back to china. >> so we want them to have a full toolkit. we're trying to make them ready for the world out there. district for december 12th, 2023 is now called to order. roll call, please. thank you. commissioner alexander. here commissioner fisher. commissioner lamb. commissioner motamedi. commissioner sanchez. here vice president wiseman. ward. here president. bogus. here thank you. okay at this time, before the board goes into closed session, i will call for any speakers to the closed session items listed in the

agenda. there will be a total of five minutes for speakers. do we have any speaker cards? we do not. do we have any virtually raised hands? we do have one virtually raised hand. okay. j. j. they are not responding. that concludes our public comment. okay i now recess this meeting at 5:01 p.m. session and now i will read the

report from closed session on. on a vote of 7 to 0. the board voted to adopt the changes to terminate an employee. in six matters of anticipated litigation. the board by a vote of seven yeses, gives direction to the general counsel in the matter of student h versus sfusd o h case number. 20231000287. the board by a vote of seven yeses, gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount in the matter of student ny versus sf usd o h case. number (202) 308-0559. the

board by a vote of seven yeses, gives authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount in the matter of john doe versus sf usd. san francisco superior court case number cg. c21594116. the board by a vote of seven yeses, gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. this concludes includes the report from closed session. and with that we will transition to our opening items item d one our land acknowledgment. we the san francisco board of

education, acknowledge that we are on the unseated and central homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula, as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions , the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded loss nor forgotten their responsibility as the caretakers of this place as well as for all people who reside in their traditional territory as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors elders and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first people. okay and now

we'll move to item d two approval of board minutes for the regular meeting of november 4th, 2023. can i have a motion a second on these minutes? so moved second, any any corrections at this time? seeing none. can we have a roll call? mr. thank you, commissioner alexander. yes, commissioner fisher. yes. commissioner lamb. commissioner mctominay. yes commissioner sanchez. yes. vice president wiseman. ward. yes. president bogus. yes. six eyes. thank you. and with that we will transition to item d five. the superintendents report and i will transition over to superintendent wayne. all right. good evening, everyone. i'm

excited to share my report this december. we talk about it being a wonderful time of the year and it really is in sfusd. just today we were. other one. there we go. just today we were serenaded by the sloat singers from commodore sloat. this is an annual tradition where they come down to the district office and share and sing a few songs for us. and they do it throughout the community. they helped raise us. they were participating in a toy drive for sf firefighters and just so much fun, but also so inspiring. and to see the music teacher work with them and just and it's not just the usual carols. it's songs that they do where they really project and sing and just really proud of the of what the commodore sloat singers are doing and we know there's a lot of different holiday activities in our schools. so encourage you to visit them and see them because it's great to see our students

showcase their talent. if you go to the next slide, i got to see our access students. these are our students with special needs that they are who are our adult students from 18 to 22. and they put on an amazing sing along where we at moma actually was a great space to be together. and the students sang and played instruments and led us all in a bunch of different songs and they invited me to go up on stage as well and share my very limited guitar skills to lead a song with the group. so that was a lot of fun. and then, you know , i love these opportunities to showcase our students talents, but, you know, we're focused on our goals for student learning. and if you go to the next slide, got a chance to see some incredible work happening at john muir, but really among four schools that have been piloting math lesson study and so on wednesday, december 6th, we had

some board commissioners there as well as staff and education partners and city partners to witness a public research lesson as part of the whole school lesson study around teaching math through problem solving. and so now it's in its second year at four san francisco schools. we were at john muir, but leonard flynn, malcolm x academy and sanchez are the other schools participating. and it's based on both an approach to teaching as well as an approach to professional learning that really provides sides. it's a very thoughtful, intensive, professional learning model where teachers talk to each other and research their practice with the help of an expert. and we are grateful to work with our city partners and expanding access to high quality math education for san francisco public school students. as well as supporting a powerful model for professional learning. so we had district leadership there, and as we do our planning for next year, this is definitely informing the work and it's just

a great example of the power of collaboration and persistence in service of our goals to improve student outcomes in math. so you just heard if you go to the next slide, a very little snippet of all the many, many exciting things happening at our schools. so i just want to remind you that now is the time of year to apply for schools for 24, 25. you can even go to our website to create a list of schools. look at our enrollment guide, take a tour, and then apply online and get help from our enrollment center as well. the application deadline is february 2nd, so please make sure you get your applications in one of our if you go to the next slide, one of our other we've talked about our goals for student learning, but one of our other areas that we're measuring are our guardrails and how we're making progress in serving the whole child. and we've identified attendance as an area. we did a progress monitoring report on chronic absenteeism showing so far we're starting the year having made improvement and we're trying a different few

different strategies, including getting students to help to work with each other to encourage their classmates to be at school. so we did an attendance awareness art contest and we've identified six winners. we have six different posters. we're sharing throughout the school district. here is one of them. and you can click on our website and go to attendance awareness website. to see the other posters. we have. and then lastly, this is a we're approaching winter break and we just want to let the community know we do provide food resources during winter break. schools will be on break from december 20th 2nd to january 5th and you can go to sf ucsd.edu slash food resources for food access assistance and this can help you or other families in the community during break and please remember, especially during the holidays, that nutrition and food access are important to our students health

and wellness and everyone in our community. that concludes my report for tonight. thank you for that, superintendent. at this time, we'll actually transition to item e, the payroll state of emergency and pass it back to the superintendent. right. so at the november meeting, i shared that that we had just passed our year anniversary of declaring our payroll state of emergency and how we're really in a different place from where we were when we declared that state of emergency. but they were not yet at full stabilization. so we're in this transition phase where we still have work to do, but also really thinking about the longer term, um, solutions to ensure that we have a fully functioning not just payroll system, but budget and accounting system, human resources systems, what we call an enterprise resource planning system. so as i said, we're still working. we're not where we need to be because if you go to the next slide, you'll see our ticket count and we are at

the lowest, fewest number of tickets we've had. at one point we reached that this this, this last month when it got to under 1800. we're most recently at 1865 tickets. again our peak when we were going up up and up was to 11,196. so we we've made progress, but that's still too many tickets out there and we're working to resolve those. but if you go to the next slide for this month and the next two months, we have, you know, three clear priorities. so one is we have our end of year task. the end of year with the issuing of the w-2s did not go as well as we needed last year. and so we're working to make sure we get out accurate information to our employees. we also tonight have bringing forward labor agreements for our board to approve, and we want to make sure we're implementing those labor agreements. but knowing that particularly with this system, it takes work to implement them, we want to be

able to move as quickly as possible, but we also want to move and make sure we're doing it accurately. so it's going to take time and we're working on our timeline for that. and then, as i said, continued ticket reduction. and if you go to the next slide, though, ultimately we need a new new enterprise resource planning system for all areas of our budget, finance, accounting and payroll. and so we are looking at what at what what we think can be successfully implemented and sustained and should we have one system for all of those different modules. so if you go to the next slide, last last month i talked about how we're engaging in discovery and due diligence to determine how to move forward since then, we've actually visited sites and looked at what other erp system providers are doing in districts. i had shared. we want to make sure we're we're working with like for our budget and accounting, we're working with systems that are used to that are set up for k 12 schools in california. k 12 schools. we've also been talking with our labor

partners and staff to begin identifying needs for our whole system and planning a timeline for future implementation and do expect to bring forward next month decision of how we're going to proceed. so and really shifting then these updates from being a payroll state of emergency to being one where we talk about how we're transitioning and moving forward to have a fully functioning system. that concludes this report. okay. thank you, superinten pendant. and that will conclude item e for the board this evening. and so at this time we will transition on to item f. just want to remind the public that the board's public comment protocols are that we have public comment at the beginning of our agenda. so there will not be public comment after each agenda item. so if you would like to speak during public comment, you're in person. you are required to fill out a card and to turn that into board staff. if you have not filled out a card, this is your last opportunity to do so. to be

able to speak and also for the people who are participating virtually, you are going to be asked to raise your hand and then we will create a queue of folks to parties late. what we're going to do right now to get started actually is to see if we have any students in person or virtually who would like to provide public comment. and then we will go to the public comment on non agenda items and then public comment on agenda items. i don't have any speaker cards from students. okay can we check our virtual audience if your student and you would like to speak at this time, please raise your hand again. this is a time for students only. we seeing no hands raised. okay? and so with that, we will begin our in-person public comment on non

agenda items and we'll start calling names. selena chou. i guess it's good. what's this for? that's my general comment. okay. all right. so terry, you're up to. okay. selena go ahead. sorry. hello. hi my name is selena chou and i'm speaking on the non agenda item regarding the public comment. i'm kind of surprised to see that, you know, on the agenda it says, you know, for virtual attendance attendees that wanting to speak has to get approval from the chair where the president. i feel like even

if you know parents wants to attend the board meeting online, they should be allowed to speak just like us here without you know, taking that right from them. because just like today, you know, i think two times i parked my car outside. i got smashed. and today i was wondering, hey, should i show up in person or should i just, you know, attend virtually, you know, if i attend a virtually that could meant that i don't get to speak right on important items. so i think coming to know that parents you know families actually have multiple obligations. we should allow that for them to speak over online. thank you. good. evening. board i'm sorry in advance. it's going to be a lot sort of not electric, organic. my name is terry. feel normally

you should know me. i've been talking to the government for since february. you know, it's like i'm french. you can tell. we are not messing with education on at all anymore. the future of humanity is to redefine the system of education. i've been put in charge indirectly to make sure that this is going to happen. so we're going to have to use intelligence as big time, which means that we don't need anybody wearing a mask if he's not a surgeon. because this is not intelligence. i'm sorry. thank you. now that's it. yes. you had one minute to speak. thank you. one minute. yes. have a good night. okay. that was it for non

agenda items in person. i have everyone's card, but your items are on the agenda. so you'll be speaking in the next section. thank you. let's put the call out for hands virtually for non agenda items please. yes for our virtual participants, please raise your hand if you'd like to speak to non agenda items. again, this is for non agenda items. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese? just just hacer un comentario publico recordamos es solo un minuto e son temas no estan dentro de la agenda. gracias thank you. family. see how you validation keeping my hand from

making my family motion. thank you. aaron. aaron, go ahead please. thank you. there's an i am. my name is aaron. i'm with parents from public schools of san francisco and i am a woman living with multiple disabilities and in fact, if you could know that you using a screen reader on my computer because i'm blind, i takes an extra step to mute my unmute myself. so if that could ever be considered as an extra addition to remote public comment, that would be much appreciated. but i wanted to

quickly just address the matter of having enough resource staff at schools for such as library counselors, social workers, as a child growing up in public education, those research staff were the ones that really helped me, helped in my attendance, helping me feeling like i've seen in my school community and helped me thrive. academic li and i would really hope that we can find other ways to make cuts to the budget and whatever proposals, staff vacancies that are listed could be not start with those because that will affect the school negatively and then no schools will have to close because they weren't getting as many resources. and i think the last thing we all want to see is school closure. thank you for your time and for listening. thank you. chris. hi.

