website at www.sfusd.edu. san francisco high schools, wellness centers will be hosting a sign ups for january 22nd to the 30th where the staff and the staff from the department of public health will offer assistance to parents in accessing information about the affordable care act and registering for health coverage, even though the deadline has passed it is never too late to sign up for affordable healthcare coverage for your family and access to healthcare is essential for every student and their family. in order for the students to perform at their best ability levels, we know that they must come to school, but they must come to school healthy so that they can attends to the ininstruction and actively participate in class and demonstrate their learning, please also visit our website again, to learn which day your neighborhood high school will be hosting this important event.

as you all have heard, and read, governor jerry brown proposed a budget this year that is a huge leap forward. and after decades of neglecting our public schools in california, california has recommitted to its children and has begun to put the resources in place to insure that the students graduate with the tools that they will need to succeed and the governor brown's proposed budget that includes the funding for the most vulnerable students in the state as part of the local control formula will begin to turn the tide and although it will take years to recover from the funding we lost and become a school system that we must be to educate our students, the 21st century, the largest increases in k-12 education are proposed to begin reducing deferal and not increasing spending authority, and because they have exceeded the revenues for the past three years and requiring us to draw down fund balances to absorb the deficit spending will need to rely on

some of the increased funding to offset the existing ongoing expenditures and the fiscal climate has been a stormy one for the last several years as everyone well knowns and we maintained the built in step increases for the employees in our district, we recognize that our employees have made tremendous sacrifices, taking furlough days and forgoing across the board salary increases, while there are many demands on our resources, the board of education and i, are committed to making sure that san francisco unified school district employees feel the positive impact of increased state funding, including better compensation, because our district is only as great as the people who work in it. so, thank you, for your service, and we look forward to increasing what we do to show you how much we appreciate your service. >> i have a question for everyone. can you spell that? >> very good. >> so somebody said that it

depends what that is. well the students at the elementary school have been brushing up and ready to be tested at the spelling beand one of the favorite events of the year, students will take turns to spell words out loud and each one more difficult than the previous word, the spelling bee champion will go on to compete to the chance to advance to the scripps national spelling bee on january 15th, at lafayette elementary school, at 4545 anza street and i would like to bring to your attention, deborah johnson the resource specialist volunteers the time to mentor two students each week as part of the school district's mentoring for success program. and the students look forward to the one on one time with, miss johnson when they read books together and play board games and create art project and sometimes go on cultural outings, as a child, miss johnson benefited for mentors in her life and wants to pass

along the benefits to others and sometimes she cannot live with her parents as she sought out the teachers and she said that they always encouraged me to do my best and further my education, they influenced me to be a teacher, unquote. her work with along with the work of 650 mentors across our schools is being highlighted during national mentoring month. currently it is estimated that 1,000 san francisco youth still need mentors and the district is partnering with the district attorney in order to recruit new mentors. and we will have an informational meeting on thursday january 16th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the city wide mentoring recruiting fair, 1300 on fillmore, restaurant at 1300 fillmore street. and i just like to offer also, and a reminder that all sfusd schools and central offices will be closed next monday martin luther king junior day

on monday, january twenth and we hope that you will take the opportunity to reflect upon the life and the legacy and the teachings of dr. martin luther king junior and honor his service to humanity and i would like to turn it over to our president, president fewer. >> thank you. >> recognitions and resolutions and accommodations, none tonight, and the student's delegate report. wei and cooper logan. >> thank you this past weekend was the asc yc joint retreat. it was january 11th and 12th from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and sic and the youth commission worked together at the south beach harbor house on saturday, and city hall on sunday. we reviewed current resolutions and legislative topics, such as how technology and the private

sector should contribute to the community, and to schools. the housing crisis, the solutions not suspensions, movement, and the soda tax, and sugary sweetened befrages. in addition, the sac would like to thank deputy superintendent la for presenting a report on the budget to the sac. and that really helped on saturday, at the retreat. and also, cathy flemming for their dedicated assistance and in providing a powerpoint presentation that we could successfully use at the presentation. and the sac, team will also be participating in the vision 2025, on february 7th. and we look forward to contributing a student voice at

the meeting. >> after a lot of work, the leadership and cabinet implemented successful on-line survey during the end of the first semester and we have 2221 responses that can be successfully used to augment our communities and we would like to send out a special thanks to matthew kensy, and john link and elva kuterez and i am sorry. and the sac is also in support of affordable care act out reach. and of the healthcare enrollment drive by sfusd. and to insure that the healthcare coverage where all of the eligible families reaches sfusd students and families, and the sfcsd will be offering healthcare sign up days, enrollment and out reach days will be hosted at high schools across sfusd during the week of january 21st, to january 30th. and the families will be

