majority of our work and we are currently facing a budget deficit that could not be filled by transferring our own dollars over to other programs. thank you. and i would like to comment afterwards but would like to hear from other commissioners. >> me, too. vice president lopez and commissioner maliga. >> thank you. i just really want to recognise that the hurt is clear and it has been for many, many years, just given what happens at our school sites and just to comment on what commissioner collins brought up. whatever number it is, i think symbolically for me ending a relationship with sfpd is very meaningful. i'm happy to do that and you're right, the number is not a large one, but it draws attention to the fact that our budget is not

transparent and we can really go along and seeing what is happening at our sites, knowing that teachers and administration, students and families are not getting the support they need and can easily assume that is because we are not funding appropriately. and so, i think ultimately, this conversation is -- it is about the police department and what we as a school district want to have as far as the relationship with them. and what that really means to people. but it's also about the overall just structure that we have that allows for these scenarios to play out. this is happening at our sites, at school sites and i need to be educated to understand they as authority figures perpetuate similar instances that cops are doing outside on the streets. it's not at the same level, but it's still targeting black and

brown kids and still taking them out of our classrooms and suspending them and kicking them out of our schools because of the power dynamics that we're seeing cops don't know how to deal with. and that could be -- that again could be tied to the training that they are or are not getting. but i think it's onall obeyond f the efforts we're getting and it's calling out our colleagues, as well, who are continuing to uphold that at our schools. we can no longer pretend not to see this. anyone othe who is at a site kns this. it's recognising your role as a person of power and this is how school systems work. i've been in teacher education programs and i know how a lot of them are structured and the idea

you have more power over a child is embedded in you. we all grew up in a system that is based in the racist society and we know that. i'm hearing from a lot of people who are on our side as far as removing our relationship and really thinking truly on what a school can provide for our familiesbeyond what we're doing which is a lot. but there are a number of people who aren't at this meeting and aren't advocating and still behaving in that way. and so, i'm interested in seeing what this will mean as far as what we're providing in schools and what we're calling out in schools and what we're allowing teachers to do to our students. >> commissioner malia. >> thank you, president sanchez. and so, i just had a couple of questions for staff and the

superintendent and i can make comments, also, about the issue. i have a love and hate relationship with the police, right? one, i can't stand them, but two, at the same time, growing up in the projects, you know, watching people -- all of the shootings and everything, so, they it's just like a convoluted thing with the police. and, you know, i still don't think it's something that we need to be positioning ourselves with is planning around and partnering with and i think it's something we need to move away from. i say that because when i first got on the school board, i had conversations with staff and i want to know more about th the protocols in place. we're calling police officers and they're assisting us for many issues, like hands-on stuff and you name it, right?

and so, from my understanding, it was a protocol thing on the school district side and so, one, i want to know if that was cleared up because i heard it was rerouted back to the t-10's and we just wrote a resolution around trauma-informed that states in it the need to work with our crisis team and safety support team including with -- including social workers, and this is exactly what it is. this is exactly the work we need to be doing around that resolution.

>> dr. matthews? >> are you talking about crisis response? are you talking about when the

police are called to come to our campuses or both? >> let's just talk about -- those are two good examples, but, like, what are the overall protocols on how we engage with the police? i know dries is one of the cris. >> we have three ways of thinking about police coming on to our campuses if it's necessary to protect the physical safety of staff. that's up for interpretation and if that's not combined with good training and addressing biased and a lot of things, that may end up looking the way we don't want it to look. if it is required by law, then possession, drug sales, that type of stuff and the other one is if it's appropriate to address criminal behaviour. so someone coming on to our campus and trying to harm a student or do some type of

criminal activity, so that those are the three ways. and does it look different and does it always lack th look thet should be? >> probably not because there are not as robust systems in place to ensure that's happen asking i think that's one question that you were talking about and secondly, and just in terms of when police come that's related to cps report or related to a crisis intervention, that is another time when police may be brought on to the campus. i think we have had such an opportunity with the pandemic to sit and think didn' and partnerh

our city agencies, that we are thinking, how do we do that differently? i think with the resolution that you and commissioner lopez and commission collins sponsored around the coordinated care, we're working towards that and we started with the wellness checks and we have the resources and were have worked to partner with the department of public health and we'll be providing services and we'll be looking at mobile services. and so all of the things that i feel the commissioners have been asking for, we really are starting to have this ability where we're working as a city is district to do that. do we have a long way to go? absolutely. but we're turning in the right direction to support students and families in the ways that we should from an anti-racist standpoint and from a radical human practise and all of that stuff that doesn't end up

pathologchanging the system.

>> the change was in odd to ensure parents are called and public defenders are called immediately if the police come

on. >> commissioner norton. and then commissioner lamb. >> and thank you to everyone that came out. i know that this is just a really charged moment and it's a good conversation for us to continue to have. and it's certainly -- this mou has periodically been debated and discussed in the entire time i've bon the board, as it should be. i moon, thithis is an importantd getting this right which we've been trying to do for a long time is crucial. the point i was going to make is the one that superintendent matthews made which is that the mou is intended to be protective of students and their rights. and what scares me, i think, is the idea that police can come on the campus whenever they want,

if they can prove that the certain positions might exist, whether it's weapons or drugs or looking for a suspect. we have seen this happen and it will continue to happen because police are going to assert that power. whether or not we want them to. the mou does to a certain extent try to set up rules of the road and protect our students and make sure parents are there. we've had issues, also, you know, in undocumented students. the idea that students -- that ice or other authorities can come on campus and take students into custody is really terrifying to me. and so while i'm actually -- i mean i think there's a legitimate question about what truly is the role of the police in our society and have we given

police agencies, you know, too much power and too much room when other kinds of services would be better for our communities? i thinks tha think that's a lege conversation and one as school leaders we want to be a part of. but i do agree with the commenters who said, like, whoa, whoa, just be thoughtful about this. and let's think through all of the implications of if we end this relationship. and i'm happy to continue to have this conversation. i think it's really important and, again on, i would be ok ife as a board and staff team go a different way and i want to articulate the really, really important protections for our students, because officers will come on campus when they think something is happening and i want to have some control and

