of whether or not the district in the past has made a-g requirements a high enough priority. our concern is with the programs for credit recovery there are real life opportunities working with the students. and studies show that when you have a real-life teacher helping them catch up, they do far better. and some folks are surprised at the high numbers of the students going through school and not receiving a diploma. the teachers in the classroom are not surprised. we have been aware that the crisis is looming. and why we are so in support of the legislation to give the district the support it needs. and our students should not be left on a limb. and this is a time for the city

to rally around the district and the schools and the students and their teachers. and certainly the political support for san francisco is in the schools. and the overwhelming vote for prop "a" and 30 demonstrates that. >> thank you. >> i am here to speak in support of this proposal and as someone from the schools and i relate to statistics as undercredited as i

was going to balboa, and i wasn't able to graduate on my own. i was able to graduate due to support and because of mentors and counselors and programs and tutor that supported me to try to get me. not just graduate but to go to college. when i first heard about the a-g requirements and the affect that we are making that the new standard to graduate from high school. i was super, super excited as someone who found out about the a-g requirements in my senior year. when i first heard about it, i was very, very enthused. and also with that i was very concerned. because i know we can't just raise the bar on our young people without the necessary support to meet that. with that, i would like to say that i hope you support this and pass this appropriation for

sfusd. and i also thank you for the critical questions, because i also agree that we need to be critical and take this maybe as an opportunity to work with s u sfusd that in the long term they are keeping the students on track. but hope you support this as the young people need the support to graduate. thank you. >> good evening, i am christi nguyen a commissioner for the youth. we are to identify needs of the san francisco youth. and this is an area that is very

important to us. and with the budget cuts for the past years it's very difficult for students, including myself, to get back on track and to take the courses needed. and personally the budget cut has affected my also. so i have been staying extra long at school taking extra courses. because there is no after school or summer school. and to get back to track the students need the resources along with me. and every student deserves to graduate. and they should not be held back because of the lack of resources. and it's important to fund the san francisco credit recovery options because we want the youth to be successful and to be productive in school and the communities and san francisco. and like paul said, we are in support of this proposal. thank you. >> thank you for being here.

>> good afternoon, i am della walker, i was not planning to speaking this afternoon. i was in a meeting with the mayor. and heard about the concerns about the school district and their not using the reserve funding. as a former policy maker we know it's not wise to go to the bottom and utilize our reserve. but i think that's a valid point of priority of where the school district should place their efforts to move forward. we are at a point that it's an emergency, it's a 9-1-1 situation, we have a couple thousands students that we see how to support them and to go into adulthood. and before you go into adulthood hopefully you have the opportunity to a high school

diloamd diploma. you have at great opportunity to not support the school district or the community, but to support the students to make sure they have the opportunity to succeed. and in addition the accountability that we are worry where the $3 million would go. you have the unique opportunity to hold the district accountable in ways they are not held accountable in other ways. we hope you not only support this legislation but you give an opportunity for us to work together closer with the district in coming up with innovative ways for not just the class of 2014 but the classes of 16 and beyond. there is work to be had before we continue to give money to the district each year. but this is an emergency situation and we have students that we have to support. >> thank you, any members of the

public that would like to speak? seeing none. we can close public comment. thank you, seeing no other public commenters. colleagues we have this item before us. thank you, i did want to take a moment to thank some co-sponsors of this legislation. along with our office and supervis supervisors here. i think there is philosophical questions of how we spend our reserve if you went. i think the purpose of this fund. we do take time to use this reserve fund to fund priorities of the city. whether it's a resolving loan

fund for small businesses that are a priority of the city and county of san francisco. because they generate jobs in the city. for me personally coming from the board of education. i know how important it is for us as a city to fund the schools. sfusd is in a far different situation from the county because they have five furlough days. because the city supports our schools and we see the voters pass things such as prop "h." that is set aside for programs and the raining day fund. this is a priority to continue to augment in the school district. to clarify when i approached the school district it was because i was alarmed by the number of furlough days they were expecting in the school year. if prop 30 had not passed the

supplemental would look different. which is why we had come after election day. but the priorities would have changed if prop 30 had not passed. thankfully the voters in the state of california pass that allowing us not to move to 10 furlough days. that would be tragic for the students. for me the school continues to be a priority. it's a priority for our district and our city and many families. and unfortunately we made i commitment to the class of 2014-15, not just sfusd but something as a city. and to allow our students in our first two classes not to graduate at these alarming numbers. and particularly in the african-american and latino community would be a travesty. and i am certain that the district here on out would be

committed to reallocate that the classes after 14 and 15 would have a different structure and set up of the budget. that decreases every year unfortunately. so i am going to make a motion to move this forward with recommendation. >> thank you, a motion to move forward with recommendation. supervisor oblos. >> thank you, i will second this motion and speaking as someone who has worked in the school district as a counselor and has parents in the school district. has children in the school district and is a partner as a teacher in the school district. i know first hand what it's like to work and send your kids to school. and second hand what it's like to go to school in the school district. we are facing tremendous challenges financially.

