>> 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

>> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he

-- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in

my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change.

the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological

disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it

meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i

we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go.

how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest

speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the

autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary. valencia has been a constantly evolving roadway. the first bike lanes were striped in 1999, and today is the major north and south bike route from the mission neighborhood extending from market to mission street. >> it is difficult to navigate lindsay on a daily basis, and more specifically, during the morning and evening commute hours. >> from 2012 to 2016, there were 260 collisions on valencia and 46 of those were between vehicles and bikes. the mayor shows great leadership and she knew of the long history of collisions and the real necessity for safety improvements on the streets, so she actually directed m.t.a. to put a pilot of protected bike lanes from market to 15th on

valencia street within four months time. [♪] >> valencia is one of the most used north south bike routes in san francisco. it has over 2100 cyclists on an average weekday. we promote bicycles for everyday transportation of the coalition. valencia is our mission -- fits our mission perfectly. our members fall 20 years ago to get the first bike lane stripes. whether you are going there for restaurants, nightlife, you know , people are commuting up and down every single day. >> i have been biking down the valencia street corridor for about a decade. during that time, i have seen the emergence of ridesharing companies. >> we have people on bikes, we have people on bike share,

scooters, we have people delivering food and we have uber taking folks to concerts at night. one of the main goals of the project was to improve the overall safety of the corridor, will also looking for opportunities to upgrade the bikeway. >> the most common collision that happens on valencia is actually due to double parking in the bike lane, specifically during, which is where a driver opens the door unexpectedly. >> we kept all the passengers -- the passenger levels out, which is the white crib that we see, we double the amount of commercial curbs that you see out here. >> most people aren't actually perking on valencia, they just need to get dropped off or pick something up. >> half of the commercial loading zones are actually after 6:00 p.m., so could be used for five-minute loading later into the evening to provide more opportunities or passenger and commercial loading. >> the five minute loading zone may help in this situation, but they are not along the corridor

where we need them to be. >> one of the most unique aspects of the valencia pilot is on the block between 14th street. >> we worked with a pretty big mix of people on valencia. >> on this lot, there are a few schools. all these different groups had concerns about the safety of students crossing the protected bikeway whether they are being dropped off or picked up in the morning or afternoon. to address those concerns, we installed concrete loading islands with railings -- railings that channel -- channeled a designated crossing plane. >> we had a lot of conversations around how do you load and unload kids in the mornings and the afternoons? >> i do like the visibility of some of the design, the safety aspects of the boarding pilot for the school. >> we have painted continental crosswalks, as well as a yield piece which indicates a cyclist to give the right-of-way so they can cross the roadway.

this is probably one of the most unique features. >> during the planning phase, the m.t.a. came out with three alternatives for the long term project. one is parking protected, which we see with the pilot, they also imagined a valencia street where we have two bike lanes next to one another against one side of the street. a two-way bikeway. the third option is a center running two-way bikeway, c. would have the two bike lanes running down the center with protection on either side. >> earlier, there weren't any enter lane designs in san francisco, but i think it will be a great opportunity for san francisco to take the lead on that do so the innovative and different, something that doesn't exist already. >> with all three concepts for valencia's long-term improvement , there's a number of trade-offs ranging from parking,

or what needs to be done at the intersection for signal infrastructure. when he think about extending this pilot or this still -- this design, there's a lot of different design challenges, as well as challenges when it comes to doing outreach and making sure that you are reaching out to everyone in the community. >> the pilot is great. it is a no-brainer. it is also a teaser for us. once a pilot ends, we have thrown back into the chaos of valencia street. >> what we're trying to do is incremental improvement along the corridor door. the pilot project is one of our first major improvements. we will do an initial valuation in the spring just to get a glimpse of what is happening out here on the roadway, and to make any adjustments to the pilot as needed. this fall, we will do a more robust evaluation. by spring of 2020, we will have recommendations about long-term improvements. >> i appreciate the pilot and how quickly it went in and was built, especially with the community workshops associated with it, i really appreciated that opportunity to give input. >> we want to see valencia

become a really welcoming and comfortable neighborhood street for everyone, all ages and abilities. there's a lot of benefits to protected bike lanes on valencia , it is not just for cyclists. we will see way more people biking, more people walking, we are just going to create a really friendly neighborhood street. [♪]

>> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. in our seven mile by seven mile city, we have over 210,000 properties and close to 90% of their are residential like the homes you and i live in, so you might ask, how can we possibly value all these properties? well, to better understand our work, we need to explain the state's proposition 13 law. in 1978, california voters passed proposition 13. under prop 13, we value your property at market value when you first buy it. every year after, that value

goes up by the c.p.i. or the california consumer price index. but if the c.p.i. is more than 2%, prop 13 caps the increase at 2%. we'll walk-through the maximum increases prop 13 would allow. let's take a home with initial value of $400,000. in the second year your assessed value grows by a maximum of 2%, growing from $400,000 to $408,000. in year three, that $408,000 is increased by 2% to roughly $416,000. every year, the value grows by the maximum rate of 2%, and that is called your prop 13 value. keep in mind as time goes by your prop 13 value may not be the same as market rate. what do we mean by that? let's say over the last ten years, home prices in san francisco have gone every

roughly 10% every year. despite that, your prop 13 value is capped at 2% growth creating a difference between your market value and prop 13 value. know that the value recessed when there's a change in ownership. a change in ownership means that the property has a new zoner. maybe through a -- new owner. maybe through a sale, a gift or adding or dropping names through title. at that time the home will be assessed a new market rate. that value becomes a new starting point for the property. just like before, the growth continues to be limited at 2% until the next transfer happens. remember, the new owners are responsible for paying taxes at the new level from the first day that they own it. value might also be added when construction happens on your property. that would be another instance when growth in your value might exceed 2%. here, we would add the value of construction on top of your existing prop 13 value. every july, we'll let you know what your assessed value is by

sending you a letter called a notice of assessed value. you can use that information to estimate your property taxes early. please note that a separate office called the treasurer tax collector's office will send you a letter in october and they're responsible 230r collections. for more information, visit our website, >> the hon. london breed: good morning, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us. as civic demonstrations continue around the world, we are emboldened by the protests and the calls for action to address the racial injustices and inequities in policing and law enforcement. these protests come at a time when our communities have been

struggling even more because of the coronavirus. for too long, black people have been subjected to abuse at the hands of those in power. now is the time that we can make sure that the demonstrations that we see are translated into real action. as has sadly been demonstrated by the death of george floyd, black communities are also disproportionately represented in our criminal justice system, so reforms go hand and hand both around police reforms and criminal justice reforms, as well. we've seen in san francisco a lot of real change but also knowing that we have a lot more to do. so we are really excited with this panel here today to talk about the work that san francisco has already done but also our commitment to doing

even more, including using the police in response to noncriminal activities, addressing police biases and strengthening our ability, and promoting economic justice. if we're going to make real change, we need to fundamentally change the nature of policing itself. here is an incredible opportunity, and so today's conversation will discuss other paths, criminal justice reforms that have been made in san francisco, and joining us today, i am so excited to have van jones here. now people know about his work around criminal justice reform, environment justice, and other things, but i remember when i was living in public housing, that was a time when african americans would not always standup to the police.

you would see this black man, van jones, on the news whenever there was an injustice, calling it out and pushing for a change. he's been doing this work for over 25 years, and just imagine, at a time when it was not popular, that he especially as an african american man was a target, he had the courage to step up to fight, and he's still fighting. thank you so much to van jones for joining us today. we also have board of equalization chair malia cohen, who when she and i were on the board of supervisors, we led so many police reforms. she was instrumental in banning the chokehold and other policies that we are now implementing in san francisco even when others attacked her, when they came after her, she stood strong, she stood tall, and now, as a result of her

work, we have a separate office of police accountability that she brought to the ballot, and we worked together to do some amazing things in our police department. welcome, malia cohen, and finally, we have police chief bill scott. chief scott has also been a partner for pushing for these police reforms here in san francisco, and we all know that change is not easy, but he's been committed to working with our communities and working for change because we want better not only for our police department, we want better for our community. so thank you all so much for joining us here today. i'm really excited to get us started on this panel, and i want to really start with you, van. the fact is -- i mean, the fact is you're still here, doing this work, and now, you have more people who are doing this work.

and when you were doing this work, you were criticized, you were discriminated, you were threatened. at that time, there were a lot of beatings -- because i remember seeing them my he have personally. there was no police accountability then. tell me, what does it mean to see it right now? >> first of all, it's a crazy experience. to see you the mayor, it's just that, it's a whole word. to be looking at you, malia, and to be looking at chief scott, i don't think people understand what it was like just in the 90s in san francisco. i mean, we literally had a

shoot first ask -- first, ask questions later policy. i look back to when i was a kid, and i thought, what was i doing? in san francisco, we had a policy of shooting, pepper spraying, and beating african americans to death. sean williams beaten and pepper sprayed to death by a police officer named mark andaya. we finally rose up and said we had enough. >> i remember that. >> we would go to 850 bryant,

