principals who pulls the site for the staff. making it -- i don't know what we can provide. i have had personally the training. i instituted at both schools as principal. we saw great results overtime. i think we need make i it it's happening as much as possible. if we look at the schools on the new slides that the heat maps, all the ones in the red at the bottom red, we should prioritize those schools. we need it make sure that those schools are not just encouraged but given lot of encourage to get there. do you have any comments on

that? >> no. that's one of the things you want to ask yourself when looking at the heat map. one of the things there's been myriad of training. someone has r.p. training. it's really important for the administrator at every school to assess, who's got what training. when we go to our faculty meeting if you been trained in pbis i want to give you time to talk about what's happening with pbis. if you been trained in deescalation, there's someone at that school had that training.

i think that's a good practice to mow who's been trained. >> commissioner moliga: , of course we want to address the absentee. i don't want that to be our focus. at the end of the day and suspensions are happening far reason. you guys have great people on your family. i work with some of you guys. some -- i'm thinking in my head, are we tracking why are these kids getting suspended.

what are folks -- like how many of the kids are coming from like single family homes where there was shooting last night in the community. i really want to make sure we're addressing the core issue. the core issues. i know we can do it. if there's an opportunity for us to be able to start collecting that data, and then also working with our community school's model and city and county and really understanding how then can we really start to get these kids and these families services. that is like -- we're going to be social workers and academic focused at the same time. i say that very respectfully. i want to ask you guys, these red schools on the bottom, if

you let us know what those red schools are. if you guys can shout those out real quick. if we're solving these issues, other stuff will go away. moving forward it will be great if we can identify those and throw them in themes. make life five -- maybe like five of those. >> president cook: i appreciate all the comments tonight. all the questions -- we had lot of great questions in public comment and questions from my

colleagues. we had this presentation, it's always feel like hard night to be on board of education. there's a reason i wanted to be here. the more i get these presentations, the less confidence that i have that we can solve this by ourselves. it seems a bit inadequate, i know this under your shop, lot of the interventions are being driven by the people that report to you. nor are those people held accountable by you. you presented so us, you sent out some sort of -- you ask what they are doing. they tell your office what they are doing.

it seems when we get these presentations, we highlight particular school it's kind of a surprise. we didn't know what the school sites that were strong. we found a couple and we'll talk about them tonight. that's really discouraging to know that after all these years we've been focused on this work. we haven't been able to be at least hire some of these skills. how are we focusing on hiring process and bring people on board that have the scales to work at sites and be effective at these sites. two sites are the greatest need.

if there's any type of reducti reduction, it's one percentage point. i'm responsible for these numbers. i think resident of the city that really cares about public education should be holding this board accountable. we should be discouraged but by our inability to get our arms around this. .it's really appropriate. you'll see these numbers a as.

we don't have idea to do that or the schools doing that well. >> of course we do. we have an ability to understand what's happening. do you know how many times this past week parent had an tragic -- there are staff that know the schools very well and as far as informed practices -- >> commissioner sanchez: you're not let me finish the point.

>> commissioner moliga: if we have good work happening in that area, we aren't selling that to see been. we if we have good people doing that, we don't have a report that says that's happening. does that make sense? i feel -- >> when we look attrition plans and basis, it's pretty important information there. i think when our social workers and nurses have students success team, we do track the interventions in bases. you can chart the effectiveness

of those interventions. sometimes when student studentsn i'll crises and track the instances. the stephen having this conferencenings.conferenceningst of that very personal data in bases. we do track that. we can see the chart that says is that impact on that student. we have these discussions. every week on many occasions. i think the social worker temperatur--when schools go thrs or they having a challenge with a particular team, this is student support team of restorative practices coaches and supervisors that people

serves. they go out with -- there are support staff that are doing an amazing work to get desirable results to support students having challenges. that school site support can be very personal at the a school. everyday there's teams of people that is sitting down with staff at specific school. we try to address these issues.

>> commissioner moliga: that work is saving lives and we don't even have a way to see how that's improved overtime. keep on doing that. you have a partner in me i want to see you stick around. i want to see when we have these presentations. i think this is a crises in our

city. i think the city family should be thinking about what we can be doing to support our young people to stay in school. we mentioned a partnership earlier today and they have really incredible overview of the gangs happening with kids in the school. kids in school they are learning. the regressions we see are always around teacher leaving mid--year which happens at some in the southeast.

