the fantastic experience. as you all know, because i say it all of the time, that paraprofessional, at the time, was the caretaker to his ailing grandmother as well. so, my son could not attend a field trip without his pera. there was no he could engage and stay on task without the assistance of his jiminy cricket on his shoulder for lack of a better term. my husband and i moved mountains to make it happen. my husband would go up after work. he worked in palo alto at the time. he would drop up to the headlands, spend the night in the dorm, on the cots with my kid, get them up in the morning, get him showered, get him ready. he would leave, head back down to palo alto.

i would come up from the city after getting the other three kids off to school. i would spend the day with my kid, and we basically we literally pass each other coming out of the headlines. honk honk, hey, good to see. we were in a position to be able to do this. if there were an olympic sport for a logistics, i would have won the gold medal that year for making that'll -- making that all happen. he took time off work, i took time off work and we had people willing to work with us to make it happen. not everyone has that. there are some families that can even make trips because they don't have support. when we talk about experiential field trips, and making them available. we need to make them equitable. i would love to work with the district on writing some verbiage into that.

the c.a.c. would. thank you. >> thank you. i'm going to excuse our incredible all-stars. they get to go home early and we have to stay. thank you for your service. have a good evening. >> may i hear a motion and second on the school board policies? >> so moved. >> i am referring the board policies to the rules committee. there is one more item to deal with, and that is number five, and support of achievement and success of all latinx students at sfusd.

this item was duly moved and seconded on september 24, 2019. i am referring this to the budget and curriculum committees. section l, proposals for immediate action and suspension of rules. can i have a motion and a sond s of public comment and public comment to the following? >> second. >> so move. >> resolution 1910-1581 and support a proposition e on the november 2019 ballot. introduced by commissioners. >> two collins and myself. may hear a motion? nevermind. i'm just reading the script. let's see.

[roll call] >> may i hear a motion in the second for the formal introduction of the resolution? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> whereas district students in the community at large and we see critical benefits and classroom teachers on para- educators of the district. live in the community in which they practice their profession which promotes stability, community involvement and stronger ties between educators, students and families i whereas sfusd educators suffer acutely from the cities severe affordable housing shortage with 64% of sfusd teachers spending

more than 30% of their income towards rent. an additional 14.7% of teachers in sfusd are spinning more than 50% for the income towards rent. according to the federal guidelines four out of five teachers are burdened with housing costs. whereas sfusd requires 3600 teachers annually, but is challenged by teacher education rate for proximally 10% annually. 30% of sfusd teachers leaving the district within the first five years of teaching. often because of high housing costs, escalating cost of living. whereas the city has fallen short of its needs for very low to moderate income housing having only produce 31% of affordable units needed to meet its share of the regional housing needs of january 15, 2015 to june, 2022 for this critically important housing source. whereas in may have 2017 the

board of education approved a resolution supporting a pilot program to develop affordable rental housing for sfusd educators where the price will be affordable for our where paraprofessionals, teachers leading to the project currently underway. whereas proposition e will amend affordable housing and educator housing programs to expedite the development and construction of 100% affordable and educator housing in san francisco for a wide range of sfusd educators. building on the success of san francisco model by rezoning sfusd sites to allow 100% educator housing as a principally permitted use. cutting times for projects and construction. according to the office of the comptroller, proposition e will result in a minimal reduction in government cost on to the extent this legislation shortens this process the city's affordable housing projects cost due to shortage development and construction timelines. lower inflation on market costs. therefore be it resolved that the san francisco board of

education urges voters to vote yes on proposition e in the november 19 ballot. >> thank you. we do have a few speakers sign up for this item. susan solomon. megan. [ name indescernible ] and annabelle. >> good evening. i am a behavior analyst with the school district. i want to tell you about some and work with. a licensed vocational nurse who barely makes it more than somebody working at starbucks. he just had a baby last year, he commutes an hour every day to get to work. he is licensed to do procedures that i with a masters degree

cannot do. he takes care of medically practical -- and fragile students we don't happen to these kids when a nurse cannot take care of them at school? they say home. they miss school. i know this nurse deserves reasonable pay and the ability to live in the city in which he works. it is more than that. the students deserve stable access to schools, and all students deserve stable schools. what happens when this nurse tires of commuting for pennies? he will find work closer to ho home. spend more time with his family, as any of us would. what will that mean for the children he works with? our educators deserve stable, affordable housing. our students deserve stable schools. please vote tonight to endorse prop e on bring us closer to the schools. thank you.

