agreement is contingent on shifting from paper advertising to digital, which is something that has already happened in all of the other city advertising agreements, and i fully hear what you're saying about not loving advertising, but the reality of most advertising agreements that public -- that cities do -- new york, chicago, is that they have all gone digital, and that does generate additional revenue. so without being able to convert to digital, it would have been a more challenging conversation. but i do hear what you're saying, and i think we probably would have considered that, had we known we'd still be here amending this agreement. we're really not expecting to be in this situation. >> supervisor peskin: and relative to the public commenter's question, how many public toilets? >> 25. >> supervisor peskin: 25 toilets for our 50 square

miles. and in the current contract, we get how much money a year? >> it varies, depending on how much money decaux makes. it's 7% of their gross, and it has been anywhere from about 750,000 to 800,000. it has gone down in the last couple of years because decaux has been losing money to other advertisers in the area, like clear channel, who have digital on both the m.t.a. kiosks and the news racks that are actually public works news racks, so there's been an emotion in decaux' market because they're not digital yet. >> supervisor mandelman: yeah. thank you, chair fewer. so i am hearing from my colleagues significant reservations about continuing our relationship with j.c. decaux, and i do not actually

feel that i have had the opportunity to talk to folks in the castro who might be impacted by this, by my constituents who, you know, may be -- may be fine with getting j.c. decaux, and that may actually be the will of the city at this point. but i would like the opportunity to do some more consultation and hearing some other alternatives from the department. i'm comfortable not taking a vote on this date. i would like this to come back on a date certain so it would enable us to have these conversations and get us better prepared whether we're ready to make that break. i just feel i like to do a little bit of thinking about. >> one thing i would like -- and i'm more than happy to come

and brief the -- you know, anyone who's interested on kind of where we are and what the tradeoffs are, one of the things that i would say and the reason city went down this road in the 90's was it was a way to city of capital in exchange for digital advertising? it cost money to put them in, and there's mant tans that decaux supports. i understand -- maintenance that did he taecaux supports. just so you know, if you don't support that, we'll no longer have 25 a.d.a. toilets in san francisco. to make that investment as a city is a significant amount of cash when we know we're wanting to fund many things and have

toto make choices, which is what we want to do. >> chair fewer: sure. i don't have one in my neighborhood, and i'm sure they've requested one, which is not an issue today, so supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: i did have one question. the reason there was only one respondent to the r.f.p. was because the way the r.f.p. was written. are there other people, other companies in this field, can you address why there was only one respondent to the request for proposals. >> so when we did the prebid conference, there were two companies that twaended thatte conference. one was clear channel, and one was decaux. i think you're familiar that clear channel was -- has the bus shelters at the m.t.a.?

and it has not been a successful contract for clear channel? and they are providing the m.t.a. for shelters and main nance for shelters that i believe are at least even to their expenses, so it's a good arrangement for the m.t.a. and perhaps not as good an arrangement for clear channel. i think because that does not work out too well for clear channel, they are not always in the business of providing street furniture in exchange for advertising rights. that's a niche that decaux has kind of carved out for itself in the advertising industry? generally speaking, those advertising companies don't provide capital furniture, you know, and maintenance often, although i do know that the more common mode for this is bus shelters, and i believe that in both new york and

chicago, the decaux arrangement there is more around bus shelters in exchange for advertising than kiosks and toilets? but in europe, they have many of these kiosks in exchange for toilets, and in southern california, i believe there's other street furniture that decaux has provided to cities in exchange for advertising rights? does that help answer your question? >> supervisor peskin: it does. let me just ask this question a little bit differently. it seems to me there are two public policy goals here. one is to provide bathroom facilities, and the other is to make the city money, right? is that a fair -- >> or get services in exchange that are worth something to the city in lieu of the cash, yes. >> supervisor peskin: and the source of the money is

advertising. >> correct. >> supervisor peskin: so did it ever occur to the city, what if -- i'm not a big fan of this as i stated previously, but what if we just said hey, you can go build a bunch of digital signs on market street, put that out for bid, and take that money for 25 toilets of our own. >> we can simply look at advertising rights for that. i think that as i've said before, a lot of the reason that jurisdictions go down this road is they don't want to have to make the capital investment, and so it's the capital in exchange for advertising? and i guess we'd need to decide whether we're comfortable. the thing about having the companies build and maintain these is then you are kind of moving that risk and that responsibility and locking it in for a period of time. and we all know that there's economic fluctuations, so from

a city's perspective, they're guaranteed for a 25 or 30-year period. >> supervisor peskin: how much does a pit stop cost, and how much does it cost to staff? >> so i have the staff number readily in my head. it's about $200,000 a year just to staff one of these. i would need to look and get back to you on exactly how much it costs because there are actually different pit stop models. i think you're familiar that we cover two rec and park facilities, so sometimes we already have a facility, but most of our pit stops are the mobile kind so i would want to be able to get you accurate casts for the trailer and truck -- costs for the trailer and truck driver, but i'm happy

to do that. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. and i know you've been staffing decaux toilets, like the one at washington square has public works staff at decaux toilets. >> they're actually staff from a nonprofit through a grant, so it's not public works staff. the only public works staff that are working on the toilets are the drivers that are bringing the toilets in in the mobile program and then taking them and storing them, so those are actually public works employees. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. >> chair fewer: supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: thank you, chair fewer. through the chair, miss dawson, is there a map where all of these bathrooms for? can you send one? >> of course. >> supervisor stefani: is there an established criteria for where these bathrooms go? >> so this was cited when the original agreement was put in

place? they were determined on the following basis, where most tourists were and there were not readily available public facilities, so you'll see a lot of them in the fisherman's wharf area. there are some on the top of twin peaks where a lot of tour buses go. there's one in u.n. plaza, civic center plaza where there just weren't access ibibility areas to go? there was, a long time ago, a sense that the toilet program could expand, and there was this ratio between the number of kiosks and the number of toilets. but later on, the voters passed an initiative that limited the number of kiosks, and so that

is why we have 25 toilets today. we might have had more had we had a different policy decision? but that's what we have now. we could certainly look at relocating existing toilets if we felt. so there is one in the castro, for instance, there's one on washington and hyde square park, there's one at coit tower. in the one at coit tower, there's an a.d.a. accessibility issue? in coit tower, the space is very constained, and an -- constrained, and an a.d.a. accessible unit could not be built, so that's why some of them are where they are.

km . >> chair fewer: i have a question. j.c. decaux, do they service the toilets? >> they do. >> chair fewer: so we pay the staff, and j.c. decaux doesn't pay san francisco at all for staffing. >> no. at this point, j.c. decaux does not appropriate the staffing. the city administers it throughothrough a grant, but one of the pieces of negotiation in the new contract is moving it from a city responsibility to being a decaux responsibility but with all of it still being the workforce development program and a community based program that it is today, so that will be part of the new graemagreem now remember, pit stops are decauxs, and there's about 20

pit stops now, but those are all -- the others are either mobile or to our rec park. >> chair fewer: okay. i think we've had enough discussion on this. i make a motion, then, to move this -- continue this item at the request of myself but also supervisor mandelman, giving a chance to speak to his community about this, to the meeting of march 13. can we take that without objection? thank you very much. thank you very much. [gavel]. >> chair fewer: madam clerk, can you please call items 16 and 17 and 18 together, please. >> clerk: yes. [agenda item read] [agenda item read] [agenda item read].

