second, i should say i was the person who authored the resolution to form the pac. i wanted such an entity at the district level for parents to have input in policy making at the district level. it was sort of the third iteration. we tried a couple of other things that did not work as well as we like. i think all the members who have served. -- i want to thank all the members that have served. i want to say something about the student assignment policy development. i think this is really tough. i think i was in the minority in that i agree more with the pac recommendations then other members of the board. i acknowledge some changes were made. that is the important thing. what we have done is develop a way to get community input and make policy on complex issues that is able to be modified, that is not set in stone once it is proposed. that is the most important thing. whether we are happy with how far it went in one direction or another is secondary, i think. also, the ability to modify and assess continues into the future. that is one of the things we were clear ab

first of all, sarah palin and sara pac can she use her pac money to do what she's doing?basically take a vacation with her family? >> sure, she can because she's not yet a federal candidate. if she were a federal candidate they couldn't use campaign funds for personal use like family vacations. >> stephen: she's getting this money because people think she might become a federal candidate. >> right, that's the joy of the pac you are partway there but not yet a full candidate. >> stephen: so you have to be sort of a pac tease. [laughter] let's go after the questions the fec sent to us. are they watching right now? >> they are very interested in your pac at this moment so i expect somebody is up late at night watching this. >> stephen: theyv: work so hard already and such great guys. you shouldn't stay up this late. you are not paid enough. i tell you what if we get the answers we want, the i promise the number one objective of my pac is to get raises for every member of the fec. [cheers and applause] [laughter] >> as your lawyer i should warn you attempted briber could get

president mendoza: item e is the current advisory council pac report. we have michelle. >> good evening, commissioners and deputy superintendent. i am the proud parent of two public school students, the coordinator of an after-school program, and a member of the parent of kaiser accounts will. -- parents advisory council. we appreciate the california masonic council supporting our students. this is the last pack report -- pac report for this school year, and i conclude my term at the end of this month. it has been an honor to serve, although i did not know what i was getting myself into when i signed up. i have had the opportunity to hear from and represent parent concerns and perspectives from across the district. observing where and why they were different or the same, i have learned a great deal of the past four years. i am a different and better person because of it. i have a greater understanding of education policies, procedures, budgets, and the agenda. i still do not completely understand all of it. i have the privilege of reading and learning f

future of pac, that sort of thing. >> stephen: i don't know any of that until i have a pac right?> right. >> stephen: why know give me a pac and we'll find out. trev, how much excitement is there down there about my appearance before the committee? >> well, this is an unusual situation. i'm told that there will are people sleeping on the street in front of the building tonight and i don't think that has happened before at the commission. >> stephen: so really people have not camped out ahead of time to hear decisions about the fec before. >> amazingly this important government agency works with usually about two people in the audience not paying attention to what they are doing. [laughter] >> stephen: well, they should thank me. [laughter] are we charging them anything for this? a get a lot for personal appearances. [laughter] tomorrow, will we find out what the ruling is? >> you will. this is an open government process. >> stephen: as government always is. [laughter] nonch closed hearing room. no cigars. they'll sit there in public. they'll have their discussion, vote and raise t

i want to encourage pac as you partner with people, that they may not be as reflective of some kmer graphics. how do we go to the other organizations that offer a heroine's -- that offer parents , but have parents embedded in these bodies, and if we could see part 0 -- be part of the conversation. i think we need to be part of those conversations. i would be happy to make sure you have an adverse voice and -- of the verse of voice. -- n.y. a diverse voice. i want to be a helping hand. i cannot tell you how much i appreciate your volunteering. you have some freedom. news that empty space for your world. congratulations. you have done an amazing job. >> thank you. did you want to say something? >> ditto. it was not just about the student enrollment that i appreciated. i started feeling the impact years ago when we started looking for a new superintendent and their involvement in terms of reaching out to the community and getting community engagement going in terms of what we want out of the superintendent was used to mae in terms of how we were going to vote. for me, it is going way back and s

see that in your packet right behind the agenda is the document from pac and pps. please. >> good evening, commissioners, superintendent, members of the community. my name is ellie rossiter, i'm a parent of children and mira loma and james glick. >> hello. [speaking foreign language] >> good evening, board members. i am representing pac, the parent advisory council. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i have two children attending school. one is in 2nd grand the other is i -- grade, the other is in 4th grade. >> i'm chair of the pac this year, i have a second grader and a fifth grader. >> i will get us started. " we wanted to do is give you a chance to have more dialogue with us. we have prepared a couple of questions. there are three questions. we would like to offer you a chance to ask us any questions either about the process that we went through, some of the comments, our reports, our recommendations, or any reports we have given since then. we have been able to follow what the initial report with a number of board meetings since then. before i get started with t

