>> i also want to support local 21 and their understanding about the private tooisation. this often happens where our work is contracted out and we'll deal with that and comment on that in the board meeting. our employees do that work but havener been given opportunities. their desire to do that is somehow subverted. that's not how the district is and it doesn't fit with our values. local 21 is our al had i -- ally and they need to be supported. we don't want to take away work from workers. thank you so much. >> thank you. president sanchez, that concludes public comment.

>> any items withdrawn or corrected? >> yes, could you please read the items that have been corrected? >> yes, thank you, dr. matthews, i will. we have three items being withdrawn from the consent calendar 206-9-a 24, 26, and 31. also to the consent calendar on number 14, change the words in that item from dell chromebook to hp chromebook. and finally in the attachment 205-26-k-13 and 16, which were adopted at the last board meeting were inadvertently left

in the group of ks. they will be removed from the group of attachments. that is it. >> all right. please recall that we are also voting on the k resolutions voted on at the last meeting and guard -- forwarded to this meeting. any items removed from first reading by the board. >> i just have a question of which specific -- the local 21 member spoke about a number. i missed the actual resolution number. >> k-12, special services. >> is that in the k items? is that in that table?

>> i'm not looking at it right n now, i'm looking at something else. >> [indiscernible] -- >> i think so. >> so that was 205-26-k-12. and special services to the tune of $64,211. >> do you want to severe that for discussion? >> yeah. i think it's practice for us to discuss when we can. what item is that? >> it's 205-26-k-12. it's from the batch of resolutions that you forwarded to this meeting for adoption. there's two charts on the k resolutions, one from last week and this week. >> i see.

it's in that table? >> yes, there's two. the very first table and chart, the left over k resolutions from last meeting and k-12 is part of that. >> okay. >> yeah. >> all right. so you're going to severe for discussion. we can vote on it. right? >> [indiscernible] -- >> is that one of the ones that we pulled because it was left -- if it was inadvertently left? >> i was just double checking. no, it was not. >> so it's not part of last

meeting's. okay. so we're going to have to discuss that and vote on that separately. >> so we did pull 206-9k26? >> yeah. >> we'll get a roll call vote on the rest of the consent calendar now. [ roll call ].

>> go ahead, do you have a question about this. >> i'm having trouble finding it in the document. >> it's about independence wellness. >> i'd like to know more about that, if staff can explain why we're hiring a contractor, as opposed to using staff. >> it's gene on the -- >> excuse me -- [indiscernible]. >> hi, everybody. thank you. this is [indiscernible] to contract with some occupational therapists from an agency. the way i understand this from a colleague who oversees related services, it's roughly over 100

f.t.e.s are involved. it encompasses physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and a few others. occupational therapists could have been a hard and concealed position. obviously i would prefer district employees. but when it comes time to provide services in the fall, if we don't have these services filled, it falls into another line item on the budget. we tried to hold a balance so we're ensuring that we are fully staffed when we kick off the new year. >> any other questions and comments? >> based off of that, we don't have a position filled. this is to hold the funding because we suspect they won't be

filled? >> i asked this question myself last week and i was told that we anticipate not being able to fill these positions because that's why they went to agencies. we had several other positions because we had an increase in numbers that [indiscernible] -- we looked for that sweet spot of how many we can post the positions and then put them in the non-public agency. >> all right. any other questions or comments? all right. so we are going to vote on this item. roll call. [ roll call ].

>> we need a report from rules committee. commissioner. >> yesterday at our rules and policy committee, we reviewed the student use of technology policy that's before the board tonight. just again, to recognize that we don't have a policy in place and this is for specifically the use of district-issued devices. we as a committee also talked about the importance of having further discussions of use of

phones during the traditional school day and what that means for a later point, but just wanted to reiterate that policy for district devices that were district issued. the committee did a positive recommendation to the board's consideration tonight. >> superintendent matthews, we need to read the recommendation into the record. >> yes, reading that recommendation into the record will be the general counsel. >> yes, the recommendation is that the board approve for policy 6163.4, student use of technology. >> thank you. any speakers that have signed up want to speak to this item? >> seeing none.

>> roll call, please. >> i have a question. just as far as district distributed diviss, we have chromebooks thatevices, we have chromebooks that we've given out. i've heard from presidio families when they're giving out the ipads that there was huge concerns from parents about their inability to regulate their children's use of those distric district-distributed devices. it's about the cellphones and which parents can regulate and tablets which we never established a policy around. i've gotten multiple e-mails from families that they were not

able to regulate devices they did not give out. i'm wondering if this is addressed in this policy. >> i don't think it is. this is not dealing with the distance-learning reality. >> it wouldn't apply to one-to-one devices that were distributed at a school during a normal school year, that kind of district-distributed technology. >> i don't know. >> i would need more clarity on your question, commissioner. when you say "regulate," do you mean what students could access? >> they were able to access youtube and they weren't able to monitor screen time.

>> i can see what websites my kids are accessing and what websites they were on. parents were expressing frustration that because they werac sseed and managed by the district, it prevents parents from monitoring and regulating how much time kids are on devices and what other sites they're accessing. >> district-issued technology devices are subject to our fire wall. the chief would probably correct that term. they are intended to prevent students from accessing sites that are inappropriate. i know that's not 100% accurate -- >> sites that are approved, kid can [indiscernible] -- >> it doesn't permit parents to

regulate screen time, that's correct, there isn't a way to do that. if the board wants to have further discussion, i know the chief flagged this that she wouldn't be here. we can discuss that later or follow up. >> i guess my question is, is it germane to this specific policy because there's a fine line between kids' use of cellphones as when kids are using them and teachers. i don't want to hold this up if it's separate. is this something we should talk about in relation to this specific policy. i wouldn't want to move forward without if conversation. when we go back to school,

hopefully it will be a bigger issue if we haven't tackled this. >> i would want the chief to give you the factual answer on whether or not we have the ability to regulate screen time. i don't know if that's something we're able to do. that's the fist thing. the second thing, i would ask the board to go ahead and adopt tonight. one of the reasons there's urgency is to some extent we'll have distance learning and we will have it over the summer. we need to have a board policy on use. that doesn't mean it's set in stone and the board can't make amendments or rescissions. >> i would like to make a request of the policy committee that we take this up in the near future because hopefully we will go back to school.

>> thank you, commissioner. >> any other comments or questions. roll call. [ roll call ]. >> section h, special order of business, motion on the resolution authorizing the student to negotiate an agreement with the planning in partnership group not to exceed $93,000. >> we have a short presentation

to give you and the board and the public an idea of what the group and the process is. presenting tonight will be the chief of h.r. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm the chief officer for the district. i will be walking you through how we selected the planning and partnership groups and we will be happy to take your questions and comments. if you could go to the next slide. knowing that the work of reopening schools was going to be a massive undertaking, given all of the uncertainties and

complexities, we published an r.f.q. on may 8. we wanted a comprehensive plan for returning to in-person schooling and returned to this partnership. we have received seven proposals for our consideration. the way we went about selecting the group that we hope to award the contract to is first scoring the written proposals. scores was done by our deputy superintendent and our chief of student and family support, and myself as chief of h.r. we scored all seven and moved the top three finalists which

was an interview with the executive leadership team. we selected the proposal from the planning and partnership group as our finalist as their project expertise and their facility with facility and diversity work, which approach needs to be robust and fairly quick because we have a limited amount of time before schools

open in august. the founders of this group is -- have worked with the district before. they have expertise with the district from work with the district before. one thing i should mention is that in addition to these colleagues, they are bringing in an additional staff. one of the things that is true is that the way we envisioned what is possible in early may is

different in early june once we've gotten in june. what we've gotten to do is to focus on a scope of work that accounts for multiple contingencies and scenarios. a stakeholder engagement plan rooted in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. and i think speaking to some of the comments we've heard earlier, we know how important it is to engage with our staff. there is a short amount of time to do the engagements in. we're pleased to have our expertise to do so. following all of the different guidance and policies that are coming out that feed into the

policy-making that we will recommend to the board over the next couple of weeks. that is what we are doing and i look forward to answering any questions that you may have. >> is there any public comment for this item? >> yes. >> hello? >> i'm here. i just want to make it very, very clear. i'm commenting in my formal role with being with sfusb, can we please, please stop connecting ourselves to folks that are part of the privatization world.

