to approve board policy 614294, history and social science. this item also codifies the legal requirements for history and social science curriculum, and the rules committee forwarded this with a positive recommendation, except that they requested that specific resolutions of the board be incorporated where relevant. and i won't read them all to you, but you can see on the cover page the four resolutions that have now been incorporated. >> thank you. there's no public comment on this, could you remind the board on the committee recommendation, please? >> this has been forwarded with a positive recommendation, provided that the relevant provisions of the specific board resolutions were included, and staff has now done that. >> great. thank you. any comments? commissioner merase? >> i want to thamnk the staff for their quick turnaround

based on the committee discussion. this is the board policy on history and social science instruction. if there are policies that board thinks will impact them, please draft them and submit them to general counsel or the rules committee. we are working on a more raggate way to catalog our resolutions so we can make sure all of our board policies reflect board resolutions. >> thank you. any other comments? seeing none, roll call, please. >> thank you. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: six ayes. >> great. thank you. next item is 0460, local control and accountablity plan.

miss houck. >> this was approved by the rule committee. it seeks to have the board approve local 0460. the rules committee heard this item, did request that it go to the budget -- recommended it favorably, but recommended it go to the budget and business committee to allow for additional public comment. that happened, and i believe the budget and business committee referred it with a positive recommendation. >> thank you. any public questions or comments? there being no public comment, roll call please. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: six ayes. >> great. thank you. that is board policy. next item, there's nothing else on that, right? okay. next item is public comment on

general matters. i have actually one, two, three people speaking on this. let me see what i did with my list. here we go. so i just want to you to know that public comment is an opportunity to hear from the community on matters in the board's jurisdiction. we ask that you refrain from using employee and student names. if you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it to the employee's supervisor in accordance with district policy. if appropriate, the superintendent will ask the staff to follow up with speakers. so my three speakers are fernando aguilar, joseph adams, and james burke.

>> good evening, commissioners and superintendent. i'm fernando aguilar. i'm the director of creative arts charter school. i'm here tonight to speak about creative arts charter school for funding to rhenvate the golden gate campus that's currently occupied by creative arts. i'm here to request that our prop 51 application for funding be placed on the board meeting agenda. six years ago broadway middle school was moved across the campus. we have done our very best to maximize all available space at the golden gate campus and have developed a positive, strong and collaborative working relationship with gateway middle school. five years ago, i came into this very hall to ask for approval of our charter petition. the board voted unanimously.

our charter stated that cac would grow from 256 students to our current enrollment of 440 students. and each year since then using the prop 39 process, creative arts has very clearly communicated to the district that we are simply running out of space. as the district has not offered additional space to us, we have been actively and creatively looking at ways we can stay at the golden gate campus as we are proud to be part of the western addition community. over the last few years we partnered with the district to explore the possibility of expanding our current site. after multiple meetings with various people, we came to the conclusion that expansion would be possible if creative arts could secure the funds, and we have done exactly that. we have applied for and are on the cusp of approving a total of $14 million.

we qualify for 7 million in funds from the state, with a matching loan of 7 million that we creative arts would take on. as part of this process, we were assured a commitment of $2.2 million in funds from the district and a recommendation for the approval of an agreement with the sfusd board of education. so i'm here tonight because we were just notified that district personnel would not notify approval of any construction at the golden gate campus, and i'm here to respectfully ask that you place railroad resolution on your next board meeting agenda. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you all. hi. good evening. my name is joseph adams. i have two children in creative arts elementary school right now, and i'm also the vice president of the board. i wanted to speak a little bit on our prop 51 application,

just give a little bit of the procedural background. i'm also an attorney here in town, and we've been working very closely with the district staff on our application. our application at this point is just a preliminary apportionment. what we would be asking for the district to approve is literally that: just the application and the project itself. eventually, the project is going to have -- we'll have to come up with a memorandum of underi understanding and lease agreements for the facility ongoing. the district has already done this with other high schools, like leadership. and we have a great outline for that. we're running out of time now with this $14 million. the 7 million is a grant that this district will get to put directly into its own facility. creative arts will take on that other loan. the other things about a long-term lease and those types of things, we can kick that can

down the road. we don't have to decide on that. we don't have to, in the next couple of weeks, sign leases, sign memorandums of understanding. all we need is the board says this application, this preliminary application is okay with us. if we come to those bridges where we have to try and agree on memorandums of understanding to occupy the space, and we can't do it. no big deal. then we just walk away, and we try something else. this resolution, this approval by the board is not going to commit you to one single penny. but what it will do, it'll get us to that next step where we can say hey, can we afford this 14 million? we can afford the 14 million -- we only need to afford half of that. the seven is going to be given to the sfusd, $7 million. let's not just turn our backs on this. i promise you we'll be able to work together to come to an agreement, and i promise it won't cost the district a penny. thank you. >> thank you.