and we would use that, we would use that public comment to turn the police commission meetings into public rallies, and we finally got rid of that police officer. that finally put me on the national stage because no one had gotten a police officer fired in 30 years. i cannot tell you how important it is, what you're doing. it is very hard. people need law enforcement. we just want law enforcement. we want the police to obey the law, and we want them to play their lane and let the counselors play their lane, let the yoga instructors play their lane, let everybody play their lane. but when the police officers are given too many jobs to do, and too little oversight, that's what we're going to have, we're going to have homelessness is a police issue,

drug addicts are a police issue. when kid throws an eraser, it's a police issue. everything is a police issue. i just want to say that i cannot tell you how important it is for you to create a model, a reinvented police presence in san francisco, that that can license people across the country to do the same thing. i don't want to go down memory lane. we've got too many problems right now, but at this time a trip, 25 years later, to see people like you and the chief talking about things we were talking about 25 years ago. >> the hon. london breed: yeah, it is amazing. and when you think about it, 25 years, and sadly, we still see

african american men, for the most part, losing their lives at the hands of law enforcement. >> the hon. london breed: and the question i ask myself is, why is it always african american men? we have a lot of wonderful officers out there developing relationships, trying to work with the community. i grew up not trusting police officers, and to bridge that gap was important, but we also know that there are racist cops, there are cops that don't see african americans as human beings, and that's at the core of what we need to dismantle. so it's not just the policies, it's how do we completely rid our departments of people who

have a problem with black people, with lgbtq people, with chinese people, with folks who are different than they are? i'm trying to figure out what to call you, chair cohen, because i'm used to calling you supervisor, but i'm so glad that you could join this conversation because you were so heroic. i was focused on police reform, but you took it to a whole nother level, and you just ran with it. as a member of the board of supervisors, you didn't have to attend police commission meetings, but you sat there for hours. and the time you invested in getting rid of the chokehold and the attacks on the police officer's association, and all the stuff that you pushed for, you see what we're implementing. as you support policies, we used to have seven officer involved shootings, and then, over the past two years, we

have seen three officer involved shootings, which none have resulted in death. what do you think about the work you've done, and what do you think we have to do? because we definitely have more to do. >> good morning, chief and van and mayor. it's good to be with you on this panel and be part of this incredible moment in time. you know, mayor breed, i really -- it's a mixed emotion, right? so in many ways, i'm proud that we have the foresight to start these processes. we used the board of supervisors, and we also used the police commission, two very, very important systems that are complementary to each other. but also, i feel like we still have a lot of work to do. i feel like we need to continue to roll up our sleeves and to

better our best to continue to have thoughtful conversations on police matters. when we a're talking about law enforcement, i want to focus on -- at least in our city, we focus on san francisco police department, but we also need to focus on those in custody and the san francisco sheriff's department. i think one of the entities that deserves the highest credit to our city's success really has to do with civilian oversight. we've got a great police commission, and we need to continue to strengthen that commission. i am proud of the department of police accountability that we -- that got passed in 2016 that voters approved with over 70%. so there is a lot of things to be proud of. but looking forward, and looking into the future, there's still much work that needs to be done. so i'm delighted to be on this

today with you and chief and van so that we can continue to talk about and make these changes. >> i'm an instigator. >> you are, van. you are. >> and i appreciate these conversations. they're uncomfortable, and it's time to be uncomfortable because now, we're having an honest conversation about the changes that we need to make for black people in this country. i talk about this as mayor and when i was supervisor, and it's not just because i'm black. african americans are less than 6% of the population in san francisco, but almost 40% are homeless. and almost 50% are involved in the criminal justice system. the kids are dropping out of high school. everything you talk about,

we're disproportionately represented, and everything that we talked about, we can't congratulate ourselves until they're a part of the success, and that success means a reform of policing. chief scott, you've been a member of the department for a few years now. you've been criticized about the implementation of the reform. the obama administration, in 2015, issued recommendations around 21 century policing, and we committed, in san francisco back then, that we are going to implement those recommendations. there have been a lot of criticism because out of the 273 recommendations, san francisco has only been able to implement 61. now it's not about checking a box. we want to make sure people understand when they're doing antibias training, when they're doing deescalation training,

that they get it. so tell us why things are moving so slowly, and what can we expect moving forward, and how are we going to get to a better place around policing in our city? >> yeah, thank you, mayor breed. let me start off by answering your question about reform. 272 recommendations, that process was a long-time process in terms of what got us there. and really, what got us there are the officer-involved shootings that san franciscans were outraged about. so of those 272 recommendations, 58 of them specifically deal with use of force, and i am happy to report to you all that we were in

