and at least 18 to 20 schools and we go out and do public safety presentations and i think that all of the schools are addressed by the members of the team which is a volunteer program where the members go out and talk about the importance of what we do in the fire department and show the students what we wear, under the emergency conditions so there is not a fear when we put the protective equipment on. >> it gives me pleasure when we go out to be greeted in the manner that i am from the principals and the staff and the faculty and all of the schools that we go to and we are so very welcome at the schools. we love to partner with you further when it comes to training which is neighborhood training certainly cpr training and i know that you have a lot of high school level and at some point we would love to work on further partnering on the different initiatives what i am here for today is regarding the elementary schools whenever i go out to

read along day there is a lot of books in the lie braen that i can select but i bring this one and it is called franky and the phoenix and i bring this and the giving tree which is one of my favorites. i am a huge fan of books and all that you do in the unified school district. so this book is very educational and the illustrations are phenomenal and the couple in the marina and it was written specifically about the role of the fire boat phoenix during the 1919 earthquake which we will be commemorating the 24th anniversary, often times i go to the schools and many of the kids have not heard of the book and it is educational at all levels and adults can learn from it as well and i am proud tonight to say that on behalf of the fire department we want to donate a book to each of the schools and it is really on behalf of one of our retired members who i speak with today and he wanted to be anonymous

and i said please could i mention your name and it is somebody that i worked with a colleague of my recently retired and his name is tom dudea. and he retired as an assistant deputy chief and i was proud to promote him and he was also a teacher. i will have a book that i will pass out tonight but i would like to read what we have on the outside of the book to go to each of your libraries in each of your elementary schools and it says a note to san francisco elementary school teachers this book has been donated to your school library by a former teacher and 32-year veteran of the san francisco fire department in the hope that it will be head to your primary grade classes each year. in many ways this book as as much of a reminder as it is for adult as it is for children, 1989 earthquake was a major in the area, had it not been for the event the loss of life in san francisco and as well as

the loss of property would have been far greater. it is a verified fact that in modern urban setting most of the fires will follow the major earth quakes, it is important for all that work or live in san francisco that we must remember a culture of preparedness so that we will continue to have the capability of defending the city. thank you for the dedicated service for the children of our community and i would like to thank the assistant deputy chief and he had a love for teaching and was able to be a substitute teacher while he was employed by the fire department and i am asked to write the forward and the introduction is by the senator finestien who was mayor at the time. so thank you very much. >> i just on behalf of the

board and the superintendent and the school district, i want to thank you so much for the donation and the fire department as well. and to you personally, because you always come to all ofthe read along days of the elementary cools and it is so important for our kids to see you in the leadership role in the city. >> i am a mother of three boys and i can say that like i said any time that i enter one of the schools the kids are so excited and respectful not just to me, but to each other. and great questions and very inquisitive and the teachers have been wonderful and i have gotten to learn a lot about the school districts here in san francisco. and i have not been to all of the schools but that is my goal and i have been to probably 20 of them, elementary and not to mention the high schools. thanks for the great work that i will leave these books for you to enjoy.

>> i would like to extend my appreciation to the chief and also tom, and who is a parent and i believe that his wife is a retired administrator. and it is great that our city family is so supportive of our schools thank you very much >> thank you. >> all right. all right. we will now move on to our student delegate's report and it is some what bitter sweet for all of us this evening because our two students this is their last meeting, we will miss them and you have been wonderful participants in the meetings and you guys ask great questions and i have enjoyed so much serving with you and i am sure that other board members as well will want to make the programs. >> proceed with your report. >> we don't have have an official report tonight, but i wanted to say thank you to everyone here on the board and

to all of the district staff and for all of your guidance and support, and i definitely learned a lot from all of the work that i have down here and how much that needs to go into running a school district and i really appreciate everyone's effort in fighting for the best education for our students. and i am proud to say that i have graduated from a school in this district and i want wait to take everything that i have learned into college. >> so thank you. >> i just like to thank, and say that it has been an honor to be a student delegate and it has been a pleasure to work with you guys and sit with you guys to have the commissioner maufas to help me on the side and the same thing goes to commissioner fewer and i would like to thank judson for being the main mentor in helping and

