places like walgreens i think today that started sort of opening up the floodgates for people to register for appointments at the same time what we've done with the city is to give them a list of the priority list we have for vaccinations which represents primarily wave one to educators and so we're working closely to try to coordinate exactly when those folks are going to be vaekted. we think it is pretty soon but i don't want to share an adapt only because things keep moving and a know for example this supply we had was impacted by the storms in texas and for a while they were sitting out there waiting to come to san francisco. in terms of the assistance question you're asking it's a moving target. there are a lot of new systems being built to track vaccinations and help people sign up for vaccinations to help people register. it feels like what happened with

testing and we're learning more and more about them. but right now there's not a great solution for us to use. the city doesn't have a great solution to use in terms of tracking and we're having internal questions how to leverage existing systems or what to do internally to track what we need to track. i hope that answer your questions but i'm happy to -- >> thanks. >> a lot of people know teacher and others were availed through the phone opening which i signed up over a month ago and got the response it may take months but at this point i'm not impressed with what the city's been doing. as you know we've been getting a lot of pressure from friends on the other side of the street.

and i think a lot of folks that work in our district don't have a lot of confidence though we feel we're being targeted by the city government. i know folks have been growing over to oakland who have been getting their vaccinations there and you mentioned walgreens. i'm afraid people not wave 1 or wave 2 will be able to get their vaccines prior what the city is able to avail for us. i'm super concerned we won't in a timely manner have the vaccinations we need for the folks in wave 1. i want to put that out there. >> i feel i guess what i can say is there's a concerted effort by the city to help us get those folks vaccinated as soon as possible.

>> daniel, the fact governor nusome set policy that 10% of allocations from the state will go locally to cities and counties for educators. that's next week. we were hampered by a 10-day delay because of the storms but we have effort at the state level and locally and coalescing the service providers which receive 80% of the vaccinations that come into the city for that coordination effort. >> commissioner boggess and then commissioner lam.

>> commissioner lam. >> i have lots of questions. lots of overall statements. first and foremost i want to thank everyone working towards our return to in person learning and educators and district staff and this is really the paramount issue of our time here and what the pandemic has brought and what opportunities play before us with education and the

necessary creativity flexibility and consistency we know our students are counting on us every day for this and i think our educators and staff for all that support in our families and parents. with that, i just want to name how important it is to me that we are working towards with our labor partners the details are being worked out right now. i also want to express how critical it is to accelerate how we're returning students in our educators safely. and that the plan right now i do agree that we need to get that survey data sooner than later and in a couple weeks i would propose even sooner. that will allow us to have the information we need in order to

make certain decisions and for me i'm not shy -- i don't shay away from having to make tough decisions and at the same time when we get the data for pull return of pre-k to five and use that tranche of the proposition now, how will we then seek additional spaces outside of our fixed school buildings to be able to fit our students as an example and then we'll have to do things and while i appreciate and recognize the complexities and we've been living in complexity now for a year. also, id like to have a detailed plan on secondary. it may not be at scale to be able to bring back secondary or middle school. i think it's really important for our families to understand

that we have not forgotten about the population and we have been having discussions for the focal populations and seeing adolescents and our older youth really struggling. i won't we hash the mental health data we're seeing locally as well as across the country. i can just name this morning some troubles in my own home that is consistently now turning up on a daily basis and it's really hard for the students. it's really -- and i see it first hand every morning so i think that is something that i would hope -- i would encourage my colleagues and i in working with dr. mathews and the team to really come into the coming weeks for some more details.

lastly, my intention and goal with working with educators and partners and staff is looking aa full return, pre-k to fall in the 12. by then, we will have a year and a half of what the public comment is closed lays before us. we have the data. we have epidemiologists and a federal government now that is engaging and really thinking about what the long-term solution as a country and for public education. and education of our students. i know there's more questions than answers at this point but it's critical working with superintendent mathews we arrive at answers and more details and i again do not undermine the complexity s that come into this and said time and time again we cannot -- we know we can no longer do this on our own as a direct and i think we have -- district and we're getting

additional traction at the state level we need to come to resolutions together collectively and that seems to be a theme for this evening. we have to do this work together. we need one another in order for the success of our children and the heart of all this work is our mission and education of our children. i'd like to ask for differable time lines we're clear about our expectations as a board and around the vision for how to get us to the finish line for the remaining of the academic year and planning into summer which i'm glad the team is thinking about and i'm intrigued by the details and getting ready for the fall. i don't have questions. i think it's more about this the

details i hear are emerge and addressing the elementary student. >> i have thoughts about the information presented and really i think some things i would like to see the district do different and

[indiscernible] i don't feel it was very family friendly. i feel the existing decisions we preferenced are helpful to the majority of our tomorrow liz -- families understanding it's in the phase 2-a and how do we lift up what the schools [indiscernible]. families are going to be engaging with the in person learning. for me troubled by the idea of using volunteer for the assessment center. i don't like us using the hard work people are doing especially during the public comment is closed. i feel like you get more consistent work out of people if they're not volunteering and in regard to the services, i'm actually opposed to us doing mer

surveys. i don't feel they're helpful in giving us real information that's usable i feel they ture a moment in time -- capture a moment in time but the pandemic and the difficulty to reach all families though it's helpful to get the useful motivation but additionally in regard to the presentation i'd love in the future if we'd start [indiscernible] and don't have updates on the report and i think [indiscernible] for the level of details to grasp the overall picture of what's happening. those are things i'd like to highlight and i have specific questions for staff. my first question is how are families accessing the [indiscernible] regards to the return to in person learning? how are you gauge the level of

families, students, guardians and understanding of what is being presented? in my conversations most families are still really confused. i'm curious how we're gauging that and how communication plans are addressed with some of the deficit in addressing those things and my other question is a little bit if we can talk a little bit about the time line and just to give a little bit more clarity for folks on when they'll be [indiscernible] around the time line or this semester or the summer period or fall. >> in questions to the family communication we have a family partnerships office and communications team and have lots of staff who work with advisory committees and all the

communication happening at the site level with our social workers and principals and family liaisons and others and the classroom level. and in the communications office we're very small team that has been staffed really to focus on media relations and communication for public information. we had several things put in place and things in the across-departmentmental level and i want to quickly talk about that and not try to take more time and would love to go into more depth at another time and there's ways we know families are accessing information from the district. one of those is through our digest which is a push out which goes out to the e-mails for our families.

we also know when there's urgent breaking news type of information such as a new announcement that we know will affect a group or all families, we send a text message as well as a phone call. we have a system that can do e-mails as well as texts. we use the phone call and text feature very judiciously because we heard from families that sometimes they opt hout if they feel they're getting too many messages that way. we also recognize a lot of families aren't getting e-mails and if they are they're not reading them we got a donation to set up a family resource link which is how families can then call the district or e-mail the district if they can't reach somebody at their child's school or can but have a question the people at the school can't answer they can reach out to the resource link.

we track the calls and e-mails that come in and use that information to push it out. if we notice a trend in ferm of what fam families are confused about. we recognize there's a lot of information hard for families to understand. so we're working all the time on how to simplify that and make it accessible and tell you things we're doing around that. one is working to do an audit across the written channels for digital channels to try to assess are we reaching and the more in person or the high touch work a lot of our schools are doing and parent advisory groups

are doing and we're trying to assess the universal information how we're doing at reaching families and what would they like to know more of and how would they like to get that information with a specific emphasis on our hardest to reach families. i think one of the things we notice with the family resource link is the majority of the calls early on were spanish speaking families which is a great piece of information for us our families spanish speaking were not accessing information in other ways. that's continued to be a trend but the resource link allows for famly to have the high -- families to have a conversation with an american -- person and get a response. i can go on but that's what i wanted to share with you. >> can you provide a percentage

of the scope of the reach? how many families do you feel [indiscernible] >> our average open rate 24,000. that's a pretty good rate considering we have about 52,000 households and the other way we track information is auto dial how many people picked up and heard the message versus a message left automatically. i don't have the number off the top of my head and we have a ho -- rate different than our

digest. i can't tell you how many visitors we get. we can't decipher how many are from families versus others. >> we are reaching 50% of our current communications work? >> no, i don't think we can confirm that because there's lots of aspects and i'm specifically speaking to the ones reopening schools but i think if we had a 40% or 24,000 family open rate -- sorry, not 40%, that's the e-newsletter we'd have to track how many e-mails and how many go to students. i don't have that level of analysis to say it's a 24,000 or 50%. >> okay. i'm interested to get that information. i think in my experience in the

direct now and historically the majority of families feel they don't get reached out directly via communication and if they do always in languages they can understand or accessible. i want to know how that's impacting the work we're doing and what we're doing. one thing you lifted up was a small step of the communications department. i was wondering if you felt there's not actually enough staff to successfully reach all families given the size and scope and if you can talk how staffing affects our ability to reach families during this time. >> i'd be happy to. it's more the staffing of the communications office has been set up to be a public information office that responds to media and has helped to develop platforms for any to be able to share information. the website school messenger as

a way to get information out and the district as a whole invested in family communication across the board in a lot of areas. i don't think it's purely the communications office and the communication of the responsible for family communication from the district. i think if we had i more coordinated and coheernt approach we could -- coheernt -- coherent approach we can reach families and what i'm hoping to accomplish lieu the aud -- through the audit process. we were short staffed and had an opening for a retirement in june and filled it two months ago and that person focussed on internal communication systems and hired somebody to focus on family

communication system because it wasn't something we resourced as a district in the time i'm wear of. now that we have the person on board i think we'll be able to go further faster but the study's just one individual. >> thank you so much for that. i'm excited to see the outcomes of the audit and i loved also probably having conversations with our advisory committees and i have another question for superintendent mathews. if you can give me an understanding of who on your staff is ultimately responsible for families being communicated to in the district and who do we hold accountable for the majority of families not being reached through our traditional outreach methods we've been doing? >> it depends on what the communication is. it's not like it's one -- we have a communication department you just heard from but it

depends for example there's some things sites are communitying and -- communicating and depends on what department and what they're trying to communicate and they're responsible for communications or working through our office to get communications out >> i would add that troubles me as a commissioner. it doesn't seem like that is a cohesive response that is able to reach the diverse student and family populations we had. it worries me there's one person responsible for that. one person is responsible and that's our superintendent responsible for everything and want to talk how we establish better systems and protocols in the district that provide safeguards and when things like this happen our communication is a strength and not a place we're

