This charter petition but in several charter petitions. As a matter of fact this was a finding made regarding the two Charter Renewal petitions this board approved november 12th of this year. Not only San Francisco makes this finding, other districts in the bay area make the same finding quite often because it is quite often left out of Charter School renewal petitions. So the response from the two charter petitioners that you approved november 12th when we made the finding was to provide a matrix that outlined that comprehensive description and the way they met the requirements of law. I have to say that in the report as written i state that the description is not there and i include a list of requirements that have been enacted since 2015 and state that it is not a comprehensive list but includes some that should apply to the school. N inadvertently i did include some that apply to grade levels that are not k5. That is a mistake. However, the list is not comprehensive and there are several that do apply that should have been listed in a matrix and presented to the district. That finding remains because instead ever responding by providing the matrix to show the charter knew about the requirements and had a plan to respond they simply said they were included somewhere in the petition. And as far as the issue of fundraising and the budget plan going forward, i did and i stated this in the Budget Committee hearing, i did review the Financial Reports as produced by the California Department of education for the first four years of the Charter Schools operation, and i noted that they had indeed met all of those lofty fundraising goals for those years and the staff found they had positive fiscal performance. Our finding takes that into account, but also looks at the fact that they have declining enrollment, dont really seem to have a convincing plan for reversing that decline and would continue to rely on 1 million each year in local fundraising. That might happen, it might not, but it is up to us to make sure we point out that is an issue of concern. That is my report. Thank you, mr. Davis. We have a number of people signed up for Public Comment. Then we will open it up to commissioners for questions. We do have 19 cards here. We typically have two minutes. If you could limit yourself to a minute. I am not going to limit you to a minute, i am asking you to limit to a limit considering the length of the meeting. You have two minutes. I will read your names. Bear in mind the length of the testimony. I will read the names. When you hear your name called make your way to the podium. David allen, rachel jackson, joy jackson morgan, katie simons, Joe Steinbergger, peter dorkin. Mark catch son, karen rath man, dillon meyers, mark miller, Susan Davenport, harold love, reverend walker, doctor dave atkin. Whenever you are ready. Thank you. Hello. I am david zinoff, San Francisco resident 35 years. The founding board chair of one Purpose School. The man whose picture is out in the plaque out in your entrance to this room and after whom this room is named irving brier i knew. I am 81. I was friends with his son steve and used to go to the brier house on the weekends. I was from the midwest. On holidays i didnt have anyplace to go. Irving brier, the man you named the room after used to espouse social justice and the importance of highquality Public Education. He used to lecture his boys, who you may know are you now prominent judges in the country and me who is not that, but i was there to receive the lecture many times about those messages. Highquality Public Education and social justice. He said those are the keys to the health of American Society and San Francisco society. By chance, because i didnt know we were going to be in this room. I didnt know about the plaque. By chance, that is wha what thee values are of the board of directors. There are about 20 of us. We are here to do all we can as regular citizens who have Different Networks and means and education and we represent 14 zip codes. We have six africanamericans, two latinos, the rest white. I am the oldest at 81. We go down to 28 in age. We are about half men and half women. You are not going to hear what i am doing. Good evening. I am pamela man. The current board chair of one Purpose School. Some of the speakers will provide responses to the staff report and questions and comments from committee meetings. Others are members telling you what we do at one purpose and why it matters. You would have heard from a parent and student. It was past the students bedtime. She went home. I hope we can submitter comments to the record. We engage in fundraising. We have been successful in raising approximately 1 million annually to provide the Wraparound Services and level of staffing required to truly serve the Underserved Community of the bayview. This is not a liability. It is an asset for stu sfusd ths why they come to enroll. They want services we provide. One purpose mobilizes individuals and foundations to invest in future success of bayview students as evidenced in the letters of support written to you. We work to expand the donor base each year to provide school year programs, wraparound Behavioral Services and Family Engagement and learning events the community would otherwise not receive. Good evening. I am david allen, Business Manager at one Purpose School. In terms every serve the ending fund values start at 478,862 for the 1920 year and increase to 6 82,00 82,000 4. This is between 18 to 19 of expenses. The California Department of education has rated one purpose in Good Condition with healthy reserves under their physical health criteria. This has been a positive sustained increase to our 1516 year. One purpose has demonstrated ability to improve and maintain strong physical health and reserves. We have strong relationships with Family Foundations and individuals to fundraise and expands the donor base to ensure longterm Financial Stability and has a budget to respond to uncertainties that may arise. The board and school are to make necessary adjustments to maintain the financial solvency should soft revenues not come as expected. There is no reason to expect this. Thank you. I am joy jackson morgan, executive director at third street clinic, Second GenerationHunters Point native. I come from a long line of educators. Most of the local schools and i am a former middle school and High School Math and science teacher. We heard startling statistics from mike that require context. It deserves context. Prior to last school year we were outperforming the district schools in the neighborhood. Let me ask you a trauma informed question in what could happen in the neighborhood that might have impacted the enrollment and test scores of not only one purpose but brett heart as well. We lost the c. E. O. , principal, some of the families, we got a new principal, lost key teachers. Last december we lost the new head of school. From the Community Angle what happened to the bayview but the real neighborhood called double rock . What happened last year . Double rock got uprooted from its community and placed into the new alice griffith. That was not an easy transition for families and obviously not easy for our students, not at one purpose or brett heart. Maybe this isnt the typical political conversation around Charter Schools versus district schools. This is what are we going to do as community of educators and families to support the students with the families with the resources they need. Dont judge us on one school when the entire neighborhood had a bad year. Thank you. Starting this year the culture and climate it has been a privilege to watch it expand to serve the students. We developed a matrix to fit the needs of the students and built the Wellness Center to talk when feelings. With the emotional curriculum we provided ways to deal with challenging emotions. We engaged in professional development to support from equity and trauma informed standpoint. Start our students are spending more and more time in classroom and engaging positively. We reduced number of School Discipline referrals 97 since the beginning of the school year. We lean away from suspending students but developing individual plans. We plan to push forward and continue to fine tune the school wide systems as data indicates this is working. I would like to say it is an honor to be part of the team as the commitment to the scholars is seen. The unwaiverring dedication to the whole child no matter the need. I look forward to continued work at one purpose. Good evening. I am Joe Steinberg the enrollment manager at one Purpose School. In the findings and facts section is the discussion of the enrollment. Our current enrollment is not 85 students but approximately 100. During the first three years we demonstrated strong enrollment from 75 to 160 students. It declined for two reasons. Despite the projected growth we were offered no additional classrooms. We had to combine two second grade classes and were unable to offer the kindergarten class. Second as discussed the planned de parter of the founding principal impacting enrollment last year. We have been successful in working to recreate a environment and support and nurture the students to be productive and are confident to grow enrollment and meet projection of 118 students for the next school year. Critically important we have grown and strengthened with the community partners. Last year we reached to over 60 community organizations, daycares and providers. We plan to grow the list of partners this year. Thank you. Good evening. I am peter and a member of the board of directors for the last four years. I am speaking on behalf of the principal who was here last night. Some of you may have met her. She is sitting in a hospital in oakland as her partner underwent kidney surgery today. These are her remarks. First finding of the staff report indicates we have not produced increases in academic achievement for all significant groups of students and has not produced it equal to district schools. We recognize that one not both of these criteria must be met. We are the first to recognize our academic achievement is not where we want it to be. We have taken multiple steps to refine our program to ensure we acseller rate scholars proficiency. 201718 was the first year of testing data with the first third grade of 20 students. These scholars showed stronger results and than brett heart elementary in ela and math, the school where most students would otherwise attend. They were on par or slightly higher in la and slower in math with the bayview average as whole. 201819 was the second year of testing after a year marked by transition of the principal, unexpected departure of c. E. O. And loss of several Staff Members. 20 third graders tested and they achieved at rates on average equal to comparison schools. The 12 fourth graders where deficiency declined is tiny. We find it hard that the future of one purpose of databased on such a sample size for one grade for one year. Thank you. I am mark atkinson, founding board member of one Purpose School and longterm resident of San Francisco. It was a pleasure to be with you tonight. It was particularly enlightening to hear the passion with which you rose up against false narratives. For a brief moment i thought we might be able to correct the record on your own false narrative. It is appreciated that the staff said we accidently characterized your tk5 school as high school. We appreciate that. We would be more grateful if there was further diligence around the other insufficiencies in the report. It is one thing to say we were at fault for not stocking feminine hygiene products. That would not be a requirement of a school