Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. The San Francisco Unified School District provides free Interpretation Services in spanish and can cantonese. We will have the equipment in the back of the room where the gentleman and lady are lifting their hands. If you know of anyone needing the services, please refer them to us so they can get their headphones. This message will be repeated in both languages. [speaking in spanish]. [speaking in cantonese]. And a reminder. If people are going to speak in the podium and they need interpretation, they need to come with us first to let us know. [speaking in spanish] [speaking in cantonese] roll call, please. [speaker not understood] . Ms. Mendosa . Director murase . Here. Mr. Norton . Mr. Logan. Here. Thank you. Please join me in the pledge of a lookvance. ~ allegiance. [inaudible]. I want to welcome everybody back. I hope it was a restful and productive summer. Were looking forward to the first day of school next week. Id also like to welcome our ne
Roll call, please. [speaker not understood] . Ms. Mendosa . Director murase . Here. Mr. Norton . Mr. Logan. Here. Thank you. Please join me in the pledge of a lookvance. ~ allegiance. [inaudible]. I want to welcome everybody back. I hope it was a restful and productive summer. Were looking forward to the first day of school next week. Id also like to welcome our new student delegate, mr. Cooper logan. He was elected through youth vote oh, yes, he was elected through youth vote. And our interim sac delegate an gentlemen lin a wei is out of town and she will join us at the next Board Meeting august 27. Were on item a, approval of the board minutes. May i hear a motion and second on the regular Meeting Minutes of june 11 and july 2nd and august 6 of 2013 . I so move. Is there a second . Second. Thank you. Are there any corrections . Seeing none, roll call, please, [speaker not understood]. Thank you. In the last two meetings, anderxerctiontion, the second and the sixth were special meetin
Dennis [speaker not understood], actively [speaker not understood] retired firefighter. Id like to congratulate the new elected officers and i look forward to watching the year. And second of all, having sat through over a year of i guess presentations and actually negotiations that originally approved the gender my mind went blank there, but for the gender operations and so on. Its good now to see that that is recognized as any other procedure because at the time when they went through all that procedure, they tried to tell everybody that this is just another medical condition that has to be dealt with. So, its nice to see even 15, 18 years later from that time this is now recognized for what it really is. So, i applaud the board on that one. Thank you. Claire [speaker not understood], retired seiu. Again, i want to congratulate everyone on their positions as officers and also as chairs. And suggest that commissioner scott said a special letter go out to organizations, retiree organiz
Im an organizer for Service Employees international, United Service workers west, and we represent 40,000 Security Officers, janitors, airport Service Workers, and an allied Entertainment Division across the state of california. Id like to thank you for allowing me the time to speak to you this evening. And begin by acknowledging the enormous responsibility that all of you share to ensuring the quality of education for the children of San Francisco and to have a Brighter Future for tomorrow. Im here tonight this evening to talk to you about the contract for Security Services that went out to bid recently in the district. The district has utilized Security Services for over 12 years. Securitaz is a Union Company. The union has worked for over a decade in San Francisco and across the bay area to improve standards for Security Officers. ~ abc security is a signatory to our agreement and they bid on the contract for Security Services. They were the lowest responsive bidder. Were concerned
Roll call, please. [speaker not understood] . Ms. Mendosa . Director murase . Here. Mr. Norton . Mr. Logan. Here. Thank you. Please join me in the pledge of a lookvance. ~ allegiance. [inaudible]. I want to welcome everybody back. I hope it was a restful and productive summer. Were looking forward to the first day of school next week. Id also like to welcome our new student delegate, mr. Cooper logan. He was elected through youth vote oh, yes, he was elected through youth vote. And our interim sac delegate an gentlemen lin a wei is out of town and she will join us at the next Board Meeting august 27. Were on item a, approval of the board minutes. May i hear a motion and second on the regular Meeting Minutes of june 11 and july 2nd and august 6 of 2013 . I so move. Is there a second . Second. Thank you. Are there any corrections . Seeing none, roll call, please, [speaker not understood]. Thank you. In the last two meetings, anderxerctiontion, the second and the sixth were special meetin