happened and i want us to all remember mama tessie as we live here as our children play here as our children attend the child care facility that is now here on site. we have to remember all the folks who worked very hard. as mayor bree talked about people not trusting the process people not trusting what was going to happen because of things that happened in other areas of the city and is promising. the one to one replacement saying that we would never let things that happened before happen again because we are going to work hard to make sure that we continue to fulfill promises so i want to remember testy in her honor i want to make sure that everyone remembers that name if you did not have an opportunity and experience to know her. a lot of our residents here i see. commissioner titus rosalie. i mean this is all of a collective of all of their work together mayor breed already think everyone who has done the work here or who will be providing services but i just want to say that

this is a glamorous opportunity for us here in housing is a glamorous opportunity for us here in san francisco and please tell your neighbors your friends. the district tim really is the place to be. and that hope s.f. is going to be the most dramatic change and revitalization of housing that we've ever seen. and we're going to see it through together. thank you so much. applause well thank you very much for mentioning tessie esther because there is a definite connection here with our next speaker. and personal connection as well because when you talk about the process of meeting and building the trust yeah i was on the receiving end of that. so that's why i'm so glad here. i'm here for fulfilling these commitments. i'm really pleased to introduce our next

speaker tyrrell tobias another native san franciscan in a long term hundreds view resident tyrrell on his son tyrrell junior who would be here but he's in school? he's got his priorities straight? moved into the first component of phase two a couple of years ago tyrrell not only lives in this beautiful complex but because of our focusing of employment opportunities through our contracting thousands and thousands of hours and job training and employment opportunities to residents of hundreds view itself and the surrounding neighborhoods he helped build this complex while working as an employee of evans brothers a local subcontractor that did demolition in sight work up here and as you mentioned his mother the late tessie esther well-known community leader who advocated tirelessly for bayview hunters point residents on housing environmental and social justice issues jesse's work

helped form the vision of both the new hundreds view and the hope s.f. program itself and i can testify that she never shrink from reminding us of our commitments to hunters view its residents and the community latinos what i'm talking about so it's my pleasure to ask tyrrell tobias to come up and say a few words her out. applause good morning. trying to keep the energy that's the one came up here widow it is definitely an honor does he stand before you today i would definitely have my son here because i was i was just preaching to him about stepping outside your box and try new things and being in front of you guys today is a little nerve wracking but i wanted to lead by example for my son and i think that's very important. i just wrote

a few words here today it's used me for being nervous but i'm excited nervous. applause what an honor it is to be stand before you today surely an honor to be speaking in front of our great mayor miss london breed. and all our city officials present to the staff of our hundreds of you office. ms. romano and all others involved. thank you for this opportunity for being so helpful and being an asset to our community. my name is to real tobias i've been a member of this community for many years making the transition from the old west point to our new surroundings i now live in the new hundreds view when my son to real tobias the second. i am also the sun miss tests yester who was an advocate community leader and

matriarch for this community my mother started programs such as the mother's committee mothers against crime. bring in a san francisco food bank and being president of the tenants association as well as many others any chance i get to continue her legacy and lend a hand for community she loved so much i relish for the opportunity. and just like other influence your women from hundreds point missile louise westbrook osceola washington bertha freeman ruth williams and rosie lee williams also mr a religious walker i hope one day to have a street named after my mother here in hundreds view. like many we take great pride in our neighborhood. we want to see it flourish and be great i also had the pleasure of helping build a new hundreds view which i took great pride

in as a construction worker. i've been a construction for eight years now starting right here in hundreds view and i want to say thank you to miss the team a home as many of us many of the programs that were promised to us ashley came through and it's a great opportunities because i've been able to make a career for myself and provide for my son and just be an example to so many people in the neighborhood that if given the opportunity. you could take advantage of these things and do great things and continuous so thank you guys for that opportunity as the hunters view community is filled with talented and ambitious people. sometimes we just need the opportunity to show just that during our transition. we've seen some bad days lost a lot of people but we still stand under better conditions. we still

press on in our very brow proud to continue to build our community we can all live together in help this community flourish for our children and youth following us i thank you for your time and no other programs such as mary breeds and term program for our youth given them dreams beyond their imagination it's a great thing again thank you. and welcome to the new hundreds applause so should we just end there. i mean you know now i'm nervous excited. i got to follow that. okay it was hard enough with the mayor in this how. come on. all right. but you know tessa hester lane you know that's gonna ring to it. i'm like exchanging glances with