working to increase staffing and resources in a time of crisis i would love if somebody can talk about the time line or phase a little bit more and i think anything relevant as they wonder what it means for the folks outside of 2a. >> talking about the students returning in 2a and [indiscernible] and the students in phase 3a and if there's new time lines or updates or information for those families and students or if they should

expect. >> we have a phase to return to in person the priority students the youngest babies we've been talking about in most these conversations and specifically tonight and students in 2b identify as home insecure and foster students and other categories that have been listed and named and those span from grades three through 12. i want to be clear when you say phase 2a, forget the phases. tell me which babies you're talking about and tell you where we are in the planning and most the information shared has been about the first group of babies coming in and what we keep talking about and the second group i just named we're in the

middle of planning and not shared information about the status of return and what that might look like. >> thank you. i'm sorry if i'm not clear about the return of instructions and how do we keep it at the center and keep regular updates on that and understand it's the focus and understanding there's families and students concerned about the whole school district and want equal time shared and how we can keep families informed. >> we've focussed on different priority groups at the time and maybe an idea is in our

presentation we always include a slide or a couple slides with the update or process with groups that don't necessarily identify for fall in the groipz we prioritize. that's good feedback in think how to do that better in future presentations and communication earlier and keep families abreast outside the board of education meetings and where we are with planning for their specific babies. >> thank you, everyone. vice president collins and commissioner alexander. i appreciate although questions and i appreciate families and educators and staff for coming out and asking questions. i guess i'm feeling guess i'm

feeling over well. ed -- overwhelmed in a way and they're tough times and challenges and it becomes clear we're all struggling and all want to go back to regular in person learning and what we're faced with trying to make a move and there's no easy answers and with every choice we make there's going to be positives and there's going to be negatives and i think that's what's tough. some school districts are doing all different kinds of things all over the country because everyone's trying to figure it out. and people are going to like some of them and as elected

leaders we have to own that. i want to be clear about my decisions or what i value but i like making decisions based on principles and there's going to be pluses and minuses. i want to be clear about how i'm making decisions and i'm one member of the board and we have to work as a body. as much as we can be aligned, we can lead in an organized and unified way and it's been said before, there's many ways up the mountain. the way i may want to go may be different from your colleagues and is there a best way and as much as we can provide clear direction for staff the more they can do their jobs in listening to a variety of

constituents all experiencing this differently. i want to recognize that and say i have deep love and respect for the sfusd family and the person who spoke about losing a family member while we're struggling to get back to normalcy, we're all affected and some in very direct ways i want to acknowledge right now that is also present. for me, we need to start somewhere and as a district we need to start with the kids that need to go to school the most. and we have little kids don't really learn as well online. as a district we said we'll focus on them first. i think that was a good decision.

it means middle and high school kids are waiting and acknowledge kids need us at that level and families and we made a choice. we'll focus on the babies first. we need to speak about their needs and i'm speaking for my sef measure -- myself and for the board and we have to deal with one thing before we move on to something else and we got the health and safety m.o.u. and thank you labor partners and

thank you because we have families and staff worried about coming back. we see the guidance changes all the time so we have to pick something and go with that. so we did and we got an agreement and proud of that work and though it's tough and not where we want to be we have to celebrate that. it's a -- going to change and we can't just keep changing our plans based on guidance and we got that and i'm looking forward to approving that and it may change again in two weeks but i think if we can get that we can go on to the next step. now we're faced with an instructional plan we are negotiating and i just want to be clear about my vote and i think as constituents or where i'm leading or where my values are. i want to recognize there's no easy answers and we're

struggling with what do we do with a classroom of kids and half want it come back and the other half want to stay home? as a teacher, if i'm going to class then i'm not if we're not making teachers do both kids are going to be moving around and i think no matter what. and depending on our schools what we're seeing is some kids have 30% want to come back and there's 80% in other schools that want to come back. in any scenario if we're going to bring kids back some children will have to have different teachers but we made a priority to stick with schools as a community. i love my daughters teachers and relationships are important and key but what i appreciate with the plan is it centers on consistency of schedule and consistency of school and that may sometimes mean kids might have a different teacher but i

think kids also will have consistency of their peers in their grade level and maybe they'll have a few different kids in their class but it also for families consistency of schedule and for me that is really important and as an educator and knowing how much relationships are important for teachers and students, families need consistency and structure in their day and i know for kids, i have twin children and getting them to school and kindergarten was rough without covid. just getting them dressed and out the door and across town, for me, just the thought of telling parents that have been waiting so long to come to school and parents desperate to work or just get a break from parenting which also i want to recognize is very real.

to think they can have a schedule where their kids are only in school half day, i don't support. i'm going to be straight. based on my experience and i may be wrong and like i said i'm just one voice on the board. i encourage other commissioner to share your views but this is the challenge that is before us and it's been before superintendent mathews and deputy superintendent and i want to be honest where i stand and call me out if you think i'm misguided but i think for students go well on structures and if they're waking up and getting to school at a certain time every day and coming home at a certain time every day, i want consistency of schedule is really important. and knowing if kids want to go back or families want to go back, they can have a full day. even if that means having a

different teacher but team teachers is a thing. a team teacher i think is a great thing my daughters attend june parker a small school and knew all the teachers their loved one and if kids have to change teachers and that's not going on the case in every situation but if that is the case i believe that children feel loved in their school communities and feel loved with their friends. that is also relationships that are important. so that is my priority and that is what i've been expressing to the staff. we need to get an agreement on an instructional plan and schedule because if we don't do that, we will not be able to move forward on anything on outdoors schools on anything.

that is -- we need that information in order to make a lot of our plans and once we make that decision it's going to take us at least four to five weeks and i know commissioner lam and i are both pushing to expedite everything but it takes time to match kids with teachers and figure out how many want to come back and communicate with families, tell them what's going on and the longer we wait for an m.o.u. on a schedule basically, the longer we're pushing out other decisions and actually our capacity as a district to think about outdoor school and think about partnerships for after school and all these things. i appreciate staff and labor

partners continue to communicate. i'm open to whatever works but we need to make a decision soon and i think my vote is to center the possibility that as a school like gene parker that i think has 30% of their families want to return all the kids will be able to go back full time and possibly with their teacher. some would have to switch because there's two teachers per. if they can work together and team teach and i think the kids will be okay. that's my vision and i guess the only question i have is for staff we have a best case and worse case based on demand. if you can give me a sense of how many schools we're talking about are the worse case when it comes to the two days hybrid and

how many schools are we talking about are the best case? i know we can't -- this is ballpark we can't know for sure because we have to reach out to families and see if they commit. that is my question. that's my only question. >> thank you. we're still getting responses from families in terms of their interest but based on the data we have now we're thinking about 25 schools have that capacity. i do have -- >> the 25 could potentially be five days a week? >> yes. >> in addition to the variance in terms of interest we have some who have more families who respond and some still waiting for responses. the last number i saw was about 25 and again i have

[indiscernible] to add anything in case i misspoke or to add anything in case i left anything out. >> okay. and just to clarify, >> for kids coming back we're trying to do as much of a regular day as we can and teachers are teaching and kids are learning. when we're being specific we're talking about in person. there's instructional time and we can talk about remote or in person but the plan you're proposing you're prioritizing a longer day of in person instructional time per day. is that correct? >> prioritizing a full day of instruction in person for the

babies that choose to return. >> thank you. >> in i could quickly interject. i gave the wrong number it's reverse. the 25 is roughly the number of schools that would have to rely on hybrid because there wasn't enough space at 14 desks per classroom and over a third at student return rate they need to use a schedule to make sure everything kid could get in person. the other element schools should be within the range of being able to provide daily instruction. >> that means 50 roughly? 50 out of 74 elementaries. is that correct?

>> so 50 would be five days a week and 25 would be high demand and that would the hybrid schedule. what i'm encouraging is that if we can -- >> if we can have this conversation at a later time just so that we don't try to get into those specifics and >> once we make decisions for the schools that may be in the positions i think those are then the schools i also want to tell the public i'm interested in looking at how we expand our instructional space outdoors and we're not looking at all schools in the scenario. we're looking at specific schools and so i want the public to know we're going to be having a committee of the whole meeting next tuesday and we've asked chief nathan to present information about how we could expand commissioner lam's question and how to expand

capacity either with school site use or with even other city resources. >> thank you. >> commissioner alexander. >> thank you. >> i appreciate the hard work of district staff and the bargaining team i know has been hard at work the last week including the weekend meeting and trading proposals and i think i know that everybody is really trying hard to make this work and i guess i just want to echo what was said about the tradeoffs.

it's clear everybody has basically the same interest. teachers and educators want to get back with their kids in person. it's a question of how and different plans have tradeoffs. i'm concerned about the comments from educators tonight that our bargaining team wasn't listening to them and we're i am posing a schedule. i -- imposing a schedule and i think the plan is great but has to be done in collaboration with our educators and i think they have legitimate questions and concerns. i hope we can sort of get back to the bargaining table with a collaborative approach and figure out the educators i spoke with tonight have been working

for decade with this work and maybe there's different strategies how to approach it and it's good to trust people on the ground doing the work every day because they know best i think a lot of our district par ganning teams haven't been in the classroom recently so i think it's really important that we listen and work closely with the educators at the table and some questions they raised around classes and the middle school class ab those are good questions i don't think need to be answered and the kind of

detail that should be worked out at the bargaining table. i'm thankful we're seeing the approach and get a deal. as vice president said it's essential we do it right away. i think it's what we all want. and with middle school and high school -- i just learned that the current negotiation around m.o.u. doesn't even include middle school and high school and that was rather disturbing to me. that process needs to start immediately. i've been talking to middle

school and high schoolers desperate to get back on campus for tutoring and sports activities and clubs. there's such a need serving low income students but no reason why some of the small group stuff can't happen at the same time as elementary students opening up. it's concerning to me we don't seem to have a plan for secondary and it needs to happen right away. it's not a difficult task. it's just about people power. i'll walk around school and it's

critical and if we assign a different team to work on secondary so there's -- i understand you can't do everything at once the same people but let's put a team on it and get it done. and in my view allowing small groups on campus shunt -- shunt -- shouldn't be a huge lift and there's a question about high school doing scheduling for the fall nobody said oh, it's going to be a full in person five day a week return. then the question becomes how do we do our scheduling and we have to commit to five days a week.

