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the regular students and lunch and we've had decades of that. so i feel like that information dr. blon could that commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell requested is valid and if you could give that to the board it will be greatly appreciated but right now, we're ready for a resolved and mr. haney. ms. maufas. commissioner mendoza. dr. murase. commissioner wynns. commissioner norton arrest president fewer. 6 i's. thank you very much. art on to our next item. discussion thank you pursue discussion of other education issues. no one. cds resolution. none. i think we're time to vote on
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the consent calendar. >> mr. haney. ms. maufas has recorded her vote as yes. ms. mendoza-mcdonnell. you severed one 12 and 13 >> k-4 and k 5. sorry. and k thirty. k. dr. murase. ms. norton. ms. wynns. president fewer. 5 i's. thank you and now consent calendar resolution severed for board and immediate action i believe that ms.
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mendoza-mcdonnell severed a few. i have a cough which questions on those 3 impedes retroactive two of the schools requested work to state and there were pete dollars i'm curious why p dollars would not get realized or peace dollars are not released until 0 january or february or the holdup on something like that what happens and i have a question on you want me to tell you all the questions at once and on k 13 that one has a taefrnd achieved other resources but prop k has
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unify money let's use the peace dollars it didn't make sense it feel arbitrary and the peace dollars will be released he at the beginning of the year not after the school year starts >> so commissioner i can give information about the p dollars and the allocation i expect the answers are due do site specific circumstances more than systemic real quick the p spending plan includes modified amount of money that allocated i believe $10. student those allocations are part of the phased looks that get allocated in the string for
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the upcoming year and then yipped in september in the fall based on actual enrollment like $4 million to other sites that should have been available at the schools that initiated those k resolutions back in the fall so i'm not sure part of the issue you've heard about in the budget committee the drop down activity does sometimes lead to sites thinking this is the best the closet to what i think happened at the site. and that's my guess as to why those captions were selected on the resolutions but there should not have been a detail that required or prevented those dollars from being loaded and
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available >> thank you. so i guess then leonard flynn if someone could follow-up with those two schools and give me an explanation why they're using that as an excuse for p dollars oh, thank you you know >> hi supervisors. >> flynn they actually didn't know they could use those specific monies they were counting on other missions they didn't know they could use the monies we're guiding them to make sure they know from the
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beginning they can use it. that's my only concern around the retros is the commitments that we pay the money but it didn't appear to be available i don't want to get stuck with on the other hand, people $1,200 and do know where the money is coming from i know i have lafayette been her we need to be able to identify the funds ahead of time it's january that we started the contract and here we're identifying the dollars in almost june. thank you. >> so are we voting that one now. >> on c 12 and 13.
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>> mr. haney. ms. maufas. ms. mendoza-mcdonnell. no. dr. murase. ms. norton. ms. wynns. president fewer. 5 i's >> thank you. okay superintendents proposals first reading. did i this is an adaptation of instruction materials can i have a motion and second please. so moved >> we're going to refer this to the committee and. >> this is the first reading we have executive director jim ryan to discuss the material to the public. >> good evening. the ap calculus and material
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recommend for call your attention is in the board on education in room 106 between may 28 and june 6th for proposals. >> i don't know where i'm at. okay. i'm sorry. can i have a private conversation with the deputy superintendent. now we have a proposal from commissioner haney don't we? we have one public comment >> okay. what package is that oh, in support okay. although this resolution was poisoned it's been introduced
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for the next board meet pr my i have a motion and second please. so moved >> we have one public speaking kathy run. >> good evening. i'm katherine watching representing the protection of the state rules educating our state that will be voted on i know the board is aware of the report by the youth and education law project that clearly highlights this for fix for the transparency to the state and local levels as of many others problems in education finland? at the state
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level as well as the san francisco presentation in this case anyone wants a copy 10 years ago the legislative put an initiated on the ballot to protect all tax properties except for education and what that meant over the last 10 years education is increasing tacoma the debts of the state now totally billions of of dollars and children are literally the only interest to the state. san francisco reports that 34 percent of our stable residential property takes are allocated and spent on occasion the actual number is 18 percent this measures will give education the same preventions
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up to their property taxes and the libraries received 10 years ago. well, it doesn't bring more money the fact is it costs nothing but that hurts the loopholes. i'll say quickly for the prison experiences they've risen formal our future and this is effecting the taxpayers they're losing their chance to do something better than be last in funding every year >> i thought we were the largest economy in the world. we're not no? okay. thank you very much. new board members report so report from the augmented budget from the certifies committee
