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be our chief special education jane robertson. >> okay. good evening, everybody. thanks for staying up. my name is jean robertson, and i am chief of special education in san francisco, and this is d.j. irvin, the senior statisticition in our department, and together we are going to share with you a brought overview of our plan,
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our annual budget and service plan that needs to be submits to the state of california by the end of this month. we have worked in concert with our partners in the community advisory council, and they are here with us tonight, as well. and i'm going to pass it over to d.j. to start us off. >> the special education commission as you all know is a commitment to innovative, effective services resulting in positive outcomes for lifelong success of students. to do this, we have to offer a range of services across the district, and the state requires us to follow a rather strict set of guidelines to report this. it begins in december, when we do the december 1 case pull, which is a snapshot of all of
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our students and the services that they're receiving, the schools that they're at. we then go through a process of meetings with our community advisory committee. this year, we actually had three. on may 12, we met with the executive board. on may 24, we met with the -- at the general meeting of the c.a.c., and then, on -- let's see...yeah, i'm getting my dates wrong here. -- we're missing one. any way, we had another one five days later that was a -- was just specifically on this issue, so we've had three good meetings with our good partners from the c.a.c. one stuck it out.
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>> one left. >> we've followed all the procedures. we've published notifications of this meeting in six languages at all the school sites and central admin offices. oh, there it is. excuse me. yes, on the 24th, we had our general meeting, and specific budget meeting on the 29th. this is all consistent with c.d.e. policy. if our servi and our service plan itself shows what services are offered at each school in san francisco unified, including the charter schools and juvenile schools and so forth. so it's comprehensive. we even include five keys, which we actually don't have any students at, but we do show we can provide services there, if necessary. this plan shows that we provide
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all services or we can provide all services at all schools as appropriate. obviously, we don't provide infant and toddler programs to the high school, nor transition programs at the primary schools. we do have some limitations, deaf/hard of hearing that require acoustic classrooms, acoustically modified classrooms. those are cesar chavez and lafayette -- thank you. lafayette, that's just a -- the mechanical reality. we have to limit those services to those two schools. but all of the services are offered everywhere. and that's basically what our service plan is, it's just a demonstration of what we've offered and what we continue to offer. we also note in this that we offer a one service that is not
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offered statewide, and that's what we call our 900 services. these are less than full-time paraprofessional services, so that's the only deviation we have from the full california model. this is just a quick little chart, just giving you a perspective on how special education has grown over the years. i can tell you that we probably will be beginning the new year with almost 7500 students. >> okay. so -- and that's consistent with the trends nationwide. so looking at the next slide here is our -- our broad view of the special education budget categories. you can see the big blueish purple pac-man symbol is 80% of our budget goes to will isalar and less that 5% of those
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salaries are at the central office, so those f.t.e.'s are at the school sites and serving or students at the school sites. it's pretty self-explanatory, moving around the pie chart, to see how the percentages breakdown. we have substitutes and extra hours that help support our schools and our teachers and principals to have professional development. some of our central office, as well. n.t.a. and m.s.p. mental health unsures that our students' mental health needs are being met. e.s.y. is what we're currently launching into tomorrow morning, if we get in bed early enough, hopefully, and that's to capture the learning loss that our kids experience over the summer. legal claims are mediation settlements with families, and
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it took a big hit this year. we did try to make some reductions in our department, and overall, it's less than two% of our budget. this is breaking out our operations a little bit more, and we did reduce by about 2 million this year. we didn't do so lightly. we're going to monitor this very carefully, but we're going to work a little smarter in the coming year. we hope to absorb some of the reductions and restructure how we're doing professional development. we don't think it was the most fiscal responsible way to do professional development in the past when we were orderingsubs andsubs weren't showing up. we think we can do better. also working with our partners across departments, getting -- just having a better coordination of services in meeting our teachers' needs. the curriculum, we're getting
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spire in all of our mild moderate classes next year. literacy and assessment protocols go under that category, the red category. noncapitalized equipment is furniture, technology. specialized equipment for students, and other services and expenses are about general supplies, travel conferences, and mileage. the consultants pie chart, it's -- again, it's pretty self-explanatory. if you look at it down at the bottom, independent educational evaluations are our biggest chunk here, and i'll have you know thatokay.
