murase. >> aye. >> miss wynns? >> aye. >> and miss norton. >> yes, >> thank you, everything is adopted. >> item p, consent calendar resolutions severed for board decision and immediate action. we had one tonight, item f10. >> miss wynns. >> he was asking me if i aid problem with this and why i wanted to pull it. i just wanted to note that this memorializes the retirement of many of our valued employees but the intended retirement time at the end of this year, and i just wanted to thank him and recognize his work. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> thanks. >> you got a couple. >> okay, so that was the only, okay, roll call please? >> miss ly? >> yes. >> and miss wong? >> yes. >> miss fewer in >> yes. >> mr. haney >> yes. >> miss maufus. >> yes. >> miss mendosa except on tom rues. >> miss norton ditto her move. >> seven ayes. >> item q, superintendent proposals, revision to board policy, 5132.2 to conform to the propritions ab 1575 related to pupil fees, may i hear a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> and th

wynns. >> aye. >> ms. norton. >> yes. >> thank you. >> okay. now we have item p, consent calendar discussion severed for board action and discussion. we had three and listed at j, k, and l but they're 10, 11 and 12. >> thank you president norton my apologize for not listing them correctly so i just have a question. i know that the city has had difficulties in getting their own projects done based on the confusion of who will actually do the work so i wanted to know how we're addressing that in the contracts who actually install the solar panels and are they on track to do it and i think there has been a huge delay 18 months or more on city projects already? >> good evening commissioners. i am david goldman chief f officer. you know that we have a strong relationship with the puc and receive the water and power at 1/3 the cost everybody pace for in their house they fund our sustainability and sponsor a number of projects. they have some funding to come in and do solar installations at certain sites in our district that they deem to be appropriat

wynns. >> i'm sorry. did you hear me? i said aye. >> ms. norton. >> yes. >> seven aye's. >> all right. item i board members proposals. there are none tonight and it's everybody's favorite part of the meeting. item j, request to speak for general matters. i have a number of cards. i'm going to read your name. i tried to group them by -- there are some groups here tonight. first card eric smith when i believe just spoke out of turn but i'm not sure. was that mr. smith? okay. i don't believe there is another eric -- >> [inaudible] >> reverend smith. okay. eric smith doesn't seem to be getting to the podium. all right. (calling speakers). you will each have two minutes to speak. >> steve seldz swrer. we on a little out burst today about what is going on at martin luther king school and this board has covered up criminal activity from the staff of the school. he makes a joke about psychological testing and pearson to evaluate the students here in san francisco. pearson is under investigation for corruption in new york state and will be investiga

. >> miss wynns. >> miss wong. >> mr. mendoza. please join me to the pledge of allegiance. >> all right, item a, approval of the boards minutes, for the regular meeting of january 8, 2013, could i hear a motion, please? >> so moved. >> second? >> second. >> thank you. >> are there any corrections? >> seeing, none, roll call? >> miss ly. >> yes. >> miss wong. >> yes. >> miss fewer? >> miss mendoza? >> aye. >> miss murase. >> aye. >> miss wynns? >> hao*i. >> mr. mendoza. >> aye. >> superintendent carranza. >> it is hard to believe that we are end of february already and i want to lend my personal praise and support to all of our communities, this week is parent teacher conference week at all of our schools and so i want to encourage you to schedule the time to talk with your child's teacher, and it is time to develop a relationship with your teachers and work for the betterment of our children. it is also physical awareness month and we want to encourage all of our schools to hold events and teach lessons that promote active living.

. >> miss wynns. >> yes. >> miss norton? >> yes. >> thank you, miss kasko. mr. superintendent is there a staff report on the status of projects? >> there isn't. >> okay. thank you. now, would i like to hear a motion and a second on the approval of the prior meeting minutes of january of 2012. i so move. >> i second. >> thank you. >> roll call, vote. >> thank you. >> fewer? >> yes. >> mr. haney? >> yes. >> miss maufus? >> yes. >> miss mendoza. >> yes. >> murase? >> yes. >> and six ayes. >> i will hear the rotation of the new officers. >> norton and fewer, and richard a. carranza is treasurer of the financing commission. >> moved. >> second. >> and rotation. miss fewer? >> yes. >> mr. haney. >> yes. >> miss maufus. >> yes. mendoza. aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> yes. >> are there any public comments and any other business before the financing corporation? >> seeing none, i now adjourn the meeting of the sfusd corporation and resume the meeting of the regular board of education. >> all right our next order of business is a membership appointment to the san francisco boa

