yee. president yee: aye. secretary: it is unanimous. >> president yee: -- president yee -- pictures first? commissioners, jeff could not be here because he is vacationing with his family in yosemite, but i know you very much appreciate your taking time out of the meeting to recognize his efforts. he started the first program in 2004 at the urging of then supervisor mirkarimi. he expanded the program to the western addition, and what has been so successful about it is it was not really meant to be other than helping them work better together, and, of course, this backpack program was a very visible way to bring the community together, to get young people excited about school. it tries to emphasize literacy and community, and so we are very excited about it. i will let them make a couple of remarks also. thank you. >> i just want to formally and publicly acknowledge, and think you for this great opportunity to be acknowledged and to say how great it is to come to the board of education and be saying nice things

president yee: commissioner murase.ommissioner murase: i wanted to -- )Ñstñ>ie3ñ6ç6eopyjÑsg p&e%ei link electronics, inc. model number: pdr-885 software version: 3.0c ++ secur personnel. k-11. president yee: any others? ok. seeing none, roll call vote will take place under section 0. item h, superintendent's proposal, helper speaker cards and action. i thought we had about 20 of them. what happened? none tonight. item l. oith l. board members' proposals, helper speaker card and action. none tonight. request to speak regarding general matters. we have a few speakers who have two minutes each. carolyn tom, andrea torres, adam avalos, jennifer lowe, may l., charles sanchez. komafe savasehim and susan sullivan. come on to the mike. you have two minutes. go ahead. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners, superintendent carranza. congratulations. my name is darilin tom. i'm a high school teacher at mission high school. i'd like to just kind of, if you don't mind, take a few seconds at the beginning and actually end after t

president yee: my mistake.t this point, unless you want to come back, we are going to recess for closed session and we will come back after closed session and do a readout of the closed session to finish up the evening. although, you know something, can i take a second? we are going to change a little bit of the order right now. we have, generally at the end of the meeting we have adjournment and sometimes we will take that opportunity to have that in memory of somebody. rather than wait for us to come back when nobody is here, we thought we would change the order so that at least people could hear, whoever is watching tv or listening to the radio could hear this. i'm going to turn this over to vice president norton. vice president norton: i am going to read the acknowledgment for and milton who passed away on august 9 at the age of 52 after a fight with brain cancer. he was the son of the late milton marks who was involved in politics. his father was a judge and state senator and his mother served on a commiss

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yee, there is not.anyone can say what they want to say in a form that relies on everyone's best intentions and that is why sometimes evidence have to be presented and diagrams have to be presented and the matter can be resolved. i do not understand how some people can look at the backyard and say some have -- something has been added and something has not. president hwang: thank you. >> i refer you again to the attachments to my brief. there was a sinkhole in december 1995. there was a permit that was negotiated and issued for them and was signed off in 1999. it was signed off as final. they did not protest the 1999 sign-off of the permits they had bargained for when the sinkhole happened four years earlier. they waited until 2009 and in 2009, there were additions made. there were additions made on permits that the planning department never gave notice for. the planning department routinely uses the 311 process for additions to residential buildings. when a 311 notice is given, that means you want to ha

president yee: mr. o'neill, we are going to have you give your information so we can have someone follow up with you. >> of pay, but i want to point out one thing. our daughter, it has been six days since school started and she hasn't been assigned a school or anything. we even notified mr. floor as that we felt strongly. a recent document saying that she needed to be in this particular school because she is close to family, anxiety issues and things of that nature. thank you very much. i go see her? >> good evening, members of the board. my son attends isa, his first year entering as a ninth grader and i only have one suggestion for the board. when it comes to raising money for the school district, we need to be more proactive. when you to start raising money districtwide. to win next year's budget comes up, we don't have to lay teachers off or turn around and put in those notices to lay off other staff members as well. we need to take a more pro- active approach, maybe a district why a fund raiser for

yee we will begin with you. >> i am norman yee and running for supervisor and lived in the district for 27 year scption my two daughters grew up and i am running because i want to grow our economy, make our streets safer and keep our families here, and have been on the school board as a president for eight years now and we turned the school district around to improve test scores and more fiscally accountable and this is what i bring in. i am a consensus builder. i work with people to find results and get results and i have been effective as elected official for eight years and i will bring that into the board of supervisors. thank you very much. >> i

yee will be with us at the city central event at buena vista haraceman and ms. mendoza can testify it's really fun, and i wanted to let you know this year we're celebrating a big victory. walk sf has had a campaign over the last couple of years and we had success this year because san francisco is now as of this april the first city in the state to have expanded safer school zones city wide so 181 school there is are 15 miles per hours speed zones and the police are out enforcing them and will see next wednesday and that is far more than any other city in the state. the city that started this has five 15-mile an hour zones so we really -- >> [inaudible] >> yeah. exactly. and other cities are looking to san francisco now to follow our lead and so i hope you will drive carefully on walk to school day, and i hope you will consider walking instead. thank you. >> thank you very much. so if the people wanted to know which schools just in case they didn't know are participating where would they go to find out? >> they can go -- i think sf safe routes to school .org and

