sustainable future . >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for

bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the

program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building

236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv.or

>> city of san francisco >> >> good afternoon, everyone, thank you for joining us today. this is the regular meeting for the budget and finance committee. my name is supervisor malia cohen:. to my left is >>supervisor katy tang: and >>supervisor jane kim: and we'll be joined by supervisor yee. >> ms. wong, any comments? >> yes, please silence all of your

electronic devices. item no. 1. >> hearing on the proposed 5-year financial plan and the mayor's office to report. >> supervisor malia cohen: we'll be hearing from the mayor's office and the legislative analyst report. with that, i would like to turn to the mayor's budget office to kickoff the hearing. thank you. >> sf govtv please turn the mic on. >> thank you members of the budget and finance committee. i'm the budget director and we have the controllers office. and dan from the budget and legislative analyst office and all three of us are available to take any questions that you may have on this presentation. as you all know, we put out the 5-year financial plan in december, the draft and now we are

writing an update to that report. and, we actually just presented a few weeks ago the report from this december. we have a little update for you today. this presentation will cover the march report update, specifically the deficit projection, the drivers. risks, recession scenario and federal and state funding and end our presentation with a note about our upcoming budget and the budget office. this is an update from the fall report. all three financial offices, the mayor's office, board of supervisors and controller get together and put together these numbers and they stand for projections. if we make no policies changes and we project them forward with reasonable financial sound for inflation, what would our revenue and

expenditures be and our deficits and surpluses. our report is projecting deficits. we'll explain why. the budget that we will be balancing and submitting to you all on june 1st, the deficits have gone down and in the 3 years they have gone up slightly and we'll go into why that is because that is something we are paying close attention to. the cumulative define assist is not 288. this deficit assumes the midyear rebalancing plan as well as changes to the free city college program and the public defenders office that we have discussed with the board of supervisors. there are no loses from the state or federal government assumed here. and as a reminder from the federal select committee, 20% of the city's revenues are from state and federal sources. we think there is too much uncertainty at this time to make any clear conclusions on what type of

funding might be lost and we will continue to work with the federal committee on that. here is a table showing the very high level numbers which i'm going to spend a couple minutes on. the first line shows you revenue projected from the current year 16-17 budget through fiscal year 21-22. we are showing projecting growth $541 million from where our budget is today and this is all general fund revenues. on the expenditure side, expenditures will go up by $1.4 billion. >> i'm sorry, one more time and a little bit slower. going back, baseline reserve is that fiscal year is 54.1. >> yes, let me go through each. the high level is the sources and the uses line. the sources line is showing you a positive number is good, a positive number of growing revenue, a

negative number is parenthesis is bad. if you take all the uses together that would get you to 144.847. if you add that $1.4 billion in expenditure growth to the positive 100 million revenue growth that would give you the projective growth. these are cumulative numbers. this is assuming that all cost grow in cumulative way so, for example in salaries and benefits that city employees have a cost increase or wage increase every year at the cost of either a negotiated contractor inflation. that negotiate contract is 2 years with the extension that you heard about which is about 3% in each year and out years we assume inflation. one of the years is inflation is projected to

increase.. that's one change. and then for your question on baseline and reserves, this is for 15-16 to $100 million today about 15% of expenditure growth of projected $1.4 billion. salary is expected to grow $1.2 million. citywide cost is projected to grow by $450 million. and departmental cost about $52 million. >> any questions on any of that? >> no. thank you. >> just a note now on what are the big highlights are this compared to december. the most important thing is we started with a projected deficit for the upcoming 2 years about $402 million. then the 6-month

report came out one time savings in departmental and revenues about $54 million. that brought up our updated projected shortfall to 48. this brings it down by 60 million. the biggest things are one time revenue on the fund balance and the capital draft when we put out this report and we didn't know what the debt schedule would be and the new debt schedule on the capital plan put back specifically the jail replacement project. instead of hitting the next 2 years for that project, it's now been pushed out and put on hold as the city figures out what are the next steps on that project. that means basically the next 2 years there is less cost depending on whether or not the city moves forward would be out on the out years. that is one big change on the