one is in 2nd grand the other is i -- grade, the other is in 4th grade. >> i'm chair of the pac this year, i have a second grader and a fifth grader. >> i will get us started. " we wanted to do is give you a chance to have more dialogue with us. we have prepared a couple of questions. there are three questions. we would like to offer you a chance to ask us any questions either about the process that we went through, some of the comments, our reports, our recommendations, or any reports we have given since then. we have been able to follow what the initial report with a number of board meetings since then. before i get started with the questions, i wanted to ask you, would you rather we read all three questions first or would you like to take each one at a time? >> i would prefer that you read each one first and the sub questions so that everybody has the information. then the board will have any questions like to talk to you about. -- any questions they would like to talk to you about. >> [speaking foreingn language] >> i would like to ask these questions to the board. are we missing

the south of market pac really sets the bar throughout the city. they should be extremely thankful to the participants and the board because they really make things happen. congratulations and thanks to them. i would also like to thank the mayor. on behalf of all of his agencies that have served, have been such a great partnership to this project and to redevelopment agency. of course, nothing would happen without the lenders and the financial partners, thanks very much to them. and to the westbrook family, this gives you something to be proud of forever. and pass on to further generations so ms. westbrook's name will never be lost and she will always be known as a true creator. before i am given a bully pulpit, i have to of knowledge the fact that there is a missing group from the state here. redevelopment, you may have heard, is in peril. as was recognized, redevelopment contributes significantly to the san francisco community. we have phenomenal projects all over the place, this being just one of them. you have dedicated commissioners. you have

the pac and pps have agreed to send people as part of their agreement strategy. they learned a lot about what is going on at all of our middle schools. they are going to share with us their impressions of some of the ways that schools are meeting the needs of students. some of the great programs that they sought and some of the missing pieces that they identified. i think it will be a really interesting discussion. commissioner maufas: i just wanted to comment really quickly, again. if it hasn't been expressed by me where you understood, i do appreciate the work that hthe pac and pps have done. it's monumental. i think with a combination of timing in staff, what is going on, all the different initiatives that we could have mustered the person power to get it done in the appropriate amount of time. i am grateful to you will for doing that. i also want to comment that i realize not just on that an affirmation but my own information because i have been doing this work for a while. conversations from me have never stopped. they are always about the inequity. i know s

is so it's not that her pac is running dry or is it is that what really why she's going to here's what leads me to this i open the drudge report this morning and check out what the right wing news is and there's an ad up at the top for sarah palin's bus tour but right in the middle that ad is a giant green but this is donate i clicked on that and it took me right to the donation page on our pac where it said you know please make your gift now you can do a recurring gift a regular give fifty dollars one hundred dollars five hundred dollars up to five thousand apparently you can give to a pac once a year is what it says there and it's like please help sarah make this trip. is that what it's all about but it's not really for sarah palin she for all i know she could have twenty million dollars in her package she would still raise money after she had signed her book the last go and had millions of dollars coming in and she continued to raise money for her defense fund against the various extra arches that have been filed against her so despite the fact that she had a net worth in the marine

because he's trying to start a super pac and look at what actually happened. moments ago the federal election commission made their ruling ladies and gentlemen i'm sorry to say. we won. but. the crazy thing to me about this is that we see steven called here on capitol hill before now we see him here at the f.e.c. amien he's a comedian right it's all part of entertainment but then suddenly you can see how far it actually goes to where he's essentially done something that's a groundbreaking or now the federal election commission has granted him his own super pac and a lot of people are you know worried about that his own super pac and basically free commercials during his show i mean i think that this is a little over the line and i think that it's crazy that it started out i'm assuming as him making a joke about how you can just buy our entire electro process these days and now he's actually doing it and i find that kind of ok people spend more on potato chips than they do on campaigns in america ok it's not it's not a diet american idea how to regenerate yeah

i am here to represent the pac because of the members are out of town. oh, carol ann, yea.addressing the transportation issues, i think that has been something that we have recommended to the board and that people in the form spoke to a lot, the concern about some of the feeder school was being really much further away or difficult to get to on muni, and it is great to look at the data in terms of the time it takes and transfers and stuff. people do recognize the reality of the budget situation and the lack of predictability and an inability to guarantee the transportation services by just recognizing there are very specific schools that need them. i know that they will be looking at -- looking at that really a lot in the future. the pac really works hard when making recommendations to look at the overall goals, specifically supporting student achievement, apple jacks says, and accountability, so it is through that lens that we urge the board to prioritize the equitable access to opportunity in middle school and still recommend this or some other equity mechanism be placed

the south of market pac really sets the bar throughout the city. they should be extremely thankful to the participants and the board because they really make things happen. congratulations and thanks to them. i would also like to thank the mayor. on behalf of all of his agencies that have served, have been such a great partnership to this project and to redevelopment agency. of course, nothing would happen without the lenders and the financial partners, thanks very much to them. and to the westbrook family, this gives you something to be proud of forever. and pass on to further generations so ms. westbrook's name will never be lost and she will always be known as a true creator.

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