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logan, fewer, haney, maufas, mendoza mcdonnell, dr. murase, wynns, norton. 6 ayes. >> so now back to considering the main motion, are there any other comments or suggestions from the board? are you sure? going once. all right, commissioner maufas. >> i'm sorry, president. i think we have a discussion here that is >> yeah. i can explain that one thing that concerns me in the past that in sfusd handbook that is distributed to the schools or has been in the past, anyway, i noticed there isn't a very explicit mention of sexual harassment on the internet which i think is a growing problem and a problem that should be addressed like in a more direct way in the policy and i know there was an incident at lake shore elementary a few years ago over facebook at school. i don't know the process for how this would be added or where, but i think it's something that we can address and it would be important to address. >> i think you bring up a good point. it's a hot topic for school distributions. i -- districts. i don't know that we have established
logan, fewer, haney, maufas, mendoza mcdonnell, dr. murase, wynns, norton. 6 ayes. >> so now back to considering the main motion, are there any other comments or suggestions from the board? are you sure? going once. all right, commissioner maufas. >> i'm sorry, president. i think we have a discussion here that is >> yeah. i can explain that one thing that concerns me in the past that in sfusd handbook that is distributed to the schools or has been in the past, anyway, i...
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haney. >> yes. >> miss maufas. >> yes. >> miss mendoza mcdonald. >> dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> yes. >> seven ayes and we are moving on to item q and three superintendent proposals introduced for first reading this evening, the first one, 139-10 sp1, revision to board policy, 5166 students sexual harassment. and may i hear a motion and a second please? >> moved. >> second neit will be held over for action at the next schedule board meeting. >> 139-10 sp 2. revision to the board policy, 1342, community relations uniform complaint? >> motion. >> moved, second. >> this item will be held over for action at the next board meeting. >> 139-10 sp3, revision to the board policy, 6173 ininstruction homeless education. may i hear a motion and a second >> moved. >> thank you. >> this will be held over for action at the next regularly schedule board meeting. >> have these all been vetted already through the committee? >> yes, we did vet them in rules. >> thank you. >> item r. board members proposals for first reading there are none. >> item s.
haney. >> yes. >> miss maufas. >> yes. >> miss mendoza mcdonald. >> dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> yes. >> seven ayes and we are moving on to item q and three superintendent proposals introduced for first reading this evening, the first one, 139-10 sp1, revision to board policy, 5166 students sexual harassment. and may i hear a motion and a second please? >> moved. >> second neit will be held over...
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haney. >> k28. >> k10 and k28. >> all right. thank you. >> and roll call, will take place under section o. >> all right, we move on to item h. this will be the adoption of the project labor agreement between the san francisco district and the san francisco building construction trades council for the projects within the proposition a facility bond issue. and this was moved and seconded on august 13th. and i see mr. golden here, would you please mr. goalen, read just the recommendation to the board on the resolution? >> good evening, superintendent and president norton and board of education, i am david golden, the chief facility officer. and the second reading of this resolution, sort of brings the culmination of work that goes back to the introduction of the local higher resolution in november by the then commissioner yee fewer and now, of course, commissioner haney. and so with a long time of work, so i am pleased to bring forward the second reading of this resolution which i hope will culminate successfully us being able to m
haney. >> k28. >> k10 and k28. >> all right. thank you. >> and roll call, will take place under section o. >> all right, we move on to item h. this will be the adoption of the project labor agreement between the san francisco district and the san francisco building construction trades council for the projects within the proposition a facility bond issue. and this was moved and seconded on august 13th. and i see mr. golden here, would you please mr. goalen, read...
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. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> aye. >> six ayes. >> president norton, may we add the board of education members that the other colleagues will be see fit to do so. >> thank you. >> all right. the next item >> item f, public comment, i have one card, dennis kelley you may have two minutes. >> thank you very much. there are three things this evening that i would like to call your attention to, first is on page 171, 171 is, a agreement to hire black bear security for games, and i have been told by mr. truet that will be only be for games after the gten, the security aids for the school district have already chosen who games they can cover and these are the ones that are left. and this is particular concern for us because the ttens are people who have their hours cut by 14 percent, two years ago. and using them for these game is particularly important to us. and on page 207. and you have an item, which sends you to martin luther king and starts staffing martin luther king
. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> aye. >> six ayes. >> president norton, may we add the board of education members that the other colleagues will be see fit to do so. >> thank you. >> all right. the next item >> item f, public comment, i have one card, dennis kelley you may have two minutes. >> thank you very much. there are three...
