the years. but what i, when i am most concerned about and what would change my mind about, and you know, again, i think that this is the right thing to do. but why i would not vote tonight is because of the timing. and the urgency around in doing this in the children's fund has not been enough to me. yet. and so, the big lift, is the big lift that we are all going to have to do for not only the sugary tax but also for the peace and the children's fund and because those will be the two things that they will attack in addition to the sugary tax, and so i would, i would ask, that you consider putting this on in june or in november of 2015.

when we can do a lot bigger focus and a lot more support around it in order to make this make peace and children's fund come through 100 percent as well as the sugary tax, 100 percent. thank you. >> student delegates? cooper? >> thank you. >> so, i would first like to thank everyone who came out to speak. or more specifically to support this resolution tonight. and again, i just want to make it really clear that i don't want to try to refute any of the evidence that has been presented and i do recognize that the issues of the diabetes and obesity are very significant, and do need to be addressed, but, tonight, i will

be representing a decenting vote by the student advisory council at the last meeting in anticipation of this important resolution, and while the significant, and while this so-called, soda epidemic is undeniably a significant issue that the sac, decided not to support the resolution, as it stands. and more broadly the soda tax, we, the sac decided that the soda tax is not the solution to the myriad of problems discussed tonight. thank you. >> student government, wei? >> hi, thank you. and i actually think that this is a really good idea, but the language that was used within this resolution and that, and that was used in increasing nutritional education and options for physical options for children and it is not clear and the lines are not

clearly drawn yet. and at the sac we are talking about how we did not have enough information to make a really good, yes or no stance, and there is also conflicting research in a paper by nature that says that the taxing sodas will not actually help decrease the amount of or the consumption of sugary beverages and that is our take on it. >> commissioner murase? >> i wanted to recognize supervisor school weiner and eric mar and his aid, and i will be supporting this resolution, tonight. and we have talked a little bit about the impact on diabetes and heart disease, but i wanted to share with my colleagues and the audience and three other facts, about the negative health impacts of soda. and first, the public school,

and the school of public health found a coalition of soda consumption and the withdraw of attention problems in children that was talked about by the former teachers, tonight. >> and secondly, the johnson foundation found that many children drinking soda in place of milk and reducing the bone mineral density for girls and that increases the risk of bone fracture and finally, why is obesity such a problem, particularly for girls, obesity effects the early on set of pub berty, and so it is triggered by a hormone in the bods body that is proportional to the amount of body fat and so the children, especially the girls who are obese that they have so much that they reach pub berty at an earlier age and those are more likely to experience negative body image, depression, and other mental disorders because they have a

higher chance of being in social situations that they are not psychologically ready to handle and so in reaching this you, as a policy matter i feel very strongly about the fact that these negative health impacts need to be remediated and the industry that is generating the products should be held accountable. >> commissioner, mendoza-mcdonnell? >> thank you. >> and since we are having a discussion with colleagues around us, and i am just curious in terms of timing, again. i mean i would love for this to pass, with consensus from the entire board and for it to be unanimous. and it sounds like we have some additional work in the questions that need to be answered. and so i am just wondering if this has to be i mean, this is not, the language has not been fully developed and not even on the ballot yet and so i have

been wondering if it is something that we can do, you know, once that is better flushed out so we can do this unanimously and show a different kind of support for in instead of not having all of the votes just because of the discomfort around it and i think that everybody really believes in the purpose, but, is concerned around a variety of different things and so i just wanted to pose that to my colleagues to see if this has to be done tonight, or if it can be done you know, in march or april. or you know, some time that was actually closer to the time when we are going to be, you know, it is going to get off of the ground and so i am just curious as to how others feel about that. >> can i ask a question while the supervisor is still in the room. the supervisor, and do you have some time line, when you will

all have the language ready. and please come forward and give us sort of a sense of what the time line is to commissioner mendoza's commentary and i appreciate that she has said that because i believe that is truly what we would all like and maybe some more information from you and possibly to our colleagues for a question. and thank you for that question, for the opportunity, i was just said that if i could be blunt and i know that all of the folks around this table and i think that we are blunt with each other, and the arguments that i am hearing, from folks who are not comfortable supporting this are going to be the same in march or in april, in june, and as they are today. and i think that to suggest, that this is going to generate a campaign, against the children's fund, and peace, has absolutely no basis with respect to the commissioner and this is going to be about the

