by commissioner driscoll and without objection that that item passes. >> is there any madam clerk, any other business before this committee? e mroibz we're adjourned everything. >> before the meeting will co

order. this is vision zero committee for thursday, september 15, 2016. i apologize in the delay for the start time. just finished a gao committee meeting. i'm supervisor normal yee and joined by david campos and supervisor kim is unable to join ust us today. the committee clerk is steve stamos and the committee like to acknowledge sfg tv who record each meeting and are jim smith and mark [inaudible] before we begin , motion to excuse jane kim from the committee meeting? okay. any objection? motion passed. mr.

clerk, do you have any announcements? >> there are no announce ments. >> so, why don't we start with item number 2? >> alright. item 2, approve the minutes of the june 30, 2016 meeting. this is actioniteal. item >> could i have a motion, please? no objection the motion passes. >> take a roll call vote on this. public comment >> public comment on the minutes for june 30th? no public comment. public comment is closed. and- >> roll call vote. commissioner campos, aye. commissioner yee, aye. the minutes are approved. >> okay. item 3, please

>> item 3, recommend approval of the resolution urging the legal of california cities to adopt and implement vision zero to eliminate strafic deaths and priorities safety throughout california. this is action item. >> okay. so, there will be a meeting of the league of california cities, right? >> i'll give background. league meets every year. they are meeting this year in long beach it is october 5, 6 and 7. >> your name? >> sorry, kate breen, director from sfmta. the meeting has only this ruzlution which is interesting and sponsored by the city of san jose with the formal support of san francisco t freemont, west hollywood, santa monica, sacramento and

san diego. i think having the support from the transportation authority would be important and hoping but not assuming that something that seems-it should be so easily supported it isn't always a slam dunk when you take it to other arenas so ask for your support. >> okay. i certainly will be supporting this, of course and it is important that we have additional supporters to let the cities know that we have teeth behind this. so, at this point any questions? no questions. then is there public comment on this particular item? come on up. >> good afternoon. cathy

delukea the policy and program manager with walk san francisco and here to urge you to pass this resolution, urging the league of california cities to adoptsition zero. we think it will go along way to support the local efforts here and think it is really important for san francisco to have a strong presence at the meeting so we can talk about our vision zero work and answer questions, so i know you are already going this way but urge you to support it. thank you. >> and for the audience that don't know this san francisco is a vision zero city. where we have passed this policy a few years back and the city has taken this very seriously and hoping that we can center the rest of california share this type of vision that is important to our pedestrians. um, okay--so, any other public comment on this item? seeing

none, public comment is closed. motion on this? >> yes, if i may chair yee, i do think it is a great idea to get the league of cities to do this and i think i'm hoping that it won't be too heavy a lift and make as great deal of sense so make a motion to move this item with positive rementdation >> no objection the motion passes. item 4. >> item 4, vision zero communication outreach updailt. this is information item. >> okay. >> good afternoon. john nox, acting manager for sfmta. we wanted to come and give a quick overview of the communications work and education work we have been doing on behalf of vision

zero. presentation. mument media will stop along the way to play a couple things as well. knowing we are a little-- our communications campaign is really about culture change. it isn't just behavior change it is changing culture. san franciscos culture to one that embraces and demands safety. this takes a shift in public perception. seeing things in a broader perspective than just one belaveier to change but understanding that cultural change takes time and we need to understand a lot more about what it will take. at the end of the day, our current goals are to insure people understand

traffic safety is a problem on our streets but it doesn't have to be this way and a result of changes we make personally and also demanding policy and change in the communities. we know what are the root problems that are data driven and look at and identify what is happening on the streets and know a lot of the solutions so there is a way forward. it isn't a hopeless traffic is a problem. helping encourage people to get to the point where death in the streets not only saves lives but see it a more livable place for them sevl squz place they like to be. just came from the prowalk, probike conference and there was a discussion about the happy city. place where people want to be and feel good being in there. is and we need to work together as a broad community to achieve this. i wanted to-sorry. there we go. just quick-it stops here, safe streets sf.

we were awarded the an award by the tucademy of interactive and visual arts in the social responsibility category. partner ship with department of public helthd, police department and city of san francisco and many others. i want to take a minute to recognize the work and celebrate the work we have done. this slide represents a lot of work currently hitting the streets now. you may have seen some of it. i provided the new outreach cards that came in today. some of the first people to receive them. we'll drop those by your officers so you can use them as well. um, let's see here--3 months ago [inaudible] talked about the safe speeds campaign and we have created on the streets and want to take a

couple seconds to ply the thirt second video. it is running in english, chinese and spanish. i will play the english here today. it is about 30 seconds long. >> my car will take all most twice as long to stop so once you cros the treat and didn't have time to stop. i tried. but i was going too fast. i caused this funeral. now i have to live with that. speeding is a leading cause of traffic deaths of san francisco streets. the speed limit is 25 for a resin. stick to the minute. learn more atsition zero sf.org. >> this was the result of a focus group that really we thousand dollar people were very surprised to find out speed was a impact in san francisco streets. everybody like the children of lake [inaudible] is above average driver so they can drive faster and control their car s and

there a lack of understanding speed as a impact on the ability to stop in a physics sense. this campaign is really rolling out with the idea of trying to help people understand that even 5 miles a hour over the 25 mile hour speed limit doubles the chance you kill somebody if you hit them. this is a difference between 30 and 25. it is is accompnied by visual banner ads playing in san francisco. people who have been identified as likely drivers and people who are physically in the city of san francisco on cell phones, tablets and computers clicking on that will take you to vision zeeree sf page. supporting a lot of the radio and playing as we start the enforcement that will roll out next-go back. >> commissioner campos. >> quick question. very

powerful. is it the same concept translated into spanish and chinese? >> it is on this one, yes. >> where is it playing? sort of like how many stations? >> it is playing on english during the drive time so times when people are driving not just in san francisco but into san francisco. the total traffic network is the english network, i cannot list all the stations, kqd is one of them but spanish is the same and -i'll have to send the specific stations. >> let me know the specific stations that will be great. >> happy to coo do that. >> good for you to give that information oo all our colleagues. >> absolutely, happy to do that. this campaign is also paired with high visibility enforcement. we will have

starting in october police officers doing 132 hours of speed enforcement on high injury netdworks throughout the city. there will be one high visible enforcement every week on one corridor so it is moving throughout the city all parts the city will see this. it will likely be sergeant and up to 8 police officers any given time enforcing people driving through communities at high-speed. i want to-we will also have signage out there that is telling people what is happening so when they see people pulled over people are aware why. one thing we heard in the focus groups is people don't think speeding is a problem in because no gets a speeding ticket in san francisco. which brings to a slight side but important one which is equity. wroo t i know issues around enforcement and equity and social justice

have come up a number of times. we are doing community outreach to make sure that they are aware what we are doing and make sure as we have high visibility enforcement in the larger enforcement operations going into communities there is a awareness what we are doing and worked with the community so make sure it is done in a way that is received positively because we want to make all communities receive the benefit the enforcement and don't want to do it there but very sensitive there are issues. part of our communications research was to fund a white paper on equity and vision zero through the vision zero net work. the draft is in comment circulation but center that in the next week or 2 and circument. two items is insureing we are aware of the impact of safety enforcement done tin communities especially athround national conversation and local

