>> commissioner haney: in support of the city, our home ballot initiative, where as homelessness is the greatest crisis facing the city and county of san francisco, we need to accept up and where as in the 2015-16 school year, identified 1 in 25 students as homeless, including 491 in middle school, 787 in high school and 168 in charter schools, and whereas the 2016 report hidden in plain site, states that over40% of formerly homeless students surveyed dropped out while they were homeless in middle or high school. whereas the 2014 report found that california is ranked 48th for its response to child homelessness. this ranking is determined by the extent of homelessness in

the state, child well-being and state level resources to prevent and address child homelessness. research and data including individual surveys of homeless youth indicate that it has lasting impact on a child's physical, emotional and academic development. they may suffer trauma, anxiety, shame, withdrawal whereas it is a holistic measure that transforms the crisis by a carefully crafted road map. this would generate $300 million, by creating a half percent tax. whereas at least 50% of the fund must going to housing. this would pay for construction,

rehab and subsidies for 4,000 housing units. it would house over a thousand families and 800 youth. 25% of the funds is required to go to families and 20% to youth. this would ensure 7 thoup thousand households get legal assistance, permanent or temporary subsidies to stay in their housing or other forms of help they need to stay housed such as help with electrical or other bills. whereas at most 10% of $30 million used for 1075 new shelter beds, navigation center beds, as as well as help keep our streets clean. there be it resolved that the board of education of san

francisco school district supports the bilal measure, our city, our home homeless gross receipts tax for the november 2018 ballot. we have speakers on this. jack rice. sam law. jordan davis. alison broman. and julie robertson. come on up, you have two minutes. please note the clock. i like saying that. please note the clock. at your one minute mark, you'll get a yellow sign. >> hi, my name is jack. i'm a resident of the tenderloin and i'm grateful to see the work that sfusd is doing for the homeless. in light of the disproportionate

barriers, i think that sfusd's support of this bill would be good. >> i was born and raised here in san francisco and i also went to public school and went to lowell. i went to lakeshore and presidio, so i'm really excited to be here today. i never thought i would be at a school board meeting. i work with homeless families and youth on a daily basis and wanted to say thank you for looking over this resolution and thank you to commissioner matt haney for introducing this. doing the work i do every day with homeless families and youth, i've seen so many families living in their car because they can't afford to live in san francisco because they've been evicted. we've seen families living in the shelter. right now there are families

sleeping on a mat in a church, and there is no showers there. and there is no case workers. and they're sharing a room with like 40 other people. and this is the state that our families and that our children are living under every single day. so we know that in san francisco as was stated in the resolution, 1 in 25 sfusd children are experiencing homelessness. we know that homeless children have lower academic achievement overall and there is 87% more likely to drop out of school. obviously, folks know that there is a housing crisis. there is a homelessness crisis. and people want to see solutions. but nothing is going to be solved without a huge infusion of funding to actually address the issue.

and we really see that our city, our home proposition c, is the biggest measure and the boldest measure to truly address this crisis. i would urge you all to vote yes on supporting the resolution. thank you so much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> jordan davis, i'm a resident of the tenderloin and formerly homeless voter in san francisco. and i just want to say i support our city, our home and i want to thank commissioner haney for all his work on this and for supporting so many communities. i was homeless myself in adulthood and i just cannot imagine -- and it's taken a big toll on me, and i came to think, you know, if it was rough for me an adult, how rough do you think it is for the kids? i've had to deal with a lot of

things and i don't know where i'd be if i was homeless in my youth. it is easier to lift up a child than to fix a broken adult. please no more broken adults. no more homeless children, please pass this measure, thank you. >> good evening, my name is alison. imthe parent of a student at tenderloin community schools which as you all know has one of the higher populations of homeless students of all of our schools and it's a population that is hard to identify. it's not something that a child want to admit. and our children come to school and are stigmatized, they don't have clean clothes, they haven't been able to shower. our city, our home, it is no exaggeration to say that this is

