that it is recommended to all of you last year that the high priority in the general fund so that the pta funds, and providing the supplemental, effect, instead of subplanting and so that has happened and so we are good about that and then expecting the thing here and the recommendation and this is the recommendation that we made last year and it we bring it forward again because we want to acknowledge the importance of it for the perspective of the taxpayer funds and like to recommend that a plan be in place for the final funds. we look to ward to having a good orientation before we excite in june and we will take any questions. thank you. >> the board thank you. >> comments? or questions? appreciations? >> yes. >> i just really want to acknowledge the stake holders who made this possible way back when, when the people were talking about $198 tax and there are a lot of nay sayers and a lot of people in this room and in the community had to articulate why it was so important that this parcel tax goes through in support of our classrooms and our schools, and so i really want to thank, all

students next year, we participate in the community forums and we manage and raise the funds for the pta and we run a small non-profit to support our school and we learns that the terms and systems and floors and formulas and we want a better understanding and more transparency, regarding the decisions to be equal partners. we support and believe in equity like you and we want the students who need more funding for the critical basics to receive them at our school and every school in the district. not every school can have or afford a pta to make-up for lack of funding, or relying on us does not and we just..., i can't wait hear from all of us. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> two minutes. >> my name is alex thompson and i have a second and a fifth grader at new tradition and as we struggled to find out how the per funding could be going down as we grow and reach the maximum capacity of the school the staff at the district has given their time and helped us walk through the formula and the floor plan calculation it appears that there is a flaw in the weighted student, the k-3, there is

i'm michelle parker i'm representing the pta and the san francisco parents political action committee both of those organizations come out early in support of this initiative we recognize this to address the health crisis. we must reduce the consumption and particle our children this is an excellent way to begin the proceeds will hope people making better you life some kind of choices. i want to record. dear budget and members i'm writing to support in. raising the price of sugar festivities will help people to reduce their consumption and make better choices. first names will not see an increase in the cost of living the orange county only losses are by the soda companies they're trying to fool the people of san francisco. the patrol cars department is paying for the health care costs optional the city while the revenues about help to fined recreation activities and big tobacco figure out tooth and nail but when the prices of tobacco it was on the run. why should a big set of profit that does not pay for the consequences. >> for your leadership with the pta. i'm going to call the las

the chinese for fifks and youth and mission graduates and parents for the public schools and the district pta it's for parents of low income foster youth. the first forum open to you'll parents will be held this weekend saturday april 12th at american people tuesday middle school at 105 app tuesday avenue i want to thank all the partners. we invite you to attend and have your voice heard the sfusd program has received a grant for $4.4 million to continue the prevention of tobacco use for the department of education. this will help us to educate the people about the risks of smoking tobacco and including e cigarettes and cannabis we will have a quit machine which are services provided by tech support to help students quit smoking and providing intervention for students populations that have been identified for hardcore smokers no one about start or continue to smoke in our community. with that, thank you for being here president fewer back to you >> thank you superintendant. >> item c recognitions and accommodate shuns none. >> on march 28 we had our 4th of july forum and we have a lot of than

yes, so under the excel programs in e e did actually there's a investing practices the pta they run through the mta so that's the process for the non licensed programs and some are licensed we have to find out which ones are and aren't >> thank you. i will be supporting in resolution and ask the author if the other commissioners will join her. i have 3 points are i think this is clearly a recognition of the economic realties and challenges of living and working in san francisco that household require two or more incomes to be able to live here and combrairg that reality among our sfusd that was pointed out but he but members of the public. i want to reiterate commissioner wynns point the calculations on the fee based side are conservation $90 are there's no program in the city that offers that program for $90 a month i'm more familiar with the matthew the 2 to 5 hundred a month. so if we can find a sliding scale that's conservative but finally i would like us to think about the quality instructions a lot of our discussion has been about the mechanics of the system and the start times but we