my project manager over there and she's like note to self well well said well done and congratulations to all absolutely fantastic well ok so after political leadership and resident advocacy and construction what else does it take to make a brand new mixed income community a reality well that's right money lots and lots of money. the foundation of our financing plan was and has always been the one hundred million dollars plus provided collectively by the san francisco mayor's office of housing and community development the office of community investment in infrastructure and the san francisco housing authority. the housing authority still owning the land under the structures and providing rent subsidies to many of our residents so i just want to take a quick moment to say thank you and a shout out to the staff and the commissioners

the leadership president trays lady of those fine agencies who have just been marvelous partners two j.s. ceo divining gong enrich point nonprofit housing during this long term effort. you know we could not have kept the promises and commitments we made to the community and the residents without their ongoing financial support these local dollars that i mentioned then leveraged additional and private funding sources many times over the first of which is represented by our friend and colleague ben metcalf a former affordable housing developer himself former high level hud official in washington d.c. and currently the director of the california state department of housing and community development hdd you're going to mention this but has provided over 50 million dollars in state funding to hunters view including the catalytic 30 million dollar infill infrastructure grant. that kicked it all off. many years ago two multi-family housing

program loans and key money for our parks and with last year's passage of proposition is one and two at the state level in the six billion dollars of new affordable housing finance i know you're gonna keep it coming ben. so come on up and tell us about it. yeah. applause so you have a lot of the last time i was here in fact was 17 months ago when governor then governor brown and legislative leadership stood out there with the 10 multimillion dollar views. and signed in a package of 15 groundbreaking new pieces of legislation that promised a really a restart in the state's commitment to supporting projects like these and led the way for the proposition is one and two which recapitalize the sources that we had used for this project that put in place a new permanent source of affordable housing going directly to our local governments that helps make it easier just to build and zone and a title this kind of complicated housing so what a

difference. you know two years has made in terms of where we are now today of course with a new governor whoo said yes great housing package good but let's keep going and you know campaigned on housing platform didn't miss a beat. god inaugurated on a monday dropped a proposal on a thursday the legislature calling for two point three billion more dollars. for the state to put forward at one time funds followed that up. a week later with a lawsuit against the city to wear down in southern california that wasn't doing its part followed that up with an executive order calling for state agencies and departments to scrape all their surplus lands put them into play for affordable housing. and much more. yeah of course it's no surprise that he you know this this governor. well he vittoria famously i think a couple of weeks into his term in mayor got all of the city department heads in a van and sent them all down right here to sort of show them make make sure they knew work that hard to get done and although

that was a long time ago and a long time before the great work mayor lee and you madam mayor. even then made sure that when they walked away from that first trip. they were also making sure that they had some improvements in place and they were doing the work just to make sure this building community was livable until the good work of this could actually come come come to play. so yes. so thank you too do you jack. thank you to the elected leadership here to you met a mayor for your incredible leadership and you're passionate work in this supervisor walton mr. tobias thank you as well for all the residents who who kept the faith in this journey rich point dividing gong and also i want to really call out. margaret wherever she is there margaret as margaret my my friend and colleague as we were side by side 10 15 years ago working on parallel projects telling me what she

was doing and me thinking boy that's she got the short straw in terms of trying to put together a complicated project that would never get done but she pulled that off. and i want to say personally also i worked here in san francisco's developer but at a certain point got began to get that each began to feel like we needed to get in. i needed to get into government to try and make government work better for supporting projects like these. and i want to tell you it actually was yeah tyler should be the kind of work that margaret was doing here. and jon stewart companies doing the city's every school was doing the sort of painted the way for folks at hud in the federal government to try and make this more of the normal and led to the choice neighborhoods program and the rental assistance demonstration some of that some of the items like got to work and assist on under the leadership of folks like shaun donovan carol galante when she was over there. and so for me to get to come back and see this. and to be a part of this is a real treat and a real honor and i just thank you for letting me share in this a little bit you know this is mixed income housing at its best. this is putting