serving tk through 5 students or to require the Suicide Prevention plans for grades 7 through 12 be in place. We have serving tk through 5. There were things that had nothing to do with the fact we are tk through 5 that you put on the same level. We dont provide definitions of long time english learners. It is unclear how the state providing a definition could be a deficiency when one of the two only applies to the same students. It does not apply to us. You want to require provisions of services for homeless and foster students and say we dont have them on page 171 and page 7 it states we will comply with those requirements. There is no deficiency. Health and safety code 120325 we are deficient because we require an exemption for immunization and i it is on 162 of the chart. That was your time. Good evening. I am karen rath man. In evaluating the program they found it in line to the common core and california state standards. To include both integrated and designated english Language Development and extensive time for professional Development WeeklyEarly Release and dedicated days. We appreciated these affirmations. As part of the work toward Continuous Improvement we made significant shifts to the Academic Program including common state standards and Science Standards to ensure grade level instruction across classrooms including bookworms and english and mystery science. Alignment of the english Language Program as well as English Proficiency assessments. This includes english Language Development. Investment in professional learning, bringing on dean of instruction and culture to provide professional Development Sessions and elbow to elbow coaching to support teachers in implementing the academic and curriculum. The staff report raised a few questions that i my colleague david will answer. Thank you. I am doctor david atkins. As one of the four physicians to start the save st. Lukes campaign that took a decade and resulted in if building of a 500 million hospital for our communities south of market, i can tell you that in the decade i thought i was asked why not just let Hunters Point and the mission and bayview go to the county. County can take care of them. If there are nine hospitals north of market, perhaps our community deserves the dignity of choice. That more than one choice. Please understand, with conviction when you feel that you have the right choice, that it is not the same thing as providing people the freedom of choice to make their own decisions for their own children and for their own families. There are many, many choices north of market. There needs to be more than one south of market. With regards to grade level sufficient efficiency. All students are engaged daily in grade level learning. Students working both below and above grade level including remedial and extension. We have detail on intervention as detailed in the charter provision reflecting the needs of the students who come to school with preestablished learning gaps. The v in vip at one purpose stands for vulnerable. We want your most vulnerable children. We are not here to take. We are not here to usurp. We are here solely to give to our community. Thank you. Good evening. I am mark miller. I support one purpose. I would like to respond to three areas of the Charter Renewal petition marked by the staff as insufficient. First. Element a section 4. This section titled how learning best occurs is presented as a broad outline of conditions. Contrary to the staffs assessment, the three items marked insufficient are addressed extensively in the petition. The plans and strategies to support students not meeting pupil outcomes are described on pages 84 through 93. That is 11 pages of information. The Research Based instructional design and strategies are described in detail on pages 66 through 84 of the petition. The instructional strategies for special education and limited english are 93 through 112. The description of annual goals for all pupils and each subgroup is marked insufficient. I would like you to refer to just one of the examples of the goals appearing in this section. Page 116 there is a goal which describes the specifics of a plan for addressing proficiency and ela as measured. Third in the staff report element b is marked insufficient without explanation for several outcome based and goal based items. In the one purpose petition the goals and measures are articulated in detail on pages 117 through 126. These are one, fully aligned with l cat, two reflect academic annan and the nonacademic outcomes. I am Susan Davenport the finance chair of one Purpose School, a proud member. In addition, in element c this articulates how benchmark skills will be developed and assessed and includes the annual goals. Please refer to that and note we have been miss categorized. I would like to respond to one additional area marked insufficient in the staff matrix. Element c methods of assessment four insufficient efficiencies are noted. These are not insufficient or deficient. Extensive list every liable measures using the nwea and portfolios appears on pages 1238 through 1 128 through 131. 