the support help also improved the support capacity and move people off the waitlist. lastly, ioa has a new card -- contract partner for a bilingual registered nurse to provide nursing consultation services as well as to carry a caseload of clients requiring medically intensive care management services. as 90% of the self-help population are of asian and pollute pacific island dissent, this partnership is anticipated to improve clf capacity to outreach and serve individuals representing the diverse population of san francisco. this concludes my report. >> president serina: any questions from the commission? any questions from the public? >> i do have one question. >> president serina: too late. [laughter] >> i actually have a few questions.

so talking about residential care facilities, it states that due to the fact that the subsidies are high for low and compliance, they are at capacity subsidies available for individuals requiring the rc fe level of care. is that based on the overall budget capacity of the community living fund? is it based on -- i know there's issues on availability and capacity of the citywide network in general. and that the city is looking towards -- via the task force in the board of supervisors and the mayor on budgeting back to improve the network. i just wanted to add a little more colour on that. >> sure. there is a specific number of slots that they allow. those are quite expensive and they are ongoing indefinitely until the person doesn't need it anymore, which is probably years so those slots that are full, if

we were increasing the slot calculate take away from someone else who could use home modifications or other purchases of services that would enable someone to stay at home. it is kind of like a juggling, if you will of what the priorities are and how do we manage these precious resources? if we can keep someone in their home, they may not need to go there and it is cheaper to provide a home accommodation than to provide an ongoing subsidy. that is sort of the judgement call that are made for those situations. >> just to clarify, it is a factor of the budget and of the limitations of that specific budget. and not the other issue which is also an issue but that is a separate thing. >> ok. thank you. and i did have one other question. we talked about a bilingual

skilled nurse to handle a more intensive case, but overall, it seems like the community in the c.l.f. program is underrepresented compared to the overpopulation of the overall population in the overall needs that are out there. will that be -- will the new position also help, in general, the referral outreach? how are we working on that? >> it has been something we have been working on on an ongoing basis. and the usual outreach methods does not seem to be enough. we have bilingual staff and the referrals shift based on when the staff for their -- are there and different things that happened. we have struggled with batch. the thought was that by having an active partner, that has expertise and works with -- primarily that the natural partnership will increase

referrals, increase outreach because you are integrated with the organization. so there is that piece of it. in addition to it, the nurse will be able to have the bilingual capacity and take on case elements and in addition to the medically needed, we are doing other things such as people who are of a.p.i. dissent get priority on the waitlist. they are getting off the waitlist after we are streamlining the folks -- the bilingual staff that have capacity and we are maximizing the caseload so they can. new hires that come on board, we will prioritize those spaces for folks that have the background and expertise to serve the population. it is a multifold thing. this is the latest thing that we thought might be most effective. we will see how it goes in the next six months and see how fast that turns it around.

it is an ongoing effort to make a difference in this measure. >> president serina: his disposition temporary or is it a trial? >> it is a permanent position. it is a contract position with self-help. in that respect. >> president serina: sometime it is really important when people see something they are familiar with and that there will be -- they will be more open to ask questions and other things. that is a good move to have someone who would speak the language. >> we have been doing more investigation with why the referrals might be from laguna honda. a lot of those discharged -- discharges, people go back home to family. we are looking at, are their utilization patterns that are different for the population and maybe we need to serve people in

the community more and focus more on the utilization patterns for someone of a.p.i. dissent or someone who has more family support in helping with older adults in the community. we are looking that -- looking at that as well. is a piece of her looking at so we can look at it holistically and not just during the traditional ways of outreach. >> president serina: thank you >> thank you. >> president serina: all right we come to item a. requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with open arms to the provision of community service for seniors and adults with disabilities during the period of july first, 2018 through june 30th, 2019. for an additional amount of

