>> 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]

>> good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us. got a packed house tonight. welcome to the board of education for the san francisco unified school district. today is may 8th, and the meeting is now called toar to o. roll call, please. [ roll call ] >> thank you. if you would please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance.

[ pledge of allegiance ] >> thank you. section a is accessibility information. section b is our opening items. approval of board minutes from the april 24th, 2018 and february 13th, 2018. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> approved [ roll call ] >> that's five ayes. >> thank you.

as has been announced, members of the public, an individual can complete a speaker card which looks like this and is located in the foyer before you enter the boardroom. prior to the item that is being called and presented to ms. casco. importantly, according to the board rules and procedures, speaker calls will not be accepted for an item already before the board. i'm going to say this one more time. you need to have a speaker card if you want to speak or you need to have called in to be on a list to speak. if you are not on the list, we're not going to allow t a alu speak this evening. we want to be respectful for those of you who signed up. there are many speakers on a couple of items. if you're here for an item where there are more than 20 speakers, i'm going to be limiting the time for you to speak. so i will give you a time limited amount, and i am just

asking you now to organize yourselves so that you can speak within that time frame. but i will call everybody's name at the time to speak. item 2 is a superintendent's report. dr. matthews. >> thank you, president mendoza. good evening, everyone. this week is teacher appreciation week and today is teacher appreciation day. all week we celebrate hard work and contributions to teachers make to our students, education, and society. i would like to personally thank all the remarkable teachers we have here in the san francisco unified school district for your dedication to students and families. i know how challenging and rewarding teaching can be. the to do list can be endless. the impact you have on the lives of your students cannot be overstated. please join me in thanking a teacher today, this week, and every day.

let's give our teachers a round of applause [ applause ] balboa celebrated the 90th anniversary. it's the 6th oldest high school in the san francisco unified school district. in 1995, the san francisco board of supervisors voted to maim it a city landmark regularring its special character and special historical architectural and esthetic interest and value. according to city documents, balboa high school represents san francisco's golden age of school construction because it was constructed between 1920 and 1930. our district added 49 new school buildings amid citywide population in growth throughout the school district. tens of thousands of students have graduated since the school opened in the district in 1928

with 653 students and 23 teachers. notable alumni include calvin simmons, the african-american conductor of a major u.s. orchestra, and grateful lead guitarist jerry garcia. hammy birthday to balboa high school. tomorrow may 9th from 5:30 to 8:00 is the avenue i ca the afrn signing day. they'll be welcomed at the university of san francisco where an evening infor to honorr post high school plans. it will be to celebrate the students who plan to attend two or four year colleges or professional training programs. the event will include catered food, live performances, guest speakers, and student incentives. the event is in collaboration

with alliance of black school educated and achievement and leadership initiative. the initiative is part of first lady michelle obama's job to inspire students to complete their education path high school. it will be 2130 fulton street. look for balloons and welcome signs and arrive early to leave time for parking. finally, on wednesday, may 16th, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., there is a local control and accountability community forum. lcap. it's part of the local control funding formula which requires districts to parents, educators, and employees in establishing our plans. this forum is an opportunity to participate in this engagement process and learn how families and community partners help

students and schools to succeed. you also will be i believe to learn about resources to prided to schools and share your ideas. i encourage you, the community, to attend this forum next wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. p.m.. interpretation for spanish and cantonese will be provided along with free child care and refreshments. president mendoza, that ends my comments for this evening. >> great. thank you, dr. matthews. our next item is student delegates report. >> good evening, everyone. at our next meeting next week, they will be deliberating on the second meeting of the meat willing monday resolution is to reduce carbon footprint and provide alternate protein diets.

>> we will be announcing the winner of the district elected student delegate campaign. so they will have big shoes to fill, and we will be announcing the winner that will be representing our students next monday. moving on, we have on update on 6145. we collected student input and presented it to a focus group. we plan to present our findings to the rules committee at the june 4th meeting. >> and be the voice and join the student advisory council. we are exception applications. if any of the students here know anyone that you think would be great for representing their school in our student council or if the adults know anyone, we welcome you to see us for an application or contact our

supervisor. we would like to recruit more delegates from schools to have a more diverse an and represented sac. >> our next meeting is may 14th at 5:00 p.m. in this room that concludes the report. >> thank you both. item 4 is recognitions and commendations. mr. matthews. >> we will be honoring the lowell varsity girls soccer team along with their combs amber wilson and gene. this season, they won the aaa city championship and then went on to win the division 4 nor cal regional championship and they took down that powerhouse rippen high school by a score of 2-1.