conversation relate today enforcement and also the impact of the citations and fines and fees that are charged when people get tickets and are work wg sfpd as a mart part of the program to make sure diversion programs and others are readily available and that people are aaware there are ways if don't want to pay the citation but have trouble paying the citation to pay off the citation and not have it-we never want a speed citation to be a trade off between feeding jour family and paying because you were driving too fast. on a higher level this is the first of our outdoor media, the kill with kindness, not with collisions. part of the broader vision veero plesage and it does rnt have to be this way message. this again focus groups were very positive on this image. they really liked the fact it seemed to talk about the vulnerability of pedestrians without blaming

anybody for that. they also liked the idea of it being asperational. we have founds in all the focus groups people are very proud of san francisco and really-not a surprise, but we are a place that people want to be great and so the more we can not chide but call on san franciscans to stand up and take pride and make safer streets people react very well with that. >> are these the bus stops? >> yes. is this just in english? >> this is currently in english only. we will have a chinese and spanish campaign as well. i'll explain why we had the that in a second because it is very important to this. additionally, we have the second campaign which is more of a problem in making the human connection. i want to be clear this is stock footage,

not san francisco and not a real person t is a model but we are working with a number of families. possible up to 3 to actually take photo's at intersections where they lost loved ones and developed these images and agreed to let them [inaudible] this is a very emotional and personal issue and so can't share where we are at but hoping in the next couple weeks to have that and we'll start to put those in the neighborhoods and around the areas where these collisions are happening. so, another campaign is the year of speed. the department of public health was successful getting a safety grant for antispeeding campaign. part of that program was some posters up and mta garages, reminding people that are out on the streets and had a good time, they are dribeing out of that neighborhood and returning to where they are and remember that there are other

people just like them in the community wanting to have a good time. we are not just doing advertising, we are also in the community talking to people. this is one of our other-we are doing outreach in chinese, spanish and english. one thing we are doing is collecting video stories from people talking about safe streets to share through the social media outlets. this takes a couple second said s to load up. >> [speaking spanish] >> as our outreaches team erize out we talked to over 1500 people one on one how they feel on the street right now to

envision streets where they feel safe and trying to envision if they are not feeling safe in the higher injury network streets what would that street feel like if it felt safe. trying to help people in vision not only there is a problem but there is a direction to go and they can think of places where safe streets exist and see it is possible. when you look at behavior change theory people have to really believe in their soul it is possible before they are willing to take the steps whether it is advocacy or slowing down. before they are willing to take the steps to make the changes. we are working oen partnership. we have a pilot running through this year and looking for small business partners who are going to be displaying vision zero and safe streets at their business squz hopefully also offering freebees. small

tokens of gratitude while people meet the outreach team. everybody is getting a reflective vision zero sf things and so if you go to to the copy shops partnering maybe you get 25 cents off a cup of coffee. we are working hard that it isn't just about free stuff. we are scg the business partners to make some sort of statement whether it is putting our materials at the front counter so people are really starting to see, it is not just the government or the advocates it is everybody at every leevl. level. >> quick question. we have dozens and dozens of community based organizations we work with and it is not just transportation but all of the city agencies that fund many of these groups and work with them, is there a idea of

actually having every 1 of the community based organizations that has a relationship with the city putting out information about vision zero? >> absolutely. i think we are two slides away from that. i also want to point out in the bottom slides, this is safe streets for seniors program, which kicked off this year engaging seniors in really becomes actively involved and advocating for safe streets in the communitiesfelt we are funding safe routes to school, bike education classes for adults and children, walk to work week, we do promotion around that as well. we are trying to engage in partnerships with private organizations. we talked to 1500 residents and the goal is talk to 2 thousand by theened the year and doing that in multiple languages and

throughout the city. >> when you do talk to the 2 thousand people, is it to get information or to educate them? >> i would say the primary is educate them and engage in thinking about safe streets but also are collected feed back about what they are hearing which is sent to the communications team and if issued are raised we pass them along whether enforcement or engineering folks. >> is there a subhch sub-set of people you talk to that are young people like high school kids? >> i will say the answer is yes . we are not picking and choosing who we are speaking to in a given space. we are not going out specifically and speaking directly to youth groups. we are engaging them

through some of the speakers training that we are doing. i think the youth commission had a number of people who went through that so looking to do that and work with public health and the school district. the school district sits on the education subcommittee and very involved. we have coordinating meeting once a month with mta and public health to get the vision zero language out to parents and students. alright. just a example of some of the social media we are doing. we are tweeting and putting things on facebook daily. we are trying to engage both in the there is a problem and are solution jz also celebrate successs the

city has and increasing our partnerships throughout the city to tell the stories of the various agencies that are supporting vision zero work. the speakers bruro training. we have a goal by the end of the year to have trained 250 community based organization leaders in how to talk about vision zero to engage in vision zero and to go back totheir group jz talk to their groups about vision zero. the idea is not bring people and tell them what vision zero is and hope they talk to people, but looking for people coming in spirfckly because they want to talk to their groups. we held i think 8 speaker bureaus training so far to date, we have one in chinese and spanish held in october and will continue a monthly training as we move forward to insure we not just get as many people in

as possible but as new people come to the table we bring those people in. we are also using the training as a way to build communications networks so as we have calls to action or good information we can actually-we have a network to reach out to not only to share the news with but who have networks of their own they can then share that news as well. in addition, 19 agencies and departments in the city have gone through the trainings as well. over 60 city staffer were trained in order to talk to coworkers and also community groups on this. um, so lastly, we have our research and talked about berkeley media studies and used written media as a proxy for community conversations to determine how people are talking about traffic safety for the first time ever we have actually worked with them for their first time ever. they are

doing a chinese media analysis. we just received our first nlsh report last friday, which will help us develop cultural comp tent creative for the vision zero chinese language campaign. it is very important not just to try to translate the english language, campaigns based on english language focus groups, we are findsing cultural differences in the way people talk about traffic safety. they did try to do analysis of spanish written media and think to everybodys surprise couldn't find articles about local traffic problems in the spanish media in san francisco. we are looking to fund hopefully research into radio and television to see where that is happening, the few storeies they found were much of a state and regional level and dealt with issues coming up in san hosay or the

region as well. the subcommittee on education we talked about thampt there are cultural reasons for that, but we are planning to do more research to make sure we develop campaign materials and messages that are speak toog the people that they are hearing and not assume because we talk to 24 people who are english speakers that those who spend much of their lives speaking spanish that is where they are engaging and coming from the same place. and that --quick wrap up. we have the chinese and spanish language campaigns developed through this fall and hopefully launch as we go into the new year. we are updating awareness campaign so the its stop here campaign is continued to put out and continue to be put out and looking to developing new images around that. the education strategy has the pedestrian yield safe speeds

and hopefully turning at intersections campaign will lead for years to come so we are really continuing to make sure people are aware of these issues and starting to take them in. we are starting new educational programs and materials. there is a new call for projects done for safe streets for seniors. families for safer streets. we are doing grassroots funding, mini grant contracts to fund groups to talk in their community about speed and effect of speed. and also we were successful receiving a new ots grant for motorcycle safety campaign which is the first time we have done education around motorcycle safety which is a very large prbl. more people die on motorcycles ever year than on bicycles every year in san francisco. we kill kick that off this fall. with that, any questions?

