Good morning, everyone and welcome to the peoples palace and im here this morning to announce yet another milestone in our citys commitment to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour by and people will work this fourth of july weekend we are celebrating our countries birthday but recognizing in the celebration throughout the weekend people like the people had that are standing with me are working whether the restaurants or hotels or Health Care Workers and others and and we all feel for working people that is hard in our expensive city to survive unless you have a december sent wage thats why a couple of years ago i destined or joibd the board of supervisors full board of supervisors to place before the voters an 15 an hour minimum wage and people that work in all those industries we did it together and were celebrating because today it goes from 12. 25 an hour to 13 and up to 15 and after that cpi takes over i want to remind everybody this city was brought together with our labor unions
Here they are still an affordability gap so this is going to help people he you go that suggest that a lot of people are working two jobs to support their families we want to celebrate those moms were all ushth together to help them but for also myself and mayor libby schaaf of oakland that recognizes our workforce is more regional than ever do more than benefit the residents that work in our city and so we joined. Today and cities that are committed along with cities like new york and seattle and los angeles and portland and the others also raised their minimum wage we want to the state of california to do the same thing because what could happen i think all the labor advocates know and people that we raised our minimum wage just and ourselves in the city of San Francisco or just in oakland we would probably be golden state talent that belongs to where everybody lives and not as affordable to them as it is to those were helping so mayor libby schaaf and along with the United Health ca
Superintendent carranza. Here. Murase. Here. Wynns. Here. Mendozamcdonnell. Here. If you would please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]. Mr. Superintendent you had an announcement for the meeting tonight. Yes thank you. On item number 29 the worksheet was inadvertently admitted into the agenda. The second announcement is a correction to the superintendent proposal 166 14s4 this should read should be submitted for adoption not for First Reading before adoption. Thank you. For those of you who are joining me this evening and want to address the board of education please submit a speaker card and submit them to the clerk before the item is called. Item a is approval of the board minutes. The next item is item b. Item b ispresentations to the board of education superintendents reports our students are taking dance and drama and guitar and orchestra and the year theyll take mary archie orchestra to and one of our recovery classes will be making a game literally mak
Concepts were brought in, but did you have language was discussed and this commission had time to read it and go over it, a number of discussions happened that night. But the question is after 6 and a half months with after six and a half months of thoughtful discussion and a lot of input, the commission acted after a significant deliberation and so i want to clarify those points based on some of the issues that were brought up. Xigser de jesus. Commissioner de jesus. Im happy to sit and talk to you because i dont see the same policy. Its really important to analyze and real the report because a lot was taken. Its march of 2016 report, a lot of the new contents and language was taken from the report and case law. We relied on the case law. We struck the tasers, we we held onto the shooting at cars. If you look at it, it doesnt say it has the same concept of preserving human life. We actually say in here that were holding them to a higher standard. The law is the grand versions conner c
If theres one thing i think you have heard today is that policy aside in drafting the rules is a complicated issue. Theres a host of technical concerns and minutia. We do have concern about putting this on the ballot in terms of not being able to kind of tinker away and amend the measure to address the implementation issues. I understand one of the amendment is to allow the board to amend it after five years. There could be things that may need to be addressed in a short amount of time. Would not rest on the eastern neighborhood on the pdr question. We have been for the last five years engaged on the central some effort, 2011, we hope to be before the board in 2017 the consider this plan. The construction of a new pdr is a central issue and we have proposal that will be before you soon that is a comprehensive proposal that is cutting edge and includes things not just in terms of replacement but construction of the new pdr not just in the plan area but outside. We hope the board will co