127 through 128 affirms the assessments align to the curriculum. No deficiency. Pages 132 through 6 provides detailed table providing minimal required performance level necessary for every assessment measure. There are no deficiencies. Pages 136 through 9 detail the use of all data by students and teachers and the school and use in reporting to care takers and district and state. No deficiency. Please read. Thank you. On rorrable Board Members. Back off the microphone. I am pastor at the hope church for 50 years. Semi retired. What i am doing. I am 88 years old. I come from east texas to San Francisco. Because racism horrible, bitterness. Not only that but the School System was outrageous, segregated. I dont have time. I come up under that system. I know what is the operation. One purpose has been a constant be in our community over five years has been the center of the community and support. The schoolworks with hundreds of students and families. Pastor walker helped one purpose to employee introduced to be introduced four years ago one block from where the pastor also with Tabernacle Community development corporation. Tcd supports one purpose. A fully based Development Group of churches approximately 10 churches. Also i recruited recently two churches. I asked them to send a letter. Hopefully they sent letters and you got those letters. I do not understand how any serious Educational Organization or individual can be against africanamerican, no name on the latinos. Forgive me. I will get it down. Pacific islanders. Elected officials have been talking about closing. That is your time. Sorry, pastor. Good evening. I am a finance manager at tech. Supporting the school and budgeting financial management. We have been working since the schools inception. It is a level that is not for charters this young. About 450,000 to start this year or 18 of the total budget is to maintain the fund balance in the multiyear projection. It is a foundation for economic uncertainties and support strong cash balances. They are highly engaged in the financial matrix of the school. The board asked detailed questions to understand the budget to actual variances each month. There are monthly meetings with the School Finance committee to monitor the School Finances. The staff noted the large grants and donations as insufficient. This budget line here is in line with the schools Historical Data and i would argue an asset. We have an extremely effective fundraising of 1 million plus in each of the past three years. This is not a large donor. These are individual donations between 5 to 10,000 as a result of the Excellent Development team we have built. Over 1 million each year into sfusd that would not be available for these children. The school had challenges. We have maintained Strong Financial health and stability. Over the years the schools ability to adjust the budget to balance the responsibility to educate students is nothing short of extremely impressive. I look forward to a productive dialogue for the students and the community. Thank you. That concludes Public Comment. Questions from commissioners . Or comments . Commissioner collins. I didnt get a chance to say at the Budget Committee it moved forward with a negative recommendation. Vice president sanchez. Thank you for coming out to speak tonight. Mr. Davis would you like to respond to any of the remarks . A number of the speakers were essentially saying that insufficiencies were not there. I dont know if you have any response. We will start with the comprehensive detail of laws enacted. As i said, included in the report are laws applying to high school and not k5. That was a mistake. However, the point is, as i outlined in the beginning that that requirement is at the top of the requirements for a renewal petition. We ask for it all of the time and we get it when we ask for it from other petitioners and so do other districts in the bay area. As far as the enrollment at the school, i will just say this. The number of 85 that i mentioned last night in the Curriculum Committee is 85 in district, ada, and it comes from one purposes prop 39 request for next year. They say they project 85. 46 for this year, and are projecting 102 for next year. Perhaps the difference is enrollment versus ada, but i dont think they would havena low of a percentage of ada to enrollment or maybe it is the total enrollment versus in district enrollment. I can say that is where i got the number from and that came from the prop 39 request. Thank you for addressing that. That was my next question. I also asked but i dont know if you looked it up about the boards rejection of the initial charter five years ago. I did find the minutes of the findings and i did send that to you today. There were two findings. The question was why did the board reject the initial charter . I am looking at it. Do you want me to read it . I have it here. Fact towel finding september 23, 2014 was moved seconded. Anyway the factual finding the Charter School presents unsound Educational Program for the pupils enrolled. One under provisions of lcfs and the petitions are required to state the goals and actions to achieve school wide and by subgroups. The petition lacks specification. It doesnt include use every usf the restorative justice. Those were the findings from 2014. I have a clarifying question. On the recommendation and the recommendation from the committee. Tonight we staff recommended we deny. Your committee wanted to go against that. So it is approving the recommendation to deny the curriculum is approving the recommendation to deny . Yes. You are talking about the budget . The Curriculum Committee did the same. At the committee there was no recommendation made at the committee only information is provided. The committees make a positive or negative or nonrecommendation to the full board. In the past, we came in with a recommendation. Understood. A yes vote tonight would be to support the staff recommendation to deny the charter. No vote would be to approve the charter. Any other comments or questions from commissioners . Seeing none roll call vote. roll call . Seven ayes. It is denied. Section h. Other business. The San FranciscoUnified School District and San Francisco county office of education balanced scorecard single plan for student achievement. Do you want to read the recommends to the record . The director of state and federal programs roger koss to. Good evening. The requested action this evening is the board of education of the sfusd approves the 20182020 final balance scorecards and single plans for student achievement. We dont have Public