>> roll call, please.

>> i think she's muted. >> i'm going to start over, thank you. >> thank you. >> [roll call] >> all right. thank you so much. we are going to get started. i want to welcome everybody from the public. my colleagues, superintendent and staff and student delegates.

section a general commission notice regarding virtual meeting ada accommodation and translation services. first item is approval of board minutes. we need a motion and second. >> so moved. >> again. >> these are for the regular meeting of august 25th, 2020. are there any corrections? >> seeing none. roll call, please. >> thank you. [roll call] >> thank you very much.

item 2 is superintendent's report. dr. matthews. >> thank you, president sanchez. good afternoon, everyone. this month we're joining the nation in celebrating la inx heritage month. schools strive to be places where every student can see themselves and be themselves where learning reflects both the familiar and unknown. board of education policies adopted over the years, honor and support various efforts in san francisco unified. students are seen and heard in their course work and each student's heritage is celebrated. we celebrate la tin x heritage month by celebrating by honoring latin x leaders. fairmont elementary was renamed dalores in honor of the civil rights leader now san francisco unified is proud to have a cesar

chavez elementary. dalores has dedicated her life fighting for those who are oppressed or disenfranchised. she co founded the united farm workers and helped organize the delano grape strike in 1960. and she came up with the phrase happy heritage month to everyone. starting september 1st, our district's grab-and-go meal program is free for all students again. previously students would be charged if they didn't qualify. thanks tie recent policy change by the usda it's free for all. every wednesday from 10:30 and 12:00 a bag of five days worth of meals, including breakfast, lunch, supper, fresh fruits and vegetables and milk is available for each student.

for locations and more information on what to bring to pick up meals, visit sfusd.edu/schoolfood. students center in services has heard from many families the current meal pick up window is not convenient due to school schedules. we have a survey that gatherings your feedback on what meal pick up times work for you. today is the last day of the survey and you can find it at the website, so please go to our website. to complete that survey. i'm excite today announce that sf loves learning. the tv shows season 2 begins september 14th, this monday. we will be airing an hour-long episode at 2:00 on weekdays on

ktv to aim towards pk through second grade students. this show will provide daily culturally affirming movement and creative content from our sfusd educators, students, families and community partners. the show will model sfusd's core values, develop students' graduate profile life skills and provide opportunities to showcase their work. on at&t it's 1,006 on comcast it is six or 106 on direct tv it's

channel 36 and on dish it's 36 and on ray it's. >> thank you so much. i try to do it at least once a

day. we have student delegate reports. >> good afternoon, everyone. hi. so, on our first item for our sac board update, we have the sac retreat. the topic is the student advisory council is the city wide youth led organization committed to providing a voice for students of the sfusd. by representing and presenting the interest of the students to the administration and policy-making bodies of sfusd. our goal, as student leaders s. to strengthen our connection between student leaders and our peers. the orientation was over labor day weekend. we go on a three-day retreat due to covid-19 we will postponing our actual three-day retreat to the spring. fingers crossed. thank you to our presenters. we would like to thank our sbc and asb leaders and

representatives for going on the retreat and especially shout out to weekend sal for hosting and making this cameo appearance. >> we have goals and achievements and the sac hosted a round-robin conversation on student leadership goals and how they promote and foster anti racist work so that our peers are better served with student support services. our goal is for the representatives to have an actual collaboration with the sausd so student voice at the forefront of the implementation of our new anti racist value. we discussed this during our asa retreat this weekend. to our cabinet, thank you to those who facilitated those collaborative conversations this saturday. item 3, sac committee development. the sac is currently in the state us of brainstorming 2020

and 2021 committee and electing chairs and the chair position will create a unique leadership for student leaders where they'll manage our sac products and engagement. our goal is to create committees that align with the projects that sac representatives have brought to the table with a passion. they will lead goals and projects that will be announced at our next sac meeting an meet. the sac would like to support the amendment of the resolution. the sac would like to support the amendment of this resolution since the aca was in support of the original resolution. the hawaiian and pacific islander communities are an as set to our community. we welcome commissioner moliga

to attend and speak more about the amendment to this resolution and how sac can support. thank you to the commissioner for such amazing advocacy and all the other authors who brought this resolution to our district. >> our next meeting will be september 21st at 3:00 pm. the sac is a public council and anyone is welcome to attend our meetings. if you would like to attend, make a presentation or would like a copy, contact mr. sal da dore lopez bar. next we have recognitions and resolutions and accommodations if there's done day. recognizing all valuable employees and rave rewards and we have coming special on this section. superintendent matthews. >> thank you, presidents

sanchez. peer resources is empowering students to change the world by inspiring them as the next generation of thought leaders and public servants. the video we're about to see will highlight peer resources for building the power of their students to create just change in san francisco public schools and communities through educating our young people to support train and advocate for one another. i'd like to introduce ow ofilia williams. >> hello, everyone. thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. >> just to be clear. are we going to go ahead and show the video now. i submitted it but -- >> yes, we'll show that now and i want to introduce you and we'll show the video. >> perfect. when the video concludes. i'm going to chime back in and

explain a little bit more about the organization and i will have the honor and privilege of introducing gary crews, the teacher who helped to bring the students together and put this video together that we'll be showing you so thank you again for your time and we are ready for the video. >> being part of peer resources means you learn how to help people and advocate for the community. >> peer resources has impacted me in my life by showing me how to treat others better. >> what you like most about peer resources is working with other people on fun challenges. it's impacted me in my mind from this and working with other people. >> it's really fun. you have projects to work on and

you help the schools maintain itself. you keep everybody in the group so it wouldn't be all falling apart. >> what i like most about resources is they teach you life skills on what you need to help other people. they give you confidence that you can speak out. [♪]

>> love it and change it and empowering youth to change the world. >> that's your cameo in there?

>> so again, thank you everyone for your time today. we know we have a brief time to share with you a little bit about peer resources. we wanted to open this presentation with the video because it never gets old looking at our young people standing in their power. i am the new executive director of peer resources. our organization has had a -- we've had a 41-year partnership with the san francisco unified school district. we have been providing anti-oppression, pro liberation, curriculum that both introduces and nur tures the critical consciousness of our young people. our practice has been to center their voices and the voices of those who do not ordinarily get the opportunity to leave and our mission is to empower them.

they are most marginalized. we empower them as agents of change. through the classroom, we trained students as leaders. our students engage, mediate, mentor inspire, support and advocate for each other in order to transform their schools into youth empowerment institutions. through activities like were highlighted in the video such as peer education, restorative support groups, tutor, youth action research and project development. they are able to transform the public school community into safe spaces for all students to thrive. peer resources is on organization that is interesting black leadership. we are working together interrally, from the coreful organization, and from the board to the staff to the youth to

dismantle antiblack racism, using a peer-to-we're training and professional development modemodelthis illustrates the pe build with our students. after gary and the young people are finished, if there's time, i will share briefly, about another school-led transformative change project that resulted in having a larger community impact and was born out of a peer's classroom at lowell and i would love to share

that with you if we have time. gary, please feel agre free to o ahead and begin. >> thank you to the board for giving us this opportunity to share our work and giving the opportunity to our young people, especially to speak about their experiences and pure resources. if peer resources our students can create change and offer peer-to-peer programs and they lead anti oppression and anti racist movements. one of my questions at the start of the year is how can we, as mindful active listeners save lives. and that they may sound like a good lofty goal but it's very possible through the opportunities that these students have, the work that they do and be powerful, impact they have on their peers. as you know, some video. many of my students led community circles. we have community circles on topics like sexual harassment

and lgbtq plus pride week. they facilitated restorative mediation and they were conflict mediation but now they have a restorative approach. they've also worked on transformative institutional change projects and one year, my students, after a work of action resource, decided to create a male latino new come up support group that was led by a peer resources intern and that is something that has continued at everett and has been very impactful. the students who have experienced it have said that it has been one of the safest spaces on campus and they feel like they belong. with that, i'd like to give them an opportunity to talk about their experience. sady will speak about teacher observations, collaboration of the essential schools and wisdom will speak about peer education

workshops. sady. >> hi. my name is sady. so, we did teacher observations in our class where we had pre interviews and then we would go into a -- we would go in talking to the teachers and ask what they wanted us to look for and we would go into their class and objectively observe them, which was super interesting because we got to feel like we had a voice because we got to be in the classroom where we got to watch teachers objectively and we were in a safe space where afterwards, when we had compiled our notes and we got our post interview where we got to talk to the teachers and tell them what worked and what didn't in our classrooms and it was like, a space where it wasn't rude or anything. we got to be equals with our teachers and like give them notes and stuff and tell them what works.