full return in the fall and figure out how to make it happen. i'm concerned if that's not our current plan and would like to encourage that to work on the listening. i wanted to sort of emphasize those priorities and it sounds like we'll have a secondary report at another time and want to know when that is. i know it's a lot of work and super grateful to all you put into it. >> thank you everyone. thankn you staff. delegates and commissioners. as went mentioned earlier, we'll be continuing to update everyone and few agenda items that we look forward to presenting on

the coming meeting. thank you again. i want too let go of our student delegates who have been supporting us during these meetings, to make sure you get some rest. >> thank you and good night community commissioners, staff. i hope you will have wonderful rest of your meeting. good-bye >> president lopez: great, thank you. we're going to be jumping back to section e, consent calendar. i need a motion and a second on the consent calendar. >> so moved. >> second. >> president lopez: we'll be taking public comment on content

items. >> raise your hand if you care to speak to anything on the consent calendar at this time. seeing two hands so far president lopez. >> president lopez: let's do two minutes. >> hello daniel? >> board of education, i like to draw your attention to items 16, 18, 19, 21 and 28 on the consent agenda. i'm shocked contracts are being made without input from the board or public. these items commit egregious human rights violations. these are for profit private institutions that capitalize on the worse times in these kids lives. this is a shameful use of public

funds. on page 38, perjury has been committed. the california code would define the crime at least one and probably more of its staff members as violent or serious felonies. prisons are held accountable for violations of rights. logan river and other school have nothing more than an internal sham grievance process that results in the retaliation by school administration. i speak for every student that suffered at one of these programs. i ask that the board of education reconsider their funding of this abuse. thank you. i yield the rest of my time. >> hello caller?

are you there? hello, lita. sorry, the caller who responded, you'll be next, okay? >> okay, no worries. >> sorry about that. i tried to get my one minute earlier. i try to cut myself there. i'm a parent, i'm a volunteer, i'm a fundraiser, i'm a substitute teacher, i'm a son of a public school teacher. i'm from denmark where we believe in education as the single most important method to achieve opportunity for kids. during this covid period, denmark has kept the policy to -- >> sir, i'm sorry, this is only for the consent calendar.

>> i'm fully aware. i did get my one minute earlier because time was cut off after one hour. >> you're going to try again. we're meeting next week on marc. you can e-mail the board members if you have more comments. >> hi everyone. i wasn't planning on commenting, since the previous caller raised the point of all the non-public schools that are listed under the consent calendar. one of the things i want to highlight is the fact that for kids who need a really high level of care, the district and parents even more traumatically sometimes, often have no opportunity, no option other than to send their kids out of state. san francisco department of

public health closed mental health services and beds we have here in the city. we've lost all our options as parents. i can't name any parent who sent their kids out of state that wants to. we need more options to provide better mental healthcare to our families here in san francisco. it will be a hell of a lot cheaper for the district if we could. if there's one area where we could better collaborate with the city, it will be around mental health support, counseling enriched classrooms, trauma-informed centers that can provide therapeutic support for our kids. if we want to work on with the city on support for our kids and not rely on facilities like logan river, this is an area where we can collaborate. thank you. >> that concludes public

comment. >> president lopez: thank you. any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? >> no president lopez. >> president lopez: any items removed for reading by the board? any items by the board of superintendent in discussion or vote tonight? [indiscernible] do you want to pull the item for discussion? >> yes. >> president lopez: can we make note of that? >> which item is being severed? >> 21. >> i couldn't hear you. >> item 21. >> thank you. >> president lopez: roll call

vote on consent calendar -- sorry, do we have the discussion before we vote? >> no. that's a severed item. it goes to the next section. >> president lopez: roll call vote. [roll call vote]. >> that's seven ayes. >> president lopez: section f, discussion and vote on consent calendar, resolution severed for separate consideration. >> that's number 21. >> that's correct. commissioner boggess? >> commissioner boggess: i would love someone from staff address the concern raised during public

comment. just evaluate the effectiveness and accountability to successfully serving our students who are sent there. what we monitor in addition -- [indiscernible] >> trying to see if jill is available. jean roberts is out for the next couple of days on a family emergency. i'm not sure if jill is in the background.

>> hi. i'm here. i will have to get our director to answer the question. i'm sorry, i don't know anything about logan river. all i can say we potentially have a student already pending placement. >> rather than speak about logan an entirely, is there any safeguard as we check these institutions before approving contract? we don't have the facilities or requirements. how do we assess how effective they are and how they are working or not for our students? >> our m.p.s. team headed our director checks each of those m.p. s.s. their record and their

background and everything before we start the contract. danielle is here. i will also defer to danielle. >> commissioner boggess: it's clear the team here doesn't have the expertise. jean is out. i would suggest, why don't we delay this one and bring it back. as we bring it back, we can have jean and christa to provide a background on the process how we vet each of these companies that we're working. >> there's no harm any students or families not approving this now? >> only thing if we have a student currently placed or awaiting placement.

in which case they would not have access to an education while board is waiting to take action. if the board does take action, we can still follow-up with a report addressing the questions that you have. >> commissioner boggess: i'll be okay with us moving forward. if we can get an update on that. if it's a request that information will be available. it is a little difficult to do it in advance. to having staff here to answer is helpful. >> understood, we'll follow-up commissioner. >> president lopez: thank you everyone. other commissioners, is that something we are okay with to vote on tonight? roll call vote on item 21.

[roll call vote]. that's seven ayes. >> president lopez: section g proposals for action item one, board policy bullying and harassment. moved and seconded at a prior board meeting. superintendent matthews? can you introduce the designated speaker to speak to the policy? >> i was on mute this whole time?

>> no. you're good. >> i'm going to guess the superintendent is on mute. >> the staff presenting this is our general counsel. >> commissioners there are two documents attach to this item. one is the presentation. we don't have any intention of presenting that tonight. it's a holdover from curriculum committee. the board will recall that policy came to the board a few weeks ago. some commissioners asked for a more full report of that curriculum. we did provide that report of curriculum. it was moved to the board with a recommendation to approve. with that, the action tonight we're asking is that you approve board policy on bullying and

harassment. >> president lopez: thank you. any public speakers before we get into discussion? >> raise your hand if you here to speak to the board policy on bullying and harassment. i see one. two minutes? >> president lopez: yes, that's fine. >> hello, cal? >> thank you for letting me speak. i don't have too much to say. my one worry, it talks about educating teachers about their legal obligation to intervene. i wonder how that manifest in the idea -- does that mean teachers will do the bear minimum to meet the legal obligation or how are we going do try to make sure students it really feel that teachers are

taking the steps necessary to actually eradicate bullying and eradicate harassment beyond just the legally required steps and how the board will make sure they have the resources they need so they can go above and beyond. that's all i have to say. thank you. >> that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: any comment or questions from the board or superintendent? vice president collins? >> vice president collins: i guess, i'm just going to be honest. i'm really disappointed with the changes that were made. identify been -- i've been consistent since i've been on the board in terms how we need to address harassment and bullying. this was happening at lowell and it's happening in the school.

things kind of blow up sometimes it, it's because we don't have good systems and structures. this isn't just reporting individual incident, this is about how we actually as a public comment made, how we create schools that prevent this behavior from happening. i've consistently said -- you can look at video, as a parent who reported hate speech at my daughter's middle school. all we wanted was for the school to start educating kids about what hate speech is. there's kids that repeat words they don't even know are hateful and hurtful. the fact there's no real mention of curriculum, i said that the curriculum we do have, is sub standard. it only addresses sexual harassment once per year in the middle school. i said that multiple times. there's a safe school line.

i bet nobody knows what it is. i called it. it doesn't pick up. it's in our handbook. i checked it. i just feel like as the public comment person said, it seems it to be focused on individual kind of individual responsibility to report being targeted. if i'm being targeted, it's on me to file a complaint. there's no real ownership from our district of really working with school communities. to really help kids understand what is hate speech, how racism, sexism, homophobia transphobia. some get picked on more than others.

it talks about character values, self-esteem and assertiveness. it's like '80s style approach dealing with harassment. if you get harassed, you should report it. that's not the way it works. we need -- i talk to students at lowell who said they didn't know that they had been sexually assaulted. we need to educate kids. kids don't know what racism is. they think it's talking about race. i said this over four years. i'm really frustrated about this. i won't support this because this is not true. this is a lie. we saw it with lowell. we saw it just recently with presidio. i normally being gracious.

i fee insulted. there's no mention of actually have a real robust curriculum about what is hate speech. don't use these words, they are offensive. really basic stuff and have a working hotline that we supposed to have for kids to report abuse to get help. have somebody pick up the phone. i'm disappointed. i will continue to voice, advocate for us to have a real comprehensive, robust curriculum. not just training teachers how to file a report kind of plan. it should include language that mentions homophobia and transphobia. ableism, sexism, sexual harassment and sexual assault. none of those words are in this. i want there to be a clear and explicit way for kids to report

anonymously. that isn't in this that i can see. thank you giving me that time. >> president lopez: one thing i want to clarify, this does not mention sexual harassment because the law does not permit us to do so. >> when betsy devos under former president trump modified the sexual harassment regulations that are applicable to k12 district, it specifically required that we pull out sexual harassment and have its own policy which has a different standard than bullying. this was actually staff effort to try to catch lower level behaviors that would not rise to the standard of sexual harassment from the federal government. but to try to address them. that's why you don't see sexual harassment here commissioner. >> vice president collins: can we mention hate speech or racism? >> we do have a separate policy on discrimination and we have a

policy geared towards hate speech. >> vice president collins: this doesn't mention anything about curriculum. >> i understand. >> vice president collins: that' s prevention right? kids don't know how to report things if they don't know along for reporting them. we don't have a hotline, it's not prevent bullying. there's an anonymous hot line we say we have and it's in the handbook. can you speak to that? >> i can't speak to the curriculum, commissioner. that would not come out of legal or equity. curriculum would need to come out of the -- >> vice president collins: we should have a policy to make sure that every kid gets curriculum so they understand their right and they know what hate speech is to report it. if we're teaching adults to report it, shouldn't we be teaching children how to report it? >> i'm not arguing with you i'm trying to answer your question.

