forbes, and members of the public. steven weil. this is an informational update on the sea bawall program. i'll provide a brief update since our previous presentation in july, and then bring up mark to provide an update on the general investigation to date. so what have we been up to? in the spring of 2017, you know this, but i have to say it again. only 9% of san franciscans were familiar with the embarcadero seawall, and just over one year later, 83% voted yes in favor of the $425 million seawall bond. san francisco loves its waterfront. it recognizes the incredible value and identity is brings to the city every day, and the important role it must play when an earthquake strikes.

they've overwhelmingly tasked us to act quickly and make the embarcadero waterfront safer and more resilient. acting quickly requires that we engage the community and all stakeholders in the process. under the guidance of kirsten southey, and with the assistance of civic edge consulting, the seawall team has been executing on the strategy to engage san francisco, all of san francisco to educate, inform, and begin to seek feedback as we advance the program toward decisions. engagement has taken many forms, such as attending a neighborhood community meeting in the sunset, a family night at the california academy of sciences, twitter chats with b.a.r.t. and muni, seawall walking tours, and even a meet the engineer happy hour, which

i encourage you to come to the next one of those. we've also been rolling up our sleeves at seawall program community meetings. meeting two was held had he exploratorium last september while we focused on what is out there and what is at risk. meeting three was held a few weeks ago at spur and focused on the planning framework and balancing priorities and tradeoffs. both of these meetings featured a group activity called the game of hazards which was developed by the team. it's not an interactive mapping activity designed to foster community discussion and input and it's been very successful to date. the big part of the effort has been to create a port wide resilient strategy to help us frame decision making. the framework includes three elements. strength in the waterfront for public safety, adapt the existing waterfront to existing sea levels.

wendy low has spear headed this effort, and we think it will ultimately allow us to make starter decisions moving forward amiduncertainty. before we can make smart decisions, we need a complete asset inventory, and i'm happy to report this work is nearly complete. we've had great support from port staff, the city family, b.a.r.t., and other owners to help collect data on all assets in the zone of influence. and along the way, we've found some gaps. one was lack of underwater survey data, so we completed a survey along the end of the seawall that will help us monitor size rick activity, waive area, and develop better cost incentives. we also developed an extensive

geotechnical program because what's under the ground really matters. field work was completed on time at the end of november, and lab work is nearly completely, and restoration will be scheduled the next quarter. this investigation subsurface data will be useful for other port projects beyond the seawall program. work is underway to enhance seawall and flood hazards using the inventory and investigations. this is a major part of the work over the next quarter as we head toward completion of the multihazard risk assessment at the end of this year. the mhra is our engine to assess risk, and when combined with alternatives will help us zs how to buydown that -- help us decide how to buydown that.

the mhra will not work if we don't adequately characterize the earthquake hazard. forecasting the earthquake behavior of this waterfront is a complex task, to ensure we stay on track, the independent seismic peer review panel has been engaged loongs the way. they will also not engaged as we start to develop solutions. it's important to note that while we're focused on life safety and disaster response in this phase, the solutions will need to provide flood protection, align with the adapt strategy and perhaps lineup with envisioning the

future. now i'd like to talk about the general investigation. the port has been seeking assistance from the corps since 2012, and we are excited to begin working with the corps on the cap 103 authority along a smaller section of the seawall, but we are thrilled to now be working on them on the general investigation of the entire port. there's no limit to the scale, extent, or cost of g.i. projects, which are typically cost shared, 65% federal and 35% local. now it's usually not that simple, but it will be for today unless you ask me a question. in september, we suspended the cap study and gone working on the g.i. i'm pleased to bring up mark bierman from the army corps to give an overview of what is up

next. >> i have with me today craig conor who's our lead planner on the study. he's been working weekends and nights to get us to where we are today, and patrick mckinley, a new manager for the district. i want to give you a quick overview. we recently had a successful first milestone -- first major milestone meeting in which we got the thumbs up from the vertical team to move forward, and i want to say before i get into the details of that, that you all hire well at the port. we've really enjoyed working with the folks in this partnership. steve linda, brad, wonderful to really

