ms. norton. ms. norton: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i don't know how to describe what we've seen here. boys gone wild. out of sight, out of mind. what we do know and what most concerns me is how these prostitutes were funded. we are -- it looks like we have implicated taxpayer funds, that some may have come out of official funds and some out of cartel funds. it's hard for me to know which is worse. but it does seem pretty clear that we may be dealing to be sure with a cultural problem but with a cultural problem that has -- is so deep that it is now a problem of corruption. and i say that because i'm looking at some of the excerpts from the reports where apparently there were corroborating witness. some of this is so eye popping i want to ask for your response. i won't ask why you don't fire people because i understand when the state -- that's the united states or any of its agents is an actor then due process, of course, requires you to go through certain processes. after all those processes are put there by the congress of the united

ms. norton. >> yes. >> mr. walton no. >> ms. wynns. >> i dr. murase and no fails someone no, we have not voted and debate so the debate goes on we continue. >> oh, i thought we were voting on calling that you were calling the question. >> it is a motion to end debate. >> and that's what i did i moved we end up debate. >> i thought wisp voting on the resolution so call it again. >> you threw us off you voted yes. >> i was voting. >> i move to call for the question to end the debate. >> second. >> okay. >> ms. fewer to end debate yes. >> can we legal can you please tells you. >> you're voting now to end the debate the debate is over then the question will be called or there will be a motion to send to committee one or the other will happen. >> after we stop talk it won't go straight to vote or do you want to go to committee. >> i guess you have 3 options you're not going to postpone that something has to happen with the resolution that is before the board only two things is it what happen it can be voted up and down or a commissioner can moved an

ms. norton parklet ms. wynns and dr. murase. >> 7 i's. >> thank you very much the next item on the agenda is instill procedures to support stanford university middle schools for the school of arts by rachel norton is there is a motion and a second. >> i move second. >> this item will be referred to budget and services and the curriculum program committee i have two speakers roberta 0 hernandez and another gentleman a minute and a half. >> does this have a budget impact should e this should go to budgets we don't have an additional need. >> i'm sorry, i thought it it was referred to curriculum. >> mr. hernandez thank you very much for your patience. >> hello commissioners pretty late; right? first of all, i want to tell you for those who don't know me, i'm a parent in public schools and i also am with the eviction and i'm also represent the county of san francisco i believe this is way overdue having been this has been around for 3 that years for many years we've taught and collaborated with schools and middle school and h

ms. norton parklet ms. wynns and dr. murase. >> 7 i's. >> thank you very much and next it item p consent calendar served and immediate action as a reminder this is a let's see - on page one hundred 6 of the agenda item one 44 dash 14 case 3 and i'd like to i'm going to turn it over to the superintendent. >> thank you commissioner president murase so we have present and chief of the human resources monique vascular is for potential questions the board may have. >> colleagues commissioner wynns commissioner fewer i have comments i want to make one i want to actually i'm not sure but certainly in the back up material you've sent use it referred to our having it partnership with teachers of america since 2008, in fact, we had a partnership starting in 2008 that was we served our relationship from teachers of america disagreement over the teachers of america interims we didn't want them only places in local schools and superintendent garcia asked us to try again so i just want my colleagues to understand this was not a contin

ms. norton parklet ms. wynns drumming that's unanimous congratulations (clapping) we have running to item c recognized and resolutions maximizations. >> i'd like to call to the podium our supervisor the physical to give the service award. >> evening superintendent it's my great pleasure to announce this special service award recipient christen was nominated been a coworker for positive support of colleagues and christine spent hours working with the middle school supporting 55 classroom teachers and knows each one by names and knows their children's names and the schools and dedicated to supporting them her expertise and sense of humor have brauth brought departments together to implement the 15 education programs i'd like to take this moment to recognize the teachers that have come here today to honor christen i offer my congratulations. >> thank you, kristin for all you do for the district our students and families (clapping). >> i'm truly humbled by this award i get do work with thrilled physical educato

ms. norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for three minutes. ms. norton: i thank my good friend from massachusetts for yielding. mr. speaker, i want to thank the many democrats who have rallied to the defense of reproductive health decisions of men and women in the district of columbia especially since this is a resolution to overturn a district of columbia law that everyone in this chamber will be able to vote on except me. i wish to rebut a set of untruths you heard from the other side that, for example that this -- that the d.c. law is an assault on religion. on the contrary, it protects an employer's religious beliefs. he can hold those religious beliefs. if that's part of what he does, his organization does, the employee must advocate those beliefs. whatever the organization or business that that employer is in, he must advocate their views not his own. what the employer cannot do is to go into the employee's bedroom to find out what kind of reproductive choices he makes on his own as a private matter. abortion has been raised in this bill. in

