roll call, please. >> ms. tom. delegate tom: yes. >> ms. maufas. commissioner maufas: aye. ms. wynns. commissioner wynns: aye. ms. mr.ee. vice president yee: aye. ms. mendoza. president mendoza: aye. >> we'd -- president mendoza: we'd like to invite mr. martin up to accept your commendation and say a few words. >> i don't want to stand in the way of commissioner mendoza, having the shortest meeting ever, but i do want to thank the board, leading this station at this time, which is not only the 70th anniversary a great time to think about the role the station has played in the community but also what had been a challenging time for the station, obviously people around this community in so many ways, i want to thank the board for your support and thank you for your work as liaison and the superintendent for his support, it has meant a lot to us to know that the district wants to continue supporting this station as a community resource. with a visionary educators who began the station in 1941 when believe me, no one was listening to fm radio they didn't know what was going to happ

fan and ms. tom aren't in the room. ok. thank you. >> so let's move on to item b, which is the presentations to the board of education superintendent's report. superintendent garcia? >> good evening. it's really exciting to start another school year, a rip roaring opening of the school year again. i want to congratulate all the administrators, teachers, staff, and parents of all our great schools for a smooth opening of schools last week. i also want to thank our facilities department for ensuring that our schools's moves that took place during the summer were really efficient and also what a great job they did in cleaning up our schools and getting them ready to open up for a brand-new school year. on the first day of school, i had the privilege of visiting several schools and i have to say, wow, what a difference our facilities bonds have made. that the public here in san francisco has passed in 2003 and 2006. if you look at our facilities, really knocks your socks off. i remember when i was a principal 20 years ago here,

ms. tom. miss wynns, ms. norton, ms. murase, mr. yee, ms. mendoza. >> yes except on items k 1, 12 and 19. >> item p, we have one item. >> on page 113, k-22. the reason i pulled this actually, i have already spoken to the folks submitting it but the reason i pulled this was because i wanted to just discuss, not discuss but highlight, i think, the need for our parent engagement department to actually review and at least review the curriculum that is being presented to our students, our parents to make sure it is aligned with our overall parent engagement plan and aligned to the goals of our strategic plan. i would hope we would have evaluations for training such as this that we would hold our own selves accountable to which is really the impact and are we moving our parents from a dependency model to an empowerment model. also hopefully once we have the capacity ourselves as a district to do these type of workshops ourselves we will have our folks doing it also. to make sure that everything is aligned to our strategic plan and also to our over

. >> ms. tom, ms. fewer, dr. murase, ms. norton. ms. wynns. >> no. >> that was the most positive comments i have heard from commissioner wynns. despite her vote. commissioner wynns: there are those charters i wholeheartedly support. that is where they belong. >> as you are clearing the board room, we're still meeting. if he could leave quietly. students, go home and get rest and continue to work hard. -- if you could leave quietly. item j. i have a few speaker cards. thank you for those of you who have waited to speak on general items. i will call your name and just come out. linda rovano, yvonne durkley, tiffany wong. come up and you will get two minutes. >> i am here on behalf of some fellow parents i met in the waiting room at the school district office. it could be quite a while so you start talking. i am here to ask that you make the system, i have a kindergartner going into kindergarten. the system should be more transparent and user-friendly. we went through the first two rounds and got nothing. the reason we did is also another

. >> ms. tom. delegate tom: yes. ms. fewer. few few yes. ms. norton. ms. wynns. those in favor say aye. ms. mendoza. those in favor say aye. >> six ayes. president mendoza: item i, board member's proposals, none tonight. item j a request to speak regarding general matters. i have a list of folks who wanted to speak. come on up as your name is called. r.t. choice. jerry, we're going to hold you. pam rah rouse, elaine meriwether, sharon kennedy, elizabeth conley, chantae rogers, betty robinson harris, and alyssa, do you want to speak at this point? ok, come up. >> my name is archie choice. i live here in san francisco for about 50 years and i've been having a problem with you -- your lottery system for placing kids in schools from junior high, elementary, and it just seems like it's not a fair system and doesn't seem like it's really effective, relying on somebody to wait on a lottery system. it's like going to the store and buying a ticket to see if you're going to win some money for your kid to get an education. i filled out a form and it had six different school