first 2 years. we also thought it was important to call out your five because your financial offices are very concerned about the long-term structural picture. it went down in the fifth year and the same amount in the first two. a large part because of some debt service cost are pushed out and a lot are one time thing. one time fund balance, one time savings and things that help us right now but are not on going. that's part of what's going on here and in the out years, some of our cost went up with inflation projected to be about 3% in the out years and now projected to be close to 3.5% in the out years. also because of the uncertainty in the affordable care act, the house is telling us because of the percent in growth for 7% for

retirees, we should project 8% for active and 9% for retirees. we are projecting a significant increase around employees for their healthcare benefits. those are the things that push the out years number up even though the next two budget years went down. any questions on any of that? >> no. >> i'm going to hand it over to michelle. >> good afternoon, michelle, controllers office. so this is a 5-year financial plan that we have produced. and this table is just showing you that in the year that that plan was produced, that the tale year of the projection, the deficits have been coming down and in our most recent report which is the darker green bar our deficit projection has increased for a number of reasons. the first is where we are in

the economic cycle. we kind of reached a period of slow growth of plateauing slow growth and we are seeing decline in some of our revenues such as parking tax, sales tax is quite flat, etc. so that's the thing on the revenue side. at the same time, health and pension cost are growing much more than rapid inflation. instead of increasing interest rates, a lot of macro economic reasons for that. another reason that i will get to in a second as well is the growth in spending a voter mandated through baseline and set aside through ballot and approved by voters that constrain future choices and increase our cost. as mentioned a use of one

time fund balance not available in subsequent years. so, i think this chart is worth spending a little bit of time on. what we are trying to show here is the thin black line at the top of the chart at the nominal value of projected revenue growth. an we are saying, let's look at the things that are soaking up that revenue growth because we are not projecting a recession because we don't do that and we wouldn't do that. but we do project modest revenue growth and there is a couple of large cost types that are absorbing most of that growth in revenue. the dark shaded area at the bottom, those are cost increases that are the result of voter approved measures. the value of those, by the fifth year of the projection taking up about 45% of

the revenue growth. the next sort of the middle blue section is growth in employee benefit cost. so pension and health especially health increasing several times at the rate of inflation, not only for current employees but retirees as well. the portion of that left over for any other type of expense includes employees or cbo colas or investments in technology or other things the board might choose, new programs or expanded services. the amount of revenue growth available beyond that is that very light blue section. it's very limited, about 9% of the growth, but that fifth year is available for all other uses aside from these two kind. and i did mention that our

report, we don't predict a recession because nobody can. it's not something any economist would do even. i think we've shown this chart before. what it says if we look at whenever -- where we are in the economic cycle, are we going to get out of the 5-year period without a recession. we don't think that's really likely if we look at the past 100 years of history. each one these blue bars is the economic recovery. we started in june 2009. it's actually a little bit longer because this chart is maybe about 5 months old. what it's showing is we have already passed the average. if we don't have a recession in this time period, it would be the longest recovery that we've measured

and the question is whether you think it's likely or not. but nobody can time it, but our experience says we should be cautious but nobody can predict it with certainty. so, to give a framework for what that could mean, we looked at, we did a recession scenario where if we did have a recession to begin at the end of the fiscal year and the loses in revenue were similar to the loses in the last two recessions if the rates have declined like the last two just for economic, that we would estimate a

revenue shortfall about $960 million. the city has taken steps is to build the economic stabilization to help -- cushion this. as there is a lot of uncertainty at this time especially with the federal proposals and we discussed last week at the committee of how little detail there is available. really in the president's skinny budget is what we can attach a number to is the limitation of cdbg home grants which is about $21 million to the city if they come true.

