>> 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 a vote

absent collinsvote . >> chair peskin: g >> 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 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. >> 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.

>> you are watching coping with covid-19. today's special guest. >> hi. you are watching coping with covid-19. in this first portion of the two-part inter vii am talking to the general manager of the san francisco recreation and parks department and state park commissioner talking about social

we were surprised how popular they became. it was totive. we expanded to include lafayette park an and and alamo square. >> that is great. that is fantastic. now, as restrictions are lifted i understand summer camps are now allowed. how is the structure changed to make sure everybody remains safe from the virus? >> we are thrilled to be able to provide camps at all given the virus. we worked really hard to be able to provide a fun and safe environment. camps look different but they still offer kids the same

opportunities for friendships, creative, learn new skills and in order to prevent the spread of covid-19 we are following the health orders, temperature screening and enhance screening. pods of no more than 12 kids. kids and staff stay together in the same cohort for leach of the three week camp sessions. this is different than the past where kids and counselors can jump from week to week. we are doing things differently. honestly, for kids to get out of the house, to see each other, to see their friends and run around, play some sports, which they are allowed to do in their own pods. it couldn't be more important. we are grateful for the health

department. no bigger champion than our mayor. >> tennis and golf are allowed. what about soccer and basketball? >> i am laughing. there is tennis and government and soccer and basketball and baseball and volleyball and fly-fishing and bike riding. you know, san francisco we are blessed to have an amazing parks system to do about anything. we had to respond. they have now re-opened with modifications to slow the spread or protect against the spread of the virus. in both cases people need to get social distancing. they should have masks on them if they are in a crowd on the court or at the golf course.

they are to refrain from sharing equipment. people playing tennis should play with their own balls. no spectators unless it is a parent or guardian of a minor that is playing. tennis really right now all that is permitted is singles. you can play doubles if you are from the same household. golf the modification includes reservations online, six feet apart. bringing your own golf bag and some modifications to the pin and cup to make it easier to retrieve your own ball. basketball and soccer are not open to the public. for kids in camp this summer they can play outside within their own pods. for recreational sports, these

are high touch activities with a lot of physical contact. we talked to our public health colleagues almost every day. we are certainly advocating to the extent it can be done safely to allow people to fully enjoy our park system and participate in all sports and activities they are accustomed to doing. we have a way to go and we need to be patient. there is so much to do in the park system. we are hopeful that people will be able to get back to team sports. >> i hope so, too. how have you been keeping residents informed how the restrictions have been updated and changed? >> i never. >> when i took this job we were going to be in the sign production business. we probably printed and

distributed over 2000 signs throughout our park system. they keep changing as the health guidance changes. we use social media, electronic newsletters, stories in the press, outreach workers to make people aware of various health orders and how they affect park usage. rangers and volunteers are made up of police and fire and neighborhood emergency response volunteers. they have done a wonderful job of trying to encourage and remind people that we are in the middle of an outbreak and we need to be safe. san francisco, i think, overall has done a great job in managing the crisis. unlike many cities, the parks are mostly open. we had to close a few park features like small playgrounds

and basketball courts. glen canyon is open. many cities they throw up hands and close down parks. it is our responsibility to use parkings safely and wisely. it is our job to make sure people have information they need. >> thank you, mr. ginsburg. that is it for our first interview. the second portion we will talk about the 150th anniversary and how parks are essential. you have been watching coping with covid-19. thanks for watching.

. >> chair peskin: good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation meeting of august 10, 2020. i am chair aaron peskin, joined by supervisor dean preston. i don't believe that we've been joined by our vice chair, supervisor safai, but he will be joining us, but -- we have been joined by supervisor safai. our clerk is miss erica major. miss major, do you have any announcements.