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commissioner wynns >> thank you so the budget committee met on may 14th we did every month we have the intent to look at the k resolution those but mainly the staff presentation on the updates do we have a quorum. yeah. she's here. an update open the online progress we're trying to develop welds the committee to continue by the way, all the board members got a copy and we want to continue to urge the stvp staff to get that done i know everybody wants to do that it's necessary before we do to an
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online process so that's another incentive that's the day of the realize of revise the main concern the governor proposes to basically take away most of the money a third of the bhoern anticipating getting through the lcff for the next seven years because of the proposal that more than doubles the contribution of school districts to stirs pension obligations so that's a sort of punch in the gut for everyone like everyone like us almost all school district are engaged in goeshgss we're anticipating having for
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revenue to give our employees the richli deserved salary increases i urge you to look at the information and pay attention to the budget committee's information we'll get more about that in the opportunity in june to discuss and learn about the implementations of the state budget that's it because we're having those 4 meetings we'll not have a regular meeting in june >> okay. now let's see report from the augment policy and administration committee mr. haney. >> yes. so i'll give a quick update our quickest committee meeting of all time an hour and a half how far we discussed that same issue we continued the conversation with updates with
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the cal proposal and heard about that which commissioner wynns last updated we pulled the conversation about the board of education and we heard this resolution that was introduced for first reading related to the educate our state ballot it was forwarded to the board with a neutral recommendation the reason why we did that despite the fact that the two committee members that were there myself and sxhorn were supportive of it because we knew with the resolution we considered that night was going to be edited so we had a new version that's what you saw toefrthd tonight so our neutral recommendation came so we can have a future conversation on second reading
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one of the things not covered in that committee he meeting how it impacts city financing we're going to bring this back in the heard in rules how this initiative motive, in fact, effect this that's it. >> that was very interesting report from the select committee of 2014. oh, i was to interested incredible. commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell >> thank you. we have had a great presentation by puc and our sustainability folks from the puc on a tactic that's been well supported by commissioner
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haney and myself on the accessibility in the water filling station in the district there are many filling stations our goal is to have one in every school really soon we have a list we can share who has and who doesn't and the plan going forward excuse me. and then laura ma ran shared the 20025 policy we had good discussions on the bigger projects that fall under the divisions thank you. >> if i may president fewer i just want comment it's
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incredible that puc partnership and combination with the water filling stations commissioner haney i appreciate supervisor mar's comments regarding the comments and ms. ma resistance presentation. i look forward to here her work and the philanthropic support >> are you okay commissioner. do you want some water fill that up. so let's move on to the next item which is the board will be going into closed session thus i now call a recess to the regular
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meeting. a >> the closed session action. of tuesday, may 27, 2014, dub employment the board by a vote of 7 i's approved the contract for 4 principles >> what. >> are we on give a thumbs up. >> i'm on. >> can you tell no there you are. oh, embody that's human resourcesable i now resume the normal meeting this the it a employment employment we've
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>> good morning, everyone, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, may 28, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this and i am joined by avalos, weiner and breed and campos and i want to thank the members of sfgtv for covering this meeting as well as the committee miss linda wo n. >> do we have any announcements? >> yes, silence all devices and
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speaker cards should be submitted and items will appear on the june third, 2014, agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much, could you call items one and two together? >>hearing on services and solutions for unaccompanied and transitional-aged youth who are experiencing homelessness. hearing on services and solutions for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals who are experiencing homelessness. . >> this is the fifth hearing that we have had over the past two months, surrounding the homeless population in san francisco and this will be the third and final hearing that focuses on subpopulation and we have taken a stance at these hearings to analyze the programs and policies that are working here in san francisco and also look to suggest different policies and programs that we can go into the future to make a real difference. today's hearing is around
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services and solutions for transitional aged youth and the lgbtq population and we have as always met with the different department heads and city staff and i want to continue to thank them for all of the hard work on this and the different service providers and i want to thank all of them and advocates and community leaders. for transitional age youth for the first time this past year, the city conducted the survey of homeless youth. and in order to address a lack of data about the homeless youth and to improve the understanding at the local level. we found in the count, 914, unaccompanied children and transitional aged youth, which represents close to ten percent of our over all population homeless. and unfortunately, roughly 90 percent in this population remains unsheltered and half of this population are reported to be homeless longer than one year, and one in four in foster care before coming homeless.