and we'll have more information in may when his updated budget is proposed and of course that will go through congress and be approved back to refer possibly although they don't have a very timely process often. we do know a little bit more about state proposals and we talked about this at our morning hearing this morning. the governor proposed in this january budget the elimination of issf maintenance effort which next year will be worth about $40 million and probably 60 in this period. county is in negotiations with the governor about this and we'll have more information about what agreement can be reached around may 10 when the may revise comes out and it's something that county has been working on very diligently with the

governor's office and a voting on ab 1, a proposal increase for taxes to pay for resurfacing and for transit projects. right now the city pays for a lot of it's road resurfacing and san francisco is subsidized by the general fund and will be by $21 million and 20-30 for transit projects as well. that will be a great resource for the city if it were to pass. our next update will be probably around may 9 or 10. we'll be looking at the current year revenues and expenditures and updating those for you. after that we'll be doing budget balancing with the mayor's office.

>> thanks michelle. just to end the presentation with this last slide for contact with the upcoming budget. we are waiting for the controllers report because that is the last big piece for us around balance to tell us if there is any additional savings from current revenue or departmental savings that will augment our balance further. that will be in early may. we are waiting for that and i want you to know some of the bigger picture things we are talking about. several weeks with the mayor we are having meetings around the budget and we are reviewing and many of the departments did meet our target reduction of 3%. we are reviewing all of those. we are definitely preferring or giving preference to things that are relevant solutions, efficient proposals, we don't want this to be a reduction year and working

hard with the departments. some departments also submitted lots of request for new things and we are working on those. the big thing we need to focus on this year is this larger uncertainty in mind is we are in a very weird point right now. we don't want people to be unnecessarily worried or panic but there is so much uncertainty with state and federal and particularly in our own economy. we are starting to see signs of slowing, not a recession, not seeing anything terrible on the horizon but a very odd point in time. what we are thinking at this point in budget are several things because the situation is uncertain with the federal government and whether we need more reserves as a result of that. when chair cohen asked about the ihhs and the city had a reserve

years ago. we need to talk about meeting a lot of our fund investments with capital and technology. this is a very different fiscal picture. we can lower that without reduction. and also all of those things when you spend the money, they save in the long-term. trying to prioritize those. as i said to you all before, we've grown a lot in the last 5 years in the f te's and to the budget, but we are really mindful of where we might be for now. and any new investments that we are going to be seeing in this budget is very small and not huge because we want to be careful of starting anything new this year and also ask departments not to

submit any fte requests to us. right now the mayor is concerned about affordable housing and homeless. and that's kind of the preview for june 1st. of i will come back to you once the budget has been submitted with all the details included in the budget. if you have any questions, please let me know. >> thank you very much for the sobering reality. let me check with my colleagues to see if there is any questions. supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: thank you, going back to slide four, the summary of the increase over 5 years with salary and benefits and the the cola adjustments for the next 4 years. does this assume there is no fte growth over this period? >> it does. >> okay, i have spent a lot of time thinking about base lines and reserves and how that has pretty much

tied our hands this terms of future budgets and salary and benefits and it's percentage of growth. it's just so much more, 51% growth over the 5-year period. so, i know it's always hard to talk about cutting staff or not growing staff as well, not increasing fte's, and we don't have to get into a full conversation here but at the next hearing, it's important for us to have a deeper discussion around what we might want to see around fte reform and so forth. >> it's a good plan. the fte's are what's driving up this cost of inflation. that's a good report. >> thank you, supervisor yee? >>supervisor norman yee: thank you for the presentation. when you talk about not increasing the fte, one

program comes in mind where it's the maintenance of the trees. so, i mean, what we want to do, we need to increase the fte's, this seems to be a contradiction. >> great question. when we say no new s te's, no new to the plan. you will see growth in the public works and homeless department to near the bound. yes, there definitely is going to be large e growth. >> thank you for the clarification. >> thank you. anyone else, colleagues? all right, thank you very much for your presentation. we'll see you soon. any members of the public that would like to come up and speak on this item, please come on. welcome. public speaker: this process, good evening, supervisors, and a