>> clerk: thank you, chair. precautions are taken to a statewide stay-at-home order and all other state and local orders, resolutions, and directives. members and the public will stay at home and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present. sfgovtv.org and channel 26 are streaming the number across the screen. 415-655-0001. the number is is 146-247-2457.

then press pound, and pound again. when there are items of discussion, you'll be muted. if you wish to enter public comment, press star-three to be entered into the queue. if you submit public comment via e-mail, you may could do by submitting it to me,

erica.major@sf.org. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss major. [inaudible] >> clerk: -- the system prompts will indicate that you have raised your hand. please wait for the system to say you're unmuted to make your comments when we get to public comment. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss major. colleagues, as you know, the voters of san francisco passed proposition e for housing for

educators. this is a slight tweak that would run concurrently, and if approved by this body, would be sent to the board of supervisors as a committee report. this legislation introduced by president yee relative to the mix of three-bedroom units that's been reviewed by the planning commission that has unanimously recommended this to this body, and with that, i will turn it over to president yee's chief of staff, general. >> thank you, chair peskin, and supervisors safai and preston, for allowing me to make this presentation. this would allow us to create a mix three bedrooms in future

proposition e educator housing buildings. as you know, affordable is an obstacle for many families to access housing stock, but we don't have opportunities for larger or multigenerational families to live in these housing stocks, and we want to make sure that we are establishing a principle to get a mix of two and three-bedroom housing units. we want to be able to attract workers to san francisco and retain them, so with that, we hope we can count on your support on this legislation.

>> chair peskin: supervisor yee is creating a legacy around educators, early childhood development. miss meloni, would you like to say anything? >> i would just like to say there were several public commenters which was heard at the planning commission earlier this week, including the united educators of san francisco, who voiced their support for the ordinance, and i'm here to answer any questions. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss merlone. are there any questions or

comments, supervisor safai or preston? with that, is there any public comments? >> clerk: thank you. michael michael from public works is going to let us know if there are any speakers in public comment. for those of you not in the queue, press star-three to enter the queue, and for those of you already in the queue, wait until you receive a system prompt telling you that you have been unmuted. >> chair peskin: do we have any speakers? >> there are zero callers in queue. >> chair peskin: okay. seeing no members of the public for public comment, public comment is closed. and colleagues, if there is knox, i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board of supervisors with recommendation as a committee

report to be heard tomorrow, august 11. on that motion, madam clerk, a roll call, please. >> clerk: on that motion, as stated by chair peskin -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have three ayes. >> chair peskin: all right. next item, please. >> clerk: item 2 is an ordinance amending the planning code to reenact a provision permitting nonretail professional services above the fifrts sto first story in the chinatown community business district zoning control table, which was inadvertently deleted in recent

enacted legislation. to enter t to -- >> chair peskin: thank you, miss major. as miss major just stated, this is indeed a technical correction to an item that was inadvertently deleted, and this will reinstate the nonretail professional services above the ground floor are permitted. mr. starr from the planning department, is there anything you would like to add to that nifty synopsis that i just

gave, or ms. merloni, or anybody from planning. we're fixing a mistake. >> i believe that we are satisfied with your description, chair peskin. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss merloni. are there any questions or comments from members? seeing none, is there any public comment on item number 2? >> clerk: thank you, mr. ch r chair. michael is letting us know if there are any public callers. if you have not done so already, please press star-three to be entered into the queue. if you have not done so. please wait until you are unmuted to begin your comments. >> there appears to be no comments. >> chair peskin: thank you, michael. public comment is closed, and i would like to send this forward with a positive recommendation in due process to the full

board. roll call on that item, please. >> clerk: on the motion as stated by chair peskin -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have three eyes. >> chair peskin: could you please read the next item. >> clerk: yes. item number three is a reenactment of emergency ordinance, ordinance number 84-20 to establish protections for occupants of residential hoteling during the covid-19 pandemic. members of the public who wish to provide public comment during this period should call 415-655-0001. enter the meeting i.d. and president pound, and pound again. to enter the queue, press star-three or raise your hand. please wait until the system has indicated you have been unmuted to provide your comments during public comment

period. >> chair peskin: colleagues, before you make a motion to continue this item and take public comment, i would like to first thank my colleague, supervisor katy tang, who is now the liaison between the department of public health and the board of supervisors for working to attempt to craft amendments to this emergency ordinance that we previously enacted which, candidly, the department of public health, due to any number of constraints on the human resource side and the relative side, testing equipment, swabs, what-have-you, have not been able to fully implement. dr. stephanie cohen has agreed to reach out to the three s.r.o. collaboratives in the intervening week to figure out what they actually can do.

i don't want to impose legislation that is unrealistic, but i do want to continue to take every step and utilize all of our resources to make sure that covid-19 does not spread in some of the most transmissive environments in congregate setting, that being the s.r.o. hotels. with that, seeing no further comment, i'll open this up for public comment and then, i'll continue this for one week pending dr. cohen's outreach to the s.r.o. communities. madam clerk, there any public comment? >> clerk: mr. chair, michael from public works is checking to see if there are any callers in queue. i believe there's one caller in queue. michael, please let us know when the callers are ready, and go ahead and unmute them.

