pedagogical shift in our district if we continue to categorize it as a program. it is a service. you'll be hearing about the instructional corps and how teachers are being trained and supported in differentiating instruction, providing the instruction that they need. and we are providing that support as a whole as part of the institutional approach to change the way we deliver students -- services to students with disabilities. it hasn't been in incredibly supportive in they hold accountable to that goal. and we appreciate the work that they do to hold us accountable. there is a lot of clean up happening and everybody has been diplomatic about this. if you don't know where to charge an expense, put it in the special ed budget. as the doctor and her team are

very diligently billing, they are starting to tease that out and expenses are being charged to the appropriate places. it will make some expenses look out of order at times, but we have a duty to provide a clear explanation of why certain things look the way they look. as we get clarity, we will all be very clear about what are the actual expenses, and how do we mitigate those expenses with increased instructional capacity for students with disabilities? this is really an exciting time for us, although there are concerns about the transition in leadership. it was a very smooth transition and her team has remained intact. every year, we are building more and more capacity. my commitment is that we will keep this at the front of the

burners and that we don't forget this is a priority to increase the instructional course. i want to thank all the members of the special ed see a sea. >> roll call, please. [roll call vote] >> six ayes. >> ok. thank you very much. ok. i now call the public hearing for the initaial proposal for a

successor agreement for the craft unions for locals 718, 377, 66, 40, 42, 104, 38, 1314, 1176. the superintendent or designee. address the proposal. >> and both sides have sunshine of their proposals. our joint craft unions, you heard earlier tonight that we are also in other negotiations with our civil service unions such as laborers and i t.

the craft unions to speak to the board about their concerns. i also want to mention we are in the process of arranging a meeting with the superintendent so he can directly hear their concerns. >> of q public speakers on this item. >> can i make my required announcement? for the record, i will be rich using myself because i have a potential conflict of interest because my husband is the member of one of these unions. >> state your name and go ahead. >> good evening, fellow employees.

i have been employed by the san francisco unified school district for 32 years. i am here tonight to talk to you for myself, my fellow plumbers and other crafts. for the last seven years we have gone back on our salaries. we have had to pay more for our health benefits, retirement, and we have had to take five furlough days. while in the same time, board members, teachers, and managers have gotten a raise. if the district says they don't have the money to give us a raise, where did they get the money for their raises? as a result of this action, several unified school district employees have left the district to go elsewhere, including people from a jar, maintenance

managers, shop supervisors, craftspeople. all we want is to be treated the same as the other city plumbers. the superior court of san francisco has made a judgment in favor of the classified employees of the san francisco unified school district. they are the same in shall be equal to the civil service rules and regulations. we do not want to be put in the same bargaining unit as the teachers as they are certified and we are classified. we currently have a plumbers with the combined experience and knowledge of over 150 years with the san francisco unified school district. that is such a big asset to the district and the kids. we would hate to lose. in closing, i would like to say

the rest of the city did away with the furlough days and got a 3% raise over three years. we just want to go forward instead of backwards. please help us so we can continue our dedicated service with a smile and contentment. [applause] >> i just wanted to comment, thank you for your help. >> i am a 7347 civil service plumber. i wanted to speak tonight about equity. it is a big word that appears on

your agenda. as he stated, for the craftworkers. even when you talk about the unsung heroes, there are lots of craftworkers there. we are skilled professionals, which makes 50 the number one priority, we make the instruction flow as best we can and will work with hall members of the school. everyone knows that when the toilets are overflowing, you need a plumber. unless we come before the school board, we can't always they lay. with all of our dedication and patients, who haven't really provided anything.

