97 i am familiar with the annual report and i am very much in support of it and i appreciate everything that everybody has done. and continue to do, and i hope that you helped them lead the way for the san francisco will definitely become a first rate first, from the city. and that sort of thing, and i think that everything that should, and everything that has been said, is great. and i strongly approve of everything and i strongly hope that you do the same thing, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker please? >> good morning and thank you for the opportunity and my name is roland and i am from san jose, and i would like to turn

your attention to a couple of slides, in the presentation. and you should look at slide number 30. and look at the central subway, and the contract is for 234 million dollars. that is how much that should cost. it is a good contract and it is a good project. and we will now move on to the next slide which is the downtown expansion. and you have got phase one as 1.6 and it is actually 1.9, and total costs 4.2 billion dollars. and the question is, why would a tunnel of an equivalent distance cost 2 and a half million dollars and approximately ten times as much as a central subway? i suggest that you look into that and there is something seriously wrong there and now, the last thing that i would like to touch on is slide number 32. and if you look at it, we are going to spend a billion and a half on cal train at the end of the day, we are going to get an extra train a day.

and this is an issue. and we have got to look at capacity, and we have got to look at what is happening there and what we are getting for a billion and a half. now, you also see that not all of the funds are secured and what we are talking about here, is the 600 million dollars, of property funds which right now are blocked by the courts and frankly i don't see them go any way. the good news, is that we recently looked, at the cost of electrickfiation, and specifically, for the supplies and the supports and the wires and estimated 785 million dollars. and we have just discovered that is approximately between 600 and 650 million dollars more than it would cost to do the same work in europe and so this is more for you to think about, thank you very much. >> thank you, and are there any other members of the public that would like to comment? >> and seeing none, we will close the public comment. and colleagues, i would like to point on your desktop that you

also have the monthly progress reports for the geary and bus rapid and transit and projects, and it is a great to share with your staff as well. it is something that we asked the transportation authority to share with us every meeting. and okay, so, can we colleagues could we take this item same house same call? ? and the item passes. >> next. >> 14, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> colleagues, any new items or issue to introduce? >> and seeing none, we will go on to public comment. >> we will close public comment. and we will go on to our next item. >> 15, public comment. >> so general public comment is now open, and related to any subject matter under the transportation authority. and seeing no one come forward we will close public comment. and we will go on to our next item. >> 16, adjournment. colleagues, we are adjourned.me

mcconnell, murase, ms. wynns, fewer, ms. weigh and mr. logan. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> pledge of allegiance. >> approval of board minutes. we are voting on the regular

meeting minutes of january 4, 2014. roll call vote. ms. weigh, logan, murase, mcdonnell, ms. wynns and miss fewer. thank you. >> item b. presentations total to the board of education. superintendant. >> good evening. our superintendant sends his regrets. he's out of state given some weather changes he is unable to make it here this evening or trying to make his way to san francisco. today nearly 150 sf students partook in a health care assimilation in the way that

science and technology and principles apply. each team participated in exploring and research and spent time with educators and other assimilations. they were able to gain insight to career opportunities and talent to improve health care stimulation. students of stark elementary are taking to the streets to promote peace in the world as of martin luther king jr. junior day as they prepare to march around the neighborhood: a tribute to the life of dr. martin luther king jr. and to

find strength in diversity. january 30th, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.. we would like to nouns that our progress report is available online and sfusd do the e d u. key strategies are being used to improve the learning experience for each student at every sfusd school. the 2013th district scorecard and the sfusd budget. this friday, january 31st, all school sites will be closed in observance of lunar new year. >> thank you. item c, recognition and commendations.

deputy superintendant? speaker: i would like to call guerrero. good evening. it's my pleasure to introduce miss maya navajo she is the third class teacher for students with autism. her students have learning and behavioral challenges requiring a specialized program. this is her third year of teaching. one of her former students parents recommended her for this award and this is what she stated. each student requires intensive supervision just to be safe and requires real creativity and patience from a teacher to learn and to make progress in life skills.