invited to come to any high school to get questions answered and access to resources to support healthcare enrollment. and in addition, the sac and yc, or the student advisory council and the student commission committee will be meeting on january 22, at 5:30 p.m. and everyone is welcome to come. and it will, and we will have a special guest speaker, from the special education services. and our next sac meeting is next week on monday, january 27th, at 5:30 p.m. and everyone is welcome to come. >> thank you. >> parent advisory council report? >> good evening commissioners thank you for the time. i am tony and my daughter is a participater at sunset elementary school, and the both of the parent advisory council

is to represent her voices in perspectives to affirm the policy education decision and tonight's report will cover the pac's upcoming work to commit the community conversations about the racial equity, and our work is closely aligned with the priorities set forth by the san francisco school district and formed by what we learned from reaching out to hear from families across the district. and this year, our community engagement campaigned focuses on supporting the district's goal of access and equity and making social justice a reality, for every student. and through a restorative framework, it means that the community conversations we hope to create a safe space for parents to share their stories, reflections and experiences about racial equity in the district. and we learn from the family and school communities about

what is working in this respect and also to identify additional work that still needs to be done, to support better out comes for all students and families, in this area. our over all goal for the project, is to improve out comes for all students regarding access and equity to high quality teaching and learning. to the targeted out reach efforts... i am sorry. is that better? >> still it worked for a second but it cut out. >> sorry, guys. >> now you are good. >> i pill wul it closer, thanks, guys. >> to the targeted out reach efforts we hope to hear from between 150 and 200 family participants in conversations between ten and 15 schools for community centers. we will be holding these

community conversations between february and april of this year. and when they are completed and we will share our findings from the conversations with all of you and present any recommendations to the board of education to district staff and to the community. by the end of this school year. as i said, we will have the conversations between february and april of this year. and the format of these discussions and the format of the discussion questions will be to provide a restorative approach that will allow parents the opportunity to share their experiences, to equity and identify solution to strengthen the work of the district to address these issues and to improve out comes for all students. >> this week, we are working to finalize the specific content and details that will support the structure and exercises to facilitate the conversations and including sharing the

district's interventions to address disproportionalty in student achievement and student suspensions especially among african american and latino students, at the end of each conversation we will leave time for the participants to talk about and the next steps that they want to take in their own steps in their school sites and for us to take as the district and for the district as a whole. >> the pac has developed a list of 27 schools that we are approaching to ask if they are interested in hosting a conversation. and we have asked the schools to participate in this initiative and now realistickly we don't need the capacity to conduct these conversation but we know that the schools will choose for the to participate and given the initiatives that are currently under way at those schools. and so in order to determine which schools to invite, we looked at a number of factors

including schools where we as a pac have never held a community conversation. schools where the pac has held the community conversations but not within the last two years. and not about restorative practices. and we looked at the dem graphics of the school population and we looked at schools that have an emotional disturbed class on site. also, given the disproportion high rates of it among the latino students and the gap in achievement and opportunity, the pac has made it a priority to reach out and hear from these communities. however, we catch the across the language and culture and the types of schools that the children attend and background.

we would like to work with the parent groups that could be under the office of equity and the dlac and the education program and the newly forming african american advisory council. this is an opportunity to model the restorative practices framework that is being implemented across the district. and it is to highlight the sfd core value and standards and to hear from the parents about what they think that the children need to thrive in the public schools in san francisco. at our next pac meeting we will be meeting with the staff from the office of access and equity

to hear about the work that they are leading in this area and also for the effort and ultimately to the district's goal of access and equity for every student. >>, thank you the comments. >> vice president murase? >> thank you. >> and president thank you very much for your report. would you be sure that they receive the schedule of your community conversation and i participate in the past and it is a risk discussion that i am hoping that my colleagues will join as well. item f, public comment, the items. and each speaker will have two

minutes. williams, luo, and lana farn and gomez, and carlene buse, and denicia web, and nicholas cursecy, and verela, >> thank you for allowing me to speak, i am a legislative aid or a supervisor, david campos to the development and the mlu and between the sfpd and sfusd

and the center and will... (inaudible) thank you, we are look forward to hearing your thoughts and around this issue and we continue collaborate, thank you. >> my name is kevin, and i work at colman advocate and i am

hear to speak about the understanding between the sf, and the sfpd. and and the so we are attending kevin truit. and for today, and i think that the one thing that the community had a concern with the final version of the mlu that is brought before you, is to have the 19 and that talks about the gradual students and we feel like that is something that is necessary for this document to really stand true and to assure that the students on campus and are not ushered into the criminal justice system and a lot of the work that we do is with the african american youth who have a lot of negative interactions with the police and we want to

change that dynamic and make the schools a safe place for them and we feel like this is a key part of that and so we most definitely would like for you to support the mlu today with the change to reflect a shall instead of the should for section 19 that deals with the levels of intervention and i am black on the names and so i apologize about that and we also have the young people from the groups that have been working on the mlu for the past two years and so it is the responses to the low level school bases, and it is the second sentence the first work where it says should and we would like to see it say shall and with that change to the document i am going to bring the members who will introduce

