- our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. >> this neighborhood was lived for approximately 22 years. >> yeah, like 21 years. >> 21 years in this neighborhood. >> in the same house. >> we moved into this neighborhood six months after we got married, actually. just about our whole entire married life has been here in excel. >> the owner came to the house and we wanted to sell the house and we were like, what? we were scared at first. what are we going to do?

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

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

>> for the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat -- to the public right off their boats in san francisco. it's not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but it's evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish. but how is it regulated? and what does it take for a boat to be transported into a floating fish market? find out as we hop on board on this episode of "what's next sf." (♪) we're here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. it's no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer because it's doing just that. it's the first boat in san

francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. how did you establish your boat into such a floating fish market? >> well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. when you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. so being able to do this is really -- it's a big positive thing i think for the entire community. >> a very positive thing. as a third-generation fisherman joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. >> right now we're just selling what a lot of the markets like, flat fish and rock fish and what the public likes. so we have been working for

many, many years and putting cameras in them. there's the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by adjusting the net. and then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. >> joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. >> we had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. >> it's incredible. >> i know, it's hard to imagine. >> but this wasn't always the case for joe. >> the markets that we have left in california, they're few and far between, and they really are restrictive. they'll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. a lot of times it's rough weather and if you can't make your delivery you will lose your rotation. that's why there's hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. my boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldn't do anything with it because we had no market. the ability to go catch fish is

fine, i had the permits, but you couldn't take them off your boat. >> that was until the port commission of san francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a pilot program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. >> the purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall fishing community at the port of san francisco. we have limited the program to certain types of fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on taylor street and jefferson street. so this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. it's to basically to lift up the whole industry together. >> and if joe the program has been doing just that. >> it was almost breathtaking

whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. and that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat. once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from san francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. because we really didn't think or know that we'd get such a positive response from the public. and so we're getting thousands of people coming down here buying fish every week and so that's pretty cool. they like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. and when they come down here the one thing that they say is that they're so amazed that the fish is so fresh they could eat a little bit during the week and it's still fresh all week in the

refrigerator. so that's really cool. >> the fish is very fresh and the price is super. i don't think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area. i can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. i just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. >> this program supports the strategic plan in terms of engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and also economic vitality. because it's helping the fishermen to make ends meet. they have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. >> how does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like your grandfather probably did? >> when i was a kid and i used to work in my dad's fish market, a lot of the markets that we

sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. so i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l.a. so it's kind of cool that we're still dealing with the same families. and this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. >> one of the advantages of this program is the department people that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. the feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. and there's a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. in fact, there's people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they go in they see the action on the dock and they want to kind of look at what's happening on the boat before they go in and they

have a meal. so it's generated some conversation down at the wharf and that's a good thing. >> as you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready to buy fish, the pilot program has been a huge success. for more information visit sfsport.com. (♪) (♪)

>> hi, in san francisco we're doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. and today we're going to be talking about the neighborhood support center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at the urban center in san francisco with sarah karlewski, deputy director of spur. we're talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay,

exhibition at their center. and part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place nearby where you can get the services that you might not have in your home. and that's what this little neighborhood support center is for. >> that's right. >> what are some of the services that might be provided in a neighborhood center like this? >> yeah. so, we think of the neighborhood support centers as really being homes away from home. so, after a major earthquake there is going to be a lot of confusion. people are going to need to try to meet up with other people. they're going to need a lot of information. so, a lot of what the neighborhood support center is going to provide is that information. basically we're going to be like a hub where people can come to get services, help, information, et cetera. what you see here on this table are a whole variety of did you ever rent things from tools, some walki-talkies.

