whole team of district staff who put together the waiver. >> yes, commissioner wynns. >> since we now have an update, having gotten a waiver, so, i wanted to ask what our next steps are. and i particularly wanted to ask at the time we had that meeting. and i think at the time we applied, too, i asked the question about what are we doing to hold back on contracts or what is our plan to redirect the money that we had been required to set aside for transportation in sef? so, can we get a report on that? >> sure. commissioner wynns, obviously there's been multiple iterations since even that june meeting. so, staff is in the process now of actually pulling together a report that we'll bring to the board. and then there's a number of conversations not the least of which is with our administrator union, our teacher union about what the effects are going to

be in terms of the evaluation process, which we all know it's negotiated. we don't anticipate significant changes, but we're going to enter into those conversations as well. so, we'll bring a comprehensive report about what the next steps are as we compile those. >> and including something specific about the previously required set aside [speaker not understood]? >> yes, ma'am. >> thank you. >> okay. any reports from board tell gates to member organizations? any other reports from board members? yes, commissioner murase. >> i just want to report tomorrow evening we'll be hosting the ad hoc committee on student assignment where we'll be looking at c -tip 1 middle school feeders daniel webster [speaker not understood]. the enrollment process tomorrow at 6 o'clock here. and the next meeting of the curriculum and program

committee will be held on monday, september 9th. the primary agenda item then will be related to the achievement gaps. >> yes, commissioner wynns. >> i just wanted to announce that we, which we would have had last week, we're now holding a budget committee meeting this month because we really are interested mostly in new developments that relate to the lcff and soon, very soon, the state board of ed. and others are going to be looking at the related so-called accountability systems. we don't know what they look like ~ and how they might affect the budget. so, we decided that since nothing had been referred by the board that we would not hold a meeting prior to the beginning of school which would have been last month. so, in october we'll have a regular budget committee. ~ lcsf. >> commissioner maufas, then commissioner mendoza. >> i just wanted to congratulate the district -- i went to a professional

development day today which was held at presidio middle school and george washington high school. and really, it was just fantastic and it was -- administrators, paraprofessionals, teachers, all coming together in one space which was awesome. i loved that. but it was sort of a if did ~ buffet of paraprofessional [speaker not understood]. it was a mix and mingle of everything we want to offer. i want to thank the curriculum construction department, [speaker not understood] team and the support staff out there helping. it was just wonderful. i happened to attend the a to z about a to g -- [laughter] >> which was great. and linda wells and julie did fabulous and sort of tag teaming on information what they know about the district, what they know about coming --

what's coming from uc as, what's on the cutting edge and how we as a district can best prepare classroom staff, administrators, paraprofessionals, families to have these conversations. ~ ucs at a much deeper level. i want to say it was stellar. i want to congratulate them. i also attended -- oh, ghosh, teaching in a culturally relevant classroom, which was also wonderful with denny morenco. and he was wonderful as well. so, i know that the other half -- tomorrow is at burton high school. so, the other side of the city. and, again, just a bounty of professional development options and it was just wonderful that we could all pick and choose which is even more exciting about professional development. you go and you want to be there. so, i want to congratulate the district staff for putting that on today. all i heard were good things. and superintendent, can you comment on the speaker, the

guest speaker today? >> sure. thank you, commissioner maufas, for the shout out. and i also want to add my thanks to dr. [speaker not understood], bill sanderson, his entire curriculum and instruction staff. they did a phenomenal job. (applause) >> what may not be known, the virtual popouri development, [speaker not understood], from the notice of all of our teachers coming back to actually game time $20, they did a phenomenal job. ~ today i shudder to think what will happen when we give them three months to plan. get ready. get ready. >> amazing. >> but our guest speaker was jaime [speaker not understood] who was a google -- a google technology speaker. but it's a misnomer. he really talks about technology, not necessarily from google's perspective, but how technology is changing the word.