this is playing out over and over in sfusb. i am deeply concerned and trying to hold my composure around this. please stop going to these folks. they're experts in doing this and they thrive on public money to feed their corporate machines. please do not coordinator these people or hire them. >> thank you. >> hello, i want to echo the previous comments. i'm not sure how we ended up with the previous organization.

if you look at the partner page, you will see they are connected to partner organizations that are suing san francisco public schools to get more access to [indiscernible] and the be bellweather group. the principals themselves have worked with [indiscernible] budget cuts on the one hand and hire organizations that are connected with organizations that are invested in pushing online and privatation of public schools on the other hand. i would ask the board to reject

this. >> thank you.

[indiscernible]. >> -- for public education in san francisco come august. so it's really very disappointing.

>> your students experiencing homelessness and who are marginally housed, those [indiscernible] -- when we hire firms that work with these groups, my question is the past chair of the advisory committee as a member, how can they engage and represent and support and make sure that the populations who have very little experience supporting will be represented and heard. thank you.

>> i want to speak to some of the comments made. i was glad to hear from the advisory groups and i appreciate that. i was un awaaware and concerned about some of the stuff i heard.

>> can you hear me? i think that san francisco folks have made it clear that we don't want charter schools taking over our district. it's happened in other cities. it's not something we want here. i want to weigh in on my partnership with them as a consultant and hope that the board sees this as well. >> president sanchez, that was the final speaker. >> thank you for the public comments. daniel, do you want to respond to any of this? >> let me start. one of the things that's important to -- i believe is important to remember and

appreciate the comments. there are a couple of things. one, if not all, have some connection with charters and traditional public schools, all of the seven or almost all of the seven that apply -- [indiscernible] -- the second piece is that when we went through the process what we're looking for is really a project manager. it's not someone who's going to come in and try to start a charter school, but they're managing a project forward and not giving us the answers. the answers are going to come from us and the community. in our selection as we're listening to the responses of the best project manager and this is the team that came

through. hopefully that clears up some. i want to make sure that's clear. i don't know if you want to add more. >> the only thing i would add is a clarification. from some of the public comment is the network of charter schools is not. they are doing an equity and inclusion work in spaces. they are talking about inclus n inclusion. this is one of the things we appreciated about them, there is a clear commitment to look at the organization who sits in high leadership positions that we thought that was aligned with our core values of being diversity driven.

>> i wanted to respond to that because i didn't think there was a conclusion of charter 54 being a chart er school association. even through the process, people weren't involved, families weren't involved, the union wasn't involved. it was district led. a many of our chiefs were involved. i do appreciate the prosperity in the entire process. it's very clear for us to understand how you went about it. i think we have a lot of power in our school district. making this decision in house without even working with an outside organization.

for me it's what the messaging is when we are connected, whether we want to admit it or not and whether that was the only option that we had come to us, what is the message if we do work with these organizations and really following the money. we know that within child supporter school associations that funding ends up hurting school systems. for me, i'm trying to be open of anything i support, whether it's through my funding or not, that i'm trying to help, and whether funding is part of that.

all of the language is filled in the charter language [indiscernible] doing any of th that. >> ms. cover we've engaged before and she's done a variety of training with staff. we are trying to [indiscernible] delivering a performance evaluation and we made that widely available.

that led to a group in h.r. that has been doing work in our department to make sure we have sound practices in hiring and sound initiatives in the department. so it was a strong engagement. >> board questions.

>> [indiscernible] makes them school leaders and they go around to empower parents to make charter schools. if you look at the financial documents, it's they're charter documents and about how we suck and charter schools are great and [indiscernible] i don't even know what they do. people use their money and move it around. it's like a crime syndicate or something if you really get into it. these folks are associated with those folks. i don't think we should be doing anything to do with them. they're working collectively to

take money out of the system. when you're paying money to a private organization and you're not developing capital, it is concerning to me that we have to hire somebody to do project management. we should be able to do that. i can't understand why we can't do that. i'll tell you why this is ridiculous. i used to be a consultant. i worked for west ed and i was tired -- i was given money by the gates organization to do work for oakland. i'm a well-meaning black woman who wants to do change. some things came out of it that weren't doing the work. i think in public education, we need to build our own capacity to engage our community and work with families and labor.

we have administrators who can't do project management, that's a concern for me. if we're going to spend $90,000 to do project management, we should have that capacity in our shop or we should be partnering and supporting -- people are saying, invest in black businesses. how are we building capacity for home many of grown and community-based businesses, if we're spending money on people funded by the walton family organization. they're working with the new schools for new orleans. new orleans has no more public schools. it's because of all these privatizers that are coming in. this organization is a part of that machine.

we ned to educate ourselves on that. it's complicated. i don't want to have anything to do with an organization that's working with these people. [indiscernible] -- it's a machine and it's a disaster. capitalism is another thing that's happening. we've got to find a better way to get our projects done than hiring organizations that are so closely aligned with the privatization industry. >> i don't know, vince, if you want to respond to the capacity issue. >> yeah, a couple of things. one of the things that as you

recall, we were thinking about the previously the $26 million, our request was to cut from central. out of that 26, remember 22 came from central, which reduces the capacity of central. we want to build ourselves up, but this is at a time when we pretty significantly cut from strant. this is a big part of stran stran central. that's why the request is right there, right now. we're not at a place where we would want to be coming out of or still in an epidemic and knowing that we significantly cut central.

>> the last thing i'll let you speak on, the grant that was provided for. can you talk a little bit about that. >> i'm going to call on ms. white, if she is here to talk about that. >> [indiscernible] -- i want to just clarify that we have received over $5 million in donations for our covid-19 response fund. that funding will support a number of things, and one of those things is the planning phase of this project. >> commissioner moligna. >> daniel, what would be the process of trying to find a different contractor? >> i can address that. so at this late date, we would

not start this process again. if that's the decision of the board, i totally understand that, but at this late date, we would not find another contractor. >> what would you go with? >> that i can't answer. i don't know. we have to make a decision within the next month, if not earlier. there's just not time. i'm not saying you don't have to do this, but i'm being honest and transparent with you. >> would you have to go back out because you had interviewed three and i'm hearing from dr. matthews that you're not recommending the other two to be considered? >> definitely all of the three,

there's a connection with traditional, public, and charter. we would end up back here. of all the three that have made the finalist, all have had a connection with some traditional public schools and charte. >> and i would say that has we move forward over time, there's going to be more and more principals or teachers or paraprofessionals that have connections with charter and traditional public schools. >> just two additional comments and questions. one is understood that the scope of this r.f.q. was really project managing. at the same time, i want to understand how this firm has a relationship on the ground being