Comment on this item. Any comments from the board or superintendent . Roll call vote. roll call . That is seven ayes. Two annual and five year report related to the collection of developer fees. May i hear a motion or second on this item. Motion so moved. Second. We have someone else. Chief is unfortunately ill today. I am going to read the recommended action in her stead. The recommended action the board of education review and adopt the annual and five year reports for the Fiscal Year Ended june 30, 2019. Any questions or comments from the board or superintendent . Seeing none roll call vote. roll call . That is seven ayes. Section i. Discussion of other educational issues. None tonight. Section j discussion and vote on consent calendar items removed at previous meetings. Up tonight. Section k. Number one public and board comment on proposals, number twr superintendents petition for Gateway Middle School. Board policy 5145. 2 freedom of speech expression. May i hear motion and second for the reading of 5145. 2 resolution and 191210 5 00 p. M. 1. Moved. Second. We have Public Comment by ms. You have two minutes. Good evenin good evening, i t to take the full two minutes. You have been here a long time. As executive director i want to thank you for beginning this process with us for Gateway Middle Schools third go around. We are just about to complete our second term of Gateway Middle School charter, and we are looking forward to and i say that truly the next few months having the opportunity to talk with you about our program, talk with you about the ways we have grown over the last five years and the ways we hope to continue to grow and do better in the next five years. Most importantly the ways to partner with you. I appreciate all you do on behalf of the city and kids. It is a tough job. Thank you for being here so late. I will see you soon. Thank you. My time is not up. Tomorrow i am going to send an email to all of you inviting you to visit. I think the most real way to get a sense of the school is to come spend time in the classrooms with kids and teachers. I know you are busy but just be ready it will be in your inbox tomorrow. Thank you. Any board comment on these first readings . Unless i hear otherwise from Legal Council i will refer the policies to the rules committee and resolution to the curriculum and Budget Committee. Section l proposals for immediate action and suspension of rules. None tonight. Do we have any Board Members reports. Student assignment and buildings and grounds are all on the docket. There is more. Next page. We will start with those. Are you ready for budget . Go ahead. We are going to follow these up. I spoke with commissioner sanchez. We have talked about the weighted student formula and mtsf multi chaired systems of support how we will go through that process. We feel like it is not just a committee conversation, it is full board to approach that. I will work with staff and also talk with you all about how we can calendar that in full Board Meeting to discuss how to prioritize that process to what you are doing with assignment system. Then additionally we got information that we are experiencing a budget shortfall this year, very serious information. Staff can cover that. Currently with existing revenue, but we will have to be having some serious conversations with staff that is currently in that process. It will obviously involve the board. To be very specific, it is a projected potential shortfall of about 32 million. That is why we have to be very careful about out of that conversation we wanted to make everyone clear with the fact the Budget Committee is not going to be comfortable approving new resolution that include expenditures when we havent looked at how to resource the student formula and other resolutions we have approved and would like to approve. We need to have that conversation first before we talk about adding expenses to our budget. We just wanted to make that clear for everyone. We look forward. If there is anything positive we are having this budget conversation at the same time as we look at funding schools. It is timely and Good Opportunity to look at how we are spending money and how we can support the district to get more revenue as well. Thanks. Commissioner norton . I have a report on committee from december 3rd. I wanted to add to the budget report mr. Collins covered the whole thing. I want to add my perspective in time i have been on the board i have not seen this big of a projected deficit for midyear for the middle of a year. I just want to underscore that we are in a serious situation, and that positive certification resolution we approved tonight says we can expect positive to be in the positive territory for two years if we take action apmake the midyear cuttings and make the adjustmentsness. No one knows better than the superintendent what it is like to be taken over by the state, and we do not want to experience that. That is what i was going to say. Yes, i have that. I was going to recap the whole meeting from december 3rd, and we have three kind of conceptual ideas that are going to move forward to the Community Engagement process so they have varying levels of controlled choice from the most restricted which would be an individual assignment essentially every address would have an Attendance Area School assigned to it and you would receive an offer to that school. Other concepts would be different size zones where you have a small group of schools to choose or larger group of schools with various restrictions and options within those. The purpose of the Community Engagement process over the nest few months is to get in put from the community and begin to model and evaluate how each of those concepts might help the board reach its policy goals for Student Assignment. A lot of work still to be done. There is a aggressive schedule of