with sfusd and training readers for all of our schools that select to be read to. so this year in february, the first week of february and spanning that whole week with several of our elementary schools and they will receive free breakfast and they definitely start at 7:45 to read and it will go on to 10:30 a.m.. i just want to say, due to the overwhelming response of volunteer readers that the registration is already closed. we have had hundreds of responses and people have followed through and gone through their training already. there is one training left for those folks already signed up which is this thursday the 30th at the san francisco education fund at 2730 bryant street from

6:00 p.m.-730 on the floor. if you want to sign up for future readings because we have had an overwhelming response. i would like to direct you to c paul sf ed fund.org. you can call her and additionally to get on future reader list you can contact emily thomson who is the president of black educators, she can be reached at sf alliance at black educators @ g-mail.com. they are already prepared with books that will be perfectly

suitable for elementary schools and we would love if readers would consider donating the books to the school's library after the event. i just wanted to make that announcement and thank all of the volunteers, all of the support organizations. i'm sorry, it's a quick read. i want to acknowledge the unified school district has been dmeep partnership with the alliancen with school educators, sorority, the urban ed academy, urban strategies, the bayview hunters point ymca, health and wellness center, the san francisco department of human services, third baptist church, citizens hope and san francisco ed fund and all the participating schools and the staff that are coming and reading to their students. i would like to thank all the readers. thank

you so much for this wonderful service and taking time in your busy schedules to read our students. >> commissioner murase? >> thank you. i would like to let you know that we are ready to meet in this room. there will be two agenda items, one off the middle school feeders and secondly on the annual report on student assignment based on last years process. i invite folks to come to that. and then just a couple of school announcements. tomorrow night at the salas san francisco school of the arts there is tyco music beginning at 7:30 p.m.. and a community meeting at 6 :00 p.m. for the chinese new years. i want to

wish everybody a happy chinese new year and thursday a college readiness event at 5:30 p.m.. >> commissioner mendoza mcdonnell? >> thank you. i would like to congratulate you for another successful mlk event on monday and then i also wanted to announce the grand opening of the new swing on the southeast community center which is over seen by the puc 5 key charter schools will be opening a new location at 1800 oak dale. so that is going to be happening tomorrow and as many of you know five keys charter schools offers youth and youngster in

the classroom to build greater skills to help them obtain their ged and they are opening a new site tomorrow in the bayview. >> commissioner wynns? >> thank you, i want to first announce that the budget committee will meet next wednesday on february 5th in this room at 7:00 and second to acknowledge that there were at the last meeting we talked about the state board of education meeting coming up a few days after that and i was there testifying and i was wanting to sta say the board of education voted. i wanted to say this was a fantastic

turnout by school board members and administrators from around the state. there were 370 speakers at the state board of education including the governor who showed up unexpectedly. that was a really, of that probably 300 of them were board members and superintendants and other administrators. it was quite a remarkable thing. this past weekend at the csba board of directors meeting thanked everybody but also said we know who are the leaders of the education in the state. even though they are all over the states. my thanks and admiration to all the board members and administrators who came to testify. thank you. >> commissioner maufas? >> thank you. i just wanted to

announce the curriculum meeting is this coming monday february 3rd at 6 :00 p.m. in this room and the topics are after school for all and the pe waiver. >> i'm not going to be here. i'm going to be in washington d.c. through tuesday evening. i would like to be here when the curriculum committee meeting takes up the after school for all proposal. i'm asking for a postponement. according to our rules, the author is permitted to ask for a meeting to be postponed for 1 month. >> i think it's been postponed twice this topic. but i think we've had 2 months where it's been postponed. so commissioner, wynns, are you requesting that it be on the march agenda? will you be

here for that? >> it wasn't postponed. it wasn't on the agenda and postponed. i don't know if there is some other way to take it up. i'm not trying to postpone when we act on it. i would like to be here when the program mattics are discussed.? anything else? happy new year. >> item t. report of closed session actions. in the matter of sf of the san francisco school district. the board of education by

vote one absent, gives authority to the district to pay up to a stipulated amount. other informational items posted on agendas the quarterly report on the complaints october to december 2013, the meeting is adjourned. >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>

>> ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the monday, january 27, 2014, meeting of the small business commission of the city and county of san francisco the meeting is called to order at the 2:08 p.m. roll call commissioner president adams. commissioner dooley. we have a quorum with 5 commissioners. general public comment. any public comment? for this period during the meeting is limited to 3 minutes unless established. the speakers are not required to state your name for the record.