>> let me just turn -- she checks all the data. >> good evening. i'm supervisor. i basically support all elementary school. overseeing the collection of the t.f.i. data, we've been able to collect data from all but two elementary schools and one of those elementary schools is because they had principal who's leaving and they didn't have their team together. we're missing one middle school and one high school. we've done a great job this year. i have to thank the team and the

t.s.a. for doing all the work they did this year. >> thank you for that work. is that something we can -- for 13 questions elove to see school by school. >> we in the process of going back and identifying the components in the t.s.i. >> really appreciate that work. thank you. >> president cook: thank you. section i, consent calendar calendar items removed. section j, introduction of proposals and assignment to committee.

number one is public and board comment of proposals. we have three speakers. >> good evening. i'm the executive director of

creative arts public school. i like to submit mission for the approval of this evening. cas community is proud to celebrate the incredible growth and expansion that have taken place over the last five years. for over two decades, students at cacs is gone beyond traditional classroom and engagement in arts, dance, music and theater. students exposure to the arts and the curriculum allows for creative expression in which students utilize their minds and bodies to bring ideas and dreams to life. few notes about creative artings charter school. cacs at the oldest school in san francisco serving our community since 1994. we are currently and have been, locally authorized by the sfusd

board. in 2014, cacs received california distinguished school award from the california department of education. teachers and staff are equipped serve most at-risk students. we track and report all student data on a regular basis as required by the california ed. to ensure transparency and accountability. our staff is unionized by uass. we are proud to partner with sfusd and contribute to the public education landscape. we value the opportunities to serve at the trusted community partners to our families, students and neighbors.

thank you. >> good evening. i'm a san francisco native and former sfusd student. i'm a parent of third and sixth graders at creative arts. i'm also an educator supporting teachers throughout our district. my family experience creative artings have been wonderful. my biggest joy comes through my both children who develop into responsible young people. i have been deeply honored to support the administrative team. cacs has documented k to 8

curriculum and engaging in critical work confronting bias. we have work to do. critical and reflective work to close the opportunity gap at creative arts is going on. we also ail educate one seat per staff representative, two seats for greater community members and one seat for sfusd representative. as required by law and to ensure transparency and accountability, creative arts complies with the public records act and the brown act. all board meetings are held in san francisco and are open to the public. i like to invite you to visit creative arts and see what our school community offers to students, families and educators. thank you for your consideration of the creative arts charter renewal petition.

>> good evening. i'm a parent of second grader at creative arts charter school. i've been part of the school community for three years. i want to share parent perspective in being part of the creative arts community. it's really important for me as someone who's committed to social justice that the school a union school. this is an important value for me as a parent. also, i'm impressed and have been with the diversity equity inclusion efforts. i've been part -- i've been active parent member of the committee. i wanted to share some of the things that we've been working on. i know that concern at the last petition go around for creative arts was diversity issues. this something that i've taken on myself and with other parents at the school to address.

we have engaged in significant level of parent education so we brought in experts on talking to your kids about race, addressing bias, we did parent work sho won gender diversity. we've created a unity group which is a group for families of color to create welcoming environment for the families of color. we've convened on a social base. we create community together. we think about ways that the school can improve on diversity equity inclusion issues. the school has been wonderful partner and supportive all these efforts.

i ask for your consideration of the petition. >> good evening. i'm julie martin. we discussed this issue this weekend at our board meeting. we really want to acknowledge and appreciate the fact that creative arts charter has chosen to be part of the sfusd. also, the other thing that came up is because of its alternative options because all the creative programming the arts and different options for students, it is really attractive schools

with students with disability. it's chance for them to shine outside of academics. it's a school sought out by special education students. however, the thing that came across, unfortunately, loud and clear for many of our board members and it's something you might have personal experience. the rigor and special education services are provided at creative arts charter. it's not always there. while the format of the school works for students, the rigor how i.e.p.s are implemented and what is happening a school site and how procedures are handled is not always there. we would ask in future they look at improving i.e.p. implementation. >> president cook: thank you. first readingdsuperintendent

proposal 191, 15sp1 authorization to grant alternative deny the renewal petition for the creative arts charter school. >> so moved. >> second. referring this to the budget committees. section l, board member's reports. we have no reports from recent committees. they haven't met. we have new committees which i will unveil.

