mr. yee? >> it's five ayes. >> the superintendent's proposal, none tonight. board member's proposal, first reading for in support of the center for sustainable gardening by commissioner rachel norton. is there a motion? ok. so there's -- there's been a request to suspend the rules. so there a motion? >> motion to spped the rules. >> roll call please? >> thank you. ms. fewer? >> yes. >> ms. maufas? ? >> yes. ms. mendoza? >> yes. >> ms. wynns? >> aye. >> mr. yee? >> aye. >> six ayes. >> is there a motion for a second introduction? >> can i second my own resolution in >> sure you may. reads reading of resolution by superintendent or designee? i must have misread that. commissioner norton? commissioner norton: thank you, in support of the center of sustainable gardening. as the school district has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with the botanical society working together to teach students about conservation and where over 10,000 school children 90% are from san francisco have a unique opportunity to visit the botanical garden free of charge to participate i

mr. yee? >> present. >> ms. chong. >> here. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the plag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god, indivisible with justice for all. >> some day! >> we're going to go with the approval of the board minutes for february 28th, 2012. it will take place at the next meeting. so we're not going to have any approval. item b, presentation of the superintendent's report. superintendent garcia. >> thank you. first of all, good evening and i want to welcome everybody for being here this evening. i wanted to report back to the board on a meeting that we had on february 29th with the governor. we thought it was going to be a one-hour meeting. we actually stayed three hours. eight other superintendents and myself the largest school districts and the state of california met with the governor to talk about the budget and to talk about his initiative and what would results be if it passed and if it didn't pass. just so the publi

mr. yee? >> present. >> ms. chong. >> here.

. >> commissioner yee riley? >> mr. president, all commissioners are present and before we go to the next item would you like to make some comments? president adams: i want to welcome monetta white and william ortiz-cartagena. welcome to your first small business commission and welcome to the commission and this is exciting. we have some really good people with mark dwight now on the commission so i'm looking forward to working with each and every one of you so thank you very much. and i want to apologize to regina -- and i'll get to this. but regina and i were in a meeting just now dealing with small business impact for the new -- not new but payroll versus gross receipts tax that's being floated around. so thank you all for accommodating us and scheduling this meeting an hour late. that's it. >> all right. >> president? can we ask the new commissioners to tell us something about themselves. president adams: absolutely. thank you, commissioner riley. commissioner bhite: i'm owner of 1300 on selmore. we've been in busin

mr. president, the commission has asked for a few moments to allow this to break down. president yee: -- president fong: we will take a two-minute recess.

mr. corker: are we in a quorum call? officethe presiding officer: yee are. mr. corker: i would like to vitiate the quorum call. call. the presiding officer: without objection,. mr. corker: i have been down here several times during the course of the last several days. i think a large majority of the people in this body have been a part of encouraging us to in a very bipartisan way solve the budget problems of this country. we sign of ad signed a letter te president encouraging him to embrace the proposals in the bowles-simpson recommendations. and i've been down here, mr. president, multiple times talking about the various oddities in this bill. what's getting ready to happen in this bill is we're actually over the next two years going to create a $10 billion to $11 billion deficit because of the various gimmickry we use. we're efind wage to get around that. we're going to spend the money over a two-year period but is going to pay for it over a ten-year period. two years' worth of spending, ten years' worth of revenues. the senator was, i think, here during the

mr. yee? >> present. >> ms. chong. >> here. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge