i'm a community volunteer, and i was fired at 83 years old from guadalupe, and never directly. i was never told -- the organization i worked with was jewish coalition for literacy, and no one ever spoke to me directly about the reasons. i'm believing it's because i supported the teacher i work with who was fired also, and i also think i wrote a letter about let's have a diagnosis for one of the kids who was difficult. and the -- i heard that i had contacted the parents, which i never did. we question the leadership and decision making ability of this principal. and this school, which is a fabulous place, with great children deserve a much better

principal. thank you. [applause]. [ inaudible ] >> good evening, commissioners. my name is will federico. i've been teaching at guadalupe for 14 years. i'm going to read part of a letter from a parent. she's a parent of two children. i've been a member of the school's pta and sse since 2014. i want to start with the positive things i've sensed from the principal. i think she has a heart for improving education and works hard in that domain. she cares about parent participation and community involvement. i've appreciated her commitment to academics and desire for parent participation. however these positive desires and commitment have not translated into a good learning and teaching environment for the students and school. as much as she talks about community, i've been disappointed with the sense of community we have in our school. there's been a lack of coheegs

amongst the administration and staff for the past three years which have negatively impacted the sense of community and energy in the school. i've seen many of our really good teachers leave or not have their contract renewed because of this issue. as a concrete example last year my son and i were very disappointed to hear that his second grade teachers and the kindergarten teacher's contract were not being renewed. guadalupe is not just my kids' school, but it's also my neighborhood school. i care about it not just as a parent, but as a vested community member. i care about the childrens' education as well as the institution. i believe once the school's environment is flourishing, the effects overflow to the children and to the families. this is something i addressed to the principal last year, but it seems like things have not changed. i question her interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to lead her staff into a common vision and goal. thank you for considering my

thoughts and experience. [applause]. >> thank you. >> i am reading -- my name is chandra gonzalez, and i am reading a letter on behalf of the ubc who has written this letter on behalf of teachers who foal lieel like they don'ta voice. okay. it has been noticed that during staff meetings when the principal supervisor is present that messages in this meeting is normally different than what it normally it. the principal's tone becomes more pleasant and not as criticizing as she usually is. she is willing to allow others to have a turn to express themselves. during these meetings, the principal does not tell people that we will discuss this laters, nor does she tell teachers or staff to e-mail

her, answering their questions later, which she never does. it seems as if she's trying to impress her supervisor by pretending that everyone has equal opportunities to speak in the staff meetings. her attitude in this type of meeting is distinctly different from how she usually conducts staff meetings, when she cuts people off, there is -- if there is any topic she is uncomfortable with discussing. this facade hides the reality of her inability to create a positive working relationship with her colleagues. in acting this way when her superior is present, she demonstrates that she actually knows how she should be running these meetings versus how she actually does run them. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you. so we appreciate all of you coming out to speak us to about your concerns. the next group is going to be our lafayette group.

we have 14 speakers. i'm going to give you 15 minutes on this. so karen chow, max ewen, liz mcmil an, melina milligan, dori schrader, karen -- actually, you guys have less. they're all the same, so hold on. liz, nono, carrie bates, hermone ayer, and wendy perez, so just hold on one second. actually, i have nine speakers,

so i'll give you ten minutes. okay. first speaker. >> hi. my name's max. i'm here to speak on behalf of my son, lucas, who goes to lafayette, and first grade was kind of rough for him. it's due to poor handling of his i.e.p. by school staff and administrator. this year, he's much better. he's made a lot of progress. he's not afraid to go on stage to perform with the rest of the classes, and he loves opera music. there's a three part nuskal called odadios center. this is all part of his second grade teacher who's engaged him

with his peers. lucas has made tremendous progress this year due to being in an inclusive environment championed by a second grade teacher. the way we heard that his teacher is facing an arbitrary no cause did i see -- dismissal, we felt angry and betrayed, so we reached out to school administration. i strongly urge the school board to reconsider and reverse dismissal. thanks. >> thank you. >> hello. good evening. my name is hema thayer. i have a daughter who's in nick manford's class at lafayette. i'm here in support of him.

