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arrest ms. wynns mr. walton and dr. murase 7 i's next the tentative agreement with the international local of agreement. >> thank you ms. fewer. >> mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton ms. wynns thank you mr. walton and dr. murase. >> 7 i's. >> the third agreement it between the district and the service employees industrial 10 to one roll call vote. >> ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton ms. wynns mr. walton and dr. murase. >> 7 i's. >> the next agreement is with the united administrator of san francisco ms. casco role call.
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>> ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton ms. wynns mr. walton and dr. murase. >> 7 i's. >> (clapping.) the final agreement for tonight is the agreement with the international federation of technical engineers local 21. >> ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton ms. wynns mr. walton dr. murase 7 i's. >> thank you very much our late action item is the employment for the superintendent may have another motion and second. >> may i have a reading by the general council.
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>> yes. planning department that the board of education approve an agreement with richard carr 0 district attorney the contract provides a that year term beginning july 1st, 2015 through june 30th, 2018, with an in all salary of $210,000 thank you, no speakers signed up for this item comments from the board commissioner norton. >> would like to say that mr. carranza i'm pleased you've agreed to serve as the intrunt for another 3 years we're lucky to have you. >> commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell i'd like to express our gratitude for our services superintendent i'll be supporting this contract we're lucky to have a leertd or leader
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in the education community that paid attention to the our district the way that you have and i appreciate the effort you use when making disconnections for our district we're grateful and lucky to have you. >> ms. fewer. >> so i echo any colleagues comments i want you to know richard every time supreme court every time i go out with you for today with the closed session i can't tell you how proud i am to stand listened you as a supporter and board member i'm extremely proud our superintendent in the way you represent us with the integrity and the dignity and our strong sense of equality and you want the best for all our students we can only get someone that is a
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hard worker and visionary and smart but we actually get something who is a great deal of humanist and understanding where he came from and the population we're serving to richard i want to say i hope you'll be glad to bring us to where we need to be towards our vision of 2025 thank you. >> commissioner shamann walton. >> i'm excited about starting my tenure with someone pits committed for the next 10 years we've had lots of opportunities over the months to work together and me watch you in action in terms of what your discussing and your vision for the district within the community i'm excited to support that we have you for
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the next few years thank you commissioner norton i want to add my thanks it was a very good move for the district the mobility is different we're famous among the urban districts and it is not the family that's important but the stability not to change leaders often it is one the strengths of the district i appreciate you're being supportive and making this commitment to the city. >> commissioner. >> i'm really happy we came to this agreement and happy as you are the prudent and hope the families and children in san francisco know how lucky they are to have you at the helm the
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district and serving the industry i've been asked a number of times by people when they hear or see you is he for real the real castle and having being think go about or been able to work on a lot of defended issues i can say without a doubt yes hose the real deal and cares about the does the and the educators of this district but knows we can do more that's what i appreciate about you the day to day and doing the best with what we have now i appreciate your awareness and commitment to that and the sacrifice you and ear first name h have made to work with you over the next 3 years and the entire staff and the teachers and parents working together he
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building we can move towards the vision we've talked about doughnut e tonight and with our leadership i'm confident we'll do that. >> i want to acknowledge our one of the heard worker people in the district you're a great listener and attribute the kind of renaissance in our pubs with people who want to work here and mr. particular our leadership not only in the district but statewide and nationally but especially statewide you're being one the achieve architects of the core labor and getting the district from out from undertaking under the no child left behind and the texting and moving away from that to par dimming that
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recognizes social and economic height an approach that leads other district in the state towards the core waiver and the quality system has been tremendous and so i'm very proud to join any colleagues in congratulating you and another 3 years you get to work with us. >> mr. casco roll call vote. >> (laughter) >> thank you ms. fewer. (laughter) mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton ms. wynns mr. walton and dr. murase >> it's unanimous (clapping) mr. superintendant.
