district, in either, you know, again, supports for our youth and our students, and then, as well as -- i know it's been raised -- to engage with our labor partners -- because i've seen some e-mails around the interests of educators who may not have a home environment that allows them to do their teaching, as well, so just to reiterate that. and then secondly, deputy superintendent already commented on it, but i think just how valuable and important it is to continue these working groups so that there is that more consistent and continued collaboration to be able to provide that. we've talked about that a lot, right, since i joined the board of this continuum of learning with one ooanother, and just tt

evaluation and real-time feedback, so thank you. >> go ahead, vice president lopez. >> president sanchez, i really appreciate your patience and your comments. in regards to these comments, i'm happy to hear that there's no restriction as far as the number that the state is requiring us to teach to be all on-line. i'm looking forward to hearing what that looks like, but i'm also looking forward to hearing what the e.l.d. or anything along those requirements are, given what we are required to teach right now, and how that's connected to the assembly bills. >> it's clear that we have to teach e.l.d., that there has to be instruct specific to certain groups.

i don't recall any specific minutes or hours requirement, so that can be a point of clarification. every now and again, we check in with some friends and capital advisors for more guidance, so i can ask that question. but e.l.d. as called out is specifically not an option. >> so that would be included in the minutes that they're required to learn? >> it's not set out. it just says we have required minutes parameters, and then, it says english language learning has to happen, but it doesn't set out if it has to happen separately or in those hours. >> [inaudible] my last question will be around any parent as teacher models that we have in place to support the work that they'd be doing at home? and i'm thinking specifically

around some organizations who are already implementing this work that i've been fortunate to be a part of, as far as getting parents resources on how to get on parent view, how to log on-line, how to do all of the needs that they'll have to support their students. what are the school district doing to -- what is the school district doing to help them with that? >> we are making a plan. so that is -- you know, to be honest, the families and parents are one of those groups that were saying, how do we build up the capacity to engage in distance learning. there was a lot that we created over the spring. a lot of it was reactive and responsive, and now that we have that data, we're actually thinking about making it more robust. we actually have a meeting tomorrow about the first 30 days, and a lot of the reporting before the first 30

days is about capacity building, and we have a lot of folks from sfusd that worked with our families to think about plans around this. and then, the models is that we generate is to take those to the stakeholders themselves. when melissa dow was talking about the t.k. to device roll out, we've been lucky to have working families involved in that plan. so we're involving those particular stakeholders, the users, if you will, so we have some families that have been thinking about using that for families, so we want to take that out to the larger families, as well. the answer is there's a plan for that, but it's not fully developed or flushed out. what we do know is we have to

have a lot of different modalities. how do we leverage family liaisons -- we were just talking about this today. how do we leverage family liaisons, etc., to engage families regularly to build the family capacity to get families interacting. >> great. i'm happy to hear that. >> great. any last questions or comments? okay. >> i have one more quick. >> yeah. >> question. there's information from the thought exchange and from the surveys, and i'm just wondering how those are perfect and so everybody can see them because we've been gathering a lot of input, and so it would be great for the public to see that. >> so we've been working -- that's a part of the detailed plan that's coming on the 28, so we're working on putting it there. but at some point, it will be a link that people can go in and

look at on their own. >> thank you. and then, also is there a plan for a -- like, a question -- like, you know there's a lot of questions that people are going to have. we're asking a lot. i know we're communicating out regularly with e-mails, but, like, is there a place where we're just going to have, like, an f.a.q. or something? >> at some point, that will be on the website, but as you can imagine, the next two weeks are completely devoted to getting this detailed plan in place so we get it in front of you. actually, we have to have it by next friday so it's attached to the board. so -- but yeah, that's eventually exactly what we're going to do. >> commissioner cook? >> i was just wondering, the translation person come back? is that something that's been happening during the meeting? >> commissioner cook, i believe the translation person was

back. i'm going to report back to commissioner lopez in detail, but i believe they're back. >> and then justin, do we have susan there, queued up? >> yes, one moment. hello, susan? >> yes, justin. lovely seeing your children, and thank you, president sanchez. so it is a little frustrating not to actually be in the room to try to get called on, but there were a couple of things that i really wanted to respond to. there were a couple of times that i thought the board and the staff were coming close to bargaining without us in the room. we do have two days next week when we are bargaining for a

budget each day, so we are close to an m.o.u. i also want to point out that any plan that includes a change to our conditions of work as a plan will have to be negotiated. and just as a final comment about the four-hour workday, which i know has been sometimes controversial, i hope you all understand that virtually so many teachers and support staff worked well beyond their four hours, just as the seven-hour workday goes well beyond the seven hours for most educators, there aren't enough hours in the day to do what we get paid

for. and there are educators that are doing wellness checks on their students this summer, even if it's on unpaid time. >> yes. thank you for that, president solomon. so right after my comments, student delegates, you can leave. i know this has been a long meeting for you, your inaugural meeting for us. i just have a couple of things to say. thank you again for all the public comment. there's still 444 people on-line and watching. that means there's still people that are interested in our

outcome. we care so very much about the safety of our students, our teachers, and our staff. we can't bungle it. susan just talked about teachers that are continuing to work with their communities, not getting paid. we all have to work. we're in this together, and i pledge myself to work with everybody else that we do this right. i'm also concerned, as everybody else has said so, how distance learning works for us. it didn't work anywhere in the country, and we're no different. we had some bright spots, but students and teachers suffered. i suffered. i'm a fourth grade teacher. my district offered no support.

i had to use sfusd's webinars to help me. we have to do better, we will do better, and we have to use this time from now until opening to make sure that distance learning is as robust as possible. as soon as we open up, we have to prioritize those students. if that means commandeering outdoor spaces and other areas, we need to do that. we have to ensure that students in our special education categories as well as african american students and others to make sure that they are focused on in our distance learning at the least. so i'll leave it at that. again, thank you, everybody,

for this, and we're going to move on. superintendent matthews? >> yeah. i just want to be clear. we're going to announce this tomorrow -- i and i ju-- and i want to make sure that nobody is surprised, that the board is generally in agreement with the direction that we're going, and we're going to open with distance learning. >> and i'm going to channel commissioner norton, and say yes. okay. thank you very much, and student delegates, we will see you at the next meeting. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much, everyone, for having this consistent place for, you know, to advocate as students, and i'm looking forward to getting to know each one of you and being able to work with you all. thank you. >> yeah, and hopefully, we

don't take up any time, but we just need to work on making resources apparent, especially on our website. a lot of students didn't know, far as, like, the issues of sexual harassment and assault, a lot of students didn't know where the title 9 resources were on our website, and a lot of students did not know what was available to them, far as, like, wellness support. making sure that in our final update on the 28th that wellness is definitely an aspect that we focus on. some wellness centers went virtual, but some did not. also, creating a list of c.b.o.s we're working with so students and families know where they can get resources. >> good input. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> all right. we'll see you at the next one. >> thank you. >> all right. update on district wide family wellne wellness checkins.

superintendent matthews? >> thank you, president sanchez. so tonight, we have an update on wellness checkins. this will be done by the head of our student services, lao smith. >> thank you, superintendent matthews. i'll also be joined by devon corey, and we're going to be a tag team on the presentations. so justin, when you're ready, you can queue it up, and we'll get started. i'm sorry. i'm up in my attic room, and the lights are getting a little bit -- darkened. i can't read that well, so bear with me. all right. we are providing a district wide wellness checkin. want to provide a summary of the results? as you might recall, on february 14, the board of ed passed a resolution calling for

a trauma-informed coordinated care plan and asked to conduct a district wide needs assessment and asked for that plan to be written by february 17. in the short time frame, which did our best to reach out to as wide an audience as possible, and no doubt we fell short in thoor areas, but our report is based on listening to as many stakeholders as we could listen to. could you switch to the next slide, please. the district wide wellness checkins were designed to move away of traditional needs approach and be asset based. the vision of how families would experience the checkins was that the school would contact the family. a checkin conversation would identify needs, and if needs, the school would refer families to a school support

professional with support programs or a c.b.o. would follow up. the key parts of the checkin would be the human element, to promote the family resource link, which at that time was in its infancy and identify families for further follow up. next slide, please. the wellness checkin conversations included questions such as how is your family doing with school being closed? is there anything you need to support learning at home? is there anything your family needs at this time? and in that conversation that staff had, they would then fill out a form that provided that

information to us on a district wide basis. next slide, please. this script, as you can see, we shared the script, and it sort of followed an if yes, then this, and if no, then that, and school sites were provided training materials to support them in completing the wellness checkins. and at the time, i'm going to hand it over to devon corrigan to talk about the results. >> i'm the supervisor of research analytics and planning and information. i have a lot to move through. i'll try to do it quickly. i just want to start off with some high-level insights before i get into the charts. we reached about two thirds of

our students. some of you saw this data a few weeks ago at the committee meeting. we're not putting up a mission accomplished banner when we say 66%. it's a lot of students that we reached in a short time, and i couldn't possibly say more without shouting out all of the site staff who put so much time into doing this on short notice? but that also means we didn't reach everybody, and our goal is to reach everybody, so that's one of the lessons that we're taking away, is to reach everybody. but to start off, we did reach two thirds. we did see some disparities. racial, ethnic, along other student groups, which you will see in the results on the slides that follow. while the majority of respondents say they had everything they needed, we did see some unmet needs, and