some assurances around that. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner for lamb and then commissioner lopez. un-mute yourself, please. >> i want to thank everyone, including our students, our parents and families who have shared their voice, not only today, but all of the thousands of emails that we've been receiving, as well as the tens and hundreds of thousands of folks in san francisco and in the bay area have showed up to really demonstrate just how modern oimportant of a time andt this is. as leaders, also recognising that we have the authority importance of changing the paradigm that we've known to be problematic for far too long. you know, i want to acknowledge

that reform, even with the best intentions have not gotten us as a society to where we need to be to be able to address police violence against people of co allergcolor, particularly blackd brown communities. i want to name that first and foremost. related to our relationship, the school district relationship wit's relationshipwith the polim concerned with the long-term presence of officers on campuses. we've heard time and time again about young people not feeling safe and feeling threatened. one piece that i think i would also like to name is that we as a system, including our administrators, our staff, our educators, leaders ourselves have to do some real work in

real work in ourselves. i am curious because i often hear, well, the reason the police were called is because it could have been that someone on school site didn't feel like they could handle that student. and the behaviours that are coming up or i heard it was a parent that called the police. so i think that's some of the information around -- that it would be important for us to examine for ourselves. and i also want to understand what has been our plan, right? so what is your that plan and protect that from the parents that were illuminated this afternoon if we were to terminate or change the relationship with sfpd? i also want to speak to -- and

thank you commissioner maliga, you are the expert because you are doing this everyday and trained and doing the work on the ground around this yard coordination of care and the work the team has put in and accelerating during the covid piece and we absolutely need to accelerate that work. and really -- and i'm glad we're working toward it, but we have to understand that, again, there may be some school sites that are well versed in kind of that coordination of care and others that are not didn't that's understanding the quality control impact and really how does that look like system-wide? and so i'll just comment there. i think overall, you know, just

similar comments to most of you all, my colleagues that have spoken. and i'll just close that, you know, being a mom of a high schooler and now my daughter also getting active in her own activism. i said, do you see police officers regularly at your school site or even patrolling or do you feel a presence? she goes to school in the sunset and said, no, i haven't seen that. i think that speaks to which schools in our district have higher presence. and so, you know, i think, again, i want to thank all of the young people, the fact that young people are organizing -- our students are the ones organizing these actions right now in the city and you all are very inspiring, so thank you. >> president lopez. >> i know that commissioner

collins had a point earlier and i want to recognise that before i speak. >> go ahead. commissioner collins, did you want to go and un-mute yourself? >> yes. what i have to say is really difficult to talk about. because on the one hand, i have a real problem with the police, like, in general, and policing . and i'm personally -- i've had negative interactions with the police in the city executive thinand i thinkthe response we'm the community and youth and educators, it's about policing in general and this idea of, like, who polices the police? and seeing videos that are clearly people are -- like, i saw a video of police popping people's tires in a city. yowe're seeing this now.

it's blatant and i've seen police called out in our city because black people are, like, too wild in a walgreens and don't show up when i see a white person punching someone in a van. i have a personal experience and i think we have per special perl experiences. this wave of change which i appreciate, it deeply disturbs me that the folks doing this work since the beginning, right, before even i was hip to it or anybody else, a lot of them are black women is parents and their voice is not here. the african-american parent advisory council, i specifically reached out to parents and they deserve to have a decision on what we do. because they are the most impacted by this, as well as youth, ok? those two grooms, in my opinion, should be centered and i feel like there's no mechanism right

now in this moment. there's a lot of pressure that folks are creating and i do appreciate that pressure, but i also feel like we need to support the folks who are on the ground didn't doing the work and that includes the svip, united players and coleman and all of the people in the neighborhoods doing the work. and even captain yoland williams, the liaison, suing the sfpd for racis racist behaviour, right? she's another black woman doing the work, right? and so i agree, this isn't working, our system, but there are people who have been trying to change it and whatever we do, i'm working on a resolution for us to look at our stric districd it's a bigger picture. i don't police the police and our mou is -- whether we had it in the past, there's staff

members who don't follow it and there are police officers that don't follow it. and so, who decides -- so what does it matter if we have an agreement and nobody is following it, right? and i don't have the authority, i don't care what people say. my own personal power, i zoo the authoritdon'thave the authoritye police and that's a larger conversation and that's for our mayor and board of supervisors and also for our mayor and board of supervisors to support us in funding some of the needs in the community. that have to do with violence, prevention, food is housing. i don't have that budget for food and housing and it's causing people to steal from other people to feed themselves and causing conflict. it's all a big picture. so i just -- i am happy that we're having this conversation, but i want us to make sure that we are centering black women and youth and families and the folks that are on the ground that are doing the work and i really

appreciate this opportunity -- and i want to acknowledge one last point, chief scott, i've seen him. he seems like a good man, but at the same time, there's the police officer's association, which we also have to name. they're wearing their thin lined blue masks and you're not supposed to wear those any more. those are masks associated with white supremacy and yet the police officer's association is still selling those masks as the official mask of the san francisco police officer's association. so i'm having a real disconnect between, i don't want a shift and throw up my hands and say we won't have an mou if that means no support or any protection for our families because black parents have worked on that mou. folks need to know that, black folks have worked on it because

they see it as a way of protecting our kids. it's not working, maybe we need to throw it away is i'm hop opeo that conversation. but i don't understand how we can be in a relationship that is full of people who associate with white supremest flags like a thin blue line flag. so that is also something that we need to name and we need to put it on the table and we need to wrestle with that as a city and as a board and if we mak ife to tear up or mou. if we do that and i am all for saying, you know, i don't know how to be in a relationship with an organization like this, but if we do that, we can't do that and leave folks who are most vulnerable with nothing, with no

plan. and so, i needn't just other commissioners to hear this. i need folks who are listening in on this conversation to hear this. if you're activated right now, i'm glad you're active, but pay attention to the folks doing the work and stick around for the solution because this is a long fight. it has been going on for a long time and i'm here to fix it.

