and what the strategy's going to be for the next round of departments and when that training's going to happen. 'cause my guess is the ones that need it the most are probably not the ones that are necessarily the early adopters. so got that. could be wrong on that. >> i am excited to say i think some of those first points of contact for people are early adopters, so human resources and the educational placement center are the leadership in both of those areas. i'm very excited to be part of this, and so -- and as you know, they both are a touch point for job seekers and potential parents as well as current employees and current parents. and then, we're also really excited that the financial services division is interested also because they -- they work a lot with our internal clients, so they interface with many different administrative assistants as well as principals and other staff in

the district, so i think we have a good cross section. we've heard interest in other departments, as well, and the superintendent's leadership team knows that this is a priority for the superintendent, and we are planning to continue on with the training after this pilot phase we'll be picking up again in september and october. >> with a plan to have all departments trained? >> resources allowing, that is our plan. we are still identifying all the resources to be able to do that. but i think to commissioner merase and your suggestion, we have been trying to find also some potential training partners that could help develop that capacity without a big cost to the district. so we -- we have explored some possible avenues for that, but it sounds like there may be some that we can still explore, so i'm excited about that. >> great. and i mean i don't know about my other commissioners, but i think this is a priority of ours because it has a ripple

effect for so many other things that we do, so we should work hard to figure out where those resources can come from. any other questions or comments on this item? okay. thank you all. appreciate it. [applause]. >> it's nice. you can applaud for them. it's very sweet. it's good customer service. section i is a consent calendar. items removed as a previous meeting. there are none. section j is an assignment of proposals and rejection by committee. so board policy 3110, transfer of funds. let's see...are these all going to the same committee? okay. so board policy 3110, transfer of funds.

board number three, board policy 3514.1, hazardous substances. number four, board policy 5111, admissions. board policy 5111.1, district residency, and board policy 5117, interdistrict attendance. board policy 5113.1, chronic absence and truancy, and dp 35112, all of those items, miss hock, will those go to rules? >> rules, and then you may wish to refer some of these items to additional committees. for example, item number two, transfer of funds, you may wish to transfer to the budget -- or excuse me refer to the budget committee. and item number four, you may

wish to refer to the student assignment committee. >> okay. okay. so miss casco, so item 2 will go to both rules and budget, and item four will go to both rules and student assignment, ad hoc. okay. and i don't have any public comment on those items. item six is the superintendent's proposal, 184-24 ft 1. this is the first reading of authorization to grant or in alternative deny the petition for the mary l. booker leadership academy charter school. so this item is being referred to curriculum and program and to budget and business services. could i get a motion and a second for the first reading of all of these policies and superintendent's proposals? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. i do have speakers for item six, which is the reading of

the authorization to grant or in alternative deny the petition for the mary l. booker leadership academy charter school. i have ten speakers on this item. we usually provide for five minutes on first readings, and -- but i will call your name and please come up, and you'll each get a minute. so susan solomon, alida fisher, julie robert fong, castro walker, c.m. bivens, come on up. terrence davis, betty hunter, susan fong wong, tiana cuman, and geraldine anderson.

>> thank you, commissioners and superintendent. my name is alina fisher, and i am the chairman of the advisory for community education. as i've stated before, the c.a.c. board and our membership is in agreement that we have very serious concerns with charter schools that opt out of the governance and oversight structures put in place by our c.a.c. here in sfusd. we have found that charters who come into the schools and colocate impact our most marginalized students, our students with disabilities by displacing our intervention room and supports. so we would actually encourage the mary l. booker family who's here to consider joining the san francisco unified school district scpa and make yourself available to the families of sfusd and provide the same accountability and oversight

and parent involvement and parent oversight that we do as sfusd schools do. thank you. [applause]. >> good evening. i'm susan solomon, executive vice president of united educators of san francisco. first of all, we also have concerns about colocating. we've heard that might happen. you heard from malcolm x community members last time, and we do have concerns, especially colocating six to 12th graders with elementary school. i have a couple of other concerns that i'll try to cover tonight. one is that the school specifies that because of the charter school's specific target students, the charter school's rascial and ethnic balance may vary somewhat from sfusd as a whole and instead reflect the neighborhood demographics of students that