responding to commissioner collins' comments a couple of weeks ago, we can see where it means a lot to check in with somebody, given the relationship you have with that person, which is a big learning thing for us. we had those main three questions, but there was also an opportunity to mark if a family requested a follow up. you could also mark if you thought it was something that required a very urgent follow up. so one of the things that we pulled out of this data was more than half of the requested follow ups were students who identified as hispanic or latino, who qualified for free or reduced lunch, or who received other family services. they were mostly related to financial assistance, to food, or to devices for learning. despite the unbelievable efforts of our department of

technology, you know, as we talked about so many times already, there are so many families who need access to devices or access to the internet or both. if you wouldn't mind going to the next slide. so just a bit more to say about who are our respondents. 66% we did manage to get in touch with, that's across all grades, and we're talking about an overall number of nearly 36,000 students that had a form submitted on their behalf by an sfusd staff member. of all of them, 66% requested a student follow up, and of that 36,000, less than 1% requested a follow up that was urgent. that number was 243, and we had nearly 2,000 sfusd staff that submitted at least one form. again, this process was designed to be left up to sites to sort of put on top of their

existing processes. we know that sonny of these sites had incredible processes that they were doing on their own, so they were left to do this in a way that worked out best for them. so principals, teachers, and staff were involved in this process, and overall, almost 2,000 staff. 40% said thank you, i don't need another one of these checks, so do not contact. next slide, please. so a little more about our respondents. this is showing respondent rates across grade. now in the gray bar, you've got the district average, which, again, is 66%. and i think what's striking here, and the reason i wanted to show this slide and not a similar slide for race, ethnicity, and other student groups is because in those, you see a pretty straight line across. but here, what you see is a very clear divide. you see a line across for the

younger grades, and then another line across for the secondary grades. one of the learnings is how we can better support staff to get in touch with families of older students. i think early in this presentation or perhaps the last one, we were talking about -- because commissioner collins, again, said there were more relationships in elementary schools. that's something we're thinking about, how to support staff more to get in touch with our second year students. if we had done better in those older grades, we would have done better in reaching more families. so here, acknowledging, the

caveat, this could be a really difficult time for your family. nearly three out of four respondents said they were doing pretty good or great, so we combined those numbers, which is an overall favorablity score to compare cross groups. great or pretty good, those are the two responses we had hoped to see. 72% of families across the district gave those responses. but then, you look at the racial ethnic groups, that wasn't all the same. we have some groups that were higher than that average, and some groups that were lower than average. if you look at special education students, students receiving homeless services, they were more low on that

chart. one in four didn't say that, and we're also seeing disproportionalities, so that is a finding that we wanted to surface for you all. here, we get into the final two of the three main questions. again, those questions were, did the family share anything about what they need to support learning at home, and then, that third and last main question, did the family share about anything that we might be able to help with in terms of connecting them with other resources. i think a lot of us were surprised to see these numbers, seven out of 10 or eight out of 10 says i have what i need. we're okay. but you have to look at the rest of those numbers and see the other families that said yes, i still need something. and those issues were internet, access to devices, and student

behavior. we have a big district, and there's a lot of families out there that have technology needs as we look forward to the fall. this is also a way to sort of plug in how we are connecting to action with these results. because we use a system which admittedly could be a little clunky, the reason is we could design it in such a way that we had student i.d.s attached to every single responsibilities. out of those 36,000 responses, we had student i.d.s, none of which were incorrect.

>> here, we get into some of the disproportionalities that i mentioned in the summary slide. i know there's a lot to take in on this slide, but i'll point to these are many of our student groups across the district. you can see there, those experiencing homelessness, english learners, foster youth, those eligible for free or reduced lunch, those who reside in public housing, and those receiving special education services, all included in this chart here. and what you see, that darker blue, that darker blue bar for each one, that's the response rate for in that group. so for example, african americans, you see of everyone

that responded, 7% are african american. but if everybody requested follow up, that number was higher, 10% for african americans. those who requested an urgent follow up, you see that 9% there on the left. now i want to zoom in here, what you see in the tidal, is for some groups of students, that disproportionality was much more pronounced. you can see that for latino students, you can see that for students eligible for free and reduced lunch were more than half, included in those groups that requested some kind of follow up, and that was a much higher number, higher percentage than what you saw for their overall response rate for that group. the point is to say among the follow ups that were requested, we did see differences across

groups, and hopefully, that makes this slide a little more clear. next slide, please. so i mapped out the data for the follow-ups again. this is a follow-up slide. on the left, we are looking at any follow-up across the city, and the map on the right is the same thing, just for those urgent follow-ups. this was a small number compared to the number that responded. less than 1%, but that 243, and also the large number that needed follow-up is also clearly concentrated in one area of san francisco. as i showed on the summary slide, we did a qualitative analysis on the themes we saw. so we coded those things that were coming up the most. financial assistance, devices

for learning, mental health, and contacts by social workers. that's all from that urgent 243 pool that i was talking about. next slide, please. [please stand by] . >> -- among those urgent follow-ups, there was an extra layer that families were getting connected to the resources that they need, and i'll hand it over to mellie to finish that out. >> so following what devon

said, that was correct. we wanted to make sure that we had an insurance layer, if the school was unable to do an urgent follow-up, and also as we were moving towards the end of the school year, that the school didn't close for the summer, and then, the families were left behind. so the -- over the course of june, when we have the 243 responses marked urgent, we did some filtering, and we were able to note that 163 of the families had said it was related to distance learning. we moved onto the 164 responses to make sure that those 164 responses had been followed up by the school nurse. we discovered there were 35 families that we had to make sure we had a follow-up for.

over the summer, we reached the 35 families, and we were able to meet their needs. i think we had one family where, after multiple calls, we were actually unable to meet the family, and that continues to be one of those areas where how do we continue to reach out to families to know, did they move out of the district and what is -- what is the next steps for that? but from 243 to one family that we weren't able to connect with after multiple attempts, we -- we felt that we had a small place to follow up. in devon's presentation, he talked about what we will be looking at in our follow-ups 2.0. commissioner collins had a committee meeting a couple of weeks ago, and which was really

great. it was an opportunity -- she had a number of fish bowls with family -- families and and some school site administrators, and it was just an opportunity for us to sit and listen and hear the experience -- if you remember in the beginning, we had a vision for how we hoped families would experience, and then, the vision, and how they experienced. and while there were times that the experience and the vision met, we certainly found areas that we need to think about and improve on as we move into the 2.0 area. one of the biggest areas was the checkins work best when there's a relationship between the caller and the family, and that was repeated over by families and administrators, and that brings home the importance of family relationships. the checkins were a chance to deepen relationships with

families; and we also learned that the way that the checkin was designed, it wasn't always clear what the support was being offered or that the call indeed was a wellness check. i think that that was a big learning. from school staff, we heard that they felt that the central office was going to follow up more, so that was a good learning for us to understand on clear communications, and that helps us to think about the coordinated care plan we're now starting to develop; that we need to continue to strengthen relationships with community partners as resources for families. some checkins from the school sites are repetitive, and that was what we heard a lot. some families did not hear from

schools regularly, and some very rarely, and i think commissioner collins mentioned this today, not at all. we heard that distance learning was challenging for some students, and we also heard that the wellness checkin callers should speak to the student directly, not just the parents and guardians, and we also learned that if you're going to do -- you need a series. it's not just one and done, and if you're going to work the checkins later in the year, you really need to commit to that.

we are able to do some pinpoint action, so we now know families that we might need to prioritize as we go into the school year for a coordinated share plan. we are identifying -- i think chief scott has already done this, what students are still in need of a device or internet access, so that gets us a little ahead on that process. and i think that concludes our presentation, so thank you for your patience. i know it's been a long night. >> not nearly as long as the

last board meeting, i don't think. so thank you for your presentation. is there any comments or questions on this item? [inaudible]. >> yeah, that'd be great. >> hello, cassandra? >> hi. thank you so much. thank you to all the commissioners staying late and all the listeners. i really appreciate it. as someone who made a couple of these -- when i say a couple, i mean, like, 50 of these wellness calls. it was an amazing opportunity to speak with our families. it was repetitive, but we really appreciated the board's commitment to a full district

wide understanding of where students were. thank you. >> thank you. hello, danielle? danielle, are you there? >> yes, hi. i was -- i'm sorry. i just had just a general question or comment. are you taking that right now? umm, yeah. so there was something i heard -- i'm sorry, hello? >> this is public comment for the wellness checkins. >> okay. okay. okay. that's okay. no, it wasn't about the checkins, it was about the

pregrade computers. >> okay. julie? >> hi. my name is julie roberts fong. i want to really appreciate the district for this effort. it's just been amazing to see the amount of supports that we're getting to families. i've been working closely with the tenderloin schools. it's just been really terrific, so i want to appreciate the district on that. i also wanted to share an a-ha that i noticed in this process, i feel like we, you know, as a district have passed progressive policies for years and don't end up implementing them faithfully in every school site. one of the thing that i noticed on the front end was there was

a lot of thought that went into making sure that staff would go what resources were available and how to connect students with the fact that it would make it easier for them to ask questions, and there was a really great training that the social workers put on for folks. but then, when some of the questions get back to families, we ended up with literally just sort of three questions, and that wasn't from staff who are bad or, you know, not doing their jobs, it just sounded like they were concerned with getting in people's business without knowing how they would be supporting families? so i think the a-ha in this conversation was this ended up being implemented, run through principals who are generalists, and then principals managed the

links at their sites. >> hello, janet? >> hi. this is janet. can you hear me? >> yes. >> my name is janet, and i am the family partnerships acco coordinator, and i work at presidio. i was partnered with one of our homeroom teachers. >> i'm sorry?