i also want to thank ms. tom. she is the one that put the packs together and organized the event. she did a lot of work and happy that she could be here tonight. this concludes our ceremony. there will be refreshments out in front. there is a photographer. you want to take pictures. i am going to go outside and shake the hands of some heroes and thank them. i hope that you will do the same. thank you for coming again. >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about

ms. tom. mmaufas. item r is the board members proposal for first reading. there are no one tonight. item s are the board members reports. we have one from the augmented curriculum and augmented rules and i'd like toad reports from the joint city college and the joint city school district. so they can't talk about the reports even though they're not posted? we've always been able to talk about other stuff on where we are and what we've done and places we've been and under this category. >> it's informational. president mendoza: it's informational. >> you generally can make announcements without having to agendize the item under the brown act, but if it's a report from one of your standing committees under the brown act, it would require that we post that report, as well, but you are free to make an announcement if the committee has an announcement rather than a report from its committee meeting. president mendoza: if the committee leaders have an announcement they'd like to make about their committee meeting, you're welcome to do that at this time. let's start with commissioner norto

. >> ms. tom. >> yes. >> seven ayes. >> thank you very much. item m, discussion of other educational issues. superintendent gaffer seea? >> where is david gold? there he is. >> so good evening, commissioners, my name is david goldman, i'm chief facility officer. it's my pleasure tonight to talk about and tell you the story of our facility construction over the past months, particularly i would like to focus on some of the projects that have been completed or generally mostly completed over the summer. we had an amazing summer. it's really clear before i dive into this, obviously i would like to thank carlos garcia, in part for permanently fixing my name in legacy as bungalow dave but in general carlos, deputy superintendents lee and karanza for all the members of the board of education who have not only supported the facility program but trusted us repeatedly to do the work that we were entrusted to do, be allowed to sort of do it well by all of you and for that i'm grateful and particularly president mendoza. one of the first people i met when

author of a new she's point and columnist of forbes woman out in post and ms magazine and you say welcome home after having read tom paine here you for joining us can you describe how women are treated in saudi arabia today. point and what it's really interesting actually because we've seen a consistent theme throughout the middle east and throughout the arab spring of demanding more rights and at the forefront of every single one of these movements have really been. women and we've seen it from iran we've seen in tunisia we've seen it in libya but what's unique about the uprising that's taking place in saudi arabia right now is that women really began it and this is a country where women are really treated like infants you know you can't travel you can't go to the doctor you can't drive without a written permission by either your father or your husband or a male guardianship so the arab spring has already arrived in saudi arabia it arrived in the form of an online campaign that started back in may to define the defy the country's notorious ban on women driving and it was an online campaign led by a young woman nam

and make several acquisitions in wire ms and broadband the next couple of years. it's positioning to compete. do yo>> tom: do you have any position on netflix? >> no position on the stock. >> tom: you can read this article at the street.com. and on our website as well. revenge on netflix. our guest jeanine poggi. >> susie: and for tomorrow, a sfap shot of economic activity around the country by the beige book report. a global strategist at j.p. morgan private bank joins us to talk about the global economy and where to invest n. the money file, why reading is fundamental when it comes to our investment. it's neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night that's threatening the demise of the u.s. post office. instead, it could be a lack of money. the post office is running a $9 billion annual deficit and doesn't have the $5.5 billion it must pay for retiree health benefits due september 30. the solution? postmaster general patrick donahoe wants to end saturday mail delivery, close 3,700 locations and lay off 120,000 workers. >> tom: another legal settlement involving mortgages. bond insurer m.b.i.a.

ms gruenwald come thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> former senate majority leader tom daschle and former white house chief of staff andrew card talked about u.s. trade and investment policy. both are co-chairs on the task force of the council of foreign relations on trade and investment. the task force recently released report on u.s. trade and investment policy which called for enforcement of u.s. trade laws. this is about an hour. >> good morning. while we are getting settled think you all for being here on a chilly monday morning. i'm the director of the council's task force for them and it's my pleasure to welcome you here to this special event to release the report of the independent task force on u.s. trade and investment policy. the task force is chaired by andrew carter and thomas daschle and is directed by the two senior fellows edward alden, matthew speed, with more on the panel this morning. let me say a few words about the task force between the discussion to a task force are non-partisan, independent. ca4 takes no institutional position on issues and the members are responsible for the concept of the report