murase, miss wynns, norton. item i was withdrawn from the regular agenda. item j request to speak regarding general matters. i have a number of cards. i am going to start with suzanne solomon of united educators of san francisco. all speakers will have 2 minutes. >> thank you, president norton and good evening commissioners and superintendant. what i want to do tonight is introduce 12 young people who are sitting here. they are all chorus fellows. it's a program for college graduates to be part of where they do internships or fellowships with labor organizations, non-profits, political campaigns, plead -- public businesses and we have the opportunity to have andrew lynn ford who is working with us who is a graduate of san francisco high school. these people are real go geters and i think we'll see them around. please acknowledge when you hear your name, derrick brown his fellowship is currently without an equal workplace advocates. graduate of george washington high school. roy mow who is with the institute for college and success, mia lincoln, megan lamber

murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> abstain. >> norton. >> yes. >> five iayes. >> the agreement between the joint common crafts the recommendation is that the board of education of the san francisco school district consults a public hearing and akopts the agreement and the related public disclosure documents. >> okay, are there any comments from the board on this agreement? >> seeing none, roll call please? >> thank you. >> ly? >> yes. >> logan. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> abstain. >> norton. >> yes. >> five ayes. >> proceed. >> tentative agreement between the district and local 39, the recommendation is that the board of education conducts a public hearing and adopts the agreement and the related public disclosure documents. >> thank you. >> any comments from the board? >> seeing none, roll call please. >> thank you. >> ly? >> yes. >> logan. >> yes. >> fewer? >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. >> maufas >> yes. >> mendoza, dr. murase. >> aye. >> miss wynns. >> abstain. >> thank you. >> and miss norton. >> yes. >> five a

murase report from the ad hoc committee from august 14th? >> thank you very much. we had five informational items. and we looked at first, the areas of the city with the lowest coverage test scores, and actually, there are a lot of rumors about who takes advantage of ctip one and moment priority and what we found is that actually of those who used this, and for which to the one preference was use and 44 percent was key and 44 percent were african american and so we are reaching the minority families through that preference and so secondly we looked at the trends and the enrollment trends are very positive and we have many more kindergarten families applying to our schools and a very surprising statistic was that we have managed to keep 500 more high school students from either dropping out or rebeating a grade and so it is really very positive news in terms of student retention and secondly, we looked at the enrollment forecast, and third, we looked at middle feeders for bryant elementary and again, webster and because of the closure of the isa middle school, they

miss maufas, mend a murase, wynns, norton, miss wei, mr. logan. >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> all right. for your information. being withdrawn from the agenda this evenings is resolution 136-582 sfusd high school in a through g development. this resolution will be on the next regular agenda. we now move on to item a. approval of board minutes. we are only voting on the regular meeting of february 12, 2013, may have a motion? >> thank you. >> only on september 10th. we adopting september 10th. mr. logan. >> yes through september 10th. >> yes. miss fewer, miss maufas, mcdonnell, murase, wynns, nor the -- norton. 6 ayes. >> there has been a request to move an agenda item. if there is no objection we'll take that item. may i have a motion and second for formal introduction of the resolution? >> moved. second. >> i'm so sorry. may i have a motion and second for suspension of the rules please? >> second. thank you. roll call, please. >> miss wei, mr. logan, miss fewer, mr. haney, maufas, mcdonnell, murase, win, norton. >> 6 ay

murase. >> i just want to report tomorrow evening we'll be hosting the ad hoc committee on student assignment where we'll be looking at c -tip 1 middle school feeders daniel webster [speaker not understood]. the enrollment process tomorrow at 6 o'clock here. and the next meeting of the curriculum and program committee will be held on monday, september 9th. the primary agenda item then will be related to the achievement gaps. >> yes, commissioner wynns. >> i just wanted to announce that we, which we would have had last week, we're now holding a budget committee meeting this month because we really are interested mostly in new developments that relate to the lcff and soon, very soon, the state board of ed. and others are going to be looking at the related so-called accountability systems. we don't know what they look like ~ and how they might affect the budget. so, we decided that since nothing had been referred by the board that we would not hold a meeting prior to the beginning of school whic

