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the joint city and school district select committee. i am the chair of the committee. we are joined by president chiu , commissioner fewer, commissioner maufas, and the following members of the committee are en route. supervisor olague and commissioner mendoza. we have also been joined by supervisor mar. the sfgtv staff covering the meeting, we want to thank them for their work. we also want to thank all of the members of sfusd and the members of the county who are here. if you could please call item no. 1. a hearing on the universal on the school district plans for a transitional kindergarten. supervisor campos: thank you. this was an item that was continued from our last meeting to writ from our last meeting. i would like mr. trout to come and present this item. let me present some context. a lot of it has to do with the role of the select committee and dealing with these issues. we can coordinate and talk about, have a discussion about different issues that are ....
miss zmuda from the rainy day reserve for the school district to access the 25% of what s remaining in the fund, wasn t it tied to significant layoffs or there s some language, as i recall, so you sewed cola but is there some language that ties it to lay jotches in the layoffs in the school system? it does require that we measure what the per-pupil spending is, and we look at that for the future and it is based on a cost of living adjustment that is established by the state that is applicable only to schools. the school district does not have to have layoffs for the school to withdraw from the reserve, although i know there have been layoffs and certainly many pink slips over the years. so the total allocation to the schools over time, you see on the bottom line here, 44 million this year growing to 46 in the next two years. even though we have pulled the trigger, we re still increasing allocation because of the growth of revenue. and the total over the nine-year ....
no. 1. a hearing on the universal on the school district plans for a transitional kindergarten. supervisor campos: thank you. this was an item that was continued from our last meeting to writ from our last meeting. i would like mr. trout to come and present this item. let me present some context. a lot of it has to do with the role of the select committee and dealing with these issues. we can coordinate and talk about, have a discussion about different issues that are impacting the city and the school district. a number of questions have been raised and the goal of this meeting is to provide information to members of the public. some issues have been raised in terms of whether or not certain actions should be taken by the san francisco unified school district, including actions around the issue of waivers. that is a very important issue. to the extent that action is taken, those are things that have to have been at the san francisco board of education, not at this ....
district will deplete the reserve. don t think the city will have funding from that source. miss zmuda from the rainy day reserve for the school district to access the 25% of what s remaining in the fund, wasn t it tied to significant layoffs or there s some language, as i recall, so you sewed cola but is there some language that ties it to lay jotches in the layoffs in the school system? it does require that we measure what the per-pupil spending is, and we look at that for the future and it is based on a cost of living adjustment that is established by the state that is applicable only to schools. the school district does not have to have layoffs for the school to withdraw from the reserve, although i know there have been layoffs and certainly many pink slips over the years. so the total allocation to the schools over time, you see on the bottom line here, 44 million this year growing to 46 in the next two years. even though we have pulled the trigger, we re sti ....
have to have been at the san francisco board of education, not at this committee. we do not legally have the authority to direct the school district, which is a separate legal entity, to do anything. we hope to provide information today writ with that, i will turn it over to the school district. good afternoon. i am the executive director of the educational placement center. i am going to give you an update in terms of a transitional kindergarten program. district staff has been working for the past few weeks to work on implementation. we have processed all the applications that have been coming in. we give parents and families an extended time line when we announced that we were expanding the program to 5 sites instead of the two originally offered. we have a little bit over 190 applicants who have come back to apply for our transitional kindergarten program and we will be offering it at the five sites that we previously announced. what we have also refined is our pl ....