able to work with our student and family population. maybe you can speak to that interviewing process. it also worked with a lot of consultants in my time in the consultant sector. folks will say that they have relationships and then the agency or the public institution and then once you get into it, they don't understand the ecosystem and it requires just as much work from the hiring entity that ends up doing the work itself. i'll pause there and if maybe the doctor or the staff can answer that question and understanding the san francisco ecosystem. >> i can take a stab at that and i would invite our colleagues to join in. our position is not that we're

trying to leverage our relationship with our staff and stakeholders. what we're going to be doing is putting these positions together to make recommendations to the board in an incredibly difficult timeline. developing the formats for that information. the questions we're going to be asking. how there is a project plan and making sure we're thorough. we own those relationships and we'll be the face of that. >> will 54 be outward facing? >> that will be an ongoing discussion. we're not looking for an outside organization to be the face of

this. i think we will have a staff facilitator. we are intent of being the face of this effort and engagement. >> dr. matthews, i know that this is a tremendous lift during this pandemic to really look at what the plans are. given the california c.d.c. guidelines that have been released as well as the california department of ed, there have been tons of inquiries for parents and feeling anxious and anxiety of feeling like what's the plan and the deal. how does this impact the schedule if this firm was not to be forwarded tonight? >> the biggest impact goes back to the question of basically what if -- what's plan b.?

the impact would be we would have to stop. if we hit the ground running tonight and started setting up meetings tomorrow, if that were to happen and we had to go back into a planning phase figuring out what would happen and how will we try to piece together -- it's a critical decision is that we're trying to make with our community with what will learning look like august 17. the impact would be we would have to go back into planning. i can't tell you what that would be. we have to. the impact would be a body blow. we're pretty -- as president

solomon said, we're pretty far down the road at this point. >> i wanted to articulate a principle here. i don't like a lot of the people these people have worked with. i also want to say too, this has been an unprecedented year. this strain and stress and how hard our staff from the superintendent all the way down have been working is unimaginable, really. our job as the board is to hold him accountable for doing the job. he is telling us that they came

from a process that was clear and transparent, involved key stakeholders in the district to select a consultant to do this work, whether we should or shouldn't have the capacity internally, we don't have the capacity internally to do this work in an unprecedented time. i just think we're losing site of the real important underlying issue here, which is we need to have the best and really challenging [indiscernible] in uncertain conditions. we need to have the best opening we can and engage our staff around that because this is an incredib incredibly difficult time. i don't see why making it more difficult and the process more compressed and adding on

difficulty to the staff makes it better for our families and students. again, i don't love who they've worked with either. to me, that's less important than supporting our superintendent and making sure he gets this right, because that is the most important thing. >> i appreciate the comments that have been expressed. when we're talking about making this difficult, i want this to be authentic. when we keep hiring consultants to do meetings for us, what ends up happening is because they don't have those relationships with community members, they end up on relying on folks to give outreach and to inform them. they're recreating white

supremacy. we're getting black and brown people and low-income immigrants to do the work with no pay. i wasn't okay with that. we need to pay the people who are actually in the communities doing the work. what we went up doing is having these things and we say we gather feedback and do surveys online. communities not online can't participate or communities that do participate, we offer them lotteries, it's not authentic. it's the network that makes it authentic. the populations we want to reach are not going to be reached by a

consulta consultant. they're going to do the work and black and brown are going to do the work. we need to stop doing it. we have parents who work for free. we have $90,000 and you're telling me some of this money couldn't pay the black and brown parents and the p.a.c. parents that do work for free. they do work for free. why aren't we paying them? i want to shift the way we do things. there is work in project management, but most of the work is outreach. we're perpetuating white supremacy and saying a firm will pay them approximate and the honest feedback is done by people who don't get paid or

recognized and they are often unheard. we need to do it differently. now might be a good time to do that. since the beginning of covid, we need to do things differently with community. i know it. i've been that consultant and been that person and it doesn't work. we need to shift staff mindset. this is as good a time to do it as any. if it's not based on input and co-created with partnership and trust, i don't care about a plan. anyway, i appreciate the time. >> i just want to say, i do care about a plan, commissioner collins. i heard daniel say -- and please

clarify for me if i've gotten this wrong -- that the consultant was putting together a plan that we would do the outreach and we would be engaging with our families. i [indiscernible] -- >> [all talking at once] -- >> do not interrupt me. that's very rude. i understand you're passionate about it. let me talk. my understanding is this consultant would make the plan for us that we would be the ones to do this with our families and parents.

if we can learn how to do this better, then i think that's a good thing, but my main concern is why are we making this so much more difficult on the staff when we're in unprecedented times? i think it is not the time to layer it on. we want them to get this right. i want our families to go on the first day of school and had a well-planned year of opening ready for them when that happens. [please stand by]

>> we've were been moving this process forward for the last month and a half now and so, definitely it won't -- we're going to do our jobs and do everything we can to make it as smooth as possible, but from our perspective, past perspective, would it be further? >> just to circle back one more time around, the works that they've done about that work -- in the capacity to do this with us.

>> my job is for the public and i'm here to support the superintendent and to guide the superintendent, but it's to ensure that we're focusing on the public and that they're involved and we hear it all of the time, we're not reaching out to them. if they're developing a plan, and we're the ones who execute it, why would we need them anyway? i want us to hole o hold on to .

if we're doing all of the work, that doesn't make sense to me. >> this is one were of the situations where, you know, this is something that i think that rachel has said before and it has come up before when we were asking the superintendent to do his job and he's telling us this is how i feel i can do my job and this has come up when we looked at principles and others. this is a tough -- that is a really tough place to be as a board member when in you in your heart, you feel, at least, that it's the wrong move and at the same time, you want to support the decision-making process that the superintendent is overseeing. and so that is to me, and as president, doubly problematic right now for me and so, i will leave it at that and we'll just

do a role call vote. >> thank you. (role call). >> it fails 4 with four no vote. >> i was going to make a joke, but i'm not. public hearing, this is number two and under special order of business, 206-9so2, public hearing and adoption of the local plan and the annual budget

and service plan for special education for the san francisco unified school district and county office of education and i call the public hearing to the special education annual budget with annual service plan and we need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. and superintendent matthews. >> president sanchez, the staff who will be presenting on this item is our chief of education, jean robertson. >> hi, jean? >> good evening, commissioners and dr. matthews. i just was wo wondering if you n launch the deck because i have to get out of the whole screen mode. i'm jean robertson and i am the chief of special education services and i'm here tonight with julia martin, our

ombudsperson to present or slides. our directors are also here tonight if any questions arise that i may need help answering. and so, many of you know each year, our department comes together with our special education community advisory committee members to review the budget planning process and our special education local plan that muswith the department of n every year. as you are keenly aware, we are in unprecedented times with a budget shortfall with the crisis of covid-19. i was able to involve myself in the budget development process over the last several weeks and, obviously, we are required to resource special education to the amount of its need. however, given the fiscal conditions throughout the state, we still need to distinguish between the must-haves versus the nice-haves and needed to make trade-offs along the way.

all of our administrators look closely at their division budgets to cut back and to public renegotiate any contracts that we enter into. our student needs remained paramount in a directive to keep cuts as far as away from the children as possible.

