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

>> i think it ae's public and private property. i'm against graffiti. >> who can get it out the most who can be noticed the most. >> i i've seen seniors doing

graffiti. >> the city is art, other people who have their names tag -- >> [inaudible] our unit there are 2 sections we are doing one is abating and others are notice of violation to private property. all the utility boxes in public right-of-way we abate. >> we abate calls that come within 48 hours. >> we are a small group in g f graffiti. we don't have enough help. >> i have a group in town down and china town and the north

tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. >> i'm willing to take it on. i think -- >> you are telling me you are ready for this? >> i think so. >> okay. >> there you go. >> all right. >> all right. >> ready to do it. let's go. >> want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we don't do private property since it's on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. >> we had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. we do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the attorney's office and they take appropriate action. >> damage their property there.

it's important to write the color in case they want to say what part of our house you abated the graffiti on. >> using your safety glasses the gloves. >> you got it. >> you know some places we gashi, people appreciate that. you know, a lot of timeses they say, thank you. >> the time where it's visible. a lot of people put it on the ground. >> i like when tourists come and say, you do this for your

city and you get paid for that? >> we use the [inaudible] for the holes and the retaining walls. [inaudible]. white on the fire hydrants. fire box red for the fire boxes. our brown for the pg and e poles. >> we are not painters we do our best. >> i'm assuming it has to do with gang activity. >> if it's territorial i mind. >> in case it's gang related and they are marking our territory i would like to paint it over. >> anything with numbers like x

iv or x 13 west side mob and the bay view those are gang related. with gang related or profanity we will abait it as soon as possible. >> i consider it an art. there are circles of people that form around it whether or not they should ruin public property. >> this is art work i'm for it. unless it's on someone's property and they don't want it there. judge kids with silver paint expressing their ego needs doesn't belong on our property. >> graffiti is when you don't have permission to write anything on their property. >> eighth street is part of your regular rout? >> yes. >> everyday. >> eighth street. divisidero street.

irving street. every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the poles the utility boxes, mailbox. >> thank you. >> okay. >> put the drop cloth. come on around. >> there you go. force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters not painters. get that out of the way and keep moving. >> how many of these do you do

a day? how many poles we do a day? >> yeah. >> depends on the location. may be 20. >> do you like working with the team? >> yes because i'm a people person. i like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. >> goodbye. you. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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(music) >> herb theatre,open rehearsal. listen to the rehearsal. i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. it is good for us. we kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. msk (music) >> we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. we are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted.

my ambition when i came on as music director here -- it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. this was my purpose. and after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. my plan -- and i'm absolutely dogmatic about my plans --were delayed slightly. i would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and everyone, especially the arts, it's phenomenal how new century has grown where many unfortunate organizations have stopped.

during this period we got ourselves on national radio presence; we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd. we continue to tour. reputation grows and grows and grows and it has never stopped going forward. msk(music) >> the bay area knows the orchestra. you maybe take things for granted a little bit. that is simply not the case will go on the road. the audiences go crazy. they don't see vitality like this on stage. we are capable of conveying joy when we play. msk(music) >> any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the program that you haven't heard before.

string orchestra repertoire is pretty small. i used to be boxed into small repertoire. i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section,

now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note.