ms. maufas, dr. murase, ms. norton? ms. wynns, thank you, mr. yee? ms. mendoza, ms. fan, ms. creer? >> if you'd like to please join us for a pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] vice president yee: there's no approval of minutes, o.k. so we're going to start with item a, approval of board minutes, there are none tonight. b, presentations to the board of education superintendent's report. superintendent garcia. superintendent garcia: thank you, good evening. it seems ironic with all the activity and we want to salute and give a shout out to all of our employees who went to sacramento to stand up for children and i think we really want to recognize their endeavors to go there because that's a lot to do and they're fighting a good fight and it seems ironic that while we're making these cuts and talking about these horrible things throughout the state that tomorrow, may 11, we celebrate both california day of the teacher and national school nurse day. i've always said that in education, the most important thing in education are the people actually out there doing the work so we

ms. maufas, no. dr. murase, aye. >> ms. norton, yes. ms. wynns? aye. >> mr. yee, aye, ms. mendoza. clerk: six aye's. president mendoza: we're sorry. thank you. item n is a discussion of other educational issues and there are no one tonight. item n is consent calendar resolutions removed at previous meeting for second reading and action, none tonight. item o is vote on consent calendar, moved and seconded under section f so we need -- we didn't have -- roll call please on that? clerk: on the consent calendar? [roll call vote was taken] [the motion passed unanimously] president mendoza: item p, consent calendar resolution severed for board discussion and immediate action there were none. item q, i need a motion and a second to river to the committee the whole on may 17, item no. 115-10sp1, a resolution of the board of education of san francisco unified school district ordering agan election to authorize up to $531 million of general obligation bonds and establishing specifications of the election order. >> so moved. >> second. president mendoza: thank you. roll call, please. i'm sorr

ms. maufas? >> dr. ? >> yes. >> mr. yee? >> aye. >> and ms. mendoza? >> aye. >> seven ayes. item two is a superintendent's proposal for first reading. revisions to board policy p 5101. i need a motion and a second, please? >> moved. >> seconded. this will be refered to the ad hoc committee which meeting will be held may the 31st at 6:00 p.m. and we have a few folks for public comment on this. i don't know if they're still here but edmon lee, barbara lui mcdowell, and ru ping wei. ok. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the board. i come here tonight to address the issue about the current student assignment system. and as a parent of a second grader going to third and also representing some of the other family at our school, we are in support of the feeder program because we feel that it's really important that we keep that sense of community that we have created for our children in our school and to keep it going forward because i think we feel that by providing that for them going forward that it really helps. the horror stories i've heard from some of the families at

i wanted to thank commissioner maufas in the loyola dedication. several commissioners and ms. casco were there on may 19th. i attended the fair well ceremony for the japanese bi can churl -- bi-cultural program. we participated in the asian street organization. eight years ago this was a dream of his to bring together all the asian market communities to have a street celebration. people thought he was crazy. he couldn't get money. and now it's this very big event. very, very successful. i just want to do a shout out to this six educators who were recognized at that award event. ellen chu of the jefferson every early education. rosie lee, eileen collier, koi chi of abraham lyndon high school, may choy and handily do, director of the vietnamese cultural center. >> thank you. >> commissioner yee? >> just quickly. i went to the spring festival in sunny side. they had this performance that i think they still have an opportunity, you might want to see it. on thursday at 11:00 or 6:00. it's called fly away productions or something. they had these four performers hanging on a roof top