important when working with a tsoaugust, such as the feds. and you all approved -- excuse me -- the execution of the cost sharing agreement, so we went forward with that august meeting, and it was executed, and it allowed the feds to put 50% into the feasibility study. once that was executed, we have been working and meeting every week in sometimes entities. we have made no decisions per se. we've been working on, again, sort of developing a framework for how we think about solutions and how the corps might participate in a project

of this scale, and after that successful meeting which i'll talk about in a little bit, we've been working on refining the scope, schedule and budget for that meeting -- for that feasibility study, and we've begun the detailed analysis as part of that. so the purpose of that successful milestone meeting was to demonstrate to our headquarters that we have been proceeding in a pal kploint way that is using the idea of risk informed planning and risk informed decision making. by that, i mean we understand that there is sometimes, especially on the core's part to study and no everything before making a decision, and the core over its reform efforts is really focused on making good decisions with the information necessary to get there and not spending five or six or ten years studying a problem, but figuring out solutions and collecting the information that we need to make good planning decisions.

that's the phase we're in. the graph you see there, that red line shows we've accomplished our milestones, we're working in the alternative completion and analysis phase, and we hope to have a decision along with the port and the city in about 21 months from now. 13 miles of waterfront, the team early on realized that it was just too big of a geography to handle in one study. we felt it was better to focus on a section that was highly focused on flood risk, and we thought the chance of getting a report completed in order to sync up with the seawall program, we focused on one area, potentially leaving other areas for future phases of stud. there's a precedent of success

of this down in aliso viejo. er -- the team has been working hard to identify problems and objectives, so from the corps's perspective, obviously, the seawall risk is integral to public safety. we are focused on flood risk and the risk that that poses to public safety and health. we are focused on reducing the risk to private infrastructure. we have identified -- we know that it is important to the city, to pedestrians, to tourism, and we recognize that this is something we need to

look at as we work towards a potential solution. we also that there are a lot of constraints working in an urban area such as this. we realize that we cannot reduce or induce flooding from urban sources, so we must allow water, for example, to go to the bay. and we realize that the embarcadero corridor is an important emergency response -- emergency response function, and we know that we do not want to at all adversely affect the ability to respond to emergencies along the corridor. we took the areas that we can implement in each of those areas. some are more critical, others more recreation, some industrial, each of those subareas, we work with the agencies and the port and the city to understand where land

use changes and where the opportunities change throughout the geography. [please stand by]

. >> you know, again, that's in the water, the construction is away from the embarcadero. you have to deal with water circulation. it has the benefit of protecting structures in place, but you know, may come at additional environmental costs. so no decisions have been made. we're looking at these alignments, and we're combining them in different alternatives. the alternatives are made of measures, and again, these are -- nothing's been decided. these are the measures that the team has come up with that we're carrying forward into our analysis and will be looking to

the public and other conditions for feedback for what kind of measures that could be implemented across the study area. each of the alignments has sort of the natural measures that are associated with that. for example, you know, i said the offshore solution, you can do a break water in combination with the storm surge barriers. the devil's in the details, but there is a story -- this is a story line of what could be done along the waterfront. this was sort of our initial screening. the corps required as part of this first milestone meeting that you demonstrate you've thought through some solutions and not just a problem. we've tlaut through 11 alternatives, and they have a knew theme -- new theme to

them. we're going to have to be doing this tradeoff analysis as we go through the study and determine exactly what the public values most and what can be done from an engineering and environmental perspective. we took the 11 criteria and screened them that we thought weren't either acceptable or effective. one of them, in particular, barrier at the golden gate bridge, this is an alternative that would come up in every public meeting that we would hold, and it has merit, that because of the environmental impacts that it has at this time, we don't think it should be carried forward for example.

