much. i'm going to ask superintendent's -- superintendent carranza to make a slight introduction here. superintendent carranza: we have had the pleasure of having susan b. our board liaison, and she was recently chief of staff, and being the talented person she is, she is going to be an executive director in our early education department, where she will really work with strengthening our after-school program and servicing many of our students, so we are very proud of this evening to introduce to you, and she is here doing this transition work, the doctor who will be taking over the board liaison duties, so if she can wave to our audience --

[applause] she will be a critical part for the school year, so welcome aboard. president yee: let's move on to item f, public and set on consent items. -- public comment on consent items. is there a second? commissioner: 2nd. president yee: before we do that, i actually skipped a step here. there is a speaker signed up for public comments. it is either dennis or susan. >> i am not usually confused with susan, but thank you for that compliment. i would like to comment very briefly on five items that are in your packet. let me identify them by page number, starting at the back of the agenda.

you have an item where there is over 21 $2,000 given to a school site given to a body that is not very well defined, that are not going to a minister programs at that school. it says that this work is contracted out to a body, so it is essentially supplanting the work of some employees, presumably administrators, but not our unit. the question is is where is the oversight on this money? there is no oversight here. the only oversight that you indicate on the agenda is that they have to complete their tasks. page 97, actually seven other pages that could be cited, you spend to leonard and $16,000 to provide -- you spend $216,000 at eight different schools. you do not use district employees or credentialed teachers. you use a program, which is a decent program, called play

works. with that effort, why are not using regular diet -- regular teachers, credentialed teachers in these schools? pardon me? one of them was on page 97. all right? on page 67 of the common agenda that we have, you have a middle school. it is to hundred $60,000 over budget, which can happen on a big project, but this is not a big project. this is nine times the estimate with no explanation for why you are nine times the estimate for this work. on page 47, you have a reference to your up -- to gear up and their employees. there is no reference to how they are compensated, and on

page 40, talking about the grant, which has been so helpful in the common core, you had some very curious language. you say that teachers were brought in for non contract work days. if you look at the contract, you will see that all of the work that the teachers do as employees of the district is contract work. there is no such thing as non contract work days. there may be days that are not within the instructional calendar, but these are still work days, and it is appropriate to set what these wages would be, and we are reaching that calendar. thank you very much. president yee: thank you, mr. kelly. now, do we have a motion and a second? yes, we do. any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? none?

any items removed by first reading -- from first reading by the board? any member severed for a discussion tonight? vice president norton? vice president norton: w-13. president yee: it is page 67. commissioner murase? -- commissioner maufas? commissioner maufas: i would like to pull some from k, 3-7 and 19, 20, 22. president yee: k 3-7,l -- 3-7, 19, 20, and 22.

do you have the numbers? any others? the roll-call vote will take place under section o. speaker cards, nine tonight, an item i, a board member proposals, nine tonight, and now we go to item j, request to speak regarding general matters. i will call your name. you can come of.

ann. [applause] mark o'neal. shalissa holmes fox. andreea ross. tusik yaya julia martin. robert ruskie. karen kai. and i may have a few more, but let's start with that. two minutes each.

>> good evening. my name is ed newbower. i am one of the employees were -- employed by the district. we maintain and repair palms, boiler systems, generators, 250 boilers, some palms, miles of leaking pipes, -- 250 boilers, sump pumps. we are the people that keep our children warm and safe inside our classrooms. despite claims of no heat, we respond to many other emergencies on a daily basis. we are also trained to deal with asbestos as the pipes costly spring leaks underneath our schools. we have had to deal with low- grade contractors doing repairs

after they leave and things do not work right. each school presents its own unique set of challenges and problems. the department has never said, i cannot, or i will not, when it has to respond to an emergency or make repairs. we are asking you tonight to be compensated the same as other city engineers who have nowhere near the same duties as us but receive a higher rate of pay. not only are we one of the lowest paid craftworkers at buildings and grounds, we are also the lowest paid engineers in the entire city. yet, we all sit -- share the same classification number. the gap grows wider each year we do not receive a raise, and not only is it a hardship, it is becoming increasingly difficult to attract new engineers to the district. we kindly ask for parity with