couple of you i haven't met before. let me cutoff my stuff here. i'm sorry. it's quite a pleasure to be here in the beginning of a process that i'm going to be here until my voice is heard. as you see i'm ace on the case, but i'm here as the czar about migration. but i'm also here to check on ed lee and the controllers and this budget. i hear you talking about this and what about the black folks, i hear about cuts here and all that, what about the black folks? i'm here to find out about ed lee and the controllers and where on the budget line does it mention anything about black, african american or negros? where in the budget does it say there is going to be money set aside for the migration. that hasn't happened for 5 years. unless somebody do something this year, i'm going to protest

against this budget to say neglect of african americans purposely. ch now, if ed lee doesn't want to do that, i'm traveling you can to sacramento first. and actually gave in, you know the institution that you put on migration? not a dime. we were in the $500 million deficit. we are in a big budget now. there is no money to spend on african american blacks. it's been hidden on under privileged people. but it's said on asians, mexicans and migration. you spent millions of dollars protecting these people. i'm tired. whoever is watching and the mayor is watching. >> all right. thank you.

okay. thank you. for the folks that are listening at home, today's purpose is a 5-year financial plan update. any other member of the public that would like to speak. seeing none, thank you. >> all right. may i have a motion, please? >> i will make a motion to continue this hearing to the call of the chair. >> second by supervisor kim. without objection it passes unanimously. all right, is there any other business before this body? >> there is no other business. >> thank you, this meeting is adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>

>> good evening we'll call tonight's board of education meeting to order tuesday, april 4, 2017, roll call. please ms. casco. >> thank you mr. cook mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton

mr. sanchez mr. walton ms. eng and ms. zaragoza thank you thank you. ms. casco will everyone please please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> section a accessibility information for the public as has been announced excuse me - munoz are reminded if they wish to address the board of education an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item and present it to say the executive assistant speaker cards will not be accepted for

an item already before the board section b we're going to hear if superintendant lee thank you thank you president walton and once again sort of like renovate my comments will be on the longer side please bear with me and thank you for being here. from the bottom of my heart let me be the first to congratulate doctor matthew's as the next superintendent of sfusd applause please >> (clapping.) >> and sorry if i'm stealing anyone else's thunder president walton but i did want to make a few remarks you'll hear more about doctor matthew's but we're excited to work with him as he returns to the roots of san

francisco and our school district i've had a chance to spend quality time including a sunday in i haven't had clothing and can tell that the board of education made an excellent choice on behalf of our staff all of our staff we're committed to helping him being successful and achieving great things and of great service to all the families and school and he's here with his wonderful family beginning on sunday so thank you for being here. so next this is partly relation to our time together on sunday congratulate the boys varsity basketball team. >> (clapping.) >> who are colleague and former

proud principal is here kevin truett go bears yes in case you do know this the boys basketball team succeeded in the state championship and gotten one center 82 to 17 in a dramatic over time. >> (clapping.) >> they made history and became the first san francisco public school 40 to win a championship they next regular meeting of on april 25th the team will join us as we recognize them along with their coach tonight, however, i want to thank the golden state warriors for a very special celebration they threw for the championship

bears this past sunday the warriors hosted the team for a fantastic game the highlight was a live broadcaster celebration of might victory through a standing ovation from the crowd i was honored to attend this special celebration along with mayor ed lee and doctor matthew and ms. mendoza-mcdonnell and a principal eric we offered our health felt thanks to the golden state warriors as well as ms. mendoza-mcdonnell for making this unforgettable experience possible for the championship team i'll say that a lot state championship here at sfusd and proud to announce our chief technology officer not here she's been named the outstanding k po of the year.

>> (clapping.) >> by the consortium networking and the reason why ms. doed she accepted the award and joined our district in april of 2015 so coming up on her second year anniversary and was charged with expanding the digital district plan to provide every student and school with assets to 21st century learning environment want to acknowledge some of the accomplishments with us within 5 most under her direction nearly 10 thousand employees and 57 thousand students shifted to a platform we also successfully completed the laptop educators program that provided 46 hundred

educators with a laptop that's an accomplishment they oversee the migration to google apps and focused on managing the diversity of digital learning tools that schools use for students announce with the team and the department of the environment is building a digital backpack for extremely for tools and online resources and finally chief doed oversee the digital and the verizon foundation to create 27 anytime anywhere at the 3 of the middle schools through the initiative learning schools with closing the gap that partnership established a program for can i see one by one home didn't see