[ applause ] congratulations to the team and coaches and everyone who participated. i would like to call up the principal to say a few words and introduce the coaches. [ applause ] >> we are fortunate to have great students, staff, and outstanding coaches. i would like our coaches to say a few words because it's their team, our team, the city's team, and northern california's team. >> is it working? got it. all right. we don't have amplification on the soccer field, so i'm not

used to this. superintendent and members of the board, thank you for your recognition of our championship season. this honor tonight spotlights the fulfillment of the players own hopes that articulated at the beginning of our season, to have fun while improving their game and representing their school. but as you know, they also did a lot more, successfully representing the city and county of san francisco and the academic, athletic association. we achieved something else in the nor cal championship match against rippen high school, something that i consider more important than the victory itself. we gave our best effort and played our very best game of the season. congratulations to our players for that. [ applause ]

none of this came about easily or quickly. aaa girls varsity soccer began league play in 1994, a historic development due in part to the efforts of a legendary teacher and soccer coach. since then, the lowell girls have won 23 of 25 league titles, including an incredible run of 21 consecutive titles, defended and extended again by this current group of cardinals. you can see why i feel so privileged to have been part of the coaching staff for 18 years. this year's graduating seniors, for example, have never been defeated in aaa competition, accumulating a league record of 64 wins, no losses, and one tie.

[ applause ] to washington, let it be on the record. at lowell we have been fortunate to have players from families that support participation of female student athletes, along with invaluable support and encouragement from our principal and lowell athletic director, support that together with assistance from the ptsa and the alumni association has included access to funding for things like team buses and gender appropriate uniforms. as well as years of continuity and stability and the coaching staff. going forward, we may not always win, but we will to represent

lowle, and sfusd with respect to our referees, opponents, and diverse soccer family. we will continue to promote the value of combining team sports and academics in high school education. in closing and with an eye to the future, i would like to invite my assistant coach amber which will come twhich willwilsw varsity girls soccer coach. [ applause ] >> thank you. no pressure. as the assistant coach and schoocounselorrer, we are procef

them as representatives of lowell and sfusd. i want to welcome our cocaptain to say a few words. thank you. >> thank you so all of you and the board of education for all your support in our journey. i would like to thank our parents who have gone both near and far to support us and cheer us on at games at home as well as four hours away in redding this season. i would also like to thanking our coaches, a coach who has been with me the past four years and made this such a great experience and also to coach wilson who i am very excited to have her on this team this year and also to see what she does with the team in the next years. this season has definitely had its challenges especially in our

postseason and our cif nor cal competition. we came into the season not knowing what that was going to be like. we didn't know what nor cal really could mean to a district, to a city, and we had no clue what type of competition we would see out there. but the girls brought everything. they brought 100% to all their games, three games against amazing teams in five days, and then bringing also their mental toughness into these games after long bus rides coming out and within an hour being ready to play, ready to put their all on the field. so more than anything, i'm thankful to all of you but also mostly to all of my girls here, all the amazing players who have worked so hard both this season and for many of them in past seasons to bring us to where we are today, to bring us to a championship in nor cal and to

make such a team that is not only strong on the field but also that has become a great second home to me and many of the seniors over the past four years. so thank you, everyone, and i look forward to seeing you guys axe sell ihe -- excelin the fut. >> while the superintendent is giving you certificates, i wanted to rattle of your names and congratulate you one more time. as parents of kids at lowell and a husband who went to lowell, it's just such an important part of your academic success to be able to do both what do you on the field and do what you do in the classroom. so congratulations. then i just wanted to acknowledge who the seniors are. so i'll let you no he wh you knr

seniors are. [ reading off names ] >> this is a point of privilege for somebody who happens to know the young lady who scored both of the goals at the championship. sara, we're really proceed of you and -- proud of all of you. our next item is our student scholarships and awards. i'm going to excuse the soccer

girls and congratulate them one more time. in any of our students that are receiving scholarship awards this evening, if you would please join us in the front two rows, we would love to be able to honor you as well. come on up. we're going to do this in this order. the alliance of black school educators, latin-american teachers association, and then the association of chinese teachers. so if there are any other students that are getting an award tonight, please join us up front. let's see. who is speaking? there you are. wonderful. welcome.