other engineers that do not share the same workload. it is only fair. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> my name is mark o'neal, i am a parent, and i am here to register a strong protest, and in essence, my family and i are very disappointed in the manner of which this assignment preceded the past few weeks, and we found out that our daughter did not make it into any school here. you set up a deadline, or your

administrator set up a deadline for a choice of schools in early july. the cop was roughly july 5. we were not here during that time what we found out our daughter who was going to a parochial school year in san francisco stated very clearly that she could not go back there due to the bullying and things of that nature. and then we came in and register. we were told that she was third in line for mission high school, that, you know, they could not confirm it for another 5 to 6 days. we said fine. thank you. then when we found out about the deadline passing, the minister in charge pushed the deadline further on and added more students and said it was going to be set up as a lottery this time, so those people, before

they got to the second deadline, it got pushed into a lottery system. and what basically happened is we believe we were punished for the next time, with all of the registering students by allowing a lottery system when common-sense states that first in line gets the choice of first refusal of that school. was that my time? i am not sure. i am sorry about this? president yee: mr. o'neill, we are going to have you give your information so we can have someone follow up with you. >> of pay, but i want to point out one thing. our daughter, it has been six days since school started and

she hasn't been assigned a school or anything. we even notified mr. floor as that we felt strongly. a recent document saying that she needed to be in this particular school because she is close to family, anxiety issues and things of that nature. thank you very much. i go see her? >> good evening, members of the board. my son attends isa, his first year entering as a ninth grader and i only have one suggestion for the board. when it comes to raising money for the school district, we need to be more proactive. when you to start raising money districtwide. to win next year's budget comes up, we don't have to lay

teachers off or turn around and put in those notices to lay off other staff members as well. we need to take a more pro- active approach, maybe a district why a fund raiser for a car wash. protecting our loving in der and caring staff that helps our students on an everyday basis. >> the superintendent, to the president and the board, i came here and my intention was to come here with the same type of story that the parent had. but i am here instead to commend. i want to let parents know that you can't go with these gatekeepers. when i have the same scenario, i

went to his office and he resolved our issue within five minutes. i did have to get through a couple of gatekeepers and i was very persistent. as a result, i have a 13-year- old this is my grandson -- that is not no grandparents' aspiration. there are nine of us here in san francisco, we have several other people in the school district and we make it happen. i asked him today, because we know that historically, black males usually fall out of the system at an early age. he will be 14 years old. he has been in the program for a long time.

his father was, too. i asked him today, we are going to tell them thank you because i am always complaining and i felt like i would be remiss if i did not come before you and thank privately and publicly the superintendent, the board, for a job well done. i asked my grandson, and you want to tell them anything? the one to tell them if you like the school or not? how do you like the school? he said to me, go ahead. gosh i am not a talker. >> he said of like everything about the school. we were trying to get him to the marina. i am so happy and proud to be his grandparent to have this young man. thank you very much.

>> i am the parent of an inclusion student and i am here representing our parent community. our community is very concerned regarding the failure of the school district to hire a special ed teachers before the start of school. we now have the halftime person in place but we are lacking teachers as of today. this will cause chaos and it has a very negative impact on students and families. a lack of identification at the beginning of school. they don't know who the special students were. or what accommodations or support they were to receive.

there was no transportation schedules figured out. it was forgotten and not put on the bus. we had an accurate service scheduling. they think fully compiled a schedule, but they do not have access to a cumulative files because of confidentiality reasons. in fact, the correct amount of minutes was not available for distribution to teachers until last thursday. we also have a lack of support staff. how are speech therapists and other secondary support staff who were not contacted by the district until late last week. they have been unable to confirm schedules due to a lack of special ed staffing. there are many other issues that have happened, but those are the compliance issues we are concerned about. we're looking forward to hearing

from the district and other people on how the situation is going to be resolved. >> can we have somebody look into this? >> veronica is in the audience. >> i spoke to her the first day of school. >> she will speak with you. >> my name is robert, i am speaking on behalf of the rosa parks elementary school. specifically of the t-shirt and community council advisory board. we are here on an informational basis to bring an issue that is very much concerning our school. and they are seeking an adjustment for attendance boundaries because northern boundaries are broad and gary strieker that precludes japan