ms. norton: from that period? ms. leonhart: yes, from that period of time. this norton: we understand from one of these corroborating witnesses -- he hired prostitutes, this is what the corroborating witness said. he would pay the girls to come to the party, and the agents would pay the girls directly for any sex they wanted. he was getting prostitutes for these 15-20 parties. one of the dea agents in colombia had to crack down on the agents who were on the cartels, who were given funds to pay for the parties. mr. chaffetz: the gentlewoman's time has expired. ms. leonhart: that is what is so appalling about this. although the agents didn't know the corrupt police were getting money from the traffickers. they were on their payroll using that money for the prostitutes. mr. chaffetz: i thank the gentlewoman. mr. hice: thank you. mr. horowitz, you noted that during the interview, some in your office staff were evidently told that dea employees were under the impression that they were not to discuss information regarding open cases. do you know who provided that i

ms. norton polluting ms. wynns dr. murase santa monica and mr. chin thank you. >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance thank you very much next item on the agenda is approval of board minutes none tonight before i call the next item i'd like to remind did members of the p

ms. norton polluting ms. wynns dr. murase santa monica and mr. chin thank you. >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance thank you very much next item on the agenda is approval of board minutes none tonight before i call the next item i'd like to remind did members of the public if you wish to address the board of education tonight, you need to complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and presented to executive assistant ms. casco according to the rules and regulations speaker cards will not be accepted for an item before the board and next the superintendent report truth. >> thank you, dr. murase i'd like to talk about the stated core mass implementation and common core algebra class one here in san francisco as an yicht on april 11th the san francisco unified school district administered the cc ss algebra eligibility came to seven hundred students will will be 9 the grader for standards in grade a math if a student passes the examine they'll be placed in dbi try in ninth grade if not proficient they'll be enrolled in algebra o

ms. norton polluting ms. wynns dr. murase. >> 7 i's thank you very much. (clapping.) the next item on the agenda did board members proposals no one tonight and following that is item j request to speak regarding general matters i have 5 speaker cards again one minute i'm sorry, i have 8 speakers on this item again one minute per person let me call the names (calling names) please come forward to the podium. >> good evening president of the school board and commissioners on behalf of of the filipino educators of san francisco we innovative i to attend our awards stwlip u scholarship on thursday evening may 7 this year we will be it will be the fourth scholarship program under the international housing our organization is established the scholarship award for students grading with a 3 point zero to support them and their families going to other colleges our students have been accepted to community colleges they can be productive citizens in our community the student that applied for the scholarships are diverse representing the city high schools and the filipino educato

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ms. norton: from that period? ms. leonhart: yes, from that period of time. this norton: we understand from one of these corroborating witnesses -- he hired prostitutes, this is what the corroborating witness said. he would pay the girls to come to the party and the agents would pay the girls directly for any sex they wanted. he was getting prostitutes for these 15-20 parties. one of the dea agents in colombia had to crack down on the agents who were on the cartels, who were given funds to pay for the parties. >> the gentlewoman's time has expired. ms. leonhart: that is what is so appalling about this. although the agents didn't know the corrupt police were getting money from the traffickers. they were on their payroll using that money for the prostitutes. >> i think the gentlewoman. >> thank you. mr. horowitz, you noted that during the interview some in your office staff were evidently told that dea employees were under the impression that they were not to discuss information regarding open cases. do you know who provided that information? mr. horowitz: we do

ms. norton no polluting >> dr. murase. >> 6 i's. >> thank you, very much. to staff and to the peace k ak a rich decision we'll be back april 14th and our superintendent carranza >> just for clarity for all of the community and for staff then we will we will be submitting the budget without the board approval for the applying for the requirements and understanding we will come back on april 14th not august april 14th with version 3.0 but sorry folks i know everybody has been here a long time next week is spring break i want to be clear i've directed my staff to take spring break no one will be here that's one less week to work on version. >> can we add when we submittal that the board had been month to month on april 14th. >> i'm sorry director lee. >> thank you commissioner president murase that's fine commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell for us to say a little bit more than there's will be an amendment to say the timing exactly so i think that is not he'll done i want to say in terms of what happened the superintendent alludes to now and the 14th alike lecturer

ms. norton, for five minutes. ms. norton: mr. speaker, i began the series of remarks leading up to tomorrow, emancipation today, in the district of columbia when lincoln and the congress freed the slaves in the district nine months ahead of the emancipation proclamation. there are no slaves living in the district today, but nor is there a single free and equal citizen living in your nation's capital. freedom from slavery did not give residents freedom as equal citizens. yesterday's remarks in this series, i spoke about going to war and every war since the nation was created without having a vote. today's remarks fit april 15 the day when d.c. residents are the only americans who pay federal taxes without a vote for or against those taxes or anything else. for us it is not tax day it is taxation without representation day. it is no overstatement to say that this house is obsessed with taxes that is to say tax cuts, there are tax cuts bills on the floor this very week. our residents are not demanding tax cuts. take your money. but

ms. norton no polluting >> dr. murase. >> 6 i's. >> thank you, very much. to staff and to the peace k ak a rich decision we'll be back april 14th and our superintendent carranza >> just for clarity for all of the community and for staff then we will we will be submitting the budget without the board approval for the applying for the requirements and understanding