>> vice president collins: i'm asking you. >> president lopez: i think chief smith might be able to help. >> thank you commissioner come collins and for your questions. we do have work to do on a specific anti-bullying curriculum. it isn't as far long as it should be. what we have been able to do in this past year with the pandemic is we are working on moving forward with the promise of the hotline. i know you're wanting that in place. we've been putting some of the beginning planning of it. starts with the school planning team and things like that. there are components in place. i think we have good ways to go.

the deputy superintendent have been talking a lot about the humanizing curriculum. like how do we build this curriculum with the many other resolutions that are focusing on race and anti-racist practices and humanizing. we aren't there yet. we definitely should bring an update. i don't know if that comes to you. >> vice president collins: i reported hate speech at my daughter's school when trump was elected. people were saying we should be sent back to mexico. it was upsetting. kids say things they don't know what they are saying. we don't have to have a fully worked out curriculum. i did this as a teacher explain to kids, there are certain words that are hurtful. i've been asking for that since my daughter is in sixth grade, they are now sophomores in high school.

i want to know when we're going to have a working anonymous hotline when we're going to have curriculum tell kids how to report being bullied? >> i can get back to you on the hotline as we work through the details of that in terms of the curriculum in the beginning of the year. >> vice president collins: thank you. >> president lopez: commissioner alexander and then commissioner boggess. >> commissioner alexander: i agree with vice president collins. this is a real area of urgent need for us. i think it's not just a curriculum issue. it's a basic safety issue for all students. when this came up before, we raised a similar point. my other concern was that we were adding this legal

requirement make it seem like you're putting a band-aid on a problem without addressing the root cause. we took it back to curriculum committee. the committee we learned that actually this -- the training that's mentioned in here is already happening. the language that's being inserted reflects a legal requirement but it reflect -- it's not an additional training. it's sort of saying it's already happening. this change does not address any of the issues vice president come -- collins talking about. what it does, simply add legal language that codifies something we're already doing. because the legal -- because we're already doing it and it

seem like it was legally advisable to do it, that's why i'm supporting this policy moving forward. i support what vice president collins saying around the need, the urgent need to address this. especially as we return to in-person learning and we think about what kind of culture we want to rebuild in our schools that we not go back to a normal where bullying is acceptable. what would it look like to go back to in-person learning in schools where no child ever had to experience bullying at sfusd school. if staff isn't taking that challenge, then we're not doing our job.

[indiscernible] >> commissioner boggess: do we have an assessment we know how well the policy is implemented through the district? >> the question you're asking is really -- the way i would measure that, what do our rates likes like for bullying and harassment in the district. do we see changes fluctuating up and down depending on awareness of the policy? i don't have that data. >> commissioner boggess: i don't

think it's fair to say this policy is going to prevent bullying. >> commissioner alexander: this policy -- i don't think that's even really designed to do that exactly. >> we hope it's one tool. >> commissioner alexander: it's not a comprehensive strategy. it has to be proactive. >> exactly. the way we view the policy setting the value statement and how that policy gets implemented through the curriculum that commissioner collins mentioned, that's lower level. the policy is the overarching board value statement. >> commissioner boggess: i would say, i think for me, having more conversations about this and other policies how successful they are implemented whether

it's with specific training and how successful we think that is to whether or not families are aware of these problems? [indiscernible] we're just interested in expanding this conversation and ensure that our policies match our practices and we're able to follow them with fidelity. we continue to strive and push forward. thank you so much. >> president lopez: thank you everyone. i'm going to call for roll call vote. [roll call vote].

>> six ayes. >> president lopez: item 2, board policy 3551, food service operation cafeteria fund. it was moved and seconded. superintendent matthew? >> presenting this item is danielle houck. >> thank you superintendent. tonight we're asking that the board adopt the board policy. this is our food service operation and cafeteria fund and for positive recommendation. >> president lopez: public comment before we hear from commissioners.

>> if you care to speak to item, please raise your hand. seeing none. >> president lopez: any questions or comments from commissioners? seeing none. roll call vote. [roll call vote] >> seven ayes. >> president lopez: thank you. section h, special order of

business. there are three action items. item 1, award of contract for school transportation services between district and zoom services inc. may i hear a motion and second to special order one? >> so moved. >> seasoning. >> reading the declaration into the record will be our chief. >> thank you dr. matthews.

>> we're all available to answer any questions the board may have about the procurement process. tonight we're asking the board to approve a contract with zoom to provide school transportation services. zoom is the vendor that the evaluation panel determine to be the best value responsible bidder. we also asked ceo of zoom to join us. my intent is to provide complete transparency on the procurement process so the board can feel confident in the process before volting on -- voting on the contract. given the size of the contract, it's imperative that the board has every opportunity to

understand the process, ask questions and hold staff accountable for engaging in a procurement process that shows integrity and that adheres to all local, state and federal requirements. that is why we presented a detailed update to the budget and business services committee in october before issuing the request for proposal. on february 3rd, submitted an response to our r.f.p. again, our goal is to share detailed information about the procurement process and to respond to questions from the board. we'll do our best to present an update within the constraint of the 10 slides -- [indiscernible] you can see the process was facilitated and advised by our business services and procurement and our legal team. we had an evaluation panel that comprised staff and stakeholders from a variety of areas in the

district. with that, i like to introduce sfusd's director of procurement. >> thank you. good evening commissioners. i'm the procurement director. commissioners with in the next slide, i will try to walk you through the process we went through to get to this r.f.p.. the item on this item was not accurately transcribed. the term of the contract is actually five years. not one year. commissioners, the district currently have a contract with first student. which expires in judgment of 2021. in anticipation of this expiration, the district issued an r.f.p. in october of last year to the provide improved quality transportation services.

through the r.f.p. -- [indiscernible] the r.f.p., we use the best value of procurement. commissioners, this next slide showcases where we are right now. you can see from the yellow arrow there. we come to you to ask you for approval of this contract to zoom. next slide shows some more information about how we got here. in order to get the best value for the district, the

procurement department performs extensive outreach. we put the r.f.p. -- we advertise in the local press. we also responded to and comments we received.

this next slide describes the process we use to determine the best value provider. the process for the r.f.p. was three phase process. the district has a panel of seven members to review the proposal with the four valued criteria. these criterias will be showcased in the next slide which i will discuss.

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>> best value procurement process considers both price and value. zoom has existing relationships with 130 california districts and has safely transported 750,000 students since 2015. zoom presented a clear and compelling safety plan that was proactive, multifaceted and responsive to needs of students, especially students with i.e.p.s. they have a strong track record of safety.

they can accommodate individualized pick-up and drop off instructions. families can get notifications when their child is picked up and dropped off. they use technology to provide realtime feedback to drivers and an opportunity to coach drivers for continuous improvement. for value category two, vehicles and sustainability, zoom proposed 100% brand new fleet and 100% transition to electric fleet by 2015. they presented a proposal that met all the vehicle requirements including technology and safety equipment. all vehicles will have cameras with video and audio recording and student ridership tracking will make it possible for us to know for the first time ever who is riding the bus in realtime. for value category three,

personnel and zoom proposal demonstrated that services will be performed 100% by zoom employees and they shall first offer to hire drivers, mechanics and dispatchers of the outgoing contractor. their proposal included a commitment to maintain collective bargaining agreements with their workforce and included a commitment to pay no less than prevailing wages. their professional development plan was robust and demonstrated a commitment to people development. zoom was recently recognized as a great place to work. for value category four, the proposal demonstrated a deem commitment to student center and customer service. they conduct quarterly surveys to measure performance and learn about areas of improvement. they reach out to users who rate their rides anything less than four stars. student-centered technology is at the core of their business. they will offer integrated communication for families, schools and drivers. for example, families can phone

a ride in realtime and went have to call transportation department to know when their bus is arriving. zoom commitment to student safety physical and emotionalfuls evidence throughout their proposal. they recognized for example, that families may need to share unique, student needs with drivers. for example, letting them know if their child is feeling more anxious day and will need to have some particular support to help them have a successful ride to school. school -- zoom demonstrated it tracking and reporting data in

an accurate, timely and transparent fashion. we're really excited about predicting voicing. there were value points in all four value categories for demonstrating a clear understanding of an alignment with the district's commission, mission, values and service standards. they have the support of investors and industry leaders to transform student transportation. the student centered technology at the core of their business

will significantly enhance the experience for family students and schools. this slide shows cost comparison. i do want to share that bidders were provided with stops and asked to design rides and schedules using their own software to determine how many vehicles will be need to provide transportation services. what you see here is two different charts that are telling you two different things. the chart on the left of the screen and shows you how the daily rates increase over current rates. the bars in yellow are first student and bars in green are zoom. for example, for the 20-day passenger van vehicles, first student proposal had 16.5%

increase for the daily rate over our current cost. zoom had a 6% increase. that's the chart on the left. it breaks it down by vehicle type. you can see how the variants increases by vendor and vehicle type. on the right, it shows the projected yearly cost. zoom's proposal was $3.3 million less annually than first student for the yearly cost. while the proposal was $3.3 million less than first student, the cost is still really high. unlike the board, my team and i are eager to reduce transportation cost. while the r.f.p. is providing us with an opportunity to significantly improve services for students and increase transparency and accountability, it's not necessarily reducing cost at the rate that we would like to see. that is because there are other aspects of the district's

infrastructure drive up cost. these are things that we're working on actively. another example choice-based student assignment system. i'll just illustrate that point with our current system, if we've got 1500 children with i.e.p.s, if we implement

zone-based elementary student assignment, they will be predictability. if children live in certain area, there's a certain number of schools that will and we can build predictable rides. these are examples of two strategies we're workingen that we hope with reduce cost and return more that money back to the classroom. tonight, we're asking the board to approve a five-year contract not to exceed amount $29.2 million for next year. this contract will not obligate to pay that much. that's the most. the contract is structured so we'll only be invoiced for services provided. if we change start time, we can imagine spending let's than $29 million next year. i like to introduce the ceo zum

services inc. >> i'm grateful that the district has chose immigrant local run company to provide student transportation. we are committed to bringing the best infrastructure team, experience and technology to the district in come asking years. few points i like to highlight, our focus will be on safety, transparency and accountability while -- the second thing we are bringing in brand new school bus fleet. we will have technology for tracking and notifications.

