mr. yee? >> i apologize, yes. >> >> i am here to oppose moving the bus stop. it will affect the business in my place. however, we don't need a four- way stop sign there. i can play the footage that i have here. it requires special software and i don't think you guys have that available. i brought my own if you care to see it. in talking about the parking, it is very strict. we really don't want to make the neighbors uncomfortable by having the bus the close to the house. goschairman nolan: mr. yee, didu want to speak to this one? >> good afternoon. this proposal actually is being recommended as a package. both items together should be considered together. what we have found was in the last five or six years from our files, we have five separate requests for additional stock science at this location. that is a really strong indication that there is a strong community concern about safety in the area. there were four reported accidents in the last five years at this location. three of them involving pedestrians. it is exacerbated by the fact that there are two s

mr. yee? >> aye. >> ms. mendoza. ms. fan and ms. tom aren't in the room. ok. thank you. >> so let's move on to item b, which is the presentations to the board of education superintendent's report. superintendent garcia? >> good evening. it's really exciting to start another school year, a rip roaring opening of the school year again. i want to congratulate all the administrators, teachers, staff, and parents of all our great schools for a smooth opening of schools last week. i also want to thank our facilities department for ensuring that our schools's moves that took place during the summer were really efficient and also what a great job they did in cleaning up our schools and getting them ready to open up for a brand-new school year. on the first day of school, i had the privilege of visiting several schools and i have to say, wow, what a difference our facilities bonds have made. that the public here in san francisco has passed in 2003 and 2006. if you look at our facilities, really knocks your socks off. i remember when i was a principal 20 years ago here,

norton, ms wynns, ms mendoza, mr. yee. president mendoza: item s, the board members reports. you already commented. commissioner: we had a very interesting presentation from the information technology department on the information systems. this is going to cost us a little over $8.50 million, and so, we looked at the budget. we looked at what it was going to be spent on. everyone i think on the committee agreed that this is needed, because we needed a new information system, but, however, it is going to be a very expensive one, a little over $8.50 million, and if other board members would like a brick out of it, i think it is actually fairly interesting -- if other members would like a break out of it. i think we can get a copy. oh, and then we had a very dismal report, yes, and, in fact, actually, i think it is worth spending may be about three minutes now so that the deputy superintendent can give us sort of the bleak outlook for our school district in the next coming years. would you mind? it does not have to be really fancy. >> i will keep it short for tonight, because i

mr. yee. >> here, he's here. >> ms. mendoza. president mendoza: here. and ms. tom. here. >> join me for the pledge of allegiance. item a, approval of the board minutes, we have none. item be, presentations to the board of education by the superintendent. superintendent, welcome back. >> for those of us who -- superintendent garcia: for those of us who stayed around -- no, that's not true. i was gone, but we got a lot done. starting the school year today, last week, we've been looking at a lot of training, professional development going on in the schools, it's fabulous. it's great to see the entire district talking about special education, talking about how kids learn to read, how kids do math, how we can improve in those areas. i don't know, i kind of feel like a kid going back to their first day of school all over again. it's exciting time. so i want to thank all our administrators, teachers, staff, everybody who works in this wonderful school district. i welcome you back. i know the teachers start technically on friday. we'll have a lot of different things going o

murase, mr. yee, ms. mendoza. >> yes except on items k 1, 12 and 19. >> item p, we have one item. >> on page 113, k-22. the reason i pulled this actually, i have already spoken to the folks submitting it but the reason i pulled this was because i wanted to just discuss, not discuss but highlight, i think, the need for our parent engagement department to actually review and at least review the curriculum that is being presented to our students, our parents to make sure it is aligned with our overall parent engagement plan and aligned to the goals of our strategic plan. i would hope we would have evaluations for training such as this that we would hold our own selves accountable to which is really the impact and are we moving our parents from a dependency model to an empowerment model. also hopefully once we have the capacity ourselves as a district to do these type of workshops ourselves we will have our folks doing it also. to make sure that everything is aligned to our strategic plan and also to our over

mr. tdistrict two. thank you for being here. we also have a state senator, leland yee.so brought a resolution for us. that is also inside. we appreciate it. the mayor mentioned bayview police station, our neighbor to the left. we want to thank them and the captain for everything they did. we want to thank you for keeping an eye on our building and apprentices. [applause] he also mentioned our neighbors to the right, the san francisco housing authority. after you see how nice our school is, i am sure you will want to hire about 100 apprentices. i am holding you to it. [applause] i also want to thank the caterers for providing the lunch today. they may be the only union catering company left in san francisco. thank you. [applause] the u.a. national training fund was originally set up at a 5 cents per our contribution for every member. it has recently been raised to 10 cents. this trust fund gives grants to every apprenticeships program in the united states. there are approximately 280 programs. these grants are used for computers, equipment, new training devices. local 38

yee. >> william yemele. >> edward p. york. >> kevin patrick york. >> raymond r. york. >> and my of their who is with me everyday. i think one him today and the whole family mrs. and loves him very much. especially here today. >> and my husband. we love you. >> suzanne youmans. >> barrington young. >> jacqueline young. >> elkin yuen. >> joseph c. zli