houck houck sure, so this policy is being recommended for revision in order to address our appeals process for student expulsion, so under the education code, the county board of education is typically responsible for hearing an appeal from a district decision to expel a student, but of course, we are a single district county school board, and so we are recommending that we amend this policy so that if the district expels a student, the student would have an opportunity to appeal to a neutral body cde through our uniform complaint process. >>commissioner sanchez: because the appeal would just normally go back to the full board houck houck our recommendation is we offer students a meaningful opportunity to be heard by a separate body and so cde is our recommendation here. >>commissioner sanchez: thank you. >>president walton: thank you for the clarification. any other questions or statements from colleagues? commissioner cook? >>commissioner cook: yeah, i'm in favor of the suggested change, and i just wanted to mention overall, i think that we have to do a more thorough examination of our own expulsion policy. we have far too many african american latino students being expelled. i just wanted to put that on the record that i want to see expulsions reduced overall, but having another opportunity to debate it, i think, is a great idea. >>president walton: seeing no other comment, roll call vote please, miss casco. >> clerk: thank you. [ roll call. ] that's seven ayes. >> thank you, miss casco. board item 9323.2, moved and seconded on october 26th, 2017, report and rules kmitiy commissioner sanchez. >>commissioner sa