mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton ms. wynns. >> president fewer 7 i's. >> may i have a motion and second reading the resolution by commissioner norton or commissioner wynns. >> i'm trying to find it our okay oh, my god whereas the - in supportive of the local cap whereas the school district has to provide a student opportunity for self-discipline and cultural and linguistic cultural and economic competent and whereas the board of education of the unified school district sfusd is responsible for maintaining the fiscal solvency and the sfusd bans the principle provides governing boards working with interests the stakeholders to provide quality education for all students especially those who are english learners if low income homes and whereas funds for crucial services for payrolls and classroom materials and school constructions and home transportation and deferred maintenance, etc. often required successful ongoing cash flowing and including including the financial prudence of the reserve and whereas the fined balances ar

>> yes. >> miss mendoza-mcdonnell. >> yes, dr. murase. >> aye. >> miss norton. >> yes. >> miss wynns. >> yes. >> miss fewer. >> yes, seven aye. >> s thank you very much, item there are, discussion of other educational issues? there are none tonight, item n consent calendar removed at prior meeting and comments superintendent on this item? >> thank you, president fewer. i would like to ask assistant superintendent bill sanderson to comment briefly what was added to the memorandum of understanding, please >> good evening commissioners and superintendent. if you will remember at the last board meeting commission wynns made a request that we make sure that a statement was added about conflict over -- a conflict in the mou of possible fundraising activities and i would like to read the statement that is included in the mou, and i have worked with our legal counsel to make sure that this statement is in the actual mou. and it simply states the sfusd will be initiating in a fundraising campaign for a new facility for the school of the ar

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

mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase nay. >> ms. norton arrest no ms. wynns no arrest president fewer no. >> that fails thank you very much now commissioners any comments or from the superintendent about the petition before us? k through 12 petition new school thanks. >> yes. commissioner norton. >> i want to say i'm not going to be supportive there are great ideas and passion but good ideas and enthusiasm are not enough for prelims i share the commissioners ability to get their projects from the stage to reality between those are the petitioners have less than 5 years of teaching i'm troubled by the offer confident of the gesture and selling this is a well-thought-out position and seeing off in terms of we'll make it a k 5 in the next few weeks in the first pages they've logged it 57 times how can you cut this off i'm disableus of the petitioners understanding of the intact i have no confidence we've not had a positive confidence most recently with the parents concerns from the patterns that didn't want their kids co-locked with the leadership not a sh

[applause] >> alice mendoza accepting on behalf of her husband, staff sergeant manuel v. mendoza. staff sergeant manuel v. mendoza distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a platoon sergeant with company b, 350th infantry, 88th infantry division during combat operations against an armed enemy on mt. battaglia, italy on october 4, 1944. that afternoon, the enemy launched a violent counterattack preceded by a heavy mortar barrage. staff sergeant mendoza, already wounded in the arm and leg, grabbed a thompson sub-machinegun and ran to the crest of the hill where he saw approximately 200 enemy troops charging up the slopes employing flame-throwers, machine pistols, rifles, and hand grenades. staff sergeant mendoza immediately began to engage the enemy, firing five clips and killing ten enemy soldiers. after exhausting his ammunition, he picked up a carbine and emptied its magazine at the enemy. by this time, an enemy soldier with a flame-thrower had almost reached the crest, but was quickly eliminated as staff sergea

>> here. >> miss mendoza-mcdonnell? >> thank you. >> and supervisor farrell?quorum. >> okay. >> do you call the rest of the roll. >> this is new. >> we did last month. >> so sorry. >> and so the other members, i will call roll for, supervisor avalos? absent and commissioner wynns is also absent. >> thank you madam clerk. >> thank you. >> could we call the first item? thank you, commissioner. you are not commissioner any more, supervisor. it is file number 1 40986 and it is a hearing on educational and support services for unaccompanied and immigrant children. >> thank you, and this is a hearing request on presentations from sfusd and the department of public health and human, and the department of human services agency, and the department of family and children services division, regarding educational services and other support services being provided and increase the numbers of unaccompanied minors and immigrant children arriving in san francisco, and this item was heard on september 25th, no action was taken due to the lack of quorum and i do need to take a

mendoza, alex's father recommended i come and see you... emma washington is the director of the after-school program. speaker: alex, ramon's son, and alex's best friend vincent... ms. casey, this is alex mendoza, this is vincent wang. they're best friends. they're practically glued together. vincent is a chinese boy. he is alex's best friend. investors want to buy the restaurant. it's a lot of money. lots and lots of money. i have to talk to you. we just got an unbelievable offer. what are you talking about? two investors came to my office today. they want to buy the restaurant. tell your investors it's not for sale. hey, don't walk away from this. this is a serious offer... serious money. i'm not selling this place. i think it's a good idea that ramon doesn't want to sell that restaurant because it's a family business. alberto wants to take the money and go photograph desert landscapes. i'd rather keep the business, if that was me. ramon's life is that restaurant so he doesn't want to part with it. ption center wgbh educational foundation]

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

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

seem like we were not building any house ng those buildings and just to clarify. >> commissioner mendoza. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i want to thank both gill and (inaudible) for the presentation and these are obviously, pieces that we have seen, now, twice. and i think that each time, it reminds us that we really need to bring all of this together. and so, i wanted to just thank you both for that and i also want to acknowledge, lenard tom who is in the audience who is our director over bonds and has managed our fiscal districts. and growth, and improvements in moderization through the bond initiative and thank him for being here, because i think that part of the knowledge that we are going to be gaining from these conversations will include even perhaps the bond initiative being thought through differently. and so, when we started this conversation it was about a variety of different things, and i really want to also acknowledge my colleague president fewer for you know, having this conversation with us and so for me it was about the growth of our city. and how we are starting to be