this helps people know what is going on in their neighborhood. over here you have a whole variety of water and canned goods. we're really hoping that people will stock up for themselves at least for the first 72 hours if not more. i know that i have a ton of canned food and other sorts of things such as water within my own home. and everybody should, but there's going to come a time where people are going to end up running out and needing more. so, that's what we've got right here. >> so, this neighborhood support center, this doesn't look to be a major city sponsored fully stocked space. it can be a small commercial space, even somebody's garage as long as they have the information, a guide of information, who to call for what, communications equipment, some power, have a generator. >> that's right. >> thinking of lights and charge your cell phones and so on. and probably be operated by

volunteers. >> volunteers, maybe members of nert could help out, people who live in the neighborhood that have some building skill could be helpful. so, if there is a structural engineer living nearby or even an architect, they could really help people kind of understand what has happened to their homes and what sort of repairs might be needed. >> here we are with some of the things that you might find in a neighborhood support center. one thing we learned from hurricane katrina, people really rely on their portable electronics and their phone. we say here's a charging station tied up to the generation. the essential coffeepot. >> yes. >> maybe a computer, you can check your e-mail with. >> yes. we have our charging station here. and then over here you can see we've got a whole variety of things, including the all-important different tags. so, lawrence, do you want to talk a little about the tags? >> sure. people want to know what do

these tags mean. is my building safe or unsafe. these are the city owe initial tags. staying in your home doesn't require that you get a tag. it just means that you use common sense and maybe get help from people who might be around who can help you evaluate whether it's a safe place to stay. >> you might want to know because regular city services are disrupted, you might want to know when trash pick up is, if you need to get clean water, et cetera. also in the neighborhood support center, that kind of information would be available and we've got a little of that up here. >> trash pick up resumes regular schedule on wednesday. >> that's right. >> please mark your human waste. >> that's right. >> so, this is kind of an information center, communication center, also a center that hopefully will show people how to relate to their neighboring communities, what else is happening city-wide. and, of course, this is sort of the ubiquitous form of communication. my cat is missing, call me.

>> exactly, because a lot of times, even if you do have a cell phone, and people do if you're really trying to save some of your precious energy minutes, et cetera, or it's not working as well as it normally does, it is helpful to have a message board that you can get information to other people. and, so, that's what we're showing here. you can see people are going to be looking for their pets. they're going to be looking for rides. people are going to need to be sharing resources a much as they possibly can. another thing that you can see here is they're going to need to be fair tools and some of the things that people are going to need in order to be able to stay safer within their homes. so, we're just showing sort of a gesture to that with all these different tools here. but then also tarps, people are going to need to cover their windows if their windows are cracked, if their roofs are broken. so, ideally, the city would be able to know where all these neighborhood centers are and help deliver some of these

supplies. >> they could come from a neighbor, maybe not. thank you so much for allowing us to come in and share this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for

good evening. this is the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for may 14, 2019. the meeting is called to order. roll call. (roll call). >> give it up for

delores swarta. she'll be with us friday when we have our official ceremony for her at 1:00 p.m. so if you can make it, please join us. with no objection, i'll take section j which is the introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. this will be heard in section b. we'll just wedge it in right after we do the minutes, i think. and then we'll have public comment on agenda items after that. section a, general information, section b opening items. one approval of board minutes of the regular meeting of april 23, 2019 and special meeting of may 7, 2019 and we need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> any corrections?

roll call. (roll call). speaker cards are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item called and presented to the executive assistant, to my right. members of the public have two minutes to address the board and/or time set by the president or, in this case, vice president according to board rules and procedures and speaker cards will not be for the items before the board. dr. matthews? >> good evening, everyone. >> good evening. last week was national teacher

appreciation week. since this is the first board meeting since then, thank you to all of the san francisco unified school district teachers. thank you for fostering the 21st century skills and thank you for being a role model for continuous learning, thank you for caring about both your student's academic growth and social and emotional development. thank you for peein for being af this community redefining school in service of all of our students. please join me in recognising our school nurses. lead give them a big round of applause. [cheers and applause] >> we have several in the audience and thank you, school nurses. [cheers and applause] >> may 8 was national school nurse day and on that day, we celebrated the 55 school nurses and three licensed vocational