we are also committing -- [indiscernible] we look forward to serving sfusd. >> that concludes our presentation for this evening. we look forward to answering any questions commissioners may have. >> president lopez: thank you everyone. can we see if there's any public comment on this item that was just presented? >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to the transportation contract that has

been spoken to. there's about seven hands. >> president lopez: let's do one minute each. >> hello daniel. >> i want to say, i really -- i love zum's business model and plan as a student and as being on the school bus. it's been a nightmare sometimes. recently i try to stay on top of it. that aspect of zum is wonderful. i look forward to it. i'm a little concerned that a lot -- it was really the

district's fault that this didn't happen with first student. they have ignored the transportation department and families too long. that's all i like to say. thank you. >> hello todd? >> good evening commissioners. i'm todd. i'm a sales manager from bus west. we are the largest thomas dealer, thomas school bus dealer

in the state of california and nevada and hawaii. i would like to just give a little support to zum who i have been working with for the last several months and up to as long as last year on electric vehicles that we were doing some research on. i like to make the board secure that we'll be providing all the brand new buses for zum. they will be delivered in the time frame is that is required by your contract. zum has supplied and secured over $20 million to start this contract. >> thank you.

hello, peter? >> good evening. thank you for letting me speak tonight. i'm peter tuckerman. we're the electric vehicle manufacture that has largest deployments of zero emission school buses in north america to date. we've been building and deploying 100% electric school buses since 2016. we're the only company with accumulated mileage over six million for the school buses in service here in america. i like to congratulate the board and the district staff on acting on the bold vision of emissions-free school transportation. school buses impact air quality in all corner of the school district.

i want to lend our support to zum services who's commit to convert over 100% of your district by 2025 to electric school buses. >> hello tara? >> i have a child that used the buses. i love this idea. i love the modern aspects and innovation and the technology. there's a lot of accountability, especially drivers and the

routes. i love this idea. but businesses as we know, are explicitly designed to make money. i would like to have some sort of way to try the cost. if we change the start time, then we can expect to pay less. can we track that? we can track the drivers. i think it's a great idea. that's it. thanks. >> good evening commissioners.

i'm speaking on behalf of the zum service. we've working with them for identifying and leasing appropriate bus yard location for the san francisco unified school district contract. we negotiated securing l.o.i. for 4.9 acres. zum has the financial capability to sign the lease on the bus yard. zum has been very diligent in their search for the bus yard location and for example, the driver union had highlighted a challenge of employee parking recently. they've been able to add that

additional square footage to the l.o.i. zum is highly respected immigrant woman of color. >> hello jody. >> my name is jodie miller. zum has been our provider of transportation for the past three years. they do 100% of our transportation of our students who are assigned to e.c.b. and districts across the bay. having zum as our transportation

provider has been transformational. zum is a team of passionate people who are highly mission driven and focused on designing a solution that works for children at any developmental need or disability. their desire to bring equity and school transportation is evident. they have put accountability at the forefront of their operations. our community loves zum technology. we can all track our students and receive notification. zum has been a true partner for e.b.c. schools and community, their special needs transportation is unparallel. >> that's your time >> thank you. >> hello, alita. >> i like to point out that the

conversation around saving money on the backs of students with i.e.p. completing misses the point. if we provided the services that our children needs, we wouldn't be talking about a multimillion dollar contract to send kids outside the city. we wouldn't be talking about schools like logan river. transportation services is actually small drop in the bucket when we look at the continuum of services. if we're going to talk about saving money, i would caution us to actually follow the sfusd core values and the student-centered first and most. let's talk about what's best for our students.

thank you. >> amy? >> good evening, can you hear me? thank you. i'm the accounting executive for bayer automotive group. we provide the benefits to school bus drivers and many other workers. we recently presented smart local 1741 with the good plans and their medical plans and benefits will be available to them as soon as they are eligible under the terms of their labor contract. we're also pleased to report that with the expected

transition of transportation drivers to zum, the contractual health benefits enjoyed by the drivers and their families, will not be impacted or interrupted. we've been working with kaiser to ensure than we will partner with zum incorporated to provide a seamless transition for all the members of smart local 1741. >> thank you. penelope. >> i really appreciate how important transportation is to our district. i think this means exciting.

>> good evening commissioners. it is after 9:00 p.m. why are you discussing a bus contract before voting on labor

agreement? there's no open school to bus children to. you promised to focus on reopening. this is disrespectful and mappeddening -- maddening, do better. >> hello, carla? >> hello everyone. i'm the membership chair for the community advisory committee for special education. i have personal experience with the buses. i wanted to say it's very exciting to hear this presentation to see transparency that our families will receive. i love the idea of being able to track where a bus is. i have stood for 30 minutes in the rain waiting for a bus to arrive to get my 4-year-old off to bring to class. our bus drivers have been amazing.

but the service has been difficult. i like to bring a little awareness around making sure that we can -- when we have a new student who is assigned to our school, we have to wait a week or two before they are assigned to their bus. that impacts them, to be a parent bringing them. i love this new zum, i love the idea. thank you very much. >> hello, brandy? >> i wanted to echo something that the previous caller said about as far as our district not providing money for our children's i.e.p.s. if we're thinking about cost savings, it's so much easier when we make sure our students

get the services they need and they get them early. i now parents who had to fight to get i.e.p.s. that adds a lot of money on to -- it makes things more expensive down the road. i really hope the district 10 embrace a mindset that ensures that all children with disabilities are served and are served at an early age and are served well. thank you. >> lorraine? >> thank you guys so much for hanging in there all night long. i been with you guys since 3:00. you are doing a fantastic job. i appreciate you and you guys continue to do what you do. in the long haul, just keep hauling whatever it is you need

to haul. have a great night. i appreciate you. >> thank you. >> i want to echo the last caller. i like you guys to consider the best use of your time. maybe just consider shortening lot of this. same names keep showing up, including myself, i'm not going to lie. we all know that we're not reaching a broader community. perhaps we can do better. thank you. >> caller with the 909 area code? >> hi. good evening board. my name is hardy brown, i'm the president of the california association black school educators. i was calling to speak on behalf of item h, contract for school

transportation. it gives me immense pride and pleasure that your district has chosen this first generation immigrant woman of color, leading this company. we're really proud and look at her organization and body of work and really proud that you all partner with her. i grew up with three sisters and now married for 25 years. i have two daughters. your decision today is really going to support women and minorities in this particular industry and we think that the work that you're doing is really great. i like to speak on behalf of black students in the community and how important it is to focus on education when planning your transportation. data shows that black and minority student spend more time on the bus compared to other

counterparts. choosing this company like zum, we're proud to work with them. thank you. >> caller with the 925 number? would you like to speak? >> yes, hello. >> you have one minute. >> just very briefly commissioner, good evening. i know it's an long night i will try to be brief. i'm an account executive. i'm speaking in support of item h, which is awarding of the contract school transportation services between the district and zum services inc.

we currently serve does of trade unions across the u.s. we are working with zum services. we are confident that the members of smart local 1741 will have a secure and growing retirement. we will continue and pledge to work with smart local 1741 to professionally migrate. i look forward to the relationship. thank you for the time. appreciate it. >> that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: thank you so much to our staff and to the public for coming out. any questions or comments from

commissioners? >> commissioner moliga: i like to thank folks who came out for public comment. appreciate you all spending the time to come out here and advocate for the company it seems like you guys believe in. i do want to thank the staff. i've been really may be over the board sometimes. i'm confident that it was a process. i've been step by step with chief o'keefe and her staff around this whole entire transportation ordeal. i want to definitely say thank you to the staff. i know it hasn't been easy. but at the same time, we're moving and we're getting forward. we're moving forward and getting to where we want to get to. i want to thank the board, school board commissioners for

taking this on. based on what it looks like in terms of the presentation, how we're getting ready to move forward, it took a lot of courage and energy for the board to take this on in terms of trying to find who is out there that we can partner with and get quality services that would be cost efficient at the same time. given that we're. currently experiencing a budget deficit within the school district. i want to thank the board for taking this on and leading this during the pandemic as well. i don't have any questions. i think i asked all my questions during committee. i want to thank the staff and superintendent and board commissioners for walking through this.

appreciate it. >> commissioner lam: thank you to the team for all the work and this r.f.p. process. commissioner moliga mentioned it's not been easy. thank you everyone for coming out and representatives from zum. i had one question and a comment. when i first joined the board, that was one of the top questions i asked. i remember chief o'keefe asking, what is our plan towards emission free transportation. around how important it is to this board and to me around all work under a union.

i'm excite to hear about those active conversations and the transition to ensure there's a collective bargaining agreement in working with our local union there as well as just again, being grounded for zum around the alignment of principles and values that san francisco unified district and holding our students and families at the center of that user experience. it is clear that is the improvement that we had to make that we have not stepped up as a district and that really looking forward to that partnership so that we are doing right of our students and families. one question i did have, i may have missed it by one of the speakers. specifically about the bus yard, i know that was something that's going to be new for zum and i

believe you said there was a backup plan should the construction or whatever city permitting might need to happen. if i can get clarification there about the bus yard, since that is a big part of the ask within the award and r.f.p. >> i can take this on. >> president lopez: introduce yourself.

>> everyone is looking for land. we want to be sure that if there's any delay, we're able to go to the backup if at all needed. that is the only reason why we have done that. we have plans to take union as we design this yard. i think it's a great opportunity to design it from the scratch. lot of people were spending good enough time of their day in that yard. we are planning on doing that in the coming days.

>> president lopez: i appreciate contingencies especially with land use, you just don't know what may arrive. i appreciate you sharing that backup plan and having the design and engaging with the district staff around that. thank you. >> commissioner boggess: this is my first time engaging. i have a lot of questions. hopefully they can be answered. i'm curious to what access will the school district have to buses and drivers in the case of an emergency such as the pandemic? would we have access to buses and drivers? how is that accounted into the rates that we're paying? that's the first question. >> thank you commissioner boggess. as the contract is written and

there's a daily rate by vehicle type. we as a district will determine how many vehicles we need and for what purposes. we'll work with zum to book those buses. we have to let the company know how many buses we need and for what purposes. >> commissioner boggess: are those rates prenegotiated in the contract so those are negotiated now. are we guaranteed access to those buses request of >> -- buses >> that's how the contract is structured. outside like everything in life, there can be situations. but that's the intent. that's how it's designed. >> commissioner boggess: we wouldn't lose buses to another school district that they also serve? >> that's right.