can you hear me? yes we can hear you. hi good evening. honorable commissioners. my name is chris punongbayan. i use he him pronouns and i'm a parent at rosa parks elementary school. i wanted to just draw your attention to some staffing needs that we have at the school, particularly for our vulnerable students. we do not have an occupational therapist at rosa parks elementary and as the commissioners are aware, helps with sensory goals, including writing, shooting and cutting. and there are six pre k students at raphael viel who are eligible for ot services and 12 at the elementary school who are eligible but are receiving no occupational therapy support and have not for the entire school year. the second issue that i'd

like to draw your attention to is that we do not have a speech pathologist and there are 60 students eligible for speech languages, speech language services and the general ed teachers rely on input from the speech pathologists to support in the classroom. we also have three autism focused special day classes and we are just i am sorry to have to interrupt you, chris. that is your time. thank you. thank you. gentle reminder each speaker will have one minute to speak. julian yes, yes. hello go ahead, please. we can hear you. okay hello, everyone. the school board. my name is julian vaccaro and i'm a senior at lowell high school. one issue i've wanted initially

i wanted to bring to your attention is the is the admissions at lowell. the current merit based admissions is a it's causing a lack of sense of belonging among students of ethnicities that aren't largely represented in the student population, such as african-american and latinos. there have been many racist micro aggressions between black and latino students, such as racist jokes being staged, comments about people, skin color, or whether not for not they deserve to get in. and even larger issue for like racist imagery in school palettes and even fights. i believe that that to reduce racism at lowell the school board needs to act now to change the admissions policy to be more inclusive and less selective. i support a lottery admissions because it would allow for students from more diverse backgrounds to be to be in and employed at the white school. i think i would benefit

from more different ethnicity because it can teach me about other cultures. i can work to make our society more inclusive. i also learned many valuable life lessons at lowell, and i want many other people who are willing to go to lowell to have those. julian, thank you so much. i'm i'm very sorry to have to interrupt you. that is your time. thank you, chris. hi. can you hear me? yes, we can hear you. i'm chris. plaz is head teacher and ucsf union building representative from washington high school. after what happened at washington and galileo last week, i'd like to request that you ask, provide additional clarity and training around procedures related to emergencies, situations and potential lockdown situations on school campuses to their staff. i'd also like to make sure that the union's employees put at risk in emergency situations are notified by cpac of those

situations in a timely manner after they occur. ideally before or at the same time. the public comments about those situations are made by representatives in the meeting. thank you. brandy hello. my name is brandy. i'm a public school parent in richmond district. just hearing the callers before me really makes me wish that the board had not done away with the oversight committees that it used to have, but to envisage services as is really needed right now, given our payroll, the payroll debacle, our staffing situation situation could really benefit from the human resources and personnel committee. obviously our facilities are in dire shape and would really benefit from a facilities condition committee. the program and curriculum

committee is to me, absolutely essential when we're talking about changing curriculum, when we're talking about student attendance, the public really needs to have more transparency and have the ability to comment on all of these things. and since the district is really in a state of crisis and a lot of these areas, i am asking you to bring back those committees. i really think that it's very tragic that they were taken away. and i think that they need to be restored. thank you. thank you, sam. hi i think it's funny. i'm right after brandy because i actually was calling about the same thing. i'm really frustrated that we don't have a budget committee where the parents can come and learn more and give more feedback in process instead of being surprised by things. i'm a parent at buena vista. horace mann the fact that we don't have

a facilities and building committee is really detrimental to my community. we want to interact more with the district and give more feedback and the fact that we can't do that is a real problem. and one minute for comment is not a replacement for that. we need real dialog and i miss the pac. thank you. thank you. allison. hi i just want to echo the comment of the teacher from last earlier about about safety protocols. i'm a parent at galileo and those those two incidences were definitely not handled well. and you know, my students spent the whole weekend feeling frustrated and scared and really not wanting to go

back at this week. so we really need to review those those policies. and how we handle those incidents and keeping our students and staff safe. thank you. thank you. that does conclude conclude. virtual public comment for non agenda items. i did have a card excuse my voice. i did have a card with four more folks for non agenda items that i missed before. why don't we start with them and then transition into the agenda items right after. thank you. okay. jackie zen, angela zhao fengjian, wu and josephine. you have one minute each. hello hello. thank you, jackie i cpac normalizing hygiene. how to say i'm so key nickelocene gao. gao cheng 1000 g how zhong zhong

zhong money sam civil hygiene cheng how tao lucy chip gang up cursing fong cheng cheng jiu feng lucy. engaging lucy be fun what shaping hassan yang. roman yong-su kissing yang yang are singing i robocar cheng wang cheng sek choi yam daca. god sorry. i'm a representative of the kpac my friends children are studying in a middle school and

there is no qualified math teacher and the teacher does not teach well. they have complained several times to the administrator, but there was no response and they are now worried that the teachers would target their children because they speak up. please ask the school to take this accountability ability seriously . it is also great that the teachers will receive a salary increase of 30. please use this salary increase to recruit qualified teachers. please also make sure that the current teachers are receiving regular training assessment so that we can entrust our children to the schools. we need the school district to recognize and support chinese and asian community has established the asian pac and formally listened to our voice. thank you, tiger man sang ho. why. why? why. someone see accattone? why? i i

don't think. loyalty to by. by your home or how. to be lousy. bianca l.o.c. deng pufang pay your taxi. you can come kong. come over there some. good evening. my name is ng von icu. i'm a parent in the school district. my. i have a eldest child that will be going to middle school soon. i heard from some middle school parents that some of the classrooms don't have qualified teachers. we hope that the school district will pay attention to this issue. recruit qualified teachers and provide teachers with regular training. for example, when renewing their teaching certificates, teachers should have updated training and assessments. this will ensure the quality of our education and we as parents can be reassured.

thank you. soil gao wei hong, you. angela. hi. how yi yi. gong high fashion tiktok yi ji. hao kopeck xingyun ica. hajji. tan yi. how, how, how. how are you? yan? potato. fasten mercy mo. y cup yi kim bong bong. hey name siglap are you? see how they yo king? so they found him ong teng tong that young man. how how to my hey, my name, my zheng. but you see and say hi for you to

hang out. jim hawkins panzram sabbatai yang yi thompson. tomahawk hodgson garden to jayci . good evening, commissioners. my name is angela. i am a parent at a high school and i used to be very involved at school and i was a member of the pac. and now that my child has gone on to high school, i cannot participate in the school activities because the school meetings are all conducted in english and there is no one to receive us or explain things to us. we have no idea what's going on and we cannot help or give input. i hope you will establish the asian american parent advisory committee this month. so that we can have a place to give input. we also hope that you will hire chinese speaking school administrators and staff to assist us and serve us. we hope you will have a more equitable process for resource alignment and not make cuts to the chinese community like last time. please don't leave us behind low income parents of english learners account for 30% of the school district. thank you. good evening. seatac is

still fighting for recognition and still fighting for being allowed for a seat at the table. we were thinking we will be part of the lunch for tomorrow, but we're not making it. and i'm still hearing sentiments that because chinese americans, asian americans work really hard and our students, our children's grades are up there. we are next to some other group. therefore we are some adjacent. therefore, we don't count. therefore, the service will be not for us. i'm hearing that today and that's not acceptable. we need to be received and accepted and recognized for who we are. we spend a lot of resources and time to send our kids to after school to saturday school. so that school district does not have to worry about them and

save your resource to where it counts. but that does not mean that we don't count, that we are not worth it. we belong here. please accept us. acm pac. thank you. that concludes the non-agenda items. we'll move on to agenda. i'm going to call the first five speakers. you can come line up. you have one minute each to speak. jenny moore rex ridgeway. rebecca. yes autumn brown. raphael picasso. thank you. um, and sarah montoya . hi, i'm jenny moore. i'm a parent at academy high school. i'm here because i'm angry, very angry. i've been asking for transparency since may regarding the closure of our school, and i've been getting nothing in return. i'm angry because you've been dangling the redesign

program as a carrot in front of our faces, telling us that if we can design a program that's both equitable and unique as a learning opportunity in san francisco, unified, you let us stay open. but that doesn't seem to be the case because with this new budget proposal, you will cut our faculty by half. we cannot run a school with the faculty by half, let alone implement a new design program. i feel like you're having us design for a larger school and not ours. i'm angry that you're failing my daughter who lost her eighth grade year to the pandemic and will now lose her senior year because you're going to close her school or take away her teachers or something. i'm angry that you are putting the bearer of this news on our principal and on tammy to come and tell us this bad news, but not giving them the autonomy or the information to answer our questions or address our concerns is and i'm angry that half of our teachers don't know if they're going to have a job next year. thank do better. my name is rex ridgeway and i come

to here to talk about a difficult discussion that's coming up is unavoidable and that school closures so i'm actually speaking to parents who have kids at elementary schools. so you should be concerned if your school has under 2000, 200 kids enrolled and you should be concerned if your kids are at a school that has low academic performance and you should be concerned if your school, your elementary school does not not does not have a tk. these are schools that are probably going to be looked at harder for consideration of consolidating and the bond that they're going to float in 2024 were not list in these schools. so parents of elementary school children, parents, look at your schools and get on the school site councils. that may help but schools with low enrollment underperform science and don't have tcs buckle up. thank you.

