>> good evening. my name is guadalupe martinez, and i'm a member of pmac. i want to make sure that all charter schools have the same standards that schools at sfusd have. we've fought very hard to get approval for resolutions regarding safe schools and other policies that create safe school environments and support. but charter schools don't have to comply with this. we want to make sure that you are doing right by our latino

and african american children. [end of translation] [applause] [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> good evening. my name is maria elena. thank you for the opportunity to comment. i'm a member of coleman advocates and pmac, and i've worked for nine years for the betterment of our children's

education. i want to ensure that the education that our kids are getting is the same quality as what the schools -- the public schools have. and now that my son is attending a charter school for the first time, i want to make sure that i have somewhere to go, and someone to hold

accountable. and now that i am learning that charter schools don't have the same teaching systems and policies, i'm very worried. coleman has been educating us about the need to participate and hold charters accountable, and i want to advocate for them and ask you as the board of education to make sure that you keep them accountable. [end of translation] [applause] [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> and i want to make sure that as someone whose child is attending a charter school and participating in that, i am not taking away from the opportunities that kids that attend the other public schools are getting.

[end of translation] [applause] >> hi. i am the teacher librarian at malcolm x academy, and as i have gotten politicized by this issue, i am becoming more and more aware of the issue of the division in our -- in the community but also that our parents in the bayview want the best quality education they can have for their students. and i understand as a staff member in the bayview schools that there are issues. and what i want to say is we all have to work together as a community to solve these issues, and we can't just give our schools away to a charter school. as a school who is being colocated this year, we have a lot of stress about what that's

going to look like from other schools who have colocated, it's not going to be a pretty picture, and we're understandably worried. so we -- please, we have to hold our -- all schools accountable to the same laws, and we can't just give our schools away to constitutional right cha right -- to charter schools. so please, we need accountability for charter schools that are paid for with our taxpayer money. [applause] >> next speaker, and i also have melissa carbajal. [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> good evening. my name is maria del ruby, and i'm a member of coleman

advocates. i have children both at a charter school and at a traditional public school. and i'm here to advocate to make sure that we are doing right at charter schools by all our children, both latino and african american. thank you.

[end of translation] [applause] [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> my name is sarai, and i'm a member of coleman advocates and pmac. i'm here to support this policy and to ask that we stop approving charter schools in san francisco. until we have a certainty of how they are performing their academic work with our children. thank you [end of translation] [applause] >> hello. good afternoon. my name is darian tillman, and

i'm a parent advocate for coleman and pmac. i'm here to speak on the situation with charter schools, and what i had on my mind is i felt like it was hindering our youth education who are being -- i mean, i feel like charter schools are being used -- are using the youth for -- as entities and for corrupt gang without giving progress reports to the parents when they should know about their child being comfortable at the school. and that's not happening from my understanding, and that needs to happen so we can get the full acknowledgement on what we're taking on in our

community. [applause] >> the thing with the progress reports, it's like they'll feel comfortable enough to participate enough in the schools, and basically, the gentrification going on, they feel like -- well, we feel like -- that it would take a lot of the tension off the students who really need the help. and if we're just putting money in everybody's pockets at the school, and we have none for ourselves to fallback with our children, it's like we don't know where our money is going. so if anybody can tell us where our money is going, that'll be fine so we can feel secure, and that's all i have to say.

thank you. [applause] >> hi. i am melissa carbajal, and i wanted to cede my time to diane gray. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent matthews. thank you for this opportunity. and i also want to thank the authors of this resolution, commissioner sanchez and commissioner cooke for writing this, putting it all together. i'm sure you worked with your colleagues as well, but this is exactly what we need for the charter schools. [applause] >> we need to hold them accountable, we need them to be transparent, and we need any data that they post to make sure that that data is correct and that it has gone through this body, right? we need -- [applause] >> we need oversight of the charter schools, point blank, period.

