>> good evening. my name is debra summers. my -- i'm a parent and a p.t.a. board member at harvey milk civil rights academy. my kids are in third grade and kindergarten, and i'm also an innovate public school leader. i'm excited to see that the board has created this resolution. latino students represent the third largest population at our school, and as an ally, i'm happy that the district is committed to making sure all students have access to a high quality education. thank you. [applause] >> good evening, commissioners, superintendent. my name's miranda martin. i'm the policy director for parents for public schools of san francisco. i'm here on behalf tonight of

parents for public schools of san francisco in support of this resolution. it complete aligns with our mission to support every sch l student in every public school in our community. we know that many aspects of it reflect what we've been hearing for many years in both public and private listening sessions in both public and private learning opportunities. specifically the fact that it involves a process for access to data that's specific to the outcomes for latinx students and really just for paying close attention to those outcomes. also, the fact that there are oversight bodies that explicitly include parents, students, and community members. and finally, the explicit definition of community roles and wraparound services in making these improvements happen in the services that

we're able to provide this community. so i applaud all the efforts in bringing this resolution, drafting it and bringing it through the process, and we're really proud to support it and look forward to being involved with the implementation. thank you. [applause] >> hello, commissioners, superintendent matthews, and other honorable guests. my name is susan fong wong. i'm the parent of three sfusd high school graduates. i've also -- am a parent leader with innovate public schools, and i want to congratulate the district on this resolution. it is high time that a close look and deep dive into what needs to be done -- and thank you, commissioners lopez and sanchez on your very hard work in spear heading this, because

i think that was the longest resolution i've ever heard, sitting through many meetings here, so thank you very much. and i think -- i'm not going to repeat what a lot of other people have already said, but i think the most important part of that resolution was at the very end, proper funding and focus on what needs to be done. and i really think all the other things are great in there, but if there's not enough resources and focus and working together to get it done, especially working with the parents at the school sites with the leadership at each individual school, i don't think it could be done. and i really feel very strongly about the reclassification disparity between latinx students who are english learners between, for example, asian students. the fact that the

reclassification rate has gone down over the last five years and the disparity of latinx students being reclassified as half the rate of asian students really requires you to look closely as why that is the -- what's causing that and addressing it because i think it really has a big effect, but thank you very much. i support this. thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name's julie roberts. i'm speaking on behalf of the close the gap resolution. we're happy to support the latinx resolution. we're heartened that it's taking a district approach at a school level, it's looking at data, focusing on the whole student and bringing together stakeholders to come up with recommendations and solutions to put in the report and making

the best uses of our district resources but also the resources in the community. so i look forward to supporting this resolution and to seeing that the membership of the committee reflects parents and organizations who are part of our public schools and committed to the success of our public schools. thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name is mari again. i'm representing sf families union, and i just wanted to say thank you so much to commissioners lopez and commissioner sanchez for being invested and writing this beautiful resolution. i loved when i first heard about you all writing the resolution and then calling and using the language of latinx. one thing i think is important to think about this resolution is there's intersections, so not calling the resolution latino, but latinx, recognizing there are men, women, and nonbinary folks of all genders under that spectrum, so i want to say thank you for that leading the way and making these huge moves for our latinx

community within sfusd. i also want to say as our siblings who are south of the border with different indigenous blood, as well, i also want to highlight somewhere, i don't know how this would be known, but we have a huge mayan just within san francisco but within our contradi school district, so thinking about those indigenous students that might fit in latinx, but also their indigenous background. to really think about this community that's even more underserved than the american indian community, as well. thank you again for amazing leadership and all the amazing resolutions i've seen you come up with so far this year, and again thank you for the free child year for my kid who are sitting happily and not running around and destroying anything in your room. thank you very much. [applause]