hello, my name is rebecca fedorko. i'm a special ed teacher. i do tk it's the best. i highly recommend. i'm here to speak about how i feel like the way we treat our special ed teachers impacts our budget. and i'm watching this really closely with our related service providers this year there's been a couple incidents with related service providers that are with the district that have been made to feel really inappropriate. it it's been really irresponsible by the people supervising them and so what happens is we see a lot of related service providers like speech therapists and occupational therapists, leave and go to a contracting agency because they have more protections. they don't have to supervise recess. they don't have to do all of these things that we don't have time for as special ed providers because we have a mountain of paperwork. any of you are welcome to come like, i can give you a tour of what paperwork looks like. so like we need to treat our special ed providers better

because i get calls from agencies to contract out and i would make more working for them than i do for you. but i want to keep working for you. thank you. good evening. my name is adam brown garibay. i am the president of the pta at flynn elementary, an elementary school that is a title one school in the district. my school is very important to me, and i'm here tonight because i feel like there's going to be a lot of information that is unclear as a parent and as an advocate for people at my school. and so i told others in my community that i would come here tonight and listen in the room to see what i could learn as a part of these budget cuts. and what i'm asking for is some transparency and information in in numbers so that we can understand the decisions that are being made from a data based approach so that we understand and can help others to understand the decisions that that are being made. i have friends at one school across the mission who

are asking me, should i transfer to your school? is my school going to be closed? we have under 200 students at our school . do you know do you know? do you know? the fact is, i don't know anything. but a lot of my community relies on me because i try to find out as much as i can. please give us the information so that we can help our community. thank you. hello. my name is sarah montoya. i'm the mother of two children in sfusd and i am here asking for the same thing. others are asking for transparency in what the budget cuts are, how they will directly impact our students. i have two children, one with an iep, one with a 504, and i already feel like the school district is not offering them the support that they could receive at many other school districts. and i don't want to hear that this is what i can expect from an urban public school. we are an amazing city with amazing resources and i believe that my children deserve an excellent education. an and that you have the capacity to offer them that with budget cuts

that do not harm students. thank you. good evening, dr. wayne. honorable board members. my name is raphael picazo, seiu, local 1021 president i want to say stand here in strong support of approving both seiu contract agreements that we worked hard on. did last year a lot of time, but we got it together and we prevented a major impact on this city that would have had a big effect on this school district. with that being said, let's get those two contracts approved, both for seiu and u.s esf. thank you. call calling the next group . chanel blackwell jeff lucas, bridget dyer. i think it's remy

ten. i'm sorry, i can't read it. supriya. hi, i'm jeff lucas. i appreciate the work that is done to get us here tonight. there are two major labor agreements that you're going to be voting on later, but there's much more work to be done, as evidenced by the qualified certification recommendation. it seems wrong that you're going to vote to approve some labor contracts that need to be approved, but we don't have a plan to pay for them. and that's why we have a qualified certification. also, what is missing is an operational impact. yes, there's a lot of dollars thrown around, and here's how the budget savings are going to be in terms of dollars. but really, you're moving people around and there's really no transparency as to which people are you. are you not going to refill? so what's

the impact to the schools? what's going to be the impact to the students? we have goals on student outcomes. how are resource is aligned to help us meet those student outcome goals? thank you. hi, chanel blackwell, a parent of two, two sons, 12th and seventh grade and i just want to talk about the agenda, the pay for state of emergency update and i read on in an article that empowers may be scrapped soon. and we need to make sure that this is true. what will the district do differently when choosing a new payroll approach? what is the timeline and who is going to be held accountable if the implementation does not go well? all that said, my son, who's a senior, he had there was a african american class ap class,

and it was scrapped because the african american teacher left because of the empowering situation when she left, like within three weeks and it was upsetting for my son and other students that lobbied and advocated in spring 2023 for this class to be done. so the comforting part is that we don't want this to happen again in so when so the next person, the next kids when they come along, be able to have this class is important class. thank thank you . hello my name is bridget dyer. i'm a parent of a second grader and a fourth grader. one of my children has an iep. i'm talking about the budget cuts that are proposed. i object to cutting staff in both the school sites and the districts school staff

because we don't have enough direct staff working with the kids already and the district because we need substitute teachers more. i also object to increasing class sizes from 22 to greater than 30. my child was in a class last year that had a teacher that had an fmla event. there were no substitutes. they split his class into two classes and so he was in a class with students greater than 30. and it was a disaster. it was academically a disaster for him. it was socially a disaster for him. it the lack of staff on the playground has led to a lot more homophobic comments to both of my children and i want us to take care of our children instead of cutting the budget to make up for poor administration. in thank you. good evening, everyone. my name is supriya ray

and i'm here today to comment on trust, transparency. the budget, sort of how all these things interrelate, as has been mentioned before, by one of the other parents, there's been articles about scrapping empower law. i believe that whole debacle has cost us about $40 million. if i read that information correctly, that's $40 million of taxpayer money that is essentially gone down the drain and which is further causing the trust in sfusd to spiral downward. and when we're facing this huge budget deficit, it's absolutely critical to be as transparent as possible with the public in order to try to i mean, i feel like trust is so fallen so far in this district. so many people have told me that they're leaving even within the last couple of weeks. it's just really, really troubling. we need to reassure people that people can handle things in the district and do basic functions like paying people and teaching kids to read. thank you. good

evening. my name is raymie tan, architect and concerned community member. i just was in a conference call last night from the families for sf and they reported about the budget at issue and actually, san francisco is one of the best funded per student school district. close to 28,000 per student. but we have a huge deficit because our schools are unfortunately drastically under-enrolled. so you know, the board really got to look hard and close at school closures, unfortunately. and you know, pick by picking the worst buildings that that need the most work probably close those down and then close the worst performing schools and then consolidate those into the better schools. and that would reduce the amount of administration staff that was

needed. and that money can go back into the classrooms. so this, you know, it's been proven things there are districts around the bay area that that have done this and raised their performance you know from fives up to 8 or 9. thank you. this thank you. i have two more cards for in-person melissa weiner. hi my name is melissa rodriguez. i'm a parent of an eighth grader and a third grader at the families and students and staff of have repeatedly objected to the district's plan to separate during renovations and have offered a reasonable counter proposal. because i think that's

fair and appropriate. but so far in response, those ideas haven't really been taken seriously. and we've also been told, basically threatened that these renovations won't happen if we don't just go along with the plan. and i'm hoping that that rather than do that, that maybe our proposal can be taken more seriously. my kids asked me to speak on their behalf. my third grader says if you're a parent who works long hours, as many of our parents do, and have a kid in elementary school and a middle school, be very hard to get them to school, and yourself to work on time. my eighth grader wanted you all to know that we are a family and we do not separate families. we are supposed to be a student centered district. i expect our actions to live those values. thank you so much. okay good evening, dr. wayne. members of the school board. i'm shelley wiener. i'm the secretary of our chapter of seiu. 1021 i'm

speaking tonight, of course, for your support in past the contract for us with the district that's coming across as item g two, i also want to take this moment to thank you for finding dr. rosa coronado to help shepherd us through this process. dr. coronado is indeed a jewel for the district, and i can only say it's too bad she's a contracted person and not a full employee. thank you and have a good evening. hello. my name is selena choo, a mom of two sfusd students. so i'm hearing a lot from this room and also outside of this room that the public need, public wants as opposed to have more transparency in and to propose purchase, also to follow up with them. so they're not just falling off. i think in regards

of empower, if you're shopping for a new one, i think you need to put in the clause that if you know a timeline, a deadline, user testing, whatever it needs to do in order to make it work so it doesn't fall again because that's a lot of money that we're wasting. and the impact is huge. we have people who can't stay because they don't get paid. if we have that much money, put it into lunch for kids because as my kids are not eating lunch and he's not alone, there's other kids who are not eating lunch because they're gross and disgusting. we should have other options. thank you. that concludes in-person public comment for agenda items. at this time, we will public comment for agenda items for a virtual from our virtual participants. each speaker will have one minute to speak. can we please have that repeated in

spanish and chinese as well? this is a moment for comentario. publico is comentarios publicos in liberazione de un minuto e ver con las canciones de la vida por favor. gracias thank you. hi mom. in you, ortega. if you. like. thank you. thank you. chris. hi i'm chris kraus, a spanish teacher from washington high school and a member of our team. i hope that the board of ed will ratify both of the tentative agreements that usc has with seiu and esf, and that when discussing the budget, the district staff and board members

will replay. we will refrain from blaming budget cuts on its employees when the district has a long history of financial mismanagement that does not relate to the extensive agreements our native pay raises and working condition improvements are not the cause of these budget woes. we are the ones directly supporting students and it is not their fault or our fault that usc has historically failed to manage its budget. i also hope that the district will be prepared to make serious improvements to working conditions as we move to bargain for sped and associated position. working conditions in the coming months. even if those improve months come with a financial cost. thank you. thank you. brandy hello. my name is brandy markman. i am on the organizing committee of the san francisco education alliance. this is in regards to a comment earlier about asking for school

closures. three of our members, three members of the san francisco education alliance, worked authored a resolution that was passed nearly unanimous by the san francisco democratic party central committee against school closures. we do not need to be closing schools in a town with 70 billionaires. and i also want to say that unlike my group, is not like the group families for san francisco, which is funded by a pro charter school billionaire by the name of michael moritz, who also bankrolled the recall and also underwrites the san francisco parent coalition political action committee. so i just want folks to be aware of some of the big money and a pro privatization pro school closures, pro excuse me school closures movement in our city. this is not democratic. thank you, brandy, i'm sorry to have

to interrupt you. that is your time. thank you. sam. hi. lack of staff. we've sped students without services, and it's not only morally wrong, it leaves our district open to lawsuits as these proposals of wrecks to be eliminated is purposely confusing. it treats our children as if they are widgets. children lose ground when teachers in paris are not there. reminder, some of these positions will have applicants in the new year when the new raises are laser. our labor partners said was needed for competitive hiring. you need those competitive salaries to fill those recs. that is the problem. thank you. thank you. tom hi, i'm a parent in the district and a special education teacher. i just want quick reminder. the q&a is if you can

remind people what it's used for because it's not just to say hello to people. thank you. also, matt wayne, um, you know, i've asked you to come to laura schwartz at so many times over the last two years. for some reason you still have not. once again, please come. i'm on the bargaining team and i'm also going to be on the february opener. i am urging parents to consider this. the district did not bargain in good faith with special education. they said, we're ready in a crisis. and if we lower the case numbers of special education teachers, we'll be even more of a crisis. so the answer was to give all sped teachers a $1,000 and not improve their working conditions. so once again, empower if it affects one employee, that's one too many. i can't tell you how many people who are listening to this can't be angry about the fact that people are not being paid. we live in san francisco. this is teachers we're talking about. and to say we're making improvements, it should be fixed already. this is a year. so stop lying. stop trying to sugarcoat it. okay come to schools. see what people need and stop being faced. thank you. thank you.