>> i have a-just curious, the education written material outreach, are you-i don't know if this is a problem or not or-but with these what do you call the-they are like taxi. >> tnc >> it seems like sthra lot of the drivers and seem like [inaudible] would it make any sense to do outreach with these companies to ask them to also be part of the solution? like give the information to any new drivers they recruit? >> absolutely. we started those conversations. we have been in conversation with lift and uber about driver training programs . lift hopefully will

roll out this fall agreed to offer all their drivers driving safely around people who bike and walk. the bike coalition helped develop the content and think it is good. uber is in the midst of developing that content and working i believe with bike coalition, walk san francisco and sfmta to at least get comments and also i know that they had a meeting with director riscon. i can't there so won't try to comment. it is on our radar and looking for ways to partner with them. >> another group might be tougher, but to maybe have discussion with the car rental companies also? >> that is on our list. we have so many things going we had to prioritize. we

haven't-every time we look into issues where we think out of town dreeurfbs are a big cause, i mean people not coming from the county bay area, we haven't found a huge amount. we surprise ourselves when the cable cars who are stopped must be out of town because they don't know and it turns out the citations are given for people in san francisco. we have efforts with the rental car companies but prioritization and staff resources it is on the things to do but haven't started. >> one last thing, in regards to posters, are there any plans to-every driver-all most every driver unless they are electric will go to gas stations. will there be postings at gas stations? >> we have been looking to use the digital networks mptd it is

a little more complicated than we initially thought but hoping next spring to be doing some messaging around that in those areas. definitely. a lot of the gas pumps have the screens that show commercials on it so we are looking to produce content possibly for that. >> or even having those signs put in their wall or whatever. >> absolutely. that is something i think we will-i'll go back after the meeting and make sure the outreach team is look toog do that. people who drive in san francisco, the digitalcome pains done one way that they can determine whether somebody drives is whether they are buying gas on their credit card. one of the creepier parts the technology companies out there but we are table to target our ads to people we know are drivering. we don't know. i have no idea who sees

the ador what they are doing, i want to be clear about that. but, that is who will directly receive our anti speeding campaigns is people we have a high belief are driving in san francisco because they are here. >> okay. thank you. any public comments on this matter? or did-no. seeing no public comments, public comment is closed. thank you for the presentation and information. call item number 5. >> iletm 5, vision zeer a projects and initiatives. this is information item. >> mr. maguire. >> good afternoon. tom maguire. sustainable streets dreblther ota director at sfmta. vision zero.org where

we put up a map portal showing all the high priority vision zero project frz the two year period. when we came in june we talked about prioritizing 57 projects that will reach mile stone squz completed in the next 2 years and will give a update especially things that got done and things on the horizon for completion this fall. talk about the next vision zero 2 year action strategy and maybe ask kate bren to give a update on the law enforcement. >> last june we have a on line portal mapping all the projects. per the request we got from you, we also put in a

downloaded table so people that don't want to click through the map can download the procts and get the latest and greatest information about where the projects are. highlights that took place this summer. we began construction on the masonic avenue streetscape project. [inaudible] tame traffic on a north/south street and aprive muni connectivity and aortbig thing we completed this summer, we installedal and turned out 4 radar speed back signs in your district supervisor yee, [inaudible] finally we cuck pleated construction of a new road and east bound bike lane on golden gate avenue. golden gate avenue, while we fulfilled the mile stone we said we would meet we know from the first few months it probably will need

more attention. we had violation of cars driving in the vike bike lane and continue to monitor that and look to make that more robust this fall. a few other projects in the interest of transaerns to talk about things we hoped we will get done this summer but in the fall instead. a few of the projects are slipping just most by a month or two, but will be done within this two year timeframe. broadway streetscape project we will break down next week. we hoped to get that started last month but will happen in september. the sutter street and webster street projects both are linked to much bigger utility and repaving projects as often the case in san francisco quh you try to fix utilities we pave

the road and introduce traffic calming safety measures and sometimes find things under er the road you don't expect. we believe we will be a nunth or two behind butd will get them done this winter. this fall we have things on the list we are excited to get done. [inaudible] bicycle and pedestrian network will be putting in the bike lanes and pedestrian treatment and [inaudible] we will get that done early fall ahead of scheduleism we have safe routes to school in the tenderloin. church street between larkin and hide, two high crash locations and make the streets much safer and break glound on the polk street streetscape projects. as you said last

time our list of projects is not just infrastructure. we have communications work john knox led us through. the most exciting thing happened in august is for the first time sfpd was able to meet the focus the 5 goals. in august 50 percent were issued for the 5 violations. that cause the most injurys and fatalities. it is great to see sfpd upping their game. we hope they will be able to continue that. couple other updates here. i won't go through all in detail, we have a few things coming up this fall including a motorcycle education campaign. motorcycle safety is a important part of vision zero.

disproportionly motorcycle riders fatalities and injurys considered how small a portion of traffic they make up in san francisco. backbone data and analysis to update high injury network and get the injury surveillance system up and running so we see the all those injurys coming through and understand the full scope of the safety issue. skip this slide and ask kate to come up in a moment. this is updating action strategy. hard to believe two years ago we came here to tell you about the first two year action strategy that kicked off in the spring of 2015. stwing of 2017 is coming up so need to refresh the stratany. we will meet to refresh the list in the fall and have a new list to bring in early 2017 and make sure we

have engagement with folks outside the city family. it is important it doesn't knb come a echo chamber among the agencies so will discuss at the vision zero task force meetings where we meet with the city agency squz hold a public meeting october 11 at city hall and that is a opportunity for anybody to get involved in san francisco. can you show up, share views where the city should put their injury and what ish oo ish issues to take on and have a opportunity for people to participate on line. next week we have our task force meetding where we meet with non city stakeholder jz get the publics view on how things are going with vision zero. october 11 is taskforce meeting and another meet ging

[inaudible] >> thank you for your report and also want to thank sfmta for doing projects that are not on the list that are completed i guess with these interactive speed radars in district 7. people are really happy about those. >> glad to hear it. >> okay, thank you. >> can i have my colleagues talk about the [inaudible] >> you may. >> good afternoon, kate breen, sfmta. we talked about the topic at veryious time squz think it is a good time to reflect at the end of the two year session that changing state law takes time and it is really only with sort of constant leadership and unwavering support on this particular issue from both the transportation authority, the board of supervisor jz the

mayor collectively we are able to continue to make progress. so, i thank you for that. really the work that we are doing on this and i'll just take this afternoon to share we are at, it is a campaign. we are guided working with the transportation authority staff and our own organization along with the advocates we meet on a biweekly basis to stay on track with the campaign we developed thmpt campaign itself is framed at with a solid understanding where historically the opposition on the use of cameras for enforcement lies and having those conver sations now. having those conversations obviously we started this last year, but we were not able to get a author in the past session. the session is over and looking towards a new two year legislative session and despite the fact august was a busy time for members of the legislature there were organizations we chose to sit

with early enough so we can hear their concerns and issues and do we have a place to reach an agreement and despite that busyness they expressed gratitude we were starting this early. when i say this early i feel i have been doing this a long time but resetting the clock toward the next session. i note as a side the transportation authority staff shared with us their tracking of vision zero interest and note there is complete alignment with the san francisco municipal transpor tation authority and over the past session that fall into the category of vision zero. looking forward we know the legislature has a macro interest in better road safety and safety for road users, it is trying to fit our efforts on vision zero and particularly on automated speed enforcement into that framework rather than having it seen as a out lier