>> hi. this is theresa flanders, seniors and disability action, and i just want to declare my absolute support for this ordinance. it is so important, and i also want to thank the members of the board for supporting this. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss flandrick. thank you, please. >> sorry. zero callers remaining in the queue. >> chair peskin: okay. public comment is closed, and i would here by make a motion to continue this item one week, to the meeting of august 17. on that motion, madam clerk, will you take a role call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion as stated by chair peskin -- [roll call]

>> clerk: you have three ayes. >> chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk, could you please read the next item. >> clerk: yes. item number 4 is an emergency ordinance to temporarily prohibit construction projects in buildings with any residential rental units that require the suspension of water or electricity service to residential tenants without providing alternative sources of water and power due to the covid-19 pandemic. call 415-655-0001. enter the immediating i.d., and press pound, and pound again. if you have not done so already, please press star-three to lineup to speak. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted during public comment, and you may begin your comment. >> chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk.

first, i'd like to start by thanking the cosponsors of this emergency ordinance: supervisors walton, ronen, and preston, and i particularly want to thank my aide, lee hepner, as we've gotten call after call after call. as you will remember, on march 16, when shelter in place went into effect, there was a temporary prohibition on construction, and that has temporarily been eased and waived, but there are many people sheltering in place, but they are not sheltering in peace. some of this construction is essential, some of it is nonessential. there have been a handful of band actors who may be harassing and intimidating tenants out by doing

nonessential construction, whereby water and electricity service is disrupted for days at a time, and this is a common sense ordinance that will allow construction to continue on the one hand but treat tenants with dignity and respect on the other. i would like to offer a number of amendments, and i want to thank folks from the building industry and from the landlord industry for making some common sense suggestions. and let me go through these amendments. one of them -- the furtheirst s on page 2. i'd like to insert an item on-line 14, relative to the exemption of affordable housing. colleagues, this is in your hands, and as set forth in subsection e, which reads,

affordable housing are less likely to be the subject of ongoing construction work. tenants in affordable housing units, including lock term tenants in that housing are less likely to be recipients of harassment, therefore, high market rate rental units have been excluded from this exemption. on-line 7, insert, after water shut-off, exceeding two hours in a single day, the property owner provides an alternative water source, including, but not limited to, bottled or

gallons of water. insert, after shutoff, the property owner provides an alternative wat alternative source of power. line 13, strike caused by one week's advance notice, and strike the last sentence in that subsection, so it would read the -- [inaudible] >> chair peskin: -- the name and contact information of a liaison who can provide information and respond to tenant concerns. subb-1, in the event of an anticipated water or electricity shut off lasting more than two consecutive hours or four nonconsecutive hours in

a single day, all impacted residents must be provided with 72 hours advance written notice. and sub-2, in the event of an anticipated water or electricity shut off of more than two consecutive hours or four consecutive hours on two or more consecutive days or on more than three days in a single week, all impacted residents must be provided with written notice at least one week in advance -- sorry. i'm not dieing of covid-19 -- of the first weekly shut off and prolonged construction projects. subsection c. if over the course of construction, the need emerges to shut off water or power for more than two hours, construction must pause and may only resume pursuant to the notice and alternative accommodations provisions of subsections a and b of this

emergency ordinance, provided, however, the department of emergency management may allow the project to continue if it will cause a great emergency hazard. in other words, if there's an emergency, construction will continue. subsection d, if there's use of loud tools or instruments for any prolonged period of time -- [inaudible] >> chair peskin: -- if, one, a property owner and all impacted residential tenants agree to terms other than those set forth in subsections a through c, and the property owner submits an e-mail to an address established by d.b.i. reflecting the terms and duration of that agreement. or, sub- 2, all impacted

residents reside in the building where all of the units have a 100% affordable purchase price or rent set at 120% of the adjusted median family income ad determined by the mayor's office of community housing or the fair market rent area that contains san francisco, b, that does n-- fo life of the project for a minimum of 55 years, whichever is longer, by recorded regulatory agreement and consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local regulatory requirements. that is the exemption for affordable housing. and finally, on page 5,

