ms. norton. mr. yi. ms. mendoza. thank you. jo the motion and second planning for the advisory council. thank you. reading and motion. thank you. i'd like to call on the chief who will introduce our guest. i'll turn this over to graham doneson. good evening commissioners. here with cpac the coordinator with the advisory council. the board of education of san francisco unified school district appoint the following people. the new appointments, sandy, allen, allison. reappointments. i'd be happy to give you some background on each of those recommends for approval. >> could you give us a little piece on what your process is on selecting the recommendation. funded by every county in california for the needs of current consideration. 20% are community representatives. within our ordnance and by laws, we have assigned seats for the school district. head start, two resource and referrals. and children services and for dcyf, the first five san francisco. >> that group comes together on "moly basis. it informs the school district and board of education around what's going on in the field. >> can

ms. norton, mr. yee. >> thank you, i need a motion and a reading of the resolution. >> resolution in support of sca 5 reducing the two-thirds requirement for parse will tax passage to 55%. will be acted upon by the california state legislate your and where the reductions have lead to reduce the school funding over two years whereas the state general fund passing local par sal taxes with account ability provisions to insure funds are not wasted they can be spent according to local priorities deciding to make investments in their local schools. be it resolved that the board strongly urges the slate legislate your to support. >> we had to make spending money on bombs. equivalent of 25 teacher salaries. there is no tax revenue ex-mention slated for the june ballot. we we have a public comment about the node for quality elementary and middle school. everybody will be thrilled to go to their neighborhood or selected school. really the federal level, state level has not helped us. we have been fortunate in

ms. norton: i thank the gentlemafor his efforts. i'm here to say to my good friends on the other side, it's one thing to beat up on the district of columbia, it's another thing to drop a bomb on the city. that's what this c.r. does. it takes the route of authoritarian government and dictatorship, by dictating to a local government how it may spend its local funds and it may force the district of columbia government to shut down, although our government had a balanced budget, has had it since last spring, passed, has been passed by the committees in this house, but because the congress can't figure out how to pass its own budget, it now threatens to close down the local budget of the district of columbia which esn't have a dime in this bget, only local funds, my amendment could have avoided all of this by allowing local funds to continue to be spent by the district of columbia. the other side is engaged in many attacks on the city's right to self-government, from taking my vote in the committee of the whole, approved by federal court

ms. norton: i thank the gentleman for his efforts. i'm here to say to my good friends on the other side, it's one thing to beat up on the district of columbia, it's another thing to drop a bomb on the city. that's what this c.r. does. it takes the route of authoritarian government and dictatorship, by dictating to a local government how it may spend its local funds and it may force the district of columbia government to shut down, although our government had a balanced budget, has had it since last spring, passed, has been passed by the committees in this house, but because the congress can't figure out how to pass its own budget, it now threatens to close down the local budget of the district of columbia which doesn't have a dime in this budget, only local funds, my amendment could have avoided all of this by allowing local funds to continue to be spent by the district of columbia. the other side is engaged in many attacks on the city's right to self-government, from taking my vote in the committee of the whole, approved by federal c

ms. norton: i thank the gentleman for his efforts. i'm here to say to my good friends on the other side, it's one thing to beat up on the district of columbia, it's another thing to drop a bomb on the city. that's what this c.r. does. it takes the route of authoritarian government and dictatorship, by dictating to a local government how it may spend its local funds and it may force the district of columbia government to shut down, although our government had a balanced budget, has had it since last spring, passed, has been passed by the committees in this house, but because the congress can't figure out how to pass its own budget, it now threatens to close down the local budget of the district of columbia which doesn't have a dime in this budget, only local funds, my amendment could have avoided all of this by allowing local funds to continue to be spent by the district of columbia. the other side is engaged in many attacks on the city's right to self-government, from taking my vote in the committee of the whole, approved by federal c

ms. eleanor holmes norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: thank you, madam speaker, and i thank the gentleman from colorado for yielding to me and for his work on this bill. madam speaker, the district of columbia has no vote on the rule or the bill under consideration, yet, the only controversial amendmes in this bill involve only the district of columbia. the bill is remarkably clean. there are only four out of 50 or so attachments survived. not one -- yeah, there's the district of coluia. the only controversial amendments violate the district's most basic right to self-government. one has to do with private school vouchers. only for the district of columbia. a bill we didn't ask for, a bill we weren't consulted about and a bill we don't want. if my -- the rules committee refused to recognize my amendment which would redirect the money to the d.c. public schools ando our own public charter schools, 40% of our children go to thi

ms. eleanor holmes norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: thank you, madam speaker, and i thank the gentleman from colorado for yielding to me and for his work on this bill. madam speaker, the district of columbia has no vote on the rule or the bill under consideration, yet, the only controversial amendments in this bill involve only the district of columbia. the bill is remarkably clean. there are only four out of 50 or so attachments survived. not one -- yeah, there's the district of columbia. the only controversial amendments violate the district's most basic right to self-government. one has to do with private school vouchers. only for the district of columbia. a bill we didn't ask for, a bill we weren't consulted about and a bill we don't want. if my -- the rules committee refused to recognize my amendment which would redirect the money to the d.c. public schools and to our own public charter schools, 40% of our children go

ms. eleanor holmes norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: thank you, madam speaker, and i thank the gentleman from colorado for yielding to me and for his work on this bill. madam speaker, the district of columbia has no vote on the rule or the bill under consideration, yet, the only controversial amendments in this bill involve only the district of columbia. the bill is remarkably clean. there are only four out of 50 or so attachments survived. not one -- yeah, there's the district of columbia. the only controversial amendments violate the district's most basic right to self-government. one has to do with private school vouchers. only for the district of columbia. a bill we didn't ask for, a bill we weren't consulted about and a bill we don't want. if my -- the rules committee refused to recognize my amendment which would redirect the money to the d.c. public schools and to our own public charter schools, 40% of our children go

ms. holmes norton for 30 minutes. ms. norton: thank you, mr. speaker. i come to the floor because in a very real sense, i feel surrounded, mr. speaker. i was sent to congress like every other member to attend to the business of the nation. but in fact i have been surrounded. i've been surrounded by the new house majority. who have decided to spend huge amounts of time in the most autocratic fashion, trying to deprive the district of columbia of its self-governing rights. mr. speaker, congress delegated home rule to the district of columbia in 1974. before that time, the district of columbia had no mayor, city council, was ruled from washington without any democracy. that was mostly the work of southern democrats. whose reasons were, among others, but most definitely racial. what is happening today is not the work of southern democrats. it is the work of the new republican majority. i am pulled off of the nation's business day after day after day because of yet another zinger from republicans to intrude into the local affairs and local spending of the di

ms. norton, for five minutes. ms. norton: thank you, mr. speaker. i come to the floor today to celebrate the 41 district of columbia elected officials and residents led by mayor vincent gray and five members of the d.c. city council who were arrested in front of the hart office senate office building yesterday evening and hundreds of others who gathered to protest their second-class treatment as american citizens by the republican house, the democratic-led senate and the administration. the 2011 continuing resolution, due on the floor this week, contains a sinister trade that takes the district's self-governing rights to spend its own local funds on abortion services for poor women, as many jurisdictions have long done. the c.r. also funds the startup of a new private school voucher program but only in d.c. about which no local elected official was consulted. it is the house republicans who have been on an un-democratic war path against the district's home rule, but yesterday residents did not stand it who in the end accepted republican demand. the