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>> here. >> mr. hani. >> here. >> dr. morasi. >> here. >> miss wynns? >> here. >> miss ly. >> here. >> and miss wong? >> here. >> please join me for the pledge of allegiance. >> thank you. >> the first item is approval of the board minutes, there are none, tonight. before i hand it over to the super intent ent i would like to issue a reminder on the board rules, both the brown act and the unified school district

mandate the inclusion and we take this very seriously, our board policies and the law of california gives me the authority and obligations to enforce board policies and procedures to ensure that all individuals who sign up to speak are given an opportunity to have their position heard and at the same time we are all given the opportunity to listen to what is being said. we must continually remind ourselves that part of our responsibilities as commissioners and employees and students and citizens is to model behavior for children. we do that best by stating our beliefs clearly, when it is our turn to speak and by listening attentatively to others when it is their turn to speak. as a result, i would like to just review briefly our rules. all speakers must fill out and submit a speaker call before it is called. >> speaker cards will not be taken for an item not already

before the board. >> if you wish to submit for the consent, you must submit before item f. >> if you would like to speak on an item that is not on the agenda, you can speak in the public comment session. i may group speakers together or in the alternative i may limit the number of minutes each speaker may speak. speakers in groups will immediately wind up their presentation when time is called. and speakers who refuse to follow speaker rules, or who disrupt the meeting will be asked to leave, persist ent disruptions by a group or an individual will terminate the grounds for addressing the board this evening, thank you for your patients. >> mr. superintendent. >> thank you, president, norton and the members of the san francisco community. i have three very brief

messages this even actually four. i am honored to tell folks that we are glad that you are not watching right now, because our president barack obama is giving his state of the union address for his second term. and i think that particularly apropo given that february is black history month. and i think that it is absolutely wonderful that our african american president is giving the state of the union address. we are also very, excited that we are celebrating the lunar new year across the district and i would ask everyone to join with me in celebrating these two occasions african american month and chinese lunar new year across the district. i also would like to bring to everyone's attention that this year is also a very important year for us in san francisco unified school district. as our early education department is celebrating its

70th anniversary. and this is incredible on a number of fronts, where we see school districts across the country that are doing away with the early childhood programs in san francisco, we have continued to invest and we see it in early in the childhood program. if you think back we are in the throws of world war ii and parents were off to factories to fight in the war and this community made a commitment to the youngest citizens that they would be safe while everyone threw themselves into the war effort. we have evolved into one of the finest education programs not only in california but in the nations. i would like to congratulate, everyone administrators and everyone that has been involved in the 70 years of the unified san francisco school district. congratulations [ applause ] . >> and lastly, i would also

like to on behalf of all of the students in the community in san francisco, extend my heart-felt condolences to the family and friends of dr. akerm an who was the former superintendent from 200 to 2006. she recently passed away at her home in albuquerque, new mexico. she was a noted scholar and worked hard for the students in san francisco and so our condolences to her family and friends and colleagues across the nation, thank you president norton. >> thank you. >> next is recognition and resolutions of come men daysing. >> we have the greatest number

of nationally certified board of teachers in california and i think in the united states, but we have postponed this presentation and we will announce when this will be made at our next regularly schedule board meeting. >> thank you. next we have our student delegates's report >> this year the elections are through the sfusd office. the applications are available, if you would like to be a candidate for the upcoming election for the new student delegates you can get an application on-line and www.sfusd.edu. on february 22nd at 5:00 p.m. steel ej1 at sfusd.edu and

>> we will be announcing the details shortly. we are looking familiar for having him at our meeting and be reading a resolution urging them to create a centralized data base in facilitating the application process for the students who are eligible for the deferred action for the

early childhood arrivals urging them to work together to support our undocumented students and transitionally aged youth. >> last year our bathroom policy in the spring, the student advisory council was passed . when the year began, the students expected the changes in policies, we have heard the reports that some schools are not ad hearing to the resolution, because of this, we will be sending out a memo to remember the administrators that the policy does exist and with ask them to follow and it make sure that they are aware of it as well. >> thank you. >> next we have our parents advisory council report. >> thank you for the time, my name is tony tolerico, i am the