[ applause ] >> sorry for my bluntness ahead of time, but somehow the board sfusd has ticked off every p.o. teacher in the district with what has happened recently starting on december 20th. i'm a p.e. teacher at idab. wells high school. we recently were able to create a gym and curriculum that has changed perceptions of p.e. for their students. i'm a student of sfusd. i now have a masters in kinesiology, which is the study of human movement and fitness. i am up to date in all the research and legal battles when it comes to p.e. and especially of this district. kids that are physically inactive as youth will likely be as adults. physical inactivity leads to

high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol, certain cancers, cardiovascular diseases. recently obesity among youth has doubled. some of this generation will not out live their parents due to physical inactivity, and physical inactivity has resulted in knocking off at least 20 from people's life. we get a memo from the high school lead office on december 20, 2017 addressing the latest board policy changes for p.e. behind every p.e. teachers' back. here's from highlights. students 16 years aold with tw years of high school can exempt p.e. this means all the work that went into idab. wells high school and the gym that we put

in for after school is going to be used for nothing. students can fail nineth and ten i get grade p.e. and then exempt out. my question of everybody here is are we allowing students to graduate without learning p.ha matter. are we trying to promote as a district that p.e. is just not important, 134g we should not care it. students think that physical fitness are not important to policies such as this. this is a step in the wrong directio directio direction. they believe this policy will make a difference, but with putting our future students' health on the line. >> thank you. your time is up. thank you. next item is section g, special

order of business. we have a special order of business from sfufd to unites workers of san francisco. i need a motion and a second. >> motion. >> second. >> good evening, board and superintendent, representatives. tonight, i just want to read the initial proposal from the san francisco unified school district to open bargaining to the united administrators of san francisco. there's been an initial notice, and it'll come back to the board in two weeks. >> great. thank you. i have one speaker for this item, richard magi. richard, is he still here? mr. magi? okay. thank you. all right. any comments from the board?

seeing nome comments, roll cal please. oh, it's coming back at the board. >> well, this is the initial -- we have to give notice of this -- sunshine this, and then, it'll come back in two weeks, public sf in two weeks. >> sorry. my script says roll call, please. [ inaudible ] >> okay. got it. so we'll see you in a couple of weeks. >> okay. very good. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next item is item h, discussion of additional issues, there are none tonight. i'd j is an introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. we have one item, board policy 6415, athletic competition. this resolution is referred to the rules policy and legislation committee. can i please hear a motion and a second for first reading to the board policy?

>> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. so it'll go to rules. so second k is proposed action on suspension and rules. there are none tonight. next item is board members and reports. can i get a report from the committee as a whole? vice president cooke. >> i'll do that at the next board meeting. >> okay. a report from curriculum and program committee, please, commissioner norton. >> yes. the curriculum and program committee met on the 17th of january . we had two informational items. the first was a report on the current state of our language pathways, which was a good -- it was good to declare where we are, where everything is.

i think we all continue to have concerns about these programs and, you know, where they are, the student assignments issues related to them, the facilities issues related to them, so it was good to get a -- a good data and update to them. we also had a great report on african american history in sfusd curriculum which was really extensive and i -- you know, i can't do it justice in a board report, but you should look at the powerpoint which i think all of you got. there's just some really great things going on. i one thing i will highlight is the class at mission for african american girls that will now be expanded, they're going to try and expand it to a second semester. they've had a one 'emster pilot

last year, and again this year, and the idea is to develop a second semester for that course. i think it's been valleyy impactful and valuable for students, and it's great to see that's what we're doing. the next meeting -- i can't remember when the next meeting. i'll have to update the board at the next, yeah -- february 19th. >> yeah. okay. great. thank you. commissioner -- vice president cooke, do you want to do a quick report on your committee as a whole? >> yes. we got a staff update on middle school redesign, went over where we are currently at and some of the challenges and how we are looking at expanding grades to include more electives for students. >> okay. great. thank you. commissioner haney, a report on the budget and business services committee, please. >> sure. so we reviewed the local -- our

board policy around the local control and accountablity plan and forward it had ed to the bh a positive recommendation. first was the fiscal analysis for the homeless youth resolution, which we took action on tonight. we spoke for a bit about the governor's proposed budget for '18-'19, which actually looks pretty positive. some of you may be aware that he has sped up the implementation of lcff, so we are going to see, you know, more significant increases to k-12, k-14 funding than we had expected, so that was positive. and i'm sure we'll obviously be hearing more about that as a full board soon. and then, we talked about the general l-cap development process for '18-'19.