compliance with according to the department of justice on over half of our use of force revisions. i'll back up a step further in terms of the time that it takes. reform is not -- like you just said in there, a checked box process, it is not that. even with the 61 recommendations that we have completed, one of the things that we had to work on was what's the continuous improvement loop? so we've completed the recommendation, but what we had to put in place were systems of

accountability so we don't rest on our successes and say we're done. and when the california d.o.j. looked at our work, you know, a lot of our work got kicked back for just that reason. we had cannot the work that we needed to do, but it's what's next on the forefront. we had to go back -- like our officer involved shootings, we had town hauls. it's good for the communities to be transparent, to get the community have a say in letting us know what they're thinking, feeling, but that recommendation, even though we were doing town hauls before i got here. what they found was we didn't have a feedback loop to converse with the community and each other after the town haul to say what can we do better? so we had to go back and institute a feedback loop to make sure that every time we have an incident, that we continue to look at it critically, and we continue to

get better. let me say this, and not to be too long winded, for all of you on the call, i and many of you applaud your leadership, because somebody had to step out and be the first one. often times -- i'm not a biker, but i know a lot of bikers. they always talk about the first one in line, everybody goes behind them because it's easier to follow. you were the first one in line, and strathat was instrumental get us to successes. mayor breed, you had the same experiences in terms of being a leader. what you're trying to do in terms of redirecting our resources, that's leadership.

other people jumped behind you and said we're going to do this, too. but what mr. jones did back 25 years ago, that's not easy, but it makes it easier for people to stand behind you and push, so i just want to say, it's a challenge, but we're making progress, and we will continue to go. >> the hon. london breed: chief, i just want to say that san francisco is one thing, and we still have our problems, but when you look at what's still happening and i try not to get emotional, but what i saw in the video with george floyd, and even mario woods here in san francisco.

and when i see these things happen, i'm thinking about my brother, i'm thinking about my cousin and others and even those that i helped raise in this community and the fillmore, all black men, right? and then, i feel like why? why is it always us, and how this conversation now, what people saw, we've been forced to live with it. we've had no choice. but now, others are starting to emerge and look at this incredible opportunity. so i wanted to hear from you, you know, what do you think is going on nationally as to why we're here, and do you think

it's going to lead to national change with law enforcement in our country? >> i think it is, we have the opportunity here. listen, in the past two weeks, you've seen the emergence of a conversation on race. most of the time, we're getting gaslit; people saying oh, well, he was running, the police had to make a quick decision, and so people were getting desensitized to what we are seeing. but this was a lynching, a lynching. a white man strangling a black man to death, and his face

looking peaceful the whole time. the only threat was the cops. you have to watch it one minute, two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, he's calling for his mother. his mother's been dead. five minutes, urinating on himself. people screaming, you're killing him. five times, he said he can't breathe. we've been lynched for 400 years, but you've never seen it on a billion cell phones at the same time. you've never seen it on 1 billion cell phones at the same time. in the 50s, a generation of black people, when they got to campus, campuses in the 50s, they took off. the picture, the television pictures of those dogs being

sicced on children in birmingham in '63, the whole world moved. that young child who held that video camera put a shard of glass into every video camera in the planet, and so now, they are a part of that, they don't know what to do, and that creates an opportunity for people to say hey, we have ideas. we've been trying to tell you, and we have a perfect video of a perfect murder in daylight with cell phone cameras and body cameras on. i know you get it now. what do we do? i'm part of a national movement -- matt haney -- your good friend matt haney and i created something called cut 50 several years to try to get some bipartisan support on that movement. we now have republicans and democrats trying to work

together in congress right now to try to do something right now, to try to get a bill passed. all of these steps that we've been taking along the way have brought us to this point. i believe that you have 30 to 40 million white people in america right now who maybe believe three things. number one, racism is real or more real than we thought, something's wrong with the system when it comes to police and criminal justice, and what can i do? i'm going to tell you, as an old guy, that's a miracle. i've never seen that, and so i do think more is possible. we have to be very, very clear that at the end of the day, we have to reimagine and reinvent policing itself. the kids are saying defund the police, defund the police. everybody is mad at the kids for saying that. but if you double click on that defund the police slogan -- i

understand that people don't like that -- the ideas are about reinventing and reforming the police and giving them the right resources to social services and everything so the police don't have to do everything. so there's something now out there that can do that. but what i say to you is this: no longer being gaslit every time we say something is happening that's racial, and having to climb a 1,000-mile mountain of proof when we know what the hell is going on and everybody else. when nascar says you can't bring confederate flags anymore, when the nfl supports people kneeling, there's