proud parent of a 4th grader at sunset and she loves her school community. tonight's report i am going to do a follow up with the activities with respect to the allow plan and talk about our pac retreat and look forward to the school summit and our activities there. last month, we reported that we hosted a community briefing, on the low plan and supporting the spanish english learners, to wo ng and we highlighted the questions that were generated by the attendees. and we are pleased to report that we received a written response to all of those questions from miss wong along with an invitation to discuss these matters in greater detail. >> once we have a chance to digest that information and share it with the community partners, we will be setting up another meeting time with miss wong to have a more detailed

conversation about services supporting english language learners. we truly appreciate miss wong's responsiveness and willingness to continue that dialogue about how we can improve the services for the english language learn and hers their families. on that note, we applaud the office of public out reach and communications for its efforts to connect with non-english speaking families to insure that they have an opportunity to impact the usable of the district website particularly as it applies to the enrollment process website tab. one of our pac members, lee will be participating in a focus group on that topic led by the public out reach, so thank you. >> looking to our pac retreat. on january 29th, the parent advisory council, had a mid

year retreat. and it is part of the cycle of planning, action and evaluation, we took time to reflect on our work so far this school year. and we reviewed our goals and objectives so that we could set the context for the work in the remainder of the school year. it was also a good opportunity for us to do community building among our pac team, to discuss leadership capacity and have meaningful participation as we continue to move forward with our work. for many of the pac members, especially the newer ones like myself, it was very valuable for us to revisit the history of the pac and look at how our work has evolved and been shaped through the year, based on what we learned from the families across the district and to hear the parents questions and ideas about the various districts initiatives and policies. the retreat we realized that we

need to create opportunities to bring the information from the district leaders out to family and community leaders and we need to facilitate the process to bring the parent voices into that conversation so that we can build better partnerships among community members and district staff and strengthen the initiative design to support achievement. >> one of the clear out comes was the need to generate greater visibility for the pac. many parents are unaware of what the parent advisory council is and let alone the work that we do to bring the voice and perspective to inform the policy discussion and decisions,. to this end, we will have as a pac, an informational table set up at the school planning summit on march second. and in doing so, we hope to increase pac visibility, high lie the work that we are doing

and to help recruit new pac members for the following school year. at the end of this school year, we will have three vacant seats and three seats reserved for alternates for the term that will begin this summer. and as we begin that out reach and recruitment effort, we are actively seeking early childhood education, parent or guardian representation, and additional representation of our non-english speaking parents on the pac. we have a diverse group already but the more diverse that we can assemble the better it will be. applications will be available in english, spanish and chinese, on our website, starting this friday, february 15th, 2013 at our website www.pac sf.org and they will be due friday may third. 2013. we hope that all of you will

encourage any parents who you feel would be good candidates to apply and contact us to apply and join for the pac. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> all right, we are now on item f, public comment on consent items. i have three speaker cards. willie ratcliff, robert woods and oscar james. you have two minutes each. please approach the mic. >> my name is willie radcliff and i am the general manager who works with developers. and my comment is that that is

a no beard contract that is trying to go through here. it has to be bided under the design built and it specifically states that there must be a bid, an original bid. this is not an rfp put out just checked all of the records. and this is completely fraudulent to move in that direction is to say that you can just do a request for qualifications and just skip the bid. some of those outfits could have bided lower. although, you are breaking the law in trying to do this and the community is really upset not just in this point but the

same thing happened out here in western addition that we are not benefiting from any of our tax dollars or bond money from the school district and so we are asking you to put this off and go back to where you were in negotiating with us to do the job and we can do the job. and some of the things in there talking about elevations and all of this, look, i have been building buildings for 43 years, we have people that can build buildings, as a matter of fact slaves built the white house, so we don't need that kind of talk coming to us about our qualifications. and what we want you to do is what you came up with and coming up with the way that it will be lawful for our group to build a middle school. thank you.