>> great. thank you. item 2, board del gats to membership organization. any reports at this time? seeing none, all of the reports by board members? commissioner merase? >> thank you very much. i want to announce that five keys charter school graduation. there is the in custody graduation thursday at the hlll of justice. ceremony begins friday at 9:00 a.m. for any of my colleagues who haven't had a chance to go to this event, it's incredible, see our inmates get a lot out of our inmate charter school. there's a graduation on at the scene, february 6th at 11:00 a.m., also for five keys charter school. the association of public chinese teacher, the public

library, and the san francisco asian american department is presenting angel island immigrant voices, a prop a funded professional development on asian american studies, the immigrant experience saturday, february 3rd, at the milton marks branch of the public library, 351 north 9th avenue. it's from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. please get in touch if people are interested in that professional development. and then, finally, csba is having a leadership institute july 13th and 14th for school board members, and it's going to be held in san francisco, so i would encourage my colleagues to consider that for july. thank you. >> thank you. any others?

-- oh, vice president cooke? >> the personnel of labor and affordablity committee will be meeting on thursday, january 25th, at 5:00 p.m. >> great. any other calendar committee meetings that you'd like to announce? commissioner sanchez? >> the rules committee will be meeting february 5th -- monday, february 5th. >> okay. thank you. budget and business is... >> yes. our next meeting is going to be the first wednesday, which is the 7th. >> wednesday, february 7th? >> february 7th. >> okay. grounds will be next on monday, february 26. commissioner merase? >> the ad hoc committee which meets their regularly will be meeting thursday, february 8th, at 6:00 p.m. here. >> thank you. vice president cooke, your

committee on personnel matters. >> thursday, january 25th. >> we are going to have a meeting sometimes in february on the district ad hoc joint committee. section n is memorial adjournment. there are none tonight. section o is closed session, so the board will now go into the closed session. we will

>> we're back. following the closed session, we're resuming the regular board meeting. the readout for january 23rd -- i'm sorry, yeah, january 23rd, 2018 closed session, a goord board by a vo seven ayes. approved the contract of one assistant principal. section q, we are adjourned. thank you.

>> raise your right hand please. >> i mark farrell. >> i mark farrell. >> do solemnly swear. >> that i'm support and defend.

>> the constitution of the united states. >> and the constitution of california. >> against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> i will bear true faith in allegiance. >> to the constitution of the united states. >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> i take this obligation freely. >> without any reservation or purpose of evading. >> and that i will well and faithfully discharge. >> the duties upon which i'm about to enter. >> and during such time as i hold the mayor of city and county of san francisco. (cheering)

>> good evening everybody. it is an honor to stand before you this evening. the past six weeks have been an incredible roller coaster for the city of san francisco. for those of us who knew and worked with mayor ed lee, it has been an incredibly challenging time. he was someone i admired greatly, both personally and professionally. he was incredibly kind to my family, in particular our three children, and he's gravely missed. agree or disagree with his politics, we can all agree he was a great human being, a devoted public servant to the city of san francisco and someone whose life i hope we celebrate as a city for years to come. i personally want to thank london breed for her grace and leadership during this difficult

time. she led our city during the mourning of mayor lee and i know she works tirelessly for the residents of san francisco. i want to thank my colleagues on the board of supervisors for trusting me with this position. i assume this role with great pride and humility. the most important concern for me is the continuity of the government of the city and county of san francisco. residents waking up tomorrow morning, expect muni buses to run on time. they expect police officers to be walking the beat, public works cleaning our streets and all vital services that the public expects us to deliver as a city and we'll do exactly that. and it means tackling the most pressing issues, getting homeless off the streets and into shelter and housing. making sure our streets are safe and clean for san francisco residents.

continuing to build on mayor lee's legacy of housing and addressing the housing crisis. the next six months will be incredibly active. san francisco residents deserve nothing less. san francisco's future, our future is incredibly bright. and despite our issues, we live in the most amazing city in the world. thriving local neighborhoods, the booming economy, natural beauty unrivalled anywhere in the world and adversity and inclusion. this is a time for leadership. it's a time to look ahead. i look forward to the road in front of us all. thank you very much. >> will you take a couple of questions now?

go ahead. >> reporter: the reaction to your nomination and vote to point you in this position were very emotional, people were very upset in the board chamber, claims of racism. there's a division in the city and how will you bring people together and what's your reaction? >> to me this is not about politics. it's about moving the city forward and the continuity of our government. all i can say is i will work to represent every single san francisco resident, no matter the race, ethnicity, religion. it doesn't matter. my job for the next six months is to build on the legacy of mayor lee, to build on what supervisor breed did during her time as acting mayor and make sure san francisco residents get everything they deserve out of the city government and that will be my job. >> reporter: did you see the nomination coming for mayor?

