Hi, everybody, welcome to the meeting, the San Francisco, we. The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting of the San Francisco board of education occurring february 12, 2013, will begin shortly. 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 given the opportunity to listen to what is being said
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
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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
Each speaker may speak. Speakers in groups will immediately wind up their presentation when time is called. And speakers who refuse to follow speaker rules, or who disrupt the meeting will be asked to leave, persist ent disruptions by a group or an individual will terminate the grounds for addressing the board this evening, thank you for your patients. Mr. Superintendent. Thank you, president , norton and the members of the San Francisco community. I have three very brief messages this even actually four. I am honored to tell folks that we are glad that you are not watching right now, because our president barack obama is giving his state of the Union Address for his second term. And i think that particularly apropo given that february is black history month. And i think that it is absolutely wonderful that our African American president is giving the state of the Union Address. We are also very, excited that we are celebrating the Lunar New Year across the district and i would ask eve