miss marshall. yes. thank you so much, mr. uh, good evening to president bogus board commissioners, superintendent wayne, student delegates. i have a couple of things to share that i'm very unhappy with. and the african-american community, they're unhappy with one in power. and he wasted millions of dollars on this useless system. didn't pay, folks. so we said to you, the system work worked. why waste this money? and you did. so don't waste money on a new system. go back to the old system. it worked. you wasted all that money, all the million dollars. plus, i understand board meetings, both board meetings should have public testing. we don't hide behind your position. listen to what the people have to say. how do you do that? how? public testimony of both board meetings. please no school closures, which you want your child or grandchild. school

closed? i don't think so. this past week, i was at my granddaughter's school. she had a substitute teacher and the teacher didn't have a credential . so shame on you. she. i chose not to go on the education. years ago, i went to public health. but they so desperate they are hiring anybody. thank you, miss marshall, i'm sorry to have to interrupt you. that is your time. thank you. bernice. good evening. my name is bernice casey. i have two children in the district. my youngest child is a fourth grader at buena vista. horace mann. i am urging the board not to pass any budget proposals that require the staff to work to contract as other parents and teachers have said, this will negatively impact special education students. my child last year did not get all

of his fate minutes, which, as other parents have said, is a violation of the law. and if you make additional cuts, then there will be people like me who will have to use my resources to sue the district. that is what you're looking at when you continue to ignore communities that you have historically marginalized by your inaction. please do what you are required to do and work for the sake of our students. thank you. thank you. as a parent. i thank you. this is meredith dodson with san francisco, parent coalition. we engage families from over 110 sfusd public schools. we advocate for excellent and equitable public schools. i

think we're hearing loud and clear families tonight. we have to fix our budget. we have to follow through with this overdue raise to our teachers, to our staff. and we have to make it crystal clear to the community what is the plan? how are students being centered throughout this process? and in every decision made, we don't see enough information here. it's not a real plan. and families are worried what is all going to look like for their kids in a few years. we're spending our reserves down to zero. we're using one time funds that won't be around next year. we're not articulating how funds will impact kids. it's time for us to do better. we sound like a broken record, but we need to stop kicking the can down the road. stop playing chicken with the state, make the hard decisions necessary, and put all of our efforts to align the budget to our goals for our students. thank you. thank you. charles. i just have a comment

specifically about the positions of the position this cuts specifically related to the federal mandates with special education. i think. i think the cuts to special education teachers would be tragic and would be against the federal mandates just because we can't build a jobs, we can't close them. i specifically want to talk about early childhood special education teachers and special education content specialists. who's going to serve the youngest and most vulnerable students? and who's going to serve the students or all the students at the sites and coordinating the services with the district? please vote yes and ratify the seiu and ucsf contracts. and honestly, after empower, what person in sf will vote for $1,000,001 million unspent contract our bond measure. thank you. thank you.

rhonda good evening. board commissioners and superintendent lane. i was calling in and support of everything that miss marshall said previously. i asked that the board to be fiscally responsible with the new payroll system, whatever that is. this was a huge waste of taxpayer dollars and it cost us a lot to educators in the process and ultimately it cost the children. we have to make better choices and better decisions to ensure that the teachers and our students are negatively impacted, because that's what makes the district also, i ask that we ensure that we're doing everything that we can to retain quality teachers, number one, by paying them and number two, by paying them a livable wage. we need to ensure that we have sophisticated teachers that want to come to the district because school closures should not be a thing in this city as it was mentioned

previously of so many billionaires. if we can get together money to create a school in the mission bay school, where millions of dollars are donated, then we should be able to have that same money across the district to ensure that not one school get closed when children select a school with their families is because that school needs something. it shouldn't be up to the district to close it. thank you, rhonda. i'm sorry. make better choices. i'm sorry to have to interrupt you. that is your time. thank you. hover. yes. i wanted to talk about the special education bargaining that's coming up. and i just wanted to highlight what's already been said, and that is the administrative burden. and it's not only as far as special education, it's not only relevant as far as vacancies, but also retention and high teacher turnover. we need to be mindful that our sped educators

are really, really exhausted. so please keep that in mind. the other thing is, when you're thinking about this budget and allocations, every school needs to have the staff and support that is aligned with multi-tiered support services that are dire and crucial for our students. all of our students and that is number one. and number two, the last day as you're moving forward for parents, not only do we need transparency, but if you could translate some of this into layman's terms, into what it actually is going to look like on the ground, that might be helpful in the future. thank you so much. thank you. laura. hi, everyone. laura

padilla, parent of two kiddos in the district. i also had the pleasure of working with a lot of families in the southeast at and again, i call for transparency. i call for clear communication about what these impacts are, how it's going to roll into the first day of school next year. we just can't afford to not have qualified teachers in our classrooms. we have many very ambitious goals of getting one of them being getting our kids to third grade literacy or grade level reading by their grades and i just don't know how that could be possible. when you're cutting back, when you're cutting back our staffing and just continues making bad choices. so please come out and visit us, see what the day of the day is and what it takes to have a successful, thriving schools. thank you. thank you.

yuma hello. hi, this is omar. i have a fourth grader in usd and i just want to say that tied to all of the budget and the instability, one of the key things that we don't seem to be talking about is enrollment and enrollment keeps dropping year over year. and that's because families are not being served. and we really have to get all of the things sorted immediately to get confidence back in this in families in the city so that they current and future families stay with sfusd instead of continuously leaving. so what we need is a clear, transparent plan now and working back from that plan instead of one after the other. repeated set of things just continuing to have the same conversations around empower around the budget,

around school closure. we need to move on some of these things with a clear plan and share it back with families instead of continuing to do this and keep families in the dark. thank you. thank you. angel. yes, thank you. good evening, everyone. on commissioners and everybody in the in the meeting. this is angel. i have a ninth grader at palmer park high school, and i really appreciate that. the previous speaker, she really mentioned that we need to improve our services, um, especially we want to focus on the instructional cost to increase the teachers pay and the classroom budgets. please

keep the services and improve it so that students will remain high in enrollment way. so in that way we can get more state budget and funding. thank you so much. thank you. vanessa. hi there. good, good evening, everyone. thank you for being working tonight. commissioner i wanted to just uplift this notion of visiting schools. i would like, superintendent, to identify my community partners to visit schools every single school and usd for a school walk so that we could really understand what resources are at schools and what are they lacking in real life. i think once we do that, it'll be better

to initiate any plans related to resource allocation. thank you and have a good night. thank you. that does conclude virtual public comment for agenda items. okay. thank you so much for all the folks who provided public comment during our open session here and now we will transition to item g one and i will call on the superintendent to present thank you, commissioner. bogus um, we are presenting the first interim report and before presenting the details of the first interim, just want to provide an overview of our budget and what it means to bring forward our ab 1200 plan. so let me get the presentation up here. to okay. and tonight, we're going to talk about why we

need to align our resources and what is an ab 1200 and our multiyear projection then share some of our budget balancing solutions and talk about next steps. and then, as i said, we'll get into the details of the first interim report. and tonight we're going to hear about a lot of numbers. we're going to talk about the amount we're deficit spending. are the number of students we are seeing in declining enrollment or the amount we need to spend to improve our facilities. but i wanted to start off with saying that there's one number that i think is the most important number for me. it's the number that that wakes me up in the morning and keeps me engaged and excited about this work. and that is 1000 because 1000 represents the number of hours our students spend in the classroom each year. this is the time that we really have an opportunity to make an impact and help improve their education so that they're meeting our goals and guardrails. so as we talk about the budget and aligning resources, i try to make sure that we keep in mind

how are the decisions we're making that we're making impacting those 1000 hours and how do we make sure that that's the most meaningful time our students spend all year? and so with that, when we're talking about how we're going to align our resources, we've adopted the council of great city schools framework and we and there we've identified outcomes that we're working towards and so then we need to think what are the inputs and outputs that lead to those outcomes. so a simple way to think about this is the inputs are our resources. so let's take if we're talking about literacy, right, we're investing in a new curriculum. that's an input that emphasizes foundational skills and then training for our teachers for the new curriculum. the output would be the teachers and using the curriculum in the classroom and putting in practice those what they're learning about teaching foundational skills. then the outcome would be ideally we put this in place and we see an improvement in student literacy and more students making progress to our goal of

third grade literacy. and so again, we've done the work on establishing the outcomes. these are our goals for student learning and as we've talked about resource alignment, we've identified what are the major outputs that we think will help lead to those outcomes. and as i said, first and foremost is what happens in the classroom. that's where we have an opportunity to have an impact. so it's making sure that every child is receiving high quality instruction. at the same time, we have a guardrail and we value serving the whole child. so making sure that there are student support so they can focus on their academics when they're in the classroom as well as we know, we need programs that are effective that we're getting demonstrable results to help our students ultimately graduate college and career ready. and of course, our staff need to be supported. and then we need an enrollment system that's parent friendly and where parents have confidence that their students are going to enroll in schools that are going to meet their needs. so this is overall what we need to work on to become the most effective

