Members of the public are reminded a individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and present it to our executive assistant. Members of the public have two minutes to address the board and the time is set by the president. Importantly according to board rules and pressures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board. Number two, superintendents report. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. The San Francisco Unified School District is now providing childcare for the regular board meetings. [applause] its beginning right now. [laughter] and space is limited and well be provided on a firstcomefirst serve basis for children age 310. Childcare is provided from 6 00 to 9 00 in the Educational Placement Center waiting room located here on the first floor right outside this door and down the hall. If you have any questions, you can contact ms. Esther casco to the board of education at 415 2416493 and childcare is now provided. The Second Annua
Thathat is a solution we can wok on. I also as representative of hardworking special education educators, i want you to know, and you have heard other people really hard to get the work done. They cant get it dawn l done. They want to provide the services. There are so many things to be done correctly with too little support. Until we address that we will not see 100 compliance. Thank you. I am here wearing both hats today. My day job special education advocate. Evening job other than parent is to be the chair of the past chair of the Community Advisory community. Special education advocate looks at this to say validation. This is everything we have been screaming about as lock as i have been involved in the district. This cac chair says we look forward to fixing this. I cannot echo the comments enough. We are at a staffing crisis right now. We are doing so much work in so many great areas with big plans and no one to implement be them. This is a perfect example. We are screening kids
Much as yesterday, of course, when it posted one of it best days since january joining us for the hour is mark tepper, founder and ceo of Strategic Wealth partners. And mark, you know, a rally like this going into year end has got to make your clients feel good but do you tell them not to expect the same thing next year . Thats absolutely the conversation were having with clients right now. I mean, it has been an awesome year markets are up about 30 all on the back of no Earnings Growth whatsoever. So its all been multiple expansion. Its all been an increase in Investor Sentiment so were telling clients right now, manage your expectations for 2020 dont expect a repeat of 2019. I think, unfortunately, a lot of Retail Investors tend to have a shortterm memory when it comes to market performance. So, its not easy. You do have to work at it. Expect good gains in 2020, but nothing like this. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching today Frank Holland is tracking the nasdaqs run to ne
Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. Before i began, i will thank the witnesses for accommodating the scheduled change today. We left the senate floor where senator Johnny Isaacson gave his Farewell Speech and may friend and colleague Ranking Member coons is down there now bidding him farewell on the speech. He and senator isaacson worked a long time together. Its fitting senator is there because in many respects he embodies a lot of the same attributes as senator isaacson in terms of working together on this committee. When he comes in he will interject but in the meantime we will get to your opening statements. We are here to talk about the issue of fraudulent trade marks. As everyone knows trade marks are the back bone of many businesses options. Unfortunately, the United States has seen a surge in fraudulent trademark applications. According to the wall street journal, from 2013 to 2017, the United States patent and Trademark Office testing a surgeon trademark applicati
On commissioner lopezs comments. Talk about in terms of utilizing the partnership with sfpd, when are we at the point, okay, this is not something we can do or are we short on t10s . First, the sfpd does not supervisor oversee at all. We want to be clear with that. Some have misunderstooding over the years. Our t10s call them so the only calls to dispatch should come from the school administrator. Not from security. I wanted to clear that up. We have a high turnover in security. We are trying to get the security guards trained. We have had extra trainings. We had trainings on Crisis Response including how to respond to emergency situations. Certainly i think our security guards. Some are highly skilled in part of that community and absolutely worth a tremendous asset to the school. We have a high turnover and it is difficult to bring everyone up to training. The Security Force is inconsistent from school to school. If we had the security t10 staff, are we calling sfpd because we dont h