dr. murase, ms. norton, ms. wynns, mr. yee and ms. . commissioner mendoza: mendoza please join me for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] commissioner mendoza: come on, you guys. thank you. item a is the approval of board meetings. we have no adoptions tonight. item b is a presentation to the board of education by superintendent garcia. superintendent garcia: i wanted to let the board know that so far it looks like we have about 5500 young folks participating in summer school this summer and there's 45 schools offering summer school and a lot of credit goes out to community-based organizations with the deputy department of children, youth and their families, a partner with a lot of different folks to provide services. in the superintendent's zone alone, there's about 1500 kids served in summer school so it's great to see that the city and all our partners have come together and support in doing this because otherwise it would be very difficult for us to provide that due to the budget problems the state has. later tonight, o

dr. murase, thank you for that question. we are looking at putting that on the web site. we have completed the inventory asset matrix. we have not included the honors program for each of middle school. we have done that as a separate entity, understand that commissioner norton will bring that next monday. i think you for asking that question, we are in a process of hosting that inventory on the web site. commissioner norton: we will be looking at the beginnings of the honors approaches on monday. the meeting will start at 5:00 p.m.. the pac and pps have agreed to send people as part of their agreement strategy. they learned a lot about what is going on at all of our middle schools. they are going to share with us their impressions of some of the ways that schools are meeting the needs of students. some of the great programs that they sought and some of the missing pieces that they identified. i think it will be a really interesting discussion. commissioner maufas: i just wanted to comment really quickly, again. if it hasn't been expressed by me where you understood, i do

dr. murase, ms. norton? ms. wynns, mr. yee, ms. mendoza. seven aye's. commissioner mendoza: thank you, welcome to the p.a.c. i've always wanted to say that, "welcome to the p.a.c." our next item -- but it wasn't that p.a.c. our next item is public comment on consent items and i have one speaker card. ms. plak. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen, i'm linda plak, executive vice president of the united educateors san francisco. tonight i'm speaking to you on behalf of united educators. tonight you have a retainer for cbre, a real estate company. over the past couple of years, we have gotten to know cbre representatives very well. the backup for this item is that you have -- you tell us that this retainer is not all you're going to pay them and that you need to hire them because you no longer have a real estate department. presumably, you do not have a real estate department because of the cost involved in maintaining a full-time employee who has limited work to do for the district. why, then, hire a consultant who is going to cost you the lion's share o