we were surprised, confused and disappointed to learn that mr. manford's teaching contract at lafayette was not renewed for next year and that no reasons to provide for this decision. he has been a kind, caring and strong teacher for our daughter this year. as the only indian child in her class and one of the very few at lafayette in general, he's always made her feel included. he's taken initiative to learn more about her culture and introduce culture from around the world when appropriate. in addition he goes above and beyond what is required of him. during the autumn carnival, he spent his day raising money for books for the class to be used throughout the year. he's introduced art, opera and strong academics in the class. we strongly urge the board and the district to reconsider the decision and renew his contract. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you. just a reminder not to use names, please.

thank you. >> hi. so my name is nunu, nunu gindi. i have three kids, two of them are at lafayette. i have a four-year-old who's almost going to go to lafayette. my older son, he's ten years old. so he's been at lafayette for a while. lafayette has been our life here. my daughter, lydia rose, was in second grade class, has been growing up so much emotionally. she requires a lot of attention, and mr. manford has always been available and so patient to provide this attention. i so believe that as parents, we educate our kids, but our teachers are the one who do the rest of the job. as the teachers, they do plant the seed in our kids hearts,

and those seeds are growing. and since my daughter is in mr. manford's class, she's reading about a lot of things, becoming a book writer, becoming a gymnastic and going to the olympics, becoming a teacher, becoming a pets doctor. mr. manford has always been super open and always available to the kids. i would like his case to be reviewed, and i would like to keep him, and i would like my son to have him as a teacher when he's ready. thank you. [applause]. >> my name is liz mcmilan. i have two children at lafayette elementary school, one of which has been lucky enough to have the teacher in question this year. until this second grade class, my son, who is on the cusp of a

diagnosis with adhd, despite his strong propensities in certain areas, he dreaded school daily and cried almost every morning because he was made to feel stupid and that he was a nuisance. a bad kid. after just two weeks with the second grade teacher, the one who's being let go, my son was changed. he felt excited about his strengths. he had already progressed more in other areas than in his entire first grade year -- two weeks, and i could see in his affect that he wasn't merely a nuisance. he felt valued. we no longer heard complaints about going to school. as you have erred hadheard, hee only student with this experience. this teacher has made advancements in his class.

to be honest, the way he conducts his class and addresses the needs of each student equally seems super human. i don't know how he does it. it is an incredible moviy movi experience to watch the way he conducts his class and engages with the chirp. a teacher with his level of passion, caring and effectiveness is extremely rare. we have yet to encounter a teacher with this quality in our experience in sfusd. at eight years old, my son can recognize how lucky he is to have had this teacher, and he says that often. you have a responsibility to retain teachers who excel in this regard. i'll end my comments here in the interest of giving others a chance to speak. thank you.

[applause]. >> hi. my name is dori, and i have two sons in san francisco. i'm speaking today of my younger son, who's a second grader. he is hard of hearing, has an iep, requires acoustical modification and support in his mainstream classroom, and he proudly displays his hearing aids every day. he's excelling academically, reading the aa level that this school district would place in upper middle school. a few weeks ago we passed by an open car window and heard music. this seven-year-old deaf kid said oh, he must like jazz. this morning e he shared with me that he is playing the lead role in the opera that other parents have mentioned, but he'll be performing with his classmates at the wilsy center for opera. i'm sharing this with you

because this deaf child, his knowledge and appreciation of music did not come from our home, it came from his teacher. and no, i don't need to remind you that this district has faced a teacher shortage over the past four years. it's especially true for teachers that are willing to support special education. lafayette itself hasn't been able to fill its two special 2k c classrooms with credentialed teachers in the past three years. i read an article by a reporter on sf gate from the start of this school year and there was a quote that caught my attention: special education is like a four alarm fire in this district. lafayette is one of the two designated dhhs schools, and i'm here talking to you about an experienced educator who came to lafayette to teach the incollusion second grade classroom. he'd been supportive of dhhs students. and i'm telling you this because i have an older son. we've been through many