proposing. the action that you took earlier today relative to support for the league on vision zero is a example of the kind of state wide effort we will need to establish a foundation of support with organizations that are either neutral or already in our camp so when legislation does come forward that is vision zero supportive, we have the ground work laid to go back to the the organizations and get them to weigh in. i'm happy to share more on the campaign. >> on that note, a number of us san francisco has seats on regional transportation agencies that also have their own legislative agendas, mtc, golden gate bridge and others are we talking to them to make sure they are making the issues priorities as they push in

sacramento and dc? >> we are doing . we asked for including support for vision zero related legislation in their legislative program and will do the same again this year. i like your suggestion about golden gate bridge. they run the bridge so have highway interests as well. i will make a specific point to reach out to that organization as wem. thank you. >> thank you. >> there are 4 that sit on the board. >> on golden gate bridge. ? great. thank you. >> your out reach to discuss the speed- >> automated speed enforcement? >> yeah, what are the concerns you are hearing. >> you know, it is interesting, palot of the concerns are ones that sort of follow this iges

issue. they center to do with privacy and data collection. those issues seem to be not as the forfront now and the at mosphere has changed around priferbacy. the fundamental issue tooz responds to is this a tool that proven that is about changing behavior and not about raising revenue or generating revenue for the general fund or for any other purpose other than covering the cost of the program and the to the extentd above and beyond put it [to safety investment. i would say that is number one. it is dependent what organization you are talking about, but traditionally motorist organizations have not been supportive, but if you sit down and talk about where those concerns lie, you start to peal back the presumptions and

preexisting positions that are not necessarily founded in fact. it st. the work to be done is the education that we have to do that is i think starting to make a difference. >> appreciate your effort and ever time we drive across the bridge and use fast track or whatever there is the same information that is collected anyway. >> thaurng. thank you. >> did i ask for public comment on this? come on up. >> good afternoon again commissioners. cathy delukea from walk san francisco. um, we are excited to see all the projecktds that are breaking ground and all the amazing communications work that being done around vision zero. i didn't speak about that but we are excited to see the vision

zero message getting across the city and raise aing awareness and hopefully change thg culture this is in our control. on the flip side, disappointed to see projects are delayed still. we have no time to waste, we are not getting closer to goal. disappointed we haven't got ase passed and worked on this with the city and still working hard but we really need this tool. we are look frgward to the two year action strategy. hopefully it will give a chance to change course and adjust what we are doing to pick things that are really having a impact so look forward-the department of public health is evaluating vision zero so looking what we are doing and what is working and not and hopefully we can use that data it be effective because we got to move. i would say anything you can do to help us move in your districts or as a city, we

really need your leadership. >> thaurng. any other pub luck comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item number 6. >> item 6, mayors executive directive on achieving vision zero. this is information item. >> good afternoon. luis, montoya the liverable streets director with sfmta. i want to talk about the mayors executive director. 19 people lost their lives on san francisco streets so far this year. june 22, we experienced two particularly horrific deaths of two woman bicycleing. one in golden gate park and one south of market area. in response to these ongoing the persistent traffic deaths we see, the mayor issued the executive directive to

refocus our efforts to give us specific goals to focus on in the near term and also make sure that we are focusing on the areas where the two women were killed. there are 13 areas and range from safety infrastructure on the streetss to also the education work you heard about today as well as making our city vehicles safer and making sure we educate our city workers. i want to talk about the various infrastructure measures in the executive directive. starting out the mayors has really set the bar high for us. saying we should be installing the highest achievable safety measures on the high injury networks. the high injury netdworks are the areas of san francisco where we know we have collision problems and we really need to make sure we are investing in the insfru

infrastructure. the mayor asked to increase the annual goal of mileage of saelft infrastructure on the streets from 13 miles to 18 miles. this is specific goal in the executive directive around protected bikeways to implement 3 projects in the near term for producted bikewaysism we are shooting for a number of more projects . this shows 13 miles of existing protective bikewaysism we have projects in the pipeline in soma, on the boarder with the mission, and these are really the-air eyes where we see a lot of craushs and growing bicycle in volume and want to take quick action to get the protective bikeways on the streets. here are updates on projicts we hope to take to the board this fall. they are under

interdepartmental review. we are haveic a public meeting for 7th and 8th street promect later this month and work with neighbors on the rest the projects in the next coming mupths. >> can i ask a quick question? how do we get-i'm interested getting more protective bikeways in district 9, how do we do that and encourage you to make sense to so many people the mission and district 9 and bruno height saz priority, how do we make that happen? >> we is a plan here and don't have a slide on it for investment in bicycle infrastructure throughout san francisco especially in the mission where there is a lot of bicycleing and collisions mptd our approach is to pick the corridors where we know want people to bicycle and go corridor by corridor and work with neighbors to figure the

most appropriate solution for those streets. i would say we will come to your office with our plans for investment in your district and have the conversation how to work with neighbors to figure how to get protective bikeways on the streets. >> great, we look forward to doing that, just let us know when i reedy to go. >> great. thank you. aums the silet also site of a tradagy june 22 is golden gate park. golden gate park is a tresh frr san francisco. a place for people bring their families from all around the region and the world. but the streets there are designed to allow speeding in many cases. they are overly wide or where there is not parking on the week days or evenings we see folks speeding through. we want to work with park stakeholders and neighbors around the park and rec and park department on a

hol istic plan to reduce speeding throughout the park and also reduce it as a attractive cut through for folks who are maybe cutting between the richmond and sunset or going east and west. as a near term measure as we kick off the larger conversation for safety in the park we will move forward immediately with a plan for speed humps on the western segment of jfk. where mrs. mills was killed. this is where we know there is speeding and we can do something because speed humps are very effective and proven to reduce speeding. we are doing what we can and hope to have the speed humps installed in november. >> how many? >> ten. >> where would it be again?

>> we are focus the first 10 speed humps between transverse and the great high way. and then like and said, through the communeky community process we will diss discuss if speed humps are appropriate for other parts of the park and other measures we can do throughout the park as well. also, as part the executive directive we are directed to do special analysis about the vulnerable street users youth, seniors and people with disabilities. where do the folks get hit and what can we do to help them? this will dove tail with programs we are doing with outreach. safe streets for seniors program which is ongoing and has funding thanks to add backs from the board of supervisor jz safe routes to school partnership which works with the school community

educate children and families and school stakeholders. this analysis will-along with outreach from those programs will advise the capital projects. where to do the safety invest ment, how to direct the safety programs to address the specific need of these vulnerable users. and lastly for today, just that the mayor calls to make sure we are transparent and that we are irk work wg communities on all these initiatives, so we will give regular project updates through this committee, but also on our website, through our board, making sure we give regular update ons the near term initiatives we are directed to achieve but also to give folk as chance to weigh in and share how we can do this better. thank you. >> okay. commissioners campos?

