deputy superintendent lee. thank you for being here. >> thank you, madam chair for holding this initiative which i know you're intimately familiar. supervisor kim and yee did a good job of giving half of the presentation i was going to given. i wanted to give an over view of the investments that have been made through the voters of the charter amendment. slightly more than ten years ago. this is -- i'm about sure if i'm operating this device properly but we have a presentation. so -- >> sfgovtv, if you can help with the presentation. speaker: as supervisors kim and yee mentioned, this measure has been in place for slightly more than ten years. we are in our ninth year of implementation of the resources that the voters approved and the current level of funding is for all three parts of the public education enrichment fund is slightly over $80 million, 2/3 of which comes to sfufd which is administered through the first five commission. the general theme is that this set of resources really has transformed what ed

thank you for this presentation superintendent lee. i agree this has been an outstanding gift from the city of san francisco to fund these programs at a time where we had great, great need and also -- for example, in the example of the libraries that we had no librarians in our schools and we had no elementary pe department at all whatsoever, and so it has completely transformed those two programs and now they're robust and on their way and as you can see from these photographs, our libraries aren't in good condition and we have weeded out books from the 1950s and we have staffed our libraries with credential so that's taking a step to improve the education of our students. in reference to what commissioner wynns has mentioned, we as the board has decided that one ballot verses two was something that the majority of the board has agreed on. she's right about finalizing the governance structure and we haven't had actual legislation, written legislation brought to us for approval but we're narrowing it down. what the board has said, this

sprirpt carr response deputy superintendant lee. president fewer. commissioners. why do i feel like i'm preaching to the choir i'm a proud parent of the two koreans in the program. 5 years ago i stood before this board in support of the seal of literacy and overwhelmingly supported that every student in san francisco should have the opportunity for pre k through 12 grade prelit education. thank you it's not easy working with the budget and we've not been sitting on our hands we've formed nonprofits and worked with within the community and outside the community and partnered with our principle mr. hawk and the administrators to put together as much of a program as we could. now i look at the agenda for this evenings goal under accountability. keep our promises to students and families we ask only one thing that our board of education fully fund the commitment as of 4 years ago >> we have more speakers when i call your name come up. (calling names) . two minutes each please. first speaker press the bottom. please identify yourselves and tell us our name. >> hello. a

. >> i think we should engage mayor ed lee and the superintendant but the new food systems that ms. brooke brought it's creating more nutritional food some of the community members were active parents in making sure that low income kids didn't have that stigma so theres a card that's used so not a stigma and major effort in the districts that helps with money but the school district is creating healthier opposed. if the 90s they were kitchens more prevalent but we don't have this luxury and those parents are working on that but ed who retired within the department is doing better with less resources but we need to bring in mayor ed lee and the superintendant to talk about those changes and yeah. i want to understand what's more important what did we used to spend on kids and what are we spending now in the public school system. i've watched over the years as cuts to incredible programs that have happened and schools have closed in my district and there's less kids so if there's less kids and still money at a certain level what's that being used for and we're proposing

within the department is doing better with less resources but we need to bring in mayor ed lee and the superintendant to talk about those changes and yeah. i want to understand what's more important what did we used to spend on kids and what are we spending now in the public school system. i've watched over the years as cuts to incredible programs that have happened and schools have closed in my district and there's less kids so if there's less kids and still money at a certain level what's that being used for and we're proposing adding money from this tax and i'd like to understand how it used clearly on the nutritional program and the athletic programs but wanting to get an understanding of where the dollars are going and somewhat of a historical understanding of that >> i know that jill and martin are here but that's an issue for a great discussion of the joint committee of the board of supervisors board of education. >> m members but i'll ask for the data for ask the serves how they've spent their money and enrollment i think those are great questions. thank you, ms. brooks please continue >> i k