Motion carries. Well interpret the present vote as an aye vote. The issue we talked about is just resolved by your vote. Aerth great. I thought it was roll call. All right. I think were ready for Public Comments. Mr. De costa gave you a card. Yes, i have mr. De costas card. But you wanted to talk on item 4, mr. De costa, or Public Comment at the beginning . Public comment. I mentioned it on my card. Oh, okay. I want to wish you all a happy new year. And to you as well. And i also wanted to wish you all peace of mind and good health in the year 2013. And the reason why i say that is theres a lot of work to do when it comes to our infrastructure because we have a lot to learn from what happened on the east coast with hurricane, hurricane sandy. And people are documenting a lot of the damage done to the, to the infrastructure. And as you know, the impact was far inland, you know, affected new york, the subway and so on and so forth. Why am i saying that . Because even as we are satisfied
Helpful to get an update on that. I know it concerns it concerns all of us as city people and taxi riders. Especially the insurance part. Especially the insurance part. It worries me to have people getting into these cars with people they have no idea who they are. I would second the request on the inspectors. I think one of the sort of promises we made in the industry about raising all this revenue is that we at least use some portion of it for enforcement. You know, i dont know what mr. Heely is referring to, but i think rather than speculate who is blocking what, if we can have a report on where we are with hiring enforcement officers, that might be the way to go. Thank you, director reiskin. [speaker not understood]. The consent calendar, these items are considered to be routine and will be acting upon by a single roll call vote unless a member of the public or member of the board wishes to discuss an item separately. Mr. Chairman, no member of the public has asked that an item be
[horns honking] [siren wails] announcer big dreams and goodrades arent enough to get into college. There are actual steps you need to take. Finding someone who can help is the first and most important. For the next steps, go to knowhow2go. Org. The meeting is now called to order. Roll call . Miss, fewer . Here. Mr. Hani. Here. Dr. Morasi. Here. 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
The High School Level and the youth enrichment programs and like a pri and others, it is, and they or the students at that level, or especially in the under served communities like the bay view Hunters Point yeah and how the opportunities are in the community and learn that they create the jobs and has the opportunity that it has in San Francisco, and i think that opens their eyes to future potential. And one of the thing that i will mention is that there have been a lot of concerns about the challenges of African American students and residents from the bay view being able to get jobs in the Tech Community and we asked the trade association representing the Technology Companies in San Francisco, to work with the boys and girls club particularly in the bay view, and in the fillmore and in the other under served neighborhood to be sure that everyone no wants a mentor ship and a young boy or a girl and we received a commitment from the trade association representing the Tech Community th
District staff and strengthen the Initiative Design to support achievement. One of the clear out comes was the need to generate greater visibility for the pac. Many parents are unaware of what the Parent Advisory Council is and let alone the work that we do to bring the voice and perspective to inform the policy discussion and decisions,. To this end, we will have as a pac, an informational table set up at the School Planning summit on march second. And in doing so, we hope to increase pac visibility, high lie the work that we are doing and to help recruit new pac members for the following school year. At the end of this school year, we will have three vacant seats and three seats reserved for alternates for the term that will begin this summer. And as we begin that out reach and recruitment effort, we are actively seeking Early Childhood education, parent or guardian representation, and additional representation of our nonenglish speaking parents on the pac. We have a Diverse Group al