at san francisco unified school district is congratulations and to her and the whole department of technology for supporting the educators and students at the sfusd next tomorrow wednesday april 5th the fourth high school g f a alliance day this year's team logging loudly the event supports by the school health programs department and lgbt youth is order by the sfusd high school students and 15 high schools and 3 charter schools will be represented approximately, one and 50 students lgbt allies would be represented and expend to attend a day of workshops and the resource fair per next national poetry month the largest literary celebration isn't world with tens of millions of readers

and k through 12 and literary curiosities and, of course, poets marking poetry is important in our culture and lives k l a w will be focusing on hash tag and 7 combrarldz and willie l. brown middle school have been working in teams proposed of an engineer and electrical engineer and computer engineers as part of willie l. brown middle school hands based technology and arithmetic's or m curriculum students will present their projects as a robotic celebration thursday april 6th for families so see functional robotic arms and finally after 8 years of learning cantonese or mandarin alice eight grade

students go to china 57 students time or went to hong kong and other city's they attended the classes and students have returned and are excited to share what we learned and have a bridged culture and built community so that that concluded my report. thank you, commissioners. >> thank you superintendant lee and we appreciated the emphasis on the mission bears championship in recognition and commendations. tonight item b-3 student delegate's report. >> ms. eng and ms. zaragoza. >> thank you president walton good evening board of education and president and vice president and public and doctor manifesting i want to start with to congratulate mission high

school varsity basketball team is a big thing i know sounds like great and also want to remind the seniors that point out which colleges they'll attend to an may first so choose wisely i know i'm excited for myself and how much money so safe those dates and replying for skirlz the first thin on the report the youth submit boys survey el cap it is for next year who will be sitting here as annually we have different students and make sure you're supporting our students very at most votes and make sure that

survey very out there for the public it is - next the undocumented unafraid resolution for students and i have taken care of it and spent 3 hours in spring break and starting to meet with sfusd staff so he can have a final vote next student delegates. >> thank you so we had a presentation from sarah acetone from the department of technology and she presented this for all to the immigrant and present to the sfusd at the next meeting so essentially this is the transition from school loop to a new platform for a new platform for grades and attention and assignments can be streamlined for teachers in the one

comprehensive unit we'll talk about that and give her feedback she wants more feedback in the sfusd board she'll be coming at the april 10th meeting and have more information and another update from 2016 so recently california allows 16 and 17-year-olds to preregister and you fill out the information you can't registration until our 18 i preregistered last year when i was 18 they sent me a card this showed me where to vote if i were to vote and more information if i were to vote and to find information online we want to streamline this information to you'll historicalers and make sure they are prepared when they want to vote and vote 16 is working on

video to inspire across the country to be engaged in politics and just diversities. >> i know this will be more information about preregistering but to remind you the next meeting will be monday april 10th at 5:00 p.m. in the board room a public meeting so everybody is welcome to come stop but if you want to be part of this thing please contact contact mr. salvador lopez. >> thank you. >> thank you student delegates and as an addendum to the student delegate's report. >> we have the department of election for voter registration thank you, ms. fox. >> thank you, very much. nice to see all of you

i am here to share news about the high school students getting involved in voting you can registration to support when your 16 years old there is a voting page you have to pate e wait until our 18 the secretary of state changed this when we were 18 it is a chocolate time so we felt that was hard to remember to register to vote now it is as mentioned you can preregistration at the vote 16, 17 and we send you a birth card but a card that says your 18 birthday you can vote towards that end this spring we've been collaborating with the youth commission to

encourage preregistration if if in all san francisco high schools we've gone to summer job fairs and the submit to spread the word as also using social media we want to go directly into our schools every year and so we are operating in secretary of state high school election ambassadors program and that means our students we're going to empower the students at every school to register voters preregistered during the voter education that is april 17th go and we'll train the students though how to do one events on the campus and during the two weeks and help their fellow students register to vote don't have to be 16 to participate as an election ambassador and we