>> good evening. i am the political director. i'm here to urge you to support prop e. we all know it is not a secret that the affordability crisis it is not just impacting our families, but it's also impacting many of our teachers and para- educators are losing their homes to eviction, and rent increases. we need to do much more to ensure that housing stability for our teachers, early childhood educators and paraprofessionals stay here in san francisco so they can continue providing quality education for our students and continue providing and making sure our schools are stable. when prop e passes it will help keep our educators in the city where they work and will stabilize our communities.

we need prop need to make sure their healthy needs are being met. prop e not only as going to support our currents, it will also help our future educators. thank you. >> hello again, commissioners, superintendent matthews, susan solomon. i will echo with the previous speaker said. thank you to the commissioners who wrote this resolution. i appreciate it. in might of the very serious and sobering conversation that you all just had around supporting students. this is all pieces of the puzz puzzle. as people get priced out of san francisco educators and families, it is disruptive to public education. if we can help bring stability and lower costs to housing so that the current statistic --

that the medium rent for a one-bedroom apartment is $3,700. this is not sustainable. thank you for presenting this resolution. i look forward to your vote. thank you. >> thank you. any comments from the board of supervisors? i want to thank commissioner moliga for bringing this forward and letting me add my name to it. he did all the hard work. i am excited to vote on this and get the word out to the public. >> thank you. [roll call]

[applause] >> section m. board members reports. let's see we will start with the rules committee. >> thank you. rules met last week. we had two other items that were action items, sexual health and hiv-aids, prevention and instruction which we forwarded to the full board with a positive recommendation. likewise for board policy high school graduation requirements. we didn't talk about it at the last meeting. it has come up a number of tim times. sb-328 which was actually signed into law by governor newsom this week. it will mandate the districts to do a couple of things. middle schools will not be able to start before 8:00 a.m.

high schools cannot start prior to 8:30 a.m. the school districts must adopt a law before july, or sooner, if they have collected bargaining and allow negotiation before the deadline. we are going to have to have some kind of analysis of this for our district soon. ab-1505 was also signed into law. that is around's charter petitions and rules. essentially we had hoped that it would remain if our board denied a charter petition or renewal petition, if we denied it would not have to go back to the state board. for our district, since we are a city in the county. it will have to go to the state board. although the state board is changing its membership and its proclivity to rubberstamp charter schools. we are hoping that will be in our favor.

and that we have some information about around split rule, which is essentially being kicked around for decades to try to undo a lot of the harm that prop 13 has done in terms of revenue coming into the school districts. corporate property would be taxed at a slightly higher rate. homeowner and small business would not be adjusted upwards. the analysis of it right now is that it is not doing very well in polling. the governor is not committed to it and their other parties that have been given the cold shoulder. we are not at a point where it is necessarily going to pass. it is essential that we do find increased revenue sources for districts. that concludes the report from the rules committee. >> thank you vice president sanchez. do you have a report from personnel?

>> i do. my first report. i do quickly remember what we talked about. two agenda items presentation around certified hiring reports. they are highlights from there, we started the school year off with a feeling 99% of our classroom vacancies were filled. that is really great progress there. some of the comments around understanding of those breakdowns, particularly in professional education classrooms. i know that has been a concern that has been raised. as a gap from overall we are hearing from families out in the field. that is one take away of getting in more detail data there. another area of opportunity is the approach around early

hiring. when we do earlier hiring you have a more diverse pool so that is a practice that the team is going to be continuing for this upcoming recruitment season. and then knowing how important that is getting more teachers of color into our focal students particularly. another area that is a challenge around our language pathways. we haven't been able to address the long-term sustainability of finding our own language immersion vacancies. there is definitely an opportunity around how we are recruiting and partnering up.

that aspect of the work for the certified hiring, and the other presentation, we are embarking on a huge human capital budget management systems change. tonight the board approved that infrastructure investment. we are moving from a very paper oriented, to again something that is more modern, integrated, technology integrated, makes me happy um around understanding that we are embarking on a process um but also the team presented the seriousness around um the onboarding and the training aspect. that is going to be a major shift this is an two organizational change

management. looking at implementation of january 2021. the detailed timeline was presented. but i also stressed during that meeting was the importance around that feedback loop. i think we have talked about that, right? if we are going to embark on a major infrastructure transition we need to be able to quickly get that loop of where the caps are. i am excited about that management happening. >> number two, report from board delegates to membership organizations. any report? number three, any other reports by board members? okay. i wanted to give a few shout outs are quick.