these are our seven alternatives. we've put some sort of quality thaitive assessment on the -- kwa -the qualitative. this is going to be a challenging one. it doesn't fit well within the three-by-three box. you've heard about that, and so we are requesting an exemption from that rule. we have vertical agreement that was part of this milestone meeting that hey, this is not your typical corps inner study. there's a law that requires three years and less than $3 million, you can get an exemption from the law if you

go to the assistant attorney from the army of civil works. we've begun our environmental compliance. we recognize more there's risks and uncertainties going forward. with you know that it's very -- we know that it's very important that public engagement, public support is critical to determining the tentatively selected plan, so we're beginning to embark upon pl planning for the first public meetings. a lot of work to do on that front. we're starting to study, as steve said, the seismic issue, what kind of benefits can we incorporate into our economic benefits to support the core project, so seismicity are not in the corps's mission area, so we're trying to maximize the benefits that we can find to

support a project. with that, i will take any questions that you have. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this item? seeing no public comment, commissioner, did you have anything you'd like to add? >> commissioner makras, i'll go first. this is really comprehensive, and i really like the part where you showed us again how much the public knew about it, and then, the vote and all the work that went into this. and the community -- everything came together to realize that we had to invest in san francisco, whether it was state, it was federal, the community, and all the stakeholders came together, and we've got a long way to go. but if you're just looking at all this crazy weather that's happening around the united states right now, you know it's coming, and i'm just really glad that san francisco's going to be out front on this as we move through this, and i just want to say thank you for the

presentation and i hope that you'll be back in six months or whatever director forbes brings you back, but i look forward to you giving us updates and continue to keep the public involved. we want their support, and we need to keep them buying in. so thank you. >> commissioner makras. >> thank you for the report. well done. >> steven, mark, thank you so much for this detailed report. it's amazing how much work you guys have done in five months, and it -- it -- there's a lot to be done, and so -- just wondering, so if you come -- after 21 months, will we have a preferred method of -- or what will we have after 21 months? >> we'll tag team it. so the off beat corps lingo,

for a second, tentatively selected plan, t.s.p. that's the corps's milestone for just that, tentatively selected plan. here's what we want to do to fix this, and here's what we're going to do to move forward to go from at that point what would be a very rough design to flush out some more of the did he i he -- detail. when the studies wrapped up, there's 30% design, there is completed environmental need for ceqa, and there was request of an army corps of engineers chief signs the study, and it goes to congress for authorization and funding. >> and hopefully, our new start will kick in by then. >> yeah. so you can speak to this. so the army corps will select

the national economic development plan -- >> will identify -- thanks. so every study that the corps does that the basis of which the benefits are economic in nature, so this is a flood risk reduction study, coastal storm risk reduction study. we will identify -- of the final array we have screened down, we think they are all acceptable, we will identify the most economic one. and that serves as the basis for cost sharing with the corps of engineers. so for example if that were a billion dollar plan, the corps said this is the most efficient, we identify that as the n.e.d. plan, we agree it's best for the public, for the city, for the long-term, for resilience, to choose a different or larger plan, but that income delta to the plan

is 100% local to the cost, but that's sort of the wrinkle there. >> i'm so glad you guys are studying the entire 7.5 miles. it's hard to believe within 21 months, we will have a solution. >> commissioners, if i may say one thing, when mr. bierman has describing the issue to you, he said this is a very complicated issue for the army corps of engineers, as least as complicated as new orleans. i want to compliment the army corps of engineers. they complimented us. i think that we will be demonstrating to other urban areas solutions to this project. so this is a very complicated urban scale shoreline protection project, and we will be looked at by other jurisdictions that grapple with

this issue. so it's great to move to solutions from identifying the problem and i have a huge sense of relief that we have such resources looking at this issue. so thank you. >> we are extremely fortunate to partner with the army corps, so thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. item 14, new business. >> is there any public comment on new business? seeing none. >> okay. item 15, adjournment -- >> no, no, no, commissioner adams. >> going back to commissioner makras, when we were talking about the issue of people being hyped be on their rents and stuff like that -- behind on their rents and stuff like that, i think we need to have a list. shame on us. we need to be brought up to speed on everybody that's behind on their leases and having them following up. we need that list. >> certainly. we've developed it for rent for you. it is a one-page, but we'll