>> julia, this year the specialized department completed an update to the local plan and this cde requirement ensures that sfusc is regularly reviewing special policies to ensure alignment with current legislation. jusjustin, can you go to the net slide? the plan is compromised of five sections, assurances and certifications by the superintendent, the board of ed, special ed and the committee advisory committee that the plan is complete and that we truly have updated all of our policies. section b is a series of in-depth questions from the cde how there are specialized policies are administered and this part of the plan was

reviewed this past spring. section c is a review of our inner-agency agreement such as mou's of golden gate regional center and head-start. d skepticisthis this included all special education services in the sfusd to meet the requirements and physical location of the services. and now, i'll hand it back to chief robertson who will provide additional information about our special education budget. >> next slide. so in order to build a budget for special education services, we need to know or students and

our numbers have steadily increased over the last few years as demonstrated showing an eight-year trend, where this year we saw an increase of almost 200 students. next slide. this slide illustrates african-american and latin x students being identified as needing special education services. we acknowledge that our past practises and plans designed to address this proportionality have not been still if reducing the numbers. the california department of education is presently holding a commitment of money to address this and is guiding us in a district-wide, including with our community stakeholders reflection in the planning process in developing a new plan to address this proportionality. this plan is due in late december. one it is expected, they will release a hold on the 1.$9 million that has been set aside to be invested in this plan.

this is the break-down of primary eligibilities for our 7,557 students on iep's and many have more than undereligibility and this captures only the primary eligibility. i won't read through all of the percentiles and you can take a look for yourself. now i dii wanted to focus on thg number of autism students. this number increases each year, and if you would go to the next slide. our community advisory community members have asked where do students receive their services? when they beg questions, i feel as though they reflect the entire community, so i wanted to include some information for this slide and so with the breakdown of autism, our students are located -- 1% are

related-services only and typically meaning they receive speech and language only. 46% of our students with autism are in general education settings, receiving rsp services. and 22% of our students are in the mild moderate classes and 23 also are from the model ri there classes. 7% are from the community, transition program and 3 also are in nonpublic schools. next slide, please. so this is a slide that demonstrates the number of students that are in nonpublic schools right now and this is a number we watch closely and strive to reduce in time. the nonpublic school budget line goes up as tuition rates rise, even though the number is flat. we self-audit and have also paid oversight over the years and a bright spot in light of all of

this has been our ability to work with our partners and community partnerships to build and expand on our district programs and mainly, we have an additional classroom to serve our goal and most of our students, independent high schools and next year, for the coming year, we're creating another class at mccaulley institute where if we look to create -- we will continue to look for internal capacity to create for intensive offerings for kids who require this level of services in settings.

there's a district-wide approach and definitely not done in a bubble and so that will be released in december or after december once or plan is submitted and hopefully accepted and we have it set aside for an extended calendar to cover sick days and leave of people. the last slide is sort of what we call our bottom line and it just lists out all of the special line items and we are coming in close to about

$185 million this year for special education services. i want to thank you for allowing us to share our local plans and on the last slide, you will see the emails and contact information for my lead team in the department. i look forward to strengthen our services to our students on their iep's with their families expecand professionals. >> jean, welcome back. >> thank you, it's great to be back. and i mean that. >> any public speakers? caller, would you like to speak on this item? >> you know i want to, of course.

everyone, thii just would like s to the special education department for their transparency throughout the whole budget and local plan process. they have been a model of inclusive practises. the whole local plan development, even though it was a brand new template on a brand new platform, with changes throughout, they were great about involving parents, administrators, teachers throughout the process and valuing our feedback and we are the model of what self-less should be and the cac gets others from around state asking us how we do it all of the time. so thank you special education department for being collaborative. i wanted to comment on the new classrooms and opportunities that independents, this is really important work for us to be doing right now and i wanted to highlight sens the nps line ,

which is $31 million. that's students placed at nonpublic schools because they don't have the classrooms or the support the students and so the fact that we're thinking collaboratively to make sure that we provide students the opportunities to stay within usfsd saves the district money, helps to engage expect members y members. this is daunting and most families don't want to do it. it's a very traumatic experience and the fact they're working to keep families engaged is the kind of work that we need to do, especially in such a devastating budget crisis. and so thank you very much. and i'll mute myself this time. >> thank you.

>> we should not confuse these issues and i would like a demographic breakdown of what services and who are we paying for to be out of the district as far as demographics, as well, versus who we underserve in our district, as well as we're trying. that's all. >> any others. >> i'm going to try one more.

no, that's it. thank you for the public comment, commissioners. commissioner norton and then allehia. >> jean, it is nice to have you back and i want to echo that. specifically the trends on autism and the overall number of iup's, are we seeing that across districts in california as an experience representative or is it unique to us? >> it is not unique to us. it is a national trend. the question did get brought up at the cac to look at assessment practises. and so they wanted more answers about assessments and how we're tried to those conclusions as a nation, i think. so we're going to poke around and look for more research to

inform that. and i wanted to point out this isn't an exhaustive presentation. this is specifically on the local plan and budget and i take the comments of the previous caller previously and that will be a big part of our plan to address this proportionality and so jeremiah, you are welcomed to be a part of that work. it won't be nice to work with you on that. >> yeah, i just want to comment to say i think that it would be really interesting for us to monitor the data, both as jeremiah suggested the demographics about district placements and who was getting classified as what because i think there definitely have been issues of cultural competency in how students are assessed and what disability we end up labeling them, for lack of a better word and monitoring that

would be interesting. and then the only other thing was just on the. it looked like legal claim for $1.5 million and then $31 million in out-of-district placements and i've asked this question before and i know it's a difficult one to -- and maybe, danielle, this is more for you. this is a difficult one to figure out. but what are we paying in out of district placements and settlement to parents? what is the total amount we're paying out because of noncompliance and real cases?

>> we'rthis is as opposed to how much we're paying because of the placement for the student is expensive and some early thinking about this in talking with special education and the staff there, i think what we're going to find is that our costs are coming from not having the program in district to serve students as opposed to, you know, errors -- though we certainly make them because we're human but i think that is the driver of the cost. it's program placement and not errors. >> right, and thank you, because that's my suspicion, as well,

and i think it's just going to be really important for us. special-ed costs are a driver of the overall budgets.

>> jean, you look great and you look fantastic, super healthy. thank you. i think jill was carrying the load while you were recovering. you look really good. just to kind of get to the presentation, so i appreciate the presentation.

this is to base our work in the school district off of this. but just to dive into the area deeper, i'm very more interested within the nhpr community. because, you know, everyone will see that there's a lot of disparities with the kits and so i guess that was more comments than feedback in general and i would love to work with you on that stuff. but just to echo, everyone,

welcome back jean and thank you also to jill for holding it down while you were away.

, jean. >> i'm super, super happy to have you back and also very appreciative of, you know, jill, holding down the fort. as a thought partner, we're so lucky to have you so anyway, you made my day, seeing your face in our meeting. >> much love.

>> we'll go to a role call vote. (role call). >> board is going back to

regular session, memorandum of electrical workers, local 6, regarding sick leave during city shelter-in-place order. we need a motion and second. >> presenting on this will be the chief officer of labor relations, scarletto.

>> public speakers on this, jetson. >> , we havyes, we have a coupl. >> hello, caller, would you like to speak on this item? calmer, would you likcaller, wok on this item. justin, i think my hand is up from before but i am on the phone and i don't know how to put it down. thanks. >> board comments, questions. seeing none, role call.

(role call). that's six ayes. >> number number 4, memorandum f understanding with the common crafts regarding sick leave and city shelter-in-place order. we need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> i'll second it. mr. matthews. >> this is carmella scarletto. >> to ratify the memorandum of understanding regarding sick

leave and stipends during city shelter-in-place. >> any public speakers? >> seeing none, president sanchez. >> any comments, questions? role call, please. >> thank you, miss collins? >> yes. (role call). >> six ayes. >> the last item in this section is 206-905, instructional calendar for 2020-2021 school year. a motion as amended. >> moved. >> seconded. >> presenting on this item is our chief officer of labor relations. >> so the recommended action on this item is to adopt the amended 2020-2021 instructional calendar as attached.