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28 percent cited job loss, 21 percent, argument with a family or a friend who asked them to leave, but you see a disproportion ate youth that are experiencing domestic vie excellence and for the safety and well-being for their homelessness. and 21 who identify as lgbtq, and forced out of the home due to family rejection or ran away due to family rejection and the youth experience the greater rates of victimization and abuse. and that is one of the reasons that we called these two hearings together and because there is an overlap among these two populations that we cannot ignore from the statistics and i look forward to hear from the representatives on these issues and in particular for the lgbtq issues for the first time on the homeless count, the survey response were asked to identify their sexual orientation and as
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the statistics will show you, 1 in 4 identified as lgbtq or other. and lgbtq members are experienced homelessness, also had a greater rate of disability when compared to their straight counter parts, we saw a greater percentage of individuals who identified as lgbtq who came outside of the city limits when compared to the other populations and we know that many come to the san francisco because of our tolerance for everyone, regardless any demographic, unfortunately, many in the lgbtq community experience greater rates of victimization solely based on their sexual orientation still, and as much as that shocks us in san francisco we have to be realistic about the friends and what we can do to prevent them in the future, we have the stories of discrimination in the shelter systems and we need to do better. and today's hearing will dive deeper into the specific resources for the lgbtq population as well as for a
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transitional aged youth. we are going to have a number of speakers today, dufty is joining us and joyce from the human services and margo from the department of public health but i want to thank the co-sponsors of this hearing. and supervisor campos and weiner, i want to invite them if they have any comments up front to please feel free to voice them now before we hear from mr. dufty. >> great, thank you very much mr. chair and thank you to the members of the budget committee, and you know that serving on the budget committee is one of the most challenging tasks because of the intensity and the volume of the work, so we really appreciate the work that this committee is doing and will continue to do through the end of the budget process and we are here today to talk about lgbtq homelessness, and to talk about transitional aged youth, and i do want to begin by thanking the chair of the committee, the committee chair and so for, the emphasis on the
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issue of homelessness, and the various hearings that he has held and i am very proud to be a co-sponsor of this hearing. the fact is that we as members of the lgbtq community have come very far, and today, it is a very special day for us. we will be celebrating later today, the dedication of the milk stamp here in city hall and it will be an important ceremony that we will be holding in this building, right with the bust overseeing that celebration. but, as much as we have a lot to celebrate, when it comes to the issue of homelessness, we in the lgbtq community have a lot to be worried about. in specifically, we have to recognize that the issue of homelessness is a disproportionate problem within the lgbtq community. and right now, 29 percent of all homeless people, in san
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francisco, are lgbtq. and if you look at young people, and young people who are homeless, 40 percent of homeless youth are lgbtq. and i say earlier in the prior press conference that we had before the hearing, you know, how harvey used to talk about the kid and in pennsylvania and how coming out was important because you know he wanted to send a message to young people throughout the country and including that kid from pennsylvania that it is okay to be queer. but what is happening in san francisco, is that kid from pennsylvania and other parts of the country, is moving to san francisco. has come to san francisco. and because san francisco is a safe harbor, it is a place for the people can be who they are and where a queer youth can feel that it is okay to be who they are. and because of that, because san francisco has been a becon
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for so long, we have so many young people that are coming to san francisco without any family, without any connections to the city, and they are homeless. and i do think that we have a responsibility as members of the lgbtq community and we have a responsibility as a city and as a city government, to make sure that we provide not only shelter, but that we provide the services for these young people. and so, the goal that has been outlined today, by the community, that has been working on the issue of homelessness, and lgbtq homelessness in particular, for so many years, is that within five years, that we reduce lgbtq homelessness, by 50 percent. and i believe that that is a goal that the city should embrace, that is a goal that the lgbtq community should embrace and we as a community, specifically the lgbtq community to make that
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objective a top priority for our community and i think that embracing that goal is probably the most powerful thing that we can do today, as we celebrate the dedication of the harvey milk stamp, and i am very proud to be a part of this objective. and i really believe that it is possible for the city and county of san francisco to reduce lgbtq homelessness by 50 percent, within five years. and we are arguably the wealthiest city in the country and if anyone should be able to do this, it is san francisco. and so, we look forward to the conversation. and the last thing that i would say is that we have been working in the community activist with dufty and other folks to open an lgbtq shelter and we are in the final stages of that as we are trying to finalize ada compliance and we are working with the mayor's office of disability and
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