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and commissioner haney may be on the mix here. let's all grow our mustaches. >> mr. logan is right on that too. he'll probably beat me as well. we'll be fury for the month of october but it's for a good cause. on another serious note i would like to encourage and announce that families will be gathering for the first ever san francisco unified school district to share ideas and also learn new and time honored ways to improve students success. the day will include workshops to include initiatives and how they affect classrooms and how to build bridges between cultures and families. child care for the day promises to be engaging as well from the sf fire department. this is a great day for all of our families. this will happen this saturday september 28, starting at 9:30, 350 gerard street at the middle school. the best things come when families learn from each other. the highlights of the even is i had a pleasure of introducing you to one of our many great high school students. this is valdez, she participated in the program in the science and health care partnership.
and commissioner haney may be on the mix here. let's all grow our mustaches. >> mr. logan is right on that too. he'll probably beat me as well. we'll be fury for the month of october but it's for a good cause. on another serious note i would like to encourage and announce that families will be gathering for the first ever san francisco unified school district to share ideas and also learn new and time honored ways to improve students success. the day will include workshops to include...
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. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> abstain. >> norton. >> yes. >> five iayes. >> the agreement between the joint common crafts the recommendation is that the board of education of the san francisco school district consults a public hearing and akopts the agreement and the related public disclosure documents. >> okay, are there any comments from the board on this agreement? >> seeing none, roll call please? >> thank you. >> ly? >> yes. >> logan. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> abstain. >> norton. >> yes. >> five ayes. >> proceed. >> tentative agreement between the district and local 39, the recommendation is that the board of education conducts a public hearing and adopts the agreement and the related public disclosure documents. >> thank you. >> any comments from the board? >> seeing none, roll call please. >> thank you. >> ly? >> yes. >> logan. >> yes. >> fewer? >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas >> yes. >> mendoz
. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> abstain. >> norton. >> yes. >> five iayes. >> the agreement between the joint common crafts the recommendation is that the board of education of the san francisco school district consults a public hearing and akopts the agreement and the related public disclosure documents. >> okay, are there any comments from the board on this...
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haney? >> here. >> miss maufas? >> here. >> miss mendoza. >> dr. murase? >> here. >> miss wynns. >> here. >> miss norton. >> here. >> mace way. >> and mr. logan. >> join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> we are going to start this meeting differently this evening and i am going to start by calling on the superintendent. >> thank you, president norton. we start this evening's meeting with very heavy hearts, as we have suffered a tragic loss to our district of our long time registered parliament, wilson and we would like to read a few words and dedicate this meeting. >> she was employed by the school district for the board of education for the past 45 years. and she passed away yesterday september 9, 2013. she was born on august 15, 1919 in wisconsin. her family moved to san francisco when she was 6 years old. and the train ride from wisconsin made her so sick that she never ever set foot on a train again. she grew up at 5th and judith street in the city by bait and attended public schools here and was a proud graduate of lowel high school and went on to bu
haney? >> here. >> miss maufas? >> here. >> miss mendoza. >> dr. murase? >> here. >> miss wynns. >> here. >> miss norton. >> here. >> mace way. >> and mr. logan. >> join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> we are going to start this meeting differently this evening and i am going to start by calling on the superintendent. >> thank you, president norton. we start this evening's meeting with very heavy...
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haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> and miss nor don. >> yes. >> and five ayes. >> thank you. >> we are going to move on and we previously considered item r earlier in the meeting so we are going to move on to item s. and i was hoping that we could set a record and end this meeting at 7:30, but that is not going to happen, so i want to remind everybody that we could be done by 8:00. and so that said, dr. murase report from the ad hoc committee from august 14th? >> thank you very much. we had five informational items. and we looked at first, the areas of the city with the lowest coverage test scores, and actually, there are a lot of rumors about who takes advantage of ctip one and moment priority and what we found is that actually of those who used this, and for which to the one preference was use and 44 percent was key and 44 percent were african american and so we are reaching the minority families through that preference and so secondly we looked at the trends and the enrollment tr
haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> and miss nor don. >> yes. >> and five ayes. >> thank you. >> we are going to move on and we previously considered item r earlier in the meeting so we are going to move on to item s. and i was hoping that we could set a record and end this meeting at 7:30, but that is not going to happen, so i want to remind everybody that we could be done...
