>> april 20, 2021. now called to order. roll call, please. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> thank you very much. >> commissioner: thank you. beginning with section a,

general information. and section b, opening title. the board of education for 2021. and a reminder to the board and public this type of election is by voice vote. a second is not needed for nominations and it is not per michelle permissible for a person to vote for him or herself and declare nomination now open for vice president for the board of education for the remainder of the 2021 year. are there any nominations? >> commissioner: commissioner

lam's hand is raised, commissioner lopez. >> i did not see that. >> commissioner: i'd like to nominate commissioner moliga for the remamder -- remainder of the term. thank you. >> clerk: if there are no further nominations i declare them closed. members, you'll be voting my name. the commissioner nominated commissioner moliga is who will be voting for. >> i believe you need to ask for public comment. >> commissioner: thank you.

i'm used to this happening in january. i would have taken a year to prepare for it. are there any public comments? >> yes, please raise your hand if you'd care to speak to this item. i see one hand, president lopez. >> commissioner: okay. >> hello? >> thank you. this is a happy and sad day for me as an african american woman in america. it's a sad day i've tuned in to the board meeting and you're electing a new vice president and have a sitting one already sitting there. you have to do the right thing. i'm asking commissioner moliga to not take this nomination.

the students are watching you. you're in charge of more than 57,000 students. more than 5,000 educators. we have spent a lot of money on restorative justice and you don't even practice it. i'm asking commissioner moliga to not take this nomination. and you all do the right thing and end this school year by working together, please. thank you. >> new. >> thank you. >> gregory. >> thank you. i'd like to ask the board to nominate someone not likely to be recalled so we can have some continuity in the leadership of the board. thank you. >> thank you. that concludes public comment.

sorry, there's one more. mari? are you there? >> hello? >> go ahead. >> hi. i just wanted to reiterate that live out the restorative justice practices you all stated. and you had a beautiful tv show about restorative justice and talked about it and so again along with ms. marshal, we're urging to do restorative justice first before continuing further

subs. please, i respect all of you very much, school board commissioners, i'm asking you to sit at the table and do the hard work. thank you. >> linda? >> this is linda. this is linda boyar and danielle utley invited to speak up and first of all i'm not familiar with this format. why is it i can't see my own screen? >> sorry, we're taking public comment on the election of the vice president and you're an attendee so you will only be able to speak when permitted and won't have video. >> that explains it, thank you.

that's all i needed to know. >> great. susan >> as an sfusd parent who worked hard through the years for restorative practices i feel some people on the boe are acting like bullies towards allison collin. i ask you all to reconsider your stance and put her back as vice president. she's done an excellent job. she's a hard worker. i really urge you guys to reflect on how you're behaving. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, juliette. >> this is the part about commenting on the vice president election?

>> yes. >> you know, i think that any candidate would be good. i still push for the fact that alison collins should be pushed to force to resign. it's sad she's teaching so many children what she said was okay. you don't get to tell me how your comments made me feel. they were offensive. my parents are not supporting white supremacists ideology. to compare that to an extremist group is offensive. again, we reiterate she's teaching children and children are watching as so many say it's okay to make these racist comments. it's offensive. she should resign and do the right thing for the group. there is no role for restorative justice for her because she sued all you who voted against her.

those saying reinstate her, please do not do that. in anything she should be removed from the board. thank you. >> mildred. >> hi, mildred from common advocates. i'm coming to you talking to you all as a black mother, as a parent, i've worked hard in this district to make sure not only that our black students are treated right and they get the proper education they so deserve. i've worked with alison for many years not just for black families. she is for everybody and for you all to sit up here and push this aside and wanting to vote in another vice president instead of doing restorative practices is beyond me. she was speaking for a latino

child being harassed. for you guys to decide not to do restorative practice for her to give her an opportunity, she has ever right to get a lawyer. she has every right to do that. you have the defamed her character. you have denounced her for being racist person which she is not. she has been very honest. she's been a teacher in this district and helped to raise so many children. that's a matter of fact. i ask you guys to do the right thing. not only are just the children looking, but i want to let you know that besides kevin bogan she was huge instrumentally in making sure my son j.t., joseph thomas saw graduating. she made that happen. she talked to him on many nights. she talked to him when he had no

hope and was there for him. she made sure he made the right decisions. she made sure she hooked him up with the right folks to help him to be a success and i urge you guys really do better. really do better and think about what you're doing and let's try to restore this. thank you. >> tom? >> i'm a teacher in the district. commissioner bogan called me and listened to me. i e-mailed the board the other day about coming to the school and seeing what teachers and school staff need and he was the only one that responded. i realize maybe my e-mail wasn't the most polite and i told him that and he listened. if we're going switch up the vice president he's the only

person for the job because everyone else posts on twitter all the time, look at me i'm helping open schools but are you talking and helping and connecting with school staff and the parents in my community or are you just staying at the board meetings because the resolution said this is for all students but you don't speak for all students when you do stuff like that. i don't speak for all my students. each student and family is different. >> thank you. hello, william. >> hello. this is dr. william wu. i want to take the time to indicate that today is a momentous day. derek chauf -- chauvin was found

guilty and hopefully that will bring about a new way of producing and not take away black and brown lives unnecessarily or recklessly. i want to bring in my primary point, i'm talking about the system bonds oversight committee. >> excuse me, sir, this time is only to comment on the vice president board of education election going on right now. if you want to comment on that you need to wait until later. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. forgive me if i mispronounce it's either lee or leigh i believe. >> it's laylani. i'm in support of alison to be reinstated as vice president.

[indiscernible] i feel she does speak [indiscernible] and whether some people see it as a mistake or offensive what she said, i hope there'll be time to sit down, talk and listen and learn from this experience and actually do the work to address what was in the comment and make it better for our children. i'm really sad we're at this moment as the previous comment said and trying to move towards a better society and include restorative justice and make sure you are all actually participating in that and teaching our children that that

when you do make a mistake or even if it's not a mistake, we can talk it out. i'm concerned on the board and [indiscernible] not practicing. it's not holding the community together to practice it. i have big hopes for you all and hope you will restore alison to her seat and move forward and help her reconnect with our communities. we're all san franciscans and care about our students and kids. that's all i have to say. thank you >> thank you. caller with a 415-424 number.

caller with a 415-424 number. >> i'm kevin robinson a teacher and parent in the district. a time for restorative justice practice can be done at a later time and another location. i want to see the board focus on the main issues at hand. that's our children front and center and hope commissioner moliga will accept the nomination to vice president si. thank you. -- vice presidency. thank you. >> maya or miya. >> thank you. this is a public comment section, correct? >> only for the vice presidential election. >> i'm still processing all that's happening in minnesota

right now. i'm miya summers a graduate and part of a coalition and we're calling in that we are asking for the reinstatement as colin as the vice president. we believe she's done wonderful work in restoring the community and centering the needs of our black, brown and asian students and we don't like the way the comment has been manipulated and we're calling on you as members of the asian american community to reinstate her to do important work in our community. thank you. >> ms. kim? >> yes, i wanted to call in and put my support for moliga for the position unfortunately, he'll have an uphill battle.

as an sfusd employee i agree with the process and since the lawsuit was filed it a clear indication people were not interested in pursuing restorative practice so i would like to support commissioner moliga. thank you. >> that concludes public comment on the item. >> >> commissioner: thank you for holding that and everyone coming out. is there any further discussion on the item? commissioner boggess.

>> i feel like at the time whoever does take the seattle has -- seat has to work hard to bridge the gap between the board. i know a lot of hurt was caused and there's a lot of friction happening with current events and every news article popping up every day. i feel like whoever takes the seat should advocate for -- i guess restorative practices for us internally to focus on reopening students and student wellness and how to progress forward as a board. >> i'd love if there was a

slower process than voting today i don't feel urgency to have a final vote today and allow more time for there to be public comment. just to say i feel like this seems like something people have a lot of interest in giving public comment and now that there's a nominee it's helpful to give the time for the public to respond as well as say why they'd be great. i think commissioner moliga would be great at the vice presidency position and we'd love to hear from them why they want the position and feel like they're ready to step in. >> i don't feel like it's necessary because when commissioner collins was elected

she didn't have to state why she was appointed and there wasn't an urgency for public comment. i don't flow if commissioner moliga should have to -- >> thank you, student delegate. i think i want to open it up for commissioner boggess if commissioner moliga would like to respond and we do open it up for public comment on any item that's agendized. i understand why there's people coming out. there's from in the topic and why we're opening the discussion now. i'm not sure if commissioner moliga would like to respond and i think another commissioner wanted to share. >> i can definitely respond and want to hear from commissioner collins first and to state i was nominated and so i just want to put that out there and definitely open to a conversation to why leadership

at this current moment matters and why it's important for us to continue to move forward. more than happy to have the conversation. >> thank you, commissioner collins. >> i do want to raise some concerns and obviously this is an unusual time and this whole experience is unusual. that's a part of why i felt the need to speak. i don't think commissioner moliga would be a good candidate for vice president at this time and agree with him leadership matters. there's numerous instances where i feel commissioner moliga undermined the leadership of women on the board and that's since our beginning time on our board. it's happened with me and happened with commissioner norton and i think recently with the behavior that we've seen

since president lopez has been president we've seen unusual behavior and it is normal for us as a board to disagree and that is in our procedures. i think it's healthy for us to disagree because we bring a lot of different voices to the table. but the way we disagree is important and we view it professionally and we also do it transparently. there's been multiple instances where commissioner moliga has sought to undermine leadership of president lopez. that creates conflict for our board and creates uncertainty for our district. i think that's why we are voting today as a board in order to keep our superintendent to follow our own rules. our own rules involve giving staff and giving the president

the time to review resolutions before they are put on the agenda. we elect the president and vice president to work with our superintendent to set agendas and repeatedly commissioner moliga has undermined president lopez' authority as a president and i haven't always agreed how president lopez set the agenda and i do respect his leadership and the process. additionally, when president cook was on the board there was one time he cut my mic off. i was not happy with that but i also respect the fact that whoever is chairing the meeting needs to run the meeting and it's a difficult task especially when we're having challenging conversations. even in the short time president

lopez has been on the board, i've seen commissioner moliga challenge her authority as the president and chair of our meeting. so i agree also with student delegate hines foster we want somebody to be supportive of the president and somebody who can help us work effectively as a team. i don't see that happening when commissioner moliga is tweeting about things he's not communicating about in meetings. i also appreciate some of the public comment of folks saying there's some commissioners who like to tweet things and they're not really showing up and participating and sharing their views when we're together when we're in the public. i have concerns about that. i also have concerns about the fact that commissioner moliga is unprepared for meetings and

canceled an event to go to hawai'i and i was flexible and helped accommodate the meeting but those behaviors don't demonstrate to me a commitment and as far as i'm aware may violate our rules and procedures. i have some real concerns about his leadership specifically. as i said, this is an awkward time and but we have to do this in public and it's important for the public to see how we dialogue about these things and have concerns when commissioners try to legislate through twitter and not through the process which gives our staff and other commissioners and our constituents time to weigh in and come out to public comment and e-mail us in between. constituent thank you .

thank you for the time to speak. >> commissioner collins, who would you like to run if not commissioner moliga? >> that's have that conversation offline. i don't think it will be a part of the process during this time now. commissioner moliga i did offer a space to respond or in general and i do want to put it out there if other commissioners want to comment otherwise we will [indiscernible]. >> i appreciate it. i like the fact we're having open conversations and get to talk about what we want in materials of a school board and move forward. first and foremost i deny all the allegations made by commissioner collins. i think all of it is super questionable.

you can go back specifically during public meeting i stood up and called out pa triarchy and hold systems and ourselves accountable every time and that may not be comfortable and may not be how individuals want to carry out business but it is for us as school board members and elected to do that even when it's not in our own best interest. for me, i personally -- this is not a position for me where it's like the version that comes to me is to whom much is given, much is required. i'm not into titles but more to getting things done.

