martin i'm the current chair of the search-and-seizure you guys want to introduce yourselves >> member of pack. good evening welcome back families to school i'm georgia i coordinate the advisors council and an apparent >> this is the first meeting of the year i want to remind everyone that this is an advisory couldn't to live board of education we represent parents across the district and try to provide voice to the policy decisions we're appoint by the board of education we're all volunteers and we actually currently accepting applications

and we'll talk about that. we don't meet during even though summer so we don't have very much to report on together but some members of the pack that have been attending meetings and working on planning for this coming year we're going to give you an update one of the most exciting things it the the second family empowerment conference and saturday september 27th at the james middle school from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. there will be a lot of workshops and exciting speakers and there will be resources fair where pack will have a table and a lot of these tables there. i think that it is not available to sign up yet but there will be carefully and interpretation there the office of engagement.

and so there will be breakfast and lunch provided this year will be better than last year. i'll pass to over to skating >> earlier this month the pack members participated to explore the idea of developing a parent university within the sfusd the idea was well received by the is focus groups and echo with the pack community, district members heard in the conversation parent that wanted expanded opportunity for leadership development. >> we want to acknowledge that we know there's a lot of big questions that will have to be considered such as how will an initiative like this align with

the program for the supportive of the ask the connect how will it get funding and the stakeholders participating in the implementations of such a model. there are a lot of questions just a few questions to be determining the feasibility of a model but a model with a well-thought-out plan and financial support could be an asset to all sfusd families and provide opportunity for student and adult learning to support the children in our schools. next this week on thursday we have our first pack meeting we welcome superintendent will be attending to highlight the districts top priorities and his presentation helps us to inform our focus for the year as we

expand and identify our priorities as mar random mentioned we're recruiting and have up to 15 members on the advisory board we cultural have 11 so we have 4 regular spots and 3 alternative spots we reach to our district partners and those on the mailing list circle circle back we've listed in the weekly administration district and trying to reach out for folks we don't have a participation from the asian pacific islander so we're reaching out to the community and talked to the regional

development groups and we're going to be going to the farther parent meetings in september to let them know about our current recruitment so if you know of good candidates out there pack applications can be found on our webbed also i can be contacted at the office at phone number (4) 153-3201 we have applications in english and chinese at the moment. >> thank you, commissioners comments. >> yes. >> i really encourage that the listening public if there are interested members to apply to the pack it's a very, very regarding year of service my question is do you have

representation from the pre k group we're putting a lot of focus on the pre k programs and would love to see representation on the pack as well. >> our parents that have pre k is now a kindergartener so, now on the application it says pre k anyone would say a guardian is a candidate. >> thank you president fewer. i have some comments to make at the first meeting in june, i interrupted a pack recommendation and engaged in an exchange that was really felt inspired some hurt feelings and felt disrespectful to pack

members he want to publicly apologize to the pack as a whole i regret my behavior. i feel one of the things to try to take a first step towards repairing the harm president fewer and i participated in a restored circle with several pack members present and it was a very challenging conversation. it continues to be championing to me i felt like i learned a lot i will reflect on a lot of things in the conversation i'm not under the illusion that the harm is repaired it is really that is a first step so hopefully we've taken the first step and will continue to move forward together to move past what happened but again, i

really regret my behavior and offer high sincere apologize to the pack members and the pack as a whole it was a window our conversation on the kinds of difficult k346z we're asking our schools to engage in and i can tell you i won't speak four parents but that was extremely painful and hopefully, will as i said taught me a lot and will allow us to move forward with a lot of understanding thank you. thank you commissioner norton >> so i would like to speak about that. commissioner norton and i, we experienced things this last week it was an important thing to restore the recycle i wanted to be there to own any

responsibility as a leader in the district about not responding to the comment and actually providing a safe plays for comments it was doubly bad of me because one i was the author of the parent search-and-seizure to actually create one i was the parent organizer before i came into the board to not to take a leadership roll in a manner that will protect our voices i wanted to say not only the voices of the advisory committee is pack members that were partnering but our listening audience and the focus groups around particularly around rational equality and for the parents to come out and participate on a weeknight and

not have grandfathering with their families i think that rachel and i can offer to the parents i think we can actually put their voice to paper and try to change things in the district and rachel and i looking forward to doing that i want to particularly thank carrie and vicky for restored practice practitioners i didn't know what i was stepping into i wrote the resolution and fought for funding for that i never had been in a circle and i was miss interrupting it i feel like i learned a lot i went home that

night and felt like i learned something about the parents involved by really learned about myself so thank you to the pack members for giving rachel and i the first step and thank you georgia for bringing us altogether and having the vision of having this circle together and everyone coming together with the main objective to restore our relationship. i also wyoming would like to say to my fellow board members although i'm the president of the board and facilitating those meetings i'm happy if you think something should be brought to my attendance i feel like rational equality it ends with all of us that's our leadership roll it a starts with the leadership of the district we

expect our schools and our school communities to have those difficult conversations so i want to again extend my sincere apologizes for not protecting the parent voice this was brought forward to us about a subject we have a hard time talking about which is arbitrary equality and all the hours of collecting the will finding and the voices of those parent and thank them to them and extend a sincere apologize all i can say in closing one thing i've learned as a braids member we're all learning here and i know that's a good place to start from thank you. >> commissioners any comments. thank you very much for your report >> i would like to give a plug