nurses who work everyday for over 100 years who have played a critical role in improving school health and ensuring academic success. in our district, we have made school health a priority. there is a school district nurse in all of our middle and high schools. on any given day, our nurses are providing direct care and support to students and their families. put so far, in this school year within san francisco nurses have provided over 88,000 direct services to our students. i whole-heartedly thank the district nurses for service in

keeping our students safe, healthy and ready to learn. let's give them a big round of applause. [cheers and applause] i would like to share news from the office of counseling and post-secondary success. first, the high school commitment days for all of our eighth graders will take place between may 21st and 24th at all of our middle schools and facilitated by the eighth grade councillor. students will review and agree to six commitments, the 2023 creed that support high school success and finalize their commitment through social media via #2023 creed and #my tv futuremfuturemyhand. my future in my hand, be positive, be patient and persistent will be mailed to all eighth grade students over the next three weeks. it's information and links to help all studentses an studentsy begin high school with success and achievement. students from brettheart, drew academy and willie brown middle

school will displace their talents through creative expression at the fourth annual bayview art's showcase. the visual performing arts hosted event will include choir, ukulele, and hip-hop dance performances along with a joint win and string instrument performance by students from the four school. student artwork will also be on display. the goal of the programme is to provide access and equity in education for every san francisco unified student at every school day. this friday, our district students will create food for show at the san francisco unified school district food advisory showcase. the annual student nutrition services event will take place here at 555 franklin and will feature 18 fellow students from high schools across the district as they present ideas they have developed for building a

students centered food system over the course of the semester. the sfa's goal is to integrate school student voice in decisions made by our student attrition service and increase student satisfaction in overall interaction the school mill's programme. finally, all districts will be closed monday may 27th in commemoration of member day. that ends my announcement. >> item three, student delegate report. >> thank you. before we start our report, we would like to congratulate or super senior, mr. sal, for recognised as the mentor of the year of the sitting county of san francisco awarded by youth works. thank you for everything you do for us, mr. sal. [cheers and applause]

>> this is to mentor students over the summer break. thank you to our community-based organization for partnering up on this project. >> sac is hosting a leadership celebration ceremony on friday, may 31st to acknowledge dedications and hard works of student leaders in the past year. each student will receive 250 hours of community service time and an award certificate. each senior student in addition to what we mentioned will receive a sash. thank you to all student leaders for being great representatives for creating a better school community. >> last night student leaders in sac amended healing and hands resolution presented about the chinese association. the sac recognises our student's

mental well-being. mental wellness is a crucial factor of personal and academic success and we think students deserve mental health when they need it. thank you for your presentation. >> the student delegate candidate for the 2019-2020 school year kicked off their campaign at this year's annual youth summit in march. we now have the results. so mr. truett, would you like to come up?

we need a drum roll. congratulations betsy herrera. >> from mission high school! yes! [cheers and applause] >> this is the first time the board has ever had a delegate from mission high school. >> congratulations.

>> special thank you to all candidates this year. you all did amazing campaign and i like your campaign. may 282,019t 282,019th is theout 6:00 p.m. four award's obtain yet. the public council and anyone is welcome to attend our meetings. make a presentation or would like a copy of our up and coming sac agenda contact the supervisor mr. salvador lopez-barr. thank you. >> thank you, student delegates. regularecognition of designatio. >> we recommend the mission high boy's varsity soccer team for winning the first northern california title in the division 5 title. cheer cheer. [cheers and applause]