. >> wynns. >> yes. >> four ayes. noe. now we will have roll call on establishing the order of seniority for those with employees with the same day of service. >> ly, yes. >> wong. >> yes. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney. >> yes. maufas yes. >> wynns, aye. >> nor. >> seven ayes. >> roll call on reduction of para professionals. >> ly. >> no. >> wong. >> no. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney. >> no. >> muf in >> no. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> murase. >> aye. >> wynns. >> aye. >> norton. >> yes. >> four ayes. >> roll call, on the resolution regarding reduction in the number of early education department employees. >> it was five ayes. i am sorry. >> thank you >> roll call on the last resolution. >> thank you. >> ly in >> no >> wong. >> no. >> fewer. >> yes. >> haney. >> no. >> maufas. >> no. >> mendoza. >> yes. >> murase. >> aye. >> wao*ins. >> aye. >> norton. >> yes. >> five ayes. >> okay. >> we will actually if i can if there is no disagreement i would like to take item r out of order they are in the audience and i want to try to get them

>> commissioner wynns? >> i would like to remove f10. i think that is the right. >> f10. >> will you tell me which? >> on page 59. >> i see it. i see it. okay. >> just because the agenda item does not specify it just says f10. >> got you, okay, if 10. roll call vote will take place under section 0. item eight, superintendent proposals, there are none today. >> item i, board members proposals there are none today. >> item j, request to speak recording general matters. i have a few speaker cards. first from emily wade thompson, brenda jackson and miss virginia marshal and then jake kosac and leona hunter, nathan apple and linda cook and you have two minutes each. >> good evening to president nkoyo iyamba and vice president fewer and carranza and all board members and all assembled. i stand proudly as the president of the san francisco alliance of black school educators to introduce you to two women who will enlighten you on the grass roots organization that are in commitment to the students of san francisco, but most importantly, supportiv

promising to keep fighting in court to have his 20% stake in wynn restored.ht back that stake at discount after declaring okada unsuitable over dealings in asia. now vegas turns to the next ugly proxy fight. igt, this one is all local. chairman versus chairman. charles matthewson and ader says the company lost its way from hatry who came from harris and hart who came from yahoo!. reportedly sheldon adelson has two. governor miller is on the board and friends with all of them. shareholders meet and vote on board members march 5th. two told me, quote, this is a small town. >>> by the way, only one analyst report on the wynn situation. it is all in japanese. i just see here, neutral. but the rest, i can't tell you. >> other headlines to tell but this hour. can kimberly clark with a record high after increasingity dividend to 81 cents a year. >>> washington post losing ground. a q4 loss after $111 million layoff forty cap lin educational business. the business accounts for after of the washington post company's total revenue. >>> american international have w bet

some spouts around the renal are pushing 60, like out in wynn chester, virginia.e will slowly fall through the upper 40 those around 30 degrees. we'll look for the sunshine to battle back tomorrow. that will not

. >> miss wynns? >> here. >> miss ly. >> here. >> and miss wong? >> here. >> please join me for the pledge of allegiance. >> thank you. >> the first item is approval of the board minutes, there are none, tonight. before i hand it over to the super intent ent i would like to issue a reminder on the board rules, both the brown act and the unified school district mandate the inclusion and we take this very seriously, our board policies and the law of california gives me the authority and obligations to enforce board policies and procedures to ensure that all individuals who sign up to speak are given an opportunity to have their position heard and at the same time we are all given the opportunity to listen to what is being said. we must continually remind ourselves that part of our responsibilities as commissioners and employees and students and citizens is to model behavior for children. we do that best by stating our beliefs clearly, when it is our turn to speak and by listening attentatively to others when it is their turn to speak. as a result, i

oh yes commissioner wynns. >> thank you. sorry i can't be there tonight, but national school board association meeting in washington, but i wanted to jump up when you said everybody has been involved in peer resources because i am proud to have been an active supporter of peer resources for more than 20 years and i am just really thrilled that this happened and we have been able to recently really show our support for peer resources at a time of transition when it's needed. i am committed myself as others connected to the program to be a supporter of whatever needed. thank you. >> thank you. roll call please. >> thank you. ms. wong. >> yes. >> ms. fewer. >> yes. >> mr. haney. >> yes. >> ms. maufas. >> yes. >> ms. mendoza. >> aye. >> ms. murase. >> aye. >> president norton. yes. >> seven aye's. >> commissioners, if you will do the honors with the certificates. thank you. >> all right. the next item we have recognition of mentoring for success. mr. superintendent. >> thank you president norton. i would like to ask kim coats an

wynns. >> thank you. >> ms. northon. >> yes. >> six aye's. >> all right. next we have a commendation on peer resources on national mentoring month. may i hear a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> i second. >> thank you. now commissioners murase or haney may read the commendation. >> yes, i would ask the commissioner to read the commendation for peer review. >> i would be happy to. whereas this has been national mentoring month and the school of health and program launched the program to highlight the mentoring and the development of young people and has gained the support of u.s. presidents and congress and such luminaries as myue angelou and peer resources offer a variety of programs for our students including retortive mediation on a peer to peer basis to promote academic achievement with student and prevent conflict and mitigations and healthy liching habits and empower students as agencies of change and whereas after participating in peer resources students reported statistically significant increases in school engagement, connectedness to school, sc

