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SFUSD board approves minutes and consent calendar; schedules budget committee follow-up on categorical flexibility
Summary
The board approved minutes, accepted corrections to consent items, approved the consent calendar by roll call and agreed to refer concerns about categorical funding flexibility (CBET/community tutoring) to the budget committee for review; a closed-session settlement of $30,000 and multiple personnel appointments were also reported.
The San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education approved minutes and the consent calendar, accepted staff corrections to multiple consent items, and agreed to a budget-committee follow-up on questions about categorical funding flexibility.
At the opening of the meeting the board moved and seconded approval of minutes for a special meeting of July 13, 2009 and the regular board meeting of June 23, 2009. Staff then read a set of technical corrections to several consent calendar items, including contract numbering changes and corrected service dates. Susan Kagajiro read a correction that the total cost for item K11 should read $3,334,702 rather than $334,042.
The consent calendar was moved, seconded and later approved by roll call (recorded as four ayes on the public roll call). Several items were severed for discussion at the request of board members: K3, K4 and K25. Commissioner Winns asked that the board’s budget committee examine how categorical flexibility is being used — specifically noting that funds formerly earmarked for CBET (community-based English tutoring) appear as unrestricted general-fund entries — and proposed a budget-committee agenda item. Staff and the commissioner discussed recent tier 3 categorical cuts (15.4% in fiscal 2008–09 and an additional 4.5% cut) and scheduled a tentative budget committee meeting for Aug. 26 to review these concerns.
During discussion of K25 (related to facilities and ongoing systems work), David Golden, the district’s chief facility officer, described multi‑year repairs and system upgrades tied to a prior contract (SRS), and outlined plans to bring more technical skills in‑house, plan for cyclical equipment replacement and address energy-management systems.
The board also reported out of closed session: by a vote of five ayes and two absent the board approved the appointment of one director, one principal and one assistant principal, and approved a settlement and release of claims in the amount of $30,000.
No new policy was adopted during the meeting; the board and staff agreed to follow up on the budget and data questions raised and to return with additional information at scheduled committee and board meetings.
