commissioner maufas: i will be brief. i have a question, you had mentioned in your comments that you had noted, besides one of the two issues, that the class sizes were large. did you have a number or a close figure? >> i can only give an estimate. i can run the numbers. this year we established a separate course #4 pe -- number for pe. in one case, i know there was a particular teacher, there was around a hundred students that teacher was supervising. for pe independent study. commissioner maufas: thank you. that is also what is part of this amendment. i will tell the authors, i get to that we have the requested action, which puts in bullet points what we are doing. but even trying to find it in the resolution, i am here next to the parliamentarian and she is still looking. this is problematic. i'm just telling the authors. if you have to clarify this year, i do not mind the background. everybody needs it. but if i cannot match what you are saying in these bullet points, with the resolution, it does not match up for me.

commissioner maufas: i want to echo what my colleagues have said. i do not think i have sat on the buildings and grounds committee. i am happy to see this go forward. i am sorry there are no public comment cards. i was hoping to hear some french. commissioner wynns: i wanted to say that i was happy to meet with you but i want to honestly say in public, i am intimately interested in using our resources to support private schools. but i am supportive of the policy we passed, the directive to try to reap some financial benefits from properties we are not likely to use. even though the benefit for this is far out, there are other benefits in the meantime. it is a cost for us. that is why i am supporting this. we asked them to do this and he did it. that is what i will be voting for. >> i wanted to thank the board of education, so many of you, for working with the superintendent and i over the course of time to have the discussions that brought it to this point. it has been an enlightening process of working all the way through and everybody knows what i

we are joined by president chiu , commissioner fewer, commissioner maufas, and the following members of the committee are en route. supervisor olague and commissioner mendoza. we have also been joined by supervisor mar. the sfgtv staff covering the meeting, we want to thank them for their work. we also want to thank all of the members of sfusd and the members of the county who are here. if you could please call item no. 1. >> a hearing on the universal -- on the school district plans for a transitional kindergarten. supervisor campos: thank you. this was an item that was continued from our last meeting to writ -- from our last meeting. i would like mr. trout to come and present this item. let me present some context. a lot of it has to do with the role of the select committee and dealing with these issues. we can coordinate and talk about, have a discussion about different issues that are impacting the city and the school district. a number of questions have been raised and the goal of this meeting is to provide information to members of the public. some issues have been raised in te

motion by president chiu, seconded by commissioner maufas. we can take that without objection. you call the next item? >> item #2, a hearing to allocate a portion of the city's recent unexpected revenue to support the sfusd and to explore other ways the city can support sfusd schools. supervisor campos: thank you. this was an item requested and introduced by supervisor mar, who is here. supervisor mar: >> it feels like deja vu a little bit with commissioner maufas and my old colleagues. we are happy to have parents, community organizations, the president of the teachers' union, administrators from the school district here. we have someone from the comptroller's office as well that can shed light on the public enrichment fund that can explain a little bit about the process for repaying the amount of money that was deferred over the past four years. i wanted to say that the impetus of this hearing was the city's announcement that, in the night -- in the nine month report, there were about $43.3 million of unexpected funds. now there are also announcements of additional tax money

[applause] commissioner maufas: i will be really brief. i understand a lot of commissioner wynn's' concerns. i have them as well. i do not see this as a competition. we are struggling to get kids off our streets. i see you guys managing to do that. i do not see you competing for the same students. that is what i am banking on you doing. i know you are going to do that and follow up. i hope your school is full of kids that would normally not be in school. that is what i am hoping for. i know many folks that have been -- families that have gone through the kipp academies. they are not saying it is easy. they never said it was easy, but they are in. believe me. we tussle over that quite a bit. why couldn't you be in one of our other schools? kipp is the place my school -- my kid is going to be successful. we need to learn better how to wraparound a family. but if you are going to do it, please look at those kids. president yee: thank you, commissioners. i also feel some of the things that commissioner wynns has said. i share some of those con

commissioner maufas: yes. commissioner mendoza: yes. commissioner murase: aye. commissioner wynns: yes. president yee: we were going to go jumping into the special order of business that is related to this, but i see it is already pretty late, and we have not gotten to -- excuse me. we have not gotten to the public comments yet. i would like to do that right now. this would be the item under public comment. i will call these names, who have signed up for this particular agenda item. yes, it is rough when we have lots of stuff to talk about. ok. michelle parker, macarthur -- martha aaron felt, patrick charles smith, maurice edwards, there is a shirley without a last name, oscar james, diana daniels, and that is it. how much time should i give them? one minute each. let's go. >> we have been here since 5:00. >> you can't give us one minute? >> we have been here since 5:00. >> i am a parent of elementary schoolchildren and a middle school child. when i want to clear my head, or think clearly and solve a problem, i go on a run, or i go on a long walk on our great hi