what do we have to do and we have a huge budget ahead of us. we have to get all the kids back in schools and make sure teachers are feeling safe and have to make sure the board continues to stay strong and able to operate in a way that's effective. for me i've been on the board longer than almost everyone on here minus commissioner sanchez and i feel like i have a responsibility to step up and support in the way i can and in this position there isn't that folks qualified to step in right away and i say this respectfully because we have two new commissioner just came on and i understand the learning curve and i don't think it's fair to put that on our new folks. the other individual who i

personally think is qualified to do this job at the current motion is commissioner lam. at the same time commissioner lam is probably the only person who can guide this budget with her committee at the moment and for her to stay focussed on the budget is very important at this critical moment. again, i'm not jumping up for joy and saying i want to be the vp but i do understand we have a responsibility and we have to move forward and that i potentially could be the person to do that for us. i don't have too much to say. i'm more action than talking all day and don't want to spend all our time in the next school board meeting especially the next hour or two on this item. super happy to support whoever feels wants to be the vice president and my whole thing has been we just need to work together. we have a president in place, super happy. more than happy to support

president lopez and get done what we have to get done but at the end of the day we have a list of priorities we have to move and that's what matters. we have to just get things done. i don't have too much other than that to say. >> commissioner: may i ask council a question, just to clarify based on my statement earlier? >> commissioner: it is appropriate for board members to be out of state without notifying the public? >> commissioner collins, it's always been my practice. i'm not going advise the board on legal matters in an open session. i'm happy to provide that advice to the president and vice president privately or in closed session. >> i would assume it may be a violation of our brown act or

something like that and -- >> commissioner: excuse me, i just want the record to be clear. i can't control what you assume but that's not what i said. >> commissioner: but you don't want to discuss it in public? >> commissioner: this not a matter i'm going give you legal advice on in a public session. >> what i want to know is it's very important for folks on our board to know our rules and procedures. and there are some and i think the person taking on the vice president role should be informed and be able to work effectively with our president. i'll leave it at that. thank you.

>> there's policy and procedures and something we're all committed to. and we are committed to strengthening our roles as commissioners continuing to work together. >> well continue the voting to the next board meeting if other board members are interested. i feel like having more time from the nominee to get input is a helpful practice understanding it's not normal practice but better practice to go slower and have more time for dialogue. it's not because of the quality of the candidate at all. i feel like it's more responsive to our constituents if we give them time to give us feedback.

i want to thank commissioner and understanding it wasn't a self-selected want nomination and i really appreciate you taking the time it answer my question. >> commissioner: i do appreciate you bringing that up as well. i did make note of it and tend to operate in a way that is what the majority of the board wants and that's how we got here and this is after pausing on select vice president for a few weeks. i think in this moment i would need a second for that to be open from another commissioner. sorry, to clarify that would be commissioner boggess' request to pause to hear more from our community about selecting a vice

president. >> commissioner: we are now voting on the notion to -- -- the motion to pause on selecting vice president for a future meeting.otion to -- -- the motion to pause on selecting vice president for a future meeting.n to -- -- the motion to pause on selecting vice president for a future meeting.to -- -- the motion to pause on selecting vice president for a future meeting.- -- the motion to pause on selecting vice president for a future meeting. pause on selecting vice president for a future meeting. pause on selecting vice president for a future meeting.e on selecting vice president for a future meeting.e motion to pa on selecting vice president for a future meeting.motion to pausn selecting vice president for a future meeting. >> commissioner: i'm curious if other commissioners want to weigh in on that. i can see strengths and weaknesses. we only have one nominee so i don't know if waiting a couple weeks would help.

i guess i'd be curious if anybody else wants to nominate anybody. if we only have one nominee, i'd rather vote. i'm not sure waiting is helpful but i'm curious in terms of the process, what do other people think? >> commissioner: i'm at the mind set to vote. we have things we have to do. we can't hold things up. we need leadership in place. i understand people want it prolong it but we need to keep moving. that's my two cents. >> commissioner: do other commissioners want to respond to commissioner sanchez. >> commissioner: i'm more inclined to vote today particularly since we only have one candidate.

i don't think it will be a healthy dialogue moving forward if we pause it. i'd rather move forward. >> thank you. we do have a motion on the floor though. we'll do a roll call vote on commissioner boggess' request. >> thank you, mr. alexander. >> no. >> mr. boggess. >> yes. >> ms. collins. >> yes. >> ms. lam. >> no. >> mr. moliga. >> no. >> mr. sanchez. >> no. >> ms. lopez. >> yes. >> ms. hines-foster.

>> ab. -- abstain. >> yes. >> that fails. >> commissioner: thank you, everyone. with that i'll reinstate the nomination for mr. moliga for vice president. >> mr. bos boggess -- >> no. >> ms. lam. >> yes. >> mr. sanchez. >> yes. >> ms. lopez. >> yes. >> ms. hines-foster. >> miss? >> yes.

>> that's six ayes. >> commissioner: thank you. commissioner moliga has been elected vice president of the sfusd for the remainder of the 2021 year. on to item 2, approval of the march 9th board meeting. >> moved. >> second. >> commissioner: thank you. are there any corrections? seeing none, roll call vote. [roll call]

>> clerk: that's seven ayes. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you. item 3, superintendent's report. calling on superintendent matthews. >> i appreciate the opportunity to give you my thoughts for today. good afternoon to everyone. george floyd's death at the hands of a police officer in may of last year spark our ongoing movement for racial justice. today and every day we recognize black lives matter. the san francisco unified school district is dedicated providing an education to an anti-racist

fair and just society. as the derek chauvin trial comes to in and he we continue to engage the discussion about white prem supremacy in a socially responsible way. we continue to hold space for all the feelings and thoughts related to current events. vaccination s are one of the most effective measures in stopping the spread of covid-19 and saving lives. we're grateful that all of our staff have had the opportunity to get vaccinated. i want to encourage san francisco unified families and students over 16 to get vaccinated. our district family and students will have opportunities just for you in the coming weeks. information will be available on our website still be developed

but it will be available in the coming weeks on our website just for you and sent home for text, phone and e-mail and signage at our many distribution sites. please look for that information coming soon about vaccinations just for you. this month the san francisco unified school district is glad to honor the lgbtq pride month. for 30 years since 1991, lgbtq student services has resolved to make all schools welcoming and affirming of our lgbtq families and students. now as we live through a pandemic and social protest against continued violence against black, brown and aapi youth and adults, we remember the first pride event uprising.

pride this year means we're celebrating virtually with small student groups like gsa, hugh groups, virtual bulletin boards and interactive [indiscernible]. so we continue our efforts to create affirming learning environment where every student is supported in learning to their ability. the voices of students is a reminder to us, while the pandemic has been challenging, we can and are celebrating our lgbtq students and community members this year also. congratulations to the winners of the sfusd community advisory committee for special education advocates worthy of excellence awards. this year's yards ceremony honors sfusd administrators, teachers, librarians and

community members for their advocacy in san francisco during the most challenging of year. the award ceremony will be held this thursday april 22 virtually. you can register in advance and read about the amazing award winners and nominees at our website sfusd.edu. if you have questions, e-mail c-a-c-s-p-e-d-s-f@gmail or call 415-447-0872. earth day is this thursday april 22. at the san francisco unified school district we're proud to educate greatly we're sharing many resources on our website as

sfusd.edu. for ideas to celebrate our beautiful planet from climate and zero waste and sovereignty, you'll fine -- find resource for hybrid and distance learning and event to do safely at home. our district measures school quality by looking at the school's climate in addition to academic performance and social, emotional skills school's student body. we launched our social emotional culture climbate survey. it will be used to help assess our school program and used in our direct and level planning for the coming school year. there will be three surveys. one for students in grades four through twelve. one for all staff and one for all families. the survey is voluntary and a

reminder to keep all mics off. the survey is voluntary and confidential and used summary aggregate data not individual level data families, be on the look out for a survey link from the school and complete it by may 4. finally, i want it take a moment to address an item later in the agenda and an amendment to my contract. when i decide to stay on as the san francisco unified school district superintendent for forge year i met with our board president lopez and we agreed the greatest priority for the san francisco unified school district at this time and coming year are returning all students to in person learning, number one. number two is stablizing our district's budget and three, the importance of recruiting highest quality candidate for the

superintendent for the san francisco board of education. the board of education and tonight comprise the district governing team. i work for the board but together we form the governing team. as a we're committed to good governance practices. together we identified areas already in the policies or procedures to help us governor effectively and move the priorities forward. i envision these amendments to my contract as simply the board and i recommitting to our shared agreement. and nou let me explain what they are not. the amendments are in my contract are not intended to be a reprimand of our board commissioners and concerned about them as any characterization as such pbs this discourse is problematic

and not in the best from of our students and family. we the governance team, myself and the board are a team bounded by a shared vision and commitment to our students. the board and agree and have agreed we will govern better together timely the stability of this district is of the utmost importance. i want everyone to know i'm committed to being here through the 2021 school year. i'd like to request that before we open the item on the budget i make the statement once again before you open it up to public comment. >> commissioner: of course. >> thank you.

now item 4, student delegate report. >> this night is not over. we have a lot of work to do. there more fight ahead of us. right now continue to take care of yourself and let's take care of each other and send prayers and love to the family of george floyd our first item is student delegate election for the 2021-2022 school year. the sfusd has opened elected for all candidates for next year's student delegate. it has a legacy of representing all the students through the student delegate position. a detailed time line is on the instagram account. next year's student delegates will be announced may 17.

we would like to thank all of our candidates [listing names] good luck >> the youth summit. they finished organizing this. this year our theme is united in leadership, advocacy from a distance. our workshop key note speakers and more will all be reflective of this theme and what it entail. this year's youth summit will be this friday, april 23, 2021. thank you to the student represents key note speakers and our workshop presenters and all of the students who will be in attend jans. -- attendance. >> the third item is the ethnic studies requirement discussion.

it has become a month long collaboration to get students' feedback on ethnic studies implementation for all schools. it will bring back the focus group question to their peers and regroup to share in four weeks. discussion happened yesterday at our meeting. thank you for valuing student voice and centering the conversation with student voice >> the police involved in the george floyd verdict. we acknowledge and see first hand the violence that happens in our community from police brutality. we know the history of police officers being acquitted for their crime. today this did not happen. last year we mourned the murder of george floyd at police officers. today the officer involved is convicted guilty on all counts.

and praise when social justice has occurred. we'll now hold a moment of silence for the victims of police brutality, locally, nationally and globally.

>> thank you. our next meeting will be may 3 at 3:00 p.m. it's a public council and anyone is welcome to attend our meeting. if you'd like to attend and make a presentation or like a copy of our up-and-coming agenda contact our sac supervisor mr. salvador lopez bar. thank you. >> commissioner: section 5, resolutions and accommodations. there are none today. section 6, recognizing all

valuable employees. tonight matthews. -- superintendent matthews. >> thank you. you'd think by now i would be a master of zoom. once again, good afternoon, everyone. one of the most exciting times for me is an opportunity to recognize the outstanding work of our staff here up san francisco unified school district. this evening our first rave ward is a distinguished service award. this will be presented by a lead supervisor and this award is being presented to the principal of mission high. >> it's with great pleasure and gratitude i introduce theory

cipient -- the recipient rave distinguished service award. she has worked in sfusd as a teacher and instructional reform facilitator and principal and vice principal. she became the first african american principal of mission high school. at her core she's a warm and loving teacher and her focus on rigorous high quality instruction and deep student learning is at the center of her core values and mission around anti-racist teaching. she has a deep respect for students and sees them as intellectuals capable of greatness and that trusting relationships with so many students and family. she's been doing this work long before the term anti-racist teaching has become popular and led at mission high school over

14 years. she's a distinguished author that writes fiction. much of her teaching work was done in a best-selling book, mission high. she has been published in the atlantic in 2020 and her article, what an anti-racist teachers do differently and featured on npr. she has been and continues to be a mentor to so many teachers and school leaders. she's gone beyond the con finds of her own campus and in 2017-2018 led a profession development for assistant principals for strategy or teaching anti-racist teaching and has engaged with site leaders. she's an inspiring, fearless, student-centered leader well

deserving of our appreciation. we have a better district and society because of the 30 years she's given the students and fam of sfusd. thank you. >> thank you for those kine words and for this award. it's been my pleasure to serve our families over 30 years and to work in partnership with other educators to grow an antiracist teaching framework where all students including black and latinex students' strengths, talent and contributions are recognized, fed and rewarded. because of our students and their families i have become a better person in every single way. i feel gratitude and i appreciate the honor of having our work acknowledged.

at the risk of leaving people outside lake to call out the names of a few who for decade have informed and joined us in our anti-racist teaching work. specifically the work to eradicate the anti-blackness in our society and schools. virginia marshal, linda jordan, bobby pope, pitina love, valerie terroro, jeremiah jefferys, agusta mann. wade noble, and others. i look forward to continuing the work. thank you so much. thank you. >> yay. >> we're so proud of you and the work you continue amission high.