subsection 4, insert at line five, upon finding a first violation, d.b.i. shall issue a warning of property owner, along with a copy of this ordinance. after receiving the order, property owner shall be required to send a notice to d.b.i. along with a copy to any residents impacted by this ordinance. failure to do so will constitute another violation of this ordinance, and subsequent violations, d.b.i. shall issue a notice of violation and/or other citation pursuant to its authority under the building code. so those are the changes that i would like to propose and would like to, again, thank folks in the construction and tenant-landlord industry or those suggestions. are there any questions or comments from members? supervisor safai?

>> supervisor safai: thank you. can we make a motion to accept these now or should we wait? >> chair peskin: i'll do that after public comment. >> supervisor safai: okay. so thank you, supervisor, for these -- i got these from your staff as soon as you have them. really appreciate them. i just wanted to talk to a couple of things just for my own experience as a tenant right now and some of my experiences in the past, one of the things that gives me a little bit of reservation. and again, i think this is a really important piece of legislation. i understand that a lot of people are sheltering at home, and it makes sense that we should be doing this to ensure that, you know, that people aren't having to experience undue stress during these times, for sure. my question is i just think about routine maintenance. we just had a -- we had a leak

in our bathroom about a week and a half ago, and they had to come shut the water off for a little more than a couple hours. so what i wouldn't want is this to be an impediment for routine maintenance, and i just wonder if there couldn't be some kind of reference language. i see the language if d.b.i. believes this could be a health and safety issue, but it seems that some of these could be avoided with having d.b.i. in the conversation if it's just the property manager and the tenant using, you know, the kind of allowable time frame. so i just wanted to put that out there, see what you thought. i would hate to think that this would then become an impediment for routine maintenance. as i said, we had to shut our water off for a couple hours.

and then, what happened -- again, you said construction inbuilding. so if there's not sewer work or electrical work related to pg&e or p.u.c. because again, last week, just by chance, pg&e came, and they had to shut the power off for eight hours on our streets. this is construction projects in buildings with any residential units. so i just wanted to put those two things out there to see what your response was and see how you think it would play out in practice. >> so relative >> chair peskine to the former question, let me make a couple of statements. routine maintenance is something that is foreseen --

>> supervisor safai: i'm sorry. let me clarify. if there's something that arises, an emergency, a leak or something, you have to come in and shut off the water. not the routine, scheduled maintenance. that's easy, but if you're responding to an immediate hazard, how do we deal with that in this legislation? >> chair peskin: so let me just say as a small landlord in san francisco, that has happened to me. i have had emergencies where pipes have burst. i don't think i've had any electrical emergencies, but i definitely have had water emergencies, and they've all been dealt with in relatively short periods of time. the reality is, this is going to be complaint driven. this is really directed at a number of bad actors, some of them with thousands of units, some of them with a handful of united.

when we did the press conference, we did it in front of a building in my district by a woman who's clearly being harassed by a small landlord who is trying to drive her out of her mind and out of her unit despite the protections that are afforded to her under the law, but the reality is, this is going to be complaint driven, and then d.b.i. will be able to come in there and demeray whether or not it is legitimate or not. the reality is -- and let's be real about this reality. if a pipe burst, and it took more than two hours to fix, by the time d.b.i. gets there the next day, it's going to have been fixed. as you said, and certainly in my experience, most of these things are handled in less than two hours, but the fundamental underpinning of this legislation is pretty simple, which is if you're going to shut the electricity off or

shut the water off, you've got to supply alternative means of water, which could be five-gallon bottles of water or one-gallon bottles or a generator that's enough to power a computer. as to your kpaexample, supervi safai, pg&e is not legislated by this legislation, but that could be the subject of a piece of future legislation whereby pg&e is held accountable. >> supervisor safai: no. the thing i appreciate in that situation by pg&e, they let us know a week in advance. there was noticing. we were able to prepare, make preparations. that was the thing i liked about this, that there was advance notice and follow