>> hello? >> yes, i'm the interpreter. >> slow down? >> yes, please, thank you. >> so i partnered with a homeroom teacher to make these wellness called, and much like what you have highlighted, there was a lot of interesting conversations that i had with families, but the most important things with our wellness checked was there was a great portion by our principals. we also e-mailed out to all of the families in our homeroom -- this is a plan that we made, the speaker and i, in order to let the families know what day

we were calling. because one of the issues that we encountered was we used google phone to call these families, so it was important to have that arrangement in place so that it looks like staff. we were able to talk to almost everyone in our homeroom because of the method we planned in advance. the reason i'm sharing this is because i think the information that we shared was really valuable, but i think with a little bit more planning, we would have been able to contact more people as a parent. so that's it.

thank you. >> brionni? >> yes. my name question was -- first of all, thank you for all the work that you're doing. i was curious about the 34% of students who weren't contacted. were those students disproportionately represented by other ethnic groups? were they divided by socioeconomic status or race? that was something else that i was wondering, as well. >> thank you. hello, michelle? >> hi. so my name is michelle. i'm one of the teachers at [inaudible] middle school in

san francisco. i just want to raise this idea that i appreciate the board made this declaration around us doing these wellness checks, but i want us to start thinking about -- when we really start thinking about schools, like, this is something you shouldn't even have to talk about. like, precrisis kind of allows us to close the loop around inequities, social justice around the school, and it's a safe haven not just for students but for families. i think, like, moving forward whenever we see this distance learning and whenever we go back to whatever normalcy is, at brick and mortar, i think we need to look at this how do we continually connect with our families in different ways all the time, a, so we can raise

consciousness between our middle school families and high school families, so we can raise awareness of why they're not as connected to the high schools. but we're making sure that students are feeling loved and families are feeling loved and we're stopping all the isms that are keeping our students and families from feeling successful. >> thank you. hello, leslie? >> hi, can you hear me? >> yes. >> my name is leslie who, and i work at m.l.k. middle school, and i had a couple of wonderings about the work that was presented. i wanted to give a shoutout to commissioner moliga for his resolution and that amazing presentation from mellie and devon. it's been really amazing work. i guess one of my wondering is,

like, how do we use this data to advocate to our city leaders about where our families are coming from and where they're at right now during the pandemic? it would be ideal to use this data to think about how we allocate city resources in a more strategic way? and then, my next point is how do we continue to build on this work in the future to meaningfully center our families? i think the pandemic has shown that we can't just gather input, we have to center our families in doing this work? so i'm just wondering how do we continue to build on this work in the fall to continue to partner and serve our families? thank you. >> thank you. hello, monica? >> hi. my name is monica mendoza, and i'm a teacher at delores huerta

middle school. i wanted to talk about the parent and synenergy phone numbers. i feel like there needs to be -- i'll repeat what some other people have said. there needs to be better trainings for parents to better understand how to use the parent portal in the family view, and that maybe there just needs to be some other kind of update, as well, to have it be easier for families to also update their own contact information, either themselves or through the schools' secretaries because that was a challenge, to get to all of the

families in my classroom, and that could have accounted for the reason why some families were not connected. >> thank you. ephron? ephron? hello, ephron? ephron, are you there? >> yes, hello. can you hear me in. >> yes, hi. >> hi. good evening. this is ephraim with mission neighborhood. i just wanted to -- like the previous caller, i want to celebrate the commissioners that authored the resolution and the amount of time that

this took on part of the sites to reach out, but i also want to highlight that many, many schools where -- had implemented a system to reach out to families when the pandemic hit -- hit. and i know that wasn't the case at all sites, but -- [inaudible] >> and i want to celebrate that level of work, and the systems that were created which incorporated a lot of the community partners in connecting with families and the issues that they had, it was interesting to see that the families that were requesting additional supports were around financial resources and food accesses, so it is important to ensure that these resources and

programs continue in the fall. so i just want to highlight that it is important that we maintain those structures of collaboration so that we can explain what services we can provide to families. thank you. >> thank you. hi, carla. >> hi, yes, can you hear me? >> yes. >> my name is carla, and i am a paraeducator. i had an opportunity to be one of the people making the wellness calls, and at first, it felt extremely overwhelming having 54 families to be responsible for, you know, two weeks before school was going to end. however, after the first few calls of gratitude that i received from families just, that we would just call to

check on them was amazing. our teachers had already been collecting documents for families from the get go from the first day of closure to any families that needed help, so that was already in place. our special education teachers were already reaching out to families to have paperwork signed, so they were already checking in with families. but there were a couple who needed someone to listen, and for someone to just help guide them with getting e.b.t. cards or what facilities were open for food, and so i think this was a really great program. i learned a lot from it. i wanted to mention two things. one, i think it would be important to have a 1-800 number for our older students, middle schoolers and high school students for those that

are experiencing issues that's on every sfusd website. another component that might be good is if we could have our principals have a principal chat. some of my school's principals do a chat once every month or once every three weeks in the morning, and it's for families who aren't associated with the p.t.a. or lpacs or apacs, and it's an opportunity for those who can't come to the school to ask questions. so thank you, guys. appreciate it. >> thank you. hello, ana?

>> hi. i was wondering if we could have our high school and middle school students that have one of the wellness checks, as well, and record what are the students' needs? and also looking for this coming school year, like, like, what can we do differently to continually support their education so they can reach their full potential? so just the thought of how we want to go ahead about reaching out to those students. thank you. >> thank you. hello, ed? >> hello. yes, my name is ed, and i'm the beacon director.

we are working to instill comprehensive community school frameworks that support entire school communities, and yet, we don't have access to the data needed to make intelligent and informed decisions around how to do that process? and so some of the challenges that we had in supporting things like this wellness call is we were unable to access the form. so the difficulty in having to constantly find work arounds to accomplish what we're being asked to do in the district and what our m.o.u. states we are to be doing makes it very challenging for us to complete our jobs. we were doing checkins with 139 families, and those were the families that we were able to get waivers for for our organization, but we were unable to work with other families just based on this access issue.

things along like sfusd e-mails, to support distance learning and things like that. so i just want to take this time to talk about programs that we can access to support continuing school frameworks. thank you. >> thank you. president sanchez, that concludes public comment on this item. >> all right. thank you very much, public, for your comments and questions. commissioners? anybody? commissioner lam, then commissioner lopez? >> thank you to the staff for the presentation and to the board members. i know that it's been a pretty detailed discussion in the last program committee, as well as the cosponsors of the resolution. one question i had for staff, and i had heard on there on the ground from students and families, i wanted to know if

we had more details about the needs or just feedback overall from our english learners. as you can see from the presentation, there was definitely higher, you know, urgent requests from e.l.s and what that means for our work this fall, especially taking off, again, with this initial recommendation of distance learning in the fall -- or at least the first, you know, as they kick off the new academic year. >> hi. i'll try that, devon, and you can jump in if you want. what i think you hear you seeing, commissioner lam, is how are we using this to address some of these call programs going forward with these english learners. >> that was the first part of the question. the second was do we have this aggregated data around some of

these english learners, and some additional framework, particularly, like, our e.l.s in high school. some people, i know, had to call four, five, six times, and just, like, how does that guide our work forward with e.l.s -- i'm sorry, work with english learners? >> so with our work on the data, we don't have it tonight on the data reports. r.p.a. had created a lot of very detailed reports, so yes, i can't give you specifics. i guess it's in that detailed plan that's going to be coming in july 28, and the data, i don't know if you, devon, have any sort of overview data on english language learner students in particular?

