day model and having breakfast lunch and super that will create the clear and change how the staffing will work in a way that is really positive for the employees and creating the clear opportunities, and at the high school level, the secondary level, the middle and high school level, we actually see that our plan is to move further away from foods and more towards sfusd produced meals for our students and about 40 percent of our students at the high school are eating at foods that are produced by the sfusd staff and that is actually a much more cost effective model and provides more choice and opportunity and so we are hoping to move in that direction and so with the increased revenue from the participation and the increased number of meals, we are going it see the cost going up but the revenue stream going up significantly as well and we think that it is going to be our estimates are that it is a more cost effective model when they are all rolled out. >> we see, some of those estimates? because that is what kind of questions that we asked when the designs were rolled out is exactly that.

and i would be very interested in that and, i mean that i understand that with the... which is i want all of these things to be piloted and tried, but i understand that we are actually participation is going down in the meal programs this year. and so that is a big concern. >> and so i will just, i appreciate what you say about the three meals a day and i still have my and i know that it is inchanting the idea of the super but i am nervous about that if it is going to work so i would like to see if what we do done really slowly. but i am as you know, very, very interested in it and committed to commanding our breakfast programs because i actually think that is beside it being a core academic achievement strategy in my mind and there should not be anything else besides that, but it actually is probably the best way for us to increase revenue and therefore, balance out costs, because we are

under-serving and under reimbursing our breakfast programs by huge amounts, i mean, basically we are only do a pitance. and so, any way, i just, i you know this contract just gives me an opportunity to put some of those questions on the table and i think that we need some more information as we go along. because this and you know, the wonderful designs that we saw, and this, and then we don't see anything along the way, and i am uncomfortable with that and so i want to know about that. >> thank you commissioner wynns and i think that your points are well stated and well taken. and it is not our intent to move in any direction that will cost the district any significant financial investment beyond what we are already projecting. and until the board has had an opportunity to fully engage and have a discussion about what those costs may be, but there

is really something interesting that is happening in our community and in our eco sphere if you will in that the folks out there, including private philanthropy are enchanted with what is going on in san francisco, and the sarah and williams foundation is just one of those foundations, or organizations that have said that we are willing to do something that we never get a chance to do which is invest so that you can explore about a vision that is bolden and really, really captivating. so, this is an exciting time for us, but our commitment to the board is that, of course, you are the decision makers, and we will bring you that information and we appreciate you putting those questions on the table as well. we hope to be able to answer those, hopefully in a very positive way. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> are we ready for a vote? >> yes. >> casco >> thank you.

>> wei. >> logan. >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza mcdonald muraser. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> fewer. >> norton. >> aye. >> q. superintendent proposals none, tonight. >> board members proposal? s we heard that earlier. about giving the 18-year-olds free muni, and the item s, report on the city and school district. >> would you report on that please? >> we had one item on the agenda which was an update on, and it says here on the supplemental appropriation and really it was how we are doing and now with commissioner fewer was eloquent in her enthusiasm for the how well we think that we are doing, and i think that it is surprisingly well,

actually. in the percentage of students that are on track for graduation and so we did have some, or a lot of, we had a staff presentation, from sfusd staff that was great. and i think that really i do want to say that, in my mind, one of the real reasons to have this committee though it is sometimes frustrating is that we get to present what we are doing with the school district. >> and so that, that, most of that data, in fact, all of it, i think is some things that we have actually reviewed at the board here before. but, so that was the item on the agenda and as to the sort of shoring up the support for the supplemental appropriation or at least the one that we had last year and that is probably the political purpose which was accomplished and then should

we, and the next meeting is march 26th but at that meeting, what are we going to do with that meeting? >> no. >> no, we are going to do after school for all in april. and because, in and so i don't know what we are going to do in march because the staff here is not, there is a conflict, actually the after school, for all, principal's meeting is the same afternoon. and so, that is going to be postponed until april, the third and wednesday in april and is that when it is or the fourth? >> i think that is the fourth, and thursday in april. and so, why don't we then have an update on the next board meeting because we will know exactly what it will be on the agenda. >> and most of that comes from the board of supervisors. >> yes. >> thank you very much. >> you are welcome. >> and commissioner maufas? may we have a report from the curriculum committee of march

third, 2014. >> we had quite a full agenda, we had two action items for charter school renewals and, one petition to grant alternative or deny a petition, for gateway high school charter school. and then also for to grant alternative deny the renewal petition for life learning academy charter school. and i just i don't want to just say, what the action is at the committee took, but i really do want to talk about what was presented. there at those meetings. and we did hear from the gateway community, and consisted of teachers and students and parents and alum who were able to report back really after attending some of the nation's top colleges and in attendance at the curriculum committee meeting where the principal and vice principal and executive director, i know that the curriculum committee has a few pending questions for