>> quick question. i know i have >> to run quickly, but i thank you to the mayor for the directive-executive directive. and that covers all city and countyagys and employees but doesn't cover all the government agencies, so wondering whether or not we have approached superintendent of schools, 115 schools. they have transportation and a number of things as well and also city college, the chancellor of whether we have asked them to issue a similar directive? >> yeah, that is a great idea. we have been work wg other like the port and other related groups but you are absolutely right, working with those

groups is great. >> thank you. any public comment on the item? come on up, jans. >> commissioners thank you so much for putting this on the agenda for today. obviously the event of june 22 were very difficult for everyone who lived in san francisco and there was a out cry of anger and frustration and lot of feelings that came out that i was copied on and you should have seen my inbox, about 1500 e-mails including 200 hand written letters to the mayor and so after a month long of conversations with the mayors aufs along with sfmt a and orelt others we are thrilled the mayor has taken a step but we know the hard work only begins now and incumbent on all to make sure the commitments are seen through and very pleased at what luis presented

to hurry up the projects. i think that is what we hear most is there a real need for the city to be more nimble and more responsive so we are glood glad to hear there is very data driven effort to make sure there is a comprehensive and strong way to make sure our streets are changing for the better and not just small changes but thinking about next generation of what our street design infrastructure can look like. so, i think here is the trying to figure out where the ta and commissions or board of supervisors can move the pieces forward and insureing [inaudible] are taken care of whether through legislation [inaudible] we appreciate your xhilt and the discussion here. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello again. cathsy dulukea from walk san francisco. i was

reminded walk san francisco and bike coalition are partners in the safe routes program and another partner is the school district so the person in the school district can talk to had superintendent and make the link so we'll work on that. in termoffs the mayors executive director we are excite today see the commit. no time like the present. we really need this. we are thrilled to #150e see the seniors and folks with disabilities prioritized. we started vision zero coalition to focus on these issues with the trashes on [inaudible] we will work with the city on identifying these hot spots and coming up with improvement said. the part the directive we are really really interested in is sth high quality safety infrastructure. we want to see that happen in real life. now we are not seeing that and a good example is the eltaraval project which includes a pilot

portion where boarding islands will not be included mpt . instead of that the city proposed painting some word on the travel lane that says, yield to pedestrians. that is not high quality infrastructure and won't keep people safe. that isn't in lie with the mayors directive so the city takes this directive seriously and builds robust projects that keep people safe. i always think my time is up when that happens, but it is not but i'm finished. j thank you. any oretd public comment? seeing none. public comment is closed. item 7. >> item 7, introduction of new items. >> none. any public comment on no items? seeing none

public comment is closed. item 8. >> general public comment. >> any general public comment? seeing none public comment is closed. item 9. >> item 9, adjournment. >> thank you very much everybody. [meeting adjourned]

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in the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag to the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> we want to welcome everyone who joined he this evening in person want for anyone that wishes to address the board of education i will request that you fill out one of speaker cards that looks like this in the hallway and once you fill them out be sure to note item you want to speak on and give them to our assistant. we won't do that after the meeting is called. first item is approval of the minutes. >> so moved. >> second. >> roll call vote.

>> [inaudible] >> ms. fewer. >> here. >> ms. mendoza mcdonnell. >> yes. >> [inaudible] >> ms. norton. >> yes. >> mr. walton. >> yes. >> [inaudible] >> mr. haney. >> yes. seven aye's. >> the next item is the interim superintendent report and the first one. >> thank you mr. haney and if i commissioners would indulge me tonight i wanted to share some perspective as i take the roll of the interim superintendent for the first time officially in this board meeting tonight so this is an usually long comments on my part and i want to do it in two part and one is share some broad perspective and also some

exciting reports about two events, one of which took place earlier this week last night and another one on saturday both at mission high school as part of the african-american and leadership initiative and first i want to start by thanking (audio is not clear) and i want to thank superintendent carranza for his leadership and he has left an indelible imprint on the district and senior staff and on me as well and i want to say [inaudible] in his leadership over the four years as superintendent and the seven years he has been with us total he has given voice to our values and really he called on us to take action to change the life course for all of our students for the better and especially

for those who are most vulnerable in our schools. i also want to thank all of the commissioners for your support and encouragement for me and over the last several weeks. i definitely needed to be pushed to step into this role and it's meant a great deal to have your confidence and support and practical support in a lot of ways want. i was in a comfortable zone and superintendent for policy and operations for several years and my husband mark thinks i am crazy [inaudible] former job was a comfortable one but compared to what the last month of have felt like it feels like a comfortable memory and one that i am going to happily return to so i have to say being called

upon to serve in this role has been extremely humbling. it is not something that i spent a lot of time thinking about or planning and it's been frankly a little bit nerve racking and certainly humbling and at the same time i think [inaudible] with a clear eye and profound sense of responsibility. (audio is not clear). there is little as i can as far as to say about the big picture how this experience is. i want to thank all of our central office colleagues, the superintendent's leadership team, all of the department heads, all of the folks that we worked closely together for years. i want to thank the site leaders. i definitely feel your support in this time of transition. our partners, parents, community

organizations, community leaders, the mayor, elected officials, philanthropic partners, business partners, so many individuals and organizations have extended themselves so generously to support the district and the team and also me in particular, so it really does feel like we're in this together and we all want the same thing. we want a better future for the students we serve and a more just society where everyone prospers from the collective well being so i definitely feel that. i want to comment on the big picture which to me is a profile [inaudible] which all of us -- most of us worked for quite a long time to develop together and this was a community wide effort, and to me the graduate profile is the

center piece of vision 2025, and there are some copies for those in the audience who have not seen this document before. there's copy of the graduate profile available for you so it's a clear compelling and inspiring statement of the hopes that we have all for our students and a definition by which we measure our own success as educators. and in a nutshell we see in the profile a statement of all of our graduates and following. one, master of content knowledge, critical thinking skills and webcor state comp pentancies. two -- [inaudible] (audio is not clear) three, global local and digital identity to engage in the 21st century global society that is interconnected and inclusive. number 4, leadership

empathy and collaboration and the ability to positively influence others. number 5, creativity, the freedom and confidence and ability to express themselves and finally in no particular order but they're all of equal importance. last but not least a sense of purpose and self to see themselves filled with purpose and values. that's what we're committing to for all of our students so some wonder whether our school in our districts care about all students [inaudible] whether we're only concerned with closing achievements rather than serving all students to get their highest potential. although this is tough to hear this is feedback but i want to reassure you plan to challenge and inspire and support every child, not just some. what i find powerful about being 2025

and our graduate profile is we state an ambitious and high vision for all students if achieved will enable them to succeed in our increasingly complex world. we're making changes in computer science k-12 to travel, increasing technology, arts education offered everyday for every student and school and expanded resources for career and college readiness. at the same time however we know that students need different types of support to achieve this ambitious vision. in sfusd we study the work of uc berkeley work of professor john a powell who wrote about structural racism and targeted generallism among other things. here is a

definition racism from the aspen institute (paused) to perpetuate inequity. it's not something that a few people or institutions choose to practice. instead it is been a feature of the social economic and political systems in which we all exist." in san francisco and in sfusd we see signs of structural racism all too often. more over this is a broader pattern of systemic oppression which we use the term in our district which is very good and empower to see, so the patterns include systemic oppression based on gender, language, immigration history,

disabilities, sexual orientation, religion and class and many other aspect of identity and difference. we are not immune from this oppression just because we live in san francisco and we have a special responsibility to combat it intentionally. targeted universalism is one strategy we can pursue to do this. here's professor's definition of this. "this is an approach that supports the needs of the particular while reminding us we're all part of the same social fabric. targeted universalism targets blanket universal that different groups are situated differently relative to the institutions and resources of society. it also rejects the claim of formal equality that would treat all people the say as a way of denying difference". in other words, because the playing field is not level we