residents first in that process at its best. and it's the truest kind of private partnership that any of us get to participate in where everybody comes together and puts down marks and works collaboratively we did put this is one of the largest investment and say a california has ever made on any project anywhere. and it's one of those no regrets moves from the state of california yeah there might have been some of the things we could've done with that money but nothing that's gonna paint the way and be the symbol of where we want to go in the future in particular where we can go in the future as our elected leadership up in sacramento get serious about taking on affordable housing taking on the challenges of legacy housing and some of our neighborhoods that need that holistic approach to changing the trajectory for the folks who live in these in these neighborhoods so for san francisco for california and if i may say so for the nation as the collective us continue our quest provide

housing for all thank you for the great work. everybody in this room has done to paint the way forward for the next generation of big bold transformative projects that we take on applause well and you think margaret already so i don't have to do that. ok. appreciate so in addition to local and state funding keep piece of our financing clan here at hundreds view was corporate equity provided in return for low income housing tax credits for that we turn to a long term financial institution well-known to us all. wells fargo bank wells invested almost 65 million dollars in tax credit equity here in phase through the three buildings of phase two. for which we are very grateful my pleasure to introduce senior v.p. and regional equity manager for wells fargo tim mccann applause thank you very much for allowing me to present

today. this is phenomenal event with great speakers and there's a lot of people in here someday gonna get lifetime achievement the words for affordable housing so i feel like i don't belong here i wanted everybody to take a deep breath and lower the bar. doors because i that everybody has spoken extremely well and i'm not going to do it justice. but i my name's to mccann i worked for wells fargo and like jack said i lead light tech investment in california and were the investor as jack said in hundreds of you phase two which in my mind is two projects maybe it's three baby it's 10. i'm not quite sure and so i cannot be happier or more proud to be a partner not only with jon stewart and dividing gong but with everybody in the room providing the 65 million dollar investment that helped to build this and also the i just want to point out the sixty five billion dollar investment. i'm sure many of

you. some of you do and some of you don't know how the lighter program works but the 65 million dollars that wells fargo invest in the property. it's a subsidize program but that's 65 million dollars stays with hundreds of you. to for the rest of eternity. it's not alone. we don't get paid back with by rants it's a little more complicated than that but that 65 million dollars stays with the property and 15 years from now you say goodbye that sixty five million dollars stays here so we're excited to be an investor. and in punters view and for eternity. sort of. so i'm part of a group called the community lending investment of wells fargo and what we did about 10 years ago during the great recession is that we formed a group that was consistent with wells fargo's idea to support the communities in which we serve. the communities where we are banks and we do business? we think it's really important that those communities thrive

and we want to be part of providing capital fruit for those businesses and affordable housing. so what we i lost my train of thought. told you this is going to be a low bar so how we accomplish that investing in affordable housing is we we partner with really great partners like divided gong and jon stewart companies and we invest that capitals of the league can realize their vision. and we and we work with the local communities like the california department of housing and community development and the mayor's office of housing to make sure that they can meet their goals so we provide the capital to make sure that everybody can accomplish their goals and realize their vision. i want to thank all our partners at jon stewart and company. i want to thank. john stewart. i didn't really work with but i know you're the patriarch there and jack gardner margaret i always once they margaret mitchell but you

didn't write that book margaret miller. and and catherine that's all. dividing going i want to thank rick divine and andrew berman and generally and i want to thank everybody in the room for being a supporter of affordable housing and i want to thank everyone for allowing us to partner with you and be part of this about. thank you as i'm taking a lot of notes ok no repayment of wells fargo. okay good well we'll let the federal government give you a tax credits and stuff too. i'm okay. that works for me. so anyway and it's too limited partnerships building three buildings. of the five blocks that are part of phase 2 but we'll geek out on that later. we're just going to keep it on track here. the last but not least of our financing came from another major community development lender city community capital. which provided over

100 million nobody's adding up all these dollars because then you're gonna be like how much of this thing cost. ok. anyway provided over one hundred million dollars in construction loans and over 8 million dollars in long term financing for hunters view. in fact over the years city has provided almost two hundred and fifty million dollars in financing in support of the jon stewart companies affordable housing efforts throughout the state of california for which we are very appreciative. we appreciate city community capitals confidence and trust and i am pleased to introduced v.p. andrew nathan son to say a few words for city apparently applause good morning everybody i know i know everyone's probably eager to get to the refreshments i'll try to keep this keep my comments brief. it is a real pleasure to be here today with everyone. to celebrate with jon stewart divining gong the city of san francisco