>> our next rave distinguished service award will be presented by the principal at sunny skies elementary school to a teacher at the school. >> good afternoon, everyone. it is my pleasure to introduce the rave award she has been teaching at sunny side the last four years. 12 years with sfusd. she is an incredibly effective educator. she is a genuinely caring and compassionate educator who embodies the values of

fearlessness and rising to meet challenges in support of all students and practices social justice and brings a tangible experience to her students. she values connections from individual connection to each and every student to the home school partnership and community connection. i'm always impressed with her knowledge of her students and the connection she develops with students, staff and families. i'm proud to work with her. congratulations. thank you. >> thank you. it's good to see you. my mom and grandma always told me how important it say thank you. that's all i'm going to do today.

thank you for this award and the opportunity to speak. i want to thank those for the rave nomination. thank you to my college friends who kicked me in the butt and told me i'd make a good teacher. thank you to my long beach unified people would supported me as an emergency credential teacher back in the '90s and thank you who those who got me a job at rooftop and shout out to my incredible rooftop family. sending love. thank you rene marcy my former principal at sunny side who hired me and supported me every day and welcome to our new principal and team sunny side especially my amazing collaborative team at to the team at sfusd science education partnership who helped me become

a better science teacher and thank you to the science department for the same thing. thank you to the health programs for being amazing supporter of anti-racist curriculum in our district and our unshakeable i.t. depend who answered over 100 e-mails from me this year on this crazy distance learning. thank you to my approximately 600 students and taught me to be a better teacher from long beach to the roof stop and my sunny side eagles. i love you all. most importantly to my partner, jim, and my amazing family because this is a crazy job teaching and we need all the help we can get. i know i'm going over my time.

thanks your teachers. it's better than a paycheck sometimes to get that phone call or e-mail or text saying you changed my kids' life or helped my kids. thank your teachers. and lastly, my student darwin said on zoom the other day, it will be a gift to go back to school. so thank you to everybody at uesf and sfusd getting our kids back in the classrooms where we need them. thank you. >> i'll follow your grandmother and mother's advice, thank you for what you do each and every day. you make a huge difference. it's awesome seeing all your students over the years and we appreciate you so much. keep it going. thank you so much. >> thank you, everyone.

it's always wonderful to be able to take the time to acknowledge all of your work and we so appreciate everything you've done support sfusd and beyond. thank you as well. we'll be moving on to section c, public comment on non-agenda items. again, this is anything that is not on today's agenda. we'll be having a portion of today's meeting dedicated to this beginning with sfusd students. please note public comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the board's jurstition we -- jurs dition. -- jurisdiction. avoid using names. you have a grievance submit it to the board. board rules and california law

do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during the public comment time. if appropriate the superintendent will ask staff follow up with speakers. item 2, comment from sfusd students. we'll hear from students who wish to speak on any matter. students will have up to two minutes to speak and this section will have 15 minutes of the general public comment period for sfusd students. we'll be hearing from our students. >> raise your hand to speak if you are a student. go ahead. >> good afternoon. my name is galahad former

student delegate at sophomore at stanford university and the sac is facing a mess. it's important speak out on this topic. in the interest of competition, my thoughts and others alumni have come together and returned five main points of complaints. students have come and feel it's necessary to inform the board of. these are concerns and complaint we feel necessary the board and public become aware about regarding changes being forced upon what has historically been a safe and supportive space for students and their voice. this year has been tough for the sac and your autonomy is being compromised because there's been new layers of bureaucracy put in place to make it hard for them to function as we have always functioned in the pave.

-- past. we have been told a third floor management has to know about all communication that we have with board members. they have to tell the third floor about any collaboration and work with board members and have been asked to hold back on create resolution and a -- sac an autonomic body and feel we must protect our student voice for ourselves and for future students. thank you. >> next speaker, go ahead. >> good afternoon. board of education, commissioner lopez and other familiar faces. i'm a graduate of lowell school

and on the student advisory council serving in my senior year. representatives believe the current supervisor and our former is being directed to change things. and we may have commitments like picking up younger siblings or helping with school and now the students are being told they should do work during normal business hours. students have other commitments during this time and like sports the sac should be allowed. we believe it's not coming from the supervisor who has always been available a policy says the

sac gets to set the time of our own meetings. sac is a project of the board of education in place to promote authentic student voice and we must have youth friendly hours to do our work. thank you. >> next speaker. >> i'm a graduate of lowell high school and was on the student advisory council last year. a major complaint is certain members of district leadership have begun limiting with the sac can and cannot do trying to censor what is an autonomous student body and managing activities is not in the document because they know the management is not following board policy 5132 that gives authorization to directly and

independently to work with the board and other city departments like the youth commission and board of supervisors. they feel they're being treated like children, watched and told what to do by some upstairs administrator rather than being treated as the elected youth leaders they are. the sac is a product of the board of education and members are not here to be treated as children. thank you. good afternoon, superintendent matthews and president lopez. i'm jessica chen and i'm a graduate of salburton high school and a former vice president of the student advisory. sac has been a place where

myself and countless others have found incredible and supportive mentorship from our coordinator. after having lost a valued staffer the students complained there's a new individual in supervising the sack -- sac making it more difficult and now have a second se t of eyes on them and didn't have input into who the person was or if they wanted it or informed about the staff member until the moment of. we think management wants to make sure they know everything is happening and that is happening the way they want it to. it's important for us to remember sac is the space for youth leaders. an autonomous project of the board of education because they feel they're being watched and reported on, they often turn off their cameras and feel reluctant

to say much in the meetings. in the past we always felt free to speak on whatever we were thinking and always trusted supervisors and it's shameful to know how it's changed for our today's students. sac is an autonomous project of the board of education and not open to the ideas of how we should operate. we're a council of students for the students and not a student council that pushes out the sfusd's political agenda. >> thank you, president lopez and commissioners. i'm a graduate of mission high school and former president of the student advisory council. the final point as alumni want to address is the

confidentiality of the sac as a student body and to main thane confidentiality it's been forced to meet offline. a last resort never done in the past. it's a measure the members do not want to take but feel forced to abide. they've felt intimidated about standing up and speaking out about this year's ongoing changes because they don't want to cause trouble for their supervisor but today we need to make sure that people know what's going on so the sac does not lose its autonomy and power to use student voice in recommending policy that supports students and their families. the student leaders do not deserve to feel like they're kept on a short leash and should not resort to feeling the need to reach out to past mentors and peers for help. the sac is an authorized project and they'll not continue to be forced underground to perform their legitimate duties. today i'm speaking to you from my work where i work with bright young students eager to learn in person again. we meet once a week socially distanced, of course. for most it's the first time

seeing other students and after a year being united states lated we want -- isolated we want to remind them their voices matter because they get to decide what their program looks like and this is the heart of the student advisory council. it's supposed to be a space to come together and share ideas and build a better school life for their peers. we want to give the students the same care, freedom and support that others have experienced. i would like to thank all sac members and alumni for speaking today. thank you for hearing this new reality of the sac has been through. these students have been brave and only want the best for their community and integrate of the students. >> gregory?

>> i'm ben chen a tenth grader at lowell high school. there's been racial tensions of races blaming each other and the ongoing tension between the black and asian communities are worry me and the stereotypes have counter productive to racial healing and societal progress. this has often translated to real life tragedy such as assaults and racial rhetoric. i believe we need to solve the problems at the sort with stereotypes being spread at the local community level. more resources such as cross-racial public meetings or addressing the racial stereotypes. i urge more meetings to combat the systemic racism in our schools. thank you, i yield my time and

the floor. >> thank you. >> a public comment. i'm an educator and i would like to report that -- >> sorry, you said you're an educator not a student? >> yes. >> you'll have time after the student time is up at about 4:30, okay? thank you. are you a student? >> i'm a dwraj -- graduate student and while in high school my peers and i were under

trademark stress. and and many of us are increasing eviction or homelessness taking care of older family members or younger siblings or otherwise struggling tremendously. there were minimal resources to help us in school. teachers and administrators were inaccessible to students. sal made a clear our opinions were not only valued but would become influential with policy within the school district. my fellow members and i could see the impact we were having. as a member of the talk and made decisions about funding in schools. sal was the only adult who spoke to me and i felt safe to talk to and would listen and other members of the sac were also a

supportive community. i want to emphasize what made the sac successful and allowed it to support students and achieve its goals was the autonomy and privacy granted. i cannot imagine feeling as safe and influential as i did if we had been subject to the supervision of other adults or if there was any sense we were reporting to school district staff rather than expressing our own ideas. i think a fundamental value of education is to teach students to confidently express their ideas. it would be tragic to see the sac lose integrate in any way. thank you. >> that looks to conclude public comment for students, president lopez.

>> commissioner: let's do one minute and no more than 20 minutes. >> thank you. >> first i want to say congratulation to my colleague. we looked gerj together at luger burbank. thank you. i want to join president biden and vice president harass and mayor london lead and the naacp. what a great victory today. finally justice for an african american man killed by a police officer. it's my personal hope as a mother of an african american son this police officer will receive the 75 years on each of

the three counts and this will be the beginning of going forward at as the police officer killed and whatever and a person without any cause they need to go to prison not jail but prison and lose their pension. i hope this is the beginning of police row -- reform. thank you for the one minute of silence for george floyd and can't get his murder out of our minds. we thank the young lady who video taped this and brought it to the world. when it first happened the police officer said he decide of medical causes. again, i share tears of happiness and sadness and joy today. thank you so much.

>> i've said at many board meetings i'm not sure how much power the board has but find it interesting we're not talking about it's terrible there's still students among these crazy schedules and it's not fair to have students test to see how their skills are when they're not able to work with them in person and get to know them. i would hope the board listens to the teachers and staff more and puts things not just on the agenda but says this is a concern. let's talk about it. >> hello, louis? >> good afternoon, dr. matthews, president lopez and commissioners and guests. i'm louis rodriguez. i first want to congratulation

the principal on her rave award. for months i was engaged in negotiations for our district because of health and safety concerns. it took our collective work with unions of sfusd and the willingness of the district to reach an greement on the health and -- an agreement on to the health and safety mou. we're at a stand still regarding a return to person and hybrid learning agreement. we tried to meet and the meetings have been few and far between while simultaneously site administrators have been busy preparing for the returning of students. our members have delivered on their can commitment to our students and families and have welcomed them back after many long days of planning and adapting to changing guidelines. we understand the learning should not stop. many students are in their actual classrooms now and we continue to deliver on our

commitment to them and their families though we have not reached an greement on the return to in person and hybrid learning mou. we feel it's time for the district to show it cares about us and the work we do on a daily basis and return to the table in good faith. sfusd members deserve to have their concerns addressed. we do the work because we care. the work we do requires constant sustenance. skweefg our members of -- squeezing our members without replenishment is unsustainable and returning to the negotiation process is a good first step in the provision of that sustenance. thank you. >> joan?