~ murase >> yes, co-chairs are michelle parker and jenny lam. forgive me, i'm forgetting the other members of the committee. those are our two other female members, but they are the co-chairs currently. >> so, can you clarify for me how many current members are there on the qtea and how many seats are there total? >> president norton, there are 11 seats total. we currently have six members. >> okay. so, you -- but if commissioners have concerns about parity of gender balance or whatever, they are not obligated to vote for the entire slate this evening; is that correct? >> that's correct, president norton, there is no obligation to accept any or all members. it's at the board's discretion. >> thank you. commissioner wynns. >> it is very interesting to me that all of these candidates are parents in the school district. and while i think that's great, it's very unusual or it seems to me and the two people that you mention. so, did somebody say they should all be parents? i gather -- i mean, i realize from reading this that most of these people are

and commissioner murase? >> yes, i would like to report on the september 9th meeting of the augmented curriculum and program committee. >> we had an action item sponsored by haney expanding athrough g course offering to usfd high schools and supporting the course development and submission there was a positive recommendation from the committee and there were three informational items and on the issue of human trafficking, san francisco has been included in the sdi list of top 13 list of destinations for human trafficking. it is a list that we don't want to be on. and we have started a conversation about training people who come into contact with young people, at risk people, and in oakland, unified school district, the school board approved a curriculum on human trafficking, that all 7th graders will undergo there. and so we will be looking closely at that program. and we also heard informational items on the 2008 sfud curriculum review. and asked, dr. valenito, of the curriculum instruction to commence a rev

murase? >> here. >> miss wynns. >> here. >> miss norton. >> here. >> mace way. >> and mr. logan. >> join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> we are going to start this meeting differently this evening and i am going to start by calling on the superintendent. >> thank you, president norton. we start this evening's meeting with very heavy hearts, as we have suffered a tragic loss to our district of our long time registered parliament, wilson and we would like to read a few words and dedicate this meeting. >> she was employed by the school district for the board of education for the past 45 years. and she passed away yesterday september 9, 2013. she was born on august 15, 1919 in wisconsin. her family moved to san francisco when she was 6 years old. and the train ride from wisconsin made her so sick that she never ever set foot on a train again. she grew up at 5th and judith street in the city by bait and attended public schools here and was a proud graduate of lowel high school and went on to business school where she learned the latest in the shorthand machines the sten grap

murase? >> aye. >> ms. wynns? >> aye. >> and ms. norton? >> yes. >> five ayes. >> okay, thank you. we will now move on to item q, superintendent's proposal for first reading. this is the adoption of a project labor agreement between the san francisco unified school district and the san francisco building and construction trades council for projects within the prop a facility bond program. may i hear a motion and second, please? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. we will allow five minutes total of public testimony for this item. i have three public speakers, which means that each of you will have 90 seconds. so, i'm going to call your name and you may line up at the podium. nicole garing. michael terio, and eddy on. 90 seconds. all right. shall we do two minutes each? it says i'm supposed to allow 5 minutes of total testimony. we'll do two minutes. i'll change my own rule. we'll have 2 minutes each. >>> good evening, superintendent, president norton, and commissioners. nicole garing with associated buildings and contractors. we are a nonprofit construction trade association with

logan, miss fewer, haney, maufas, mcdonnell, murase, wooinynns and miss norton. >> i had a request with regards to item in reference to students access educational tool. as it relates to sexual harassment. what it says, it just didn't seem to fit in the theme. i'm not sure what was intended by that. >> i regret fully say i'm not sure. >> if we are not sure, can we take it out or can we make it that it speaks specifically to sexual harassment? >> for example, you can say if someone said girls can't use that ball during pe. that could be construed as sexual harassment. >> how is it construed as sexual harassment? >> based on the gender of students if they are blocked from something that causes them to be discriminated. >> i just wanted to be more specific. it doesn't sound right. i guess you are looking at me to make a recommendation, right? >> you need to make a motion. >> i would like to make a motion to strike it or it's item i, or to make it that it goes in concert. limiting access to tools, should not be in sexual harass many if we are talking about specific educational tools related

murase, miss wynns, and miss norton. 7 ayes. >> thank you. all right. we will now move on to item millimeter -- m, discussion of other issues. we have three items. superintendant carranza. there is a presentation so we'll need to open up the wall and move to the side. >> thank you, present ez norton. i would like to call for the investigation standards. ruth robsky is our coordinator of family partnerships and okay is here our director of services. >> we do not have a powerpoint. >> good evening, board commissioners, superintendant carranza, youth commissioners, this is the first time i'm meeting you. i'm a coordinator for family and partnerships with office of community engagement. >> gooeven, my name is kim director of community schools. and we are going to give you a pretty quick update on the status of the family engagement standards. we are going to talk a little bit about the standards themselves and how we are going to be expanding, how we are expanding our systems to support family engagement at schools across sfusd and conditions for implementi

