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 severed by the commissioner wynns for the discussion. >> all right. roll call will take place under section o there is a request and unless there is an exception, i would like to move up the general public comment regarding general matters. ahead of the budget, so we would take that item now? there are a number of speakers signed up for that. so seeing no objection, we are now going to skip ahead to

request to speak regarding general matters. i am going to call your name and please line up at the microphone you will have two minutes each to speak. evan, miller, joshua davidson, and cicilia, (inaudible) and (inaudible) and roslynbutler. push >> good evening commissioners. superintendent carranza. excuse me my voice is kind of given out i have a little problem that i have been dealing with since the first of the year and it has caused me to be off of work quite a bit

but i am here tonight to talk to you about the contract. as you know, it has been 7 years since we have had a raise. we have not had increase but we have had take away which includes furlough days. our teachers and our parents and the crafts and the trays and their share and we wish to get ours. we are the first in the schools, we open the schools, we close them. we have student nutrition workers that serve our children we have custodians that clean our schools and health workers that tend to the (inaudible) as well as the secretary and the clerks in the schools. and as you know our clerks and our secretaries are over worked. we also have this new program called go fast that you have put on the secretaries and now that is included in their job

as well. yet, we get no raise. and so, we are asking you tonight to consider before you vote on that budget tonight, what you did not include, classified and please we are disappointed at you all and you know who we are and we know what we do. and if it was not for us, this boardroom would not be clean and you would not be sitting at a clean desk. our kids would not be getting fed in the cafeteria and all of those school is out but our workers continue to work in the summer. >> you know what is fair is fair. and you need to look at it for what it is. and give us what we need. we need some money. and we need it now. okay? we need some money. and now we know that at the end of the day if we don't get ours, the administrator is going to get theirs but we want to get ours before they get

theirs. >> good afternoon i would like to pin down a couple of numbers for you all on the situation with the wages over the last several years it has been december of 2007 since i... >> could you state your name? >> my name is josh davidson i work in the early education department. and december 2007. was the last time that our members received a raise. since then the general cost of living has gone up 12 percent in san francisco. and rent controlled rent has gone up 8 and a half percent since then, and our members have received 0 additional dollars. also, just so that you have a picture of what our members economic profile is like, our average member makes over $30,000 a year, according to

the scenario of inequality, the poverty level for san francisco family of four is 36,000 a year. and so we are most of our members these days leave outside of staoet and can't afford to live in the city i am one of the very few who manage to scape by in town. the situation is worse every year and there are raises in the contract for the certificated employees but not for classified employees but would i like to say that we work hard year round and we are dedicated to the students of this district but in order to do our jobs well, we need to be able to conduct our lives outside of work in a way that is sustainable. so thank you very much. >> (inaudible) [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> my name is cecilia

(inaudible) and [ speaking in a foreign language ]

>> do we have interpretation? so that we can... >> let me try if i can do it. >> i am a union representative, of the 1021, do you want to read your stuff? >> okay. >> so, why don't we start, and i apologize, why don't we start over and do four minutes so that you can interpret. >> i can summarize. she works as a permanent civil service and she was laid off and she returned back to work at the school nutrition

services and is given 3.5 and the 3.5 hours per day, with the salary of 400 dollars a week is not enough for her to support her family. she lives in oakland, she has to pay to transportation but the buses are expensive and she has to take another bus to work, and so, she is asking for 7 years she has not received an increase in her pay and so, her family is struggling to meet, you know, the needs in the family. >> hello, my name is roslyn butler, to the panel, the board members and the superintendent to highlight what josh said, i am going to go a little further. other than the board members i am going to encourage the

administration to support your classified staff. so everyone in this room imagined that you don't have a janitor, and imagine that you don't have a 1426 such as me who i am proud to be an employee of the district eleven years not someone who just works to pass the day by, but someone who has been committed to this district. i am a product of the san francisco unified school district from brian elementary school to mission high school who i am still involved in my school and will always be as a mission there. andvy seen the district change, drasically over the years and i have seen the people come to work just struggling to come in with a smile. so those of you administrators and you see the people and you wonder why they are not smiling and you have to figure out how to rent and pay your pg&e and

pay your car if you are lucky to have one, pay your mortgage, and be able to afford to take your children to the hospital to the dentist and to pay those co-pays and all of the other expenses that come along with being an individual and being a parent and being a wife and being a husband, that all takes a toll on you. now me, myself, i don't have any children and i am blessed by the lord to have a husband. but in those cases a families who do not have a husband, don't have a wife, do not have two incomes, and don't have parents and sisters or brothers or anyone else to help them out, it is not easy. now, many of you here to say, well, you should just be happy you have a job. i am happy i have a job. and i believe that i am blessed to have that job from the man above first of all. and i would like to think that the people that i work for, that they appreciate what i do. and if you do and that is