$105,000 plus contingency for a total amount not to exceed $697,220. >> thank you. good morning. thanks. i am glad to be here to talk about this modification to community services program. there is two parts to this. the first add back fund, the one-time ad back fund will go towards housing assistance and add open houses with housing coordinators to help with preparations for the new lgbtq residence that is completing now and there is expectation there will be an application process

starting this fall. the housing coordinator will be intimately involved in that process doing community outreach they are increasing the number of housing workshops that open house is sponsoring. there will be a large outreach of staff. they would expect about 3,000 applications for the 79 units. that is a lot of work. certainly a need for another staff person to help out. this person will also answer questions to the public, to be directly involved with people's request around the application. it is fairly complicated. we are happy to be able to support them in having this person to get ready for that exciting opening of the new residence. the second modification is funding from the district eight participatory budgeting process. that is a process in which district residents can benefit

directly from board of supervisors funds. they suggest projects for their residents and those are approved and move forward on a one-time basis. in this case, there is an intergenerational project that will be coming out of ucsf and done collaboratively with open house. university students will be paired with older adults and people with disabilities to do creative arts projects. and the ultimate goal of that is focusing on the social isolation of older adults and people with disabilities in the lgbtq community and recognizing that bringing folks together of different ages, supports, less social isolation, creative arts is an important aspect of that and it's an exciting opportunity to see that kind of program go

forward. so those are the two add backs. thank you for your consideration i can answer any questions. >> president serina: any questions from the commission? >> i felt like i said this and may be getting remarks that we started this idea back when i was at the human rights commission, a number of years ago. so i feel like this is very full circle for me. because of that i have some specific questions. i was very interested in it. first of all, to clarify, this is a new position for the housing coordinators. they already -- do they already exist? it is almost a technical question. >> it is technically a new position and they currently have someone doing that work physically. they have been preparing for this for a while now. they do have some folks working on that. this is technically a new position. >> ok. this housing, even though there will be 3,000 applicants for it

is there an income standard for the housing? >> i don't know the specific income criteria but it typically is for a housing unit like this. it is not taken into consideration during the application process. i shouldn't say that. but specifically, there is more taking into consideration when people come up on the waitlist after the lottery and they are considered for an apartment. >> i just mean this is a very general question. there is a huge issue of people, lgbtq people staying in the city so as the housing coordinator goes out and communicates to people, will they be communicating on those general issues as well? or just specifically to the community that would be particularly qualified for the housing?

will also improve information in general to the lgbtq population about housing? that is where i am headed with that question. >> thank you. and executive director of open house. thank you, commissioners. open house runs a fairly robust resource and referral navigation program where we help connect people to services and to housing all year round, all the time. this is essentially an expansion of that program to have additional support and outreach housing coordination while we go through this lease. his of the is affordable housing it falls under the average median income requirements and that is who we are serving. people are qualifying for affordable housing or below-market rate housing. although we do help people navigate to adjust middle income and who are also getting pushed out of the city. >> that is what i was wondering.

>> we run they robust housing assistance program. it just gets, particularly robust when we are trying to get as many lgbtq people as we can to apply for the new housing that will open. >> great. i had another question but if other commissioners have questions about this? on the other item, it is so interesting. the whole idea of the program. is a specifically for the lgbtq community or what other people be? >> it was a program developed by a researcher at ucsf. she did a small pilot with little brothers that was with heterosexual folks. now this is kind of the next step expansion of the project. so she has done a little bit of pilot testing and i think they did six matches with little brothers and now this will be

starting to match with lgbtq seniors. >> will there be outcomes? is she doing a study? >> it is pretty robust. it is part of why i am an outcome oriented person. i think it is great where we can demonstrate how these things impact and make a difference in people's lives. she is using measures related to social isolation and loneliness, community connectedness, depression, anxiety, she has a whole robust set of measurements that they are taking a look at as part of the outcomes of the project. >> and then the outreach could be -- that is through your organization? people getting your newsletter and things like that could find out about it and potentially be matched. >> yeah. the hard part is we run a robust friendly visitor program and this is a time-limited intervention. we have a hard time saying goodbye to the match at the end of this but the nice thing is they will be able to roll off of this project and into the friendly visitor program where they continue to have volunteer contacts.