>> yeah, so a couple of things to say to that. one, the urgent needs coding was done for all 243 of those with urgent needs, so it would be quick work looking to isolate just english learners. as noe said, not something we have available right now, but certainly something we could get to that. the other thing we look at is making sure this data gets back to site. it's why we're accessing the resulting in real-time and why we're working on accessing reports to give to stakeholders in the coming weeks. and on the book page is a link to a cache if you're an

administrator or staff, so it would be easy to analyze in that way, as well. we always stand by, ready to support that when those questions come up, and i'd be happy to create a slide for you. >> that would be really great for a follow up. thank you. >> commissioner lopez? >> yes. i'll say quickly how excited i was when this was being launched, and i just really appreciate how organized it was, keeping track of all the student i.d.s. like, everything was organized in a way that i could understand. even though i know that the interactions and questions could be better, and i know that some people just reaching out don't have the relationships established for the conversation to feel comfortable? so i just hope, and my question is, now that we've seen this and we've launched this, what's

the status of it being a little bit more consistent, and what are we doing with that information? so if there are urgent requests that are outside of our repertoire, i'm going to push the need to connect with city agencies if they need access or help with food or -- like, what is the next phase of this? how often would we be implementing this? >> that's definitely a great question. it's definitely going to be folded into the first 30 days, and i think the deputy superintendent has talked about this learning sprint, and it's clear that there's a really strong appetite for more regular checkins. is it possible to do it as a get ready for the school year

checkin or a christmas checkin, something to stay in touch with families? we were able to set up a system where we got back to them with urgent calls, but we want to ramp that up, do that better. i think both the feedback that we heard from the student delegates today from the student town hall is building it out for the students in particular, so that's also a version that we're looking at, so we'll be looking at the data both in terms of -- the hope is in the first 30-day plan, is in looking at this plan, how is that actionable, how does that drive who we're going to reach out to first? so i think that will be both and, as we think of the wellness checkins, and then we're thinking about how does the family resource line continue to build out, and how

do we make things better? that's kind of a long version, but that's our version of what the 2.0 is, that it's not a one-and-done, it's part of what we're continuing to do. >> and the ab 77, it directs local school agencies to check in with mental health and social and emotional well-being, not only for families, but for students and staff. just know that there are multiple groups of working out the details of what that would look like in the months ahead. the legislation, it will absolutely be part of funding going forward, as well. >> thank you. i really appreciate everything that's going into this and how we can expand and build on it. >> commissioner moliga?

>> thank you. >> i wanted to know, is there a way maybe we could use text messages to let folks know that they're going to get a call? if we can just say hey, we're going to be doing this, that's generated from central office, but then, it kind of supports

all the sites in letting folks now that they're going to get calls? i also like the idea of using data to think about who we reach out to first, as well as who we maybe reach out to more, right? but i also want to say i'm a family that didn't get a wellness check, and i was fine waiting, but it was really, really beneficial. because i did, one of my kids was able to get into an internship this summer, and it's great. it's not just low-income, i think it's great that it's going to everybody, and that we have built-in systems to differentiate. i think this don't know how we the city to support us, and that's what our resolution

asked for, was more support in more community schools, because i think that's the link between the c.b.o.s -- that might be the mechanism? but i wanted to know, how can we make it easier -- when i think about c.b.o.s wanting to help or communicate with schools via e-mail, and there's a lack of access? that's not a question you can answer quickly, but i'd love to hear some ideas on how we can make it easier for them to help us help families. i like the td the data. it was very clean, but it was also very cumbersome because of the numbers. it was really hard to track because there was, like, these big spreadsheets, and i'm just wondering if you had any thoughts or learnings about how to make the data entry less

cumbersome for sites. >> being ookay. i heard about five questions. >> okay. this was a question -- >> you asked about the text messages, and yes, we can do that. we actually did that along with the auto dialer, so we are realizing that. in terms of the c.b.o. partnerships, we are lucky that we have the 27 compromised sites that are based on the b.c. funding, but we can always use more. how can we make it easier? i have to say with the 27 beacon sites, we are working closely with the chief on some of the sfusd e-mails, and we're listening to them all the time and trying to troubleshoot. in terms of a tracking system,

that is something -- devon, i'm kind of going to let you chime in because we have been thinking a lot about that and how it could be easier, something with, like, a two-system. so i don't have the answer, but we definitely want to make it easier. >> yeah, i have a lot to say about this. we needed to make sure that we had something quick and was easy to use. we went with google suite, and we built out some spreadsheets and a form. we figured out how to get a link other -- on the form so when you clicked on the link next to a student's name, it gave you all the information you needed. now the downside to that was we had many thousands of people using these forms all at the

same time, and, you know, i was joking with a colleague. it feels like we're flying a space ship, and we don't know how far it can go. it felt like the bolts were rattling, and it was still flying, but it was pushed to the limit. i don't want to get into all the technical details, but the quickest answer i would have for you is a two-pronged approach. we stagger it so that there's not so much traffic all at once. and also using a system that we already have, synenergy or something else that allows us

to use the same form. we're constantly trying to make tradeoffs, and so your point's well taken. i know that basically, the google system worked really well, except for the busiest days, and then, at that point, the tracking part of it got a little bit wonky, and so we do have some ideas on how to do that better going forward, and that's feedback we heard loud and clear. >> great. thank you. and i guess -- the only i question i have is more for maybe chief dodd, and you don't have to have an answer, but what regular systems do we have to make sure we're doing some contact and cleanup of parent information. some schools, when they meet with parents, they do it better. they say hey, we just want to

make sure this is good information. it does not happen at every school, where i guess somebody asking me -- get somebody asking me, is this correct, and i think it would really help. and that's not necessarily, like, testing, that's an operational, like, we just tell everybody do this behavior this way, because that is a simple thing, but it's just so frustrating. and finally, i'd love to see a report on individual schools because what has come out is some schools -- there's a teacher, michelle cody. i really appreciate her, her work. some teachers at some schools think of themselves as it's their job to connect with families, and some don't. and i'm just going to name it. it's all of our jobs to connect with families during covid, and i'd love to see the information on the school-based level on who connected with more families because they're doing

a better job. i'd also like to see where we're more weak as a system at a school-based level. that would be really helpful. >> hi. >> go for it. >> isn't everyone happy we hired mellie? i'm glad we did, mellie, and you put all your energy in it. for me, i'm a social worker, so this stuff is kind of, like, every day thing, so i'm going to, like, cut straight to the things that i think would be beneficial for us. you know, what i think would be cool as next steps -- because everyone's doing the wellness checks. we're doing wellness checks,

c.b.o.s are doing wellness checks. i think the next step for me is what does it look like for me to be at the table, and what is everybody doing, so that way, you create a tree and everybody's linking, and folks know what's going on. commissioner lopez keeps talking about city agencies. i think that's one piece as well. i think when we get that locked down, we have eyes all over the place on these kids, not only at the schools, but also in the community, and i think that would be the best bet for families and the kids. the question that i have for folks within our own, you know, school district is, like, how are the partnerships coming along with our own departments? how is the curriculum working with, like, technology? how is that all working together in general because for me, you know, that has to be in

place before we can go out and try to build all this other stuff, so how is that currently coming along? >> that is a great question, and i would have to say that that is one of the big areas that has come out is that as divisions and departments, we worked closer in alignment than before because we just recognize -- well, we've been -- not that we didn't want to before, but sometimes with brick and mortar, i'm at this school, i'm at this school, and have we really coordinated? i'd have to say that with dr. priestly's leadership, chief dodd, and others, and the superintendent himself, i feel confident that we're working together as a district and as a department, as well.

i think it speaks that many times, our presentations are multilevel and department presentations. i think dr. matthews, i probably should have turned it over to you. little late. >> yeah. i notice we have a bunch of strong sheroes in this, and i appreciate it. you guys are killing me. just to kind of wrap it up, with all the information that we're getting, like, for me, what's also important is that information is guiding the way that we are educating kids in the classroom, as well, right? because i've been in situations where educators and folks, they separate the two, right? it's like, but, you know, like, i would be able to have conversations on school sites. you know, this is the climate, this is what's going on. how do we build curriculum in

our classrooms to address the needs that we're currently seeing, in addition to get the scores to where we need to. and then, the last thing was around teacher wellness. i'm curious to see how our educators are doing, and are they getting services? are we able to support them the way we want to support them, etc., etc., so, you know, you can respond to that or you can give me an update later, but i would love to hear your feedback on that? >> sure. no, we definitely are looking into that. we are interested. i haven't been able to follow up with the s.f. heels, where we were able to get support for sfusd. we are doing part of the

teacher survey and the staff survey. also asked questions, so when we get that data, we'll know more, but it's an area that we definitely want to continue building up supports. i know that we have -- staff has supports both through the employee assistance program, through their own assistance program, and through the heal s.f. program. so i think it's more of letting the staff know it's available, so i guess, i think we have -- so again, i think we have to be better at communicating, and then, hearing about supports. >> last one, and this is a real quick one. so this is around pacific islanders. i'm real interested -- i would like to see the data around samoan kids, so i'll just leave

it at that. >> yes. because we have the student i.d.s, this is what i was responding to earlier from commissioner lam, that's something i could pull out for you, and i'd be happy to send it along. there were a couple of things that popped up. in response to the question about staff mental health and well-being, that survey that mellie mentioned, i just happened to have a conversation with researchers doing that. i know it's open now, but it's going to close soon, like later this month or early next month. so there's several questions around that on there, so basically, that's coming. you know, we don't have all that data yet, but it's starting to flow in, and we will have reports on staff well-being and staff mental health. that's been open since may. i also wanted to get to one of

commissioner collins' point and what commissioner ed brought up, and that is i and my colleagues believe in partner be with c.b.o.s -- partnering with c.b.o.s. the way the system was designed was for -- to give the callers as much helpful information as possible. for example, here's the homeroom teacher for this student, here's the language you'll probably get when you call that household, and we're a bit limited in what we can share outside of the sfusd universe outside frpa. if we can design the system a little bit differently, there's a way we can includes them in parts of the process, kbut there's always that process.