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thank you. i don't have any public comment on this. do i -- i don't have a card, do i? come on up. >> i promise you do have a public comment card. hi. i'm the chair of the community advisory committee, and i just want to give a big old fat love fest in celebration here to our new chief, jean robertson, and if you need anyone ever to sing the praises of d.j. irvin and the magic that he does, just
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come visit the c.a.c. he's amazing, and we appreciate all of his support. i would really like to thank the leadership team in the special education department for -- for all the collaboration. i know in -- it's been a tough year of transition, and people have been working multiple jobs, but we really do appreciate the support and we're grateful for jean's leadership. and really appreciative of the fact that the district has been willing to work with the chief in her requests. as you saw in the budget, there was a significant reduction in operational expenses, and a large increase in staffing costs to be spent in f.t.e.'s in direct support of our students who have i.e.p.'s who need massive amount of supports. and considering the fact that
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75% of our students with i.e.p.'s are actually served in gen ed, the more trained qualified support staff we put in place to them, the more we support our students. so thank you very much. the c.a.c. is grateful to be part of this process, and i -- as a parent, i appreciate having the ability to participate in this process. so thank you. >> thank you. commissioners? commissioner walton? >> thank you so much for this report. just quick question, how does this budget compare to last year in terms of -- is it bigger in smaller? >> it's a little bit bigger. it's a few million dollars bigger. few million. >> is that because of the increased numbers? >> yeah. and the reason -- we're hoping -- we'll see where we
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land, and that's why the monitoring of it is so important because we didn't do a -- our usual sweep is at the schools. we always base our f.t.e.'s on two systems communicating, and it gives us a number and we make a call about what the allocation should be at a school site. and the result of that process is -- it's very frustrating on the school site side because they don't always get to put their voice in the conversation, and they know the nuances of their students, they know that three siblings are coming up with the i.e.p.'s. so we have found in the past, when we -- when we layoff or we consolidate and move people around, we end up having to bring them back oftentimes after the ten day count but we can't bring them back because people have settled into
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enthuse ntheir new jobs, so it's difficult for communities that have been solid. so we hesitated before we did this sweep this year. we kept -- we did a few reductions, but overall, it was a more -- more additions. but we want to be fiscally responsible, but we don't want to break up -- i want to say it's like a family at a school community. we have the support of our fiscal partners and directors to do that. >> it sounds like you're spending some times at schools. >> absolutely. the last 18 years. i have some ideas about nutritious. we can talk about that offline. >> commissioner merase and then commissioner sanchez. >> i want to congratulate mr. irvin for being recognized by the c.a.c. two meetings ago for your service. i just have two questions. one on the budget.
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we all know that the feds woefully under allocate. i want to know out of the 140 million we allocate out of our budget, how much is the federal allocation? >> it's just about 50-50. are you talking about the unrestricted general fund contribution? it's 50-50, maybe slightly more. it's right down the middle. >> thank you. and then secondly in terms of the staffing allocation, it seems like every year in the fall, we have a slew of people at that podium complaining bitterly about changes in the staffing level for paras and other support staff. so i'm hoping we can avoid that with a lot more communication. but i also learned from dr. blanco that some of that was a result -- a direct result of our student assignment system
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and just having way too many rounds and school sites not knowing how many students are going to be at their schools, so i'm hoping that there's communication between your office and e.p.c., and i think there is an administrative move to reduce the number of rounds just so that school sites know, you know, at least a month in advance which students are going to be showing up, and how many on the first day of school. >> we actually withheld the allocations for many, many weeks to avoid exactly what you just described. i hope that we don't have a lot of people at the podium. we're trying to be very authentic and not just doing it on smoke and mirrors, for lack of a better word. we want to base our allocations on real children and not reduce prematurely, so we had very few schools with reductions.
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they're very upset, and they're talking to me and we're working through it. after the ten day count, is when adjustments will be made, but most schools will get only one adjustments. and just so you know, rosina and i meet biweekly. it's a standing meeting. we don't miss; it's a strong partnership. >> commissioner sanchez? >> thank you. couple questions. so does special education transportation factor into this budget? >> no. however, there is a triangleation meeting for that conversation as well that e.p.c. sits on. >> can you remind us what the special education transportation -- >> do you want me to say that number out loud now? >> yes. >> it's about 23 million, 29 -- 26. >> oh, two's here. >> so 26?
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>> yeah. >> 26 million? 26. >> thank you. so. >> obviously, it's a very high priority, and if we can -- [inaudible] >> is it incorrect to figure out the perpeople spending in special ed by dividing the number of students into 140 million? >> is it possible? >> no, is it -- is it incorrect to do that -- >> i have no idea how to answer that question. >> so if you do, it's about $19,000 perstudent. -- [inaudible] >> you know, i will do that. i will ask my people. >> 'cause i always ask that question. >> it's a good measure. i like -- that would work for me. >> yeah, just to see where we land. >> mm-hmm. >> okay.