>> thank you very much. that was it. >> president serina: commissioners? any questions from the public? hearing none, do i have a motion to approve this? >> so moved. >> president serina: any second? >> second. >> president serina: now we call for the vote. all approved -- on may, or whatever. >> aye. >> president serina: approved. be requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with the open house for the provision of community service for seniors -- sorry.

let me start again. we have now come to be. requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with open house for the provision of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lgbtq sensitivity training during the period of july first, 2018 through june 30th 2019 for an additional amount of $85,000 plus a contingency. a total amount not to exceed 256 $518 -- $256,508. >> thanks again. we have taught -- talked multiple times before about open houses and cultural humility training and the work they have been doing with the office on aging to reach their provider network.

this really expands that process in response to st the san francisco ordinance 4715. it passed in 2015. it recognizes that lgbtq folks and long-term care residential facilities may experience a variety of discrimination, harassment, other kinds of illegal activities and that ordinance calls out the lgbtq community and those facilities and establishes illegal activities, discriminatory activities and also a residence bill of rights. so that folks in those facilities understand what can't -- what they can expect and hope for. we will be working with open house since they already have a training curriculum, to add this piece to it.

the ordinance requires that staff of the long-term care facilities, ones -- one staff be identified as a liaison and various staff will probably need training around the specific ordinance and the issues facing their lgbtq residents. and the ordinance calls for client -- a client -- a resident rights handbook. given that we already have an ongoing relationship with open house and they have done well for us, it has made sense for us to turn to them and ask them to participate in the project. they will be working on the development of a training curriculum on this topic and also prepping a handbook that explains to consumers and to residents what their rights are and what the grievance and complaint process is. any questions? >> is the human rights

commission at all engaged in this? it would seem to me that in areas of discrimination, the complaints would end up there, but proactively speaking, perhaps they might be able to offer some input in terms of the handbook itself. >> exactly. i think there was research -- outreach to that department as we started looking at how this would go. so they have been involved and will be involved and you are right. they will be -- they will be one of the resources available to residents of the facilities. >> i have a quick question related to that. is there any way there can be prioritized -- prioritization if we do do complaints? i don't know any in particular but a particular facility or something that may have had complaints. is there any way to prioritize trainings? do people think about if there are any particular agencies that may have had complaints about -- from its residents are people

who weren't in those and felt like there wasn't sensitivity to their issues that would be the first priority for some of these trainings? is there any -- >> the ombudsman's office has responsibility to receive complaints from long-term facilities. they have already responded to any who might be lgbtq and had issues around that. they will be the primary agency going forward as well when this handbook comes out. they will be the primary resource for people to have and look at complaints. hopefully they will prioritize people who have outstanding complaints. over time, we should be able to see if there are particular facilities where that may happen >> i am envisioning this. as you go to a facility and you might be an lgbtq person, will that handbook be at all of those

facilities when you visit them? things like that. if there was an issue, you would know as an lgbtq person in san francisco looking at facilities, that you had a way of accessing the ombudsman. that kind of thing. >> the bill of rights is to be posted in those facilities. that is not always foolproof. this other bills of rights that people don't know about. the handbook will be distributed to residents of the facilities directly. the goal would be to have that is part of every application and intake packet that anyone going in would need to. in general, through training and outreach at large, we hope that more people would know about this and what to do if they have issues. >> that sounds great. thank you. >> a question on the handbook his. where there -- would there be

multilingual? >> that would be the goal. we need to get the final version and then we will be working on translation into a variety of languages. >> do you know what kind of language there would be? >> i think the usual, targeted. >> english, chinese, spanish? >> i am looking at my colleagues who are on that committee. i think that is the goal. >> ok. any more questions from the commission? questions from the public? thank you. now we can vote on this. do i have a motion to approve this? >> so move. >> ok. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> motion approved. ok. rick, he will be standing here

all day. [laughter] >> item c., requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement which is on the project a provision of expanding social isolation eight -- social isolation and prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lgbtq plus seniors and adults with disability during the period of july first, 2018 through june 30th, 2019 in the additional amount of 115,000 plus a contingency for a revised total amount not to exceed $866,140. >> thank you again. this is an exciting opportunity to expand some of the programming.

