commissioner wynns: aye. president yee: aye. >> six ayes. president yee: thank you. motion to pass -- motion passes. ok. item s. board members' report. are there any tonight? i don't -- we haven't had a

commissioner wynns: aye. president yee: aye. >> six ayes. president yee: thank you. motion to pass -- motion passes. ok. item s. board members' report. are there any tonight? i don't -- we haven't had a meeting. t, report of -- whoa, whoa, ok. moving too quickly. who's got it? commissioner fewer? i mean, commissioner maufas. commissioner maufas: thank you. just making an announcement that our -- on monday, january 16, is m.l.k. jr. national day of service and i wanted to let folks know that beginning at 8:45 a.m. there are volunteer opportunities to celebrate the day of service as promoted by martin luther king jr. but also by president obama and his wife, michelle obama. at the african-american arts and cultural center. which is at 762 fulton street and it will be upstairs. again, it starts at 8:30 in the morning. there -- they will be serving a light break breakfast and volunteer signup at 9:15 there's a rally and throughout the city they will provide transportation to volunteer destinations via shuttle bus and that's gardened projects, tree planting, cleaning up o

commissioner wynns: yes. president mendoza: yes. i need a motion and a second for formal introduction. the reading of the resolution by the superintendent. >> as all of you know, there is probably nobody in the city that does more for the city and townwarren -- than warren. >> thank you for having this introduced as your proposal. as the superintendent mentioned, warren has been a tried and true friend to all of the students and the administration and staff for a long time. i can say from my own experience that a pre-warren was different than the post. it has been a real honor for me, many of my colleagues to work with warren and be the beneficiaries of his wisdom and good feeling and heart over the years. i would like to thank my associate for taking over the drafting of his words. i think he expressed the affection that we have for warren. this is the superintendent's proposal honoring warren and renaming it a meadow as warren's meadow. the school district not only a depends on the staff and faculty, but it needs the entire city a

commissioner wynns: this is a contract to posut a solar generating facility on the roof of alvarado, and what we get out of it is we get to buy the energy for the same cost we would if it was not now up there, so this seems like not a great deal for us, and there are a number of school districts that are archly going into the business of becoming solar. we have -- that are going into the business of becoming solar. we have vabig roofs, but it seems to me that this is one area of generation of power using our facilities we ought to discuss as a potential revenue raiser, and i do not know that this is the way to go about it, and since i only know about this now, i am not advocating we do not go into this contract, but we should be looking into this, and we should not be in the business -- the puc is planning to make money by generating electricity and putting it through the power grid and having it sold, so why are they on willing to share that with us, or have we even asked donth? >> good evening, commissioners. we have touched on solar before, and it is the buzzword, and everyone wan

commissioner wynns: thank you for your work. it is very important to hear from you and how programs are developing. i really want to thank you about this. it is great. this is something i want to show to other people. when i try to talk about our language programs, it is hard to be -- to do it in a concise manner that people can really understand. we are trying to talk about how they work together, etc. that is really important. i want to ask to the same question we ask you all the time. but expand a little bit. can we get an update on -- you said you need more members. i would like to know who has appointments that need to be done. i would also like to know how long people have served and we are supposed to have, as always, and we did last year, a review of our advisory committees. we are supposed to reappoint people, there are supposed to be terms of a certain length, and we never pay attention to that. i love that people want to serve in this committee, but i do not think -- it is not enough to just say, who has opened appoin

commissioner winds. -- wynns. commissioner wynns: i chaired the education coalition today. all of the coalition's were meeting today on the day that the trigger cuts were announced. the coalition agreed that our position will be twofold. one, you will hear it in the press, i heard it driving back from sacramento, that this is good for us. we dodged a bullet. we are only getting $350 million in cuts. this is $330 million actually, for k-12. that is not the position of the coalition. the position is that no more cuts are sustainable. these cuts disproportionately affect school districts that have school transportation funding, including us. it is quite interesting that the coalition has unanimously decided to advocate for a position -- and the governor, in his press advisory today, said that he understood that this was not a cut to transportation. it is a cut to general funds, because school districts cannot stop transporting kids. they have to take that money out of other funding. if you look at it that way, which is what the coalition discussed today, it is an unfair and di