>> they defeated hilmar sacred heart cathedral and the would like to bring the principal up to introduce the time. >> thank you, dr. matthews and good evening to everyone. i really appreciate being here, and mostly i appreciate these gentlemen right here. they are amazing been so just real quickly, i've been doing this a long time and i've seen a lot of championship teams, but i have to say that you are and please don't tell every championship team this, but you are my favorite championship team by far. [ laughter ] >> there's a reason for it. first of all, they're lovely human beings but in the middle of the championship season, they won the championship game, went on to state championship and did beautifully and i can't remember the team from winners, california and two days later

they were met for semifinals and a tragedy struck and it impacted everyone one of you here and impacted our entire community. the night of the tragedy was the night of the oakland's game and they said we'll go and win it for the family that went through a terrible tragedy and not only did they win it but two days later, they went to hillmar and dedicated the game to the family and i think the goal within of , was winning but at the center of this was love and i am so proud of you all. [cheers and applause] >> with that, none of this could happen without our amazing coaching team lead by a mission graduate, coach mendosa. [cheers and applause]

>> this is my third year coaching. i enjoy being back and after going to college, i wanted to come back and being out there with the kids and they're not kids any more. but yeah, i think the first two years coaching, most of these guys were with me since they were sophomores and we were close to the championship but i think we got stuck in the semis but this year we're able to pull through and go to the city final and then, i had the opportunity to finally play in state and they showed everyone, you know, that the public schools in san

francisco are able to compete with the best schools in all of northern california. and i just hope, you know, other public schools can go out and do the same. [cheers and applause] >> good evening, everyone and the team from mission high school. it's an honor to be here tonight and i would like to say thank you for having us here. i would like to say thank you to my teammates. for me, it was an honor to play with them. allowing my teammates are from many different countries, and when we came, we were thinking of the free exam of the english test and my teammate didn't know english at all. we did not know one day we would be here at the championship voice and now we here.

the championship was a dream at the beginning but the in end it came true. go bears! [cheers and applause]

>> thank you mission varsity soccer's boy's team. >> the next recognition is our rave award. it's recognising all valuable employees. our first rave award winner tonight is from er taylor elementary school, josie verano is the literacy coach and esanina will be presented josie violenverano to us.

(applause). >> good evening, commissioners it is a great honor to present this award to josie. she is in her 23rd year as an employee of san francisco unified school district and 20 of the years were spent at sunset elementary. and she came to us with park pan and commitment to teach literacy and at every turn, she shows up as a courageous leader. she also brings students at the center of the work and makes sure we are data driven and makes sure that we make decisions in support of our teachers so that they can have

an impact on our students. so it is a great honor to honor you today. she is hard working and worked with the most challenging students and adjusts to the needs of the studentses. literally she'll follow a student on the yard and makes sure she is searching that students. that's how much i admire your resiliency. so i would like to present this award to you and again, we are very honoured, the students' families were honored to have you as a member of out team. [cheers and applause]

>> the final rave award for this evening is from hoover middle

school. go hoover! my middle school. this is for a professional at who'ver middle school, tanisha hudson and this will be presented by her principal, liz pierce. >> good evening, members of the board, superintendent matthews, my name is liz pierce and i'm the principal of the middle school and i'm so proud to introduce our valued staff member, tanisha hudson. she's been both students and stt her greatly and she tends to be the preferred allied adult for her students and most known for passionate commitment, not just in academics but in life. in the word of or nomination, she extends herself far beyond

her duties to make sure her students feel loved and supported and she's care, want hard-working and extremely collaborative and she has her own children in usfc and has her own sense of humor. tanisha, congra congratulations! [cheers and applause]