everyone administration and the board, if you do to show your appreciation by giving us the raise that we have earned, thank you. >> good evening, and my name is luparas and good evening superintendent carranza and the general public. i am the representative of the local service employees that represent and the living 100 workers that work here at the school district and i am also assigned as the chief spokesperson for our bargaining unit. we have been bargaining since march. and the last meeting we had was on june 19th. and both the parks are way far apart and particularly in the economic aspects. and we are a little bit disappointed even though we are optimistic that we will be able to get a contract, and attentative agreement, but we

are a little bit disappointed because in the proposed budget, our researchers have found out that the district has allocated 2.6 million dollars for the (inaudible) for compensation and other benefits but did notify or include the classified employees. if i, if our researcher is wrong on that matter, we need you to correct us but that is what we found. and so, we tried to really meet with your negotiateors but they are holding on and understands that the budget does not reflect, you know, improvement for our members will have not received since 2006 or 2007 increase of their salary and wages while you know that the inflation and the time commodities have changes and we

want you to negotiate to come to the table and have money so that we can resolve this problem, thank you. >> thank you. public comment is now closed we will move on to item h, the consideration of the annual budget for the 13, 14 school year, this was moved and seconded on june 11th, and may i have a report from the budget committee meeting that occurred last week? commissioner wynns? >> sure. well, we had a great budget meeting because everyone was there and it was an augmented budget committee meeting and it actually was the public hearing on the proposed budget in advance of our vote this evening. and so, i will, we actually have and maybe for the public,

i will just, identify the areas about which questions were asked and that we have gotten answers not all of which are definitive but rather should add to our discussion this evening about the budget. >> and so with it, the following subjects were raised by the board and one is the new proposal multitiered system of support and more information on how that is going to work the increase in costs for special education and special ed transportation. what the spending plan is for the new common core state standards and revenue stream that was in the state budget, issues about the rainy day reserve and how the eligibilities are calculated in our continuing eligibility for the rainy day, money from the city. and issues about the funding priorities or the policy priorities in the district and where can find the spending for those things and the questions that are more structural about

how the budget is presented or about descriptions, the narrative descriptions of the variances from year to year so that the people can understand them. >> these are questions about the priorities identified by the board and where is there revenue for the common planning time which the board discussed. what about the ethic studies and the cost that have and where is that budgeted? the kc or the high school exam and these are questions in this one and some others too related to the change in the ways, or the state revenue is budgeted and it does not come so much in the categorical streams which we like and but the question of what are we going to continue to do the things that we have previously done with that moneys and this questions about the student nutrition program. and which is why i pulled the items about the cost of the items and how that will be

resolved and also we have topics for future discussion for longer discussions. so, one is so that the board and the public and the staff i guess could further understand and begin to change our thinking about the new funding system, the local control funding formula and that system of support or centralized site based students for support and programs and about the question was raised about any planning for us to try to afford a 7th period day since that is kind of identified as a key issue in meeting our graduation requirements. and so, does that adequate? >> yes. >> thank you. >> that is the report of the budget committee. >> nicely done. >> all right. may i have a reading of the recommendation deputy superintendent lee or superintendent or designee. >> i will ask lee to read that. >> thank you.

so, the requested action is that the board of education approves the fiscal year, 13, 14, adopted budgets for the san francisco unified school district and the san francisco county office of education. >> i think that is right. >> in the official state forms, prescribed by the state superintendent of public instruction with the california education code, 33129 and 42, 127. >> thank you. >> i have a number of speakers signed up for this item, and so as i call your name, please line up along the wall we will keep the readers two minutes. >> lovha. >> malara. >> susan solomen. katie franklin. and megan and katie russell >> you may begin when you are

ready, you have two minutes. four minutes with interpretation. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> good evening my name is maria is i am the president of glac and i son that just finished third grade. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> a few weeks we came as a delac and gave a report where we gave some recommendation and

one of those recommendations was related to transparency. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> we have reviewed the formula that you presented last tuesday, i think that it was june 18th? >> regarding the local control funding formula we have the next questions. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> as for this project that is

no longer, wait a minute, well, what is going to be the mechanism and the follow up on supervision now that the funds are centralized and not going to be. okay they are going to be centralized. how are we going to insure that our children or our students are given the resources appropriate, the appropriate resources within the classroom and the form and frequency, and the form and frequency on how they are going to measure the

efficiency and the implementation of such services in order to insure that this new plan is heightly functional? >> we would also like to see that those funds or that funding is used technically in the classroom for the kids to have more support and as well, have a assistant teachers, or assistance in the classrooms. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> we would like to request how