>> hello, everyone. thank you for having us. i am a member of the san francisco alliance of black school educators. i'm over the banquet. >> good evening, i am the cochair for the scholarship. >> so this year, we had 13 scholarship applicants, and they all won. thank you. thank you very much. simpson is from john o'connell. he'll be going to san francisco state. another from john o'connell. raven is from mission high. she'll be majoring in chemistry. victor is galileo. he is going to san jose state. he is majoring in astrophysics and astronomy.

mike gregory attended john o'connell and transferred to bishop, but he was our emcee for the honor roll for two years and the last three years, he was the chairperson for the black student union summit held every october. he is going to ucsf. wwe have tatiana going to dillad university majoring in criminal justice. we have kayla here. she goes to mission high school. she will be attending uc merced majoring in psychology. we have kiante jones from washington high school going to sacramento state majoring in business. we have sheldon here -- shelton.

she attends lowell and she will be going to dillard university majoring in psychology. we have -- i'll no, sir pronouncing her name wrong. she attends washington high school and she will be going to ucla studying neuroscience. last but not least, we have golden van jones who is a lowell high school student who'll be attending uc berkeley and majoring in business. she changed to ucla. all of their gpa was above 3.5. it was not without any hesitation we elected them. would any of you like to say

anything? >> i just want to say thank you for the scholarship was going to school is really important, not just to have a good job but to be educated is to educate other people. so thank you for helping me make that possible. [ applause ] >> i just want to say thank you to the san francisco alliance of black school educators for sticking with me. it's not my first or last time at the board meeting. i just want to say thank you to the educators here th and the pe rooting for these kids, not just so you can say i went to this college and got this degree. it really changes you and changes the way you think. to say i came from sfusd is the

proudest thing i can ever say to somebody. so when i go down there, i'll rep you guys with pride. just thank you to everybody. thank you to the board for sticking up for our education. we really appreciate it. [ applause ] >> good evening, everyone. i would like to thank the san francisco alliance of black school educators for giving me this scholarship and i would also like to thank the san francisco unified school district for being with me through my education because i've been in the district since i was in kindergarten. it's like i've been meeting people who have helped me and brought me up to this point where i am right now. so thank you all. [ applause ] >> virginia marshal could not be here. she's about to be a grandmother. she's on the way to the hospital. thank you for your time. [ applause ]

>> thank you so much. latin-american teachers association. >> good evening. i'm president of the latin-american teachers association. with me is our new vice president allison martinez. she will share with me the responsibility of announcing our scholarship winners. this past friday, we celebrated our 9th annual scholarship dinner dance. in that, we were able to give out 17 scholarships. 16 to high school seniors and one teacher scholarship to an aspiring sfusd teacher. would wwith that, we had 142 applications. we were able to give out 17. the names include christian moreno, diane a, diego mesa, e -- reading names.

(reading names) >> two years ago, our organization started teacher scholarships which would be to award it to a teacher looking to go into sfusd. i was the first recipient of this school two years ago, and this year we are lucky to announce our scholarship recipient. she plans to teach first grade in sfusd. [ applause ] we would like to give a shoutout tshoutoutdr. murase.

i know mr. matthews was there as well. thank you all for being in attendance and supporting our organization. [ applause ] >> wonderful. congratulations to all those students. the association -- the association of chinese teachers, do we have a representative? >> they sent a message late this afternoon that none of their board members could be here tonight, but they did present 16 scholarships. >> another 16 students there. congratulations to all of the students that received a tech scholarship. commissioner walton. >> again, just want to congratulate all the students

and also reiterate the fact that it is a shame that we do not have the media here to highlight when our students achieve and are doing well because they are quick to come when things are happening that are negative, but when our students are being successful, they don't show up. so congratulations to all of our scholarship winners. [ applause ] >> we were expecting the san francisco achievers, but they weren't able to be here. we congratulate all those award winners. our next item is 5, recognizing all valuable employees, our rave aards wa. we're not giving any this evening. item 6 is our advisory committee report and appointments by board members. we don't have any reports tonight. are there any appointments to advisory committees by board members? commissioner sanchez. >> yes.

liana, the principal -- she's one of my appointees. she has left that body, and i'm appointing gabriella lopez who is a teacher at flynn elementary. >> okay. any others? i actually have an opening also. i'm going to be appointing greg peters who is a parent and the director. section c is our consent calendar. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> public comment on consent items. i have one speaker on consent. let me see. hold on one second. i'm sorry. this is on item 11.