guiding us. so i know that he will continue to inspire students to further create change in our schools just like i know about the members on this board that will continue to fight for a better education for our students. so thank you. >> it is an honor. >> i will be going to california state university, sacramento. >> vice president fewer? >> i just want to say to the student delegate wes have enjoyed having you and we have enjoyed your leadership also and also, because i have authored a couple of resolutions with you, it is fabulous working with you. i am sure that you are going to do fabulous things in your life thank you. >> mr. haney. >> i want to say thank you and as a new board member i don't know what it is like without you two. so i am a little concerned. >> yeah. >> i will try to keep the

median age a little lower, but now i want to... i want to you know, you will have to have been so thoughtful and outstanding board members really true full board members and i want to thank you because as the must will notice they call your names first for the votes and i know that can be pretty scary and i know that actually i am coming one or two after you and i know that i am on the right side when i am on the same side as you two. so i want to thank you for being here and sad to see you go and i know that you will be on to big and her better things and best of luck to you when you go off to college. >> i want to wish you the best also. it takes a lot for a 17-year-old to sit through the meetings and really grasp what we are talking about, it takes a lot for a 48-year-old to sit through a meeting. but it is really great to know that you are interested in the policies and we just appreciate all of the attention and

questions that you have drawn. so good luck to you in college. >> thank you. >> i want to add my thanks and congratulations that having student delegate ss actually one of the most meaningful parts of serving on the board of education and being in and listening to your advisory votes, which is why we do them first. so we can listen to them. >> and i, so i know that you are going to do great and i really appreciate the time that you spend with us, thank you. >> miss maufas? >> thank you. >> i want to echo what my colleagues and i have said, this is the first time that i have the opportunity on all of the years of the board of education to sit with the student delegates i only have one more year let's make it so again, it is a fantastic experience just to listen to the two to desecretary our work and then ask me the questions

first and i am like let's ask the experts who are staff and you do and there is just so thought provoking and they really remine me to be up on my game to be sitting here and so i can't tell you how much that i appreciate sitting by you. this is my favorite spot, it is just great and so hopefully the next president of the board of education will put me back here in this fabulous spot. thank you so much for your service you have been amazing. >> miss murase? >> i want to thank the student delegates for the leadership this past year and being a constant reminder of our work and by just being here with you together, and just really helps us focus. and we learn from your votes and we want to wish you all of the best in the future. >> and so let's close it out by

saying, you will unfortunately this is your last meeting that your names will live on because we do have a co-sponsored resolution on the agenda that will come up for a vote later in august and so if either of you or both of you are in town we would love to have you come back when that happens. >> okay. >> item e, the parent advisory council report. i see the pac representative. >> good evening commissioners, thank you for the time, my name is tony talerico and my daughter just finished 4th grade at sunset elementary cool and i just finished my first year on the pac which from my report tonight you might find was an active and exciting year.

the role is to support and implementation and this will summarize our work for the year and will highlight the projects for next year. you have in your attachments a chart on the last page to provide more details about the specific goals and attachments. we had a year of transition and celebration, in addition to meeting priet mare goals and objectivities of engaging parents in discussions about priority initiative and policies, we weathered a major staff change on the back and we held a mid year retreat and celebrated the 10th anniversary and back in may we celebrated that anniversary in ten years of bringing parent voices and super expectives through the board of education.

we celebrated that mild stone by honoring and acknowledging the people who are essential to establishing the pac and those who help to make the work of the pac possible today. >> the work is closely aligned with the goals of the district balance score card and it is informed by what we learn through our out reach to hear from families across the district. to conversations at schools and a community briefings, as well as joint projects with district staff and community partners. this school year we reached our goal to engage 250 parents educators and students and community members in discussions about education policy issues. >> we engage nearly 130 parents in community advocates through a community conversation in our work around restorative practices. we continued to receive requests from school sites and

community organizations around restorative practices. and next year we hope to continue that by extending into mono linguil conversations and specifically around ours. and we also reached out and convened with over 65 participants in four special meetings with district leading on early education to prek, and the great initiative and the implementation of the a, g, graduation requirements and the service for the english learners and the redesign of the special education services we worked well with the district staff and the parents and pta and the mission graduate and chinese affirmative action to have community forums around the district's budget and how local state and federal funding