district. when we talk about inputs, though, and what we're talking about tonight is what is the most important input, and that is our staff. all the strategies we have planned, all the curriculum we order, none of that is going to have an impact if we don't have highly qualified staff in the classrooms and staff who is supporting them and our students and families and in our schools right now, we hear it practically every board meeting that staff turnover and unfilled vacancies are the greatest challenges we currently face. and so i appreciate the board of education tonight is going to be taking bold action on to help attract and retain staff by approving our labor agreements as well as ensuring that we can focus on our goals and guardrails and ultimately, i just want to say our staff deserve it. i'm in schools all the time and see how hard working our staff is. our teachers. i'm greeted with a smile by t10s every day. our

office staff welcome us and they're working in challenging conditions and they deserve they deserve this. so when we share our plans, we'll talk about the different inputs specifically to literacy, math and college and career readiness. but i want to be clear here that ultimately, our most important input is our staff. so now that we're investing in our staff, what do we need to do? well, first, we need to demonstrate how we can afford the investment and the state asks us to do that by presenting an ab 1200 plan. then we need to, as we go through our next round of budget planning and plan for the 2425 school year, we really need to re-envision our staffing and our budgeting processes to ensure that schools are appropriately staffed and that we are focusing on our expenditures on what will help us achieve our goals and guardrails, particularly for our most underserved students. right? because it's more often in schools that serve a greater number of multi language learners or a greater number of black and brown students, or a greater number of special education students where we're

seeing the impact of these vacancies. and so providing stability and ensuring that we have staffing in our schools is critical to meeting our goals and guardrails. so i also want to be clear because i know there are questions. the community wants transparency and wants to understand where we're going with our budget. so i added this slide in so it's clear that we understand what's happening tonight and what's not happening tonight. so tonight we're presenting the first interim, our labor agreements and the ab 1200 plan to show how we'll be able to pay for the labor agreements. what's not happening tonight is we're not taking any layoffs. we're not asking the board to take actions that will impact school sites this year. and we're not changing the strategies we've identified for this year to improve student outcomes. we're still moving forward with our literacy curriculum, pilot and i do want to note that we are required in december to bring forward a first interim. we're required when we bring forward a labor agreement to bring to present an ab 1200. this is not our overall budget nor our strategic plan

and i'll be talking a little bit later when we get to those and where we are in that process. but right now, i do want to ask doctor clark to share a bit about our budget context, as well as what our multiple year projection, what it looks like in the coming years. thank you, dr. wayne. just some general observations, questions regarding the san francisco unified district's budget process. i've been in this industry for about 25 years now and have seen a lot of distress. it's in their budget development processes. i think overall what i would say is there are definitely some anomalies with how san francisco develops their budget and some of the elements that go along with putting it together. and those elements are really outside of what you would traditionally see in best business practices. and so we've been working very closely with the team to bring those areas into alignment. i think the other thing that's important to note is that when we look at our budget, it's not a stagnant document. it's a living,

breathing document that moves and changes on a regular basis. if we get new information based on revenue, we're going to make those adjustments. if there is new information based on expenses, we're going to make adjustments. so we're constantly be updating the budget based on changes that may happen within any particular reporting period. this is a an example of the district's multi year projection. and this is really a high level summary where we're looking at fiscal years 23, 24 through 25, 26. there are a couple of things that i want to point out in this document. if you look under the section b, where we talk about total revenue, you'll see some reductions. the first line talks about enrollment reduction lines. this is based on the most up to date demographers report where it projects that the district will continue to decline. enrollment in enrollment. and so we have to make reductions in revenue based

on those assumptions. the second line is a reduced cola or a cost of living adjustment. when the budget was adopted, the state's cola was projected to be over 3. the information that's coming in now is actually trending that number to be closer to 1% in this particular budget, we landed at 2, which was a reduction in revenue of $11.2 million. it's important to note that if the trend continues to 1, you would likely see an additional $11.2 million reduction in the budget. the other section is under expenditures. this is this section includes cost, the adjustments for the salary increases for all bargaining units. we have made adjustments where you see the one time shift where we're taking expenses out of the unrestricted general fund and moving them over to restricted resources. that third line looks at on going reductions or shifts. there's

$40 million in 23, 24. and as you can see, going out 103.1 million in 24, 25 and $125.6 million in 25, 26 in the fund balance, we have the minimum state reserve of 2. there's still money set aside for the district's rainy day reserve. the replacement of sap or the sap dollar amount is there to potentially go to a full erp system. and so all of these elements make up this budget today. next slide, please. so this sheet shows what happens without the budget balancing solutions. again, under the revenue, the reductions in revenue stay the same. but if we were to take out the shifts in one time expenses over to restricted, if we were to take out the ongoing reductions, you would see that in the 2425

fiscal year, the district would actually have a negative fund balance of. approximately $190.4 million. and then in 25, 26, that number compounds to $420 million. this is important because whenever we're looking at a first interim report and have to certify, we look at the current year plus two subsequent years absent those budget balancing solutions, we would have had no choice choice but to bring forward a negative certification at first interim, which is definitely not a situation that any district wants to be in. and so because we've added in the budget balancing solutions that you will be reviewing and have recommended for approval, all we are recommending a qualified certification because because the number of budget balancing solutions is so large and it's going to take time, time to implement them. and so i think that the qualified certification

is most appropriate at this point in time. thank you. and thank you. and we did want to give a picture of what happens without action. but we are presenting tonight action to do both. one time shifts as well as ongoing reductions. and i appreciate when dr. clark talks about budget balancing solutions. we're not trying to be euphemistic because it's not just making reductions. we're trying to figure out how we can leverage our dollars to support what we know needs to be happening in our schools. and so the biggest action that we're taking right now is, is eliminating vacancies that we have on the books. we have $120 million of vacancies that are budgeted in the budget right now. and this has been a practice to maintain vacant positions that really we need to change. and so we're eliminate adding 927 positions from that vacancy list to bring about a savings of $40 million. and we're keeping open positions for the school site for the special, for school site, for special education, and for some central

office operations, and particularly at the school site. if we if we can bring more people in this year to fill our vacant classrooms or to fill paraeducator positions or to fill a speech therapist position, we will. and if we do more than what's open right now, we'll open positions. but it doesn't make sense to continue having these in the budget. but when we have so many vacant positions and so then what positions we will have for next year? what i know people are anxious to understand and that will be determined through our budget balancing budget planning process. and so there might be some of these positions put back. but i do want to be transparent. we're not going to have of at the start of the next school year, another 1113 positions because we're doing the work to align our our staffing to what our enrollment is. and so then attached to the first interim are several documents that lay out what these budget balancing solutions are. and so you see here we have listed the eliminating the

vacancies. we also are looking at central office, how we're providing staffing at our schools and then looking at materials and supplies and reducing consultants. and then as we shared, we're making shifts to one time funds and are restricted fund balance. so there's the unrestricted funds where you can you can spend for your operations. then there's restricted funds that are meant for particular purpose. and so we have, for example, our public education enrichment fund. it's what makes san francisco so unique and special. we've committed to supporting and using half of those funds to support the arts music library and pe. and we're going to continue doing that. but we have additional funds right now that we can use to support the salary increases. and so i just want to emphasize again, as we're bringing this first interim report forward, we're we're staying focused on our goals and guardrails and working towards improving student outcomes. so the work you've heard us talk about at our board meetings

around improving literacy are working towards providing opportunities for acceleration in math or having students graduate college and career ready by participating in internships. like those activities are still continuing. we need to make sure we're still investing in achieving our student outcomes. so again, we heard tonight and i'm sure we're going to hear questions tonight about what does this actually mean for our schools and that's what we will be working on for the next several months right. and our goal is to make sure we get the feedback necessary and we're engaging with our partners per one of our guardrails one. and that when school communities see their budget, that there's not surprises, that they understand what's in it and why. and so this is the timeline to follow up on that. and then just want to end i we put together a slide just what the key takeaways are. right? and with the board taking action, we are able to submit a qualified first

interim and we'll show specific reductions. we're making this year and next year or shifts to restricted fund and then it sets the stage for the budget planning process. i do want to note that when we talked about resource alignment back in august, we said we need to look at everything, but we did lay out a certain sequence. we said we're going to look at central office staffing and services, school site staffing and services, our programs and our use of our real estate as well as our school portfolio and seeing if we have the appropriate number of schools. but we committed to following first, looking at the first four areas before moving to the fifth one. so right now, what we're presenting does not include school consolidated, opens our closures and we're working to on those first four areas to leverage as much of our resources as possible to provide what we need in our schools. but we're still continuing through that resource alignment conversation, our district advisory committees meeting. i will be bringing forward additional information and

decisions related to all of that . but right now what's presented is a first interim and then later you'll see the ab 1200. so we can follow through on our commitments to our staff and make sure that we have the staff in place needed to meet our student outcomes. so before getting into the details of the first interim report, there's another presentation attached. we wanted to stop and i'll turn it over to president boggess to lead us in a board. questions or comments. before we have discussion from the board and questions. i was going to ask if elliott duchon would come up and if we could elevate that. pam. to a presenter so that they both would have the opportunity to provide some comment before the board engages.

