we do have distinct kind of disspirit data points. >> commissioner collins: at my school we had problem. lot of the kids getting suspended, were bringin bringinn knives because they felt unsafe. they were getting triggered. our staff was not trained to deescalate. things weren't getting resolved and they would boil up again. there was name calling and those kind of things were happening so kids were feeling unsafe. it seems like our focus is on students getting suspended and we're not looking at condition of learning. we as adults don't have a bias and capable. i like for us to be looking what

we're doing because i think it's a great policy. i think it's up to us to implement and how well we implement, we're seeing great results. i like to see kind of how we're doing with implementation. i guess, finally, i there's a huge focus on african-american students. i think it's interesting that we talk about behavior as the way we define safe school. we should also be looking at cultural safety and lot of black families and other groups are also say their schools don't feel safe culturally. without that component, being called out how we talk about race in our schools and we're willing to do that, that is having a lot of impacts at the schools. i like to see how we can track that across schools. which communities are doing that and some are doing well.

so thank you. >> president cook: commissioner sanchez. >> vice president sanchez: thank you for the presentation. you mentioned something about the board group. who makings up the body of that? >> couple of things i want to mention about attendance this year. at the beginning of the year we identified 28 schools at bright spot to reduce chronic absenteeism by african-american students by greater than 4%. we presented all of that data to lead and mid-october. we haven't done the mid-semester. we shared bright spot then. attendance work group have the most important effort that we've

embarked this fall. it consistent about 30 staff from almost every office and division in the district, parent advisory groups and administrators. the goal is to develop direct-wide plan that support student attendance. the work group members have been questioned into teams and conduct number of listening sessions with stakeholder group. principals, teachers, family, students, city agency partners. to develop the recommendation for districtwide plan attendance plan to be presented to the superintendent and the board in the spring, 2019 beginning in the start of next school year. >> vice president sanchez: first slide, slide 4.

chronic absenteeism. the numbers are terrible for african-american students. if you actually subtracted on the blue line, african-american students. that's all students from the district, disparity between african-american students and chronic absenteeism, all of those studenting will be wider. i like to see future presentation show the real numbers. it's really dramatic as it is. but it's more dramatic than we think. >> commissioner sanchez. tell me that again. >> vice president sanchez: the blue line is all students.

the despairty will grow. if we take out the african-american students from that group. >> african-american and all others and then you'll have a wide disparity. >> commissioner sanchez: that's the reality of the situation. commissioner collins mentioned something about transfers. i'm very aware of the spring transfers that happened. they are disproportionately african-american students. what does happen on side note spring transfers student ghost

to school that have room for them. i asked while back, we look at the spring transfers and what we can do. statistically we should know what the numbers are racially and how we can really support the students transferred mid-year. those students are the most in crises. >> there are two things i want to clarify. there's a spring transfer process. family is not happy with their school. they desire a different school. any family can walk into e.p.c. and request a transfer. they do not involve people services. they are not part of the safety transfer. that parent maybe requesting that transfer, it's just a regular spring transfer that any parent has right to request. i'm giving reason why.

they are just going through e.p.c. and they're requesting if there's an opening i like to transfer to this school. there is specific protocol that the specific teen that assesses that, sees if there's a safety issue. safety transfers know what is go through people services. there's a batch of transfers that go through the spring transfer process which is for people that wasn't to change schools. we don't know why. but they have a right to transfer schools. that can be transportation issues or neighborhood issues. it could be safety issues as well. those spring transfers are different. >> is there any way it combine them to see what the numbers are? >> we could. we can look all the e.p.c.

spring transfers. i don't want to con plat conflae two. we can get both and keep those distinct transfer groups. that's fine. >> commissioner sanchez: there that will be great in. last question along the lines of restorative practices, professional development. it's not mandatory. i'm highly encourage. i do think that we should be finding out in realtime how many staff have had that training. that's basically pulling the 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

>> my name is randy shaw and i'm a director of the tenderloin housing clinic appeared eight years ago, in january of 2011, i realized there was something really wrong with the tenderloin , that we don't have enough lights period people say they don't feel safe in the tenderloin at night, and it is because we don't have streetlights. just coincidentally with that, see pmc was planning on building a new hospital -- cpmc was planning on building a new hospital. and i thought the biggest impact would be all the cars driving up the street to get to the new hospital so that it was really important for the pedestrian safety of the tenderloin to have more streetlights, so i asked mark aronson, who happens to be here today, a professor at

hastings, if his class would do a study analysing the existing streetlights, and here on february 6th, 2011, they did this beautiful ten page study, which became the basis for our request. i also asked a member of the p.u.c., an engineer, for the per light cost, so i could -- took those numbers, and asked the then mayor, ed lee, if you could get us the money from cpmc. we figure the cost of adding lights would be $3 million. so i asked the mayor to ask for $3.5 million figuring there would be some bargaining. they would bargain with us, and i thought well, we asked for $3.5 million, we are pretty safe to get $3 million. if you know ed lee and how much he loved the tenderloin, he met

with cpmc, and he got us $4 million. a million more dollars than it we needed. he said randy, i want to make sure we have enough money. he was smart. so what happened was a board of supervisors approved at all in 2012, but then cpmc had to downsize the project, and it started again in 2014. in 2014, we had a little bit of a conflict with city officials. you see these beautiful teardrop lights qantas everyone like those lights while we are a historic district. we had engineers who said we are not putting in those lights. we are putting in the modern lights because they work better for lu d. we are having an argument on taylor street of august 2014. and i said to him, let me put it to you this way. mayor lee wants teardrop lights. do you want me to tell the mayor you are not agreeing to what he wants?