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>> offering my goness i'm incredibly incredibly humbled this evening by your words commissioners on the contrary i think that the hardworking individuals are sitting other than this and in all hours of the night even when i send an e-mail at 2:00 a.m. you respond from 30 miles per hour i take it a team of 8 that sit here and hopefully keep the flame of the vision of the district very much alive but i want to say i serve an incredible team at san francisco unified school district the very people in the audience this evening and the people listening i'm continuing
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humbled when i walk into the classrooms and see what the teachers and paraprofessionals and principle how they're leading through difficult times with an incredible sense of doing whites right for the community i'm critically critically proud to be a san franciscan not by birth by choices any family is living and any children are being educated and at least one of my daughters has a diploma from the sfusd this will give any another the daughter the the same. >> when i prepared for this evening i it out driver's license my father and i shared the story when i was first appointed superintendent of san francisco any fathom was a humbled but proud plan and said i can't give you a treasurer i
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can't give you a big inheritance the only thing i can give you is any last name and please don't soil any last name so the watch the one thing he left me this evening i wanted to feel him next to him in honor of my father and mother i want to say to say in you language. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> stupefy from any heart and soul i appreciate this opportunity to be here in san francisco with after all you in this brufks and this wonderful community thank you. (clapping.) congratulations next on the agenda is item m discussion of other kwaeblg
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issues excuse me. superintendent carranza if you could please introduce the presenters for both items. >> thank you commissioner president murase i'm very, very honored this evening to ask associate supreme court kevin truit to please come forward and joining society superintendent is a true partner with our schools addict we have incredible respect she leads from equality this is ill lone the tag team of truit and there will be a power point. >> thank you and good evening commissioner president murase and commissioner vice president haney commissioners to the board of education and especially
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superintendent carranza and congratulations i was talking to my colleagues we wanted to get speaker cards to thank you for all of you for renewing richards contract we couldn't be happier working for a great leader he sets the bar very very high no one works as hard as him, i find myself not been able to complaint about the long hours of work because you have someone down the hall working harder richard integrations mou we don't have five to six you have copies i'm not going to delay that the mou i'm sure you're aware of too the police department and i want to mention at the beginning we are not required to have an mou with sfpd, however years ago when we
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had the community obtain originating parking control officers and were required tapd at that point it have a mou and at the time when the grant ended the mou sundown it was in superintendent eileen a while the community kohlman evicts the youth commission and several community stakeholders encouraged us to rise and reestablish an mou that we had with the sfpd it defines the way in which we are going to establish you're working rich we have a revised mou i want to say that one of the things we've done we've established the testifying we have a number of people that are task force from any department you myself and my
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department and people from people services implementing the restored practices and teachers and kohlman advocates and public drovrdz we're still adding members to the task force we've developed several forms for sputsz one of the parts a major saturday or part is looking at disputes to create form to get documents to campaign communicate to the schools i do want to say our officers attended the administrators response with some of the things we've adopt with sfpd in participating we have a crisis response at st. mary's i went today navigate and have one in august and shared that with on invitation to sfpd and i have to say it i was surprised we had 40
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officers at the country train with our principle colleen and i meet and attend the mayor's office month to month to go over the safety issues in the city eave established a small working group of principles and teachers calling that the response to community violence group we had a diner where we talked about issues going on in the community they've been a number of homicide implementing that have impacted our students so we got together with colleen officers and we assembled a bunch the principles and teachers to talk about how conditional community can respond when incidents of voice boxes book their student community or happy in their neighborhoods and how they can better work
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alongside the sfpd to keep their community safe and address the communities concerns i want to go to we're also building on strengthening and relationship with sfpd colleen is an incredibly great partner and works closely with the other instructor very very close to superintendent bill sanderson and but i will say here accessibility and partnering is outstanding we do want to meet with the superintendent and meet that the chief soon we met that commander redman the supervisor of the captains to go over incidents that happened that and work toortsdz centralizing our relationship so when an incident
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occurs it was constructed not in a way we misunderstood worry taking the time to have communication and have deeper reaction review and richard administrative review and bill and colorado less than will be meeting with the chief in the coming weeks so getting to the numbers reports i do want to remind people that the arrest that i recorded to you are for only the fall semester 1112 and 99 arrests in the last year in the fall months 37 arrests so far i want to you broke those down that i middle school and high
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school by division sngz on ethnicity we still are an issue of disproportionality the majority ever our arrest were african-american students 27 far surpassing our ethnics sits we're addressing that and sfpd is looking at that and as are we i'm sure you're aware of with our suspension restored practices and all the train i gave you a breakdown by gender far more boys than girdles offenses i did want to see the number of offense is greater than the number of arrests because some of the arrests have multiple offenses so you're not going to get 37 out of the numbers the
