efforts with our choice neighborhoods. these are our students that we want to focus in on and help support and so i think that there are some really great opportunities and who in the city funds these kinds of things. we have the restaurant association and we've got sf travel and like we are the food capital. and when you think about what billy short is doing, there is so many great places for us to tap into. i don't think that as a school district we've taken that opportunity because it's never had these kinds of dreams and ideas. a huge thank you to everybody who put their effort into one wanting to do this, when it first came about. i actually wasn't sure where it came from, but was grateful. and then secondly just having as the staff is really thinking about how do we push this forward and as commissioner said what are your

recommendations going to be, what is the low hanging fruit, what are the things that will get us our biggest bang for the buck and get our kids, this next generation of kids into this. as i was peeling my orange thinking about my child who is now in college and standing behind her in kindergarten and i was peeling oranges for all the the kindergarteners. that's not what we want to do anymore. we want them to be able to socialize. put me to work. i'm excited about this. i want to see us move forward, do something not 5 years from now.

hopefully on my time while i'm still on the board. i want to see this happen in our schools. let's do it. thank you. >> [ applause ] >> thank you commissioner. >> thank you, let me just say ditto to what commissioner just said. and add on a little bit. i am so grateful for the dinner take home idea. so many of our students have to take care of themselves after they leave school and take care of siblings. i have seen this scenario so many times and they have to get those same siblings ready in the morning. they are really functioning adults out there and if we can figure out a way with support,

how to help them do that, easier. i'm so all for that. i cannot tell you. i just want to hear and maybe in smaller conversations that we've had how we can make that happen really fast because it's just a struggle. and i really am grateful for you talking about labor and not just jobs but actually into careers. because i believe the way we are moving and the way we are doing things and how we will ramp up and what i believe into fruition in 2 years, 3 years, is a career path. that is just an amazing place for our staff to think about and not just a split shift that i do for 20 years which is just heartbreaking if you know the reality of that kind of life. in the job that you love, being with kids and making sure they get fed and

get to school and into the classrooms. my history is that my grandmother was doing food service in the cafeteria while she was going to night school as a nurse. so, this is very near and dear to my heart. and for the idea for us to get back to cooking eventually is just i'm not even going to stay that long because it will bring tears to my eyes. i can't wait for that to start and have the staff participate in that and really the joy and the ability to give as humans to be able to feed each other and share that love. i can't wait for that to happen. because teachers supporting staff and supporting kids, this is an immense way to show how we care about children and we want the best for them. that i want to say kudos for

it. i'm very ready like commissioner mendoza, how we can be ambassadors. yes i'm really ready for this and want interpretation. i'm ready for all of these smaller meetings. i'm excited about this and what i want the families to understand what is going to happen for their kids. i have seen those round tables that fold up. i absolutely believe they exist and can work for that dining experience. i love that. i'm less worried, i heard the concerns, i'm so not worried. you have so much going on here that makes sense and that you partnered it with a

deep financial fiscal analysis. i'm not worried. from the time that i have been on the board, i have seen shifts for the better. i'm not worried that we will not be able to do this with such validity and incrediblity and so i'm not worried. i'm ready to go as all my colleagues. don't look to me to vote no, look to me to vote yes and let's move as quickly as possible so it's real. i so grateful that you are all working together. sarah and evans williams foundation. this you for funding this. we need that please. it is the way it is. they came to the table and are doing it. those are my

comments and i want to be supportive and helpful. coach me please. thank you. >> thank you commissioner. commissioner haney. >> i want to echo my voice for gratitude. i was able to go to the everett demonstration site and i was just buzzing feeling the incredible possibilities here. also what this means for how we do thing here as a school district. what it means for us to have demonstrated what it looks like when we focus on the student experience and build solutions around that. for all the stakeholder who were consulted, the staff, this sort of partnership and what it can lead to i think we are likely now to reach an ideal board agenda. this looks extraordinary. i'm looking

forward to digging into this. thank you. the role of the students in particular. sometimes we make decisions and not just us but school districts in again and when we do involve students is to say we did and it's in a token way. i have had the opportunity to talk to students and you can see what is in here that it came from their experiences and what they were feeling and what this wanted. if we can do that, not just with school food bus if we do that, we are going to see improvement in everything. i have a couple things i want to say especially in digger deerp. the first is to think about how this process and what we do with this relates to other goals that we have as a district and the process that we are going to be going

through with visioning for the future for our district and how we can meet other goals in the district. if we are going to meet bigger investment in our program, we should look at other goals. two things, i looked at the smart meal technology and it's something i'm really excited about. can that help us with consultation that we should be having on a regular bases. if we are goingen vest in a system like that, can we invest in a system that will is allows us to get other feedback from other experience that students are having. one thing i saw in there that elementary schools were not included in that and i had a question about that and again if we were not going to go to elementary schools for feedback and also families