>> commissioner boggess: next question, as far as the drivers, how many people projected to be hired from san francisco community and how is that taken into consideration. >> we can't hear commissioner boggess. >> i was able to. >> yes, we can hear you. keep going, we can hear you. >> commissioner boggess: my question was around diversity of the hirely pool for the drivers and how we're taking that into the account to make sure it matches the district objectives and priorities. >> i'll answer the first part and we'll ask zum to augment

what i'm saying. the way we structured the contract, they are obligated to hire the incumbent drivers, dispatchers and mechanics from the outgoing vendor. that's the first thing that needs to happen. i know i don't have at my fingertips what the diversity is of that workforce where they live. many of them have been drivers in the district for many years. i will let zum speak to what their practices are if they need to hire beyond the number of drivers that they will be hiring from the outgoing vendor. >> i will take that on.

even in our proposal and our presentation, diversity has been the cornerstone how we have benefit zum. if you look at the numbers, people from diverse background communities is really amazing. coming down to answering questions around drivers. we take immense pride in the union. they have served the district for last 40 years. it's extremely diverse community. you're talking about -- what background you're looking for drivers, from the black

community from the pacific islander community, there's a good amount of drivers there from the lgbtq community. i don't think diversity is going to be an issue. what we can do, we can work with the union to get you the exact numbers on diversity and then have this conversation further as well. >> commissioner boggess: i appreciate that. how many black drivers do you currently employ? is that information you have available? >> i will get back to you on this. for example, oakland district work with us. we are working with so many districts. it's a very diverse pool of drivers. i'm sure those numbers will look promising to you. we should come back with exact

numbers and then have this discussion. this is a topic that is near and dear to our heart. >> commissioner boggess: i appreciate that. someone who grew up here in san francisco, for the black community, we feel left out lot of the pushes around diversity. anything that really intentional kill show that we're making an effort, especially since district a off loading the responsibility hiring new drivers. the next question is in regards to the electric vehicle. understanding this a is five-year contract. seems like the electric vehicles don't become fully guaranteed until the last year or so of the contract. what does that mean for up to that point.

>> by the way, you have done really good justice. i will answer the question. the way we have planned and presented to the district is an incremental progression.

we really do not want to invest money in technology -- we have so much in the industry, six months or one year it's going to look different. that is how we planned the progression. we can start from the emerging fee for example. technology is very advanced. when it comes to school buses, school buses are pretty new on the road. that is how we planned for the progression. >> those numbers that you share, the 10%, 30%, 60%, are those reflective a year by year

increase in incremental change? is that accurate? >> yes, school year by school year increase. it is part of the r.f.p. bid. >> it's memorialized in the presentation that they shared with us. that's increments. >> i just worry about not having access to the full electrical fleet until the contract is over. on the next question i have for district staff is, are there any

penalties for the vendor for failing to follow through with agreements made in this great. if they don't reach a certain number of electric vehicles, there's a certain amount of money. how is that addressed in this failure to comply or meet certain parts of the agreement about a vendor? >> one of the things we're excited about with this new partnership is the fact that the line of sight into the details, so there can be greater accountability along the way is going to really -- yes, we're going to have all these controls in place and monitoring the different aspects and commitments to make sure that all aspects of the contract are complied with. within the contract, things that are built in, not specifically around the commitment to the electric vehicles but with regard to on time services for

students. >> commissioner boggess: are there specific financial penalties? are there financial penalties for those things not being met? >> yes. we will be monitoring as the invoices come in to make sure that we're receiving the services that we requested and that we're being billed accordingly for those services. >> commissioner boggess: there's no charge to the vendor -- [indiscernible] >> for breach of contract, you're asking what we will do if there's a breach of contract? there is language in the contract. i don't have it fresh in my mind now. i'll see if archie wants to share. we built that in the contract.

>> commissioner boggess: i would love to see that. i don't need that right now. the next question i have specifically about the unionized drivers. how do the hours and wages and benefits work for the drivers if they do shift our schedule around? does have any negative impact on the pay rates, benefits, salaries of the new driving force? how is that handled? >> i want top make sure i understand the question. [indiscernible] we will determine kind of what routes and schedules are. i'm wondering if that's the

question you're asking. if the volume we book is less than anticipated, would that have an impact? >> commissioner boggess: would that impact the workers and workforce. i want to know how that plans to be handled? >> yes, that makes sense. they committed to paying more than prevailing wages. >> wages, benefits, they all have been memorialized in the current vendor. we have offered union, we will

honor. your question is about what happens if there's a disruption in service when the number of numbers goes down. this is a very tricky balance. that is where all the parties to work together. district will be in the financial stress if they are paying -- vendor will never cover all the cost for the drivers and ensure there are that many hours for drivers. what we do is, there are ways deploying the driver for other contracted work. we work with so many districts around in california around san francisco. even private schools, charter

schools, we do athletics, we do so many different activities. what it will be to employ and compensate as many drivers. that is what excites us as a company. we are going to do that. these are the situations which have to be -- we have to sit at the table and discuss the time and completely understand when the district will -- [indiscernible]

i don't think there will be a perfect answer for a question like this. i think it's more about the intent and that is what i try to share with you like how we think about it. >> commissioner boggess: thank you so much. i appreciate your answer. i think it was helpful to get those answers and have that perspective. for me, i think i'm just challenged by the bid process. personally as someone who hasn't been really involved in this process up until now, i really feel that the district has a responsibility to have its own bus drivers and buses and really to have that as a responsibility of the district, especially of a district -- i don't feel like it's the responsibility to contract with third party vendors to do that. i feel that the bidding process, understanding this is a very small number of people who do this, the bidding was too small for my liking.

i don't feel like it leads to the best outcomes for students and families this doesn't set up long-term for the best outcome for students because it makes us relying on third party vendors. i appreciate all your answers. i don't feel like this is something i will be able to support. i do feel that the district needs to take a greater responsibility. even though we do have a lot of financial constraint, i do feel like this is something where it's less about money and more about students, how we can provide for them and what they need. really not trying to nickel and dimes that prevent our students being able to access the best things that our district provides. thank you so much for answering my questions.

>> commissioner sanchez: i'll be supporting it. i want to thank the staff and commissioner moliga for your diligence in this process. i do appreciate commissioner boggess suggestion around the district having responsibility of having its own bus fleet and its own employees that drive the buses, etcetera. i'm pretty sure we discussed that in the past and why that's prohibited. may be staff can remind us or may be i'm mistaken and we can do it. it's been my impression that there are certain reasons since we're structurally funded by the state. why we're not able to afford to do that. >> you want me to respond? yes. i think that's right. it is something that we've had

preliminary internal discussions about will have to do and will have to do a lot of work to build the business case and understand what kind of initial investment might be required to secure buses and all of those pieces of it. it's something that we've talked about and are happy to continue exploring kind of in the long-term to be able to speak more specifically what kind of investment or infrastructure, we would be required to establish in order to make that possible. it is not uncommon for districts to have hybrid approaches either. in some districts, as specks of the business and have some that's housed. it's really a question of our capacity as an organization to make an initial investment to

build that kind of business model. >> commissioner sanchez: i really do appreciate the fact that if we do adopt this contract that zum will be utilizing existing staff as bus drives. i think that's a huge step in the right direction. we may have had totally different public comment timing if that was not the case. i do appreciate that. once again, there's been a lot of work done on both staff's end and commissioner moliga end. i want to appreciate that. i'm grateful for that work. >> thank you. >> president lopez: vice president collins, did you want to add something? >> vice president collins: i want to reiterate deep

appreciation for commissioner moliga. this is the kind of tedious work that folks need to do. i appreciate you all taking this on and feels like making of a ship. this is a big shift with a big contract like this. i want to say thank you. i will be supporting this. also i want to say i'm in the interested in the district doing any more things. we're not a broadband company, i want us to focus on education. folks know how to do that and they're willing to work with our labor partners and along with our values and do it in a green way. i think that's a win. thank you for taking this on. >> president lopez: thanks everyone. with that, let's do a roll call vote. [roll call vote]

>> that's six ayes. >> president lopez: great, thank you. item 2, under section h, memorandum of understanding between sfusd and uesf regarding special education assessment. may i hear explosion and a second >> so moved. >> second. >> president lopez: superintende nt matthews? >> recommendation into the record will be the chief of labor, craig jones. >> good evening commissioners, superintendent matthews.

you heard details earlier in the evening during -- this item speaks board ratification of a memorandum of understanding regarding the special education assessment centers. >> president lopez: okay, thank you. i'm going to open it up to public comment for this item. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak with the m.o.u. regarding the special education assessment. looks like we have seven hands president lopez. >> president lopez: all right, one minute each.