. >> murase. >> yes. >> miss mendoza? >> aye. >> wynn. >> aye. >> >> and may i hear a movele and a second of the formal introduction of the resolution. >> so moved. >> second. >> and all right. vice president fewer may i hand it over to you? >> thank you, president norton, i would like to request that the committee members come to read this particular resolution in to the official record please. thank you very much. and you can come up to the seats right here. and so, if you would not mind first identifying yourself. and then the name and the organization and then we will hear the reading, thank you very much. >> okay. >> so, good evening, board members, my name is (inaudible) and i am the staff and we are the workers united an organization that focuses on organizizing young and immigrant retail workers and also here representing the san francisco immigrant rights and defense committee. >> and i am laura and i am an immigration attorney and we have been in the mission district for the past 20-something years helping latin

murase? >> aye. >> miss wynns. >> aye. >> miss norton? >> yes. >> thank you. >> okay. >> item p. so we have two consent calendar resolutions that were severed for board discussion, miss wynns. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. golden, these are both items that have that are modifications to and i am sorry again, and and they result in or represent the contracts with a very high percentage of the modifications 44 percent and 35.62 pensioner and now i am not really complaining about that, but what i am wondering is if we don't need a different way of doing, i don't any doing the contract but explaining it to the public but the board agenda, that there are times when we in fact, as we have discussed in the past, you know through the bond program, and particularly, we want to use the same contractor to work on a number of schools, or a number of projects and we, kind of expand the contract or it is not really a modification and or it is only a technically a modification and there, one of them is not that but this just made me think of that. that we put in this percentage way of doing i

murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> aye. >> six ayes. >> president norton, may we add the board of education members that the other colleagues will be see fit to do so. >> thank you. >> all right. the next item >> item f, public comment, i have one card, dennis kelley you may have two minutes. >> thank you very much. there are three things this evening that i would like to call your attention to, first is on page 171, 171 is, a agreement to hire black bear security for games, and i have been told by mr. truet that will be only be for games after the gten, the security aids for the school district have already chosen who games they can cover and these are the ones that are left. and this is particular concern for us because the ttens are people who have their hours cut by 14 percent, two years ago. and using them for these game is particularly important to us. and on page 207. and you have an item, which sends you to martin luther king and starts staffing martin luther king it looks like with teach for america folks. and i would like to raise that with you and know what is

miss maufas, mend a murase, wynns, norton, miss wei, mr. logan. >>

murase? >> here. >> miss wynns. >> here. >> miss norton. >> here. >> mace way. >> and mr. logan. >> join me in the pledge of allegiance.

mendoza, murase, wynns. >> i would like to call upon our superintendent mr. carranza to set the stage for us. >> thank you, i would like to welcome everybody to this special meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district. i can't help but being giddy tonight. i'm so excited about our agenda this evening. not that i'm not excited about every board meeting agenda, but i'm particularly excited about this evening's agenda. many folks who are watching and the public, this is a long time that has been coming and building momentum and at this time we have the opportunity of san franciscans and specifically as san francisco unified school district members to lead in nutrition addition. i want to share if you were to right now use a search engine and search the westbound for some of the destination cities for food, for food easy, san francisco would pop to the top of the list in pretty much every search engine. the question that is begged is if san francisco is a destination food city, why shouldn't san francisco's public schools be a d

murase. >> thank you. i got a new nameplate. i'm excited. how fast did that happen. so this is just a different day from, and dan you will appreciate the testing where we thought we were being innovative and we thought to -- now we are talking about changing an entire system in the way in which our kids eat. it's a shift. inform are me i always think about is our kids who come to school just to eat. these are places, these are safe places, places where this is their only meal. i love that you have layered multiple aspects. it's not just how do we save money. the whole idea that this is something that would put us in the black instead of the red and looking at ways we can balance that out. it's really phenomenal. i am, and this is a lot of reading. i was thrilled to be able to go to ido and see their space and hour -- how they are working and see the space and to see the layout at the dream at everett was phenomenal. there is a lot of information here that i just want to be able to digest. i'm ready to go. i don't want to talk about this this much. i see so much poten