>> thank you. and any public comments? >> seeing none, president sanchez. >> one question. >> vice president lopez. >> what is the difference? didn't we vote -- i want to know the difference. i understand why we're doing it. >> yeah, there was a miscount on the days of service in january by one day. thereby -- so we made that correction and rather than 18 days in january, there are 19 instructional days and that would move the date of the ending of school, the ending of the instructional calendar from june 2nd to june 1st, so we're correcting that error. >> commissioner collins? >> thanksgiving is listed on this calendar and i think a lot

of folks don't celebrate and i was hoping to change it to awesome recess and i think we have spring break. if that's ok, i would like to make that correction. >> carmello, is that possible without having to go back. >> why well, it's funny, it's in all of our contracts and so we would have to go back and i would have to check in with all of our labor partners to ensure that they were ok with it. so it's not something i could agree to right now, but it's something that is in there contracts. >> ok. >> it's a title. in principle, i don't think they'll argue with it, but it is something -- >> it's really, really important. >> i understand. >> -- to our community.

and we were in the process of getting a resolution that we didn't pass and in some cases, it hasn't been addressed. >> yeah, i can meet and confer -- we can schedule a meet and confer with the units to talk about maybe that adjustment and we can get back to the board. >> i just recall us changing several years ago indigenous people's day had somehow disappeared from the calendar and then the board at that meeting added it back. >> i'll check in with council just to make sure what i'm saying is true and we certainly don't want to make any road block. i understand completely. >> is it possible to say we would vote on it with that change if we can do that? is that a possible thing we can do? >> yes, i think so. >> i'm sorry, commissioner.

i'm asking, can you do that tonight? >> can we prove it -- i think if we have the ability to do that without going through the -- can we just -- >> no, i think in order to demonstrate good faith negotiations, we can't make a predetermination. we need to go back to our bargaining unit. >> we expect it will be handled in that process and we want to make sure that they have that correction. just in general -, a number of commissioners are talking about wanting to be involved in the process of the calendaring of the school year and so, i recommend -- i don't know exactly which venue it would be, maybe personnel, i don't know or

even rules. but i think that the board -- i would definitely like to have more of an input about future years out, what they might look like in terms of what summer looks like, how many days, winter looks like, how many days off, et cetera and other districts have been really creative and they've used the calendar as a hiring tool to attract teachers and others to the district. and so, i think we need to be more creative and i would like to move in the direction of the years being more involved with the future years of calendars. that's my little note there and so for this item, we're going to have a role call vote presiden . is it based on this specific? >> no. (role call).

>> that's five ayes. >> section i, discussion of other educational issues and we handle ed this at the beginning of the meeting with the updates on the status of the sfpd and section j, consent item calendars moved at the previous meeting and so didn't we have some items that we removed around contracts at the last meeting? >> we voted on the k resolutions, mr. sanchez? >> we removed them for a future vote under section j. >> no. >> no, go back to the k resolutions. that was how it was moved the last meeting. it was a whole chunk of them,

26. >> the klw contracts. >> yes, they were adopted. >> i was confused about that myself. >> that was confusing. vice president lopez, i don't know if we talked about i this n the agenda review. >> i'm not recalling. >> that might be problematic. i'll have to think about it. section k, introduction of proposals and the committee. i would like to remind the board, per board policy, discussion of the budget will be allowed at the first reading. and so public and board comment on proposals, so this is for --

the script here is not that clear. this is for the superintendent's proposal 206-9sp1 covid operations for the san francisco county of education and san francisco unified school district. >> actually, you're moving both of them, mr. sanchez. >> ok. >> superintendent's proposal, 206-9fp, those proposals to be heard at the committee scheduled for tuesday, june 16th at 3:00 a motion and a second for those two. >> so moved. >> second. >> and w any public comment?

hello, julie? >> yes, this is julie roberts. i wanted to make sure to look lift the seat back from the budget committee. there were a lot of families that were there to comment on and the budget cuts. they weren't able to speak and so, in terms of our particular school, we're still facing cuts of being cut to half-time, as well as losing some other staff. and so to reiterate, the attempts to keep cuts away from school sites has not been entirely effective and, there are still concerns that the process was ruled out without wrapping heads around it. for example, on the sfc, we don't know if we're -- if the school is phased in or out.

we should expect more cuts or less cuts in the future. and then there's some broader conversations i'm beginning to hear that with the federal -- it feels like there's a lot up in the air right now executive t to ask the district to consider holding, you know, avoiding making cuts right now that might end up being restored in the fall, so just unprecedented budget situation and really is damaging to make cuts and create layoffs in destabilized school districts with a budget funding situation and we may find those were unnecessary later in the year. thank you.

>> thank you. >> hello, elaine? elaine? >> yes. >> do you care to speak? >> yes. i wanted to speak about the budget, as well. and i'm really concerned when i read over the budget packet and $84.5 million is a lot of money and i see that it says it's a placeholder and i was kind of concerned that we using the word placeholder, that we have to really, you know, look the the budget. i'm hoping the board members would take time to look at the budget and skim through the items and i noticed that monies

are being transferred around and it could get really confusing, but it's very important that, you know, that we stand up for what we believe in. if we say that we're social justice district, we have to stand up for that. i was really disappointed when i looked at the consolidation list of all of the teachers that were being consolidated and many of them were from our high potential schools. the schools where students need the consistency because their teachers are consolidated and that means they'll start with a different teacher next year and so we have to really think about this equity peace when we're thinking about the budget, as well. we can't continue to do the same thing over and over again and think that we're going to get some different results. so we have to think about these

communities that we're impacting with this budget. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, miss merryweather about what that does in the budget. we see folks being released and we see somehow the budget cuts and the members, as well. and if we say we want a the whole school community supporting, then let's not forget sciu, a local 10-1 is a part of that and our members are a part of that community and helping to improve or schools and making them all full and whole as they can be and also, i wanted to comment. i don't know how our k reso on the contracts got voted in. i thought that was poled separately and i understood that

and we wanted to comment. we have people waiting to comment on that item. so how that is put through, i'm hoping that can be pulled. because i know it was their intention to pull it and it was under item j and i know it was intended to be pulled from the consent calendar, as well.

