commissioner haney? >> commissioner haney: so want to thank you for your leadership and for all of these recommendations. i think i agree with commissioner sanchez, that there's a lot here that we need to take up, and it's clearly a -- an incredibly insightful perspective on things we can do to improve. there's two questions i had. one is when we have schools that have inactive elac's, is there kind of an ongoing effort and tracking and support to try to sort of support schools to develop those, and what does that look like over the course of the year, and are we tracking that on a regular basis? and then, the second thing i just wanted to flag because it relates to something we're going to talk about later tonight, which is the partnership academy that we're going to be launching or in the process of launching, and i wonder how that can help support some of the different me pieces of these recommendations. a lot of these have to do with parent involvement or proactive parent education, and it seems a co

thank you. >> commissioner haney. >> i think commissioner sanchez said it.heir match in young people this. is an issue that young people have been the champions on. for you all this is a issue of common sense. it doesn't make sense people would be able to purchase ar-15s and walk into schools and just be able to bring about such devastation. i want to also appreciate you all in joining these national efforts. i know that you are speaking for your fellow students in san francisco and join whack is a national -- what is a national movement. i appreciate the invite. we will be there with you as well as people listening and those in the audience tonight. i hope you continue this work and continue this fight and that we can continue to follow you wherever this goes, and to bring about the change that we know is possible under your leadership. there is a tradition in our district of students leading on speaking out against gun violence. that resolution you spoke about which i'm listed as the author of was written by seventh and eighth graders at horace mann. i wan

sorry, commissioner haney. that even though these restrictions wouldn't apply to you, they still want us to do it which implies there would be some kind of additional hoops to go through. so i just think -- you know, i think we really value these beautiful schools. i know that i do. i think the history of this district is that we've taken care of them and that we -- that we see them as important assets, and i just am not sure that it's necessary. i think, you know, we should -- i think we can trust future boards and future leadership of the district to take care of our schools as we have, you know, since the beginning. so i would say no. >> thank you. commissioner walton. >> yeah. i think a big part of reluctance is this is not driven by the district. it's not driven by us as board of education members. maybe we can come up with a more amazing way to honor our schools and work on that as we move forward. to commissioner norton's point, i don't see what the push is for that to happen because it's not something t

.>> reporter: kelly michael haney say some companies see it important to their brand images and values.>> you have an increasing stakeholder consumer demand. taking a stand. haney said the company can respond more quickly than lawmakers, and often have a big impact.>> walmart -- walmart is the number one fortune 500 entity of the world. they have more cash. they have more power. than 30 percent of the countries in the world. when they speak out it has a significant impact.>> reporter: she believes is the gun debate intensifies, more companies will take stands.>> reporter: we need to have this public transparent debate from both sides. we need to have voices represented from all sides of this issue.>> tonight we reached out to vista to get their response to rei's business decision, but we have not received a response we are awaiting their reply. and i thank you.>>> a san francisco firefighter is behind bars tonight, accused of making criminal threats and stockpiling high-powered weapons. according to court documents authorities found more than two dozen guns including assault rifles ins

commissioner haney, and then, commissioner wong. >> well, first of all, thank you for this. i think this is very exciting, and i know that there are many priorities, but this is often one of the ways that the community or our families or students, teachers interact with us on a regular basis, and sometimes for the first time, so it really is critical that it is reflecting who we are and our identity and is able to be navigated in a number of different ways to find, as you said, you know, the different pathways if you come to us. there's a lot of questions that i have, and i'm sure this is going to be an involving piece of work. one of the things that i just wanted to underscore and i don't know how much thinking has been done around this, but i'd also love to see how we might engage our student advisory council on this, is how our website can be more of a resource for students. right now, i don't think it's really a place that students go that much, and there's -- at least in my experience, i haven't looked that closely in a while, but i haven't checked this previously, but

thank you. >> commissioner haney. >> yes, i think commissioner sanchez is right. we have a long way to go to deal with it to fully capitalize on the extraordinary wealth in our city. if we take sales force-out of this equation, we are, you know, it looks different. the bulk of money is coming from sales force. i think sales force linkedin and then google.org are the tech companies investing in it. i think thanking about what that broader strategy is, that is something you are talking about all of the time and looking into. one thing to ask as relates to spark, how you see the purpose of the board. it seems many of the folks, some are internal to us and i agree with the point we should expand and include educators. are the purpose of these board members to help us identify potential opportunities for funding or to come up with a strategy or do we have some oversight or direct say in how the money is spent? that is the first question i had. the second thing is how we think about the accountability that we have and the transparency that we have over this entire proce