sugary beverage tax and it is going to bring in the money in against that and that does not translate into a campaign against the children's fund and in san francisco, we do not shy away from big business trying to threaten, to somehow flood us with money. and we saw that last november, when the tobacco tax with tens of millions of dollars in the tobacco industry, failed in california and got 73 or 74 percent of the vote in san francisco seeing the same exact odds, in terms of the timing, and i was really thrilled when commissioner norton moved forward with this resolution with this timing. and now, is the time to be really building and building, and building, our coalition. when you are facing an industry that has unlimited resources, because people in this country and our kids are giving them a lot of money, for these

beverages, you don't wait until june to build your coalition. you do it early and the one final thing that i want to say. and i don't agree, that this is a quote unquote, regressive tax. frankly diabetes is much more of a regressive tax than a two pennies per ounce sugary beverage tax and as vargus said to me and that it is not progressive to suggest, that, or selling unhealthy, disease-causing cheap, product to poor people, that is not progressive. that is progressive and so, i take issue with that. and that characterization. and also, one final thing in terms of your question, as well supervisor mar and i we have, we have agreement. and our proposals were never

that different. from one significant difference was that the supervisor mar's proposal did not cover the fountain drinks whereas mine did and we agreed that the fountain drinks will be covered. >> i believe, commissioner norton has a question for you. >> yes, i am sorry. >> can you tell us... >> i can stand. >> can you tell us the timing of when you and supervisor mar and the other co-sponsors intend to introduce the compromised legislation in front of your board? >> yes, so right now, the two proposals are pending and we have an agreement and we will be in february, early february, introducing the combined measure, so that is the timing looks like. >> ester would you mind shutting off the microphone? >> thank you. >> any more. you can cut it off.

>> okay, thanks, guys. >> any more comments? from the commissioners? commissioner norton? >> i just want to say that i am not in favor of changing the time line, i think that supervisor weiner said it perfectly when he said that this is you know, the objections are going to be the objections and they are going to be the same objections in march or april than they are today. and i think you know, this is really this resolution was crafted to be about a concept and not about a specific proposal. and either you support the concept or you don't and you have ever right not to support the concept but i think that we need to vote it up or down tonight. >> commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell? >> i just want to respond to say that i support the concept but i am not going to support the proposal tonight because i don't think that the timing is correct. >> no. okay. >> so, no comments from the

colleagues, and okay. and i think that i will render my opinion now. and it is significant at this point. but, so, i support the concept and i think that it is a really good concept and i also have questions about, i mean that i think that what astounded me sort of was hearing this commitment you know, against obesity, and about the health of children, and yet, i hear so little support for physical education in our school districts, in fact, i hear such disparaging remarks about the physical education department and the teachers and really the need for students not to have physical instructional education as part of their class course work. and i find that it is some what hypocritical to say that obesity is an issue here and what we don't look at physical

education in our school district and i just have to call that out because i have been to a lot of these meetings where we have talked about the physical education in the school district but yet the people seem like i have heard such disparaging remarks about the physical education in general, for example, like why do we have it? it is boring, why do the students have to do it, and yet we talk about obesity and yet, we talk about diabetes epidemic and we are talking about the health of our students and so i just want to bring that to everyone's attention that if you have a commitment to this and you have a commitment to what our children are consuming you should also have a commitment to physical education for those students who do not belong to a gym, who do not work out on school yards, their own, yards, who do not have places to run, and an areas where it is safe to exercise and parks where it is

safe to participate in physical activity. and i think that so shape up san francisco, and i would like you to take that on, quite frankly, i feel like when... good. because when let's do it commitment chair. because it is a whole package here. it is not only just what yukon saoum. it is about how we exercise and how do we take care of ourself and that to be honest with you gives you that great, great, thank you. our great self-sustain and also, our body image. >> and i just have to skaul that out because i feel like it is some what hypocritical to talk about this and not talk about the need for physician xal education in our schools. so having said that, i too am sort of concerned about it being attached. to the children's amendment and reauthorization of the peace. and so i can see the valid measures i am concerned about