themselves. hello, and good evening, >> you should have the basic civil rights at school, and you should be treated aoe gol and that we will respect that and any conflicts of the school should be handled and i don't think that bringing in the police should bring in the positive influence we want to be sure that the mlu is not a place and not just optional today. >> thank you. >> hello, my name is violet and i go to the high school and i am currently a junior and i am here with the advocates and the center and also... i would like to point out some of the good

things, and beside the things that we don't, obviously, one of the main things that imented to say is that we had a lot of community and organizing and talking about the mlu and recreating it and i feel that having a lot of input which i have to work on as well since i was a freshman two years later, and i am over joyed at the fact that i was able to see the document that was myself and our peers on a daily basis in the school communities and the mlu is important to myself and the peers who are not here, also creates the guidelines in order to be able to have an easier and more trusting relationship with the sros which will be necessary, when we try to have a better relationship with the police officers, and not only in our school communities, but also at our neighborhoods, and we are trying i know that a lot of

youth don't have a positive out look and so i am just very glad to see that our hard work is put into play, thank you. >> hi, my name is williams and i am alumni from the school, and first off, i am just happy to say that this is finally being where it is right now and so as far as progress and i want to say that we don't need the police handling the school matters and the police should handle the police matters and what happens at school happens at school. the police have the big roles and the community to cover when i was two i had my family torn apart by police and by having that happen it has had a negative impact on my life, and as far as having relationships with the police officers and so i feel like when you have police? school, it puts the fear in children that have had something traumatic like that

happen to them and the students should not have to face the police and the police are here to protect in the service and we should not be scared to come to them to the things that we need. and the mlu needs to be mandated. mandatoried and not recommended. thank you. >> good evening. >> i am here to speak about the mlu between the san francisco and the san francisco police department, this mlu has been the youth commission's priority and i am proud that we have a chance of seeing it signed. and the last sfpd, sfusd, mlu

expired in 2011, and they have been advocating for a new one and the mlu provides guidelines for the school discipline and police activity. on school campuses as well as sro training. when we are young, we are taught that we should aim for the stars and reach our full potential and you may be familiar to the fact that the students in the san francisco unified school district feel uneasy about their relations with the police and justice system. i ask you all today how can the students reach the full potential if they are uncomfortable with the enforcement system in which they are surrounded by. i believe that we have the solution upon us. and this mlu will give the students an opportunity to reach the full potential, and this mlu will help to set an understanding between the students and the police enforcers and help to restore the comfort into the students of san francisco and improve

student and police relations. and this mlu supports and promotes the school environment where the students can feel safe and secure. i personally, feel this mlu will benefit the students of san francisco, and i am a student who strongly agrees with what this mlu has to offer. for example, and if an arrest is being made during school hours, in public view, what does this mean? this means that the student or students who are being arrested are having their privacy invaded. i believe that if an arrest is needed, bringing a student or students to the principal's office verses arresting them in front of their peers is a better option. i would like to congratulate and thank the board in helping us in this effort, and moving forward to seeing the success of the mlu, thank you.

>> good evening, i am 17 years old and i am a senior, and i am also the mayoral appointee, and a member of the commission's youth justice committee. i am here before you to talk to you about the memo of understanding between the sfpd and the sfusd that you have before you. on the basic form, the mlu is a real book between the two agencies. and this book will have a big. impact on the students and the youth from sfusc. this is my second year in the youth commission. and the mlu has been a top priority and even before i was on the commission. there are various youth that for whatever reason seem to be against sfpd or the youth in general and this can stem from the various amounts of reasons.

and from negative experiences on campus, to a negative portrayal of the police on and through the media. and one of being influenced by persons or experiences,vy never got nontrouble with the police and i have never had a negative experience, i have had great experiences with the police and i am familiar with the policy and why they react in certain situations the way that they do. compared to the youth who is not familiar with the policies you may have and perceive the police as being the people. and we might really criticize the police for their actions under the certain situations. i hope that this, i hope... the mlu will allow the students, with the rights pamphlets to understand what the police are able to do under the situations and circumstances, when they are at schools. i believe that the mlu will help to improve the relationships between sfusd and

sfpd and they will also help the many. and it will also help to clear up the many misconceptions of the police and the various youth may have. this is a good step in helping the youth feel safer at school. >> hello commissions my name is nicholas and i am the chair of the youth commission and i was appointed by eric mar and this is currently my third year.

i would like to thafrpg them for making the changes and looking into this as well and especially in the past few days and i know the changes that were made in actually about an hour or so again. they will make an arrest and they should use the arrest for the outline below. and to the extend that i am extremely excited about this issue being before the board of education tonight and i am also very concerned that this might not be in its best form.

my request is to approve this and place the language in section 19 and that would be pending sfpd approval and i would like to thank you for your time. >> my name is amber and i am a coordinator for the center where i facilitate the movement programs, which is and we explore different things from the education and equality and the police and the youth relationships and with the justice and this is a primary children's example of what restorative justice should be to inspire the accountability in all. and sorry, the students should be taken for