. >> i would like to ask director chris and the member of the qtea oversight committee michelle parker to come forward and share the report with the p you believe and with the board. >> thank you, carranza, i am the director of policy and planning for the san francisco school district. i am joined here... sorry about that. i am joined here by michelle parker, co-chair for the qtea oversight committee as well as members, fong and our auditors are here as well and ready to present. and i am just want to just say my own, personal and it has been a great year, and we have several members, who are cycling off after four years of service. and it has been a real honor and a privilege, to work with these men and women, and i want to just hand out very quickly to miss parker who has done an amazing job as co-chair. >> this is an exciting fund to over see and to learn about all of the great things that are happening with the money that the voters approved back in 2008. and you all received this and not too long ago to read through and hopefully you will have a chance to read through it later, if

i'm michelle parker i'm representing the pta and the san francisco parents political action committee both of those organizations come out early in support of this initiative we recognize this to address the health crisis. we must reduce the consumption and particle our children this is an excellent way to begin the proceeds will hope people making better you life some kind of choices. i want to record. dear budget and members i'm writing to support in. raising the price of sugar festivities will help people to reduce their consumption and make better choices. first names will not see an increase in the cost of living the orange county only losses are by the soda companies they're trying to fool the people of san francisco. the patrol cars department is paying for the health care costs optional the city while the revenues about help to fined recreation activities and big tobacco figure out tooth and nail but when the prices of tobacco it was on the run. why should a big set of profit that does not pay for the consequences. >> for your leadership with the pta. i'm going to call the las

thank you >> good evening superintendant and commissioners i'm michelle parker i'm speaking on above 0 of the parents political action and in strong support orleans with todd said for all the leadership that's been shown with commissioner wynns and the board of supervisors and the group that's been working so long on this. i think this fills a critical need for the on-site services it doesn't preclude people oversight for early education it is also spoken in the revolution that having a strong oversight program that's used by a lot of the the students makes for an extended learning day i've seen the benefit we have well over 50 percent 60 percent stays for after-school programs we'll we've blended the two. thank you very much for putting this forward i encourage you all to vote for this >> thank you public comment is closed do we have a staff report on this, please. >> good evening superintendents caring resistance and president fewer. this is the first time i've said that and the commissioners on the drfgs i'm keith the student family support department with my colleague of excel ex

.) >> michelle parker again, i'm with the second district pta and able to serve on the community chris coalition i'm excited about being being a part of those conversations there's no question about the impact that peace funding is here we still have librarians there's one point i want to bring up i've heard it a lot and that's as we begin to see our funding restored back to 20074 and 8 level and have a better economy i want to not think of peace as a ceiling to what we're spending but important things that need more funding we know all or rapid you funding is coming from peace we hope we'll consider adding funds from the general funds and not think of peace as a funding fund and be more effective. thank you >> thank you. >> so the sxhiment is now closed. i will open up briefly for the board. anyone having commits thank you rachel >> i actually have questions i think we need age more clarity you mentioned a little bit about the children and family council and the clufk what are those and how are they postponed and what authority do they have. i have to say the outstanding issues are th

solomen, and i would want to thank the oversight committee for all of the hard work, especially michelle parker swre, been able to work on this together, so, some people might not know that we have switched over from saying prop a, to saying qtea. and so, it became more apparent as the report went on, so, that money came to us through the hard work of uesf and the district and many other people and so valuable to have that money, especially now, that we are out of the recession and there is money coming through the local control funding formula and we can truly use the qtea, for what it is meant to be, and many of the things that miss parker mentioned, supplementing enough and we no longer need it to shore up the budget as we did in 2010 and so i look forward to continuing with those and the grants and all of the support that we give our students in the classroom through qtea, thanks very much. >> thank you. >> thank you, again. and thank you for your service on this committee. thank you very much. >> and i know that it is time consuming and it is voluntary.

michele. >> okay spent it is a three parker. >> i think the idea of younger islamists in general whether they be brotherhood are other kinds of islamists, giving up on democracy and giving up on the possibility of peaceful change is a big concern. and i would see egypt and syria would have to bring in your very much. also this, you know, a narrative of betrayal by the united states or by the west i think even much stronger in syria that it is in egypt. so these are megatrends, and trends that can feed into increasing terrorism and insurgency and stuff but i do agree these are very concerning the regarding the u.s. reputation, look, i very freakily criticize u.s. policy on the middle east, including u.s. policy toward egypt and i think the united states has made a lot of mistakes in its policy toward egypt. i do think though you have to give the president obama all a bit of credit. he has for the first time ever suspended military deliveries to egypt from last summer onward. you're quite right to in the beginning the administration waffled and they wouldn't call it a coup and this was never us