it was just super interesting. we got to be professional about it. it was so interesting to have a voice. normally, you don't really get that. as a student, the teacher is the teacher. it was just super -- like being responsible for compiling notes and being objective and always staying objective was interested and impactful because i can take notes and be objective about things around me not just my teachers. >> we'll talk about the workshops. coming to middle school from elementary school i had no clue about what was going on around me and about a lot of latino immigrants were being held up at the border and come to peer

resources really opened my eyes to see what is really happening around the world that the news and people around you tha that t talk about. it's so uncomfortable that people chose to not say it. i liked how peer resources make sure you can talk about the uncomfortable things to make sure that you get to know and impact people around you better. so i would say i would like the workshops because we had real lifetime and we got it put ourselves in the shoes of our people who they have to go through if they are coming into america and how scary it would be to be in those situations. and show people what to do in those situations and that's the main point of the workshop. telling people and giving them information of how they can be safe in those situations and that's about it about the

workshops. >> thank you, wisdom and sady. they were both in that class that participated in the video. that video was produced by an alum from owe con he will high s also in peer resources. >> thank you so much gary and sady and wisdom. we really appreciate you presenting. i would just close us out saying that as gary shared, we're in middle schools and we're in high schools. so, from middle school, there's a soft hand off to high schools so that our young people go into a community of support and at lowell, our beer resources wanted to focus on the lack of diversity in that school and they want today know the barriers so they participated in a youth par tory action research project to identify what was

keeping the diversity down at lowell and why weren't other communities represented at the school and one of the largest barriers they found was transportation it was geography and not being able to get there so what they did and to introduce the 29r, the rapid bus. that would help to support our young people getting from the bayview community to the west side region of our city to make it more reliability, frequent and get them to class on time. i want today share it was one of the transformative change projects that came out of lowell high school just as recently as last year and they were embraced by sfmta but due to covid the

project was put on hold and remains on hold but our transformative projects and so if this student group graduates before there's any traction on the project, it will be passed on to the new student body because we do understand that transformative change takes time and requires consistency. thank you very much. we are open to any questions that any of you may have if there's time. >> which formally just have a presentation. commissioner cook. >> >> commission cook. >> thank you for the presentation and it's nice to meet you ms. williams and i

appreciate our district and your participation in the program. thank you. >> >> i'd like to thank you ophilia and gary and sady and wisdom and i would like to celebrate the things that are going well in our district. often times we hear zoo many negative hinges and there are great things happening throughout the district and our schools. it's an amazing district. as underfunded as it is, we have great things going on and this is a great representation of that work so thank you for being with us. next is section c which is public comment. do you want to make a call for speakers? >> thank you, president sanchez.

this is public comment for items that are not on the evening's agenda. so if you care 20 speak on an item not on today's agenda, raise your hand at this time. >> public comment san opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the board's jurisdiction and we have that you refrain from using employee and student names and board rules and california law we cannot answer questions during public comment time and they will ask a staff to follow-up with speakers solve with that, let's get a gage on what we're looking at here. >> six. >> thank you, public. you will each have two minutes

and. >> if you haven't been called, mute your microphone. >> thank you. >> natalie, are you there? >> >> david. >> >> yes, hi. >> go ahead. >> great. my name is david thompson and my husband, louis and i have lived in san francisco almost 40 years and we are parents to a fourth greater and we've been active and animated discussions with many families at the school growing number of them i would say and i was asked to make a comment today on their behalf

and we extremely concerned at the pace and track around the issue of reopening the school and the elementary schools and as a long time resident of san francisco, i thought i would never say i envy detroit and it's very interesting to see that districts such as those in detroit and new york are so much further ahead and than we are here in san francisco. we as families are introduction liemly concerned by the virus of course but we're also equally concerned about this social divide to have publish a plan with transparent specifics about

when we will see our children back in school. there's a feeling that a lack of responsiveness and transparency about this and i would like to urge the district and the board to when we have have the mou and we as parents are here to help and we very much want to be a part of the process and a part of the deliberation about this and for example, we stand ready and willing to raise money and to fill in gaps as it pertains to funding so thank you, very much. >> thank you.

>> my name is savory and i'm a parent of two children at an education school and i wanted to speak to urge the district to reconsider the decision to resume charging tuition even though the school is still closed or to allow families to withdraw their children halting stew i guess was teaming with worries and unknown and the decision wouldn't lead to teacher layoffs and the decision made sense because as i school could not provide their primary service of providing daycare and this is been reversed and we're asking for our family to pay 850 a month and to participate in distance learning and even with the incredible talents of the teachers distance learning is not appropriate and it does not come close to replacing face-to-face learning experiences and socially motional development for two and

four-year-olds and most important it does not solve the daycare problem and because and i quote, it wouldn't be fair to charge new families on the school that wasn't open so in the end, we are a current family put in a position of having to pay to hold their spots and hope the school reopens which is complicated further by the announcement at the beginning of the sum they're presidio will close next august. i feel our family in a privileged position where at the moment this is a choice it's not the case for all families and that will also not be a choice for us if the school does the hybrid model where you are asked to pay $2,000 a month for full tuition of over $3,000 a month and they were only three days a week. while i fully support as a teacher myself, schools being closed until we can safely reopen them, i am urging you to reconsider charging families tuition while schools are still

closed and to give us the option of keeping our children spots if we chose to withdraw until the school reopens. thank you. >> thank you. >> jennifer. >> can you hear me. >> i would love to celebrate successes of san francisco unified. i've been in place for about 15 years now but this is the least supportive i have felt. it was my 20th day at work and i'm still working from an office and i had find and play for myself and they have not offered me a work space and i made expensive about my including naming gus routes that i could access and since i do not have access to a car and they are offer space at two schools a half mile from my own but they

assigned me to lowell. lowell is a 13 daily walk for me and i was not given access to lowell for all of my working hours so if i accepted the placement i would have to be doing zoom calls with kinder gardeners while walking. that is unreasonable. beyond that, they are allowing teachers to teach from their own classrooms including districts with unique financial constraints like oakland and i can't differentiate instruction right now because i don't have the materials and i am unable to truck two carts of materials on the buses and move them from a work space especially one located six and a half miles from my house. i hope you will encourage the district to do what every is doing and let teachers use their

classrooms for distance learning. the current situation unsustainable and inequitable. >> what's your last name, jennifer? >> molesf. >> our union, our drivers have been driving the children of the san francisco school district for 50 plus years. our drivers are care takers for these children and have watched them grow up and often keep in contact with them long after they have left sfusd as they

continue their lives' journey. our drivers' children attend sfusd as well, those lucky enough to afford to live here. this and district have treated us like we're outsiders. like mean nothing and we're not part of the san francisco school family. you have ignored us and you don respond to our pleas for fairness. you do not respond to our writers and you threaten our jobs and our work is tied to the san francisco schools and our workforce's purpose has been to serve san francisco schoolchildren exclusively since about the time that they came to california. the company names have changed from time to time. this is been the same for all this time and includes some of the original drivers. we are your school bus drivers

and of your moral obligation to show us dignity and respect. treating us like we're a disposable workforce is disgusting. where is the equity. we're not going away. we demand the san francisco school district and the board of education respect our union to you your yture i aour time.>> h? >> caller: thank you. i also wanted to edges my opposition to charging preschool families and also request their support of the board to keep the

pre sid yo early education school open. thank you. >> thank you. >> >> can you hear me? wonderful, thank you. alice cravens, i'm the program director for heat of the kitchen, which is a program at a continuation high school. it's a great collaboration with dcyf, ymca and the school district through career pathways and like jennifer, i'm also a teacher and our staff and teachers for heat of the kitchen do need access to our classroom and we have an amazing opportunity where we're able to provide deliver and cook with our students and it has so much

potential. i think all teachers need access to their pro yesh classrooms. and thank you very much, i'll stop there. if this is already been communicate inside another way, if you can put me in touch with a staff member that can help us move forward with this, we would really appreciate it. thank you for all your work. >> i wasn't going to talk about this but hearing the bus driver speak. they're not just a part of the san francisco school community, they're a part of the bay area school community and there's people that go to school outside of san francisco that are funded by san francisco unified and people that live outside of the county so it's more than just that. part of that is not every single

school follows sfusd schedule of plan of reopening. will are schools in the bay area that are starting to reopen doing hybrid learning models and doing this to the school bus drivers is the wrong time and it should never happen but it's ridiculous. say fourth the school district should reconsider paying for students that go to treat interests out of california. i believe it's a corrupt industry as which see with paris hilton. it's traumatizing with everything going on. there's almost no oversight for the school district and los angeles knows what they're doing. they have people inspect all the

schools and in san francisco i didn't see anything. all i saw was a contract and money given away. so it bothers me what the school district is doing. thank you, it's all i have to say. >> thank you. >> caller. >> can you hear me. >> we can. >> thank you. >> so i am concerned that the department of health has been given such unilateral control overtiming of the reopening of the schools. they plan to reopen schools in november and i don't why they're

setting up that date so far in advance and i'd like everybody on the call to know that there is a ramee to reopen schools today from 4:30 to 6:30 at 350 mcallister street and so, i encourage everybody who is available to attend and i think it is important to reopen schools in a manner that is safe for teachers, students and families but this sort of like, i agree with other callers that this is not done in a transparent manner but just kind of been behind closed doors and there's no real clear plan being given and it's concerning.

thank you. >> hello, mark. >> >> i can hear you. >> go ahead. >> like my co-worker earlier, i'm also a school bus driver employed by first. i've onli've only been with they five years. at this stage of the life, one of the reasons i took on the job for the union pay, which was competitive at the time it was for the benefits. i had four children, a mortgage, and i needed good coverage. i lost a child in february who

was part of the san francisco unified and he was special needs and he just couldn't hang on. my other children, you know, they depend on me and i know a lot of my colleagues have given dedication not only for 30, 40, some 50 years, a lot of dedication and their life and i must say i find it appalling that san francisco, one of the richest cities in the nation, cannot back us up on covering our health coverage for a lot of people in dire need of it. it's no secret a lot of the other districts, los angeles included, obviously have backed their drivers. at this stage of the name it's

unnerving what is happening and you know, we would like to see some clarity and some support. from a district that we've been given our all. we love our jobs and at my age, there's not a lot of jobs out there right now especially during this horrific year. thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is sarah and i'm calling as a parent on behalf of myself and many other early elementary school families and we are willing and able to send our kids to school under a phase 2 gradual hybrid model is the term. and under the conditions that

are safe for teachers and students. it's a hardship for any family. i have multiple learners at home and while i do recognize and have the privilege of choosing other options, because the current situation sun sustainable i have options like moving, paying for a private oring into a pod or hiring a tutor, i know many other families are not this privileged and we are -- our situation is hard with young learners age 10 and other so that includes third strayed. i've outlined health problems that my kids are presenting in our wellness checks. i won't get into details now. sfusd should be prepared to open for hybrid learning as soon as data and science says it's ok to do so and we will stay ready and really anxious for that to happen. thank you.