this will help to have the speaker cards that are to the right of the electorate turn at your early opportunity. >> any members of the public that want to bring up my items not on the public agenda seeing none, public comment is closed. this is for the minutes this is an action item >> move to approve. all in favor, say i. any notices. item 4 presentation of a small business commission recognizing one of the members of the committee. commissioner o'brien is not here so i want to defer item 4 until he arrives if everyone is okay

with. item 5 discussion and possible action to make the recognize for the board of supervisors file 13192 police and the administrative codes for the housing code this is an ax item. >> welcome andrea. good afternoon and at the commissioners for hearing this today, i know that councilmember marcason gave a presentation so i'll try not to duplicate that. supervisor kim and supervisor cowen began working on this location a year ago today. and they approached it from the districts 6 and 10 actually of the highest portion of population in the city with

people who have a conviction hearing. and both the rebefore a data tells the biggest carts of recidivism they saw this as a piece of legislation. we take a look at other models that have coward throughout the country where san francisco is not the first to look at criminal history and a employment positions. we take a look at the cities like seattle and beautifully and philadelphia and the state legislation that passed something for their hiring practices and the city and county of san francisco went through a process of resint their process. their has been clearly federal

guidelines on the hiring decisions largely protecting user against the discrepancy claims. we had the robust lengthen i didn't documents. if you have questions about the housing or cathy portions they're very similar so most of the mechanisms are pretty consistent throughout the entire dochlt. so the key sort of objective this ordinance does it - the goal is to get individuals with a criminal record through the process. we've seen unconscious bias if people have a prior conviction

they'll have the weed out tools for the providers in the city. it's a goal to get the person through the goal process and get the employers to meet the person and then conduct a background criminal check. we've heard from the councilmember brooks that the vast majority don't do a background check it's comprehensive and i'll do it later on in the process when you that this is someone who wants to hire them with a cash function. so this ordinance requires employers to do a number of things remove the disclosure so they'll no longer be a check box of whether or not you have a criminal history on the

materials your attorneys for. it also asks employer to delay a background check after a conditional offer of employment or a live interview. this was discussed because theirs distresses that hire quickly. after you've thank you for the opportunity to get a person through a process the employers conduct a background check with state law to the employee and i believe in the legislation that you saw in your packets and i think ivory may have mentioned this that's a lengthen i didn't process of a question in her in her if you decide not to hire

someone it becomes a cumbersome process. similar to the housing provisions we've eliminated the questionnaire with the employer to specific early on in the process the conviction if anyone has bought a piece of property you get a background check and you indicate a that's completely inaccurate it's on the background you checks some incategorize and that's an you want to be to provide some evidence of rehabilitation or mediation so we've asked the employers when they've provided a background check to specifically what the issue is whether that's evenly kirng the background the case scheck check

or your dui is a problem because i run a trucking business. the employers provide them with the information and the employee can show a record of inaccuracy or other mitigating factors. the employers have the opportunity to decide not to hire someone but we do ask they do a direct related analysis that's spelled out in the ordinance to take a look at the conviction and the type you have job their applying for if you have a commercial trucking company you may not want someone who's been convict of a dui because of the job and the type of conviction but some other convictions may not be a

problem. we spent a great amount of time on the provisions of the ordinance with the small business community and with the chamber of commerce. you'll see that the l s c is the enforcing agency. so if there's a box on your application you ask someone to disclose their background and after a significant amount of conversation one of the things an additional requirement that looks at whether or not the directly relate heness what applied at all. we may miss a blanket of employers that maybe misinformation. so they'll have the opportunity

to see if whether or not our conclusion was correct and whether or not the steps were committed with. we have a one year provision to give people ample time to flush utility the aspects of it really educate employers the goal is to bring people into compliance there's a one year compilation so there's $50 for the first violation. there's no private right of action which is another pretty detailed conversation that we had in both our qualifications the small business community so

i sent a menu for the conformity changes throughout the document. it includes the change specifying of what the conviction was and a couple of the things in the incredible section which in the original ordinance there were conflicting things related to the other seconds for the contracting section that were a suggestion of legal council that's for the city the way they do counteracting that is. it's been a long process. we'll have had a number of meetings with the small business commissioners and so that gave

us an opportunity for feedback early on and bring us to a point to have the support of the public community and the business community >> commissioner white. >> can the job application document states whether the employer will conduct a criminal baugsd. >> yeah, we left it a little bit there should be some fester active discolor for people who have a conviction we left it broad because the city for example, has a 3 page disclosure how they will and consider it and a test and that's unreasonable for most people applications. so it's broad in terms of what the requirement is and