>> again, thank you all for coming. this is a celebration. >> excuse me -- >> (indiscernible). >> so, again, we are here to celebrate juneteenth, but for those of you who know me, we do want to celebrate juneteenth, but also part of juneteenth and the last place in galveston, texas, who were freed, it is

also black people and our allies -- hi, andrew, i love you. is that we also have to talk about our issues. we can't continue to hold up red cups with alcohol and party and nobody is a party animal worse than me, but when you look at black san franciscans, let's talk about black san franciscans and where we stand here in san francisco. we are experiencing trauma, pain, suffering, and all parts of our lives, all parts of our lives. education, mass incarceration, homelessness, housing, just -- mental health. and we have -- mayor -- a mayor

who holds no guard to say that she fights for us, for all san franciscans, but because she is what -- she said i'm black first and i'm a woman, and then our issues are important to her. and so we are here, not only to support mayor breed, but also to spend her a message that we need to talk with her -- black folk. we want to have a roundtable discussion with our mayor. because, one, the city departments, they're not doing justice by black people. we need to raise our justice. we need to raise up equity. and we need to raise up equality for black san franciscans. and you guys look fabulous. i'm glad you're here, because it is important. the more numbers is the more

power that we have. and so without further adieu, without further adieu, she always coming in looking good, right -- always beautiful -- and i have her back no matter what, i don't care who has it, i don't care who doesn't have it -- i have my mayor's back. so here you are, a genuine black queen, mayor london nicole breed. [cheers and applause]. >> thank you, phylicia. first of all, let me thank wealth and disparities and felicia jones for their unwavering commitment to address some of the challenges that continue to plague african-americans in san francisco. yes, we have the first african-american woman to serve

as mayor. but we know the challenges that have persisted in this city far too long, not just with african-americans in general. i am acutely aware of the challenges that exist with african-american employees. and i am committed to continuing to work with you all to address many of those issues. don't you remember juneteenth back in the day? raise your hand if you remember [applause] the pony rides. the carnival. the black cowboys. we put on our best clothes and we go show off and we go have fun. and there was barbecue. but, you know what? there was a history. there was a history in san francisco as to when juneteenth started. here in san francisco, it was around 1965 when walter johnson jr., who -- what that was club called, diane, linda?

-- you know, the club that i'm talking about? the one they started at. anyway, i'll remember it in a minute. no, it was way before the plaza so he started juneteenth and started one of the first parades and they were walking up and down the streets and it was black people at their very best and it was absolutely beautiful if you look at many of the photos, you see the happiness and the excitement, and it felt good. it felt good, despite the challenges that our community continues to face. it felt good to be black in san francisco. but, you know what, it should feel good every single day. it should feel good every single day that we walk down the street. and last year we saw a real reckoning in this country like never before. an uprising, where people said, not no more. people talk about the death of

george floyd as a catalyst for the rest of the country. but, sadly, in the african-american community, this is too familiar with us. on a regular basis we experience the discrimination and the death and the destruction that has plagued our community for far too long. but there is hope. we have an incredible opportunity. we have an incredible opportunity to rise up, despite those challenges. when you think about it, look at where we are today. we have a less than 6% population of african-americans in san francisco and you all still help to elect the first african-american woman mayor in this city. [applause] and the president of the board of supervisors is a black man. and the leadership of this city in so many ways presents us with

an opportunity. an opportunity to see growth and to develop and to see prosperity in our community. but you know what, i can't do it alone. it takes work and it takes us coming together and it takes us putting aside our differences in order to support the collective and as a result of so many of you who have been at the forefront of these challenges, today president biden is signing to make juneteenth an federal holiday in this country. [applause] now for black folks it's been a holiday, but we'll share the holiday with everybody else. no problem. and as mayor -- as mayor i plan today to sign a declaration giving all city employees

juneteenth off as a holiday. [cheers and applause]. now if you are already going to work, go ahead and go to work, because you've got the whole weekend. but you get a holiday in lieu, don't worry, you can take it off later. the fact is that we honor our heritage, we honor our history, we honor our culture when we remember the past, and we use the past to not repeat the same mistakes, we use it to grow and to become better. san franciscans, this weekend as we celebrate juneteenth with so many amazing events. at the african-american art culture complex, as we celebrate at gilman park in the bayview and as we celebrate at the ferry building, so many amazing juneteenth events this weekend, let's remember, let's have a good time, and let's re-dedicate

ourselves to the cause that we all know that continues despite the gains that we have made. thank you so much for being here today. have a wonderful juneteenth. [applause] >> excuse me, everyone, if you're not speaking can i ask that you step off the steps and go into the audience, please down below? if you're not speaking at this time, please go down the steps, please. thank you. okay -- okay -- all right, all

right, cheryl davis -- is cheryl davis -- i saw her earlier. where is cheryl davis? come on up. director, dr. davis, she's going to say a few words. director, dr. davis, come on up come on up. another strong doing marvelous things in the city and county of san francisco. and i just want her to say a few words to the people. and just come in your own way. just come in your own way. she's going to kill me later, but that's okay. >> i am like the mayor, i can't be up here, i'm distracted when

other people are talking when i'm talking. [laughter] just happy juneteenth, as someone who was actually born in texas and it is really a national holiday down there from our folks, and i'm grateful for the mayor's declaration and i'm grateful to the president, but ultimately this is not the end of it all, right? because i think that if we're going to be really honest, juneteenth was a signing of a piece of paper that was already two years in action. so we're not really as free as we think we are. so let juneteenth be a day to remember that we are still in the fight and the struggle, and similar to the folks in texas, some of us have not yet opened our eyes to the reality of freedom. so i just want to say to let's celebrate juneteenth, but let's not relax and sit down and let's not forget is that we need to keep moving.

-- >> sing a song! (indiscernible). >> no, i'm not doing no song up here. >> (indiscernible). >> i'm going to give you -- let me see if have a poem. no, i can't do that. so this is my -- one of my favorite poems, poets is mya angelou and there's a line in there -- there's a couple lines that i love and one she says, pretty women wonder where my secret lies and i'm not cute and built to the fashion model size but when i try to tell them they think that i'm telling lies. so our beauty and being special is not wrapped how we look, it's where we come from and that's who we are. she says, when you see me walking by it ought to make you proud, i'm a woman, phenomenal

woman, phenomenally, that's me. [cheers and applause]. for those of you who don't know that mayor breed and president walton through police reform have given the black community $120 million. [cheers and applause]. $120 million. $60 million for this year, $60 million for next year, and also in her budget she also put $60 million to the black community at the baseline. and we want to make sure as black people that we are going to honor her wishes, that we're going to push back on the board of supervisors, and we're going to push back on the board of

supervisors -- what? being black in san francisco. and so our group is called "mega-black, budget watchdog group." so may i have them come and stand beside me on both sides. mega-black budget watchdog group. we're fighting. we're fighting. no doubt, we're fighting. we're fighting. we're fighting. and we're not afraid to go up in the board of supervisor's chambers and let them know, black folks, three reports, 55 years, and black folks are worse off now than we were 55 years ago, and we want our due. we want our due! come on, y'all tell me, power to the people. we want our due! we want our due! we have it coming. and then the other thing that i

want to say, mayor breed -- oh, yes, she's still here is this -- y'all ain't -- don't be putting your hands on that $60 million, all of you 54 departments. you 54 departments, take some of that money from your budget and give it to the black community, because you have neglected us for 55 years. so you're not going to use us with the moneys that mayor breed and president walton have given us to say, oh, that's enough, go over there and get it from director davis. she has all of the money. no. so we're pushing back. and so i want to introduce our watchdog group, tanya williams. nate ford. john henry. tina heinz. and there's monique francine. and so tanya is going to come up

and speak to you about what our demands are for mega-black budget watchdog group. thank you. >> there's not enough noise in this audience. i need to hear y'all. i got some questions for y'all. you ready? so on the first of january in 1863, that was 158 years ago, the 16th president of the united states named abraham lincoln signed into effect an emancipation proclamation which changed the legal status under the federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved african-americans, and let's be serious, we were called negroes then, from enslaved to free. so i've got one question for y'all -- anybody who is black in san francisco, answer my question. are we free? >> no. >> okay, there you go. so now you know why we had to

establish what we've established. the mega-black budget watchdog group demands that the city and the county close the gaps of black san franciscans. and three reports and 55 years of studying black san franciscans found we are worse off today than we were back then. so here go our demands. number one -- we demand that $60 million to be a baseline for the human rights commission to continue the dreamkeepers initiative for black san franciscans. number two, we demand $40 million to address black disparities in closing educational gaps, mass incarceration gaps, gaps in job training programs, and to reestablish the black workforce and to pay the fines and the fees that are associated with those disparities. number three, we demand

culpability, meaning that we want them to be held accountable, all right, for all 54 city and county departments to be held accountable again, so that everybody can hear me, for the disparities that i have deliberately caused to black san franciscans due to a lack of dollars, care, which they have, right, we think -- well, we know they've got the dollars and we don't know about the care, we're still working on that, okay, to this day has failed to address in our community. number four. we demand that the controller's office conduct a 15-year audit of previous moneys given to the black community and compare these dollars to all other ethnicities who received funding in the same 15-year period. and, lastly, right, is that we do not accomplish financial equity, we will never be free. so let me be clear with y'all, you're not asking anymore --

we're not demanding -- we are demanding -- we're not begging. it's not about begging. i told you that it started 158 years ago, so it's time for us to get what we came here for, right, we, the mega-black budget watch -- sorry -- we, the mega-black budget watchdog group unapologetically are demanding that the city and county of san francisco finally address the disparities of black san franciscans. thank you. [applause] >> all right, power to the people. >> power to the people. >> oh, y'all sound so weak. come on, say it like you mean it. power to the people! >> power to the people! >> i love it. power to the people! >> power to the people! >> yes, yes, that's what we came out here, to regain our power.

>> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community.

>> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the

grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility

to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco

public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in

mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people. time to eat, people. [roll call]

>> president lopez: thank you. section a is general information. section b, opening item. item 1, approval of board minutes of the regular meeting of may 25th, 2021, can i get a motion and a second? >> commissioner: so moved. >> commissioner: second. >> president lopez: are there any corrections? seeing none. roll call vote. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] thank you. that's seven ayes. >> president lopez: moving on

to item 2. superintendent's report. >> thank you, president lopez. good afternoon all board members and vice president moliga. congratulations to the class of 2021. last week, many san francisco unified school districts were able to have in-person graduations. there were 20 high school graduations and dozens of promotion ceremonies throughout the district in person and i would like to congratulate each and every one of you on persevering and achieving your goals through a very challenging time. your determination has truly been inspiring. san francisco loves learning final episode aired last week. san francisco loves learning in partnership with ktvu.

this show was not only in san francisco, but all over the bay area. i want to thank everyone who's contributed to this labor of love over the last year sxa. families, and most especially our students. i appreciate all that you did for our youngest learners and other children across the bay area. you can continue to find links to pass episodes on our district website. i'm wearing my shirt right now. pfizer vaccines will be available for san francisco unified school district family members 12 years and older at burton high school every wednesday and thursday from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. once again that's 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. starting wednesday,

june 9th. starting this thursday tomorrow, and it will end july 15th. johnson and johnson vaccines are available to anyone 18 and older. drop-in and appointments are accepted. so you can just drop right in people under 18, you will need permission from a parent or guardian. so? order to guarantee your vaccination, please have parent permission. every wednesday or thursday beginning tomorrow. our city is on track to be the first california metro city to reach full herd immunity. several top doctors have predicted san francisco is about three weeks away. compared to the rest of the state, san francisco is still ahead of l.a., san diego, and marin. we're on target to reach herd

immunity levels and that has been consistently predicted to happen by mid july. so please, all, let's take care of each other by getting vaccinated. finally, we will celebrate another recipient of this year's superintendent 21st century award. havon zari graduated from balboa high school. he won the superintendent's award for ready to create. let's learn more about him in this video. >> i attend balboa high school and i'm ready to paint. when i went to mr. larson's

class, i saw information. i'm in a wheelchair. i drive my joy stick. so that i can connect the same joy stick to a computer and then i can control it with the joy stick. >> reporter: when he was 9 years old, doctors had to remove a tumor in his spine. >> hello, my name is matt coolis. i'm a special education teacher and case manager at balboa high school. i saw how independent he was and i, you know, kind of took an immediate liking to him. >> reporter: here's kahvan citing from a book of poems he

read when he was 14 years old. >> reason will be enough to that your independence times will be very rough, but when you don't stop fighting, keep on moving forward. >> reporter: while at balboa high school, he's maintained a 4.0 average and now headed to sf to major in psychology. >> you're not the same as some other kids. we're pretty much the same. to be independent. to express myself. >> thank you, kavahn we're so

proud of you. president lopez, that ends my thoughts for this evening. >> president lopez: thank you, superintendent matthews. and, i did want to make one quick change to our items in section b. student delegates' report will go after at the end. we'll continue with item 4, recognition and resolutions of commendation. we have one award scholarship announcement for today. i'd like to call on gerald baldomero through sfusc. >> thank you, president lopez. gerald, our colleague is in another meeting at the moment. so i will go ahead and read the names. thank you, president lopez, and the board of education to recognize our filipino american scholars. the filipino american employers

and education and sfusd was re-established years ago and we reagan or restarted our graduation and scholarship program among other initiatives that we are engaged in today. our 18 recipients of the awards this year as follows is charice dedios. narime morales. chelsa garimba. julia ancetti. mckayla ice nonariana carisal. mckayla benowa.

raven baltista. and david worth. thank you. >> president lopez: thank you so much for reading that and congratulations to all our scholars. item 5, recognizing all valuable employees our "rave" award. there are none today. and then going back to item 3 would be our student delegates report. as you may all know, this is actually their last meeting with us today. we have been -- we had the ability to invite them into the board room so you can at least experience one time being in a board meeting sitting at the and thank you for being here and the floor is yours. >> okay. thank you so much, president

lopez. for our student delegate report, we're actually just going to read off a little statement. sorry about that. i want to make sure we don't so i'm just going to read off a statement that i have provided. it has been a privilege and my greatest honor representing the san francisco youth and public schools this last year. not only did it contribute to my growth and experience and knowledge as a young woman, but it gave me the opportunity to meet so many amazing people. hearing the personal stories of my classmates and peers taught me a lot about how we are helping and hurting our future. although i can't say the work is close to done, i see that this board and district and city is dedicated to improving schools. i know i've served my purpose

in representing sf youth. i know that when you see me, you see the other 56,000 students. i just want to put emphasis on how many other students are in our schools. it's so easy to just think it's me and tevon or it's just you and your daughter or son, but at the end of the day, we are a community of so many youth and the fact that we are the future should give you so much hope. i know that so many of my peers give me hope and the fact that they deserve a good education is what keeps me here today. i know you all know how many obstacles we've faced being in this position from people who don't agree with what we want. at the end of the day, it's not about one single student, it's about all 56,000. i hope that as you've witnessed

our leadership, it's a reminder of why we do what we do. educate. educating our future. i also want to just take the time to thank my community. you all for supporting me, hearing me and also inspiring me. lastly, i just want to say i didn't want to talk your ears off so i just want to plug in an article that i wrote. it's called "the risk of education without purpose." and there you will hear so much of my thoughts and learning this year and i really appreciate having a chance to speak today. >> hi, everyone. i'm the more controversial one so i'm definitely um, i think more towards the end, i've been inclined to tell my story more so people can really see why

i've been going so hard to make changes this year because i know a lot of people see is what they get on the board meeting. so i've prepared a little bit including my story and also just some other thoughts as well. so, yeah. race, society, and politics. as a black student activist, i am the main target of anti-blackness that accumulates when these issues collide. despite living in san francisco, i have been impacted by the racial bias. i lost my father due to gun violence which is not easy to deal with. losing parents and parents walking on children is a common story in black households. in schools, i've seen peers that look like me. instead of teachers addressing the reality we face as black students, they chose to isolate us in the classroom. i didn't want that for myself, but some fire was ignore fighted to honor my father's memory by beginning my future, my education. growing up in san francisco in

america is a privilege. i learned that some san franciscans are not so accepting. throughout my academic career, most of my students or faculty were either asian or white. most of the time, i was the only black kid in my class. i did not know my skin was a factor until first highlighted by my 1st grade teacher. during spirit week, there were many fun days, one of them being crazy hair day when kids came in with you guessed it crazy hair-dos. even my teacher walked in with a wig on. when i wanted to try it on, she told me, your hair is too greasy. i had never scrutinized the nature of my hair although i knew it was different from that of my classmates. so i grabbed a water bottle and tried hard to get the grease out of my hair. i had no idea such incident would form my academic career.

in middle school, my peers called me racial slurs. but i guess it's prepared me for the biggest beast of all lowell high school. as a freshman i was in and out of the dean's office relaying how kids repeatedly asked if i wanted to eat all the chocolate because i'm black. i also had teachers who took all the black kids' work and continued denying us to turn it in. and how the administration would choose to address it. instead of waiting for someone to address t-i started advocating against racism myself. i started to build my leadership credentials by joining clubs by black student unions. i've been very committed to changing the culture. i've been able to bring black culture and issues to the forefront. not to mention being the first black female issued and also

the student delegate seat. i continue to expand as a leader where i represent all 56,000 students to the sf board of education. i have remained resilient in my advocacy by eliminating admission systems at lowell high school calling out racism and sexual assault. numerous tv and news interviews planning protests, supporting plans to re-open and making ethnic studies and requirements at sfus d. it is an understatement to say that holding a seat on the board of education is hard, especially this year. this year has been a crazy experience that has made me stronger as a person. i ran for two reasons. one for my community that has held my back and stood up for me this whole time and two to bring all the issues in the dark to the light. it has been an honor to speak on behalf of the entire sfusd student body and i want to thank you all for being along on this crazy ride.

i think, we graduated. yeah. so that's update too. so yeah. we're just preparing for the next student delegates if you haven't heard. joanna lamb from lowell high school won the citywide election and agones yank is the intern student delegate. so her seat will be confirmed in our election. s.a.c.'s election next fall. >> president lopez: thank you. and we all normally would be in person celebrating you and normally commissioners on the

board or. >> i know all the commissioners share my regard for the student delegates. it's just been amazing to witness your -- not just your resilience, but your leadership skills i just know as you move on in your lives and college in your careers, you're going to be more successful. commissioner norton, every year, this group of student delegates were the best ever and i have to say i concur this group, you two are the most amazing student delegates i've ever worked with so thank you

again. >> yeah. came from the city, super proud. city kids representing all day through and through. you guys held it down. like literally showed up and showed out, you know, and really talk about like a time of just, you know, i'm all about, you know, things happen for a reason and you guys are exactly the student delegates that we needed during this pandemic and you guys stood up and fought so many crazy battles and helped the board get through staff and the families and the kids and mainly the kids at your school

as well. you know, so super proud of you black and brown sheroes. i'm with you 100%. super excited for what's getting ready to happen to you both in the future and you guys, you queens are always in our hearts and what you all need to continue your journey, feel free to just let us know and hit up vince. >> president lopez: that was good. commissioner lam, i think i saw you too. >> commissioner lam: you both are just incredible. i have learned so much from the both of you this year of our service together. i just know that this is just the beginning of your journey and i cannot wait to stay in touch. i told shevon last week you can't get rid of me.

