meeting of the board of education for san francisco unified school district. the date is april 24th, and this meeting is now called to order. roll call, miss reiskin. [ roll call. ] >> thank you. if you would, please join me for the pledge of allegiance.

[ pledge of allegiance ] >> thank you. section a is accessibility rules for the public. item 3 is the approval of the me go minuting froms board meeting of march 26, 2018. i need a motion and a second. >> motion. >> second. >> thank you. any corrections? thank you. i need a roll call vote, please. [ roll call. ] >> five ayes. >> great. thank you. as has been announced the past few meetings, members of the public are advised if they wish to address the board of

education an individual can complete a speaker card that looks like this and they're located outside in the foyer right outside this door. prior to the item being called about our clerk, according to the board rules and policies and procedures, speaker cards will not be especially for an item already before the board, so if you have any plans on speaking on any item on our agenda this evening, please complete one of these cards and give it to miss casco prior to my calling the item. thank you. item 2 is the superintendent's report. dr. matthews. >> thank you, president mendoza mcdonald. thank you, everyone. good evening, everyone. i'll try that again. good evening, everyone. i'd like to start this evening by acknowledging that tomorrow is administrative professionals day, and by saying thank you to all of our hard working administrative professionals at our school sites and central offices. you are the lifeline of our organization and administrative

professionals day is celebrated to say thank you as you are the ones that make our schools and offices run like a family. let's give our administrative professionals a big round of applause. [applause]. >> it's that time of year again. it is frisco day. those of us born and raised in san francisco know that frisco does not stand for san francisco. it actually stands for friday, the first three letters, f-r-i, successful college opportunities. this'll be hosted at city college, the ocean campus on friday, may 4, 2018, from 9:00 to 2:30. we are expecting to host approximately 1,000 seniors. the goal of frisco day is to connect san francisco unified school district seniors to resources for their post high school transition. during the day, staff and faculty from our district and from city college help the

students navigate the college enrollment process and connect them with college and career resources. what students can expect on frisco day? on the spot register station, and you'll get your city college i.d. you're able to sign up for summer bridge, you can complete your steps to enroll in college. the city college resource fair will be there. financial aid and transfer info session. there will be a free lunch, there'll be a raffle, and gave away. this year is the 30th anniversary for the ad ventures in music program, aims. this is a partnership with the san francisco similymphony tha brings music into the lives of our school children. one of the foundational goals

of the aim program is that had reflects the diversity and heritage of san francisco's student population. it provides a variety of music, including jazz, latin, chinese folk music, and many more. you can see mariachi bands, african dance, dalballet, and variety of different musical types of variety. every student in every san francisco unified school district elementary school experiences the program and receives the same opportunity. this morning, i had the pleasure of attending sanchez elementary se recelebrator concert. this summer, our district is offering a 6-week intensive

geometry course for our district 9th graders who are completing ccs's algebra ii in their freshman year and would like to take algebra ii plus in the up coming year. the course will be held at gal gal galileo high school from 8:00 a.m. to 2:0036789 p.m. enrollment can be completed at sfusdmath.org. once again if you're interested in enrolling in this course, you can enroll at sfusdmath.org. applications must be submitted by april 30th. students will be notified on

monday, may 7th about their enrollment. finally, as you know, election day is umm canning up -- coming up on june 5th. this ballot will include a measure that will have significant implications on our district. that measure is proposition g. let me give you some factual information. prop g will establish a $298 parcel tax to raise $50 million each year beginning next year. if approved, project g would increase salaries of teachers and paraeducators and other school employees. salaries of ucsf employees will increase by an additional 7% on top of the already scheduled raises that are included in our collective bar anning agreement. if passed, teachers salaries why our district would move into the top quarter --

quartile in our district in 2020. thank you, president mendoza. that concludes my remarks for this evening. >> thank you, dr. matthews. at this time i'd like to call on doctor merase for some quick remarks? >> yes. it's bitter sweet that we say good-bye to our long time spanish interpreter, lorenza, and so we have a card and some flowers. this will be her final meeting for us, and so we just want to acknowledge her work. [applause]. >> lorenza, why don't you come on up, please, for just a moment. you don't have to translate this for us. thank you.