>> cindy? >> can you hear me? >> yes,. >> thank you. i would like to echo sarah's comments and i am a mother of a first grader and there are two full-time working parents at home trying to juggle hearing ig ha has been happening and it's difficult for my son and his mental health and trying to keep up with everything and doing what i'm doing for three plus hours is not ideal for anyone. i am pleading with the district to please, try to prioritize the younger children, as you have said in public. the science is it about to tell us it's safe to do so and ucsf

has shown data those are 10 and younger are at lower risk. give the parents and teachers choice. the private schools will jump ton and if you talk about equity and the balance of everything, if the private schools open and the public don't the gap will continue to widen, both education and equity so please, open as quick as you can, thank you. >> thank you. >> >> julie. >> caller: my name is julie roberts vaughn. i want to speak a little bit to the calls to reopen schools as soon as it's safe. and i want to make sure that folks are conscious of the data in san francisco. we hit 10,000 case this is san francisco and there are 1,100

children under 18 who are covid positive and when we were able to get the data about a month ago, inspections were split between kids 10-18. i just want to see that information it's not being shared widely. i would like to hear more from the district about what criteria is necessary in order to ensure we're able to internet schools safely and i understand there are discussion besides that and it would be helpful for the public to hear more and understand why ar are or why not may be safe and recommended under science to stay home or to participate in schools and i feel reassured they will apply for a waiver when san francisco is technically in a purple category but being given mer

mission because we're doing more testing so i appreciate the district is thoughtful and it's the highest priority and i would like to ask that there's a little more transparency about what some of the constraints are that we're facing so families can understand those dynamics. thank you. >> >> thank you. >> >> natalie are you there. >> that concludes the public comment. >> thank you so much for something out to speak to us today. we hear you. there's a lot going on. and more information will be coming out. section d is advisory committee reports and appointments. we have the parent advisory council, michelle jaques. >> i'm joined by michelle

delaney. >> my name is michelle delaney and i'm a parent of a first grader and a fourth grader and i'm really happy to be in this district with them. i think everything is -- you have done a good job and i appreciate it. >> i'm a parent of two former usfusd students and a pack member and the coordinator for the parent advisory council. we wanted to start off with acknowledges and appreciations starting with the extraordinary efforts of all sfusd parents as we enter the fourth week of distance learning and all the many challenge that's that presents. and we want to appreciate the efforts, as the superintendent did of all the teachers, educators, district staff, community partners staff, and who are working hard to connect with and do the best possible job giving a virtual learning experience to our students and we were excite today hear about

the extension on the waivers through december 2020 so that we can continue to provide fro meals to sfusd. i've been involved since march at different sites and families are so appreciative and it just really makes a difference. it's an important step in ensuring that all of our kids have access to healthy food is our city and families navigate the fallout from the pandemic. we want to remind families to fill out that multi purpose family income form even if you don't think you qualify for free and reduced meals. it's really helpful and they can be on the imagine page of the website and both at site and the department who have been working to provide meals and who heard our feedback that the grab and go meal times were conflicting the student learning and you

heard the superintendent matthews talk about the survey and today south last day. we hope that families are listening and they are conflicting with your students' learning that you will complete that survey and provide your input to better serve our students and families and getting them food without interrupting learning. >> i just want to say thank you to the students. it was a fantastic covid-19 just a moment peevideo.you heard some skills they get to learn and some of the impact they're having. i'm bummed they weren't able to be implemented during the pandemic but i look forward to it happening in the future. >> the patch held the first official meeting of the 2021 school year this past wednesday september 2nd, we welcomed over 20 participants including

board president mark sanchez and the parent leaders andly say on from the african american parent at vice recouncil and the district english learners advisory committee and thank you to emery gordon who presented updates and took questions on the budget and the learning contin' to you plans and they were review the district's plan and the joint advisories will provide written feedback to staff by the friday september 11th deadline and we had communication between families and the school district and school sites and all things related to distance learning including access and expectation and engagement and education funding including the local control and accountability plan as well as initiatives to make it more equitable across school sites and we identified areas within the pack including recruitment, fundraising, and equity and how we worked together using an anti racist

lens and they voted on the identified issues and communications and equity came up as top priorities. it will be our new officers for 2021 school year. our chair, vice-chair and secretary. we greatly appreciate all who attended and participated in our meeting and it was great to start the year in community with so many parent leaders and set the stone for a closer alignment and collaboration with our advisory partners over the course of the school year and beyond. for the pack is recruiting new members and we're commit today reflecting the multifaceted diversity our sfusd student and backgrounds and this year we're strategizing on ways to extend and recruitment and care delivers and students and to

include the voices and experience of all families and the work we do and and pack sf.org and available in chinese, spanish and english and applications are accepted and on an ongoing basis and for more information -- [please stand by]

>> are there any board advisory committee appointments? i do not see any. ok. next is section e, the consent calendar item, motion and a sec fosecond. >> so moved. >> seconded. >> thank you. we'll look to see if there's any

public comment on the consent items. >> thank you, president sanchez. if you care to speak on the consent calendar, please raise your hand at this time. >> seeing none. >> any items corrected by the superintendent in. >> no, president sanchez. >> any items moved? >> president sanchez, could we pull, what is it, 16, please? >> ok. >> miss cosco, do you have that in front of you?

(role call). >> there are six ayes.

>> i have a lot of questions about the rates we were charging attorneys. i think it was 385 and i think that's a little high, right? and i'm wondering how did we get there and how are we getting? >> i regret to inform you 385 for particular types of legal services is actually low. so there are many attorney who's are charging upwards of $800 an hour depending on the type of work they're doing and none that are working for us, by the way.

we have a standard provision in our legal services that requires the law firm to charge us the lowest rate than they're charging any other school entity and we make sure we're not -- when we get bills, we review them to make sure they're accurate and the time is well spent. with regard to your question about how we're picking the firms, these firms are all continuing from last year and i would say that the last, at least the last six years i've been here, we have had fisher-philips and a professional service's agreement, that firm assists

with the williams' inspections, which we're legally required to do. the last contractor is now and that is adelinaburrow and she will be doing the piece of the williams' inspection that george calagaros can't do. in the past we have traditionally hired jolee, who you may know is an official in the united administrator's union and we could not hire her to do work this year and we had to find a different contractor. >> so i appreciate that and again around the rates, because what i'm hearing from other districts, they were paying a rate that was lower than that. is that a san francisco bay area thing or, like, a standard across the state rate that you're talking about? >> right. and so, one, it would be great off-line to get that information because if we have a firm that

is charging us more than they're charging other public school districts, they want to know about that. but my suspicion is that the two law firms that are on here, they're very specialized. so fisher-phillips does work to bring in teachers from other countries and have them be here legally with the appropriate visas. that work is not typically inexpensive for employers and the ripp law firm is a specialized firm that deals with communication's law and so they are supporting us with our kalw work and have been for the past six years and because i believe we are the only school district in northern california with our own radio, i would be surprised, in fact, if any other school district had to hire a communication's law firm. it's such a specialized service.