giving feedback. for both educational opportunities that are built here already and with the smart intentional and generally if we are going to make vechlts -- investments as we should and how it relates to school. and i have concerns of doing things because we think it will increase revenue. that could be true in short-term but in terms of we not doing things for revenue where we might be losing 8.where we are making additional revenue. what i like about it is that they are right things to do four our families and students. the issue of dinner kids, i like that, like

commissioner said, not just because potentially it might raise more revenues, but really because it's a need for our families and students. that's what we should stand behind and if we do this, that's what we should lead with. anything we do this, we say it's because it's meeting a need for our students and families, not because we might make additional money as a result of this. if we do, it sounds and looks different and in the future we might lose why we did it in the first place. lastly, there are incredible amount of good ideas and we want to get started and see how they work in reality and really start to prototype them right away. i'm work ing at the design school right now and see in an individual school what this looks like and how it

increases participation, shows results, gets feedback and then you can come back to us and say this is what the impact has been in this individual school. we've seen this increasing in this participation. we have seen this increase in satisfaction around our schools. all of that, i think i would like to see immediate prototyping and have that brought back to us so we can see the results on a smaller basis and say because of those results we want to expand this further rather than saying this is what it's going to cost the school district without knowing what it looks like and whether people do want to participate in the dinner program and if they do, how many people are participating. what's their feeling and thoughts on that and how can we actually expand that further. i'm in incredibly excited about this and thankful

for everyone's work and stand with the rest of the board members whether being a cham pion for this work and what it really looks like in our schools and say that's what we want to see in all of our schools and how we can make that happen that is a reality. this you again for all of your work. this is really extraordinary and i'm excited. thank you. i appreciate it. thank you. i think this is beautiful. i'm going to put it on my coffee table. it's just beautiful. first i want to thank evan williams foundation for bringing this to us and an allowing us to think about it.

and on a side note, on behalf of dreamers, i want to say thank you thank you thank you. and then i have comments about this. i think about having food here. i was a student here and ate many a meal here and i do remember even working in my middle school to get a free lunch. it was $0.65 for lunch. they allowed some students to work in the cafeteria. it was very unattractive inform are a middle schooler and i got that free lunch which was actually delicious. i remember we used to cook in our own kitchens and i remember the day where people were students to ask to borrow $0.65 to buy lunch. it was a

new type of food that i hadn't eaten at home. i would like to comment that i'm so excited about this. i think food is very emotional. sharing a meal with people is a really profound thing. i say in my home, no telephone, no tv. everyone has to sit at the table and no television. even though now i always watch television while eating. at the time i was raising my children it was a time to have conversation. we would have to take turns because the kids were so excited about what they wanted to say. the middle one always monopolized the conversation. also just chatting it up while you are eating. because in our schools, the reality was and when

children went to school, they sat in these long benches very close together which was hurry up and eat. my children never finished their lunch because they could never eat that quickly. it was a high pressure sort of thing. i think they were eating in shifts. i never knew why students were also allowed to use the school yard to eat. they were told it was too messy which they all have to eat inside which was cramming the students in and it was not a really happy or pleasant eating experience. when i see these pictures up here in this book, man, if we can do that, that would be fabulous. so i what i really like about this too is that we are approaching food and school lunch in a positive way. it is not punitive. i think in the last, our quest to make the

cost and everything else, we have kind of looked at it punitively. if you don't have this, we are going to ding you on this. what i like about this is the part of food of feeding students emotionally and positively. i hope students will remember wonderful delicious meals that they ate at schools just as i did. not as a punishment meal and my kids call the stuffed bell peppers. really? then i would like to say i have a suggestion on the portal that i think it should include recipes. i think once they eat our delicious

foods they will say to their parents, i want to eat what i ate at school and i want parents to be able to cook it and give it to their own children because we are going to be serving healthy foods and food that is very different from food i serve my children, but it's going to be healthy food and food of value and foods that they want to eat again. that starts a culture that is food that taste good and feel good. those are foods that are healthy instead of foods that are not healthy. this holds the mind-set about foods. when children tell me i can't eat it because it's too sweet. i think the change in culture of food is so exciting to us. the way we look at how

they eat, in the atmosphere we eat in an atmosphere that we serve the food, that we monitor the food and give the food it is very exciting. i know that we'll always have a financial disconnect waus because it is based on federal subsidies and guidelines and we have we have live in one of the most expensive cities in the nation. we will always be at that deficit. i also want to say to principal chew that also thank you for volunteering your school to be the pilot school, i firmly believe that we have an at some point here to do something very quickly. we are building a brand new school at wiley brown academy. we have a great opportunity to pilot in a brand new school for students

that actually have very little access to fresh foods in their own neighborhoods. so that can be very exciting. i'm going to challenge because i think this school is a perfect opportunity for us to do something. we have a lot of things on our wish list, but this willie brown school when we know in our bay view we have the highest concentration of school aged children and a disproportionate amount of churn in lower in the matter of households. i think we can learn a lot from it. i love the idea of central kitchens but central kitchens should have the warehouses attached to them to so we don't have trucks going all over the place and then i also this i that this is a really good opportunity for one to