when the money was being discussed, i met with the staff and what was great to hear is they said, our consumers,, the members of our programs have expressed an interest in having more opportunity to go to groups together and that would specifically address socialization in a way that is different from peer support would. shanti was very interested in looking at ways that they could develop group activities and address their primary mission. so their first thought was to do groups. and they wanted to target on wellness and health education groups so that not only would there be socialization but education about the various health concerns that people face such as cooking, nutrition, disease management, education.

that is a new piece of the shanti program. as well, they recognize that oak -- open house already had some of these wellness programs. they wanted to collaborate with open house as part of this ad back funding so that consumers could access those existing programs. a couple that i will mention is yoga and meditation at open house. they will be subcontracting with open house to have programs that shanti clients can access. the other valuable piece to this is that more clients of open house will know about that shanti project and be able to access the other isolation programs such as peer navigation -- care navigation and peer support. that is really what we are looking to do with this. thanks. >> any questions from the commission?

i have a question. i am just looking at the outcome -- at the service unit. in 2019, july 1st 2019 to june d provide 2100 hours of peer navigation to consumers. that is on page 6. and on page -- let's see. on page 5, it said that it would provide the same -- the same. it would provide a one year. , 26 hours of care -- peer navigation to consumers. why is there a drop in the unit

by 27%? >> the 26th 20 on page 5 is for the ad back. so there is additional monies and they are expecting an increase in care navigation hours. and then over the course of the rest of the contract, they are expecting 2100 hours without the ad back monies. >> because of the ad back, they are able to provide more units of service. >> yes. >> should there be another ad back next year where they will add more units to the service? am i correct? >> i would imagine that is what they're hoping for to some level >> let's hope that we will have some ad back. any questions from the public? hearing none,. >> i just need to ask the commission to recuse from this vote due to a conflict of

interest. >> you are excused. >> ok. >> we will have to take a vote for the commissioner to recuse. >> what? >> we will take a vote. i will ask the commission to vote on the commissioner recusing herself. >> ok. >> are we ready for the vote? do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> although say aye in favor. >> aye. >> past. -- past -- passed. >> let's vote for a second time to approve this. >> so moved.

>> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> approved. >> thank you. >> thank you, rick. >> i will just clarify what happened. the commissioner is recusing herself from the agenda item, the shanti agenda item because of a conflict of interest. we took a vote and we asked the commission, i asked the commission to take a vote and they approved. and then they voted to approve the agenda item altogether. moving on. [laughter] >> moving along. ok. item d.

review and approval of california department of aging mip p.a. -- mippa. associated budget and all subsequent amendments and modification to the self-help for the elderly grant agreement to include funds for fiscal year 18-19. mike will present this. >> good morning, commissioners. the item before you today is approval of the c.d.a. and city and county of san francisco contract. we have to bring this before you for approval as one of the final steps of the contract execution process. with your approval today we will

access these funds and use them to fund our program. their program as described is the medicare improvements for patients and providers act. it is a program that has a narrow focus. it focuses on increasing enrolments in the low income subsidies for part d. medicare prescription drug programs, as well as helping with enrolment in the medicare savings programs these are programs that help cover medicare part a and medicare part b. premiums. we have historically passed these funds through new administration of the mippa program. it has worked very well. it is something we would like to continue to do. it is a good fit because of the program's existing subject matter and expertise as well as the infrastructure and community networks that they have already developed for getting the word out about this program.

one of my favourite stats i would like to use every year when i bring this forward is a social security administration estimates that four folks enrolled in these programs, the average savings can be about $4,000 on an annual basis by participating in these programs. and currently, in federal fiscal year 16, 17, we helped hundred 55 people in role in the current fiscal year which ended a couple days ago, they are about 140 with more coming in as they complete their contracting, their file review and closures. with a small amount of money, we really see a massive impact with these dollars. with that, i'm happy to answer any questions. >> any questions from the commission? any questions from the public? hearing none, let's get a vote. >> so moved. >> second let's vote.