he did the same thing to mayor breach. you get mayors who really care about the tenderloin like them, in the city bureaucracy starts listening to the neighborhood. that is what happened. it took a very long time. i used to joke about harland kelley at the p.u.c. that whenever he saw me across the street, he knew i would harangue him about the delays. i have e-mails from the staff saying, randy, we are really sorry, but worse case scenario, it is finally going to open in the end of 2015. we finally thought it was going to open earlier in 2018, twice the wrong hardware was delivered , and barbara hale who is the assistant, since i don't know how this could happen. it is never happened before. twice they sent to the wrong fixtures, were finally, on december 21st, they were

installed, and they're all in all the north-south streets, and eddy street, and i think it is all really fitting in perfectly with mayor breed overall strategy for the tenderloin. from the first week she came into her job, she was here on a friday in the tenderloin. in the last 12 months, we have seen more police activity in the tenderloin then we have seen in years. we know it is a mayor who is paying attention. and the police are working hard to, but the mayor, as a team, i want to thank mayor breed for joining us today and for her support for the tenderloin. >> thank you randy. i am really excited to be here today. i know i have only been mayor for a short period of time. i think throughout the time, i have been in the tenderloin almost every single day. i came out here because first of all, a lot of the folks that i

grew up with live out here and spend a lot of time here, and they want their community to be safe too. we have to make sure that the resources that this community needs, so kids can get to school safely, so that folks who live here and especially our senior community, so they feel safe in their community, i want to see him clean streets in the tenderloin, i want to see safe streets and the tenderloin, and i want the people who live here, who spent time here to take care of the tenderloin too. this is an effort that is so critical to the success of this community, and i say yes, community, because there are so many people from so many parts of san francisco that live here, that enjoy this community. some amazing park space, and part of what our responsibility is is to make sure that the resources that this community needs, they get. that is why this opportunity for

lighting, and i know people are thinking, well what is the big deal about lighting? it is a big deal. every community in this city, they want pedestrian lighting. they want teardrop lighting. lighting fixtures that look this beautiful. the tenderloin, we have made it a priority so that this community knows it is a priority , that we are going to continue to make sure that the resources are brought to this community on a regular basis. i want to thank cpmc for their community benefit package that includes funding for not only pedestrian safety like these lights, buffer housing opportunity, for job opportunities, they are a part of the tenderloin community and so they have invested in the tenderloin community. in addition to all of that, there will be free services and care at the package to take care of the residents of this community. it is absolutely amazing. is a true testament to a real partnership between cpmc and the

city and county of san francisco i can't wait to be there in march when we cut the ribbon to open the new hospital on van ness avenue. i also want to thank harland kelly and the guys and gals at p.u.c. for your work. thank you so much for finally getting this job done, because a randy, not only did he harass the mayor at the time, he harassed every mayor of the board of supervisors, and that is why we finally have got it done, and yes, in less bureaucracy years than typical. i also want to thank the san francisco police department. thank you for so much for the officers who continue to walk the beach and develop relationships with the community on a regular basis. it definitely means a lot to have community policing so that members of our community feel safe when they are walking the

streets. thank you to so many folks who are a part of really the driving force. they are the reasons why we, as a city, pay a lot of attention to providing resources to the community, starting with randy shot in the tenderloin housing community clinic, essential safety s.r.o. collaborative, thank you so much. [cheers and applause] >> u.c. hastings, and unite here local two. incredible partners. people who are fighting and advocating for the tenderloin. i have made a commitment as i have said to you all before that we will continue to invest, invest, invest in resources. in fact, many of you heard about the significant amount of money that we actually came into recently. it is a one-time fund, and my proposal with conversations with so many people here today includes a significant investment, especially in the

tenderloin community. make sure that you pick up the phone and call your supervisor and other supervisors to let them know that the tenderloin will get its fair share of resources, and will not be forgotten. we will make it clean and safe for all of the residents and visitors alike. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. as the mayor pointed out, the reason we have lights, the money came from cpmc, and one of the interesting things about the experience, there was a whole big narrative about how difficult it was for cpmc to work with certain people in the city, but their representative, from the very first time i met him, he said of course, we want to do streetlights pick whatever it costs, we want to do it. that is a fact. that is what he said to. it may get him into trouble forgiving us so much money, but he said cpmc wants to increase lighting in the tenderloin. it wasn't like the pole or the fighting, it was great.