also look at capital obligations because this particular tenant is not in good standing due to a failure to perform capital improvements, to we'll provide you rent and capital. thank you. >> commissioner makras, you wanted that, right? >> yes. >> okay. is there any other new business? seeing none. >> i make a motion that we adjourn in the memory of brother peter mcgowan, former owner of the san francisco giants. may he rent in peace. >> second. >> all in favor? the meeting is adjourned at 5:41 p.m.

>> president cook: glad you're here. this is the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for february 12, 2019. this meeting is now called to order. before i get started, we have at least one birthday in the room. commissioner collins turns 50 today. [applause] i was hoping you will join me in brief version of happy birthday. you cool with that?

[singing happy birthday]. now the black version -- [laughter] just joking. >> commissioner collins: thank you. >> president cook: we start this meeting in great american educator and activist paula barbara jordan who said for all of insecurity, we cannot leave the future. section a is accessibility information for the public. section b is open items. number one is approval of board

meetings. motion and second please? >> so moved >> ising. contac superintendent's report. tonight we have roll call. [roll call] we're taking the roll call for minutes now. >> president cook: superintende.

>> good evening everyone. i like to begin by introducing our new deputy superintendent of instruction anikia ford. [applause] deputy superintendent ford has served as the district's assistant superintendent for the bay view schools if the past three years. she serves as chief of schools in oakland and began her career as a teacher and principal. ms. ford is a strong equity-minded leader who embodies our core values in commitmenting to serving our students. we look to our leadership to realize the graduate profile and to ensure that each and every student has what they need to thrive in 21st century. we're excited to have you join us and welcome.

[applause] i want to express my deep appreciation to mayor breed and the san francisco board of supervisors for considering our request regarding the educational revenue augmentation fund. we're very thankl thankful to a1 members who set aside eraf funds for proposition g over the next two years. this is a huge relief to our entire san francisco district community. san franciscans know how important public school educators are to successful city and in this eraf discussion they learn about the challenges our schools face as a result of chronic underfunding. which prop g was meant to help address before it was challenged in court. after all, the state funds us through the same formula as schools in the central valley

and in other lower cost areas which makes local funding solutions incredibly important. i want to thank you uesf and labor partner and the p.p.a., p.p.s., san francisco family union and numerous staff, parents and students for sharing your compelling stories with our city's policy makers. up shared about why we so badly need eraf support. it is clear your individual voices move and motivated our city leaders to include our educators and schools among the many significant needs that these funds must reach. we thank you. last week was a national school counselor's week. we want to take this time to offer our deep appreciation in helping students achieve academic success, social emotional development and clear planning. national school counselors seek sponsored by the major school

counselor's association. we're proud that all of our middle and high school counseling program have i lined their school program to the asba school counsel roaors. february is black history month. san francisco unified schools will celebrate in many different ways. in the past few weeks i had the pleasure participating in read allowed this month. there's a wonderful celebration on february 21st, which is the 24th annual african-american honor roll and candle light ceremony put on by the san francisco alliance black school educators and the african-american community. third through 12th grade, african-american students

achieved 3.0 or higher will be honored. all participating students are gather at 5:00 and the program will begin at 6:00 with the reception immediately following. this event will be held at st. mary's cathedral. finally, all san francisco unified school district schools and offices will be closed this monday to commemorate president's day. president cook, that ends my thoughts. >> president cook: thank you dr. brief note about speaker cards before the report. speaker cards for the regular agenda if you wish to address the board of education, members of the public are reminded individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and presented to our executive assistant. importantly according to board rules and procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for item already recorded.