>> chair fewer: thank you very much. no kathy widener today. >> no. kathy widener asked to be here specifically, but good afternoon. dea deanna kizon with the san francisco international airport. the proposed lease approvals are tweent airport and lady luck gourmet, host

international, inc. i. the total minimum annual guarantees is $2,626,875 for the initial two year term. two of the initial proposers are headquartered in the bay area. notably, lady luck gourmet is the first filipino food vendor in the airport, which is why i asked to be here. >> chair fewer: thank you. let's hear from the b.l.a., please. >> these vendors were collected through a request for process. each tenant would pay the

greater of the minimum annual guaranteed rent or a percentage rent. the leases are expected to begin as part of the terminal one project. this is an early approval of them. if the tenants payed just the minimum -- paid just the minimum annual guarantee, the initial return to the airport would be 12.6 million. the airport assumption is they will pay the greater rent rather than the minimum guarantee, and we recommend approval. >> thank you. >> chair fewer: let's open up public comment. is there any member of the public that would like to comment on this? seeing none, public comment is

closed. any comments or questions from my colleagues? seeing none, i'll make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. [gavel]. >> chair fewer: madam clerk, please read items 19 and 20. [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer: okay. thank you very much. this is -- any comments, questions? nothing. let's go to budget legislative

analyst, please. >> yes. the two pieces of legislation, they approve the commercial lease between the city and the department of public works for 101 hyde street, and they've approved the receipt of funding from the san francisco foundation in the amount of $1 million. this space is a temporary use pending use of the property for an affordable housing program. the lease goes through 2025. the la cocina would be expected to put in about $4.6 million in continuant improvements. we -- tenant improvements. we summarize that in our report on page four. there's a balance of about 782,000. this has not been identified yet that would either be additional fund raising by la

cocina or a bridge loan, and we recommend approval. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. and i believe you have a presentation for us. >> thank you, chair fewer, supervisors stefani, mandelman, and peskin. hello. lisa pagan from the office of workforce development. i have slides -- hopefully -- yes, thank you. i'm here with my colleagues, mara blitzer and amy chan with the mayor's office of housing and workforce development. we have worked collaboratively on an interim use for 101 hyde street, which i'm here to talk with you about today. a little background on this really exciting project. between 2016 and 2018, the site at 101 hyde at golden gate nearby here was acquired by the

city through a land dedication at 1066 market street? the land was donated. in addition to the land, there was a $6 million gift held by the san francisco foundation of which 1 million was dedicated for an interim use for the site while it was waiting the development to move forward for an affordable housing and 5 million for affordable housing which is still held by the san francisco foundation for that project. the city issued an r.f.p. for community serving interim use, and we selected la cocina? this is -- this is at hyde and golden gate. so the proposal is -- for the interim use is 7500 square foot

food hall -- oh, excuse me, did it not show? no, it's not showing. let's see...i'm not sure if that's my end or their end. sfgovtv? >> chair fewer: yes. we're just waiting for sfgovtv to show this. >> a 7500 food hall is proposed with a kitchen? there'll be one permanent and seven rotating food vendors. it'll be a welcome and vibrant space on a very tough corner that our service has worked for many years on in the market c.b.d. so this will be really welcoming, a new affordable eating for the tenderloin

residents. it will help with neighborhood outreach and serving as a liaison to the tenderloin neighborhood for this project, and i have a plan here, which is hard to see on the video, but hopefully, you can see it closer up front, with the kiosks and the commercial kitchen, you see the seating areas which would be available for the community for events, actually, as a community center type space. so the lease terms for this interim use as was explained by the budget legislative analysis, it's going to expire in -- december 31, 2025, so ideally, the term would be approximately march 2019, depending on if the lease is approved -- or recommended for approval and then approved at the board. the monthly rent is $1,000 plus 5% of net income, which would

begin upon the issuance of the temporary certificate of occupancy? la cocina is responsible for the tenant improvements and all costs associated with operating the premises under the lease that we have negotiated? so in addition, the project timeline is that the start of construction is estimated to be may 2019 if the interim lease is approved, and they'd like to complete the tenant improvements by november, have a soft launch in december and open in january 2020 for the community? and then, the mayor's office of housing and community development is here to answer additional questions if you have about the proposed housing development? and there's also an accept and expend grant as part of this in

