update on how -- an update if that's possible. i think the board of education, i'm not speaking for the board, but based on our discussion would be interested in seeing if we can do that as quickly as possible. and by saying that i personally, not the board, but i personally have a concern about one ballot. i think we should have two ballots. these are two funding issues very well understood by the voters. we have recent polling that shows that and i continue to have some concerns about the proposed governance structure. i think it's hard for us to understand and we need to clarify that more before any of us can or should feel comfortable with something that we don't -- that is a little bit not specific, too not specific for public governance of these

public funds so those are concerns that i have and i appreciate the time and the ability to put those on the record. thank you. >> commissioner fewer. >> thank you, supervisor kim. thank you for this presentation superintendent lee. i agree this has been an outstanding gift from the city of san francisco to fund these programs at a time where we had great, great need and also -- for example, in the example of the libraries that we had no librarians in our schools and we had no elementary pe department at all whatsoever, and so it has completely transformed those two programs and now they're robust and on their way and as you can see from

these photographs, our libraries aren't in good condition and we have weeded out books from the 1950s and we have staffed our libraries with credential so that's taking a step to improve the education of our students. in reference to what commissioner wynns has mentioned, we as the board has decided that one ballot verses two was something that the majority of the board has agreed on. she's right about finalizing the governance structure and we haven't had actual legislation, written legislation brought to us for approval but we're narrowing it down. what the board has said, this he -- what the board has said, they don't want it defined

more vaguely but more precisely about how these two funds will be governed and whose responsibility is to govern what. ideally, the board wouldn't like a date, but is open to a sunset date that is more than the ten or 15 years that it has had. so with he -- we have some things to work out, but we have full agreement that this fund needs to be reauthorized and it has been a gift to the public school children of san francisco and so in turn, a gift to the city of san francisco too. thank you commissioner kim for taking the lead on this and for listening to all of our concerns from the school district and for bringing this forward today for discussion. thank you. >> thank you. okay. so just an update on where things are at in terms of the drafting of peef.

it's drafted as an independent measure and it's ready for introduce and supervisor's yee office led the drafting for preschool for all or early childhood education for peef and we were drafting the 2004 ballot measure for the remaining 2/3. two changes that were put in to the draft that we have right now is that we have taken out some kind services. something that i think has been a source of frustration for the city and for the school district. it hasn't fulfilled the objective of the initial legislation and we have taken out the trigger. we continue to have a discussion around the sunset date. there are roughly ten set aside, general funds set aside that the city has that we bare and

we looked at the other set asides that we have. roughly half of them has sunset dates and half do not. the half that do, i believe three of them had a sunset day of 15 years and two had a sunset date of 30 years and peef had a sunset date of 10 years. there's a conversation of how many years is appropriate or is no date has been appropriate. i've heard of ideas like 18 or 21 years really kind of to emphasize the life of a young person here in san francisco. and give voters an opportunity to assess whether these dollars have been well spent and well governed. we continue to have a discussion on the

overall governance structure that supervisor yee's office is working on to make sure the dollars are working in alignment and there continues to be discussion on whether we'll have one or two ballot measures, but supervisor yee's office is working on that. that's an update on where things are currently in terms of the drafting process and if there are no further comments, i was going to open up to public comment. so at this time, we will open up for public comment if you'd like to speak on this item, please step up. >> good afternoon, supervisors and commissioners. my name is emily. i work at performing arts work shop which is an non profit organization that serves 5,000 youth in san francisco every

year. i'm here on behalf of the san francisco alliance education. we recommend the funding to move closer -- to insure educational program for those. so we support the agreement and we're happy to hear that that has been included in the draft legislation. in terms of the sunset, we recommend the elimination, currently peef is ten years but we recommend a process, we believe that support for critical services for youth shouldn't have an expiration date. thank you very much. >> hi, i'm beverly, also from the performance arts. i want to say

that peef created a baseline for sports, arts, music and universal pre-k but the measure has created instability. the visual and artwork shops have -- it was not intent so we urge you to not see peef as a program of art. the arts department is funded through peef which is making it difficult to provide quality instruction. the recommendations that my colleague has proposed will create an environment con due sifb to thoughtful long term processes for city government. like someone said earlier, it will have access to these critical educational programs. thank you for your time. >> are there any other members of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none,

public comment is closed. i want to thank members of the public that came out today. i did have a question on the last comment that was made. i don't know if this would be directed to mr. lee about how peef is the sore funding of sfus. it's about my understanding that peef is the only funding for arts funding for sfusd. >> there's one set of resources and that's for the elementary arts and music program and i believe together that represents about a million and a quarter of funding that still exist and to be fair, those resources are originated from the city as well from dcyf. they have not been diminished and

