president yee: commissioner murase? commissioner murase: thank you. my experience is that these community conversations are so important. you get to engage in dialogue many of us aren't able to do. i encourage you to go to as many school sites as you can. my question is, will this be at all levels? are you focusing on the elementary level or will you be talking to middle and high school? >> i think that was part of our balance in looking at sites, we try to have had a representative sample that included at least some schools from each level. >> do you feel any recommendations on which schools to go to? that would be helpful as well. commissioner murase: my youngest goes to rosa parks and they've been active and i received a lot of concern from families attending marina. >> rosa parks is excited to work with us, they're on top of our list, we're excited about that. president yee: thank you very much for your report and your hard work. ok, next item, f, public comment on the consent items. i believe there is one speaker. mrs. black. >> thank you very mu

commissioner murase. commissioner murase: i want to express my strong support for this endeavor. i think it's very exciting to be invited to participate in something that has national implications. and just to remind board members of the sad fact that california prison populations are based on third grade literacy numbers. how many kids who are -- who can't read in third grade are assumed to end up in jail. so there really is very little that's more important than making sure that our kids are able to read at grade level. so i will be supporting this. commissioner wynns: could you explain what participation of our staff will have in the planning and work? is there any -- have we planned for that? president yee: this process of thinking about the summit and the activities that's been taking place for the last almost six months and in fact our own staff has been involved with the planning of this and the leadership has had been in the loop in terms of the discussion and supporting this effort. and so in many ways this started as a discussion about a year ago in which i said, you kn

commissioner murase: yes. commissioner norton: aye. vice-president yee: aye. >> item p is the consent calendar resolution for board discussion. that is the sacrificial lamb tonight. this was our item k2. i said that he did not have to stay for this. i just wanted to use this as an example for something that drives me crazy. the resolution is something that should be under the selection process. it should explain how the selection process works. the selection process is actually why this is a retroactive resolution. the challenge that i continue to have is that there are items that come before us that are often grants that we have been given. they have not dropped into our account. they come to us after we have already started service. the challenge is, are there any of these richelieu's since -- resolutions, which are retro, we have been given the grant, it did not drop into our account. what i want to try to avoid is this idea that we are having services move forward without the money being identified or the money has not been approve

commissioner murase: yes, i have two announcements. i'm sending down a program from the ucsf lincoln high school fifth celebration. many of you are aware that lincoln high school has a two-year biotechnology program under the direction of a man of jenentech. they oversee high school opportunities -- students in biotech. they have partnered with professor wendell wnyys' lab and while they have competing at the m.i.t. biotech olympics they have come home with two golds, one silver, one best new application and fifth place in their first year of competition. so it's really a great celebration. this is one of the reasons why lincoln is such a popular high school these days. there's no admission requirements to that two-year biotech program and really what the kids are doing is not just undergraduate level work but graduate level work. so i would love to invite them, some of the students are local still, to show us a presentation that won the gold in last year's olympics. my our announcement is january 27 is the application deadline for app

commissioner murase? commissioner murase: . i want to thank president mendoza for your year of service as the president. i want to thank you. president mendoza: thank you. any other comments? >> happy holidays and happy new year to everybody. president mendoza: commissioner "modern moffat? >> i want to thank the schools i've visited and it's a thrill to see them in rehearsals during the day with the principals there and teachers there and students trying to get their performances just right and as i pass by or i'm on my way to visiting someone, it's so nice to see that happens during the holidays and at all the schools, whether they're the youngest or the oldest of our students and i just wanted to appreciate them and their endeavors because i know i'll visit a lot of schools before the break and their holiday performances in the next couple of days. >> thank you. vice president yee: it's been such a long time since we had a general school board meeting, i've forgotten all the things in between but the commissioner has triggere

commissioner murase? commissioner murase: page 143, k-146, reference about hiring to train new employees. president yee: which k resolution? commissioner wynn? -- commissioner wynns? >> i'd like to several w-17 on page 78. president yee: any others? ok. roll call vote will take place under the section on this item. item h, superintendent's proposals. none tonight. i, none tonight. j, requests to speak regarding general matters, we have a number of speakers and i will have the first speaker -- the first speaker will be paulette brown. ms. brown, are you here? go ahead and take two minutes. president yee: press the button on the mike. >> my name is paulette brown. i have a daughter that goes to lincoln high school. i'm here to complain about that we were talking about bullying earlier. bullying. we're not talking about bullying from students, we're talking about bullying from the faculty, the teachers. my daughter, there's a breach of trust about her religion. the teacher has been bothering about. president