may attend. i believe this is code for segregation for intentional segregation. back when we -- the coe decision back in san francisco, our schools immediately resegregated, and we should not be intentionally going back there. i do want to make one more quick point. it also says traditionally students with disabilities are pulled out of their academic classes to receive intervention. that is not traditional what's happening in sfusd. we are proud of the fact that we have fully inclusive practices in this district, and we have at this time. thank you. >> thank you, miss solomon. next speaker, please. [applause]. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is terrence davis, and i'm the school founder of mary l. booker leadership academy. i'm excited to be in front of you tonight and formally submit

the petition for mary l. booker leadership academy. we've been working for the past year to design a school that will meet the needs of all students. a little bit about myself. i'm a special educator. i'm also a father and husband to my two boys, jaden and elijah. we're a community school. we've been designed working with our parents. we recognize the needs of each individual students. our core values are equity, community value and leadership. community is how we are designed with the families that are standing behind me. equity is making sure we're meeting the needs of all students, and leadership is developing the next great generation of leaders. thank you again for hearing our petition. >> good evening. i'm sam bivens.

i'm the parent of a middle school aged child, and i've -- i'm urging the board to support mary l. booker academy. vote yes. it's absurd that we have to send our children out of our neighborhoods over to other neighborhoods to hopefully get, you know, what they need. teachers feel helpless because they know they're failing our children, our black and brown children. you guys know that you're failing our children. it's clear that you can't even retain teachers at your high potential schools. the ship is sinking, and we want out. we demand that our right to choose, whether our right to choose education for our children, whether it comes from

world class education -- i mean, whether it comes from private school, montessori, private school, charter, public, we need to be the decision holders on that. we don't -- we don't have another five years to wait for you guys to fix your schools. the schools are in bad shape. everybody is aware of this. >> thank you. >> that's it. >> next speaker, please. >> honorable commissioners of education, i am dr. aurelius bishop, pastor of church of god in bayview. i've been pastoring 50 years next month in the bayview. i'm socially involved in education and housing and a variety of things.

one of the thing i want to speak, because i only have a minute, is to my experience. my experience -- i spoke at this board sometime three months ago that the african americans, there's the latinos, and the pacific islanders are totally overlooked and they're not being taken care of as they should, and matter of fact, a coalition which i'm a part of, they passed a resolution. the directors of tcdc as its scheduled meeting of january 3rd, 2018 voted to endorse and support the establishment of urban education academy, the charter schools in the bayview, and mary l. booker academy, and we're standing strong behind that.

and i would urge the board to allow this mary l. booker school to also survive to be implemented and support it. thank you very much in advance. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, superintendent, dr. vincent matthews and board of education commissioners. my name is shari taylor. i am a teacher and a product of the san francisco unified school district, and my own children were products of san francisco unified school district. at mary l. booker leadership academy, we will assist all students in increasing their grade point level average. as we know, many students go from one grade to the next, and they're pushed socially. there are students that do not -- that are promoted and

graduate at three and four grade levels below. we have seventh and eighth graders in the public school system that still do not know how to do long division, they do not know how to read the analog clock, they do not know how to write effectively, and we would like to build a community -- our academy, mary l. booker leadership academy would like to build with the parents, so we can have a parent involvement, a relationship where they can trust us, and we can lead our children to victory. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is betty hunter. i'm a parent of an 11-year-old child here in san francisco school district. i'm also a product of this district, and i'm just here today to speak on behalf of mary l. booker leadership academy. our son, if this school is opened, will be attending as soon as it opened. not only that, but i've sat

here this whole entire time and watched the board talk about equity, and this school will provide that type of equity. not only that, but every speaker who's got up here to have and make a public comment has stated abouten witne equit. the superintendent of this board has stated that this is an equitiable education and district andum is, and it's not showing because san francisco's unified school district at this point is failing all of their after american and latino students, and me as a parent is completely frustrated. my son will be graduating fifth grade this year. he is not at the level that he should be at, and that is not on my child, nor is it on me, but it is on the school district, the teachers, the principals and all of you board members. and if you guys have a heart or even care remotely about equity as much as you guys speak about it, you guys should implement