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>> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. the public hearing is now adjourned, and we resume to our regular session. item h, we've already done. item i is consent calendar, items removed at previous meeting. there are none tonight. item j is introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. there are three items. item 1 is comment on proposals -- okay. item 2, superintendent's proposal 186-12 sp 1, annual update of the fiscal year 2018-19 lcap for the san francisco county office of education and the sfusd. item 3, superintendent proposal 186-12 sp 2, fiscal year 2018-19 recommended budget, item 4, superintendent's proposal 186-125 p 3, first
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reading of material revision to the five keys and five keys independance high school charters to add santa clara county sites. can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. the lcap and budget proposals will be heard at a committee of the whole meeting which is taking place on june 19, and 186-12 sp 2 is taking place at another meeting. item k is suspension of rules. and there are two items. the first is resolution 184-12
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a 1. can i get a roll call vote -- i need a motion and a second for suspension of rules. >> so moved. >> thank you. roll call on the suspension of rules. [roll call] >> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. can i get a motion and second for formal introduction. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. can i get a reading of the resolution by the authors. >> thank you so much. so if everyone will accept the fact that we've -- we're marching on midnight, i'm definitely not going to read this whole resolution, i just want to say that we know that guns are bad. they're -- the cow palace has been having gun shows for decades. we've -- we've tried many
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different ways to put a ban on these gun shows at the cow palace. i'm just going to read one of the whereas clauses that says whereas tuesday, april 26, 2016 the san francisco board of education passed a resolution that says thank you for all acts in support of gun control and eliminating gun violence in our communities. this resolution and this legislation that is happening at the state level is in support of our values as a district and it's in support of what we believe in so i want to thank commissioner merase, president mendoza-mcdonnell for coauthoring this, and the therefore clause reads therefore, be it resolved the san francisco unified school district supports senator scott
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wieners proposal. and last thing, i would just add, this does preclude if they want to host gun buy backs or things that are positive, and to make sure that we help remove guns from our community versus promoting more guns in our community. so thank you. >> thank you. i do not have any public speakers signed up on this. are there any comments by the board or superintendent? seeing none, roll call vote. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: that's six ayes. >> thank you. standing -- section l, board members reports, standing
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committee, report from the ad hoc committee and personal affordability? commissioner cooke? >> yes. we had an update on substitute teachers and it was a great meeting. >> great. thank you. can i get a report back from the budget and business services committee from wednesday, may 30, commissioner haney? >> give me one second to pull it up. >> while you're doing that, are there any board delegates to membership organizations that have any reports? commissioner merase? >> there is still space for the july 14-15 c.s.b. leadership institute held here in san francisco, and the annual
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education conference in november -december, that registration has also opened. and two last things, the golden bel bell awards nominations are open. that nomination is due at the end of the month, and c.s.b. is also looking for local performing student groups, if there are any that would like to apply, the information is on the c.s.b.a. website. >> thank you. commissioner haney? >> so we had an action item on the petition for mary l. booker leadership academy, which we heard tonight, and was forwarded to the board with a negative recommendation. we heard board policy 3110. we had two -- three -- two informational items. we had an update on the governor's may revise, and we heard a full presentation on the s.n.s. budget, the student
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nutritious services budget and the transportation budget. >> thank you. section -- item 3, any other board reports? commissioner merase? >> i completely want to thank the lowell community for allowing me to speak to graduates this year, 35 years after i graduates from lowell. can't put anyone to sleep with a five minute speech, and also want to acknowledge the tap niece consulate who attended the rosa parks graduation ceremony. >> thank you. item four is a calendar of committee meetings, although the schedule of the upcoming meetings is posted in the agenda, please feel free to announce any other date and time of your particular committee meeting. so your next budget and business services committee meeting, commissioner haney?
