Good evening. Welcome to this week in Northern California. Joining me for insight and analysis of the news are mina kim, kqed news reporter. Michelle quinn, politico Silicon Valley reporter. And scott detrow, kqeds Sacramento Bureau chief. In sacramento, the legislative session wrapped up this week after a flurry of bills and some 11th hour wrangling. Lawmakers reached a deal that broke an impasse over a federal court order on prison overcrowding. Some other measures debates, increasing the minimum wage, regulating fracking, tightening restrictions on guns. Scott, you spent some late nights there this week. What were some of the biggest winners. One of the Biggest Surprise was allowing undocumented immigrants to have drivers licenses. They thought that would stall but leaders got on board with that and it passed. A bill got passed regulating hydraulic fracturing that can cause a big oil boom here in california. Another bill increased the minimum wage to ten bucks, it could be the highe
things that i just received pretty much notice about it, we ve talked about this in terms of budget. but the main expense that we weren t too sure but now we re sure is that it needs to have 75 to 100 teachers in the preschool programs. we re going to have about the same amount of preschool teachers visit elementary school programs. so we do have the funding for that. and in terms of staffing for the people involved so far, the parent engagement office and carla and transition person that she s hired, that s been spoken about and they already know they ve already committed to doing that. so that s most of the staff that s going to be involved and then of course we ll need translations. and then in terms of facilitating some of the breakout sessions, we re asking communities to do that part of the activities. commissioner wynns: have we looked at this? you ve planned this and thank you. president yee: yeah. commissioner maufas: so i want to also thank you so much for working
the city they will provide transportation to volunteer destinations via shuttle bus and that s gardened projects, tree planting, cleaning up of parks and streets, participating in local food pantry, painting, writing letters for some of our troops, reading for seniors and there will be many, many more signup opportunities and again to remind everyone of this is an opportunity for us to participate in the national day of service here in san francisco and again it starts at 8:45 on monday, january 16, at the african-american arts and cultural center. they will be providing, again, shuttle transportation. for more information you may contact melanie green at mlknes 24@gmail.com. and for direct access to all the day s events can you go to http://aaacc.org and just click on the complex special events and you will find out more information. thank you. commissioner murase: yes, i have two announcements. i m sending down a program from the ucsf lincoln high school fifth celebration.
second? proposed. reading the resolution. president yee: i m going to read this but i know we may add some new wording to this. so, in support of the creation of vision and goals of the pre-k to third alignment system, including the pre-k to third, looking back moving forward summit, whereas the san francisco unified school district as one of its goals to have all third graders reading at grade level or above because this is a crucial milestone indicating whether or not children will succeed in school. this goal has profound impact to narrowing the opportunity and achievement gap and whereas the district has many positive programs for our young students. however, many of these programs will are not having the greatest impact because they are not necessarily aligned with each other and whereas the district has accepted the challenge of aligning our prmbings k to third program to pree k to third program to improve student outcomes. the district has looked to develop share
presenting the resolution now and answering commissioner wynns question, this is not new to the staff. it s just formalizing what we ve been talking about and doing and planning and so forth. and it s a good opportunity for , again, for the board to know exactly what s happening with this and as we move forward, we only have a month, a little more than a month, to find details in this. i ll need a lot of help and staff is working on it and part of my role is to bridge, at least initially, help bridge that communication between our district and the community. so i think that s being done at this point and i feel real good that the district has really embraced this concept. thank you. roll call please. commissioner maufas: yes. commissioner mendoza: yes. maursmaurs commissioner murase: aye. commissioner wynns: aye. president yee: aye. six ayes. president yee: thank you. motion to pass motion passes. ok. item s. board members report. are there any tonight? i don t we h