this school immediately. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. thank you. my name is susan wong. i'm a mother of three current and former students in the school district. i've been -- so i've been involved with the school district for 17 years as a parent. with this experience, i thukly support the chartership of mary l. booker leadership academy, a much needed six through 12 school in the bayview in light of the low achievement of many bayview mission and excelsior schools. i support a new school which offers fresh hope and greater choice to these communities. mary l. booker leadership academy deserves your support so that the long-standing achievement gap that we see in the latino and african american community can be closed. i haven't seen any progress in the last 15 years. we've had no child left behind, we've had every child succeed, and to me, they're just empty

slogans, because san francisco hasn't changed. so me, the under served students in san francisco would like a school like mary booker that would value their children. thank you. [applause]. >> good evening, board members and superintendent. my name is geraldine anderson, a single mother of two boys, who attended schools in the bayview. i come in support of mary l. booker leadership academy. she was a woman in the bayview who captured the support of the community while teaching children, young adults and elders to make the bayview neighborhood a better place to live, work, and raise a family. as a single mother, i look to the schools my children have attended to be a support system for my children and myself. i ask that you take into deep consideration allowing this school to not only open but

stand to commemorate on our neighborhood, especially our children. i understand the district is in full throttle, trying to make positive changes in schools in the bayview, but i would like to see immediate remedies that are current active in our bayview schools. our children desperately need mary l. booker leadership academy. thank you. >> my name's julie roberts, and i'm with the san francisco families union and have been working closely with m.e.c. families who have been facing forced colocation under a charter. i have some questions about the mary l. booker academy. they say they're going to offer seats for 420 people, but i'm wondering where these students will go, and i think there's real concerns about ge

gentrification and displacement in the city. the folks at mary booker said that he would love to see a school located at malcolm x. or willie brown. all of them have been showing significant progress for students, so i think as we're asking -- talking about choice, we also have to ask, where's the choice, what's the process for schools that are being forced into colocation and who are losing resources because of charters? i want to notice that even though folks say bayview schools are failing students, that didn't stop them from stealing some of the carrar language in the mary booker proposal, which i think is in recognition of the great work that carver's doing. and i want to acknowledge seven out of the nine board members for mary booker are people who did not live in san francisco a year ago. thank you. >> thank you. [please stand by for captioner switch]

>> i wanted to congratulate the middle school performing arts group for their amazing performance of little shop of horrors. it was really fantastic. the middle school has become this hub for students who are interested in the arts, and they are now feeding many students to the school of the arts. so i want to congratulate everyone who made that possible. i wanted to recognize a few folks who participated -- who received recognition from the school health programs for their artwork against tobacco and alcohol -- i want to

congratulate a couple of students. there was an lgbtq themed contest. i want to congratulate the youth outreach workers, johnson chan ooflincoln high school. our family coalition's night out is scheduled for may 11th, and the latin america teachers association is having their annual scholarship dinner on friday, may 4th. finally, i want to publicly acknowledge quad for their first ever youth take over in the month of april where some of our public school students are reciting poetry, reading excerpts from essays. it's a great way for talented. our final meeting of the school year on thursday, may 3rd. hope folks can come to that.

>> thank you. any announcements from board members. meetings or other reports? >> rules committee will be meeting 6:00 p.m. may 8th. >> 7th. >> 7th. sorry. >> okay. thank you. before we go to committee meetings, i want to just make a couple announcements. i want to reiterate our great thanks to the san francisco symphony and their adventures in music. they've been with us for 30 years and our children get to go down to the symphony and they get music in the schools which is just fantastic. this week on thursday, april 26th, it's youth advocacy day at city hall. so many of our young people will be meeting with supervisors and advocating for the needs of students. so i'm really excited to see them doing what they need to be

