our initial authorization process, we had the privilege of meeting and hosting a number of you over the years. we look forward to introducing ourselves to those we don't yet know and invite each of you to visit the school, meet our community and take a close look. while the community of educators and families are deeply proud of what we have accomplished, we are equally, if not more committed to the work ahead. is our work and commitment to have this process challenged and improve our planning and practice, and opening a conversation about not only our strengths and areas for growth, but strength and growth. we are working alongside you. inc. you again for all you do. [applause] >> for first reading, we had have the superintendent's proposal. our first reading of new school

petitions and charter renewal number 3. introduced by commissioner collins and lamb. may i hear a motion and a second on the proposals? >> motion. >> second. >> i am referring this to the curriculum and budget committee. it is being referred to the curriculum and budget committee as well. go ahead, kevin. >> i will keep it quick. i appreciate everybody who is still here tonight, especially the folks who have to go to work early tomorrow. i wanted to speak in response to the equity studies resolution that is being put forward. we are really excited about this

resolution and what it means for the district. we really feel like this is the current board and the current leadership of the district for filling -- fulfilling the promises that have been laid up for far too long in the district that have never been filled. i appreciate you for going beyond the talk and trying to do things that will be impactful and meaningful, not just to the students who are here now, but to the multiple generations who have gone through the school district and who have failed, and who haven't seen this district go out and reach them where they are at and talk to them in the ways that they understand reflecting their cultures and their histories. i am really excited for this resolution, the work of this board, the work of the school district to transform educational process and to bring equity into places where they didn't exist. thank you for that. we look forward to when this resolution comes back, and hopefully it gets voted successfully and it passes all of your votes. thank you very much. [applause]

>> section l, proposals for immediate action. there are none tonight. section m., board member reports we have reports from committee. i will just read this. the following committees have taken place since the last board meeting. we have a report from curriculum and program committee by commissioner lopez. the action items were 195, 14 a. one, charter schools and spaces with student driven learning, transforming and growth, number 2, resolution to adopt declaration of all rights of all students, equity access and learning, and number 3, the support of the arts education master plan. any other?

are you good? okay. >> i'm sorry, can i say one quick thing on the arts in education master plan for folks who weren't there? >> sure. >> i wanted to speak to that. we decided we wanted to give get the new director time to reach out to communities, both sharing the report dated that we had and also gathering input from staff, and so that will come back to the curriculum committee once they have had a chance to do that. i want you to know that we are supportive of that and i look forward to what they come back with. >> of the building grounds committee we had a discussion on the status of the design at the new mission bay campus. do we have any board delegation who membership organizations, any reports about that?

any other reports by board members? okay. i wasn't here the last board meeting, so i just wanted to say thank you for your years of service. i saw you got a standing ovation , too. some of the other folks also, and a video. i was in kenya, but i sent you a text saying congratulations, and congratulations. we will see you back in august, too. [laughter] >> just real quick, just real, real quick, for commissioner lopez... [singing]

[cheering]. [applause] >> thank you, thank you. >> you are still one of the best elected officials of san francisco. you hold the title. let's see. number 4, calendar of committee meetings. we have a meeting -- no meetings until august and september for budget and business services policy and legislation, curriculum and program, building grounds and services, ad hoc committee on personnel and labor affordability, it looks like -- but the joint committee for the city of san francisco, the school district, and the city college select committee will be meeting this friday, june 28th at 9:00 a.m. the meeting will be held at city

hall in the legislative chamber. section n., other informational items. there are none tonight. section oh, memorial adjournment , today -- tonight we are adjourning a memorial of emmanuel david macarthur. on june 13th, 2019, we lost emmanuel dickie mcarthur macarthur. everyone knew emmanuel, everyone knew him could speak to his billions, relentless humour, gentle presence, contain just contained a smile and loving spirit -- contagious smile and loving spirit. he had an acceptance of others in his soul, aspiring passion for making the most of life. impacting lives from north carolina to the california coast

for 23 years. he dedicated his life to being a source of light and love for all he connected with in his time here. those who knew him will forever be changed by his influence on their lives. his gofundme campaign is on behalf of his family, and all donations to the campaign will go to the memorial and funeral services in honouring the beautiful life of emmanuel david dickie macarthur. i got to meet him when he was at mission high school. i was deeply heartbroken about losing him. his funeral will be this saturday in oakland, and he is also a family member of mr. dickey, who i just mentioned , so to him and his mother and his brothers and sisters, our condolences, rest in power, emmanuel.

