thank you. >> thank you, president norton. and so, i think i know that associate superintendent kevin has given us a similar explanation of this and a little bit of background on it but i thought that it is, it was worth sharing in the public since it was presented in public the issue. >> thank you. >> and kevin true, the community support department and as per the practice of the past couple of years, what the commissioner of athletics collins distributes a sign-up sheet for all of the athletic teams and all of the middle and high schools and the security and the security t10. and security guards have the opportunity to sign up for any and all of those games the deadline for that sign up was actually yesterday. and so that we can collate them altogether and then give an assignment as to who is going to cover the days and the left over for games that are not covered for this is just for fall now, are covered under this black bear but that is a maximum contract and generally, out of that 60,000, it is a small fraction of that t

>> yes, president norton. thank you. again commissioners, superintendent, my name is chris armentraut, director of policy and planning. [speaker not understood] appoints the following individuals for membership to the quality teacher and education act oversight committee. also known as qtea. sam rodriguez, [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood] cornell, and dan cohen. >> we don, i believe, have resumes on these people. >> mr. ar men trout, way asking president norton if there is a brief resume of the people to be appointed. >> commissioner, sorry, can't find the page right now, excuse me. page 6? we don't have resumes for the individuals. the individuals were asked to submit applications and with questions regarding qualifications, regarding their involvement with the -- whether they had children in the school, their involvement with the school, they took a leadership role at the site, and whether they had financial experience. those were considered the main criteria for involvement

. >> 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 what your intent is there. and t

>> aye. >> norton. >> yes. >> thank you. >> item p. there were several consent calendar resolutions severed for board discussion. by commissioner wynns. if you want to take the contracts since i believe that we addressed the questions. >> the items are the contract that are to the two and so we can. >> we will roll call on c2. >> thank you. >> ly. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> murase. >> aye. >> wynns >> aye. >> and norton. >> aye. >> on the next page, it is

. >> norton. >> yes. >> thank you. >> item p. there were several consent calendar resolutions severed for board discussion. by commissioner wynns. if you want to take the contracts since i believe that we addressed the questions. >> the items are the contract that are to the two and so we can. >> we will roll call on c2. >> thank you. >> ly. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> murase. >> aye. >> wynns >> aye. >> and norton. >> aye. >> on the next page, it is b7. right? >> the and then the k32. >> right, so page 87. the yellow pages. >> yes. so the education protection account and this is a budget issue too. but this is interestingly, this is sort of the now, new version of the tier three thing that we had to do last time. you get a certain amount of revenue almost, $250, or $300 million >> we just don't call it the revenue limit any more. >> there is property taxs that we receive. >> great. >> and state aid to make that up >> in the state aid will be the pa. and it was set up becau

. >> and norton?> yes. >> item b presentations to the board of education, superintendent's report. mr. carranza. thank you, president norton and good evening everyone and i i have a few thoughts that i would like to share with everyone and listening in the public. last week we were honored to welcome our students back to the classrooms for learning, for the 2013, 14 school year. and i'm very happy to report that the students came back and you can hear the excitement in the air on the students that i visited that day. >> i did have the pleasure of visiting the sites on open day and i could not have been more pleased with the teaching and learning that was happening on the first day. i joined with the parents and children at gratan elementary and i saw so many signs that encourages the students to mroer including a garden to see how the water system works and an interactive computer, and ecology theme and tents inside of a classroom. and i also had the opportunity to be at the middle school where i saw

norton? >> yes. >> all right. item b, presentations to the board of education from the superintendent. mr. superintendent carranza. >> thank you, president norton, and you haven't lost that rolling of the rs, very good. so, good evening, everyone. i have some extended thoughts this evening to kickoff the school year. but needless to say, i and the rest of the staff are very excited for the start of the new school year. a few weeks ago we welcomed back our administrators and this week we welcome all of our teachers back to educating our students and collaborating with their colleagues in preparation for a great school year. we are not starting the school year with a lot of -- we're starting the school year with a lot of strong systems in place to support our students and teachers and we have multi-tiered system of support so that our schools know what it means to have support from a central perspective and our teachers who have the greatest need are getting the modethv services in those communities that have the gr

