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February 27, 2014, good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the city and School District committee. Im joined by supervisor mark alvarez and farrell and sandra feuer who will now join our community for 2014. I would like to that have sf gov. Tv. San francisco television and our clerk mr. Derek evans. Mr. Clerk are there any announcements . City clerk yes. Please silence all electronic devices. Thank you. Commissioner mendoza did let us know she is sick. May i entertain a motion to excuse commissioner Mendoza Mcdonnell and well do that without opposition. Mr. Clerk, please call the first it...

Thank you. So this is something that i would like to talk about which we find very exciting and within the spirit of San Francisco. So, this is something that our office came up withnd we call it sprout funding. What we found is we budgeted our money and we felt that really to meet the needs and goals of the students we wanted to provide an opportunity for local school sites to be able to design their own program of Credit Recovery without kind of the centralized top down management style. Although we do have those very specific Evening School Summer School and online learning. What we wanted ...

Give us somewhat new instructions next time. So, it is definitely iterative and evolving. You guy are maintaining the detailed spreadsheets. I can guarantee you its going to change in 6 or 12 months. But it seems like [speaker not understood]. And i made sure to get the dos analyst directions in writing as well that we can remind them as well, this is how you directed us to [speaker not understood] the rops. Excellent, thank you very much. This is not an action item so we can move on to the next item, madam secretary. Thank you. Next item is item 6, Public Comment. Madam chair. Thank you very ...

Important when we formed this office was we wanted to be accountable and the help of julie chan. We really approached this with a top intervention model and find out through d and f list exactly what students need what rather than throwing a huge fishing net out there trying to grab whatever we can and we go at it in a more targeted intervention way and work smarter rather than harder even though we work hard but we also try to work hard as well. Sites are located in regions for access to all students through our research we discovered that its best to divide the city into geographic regions a...

Successful contract, and getting more money, and we will be opening up for wedges in healthcare, and it seems now that the california budget is showing positive stable growth and coupled with this improved out look for the economic recovery passage of proposition 30. And the event of the new locally controlled formula and the district is posed to responsibly address many of the consequences of the previous years of the budget shortfalls, and it is the advantage of everybody that we go into this bargaining, and good faith, and hopefully, that we can reach good settlements because as you know, w...