>> thank you, danielle. >> you're welcome. >> so on that item, let's have a separate role call. item 16 on the consent calendar. (role call). >> there are six ayes. >> section f, discussion and vote on consent calendar resolution severed for separate consideration and there are none tonight. and g, proposals for action, and there are five policies for

action. all duly moved and seconded at a prior meeting from the board. if i have no objection from the board members, there will be one vote to all five of them and they were heard at the rule's committee last week. so in section g, numbers one-five are 1312.3, complaint procedured, 5.332, work permits, 53.2, bullying, 53.3, nondiscrip nation harassment and sexual harassment. and 6.142.7, physical education and activity was heard at the rules, but it was referred to curriculum, as well. and so, commissioner lamb, can you get the report out on the rule's committee meeting. >> they were generally updating

to reflect current law and that all five had positive recommendations to the full board. we also wanted to note a couple of things. for example, and danielle, please jump in, too, that we have just acknowledging that there's been some recent updates with the u.s. department of education. i believe it is section 5 5145.7 and, danielle, feel free to chime in. we made sure we added additional protections under the nondiscrimination harassment, 5143 policies. did i say that accurately? >> yes. the only thing to add to that, commissioners, is that we also made changes to the bullying

policies, 513.2 to mitigate some of what we perceived to be bad policy coming out of betsy devose and the national department of education. and so all of those changes are intended to try to capture the type of behavior we would like to stop early. >> thank you, commissioner lamb. and dr. matthews, can you

>> role call, please. (role call). >> there are six ayes. >> section h is special order of business. one, the item 201.8, a public call for the proposed learning

continuity and attendance plan for the san francisco county office of education and the san francisco unified school district and superintendent matthews, can you introduce and explain this hearing? >> yes. explaining this item and reading into the director is a director of strategic resource planning, anne marie, gordon. >> there's a new document we learned from the cde over the next month and if we t go to the

next slide, i want to begin with a quick overview of two different acronyms that are both in l-cap and that is related to our normal reporting structure of a local control and accountability plan which is a three-year plan, traditionally, that describes the goals, actions, services and expenditures to support positive student outcomes and support. the l-cap was developed alongside the local control funding formula or lcff. and we are reporting to the state on our use of lcff funds. and then, the new l-cap, which you can see, the learning

continuity and attendance plan is a one-year plan that describes how student learning continuity will be addressed during the covid-19 crisis in the 20-'21 school year. and we have more information coming about th the intent didnt purpose but it will memorialize the process underway for student learning this year. and the next slide, we have a calendar and an overview of our l-cap collectively, our l-cap process and so the different colors indicate when our recording document has changed over the past six month. so if we go back to march, we were in the process of developing a new l-cap that would have come to the board in june with the2021 budget.

but with the result of covid-19, school closures and shifting into distance learning, the california department of education had us create the covid-19 operation's written report which you all will recall from june, which was a one-time report to share back how we adjusted our programs and services and support while schools were closed.

the next slide gives us an overview of what the learning couldn'continuity and attendancn is. because of the change of the chs year, it will replace the l-cap and so we will bring a budget overview for parents to the board in december which is part of kind of the package of documentation that the l-cap is a part of, but we will not have our traditional local control and accountability plan for this year. the continuity plan is the document.

also to have a formal documentation process for school this year amid covid-19.

we do have som have specific requirements related to the continuity plan itself. we will be responding in writing, as well. and then in terms of sharing publically and having the opportunity for discussion, we have one public hearing.

the distance learning guide, the content and the substance is not significantly different and so this is, you know, to the extent that prior engagement is consistent with the requirements of learning continuity plan, an lea, school district or county may consider input from previous activities in the development of the plan. and so that was really our hope and our goal, is to not reinvent

the wheel when it came to completing the learning continuity plan. we could focus on our priority activities and improvements for the fall.

some are new and very specific to this year and to the context of covid-19 and distance learning. so, as you can see on the right side, that note is that the majority of the information in the learning continuity plan does come directly from our fall learning plans and distance learning guide and we have actually cited those documents throughout the learning continuity plan to kind of ensure that cross reference and make sure the consistency is clear. there's two sections that contain the most that was different than what you are already familiar with and kind

of the plans we have been in discussion. this coming friday is our requested deadline for feedback and this will give district staff a week to produce a written response in preparation for a september 22nd board meeting, where we will share written feedback.

next slide. and so that is the end and i will hand it back over to commissioner sanchez. if there is any public comment, raise your hand to speak at this time. hello, julie. >> hi, this is julie roberts and i had some questions and i'm hoping the boa board discussionl clarify. in the learning continuity, i'm learning if we can have moore me accusation on the student engagement and go back to the disaggregation which families are connecting through distanced learning and what supports are

need. does it mix fund sources and reflect sources and resources with changes or additions related to the covid? in the actions related to inpersonal instruction offers, the budget has 10 million set aside for expenses and that's the largest expenditure in that area and so i'm curious why we're setting aside, you know, the largest portion in that section for things that are unanticipated and what we think they might be used for. in terms of actions to address people earning less, i'm glad to see there's a large portion to the english learning supports. i'm curious what we think that might look like and again, whether this will be additives to what sites have or whether

this is just -- >> i'm sorry, julie. you're going way too fast. i'm the interpreter. sorry. >> i'm slow down. the final question is around the $14 million in pupils and family engagement and outreach and i'm wondering if we can have more information on how those funds will be used. >> thank you. that concludes public comment. >> thank you so much. and commissioners, student delegates, any questions or comments? speak up if you do. do any of the public comments or questions resonate with you? do you want to respond?

>> sure. i can speak to some of those questions and so i think in the learning continuity plan, there is kind of a caveat for the actions and expenditures that we are awaiting some clarification from the cde about the total amount of dollars that are supposed to be incorporated into the learning continuity plan and i think that is kind of -- the question about are these amounts additive or are they already built into our budget? right now, it is a little bit of both. what we are hoping to clarify with the cde is whether we are supposed to be focusing just on our learning loss mitigation funding or if we have actually supposed to have the entirety of our lcff funding built into these actions because - and if f

the more notable changes that will make place between now and two weeks from now is adding some of the actions that are in our current l-cap or in the traditional l-cap to ensure that all of our general funds is accounted for. and so when it comes to the specific actions that you see listed in the learning continuity plan, i think, for example, that $10.5 million reserves, that is the reserve that has been -- that chief financial officer megan wallace is myself have shared as a part of our budget plan for 2021, where we -- based on research and efforts of the cost of reopening schools, we built in an assumed reserve so that we have resources available to make

adjustments without -- ready to deploy when we kind of finalized that plan. and then i think for a couple of the other actions, it's kind of a combination of places where we already have, for example, support for english learners built into our budget and the work that is being done related to those supports is being adapted and modified to support students during the distanced learning. and i think i can go ahead and pause there and see if that helps or if that has created more questions. >> your clarification had clarity. any questions or comments? otherwise, we will move on. again, thank you, miss gordon. and so, i end this public hearing and resume the regular

board session. item two is 2098so2, california department of education, request for additional education, fiscal year '20-'21 and we need a motion and a second for this item. >> so moved. >> second. >> gracias. superintendent matthews. >> thank you, president sanchez. for this item presenting to us will be our chief financial officer megan wallace. >> thank you, commissioner and dr. matthews. staff recommends that board action to direct staff that in the event sfusc is not able to meet the reserve as required under the california education code, to prepare fiscal year

2020-2021 budgeting plan for adoption no later than december 17, to 20. 20. 2020. the board of education adopted for our school district and county office of education. the next step, the california department of education or cde must either approve or reject or budget no later than september 15th. and as part of the review, cde noticed or budget includes a significant amount of local revenues from the city is county of san francisco, including 15 million proposed by mayor london breed. it will not be approved by the end of september and after cde, we'll have completed its review. to support the confidence in our budget submission, cde actually requested that the board take this action so that in the event rebalancing is required, staff will be ready to prepare a

balancing plan. and so through this action, the board of education recognises the need to rebalance the budget in the event that we're not able to meet our two% operating reserve and we see increased costs, associated with a hybrid model of our schools or reduced revenues. i'm happy to answer questions. >> thank you, miss wallace and let's see if there's any public comment on this item. >> please raise your hand if you're here to speak to this item. seeing none. >> commissioners and delegates, any questions or comments?

i think you must have presented quite well. and there's to questions. ok, so role call, please. >> thank you. >> miss collins, mr. cook. (role call). >> we have six ayes. >> discussion of educational issues, one item. superintendent matthews. >> thank you, president sanchez. this evening, we will have an update on -- as you recall, we developed in the spring a district partnership with the community-based organizations and started a forum updating on

that forum tonight will be our deputy superintendent of instruction. >> good afternoon, commissioners. this is an update provided by both myself, as well as our chief of sfcsd and i'll ask justin to project the slide, please. >> just one moment.

this is an opportunity to give a brief update on the work we've done with our community event organization, self-speaking to our community partnership form >> thank you, deputy

superintendent. good afternoon, commissioners and thank you for the opportunity to present. today, our presentation is focused on our partnership work and we all went into shelter-in-place, it seep seemse so long ago. we all knew we would have to think differently about the way we did things and the way we partnered together with our students and families. next slide, please. however, partnerships were not new to the district and as a district, we adopted the dual capacity framework to create authentic family partnerships and at its core, this framework named the conditions that need to be in place to develop both staff and families to service the student's learning. and this includes honoring and recognising family's fund of knowledge, connecting family partnership to student learning

and creating welcoming and inviting school cultures. we have been planning this since 2018 to work towards creating relational trust, and building the capacity of district staff along with families and community partners. as a result, we were able to call on our community partners to help us to coplan the first partnership forum in march and i'll turn it over to the deputy superintendent to talk about what we've accomplished and learned since then. >> next slide, justin. so the purpose of this forum. the three that were called out by the planners and that was definitely developed during the convening was to strengthen and deepen trust along all sfusd and celebrate our collaborative work during the series of abhorrent and strategize how we can move forward and how we do this of

pandemic and school closures and be a better and more service to our community and families. next slide, please. so the first convening of the community partnership forum was in april of this year, april 27th, and we've had two more in the spring and may and june and those were just kind of the spark. from there, the partnership grew and we had our partners coplan all of the the town halls that happened during the summer months and both family town halls and student town halls were co-planned with the community partners. we also, as you recall, convened the working group, logistic working group and a personnel working group that drove many of the decisions that were made for how we would reopen and when we would reopen and those groups have participation from our cbo partners. we decided that it was good work being done and we have continued this partnership and actually

hope that our first partnership forum for this school year on august 13th. next slide. our cbo form, just from the first one in april has hosted over 669 participants from various stakeholder groups and you can see that to the left-hand of the screen and we noticed -- i think i mentioned this in a previous presentation, that there's ways in which the virtual world really allows for more access and participation and so, even though as was said, there have been other community partnerships forums held in previous years and months, the attendance of the virtual forums has been very surprising and exciting. with an average of 200 plus for each convening. next slide. so what have we learned some we've learned a lot, think, individually and we've learned a lot collectively as we tried to respond to a pandemic is all

exacerbated in this time. a couple of things to highlight is that we recognise from our feedback forums and from our evaluations that even with this structure of the community partnership forum, there's different expectations, right? there's some folks who come with that 200, that are coming to learn about sfusd is learning and get information to take back to the community and their constituents and there's others who have wanted to leverage the networking. if you can imagine, 200 folks representing cbo's across the city to come together for three hours, an excellent time to network and share ideas and practices and get information. but many more are ready to actually do some hardcore planning collaboration and making some plans of how together we'll be of service to the community and so we've learned a lot about not just what we need to do together, but a lot of learning about who we are individually and how we can come together better going forward. next slide, please.