>> good evening everyone. last night, leaders from the youth commission presented their preliminary budget. the youth commission will also host a tabling session during our upcoming annual youth summit. thank you presenters. next up on the retreat. city leaders will be partaking in a team bonding retreat on saturday february from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. we would like to celebrate our work from the past semester, provide leadership training and team bonding. plans for our upcoming youth summit and relax and enjoy.

this event will take place at goldengate park. next up, i really love my spot on the board and i am excited to work with our wonderful board members, i guess it's time for me tenants that application for next year's delegate is open now. it's a great leadership opportunity that enables the students who represent sfusd student voice and build a better sfusd. it is a fun and rewarding position. i can't tell enough how much i learned. if you like to apply, please see your representative for an application. the deadline is march 1, 2019. our next meeting will be on february 23rd at 5:00 p.m. in the board of education room. it's a public console and anyone is welcome to attend our meeting. if you like to attend and make a presentation, please contact our

supervisor. thank you. >> president cook: thank you. number 4, recognition of resolutions accommodation. dr. matthews. >> this evening, we will begin our -- we are recognizing african-american students excelling in advanced place in stem courses. i'm proud to introduce this recognition this evening. president cook will explain. students aren't here this evening. we're recognizing these student who excelled in advanced placement, science, technology and engineering and stem courses. i like to pass it over to president contact to explain the students. >> president cook: the past three years wive -- we've been highlighting african-american students that gotten three or above on the stem topic for a.p. classes. those students are not here

tonight. i'll read their names. [reading student names] certificates will be handed out to them at their school. [applause] b, recognizing the state champion lincoln high school varsity football team. [applause] >> also tonight we're recognizing the lincoln high varsity football team for winning the california federation division, 6a state championship. this fantastic team defeated orange glenn who is the san

diego division 5 champion and this team also made history not only was that the first state football title in lincoln's history, it was the first championship game ever played here in san francisco. and to top it off, they had a perfect 13-0 season. i like to invite sherry to introduce the coaches and the team. >> good evening dr. matthews board president cook, board vice president sanchez, board commissioners, deputy superintendent and of course all the parents in the audience tonight. i want to talk to you about the young men. not only they are student athletes they have the average of 3.0 g.p.a.

not only they are leaders on and off the court, the most importantly, they have a heart of gold. they are very respectful when people need help in the schools, they are first ones to help us out. i thank you for that. they will be amazing young men. i want to thank the parents, the coaches for all the support you've given us. i like to introduce the coach. >> thank you for taking the time to acknowledge our great school and our great team. it wassal prett -- it was a prey amazing year. in regard the level of football played was unsurpassed. it wasn't wasn't just one person. it was 33 people working in

unison. amazing thing we want to teach our kids about being yourself, being comfortable within yourself to take maybe a lesser role. i'm very fortunate to be these young men and women, our managers and our great principal and great parents. i have one kid is like a legacy. we're going to miss him. he's been with us for 15 years. his older brothers, both played for me. they won turkey day championships. it's pretty amazing to have a guy who's been with our program since he was like five years old come out and play for us. it was so many great stories i couldn't tell you anymore. i wanted you guys to get along. thank you very much.

i really appreciate the support and hopefully we'll do better things next year. greatest thing we're doing it. thank you. >> good evening everyone. i'm that kid that coach was talking about. i have been part of the mustang family for most of my life i learned a lot of responsibility. it taught me a lot. this season was really special. lot of the guys were four-year players. some my best friends i made ever sisince my freshman year.

as we kept winning, we really -- there was lot of pressure. once we got to that championship, we knew we were untouchable. coming into state, it's a new experience for all of us. i don't think any of us played in front of that many people before. it was really an honor and it was a really fun experience to represent our city and become the champs. thank you guys. >> comments from commissioners. [applause]

>> president cook: if you're standing and want a seat, you can fill in those seats. number 5, recognizing all valuable employees. there are none tonight. number 6, advisory committee reports and appointments to the advisory committee by board members. number a is report from the parent advisory council.

