. >> mr. wynns, i'm sorry to interrupt the speaker. i need to race the point that i have had the pleasure of meeting her before. i believe the issue that is of concern to her is not -- >> let me finish, please. >> within the jurisdiction of the committee. chairman maufas: i understand. neither the board of education for the committee is -- we do not have the authority to discuss a specific student assignment case. that is a discussion you have to have with the staff and the legal staff, not the board. >> because think case is regarding the revocation of school assignments. chairman maufas: it's a specific case related to a specific student, not something that the board of education -- >> it's not your function. chairman maufas: no, not at all. >> so the school district in sacramento was wrong when they told us this information. chairman maufas: if they told you that the board of education specifically and this committee could make such a decision, they were wrong. >> they were wrong. thank you for the explanation and i will make my own

commissioner wynns: yes. >> mr. yee. commissioner yee: yes. >> and ms. kim. president kim: yes. next is item p, consent calendar resolution zehred for speakers, there are none tonight. item s, board member reports. our first is from the budget committee, commissioner yes. commissioner yee: there were no -- commissioner yee. commissioner yee: there were no action items at our last meeting. we discussed the state budget updates just to get rolling in terms of our next school year budget development. of course at the time, the state had not passed the budget yet, so that was a very quick discussion. one of the concerns, and i still don't know, this should be a concern, but there was the governors' suggestion to cut all the unaccounted government funds which would have meant as much as $25 million that would have been cut out of our budget and so i don't think it happened but i don't know at this point. >> you would have heard. commissioner yee: i'm sure my friends would have notified me. and the nice thing was, you know, our local reps assure me that was not going to happen. so the

commissioner wynns: yes. >> mr. yee. commissioner yee: yes. >> and ms. kim. president kim: yes. next is item p, consent calendar resolution zehred for speakers, there are none tonight. item s, board member reports. our first is from the budget committee, commissioner yes. commissioner yee: there were no -- commissioner yee. commissioner yee: there were no action items at our last meeting. we discussed the state budget updates just to get rolling in

commissioner wynns: yes. >> mr. yee. commissioner yee: yes. >> and ms. kim. coip aye. president kim: thank you. thank you again. keep sending this to more school districts. all right. our next item is item j, public comment regarding speaking general matters. we have a number of speakers for this. first i will call up taylor emerson, then we have a number of speakers from uesf, pamela ruth, ann bornson, ken schrae, linda plank, tiana tillry, tom harryman. diane johnson. key lou. roberto michaels. gil cocork. dottie varejas. kany -- marry lavalas. patty. and anthony singleton. we have two minutes per speaker. i just want to have taylor emerson go up first, he's speaking on a completely different item. are you? >> yes. president kim: thank you. two minutes. please turn on your mike and identify yourself. >> my name is taylor emerson. i'm here to talk briefly, two minutes, on homework. which is a dreaded word in our family and i've learned it's emotionally charged for most parents that i talk to. the school district, the board of education, has a homework policy that is p

mr. ghe available to talk about some of the issues? commissioner mendoza: w-7? any others? commissioner wynns: i wanted to sever k-8 and k- 12. i have another question about the consent calendar. i would like to ask the question about the administration of the current agenda for tonight goes the agenda. -- tonight's agenda. can i do that when we discuss the consent calendar? what would you suggest? >> we would need to find a procedure to be able to adequately agendize them. commissioner wynns: so i can't discuss them this evening? >> they were not posted on the agenda. commissioner wynns: okay. can i make a request that we find a place to discuss those? i know they are of the budget committee agenda. the ones on the budget committee agenda and not include tonight. how they go up through october 12. so i would not have an opportunity to discuss that either. i don't think that that was our intention to have no way to discuss the contract's. sorry, the last time i did that. it was related to those administrative contracts so that we could have everything discussed in public as it needs to be. commissioner mendoza: item h is supe