school shall start earlier than 7:45 a.m. and in terms of in-person learning no school shall start earlier than 8:15 a.m. >> commissioner sanchez: so students at home the earliest they will start is what time? >> 7:45 a.m. >> commissioner sanchez: that is going to be a lot of the hardship for a lot of our families. that's a real concern for folks. and, i just wanted to ask a question. you did mention 6' distancing, but can we be a little more specific and clarify because we have been under the impression that there could be 4' distancing. not between the teacher and the students, but between students and among students in the classroom. >> so the way that -- if you read through -- we didn't to that tonight in my presentation to you.

i went through a high level summary. it's clear that we start in a certain place with six'. remember that one of the priorities that we tried to uphold in creating these schedules was that teachers could remain with their own students, the students they started the year with. so if i am a teacher and i am having more students than can fit in my room, we have a series of next steps. for example, i'm at a school where there are several second grades, i may then as a student, i may be rescheduled to one of my second grade colleague's classes. if there's no room in that classroom and we come back to the original classroom and we take a look at less space between the desks going down to no less than 4'. no less than 4'.

>> commissioner sanchez: okay. so there's a possibility that students will be 4' from each other. >> there is a possibility. >> commissioner sanchez: okay. and so that wouldn't if teachers being vaccinated before they come back in the classroom and i'll talk about that in a minute, the vaccinations, but there's not much more quote unquote danger for teachers, but there potentially could be for students. as we knowvaccinations were not offered to students under 16 years of age. the fear is that a lot of families fear is their child will become a carrier. they tend to be low income families of color and so they're really afraid there's going to be some contagion at the school and brought back

home and then people will be infected. that's just something that everybody in the public should be aware of. and, just the vaccine. i can tell you i got my first shot yesterday. it still hurts. i'm going back into the classroom on the week of april 19th school district. so i'll be prepared. but my schedule is not going to be anything like what we're looking at here. so i just want to say that and i appreciate everybody. and, last thing, i just want to concur with commissioner lam and commissioner alexander that we need to do everything we can and ensure that we're able to reach the revenue that's offered through the state. so we need to find a way to open up schools for that middle or high school level, which ever grade that ends up being. i think we need to make that

happen. thanks again. thanks, president lopez. >> president lopez: thank you. and, lastly, commissioner moliga and vice president collins. >> commissioner moliga: thank you president lopez. it hasn't been easy. i just want to thank commissioners and greg. i do love the fact that we have a bunch of educators on this board. i'm a social worker and so it's really helpful to have matt, allison, sorry commissioner alexander and vice president collins, president lopez, it really does help bring in that whole dynamic. the piece i wanted to touch upon and i keep bringing this up is our cbo partners and so like i know we talked about it before and someone said

something around summertime we're going to be able to bring back our cbo partners. can i get an update on that? you know, if we're going to be opening up schools, are we going to be allowed our beacons, our excel programs, all the things that actually, the programs that -- just to be honest, you know, i spent my whole career on the southeast side of san francisco working in the bay view ymcas, working out there, bird high school, carver elementary, and the reason why i keep bringing this up around the partners and dbos is because they are such an important piece on the kids' academic experience and how they are getting supported and so, i just feel like, you know, we can't really open schools for all kids, specifically, you know, we'll just say the southeast if we're not including our cbo partners and so, i'm also curious about the

mlus. a lot of these organizations signed with the mlus. but just to get a quick update on our plan for that. i'd appreciate it. and, again, i'm not going to take too long. i just want to get an update on that if anyone has any comments on that. >> i can give you what updates i do have, commissioner moliga. what we're trying to figure out -- i don't have an update on the summer. i'm not deep into those conversations, i'll have to get back to you. but we are actively offering how we are offering and our cbo partner. that's definitely in the works and depending on what school looks like in the fall, i know that's also in our plans. immediately in the six weeks that we'll be offering from april 12th on, we are looking to work with some of our excel

cbos and both the beacon and other staff around maybe potentially being able to offer some time on that early release, wednesday, but we are just starting to reach out to them to talk to them and understand what impacts that is for them and what they would need to do that. that's starting on thursday. and, the other thing is we have to also just look at our facilities. a lot of working were before is that you could have school and after school people could be in the building all together and now we have to have school, we have to empty the building and we have to have after school and so we're trying to figure out how do you do that with the safety protocols . so we're going to start small and see how it goes and try to build from there and what we can build. and then bring that momentum into the fall. so hopefully that's a bit of an update for you.

>> commissioner moliga: sounds good. thank you, chief lou-smith. >> really quickly, i wanted to follow up on ventilation. that was our plan for safely re-opening in december and i just wanted to just update i think that it's crucial for teachers vaccinated. i this they're going to feel more safe but with students specifically in communities of color, i just wanted just a really one or two sentence update on when we're going to be able to get a plan to get window fans and possibly filters into classrooms. >> commissioner, happy to give you kind of the at least most up to date information as this continues to evolve. so as i believe i discussed, i

can't remember anymore, the last board meeting, i want to say the meeting last week, but we had just recently settled on our approach with the departments of public health for how we were going to address ventilation in our classrooms. as board members may recall, we conducted a pretty extensive survey of our elementary school classrooms. i'm looking at over 15,000 windows, cataloging them in a database by classroom to identify the number of total windows, how many are operable versus inprobably and of the operable windows, how many functioned. we've been sharing that with dph earlier this calendar year and then working with them as they have looked at other schools to develop a consistent approach. the feedback, the direction that they have given us for how we are to address elementary

school classrooms is that we will for classrooms for 95% of the operable windows, operable meaning that a window that is designed to open, 95% of operable windows are functioning that we can use that classroom without any additional aids. for classrooms where we are in the 75% to 95% range that we can use a portable air cleaner or a fan and that for classrooms with 75% of -- >> vice president collins: i'm sorry, dawn. i don't mean to interrupt. it's too much information for this time of night. i wanted every classroom to have a window fan so we can increase mechanical ventilation and i know that's in addition to the baseline requirements that sfdph is opening and the world health organization recommends four to six air

exchange rates per hour and that may or may not. the more ventilation the better and i think it's more enticing if we can provide that. so i just wanted to fi know that's expanded capacity and if you can give me ouchlt where two things. i know that's in addition to you guys prepping and i don't want you to take time away from that. that's your number one priority. based on that, when can we expect a plan and a timeline for having that and, at the latest, i want to have us ready for the fall when we have fire season. >> yeah. of course. so we are right now purchasing several hundred portable air cleaners and fans to serve to basically meet dph requirements and make sure in the event there are classrooms where, again, we don't meet the right window threshold, we have the equipment necessary that we can provide and deploy to sites immediately. so we are buying a couple hundred. we have also identified a

number of different models that we are also then trying out. our hope is that over spring break, we are in this mad push to get elementary schools prepped. over spring break, we're going to pause and survey what has worked and not worked as we set up those sites and then be able to outline what we think the investment and time lines would look like for further equipping classrooms. >> president lopez: . >> vice president collins: thank you. >> yes. that was our working estimate based off some preliminary work we had done. we would hopefully be able to refine that over spring break. >> vice president collins: thank you. i appreciate that. i just wanted to put that out there. i think it's important for families concern. if we can do that and support you in doing that and be advocating for that i think it's important for me personally to make sure families of color that are

scared about safety and kids will be getting vaccinated, you know, right away that we can add that added sense of security. so thank you for your work in this and i appreciate it on top of everything you're doing to get the schools opened. >> absolutely. and my point is really to assure folks that as we pursue this enhanced level of ventilation, we are absolutely prepared to meet the requirements that dph has also established for us. >> vice president collins: thank you. >> great thank you commissioners and staff for this continued work, this effort. i know it's not easy and we see all of the work that you're doing. we'll continue to update the public on this item and provide multiple opportunities for you to engage with us. moving on to item two.