have sent information out to all of our schools public and private they got recruitment packages and we're communicating with the adult staff i want you can know what is going on the students are volunteers but will get customer service they'll have a certificate of appreciation from the mayor and service hours and the 9th item on the resume or the college application we hope you will help us encourage participation by sfusd students they need to apply by april 10th and you can find the information on campus or at sfelections.org forward/s f a we believe at the

department of elections in encouraging students to disperse they're voting rights by enhancing their education in the district required american democracy curriculum we want to do more the department of elections along with the sf youth commission civic engagement committee requesters we have an agenda item on a future board of education meeting to hear any updates about all your resolutions. >> more than that asking sfusd that whoever is appropriate to notify us to participate in the development of a program that will meet the intentions of your resolution i'd like to be involved in that so students get involved with even though voting by being ambassadors during voter education week

sfelections.org and you'll find information or can ask for an update one six 2283 i had to look at that and sfusd staff call me e-mail me educating voters is my mission and job we want to work on that together department of elections wants every liberal san franciscan to be a voter and just for the adults in the room the next scheduled election is in san francisco june 5th 2018 that means that anyone born before or on june 5, 2000, will be bloibl to vote in the next election so thank you very much i'm here here to answer questions i appreciate that

thank you very much. >> thank you, ms. fox no questions but we appreciate the update of course, you can. >> i wanted to lowest the public know and ms. fox know i've asked commissioner haney to schedule that update at future meetings. >> thank you commissioner norton i'm interested to see what in voter registration looks like no citizens' advisory council any committee appointments colleagues seeing none, we're going to fast forward to item g our special order of business together as you may know we have gotten a process to work hard to find the right leader for the district and tonight will be the opportunity to vote on the contract for our final list of the next superintendent of san

francisco unified school district and again to just echo superintendant lee want to thank doctor manifesting and his family for being here this evening we appreciate you're being here tonight and move forward with the business at hand so, please read read into the record the recommendations for the board. >> so this evening the recommendation approve the contract with doctor vincent maufbt for the san francisco unified school district. >> thank you i need to hear a motion and second. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you very much ms. house and colleagues do we have any speakers in the audience tonight for this item. >> please come up to the mike you have two minutes. >> good evening. i'm kevin

the director of policy at cal man advocates we want to speak on behalf of our students and parent members about the hiring of the new superintendent who is here and i see the family we working with african-american latino parents have seen them not served well by the district and seep the board take initiatives to really change that we're hoping with this hover will continue down that legacy business but be a district that leans on the parents they consulted and people are ph.d let the people in the classroom should leadership i mean let them be part of the decision making process and hopefully into consideration and deliberation in our hiring rose and we look forward to working with the new superintendent and to continue to work with the board and staff

and also want to notify the new superintendent to come out and visit the schools in the southeast part of city and really see the school that need attention to be successful on their considerate parts on the one side of town thank you. >> buenos dias. >> (speaking spanish.) >> good evening. i'm cynthia a mother of program for improvements for schools. >> (speaking spanish.) >> i want to greet you all superintendant lee and doctor

maufts. >> (speaking spanish.) >> i would like to speak about us as parents are effecting the superintendent. >> (speaking spanish.) >> hi we're parent leaders working with the high school to advocate so for high quality schools for all san francisco we know you have selected doctor vincent maufts and we want the following things from thews and following things from him.