i am really glad that we have the opportunity to provide funding and support to bring flexibility to the budget for the school district. i am glad we have a plan in place to target the funds to provide. hopefully we will. targeting students at risk not graduating from school. to me it's critical. and matches a lot of policies we put forward as a city. at how we make the investments and be sure that we do the prevention work for young people to find success in our local job market. there is a discussion about reserves and other funding and choices we make as a city. supervisor kim mentioned the revolving loan fund, and we made a decision to provide loans for small businesses. that was a decision that we made with our funding as a city.

actually very interesting today and later on the next item is about the hotels in san francisco. to be able to tax themselves, to create a funding stream to support the building, the renovation, not the renovation but the new center they will build close to the existing. that's our city money and that's the hotels deciding how to spend their own money. the money that we decide to be spent on supporting our kids is our money as well. and to make that decision is worthy of us today to move forward and make sure that we support this in next week at the full board. i will be supporting this legislation. and i look forward to our vote at the board. i hope we have the mayor's support as well. >> thank you, supervisor. know there a motion and a second. today i am not prepared to vote for that.

but i want to explain why. did you want to add something? >> there was a recommendation on this item. >> okay, let me get to that in a second. in the coming week i would like to commit to speaking with the school district to really understand your budgetary issues. i have a very strong feeling that when we -- how it is different from how we prioritize for small business loans, and we made that decisions in context of the budget, and knowing that we put aside a certain amount of money for state and federal reserves and cuts down the pipeline. i know we have serious sequestration issues from the government. and we have unfunded items from the state that we have to deal with. and not unusual for a school district to ask funding for cuts like you are at this moment. but what is rubbing me the wrong way, i don't see a reflection of the school district putting in

some of your own funding to deal with the issue. while you are asking for the city to take from reserves. i don't see a commitment to tap into the reserve to do that. and the last speaker spoke and it's not good to spend down to the last of the reserve. i agree but the fact is that the school district has the entire amount. and that's the question i have, that it's a big priority that you would use some reserves to pay for dealing with this one-time problem and emergency that i heard comments made. and that's what i want to get to with the school district from the week that follows to the board of supervisors. and that's something that we want to see, and last time there was a request for $6 million in addition to other things that may be coming down this city's

and board's committee job to analyze. and so i don't think that it's a bad purpose. i think it's a worthy and good purpose to make sure that our high school students graduate and that our kids graduate. and they are able to succeed and move forward with the requirements that they can go to a post-high school education opportunity. but i am not sure that i see the same commitment from the school district. i am aware that the city has better news and we may be required to put additional funding into the rainy day fund. which the school district has access to. and i would like to explore whether this is a priority for the school district and use that funding to play for the s-- pay for the supplemental. it won't get all the way there but those are the questions for

this week. >> if you call the roll. >> budget analyst. >> we did recommend if the board of supervisors were to approve this they amend the proposed ordinance to require the school district to prepare written reports on expenditures and including course descriptions and materials for the program and detailed program budgets and expenditures to the budget. and the number of students participating in the program and the evaluation of participating students to see the results of the programs. >> thank you. so colleagues we have a recommendation from the budget analyst, take those without objection? >> i want to commit that they are committed to make the written reports to the board of supervisors. >> we have that motion and take that without objection. >> was there also a motion to reduce the dollar amount from $3 million to $2.7?

>> i would like to make a motion from the original amount from $3 million to $2.75. >> okay, we can do that without objection. and to the underlying item, roll call please. >> on that motion. >> avalos. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> chu. >> no. >> motion passes. >> thank you very much. item passes and goes to the full board.

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>> push >> it worked in the renovation and we believe that it will work for the expansion. we believe that there is tremendous public benefit, but job creation, and city, general fund creation. this process today is just