order to release the $1 million from the san francisco foundation for this project. >> chair fewer: thank you. any questions or comments from my colleagues? seeing none, let's open this up for public comment. there are any members of the public that would like to comment on items 19 or 20. >> hello. i'm the director of the project. thank you, lisa. she captured it really well. thank you to mara's team, as well. in addition to all those great stuff, we also expect to hire 30 to 40 people from the tenderloin area. we have a commit -- we have commit -- we are committed to hire 75% from the neighborhood, and we expect to create about $4 million in revenue through the market hall. i hope that the supervisors

will approve this loan, this lease, skm we' lease, and we're very confident that we can make this happen. la cocina has been working with woman for the last several years in businesses. we have over 30 brick and mortar restaurants opened by women, which over 90% are still open. this is something that no other organization in the bay area can claim to. so we hope to also be the provide of healthy food options in the neighborhood. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> jennifer fremont from the

coalition on homelessness. there was a lot of concerns, much like the monster in the mission, and we were called -- calling it the t-rex in the tenderloin. the company was going to be -- the developers were making a lot of money and really doing the bare minimum. so there was a lot of work in the community to force the developer to do some stuff to mitigate. they were not too comfortable with having poor people on their site, and it ended up buying this building and giving the additional money to san francisco foundation. now, the interim use stuff, from our understanding is a lot of folks that were involved in this was it wasn't going to slow down the creation of the

housing. there were interim use, but things were going to move full steam ahead. with proposition c, there's an option to having this housing be put in quicker. i think there needs to have some conversations about that because i don't think any of us imagined that. also, two years have already passed, so this has been a very lengthy, long thing that is potentially going to be causing even further delay. so we'd appreciate some more conversation about this. thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. any other comments from my colleagues? so yes, this is a seven-year lease, and we love la cocina, however, this community was promised an affordable housing site on this site, and a seven-year lease is a very long period of time. and so i am not comfortable actually passing this out of

committee today because what the community and the members of the board were promised during the last budget cycle, it was a two-year temporary use, and then, those plans were 100% affordable housing. so i think i'd like to have more conversation on this. i'd like to continue this item -- oh, supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: i just wanted to also add not just prop c, which is subject to litigation, but as we know, the mayor and the board are contemplating what at a minimum would be a $300 million general obligation bond for affordable housing on this november's ballot, so i just wanted to add that to the conversation. >> chair fewer: excuse me one second. so i see supervisor haney, which is a cosponsor of this, is in the room. supervisor haney, would you like to speak on this item? oh, you can actually come in

here, supervisor. >> supervisor haney: oh. >> chair fewer: miss wong. >> supervisor haney: sorry for crashing the party. i think that i support what -- your comments in terms of continuing this and spending a little more time working with the community on it and talking about the length of the lease. obviously, we want to see that site activated right away. it's really a shame of sort of what has happened to that block as it's been a building that is

really shuttered, and the community wants to see it activated. with that said, there's a commitment to have affordable housing and some of the opportunities that we have for funding may have shifted a little bit with the bond and prop c and other things, so -- eraf. so i'd love to be able to have some time to spend with oewd, with la cocina, with mohcd and with the community to see what the right time frame is. we want them to happen now, but as soon as we're ready to build housing, we want to be able to do that. i would respectfully ask, as you said, be continued. >> chair fewer: would the meeting of march 13 work for you? that's two weeks from now. >> supervisor haney: that would be great, yeah. >> chair fewer: so i make a motion to move this item to the meeting of march 13. >> clerk: for clarification, both items? >> chair fewer: yes, both

items, 19 and 20. thank you, supervisor haney. madam clerk, are there any other items before us today? >> clerk: there are no other items. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. the meeting is adjourned. [gavel] >> 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