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to say and weigh in were not for the inefficiencies as we impacted towards the design that increase would have been more substantial so increasing more substantial without the work we've done i want to ask the superintendent to talk about that what that means. >> superintendent sort of voiced what i was going to say because of the managed staff are rescued in this budget and because of the salary and compensation increases that number reflects accounting for the increase dr. listing and team are on deck they've walk through the budget as well and drizzling into the redesign and efficiency it is the apparatus or infrastructure that has grown
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much there are other areas we see sort of levels of service directly to students increasing; right? so expand in early education we've also are able to more easily identify students that require services and we've seen the expansion as we go to the young ages this is not area of services early on. >> so i think this is a substantial enough contribution that we should probably compare it to impact and results; right? which i have not had an update it would be helpful this is an item that keeps increase the
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amount increases and i understand it is what equity it takes more to educate the students but make sure this $70 million is actually sort of the impact results we really want to see and especially around a through g and california high school exited for good, i hope i think that we can look at our own measures for success and not be concentrated on the standardized tests every time i look at this it is wonderful things have more money but as we spend more money we should be mindful. >> thanks for the answering the question.
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>> other questions or comments commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> thank you. i have a quick question on something that caught my eye if on one - under curriculum and instruction page 142 from the private school and admin we're budget for 441 and the recommended budget of $410,000 adjustment i'm curious why the huge reduction is there someone able to respond?
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should be moved into 2015-2016 it is federal and state. >> so what is this i guess what is this position and why did we have to move it we're investing $451,000 or $10,000 that is move forward somewhere. >> so the program is responsible for managing the federal resources title one and two when federal fund we're required by law to insure that private school students that qualify for title one or two services are ref equitable services so overseeing 152 and 7 are effectively the same organizations that is all federalist so we're trying to work across multiple programs that is part of 452.
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>> got it and i'm sorry with this is this a position or the funds to start to equalize services. >> we do not allocate funds for positions at private schools we allocate fund for equitable services this is why you see that in the contract we have one program administrator in the office of federal and state programs that does monitor the private school responsibilities terrific thank you. i appreciate that i want to reiterate the things we feel about this is extremely overwhelming our saving grace we appreciate the responds to the questions over the last several weeks but have it the night of
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we say this every year i hope we come up with a better system to help us i've i mean of we get it in chunks but in some form that allows. >> i've never seen all 7 of us in the back office trying to catch up i know you guys are trying to keep with the changes i don't know how to manage that but it is really difficult to have all of this in front of us the evening of thank you >> commissioner walton. >> again first of all i want to thank the team for this abrupt process you've been definitely responsive to our questions and the questions from the community i want to through another plug in terms of the transparency
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part as we continue to move forward year by year as the el cap and involve the community when we are going through the budget process i want to be mindful and another question i brought up still interested to hear what the city is doing with the resources do we ever get a detailed account of those dollars. >> from the preschool for all of p are we only allowed to see the 2/3rd's portion i know i canewhere else but it is nice to see where the dollars are going to and in terms of foster care and homeless populations and students in sro's as well as all the attention we put ones public housing i hope once we get the
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final resources from the state and once our finally p allocations are determined from the city we really are intentional about seeing the resources and opportunity going to the students and the communities as well again want to thank you for being thoughtful of paying attention to the commissioner president loftus the equity fund and looking those resources those are important a lot of our children particularly in low income and disenfranchised community don't get to go to the exploratorium or the academy of sciences having opportunities to learn about science and go places that don't require a lot of resources for them if we're able to make that possible that's important i appreciate our paying attention
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to that and the notion in terms of what we look at the different - departments in the budget and making sure that there maybe a possibility important percentage of every department to put money towards internship or money towards career pathway as we look at developing opportunities for our students to work in the district and stay in the city a certain percentage under essential office budget or the innovation and social justice portion of budget etc. just things to that about possibilities i don't know if they complaisance but thinking outside the boxing to our students to stay in san francisco and being able to work with the district as well by
