maufas ye yes? ms. mendoza-mcdonnell >> dr. murase. >> more than minnesota president fewer 7 i's. >> okay. thank you now this is institutional listing ethnic studies misquote sfusd may you are a motion and second. >> second. >> thank you, colleagues that is referred to the before you get i budget committee in support of the proposition 47 the safe orientation tried by mr. haney do we have a motion and second for first action roll call vote vote. >> mr. haney ms. maufas ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns president fewer arrest 7 i's. >> okay thanks we have a reading of the resolution motions and second for formal resolution reading by commissioner mr. haney. >> in support of this the safe organization for act whereas the san francisco unified school district is fully committing to a save environment and vvlt in them the skills to thrive in the community and whereas sfusd emphasize positive spaces over accomplishment particularly for positive behavior intervention and support and recent implementation of the sc

commission maufas? >> thank you, president fewer. as we have been doing in last few report-outs, i will be sharing the duty with commissioner haney, who will be taking over the chairship in the new year. so commission haney is going to speak first on a couple of items. i just have two to report out on. >> we had one action item and i will be quick on all of these. we had one action item which was institutionalizing ethnic studies from president fewer. we heard -- and were joined by some of the folks, a teacher and a professor from san francisco state, who told us a lot about the curriculum. and we actually went over the curriculum extensively. also, a number of questions about some of the logistics of this. so what it would look like? how would we get there? what are the number of students that are currently enrolled in ethnic studis? how many schools have it? so a number of questions around kind of logistics of how this would work? but ultimately the entire committee i believe was very supportive and we forwarded this resolution to

maufas ye yes? ms. mendoza-mcdonnell >> dr. murase. >> more than minnesota president fewer 7 i's. >> okay. thank you now this is institutional listing ethnic studies misquote sfusd may you are a motion and second. >> second. >> thank you, colleagues that is referred to the before you get i budget committee in support of the proposition 47 the safe orientation tried by mr. haney do we have a motion and second for first action roll call vote vote. >> mr. haney ms. maufas ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns president fewer arrest 7 i's. >> okay thanks we have a reading of the resolution motions and second for formal resolution reading by commissioner mr. haney. >>

maufas ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns president fewer arrest 7 i's. >> okay thanks we have a reading of the resolution motions and second for formal resolution reading by commissioner mr. haney. >> in support of this the safe organization for act whereas the san francisco unified school district is fully committing to a save environment and vvlt in them the skills to thrive in the community and whereas sfusd emphasize positive spaces over accomplishment particularly for positive behavior intervention and support and recent implementation of the schools policy and whereas sfusd seeks to end the pipeline by investing in education and restore the health and wellness program where's whereas in the past 20 years the spending for prisoners has increased several time and in the past years the state of california build 22 prisons and higher than the san francisco state university and 5 times more people in state prisoner when state crimes were up and where was your people of color or ethnics disprospering are xhard and in 2

maufas ms. mendoza-mcdonnell no dr. murase >> ms. norton. >> no ms. wynns your no president fewer no arrest the petition fails. >> k - not k through 12 i'm very confused finding one the information did not indicate the likelihood of future success but mr. heinecke so if i'm on the board in 5 years i hope to approve your charter and make sure our enrollment is i think i have great hopes for i. >> i appreciate our leadership i feel like this process although we're on the losing end we'll go to the state but this process was a fair one i especially thank members of the board who came and visited and took time to talk at public events and respond in nominees so thank you. >> i speak for all of us who visited it was a delight and our daughter a fabulous. >> here we go i'm going to at a check does anyone need a 5 minute break but the board members do we'll recess for 5 minutes and we'll. >> not an extension but abstaining on b four which item commissioner. >> you have the number of organization optimum abstaining simpl