all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> past -- past -- passed. >> we have come to the last item item e. requesting authorization to modify the existing grant agreement with community living campaigns for the provision of a community service program pilot during the period of july first 2018 through june 30th 2020 and an additional amount of 157 --dash $157,998 plus contingency for a total amount not to exceed $706,189. >> thank you and good morning. the modification i am presenting will enable community living campaigns to pilot three new

community connector programs. two will be located in district seven in the sunnyside and midtown terrace neighbourhood. the third one will be located in district five in the inner sunset. with the additional funding, community living campaign will increase their units of service from -- for this grant. they will provide services to at least 78 more consumers this year and at least 85 more next year. they will offer more programming as well. 253 more hours of service this year and 198 more next year. community living campaign has been successful in developing community connector programs in neighbourhoods that do not have a nearby community centre. that provide services and supportive programming for older

adults and adults with disabilities. please connector programs aimed to bring seniors and adults with disabilities together and cultivate a sense of community within neighborhoods while also providing helpful and supportive programming. they also help build neighborhood networks of older adults and adults with disabilities that can support each other when needed. this type of programming is in alignment with what consumers reported they valued and found beneficial in the dignity fund community needs assessment process. at the end of the past fiscal year, which was the first year of the grant, community living campaign exceeded their contractual level of consumer enrolment and units of service. they were also effective in reaching their target number of new consumers. more than 90% of the enrolled consumers who were surveyed last year reported that program participation increased their engagement with their neighborhood community, increase

their physical activity, and that they had learned to have new services available to them. so we expect that these new programs in the neighborhoods will be equally as successful. i would like to thank the commissioners at the beginning. we went over the site chart. wait dot we noticed an error. that was for the first fiscal year which was a half year. i'm happy to answer any other questions the commission has at this time. >> commissioners? >> i may have had the same question. it wasn't clear when we we're looking at the materials where the additional funding was going to be. i thank you might have said that in your comments. you are saying it is sunnyside, midtown and sunset. >> what is a specific community centre? >> those are the neighborhoods that they are going in. on page two of the site chart you will see that the midtown

terrace one is at -- like the inner sunset is at saint and's church. it is on the site chart. >> that is what i understood. it makes it clear to somebody. besides that, you mentioned in the brief description because you don't have enough space, in terms of that, it sounds like the physical programs and things like that --dash there are also educational programs and a variety of programs that this will fund for people. there are various interests. >> absolutely. i. i am sure marie could speak more to it but the programs originally start out with the always active program pick a lot of them do. as the program develops, they start bringing in new programming that the

participants want. >> i see. so it is built on the needs and requests. >> yes. you are welcome. >> i have a question. you said that they exceed the unit of service. by how many? >> theory are -- their contractual level last year, i do have it. hold on. hold on one second. they actually served 107 consumers last year. if you look at the first page -- i think they were supposed to do may be 60. >> ok is that it?

>> are they able to provide more service with the amount of money that we give them? >> he asked. >> i am just glad to hear that. ok. i am pretty sure that there are other programs that exceed the unit of service too. which is commendable. anymore questions from the commission? any from the public? ok. is there a motion to pass this contract? >> so moved. >> seconded. >> ok. moved and seconded. ok. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> thank you. >> that motion passes. at this point, are there any other -- ok. this is a recessed regular meeting and we have to convene the closed section.