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>> while he's looking that up, on behalf of commissiony norton, the commissioner curriculum is meeting monday, june 18 at 5:30. there's only one item on the agenda. >> thank you. june business -- there's no june meeting scheduled? >> yeah. >> okay. so there's no june meeting scheduled. buildings and grounds is scheduled for june 26 at 6:00 pm m. rules, commissioner sanchez? >> yes. tomorrow night at 6:30. >> ad hoc committee on personnel matters, commissioner cooke? >> we resume meeting in the fall. >> thank you. ad hoc school district city college joint committee meeting is this thursday, june 14 at 6:00 p.m., and it'll be held here at sfusd. section m, other informational items, we have no staff
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reports, procedures for skelly hearings, notices, we'll give two minutes for this item, but i do not have any public speakers signed up on this. we do have two minutes for you to speak, miss sanchez. [inaudible] >> yes. >> okay. hello, again. thank you to the san francisco bool skoord and dr. matthews staying so late tonight and giving me the opportunity to speak. my name is margaret reyes. i am an employee here in san francisco, and employee i.d. 18505. i am here requesting the school
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conduct an audit with respect to sfusd's skelly hearings. this is about civil rights. skelly hearings was about civil rights. i was put through a skelly hearing on march 23, 2018. i'm certain that the people involved in it knew that the -- that this was not up to code, and they proceeded any ways. again, i ask that you take civil rights seriously and look into this. my own union refuses to deal with it. they have acknowledged that it was not a skelly hearing. they have acknowledged in writing to me and on audio that the procedures were not followed, but they are not holding the district accountable for not following skelly procedure. again, on may 11, 2018, i was put through another hearing
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that was not up to california code. labor relations is now calling that hearing a skelly hearing. they are putting it on writing that on may 11, 2018, a skelly hearing happened. that is not true. i'm certain of it, and again, i ask that you investigate this. i respectfully request that the san francisco school board take civil rights seriously. i can conduct a full investigation in human resources labor relations and uesf. thank you for your time. >> thank you. the next item is proposition a, appendix f. two minutes on this, too, miss casco. >> all right.
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thank you, again. my -- to the school board and dr. matthews for staying so late. my name is margaret reyes, and i'm here to officially request that you investigate and publish all about proposition a/appendix f 2018. i was employed at that time. i actually volunteered on proposition a. i have searched high and low. i cannot see that the voters or board members who voted in 2018 had any idea about appendix f. if the voters were given an opportunity to know about this, i ask that you please publish it. also, i ask that the amount of times that proposition -- or excuse me, appendix f has been used be published. i'd like a detailed explanation as to why ten years after appendix f was voted on or was
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put in it remains buried in the contract. you have not baked in into the main part of the contract. several parts of appendix f actually contradict the main part of contract. both uesf and sfusd continue to bury is in the contract. so i'd ask for a detailed explanation as to why. again, proposition a, appendix f can lead to the union having no power to veto who gets put into par. we know par is a punitive program. we know that it is discriminatory, and proposition a, appendix f did force the union to give up all their power. again, if you could give us some history, publish the history as to how that happened back in 2008, i think the public deserves to now. again, thank you for your time, and i request all information regarding the history of
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proposition a/appendix f. thank you. >> thank you. section m is our memorial adjournment. i'm going to be adjourning this in memory of violeona howard w passed away at the age of 98 on may 22, 2018. she earned the distinction of having a district public school, the leola m.havard early education school named after her in her lifetime. born april 3, 1920 in ethyl, louisiana, she was the second child of oliver and lieu morgan. she received her early education in the public schools of baton rouge, louisiana.
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she completed her early education at university of louisiana and earned a master of arts at san francisco state university. her childhood dream was always to become a teacher. she began her career at an educator in the sfusd on the faculty of patrick henry elementary school. later, she taught at gar eye and mckinley elementary schools. unsurprisingly, she was a consummate educator. for example, it was important to her that fourth graders begin to appreciate the communities in which they reside. accordingly as a fourth grade teacher, she began taking children on community visits to create an interest in and familiarize them with neighborhoods. it was during her tenure at mckinley that she was appointed the assistant principal of marshall annex elementary school. a newspaper article written during the time described her as the first negro woman
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administrator in the san francisco school system. she also served as an assistance praent at starky elementary school again earning the distinction as the first african american woman to hold such a position in the sfusd. under her leadership, test scores improved significantly. she retired from the school district in 1981, after 31 years of service. the superintendent robert alioto, in honor of her status in the district was the first black woman administrator, as the first black woman administrator, escorted her to her retirement dinner. it was a most joyous occasion. she was both astonished and elated -- in 2011 under the leadership of dr. amos brown,
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president of the san francisco branch of the naacp, the san francisco unified school district board of education recognized her dedication and service to students, parents and the community by unanimously voting to change the name of the burnet child development agency to the leona m.havard early education school. the sfusd has bestowed this honor on only two other living persons. she was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, charles, brothers and sister-in-laws lawrence and gladys morgan, clarence and evelyn morgan, and her sister, jean simms. her love, generosity, graciousness, tenacity will be missed by many. her nephews and nieces include
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debra simms, a former administrator in our district, and a loving church family. the board of education and superintendent of schools extends sincere condolences to the havard and morgan families. commissioner walton? >> thank you, president mendoza-mcdonnell. this is in memory, honest aring the work, advocacy and life of barbara brown with the san francisco unified school district, the mission district and the community at large, and her daughter is here, along with her grandson, and i know her other grandchildren were here earlier, as well as her son-in-law, and thank you all for staying this late as we honor your grandmother and your mother. whereas on sunday, may 20, 2018, barbara brown left in world to be with her family members who have preceded her in death, and whereas barbara brown worked for the san francisco unified school district for 30 years.