a once-in-a-generation opportunity for our voters to ask something major of the corporations in our city that have the most. and to give it to our most vulnerable residents. and as the representative of our schools, as a parent, i am asking you, please, support this measure. please vote for it when you have the opportunity. and show our students that you are here for them. thank you. >> my name is julie, and i'm a parent at redding elementary. as alison mentioned, we're also a tenderloin elementary school

with one of the highest rates of families in transition in the city, i think we're the 6th highest with 11% of our families in transition. that means that in each of our classrooms, there is 2-3 children who are experiencing homelessness. and a couple of years ago, our family befriended another family in the midst of homelessness and it was eye opening to see first hand and have her share what they were going through. they were up at 6:00 in the morning to get out of the shelter and had to be back by 6 p.m. she was lucky to move from that to a 3-month bed that are restrictive rules about when she could come and go. she was doing appointments day after day at organizations, community based organizations to try to qualify for longer term beds. she got a 6-month bed and during the appointments, she had to

bring her children with her to show he was eligible for family housing. or just because of pickup dynamics, she would have to take the kids out of school. she had one child in marina and another in drew. her children missed a lot of school as well as her daughter being bullied for being homeless in middle school. she found affordable housing, long-term housing, but we lost her, she had to move to sacramento to do that. as a tenderloin parent whose kids are friends with experiencing homelessness, i want to ask the school board to support the measure. market street has gotten a tax break and we're asking them to contribute to our schools. there are people with means in the city, who as individuals have interests in contributing. we ask you to support this measure to tax those corporations and make sure our

families have homes. thank you. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: questions for comments from the board? commissioner wallson. >> commissioner walton: thank you, president. one, i want to thank my colleague for bringing this forward. as a strong proponent of our city, our home, understanding we all have to play a role in addressing the homeless crisis that exists in our city. this is one of many ways we're going to get families housed. people off the street and into the services and get them the support they need. i support this resolution and again, i want to thank commissioner haney for bringing this forward. thank you. >> commissioner norton: so i am still putting -- formulating my position on. this i'm going to need to vote on it over at the federal committee next week. i understand the mayor is

working on the impact of the measure. that is why i voted against suspending the rules this evening. so i'm going probably -- we don't abstain here, so i'm going probably leave the room because i don't know yet what position i'm going to take on this legislation. i certainly support homeless families in our district and would like to support this, but i do want to see more analysis on the impact before i take a position. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. others? >> commissioner haney: thank you to everybody who came out tonight to speak on the measure, especially the parents who are here. and folks from the community and the coalition for their leadership on this measure. i agree, i think it was well put this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity that we have as a city to take on what continues to be the most devastating crisis and shame that we have as a city. this is definitely a school district issue for all the

reasons that the folks who spoke tonight put so well. we have 1 in 25 of our students who are identified as homeless. the impact this has on our schools, on our kids, on our families, cannot be quantified. and is really immeasurable. we have opportunity with this measure to not just address the broader issue of homelessness in our city, but to actually address child and family homelessness. as i noted in the resolution, there is a significant part of this funding that would go to address family homelessness and it's perfectly aligned with the work we've been doing. a couple of months ago we passed a resolution formulating a new approach to how we support homeless students, committing our own resources, potentially our own land. being really a first responder to make sure that families that are in danger of becoming

homeless get the support they need and the rapid response. all the work we've been doing with hamilton families. so i think that -- i hope as a district we don't just support this, but when it passes, we're at the table, that we're making sure we're funding some of the opportunities we have in our district. all of this rapid response money to prevent homelessness to begin with, a lot runs through the school district, so that we know on the front lines when a family is about to become homeless, that we're able to connect them with the funds and opportunities. so this is, i hope, not just a commitment to support a policy, but a commitment to see it actualized, to see it work well and to see our families have the opportunity to benefit from it. so i hope that the voters do the right thing. i know we're going to work very hard to make it happen. and i want to thank also the staff in our district who worked so hard every day to support families who are homeless and to make sure that the school