we'll hold an initial public hearing for the renewal for five. i know open the initial public hearing for the renewal for five keys charter school, adult school, and independent high school. superintendent matthew, can you repeat the need on the renewal. >> presenting tonight will be our director of policy planning and charter schools, michael davis. >> thank you, dr. matthews. so tonight is the initial public hearing on the five keys charter school renewal petitions. this is designed to have staff present initial findings and impressions of the petitions as required by law. we have to have an initial public hearing within 60 days of receipt of the petitions.

also, we will allow the petitioner to make a presentation and then, of course, the board will hear public comment regarding the petitions. so, having said that, mr. spiel, if you could start my presentation. thank you. next slide, please. so the petition submission and review timeline, as i said, we have to do the initial public hearing within 60 days of receipt. on january eleventh of this year, five keys submitted renewal petitions for their three charter schools and they also submitted a request to add additional local sites to the five keys adult school and five keys independent high school charters. and under california education code this request to add sites

is known as a material revision which must be reviewed by staff separately from the renewal under and as i said under the code, we have to hold the initial public hearing within 60 days of receipt. next slide, please. here, once again, are the petition review criteria under ab our 05 which does effect july two thousand twenty. we now look at renewals in three categories. high performing, middle performing, and low performing. the high performing and low performing are nondiscretionary in that the board in most circumstances must grant renewal for a high performing charter and must not grant renewal for a low performing charter and then, of course middle performing are discretionary. next slide, please.

so an additional twist for these charters is that five keys charters are evaluated not under the normal state dash board for performance, but they are evaluated under the dash board alternative school status. and, under that status, they basically fall in the middle or discretionary review criteria. so in determining whether to grant a charter renewal for a dass charter school in valuation rubrics which are provided by the state. the charter's school performance on alternative methods based on pupil population shall also be

considered. the chartering authority may deny a charter renewal pursuant to this photograph only upon making written findings setting forth specific facts to support the findings that the closure of the charter school is in the best interest of the pupils. next slide, please. so under the dass, the local indicators for five keys charter schools are in academic performance, implementation of academic standards and academic engagement access to a broad portion of study, conditions, and climate, basics, teachers, instructional materials, facilities, parent and family engagement and a local climate survey. so we have tonight basically the need for two public hearings because we have the renewal petitions and we also have the request for material

revision to add the additional sites. so for the presentation for renewal criteria. this is the end of my presentation for that portion. >> mr. davis. does that conclude your presentation? >> yes. >> okay. . >> the five keys presentation. >> yes. >> hi.

good evening, commissioners. >> sorry, mike. i was just going to say the presenters for five keys are steve good, president and ceo and lisa haynes. >> great. thanks, mike. good evening, commissioners. thanks for this opportunity to talk about our programs. just by way of brief background, five keys was founded in 2003 by the san francisco sheriff's department after trying to secure a school to serve the inmates in the san francisco county jail. they had no other options at the time but to look to chartered losses. nobody's willing to work in the jail and they found that under charter law there's an exemption they can partner with work force facility community, then you're allowed to serve students over the age of twenty-two. since five keys opened in 2003, the need was great and the san francisco county jail at the time, the recidivism rate was

approximately 65% and the average reading and math level for inmates that were incarcerated were in the range of 4th through 6th grade. visually most of the inmates inside of the county jail had multiple arrests and the sheriff in time mike hennessy had the foresight to realize that criminal justice reform was severely needed and he and sunny schwartz launched the five keys charter school. to this day, our mission is focused on justice. five keys because our motto was so successful from launching san francisco in the jail. we realized that there was another piece that was missing

and that was the piece of when somebody gets out of jail they needed to find a job. to bring nonprofits and educational services through five keys where formerly incarcerated individuals. to this day, while this year is an off year because of covid, but normally about 40% of our students are in custody while the remaining sixty% are out in the community. one thing to note is 100% of our students are high school drop outs. we don't recruit students from local schools. if somebody comes to enroll with us if they're enrolled they're already in school, we send them back to the school unless the school counselor and

ask feminine if they will take that student. it's a long standing policy we've had to not enroll students that are being served elsewhere. next slide, please. all right. so as i mentioned earlier, the recidivism rate in the county jail is approximately 65% or at the time it was. across state whether it was in state prison or county jail. i can say we've seen the recidivism rate drop significantly over the years that we've been operating the san francisco sheriff's department and, as i'll talk about later in our presentation, our recidivism rate is somewhere in the order of 17% and 30% which is greater than a 50% reduction across the board in california. it's also important to note that in california on whether

to hold a facility there whether to be secure or a little more open. the cost ranges from 50,$000 up to 80,$000 a year. versus the $11,000 to serve somebody with a high school education. [please stand by]

>> without five key, those 24 jails in california would essentially lose their entire education program. also, in those counties as well, we partnered with workforce development programs to provide in-house services at those workforce centers for students it that are reentering or anybody that never completed their high school education. these are two of our return on investments. both of these individuals graduated from five keys. mr. washington on the left, after graduating from five keys, we were able to work with a local four-year private university to get him a full scholarship at the academy of

our university. you can see on the right, he too, after multiple trips in incarceration, he graduated from five keys. he's now one of our employers. actually, we partnered with urban alchamy where they were a subcontractor of ours, we transitioned now he's a supervisors. we employ approximately 24 graduate of five keys. the motto for five keys is slightly different. this is the corridor in the san francisco county jail where the jail was built around a school classroom. those that we can't serve, we serve through independent study where we go out to the actual

individual cell or into small reading room or community room, work one on one or groups with individual students. they'll meet on the inned study model. we try to meet with the teacher as nearly as everyday possible. however sometimes it's once a week. students attend school all day just in a traditional school where four to six weeks semester periods and they take two classes at a time during this six-week period. we have curriculum writers and staff. our goal is to rapidly close the credit gap to assess students.

we have open yearround enrollment. we have a database with 100,000 names. unfortunately, should somebody get reincarcerated, we have access to their jail rosters where we can immediately enroll back in school. when a person is preparing to leave custody, we have case managers and counselors through a number of contracts. we believe four different contracts that includes our specifics to reentry and other contracts that we provide the educational services if the mayor's i.p.o. program. we have the prison to employment program. we partner with them on. we run a jail-based job center through the office of economic workforce. we also do reentry with them as well.

focus on trying to get students in housing or recovery program and provide them other services they need upon reentry to have them be successful. our program is fully accredited. we're going through our second accreditation now. we invite you to join our virtual tour of all our locations which will be taking place end of april. our last accreditation was the highest one you can receive, we had six years clear with no visits in between. only a report. our course work is approved. we have dual enrollment options across the state. one of the things we're proudest offing we're lobbying city colleges of san francisco for years to come into the jails. in fact, out of education fund,

we pay instructors to come in throughal pay for education services to teach classes to our students. several years back, city college saw the value of this. now we work very closely with city college inside the colleges where we offer very specifics including certificate in business. some of these classes are by the keys staff where we assist the instructor with the college classes. we have a title ii program which makes us a mandated partner for workforce development program. the prison to employment program economy spoke about earlier, focused on getting folks that

are incarcerated prepared to either finish their education or college and prepare them for a career. just basic facts about five keys. over the years our enrollment has been slightly increasing. however, this year because of covid, because of restricted access inside correctional facilities, we've seen the biggest dropoff in the 24 jails that we have are access to inmates is limited. we've seen a sharp decline. which has to do with the second part about the revision. we are witt -- withdrawing material revision. we feel it's best we focus on serving the students that we've had in the facilities that we work in rather than trying to expand out into other counties when there's a lot of work still

needs to be done remainder of this year and next year. we have different metrics. we have one-year graduation cohorts. you can see graduation rates on the screen. our population is transient where the average length of enrollments for our students is 70 days and because of the incarceration revolving door, average length of enrollment for incarcerated person is approximately 40 days. 28% of our students are english-language learners. 31% of our students are women. 40% students are hispanic or latino, 22% are black, african-american, 11% are white and 13% of our students are

multiethnic. only 2% of our students are high school age. this goes back to us trying to redirect students back to their primary school district. 30% of our students are transition age students and 34% of our students are between 35 or 40, 34% of our students are over 35. it's not uncommon to have parents and child in the same classrooms with us. unfortunately, this goes both ways for those who are reincarcerated and those in the community. college and career readiness, that's been the focus of ours.