i just came back from a conference in san diego, the california association of educators. i was joined by the alley team. we had parents from the aipac. it was very aspiring. i think we have a great group of advocates and team members and working with them. [reading names] thank you all for coming down to san diego. i look forward to working collaboratively to help move our district forward. i also wanted to shout out the hr team for the educators of

color reception. [ name indescernible ] she did a great job. i had a good time. i think superintendent ford won the handshake contest. she is used to winning. so, thank you all that came out for the event and all of the organizers for the district that help put it on. i'm up to calendar of committee meetings. budget and business services will be wednesday november 6, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. rules policy legislation will be monday, november 4 at 5:00 p.m. curriculum and program will be wednesday, october 23 at 6:00 p.m. building grounds and services will be monday, october 28 at 6:00 p.m.

the ad hoc committee on personal matters and relations will be thursday, november 14, at 6:00 p.m. the ad hoc committee on student assignment will be monday, october 21 at 6:00 p.m. the joint school districts and city college committee will be friday, november 8 at 10:00 a.m. that meeting will be held at city hall at the legislative chambers. section n. other information items. we have one item. kalw programming requested by a member of the public. you have two minutes to address the board. >> hello. i am kevin robinson. a parent in the school district in a guest teacher for the district. i want to thank the board for putting this item on the agenda on such short notice. the standard school broadcast which began in 1928, is the oldest educational radio program

was on the united states. it airs thursday at 10:00 a.m. and ran for 47 years. ending in 1975. picking up numerous accolades and awards along the way. by the way, this radio program was broadcast from san francisco. as you are aware, the board of education meetings are aired on kalw 91.7 as part of a service provided by the san francisco unified school district. besides these meetings, kalw broadcasts the school district lunch menu, an occasional education story. currently there is no program on the station solely dedicated to all things education related. whether they be district, regional, statewide, or nationwide. there should be. at least one hour per week could be used for such purpose. education, in this country, is

at a tipping point. the district holds a license, the power, tooth hip things in the right direction. -- to tip things in the right direction. parents wanted, teachers want to, wanted and we all need it. i'm prepared to work with the board, kalw, the superintendent, as a director of communications to make this a reality. let's make it happen. let's put on a show. thank you. >> thank you. >> section oh. memorial adjournment. rio during this meeting and the member -- memory of the superintendent of july 1985

through july 1986. he received his credentials from the san francisco state university. he was hired by the district in 1956 and retired in june of 1994. he was vice president at roosevelt middle school and mission high school, principal at everett and benjamin frank the middle. most apparently, he headed the implementation of the consent decree for the school district. he passed away on september 23, 2019. a life remembrance will be held on sunday, november 3, 2019 from 11:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. at the san mateo senior center. 2645 alameda. [inaudible]

san mateo, california. the board of education on the superintendent of schools express sincere condolences to the family. at this time, we will take public comment for those who want to comment during closed session. seeing none. section p close session. the board will now go into closed session and then >> we're back in closed session. i'm going to readout from the session on october 15, 2019. the board by a vote of five ayes, two absent, approved the contract of one director. the board by a vote of five ayes, two absent, approved the contract of administrator.

the borard, by a vote of five ayes, two absent, voted to release an employee in the matter of a termination the board, by a vote of four ayes, one nay, two absent, approved the intention of litigation. in the matter of w.c. versus sfusd, the board by a vote of five ayes, two absent, gives the district the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. in the matter of b.h. versus sfusd, the board, by a vote of five ayes, two absent, gives

the district the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. that concludes this tonight's meeting. this meeting is adjourned. [gavel] . >> good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining for the grand opening of our public lobby. it has been a long process.

we're so honored to have you all here today. first, before we get into our short speaking program, i first want to acknowledge a few parties that have worked really hard to make this all possible. i'd first like to thank our budget analyst and project management team that have worked really hard to make this run smoothly. thank you very much for that. [ applause ]. >> they've also worked very closely hand in hand with the mayor's budget office. i'd like to thank kelly kirkpatrick for coming here today. thank you. [ applause ]. >> next i would like to thank our public facing team who provides excellent public service. our public service team and our recorder division. thank you very much. [ applause ]. >> they provided excellent

customer service even throughout a lot of -- yay. they provided a lot of excellent service even throughout a lot of construction. thank you for keeping the office running. we also are joined by some neighborhood friends. so thank you to them for coming. we have some people from the women's building here. yay, thank you. [ applause ]. >> and we also have people from the dog patch northwestern petril hill green benefits district. it's a little bit of a mouthful. thank you for coming. of course thank you to our neighborhood historians who have joined and helped us go through a lot of historic photos that we have and we have been able to create a little wall. thank you for that. we have the western neighborhoods project, s.f.

heritage, glen park history project and sunny side history project. thank you. [ applause ]. >> so now i would like to introduce our beloved assessor carmen chu who is newly back from maternity leave and later we will be hearing from our director of public works and also our city librarian. thank you. [ applause ]. >> i have to say that it's rare that i ever hear the word "beloved" and "assessor" in the same sentence, but here we are. i want to thank isabella from my team. they've done quite a lot of work to help and partner with our public-facing folks in order to make sure that our lobby is well thought out and we have a great plan to help improve service. thank you to isabella and vivian. [ applause ].