district is not doing the bare minimum, but that we're fighting every way we can to support our families. this is just the next step in this and in many ways one of the most important things we can do right now to be there for our families and schools. so i hope my colleagues support this. those who can. and i appreciate, again, the leadership of all the organizations who got us to this point. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: any other questions or comments? >> i want to thank commissioner haney for putting this forward. i have to say, i'm typically against bringing propositions that are on the ballot forward to the school board to vote on them, because often times they're personal, or there are positions we need to take as leaders in our city. and it's always a little awkward, unless it's something we ourselves are putting on the

ballot as a bond or a parcel tax. however, for this particular resolution, i am going to support it. and i'm supporting it because i do really believe that we have been making some huge investments in our homeless youth. and that whether it's the way we allocate our dollars, or the investments and the partnerships we've built with the city, commissioner walton and i have have been working closely with supervisor ronen on our overnight stay, which is something that is innovative and something no one else has done in the country. we're really excited about that. that takes leadership and courage. and i think this ballot initiative drives home the need of so many families, which is unfortunate. and this adds to the $30 million

in private funds that our late great mayor lee supported and raised monies for and made a commitment to ensure that those dollars are allocated first to our homeless students in elementary school. so he really prioritized the need for paying attention to the homeless youth in our school district. so what i know of our city or home, it speaks to many of the issues that we talk about on a regular basis around homeless housing. what i do appreciate about this, too, it speaks to behavioral health services. that's not for the adults only, but the children. i have a hard time bringing forward propositions on the ballot, but i think this will deeply impact our students and the idea that we can kill a high school with the number of young

people in our school district that are suffering from insecure housing is shameful. and whatever we can do to help prevent that in the future and to make accommodations for those experiencing homelessness now is something that i think we all need to stand up for. with that, if there is no other questions or comments, roll call, please. >> mr. cook? mr. haney? yes. murase yes. six ayes. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you, all, who came out to speak on behalf of this measure. we look forward to working with you on this. next item is section l, board member reports, standing committee. we've had no meetings taking place since the last school board meeting, our regular board

meeting, so we don't have any reports on standing committees. board delegates, membership organizations? anyone have anything, anybody went anywhere over the summer? for any of the committees? any other reports by board members? >> commissioner murase: i'm sorry, i did attend the csba leadership institute in july, where jim ryan presented on our algebra -- our math sequence and some of the stunning results of moving the 8th grade math requirement from 8th grade to 9th grade. there is a lot of buzz in how san francisco was able to decrease the failure rate in algebra from 40% to 8%. including among subgroups. so it was great to see him. one of his last responsibilities with the school district, because he has since moved on.

but it was really -- generated a lot of interest by other school districts. >> thank you, commissioner walton? >> commissioner walton: thank you, i wanted to shout out two things that happened over the summer. shoutout to bayview with the leadership of the bayview cohort, educators, principals, parents, and everyone who wants to see our school succeed in bayview. got together to get personnel excited about the upcoming school year. there were trainings, speeches. superintendent participated and a lot of leadership in the district. we're excited about going into the school year. i want to thank the leadership of the cohort for bringing the school personnel together to get everyone excited and really get to know the community they're going to be working in as we get ready for monday and the start of school. i also wanted to shout out our

college and career department for the work they've done over the summer. a lot of things have happened that have increased opportunities for our young people in terms of connecting them to opportunities outside of just regular academic curriculum over the summer, so we increased pathway programs and opportunities over the summer. more of our young people are participating in internships across various sectors of employment. i'm excited to see that work has been increasing every year. and that is continuing. i want to give college and career a shoutout as well. and thank all of our school personnel, faculty and everyone working hard over the summer, still providing experiences for our young people when i know -- when you work all school year with young folks and then turn around and put in the work over the summer, we appreciate that,

