Local Service Employees that represent and the living 100 workers that work here at the School District and i am also assigned as the chief spokesperson for our bargaining unit. We have been bargaining since march. And the last meeting we had was on june 19th. And both the parks are way far apart and particularly in the economic aspects. And we are a little bit disappointed even though we are optimistic that we will be able to get a contract, and attentative agreement, but we are a little bit disappointed because in the proposed budget, our researchers have found out that the district has allocated 2. 6 Million Dollars for the inaudible for compensation and other benefits but did notify or include the classified employees. If i, if our researcher is wrong on that matter, we need you to correct us but that is what we found. And so, we tried to really meet with your negotiateors but they are holding on and understands that the budget does not reflect, you know, improvement for our members will have not received since 2006 or 2007 increase of their salary and wages while you know that the inflation and the time commodities have changes and we want you to negotiate to come to the table and have money so that we can resolve this problem, thank you. Thank you. Public comment is now closed we will move on to item h, the consideration of the annual budget for the 13, 14 school year, this was moved and seconded on june 11th, and may i have a report from the Budget Committee meeting that occurred last week . Commissioner wynns . Sure. Well, we had a great budget meeting because everyone was there and it was an augmented Budget Committee meeting and it actually was the public hearing on the proposed budget in advance of our vote this evening. And so, i will, we actually have and maybe for the public, i will just, identify the areas about which questions were asked and that we have gotten answers not all of which are definitive but rather should add to our discussion this evening about the budget. And so with it, the following subjects were raised by the board and one is the new proposal multitiered system of support and more information on how that is going to work the increase in costs for special education and special ed transportation. What the spending plan is for the new common core state standards and revenue stream that was in the state budget, issues about the rainy day reserve and how the eligibilities are calculated in our continuing eligibility for the rainy day, money from the city. And issues about the Funding Priorities or the policy priorities in the district and where can find the spending for those things and the questions that are more structural about how the budget is presented or about descriptions, the narrative descriptions of the variances from year to year so that the people can understand them. These are questions about the priorities identified by the board and where is there revenue for the common planning time which the board discussed. What about the ethic studies and the cost that have and where is that budgeted . The kc or the High School Exam and these are questions in this one and some others too related to the change in the ways, or the state revenue is budgeted and it does not come so much in the categorical streams which we like and but the question of what are we going to continue to do the things that we have previously done with that moneys and this questions about the student nutrition program. And which is why i pulled the items about the cost of the items and how that will be resolved and also we have topics for future discussion for longer discussions. So, one is so that the board and the public and the staff i guess could further understand and begin to change our thinking about the new funding system, the local control funding formula and that system of support or centralized site based students for support and programs and about the question was raised about any planning for us to try to afford a 7th period day since that is kind of identified as a key issue in meeting our graduation requirements. And so, does that adequate . Yes. Thank you. That is the report of the Budget Committee. Nicely done. All right. May i have a reading of the recommendation deputy superintendent lee or superintendent or designee. I will ask lee to read that. Thank you. So, the requested action is that the board of education approves the fiscal year, 13, 14, adopted budgets for the San Francisco unified School District and the San Francisco county office of education. I think that is right. In the official state forms, prescribed by the state superintendent of public instruction with the california education code, 33129 and 42, 127. Thank you. I have a number of speakers signed up for this item, and so as i call your name, please line up along the wall we will keep the readers two minutes. Lovha. Malara. Susan solomen. Katie franklin. And megan and Katie Russell you may begin when you are ready, you have two minutes. Four minutes with interpretation. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] good evening my name is maria is i am the president of glac and i son that just finished third grade. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] a few weeks we came as a delac and gave a report where we gave some recommendation and one of those recommendations was related to transparency. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] we have reviewed the formula that you presented last tuesday, i think that it was june 18th . Regarding the local control funding formula we have the next questions. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] as for this project that is no longer, wait a minute, well, what is going to be the mechanism and the follow up on supervision now that the funds are centralized and not going to be. Okay they are going to be centralized. How are we going to insure that our children or our students are given the resources appropriate, the appropriate resources within the classroom and the form and frequency, and the form and frequency on how they are going to measure the efficiency and the implementation of such services in order to insure that this new plan is heightly functional . We would also like to see that those funds or that funding is used technically in the classroom for the kids to have more support and as well, have a assistant teachers, or assistance in the classrooms. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] we would like to request how schools have more time in the collaboration in the administration and the teachers. So they would have, use that time to plan together. Thank you. Good evening commissioners my name is carla and i am a dlacmember and i am also a parent of three children that are in the San Francisco unified School District. I am a graduate of the San Francisco unified School District myself. So, i am very invested in the School District and one of maria said that the dlac has made a number of suggestions to the board and it seems how the new budgeting is being broken down, a lot of the moneys is unrestricted funds and does cause a concern for us. And we see that a lot of the staffing is also going to come from on top. So, substitutes is one of the suggestions that we made, so the substitutes is a big issue especially in the schools that are offering the immersion programs which are elementary and schools and we are suggesting that a substitute be assigned to the school site and this substitute must have a Good Relationship with the students and must be able to speak, read and write in the language of the immersion level. We heard many complaints nr the members that the substitutes were being sent to immersion classes and they dont speak the language or some of them are not even qualified to deal with Elementary Schools and ter actually high School Substitutes and there is a lot of frustration on the childrens part, on the adults part they dont, they dont have patience with them. And also, so then the third point is that the substitutes must have experience in serving the appropriate age groups so if they are sent to an Elementary School and not High School Special education is also a certain for us seeing that again a lot of the budgeting is coming up from centralized. That the special educators are able to speak the languages of the elspecial ed children and we understand that there is the program that superintendent is putting in there as an inclusion and that we ask that the transitional support for them. Thank you. My name is inaudible and i am a member of ace the community in empowerment and i am also a mother of a 14yearold who is going to the Public School for the first time. Ace and allies have fought hard to pass prop 30 not only that, we are a part of the close the Gap Coalition. We are fighting hard for the very services that were closed that gap. More para professional and counselors and therapists there is money there to rescind all layoffs and the district is legally obligated to spend the 5. 8 million and the Rainy Day Fund meant to stop the layoffs instead of carrying it over into the budget next year. Why are you holding on to these phones . So somebody can stick their greety hands into that pot . The layoffs will hurt those that read them the most, low income neighborhoods and where is that . Bay view, Hunters Point and visitation valley, and the patral, hill and the students are african american, hispanic and Pacific Islanders please keep the people who support our struggling families the most. Ace members and closed the Gap Coalition will be keeping a close eye on you how you choose to spend the additional revenues coming from the states. And we want to make sure that these resources go to school sites themselves for direct services to students. And help teachers do their jobs. We ask that you make public, the plans for your multitiered system of support. And the common core, we are very concerned about special education money, being swept from our school sites. Remember, this is our, discuss me this is our footing, our schools, our children, and our future. Good evening, board of education commissioners and superintendent carranza, im susan soloman, i am here representing the closed Gap Coalition, gordon was here and was not able to stay to speak. Where many items that i will try to keep it short as short as possible. And we have a number of concerns, one is about many of the funds that are being swept, the categorical funds, i will focus on just a couple. For high school or High School Graduation is such an important goal for us for all of us class size reduction for 9th grade, high school, class size reduction is being swept for ninth grade math and we need to see Something Better than that. We have in our contract, the collective bargaining agreement, the contract language about how we can talk about reducing class size if there is or are additional funds and here is the citation. And then, we are also concerned about the sweeping of the kc funds. We need to support our students and we need to do it right in the school sites. In terms of professional development, those funds have been swept as well. As you probably know, this is another hand out, this is the orange one. And when we are talking about restoring what we sacrificed to keep the district solvent, we being the uesf, professional development is the item that is supposed to come back after furlough days, so we want to see, professional development restored and those categorical funds swept as well. We also are curious about where these items and these very important items are going to show up in the formula because we do need them n terms of the Rainy Day Funds, there are still layoffs, and i dont understand why. Because there is 5. 8 million allocated for next years budget in terms of who is being laid off in spite of the fact that the chronicle said that it is mostly for electives that is actually not true. It is math, it is english, it is physical education, it is social workers and it is social science and then for para professionals it is classroom instructional aids and family liaisons and site nutritionists not that we should give up the electives either but these are important academic personnel who we very much need. Other people that i know will speak more about the special education. One of final note. Last year, the projected ending balance for the 12, 13 school year was 15. 67 million and that is also in this hand out. The actual ending balance is now over 34 million, i think that we really need to look at the projections, and what is real and what is not. And make sure that we spen the money, spend it well, and spend it on our students and on the people who do the work. Thank you. I am Katie Franklin for the Community Advisory for special ed and i sent you a packet of documents and i questioned the cuts made to the many School Special ed weighted the School Formula site allocation for the special ed related supplies. And that is on page 63 of the printed budget book or page 70 of the budgets pdf file under exist eight. And coinciding with the almost 12 Million Dollar increase, in the special ed budget we are cutting 25,000 from the Teacher Supply money and that is completely unnecessary and unfair. It is hard to understand the rationale behind these cuts. A week ago, i asked why the cuts were made and what corner was used to decide the amounts but i have not heard an answer back yet. We have heard that the principals were telling parents on the School Site Councils that because the kids are included more, the teachers dont need those funds and we also heard that the principal side that those funds are now just for fdc kids that the percentage of time that the students spends in general ed should not effect the supplies that a special ed teacher get to support the students, dont penalize the schools for trying to be more ininclusive and embracing the main street and the students need more special materials and supplies, of the 102 schools listed in exist eight, all but 29, had their ws as the special ed money cut. Here is some examples of cuts, harvey, went from 1456 to 506. Argon 1526 to 815, brian, 1509 to 927. They tend to spend more money from their own pockets on the supplies. And on the amount of money that the teachers get for supplies is small enough dont lessen the amount, put that back by taking it on the consultant and there is a 25 k entry that says that i know it yet. Can i continue . Or no . Okay. I will hurry up. Another change in the budget that seems odd to me is how special ed teachers are removed from the site based budget pages this action does