>> hello, jesse? jesse miller? hello meagan. >> hi. i wanted to offer my sincere gratitude to everybody who worked on this agreement. it's been in the works for a very long time. there's been so many voices that have been inputted in this agreement. it is a testament to what we can achieve when all us work together towards the common goal. this one is ensuring students get what they need. it's student centered.

i'm really proud of the work you did. i'm thankful for everyone who has put hard work into this. i hope that it gets approved tonight and it can start the hard work we need to do. thank you. >> hello chris klaus. >> i'm special educator at washington high school. i like to speak in support of special education assessment. it's so crucial to get the kids assessed.

there are so many more major ways to help a student with learning disability by ensuring testing. please let this pass. let us keep moving forward. thank you. >> thank you. hello carla? >> thank you for all your hard work and dedication. i am the membership chair for the community advisory committee for special education. we are so very excited and grateful that an agreement was reached where an assessment center can be open and our students can be assessed in-person. i know everyone has been working hard trying to assess virtually to the best of their ability. we know students are different in-person. there are nuances that you cannot ignore when you're in the presence. we have students that are in need of -- students in need in

general. thank you for your support. >> hi again everybody. thank you so much for this, getting this done. i feel like something is finally getting checked off the list here. that's a good feeling. i commented earlier, i said thanks to the district and didn't give proper credit to any of our bargaining partners and particularly our labor partners and uesf. we got lot of folks sticking their neck out to participate in this. kudos to our related service providers, our school psychologists, nurses who are willing to staff this. this is a leap of faith for

them. this is really precedent setting throughout the bay area. there have been complaints filed by parents of students with i.e.p.s to the state level and other school districts. other school districts like sacramento city has been compelled to if they have to hire private people -- a psych evaluation can cost about $8000. state law say we got to get this done. kudos for moving forward ton this. thank you. >> jesse? >> hi, this is jesse miller. i had my hand rain of -- raised for about an hour. [indiscernible]

>> we can't hear you anymore. are you still there? >> i'm here. can you hear me? >> go ahead now. >> i had my hand raised and i tried to call in for the last hour. i had a question on the last agenda item. the board did not call on me. the number of our people called in, you didn't call on any of us. we had our hands raised. >> president lopez: i set a time at the beginning of the item. we reached that time limit. right now we're taking public comment on the item that was just discussed. [indiscernible]. multiple people did it and try to call in -- >> sir, if you care to speak to the item that's up? >> president lopez: we can't

really hear. thank you. >> hello, yvette? >> hi, thank you guys so much for being here. obviously we appreciate this plan. i think it's so welcome. we've been asking for plan to allow as many kids as possible to return this school year. that is one of the things that's extremely important. i think it's important that we recognize who's calling in at this hour. i said it. i'll keep saying it. it's 9:47. conversations that are happening that are not community conversation. they are just the people still here. so thank you. good luck. >> that concludes public comment on this item. >> president lopez: thank you. comments from commissioners or

superintendent? seeing none, roll call vote. [roll call vote] >> you have seven ayes. >> president lopez: item three, tentative agreement on memorandum of understanding between sfusd and local 21, local 39 and seiu regarding health and safety standard. may i hear a motion and a

second? >> so moved. >> second. >> president lopez: superintende nt matthew? >> thank you again superintendent matthews. again to remind the commissioners this was details of this presented earlier this evening in the return to in-person learning presentation. the recommendation is to ratify the tentative agreement on this m.o.u. between sfusd, local 21, 39 and seiu regarding health and safety standards. >> president lopez: thank you. we appreciate your presentations. i'll open it up to the public before commissioners have questions. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to the tentative

agreement between memorandum of understanding and seiu regarding health and safety standards. seeing four and so far president lopez, i see eight. >> president lopez: let's do a minute each. >> hello jan? >> hi, i'm the president of local 21 here at sfusd. i'm totally glad that we have this agreement. everybody can move forward. all the unions, the school district.

i'm not going to talk about the hyenas are basically what sf chronicle is. i'm really glad to see this go through. i'm curious why uesf isn't there. that's a teacher union. there's a big guide. i'm glad it went through. i'm a little bit -- there seems to be a big thing. we're kind of like late in the night.

>> good evening president lopez, commissioners and community members. i'm an elementary school teacher in the district and i appreciate the opportunity to comment. i was so happy to learn a few weeks back that the district and union come to a tentative agreement on safety standards for all the adults and staff

involved in school reopening. it is my hope that you as at board will take the next step and ratify the temporary agreement today. in this agreement t outlines having vaccines available for educators that will be back in the classroom in the red tier. i appreciate everything former president mark sanchez said about vaccines early in the meeting. i would love for educators to be made a priority in getting vaccinated. i wondering it will be effective to write a letter to our city on behalf of the board of ed and other unions that like to join. thank you for your time. >> thank you. chris klaus. >> hi. thank you so much. we need to see movement towards a safe return to schools.

this agreement will help ease educator concern about the willingness to meet the measures to keep our communities safe. sfusd has done their part to share their knowledge on baseline health and safety. we need you the board to support the approval and implementation of these agreements to keep our districts and communities safe. we need the agreements approved now so staff has time to prepare our classrooms, schools and other workplaces for students toreturn to a safe, and supporte requirement as possible. thank you. >> hello, ari?

that concludes public comment >> president lopez: great, thank you. any questions or comments from commissioners? >> vice president collins: i want to reiterate what folks said, deep appreciation for labor partners for working with us to come to these m.o.u.s and this one. i want to say that i'm very proud of us as a district for putting safety first. there's n.e.a., national education association, 84% of members had already received the vaccine, scheduled their appointments plan to do so. i think half of the country,

teachers have already gotten vaccinated. i know kentucky, they already vaccinated their teachers. california is not leading on this. i'm glad that our city, our district and our labor partners are prioritizing vaccines and stand with all of our staff. i want you all to feel safe in our schools and families know that our staff is made it so. thank you very much for this agreement i'm very proud of this agreement. i will be voting yes. >> president lopez: any other commissioners? >> i wanted to echo what i heard as well. it really is important that we celebrate all of these big wins. i hope that we can get to place

where we're excited about the work that everyone is taking on. our educators and our district to come to these agreements. it's something we should be celebrating and cheering on as a city. thank you for all this work. i look forward to voting. >> president lopez: roll call vote. [roll call vote]. >> seven ayes. >> president lopez: thank you. section i, we've already discussed. section jings discussion and vote on consent calendar items previous meeting. none tonight. section k, introduction of proposal and assignment to

committee, there are none tonight. section l, proposal for immediate action and suspension of rules. may i hear a motion and a second for suspension of rules to resolution 212-28a1. sfusd medi-cal being introduced by faauuga moliga. >> so moved. >> second. >> president lopez: roll call on suspension? [roll call vote]. >> six ayes.

>> president lopez: thank you for clarifying. may i hear a motion and second for formal introduction? >> so moved. >> second. >> president lopez: thank you. commissioner moliga, read the resolution in the record? >> commissioner moliga: resoluti on number 2012-23a1. san francisco unified school district medi-cal building. sfusd is on the front line connecting families to medical services, 104% in inpatient visits, 151% increase for children ages 10 to 14, there exist 61% increase in the rate of self-reported mental health needs since 2005. whereas, covid-19 has led to

greater need for mental health services for youth as a result of massive disruption. economic and security and social isolation has exacerbated the equity to stabilize the primary care network and access resources available to families including mental health. whereas, san francisco unified school district schools are ground zero for youth mental health crises. primary actors in addressing these mental health needs, whereas san francisco unified school district already access small amount of reimbursement via school-based medi-cal activities. whereas san francisco unified school district through funding from the department of children youth and families and the public education enrichment fund is providing significant funding to support students and families with mental and physical health

that are eligible for federal matching funds. whereas full time social at all high schools k through elementary and 54 elementary schools have been part-time social work and staffing. whereas, san francisco unified school district centrally fund a full-time nurse at all schools. whereas san francisco unified school district funds school psychologists and other qualified health service practitioners to provide special support services for students receiving special education and section 504 planned services. whereas comarts -- k-marter char schools and community colleges,

food health related services provided by qualified service practitioners, whereas l.e.a. and qualified health services including credentialed school nurse and school social workers, credentialed school psychologists, credential school counselor, our qualified -- sfusd staff will create plan by june 2021 to expand the medi-cal billing option program which will be implemented starting school year 2021-2022. this plan will include administrative cost and revenue estimates based on how districts can maximize highest am of medi-cal resources. sfusd will work in collaboration with labor partners on areas needed. new revenue from the medi-cal billing option program will not

supply resources available for costs. sfusd will continue to fund wellness services at it currently stands and utilize new medi-cal revenue for wellness and authentic partnerships in sfusd which includes central support for students and families to navigate medi-cal program. be it further resolve, beginning school year 2022-2023 new revenue from medi-cal billing option program will be fund board of education resolution, our healing and our hands, sfusd resolution creating schools as spaces, transportation and growth. specifically suspect the expansion of the pier counseling programs at all high schools.

sfusd will prioritize new funding from the medi-cal billing option program to support the development of mental health career pathway to increase workforce in the district. this pathway will consist of a pathway, social worker pathway and nursing pathway. this pathway will be modeled and needed after the teacher pathway in sfusd. sfusd will partner with city college of san francisco and local colleges and sfusd will work closely with partners to create a referral system to immediately refer students to city health and mental health services in addition to private insurance. this plan will provide linkage to services no later than two weeks. starting school year 2022-2023 budget planning process develop a funding plan for the new medi-cal revenue to identify use of funds which may include a

full-time social worker and nurse at each school. sfusd will aim to meet national association of it social worker requirement ratio of one school social worker to each school building. or a ratio of one to 250 students. social workers provide services to students with needs, lower ratios such -- [indiscernible] >> president lopez: thank you for reading that. we would have supported you if you needed it. i'm going to open it up to public comment before we begin our discussion.

>> hello alita? >> this is an awesome resolution. on behalf of the c.a.c., thank you so much for this. i love the ambition. we got families waiting on average two months for referrals now. we have a lot of work to do to get there. the need is great. i love the pathway. i love this could actually fund some collaboration with city college and help build capacity. we need it. also, when it comes to building medi-cal, i think families as much as district personnel need some training. our families through access

medi-cal services, there's concern about double dipping. can a family privately access their services while the district is being billed for the same services? what that prevent them from using them medically if they are billed educationally? we should have robust discussion around that. i know this isn't the appropriate time to do it, i want to respond to what feels like slight about some of us who are here constantly, who are show up all the time and comment all the time. for us advisory committee, like us at the c.a.c., our state-mandated obligation is to be advisory board that does advise the school board. that's why we do. we show up. we stay until midnight and beyond. we comment all the time.

>> hello, yvette? >> i want to thank commissioner moliga. it's almost march 2021. it's been one year without assessment for i.e.p.s. there's a lot of work to do. this plan sounds amazing. there is in no way in disrespect for the people who have been showing up and talking. i think there's something to say for new voices. there's always space for new voices. i appreciate the ones who has been here and respect them. i want to say thank you and i'm glad there's more parents coming now and staying and listening to what's happening. thank you. all of you.