thank you. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. vice president cook. >> vice president cook: i was also going to shoutout to folks at bayview. commissioner walton stole my thunder. >> again. >> he has a habit of doing that [laughter]. i think it is a great model that i hope we can do more of across the city to get people together, excited to get back into the school year. i would like to see it for the schools in the western addition, students in that area of the city. they suffer the same challenges that a lot of the students in the bayview do. thank you for the leadership making that happen. i heard great feedback from a number of administrators about the institute. i want to acknowledge dr. matthews and his team for putting that together. i know people worked hard, long hours to get that off the ground. i wasn't able to attend because

i was not in the country. but you were all working hard and i really appreciate that. and i'm excited about the year ahead. finally, i just wanted to briefly -- about another loss that we had. i wanted to briefly acknowledge nia wilson who was tragically taken from us due to an incident of violence on one of our public transit lines on bart. she wasn't a member of our school district, but a member of the bay area community, one of our children. and i'm really focused on, i think we all do believe in keeping our children in safe. so i wanted to say her name. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you vice president cook. i think this is symbolic of the children we care for in our own district, so thank you for

acknowledging her. so the calendar committee meetings, that's on me. and i am actually passing around the committee request, so if you could please complete that and i'll announce the next -- or the new committees by the 28th. but the board members will know before that. section m, other informational items posted in the agenda, two reports, the student assignment transfer mechanism and quarterly report on the uniform complaint. section n is the memorial adjournment. so we're adjourning in memory of linda lee and me lan, i would like to ask commissioner norton to do the acknowledgment for ms. linda lee. >> commissioner norton: linda rose lee was with the school

district from 1994. she was a gifted person and educator with outstanding leadership and impressive capacity to bring people along, including those that others doubted. linda's conflict management skills were well known. her understanding of research based best practice in education and her ability to communicate these in development and professional learning activities, as well as in written forms, including manuals, training modules was highly respected throughout california and beyond. linda was almost single handedly responsible for the ed indications of sfusd.

her impasse on inclusive education in san francisco cannot be overstated and her passion was contagious. linda began her own participation in public education as a child with a physical disability. as one of los angeles's many segregated special education centers where she was a student until 4th grade. then her father advocated for her to be included in regular class in her neighborhood school. something that was no small feat in the 1960s. in 1994, linda moved to san francisco to accept one of the regular inclusion support. as they initiated, 10 elementary, two middle and one high school provided services in that first year and linda worked with elementary students and became full-time. in 1997 she was appointed as a

content specialist k through 12. as the number of inclusive schools spread across the city, 50 preschool through high school sites through 2000, focusing on those with the severe disabilities and then broadening. they co-chaired the inclusion task force created by the superintendent in 1995. she led, wrote and was contributor to multiple state wide inclusive education efforts. linda left in 2007 and went on to leadership roles in several districts in new york. the board of education and san francisco unified school district send our condolences to her daughter and her husband. i would like this thank dr. ann for helping put together this memorial adjournment. thank you.

>> thank you, commissioner norton. vice president cook? >> vice president cook: yes. i'm going to acknowledge miss gladys scott reed who is the aunt. before i go into the official readings, i wanted to say i attended the memorial for milan, it was a touching credit to person. she was a superstar. she worked for the student family and community support division in the community partnership office. she was a brilliant young woman who brought excellence, innovative ideas, contagious energy to all of her work.