that is what we are asking for. if they're going to come into our city, ask to have location, operate in our city, in our district, then we need to hold them accountable, they need to report, and they need to report again to this body. and so i just want to say thank you again for this resolution. you have many supporters in this audience, you have many supporters in this district, you have many supporters in the bayview-hunters point community. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. so julie, you're the last speaker, julie. >> wait, wait, one more. one more, one more. >> i'm sorry, sir, do you have a speaker card? >> yeah, it's right here. yeah. madam president and board

members, my name is edward mays. i've been a resident -- i'd like to say i've been here 45 years. i'd like to know if it's possible that we could put prayer back in the schools. clap your hands if you think we need prayer back in the schools? because they're taking away our most bright students. all of these school shootings, when are we going to do something about this? the kids, they have the dreams, but we'd all come together, and we need to help the students. we've got to do something about

this. >> all right. thank you. >> but that's my dream. thank you very much, sir. we appreciate that. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> put prayer back in the schools, yes. thank you. >> okay. under section j, we have the two proposals that are being introduced, so the one that was just -- that we had just comment was the board member's proposals 186-(a) 2 being introduced by commissioners sanchez and cooke, and other item is board member proposal is 8626 -- 18626(a) 1. could i please hear a motion and a second for first reading of these two items. >> so moved. >> second. >> all right. so i'm reverse the item for the renaming to the buildings

grounds and services committee and item 18626(a) 1 is being referred to policies and budget as well as policies and fs ises committee. so we're going to move forward to section k, so a proposal -- this is a proposal for immediate action and suspension of the rules. i need a motion and a second for suspension of the rules to hear and take action on resolution 18626(a) 3 in support of communities and local schools funding act introduced by commissioners merase and haney. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. could i get roll call vote on the suspension of rules. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: seven ayes. >> thank you. okay. so i have some speakers on this, as well. rachita rowell, carrie gray,

jackie chavez, and michelle parker. come on up. [inaudible] >> hi. my name is rachita rowell. thank you for having me. i would like to thank the san francisco board of education time today. i strongly support the initiative to reform prop 13. my campaign began when i first started mentoring my students. not because of the lack of effort on their part, but rather because of a lack of resources available to students and teachers. the chronic under funding of

our public schools is holding our students back from reaching their full potential. this is not okay. these students represent the future of california, now the fifth largest economy in the world. we must make sure that we are investing in our state's future. though prop 13 was sold as a way to protect homeowners, large corporations have benefited the most. it is ridiculous that large corporations like chevron are able to pocket millions of dollars every single year while our students are -- we are barely able to provide a proper education for all of our students. and in order to fund what we care about in our state, the tax burden has especially fallen on us individuals. but by reforming prop 13, we can finally fund what we value without having to raise taxes

on people like you and me. after 40 years of giving large corporations tax breaks, it is now time to reclaim over $800 million every year for san francisco's schools and communities. let's not forget, education is not a privilege, it is a right. i'd also like to thank commissioners merase and haney for introducing this resolution to the board. thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name is madeline cooke. i'd like to thank the san francisco board of education for your time this evening. i urge the board to pass the resolution to support our initiative to reform prop 13. i stand before you as a recent college graduate, having completed my bachelor's degree this past may. every student deserves the opportunities i've had, the chance to find their passion, graduate from high school and college to look back on their

education with a sense of accomplishment and use it to fuel their career and expand upon the skills they first learned in the classroom. however, that doesn't happen when our schools sit in the bottom ten in the nation and public education is not being adequately funded. the consequences to our students are abhorrent. we are letting children and young adults suffer in classrooms while large corporations get tax breaks. luckily there is a way to fix this. before prop 13 passed in 1978, our schools were at the top ten in the nation. property tax revenue flooded in our classrooms, and we ranked fifth in the country for perpupil spending. we can achieve this again at no cost to homeowners, residents and small businesses. though prop 13 was sold as a way to protect people, it has largely benefited large -- mostly benefited large

corporations. not only is it not fair that large corporations like disney are not paying their fair share in property taxes, but reforming prop 13 so that large corporations have their property taxes assessed regularly, we can restore over $10 million every year to our public schools and communities, and help return california to a champion of public education. thank you for your support and thank you, commissioners merase and haney for introducing this resolution to the board. [applause] >> good evening. my name is kimberly mcal centecenteallister and i would like to thank the board of education for their time. i am currently an incoming junior at the university of san francisco. during my time as a student, i volunteered at rosa parks school in the fillmore. i learned the necessity and the importance of learning