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greatest is the criminal threat do you know what is it i'm going to kill you a threat i'm going to kill you or blew up the school didn't you say yes hydra answered the question yes i'm going to kill you so and you know, i do want to say with someplace it's important when we are having 0 those contestants the things you do so in the conversations when a student makes a criminal threat and they're in a serious definitely their threatened and enraged upset we can if we have a relationship with that student and know that student we know that perhaps that shouldn't be
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taken word for word come on he needs to calm down but those types of things that once their uttered if would be taken as someone could say now that's said you have to act on it and without going introspective incidents of starbuck how that plays out i want to say that sometimes, it is important when that that officer or teacher or administrator has a relationship with the student they see through some of the actions or the words kouft ever their mouth so we're not so reactionary that's important i talked about challenges and easier to improve on the task force we want to strengthen our relationship where both working obtaining on your data collection systems and that
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concludes my presentation. wasn't is beautiful okay (laughter). >> no need to get it working now. >> i thank you all (clapping.) do you know how long and hard i worked on that power point to understand the virtual were clear weren't they i made it simple not too much words. >> thank you very much lieutenant. >> is there no chance of getting the power point up this is very important information that the community deserves to see particularly after the effort that went into it mr. steel and the considerate hard drive crashed. >> yes. so regardless we'll do we'll make sure we post it on the website so the public can
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assess it as well. >> we have the pointed people we can post is. >> i'm sorry it there public comment on this item? >> may i ask do we get a copy of actual mou or is it actually. >> you want another copy of the mou i gave you one in january. >> we just want the one in 23407 we worked for a couple of years to present one in january. >> mr. truit please get mow me another copy and thank you. >> i have a public speaker card on the sfusd mou card for the
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former amos brown and others if you could please approach the pronounced two minutes please. amos brown president of the naacp i'd like to thank the staffer for its efforts and i also must be dedicated by candor and say it troubles me personally you disturb that entire city still for a two many african-americans who are in this arrest record number 2 we need to have serious collaborative conversations with the police commission and the chief about the fact there's a
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snail-paced movement on a simple matter that the president of the united states and the attorney general have asked all police departments to death penalty deal with not only this portion of arrests but bad relationships between the african-american communities and the black communities 3 things are this community-based policing sensitivity training, and more inclusive force. >> and after a whole year for some strange reason that police department has not acted on this
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minor simple request. >> something is awry and we shouldn't rest until we stop this disproportionment number of black students being arrested some of them ought to be arrested we've indicated time he time again if we had for collaboration the witness community worked together we wouldn't not be on this track of black students being disproportionately locked up he hope you all will come to the police meeting tomorrow evening at of clock at which time the community will be there to
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raises the question of why did takes so long to stop this insanity that's what it is in this city and across the nation thank you. >> thank you, mr. brown next speaker mr. bothering us. >> i'm kevin boeing us the director of the advocates for children and youth we're engaged in the process with the police department and engaged in a lot of work around the rational justice across the state and country we're really happy to be working with the we can't have conversations about the past policies liquor. go i grew up in san francisco i've experiences any family experienced a lot of negative
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policies and enforcement of laws and rules that pushed and hurt african-americans in san francisco with demolishing the place we call home in our immigration trends that the city passes policies for the disproportionment number of people in the prisons in san francisco and jail are african-american folks and looking for the school district to set an example of what a elective body is to do to make sure that everyone is treated equally eave taken steps to address the issues we see and passed great policies now we need to see the implementation and the reluctance change when we look at the data who has been arrested in sfusd we're glad to be on pace but doping troubled
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that the majority of the students are african-americans that are arrested we want to see the changed the students and parents are trying to be actively involved if the school community so as we look at the numbers today and reflect on the first semester trying to take a different approach i hope the board and administrator will make a commitment not to have this disproportionment it in the spring semester to not see african-american students arrested or suspended at higher rates based on their enrollment numbers i ask you all to take a pledge you're willing to comment to make sure those numbers are real numbers and not hold people
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accountability that they are thank you very much (clapping) >> amazing. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening i want to thank laura with the public council and first thank the folks at the table that have been doing love work to make sure that the mou is real and the steps you see they've taken in terms of working with the task force proximate cause solving on difficult issues and having the behavorial xhets committee and the mental health is helping with the children in the mental health crisis when schools were calling for mental health you had to call the police that are things and solutions for some of the issues and as kevin mentioned we need to look at the disproportionment it i think some