haney's resolution. >> maufas? >> so on your second, therefore, your second resolve it says we are going to provide copies of this, are you talking... and our senator. that is right. is that what you are talking about? >> and congress woman spere. >> clarification. >> excellent. >> any other questions or comments? >> seeing none, roll call please? >> ly >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> murase. >> yes. >> wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> aye. >> seven ayes. >> i am sorry miss ly did you have a question? >> do you want to say something superintendent? >> i just wanted to congratulate our commissioner haney and the board. this speaks to the very heart of who we are in san francisco. and when the children walk through our doors we don't care what their immigration status is, we don't care where they come from or where they have been what we care is that they are going to graduate with options i want to thank you for putting the resolution forward. this is something that w

. >> maufas? >> yes. >> mendoza >> yes. >> murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> aye. >> seven ayes. >> >> isn't eric showing up to sing for tom? >> we are now going to move on to item i, board members proposals there are none tonight and we already took the request for the speak regarding general matters, item k, the reports to the advisory committee by board members there are none tonight, and item l, special order of business. i am going to call to order, the annual budget plan for special education, may i hear a motion and a second? >> moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> and may i have a reading of the recommendation by the superintendent or designee. >> i am going to ask dr. blanco to come forward and read. >> you can just read us the requested action which i believe is quite brief. >> the requested action of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district convene a public hearing and adopt the annual budget and annual service plan for special education. >> nicely

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

. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> yes. >> six ayes. >> superintendent, you wanted to say a few words? >> i have, thank you, president norton, i just want to congratulate the commissioners and i want to congratulate the community members and i want to congratulate our staff, general council, and don davis, and our chief officer, david golden and as a son of a journey man sheet metal worker i think that the words that have been spoken this evening echo so true that a living wage is not aprivilege, a living wage is a right and what a joy it is to work with individuals that live in the city that values the right to a livable wage, a pathway to the american dream, however you define the american dream, and cotify that in policy it is a joy. to quote, church hill, democracy is the worst form of government, except for all others. democracy is rarely, rarely neat, and tidy, it is very much, sausage making and for those of us who have had a lot of sausage through this process and

. >> 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

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 in san francisco on au

thank you, commissioner maufas, for the shout out. and i also want to add my thanks to dr. [speaker not understood], bill sanderson, his entire curriculum and instruction staff. they did a phenomenal job. (applause) >> what may not be known, the virtual popouri development, [speaker not understood], from the notice of all of our teachers coming back to actually game time $20, they did a phenomenal job. ~ today i shudder to think what will happen when we give them three months to plan. get ready. get ready. >> amazing. >> but our guest speaker was jaime [speaker not understood] who was a google -- a google technology speaker. but it's a misnomer. he really talks about technology, not necessarily from google's perspective, but how technology is changing the word. ~ world. he is fascinating to talk about what our kids know and know what to do as opposed to all of us. so, he was engaging. he was very, very entertaining. and we hope to provide a video of what he talked about to all of us here. >> and i know commissioner mendoza wants to give a report. i just also want to adi hea

. >> yes, commissioner maufas, i'll answer for us. contracts do expire all the time and there are -- [multiple voices] >> [speaker not understood], i get it. [inaudible]. that party completely get. sorry. >> there are bid processes that are initiated all the time as well. so, your desire for particular contracts that affect particular individuals is duly noted. and what we'll do is we'll make sure that we're having those conversations with the board to give you the heads up. absolutely. >> thank you so much. excuse the interruption. >> one final comment i just wanted to add, commissioner, to your comment. ~ wanted to add there are three bidders from a percentage point who are very close. and then there's one who is way out in sort of left field. and that's how we look at a construction contract. if there are three people that are sort of close, you get a good idea that the number is not so bad. and there's usually always one that's incredibly lower or incredibly high. and actually in this case the incredibly low number was the one tha

maufas? >> yes. >> ms. mendoza? >> yeah. >> dr. murase? >> aye. >> ms. wynns? >> aye. >> and ms. norton? >> yes. >> 7 ayes. >> okay. item r, board members appropriate sail for [speaker not understood] there are none tonight. item s, board members report. commissioner murase, would you give a report from the committee of the whole meeting of june 24th, 2013? >> yes. at the june meeting there was one information item, review discussion of no child left behind california office to reform education waiver. and i'm very pleased to report that the waiver was granted by secretary of edward jones indication arney duncan, making us one of the first and only district-level waivers of the no child left behind, which means we no longer have to punish our students in high stakes testing and really impossible score improvements, and that we we're really at the cutting edge of school reform nationally. and i just want to recognize our superintendent, richard carranza, who has been working very closely with superintendent of multiple districts up and down the state. he has really proven to be a

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 don. 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 trends are very posi

. >> 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

. >> commissioner maufas? >> i am also prepared to support the budget, all of the issues that i have i could ask off line and they are just answers that i could not deseeufer in the conversations that we have been having. the one thing that i really want to understand as we go forward and i know and this is a long system that has been this way where we are turning our school sites are turning in budgets to the district office way earl in the year and based on information that they are going to have this money from what we understand is coming from the state. we don't even get that information until may. and then there is a couple of weeks of or months of back and forth. and i am hoping with what we know now, somehow, we can get that information to the school sites so that we can better project what they will have to work with and i think that is where the ongoing disconnect and how can we better help them be prepared to this is what we know. and we do know that we are going to get more money, but this is going

are going to do great and i really appreciate the time that you spend with us, thank you. >> miss maufas? >> thank you. >> i want to echo what my colleagues and i have said, this is the first time that i have the opportunity on all of the years of the board of education to sit with the student delegates i only have one more year let's make it so again, it is a fantastic experience just to listen to the two to desecretary our work and then ask me the questions first and i am like let's ask the experts who are staff and you do and there is just so thought provoking and they really remine me to be up on my game to be sitting here and so i can't tell you how much that i appreciate sitting by you. this is my favorite spot, it is just great and so hopefully the next president of the board of edation will put me back here in this fabulous spot. thank you so much for your service you have been amazing. >> miss murase? >> i want to thank the student delegates for the leadership this past year and being a constant reminder of our work and by just being here with you together, and just really helps

commissioner maufas. >> yes, 2q, 138 13-c-2, the security contract. >> all right. 2q. any other items severed for discussion and vote this evening? seeing none, that would only be 2q. roll call vote will take place under section o. all right. item 8, superintendent's proposals, there are none tonight. item i, board members proposals. there are none this evening. and we are going to move on to request to speak regarding general matters. i have several cards. all right. actually, i have two cards. i am going to call your name. andrew russo, you have two minutes. and then reverend amos brown is going to give a slightly longer present aches. when [speaker not understood] is finished, reverend brown, you may approach the microphone. >>> okay, great. okay, good evening to the board so and the superintendent and appreciate the time to talk tonight. my name is andrew russo, co-founder of the san francisco family support network. i'm here to promote an event we are promoting with the district september . it's called attend today, succeed tomorrow. it's a forum on partnering to