>> president cook: that concludes public comment on the item. any comments from the commissioners or the superintendent? commissioner lopez? [speaking spanish language] [applause] >> commissioner lopez: so this resolution, first and foremost, was lifted and driven by community members and the majority of them are in the room now. i was simply invited to participate, and i am so grateful for that. the language and the heavy lifting was done by -- by all of you who are here, and i think that is the point of the resolution, to ensure that we are making decisions that are

data driven, that are community driven, and -- and we did that throughout this process. it began april 1, so this is an 8.5-month-long resolution, which is why it is lengthy, but the work and things that are being called for goes beyond this months, you know, this is something that has been asked for for such a long time, and i feel very honored to be able to connect families to the work that we are doing and to really help them be a part of this process and help hear from those narratives and those families who are affected by the work that we are or are not doing. so money can always be an issue in education, and essentially, what the resolution is calling for beyond that, even though it deserves everything, is ensuring that the district uphold the work that we are doing for this community

specifically. so all of that can be done and will be done with the council and the committee that will be created through this resolution, but making it something that is not just what we pass and say we're going to do, but actually implement and give it the attention that it deserves for this community that has been asking for this for so long. i know that i've -- we've had a lot of support from my colleagues and excitement from commissioners and from the community, so i look forward to implementing it, passing it, and working closely with the people who created it and brought it to life. thank you. [applause] >> president cook: commissioner collins? >> i just wanted to reiterate that i appreciate both commissioners sanchez and lopez, but the community members, the work that you're doing, and i look forward to partnering with you and other

staff and commissioners on the board to make sure that we're realizing the language in the resolution. thank you. [applause] >> president cook: miss herrera. >> as a latina in sfusd, i want to thank both of the commissioners who came up with this resolution for latinx students. i'm eternally grateful for the work that you put in. eight months is a lot of work, and the fact that the resolution is so lengthy and it's so detailed, and its community organizers who helped implement this, i'm eternally gratef grateful, too.

[speaking spanish language] >> so i'm grateful for you guys, and so muchas gracias. it's sad -- well, it's not sad, but it is sad that it's my last year at sfusd. i'm grateful that my cousins who are -- who just got to san francisco who are freshmen and sophomores that are going to be supported with this resolution, so i am thankful that it is here for students, for generations that are coming after me, for my little nephews that are at buena vista, i'm so grateful that is going to help people that are coming after me. and also the fact, you know, when i was in elementary school, i had teachers -- i started off as an english language learner, and my teachers told me that i was not going to succeed in life and i was never going to learn english.

joke's on them, because now i'm taking a.p. english and i'm reading at a college level. i know that other students that were in my shoes that are also english language learners will be able to succeed because of this resolution. and because of that, i was hoping that me and jay could coauthor this resolution because we're grateful for this, so thank you. >> president cook: commissioner? >> first, thank you to commissioners lopez and sanchez for the work and the thoughtfulness and the strategic planning that has clearly gone into building such an amazing and comprehensive resolution and really doing it in conjunction with community. and i just want to just express just how inspiring it is to be here tonight to stand with you all, and just knowing just the amount of work that has gone on

and frankly has gone on for too long. that is more than enough time that latinx students and the community get the support from the district. what i really connect, too, is the two-generation approach that is really throughout the values and principles of this resolution, and that it is not just stopping at our responsibility of when students and families are with us from k through 12, that we're really thinking from birth, through early education, all the way through a person's experience and career and workforce, and their own finding their passion in the world and how they're going to be contributing to a broader society. so again, thank you. excited to be a partner with you all, and also with our district staff. i'm really excited about not only the implementation but really holding ourselves accountable to the oversight 'cause we know that strong resolutions and policies in

general are just only as impactful as when it comes, the work really happens in the implementation, in the evaluation and the continuous oversight, so thank you again. [applause] >> president cook: commissioner moliga. >> commissioner moliga: you know, one of the things that i went to when i was first on the commission was a funeral of a murdered kid. he was an immigrant kid, right? and you know, i was just sitting there, thinking, i was, like, man, you know, what are we doing as a district to be able to support -- and he was -- i think he's -- he was a student in this district. and so i also grew up in this city. i also grew up when, like, san francisco was super diverse,