on the joint committee, sfusd and city college, commissioner commissioner faauuga moliga will serve as claire.

section m other informational items. there are none tonight. section n, memorial adjournment. we adjourn in memory of fred pecker. her husband passed away on december 20th.

we'll continue as we continue to fight for justice. board of education offers condolences to the pecker and solomon families. thank you. section o closed session. the board will go into closed

>> good morning, everyone.sed thank you for being here. we will get started, and i want to introduce the mayor of our city, maryland and breed. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, good morning, and

welcome. i see our public defender is here. thank you for attending as well as our police chief and the command staff, the leadership of the san francisco police department. i'm excited to be here and i want to thank the police department for hosting this overview about the progress we've made in improving public safety throughout san francisco this past year, and what challenges that we face in the upcoming year. the progress would not have been possible without all of the hard work done by the san francisco police department, as well as the street violence intervention program, and community members working together in neighborhoods to collaborate to make our community safer. to effectively address our most pressing issues, our police department and our community will continue to work together. they are working hard to implement some of the important effective community policing efforts.

this includes one of my top priorities, which i know chief scott shares, and that is a beach patrol officer throughout our city, especially in the commercial corridors. when people see officers walking in their neighborhoods, they feel safer, and they develop a connection, a personal relationship with those officers yes the presence of these officers can't help stop crime alone, but it does build community trust. our police district captains also help build trust by working with our community leaders to help address the issues in our neighborhoods for all residents, and as someone who served as an executive director for a nonprofit organization, i can tell you how important the relationship i had with so many of my captains in the northern station, and many of them actually serve on the command staff, amazing leaders for this department to continue to

develop and retain those community relations. as we grow our community policing efforts, we need to continue to make sure that our police department has the resources and the services to protect and engage with our residents. this includes our ongoing plan to make sure that we hire another 250 police officers. we want to make sure that everyone is working together to keep our city safe, and that's what community policing is all about. taking office in july, i've been working on a number of efforts to improve public safety. people would notice in the tenderloin, the south of market and the midmarket areas. there has been a noticeable presence of beat officers, the mobile control, the mobile van control, is that what it is called while the command post, located at u.n. plaza to support these areas. we are increasing the number of foot beat officers, as well as the number of drug arrests, and

the chief will talk about those efforts. these are some of our most challenging areas, and we are committed to making sure that we address what we know are issues that people in the city continue to be frustrated with. i am continuing to make sure that i am on the front lines out there on a regular basis, reaching out to the chief, reaching out to some of our other city departments to ensure that they know that not only am i paying attention, but i am listening and hearing from so many of the residents of the city who want to see us address this issue. i know chief scott will go over the 2,000 -- the 2018 numbers in detail, but i want to highlight some of the trends, because i think too often we focus on what is wrong with san francisco, what is wrong with what is happening with some of the crime that exists, but today we will talk about the achievements and what is right, and what we have been able to accomplish by

working together. first we saw a significant drop in homicide, the lowest that it has been in four years, and we know that although one loss of life is one lost too many, that is an incredible accomplishment. this corresponds with a significant drop in gun violence for the second year in a row. every homicide is tragic, but we have to recognize the progress that we made. our police officers have successful -- have been successful at getting guns off our streets, which is helping us to prevent gun violence, which also includes working closely with the street violence intervention program, and also assisting with gun buybacks in some of the arrests that they have made as well. if you are weapons and stronger community outreach is how we will continue to reduce violence in the city. we also so i focused by the department on attacking the epidemic of car burglaries. this year we saw a significant drop. though i know we still have work

to do. in fact, even with good numbers over all, we know we have to work across the city because we still have challenges, and more importantly, we don't want one san franciscan to be a victim of crime. i know our police, our officers are working hard, i know chief scott is working hard to, and i know we will continue to make progress on these important issues. we want everyone in our city to feel safe in their communities. i want people to feel and see a difference in san francisco. i want to thank chief scott again, on the leadership of the san francisco police department, as well as so many amazing community members like the street violence intervention program, as well as united players under rudy corbett. working together with all of these great programs and community members will continue to keep our city safe. thank you all so much for being here, and i will turn it over to