>> this is an issue with your board rule so give me an issue to look. i know you need a motion and you may need a two-thirds majority. >> we'll all on the prevailing side and it's not an issue, but i think somebody on the prevailing side has to move reconsideration and i might be wrong but i think it's a two-thirds vote to reconsider and then it's a majority vote to adopt or turn down. >> i think that's right. >> go ahead. i was going to say, as long you have a two-thirds vote and since it was the unanimous vote to

approve, anybody can make the motion and you should be ok going forward. >> ok, so just to remind ourselves, a number that had to do with kw, the concerns around those and so we -- our intention, was to have a discussion. >> thank you. >> so, does anybody have a motion? >> i would like to move to reconsider. >> need a second. >> second. >> role call vote on the reconsideration. >> thank you. (role call). >> five ayes. >> mr. sanchez, may i -- what you voted on earlier was the

chunk of resolutions that were moved to the june 9th meeting. those k resolutions are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight -- 15 resolutions. i think, like, from k4 through k9, those opportunities to kaw, if i'm not mistaken and the rest were also removed and not adopted. you only adopted k13 and k16 on may 26th. those are the only two items were you adopting. the rest came back to june 9t june 9th. >> particularly concerned about the kw on track and i don't know if there's anything staff wants to add to the discussion around those? >> good evening, commissioners. this is gentle blithe and i am the liaison to kaw. the contracts that are before you are for people that work on

the kasm w programs. skaw programs and they're bygras raised by members. none of the funding comes from usfd. the contractors that are doing this work are journalists and specialists in the areas that they are providing the services for. >> thank you. public comment on this item. >> kim, are you there? >> thank you so very much. i'm local 10-1 field rep and what i want to talk about in regards to the contractors, if you have to look in the detail of the contract, yes, it explains that there are definitely programs but the

duties of the programs and contracts, we're refuting that. there are workers, employees of the district that could have been trained to do that work. were they ever asked before bringing on another contractor over the last few years? why aren't we giving work to our employees instead of bringing in money and paying contractors and consultants? that is not the union way and us f.d.ausfd is part of a representativing organization. and by the way, the idea that this is more for the privatization of usfsd is utterly problematic and we implore you as the stewarts of this jewel to step forward and

advocate for giving employees of the district the work that can be done by them if they were asked and automatically assuming it should go to a contractor or consultant. please look at the duties. i'm definitely clear on the host and what their duties are but several that could be done by our employees. and we won't offer that. so that's what i would like you to consider and that's why it's so imperative to the union that you please consider giving the work to employees because those employees are getting released. how can we have money from one and not the other? >> any other public comment? >> joanne or joanne mar? >> can you hear me?

>> yes, we can. go ahead. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm joanne mar and i worked at kaw for over 34 years and i'm a part of the local 1021 and i'm speaking on the contracts that removed from the consent calendar a few weeks ago. this is called creeping automation at kawl. management is planning to release some of our announcers and replace them with automation. releasing our announcers is the first step in dismantling us and that means no live people on the air. that not only drives out our unionize the workforce and that's the heart and soul of what makes kalw a great station. this year, we're seeing the start of expanding automation

for the first time i've been here at kalw and that's unprecedented. automation impressing our union workers one by one. as automation expands over time, that means fewer local programs, fewer live music shows, fewer call-in talk shows. you can't have those quality programs when no one is there. you know, with ough automation,u have machines like one of the clear-channeled clones. taking kawl in that direction is not healthy and in opposition to our core mission to serve the local community. kawl is telling us budget deficits and we don' and we dony for the resolutions. we have all of this money before you tonight. i know at least $100,000 is going to three out of seven contractors related to the contracts from a couple of weeks

ago. that's money that could cover the salaries of announcers so we wouldn't have to have automation. >> that's time. >> for management to find the money to fund all announcers and to protect unionized workforce. ful that happens, continue holding over these contracts. thanks.

>> when the $50,000 award came through, we were thrilled. since then, we've developed a great relationship with the foundation called the templeleton trust. in addition to the templeton funds, we goodby we began collag with civic life and both are providing restrictive funds with objectives laid out sometimes years in advance. they engage with us because they trust us to deliver high quality stories with nuance and depth and on a timeline we've agreed to. your approval today of these resolutions is necessary for us to complete our milestones. without it, our programming, our reputation and our ability to receive future funding are jeopardized. i ask that approve these as presented today.

thank you. >> thank you. >> holhello, john? john? are you there? >> i want to speak to where the money comes from that in is a self--sustaining eb tilt didn't we raise every dollar we spend with no funding from the san francisco unified school district. our money comes from donations from member listeners, from grants that we solicit our funds to fund the positions before you this evening. and i would like to speak briefly to the fact of some of the issues raised by former

speakers tonight.

this is on the air and what you see before you. thank you very much and i appreciate your ability to move this forward. thank you. >> if you. thank you. >> hello, ben? >> yes, hi. my name is ben. i am not a robot. i am the news director at kalw where i've worked for 16 years. i'm the husband of a teacher and father of twin class of 20 graduates. i worked since it was funded and we built this as a teaching newsroom and the money to support our training programs and our expanded news coverage come from fundraising lead by the editorial staff of kalw like me. we report the news and write grants, cultivate and we ask or consequence to help out and i hope you're all members of kalw.

so we've done this work joyfully on behalf of our station, the district and the community we're a part of. in my 16 years, contractors like me have always worked in concert with employed staffers. we've edited and engineered a lot of stories by people who don't work in the newsroom and we continue to provide training and support throughout the station. we're all a part of the same team. it was shocking when our roles were dismissed two weeks ago and tonight as if we were strainers hirewere strangers.the fact is,e right now, some have jobs at kalw with jobs as benefits. other people like myself, our daily show hosts and trainers, we have had no vehicle to which we could get full employment positions. it hasn't been possible within the district structure even if we wanted it and i want that. so many talented people have

left the news department because of the lack of an employment option and hopefully in the future, you can help create a pathway but for now, we want at the very least to have contracts approved. it's the own wa only way to do s work and serve this community. so thank you. >> hello, tina. >> hi, there. >> i'm the general manager of kalw and i wanted to address a couple of points that were brought up. this is about training the unionized class, the 3535. one thing that we need to remember is that the description of work would not include the type of work that the contracts are hiring the newsroom to do. so that's very important.

and to the point that was made before in 16, 17 years, that hasn't been raised, but that's my understanding, as well. it's very important to remember we have descriptions of work and if it is outside of that description of work, we are not allowed to employ people in those positions. to the question of automation, there's to desire on part of management to automate. however, during the pandemic, it is true that we had to automate more. during very many meetings, i discussed how it was so important to open up those hours again, but we had to, in the time of the pandemic, continue with automation so that we could stay within our budget, nobody's hours in terms of number of hours, the paychecks and we were very, very clear that they would stay stable and that has not changed. however, we did have to automate in this time because people were sheltering in place and i wanted

to put in measures that were safe for the workers who were on site and so they didn't have to be on site and unsheltered in place. place when they could be. it's important to remember that just because there is a claim around automation, it certainly has not been my intention because i love radio, too, and i love my radio. it's important to kaw to stay alive and that is an assumption on the part of some people, perhaps, but that is nothing that has been discussed other than safety measures and being able to stay within our budget during the pandemic. and that has been made very clear in multiple community meetings and we're opening up hours because one of our workers would like to come out of shelter in place and we welcome that.

>> last statement. and i want to stay that i have offered on multiple occasions to speak with anyone who has concerns about this, and i will continue to offer that space to talk, but it's hard if people don't want to talk and so i continue to welcome that and have this discussion. >> ok, thank you. >> can you hear me? >> yes, you can go ahead. >> i've been on contract with kaw with 2016. i'm a journalist and the proud manager of our training programs of which we have many from our audio academy for adults to our in-school and summer high school program. this week, we have people graduating from our audio academy. we have four new summer interns that just started with us this

last week. and we're offering a summer podcasting class for high school students. we doing this all over zoom and we're doing it despite all of the challenges and unknowns of this pandemic and we're doing it because we hold training and education to be a core part of the station's values. i'm so proud of us for doing that. these training programs other people have said are funded by grants and specifically dedicated to the work. it's taken time and effort to develop these funding relationships. and so now we're faced with another unknown right now, which is the approval of the k resolutions, the withholding of the resolution jeopardizes us to deliver these programs and most importantly, the participants that we have planned out for the rest of 2020. so i really urge you, please, to urge the resolution today. i do want to say as a science reporter at the station, i've been so happy to have tina and

ben at our home during covid, who are creating a safe workplace environment for us right now while still increasing the amount of content, news content that san francisco needs right now in this very uncertain time. so thank you. >> hello, caller? >> i host the daily news magazine on kaw cross-currents. and i also am one of the people who have been at the station for a long time, 15 years. and ever since we started the news department, along with ben and holly. we're at moment right now where people are hungry for diverse voices in journalism, for

compassionate journalism. our team has been doing that for over a decade. at kalw and anyone who listens to cross-currents knows that and understands that. and as the board aware, we're self sustaining and we get on the air and i think a lot of people can attest to that, you hear our voices fundraising and, of course, we would love to be employees of kalw. of course, we would. i've been a contractor for 15 years. and if there was a path, if there was a way to become an employee, of course, we would to do that, we would. we are doing excellent work, award-winning nationally acclaimed reporting. and we've been doing it honestly, shoestring budgets and smiling faces.