we have furlough days without pay. no extra holidays or anything. the rest of the city plumbers will be $20,000 above my salary. i think that is kind of pathetic. the bond money hasn't totally renewed this school. there are still rotten pipes we are working on inside the world. you still have things that we have to replace. i think that you have an idea of plumbing. to plumbers spent three days recently running 100 feet of the four-inch cast iron pipe where the rain leader had gone bad. basically, i want to give you one more example. there is a botched job or the

contractor kept the drain line from the bell tower. water had no place to go. we have a lot of options. you can hire and non-union handyman that would endanger the students. at least give us some type of equity in these negotiations. [applause] >> good evening, superintendent and the board. i have been a carpenter for 33 years and i wanted to put a face on carpentry. all of you who have seen me before, could you please stand. 25-26 years. all of the folks that are now

mobile's a month the board of education. i am struggling, putting kids through college and a wife through college and i am blessed. i want to thank you for the opportunity to be able to work 25 years with the company as prestigious as the school district. i know you will do the right thing. you won't scrape and whittle and take away a few dollars from our income to make your budgets have been. i have felt it and i see it in the contract. i was the fifteenth carpenter hired. the gutsy 15 carpenters, you have maybe eight or nine at the most. i am good, but i am not that good. it is just attrition and we need to replace personnel. we need to be paid with the city.

i decided to work with unified. i like it. i like ministry, i like church, i like youth groups. i have been background check. i would just like to see my boys grow and teach carpentry. we don't have that anymore and i feel sad from us. i am just a small little face. you don't see very many chocolate carpenters running around. i want ask what the civil service carpenters' get. that is what i accepted what i applied here. why should you pay for something that cost go and get less? why would you pay more and get less? i have had my time. it doesn't make sense to offer this and not give it to us. you can let us go on and we can

get a pay raise in the city. we were the crew you were thinking earlier that got ahead of you two weeks without vacation and overtime. the decision. thank you. >> my name is larry brown. i could go on about what everybody has already said. a lot of it is about the kids. that is why we are here. i enjoy my job very much. it is nice to serve the kids and teachers, and give them a space so they don't have to worry about doors or windows not working. i tried to put that service and so they don't have to think about that stuff.

they can concentrate and do their job. that is why i am here and i am proud to do that for them. it would be nice to get compensated what other people are getting paid to do. but it is a good job have, i am glad to do it and i hope that when you come time to redo our budget, you will remember us and give us some benefits to that. thank you. >> excuse me, did you sign up to speak? >> i did not. >> i will give you one minute. >> i appreciate it. i am a sheet metal worker and i have been here 12 1/2 years. most of my colleagues have been here 10 years. we are all educated, we went through an apprenticeship program. i went to six years of school to

learn by trade. it is a craft. we work very hard for you people as carpenters, plumbers, we work together. a constant back-and-forth of working together and doing different things. you have a lot of very old buildings here. they are not easy to maintain. when we go out there, we see things that are old and we have to bring them out today. it is a craftsmanship and you have some very dedicated people. we want to be paid in the same throughout the city. when we came here, because i tuck, i chose the school district. we should be paid the same as all the other sheet metal workers throughout the city.

>> i don't think we are slated to have discussion. >> point of clarification i think there is an issue of pay scale between the district and the city and i would love to have that be looked at home for labor and personnel. >> i will adjourn the public hearing for now. let's move on to a discussion of other educational issues. none. consent calendar resolutions. we moved the previous meeting for second reading and action. 1 tonight. voter and consent calendar moved and seconded under section f. roll call.

[roll call vote] >> yes, except k22 which is retroactive. [continued roll call vote] >> thank you. >> consent calendar resolutions severed for board discussion. we will start with a 3-7.