we worked in custody very closely with college in the canyon l.a. trade tech in southern california. we actually trained their teachers just like we have in san francisco. we offer certificates in culinary, hospitality, business and entrepreneurship available. we also throw -- we have medical pathways and graphic design pathway. for special education, we do go to the -- we moved to el dorado county in 2009. that was in agreement with the school district. the district agreed serving our population and the jails was too complex along with some of our community sites.

they gladly agreed that it will be in the best interest for us to move our students over to el dorado county. as of now, we have several hundred students with disabilities. it's a challenge serving our students when they are incarcerated. for the demographics of our students are approximately 49% special ed, hispanic, 12% white, 32% are african-american. one of our signature programs -- not our signature program, vice president harris when she was attorney general of california, she ran a program called back on track. when she was district attorney of san francisco, she had program back on track.

as a d.a. -- we ran the entire program. not only did we provide the education pieces and the case management pieces but we provided reentry and we coordinated with local agencies. this was in southern california. this program is one of the programs that resulted in a 17% recidivism rate. it's one of the programs that she was most proud of when she was running for senator she referenced this program many times. i hope that most of you know about the school on wheels. google helps finance this program. this is a mobile school that we partnered with office of economic and workforce development. we serve four housing projects. buses and state-of-the-art classrooms. white boards, library.

that's an actual shot of students attending class. that's not a stage shot. we pull in four housing projects weekly. we go there and park and they attend school on the bus. as i mentioned, we work to employ lot of our former graduates. we have 24 former graduates working with us. she graduated from us. she went on to work on the mobile classroom which you saw. you may not know that five keys operates seven housing shelters in san francisco where we employ 450 formally incarcerated individuals in san francisco through our housing programs. of those, many of those individuals are five keys graduates and many are currently five keys students at this time.

that's it. the last thing i wanted to say about five keys, couple of quick things, harvard university gave us their highest nonprofit award along with the san francisco sheriff's department in 2015 for the innovations award for innovative program. they spent a week with us evaluating all levels of our program. we went up against another city agency in san francisco at the time. they were a great agency but we won against programs across the country. n.y.u. named us one of the 15 most prominent programs. we were california charter program of the year in 2015. that concludes my presentation. thank you.

>> president lopez: thank you for that presentation. i like to open it up to public comment. >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to the five keys presentation. we have three hands. >> president lopez: two minutes each is good. >> clerk: david? >> give me one second. go to the next speaker please so i can get my technical difficulty out the way? >> clerk: yes. julian? >> good evening everyone. i'm with the united edge of san

francisco. i'm here speaking on behalf -- we support the renewal of the five keys charter. we will be speaking again during the second reading. thank you so much. >> clerk: are you ready? >> sorry, give me one more minute please. >> clerk: hello lee? >> hi everyone. as many of you know, i'm also a member of the charter school oversight committee. i have to say, i think five keys was the first charter school that came and presented with us. they have been exceptionally transparent. they have provided all the information we asked for. they have such an equity focus. the statistics that he presented, 24 jails in california would have no education program without five keys. that is criminal right there.

the fact that we've got five keys to do this work, they support students with disabilities. you know that's my passion right there. i have to say i'm really grateful for the five keys leadership team for not only working with our brand new committee coming to multiple times to present their transparency but also the great work they do. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. david? >> i'm ready. great. thank you. as a native of the mission, i hold a b.s. from u.c. berkeley and earning master's in public administration. i have volunteered information to federal agents to report fraud waste and corruption by five keys.

the public should be mindful there's an inquiry into whether or not five keys acted legally and committed fraud by receiving funds that otherwise would not be available to you. as long as you're receiving taxpayer money, you have a responsibility to answer the taxpayers. what is the trauma of black and brown students and you used charter model for nonprofit portfolio associated with your charter organization to personally and financially benefit individual members. will you commit to a full and independent investigation audit? for the record the majority of fraud uncovered is not under audit but otherwise whistleblower. i ask that you stop your attempts to intimidate me.

you're using taxpayer money to retain attorneys to intimidate others. mr. good, people are not entities in the private sector. we're talking about people. not profit. if 11% of your student population is white, can you explain where so many white folks is in senior leadership? the mobile bus that he refer to has a bad engine and is not in operation. >> clerk: thank you. that concludes public comment on this item. >> president lopez: i appreciate that. i want to open it up to commissioners if you have any questions or comments?

>> commissioner moliga: thank you, steve for the presentation. i appreciate five keys. you guys do a good job. i know you guys are all throughout the bayview. what i will say to you, though, i'm not seeing the amount of -- i think for me personally, i want that to be highlighted. and showcased to the public, the amount of kids coming through this program. i say that because, lot of those kids are coming from the school district. they are dropping out and coming to five keys. i know you have something like multicultural. i would like for you to specifically talk about the amount of people in the program and jail systems. i was wondering if you can speak

about how you are all providing services for the samoan communities in san francisco and in the jails? >> i don't have the exact number to share with you. i'll be more than happy to get back to you. we do have a grant that serve asian pacific islanders in the excelsior and other parts of the city. i know it's a small percentage of overall students. we do outreach to all the neighborhoods where disenfranchise communities live. we praise our program -- we place our programs in these communities. david is correct, buss are not working now. it is working. there's a state law that the engine has to be replaced. the bus has been -- buses has

been at the repair shop for the last three months waiting to get the engine replaced. because of the pandemic, we're not able to use it. this is unfortunately, -- this is the best time for it to be there. i'm more than happy to get back on that. >> i'll say, good evening everyone. i'll just say that we did start having some advocacy in our jails right before covid. we do have a teacher that was really advocating for us to do more intentional cultural events. we had two in the jail. that number i don't have it.

we'll look at that. we have a few of our teachers support us and ensuring that we are addressing some of those cultural events and those students within our jail. i can share some of those as well. it is a very small footprint. we have been having a lot more advocacy from our teachers around in that population. >> okay, i appreciate it. for steve -- >> commissioner moliga: i want to know, the demographics around specific islanders, samoan students of san francisco. i love the program. super supportive. i got a bunch of family members that work for you all. thank you.

>> president lopez: i see commissioner boggess and then commissioner alexander. >> commissioner boggess: i have a question. my question is this, what do you do to support students who are incarcerated to know their rights and kind of just supporting that as a part of like an educational institution and knowing the difficulties that incarcerated folks face? >> that's a great question. sometimes it's a fine line that we have to walk. we have taught law in the jails in san francisco over the years as an elective course. it gets tricky because -- the tricky part is between teaching the law in society and not

trying to talk about some particular case. in terms of the rights and the jail, we have notices, we have communication tools that they can communicate to us. they can communicate to the sheriff's department. we have set of rules that are aligned what somebody incarcerated allowed to follow and what they are not. it does honestly gets tricky for us putting us in the middle. we advocate for students all around education and we advocate for them students that are in custody and all around our case management and reentry service. if a student comes to us complaining about something that's not just to them, we take that to our sheriff's department liaison, which is typically the commander or the facility

captain. our primary responsibility is to focus on the high school education that we're there for along with the work we do around restorative justice. >> commissioner boggess: if you can talk a little bit about what oversight looks like for the sights that are outside of the city and county of san francisco and just kind of like what ability do we kind of have to really ensure that the highest quality of education is kind of happening in addition to what's being reported? >> was that for me? >> commissioner boggess: i so. >> i'm sorry. it is definitely a challenge for us to have a real in-depth

knowledge of what's going on at every local site. the law requires us to visit each charter school annually. there's three charter schools, there's all of these sites outside. we get a series of reports, all the things the district has to provide to measure progress. the charter school has to do as well. we're able to monitor all those things at the district level. as far as actually putting eye balls on what's going on at these community-based sites, we have been able to do that to some extent. it's very difficult to do it with as many sites they have outside of san francisco. >> commissioner boggess: those are all my questions.