must act intentionally to support the most vulnerable and marginalized among us. picture any student and every student at the center of our graduate profile and let's picture what it takes for us to deliver that promise to her or him. it's almost overwhelming to imagine and yet it is our responsibility. to that point i have to thank all of the incredibly hard working staff who work in our schools and our district in our departments. thomas edison said and deputy superintendent gar arrow and i think he will like the quote vision without execution is hallucination." as grand as the vision is achieving it depends on the abilities, dedication hearts and minds of our teachers, para-professionals, site leaders social workers and

counselors and facility staff, nutrition staff, district office teams and all other sfusd employees. our ability to support our students has been closely linked to how well we support our staff. we know this. now, as cost of housing and cost of living run away from us we have to work harder to convey how much we appreciate and value our employees including by making it possible for them to stay in our district. the issue of funding is a challenge for our district and we help in this. remember that the state's funding formula doesn't care about cost of living and it's the same for san francisco as it is for bakersfield. still we have to whatever we can while living within our means and also trying to make the budgetary pie bigger. my plea to every member of the know sfusd family is to remember even during tough

times which might be ahead of us that we're all in this together. we also need to thank and want to thank the many businesses, foundations, community organizations and individuals that are investing in and working in our schools. many of you have been in our dug out -- that's a giants reference -- for years and others joined us during the super's tenure. we are grateful on to all of you and need you to stay engaged with us. i want to thank the guardians and students -- parents guardians and students of sfusd. you are the reason that we get up in the morning and often work until late at night. we know your lives are getting busier and more complicated. thank you for keeping faith with us despite our challenges and yours. and although we work hard we know we don't have all the answers and we need your voices, ideas and passion to keep getting better.

end of part one. [laughter] so thank you for hearing me out as -- >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> yes, i am coming out of my shell a little bit so now i would like to comment on two fantastic events that are taking place and/or took place this week. so yesterday evening i had the pleasure of attending sfusd 17th historically black universities and colleges recruitment at mission high school. it was maze. over 150 people attended this event and colleges and universities. official representatives recruited college bound students on site during the event. students had the opportunity to receive preliminary on the spot admissions scholarships and financial aid information and face-to-face exposure with the

historically black institutions in the united states. last year four students received the maximum scholarship of $68,000 on the spot. i saw this happening to two of those four students. the evening was sponsored by the san francisco alliance for black school educators. thank you to mission school for hosting and all the staff that attended and thank you to the african-american achievement and leadership team who supported the event as well. second this saturday september 17 also at mission high school from 930 to three p.m. and the fourth annual black career and college readiness day and families can sign up after school programs and resources as well as youth jobs plus paid internships. there are parent and teen workshops throughout the day and the event is free as part of sfusd's african-american

achievement leadership initiative and works in partnership with african-american families, community based organizations, philanthropic partners and the city of san francisco to maximize resources and support for our african-american students. this event is also free and open to the public. the first 300 registered guests will be served a buff lay brunch and it's really good. if you have questions or would like to rsvf call (415)241-6121 extension 3355 or email aapac at sfusd. edu. or apac at sfusd. edu. the event is altmission school on 18th street and limited shuffle buses from various

locations and the african-american art and cultural complex. hope to see you there. thank you. >> i want to say on behalf of the board we couldn't have more confidence in trust in your leadership and i know we're completely united behind you and thankful and i knew it took a little urging but thankful you stepped forward. this board and district has come to know you and how committed you are to our students and i think your humility and integrity and commitment is going to continue the progress that we have seen in this district and we're fully confident of where we are and going under your leadership as interim superintendent so thank you for taking on this responsibility. we are grateful and the families of the district are grateful and confident of your leadership during this time. thank you. do any of the board members? >> ditto. >> ditto. >> okay. all right. thank

you. and as superintendent you can speak for as long as you want. that's one of the things you get to do. all right item c recognitions and resolutions of commendation. there are none tonight. item d student delegate's report and eng and zaragoza. >> good evening we would like to president superintendent lee into the role and look forward to working with you this year. thank you. so this past weekend we hold our three day leadership retreat training and it went super well. we went two hours from san francisco to sonoma and our student advisory council got to bond with each other and build relationships most important break down our groups within schools so different schools were talking to each other and returning and new

students and it definitely went well. we want to thank salvador and ms. [inaudible] from being our chaperons and spending the day with a lot of young people and for supporting and promoting -- giving us the opportunity to go camping. it's not always that san francisco students get to do this often but it went really well. >> so did anyone feel the earthquake yesterday? the fcc recently partnered with the san francisco department of emergency management so they spoke to us about coordinating with the fcc in developing a natural disaster program that is student and family friendly and then we formed our council committees yesterday so one of the committees we formed was the health committee. some of the projects they're working on

year include fellow students heart project which hosts holiday gift drives for students in san francisco. the teams tackling tobacco leadership and make sure back and doing awareness videos as well as [inaudible] garden project and the sfusd sfpd memorandum of understanding project. in addition we had the special city and school district committees so the projects included under this category are the vote 16 initiative,out commissioners ambassadors project and a partnership and children our families partnership. finally for me we have the budget and legal committee which members on this committee serve on the lcap and the [inaudible] >> lastly we have the social justice and curriculum committee

and bringing undocumented immigrants i am taking a lead and improving resources and for undocumented students in sfusd. second cultural awareness education program which is being aware about the student's background in that -- having more of a safe environment for them. lastly student dress code project with commissioner murase on making the dress code less gender strict and president haney commented on that. second we're talking about immigrant parents to vote act. we had the discussion yesterday and about the student council meeting and now just a little fact that we have for you guys that more than three -- children attending sfusd have an immigrant parent.

our student voice is to provide support to sf resident who is are legally voting age and whose families in the school community to vote in elections in education regardless whether the family member is a u.s. citizen. really that is our opinion about it was that we really are looking forward to this because a lot of the students it is the right for us for education but it's important for parents like other citizens to say what kind of education and who is leading the education of the students so we're looking forward for this. >> we have a couple more. so we learned about the sfusd youth work internship and will share the information with their classmates so it provides high school students with real office experience and mentors so students will lead the

internship terns tern skill sets and confidence level so if you're interesting in having a mentor talk to salvador lopez or the fcc. >> almost done. [inaudible] political -- campaigning yesterday. we had guest -- commissioner fewer and general counsel. we had a conversation about student rights and our current -- we discuss our current policy on freedom of speech and expression and it went really well. answered students from the students for future and past reference and thank you for being our guest yesterday and we're appointing to public education enrichment community advisory council known as [inaudible] -- junior from lowell high school, belmont

senior from washington high school and -- >> for my appointments it's going to be julian who say senior at lowell high school and mica who say senior at walenberg. that's it for our report. the next meeting is september 22 in the board room at 5:00 o'clock. it's a public council and anyone is welcome to attend our meetings and give comment. if you would like to attend make a presentation or would like a copy of our agenda please contact sal who is our coordinator. thank you. >> thank you. great report. any questions or comments from the board? all right. seeing none item e advisory committee reports and appointments to advisory the committees by board members. we have a parent from the parent advisory council. can i have the pac