and you'd have all kinds of friends from hondurian, salvadorian, filipino, so it was like i grew up in that culture in san francisco. so in my heart, i'm super happy that commissioner lopez and sanchez carried this forward. it's just, like, way overdue, like, you know, we grew up in a time where these kinds of things weren't available for us. i grew up with latinx friends who -- some of them graduated from juvenile hall, right? some of them didn't graduate at all, right? and some of them, you know, are not here today. and a lot of these kids have come through this school system, right? and so for me, you know, this is like -- this is like what we're going to do, and then, also, like, what are we going to do after this? like, the work needs to continue to happen, it needs to get funded, it needs to be

driven by the community and our leadership, and i trust that our leadership is going to do what it needs to do to get this off the ground. but it's a great resolution at the end of the day, so i want to just thank commissioner sanchez, and my favorite school board commissioner, gabriella lopez. thank you. [applause] [inaudible] >> i didn't know we had favorites. he's starting a new precedent. i'll list my favorites. first of all, i really want to thank commissioner lopez. she carried this forward on the board's end of things, asked me to cosponsor. i'm really grateful for that ask, but she really did the immense amount of work with the community in so many ways. we're so blessed in the city to

have so many active and activated members in our community that will standup and help us do the work in this work. that is manifest, that people have come out not just to this meeting, but meeting after meeting after meeting to work not just with commissioner lopez but with others to draft this. i didn't read some of the clauses. it's even longer than that. but the thing that -- the word that really rings true to me the most is accountability, and that's what commissioner lam just said. we really need to hold ourselves accountable to what's in this resolution because it's a community. the latinx community has not been forgeten, it was just never there in the first place. when i was principal at cleveland elementary school, a school that's 95%, 96% latino,

if we had policies embedded in this resolution, we probably wouldn't have had one of the highest reclassification rates in the city. it's a scar on our record that we have such a high reclassification rate, and that hinders our students from moving forward and getting the education they need to be successful in our society. there are many things i could say more, but i just really want to thank everybody that worked on this, and commissioner lopez, and thank you to everybody on the board for hopefully passing this tonight. [applause] >> president cook: well, i'll let my favorite commissioner have the last word, so -- miss casco, roll call vote, please. >> clerk: thank you. thank you. [roll call]

>> clerk: that's seven ayes. >> president cook: congratulations. [applause] [chanting] [chanting in spanish] >> president cook: and just to let everyone know, child care ends at 9:00 p.m. [laughter]. >> president cook: number 7, --

i'm also going to excuse our student delegates. good night. [please stand by]

>> doctor matthews do you want to read the recommendations to the record. >> the director of policy planning, michael davis.

>> thank you, doctor matthews. supervisor's recommendation regarding one purpose school charter renewal petition. authorizes to grant or deny petition for one purpose school, whereas pursuant to california education code section 47607 submitted renewal to san francisco unified school district. whereas pursuant to california education code sections 47605, 607.5, the board of education of the district received the renewal petition october 15, the district shall comply with all-time lines for review and action as requires by law. the board of education shall consider level of support and shall review petition and information received with respect to the petition

including supporting documents and the district superintendent and staff completed review and issued report and recommendation to the board of education regarding review of the petition. i am going to take a little time to go through the staff recommendation. the board of education report for the superintendent's proposal 1910-15sp one. the recommendation is denial everynewal of the one purpose school charter proposed action remedy mile of the renewal for one purpose school at 948 holster avenue for the five years beginning july 1 and ending june 30, 2025. findings.