doing especially at city hall. then i wanted to congratulate the filipino teachers association in particular freedom from balboa and cherry from lincoln high school who led the charge to provide scholarships to our filipino students. any other committee meetings that you want to announce? budget and business services? commissioner haney? may 23rd is not -- that's not -- okay. buildings and grounds, we have a schedule for may the 28th. curriculum and program, commissioner, do you know what that is in april 30th, does that sound right. >> that's correct, april 30th at 5:30 p.m. >> 5:30. >> okay. so curriculum and program will

be monday, april 30th at 5:45 p.m. okay. ad hoc committee on student assignments. >> may 3rd. >> okay. that's thursday, may 3rd at 6:00 p.m., ad hoc committee and personnel matters. commissioner sanchez. april 26th, does that sound right, at 5:00 p.m. >> yeah. we have it then, but i don't know if it's confirmed. >> that's when we have it tentatively. ad hoc for school district and city college joint committees scheduled for june 14th at 6:00 p.m. that one will be held at sfusd. okay. section m, other informational items. we have two items, first item is on peer assistance and review or par. we have margaret reyes who is

going to be presenting on this matter. you have two minutes to present on this matter. >> press the button. a light will come on. >> all right. i want to say thank you to the san francisco school board and mr. matthews for giving me the opportunity to speak today and thank you for everyone staying this late. my name is margaret reyes, and i'm a teacher here in san francisco unified. my employee id number is 18505. i'm here to respectfully request an immediate moratorium and investigation into the uesf sfusd peer assistance and review or par program. mr. kelly, the former president, while he was uesf president stated and i'm going to put a

quote, par has a bad reputation. that's where you put a teacher when you want that teacher dead. during the recent fraudulent skelly hearing, the representative stated on audio recording that par was being used as a weapon. with that said, it seems that both uesf and sfusd have an obligation to look into par. on december 26th, 2017, the school board and dr. matthews and members of uesf rereceived a whistleblower letter and attached was a spreadsheet that had been provided to me and had been provided by, i believe, labor relations, and it had the participants in par for the last 7 years. she attached a mathematically sound argument to prove that the

par program is operating in a discriminatory manner and targeting specific groups of people. i personally have asked both sfusd and uesf to answer the allegations and both have refused. the uesf president stated they don't know how the data is gathered, stored, or reported. i made a public reports request regarding the storage and reporting of par data and sfusd told me that they diligently searched, but don't know how they store the data. par is siphoning a million dollars a year from proposition a funding. there is much about propsation a and appendix x that warrants additional review. >> your time has passed. >> okay. thank you for your time. thank you. >> then i do have two speakers on this item gill.

>> he had to leave. >> and steve. >> hi. >> thank you. >> again, i'm with defend public education now. i think we're not talking about san francisco. we're talking about a program that's been implemented all over the state in lausd, thousands much teachers have been put in teachers jails. in berkeley it was challenged by a steward of berkeley federation of teachers because it was -- he found it was being targeted senior teachers and african-american and latino teachers. and after he began to defend those teachers, he himself was put in this program. so there's a -- i think it's becoming apparent and clear this program is used in a discriminatory way with a lack of transparency and also that there's also some other things that are going on here in this district. that is, teachers are being requested to have nondisclosure agreements when they go into the par program.

secret nondisclosure agreements to they can't talk about what's going on. i think it's illegal and n. a public body to require nondisclosure agreements. why with you do that? why would you do that for a teacher? the reason is, there's a lot of bullying -- workplace bullying and discrimination going on against the teachers and staff in san francisco. we have examples with the martin luther king middle school where teachers were being bullied by the principal and the assistant principal, harassed out of the school. there was a frame up against a staff member to fire him and one of the problems is there's not transparency. i think there needs to be an investigation of this program, and i think it should be terminated or at least moratorium should be put on the program and action against teachers until there's a full investigation. i found it -- we found it outrageous that $1 million is being spent on this program when that money should be going to the teachers, should be going to the staff.

