dr. murase? >> okay. >> and therefore, over ruled. >> haney bring it to rule. >> yes. >> i am sorry. >> could you say that you are the staff to cpac, or you are the only person on our staff that is on it? >> i am the only staff of cpac and so it is a volunteer body that is state mandated. >> you are a staff member funded by the state. >> it is (inaudible) oace and education and ab2, 12 and state funding and dcyf was funding part of the position. and in faout thank youersinger, right now i am working as an independent contractor and it looks like it is going to try to be worked back into the city and then i think that i am not sure the funding once it goes back and right now i am working as an independent contractor. >> would i like to understand that, when we talk about this. i want to know because the staffing used to always be in whatever was the precursor to the first five commission. you know, whatever was the city's child care, planning, and because that the person from whom we used to get t

dr. murase asked a question about in reference to the public comment. >> it was in the public comment earlier by the labor partners and sciu and characterizing the budget as distinguishing between the certificated and classified and that there were moneys in the budget for the certificated but not the classified and i wanted to understand that. perspective better. i hope that you have some information. but my question is it a tiny issue in terms of when the contract are open and not open is that kind of behind some of that. >> the commissioner murase, thank you, superintendent carranza for the kind words. and again i appreciate the opportunity to serve. especially on the final evening. >> there are factors at play and one is the timing of contracts when the contracts open and when they are closed but in terms of this budget, i think that our deputy superintendent has already told and board and we have higher cost on the classified side. in terms of our mention cost and in terms of what are called the salary driven costs and so the reality is that we are spending more on a percentage basis in

dr. murase? >> aye >> wynns? >> aye. >> norton. >> yes. >> thank you. >> item p. there were several consent calendar resolutions severed for board discussion. by commissioner wynns. if you want to take the contracts since i believe that we addressed the questions. >> the items are the contract that are to the two and so we can. >> we will roll call on c2. >> thank you. >> ly. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> murase. >> aye. >> wynns >> aye. >> and norton. >> aye. >> on the next page, it is b7. right? >> the and then the k32. >> right, so page 87. the yellow pages. >> yes. so the education protection account and this is a budget issue too. but this is interestingly, this is sort of the now, new version of the tier three thing that we had to do last time. you get a certain amount of revenue almost, $250, or $300 million >> we just don't call it the revenue limit any more. >> there is property taxs that we receive. >> great. >> and state aid to make that up >> in the state aid will be the pa. and it was set up becau

dr. murase. >> i have several questions, the first one related to commissioner fewer and the rainy day funds. i am concerned that we have rainy day funds in our projections because it seems to communicate that we are assuming layoffs in the future so that you could elaborate on what that number under the rainy day funds really is meant to indicate. secondly we heard tonight about what some of our folks have perceived as differential treatment between the certificated and classified, they were labor partners and if the staff could explain, that is just a timing issue in terms of the labor negotiations and the budget? i would like to understand that better. >> and there was also a point about special education, cuts and i wanted to understand what was the funding rubric to determine the size of those cuts? and then finally, we have had several presentations about the common core which is on the horizon and there is some concern about you know, r, and will the teachers be well trained for the common core and so i would like to know what investments we are making in professional development. >>

dr. murase? >> i really want to thank you, and i want to recognize that the great staff work by georgia bratt but i have a homework assignment last night we were at the committee of the whole talking about the core waiver that we have applied to. and san francisco and we have taken a leadership role in figuring out the alternative to no child left behind that is less punitive, that is not, that is more realistic for our district and we are going to need lots of help and once the u.s. department of education has decide what had to do, whether to grant the waiver or not. there is good signs that they may be in a position to grant it. once that happens, we really need to have a parent engagement process around the new accountability sections that we are proposing, with like the feedback on it but also to get the families to understand how schools will be accountable them. and so that is our homework once we get the decision from the first. >> thank you. >> thank you, very much. for your report. >> a