that run off would be hands on the pta. finding out the prices into the twenty ninth of march on the offices are shared for much of the gate and i still went to a crawl. too many visits from the last round at uab and six after forty days. i keep it close up of qantas times and she didnt answer to climb above pecans and aunties to get a bad toxins from the most infectious and eighty s. and if more speed but it takes to get connection with the pictures i'm going to count it because a nine ball it's been pretty pleasant of the bandits with torn out just right today but sometimes i need about security team a country that are clogging the highest number on the treaty the city and its dusty essence the next button and up are hopeful for transparent elections for the lasting peace and development in the sun but sick of it. as of the new spent years up to continue this didn't put a small quantity can transition of god my hands in india. i hoped would fund returns the santana main theme was torn country. the segments beside the dow c

it is the pta eye. i did. street. what i read in the inning. it is too important for journalists at the reception staff that was healed and education projects going. he's such a basic and essential growth and innovation and sharing strategies which can procure a calm approach in its eighth straight at you you cannot make out what we want to for expanded to other. and all deceit as it was time to decrease it and it's priceless. and also to have been tended to produce as close to the client as possible. so on to lunch and we are and preparing and who would be doing. she looks european energy projects on the other hand we needs the stench of ice smaller energy sources in horror and yes the other approach adopted in pioneering reviews the european summit that was enough to eat. the damage caused by forty nine after his office. not only in the opinions they go to par tay well the top ten hit back to settle for half the bulls may need to take another one hundred and fifty page. after happens to the uk can sometimes take nine to ten months the dvd to

that it is recommended to all of you last year that the high priority in the general fund so that the pta funds, and providing the supplemental, effect, instead of subplanting and so that has happened and so we are good about that and then expecting the thing here and the recommendation and this is the recommendation that we made last year and it we bring it forward again because we want to acknowledge the importance of it for the perspective of the taxpayer funds and like to recommend that a plan be in place for the final funds.

we need the pta and the chamber of commerce weighing in on issues.we met our friends in neighbors engaged in the town hall meetings that go back to the founding of the republic. and so would dean harding and others at the batten school and her team were trying to do is we are assuming you are going to lead from a different -- bunch of different places. you're not just going to be a government official. you may be on wall street making a million bucks but you will also be involved in civic affairs and elections. he will be writing up beds. you will be arguing at the town hall about the bypass it was never built. you'll be working on these issues and to be a citizen in the sense that mr. jefferson risley intended when he founded this university that everybody has a stake in it. i know there were mostly white male landowners in those days but i know mr. jefferson would have embraced a more inclusive design. that is what we are trying to do in our modest entrepreneurial startup of the school and i think it's the key to the future. ngos will be a wonderfu

they will not go home and join the pta. they will go back to host countries bring jihad. hundreds are pene pones and americans and a good number of them will move in iraq and egypt in the sina i peninsula. >> we are told from u.s. authorities they called the video recently. what do you make of the blurred faces and possibly new recruits to the terrorist network. >> if there are reports of the last several months a lot of european passport holders that joined holy jiowa and want to be part of al-qaeda. if they go back to home countries they can. will they bring that home with them? especially if they are trained and if they are syrian veterans of the rebel forces. they know how to do urban war fire and car bombs. i don't think they will go home and lay down and give up fighting. they are looking for the next fight. >> will the video that we continue to watch will it be cause for new action by the united states. >> it should be but highly unlikely. we are perceived as if we lost the war. i look at afghanistan, for example, where i have been. we finished with al-qaeda and dec

that is the police to pa government to improve our relations with the pta good neighbors and twenty two of the different countries and the east entrance to that question comes in color. the question is that whatever comes in kampala ob interact with them and this morning to load your question. we feel that de. this is a program is going to be conducted by the guns themselves. and it should not have the interference of any region of concrete. the cold the free relationship between any two countries legal problems without. but we should ship reached on the news. all the activities of the spill could be defeated to russia for the storm or how much to india's elections matter to afghanistan. cause this is the india who have excellent additions to the nbl with auto diverse including india and that let me say that all are good relationship with my crutches and tootsie and the congress party with the gp who don't see any any a and we haven't had to assemble the night. i bet that this is going to be in store so i mixed in action on these candidates have an agenda on the agenda. one item which i

ukraine one hundred member states voted in favor while eleven countries headed by abbas to play in the state pta states abstained when details in this tiny. put a gun to subdue both the kind of resolution called on thurs the project was brought to the u n general assembly consideration by ukraine. i must call upon the united nations in addition to confirm sovereignty and gentile integrity of the country. what man can recognize and what is haven't finalized my international education ec does not break any new legal or not much you've grown. he had. the extensive and essential message that the international community of the beaumont of all what can i thank the minister for his people. she was supposed to post job on the general assembly resolution as it is confrontational. the jetties alec and the significance of the referendum on the grainy and it is counterproductive to challenge them. fifteen which is endless and the general assembly addressed all the countries have enacted upon that any changes to the status of many ends to stop when a call from any actions that can be valuable to such a nice

