no ethics issues as we move forward with the election season. next, the payroll expense tax exclusion. yet how it was written was about upon -- that upon as soon as it takes affect the payroll tax of seclusion -- pactiv solution would go away, so when the gross receipts measure passes in november, it is in effect, so the payroll tax exclusion is no longer in effect.

right before recess we have a conversation with supervisor farrell office, so we will be working with his office to amend that ordinance, so it fulfills its original intent. it is an oversight with lack of understanding exactly what the full measure was going to be regarding the business tax reform, so if you are talking to any business is about a payroll tax exclusion, let them know there is a little bit of a pause button write-down -- right now until we get this sorted out. there is more items, but i am going to sit down -- skip down. i want to do a reminder there are 3 business seats that need to be filled, and it would be

great if you have any businesses you know -- to have businesses involve minimum wage workers, low wage workers, that type of thing, but it does not have to exclusively be so, so we do want to encourage businesses to be on the task force to provide input as we move forward with looking at this matter, and the last meeting i was not here because of supervisor mars hearing and supervisor david shochiu's

legislation regarding who landlord requirements. it passed the committee and at its first reading. it is no longer mandating the landlords to the improvements but the landlords notify the tenants. understanding that all the nuances which individuals businessmen engage with us potential experts, so if a landlord were to say my entrance were not accessible and i am informing you the businessman goes to talk to an architect, and the architect says, you are doing improvements under the

valuation threshold, so you are only spending $5,000, and you are going to spend it on the bathroom, that is fine if you do not do it on the entrance. they might be ill-advised aboutd the vulnerability, so i ask supervisor chiu to mandate they put out a brochure, because businesses are relying on individuals who know more about the codes, the regulations, and things of that sort and do not know who is fully informed or partially informed, and who is going to tell just a narrow window of information and not full information, so that will be a project for our office to be working on, and i would like to

have the brochure done shortly after late september, and the law will go into effect january 1. next, moving on to policy matters, the city is to do an economic strategy every three years, so we are currently reviving the economic strategy, so the office of economic analysis has put together a survey, and we have that highlight it, so i would encourage you as business owners to fill out at survey but also to spread it out to the network to have businesses fill out at survey, so that is important

information to have small businesses make sure they give their input, so if for any reason you are not getting our monthly e-bulletin, please let me know so i can make sure you get int. do you have a question? >> is it possible to get a copy of the survey. i go into the newsletter, and you have to take the survey to get a copy? >> ok. next, the commission heard the matter a couple years ago, so

the city hall fellows have conducted a report after a year of its being in practice, and that report just came out. supervisor 0 loglague has schedd a meeting at the parks branch library. i left the space at the address, and that is 1833 page, between cole and shrader to have the city hall follows present their findings, so in case you are interested in that. depending on what the findings are, staff will make a determination as to whether we have this as a topic for the outreach committee or whether we do need to have a full presentation at the full

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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 forced closure dates because of insufficient funding for our