~ world. he is fascinating to talk about what our kids know and know what to do as opposed to all of us. so, he was engaging. he was very, very entertaining. and we hope to provide a video of what he talked about to all of us here. >> and i know commissioner mendoza wants to give a report. i just also want to adi heard from the leadership of our union today that they were very happy with the presentation today. they thought it was really interesting and really well put together. so, i wanted to just pass that along because i think that's important to know. so, well done. congratulations. commissioner mendoza. >> thank you. so, there were a couple of shout outs i wanted to give, too, on a lot of the training that's been happening over the course of the week. you guys have been extremely busy. the project management training that was put on earlier this week was fantastic. i also went to the ipad boot camp as we're launching the middle school initiative. there were trainings for over 30 teachers who were going to

be launching the ipad initiative in our middle school which was really cool, too. ido did their lunchroomdesign and i don't know if any of you guys had a chance to look at that, but wow, i would go and sit and eat lunch with the kids. and i hope we can see that, too. ~ through. today there were 32 sfusfd students that were given. i am the future scholarship awards by the mayor ~ and kevin came and joined us and they were all students from sfusd and they got scholarships that ranged from $250 to $1,000 that were private funds that were raised by our mayor. and you saw the back pack give away that's coming up for our kids in the mission. and that is going to be in partnership with the mission promise neighborhoods and that's going to be thursday at john o'connell high school at 11:00 a.m., from 11:00 to 1:00. invite all the kids in the

mission to come out and get back packs filled with supplies and books. and then for buildings and grounds for this month, we're actually going to be postponing it because i'll be on my honeymoon. >> yea. >> [speaker not understood]. and i'll be dropping my daughter off at college. so, i'll be one day emotional mess and couldn't do buildings and grounds anyway. so, we'll resume with our meetings in september for buildings and grounds. thank you. >> sub. superintendent, you had an announcement? >> great, thank you for letting me chime in on this time period. i also want to give a shout out to leslie gardner and christin [speaker not understood] who led our planning for our administrator institute which we heard from our administrators was very well received as well. really set the stage for the equity work that we're taking on in san francisco public schools. so, i want to thank them as well for their leadership. it was really, really tremendous. (applause) >> thank you.

and, commissioners, i'd also like to introduce to you, you often see them at the back, but we have some new members joining our leadership team. i want to introduce to you two assistant superintendents. [speaker not understood] who will be supervising cohort of our elementary schools. (applause) >> assistant superintendent. our very own david wong joining us as assistant superintendent. (applause) >> principal at francis school key. joining us is dr. charles float us joining us as high school director. (applause) >> i think everyone else are the usual suspects back there. so, thank you for staying till the very end. [laughter] >> thank you. okay. at this time i'm going to call -- oh, i'm sorry, yes. >> i just wanted to announce that on august 2nd the department of women hosted a child sex trafficking conference and we were very pleased that linda platt, a retired high school counselor, could join us because i think

it's very important that this is in the wake of the fbi sting that we understand that this issue affects our public school students as well. 60% of girls who are in human traffic situations are from our foster care system. so, there's a big responsibility that we as a city and our public schools have to play in solving this issue. so, you'll be hearing more. i would be happy to brief my colleagues and district staff on this issue. thank you. >> thank you, dr. murase. at this point i am going to call a recess of the regular meeting in order for the board to go into closed session. following the closed session i will resume this regular meeting and read out the closed session items from this closed session and the previous one. i know that you have an adjournment that you want to do. commissioner wynns was going to give the adjournment in the

memory of rita [speaker not understood] and we'd like it to be on the radar. with the agreement of colleagues, could we do the adjournment at the adjournment now and i will recess the meeting, is that all right? >> thank you. as a tribute to her. for those of you that don't know, [speaker not understood] passed away on tuesday. this is going to be tough for me so here we go. [speaker not understood] was born on january 24th, 1926 at norwalk, california, passed away on august 6, 2013 in san francisco. in april of 1942 she was inturned with her family and 120,000 americans of japanese dissent. she was sent to the relocation center in arkansas and with support from the quakers she was able to leave the camp and attend college in wisconsin. she intended but was not allow today become a teacher because of her race. instead she went to study art at black mountain college outside of ashville, north carolina. it it was a remarkable place

with unique curriculum and teaching methodology and this is where ruth developed her philosophy of arts education. she was able to study with [speaker not understood] and she also met architectural and design student all bert lanier whom she would marry, move to san francisco and raise six children. in 1968 as an sfusd parent ruth cofounded the alvarado workshop an innovative program that involved parents and professional artists in the public schools so that young children had the chance to develop more fully as individuals. at its peak, the alvarado arts workshop was in 50 public schools in san francisco. it employed artists musicians and gardners and recruited thousands of parents to be involved in public education and certainly was the precursor to our elementary arts program. out about the same time ruth became a meerof the san francisco arts commission and began lobbying politicians an charitable fodations to support arts programs. she would go on to serve on the california arts council, the national endowment for th