she was a generous and supportive colleague to all. her daily work, she worked with community based organizations, provided support and assistance to develop strategies to students and families. she was the innovation award hill crest elementary school, supporting the school to build a black student union. and a mentor to high school girls for success program. she epitomized the core of the values. everyone that met her was instantly impressed with her intellect and spirit. she could work a room like no other. when she would present in front of a group of folks, she held the group's attention, put people at ease, could make them

laugh and smile, even when she was telling them how to do better for our black and brown families. she spoke -- she often spoke about her beautiful son mason, about her hopes and dreams with him. mason was and is the love of her life. everything she did was for him. she would light up whenever you asked about him. and would happily share all of his current exploits and achievements. she grew up in san francisco. she went away to college and also got her masters before she came, determined to support the community that focused on education as an opportunity for everyone. one of the reasons she was so effective was the community partnerships, was her ability to build trust and make connections, bridging multiple rolings, educator, mentor and

college prep and youth clinic. she will be deeply missed. she lives on in our work and our hearts. rest in peace, milan. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you, our deepest condolences to the family. thank you for being here. we appreciate your presence. this time, we'll take public comment for those who submitted speaker cards for close session items, we don't have any. we're going to section o, which is closed session. the board will go into closed session. i call a recess

>> president mendoza-mcdonnell: justin, can you open the door? i know there were parents out there. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: we're on item p. reconvening to open session. item 1, we're going to be voting on student expulsions. i move approval where the parties agreed to waive the expulsion of one high school student.

and where the term of the expulsion is for one year from the date of the agreement with the option to reduce the expulsion term to fall, if the student completes the rehabilitation plan and receives the support services described in the agreement. could i get a second? >> second. >> thank you. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: roll call. >> clerk: seven ayes. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: i move approval of a stipulated expulsion agreement where they waive the hearing of one high school student and where the term of the expulsion was for the spring 2018 and entire fall

semest semester. second, please? >> second. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: roll call. >> clerk: seven ayes. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. item 2 is a vote on employment contracts for unrepresented executive employee, i move to approve the contract for the interim deputy superintendent of strategic partnerships and communication at a salary set at grade m, step 9, august 15 through the appointment of deputy superintendent of strategic partnerships and communication. a second, please? >> second. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you, roll call, please.

>> clerk: seven. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you. this is the read out of the august 14 closed session. the board by a vote of seven ayes ratified the contracts. the in the matter of d.j. versus sfusd, the board by a vote of seven ayes gives authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. case number 20180210, the board by a vote of seven ayes gives a authority of district to pay up the stipulated amount. in the matter of sullivan verse

sfusd, the authority 0 pay up to the stipulated amount. the board by a vote of seven ayes pays up to the stipulated amount in. matter of con, case number 2018-1040876, gives the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. on matters of anticipated litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel. section q is adjournment, that meeting is adjourned. good night, everyone.

>> all right. here we go. good morning! >> good morning. >> how's everyone doing here today? >> great. >> well, thank you, everyone, for joining us. i want to thank the san francisco unified school district, the san francisco police department, sfmta, the department of public health and walk s.f. and the boys and girls club for working with us to make sure that our kids are getting to and from school safely. as a new school year begins, we are stepping up educational campaigns and enforcement so that drivers slow down and our

students are safe. no matter if they're walking, biking or taking transit. the s.f. police department traffic company is increasing its enforcement near 20 schools and foe cushion on our high injury corridors where the majority of the accidents happen throughout city. we know that the key to reducing accidents and fatalities is reducing the speed that cars are traveling. a pedestrian hit by a car going 30 miles per hour is six times more likely to die than a car going 20 miles per hour. the sfmta is repainting approximately 90 crosswalks to make them visible -- more visible to drivers and we are deploying 187 crossing guards and we are joined here today by some of our most talented crossing guards in the city. thank you all so much for your

work. i went to rosa parks elementary school and we would all walk to school together and we were so fortunate because we always had a cotszing gar. there was someone that made sure we got to school safely. that is what this is about. keeping our kids safe. along with enforcement, we know that we need to make physical changes to our most dangerous transit corridors. earlier this week, i unveiled the new masonic avenue corridor which previously had been the site of far too many accidents and, sadly, for too many fatalities. numerous city agencies work together to make the new masonic avenue a safer place for our pedestrians, for bicyclists, transit riders and for drivers. hopefully i don't get anymore of those complaints about bumpy

roads along masonic. it is a newly paved street as well and it is absolutely beautiful. we are working on infrastructure improvements like this across the city, while also taking immediate stems to make our streets safer. so know to the point of this press conference is safety. it is about making people aware that, as our kids return to school, we want people to be aware. we want drivers to drive more safely. we want people to look out for one another and just to add an extra bit of security, law enforcement will be out there in full effect making sure that we are all on our best behavior. together, we can make sure that every student in san francisco gets to and from school safety and i want to thank you all again for joining us, for helping us get the word out. and that the time, i want to introduce one of our partners in this effort.