collaborate with a couple of groups. the san francisco food banks which has been so generous who has helped to feed our very hungry families and children and also about our insurance programs, our cte programs about our culinary foods and see how we can mesh it together and i love the fact that we are not doing it in isolation anymore about foods but we are looking at also food and fitness and i present the challenge of food an fitness committee to look at fitness too because we know that these two are so combined. i think i have said a lot. but, i want to say about the dinner kits, i'm not that hip on the dinner kits unless we can make it financially viable for the low income. so i'm not looking for

sort of i guess a service that is $15 a person, i'm looking for maybe some way that we can help subsidize these also. actually if you meet those federal guidelines for free and reduced lunch and you live in san francisco, you should get everything free. you should get munis and internet. i don't know how any family can survive with 25 gross with the high cost-of-living here. i want to thank those for working on this. the portal recipe thing is great for me too. i love to look at recipes. it can show case what we are doing and not only teach families but also university students if they want to do it too. anyway. this

you so much. this is very exciting. this is beautiful and again thank you so much evans williams foundation for making this really happen for us. [ applause ] . >> thank you. i'm going to close up the board comments very briefly because pretty much everybody has said what they wanted to say. i'm just going to echo my thanks to the evan williams foundation and we are obviously very grateful and there are so many ideas. it's good to see that validated and that these are good ideas and i do thinks these are good ideas. i think we need more analysis. i think commissioner wynns, i want to echo her call for a

deeper analysis and i want to sit down with you to go through some of the financial assumptions because there were a number of then i didn't understand, but i think the most crucial analysis that i want to see done and will help us build out some of these other ideas is the facilities assessment because we really need to know sort of what are we talking about when we talk about building kitchens and wh warehouses and, i just think we need a deeper analysis of that and have for a long time. i'm very supportive of that. i also think i would like to see us working. i see miss miller in the back. i would like to see working with different patterns and different job classifications that are required with that and we

should be working collaboratively with them and how to do this and hand in hand with the facilities analysis because some of what we do with facilities will be drafting and vice versa and i think it's important to start that work on parallel tract at the same time because there is going to be an overlap. i think finally the discussion of the dinner kits is really, it get to the core because one of the discussions the board really has to have is what are our values around this? if purely selling food to drive revenue were part of our values we would have had kfc in our cafeterias for many years. that's what schools did. they thought if we are going to drive revenues, it's what we

did. when we got rid of soda machines, we thought we were going to have a loss of money and it was not true. i think we were very strong about our values and not sacrificing our sense of what quality foods should be and i think we need to continue to articulate that and be clear about that and what you said about the dinner kits to make sure they are available to all of our families. first when i saw that, i thought that would be convenient to give my kid $15 and say bring home a kit, but i don't want there to be different levels. i don't want her friend who lives in the tenderloin to not be able to bring home the dinner kit

because her mom didn't give her the $15 to buy the kit. if we go down that route, we should look into it. let's make them reimburse able. is there way that we can build the kits and sell them ourselves instead of having a for profit company do that. i think while all of this is really important and we need to acknowledge that we have to raise revenues, we shouldn't lose sight of that either because that's who we are. i will close with that. the superintendent i think wants to say a few words to us, so thank you. >> thank you president norton and all of our commissioners. i

want to say to our absolutely phenomenal students. thank you for your voice. that is part of the game change in this presentation is that we heard from you and we see your ideas in everyone of these pages and to our incredible student nutrition staff. thank you. we see your smiling faces all over here as well. i will tell you for the child that see's your smiling face, you are making a difference and you are an important part of what we have we can do. i couldn't be a superintendent of schools prouder for taking a very strong stance of what's important in our community. not only educational, but health and nutrition and life skills for our students. this is such a personal mission for us because we talk about making our students career and college ready, but it makes no sense

for our students to be career and college ready if we are graduating them diabeticing, if we are graduating them with heart disease or on the path to heart disease. if we are graduating students thinking they can spend $1.99 or meals. i think talking about the dinner meal going home is a great step. i guarantee you we'll work it out and there are people in this community that have always stepped up in san francisco. and let me give you some examples. post prop 13, when arts and sports programs and libraries were being visit rated throughout california, san franciscans said this will not happen in our schools and

they passed a battle bal on the measure to ensure this will not happen to serve the most in poverished student and the ones with the least access to resources. they stepped up. way before we talked about universal san francisco, they decided there would be universal health care for every child in san francisco. we have always been ahead of the curve. i am so excited. you can't wipe the silly grin off my face tonight. listening to the comments from the commissioners and the comments from the audience tonight because i have every confidence that the vision is currently meeting the sealing is going to immediate the road and that we will figure this out and that this is part of the values that we hold dear to us in san francisco. i have to tell you ladies and gentlemen, as a public school kid,