the state rich point but most importantly the residents and community of hundreds of you and hundreds point. as we mark this milestone in the development the ongoing development of a neighborhood that was historically overlooked and you know jack does point out the oh you know that the numbers do add up. but really that's in part a result of underinvestment for a long period of time. and so i think the investments that we've all made are certainly worth it and and the beautiful community that we're seeing built here. we. there's absolutely no second thoughts or or the investments are are totally worth it. so on behalf of my colleagues at citibank i want to share with you how proud we are to have participated in this project and help finance. this very

important project city community capital is the community development lending and investing arm of citibank like wells fargo we are committed to providing investments across all of the communities in which we do business. and we provide capital for affordable housing projects such as this helping individuals access safe clean housing. that helps helps them fulfill all their goals in their in their life you know i think i would also just like to recognize the huge amount of of effort diligence probably some cajoling long term thinking. sure short term urgency that it took on the development teams part. elected officials everybody involved to bring this project to fruition and

bring it to where it is today. so again on behalf of citibank i want to thank everybody and congratulate everybody the residents on this beautiful new. community about yourself don't repay city. oh no way that was swells okay. you're gonna keep that straight. my bad. but it does take us when the immortal words of fdr be sincere be brief. be seated. i'm going to try. but just for a moment it reminded me when we were talking about gavin newsom calling up the department heads and come out and take a look at the four corners you know the for corner analysis of looking at the data that said what are some of the most troubled intersections in our city and a bunch of them were in the southeastern sector of the city and one of them was right outside and that's what led to mayor news then mayor newsom prioritizing hunters view. as the first locally

sort of home grown housing redevelopment every housing redevelopment prior to that had been done with federal hope six dollars and mayor newsom said you know ok. we're not that popular in washington right now not sure we're gonna be seeing a lot of hope six dollars flowing to san francisco so it. we're gonna do it ourselves. we're gonna make a local commitment to turning around the most troubled and blighted housing complexes in san francisco even if we have to do it ourselves. now that decision led to the creation of hope s.f. which was a brand new approach to housing redevelopment because in many hope six projects across the nation. you know in the in the interests of creating a mixed income communities it meant the displacement of the existing residents and you know well-intentioned and some most hopefully cases. but you know take a voucher go somewhere lead it lead a new life now in san francisco

we said no no. these are established communities we're not going down the wrong road of urban renewal that the mayor mentioned earlier a western edition fillmore etc. we are going to preserve that community displaced. no one. we're going to harness the value of that land to help pay for this ambitious endeavor by increasing some density and instead of sending the poor folks out to the higher income communities will allow those higher income households to come to hunters view. and invest in this community and create a new mixed income community what our master planning architect dan solomon calls a normative san francisco neighborhood where people of all colors all incomes all ages all abilities all backgrounds live side by side and it makes san francisco a truly special place so we are so pleased and honored to be part of that journey and to be with you here today. i know he departed from the script they're a little

bit but that's that's from the heart. that's what it's about. and i'm just really proud to be part of this team in this group of people who've made that happen. so let me just say thank you to all the distinguished speakers here today into all the many people companies and agencies that have contributed their time their energy their hard work their money to the new hundreds view i wish we had time to recognize and thank them all. by name but time is short. and as andrew said i want to let you take some tours of the community center the childcare centre. look at the views have some refreshments chat and mingle i've name just a few really quickly here. first are founder and our namesake jon stewart. i just want to say thank you to john for the opportunity to work if you had to carry your vision forward of high quality double bottom line mixed income communities to our tireless staff margaret's already been mentioned well done margaret. you came on. again with us 15 years first

thing i said was there's this hunters view thing. could you take care of it. call me for the ribbon cutting. who knew so but catherine its soldiers are project manager who's been doing face to really in the face of jon stewart company up here you know development is great but at last. even as long as this seemed to take. it's a 5 or 10 year process and then you turn it over to property management for the rest of forever and that's where the real work begins in many ways when you're building and then supporting that community and so i just want to shout out to our property management staff to knees and romina and the others that are up here every day and a chinese sort of hiding outside my partner dan who made sure everything was built up properly so a couple of our main consultants i just want to say thank you to our master planning architects methuen solomon or phase two architects david baker architects and paul at taggart our general contractors who did a

fabulous job appear market rate quality durability beautiful cahill contractors and maybe brothers well done to them. our legal counsel lubin olson and i can't pronounce the third name of that firm are wellness center operator make sure you check it out the department of health. they're down there helping with wellness here in our community are childcare operator a local. operator and provider and employing many of our residents already friend dell job well done. our human capital partner though the baby ymca i'm on the board of the east bay why so it's a family connection. i'm really excited to be working with them. you all have done an amazing job designing building and bringing this beautiful new neighborhood to life. thank you all so very very much and thank you to all of you for being here today to celebrate with us concludes our program but i do urge you to grab a

sandwich mixed mingle take a look at the site and just thank you and congratulations to all. thank you so much.