so under the review criteria for renewal of charter school petitions in california, the board is supposed to look at increases in academic achievement for all significant groups of students as defined in code section 52052. that shall be the most important factor. one other thing the board can look at in regard to academic performance is that the performance might be at least equal to the performance of public schools that the charter students would have been required to attend as well as academic performance of district schools the student population served at the charter school. we did the review and the data indicate one purpose has not

produced increases for the groups of students and not produced academic performance at least equal to district schools. so the recommendation is the staff recommends the board deny petition based on the following findings of fact. increases in academic -- the charter school failed to meet one of the criteria of academic performance has not produced increases for the students served not produced the performance at least equal to district schools. two. it does not contain comprehensive descriptions of

the charter provisionses in 4605b5 they are unlikely to successfully implement the program set forth in the petition. one purpose is a budget plan heavily reliant upon local fund-raising revenues. i would like to provide clarification in a couple of areas. in regard to insufficiencies in the staff review. one of the things that we identified is that governing law requires renewal or material revision to include among other elements a reasonably comprehensive new requirement of charter schools after it was last renewed. we found that this petition did not include that reasonable

comprehensive description. we have found this not just in this charter petition but in several charter petitions. as a matter of fact this was a finding made regarding the two charter renewal petitions this board approved november 12th of this year. not only san francisco makes this finding, other districts in the bay area make the same finding quite often because it is quite often left out of charter school renewal petitions. so the response from the two charter petitioners that you approved november 12th when we made the finding was to provide a matrix that outlined that comprehensive description and the way they met the requirements of law. i have to say that in the report

as written i state that the description is not there and i include a list of requirements that have been enacted since 2015 and state that it is not a comprehensive list but includes some that should apply to the school. n inadvertently i did include some that apply to grade levels that are not k-5. that is a mistake. however, the list is not comprehensive and there are several that do apply that should have been listed in a matrix and presented to the district. that finding remains because instead ever responding by providing the matrix to show the charter knew about the requirements and had a plan to respond they simply said they were included somewhere in the

petition. and as far as the issue of fund-raising and the budget plan going forward, i did and i stated this in the budget committee hearing, i did review the financial reports as produced by the california department of education for the first four years of the charter school's operation, and i noted that they had indeed met all of those lofty fund-raising goals for those years and the staff found they had positive fiscal performance. our finding takes that into account, but also looks at the fact that they have declining enrollment, don't really seem to have a convincing plan for reversing that decline and would

continue to rely on $1 million each year in local fund-raising. that might happen, it might not, but it is up to us to make sure we point out that is an issue of concern. that is my report. >> thank you, mr. davis. we have a number of people signed up for public comment. then we will open it up to commissioners for questions. we do have 19 cards here. we typically have two minutes. if you could limit yourself to a minute. i am not going to limit you to a minute, i am asking you to limit to a limit considering the length of the meeting. you have two minutes. i will read your names.

bear in mind the length of the testimony. i will read the names. when you hear your name called make your way to the podium. >> david allen, rachel jackson, joy jackson morgan, katie simons, joe steinbergger, peter dorkin. mark catch son, karen rath man, dillon meyers, mark miller, susan davenport, harold love, reverend walker, doctor dave

atkin. whenever you are ready. >> thank you. hello. i am david zinoff, san francisco resident 35 years. the founding board chair of one purpose school. the man whose picture is out in the plaque out in your entrance to this room and after whom this room is named irving brier i knew. i am 81. i was friends with his son steve and used to go to the brier house on the weekends. i was from the midwest. on holidays i didn't have anyplace to go. irving brier, the man you named the room after used to espouse social justice and the importance of high-quality public education. he used to lecture his boys, who you may know are you now

prominent judges in the country and me who is not that, but i was there to receive the lecture many times about those messages. high-quality public education and social justice. he said those are the keys to the health of american society and san francisco society. by chance, because i didn't know we were going to be in this room. i didn't know about the plaque. by chance, that is wha what thee values are of the board of directors. there are about 20 of us. we are here to do all we can as regular citizens who have different networks and means and education and we represent 14 zip codes. we have six african-americans, two latinos, the rest white.