[applause]. >> interpretation for many of our families wouldn't have been possible without your incredible support, lorenza. it's been a great being a parent with you and raising our kids together. we wish you the best in napa. does anybody else have anything else? commissioner? >> justs.a.c. meeting will

be may 24th. if you would like to attend make a presentation or have a copy of our up and coming agenda, please contact our supervisor, mr. salvador lopez ibarra. >> how long will the day be up. >> as of now we haven't set a

date, but we hope to gather student input until a date that we don't know as of yet as of now. >> all right. just make sure it's before you all graduate. item four is recognitions and resolutions of commendation. dr. matthews, you have a commendation this evening? >> yes, we do. tonight, we are recognizing the association of california school administrators award over 300 san francisco unified school district members are members of the california school district associators region five, which also includes san mateo county administrators. we are excited to honor the incredible association of california school administrators region five administrator of the year award. these conscientious committed and deserving professionals are nominated by their peers for this prestigious award. they will be honored at the

annual region five dinner on may 1st. i'd like to call in the president of uasf, who will announce the awardies. >> good evening, commissioners. superintendent matthews, i am proud to be -- to represent -- i'm the interim president of the united administrators of san francisco. i also serve as the vice president at san francisco charter, and past president of afsa region five including san francisco and san mateo counties, and i'd like to acknowledge linda wells, president of sf charter and michael davis is the current region five president. so it is our great honor to -- to acknowledge and thank you for acknowledging our hard working administrators who do so much work every day on behalf of students and their families and staff. so our first award winner for our classified employee is

michael davis. [applause]. >> our next stratofficentral o administrator of the year is bill sanderson. very well deserved. long time supporter. and our elementary principal administrator of the year, wendy chong of the chinese emergent school. and wendy was my -- one of my son's second grade teacher at jefferson high school many years ago. and a good friend and colleague. the secondary coadministrator of the year, erin lynch, assistant principal, washington high school. thank you.

[applause]. >> i'd like to add one more thing. since these award winners are nominated by their peers, it's like the academy awards. >> congratulations. >> all right. congratulations, and thank you. our next item is item five. it's a recognition of our -- of all valuable employees, our rave awards, and dr. matthews, you have a recognition for this item, as well. >> yes. tonight's recipient is rachel spilliard. she's a science teacher and

department head at washington high school, and tonight, presenting the award will be washington high school principal, susan saunders. >> thank you. it's my pleasure to introduce this month's rave award recipient, rachel spilliard. her co-workers did not nominate her solely for her deep involvement in our school community. she was nominated because of her dedication to all students, her equity centered leadership and her efforts toic ma sure that our science department is at the forefront of sfusd's planning skpi planning and implementation. rachel is able to find teachable moments in every aspect of her work, and understands a connection

between building community and learning. please help me congratulate this month's rave distinguished service award recipient, miss rachel spilliard. [applause]. >> i didn't really prepare

anything, but i -- i just wanted to say that i -- i was so floored when i got a copy of the nomination in my e-mail box a couple weeks ago. i was just, like, weeping openly at my desk reading what people had written about me. i wanted to be a teacher since i was about ten years old, and i was very fortunate after i got my credential. i did my student teaching at washington. it's the only place i've ever worked, and i've been very lucky to find a place that i can call home, and i love science, and i love robotics, and i love my kids. my kids came, and my colleagues are also wonderful. and i just -- i'm very, very thankful, so thank you. [applause]. >> congratulations, and thank you for your incredible work in our schools. oh, sure, of course. commissioner merase? >> i just wanted to congratulate miss spilliard. i had an opportunity to meet

her at the robotics competition, and she had the louder voice in the eagles section of the gym, so i wanted to congratulate her tonight. >> thank you. item six is our advisory committee reports, and appointments to advisory committees by the board members. director matthews, you want to introduce the designee who will be reporting on this? >> this evening, i'd like to call on the director of policy and planning to introduce the item. >> so this is item one, the quality teacher and education act, qta, annual report.

