. >> thank you mr. haney. >> yes. >> dr. morisi. >> >> ms. norton. >> mr. sanchez. >> yes. >> mr. wallton. >> we now present the initial proposal for united administrators of san francisco at sfusd. mr. lee, do you have anything? >> yes, still chief of labour relations carmelo scarletto. i would like to read the initial proposal from the united administrators of san francisco to the san francisco unified school district. the sunshining article. >> we have public comment on this item. richard mcgee, you have two minutes. >> well, happy fat tuesday everybody. i'm sure you want to finish this meeting so you can go celebrate before the ashes come early tomorrow morning. i want to remember our brothers and sisters in new orleans and our labour partners there who are still going through a lot of katrina issues. just like them, we are a laboringization and we want to bargain in good faith. we submitted our proposal as required by the policy of the school district. we're looking forward to negotiating a fair wage settlement and working conditions and i was a little put upon by some of the

and i want to thank mr. haney for spear heading this effort. schools play a really interesting role in the homeless crisis in that for a lot of ways, they're the home for homeless children. they're the community. they provide a sense of support. continuity. one of the most damaging things that besides homelessness that happens to kids is frequent moving from school to school and that has a tremendously negative impact on the outcome. homelessness itself has a tremendous negative impact. if you look at the different levels of housing, whether folks are living in the streets, shelters, cars, in hotels, whether they are doubled up living in garages, all these differing places where you don't have the security of a regular place to sleep has a very traumatizing impact on kids. they also tend to be witness to a lot of things that they wouldn't be otherwise. in terms of violence, they often have irregular relationships with people where they're not able to have the social bonds. all of this stuff presents itself in the classroom in a dramatic way. fo

. >> thank you, mr. haney. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, again, commissioners. cory smith on behalf of the san francisco housing coalition. three points to make as mentioned by a previous speaker, there is a timeline on lot of this stuff to deliver the housing that we all desperately want, desperately need. part of that community process and the process that we go through does have to end at a certain point in time so we can do the stuff that we're planning. that is absolutely essential. secondly, we are happy -- this is the first time that i've heard steve from the planning department talk about our amendment -- recommended amendment to that housing cap, we can get 500 additional units or so that work within the eir. we will keep beating that dead horse until that amendment is actually formally introduced, but we are excited that this is now at least a regular part of the conversation. and then, i think perhaps looking a little -- also very excited to hear that supervisor kim is encouraging the use of the state density bonus, and as long as we push up to that t