let me introduce -- i want to make sure i get your name right. pamela kentucky -- kanaki. >> we indeed want to have safer streets in the tenderloin. so as you heard, i am the chief operating officer at cpmc. we have been part of san francisco neighborhoods for over 150 years. we are very excited, as mayor breed said to be opening our new hospital and our new campus just around the corner from here, on march 2nd, less than two months. as a not-for-profit organization , centre health believes in getting -- giving back to the communities. and these lights that everyone is talking about are one of the ways that we are working with our neighbors, the city, to make our communities better, safer and healthier.

in fact, a couple days ago, last friday, i was going to dinner in the tenderloin and i noticed the lights. i mentioned to my husband how beautiful the lights, how bright and beautiful they were, and so we are very pleased and proud to be part of the city, and the tenderloin. thank you very much. [applause] >> our last speaker, there is the empire market right across the way, which is benefiting from all these lights, and they have been a running that market for decades. she would like to explain what the lights mean to her. bora? [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much. good evening everyone. my husband and i own empire market right across the street. my family, which includes my children who live in the tenderloin for many years. i work at our store at night so

my family is happy to have additional lights that will improve safety on sidewalks. during the daytime, a business owner and resident, we walk through sidewalks all the time. we are faced every day with safety issues, however, i am glad to know that new lights will offer a much safer situation. we will be able to know what is going on the sidewalk outside of our family business neighborhoods. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> it turns out that the lights actually got on before jane kim

left office, within a few days. jane kim by unexpectedly, so she would like to say a few words. [cheers and applause] >> so it really is incredible that these lights have come on. just a couple of days before my turn was ending, only because this was one of the first projects i worked on when i came into office in 2011. it only took a little over eight years, but this did really begin in the community first, when the negotiations with cpmc began about the move of their hospital to the van ness core door, and has a lot of questions about the impact that this hospital would have in terms of traffic to the neighborhood, in terms of economy, and many other things. it was groups like central city s.r.o. collaborative who had been working collaboratively on passages to increase adult presence on the streets as kids walk and back doors walk back

and forth between school and afterschool programs, and i see many of our partners are here today. and randy, who talked about a study of how this neighborhood had the least number of streetlights at night of any neighborhood here in san francisco. so this, along with the pedestrian safety improvement really became the priority at the community and how cpu josie beat -- and how cpmc could make this neighborhood safer and stronger. there are many steps along the pathway to get here, of which they were not the major obstacle because they committed to this program so early on. i can't mention how many neighborhood studies and community processes that our offices worked with so many of the community leaders here over the last eight years to make that happen. i want to give a huge shout out to the public utilities commission. i know the general manager is here. [cheers and applause] >> the staff really did a tremendous amount of work to move this money that has been

committed to, which i should note, also went to the tenderloin museum that was standing behind here today, and we actually had to repurpose other city funds to come to help fund with cpmc originally, which is a street lighting funding program, and the p.u.c. made that happen. and whether the challenges we are getting, we need to connect it to our infrastructure, to so many other design challenges, and then different wants from the community. the p.u.c. really came out, along with the mayor's office of economic development, working alongside our community leaders to make sure that this happened within eight years. so i just want to wish everyone a big round of congratulations. our neighborhood really does work together to make this community safer, and i want to thank our mayor for her strong commitment to making sure that the tenderloin continues to be invested in heavily and strongly , and prioritized over her time as mayor. thank you very much. [cheers and applause]

>> and matt haney is out of town or else he would be here, our new supervisor. thank you all. if you have any questions or anything important to ask to folks, enjoy the lights. the darker it gets, the brighter they are. thank you all. [♪] >> this neighborhood was lived for approximately 22 years. >> yeah, like 21 years. >> 21 years in this neighborhood. >> in the same house. >> we moved into this neighborhood six months after we got married, actually. just about our whole entire married life has been here in excel. >> the owner came to the house and we wanted to sell the house and we were like, what? we were scared at first. what are we going to do?

where are we going to move into? the kids' school? our jobs? >> my name is maria. i'm a preschool teacher for the san francisco unified school district. >> my name is ronnie and i work in san francisco and i'm a driver from a local electrical company. >> we went through meta first and meta helped us to apply and be ready to get the down payment assistant loan program. that's the program that we used to secure the purchase of our home. it took us a year to get our credit ready to get ready to apply for the loan. >> the whole year we had to wait and wait through the process and then when we got the notice,

it's like, we were like thinking that. >> when we found out that we were settling down and we were going to get approved and we were going to go forward, it was just a really -- we felt like we could breathe. we have four kids and so to find a place even just to rent for a family of six. and two dogs. >> we were going to actually pay more for rent and to own a house. >> it feels good now to have to move. it feels for our children to stay in the neighborhood that they have grown in. they grew up here and they were born here. they know this neighborhood. they don't know anything outside san francisco. >> we really have it. >> we'd love to say thank you to the mayor's office. they opened a door that we thought was not possible to be opened for us. they allowed us to continue to live here. we're raising our family in san francisco and just to be able to continue to be here is the great

lesson. . >> all right. this is a meeting of the recreation and park commission. could the clerk please call the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: and commissioner low is on his way. we do have a few announcements today -- oh, there he is. perfect timing. okay. this is the january 17, 2019 meeting of the recreation and park commission. happy new year, and we welcome everyone here today, but we do ask you that you turnoff any sound producing devices that may go off during the meeting. we wouldso