our school superintendent, dr. vincent matthews. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. and i also want to thank you all for being here and joining us. on monday morning, monday the 20th, over -- we're standing in front of everett middle school. over 750 students will return to this school and it is important that we do everything we can to keep them safe and the number one way of keeping them safe is slowing down. reducing speed saves lives. 750 students will return here, but throughout the city, 56,000 students will be returning to our schools along with 10,000 staff moebs and coming to these schools will be anywhere from 75,000 to 100,000 parents dropping them off and picking them up. we want to make sure that all

of our people who are associated with our schools in any way, shape or form are kept safe. so once again, we want to encourage you to know that we're starting school on monday and we need you to slow down. what we're also excite about is that we're training the next generation of safe walkers. we are partnering with so many organizations. and what that does is it allows us to have our safety workers here and they will be at our sites. last year, they were at 15 of our schools. and this coming year, there will be an additional four schools added with more safety workers to help our students stay safe. daniel webster, ed cleveland elementary, gordon j. lowe will have safety workers added to their sites. we're really excited about monday. we're excited about partnering with our partners to keep our students safe and we're excited that you're all here today. with that, and without any further ado, i'd like the

introduce our chief of police to you, chief scott. [applause] >> good morning. >> as we relate to the start of this school year, the safety of our residents, especially our children as the mayor stated, is one of our top priorities. under mayor breed's leadership, we're collaborating closely with our partner agencis to put in place smart strategies to drive down traffic injuries and fatalities. outlined in our vision zero initiative, we want to get to zero fatalities by the year 2024. and here are a few numbers to think about. while children represent about 6% of our traffic injuries overall, they make up a slightly higher proportion, 8%, of our pedestrian injuries. compared to 6% of passenger and 4% of bicyclist injuries.

we're pleased to say that there is a downward trend in children trafficked fatalitis in san francisco, decreasing from three in 2013 -- three fatalities -- to zero in 2016 and zero in 2017. i think that is very commendable. last year we saw significant drop also in overall traffic deaths. compared to 2016, there were 34 deaths that were traffic related and 2017 there were 22 deaths that were traffic related and then 2018 we have 10 deaths. we're tracking better. we know 10 is far too many. just this week, a bicyclist lost his life to a hit-and-run driver in our tenderloin district. so we're focused on getting to zero. what i've asked my staff to do, including the police department's traffic company which many are here today, is to conduct back-to-school

child-pedestrian and bicycle safety operations for the entire week. these officers will perform traffic enforcement at or near 20 san francisco schools -- i'll wait until the bus passes, the train -- located near what is are considered our high injury corridors. our efforts to focus on the behavior is to jeopardize pedestrian and/or bicycle safety, which are speed, failure to yield to pedestrians, violating bicycle lane regulations and other at-risk violations. it's really important to point out that we work on these efforts year round. not only during the school year to make our streets safer. throughout the school year, we'll be engaged in traffic enforcement and education regarding the consequences of unsafe speed. we know that higher speeds increases the severity of injuries in a crash so we're focused on getting drivers to slow down.