wynn? mr. yee? and mrs. tom? i pledge allegiance to the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> the special school facilities tax, with the greatest district in california, and the teacher's act that led to $2 billion in critical support to our schools. mr. helman was in the every child a-- can learn foundation. we can't forget his annual three-day event. a dedicated concert for students to enjoy and celebrate bluegrass music. to quote him in an interview with forbes magazine, what does move me is the philanthropic stuff. giving does move me. part of it is selfish and it is fun to be appreciated. it goes without saying that hsi is gracious contributions to public education have made it grow by encouraging participation, throughout the city and beyond. we will always remember him with respect and admiration. we express condolences to the helman family, but celebrate the contributions he's give

wynn? >> 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 me

commissioner wynn? -- commissioner wynns? >> i'd like to several w-17 on page 78. president yee: any others? ok. roll call vote will take place under the section on this item. item h, superintendent's proposals. none tonight. i, none tonight. j, requests to speak regarding general matters, we have a number of speakers and i will have the first speaker -- the first speaker will be paulette brown. ms. brown, are you here? go ahead and take two minutes. president yee: press the button on the mike. >> my name is paulette brown. i have a daughter that goes to lincoln high school. i'm here to complain about that we were talking about bullying earlier. bullying. we're not talking about bullying from students, we're talking about bullying from the faculty, the teachers. my daughter, there's a breach of trust about her religion. the teacher has been bothering about. president yee: please don't name names. thank you very much. >> he's been harassing her at school and she is -- i don't feel comfortable, i don't feel supported by the school. she's been there since she started.

commissioner wynns: yes. vice-president yee: yes. president mendoza: i need a motion and a second for introduction. this is the formal introduction. a report from the rules committee. >> predating my service to the board, the board of education stopped at a measure to put all of the policies online for greater transparency and accountability so anyone and everyone would have access to the policies that the board has adopted over the years. since this is the first major agenda item of the rules committee that i was asked to chair. so i would like to thank yee. and to thank those who work on the project. the executive secretary, and the now retired susan wong. we benefited greatly from the expert advice from the council school board association who has joined us this evening from sacramento. there has been succession and assurance. we will be hearing from staff. what you have today is one section of board policy that is with policy 120 that governs board rules and procedures. the staff and committee members went through the procedure w

>commissioner wynns: i am in favor of postponing. it would be our normal process. what we have to do is not vote -- taking it up for a vote tonight. we can postpone that until the next meeting or whenever we want to. i appreciate why dr. murasi said. this is long and complex. we need more eyes and discussion on this. we talked about doing this as a commission as a whole. instead, we decided to augment the committee meeting. i think that submitting questions is a good idea. this is the discussion that we wanted to have at the committee meeting. i want to suggest that if will submit questions, that is great. what we ought to do is have some kind of committee at home. we have to agree to all sit down at a meeting whose only purpose is to review this. our plan is to use this process to do all parts of the manual so that this won't ever have to happen again. it has happened without completion how many times? four or five times in the last 10 years? i do not think we are ignoring our responsibility. it is about how we operate. this discussion makes us realize that we nee

commissioner wynn? -- commissioner wynns? >> i'd like to several w-17 on page 78. president yee: any others? ok. roll call vote will take place under the section on this item. item h, superintendent's proposals. none tonight. i, none tonight. j, requests to speak regarding general matters, we have a number of speakers and i will have the first speaker -- the first speaker will be paulette brown. ms. brown, are you here? go ahead and take two minutes.