commissioner murase. >> one of the few things i did on the board was to recognize a civil rights activist who was recognized at the end of january. january also happens to be anti-bullying month and our hardworking staff also distributed materials into the schools for anti-bullying month. included in that package was children's -- a children's book called "one," a book that illustrated and written by katherine otoshi, a local author, who is here today, because the japanese american citizens league will be presenting to each of our school libraries the sequel to that book, called "zero" and both of those books address bullying if the bully's perspective and the victim's perspective. i would like to introduce a representative of the japanese american league -- japanese american citizens league and the author of the book, if they could come to the podium. >> it's always a pleasure to come to the board with something like this. in this particular case, something rather special. when i read "one" and happened to read "zero" i thought it would be a challenging task because we'd have to raise a

commissioner murase: yes. president mendoza: yes. vice president yee: yes. commissioner norton: yes. president mendoza: great. welcome to john o'connell high school. item j is a request to speak regarding general matters. i have quite a few folks who are on our list. i am going to read off the names i called off earlier on the list and follow it up with cards that were submitted. jessica goyo, francisco hernandez, taraa lopez, start coming up to the podium, please. i apologize for fudging up people's names. and then i have quite a few others. tom, adam, anna, grenady, eveling, antoine, floridas, give me one second before you guys start. ok. so i have almost 40 people on this list. you are all speaking about the same item. i'm going to allow each of you to speak for one minute. and i'm going to remind you -- i know this is a sensitive issue, but i'm going to remind you here, as community members, to be mindful about names that you use and anything that may be slanderous to any staff member or any personnel that you may be considering talking about. if you cou

commissioner murase: i want to thank you for stepping up. i think you'll have a good experience with the pac. it is such an important body for us, advising us in our work. i want to thank you for stepping up. >> you are welcome. president mendoza: did we hear whether you have children in our schools? >> i have a seventh grader at herbert hoover middle school and a 10th grader at wallenberg. president mendoza: excellent. seeing no other comments, roll call please. commissioner tom: yes. commissioner fewer: yes. president mendoza: yes. commissioner wynns: yes. vice president yee: yes. commissioner murase: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. president mendoza: 90. is there anything else you want to say, mr. millis? >> i look forward to working with the pac and making a big impact. president mendoza: thank you. item g is the consent calendar. never mind, i take it back. we have no public comment on item f. we have been off for a little while so i am a little slow around here. he before we go to item g, as a reminder to the public, and individual wish

commissioner murase: aye. commissioner wynns: yes. vice-president yee: yes. president mendoza: i need a motion and a second for introduction. this is the formal introduction. a report from the rules committee. >> predating my service to the board, the board of education stopped at a measure to put all of the policies online for greater transparency and accountability so anyone and everyone would have access to the policies that the board has adopted over the years. since this is the first major agenda item of the rules committee that i was asked to chair. so i would like to thank yee. and to thank those who work on the project. the executive secretary, and the now retired susan wong. we benefited greatly from the expert advice from the council school board association who has joined us this evening from sacramento. there has been succession and assurance. we will be hearing from staff. what you have today is one section of board policy that is with policy 120 that governs board rules and procedures. the staff and committee members went through the procedure w

commissioner murase: i have a few points of light to make in regards to the report. first of all, i want to thank all of the bcc members for their long hours of work to. i also want to acknowledge cristina and jen for supporting the committee. the staff played an integral role. in terms of the request of commissioner wynns about the makeup of the bcc, i would suggest you get in touch with the parent advisory council. they do a superb analysis about how the demographics of the council match or do not match the suited demographics of sfusd. he always provides graphs, how many kids are from the different schools, how the racial ethnicities are reflected. that is a good model. secondly, i want to echo commissioner fewer. coons on your english guide. it is very valuable. i want to read one of the most valuable sections. free translation and interpretation services -- it is very important for parents, families who are listening or watching tv to know that all of the families are entitled to requesting individual translation or interpretation. there is a form that is availa

i would like to thank board member murase who was the only board member or district employee to add least acknowledge the parent email that was sent on december 3. all we were looking for was some reassurance from you, the district, that you had thought about the safety concerns of the marshall community and that you were at least open to discussing those safety concerns with us, or at least the possibility of discussion if they did move to mission street. we got no response. if that had happened, we would not be here tonight. lastly, we just want to say, it's sort of a nonissue at this point, but please be true to and accountable to the parents and the students and have a plan if something comes up like this again there is no reason that the marshall community has to be hanging for a week in a stressful situation wondering what our fate was. we just needed some communication and we didn't get that from you. thank you. [applause] >> hello, joe keflin, parent at marshall school. it's a great school, thank you. my son is learning a lot there and we walk to school. a lot of times we walk ove