activities to promote students' progress and growth. as each child learns uniquely, it is crucial to have sufficient resources to suit each child's needs and to foster success in every child. these resources should be accessible to all children, regardless of their ethnicity, ability or socioeconomic status. reforming prop 13 bo work directly to see that -- would work directly to see that each child in california receives a quality education. at the moment, california is ranked 44th in the nation for perpupil funding. as the fifth largest economy in the world, this rank is indefensible. the reform of prop 13 would generate over $10 billion a year which would not only improve our state's rank but more importantly the quality of education that each child receives. additionally, this would come at no expense to residential or

small business property owners. rather, it would shift the burden to the large corporations who could cover the expense with ease. with the reform of prop 13, we can work to ensure that california's children are provided the tools they need to succeed. i strongly urge the board to support our initiative to resoerm prop 13 -- reform prop 13. can you, commissioners merase and haney for introducing this resolution to the board, and thank you for your time. [applause] >> commissioners, thank you. my name is jackie zapata chavez, and it's a pleasure to see you and speak in front of you, mark sanchez, rachel, thank you so much. i know you guys personally and professionally, so thank you for hearing me out. i am a product of sfusd, i am a product of proposition 13, and proposition 13, when it passed,

denied me of a college education for many reasons. as an orphan, and because of funding cuts, i was not able to continue my education. so i strongly urge that you reform this. there's no reason why corporations should be making so much more money at the cost of our children. all our children deserve a proper education regardless of their economic status, regardless of their last name, like zapata chavez, regardless of their zip code. i urge you to put this on the ballot and let people decide whether corporations should be given this nontax status as opposed to -- and take this away from our children. our children and our schools need this, we need this desperately, so please just

consider. all we're asking as an sfusd mother who has put five kids through the sfusd school system, as a product of sfusd, i'm asking you to consider and just consider to put this on the ballot and let the people decide. let the people decide if education for our children is worth more than corporate tax relief. thank you so much. [applause] >> good evening. my name's michelle parker. i'm a parent of now two sfusd students. my oldest just graduated. i'm not going to repeat a lot of what you've already heard, but i do want to say that we've seen a lot of recent evidence that there's an appetite to reform prop 13, and i think that's important to where we are right now. so i think if we can get this measure onto the 2020 ballot, i think we'll see some movement. it's a really great position

that we find ourselves in. i think the projections measure that there are $8 billion in tax breaks that corporations have been benefiting from every year, and that 4.5 billion of that could go to our schools or would go to our schools if we're able to pass this measure. i think that it's really important for sfusd to take a strong position on this early. we need to show our leadership, we need to show that there is an appetite in san francisco to reform this proposition that has really defunded public schools for so long, and also because we are educating students now that have more needs than ever. we still haven't hit that 2007-2008 funding which wasn't even enough back in 2007, so we have got to find more ways to make sure that we have smart funding coming to our schools. we're educating more students who are homeless, foster youth, immigrants, student who are

impacted by trauma every single day, and we need to make sure we have the resources to serve them every single day so that they are going to be prepared for college and civic life after they leave our schools. the state p.t.a. was an early supporter of this initiative. the san francisco board of supervisors, so has oakland unified school district, and we need to, too. thank you, commissioners merase and haney for supporting it. >> hi. i'm carrie gray, and i'm the president of the san francisco p.t.a. i can only echo what everybody else has said, and i want to thank you because this board has passed other resolutions of increased funding. you know that we have more needs and fewer resources. that's not news to anybody in the room, and with this

resolution, you can show your strong support for a very timely ballot initiative that could really change the game in san francisco. i notice in your consent agenda there are a lot of unequal resources across the district. some schools have very strong fund raising, and other schools don't, and with more reliable public funding for our schools, we can really address our achievement gaps in a realistic ongoing way. and so i'm hoping that you will again support a resolution to support increased public funding -- reliable public funding for our schools. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. so we're closing public comment. i need a motion and a second for formal introduction, please. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. reading of the resolution by the authors, please.