just know we're going to be consistently to stay in touch. we are with you as you continue this life journey and thank you. thank you and i know that the young people coming up behind you student delegates are going to carry on the work that you've started and just really excited for you as you continue on to your adventures in college. so thank you. >> president lopez: commissioner collins. or superintendent matthews? >> so i just wanted to tell you both first and foremost congratulations. i think every aspect of this year has been so different than any other year in the history of education in this country and you both not only persevered through this year,

but you actually thrived. you continue to fight for what you believe is right. you continue to push for what's right and i'm just so proud of you. the way you thrive through this year and now you're getting ready to soar off to new heights and i just want to congratulate you and what an honor and privilege it's been to serve with you both this year. and looking forward to hearing the stories that are to come. we know there are stories to come. we're all going to be saying, hey, we knew them. we know them. congratulations to you both. >> president lopez: commissioner collins. >> commissioner: i want to say what everybody else said which is that we've all been very impressed by your leadership and as a black parent, i'll say i'm indebted to your leadership

because you're leaving our district better for when you came on the board in the schools that you're in and interactions that you have outside of the board i just want to say personally how grateful i am for your courage in speaking truth and i think in that sense, you've spoken truth in spaces that adults are not comfortable. you've had the courage to speak

truth. on the board, last fall, it was very contentious and you continue to speak truth and your voice intoeth of your voices are extremely important and because of your courage, we have been able to move this district and this is where i feel kind of old, you know, you know the importance of what you're doing but i don't think you truly understand the impact that you've had because you're not old enough to see how long we've been working on certain issues and adults year after year have not been able to move things. your voices have been able to move our district on issues that we've been struggling with since consent decree, since brown versus board of

education. and so, if anything, you've proven number one that youth voice and youth leadership deserves respect and in some cases, you know, you deserve more respect than a lot of the talking heads and the, you know, adults, politicking and making speeches. you guys are actually speaking truth to power and i will continue to see you as a colleague and an equal in terms of the work you've committed to

doing and excited to see where you go and what will happen next. >> commissioner: it's hard to add to what my colleagues have been saying, but i will add one thing. i would just like to observe you've come from one of the largest and smallest high schools in this district and represent both different and similar and incredibly powerful voices for justice, not just justice but voices for justice. for me, it also reflects one of the things it gives me a lot of hope about sfusd is that our schools for all their flaws, right. including shevon spoke eloquently. i think also, there are also pockets of positivty and strength and the way that she was even through that, the

leadership and then essentially force us as a district to change some of those things. so i think that both of you and coming from jim jordan, a place that's close to my heart. jim jordan has had four values. respect integrity, courage, and the two of you model those with just such excellence that i think it really is a model for the entire school district and for me as a new board member, it's incredibly intimidating and humbling as you come on to the board. i have to say, these are my colleagues, so i need to step up. so thank you, supervisors. >> yeah. if i can jump in, i just want to echo what everyone else has said. thank you for your service and to being a leader in our district and speaking on behalf of students and wish you the best in your next endeavors and adventures and leadership and making things better.

ment thank you. >> i just wanted to thank everyone also for all of the graduation gifts too. i don't know if she's on here, but viva, she gave me a graduation gift at my graduation, so i wanted to tell her i really appreciated that. thank you to everyone who's been stopping us for photos. it's really nice to put a name to faces because zoom is very hard too. also, yeah. stay in touch. we're going to stay in touch, so we'll stay in touch with you too. also, thank you,ester. we didn't get to sit next to you all year, but we appreciate you. >> as commissioner lam said, you can't get rid of us that easy. expect to hear from us. i also want to thank everyone for your kind words. i'm definitely going to rewatch them when i need it.

thank you so much. i know that from here, there's only up. so i'm really eager and excited to see all the changes and all the improvements and all the continued greatness that this district will have and thank you for everyone's kindness. i really appreciate it. >> president lopez: thank you. and, you know, there's not much more that i can say that hasn't been said already. i have so much admiration and respect for you both and i really appreciate being invited in and being able to work alongside you. there's so much that i have gained from your words and your honesty and your courage and when you speak, i can see that we all feel it and that's what you're leaving behind. so you're famous. you've set the stage because of that. last thing before we will move on in our meeting is i heard

there's a ceremony alheading off of the colleges and universities that you'll be attending, so we have that set up for you and thankfully one person so you can do that. i'll go ahead and set that up and then we'll continue. if anyone wants to share a few words, the floor's open. >> president lopez, we're delivering the gifts right now. [ laughter ] >> oh, no. so i got accepted into texas southern and ironically, i am wearing the same hoody that they got, but i also got a very

big offer from hampton university, so i think i'm hitting the east coast with kathia. sorry to flip the switch on everyone. so i got two texas southern sweatshirts. i will be selling them on ebay if you want to donate to my ramen fund. yeah. i think i'm going to hit the east coast with kathia. >> great college. >> yeah. are we saying which college we're going to? >> no. >> i'll be in boston. >> president lopez: congratulations to you both. okay. moving on to section c.

advisory committee reports and appointments. item 1 is the parent advisory council. and i will call on michelle. >> thank you, president lopez. can you hear me okay? awesome. of course, it's tough to follow that but i wanted to say good afternoon everyone. commissioners, student delegates, superintendent, district staff. members of the community. i'm the coordinator for the parent advisory council of the san francisco board of education. today, i will be joined by a couple of pack members although i'm not quite sure everybody's online. and we'll have them introduce themselves as they join us. and this is our report to the board of ed for june 8th, 2021. the role of the parent advisory council or the pack is to represent parent perspectives. in order to inform board of education policy discussions and decisions. this is our final report for

the 2021 school year and includes a recap of our june 3rd meeting. progress made on our priorities for this past school year. assen update on recruitment. we'd like to begin by acknowledging what an unusual and incredible year this has been for everybody. we'd like to honor the challenges, the hardships. whether it be through the pandemic other ways through violence or police brutality and so we'd like to take a moment of silence to remember all those that we've lost this year. if you please join us. thank you. [moment of silence]

>> thank you. we'd also like to appreciate the extraordinary efforts of everyone to make the best of what seemed like an impossible year. here we are. congratulations to all of us for making it through to our

educators for continuing to teach. for our students for continuing to learn. to our families supporting it in every way imaginable and to all our communities and staff who helped out in so many ways. we'd like to give a special appreciation to all of our graduates. to the scholarship recipients honored today and most especially to our student delegates shevon heinz-foster for your words today and for your brave and brilliant leadership throughout the entire year. for your perseverance and for your controversy. you give us hope and you will be missed. i'm trying not to cry. we look forward to all that you have yet to do knowing that our world will be a better place for it. also, to the members of the p.a.c. and to all the advisory groups who have persevered, you have juggled parenting, working, supporting your kids through distanced learning and still have managed to

contribute your time, energy, ideas, and leadership to make sfusd a better place for all our children. thank you. and now i'd like to turn it over to anna mejia who will get us started. >> thank you. my children attends steven elementary. this concludes my two and a half years serving on the p.a.c. this past year, i became the vice chair. i will begin the recap of our june 3rd p.a.c. meeting while we were joined by our vice president as well as community and parent leaders including several p.a.c. applicants. commissioner molina spoke of the importance of the role that our parents play and continue to carry forward the momentum this year especially as the

district grapples to re-open schools and working through the learning loss and trauma that the students have experienced this past year. our new superintendent and looking ahead to the districts by national deficit. p.a.c. members had many questions for commissioner moliga including learning loss, re-opening plan, social emotional support, vaccinations, opportunities for continued distanced learning the return of out of school time programs. at our meetings, several new applicants also had the opportunity to share why they were interested. and to ask questions. and to ask p.a.c. members

questions. the primary discussion of the topic was changed. including where parents voices fit in and partnerships with out of school time program. providers to ensure that students and families, their needs were met. we close out the topic to highlight in our report over the summer for the coming year and appreciation. now i will pass it to michelle delaney. >> michelle delaney, are you on? >> i don't think my sound's going through. >> it is. >> oh, it is. thank you. sorry about that. thank you, anna. hi, i'm michelle delaney. i have two children one is in

fourth grade and one is in 1st grade. i will provide a recap for 2020 and 2021. we worked on three things. communication, distanced learning which becomes all things related to learning and equity? >> your connection's a little wobbly. >> okay. do you want to take it for me, michelle? >> why don't you keep going, but if it fades out, i'll let you know. >> challenges around communication and long standing are complicated. this year, however, as the pandemic stressed, schools closed and everyone sheltered in place, the effective communication became more of a pressing issue for families. after providing communication

is a complex issue. things are constantly changing and it's been reassuring that the communication team and ready to pivot as needed. we hope that the result of the current communication audit will help to provide a clear path forward in providing clear communications for family that are clear, and consistent. information to the district school site administrative remains ongoing concern. pandemic learning. as we transition from learning to the pandemic to returning to the in-person learning at school sites, issues of most concerns for families include support for students to address the learning loss over the course of the past 15 months as well as the increase need for mental health services and other structures to support the social, emotional well being of students and educators.

going forward, the needs for full time counselors, social workers, and nurses at all schools is universally seen as a top priority. parents want to know what this office will need to support our students in transitioning back to school. equity, issues of equity proving all aspects that our children experience which is why we will continue to focus on equity the number one priority requires to address equity so that we provide the opportunity for all of our kids to be back in school and that they feel safe. we understand there are constraints on school site budgets so we want to know how physical and emotional well being of student social security being prioritized so that sites will have the resources they need for the support work. i will now pass it back to

anna. >> the p.a.c. has identified these initial school years. the superintendent search put in learning loss and trauma and the dringt's long term financial health. superintendent search, we are grateful for superintendent matthews for postponing his departure from sfusd for one year in order to provide stability while we are merging through the pandemic to provide necessary time to engage and search for a new superintendent. the search process must be comprehensive and transparent and must be driven by the core values expressed by the board and our district. our next superintendent will be taxed with learning our district into the future of public education and will have

to do so while simultaneously facing budgetary challenges and lingering effects of learning loss and trauma resulting from the pandemic. learning loss and trauma recovery. long interruption to education and its impacts on our student academics subset is real and throughout the coming years. one of our top priorities, we are looking forward to hearing more from the district about our specific plans and programs to ensure that all students received access to the reports

they need including the ways we can replicate paths as well as continuously effectively partner with out of school programs providers. while we recognize that the school district will receive sufficient funding this year providing for recovery we would like to partner with the district and school site staff, local officials and others to better understand the district in ways we can be better advocates to increase funding for public education. i will now pass it back to michelle. >> thank you, anna. this year, the pack will form

new partnerships with their organizations and staff we look forward to continuing this work in the school year. the p.a.c. will continue to reflect upon point in time ways in which we do this work. opening space and sometimes allowing barriers. these include understanding differences, examining and educating ourselves on confirmn

the date, it will be posted on our sfusd splash page at

www.sfusd.edu/pac along with an agenda. pac meetings are open to the public and we encourage anyone who is interested to join us. translation and interpretation can be provided with advance notice. if you're interested in attending a p.a.c. meeting or would like to partner with the p.a.c. or have any questions or comments about the p.a.c., please contact us at pac.sfusd. >> president lopez: i do want to remind the public if you want to take a look at this report, it is on board docks and is available now. before we hear from

commissioners, i'd like to open it up to public comment. >> clerk: great. please raise your hand if you care to speak to the p.a.c. report that was just given. looks like we have four speakers. >> president lopez: great. we can do two minutes. >> clerk: thank you. hello. amy. hello, amy. are you there? >> hi, i'm here. am i unmuted? >> you are. >> i'm a resident and i'm concerned about the rise of anti-semitism. >> clerk: i'm sorry, amy. this public comment is only for the parent advisory committee report that was given. so you can only comment on that report. if you'd like to speak in general public comment, that will come on the meeting later. >> oh, thank you. >> clerk: no problem. hello, alita.

