>> good morning today is june 4th, 2013, welcome to the

personnel transportation authority of the city of san francisco. i'm joined by xhirthsz and to my right commissioner scott wiener. and the clerk is ms. erica. i'd like to thank the sftv. and madam clerk can you share with us any announcements? >> there are no announcements. >> item 2 approve the minutes. >> any questions on the minutes. let's go into the public for comments on the minutes. can we have a motion to approve the minutes. we'll take that without

objection. our next item is a closed session item >> it's phenomenon public employment appointments. this is an information item >> okay. so we have before us the hawkins group we'll be going >> okay. we're back in open session and i want to thank the hawkins company for their work and presentation on a handful of candidates what are being selected for interviews which will happen on say 13th, fourteen and the 20. and colleagues if he can agree not to divulge the information.

and let's go on to our next item. >> item 4 this is an information item. >> colleagues any items for discussion seeing none. we'll go to public item. and see anyone come forward we'll close public comment >> our next one is public comment. >> i'm holding my

>> there are kids and families ever were. it is really an extraordinary playground. it has got a little something for everyone. it is aesthetically billion. it is completely accessible. you can see how excited people are for this playground. it is very special. >> on opening day in the brand- new helen diller playground at north park, children can be seen swinging, gliding, swinging, exploring, digging, hanging, jumping, and even

making drumming sounds. this major renovation was possible with the generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san francisco bay area philanthropist helen diller. together with the clean and safe neighborhood parks fund and the city's general fund. >> 4. 3. 2. 1. [applause] >> the playground is broken into three general areas. one for the preschool set, another for older children, and a sand area designed for kids of all ages. unlike the old playground, the new one is accessible to people with disabilities. this brand-new playground has several unique and exciting features. two slides, including one 45- foot super slide with an elevation change of nearly 30 feet. climbing ropes and walls, including one made of granite.

88 suspension bridge. recycling, traditional swing, plus a therapeutics win for children with disabilities, and even a sand garden with chines and drums. >> it is a visionary $3.5 million world class playground in the heart of san francisco. this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday june 12, san francisco police commission meeting. unfortunately tonight we are going to have to move our

entire agendas you see we couldn't have a quorum tonight. we need 4 commissioners for a quorum. we offer our apology for everyone who came out tonight. unfortunately we are prohibited bylaw from going forward with the hearing without a quorum of the commissioners. so we are scheduled to start at 5:30 it's now 5:57 and it appears we are not going to have a quorum. at this time, we are going to have to go into recess until our next meeting which unfortunately we are dark next week but our next meeting will be the 26th of june.. >> is that a community meeting? our next meeting will be a meeting here on the 26th. thank

you everybody. i offer my apologize -- apologies. thanks very much. >> >> >> >> >> >> order the regular

meeting. the meeting is now called to order roll call please. (calling names) thank you >> thank you please join me if i like to the pledge of allegiance all right. item a for the regular meeting for may

13 may i hear a second? >> thank you are there any corrections? >> seeing none, roll call please. thank you (calling names) >> thank you. item b presentations to the board of education. >> thank you president norton. every meeting gets better and better and better and better. and so good evening to everyone. i have many updates i'd like to share with our public and whew we made it to the end of the school year. another year. i have some good news we join

withor parents and other school districts across california from sacramento regarding the state budget and local formula. i spoke about that. well, our budget will not increase but by 20/20 it will be $11,000 per student. it is cause for celebration that in the not too distant future our public funds are more consistent and the rest of the state catches up with the city and county of san francisco. in terms of the san francisco budget process tonight we'll have the first reading of our 2013 and 2014 budget.

this is approximately $15,000 more for next year's budget. we've been working diligently and steadily to insure that all the exponents that need to work together to support students have what they need. the 2013, 2014 has bold changes. we will discuss more about our budget for local control funding in this meeting. i have some good news the western association has finished the budget. we have 5 high schools had their midterm review by the association of the schools and colleges. w a s k receives an

accreditation that meets the standard our 5 high schools received the full 6 year accreditation. congratulations to the arts and science and existence and mission high schools. clapping the four midterm review schools include the school of the arts downtown and international studies academy congratulations to them as well. great work to the school teams that make the success possible. why did this w a s k association mean. it's actually valid and it gets accepted to colleges across the