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logan, miss fewer, haney, maufas, mcdonnell, murase, wooinynns and miss norton. >> i had a request with regards to item in reference to students access educational tool. as it relates to sexual harassment. what it says, it just didn't seem to fit in the theme. i'm not sure what was intended by that. >> i regret fully say i'm not sure. >> if we are not sure, can we take it out or can we make it that it speaks specifically to sexual harassment? >> for example, you can say if someone said girls can't use that ball during pe. that could be construed as sexual harassment. >> how is it construed as sexual harassment? >> based on the gender of students if they are blocked from something that causes them to be discriminated. >> i just wanted to be more specific. it doesn't sound right. i guess you are looking at me to make a recommendation, right? >> you need to make a motion. >> i would like to make a motion to strike it or it's item i, or to make it that it goes in concert. limiting access to tools, should not be in sexual harass many if we are talking about specific educational tools related
logan, miss fewer, haney, maufas, mcdonnell, murase, wooinynns and miss norton. >> i had a request with regards to item in reference to students access educational tool. as it relates to sexual harassment. what it says, it just didn't seem to fit in the theme. i'm not sure what was intended by that. >> i regret fully say i'm not sure. >> if we are not sure, can we take it out or can we make it that it speaks specifically to sexual harassment? >> for example, you can say...
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. >> and so, during our meeting we also reviewed the commissioner matt haney, and the course development and submission, and we are going to have a follow up meeting, during our next meeting on the 23rd as well. >> we had two guest speakers and the first one was from the youth empowerment dcyf and they talked to us about the niad abraham came and talked to us about the youth, sorry about that. and the youth advisory council? >> yes. >> the youth advisory council, thanks. >> and that is sort of like a representative body in san francisco. and to the members are specifically appointed from the student, and the sac. and also, we had a guest speaker from americorp and it was chris and nicky and they talked about the opportunities that we can have through americorp and the different possibilities that that gives sac in particular, but also, other kids our age. and we adjourned at 7:15 and the next meeting is the 23rd at 5:30. >> thank you. >> item f, we have the parent advisory council report. >> good evening commissioners my name is gloria molt and i am a parent and part of the advisory coun
. >> and so, during our meeting we also reviewed the commissioner matt haney, and the course development and submission, and we are going to have a follow up meeting, during our next meeting on the 23rd as well. >> we had two guest speakers and the first one was from the youth empowerment dcyf and they talked to us about the niad abraham came and talked to us about the youth, sorry about that. and the youth advisory council? >> yes. >> the youth advisory council, thanks....
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. >> haney. >> yes. >> williams. >> yes. >> and norton? >> yes. >> item b presentations to the board of education, superintendent's report. mr. carranza. thank you, president norton and good evening everyone and i i have a few thoughts that i would like to share with everyone and listening in the public. last week we were honored to welcome our students back to the classrooms for learning, for the 2013, 14 school year. and i'm very happy to report that the students came back and you can hear the excitement in the air on the students that i visited that day. >> i did have the pleasure of visiting the sites on open day and i could not have been more pleased with the teaching and learning that was happening on the first day. i joined with the parents and children at gratan elementary and i saw so many signs that encourages the students to mroer including a garden to see how the water system works and an interactive computer, and ecology theme and tents inside of a classroom. and i also had the opportunity to be at the middle school where i sa
. >> haney. >> yes. >> williams. >> yes. >> and norton? >> yes. >> item b presentations to the board of education, superintendent's report. mr. carranza. thank you, president norton and good evening everyone and i i have a few thoughts that i would like to share with everyone and listening in the public. last week we were honored to welcome our students back to the classrooms for learning, for the 2013, 14 school year. and i'm very happy to report that...