>> hi everyone. on behalf of the community advisory committee for special education, i would just like to thank not only the members of the pac who presented the report today, but the pac overall. all of you have been doing great work this year, you've been giving lots of hours to not just prepare information like this, but collaborate with us fellow advisory committees. and, of course, michelle deserves an extra special shout-out for all the work that she's done stepping up this year into a position of basically stakeholder engagement queen as, you know, as positions have gotten shifted around and everyone has scrambled to do work that's never had to be done in this school district. michelle just stepped right up and made sure the work continues seamlessly. thank you for that and

everything else that the pac does. >> clerk: thank you. hello, carla. >> hello, everyone. i'm going to tag team with alita. this is the membership chair for the advisory committee for special education. we just want to extend our gratitude to the pac. we know what it is and what it means to show up and to volunteer your time and your hours for the better of -- to better everything. we want to echo in particular the call-out for full-time counselors, social workers and nurses at our schools at this time, but because i think our focus for social and emotional support is just what's needed to heal and move forward to the best of our ability and all of the pac members, michelle, in particular for all of the hats she's been wearing and for everyone who has switched and figured out how to do this on

zoom and stay connected. it's a great feat. and so we just want to say thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello. josephine. >> yes. hi, this is josephine. congratulations to the student delegates shevon and kathia. thank you so much for your work and great success in college. i can cover the priorities protecting the aapi families and also making student learning loss and taking care. at the same time. i'm asking if you could give a few more seconds for people to raise hands because it is in english. a lot of my community members are not able to understand like the whole process of when to

raise hands and all that. so they weren't able to raise hands fast enough if they're not in the queue and they don't know if their item is up. so if you can just call one more time. if it's possible to call in other languages, that would be really appreciated. people that wanted to make comments for the past item and not able to do it now. >> okay. >> clerk: thank you. just so the public knows, you have the ability to raise your hand throughout public comment. i will call at the beginning and we'll see how many people there are. we don't cut it off. you can just continue to raise your hands. we can work with translation. we can work out how to incorporate. maybe as i call out public comment. i can have the translator say as well so folks know when to raise their hands. actually, president lopez, should we do that right now?

yes. >> president lopez: yes. thank you. >> clerk: great. language interpreters, are you there? >> did you hear the conversation? >> yes. >> clerk: great. can you let the public know in spanish if they'd like to raise their hand, they can do so at this time. >> translator: [speaking spanish] [please stand by]

>> thank you for your response. >> thank you. >> that concludes public comment. >> thank you. we'll be sure to send that message for public reminders throughout to remind them to speak on the topic we just heard. are there questions or comments from commissioners or haven't mathews? commissioner collins. >> thank you. i just want to reiterate my gratitude as well for parent volunteers working for free basically to help us improve our

district and this isn't just a one-time thing or one-year thing and it's been one of the hardest years for families specifically juggling remote learning and all the changes and economic challenges and showing up and being a voice for families and especially families not able to come to these meetings. i really appreciate your report and they're vial valuable. i know it seems bureaucratic. i've gone back through documents like the to advocate for things we keep saying we should do and don't get to doing. this becomes another document and the presentations aren't just a presentation. the actual document is valuable and i see it as our charge, all of our charge to make sure that

we help to realize some of the requests and actions put in here. hold me accountable, hold us accountable. i mean it. all of us should be showing up and i look forward to showing up and sharing information and listening. specifically you mentioned several things that resonate for me as both an educator and patient in the district. the idea we -- parent in the district. the idea we need to focus on physical and emotional safety is number one. if kids don't have that, there's no way they're learning. we know there are communities that had a deficit of resources before the pandemic and so when we talk about learning loss,

we're talking about something that's exacerbating issues we've been dealing with for decades. it's not a new thing but makes things worse and causes problems for community sss -- communitie that were doing okay. i want to highlight as a board when we came on board last year after the george floyd protests we had a huge amount of advocacy on the board saying we need you to take those police officers out of school. it was regard to response because our district was already ahead of the curve and did the work and weren't spending millions like lausd and we were able to spend it on students. i worked with commissioner

boggess and we still police black students in the district and it creates an unsafe environment for students and families just like black students and families go on the streets of our city they can also feel unsafe in our schools and we know other communities don't always feel safe and was we don't resource schools to appropriately deal with discipline and conflict, we also have kids getting bullied and sometimes it's racial bullying that happens. the way that we were proposing we needed to address the issues of physical safety happening and we heard about it from other schools before the pandemic was in fully resourcing our schools and that meant calling for an audit of all of our schools meaning making sure every school had a social worker and has a nurse and fully functioning wellness center. those are the resources and bringing in community providers to do voice groups and girls

groups -- boys groups and girl groups and build alliances to have community and the way to fund that we said hey, city, you're spending a lot of money on police, we're not doing that anymore but you're spending money on the justice system and policing in our city. that can go in the community and into our schools and help address issues because issues of conflict in our schools is also happening in our communities. we need to fully realize the vision of the resolution that we all approved unanimously which calls on the city to redistrict resources from policing to fund community schools and also to fund the non-profit organizations that provide services that frankly i can't provide as an educator. i'm an alga bra teacher or

english teacher and there's those who know how to provide community health and wellness and social services and social workers and those are things our teachers can't do everything. for the community 100% in support of black lives resolution and online and read it and outlines where the money should go and exists. it's funding policing and juvenile justice that is not helping and could be directed to our communities and schools. community schools is the mechanism that will help. we can't just bring social workers in and make sure it's going to work. we have to have a system that's responsive and a community school model. i'm 100% committed to working on that and supporting that and interested in listening to the parent leaders and others how to realize our vision of making

every school a safe loving welcoming place when kids return in the fall. >> student delegate. >> i appreciate what's been put in the report and year-long projects. thank you for addressing our very real concerns and looking ahead to the future. we don't always articulate the concerns and district and appreciate when you call out when the district perpetuates these harms. thank you for your work. i appreciate all the parents who step up to the plate even when

they have so many other things on it. thank you. >> i want to lift up the pac and if you're listening give a shout out to my buddy emma she didn't know what pac was and now she's vice chair of the pac. it shows grassroots and caring about the kid and community.

thank you for the comments and feedback today. it was great. >> one more question around communication i'd like to learn on the aud how involved or not involved you've been and what you've heard. >> thank you, president lopez. it's been great. the communications department reaches out to us. i spoke directly with the

researchers one-on-one and engaged and gave input and we've been encouraging and if there's other groups not everybody is represented in the advisory groups and not everybody may have the capacity. there's a lot of challenges and barriers. making sure we're going out to the community and working with the organization that work with family so they're voices are heard as well. i'm looking forward to the results too. i'm excite and pleased that that process was being engaged in i

was involved in the vendor selection process which i was honored to do and feel we're open to feedback and pivoting and figuring out we can make this more of an ongoing praise instead of an ongoing challenge or concern. def if there's no question or comments we can move on to the next item. thank you for being here. lastly i wanted to add are there any appointment to advisory committees by the board? i see commissioner alexander and commissioner moliga. >> i don't have all my appointments but i would like to

appointment lauren abernathy. >> this is commissioner moliga. i have an appointment to the qta committee. >> commissioner do you have one? >> commissioner: i'd like to appointment satya overos to the oversight committee. >> commissioner: thank you for doing that. section d, discussion of other educational issues. i'd like to call on

superintendent matthews for the item. item 1 is return to in person learning update. >> thank you, president lopez. this evening we'll give our return to in person learning update for june 8, 2021 which is today. our mission as a district is that for each and every student we'll provide quality instruction and equitable support required for them to thrive in the 21st century. we believe this is our on the ground marching orders. this is what we're trying to do and we believe each and every is what's about and reaching their potential to thrive in the 21st century.

we'll give an update and the fall planning the in-person learning and facilities update and the town halls to occur over the summer to give more information on how we communicate with families and staff during the summer. and the staff that will not be in person and then we'll talk about before and after school care. before we dive into the summer program update, i want to give a big thank you to all those who assisted with the high school graduation for all. this was our in-person graduation. we had 11 at the stadium and another nine at the campus.

they were in person high school graduations. i want to thank those who gave support to make this in-person graduation happen and had many staff members that participated in huge ways and a huge shout out to many throws three stepped up in huge ways to make sure everything was in place the activities going on they played a huge role in that. a big thank you to you all and to see the smiles on the faces of people and we heard the phrase four weeks ago we didn't

think this was going to be possible and look where we are right now. a huge thank you for making this possible and putting so many smiles on so many students and family's faces. with that i'll turn it over to continue with our program update. >> congratulations student delegates. we're so proud of you. i'll be talking over the next couple slides about summer programs. as you know sfusd will offer opportunities to extend the learning time during the summer months. programs include both academic and enrichment programs focussing on our youngest learners through programming and after-school and extended school year and credit recovery options for high school students to name

a few. our pre-k and ost programs are year round and there was a seamless transition last week. our other programs will launch tomorrow. you can find information about these programs on the website link shown here. i do want to take a moment to thank everyone who has contributed to the launching of summer 2021. all the work has happened through quick and collaborative efforts across virtually every department in the district. cni, early ed, department of technology, policy and operations team hr and our city partners. i want to also give a special shout out to our project management in our curriculum and instruction office.

we are also excited that we are able to make summer backpacks available to each sfusd students they're for students and families to use because we know it will be important to continuously provide academic opportunities through summer. we're applying lessons we learned from material distribution over the last year. we have multi-lingual cards and videos for families and the resources could be found on the website link here. additionally, we're excited because we have high school interns who will be providing individual tutoring support to students and parents. thank you, students.