>> thank you, drrks matthews, and thank you, president mendoza mcdonald. i am the staff liaison to the over sight committee for the quality teacher and education act, more commonly known as qtea for short. this ballot measure which will celebrate its ten year anniversary this june including key components to ensure that these funds are being used in a manner consistent with the will of the voters. this includes both an annual audit as well as a atens oversight committee and report to this board. this evening, i'm joined by mr. nathan edelman of etg who will present on the audit, as well as our cochairs, miss rachel shaw and chris wright. i want to acknowledge the hard work of this committee who have given up their time and their dedication and their energy and

thoughtfulness to review and analyze this measure throughout the year, not to mention those who volunteered for the impact and innovation awards, and i want to sincere rethank all our members, not only the coshares, but the members in good standing -- cochairs, but the members in good standing. additionally, i want to thank keith's staff who have supported and made sure that the work of this measure is tracked and reported on. this includes our qtea budget manager, our director of budget services, and our chief financial officer. at this time, i would like to now hand it over to mr. edelman to present his report. >> thank you. my name is nathan edelman with dtv. i am the independent external auditor for the school district. so what you have -- there's two

reports. one is a set of financial statements for qtea for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2017, and the second report is our compliance report which says whether or not the district used the funds appropriately. so the scope of the financial audit is to validate that the accounting records, 100%, so they fully account for their revenues and expenditures of the qtea dollars throughout the fiscal year. the other thing, the other item within the scope of the audit is to validate that the expenditures that ran through the qtea program were spent in accordance with the parcel tax, and there are a number of bullet points about what is an eligible activity for the qtea funds. and so the results of the audit are one that the qtea dollars for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2017 are fully accounted for. we can account for every single dollar that has ran through the

qtea resource board for the year and validate that the funds are spent correctly. the other item, the other result of the audit is that as i said, the dollars were spent appropriately. and so actually, on page four of the financial report, there's an income statement. and it shows the funds that came in for the year, $40 million, and it shows the funds that came out, 42$42.5 million. there's a deficit, $2.5 million, and that is to use up some of the beginning fund balance. it shows a cutoff point, june 30, 2017, there is an ending billion of $1.7 million which remains for the district to use in subsequent years on other eligible qtea activities, which i believe they have budgeted a plan for that. that's the audit. again, the scope is to valid date that these things that you're looking at here are fairly stated and they were

spent appropriately for the qtea, which i guess they were. so i guess what i'd like to do is just open it up for any questions from the commissioners regarding the audit, the scope of the audit, and what we do, how we form these conconclusiolusions or a else. >> any questions from commissioners? commissioner merase? >> thank you. i just wanted to know what has been our track record. i'm very pleased to see no findings, but in terms of previous years, have there been findings and what was that? >> from the inception of qtea to date, all of the accounting records have been fully intact. if i recall, there were some findings in some of the earlier years regarding findings in how transactions were coded in the back end. they were all relatively minor, and they've all been subsequently corrected. and i can't recall offhand what

years those were, but the qtea began in 2008, but they occurred annually every year. the district has a process in place to account for these dollars. they have a -- they plan to spend them well in advance, and it has resulted in, you know, a fairly routine straightforward audit process, so there really shouldn't be any findings, that they're going to continue to do what they have been doing, i would surprised if we came in and it turns out money's not accounted for, or spending's not planned for or it's not intended, so it's a clean process. >> thank you, and i want to thank you for ensuring that these public dollars are spent wisely. >> sure. >> thank you, nathan. at this time, i would like to hand the floor over to cochair for the over sight committee,

who will present. >> good evening. first i want to thank my colleagues, chris and our communi committee members. i have a very intimate relationship with this parcel tax. i am a parent of a student. my child's in school. i am fortunate enough to pay the parcel tax, and my job as chief investment -- chief treasurer for the city and county of san francisco, so i invest these funds for sfusd on a daily level, as well. and then finally, i volunteer on qtea making sure it's consistent and well spent, so i am focus and a bit crazy. so let me just say a little bit about the parcel tax that you have ahead of you. it has been growing steadily as you have seen on the bar chart in front of you. that is primarily due to cpi. we are a population of property

owners that are ageing, so the majority growth factor that you have head -- heard of. about 71% of the funds that come in through the negotiated mou with the united educators of frisk and the remaining 29% of the revenue supports outside of that mou portion. the 2008 ballot measure covers a list of areas primarily obviously are salaries for our teachers and our staff as well as professional development, technology, and recognition of schools. the parcel tax is $244 perparcel, and as i said earlier, indexed towards inflation or cpi, and we have