>> so when i first started as assessor years ago, i think when i first came in, i think i walked into this office and probably like a lot of taxpayers i came in through different doors at different points in time and at the time it was confusing. how do you get into the office and where do you go for service. and if i couldn't speak the language, which luckily i could, where do you go for help and who could assist? it was with that eye that we started to take a look at our front lobby area to see how is it that we are able to improve customer service and access and be cognizant of the different people coming to our city every single day, whether you are an immigrant who can't speak the language well like my own parents or someone with a disability who needs assistance or people who don't know how to find documents in our system. how is it that we as a public service and government serve our public in the best way possible. we started on this process to

say, well, the first thing they do is come into our office and try to figure out way-finding signs and the way forward. we need to make sure that when people come into our office they feel welcomed and they feel that we have an abundant amount of services available here. with that, we really started to say let's do a few things. i think today when we're doing our big unveiling along with the blue angels out there cheering us on that we're showing our good faith. a few things that we want to point out to you here, and this is something we couldn't have done without the partnership of our dpw is that we've done a few things to reconfigure our lobby area to improve public access. we've transformed the physical space. we have a wonderful and lovely seating area for people to come here and wait comfortably, to be able to get their documentation and information. we actually have implemented a

kiosk system so when people first come into our office they can directly find and get tickets, that they're served in an expeditious way. we have implemented a lobby navigator, someone who is greeting people when they come in to make sure they're in the right place to make sure they're not wasting valuable times waiting in the wrong lines. that does happen at city hall. we want to make sure we're preventing that. if you look around our office, you will see many of our kiosks and information are in multiple languages. we're cognizant of the fact that san francisco is a universal city with universal languages that we want to access and share with people. this is also something that is part of our lobby system. of course we're doing a lot more to make sure that it's a welcoming environment here. so we hope that some of these improvements are really going to show that government is open to everyone, it's accessible, transparent, and we welcome you here. we're here to serve you.

with that, i want to say thank you. we hope you're going to take a look at around. we have more spaces for people to be served. we know this is going to be a public improvement for the public as a whole. we couldn't do this without the partnership of wonderful people. i know some of our folks behind the scenes that were helping. i want to thank the mayor's office for helping us fund this, but of course i want to say if we bring in the money, help us serve the public better. thank you for all of your assistance and your partnership. no further ado to bring someone forward who i've known for quite a long time, who most of the time is doing work outside on the streets, picking up litter or cleaning up graffiti, but one of the lesser known things he does is help our buildings function better and stay in a state of good repair. with that i want to introduce mohamed nuru and thank him and

his team for the fantastic work helping us make these improvements in a historic building. thank you, mohamed. >> thank you, carmen. yes, kelly and carmen bring in the money. i get to spend the money. [ laughter ]. >> i think a few years ago when carmen brought up the idea of doing the project, we were very excited. it had a lot of different work that needed to be done. it is a historic building. so trying to match things and to really make a place that really works with all the things we heard from carmen was something that we were excited about. what's great about this project is it involved many parts of our building of bureau repair, carpenters, glazers, locksmith, laborers were all involved -- well in fact, every shop in public works was involved in one

way or another in making this happen. it's a very unique project because we have a lot of staff that actually custom-built many of the shelves over here, matching the doors, all the things that we had to work with. all of those were built at public works at our shop. it was really an exciting project for the team. i think we delivered. i think you're very happy about that. just so you know, we do a lot of these type of services for all over the city departments. city hall was very special, trying to match the wood, the different glass and just making the rails, building all the cabinets, painting and sprucing it up. you know, the paint was actually peeling in some cases. so doing all the scraping and going through all the processes making the space happen. i'm excited and our teams are excited. we'll continue to serve you or

any of the city departments that want us to do work for them. we actually do many of the jobs in many of the city offices. thank you very much. we'll enjoy it. thank you. [ applause ]. >> mohamed's nickname is mr. clean. now that extends to cleaning up our city buildings as well. thank you, mohamed. when we talked about the services here, again, city hall is very special and unique to all of us because of its historic nature, but also because it is an essential place people go when they want to access government and the people who represent them. it's important to make sure that these doors are open and accessible to everyone who comes in. i think there's no other patron group that feels that same way than our public libraries. we know that no matter which branch library it is that we go to across the city, we have an