and if you want to speak, pam, feel free to raise your hands and we'll elevate you. thank you . always a pleasure to be here. i know this is a tough night for all of you and i want to start out, first of all, by really commending your staff who just did a herculean task, working with dr. clark and jenny jackie and who are this? i have to say, i think this is the most accurate work that's gone into a budget since i've been involved with the district. i want to refer you to the i think it was the second nyp that you showed or maybe it was the first. it was the first one in an and the two most critical lines, of course, are the two lines that

get larger as time goes on. and i want to point out that the hard work comes in the line just above the red line, which is the ongoing cuts over actually, it's the other one. let's look at the one where you're not having $400 million in deficit because i sincerely don't think you're going to get there. and i know you don't want to get there. and that's the last thing i want to do, because that would be a failure on my part. so as you look at the years, you're making $40 in cuts. this year, 109 million, the following year and 135, the following year. that is where the road gets steeper and that is where is i think you're all aware of pam's in my role as state fiscal experts. our role is advisory. we don't have any we can't tell you you can't do

something. we can't prohibit you. but we can help guide you. and i want to say that again, your staff has been incredibly in supportive of what the same goals, i think is. pam and i share in getting you to a balanced budget. i'd like to keep things simple and it's not easy to look at this, but i think if you look at a good budget in the context of the whole district, i appreciated dr. wayne kind of laying out the foundation of quality in the classroom. i this may be a little hokey kind of, you know, kind of example, but of a peach tree at home. and i love that tree because i love peaches. but in the spring i have to get rid of about 40% of the peaches and cut a whole lot of the branches. because if i don't, the ones that are left don't get enough

water and the branches fall in. it's painful because i look at those. but then about two months later i get incredible peaches. and i think sometimes when you go through a process of looking at programs and kind of tighten your budget, you're also tightening your curriculum. um, and i think i come from a background not only in the fiscal area but in classroom and curriculum and good curriculum is based on good fiscal planning and vice versa. so i think as you look at the two out years, 24, 25 and 25, 26, the work begins tomorrow. in fact, i believe your staff is working on it now. and looking at staffing models that kind of like my peach tree are going to produce better peaches and better kids and better classrooms and better curriculum if they're really focused on student outcomes and really trimming to a level where your district becomes more

productive. and i truly believe i wouldn't be in this role if fiscal solvency didn't really promote productivity and outputs in the classroom for the children at your district. i want to make it very clear here that it is a very steep hill, 103 and 135,000,001 on top of the other, on top of 40 million. mean that those cuts are going to be painful. there may be getting rid of some of the peaches that you think might be good but maybe aren't helping the others that are left. so as you trim, i'm sure you will trim with the idea in mind that your classroom programs, your schools will be the best they can be. but the other side of the coin, and i have to talk about that, is that it is not a pretty picture. and i commend again you on looking at a qualified self certificate option. i think that

nothing else would have been appropriate, quite frankly. and my job now is to keep you from becoming a negative certification where you cannot and you know, you cannot meet your fiscal obligations. happy to. i know that was kind of philosophical, but i think the numbers speak for themselves. you don't need me to read numbers back to you. but they're very clear. thank you so much for that. and so i think what we'll do now is we'll transition . pam may have some comments to i don't i don't see a hand from pam. i do see a hand now. so maybe pam did raise their hand and we will go to pam. yes yes.

are you. yes, i'm trying to get pam. you got. okay. whenever you're ready. pam feel free to start, okay? can you hear me? yes, we can. okay. um i'd just like to say that i mean, elliott touched on a lot of it, and it is something that's very difficult for any district to face when they're looking at making cuts or combining programs or schools, whatever that might be. and i just would encourage everybody, not just the board and your staff, but also the

community to be patient as this goes through, because knowing that if you are able to take the time and really make the right decisions on this, it may not seem right to you at the moment because you see it on the list here, but ultimately the goal is to be able, as elliott said, to provide the best possible services for all of the students in the school. and so knowing that you're approaching it from that aspect, i think that people can feel a little bit reassured that it's not going to be, um, you know, something that's going to be just drastic quickly cut without a real rational thought process being put in place and going through and determining exactly what needs to happen. so i would just encourage everybody to again, be patient, wait until those final decisions are about ready. and then at that point, i'm sure then the board and everyone will share that and their rationale for what needs

to happen. moving forward so that they can meet their goals and guardrails that have been set, you know, within their group and then shared with the rest of the public that is pretty much it. it's a tough road and i just encourage everybody to, you know, don't jump to conclusions and just be patient as it's worked through. thank you so much. okay. and i think with that, we will go to board discussion and comment and question and we'll also see if folks want to direct things to particular staff or particular experts from the state. i'll start us off and then if other commissioners are ready, we'll go next. um i think the thing i want to start off with is i think a lot of appreciation to the folks who were able to negotiate these agreements as well as for the staff who've been waiting for these labor

agreements for a long time. and who've been doing a lot of work in anticipation of it at their individual school sites, i definitely feel like it is a step towards where we need to go as far as ensuring that we are paying staff in a way that is competitive and allows us to retain the valuable staff, talented staff we have here, as well as the people we've trained and all the expertise that we've developed. uh, i would lift up, i think my frustrations with where we're at in the process, the timeline that this information, these conversations are happening feels much too slow for me. i would have loved for us to have this level of information and discussion before the end of last school year to really have the opportunity to do the necessary work, to have the conversations and to build the discussions and looking at the slide focused on budget and staffing that three month look ahead. i think that's really helpful to give up idea of what's going to happen in the

next three months. it would be helpful to have something like that for the next three years that matches kind of these cascading reductions and adjustments that we need to make as a district from from my perspective, for a very long time, the district hasn't been sustainable in the way that we operate ourselves, whether it's fiscally or how we reach our student outcomes. and i think for this board, that is not acceptable and what we're trying to do is move away, say, from a district that isn't able to provide every student what they need, right? that's the gaps that we hear in our public comment. when people send emails to us, when we visit school sites, when we don't visit school sites, people call and tell us what we need to know. we have to be better about being transparent, about how we're getting to the solution. we have to figure out how we as a institution can speed up the development of these materials and our plans so that we can engage in the really important work of building the necessary buy in and trust in our school

community. i think the thing that is hard for us to acknowledge is that we as a district have a history of failure, right? and that's inserted neighborhoods. and that's what certain communities, certain families, certain income levels, right. certain ability levels of students. and we need to change that, right. and we need to do that with urgency and we need to make that our top priority. and so i'm happy with what i see here. but i want to see more right? i definitely appreciate the path that we have put forward to try to figure out how to minimize harm to sites. students and families as we go through this. while still making the necessary changes. i still would like to see something that allows us to do that sooner, something that gives us more of a cushion in our planning. so that if things do take a negative downturn, turn on the state or the city level, that we are actually prepared to deal with that and we won't have to take additional emergency actions to balance that out. so

to conclude, my speech is a lot of appreciation to the work that's been done and to the progress that we've made as a district. so i definitely see the expertise that has been brought in the new blood and life that has been brought in to help us make these reforms. what i still want to see is how we can meet the expectations that i have to ensure that we're doing this in a way that is working with community and that we're being as transparent as possible and people aren't surprised. i would really hate for us to get to march the end of our timeline here and for people at school sites not to know what's going to be happening then because it's too late. and i know staff is aware of this and staff is working on this and staff is committed to addressing this. and i appreciate that and i appreciate the superintendents leadership. but i think moving forward, we have to figure out how to do a better job of getting ahead of these issues and really showing the solutions ins that we have evidence backed

research. right. that will get us to where we need to get to with these student outcomes. right. because with all of this, we still don't see a clear plan forward to address the gaps in student outcomes. right. to meet all of our goals in the way that we want to. and i'm hoping that as we have more of these conversations, as this comes back through the budgetary process, that we'll see more of that and that will be a lot more clear and transparent. i don't think i had any questions in that. so we can leave it there and i will see if we'll go to commissioner sanchez and go around. all right. thank you. you covered a lot there. i just really also want to express my appreciation to our staff superintendent and our partnership with elliott and pam and these really hard times. so thank you very much. i do want to spend a little more time to president boggs's point about the timeline, if we can go to that slide 18, it may be superintendent or staff, if you can go a little more in depth on the timeline, especially what president boggess was saying about the potential of school

sites, not really understanding what's coming down the line, what the last thing we want is for our school communities to at the school site council summit. to have it dawned on them that major cuts, this, quote unquote cuts are happening. so what are we going to do to proactively to make sure that doesn't happen? just if you can just dive into the timeline a little more? sure and i think so. and appreciate the recognition of the hard work of dr. clark and jackie and the whole team, because we are bringing forward a first interim that probably has elliott said, has the most accurate picture of our budget. so we'll use this as well as the governor's going to come out with their budget proposal that that does kick off the budget budgeting season. what we are working on and this is a shift we've talked about in our resource allocation as well, is having a staffing plan that that provides some clear baseline allocations to schools,

what we're calling foundation allocations as well excuse me, as well as it makes it clear how we're supporting our programs as well as our local students and we're working on a framework for that. but really this time from january to february is when to engage with the educational partners to get feedback on what that looks like before it's finalized. right because we have that system view. but our schools understand their needs and they'll be able to let us know that, you know, we know investing in this area makes less sense than investing in that area. so those are conversations that looks like at our meetings with principals. we've already asked school site councils to give us feedback and then sharing back with school site councils what we're planning, as well as community conversations around around that. and then we want to do the finalizing of the plan in february. so as we said, when people come to the school site summit, that's traditionally when school sites get to look at

their budgets and staff. so they can do their planning moving forward. and without surprises, because there's things that we provide centrally that will come in the district's staffing plan and site plan. and the schools do have resources that they get to decide how to use, such as title one or schools that have our community schools grant or we have the city's student success fund that's opening applications. and so that's when they get to make that decision. so hopefully that provides a little more detail of what it looks like and specifically, again, everybody wants to see just the, you know, the details come in the next couple of months. we're going to go to vice president wiseman award next. thank you. and maybe i'll follow up and maybe ask push a little bit more. dr. wayne, in terms of some, i think, information that be really useful, i also want to start with gratitude. and i think you know, to hear, you know, elliot, you share that there's real confidence in these numbers

means a lot. not that i doubted the two of you. i mean, having you all on board and knowing that you are such subject matter experts in your respective areas means a lot. and we needed it. so thank you so much. i can't begin to imagine the number of hours you all have been working over the last few months and really, really appreciate it. do the numbers feel good? no but do we need them to be accurate? yes. and so thank you. and thank you, dr. wayne, for bringing these folks on to the team and in these leadership positions. i think it matters a whole lot. i guess building off of commissioner sanchez's questions , i think that i appreciate that the action timeline and something there's a couple of things that i think would be really useful to me as a commissioner. i think to us as board members, but also to the community, because we did hear a lot about a need for transparency. and so if i were

to look at its exhibit a in the in the materials where there's a it's categories including balancing plan category and there's a set of reductions, for example, or maybe it's the yes. so i think what would be really what i think would be useful in terms of transparency. so for each reduction item i want, i would like to know what is the relationship to furthering the goals that we've identified and our student outcome goals. i also want would want for each reduction confirmation that what we're doing and how we're going about it is in compliance with our guardrails and respecting our guardrails. and then lastly, what is the impact on school sites? and i know that that there is an idea that we're going to get there, but i think having those those three specific sort of additional data points or information is going to be really, really useful in terms of transparency because while i appreciate having a sense of when we might know

things, i think that it's useful to know what is it exactly that we're going to know and how does it map onto what our students and what our educators and staff are living and experiencing and hopefully learning each day? so i think that would be my ask from from leadership moving forward. i'll save i know that we have g2 and g3 about our our labor partners. i'll just say that i at no point will i pit what our labor partners against community. that is not what we're here to do. i think i can speak on behalf of the board. we went into the labor agreements eyes wide open, that we are going to have to make additional changes. but it wasn't on the back of one or another. it's that we need to support the system and we need to support our students and we need to support our educators and staff. so that's what i have. commissioner fisher, thank you.