teachers in the district, and this teacher has been among the most supportive and responsive. we're asking you to step outside of normal operating procedures and help consider this has been a bad and wrong decision that has impacted the livelihood of this person who is a career public schoolteacher with two children attending sfusd -- this district whose wife is also a teacher in the district, who lives with us in our city, and we are asking you to help us find a way to keep him in this district. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you very much for your time. my name is melinda milligan. i'm a parent of a child who's in the second grade class. number one. i'm a university he haddaeduca

sonoma straight universi sonoma state university. i can attest to the fact that the curriculum that this teacher provides maps directly onto college success. the children in his class are being given a special opportunity, a special gateway, whether they're under performers or over performers because of his expertise in scaffolding and his expertise in curricular design. i would urge the board to see the recommendation of the principal not to renew this teacher's contract as simply that, a recommendation, one that's incorrect and that you need to be responsible enough to overturn. thank you. [applause]. >> okay. thank you. look, i know that when you as a board member are faced with a group like ours asking you to rereview a decision that you typically for valid reasons

approve without question, you are put in a tough spot. i do appreciate that you are serving as public servants in this way, on top of your day jobs and other responsibilities to help make this district the best it can be. like melinda, i, too -- i am a college teacher. i've been on probation myself. i was observed and evaluated. i got feedback on what i needed to improve. i was given an opportunity to improve and adequate support to do so. from what i have been told by our teacher, he was given no notice of problematic issues. no opportunity for feedback to improve. there's no budget crisis. his position was not a substitute position. our principal has told us he will need to hire for a new teacher to take his place, exchanging for a known quantity for an unknown quantity, when you have a teacher shortage in san francisco, and you're also putting a family in crisis with this decision. i brought flowers for you today in appreciation for what you have to do. i hope that when you look at

your bright flower, you see the face of a child whose life was turned around by one teacher. i was that child, and i bet some of you were, too. i was also a child who was denied an opportunity to be in a wonderful class with a teacher i adored after being only in the class for one week. two kids were directed out of that class to make way for two other children for no stated reason. it was an administrator decision, just like this one. we were both kids of color. it was me and robert gonzales, a filipino kid. i never want that to happen again to another student or to a good teacher. thank you for listening to us and for using the information that we are giving you to do something good for our children and for our district. [applause]. >> thank you. i want to thank the lafayette community for coming out. so our next group is malcolm x.

so we have 14 speakers, so i'm going to give you 15 minutes, so if you'd organize yourself and come up. mil dred coffee, sardi aguilar, ana maria, victoria allay, molly stark, elena rosa, deidre l.manskame, mahirna abdelhamid, alexis david, aleda fisher, allison collins, and susan

solomon. 15 minutes on that. okay. so 15 minutes, and why don't you go ahead and start. thank you. >> hi. thank you for having us tonight. my name is mildred coffee. i'm have coleman advocates. we are a group of children and parents, cmas making a change, and pmas, parents making a change. thank you. hello? >> hi. i'm the principal at malcolm x academy and i'm here to speak on the colocation -- the proposed colocation of new school on the our school site. i really want to believe that meeting the needs of an can american students and their families is still a district priority. i'm feeling very dismade that the district might actually approving giving up 11 of our

classrooms at a site that has shown academic acceleration for the past two years and really has developed a model that is really being innovatetive to meet the needs of our students. this not only is going to add extra stress to our community, it's going to take away the focus, which should be on serving our students and families and accelerating academic achievement. i'm going you to hold the district accountable on providing some clarity on why a school that's already colocated somewhere else is being asked to come to our academy. you can imagine the competing message for me to find out meeting the needs of our school and helping us improve is a priority, and yet you're going to take away 11 classrooms that serve students with iep's, and

students who have access to stem. i again, it seems like we are under roled with a lot of space, but i want to tell you we use that space very wisely. i invite anybody to please come on out and check out our amazing programming. >> i have been at malcolm x as a program teacher, as a councillor and as a coach. i feel like because we're doing so well, there's a -- there seems to be a reason of now let's try something else on. i really want to encourage you to meaningfully think about this decision. like miss rosen said, please come to our school and see the work that we're doing. we don't just have 11 classrooms where nothing is

being done. our kids are ak can i havely engaged, and we're doing so much work that it would be a d disservice to disrupt that for our students. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is victoria eley, and i'm the only african american teacher at malcolm x academy. i want to thank you all four coming out and supporting, and i would really like to invite you all to come to our school and see how we're utilizing our space, the wellness center. we have space for our art and music teachers. we have space for our children that needs a play and have play space that we have organically and strategically incorporated into our classrooms.