they are still in place so i think that's definitely worth noting. as far as general funds support, general fund support has been minimal at least the time that i've been with the district and there was for a couple of years, there was a state categorical program that was specifically directed to arts and music that was, i think that was in place beginning in 2006 or 2007, around then, that was of course prior to the recession that took place and in that state recession context, the state allowed districts to repurpose many, many category programs including that arts funding and as most districts did, we had to repurpose those funds in order to make our

books balanced and avoid layoffs and everything else, so it is true that there were for a limited -- maybe two years there was some dedicated funding from the state that was provided and that is not available anymore, but the long history of general funds support has been very, very small and the dcyf for the elementary and music and arts program has not been diminished. >> supervisor yee. >> i think the language is not applicable anymore. instead of saying we're going to allocate teachers to high schools instead, we have more control over how we spend

it. we've done the same thing for our schools. so we put all of that money admittedly, cut and slashed in recent years but nobody want today do when the state was slashing our funding. all the money that used to be allocated for certain teachers has gone into student formula and the schools decide how they're going to spend that money, so that's the kind of tough part about local control, whether it's at the school or district. if you give power to people to spend the money the way that they think is best because they're closest to the program, then you have to support their decisions whether they're the ones you may make or not. that's my answer to that. >> supervisor yee. >> yeah, it seems unfair to say

that peef money is funding arts and so forth because we take on the regular -- the school board -- it's not funded by peef. i mean, all those teachers are funded by regular budget and i believe in some of the high schools, there's still existed art classes and maybe even music classes that was funded by education funds. we shouldn't go around saying that peef is the only funding source for art when indeed a big part of the budget -- they support some of the teachers and so forth. >> thank you. okay. well, thank you for everyone for

participating in this conversation. clearly there are more discussions than just here on this item and they'll be a continued discussion. there's many discussions on policies but we have come a long way and i want to recognize stakeholders that have been involved since the first part of peef in 2004 that have been working on this for over 12 years. i'm excited to bring this back to the voters in november and i like forward to its passage. are there any other announcements madam clerk. >> on the items, do you want to file them away or bring them to the call of the chair. >> is there a motion on the table to continue to the call of the chair or a motion to file? >> motion to -- >> for item number two.

>> so supervisor yee has made a motion to continue to the call of the chair on this item. we can do that without opposition. we didn't take a motion on item number one. can we take that motion now? >> yes. >> can we take a motion to file item number 1? we have a motion to file item number 1. we can do that without opposition. thank you, madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> no, there isn't. speaker: seeing none, this meeting is adjourned.

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>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco fire department division of training. i'm assistant deputy chief raymond williams i'd like to welcome you and thank you to coming to honor the graduates of the one hundred and 16th recruit academy ladies and gentlemen, i'd like to present to you the fire crew cut class

(clapping) kruts please be seated. i'd like to have father john come forward and lead us in the

notion >> good morning, everyone they made it let's give them another - (clapping) well congratulations not only to our new graduates but you'll see family and friends that helped them through the time i know their protective we shall proud of the class and want to wish them the best has they serve our city and share in so many ways in the protection and safety of all our citizens. we come from many traditions and yet we just gather in our good thoughts and prayers for the new class and ourselves. lord our god we thank you for your new firefighters we say ask them to watch over them and be

proud of the job and to also have a sense of how great a gift it is to be a san francisco firefighter bless their family and friends and all of us today. amen (clapping) >> at this time, i'd like to introduce contacting to lead us in the pledge of allegiance please all stand. of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

and now i'd like to honor and introduce >> honor our honored guests on my left the honorable mayor ed lee (clapping) we have supervisor scott wiener (clapping) we have father green of st. robert church (clapping) we have deputy director of the d e.c. robert smut (clapping) we have assistant to the executive director of d m david (clapping) and he may not be seated but the vice president of the education

and outreach at the san francisco fire credit unit len (clapping.) we have the president of the fear commission steve (clapping) vice president of the fire commission andrea evans (clapping) and have fellow fir commissioners ken cleveland (clapping) france i didn't cove ton (clapping) and michael hard man (clapping) we have fire chief of department chief joanne haynes-white (clapping) deputy chief of operations mark

gonzales (clapping) deputy chief of administration raymond guzman (clapping) we have assistant deputy chief of support services ken lombardy i didn't (clapping) assistant deputy chief fire marshall. mrs. wong kwlp. we have assistant deputy chief of the airport division dale incarnates (clapping) we have the president of the chief bipartisan chief and dr. yeah. of the medical (clapping) did i forget anyone there we also have in the audience the president of the local union 798

jim o'connor (clapping) pr we also have numerous board members in the audience (clapping) to my right we have our training staff captain mickey my lieutenant bob. (clapping.) lieutenant justin brown (clapping) lieutenant john cob by a (clapping) lieutenant norm cob by a (clapping) ernest ca rely (clapping) arnold cho. jason drapery (clapping) james