i will pile on the accolades to staff, you know, hearing from mr. duchon that this is the most accurate report in sfusd history is heartwarming and terrifying at the same time. so thank you very much, dr. clark, and your staff. and thanks to our labor partners and our negotiators as well. and it's i appreciate the increased transparency. we've seen some community meetings this week and a lot more. i think communication with staff and so our job as a board of education in this council of great city schools, student outcomes focused governance is using that framework. our role as commissioners is to reflect back the values of the community

. and as many of my fellow commissioners have pointed out here tonight, one of the things that i heard loud and clear, not just tonight, but in all the spaces where i sit, is that our community wants transparency. they want us to increase transparency. they want to work on trust building and that's going to require details in a solid plan. i heard they want resource alignment. two goals i heard that they sincerely want us to fill vacancies at schools. they recognize the impact of the empowered debacle to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. and there's a huge concern that special education is already critically understaffed and we heard a lot about not meeting our legal mandates. that was just tonight in public comment. and i think that reflects a lot of what we've been hearing in many, many, many of our community sessions. so i really wanted to highlight that tonight. also so when we talk

about declining enrollment, i would be remiss as a special education advocate if i didn't point out that our students receiving special education services, our students with disabilities, when we talk about students fleeing our system, they very often have nowhere else to go. we have the special day classes. we have the higher level of services we have. we're trying to have occupational therapists and speech language pathologists. we have the services here that the private, parochial and charter schools very often do not. and so as we see declining enrollment, we see the percentage of students receiving special education services increase. and we know our legislative analyst's office has done a report saying that it costs about three times as much to educate a student with a disability as a student without so this has huge impacts on our system and even more is more critical to make sure that we are appropriately staffed. that which brings me back to the student outcomes focused

governance section. i i heard a lot of really promising things. we talked about aligning staff to enrollment, but to bring us into alignment with our student outcomes focused governance instead of aligning staff to enrollment. i think we need to not, i think, but if we're going to follow the structure with fidelity, we need to shift our resource allocation to aligning to meet our goals. and mr. duchamp, i heard you talk about focusing on the classroom, right? and so, you know, our biggest input is people. we can't forget that our biggest input is people. so when we think about the upcoming plans that we'll see, i think my biggest question is how are we aligning our resource forces to make sure that we're focusing on on math, reading, college and career readiness and what we know if we want to implement new

curriculum. as you said? mr. deshon it's not just a matter of a good curriculum. it's professional development ongoing coaching, all of these things that come with it, right? so this is where i hope that when we are looking at staff staffing to alignment and staffing allocations and baseline resources at schools, this is where i hope we are focusing our conversation and i look forward to seeing more of that as we move forward. so thank you. thank you, commissioner fisher, commissioner alexan, for thank you. and i agree with i want to echo the comments of my colleagues at and say i believe that what we're doing tonight is really starting the process of reinventing sfusd in order to create the schools that our students deserve. and we are clearly nowhere near where we need to be in our public comments, i think made some

really accurate critiques. but i also think this is a big moment to acknowledge because we've there's been a lot of talk even amongst us as board members, and this is an action step. we are investing a massive amount of resources into raises for educators and probably the largest raise ever, maybe in sfusd, certainly in the three decades i've been associated with sfusd. we're increasing our paraeducators starting pay from the equivalent to a safeway entry level worker to $30 an hour. we're getting double digit raises for our teachers as these things really are going to matter in terms of investments in our system and meeting those goals around literacy and math and college and career because we can never meet those goals if we keep churning through educators, if we have all these vacancies in our schools. so i just think that this is an important moment and we are we've made a decision as as vice president whiteman ward said, we did this with eyes wide open. we knew it was going to be tough and we made that decision for a reason. and i think the other

thing we're doing, and this has been referred this has been mentioned by several folks, but i think we're starting to crack open some of what dr. clark called the anomalies. but i will go further and call, frankly, fiscal mismanagement. that's been happening in the district for a long, long time. i mean, i couldn't believe it that we you know, part of the way we're paying for this is $9 million in materials and supplies, money that's been sitting there rolling over year after year where educators out there, you all have been paying for supplies out of your own pockets. right. but yet this money was sitting there and some of these things, even our fiscal experts missed and they've been kind of there for a while. and it's just the way things have been happening. and so i just want to really appreciate that, you know, the way that that our staff have done this. but also i want to appreciate usf, our educators, thousands of educators insisted not just on raises, but on actually the fiscal accountability and discipline and dealing with some of these things. and they said we want to know where every penny is at. so we can demand not an excessive raise, but an a raise that sfusd can actually

afford. and so i just think that's also another credit. that's due here. and i think as we think about this transformation of the i'm thinking of it as like the old sfusd to the new sfusd, there's certainly all these pieces. and i think this is where at least my discomfort comes from. there's a lot of the old sfusd that's still around and we don't have a plan yet for changing it, right? we've got classrooms with 10 or 12 kids in it and we can't keep that. that's not going to that's not sustainable. we can't afford that as mr. duchin has pointed out, many times. so it's like, so how are we going to make that shift? but we also have i'll use another example which may not be popular, but we also have a curriculum and instruction department that doesn't respond to the needs of schools and isn't in touch with what's happening on the ground all the time. and so we need to change that as well. so there's all these things i mean, there's many, many more examples, but that that if we're going to actually achieve our goals, we have to be able to make those changes. and you know, in the old sfusd, what would have happened was a few people in central office would have

decided what was going to happen. they would have said, okay, those classrooms are going to close and that school is going to be merged and there would be no consultation with students or families or anybody. and then it would happen all at the last minute, which created this lack of trust. right. and then miraculously, over the summer, somehow all the cuts to the curriculum department would have been magically restored and nobody would have known exactly why or how like that literally is the old sfusd and i think we need to acknowledge that that's what's led to the public comment we've heard. and so we now it's our responsibility as leaders to be able to shift that right? oh, by the way. and the impact on those cuts all would have been on schools, mostly serving black kids and low income students. students with ieps would have been the right. so again, those are the that's the history. the real history of our district. so i guess i'm just excited for this moment. and i think like my colleagues have said, we really need to stay focused on doing this in a way that's aligned to our goals and aligned to our guardrails right. and i want to mention for those of you

listening and i think this is relevant to a lot of those comments, our first guardrail says that before any major decisions are made, there has to be, quote, meaningful consultation with the people that are going to be impacted by those decisions. so that includes parents and guardians and staff and students themselves. and we wrote that in the guardrail. so if you're experiencing this and you feel like decisions are being made and you're not being meaningfully consulted, please speak up. speak up at your school site, talk to your school leadership. if they don't, if you feel like they're not listening, go over their heads. go up the chain of command, write up all the way, including to the board if necessary. don't start with us. please don't start with the board. but but i mean, that's i just think it's really, really important. and it doesn't mean we're all going to agree and it doesn't mean everyone's going to get their way. but everyone needs to be involved in this conversation. and again, the criteria we need to use is our goals and our guardrails, right? it's not random. everyone gets to have their opinion, but it's like everyone does get to have an opinion about how are we best going to achieve that college and career goal. that's really

ambitious. and the eighth grade math goal and the third grade literacy goal. we need to hear from everybody about that. and then we need to come to consensus around research based plans, right? that are that are that are going to get us to those goals. and i think that's what i'm looking forward to seeing. right. and it's our staff's job to kind of compile all that be experts in the in the evidence based best practices and then come out with a plan and then get feedback from us from parents, from educators, from students themselves and our job is to be skeptical, to ask hard questions. and then for us to build and agree on a plan and move forward. and i think the next six months are going to be a real test for the superintendent and his team. and for us as leaders, because those are going to be tough decisions. but we i feel like this board has laid out some expectations on how to do those that are really clear. and to the extent that it's not clear, you know, again, i think members of the public should keep asking, but i think and we need to keep getting clearer on that because this is the moment. this is the

moment when we're going to create the new sfusd. and so and we're going to create those fully staffed schools that our students truly deserve. so let's do it. thank you, commissioner. we'll go to commissioner lamb. thank you. and thank you to dr. clark, jackie and the team. i know it's been a tremendous lift in the amount of time. i also want to just express, you know, the district has been through a lot in recent years and i want to also just name how important it is tonight that we land in a on our approval on our labor agreements and working with our labor partners and want to voice my colleagues appreciation that we absolutely could not do this work in fidelity without our educators and our staff. and i will be fully supporting the ptas. i do also want to raise

some serious concerns. i have with the multi year projections that have been put forward, and i do see them as tactical and getting into an ends to a mean. but i have been very clear and to my colleagues and to our conversations we've had with the superintend and just truly how how this initial first interim budget, which is a it's putting an initial plan forward. and really, how are we going to deliver on better student outcomes and better better educational experience for our students across every school, no matter what neighborhood zip code that a school is in and our children and students are experiencing every day? i actually think that this first interim doesn't go deep enough because it really provides

little to no margin of error. we are getting some early analysis out of the state legislative analyst office and that that the california budget is going to need to face significant cuts in the next few years. and so how does that land on our plans? and to dr. clark's point that it will have to be fluid. so in many ways, what we're seeing tonight is most likely the very best case scenario, if not having to even go deeper. and while, you know, i've been pretty vocal since i started day one on this board, i am ready to make tough decisions. but those decisions have to be strategic work. they have to be backed up by data analysis sis and how they are truly going to be better educational experience for our students. and that is my