it being attached. i have been reassured by the author, that is not attached to it. so i am going to take that. i am going to take that commitment as truth, and that it will not be attached to it and this commitment does not say that it will be. and so i mean that it will be, and in this resolution, does not say that it will be. and i think that this is going to be a battle, and quite frankly i know that the timing of where you are going to need the support is basically also at the ballot and so it is not just right now, and it is going to be if you are in for a dollar you are in for a dollar, that means that you it is all the way to the ballot. and so, colleagues, i although, i am really ap prehenive about this and being on the ballot, i am just again, i find it some what hypocritical to talk about what we drink and what the

students drink and to hear about poor children and children and poverty and exposed to this but we are not even addressing the physical activity and it is some what upsetting. but, i am going to support this in because i have faith in my colleague because it is not going to be atofpd to the children's fund or to the prop h renewal and having said that, i think that we are ready for a vote. >> thank you. >> miss wei? >> abstain. >> mr. logan? >> no. >> thank you. >> miss fewer? >> yes. >> mr. haney? >> yes. >> miss maufas. >> no. >> miss mendoza-mcdonnell. >> no. >> dr. murase. >> aye. >> norton? >> yes. >> and miss wynns. >> aye. >> five ayes.

item y. the request to speak regarding general matters, and i have one speaker card, michelle pence please come up to the podium, you have two minutes, miss pence. >> and okay, high, good evening, i am michelle pence and i am a parent of students at the claritan elementary in lincoln high school. and okay. i am here on behalf of a diverse student body who depend on the bus transportation from the excelcier district to the claritan elementary, the students use the bus from hill crest elementary to claritan elementary and their feeder school is prosidio middle school and we would like to request bus service for our

students to continue to prosidio school for the under served community, the students are only given first choice for our feeder school prosidio it is the only school that they get priority at. and it is about nine miles from the bus stop at hill elementary and the students would like to attend the feeder school with their friends and benefit from the education at the middle school. but without help, our students most likely will be unable to attend. i have signatures of ten parents living in the excelcier and the bay view districts that use this bus stop, i will e-mail each of you a copy and i have two copies for the secretary and i want to make sure that you are aware of how some students have no way to get to their feeder school in this current system. we don't want to give up our

place, because we think that it is a good school. so. also, i think that it is also good for the environment because the school bus is better than all of the parents driving separately and i think that it saves the energy too. >> so, thank you. >> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> okay. request to speak regarding general matters is now closed. item k, advisory committee report and appointments by the board members. any appointments? >> yes. >> i need to just skol my message and you can come back to me. >> yeah i would like to appoint jenny lamp to the tech. for you mark.

>> and are we, okay, commissioner maufas could we move on and then we will come back to that? >> sorry, are you cool with that. >> please forgive me. >> okay. >> do i have it. >> okay. you do. >> pardon me. i just had to look. so i am appointing frenando marquez to the peace committee. >> thank you. >> any other amointments? seeing none, item l special order of business, motion and a second for the instructional calendar for the 14, 15 school year, reading recommendation for the superintendent which looks like scarlato. >> the motion and a second. >> so 3406ed moved. >> i second. >> thanks. >> thank you. commissioners. i would like to and my name is

carm elo scarlato and i would like to submit the instructional calendar for 2014, 15 school year. >> thanks. >> you have one public speaker, signed up, and mr. dennis kelley. >> thank you very much. and congratulations on, as supervisor mar said maintaining the richmond district hold on the presidency and i thought that it was very brave of commissioner murase not to point out that the sunset district cut into half of the leadership. and i actually put in a card to say that i would speak on this if carm elo was in trouble and the fact that you called me makes me presume that he is in

trouble. no i am just... >> no. >> i am teasing you. this is the calendar that we sat down together and we came out with, and we understand that there was concern about the thanksgiving holiday and we are committed to going back and looking at that again for this year. for the coming year. thank you mr. kelley. >> comments from the board or the superintendent? >> commissioner murase? >> yes, i know that historically we have gone to the part advisory committee could you tell us a little bit about who the others have seen? >> yes. the group that was involved with this from the parents' side was the pac group and so we had a representative at the meetings and basically just discussed a number of different options. you had about three or four different time frames or, calendar and we came to the

