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 work with, professional, and patience, which is really important when working with a

bureaucracy such as the feds. so i was here last in august, 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: 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 students. congratulations b.c.c., and thank you for your hard work. over the past several years, i've witnessed