anybody will be able to get backpacks at the in person program students enrolled in summer options will be getting pick up information from their program leaders and students who are not enrolled in sfusd summer programs will be able to pick up backpacks starting next week at our grab and go locations at willy brown, denman middle school and lincoln high school and mission high and roosevelt. those dates and times and locations are listed on the website.

we have been sharing this information across other presentations over the last couple months. we'll serve about 15,000 students through our sfusd programs this summer. i want to headline we'll be able to expand options and offer free tuition for our pre k and ost and excel programs. free programs. the summer offers for students win ieps have increased 30% with the addition of covid recovery services in addition to efy. our aim high program for rising sixth to ninth graders has increased due to the learning loss funding. our excel program will be operating at 53 sites.

and thanks to our summer together initiative with the city in addition to the learning loss funds we heard loud and clear from families and their advisory committees they desire academic enrichment over the summer and we have partnered to offer over 600 students literacy instruction doubling from last summer. in addition to the highlights, we want to celebrate our partnership with ucsf has allowed students to learn credit through a program. our collaboration with the summer together initiative has enabled us to open 80 sites for summer enrichment for all grade levels. we've been able to expand programs for geometry by offering 30% more high school student seats in the program and

in middle school we extended our s.t.e.m. summer offerings. on the next slide we want to circle back on the implementation and impact measures we are looking at for our summer program we outlined the process for metrics and outcomes which may be different depending on the program. our team will be working with each program manager to identify the appropriate measures and assist with data collection and analysis. in addition to following up with the students during the year which is not something we've been resourced to do in the past but we'll be able to provide that capacity through the learning recovery fund. with that i'll pass it back to dr. matthews. >> thank you, jill.

next we'll talk about fall planning for in-person learning. as we repair for the full return we'll continue to focus on health and safety measures, preparing our facilities, focussing on instruction and accelerating learning and including additional academic and wellness resources for students supporting our staff for full return and aligning our resource to support all the efforts. we will focus on three of those areas in our updates today. you see the stars there facilities and operation and instructional planning and communication as an organization we remain committed to in-person learning and will continue to all state and local guidance as we plan for the coming school year. now i'll turn it over to chief smith.

congratulations to all the graduates and wishing the student delegates beautiful moments in your posthigh school journey. quick state and local updates. we have fewer than 12 new cases per day and almost 1.4 new cases per 100,000. we're really on the back end of this pandemic and much of that is attributed to the measures and the vaccines. city hall has reopened aas of this past monday after a 15-month closure. another sign we're getting back to whatever our new normal is. it's been great to have the vaccine available to 12 and

15-year-olds. we had 16-year-olds start and 12-year-olds a few weeks back and the bay area has the highest rate of teenagers getting vaccinated amongst california counties and san francisco has 54% of 12 to 16-year-olds vaccinated compared to 30% of california as a whole which is great. we still don't have updated guidance on the evolving health and safety protocols but there was a joint statement by the county health officers of the six county to share that school should do full in person learning this fall and we've been sharing that's our complete and full intention as we wait for the guidelines they're focussed on opening fully in person.

we're partnering with the mission wellness pharmacy to offer mobile vaccine sites. the first stands up tomorrow at burton high school and we'll be there every six weeks every monday through thursday, no appointment is needed and we'd love to see you out there. we're working on a mission location. in addition, our website is constantly updated with vaccine information there's different access locations and we update this regularly with our partners. this is a sample of the mission and excelsior and bay view, omi and the tenderloin and many are

also partnering with the san francisco department of public health to make vaccines available to our students and families. i think that's it for me and will turn it over. i wanted to provide a brief update on the activities we're undertaking to make sure we can have a facilities division and provide an update on school meals and transportation. we're reversing the work we get down to and making sure fall and spring learning will happen and moves will occur at the elementary school and middle

school and high school sites where we have population classrooms. moves will happen mid june to late july. we're scheduling three moves a day. we have three moving companies on contract and we are moving full speed ahead. we're starting with non-summer school sites first to avoid minimized disruption and give us a lead time to plan with those sites that have summer schools to minimize construction when we have to do the moves but the activities will be happening concurrently at sites and our working assumptions framing our planning and the direction we're planning to movers assume one, social distancing requirements are lifted as well as managed circulation and cohort restrictions. we'll continue to purchase tpe and deploy that to each site and that signage is going to be taken down and that emphasizes social distancing and replaces more general signage but the

stand up process is going to be much more minimal. we have hard out high level you can see it's tentative and continue to revise the plan with the movers and sites to make sure our goal is to minimize disruption and while we can be flexible to avoid major descriptions, there's going to be activities going on and moving quickly. karen sullivan from the facilities division is the point person for overseeing the moves and coordinating.

we're making sure that particularly middle schools and high schools we have a consistent ventilation approach we pursued for element we schools and classrooms. at the end of the day while there's a lot of conflict decision making and activity need to happen at sites, fundamentally we're trying to make sure each phase that has more than one person in it has open windows or portable air cleaner or ventilation and when possible more than one of those choices that we're doing as much as possible. we're also replacing filters and upgrading to teams where appropriate and conducting repairs at many of these sites. that includes very small repairs like replacing belts and fans needed to ensure our systems are in good working condition to larger capital projects.

that includes an air balancing project and also there's projects that the middle school and other sites are anticipating over the summer. what we have done to date over basically since the end of spring of in person learning we have been working over the past few weeks to get a lead and completed an inventory and completed assessments of what's broken of ventilation and maybe not broken but replacing it to be on the safe side. we've completed our window inventory of middle school and high school sites thanks to both parent volunteers and our dph inspection team and also completed a comprehensive space inventory. we've taken from our site plans and created one database that now has not only middle school and high school and elementary school and all spaces in the system. the classrooms, offices, gyms,

auditoriums. it will helpful for other projects we have to undertake as a district. also, we're bringing on two different consultant teams and those contracts are on the consent agenda. i want to emphasize for the boards these are not bond funded. these are partners we have used to do bond work in the past and these are new contracts established through our process and we are using non-bond funding to fund this work. those two consultant teams are essential to accomplish the aggressive move schedule we've outlined as well as help with repair work done. at the next board meeting you're also going see mem can cal firms will help triage the work that needs to be done to get sites ready for august 16 and help us over the course stay on top of

filter replacement and other repairs as they occur. to help folks wrap their brains around the spaces we're talking about, across the middle school and high school, this is how the spaces break down and close to 1,000 staff offices and rest rooms and other shared spaces. so there's only 140 classrooms that did not have operable windows. half are between the academy and school of the arts.

we're making sure we're ready for in person learning and have purchased portable air cleaners and have plugged them in and installed them as well as other sites that have these classrooms that will be great as we turn on the lights and run the mini fridges. that's a different level of electrical load but still this is good first feedback a good first experience. this is a high-level calendar. we're working to get the overwhelming majority of our work completed by july 23 to

give a buffer period between when staff start to return to sites and school begins because we anticipate the fact to expect the unexpect and we want to start dealing with the administrative building and spaces we need to have open but not as directly relevant to classroom instruction we have a slightly modified process for this summer. we have a july 1st deadline for anyone seeking to use our youth permits for august 16th and long time partners we'll do an abbreviated process where they

can submit forums to be aware of activities going on but offering programming before we finish returning the paperwork to them and we traditionally start this process much earlier in the school year but we do not know what to expect in terms of guidelines. we'll have a processing time and in terms of permit approvals we'll sign off on all other permits committed over the summer for fall programming and after august 16th we'll return to our process of principles of the approval of a site permit. with that i'm happy to turn it over to chief.

good evening, dr. mathews and commissioners and colleagues. a big congratulation to our recent graduates. i'm happy to share an update on the planning we're doing to get ready to welcome students back in person in the fall. and we are going to be able to offer universal free meals next year for all students at every school. they'll be able to eat free regardless of incomes regardless of federal waivers and free breakfast and super can be available to all schools with before and after programs and we're exploring limited home delivery for students in virtual learning. grab and go will sunset july 30. i want to do a shout out and thank you to the director of student nutrition services and for the work and planning food orders and training for a full return to in-person learning. we'll roll out a new point of

sales system in cafeterias and hope it will reduce the time students have to wait online and there's more information about meals available on the website and i provided the link. for transportation, we're rolling out a new technology with the new provider zoom services ink and a thank you to the transportation director and everything they're doing to onboard a new experience for families. starting in mid june as early as as next week and they'll begin receiving guidelines and supports for provide immediate feedback once school starts in the fall. during the and wanting to open up better we spent time looking at the general education route.

we provided transportation service to k-8 schools and middle schools and during the pandemic we updated all the stop and placed a focus on areas where the local students live and transitional housing and where there's high concentration of students. the registration process for general ed services will also commence in mid june. families enrolled in schools with transportation services women receive guidelines starting in mid june. it's exciting to be in the mode where we're planning to go back to full in person. thank you and that concludes my presentation. now i'd like to transition to deputy blake to provide the next update. i want to give updates on how

families can stay informed and we're moving to fall reopening. we have ways families get information and strive to reach our multilingual families and families with digital access and those without. we'll reach out to families by e-mail, phone, text and print fail and share information we hope will share for families within their networks.

we have thousand of followers and over 100,000 views on the website per day and will continue to update information there. since march 2020 we spent over 207 digests each week over 69 weeks to over 60,000 recipients tailored to what staff needs to know and families need to know happy to an as we move back to what may look like schools in terms of programming we'll do it better than before but it will look similar to pre pandemic time and pivoting to one digest

per summer and once to each audience twice this summer and the last wednesday, june 30 and july 28. in addition we'll continue to provide regular updates through website announcements and social media and news letters and the regularly scheduled board meetings and want to reach out through texting and phone calls. and there's a resource for families who have additional questions or may not be getting information through the ways and linking with questions the number is 415-340-1716.

they can also e-mail their request at familylink@sfusd.edu. in addition to information we have plans to discuss directly with district leaders and community health experts. we are looking at both sharing with ucsf as our partner. as health experts we know families have a lot of questions about and have questions on

wellness and mental health and safety and we'll be focussed on making sure we're both sharing information and hearing input from families about what they hope to see and answering questions they have. the dates are still be finalized with our partners at ucsf and our goal is to host them as well as possible and want significant information to share and to address the questions we know families have been asking. we plan to let them know about the dates and aim to have them a month before the first day of school. we can make ourselves available to community sponsored families to reach out and answer questions.