and so, what have we accomplished? even though there was a number of convenings that i shared in a previous slayed, we've only had three convenings in the spring. and even in the short three meetings together, i felt like we accomplished a lot. i think my national inclination is to say, like, what's the product? what's the tangible and we have some of those but we wanted to serve we did a lot of work below the line and really thinking about how do we include community together that we think is porsch important to get to te products we're trying to produce. we came together across gender, across organization and previous convenings were co-planned and this was co-planned and co-facilitated and another level. any community partnership forum, you would see five or six different folks facilitating different parts, all having different input on the how and

the what of the actual convening. we also established some focused areas that the groups want to dive deeper in. we want to attribute our partnership with the community-based organizations to our ability to serve close to three million meals and we had a newspaper of partners who not only volunteered but have been delivering meals or hosted food distribution at their particular location. an example of that is our ship-shape community center. we don't have schools there, but that partnership with the cbo has helped us to support families on treasure island. and our cbo's have helped with the wellness checks and, specifically, making calls in the spring, but also, when we have families express a need for immediate service or resource, we were able to link them directly to the supports because of our relationships and because of the conversations we had at

those forums of who can do what. we were able to distribute materials, both devicive, as well as instruction materials in the spring and again, in the fall based on partnerships and in collaboration with our cbo's. and even as san francisco prepares for the community hub, there's been a lot of thought partnership and sharing around best practices to manage the devices and we've also invited and shared our webinars and training with folks getting ready to facilitate the learning hub. there's a lot more communication about resources and services for the community. next slide. the group of folks ready for action are the ones that continue to show up and we're excited about now identifying some very specific projects or areas that we want to focus on together and then communicating what will be the goal or

objective and doing that work together. we are still wanting to figure out how do we better share information with the community that's not just wsusd information but what they're offering and vice versa. i think we're getting better but the whole idea of the relationship is that role and title isn't relevant and we're coming with our passion and commitment to all of our different areas of expertise and skillsets. so we're looking forward to our future forums to really move towards accomplishing those. a couple of obstacles and we still want to call them opportunities and, again, just really figuring out how to community katcommunicate. sfusd uses certain platforms and how are we making sure we can talk to each other with the technology that we use and there's been a challenge and a

lot of feedback around sharing information with our cbo partners, access to the data, et cetera, while maintaining an environment that's secure and safe and then how do we make sure that we're having each other in the conversation? these community partnership forums cannot be the only place where we come together and collaborate and get information and so how are we making sure we're in each other's conversations and how do we reduce redundancy or replication? next slide, please. and the comment i just said of the obstacle around balancing the need for access and student security and privacy, just wanted to highlight a couple of things on this. i won't go through each one, but this is definitely and area that we're still focusing on and trying to figure out and we know that many of our community-based organizations provide really necessary services to our students and in order to ensure safety and security. we have protocols around who can get an sfusd email account and

so this is really for our partners listening and information about how do you get a new sfusd log inform, as well as what teachers can and dan not dand cannotdo to participate anf service and make sure student safety is at the forefront. next slide, please. i think one critical difference as we move from the spring to the fall, it's not new, but it definitely names more is thinking about how to do this work in a way that is of service of anti-racist practices and true authentic partnerships. we want to move from planning events, so it's nice to plan a forum together and really moving to true collaboration and coordination and having really concrete action plans. i think one accomplishment that i didn't speak to was, again, that 669 number. it's huge.

and so now that we have all of the folks and perspectives in the room together, how can we really make sure our voices are lifted and that we can actually do more and better of students and families. next slide, please. >> you want me to go? >> ok, so, where do we go from here and how do we build off what we learned and what we're thinking of is version 2020 for the community partnership's network or maybe we should call it 2021. and i just want to be transparent that we're in the beginning stages for the best thinking today and nothing that i'm presenting today is set in stone and it may shift as we bring together a diverse leadership and design team to help us with some of the decisions. but in an essence, what we want to do is create a network is lead by diverse leadership and design team that would identify

priorities and create structures across projects and event. we have a core team to support the coordination and align work over time and have shifting planning teams. the planning team may be responsible for clarifying objectives and the members of the planning team would evolve as the events evolve. and the idea is that we would want to be sure that we had the broader community participating informed and benefiting from the collective work and we have consistent participation over time, which that is what deepens our collaboration, our coordination and trust. and that is sort of the best thinking today of how we evolve to this next phase of the network 2020. next slide, please. so what do we do right now in the next steps? we're in the process of beginning to convene the leadership design team to design the structures and collaboration and sharing our best practices.

and we will continue to share information through emails and newsletters, and much of the information that goes out in the family digest and such, we also collate and send out to our community partners tone sure thato ensurewe're getting up upp information and what will be the forms to deepen our relational trust in our roles and continuing to find a common purpose in our shared work. back to you. >> we want to be respectful that collaboration with our cbo's is not new. we want to make it better and honor the strong relationship with our partners and the work that's done at that level, as well as the equity study's passport. that's another sfusd kind of coplan section where we meet with community-based organizations and partners.

and we have many of our sfusd leaders, both site and central teams, and folks who are joining the cbo networks. it's not just coming to the sfusd but we're going into their networks, as well. and finally, we do have over 89 after-school programs and cbo partners who operate those programs and those groups are meeting regularly, as well, and we hope to see this continue and we're committed to the ongoing collaboration and ultimately, moving toward really actionable projects that we can share with the community and give updates on and actually continue to be of service. and so we are going to open it up to questions. i told you brief, commissioner sanchez. that was our brief update. [ laughter ] >> thank you so much for the presentation.

we'll open it up to public comments. >> thank you, president sanchez. if you want to speak, please raise your hand at this time. it looks like we have a couple of hands up so far, president sanchez. >> yes, hello. >> you can go ahead. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i want to, first of all, thank the leadership of the school district for giving me the opportunity to participate in the planning and the execution of a lot of the forums and i definitely agree that given that we're working o in a virtual world, it made it much more

accessible and i really -- i'm in full support of the plan that's laid out in terms what will be the next iteration of this work is i do look forward to continuing to partner with the district as a community agency and make sure that our students and families are definitely at the center of our work. and i strongly agree that we should definitely come up with concrete actions in terms of what is going to be guiding our work? what will be the end product of convening us all through this forum? so thank you so much. >> thank you. >> hello, casandra? >> speaker: hi, thank you. i'm the director at the middle school. thank you for listening to me and thank you to the deputy

superintendent and the director. it was really nice to hear about these community forums and participate in them. and i do want to just have a quick statement of when is our children and our family coalition going to meet again? this seems livinge seem climatek you do? and this is a larger issue across the city that needs to be brought out to families directly. thank you. >> thank you. >> that concludes the public comment, president sanchez. >> thank you, mr. steel. and questions or comments from board members or student delegates? go ahead, student delegate almanza. >> hi, and thank you, president

mark sanchez. it might be funmy to say how much this 17-year-old is so excited and inspired by the community partnerships. i really feel happy to know that sfusd partnered with the community in such effective ways. the question of how do we share more information? i really value that this is called an obstacle/opportunity because the way i saw sfusd collaborate with the community was not own successful but engaging and it was facilitative, the technology we use in the town halls is transformative and i'm excited to see the community partnership grow with the more effective outreach for different perspectives and communities with different experiences. i'm just excited to -- i'm just really excited because i really envision having more and more accessible collaboration amongst

sfusd and expects, not just the cbo's but, like, community members and leaders and student. and i just wanted to say that. i was a part of some of these meetings and i honestly really joyeenjoyed them. >> great, thank you for that and any other comments or questions? vice president lopez? >> thank you for presenting this and for bringing this to our attention. i'm excited that our student delegate is happy about the work we're doing and it's clear that we want to continue to partner. it's something that we've been saying for many, many years. and i think it's just important to continue to share the work that we are doing as the cbos often hold stronger relationships with our family and i definitely am wondering about the actual planning, the specific projects that you've named and if you have any that

we can learn about now, i would love to listen to them. >> apologies, trying to find my clicker. no, we don't have any specific projects right now because we're just getting to the point of assembling the team and looking at what we're focusing on. i mean, the things that we're working hard on right now is the technology access, which has been a big challenge and opportunity and so that has been one of the big focuses of the first couple of weeks and we'll iterate as we get folks together. so we'll bring it back as we identify more projects. >> thank you. and it's very clear that the people in the positions are super dedicated didn't read ando work is jump on requests that we are able to collaborate on together. and so, if we can, i'm also

wondering about one more thing which is specific to any accommodations that we are giving cbo's who's partnered with us before covid-19, given that a lot of the work can't be done in person anymore. >> by accommodations, do you mean working with them in terms of the contracts we have to provide the services in person? can you tell me a little bit more what you mean? >> i can be more specific, just some of our partners offer services that would is been done in person and through those interactions, they are given information that helps support the students we are both working with. but because we can meet in person, they are now not able to get that information and not able to follow up on their work.

