now this is institutional listing ethnic studies misquote sfusd may you are a motion and second. >> second. >> thank you, colleagues that is referred to the before you get i budget committee in support of the proposition 47 the safe orientation tried by mr. haney do we have a motion and second for first action roll call vote vote. >> mr. haney ms. maufas ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns president fewer arrest 7 i's. >> okay thanks we have a reading of the resolution motions and second for formal

resolution reading by commissioner mr. haney. >> in support of this the safe organization for act whereas the san francisco unified school district is fully committing to a save environment and vvlt in them the skills to thrive in the community and whereas sfusd emphasize positive spaces over accomplishment particularly for positive behavior intervention and support and recent implementation of the schools policy and whereas sfusd seeks to end the pipeline by investing in education and restore the health and wellness program where's whereas in the past 20 years the spending for prisoners has increased several time and in the past years the state of

california build 22 prisons and higher than the san francisco state university and 5 times more people in state prisoner when state crimes were up and where was your people of color or ethnics disprospering are xhard and in 2011 african-americans were arrested 8 times the rate of whites and whereas to be smarter on crime emerging best practices must focus the law enforcement resources and whereas the research in the criminal justice show that the behavorial and drug treatment increases the

public safety and whereas the safe neighborhood will change low level crime like petty theft to misdemeanors and reduce the prisoner costs to k 12 schools and victim services and whereas sfusd should join the countless law enforcement and george moscone including the business leaders for the safe leaders in support for proposition 47 therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district supports this safety neighborhoods act that improves public safety and invests in our schools. >> no public comment? any comments from the board or -

superintendent?. >> commissioner maufas so scomplaen can i inquire why you have the city attorney's office name on here and no other my name is on the petition and good question he's one of the main proponents of it in the face of campaign along with the chief of san diego one of the two co-chairs of the campaign. >> so i'm historically have been concerned about supporting political positions as a non-partisan body in situations i appreciate you putting this forward it is important and has

huge impacts on the population i mean, i'll support it is a tricky one i wanted to note that especially seeing none, no other comments oh, commissioner maufas. >> i would like the author to consider alexander commissioners, if they'd like to be at you'll have to ask. >> i think everyone ongoing groovy ready for a vote and mr. haney ms. maufass ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns president fewer 7 i's. >> now standing board member's

reports may we have a report from the buildings committee. >> thank you so we had two reports one was on the expansion of the water bottle station from nick that is going well, we're going to get more in our schools and the facilities local hiring program for career paul mccartney a light discussion about the opportunities our students will be receiving through the internship program to the career patrick's and - pathway that's slowly growing and nice to see. >> great could you have report from the city and school elect committee i guess that's me (laughter) okay. we had a reports on the

services for unaccompanied immigrant children and then we had a discussion on the cities policy for new enrollment due to increased community development we've learned that san francisco's population has been growing by 10 thousands residents a year for for o the last 10 and in 9040 we will be adopting so for the now residents this is an ongoing discussion so okay are there any other reports from board members? yes commissioner haney i'm not sure i have a report and this is from personnel and labor >> oh, yeah. forgot that.

>> (inaudible). >> is that okay and it's not agenda dis. >> standing committees right okay commissioner haney you're on. >> give me 5 votes (laughter) can i resubmit that (laughter) is it okay. >> yeah. >> okay. all right. we had a. >> i'm sorry, i waiting want a motion you need 5 votes (laughter) no do you want to read this okay so we had a meeting of the ad hoc labor committee that was our first meeting of the year i'm the chair of the committee and the meeting it feels like a long time ago but it was last

time i've not left since then and the one item that was on the agenda was the 2014-2015 hiring report actually, the majority of board was interest i won't say too much but i recommend you get a copy there's a lot of information some of the highlights were some certificate areas of focus and concern we did p have an increased number of resignations over this year more spots to fill and a lot of late resignations and some of the concerns and some of the drain over or on our hiring process obviously folks who might we might go after in the process obviously those are picked up jobs if we're hiring

in september we started the year with less vacancies but had concerns around the vacancies that exist as of today that was like 19 vacancies that exists have teachers we excused at length some of our efforts around attracting candidates and how we recruit eastern exists candidates there are 3 focuses of our h.r. department highlighted as priorities one was to shift to year round krout and diversely our sdraejz we're in the process of setting another meeting i think a lot of

what we explored we'll continue to go deeper and the second thing we've talked about the intermits so as i'm sure you're aware there's a huge challenge to fill the substitutes spots and schools have been reaching out we've heard about the streams that have been used and explored and also some in particular concerns around the proposal development and things that are taking teachers out of the classroom and doing a better job cooperating that and other strategies corporal so the foul wore to have h.r. through the superintendant come back with a proposal and plan for the board to how we're going to address that and really make sure we don't have the intermit crisis

on an ongoing basis members i saw commissioner maufas you have something to add you if i may commissioner haney the packet you have before you probably with the other commissioners that were not present they've received this but i really want to stress that information in there was just a small snip even though of all the information that i know the h.r. department has housed and has been presented before us so i would encourage the confirmations were not there to look forward to the mexico bring your attention in the h.r. depth we really asked for the full compliment and complex breathed of information that house and

that should be the babies where we start the conversation which was based on older meetings and again dr. murase was the first person on the committee i think we need a solid baseline of where the conversation begins and looked to higher he level questions it's imperfect for the commissioners that were not present and the h.r. department to be aware of thank you >> okay superintendent. >> yes. thank you to commissioners so i had a briefing of last times meeting i'm working with the staffer of 3 pages that came you're not going to get 3 pages but a plan. >> you couldn't ask for a ball

park plan. >> that's not going to happen there's a plan for the staffing of substitutes which i will bring to the board didn't need board approval but i'll least you know in the final process and want to remind the browns board two years ago when we have the steven report we hired a partner to work all year on bringing information from the system the antiquated system we don't have that kind of american people fte so restructuring and pulling people off tasks like staffing our staff to pull that data so we'll be able to i'll able to bring forward a recommendation how to address that as we go forward. >> commissioner maufas. >> i want to emphasize the

crisis we're facing and i wanted to echo the story that the commissioner norton and president fewer relied in committee of a fifth grader assigned to a kindergarten classroom because there was a teacher shortage that is not acceptable it really, really not acceptable. >> i'm going to make a plea we're about to approach veterans day and thanksgiving please ask tour educators to come to work before those holidays we see historically a significant spike in absenteeism on those days so i'm going to ask you to keep kids fifth graders from being in kindergartener classes please come to work. >> through the chair

superintendant of president be to specific about the information is information they actually have which is so we have that - i wasn't going to reintensity the wheel if we have the information it was created for a reason didn't appear after the person left it's in our house and that should be the baseline of where we start. >> i want to make sure we're not assuming what we have and don't have i'll come back to the board. >> i appreciate that. >> interest so that was a long report on that committee okay so, now the board will now go into closed session so i call a recess of regular meeting

>> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza?

>> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north. >> within the great bear consolation, there are two

pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme.

what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. >> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. >> what are your hopes for it? >> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. >> is such a beautiful addition

to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching "culturewire." >> order of the san francisco public utilities commission today is october 28, 2014, roll call. >> commissioner president caen commissioner courtney commissioner moran and commissioner torres is executed wille