our officers will be conducting high-vizability enforcement and education in part through a state-funded safe route to school program. we've done 30 operations so far this year. in addition, our school resource officers will balls on hand this year to engage with student and teachers and continue the conversation about safety on our street. the message that i'd like to leave the public with, and it is the same message from the mayor and superintendent of schools troeb slow down. the speed limit is 50 -- is 15 miles per hour. watch out for small children enterg our cross walks and we can keep every pedestrian in our city safe throughout the year. now i'd like to invite mr. tom mcguire, the director of sustainable streets for the san

francisco municipal transportation authority to the microphone. thank you. [applause] >> good morning. thank you. it's great -- it's a great time of year. the first day ofle school is a great time of year to remind ourselves and recommit ourselves to our city's vision zero commitment. the commitment to end all traffic fatalities in san francisco by 2024. our school children are, on one hand the future of our city. on the other hand, some of our most vulnerable pedestrians and we can all do better. we can all do better by not speeding, by slowing down and by yielding to pedestrians, especially seniors and especially our school children as they twaouk and from school. a pedestrian in the crosswalk always has the right-of-way. i'm really excited and i'm joined today by four of our most senior crossing guards. the m.t.a. will have over 187 crossing guards out at over 100 elementary and middle school this is year. they are on the frontlines to keep all of our kids safe.

and to work with our communities to build that culture of safety that we need. we are excite about things that the m.t.a. does to support safe travel to and from schools. our muni assistance program provides transit assistance to help kids on the bus, on bus routes with high rates of crime and vandalism. we've repainted over 90 crosswalks, high-visibility crosswalks so drivers and pedestrians are clear about the rules of the road and they know where the crosswalks are and know how to use them safely. so we're very excited about our efforts at the m.t.a. in terms of engineering and crossing guards and education. but it can't just be -- it can't just be those efforts. we need everyone to participate in the effort to slow down and keep our kids safe, to move from that culture of speeding to the culture of safety that we need if we are going to achieve our ambitious goal of vision zero by 2024.

i'd like to introduce the head of walk s.f. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. thank you, mayor breed, superintendent scott to talk about our partnership in making streets safe. for many parents, this weekend getting ready to go to school is more about new sneakers and backpacks and school supplies. it is the work of figuring out how their child will be getting to and from school safety. san francisco is proud to be part of the team that is making it possible to choose sustainable forms of transportation, like walking, biking, transit or car pool or the four fun ways of traveling to school. because in the 1960s, about 50% of children used to walk and bike to school and now that number is less than 20%. and we know that this -- children and parents don't allow their kids to walk and

bike to school because our streets don't feel safe. and we're trying to change that. in 2011, san francisco became the first large city in california to establish a 15 miles an hour school zone city-wide. this is around 181 schools. we did this because we know that speed is the number one cause of severe and fatal traffic crashs in our city. proud to say that walk s.f. led this initiative, along with city agencis that are here with us today. because we need to help protect children, families and all pedestrians city wide. through smart initiatives and strong partnerships like the safe routes to school program, we're coming together to make sure that parents have options to get their children to school safely. . beyond a single occupancy vehicle. this behind me is the team to put in place necessary

infrastructure, the engineering, enforcement, encouragement and education through the safe route to school partnership to enable our children the future of san francisco to arrive to school safe. and ready to learn. we hope to see you all on october 10 for our 10th annual walk and rolle to school day. we will be announcing the location soon. but i hope to see you all there. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, all. this concludes the press conference. members of our team will be available to talk right off stage here. so thank you for being out here today. [applause]

>> 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. >> really appreciate you being here. in april 2013, urge the leadership of the late mayor ed lee and then supervisor london breed, the city and county of san francisco resolved to undertake something that had never been done before. in the face of decades of

federal underinvestment in public housing, they've put together a massive plan to utilize the new rental assistance demonstration program, to undertake massive repairs across 29 public housing properties in san francisco. the rental assistance demonstration program did not offer any new funding, but instead flexibility around rules show that cities could utilize creative ways to finance the work. what san francisco accomplished, renovating 3400 homes at a total development cost exceeding $2 billion a true model for the nation. if there is one lesson to be learned from all of this work from me, it is that monumenttal things can be accomplished when an entire community across a all levels of government and with the private sector come together with a shared vision.