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haney? >> yes. >> ms. maufas? >> yes. >> ms. mendosa? >> yes. [speaker not understood]. >> item k4, 6, 7 and 35 because they're retroactive. >> thank you. those are all in the items. director murase? >> aye. >> ms. wynns? >> aye. >> and ms. norton? >> yes. >> thank you. >> all right, thank you. we are now going to move on to item p, consent calendar resolution severed for board discussion and immediate action. commissioner maufas severed item 2q, and i see mr. golden here to address that. commissioner maufas. >> thank you, mr. golden. you talk, it was mentioned in this letter we received from some of the public comment on this the issues that we had last round. can you speak to that a little bit to give us some of your perspective and how we got to the selection of those same folks this cycle? thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm david golden, the chief facilities officer. most of you may remember, about three years ago we put the security contract out to bid because it was up for its cyclical renewal. we received almost no bidders. an
haney? >> yes. >> ms. maufas? >> yes. >> ms. mendosa? >> yes. [speaker not understood]. >> item k4, 6, 7 and 35 because they're retroactive. >> thank you. those are all in the items. director murase? >> aye. >> ms. wynns? >> aye. >> and ms. norton? >> yes. >> thank you. >> all right, thank you. we are now going to move on to item p, consent calendar resolution severed for board discussion and immediate action....
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haney, do i see your finger hovering over the button? [laughter] >> yes, yes. now that you caught me, i might as well -- so, in your experience, i understand that we sort of put out the different criteria that they need to meet. but in your experience if there's a bid that comes in that much lower than the others and sort of read in combination with the concerns around the lack of a commitment to some of the collective bargaining obligations from the folks who spoke earlier, is it -- would it be a concern or would it be even a suspicion that part of it is that, they might have lower wages or lower benefits, is that how they would sort of get to a lower bid, especially that degree of a lower bid? >> it's possible. what my suspicion is is that securitaz is a multinational -- one of the five largest security companies in the world with an incredibly large overhead. and the company that we're about to hire is a local bay area -- i think they have some branches in other places. they're not nearly of the scale or magnitude of securitaz. how a company computes its ove
haney, do i see your finger hovering over the button? [laughter] >> yes, yes. now that you caught me, i might as well -- so, in your experience, i understand that we sort of put out the different criteria that they need to meet. but in your experience if there's a bid that comes in that much lower than the others and sort of read in combination with the concerns around the lack of a commitment to some of the collective bargaining obligations from the folks who spoke earlier, is it --...
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. >> ae verses the school district, five aye and two absent, haney and mendoza, give the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. gd and the board, and two aye and two absent, haney and mendoza, give the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount and now for the read out of the september, 10, 2013, closed session. public employment, the board by a vote of seven ayes approved the direct and her two directors. and existing litigation in the matter of zow, 3. and verses the san francisco unified school district, the board by a vote of 7 ayes give the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. >> and we are now in view of the informational items and no other staff reports this evening and we, did hear item v, adjournment and we heard the memories of marsha hunt and we are going to adjourn, would you like to say something about miss wilson? >> you were looking at me like you wanted to say something. >> oh,, okay. and item v, adjournment and we are adjourning this meeting in memory of marsha hunt, and miss evelyn wilson and we offer our sincere condolences to their
. >> ae verses the school district, five aye and two absent, haney and mendoza, give the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. gd and the board, and two aye and two absent, haney and mendoza, give the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount and now for the read out of the september, 10, 2013, closed session. public employment, the board by a vote of seven ayes approved the direct and her two directors. and existing litigation in the matter of zow, 3. and verses the san...
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haney, mr. maufas votes yes, miss mcdonnell, murase, wynns and norton. 7 ayes. >> now we are going to move to our second order of business. the career educational advisory committee. may i have a reading of the recommendation please. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> may have a reading of the recommendation please. i would like to ask lauren moran to do the reading, please. >> you have the reading prepared? >> good evening, board members. we are asking for membership appointment to the sfusd clear technical education advisory committee the requested action that the board of education to the advisory committee. tarn tad oh, gary frund, stephen curie, glen, eagle son, charles vez gnaw, kimberly will cough, >> thank you, no public speakers. any comments? >> yes, i think these appointments are fine. except i would like to see somebody from ucsf there and someone from city built considering we have a new round of internships. i believe i have spoken to staff about it. i just want to put i
haney, mr. maufas votes yes, miss mcdonnell, murase, wynns and norton. 7 ayes. >> now we are going to move to our second order of business. the career educational advisory committee. may i have a reading of the recommendation please. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> may have a reading of the recommendation please. i would like to ask lauren moran to do the reading, please. >> you have the reading prepared? >> good evening, board members. we are asking...
