>> can i... >> yeah. >> thank you, president norton. i would like to have further discussion on the item that was just spoken to for public comment. so it is 2 f135-28 b6. >> okay. so we will sever that for discussion. roll call vote will take place under section o. >> all right. item h. we have superintendent proposal and approval of material revision to the life learning academy charter petition and to reflect the change of governor ans structure, may i have a reading of the recommendation please? >> good

president norton and commissioners and superintendent carranza, i am happy to announce that usf is here to present 9 scholarships four from uasf and actually five from uasf and we had a tie, and four from sue shider in honor of her twin sister kathleen and i would like to call (inaudible) to the microphone to announce the awards. >> along with us we have jenny horn and also our vice president (inaudible). >> good evening, president, i mean superintendent carranza and president norton and board members. and we are very proud every year we give united administrators gives $8,000 in scholarships. we usually give four $2,000 scholarships but this year we had one that was so close and it was a tie. so we are giving 3, $2,000 and 2 $1,000 and sue, administer her scholarship and she is giving four people $1,000 and another $5 on 0 and another $250. >> we did have grad you lacings going on so not all of the students are here and so i would like to read the names but she will give out the checks to the people that are here. and shara. >> and come up here and just say where you are going. >> and

board minutes there are none together now item b the superintendent report >> thank you president norton good evening everyone. in case you haven't noticed we're less than three weeks away from our end of our school year. in particular i was particularly proud last week that tavern appreciation week was here and we honored our award recipients. as you know all of us in san francisco said thank you to all our students. the celebration of our work of our teachers can't be confined to a week but we're proud to work alongside the teachers to educate our teachers. we are were on may significant we honored our teachers at the at&t san francisco giants home game. we were extremely proud of our teachers who wore their jerseys and we had them recognized before the crowd. this week we'll be honoring our principle award folks. but i'd like to name the names the teachers award were (calling names) how about a round of applause for them (clapping) this week being honored as our principle award folks are doctor gibson at the early education school in transitional kindergarten. (calling names). how abo

>> can i... >> yeah. >> thank you, president norton. i would like to have further discussion on the item that was just spoken to for public comment. so it is 2 f135-28 b6. >> okay. so we will sever that for discussion. roll call vote will take place under section o. >> all right. item h. we have superintendent proposal and approval of material revision to the life learning academy charter petition and to reflect the change of governor ans structure, may i have a reading of the recommendation please? >> good evening, president norton, and superintendent carranza. and commissioners. what we have here is a proposal to approve a material revision to the charter for the life learning academy charter school. superintendents proposal, approval of the material revisions to the life learning charter petition to reflect the change of governor ans structure whereas san francisco unified school district is the charter authorizer for life learning academy charter school which is set to expire on june 30, 2014, and whereas the board of directors of t

i'd like to invite president norton and we would like to present the certify and ask i so say a if you words >> you have covered the main points but i want to increase score what san francisco as done for this community and really - realized a dream that many of us have had is getting our adults and students with disability into the community pr it's accomplishing that goal. and doctor you and your staff have been to welcoming & so accommodating. i can't imagine any teachers that would have been a better job after heidi. thank you, dr. for making this happen and nicole i know you have been such a great support so thank you as well and we're so pleased to honor. thank you. >> good evening everyone i'm doctor i'm the ceo of the arts of san francisco and it's a pleasure to be a community partner of the school district and i think we're all here in san francisco serving those with special needs and i hope as we grow we continue to be a good community partner and do the best by the students who are going to become young adults and wonderful members of our community. so we look forward to do

>> thank you president norton for refreshing my memory. we had a lively discussion on the reauthorization of the public enrichment education fund and also the children's fund. >> a report from the augmented budget and business services committee commissioner wynns? >> thank you. >> so, the committee met on may 22nd, we had one action item. but any way we discussed this was a meeting that was all of the budget committee meetings was it was augmented but we did it and we were particularly interested that the members of the rules committee was able to be there instead of having the rules committee because we had the legislative advocate coming to discuss the may revise with us and we hope that is something that we should sort of talk about during legislative season. because, we, it is much more effective when we have the advocates here to discuss and so we always end up talking about the budget at the rules committee what we immediate and this was timed so that it would be right after the main revision and we would get the update on the budge

. >> norton. >> here. >> wo ng? >> thank you. >> fewer. >> maufas. >> mendoza. >> ly. >> and all right, i need an approval of bore%backer board members. we have minutes from may 18th, may have are hear and motion and a second. >> moved. >> good. noe. now could i hear a second? >> thank you. >> are there any corrections. >> roll call? >> ly. >> thank you. >> fewer? >> thank you. >> yes. >> thank you. >> mr. hainy. >> yes. >> maufas. >> mendoza. >> murase. >> wynns. >> yes. >> five ayes. >> item b, presentation for the board of he had daysing, supervisor carranza. >> thank you, mr. norton, good evening before i their my thoughts for the ink [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> he just announced that if you need spanish translation services the translator are in another meeting and they will be here shortly and so despair and until then you have got me. >> thank you. well you rolled the rs so beautifully. >> so good evening, everyone, i just have to say that we did it. this weekend is a remarkable school year, and i c

