ms. norton. commissioner norton: yes. >> mr. yee. >> yes. >> ms. kim. president kim: yes. >> your ayes. >> while 100 days late, the state finally passed a budget this provides more resources for public education reflected in the governor's proposed main budget. however, i have to note that overall the state budget is based on optimistic assumptions for federal assistance and other revenues. if these do not come through, we could all face the all foo familiar prospect of cuts again. in the big picture, this budget still leaves california nearly last in the nation in education funding and getting only 82 cents on the dollar of what we're supposed to be guaranteed. our financial and budget team members will be heading up to sacramento this week to hear the fine print as they try to decipher this budget for k-12 education and will make recommendations to me over the next few weeks in terms of how that will look and we'll bring it forward in the budget committees and the board. our approach is to continue to operate within the budget we set up in june. we we

ms. norton. commissioner norton: yes. >> ms. wynns. commissioner wynns: yes. >> mr. yee. commissioner yee: yes. >> and ms. kim. coip aye. president kim: thank you. thank you again. keep sending this to more school districts. all right. our next item is item j, public comment regarding speaking general matters. we have a number of speakers for this. first i will call up taylor emerson, then we have a number of speakers from uesf, pamela ruth, ann bornson, ken schrae, linda plank, tiana tillry, tom harryman. diane johnson. key lou. roberto michaels. gil cocork. dottie varejas. kany -- marry lavalas. patty. and anthony singleton. we have two minutes per speaker. i just want to have taylor emerson go up first, he's speaking on a completely different item. are you? >> yes. president kim: thank you. two minutes. please turn on your mike and identify yourself. >> my name is taylor emerson. i'm here to talk briefly, two minutes, on homework. which is a dreaded word in our family and i've learned it's emotionally charged for most parents that i talk to. the school district, the bo

ms. norton. commissioner norton: yes. >> ms. wynns. commissioner wynns: yes. >> mr. yee. commissioner yee: yes. >> and ms. kim. president kim: yes. next is item p, consent calendar resolution zehred for speakers, there are none tonight. item s, board member reports. our first is from the budget committee, commissioner yes. commissioner yee: there were no -- commissioner yee. commissioner yee: there were no action items at our last meeting. we discussed the state budget updates just to get rolling in terms of our next school year budget development. of course at the time, the state had not passed the budget yet, so that was a very quick discussion. one of the concerns, and i still don't know, this should be a concern, but there was the governors' suggestion to cut all the unaccounted government funds which would have meant as much as $25 million that would have been cut out of our budget and so i don't think it happened but i don't know at this point. >> you would have heard. commissioner yee: i'm sure my friends would have notified me. and the nice thing was, you know, ou

ms. norton. commissioner norton: yes. >> ms. wynns. commissioner wynns: yes. >> mr. yee. commissioner yee: yes. >> and ms. kim. president kim: yes. next is item p, consent calendar resolution zehred for speakers, there are none tonight. item s, board member reports. our first is from the budget committee, commissioner yes. commissioner yee: there were no -- commissioner yee. commissioner yee: there were no action items at our last meeting. we discussed the state budget updates just to get rolling in