streams impact public schools, and finally in this area, we had a collaborativive effort with chinese for the affirmative action james town in an event called building bridges with 30 participants participated in sharing experiences, concerns, and common vision for quality education and schools for their children in the district. we actively participated in the monthly family engagement network convened by the coordinator. and pac is one of many community based organization to provide feedback on the engagement family's vision and standards. pac continues to hold it on the after school for all advisory council and we really attended

their meetings and work subgroups. in the fall, the pac vice chair spoke at the policy briefing after school at city hall and in late february, the pac vice chair was a representative and joined other representatives from the a. fa council in a conference at baltimore maryland for building local system to improve the after school programs. >> san francisco was one of the few city teams across the country who sent a parent representative to that conference. >> this year, the pac has taken an active role in the education collective of the community based organizations with the parent leaders and the chinese for affirmative action and james town and mission graduates, and to engage the families across the different communities and cultures, and languages and socio economic backgrounds to inform and discuss the key district

initiatives. pac members are particularly active this year in a discussion of the new graduation requirements and participation on the new graduation requirement task force for monitoring and implementing the ag requirements as part of that task force we helped to identify the short term and long term goals including contributing to the idea of the agency report card, that would inform parents and students about each students's ag status on a regular basis just like the standard report card and that hopefully will be implemented in the works with the adoption of the new data system synergy. >> pac also provided out reach support for the district advisory committee to increase the parent partation at the last meeting of the school year. as a result, that dac meeting

had more parents attend than usual and we discussed how the work of the local education agency plan would address achievement of african americans in the district. to con convenience what we learned from the out reach efforts and we speak with the families across the district. we present reports at the regular board members, and we also interact with individual board commissioners and district staff to discuss the specific district initiatives and over the past year, we attended and submitted questions to the what is the curriculum committee and certaining the energy, graduation requirements. and they also attended the adhoc committee on the student assignment. and we met with the board commissioners fewer and wynns and carranza and other staff to discuss the specific policy

issue and we provided input and the school side council summit planning meetings and provided feedback on two food initiatives and we served on the community tasting panel for the new service evaluation for new bidders and we served on two separate focus groups for improving the school food experience. looking towards sustaining our parent advisory council, with generous support from our funders, who (inaudible) and the family foundation, the pac has been successful in building a active membership of volunteers, parents and care givers appointed by you the board in the organizational achievements over the school year, include the pack retreat that we held in the mitt year to build the community and reflect on the work and strengthen our leadership capabilities and recruiting of

6 new members to the pact and retaining 11 members whose terms have not yet expired. we are working to renew the grants from walter and (inaudible) fund and the (inaudible) foundation and this helps to cover our operating expenses to support our pack members and coordinate our work. and the interpretation of the translation of all of our materials and providing child care for our meetings. and of course, continuing our fiscal sponsor ship by the community initiatives, and their support allows us to concentrate on the program aspects of our work rather than the administrative issues and it also insures financial accountability. so since we look ahead to the next school year, based on what we have heard from the family and the community conversation and briefings, and based on the work that we did this year and our priority for next year will include the continuing to work

in collaboration with district staff and community partner to support and monitor the implementation of the ato g requirements and schedule to take effect next year. and work with the district staff and partners to expand and support practice and specifically the parent component of that and the home school connection of that. >> make sure that we support access to after school programs and considering to advocate for the district and to advocate and provide meaningful support and the teachers and administrators accountable for outcomes to improve the out comes for african american students and english language learners and students with disabilities in continuing to

actively support and monitor the implementation of the district's family engagement plan so that we can insure that the district leaders establish time lines and deadlines and accountability measures for meeting standards for engaging them at the school sites and district level. so we are committed to work on all of these issues and we look forward to working with you and the board, with the district staff and with our community partners to engage the families in all of these efforts so that we can support the success and achievement of all of our students. >> congratulations but what i don't see here on your accomplishments is that the parents leader capacity that you have grown in our district. and i'm talking about pac but all of the other parents that you engage. and i think that the pac has