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and whereas barbara brown took pride in her career, particularly her work for almost 20 years at cesar chavez elementary school, on formerly named hawthorne in san francisco's mission district. and whereas barbara brown also enjoyed working in the san francisco unified school district drop out prevention unit, helping many families in keeping their students in school, and whereas bash la brown took pride in her loving family, two children. and whereas barbara brown was broern in guatemala, and whereas barbara brown considered both guatemala and you the states her two homes and raised her children to be proud of who they are, and belonging to both. barbara brown left this world a
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better place. therefore be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district here by honors barbara brown's commitment to the children and families of this district -- of this district and her contributions to san francisco's community at large. and this was also read and presented to the brown family on may 25th at her memorial service. [applause] >> our thoughts are with you and your family. so at this time, we will take public comment for those who have submitted speaker cards, and i do not have any this evening. the section o is closed session. the board will now go into closed session. thus, i
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>> okay. the section p, we are resuming the regular board meeting. we need a vote on an interim chief. i move to approve the contract for the interim chief of fund development with a salary set at grade 6, step 1 for one year. can i hear a second, please. >> second. >> thank you. roll call, miss casco. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. vote on student expulsions. i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement with the parties agreeing to waive the hearing of one middle school hearing 18-16 from the district for the remainder of spring 2018 semester and the fall 2018 semester. can i hear a second. >> thank you. roll call please, miss casco.
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>> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. i move approval for a stipulated expulsion agreement where the parties agree to waive the hearing of one high school student case number 2018-17 from the district for the remainder of spring 2018 semester and the fall 2018 semester. can i get a second, please. >> second. >> thank you. roll call, miss casco. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. i move approval of a stipulated expulsion agreement where the parties agree to waive the hearing of one middle school student, case number 2018-18 and suspend the enforcement of the student's expulsion. should the student fail to comply with the terms andtion cans of the stipulated agreement, student will be expelled from the district for the remainor of the spring 2018
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semester and the fall 2018 semester. can i get a second? >> second. >> thank you. roll call, miss casco. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> six ayes. >> thank you. i move the approval the expulsion of one high school student case number 2018-19 for the remain erof the spring 2018 semester and the fall 2018 semester. can i get a second? >> second. >> thank you. roll call, miss casco. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. i move the expulsion of one high school student case number 2018-20 for the remainder of the spring 2018 semester and the fall 2018 semester. can i get a second, please. >> second. >> thank you. roll call, please. >> thank you.
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[roll call] >> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. i move the approval for the expulsion of one high school student, case number 2018-21, from the district for the remainder of the spring 2018 semester and the fall 2018 semester. can i get a second, please. >> second. >> thank you. miss casco, roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: that's six ayes. >> thank you. this is the readout for the june 12, 2018 closed session. the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent, norton, approved the contract for one droor, the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent approved the contract for four program administrators. the board, by a vote of six ayes, one absent, approved the contract for principals. the board, by a vote of six
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ayes, one absent approved the contract for six assistant principals. the vote by a vote of six ayes, one absent, approved the release of six teachers and one paraprofessional. -- in the matter of sfusd versus oah, case number 20180850562 the board by a vote of six ayes one absent gives the district the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. on two matters of anticipated litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel. section q is adjournment. this meeting is adjourned. thank you.
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>> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work
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here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. passengers. we find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and can't have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. >> i love the wag brigade.
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>> one of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and it's on a different level. more of an emotional level. >> i just got off an 11.5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. >> we look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. >> i like coming to airport it's a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. >> they are required to compete
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a certification process. and they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other orgorganizations such as hospits and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. i think toby really likes meeting kids. that is his favorite thing. he likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. >> our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. >> there is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. we get to do maximum good in a
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small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. >> the dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. >> there is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. i think it's great. >> one of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. he wears a wheel around. >> he has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground
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so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at all. probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig. >> wag brigade invited us to
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join the program here and we have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. >> it's been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi.
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sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to
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not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bill. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the san francisco p.u.c. commission meeting here, tuesday, june 12, 2018. before we get started i just want to congratulate the warriors on their championship. madame secretary, the roll, please. [roll call]
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