second issue issue is very unlikely to change from the 75, 25 percent. second issue is less clear, but just want to make sure commissioners know that there's a distinction between those two questions about the amounts. >> i just want to follow up a little bit. now that i'm thinking about it, i don't understand why -- i mean, i would need you to tell my why we would want the restriction that we could only take 50 percent of the 25 percent in any one year because that's not what happens now. now we get up to 25 percent. now, the reason that we have gotten these spikes at some times is because it's 25 percent of the whole reserve and because the city has so

much restrictions for how they could take it out, it's been growing so that 25 percent, once we've established our eligibility for that certain year has been a lot and certainly in the years we were most desperate because -- with the budget issues, so i don't -- why should there be a restriction on how much we could take in one year? i do understand that should this language as proposed go through, we could change that rule 2/3 of the board could change that rule so maybe we want that limitation of 50 percent in any one year because it's sort of a -- it's kind of a restriction on us that keeps us sort of actually having a rainy day fund ourselves, saving it because budget problems don't tend to happen

only in one year. unless we do it to ourselves, but for actual revenue problems are cyclical so, you know, we don't want to spend the whole thing one year if we might need it the following year. i appreciate you're saying that, that came from the controller, but now that we're talking about it, it's raising the question do we want that or not? and by the way, why would they care? >> well, that was offered just as -- in the sort of -- they don't really care, i don't think, but it's offered in the spirit of brainstorming and helping us think of, frankly, incentives that the board might

face and depleting the funds in one year. so what you described is d is basically the thinking that there would be a balance, an ability to have the funds last for more than one year. as you know we have intense budget pressure so to provide a little bit of a stopgap of depleting the funds in one year, so that would be modified or offset by the other provision that would a law five allow five members of the board of education to change those rules and if they chose by majority vote to change those rules. >> i would add to what deputy [inaudible] had said that just keep in mind -- i just warrant to remind want to remind us

all that we've made substantial progress with peef. this is another part of what allows the board of education to control its own destiny and i don't think we can overemphasize how important it will be to be able to use this money to avoid lay offs, rather than rescind lay offs. i think the city was being magnanimous in coming forwards in saying we want to help in this regard. they really had no reason to. that said, i do appreciate the fact we want to make sure we're protecting our interests as well. i think this is a good deal for us. i think it gives the board the ability to control the destiny of the district, and then we will have some other revenues that will come to us with hopefully the acquiescence of

the public. soon we're going to have to land the plane and my recommendation is this is a good thing for us. >> any other comments? okay, seeing none. wow, i was spell bound by that whole thing. okay. [laughter] consent calendar resolutions none tonight. vote on consent calendar, moved and seconded. [inaudible]. >> ready for a vote? >> i believe we have a response to commissioner norton's question. what is the question and response again?

>> so i believe commissioner norton was asking about a resolution for the student nutritional services department on k 21, page 98, is it timely for me to provide an answer? is that -- >> i got the answer, so -- but if -- for everybody else i think that would be good. >> i believe commissioner norton's question was is this a new function that we're investing in and the answer is, it's not a new function, but it's a switch of the vendor so we have had, for several years, a vendor called horizon, that has provided some sort of analogous services for processing meals applications and we have experienced some issues in that regard and we've

decided to go with this new vendor, cyber soft technologies and we're expecting that will increase the reliability, accuracy and timeliness in processing those applications. >> yes, commissioner [inaudible]. >> the contract is for horizon. >> so the immediate -- on page 100 is an $83,000 contract for horizon to do point of sale. is that different from the meal application and are the issues not applicable to the point of sale software? >> these are for two different scopes of work so second one, k 22, is for basically the payment of the school meals, the electronic debits and

credits of the purchasing, the cash register so that a family or parent or guardian can prepay or carry a balance that they would -- you know, pay plus, right? this is the first one, k 21 is for processing the applications for eligibility for the free meals. >> i gather from this that they're different systems, they don't have to talk to each other, or they can talk to each other even if they're different? >> okay, thank you. so i think we're ready for the vote. thank you. mr. haney. >> yes. >> miss maufus. >> [inaudible]. >> we're voting on the consent