chief scott. [applause] >> thank you, mayor. as the mayor said to, we are really pleased with the trends we are seeing, particularly in violent crime. as most of you know, our department publishes a report monthly that provides a snapshot of where we are with crime. as you can see on the posters to my right, we are doing pretty good, and we did pretty good in 2018. homicides are down 18%. homicide by firearms were down 37%. nonfatal shooting incidents were down 30%, and navigated -- aggravated assault dropped 3%. thanks to the hard work of the men and women of the san francisco police department that work hours streets, our investigated unit, and all of our bureaus, through the hard work that they've put in, at great risk to their own personal safety to protect the people of this city, we are -- we would not be where we are today. i want to thank the leadership

of the san francisco police department, many of which you are standing to my left ear on the wall, because this is a total team effort to. thank you for what you do. we believe that these are good numbers, but we have a lot of work to do. we had to waddle homicides at the end of the year and we started the year off with three homicides already this year. four actually. and we know that i sit here and i talk in numbers but these are lives that we are talking about, and these are families, and we want to do our best to stay in front of this and prevent these crimes from occurring, rather than judge whether it -- rather than react to them. a large part of our strategy will be preventive, rather than reactive policing. it is our goal to prevent crime before it happens. in doing so, we want to work with the community members and the faith leaders, it as the mayor mentioned, the intervention workers, and all the people that make the city a

great city to continue to build confidence in public safety, and continue to keep crime down. we know this works in our city, and we know it because we have seen it. we have seen how it works. the mayor mentioned foot patrols and i want to thank her for fighting for the budget to increase staffing of the police department, and for making foot patrols a priority, because we know that type of policing for this city is the right thing to do. we stepped it up in 2018, and we continue to do that, and will continue to do that through 2019 we want to be more visible. we want to get more officers on the streets, and strengthen the bonds with the community so we can communicate better with san franciscans to make our city the safest city in the country. this has increased our ability to do our jobs, and it is evident, in the work that was mentioned by the mayor and u.n. plaza, we put a command post vehicle out there, but more

importantly, the staffing was increased. the interaction with the community was increased, and we saw things change. i can't tell you how many people have come up to me, and the leadership of this department to tell us how big of a difference that that it has made in civic centre plaza area. we will continue to work hard to make sure that we sustain those efforts. we look forward this year, thanks to the budget that the mayor put forth, 25 academy, classes, which will need -- meet the need of our growing city. and also, it will help us continue our role to prevent crime instead of reacting to it. we also want to focus on education, specifically reaching out to the public to make our city more resilient, to make it hard for people to victimize people that come in our city, or live in our city, particularly when it comes to property crime. we stepped up our campaign this year, and we think that helped address car break-ins.

we were down significantly from the previous year, and the park smart campaign, and just prevention and awareness, we believe helped drive those numbers down. we also have enforcement. we note that is part of law enforcement and part of policing , particularly in the communities that have been targeted by predators. the mayor mentioned the tenderloin. we are working very hard to arrest the dealer that are dealing in school zones, where children are going to school and trying to get an education. we are working very hard to interrupt some of the street behaviors that we see that is associated with substance abuse. we want to intervene and get people help. people that wanted or needed, we want to get them help. we are doing this from all levels. and we will continue to do that. we want to get the guns off the streets, the methamphetamine, the heroin, the fentanyl, and all the poisons that are help hurting our city. we will do that in conjunction with the community that we serve

a key component of our strategic plan, which drives how we address crime in our city is collaboration. with other city agencies, with community partners, and working forward -- looking forward to 2019, will collaborate with other city agencies, other federal agencies, and we will address the problems that we face in the city in a collaborative model. that is one of our strategic initiatives, and that is something we are really focused on continuing to do. we know that that works as well. a good example of that is the law enforcement diversion. i see mr dodge either. it is our goal to help address substance abuse, not necessarily through arrest, but giving people an option to go to treatment through diversion before the case gets into the criminal justice system. we have 236 successful referrals

to leeds this past year and we will continue to work that model , and it is really a good partnership and a collaborative model that is good for our city. will help improve public safety, reduce criminal behavior, and provide health and housing resources for those in the most needs. when you look at the report, you can see we also have a few challenges. burglaries were up for the year for 2018, and going into 2019, that will be a priority to make sure we turn that around. we put a structure in place thanks to the people on the wall thank you to the deputy chief his, the commander, we have put a structure in place to better address those type of crimes. our investigation bureau has burglary detail thanks to the mayor's leadership and the