>> good evening, commissioners and community. the next several slides will give you information about instructional planning and our independent study proposal and the initial components and before and after school care for fall 2021 sfusd is excited to be planning for a full in person return this fall five full days a week. we'll also continue to offer our existing alternative programs like our home and hospital and independent high school. we know even as we return there'll be some babies for they require distance learning and will need another option in engaging in learning this fall. consistent with our board resolution we're planning for an alternative option a study pilot

and that will be new this fall and it will be for the few students with extenuating circumstances related to covid-19. i wanted to share highlights about what is informing or planning and we will need to expand language in the current policy to respond to the covid-19 context. as we're in the design phase we wanted to highlight a couple of the emerging principls informing the design of the program and leverage our current independent study with guidance from the state as the district and california are making plans because of circumstances and

this pile at program will be specifically for those students and families. we want to optimize the student experience for all babies in person and remaining in distance and make sure they get the attention and targeted instruction they need. this pilot will be a centralized program and not a school-based program and will create an academic experience that reflects the digital learning standards and online teaching and learning standards. we're intentional to make sure teachers leading the programs are training on best practices we know this is a shift and will staffing to support the program and will be important we work with our partners from beginning to end. we're getting more direction from the state and have as

further guidance is available we expect to make more presentations and sharing more information about amendments to our existing board policy. i'll now pass it on to speak more about our after and before school care options. >> we have different types of after school programs. some are community-based agencies we partner with which is what i'll talk about and we'll talk about the early education programs out of school time programs which are staffed by staff and there are some programs that aren't either after school or ost which individual school leaders or school site councils or ptas

have organized to have at their school sites. one thing we wanted to be clear when we say we're returning to in person five days a week that after school services return with that. the after school services at the 89 schools where there were after school programs funded through state and federal grants, those will continue. we are working with the agencies to get the facilities use permits and identify what the monthly program fees will be which they're waived for families eligible for free and reduced lunch but we've had charged fees because they only cover $7.50 to $8.80 a day per student which isn't enough to cover what the agency provides. we're working to look at the adjustments made because of the early release dates and end

times. all the programs are scheduled to begin at the end of the instructional day and run for three hours or until 6:00 p.m. whichever is later and we're working with our community based agencies to assess the potential costs and are looking to have some of the support of the additional costs. of the 89 schools that have excel after school programs there's 27 that have other programs and they'll also operate as they did pre pandemic. the return to after school services is part of the return in the fall. i'll hand it over to the chief. >> thank you so much. good evening. i'm chief of the early education department here to talk to you about school time at ost.

so district wide we have 77 ost costumes and 20 elementary school campuses and the early education you know as serving pre-k but we hold a title 5 contract to serve out of school time for tk through fifth grade and it's considered childcare that's why we have preschools through fifth grade and tk through fifth is the out of school time portion. it is federally funded and our mandate is to serve families who are in need of eligibility so lower socio economic status. most families do receive free and sliding scale fee and we have a small portion of tuition for working families who are above income. these programs are -- the department passes through the funds but the oversight for the

brams are our early education site administrators and staffed by teachers and parents. all are represented employees, ua or sfusd and the parents and teachers have a year-round contract and the hours are three hours or 3.5 hours with opportunities to gain more hours to work in the summer as well. many of our ost staff have other part-time jobs during the school year because they have shorter hours with us through ost during the instructional year and the instructional hours for ost typically ends between 5:30, 5:45 or 6:00 because it depends when the school day ends and the hours of the staff. we're currently surveying all of our ost teachers and parents to find out what their availability

would be to adjust for the new schedule changes whether it's an early end day or release day to understand folks' flexibility and appetite for more hours. implications for changes because we're talking about our sfusd employees would be we pould would need to partner with departments to make system wide changes. i'll stop there and pass the next slide to deputy superintendent lee. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners. deputy superintendent policy and operations. we're almost to the end of our presentation. the slide that you see in front of you has to do with some services that we're trying to put in place to help families transition to later start times.

i think we shared some information at your last regular meeting about changes to the start times for several of our schools and focuses on schools at the elementary or middle school level shifting to a 9:30 start time. the latest of the three start times we're introducing for next year on a standardized set of schedules. it's shifting by 15 minutes in the case of the schools. the nine element or k-8 schools shifting to a 9:30 start time. betsy carmichael, long fellow,

paul revere, sunny side, sunset and sutro and a few others. and the five middle schools shifting by 30 minutes or more are willie brown junior, everett, martin luther king, james lyck and visitation valley and in 14 cases we're looking -- before school area so that families that need support prior to school starting some childcare options and the middle schools will follow. in terms of what that looks like

based on each school's circumstances it can be provide one or more members of the school staff or community-based organizations and we'd have to create a budget to support the schools in either case and the programs and actives could include breakfast or outdoor play. that's our current thinking.

>> i want to make sure you as a board and the community wants to know we have sites in place [technical difficulties] and staff ready to welcome back all of our students. what you can do is to support efforts to increase vaccination rates, get vaccinated. that's how we take care of each other. parents, if anything has changed or is different we need your yfgs to be information and we need the most up-to-date information in parent view. president lopez that ends our presentation.

thank you, superintendent matthews and team. we know there's a lot of information we're sharing and know much of this is response to what we hear from communities. part of that means discussing so we'll keep work on that. before we begin i want to open it up to public comment and i want to make the translators make the call and have everyone ready and we're discussing the return to in person learning. >> will do. [speaking spanish]

>> thank you for that. i'll be asking for that throughout meeting so i appreciate it. we'll open it up to public comment and we'll do 20 minutes for this discussion and a minute each to hear from a variety of voices. >> thank you. >> caller: i'm calling about the efy covid recovery. i have two statements. first, unfortunately you mentioned communication. i have not heard anything and my son is supposed to start tomorrow. i want to let you know there are problems i don't know what his schedule is or protocol or his teacher. that's a concern.

second is my son is receiving covid recovery as a special education student. from what i understand and i just learned this the reading curriculum program that has been offered for both esi and covid recovery for students with iets is not structured literacy nor tier 3 support in any capacity. i just found this out. i have no one to contact and ask follow-up questions. this is a grave concern for me. this is what i've been waiting for all year. it's been my guiding light and where i found my patience because i was hoping through the summer and through the program whatever was missing over this year because of distance learning perhaps this program could mitigate that for my son starting next year. i can say with certainty if it's

not tier 3 support it's not going to work and wanted to let you know those two things and for everything else i'm grateful. >> i do want to find if there's a way to support this public commenter's need for information for tomorrow. i don't know if there's a way to get that. >> i would say that she could e-mail me and i could rely the information to the appropriate staffer. does that work? >> commissioner: please. my e-mail is steelej1@sfusd.edu. send that to me.

>> caller: this is meredith. thank you for the presentation and covering all the pieces it's great it here before and after will be restored and families impacted from the change in start time suddenly will hopefully have before and after care options available and grateful we're getting students back to in person learning for the fall. i want to make sure we're still committed to being student centered in all of our decisions as a district. we are seeing things still pop into m.o.u.s. i don't know how students are being centered coming back to school working remotely.

i don't understand how that works around i encourage us to all continue to put students at the center and make sure they're able to come back to school with everything and the support they need. thank you. >> i've heard nothing. it's been disorganized. i don't know who he teacher is and he starts tomorrow and no one's answered e-mails. he starts tomorrow. i'm concerned about this. the communication has been atrocious. my second comment is about instructional minutes. i hope to have instructional

minutes. our school i don't believe followed the instructional minutes requirements and i e-mailed my superintendent and principal, a couple commissioners on the board of education. no one was able to resolve this. they just threw up their hands. my child has an iup and was not getting all his minutes because the school was not following the law of instructional minutes. i hope this problem does not happen again next year. thank you. >> caller: a special education teacher and want to share the ridiculous experience as a result of the poor communication and organization. i couldn't access student ieps until after my working hours yet and had no information about the site schedule until after 11:00 today making it possible to design instruction in a timely

manner. further this morning, supplies like paper and pencil not given until halfway through the day and we have no keys to the bathrooms and the rooms are unlocked the whole day which is a huge safety concern. there's one key fob for the elevator and students have been assigned to the third floor and students who need the elevator will have to wait for the one fob and person in control of it to become available. i went out and bought more unprovided supplies on my own today and will be prepping late into the night now for the benefit of my students who start tomorrow. this is ridiculous and you should be ashamed to be treating students with ieps and the educators who work with them this way. thank you. >> caller: my name is kimberly

and my daughter and we have one of many schools that don't have an excel or ost program and i appreciate all the efforts but in terms of communication and some hand holding is needed because i communicated with the principal and program coordinators. and some sort of hand holding and outreach without be helpful for before and after care community partners. i like many partners cannot make the school year work without after school and even larger organizations are not running programs next year. if more communication can be done and outraech to those community partners to make this happen with the quicker time line would be greatly appreciated. otherwise i appreciate all the effort. it's a herculean effort to make this all work and appreciate what you're doing just need more hand holding on partners with

after and before care. >> i want to give% to our central office -- i want to give appreciation to our staff who offered extended school year while any credentialed were not only working their central office jobs and being pulled in the classroom to teach and support and thank you all for wearing the or four different hats you've had to in the past month. now, having said that, i hope we'll do best practices and learn from the communication in terms of covid recovery for the fall and esy next year which hopefully won't be happening in a pandemic, knock on wood. i want to say thank you so much. the cac is excited to see the

independent study pilot program and we stand by to act as thought partners. the program is a great way to support students medically fragile. those going through chemotherapy have life illnesses and families who have to travel for treatment and things like that. this is a great way to help families really allow their kids to engage in education when they can't be there in person making a pilot for narrow circumstances is going to help provide access to education for a lot of kids. if there's anything we can do as parent thought partners we stand at the ready.