representative. >> good evening commissioners, president haney, and superintendent leigh welcome. congratulations on your post. sharon zang past member was going to present the report but she's hope sick. i hope you get better soon. i am the coordinator for the parent advisory council and the role of the parent advisory council is to present parent voices and perspectives to help inform the board discussions and decision making process. this evening report's is very brief since we don't meet over the summer and we're just getting started with our work. typically we invite the superintendent of schools to the first meeting to hear about the district's top priorities and any changes happening in the district to help inform our work and setting our own priorities. with superintendent richard

carranza announcing his depart our members had a lot of questions and reaching out to me wondering about the process and had questions what is the process for recruiting and choosing a new superintendent? will parents and families be part of that process? and what other structural changes are happening in the district that they know about this year? we want to thank superintendent leigh for coming to the pac meeting and joining us and answering questions and providing an outline about the search for a new superintendent including presenting a general time frame as well as the board's process to draft requests for qualifications for a superintendent search firm. we look forward to hearing more about this process as it develops and in particular pac members are interested to hear about the community engagement piece. we had the first

meeting on august 24 and during this meeting we also looked at student achievement data also looking at our student demographics, patterns and trends to set our priorities for the year. we will be continuing this. tomorrow we have the next pac meeting. we will continue setting our priorities and defining our project teams for the year. we also will be -- tomorrow at our meeting we're having dr. cashin from the assessment office of achievement come to present on the companion documents that go with the new standard base report cards being implemented this season so pac can give feedback on those documents and so we want to welcome her to the meeting tomorrow. another area that we're going to continue this year is collaborating with the accountability task force. we had our first meeting on

august 30, and we will be meeting again on september 29 upstairs in the cafeteria here from four to 530 and the pac is committed to improving the community engagement process, and to implementing the equity based funding formula that the state has decided upon and that's it. >> thank you. any questions or comments from the board? thank you. thanks for stepping in. item f public comment on consent items. i did not receive any. item g, can i have i motion and a second on the consent calendar. >> so moved.

>> second. >> any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? >> mr. steel. >> thank you superintendent leigh. yes we do tonight. the first correction is to resolution on page 232 of your agendas name of consultant corrected to read mcgraw hill school education llc-alex.com [inaudible].com. also withdrawn from the consent calendar is on page 236 of your agendas and also withdrawn is online resolutions k-14 on page 266 and 268. >> thank you. any items removed for first reading by the board? any items severed by the superintendent of discussion and vote? commissioner ms. mendoza mcdonnell. >> thank you. i had a

question on the k-23 through 27 and k-31. >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> oh for later. i apologize. i thought you were looking up to respond. sorry about that. a roll call vote will take place -- >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> okay. it's hard to find i guess. item h superintendent's proposals we have one. this was moved and seconded on august 9,

2016. superintendent leigh. >> yes. general counsel danielle houck is going to present the item. >> i would never presume to steal mr. davis' thunder. this is his item. >> mr. davis. >> you're always welcome. [laughter] thank you. we have superintendent's proposal 168-9sp3 and policies 0420..4, and .41 and 42 and 43 and they're policies covering the district's roles and responsibilities and occur a petition to renew a charter school in the district and the oversight responsibilities for charter schools that this board authorizes and the charter school revocation process.

these were presented in an earlier board meeting in august. they went to the rules committee in august on august 17, and the rules committee recommended some changes to the proposed policies which we have done and we are bringing them back for adoption tonight. >> thank you. i have no public speakers signed up. do we have any comments or questions from the board? commissioner. >> thank you. excuse me. a couple of things i wanted just to say that i am glad this as part of the policy review we're doing this and having these three distinct policies that we can follow and i want to -- i just want to read a couple of things from the first one and point out that we actually should follow these more closely than we do in my opinion. so

it says in the first one under all of petition "the board shall approve the charter petition if consistent with sound educational practice and the board shall give preference to schools providing comprehensive learning experiences for academically low achieving students by standards by the california department of public health and further. >> >> department of education and the board should ensure that the charter has adequate processes and measures to hold the school accountable for the charter and i could read a few things from the denial list of denial issues that we're supposed to look at but i am really doing this just to point out they think we -- by the way i think everybody else in the state too has gotten complacent by saying it meets the low standards and approve or don't think about that in

monitoring or consideration of revocation that we don't do that. we think it's an automatic process and in reading these in preparation for tonight it occurred to me that we kind of never talk about those things when a charter petition or renewal comes before us and most are renewals and don't actually say so. what do we mean by a sound educational practice and how does this comply with that? i don't think we take our responsibility in this area as seriously as we should. that's really my only comment and i just want to thank the staff as part of the policy review carefully reviewing our policies and bringing them up to dea.d i think it's very important. thank you. >> commissionerrer fewer. >> thank you. this policy mirrors what state law states. is that correct? it doesn't. >> beyond the law but updated to include everything up-to-date

what is through the ed code or state law. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> pose pose. ms. mendoza mcdonnell. >> thank you. on the items and pursuant to and outs and accounting principles. is it during the annually and presented annually now? so when we have -- if we wanted to revoke at any time what's the typical trigger for that? because we don't i mean is it after -- we haven't had that come up so i am just curious is it after there are complaints and there's a review or now we're going to be looking at annual outcomes for charters and not wait until their renewals are up or what will it look like going forward? >> so a couple of things.

during a review of a new charter petition or a review of a renewal of existing charter we look at those criteria and present the evidence to you as to whether or not they meet the criteria. if we receive evidence during the term of a charter that any of those things are occurring then it's our responsibility to present that evidence to you and then you would make a finding for revocation and we have to go through that process which is outlined in the last policy on revocation and then the last thing is under our current lcff lcap rubric the charter schools present to us every year their lcap and their budget and we have to review that and make sure they're making progress according to what they said they would do in their charter petition so for example we have

the lcaps for this current year that were presented in july and we are reviewing those right now, and so the aim is to give you a report of the progress that they're making or not making in that regard. >> i have one quick question mr. davis. i notice under all of a petition and grant a charter for a specified term not to exceed five years per the education code. are we able it to grant a charter for less than five years so the may board in renewal or whether it's a new charter may we have the option to grant a renewal for two years or three years? >> so yes in the case of a new charter as you just read. it could be up to five years but in the case of a renewal unless you fwiend that it shouldn't be

renewed a renewal has to be for five years. >> commissioner murase. >> thank you. in the rules committee discussion we talked about one issue that came up in one of the renewals and the alignment of the enrollment with the school districts' enrollment calendar. is that in the administrative regs and not the policy? i want to know where that is. >> yes we have draft regulatory laigzs to back up the policies and we put provisions in the mous that the charters sign with us that state that is the case. >> seeing no additional questions or comments roll call vote. >> thank you. ms. eng. >> yes.