>> i can certainly take them all together but looks like they are separate may be under the latter ones. probably under the mission zones. certainly the first group 3-7. >> also an item removed by commissioner norton. >> why don't we do that first. this is page 67. >> i just wanted to find out the answer to the question that mr. kelly raised about the big increase. >> mr. kelly confuse this issue

with a construction contract. and as i have come before you several times, this one has the one piece of information that commissioner wynns had me add to all the others. we enter into an agreement with five different soil firms, five different cleaning firms. the five different environmental firms. we enter into one contract and each time we give them a project, we bring the amendment for that project back to the board. the master agreement starts said zero and there is often a fixed dollar amount limit and sometimes there is not. this is not a condition where there is a change order to a construction contract, this is a condition where the contractor was given water to other sites before and we have added peabody

and result, a very large project. one of the things i committed to before, if you look at page 63 as an example, in the background, it lists the other 14 sites for this item that has been modified. that was brought up previously as it looked as if the contract had 15 modifications all at the same school. this is a 2011 project and contract. we need to start showing all those things. >> we should expect to see the contract come back to us time to time. >> i will be identifying all the previous schools, but i think it was a very good item the commissioner brought up previously. >> someplace on the agenda, we

would probably have a definition as opposed to a construction contract. the public can understand what the difference is. i am sure you can figure out how to put that somewhere. >> i am happy to do that and work with counsel to that effect. >> [roll call vote] seven ayes. >> thank you. back to k three through seven. commissioner maufas: i do not know who is going to speak on the ones 3-7. a queue.

that is great. there is more. i will talk about the first set. in looking at the descriptions, you know, each one has a different description. there might be a couple that are close. they are $27,000 each, but ultimately, i am wondering why we are not using our own physical education teachers. i feel like we have people do this work. i do not know if it is a split schedule.

i want to know openly, why are we not using unknown, especially when we have this physical education master plan? i think they are a great organization and they do great work. but i am wondering why we are not using our own well-trained understanding, all of our school communities and staff. why schools are choosing to go with an organization verses' picking from our own crop. gosh i can answer that a little bit by saying that the time the play works staff work with our children is during recess in unstructured time and after- school time. it is not when they are doing physical education as dictated by the master plan. that is part of the reason.

every year, the school's submit a resolution to continue this work because it provides for a positive school climate and has been very beneficial in a lot of the schools that are using the non-profits. >> just to clarify, play work provides structure game time, not physical education. it is structured to game time for the children during non- instructional times. we have 200 kids in each yard. if we don't have certificated teachers, we have this

organization that provides the structure games in different areas of the school for those 150 students that are at recess at that moment. if it is that commitment and they work after school with the same type of mentality. structured in games where children can play and learn to socialize together but it is not physical education. >> first and foremost, commissioners, playwork does not replace p.e. the organized games, they are also somewhat students during recess and lunch time.

logistically, it is very difficult to hire a peaty turf to try to support so many different recess, lunch, after- school. and he looked at a cost, $27,000. you're not going to be able the higher five teachers to spread the hours throughout the day to do this. most importantly, it is not instructional based. it is mainly organized place for children. commissioner who wfewer: it is t instructional, it is recreational and similar to something with my contract for the ymca. i think this board has approved of many play works contracts before. it is a school site decision

many times. and this board, play works is not new to us. we have approved this many times before without discussion and approved unanimously. this does not displace our teachers. there are programs that do. this is not one of them. >> if i may, since you were sitting here, are you also sitting here for the 22--- 19 and 20 as well? >> if the solutions are related, then i am representing them. >> that was the clarification on my part.

that really does help me better understand the times. i have seen that in the schools and i think, it totally correlates with what i recall at the school site. it really does make sense to me now. >> commissioners, i wanted to add one additional point that aren't assistant superintendents were making. it is funded through a variety of sources of schools lights that make that a priority. we have the good fortune that the grande schools have not only decided to support play works for cooperative play, but have added to our physical education instruction and teacher positions as well. there is also a commitment there to physical education from works as well.

>> roll call, please. k three through seven. >> [roll call vote] miss fewer has recorded hers. [roll call vote continues] seven ayes. >> would you like to take all three of them? 19, 20, 22. >> this really is something i could have commented on during the other component. when i look at the last one and i look at the description compared to the other descriptions, i believe that this is the same work, but this is really a full description which is what i was looking for.