it requires tireless work well above and beyond what it takes to teach children. she spends countless hours educating children for what they need and deserve. maya states, i love working with this population and finding new and creative ways to help them learn and achieve their goals. integrating here students into general education classes is a focus of hers and is successful but it doesn't happen without a lot of collaboration and teamwork. her work goes beyond the classroom into our school community. last april, she helped organize our school wide blue puzzle project for project awareness. we are fortunate to have maya nava

as a teacher. she is talented and a dedicated teacher. let me spell maya out for you. m is for mighty, why a is for action. congratulations, maya. [ applause ] . speaker: our superintendant wanted to make sure i -- conveyed congratulations. thank you. speaker: i just want to say this you to the people behind me. my principal for her on

going support. it would not be possible to create and maintain such a vigorous program for our special day class students without your support. i also want to say about sunset, we would not be able to do what we do as a special class. we just have such a great school community. that makes it's possible. thank you. [ applause ]

speaker: tonight we are recognizing the members of the public education enrichment fund community advisory committee. speaker: good evening, commissioners, my name is kathy flemming. i am the supervisor for public education richmond fund. one of my responsibilities is to serve as the district liaison to our community on advisory committee and the community of advisory committee plays a vital role in advising and reviewing all documents and reports and provide critical feedback to staff and to the board of education. a number of our members were present last week and in fact, i think about 75 percent of our members were present last week and this week, i think some of them are on vacation. i know one is in the mountains snow

boarding and one in fresno and one in texas. we have some members to recognize tonight. first i would like to thank the commissioners for making appointments to this committee and we do have two recently appointed members. i'm not sure if they are here tonight, but jenny lamb, are you here and we have fernando marquez has also been appointed. nice to meet you. thank you so much. and i would like to thank our student delegates, allege -- angela wei and logan. they are pointing student advisory committee. we have student members who i believe are studying right

now. they are jess is an ankh, nick hue and miguel. thank you for providing critical input. we have two cochairs. one is mark murphy, he's not here tonight. our other cochair provides leadership to our group and i would like to bring him up now to honor him. jeff eng. [ applause ] thank you, jeff. stand there. make a line. another member we have tonight is one of our principals, michael rhymer. principal of roosevelt medical school, where i used to work. and we have a special 4-year service award to victor tam.

yeah, victor tam. [ applause ] principal of chinese education center. thank you. in addition i would like to recognize the members who could not be here tonight. which you chuck horn brook, our secretary, magdalena and frank. i think that represents all the members of our committee. can we have the student delegates come up for the photograph.

>> i don't think he's here, ms. flemming. brian fox. apologies. speaker: thank you, members. now we have student delegates report. angela wei and logo

an. speaker: thank you. things are picking up. we did recently an acc bylaw review to reconfirm the understanding of the bylaws with the real emphasis on the attendance policy which we have been reworking and we might possibly change in the future. another big thing on the cac agenda is the vision 2025. february 7th, is the last vision 2025 meeting and sac will be participating again at the bayview from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.. the sac leadership team participated to include a native in the 2025 campaign.

thank you. speaker: the sac's annual youth summit will be held in march. we'll have students from the san francisco unified school district. important that we -- it will bring out the leaders and we are working with the health care sign up days. the next sign up days are at marshall and balboa high schools this thursday january 30th, from 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.. all meetings are open to the public. if you would like a copy of the sac agenda, please contact your sac coordinator. speaker: thank you very much. going on to item e, parent

advisory council. no report tonight. item f. public comment. we have one speaker. kelly. speaker: good evening, i'm speak to you about the item you pulled which is k 49. this is in another section. i'm talking to you about k 2 in that case. i would be happy to talk to you about k 2 if i can understand it. i beg of you, please look at k 2 and translate that for us. i think i have a general idea of what's going on, but the language is flabber gassing. i ask you to tell us what this resolution is about.

speaker: their mr. -- thank you, mr. kelly. we have mr. dana who will speak on the audit on pages 3-17. hi. speaker: good evening, board members, president fewer, vice-president murase and guadalupe guerrero. sorry about that. i have invited leonard dana from the 12-13th district audit to give you the board, a short presentation pertaining to the sfusd 12/13 audit. in addition, mr. dana is able to answer any questions after his presentation. also present is the manager on the audit. nathan middleman. mr. dana?