i am the oldest at 81. we go down to 28 in age. we are about half men and half women. you are not going to hear what i am doing. >> good evening. i am pamela man. the current board chair of one purpose school. some of the speakers will provide responses to the staff report and questions and comments from committee meetings. others are members telling you what we do at one purpose and why it matters. you would have heard from a parent and student. it was past the student's bedtime. she went home. i hope we can submitter comments to the record. we engage in fund-raising. we have been successful in raising approximately $1 million annually to provide the wraparound services and level of staffing required to truly serve

the underserved community of the bayview. this is not a liability. it is an asset for stu sfusd ths why they come to enroll. they want services we provide. one purpose mobilizes individuals and foundations to invest in future success of bayview students as evidenced in the letters of support written to you. we work to expand the donor base each year to provide school year programs, wraparound behavioral services and family engagement and learning events the community would otherwise not receive. >> good evening. i am david allen, business manager at one purpose school. in terms every serve the ending

fund values start at $478,862 for the 1920 year and increase to 6 82,00 82,000 4. this is between 18 to 19% of expenses. the california department of education has rated one purpose in good condition with healthy reserves under their physical health criteria. this has been a positive sustained increase to our 15-16 year. one purpose has demonstrated ability to improve and maintain strong physical health and reserves. we have strong relationships with family foundations and individuals to fundraise and expands the donor base to ensure long-term financial stability and has a budget to

respond to uncertainties that may arise. the board and school are to make necessary adjustments to maintain the financial solvency should soft revenues not come as expected. there is no reason to expect this. thank you. >> i am joy jackson morgan, executive director at third street clinic, second generation hunters point native. i come from a long line of educators. most of the local schools and i am a former middle school and high school math and science teacher. we heard startling statistics from mike that require context. it deserves context. prior to last school year we were outperforming the district schools in the neighborhood. let me ask you a trauma informed

question in what could happen in the neighborhood that might have impacted the enrollment and test scores of not only one purpose but brett heart as well. we lost the c.e.o., principal, some of the families, we got a new principal, lost key teachers. last december we lost the new head of school. from the community angle what happened to the bayview but the real neighborhood called double rock? what happened last year? double rock got uprooted from its community and placed into the new alice griffith. that was not an easy transition for families and obviously not easy for our students, not at one purpose or brett heart. maybe this isn't the typical political conversation around

charter schools versus district schools. this is what are we going to do as community of educators and families to support the students with the families with the resources they need. don't judge us on one school when the entire neighborhood had a bad year. thank you. >> starting this year the culture and climate it has been a privilege to watch it expand to serve the students. we developed a matrix to fit the needs of the students and built the wellness center to talk when feelings. with the emotional curriculum we provided ways to deal with challenging emotions. we engaged in professional development to support from equity and trauma informed standpoint. start our students are spending

more and more time in classroom and engaging positively. we reduced number of school discipline referrals 97% since the beginning of the school year. we lean away from suspending students but developing individual plans. we plan to push forward and continue to fine tune the school wide systems as data indicates this is working. i would like to say it is an honor to be part of the team as the commitment to the scholars is seen. the unwaiverring dedication to the whole child no matter the need. i look forward to continued work at one purpose. >> good evening. i am joe steinberg the enrollment manager at one purpose school. in the findings and facts

section is the discussion of the enrollment. our current enrollment is not 85 students but approximately 100. during the first three years we demonstrated strong enrollment from 75 to 160 students. it declined for two reasons. despite the projected growth we were offered no additional classrooms. we had to combine two second grade classes and were unable to offer the kindergarten class. second as discussed the planned de parter of the founding principal impacting enrollment last year. we have been successful in working to recreate a environment and support and nurture the students to be productive and are confident to

grow enrollment and meet projection of 118 students for the next school year. critically important we have grown and strengthened with the community partners. last year we reached to over 60 community organizations, daycares and providers. we plan to grow the list of partners this year. thank you. >> good evening. i am peter and a member of the board of directors for the last four years. i am speaking on behalf of the principal who was here last night. some of you may have met her. she is sitting in a hospital in oakland as her partner underwent kidney surgery today. these are her remarks. first finding of the staff report indicates we have not produced increases in academic