ms. norton commissioner wynns dr. murase it's 6 i's. >> congratulations (clapping). >> we have quite a bit of business remaining so thank you all for coming out tonight in support of gateway if you could kwoel espouse users we have quite a few agenda items the next item on the agenda the wing policies was moved and seconded on april 22nd may s i have a report under the rules committee. >> we had acquit an expensive discussion excluding a lot of really good debt testimony from the community health director in support of that this is a kind of next generation wellness policy i want to point out somebody motive have to tell me whether or not this is appropriate you'll see in the agenda underlined material which has been addressed and bans the committees discussions and kind of collaborating process we agreed an clarifications and added things we wanted in the policy since that time i've excuses things i felt was not clarified enough so we came up with language which i will submit as an amendment with the support of staff

ms. norton: i certainly appreciate the work they do. i think essentially the problem you are facing his getting ahead of risks and threats that may be unbelievable. but that is what the congress and for that matter the public expects you to do. we are fortunate that that gyro copter didn't have a chemical or explosive in it. we know, this is why i have a question first, i believe we know that it was not possible for existing technology that keeps the violation of an airspace that we can go, we can catch a helicopter, we can catch a small plane, but technically do we have the technology to capture wigamadoo's that fly below that airspace is more typical. mr. huerta: radar is filtered so that air traffic controllers can separate traffic in the airspace. this very small aircraft flying through is not something that a controller would ordinarily pick up. in the course of carrying out their aircraft separation activities. ms. norton: i'm not going to ask law enforcement on the ground to do the impossible. what i am going to ask law enforceme

ms. mendoza-mcdonnell rachel norton ms. wynns and dr.urase that's 5 i's thank you very much clapping we have one more item for approval authorization to grant on the or deny the petition for san francisco bayview charter schools it was moved and seconded we've heard from matt haney on the recommendation and commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> yes. mr. davis commissioner president murase i want to note a correction on the kill switch bayview in the therefore, be it resolved i want to make that clear the recommendation is that the petition be approved thank you very much and actually, the superintendent if you could get mr. davis to read the presentation. >> mr. davis please read the recommendation. >> i will thank you superintendent recognize for the bayview charter school petition authorization to grant the alternative deny the san francisco bayview charter school whereas pursuant to the education code if bayview not limited to a application and whereas pursuant california education code the board of education district is in receipt of th

ms. norton, for 30 minutes. ms. norton: thank you, mr. speaker. in advance of d.c. emancipation day, i know that's not a national holiday but it is -- yes a holiday in the district of columbia when the slaves in the district of columbia were liberated by the congress and abraham lincoln nine months before the national emancipation proclamation. astonishingly 150 years later full freedom and equal citizenship has not yet come to the residents of the district of columbia. you don't have to be three generations away -- three generation the way the holmes family is in the district of columbia to have lived three generations here paying taxes without representation. indeed my great grandfather, richard holmes was a runaway slave from virginia when lincoln and congress freed the slaves 150 years ago, richard holmes was now freed because he was a runaway -- was not freed because he was a runaway slave rather than a slave whose master lived in the district of columbia. he had to wait nine months. he was working on the streets of washington as they were building washington.

ms. norton. >> thank you mr. chairman. you can always count on me to be patient. mr. chairman, actually, i really appreciate this hearing and to just to put it in context my appreciation for the hearing, no matter how you look at it, employees of the federal government have fallen under special criticism, particularly from the congress. there's no gainsaying this fact. yesterday some of us were on the floor and by the way there were some good bills on the floor during tax day and then there were some bills that were very demoralizing. i went to the floor to speak on one on tax filings where the federal government workers have the best tax filings in the country and should. they're being paid by the federal government. they took a lashing even though they are in place, absolutely in place, very good and effective ways to deal with those tiny numbers who have not fully paid their federal taxes, to be lashed when you are the best. i don't know what you have to do. we are seeing a generation which may be the older generation of federal employees, these employees who came

ms. norton: i thank my good friend because i'd like to correct some misstatements from the other side. the past mayor and attorney general never detailed what their concern was. but just in case the district passed an amendment that made it clear that insurance and abortion are not covered by this bill. i want to be explicit by the way. a pro-life organization is not required to hire someone who advocates against abortion. you must carry out and you must advocate whatever is the mission of the organization. this bill has an exception for organizations religious and political views both must be carried out. the 1973 home rule act has not come to this floor before because on three times in 25 years has it been taken up and that was mostly because d.c. mistakenly wandered into federal matters. that's why this federal authority was maintained in the house of representatives and in the senate, not to overturn local law whenever the other side simply disagreed with it. i thank my friend from massachusetts for yielding. and i yield back to him. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields

ms. sonata mr. chin turf commissioner vice president haney commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell commissioner norton commissioner wynns thank you and dr. murase. >> 6 i's. >> before i call the next item i'd like to remind the members of the public if you want to address the board of education an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and given to ms. casco corresponding to board rules and speakers items will not be accepted before the board and superintendant report is next mr. superintendant good evening a couple of items to update our community is it a fair statement or starting off with the superintendent excellent venture i was honored to represent the san francisco unified school district and as a member of the council for a one-on-one meeting in the white house with president obama i know some folks say that didn't happen he's the proof i'm the supervisor from president obama what is so important about it opportunity was that we do have a president who is keenly aware of public education and actually met with superintendent from the larger urban skublths u school districts as