. >> commissioner maufas so scomplaen can i inquire why you have the city attorney's office name on here and no other my name is on the petition and good question he's one of the main proponents of it in the face of campaign along with the chief of san diego one of the two co-chairs of the campaign. >> so i'm historically have been concerned about supporting political positions as a non-partisan body in situations i appreciate you putting this forward it is important and has huge impacts on the population i mean, i'll support it is a tricky one i wanted to note that especially seeing none, no other comments oh, commissioner maufas. >> i would like the author to consider alexander commissioners, if they'd like to be at you'll have to ask. >> i think everyone ongoing groovy ready for a vote and mr. haney ms. maufass ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns president fewer 7 i's. >> now standing board member's reports may we have a report from the buildings committee. >> thank you so we had two reports one was on the expansion of the water bottle station from nick that is going

maufas ye yes? ms. mendoza-mcdonnell >> dr. murase. >> more than minnesota president fewer 7 i's. >> okay. thank you now this is institutional listing ethnic studies misquote sfusd may you are a motion and second. >> second. >> thank you, colleagues that

emerson those only safety in valor be safe (clapping) thank you commissioner maufas now from the chief greg suhr (clapping.) good evening this is our big night and it seems perfect it is situated over veterans day when we remember all those men and women in the armed services that did everything to preserve everything we get to do if this country two days before one of the most harrowing earning in the history of the san francisco police commission that took place on november 1819934 we lost a police with is where hundreds of rounds of ammunition were traded and after that several officers received medal of valor when for not going away when we cough and the officer received a gold metal on the night of november 13, 1994, it was mentioned that this female officers she will not get a medal of valor that's her job (laughter) i don't see that to be funny but demonstrate some range at the world series pretty much every police and across town we droo took a lot of stuff oath conversation a lot of boltsz were thrown and officers stood their ground to make sure that citizens were not harmed a

maufas ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton marry ms. wynns and president fewer that's unanimous. >> thank you very much ms. blanking could please stay there i have a presentation from the special education citizens advisory committee after the dlethsz report this is the time for our student delegates report. >> thank you president fewer good evening deputy superintendent address commissioners and president fewer and struth straightjacketed we had our opportunity council meeting we basically put students into groups for our committees for the health committee we'll focus on students health and livelihood for the fellowship legal committee we'll work with superintendent lee and the curriculum we're work with the student feedback for use of slash student voice we'll work on the elections for the next student delegate and the use of it in march we have the peace tax committee that promotes the election coming up next week and the youth citizen's advisory committee which basically approves grants i will now introduce the peace appointments s

had an opportunity to come to the school i know we were trying to find the time what commissioner maufas said and dr. murase and president fewer said about how glerpsz makes me feel excited this school exists other than the site and had secretary and progress when the site and school was moving lecturer there was a lot of concern from our community to see it flufrn and your excited about the future of it is hopefully as a strict i want to xhupd commend you for what was not an easy transition at that site for reasons that are already been been discussed the fact unify moving in the right direction i feel like you'll grow in the next year and from what i've seen i've been to the site to read the model it is different from any other model in the district and fulfilling an important role on the curriculum side thank you for doing it it will meet a need for students that won't be successful in other environment my comments and concerns are similar to president fewer and we have obviously a budget committee that looked this carefully and staff that raised serious concerns on the budget and fin

maufas no arrest ms. mendoza-mcdonnell no president fewer arrest nay ms. norton. >> no ms. wynns. >> no oar president fewer no that is the petition is denied. >> thank you very much so, now we're on to our second oh, yes - you president fewer. >> the board has just the voted no to deny the petition. >> that requires a finding of the fact as to the reasons therefore i've given president fewer the statutory language that findings, in fact, go i ask she read it and we have boards consensus that is, in fact, finding. >> general council the petitioners are demonstrative unlikely to successfully implement the program successful in the petition by agreement thank you now we're on to the next item and thank you for waiting san francisco flex amendment this is petition 449 s p one authorization to grants or deny the renewal for flex academy charter school it was moved e moved and seconded. >> may i have a report from the budget committee. >> yes. >> a report from the budget committee we also heard the sf flex renewal on 2014 to get to my notes the staff concerns were around two thin