commissioner norton, and then, commissioner haney? >> thank you. as always, i really appreciate the work of the peace cac. thank you so much for your volunteer signs. nice to see my appointees here tonight. i am just curious about -- it's somewhat hard to tell from the budget breakdown where we are increasing investments over and above the increases in the overall pot, and it would be helpful to see that kind of summary so that we could really tell where -- you know, where we're actually shifting investment? and i apologize if i missed that in the earlier discussion, but i'm just curious if you can talk about the decreases in stem and the wellness centers and -- like, there's a couple of informative assessments, like, why those are decreases and where we're putting those in other budgets. >> thank you, commissioner norton. on these documents, on page 5, we discussed -- sorry, page 6, we discussed some of those changes. so the shifting of the 3.0 stem administrative positions, and the remaining funding for assessments are going into the general fund

vice president biden often quotes this package where haney wrote history says don't hope on this side of the grave but then once in a lifetime the long tidal wave of justice can rise up and hope and history rhyme. with the convictions of two former klansmen for the murder of those four young girls, the long foretidal wave for justice rose up and hope and history rhyme in birmingham, alabama. and for me and i hope for you, when i walk the halls of the senate office buildings and i come through those double doors on to the senate floor, i realize that every day we as a collective body have that same opportunity, whether it is for dreamers or voting rights or victims of sex trafficking or in this case our children who are demanding action on gun violence, we have the opportunity to build that tidal wave of justice and have hope and history, but we have to have the courage to seize the moment. i don't have all the answers on how to do it, but i'm willing to work with each and every one of you to find it because that's why we were sent here, to find those answers so that the tidal wave of

to withdraw an explosives robot contributes to the soldiers safety sergeant haney removes explosives and defuses deadly munitions or explosive traps bomb disposal specialists are lifesaving experts they're deployed in afghanistan here in mali and will be in iraq too but there aren't enough of them. ah things to learn to buy for and. one reason is that for many years the bundeswehr had different stuffing priorities. afghanistan became a closed business and many of the people there were promoted to the next level that means we've lost a lot of practical staff or worn out i've still also lost on the hundreds of many of the people who are in mali now like myself are doing this for the first time the standard model would be to have someone who's experienced and someone who is inexperienced we hardly have that here. must come as you come up. in some areas it's a laborious process to bring this expert knowledge back to the team and i had need of craft admissions this month earlier that when the military downsized nobody paid attention to what knowledge was being lost what experience was los

and i know commissioner haney was coming as well. today is a chance to celebrate the bright future of our city's children here in san francisco. while we do honor the legacy of our late mayor, edwin lee. mayor lee was a longtime champion of children here in san francisco and today, we also will celebrate that. you know, it is our responsibility as a city to uphold the values of san francisco. of inclusiveness and hope that we ensure san francisco remains affordable for families. and that we invest in the health and success of all of san francisco's children. as a father of three young children, i understand that, mayor lee was a devoted father of his two daughters and there are so many fathers and mothers today with us. with that, we need to make sure our children receive quality education, they live in safe homes in communities and with that, they can achieve amazing things in life. as city, we are committed and will always be committed to serving those most vulnerable and most needy here in san francisco. we know that our families

that haney were complicit in covering up the abuse by pressuring alleged victims to forgive their abusers to police. sovereign grace denied the accusations and the suit was dismissed in 2014, mostly because of statute of limbizations. though a former church youth leader was convicted in a separate case. but critics and alleged victims of which there are dozens, say the organization has failed to atone for its sins and that's where rachel denhollander comes. in though she is not a member of sovereign grace she believes her church in kentucky helped restore president c.j.mahaney? his position. in the same way her voice brought down larry nassar. she is hoping to shed new light on these allegations. but she acknowledges that getting evangelical christians to speak out against their own is a tall order. telling christianity today, quote: the extent that one is willing to speak out against their own community is the bright line test for how much they care and how much they understand. we have failed abhor rantly as christians when it comes to that test. we are very happy to use sexual assault

. >> morning supervisors matt haney tenderloin resident and school board member. it's good to see you all chair cohen, supervisor stefani and fewer and kim. thank you so much for your leadership on this critical issue. i think it's easy to make light of this or make it seem like sort of a joke but what you've heard here today i think reflects how serious this is for people who experience this every day. it is not an issue of just how things look. it's actually an issue of basic human rights, dignity to have a safe and clean neighborhood and there's a couple things i wanted to highlight. you've heard about the impact this has on children and on families specifically. and i hope that we can look at the ways in which we can target our street cleaning so that we are creating safe and clean routes to recreation centers, to schools, and looking where our children are and making sure that they're able to access places that they travel regular low in a safe and clean way. i also can give testment that it really does matter when the folks who are behind me here from d.p.w.