>> the police have been by and large bad actors and the poa are, in my view, rogue, and have not helped the matter. and we need to make a decision at some point if we want to have an exit strategy. at the time, police were patrolling in the hallways of our schools andthy were not on the perimeter and actually

patrolling our high schools and middle schools. and then, as you probably all know, it was referred to by tornadthere was an incident in e early 2,000's where it ended up being the largest police presence in the history of the united states on a school campus. i think the it was 16 167 police officers, riot gear who descended on thohogood mash shall and injured many schools.

>> any money we're spending on this program is not ok. it sends a horrible message to the thousands who are emailing us and i don't know about you guys but my phone has been blowing up for days and we've been spending those thousands represent tens of thousands of people in san francisco and we need to listen to them. pai(pleaseplease stand by)

>> so i understand having something to protect us, but laws are broken all the time, rules are broken all the time. it's clear that the cops are doing it and getting away with it. i'm for finding solutions, but we know those exist. in fact, i'm having a conversation with the school board member in minneapolis who wrote this. so i'm looking forward to exploring what we're going to do to truly protect our students. that doesn't reinforce authority figures who care more about their ego and power than about protecting people. >> i think i'll leave it at

that. if anyone wants to jump in and say some final comments, then we can move on. i don't know if this will be a resolution around this program or if staff will be able to come up with a plan. i'm getting the sense that the board really wants some resolution to this. i just want to mention that commissioner cooke is not here, but he was a senior during the police riot at marshal. his experience is valuable. our current students' experiences are so valuable. i'm honored and cherish the student delegates speaking up. any final comments? let's go with the student delegates. >> one last thing.

if we could cut ties with i.c.e. [indiscernible] and highlight i.c.e. is not allowed to be on our campuses, we could do the same thing with the p.d. it's sending a strong message to our black and brown students at this time. >> you're right. we don't have an m.o.u. with i.c.e. we have a resolution and a process. commissioner collins. >> this is a larger conversation. this is a city-wide conversation about how we invest our resou e resources. we need support as a district

and the city and district needs support. there is a meeting tomorrow, and so i encourage folks who have made their voices heard here make their voices heard at that level. we need to be having this at all levels if we're going to make change. thank you. >> thank you. i don't see any other hands. i don't know if staff wants to say anything. >> i just wanted to thank you for the conversation. i want to thank the callers who called in. we hear the direction loud and clear. we will get started on getting something in place so that we can continue this conversation and eventually get to a place where the relationship is where it needs to be. >> thank you.

it was 1999 when the board took up the resolution for this program, the meeting ended at 5:45 a.m. so get ready. >> [indiscernible] -- >> [indiscernible] -- >> are you kidding me? >> more than jrotc, more than that. we were always done by 2:00 in the morning. >> wow. thank you. that, we are moving on. protocol for public comment. and in this time i'm going to read what i have to read to the public. if you're going to be speaking or you want to speak, can you get a count for me so i can make a decision on how to approach this. public comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the board's jurisdiction. we ask that you refrain from using employee and student

names. if you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it in accordance with district policy. we cannot respond to comments or answer questions during the public comment time. if appropriate, follow up will be asked for. with that, we're going to ask for public comment. >> i see 33 right now, although i see some of the same names as before. they may be speaking again. i don't know if the hands are speaking again, but it's 33. >> if it's 33, we'll give them a minute each. >> hello, mr. marshal. hello?

hello? michael, are you there? michael keifer? i'm sorry, i'm having trouble -- for some reason, i cannot unmute anyone. so i'm hoping for the backup to help me. one moment. >> are you saying there is a glitch? >> yes, i am. >> if it lasts for more than a couple minutes, i can move on. >> let me try to -- ms. costco can unmute people as well.

>> in the meantime, this is barb, i was allowed to unmute myself. i'm a parent at versidio public school and a board member on the p.t.a. there. we want to work with the board to find a solution to avoid our school's closure. the programs at this school are so unique and has been life chawngeing for our family and all families. it'snging for our family and al families. it's the ability for us to get our heads above water and to a safe place. we're asking for transparency and a seat at the table to look at possible solutions. there might be a solution to instigate this process.

in the word of one of my favorite educators, impossible is nothing, we know we can do this. in the face of covid, in the big campus of presidio e.s., we can hold onto this and continue educating our kids in these circumstances. i think we have a shot working with the trust to find a number that works with everyone. thank you. >> unmute yourself. >> michael will be unmuting folks and i'll be keeping the time. go ahead, michael. >> so caller 415-517, you can talk now. okay.

so caller virginia marsh, please go ahead. >> i think that these hands are left up from the last public comment is my deduction, president. >> i'm going to lower all hands right now, which i can do. if there's someone who wants to speak on general public comment, please raise them now. there are a couple coming up. can you see them, michael? >> yes, i can. >> great. cassadora, you're up. >> hi.

this is cassandra trio again about a totally different topic. so i'm coming to speak to you today as a member of the bargaining team, in addition to i'm a teacher for the last 10 years. in specific regarding budget. i know that there's a budget shortfall. we got the judgment presentation pre-covid. then covid happened. there's just a lot more that needs to be done and that the board and central office continues to make efforts in the way of closing some of the most detriment spaces -- [indiscernible] -- currently one of the issues i want to address is this idea of safety and budget for cost neutral and that somehow teachers and staff and principals and so and sos are

supposed to be able to operate and do all the things we're doing in the assistance learning, which is difficult on the teacher and student end. everyone in this situation is not experiencing this with ease. to be able to do this with a cost-neutral mindset is not appropriate. thank you. >> thank you. >> kim, you can go ahead now. >> thank you. i'm kim, the field representative for sciu local workers, folks that are at the warehouse and transportation. i know that cuts were pushed out to the site, but now those cuts have come back. there's just an extraordinary number of our membership that are glued to our schools that

are being cut. just because it's a centralized cut doesn't mean it's not happening. it doesn't mean that teachers and other administrators and other folks in schools won't need the help. we are the schools helpers. please reconsider. please consider what you're doing and how it decimates schools. we want to support the folks out at presidio and trying to figure out how to make that work. thank you. >> anybody else, michael? >> can you hear me? >> go ahead. >> thank you, michael. thank you to the board.