>> uasf members worked tirelessly without a hybrid and mou in place. it was publicly shared schools would open once all mous in place. our members have been sour in performing their responsibilities to the highest degree of professionalism and deserve to be acknowledged an respected and valued. according to a survey morale is at an all time low and members need an mou in place and site leaders have the responsibility of overseeing the successful reopening of their respective schools and central office members provided support and other resources. we have requested and the district has agreed to engage in free mediation with the support of the state mediation and conciliation services. we urge the district to engage in negotiations win compassion for our -- with compassion for our members. our members deserve compensation for increased hours and work

load and accommodations aligned and appropriate staffing support, no new initiatives and [indiscernible]. >> thank you. gregory. >> i'd like to call out the racially based criteria in the multi-tiered system of support. the criteria deny nurses and counselors and literacy specialist to schools like gene parker and rosa parks. which would otherwise qualify for them but they don't. was they have too high of a percentage of white and asian students. if a school qualifies based on the number of students that need free lunches or number of people in public housing or a number of english language learners, i don't think it's a good system to deny that based on the racially based criteria and i

i'd like to have the board address that. thank you. [please stand by] .

>> mr. gray was failed to do his job. they rehired him anyways knowing he was incompetent for his position. >> clerk: thank you. fernando? >> caller: thank you. good afternoon president lopez, superintendent dr. matthews and board commissioners. i'm emmanuel stewart. i'm humble principal. i'm also a member of united

administrative san francisco lowly 3 and american federation of school administrators. i want to speak about the agreement with the united administrators of san francisco right now during the reopening of schools. we don't have m.o.u. in place. it's important that we have a m.o.u. in place with our administrators. i appreciate that the health and safety m.o.u. agreement is in place. your administrators need an agreement. not as swift but not as mr. luis stated earlier, mine is straight to the point. we have continue to support the schools in our school communities in a professional manner. we continue to work countless hours for the reopening of the schools here. we are united. i ask san francisco unified

district to bargain and urge the board of education to get involved with security m.o.u. agreement with united administrators of san francisco. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: good afternoon dr. matthews president lopez, commissioners and student delegates. i'm jolie, i'm co-executive director of united administrators of san francisco. in the dashboard for reopening of schools, they said that schools would not reopen until m.o.u.s are in place. our 285 members have reported to work successfully opened schools and done so without an m.o.u. in place for distance, hybrid in-person learning. furthermore, they are working with the collective bargaining agreement that expired on

june 20, 2020. how did the chief of relations respond? he told us to request a mediator. we have done that and now await the district to embrace the process with us. >> clerk: thank you. go ahead, you can finish. >> caller: our members deserve to be recognized for their commitment to educating our students and supporting their communities. many of our other districts in california have given monetary compensation to their administrators. why is this district refusing to compensate our members? they deserve monetary compensation. if not now when? thank you. >> clerk: thank you. nikki? >> caller: hi. my name is nikki. i'm a graduate of school of

equity. i was student advisory council. i would like to say good afternoon to the board of education superintendent matthews president lopez. i had a pleasure to be -- [indiscernible] i had the opportunity to learn what student leadership is and impact it makes to students. i had the guidance from people who use their power to do what is best for us as students. his care for students can be seen through his action whether it's asking food we want during the meeting and how college

applications are going. these little actions continue to push for the council -- i like to remind everyone on this board that it is your job to serve the students and is not the other way around. thank you. >> clerk: meredith? >> caller: hi. thank you. this is meredith. there's a lot to thank folks for today and congrats to vice president moliga. thank you dr. matthews for staying another year. congratulations to all the recipients of the rave awards. thank you to all of the staff responsible for getting our schools reopen. it's been incredible to see the joy on our student faces as they return to the classrooms. we know how much work has been required of you and we know how

exhausting it must have been. we appreciate you so much. thank you families have been elated seeing their kids going back to school. thank you so much. we have less than 2000 middle and high school kids returning, 27,000 middle and high school students at that time sfusd. it's not enough. let's keep up the work and continue to open up all the schools for all of our middle and high schoolers who are waiting to return this spring. thank you so much for all your hard work on this. >> caller: board of education, superintendent matthews president lopez, good afternoon. it's nice to see some familiar faces. i serve on the c.a.c. from 2016

to 2018. this is the result of hard work by members and the supporting staff of the students advisory council. it is horrifying to me that our administrators see it's appropriate to ask -- [indiscernible] it was appropriate to discourage write a resolution on sexual harassment. this is not how this supposed to work. the student advisory council is meant to amplify student voices. thank you very much. >> clerk: hello, lawrence? >> caller: hello. commissioner matthews, president

lopez. thank you for letting us all have time. i'm trying to understand how a 20 minute session is decided how long to speak on things and how certain speakers can go longer than 60 seconds depending on their role and title. i'm trying to help the board of ed. i'm talking about the bond audits which was mentioned last board meeting. there's certain individuals who said they clean audits of the bonds and there was miss bonds. in 2019, there was only a draft published. it was finally signed april 12, 2021. 14 months after the audit worked. in that 2019 performance audit, it stated there's no cboc. there's concerns with internal

control and there's concerns with areas of omissions. i'm not sure if that's clean. i'm no attorney. i'm not auditor. it seems less than clean to me. what's going on with having a chief facilities officers spending money on a new building that has -- [indiscernible] >> clerk: hello? >> caller: hi. i wanted to take a moment to thank the student delegates for a moment of silence for george floyd and his life that was lost. i want -- i know we're all thinking about the moment how derek chauvin is charged for all three charges. i want to reflect how the school

board was last summer when the murder of george floyd happened, you all passed a piece of legislation making sure that all s.r.o.s was out of sfusd. i want to uplift that. that's remarkable that the school district did that. that was no small feat. it's been over 20 years. student said decades to kick out s.r.o. thank you. >> clerk: hello, gloria? >> caller: hi. this is gloria berry. i'm a member of the san

francisco democratic party. i would like to recommend that this body put out a clear cohesive definition of racism means. i would like also like this body to put a clear definition what white supremacy means. today we're enjoying the verdict of ex-officer chauvin. people have to realize that this white supremacy is big. what was done to allison collins is part of what white supremacy is about. i hope this body can revisit. i'm very disappointed in few members that i supported that have participated in white supremacy and that people need to learn simple things what it means to be a house negro. what it means to be a field

negro. >> clerk: thank you. chris? >> caller: hi. sorry. i'm calling in. i'm an educator at washington high school, a special education teacher. i'm calling in because family need consistent and clear communication. admins need consistent and clear administration. they need an m.o.u. according to some of the comments earlier. the students need consistent and clear communication. you guys are failing to provide this. i have student who are eligible to return to in-person learning in just six days who have not received a placement letter or return packet. despite that your website has a promise from students from some sites we're trying to get it out but you have minimum 10 days. they haven't gotten anything.

these were the same students who were surveyed and didn't get the survey and weren't able to fill them out. many student have a right to return to in-person learning because they are struggling their i.e.p.s need to be met. >> clerk: that concludes 20 minutes allotted for public comment. >> president lopez: thank you to the public for coming out. we'll continue to provide spaces for public comment and looking at other ways to do it outside of the board meeting. there are opportunities throughout the meeting on any agenda item for people to continue to comment. >> is it possible for the superintendent to follow-up with the staff member to make sure that we're closing the loop on any communication with families that we might be missing at

washington? >> yes. >> president lopez: we're now moving on to section d, advisory committee reports and appointments. item 1, report from the parcel tax oversight committee. this is qtea of 2008. >> good evening commissioners. i'm the director of policy and planning for the district. i have the privilege to serve as the liaison for the parcel tax oversight committee. this is citizen's body responsible for reviewing our use of parcel tax revenue and ensuring that use is aligned with the public. this afternoon, we will hear from both auditors as well as

from our co-chairs who will review the 18-19 fiscal years as well as present a short presentation. our auditors -- >> clerk: do you need the powerpoint for this section? >> no. >> i'm on. hi everybody. can you see me and hear me?

>> yes. >> i can't share my screen. that's okay. >> clerk: i can give you access to share your screen now. >> that will be great. i want to put up a note. i'll start off. i'm the independent external auditor. what i will do put up is the same thing that you have in your packets. there's two audits. i sat down with the oversight, qtea citizens oversight committee. i gone through this in more detail. i will give this group an overview of the scope of the audit and what it is that we've done. there's two audits. first this thing here is the financial statements for qtea.

a historic document. this is as of june 30, 2020. details what you see here probably aren't super important to the board. for the year end june 30, 2020, 44 million came in and 44 million came out. this itemizes super high level. where did the funds go to. the scope of the audit over -- is to ensure this document is available to key stakeholders is complete and accurate. on the first page, is our opinion on the financial statements. this is a clean opinion. in our opinion is fairly stated. this is the best thing an auditor can be saying regarding the financial statements. i will point out, it is a draft

report because it's to be presented to the board of education. there's nothing else to do. we are ready to issue the report. there will not be changes. moving on to the compliance report, also, this is a draft but same deal. the audit is done. compliance takes the accounting records from -- [indiscernible]. then we ask questions. we look at documents and the scope of the compliance vort to ask is the money being used in accordance with activity. it could be used differently or wisely. those kind of questions are all board decisions. that's not within the scope of the audit.

i'll skip ahead without going into every detail. the following pages starting on page 3 actually itemized little more details about it is we've done to reach that conclusion. i'll just highlight this one. number two is probably most relevant, which is review the nature of the expenditures, review source document and verify with permissible uses. the conclusion is that there was -- no exception. that's how we arrived at that

opinion. there's a few other things in here that talks about what we've done. overall result is that district has applied for year end june 30, 2020 with those qtea compliance requirements. with that, i'll stop sharing. i'm happy to go into any part of either of those reports in more detail. i'll turn it over to the board if there are any questions about the audit. i can try and answer those as best i can. >> president lopez: thank you, nathan. before we do that, i like to open it up to public comment. >> clerk: thank you. specifically on the audit, correct? >> president lopez: yes. >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to the audit that was just presented.

seeing two hands. >> president lopez: two minutes each. >> clerk: thank you. j.t.? >> caller: good evening. i'm a sfusd graduate. what came to speak on is ms. -- >> clerk: excuse me, right now, this time for public comment is only to speak to the audit report that was just presented. we can't to any other items right now. jeff? >> caller: good evening. thank you for this time to talk to the auditor.

i understand the auditor cannot answer my questions. these are more rhetorical but just try to gain an understanding of the audit. i understand this audit is for the fiscal year that ended june 30, 2020, you prepare to sign it. appreciate that. one of the questions or thoughts is around governance and committees. the oversight committees, citizens participate in. inunderstand -- i understand most of the audit focused on the financial transaction making sure expenditures are as they are supposed to. my question is on the oversight committee, do you review that to see that it complies with the law and secondly, are there any internal control issues as to

whether or not the board is following their own policies in appointing members to this board. thank you. i'll yield the rest of my time. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: good afternoon. i have a question on. i understand that you cannot answer, the auditor. it says district was in compliance. i'm familiar with the disconnect with the central office and school site. i'm curious how in-depth does it actually go in making sure that the school sites are also in compliance as well as the central office or if this just overall for everyone. thank you.