.) >> michelle parker again, i'm with the second district pta and able to serve on the community chris coalition i'm excited about being being a part of those conversations there's no question about the impact that peace funding is here we still have librarians there's one point i want to bring up i've heard it a lot and that's as we begin to see our funding restored back to 20074 and 8 level and have a better economy i want to not think of peace as a ceiling to what we're spending but important things that need more funding we know all or rapid you funding is coming from peace we hope we'll consider adding funds from the general funds and not think of peace as a funding fund and be more effective. thank you >> thank you. >> so the sxhiment is now closed. i will open up briefly for the board. anyone having commits thank you rachel >> i actually have questions i think we need age more clarity you mentioned a little bit about the children and family council and the clufk what are those and how are they postponed and what authority do they have. i have to say the outstanding issues are th

.) >> my name is cynthia i'm the co-chair the gateway high pta and a parent when we found out my daughter was accepted at the gateway i didn't tell everybody but there was a school that seemed a perfect place for my retired daughter could be in a environment and is raised in a multiple family without being harassed or go forward. i was delighted that the environment i love the cultural focus that i feel should be out in the world and the fact there is an emphasis to help be a better sense. i love the culture and the teachers require them to stretch and support them when they struggle. i like the schools you think ups. the reason i was hesitate to spread the world about this lovely school is because over and over again, i was hearing the folks around me didn't get the school they got but they knew there would be compromised it felt wrong when everybody was xhoemd. now i can't shut up about gateway. i've been part of the gateway community for 3 years and with my younger daughter starting at middle school i'm looking forward to 4 more years. i wouldn't say that gateway is best for every kid

fourteen children are among the victims of the box kind since often packing stock for pta died when the vehicle smashed into trying to trade a simple passengers were trapped inside the box and it was then the mangled. so cool coming to st. but the day ended. tt's have now abandoned cents to three kinds still racing off to the pitching staff that accident on impulse mountainous thirteen people were killed when snyder and huge chunks of ice swept down on the party's cool expo on friday to set this is a ferry supplies to foreign climes as winds reached the summit of the world's highest mountain cars are on sat the painting old to a shy companies are keen to gain entry to the chinese market which is now the big east in the wilds of montana friends comic the presence of instructing him in europe is designed to deal with the chinese could go on and i suspect east of us has been finding and how it is what haunts to win at the chinese can see this. in the nineteen sixties it was a popular choice for the apple press today that he s looking for a resurgence in china psa is chosen beijing to unvei

to protect the environment the company has moved into management the amendment process and actually i intended to produce august with pta. the company used it recently chicken bone in chicken sticks. you see the waves were high that i didn't eat much. i get the idea of business. have you had to read most of the top deck set up a tree what do we know next to brian. they have to cut the genetics institute. we started to use owed it to grow mushrooms. that would guess dan deacon was easy to cut a deal as are met. we are dealing with. wasted about two times recently the company produces between five and six tonnes of into mushrooms. it's the small sword as can be used to grow on its dimensions to it mushroom business that provided dozens of new jobs for locals. i've given you johnny stayed to end. deal so when we first started during the show. we had some problems with it. daddy read to her kitchen and use that name. my customers. he is not a communist looking to expand evident in vietnam. key in the national production block of dancing and into the grand solution. the team to waste in making the province of central provinc

joyce armstrong, president of the public housing association, phta, not pta, that shows how little he works with us. i am joined by the president of ccde, that is the council of disabled, and she wants you know that she supports the rad program. as far as we know it's the only program that can help the public housing in dire need of help. and she wanted me to tell you that the elevator problem, and they are blessed that something bad hasn't happened in the senior disabled buildings. she's hopeful they have service providers. right now we don't have social worker in the building, except maybe four. that's a service that is needed in the senior disabled buildings as well as the family developments. yes, as president of the phta, i support the concept of rad. we are still contacted and we requested training so we can understand and articulate what is going do happen to residents in the proper way. residents have to get up off of their behinds and become active. we send out information and beg them to come to meetings. and we don't have a grassroots following, people are comfortable, and

