>> [rollc all] -- [roll call] president mendoza: if you would like, join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] thank you. the approval of the board minutes, there is no approval tonight. the presentation on the superintendent's reports. >> last week we were forced to make ugly decisions that none of us enjoy. the potential layoff notices of over 400 of our employees. this is something that everyone on this board and in the community thinks is got awful. something that we should never have to do. even with that, we have to go through some of that because an order for us to request a portion of the city's rainy day fund, part of the requirement is that we have to demonstrate a need. this has given us more to demonstrate in terms of need but all the cuts they are bringing our way. i wanted to know that today, our mayor did introduce that they are going to move forward to give the school district the rainy day fund which i think is fabulous. we want to thank the board of supervisors, everyone in our family that maybe we have a state that doesn't care enough about its young

president mendoza: rollc al call under section l. there are no board members proposals tonight. item j is regarding general matters. i have a large stack of speakers this evening. i am going to call them out by those -- some of them are on specific schools, some of them are on particular items. i have separated the out by the first set of speakers that will be on general items. the second set of speakers will be a from bryant elementary. the third set of speakers will be from one of this the -- buena vista elementary. i will call your name. come up and you get two mintueus each. we will go from there. i apologize to bot fourching up -- apologize for botching up your name. [reads names] i see you have two cards for two items. if you could do it in both, i 'd appreciate that. [reads names] then the bryant crew. one second. [reads names] i have one other school that is lakeshore. 1 seconds. -- one second. [reads names] and from lake shore. [reads names] on public montessori. [reads names] ok. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent. i am retired, i speak as an individual,