good evening. my name is matt bells. a parent of a child at the early education school and an employee in the presidio here in san francisco. i just wanted to say that i think that we need to work towards a solution where we keep that public school safe because it is such a unique public school in san francisco. because it is in the mission statement of the presidio to conclude that education and access for all, i think that our school site works towards that. it is in a beautiful space. it's also important that our students feel welcome and as a part of that space. it's afforded me to continue to work in my job in the presidio to have schooling that i can afford for my child there.

i'm not sure what i would do without that. i know that there are a number of other parents who feel the same way. thank you. >> time. thank you. >> hi, can you hear me? >> go ahead. >> thanks for your time. my heart right now is with the injustices in the larger community. i'm also commenting on the proposed closure of the presidio education school. i'm a high school math teacher and my two children currently attend the early education school. my experiences haven't prepared me for how heart broken i am for the proposed closing. i'm heart broken for the students and the teachers.

i'm also heart broken for the larger community of san francisco. in a time when i feel like many cities are moving in a promising direction of a pre-k and more robust funded services for children under five, i believe that san francisco is moving in an opposite direction, one of the most funded schools in the nation. i ask for you to keep our schools open. thank you. >> gwen, you can talk now. >> thank you. i'm also a parent of a student at the school. it's very emotional. my daughter only has one year left, so she's covered. but i can't imagine the children in the future who would not have

this opportunity. i feel it's the opposite direction from what we should be doing. we should be studying it and finding out how it's successful it is. i understand the challenges because i work in the presidio and i understand the challenges of rent in the presidio. so even if you moved this to somewhere else in the city, i just can't see closing this down. it's just too important for the families and for the community in general. thank you.

>> mitchell, you're on. >> i'm not fully aware of the protocol of the meeting. i'm the c.e.o. of a small start-up in the bay area. we have been trying to offer the s.f. u.s.d. and all the students preschool photos. you can take it from your smartphone or tablet. we've been trying to mind the -- we're not here to overly push our application on anyone. our offer is totally free. we wanted to see how we could get on the agenda for a privately funded gift. i at least wanted to put it out there. i think it would be great for kids to have some kind of degree

of normally because they have that for every student. if they can do it for free, thank you very much. >> superintendent matthews, would it be possible for anybody to follow up? >> i think we have either michael or justin, can you see the e-mail or the number? >> i can just see the name. michael, can you determine a phone number or a contact from it? >> no, i cannot. it just says the name. >> if the caller can call back and talk online. i don't want to give your information out. if the caller could call back and give the information, we could follow up. >> thank you.

>> thank you to all the commenters, i support you. i am so grateful to work in this school district. as a parent of two graduates of this school, i'm asking your support for protecting this magnificent preschool that is uniquely situated in the park. please do what you can to preserve this school so these students can experience the transformative nature. this school stands out among all the private businesses in the presidio where democracy is upheld through the power of early education. the staff of the presidio integrate the transformative

effect of nature in their teaching. the staff is superb. i challenge you to look up the board members of the presidio trust, especially the latest appointees. when i read up on what these appointees value, none of them speak about diversity, public access -- >> time. >> thank you.

>> michael, do we have another public comment? >> i was just given permission to unmute. i am andy tom, a former employee at the presidio early education school. i am here to express my concern of the possible closure. this school, when i worked at it, not only is it in an absolutely beautiful location that allows us to take our students out for different types of exploration in the beautiful presidio park, but more importantly and what others have said, it's an opportunity for infants and toddlers to be in a classroom, for deaf and hard of hearing students to be in a classroom.

it's one of the t.k. locations in san francisco. we need more schools like this to help with the early education process and to help our children prepare for later years in school. it is a large campus with each classroom having two sides, which allows for the social distancing, which will be great for the future. then it's just a beautiful community of parents and students. all of the parents come together for so many events in the year. you live in the presidio, but you can't walk to school and be involved -- >> time, thank you. >> thank you. >> holly, go ahead. >> i already spoke for two minutes and got time, but i'll

read my last paragraph. >> no. >> okay. >> page, you're up. >> hi, i'm actually the parent of page who is a student at presidio early education school. i'm concerned with the news of the school closure, because we as parents did not receive any request for comment. no one asked us to participate in any district advisory community or any sort of opportunity to figure out what really is going on. we have absolutely no information as to the financial health of presidio school. we don't know what the student operating costs are. we were just vaguely told that the rest is being increased and this school is going to shut down. all in all it doesn't seem fair.

we're going to request a hearing and a due process being given to us, an opportunity to be heard, and figure out any opportunities available other than the closure of the school. this is not a feasible option at this point. i would like to make myself available and request that we be heard, but we are also going to prepare to request injunction or anything else that we need to do to keep the school open. it is a wonderful school. it has afforded me to work and take care of four minor children that i have. single mother. >> thank you. >> mary, you're up. >> i would like to appreciate

the board for allowing parents to speak. i know it is beautiful that there is this movement to make real change, but asking not only at this time are we looking at the mo.u., but real systemic change, getting black parents and students to speak up. when we have our list of demands, i would like the board to really listen and act. i know the board is working on equity studies that would help our black students and communities. i also want to highlight the importance of having culturely responsible health practices. one of the things that i feel like needs to be highlighted is keeping two positions open. one position, i cannot say her name, she was consolidated. she started ethnic studies

there. that has helped the students to find their sense of belonging and taking a pride in history and who they are. that has to be cultivated into mental health practices. i want her position to be saved in addition to another position who has supported black and brown students who have been on the verge of suspension and expulsion. we need to save his position. thank you. >> time. thank you. >> lisa, you can -- >> okay. sorry, i unmuted myself at the same time as you unmuted me. thank you for this opportunity to speak and all the board of ed, i appreciate you guys. i am a restorative educator.

