mr. maufas? >> i want to thank commissioner wynns for being on this in a way that encapsulated this about board members but not only her contribution to our work and our professionalism but she was so out in the community volunteering and really teaching everyday people about parliamentary procedures because there are meetings that can get out of hand and there are many of those that go awry with one wrong sentence or one wrong action and i have been to many of those committee meetings where i have seen miss wilson participate and offer her service free of charge to a broad spectrum of people just trying to make certain that they not only ran the meeting well but they had an objective opportunity to participate. she was so amazing. i know there are many political clubs and community organizations that have benefited from her expertise just by being a member of san francisco. i want to thank her family for being so generous with her and miss wilson for being so kind and patient. so this is so grat

mr. maufas, mr. mendoza mcdonnell, dr. murase, miss wynns, norton. item i was withdrawn from the regular agenda. item j request to speak regarding general matters. i have a number of cards. i am going to start with suzanne solomon of united educators of san francisco. all speakers will have 2 minutes. >> thank you, president norton and good evening commissioners and superintendant. what i want to do tonight is introduce 12 young people who are sitting here. they are all chorus fellows. it's a program for college graduates to be part of where they do internships or fellowships with labor organizations, non-profits, political campaigns, plead -- public businesses and we have the opportunity to have andrew lynn ford who is working with us who is a graduate of san francisco high school. these people are real go geters and i think we'll see them around. please acknowledge when you hear your name, derrick brown his fellowship is currently without an equal workplace advocates. graduate of george washington high school. roy mow who is with the institute for

mr. haney, miss maufas, miss mendoza mcdonnell, dr. murase, miss wynns, and miss norton. 7 ayes. >> thank you. all right. we will now move on to item millimeter -- m, discussion of other issues. we have three items. superintendant carranza. there is a presentation so we'll need to open up the wall and move to the side. >> thank you, present ez norton. i would like to call for the investigation standards. ruth robsky is our coordinator of family partnerships and okay is here our director of services. >> we do not have a powerpoint. >> good evening, board commissioners, superintendant carranza, youth commissioners, this is the first time i'm meeting you. i'm a coordinator for family and partnerships with office of community engagement. >> gooeven, my name is kim director of community schools. and we are going to give you a pretty quick update on the status of the family engagement standards. we are going to talk a little bit about the standards themselves and how we are going to be expanding, how we are expanding our systems to support f

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. and eventually the low bidder dropped out. there were concerns by the board about whether the bidder was union or nonunion and it was not a qualification in the bid language that the bidder be union or nonunion, but that was a very large concern of the board. particularly in terms of the labor practices, salaries, and wages. at that particular point in time -- and i forget the details -- we determined to renew the contract for secu

mr. logan, miss mendoza mcdonnell, haney, maufas, wynns, norton, fewer. >> now we'll get to the student delegate report. >> mr. logan? >> yes. the first thing i would like to do is officially introduce angie. she's now the fcc elections. angelina. >> we had a meeting yesterday at 5:30 and we had dinner and we had an ice breaker. it was a snowball game as an sfusd graduate where do you see yourself 10 years from now. we wrote it down on a piece of paper and through it across the table and which ever paper we got, we would get who wro it that answer and we approved the minutes. we had, we had vice-president from soda and she's a senior. our secretary is jack wu, a senior as mission high school. our public relations officer, our historian is liz ben jones and our treasurer is at washington high school. we'll also be having our first cabinet meeting on october 7th, at 5:00 p.m.. there is also a free munis poster contest. the free munis for youth is hosting a new poster drawing contest where the winner will biv a $50 visa gift card and will be recognized at the board of supervisors meeting. >> from t