at this time, we will take public comment for those who submitted cards for closed session. we have none tonight. section p., closed session. the board will now go into closed session unless i call a recess of the regular >> there was a vote of six time mac to approve the contract of two superintendence. they approved the contract of two principles by a vote of six aye, one absent. and they proposed the contract by one principle. they approved the contract of three assistant principals. we also approved a contract for

a one intern assistant principal in the matter of ellen versus sfusd, by a vote of six aye gave the authority to the district of -- to pay out the stipulated amount. the matter of ds sfusd, the board by a vote of six aye gives the authority of the district to pay off the stipulated amount, and five matters of litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel. by a vote of six aye approved the resignation agreement between the district and a specific employee for up to a stipulated amount. section are, adjournment. that concludes tonight's meeting good night.

>> ever wonder about programs the city it working think to make san francisco the best place to work and will we bring shine to the programs and the people making them happen join us inside that edition of what's next sf sprech of market street between 6th is having a cinderella movement with the office of economic workforce development is it's fairy godmother telegraph hill engaged in the program and providing the reason to pass through the corridor and

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every. >> oewd proits provides permits progress resulting in the growth of mid businesses hocking beggar has doubled in size. >> when we were just getting started we were a new business people never saturday a small business owner and been in the bike industry a long needed help in finding at space and sxug the that is a oewd and others agencies were a huge helped walked us through the process we couldn't have done it without you this is sloped to be your grand boulevard if so typically a way to get one way to the other it is supposed to be a beautiful boulevard and fellowship it is started to look like that. >> we have one goal that was

the night to the neighborhood while the bigger project of developments as underway and also to bring bring a sense of community back to the neighborhood. >> we wanted to use the says that a a gathering space for people to have experience whether watching movies or a yoga or coming to lecture. >> that sb caliber shift on the street is awarding walking down the street and seeing people sitting outside address this building has been vacate and seeing this change is inspiringing. >> we've created a space where people walk in and have fun and it is great that as changed the neighborhood. >> oewd is oak on aortas a driver for san francisco.

>> we've got to 23ri7b9 market and sun setting piano and it was on the street we've seen companies we say used to have to accompanying come out and recruit now they're coming to us. >> today, we learned about the office of economic workforce development and it's effort to foster community and make the buyer market street corridor something that be proud of thanks to much for watching and tune in next time for

>> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing

up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay.

we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively

infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons

in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do.

in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had

already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own

child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said

i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to

breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary.. >> i just feel like this is what i was born to do when i was a little kid i would make up performances and daydream it was always performing and doing something i feel if i can't do that than i can't be e

me. >> i just get excited and my nickname is x usher my mom calls me i stuck out like a sore thumb for sure hey everybody i'm susan kitten on the keys from there, i working in vintage clothing and chris in the 30's and fosz and aesthetic. >> i think part of the what i did i could have put on my poa he focus on a lot of different musical eras. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with

happens and light heartenness shirley temple my biggest influence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people (singing) can't be unhappy as a dr. murase and it is so fun it is a joyful instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3-year-old an age i did executive services and also

thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk i'll be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show and

started writing a script based on our troop of 6 american burr elect performs in france we were woman of all this angels and shapes and sizes and it was very exciting to be part of the a few lettering elect scene at the time he here he was bay area born and breed braces and with glossaries all of a sudden walking 9 red carpet in i walgreens pedestrian care. >> land for best director that was backpack in 2010 the french love this music i come back here and because of film was not released in the united states nobody gave a rats ass let's say the music and berry elect and

performing doesn't pay very much i definitely feel into a huge depression especially, when it ended i didn't feel kemgd to france anymore he definitely didn't feel connected to the scene i almost feel like i have to beg for tips i hey i'm from the bay area and an artist you don't make a living it changed my represent tar to appeal and the folks that are coming into the wars these days people are not listening they love the idea of having a live musician but don't really nurture it like having a potted plant if you don't warrant it it dizzy sort of feel like a potted plant (laughter) i'm going to give san francisco

one more year i've been here since 1981 born and raised in the bay area i know that is not for me i'll keep on trying and if the struggle becomes too hard i'll have to move on i don't know where that will be but i love here so so much i used to dab he will in substances i don't do that i'm sober and part of the being is an and sober and happy to be able to play music and perform and express myself if i make. >> few people happy of all ages i've gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong

>> clerk: good evening and welcome to the june 26, 2019 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. president rick swig will be the presiding officer tonight. he is joined by commissioner ann lazarus, commissioner rachel tanner. at the controls is the board's legal assistant, gary