>> clerk: thank you. that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: thank you. commissioners, student delegates, do you have any questions or comments? >> commissioner boggess: i have not received the report. did you say that we had received the report already? i'm not sure if i misunderstood that. >> commissioner boggess, it should have been in the weekly bulletin, the most recent one that went to the board. i will make sure you get a copy of that. >> president lopez: thank you. i'm not seeing any other hands. perhaps, nathan, i know you were

listening to the public comment question that came up. is there a response that you can share? >> i guess the question how in-depth this goes to the school site. on procedure two is where we talked about looking at expenditures, looking at items. anything that happened at the school site, anything that was charged to qtea will fall under the umbrella of the audit. yeah, there was an expense that happened at the school sites that would fall in the audit. most of these -- the majority of the expenditures are salary related. the audit is pretty specific. the main focus is are the funds being used for something that's

allowable and do those go through the proper approvals that the district has set up. as long as we can say yes to these things then, that will be considered compliance with the language. >> president lopez: thank you. there are no other questions or comments. next item. thank you so much. item 2 -- >> sorry, we have the presentation portion from the co-chairs. >> president lopez: oh, i apologize. i did not realize. >> at this time, mr. steele is -

[indiscernible] i like to hand it over to the co-chairs. >> rich, are you there? i think you're muted. >> can you hear me now? >> yes. >> thank you president lopez, commissioners, superintendent matthews and the public for having us here this afternoon. i'm rich shreve. i want to put in context that there's some good vibes with these two parcel taxes. you have to remember in 2018,

69% of san francisco voters voted to support this. this is in a city where most households do not have people in the public schools. in 2020, over 74% of voters voted to approve the new parcel tax. there's a lot of support among the electorate in san francisco for adequate funding for public schools. my wife and i both qualify for exemption because we're over 65 we would never think of doing that. this is just part of living in the city. let's move on to the next slide. >> hello commissioners, superintendent, staff, community members. i'm leah vandermay.

i work at the california academy. sciences and i'm a proud parent of a fifth grader who's very excited to return to school on monday. i want to thank all you for the work you've done to make that happen. we're really excited. just to give you the agenda what we'll talk about today. we are going to cover district corporate taxes. we'll talk and review over the role of the oversight committee. what is the role that we provide. we'll talk about the status of the parcel taxes. finally, we'll discuss the committee's endorsement of the audit you just seen. finally we'll give you next steps in recommendations for going into the next fiscal year.

>> there's two parcel taxes in effect in san francisco. the quality teacher and education act of 2008 and qtea, and recently passed prop j, the one that was passed in 2020. these two parcel taxes generate about $93 million a year for the district. most of this goes to salary. enhancements for teachers, parra's and other school staff. there's also pretty decent piece of money for technology in these funds. >> the role of the oversight committee is defined by the bill. you might remember that 2008

qtea which was expanded to lwea and finally fwea prop j. our vole to ensure the funds have been spent. our scope of work in a number of different things. primarily, our most important role is reviewing the audit. even more so weaver reviewing -- we're reviewing the financials. it's a very detailed committee. we go line by line. we will work with staff and talk to them about areas that are supported by qtea so we can understand how things are being

spent. some of the impacts how it's impacting teachers and students and their families. we participate annually in the impact innovation award. i participated for three or four years on the innovation award panel. it's one the biggest joys for me to help lead schools and solve an equity challenge. there's lot of equity challenges to be found. that program has been a wonderful thing to be part of. i will share with you this past year due to covid that we haven't been able to dig in deep as we normally have been. we're excited we can dig in deeper. we will meet with more staff and continue. we have fulfilled responsibilities reviewing the audit and reviewing the financial in everything looks according how the bill is outlined.

>> ever since leah and i committee members looking at this, we quizzed the auditors every year and ask about the methodology. we look at the financials regularly with the finance department and the implementing departments. as far as we can tell, standard auditing procedures in place this money is being spent as required in the bill or allowed in these acts. i'm not going to go into the prop g if you want to know more about that, we can all interest with that. we do typically ask for information on whether the funds are being affected. for example, the year before last we showed you a report from hr that shows the competitive compensation position of the district versus surrounding

districts. there was progress. we like to dig into that some inner this year. personally, i think that's the elephant in the room. are we paying our teachers enough to attract really qualified people who can come to sfusd and live in san francisco. we'll be asking a lot more questions about that in this coming year. in terms of the audits, they all look as nathan said, totally compliant. we voted to approve the last two. >> for next steps, we'll continue the good work we've been doing, reviewing the financials and these areas. we do want to make some recommendations. we know these funds are crucial. they are really important. they are having an impact. i think we're excited to be able to measure that impact more for

future years to see how this is impacting the district and our teachers. we know it's a stopgap measure. when these funds sunset as we continue to improve parcel taxes, how can we be more sustainable and how we can have fun and keep these great teachers in the school district. we'll continue to approve the audits and review the financials. we would recommend that as a board and staff, you may want to go ahead and look at this again. qtea was passed in 2008. i imagine the priorities of the district has definitely changed just from what i can see as a parent and community member. looking at how these funds are allocated will be really important. it is very specific on how these moneys can be spent. it will be good idea for anyone, to look at it again and review

how it's being spent. it's being spent according to the measures. i want to thank you for your time. we welcome any feedback from the board. >> thank you for that presentation. apologies for the misunderstanding. >> president lopez: i will open up for public comment before we hear from commissioners on the presentation. >> clerk: if there any other members of the public who wish to speak to this item, please raise your hand at this time. seeing one hand.

sheila? >> caller: i'm curious, i'm a teacher. i noticed that you said that you interact with teachers to see how they feel the funds are being used to meet their needs. i wonder how you go about selecting the teachers you talk to? as a teacher, i never heard of any such thing. i'm just curious how teachers get their input in? thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> i can respond to that if you like. >> clerk: we have another hand here. >> president lopez: as long as the public remembers, this is the same item that we just had public comment on. we're wrapping it up after the presentation. >> clerk: gregory? >> caller: i want to know why the draft audit isn't on board

docs. i feel like that's something publicly available. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: thank you again. i see commissioner boggess hand. presenter, did you want to respond? >> to answer the question from the teacher who asked how do we find out what teachers think about what's going on. i don't think we do a very good job on that. if that's something that can be organized, that will be a very useful additional function for the committee. we pretty much look at it at a high level. the current allocation towards the different functions that are

specified by the 2008 ballot measure were laid out in 2008. it would not be improper for the board to look at whether the allocations within those categories are suitable now. you have different funding for technology and there are different sources of funding than you might have then. that's one thing to take a look at. >> president lopez: great, thank you. commissioner lam? >> commissioner lam: thank you to rich and leah. i served on qtea when it first oversight committee came together. really appreciate your volunteerism and serving on the committee. thank you for the recommendation around looking at impact.

i think that is something as a board that we're going through. we know we will be facing significant budget deficits in that every dollar, we want to make sure is supporting our educators and staff and it has an impact in the classrooms for students. i wanted to appreciate that. another thing to note too, also very grateful for your recommendation for potential how the advisory committee would bring in additional stakeholders as you're going through your annual process. when i first started and serve on the oversight committee, there was a particular gap. lastly, i want to comment around the potential reviewing. what the important that is. that is a big significant piece

of that coming to agreement to how those funds are spent and impact they have. thank you. >> president lopez: commissioner alexander? >> commissioner alexander: to pick up on that point. i'm curious from staff is there a plan or process through which we can do with what rich suggested and reexamine those? >> if i can point out one technicality of the 2008 allocation. there's significant negotiated in an m.o.u. with the union.

that would have to be something that you spoke with them. there's another 30% that is at the discretion of the district management. there's two buckets of money that will have different kinds of processes for the allocation. >> commissioner alexander: i was thissing more of discretionary. i was curious what our staff is thinking what the process is. thank you. >> thank you commissioners. good evening everybody. i'm the deputy superintendent of policy and operations. also, i want to take the opportunity to thank our co-chairs and all the members of the parcel tax oversight committee for their important service to our whole district. to commissioner alexander's question, mr. shreve mentioned the first thing that i would mention which is the m.o.u. with

the united educators does speak to about 71%. very close. 71% of the annual spending plan is subject to that m.o.u. with uesf leaving about 29% that is not subject to collective bargaining process and rather just needs to abide by the language of the ballot measure. which is the main charge the oversight committee. it is true, commissioners, we have not taken a comprehensive look or revisited the main components or the proportion of the spending for that 29% in some time. they have largely grown or in most years have grown proportionately in relation to the original spending plan.

as i believe mr. shreve mentioned, single largest component of the 29% is for technology and there are other components for professional development and the impact. i think it's very valid point that commissioner lam point the out, that looking at restricted resources of all types including these parcel tax proceeds. especially given both our fiscal challenges in the upcoming fiscal years and the frame of zero based budgeting that we've talked about and you heard a lot about and discussed in your priority meetings. all of those resources, especially the larger resources including qtea, should be revisited in a comprehensive way. as staff, our inclination is to take a comprehensive look of multiple funding sources

together rather than focusing on one resource at a time in isolation. that is something that i know budget services and their teams along with me, we are interested in incorporating all of our major funding sources in that zero based budget planning process. very valid point. thank you. >> president lopez: thank you for those questions and that input. any other thoughts? >> commissioner alexander: can i have one more comment. this is not about the espending plan but in relation our colleague. there are comment from teacher colleague about teacher input.

i did want to mention, i think you're aware of this, that every year this is not a two-way dialogue that i'm about to mention. there's a very important process that we -- along with academic partners in higher education. we do a very rigorous survey of feedback. it was originally called the qtea survey. i think we still call it the qtea survey. we have been fortunate enough to get a very high response rates over the years from our educators. in response to that particular survey. we do ask a number of different questions. many of them are general in nature. some of them are specifically connected to the impact of this measure. actually prop g/prop j as well. that is one practice that is

well groomed in our district. this has led through h.r. in combination with hiring partners and the team does really look at those results very carefully. i wanted to mention that. >> president lopez: thank you. i appreciate that. if there are no further comments, thank you to our presenters for sharing this information. we are now going to move on to item 2. report from the district english learners advisory committee. delac. i would like to call -- >> thank you president lopez. good afternoon superintendent, president lopez and commissioners. before i continue with delac report, i like to thank the superintendent, superintendent matthews for staying on with us. your commitment to our families and to help us navigate through

this pandemic for another year. very important. it's really hard to go on with this business as usual with so much going on around us. i want to pause. i want to acknowledge and thank our student delegates for elevating. it was a lot today. i personally find myself holding my breath all the time. today i took a breath and i realized that i was holding it again. there was so much work for us to do. collectively as a family within san francisco unified school district, there's so much and violence and pain. i know that in my role, my role is specifically here to serve our students and our families. i work within multilingual

pathways department. i had distinct privilege to be liaison. i want to thank them right now for their time for their commitment, for their energy and everything they do. i do have leaders with me today. you'll have an opportunity to hear from them. i want to thank you parent leaders. i know that this is your personal time. the process that we will follow, some of our members will be speaking in heritage language. we'll allow them to speak first. then the interpreters do have their speaker notes. they'll foul. you'll hear their language. then you'll hear our interpreter speak so you know where we're at. the purpose of the district english learners advisory board is to provide guidance and

advice to the board of education and district staff on the needs, services, goals and objectives for programs to serve our students learning english as a second language. district english learners advisory board members participate as researchers providing input about their needs, ways to address them and ways to implement change by creating goals and objectives pertaining to recommendations, taking time to incorporate the perspective of all of our stakeholders. i don't know if you have your slide deck ready to go. i also have the capacity to share the screen. i know that we're limited. >> clerk: i have it ready. >> would you mind projecting that for me please? thank you.

this is a snapshot from families responses to one of the many delac surveys. when it comes to sending children back to in-person, biggest concern was safety. some families were not ready to send back their child. they were concerned about their extended family's safety. please follow the science and not the politics. i want to be clear what you're seeing on the screen is direct quotes from families. when asked what they wanted us to know. they wanted district leaders to listen to families and open our schools safely. and consider the needs. they want schools to have effective communication with families. one parent stated that their child is suffering from anxiety and stress and biting his nails. which is something he never did before.

students with i.e.p.s need more support in the classroom. delac members board interactions with our delac leaders and delac survey questions that facilitate deeper more meaningful learning regarding the effectives and services for english learners students. some of the questions that prompting a family were how should sfusd address learning. what will the district have to do to consider sending your child back to school and several other questions around english language development instruction, nutrition, technology and more.

if you focus on the left hand side. it is in english, center is in cantonese and right is in spanish. some of things you can see, hire more teachers reflective of our community. summer school or year round school. tutoring, after school instruction, review this year's method to make up for learning loss. keep special education students at the the center and not after thought. mental health support and assessments to measure to begin to measure instruction. one of my favorite prompts was developed by a representative. the prompt was, please share

something that you learned about your child during this pandemic. resilient, easily distracted and needs more time. he said, i have more time for him. the positive you adapt to new things, the negative, he has a hard time managing his emotions. he or she is hard working, better organized with distance learning, better focused and staying out of trouble. my child needs his friends and time to socialize. my child is shy but this platform allows him to participate in various ways. resilient and adapt with the right tools and resources. love to bake. strong in spite of all the adversity. needs extra motivation to study.