really developed many of our parent leaders in through the pac and they have become great leaders in our schools and actually in our community and so i think that should be one of your accomplishments also and i know that you are going to continue with that good work throughout the year thank you very much. >> commissioner fewer that is something that we talk about quite a bit and we reflect on at the end of the year and i think that each of us felt that we achieved a great deal of personal growth but just through participation in the meetings and activities. >> i think that even through the reports that we receive is obvious that the parent leaders have grown from when they first start as they continue throughout the year and so good work. >> commissioner maufas? >> thank you, for presenting this work, it is clear on how much work that you have done,

what is represented here on paper, can't even, i just can't even imagine all of the community members that you have reached out to and touched, and it is imperative that you all continue to do your work and continue to reach far and wide, because families connect to you all. yes, they connect to us board members and we go out to community meetings and staff. but they really hear it whatever we are trying to get to them through you. >> and i have heard that feedback over and over again when you all go out and translate for us. and it works. so thank you so, so much. and i really want to particularly highlight not all of the other work that you are doing is not valuable. but for me, the restorative practices and the conversations that you have had and continue to have, have been vital to connecting families to what we are trying to do at the district here. and how we are trying to change

the culture of san francisco unified school district from punitive to restorative and it is your work in support of our work that has made all of the transitions possible. and in teachers and family members, and in school sites and the administrators and the students feel that coming together and i want to thank the pac to really taking that on. it was monday you mental and it has made all of the difference in the world. thank you. >> dr. murase? >> i really want to thank you, and i want to recognize that the great staff work by georgia bratt but i have a homework assignment last night we were at the committee of the whole talking about the core waiver that we have applied to. and san francisco and we have taken a leadership role in figuring out the alternative to no child left behind that is less punitive, that is not, that is more realistic for our

district and we are going to need lots of help and once the u.s. department of education has decide what had to do, whether to grant the waiver or not. there is good signs that they may be in a position to grant it. once that happens, we really need to have a parent engagement process around the new accountability sections that we are proposing, with like the feedback on it but also to get the families to understand how schools will be accountable them. and so that is our homework once we get the decision from the first. >> thank you. >> thank you, very much. for your report. >> and thank you to the members of the pac. >> all right, we are going to move on to item f, public comment on consent items. i do not have any cards. item g, may i hear a motion and a second. >> moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> i believe that there are a few items withdrawn or

corrected dr. crawford? >> yes. >> good evening, commissioners we have do several corrections of withdraw. >> we have direction of item 2 d and that is 136-25 b4 this is on page 68 and 69. the school site listed should be change fromed hill crest elementary to paul reviere k-8. >> there is a correction from two i,-25 beight on page 87 d. the agreement should read, fy 13, 14, that is the fiscal year 13, 14. and there is a correction to 136-25 k20. this is on page 167 and 168. this resolution is not retroactive. >> we have a couple of more for

you commissioner mendoza. >> greks to 136-25 k46 on page 222, and 223, the resolution is not retroactive. correction to 136-25 k50, on 230 and 231 it is not retroactive. >> three withdraws 136-25 k8. this is on page 143, and 144. we have withdraw on 136-25 k13, and this is on page 153 and 154 and last, withdraw is to 136-25 k59 this is on page 250 and 251. >> thank you, dr. crawford, are there any items removed for first reading by the board?

>> seeing none, any item severed by the board or superintendent for discussion and vote this evening? >> commissioner wynns? >> i have a couple of items and i don't exactly know where to put the first one because they are the resolution food contracts and the food contract. so those, we asked that question that was asked and we got a written response in our budget question. so it is in the budget, we could discuss it in the budget or i could sever these contracts because these are the actual expenditures of those moneys. >> why don't we sever them now and if after the budget discussion if you are satisfied and don't need further discussion, you can just note that in the budget section. >> so they are on page, it is item 2 g, 136-25 c2, but it is all of the contract extensions

it is a whole bunch of things but it includes these contracts that we just sever that whole thing? >> it is on page starts on 76. and it goes to 86, actually. >> okay. >> and then also, i would like to sever item 2 h, 136-25 b7 it is a yellow page about the, you know, it is about the special fund education for protection account page 87 a, through 87 c? and then, also i would like to sever k42 on page 198. and that is just one, that is the biggest of the legal fee contracts just so that i can discuss the legal fees in general. is what i would like to do, thank you. >> okay. >> and any other items from the consent calendar? >> all right. seeing none, just the items