>> again, i have heard many different rumors as many people had. but, again, to me, this is not about politics. my focus is not now on the past. i thank my colleagues on the board of supervisors for entrusting me in this position. i appreciate their support and trust. in my office this is about moving the city forward though. >> reporter: mayor farrell, perhaps -- or wait for june. which path do you choose? >> to me there's one path, making sure that the city and county of san francisco continues to function, deliver the services it does for the city and residents. there's going to be a heated mayoral election and campaigns that have already started over the past few weeks and that will continue through june. my job over the next half year

is to make sure our muni buses run on time, we do everything we can to get the homeless off the street. have police officers on the street, make residents feel safe and deliver all functions that residents expect. >> reporter: you didn't touch on affordable housing. that seems to be the biggest issue. >> affordable housing is top of the list. that's an issue mayor lee spent his entire time in office focusing on and i will continue to build on that through housing and everything else in the city that san francisco is as affordable as it can be for every resident. >> reporter: [indiscernible]. >> to me, again, this isn't about politics, this is a situation that our city charter contemplates. my colleagues, i do trust their

-- i appreciate their trust and their judgment in putting me in this position. i look forward to leading the city of san francisco for the next six months and making sure that everything that our san francisco residents expect continues to get delivered as a government. >> reporter: there were people so passionate and so upset tonight, what do you as mayor now say to them and the people they represented tonight about what has happened and how you plan to charge a path forward. >> i heard the emotion in the room, i was there as well and felt that also. people were passion on many sides of the discussion. over the course of the last month as i have talked with people and residents across the city of san francisco, those emotions have come through. what i will say, i will be mayor for every single san francisco resident. my focus and job as mayor is to

represent everybody in the city of san francisco. no matter what their race, ethnicity, religion. my job is to represent everybody and i will do that over the next half year. >> thank you everybody. >> what ♪ >> not only did the total death on our streets from traffic collisions decrease dramatically in 2017, pedestrian deaths did as well. since 2013, fewer pedestrians have been killed on our streets. this is really good news. you know, no one wants to see the accidents on the side of the

road, no one wants to experience going to a crime scene on the road knowing your loved one has been hit by a car or sadly tragically killed. this is about bringing that number of 20 from 2017 down to zero. we don't want another death on our streets because of human error, because of anything that we can avoid. if we change our behavior, we change our roads and we do a better job here in the city and county of san francisco. >> my ask of the public, number one be aware of your surrounding, be aware of the law, be aware of the street signals and crosswalks and try to work within the laws designed to keep you safe. look at where we were and look at where we are. this vision will be a reality. >> we all have to remember that all of us, all of us every single day, no matter how you get to work, school, wherever you go, all of us are always

pedestrians. this impacts all of us. >> school starts again on monday, so i hope as you are reporting today you will encourage people to slow down, to be mindful, to recognize that you're going to have more cars on the street on monday. we're going to have more kids on bikes, more kids walking. please, be slow, be safe and be mindful. >> i just want to urge everyone at the sound of my voice to make some corrections. if you operate a motor vehicle, think about it, think about the person standing on the corner. think about how fast you're driving. think about the stop sign you're about to come to. just think. and just doing so, you'll help someone live another day. i guarantee that. i guarantee that. ♪ >> they tend to come up here and

drive right up to the vehicle and in and out of their car and into the victim's vehicle, i would say from 10-15 seconds is all it takes to break into a car and they're gone. yeah, we get a lot of break-ins in the area. we try to -- >> i just want to say goodbye. thank you. >> sometimes that's all it takes. >> i never leave anything in my car. >> we let them know there's been a lot of vehicle break-ins in this area specifically, they target this area, rental cars or vehicles with visible items. >> this is just warning about vehicle break-ins. take a look at it. >> if we can get them to take it with them, take it out of the cars, it helps.

>> welcome to the january 17th, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. the presiding officer this evening is board president darryl honda. he's joined tonight by our vice president frank fung, commissioner ann lazarus and bobbie wilson. rick swig will be absent. brad rusty is a deputy city attorney. he'll provide the board with any legal advice tonight. gary cantera is the board legal assistant. i'm cynthia goldsteen. we're also joined by represent from the city department. at the table in front is corey tee the assistant zoning administrator. he's also representing the planning department and plans commission.