>> commissioner alexander: hi, steve. good to see you. i've been an admirer of your work for a long time. i guess my -- as a new board member, i think you've done fantastic work.

>> that's something we implemented before the shutdown. there are restrictions on that. in the county jail, that's not

an option. however, family members are more than welcome to go to any of our sites. in southern california or near areas where they can attend board meeting via zoom. it's something that we thought about greatly. our board of directors is sheriff of san francisco. accountability is our highest priority because of high profile nature of our board of directors. when we work in other parts of the state, we partner with other agencies. most often we partner with the workforce development agency. they are a contracted agency or government local municipality that runs the agency. in los angeles, we work in the city-owned youth center for

technology. that's a city-runed facility where we are a guest in that building. we have oversight from every single one of our partners. we only operate fewer than a hand full of standalone sites. the oversight comes from not only from it school board, from the sheriff's departments that we work with that are very cautious of their programs to our nonprofit partners to county and government agency partners. that's in addition to all the reports we file with mike and wasc. our model is through partnerships. if we're not doing what esupposed to be doing, we risk being thrown out of the partnership. >> commissioner alexander: i appreciate that. that concernfuls really more for

other places. i wouldn't want a charter school authorized in southern california and suddenly pop up in san francisco. there may be more regulation around that. >> i should say that we're excited in those counties. we almost generally speaking, 90% of the time we have conversation with the adults. make sure the adults okay with this. there's only one case where that hasn't happened. we get along well. the truth is, we're not a threat to them because we serve a different population they don't want to serve. we're going into the communities. we're not taking any individuals from programs that are in existence. that's why we haven't been a threat to local districts across the state. i do want to say, we also -- i have been talking about

accountability and oversight. we are open to any and all recommendations and paying for anybody from sfusd to come visit any of our sites to join our committee in-person virtually. we're more than happily to schedule multiple visits throughout the year to make it happen. whether it's virtual or in-person. >> commissioner alexander: thank you for that. one other quick question, this relates to the issue how you relate to the sheriff's department. i know that some of the sheriff's departments with which you work have problematic track records when it comes to undocumented inmates. the sheriff in san mateo county,

there's credible allegations that he may have violated the state sanctuary law around collaborating with i.c.e. how do you navigate that as a provider in the institution when you have that kind of situation. >> it's kind of a tricky one to navigate. the truth is, we don't agree with policies with the jails across the state for multitude of reasons. our own personal ethics perhaps or what an incarceration should look like. a department does something that we view objectionable, do we make the decision to pull out there and deny other individuals the opportunity for an education out of principle? we believe in standing on principle, we don't believe standing on principles on

denying somebody the education. we will serve anybody that we are able to serve in any jail that we operate in. i want to say san francisco gives us the greatest access without question. we can get to them, we can serve them. l.a. is pretty close, alameda, it's jurisdiction by jurisdiction. it's important if we leave we recognize while we're sitting on principle, we're harming somebody else and allowing them to access something that they were denied from when they were younger. >> commissioner alexander: let's say it comes up -- let's say that one of the instructors is in communication with an inmate who is undocumented is afraid that the sheriff may be communicating with i.c.e. what guidance do you give instructors? are they able to refer that person to a community agency

that can help? i guess i'm more interested in that? >> i should also say that, it's never come up that we haven't been able to serve undocumented persons in the jails. that's never been an issue. there's a fear of i.c.e. in the jails. that is a real thing. if somebody has concern about an inmate, one of our staff has a concern about a student, the student approach them, depending upon what the circumstance is, sometimes we can work through it, other times we might have to speak to an outside agency. we had cards when there was concern about i.c.e. coming on to campuses and coming into some of our community locations. we work in neighborhoods 40% of

our students are latino, in custody and out of custody. we build cards to give to our students on what their rights were. under immigration law and in california for them to have. we had those approved in san francisco by the san francisco sheriff. those were things we were not allowed to bring into other jails. if we see something that is injustice and not right, we're not silent on that. it's incumbent upon us to follow the guidelines. which we have been. i can say in san francisco and in other jails, we've had to report some things that we didn't think were right. it's not a comfortable conversation. sometimes it doesn't happen in san francisco so much but in other county, it's been problematic when we report

something that's not right. once we've done our duty to report -- the jail and correctional facility is lot different from operating the community. >> commissioner alexander: thank you for that. >> president lopez: okay. thank you for this presentation and for all of your work. i now close the public hearing and we will turn to the regular board meeting. item 3, superintendent matthews? >> thank you. item 3, is the material revision. did you do both, mike? is that a separate item?

>> dr. matthews, i was intending to do both. i was intended to go that at the separate public hearing as required. what i would like to do now is confirm with five keys with mr. good, that he is withdrawing the material revision and waiving the hearing. that way we won't have to have a hearing. are you there, steve? >> we are withdrawing material revision for those locations. >> president lopez: thank you everyone. all right, we'll move on to section f, consent calendar.

i need a motion and second on the consent calendar. >> so moved. >> second. >> president lopez: thank you. are there any public comments on this item? the consent calendar? >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to the consent calendar and only the consent. looks like we do not have any public comment for this item. >> president lopez: thank you for checking. any item withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? >> no. >> president lopez: any items removed for first reading by the board? any items -- sorry?

>> commissioner boggess: item 17 and 18 i wanted to have further conversation on. >> president lopez: [indiscernib le] you said items 17 and 18. thank you. roll call vote on consent calendar. >> without items 17 and 18. [roll call vote] >> president lopez: i forgot to acknowledge that ms. correa

almanza is not in the meeting anymore. >> thank you. >> okay, seven ayes. >> president lopez: section g, discuss and vote on consent calendar. items 17 and 18. commissioner boggess? >> commissioner boggess: i didn't have a chance to check in with staff before the items came before. i wanted some clarity on what these items covered and kind of the decision-making into these decisions for these two items. >> commissioner boggess, i believe melissa dodd, -- oh, here she is. >> good evening. my apologies if you could repeat

the question for me. the two items on the consent calendar. >> commissioner boggess: items 17 and 18. i wanted a little bit more clarity about the items and kind of the decision-making process involved in them and selecting the vendors. >> great. yes. the services provided outlined here for a wide area network and cellular services these are services we provide across the district. they are through our federal program called e-rate which provides reimbursements for infrastructure and technology services. we don't pay full cost. we pay a percentage. in terms of the decision-making

process, e-rate has very strict guidelines in terms of how selected vendors or services -- how to select vendors and services. it requires a competitive bid process through an r.f.p. and it results in -- it's typically the lowest bid as well. so we can make sure that we're having the most effective use and efficient use of funds. agreeing to having the board approve contracts is a requirement of the e-rate program. districts apply every year for e-rate reimbursements. that window is coming up at the end of march. to be in line, we will be applying for these services through, e-rate program. the description identifies what the total cost for and the

discount portion will be for the school district. >> commissioner boggess: i'm curious how are these dollars or how these funds able to support families having access to internet and cellular connection. >> one of the services the wide area network, that is our core network in the district that supports internet connectivity. the cellular service is what covers the hot spots as well as other cellular and the equipment as well. this contract would cover those services. we have offer internet connectivity currently through a number of providers. at&t is one of our main providers. this also support our ability to provide that connectivity for

our students. >> commissioner boggess: as far as the sites, does it give anything to give access to homes around the sites? is that strictly through the cellular aspect that's for families outside a physical school building? >> for home connectivity, that is through the cellular service. we do have our wifi, for example, at our sites, extends particular -- each building is a little bit different. our networks is secure and password protected. one would need an sfusd log-in to access it. there are families that live in that vicinity or students, they are able to log on to the network outside of the building. there are strict guidelines for the e-rate reimbursement portion that they are used primarily in

schools and for educational purposes. i will share that districts including sfusd, and other organizations, have been pushing on extensions and expansions of that particularly during distance learning. we work prior to as well. there is some new -- as part of the new legislation and funding, there's additional funding that is identified for broadband or internet connectivity. that is going through the federal legislative process as we peek. >> commissioner boggess: thank you so much for that. those are all the questions that i have. >> president lopez: thank you commissioner boggess and chief dodd. are there any other questions from commissioners? roll call vote. >> commissioner boggess is it

okay if i take both votes on 17 and 18? >> commissioner boggess: both together will be great for me. >> thank you very much. [roll call vote]. >> president lopez: thank you. moving on osection h. special order of business. there are two action items. item 1, 213-9s '01, qualified certification for the san francisco unified school district and qualified fiscal certification for the san francisco county of education at second interim fiscal year 2020-2021. may i hear a motion and a second to special order one? >> so moved.