he's paying attention and learning even when the camera is off. i'm drawing closer to my son. needs more social and emotional support. young people want and need to be heard and understood. it's hard with so much going on around them. strong technology skills and his strength, tenacity and perseverance. as you can see, there's a balance with so many positive highlights in the mix. it varies. we all know that. everyone is dealing with this in different ways. sometimes we're able to navigate it and sometimes we fall apart. before we move on to the 2021 delac recommendations i want to

acknowledge the dedication of district staff that pivoted and responded to this pandemic omeet the needs of our families. including the department of technology, curriculum instruction, multilingual pathway, student nutrition services, student and family resource link, translation interpretation and my amazing parent advisory lead along with countless others. as a review of the prior years delac recommendation from spring 2017 to spring 2020, all but two of the recommendations made over that time have been implemented. one example of a recommendation that has not been implemented is a instruction to summer learning program for english language learners. as we speak, district staff is currently coordinated a can comprehensive plan to implement summer programming.

they will be reflected. it is my honor to present our first delac member. mandarin language representative. [speaking mandarin]

>> we're going to have the interpreter. if you could pause and we'll have the interpreter share that in english. thank you. >> interpreter: i am the mandarin language representative on the delac. my child is a sixth grade student at monroe elementary school. it is so important to work to increase our children's language ability and support their grades. it is especially important to help them to elevate and improve their english proficiency. through a survey response, families were asked about how sfusd should address learning loss. we overwhelmingly heard from families as stakeholders that in order to address learning loss, we need to close the achievement gap by providing the following

recommendation. structured tutoring program for english learner students. a tutoring program that provides english language development in a supported interdisciplinary environment, preferably after school or in school group settings without loss of daily instructional minutes. tutoring should be provided by credentialed classroom teachers and extended pay stipend. >> president lopez: are you on mute?

[speaking mandarin] >> president lopez: i want to allow her time to get on. thank you for your patience. does she need? i notification -- i know she was on a minute ago. >> i'm speaking to her on the chat. >> president lopez: we can move

on to the next one. then we can come back to that recommendation. anna? >> hi, good afternoon. thank you for being here. this is my second year at delac chair. i have two daughters that attends daniel webster elementary school. i want to share my experience as a child when my mother wanted to speak to a teacher about school progress. she was a spanish speaker. she was afraid to speak with school staff that didn't speak spanish. she would ask me, imagine a 7-year-old that was learning new language. with this experience, i don't

want any child to have to go through this process. this is why we at delac come to you with this recommendation. we know the prompt asks this vital issue. one out of every four student in the district is english language learner. lack of interpretation on as needed basis is white supremacy practice. they can't respond to moment by moment interpretation needs. can we quantify the number of parents who are not comfortable in english, even though their children do not identify as english learners. these parents want to communicate but feel intimidated due to the language barrier. the district need to follow the trail of anti-racist practices.

with that in mind, our recommendation is expansion of the language for communication and interpretation for families. there are experts interpreters in 240 languages to address district rapidly changing

demographics to help continue to build relationships trust with our families. >> would you mind checking to see if she's been elevated to a panelist. i believe shelfs struggling to find the buttons at the bottom of her screen. >> clerk: can you give me the spelling of the name? >> yuan. >> clerk: i believe i just promoted her to panelist. >> thank you, would you mind going back to her recommendation. i believe it was the second one. it's the one right before -- yes, that will be her.

thank you. we're ready for you. [speaking foreign language]

>> president lopez: thank you. interpreters please? >> interpreter: okay. my name is yuan i'm delac chair. i have two children one in kindergarten and other in third grade. they go to gordon j. elementary school. during the pandemic, so many children are experiencing widespread mental health stress. the impact of social isolation, political social media propaganda and the fear and threats of catching covid has

had a big toll on mental and emotional well-being. our children miss their friends, teachers and opportunity to socialize. even those schools are reopening, many of our children and families are very afraid to return. we need to work to socialize our children and help them recover from this pandemic. provide and create a safe space in small groups with students can share and process their feelings. process of services should be in collaboration with families as they now have become even more familiar with their children's needs through an entire year of isolation at home. therefore, we at the delac have the following recommendation. comprehensive school-based

mental health services and support to assist students dealing with traumatic experiences. services should be developmentally, linguistally and culturally appropriate. thank you. >> president lopez: thank you, interpreter. our final recommendation?

[speaking spanish]

>> let's have the interprets transmit that for us. >> interpreter: good afternoon. i'm representative of delac. for parents with students with special needs. i have three children. all three are english learners and two of them have i.e.p.s.

in this pandemic, we parents feel alone. we have had to be co-educators with our children special needs as we have to struggle a lot. it is important that the i.e.p.s interpreters have quality and not limited to one hour. we wanted evaluation to be translated in time because in my case, i waited for more than six months to receive the evaluation of my son. the stress was so much that there was no solution and i thought about suing the district even without having the money for it. in my group, we talked about our needs and lack of support. i want to thank jane robinson, director department of education

and group of parent leaders. sometimes a large class sizes or the reality that many teachers are not sufficiently trained in english language acquisition strategies. in 2021, our school district indicated with students with an i.e.p.s. there are 1268 students, 298 students in middle school level and 158 in high school. with that in mind, i want to be the last one to bring this important recommendations today. specific focus on students

identified as duel english learner status. we want to ensure that the goals objectives and services are appropriate. it is important to allocate additional extended time to complete i.e.p.s and to allow time for consecutive interpretation. increase the response time for the translation i.e.p. recommendation to the family's native language on the date of the meeting. parents, guardians you have opportunity to learn about recommendations. this should include a professional development component for teachers as well as special education teachers. thank you for your time and consideration.

>> hi. i'm the family support liaison for our cantonese and mandarin speaking families. thank you superintendent matthews and board of commissioners for your time. in response to the numerous attacks on the asian-american community, the delac stands in solidarity in support of our students, family and students. superintendent matthews, we appreciate your response, guidance and resources to support the teachers. with the conversation to grow, learn to reveal hope. we recognize the importance of academic success and achievements but understand that equally as important and vital is a is focus to teach our children love, mutual

understanding and mutual respect for one another. with our care for one another, what will our future bring. there's an old saying in chinese that if the upper opinion is not straight, the lower ones will go at length. as a leadership, if you cannot set a good example, we cannot expect our children to follow. some ideas to help our students to embrace multiculturalism, are at the elementary level, we can implement ethnic integration, teaching and activities on a regular basis where students can develop cross-cultural understanding. at the secondary level, we can eencourage students to take ethnic studies to promote cultural understanding and respect. we need to create a school environment that allows all of us to learn more about our own

culture, also we learn more about -- women respect for the culturings -- culturings of cul- cultures of others. >> president lopez: thank you for your time. we look forward to continued collaboration and support of english language learners and families. we respectfully request formal response to our recommendations in timely manner and writing. i like to ask from who and by when we should be expecting a response to our recommendation? thank you. >> president lopez: i want to make a few points before taking any questions. we as a district are facing huge budget issues that has been exacerbated by this pandemic. i worked to investigate, network

and collaborate with my district colleagues and outside of the district with multiple community-based organizations. in response to the tutoring recommendation, we do want to appreciate the updates around summer programming from the multilingual pathways department and deputy superintendent. one of the questions we ask how might we utilize this opportunity. like the summer school that's already in progress of planning to build tutoring component that can potentially be duplicated and implemented in it fall. in regards to mental health services, currently, our district has about 15 sfusd counselors who are working towards the licensed professional clinical counselors. they are being supervised by a former sfusd counselor, nikki

gibbons. several are close to completion of hours and will be able to broaden the scope of practice to mental health specific roles that includes a family component. work specifically with students english as a second language is a drive force behind this commitment that this cohort is currently working. our big question now is how can this will be utilized differently to support our families and student as we navigate new challenges and embark on in-person learning. i think this is the ideal time start, having discussions if not in march. here we are. we're navigating this together. in regards to that language line, the cost of the services minimal in terms of the impact.

how might we negotiate the current terms of our current contract with the language line, to increase staff for teachers and staff, or increase access. finally, i want to take some time to thank jean robinson and her team for supporting our student and families with i.e.p.s, opening up the conversation which we have had in the last couple of months. having my colleagues from m.p.d. working to integrate our family workshops that we have including navigating our systems and structures but with an i.e.p. lens. i have been guilty of creating workshops and what nots for families. i then having a separate component that was for special education. now really thinking how are we integrating all of our work together collectively.

i want to elevate and share as a new position for carmen rodriguez who is now the liaison to the special education parent advisory. she helped bring awareness to our families who may not be comfortable in having these conversations and help navigate. that's some of the work that's been happening. finally, how do we ensure families are provided and that their i.e.p.s are implemented. i think as a district, we have plans and i'm guilty of being able to look at things on paper. they look great. how can i continue to serve our students and families. we're ready for questions if you have any.

>> president lopez: thank you so much to all of you for your work and for being here. before we open it up to questions, i will hold public comment. we can do two minutes. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: hello. my name is alita fisher. we're excited to have you as a liaison between our two groups. the c.a.c. wants to echo everything in this report. thank you so much. the delac for your patience. this report has been on the agenda couple of times. thank you for being here

tonight. the c.a.c. specifically wants to highlight the final slide in the recommendation about the identified students. those struggles are real. i.e.p.s are scheduled for an hour. if you got interpretation, that mean it's a half an hour. it's not realistic. families and students don't have access. in translation of documents, it's taking up to a month sometimes. if you find out about something in a meeting, you don't get the follow-up documentation until a month later to sign. that's a month of services that our kids are missing. that is so unfair and unequitable. that's just not okay. i can go on and on. i like to highlight professional development. you guys know i could go on and on. there's so much in here -- the

c.a.c. echoes the response for follow-up in a timely manner. the c.a.c. would love to see in writing exactly what you're providing to the delac as well. thank you delac. you all rock. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: hi, good evening everyone. i'm a parent leader for the african-american parent advisory council. aipac like to show appreciation for -- to the delac for the effort and all the selective work that they have done. there's so much overlap in all our parent advisories do. we share so much with each other through our lived experiences and serving our families.

we're grateful for all that the delac does to serve our students and families and all they offer to the lcap joint advisory committee. special shot out to danielle for all her work she's done and especially with helping support the latino task force initiative. i want to give her a huge shot out for that work as well. thank you. >> clerk: meagan? >> caller: hi. i wanted to offer my appreciation for the delac and advocacy particularly around ensuring that services are available for families and students who speak language

other than english. i have been a special educator in the district for a very long time. it has been a struggle for me to connect with families who don't speak english, because i'm monolingual english. it's important to connect with families not just at i.e.p. meetings but regularly from calls setting up meetings, checking in, even before students qualify for i.e.p.s for progress report. the family -- the language line service is so important because it's on demand. we don't need to request two weeks in advance. we can communicate with families regularly. that connection is important between educators and families for the sake of the students. i think it's really important that we invest in these services because that's an investment in our students and our families

and the connection that they have to their schools. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. michelle? >> caller: thank you. good evening commissioners. i'm the current coordinator for are the parent advisory council and parent of two former sfusd district. i echo what previous speakers have said. danielle and maggie are amazing and tireless advocates for student and families they serve. as other parent leaders you heard from today and those that do the work you didn't hear from today. i you use this opportunity to echo their recommendations and

request including the long overdue implementation of a summer program. after school tutoring support, expanded access to the language line for much needed translation and interpretation services. trauma informed and culturally and linguistically social emotional mental health support. better support for student who are learning english in addition to their home language and have individualized education plans including sufficient time for i.e.p. meeting and the timely translation of i.e.p. reports. thank you all for the work that you do. i'm honor to work alongside you in the advisory group. thank you. >> clerk: carla? >> caller: hi, thank you. everyone who has spoken before me pretty much summed up exactly all of the talking points i was going to say.