lawrence norton is the executive director of the richmond virginia-based tea party. mr. norton says the irs had asked his group beginning in 2010, more than two years ago, for an estimated 500 pages of documents including all of norton's communications, and the names of every donor. >> it got creepy to be honest with you. question is this the kind of scrutiny charles assume mer demanded from the irs in handling tea party applications? rich and. >> reporter: there was a general atmosphere where these people could have felt they are being egged on to on do this. one of the defenses is this is their filter to do this more efficiently. it is not efficient to ask these detailed questions to go back round after round and to delay them for years when you are sweeping the progressive groups right in and giving them a stamp of approval. that is not just a bureaucratic error that is unbelievable on the face of it. >> i don't know progressive groups were swept if. >> they were. they got the rubber stamp. >> reporter: but you had 250 employees he have denly dealing with 70,000 appli

. >> thank you president norton we have two commend and we have a lady who will present this award and read a short description to one our our distinguish distinguished. >> good evening it gives me great privilege to be able to honor our custodian he's known as mr. phillip. he's the custodian every year he is 0 our go to person and our ambassador one of the consequences is to do community services in which our students are ask the to clean up united states school yard by the way, there's simply no garbage in our yards. he is hardworking, dictated, kind, friendly, caringable, organized and simply awesome. i have to condense this to the top 10 list. we appreciate when mr. phillip responds in a split second who called on the walkie-talkie. when we sets upor long tables everyday he never complains. when mr. phillip puts all the lost and found items especially those hard items neatly for all to retrieve. when mr. phillip fixes the things that don't work. when mr. phillip greets people with sir, and ma'am, and he greets everyone everyday with some such a pleasant demeanor we appreciate him a

>> thank you, president norton, i want to reassure the vis valley elementary school community that we take their concerns very, very seriously. i am going to ask if the parents would go to room 601, and meet with our associate superintendent kevin truit who will meet and take your concerns and then report back to us to superintendent chiu. okay? 601 in thank you mr. truit. >> thank you. >> >> we are going to move on to item kadvisory committee report and appointments to the advisory committees. superintendent carranza? >> the delac report. >> thank you, president norton at this point i would like to ask lucielle (inaudible) to come forward for the presentation from the multilingual pathways department for the delac report to the board. >> >> good evening, superintendent, richard carranza, board members and president. i have the honor of serving with the district english learner advisory committee. and the members will take the time to share their recommendations on their annual report. and i just want to read off the names of our delac board members who are here with us tonight. we ha

norton says the internal revenue see askehis group beginning in 2010 more than two years ago 500 pages of documents including all of norton's communications and the names of every donor. >> it is not creepy, toes honest with you, to figure they were trying to did i have have i out -- trying to give out who we were and questions who the secret police might ask. >> well, is this the way they do this with the internal revenue service in handling tea party applications? >> not specifically but there was a general atmosphere where people felt they were egged on to do this and this was just bureaucracy and there was a filter to do this more efficiently. it's not efficient to ask detailed questions to go back around and delay them for years when you are sweeping the progressive groups and giving them a stamp of approval. >> i don't know they were swept in. >> they were. they have the rubber stamp. 250 employees are dealing with 750 applications. they should not have the discretion to make these decisions based on these vague deadlines based on what is political. frankly this -- frankly, this

i know commissioner norton may need to leave before the end of this presentation. but this was an item we heard -- to hear about the current status of the willie brown middle school project and some of the architectural plants and timeline. i know some of the stem is wanting to learn more. just before folks leave because i know not everyone will be able to stay i want to let everyone know we won't call this committee in june, july, and august. we have different resources on the board of supervisors, but we work hard to schedule a date for june and there were no available dates except for friday at 3:30 p.m. and i wanted to spare my colleagues of calling a meeting at that time, an hour and our department heads and staff. so i will not calling a meeting in june. but we do have on deck, surplus properties so i will be calling that in the fall instead of september so we'll have mr. golden back again in september but thank you for being here on presented on willie brown. >> good afternoon supervisors and commissioners, i'm chief the facility officer for the school distr

s and senior executives not the average workers with congresswoman eleanor holmes norton about what she is doing to make sure that low wage workers get the compensation they deserve in just a moment also on tuesday a federal court in washington d.c. struck down yet another important protection for american workers looking to unionize what's behind this big it and workers' rights and since when do corporations have a right to free speech to talk about this and more and tonight's liberal rumble and depending on which hospital you go to you could be paying as much as one hundred thousand dollars for as little as eleven thousand dollars for the exact same procedure i'll tell you why this is and what we can do to change it in tonight's deleted. heated oh this in this age of sequels duration and austerity it often seems like our elected representatives could care less about everyday people but the fact is there are some in congress who care deeply about the plight of the american workers and are laboring hard fighting for economic justice i'm joined now by congresswoman eleanor holmes norton

joining me now, house oversite committee member, democratic congressman eleanor holmes norton, representing district of columbia, and msnbc's joy reed. congressman norton, i can't tell you how much joy you brought to me when i heard you making this distinction about the law says exclusively and the irs misinterpreted it to primarily, and if the irs had never done that misinterpretation, i submit to you, we wouldn't be discussing this tonight, no one ever would have been getting political organizations 501(c)4s. >> lawrence, if the irs had simply taken the plain meaning, what we call it in the law, the plain meaning, none of this would have happened by changing the law. that's what happened here, changing the plain meaning of exclusively to primarily, this was a disaster waiting to happen. it began in 1959, almost 50 years ago in the eisenhower administration, a republican commissioner apparently under his -- on his watch, that got changed. i must tell you, i am so curious how that happened, i don't think it is legal, i don't know who has standing to sue, that's another question, but an admi