>> (speaking spanish.) >> over the past 6 months we participated in the survey and attended the community meetings about the search for a new superintendant we spread the word to other counties. >> (speaking spanish.) >> in october we helped to organize a school board candidate we filled out a pole of top priorities for the next superintendent. >> (speaking spanish.) >> the majority of the people selected an achievement as their top priorities for the

superintendent. >> (speaking spanish.) >> this is what we have heard over and over from parents. >> (speaking spanish.) >> apartment want a superintendant who has a proven track record of truly achievement for all students particularly for our most vulnerable student spraupz that are often low income students of color english learners and special education students. >> (speaking spanish.) >> our district needs a leader it is needed to making sure that

note just some but all san francisco students receive an excellent education. >> (speaking spanish.) >> we agree with what we've heard from certain members of the board and school district that is that important to have a leader with a long term commitment to san francisco. >> (speaking spanish.) >> we want respond who seeks to learn from schools that are having successful results and

share the valuable lessons learning from a variety of charters that are successful with students, of course, acknowledging the unique environment of every school and trying new things. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> good evening my name is letting to president of the united educators greasing doctor matthew's and thank you for coming our family and superintendant lee and commissioners, i want to echo many of the sentiments of the speakers before me we're looking forward to working with doctor matthew's and we hope to see in our new superintendent is support for the students our high needs and a recognize that

the center of education takes place in the classroom and that the strong working relationship among auto all stakeholders with the educators is key to getting the growth in the student chuflt we want at the school sites and more teaching and time for teaching less time on testing wetogether.

>> sorry and we look forward to working closely with you

thank you. >> thank you so much colleagues nothing anyone wants to share. >> commissioner murase i want to really what i said to the families wrenching he go people are excited to have doctor matthew's and proud to have someone that went to school here and come back to the district and so want to offer my hearty welcome. >> student delegates you want to echo a what everyone said i'm glad you're here and support you as students and as educators and staff we have a question of students we're not sure want to call the superintendent as doctor mathews do you have a preferred way for us students to address you

doctor mathews okay. and more like - a lot of like our fac group wants to know if you have an open door policy and 0 stop by our next meeting really quick i know we would like to officially greet you and meet and greet all of the students. >> so ms. mendoza-mcdonnell. >> sorry thank you before our vote i want to thank you, dr. mathews for putting your hats into the ring and representing our district incredibly well, one thing that resonated during the interview you attributed our life career to sfusd

and as a graduate of sfusd i know how meaningful it is to be able to take a step back and look at what you came from and honor the way in which you were brought up the idea you'll be leading our district having come if the district matters and it really speaks volumes about the heart that your coming in this position with i want to also welcome i look forward to working with you when we had this opportunity to meet you for me the first time what resonated with me besides the experience and knowledge and depth of the knowledge over the last 25 or thirty years our smile and children's in tie

every interview it remind me how you carry your kids that to me was the symbol i saw in partnership it is important to all of us and every place i've gone to hear about relationships that you had in the past people called me to say you've made an excellent choice including the two previous superintendents that are looking forward to your leadership in sfusd i've heard nothing but positive remarks is i personally prefer to work with you and really it was a pleasure to spent a lot of time and happy to see all our beautiful three children and have your back and so do we welcome. >> i wanted to quickly also

graduate you graduate your family an exciting time for epic for your life and your family to be coming back home to san francisco and an exciting time for us a board to be welcoming you i think we're at a point in the district we know we have a lot of challenges we still have a lot of students in the district that are not benefiting from the tremendous opportunities in the city and we are looking to you to be our partner to accelerate and to insure that all of them with the builders success it is a joyous momentum but we've got a lot more work to do and we are a board that needs what you bring and so i want to thank you for coming here he know it is a big challenge and big change for you as well but one i think that all of us are prepared to jump in

headfirst and i want to response from some of the comments when you come you feel welcomed and include and take some time to learn from the incredible parents and students and teachers and staff we have here because we have so many to offer and do this at another time another stage but thank you. the intern superintendant lee and deputy city attorney guerrero and to continue to see the progress they're looking forward to having you here and really partnering thank you for taking on this challenge with us and thank you to our family there's nothing we shouldn't be able to do and with your leadership we'll be able to do

it commissioner sanchez congratulations and welcome doctor mathews i need your help to enumerate the first was a prudent person. >> but the campus and grattan elementary school in the house. >> (clapping.) >> hover middle school and high school and you went on to state forward our batches and matters of your credentials a local homegrown welcome back and proud to have you our game is clear actually - i also want to talk about longevity for you, you want to retire here for 20 years thank you in advance for the 20 years this was one of the things the