and today, it's a sad day and a shocking day to me to have to come here and defend, basically, the amazing work that's been coming out this journalism department. so i ask you to definitely renew the contract and i really, really hope that we can move passed this point because this is not the time for it. we need the kind of journalism that comes out of our department right now and everyday. thank you. >> president sanchez, that concludes public comment on this item. >> thank you, commissioners. >> commissioner norton and vice president. >> i just want to say that we have such a long and positive relationship with kalw and the

fact that this i can be a laboratory for our students to learn about journalism. as a former journalist myself, the idea that we're putting these journalists through additional anxiety and stress about their livelihoods is troubling to me. it's a really, really tough time in journalism all over the country and we need journalists more than ever. i just would encourage the board to go ahead and adopt these contracts. kalw does a wonderful job in our community and has done a lot of great work with our students, as well, executiv and i think theyn asset to the school district. thank you. >> vice president lopez. >> yes, i've actually been pretty involved with a lot of the discussion because there's

no denying the work that all of you who have spoken and contractors doing this work for a long time, there's no denying that your work is excellent and authentic and we certainly need it, but is the process transparent? no. have there been a lot of things said that have been invalid? yes. and so i think that was kind of the reason why we had to have this discussion. actually, thank you, president sanchez for bringing it back. in my search, in my research, i am now kind of understanding that sfusd employees through kalw amount to about seven. and gentle, i'm need your help in clarifying this. but my understanding is that we have seven employees and the rest are contractors, which is the discussion we're having today. and this is the money that is not funded from sfusd, so we just need to figure out all of

the questions that are coming up as far as our sfusd employees not being offered work and we're offering work to contractors. is that happening? because through my learning, i've seen that the people who need employees, their jobs are -- they're either leaving, they found another option or they're safe. >> hi, commissioner lopez. i do have that information written, but i don't have it in my head. do you mind if i ask the general manager to come back and share that information? >> yes, i have a question for tina, as well.

>> i wanted to be clear who is employed with usfsd, which to my understanding, it's about seven people. and the contractors that were supposed twe'resupposed to be ar separate. is that true? >> that's true. they are separate. it's very different work that's being done. so there is the gm position, there's one program manager position and then there are six 35-35 operators and we have a couple as needed, as well. >> and so i think you spoke -- >> they're not all fte's.

they're as needed and then there is 1.5 fte from 3535. this is separate work and i can read a little bit from the job description. the work is to be responsible for broadcasting for -- sorry, hole on. hold on. >> i don't want the discussion read. i can do more work afterwards. i guess just to the point of, there are employees that we house that could be doing this work but aren't able to because of the job description, because the job description doesn't allow the. >> well, there's that point but there's separate work and there is work in the studio as an announcer/operator that if you look at the description that's technical and there's the work

of the newsroom, which is out reporting and creating grants that the ones that you're -- that it's funding the contracts right now before you, the k resolutions. there's that work and there's posting in studio and there's reporting and there's producing and there's engineering shows and a lot of the different things that are not relevant. i mean, it's all audio work but the announcer operator position is a technical position and, also, they host, right? they speak in morning edition and all things considered, according to a log that is provided. this is all work that is very important and i have to say that all of this work is important and we're not trying to say some work is more important than other work bu, but the news contracts that before you right now is not the type of work we would be assigning to this

category of announcer/operator, which is to keep our signal on with programs running, make the psa announcements and sfu announcements, et cetera. does that make sense? >> right. yes, thank you. the last thing is just to the topic of automation, because we had to bring that in due to covid, did anyone lose their job because of that being implemented? >> no. nobody has lost their job based on that. absolutely not. >> it was just a safety measure. >> for the pandemic, yes. >> thank you for clarifying. that's my questions. there's no one being relieve. there is one relief at this point. and that's it.

and that is something you discussed in the last board meeting. >> i guess just from me and the public, i think it's been very confusing, understanding the relationship between sfusd and kalw because kalw comes every year and we do all these great things and we own this -- understand we own the license and we have a liaison and at the same time, we don't directly manage staff or manage content and so i just wanted to understand what our relationship is and that's partially for me but partially, think thi i thins come up several time in or meetings and the public deserves to understand that what relationship is. >> i'm so happy to discuss that and that's important to us. and so what's hard to understand about it, i think, is that just people don't necessarily know

about the rearified worried of public broadcasting. but most stations, whether tv or radio and public media, the -- e lands ilicense is own bided by l district and that has been in existence since the '60's so my liaison for the district is gentle blithe and also my

supervisor. >> so we own the license and our staff supervises you as the manager o of the entity. >> ofyes. >> so the programming, is that the question? >> yes, who decides -- because another question i have, we have one -- there's one parent that i've been communicating with who is saying that we have this asset and, yet, we're not really utilizing it. right now, we could be broadcasting potentially board meetings or even using it as a communication tool with families that don't rely on the internet and i haven't been able to understand if we have staff that does communication and manages you all and your staff -- that's like, oversees the staffing in some capacity, i don't understand why we don't have any

input on what that content is. >> so let's break this down a couple of ways. so there's the journalistic piece. wee.i think we can all agree tht it's really important for journalists to be that voice that isn't government censored or there isn't a government voice telling us what we can air and what we can't air. that's the way, i think -- >> i'm not talking about that. i'm talking about broadcasting our board meetings or serving -- just having content that's related to education and so -- >> you don't need to answer me. it's 9:30, almost. but i'm not -- i feel like if this is an asset and we have some relation to it, i don't want to direct individual people's decisions around how

they cover the board or cover education -- our decisions as a district, but i feel like it's an unutilized asset and so many families are disconnected and relying more on public radio. this isn't obviously the time to discuss it. but i don't -- i think you could be doing more to connect parents and community members to resources in our community and anyway -- why. i would be more than happy to have that discussion. i agree this is not the place for it. we do broadcast the school board meetings in the regular time which is 6:00 p.m. every other week. >> but under covid, you haven't been doing that. i don't need to talk about it any more, but when you response

like that, it feels like you're not listening. i'll get back to you is i appreciate the opportunity to give feedback. >> thank you. >> commissioners? >> if we were not to approve these contracts tonight, what would that mean to the contractors, what would happen? >> so this is gentle blithe. in each contractor case, they are funded by a set of grants and so, there would be a lack of ability for the station to then be able to accept that funding in order to -- a lot of these are some of the speakers spoke to. they're grants that they have gotten themselves for the work that they do and so they have

relationships with those funders and they're being funded in part because of the skills and assets that they bring themselves as the contractors. and so, some of them come with that money and i think another challenge would be that the station as you heard has several contractors who are fully at the producing content for kaw and that is what they do and it would not only impact their livelihood but impact the quality broadcast they're phone for. >> i want to make the one point that kyle made the video that we saw earlier tonight and was a recent graduate and i just wanted to acknowledge that. >> thank you for that.