accepted nathan's audit findings and appreciate that there are no findings this fiscal. last year you may or may not recall one of the big items that we had ahead of us was the spending of the parcel tax was not at the clip that one way have desired. there was a significant amount of carry forward. we brought that to your attention as your staff godid,s well. we're happy to report the spending has quickened, so there is more spending happened. the revenue come nz and it's generally split to that 71% towards salary and 29%. it's important to note that the revenue that comes in every year does not cover the totality of costs that are budgeted for qtea. in other words, you need the savings from the prior year to cover for your salary increases, or the other things that you want, and we'll talk a little bit about that if you

choose. primarily then, then, we have some recommendations in certain areas on those prior years, and we'll talk about how those have come forward. the percentage that is covered by the uesf mou has been spent obviously at a fairly good clip, covering your salary expenditures and as well as educational development, and i think i would -- and then technology represents about 58 percent perce58% of the total nonuesf portions. so the 29% of that 29%, 58% of it goes towards technology. some other key things we talked about, obviously, the most important thing that has come from this parcel tax and the other one that will be before the voters is supporting our teachers salaries and our raises.

qtea supports the 1.5% increase. it's about $31.8 million in total compensation. it also supports the laptops that we have for our educators. over the course of the time, all educators have been offered laptops. 4500 have been issued, and it supports the impact and innovation awards that are available to all of the schools in sfus 2k. a -- sfusd. and as i said, our pace of spending has increased, something that we are pleased about. so the impact and innovation award is something that's been one of the strongholds of the qta. it was written into the ballot measure as well. it was really intended to do two critical things. one is really do school wide have brought impact areas for schools, as well as help

innovate initiatives at various schools around the city. the critical thing around the innovation grants around the time of kiem is they have evolved, mo evolve -- kind of time is they have evolved, and their impact have been much more around sort of the core impacts that the school district has outlined, and your vision and charter statements that you have put forward to your schools and leaders and educators, and that is a list of the schools that have been awarded as grants over the course of time. one of the things that we looked at in the prior years, is sort of the number of times a singular school receives a grant to make sure they're equitiablely being distributed throughout the school district.

it also has core staffing costs within your technology line items, including help desk, tech support, digital learning and pd. as we said earlier, this is a place where you've had significant under spending because some i.t. staff are hard to fill, some of the contracting around it. one of the recommendations that we've made as the oversight committee is to look at ways to maybe look at other sources of funding for technology to free up some of the qtea funds for other endeavors that the abort may see fit. professional development is obviously a critical component. it's part of the 71% for our

uesf mou. focused a lot on your master teacher program, as well as providing additional hours for training, making sure and providing services and supports to certified and paraprofessional staff, as well. and then, there are support staff within the district that are supporting and coaching the middle school redesign. the next slide is not attractive, but what i will say is what it outlines really on the left are some of the updates that we have and some of the recommendations on them. we heard from some of the teachers in our own personal lives, as well as we heard what the underspends were, that it was hard to access professional development. we've been continuously striving to make them more accessible to the school sites, to make them more feasible

within our staff's normal work, so we see there is progress in that as we are spending more in professional development. these are really the top two items. the third one is one i spoke about earlier, which is looking at t at the technology budget, and the last one that's sort of dear to my heart is in the initial years of 2 ta, we had seniors tell us every year that they wanted to be exempt from the parcel tax, becoming onerous, though the staff made it here at sfusd, they made it as easy as possible. we did that exemption and now do communication to all of our property owners around the

benefits of the property parcel tax. and the last slide is, i believe the superintendent spoke about the facts of the upcoming living wage? one of the components of the living wage parcel tax was again providing oversight for that living wage, and it was within there that the qtea oversight committee could choose to also be the oversight committee for the living wage, the qtea oversight committee did vote to also oversee the living wage parcel tax if it was passed. we believe that this'll provide you some more guidance and oversight that's holistic around salary and future supports that are available to your team and your employees. we encourage you to look at the proportions of 71 and 29% not because anything's necessarily wrong with them, but because again it was enacted in 2007-2008 and just to make sure they're in accordance of your