something happening. >> y>> the hon. london breed: you have people stepping down from boards, saying put a black person in my place. you have juneteenth celebrations, and a lot of folks don't even know what juneteenth is. i've got to say, part of it is i pray that this is not a fad for people, you know? i want this to be real, and i also don't want people to keep treating this, you know, in some ways, like a joke. there's a lot of blood, sweat, and tears that have gotten us to this moment, and so i want

us to be active in this energy for getting change. eric garcetti in los angeles was one of the first to say i'm going to redirect funding for the police department to programs in the african american community, i'm like, how did you do that? he said he'd already been working on it. he already had an amount, he'd already been working on it. i'm, like, not trying to jump on the band wagon, but at the same time, when i look at the police budgets, and i look at the african american community, and we've been talking about reparations and the need to invest in the african american community in this city, this is a need. this is not about a fad, this is about we have to be deliberate. and we're not saying the police department -- we're not saying we don't need police officers. that's exactly what you're talking about, reenvision,

reenvision. so when barbecue becky is saying, i'm in the park, and you're not supposed to barbecue in the park, and there's some black people barbecuing in the park. is it a dangerous situation? are people getting hurt? why should police have to go out there in the first place because that could escalate things. because being there's a tension and a lack of understanding and a breakdown, and that could escalate to somebody black getting killed. it could. so we have to be mindful of these things and, you know, i want to go back to chair cohen because, you know, like i said, the policies -- some of the policies that we've been pushing for are now being implemented along with more that needs to be done. so, for example, one of the

things that you pushed for was around, you know, antibias training and the goal of trying to make sure that people who have, you know, some sort of disciplinary issues around biases on their record and those who have certain complaints and other things, that we're able to basically hold them accountable and we make sure that we hold people accountable in their department. tell us about what you have worked on and also more that you want to see here in san francisco which hopefully could translate to other departments in the country. >> chair cohen: so one of the things that i think san francisco has done well has to do with crisis intervention training. i think c.i.t. training is important for every single

officer that is on the street, and i would even take it a step further, and in addition to kri s -- crisis intervention training, deescalation techniques to try to calm the situation down before tasers are drawn. just knowing that the san francisco police department does not have tasers, but that's always in the backdrop and always a discussion, whereas our sheriffs are armed with them. but when i think about bias training, bias training is really interesting, and i remember prior to chief scott serving, when the previous chief was serving, we had many conversations, and quite frankly, mayor lee would go round and round, there was an

attitude that not everyone needed bias-unbias training. the truth is we all have biases that shape every day how we all interact. and as government officials, i think it's important for us to look at these biases and deconstruct them, not only from a law enforcement perspective but also you think about your department heads, how they allocate their budget. which departments are receiving money and which are not? these are all critical pieces to the puzzle because the responsibility does not solely rest on law enforcement. what did you say, van? >> i'm just over here having church because that's the basis for peaceful streets. that's what we want, peaceful streets. that's the ecosystem, peaceful

streets. go to the suburbs. you have a whole system that makes it happen, not just the cops, peaceful streets. go ahead. >> chair cohen: thank you, van. it's a universal attitudinal change, and i applaud you for trying to make a policy change to pull out law enforcement officers in an educational setting. i also want to recognize that we talk about neighborhood response and neighborhood watch, being critical and mindful that we've got next door, and often times on next door we've got these successful neighborhood vigilante putting up racist profiles that cause problems. you talked about barbecue becky. we think of the bird watcher in

central park about how police have been weaponized and called onto punish, quite honestly, when the person is african american and male. so we need to envision, maybe we don't need police response for every single problem. perhaps we need to have a crisis intervention team that is trained to respond to issues that take place at lake mary or issues that take place in places such az centrs central . these changes are not new, but there's a real commitment, and we've got fresh leadership -- think about it. these are changes that we're discussing that you and i haven't been able to discuss since we've been serving in office, and we've been serving for at least ten years.