during this historic uprising, the people created an opportunity to stop the horror of unchecked totalitarian violence. in order to truly serve and protect our black and indigenous lgbtq children, we need not only to defund the police and actually commit to restorative, transformative justice, but also take a look at ourselves. we've gone from having a transformative department to having zero transformative coaches, none. i'm at a loss for where the transformative money is going to go. if we're going to dismantle white supremacy thoughts, we need to show that we value transformative justice. in service of that, we need to take a hard look at how our

district -- >> thank you. >> thank you. [indiscernible] -- >> thanks very much to the board for the opportunity to speak. we were shocked to learn that this school would be closed. we've been privileged to be a part of this school. while our son will age out, we've benefitted from this resource. unicef, among others, has highlighted the broad body of research.

the greatest dollar spending has been in the recent years. we ask what processes followed, when, with whom -- we ask for a seat at the table. thank you. >> thank you. >> i want to apologize, but some

of the teachers and i have been talking about the teachers and principals that were allowed to share programs with us. we signed up for these programs, but they are predatory and have really high speeds. a lot of us are getting out of them now. so we're learning and moving on. i'm worried about other teachers and younger teachers. i'm wondering if there is a way to sort of vet companies more. they bring subway sandwiches and pizza, and slightly uninformed people like me sign up. that's our responsibility. there have been articles in the "new york times" about these companies and their high caps. sometimes i wish we could prevent those companies from coming into our schools. something about it doesn't seem

right. this is nowhere near an important issue. since i'm here, i wanted to make the comment. thank you. [indiscernible]. >> the reason families are here today is to advocate for keeping presidio early education open after this coming school year. the loss of a site closure that includes infants, toddlers, pre-k rooms, a hard-of-hearing desk. the school brings tuition based and subsidized programs with staff and students that are

diverse, which is such an important part of the conversation. the parents and families are asking for transparency in the budget position. that is allowing for closure of a school site that there is a racial and socio-economically diverse community. i know covid-19 is turning things surveys. we need to return to work -- >> time, thank you.

>> next speaker, please. >> now more than ever, budgets are important value statements. in this time of crisis now more than ever, it's important to recognize that we have to prioritize funding what's most important to us. as you've heard over and over today and as you will hear in the special education budget and as you will hear from the advisory committees, all of us share the priorities that are most important to us and what

we've shared for at least the five years that i've been involved and longer than that, we specifically called out the need for restorative justice and practices. and this past year we asked the district to take steps that are being taken to name racism in our schools' practices and policies. >> that's time. >> havevanessa, are you back? >> yes. >> my kids went to presidio from 2010 to 2015. i served on the parent council.

i want to say in support of the families that are there, i was devastated to hear that this school will be closing. i can't say enough. i lived in the presidio. i lived here for 18 years. i looked at the financials and i guarantee you something should be able to be worked out. this program is phenomenal. i want to please, please give the parents and the teachers and the staff the closing that they deserve. closing this school would be a tragedy. it's a special, special place. thank you. >> kim, go right go ahead.

>> i was a student when the riots happened. rely, it was not a riot. it was what was called a riot. it was an invasion of police into the school because there was a fight of an outside source of a family member outside of the school premise. what was called by the principal at the time based out of fear was that it was a riot. i witnessed a friend of mine get

hit on the gun in the head. i witnessed a teacher record what happened on their phone what happened. i'm here as an educator to strongly urge sfpd out of our schools. it is not safe. i witnessed it myself. i have trauma from it. our students have trauma from it in many, many ways. this is important. this should be done already. this is many years too long. >> thank you. >> thank you.

. >> we are fighting against a closing of a school like the presidio. parents are looking for how this can be done. i urge the board to get back and think of the presidio of a way to think about this as an early education program. i hope the board can look at these ideas in more detail. thank you.

>> my name is barbara galio. i am a teacher at the presidio early education school. this is such a unique school. having the nature around the school is so special to all our students. i have students in my classroom. i have three special ed students. i have other students outside of the special ed students who have clearly been trauma sized. i also have students who are in the middle of the task. this quite large group of students are the students that get the most from that outdoor environment. we know from research being outside and being in nature is one of the most calming things, one of the best things for the

human brain and their emotional regulation, there's nothing better. i would urge you not to close the door on the lease. in five months, we seal know whether the school and community measures can be tasked or not. let's not close the door on our options at this point, where right around the bend could be the solution to our programs. >> thank you.

>> geo, go ahead. >> [indiscernible] -- i support all my peers' earlier demands to terminate the m.o.u. with the sfpd. schools are meant to be a place of learning. a lot of schools provide a stable environment as my schools are for me. police officers get 120 hours in use of force and eight hours in de-escalation and conflict resolution. what message does that send to our students when we send armed officers trained to brutalize disproportionately. i urge you to terminate the

m.o.u. agreement with sfpd and support your efforts for the resources for teachers and programs that support our underserved youth. as another note, i would like to note how thorough the sfpd is in examining the training that the student resources receive in interacting with students and if you are providing specifics if you have them. >> [indiscernible] -- >> [indiscernible] confidence in what they're doing. thank you. >> elaine, are you back? >> yes. can you hear me? >> yes. >> i was calling on behalf of

the possible closure for c.d.o. i'm a long time early education teacher. i know that many of the educators at the site. i've been up there several times. as a really, really great site. i encourage the board members to go out and look at this site and see what they're doing there. i encourage the board members to do the research and actually sit down with the presidio trust and see what the issue is. let's not balance the budget on the backs of our educators and our children and families. it's really important that you know exactly what's going on there. thank you.