meetings, and i hope that we can all commit to attend some of those meetings and that we have a board presence at every meeting. It is important for the community to see us there and for us to hear from them. Thanks for your continued engagement with this process. I had staff address some basic information for folks not at the meeting. At the last buildings and grounds meeting we went over the Affordable Housing development policy, and we had a couple of recommended amendments from commissioner cook and from rsu staff. The recommendations were currently we are asking to build 550 affordable homes, and the recommendation was that this wasnt a set goal and that we keep it like there is a process to continue to add to that. We have been working on the back end with don and then also sciu staff requested support Staff Members fall under the union be included in the resolution as well. We have plans in place to meet with them. We also started a dialogue and learning about school bonds and so we are going through a series of those if commissioners are interested in how bonds work, feel free to join the building and grounds meeting. We went through the processes and steps on how to address the needs going on at the school. Commissioner lamb. At the personnel and Labor Committee we had an update and overview around emergency credentials for certified staff. Part was understanding because of a couple of related to Teacher Shortage and general as well as decrease in enrollment of credential programs, some programs we had to initiate internally to combat the Teacher Shortage with our own strategies. We learned about the process around support for emergency teachers, ongoing support for those emergency credentials and really the opportunities how to continue supporting our teacher pipeline programs to put those teachers on those emergency credential. The second agenda item, we had very engaged robust Public Comment and it was related to getting an update on special education and certified paraeducator staffing. We heard loud and clear about what is happening in the field with special education, the need to continue supporting our paraeducators and certificate teachers at the school sites and really uphill challenges. We heard around caseload and workload and the recommendation from community about the importance that, particularly with this agenda item that it be copresented between the special Education Division and with Talent Acquisition and staffing. We are committed to ensuring that happens for those additional teac teacher presents with the program divisions. I think we have a long way to go, and from the recommendation from the committee, i expressed the importance of making sure we have those realtime updates because it is continued to be a consistent issue that we have heard from the field and from our staff at the school sites. [please stand by] mont. That was moved with a positive recommendation. The information items that were presented were also very exciting, and it was regarding a Spanish Language reading instruction curriculum benchmark in as supporting spanish teachers. As a former spanish teacher in the district, it was interesting to see many of the materials provided that we have to create ourselves. And many items that ive seen work well in the classroom. It was piloted at a lot of schools, and they are interested in piloting that and feedback. Last thing was the discussion was around some of the materials in the books that we are using to implement this work and keeping up with the materials. President cook thank you for all of those updates. Do we have any board delegates updates from membership organizations . Any other reports by the board . Okay. Here is the calendar of meetings for the coming year. The budget and Business Services committee, were meeting wednesday, january 8, at 6 00 p. M. , the buildings and grounds and services will be meeting monday, january 27 at 6 00 p. M. , curriculum and program will be meeting january 13 at 6 00 p. M. , worlds policy and legislation will be meeting monday, january 6, at 5 00 p. M. The Ad Hoc Committee on personal relations and affordability will be meeting i set it december 18 at 6 30 a. M. The Ad Hoc Committee on Student Assignment doesnt have any meetings until march 2020, and the joint city School District and City College Select Committee will be meeting this friday, december 13, at 10 00 a. M. That meeting will be held at city hall in the legislative chambers. Commissioner lopez . Commissioner lopez i just want to note that the curriculum and Program Committee meeting will be meeting monday, january 13, and not wednesday. [inaudible] commissioner lopez no, thank you. President cook thanks. Lets see. Section n, other informational items. Number 1, accepting of gifts, monthly report for the months of september, october, and november 2019. Number 2, the lau Consent Decree for english language learns. Sunsets is moving from compliance to commitment. Section o, memorial adjournment. There are none tonight. Public comment. At this time, we will take Public Comment for items in closed. President cook peace, peace, and welcome back. Section q, reconv eene to open session. Im going to read a statement in the closed session. In the matter of multiple licenses suspended local 39, griefance number 1718304, the board, by a vote of seven ayes gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. In the matter of mazera, mendoza minor, by and through her guardian, bridget mendoza, the board, by a vote of seven ayes, gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulates apt on three matters of anticipated litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel. In one matter of anticipated litigation, the board, by a vote of seven ayes authorized general counsel to initiate litigation. Section r, adjournment. This meeting is adjourned. Good night