>> we're moving up an item j. so this is introduction of proposals and assignment to committee and we'll do the whole item together this is for the crowd for board member's proposal 195-14a1, healing and hands. creating school as faces of youth-driven healing, tran transformation and growth. we have a number of folks. when i call your name, make your

way to the podium. as we heard, there are so many people on this item, that you have two minutes each, but you don't need to take two minutes each. so lay wawu, jacque. (names being called). >> we have others but we'll start with these. >> good evening board of ed members. i am a lead organization and an intergenerational organization focusing on developing leaders, work-class, primarily chinese

american youth and workers. cpa has worked on multiple levels throughout the city and state, from state-wide legislation to city-wide policies, like hospital closures, ordinance 310 to serving on healthcare alliances like communities creating healthy alliances. i'm here today as an adult ally because i support young people leading their healing in their hands. healing studentses and students of colour are on the front lines of trauma. when students become agents at their own healing and well-being, our entire expect grows stronger. we know as educators, you see this, too. we also know that the systemic challenges are larger than any of us can solve by ourselves and

we need the power of youth to gather their own data and to come up with their own solutions. so through our student-driven data, we came up with the following recommendations, to increase wellness funding for staff, for social workers, to strengthen preventative resources, to build in-student bases so students can take part in making decisions and to implement training and to implement pier-lead coaching to support the students. our young people want to work with the adults in our schools and we believe we're all aligned in the same vision, asking you to uplift the student's voice and agency, so let's work together, listen to them, equip them with the tools and taking the lead for solutions in our schools. thank you.

>> hi all, hi board of education. i'm karen ung from the galileo academy and i have a lot of troubles with medical. a lot of studentmental health.ie helpful and know a lot of studentses who have benefited from them. sometimes i wonder about my peers who aren't as lucky as i to be admitted to these services, too don't have a friend to reach out. my friends are talking about their mental health in general. now there are barriers to access accessing the resources because all of the stigma around medical. homentalhealth? look at the healing in our hands and how it's been a youth-driven campaign. we want to involve community members like youth ge by givinge students the opportunity to be vocal. you give youth the chance to be

leaders and making a support ienvironment. you give youth the idea that talking about struggles is ok and getting help is important and is safe. you help youth to be successful and sustainable in their future, because the youth are the future. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> good evening. i'm the executive director of the community youth center of cyc. we founded in 1970 to, basically, more than 25 schools in the san francisco school district and currently, four our mental health or behavioral health component services, we saw 15 schools including elementary, middle school and high school in san francisco and this year, we add additional five schools. so many schools do not have social workers or councillors

who can meet mental health needs of chinese studentses who might have adjustments, school orle family probleorfamily problem ot disorder or other trauma-related conditions. so our team of 19 staff, as well as interns, most are bilingual and will go in a school to provide screening, consultation with parents and mental health service referrals. just this year we serve over 300 youth within the school district and up to 338 students, 160 do not have medicare. if we do not provide a seek and service services, they will not be able to receive any treatment and we'll only find them in crisis services. so i really, really urge all board members to stand behind it are healings in our hands campaign to support the recommendations of the campaign. thank you. [cheers and applause]

>> good evening, superintendent, commissioners, my name is laura markman, the president of the association of chinese teacher. wellnessaat gal ga galileo was l ahead of other districts. i have an adult group to work with if a student is struggling to deal with life and believe me, i do not take my wellness team for granted. i heavily rely on them as presence and expertise allows me to do my job. so i was shocked when i heard about this topic and presented to the board. i was skeptical and ready to defend my coworkers with every last breath but it's not about that. i heard about the statistics, how asian american studentses are drastically underutilizing

services and how they want peer-to-peer services, how they see wellness as disciplinary. last year i had four students suicidal and all four were chinese and all four didn't want to see a councillor, they wanted to see me which qualifies this data. so i met with them sometimes hours at a time and they ended up looking out for one another and they said, hey, you need to see jimmy, he had a rough night and these students are our frontline. so firsthand, i can say there's a stigma with chinese youth about mental health and mental health services. firsthand, we need more funding to continue to grow and be a model for what wellness nation wide should look and be like. all wellness centers should have therapists front and center because health cannot just come in english or adult, we have to

look at this data and make decisions based on findings. our student's lives depend on it. [cheers and applause] >> good evening, commissioners. i'm the president of the use nated educator educators of sano and when they brought this report to us, we knew we were seeing an important document. we brought this asking for support for this recommendation and the resolution and in both bodies, both govern governance s there was a support here. we know that everything we do has to be student cente centered