>> caller: hello. thank you for the well thought out presentation and i'm excited we'll be back in the fall and moving towards that. i wanted to reiterate on the special education side our speech pathologists and occupational therapists and physical therapists sometimes have small rooms tucked in a corner without a window and maybe they're being overlooked if we're evaluating classrooms that don't have a ventilation or windows perhaps we need to think about air filters so once we're back in person we can access all of that. thank you and i'd like to reiterate the pilot program for independent study. something small we can perhaps roll out and there's families

concerned about that going backwards and forwards and thank you for considering that for all the families who access that. thank you. >> this is rolland. i'm a parent of a rising first grader at j.cerra. how was the decision made to change the start times for this? the change is quite significant over an hour and a hardship to modify the schedules and there was no input and i ask to restore the original start time for cerra. thank you.

i want to reiterate the concerns parents have called up and i've been called or texted by parents because they did not receive information about covid recovery services. the rollout for covid recovery and for efy has been disastrous though the special education committee has volunteered our time and expertise to special education lead staffers and haven't been taken up for it. we have plenty of ideas how the roll out could have bon better and we -- gone better and when this happens this damages our relationship because now i look incompetent and i told them this

would happen and now they can't trust me. these are families i've known from kindergarten to sixth grade and i need the district to be better on this to have a better relationship with my families. thank you. >> caller: thank you for taking my comment. i have noticed looking at the plans which i greatly appreciate there seems to be an absence of consideration of use of outdoor space. it's a useful way to engage people and engage students struggling. it's very good for the mental health of students, staff and teachers. the school community in general and california's department of education has held webinars specifically encouraging and

promoting outdoor education and have been promoted by the superintendent. i heard just recently tony thurman sent the plan that jefferson had created for going to outdoor learning to superintendent matthews at the district. jefferson is moving forward with a different plan currently given the changes since we released the plan but the fact superintendent thurman was interested enough by it to send it to the district to superintendent matthews suggests the district should consider incorporating outdoor education. it's good for everyone. >> caller: my name is kit.

i'm a parent with two kids in sfusd. i'm trying to understand how the district is planning to manage the tail end of covid risk and wildfires coming up this summer and fall. right now one of our primary strategy to mitigate the tail of covid now and fall is the air is toxic what happens and at what aqi? will kids still be forced to eat outside, etcetera? there's so many details to consider. and we cannot take one more week of closed schools and parents need to know whether we need to work with school sites on the issues this summer and whether that's possible. we're in a record drought in california and while i have my fingers crossed the wildfires will be kind this year we can't

bank on luck if we care about the kids and getting them back into education. i ask what's the plan and can we bundle it into what was just brought on. thank you. >> caller: resounding second to think about ventilation and wildfires and covid. what i called in specifically to comment on right now is the summer program. i want to acknowledge sfusd for providing 15 of the 22,000 summer seats. that's a huge benefit for families and at the same time is not enough with our over 50,000 families in the district. i just pulled both my kids out of the ost program and excel

after school community program at our site because i learned there was a waiting list and there's other families who went work remotely like my family can who still needs seats. i want to ask we assess where there are spaces and waiting lists and attempt to match those up. i'm also curious if the cohort sizes will eventually be larger if the covid size changes and communication that and the opportunities with families and finally looking at the ability of expanding capacity in the programs. >> caller: switching start time from 7:40 to 8:50 is not fair.

prior to the pandemic the morning routine is take the train, drop off my youngest at daycare and walk 20 minutes to the elementary school and then get on another train and go to work. i can't do that now because the daycare doesn't open until the school's new start time. the new start will require an additional half hour a day of back tracking for me every day or finding a reason to find childcare and you know how easy that is in our city. the after school program may not happen because the teamers may not -- teachers may not be able to work those hours. families work so hard to keep their schedules together with so many competing concerns many of us take into account the start time when choosing a school and the school district didn't care and used some algorithm instead-i want the board to know

how much disruption this change is inflicting on families and why certain schools were targeted for this instruction. >> thank you, that's your time. >> caller: this feels like a kick in the seat. >> >> go ahead. >> caller: [speaking foreign language]

[voice of interpreter] my daughter is at the school and i'm on the parent advisory committee. pac was start seven parents to increase the chinese participation in the district in order to help school district

make better decisions. we are now reopening schools and vaccines are now available for the public. lately there's been plenty of attacks on asians and in one story an asian mom said her husband has been in the hospital and she does not drive and it is unsafe to have her children go back to school leading to them not wanting her to go back to school. for the district, please consider the use of school busses and to create a plan for students to safely attend school. thank you. [end translation] >> thank you. >> caller: hello. hi, i'm a parent raising a second grader at alvarado.

all the topics and comments we heard so far tonight are inappropriate for our teachers and leaders at sfusd and i support the students and teachers who have spoken so far. what's not appropriate for the teachers' union is to weigh in on the political crisis and endorse a divisive resolution. i'm jewish and my children are jewish and the teachers' union decision to weigh in [indiscernible] was the most learned scholars in the world -- >> i'm sorry to interrupt. please silence -- >> caller: it's my 3-year-old son. >> okay. right now the comments are on the facts of in person learning

we'll have a general comment coming up but now is not the time for nis comment it's just on the learning plan. >> caller: thank you. >> mike. >> caller: my name is mike figueroa. i'm the parent of a rising fourth grader and the outgoing pt president at jay cerra and let it be known how unhappy our community is on the one hour start time change and our community is heavily a community of color and low income. the changes are detrimental to or communities thriving and the changes were not taken into consideration what it would mean

for our families. it's disastrous. the increment of additional childcare costs. the idea most of our kids already arrive prior to 8:00 when our start time was 8:25 and even preschool care will not start earlier than that so we have kids that won't be able to come to school. many are dual family situations where kids split their time between multiple situation and this will put the onus on families to coordinate and affect family life.

it's unfair to our teachers and the way this was rolled out is disrespectful to the parents and teachers and community in general. >> caller: sorry. president lopez -- i'm now speaking as a public person. i'm concerned about the late time for schools. i'll have a granddaughter in pre k. to me logically there's no reason for a pre-k to get to school at 6:00 a.m. or get to school by 7:50 when their big

brother or sister may start at 9:30 and i know the research says teenagers need more sleep but as parents you need to ensure children go to bed early and bothers me at the last board meeting they used an algorithm to come up with the schedule. there's 57,000 students. many schools i think over a hundred schools we all can't be the same to the 8:00 start times for middle and high schools seemed to work. i think this plan is ludicrous. it's horrible for young families who have to go to work. nobody wants to get up early, drop their child off early for breakfast and go to class and then have to go back to after school care afterwards. that's not the way we educate children. i hope you reconsider this

plan. thank you. >> thank you. president lopez that concludes the time for public comment. i know there was a panelist with their hand up. michelle would you like to go ahead? >> caller: thank you so much. i appreciate that. i'll be quick. i want to staff for the information and return to in person update and it's exciting to hear sfusd will be able to provide meals to all students and we deeply appreciate the work of the students nutrition services staff and glad they'll get a break before school year starts up again. i'm wondering what kinds of supports and resources will be provided to families who get those meals so they can help maintain food security during the two-week period. i want to appreciate the update hearing the return to in person

learning includes after school programs and i want to highlight the about the abysmally low state reimbursement rate for out of school state programs and i ran a program for 10 years. if you want quality programs you have to pay staff good wages and if you want good staff you have to pay more money. thank you for the work in progress to ensure after school programs will be in place to support students and parents at the sites where start sometimes are shifting however, it sounds like we have a lot of work to do with families to get this sorted out. thank you very much. >> thank you for coming out and for your words. i'd like to open it up for for discussion and commissioners. i know there's a lot of items let's stay focussed on what was presented. commissioner collins.

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there was a communication breakdown in the last 24 to 48 hours so we're working tirelessly with our d.o.t. hours to get to the crux of what happened here. whoa very committed to making things right with our families and we'll be able to give you a better report in another day and when we get more information.

>> i can't answer that. we had to do things differently this year and so we're looking to see what happened because it wasn't our communicating. >> i appreciate your leadership and i appreciate all the staff members as well who are on the ground and it's hard when communication gets mixed up and the staff has to kind of roll with it so i want to say thank you to staff and thank you to families for their patience as we work through this. >> the e-mail does work and people are very overwhelmed and they can also cc me, my family can cc me and i will route it to the appropriate person on my team and my e-mail is robertson j1 at sfusd. >> it's esy at sfusd.edu and

this is always an issue for families and i was not able -- i had to pay for after care because there was not enough capacity at my daughter's school and the school up the street and families were able to fundraise over $100,000 a year so schools that have the capacity and the parent capacity to fundraising we have the ability to fill in the gaps and provide after care and for care it's an equity issue and my question is, have

we surveyed families to know how many needs to be wants before our after care. >> i would say at this time, unless someone else tells me differently, we haven't at this time. >> i appreciate the responsiveness. if we're changing schedules, we need to accommodate these because families don't have -- i'll be honest, parents chose schools based on start times and that's a reality. and so, if we change start times, the fact that we're acknowledging that trying to fill that gap is important. at the same time, parents shouldn't have to -- when parents don't get a school that they chosen, it can create hardships because of start times and it drives school choice as well and so, now is the time to

reinvent education and if we have resources and saving money on transit, which is important and we should get support from the city we to offer after care, now we should be, you know, we should know what the actual need is and if the need is not there fine, now is the time if it is to partner with the city to actually get that support. working families, and they're all working, parents who stay at home with their kids are working and we all need help and now more than ever and i would like to make the ask and i would like my fellow commissioners to join me, we should at least know what the need is. if we care about parents and that's a huge one. if we k. i would like to see this summer, someway we can survey families to find out what they need as far as before and after care and it's a huge hardships on schools, my school that my kids went to, people

dropped kids off and staff wasn't there for them and it was like, at your own risk. it's not acceptable but something we've been living with because we're underfunded but if we have partnership with the city is the city is stepping up this summer and i'm grateful, now is the time to kind of create a new normal and so, i'm making that request on the record and hoping other families do too, p.t.a. parents, let's ask for universal before and after care and as a district, we won't -- with our budget crisis, i don't think we will fund that. we might fund some it the following year but this is something we should definitely be learning on the city to support and it will be a huge impact for working families. so, superintendent matthews, is that something we can explore?