>> we need to have public comment. >> are there any public comments >> know , we don't adjourn. >> motion to end the meeting. >> there is a motion whether to disclose the discussions during close session. i would advise not. which i think, in cases a performance review of individuals is ok. madame, vice chair i would make a motion not to disclose the

discussions and close session. -- discussions in closed session >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> president serina: public comment announcement. ok. motion to adjourn the meeting? >> so moved. >> meeting adjourned. [laughter] io

. >> good morning, everyone. i'm victor chim, and i am the principal at the edwin and anita lee school. for the students, the teacher

will make an instructional lesson from all of the speeches back in the classrooms. we are very honored to have each one of you here today. hydra will introduce everyone here in a bit, but i want to welcome the lee family, the district officials, the chinese consulate, our community leaders, business partners, media, families, and of course our students who will be up in a minute. each day we do things within our work and our lives that matter. for most of us, our impact is on a relatively small scale. but today, we are doing something historic. it's significant. today is significant because we are giving our school a name that means something for our students, our families, and our community. mayor ed lee supported san francisco. he supported immigrants, and he

supported education. while he was in office, san francisco and our public schools thrived because of the joint vision and the collaboration he shared with on us district. collaborative leadership like mayor ed lee's matters. and what we know about leadership is not that behind every man, there is a woman. no, we know better than that. we know that the most successful leaders, beside them, sometimes stands a man, sometimes stands a woman, sometimes stands a partner, a family, a tribe. this is exactly why our school is so proud to have our school named for ed lee, but another education advocate, + anita lee. i know as a leader, my success

is shared and even owed to my partner, my family, my friends, my mentors, my supervisors, and certainly to our outstanding team of teachers and staff at this school. this renaming of a celebration of the lee family, of their legacy. today is also a celebration of us. looking around, we see leaders from our district, our government, we see representatives and leaders from chinatown, from our c.b.o.s, our business partners, and our friends. we see some founding c.e.c. staff members, retired district staff and family, the edwin and anita lee newcomers school is alive and thriving in helping newcomer students and families

not just because of me, not just because of our team of teachers and staff, but also because of the support and the work from each one of you. one difference between a regular school and an outstanding school is the school community. what you bring to our school makes this place so much more than just a bunch of classrooms. this celebration is a celebration of you and of us. today, we celebrate collaboration. today, we celebrate the power of collaboration in this community. we celebrate the power in our c.e.c./edwin and anita lee newcomer school community. we celebrate the power in our chinatown community, we

celebrate the power in our san francisco city community. look at us today. in a time when our leadership in washington, d.c. is making immigrants and refugees unwelcome, san francisco's city and district leaders as well as our voters are telling our immigrant families that not only do we welcome you, but your voices are valued and need to be heard. so we invite you to vote in the election of our school board. leadership matters, and ladies and gentlemen, san francisco is on the right side of history. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, mayor lee, thank you, anita, thank you, lee family, sfusd leadership,

superintendent, our school board for supporting our request to rename our school. today, we stand so proudly to share in a part of history for generations to come as we rename the chinese education center to be the edwin and anita lee new comers school. [applause] right now, you have a real treat. we -- i want to introduce you to our wonderful students. they will be singing a song that our teacher, ms. jane au, who was a former c.e.c. student that wrote and adapted to song. okay, boys and girls, standup.

[children singing]

[applause] >> okay. thank you very much our young people of the edwin and anita lee newcomers school. good morning, everyone. let's have everyone say good morning to me. good morning, everyone. thank you all for being here. my name is hydra mendoza, and as of two days ago, i'm a former president of the san francisco school district, and it's been a proud honor to serve the school district for the last 12 years. in that time, i also served as mayor lee's deputy chief of staff for education of equity, and this couldn't be a more proud moment for me and my board

members to be able to do this ceremony to rename the chinese education center to the edwin and anita lee newcomers school. [applause] >> i want to take the opportunity to thank the lee family. anita, thank you so much for being here and allowing us to do this on behalf of you and your entire family. pansy lee, mrs. lee, thank you so much for being here. i know ed would have loved for you to be here in this moment. thank you, sf sister, and standing so closely with him for so many years. thank you for being here. i also want to acknowledge my board commissioners, my coautho

coauthors matt haney and emily merase, and shimon walton who signed onto coauthor this. i want to acknowledge ike kwon from the p.u.c., marry johnck from the arts commission, and lydia so from the arts commission. i also want at that thank reverend norman fong for being here, and the edwin m. lee democratic club who has carried his honor as well. this is a really special time for us, and we have so many other elected officials who wanted to be part of this because he was so instrumental in each and every one of us that are up here this morning, so we'll be acknowledging our city assess or-recorder, carmen chiu, the press of the board of