we have behavior modification strategies. so colocating at our schools is encroaching on the sanctuary that we have been building and the community, and so we're just asking if a school already has a space, and they're safe, and there's space for them that it's not necessary to bring them in. and you know the data on moving and shifting and changing. so to disrupt that is just going to cause more trauma, and that is not what our kmubt needs. also, in addition, the relevant topic that came up earlier about our asian and pacific islanders samoan community, speaking and asking for space, and that was approved, and this is a school that also serves a large samoan population. our school is african american, latino, with samoan, as well. you're serving the students most in need and adding compounded trauma onto an already sensitive space.

so please we're just asking for your consideration on this to take our sanctuary into consideration and making malcolm a safe, loving place that the children will want to come to. thank you. >> okay. so in addition to the excellent points that have been made, and i have a letter from all the staff that -- from all of the -- from all of us that could not be here. my name is deidre ellman sumey. we are excited proud to report that we have been chosen as a beacon fund site for the next school year, and we're working really hard to develop this amazing after school program, and the city has chosen us to invest these funds. and yet, at the same time, our classes are being -- that would -- be used to -- in this

new and exciting program are going to be taken away? it's just kind of like how can we wrap our heads around that one? and the other thing is that, you know, i really appreciate the intention of sfusd to collaborate and to work with the community, but we have not in this instance been worked with the aal with -- at all. it feels like it's a very top down decision on the extremely -- the most vulnerable among -- community in the city. so please reconsider. [applause]. >> good evening. my name is molly stark. i am the special education teacher at malcolm x. i've been there three years. i am here today out of love for my students, their families our school and the wider hunters

point and bayview communities. in the past three years we have worked to make the work inclusion meaningful at our school. the classroom i have created is a space where students want to be. i have watched their confidence and independance grow as they have progressed both academically and socially. our classroom is also the space where students with iep's have access to high quality services like speech, and family counseling. without the space for our resource room, our students would sever a decrease in effectiveness of services and the resultant lower out comes. i want our school to achieve its vision for our students. i want the district to make good on its promise to better serve its african american students. as such, i stand before you

urgently asking that you reconsider the offer, the new school charter school of colocation at our site. thank you for your time. [applause]. >> hi. my name is yadi. >> hi. my name is lexi. >> we are children making a change at coleman advocates. we're here to talk about the changes being made to malcolm x academy. >> we're not -- we're not from malcolm x academy, but we think having two schools together would cause problems, but we also think that kids deserve enough space to grow and learn. >> and get a good education. you should listen to us because

it's the right thing for the students. >> thank you. [applause]. >> hi. my name is ana maria hudson. i'm from pmac, parents making a change. [ speaking native language ] [please stand by for captioner

>> good evening, i'm here tonight really in solidarity

with a movement to really ensure -- i love the words of ms. elie of protecting the sanctuary we have created. malcolm x elementary is one of the seven school sites identified as one of the highest trauma-impacted schools in san francisco, so we are a recipient of the grant that identifies because of the data that shows. and data outside of that, we are showing up here because we have committed to seeing through the vision that san francisco unified has for all students, particularly our students of color. our black students, pacific islander and latino students. that's the community we are representing. if you can't see how this will impact our community 3-5 years from now, we say no.

we cannot co-locate when you really truly can't see through that vision when you you are making these decisions. we just heard from our principal, this back and forth relationship with our district and our site always offered up as a co-location site. what message do you send to our students and our communities in the bayview? [applause] i really want to honor and thank our partners, coleman advocates for really showing out. even though these children and families aren't attending our schools, at least the ones we heard from, right, they know the importance of space, right. and they know the importance of ensuring when a community is impacted or threatened they will show up. so i encourage you to really look within your spirit and really your vision about how you truly want to impact the schools in particular in the bayview. i appreciate your time and please, i say no to re-location

at malcolm x academy. thank you. [applause] >> hola buenos noches [speaking spanish] thank you. >> [through interpreter], hello, my name is gloria, i'm here to support the malcolm x academy and the relocation of our school in that school. the malcolm x academy, it's

achieving positive progress with students by utilizing the space. providing critical support individually. please, don't take the space. it's needed and hurt the children because of that. look for another space for the new school. thank you. [applause] >> [speaking spanish]