again superintendent carranza for the rave awards. >> thank you president yee. we have two recognitions one comondation this evening so i would like to call for the rave service award and ms. rico from cesar chavez school. >> good evening president yee, superintendent carandza, number of the board and public. i am honored and proud to award carol wood our secretary at cesar chavez. she has served the district for 20 and a half years. she is bilingual in spanish and american sign language. she's an incredibly cherished and loved member of our community, and she has seen many generations of students and parents, and i am proud and behalf of the community to present this award to her. congratulations carol. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> congratulations. >> thank you. i just want to say over these 20 years seven principals and all the change they have seen i feel very lucky to have been at one school for all those years. i had a few summer school assignments at different sites but i love cesar chavez and it's pretty exciting to me working with the children o

yee. seven aye's. >> thank you. item p consent calendar resolution for board and discussion and action. k1. commissioner mendoza. >> all right thank you. so i actually pulled both of these items. surprise. because they are retroactive. i am sorry to keep you here on this, but these two things are the kinds of things that make don't make a lot of sense to me, so for both items the school schedule require the work to start or the information was not finalized in time for the meeting and started august 1 and now september 25 so these kinds are the things that worry me particularly as the budget chair and for somebody who is concerned about the dollars that we spend and the commitments that we make, and there isn't a better explanation than school schedule required work to start. and in particular with the school schedule required to start it was august 1. school didn't start until the 20. i imagine there was summer programming going on. i don't know. but retroactive ones are unacceptable and particularly with things al

yee. >> he is absolutely right. there are different categories of homeless individuals and families. i spent 20 years running an organization which we had programs in the tender loin and we actually served a lot of homeless families and many of the families what do they want? a home for the kids. they want jobs and child care. those are the things we're talking about and justifying the needs. there are many others but not the vast majority. the vast majority of the people that want to get out of the homelessness. there is a small percentage of people that were veterans which is true but what happened we got rid of mental health services and that's what happened. once we started getting rid of mental health services we saw increase of people on the street that seemed to need a lot more help. >> thank you. >> there is a wide range, a wide spectrum of the reasons people end up on the street to schizophrenia individuals to destiewt individuals and peel who are optunistic about it and have hotels or other parts of the ba

yee we will begin with you. >> i am norman yee and running for supervisor and lived in the district for 27 year scption my two daughters grew up and i am running because i want to grow our economy, make our streets safer and keep our families here, and have been on the school board as a president for eight years now and we turned the school district around to improve test scores and more fiscally accountable and this is what i bring in. i am a consensus builder. i work with people to find results and get results and i have been effective as elected official for eight years and i will bring that into the board of supervisors. thank you very much. >> i am bob squarey. i live in san francisco. the 49ers were founded in 46 in my honor. i want to thank them -- [laughter] i will be given my season tickets up when i leave the city. i had them for over 40 years. they're gone but with that said i started two successful businesses in san francisco. i have a childrens' foundation "one children at a time inc." and did jobs around the world and every nickel i raised go to helping the kids. i will br

yee. >> thank you cheryl. the most important thing -- the most important immediate policy that we can address and adl of us can address is proposition e. that is to move our payroll tax to gross receipt tax and why? because by doing that we can create jobs in san francisco and keep people in san francisco . the kids are growing up and we want them to stay but we need jobs. i agree with mr. crowley with the police force and make sure that is fully staffed and i have been speaking to the police athletic league and they have a program to breen the teenagers to be interns in the police force and they would feed into the police cadet program. thank you. >> thank you sir. the next question the city's liabilities are projected to increase in the next coming year. s what new or increased fees should it institute and i will repeat the question and we will begin with mr. crowley. >> i would say that one of the bigger things that we will have before us is the gross receipts tax check that norman talked about trading from

health education partnership 2012 high school summer intern program. >> great, thank you, president yee. and i am so excited to see this. i like to invite katherine neilson and she will have the honor to introduce our special guest. in a brief intro i have the honor of attending a presentation in a summer program, where we have our own students conducting high-level scientific research. and when i mean high level, scientific research. and i am in the middle of writing a dissertation and they lost me. and how they do it and to actually have tangible results with something that i thought not only the board but our community needed to see. so with that, i am very happy to welcome katherine neilson who is the co-director and she will take it from there. >> thank you, all. good evening, my name is katherine neilson and i co-direct. i am pleased to be here at the request of superintendent richard a. carranza and i am honored to share our work with all of you. as you all know, ucsan francisco and sfusd have a long history of working together. it is greatly committed to its community and has be