through. i guess, my question is where did the number two hours come from? how did you guys come up with that? >> chair peskin: and i guess i just responded to that. if you do two hours, and the project takes three hours -- and again, this is going to be all complaint driven. by the time that d.b.i. gets out there late that day or the next day, the project will be done. if you do four hours, it's going to be six hours. so this is going to be all complaint driven. not to use an old cliche, but to use pornography, d.b.i. will know it when they see that. >> supervisor safai: so your response to the two hours versus responding to an emergency if there's a leak or

there's a back-up or there's a clog or if there's a blown circuit, your thing is hey, they're going to get the crews out there. if they have to shut the power down longer than that, it's going to be complaint driven, and they'll be aware of that. and in the case of longer incidents, you've seen the parties a parties and think that this is workable. >> chair peskin: and as you've said in your earlier comments and as i've experienced as a small landlord, generally, these things are ameliorated in a few hours.

supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: it's not something strict liability, if it's 2:05, the landlord is somehow on the hook for something, it's how long the repair is anticipated for. so i hope i'm reading that right. the issue is a repair or procedure that's anticipated to be over two hours. i don't think anybody is going to be sitting there, with a stop water, saying 2:01, there's going to be consequences. am i reading that right? >> chair peskin: you are reading that right. and furthermore, on page 5, section 4 -- this legislation is really aimed at the bad actors. upon a finding of a first violation, d.b.i. sends a warning and does a little education, so you've really got

to be a bad actor before you get a notice of violation. this is actually a pretty amazing piece of legislation, but if the bad actors intend to keep acting body, i intend to beef it up. >> supervisor safai: thank you. >> chair peskin: supervisor preston, do you have any other comments or questions? >> supervisor preston: i just want to say, chair peskin, thank you for bringing this up. i hear about this from a lot of constituents. there's a lot of discussion about evictions, moratoriums, back rent, how we're handling these issues. but some of these issues, they don't make the headlines as much, but in terms of impacting people's day-to-day lives,

things like water interruption, real estate agents showing people's homes, things like that become really magnified when you're sheltering in place. so i just want to thank you and your staff for digging in on the details of what is really a huge impact on a lot of people's lives. and to your point, chair peskin, there are so many that are going to be unaffected by this. the ones coming out and dealing with a burst pipe immediately are really going to be unaffected by this. the unfortunate reality is that there are some landlords that know that folks are stuck at home, that know that interrupting water, service, power, among other things, has a huge impact on folks, and unfortunately, as you say, are aimed at getting out long-term

tenants, so this is great legislation and hopefully will deter some of those actions. >> chair peskin: thank you for those comments, supervisor preston. if there are no further comments or questions, why don't we open this up for public comment. madam clerk? >> clerk: thank you, mr. chair. michael is checking to see if there are any callers in queue. have you have not done so already, please press star three to be added to the queue. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted, and you may begin your comment. >> i have six callers in the queue. >> chair peskin: first speaker, please. >> hi. my name is dave cunningham, and i live in district 8, supervisor mandelman's

district, at 610 clipper street, and veritas-clipper is proposing nine a.d.u.s where the parking is starting in 2021, and i would like to ask that they hold off on this unnecessary construction completely until the covid pandemic is over and we're able to go to work because i work from home, and i have to be on aulig d call all day, and it's very hard for me to make calls when they're excavating and drilling and making all kinds of noise. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> this is theresa flandrick from s.d.a. i'm glad this was created because i know many stories from the bad actors exactly you have talked about or even work that was to be done outside, however, the workers said they had to come inside to do something and were not wearing masks, and that was the home of two seniors over 80 years old. so it's -- it's kind of sad that you even have to create this very common sense legislation is dealing with the bad actors. i like that you are dealing

with that, so thank you so, so much, supervisor peskin. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello? >> chair peskin: hello? >> yes. my name is armin blasy, and i live in telegraph hill. if you can hear this. this is what i have to live through from 8:00 in the morning until about 4:30 in the afternoon. they're drilling literally 6 inches from my feet. it's going on and on, and the landlord has given us no option on this. i have to shelter in place because of an injury, and i can't even think straight. i'm -- i'm not getting enough sleep. this is just intolerable, this whole condition, this drilling. and i'm concerned that the people who are doing the drilling aren't engineers, and they might hit -- rupture a gas