so i just wanted to make clear that we're always making these tradeoffs, and our doors are always open on how to make it better. we know that with c.b.o. health, the knowledge is there, and the expertise is there, and as we go forward, we'll be looking at how to partner better together. >> all right. any last comments or questions? all right. thanks again for the presentation and the -- >> i saw stevon's. >> yeah, stevon, you're on a different screen. >> i actually missed part of the presentation. i had to step away for a second. one of the things that i wanted to highlight just around the calls, so i apologize if this is already addressed. one of the things around mellie's theme is a lot of the interventions that i'm hearing

about directly happening with families is school-based. like, paraprofessionals dropping stuff off directly to families, and also, paraprofessionals are being highly activated to do this stuff, it sounds like more than what i've heard from other schools and stuff. is that intervention being captured in terms of, like, a wellness sort of support. >> you know, that's a really great question, and we're probably not capturing it in a good way, and i'm glad you brought that up. we should probably look at that. it might have been a follow up to a wellness check, how did we capture that? >> so on behalf of everything that's happening with the wellness team, it may not be something that's coordinated with the school. >> when school is in session, it's better coordinated because

the central office, the wellness team, say, for the division, there are social workers that sit at a school site, so it's very integrated. during the summer is where we have challenges because most of our staff is not working, so we might have office staff doing the work, and that's where we need to -- i think that's where we drop balls is in the summer more than in the school year. >> the reason i bring that up is because, you know, from the people that work at school sites, they're just imagining that they're going to handle it themselves, and they may not be relying on your team as a potential support, addressing things that need to be addressed. so i'm wondering -- you know, it sounds like they're doing it, but if they should be in more coordination with your team to make things more

seamless. is that something that they should be thinking about, or should they just go on? >> no, absolutely. that's part of the coordinated care. i think what all of the commissioners are saying is how do we support from the central office so that at the school site, we have more coordination so we have the whole picture of the child so that folks now, like, hey, maybe i'm the family liaison, and i know this is happening with that student and making sure that that gets to the social worker or the nurse, right, so we can do the wraparound services. i think what you're saying is what we're starting to lean towards, and have to do some diagnosing division wide, is how do we build on supports at the central level, and how can

we improve that support? what you're saying is where we attain towards, so, like, all the folks sitting at a site, whether they're school staff or counselors or teachers on special assignment from curriculum instruction or student teachers from family and curriculum support. >> so in my conversation with schools, i'm going to be asking what kind of engagement they have with the office, if any. >> yeah. it would be good to hear your feedback. >> one of the things that i heard across several sites was the difficulty in, like,

getting ahold of students after the semester, and i think that may continue to be a challenge. and the last thing i'd like to ask about is attendance. what are the attendance tools we're using? i know we brought on in class today. it was a huge problem with regards to black students, so if we can get the follow up on that? >> yeah, it's all part of it. i think one of the things that happened because of the pandemic and in march, there was no structured system of how we continued to take attendance, how we ensured that. that's a great opportunity with ab 77 because it's requiring a tracking system. we should have it any way, but

we're starting to build that out, and how do we continue basically the work around attendance, whatever that means for distance learning and how system's set up. i'm not sure if you were here or not, one of the commissioners was saying no. okay. we reached two thirds or 35,000 students. what about the students that we didn't reach, and how are we making sure that we're going to find out about those students first? that's a super great question, so we're taking this information to identify because it's who didn't we reach, and who should we be putting our efforts into reaching them more? and we're starting to work with chief dodd, also, to think about how we're taking attendance? what does that mean? we don't have -- the truancy isn't the same anymore, and a

student in distance learning is accessing less than 60% of the activity, so we need to figure out how do we catch the student before they fall off? the longer the distance learning lasts, the harder it's going to bring back students that we haven't had connection with for quite sometime. >> commissioner collins? >> thanks. just one quick question. you can answer it on-line, and i'm sharing it for our student advisory council leaders. one of the questions that came up for them in the work that we're doing together for sexual harassment and sexual assault, and it's a question that i've actually raised, as well, and this was actually raised by a person. you know, seeing if there was a place that we could be pushing out constantly so kids know there's a place they can call for help. and that reminded me we have a

safe school line, but nobody knows about it, and nobody picks it up. it's, like, an answer service, and we're supposed to have a place that kids feel safe in terms of bullying, but now, i'm thinking that we don't have schools in session? and we do have kids that feel unsafe or need help. i'd love to follow up with you, mellie and talk about how we can have a regular line that we consistently -- because now, we have the parent resource link, and we should make sure we have one for students physically, and maybe that would be something that when we start schools it becomes that, like, anonymous, if you need it, but the bullying safe school line, and so it's an open kind of question that i'd like to maybe look into over the next -- especially when -- you know, we want to take care of students and make sure that we're connecting them if they're in need. >> absolutely, and we have

started thinking about the resource link and having a student facing side about it. we agree with you on the challenges of the safe school line, which you're right. it's just an answering machine that's checked a couple of times a day. i'll follow up with you. there were a few other things that came out of the sandy hook promise. there was funding to set up these anonymous lines, which we're also picking back up again to make sure as a school district we're queueing up for the training. that's a national program, and you have to sort of get in the queue, but we're in that. happy to get back with you, and it it's heavy in our minds with what's been happening, and appreciate hearing that from you and the student delegates about what needs to happen by them. >> thank you, everybody, and thank you, mellie, and devon,

for the presentation and conversation. you covered all the bases, so we're going to move onto section j, discussion and vote on consent calendar items. none today. k, public and board comment on proposals. l, motion to suspend the rules and public comment. there's none tonight. section m is report from standing committees. doesn't look like we had any. it's just not on my document here, but go ahead. >> so quickly, i think you heard about it. we had a really great quick lum committee meeting, and i -- quick -- really great curriculum committee meeting.

we had our meeting centered around families first. shared their experience around the wellness check. and then, we talked to site staff, and then, we talked to assistant superintendents, and then, we talked to central office. we kind of did it backwards, and i think that was a really great structure for listening to families first, and i'm hoping the next curriculum meeting, we're going to talk about distance learning and do a similar format where we're going to talk with students about distance learning, and then, we'll talk to parents and different folks, getting it direct. and then, we'll hear from the central office staff around, you know, what do they think they want to retool for distance learning? so i invite community members, really -- you know, i get excited to hear from folks. we had some really great parents participating and listen to the previous meeting.

justin, is there a way for us to get a video? i know we record it, but we don't necessarily post meetings for curriculum committee, but i thought it was a great conversation that folks might want to see. so i'm wondering, is that available or is it posted anywhere or can it be made available? >> it's not currently posted at this time. i started this discussion with staff, but i just got back from my vacation yesterday, so i'll follow up. >> and in the future, we don't have a date set, but we're hoping to have another meeting before the end of the month. i would encourage community members to come out and participate. we're going to be asking parent leaders to participate in actually forming the meeting, and students included, and also appreciate community partners in bringing families up for public comment so that we can hear directly from the community around distance learning, you know, what we learned and what we want to do

better next time. >> commissioner moliga? >> yeah. we had a buildings and grounds committee meeting recently, and we went over two things. we talked about the mission bay school campus and the process of how that was going, and so pretty much the timeline that we've set forth in the beginning is still the timeline that we're on currently. and we also went over current processes with the buildings and chief kamalason went over certain things how classrooms and things could potentially look, including kbbuses.

and she talked about the current need of p.p.e. and how we're going about getting these for the school district. we're going to be scheduling another b&g meeting next month, but i would encourage folks to tune in to learn more about how our facilities are coming along covid planning. >> thank you very much. are there any committees that have been scheduled for sure, committee shares or esther? none? okay. thank you -- so all other reports by board members, if you have anything you'd like to report out, now's the time to do it. section n, other informational items, none tonight. section o, memorial adjournment. so...so i have a -- we are

adjourning in memory of jase young, six years old, who died tragically on july 4. the residents of bayview-hunters point, we're saddened by your tragedy. it's impossible to comprehend. it goes without saying that this affected us all. jase attended malcolm x and transferred to pitt view charter. he was the kid who could brighten up a room with his smile, and his blue glasses will truly be missed. he had a love for technology and always wanted to be around his family and friends. one thing that you could always count on jase for was to be honest, loving, and caring. he gave us all that he could, all that god put him under us

to give us. i'd like to thank commissioners cook and moliga, who reached out to the family by sending a letter from the board, on behalf of the superintendent and the board of education, we extend sincere condolences to jase's brother, mother, and all of his family. okay. so with that, we're going to be going into -- we're going to take public comment for those who wish to speak to closed session items. judson, can you see? >> yes, i do have one. >> okay. go ahead. >> hello, reuben? >> hi, yes. this is reuben diaz. i'm a parent of two children at jefferson elementary.

thank you for the school district for planning based on science and data for the safety of children for opening up next year. i did want to say that i noticed one of the documents you referenced was the c.d.c. guidelines, and one of the commissioners, i believe, talked about -- or maybe it was a school district member -- in any case, talking about the facilities, and i'm wondering if there's funds for hvac systems? i know those can be very expensive. and i'd also like to encourage families to look into spark, donating to spark, and also seeking other ways to help fund or schools in order to have all the resources we need, including reaching out to corporations and writing to the state. thank you. >> all right. thank you.

section p is closed session. the board will now go into closed session. thus, i call a recess to the regular meeting. we'll see you in >> so we are on item q. reconvene open session. one, vote on expulsion matters. there are none tonight. two, vote on contracts. there are none tonight. three, report from closed session. the board by vote of 5, 2 absent approved contract for one assistant principal. 5 ayes approved one assistant principal. four matters of anticipated litigation the board by 6 aye and one absent approved direction to the general counsel. sf versus s.f.u.s.d.

the board by vote of 6 eye abone absent gives authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. in the matter of ll versus fud fud case 20060183, the board gives authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. that adjourns our meeting. >> good night. >> good night everyone. >> good night.