supervisor mar: thank you commissioners maufas and fewer for being here and on the ground suggestions what can be done for the city to give more to the schools. president khiu and supervisor olague. >> and supervisor mar, i want to thank you for holding this hearing. i'm sorry i wasn't able to be present during the entire time because we're in the middle of our budget discussions right now for the city and county of san francisco. part of the reasons why i enjoy and want to sit on this committee is continue to educate myself on what often feels like an artificial divide on the school district and city and county of san francisco. i think for those of us on the city and county side to not think about revenue challenges those of us with the school district are facing and not think creatively about how we can support our schools i think does a disservice to our city as a hole. i very much appreciate the discussion both of our colleagues from the school district as well as from stakeholders in making sure we have a world class education system. i for one am certainly interested and open t

president maufas: commissioner reilly? commissioner r richard. how many applications have you received so far? >> so far, numbers are very low. we're at 27 that actually are possible fits and our goal is 86. we've made a demment -- commitment to sticking to 43 as a halfway point and continuing again as we need to. commissioner riley: so you do have bilingual staff? >> i'm sorry? commissioner riley: do you have bilingual staff? >> at this point we don't because we would need the applicants to be ible to speak english in order to communicate with byears. commissioner riley: ok. thanks. >> sure. president adams: have you reached out to other merchant organizations in the city? >> we've actually seen the greatest participation from the geary street merchants association which so far has submitted about seven strong leads. we have but we just haven't seen a return back from their membership of companies that might be a fit. president adams: ok. any other questions, commissioners? >> thank you all very much. >> thanks. president adams: at this point, c

commissioner maufas: thank you. i will speak first this time because i think when we voted you in, i may have spoken last and it was to cast a no vote for carlos. it was not so much about him. i was not sure about our process and how we came to the decision and i was not ready yet and i had stated that. but today, even telling the community, they would ask me, do you like him yet and it was not so much about that. it was, this is our superintendent and this is the gentleman i have to work with and i have to work with him with the community as well. i have to tell you, it has been up from that moment. up and all the way. and want to thank you for your service. i know there have been lots of tensions, pushes and pulls, but that is the part of the deal. we are supposed to have that and it is healthy. there was never a time when we could not come to the table and have a discussion, whether i was fighting for my committee or on the side of labour and paraprofessionals, you were always able to hear me. even today. to see

commissioner maufas: yes. commissioner wynns: no. >> six ayes. [applause] president yee: now that he successfully have gained a charter, we are going to have to continue the meeting. if you like, you can stay for the whole meeting. but if you would like to leave, please leave quietly, so we can proceed. this is still a long meeting. the next item will be 126-12 f p one, adoption of the fiscal year 2012/2013 budget. >> give them a couple of minutes. president yee: no. nobody has to hear. ok. i guess we can proceed, now that they are leaving so quietly and not having a discussion. thank you very much. this item has already been moved and seconded on june 12. the budget was discussed at length at the board, by the board, by last week's special meeting. it is now before us for action. before us is the superintendent's representative. it is the deputy superintendent. >> thank you, superintendent. this is the adoption of fiscal year 2012/2013 recommended budget. should i read this whole thing? i will read selects choices. the recommended budget for the

commissioner maufas: we have been talking about this for some time, so i will be brief again. there are some things i think are pretty imperative. i think this conversation, even though we are voting -- voting on tonight's budget, is something the public should have an opportunity to participate in. i guess i am asking the budget share. will we have an opportunity, deputy superintendent lee and chair mendoza, to have further discussion on our budget situation? as we even move through the year. i get that we really concentrate a lot of our effort on discussing the budget in these last few months, where we all come together and sit here. even in budget committee meetings, we are having augmented discussion, focusing on our budget. but at that meeting, it was not so packed with a full plethora of our constituents, who i think really need to be -- all of our interested parties need to be part of that conversation. i am so appreciative that coleman was able to participate. there are priorities. it is not like their priorities are not our priorities. they have worked closely with us