wynn. >> why is philadelphia a good choice for you?ties, and i have this notion of an urban win. you know, in cities like new york, philadelphia, and boston, there aren't any beautiful new hotels because the price of hotels doesn't justify the cost of them these days some of how can you have wonderful new hotels with big rooms and great bathrooms and new meeting space and restaurants? well, add a casino room down the hall separate but not dominating and all of a sudden the casino revenue allows do you build a new hotel and that's an urban win. it's an integrated win. the hotel experience itself is not directly dominated. you can use any part of the hotel without dealing with slot machines or tables but if you have a yen do that as a diversion for some part of the day, you can go down the hall through a separate door and into a gaming area. i call that an urban idea of the wynn hotel and i'm fascinated with it because two cities in america are offering the possibilities of such wonderful development. mainly philadelphia and boston. so w

> > the big traditional gaming stocks are las vegas sands and wynn resorts, wynn being the only one i invest in. they make most of their money, of course, on the in-person gaming: the hotels, the fancy restaurants and clubs. so, i think for them, internet gambling is going to be a sideline. so it is tough to find the right stock. remember, you can put your money on a zynga, or on an international game technologies, but you don't know which one is going to finish in the money. > thanks for the insight. that is matt shapiro, president of mws capital. thank you. > > you got it. that's it for now. coming up tomorrow, love and money: tips on how to fight less and love more when it comes to what's in your wallet. from all of us at first busines, thank you for watching!

steve wynn and his former partner have been at odds. be violation of anti-corruption laws and could threaten its gaming licenses if okada stays on the board. okada filed a lawsuit last week suggesting a $50 million payment by wynn to someone in macau named hoho is highly suspicious, something wynn resorts dismisses aas a ploy. morgan stanley said says while the reward looks favorable, we do not seek a catalyst neither to drive more upside. wynn says the rivals in macau are murder tough with blood in their eye. he didn't sound intimidated when he said that on the call. back to you. >> one of the all time great feuds. thank you very much, jane wells in los angeles, talking some wynn. >>> dow 14,000, a sea of red. an ugly tape today. for more on this market sell-off, we turn to mark santela. >> we're overdue for something like this. we had a seller's strike through most of january. on friday, and i've been in -- i will admit a crowded camp saying sentiment is bubbly, we're overbought, nothing too serious. i think you're getting good excuse

. >> commissioner wynns? >> thank you. thank you for so for the report which is always illuminating but i wanted to take the opportunity to bring up a couple of questions about the issue of students not being on track to meet the new graduation requirements. so i guess that i'm making a suggestion, but also asking a question of staff about whether or how individualized our responses are so what i want to know is as part of our plan or could we be working on a plan with each student who is not on track has a plan developed with support? you know, in my ideal, and i am not suggesting this, i am only revealing probably my, you know, how long it has been since i have dealt with this. but, you know, a counselor ought to be or someone should be making an individual plan with each student that is not on track. could you update us at some time on what the nature of that kind of work and if that is part of the discussion with the task force? not now, but i hope that in the future i will have information about that. >> okay, commiss

. >> commissioner wynns? >> thank you. >> i want to announce that the budget committee will meet on march 6, at 6:00. and then, second i just wanted to say that the school of the arts, spring musical, 42nd street will open on thursday night and i am not at liberty to announce the surprise guest in the pit that night. because they have not announced it yet. >> it was in the chronicle today. >> okay. >> having said that, i understand there to be two, but one of them as left. so the superintendent, i have tickets for friday night because i got them before this thursday night opening night. treat was announced so i may have to sneak in the back. but any way superintendent carranza will be in the pit and run out there and get your tickets and always the musical is extraordinary there and it will be wonderful and congratulations to on you musicians. >> vice president fewer. >> yes, thank you, so i just wanted to mention that we have a couple of read aloud. alamo is tomorrow and the schools is friday and the 8th is

commissioner wynns? >> thank you. okay, i'm a little, thank you. but, and i appreciate it that you were reading some specifics. this is an extremely short summary. but it sounds to me like all of the things that are described are the things that i thought that we were doing already. so, and we have had a lot of attention through the allow plan and the specific actions that have been described to us as being part of the implementation of the allow plan in recent years that are essentially the same kinds of activities that you have described, i think. so, i would like some more specifics about what is different about what and why is this an improvement plan instead of simply saying that we are going to do what we said that we were going to do or what i thought that we were already doing. >> i think that some of the things that are different in what we were doing in the past and going to continue to do. it is increasing some of those efforts and in some cases but in other cases it is aligning the work that is being done in content or core content area