>> in support of the 2020 schools and local communities funding act, authored by commissioners merase and haney, whereas if the passage of proposition 13 in 1978, california school funding has experienced severe limitations in what was once a main source of funding for schools, the property tax. and while the intent of proposition 13 is to help homeowners, loopholes in the system have have permitted major commercial and industrial properties to avoid reassessment, a windfall to the commercial property owners at the expense of vital school funding, and revenues generated from the property tax have shifted away from commercial property towards residential property throughout the state and in virtually every county. and whereas perpupil support depending on state funding that's delaiclined from the to ten in the nation to the bottom ten, while california's cost of living is among the highest in

the nation, and california schools face challenges in providing an equitiable and challenging education for student population with vast differences in language, poverty, parental education level, and other socio education and other factors -- [inaudible] >> -- i'm going to skip ahead a little, whereas signatures are currently being gathered to place those schools, local communities and funding acts on the ballot in 2020 to provide for at least 4.5 billion annually for schools k through 14, and these will be above prop 98 funding and follow the local control funding formula to all students in need and all school districts and bonds will be retired faster ority ras lowered. >> whereas the act will also provide billions in funding yearly for cities, counties and special districts in locally controlled revenues for parks, public safety, housing infrastructure, health and human services, libraries and the environment, and

improvement land use, provide tax relief to small businesses and level the playing field among businesses and whereas the act is full in keeping with board resolution number 1217-1281 urging more perpupil spending for public education from the state of california adopted unanimously on december 12, 2017 and provides a clear revenue stream to meet the goals of the board resolution. and whereas the act was endorsed by the california parent teacher association, common sense kids action, the california federation of teachers and hundreds of local elected officials, education, community based organizations, in the fields of health, housing, faith, seniors, social justice, environmentalis, business, among others. therefore be it resolved that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district strongly supports the 2020 schools and local communities funding act and urges individuals, organizations and communities to also support this important measure to restory sources to

california's public education and local services. >> thank you. so we had public comment already. any comments from the board? commissioner sanchez? >> commissioner sanchez: thank you. thank you, commissioners merase and cooke for authoring this resolution -- haney, sorry. my bad, yeah. i confuse them a lot. sadly. thank you both. [inaudible] >> that's what i was going to say next, if i could be a coauthor -- okay, and if maybe we could all put our names -- add our names to the resolution, that would be great. i just want to say a couple things about prop 13. it sounds like this may be the first resolution that this board is passing on specifically prop 13, which is amazing that nothing has been

authored before, specifically about this, but prop 13 has been tackled a couple of times in the past. i want to thank you all of california for the work that they've been doing on prop 13. they know as well as i do it's been tackled twice. one was in '99. when the deal was made, they had the petition signed, they had money to put it on the ballot. the polling showed that it would pass to do what essentially we're saying now, but there was a last-minute deal with the governor, and others to take it off the ballot in exchange for a one-time raise for teachers across the state. so unfortunately, it was taken off the ballot and it probably would have passed back in 1999. and then, several years later, there was another attempt. they had the same thing. they had the ballot -- petitions, they had the balloting to show that it would pass, but there was a miss --

miscalculation of the wording measure, so the authors took it off the ballot. so this is our opportunity to do the right thing, so make sure we get this on -- to make sure we get this on the ballot the right way, and to make sure we can fund education somewhere near the national average which is really amazing to think when prop 13 passed in '78, within one year, one-third of all public education left the system in one year. all the things that we tried to bring back through prop h, like music, arts, libraries, and sports, all those things existed in our schools prior to prop 13, and we became at the lowest point, i think 48th in the nation in perpupil funding. and now i think we're, what, 47th? 44th? in the fifth largest economy in the world, and so shame on us, but at least we have an attempt right now in 2020 to do the right thing, and i want to thank the authors and thank all

the people that are working on this. >> thank you. others? no? okay. commissioner merase? >> i just want to say that it protects residential tax rates, but it brings commercial tax rates up to market value. so need for seniors, disabled residents to be concerned about the split role. the tax provisions will remain, and it's really focused on having our corporations pay their fair share and there was a couple references to disneyland, which was being assessed in the 1978 levels of a nickel persquare foot. and a corporation like disneyland has every interest to have an educated workforce. there are estimated estimates that disneyland would pay close to $5 million more in taxes, given the market value of their

property. so just want to speak that clarification. >> can you. commissioner haney? >> i actually just want to thank you, all of the parent leaders and folks in the community who have been organizing around this. this is -- as commissioner sanchez has said, has been a long slog to get to this point to have actually have something that is going to be on the ballot in 2020. and the work that has been done to lay the foundation for this to pass and to educate, you know, not just, you know, elected officials and school districts who know a lot about this issue, but regular people, knocking on doors, having resolutions like this pass all over the state i think is really what is going to allow us to be successful in 2020. so hopefully, we'll sign up and others will sign up, and others will pass similar resolutions, and we'll get this done. and i also want to shout out our uesf and the unions around