gateway, one was regarding for myself and regarding the restorative, justice practices and that they had said that they had looked at sfusd to incorporate at their school site, but you aels had a comment and you wanted them to respond to that question and we have agreed that we would like for them instead of just referring their responding to us at the committee level we want to send that to miss casco, so all could hear that response and do you remember what your question was? >> not at this moment. >> excuse me for not remembering and recalling that. >> but, i know that all of the commissioners will receive some of the supplemental packet answering those particular questions. vice president murase did inquire requireding the enrollment time line and it was

noted that the gateway community has definitely agreed that that was a misstep and that they have rectified that to assure the community that it will not happen again and they have included in their charter petition, an enrollment time line, that will align with sfusd schools and so that is something to be noted and i believe that is with the concerns that we may have had regarding all of the ability of all students and sfusd to have fair access to gateway's wonderful history and academic rig or and i wanted to mention that and that the committee moved to the full board the positive recommendation for that particular petition. and also, we heard from the life learning academy, and if you don't know about this school, it is located on treasure island and it has been there for the entire 15 years, and it is served the particular population, and i do want to read from the website. and it welcomes the students into an extended family which motivates everyone to give and

receive support and develop the responsibility, judgment, build academic and vocational and the social skills necessary to be successful. many of our students that have not been able to be successful in our traditional high schools and even our smaller high schools find success at life learning academy. and it truly is what i would say, an extended family for many of these students. and their experiences there are life transforming. and something that is particular to note, that executive director, dr. delane said in the history that they have not had a fight at the school, which is amazing. and so that really does speak to the idea that this is the community that builds trust, and support for students who have struggled before. and been extremely what we would term as off track and on

the road to graduation. but, what was wonderful to see, is were several students and several current students that were on track to graduate, and were very, very proud and we are also saw some alum who are off working or actually at city college now, in their post secondary academic careers and i wanted to acknowledge that work dr. delane came on her birthday which was generous of her. and the committee moved forward to the board a positive recommendation for that petition. we heard, and i will be brief, the three informational items that the committee took up which was the school quality improvement system and joe, our executive director for state and federal programs came to present and in that system it is three principles, college and career readiness for all students, two, differentiate and recognition of accountability and support and three, supporting effective leadership and instruction.

this particular update focused on principle to the differentiated recognition of the accountability and support. and what was really good and is that we had a break down of what that looks like. and with the three areas are under the principle comes the school quality improvement index, the social, emotional survey and climate and culture survey and we will develop those over time and we had an update on that and we also had a mid year update on our lea plan with dr. coffman that was submitted in 2013 and a five-year plan that was approved for the department of education in all of the years that he has worked with sfusd he believes that this year, the strategic plan and the lea plan are in alignment and there is an ongoing, sort of disconnect, right? between those two. and he really says, we have

come together in three emerging themes, co-here ans, collaboration and capacity building, and he says that the report reflects a radical shift in how we operate and so that is something to be noted as we have operated in siloand now we are sort of moving as he termed one whole cloth, and which is nice. lastly, we had the information of jrtc. and i am going to take the blame for not really being very specific. with the mr. san der son about what we needed to see coming forward and what we did get all and of the commissioners did get was a binder of the curriculum which is one component which is to see what is the current curriculum being used by the instruct ors, but what was requested and i missed this. and president fewer, was really able to articulate it.

and we will know what will be expected at the curriculum committee meeting which will be these three questions, does the curriculum provide academic rigor? are we able to provide analysis if jrtc curriculum alines with sfusd rigorous standards? can we assess it for content and knowledge? and are the students absorbing that knowledge, necessary to pack the course with validity? or could they possibly, three, get that knowledge elsewhere? those questions will be hopefully answered by our staff at the next curriculum committee meeting and that is my report. >> thank you very much. >> and any announcements? >> yes. >> and just very briefly. i wanted to say that commissioner maufas and i attended the first book give away on march first book.

hundreds of teachers lined up at 9:00 in the morning to get into the sports basement store on 16th and bryant and special thank you to the sports base sxment they were incredible and opened up the store for a week, and they were, and they had 42,000 books, in the loading bay at the store. and it was just an amazing event, to see all of these teachers lining up so early to get the free books for their kids. >> wynns? >> thank you, i just wanted to and i actually made a presentation at the california alliance for school based health last week and the conference was in oakland and board members there and i really wanted to give credit to and thank the staff from the wellness center of mission high school who were there actually i was talking about the clinics and the wellness center and my talks so they were very happy about that and so i was glad to see them there and i wanted to

acknowledge them and i wanted to say one other thing which i am sorry that i was out of the room and if we did the svac presentation and i think that we should note that the state has received a waiver letter from the secretary of education. and so, the threatened we will not give you any money if you don't actually provide the no child left behind required test this year has not materialized. in fact this is really good news for our efforts, and not the state's efforts in which we participate to evolve to a better assessment system. so if anybody was worried about it not to worry now. >> thank you. >> any other comments? >> yes, commissioner maufas? >> thank you. i just wanted to reflect on one attending event that i did last night with the superintendent. which was the plan ahead celebration for our work, and i am going to leave out one of the supporters and it is the pearson foundation and the gap,