it's coming from parcel a. it was teachers were unaware this was going to be happening. the public is unaware. if it's going to go places should go to the teachers and staff and not consultants and programs that bully and intimidate the teachers. we say enough is enough. it's time to stop harassing and bullying the teachers out of their jobs. >> okay. thank you. the next item is 2, posted in the agenda a listing of cash donations. also, of supplies and equipment items donated to the district item n is the memorial adjournment. this is in memory of ann austin, a retired district administrator. educator ann austin served in an exemplary manner for more than 30 years as a teacher, counselorrer, assistant principal, program director, and principal of the san francisco unified school district. she was known for wearing

eye-catching african attire. educator ann austin started her career as a teacher at polytechnic al high school and retired as the principal of ida b. wells. a learner, she was reared in alabama, graduating from the local high school during the segregated south and learned a degree from a and m, a distinguished school where she spent her life as a supporter and active member of the san francisco bay area alumni chapter. she earned an ma from an educational administration from san francisco state university. educator ann austin worked with african-american and latino students. she wanted to help students from single family households and students raised by grandparents. in order to help her students in the business courses that she

taught at gallileo and the former school of business and commerce, educator austin was a visionary and called her students -- and taught her students the king's english using rap. educator austin would go around the city sharing her poetic talents, released a cd and became known as the education rapper. she was an active member of the san francisco alliance of black school educators and a sorority. she served as the alliance isn't with a passion for serving on the oratorical festival and raising funds for student scholarships, many were the first generation to attend college. on monday april 16th, when she arrived at ida b. wells, the school was like a ship turned on its side in turbulent waters at sea.

educator austin urned it the school around. she implemented the 3as, which the school uses today, first is for attendance. second is for attitude. third is for achievement. she coined the terms i rise for the exemplary saturday school program held at dr. martin luther king middle school in partnership with the sfusd and the san francisco alliance of black school educators. ann austin passed away on march 13th, 2018, and the board of education, the superintendent of schools extend our deepest sympathy to her husband of 52 years, dr. therman austin. she now takes her rest. however, she will never be forgotten by her students, colleagues, parents, and family who make up the sfusd. thank you to virginia and emily for providing us this beautiful tribute to educator ann austin.

thank you. [ applause ] >> so at this time, we would like to take any public comment for those who have submitted speaker cards for closed session items. i do not have any cards at this time. so section o is closed. the board will go into close the session. i call this regular meeting into recess, and we'll be coming back . ess, and we'll be coming back >> section p is following the closed session. we're going to resume the regular board meeting and i'm going to report on the closed session action items. a vote on approval -- i move approval of a stipulate expulsion agreement where the parties agreed to waive the expulsion hearing of one high school student case number 2018-13 and stipulated to the

expulsion of the student from the district for one year from the date of the board's approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement. i move approval of the expulsion pursuant to the recommendation of the administrative hearing panel of one high school student case number 2018-14, from the district for the remainder of the spring 2018 semester through the fall 2018 semester. this is the readout of the april 24th, 2018 closed session. the board by a vote of five ayes, two absent, cook and norton approved the -- of two principals in. the board by a vote of five ayes and two absent cooke and

no, sirton giand -- no, sir -- ton -- -- [ inaudible ] >> -- give direction to general counsel in the matters of 123d usd in the matters of hl versus sfusd and dc versus sfusd. the board authorized the general counsel to initiate litigation. so those are the closed action items this even. item p is adjournment. this hearing is adjourned. thank you.

>> all right. so good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us today. you know, for the past four months, as mayor of the city of san francisco, i have from reside residents across our entire city up and down the ladder about the streets of san francisco. our streets are filled with trash and debris, and it is unacceptable, and i've said from day one the cleanliness of our streets is going to be one

of my biggest priorities as mayor of the city of san francisco. san francisco residents are fed up with the conditions, and i am the first to say that i feel their pain, and we are doing something about it. so last week, along with a number of people who are here behind me, we announced a comprehensive budget proposal that we're going to move forward with to aggressively cleanup our streets here in san francisco. we are no -- we know that our conditions on our streets exist across our city. it's not confined to one neighborhood. every single neighborhood is feeling this pain, including right here in the castro district. so this plan that we announced last week includes 44 new street cleaners throughout the city of san francisco, four in each supervisorial district that will have material impact in the conditions of our neighborhoods, in particular our commercial corridors. we're adding five new pit stops to address the feces and urination issues that we are seeing in many different