down from the attendance area. we will be working with staff and the district of leadership on this issue and will forward to doing that. we want to bring this issue before the full board attention because it implicates policy issues that the board should be aware of. for us, the issue in drawing the attendance boundaries is not strictly whine of residential patterns. for the people at the school and the children, the issue is one of history, community, and culture. japan town has been part of rosa parks attendance area for almost 85 years. it is inconceivable to the community that any issue be excluded from the attendance

boundary. i mentioned rosa parks built in 1927 in the midst of one of the most of the verse of multicultural neighborhoods in the city. japan town has been, and the residents have been a proud part of that community for that time. it was interrupted by the internment of japanese-americans during world war two and even more recently by the redevelopment. these factors are all part of determining what a boundary should be, and i will discuss with staff those issues. >> and good evening, commissioners. my name is karen and i am here as the second part of his

statement. we really do have a school community that is based in both the western fell more at rosa parks hysterically and culturally. for us, it is symbolically and in terms of the diversity of our school, just the sense of true community that exists there to have our attendance boundary encompassed japan town hall as well as the western addition. other governmental agencies have been recognizing this alignment of the planning department which engaged in a japan town plan process. they originally drew the southern boundary for japan town. that was at our request, and that includes a rosa parks community.

that boundary was extended for planning purposes to include or rosa parks school in japan town. when the supervise oriole districts were being redrawn, district 5 which had traditionally encompassed of the fillmore and japan town was divided at geary boulevard. we asked, and rosa parks was part of japan town be kept in district 5, where your community and neighborhood that has a long history. we worked together and we want to be at our neighborhood school. we really hope that we will have a good opportunity to work with staff. we presented to the leadership team and the data caught committee. i will look forward to coming before you.

this is a handout that we gave to the committee and the leadership team. we brought copies for the board members that haven't received it yet. >> we are going to move on to item k. that ended public comments. supporting advisory committees by board members. seeing done, item zero. special order of business. a public hearing and adoption of annual budget and annual service plan for special education. we are getting there. public hearing adoption for the

annual budget. a motion and a second. on the annual service plan. a reading of recommendations by superintendent. >> i would like to call dr. elisabeth. she is coming. she is the assistant superintendent for special education services. and lisa miller is the supervisor. >> i do have our budget person, and our coordinator was here to help answer any questions that you may have with regards to the

annual service and budget plan. the surface of the annual surfaced budget plan is stated in the handout. i will read that statement for you. assembly bill 602, special education local planned area to submit an annual budget and service plan adopted at a public hearing on page 2 as required and education code. these plans must identify revenues and services, expenditures, including description, and collocation of services, and must demonstrate all individuals with exceptional means have access to services and instruction appropriate to meet their needs as specified in the individual education program. a service plan shall be adopted

at a public hearing. i am not sure if you would like to go -- he requested action is that the board of education of san francisco convene a public hearing ended of the annual budget and the annual service plan for special education. on page four, there is a listing of the annual budget plan. they did review these documents publicly in june 28 and answered questions of the audience. we had a report that had a comparison of two years and our chair i believe afforded this to you. no changes have been made to the plan. and then the service plan goes

on from page 3230 to 30. this follows the board's adoption tonight. are there any questions regarding the services or budget? >> before we do questions and comments, there is a public speaker and i would like to bring her up at this moment. >> you have two minutes. two minutes start when you start talking. >> i sent you by e-mail a packet of just some of my thoughts about the service plan. we have had five different special lead directors in five years. we really need continuity of leadership. we look forward to having this continuity.

it makes it hard because we are told, and give them a year, they have a plan, it will be sorted out, and then they are gone and we start again. we're hoping the doctors six around. the other thing i mentioned was the administrative costs, over two years have gone up about 200%. that is not really clear to me the administrative structure. that would be great. the you have any questions from the package i sent you? >> we will address in in board discussion and if people want to