Hi, im also from rooftop. You will hear more stories about this as well but i think i have two simple asks. One is to reexamine the formula that was put together for how you staff pairs. I look at r. S. P. Staffing. And really the impact of this is that pair and r. R. S. S are two distinct support services and school sites, not just rooftop, are struggling to provide varying levels of pair support. Theyre linking the number in every pair side to the number of r. S. P. Based on peoples i. S. P. S. I think since s. F. U. Is a driven district i ask the board request an official state of inclusion report that includes aggregate school sites. That includes special academic instruction hours, pair hours, number of r. S. P. And school sites and cohorts. As well as the percent of staff with emergency credentials. These are hard positions to fill and there are a number of first year people in there with emergency credentials and boy thats a hard job. They do their best but its clear that retention of people especially is really important. They can make a huge difference in educational access for kids with special needs. And ideally we can make this information public and something thats updated quarterly or by yearly so we can track and see how this is going through the district. With that ill bow out. Thanks. To commissioner cook, Vice President , someone said the Public Education is best when we see our students sitting here at roundtable. To all the other board commissioners, to dr. Vincent matthews, student delegates, lydia blank and susan all the members at uesf. To our beloved esther, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, im ver require marshall Vice President of the San Francisco of black school educators. What is the news. I have some good news to share. Where should we all be one week from today. Its called call and response. We should be where . Saint marys cathedral for our African American honour roll celebration. We have 1200 students. Well celebrate 1400 students of African American dissent. I got you to ring the belfour that. Who have earned a 3. 0g. P. A. Or higher from grades 312 and our elementary, middle and schools. We want to thank this board for rearranging your schedules. We normally have this on a wednesday or thursday but could not get the facility as we have done in the past. We thank you in advance for coming out to support your students, our students. We know that one day, theyll be some sitting in the seats where you are now. And we also always want to thank dr. Morisi for helping us with sponsors and we ask you to look in your little black books or your ipads and iphones, and help us with sponsors. We must raise more than 15,000 to put fourth these events and so were working hard for that. We cannot ever forget the district for your support. On particularly the third floor and kevin and his staff and don of publishing and reproduction. I want to say thank you, have a booklet. This is last years booklet. Its a masterpiece done by a retired business teacher. So again were working on this now as we speak. Please come. Bring your families and friends. And we need donations if you ar. If you want to give a donation, ill take your taxdeductible checks made out the San Francisco lions black educators. Thank you all. What was your name . Good evening, board of education. Commissioners and superintendent. My name is erik is choi and im a parent with the rooftop. Im here with rooftop parents because theres a shortage of pair professionals supporting our special education students. We need you to address this urgently. The special education students are being consolidated into classes and we feel that this is the segregation and it is illegal and its a violation of this individual or the individual disability act. This practice is shocking. Questions terring the students with disabilities is wrong. I have a child at rooftop that had a 504 floor plan. This is close to me. I urge you to please use your leadership to help our school to get at least one more pair professional at our school. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes Public Comments on general. What was your name. Ta harry reynolds. I call taharry renalds. Jessica. If you are here please make your way to the front. Go ahead. My name is taharry renalds and im with San Francisco kids versus big tobacco, which say coalition of doctors, parents, Health Organizations and Community Groups working to protect our children and youth from the addictions of candyflavored tobacco. On the june 18th ballot, the residents of San Francisco will vote to up hold the trail blazing an unanimous decision of the board of supervisors to restrict the sales of candy flavored Tobacco Products in the city. The research and evidence is clear flavored Tobacco Products have a adverse impact on publichealth. Money is power and the Tobacco Industry has a lot of it. We are asking all bay area elected officials to stand with us and reject tobacco money. On february 20th at 10 00 a. M. On city hall steps, we will be having a press conference where we will share the list of bay area officials who have come together to reject money from big tobacco. Put San Francisco kids health above Tobacco Company profits and join the american heart association, San Francisco marin medical society, the San Francisco parent pack, Supervisor Malia Cohen and many, many more. Thank you to those who have already voiced your support and i look forward to the support of others. Ill be following up via email. Thank you so much. My name is ken