>> my two children attended this center and are now graduates. they benefitted from being in that space. they were enriched by the whole abilities of the teachers as well as the experience of being with such a diverse group of students from subsidized families to others. being in the presidio, my daughter recently graduated. they paraded out our public school students. the only public school in this space, as a demonstration of what that park is and who it's supposed to serve. by divorcing these students of that space is a huge injustice. i can only echo the experience of early education and the necessity that sfuc should not

be deprived of this. they can take the presidio bus and learn the history of san francisco. >> thank you. >> please go ahead. >> [indiscernible] -- as one of

the speakers previously, we are one of the most prosperous cities in the world. we can extend the [indiscernible] -- >> go ahead, please. >> hello. my name is bryce. i was a student at presidio. it was a really enjoyable two years i was there. the teachers were nice. i liked the programs and i liked how everybody taught and i had a

lot of fun there. i liked it. that's really it. just try to keep it open. it's a really good school. thanks. >> hello, can you hear me? [indiscernible] -- the presidio early ed program feeds into our program at lafayette as a daef and hard-of-hearing schooleaf and hard-of-hearing school. this is the first i'm hearing about this. i am texting with my colleagues and they have not heard about

this. we want some transparency about what they can do to either relocate this school to a better facility or keeping it as presidio -- the presidio trust and working with them. i mean, in this time of strife and difficulty, this is one of those things that can get slid under the rug and nobody knows it's happening. i'm a big advocate for our special education students and especially our special education students of color. that is affecting our deaf and hard-of-hearing students. we want to keep these students in a safe environment that they're used to. thank you.

>> this school is not only a place to go. my daughter is going to enjoy nature and be in a nature environment. there is diversity. also as a resident of the presidio, i think it is something that brings value to be inside the park. i feel like we won't be able to work with you and try to work with the trust to try to work

together. this is going to be a big loss for not only the presidio community, but the whole san francisco community. as a working mom, having a place that i can leave my young daughter there and knowing that i can pursue my own dreams and knowing this is the only place that you can find in san francisco is the presidio school. this is an important place for kids of different races that i just mentioned. thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks for the opportunity to do the talk here.

i'm calling on behalf of the presidio early education school closing. there are a lot of emotional things attached to this. there are a lot of things attached to that, but i want to focus on the display and the presidio and the district put out as a news conference for walking our students out, talking about inclusion and how important this is for the presidio itself. just a few months later the presidio is being closed. that's even a farce on itself. even as there was a celebration on the diversity available at the school. school and that space isn't just for the property of those who can afford it. our public education system is suffering a big loss at school.

>> that's time. >> thank you. >> hi, can you hear me? >> yes. >> my child graduated from presidio. my child is special needs and he graduated. there have been so many studies of how early intervention mitigates delays for students' learning. my kid is a primary example of a success story. he no longer needs i.u.p. support for the remaining years of his academic education. presidio is an amazing place as you hear from parents and staff. it's one of the few schools

where we don't feel like we live in a concrete jungle. please don't remove it. >> did you want to speak? >> hi, my name is julia.

i am a mom who has a student at the early education school in presidio. this is a great school with teachers and staff. this let me continue with the workforce without being worried about my child. it brings trust into the public education system. talking about the events in the last couple of weeks, education and especially early education in what builds the principles in the system. we have to keep education for the youngest levels to strive. this is the only public school in the city that takes young children and infants. it also supports families in need.

we have children from different levels of society, which is amazing when they start in a good school at such an early age, it opens so many opportunities. i'm on the board of the student at the moment. we're ready to work with presidio trust and with the city government if needed to keep the school open. give us all the facts and let us talk together. >> that includes public comment on this item, president. >> thank you. i want to thank all the people who came out to speak. we hear you. we will be following up on presidio school as well as other topics that were brought up. so i was just informed that this is our last meeting with our student delegates. is that accurate or no? that is very sad.

i know you probably want to get on with other things. maybe you could say a couple words and i'm happy to have board members give you time. >> okay. thank you.

[indiscernible]. >> i want to thank my family and friends for supporting me and the sfusd for providing me with an amazing education. thank you. i know our next student delegates and our next president will be great. as of now, i officially step

down and will virtually pass the torch to our next student delegates. >> thank you. >> hello, everyone. it has been my pleasure and honor to be a student delegate for the board of education. this school year has definitely been a difficult and unique school year for us, but despite the challenges we all faced this school year, there was not a moment i wanted to stop being the voice for my school members. i want to thank the board members and dr. matthews for taking a step back and allowing me to speak first on topics that were on the agenda. i also want to give a huge thank you to those for supporting me

on the campaign and encouraging me to apply. if not for them, i wouldn't have ran for student delegate. i want to thank the former principal of mission who was urging me through my campaign and urging students to vote for me and making sure i was active throughout my campaign. i really want to thank him for that. to all the undocumented immigrants listening, i know you can do it too. i encourage those with the same immigration status to pursue this type of role in the future. but i know that my fellow students will be amazing student delegates. i'm hoping it's not virtual. i'm hoping for the best. even if it is, i know they have

this. i know that because of this experience and because of all the amazing educators in my life that i want to pursue a career in education. >> wow. if there's any staff that want to make any comments, that would be great too. >> i just want to say i appreciate you guys. you fwoois helped us navigate this pandemic being theguys hels pandemic being the student voices on the board. i really, really appreciate that. i know you both do a lot of work in the community. i want to honor that work. i hope you guys have a good time

in college, continue giving back. reach out as needed. we're going to be here. enjoy the next four years where you guys are going to be headed. just closing it out, i just want to say thank you for being with us this year, especially through the pandemic. >> i just want to wish you guys well. it is always such a privilege as 12 years on this board working with the student delegates, i sai this every year, i say this is the best group of student sa is the best group of student y say -- delegates every. you are inspiring and both of you have such a way of cutting

to the heart of an issue and really, you know, cutting through all of the other stuff, the politics, and getting to what is true and right and right for students. i really appreciate it. thank you for your leadership. i wish you all the best in college. i know it has been the craziest senior year ever. i think it's going to get better from here. i'm excited to see what you do in the future. my very best wishes to you both. it's been an honor to serve with you. >> thank you so much for all of your hard work. you always not only showed up at the board meetings so clearly, but just how much your heart and your soul is in this work representing students and young people across the district.