>> president cook: this is the regular meeting of the board of education for the san francisco unified school district. tonight is february 26, 2019. miss casco, roll call, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: thank you. >> president cook: we're going to be having a memorial

adjournment tonight, but i just wanted to start our meeting with a moment of silence for public defender jeff adaci. i'm going to open up tonight's meeting with a quote from tony morrison, who said, if you surrender to the air, you can ride it. section a is accessibility information for the public. section b is opening item. number one, approval of board minutes for the meeting of february 12, 2019. can i have a motion and i second for approval of board minutes. >> so moved. >> second. >> president cook: okay. so speaker cards for the agenda -- regular agenda and for closed session are necessary if you wish to

address the board of education. member of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior tot item being called. they are presented to our executive assistant, miss casco. members of the public have to minutes to address the board or the time set by the president. important, accordingly, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item before the board. and just so it's -- we've also made this announcement, starting the next board meeting, we're going to move up public comment to earlier in the meeting, so we'll make another announcement about that in the future, but starting next board meeting, the public comment is going to be moved up to earlier in the agenda. can i have a roll call vote for the minutes of february 12, miss casco.

>> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> president cook: number two, superintendent's report, dr. matthews. >> good evening, everyone. i'll try that again. good evening, everyone. this past saturday at mission high school, teachers and opportunities gathered at the 39th annual oratorical music contest and stomp competition. students competed by reciting famous and original poems, speeches, and singing and playing instruments and performing step routines in a

stomp competition aligned with this year's theme, african american millennium, chiefing greatness with an attitude of excellence. this annual competition encourages students to develop, memorize, interpret, and deliver poems and speeches in addition to provide a platform for students to showcase their talent while honoring african american culture. this week, students across the country including more than 40 strict elementary, middle, and high schools will participate in various digital learning day activities. the day will include using digital design tools, to encourage positivity, learning about twitter tech from twitter volunteers, a stem night for students and family, a workshop about augmented reality for education, and unique, professional, development opportunities for educators. the day aims to transform how

students learn college and career skills to help them thrive in the 21st century. saturday, march 2 is the annual school planning summit. families and staff are expected and encouraged to help their schools set priorities by participating in the school's planning process. attend the school planning summit for an opportunity to work together on your school's balanced scorecard, academic plan, and budget for the 2019-'20 school year. talk to your school's principal about attending and other ways you can help in the schools planning process. and finally, next week, we're celebrating national schools breakfast week. it's march 4 through 8. three san francisco unified school district schools are participating in a challenge to increase breakfast participation by 30% during the week. the schools are ortega elementary, everett middle

school, and presidio middle school. so cheer on one of those three schools. we'll see which one or hopefully all three can increase breakfast participation by 30%. we are excited for you, and we hope you achieve your goals. mr. president, that is all my announcements for this evening. >> president cook: okay. thank you, dr. matthews. number three, student delegate's report. mr. mai and arumiss aruiano. >> thank you to representatives brown and board members for

coordinating this meeting. >> we were able to build our bond as youth leaders and learned a little bit more about the s.a.c. and goals of real world. >> last night, laustudent lead in the s.a.c. created posters for the youth summit. >> we would also like to remind everyone that the applications for next year's student delegates is open. it's a great leadership opportunity that enables a student to represent sfusd student voice and help stuffed. if you would like to apply or know of anybody that would like to apply, see your student

delegates or reputation. the deadline is march 18. [inaudible] >> our next meeting will be on march 11 at 5:00 p.m. in the third floor cafeteria. the s.a.c. is a public council and anyone is welcome to attend our meetings. if you would like to attend, make a presentation or would like a copy of our upcoming agenda, please contact mr. salvador lopez barr. >> number four, recognition of commendation. there are none tonight. number five, our rave awards. dr. matthews? >> good evening. we have two sets of awards.