not seem in keeping with the ininclusive praks, what is the rationale behind the 058 organizational category and under the centralize base funding does that mean that all teachers assignments could be changed at any time for any reason . Arent we trying to build community and make the special education more a part of the community and i dont think that this helps. Starting next year, parents will not be able to look at the school site budget and see how many special ed teachers are at the school and that is just wrong. So thank you. Hi, my name is megan and i am a special education teacher, and i am an active member of the union and i am a board member, with the Community Advisory committee for special education. And i wanted to talk a little bit about the special Education Funding as well. And i have spent a lot of time looking at the organizational chart for the special education, that just came out and we get like a new one every few weeks and try to keep organized who i am reporting to and who they are reporting to and i looked at it and it is very different from the ones before. And when i looked at it i had just gotten some information about the decreases in the way that the student formula money coming in. And it concerned me because the student formula money through the special education goes directly to the students in the classroom that is like zero separation from the students we are serving. It buys things as small as pencil grips so that the students can write or as awesome as ipads so that they can really do interactive activity whens they are working with the special therapists it is really key to meeting the individual needs that are in the student ieps. And when i looked at the new organizational chart there were a lot of things that said, new. On them and those were all really, really far away from the students. Like four or five degrees of separation. One degree will be teacher, they are in the classroom with the kids and they see the kids every day and then you have content specialist whose come in and hypothetical help the teachers become better teachers if they have time to do that. That is two degrees of separation and then we have the supervisors and then we are adding some trying to think of the Program Administrators . Maybe. And then, there is also some project managers. And then, i dont know if the clerks have always existed but they popped up recently on to the organizational chart and it is just concerns me that if we are taking the money away from the students, that money that goes directly to them and then we are adding more positions father away from them that we are moving the money too far away from the kids that we are supposed to be serving and the budget really feels like we are taking away from the kids in that way, if we are not increasing the amount of xwlon that we are giving directly to the kids or the support that we are providing for people that actually go and see these students and support them. I am hoping that in the future that when we look at the budget, we see the money going directly to the kids and not to the people who are far away from them in the special education, thank you. Hi, im russell and i am on the special ed committee. And i am speaking about the, i just want you to be aware of some of the plans that the special ed committee has over the summer and that is to analyze a lot of this that both in the plan and in the budget. And as you know, we are all parent volunteers, and smf us really struggled because we have children who are you know, have their own issues. So it is a big effort for us to do this analysis but we have a series of working days and plus since you are home more that are crack the whip chair person she is having us do, starting this saturday, three hours and working group in which there is a whole series so i do want to know that we are taking this information very seriously and i hope that you respect the work that we do, we do want to get back to you in september with a lot of analysis. There is seriously for what we do and i do recognize that the board and the administration have been responsive to the special ed and we appreciate that and we do really hope that you would take our input and that we will be presenting it in september for some of these considerations for both the plan and the budget, thank you. Good evening, commissioners, i am an advocate for the children and youth, we are part of the close the Gap Coalition and i wanted to come and speak tonight and share that we are happy that the proposed budget does include funding for some of our key priorities primarily through prop h, the Public Education and Enrichment Fund and specifically for expanding and Credit Recovery and restorative practices. We also appreciate that the district is moving towards making budget decisions through the lens and many of you have heard from us again and again and so thank you for that and specifically through the multitier system of the support structure and so we appreciate that. There is a lot of confusion and a lack of clarity and what that actually means for school sites. And there is a lot of confusion from the parents at school sites and also the school sites councils and what that means and a system wide perspective. And wide, and a formula for how these are rolling out and we would love to work with the School District to make that process and that system more transparent if that means cohosting forums or whatever that is and it feels like it is going to be important that the parents and the students and the Community Knows how this is rolling out and impacting schools and additionally we are aware that with prop 30 and 39 passing and our district will see the higher revenues than we had anticipated for the fiscal year and exciting. They have come to the district and sharing the needs and raising needs for things like extended day. Learning, 7th period and high schools, smaller class sizes additional economic supports and resources for the students during the school day and supports for family and students on the School Campus and have been told again and again that there are not enough resource theres and so we look forward with the additional resource to reopen the conversations and make sure that the students and parents are involved in deciding how those Additional Resources are allocated. Thank you. Thank you. Now i understand that we have a brief presentation, deputy superintendent lee . Yes. Thank you, president norton, we are going to try to get the projecter . No. On the tv, right. So so we have just for members of the public who may not have seen these materials as they were walking in we do have copies of the previous presentation, and the documents that commissioner wynns was referred to, it is in a question and answer format, from the discussion primarily from the discussion that the board had in the budget and Business Services Committee Last tuesday. So all of that information is available for the Community Members who are present to avail themselves of. So this is just a very, it is not meant to be a recap of all of the discussions that have taken place so far. But just to frame some Additional Information and some highlights about the big picture of the states budget and also, the di
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