and become the first artist trustee of the fine arts museum of san francisco. later ruth was instrumental in founding the san francisco school of the arts, a (applause >> her belief that having working artists in public schools working with students has spread around the country and is embedded in our own master plan for arts education. in 2010 after decades of discussion, ruth finally allowed us to rename the school of the arts as the ruth [speaker not understood] san francisco school of the arts. we promised her that we would be the trustees of her legacy as a pioneer of arts education and make sure that her dream of arts high school being in the civic center alongside other landmark arts institutions would be accomplished. as the trustee emerita fine arts museums she was one of the staunchests to build the museum in golden gate park. when the new museum was built she donated 15 of her iconic

wire sculptures where they hang de young tower. i visited two days after her passing. ruth's spirit is there. one of her sculptures hangs on the steer overof the oakland museum of california and her spirit is there ~ and it's definitely in the [speaker not understood] san francisco school of the arts. in recent years ruth has no longer allowed her to participate in the cultural and civic life of the community but she remained interested in all that we were doing to accomplish our goals for arts education in san francisco public schools and for the new ruth [speaker not understood] san francisco school of the arts at 135 van ness. superintendent carranza was able to visit her and meet with her last year. i have been privileged to know ruth and her family for more than 20 years. i consider it an honor to have known her and to have learned from her. and as we mark ruth's passing, we remember how nity

recently her o foun the hyat el union square brought her life and work back into the news and also the beautiful fountains in japantown, large keep tour on the embarcadaro both based on ruth's work and research and complex paper folding, the mermaid fountain at the square, [speaker not understood] san francisco state and murals in several san francisco schools that were done part of the workshop. a memorial service for ruth will be held on tuesday, august 27th, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the band show on the museum concourse at golden gate park across from the de young museum. donations in ruth's honor can be made to the ruth [speaker not understood] fund and sent to 111 6 castro street, san francisco, 94 114. 11 16 castro street. the board of education and the san francisco unified school district administration expresses its sympathies to the lanier family.

her surviving children, 10 grandchildren and four great grandsons. we pledge our continued commitment to our promises to ruth that with you her family, we will be the keepers of ruth's legacy for all the students in san francisco now and in the future. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner wynns. and now this meeting is in recess. if i could ask the room to be cleared, please. we are now at item t, report of closed session actions the. i'm going to first repeat the closed session actions from the closed session of august 6, 2013. the board of education by a vote of 7 ayes approved the contract for two principals. the board of education by a vote of 5 ayes and two nays, maufas and wynns approved a contract for one chief of human resources.

the board of education by a vote of 7 ayes approved the contracts of nine central office staff as follows. three supervisors, four program administrators and two directors. now i'm going to read out the results of the august 13th, 2013 closed session. public employment, the board by a vote of 7 ayes approved the contract for one program administrator and one assistant principal. in the matter of sb and sfusd, the board by a vote of 7 ayes by the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. in the matter of zow and sfusd the board by a vote of 7 ayes gave the board to pay up to the stipulated amountment in the matt of of mpn and sfusd the board by vote of 7 ayes gave the board ability to pay up to the stipulated amount. in the matter of the insurance company, the board by a vote of 7 ayes gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. victim lit san diego baytion in the personnel matter, the board

by a vote of 7 ayes gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. item u, other informational items posted in the agenda is the informational notice of classified personnel transaction. we did hear item v previously. so, with that i will adjourn the regular meeting of august 13th, 2013. thank you. [adjourned] (clapping) >> are you a parents that's unemployed and struggling to pay child support we have teamed up and positions ourself to offer

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>> i will ka call the meeting to order. secretary, please call the roll. (roll call). . >> president torres? >> here. >> vice-president courtney, commissioner caen, commissioner moran, and we have a quorum >> >> the first item is to make announcement that public comment on all presentations before the commission will be limited to two minutes since we have so many people that want to testify on a number of issues, so i wanted to make sure everyone knew that. approval of the minutes.