>> julie? >> hi. there has been parents coming for a long time, some of them are now board members. welcome to the club, to the midnight club for new folks. i wanted to speak on this resolution and thank commissioner moliga for showing us how representation matters. i appreciate having a social worker on the board who understands this issue. there's some details here that i need to learn more about. i'm excited about the pathway. i think building on the bus conversation earlier there may be opportunities for us to look at community benefits and hiring pathways that have more opportunities for families and residents. if this resolution resulted in schools having a full-time

social worker and a nurse as a parent who for years who had fight to ensure we get one full-time social worker and not half a parent that would be a huge accomplishment. thank you for this resolution. i look forward to learning more about the details and complexities. i appreciate the continuity of this work. >> that concludes public >> president lopez: commissioner s. >> commissioner moliga: i will say some comments and we can

have a dialogue with the board. which i think is fitting, especially because this -- we should definitely hear everyone's feedback and comments around this resolution. the state of california has $400 million in medi-cal building. which we have been able to tap into. every year, we run a deficit in terms of medi-cal around $500,000. i'm assuming our infrastructure is in our medi-cal building program is not as strong as it can be. based on the study and the research that's out there now in the school district, we have the potential to generate up to two may be $6 million annually in new revenue for health and mental health services. all those funds will go straight

to providing the support we need to bring on social workers and nurses to health workers. kind of moving forward, this right here once we execute it, it's lit railly to -- it's literally going to pay for itself. all those billable hours. the other piece that i wanted to

highlight was continuing to build out the pier counseling with the schools. from my understanding, that work still continues on to this day. making sure that we are funding current mental health services but also the efforts that are being pioneered by our students. the other point that i wanted to touch upon which is inserted in this resolution. alita pointed out. we have a referral and linkage issue now. that's all the way across the board. the truth is, if you have money, you're going to get your kid into services quicker than individuals or families that may not have that type of access. the folks who actually go

through their own personal health insurance or even through a medi-cal, the research and linkage period is very long. we as a school district have to be able to know what's happening. we actually have to figure out how to work with our partners to shrink that down. two weeks is kind of generous. kids should be linked within a week. final piece is, i want to thank staff because chief smith and -- they've been doing an incredible job to putting this together to launch. all of of this work is moving

currently. it is moving as we speak. i wanted to say, kevin gonen and your team for helping craft this work and pushing it forward. i'll leave it like that and we can have a conversation as we feel is needed. >> commissioner boggess: thank you so much for commissioner moliga. i do plan to support this. [indiscernible]. this is why i explains i voted no on a motion.

i'm really excited about this. i really appreciate your leadership and all that you do to help our schools. >> commissioner moliga, this is another great resolution that you put forward. i agree in general with commissioner boggess. we want due process going through our committee structure. i do get the urgency around money. one question i have. i know while back, if my memory serve me right, may be commissioner alexander -- i know that six or so years ago, there was an initiative by the

district to start capture or recapture these types of lost funding. there was a training module that were done for site leaders and school social workers. the weight of the initiative i think in essence broke its back. it didn't actually have much results in the long-term. i'm just hoping that going forward, how this is built out won't encumber kind of efforts that need to be done at the site level. we're adding more to the plate to site leaders to get the work done. i recall going through the process and being shocked by it and not -- feeling under -- didn't have the wherewithal to do it. nor did the social worker. >> commissioner alexander: i remember that. no one ended up doing it because it was so burdensome.

that's absolutely right. >> as this rolls forward in terms of what the process likess like. >> commissioner moliga: i was about to say. please respond to that please. >> thank you commissioner sanchez and commissioner alexander for naming your experience. commissioner moliga and were

talking about that not getting the revenue we supposed to get because it was a burden. we were thinking of more creative ways, looking at healthcare providers and healthcare plans and other ways people do this. being more creative and how does this program generate the revenue to administer it to bring in the dollars and not burden staff. appreciate you bringing that up. >> vice president collins: i want to also reiterate really a lot of thanks and gratitude to commissioner no lee ga for --commissioner moliga for taking

this on. it's another one of those things it's more bureaucratic. it has specific goals in supporting student mental health. i want -- not just looking at it from a very individualistic reference but to fund programs where students can learn about mental health and get involved in that field. it also builds out a new pathway for us academically. i'm just really impressed with the that you took a financial

problem and actually created curriculum and student support and address culture and climate. you did that with staff also as beautiful because you're working with central office staff to help with this. i think it's a beautiful resolution. i'm also very appreciative of all the things that it does while addressing -- what i thought was a primary concern. which is also very important. thank you again and kudos for another wonderful resolution. i'm very proud to support. >> commissioner lam: thank you to commissioner moliga. we've been talking about this

medi-cal resolution coming up on two years. the city looking at how its doing better in its billing. for medi-cal and bring those dollars back to serving students and families. i completely support and appreciate what's included in the resolution. one thing that i do want to know, i appreciate commissioner moliga. i understand your intent of wanting to make sure that this gets -- it's a priority that particularly as a district as we're looking at our structural deficit and what we need to ultimately solve for when it comes the finances and our programs and the impact level with our students. i would really like for more

consistent than reporting back out through the budgeting committee around where we are at with the implementation of this policy. one aspect, if we are, for example, if we are recouping our cost around related cost around medi-cal eligible, i want to make sure to understand how those funds is will be brought back to not only support new programming but what's needed in order to fund our established proms. for example, ohio. i remember us sitting at the table with the team really figuring out how, for example, what the funding would look like. i think it's very aspirational.

you all know me enough, to bring the policying forward, i want to make sure we're able to meet them. we are setting up expectations for both ourselves and for our students and our families. commissioner moliga i like to work with you around implementation, working with staff through the budgeting committee to really understand that analysis as superintendent and the team puts forward what this plan looks like and beginning the next two fiscal years, looks like understanding the resources that will come back and where we will be spending it specifically around the social workers and mental health support for students and families.

>> president lopez: thank you. any other comments? >> vice president collins: i want to remind when folks use acronyms so the public know what it is. just encouragement for folks. >> president lopez: thanks for the reminder. roll call vote. [roll call vote] >> seven ayes. >> president lopez: thank you. section m, board member reports.

item one, report from recent committee meetings. there are no committee meetings. item two, board delegates and membership organization. [indiscernible] >> president lopez: thank you. i apologize. there's nothing to report right? >> no. >> president lopez: item 3, all other reports by board members.

seeing none, calendar committee meeting. i'll announce the upcoming committee meeting budget and business services will be on wednesday march 3rd at 4:00 p.m. curriculum and program will be march 8th at 4:00 p.m. rules, policy and legislation will be march 1st at 4:00 p.m. the ad hoc committee on personnel matters and labor relations will be on monday march 15th at 3:00 p.m. commissioner alexander? >> commissioner alexander: on the agenda at the rules committee meeting next week, will be update on information related to the testing. i know that's been a concern. that came up in public comment today. we won't be discussing the

resolution. there will be update on state and federal policy with respect to testing. >> president lopez: thank you for sharing that. section n, other informational items. we have the february quarterly report. >> it's just an announcement that included in the agenda. it's the february quarterly report. there's no presentation. thank you. >> president lopez: thank you so much.

section o, adjournment. >> vice president collins: we're taking every meeting memorial adjournment. we want to acknowledge community members, teachers, educators, staff, families and students who lost love ones due to the covid crises. i want to acknowledge that we're still suffering and take a moment for folks to remember those in their community who we lost since our last meeting. if we can take a moment.

thank you. >> president lopez: thank you for the reminder vice president collins. i know we are all suffering a lot throughout this. the board will now go into close session -- sorry, at this time, we will take public comment for those who like to speak on items on closed session. >> thank you president lopez. there's a total of five minutes for comments on closed session. julie? >> i think my hand didn't come down. >> no problem. yvette?

jesse miller? >> hi, can you hear me? >> yes. >> i'm wondering for you're going to address the current litigation involving the bidder for the -- that was awarded transportation contract this evening, zum? >> i don't believe this is on the agenda tonight. >> not only the agenda for the closed session this evening? >> we don't respond to comments. >> thank you. >> mr. miller, you may review our agenda including the cases that are listed for closed session. >> they were not descriptive enough to ascertain to be taken

up to closed session. >> it's just a question. i couldn't hear the answer. can i get a clear answer. >> president lopez: brown act does not permit the board to respond. please move to the next speaker. >> that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: thank you. the board will now go into close session. meeting. of [closed session]. >> there's nothing to report out. meeting adjourned. >> good night.

>> by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. i came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [♪♪♪] >> hello, friends. i'm the deputy superintendent of instruction at san francisco unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. what you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our san francisco teachers for

our students. >> our premise came about for san francisco families that didn't have access to technology, and that's primarily children preschool to second grade. >> when we started doing this distance learning, everything was geared for third grade and up, and we work with the little once, and it's like how were they still processing the information? how were they supposed to keep learning? >> i thought about reaching the student who didn't have internet, who didn't have computers, and i wanted them to be able to see me on the t.v. and at least get some connection with my kids that way. >> thank you, friends. see you next time. >> hi, friend. >> today's tuesday, april 28, 2020. it's me, teacher sharon, and

i'm back again. >> i got an e-mail saying that i had an opportunity to be on a show. i'm, like, what? >> i actually got an e-mail from the early education department, saying they were saying of doing a t.v. show, and i was selected to be one of the people on it, if i was interested. i was scared, nervous. i don't like public speaking and all the above. but it worked out. >> talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, it's so very weird. i'm used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where they're all moving around and having to

have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them? let's listen. >> hi guys. >> i kind of have stage flight when i'm on t.v. because i'm normally quiet? >> she's never quiet. >> no, i'm not quiet. >> my sister was, like, i saw you on t.v. my teacher was, i saw you on youtube. it was exciting, how the community started watching. >> it was a lot of fun. it also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. >> i want to end today with a thank you. thank you for spending time with us.

it was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. >> i'm so happy to see you today. today is the last day of the school year, yea! >> it really helped me in my teaching. i'm excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. >> we received a lot of amazing feedback from kiddos, who have seen their own personal teacher on television. >> when we would watch as a family, my younger son, kai, especially during the filipino episodes, like, wow, like, i'm proud to be a filipino. >> being able to connect with someone they know on television has been really, really powerful for them. and as a mom, i can tell you that's so important. the social confidence

development of our early learners. >> this is the regular meeting of the commission on community investment and infrastructure for tuesday, february 16, 2021. i would like to welcome members of the public streaming online or listening live as well as to the staff and others participating in towed's