. >> reporter: the school's pta also sounding off this morning saying in a statement "the video is ofern to everyone who has watched it." and after that incident the superintendent took matters into her own hands boarding the bus herself unannounced to let the kids know they should always tell adults whether they've been mistreated. all of us shaking our heads this morning. >> i cannot believe that. thanks, gio. >> thanks a lot, gio. >>> now to the young woman struck by an arizona police officer sent flying over a metal bench during a riot after arizona's ncaa loss last weekend. the officer under investigation by the tucson police and the woman in that video speaking out exclusively on "gma" this morning. abc's cecilia vega has her story. >> reporter: it is the disturbing march madness video gone viral. a tucson officer ramming an unsuspecting student knocking her down during last weekend's riot police were called in to quell after the university of arizona's defeat. watch again. the officer slams the young woman sending her flying over a bench. this morning in an abc news exclusive,

>> and you're doing the ask or the parents and pta are doing the asking? >> it's a combination. e talking to associations, coaches' associations, directly to coaches, we're working with athletic directors, we're working with parent groups, national pta's involved. we are looking at every conceivable channel to communicate this program and the importance of changing behavior. and what i'm sharing is there's been a very positive response. that video by itself, and really the reason i decided to show it, has been incredibly influential. in addition, we now have the big ten, the pac-12, the big 12, the acc, we'll eventually have the ncaa, we'll have all college conferences involved, every one of their coaches will be involved with psas and thicks of that nature -- things of that nature that help influence high school coaches and high school programs to embrace the heads up football program and help change behavior. >> thank you. let me say that if there is one message i wish to leave this morning in my five minutes of questioning is that i would hope that all of those involved at you

you don't look right, when you are pta father you go, hmmmm you know what you would be great for? the you would be great for that. >> because i am a rich jerk. >> i watch these old movies on turner classic movies. you know, gable and grant all those guys are very good-looking guys. they got all the plumb parts. >> right. >> it's changed now. you have to have angst. >> i love those guys, guys who are my heros like continue anywhere row and dustin hoffman and pa chin know. >> all ugly guys. >> they are charismatic. >> all right, now, you also have said n your mow meeting this book that you want less government intrusion. is that correct? >> i do. yeah. your pinhead friends in hollywood they don't want, they want equality for everyone, which take as massive government. >> i want equality for everybody is great. that would be amazing. i just think that individuals usually do a better job than collective big government. >> so you don't want the government to be telling you thousand live and how not. that's kind of a libertarian position. >> that's funny, does that make me a libertarian? i'

the digital age? with parents and ptas together, we need to say, what does it mean to be a good digital citizen, how doect our data, how do we protect our image and reputation, when is it appropriate to interact, and how is it appropriate to interact with people in the other space? how do we make sure we are creating good digital citizens. >> we live in the bay area. the home of the most advanced technology companies in the world from google to facebook to apple. san francisco public schools, for example, are struggling. what are you doing to get tech companies more involved with this effort to help our education system? >> there are a number of things underway. the first thing is the president's connect ed initiative, to make sure there is an infrastructure in place. there are a lot of schools that are interested, but if you are in a room that does not have connectivity, there is not a lot you can do. that is the first piece, making schools connected. the president says that needs to happen in less than five years. the other piece that is important is private sector engagement in helping to provide th

the bomb exploded. she was running to raise money for sandy hook pta. to tell us more, we have julie, via skype. >> you are an inspiration. >> thank you. >> how difficult was it for you to think about going back and running this race again? >> it has been a remarkable year of training and healing. it has been a long journey. i have tthink mental challenge is greater on the challenge challenge. i can't pick one. >> do you know how you will feel when you get to cross the finish line? >> i'm going to cry and be happy. i mess this man his name was joe cruise. we are planning to run together and cross the finish line together. >> my husband is part of the swat team. he was activated hours before the second suspect was captured. he came home safely as well. >> it is inspiring that you are headed back and inspiring others to face their own challenges wherever they may be. >> thank you. i'm ready to bring it on. never stop. >> bizarre incident caught on a home security camera. but doesn't stop there. >> and then it went back and got stuck. >> the driver continu