there was an issue in the legislature yesterday that got out of assembly for, and that was bill 209. it was around 25 years. it was the first campaign that i worked on, works agained aga legislation to repeal. now here we are, working to get it on the ballot. now what does prop 209 have to do with police? oh, it has to do with it. when you've got women-owned businesses, minority-owned businesses, they're vested. they're making an investment in their families, making an investment in their communities, and have the ability to stand with an incredible sense of pride. overall, how that relates to organizations, how that relates to businesses, we're all interconnected. and i think the moment we stop

realizing oh, this is a police issue, oh, this is a mental health issue, oh, this is a women's issue, that's the moment that we begin to move forward in a very thoughtful way. but i think about other reforms. if you want me to go on, i can. i mentioned community policing being incredibly important. we talk about foot patrols, what that looks like. we talk about increasing mental health organizations, funding for service providers. we think about luis gongora, unfortunate situation where he was a homeless man, shot and killed in the streets of san francisco. now another issue that may be controversial but i want to mention it, we are transparent about officers' records, having transparency in two areas: the collection of data and the

analysis of data. so we understand that -- chief, i believe this is a -- is this in the administrative code, was it 90-a? >> 96-a. >> chair cohen: thank you, 96-a, which we both fought for when i was on the board of supervisors that would change the way that data is collected. one thing that i believe in, and it comes from my days at carnegie-mellon, until we review the data, we really don't know what the hell is going on. we rely on somebody else to interpret the data for us, but we need to start collecting data nationally. how many black men are killed at the hands of police. we need data on who is stopped and how frequently, what is the badge number and stars of the

officer. we are looking for patterns of misconduct, and we can glean that out when looking at the data. so pivoting back to president obama's 21st century policy on policing, we can do that. we had 272 recommendations made to us, and that takes time. we're talking about changing not only people's hearts and minds, band -- believes, but their hearts and minds. i believe that people that serve in the police department, law enforcement, the fire department, we have a calling to do good in every day people's lives, to protect their rights. so there are good people among them and their very bad people. you know, the code of silence, of protecting those that are bad, we've got to change that

also because it's making all of us in public service look poor and unresponsive, and i think that the protesters have really nailed it. i think new york just recently passed just yesterday some legislation to increase transparency on law enforcement officers on their background. if you're fired from the san francisco police department, why the hell should you be hired in antioch, in the police department? there's always loopholes, and there's gray areas. >> the hon. london breed: and he'll say, chair cohen, a lot of the things that you were talking about, the issues around, for example, their records and other things, those are things that we're implementing, those are the next steps, along with the responsibility for an officer to intervene when they see excessive force being used. so when you think about it, the

fact that those officers in george floyd's case, hey, man, get off his neck, and the fact that they were so cavalier and passive, i just -- it just baffles me. they're hopefully going to be prosecuted, they're hopefully going to be held accountable because they're just as much guilty for the death of george floyd. here's my issue: the fact that any police officer would think what they saw is okay because it's a procedure, it's all in their procedures is a problem, and so i think what we are getting people to understand is you can no longer hide behind procedure. we're changing procedure, we

want to see change of hearts and minds, and so this is difficult. >> chair cohen: in addition to changing procedure, we need to change policy, because i think policy and procedure go hand and hand. if you remember, lawyers that are defending officers that are going through the -- the -- the process of their cases being heard hide behind laws, so we as policy makers need to be cognizant and aware of that and change that. something that shirley webber's law was predicated on what we did in san francisco, in that when you actually pull your weapon and actually fire. >> we're running out of time, and i don't know if the chief wants to say something before i do. i've got a four-minute hard stop. chief? >> yeah, i was just going to talk about what chair cohen was saying about the reform.

the part of our reform was to work with academic researchers and partners to take that data and run with it. you know, for a lot of people, who do we associate with crime and why? as a black man, i can't tell you how many times i've walked by a car and heard the door lock. and this is -- i'm not alone. i know many people -- but the point is rethinking policy and what -- the things that we are doing to add to that association of who's a criminal, who's not, who's dangerous, we need to rethink that, too. i'll tell you, with our police department, we're doing just that. we heard a lot of people talk about our policy on releasing looking photos, and we're looking at the policy --

probably in the next couple of weeks, we'll be changing our policy on releasing booking photos. this is the benefit of working with actual scientists who know what bias is and what feeds into stereotyping and all that. how do we perpetuate that, you know, when people are asking for booking photos of certain individuals, people start associating those individuals with being dangerous which changes the whole idea of police officers and society in general. we need to reel that back. that's something in the next few weeks that we'll be doing. i've got to tell you, my thinking has evolved based on the data involved and some of the scientists that we're working with at ucsf and cal berkeley who are all telling us the same thing. don't perpetuate the problem with your policies, so we've

got to pull some of this stuff back. it's really basic to me. i'm sure all of you have experienced those types of things, as well. but we associate certain people with certain stress. >> the hon. london breed: yeah, and chief, we have to wrap it up, so i want to give van the last word. this has been a very insightful conversation. i appreciate all that you're bringing to the table, so i want to bring it over to van for the final word. >> i just want to say how important this conversation is. there might be people who might be watching this who feel that hey, san francisco might be better than it was, they might be on the right path, but they're not where they need to be. i have homeless issues, i have mental health issues, i have needs that aren't being met. be encouraged. be encouraged because i think what you're seeing is a process