>> [through interpreter]: hello, my name is [inaudible], i'm here in support of the malcolm x academy. the school district says it's a matter of equity but equity is give to the students what they need. what the students need at malcolm x is space. to get the support, individual support and the resources. please, listen to the community of malcolm x. find a new space for the new school. thank you. [applause] >> for the two translations, i'm going to add two more minutes and who i have left are susan solomon, allison colins, alita fisher and elita blanc. you have two more minutes. i don't have any other cards. those are the four other cards that i have.

susan solomon, allison colins, elita fisher or elita blanc. are you any of those four? >> no, i'm not. >> i need one of the four i just spoke. if i don't have your card, i can't let you speak. i'm sorry. thank you. so two more minutes. you have four more people and you need to come up now or we will close this item. thank you. >> hello, my name is allison colins. i'm a parent and i wanted to put all this in context. i'm hearing a lot of families saying they want you to find another school and i'm here to stand in support of them and in support of the district. i know if you did put them in another school, you would be targeting another community. i know that charters are demanding space in our district. there's more than one. there's a man in the hallway

from mary l. booker academy. he confirmed to me, it's an innovate school, they are looking for space in the bayview, at either malcolm x, at carver or willie brown and we also know that mission education center is also a site. i just want to put this into context, i'm hoping families in the city, on the west side and in north beach, as well as on the south side band together in support of black and brown schools. black and brown people are being displaced from our communities and the fact we are also being displaced from our schools is unacceptable. i know your hands are tied in a lot of ways because of state law. i just want to put it on the record that you are not wanted, okay? you're not wanted at malcolm x or m.e.c. or carver, you're not wanted at willie brown. thank you. [applause] >> how do i follow the amazing allison colins.

so i'm here in my capacity as the chair of the community advisory committee for special education. i just want to reiterate what people have said that students with disabilities will be impacted. malcolm x has 70% with i.e.p.'s, the rest is average of 12. huge impact. the spaces lost are the spaces providing interventions for students with disabilities. the classrooms that provide the extra support, the tutoring, the cool down spaces. the school that is coming in is a school that is part of the el dorado selba, so this is a doubly painful pill to swallow. please keep in mind there are students with disabilities who will be significantly impacted and will need additional

resources to mitigate the problems being arisen here. and the growth that's happened for the past three years is amazing. four times. quadrupled their scores in math. triple e.l.a. scores. thank you. [applause] >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: that's time. so elita and susan, one minute for one of you. >> i'm sorry, we have the right to speak under any point and we will take our two minutes each if we choose to, that's in our contract. so, first of all, i want to thank the parents and staff from, well from the two schools that came from guadaloupe and malcolm x to speak up for your school sites. i know the commissioners and superintendent understand it's quite a sacrifice for students and parents to come to the school board to speak but here

you are, so thank you very much. there's a common thread here which is the school board is being asked to do the right thing by the students at these schools. both schools in the southeast part of our city. and the common thread is listen to the people doing the work. listen to the parents whose children are at these school sites. if we keep the interest of the children at the center of our discussions we will make the right decisions. that's what i'm asking you to do tonight. at guadaloupe, there are choices to be made around administrator, i think you could probably find an equitable solution for that school that will address the needs spoken to by the parents and the staff here, a question of co-location, it flies in the face of rational thought to

co-locate a school into malcolm x. it makes no sense. the same evening we were given the report about african american achievement in the districts. almost any of those pages speaks to the need for stability in this community. each one of you has a job. imagine having a whole other set of -- another organization thrust into your work place. you know what that would mean. do unto others as you would have done unto you and think of the kids. thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent matthews, i'm susan solomon, executive vice president of united educators of san francisco. i believe the malcolm x academy has said what has needed to be said very eloquently as has president blanc. i won't take the two minutes to

repeat it. but i want to make it clear united educators of san francisco stands in support of the malcolm x academy community. thank you. [applause] >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. >> hi, i'm here in support of malcolm x academy. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: i don't have a card for you, i'm sorry. public comment is closed. >> i have a voice. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: we asked for you to give a card ahead of time. if we allow you, we will have to allow everybody. i already extended the time. >> can you just give her half a minute. she is here with a child and she just wants to have her voice heard. >> i just hope you make the right decision and do what's right -- [off mic] >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. thank you.