achievement for all significant groups of students and has not produced it equal to district schools. we recognize that one not both of these criteria must be met. we are the first to recognize our academic achievement is not where we want it to be. we have taken multiple steps to refine our program to ensure we acseller rate scholars proficiency. 2017-18 was the first year of testing data with the first third grade of 20 students. these scholars showed stronger results and than brett heart elementary in ela and math, the school where most students would otherwise attend. they were on par or slightly higher in la and slower in math with the bayview average as

whole. 2018-19 was the second year of testing after a year marked by transition of the principal, unexpected departure of c.e.o. and loss of several staff members. 20 third graders tested and they achieved at rates on average equal to comparison schools. the 12 fourth graders where deficiency declined is tiny. we find it hard that the future of one purpose of databased on such a sample size for one grade for one year. thank you. >> i am mark atkinson, founding board member of one purpose school and long-term resident of san francisco. it was a pleasure to be with you tonight.

it was particularly enlightening to hear the passion with which you rose up against false narratives. for a brief moment i thought we might be able to correct the record on your own false narrative. it is appreciated that the staff said we accidently characterized your tk-5 school as high school. we appreciate that. we would be more grateful if there was further diligence around the other insufficiencies in the report. it is one thing to say we were at fault for not stocking feminine hygiene products. that would not be a requirement of a school serving tk through 5 students or to require the suicide prevention plans for grades 7 through 12 be in place. we have serving tk through 5.

there were things that had nothing to do with the fact we are tk through 5 that you put on the same level. we don't provide definitions of long time english learners. it is unclear how the state providing a definition could be a deficiency when one of the two only applies to the same students. it does not apply to us. you want to require provisions of services for homeless and foster students and say we don't have them on page 171 and page 7 it states we will comply with those requirements. there is no deficiency. health and safety code 120325 we are deficient because we require an exemption for immunization and i it is on 162 of the chart.

>> that was your time. >> good evening. i am karen rath man. in evaluating the program they found it in line to the common core and california state standards. to include both integrated and designated english language development and extensive time for professional development weekly early release and dedicated days. we appreciated these affirmations. as part of the work toward continuous improvement we made significant shifts to the academic program including common state standards and science standards to ensure grade level instruction across classrooms including bookworms

and english and mystery science. alignment of the english language program as well as english proficiency assessments. this includes english language development. investment in professional learning, bringing on dean of instruction and culture to provide professional development sessions and elbow to elbow coaching to support teachers in implementing the academic and curriculum. the staff report raised a few questions that i my colleague david will answer. thank you. >> i am doctor david atkins. as one of the four physicians to start the save st. luke's

campaign that took a decade and resulted in if building of a $500 million hospital for our communities south of market, i can tell you that in the decade i thought i was asked why not just let hunters point and the mission and bayview go to the county. county can take care of them. if there are nine hospitals north of market, perhaps our community deserves the dignity of choice. that more than one choice. please understand, with conviction when you feel that you have the right choice, that it is not the same thing as providing people the freedom of choice to make their own decisions for their own children and for their own families. there are many, many choices north of market. there needs to be more than one

south of market. with regards to grade level sufficient efficiency. all students are engaged daily in grade level learning. students working both below and above grade level including remedial and extension. we have detail on intervention as detailed in the charter provision reflecting the needs of the students who come to school with preestablished learning gaps. the v in vip at one purpose stands for vulnerable. we want your most vulnerable children. we are not here to take. we are not here to usurp. we are here solely to give to our community. thank you. >> good evening. i am mark miller.