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maufas par plain clothing xhorp arrest ms. wynns president fewer arrest ms. son at that and mr. chin. >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance item a approval of board minutes none totted and b the superintendents report superintendent carranza. >> thank you, president fewer and good evening to everyone two weeks ago prop c was approved by the citizens of san francisco by a percentage of 73.4 percent (clapping.) which means guaranteed funding for the children's fund and the public education enrichment fund which we in the san francisco unified school district called peace this will sure the funding through the year 2041 when this board has the approve. >> someone else. >> this is going to be done without i'm going to emphasis that await an increase in taxes. >> among other things it sustains and builds on this high impact services including the robust growing sports and libraries and art and music programs we call slam awhile other districts across the country and california are cutting the sports and music and aortas san francisco continues to grow it's programs due to the

maufas menus dr. murase ms. norton thank you ms. wynns and president fewer that's 6 i's thank you. this is the superintendents report be straightjacket. >> thank you good afternoon to everyone and go giants. >> wow. and we know that being a team is changing and the status show it 75 percent of the teenagers say they've used drugs to deal with pressure at school, however, step forward is promoting healthy lifestyles you can count the ways during an open house at the wellness center the wellness initiate was held by the wellness staff and student volunteers to explain the services as with the subject of the examiner the san francisco wellness be initiate is dedicated to help the academic successful are our 16 thousand public ask the at 19 canvases sfusd students recorded they've been reducing their alcohol use and it's no consequence that an overwhelming majority says someone cares about them so congratulation to our wellness center and staff for the good job on the students as you know this friday is halloween one of our he elementary school is clb in granted style the teenage mutan

. >> thank you commissioner maufas. >> may i have a reading of the resolution by michael davis. >> thank you president fewer resolution is foorgs authorization to grant or alternative to deny the charter of san francisco charter. >> so is there that was a completed resolution? yeah. >> that's the title do you want the whole resolution. >> do we normally have a reading of the whole resolution; is that correct no okay. that's fine i think we've all read it quite frankly many times so we have public speakers signed up a few of them so everyone is granted two minutes (calling names) you know who you are (calling names) okay two minutes please each and new school sports feel free to stand up to show our support (clapping) thank you very much mr. chapman you start two minutes please. thank you. good evening president fewer and superintendent carranza and good evening audience i'm ryan chapman pits mites privilege to be here with you tonight we sit on this essential task of creating a school know if it's done well and excle

. >> commissioner maufas. >> i want to emphasize the crisis we're facing and i wanted to echo the story that the commissioner norton and president fewer relied in committee of a fifth grader assigned to a kindergarten classroom because there was a teacher shortage that is not acceptable it really, really not acceptable. >> i'm going to make a plea we're about to approach veterans day and thanksgiving please ask tour educators to come to work before those holidays we see historically a significant spike in absenteeism on those days so i'm going to ask you to keep kids fifth graders from being in kindergartener classes please come to work. >> through the chair superintendant of president be to specific about the information is information they actually have which is so we have that - i wasn't going to reintensity the wheel if we have the information it was created for a reason didn't appear after the person left it's in our house and that should be the baseline of where we start. >> i want to make sure we're not assuming what we have and don't have i'll come back to the board. >> i apprec

. >> commissioner maufas and through the chair if i may inquire since you're sitting here i'm going to ask you why you can certainly join her. >> why you all explicit were you not advised by our staff to consider where are you going our petition and resubmitting it as a k 5 petition and were you not advised i won't have to go drove the entire process or the other chunk process i think i remember some of the conversation and those options being presented to you. >> yes. a little bit so i think it might help let me back up we start the process of designing the school we flagged f this immediately with the legal team we're designing a curriculum so you read about kindergarten through fifth grade knowing a chapter is only a 5 year chapter and up for renewal we will he will have the middle school or a high school our world is change and we don't know what a middle school will look like in 5 years and now the process. >> i want to get to the question. >> once it was flagdz the curriculum hearing this was in fact an issue the legal team advised this is a technicality we don't need to resubmit

. >> thank you commissioner maufas. >> thank you president fewer so i had an opportunity to go bike flex academy i don't think if i've mentioned it to the school leadership i was scored - escorted i had a t-shirt on i really wanted to see it in it's natural state and call ahead and say i'm on my way have someone there to escort me they asked for someone to come to the office i got there it was courtney i appreciate you thank you very much and all the staff that shared their classroom but i want to speak about the time i wasn't escorted i got to look at the students in their natural way of being i was theoretical impressed i saw students with different cultural backgrounds talking and collaborating together all of them had laptops and i mean like i didn't see the work but i know it is serious what i saw they were committed to geting it done and little clusters and i think some of them were two and 4 at one space working together and talking about this work and i went into the library and forgot what they called it was a former davis library what-do-you-call-it. >> the i s t lab. >> just t