>> second. >> president lopez: thank you. superintendent matthews, can you introduce the designee to speak and read the recommendation in the record? >> thank you. our designee for this item is our chief financial officer, meagan wallace. >> i'm going to be speaking to this item. thank you. good evening dr. matthews. request before you is for the board to approve a resolution authorizing staff to submit the district and county office of education second interim report for 2020-2021 to the california department of education with qualified certification. a detailed presentation was

given to the budget and business services committee last wednesday march 3rd. i will start with a high-level summary. in summary, staff advises that we'll be able to meet our physical obligations in the current year and in the first year of our multiyear projection, which is fiscal year 2021-2022. we are continuing to project the deficit for the second year of our multiyear projections with a $112 million deficit anticipated for fiscal year 2022-2023. we are recommending a qualified certification. however, in the current fiscal year, staff is projecting the district and county office is continuing to maintain a covid-19 reserve, approximately $4.3 million. that is sufficient to support

reopening schools over remainder of the fiscal year. additionally, the projections for fiscal year '21, '22, includes federal and state funding that is substantial enough to address covid-19 responses. for that second fiscal year, depending on the willingness of the district and the county office and implement appropriate ongoing budget reduction, we are maintaining a qualified certification for that second year. with that, i do recommend approval of this resolution and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> president lopez: thank you. before we do that, i like to open it up to public comment on this item. >> clerk: thank you. please raise your hand if you care to speak to the

certification qualified fiscal second interim report. we have two hands up. >> president lopez: all right, two minutes. >> clerk: hello, elizabeth? >> hi there. my name is beth kelly. i'm a mom of first grader at clarendon. just a couple of remarks, one is -- the qualified certification is very serious thing. i haven't yet really seen any serious thought being put forward by board members with the exception of commissioner boggess. i really thank you for your thoughts especially during the last budget meeting.

i know i and i many other parents like to understand what the plan is for how this is going to be addressed. just couple of quick smaller items. it will be good to know -- have a little bit more clarity on what the federal stimulus will look like. in the report, in one place it said it will be $84 million and in another place it says $103 million. that's on page 17. that type of thing matters. also, on 26, it says the district has reports that indicate physical distress than those should be publicly available so that folks are in the know.

there has been decline this year in enrollment. it also assumes a.d.a. is staying constant. i think that this is going to be a very, very important process. i want to everybody to put their most thoughtful foot forward. i want to make one last note, from what i seen so far staff is doing a really good job. let staff do a lot of hard work and bring some solutions forward.

>> clerk: thank you. hello? >> similar to what the last caller just brought up. i know that as we go through the process of understanding enrollment and enrollment changes that obviously changes the picture. i'm interested to see the range of assumptions you're using about the '22, '23. what kind of enrollment assumptions was built into it compared to current state. what sort of recommended actions the board is considering to close the gap? it is not insignificant gap >> clerk: thank you.

julie? >> hi. i want to appreciate all the hard work that staff and the board are putting into the budget questions. i wish i could say that it was unusual in public schools to be wrestling with this instability and deficits. i'm wondering if the board or staff can provide some updated numbers for us to have context? couple of years ago, we did some research and identified across the country, the average per people spending on public schools was about $16,000 compared to palo alto, they spent $16,000 and san francisco spends $11,000 per students. we're a rich city. after prop 13, san francisco investment in public school was only 8%, which was the lowest in

the state except for a tiny town of a thousand. that historic systemic racism has been baked in the budget ever since. i'm wondering if staff could help provide context, help us understand what -- how our spending levels currently compared to funding levels in other places. i like to see us continue to advocate for both city, state and federal funding to ensure that san francisco, the rich city that we are, invest at least per pupil average in our students. the few issues that i'm seeing is related to gentrification. i'm also curious about if we're anticipating a kindergarten baby boom as families who may have

kept their kids back in pre-k, maybe trying to apply for kindergarten in larger numbers than we've seen before and how we might be planning for that both in terms of budget and classroom space. thank you. >> clerk: that concludes public comment on this item. >> president lopez: thank you. now questions or comments from commissioners? >> commissioner lam: we had a pretty long detailed discussion and review during the budget and business services. this was reviewed second interim. it is -- i appreciate the staff

and all the work meghan wallace and team and deputy superintendent lee have really put the intentionality of both forecasting scenarios between this upcoming fiscal year. it was important that we have a more longer approach, time frame of a zero base budgets which we began as a process. so we could involve more, for example, site leaders to be part

of this process as well as just a more robust process. because we know the financial outlook now, multiyear projection is a very challenged one. some tough choices are going to have to come before us and should we continue not see the additional investment at the federal level or state level of any increases. with the federal stimulus, thank goodness that was signed and approved by congress and by the president, the fact that we're looking at one year. that's where you see the fiscal cliff. that is something that i'm committed to, the committee is committed to really look at working with staff around that planning that transparency and

the scenario consideration moving forward. i wanted to state -- there has been very detailed discussion, strategy, consideration over the last several months because we know these interim reports are very important to us as a district how we monitor ourselves, how we're doing with our revenue projections and expenses. i wanted to thank the staff for really doing the planning but also really keeping us on track. >> commissioner boggess: i have some questions. i will say too, lot of

appreciation to staff and also the committee who kind of had this before hand and the board members who's been working to have our budget process move forward. i would definitely say, monitoring the school district's budget. it's very complex and hard to understand. that is a reflection of how the state has set up the budget process in the way that the state really shortchanges school districts like ours. it doesn't give us enough money to do what we need to or give us access to money at the right time. lots of appreciation to the folks who are doing all the things that it takes to keep us moving it forward and to prevent a state takeover of our school district. i think the primary question that i have is do we have enough money to meet kind of all of our

commitments to support student learning needs during this time? is that kind of reflected in this document? >> i will speak to one of the questions about the different federal funding levels. we're currently anticipating -- the number we're using is $103 million allocation from this federal stimulus package. 20% of that needs to be earmarked for learning recovery. that's why you will see one reference and about $82 million in another. board actually required. therefore to get to and make some investments using those federal funds for learning

recovery. on top of that, we know that the state grants proposal, within that $6.6 billion announcement, there's also learning recovery fund of which we're anticipating about $39 million. the combination of those state and federal funds, we may find there are things that we currently fund or may be looking at resolutions that support learning recovery. we might see some alignment with things that we're already investing in or the board passed in resolution to use those funds to support. otherwise, those funds need to undergo a planning process where we would be making new investments. >> commissioner boggess: through that process, we would have enough money to meet all of our

commitments and obligation to students, especially special education students and kind of all the things within their i.e.p.s? >> yes. to that, i wonder if the deputy superintendent want to speak to that more. it maybe too early to really speak to that planning. there are conversations, we're trying to move quickly to figure out plans. we do need to provide the state with plans for how those funds will be used. >> terms of the timing question that wallace mentioned, this was for the purposes of the state learning recovery fund. this is the pot that was part of ab86, which was passed couple of days ago. that's the $39 million pot.

one of the conditions for receiving those funds is for the board, the governing board to adopt a plan for the use of those funds by june 1st. i don't think we highlighted that in the committee discussion. that is something that is going to be coming forward to the board probably some time in may. that's a process point. to your substantive point. we are very pleased and in a way relieved that there has been enough dedicated funding for learning recovery outlined in both of these federal and state sources that we can meet our needs. our needs are very deep and broad as you all know. i don't want to overstate that. this is a rare instance in which

we're feeling like the state and federal government have recognized the scale of the investments that we and our counterparts up and down the state do have to grapple with and certainly our educators and families and students have to grapple with in light of this pandemic and the difficulty and trauma that our students have experienced in the past year. we would hope for more. we hope for on going funding rather than one-time funding. the amounts that have been identified so far, we are pretty comfortable so far. >> commissioner boggess: the big takeaway for me, we plan to be able to do that. there will be more details about what that looks like for our school district as we get closer to june as we have to submit that information. for families, students and community members looking for

that more nuance detail. that's going to be coming up at a later point. versus what they will see tonight and this version of it. i appreciate that. >> president lopez: any other comments from commissioners? roll call vote. [roll call vote] >> that's seven ayes. >> president lopez: item 2 under section h.