>> mayor breed: today we have 4935 confirmed crisis of

covid-19 and 52 people have lost their lives. i will provide an update i tested negative for a second time after be exposed to someone with covid-19. this does not mean that i am immune or can let my guard down moving forward. i will continue to keep my distance from others, wear my mask and frequently wash my hands just like everyone else should be doing. as you know, san francisco has recently seen a sharp increase in cases in hospitalization as a result of the virus, and we had to pause scheduled re-opening. on april 11, we had 94 people hospitalized. by mid-june we were down to 26 people. we are back up to 80 people in the hospital. today we want to provide an update on how we are moving forward as a city. as always, we will continue to

be guided by the science in our data and decision making because we know how fast this pandemic can get out of control. as dr. colfax outlined we have a small window of time to get our cases under control before we could see the large outbreaks that we are seeing around this country. we are continuing to pause our re-opening indefinitely until our public health indicators improve and none of them are in the red. as of today, san francisco is on the state's watch list due to our rising hospitalizations, meaning we need to follow the state restrictions even though we were given a variance not too long ago to move forward more quickly with our re-opening. we followed almost all restrictions. the main change is that indoor

mall and non essential offers must now also close. if the state adds more restrictions we will follow them. if conditions in our city don't improve, we can also choose to close additional businesses and activities as well. we have flattened this curve once, and we must do it again. what i am afraid of is the complacency. people are tired of the virus. the virus is not tired of us. what we know from our contact tracing is that a large part of the new virus spread is coming from people having gatherings with others outside of their household. one of our disaster service workers, a person working on our disaster response, was recently infected due to one of those gatherings. she lives with a roommate and

the roommate decided to go camping with 15 friends. they figured camping was a safe socially distance activity, they would wear masks and be fine. they didn't expect anyone in the group to have covid. after a few days, as is human nature, they got comfortable, started sharing meals and food and sitting closer during dinner and stopped wearing masks. one person in the group started to show symptom. they figured it was just a cold. when the roommate got home she started showing signs of a cough. she scheduled the test. the service worker had to quarantine taking her away from her important role. the roommate tested positive. the disaster service worker tested negative. the point is that gatherings

remain dangerous. you need to give a lot of thought if they are worth it and how to do it safely. can you wear a mask? can you be socially distance? can you wash your hands often? if you can't, you are not only risking your health and health of others but further pushing back the date when our city can open because we are not reopening until we get this under control. we need to redouble efforts to limit gatherings and wear masks outside of your household. the other major area of spread is among people going to work. latino residents in particular in the eastern and southeastern neighborhoods are struggling. we are continuing to focus further expanding access to

testing in these communities and conducting targeted outreach. we opened a new site to add to the expansion of testing sites in tenderloin, mission and sunnydale and bayview. the steep can't conduct all of the testing by ourselves. we need private care providers to step up. that is why we will be issuing a health order requiring private healthcare providers to increase testing by providing same day testing for patients with symptoms and close contact of people confirmed to have covid-19. additionally, private hospitals must provide testing to a symptomatic workers in jobs with risk of exposure. the delays in testing cannot continue. they must step up to do their part. the main message is that we need everyone to do their part.

we have to get this virus under control right now. we don't be have months. we barely have weeks. every decision you make affects everyone around you. if you choose not to wear a mask when you go out, you are delaying re-opening further. if you are going to a barbecue and acting irresponsibly you are preventing children from being able to return to school, forcing parents to stay home from work or miss shifts at the job because you are not taking basic steps. most importantly, you are endangering people's lives. we want to move with re-opening. we know we are going to be living with covid-19 for the next 12 to 18 months. what we all do matters. how we all respond responsibly makes a difference. we have proven that time and time again in the past. we can't do that right now.

we are all able to do our part. if we are going to get to where we are able to open and let people get back to work because they are financially struggling, allow kids to go to school and engage and interact with one another to learn and grow. we will see our elderly parents and grandparents in the nursing homes. how to get back to things that make life more meaningful has everything to do with everybody being part of the solution. please know that we are not out of the woods. know that we are seeing a spike. know that you, only you can make the difference. please wear your mask. wash your hands. socially distance and do everything to be part of the solution. that will make a difference to

the city. i will turn this over to dr. grant colfax for a update from the department of public health. >> good morning. i am dr. grant colfax, director of health. thank you, mayor breed. in the past weeks, san francisco has been experiencing a surge in cases and hospitalizations that have forced us to pause re-opening plans. increase our testing and contract tracing and care for many more covid-19 positive patients. unfortunately this is happening all across california. as of today, we join more than 30 counties statewide including most bay area counties on the state's watch list based on the rising hospitalization numbers. i want to emphasize that the

people in the hospital in san francisco today as we speak are not only the elderly and the most frail. in fact, at san francisco general hospital the average age of the person hospitalized since july 1st with covid-19 has been 41 years. young people, middle age people, older people. we are all at risk for this disease. we are all at risk for serious consequences. with our designation of being on the state's watch list, we are required to close malls and non essential offices again starting this monday, july 20th. we will continue to pause our re-opening indefinitely. san francisco, we can do better than this.

we know we can do better. we have proven that already. the virus is moving quickly. we must accelerate response. it took 38 days, more than a month to go from 2000 to 3,000 cases in our city. now it has taken 13 days, less than two week goes to go from 4,000 cases to nearly 5,000. there are several key steps that we can take and that we must take until the health indicators improve and our information shows that the virus is subsiding and slowing in san francisco. we don't have a lot of time today so i will keep my remarks short. i would like to highlight a few key points about the current situation. we know the pandemic affects

some communities more than others. we must continue to focus on equity in our planning and response. in san francisco the lat inx community makes up 50% of cases even though they represent only 15% of the city's population. another group workers who must leave homes to take risk are more at risk of getting infected and are getting sick in greater numbers. the neighborhoods on the eastern and southeast side of the city continue to have higher rates of cases. the surge is making all of these disparities worse. we are working with community leaders and community members to improve outreach and communication. that work includes targeting testing services where they are needed most. in the past two weeks we have

expanded low barrier testing in the mission, bayview, tenderloin, potrero hill and sunnydale neighborhoods. testing has been a re-occurring issue since the beginning of the pandemic. we have come a long way. at first there were no tests at all. then there were extreme short ages of supplies. after that we had to let people know how and where they could get tested. today we are acceding our testing goal of providing 1800 tests each day in the city. now providing an average of 2599 tests per day. as demand grows, access to appointments is getting harder and test results are taking longer. while testing challenges are a national issue as a result of

lack of federal leadership, we need to improve the situation where some san franciscans are waiting a week or more for an appointment and sometimes as long as that for results. more than 95% of san franciscans have some form of healthcare coverage. private providers need to do their share in our testing effort. the city's public test sites are current bely conducting an average of 60% of all of the tests that are being done in the city. therefore, on monday we are issuing a health order requiring private providers to test their patients with symptoms, those in close contacts of known cases, and a symptomatic workers at higher risk of exposure. this testing must be done on the

day requested. this will help and will free up the capacity of san francisco's public testing program with the goal of allowing residents who are uninsured or members of impacted communities to get tested from a more timely manner. we need to realize that while testing is a key tool and will continue to be a key tool in our response, we are not going to be able to test ourselves out of this pandemic. iin fact, the more the virus is around the harder it will be for us to keep up. we will fall behind. that is why prevention is so key. today a covid positive person in san francisco is expected to infect more than one additional person causing the disease to

spread. a positive test means that prevention did not work. this is important. a negative test is not a passport to do what you want. don't get complacent and take risks because you tested negative. gatherings are opportunities for the virus to spread and must be avoided. if san franciscans stop gathering, wear face mask at all times and socially distance, we will be able to get the situation under control. it is that simple. we know how to slow the spread of the virus. we know how to do it. we just must do it. we must do it quickly. the key next step if everyone

something to do to flatten the curve. this includes residents, businesses, healthcare system and the city. first, we will continue to pause re-opening until the health indicators and other data show that the virus has subsided in san francisco. second, we will abide by the state's restrictions as a watch list county, and i emphasize this we reserve the option to go further than the state in closing additional businesses and activities while continuing to pause re-opening if our local and regional conditions call for it. third, to re-enforce the mayor's comment. san franciscans need to change their behavior. do not gather. cover your face. we know many of our new cases

can be traced back to social gatherings of families and friends. think about that. the birthday party or barbecue can spread the virus and get many people sick. remember half of the people with the virus don't show symptoms. you cannot tell by looking at somebody or asking somebody how they feel if they have covid-19. a symptomatic spread is a key part of the surge we are seeing. these gatherings can and could delay the first day of school or the chance to go back to work and worse than the inequities we are seeing in this pandemic. do your part, please do your part. our individual actions have a big impact on the entire community. fourth, we will continue to

focus on equity and the communities that are most affected by the pandemic. we are working with community leaders to expand testing, outreach and partnership. we are conducting extensive multi media campaigns to reach people in their own neighborhoods and languages. 5. we will continue to expand testing capacity and access. the health order coming out monday be will guarantee providers do their share while the city continues to expand testing in the neighborhoods most impacted. we will, we must continue to follow the data, science and facts. together we have the power to flatten the curve once again. we can emerge from this pandemic with strength and pride in our communities and our collective

effort. the work we have done together has saved lives and improved health and will put our city back together. the time is short. it is up to us to take action now and i thank you, san francisco, for doing just that. >> thank you. we will now begin the q&a portion of the press conference. we have the first set of questions for dr. colfax only. from mission local. before going to work and latino residents are struggling. why only 300 tests at the hub.

why were people turned away yesterday for lack of tests? >> i was at the hub yesterday. it was remarkable to see the work done there. we have been partnering with the latino task force since the early days of the epidemic to expand testing. we need to expand testing, particularly in the mission and lat inx community. we are continuing to build that capacity. as i said we are requiring providers to provide same day testing to workers and people symptomatic. we also have other testing sites in the mission neighborhood including the zuckerberg general hospital and continuing to work the mission neighborhood health center offering pop-up testing and ensuring people understand

when and where to get tested and expanding the contact tracing. half of our cases are among latin x residents and half of temperaturofthe exact tracing i. people understand if they test positive and they qualify, they can access the right to recovery program to have the support and resources necessary to keep themselves and their families were safe thank you, doctor. next set of questions janney harwith associated press. >> most school district start with year with distance learning. governor will issue the orders soon regarding schools. under which conditions do you feel comfortable allowing in person classes? would all county wide indicators have to be at certain level and the safety conditions vary by

age or class size? what do you tell pris private schools. >> the city issued guidance with regard to schools. we are going to need to see indicators improve before school openings would be allowed. the complexity of the question is addressed by the school guidance we issued. we want to ensure that schools do make the decision to reopen that they are following best evidence in terms of reducing transmission to people most vulnerable for the virus and that children or families and school staff are as safe as possible. it is a very complex issues and rapidly evolving issue. we will follow data, science and facts to ensure when schools

open they are doing so in the most safe way possible. >> from crown 4. the city is giving mixed messages. in noey the tables and chairs are return causing people to it is next to each other. how many sites have had tables and chairs returned? doesn't this send the wrong message. >> outdoor activity is much safer than indoor activity. the science has shown that being outdoors is much safer and people need to get outside for mental and physical health. we can't stay inside for long periods of time. when we are outside, we need to follow the guidelines. the people need to stay at least six feet apart.

it is very clear our health order makes it clear that people need to wear facial coverings, including mask or other facial coverings when they are within three feet of each other. the message is clear. the mayor was clear and i am clear. if you are outside within 30 feet you need the facial covering to keep the community safe. >> thank you, doctor. from melanie from abc 7. can you clarify the change to san francisco around testing as of the monday health order. had private providers not been testing people previously? will they have tests and supplies to do so? >> they have been doing testing. i would emphasize that across the city of all of the tests done, 60% are tests supported by

the health department or other city departments. that investment is huge. providers have been doing testing. what this health order will require all providers to offer testing to people who are symptomatic, who have been in close contact with a known covid positive or who are workers at high risk for the virus. that will be required to be same day offering of the test. their health systems that have the ability to get the supplies and to do the testing and if that is not the case, certainly this order will require that they get them. >> thank you, doctor, thank you may or and director colfax for joining us today. this concludes today's press conference. >> : thank you all for joiningu.

as of today we have four thousand sixty nine confirmed cases in san francisco and sadly people have lost their lives. we averaged testing three thousand two hundred twelve people each and everyday in san francisco. this exceeds our goal of conducting eighteen hundred

tests per day. we also know we need to do more. now especially with people facing longer wait times to get their results and also to get tested in the first place. covid 19 in the bay viewpoints and in the valley and mission demonstrate that we clearly have a real disparity. early on in our responses to covid 19 we created a field care clinic at the community health crepter to bring testing to people. recently we announced the opening of a testing site of a latino testing hub. i'm excited to announce an expansion that will bring test to go areas of the city that have been especially hit hard. to do this, we're going to make

three major expansions. first, we will expand our city tests site by adding four hundred new slots a day where we can continue to on focusing on essential workers who need testing the most. our fire fighters, police officers, health care workers and people who are taking care of san francisco. we will launch two mobile pop up sites that can test up to two hundred fifty people per day. one will start this week, the other next week. they will rotate to different neighborhoods in the city that are seeing high rates of covid 19 and need more testing options. third, we're creating a third city test sf site at the south east of the city. the location is still being

developed with community input. it should launch in august with the ability to begin tests five hundred people per day. in total we'll have an a additional fourteen hundred testing slots per day. that's nearly a 45% increase over what we've been averaging over the last week. this new testing along with the requirement for private partner it do their part will help us make testing more easily available especially for symptomatic or high risk individuals. resources for people to test positive, right to recover, hotel room it isolate. those are all the things we need to go hand in hand with our testing capacity. to find out more information on how to get tested please go to the website or call 311. i'm really proud of the work

we're doing to expand testing in san francisco. we know that we can't test our way out of this pandemic. we need people to be responsible. to keep their distance from others to avoid gathers, and to wash their hands. getting testing is not a passport to do whatever you want. you can still get infected at any moment. when i see people acting irresponsibly or on some of our busiest commercial corridors, i'm really disappointed. what you're doing when you gather with friend friends and t waring a mask. you're making our recovery longer, you're making it more difficult for kid it go back to school. you're making it more difficult for folks to visit senior homes.

more difficult for people to get back to work. our nail salons and barbershops. massage and tattoo parlors and things like that. you are making things more difficult for others not just yourself. i know it's hard. i'm tired of living in this covid 19 world just like you are. the sooner we can act responsibly, the sooner we can get back together in a more real way. at this time i'd like to introduce dr. grant c olfax. >> : good afternoon, thank you, mayor.

i'm dr. grant director of health for the city of san francisco. as the current surge continues our reopening plans must remain on pause. last week, we told you that it took us 38 days to go from 2000 to 3000 cases. it's taken thirteen days to go from three thousand to four thousand. we are averaging seventy nine new cases everyday diagnosed. we know there are more cases out there as the virus continues to spread. these numbers put us in the red zone of one of our key health indicators. as of tomorrow we'll have been

in that red zone for a month. since monday san francisco has been on the state watch list that restricts reopening. the reason for the watch list is our rapid increase in hospitalization. we remain on high alert. our goal is to keep the rate of hospitalizations of covid 19 patients to less than 10%. in san francisco we can slow the spread of covid 19. we have flattened the curve before. we must do it again. lives are at stake. you know what to do. wear face coverings out side of your hous household. stay six feet apart from others and avoid gatherings.

while you do your part, the city is doing it's part too. the testing expansion is one of our strategies. it's an important one and especially paired with contact tracing, it can help us contain covid 19. but testing alone will not bring us out of the red zone. i'd like to talk today about the role of testing in our city's pandemic response. five months ago san francisco had never conducted a single test for covid 19. on an average day this month, we conducted more than three thousand. building our testing infrastructure has been a tremendous effort that involves hiring staff, ordering supplies, deploying testing sites across the city. a severe lack of federal

leadership has made testing a significant challenge across the challenge. faced with limited resources san francisco prioritized testing for the people with greatest needs. it's important to understand that the testing universe is much larger than the tests that people are seeking out for themselves. we test all residents and staff in san francisco's skilled nursing facilities. we test as part of out break response in many studies across the cities. we test all people with symptoms and hospitals and clinics. because of the strategy we have been able to slow down the spread of the virus. and we are doing well compared to other places. san francisco has the lowest rate of covid 19 cases and deaths and the highest rate of

testing. i will say that again. san francisco has the lowest rate of covid 19 cases and death and highest rate of testing when compared to other jurisdictions including los angeles, seattle, denver, boston, new york, and other big cities. therefore we have a foundation to build upon and we are doing exactly that. today demand for testing is growing because we're experiencing a surge for demand for testing and surge in cases. it's getting harder for individuals to book an appointment and taking longer to get test results. as we expand capacity, we must target our effort. we are not going to test our way out of the pandemic. this is an important point, test

sg a limited resource and we must use it wisely by focusing on people who are most likely to be exposed, we increase our ability to find cases. through contact tracing, we can further reduce exposure and spread. testing is not prevention. a positive test means that the virus has already spread. and a negative test is not a passport to take risks or it to do whatever you want. we have a vision of realizing universal access to testing in san francisco. but we cannot get there alone. a surge is making our circumstances more challenging all around. private providers need to do their share. the city is conducting nearly two thirds of all covid 19 test

tg right now. we know that many of the people seeking testing from the city have private insurance. that is why we have issued a health order requiring businesses to test people with symptoms and those with contacts and those residents at highest risk of exposure. this order aligns with the state which is requiring that insurance plans cover testing.