the state who have also been close partners in making this happen. we as we'll talk about with our budget. we'd very much like this to happen sooner rather than later, so we're all in and grateful for the leadership that many have demonstrated to get us here. >> thank you. so i'll be supporting this this evening, but i will make a just a brief comment -- make a -- just a brief comment about the timing of this. i appreciate that it takes time to get this on the ballot and what we're doing is supporting to get this moving quickly, and i appreciate that. and then, i just want to encourage the board, once this is actually on the ballot and we're moving on this 'cause we'll also have a new set of board members at that time. so i think it's going to be really important to have current board members endorse this as it gets rolling. so with that, if there's no further comment, roll call, please. >> clerk: thank you.

[roll call] >> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. six ayes? who are we missing -- oh, she already left. our next item is item e, it's a special order of business, and we have eight items to handle tonight on this. so we're going back to the regular agenda. item number 1 is 186-12 so 4. i need a motion and a second, please. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. this is a tentative agreement between san francisco school district and united administrators of san francisco, uasf. mr. superintendent, do you want to introduce your designee who's going to be reading the resolution. >> our chief of relations,

carmelo scarlato. >> i'd like to read the attached tentative agreement between the san francisco unified school district and the uasf and the related public disclosure document. >> okay. thank you. i don't have any speakers signed up for this particular item. any comments from the board -- oh, sorry. i do. i see -- oh, i'm sorry. it's under -- you're right, my bad. i have cheryl lee from the united administrators. >> good evening, commissioners and president mendoza-mcdonnell and all that are president here today. i have a long history with sfusd. i retired ten years ago after

37 years serving as a teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent. now i'm the coexecutive director of united administrators of san francisco. i -- i really encourage you to approve this tentative agreement for our wonderful administrators that we have. they work hard, they're resilient, and they really do what's best for their school communities and their teachers. thank you so much. >> thank you, mrs. lee. it's always greet to see you, and i apologize that i had you under somebody else's. great. any other comments from the board or the superintendent? sorry, commissioner sanchez? >> thank you. i just have -- mr. scarlato, can you just give us some of the highlights of this tentative agreement, the public? >> sure. so for the school year 2018-19, all administrators will receive a 7% increase, and that will be

followed by a 3% increase in 2019-2020, so that'll give them a 10% increase over the next two years. >> thank you. roll call vote, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: five ayes. >> great. thank you. item 2 is a motion -- i need a motion and a second on the compensation for unrepresented management employees. superintendent? >> once again, our chief of labor relations, mr. carmelo scarlato. >> you want me to move it first? >> yes, please. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. and i do not have any public speakers on this item. comments from the board -- i'm sorry.

go ahead and do the recommendation. my bad. i'm moving too fast here. >> the recommended action is to approve the attached salary schedule for unrepresented management employees. >> great. thank you. any comments from the board or the superintendent? seeing none, roll call vote, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: that's five ayes. >> great. thank you. thank you, mr. scarlato. item 3 is i need a motion and a second on the board of education meeting calendar for 2018-19. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. mr. superintendent, do you want to introduce your designee? >> yes. reading this will be the general council, danielle houck. >> the item tonight is we're asking the board of education

to adopt the meeting calendar for the school year 2018-2019. >> thank you. miss houck, i know that we had some conversations about this. was there anything unusual or different from last year's calendar that -- to this year's calendar that the public should be aware of? >> so we did incorporate all of the feedback that we received from board leadership. if you open the attachment to the item, you can see where we deviate from the typical rule of the second and fourth tuesdays of the month, and where we do that is usually due to a religious holiday or a spring break or winter holiday for the school district, and those are noted with an asterisk at the bottom. >> thank you. and then, this will be posted on our we knbsite, as well. >> yes. >> once approved. thank you. i have no public speakers signed up for this item. any comments from the board or superintendent? seeing none, roll call vote, please. >> clerk: thank you.