board counted on someone that will be here for the lors long haul that means a lot you were one the candidates for the job that had really high recommendations for lean numbers particularly the president the teachers the work in san jose that was really the most in terms of of bringing you here to work with the units that is an international part of work to make sure we are working arm-in-arm and negotiating contracts so again, thank you and i want to thank the board the process you engaged in that long long weekend was like a long time ago it was respectful and everyone's voices were heard and great candidates you rose to the top congratulations again, thank you

commissioner norton. >> just to add my welcome and thank you for being willing to take this on i'm really excited that you are you know have such a long history and deep roots in san francisco that is incredibly powerful for the students to see you and educated in san francisco schools can reach you to the pinnacles of success so welcome very excited to meet your family and very excited to start working with you. >> commissioner cook. >> might as well say something (laughter) congratulations i look forward to being with you confused with you (laughter) and president walton knew that was coming (laughter). >> thought you were referring to your new.

>> we have a good time at the board of education i also want to thank my colleagues for how hard you've worked to vet all the candidates not everybody that serves on this board is so committed and passionate what happens ♪ district and you know like me i got this i was educated and my grandparent raised me here and young people are in that situation existed to see the teachers and looking be accepted and loved and fight what their psa about we have thousand stories of people that will be forever affected by the work you do so to push you at the head of that is a big deal for us and for them and i know how much you know that because you were also one of the young people

i heard one of our - we have a teacher shortage so ms. hope b will check me about you're working for us tell your friends they're hiring good people at sfusd and your dad being one of them and also wanted to make sure that i acknowledge the comments of our teachers union and people that have been a long time stakeholders that are condominium to equity and running the forces so based on what we saw in our career you went from challenging areas of the state where things weren't you know going well in oakland and i know wood so you've not avoided challenges but at this district we have a lot of incredible people and competent people that moved the ball to

get to a good place because of your experience you can take us to the next level and thank you to all the candidates that everyone that applied yeah, a lot of dynamic people came before us i'm confident we choose the right candidates to get closure to our goals >> thank you, commissioners so just before we vote i want to say that i'm very excited about your leadership i was impressed you know with many things in terms of of your structural background but the thing that impressed me the most you've heard here today, our emphasis and focus on the relationship between the teacher and the students that is big for me and us about work in the

district the fact your focused on this relationship and everything else supports that relationship and that learning that is key and will lead to success and our phone call vision 2025 and making sure our students graduate with a higher education was important and so parents and families and anyone out there as you've seen we've hired a superintendent that is from san francisco breed in san francisco and going to the public school system if anyone asks you as a graduate of san francisco unified school district parents or students can tell them you can, a parent of san francisco unified school district that is big for us and our students to understand that the sky is the limit we don't just practice but we practice in this district and make sure we make the decisions so that focus

is analyzed to again congratulations with that, we wanted to have a roll call vote ms. casco. >> thank you, commissioner mr. cook mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell - (laughter) was that, yes. >> ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton mr. sanchez and mr. walton that's unanimous . >> (clapping.) >> so doctor mathews it is appropriate to have a few words to say you can speak anywhere in the room you like. >> good evening, everyone i'll try it again good-bye everyone first and foremost thank you for the commissioner i'm honored to that the father you've placed in

me and do my best every single day for the children in san francisco for the san francisco unified school district i want to acknowledging no disrespect but a few people in the room thank you vince i've received so many support thank you people called or texted or made contact just encouraged me i appreciate that two people i want to acknowledge first before i get my family want to acknowledging and then my family laura first, i want to acknowledging them and thank them for so many nights daddy not there and they carried through when i got there whatever time to tell me about the day this is my son anthony

san francisco state good gators and this is my middle son aaron and this is my daughter a teacher in the east bay so start recruiting and my wife yolanda who just the rock of our family and consistently and constantly there as the patience of job she carries us there love you. >> thank you for everything the two people i want to acknowledge you heard i grew up in the haight ashbury and hunters point and taught in hunters point the first classroom i taught in was the young lady was out on maternity leave and that's a compliment back here