schools have more time in the collaboration in the administration and the teachers. so they would have, use that time to plan together. >> thank you. >> good evening commissioners my name is carla and i am a dlacmember and i am also a parent of three children that are in the san francisco unified school district. i am a graduate of the san francisco unified school district myself. so, i am very invested in the school district and one of maria said that the dlac has made a number of suggestions to the board and it seems how the new budgeting is being broken down, a lot of the moneys is unrestricted funds and does cause a concern for us. and we see that a lot of the

staffing is also going to come from on top. so, substitutes is one of the suggestions that we made, so the substitutes is a big issue especially in the schools that are offering the immersion programs which are elementary and schools and we are suggesting that a substitute be assigned to the school site and this substitute must have a good relationship with the students and must be able to speak, read and write in the language of the immersion level. we heard many complaints nr the members that the substitutes were being sent to immersion classes and they don't speak the language or some of them are not even qualified to deal with elementary schools and ter actually high school substitutes and there is a lot of frustration on the children's part, on the adults part they don't, they don't have patience with them. and also, so then the third point is that the substitutes

must have experience in serving the appropriate age groups so if they are sent to an elementary school and not high school special education is also a certain for us seeing that again a lot of the budgeting is coming up from centralized. that the special educators are able to speak the languages of the elspecial ed children and we understand that there is the program that superintendent is putting in there as an inclusion and that we ask that the transitional support for them. thank you. >> my name is (inaudible) and i am a member of ace the community in empowerment and i am also a mother of a 14-year-old who is going to the public school for the first time. ace and allies have fought hard to pass prop 30 not only that, we are a part of the close the

gap coalition. we are fighting hard for the very services that were closed that gap. more para professional and counselors and therapists there is money there to rescind all layoffs and the district is legally obligated to spend the 5.8 million and the rainy day fund meant to stop the layoffs instead of carrying it over into the budget next year. why are you holding on to these phones? so somebody can stick their greety hands into that pot? >> the layoffs will hurt those that read them the most, low income neighborhoods and where is that? >> bay view, hunter's point and visitation valley, and the patral, hill and the students are african american, hispanic and pacific islanders please keep the people who support our struggling families the most. ace members and closed the gap coalition will be keeping a

close eye on you how you choose to spend the additional revenues coming from the states. and we want to make sure that these resources go to school sites themselves for direct services to students. and help teachers do their jobs. we ask that you make public, the plans for your multitiered system of support. and the common core, we are very concerned about special education money, being swept from our school sites. remember, this is our, discuss me this is our footing, our schools, our children, and our future. >> good evening, board of education commissioners and superintendent carranza, i'm

susan soloman, i am here representing the closed gap coalition, gordon was here and was not able to stay to speak. where many items that i will try to keep it short as short as possible. and we have a number of concerns, one is about many of the funds that are being swept, the categorical funds, i will focus on just a couple. for high school or high school graduation is such an important goal for us for all of us class size reduction for 9th grade, high school, class size reduction is being swept for ninth grade math and we need to see something better than that. we have in our contract, the collective bargaining agreement, the contract language about how we can talk about reducing class size if there is or are additional funds and here is the citation. >> and then, we are also

concerned about the sweeping of the kc funds. we need to support our students and we need to do it right in the school sites. in terms of professional development, those funds have been swept as well. as you probably know, this is another hand out, this is the orange one. and when we are talking about restoring what we sacrificed to keep the district solvent, we being the uesf, professional development is the item that is supposed to come back after furlough days, so we want to see, professional development restored and those categorical funds swept as well. we also are curious about where these items and these very important items are going to show up in the formula because we do need them n terms of the rainy day funds, there are still layoffs, and i don't understand why.

because there is $5.8 million allocated for next year's budget in terms of who is being laid off in spite of the fact that the chronicle said that it is mostly for electives that is actually not true. it is math, it is english, it is physical education, it is social workers and it is social science and then for para professionals it is classroom instructional aids and family liaisons and site nutritionists not that we should give up the electives either but these are important academic personnel who we very much need. other people that i know will speak more about the special education. one of final note. last year, the projected ending balance for the 12, 13 school year was $15.67 million and that is also in this hand out. the actual ending balance is now over 34 million, i think that we really need to look at

the projections, and what is real and what is not. and make sure that we spen the money, spend it well, and spend it on our students and on the people who do the work. thank you. >> i am katie franklin for the community advisory for special ed and i sent you a packet of documents and i questioned the cuts made to the many school special ed weighted the school formula site allocation for the special ed related supplies. and that is on page 63 of the printed budget book or page 70 of the budget's pdf file under exist eight. and coinciding with the almost 12 million dollar increase, in the special ed budget we are cutting 25,000 from the teacher supply money and that is completely unnecessary and unfair. it i