i am the membership chair for the community advisory committee. i want to echo and uplift delac and all of the hard work and hours it takes to put together presentations, look at stakeholders, getting feedback and being able to turn it around and present it to everyone in this really wonderful concise presentation. you can see all the intersectionality of the requests that are being made. we all have a common goal trying to support our students and with the language line, it is essential. it's one of those how much does it cost for this.

really in the long run, it is a well use of our funding to be able to -- it will benefit so many. i'm at an elementary school myself. we used it for our parent teacher conferences. thank you all for all your hard work. i don't want to take up too much time. i wanted to uplift and put another voice to all of your activism. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: thank you. i wanted to -- [indiscernible]

>> clerk: hello? >> caller: i'm a special ed parent as well. i wanted to say that i'm with you, 100%. everything that you said. i have felt as somebody who speaks english, i cannot fathom the learning curve for somebody who does this. i feel that if we can do this for all families we rise up everybody. that is why it's important to collaborate together, which is my other point. i would really love to see more collaborations with different advisory community members, doing things together. we really are a community. we need to work together to rise up all of our families, to uplift our families. i want to add that as a new mom,

sitting in my first i.e.p. meeting, speaking english, i didn't understand most of what was going on. the educational jargon, how people smoker how they related to, trying to understand what was right and what wasn't. this learning curve took me two years to feel comfortable sitting in one of those meetings. much less to understand how to safely advocate for time. please do this. i support this 1000%. please make those meetings longer. it's better for everybody. every parent needs to feel comfortable in that space. in a rushed meeting is not meaningful. i'm with you. congratulations everybody. you guys are fantastic families. everybody here doing a wonderful work. >> clerk: thank you

>> caller: thank you. hi everyone. i am also a member of the community advisory committee for special education. i'm in complete agreement with all the recommends put forth by the district english learner advisory committee. i wanted to remind everyone here the board and district staff, the parents of our students -- parentings of duly identified english learner students with i.e.p.s are really asking for more support. timely translation of assessments is critical for parents to understand how their children are fairing in advance of attending their i.e.p. meetings. additionally, the english language proficiency assessments for call, the lpac test is a huge barrier for many students and not enough.

reclassification is critical by middle school. there's a form that can be completed to reclassify students with disability prevents them from scoring high enough on the lpac. i wanted to extend my gratitude to the delac. i look forward to working in partnership with them and we're so happy to have their collaboration at the c.a.c. thank you >> clerk: chris? >> caller: i would love to speak. i want top speak to the importance of this report. it is amazing that you're all working together to support student who are identified. from my experience, i have found that student who are duly identified, get sort of lumped

into special education services when they would really benefit more from the english learner services that are being offered. i have personally pushed for couple of my students who i felt it would be a good fit for to take english learners classes to develop their language proficiency. i have seen them flourish. that was the perfect fit there them. i really love to have more support from the district for myself and other educators for these students to have that opportunity. to be with their peers that are developing who are in a similar situation, to learn from them

and with them and it's been a beautiful experience. i cannot speak highly enough in support. thank you. >> clerk: danielle? ms. pitcher? are you there? >> caller: i heard from folks previously talk at meetings about k.l.w., which is the station that the district has license to. just generally listening to some of these comments and issues

that i heard overtime. i'm wondering if the district considered trying to use k.l.w. more to support and give voice to delac population into issues of concern to them? that's might be another avenue for families to have both communication and to be able to get their concerns and voices heard. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. that concludes public comment on this item. >> president lopez: [indiscernib le] >> clerk: sorry. >> president lopez: gage to open it up to commissioners.

>> vice president collins: thank you very much. i really appreciated this report. i feel like as other commenters mentioned, it really touches on a lot of really important issues and questions that are not just relevant to the english -- families and students who speak language other than english but also as a district as a whole in terms of how we provide services. i think what's really touched on is that parents and families, we need to support them in supporting their kids. we don't have access for families to connect and partner with educators, students don't get served. i really, really appreciate highlighting also this intersection between students with disabilities and students who speak languages other than

english and learning english. lot of times when we see reports, we see students with i.e.p.s as one bucket. we see english learner students. those are not always discreet groups. there's sometimes a crossover. i think numbers were mentioned. i like to hear the numbers again. i like to actually have them somewhere to know exactly how many students are we talking about? we can focus our resources. i think those are the students we should be prioritizing the most when we're talking about resources. thank you to all the parents. i didn't say that from the beginning. thank you to danielle utley. you consistently serve to the highest level. i don't know if you can let me know -- if you can read out those numbers again. what are the numbers that we're talking about when we're talking about those kids that are -- students with disabilities who are english language learner students.

>> sure, thank you commissioner collins. within the system, there's some discrepancies. we have showing currently 2324 students. within the elementary level. 1268 middle school, 398 in high school, there's 438. if you add those together, they don't actually add up. that's sometimes because systems don't talk to each other. that's why i said approximating 3324. >> vice president collins: that' s a number we should be focused on period. out of all our students, those are the students with the highest needs. those are the students it hardest for the site staff to serve. it's not just about parents it's

also about staff. as a monolingual english speaker i want to serve all my students. i'm limited by the language that i speak. what i found s that schools that have educators that are bilingual our trilingual, they always work more. it stretches schools that have higher number of students that are english learners. you have some schools that serve more english learners and staff is working overtime because they are filling gaps in translation and interpretation. we need to resource that. we need to stop as a district to allowing teachers to fill in the gaps. even kids to fill in the gaps. children should not be interpreting for their parents. that is not their job.

i want to urge the superintendent. it sounds like we have this language line, what do we need to make sure that we have enough of that? it's not just for translation of i.e.p. meetings which are crucial and important, translation of documents and interpretation at meetings. also any time a teacher and a parent need or staff member need to talk, i'm a parent, i call the school when i need help with my child. i need help from educators. that's why i'm so grateful to sfusd. we need to co-parent our kids with a partnership. sometimes that's not scheduled. i need to check in and see if this is right. i need help. i want to strongly urge the district, staff to prioritize expanding the language lines so

that no teacher ever has to worry about being able to reach out and no parent has to worry about reaching out in service of their child. that's number one. number two, it is upsetting to hear -- i really appreciate alita fisher, i appreciate you chiming in constantly raise my awareness. the fact that basically as a system, just systemically. we only allow parents that are seeking english as a second language to have half the amount of time in a meeting is just inherently like unethical. it's in-- inequitable and in

violation of the california child code. it's discrimination. the fact that parent have to wait a month to get things translated after i'm assuming it takes time to prepare those documents. that's a huge concern for me. i know chief robertson is an amazing administrator. she's like, i'm so thankful she's overseeing our special education services. what we're talking about is a site-based issue. sites are dealing with these things on the ground. my question to the superintendent, this is not a question i think you'll answer now, how do we better resource sites? teachers, we don't have more teachers. if you're talking about basically sound like i.e.p. meeting take twice as long if a student speaks another language. as a teacher, i'm in a meeting

it twice as long. if i'm at a school where there's more students who speak language other than english, i have i.e.p. meetings, the expectation of them is working more. i'm wondering how does that fit? especially for case workers. how are schools resourced to accommodate that extra need? i would like for staff to come back and maybe think figure out a way. there might be a formula that says at schools that have higher number of students with disabilities and hootier numberr number of students english language learners, maybe they get more staffing. so they can accommodate more meetings that we know they will be have. i like to know how the district will plan for that. for summer programs, i would like a follow-up on that. how we're helping -- first off,

for staff, are we prioritizing enrollment for english learner families for the summer program, this summer? maybe we are. i want to confirm. >> it's my understanding, we are. >> vice president collins: i want to know for sure how we're making sure we're making that process easy for families? sometimes we set aside the space and there's this bureaucratic, that parents don't know how to sign up. i would love to hear from families. i invite you guys to bug me and tell me how it's going so i can make sure that it's seemless. additionally, how do we check? i want to know how we're checking on this. i really appreciate how you put together the recommendations. it's something i consistently ask for. how we're checking what we ask for in the past is happening the

following year. i would like, dr. matthewings, , please share with us, based on the the request from the delac. i like to see a timeline of when you expect to maybe at least concerns, if we can or can't. i would like to ask, before this fall, i would like to know when you all can come back and we can see how far maybe some of these have moved forward.

final one is counseling. that's a hard one. you have cultural competency. i love social workers and i love nurses. lot of them are white women. they are not mandarin speakers, they don't come from the culture that lot of the communities we serve. that's a challenge. because of that, we're going to have to rely more on community schools. i will keep saying it. we need partnerships. that was mentioned. when we partner with organizations that provide mental health services, support services, those kind of services, they are based in those communities in chinatown. they have the cultural competency and they have the language. they actually expand our capacity. i don't think we're going to be able to ramp up the kind of

counseling and support that families need with the cultural capacity and the language. we have a lack of resources. i don't think we're going to be able to scale that up. i do think if we relied on partnering and really focus on community schools, schools that are better able to do that. i would like a follow-up how we might do that. how we might look at using a community school model to meet this need that you identified. i'm going to put it out there to the public and i will work with president lopez, i will be bugging the superintendent. when are we going to have you guys come back so we can track this. i want you to know, i would love you for me to invite me any time to come out to a meeting or individual parent wants to share their concerns. it help mess -- it helps me

understand what's going on. i appreciate if folks can help me with translation. i'm hope to -- i'm open to speaking to any parent to understand what are the actual barriers. thank you again for your service. >> commissioner collins may i offer feedback to some of your questions? >> vice president collins: i love that. >> i want to thank danielle out le -- utley and the delac team for their presentation. you're right. she's been an asset and ally for us. danielle, thank you for meeting you. i want to speak to summer for a

second. we are working diligently in prioritizing our english language learner students for the summer program. miguel -- he works closely with procuring the terrible -- materials for students. we procure to materials poke to what families are asking for. we have also expanded newcomer for high school students. we know that's been a population that has struggled during the distance learning and during the pandemic time. we've been expanding for newcomers students as well as our sales program. we are expecting it to go very well. we secured additional staff and additional resources. we have really elevated this population as one that we want

to focus on and make sure that we are targeting in terms of access to continuous learning. also, i want to uplift that myself as well as our deputy superintendent, we have gone to several delac meeting. we continue to give feedback and gather input from them. we have that cycle of improvement going on. we hear from them. we take things back to our team that we're working on. in terms of curriculum and in terms of resources. just so you know, for future planning in terms of fed, we are continuing to connect the dots between fed and c.n.i. and to make sure that there's intersection there in terms of equity. i want you to know that

there'sing on going -- there'sing on going work there. we'll be glad dome back and report on the progress that we're making. >> the times that we have gone to delac to try to give an update status report on the recommendations that they've made and where we are in implementing our operations, we'll continue to do so. >> president lopez: thank you for the questions and the responses and of course, we invite presenters if you like to share other thoughts or ideas, we're here to listen. i wanted to offer the next speaker to be student delegate

kathya almanza. >> the recommendation that you laid out tonight are really important. i'm really glad that this topic and this spotlight and attention that it deserves and needs. i love to join delac meeting if i get the chance, if i get an invitation. i think these conversations are so important. i would love to be part of them. at least just hear. i'm thankful for the interpreters that made this presentation accessible for all of us. seeing your past recommendations and hearing they are getting implemented, it gives me hope for my fellow students and

families that are just like mine. [please stand by]

we want to know what you have to say, because ultimately, we're here for you. what you see on the ground in schools and help us understand as not only your parents and the leaders that serve you, i know that some of you have reached out to join us and i will send out the invitation and put out a calendar and you're welcome to join any time >> yeah. i just also wanted to thank you for your work and say these recommendations are a great example of understanding that

we can't go back to normal and that as we come out of this pandemic, we really need to start to think about how do we move forward. these are visionary, but they're also realistic it's kind of taking the next step forward in the work and it's just a really powerful work. it reflects exactly what i'm hearing from spanish speaking parents that i speak with. and i'd like to also remind the public, we have about 20% of english language learns which means their parents probably speak a language other than english at home. so we're talking about more than half of our families at

home. so this really needs to be the center of what we do as a district. you asked for a formal i support our recommendation 100%. i guess, what i would love to ask staff is could we get a dollar figure, like a cost out for each of these recommendations and analysis of the feasibility. for example, the language, it sounds like it's relatively inexpensive, but i'd like to see a number on that because we're going to have to make some tough budget choices in the next six months. making cuts moving forward. as we make those cuts, we also need to target our investments and it seems like it's the kind of thing we might want to

invest and increase there may be other funds we can access. but i would love to know if we could as a first step, can we get kind of a cost analysis so as board members over the next six months, we can say is this something we want to prioritize or

follow up with ms. utley and probably a couple of other colleagues, n.c.n.i. and sfusd and special education as well.