orcharder, im a parent at rooftop. My son has epilepsies. When he was little, he had 2,500 sees. He has fought back to do work at rooftop. But he has an i. P. And he needs pair professional support. We faced discrimination all over the city of San Francisco. Weve had our registration money returned to us by multiple summer camps and after school programmes. This is the first time weve learned of discrimination in sfusd against students with disabilities. I dont come to yall lightly. What happened was last semester, we had a pair cut bringing us down to five. We did a petition. The petition got no reply. A couple of us went to a kak meeting to ask the deputy for special he had. Five pairs, 24 classrooms. Kids at each grade level who need support. How can that be enough. We were told we misunderstood the formula and she would email it to us. She did and its right there. Its a 128 ratio. It has nothing to do. Its not what is in the i. E. P. S. So we replied saying this is a ratio. How this can be enough. And her replay was, apparently you are not intentionally grouping students with disabilities in classrooms to maximize pair professional support. Those are the words the deputy superintendent used. Intentionally grouping. So what this means is that other kids work dont have disabilities, when teachers get together over the summer, they place them based on whats the best combination to promote their learning. Not kids with disabilities in many schools. They are placed in the classrooms not based on learning but cutting pair professional costs. My son can be in asfusd classroom, where he is not given equal access to the curriculum because he is being intentionally placed in a classroom with more kids with disabilities than kids who lack disabilities. It is discrimination and a violation. This is a type of things that leads o to o. C. R. Investigationing and i ask you to pass a policy rebuking this guidance from sfusdw. We also have one parent who submitted a card an hour ago and she has been waiting patiently. Can she please testify. Im sorry but feel free to end emails to us and well make sure it gets to the appropriate person. We have section g, thats all the speaker cards i had in front of me. Jessica. She didnt come up when i called her name. I did, i came up. Thank you. I didnt speak. Thank you. Thats not how it works. Sorry. So my name is jake, i retired in june of 2017. I want to talk about is actually, i want to educate you many of the process of becoming a sub in this School District. By the way, i did not want to be a sub in this School District. George washington high school, the a. P. Called me. Councilor was seriously ill and left and she asked me to come and be a sub. Because i know the councilor really well and the other four councilors that work with them i decided to do that. I didnt do it for the money. I dont need t i did it because they needed help. Here is the process that i had to go through. If you think this is ok, its unbelievable and its probably been this way for 30 years. Ok, so i go down there and im supposed to write a letter. A letter because i was retired, i didnt have to do an application. I i wrote a letter. Five or six days go by i hear nothing. I call up, oh the person wont be back until january 29th. Oh january 29th. Ok, no one else can do anything. Everything is on hold. Ok. January 30th they call and saying well you cant be a sub, you dont have a teaching credential. Well i want to sub as a councilor. Theres a job there. Remember this is not about me. This is the process im talking about. You need subs. You have people teaching in your classrooms that dont have subs but you need a teaching credential to be a sub. I have teaching credentials anyway. Ok, so then you need finger prints. And then you need t. B. Tests. Fingers prints and t. B. Test. My t. B. Test is good but theres a break of employment six months. You have to get a t. B. Test test. If i was on sabbatical for a year i wont need a t. B. Test when i. The empathy factor, the kindness makes a lot thats very important for a child to blossom and ive seen a lot of kids when they have a special teacher with them, they interaction and the confidence of what these teachers em part is priceless and i think interaction with other students also is required because they really blossom with the interaction and the exchange of ideas and just being together. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Actually i didnt call your name. Maybe i just miss pronounced it. You didnt hear it. Thank you. So section g. Special order of business. We had a motion to second on the initial proposal from sfusd through united administrators of San Francisco presented on january 23rd. Mr. Lee, do you have a des i guess knee to read the recommendation to the record . Yes, i do. This is chief of labour relations carmelo scarleto. Good evening, commissioners and staff and students. So tonight id like to read into the record the initial proposal from San FranciscoUnified School District to the united administrators of San Francisco to initiate our bargaining with them. Well require your action on the matter. Ok. I dont see any Public Comment on this item. Or is it mr. Any comments from commissioners . Seeing none. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Thank you mr. Haney. Yes. Dr. Morisi. Ms. Norton. Mr. Sanchez. Yes. Mr. Wallton. We now present the initial proposal for united administrators of San Francisco at sfusd. Mr. Lee, do you have anything . Yes, still chief of labour relations carmelo scarletto. I would like to read the initial proposal from the united administrators of San Francisco to the San FranciscoUnified School District. The sunshining article. We have Public Comment on this item. Richard mcgee, you have two minutes. Well, happy fat tuesday everybody. Im sure you want to finish this meeting so you can go celebrate before the ashes come early tomorrow morning. I want to remember our brothers and sisters in new orleans and our labour partners there who are still going through a lot of katrina issues. Just like them, we are a laboringization and we want to bargain in good faith. We submitted our proposal as required by the policy of the School District. Were looking forward to negotiating a fair wage settlement and working conditions and i was a little put upon by some of the suggested dates, which include spring break, so while all of you are vacationing in maui, well be struggling to try and get a good contract, a better contract. We have a solid contract and so i want to acknowledge that. Improve our contract for our hardworking side and Central Office administrators. Thank you. Thank you. Can i have a motion to second on the San Francisco united School District audit report for the yearended june 30th, 2017. Moved. Second. Mr. Lee, do you have a des i guess knee to read the recommendation into the record . I do. I believe its rita, our chief financial officer. I see her making her way up to the staff table. Sorry about that. Good evening, commissioners and deputy, superintendent. Im here to present the resolution to accept our annual audit for the year 20162017. And as i think we have in past years, we have on hand our c. P. A. From our Accounting Firm v. T. D. In case we have any questions from either the board or the public. Should i read the resolution first . Ok. So the resolution is that the board of education accept the San FranciscoUnified School Districts audit report for the yearend of june 30th, 2017. I might also add that we did a little preview of our audit at the Budget Business ServicesCommittee Last week. Our audit is posted on the districts website and we have copies for the board and we have copies out in the lobby for anyone to read it. Ill just give you very quick, time is limited. You have a lot of stuff on the agenda. Just very quickly. My name is nathan, im the independent external financial auditor for the School District. So what you have are the financials and our audit report for that fiscal yearending jun. I want to quickly go over a couple of things. The scope of the audit is to validate the Financial Statements. To validate the revenues throughout the year. To validate the expenditures to assure they are appropriately accounted for and made available through the Financial Report for users of the Financial Statements. One thing that we do not do as part of the audit, nothing in the audit talks about management or does the board or does anybody do a good job with using the districts money. The Financial Statement opinions states that the audit record is what we call a clean report. Which means the Financial Statements are fairly stated. Theres no doubt about that. It means the Information Available to the users are there and the information is appropriate. Its really up to management and up to the members of the board and members of the public to read the Financial Statements and understand them and make decisions based on those. So, the summary of the audit of opinion is basically that it is a clean report. There are some findings and im happy to go into them in detail. None of the findings should be looked at as any indication of the Financial Statements other than barely stated. The Financial Statements are correct. Thats basically the bottom line of the audit. But that said, im happy to answer any questions. I can go into this in more detail. Its really whatever would please the group. No Public Comment on this item. Yeah, i wanted to just ask about the findings related to instructional minutes and also attendance. I understand i dont know if its related to and maybe you can answer this question, i understand the state sent us half our schools a letter saying they thought our attendance data was faulty. I just read this on ed source. Assist related to the findings for attendance in the audit. If there was a letter that was sent to schools, that im not aware of. Thats something unrelated to this. I havent seen myself. Ok. Well then, since were at the audit is on the agenda and that issue is not, could i get some more information about that issue please. Yes, we will followup with you and report back to the board. Can you explain the issue with attendance that you did find . Ok, yes. The issue with attendance is something, one of the requirements for recording attendance and the way that the lcff funding formula works is a substantial portion of School District funding is based on average daily attendance. Kids going to school. Every day a kid is not in school is less money for the School District. To support that, the district has to have certain documentation in place. For the most part they do. Theres a process that the district has, its been refined over many years and its working. There was an issue we identified in doing the attendance of it that involved substitute teachers ensuring that that attendance they recorded on pieces of paper were translated into the electronic attendance sips tom. Thats where there was a breakdown. There were documentations that we had asked for to support attendance in the audit that was simply not avai