mr. hainy. >> yes. >> maufas. >> mendoza. >> murase. >> wynns. >> yes. >> five ayes. >> item b, presentation for the board of he had daysing, supervisor carranza. >> thank you, mr. norton, good evening before i their my thoughts for the ink [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> he just announced that if you need spanish translation services the translator are in another meeting and they will be here shortly and so despair and until then you have got me. >> thank you. well you rolled the rs so beautifully. >> so good evening, everyone, i just have to say that we did it. this weekend is a remarkable school year, and i cannot tell you how much i have enjoyed serving as your superintendent, for those of you finishing the first year in high school i am finishing my first year, i am looking forward to an exciting 2013, 14 school year, to all of the administrators or staff and brothers and sister and neighbors and, grand parents, all of us it takes a village and i want to thank you all for your work this year and hope that you have a restful and reflective and enjoyable summer. to all of our parent

mr. haney. >> yes. >> murase. >> yes. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> maufas. >> aye. >> wynns. >> norton. >> yes. seven ayes. >> we are going to move right along to item m, discussion of other educational issues there is none tonight. item n, none tonight. >> item 0, vote on the consent calendar which was moved and seconded under section f. >> roll call, ly. >> yes. >> fewer? >> yes. >> haney >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes, except for abstaining on k0. >> mendoza. >> yes, except on k19 which is a well over do retroactive request. >> dr. murase? >> aye >> wynns? >> aye. >> norton. >> yes. >> thank you. >> item p. there were several consent calendar resolutions severed for board discussion. by commissioner wynns. if you want to take the contracts since i believe that we addressed the questions. >> the items are the contract that are to the two and so we can. >> we will roll call on c2. >> thank you. >> ly. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> murase. >> aye. >> wynns >> aye. >> and norton. >> aye. >> on the next page, it is b7. right? >> the and then the k

mr. haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> murase. >> aye >> wynns. >> aye. >> and norton. >> aye. >> 7 ayes. >> moving right along we will now consider the appointment to the child care planning and advisory council, cpac, may i hear a motion and a second >> moved, second. >> will you please give us a brief reading of the requested, recommendations please? >> thank you, commissioner. >> the request is that the board of education of san francisco unified school district may appoint or appoint the following people for the child care planning and advisory council, the new appointments are for sharon donovan, and the new candidates are max, monica and >> there are no public speakers signed up for this item >> is there any comments? >> fewer? >> i would like to say that i love maria and she will be excellent. >> thank you. >> i wanted to introduce the coordinator with us tonight. >> thank you. >> commissioner mendoza? >> thank you. >> so i just wanted to actually had just a couple of questions with regards to the candidates and i know that we have been thinking a lot more. the

mr. sinatra. i'm steve wynn.un this place. >> you see i get enough towels. >> the golden nugget became wynn's golden egg. las vegas was just a bunch of casinos in the 1980s when steve wynn built the mirage, the first luxury resort on the strip. outside, a volcano exploded every 15 minutes. inside, he hired siegfried and roy to perform. next door, he built another hotel and brought cirque du soleil to las vegas for the first time. the strip wasn't just about gambling anymore, and steve wynn was hailed as a visionary. >> i've been given too much credit for that, really. if you look at las vegas in the 1980s, there hadn't been anything built since 1973 new. and so the city was in a time warp. and, as has so often been the case, in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. >> so you had an idea, and you were king. >> yeah, all of a sudden, i looked like i was a rocket scientist. >> not a rocket scientist but a showman. >> captain of the britannia! ready, aim, fire! [explosions booming] >> when he imploded th

wynns. >> aye. >> and we have one item severed for board discussion i believe that was b6, and i see mr. kinsy in the audience, you had a question? >> thank you, for staying and waiting for this, i appreciate that very, very much. could you speak a little bit about just some of the concerns that were mentioned and here is the thing, just from reading this i don't think yeah, i would have never known any of that information. so i am just looking just for some more guidance from you about how we came to this decision particularly since i don't know anything about the western states contracting alliance and why you think that they are more beneficial than the folks that we have had since 2007. >> thank you. >> my name is matt and i am the chief technology officer at the san francisco unified school district. so, every five years or so, the purchasing department wants us to go through, and the contract expired and so we don't have an active contract with them as a result of that we looked at several factors but the chief was the price, so the western states contract alliance is a large purch

wynns. >> aye. >> and we have one item severed for board discussion i believe that was b6, and i see mr. kinsy in the audience, you had a question? >> thank you, for staying and waiting for this, i appreciate that very, very much. could you speak a little bit about just some of the concerns that were mentioned and here is the thing, just from reading