. >> wynns. >> yes. >> norton. >> yes. >> item p, consent sal der there are none tonight. >> item q, adoption of a revised board policy 1000 series that will replace the current board policy and may i hear a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> and this will be held over for action at the meeting at the next board meeting of march 12th. and there are no public speakers signed up for this item >> item s, first the standing committee may we have a report from the rules committee. >> this is my report here. so please, indulge me. a lot of firsts here, everybody is leaving. so i am going to take a while with this. no, if my fellow commissioners would also chime in on some of these things that you had prior experience with and history with, so the first thing we did was we had our folks come from sacramento our advocates and capital advisors came and gave us a huge packet. >> they are back. >> good. good. >> all right. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so, we had you know, a lot of bills that were sort of brought to us, but it was kind of the first stage of it so we

>> melissa, wynn announces more winning. they have been cleared for any misconduct.reholder lawsuit related to that loan has been dismissed. and iss is recommending shareholders vote him off the board february 22nd. meantime, his suing wynn and japanese regulators are looking at how his company accounted for profits as it pursued a casino project that will compete with wynn. >> grasso, does any of this matter? >> it certainly does. but the stock has been straight up from $110. i've been waiting to buy it back. i thought i'd get a dip. i'm not seeing a dip. but it does run into resistance around $130. >> jane, the m and a? >> oracle shopping spree continues. latest purchase, acme pact, which makes network equipment. bought for $2.1 billion. this is oracle's largest purchase since buying sun micro. and no, this acme does not make the equipment that wile e. coyote. >> we were all wondering that, jane. pete, you brother flagged some unusual activity. >> right. they were very smart to get profits out of this whole operation. acme were going for the 24, 25 strikes. they we

north of wynn beck it gets in the deeps and colder. we'll have that cold air coming our way this weekend. temperatures in most of the united states are at or slightly above average. 29 in detroit, 33 in bosston, 40 in atlanta, orlando got to 88 degrees this afternoon. the precipitation was primarily all in the form of rain. there you see it moving out to the east-northeast. a bit more for those that are at 1 to 3 inches. a couple of spots in northern jersey. mild air is coming in tomorrow, but we have another cold front coming through on friday night into saturday. yes, it get colder, maybe a brief rain or snow shower, and much colder temps for the weekend. southwest winds ahead of that front. sunrise at 7 a.m., and the bay temp around 39. to want, watch out for those slick spots. 30 degrees by morning. a milder 48 degrees tomorrow will melt all the snow, 53 on friday, that en42, rain or snowshower possible, 34 for a high on sunday, 38 on monday. it will get quite cold for the end of the weekend. >>> coming up, are you ready for some b

. >> miss wynns? >> here. >> miss ly. >> here. >> and miss wong? >> here. >> please join me for the pledge of allegiance. >> thank you. >> the first item is approval of the board minutes, there are none, tonight. before i hand it over to the super intent ent i would like to issue a reminder on the board rules, both the brown act and the unified school district mandate the inclusion and we take this very seriously, our board policies and the law of california gives me the authority and obligations to enforce board policies and procedures to ensure that all individuals who sign up to speak are given an opportunity to have their position heard and at the same time we are all given the opportunity to listen to what is

. >> jessica wynn said dr. levy saved her life when she suffered complications during childbirth.he's outraged with john hopkins for failing to notify patients. >> to find out the way we did that hurt. hopkins didn't send out anything. i had to find out on the news, from family. it's not fair. i've been going to him 11 years. >> doctor levy committed suicide this week at his home. patients may never get the answers they want. >> i don't know if one of the videos has me on there or not. i don't know. i can't help from thinking about it. >> reporter: investigators are trying to determine if there were any underage victims. police say it is going to take a long time to sift through all the hard drives and the other evidence they have. i'm mike the number is 410-396-2269. >>> this noon police are investigating a murder/suicide in north baltimore. police were called to the 3900 black of frisbe street and found a man and woman with gunshot wounds. a young child was found unharmed near by. investigators aren't saying who pulled the trigger. >>> in baltimore county police have identified

and we have from the board of education, hydra mendoza and rachel norton and jill wynns. our clerk today is rana calonsag. and we would like to recognize sfgov and those taping today's session. madam clerk, any announcements? seeing none. i would like to change order of the agenda and call up item 2 first, if that's okay with the committee? okay, so we will be calling item 2 first. madam clerk, can you please call item 2. >> thank you, file number 130159, the hearing on shared scho scho schoolyards project. by member farrell. >> thank you, i want to call up supervisor farrell and to make comments first. >> thank you, chair kim, much appreciated. and it's great to be here with all the school board members. colleagues, today we will do a hearing and update on a shared schoolyards project. i have worked on this closely over the last two years with hydra mendoza and a number of people as well as rec and park and denny. and other folks from rec & park as well. i want to thank all of those involved over the last two years. to give you background, i have talked about this a lot