top republican donor barry wynn compared it to finger nails on the chalk board. wynn is now band onning the texas governor to throw his weight behind mitt romney as well. it's a big hit for the texas iveue as a critique against washington. >> listen, i love capitalists, free market capitalism in the state of texas has created over a million jobs. we understand how capitalism needs to work. but this corrupt and fraudulent activity that's been going on in washington, d.c. between them and wall street has to stop. and we have to have a president that will stand up and say we're going to put the regulators in place that actually do the job. >> and gingrich is finding new ways to go after mitt romney. he, in fact, dipped into the archives to pull out a new line of attack. >> what has massachusetts given us? a liberal governor who wanted us to believe he is strong on defense. a liberal senator who wanted us to believe he was a man of the people. and a massachusetts moderate who runs away from ronald reagan. >> look, i was an independent during the time of reagan-bush.

attended the conference, and congratulations to commissioner wynns because it was her big day but also there was a lot of really interesting sessions, particularly jamie vulmer, who did one of the general sessions. i'm blanking on the name of his book. what is it? anyway, "schools can't do it alone." that's what it is. there was a number of really interesting sessions on what the thinking around the state is on teacher evaluation because that definitely is a topic that a lot of districts are taking up so that was very interesting. and i took copious notes so if you're interested in anything particular, i'd be happy to do it offline. >> just to follow up on that. i wanted to say that the general sessions for the first time this year, the three general sessions at the conference, jamie vulmer's speech, zalman chawn and we need to talk about him and the state of the state where he had experts talking about the budget and the political context, are all available online through the month of january. so is that right? or through december, until january, through december. you can go online, i

>> steve wynn has played it very coy. he's not come out for anybody.teresting that history between sheldon adelson and steve wynn. they used to really hate each other. they bonded in recent years about their disdain for the president. that's one of the reasons i think that the other candidates are not doing anything about sheldon adelson. they figure even if newt goes down, they want sheldon adelson's money later on to try to beat obama so i don't think they are going to go after him at all. >> all right. are you going to promise me nevada is going to be competitive or not? we're treating it like a major state. >> it is a major state. it's the most competitive state in the country. come here, chuck. >> all right. >> just very quickly, adelson's people have made it clear regardless of who gets the nomination, he will be there helping the republican nominee. they want obama out of the white house. >> always good to see you. thank you for getting up early, john. >> all right, chuck. >> thanks, mike. up next, our political panel is here. msnbc supertuesday

. >> reporter: mechanic martin wynn says he ran out when he heard people fighting. he says a young man was on top an elderly man punching him with his fist and trying to get his car keys. >> he wanted the car. he said you have to see the i.d. on the back. then the guy didn't say anything. >> reporter: wynn says the man jump into the victim's gmc suv. police took off after him. after it was over, several police were injured. he had to be cut out of the vehicle. he is still in the hospital after his injuries. >> one minute he's looking for the suspect. the next minute he's pinned in his vehicle and he's on the radio calling for help. >> reporter: it ended on mccreary avenue where police maneuvered to track the suspect and they shocked him. >> through the passenger side, i saw the taser go off and that was the end of it. >> reporter: the suspect is alejandro gonzalez from san jose. he's facing a lot more jail time now. live in san jose, lloyd lacuesta, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> more details now after tasing that suspect. officers put him into a restraint that's called a

. >> reporter: mechanic martin wynn says he ran out when he heard people fighting. he says a young man was on top an elderly man punching him with his fist and trying to get his car keys. >> he wanted the car. he said you have to see the i.d. on the back. then the guy didn't say anything. >> reporter: wynn says the man jump into the victim's gmc suv. police took off after him. after it was over, several police were injured. he had to be cut out of the vehicle. he is still in the hospital after his injuries. >> one minute he's looking for the suspect. the next minute he's pinned in his vehicle and he's on the radio calling for help. >> reporter: it ended on mccreary avenue where police maneuvered to track the suspect and they shocked him. >> through the passenger side, i saw the taser go off and that was the end of it. >> reporter: the suspect is alejandro gonzalez from san jose. he's facing a lot more jail time now. live in san jose, lloyd lacuesta, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> more details now after tasing that suspect. officers put him into a restraint that's called a

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