mr. haney. >> yes. >> miss maufas. >> yes. >> miss mendoza mcdonald. >> dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> yes. >> seven ayes and we are moving on to item q and three superintendent proposals introduced for first reading this evening, the first one, 139-10 sp1, revision to board policy, 5166 students sexual harassment. and may i hear a motion and a second please? >> moved. >> second neit will be held over for action at the next schedule board meeting. >> 139-10 sp 2. revision to the board policy, 1342, community relations uniform complaint? >> motion. >> moved, second. >> this item will be held over for action at the next board meeting. >> 139-10 sp3, revision to the board policy, 6173 ininstruction homeless education. may i hear a motion and a second >> moved. >> thank you. >> this will be held over for action at the next regularly schedule board meeting. >> have these all been vetted already through the committee? >> yes, we did vet them in rules. >> thank you. >> item r. board members proposals for first reading there are none. >> item s.

mr. haney? >> yes. >> ms. 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

maufas. >> i am going to call the roll call. >> ly. >> yes. >> logan. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> mr. 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 could be done by 8:00. 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 secon

mr. haney? >> here. >> miss maufas? >> here. >> miss mendoza. >> dr. murase? >> here. >> miss wynns. >> here. >> miss norton. >> here. >> mace way. >> and mr. logan. >> join me in the pledge of allegiance.

mr. haney? >> here. >> miss maufas? >> here. >> miss mendoza. >> dr. murase? >> here. >> miss wynns. >> here. >> miss norton. >> here. >> mace way. >> and mr. logan. >> join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> we are going to start this meeting differently this evening and i am going to start by calling on the superintendent. >> thank you, president norton. we start this evening's meeting with very heavy hearts, as we have suffered a tragic loss to our district of our long time registered parliament, wilson and we would like to read a few words and dedicate this meeting. >> she was employed by the school district for the board of education for the past 45 years. and she passed away yesterday september 9, 2013. she was born on august 15, 1919 in wisconsin. her family moved to san francisco when she was 6 years old. and the train ride from wisconsin made her so sick that she never ever set foot on a train again. she grew up at 5th and judith street in the city by bait and attended public schools here and was a proud graduate of lowel high school and went on to bus

mr. haney? >> no. >> ms. maufas? >> no. >> ms. mendoza? >> yes. >> dr. murase? >> aye. >> ms. wynns? >> aye. >> and ms. norton? >> yes. >> five ayes. >> okay, thank you. we will now move on to item q, superintendent's proposal for first reading. this is the adoption of a project labor agreement between the san francisco unified school district and the san francisco building and construction trades council for projects within the prop a facility bond program. may i hear a motion and second, please? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. we will allow five minutes total of public testimony for this item. i have three public speakers, which means that each of you will have 90 seconds. so, i'm going to call your name and you may line up at the podium. nicole garing. michael terio, and eddy on. 90 seconds. all right. shall we do two minutes each? it says i'm supposed to allow 5 minutes of total testimony. we'll do two minutes. i'll change my own rule. we'll have 2 minutes each. >>> good evening, superintendent, president norton, and commissioners. nicole garing with associated buildings an

mr. haney. >> yes. >> miss maufas. >> yes. >> miss mendoza mcdonald. >> yes but i am obtaining from k21. >> and mendoza. >> yes, except for k. 14, 15, and 16 that is nay on those correct? >> correct. >> dr. murase? >> aye. >> miss wynns. >> aye. >> miss norton? >> yes. >> thank you. >> okay. >> item p. so we have two consent calendar resolutions that were severed for board discussion, miss wynns. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. golden, these are both items that have that are modifications to and i am sorry again, and and they result in or represent the contracts with a very high percentage of the modifications 44 percent and 35.62 pensioner and now i am not really complaining about that, but what i am wondering is if we don't need a different way of doing, i don't any doing the contract but explaining it to the public but the board agenda, that there are times when we in fact, as we have discussed in the past, you know through the bond program, and particularly, we want to use the same contractor to work on a number of schools, or a number of projects and we, kind of expand the contract or it i

miss maufas, mend a murase, wynns, norton, miss wei, mr. logan. >>

mr. logan? >> yes. >> fewer? >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> 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