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haney? >> yes. >> ms. maufas? >> yes. >> ms. mendoza? >> yes. >> dr. murase? >> aye. >> ms. wynns? >> aye. >> thank you. [speaker not understood]? >> yes. >> 7 ayes. >> now i'd hear a motion for 138-13 sp2 which is the resolution to accept the voluntary closure by envision of metropolitan arts and technology charter school effective august 1st, 2013. motion and a second. >> moved. >> second. >> thank you. may you please read the recommendation, mr. davis? >> yes, i will, thank you, president norton. superintendent's proposal 138-13 sp2 accept the voluntary closure by envision education, incorporated, of its metropolitan arts & technology charter school effective august 1st 2013 whereas the california legislature has charged school boards with reviewing and acting upon petitions for the establishment of charter schools and conducting oversight of charter schools and whereas in accordance with california education code sections 47 605 and 47 6 07, the district approved the envision and education incorporated petition for the establishment of the charter school which began operations
haney? >> yes. >> ms. maufas? >> yes. >> ms. mendoza? >> yes. >> dr. murase? >> aye. >> ms. wynns? >> aye. >> thank you. [speaker not understood]? >> yes. >> 7 ayes. >> now i'd hear a motion for 138-13 sp2 which is the resolution to accept the voluntary closure by envision of metropolitan arts and technology charter school effective august 1st, 2013. motion and a second. >> moved. >> second. >> thank...
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haney? >> here. >> miss maufas? >> here. >> miss mendoza. >> dr. murase? >> here. >> miss wynns. >> here. >> miss norton. >> here. >> mace way. >> and mr. logan. >> join me in the pledge of allegiance.
haney? >> here. >> miss maufas? >> here. >> miss mendoza. >> dr. murase? >> here. >> miss wynns. >> here. >> miss norton. >> here. >> mace way. >> and mr. logan. >> join me in the pledge of allegiance.
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logan, miss mendoza mcdonnell, haney, maufas, wynns, norton, fewer. >> now we'll get to the student delegate report. >> mr. logan? >> yes. the first thing i would like to do is officially introduce angie. she's now the fcc elections. angelina. >> we had a meeting yesterday at 5:30 and we had dinner and we had an ice breaker. it was a snowball game as an sfusd graduate where do you see yourself 10 years from now. we wrote it down on a piece of paper and through it across the table and which ever paper we got, we would get who wro it that answer and we approved the minutes. we had, we had vice-president from soda and she's a senior. our secretary is jack wu, a senior as mission high school. our public relations officer, our historian is liz ben jones and our treasurer is at washington high school. we'll also be having our first cabinet meeting on october 7th, at 5:00 p.m.. there is also a free munis poster contest. the free munis for youth is hosting a new poster drawing contest where the winner will biv a $50 visa gift card and will be recognized at the board of supervisors meeting. >> from t
logan, miss mendoza mcdonnell, haney, maufas, wynns, norton, fewer. >> now we'll get to the student delegate report. >> mr. logan? >> yes. the first thing i would like to do is officially introduce angie. she's now the fcc elections. angelina. >> we had a meeting yesterday at 5:30 and we had dinner and we had an ice breaker. it was a snowball game as an sfusd graduate where do you see yourself 10 years from now. we wrote it down on a piece of paper and through it across...
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. >> miss fewer, haney, mr. mendoza, murase, wynns. >> i would like to call upon our superintendent mr. carranza to set the stage for us. >> thank you, i would like to welcome everybody to this special meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district. i can't help but being giddy tonight. i'm so excited about our agenda this evening. not that i'm not excited about every board meeting agenda, but i'm particularly excited about this evening's agenda. many folks who are watching and the public, this is a long time that has been coming and building momentum and at this time we have the opportunity of san franciscans and specifically as san francisco unified school district members to lead in nutrition addition. i want to share if you were to right now use a search engine and search the westbound for some of the destination cities for food, for food easy, san francisco would pop to the top of the list in pretty much every search engine. the question that is begged is if san francisco is
. >> miss fewer, haney, mr. mendoza, murase, wynns. >> i would like to call upon our superintendent mr. carranza to set the stage for us. >> thank you, i would like to welcome everybody to this special meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district. i can't help but being giddy tonight. i'm so excited about our agenda this evening. not that i'm not excited about every board meeting agenda, but i'm particularly excited about this evening's...