i support one purpose. i would like to respond to three areas of the charter renewal petition marked by the staff as insufficient. first. element a section 4. this section titled how learning best occurs is presented as a broad outline of conditions. contrary to the staff's assessment, the three items marked insufficient are addressed extensively in the petition. the plans and strategies to support students not meeting pupil outcomes are described on pages 84 through 93. that is 11 pages of information. the research based instructional design and strategies are described in detail on pages 66 through 84 of the petition. the instructional strategies for special education and

limited english are 93 through 112. the description of annual goals for all pupils and each subgroup is marked insufficient. i would like you to refer to just one of the examples of the goals appearing in this section. page 116 there is a goal which describes the specifics of a plan for addressing proficiency and ela as measured. third in the staff report element b is marked insufficient without explanation for several outcome based and goal based items. in the one purpose petition the goals and measures are articulated in detail on pages 117 through 126. these are one, fully aligned with l cat, two reflect academic

annan -- and the nonacademic outcomes. >> i am susan davenport the finance chair of one purpose school, a proud member. in addition, in element c this articulates how benchmark skills will be developed and assessed and includes the annual goals. please refer to that and note we have been miss categorized. i would like to respond to one additional area marked insufficient in the staff matrix. element c methods of assessment four insufficient efficiencies are noted. these are not insufficient or deficient. extensive list every liable measures using the nwea and

portfolios appears on pages 1238 through 1 -- 128 through 131. 127 through 128 affirms the assessments align to the curriculum. no deficiency. pages 132 through 6 provides detailed table providing minimal required performance level necessary for every assessment measure. there are no deficiencies. pages 136 through 9 detail the use of all data by students and teachers and the school and use in reporting to care takers and district and state. no deficiency. please read. thank you. >> on rorrable board members.

-. >> back off the microphone. >> i am pastor at the hope church for 50 years. semi retired. what i am doing. i am 88 years old. i come from east texas to san francisco. because racism horrible, bitterness. not only that but the school system was outrageous, segregated. i don't have time. i come up under that system. i know what is the operation. one purpose has been a constant be in our community over five years has been the center of the community and support. the schoolworks with hundreds of students and families. pastor walker helped one purpose

to employee introduced -- to be introduced four years ago one block from where the pastor also with tabernacle community development corporation. tcd supports one purpose. a fully based development group of churches approximately 10 churches. also i recruited recently two churches. i asked them to send a letter. hopefully they sent letters and you got those letters. i do not understand how any serious educational organization or individual can be against african-american, no name on the latinos. forgive me. i will get it down. pacific islanders. elected officials have been talking about closing.

>> that is your time. sorry, pastor. >> good evening. i am a finance manager at tech. supporting the school and budgeting financial management. we have been working since the school's inception. it is a level that is not for charters this young. about $450,000 to start this year or 18% of the total budget is to maintain the fund balance in the multiyear projection. it is a foundation for economic

uncertainties and support strong cash balances. they are highly engaged in the financial matrix of the school. the board asked detailed questions to understand the budget to actual variances each month. there are monthly meetings with the school finance committee to monitor the school finances. the staff noted the large grants and donations as insufficient. this budget line here is in line with the school's historical data and i would argue an asset. we have an extremely effective fund-raising of $1 million plus in each of the past three years. this is not a large donor. these are individual donations between 5 to $10,000 as a result of the excellent development

team we have built. over $1 million each year into sfusd that would not be available for these children. the school had challenges. we have maintained strong financial health and stability. over the years the school's ability to adjust the budget to balance the responsibility to educate students is nothing short of extremely impressive. i look forward to a productive dialogue for the students and the community. thank you. >> that concludes public comment. questions from commissioners? or comments? commissioner collins. >> i didn't get a chance to say at the budget committee it moved forward with a negative

recommendation. >> vice president sanchez. >> thank you for coming out to speak tonight. mr. davis would you like to respond to any of the remarks? a number of the speakers were essentially saying that insufficiencies were not there. i don't know if you have any response. >> we will start with the comprehensive detail of laws enacted. as i said, included in the report are laws applying to high school and not k-5. that was a mistake. however, the point is, as i outlined in the beginning that that requirement is at the top of the requirements for a renewal petition. we ask for it all of the t