needs that you have and given the needs of today's society that are out there. we also encourage you to look at what fits on what side, the what sits on the 71% side and what sits on the 29% side and determine if the impact and innovation side and decide where the awards sit as you look at the focus and scope and impact of those particular giving. we would -- right now, the audit, while we are very supportive and very happy that the findings are that there are no findings, we look to look engaging further around seeing if there's things that we should be auditing at a deeper level or setting the parameters of that audit to hear from you if there are things that you would like to investigate. and then finally, we believe as you go forward -- [ inaudible ] >> -- we don't have sort of

historical information around the number of retirees, the number of people that have resigned, maybe because san francisco -- not maybe, because it is, that it is too expensive, but maybe that they resigned. thank you look forward to your questions and thank you for allowing us to serve. >> one day we won't have to move to get out of the way of the presentation.

and we -- [ inaudible ] >> right. thank you for that presentation. this is a really important measure for us and frieprovide a significant amount of money, and so we appreciate the time and money you've spent into making sure we're implementing into iffidelity. did you just give me one? you're good. you have two minutes. >> yes. thank you very much for the presentation for many, many reasons, we have a big stake in qtea being monitored appropriately, and i've worked closely with most of the members of the qtea oversight committee. we are pleased to see that the funds are being spent appropriately, and qtea served

as a model for prop g. i wanted to mention something that wasn't mentioned, and it's important because the recommendations going forward or that's been made or the decision ease been made that there will be one oversight for the two parcel taxes, qtea and prop g. when uesf has been not a -- it's not a constituent member of the oversight committee as their board appointees, linda plaque is one of the appointees, but that's not my virtue of her being a member of the uesf. and we -- when we were tip toeing up to the mou for the new parcel tax for prop g, really, in the earlier stage, we were very clear about wanting, not knowing what the structure would be, wanting there to be a spot, a seat for uesf, if not in a voting capacity, in an ex-officio

capacity, that we're always there, always able to be notified and weigh in on the discussions. in particular, we were concerned about the technology piece, so the technology to bett better student learning to make sure that the technology was going to student learning and not just for administrative purposes. and it's enormous. i mean if we're going to get a 7% raise for all of our members from the 7% new parcel tax, we have to be there eventually. so i would like to put that back to the board in having that happen, because we all need a higher stake in being vocal on the collaboration. we both have spent a lot of time and energy passing it, and we want it to be done correctly. thank you. >> thank you. pat, can i just ask the committee, so how the

appointments are made on the oversight committee? >> they are made by board -- they're -- it's a combination of board appointees and superintendent appointees. the terms are two years, can be renewed for two years, and then, a member can be reappointed but has to take a year off. >> and do you currently have anyone that's appointed that's uesf? >> linda plaque is -- >> is it just linda? >> yes. >> okay. but the conversations in terms of the committee meetings do not include a uesf rep besides the appointed person? >> not officially. although we do as a courtesy reach out to uesf to alert them to the meetings, and as miss blanc had mentioned, she or a representative of uesf is present at almost every meeting. >> great. so that's public comment. commissioners, any questions or comments? commissioner merase?

>> thank you very much. i want to thank miss shaw, and i'd like the committee to stand and be recognized. it's a tremendous amount of work. [applause]. >> my only question, one of your recommendations is the 71-29% split, and i've also heard from representatives from uesf that that has caused some challenges. my question is what is your recommendatio recommendation in terms of discussing that further, whether it's timely or not. i assume that the committee has looked at this issue and what recommendations have you made to the superintendent and the board in terms of tackling that? >> well, i think a lot of us when we first get onto the oversight committee, it takes us a couple of meetings to understand it because you have the parcel which is governing law, and then you have the mou

which is another component of that. now we understand it. i think our biggest recommendation to you which we made last time as well as we encourage last time is to just look at it and make sure that along with your representatives and your union representatives to make sure that you feel like that proportion is reflective of the needs and how you want to utilize these funds. and of course in not only the spirit but legal confines of the parcel that's passed by the voters. so we -- we just -- we -- we don't necessarily have a recommendation of what the percentages should be or should be different. our biggest in specifics have been, do you have opportunity to fund those things in other ways so that you can free up some of these funds? are there ways to do that? are there ways to increase your spend so you don't have any of this carry forward, and so those have been sort of the focus of our conversation, sbu i look to my committee members to see if there's any other

