ms. norton? >> here. >> ms. wynns. mr. yee. ms. kim? >> yes. ms. chan >> yes. >> ms. fan >> yes. please join me in the plenl of allegiance. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. if you'd like. [no audio] >> we usually end our meeting in memory of staff members who have been a part of our family who have passed away. so we do have many members of some of the schools here today presently, so i'm going to actually pull this up to the beginning. and so i want to ask the principal of mission high school to come up first. >> thank you very much. thank you, demigsers -- commissioners. on behalf of the mission high school community, i want to read a bit about kathleen cecil. sadly she passed away on wednesday evening after suffering a brain aneurysm monday on the opening day of school, which has really rocked the community, though we are blessed to have a wonderful, supportive community that rallied around each other, including families, staff, and most importantly students who have been very strong and wonderful. so i'll read this. kathleen cecil, beloved english teacher was a kin

ms. norton, can you stop and help us, please. >> reporter: reporters have been chasing eleanor holmes norton since a conservative website posted one of her fundraising calls online. >> i was frankly surprised to see that we don't have a record so far as i can tell of your having given to me. >> reporter: would you stop on the way out, ma'am? >> sorry. >> recalling to ask for a contribution. >> reporter: we haven't seen you on camera since this happened. can you stop for just a moment. >>. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: the statement says she fully complied with legal and ethical requirements. >> we don't like chasing you down the street. >> reporter: can you --. >> that was before and after we checked with council and they have confirmed that --. [ inaudible ] >> don't make us chase you, congress woman. >> reporter: to be completely fair, we didn't want to leave it with the image of her racing away and phoned her for a third opportunity to talk in substance about that fundraising call. when we reached her she had second thoughts and her staff was trying to catch us. >> that's the only way to do

ms. mendoza left her vos in a written statement. she is voting aye on all except [list] commissioner norton: yes. commissioner wynns: yes. president kim: yes. what about commissioner fewer? president kim: item p. consent calendar resolution severed for speakers and immediate action. we will hear kate first. commissioner wynns: i severed this as an example. i have had this discussion with all the deputy superintendents. i do not have a problem with this contract. however, i think i made reference to it at an earlier meeting. i started the practice of reviewing before the meeting all the administratively approved resolutions. we had questions about how in my work. this is only one example. there are others where in this agenda there was a contract on the board agenda for items for us to vote on. all those items are on the administratively approved list. my concern is that what we have got are things on the same agenda which cumulatively go above the threshold. when we talked about there being a cumulative threshold that would bar administrative of provo, we presume, all of us -- would bar administrative approval, we assume