okay. thank you all for public comment. and for sharing all of your comments and -- >> [off mic] >> okay. thank you. and we heard it from many people this evening. we will take all the information and we need to move on now. we have an entire meeting to continue with, so thank you. our next item is item g, special order of business. so this is item number 184-10s01 revise parent involvement policy at sites reviewed for federal program monitoring, bessie carmichael school/filipino education center, francis middle school marina middle school and e.r. taylor elementary school.

>> the staff will be rodrick castro. >> good evening, commissioners. tonight's recommended action is that the board of education approve the updates to the language in the schools parent involvement policies to provide full opportunities for the participation of parents. parents of disabilities -- required under 6311 in a format and to the extent practicable in a language such that parents understand. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. i don't have any public speakers on this. any comments from the board or superintendent?

commissioner murase? >> thank you. i would just ask it also be translated into filipino. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. roll call, please. >> [roll call] >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: next item, 184 -- [reading]. motion and a second. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent. the subject tonight is a memorandum of understanding between san francisco unified school district and united educators of san francisco. certificated and classified as related to proposition g.

the recommended action is that the board approve the attached memorandum of understanding between san francisco unified school district and u.e.s.f. certificated and classified units. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. i have one public speaker. ms. blanc. do you want to come and take your 2 minutes, please? >> commissioners and superintendent and listening audience and members out there. this is a really important moment. i'm really excited that we were able to reach this m.o.u. we spent quite a few days and weeks on it. an awful lot of effort on the part of the district and the union in finding absolutely every last way of getting the maximum amount of dollars into our members' hands because we know the affordability crisis remains acute. and so we are very, very

pleased to have this m.o.u. which says that when the parcel tax passes in june, prop-g, which we know it will pass. we will need all your energy and efforts to get it to pass. 75% of that parcel tax will go to educators and it will bring a 7% raise to the base salary of all our members. that's tremendous and brings targeted support to identified schools. and restoring, or actually maintaining the 18 hours of professional development we have, and will bring a boost to dependent care for our members as well. we are very happy about this and we look forward to getting this parcel tax passed. prop-g, go! g-for great! [applause] >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. any comments from the board or the superintendent? okay. seeing none.

roll call, please. >> thank you. [roll call] >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: section h is discussion of other educational issues. there are none tonight. i, there are none tonight, item j is is introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. 1 is public and board comment on proposals. 2 is board policy 1312.3 uniform complaint procedure. 3 in support of a formal

resolution, 184-10a1 is being referred to the committee of the whole. can i have a motion and second to the reading of the policy and proposals? >> so moved. >> second. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. section k are proposals for immediate action or suspension of the rules there. are none tonight. section i, board members reports, standing committees. before we do that, i wanted to make one announcement that the board of education has an appointed member that sits on the board san francisco election commission. our appointee had to resign so there's a vacancy we must fill. we are looking for persons interested in applying, 555 franklin street, room 106 san francisco 94102. and please make it to the attention of esther casco, our executive assistant.

recommendations will be forwarded to the board at a regular meeting. you are welcome to submit your letter of interest between wednesday april 11th through thursday april 19th. if any need you can contact office of the board of education, 415-241-6493 or email her at cascoe@sfusd.edu. thank you. standing committee meetings. can i get a report from the curriculum and program committee, please. commissioner norton. >> yes, it met march 19th. we heard updates on the district's math sequence. on some of the new teacher pathways that the district is working on and also the c.t.e. pathways. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. report from buildings and

grounds. we actually had to cancel our march 21st meeting. our next meeting will be april 23rd. a report from rules policy and legislative committee. can you do that commissioner? >> we did that already. >> report of the committee of the whole? >> sorry, president mendoza-mcdonnell. it is april 30th, and i think we have to change the time. 5:45. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: committee of the whole, i believe we covered that. budget. board delegates to membership organizations.