open door where people can find a safe space and learn and get educated and borrow materials and really explore. we have worked in great partnership with our city librarian michael lambert who is also working with us. you might seen behind me is a wall of 15 different curated historic photos. one of the things you may not know is in order for this to be accomplished, we had to clear out many of our old property files. we went through this intensive process to digitize over a million files. when we went through that process, we found many, many historic photos we thought was not only worth preserving but sharing and putting out to the public space. something that is important to our history, buildings that used to look a different way but are

important of our fabric, it is important to share that with san franciscans to come, not to put the away in a box never to be seen. we worked with the library to make sure we cataloged and got those photos to them to be accessible. we're proud to announce we have over 92,000 photo images that are available at our san francisco public library in order for people to see our history and our shared buildings and resources. these photos here are just a small set of the photos that are now available in our public library. we couldn't have done that without our city librarian's staff and time. i want to invite michael up to say a few words. >> thank you. it is so wonderful to be here with my esteemed city colleagues and so many members of the public. this lobby is magnificent and sparkling. i want to congratulate assessor chu and all of her staff.

what a remarkable job you've done with public works to transform this space. i admire the commitment to service excellence with all the tenant improvements and significance enhancements. what a warm, friendly atmosphere you've created here. i appreciated the office of the assessor-recorder, not only for providing the library the biggest book budget in the country, but also for the partnership we enjoy. earlier this year, assessor chu and her team transferred over 92,000 photographs to the public library. you see a sampling here on this wall. it really makes history come alive for all the visitors to this space. these photographs are priceless. they are an invaluable snapshot in time of san francisco and some places that don't exist anymore. these photographs are now accessible to any member of the

public that wants to view them. they can come into the library to the san francisco history center and they can take a walk down memory lane and reminisce and relive some treasured memories of their past. it's so wonderful to have this partnership. i want to congratulate assessor chu and her team again. thank you so much for the partnership. [ applause ]. >> all right. so now i'd like to ask evelyn and amy from glen park and sunny side to come up and woody and nicole and david from western history project to come up as well. thank you.

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>> >> >> my name is jean alexander. i'm an attorney in the san francisco city attorney's office. i supervise the tax team, giving tax advice to the treasurer, tax collect or, drafting tax

legislation. the thing i remember my mother telling me as a child is that you need to be prepared to take care of yourself and i knew that i wanted to be able to do something that i enjoyed. i didn't expect anybody to give me anything because nobody ever gave her anything and i also i always saw her fighting for the things that she wanted in life for herself and for her children. >> my name is jasmine flores. i am working as an admin assistant in the city attorney's office. i have always enjoyed the tasks that i have been given. on the days i show up and work on my own is empowering. for me, happiness in being more involved in a person-to-person interaction.

my dream jobs includes being a physician, paramedic, firefighter, working with animals with the public. on a personal level with self improvement. my sister is the biggest influence in my life because she taught me to go forward with what makes you happy rather that what makes you the most money. >> i graduated from law school in 1972 at a time when there was a beginning to be an influx of women in the legal profession and tried criminal cases for about 10 years, treatment for delinquent operating programs, government budgets, analyzed fiscal legislation. i came to the san francisco city attorney's office and i have been here for about 12 years advising on tax matters.

i did just about anything you can think of. some things that lawyers do and some things that lawyers don't do. >> i'm from the mission in san francisco. i have grown up there and i have lived there pretty much my whole life. living there, i do see other women, some of them older, some of them look just like me like my age and a lot of them work nanny jobs, child care jobs, retail jobs. i don't know, it seems kind of like a reminder that you are kind of lucky to be where you are, i guess. just when you haven't gone so far at all. i want them to go on maybe go on an interview that's more challenging that they think that they can't get that job.

you know, just to kind of challenge and surprise themselves when they get that job and feel better. >> there had been women practicing law for many years, but there were so few of them that a lot of the issues hadn't really come into play and some of them worked out and some are still being resolved like equal pay and women in lawfirms and making sure women get fair assignments and in the decision making and working with law firms. i consider myself more of a beneficiary of all the women that fought really difficult battles along the way.

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>> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador.

we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. you never know. somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have

somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back.

the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. i used to be like this, you know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can

give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now.

[roll call] >> item number 2, opportunity for the public to comment on any matter within the committee's jurisdiction that is not on the agenda. seeing none, we're going to move on to item number 3, approval with possible modifications of the minutes of the august 26th, 2019, meeting. minutes, any objections? >> i don't have