>> i'll move approval. >> alright. >> everybody signify by saying aye. sorry, public comment on the minutes. there being none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> public comments? and the first person i always have on the list is the honorable francisco tacosta. welcome. >> commissioners, my name is francisco decosta and you know i come here from time to time to address you on the certain pertinent issues. commissioners, many years ago, i was appointed by the first people of this area to address

the issues on things like the infrastructure resources, disclosure and so on and so forth. today, you will see many people come out of the woodwork to address about our resources. the paradoxes, these are the same people that raped this land and way back in 1913, if you read the record act, this city and certain legislators took the right direction by opting and going for and financing clean power, what we call hydro

electricity, so you will see today many people come out of the woodwork because what they have in mind is money, blood money. they haven't helped to keep our land pristine, they have been slipping at the wheel for a long time, but now today, you will hear them come out of the woodwork trying to position themselves. thank you very much. >> thank you. dr. espanola jackson, do you wish to speak on item number 3, public comment, please come forward.

>> give that to each one of them, please. >> do you want us to read it first and then you'll proceed? alright. >> i want to thank you, my name is dr. espanola jackson, bayview hunter's point, this has nothing do with you but

this is some history of bayview hunter's point. the last time i was here and i have been waiting on when the agenda comes to see whether or not a motion that commissioner francesca made and it was seconded by commissioner anson moran, a meeting to come about because you wanted to know about the southeast sector and i'm talking about the community college as well as the sewage plant. so far, that meeting have not been called. i've been waiting for your powerpoint, for someone to come and explain to you the purpose for all the things that has happened. this that i passed around shows what my community have gone

through since the 60's, what other programs that we have supported and we have supported you, at least you know i have, making sure that the sewage plant stay in one location when other people want it to be moved out of the community. i think it is unfair that your staff, and i know you're going to say it's not your staff, but they're under you, you should know who they are and what they are doing to come into my community and rearrange and try to change things that we put together many years ago. i want to say this to you. i've had attorneys to contact me because they want to do pro bono for espanola jackson because they see the problems that we're having in bayview hunter's point. i really hope i don't have to use those attorneys to make you all do the right thing. thank you very much.

>> karen uggins. >> yes, thank you, it's huggins. >> you wanted to talk on solar. >> i wanted to talk on your resolution, d. >> pardon me -- >> i'm part of the -- >> we're going to have to wait for that. >> i'm sorry, well, then i do have something else on just public comment. >> great. i've gone to the housing authority on many occasions and i've asked them to look and think outside the box as far as windmills are concerned, we have rehab going on up in hunter's point, that would be an excellent time to look into windmill power, also holly courts has panels on its rao*fs but it only heats in the hot water, we want to put in the

panel sos we can address the pg&e, there are people that tha* are paying hundred drets of dollars for their pg&e and that can be adjusted. we've done a walk-through and we ask that the holly courts have a charging station to charge electric cars and with making the funding with that, we could pay residents to be security guards to secure those cars during the day and we could reap the benefits of that. also, [inaudible] power, a lot of public housing developments live in wind tunnels, so to spaoeg, next to pork, we have holly park which is an extremely windy park and we're asking that windmills be considered for holly park. i'll come back for the next thing. >> lrlt, thank you, anyone else on public comments? we'll move to item number 5, communications. commissioner moran?

>> thank you, mr. president, i want to make a couple of comments on item 5e which is the memo or the material we received on chloramine, most of the time we think of water supply is in is there enough and do we have enough to make it through a drought or meet our contractual obligations, this was a nice reminder that two of our fundamental roles are to provide portable water and sanitary sewage services and that those are the two bedrock of public health in this country and that we are the delivery agency for those two services. i just wanted to do a shout-out basically to the people in this organization who pay attention to those on a daily basis, they do an excellent job and i think the thoroughness of the material that we had presented to us is an example of that.

it also asked that this material was in response to a request of some time ago with we first went to chloramine disinfection to be apprised on a periodic basis. they have asked that saying as though the implementation issues have been resolved and that the state of the art is not changing over time, that the regular reporting be stopped and that they report to us on an as needed basis, so i would support their request. >> are they here? are they here? >> i don't know that they need to be here. >> okay, i was wondering. >> they all work for mr. keller and i'm sure he'll be glad to pass that on. >> any other comments? >> on 5c, but i don't