anyone have any reports? any other reports by board members? commissioner? >> what we covered at the last budget meeting and i'm doing this by memory, the l-cap process. we also discussed some questions we had about budget from our previous meeting and we all received the information, the questions that we had and what the report back was and we talked about site-based budgets. weighted student formula and systems of support and everything was really on the process for this budget season and we talked about the mayor's -- the governor's revise that's coming up. all the site budgets were do march 23rd, so the district leadership is now working with the sites to finalize those as well. but that's the gist of the meeting. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: great. thank you.

commissioner murase? >> yes, i wanted to announce the next meeting is thursday may 3rd at 6:00 p.m. in terms of general announcements, i wanted to pass around the program from the fifth annual g.s.a. day, queer revolution. it was a fantastic, phenomenal day for over 150 of our middle school and high school students, l.g.b.t.q.q., they had aromatherapy, they had a castro history tour, they had a know-your-rights session. it was the biggest one yet. and i wanted to give a huge shout out to the staff at school health programs, to eric martinez and his colleagues. it was really a fantastic day for our students. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. any other announcements from board members? vice president cook? >> yes, i just wanted to echo

the superintendent's report around participating in black family day. this upcoming weekend i will serve on the panel supporting the event. i'm excited to see all that comes as a result. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: and that's this saturday, correct? >> yes. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: this saturday at willie brown middle school from what time to what time? >> 9:00-2:00. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: 9:00-2:00. okay. great. item 4 is calendar of committee meetings. budget and business may 6th, business and grounds, april 23rd at 6:00. cure lick rum program, commissioner norton, rules and regulation, may 7th. commissioner murase or cook, does that sound right? >> yes, first sunday.

>> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: ad hoc committee on personnel matters? >> yes, we will meet april 26th at 5:00 p.m.. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: ad hoc committee, ad hoc school district city college is meeting june 14th at 6:00. section m is other informational items, and there are none tonight. and section n is a memorial adjournment. did you want to read it? >> as many of you might know, president mendoza's mother passed away last month on the 21st. at this time ms. mendoza will tell us about her mother, words she read at her mother's celebration of life. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. so this in memory of a loving wife, mommy, grandma, great grandma,. my mother was born august 23rd,

19 46 [reading]. she was formerly known as sally. as a perpetual care giver she grew up taking care of her siblings and other children. in school she was an athlete playing softball and cross country. she was an amazing cook, making filipino dishes for friends and family. she had a feisty personality and was candid about how she felt. they had seven children, [reading names] rosalina and felix's 66-year relationship began with a bike ride in the plaza and dating continued. in 1959 felix was drafted in united states army, stationed on multiple bases away from rosalina and their family.

felix petitioned president kennedy to be a citizen. a private bill was passed that quickly allowed felix to be a u.s. citizen and move his family to the united states in 1964. rosalina was a caring and strong willed mom raising five children while often working part-time at various positions on the base. she always made sure there was a hot and hearty meal on the table, clean and orderly home and activities.

she passed awaypeacefully at the age of 91 on wednesday march 21st, surrounded by her loved ones who will miss her deeply. rosalina was proceeded in death by her parents, her siblings [reading names] she leaves behind her loving husband of 66 years, felix mendoza, her children andromeda, with alex, hydra with eric [reading]

and grandchildren [reading names fast] and her 27 great grandchildren and four great, great grandchildren. thank you for allowing me to do that. and i want to thank you all for all your support during these last three weeks of transition for my mom who had been in hospice since january. thank you. all right. so at this time -- or was there? >> i just wanted to let you know we are currently, staff is taking up a collection. we will be announcing at the next meeting the amount of the collection and then we await for your father to let us know where he would like to donate the money. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you so much, superintendent. >> beautiful words, beautiful life journey, the board of education, superintendent,

expresses our sincerest condolences to commissioner mendoza and the entire mendoza family. >> president h. mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. appreciate that. at this time we will take public comment for those who have submitted speaker cards for closed session items and i have no speaker cards. the board will go into closed session and i call a recess of the regular board meeting. and we will be back. thank you.