213-9s02, tentative agreement between sfusd and uasf, local common crafts regarding health and safety standards. >> moved. >> second. >> president lopez: superintende nt matthews. >> thank you. reading the recommendation into the record to present this item will be our chief of labor relations greg jones. >> good evening and superintendent matthews. this item should look familiar to you. it's coming back again. we have -- our labor units have been signing on to the agreement. the action is to ratify the tentative agreement between sfusd, uasf, uesf local 6 and

common crafts. to remind the board to reach an agreement on m.o.u. with all district employees. attached now are the latest set of signed agreements. this the baseline health and safety conditions for the reopening of schools for in-person learning. the recommended action is to rat -- ratify this agreement for this evening. >> president lopez: thank you. i know there are lots of moving pieces. can we see if there's any public comment on this item? >> clerk: please raise your hand if you plan to speak to the tentative agreement.

seeing none. >> president lopez: questions or comments from commissioners? seeing none. we'll do a roll call vote. [roll call vote]. >> seven ayes. thank you. >> president lopez: great. we are nearing the end of our meeting. section i, board members' report. report from recent committee meetings. the following committee meetings have taken place since the last regular board meeting. the chair will report -- just to prepare everyone.

we'll hear from rules, policy and legislation. we'll hear about last week's committee of the whole. commissioner lam, i'm not sure if you need to share more regarding the budget meeting? you have the opportunity to do so. we had a curriculum meeting yesterday. let's start with rules. >> i'm excited to report that i did know that i was reporting this time. we had a very lively and interesting rules committee meeting where we had lots of discussion about some of the state legislation -- first, and foremost, we talked about the reopening, in-person reopening agreement.

we have a discussion of the situation there. we also talked about the situation over testing and the guidance given by the u.s. department of education and then the state department of education response to the federal guidance around testing. i think commissioners are aware that president matthews has put a pause on our state testing here at sfusd until after the next meeting of the state board of ed. which is march 17th i believe. so we can discern what is happening there. i'm happy to provide more detail. finally, we looked at some specific legislation and took position in support of two bills both by -- sb14, which would add

mental or behavioral health for reason to receive absences statewide. we would add mental health as valid for student absence. sb224 which would require mental health education. one in middle school and one in high school. next month's rules committee meeting we'll be going more in-depth on other bills and determining whether we'll be taking a position. >> president lopez: thank you. we usually have a competition to see which committee is the best. >> it's clearly rules? [laughter] >> president lopez: coming up is vice president collins report

out on our report of the whole from last week. >> vice president collins: we had a pretty and detailed meeting. i encouraged -- we got a lot of updates, focusing on two buckets. one is facilities. if folks want to know how many windows are being prepped and about moving plans that's contained as well as we heard a little bit about thinking around outdoor education. the focus was mostly on using outdoor space. i know there were questions to see if there are ways to expand capacity by going outdoors. that's to be determined. there's also discussion on ventilation which we got an update on. then getting into the second half, we discussed instructional

plans, focused on high school. we saw a little bit of the planning that was around 2b, which is high school students that are priority students to bring back which includes foster youth, students that are unhoused, students needing public housing and s.r.o.s and incoming students. that is going to be a follow-up. we provided -- one of the long conversations that got confusing, i want to clarify. i saw some chatter on social media that we provided -- i guess the question that was posed to us where we house those students. if we put them all in the few building or if we put them in their home schools. like we are doing with elementary schools. the consensus that i heard from the board was that we all wanted

to see staff develop plans to bring those local students back even if it's only one or two classrooms. we do those within the schools where the students reside. with the hope that can allow us to expand services to other students whether that be athletics, extracurricular or clubs. anything we can do to increase capacity at the high school, middle and high school level. that one i'm hoping. i don't know we'll be able to do this. additionally, we got preliminary information on summer school. although that one is in process. we'll see when we can do this. my hope is we are going to be using committee as a whole meeting as reopening updates where we can really go in-depth

on specific topics. my hope is that either at the next committee of the whole or at a future meeting, we can go in-depth on summer planning. we can also eventually get an update on ventilation and a variety of other -- i guess we'll also want to be getting feedback on surveys that are going out currently. that kind of data will be useful to see what current demand is and how we can potentially expand to wave three and our third and fifth grade. i want the public to know if you want to go to more of our meetings and see more discussions in detail, they're all on the website. you can go to sfusd.edu. that includes all the

committees. you can go to about and you'll see board of education and in there you can look for the archive. i really appreciate our staff, mr. steele and ms. cassco has been updating. after tomorrow this video will be uploaded for folks who can't attend. that's true for every meeting and committee meeting. i wasn't able to see the curriculum meeting yesterday. i will go back and watch that. those are opportunities for the public to see more of that directly. i wanted to make a plug for that. we have built out that page and it's updated regularly. >> president lopez: great, thank you so much. commissioner lam, did you want to add any more? >> commissioner lam: i gave the summary during chief wallace's presentation around second interim. just lots of work ahead and deep dives in making sure that we are

fiscally sustainable. >> president lopez: we appreciate your work around this. lastly, commissioner boggess? >> commissioner boggess: just to highlight that a resolution came through the curriculum committee sponsored by commissioner sanchez and alexander, resolution number 212982 in support of suspending administration -- [indiscernible]. that's something coming to the whole board. we had updates on language arts with a focus on literacy as well as update on slam, which is sports, libraries, arts and music. we'll talking about those things also at upcoming the committee meeting as well. that is the update.

>> president lopez: thank you for that. to all of our chairs for holding this work. item 2, board delegates to membership organization. is there any updates? seeing none. item 3, all other reports by board members. seeing none. calendar of committee meetings. i will announce the upcoming meeting just to read in the record. budget and business services will be april 7th at 4:00 p.m. building and grounds and services will be monday march 22nd at 4:00 p.m. curriculum and program will be april 12th at 4:00 p.m.

rules, policy and legislation will be monday april 5th at 4:00 p.m. the ad hoc committee on student assignment is to be determined. there's a lot of work around that. the ad hoc committee on personnel matters labor relations and affordability will be monday march 15th at 3:00 p.m. >> just a quick question on the committees. i wanted to ask if for personnel and labor relations, since we haven't had that in a while, it's an opportunity for us to be responsive to staff concerns as they are returning to in-person learning. i was hoping that -- as we're talking about returning to in-person learning, we can make staff a priority terms of listening to and supporting them.