calendar vote. >> yes. >> miss mendoza-mcdonnell, doctor miss norton, six is. >> thank you. consent calendar -- no, [inaudible] first reading. can i have a motion and second, please? >> so moved. >> [inaudible]. >> second. >> i will read the item. in support of naming the daniel webster library. can i have a motion in the second for this next one which is authorization to pursue a grant opportunity to strengthen and enhance a turn around leadership program with an [inaudible] for the selection,

preparation, placement, support and retention of turn around leaders in school improvement grant schools. >> so moved. >> second. >> okay. i will refer this to the budget and business services and the curriculum and program committee. board members proposals first reading, none. >> the budget business services meeting the tomorrow so this won't come before the committee until june so -- >> okay. >> [inaudible] maybe june or -- >> is there a time constraint on this permission to -- >> hi commissioners. there is -- there was actually a hope that this would have come with a waiver of the first reading to sort of just give us

a chance to move forward with the grant opportunity. the only -- there's not an issue if we can still apply, but if we apply, we still consider -- these things run in parallel. in other words, we apply, but also run this through the various committees and have our decisions and if for some reason we decided we weren't interested we would withdraw our application. we're not sure we're still working on it and the feasibility of getting it in, but i think that's no problem of referring it to the committees. >> do we have consensus about that? we will hear this in the committee, but the district will pursue this grant opportunity, paralleling our authorization process. commissioner -- >> i don't have any

reservations for applying for taking advantage of this opportunity, so i would assume move for a waiver on approval on first reading if that's allowed. >> you would have to post that in the agenda and it wasn't posted in the agenda. >> could we just bring it down for second reading at the meeting without it going to committee? a: we >> we could do that and still hear it in committee. >> we could hear it in two weeks, but do you need to have direction now? >> i think i heard some direction, which is that we could apply in parallel. the other thing is it would help if in two weeks we were doing it because we could refer to the application itself that it has been reads for a first time and it's up for and being voted upon by our district. so it could be something we could add to the application if we knew that was going to happen expeditiously. >> that's fine.

mr. steel, would you please make a note of this. at the next agenda review for the meeting of may 27 that we will bring this back for a vote. in the meantime, there [inaudible] will pursue this opportunity simultaneously. that what i heard? >> that's what -- that sounds good. >> that's what i heard. okay. >> [inaudible]. [laughter] >> oh, that right. >> if i'm understanding correctly, so it's still going to go to committee so you'll be presenting at the june 2 curriculum committee meeting and a subsequent budget committee; is that correct? >> i think we said we would burr pursue this and skip the committee. you could report us back with a report and update about what's

happening with that grant opportunity. thank you very much. now, board members, proposal first reading none. board members report from the city and school district select committee. public commissioner wynns, you want to report on that. looks like [inaudible] is not here. >> certainly. the item that we had on the agenda was the review of summer learning programs an all the various summer opportunities that we have for kids, both from our own extended learning initiative and others fundsed by dcyf. >> i wanted to add that this saturday is the first day to enroll in the summer program

for the park so if you want to get the classes you want, 10:00 am they start checking in online and you can apply. and we had a reauthorization for the peef fund which we discussed tonight. >> which basically was the same timeline. it was informational about when things would be introduced and that there would be these various proposals that would possibly be merged after introduced. >> thank you. report from the student assignment, commissioner [inaudible]. >> thank you. at the april 29 meeting, we had four informational items. the first one was a middle school feeder pattern and staff was very hard to look at a granular level at the number of seats available to determine that the middle school feeder could be at the everett middle school and daniel webster would

be at james lick and we heard very positive reception of these feeder pat erns. er earns. patterns feature meetings the next meeting will be scheduling in the fall. report from the [inaudible]. commissioner maufus. >> thank you. >> so we had an action item in support of the update for -- to

our student handbook regarding the appearance so i had mentioned earlier we had sent that forward with a positive recommendation. we also had a presentation on our school quality improvement system, which was always going to be a standing item on the curriculum committee agenda. and it really is -- just we have submitted elementary secondary education act request to extend that skwool quality improvement system into and beyond 2014 into -- and beyond the 2014 school year and it was signed by all of the districts involved in that. that was just an update on that information which we had reapplied or asked for an education tension. extension. i'd like to ask for an

extension to the next meeting to present feedback on the pathways overview and focus. i haven't received some updating information and when i reviewed my powerpoint that i had at the curriculum committee it had several corrections on it in areas that were missing information and i haven't received that from the folks that presented to us so i will actually speak with them and just remind them that that information was supposed to go to our executive assistant. >> thank you for that report. so we are going to recess -- i'm sorry, could we give other reports. >> oh, well, all right. >> yes, i wanted to congratulate the graduates of downtown high school for being employees of the year for the

jewish vocational services awards luncheon. it was really an amazing testimonial about how jds has supporting our public school students into really meaningful employment. i wanted to congratulate seniors theresa and sheila who won the national japan bowl competition in washington dc. they're seniors at lowel high school. congratulate the san francisco achievers scholarship winners who will be honored this thursday, shout out to united administrators who will be celebrating the end of the year on thursday and invite folks to the memorial day observance and

the last announcement is about summer learning on june 11 to july 16, opportunities for credit recovery, go to sfusd.edu/extended learning. thank you. >> anymore announcements at all. i'd like to congratulate fewer for supplying him with that education and wish him much luck on getting full-time employment. i'd like to also congratulate [inaudible] sanchez as she graduates from san francisco state this saturday. and her [inaudible] graduate program in public policy. and now, before we rerecess this meeting to closed session,

commissioner wynns would like to address memory of a friends, a former board of education member. >> so even though we're recessing, for the benefit of the listening audience not having to wait, we are going to do this adjournment in memory of at home in thomasville, georgia. she was an elder of two sisters born in west palm beach, florida, and grew up in thomasville, georgia her mother's hometown. she was the valedictorian of her class and attendsed fisk university in nashville, tennessee. she met and married ed win johnson, the son of a

[inaudible] was a prominent businessman who owned the texas play house and other businesses in san francisco's fillmore district. he became a surgeon and practiced in san francisco and they had three children pamela ed win and daniel. she was an active member in the community in san francisco. she was president of the san francisco branch of the naacp and president of the african american historical and cultural society. she was appointed to the san francisco board of education by mayor george masconi on [inaudible]. she is elected in november 1978 and was running for when she resigned in august because of differences with the superintendent and board over desegregation issues. after she was divorced she

moved back to georgia where she and her sister cared for her mother who lived to be 101. she lived in atlanta and was torque coordinator. an [inaudible] and led tours to many african countries. she lived her final years in thomasville and fought three battles with cancer until finally succumbing this month. her sister brenda jones and a host of dear friends the world over, which i count myself among, her portrait can be seen along with many others on the wall of the el hill hutch

community center in the western addition right down the street from here and we express our sincere condolences to the johnson family and honors her as an educational leader. thank you. >> mr. steel. >> i'm sorry. i want to follow up on your report for [inaudible]. i sent you an email on monday at 9:07 am regarding the multilingual pathways presentation. it was supposed to have an attachment including that powerpoint, i neglected that powerpoint, i'm going to forward it to you right now. i want you to know they sent you the information, i just did not attach elt. i apologize and will sends send it to the board right now. >> on behalf of of president fewer the board will go into clo

>> report of closed session. there is one correction as follows tchl board by a vote of six is, approve the contract of one general [inaudible]. the read out for may 13, 2014 existing litigation the board by a vote by a vote offics is. including a monetary payment to the district. this corrects the previous read out of the the board's march 4,

2014 action which erroneously said the board authorized a payment rather than choose a district. other informational items. posted in the agenda is the staff report on the william's uniform complaints. meeting adjourned. >> you have to read tonight's closed session. >> it's right there. >> okay, the read out from this evening's closed session, public employment, may 13, 2014, the public employment by a vote of six is approved the appointment of one principal.