>> it was an amazing piece of work. >> that was awesome. role call vote. this is to vote for or not for the contracts that were pulled. for kaw. (role call) miss carnes. >> i would like to abstain because i don't understand what's going on. >> i don't believe our rules allow you to abstain. >> i am sorry to be the fly in the ointment. >> let's have miss collins go last. (role call). >> i think an option is you can step out.

[ laughter ] >> thank you all. we've learned a lot and so, board members report and virtual meetings have taken place since the last regular board meeting, so we have budget and business service committee which is thursday, june 3rd. and commissioner lamb. >> thank you. we got a detailed update from rcfo, megan wallace, around the projections of where we're at with updated or as we know it, numbers, between covid and closure of this fiscal year and a projections for the upcoming year and we have reviewed the budgeting both happening at the state level and the federal level and still, you know, how

important it is to get the heroes and the advocacy work that needs to advance at the federal level and without that, you know, it will have a compression at the state level. so we also reviewed some budget solutions for what we see tonight in the first reading of the budget and looking forward to the committee as a whole and really diving even fuller in discussion with the full board. so this is just going to be pretty intensive few weeks for the board and how we're putting forward our budget for the following year. >> and then, you get to go again. role call on legislation committee which was yesterday. although, it seems like -- >> i was banking on the policy committee. it was a record time of maybe

under 30 -- under 45 minutes. we got a pretty detailed update from capital partners from sacramento of the latest around the negotiations that are happening between the state legislature and governor newsom and i think some positive developments there and i think the state legislature is working really hard to try to come through with lessening the impact for the cuts, the projected 10% cuts to local control funding formula, which, for san francisco, for the public equals to over $55 million. and so the state legislature will need to propose or approve their budget by the 15th of june forwarded to governor newsom and he'll have until the end of the month to sign and approve the state budget and then secondly, as the full board

approved tonight was the recommendation, positive recommendation from committee around the usage of technology for student use of technology. >> thank you, commissioner lamb. this is not much happening in the school reports. and any reports by board members? calendar of committee meetings? all committee meetings, no -- some have been suspended until further notice with the -- so we know that we're having committee meetings but not as regularly. and we have committee as a whole, as has been referenced tuesday, june 16th, at 3:00 p.m. and a joint select committee with the supervisors and the city college trustees, which is friday june 12th at

10:00 a.m. section n, another envelopal inl i'ms and i'll call on commissioner collins who will address this one. >> thank you, president sanchez. so the police brutality does not exist -- i'm sorry. so this is not the first time that we've seen a video of a black man murdered by police and what made george floyd's murder notable was that it took place on film and not unlike oscar grant's, but additionally, we were able to look into the eyes of his killer while bystanders pleaded for his life. every year, the police shoot and kill nearly a thousand people in this nation. this does not account for those like sandra bland or freddie gray. more than four years, the agency has yet to implement a system

for collecting the data or release any new details how and why people die under the watch of law enforcement. we know black and native communities are represented at the highest levels in police brutality. i would like to take this moment to recognise a few of the many names of people who have been killed by police in this country. george floyd, brianna taylor, eric garner, freddie gray, sandra bland, mike brown, trayvon martin, oscar grant, philando castile. as i mentioned, police violence does not just impact black communities. it is intersectional and i would like to recognise joseph findly who is seminole and cherokee, john t. williams, a kayla moore,

a black trans-woman and mr. mong. here in san francisco, sfpd has shot and killed over 40 people since the year 2,000. this is an example of the fact that police brutality does not just exist outside of our progressive bubble but exists in our believ beloved city. i would like to acknowledge people who have been killed by sfpd, mario woods, jessica williams, alex neato, kenneth harding, jesus delg arado and sn

monarosa, a graduate killed by valejopd. i would like to ask for a home of silence. thank you. >> if you. >> thank you, commissioner collins. now. >> at this time, we will take public comment for those who wish to speak to closed session items. >> can you see if there's anybody?

>> john carroll, did you want to speak to closed session? and not seeing none. >> thank you very much. >> section p, closed session, the board will now glow go into closed session and we'll be

>> how i really started my advocacy was through my own personal experiences with discrimination as a trans person. and when i came out as trans, you know, i experienced

discrimination in the workplace. they refused to let me use the women's bathroom and fired me. there were so many barriers that other trans folks had in the workplace. and so when i finished college, i moved out to san francisco in the hopes of finding a safer community. >> and also, i want to recognize our amazing trans advisory committee who advises our office as well as the mayor, so our transadvisory community members, if they could raise their hands and you could give a little love to them. [applause] >> thank you so much for your help. my leadership here at the office is engaging the mayor

and leadership with our lgbt community. we also get to support, like, local policy and make sure that that is implemented, from all-gender bathrooms to making sure that there's lgbt data collection across the city. get to do a lot of great events in trans awareness month. >> transgender people really need representation in politics of all kinds, and i'm so grateful for clair farley because she represents us so intelligently. >> i would like to take a moment of silence to honor all those folks that nicky mentioned that we've lost this year. >> i came out when i was 18 as

trans and grew up as gay in missoula, montana. so as you can imagine, it wasn't the safest environment for lgbt folks. i had a pretty supportive family. i have an identical twin, and so we really were able to support each other. once i moved away from home and started college, i was really able to recognize my own value and what i had to offer, and i think that for me was one of the biggest challenges is kind of facing so many barriers, even with all the privilege and access that i had. it was how can i make sure that i transform those challenges into really helping other people. we're celebrating transgender awareness month, and within that, we recognize transgender day of remembrance, which is a memorial of those that we have

lost due to transgender violence, which within the last year, 2019, we've lost 22 transgender folks. think all but one are transgender women of color who have been murdered across the country. i think it's important because we get to lift up their stories, and bring attention to the attacks and violence that are still taking place. we push back against washington. that kind of impact is starting to impact trans black folks, so it's important for our office to advocate and recognize, and come together and really remember our strength and resilience. as the only acting director of

a city department in the country, i feel like there's a lot of pressure, but working through my own challenges and barriers and even my own self-doubt, i think i've been try to remember that the action is about helping our community, whether that's making sure the community is housed, making sure they have access to health care, and using kind of my access and privilege to make change. >> i would like to say something about clair farley. she has really inspired me. i was a nurse and became disabled. before i transitioned and after i transitioned, i didn't know what i wanted to do. i'm back at college, and clair farley has really impressed on me to have a voice and to have agency, you have to have an education. >> mayor breed has led this effort. she made a $2.3 million investment into trans homes,

and she spear headed this effort in partnership with my office and tony, and we're so proud to have a mayor who continues to commit and really make sure that everyone in this city can thrive. >> our community has the most resources, and i'm very happy to be here and to have a place finally to call home. thank you. [applause] >> one, two, three. [applause] >> even in those moments when i do feel kind of alone or unseen or doubt myself, i take a look at the community and the power of the supportive allies that are at the table that really help me to push past that. being yourself, it's the word of wisdom i would give anyone. surely be patient with yourself and your dream.

knowing that love, you may not always feel that from your family around you, but you can

welcome to the san francisco planning commission remote commission hearing on june 11, 2020. i would like to enter the following into the record, since we began the remoment market. on february 25th, the mayor declared a state of emergency. that was due to the health emergency, the commission, chamber and city hall is closed. furthermore, the mayor and governor have issued emergency orders suspending select laws applicable to boards and commis