i got to sit the closest next to both of you. so i got to feel your energy and young people is how and why i got into this work. just the fact that you spoke in your truth and have been bold and courageous, it has allowed me to step up with you. congratulations. best of luck to you and also similar to my former students. you can call me years from now and i will always return your call. i hope you will do the same if i reach out to you. please enjoy, given everything that is happening, you have

shown resiliency and strength graduating in the year of the pandemic. please stay in touch. >> this is inspiring how both of you are. you give me hope. i think of my own development even in leadership that i can easily say began a few years back. to see how active and involved and honest you both are is more than anything i can hope for for our youth. i know you will carry that on. i know the people coming after you are looking up to you. thank you for your work and for everything you do and for

showing how much caring you have for bettering our schools and communities. >> thank you to all of you. since we were students and high school students at one time, we would have known what was best. we were not high school students in 2020, 2019, 2018, or 2017. that's why your voice is so important. you brought it each and every meeting. you came out, you spoke your truth, and you made sure we understood where you were coming from. i just want to knowledge that i appreciate that. i agree with the commissioner.

each time you two are fantastic and then the next two are fantastic. i want you to know how we frooesht you. don't go far. we want to hear from you and how great you're doing. thank you both. >> i'm really proud of you, betsy. i remember when i met you, you were so quiet. you were just the megaphone. you've developed into a beautiful leader and talented writer, researcher, and mentor for the younger students.

i'm really indebted to you. thank you so much for being a great representative. jett, i remember when you were in 10th grade and your older sister was writing the s.a.t.s. you blossomed and grew so many feet. you were so tall. you maintained your demeanor of being on the board and listening to those who voted for you. i will always have an open-door policy, whether professional or personal, you have my contact info. i want to recognize all the people who supported our students. the board, you all have embraced

these students and their other leaders so welcomely. they don't feel intimidated. i want to applaud you that because you are part of that service as well. i want to thank our supervisors that work with these students. you all have paid a tremendous support of these students, not just the student delegates, but the s.a.t. in general. i want to thank cyrus for being such a great ally during these troubling times. don't forget to write.

>> you guys are so inspiring. i'm excited to see what you'll be doing. i'm available. let us know how to continue to support you. when you're ready to run for school board, mayor, president, sign me up because i'm your biggest fan. everything that you've done so far, i know that you're going to continue with the work. thank you. >> i also want to thank you all, you two, and your mentors. i've enjoyed working with you. i dpooir you. i think you're amazing young people. you've worked so hard and on such big issues. it's just been amazing. i really appreciate you two. i also want you to send a big thank you to your parents for

raising such wonderful and beautiful kids. thank you again. good luck in your future. we're all here like everyone says. you're going to be outstanding college students. we expect you to return and to be a better place. thank you so much. >> bye. thank you. >> bye. >> i'm also going to miss you trying to steal my water during board meetings. sometimes it would be noticed but then you didn't want to get up and get your own water, so you could take my water. i'm going to miss moments like that. >> thank you so much for everything.

>> i'm so sad about this because i thought it would be next meeting. please join us, advisor from the parent council. >> i've also got two parents. you have their info, so you can unmute them. >> they're in attendees right now? >> that's correct. >> it might be phone numbers. i don't see names. >> patricia might be here. i sent you the phone number --

>> i called in, this is danicia. >> you called in. thank you. danicia, we're getting a little bit of static on yours, so if you can mute until we speak. thank you. good evening, president and commissioners. i'm certainly going to miss the student delegates as well. they're very inspiring. i love that betsy brings herself fully to these meetings and doesn't let emotion get in the way. as a young woman, i was afraid to speak up [indiscernible] --

i'm the coordinator of the parent advisory council to the board of education [indiscernible] i'm joined by two p.a.c. members who will present our final report for the 2019-2020 school year and will introduce themselves. >> my name is patricia [indiscernible] -- i have a sixth and an eighth grader at [indiscernible] -- >> danicia. >> my name is danicia. i have two children in the san francisco unified school district. [indiscernible] -- >> great -- >> [all talking at once]. >> we're going to go into the role of the parent advisory council, which is the p.a.c.

the role is to represent parent voices and perspectives in order to inform board of education, policy discussions, and decisions. this report provides a summary of our work during the 2019-2020 school year. we would like to begin by acknowledging that we are living in extraordinary times in many ways. we celebrate our parents and these new circumstances. the p.a.c. would like to express our sprooerks again for the efforts of everyone who works and continues to work to support our families throughout this school year in the spring and through the summer. we would like to extend our thanks to all students for completing this year, despite

the obstacles. the p.a.c. would also like to acknowledge the service, commitment, and contributions of the following p.a.c. members whose terms will end in june, johnny, deny, rebecca, patricia, and sharin. these members have provided valuable insight to the issues that have been addressed. their work has helped to inform the development of policy recommendations, new enrolment processes, the selection of food vendors, and so much more, as well as hearing the parents' and families' voice at district levels. we hope they will continue their

advocacy efforts in other ways going forward. thank you. >> [indiscernible] -- with the district we provide each and every student with quality instruction and support that is required to survive in the 21st century. this informs the work that we have done. over the course of the year, the paths continued to be strengthened are a collaborative effort with the society as well as the partners [indiscernible] -- this helps us continue to support families,