so this is coming at a good time. i don't want to say too much about what those cost estimates will look like. i think it would be helpful if we could take a little time to really hunker down and flush out some of those details and report back either to the full board or to the budget services committee. and i would just say if any colleagues want to add on any comments or, you know, express a different point of view, i would welcome that as well. >> thank you, i do see chair avilis and commissioner moliga. >> i just want to start with appreciating your well thoughts and your comments. i was giving up on you guys as a parent and it's just been

eating me up and saying i can't stop. i can't give up now. my kids and our kids in the district have a long way to go. i have a kindergartener and 3rd grader and by me giving up is giving up on my kids and kids in our district and so i just want to appreciate every single one of you. student delegate, i really appreciate you because i want to bring -- i would like you to be a role model for our parents that our kids can be leaders too. i'm sorry. i'm so emotional, but it's important that they see that their kids can be one of those chairs and representing them and their family, but also other students, so i want to appreciate every one of you guys having our backs and continuing to support our students. they need it. we need it as a parent ourselves too. and, like i said, we're going to continue our fight. we're in it together and i'm

not giving up. thank you for refilling my gas, my car's ready to go for another more years that i have in the district. thank you. >> president lopez: thank you. go ahead commissioner moliga. >> commissioner moliga: [ speaking foreign language ]. that means thank you so much for your committed effort in helping us and the school district carry out this work. and so much appreciation. my ear did hurt when i heard the comment around the clinicians and there was 11 clinicians in the pipeline ready to get licensed and i'm just curious to hear more about that and are we talking about

sfusd clinicians and in terms of the supervision are we talking about contracted supervision? because one of the things i think we should look in to in the school district is online and folks who are probably already on it is one we have to build up a workforce in terms of social services and we did pass that resolution with a pathway to build a pathway for nurses, social workers and health workers because, you know, at the end of the day, there's -- the need for the workforce to provide the mental health services is a real thing, you know, and so i say that once to elevate that work. and two, with the supervision piece, are we providing the supervision for these clinicians? and are they social workers? and, if there's an opportunity for us to ramp up on getting folks licensed and supported.

>> so my understanding is that we currently have 15. there's san francisco unified school district counselors. some of which are my colleagues that i worked with when i was at james lick and they are currently working so that they continue to work and serve our students within san francisco unified school district and the way they're receiving their license is so that it is through someone that was formally a counselor with sfusd. so they are still working with us as counselors, head counselors, deans, so one social worker that i'm aware of and the idea is they're just trying to think about ways to expand their role once they receive their license to continue serving our students not only within our schools,

but how can they support the families outside of the schools. the person, i mean, i have some information i can follow up. i don't know if there's more information on it. but i specifically know about this co-hoard of 15 counselors in the pipeline that are specifically working to support our families and our students that are learning english as a second language. that's their main focus and that's their driving force and so i can do some more research and work with my supervisors, colleagues, and figure a little bit more out for you. >> commissioner moliga: that was for helpful. appreciate it. we can talk offline also. >> president lopez: thank you everyone. i don't know if there are any comments or questions.

i too just truly appreciate all of your work. i've always been in admiration of everything you do. it ties closely to my frames as a student and what my parents went through as well. so i'm fully committed along with commissioner alexander along with many of us on the board to respond and be held accountable to the recommendations that you're making and we will continue to be in touch as we strive to lead. >> i just had a quick question and this can be answered offline. this was not brought up in the presentation, but i did hear that there were families that lost their grab-and-go service at some of the sites and i know for monolingual families some of them are impacted by, they need food service and things have been shifting around and

so i just wanted to track. i know chinatown is a specific area, but if there are these concerns in other areas, i just wanted to put it out there. i'm concerned about families making sure that the ones who stay home and aren't sending their kids are still able to access our meal service and i know we're trying to meet that need, but right now it has been reduced dramatically. so i just want to put that out there and ask ms. utley or parent leaders if you can reach out and contact me, i want to elevate that as a concern and partner with our district leaders and also maybe city leaders to make sure we don't interrupt service for families who remain home. >> president lopez: thank you for elevating that and for bringing it up. danielle. >> i want to check in with carmen. i want to make sure that if she

has anything to share that and also with the others before we proceed. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> translator: and, as you might know, senora rodriguez -- senora carmen.

senora rodriguez. [ speaking foreign language ] >> as you all may know, i have to struggle with my child's ip and it's been hard and it's been a real struggle for me and i know that has been for a lot of parents. one of the things that i really want to say that i do trust the public education and i'm a true believer in public education and i want that for my children to have -- senora rodriguez. [ speaking foreign language ].

>> i'm a true believer in public education. and, i know that all children, they have the right to attend school and to be taken care of. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> translator: and, i know and i understand that sometimes kids, children with ips, they have the tendency to put them on the side and they're not really taking care of them. but i do believe that quality education is meant for everyone. >> [ speaking foreign language ].

>> translator: and, we want our children to be respected and treated with dignity as they deserve it. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> translator: and, so they can receive the services and the education that they deserve as i know it. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> translator: so my child can receive what he needs and to have a better education. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> translator: and, i know that it's been hard for me and i know for other children, but i'm not giving up and i'm going to keep fighting for my son and

also for other children to receive the services that they need. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> translator: and, i know it's been hard, but i just wanted to say that i want to become the voice and i know that a lot of parents, they give up, but i'm not giving up and i'm going to be the voice of so many parents out there and also the voice of all the children out there. and thank you. >> president lopez: [ speaking

foreign language ] ms. utley, did you want to see if there are other? >> yes. may i please. would you want to sent a text to our other parents would like to share before we proceed? okay. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> i believe probably not. >> can i ask the last question? i just didn't get an answer for

my final question. it was like, yes, we want to respond, but i want to know should who should we expect a response and by when? thank you. >> this is superintendent matthews, you should expect it from me and commissioner collins asked for a report later in the summer, so you should expect it in that time. she asked for a time line and a report later in the summer so that's when you should expect that. >> thank you very much, superintendent matthews. propose and thank you for clarifying and for continuing to help us be accountable to you. we really appreciate it. thank you everyone for this report and for all of your work. we're going to close this item. and we are now section d, item 3 on our agenda.

but i'm actually going to ask us to pause for 5 minutes. we're mering on hour 4. we know these meetings are long. it's a short, short break, but i want to encourage all of us to stand up for a minute, breathe, go to the bathroom and we will be right back in 5 minutes. so i'll see everyone at . >> president lopez: i do see us back. so we can begin. may i hear a motion and a second to appoint richard rothman, jack jillcrest -- to the independent oversight committee for proposition a of the education code.

>> commissioner: so moved. >> president lopez: thank you. i need a second i'm going to call on superintendent matthews to read the designation into the record. >> thank you, president lopez. reading the recommendation into the record for this item is don camalanoton. >> good evening, commissioners, the item before you tonight is

to approve the appointments. >> i'm sorry, ma'am, i have to finger spell all of these names. >> i'll go a lot slower. >> appreciate it. >> to approve the appointment of leslie height. cassandra costello. richard rothman. jay gillcrest. jamie carubin. and kimia hadada. great. to the independent citizen's bond oversight committee required by section 1582a. commissioners, sorry, also just

to correct my own correct pronunciation. so, commissioners, the item before you in addition to the appointment that was made the our last board of education meeting if tonight's recommendations are approved, we will have seven members as required by statue for our general bond oversight committee and we will at that point be compliant with statue and also can start meetings as soon as possible to review the existing audits that have been posted online that need to be reviewed by that committee and forwarded to the board of education with recommendation. we do have five more seats according to sfusd by laws established 11 person body and so even with the appointment of these seven members, there are five more seats that i will continue to do recruitment and

interview folks. we've been getting the word out to online forums and also professional networks. also welcome feedback from the board of education on experiences, skill sets, or specific geographic apps that they would like to seek their eligibility for the membership as well as whether or not in order to maintain a sense of balance across cboc about where and how to do outreach. the statute requires a minimum of seven seats. but, again, you can have more

than that as sfusd does and establishes no matter how many seats you have whether it's seven or 20 that you always have at least 5 seats that you continue to recruit for and make good faith efforts to fill. those five seats include a member of a taxpayer organization, a member of a business organization, someone who can represent the seniors' community as well as a parent who's active on p.t.a. and also just another seat for the parent of an sfusd student. the nominations that i put forward tonight actually check off four of those boxes that we have members, potential members who represent the business community who are seniors and also who are active parents in the school district. i want to emphasize that this body is advisory and that their main role is to meet with myself and other members of the

capital projects team within the facilities to review proposed expenditures and actual expenditures of our general obligation bond program provide feedback on to which those expenditures conform with voter expectations and as well as legal mandates and at least once a year to receive and review and then make recommendations to this board of education on an annual audit and quite similar actually to the parcel tax advisory committee report that you heard earlier this evening. all of these members, i've had a chance to speak with and talk with and i've worked with a number of them over my 20 year career with the city and i can broadly characterize that each of these perspective general obligation bond oversight committee members have gone on

the record either professionally or personally or both as being deeply in support and in favor of and advocating for increased investment and infrastructure and amenities that support kids and families in san francisco and particularly with an emphasis that given the changes that our city has experienced and are likely to continue experiencing

those by laws say that only two members of the cboc. so let's just say that this resolution is kind of a no-go. second of all, this is kind of like the friends of the fox guarding the hen house because of all of these six people are friends or as the chief [inaudible] says, prior colleagues. so in terms of being independent which is a word that was being used, it's kind of hard to reassure the public and the taxpayers that this is

going to happen to the extent of other prior oversight boards. is there an architect? i don't see an architect? is there anything for wood construction experience? i don't see anything for that. please, commissioners, do your job set up by the state or the city to choose oversight people that have the skills and have the background and have the independence. because here's what i found when i'm just looking around, i found that the spend over the last few years involves $800,000 for some nutrition program, i don't know, interior decoration or wall decoration. that doesn't sound like capital projects. how about mission bay school. now it's $90,000 because why not. it should be $60 million and part of that is to the fact there's some professional development site.

that doesn't sound like a new school. learning out for high school. >> thank you. hello, greg. >> thank you. i was pleased to see a couple weeks ago that the board came clean that there wasn't a cboc and there wasn't in 2018. we were told not to worry over a couple of meetings. that's not true either. a basic review of the management website indicates that's not true. so what we've got is a board that's been spending money prop a money without the cboc and without the requisite audits. but, let's talk about the cbocs. not only does it violate the by laws. somebody should probably take a read on that because, for example, 1220 makes it clear

it's not our cfo's job to be appointing people and recommending people. it's limited to eleven members with one member appointed by each member of the board including the student delegates and two members appointed by the superintendent. that's not what's happening. morris was right that the by laws require two at large members. this one's got three. and the way it was being posted, it was on our cfo's linked in page, facebook page, that's not the way 1220 requires it. supposed to be on publicly advertised in the website at the sfus d. and, finally, where are all the people you're supposed to have. 1220 again requires to have the ethnic agency group, where's the bayview residents who's community school has gotten completely forgotten in this

bond. where's the lgbtq. where's the taxpayer organization. not on the slate? this is not just a rubber stamp committee so that we can continue going as we have been going. if you approve this slate, you're basically inviting a lawsuit. thank you. >> thank you. hello, gregory. >> hi. thank you. given the number of corruption scandals rocking the city, i think sfusd should have an independent board. that's all, thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, brandy. >> hi. thank you. i would actually urge