sfusd and our other parter superintendent? i may? >> hersh and associations and pearson. >> thank you. >> and really coming together, under the leadership of dr. valinteno and his team and, their team in curriculum and instruction, and our deputy superintendent garelo really to celebrate, actually all of the work and how successful the program has been and as a superintendent highlighted that it is in battle tested by our teachers in our classrooms and in tweaked to where it is really the curriculum that it is supposed to be so much so that it is the department of labor came out to san francisco unified school district and was so impressed that they have actually posted it on the website and it is now an open source throughout the state of california. curriculum, and accessible to all and is it actually national, and i just want to check that, i hear that it has gone national? >> it has gone national.

>> that is amazing and that is all started here in san francisco unified school district and so congratulations to us and congratulations to the cni team and the deputy superintendent. >> thank you. >> commissioner haney. >> also i attended an event where commissioner wynns and were at the spamalot musical and the school of the arts and blown away and it was incredible and yeah, commissioner wynns and i took a self-ie as well. and so, no it was a incredible, performance of the folks out there and i don't think that they are performing any more. but, they have a number of other performances throughout the year and they have a musical every year and commissioner mendoza was there as well. and so just had a great time. and it was nice to spend the evening with commissioner wynns as well. >> thank you. >> great and i just wanted to report that i participated in

read allowed day this week and inthraled or terrified the children with the greek mythology and also i attended a lovely dinner, and the long table dinner that is a fund-raiser for the culinary arts program and i just want to give a shout out for the students for providing that excellent meal. >> i want to recognize maufas for her work on the honor roll. and president fewer and i attended the pta founder's day dinner, and so congratulations to the pta and we will be kicking off the san francisco unified school district arts festival on monday march 17th, and march 19th, we will mark youth advocacy day with the department of children youth

and their families, thank you. >> and you are welcome. >> thanks. >> and item t. report of closed session it actions. >> okay. >> this was kind of long. closed, this is the closed session, read out of march 4, 2014. the board of education by a vote of 5 ayes and two absent, approved expulsion of one high school student, in phase two retirement plan cases the board by a vote of 5 ayes and two absent, gives the authority of the district to pay up to a stipulated amount. the board of a vote of 6 aye and one absent approved the contract for the six site administrators, the board by a vote of 6 ayes and one absent, approved the contracts for 38 principals. the board by a vote of 6 aye

and one nai. fewer, amoved the contract for one principal. >> and six aye and one nay fewer, approved the contract for one principal. and the board by a vote of 6 ayes and one nay, wynns, approved the contract for one principal and the board of a vote of 7 ayes approved the contract for 17 principal and a vote of 6 aye and one absent approved the contracts for 12 assistant principals, and a vote of 7 ayes approved the contracts for 22 assistance principals. the board by a vote of 7 ayes approved the contracts for 29 programs administrators, the vote by the board of 7 ayes approved the contracts for 23 supervisors, and the board by a vote of 7 ayes approved the contracts for three chiefs. the board by a vote of 7 ayes approved the contracts for one deputy superintendent. the board by a vote of 7 ayes approved the contracts for two

associate superintendents. and the board by a vote of 7 ayes approved the contracts for 8 assistant superintendents. 7 ayes approved the contract for 7 executive directors, and approved the contract for 11 directors, approved a contract for 5 senior deputy general counsels. the board approved the contract for one special assistance, to the superintendent. the board by a vote of 7 ayes and one absent, did not renew the contracts for three principals. the board by a vote of 7 ayes, did not renew the contracts for 2 principals. the board by a vote of 6 ayes one absent mendoza mcdonald did not renew the contracts for one assistant principal. the board of the vote of 7 ayes did not renew the contracts for five assistant principals. by a vote of 7 aye $not renew

the contracts for one program administrator, the vote of 7 aye $not renew the contracts for two executive directors. and the board vote of 7 ayes did not renew the contracts for one assistant superintendent. the board by a vote of 6 ayes one nay, maufas did not renew the contracts for one director. the board by a vote of 7 ayes did not renew the contracts for two supervisors. the other informational items posted on the agenda is the staff report on the acceptance of gifts for the month of january, 2014, this meeting is adjourned, thank you. commissioners we have closed session immediately after this.

i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors,

not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows

there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas. the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an

ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take to make them happy, to get them there, that's the main goal. if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from

that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in san francisco. we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park, >> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike

ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in store. >> i definitely recommend it to people. it's a fun afternoon and you learn so many things. >> this is so much fun. i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the

city a more sustatest. >> good morning i'd like to call to order did regular public utilities commission. today is tuesday, march 11, 2014. i almost said 2012. roll call please. commissioner president courtney. commissioner vietor, commissioner moran. commissioner torres is expected shortly oh,s