[roll call] . >> clerk: that's five ayes. >> thank you. item 4, i need a motion and a second on the standardized account code structure form for the fiscal year 2018-19 budgets for the san francisco unified school district and san francisco county office of education. >> so moved -- >> go ahead, sorry. >> thank you. i need a second, please. >> second. >> thank you. mr. superintendent? >> we will have our chief financial officer, reeta batavan. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent matthews. the requested action here is that the board of education approve the fiscal year 2018-2019 adopted budget fore the san francisco -- for the san francisco unified school

district and the county office of education in the official state formed prescribed by the state superintendent of public instruction in accordance with california education code sections 33129 and 42127. >> thank you. i don't have any public speakers signed up for this particular item. comments from the board or superintendent? seeing none, roll call, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: five ayes. >> great. thank you. item 5 is a motion -- i need a motion and a second on the resolution to approve the expenditure of state revenues received from the education protection account for fiscal year 2018-19.

>> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. mr. superintendent. >> once again, our chief financial officer, reeta batavan. >> good evening. once again, the recommended action is that the san francisco unified school district and san francisco board of education approve the anticipated revenues anticipated to be received in 2018-2019 from the education protection account in accordance with the spending plan incorporated here in. >> thank you. i do not have any public comment on this particular item. any comments from the board or superintendent? seeing none, roll call vote, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: five ayes. >> thank you. item six, i call the public hearing to approve the

substantiation for the need to maintain public reserves for the fiscal year 2018 through -- 2018 through -- okay. i have 29 in mine. is that 2018-19. >> 2018-19. >> okay. so 2018-2019 budget year and the subsequent two years that are greater than the state required minimum reserve for economic uncertainty. mr. superintendent. >> reading this into the record will be our chief financial officer, reeta matavan. >> thank you, mr. superintendent. the requested action that the san francisco unified school district and the san francisco county office of education approved the attached substantiation for the need to maintain budget reserves for the 2018-2019 and the two years that are greater than the state required for two years for economic uncertainty. >> thank you.

i have one speaker on this item. miss solomon. >> thank you, president m mendoza-mcdonnell. susan solomon, uesf. this is a topic i'm looking forward to have the public forum on because when we as a union are in negotiation with the district, one of the things that becomes a difficult point at the bargaining table is why the reserves are typically higher than the mandated reserve because what we often see, unfortunately, is a crisis such as the affordability crisis and the housing crisis, and it makes us wonder when we're at the bargaining table what the money is being held in reserve for when it seems like an emergency. it sounds like that -- this topic is in contemplation of seeing crises coming up, and so

since we -- just feels like we just finished negotiations, and it feels like they're practically around the corner, i look forward to having a deep discussion about what additionally these means in terms of salaries, wages and benefits for employees of the district and members tof uesf. thank you. >> thank you. comments from the board or superintendent? seeing none, roll call vote, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. so the public hearing is now adjourned, and we resume our regular session. we're still in our special order of business. this is item 7. i need a motion and a second on a resolution authorizing the dissolution of the san

francisco unified school district financing corporation and authorizing an indemnification agreement for such corporation and authorizing the taking of related actions in connection there with. >> so moved. >> second. >> great. thank you. superintendent? >> staff presenting this will be our general counsel, danielle houck. >> so for the board's clarification, i'm going to be able to answer your process questions, but miss matavan, of course is going to be our financial expert if you have questions about the corporation specifically. so tonight, the recommended action is that you approve the resolution authorizing the dissolution of the san francisco unified school district financing corporation and authorizing an indemnification agreement for such corporation and authorizing the taking of related actions in connection therewith. >> thank you. so i do have a question on this. so our next item is calling a public hearing to convene the

finance corporation, so we're -- >> we're dissolving it, and then we're -- >> can you just clarify that for me? >> sure. so you are moving as the school board to dissolve the corporation, but the school board must make a motion to dissolve itself, so your motion will go first. you'll open a public hearing, you'll convene as the finance corporation, and then you'll make a motion to dissolve the finance corporation. this is a two-part action. the board of ed can't by itself dissolve the corporation. you must convene the corporation to take a vote to do that. >> okay. great. thank you. are there any -- we don't have any public comment on this. any comments from the board or superintendent? okay. seeing none, roll call, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call]

>> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. item 8, now i call a public hearing to approve action items as noted on the financing corporation agenda. and now recess the regular session of the board of education. so now, we are going into a different hearing. so we commence with the formal roll call, miss casco. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: thank you. >> thank you. mr. superintendent, is there a staff report on the status of projects? >> no staff report at this time. >> thank you. i need a motion and a second, please on the approval of prior meeting minutes of february 14, 2017. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. roll call vote, please clerk dlerk thank you. on the minutes --

>> clerk: thank you. on the minutes -- [roll call] >> clerk: that's six ayes. >> thank you. i now need a motion and a second on the appointment or rotation of new officers. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. the new officers will be as follows: hydro-mendo hydro-mendoza-mcdonnell is president of the financing corporation, former financing corporation president shimon walton is secretary treasurer of the financing corporation. could i get a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: and that's six ayes.