by which we're reimagining policing and maybe reinventing policing in san francisco, and if we can continue to expand the circle, expand the listening, listen to everybody, there's going to -- what we want is peaceful streets. we don't want law and order. you think of law and order, where's the disorder? i hope you're safe. dude, where's the threat? we just want peaceful streets, peaceful streets, and it takes a lot to get this. we're going to have to learn some things, unlearn some things, start doing some things, stop doing some things. but if you feel this conversation hasn't come to you yet, stay on the train. it's going to get this. all these different groups that are saying hey, we want reform, it is possible if we stick

together. san francisco can lead the way, like we always have done. we got some little reforms, too, but more reforms are coming. any way i can be helpful, let me know. >> thank you. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, chair cohen, van, and chief scott. i'm mayor london breed. let's take this opportunity at this moment to push for real change. i want to thank all of you who have been out there on the frontlines, doing everything you can to make sure that there is justice for all of us, that we are all seen, that we are all heard, and now is the time, more than ever, to make real change. we appreciate all of you for joining us again. more to come in some of our future conversations, and please stick with us on pushing for these reforms. it won't be easy, but it's

necessary, and it will change and save lives for the better. thank you all so much. >> thank you. >> you're watching quick bites, the show that is san francisco. and today you're in for a real treat. oh, my! food inspired by the mediterranean and middle east with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in san francisco. we're at the 55th annual armenian festival and bizarre. this is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much delicious food here. and i can't wait to share it

with all of you. let's go. armenia, culture and cusine has had much cultural exchanges with its neighbors. today armenian food infuses he flavor from the mediterranean, middle east, and eastern europe. >> this is our 55th year and in san francisco we're the largest armenian food festival and widely recognized as one of the best food festivals in the area. we have vendors that come up from fresno, from los angeles showing off their craft. we really feel like we have something for everyone in the neighborhood and that's really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. >> we are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work preparing some delicious armenian kabob. this is a staple in armenian cooking, is that right? >> absolutely, since the beginning of time. our soldiers used to skewer it on the swords.

we have a combination of beef and lam and parsley. and every september over 2000 pounds of meat being cooked in three days. >> after all that savory protein, i was ready to check out the fresh veggie options. >> this is armenian cheat sheet. it's tomatos and mint and olive oil. that makes summer food. and what i'm doing is i'm putting some nutmeg. it is kind of like cream cheese. in armenia when they offer you food, you have to eat it. they would welcome you and food is very important for them. >> in every armenian community we feel like we're a "smallville"age and they come together to put on something like this. what i find really interesting about san francisco is the blends of armenia that come together. once they are here, the way people work together at any

age, including our grandmothers, our grandfathers, skewering the meat, it's fun to see. fun to see everybody get together. >> we call it subarek. it's a cheese turn over if you want. we make the dough from scratch. we boil it like you do for la san i can't. >> the amount of love and karin fused in these foods is tremendous. they come in every day to prepare, cook and bake bread, all in preparation for this big festival. >> nobody says no. when you come them, they have to come tomorrow for the feast. >> what a treat it is to taste a delicious recipe, all made from scratch and passed down through generations. it really makes you appreciate the little things. >> it's one of the best festivals. it's outstanding, a marvelous occasion. >> we're outside checking some of the food to go options. i grabbed myself a ka bob sandwich, all kinds of herbs and spices. i'm going to taste this.

looking fantastic. one of the best i've had in a long time. you know it's delicious b i have just enough room for dessert, my favorite part. we're behind the scenes right now watching how all the pastries get made. and we've got a whole array of pastries here. honey and nuts and cinnamon, all kinds of great ingredients. this is amazing. here's another yummy pastry made with filo dough. oh, my god. really sweet and similar, it's lighter. this is what i like. we have a lovely row here. looks like a very delicious and exciting surprise. i'm going to bite into it. here we go. um. this is great with armenian coffee.

now we're making some incredible armenian coffee. >> we buy our coffee, they have the best coffee. they come from armenia, specially made. and would you like to try it? >> i would like to try. >> would you like sugar or no sugar? >> no sugar today. i'm so excited. really earthy. you can really taste the grain. i think that's what makes it so special. really comes out. i hope you try it. we're having a great time at the armenian festival. we ate, we saw, and we definitely conquered. i don't know about you, but i have to go down to the food. check out our blog for so much more at sf bites at tums

abler.com. until next time, may the force be with you. ♪ ♪ >> first of all, everybody is welcome and we ask two things when they get here. one, that they try something they've never tried before. be it food or be it dancing or doing something. and if they feel like it was worth their while to tell one person and bring that person, that family member, that friend down the street to come with them. >> we're going to have to do a lot of eating so get ready. >> get ready. and you diet tomorrow.