comments, and i don't see any, as well. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner sanchez, and then, commissioner haney. >> thank you for your presentation and all your hard work over the last year and years on this committee. i just have a couple of questions. i may have missed it. is there a reference to the hard staff schools and hard staff stipend mentioned in this report. >> yes. i don't know if it's in the report, but it is in the budget the on -- on the 71% side of the budget, there are specific stipends and budgets for hard to staff schools, and i'll let the teachers and staff speak for eloquently about it. >> well, can you address how much money total and how much the stipend is for hard to staff schools and hard to staff positions? >> i'm going to ask to jennifer

to come up and speak on the specific numbers. >> okay. thank you. >> hi, commissioners. i'm jennifer schuster, the budget manager who helps with qtea, and we do payout a 12d ipei -- 1 -- stipend. either $1,000 or $2,000, paid out to specific teachers.

>> so high potential? >> yes. got rebranded, so high potential schools. >> okay. so -- and that number, thatment ah -- that amount has fluctuated over the years, because i seem to remember it was $2,000 per over the year if it is fluctuated, what is that and who determined? >> sure. those amounts were actually decreased before i came on board i think when we had some severe budget cuts, but they've since been restored. so for the past several years, it's been up to $1,000 for the hard to fill subjects and up to $2,000 for high potential schools. does that help answer your question? >> yes. thank you, and have he wiwe fo that that amount has had any impact on retention of staffing on both the high potential schools cohort and hard to staff positions? >> i think i would turn it over to my colleagues in hr to

comment. i don't -- >> if you're not prepared right now, we can get that sent to us later. i just think it's worthwhile to note this amount is money is actually having an impact on retention or even recruitment. >> good evening, commissioners. chief hr officer. we certainly don't think that the stipends have hurt, that's the research we've seen is those amounts aren't enough to statistically significantly impact retention. but we don't have the -- you know, we don't have data of those same sites and those same positions not receiving the stipends for the same years, so we don't have a way of knowing. we think it's helped, but we just don't know how much. it's probably an unsatisfying answer. >> i'd like to know what amount would help, i guess or, you know, and that's not the job of

the committee. but thank you. and then, just so people know, when this passed originally, it allowed us to offer brand-new teachers who were fully credentialed instead of coming in at $45,000 a year, sounds so antiquated, to start at $50,000 a year at that time was a big deal. and then, it moved up, essentially everybody else, who is a teacher or a paraeducator in our district or others, and i think that was the biggest thrust of it. i'm so proud that the district was able to get this on the ballot and that it passed. and at that time we needed 66% plus one, and it did get the -- it did meet the threshold. and then, my last question is around the prop a hours, are they referenced in here, which are for professional development? >> commissioner, they're not

explicitly referenced. they would fall within the professional development area, but there are 18 hours offered to our teachers. >> so these would have been prop attic -- not the notion of them that teachers and others would get to be able to access these hours for professional development and then get paid for it, but historically, what we've seen is that teachers and paraeducators are not taking advantage of the full cohort of hours, which is 18 hours. they're broken up into different buckets. and also, it's still a paper-based methodology for capturing the data. and so i just think we need to really think hard about going forward -- especially if prop g passes, and we're going to continue on with what are essentially our prop a hours with that, how we can allow technology to play a part in this. from my part as a principal in the district, it's really distressing to see educators not take advantage of it for a

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now 8 years later, 10 years later actually, we're in a position to come forward and say, this parcel tax has been an important part of our work at the district and we need to double down on it and make sure that we increase the investment that we're making in our educators and district and professional development and

technology. there's a couple points that i wanted to make. one is i do think that we should think about the composition of the committee and making sure that -- considering how critical this is and how integrated they are to all the different things we see here. i also think that as we think about the break down, you know, i appreciate you raising the point. i think it's not sort of clear exactly what we should be doing there, but that we should be always evaluating that and thinking about whether that's the right balance, particularly if some parts of our portion might be offset in different ways and as a result we can make greater investments in our educators as a result of that. i'm also very interested in the impact in innovation award that i think this is sort of a unique thing we do using designed thinking and really making sure the schools are able to put