to the advisory committee georgia correct me if i am wrong is there 11 here there is a body that has built parent leadership, in fact, we've got current board members that were part of the advisory council. we - georgia >> thank you for making that public apologize and making it a safe place for parent to come to share their voices. >> and again, thank you to the restore practices vicky i don't know about you rachel but i felt has a fascinate our i lead-ins

on their skills and they were excellent that is a difficult thing to do thank you very much. thank you all now item f public comment i see no speakers signed. item g we have a motion and a second on the consent calendar >> move forward. >> thank you. any items collected e corrected by the superintendent. seeing none, any items for first reading first reading by the board seeing none, oh, and i wanted to pull items k 17 through 20. >> excuse me. commissioner do you mean to sever those items

for vote. great do we have any items for first reading by the board please note commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell request roll call vote superintendents proposals none together and board members proposals this is item i. through there are no board proposals i want to announce that resolution 146 dash 81 supporting equality which was introduced by commissioner norton is being held in abstinence and there will be coming before the board for all those interested i would ask that you would please keep track of our schedules student assignment meetings we'll have updated information on that resolution. thank you. now we're at general matters so

we have a couple of people signed up this evening as i call our name, please come up to the podium you'll have two minutes to speak (calling names) i'm so sorry if i'm mispronouncing your name not intentional. thank you very much. you may begin. 2 minutes please. please press the red bottom >> we don't mean to make you nervous. there's on the base of the speaker a little red bottom >> i'm patricia i have two children in our school district

i'm a 20-year-old veteran i'm experiencing issues i would like to have address i have one son in the top school in san francisco. he has been going there a year and a half from rosa parks he's 8 years old i have a 6-year-old who is going into first grade. last year, i was told there was no room a waiting list. that didn't work last year and again, i was told there is no room two classes of 22 students each i'm feeling that i do have mental health issues that would be hardship policy i'd like to know if a class is full how do you deal with the hardship

policy and the diversity problem i feel in the school not that that want my children both to go to the school but it's 85 percent chinese and the rest is the rest of nationalities i want to know the diversity how we deal with that it's in chinatown johnson is the top school i see more diversity compared to john chin and there's other issues that i feel that i know there are students i have gone to the mayor and the supervisor and going to go to the media to address this issue i'm feeling i'm not getting any support >> thank you very much. mr. steel would you mind taking

the information so we can have appropriate people follow-up >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> mr. york. >> good evening, commissioners. deputy superintendents and president fewer. my name is jason i'm trying to get my daughter into our local elementary we remember the local school is a at the center of the community our children grow and boom that's why my wife and i move forward to cool valley we're learning a rule saying our chandler child can't be part of the community. when it comes to admission priority i understand the intention but the execution is extremely problematic the flaws and issues the school system

can't be completed in on crosstown bus i see how putting children into low districts to raise the scores it shouldn't be sacred at the others the children at coal valley have a been attending school and playing in the parks and the shared experience is being taken away from them instead of juggling kids between sklgz i think the school district should make every school district better from the hunters point to the man or woman if the city can do that we will have time to talk with our children about what they learned instead of how many buses and trains it took for them to get to school thank

you very much >> thank you. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> hello, everyone my son was assigned to john but actually, we choose to go to washing and lincoln. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> tilt we live in sunset so

washington and lincoln is very close to our house my son since in fourth grade is leon violin so he is looking to go to a high school that has an ornament program so i hope the superintendents will help us solve this problem. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and because john is so far away from our house and difficult to send my son to john o con everyday in order to send him to school and put another

layer of burden into our low income status so i hope the superintendent can look at our case and help us out. >> thank you, everyone. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> hello, everyone i really understand the parents how she felt and actually and i have the similar experience as the other speaker.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> okay. so just now i heard from you all people talking about we do all the things for the good of the students, however, i have a series case here because my girl is not going to school right now i want to bring out this problem and hopefully, i'll get help from you speeding i have to say

that system in skufd is without equality because we choose 5 schools you, however, we were assigned to a school that's not our choice how come we don't listen and try to check into the choice of the student my girl not going to school instead of going to the school she didn't like i hope you provide a safe and quiet and comfortable place

for the student to learn so they can shine >> (speaking foreign language.) >> actually, i brought my girl to burton the school she was assigned to, however, she didn't like the environment so she choose not to go to school. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so here as a parent i really asking help from you to hope you can really consider our case and help her help to assign

her to the school she wants. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> hello, everyone i'm here to speak for my grandson. he was assigned to requested to go to balboa, however, he was not assigned to that school he was crying everyday and not wanting to go to school

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> so actually his mom kind of passed away some time ago and i'm his grandchildren he was very sad that's why he asked me to speak to you and hopefully get help from you. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> well, actually he went to

a middle school near balboa park for a few years he really liked the neighborhood he had set in his mind he want to go to balboa high school he was not assigned to that school and disappointed that's why it is make we wondering why do you provide us the choice options, however, we choose the school we didn't get the assignment for the school of our choose so i'm thinking the school districts assignment policy is fooling us around.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i'm here to kind of strongly asking you to help us to place my grandson to the school he wants and i can see he might want to skip classes or he might want to quit so i don't know i'm the guardian so i don't know how to do when that happens. >> okay. thank you very >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>