agreement on the present one that i am presenting tonight. >> okay. >> did you use the phrase, the board adopt? >> i may have, i will reread it to say that. that would be great. >> for the record. thank you. >> for the record. >> so i was in trouble, then. there you go. >> the board of education the requested action is that the board of education adopts the 2014, 15 instructional calendar. >> thank you. and so i think that the other comments and ready for a roll call vote. >> thank you. >> miss wei? >> yes. >> mr. logan. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yeah. >> haney. >> yes. >> and maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza-mcdonnell. >> yes.

>> murase. >> aye. >> norton. >> wynns. >> aye. >> five ayes. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> item m, discussion of other educational issues. and we the superintendent left us and i think that it is the annual report from the radio station, klw. >> i am going to let you get those because i want to refer to a couple of things. >> you know, i think that you can start.

>> okay. >> thanks. >> so as i say, thank you very much, and for taking some time, to hear about the activities and the plans at kalw and the license $to the school district that for the people listening on the radio is 91.7 fm and we are based at studios out of burton high school and we are the oldest fm station, west of the mississippi so it is a proud tradition of community service broadcasting that the district has supported for over 70 years. >> i just passed out a packet including the program guides from this past year and a state of the station report. and that outlines a lot of stuff going on at the station and gives you financial information and the details. and i wanted to direct you to two things and i am going to base my remarks are and one of them is in the left side of the packet and there is a photo essay and on the right side of the packet, there is the state

of the state report and i just asked you to look at page 2 of that, that talks about the finances and development. and i am asking you to pull these two things out first because there is an important connection between the two of them. this little photo essay is actually something that we sent out to's number of donors that we just included getting and doing the fund-raising for the station. and i have pointed out just to say that even two years ago we were not doing effectively and that is detailed information going out to and doing what we are working on and giving them a sense of the real human activity and what they are hear and appreciate on the radio and so we have really a big part of the financial turn around, thereof the finance and

development area and looking at the unrestricted assets and looking back over the last several fiscal years and you can see since fyten it has been real. and from that point where we had actually given a line of credit from the school district and we are no longer in a financial position. and you will find that we will get an opportunity audit each year to safety the requirement for the public broadcasting and i think that the most important thing in that audit and i encourage you to look at it and the most important thing is something that is not there and it is called a going concern note and in the past three fiscal years for kalw, they had to put in a note saying we doubt whether it can continue as a going concern as an entity that can raise its own funds and support its own activities that note is no longer there and that is as a result of

really remarkable support from the community, for the station, over the last three years that has put us into the much stronger financial position and the great thing is that it hasn't and we have been able to increase our reserve and at the same time increase to do more to serve the community on the air and getting out into the community and so i just want to draw it. and we are happy to work at burton high and being able to work with the students and when we do a program with education and we can reach out there on the campus and we have a rent free space in san francisco and

that is nothing to look past and so we thank the district to all of the support that it provides. but financially when it comes from the cash support it is with the list eners and in particular with the major donors that has allowed us to put the station in a better position and also on this piece of paper the photo and i want to point out a couple of specific things. and on this side of things, for those, and i guess that we actually have a tv audience and they can see what i am pointing at. in september, with the support of a non-profit called the association for continuing education which has been generous in its support of kalw's work with students. yes? we were able to launch what we are calling the kawl audio academy which is actually the continuing education for the adults in journalism and the production that we began in september and the first class that have is under way now and

in fact the first story is coming out of the trainees are now being held on the magazine across crimes and so in addition to the support from the association for the continuing education has allowed us to do more work with the students and. and i have four students from the summer all of whom produced, and we will send the links and also in the state of the station report, and so you can see about what the experience made for them and we have as we have been able to bring in more researchers at the station and put the students and bring the students and education and what we do at kalw and one of the things that we want to focus on and not because it is part of the community but because developing new talents in public radio and journalism is good for the station. and it gives us valuable