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thank you for your work and i'm looking forward to seeing what we prioritize with other resources that come from the federal and state and our final education >> thank you i want to thank everyone i think there was a very long list of folks that are part of this i think when you put together something this big and complicated and you do it the right way i think we're able to get to a point where most of our questions and my questions we're expressed our priorities and i essential time to appreciate all the folks that were part of the el cap task force and another districts meeting like this our
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voting on spending 63 million dollars a lot of folks lynn up saying this is was not heard we said this should be here and not and on the fronted end made this a collaborative inclusive process we were able to get to this point of we didn't get what we want we feel we were heard and that's important the spirit of the el cap process when it was created we've honored that spirit and it helps we're spending more money and having more to invest rather than cit; right? this might look different if we were in that position and think that is important i especially appreciate the budget recommendations of the chart that shows the increased expenditures for a lot of folks
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and certainly this is the first place to look what's different from last year and why and how it reflects the priorities of the board our partners and how did we get there if you look at this and for the community i want to you know offer that up as something you should look at closely you know big increases as noted around salary and benefits which was what huge provided for the district and board and noted it should be ongoing conversations and a number of specific increases site based on allocations and support of schools and problematic areas i know they're important for the board technology and management i'm proud of where we got to with this budget i know there is a lot of work with went into it. >> i have a couple of quick
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questions about things i want more information around one is and i know this is noted pretty significant increase to the transportation budget a change in contract who that contract went to i want more information about what this sort of source of that significant $3 million in increased costs for transportation and the other piece this is something i brought up last year as well as more information around in m t sf and to superintendent gerrero we have a number of positions that are funded under the student enhancing the students programs for the stutter ftes so
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i wanted to ask not that i don't see the importance of execute but in some cases schools they have an allocated council but 5 ftes in security how those allocations are considered what the needs and how we determine the effectiveness in supporting you're safe loefrn environment at that level particularly around the enhancing supportive student learning climate so those were the two questions and then to underscore a point i'm glad we're having this conversation how in the way we allocate our resources we get more even more targeted than we have been around students that very specific needs and some ways a higher level of needs
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commissioner fewer and commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell and others brought up homeless students and sro's i'll add to that newcomer students for the chinese education center and the m e.c. two schools and many of our other new comers was we see think about how to put equity in action how to make sure we are reflecting that as targeted way as possible i'm not just saying all you know low income students are the same that will really getting to understand where our needs for the students and schools and reflect it into in the m t ss and how we allocate central office and in the way the student form i hope to continue this conversation that was heard and again, i wanted to
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thank you for all your work it reflexes the spirit of what the board asked for in terms of the priorities and especially last but not least superintendent for your leadership on this and we appreciate it thank you. >> commissioner norton. >> yes. i think pretty much everyone has touched on what i want to say i wanted to thank the staff for really good work i'm overwhelmed by the paper but i appreciate the questions that i asked and the questions that the people asked they're great answers so o to those questions in the document i just appreciate the efforts and i hope we can make it more efficient and less last minute next year and thank you for agreeing to my incisions my
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suggestions to the el cap flafrtd. >> thank you to the team i want to thank my colleagues on the board we've dedicated tuesday night in june that meet with the presentation on the staff those meetings i want to thank everyone for the process i think we're ready for a vote we'll vote on those individually. >> can i have i have one more question about the el cap i want to thank everyone for the work on the el cap but the lcff collaborative working group last thursday we talked about this i wanted to report a little bit about that we had a number of people including that said they think that no el cap should be
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more than 10 paydays packages ours is 74 pages and 72 i want to say that somebody that was at the meeting was a county board member a small county butte community the el cap is hundred and 47 pages i said how can i have a hundred and 47 pages last week that was 67 pages i think that we - that's what we're doing on the collaborative group talking about whether we want this to allergy congratulate into a compliance so i wanted to sound that causationy note and
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next year where we can't look at the document through that lens and say how much do we want it to be - and i actually want to say that the narrative at the beginning like the narrative at the beginning of the budget says what the states says an el cap should have those are our goals and this is how we're going to target the kids this is how to measure so but i want to say that we - i think we should be cautious and should be glad we fall between the 10 page account and beulah county this is we're getting to the point we're reading this this is a version of reading this and different version every week so thank you and - >> commissioner fewer.