speaker: thank you for accommodating us. i have another time commitment item tonight. i won't take much of your time. but just to let you know we have completed the audit and submitted the audit to the state. just to let you know that all of the opinions are unqualified meaning they change the wording this year. now they are called unmodified opinions which means it's a clean opinion. everything is fairly stated and that goes for the financial statements, state compliance and federal compliance as well. we did not make any audit adjustments during the year or during the audit as well. that means the audits going forward are for the district which is obviously a very important item. i did want to let you know nathan here has been on-the-job for 5 years. he's kind of a fix you are around

the district office and he basically runs the job. if you have any questions, i would probably ask that nathan answer them. he has been with the district for a number of years and handles the job very well. it goes without saying that we get all of the cooperation we need from sfusd staff, both people in the business office and remember we are always out at sites in a lot of different areas and we get great cooperation from everybody and it makes our job a lot easier. i know last year we made a big deal about the fact that we had no findings in the report and i get the audit got mad at you but this year there is one and this relates to the ace program. this is a program where you just have to be diligent in terms of the sign in and sign out procedures that you have.

we did notice a few sites where not everything was up to snub. we do these early in the year and sit down with management to go over the find gsz ings that we have and initiate corrective action. they have put in a corrective action plan that meets our criteria. it's something that we need to continue to watch. we have ace's comments in almost all of our school district reports. so it's not that unusual. but it's something that needs to be looked at. the only other thing i would mention is we put a schedule on the back of the audit report that deals with the audit results and gives you a time line of how you have been spending your money. the only thing i want to caution the district is i just happen to reading it

tonight that while our reserves are adequate and they are over the state minimum level, the reserves have been falling. if you look at that report you will notice that we dropped from in 11 we had over $51 million, now we are down to $31 million. that is planned, but again it's something that i would encourage you to keep your eye on that one. it's the only point that i have. this is also a point in time where you have a question for the auditors, this is a time to fire away. >> any questions? commissioner -- wynns? speaker: i want to ask about

the findings. >> when you have as many sites as you have. >> i think you understand why we might be concerned because we had these findings for a number of years and they it turned out it was really and the explanation was it was a hard program to get at what you are saying now, it's complex and we have a lot of sites, it's hard to do. it didn't seem like it might be that bad and when we found out how bad it was, we were legitimately concerned. do you have a way of telling us what you think of the scope of this is? >> do you mean district wide? >> no. i don't mean district wide. is that some of doing a terrible job of signing in and signing out, is it a lot of students or is it just getting

from the pretty good up to what we would want? >> there is some sites where it's spot on. there are other sites where students sign in and don't sign out. the level of documentation that supports the level of elements is not always there. so the past find ings were much more broad. the district follows these. what we found this year is not what was two or 3 years ago. >> that's exactly what i wanted to know. i also have one other question which you can probably answer. so if we had the student information

system working better, would this make this easier or is it not going to apply to these programs? >> that system is more for the districts attendance for the district regular k-12 attendance. the ace program is tracked differently. >> this is done by pencil forever or do we have a plan? >> there is a plan to a separate new system not the synergy system to do it online. >> we'll be kicking and screaming out of the dark stages. >> who is the staff person that commissioner wynns should be addressing ?

>> kelly is in charge of the program. >> thank you very much. any other comments? seeing none, thank you very much. >> one last item. we have two more audits coming up in the future. the tax and go bond audit. >> thank you. item g. consent calendar. can i have a motion and a second, please. >> motion and second. thank you. any items withdrawn by the superintendant? >> yes, we do. president fewer. item 2 m on page 28 of your agenda. the contract name is to be contributed in the subject requested action and background from the university of california ken center of university of california san

francisco. and 14b on page 63 and 64. the defendants service are corrected to 1-29, 2014 through 3-31-2014. and page 88-90. the original dates of service to july 1, 2013, through june 30, 2014. amended dates of service are corrected to november 1, 2013, through march 31, 2014. >> thank you. any items by the board? seeing none. any items severed by the board? none. roll call will take place under section 0. item 8. the superintendant's proposal. this has been moved and

seconded. commissioner murase? >> the committee as a whole met on january 24, 2014. with a report on the public educationen enrichment fund that we are scheduled to hear tonight. several committee members board members expressed concerns that were to be addressed by staff in the intervening times. so i'm hoping that those concerns were addressed in a satisfactory manner, otherwise there will be time for discussion for that agenda item tonight. and there was a motion by the committee to advance to the vote tonight.