. >> i know emperor norton is hanging around. where is the emperor?e come up and give us a proclamation. [ applause ] >> they are somewhere around here. to remember this commemorative day, earthquake preparedness day. i invite you all to come after the painting of the fire. bloody mary. let's hear it for him. >> it's right now time to turn it to mayor lee. he's going to sign the soft story legislation. we are going to sign that. >> board of supervisors in a unanimous vote led of course by our president chiu and skont wiener and and our engineer, we are all on this. mandatory soft story building ordinance certainly will make our soft story buildings have a backbone that will stand firm against any earthquake shaking and this is what we've learned through many years of study since not only 1906 but 1989 loma prieta and i sign this for not only for the things we have to do, but we have over 200 projects that are under way because the voters know we have to do a lot more preparation and we'll continue doing this. i'm glad the board has hearings. this ordi

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s and senior executives not the average workers congresswoman eleanor holmes norton what she is doing to make sure that low wage workers get the compensation they deserve in just a month also on tuesday a federal court in washington d.c. struck down yet another important protection for american workers looking to unionize what's behind this big and workers' rights and since when do corporations have a right to free speech about this and more and tonight's won't.

. >> john: i'm pleased to be joined by eleanor holmes norton who represents the district of columbia and took part in today's hearing. thank you for joining us. >> good evening. >> john: what did you expect from this hearing today? >> i have to tell you it's over the top four of five days with everything but trailers. i really had every reason to expect any revelation the likes of which we could not possibly imagine. but as i speak i'm having a hard time pinpointing anything that came through today that i did not already know. i remember that mr. hicks who was in tripoli he said he was stunned when he heard susan rice mention her firstty ration of what had occurred around the muslim world. there was reaction to language that had-used but he was in tripoli. hundreds of miles away. how did he know what happened? what we know is that general petraeus said that the talking points that were used were scrubbed a little bit to eliminate reference to al-qaeda because they didn't want those terrorists to know that they were under investigation. but there was no stand give to it. we know there

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>> well, i'm afraid that miss norton must have been a sleep. and that happens frequently on the democratic side, she may not have realized, this is the first time that people who were actually on the group and work that night testified, with the exception of are in nordstrom, who testified before. and in fact the chief of mission mr. hicks, my client, mr. thompson, actually on duty that night, mr. hicks was on the ground in benghazi. he became the acting ambassador when ambassador stevens was murdered. my client was in the counterterrorism facility at the department of state. the committee had never heard from them before and they revealed all sorts of new facts about how information was not shared, about how the military standdown -- they learned about it. shocked by the fact the military was not deployed. yesterday's hearing, which lasted almost eight hours, revealed an entire sheath of new on the ground information that people never heard before. >> speaker boehner is now involved. he is the speaker of the house. does that up the ante, and w

before we present it i'd like to turn it back over the president norton >> comments from board members? thank you. i just want to express my gratitude. actually, it's been my time on the board we went through two different versions of somewhat to have an organized way for the parents to have an input on the process. actually, i think this is a good thing not on indictment that it took us 3 times to get it right but we learned a lot more and we found a way for parents to significantly have their voices heard that's important and meaningful and it's a good policy mac process. in addition to that i want to particularly commend the pack for the model where the pack has been and a key partner to help us with it out reach some days controversial but important efforts that the districts has undertaken in those ten years. in fact, i have to say i've proudly given a few presentations where we've done the efforts and how much it really has taught us about how we can truly interact and build our relationships with the community not by just going to them and say we're here to tell you something bu

kim and i will be chairing today's meeting and i am joined by the board of education commissioners, norton and commissioner mendoza and norman yee. and i want to recognize the staff at sfgtv, greg burk and tron ross. madam clerk are there any announcements? >> no, supervisor, none. >> seeing none, if there is no objection, could we call item number three ahead on the agenda. >> it is file number 1 30206 and it is the municipal transportation agency traffic calming programming sponsored by you supervisor. >> thank you. this is actually a continuation of an item that we heard back in march. and so, it is really just an update on mta's traffic calming program, particularly looking at school criteria for funding and updated lists of schools that are receiving funding through the program and looking at potential criteria and the solutions for schools that operate near heavy traffic ar tillals by lowering the school limit where creating a school zone is not an option. excuse me. so, we do have elen robinson and reynolds as well as ana from the department of health here. >> and i have copies of t

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