>> good evening, my name is robert woods. i came here this evening to... i like to ask the question as to the way that you issue no-bid contracts. i won't say that it is illegal, and i'm not going to say that it is legal. but, when you issue a non-bid contract of this nature and you won't give a community square job and you issue a 44 million dollar contract to a contractor with no bid and you will not give the community one job?

where is your sensitivity? >> that is all that we ask is for, we are asking for it, we are asking for a chance. and you give 44 million away and you don't even give the community nothing. >> good evening, my name is oscar james and i am a native resident of bay view hunter's point and i once served on the commission that brought the schools into bay view hunter's point. this school, the willie brown school, we definitely want this school to be built. but we want it to be built with minority participation, we want the contractors from the 9124 area to have a part in that. we want to go out and make sure that minorities have an impact on building this. we want to make sure that i know the city came up with a new minimum standing to have 25

percent of our community in 1975 had a memo of agreement that was ratified and signed by the board of supervisors and the mayor and the unions to have 50 percent community, and 100 percent city-wide and those are the same mandates that we are going out for bay hunter point. i don't care what the city comes up with, we are demanding 50 percent community and 100 percent city-wide contractors and we want to make sure that this city, contractors, have a part of that contract or this school day by day will be stopped. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, public comment on consent items is now closed. item g, consent calendar. i would like to hear a motion, please? >> move for the consent calendar. >> thank you. >> are there any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? >> none. >> any items removed for first

reading by the board? >> any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion and vote tonight? >> commissioner wynns? >> i would like to remove f10. i think that is the right. >> f10. >> will you tell me which? >> on page 59. >> i see it. i see it. okay. >> just because the agenda item does not specify it just says f10. >> got you, okay, if 10. roll call vote will take place under section 0. item eight, superintendent proposals, there are none today. >> item i, board members proposals there are none today.

>> item j, request to speak recording general matters. i have a few speaker cards. first from emily wade thompson, brenda jackson and miss virginia marshal and then jake kosac and leona hunter, nathan apple and linda cook and you have two minutes each. >> good evening to president nkoyo iyamba and vice president fewer and carranza and all board members and all assembled. i stand proudly as the president of the san francisco alliance of black school educators to introduce you to two women who will enlighten you on the grass roots organization that are in commitment to the students of san francisco, but most importantly, supportive to our

african american youth. first i would like to present, our vice president, virginia marshal, chair person, of the world reknowned african american honor roll. brenda jackson of the third, and musical and step competition. >> and school is in session, good evening. >> what is the news? i have good news to share. before i get to the good news, i just want to say to president norton and fewer and superintendent carranza and staff and the president of uesf and ladies ladies and gentlemen and our beloved ester. i have a special thank you for what happened next week.

>> to the superintendent, commissioner you have been the best from the beginning maufus. thank you for the lease that you gave us last year and they have come back to join us this year and we cannot thank you enough. >> superintendent carranza, thank you for the things that have you done and spoke for us over and over again, we thank you for your support. superintendent, shorts, thank you to our print shop staff, thank you. what is the good news? 2013 is a great year for african americans, why is that >> because from january first, we celebrate the sign of the emancipation proclamation. why? because we celebrate the 50th anniversary on the march on washington for our people and dr. king's famous i have a dream speech. why is it important to us, because next wednesday at 6:00,

at saint marry's cathedral, more than 1200 students of african american decent will be honored at our celebration. give that a hand. >> a couple of months ago, superintendent carranza joined us for the naac, p banquet, i know that will be warmly received by the african american community because he will be our guest speaker, give that a hand. the students will receive an incentive and the 4.0 students and will receive a certificate also a med dallon and will not go home hungry, once it is over we will go down stairs for a

reception. the first three years were jones methodist and he is in the audience here tonight and just three short years. then the third baptist church for years our group. and this is our third year at saint mary's cathedral. i have a feeling that we are going to out grow, and where we will go from there, i do not know. i know with your help you will help us. we must raise about $10,000 to put forth this event and so we will take your donations the checks made to the black school educators and you can call us and we will give you the address of where to send your donations. we look forward to saying you next wednesday at saint mary's cathedral. [ applause ] >> school is still in session. mrs. virginia marshal. to the board members, proper

protocol has been established, thank you, thank you, and thank you thank you thank you for being so supportive of the san francisco alliance of black school educators my name is brenda jackson and i am the chair person of the musical and this year we added on step contests. i was told that i was only given two minutes i will yield, i will yield the floor to mr. matthew garrett, who will come up and present his original poem to the board of education. and if you on february 23rd at thurgood marshal high school from grades k-12, please come out and support us. matthew? >> matthew one second. >> miss wilson i would like to give the student of not having a time limit, so if we can make sure that the timer