when students say w they need their voice heard, we believe them. so thank you for taking up this resolution tonight. >> good evening, commissioners and district staff. my name is kevin bogus, the political director at coleman advocates for children and youth and i'm here to ask you to support this resolution because students need access to support to be successful. for too long our school district has been segregated for those who have and those who don't and so often it's black and brown students who get left behind and pushed out of school. a lot is they don't have the support they need, whether it's life-planning, college planning, we don't have enough people at school sites to do what our students need. we ask you to support this policy change and find a way to utilize students and their expertise to support each other

and make sure they can be successful and that they're well. i just want to also just say from coleman's perspective, black and brown students are struggling in this school district and they aren't getting what they need. so hopefully this is the first step in a bunch of steps to take to address the disproportionalty that exists in our school district and makes sure everyone gets the type of education they need to have community in their schools. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] >> i'm here to support wellness center. we need wellness center for schools to help the kids even if they look like they don't need help. and that does not mean to support them. and we mostly need wellness centers for all kids struggling

in the schools, especially african-american students and latino students because they're the ones struggling more, going to the office and getting suspended and sometimes, it's not even their fault. they didn't do nothing. >> my name is daniel and i want to talk about how colored students are getting punished pushed away. neither gettinthey're not getti. i was sent to the principal's office because a teacher thought i was disrespecting her by sneezing. i thought it was disrespectful.

the youth have a voice to make decisions. i would have sided to make the solution a different way and i wanted wellness centers to come more out instead of the principal's office. i support this revolution and i hope you pass it. [cheers and applause] >> i'm with the coleman advocates making a change. at our schools we should feel safe and supported and have somewhere to talk according to race, language, et cetera. we should have a safe space where we can go when we're feeling down or upset. at my school, at this middle school, there's usually no one in the wellness center or it's usually closed. there's more finding more wellness centers than can

culturally correspond to us and deal with our problem and then we can feel safe. >> i'm here on behalf of the close--the-gap commission. i want to thank the youth from mojo and sedeer and podare. it's been moving and i want to thank you as a parent with young kids because i know they'll benefit from your leadership. the close-the-gap coalition is in the best fra decision of community schools and part of the tradition of sharing power, listening to stakeholders and in supporting their solutions, understanding that the people that are closest to the problem

are closest to the solution. we support increasing resources to sites and building on existing programs, again guided by stakeholders to best integrate and coordinate these resources and make sure they hit the students who need them most. most disagreeds ar ideas are no. but in high school in the '90s, we had peer-to-peer educators. we're already supporting each other -- i'm not young each other, but youth are already supporting each other and having peer-to-peer educators is powerful to meet where their needs are and connect the needs into -- connect students into the needs and supports that they need. so we want to ask you again to support this resolution to listen to our youth and thank you all for the changes you're making in our schools. [cheers and applause]

>> before the next speaker, marita gomez, jenny delapaz, michelle chan and shenbach, that's the last name and angela chow, ed lawrence, kylie hoffm hoffman. >> good evening. my name is michelle chan and i work with coleman advocates. i am also a mother of a 6-year-old attending kindergarten in the san francisco unified school district. my son is half chinese and half arab and i want to say today that racial discrimination in our society and in our schools is very real. i dealt with it growing up in schools. his father dealt with it growing up as an arab american and we

fear our son will deal with these issues as he grows older. in addition to that, i want to say that mental health issues in our children are very real. my son, after experiencing a traumatic life event, was diagnosed with adjustment disorder. he woke up in the nights for months screaming, waking up from nightmares. the healing process was a long road. he has finally been able to heal and gain a sense of belonging, but i want to say that we need some investments in our school, invest in racially, culturally inclusive schools that are supportive and address mental health needs of children and families to give our students and families a chance to succeed. thank you. [c