the parents came together and did. and my son went to roosevelt, and i was a pta board member for both schools and so i believe in the district. and my son, was struggling at roosevelt, he was struggling with the concept of 30 manage kids in the classroom and he learned differently. and if i could have found the school that would meet his needs, in the district, i would have done it. but instead, we found sfflex and it has been amazing for him. and he has gone from being a struggling student who tested high, but had low grades, to you know, a dean's list student. and that is the potential that he had, but it was not being met by the school district. all that we are asking, and we are not asking for money from you, we are asking for a better location, an unused site and we proposed several different sites other than davis and we were shot down. and we offered to pay a premium over what you are required to give us, and we offered to pay more per foot and offered to give more money to your schools for your teachers to get more money and all that we got back was no, davis is the only site that can work. and as far as transit, it

the neighborhoods. take them to designated activities whether it's a fair or getting parents at a pta meeting or sro and event and get residents to come, whatever it is and get the eligibility workers with the appropriate language to go take applications. we don't have anyone doing that right now in terms of our own staff and we are seeking two teams of workers in the budget which i will tell you a little bit about. so we actually have found funds in this fiscal year to hire one team but we need position authority to hire them and that's something we're seeking that we don't have. in terms of the next year we are trying to get funds approved. it will be $142,000 of general fund to do that and authority for them. two units could do a lot. we haven't had outreach staff in almost 10 years. we would also like to be able to equip more cbo's. we only have one or two with staff doing application assistance. we would like to grow that and asking for $55,000 more in general funds to have larger contracts in that department, so really we would like your financial support with the budget request, your support with

this summer we expect of a much more streamlined application for those who qualify i call them the des moines ptaand they should be able to be approved in a matter of days or a couple of weeks. which would allow us of the funding to spend our time with a really complicated organizations but also more significant allow us to spend more time on the examination side to make sure that two years or five years after they apply and provide an exemption whether it's (c)(3), four, five or six, the public needs to be satisfied to doing what they said they're going to do. in most cases they are but if someone is not performing and not engaging in activities that they said they were, then we need to probably a conversation with them. the good news is the 990s and put a file are public documents the people supporting those are decisions themselves will have some indication of what the organization is up to come how much money it is spending on its officers as opposed to on its chair of omission. they're all sensitive, they'll start out trying to do very good things to think it is important to be able to assur

. >> on the day quinn was kidnapped, the 37-year-old pta mom had made appointments for her daughters to have hair cuts and she was far along in the upcoming party for one of her daughter's birthdays. now reid tried to shield the 8 and 6-year-olds from the news that their mom's life was in danger. he picked up the girls from school and took them to a friend's house, while he waited at the sheriff's office. reid was still in his shirt and tie from work, and he was an emotional wreck. he shared more details about quinn's three frantic calls to him hours earlier. >> she said there was somebody with a gun pointed to her head. >> on that call she said there were three kidnappers and they were albanian. the $50,000 ransom was to pay back money reid had borrowed from a loan shark, but reid gray insisted he didn't owe money to anyone. >> 50 grand doesn't do much. >> why ask for only $50,000 from a man that was making more than $1 million a year? reid didn't know and neither did investigators. at this point there was only one goal, quinn's safe return. >> it was very disconcerting to realize th

very careful to think that tv p s the east room to allow taiwan to be more open to the global markets can run into seeking pta as an end itself which is i think it's in a vain wrongful. for the money missy she blossomed in the stations to carry out policies on the set up to be the best and final goal. one highlight of the revival come in contact and thus the rule things out to keane's the instrument. look i want to show the war that we are we have a commitment. today the violation of the market given that the minimum to resign simply that we should not foreign to him yet the trek from not using will be in the ability for taiwan to put this painting that eat the peel region on the arrangement. to the late hour commitment. the move to realize our economies. i think i think that's a that's the wrong things. in all he can use this as a staple for the all the nice daily comics and soulful yet taiwan local enterprises and elysees we did not. we have not assigned a tv deal with some vision of the dissolution of the league was awesome. i think that's the wrong number coach and the best approach is plus he's going to