the first rave award for our distinguished service award is for hoover middle school technovation team. there will this will be presented by gabriel baker, the assistant principal. mr. baker? >> okay. good evening, everyone. i'm gabriel baker. i'm the assistant principal at hoover middle school. i have the displeasure of recognizing two students work as part of the technovation team at hoover.

in addition to all the work that they did in their own classes, and some of the details that were mentioned by co-workers that nominated them was just seeing the ways that they collaborated together, the ways that they collaborated with outside organizations, including salesforce, and just specifically their relationships that they built with their students. i'm thrilled for both of them. yesi, and jacob, congratulations. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. my name's yesenia, yesi.

i go my yesi. i am the founder and creator of castle, which it stands for cultural arts, science, technology, literacy, education, and it started off as a philosophy and now has gone through two schools. it started off at hoover and now expanding the program at everett middle school, which i'm very proud to be at everett and our social justice mission. i'm very grateful to have met mr. aringo in graduate school, where we both attended our credential program as well as our masters in instructional technology, and we've been working since. thank you all so much. [applause] >> thank you, fellow colleagues. i was just at salesforce at

p.d., and in an era where our technology industry is dominated by white and asian americans, there is a need to change who we are focusing on. after experiencing this work with the s.c., with work from our computer science department, from our wonderful volunteers, and our tech leaders woman of color, this is an opportunity to change the status quo. we need to provide outlets of self-expression and voice, and when our young women has voice, they have the power to make changes in their own lives, and potential globally. computer science has the power to do that, and we've seen that in our techknowvation class. thank you, gabriel and elizabeth for embracing this idea, and in the words of chris

hogan, we are focused, but not finished. thank you.

[applause] >> the next rave special service award goes to jennifer kababi. she's a special education transition teacher at access sfusd, the arc, and this award will be presented by ka kakar kara shanella. >> hi, everyone. my name is kara schanella. i am the administrator for access programs in san francisco. for those of you who may not know what they are, they're access programs for our adult students 18 to 22 years old. it is a great pleasure and

honor as a program administrator of access to announce this month's special rave recipient service award winner. jen was nominated by a co-worker for her dedication, compassion, creativity and developing the confidence and skills of our adult students with disabilities. it takes immense dedication to build and sustain a successful community based program like access san francisco arc. jen has shown us all firsthand that she has the dedication and drive to not only build successful relationships with her students and colleagues and their families, but also our many san francisco community partners. jen, it has been an honor to work with you. congratulations and thank you for all that you do for san

francisco unified school district, our students, and our families. [applause] >> hi, everyone, and thank you. it's just a great honor to be here. thank you. i'd like to thank the board and dr. matthews for this special recognition. of course i wouldn't be here today if i didn't work with such an amazing team of educators at access sfusd the arc. i'm lucky to work with just an amazing team of educators, heidi, alongside me who i know nominated me for this award. i wouldn't be here without you. but teaching in san francisco is such a joy, and i love working with my students out in the community. i work at the most fun and most amazing school, and seeing them learn and grow and face new

challenges and achieve their goals and learn from their mistakes and discover all the things that san francisco has to offer is such a joy, and i look forward to continuing in education here in san francisco. thank you so much.

[applause] >> president cook: again, congratulations to our rave award recipients. number six, advisory committee appointments, and appointments to advisory committees by members. report from the bilingual community council. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is kristina wong, special assistant to the superintendent. we have a brief presentation

for you, and we're going to -- both myself and also the b.c.c. members before you are going to be copresenting. so on my left is kara lima. and then also on my right is myrna vasquez. she is a very active parent on dlac, elac, coleman advocates, and many organizations. she is our chair of b.c.c. >> all right. everyone. good night -- or not good night. i mean, we're still here. hopefully good night soon. so the outcome for today is we're trying to improve the systems for y'alls. we're going to explain the system where b.c.c. is at, where we hope to be with b.c.c., and kind of share the focus with dlac, so that's kind of the focus for today.