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>> so i want to say one thing on the summary of expand turns on the page that you know, i see a lot of - and compared to the last couple of years it smells the funds are transferred in larger amounts i don't understand so i think that can you explain to me why the code of offers of family engagement when i a long time it i say wow. our eliminating one hundred percent of the budget so i feel like some of the things like your mind is 46 percent of allocation for last year what is going on with that it is minus $329,000.40 from one department
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i mean i've used this in the past to see how departments have grown or shrunk if our switching up the numbers then it is hard to compare from last year to this year if so it really gone or did it get picked up from smoifrl do you know what i mean if we see those things eliminated i wanted to point out the baby zone last year lead superintendent zone bay area was allocating at $793 plus this year it is hundred percent taken away so i'm assuming that we have investing that same amount in a bay area zone is it somewhere
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else when we pull out that amount of money from a specific area it is going to have some sort of impact so i'm assuming we have picked up the $793,000 somewhere else but like to be reassured and where that is going and another thing that i've nos is this year is nice to see in a way the r the recommended site budget locations but i think what is interesting around this we're now seeing before i think some of the members of my colleagues have noticed there were drops in enrollment i mean big drops hundred and 75 students from one school i'm seeing a little bit more of it being stable but there are some populations and
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this is probably not your purview but i'm seeing population from our middle schools losing presidio like 61 students which for a school that is considerable; right? even an lefrment we're to shift thirty students from a kindergarten class to sort of luke those budgets i can for the site based on how much money for the special ed and concentrations grants that is nice to see buses i'm wondering about the enrollment projections and do we get final enrollment for the projectionings matt haney we know exactly how many students at that school right now it in flex that is what is anticipated but the first day of school it is completely different so i'm concerned about the budget being
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cut so much like one school hundred and 75 students that means rapidly getting rid of teachers you you know you're not able to hire that are going to the school but got a based on the formula so the stabilizations of the students is important so as a followup i'd like to see after and i guess that's in the fall with the allocations the real numbers of enrollment so the money that goes to those schools and their budgets are looking at like i know as principles are hiring staff in the summary and hundred and 75 students cuts into the staff and teachers, etc. >> superintendent. >> yes. thank you dr. murase and commissioner fewer so good suggestions a general note we
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work hard to hold schools harmless until a 10 day count and students are stabilizing we try very, very hard not to disruptive the students it is a risk this happens with school enrollment but i'll proposes to the board those kinds of update can happen and budget committee meetings how it is working out this is a good suggestion we work on that for the agenda for the committee meetings. >> we need to move on so are roll call vote and other plan. >> ms. casco. >> ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns
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dr. murase. >> 7 i's. >> thank you very much. next on one 46 sb two recommended budget ms. casco roll call vote. >> ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns dr. murase. >> 7 i's. >> thank you very much item i board members proposal none together so item j general matters so we have self large groups that want to speak tonight i'll read and call the names in the order they were received we have a group from the jewish committee restrictions council i'll read the names and allocate 10 minutes if you want to hear
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more perspectives and keep our comments short i of (calling names) if you could please come up to the microphone and i'll read a different group of speakers and then the last group will be related to the success center. >> i'm rabbi senior rabbi of emmanuel in san francisco we're one of numerous san francisco synagogue community that send our children to public schools and our teachers are in the public school system i'm a proud
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product of the california public schools and retain powerful memories going to public schools in the 1950s little awareness of the minority we're excited about the prospect of arresting bic and vietnamese and are thankful for the civil discourse we're here to ask you to remove the arresting rabbi organizing center from the resolution because they've shown through the repeated public statements to e pious intolerant attitudes towards our community i ask this on behalf of my community and my own personal memories feeling safe in the public schools can feel like thank you very much for your time.
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>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi my name is naomi loopz a proud product of the san francisco unified school district and my parents are teachers they met back in the day and elementary school and i have two children in marshall lefrment and my family is a multi lingual and multi racial cultural family i'm jewish and my husband it latino we're very happen at marshall elementary school and appreciate the spanish and the cultural aspect of that language and the program i was existed and thrived thrilled to find out you're open to or restrict and vietnamese and appalled to hear that in the resolution