main downstairs, like, below me. i don't know how this thing can be resolved. i know this has to be looked into. my address is 2 genoa place in san francisco, and i don't know why they're doing this at this point in san francisco. it doesn't make any sense to me. i can't go outside and get away from this noise, and i'm not able to sleep at night. i'm under a doctor's care for lock of sleep, and a back injury. there's nothing i can do. i have to be on the site. i have to stay here, and it's kind of like torture. it's kind of like being in kay foreign country and being tortured and in a cell where i can't move, and i get radio blasts. any way, i hope you see this message, and i hope someone looks into this because this is

ridiculous. i've called the rent board, i've called lawyers, and no one's returning my call, so i just want to thank you for this time, and i hope that my guy in district 3 looks into this and gets this settled because this thing is going to go on for eight weeks. >> chair peskin: thank you, sir. i noticed you live at 2 genoa. i live about two blocks away. i will come and take a look at this on the way home. please feel free to e-mail me at aaron.peskin@sf.gov or call 415-554-7450 to discuss this

further with me. next speaker, please. >> hello. this is ray tilliman. >> chair peskin: go ahead, sir. >> hello? hi. this is ray tilliman in district 6. i'm in mat haney's district, and i'm in geary street, located at geary and hillman. i've had the pleasure of going to city hall numerous times to discuss this landlord. we're in a situation where there's a major covid virus happening. to get away from all of the issues of paying rent, which is very difficult in a subsidized building, with big segments of our economy that have been shutdown. we've been trying to pay rent, and we've had our water and

services shut off. we have homeless people vomiting and defecating. i've been infected by it, and i come in to wash, and there's no water. i've had to go to my next-door neighbors to wash up after cleaning vomit off our steps. construction people track that in to our lobby. i also suffer from asthma. this is a comorbid issue. this could lead to my death if i go to kaiser with a lung compromised by asthma due to the plaster dust. i'm fed up, and it's a woeful disregard for human life, quite frankly. we need to be human and get it together a little. that's my comment.

>> chair peskin: thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> hello, this is anastas anastasia yovannopoulos, a tena tenant advocate. we were called to a [inaudible] and they were converting apartments as soon as people moved out, subdividing apartments, and they had a terrible time with the noise, and they shut off them all. so i'm appreciative that supervisor peskin has put in the requirements to give notice, give notice of -- for the two days and the other longer notice, because that's important to tenants,

especially during covid. you don't have water, you want to know how long that's going to be shut off, and when, so you can make your plans. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name's susan marsh, and i'm a tenant activist, who among other things, have worked with the veritas tenants. as you know, the tenants have been subject to harassment during this pandemic, which of course could be deadly. make no mistake about it, they are bad actors. they have a reputation of doing this before the pandemic, and that's no accident. their business model, and the business model of their emulators depends on this.

once again, this could be deadly. this needs to be stopped. i thank supervisor peskin for introducing this legislation, and i strongly urge you to pass it. >> chair peskin: thank you, ms. marsh. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm calling to support the emergency ordinance that supervisor peskin has written. you know, people are experiencing, with the pandemic, they're worried about contracting a virus, they're experiencing significant anxiety, and they shouldn't have to deal with anymore stress on top of everything that they're already dealing with while sheltering in place, and also worrying about rent. putting forth this emergency ordinance is the least we can do for people in this situation. thanks. >> chair peskin: thank you for your comment.

>> clerk: next speaker, please. >> this is jonathan randolph. thank you for the legislation, supervisor peskin, and thank you for the amendments. i am a little bit concerned along the same line as supervisor ahsha safai's concerns. a couple of months ago, one of our tenants had a leak, and together, we unscrewed it, and we found that the item wcartris defective, so we went to home depot to replace it. what if home depot were not open? it would have been overnight. i think we should have a -- you

know, i think there should be language that would make it so that it's not illegal to do things in good faith because i don't want to -- you know, i don't think it's a good idea to make things illegal even though they're necessary. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. and to the last speaker, and i don't want to be argumentative, in a case like that where it went on for an extended number of hours, i would assume that you or i as decent landlords would figure out how to provide alterna alternatives of water or power. >>, like, wat >> like, water bottles? >> chair peskin: exactly. that's what the legislation says.

