>> that is five votes for rachel norton. >> rachel norton has been elected vice president of the board of education for 2012. [applause] >> at this time, i will relinquish my crown and move over to where rachel sits. president yee will continue. thank you for allowing me to serve you. [applause] >> okay. let's get started. first thing i wayt to say is i appreciate the leadership of commissioner mendoza, over the last three years, as the president in 2010 and the president last year. i hope to accomplish half of the

>> that is five votes for rachel norton. >> rachel norton has been elected vice president of the board of education for 2012. [applause] >> at this time, i will relinquish my crown and move over to where rachel sits. president yee will continue. thank you for allowing me to serve you. [applause] >> okay. let's get started. first thing i wayt to say is i appreciate the leadership of commissioner mendoza, over the last three years, as the president in 2010 and the president last year. i hope to accomplish half of the things that you have rattled off. if i were able to do that, we have to give you a lot of credit for holding us together, in particularly in the tough budget year, when we had to make the hard decisions. it is not always easy to have a lot of people were together for a budget that has to work for everyone. i appreciate all of your leadership, to be able to duplicate the qualities that you have brought to us. thank you very much. the best thing i could do, as commissioner mendoza stepped away, her gift to all of us, you probably cannot see this postcard, this is a little boar

congratulations, norman, president norman yee and rachel norton. i just want to say, i don't know you that well but i preebt the way that you handled the meeting and everything and you coming to the class meeting as well and just your support so thank you, ms. mendoza for your hard work and leadership and the way you carry yourself, thank you for that. my name is gloria mald, i'm a parent of two children within the district, i'm a member of the parent advise recommittee under title 7 and i wanted to also quickly acknowledge the delac and the new members as well and their hard work. thank you. for mr. -- for your contributions and ms. otoshi, i think it's really important. this report here that i'm talking about focuses on the p.a.c.'s work and it correlates with the violence prevention, we're focusing on restorive processes and how that's important. i know it's one of the district's priority initiatives and a priority for the p.a.c. for a couple of reasons, first because we know african-american and latino students are suspended at a much higher ra

>> i nominate rachel norton. >> are there any other nominations for vice president? i

. >> congratulations to president yee and vice president rachel norton. we wonder why the superintendent was speaking about limbo for the coming semester. the school children, their families, the educators at our schools are preparing to enter a winter of discontent. when we look at the proposal of the school district yet again, we know who is going to bear the burden of the tacuts. we at united educators of sentences go no -- educators of san francisco know that is government at higher level, and that is why we are supporting the millionaires' tax so more resources to come to the classroom, but we are not ready to dance a limbo, because when the district proposes assume dr -- proposes to drive a stake into the heart of education of our children. this includes taking away the crown region -- the prep period force teachers across the district. this includes increasing class size. this includes taking away precious sabbaticals a number of our teachers to take every seven years for the opportunity to refresh and reeducate themselves, so we hope the superinte

[applause] school board member, rachel norton. school board member sandra lee. [applause] and you referred earlier to the selection of the police chief, and you named him your police chief. [applause] and gavin newsom named the first female fire chief, joanne hayes-white. [applause] and you kept gavin newsom's chief of staff, steve. where are you, steve? [applause] and then, mr. mayor, all this just didn't happen, all the business of the beautiful blue drapery decking out staal and -- city hall and the blue carpet and the horns aplenty heralding your arrival, that all happened because of the committee headed by none other than charlotte cholets and maw enthusiastic, and they put that all together with the inaugural committee. stand up. you're a member of that inaugural committee. [applause] and then, of course, mr. mayor, you hosted, during the christmas holidays, an event for a very important international unit, and as this city obviously unfolds in its international importance under your leadership, the counselor corps of san francisco is going to be very impo

vice president rachel nor -- presidentee and vice president -- president yee and vice president rachel norton. i'm hopeful you'll appoint committee hodes so that the different committees we count on on the board of education will be able to schedule their meetings and the union will be able to testify at those committee meetings. i rise to speak tonight on several of the resolutions. in this time of tight budget constraints, i think we have to look at every nickel that we spend. so i ask the board to take a look at k-13, which is on page 117. now you might say, this is only a $0,000 expenditure, and the purpose of it is to have leadership development in partnership with an outside organization, as it says, but there's a term being used in this that i don't typically use so i'm wondering about it. the term is a critical friend. a critical friend to the principal. i'd like you to look at that and see how much of the money is being spent for that and how much is going for the leadership development that was intended by this. additionally, i would like to ask you to take a look at k-14 on page 11