-represent only 15% of the city's population. in addition workers must leave their homes to take on more risk are getting sicker in greater numbers. and the neighborhoods in the eastern and southeastern side of the city continue to have a higher rate of cases. the surge is making all of these disparities worse. in the past two weeks, we have expanded testing in the mission, bay view, tender loin and sunny veil neighborhood. we administered twenty two hundred tests to date. in the weeks to come we will continue to expand test inning the south east and deploy mobile

testing in neighborhoods that need it most. and we'll continue to prioritize people with symptoms, people referred to testing by contact tracers and workers that are greatest risk of exposure. such as first responders, disaster workers, and health care workers. while the city is doing all of this, here is what san franciscans can do. if a contact person reaches out to you to say you might have been exposed to covid 19. please take that call. contract tracers can help you track your symptoms and get tests and get you resources like food and cleaning supplies if you need to isolate. if you have a health care provider, please try to book your testing with them. that will help the people with

out insurance, health care workers and people most effected by the pandemic. and of course, if you are feeling sick, please stay at home. if you're not feeling sick and going out, you must cover your face. stay six feet away from people out side your household and please, please avoid gathering. gatherings are part of what's driving our current surge. if you are gathering with people who don't think they are sick or don't look sick, that doesn't matter. you can still transmit covid 19 without symptoms. even if people have gotten a negative test recently, that doesn't mean they are negative that day. we have seen increases in covid 19 precisely because people are gathering more.

this is a critical time for all of us to come together as one community. take the precautions as we have asked for many weeks now. we can all do our part. ask your health care provider for a test. if you have symptoms, have been instructed by a contact tracer or at higher risk for exposure because of your living or working continues. let's show the world that san francisco can flatten the curve again and resume our ohmings ops together. thank you. >> : thank you madam mayor, and thank you doctor for your time. today we have a few health care and testing related questions for director c olfax.

thank you director the first set of questions are from michelle king. is san francisco going to start fining people for not wearing masks. will they set up a test line. >> : we're looking for ways to increase enforcement across the city. we know from public health work that the best way to get people to comply with doing what's right in this situation including wearing the face coverings, it's really chaifnged the social norm, the messengers are trusted community members who provide the support and information needed and in cases, the actual facial coverings so people can cover their faces and

take the right steps. at the same time we are looking at enforcement options not so much at the individual level but looking and ensuring that we're working to increase enforcement across the city of various institutions that may not be complying with health orders. we really need to protect each other so that we protect others. >> : thank you where does the city stand on hair salons similar to people meeting outdoors such as restaurants. >> : certain outdoor personal services. we're taking a look at that. we're reviewing the criteria and will make a derptio determinatid when those personal services can be opened outdoors and with the

state guidelines. >> : thank you. the la times. what lessons are we learning from new york's experience with the pandemic. >> : i think there are two things. certainly we have learned from the new york situation how bad it can get and how rapidly it can get bad. when we look at the mortality rates when the health care systems got overwhelmed. we can see sophisticated and health care systems, when they get overwhelmed, more people get sick and more people die. it's impossible to take care of people in those situations. when we talk about the surge, i'm very concerned as cases increase, it's plausible we can get in a new york type of situation in the late summer or early fall.

that's why everyone need it do their part to flatten the curve. the second part that we've learned from new york is that it's possible to flatten the curve with the facial coverings and social distancing and high general staying at home that we encourage. i hope we can do that before a massive surge. new york has unfortunately had to do that after a surge. >> : with regards to our private partners doing their part, what are we talking about? what are we asking of them? how are we holding them accountable? >> : when talks about private partners. from the beginning of the pandemic we've been working with health care system as cross the city to ensure a unify response. it's really strengthened our ability for instance, to ensure people with covid 19 are getting the best care possible in the

health care facilities across the city. what we need to do with regard to testing is ensure that low barrier testing is provided to people per the health order from the many health care systems across the si city. we know san francisco is fortunate and most people have insurance and a provider that is covered by a health care entity. per the health order the requirements are there so low barrier testing is provided particularly for people with symptoms, people with a known close exposure, close contact with a covid 19 positive person. for people what have been asked to get a test per the health department. there are a lots of opportunities that we hope will be opened up through this health order. city has done 60% of the covid

19 testing to date. in order to realize this vision of expanded testing, we need all providers to do more. >> : thank you dreghtor. director. do you believe that private testing labs are keeping up with the ever growing need for city wide testing? >> : part of our goal is to encourage providers an providerh care systems to expand their testing just as the mayor announced today. we're investing in more testing so do other health care systems across the city. there's the meeting demand for testing and prioritizing the neighborhoods for demand for testing. we need to do our part there. there's the situation where labs are getting behind in terms of processing tests. to a large extent that's a

national and state issue because the large lab entities that are processing these specimens are getting further and further hand. we all need to work together to ensure that labs are turning tests around as quickly as possible so we can flatten the curve by dpettin getting tests e quickly. >> : thank you. what are the turn around time for test results in san fran francisco. >> : testing turn around time varies demanding on where people get tested and the capacity of where-the capacity of the lab of where those specimens are going. in some cases the specimens can be turned around within 72 hours but we're seeing back ups

especially with our provider labs and some of our own labs within the city. we are backing up seven days, ten days at this point. that's something we're seeing across the state and across the country. >> : thank you director. thank you madam mayor and dr. c olfax for your time. any follow-up questions or questions after this meeting can be directed to dem press at sf dot org. thank you for your time and that concludes today's press conference. >> : thank

>> when i look at an old neon sign that's working or not working, i feel the family business that was in there. >> since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. >> you know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of san francisco. >> sf shines is such an amazing program, and i can't think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if they've got a neon sign, they've really got a great way to advertise their

business. >> this is a continuation of the sf shines program. >> focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. of the seven neon signs, we've invested about $145,000. >> a good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. as opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. >> in san francisco, the majority of neon signs are for mom-and-pop businesses. in order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. >> part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on

their current signs, and base on the history. in the time that we've been here, we've seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. >> there are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. i have worked with randall and al, and we've mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. that information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. so if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, we're going to pick these five, and they're putting together clusters, so they build on top of what's already there. >> a cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. when you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. if you havy got two of three of

them, you've created an atmosphere that's almost like a movie set. >> some of the hotel, we've already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some we've done in chinatown, as well as the city's portal neighborhood. >> we got the fund to restore it. it took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. >> neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration.

>> you would go downtown and see the most recent humphrey bogart film filled with neon in the background. and you'd see that on market street, and as market street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. >> the film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. >> one of my favorite scenes, orson welles is chasing

ririt rita hayworth with neon signs in the background. >> i think what the office of economic and workforce development is very excited with is that we'll be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. the first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the western hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. >> neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. we want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in san francisco, and so do they. we bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done. >> people in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit.

as you're driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. >> knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. it's a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. >> there's so many ways to improve public safety. the standard way is having more eyes on the street, but there's other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. but what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. >> when i see things coming back to life, it's like remembering how things were. it's remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just -- it just -- it just

>> after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the below-market rate program. i got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [♪] >> the current lottery program began in 2016. but there have been lot rows that have happened for affordable housing in the city for much longer than that. it was -- there was no standard practice. for non-profit organizations that were providing affordable

housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city we've been monitoring for some time since 1992. we did it with something like this. where people were given circus tickets. we game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. at the same time, we started electronic applications systems. called dalia. the lottery is completely free. you can apply two ways. you can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. if you a plo apply online, it wl take five minutes. you can make it easier creating an account. to get to dalia, you log on to

housing.sfgov.org. >> i have lived in san francisco for almost 42 years. i was born here in the hayes valley. >> i applied for the san francisco affordable housing lottery three times. >> since 2016, we've had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. if you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. >> for some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. there is a digital divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. so we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in

and get help. >> along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and there's also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a first-time home buyer workshop and a one-on-one counseling session with the housing councilor. >> sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldn't be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. they still might get a value for an available, affordable housing unit. >> we have a variety of lottery programs. the four that you will most often see are what we call c.o.p., the certificate of preference program, the dthp which is the displaced penance

housing preference program. the neighborhood resident housing program and the live worth preference. >> i moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. the neighborhood preference program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in san francisco. >> the next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. you have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. all city sponsored affordable housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery.

every week there's a listing on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has happened. several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. and how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another

master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. we will start construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. >> we also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. and life happens to people. people move. so we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. >> best thing about working for the affordable housing program is that we know that we're making a difference and we actually see that difference on a day-to-day basis. >> being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, it's a wonderful experience. >> it's a long process to get through. well worth it when you get to the other side. i could not be happier.

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>> 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, >> 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 >> : this is a remote meetingvio

conferencing. due to the governor's order and the sixteenth proclamation declaring the existence of a local emergency. the covid 19 emergency the fire commissions meeting at city hall is closed and will convene remotely. you can kawch a