commissioners, stewart norton. you got my letter i assume. i have ten copies if you didn't. >> thank you. >> in a nutshell, it says wow, how could this be exempt from the seca review this is not a minor alteration and this is a major thing, by the way you have a really important decision to make on this building, the landmarks do not intend and part of the historic district on the national register and to quote, what is my preservation buddies, if this get approved as planned we have a pathetic wall. and i think that explains a lot of things. i have talked to mino who was the city storage proprietor who left his storage space of december 31 of last year and after i met with the arc, in june, i talked to him and he said, i went out snooping and i found some of the brick. and they were in boxes of two by three by three, i think or four. and he went snooping around, and he found a bunch of the brick, we don't know how much. but according to jay's report way back in 2003 and 4 and 5, we don't need the total amount of brick, we need those are the

up next, jim norton is back. >> he's so good. >> he's brilliant as are you. you'll be back later in the show. we'll put you altogether. don't go anywhere. they should self-deport? >> no, they said "make us a turkey and make it fast". >> (laughter). >> she gets the comedians laughing. >> that's the best! >> that's hilarious. >> ... and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there is wiggle room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> she's joy behar. >> ya, i consider you jew-talian. >> okay, whatever you want. >> who plays kafka? >> who saw kafka? >> who ever saw kafka? >> (laughter). >> asking the tough questions. >> chris brown, i mean you wouldn't let one of your daughters go out with him. >> absolutely not. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me? >> absolutely! >> (singing) >> i take lipitor, thats it. >> are you improving your lips? >> (laughter). >> when she's talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. >> it looks like anthony wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. >> his what in the ring? >> his hat. >> always

>> yes, i will, thank you, president norton. superintendent's proposal 138-13 sp2 accept the voluntary closure by envision education, incorporated, of its metropolitan arts & technology charter school effective august 1st 2013 whereas the california legislature has charged school boards with reviewing and acting upon petitions for the establishment of charter schools and conducting oversight of charter schools and whereas in accordance with california education code sections 47 605 and 47 6 07, the district approved the envision and education incorporated petition for the establishment of the charter school which began operations in san francisco on august 25th, 2005, and whereas on september 13th, 2011, the district approved the charter schools renewal for a five-year period ending june 30, 2017 and whereas envision now has ceased operations of the charter school and intedthxctionv to voluntarily surrender its charter and otherwise forfeits all rights and privileges granted under that charter ~ and whereas on july 25th, 2013 un

>> thank you, president norton. i just want to assure the commissioners that it is our absolute intent that any contract that we enter into as a district with any organization, we expect up front and will have that conversation that they will abide by the contractual agreement they have entered into with us. and that we will exercise our 30-day clause if we are aware that they are not living up to the agreements that they have made with their partners as well. we are a school district. we are in the people business. so, while we are not going to set up a separate process for monitoring every single contract, we are going to be hyper vigilant and we commit that we will have this conversation as we enter into this agreement so that the expectation is very clearly stated right up front. >> commissioner wynns, then commissioner [speaker not understood]. >> commissioner fewer, i was going to ask that question although i would have asked it like this. i presume our prevailing wage infrastructure or the law doesn't apply t

>> thank you, president norton. i appreciate that clarification. and i want to in my own reflection, apologize about my flippancy around not caring about this. that's not the case. it's just when we put it on the shelf because of our economic times, it definitely dropped off my radar, so, i'm glad it's back on my radar. >> i think commissioner haney, if you can put down on a future rules committee, we can develop some guidance and then staff can go out and recruit more candidates or send us a roster that is more balanced, whatever balance we want. >> thank you, president norton. and, mr. ar men trout, would you mind compiling that list of requests about more information, the gender bias, blah, blah, blah, to commissioner haney so those questions can be addressed and those issues can be addressed and added to the discussion at the rules committee? >> absolutely, commissioner. >> thank you, mr. ar men trout. >> may i ask one more wi sf are we in time to get this on the next rules committee agenda? >> yes, it will be o

norton? >> yes. >> 7 ayes. >> okay. item r, board members appropriate sail for [speaker not understood] there are none tonight. item s, board members report. commissioner murase, would you give a report from the committee of the whole meeting of june 24th, 2013? >> yes. at the june meeting there was one information item, review discussion of no child left behind california office to reform education waiver. and i'm very pleased to report that the waiver was granted by secretary of edward jones indication arney duncan, making us one of the first and only district-level waivers of the no child left behind, which means we no longer have to punish our students in high stakes testing and really impossible score improvements, and that we we're really at the cutting edge of school reform nationally. and i just want to recognize our superintendent, richard carranza, who has been working very closely with superintendent of multiple districts up and down the state. he has really proven to be a leader among these superintendents.