>> if i was an agency and doing work in the classroom, i would be able to support that student there and how do i get the information on that student so i can support them? is that what you're saying in terms of accommodation? how can we mirror that? >> yes. >> that's a super great challenge that we're having in terms of, i think, deputy superintendent talked about the different ways we're trying to get folks to have sfusd accounts to be a part of zoom meetings and have access to that.

so we continue to really think about how do we do that and so that we can make those connections with family. so that will be a big learning curve for us this year and we will keep you updated, but it is something that we're continually working on. >> thank you, and i know we have to be creative during this time, and, again, we're all willing to do that. but i just wonder how a cbo in that predicament would know that this was happening. would they reach out to you, your department? what would that process look like? >> oh, you mean to ask about -- well, if they have an mou with us, we're communicating with them regularly and if they're just wondering, they can reach out to the partnership's office and i think it's -- i'm going to go and look at the email to say it correctly, but it's sfusd partnerships, but let me get that to you so i don't say it incorrectly. and they can ask us those questions.

we're constantly trying to put faq's out to do that, but that won't be the easiest way to ask that question if they haven't worked with us as a community-based organization before. i'm looking up the email now and i'll announce it in a minute. >> thank you. any other comments, questions? i don't see any. so we'll move on. i want to thank you for this presentation. >> i'm sorry to interrupt, president sanchez. the email is partnerships@sfusd.edu. >> thank you so much. and section j is discussion and vote on consent calendar items removed at a previous meeting

and there's none tonight. and k, introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. and so there's going to be public and board comment, and i just want to make sure people understand what that's about. and so we have a motion and a second for first reading to superintendent proposal 209-8sp one, renewal for the prepatory school. and so can i get a motion? i'll move. >> did you get a motion? >> we need a motion and a second? >> i'll move it. >> second. >> thank you. and so, is there any public comment on this item? >> if you care to speak, please raise your hand at this time.

>> seeing none. any board comment? i do not see any. and so this will be referred to the curriculum program and budget service's committee and i would also like for our charter school oversight committee to have the opportunity to discuss this, as well. and section l, proposals for immediate action and suspension of rules, there's none. and m, board member's reports. we had a joint select committee on friday, august 28th and commissioner collins and commissioner cook, do any of you have an update or a rundown of that meeting? >> thank you, president sanchez. yes, we got an extensive update

from public health, dcys and park and recs. and there's an ongoing partnerships that are continuing to happen. supervisor hainey extended the meeting so we're meeting biweekly now. >> ok, thank you. we had an ad hoc committee on student assignment on monday, august 31st. commissioner norton. >> yes, thank you, president sanchez. we reviewed the process and the timeline for policy development and also heard a lot about some interim changes, process improvements that epc has already made including the long-awaited launch of an online application and we're going to be moving deadlines back a month because with the new online app, we can accommodate a shorter timeline for processing the applications, which is great

news since we know that every week we can push back the deadline. we capture more families in our first round of the process which is a huge advantage to navigating the current process. and i wanted to give the board a brief update on where we are with policy change because things are starting to move very, very quickly with our policy development and the staff expects to bring us a proposal for first reading in late october, actually midoctober, i believe -- late october, i think. and so, between now and then, there's a lot of work to be done to get to an actual proposal and so, there will be, actually, a meeting on september 14th and another meeting on september 29th for us to really start to get down to the details on this proposal.

and so the upcoming meeting on the 14th is from 5:00 to 7:00, and we'll be going off the action for, again, what are we trying to accomplish with the resign of the policy and reviewing the results of the simulations that stanford has done t to narrow down the concepts. i want to encourage you to tune in and participate in the meetings because this is all of our chance to really influence the direction of the policy before there's a proposal that comes before the board. and there also is, for anybody in the public interested, there's a number of -- there's a speaker series coming up that the staff has put together and i think there will be interesting opportunities to dig into the context around the policy change

and there's a lot of information that has been put up on the student assignment website and so, sfusd.edu/studentassignment. the first speaker series will be friday from 3:00 to 4:00 on the history of student assignment in sfusd and an additional panel on the research about school integration on thursday, september 17th from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. and on monday, the 21st, a summary of research about school choice and these events are free and they're open to the public and they'll take place online over zoom. and anybody who is interested in attending can sign up at -- it's a link, bit/sfusdresearch and i'm excited that all of this is underway and a lot of work to be

done. but obviously, this is really important work that the community is watching closely and affects a lot of our community members and so really excited to be moving it forward and let me know if you have any questions. >> commissioner, thank you so much for your leadership on this work. it's so important, as well as the work of our staff. we had rules, policy legislation committee on thursday, septembew commissioner lamb reported -- i don't know if you added anything to your report. >> yes, in addition to the five board of ed policies that we've adopted tonight, we had our regular update from capital advisers, our lobbyist firm in sacramento give us a wrap-up and just for the public, state legislature just wrapped. the legislative session early

last week and early morning hours and i think described it as chaotic and a final rush, but overall, again, the governor now has several hundred bills he's considering and they're signing into law or not adopting. and so, in the coming weeks, we should have a good sense of some of where the governor stands with the state legislature bills on his desk. we also receiv received an updat at this time, it does not seem to be any movement towards a federal package, a stimulous so that from the conversation that we had as a committee, was trying to understand in absence of a stimulus package, would it change any of our kind of short-term -- the state budget is trickle down to the local and

from that analysis with mia lee, we won't have any short-term impacts. but again, leading up to the impact, the budget and business' service's committee is meeting on this and will able to unveil the coming months and mile stones for us as a budget committee and what we'll be reviewing. so that's all i had as far as updates on the policy committee. >> thank you so much. >> commissioner lamb, reports to board delegates such as csba and city schools. i don't see any takers on that. and then all other reports by board members, if there's

anything a board member wants to report at this time. >> yes, just briefly, president sanchez. last week, i participated in a call that was supposed to buy the san francisco naacp, along with several black leaders with the chief of staff, part of which dallase addressed encantmd because our building was discussed as a part of the meeting and i wanted to make this on ground agenda to hear how we're addressing that as a part of our facility's approach or how we're partnering with the city. and commissioner meliga, is that ok. >> yes. we are planning a meeting at the end of the month looking to solidify the date on the 30th, but yes. >> great. thank you.

ok, so the following september committee meetings have been scheduled, budget and business services, thursday september 10th at 4:00 p.m., curriculum and program, monday september 21st, buildings, grounds and services, september 28th at 3:00 p.m. and the ad hoc committee, monday, september 14th at 5:00 , september 29th also at 5:00 p.m. section n, other informational items in the agenda is the staff report on acceptance of monetary donations to the district for the months of june through august 2020. and section o is memorial adjournment and there's none tonight. and at this time, we will take public comment for those who wish to speak to items on the closed session agenda. and mr. steel. >> president sanchez, yes, if

you would like to speak on the closed session agenda, please raise your han at this time. hand at this time. seeing none. >> thank you. section p, closed session, the board will go into closed session. thus, i call a recess of the regular meeting. so we'll see you all at this meeting and thank you, public, for attending this meeting. and thank you to the staff.

>> this is session q and one report of 10 matters of anticipated litigation by a vote absent collins provided direction to the general council in the matter of chip versus sfusd and case number cps-205-9049 board approved a

settlement agreement and authorized the general council to pay up to the stipulated amount. that does it for the closed session read out. thank you all. >> thank you. >> all and all a short meeting. >> sounds good. >> be safe. be safe. be good. >> thank you. >> thank you all. >> have a nice evening. bye-bye. >> bye.

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feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. this is very enriching as an artist. a lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. >> there are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. that is a really big draw. >> this is a signature piece. this is the bill largest darkroom in the u.s.. >> there are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. >> i think it is the heart of this place. you feel it when you come in. >> the people who just started

taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography. >> we get to build the community here. this is different. first of all, this is a great location. it is in a less-populated area. >> of lot of people come here

just so that they can participate in this program. it is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. the people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. >> we offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. we offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. we offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. there is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this

program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. >> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. >> actually, i have been here a lot. i have never looked closely enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >> we want to try to get them to be more creative with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool.

>> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for

photography. >> a lot of people come into my classes and they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. >> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a class. we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes.

>> roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. the light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. >> working with kids in the ocean that aren't familiar with this space is really special because you're dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of

excitement. >> when i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. >> we'll get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who don't like the beach. it's too cold out, and it's those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. >> over the last few years, i think we've had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. >> surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. >> we've start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. >> swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all -- not being anxious. >> so when we started the city

surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p.e. credits. just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. but now that we've been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids that's consistent, and the word has spread, that it's super fun, that you learn about the ocean. >> starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. >> we usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. we once did a special trip. we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group

stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can

learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, i'm going to be okay. >> it gives them resiliency skills and helps them build self-confidence. and with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. >> i went to bring amy family o the beach and tell them what i did. >> i saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. >> for some kids that are,

like, resistant to, like, being in a mentorship program like this, it's they want to surf, and then later, they'll find out that they've, like, made this community connection. >> i think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. >> for kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. >> we go on 150 surf outings a year. that's year-round programming. we've seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. >> i just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that they're engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and

how they're doing, like, in general. >> what i like best is they really care about me, like, i'm not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. >> we're creating surfers, and we're changing the face of surfing. >> the feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. it's definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but it's definitely fun. >> it leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kid's going to go out and do. >> i think it's really magical almost. at least it was for me. >> it was really exciting when i caught my first wave. >> i felt like i was, like -- it was, like, magical, really. >> when they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know -- their face

lights up, you know you have them hooked. >> i was on top of the world. it's amazing. i felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. it was, like, the scariest thing i'd ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after >> the hon. london breed: good morning, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us. as civic demonstrations continue around the world, we are emboldened by the protests and the calls for action to address the racial injustices and inequities in policing and law enforcement. these protests come at a time when our communities have been struggling even more because of the coronavirus.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

over half of our use of force revisions. i'll back up a step further in terms of the time that it takes. reform is not -- like you just said in there, a checked box process, it is not that. even with the 61 recommendations that we have completed, one of the things that we had to work on was what's the continuous improvement loop? so we've completed the recommendation, but what we had to put in place were systems of accountability so we don't rest on our successes and say we're done. and when the california d.o.j.

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

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

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

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

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

time. the only threat was the cops. you have to watch it one minute, two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, he's calling for his mother. his mother's been dead. five minutes, urinating on himself. people screaming, you're killing him. five times, he said he can't breathe. we've been lynched for 400 years, but you've never seen it on a billion cell phones at the same time. you've never seen it on 1 billion cell phones at the same time. in the 50s, a generation of black people, when they got to campus, campuses in the 50s, they took off. the picture, the television pictures of those dogs being sicced on children in birmingham in '63, the whole

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

to try to do something right now, to try to get a bill passed. all of these steps that we've been taking along the way have brought us to this point. i believe that you have 30 to 40 million white people in america right now who maybe believe three things. number one, racism is real or more real than we thought, something's wrong with the system when it comes to police and criminal justice, and what can i do? i'm going to tell you, as an old guy, that's a miracle. i've never seen that, and so i do think more is possible. we have to be very, very clear that at the end of the day, we have to reimagine and reinvent policing itself. the kids are saying defund the police, defund the police. everybody is mad at the kids for saying that. but if you double click on that defund the police slogan -- i understand that people don't like that -- the ideas are

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

>> as a friendyou can submit u questions by chat only. please submit your questions as clearly as possible and include your name and outlet. we will do our best to receive questions up until the q&a begins. remaining questions can be sent to des@sfgov.org. and here is the mayor, london breed. >> >> the hon. london breed: good afternoon, everyone. today, i'm joined by community

organizations that have always been amazing partners with the city and have really stepped up during covid-19 for our community. i was out with the latino task force earlier this week to distribute p.p.e. for all businesses, and they are doing amazing work organizing and fighting for resources for the community. the sisters for perpetual indulgence are always at the forefront for keeping the sister of lgbtq healthy, always while having a little -- okay, a lot of fun. and the african american arts and cultural district has been working hard to make sure the community members know where they can go for support, from

sharing information about testing, business grants and loans, and working to empower youth in the bayview, and opportunities for all has helped distribute books, activity kits, and technology that students need to be successful this school year, and their terms and fellows have repaired with community engagement and outreach throughout the city. so since the start of this global pandemic, we have always heard and received advice about how we can protect ourselves and others and slow the spread of the virus. overtime, as our understanding of the virus has evolved, some of that guidance has changed, like face coverings, while other guidance shall stayed consistent, like frequent hand washing. you can't walk down the street, go to the grocery store, listen to music our browse social

media without someone telling you to stay 6 feet apart, wear your mask, and wash your hands. since january, our city has launched multilingual campaigns on t.v., radio, social media, newspapers, bus shelters, and bill boards. a team of disaster service workers han been on the streets daily, blanketing our city with posters, multilingual posters and flyers. since january, this team has distributed more than 3 million flyers. posters, and fact sheets across the city. you can't turn anywhere in the city of without seeing our blue and yellow signs. this provides good information, and many people are listening. however, as we've stretched

into our seventh month of this pandemix, we are looking for new ways to capture people's attention to sustain the good work of our residents and communities. we want to be bold and strategic how we reach out to people who aren't wearing masks. we wanted to find out why people might not be wearing face coverings and see if we can change their behavior because we're all safer when we cover our faces when we go out, and regularly wearing face coverings will help us keep san francisco on a path of reopening that we so desperately need. i asked our team, our city team to start working with people and organizations in our neighborhood to did he vel community led education campaigns and outreach efforts specifically around mask wearing, and many answered the call. our nonprofits arts and faith

organizations are on the frontlines impacting communities. because of their relationships, they are often the most trusts and the most influential than the government. i'm proud to say, today, we are launching our first series of community-led campaigns ahead of labor day weekend, and you are going to hear from some of our partners shortly. but first, i want to address why we are launching this ahead of this current weekend. historically, labor day is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of american workers. because of the pandemic, this labor day has a special significance. it is a chance to honor the special workers in our community. we know this virus has disproportionately impacted our

frontline workforce, many of them who have to reuse their medical equipment every sipping wisipping -- single day. labor day marks the end of summer, and most years, we have barbecues and cookouts with our families, and i personally wish i could attend one of those gatherings. as we set at the beginning of the pandemic, the safest thing is to do is for people to stay home, but let's be real. people miss each other, and they're going to decide to get together. so if you do, we ask if you're going to be other with others, keep it outside, make sure everyone is wearing a face covering, and avoid sharing

food and drink. we know that oftentimes, when people come together, especially when they start drinking throughout the day, behavior changes. in addition to keeping our friends and our family safe, wearing a mask is one of the most effective things we can do to keep reopening san francisco. let's be mindful what we are doing and how we are impacting the spread of this share. let's share the love, not the virus. and at this time, i'd like each of our community partners to talk about their campaign and why it's important to protect our communities this labor day weekend and beyond. first, we have dr. scott sampson from the california academy of sciences, which lent their creative and innovative design experts to help our

city. >> thank you very much, mayor breed, and thank you for your strong leadership during this challenging time, including in relation to this coronavirus. and warm thanks to all of our partners. i'm scott sanchez, director of the california academy of sciences. the academy has been part of san francisco since 1853, just three years after california became a state. we care deeply about our city, and we are here to putting all of our cutting edge science to keep our community safe. when we heard that san francisco is so close to hitting an important mask wearing milestone, our organization jumped at the chance to help get the word out. the science is crystal clear, wearing a mask makes a big difference, and we need everyone, especially young people, to mask up. we know beyond a shadow of a

doubt that wearing a mask, watching your distance, and washing your hands will help crush the covid-19 curve. this campaign, available in four different languages all over san francisco, is asking young people to take one small step that can make a giant difference helping to keep our entire community safe. whether you're missing outside lands or dinner at your favorite restaurant, a giants game or inspirational evening of night life at the academy, we are all in this together. we are excited to keep the city's reopening on track so that we can all return to enjoying the many amazing benefits san francisco has to offer. i wear a mask so that we ask

safely open the academy and welcome you back for more awe and wonder in golden gate park. thank you, and stay safe. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, dr. sampson. now next, we have up annie chung from self-help for the elderly who will talk about efforts to conduct outreach and education with our asian and pacific islander community. annie? >> thank you so much, mayor breed, and good afternoon, everyone. i'm annie chung with self-help for the elderly, and as mayor said, we've been on the frontline, providing essential meals and other elder care services to all of our seniors in san francisco. and we're honored today, mayor, to partner with you and to support you in your relentless fight against the covid-19 pandemic, and to educate the

chinese speaking seniors and families how to protect themselves once they step outside their homes. mayor breed, i think the seniors are doing their part to abide by the health order. i urge all the seniors and families to remember what dr. sampson just said and practice the three w's: one, wear masks, two, wash your hands, and three, watch your social distancing. i know the labor day weekend is coming up, and we may be tempted to invite friends and family over for barbecues and gatherings. only invite people that are in your immediate household, and if possible, try to meet outdoors, which will be much safer for you and your family. remember, prevent everyone from sharing drinks or using the

same utensils or chop sticks with each other. be aware at all times. protect yourselves and others, and think positive. [speaking cantonese language] >> thank you, everyone, and thank you, mayor. >> the hon. london breed: thank you so much, annie, for all the work that you continue to do. next, we have director glen from the african american arts and cultural district. i understand the district worked with local rappers to produce a music video that we'll see at the end of this press conference. evan? >> thank you, mayor breed. we really appreciate the

continued support that the city of san francisco has shown the african american community. it's been a lot of unprecedented work over the last several years, and we deeply appreciate that. my name is evan glen. i am the executive director for the african american arts and cultural district located in the bayview and third street corridor. so it was a process working with fran says zamora, the -- frances zamora, the department of emergency management, making sure the message put forth in our campaign was representative of the people in our community: our culture, the way we look, and it just resonated with our spirits and our soul, and so that's what you're going to see in bill boards across the city.