country. our supple especially program 6 graders spent a week to get to know the step up program. this is the first year to include all our middle schools. they learned how to open their lockerers. we are thrilled to be able to offer support to make this big transition. our staff continue to nourish the success of this program. so thank you. we have a couple more. a summer event on monday june 17th we'll officially kickoff the summer learning san

francisco. we're going to have a full steam ahead to enrichment education in insuring that our children have an array of education opportunities. summer has gone at a lot of our schools and we have expanded opportunity for consider earning options. have a peaceful save and restful summer and we look forward to seeing our suntanned faces next semester >> we have item d student dlel

programs. >> we had a workshop that partnered with the sftv to envision a new school year. there were about 8 students that participated in the workshop. the students got to see some of the initiative ideas. they offered ideas of their own. students got the opportunity to go on a tour on pier 28. we're excited about the process to continue to work with the nutrition students at the school >> the sf c has had the opportunity to be an advisory body. the mayor and superintendant and

has been designated to the renewal of children's fund. the couple provides the engagement process and designed the content to be for the community at large. it will assist in the interpretation of starnldz. the commission have been meeting and planning their orientation that will take place at the end of august. and the new commissioners have been attending the meeting. the training as well letting what workshops and tainting they'll have. and the commissioners will be planning and leading many of the workshops as well

>> thank you student delegates. and now we have the report i see the representative approaching now. >> good evening superintendent and staff. i'm sure we'll hear about the stories later. this evening staff report is just a brief update in the meetings and traingz that have been offered around hysterically practices around the education services and supporting the achievement of african-american students were we attended the training that was on the restoring enforcement. we participated in to kind of broaden our prospective on how

it pertains to engaging parents and also to look at exploring how we can support the work across the district. one of the experiences that stuck out was the exercise of looking at the parental engagement of the process is it token or is it real are participation. what we determined at the end of this exercise it depend upon on the attention whether the parents had a say in the design whether they determined the consent or where they to participate and sign off. and one of the topics that really graded the meeting was the process itself. for a lot of parents showing up

it's a new experience. maybe they don't understand the language but depending upon how it's structured. so another piece that we participated in was part of participating in the implementation of the design special education and their identifying their straefg goals across the department and the calculation of other parental organizations and community leaders to give feedback. they're specific goal was creating authentic relationships to address student success. as part of that process the ideas that were generated from the committee meeting in march some of those questions are included with dr. and her colleagues. i'm going to highlight a couple

of those. some of those that came out of that briefing the parents want the information particle around the information progress. for example, on information sheet on the i p project works it should be included in a package including friendly language. another input from the pact this those cross packet calculations was the ideas of parents having information of the, i.e., process so they can understand the challenges and where is their input on the individual listed plan four their child.

the pack has been in contact of how the packet can provided encounter participation from parents. the purpose it is to advise on the impact economic we provided

we can create a safe environment and how they relate to educational opportunities and family engagement authentic family engagement. the support in continuing that dialog. thank you >> thank you any comments. >> thank you very much i'm particle pleased to see the achievement of african-american students and i want to bring up a thing that came up actually vice president asked for data on where our african-american students are enrolled and where they are being moved to. and whether the staff looks at the african-american component. we'll love to continue that conversation with the pact and a

>> thank you all right. we'll move on to item f. are there any speakers? >> okay. we'll move on to item g. may i hear a motion and a second on the content calendar please. move to second >> any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent. >> good evening we have one correction is to item 611 k-7 on pages 67. the selection should read >> translation and interpretation unit will continue to use team text global for low incidentally languages because we've received positive

feedback. they're able to accumulate last minute requests and they have excellent translation unit and it make sure they meet the needs and the experience. >> thank you, dr. are there any items removed for first reading by the board seeing none. any items severed by the board for discussion this evening >> i have one item. i do want to say as others in the past i don't want to vote against that. i'm a little worried that staff might have to hang around for 3 hours so can you think can i ask the question now >> maybe we can found out what the nature of the question is but not a have a discussion.

>> this item is k 13 on page 77 it's an evaluation with the edi trning but it's for a group of programs. i actually called our research people this is not out of the blue. i'm interested in if we can have a discussion coming up to talk about the design of our assessments and evaluations. whether the purpose of those