>> hi. i'm a veritas tenants. i'm in support of the legislation and what the legislation says because veritas has been increasingly -- how do i say this in proactive during to construct, to build -- to have people that don't live in my building enter my building during the pandemic. there's been a tremendous influx, it seems like more than before the pandemic, which is disturbing. i've experienced a number of incidents. for instance, this afternoon, i was walking my dog -- i was trying to get into this meeting, and before i got into the meeting, i was walking my dog. one of the workers wasn't wearing a mask, and i asked him to wear a mask, and he called me a faggot. it just shows that veritas has

acted in terribly bad faith, and during a pandemic, it's just not safe to bring people in here. there's no contact tracing, and they're not taking precautions before they enter the building. i thank supervisor peskin for passing this, and thank you so, so much for what you're doing. >> chair peskin: thank you, and i am sorry for what you're going through. next caller, please. >> there are no further callers in the queue. >> chair peskin: are there any other members of the public that wish to comment on this item? going once, going twice -- >> we have one public caller. >> chair peskin: oh, go ahead. >> hi, supervisors. thank you for the opportunity. i think i didn't raise my hand. this is charlie goss with the

san francisco apartment association. i certainly understand wanting to protect tenants from disruption for voluntary work. we would ask that you all consider creating an exemption for code-mandated work. providing alternate water doesn't seem to be problematic, but we are concerned about alternate power. if you're providing a replacement battery for a laptop, that's one thing, but if you need to provide alternate power for a 50-unit building, that's another thing. bringing in a number of generators would also increase the noise. supervisor mandelman has extended one tier of the four-tier seismic retrofit mandate. so we're concerned that the effect of this ordinance is that it will postpone code mandated work, so we would ask

that you create an exemption, and then also extending the deadlines for the tier one, two, and three retrofits as well as the panel upgrades for next summer. certainly under the intent of the ordinance. the city has some deadlines coming up for code mandated work and residential deadlines. we'd just ask that you consider that. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. goss. and just so that we're clear, the electricity replacement standard is that which would allow internet use; that that's a standard in this legislation. but insofar as the city attorney has determined that the amendments that i've made are substantive, i do intend to continue this item for one week, so that gives us a week to discuss the items that you

raised. so are there any other members of the public who would like to comment on this item number 4? >> there is one remaining caller? >> chair peskin: okay. next speaker, please. >> hello? >> chair peskin: hello? >> hello? >> chair peskin: hello. >> hello. my name is sean tiegren, residential builders association. i'm calling to say, i do appreciate the amendments, but as an overview, construction is exploratory and reactionary in nature. we don't know what we're going to find when we open up these walls, so once we open up, these legislation or these amendments will give us a platform to make the necessary adjustments and facilitate some form of a quick fix, and then, if more work is necessary, with the proper notification, we can

go further. it allows good actors to do what they need to do while combatting abuse. it's temporary, it should be here for three or four months, and it's something we can all live with. it's a difficult period that we're all living through, nobody can deny that, and we're all willing to roll up our sleeves and do what we need to do to make this tolerable for everybody. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. tiegren and let us never make the enemy of the good. are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item number 4? madam clerk? >> clerk: mr. chair, d.t. is checking to see if there are any callers still in queue.

>> there is a caller on the line. >> chair peskin: next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm a veritas tenant, and veritas is proposing completely unnecessary unit additions to my building, and i'm wondering if we couldn't completely ban unnecessary construction during covid-19. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, sir. seeing no other members of the public on this item, public comment is here by closed. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: colleagues, i would like to make a motion to move the previously-read-into-the-record amendments. on that motion, a roll call, please. >> clerk: on the motion as stated by supervisor peskin -- [roll call]

>> clerk: you have three ayes. >> chair peskin: and then, i'd like to make a motion to continue this item one week to the meeting of august t17, 202, wherein i intend, if there are no substantive amendments, to send this to a meeting with a committee report on august 18. roll call, please. >> clerk: on the motion as stat stated by supervisor peskin -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have three ayes. >> chair peskin: we are adjourned. >> supervisor safai: thank you.

>> hi, we're live. >> chair sesay: good morning. i call the board of directors special meeting of september 10, 2020 to order. i am the board chair. the board meeting is being conducted pursuant to provisions of the brown act and recent executive orders by the governor to facilitate teleconferencing to reduce the risk of covid-19 transmission. ordinarily, the brown act sets strict rules for teleconferencing. the executive order has suspended those rules. as noted on the agenda, members of the