worry and as we even look out one year further to 25, 26, we don't really have detailed plan beyond placeholders. and i want to acknowledge that every school district certainly we are, is embarking on this in the state of california. but i do like to say in san francisco that i absolutely believe with every cell of my body, with my heart in this district, i raised my children here. my children have gone to school in san francisco since they were five years old, in kindergarten, and they will graduate as sfusd alumni. so they are good enough for my children as schools are. and this is why we care so deeply. i care so deeply, but i am really concerned that what is being proposed right now, while is important around the vacant positions we've been talking

about for years and i wanted to express my appreciation to the superintendent and the team to actually start that improving our fiscal and budget practices and that we must continue to invest in the system. we need to invest in our fiscal human resources, administrative and operations team, because what we've seen in for years now is that underinvestment and so why we have made decisions, costly decisions which has eroded the public trust, eroded strong stewarding of public dollars, and that we must be able to have a much clearer vision and delivery on those promises of the sfusd values. but those outcomes that we have are students and our coach reminds me often that it's not just

about budgets and fiscal numbers, because otherwise why have goals? why go through the process that we did and bringing together over 8000 pieces of community evidence to land on the on the goals and guardrails that we do have. so i tonight want to express that my 100% support for our tentative agreements or to ratify our labor agreements. but i do not feel that at this time. i think we need to really plan even further for the fiscal challenges ahead and how we're going to deliver for our students. thank you, commissioner lamb commissioner thomas. um commissioner lamb my, my sentiment is very similar to yours and my appreciation for staff and the work and having

folks that are really bringing forward the numbers that we've needed to see for a very, very long time. i know there's a lot of work before us and that the situation that we're in was not made over overnight this year. last year or even the year before. and it won't be undone. um, i do similarly see headwind. as for the district and external to the district that will affect our ability to operate. and i really, really don't want negative certification in three months and so i was hoping for a budget that would go further, be more transparent, it provide the answers to so many questions i've heard for from families for so long, and i understand it's not a strategic plan, but it is a reflection of values and priorities. and i do want to acknowledge that we have greatly improved leadership and competence. ac and i want this

district to be successful. i want our students to be successful. our educators to be successful. i too will be fully supporting the labor agreements. i also want to acknowledge that the board has overhauled its governance practices rs and has been hold ing to those practices. and one of the things that i've most loved is having access to our agenda items and documents. 12 days in advance and part of why you're seeing me in this position is that this came forward at a late date, and i haven't had many of the questions that i have underpinning these numbers that have come forward. i don't i feel confident in this year, probably next year. but i have a lot of concerns about 20, 25, 26 and a lot of questions about what our core services are and how our expenditures will be

demonstrably aligned with student outcomes is. frankly, i'm also not clear on the legal implications of reallocation of some of our restricted funds and the impacts to required services as so i ask that going forward, our budgets be available at least ten days in advance for review. and i really ask for there to be more visibility of our educational services as our student services in the work that comes forward. our goals, of course, literacy, math, career and college readiness. but frankly, it's been over a year since the board adopted its goals and guardrails and things like resource allocation and curriculum and instruction really haven't been monitored adequately by the board. and those are areas that i will be watching most closely as we move forward. so i'm most concerned i just want to reiterate about that. $155 million in 2025, 2026

and understand funding and not being in a position where i understand and what is being complicated contemplated for those so again, i support the labor agreements and i really, really want to convey my the appreciation that i have for staff and that this is in no way is me being out of alignment with the work that has brought forward. but simply wanting more and to have greater margin for error, both within our own assumptions, but also with what may be happening around us. so i do appreciate appreciate the work that has gone forward. thank you so much. thank you. and with that, i will ask for a motion on this item. so moved in a second. second. all right. and

so i'm going to read item g one and then i think we will call for a roll call vote on the item . so item g one fiscal year 20 2324, first interim report qualified financial fiscal certification for the san francisco unified school district and a positive certified motion for the county office of education. roll call vote, please. yeah just take your time. no worries. i think your mics off. commissioner alexander. yes commissioner fisher? yes, commissioner lamb. no commissioner motamedi. no

commissioner sanchez. yes. vice president wiseman. ward yes. president bogus. yes. five eyes it passes. thank you. and with that, we'll go to superintendent. you wanted to know. just want to appreciate the appreciations and yeah, it has been a lot of work to get us to this point. dr. clark and jackie also amy bear from human resources and anne marie gordon, you know, worked and hard on this and also here the direction and expectations for our second interim right. we bring a second interim in march and definitely heard the desire to see beyond three months. we'll be at that point then and then also here the need to see the specifics both strategically what are we doing to meet our goals and

guardrails. but then also the impact is going to have on our schools and making sure that we're going through a process that honors our guardrail one. so it is a tall order, but we're ready for the challenge and appreciate the support in being able to move forward. thank you, superintendent, for that. so now i would like to call item g two, which is the tentative agreement between service employees international union regarding the reopener successor agreement and the ab 1200 disclosures. can i have a motion a second for that item? so moved second. okay. and if we could have a roll call vote on that item. on g two. yes commissioner alexander. yes commissioner fisher yes. commissioner lamb yes. commissioner motamedi yes.

commissioner sanchez. yes vice president wiseman. ward. yes president bogus. yes seven eyes. thank you, superintendent. and i just can't i do want to just make a few acknowledgments. one again, want to thank the team that worked tirelessly to reach this agreement. rosa coronado, doctor rosa coronado on the district side was the lead. but do you really want to appreciate seiu? we know the negotiations went long and were sometimes challenging, but what i really new throughout is that we have our different response abilities, but we understand our core responsibility is to the students of this district. and i always felt that from seiu, and i hope seiu understands that's where we're coming from. and i do want to thank the board of education for your guidance and saying we need to invest in this area and we're going to support that even if we still have questions. we're going to support this because we know

this is the right thing to do for our students and for our staff. so thank you for the support of this and really appreciate the team efforts to bring this forward. thank you, superintendent. and with that, we will move to item g three, which is the tentative agreement between san francisco unified school district and the united educators of san francisco regarding re opener successor agreement and the required ab 1200 disclosures. if i could have a motion in a second for this item beat me to it. second. okay and if we could have a roll call vote please. thank you. commissioner alexander. yes, commissioner fisher. yes. commissioner lamb. yes. commissioner motamedi. yes commissioner sanchez. yes vice president wiseman. yes. president bogus. yes. seven

eyes. yeah yes. and again, it is worth celebrating the team again. doctor coronado, was there many late nights working with assistant superintendent a.r.s. jean robertson, representing special education. raul was there representing early education in and if i'm forgetting anybody, was it was. what's that, amy oh, and amy bear there and davina goldwasser representing secondary schools and it's worth mentioning because we they work, we say tirelessly, we mean tirelessly because as did the usf side, because it was 630 in the morning where president curiel was here with the team and our team finalizing the agreement. and that again shows the dedication that that all sides have to do what's right for our students. and again, feel confident that this is an investment we need to make to

move to move forward. and thank you again to the board of education for making sure that this is a priority as we develop our further develop our strategic plan and figure out our budget. thank you for those remarks, superintendent. and with that, we will move to item h, which our consent calendar are there any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent at this time? superintendent way no. okay. can i have a motion and a second for the consent calendar? so moved. i'll second that all right. if we could have a roll call vote, please. commissioner alexander. yes commissioner fisher? yes, commissioner lamb. yes commissioner motamedi. yes commissioner sanchez. yes. vice president wiseman. ward. yes. president bogus. yes. seven eyes. all right. thank you. and with that, we will go to item i board member reports and

appointments commissioner alexander i have a report as the former chair now of the ad hoc committee on ethics and conflict of interest that the committee has completed its work and we submitted to president bogus a recommended statement on ethics and conflicts of interest that we developed in our hope is that it could be brought to the full board for a vote at the january regular meeting and that we might, if colleagues are okay with that sign it actually at that meeting. okay. so that was that's our committee recommendation to the board. thank you so much for your work in the committee's diligent work , seeing no other reports. i'm sorry. seeing commissioner fisher. we were very lucky to have the annual california state california school board association sorry, annual

meeting here in san francisco last week. and so thank you to colleagues for you know, we actually were very honored to have our two student delegates to sit on a panel. and i can tell you, they rocked it. you know, as they always do, talking about equity and answering all the great questions, you know, about student engagement and what they'd like to see from what they'd like to see for the next steps of engagement. so more to come on that. and of course, there were a couple of days of presentations as well for me, one of especially considering where we are, one of the big takeaways in in attending, you know, like a budget 200 level as much as you can do in an hour. the kasbo, there's a report called the bottom line. if anyone is interested in the details of how california schools are funded,

it is an 18 page report. it's a lot of infographics. so it's not really as as painful as 18 pages may seem to some people, but it does a really good job of outlining, you know, the school funding in california where the where the funding comes from, the challenges of schools, the pressures. so if you're looking for that bigger picture related to tonight, that is a great place to start. it's kasbo. so for the california association of school board operations people, i think are something like that. but the bottom line is the name of the report, the definitive guide on california school business and finance for 2324. it was very enlightening for me and i think can inform a lot of the work we do. so and a lot of other stuff too. cool swag from the trade show if anyone wants any squishes, we've got them. thank you so much,

commissioner, for your report. and with that we will close item. i and go to item j. item j one initial proposal from united administer of san francisco. in board docs you will see attached to the agenda the initial proposal from the united administrators of san francisco. superintendent do you want to comment on that? no, this is just an information item and it becomes it will be a public hearing at our next regularly scheduled meeting. thank you for that information. and with that, we will adjourn this meeting at 8:53 p.m.

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okay. good morning everyone, and welcome to the san francisco planning commission and recreation and park commission special joint hearing for thursday, december 14th, 2023 to enable public participation. sf gov tv is only streaming this hearing live today and we will receive public comment for discussion and action items on today's agenda. each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes and when you have 30s remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. when your allotted time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and take the next person queued to speak. we will take public comment from persons in city hall first, and then open up the remote access lines for those persons calling in to submit their testimony, you need to call area code