neighborhoods here in san francisco. and also talked about and announced a dedicated team to picking up syringes and needles across the entire city of san francisco. family members and individuals should not have to step over needles on the way to school, on the way to work. it simply doesn't need to be part of our landscape here in san francisco. and we are also growing our fix it team, sandra, who runs or fix it team, and does such an amazing job. how about a round of applause for her. [applause] >> the hon. mark farrell: we are expanding it to ten new districts in san francisco. because they do such an amazing job in san francisco. when there are areas to be picked up, when there is anything that needs to be done, they are there doing it, doing such an incredible job. but we need to do more. we need to put our foot on the gas pedal, and as mayor, until

i leave office, i am going to do it, and street cleanliness is something i am going to address. we have a big effort to cleanup our streets. san francisco residents do, as well, and now today we're going to have some bigbellys to help us with that effort. and sorry, i had to go there with that line. so today, we are announcing five new bigbelly trash receptacle here in the castro district and 15 others in different neighborhoods throughout san francisco. now these bigbelly trash cans, as you will see, there's going to be a demonstration at the end, are different than your normal trash cans. they have automatic compactors inside, allowing them to hold five times the amount of waste of any normal garbage can. they tick recycling, compost, and trash, and they're outfitted with wireless technology, real-time technology that alerts those when these are full to come pick them up and empty them. that means no more wasted trips

to pick up half full garbage cans. you know, we are the technology capital of the world. we should not be afraid, and you know i believe as mayor, we should embrace technology to benefit the daily lives of our residents, and we are doing that today. we are making this investment now in partnership with our small business leaders. our community benefits districts are the ones that really do the work on the ground. i want to thank andre who is here today for all of your work in the castro, and we are partnering with them to install these new bigbelly trash receptacles, but also to maintain them going forward. we are going to cleanup our city here in san francisco. we made a number of announcements last week.

today is just another step in that direction, and i want to make sure to reaffirm my commitment to the residents of san francisco that cleaning up our streets is going to be one of my biggest priorities, and we will not stop again until the day that i leave office. i look forward to seeing these trash cans across the city of san francisco. we are going to swallow up the trash with our bigbelly garbage cans, once again. so with that, i want to thank everyone for being here. we have a number of speakers, and i would like to introduce and bring up supervisor jeff sheehy, who's right behind me. and i want to make a quick comment about supervisor sheehy. there has been no one, since i have become mayor, who has been more forceful in his advocacy of cleaning up the streets of his district than jeff sheehy. you can clap. it's great. we have gone on neighborhood walks. we have walked this commercial corridor right here with our department of public works. there's no supervisor more focused on cleaning up the streets of his neighborhood than supervisor sheehy. and with that, i'd like to hear

from him. supervisor jeff sheehy. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you, mayor farrell. thank you for those kind words, and i really want to thank you deeply for your leadership on this issue. it's been a challenge, but the inno-nateti innovation that you're bringing to this, the resources, it's making a difference, and i know the people in my district, we're grateful. i also want to thank the department of public works because they have been so steadfast, so diligent in cleaning up this neighborhood, in cleaning up the district. it's a struggle because we know that this is an ongoing problem, and i think your new initial initiatives are going to help us turn the corner on this. we are moving forward on this. i want to thank the community benefits in the castro for their leadership. these things are great.