>> and in this slide, we're going to show part of the discussion topics that we have at b.c.c. last year, and i just want to highlight it -- three of those. it's more balanced assessments for english learns, [inaudible] >> so i wanted to review what the current b.c.c. status is. it was created as an advisory group to the school board to monitor e.l.l. school boards. because it was a creation of the consent decree, this particular paragraph regarding the b.c.c. was terminated on december 31, 2018, along with 101 paragraphs. we still have eight paragraphs remaining that remain open until june 30, 2019. so in january of this year,

existing b.c.c. members discussed how the b.c.c. functions can possibly be folded into delac given the number of purpose and duties. essentially, we didn't want the work to go away. we wanted to make sure that the work and monitoring of english learners continued to live in a place that included many english learner parents. >> all right. so i'll be going briefly through the b.c.c. purpose. so the bilingual community council was established out of the lau and nichols planning committee. >> and the purpose is --

[inaudible] >> -- english learner programs and services. and the duties is from -- i just want to highlight a few of those and we want to have the continue with the delac. it's development and distribute a master plan for education programs and service for english learner. the district and plan will take into considering the schools and site master plans. that's one of the programs that we want to have continue with the delac. >> so in january and in february, we did a comparison analysis between the bilingual council and the delac and found

there were many similarities. although there was some technical differences in terms of number of meeting does, thee of meetings, there were a number of things in common. both entities, both community advisory committees both report to the board for accountability? and both actually also do types of school site visits to observe the implementation of e.l. programs and services. so in the discussion, we also looked at the bylaws for b.c.c. and delac and made some recommendations to delac. and as of last week, the delac members approved the following amendments so that there was more clarity and also some of the duties would be folded under delac. so under membership, we can

provide clarification under the competition requirements. there was a lot of requirements under e.l. parents, but not a lot of others that can participate in delac. we also wanted to maintain a greater balance of e.l. parent voice so make sure that while there is expertise like educators and researchers that could participate, that predominantly the e.l. voice was going to be front and center. so there is a requirement front and center that no more than e.l. parent may be nominated to the delac board that are not currently on elac. a lot of the focus of the meetings is to have small group work when appropriate, but we wanted to formalize that even though the current staff and former delac board support that, we wanted to make sure that was ongoing, so more

opportunitiestor elac members to use their voice, be engaged in activities, and being considered for all types of meetings, and lastly, provide an opportunity for delac members to work together to establish subcommittees knowing that there's going to be a lot of work around school visits, development a new master plan, that that type of subcommittee may be called by the chair person or vice chair person. so in essence, this is the final b.c.c. report. so we wanted to really share many appreciations to all past and present bilingual community council members for their continuous commitment and tireless service to the district's english learners and their families. a number of the b.c.c. members actually are very interested in joining delac? myrna is a very dedicated member of delac? so we're anticipating that all

the members will continue to play an active role in supporting the needs of our english learners. >> president cook: okay. well, thank you for your presentation and for your service. are there any questions or comments from commissioners? commissioner sanchez? >> vice president sanchez: thank you. thank you for the presentation and thank you for the current b.c.c. members and past b.c.c. members over the years, the wonderful work you've done on behalf of the district and our wonderful students and families. are you still a parent at -- >> yes. >> vice president sanchez: also a parent on the advisory council at cleveland, so i want to thank you for the work that you've provided, as well. >> thank you. >> president cook: we do have one speaker for public comment

on this item. [inaudible] >> president cook: okay. never mind. thank you all. [inaudible] >> president cook: oh, sorry, commissioner lam has a question. >> commissioner lam: it's more of an acknowledgement. the consent decree and acknowledgement is a very important initiative to me, and over the years in working with limited english proficient parents and really excited about the work that will carry on through the delac. so looking forward to making progress that the district is making as a whole in regards to delac and looking forward to supporting elac fully. thank you. >> so i would like to show our appreciation and formally

present certificates of appreciation to both carolina and myrna vasquez as well as other b.c.c. members that may not be present but they will also be acknowledged, as well.

[applause] >> president cook: it's picture night at the school board. b, report from district, english language learner advisory committee. >> good evening, superintendent, commissioners. welcome, new commissioners.

my name is danielle yutley, an i am the education specialist within the multilanguage input department. i have the pleasure of working with our district english language advisory or delac. our purpose is to provide information to the staff in san francisco unified school district to serve the needs of our english language learner students. i'd like to take some time to thank kristina wong for her support and guidance throughout this process. the translation interpretation unit because the work that we do is not possible without them, the multilingual departments for continuing their work to roll out the wonders, which is the new curriculum that serves the complex needs of our english learner