valencia has been a constantly evolving roadway. the first bike lanes were striped in 1999, and today is the major north and south bike route from the mission neighborhood extending from market to mission street. >> it is difficult to navigate lindsay on a daily basis, and more specifically, during the morning and evening commute hours. >> from 2012 to 2016, there were 260 collisions on valencia and 46 of those were between vehicles and bikes. the mayor shows great leadership and she knew of the long history of collisions and the real necessity for safety improvements on the streets, so she actually directed m.t.a. to put a pilot of protected bike lanes from market to 15th on valencia street within four months time. [♪]

>> valencia is one of the most used north south bike routes in san francisco. it has over 2100 cyclists on an average weekday. we promote bicycles for everyday transportation of the coalition. valencia is our mission -- fits our mission perfectly. our members fall 20 years ago to get the first bike lane stripes. whether you are going there for restaurants, nightlife, you know , people are commuting up and down every single day. >> i have been biking down the valencia street corridor for about a decade. during that time, i have seen the emergence of ridesharing companies. >> we have people on bikes, we have people on bike share, scooters, we have people delivering food and we have uber taking folks to concerts at

night. one of the main goals of the project was to improve the overall safety of the corridor, will also looking for opportunities to upgrade the bikeway. >> the most common collision that happens on valencia is actually due to double parking in the bike lane, specifically during, which is where a driver opens the door unexpectedly. >> we kept all the passengers -- the passenger levels out, which is the white crib that we see, we double the amount of commercial curbs that you see out here. >> most people aren't actually perking on valencia, they just need to get dropped off or pick something up. >> half of the commercial loading zones are actually after 6:00 p.m., so could be used for five-minute loading later into the evening to provide more opportunities or passenger and commercial loading. >> the five minute loading zone may help in this situation, but they are not along the corridor where we need them to be. >> one of the most unique

aspects of the valencia pilot is on the block between 14th street. >> we worked with a pretty big mix of people on valencia. >> on this lot, there are a few schools. all these different groups had concerns about the safety of students crossing the protected bikeway whether they are being dropped off or picked up in the morning or afternoon. to address those concerns, we installed concrete loading islands with railings -- railings that channel -- channeled a designated crossing plane. >> we had a lot of conversations around how do you load and unload kids in the mornings and the afternoons? >> i do like the visibility of some of the design, the safety aspects of the boarding pilot for the school. >> we have painted continental crosswalks, as well as a yield piece which indicates a cyclist to give the right-of-way so they can cross the roadway. this is probably one of the most unique features.

>> during the planning phase, the m.t.a. came out with three alternatives for the long term project. one is parking protected, which we see with the pilot, they also imagined a valencia street where we have two bike lanes next to one another against one side of the street. a two-way bikeway. the third option is a center running two-way bikeway, c. would have the two bike lanes running down the center with protection on either side. >> earlier, there weren't any enter lane designs in san francisco, but i think it will be a great opportunity for san francisco to take the lead on that do so the innovative and different, something that doesn't exist already. >> with all three concepts for valencia's long-term improvement , there's a number of trade-offs ranging from parking, or what needs to be done at the intersection for signal infrastructure. when he think about extending this pilot or this still -- this

design, there's a lot of different design challenges, as well as challenges when it comes to doing outreach and making sure that you are reaching out to everyone in the community. >> the pilot is great. it is a no-brainer. it is also a teaser for us. once a pilot ends, we have thrown back into the chaos of valencia street. >> what we're trying to do is incremental improvement along the corridor door. the pilot project is one of our first major improvements. we will do an initial valuation in the spring just to get a glimpse of what is happening out here on the roadway, and to make any adjustments to the pilot as needed. this fall, we will do a more robust evaluation. by spring of 2020, we will have recommendations about long-term improvements. >> i appreciate the pilot and how quickly it went in and was built, especially with the community workshops associated with it, i really appreciated that opportunity to give input. >> we want to see valencia become a really welcoming and comfortable neighborhood street for everyone, all ages and abilities.

there's a lot of benefits to protected bike lanes on valencia , it is not just for cyclists. we will see way more people biking, more people walking, we are just going to create a really friendly neighborhood street. [♪]