we also thought it would be a good idea to put a rap together to resonate with the young people. after talking with my codirector, erica scott, she says hey, you know, my daughter's going to parties, and the young people need a message, as well. so we got together with a rap group out of the fillmore, 16-year-old girls called the poppin' twins, and they wrote the rap that we're going to share for everybody today. with that being said, i just want to send a message out to the community to remain safe because statistically, the bayview has been hit the hardest with covid-19 out of any other area in san francisco. we need to be aware of that. we need to wear masks, stay 6 feet apart from each other,

and remain safe. and think about your grandparents. think about the elderly in your neighborhood because their immune system obviously isn't as strong, and so we have to start thinking about each other. but again, i just want to thank the city of san francisco for the work that they've been doing to support the african american community. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, evan, for your remarks and for joining us here today, and we're looking forward to seeing that video. now we also know that the latino community has really been the hardest hit in our city. in fact, over 50% of the cases that have been diagnosed were people of latino descent, and we have not been able to do -- we would not have been able to do the incredible work that we are doing to support this community and to address this disparity if it weren't for the latino task force. they've been an amazing

resource in not only mask wearing but keeping people safe. they're here to discuss the latino awareness campaign in san francisco. so thank you, susanna. >> thank you, mayor breed. my name is susanna rojas, and i am the director of the latino task force. thank you so much for allowing me to speak and to collaborate dpsh-for allowing the latino task force to collaborate with the city so that our city can feel empowered to take action. the virus is just one more challenge to conquer, to stop

the spread of covid-19 and to protect our latino families ahead of labor day weekend and beyond, i'm here to showcase the latino community. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation]. >> our actions speak leader than words. we can show love by masking up. we can stay 6 feet apart, and most importantly, by not sharing food and drink. now we in the latino community know that food is central to our interaction. it is the backbone to our community, and gathering with large families is how we show our love. love during the coronavirus looks like wearing our masks, washing our hands, staying 6 feet apart, and protecting our seniors and our young

people. hugging in our families and physical contact is something we do on a daily basis, but right now, we have to demonstrate our love by hugging virtually by wearing a mask. and last but not least, we have sacrificed -- [speaking spanish language] >> thank you. >> the hon. london breed: thank you again, susanna, for joining us and for all the work that you do. i'm so excited for our next

speakers. sister, you are one of my favorite speakers, and i am so glad to have you here with us today. the sisters of perpetual indulgence along with supervisor mandelman launched an outreach campaign, focusing on the lgbtq community. the poster that you created was just amazing. thank you, and join me, everyone, in welcoming sister roma. >> hello, mayor breed. i can't wait to see that video, and of course i'm hungry for some great latin food. i want to thank you for unprecedented leadership during these very hard times. your team is amazing. since the beginning of the

pandemic, it's been hard for people in my community to not compare it to hiv/aids, which we all know ravaged the lgbtq community very badly in the early 80s. and the sisters stepped up at that time and were actually leading the fight against hiv/aids with providing information and education. so when this got here, we thought oh, this sounds familiar. when tom temprano approached me, i went back to my sisters, and we were all on board, and we went back to our methods of harm reduction and reminded our community that it's best to stay safe and stay away from each other. this weekend, people are just itching to get out and dance and see each other.

it's difficult, and it'll be trying, and i want people to know that there'll be a time that we can get together with each other and hug and hold each other, like we used to. but the sisters want to let you know that wearing masks can be fabulous. look for us in dolores park on friday, where we're going to be handing out 1500 masks, and then we're going to be heading to the castro for our first friday event, which will be at 5:00 p.m. in the castro. so thank you for including me, and it's been my honor and privilege. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, sister roma. i almost didn't recognize you without your makeup on. maybe i'll join you on friday. that would be amazing. >> oh, thank you so much. >> the hon. london breed: okay. finally, i want to introduce a

leader who has a bright future ahead of her. athena matthews. >> it is so important to demonstrate proper covid-19 behavior, and masks are just one tool to prevent the spread of covid. bypassi -- covid by catching droplets when you sneeze or cough, protecting those around you. indifferent while understandable is not sustainable. it is imperative that this generation feel empowered to take care of ourselves and take care of each other because we need to be more active and take

on an active role in fixing our nation's challenges, even beyond covid-19, so to my fellow general fellow gen-z'ers, let this be a warning not to just be aware of covid-19, but be aware of those around you. tag us on social media at #60s. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. at this time, i wanted to play the video that evan mentioned, so let's get to it.

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>> the hon. london breed: very nice. thank you so much. that concludes our press conference. i guess now we'll be opening it up to a few questions. i want to take a moment to thank everyone for joining us and really express my appreciation to all the organizations for the work that you are doing to make sure that we are staying healthy, and we are staying safe. i love the amazing posters, the graphics, the videos, and all the cool things that we are using to really get people actively engaged in this need to finding creative solutions to get folk to see comply with the mask -- folks to comply with the mask wearing compliance. i think about when i was a kid, and talking about wearing your seat belt and the work that had

to go into getting folks to wear your seat belt, and today, it's just natural to get in your seat belt when you get in a car. and i remember when i was little, people used to smoke in buildings and on planes, and now, it's completely different. even wearing a condom and the push for safe sex, the conversation about mask wearing, we have to get creative in what we say in the culture and the fabric of this country. the work that you do in getting the community to trust you to know that twhat they do is important and it saves lives. so we're thankful for your work, and at this time, we're happy to open it up for questions. >> thank you, mayor, and thank

you to all everyone who joined us here today. we'll jump right into the same questions. mayor breed, we received multiple questions on this, and this is one question that'll cover it. what do you think about speaker pelosi's decision to get a blowout in san francisco on monday? does she owe the service industry an apology? is ignorance of the health orders an excuse? >> the hon. london breed: well, let me start by saying that it's really unfortunate that with everything happening in this country, with the fact that we basically have a dictator in charge of running this country, and we have our speaker, nancy pelosi, working day and night to try and fight, again, the challenges we have with the white house.

she has spent her entire career working for this city and working for this country. it's unfortunate this conversation has blown up the way that it has and distracted us from the real issue. the fact is we don't have good, solid federal leadership that is helping to facilitate this covid-19, and over 180,000 americans have died as a result of this virus. and had we had what we needed from day one from this federal administration, then we would probably not be in as bad of a situation as we are. our focus should be on making sure that we as a city are providing also good information. i know that there's been a lot of confusion with our small businesses and operations and whether or not they can operate indoors or outdoors, and so we as a city, and the confusion between the local information and the state information, we have to do a better

responsibility of doing a better job around communication. so we can either focus and blaming and saying who should do what, but we have bigger issues as it relates to this country, and i have a tremendous amount of respect and appreciation for the hard work that nanny pelosi does every single day to take care of this city and this country. and that's what we should be focused on because we are dealing with very challenging times, and leadership does matter. i do understand that the industry is suffering, not only the hair industry, but the masseuses and the salons. i understand the frustration, and some businesses may not ever open again. i understand this is hard for everyone. the decisions that we're making around public health have everything to do with keeping people safe, and unfortunately, the economy and people's li

livelihoods have suffered. so i understand that, but i think it's important to get back to the main part of wearing masks, and staying apart, and staying heath healthy, and the city will do a better job of communicating with our small businesses in san francisco as we begin or reopening efforts. >> thank you, madam mayor. the next question comes from cristian captain with ktvu. with the weekend almost here and warm weather for the forecast, what city parks and impeaches are open -- beaches are open, and what distancing steps are you asking for people to observe? >> look, we know that parks and beaches are open, and it's important for people to

socialize and pick up a date or two, but what we also need you to do is comply. there are more parks that are dolores park or chrissy fields. there's other places you can enjoy, as well. so what we're asking people to do is to just make sure that you're using good judgment. if you go to dolores park, and you see that it's crowded and there's no place for you to go with your people and maintain your distance with your mask and so forth, why even step foot in that park? we will be out doing enforcement more so than we have in the past, but we want people to use common sense because we tend to see spikes in our numbers as a result of the holidays, and labor day, i'm sure, is not going to be any different. i've had people reach out to be to invite me to barbecues,

people who want today do a jumpy with the kids, and i'm saying, why are you calling me? i'm going to say no way. it's not that i'm not only going to go, it's just that these are places where the virus could transmit. i'm just asking people to remember, be a part of the solution, and we will do our very best to be out there, to do enforcement. we don't want to have to do enforcement. we don't want people out there, creating more attention than already exists because of people not being good citizens by wearing masks. we just want people to do their part. we're going to do our part. we hope we don't have to shutdown parks and parking lots and make it difficult for people to get out and enjoy things. we have so many parks where

there's no reason why people have to crowd in one or two or three park in san francisco. the beaches have been a lot more manageable because we've opened up more space there. again, just use common sense not only to protect you but the people around you. >> thank you so much, madam mayor, and everyone else for your time. there are no further questions at this time, and this concludes today's press conference. thank you, and stay safe. >> the hon. london breed: thank you.

>> >> president caen: i'm the president of the san francisco public utilities commission. at this time i would like to call to order the regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. today's date is tuesday, september 8, 2020. roll call, please. >> president caen? here. >> vire