staffing, we hope to be able to increase that staffing to address the needs, but we know it is a challenge moving into 2019. we do not want to take a step backwards. we have done a good job this year but there's a lot more work to be done and we will work as hard as we can to continue to make our city a safe city. being here, and thank you for all of your support to, because getting this information out to the public is one of the keys to being unaware safety, and a resilient city. thank you. [applause] >> we will take a couple quick questions, and then we will do interviews afterwards. [indiscernible] >> there is a jump and we are looking at that very hard to. we believe two things. there are things that happened over the past year, we increase the training to our patrol officers, there was a lot more awareness, and we wage that cost and some of the increase.

we actually are looking at the impacts of the closure of a red brook, which was one of the sites that facilitated a lot of the activity, the prostitution activity. that close down. we drove more activity onto the streets. those are factors we are looking at, and also how we report. we believe the increased training expanded the amount of cases that were actually recognized as human trafficking, and we wanted to make sure that we captured these crimes. it is a very serious issue in our city, and in our country. we are digging more into that to have a clear understanding of where those numbers are coming from, but we believe those are some of the factors at this point. >> your staff focused on individual crimes, but are there any specific neighborhoods looking forward that you are trying to focus on why i know the tenderloin is really active

on social media with things going on in their neighborhood, are there any neighborhoods that you are trying to focus on moving forward clasping act tenderloin is a focus. they have done a great job. if you follow their twitter site , posting some of the enforcement efforts. there's a lot of challenges in the tenderloin community, and we made that a priority. we made it a quite priority. we increased our foot beat staffing. the tenderloin, we did good and a lot of crime -- prime categories, but there are a lot of challenges they are, and a lot of them center around drug sales. we have dealers on the streets, and people come to and from what they do, work or leisure, and they have to see that. as i mentioned earlier, there are a lot of schools in the tenderloin. they have the highest concentration of families and kids in the city. we can't tolerate that. that is a focus. we have property crime challenges and fishermen's worth , it is a high tourist area

a lot of property that people leave in their cars, and that is where the awareness and the prevention campaigns come in. we have violent crime in some of our communities, not just the baby with the gun violence. we have confiscated a lot of guns off of the streets this year and the gun seizures are up we know that this city is composed of a lot of individual communities, and each have a distinct character. every communities different. we have to address all of the needs. of the ones that i mentioned are a priority in terms of folks in the area. that is the hub of our city. we want to make sure that we do the best job we can to make sure it is clean, it is safe, and people can enjoy the beauty of our city. >> your police unit was there, and the community was there. if you can't get a substation, we really would like that, is that in the works class you

mentioned the tenderloin. >> we can move them around as we see a need to do that. we don't have an unlimited supply of mobile units, really, for that particular thing, the most important thing is that officers are out patrolling the area. that crime happened early in the morning. officers needed to be out there. and that is a form of deterrence if there is a need for a mobile command post, we meet regularly, the deputy deputy chiefs and the assistant chiefs and i am the commander talk about strategies of what will work. it is not off the table. right now that mobile command's still in civic centre plaza, because there is still a need their, and the main thing is we need to catch the person that committed that crime and get them off the streets. that is the main thing because we believe this is a one off,

but people don't just wake up and beat 89-year-old women, that is not something that people do. that person needs to be removed from the streets and the criminal justice system needs to take over from there. we have not taken that off the table, but at this point, there is no command post there. >> we will take one more and then we will wrap up. you said before that you'd you doubled posts around the city. what do the numbers look like right now for officers who are out on the street while. >> there's about 150 officers working foot beats. that is give or take a few. about 150 officers working the beat. some of you may have read the report by the california policy lab that actually did a nice piece of research and show the positive impacts of foot beats.

we were really pleased with that if you haven't read it, i would encourage you to read it because all the numbers are there in terms of the increase in the past year, ended paints a good picture of why this is so important. if you have not read it, i would encourage you to read it. it really speaks well, and you will hear me stay over and over again, the importance of foot patrol officers and foot beats. >> thank you all very much. [applause]