>> thank you. i now need a motion and a second on the approval of resolution authorizing the dissolution of the san francisco unified school district financing corporation and authorizing an indemnification agreement. mr. superintendent, i was speaking. sorry. thank you. >> so moved. >> i need a second, please. >> second. >> thank you. mr. superintendent? >> our general counsel, don yell houck? >> the -- danielle houck? >> the resolution this evening is seeking dissolution of the san francisco unified school district financing corporation and authorizing an indemnification agreement. >> thank you. i have no speakers on this item. any questions or comments by the board or superintendent? seeing none, roll call vote, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] . >> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. no one has signed up for any of

the public comment. we have no other business. i now adjourn the public hearing of the sfusd financing corporation and resume the regular board immediate -- meeting of the board of education. so section f, proposals for action. if i hear no objection, i'd like to take items 1 through 4 in one vote, and then, we'll do the other two items. so seeing no objection, item 1 is board policy 5111.1, district residency. i need a committee report please, from rules. mr. sanchez? >> commissioner sanchez: yez, thank you. so this policy has to do with students whose assignments are revoked due to residency fraud, and the committee had taken it up earlier and staff had asked the committee to come back with more information. we had a longer discussion about it last week.

director rosina tom came and addressed the committee requesting a period of time for students to stay out of school that they had found to be fraudulently enrolled in right now. so we had kind of a little disagreement in committee about the time. we landed on essentially a month, so after a student has been deemed to be in the school fraudulently, the student will have about a month to depart the school. and the discussion really focused around really -- essentially, it's punishing -- dr. merase, you might want to chime in, too, punishing students for the miss deeds of their parents. so we really struggled with that. but at the end of the day, we came to the conclusion that they'll have a 14-day appeal process and then a 15-daytime to leave the school, so it's about a month. dr. merase?

>> yes. so my concern -- i really appreciate the staff lengthening time period for families to produce evidence if they believe they should be entitled to a seat. my issue was when to remove the student from the school. and i personally would like to hold the student harmless because it's the activity of the parent that is creating the situation. i am willing to move forward with the staff recommendation, but i still -- perhaps at a future time, i want to revisit whether -- it doesn't make more sense to allow the student to stay during the end of the school term -- i'm sorry, the semester, the school semester just because it's so disruptive for the student to leave during the sem enter, and then do we -- semester, and then, do we assign students to school during the semester? i really don't have the answer to that. >> commissioner haney?

>> i agree with commissioner merase. i think we spoke about this in one of the committees or the full board. [please stand by]

>> that's essentially where we landed with this. i can see the argument for the semester. although if the kid ends my dear, that's dramatic as well. you are still leaving in the middle of the year. these kids have been in school for years, and they will graduate next year, it will be traumatic as well. i don't know if counsel wants to add any of the staff post desk position, but that's what i would recommend to. >> they did look at the data and staff report around the demographic of the parents who are perpetrating fraud, and the overwhelming majority owned homes.

part of what i think the committee considered is this isn't just disproportionately impacting our most vulnerable students. the other thing the committee looked at is this fraud is happening at our over enrolled schools. so, i think those were other pieces that the committee considered in supporting the staff post-s recommendation. >> i will also add that i will be honest with you, i had the same question. when talking with staff, the other part of the recommendation was around the fraud piece and as soon as a period is over, because it is oversubscribed schools, there is someone waiting to take that seat. that was the position from sta staff. >> to that point, can i ask, when that becomes available, too we fill it right away? or do we -- we are usually not moving kids until the end of the

semester. i will look at commissioner sanchez because he probably has a battle handle of this... i do. my recollection from the presentation is that when fraud is typically discovered, it is still within the window to put a student who resides within the district into that seat. that is not the case with every time, but most of the time, we are catching this on the front end and able to put in that districdistrictstudents in the . >> a lot of kids, -- can i ask what some of the staff initial recommendation was? >> it was actually shorter. >> so 14 days total of appeals, and removal? >> so this