>> president lopez: great, thank you. i believe the chair of that committee also in on that. section j, memorial adjournment. superintendent matthews? >> thank you, president lopez. it's with great sadness that i announce the passing of maude pierson green. she suffered a heart attack shortly after the holidays and was hospitalized at kaiser. ms. green was a longtime assistant curriculum instructor at lowell for me, she was a science teacher. currently in the district, we have infinity group. i get jealous from people who

talk about they had their first african-american teacher in the first grade or second grade or third grade. for me in the san francisco unified school district, i had my first african-american teacher as a junior in high school. that teacher was ms. pierson. at that time. ms. pierson was an anti-racist instructor before the term was coined. she went out of her way to actually ended up in her physiology class. she found me in the hallway, she asked me my name. she said you're signing up for my class next semester. i did. it was the best class and one of the best friendships that i ever had. ms. pearson, she was an anti-racist instructor. that really was about how high quality curriculum. knowing her content, it's about

pedagogy and how she taught. she built a relationship with all the students in her class. she was everyone's best friend. she is one of those people who absolutely made me who i am today. i want to say to ms. pearson's family and friends those who knew her or had the opportunity to be taught by her, we are better people for it. she will be missed. just a thank you to ms. pearson, thank you to her family for allowing her to be shared with us. >> president lopez: thank you superintendent for sharing. i like to call on vice president

collins. >> vice president collins: thank you. this is an ongoing agenda item. as we see hope and with the vaccine making its way around and becoming more valuable, we also want to recognize that there are still many families and staff that are being impacted by covid. we want to hold space. this past weekend i attended a memorial for one of my family members. there are families grieving now. we want to recognize that and we want to hold community and share support for one another.

california has 33.6 in cases and 55,000 deaths. in the united states, we've experienced 29 million cases and 527,000 deaths. i believe that has now surpassed when i started talking about this, surpassed -- it's been the highest death count beyond anymore. i want to hold space and share my thought and condolences for those of us who have become ill or have experienced loss due to the pandemic. right now, i'm asking for folks to take a moment of silence in remembrance of those that we've lost this past year. [moment of silence]

>> president lopez: thank you. thank you vice president collins for continuing to remind us. with that, we will now be moving into closed session. at this time, we will take public comment for those -- we'll take public comment in closed session item in a total of five minutes. >> clerk: thank you. please raise your hand if you care to speak to any close session items today.

hello, josephine? >> yes. i'm not talking about closed session, i wanted to talk about opening of schools. >> clerk: sorry, that already passed for this evening. there will be more opportunities coming up later. thank you. >> bye. >> clerk: there's no more public comment. >> president lopez: thank you. again, mr. steele for holding this work. the board will now go into closed session. i will call a >> clerk: reconvene from closed session. item 1, report on closed session. on item 1, vote on employment contracts for unrepresented chief executive employees. i move to issue a may not renew

notice to three deputy superintendents. can i get a second? is. >> second. >> roll call, miss casco. >> i'm sorry. i'm not hearing the second, when somebody said second. >> i said second. >> okay. thank you. thank you very much. are we ready for roll call? >> just to clarify, this is -- a yes vote in favor of the may not renew? >> yes. ready? >> mm-hmm. >> okay. [roll call] >> clerk: that's seven ayes. >> okay. i move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief technology officer. i need a second. >> second.

>> roll call, miss casco. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: that's seven ayes. >> thank you. i move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief of staff. i need a second. >> second. >> thank you. roll call, miss casco. [roll call] >> clerk: that's seven ayes. >> i move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief of labor relations. can i get a second? >> second. >> second. >> roll call. >> clerk: okay.

thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: seven ayes. >> i move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief of facilities. can i get a second? >> second. >> roll call, miss casco. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: that's seven ayes. >> i move a may not renew -- move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief of planning. can i get a second? >> second. >> roll call vote. [roll call]

>> clerk: seven ayes. >> i move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief of sfcsd. can i get a second? >> yes, second. >> roll call vote. [roll call] >> clerk: seven ayes. >> great. we are about halfway. i move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief of human resources. can i get a second? >> second. >> roll call. [roll call]

>> clerk: that's seven ayes. >> i move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief of policy and operations. can i get a second? >> second. >> roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: seven ayes. >> i move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief of curriculum and instruction. can i get a second? >> second. >> and roll call. [roll call]

>> clerk: seven ayes. >> i move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief of special education. can i get a second? >> second. >> roll call vote. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: seven ayes. >> i move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief financial officer. can i get a second? >> second. >> roll call. [roll call]

>> clerk: seven ayes. >> i move to issue a may not renew notice to the chief of early education. can i get a second? >> second. >> roll call. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> clerk: seven ayes. >> all right. that wraps up item 1. item 2, report from closed session. the board, by a vote of seven ayes, voted to issue notices to seven superintendents that their vote may not be reviewed.

the board, by a vote of 7-0, voted to issue to notice to six contractors that their contracts may not be renewed. and with that, we have arrived to section m, adjournment. good night, everyone.

>> good morning, welcome. i'm michael lambert, your city librarian. on behalf of the library commission, we're so delighted that you could join us today for this important announcement. i would like to acknowledge our library commissioners that are present, teresa, tanya, pete, john, and dr. lopez. thank you all for being here. madam mayor, welcome. we are so honored that you could participate in this event. we appreciate your leadership of

our city and we are super excited about your announcement today. with that, i will invite you to get us started. maybe i was premature on that. oh, there she is. [laughter] >> did we start already? [laughter] >> i was just welcoming you and thanking you for honoring us with your presence and your leadership. we're super excited about your announcement today. with that, i invite you to get us started. >> all right thank you michael. i appreciate that. good morning everyone. i'm really excited to share some incredible news. as you may know, before i was mayor and even before i was on the board of supervisors, i served as the executive director

in the western edition. i saw how deeply important arts are and in creating a vibrant and diverse community. believe it or not, i used to sing in a choir, dance, and perform, but i was not the best at it. however, the arts connects us to one another. it bridges the gap in our culture by helping us understand each other. they are how we express ourselves during our brightest and happiest moments, and sometimes some of our darkest ones. for people of all ages, arts and culture can help us navigate a world that can be confusing and strange. they can also provide opportunity not only for jobs and income, but for people who are in under served communities to find their voices and to make sure they are heard. that includes the role of our city's poet laureate. since lauren was made our first

poet laureate in 1998, this prestigious honor has showcased san francisco's finest poets from many diverse backgrounds. their work has reminded us how it means to be a san franciscan, it reminus -- reminds us of our diversity and calls attention to our most pressing issues and inspires us to create a more equitable and just society. it inspires young people to search for their voice in a way that may not have -- that they may not have thought was possible before. it opens doors of opportunities for them to pursue their dreams. that is why i'm so excited today to announce our eighth poet laureate. before we get to the big announcement, i would like to thank and recognize our outgoing

poet laureate kim shuck for her imcredible service for our city. she represented our city beautifully through her work and has given her time over the past few years to serve our community. whether teaching at the local colleges, universiies and public schools or helping the library launch their first ever american indian initiative, kim on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, thank you for your service and we would be honored if you close out your tenure with one last reading as poet laureate. >> thank you mayor breed. there we are. i do have a poem. it's called san francisco has a new poet laureate. pick any bench, stoop, any fourth star in this city or over it. sit quietly, you'll hear the

water of time. keys rattling, heart and innovation, war and colonization that only grows on the south side of that mountain right there. you'll hear the poetry of place, popsicle sticks scratching on the curb, jump rope songs, chess moves and love curses. every night in some back room, the future and past in autopsied words, gorilla words shouted at unsuspecting somewhere in north beach. the skyline mutters poems that have been and poems to come. if you stand at the cafe's door too long, you will hear what they choose to call in this moment a poem. old wives tales along valencia, you can hear the purring of fog as they pass through, the

paintings comment quietly on every new show and if your hearing is very good, ambrose's dictionary runs on a certain bar on a certain bar stool and the faint laughter from one of sam's jokes will still grind breath. victims in more languages that you can see, and the unbound seat 3. there are songs of varying and unbaring to found all over the richmond, every bench, every head stone under the sand. paula talks stories at state, at tables and cafes that turned to bars. john's words rattled justice and the voices of those taken in captain jack's war has made them into their own songs too. there is an eighth poet laureat of san francisco and with the title comes more wealth and

words than all the great libraries that have ever been. i would like to add that you will hear a lot about honor and responsibility. there are a couple of tricky things. one of them is that people will steal your pens. i had some pens printed up. i'm not going to say what they say and i don't think they will prevent your pens from being stolen, but they will raise the value of their resale on ebay. i'm going to share with you just very briefly what dr. jose said to me a couple of days after i was named the seventh poet laureate. he said that everything you have done up until this point got you here and none of that will matter. what matters now is what comes next. have a great time and you do know where my kitchen table is when you want to hide. take care. >> thank you so much kim for that amazing poem.