[laughter] president yee: excuse me, we are going to continue. [laughter] people have to get out of here. we are adjourning -- we are resuming the regular meeting. i will have two read out tonight. -- read outs tonight. the board approved a contract for one supervisor. the board approved a contract for one assistant superintendent. existing litigation in the matter of bw vs. sfusd, 2012030, the board approves a settlement of $5,000. for the closed session of august 14, 2012, there was one item, public employment. the board approved the contract of one assistant principal. so that concludes the read out of the closed session. meeting adjourned. go giants. >> welcome to the meeting. the time is 5:35 p.m. the meeting is being called to order. if you could please turn off cellphone and pagers. please sign up if you would like to be added to our mailing list. speaker cards are available at the front table. and we would like to thank sfgtv for support of our meetings. item number one is roll-call. commissioner items is excused. good -- commissioner ada

yee. >> cheryl i just want to make sure -- >> i can repeat it. there is internet base market for short base rentals and they sublease units to visitors and tourists and many are illegal and the city's hotel tax is not collected. should the city legalize these arrangements and collect the hotel tax? >> i traveled to different countries and i go to the internet and they have hotels and these rentals advertise and i have used these apartments as rentals for either a few days or one week and it's kind of nice to be there so i would support it and once you have it legalized you have again another base of revenues to tax and if they do advertisement and most will or go through an agency people would know about it, so it's not like -- right now we're gaining nothing and people are doing it anyways so why don't we take advantage of the fact we legalize it and actually increase our tax revenue. >> thank you sir. >> well, i know this issue got some press earlier this year but i don't know how widespread it is. i mean is this a real issue that really needs

on red light cameras it's still considered a safety tool but now drivers will get a fair shake linda yee cbs 5 >>> if you own a car made by general motors at the fire danger that as tens of thousand cars recalled. the presidential candidates take the weekend off but running mates are stumping for votes each p,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> a new poll shows proposition 38 the income tax hike measure that would earmark funds for school appears to be headed for defeat loss angeles times poll shows 34 percent of voters favoring of 52% oppose, it will affect most californians the measures wealthy backer has spent $30 million on the campaign. a competing measure supported by gov. brown or raise taxes on the wealthy is doing better proposition 30 favored by 55 percent of voters 36 percent opposed, it will raise income tax on people making $250,000 a year, it will raise sales taxes. president obama and republican candidate mitt romney take a break to get ready for their first presidential debate next week dru levenson shows us both candidates sent running mates to battleground states. >>> vice-president joe

linda yee on the new strategy that is producing a lot of tickets. >>> they are busy on ball game night yunis their inspectors make sure no one slips past and gets a free ride. >>> so far this year 37,000 ferried peters have meant caught in the crackdown they did not pay a $2 fare and got $100 ticket. the security chief says it is shocking to the cheaters r >>> r fair inspectors boarded the in judah there were a couple of the e.r. doctors on the trend that had not pay their fares the both that citations that is that shows you it's not just one demographic verses another. >>> inspectors have portable card readers demand proof of payment on board and on the sidewalk. >>> this is 5:00 and already almost a get a new went over there >>> during her recent two and half hour. on kiri st. they ticketed 140 cheaters writers know that hurts everyone >>> i wait 20 minutes on the sunday opposed to attend if the cheaters were paying their be more revenue and more cars running >>> ferry evaders are not new, the transit agency lost $19 million in 2009 the inspectors say they believe the number is highe

. >>> the mayor there to keep all three major sports teams from leaving the city linda yee shows us that is a tall order. >>> raider nation is back, the war paint goes on, and mayor jeanne quan's rallies fans to fight for their teams to stay in oakland >>> whit call this spirit week no question of the fans love their teams >>> will all this be enough? the warrior should cans with san francisco over plans to move the team here empty stands at a's games don't help, now the team pushes to build a new ballpark in san jose. only the raiders have not look for new real-estate >>> mark davis says he wants to stay in oakland >>> you don't think this is too late >>> you deal with the deck you are handed, i've always said i feel like i'm a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the ninth, we make good progress we are moving forward >>> can just keep and football games a year support a new entertainment and hotel complex >>> the mayor counts on sports fans to help >>> would do the best for our country and for the sports teams >>> why do these teams want to leave this city? >>> that fans out there but they ca

regular season and for of a packed house in the middle of the galt mayor jeanne quan's reporter linda yee on your efforts to keep all three major sports teams from skipping town >>> greater nation is back. the war paint is on an mayor jeanne quan's rallies fans to fight for their sports teams to stay in oakland. >>> this is spirit week no question fans love their teens. will all this be enough the warriors shook hands with san francisco to move the team here, empty stands at a's games do not help now the team pushes to build a new ballpark in san jose. only the raiders have not look for new real-estate >>> mark davis says he wants to stay in oakland >>> you don't think this is to light >>> you deal the deck that you are handed i've always said i'm the pinch hitter at the bottom of the night were making good progress we are continuing to move forward. >>> 1010 football games a year support and new entertainment and sports complex the mayor counts on sports fans to help >>> were the best in the country >>> why two all these teams want to leave the city? >>> they have a lot of fans they cann