forward their own proposals. i wonder if at in point we can have a fuller conversation about how that is going and whether, you know -- what sort of results and impact we're seeing as a result of the impact awards and really evaluating how that's going because i think this is a unique way of doing this. it would be good to sort of have a better sense of what the results and outcomes are from that. i'm also -- i'm concerned that we have this situation where we are underspending from the technology bucket. i think we've talked a bit about the carryover challenge in general, but the fact that we would be not spending a significant part of the technology budget when obviously there are tremendous needs in technology, i wonder how we can do a better job of that. you mentioned that one of the concerns is filling the staff

and being able to pay in competitive salaries and i wonder if that might be a part of the conversation of how we can make sure -- i know we've heard this a number of times from some of our staff who work in technology area, that they're just losing so many of their staff and they can't fill roles and whether we might look to funding that's in this parted of qta and the parcel tax to help address that challenge and whether that's part of what you this all thought about. thank you for your oversight and i agree with the recommendations around how we should continue this oversight if we are blessed in june to have the opportunity to have the second set of funds there. so thank you. >> superintendent. >> i just wanted to answer your

question. the earpiece in my ear says yes, you and other board members are allowed to encourage other people to vote on g whichever way you think they should vote. >> i was trying to be subtle, too, in saying we've done a good job with this one and that we deserve to be re-upped here in june, but i appreciate -- tell your earpiece thank you for that. >> i don't know if it's a two-way communication. [ laughter ] >> commissioner walton. >> thank you, president. first of all, i want to definitely thank the committee and the district staff for your work on this. this is actually the best advisory committee in the district. i'm not saying that just because i used to serve on it. [ laughter ] >> but just one question, do we only have two pairs on special assignment, or are we just saying qta only pays for two psas to attend? >> we're funding two from qtea.

that's not a district-wide limit. that us diddent us did -- doesno that. >> i want to thank you because i think as we look at all the reports over the last couple years, that this has been the most protective in discussing the carryover. what we intend to do with the carryover, i will say to commissioner haney's point, the fact we still have carryover particularly in certain areas in technology and even in some future areas, i would love for us to have some kind of process that says, when we have carryover, it automatically goes to some form of educator compensation. i know we've talked about that before. i've been waiting to let the parcel tax be successful, but i just think that's something we need to discuss in future conversations. >> thank you. >> thank you.

commissioner sanchez. >> i don't see why we wouldn't, going forward, to the point about having a ue rep officially on the committee, if there's some reason that they shouldn't be, i would like to know what it is, but otherwise, i don't see why we wouldn't have a voting member from ue. >> yes,. >> thank you, commissioners. i just wanted to chime in to say on the issue of the board appointments to the oversight committee as was alluded to, there is a consensus that should prop g be passed, the responsibilities of the qtea oversight committee be expanded to cover the lwea as well. that's been discussed as

ms. shaw commented on in her presentation and the oversight committee's presentation. that's something the overate committee did take up and reach that consensus as well. just procedurally, that should be accompanied by a revision to the board resolution that established the oversight committee in the first place to officially expand the duties to include lwea. that's something that would happen during implementation of prop g should prop g pass. the only other thing i wanted to comment on is commissioners may -- those of you who were here at the time, may remember that there was a fairly drawn-out discussion about the appointments to oversight committees or advisory committees in general. it was prompted by a discussion about the qtea oversight

committee. there was two or three years ago. there was a fairly robust discussion. it went to rules committee half a dozen times, i think. so for tonight, i won't go into all those details, but as staff, we can resurface the pertinent aspects of that discussion because the way the appointments to this oversight committee were made did change as a result of this discussion. commissioner, you may remember that asle. as well. we'll get that record summarized for your consideration and discussion should we get to that point. >> that would be really helpful. i'm in agreement with commissioner sanchez. i think it would be a good idea. we should probably be thinking about what that language would

look like going forward to bring forward, should prop g pass. okay. so i want to thank thank all ofs well. this was a very technical committee and one that's difficult to do appointments to unless you're really technical and you -- you're really thinking about a variety of different things. i just want to thank leah for being on the committee. and to all the members. i'm just wondering if with the carryover, that's the part that concerns me as well, if the funds can go into a reserve or is that something that needs to be written into the -- into the language of the agreement versus a carryover? a carryover feels like there's a need to, you know, spend it