thank you for representing san francisco so well over the past few years. we look forward to seeing what comes next for you. now, it is my great honor to announce our eighth poet laureat. i had the privilege of knowing this individual for many years as he worked and volunteered at the african american art and culture complex. he has mentored men young men and women that came through our doors and taught them how to find their own vote and make themselves heard. his poems are just one of the many ways he fights for racial justice, equity, and human rights. he has shown our community what it means to be a successful poet, as a black man from san francisco. we are incredibly proud of the work he has done so far, especially his commitment to inspiring black men and boys and providing support for young people in our community. he will continue the work that our ancestors did as they fought

for their own voices to be heard. i am beyond excited to see what he accomplishes as the san francisco's eighth poet laureate. i am happy to present tongo martin, the eighth poet laureate. >> thank you madam mayor for this incredible, incredible honor. i prepared some words that i hope i make it through. i'm already filled with tears. >> i'm going to let you have the floor, it's so great to have you. thank you for all the magic you created over the years. as i said earlier, when we work

together at the complex, there were a lot of challenges, especially with our boys and we had unfortunately a lot of violence in the community and just seeing you as this literary figure and inspiring these young people to look at other ways besides, you know, being out in the streets and doing stuff that was happening then, focusing on how poetry, how music is poetry, and how they can really shift their voices to tell their own stories. you brought that to their lives and i know they continue to carry it with them today. so, you have been an inspiration for so many years, directed at so many generations of people. i'm so grateful that you accepted this honor so now i want to turn the floor over to you so that people can know who you are. if they don't know, now they know. we're looking forward to the work that we know you're going

to do to make san francisco proud. so the floor is yours tongo. >> thank you. thank you very much. incredibly humbled and honored. also, deep appreciation to the selection committee. i want to send love to my mother and brother as i am only an extension of their love, imagination, and revolutionary commitment, love to my two powerful sisters and the whirlwind that has nothing on us, love to my family above mud and lava, love to my father and the rest of the village that is not here in the physical form. i would also like to thank kim

shuck for being a leader of poets and beautiful force of the people. a poet of any station is secondary to the people. a poet of any use, that belongs to the energy and consciousness of the people, one of arts most important incarnation is that expression of mass resistance but really what art teaches us with its dominantable energy, the indominantable energy of an idea is evident that it is oppressors themselves who are in the position of resistance. it's bigger than any imperialistic, cognitively

reflected in any generation. the power is ours and it is oppressors who are resisting us, resisting humanity, resisting us pretty well. it's resisting our right to determine our reality, resisting a coming epoch of liberation. mass participation in art is what is always created in san francisco, futurism. san francisco has legend too fearless for me to count myself as one of them. i am from this legendary collection of thousands and thousands of participants, revolutionary history and culture. i'm proud to be one of the anonymous thousands in san francisco who have road these buses all night, who has been raised in marcus's bookstore,

who wants justice for mario woods and alex, who wants freedom. what the people taught me is that unity is the only thing and taught me that individualism, as it is practiced and codified, romanticized in this society is not really about your adventure through life but at its core, unfortunately, individualism is about practicing the selective humanization. other people are only human beings when it suits individual interest. civilism of sorts, that is deeply connected to slavery, both from what the society evolved from and process that addicts you to and power struggle that alienates ourselves, and at no point do we find the dehumanization of other

people, the deanimation of people acceptable, are let alone necessary for an individual journey. so as much as i would love to assign the rest of my days to an individual invention, that time is over. history is heightening, showing us more and more everyday that we're part of people, a people beyond systemic description, and we need the entire pallet of protecting human rights and nurture human curiosity. the madness we see today shouldn't be surprising. these apartheid nativity scenes come home to roast and a capitalism in crisis, what is mixed in with the parole papers and the environmental racism and

program deliverables and passivism. we're in a time of epochal shift where this is opening its arms if we don't open the historical process more critically. where do we go from here? what is our revolutionary practice or more conveniently, it begins with cultural work. it transforms the way that we relate to each other, transforms the way we relate to the earth, to a way that is conducive to liberation. a poet belongs to the energy and consciousness of the people, respecting their spirit. my only aim as poet laureate is to join with that energy, join with that consciousness in order

to create vehicles of unity. events, workshops, readings, publications, these are all just vehicles of unity. i will never tire in building as many as the city can handle. so, meet me at the library. [laughter] >> if you can't make it, i will for sure meet you wherever you are. let me now say rest in power to cure junior and diane, and i will conclude with this poem titled faithless. a tour guide, through the robbery, he also is.

cigarette stand, look at what i did. ransom water and box spring gold, this decade is only for accent grooming, i guess. ransom water and box spring gold to corner store, war gangs, all these rummage junk. you know, the start of mass destruction begins and ends in restaurant bathrooms as some people use and other people clean. are you telling me there is a rag in the sky waiting for you? yes. we should have fit in. warehouse jobs are for communists and now the whistling is less playful and if it is not a city, it is a prison. it has a prison. it's a prison, not a city. when a courtyard talks on behalf of the military issue, all walk takes place outside the body. a medieval painting to your right, none of this makes an

impression. you have five minutes to learn. when a man goes sideways barb wire becomes the roof. did you know they killed the world for the sake of giving everyone the same back story? watching indiana, fight yourself into the sky, oh penny for when. it goes up and over your headache, marking all aspirations, the first newspaper i ever read and the storefront, they left us down where the holy spirit favors the bathroom. for those in the situation offer 100 ways to remain a loser. watching those clock, what are we talking about again? the narrater at the graveyard, 10 minute flat. the funeral only took 10 minutes. you're going to pin the 90s on me, all 30 years of them? why should i know the difference between sleeping and the pyramid of corner stores on our head. we die right away.

that building wants to jump off other buildings, those are down tone decisions. what evaporated on earth that we can be sent back down? thank you all again, much love. i want to give the whole roll call right now but that's too many. much love to all my family and thank you again madam mayor. thank you. san francisco for better for worse, which you are raised, you know? >> thank you so much tongo. just so you know, the chat is blowing up. there is so much love and excitement for what you will bring to san francisco and i just want to thank you so much. thank you for the incredible poem and your inspiration and

just everything that you continue to do. i look forward to what you will accomplish as our city's poet laureate. i can't wait. it's going to be exciting, especially when we open up. when you talk about meet me at the library, it's like that's your slogan now. [laughter] >> so we're going to take it to another level. that's your slogan, meet me at the library. hitting all the libraries all over san francisco. >> that's right. >> just inviting the people in and really bringing it back to some of the basics. you know, with the way technology is nowadays, sometimes we get away from just picking up a book or picking out a book or looking through an index card. i guess we don't look through index cards to find books anymore. sitting there and having discussions, i'm looking forward to what you're going to bring and really excited about that. i really want to thank the people that nominated you.

you know, there was a really compelling, you know, letter of support that you know, went into all the details about your work. you have a lot of fans out there. i want to thank the selection committee, the people who served and had to go through all of those applications because i got to tell you, it was a hard decision and i was so excited that so many people in san francisco, you know, really embraced and support poets in such an incredible way. there are so many wonderful nominees. i'm looking forward to you connecting with all of them as well and really the outgoing poet laureate kim shuck, thank you for that poem and your commitment to san francisco and the role you have played over the years. thank you to san francisco public library and the commissioners who are joining us here today and our librarian, michael lambert. so many amazing people and i think that based on your

comments today, meet me at the library, that's going to be a new part of the campaign to really bring people together, to inspire and to really you know, set things off on a whole other level. thank you tongo for your work and commitment. we're so honored that you will be san francisco's eighth poet laureate and if there is anything left to say, you're welcome to have the floor. if not, we can turn it back over to michael lambert. >> i just want to say much love and appreciation. >> great. >> thank you so much madam mayor. my heart is full, #meetmeatthelibrary. congratulations tongoo. i want to thank all of you for joining us this morning. our public affairs office is happy to help facilitate any interviews with our new poet lawyer -- laureate, thank you

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>> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. south vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor.

in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue.