. >> commissioner walton: glad you're here. this is the regular meeting of the board of education for the san francisco unified school district. it is december 11, 2018. miss casco, roll call, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> commissioner walton: before we jump in, i just wanted to acknowledge we have two world famous attendees in the audience tonight. tracy chapman is with us. [applause] >> commissioner walton: and someone who we'll be acknowledging soon, brian boitano is also here. [applause] >> commissioner walton: so in honor of their presence, i'm going to read a quote from may carol jensen, who was the first women in space. never limit yourselves because of other's limited imagination. never limit others because of your own limited imagination. section a is accessibility for the public. section b, open-ended item. approval of board minutes for november 13, 2018. can i have a motion and second on the minutes? >> i move approval of the minutes. >> second. >> commissioner walton: miss casco, roll call, please. [ro

i -- i am so sorry that commissioner walton had to leave. i'll have to catch up with him later, but i would just like to convey to both of you how much i have enjoyed serving with you, and i'm very sorry to see you go, although i am sure -- well, commissioner haney doesn't get his tuesday nights back, you're just going to take them across the street. you get your tuesday nights back, at least for a while, commissioner merase. so my very best wishes to you, and my thanks to you for all of the great work you both have done on this board. and if i can ever be of help to either of you in your future endeavors, please let me know, and please stay in touch. i will stay in touch with you, definitely, commissioner haney, and you, i hope, as well, commissioner merase. >> president cook: commissioner sanchez? >> i was hoping to have the opportunity to roast shamann. i want to thank you for your service on the board, for your initiatives that you have authored over the years that have made our district a better place for students and families. just lik

it's been encouraging to see commissioner haney and commissioner walton and incoming supervisor gordon mahr make comments to that and i just want to ask you to fight hard for our incoming students. thank you. >> good evening. i'd like to say good evening to the president and the superintendent and the commissioners -- all right. all right. okay. so my name is elaine meriwether, and i'm currently serving as vice president of united educators of san francisco. i know last year, before the implementation of prop g, we saw a vast number of our educators and paraeducators struggling in the city just to make ends meet. and also, many of them left because they couldn't afford to live here, so that was a crisis for sfusd. but within my current role, i get an opportunity to talk to parent educators and teachers priet often just to see -- quite often just to say how they're doing. many of them are excited about what prop g has done for them. it has changed many of their li lives. we know people who have decided to come to san francisco to teach here because of prop g, so prouz because -- because

of supervisors, i am excited, and i'd like to formerly introduce you to supervisor-elect shamann walton, who's here. you should rest assured that he's thoughtful in his approach to policy as well as many social justice issues. i want to, again, recognize that in july of 2014, we learned that only 76% of ambulances were on-scene within ten minutes of life threatening emergency medical calls. and since learning this, i can tell you that i've personally had to call on an ambulance for one of my family members that became ill. and i mentioned this to the chief at the time, but i will mention it publicly, the service was impeccable. kindness, generosity, and thoughtfulness, professionalism all the way through. i'm grateful. yeah, shout out to the fire department. and as the mayor mentioned, there is a ten-minute national standard. as san franciscans, we can say that we can be doing better, don't you agree? san francisco's seven square miles. we can get this in a little bit faster fashion, and i think that community and city leaders came together to establish a working group to assist us with

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. >> commissioner walton: glad you're here. this is the regular meeting of the board of education for the san francisco unified school district. it is december 11, 2018. miss casco, roll call, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> commissioner walton: before we jump in, i just wanted to acknowledge we have two world famous attendees in the audience tonight. tracy chapman is with us. [applause] >>mi

and the student delegates, we'd like to congratulate our new san francisco supervisors, shamann walton, for winning district ten, and matt haney, for winning district six. thank you so much for supporting district six and the triple a cannabis resolution. thank you. >> we would like to thank our students who are currently in transitional housing. [inaudible] >> we hope that you will take the initiative to aid our students in san francisco. to donate, please visit our facebook page for your information. >> in light of recent events, the s.a.c. would like to support the environmental and red cross foundation at the school of the arts. if you'd like to help, please visit our facebook page for your information. thank you, student leaders from desoto environmental club and earth class club. >> on the topic of supporting youth work and youth experience -- [inaudible] >> -- so that they become competitive when applying for jobs. our s.a.c. internship will continue all academic year. thank you. >> our next meeting will be on december 3 at 5:00 p.m. in the board of education room. the s.a.c. is

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one david walton knows will help someone.on of many lessons he and fell low volunteers have learned reaching into their own pocket to continue their tradition. >> we started at midnight and started cooking eggs and bar:n. >> repor lives began to stretch. wide smiles a many a merry christmas which meant to much to those >>receiving. t feels great. giving out and tak tgir time on christmas and helping the community to those who need it. it jus feels good. >> there is a lot of love out re. santa clause is here today a are thankful. >> reporter: hundreds wrapped in warm clothes. many carrying withhe them all have. men and women who aren't with theirs famil but have found families here today. >> i feel i have been out of jail 15 years and i thank god i have made it this >> reporter: all together, all glad and all grateful. >> that is what christmas is about, giving back and being able to share and bei blessed. >> reporter: i am justin west news 4. >>> pope francis delivering a christmas message. urging people of all faithnd races to come together. the pope added our differences is a source of ric

radio voice john walton taught last spring it was okay to believe. it still might take some convincing with redskins. we're alln with the. i know. all in, in pittsburgh and caps looking for tir second with the sabres. clears ithe for t caps. wait a's minute. that chandler svenson. scor shorthanded. caps on top, 1-0. thirdod pe sabres on the attack. johan larsson is hethere, backhand into the net, ties it at 1. later in the third, carterlays it behind the net. give me that. staged tom wilson with t score. braden holtby,in capitals 2-1 over the sabres. >>> ou want to get ready for this. redskins and titans, redskins pregame report at 3:00 p.m. tomorrow. one-on-one with jay gruden and josh johnson and kickoff rally set and the postgame reporr af that. no need to thank us. we have your saturday plan. wizards tomorrow with a familiar face. remember, trevor ariza. rivers has since been waived but d.bre said he never expected to be tra >> it was unexpected to have my name in it but it was and i accept that. i'm past it. i'm glad the guys in the locker room

. >> reporter: perhaps not a christmas stocking you're used to, but one david walton knows will helpomeone. one of the many lessons he and fellow volunteers from done kink baptist church have learned, reaching into their pockets to continue this ten year tradition. >> it's natural to get up christmas morning. we got up at mnight and cooked eggs and bacon. reporter: handouts of the hearty homemade meals. served alongside wide smiles and chmany a merry christmas w meant so much to those receiving. >> it felt great, they're taking their time on christmas and helping the community to those that need it, you know.t it j feels good. >> lot of love out here, you know what i'm saying? santclaus, he's here today and we're thankful. >> reporter: lking across franklin square, a crowd of hundreds wrapped inco warm s. many carrying with them all that they have. men and women, who aren't with their families, but have found family here today. >> b i feelssed because this is my first christmas home. i've been in jail 15 years and i thank god i made it this >> we all know each other. we're all togeth

new google patents that are pretty troubling with conservative commentator thieve plus artes caleb walton considers the electric car battle between the u.s. and china and is it time to get over opec will give you some background in my take that we take a look at even gaming with r t america's present job or empire only if i have the guts to provide a little plug in full poetry this one on the. and sees all of that coming up but first we hit the headlines which i know break so let's go. a disappointing initial public offering for one of the biggest names in japanese tech and global finance leads our global report today the i.p.o. for stock and soft bank corp the mobile phone unit of the softbank group raised twenty three point six billion dollars worth of capital but over the trading day share prices fell fourteen point five percent from their initial offering price of fifteen hundred yen fall created a loss on paper of roughly nine billion dollars in value the i.p.o. now ranks remarkably as japan's largest and second most disappointing just behind a fifteen percent fall in stock of japan

the big three philanthropies gates and eli and the walton family foundation with quadruple funding through 2,002,005 with $400 million and by the way i'm focusing just on those three big ones i'm not talking about the dark many organizations like the coke brothers or those that others are amassing and that $400 million with the spending in the influence exponentially. to illustrate what i mean like to take you on a brief journey to los angeles to have an outside influence on the second largest school district in the nation in 2015 the l.a. times got quite a scoop to reveal a plan to spend $149 million to increase the number of charter school seats to over 50 percent of the total in los angeles. once the plan was revealed the independent expert said that would pretty much be the death knell for the lausd. financially this would be devastating and of course, they are already under tremendous economic stress teachers already underpaid and now they are going to strike and the transfer of tax dollars will only exacerbate the problem. at the same time many plans were being made by a new superint

. >> commissioner walton: glad you're here.this is the regular meeting of the board of education for the san francisco unified school district. it is december 11, 2018. miss casco, roll call, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll

and from district 10, shaman walton. congratulations. i understand they're in the audience. [applause] >> president cohen: congratulations. don't worry, it's not all bad. just ask jane kim. [laughter] >> clerk: thank you, madam president. >> president cohen: could you please call item 3? >> clerk: ordinance to amend the environment code to provide audits to refuse generators for compliance with refuse separation requirements to establish enforcement measures. >> president cohen: supervisor safai do you want to speak on this item? >> supervisor safai: no. >> president cohen: madam clerk, could you call the question as to shall the ordinance be finally passed, please call the roll. [roll call vote] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president cohen: thank you very much. this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. madam clerk, please call the next item. >> clerk: ordinance to appropriate $200 million special tax bonds for financing related to the transbay transit center and infrastructure project in 2018-2019. >> president cohen: could you please do a roll call vote on this item

. >> during the last season, "the waltons" caught on. >> now that dinner is over, let's try out the pianos >> i created happy days not where the family really was, i thought it was good if some families didn't get divorced. it wasn't by accident everybody on "happy days" hugged each other. it wasn't by accident everybody at the family ate at the same time at the same table. >> it was a sweet tender show in the era of "american graffiti" with affection. >> abc wanted fonzie's eh to compete directly with jimmie j.j. walker's dynamite. >> i'm the fonz, eh! >> sit on it howard. >> does anyone say, take you, howard? you know what they say? >> sit on it, arnold. >> that's what they say. >> you watch fonzie and you just want to be fonz. >> knock yourselves out. i'm sorry. it was a slip of the finger. >> it's a fantasy of what teen life could be. >> defazio, they're here. all right. laverne. this is laverne defazio. she's mine. this is shirley feeney, she's yours, as you can see. >> nice to meet you, richey. >> when they said they needed a series, they said, look at these two, that a series. >> t

for more on this, let's bring in lieutenant colonel michael walton. new year to you. >> thank you, julie. >> julie: i want to know your take of the u.s. policy in syria and the president's initial decision to pull our troops out. all of them. >> i'm glad the president is reconsidering. look, julie, we all want the soldiers to come home. the worst thing we can do is pull out of there too fast, leave the situation unstable and then have to send them back in. so, at the end of the day, we can fight these wars over there. we can fight them in places like kabul and damascus or it can follow us home to places like kansas city. what we're dealing with is an under lying premise that i disagree with, that if we just let the folks in the region fight this out, that we can pull our soldiers out and they'll take care of it and it won't follow us home. it will follow us home. what i want to see us do is stay on offense, not defense. the best way to prevent things like suicide bombers in malls in america or attacks like we have seen in orlando is to have these terr

the whole city is served, especially her district, and congratulate is the supervisor elect shamann walton. i would say thank you to all the commissioners, the two that aren't here, in addition to president cleaveland and commissioners hardeman and covington are commissioner joe alioto veronese, as well as commissioner steven nakajo. thank you to the commission. certainly my commission is here, mark gonzalez, jean nicholson lieutenant t nicholson, lieutenant tom murphy in the back. section chief tony malloy, thank you very much for all the hard work. this is a facility that's very unique, nearly one of its kind in the state of california. we're building without a whole lot of blueprint or other facilities to look at. so that's why it took a lot of time and attention to detail to make this facility the great facility that it will be and that our members so deserve. public works, i will say i do consider director nuru a partner of mine. we come together. we have two other projects hopefully looking forward to being delivered soon, hopefully, before i retire. i know it's a top of your priorit