>> (calling roll). >> dr. murase. >> aye. >> ms. norton. >> yes. >> mr. walton. >> yes. >> ms. wynns. >> aye. >> mr. haney. >> seven aye's. >> moving on to i. board member proposals. there are none tonight. item j public comment on general matters. i want to make sure everyone that wanted to speak got their card in so i will call folks up in batches and each individual speaker will come up here and you will be given two minutes to speak. i'm going to call first the set of folks from francis scott key. [calling speaker names]

you have two minutes each. and i know you all i think you all know this but if it's about an individual person make sure you don't say anybody's name. i think you know that but just a reminder. >> my name is michelleling and i am actually representing another parent who couldn't make it this evening. her name is anna wong and this is regarding a concern that we have at our school about a particular teacher. as you can see could

all of sfk stand up quickly. this concerns us deeply and we wanted to show you how much this concerns us. thank you. on behalf of the anna wong this is her letter" my name is anna wong and my son is a 4th grader and i want to share my concerns in his classroom. some of the incidents i have learned include but not limited to the following. my son told me his teacher told the class they cannot explore and eat expired food from the emergency kits from earthquakes during the first week of school and they ated food. my son receives little lesson time in class and told to read and play games.

my son receives little or no homework assignments and no spelling list. i have to resort of asking other parents in their classes to share work with my son. a parent from my son's classroom because their teacher was not there and the new teacher was not prepared. finally there are some serious concerns with this teacher may pose a teacher to himself and worse to the children. there are long-term psychological impact on my son and the children witnessing this. while it is a start to have another teacher and a social worker in the classroom to ensure the safety of children it is not enough. my son's class need a full time teacher to teach and inspire them to learn. it is said that education is the key to success of life and teachers make an last being impact on

class and they deserve i positive impact in their lives and i hope the lasting impact is a positive one and not leave the children with fearful and uncertainty in the learning environment. >> on the first day of school i drank expired water from 2009 and my friend ate expired food. our teacher said "try it. be adverntious." on friday he talked us to for an hour about behavior and did it again on monday. my teacher call the police during class just to scare us. today i had nine pages of math. some was hard because he never taught us how to do it. he yells in class a lot. we spend many days having

free play, an hour or more and we make these. we don't feel safe in his class. isn't your duty to make sure we have a safe class where we can learn? don't we deserve an education? don't you care about our lives? lives. [applause] . >> hi. i am andrew adams and one of the parntsdzs and i was at the same forum a few weeks ago raising the same issue and concerns with the teacher. there have been some changes since then and as alluded we have two credential teachers in the classroom. all of the parents have been offered counseling for their children to

handle stress and as we can see the other aspect is learning is still continuing not to happen so the fact we're being offered -- you know there is a second teacher in the class. we're being offered effectively counseling for the students and the district knows this is a problem and my question is what will it take to resolve this problem because we can see it's having tremendous impact certainly on my child and all the parents here. we're here for a reason and deeply concerned and need you to act and act quickly. we're four weeks into the session and the children are struggling and i am repeating what i said. we need your help and address the core problem which is this teacher. we appreciate the addition of a second teacher and counseling but you're not solving the problem. you're simply -- i'm not sure what we're resolving but we need it fixed and need

it fixed quickly. thank you. [applause] >> my name is jennifer trip and the mom of two students at francis scott key. my daughter is getting a great education and my son is subject to abuse and retaliation everyday and the teacher encouraged them to lie to the parents and asked them what the religion is and stories of over weight and unattractive people and encouraged violence and made them afraid and called the police one day and didn't show up one day and left them with mow plan and failed to respond to the parents about concerns in the class and failed to speak us when approached he failed up hold the staff responds in the sfusd handout and because of that every one of the rights in the handbook are being violated. you see a lot

of parent and students here and they're disaired and will retaliate against the children if they show up in tv. superintendent leigh gave us a talk about action and without all of the stories are true and happening and they're crazy but it's true so what we need tonight is action. we need resolution and we need it now for these students and for these families. [applause] >> hi. my name is savan pang and a parent of this particular classroom. i will keep it short and simple in the words of my daughter she says "please save this classroom. it's falling apart" and we need you to act now and don't fail the kids. it hurts me everyday to see her --

she's not interested. there is no love for school. she's a great child. she's never caused trouble. she's a great kid and to see her struggle it breaks my heart so we're asking for your help. please don't disappoint the children. thank you. [applause] >> my name is charlie and i am in the fourth grade in room 218 at francis scott key. i really want to like everything about school but now that's hard. i want a teacher that will teach that will teach and care. i don't want to be scared of my teacher. all i want to do is learn. [applause] >> my name is molly. my

parents michelle and brian talked to you about a month ago how i was feeling unsafe about going to school. i love school but now i am afraid to g i miss having a nice teacher and learning fun things. you can see most of my class is here and we want to show you how we feel. [applause] >> i am reading this for albert who cannot be here. my name is alert and my son is a fourth grader in sfk. i have been a sfusd teacher for over 30 years i find the behavior of my son's teacher unacceptable and detrimental to the welfare of the children in the classroom. as a teacher it is our duty to provide moral support and inspire our children to learn. i have not seen either in my son's classroom. my son comes home with little or no homework and does not receive graded

papers. i see a lack of concern in my son's academic and social progress. i always see a lack of interest in my son's academic learning. my son told me his teacher said it was okay to eat the food from the emergency kit from last year and he ate the food from the kit. this posed a risk of harm to the children and a lack of good judgment on part of this teacher. my son also told me his teacher called the police on himself and asked to be taken away in handcuff. this is completely unacceptable. and caused confusion and fear for the children and long-term impact on their perception towards teachers in general the teacher told the class he got beat up by bullies and someone else he was beaten up by the police and his friends are leaving to be home schooled and

he is confused and sad. we have a professional duty to ensure the physical safety of students and provide a classroom environment in which students can learn and feel physically and emotionally secure. i am very concerned that my son is not getting that from his class. i believe this teacher's behavior poses a risk for physical safety and negative long-term psychological harm for my son and classmates who are witnessing the bizarre and unacceptable behaviors from their teacher. i strongly urge you and the principal at sfk to collaborate and work out a plan quickly and provide a full time teacher to teach and inspire our children to learn. thank you for your time and i would like to read something for myself. dear superintendent leigh and the board of education i appreciate your e reply to the email and that another teacher

and social worker have been assigned to ensure safety and additional support. it is really a bandaide over a very serious problem. the primary teacher is still there and this will not solve the issues nor does it ensure safety as you heard yourself from the testimony from parents and students. there is a problem not of our own doing. the district knowingly assigned this teacher to sfk. we have been asked to document all that has gone on. we have done so in spite of our own busy schedules. we of course supporting our children in this fourth grade class in ways that we shouldn't be doing. this is a problem that the district must solve. our children are paying the price and yet it seems that the district is playing it safe in

order to protect the system. the solution that the district come up with thus far can go on for months and we cannot wait months. we as parents are frustrated and angry. we want the district to take action now and replace the teacher. what are you waiting for? [applause] >> my name is david williams. i have been a paraprofessional and a substitute teacher for 30 years for the school district. i have been an enthusiastic teacher of the school radio station which celebrated its 75th birthday however i have major objection to the way this station doesn't serve the school. beyond having -- >> sir, i have -- >> we don't get action from the station. >> sir, i didn't call your name. >> all right. i gave it to

the lady. i gave her the slip. do i need to do anything else? >> she has to give it to me. >> i didn't anybody in line. >> i call them up in groups. >> okay. >> do you want on to say anything about -- [inaudible] >> so all i will say to the parents, the families that are here from fran francis scott key and i suspect many were on the email that i sent yesterday in response to some of the concerns, and we can't go into a tremendous amount of detail but i want to assure everyone we are taking -- we are very closely attuned to the situation in room 218. it has our full attention and we are working as i said in my email very purposefully to