engaged parents, and community members in meaningful conversations and gathered inputs to issue the [indiscernible] board of education to represent parent voice and include the experiences of the families in order to inform of the health of the sfusd policy as well as the implementation and importance of the district incentives. the p.a.c. met with district staff members, community staff leader, and received updates to provide family perspectives and feedback on specific projects, including educational placement west coast research, planning,

assessment, student nutrition services, technology, and whole portfolio planning. [indiscernible] -- community policy of planning teams including the local control accountability task force, the equity student task force -- sorry, studies task force and study systems redesigned and the school planning summit. [indiscernible] collaborative teams, bug annual [indiscernible] and the community partnership and forum. the community worked with the sfusd advisory communities, including african-american parent advisory council, the

community advisory community of special education, the district learning advisory community, and the new [indiscernible] sp -- young youth services to ensure that together we are hearing from, reflective of local student and family populations. due to the shelter in place, the p.a.c. march and april meetings were canceled until we could determine the best way to have an online forum format while still meeting legal requirements of an open meeting and ensuring that we could provide appropriate language interpretation and translation services. this also allowed the p.a.c.

members to settle into their new family routines from working and learning at home. at the main p.a.c. meeting, we discussed the full impact of the closures on students and families, using questions developed from the california department of education from their school districts and reports on covid-19. the impact from the discussions is along with the input of the meeting with the a.a. p.a.c., c.a.c., and dlac. the school site was used to inform the joint advisory report of recommendations preparatoried on the may 25 meeting.

[indiscernible] we've seen that many of our students and families have been in distance learning. others are experiencing challenging in the necessary technology, tools, and reliable internet kerks -- connections. the ripple of the pandemic has impacted the ability to fu fundraise. [indiscernible] -- we will

continue to -- we continue to work with the [indiscernible] spons sponsors [indiscernible] and our current founder, including evelyn and walter hash jr. fund to study how to ensure the financial sustainability of the pact. despite the challenges facing this district in the coming years. we hope that the vital work of the pact will be supported [indiscernible] -- >> the pact takes its mission to support -- we are proud of our accomplishments over the past year and we use the cycle of continuous improvement to reflect on ways to build our capacity and [indiscernible] we know the coming school year will

many challenges and opportunities -- to the board and school districts [indiscernible] for the policies and decisions that are in the best interests of our schools and families. as this school year comes to a close, we look forward to working with the board over the summer and school year to [indiscernible] -- while also keeping our students, teachers, and other staff safe. the final meeting of the p.a.c. 2020-2021 school year will be held tomorrow. [♪] [indiscernible] -- for

the coming school year. information can be found on our website. we would like to apply [indiscernible] -- thank you. >> thank you, ladies. i didn't know if there might be comments or questions? >> if there's any public comments on this item. >> yes, thank you, president. please raise your hand if you would like to speak on the p.a.c. report this evening. i'm not seeing any public comment on this item, president

sanchez. >> thank you. any board members? vice president lopez. >> hi, thank you. thank you for that presentation and for being here and really recognizing that you are now teachers because of what we're experiencing on top of being parents. and we honestly really honor your support and suggestions and want to hear from you. i'm happy that that was named. i'm really wondering what the meetings looked like as far as outreach. i think we talk about this a lot. but there are parents who want to voice their concerns and be involved. who attend your meetings, what people you see, who is in the outreach, through whatever method, could you share that?

>> yes, absolutely. >> i go to my daughter's school, she's in elementary school. i post flyers on the office and doors of our school. i put up flyers. i go to the p.a.c. meetings to get a sense of where the data is going and later finding out that most of it is going to the health department that i currently work at. we do the local control and accountability budget. we go over that and discuss it at the monthly board meetings that happen on tuesday. we get a feel for socio-economic environments that our children are in and ways that we can actually better their environments. we are firsthand communicators

with the -- with dr. matthews or the superintendent or anyone who can help out when it comes to extra communities for the children, programs that they qualify for. like dlac, which is like second language learning. >> i can address that a little bit more. we network with the other advisories a lot. oftentimes we'll have people attending our meetings that are currently attached to these things. we've had those people come.

we've also had people come to have heard about it at a pa.c. meeting. we reach out to school sites. we haven't made a huge effort to draw large crude. i think the work may send to be focused on these are the current member representatives. these are the things we will work on and we will have guests come from different departments in sfusb. we have a p.a.c. representative that serves on the tax advisory community. she comes and gives a report. i've been doing more outreach this year. and amidst the whole pandemic, she reaches out to make sure we can include the voices of parents, even those who find it challenging to come to meetings, parents who are serving our

foster youth, those with experience of incarceration. i hope this has answered your question. >> it did. this might not be the space for a forum. i certainly recognize that there is a need there. if the work that you all are doing can at least be shared with the broader community so we know what has been discussed, and also, i'm happy to be involved and learn about your process. >> great, come to a meeting. you're welcome, you know. >> any other questions? thank you all for the

presentation. as we move forward in our process, that we're now calling planning and partnership, i'm sure that the p.a.c. will be consulted with in terms of the work that's being done to open our schools safely and adequately whenever that is going to happen in terms of brick and mortar. thank you again. >> i will be appointing alita leblanc to the advisory charter committee. >> section e, we need a motion and a second for the consent calendar. >> so move and second. >> thank you.

public comment on consent item. do we have any public comment? >> yes, we do. we have one. >> thank you. >> hello, jessica. >> hello, can you hear me? >> you have two minutes -- sorry, president sanchez, is it two minutes or one? >> i'm jessica beard, the field rep from the local 21 field chapter. i just wanted to say something about the resolution 205-206-k-12 that's listed in the consent agenda. it basically is work that our occupational therapists could do. i wonder why it adds to the further privatation in local 21.

i just wanted to take this moment to raise some questions about this particular contract and ask why our workers can't do that work. then also make the point that we're at the point where it looks like the occupational therapy program in the district is almost privatized because only three of the workers are actual district employees. and just comment that it doesn't seem like the district has a consistent investment in this work if they're consistently contracting it out. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> one more, actually.

>> 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