compacts, signals when the trash is full. and i do want to note that recology is here. recology is doing a great job. this is allow them to be enormously more efficient, so as the mayor said you're not emptiying half empty trash cans, you empty them when they're full. we've seen the problem. we have the open trash cans, people rummage in them. they overflow, and sometimes that creates a mess. so andre, thank you for your partnership with recology, with the mayor. i'm going to address you, but sandra zuniga, i can't say enough about you. she comes in, she solves problems, she works so closely with the community to identify problem areas and find solutions. she was telling me, for instance at glen park park, we

have a little flower stall that was graffitied up. and you know, she just went and painted it herself. that's the type of attitude she brings towards san francisco. that's how much she cares about this city, so i am honored to introduce sandra zuniga, who's director of the mayor's fix it team. >> good morning, everybody. thank you for that introduction and thank you to both mayor farrell and supervisor sheehy for their leadership in this city. special thank you to mayor farrell for giving me this assignment. being able to work on these bigbellys has been fun. so fix it, i run the fix it team, and what we do z we work closely with communities, talking to residents, listening to residents to find out what concerns they have, and we want to act quickly and effectively to help address those. in the castro, we've been working here about two years, and we've seen improvements, a

lot of great improvements to the castro. one of things that's a great concern is litter and the amount of litter we see around our city, especially trash cans, when they've been rummaged through or overflow especially when the wind blows and blows them away. so we're happy today to show you not just an efficient can but a very pretty tran ca-- trh can in the castro that we hope will bring new life, new energy to people who are shopping here, passing through here to use the handing, throw their cigarette butt or bottle away in the right place. today's announcement is part of a larger strategy that fix it has to make improvements in neighborhoods based on what we hear about from residents, so we plan to implement new strategies in neighborhoods across the city, and find out

what works and when something works, we can replicate it in other neighborhoods with confidence. i really would like to thank all of the community benefit districts who are working with me on this project. of course f andre aiello with the community benefit district, and several others who will see their bigbellys this summer, and a special shout out of course to public works, recology, economic and workforce development and kevin from bigbelly, who will give you all a demonstration soon. so with that, i would just like to introduce a wonderful partner in this who has been tremendously hard working and really fast at turning around a lot of giving us, you know, ideas, information, feedback, andre aiello, for getting

the -- from the castro c.i.d. for getting the first big belly on the ground. >> thank you for that. the castro community benefit district is so excited to be the first neighborhood that will be getting these bigbellys in a special program that has been sponsored by mayor farrell, and i want to thank the mayor so much for his dedication to keeping the neighborhoods clean, not only just downtown but the neighborhoods. and we are -- we'll be working with the city to develop metrics on how do we evaluate and measure these to make sure they're effective. and as everyone has been describing, the bigbellys work because once you put the trash in, you can't take the trash out, and that includes limiting and preventing overflowing trash cans, which i think we've

all seen all over the city. the wind is blowing, and the wind takes the paper or the cup out of the trash can, and there's a mess all the way down the sidewalk, and it blows it all the way down the sidewalk. so we're really excited that this is going to help keep the benefit district really clean. the castro neighborhood benefit district works tirelessly to keep the neighborhood clean, keep it vibrant. we have a lot of different strategies around cleanliness, around safety, economic vitality, greening. we have live performances in the jane warner plaza? the summer every weekend. everything fits together in a puzzle to encourage more people and more pedestrian traffic in the neighborhoods and in an urban environment. cleanliness is probably the first thing because nobody wants to walk around a neighborhood where there's trash and other things, and worse than just trash in a neighborhood. it's community benefit

districts working collaboratively with public works who has been absolutely fantastic as a partner and recology all working together to pitch in and keep san francisco clean -- or cleaner, and a great city. so i want to thank everybody and thampg the city family. they have vust been absolutely great. we've pushed through this contract in like a month, so that's unheard of. so thank everybody. i want to thank the mayor for hez creativity and initiative on this. and now, i think we're going to have kevin give a demonstration on how these wonderful things work. take care. >> one, two, three, go! [inaudible]

>> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪ ♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the

national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be

the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪ ♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great.

i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out.

that's how it should be. that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪ ♪ by the power ♪ of your name >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is

important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed

every single thursday out here. it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part

is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element into the situation. sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online,

it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bill. >> supervisor cohen: good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i want to welcome you back. it's may 3rd. it's the budget and financesub committee. malia cohen, chair. i want to recognize my felly committee women, supervisor stefani and supervisor fewer. madam clerk, are there any