>> good evening everyone, commissioners and superintendent dr. matthew. i have a 10-year-old daughter who is in fourth grade i'm the vice chair of pac. >> good evening commissioners and superintendent. i have a third grader at tenderline elementary school. she has made the honor roll you want to thank you for the support. i like to welcome commissioner lam. the pac welcomes appointed

commissioner jenny lam to the board of education. we hope to meet with her soon and looing forward to working with her to serve sfusd students and families. the pac has been working with our community partners from the local control accountability plan to develop the stakeholder engagement campaign. this year marks the sixth year of community out reach to share information about the budget process. the objective are to increase transparency, understand and accountability about "pistons half-timsfusd'sbudget process. it encourage families to participate in the planning process at their chosen schools.

for the past few years we saw the stakeholders connecting the dots. during stakeholder engagement, we draw parallel to connect the dots between the following. l-cap and balanced score card, how the state fund, public schools and the way "pistons half-timsfusdallocates resource. focal students prioritized in our district. thank you. >> over the years, we have heard from 2000 family and community

members about the resources, promising practices and support on making a difference. at the same time we heard about the challenges on the ground and it's not always evident how issues are being addressed in way that can goes with the goals identified in the outcome. for this reason, one of the objectives for stakeholder engagement is to strengthen the implementation of l-cap. the intent is to bridge a connection between the feedback we get across the district to improve implementation of key strategies, services and practices identified in the outcome. as part of the circle of continuous improvements. this objective is change from previous year where was focus was to balance of the l-cap and

implementation. the commitment of the l-cap task force is the community that will inform the budget planning process. as a task force, we are -- we also recognized there are families that will not attend school meeting or a townhall gathering. to which some of the families,

we corroborate with communities who are working with these families. for example, last year we met with the families leaving at the hamilton family centre to learn from their experiences. in the past, we have reached families who are foster parents and the ymca in chinatown. each year we reflect on who we have heard from and who is missing from the conversation. we prioritize schools that have a significant number of focus students including the schools and identify community groups that expand our rich to ensure we capture diverse voices the families. [please stand by]

>> happy birthday. happy birthday to you. >> i wanted to give a brief update and let you know that the l-cap task force will be providing a presentation to the budget and business services committee on march 6th and have a more in-depth conversation about budget planning and l-cap process. i wanted to provide that update. >> ms. collins: i appreciate the report and the time you put into it. one of the comments made at who is at the table and who is missing and being intentional about outreach, that's an amazing thing. i just appreciate you're being to thoughtful, including community voices. so thank you. >> we are so glad to work with all of you to make a better district. >> president cook: thank you. >> thank you. >> president cook: just a quick

heads-up, okay, you can go. [laughter] announcement about the changes in the agenda, so after 6-c, i'm going to move up a presentation from my brothers' keeper initiative. i'm going to move public comment after that. i see a lot of folks with young kids here. so you can say what you need to share and go. get back home. after 6-c, my brothers keeper and then public comment. so now we have b, report from community advisory council for special education.

>> good evening, superintendent matthews, president cook and commissioners, welcome commissioner lam. the community advisory committee on special education appreciates that opportunity to present updates to our 2018-19 priorities. the cac advocates for effective special education programs and services and advises the board of education on special education priorities. the cac is a state mandated organization and the cac must sign off on the local plan and budget before it can be sent to the california department of education. we hold monthly meetings on the 4th thursday of every month. our remaining meetings for this

school year are february 28, sfusd special education department will give overview of transition for every level, pre-k through college and career. march meeting is a community meeting with aapac and kal with w, special guest larry p will share his experience as a student of color and still struggles to read to this day. on april 25, the cac will hold the advocates worthy of excellence award. this is a special evening and we invite you all to attend. community members can nominate individuals who are going above and beyond to support our students in special education programs.

additional topics we will cover this year include the sfusd budget and service plan. the caa is currently seeking nominations for board members for the upcoming year. they're open to any current cac member. >> good evening. the community advisory committee is actively involved in collaborating a district and others. they partnered with advisories groups and the family engagement team of the unified school district to host the second annual family alignment summit. this helps the cac build leadership skills and strengthens our