supervisors, malia cohen, and our very own mayor of san francisco, london breed. so thank you all for being here and joining us this morning. and we couldn't do so much of the work that we do without the leadership at the helm, so i want to it is thank our superintendent of schools, dr. vince matthews, who's always been supportive, particularly for this transition and new name change for the edwin and anita lee newcomers school. i just want to start with a few opening remarks because this -- this particular ceremony was pushed up because i'm going to be leaving for new york on october the 5 to start a new position in the new york department of education as their new deputy chancellor for community empowerment partnerships and communications. and it's such a delight to be able to leave san francisco and

honor someone who was such a dear friend, a mentor, and my boss for so many years. and behind every strong leader is a partner that believes not only in their partner but in the work that ed did for us for so many years. and anita, in your own right, the work you've done for women and children, for the combination of partnerships that you've done for many of our children and our schools, we want to thank you for allowing us to have this opportunity to name a school after both you and ed. mayor lee would always start his speeches with, i'm going to be short because i am, and that was always such a delight. and he had these ways of making you laugh and making you feel special. and i think for those of us that worked for him, we always felt like his favorite child. he made us feel like every bit

of work that we've ever done for the city was critical and important. and the authority and the confidence that he instilled in all of us to lead on his behalf was felt by many. and i had the opportunity to serve as his education czar and be able to tell him what was happening in our school district, the ways in which he could be supportive, the ways he could open up windows and opportuniti opportunities for our children, our families, our staff. the way the mayor, who has no jurisdiction over the school district board, could be a partner. and he absorbed so much in his time as mayor. i want to highlight a few of his accomplishments because they're so noteworthy. ed kept his head down, and he

did the work, and he wanted to make sure it would impact the people that he was focused on the most, which was our children. it wasn't about making sure that he got credit for it. so for many of the things we've done, we've kind of quietly been doing the work. and then, there was also some things that we definitely -- we would not have been able to do without his support, and that includes the mayor's stem leadership initiative, which salesforce just this week announced another $8 million going to sfusd to add to the 33.7 million that they've already invested. and that is in addition to some of the the work that he's done for our teachers and our principals, continuing to do his teacher and principal of the year awards. we've honored 81 teachers and 35 principals over the course of several years. he's invested in educator housing. we are building 105 units of

educator housing out in the sunset so that our teachers can stay here in san francisco. and it was through his investment and his advocacy that we're going to be able to accomplish that and cut that ribbon in 2022, when i'm back, so i'm excited about that, too. but one of the things that i wanted to, as it relates to the work that we're doing here today, is ed gave over $225,000 in scholarships through his i am the future schol orsharship awa but there was also $40,000 through the kyung cha -- kung chao scholarship awards to

help build cultural relationships and friendships that will last a lifetime. and that is what we are talking about for our young people here, building those relationships, that foundation for understanding our leaders in san francisco that have had great impact. i am honored to have authored the resolution that is renaming the chinese education center the edwin and anita lee newcomers school today. so at this time i would like to introduce for brief remarks our superintendent of schools, dr. vince matthews. >> thank you. i was going to say president -- former president and commissioner mendoza. appreciate being here. it's a privilege and an honor, and i'm so extremely pleased to see all of you here for this

momentous occasion. anybody who has visited my office, once you come in, you will see probably about 20 to 25 stuffed mickey mouses on my bookshelf. just a mickey mouse fan. and the first time i walked into mayor lee's office, there was a giant mickey mouse sitting in a chair -- stuffed mickey mouse sitting in it a chair, and i, of course was really pleased to see. made me feel welcome. and i told him, you've got to tell me the story of the mickey mouse sitting here. and he said it was from his beautiful wife, anita. he said she gave it to him because on those tough days when maybe a few people wanted to say something as pleasant as he wanted it to be, she said, if you come in your office, and you look at mickey, you can't help but smile.