>> it's always something as we talk about as a governance team, we can figure out different ways to ask that question. >> yeah, may i add something -- >> absolutely. >> thank you commissioner collins for your questions. so, i think it was in 2014 when the board passed an after school for all resolution for school services k-5 was what the resolution looked at. we did do analysis what it means and made some assumptions on it and i can't get into the drive to get this. we did do an analysis, the chief, myself, looking at what that cost to provide after school care for all k-5 families who wanted it and the cost was $20 million minutes and we looked at the tant grants we received to offset that cost and

looked at the cost of family fees that we could charge for families waving fees for familiar lows that had free and reduced -- were eligible for free and reduced lunch. the amount came down to about $10 million a year and at that time, the budget wouldn't sur tape that. we would have to redo that analysis to see what it might be but we can go back and revisit that for more updated information on what that might be. >> i would appreciate that. i don't think that just what i know from our budget, i don't think that's something that we can carry but i do think with this unprecedented partnership that we're seeing now with the city and also with philanthropy, i do think it's something that we should be asking for and especially when families are trying to claw back some of the economic losses that we've had in the past year and families are saying they really need to work. there's less flexibility and this is one way that we can

partner with the city to continue this partnership from the summer into the year. and make it the new normal. because i do think we can't do this alone and it should be our duty as the district also to work with the city and partnership and with beckons if we can expand that to help families, it integrates our schools and we have all these separate after school programs when we have that and i appreciate put and. >> thank you for that and i do want to just recognize if i'm not mistaken, this will be our first time being able to offer before care and.

>> there's a lack of boldness in the reopening care and family's primary concerns because of the pandemic and decade old concerns that haven't been addressed. if we reopen the same schools we closed, we aren't doing enough and i want to say how i feel about our approach to reopening not that i don't appreciate the hard work that has gone into the plan and all that it takes to reopen a school district this size. i just think what our family needs, what our families needs

are greater than what we're providing at the moment. >> the first was to families and related to the special education program and i'm just couriers are we able to full pee provide the required support for all of our special education students over the next 12 months and is that something that families can have confidence in that we'll be able to make sure those students get what they are and they're required to get? >> i guess, the answer and i always think i'm supposed to be called on and yes, we will meet the essence of each students i.e.p. and if there's a question to that, we will call on i.e.p. meeting and have a discussion with the family and work through it together. >> that's exciting for families

to hear because i think like my experience with the drilling dit it's not been true and in pre pandemic times it's just really, really good for us to be clear about how we're going to be doing that and provide tag for families and holding ourselves accountable if we're not. i think one thing that families are really disappointed in is our ability to follow through on the things that we committed. i feel like i will be following back up and if we continue on these conversations around our students and special education programs. my next question is around summer enrollment. i don't know who is the best person to answer so if you don't mind answering or districting it to a particular staff, what is the gap between what is being offered and what is being needed over the summer for students regarding whether it's federal recovery or other learning opportunities this sumner do we have a gage of what the gap is.

>> i believe ms. fong is present. >> this is called wait time. >> she's there. >> hi. >> can you ask the question again, please? >>s what the gap between the summer enrollment that's being provided and what we gaged the over all need amongst our student population? >> yes, so in some cases, we've had an increase in services such as in the excel after school programming because more c.b.o.s were able to received funding and able to offer and other cases, we have fewer students because we've had in a typical summer because of the covid space restrictions and the number of staff who were willing to work so that would be such as

in o.s.t. and an early ed. >> can i ask that to the different way. would you say that like, 100% of the students who want access to summer programming through the school directing have access to it? if not, what percentage would you say? >> i think that based on what we heard in public comments it's many 100% but i'm not sure i can different a percentage. i know we definitely wanted to offer more programming and we had some staff limitations and some space limitations with covid. >> ok, yeah, i just feel like that information is really key for us to kind of gage our success and i do think it's great that we're offering more but it's more still isn't fully meeting the need, i don't know if it's going to address families' concerns and help us get to where we have to go. the next question i have, i'm

trying to go sick if it seems like i'm rushing, maybe i will slow down because interpretation would appreciate it. in regards to permits for sites, how many sites will be impacted by the no-access to sites for the new providers? and how are we supporting sites that deal with that and familiar lows as well. do you want to take the answer to that question? >> no action? are you referring to the summer? to the no access to the sites? i want to make sure i understand it. >> i'm not 100% sure term that was whether it was summer or the fall, i know when we were going over the parts about the building maintenance and that c.b.o. getting access through buildings through permits that legacy would have access but a new one won and i'm just wondering, do we know what sites

that will impact and what accommodations are being made if it's going to impact negatively families or schools? >> got it. in the summer, there were two phases of making sites available and so the first phase was what you called the legacy. the programs that were part of the sum are for all. that was the first subset. and toes have all been taken care of. subsequently, we've made the facility available to folks who were not part of that phase and so other agencies are now starting to submit facilities, permits and be able to gain access and the third phase is sort of, the facilities are also available on the summer for athletics and clubs and things like that which will bring us to the fall, which is our final phase when everybody is available on the same way it was before so we're moving in that direction.

>> so basically there's no like loss of access for families or school sites with that permitting situation it's just a roll out? >> yeah. the last question i have. commissioner collins highlighted, why aren't we committing to give families access to before and after care for sites that were switching school site times on after a third -- like if it's a greater amount of time. i feel like if we as a director, we need to go out of our way to accommodate families and make it easy as they figure out if they need to adjust schools or figure out new routines so it's something we need to do to figure out a way to really uphold what families expect for us and not just as an

educational institution but supporting them with their childcare and make sure they function in their everyday life. >> may i just speak. you may want to speak to the after care portion. that was essentially the main point we wanted toed to convey for those schools that are identified that meet those particular criteria about the number of minutes they're being shifted to or by to that late start, we are -- we want to provide those before school care options and frankly, we have some work to do to design it and identify a specific model and the staff and so that's work that we in the midst of and need

to complete. that was the thrust of the point that we wanted to share with respect to before school care. >> we don't have a commitment to do it but we're working to do it? is that correct? >> i guess i would go so far as to say, we have an intention to do it. and we do need to confirm all the details. that is what we're -- we intend to put that into place. >> can i ask it a different way? so s. should every family who are is at one of those schools that is listed, expect to have access to before care if they need it? >> that is what we're striving for, yes. at those particular schools. >> ok, i appreciate that. >> can i clarify on that point.

i'm hearing from parents that are confused and i want to restate because i heard from a parent, there's nine schools and there are nine elementary and eight k-8 schools and nine middle schools and it's on the slide and i'll share it via twitter that includes buena vista, betsy carmichael, long fellow, ma coppin, paul ra veer, jay ser a, sunny side, sunset and sutro and those are priority schools and then there's also middle schools that are shifting by more than 30 minutes including brown, everett, king, lick, and vis valley and if i can piggyback on that with that being a second priority, does that mean they are also guaranteed before and after

care. >> thank you, commissioner. that was a subtle distinction we were doing and i realize an urgent question and we understand for families that routines and schedules are disrupted by this change, they want inform have certainty. what we, the reason why we are qualifying it slightly, is that we have not completely developed all the details and so, is we are striving to provide those supports to all 14 of those school communities if we find why it's difficult to accomplish we want to name the.

>> we're trying for all 14. you chair the curriculum and instruction committee if you convened a meeting this summer we can follow-up on this and track this we can track it and just have oversight, so that's my request. >> thank you everyone, for supporting the questions that we're bringing up. i do just want to bring up we're nearing two hours on this item and recognizing that there are a lot of information that we're covering. we are also consistently giving updates so if we can keep our comments to issues that haven't

been brought up, i would appreciate it. >> i have a follow-up on that. (inaudible). >> can you repeat the question, it was hard to hear. >> there are nine elementary schools and i have a number of e-mails (inaudible). >> please, chime in if you something something that i'm not but those are the schools that the they are shifting to a start

by by more than 15 minutes so with respect to jefferson, we would have to. >> jefferson went earlier not later. >> jefferson, they shifted other earlier i don't know. so there are parents there who don't know what to do and their schedule is a mess. what do they contact? that's my main question. (inaudible). >> i can give an update if you'd like me to do that. >> we realize and appreciate

absolutely that charges and start times are very difficult and in some cases, they'll come in happy and other cases they won't and for us as a district, the commission wanted to reopen better, right. we don't want to reopen with things this weren't working and pre covid, we had 19 start times. the reason we change our start times is not just for fiscal reasons and we have different start times and it's also to create and depend opening 9 school they were enrolled in they'll have a school day and different minutes between start and end of the school day and so standardization, and transparency and alignment we're much better positioned, as a

district, to have a system wide approach to before and after school care and a philosophy around it and by having standardized start and end times. i appreciate if a parent myself, how important it was to have the before and after school care programs so ideally we would have liked this (inaudible). if we want to announce start times in april we have to engage the community. at that point in time, when was front of mind for families is when is school reopening so the idea that we would leap frog over all of their questions around to engage in a

conversation about down the road does not seem like it would be row specialful or authentic to engage the community and so we decided what was appropriate to do was to be fair to all schools, we needed to have a transparent system and we came up with schools that included minimizing the degree of change for elementary schools and so yes, we did use an algorithm but it was not the driver it was a tool that helped us to determine and which schools would start at which times. it's a super complicated mathematical problem but the guiding principles are most important so in theory you want to have the same number of schools start at 7:50, 8:40 and 9:30, and we have not ended up with that. we have the fewest numbers of schools starting at 7:50. it's 35 schools and there are 53 that are starting at 8:40, so there isn't an opportunity for us to move schools into 7:50 and

without moving other schools into it because it's a network, it's a ripple effect. if you change one school you have to change multiple schools and so i want today share that because i know and i hear from families concerns about why didn't you engage and i think it's important we're really transparent about why we didn't and the thought we put into it and the approach that we used and so, as difficult as it may be for some families right now, the approach we took is fair because every school was treated in exactly the same way. so, if we're not gathering input to determine the times from all schools and families, and obviously it doesn't make sense to do it for some schools and families. the question, commissioner alexander about how the families get feedback, we're been sharing feedback and that is not the

question. >> i really appreciate that. and i really respect your work and i think my question what do they do next? we have families that are just frustrated and trying to figure it out, right, so, you know, if i'm a family at jefferson, the time was moved an hour earlier now i'm stuck, i can't, you know, i've missed the application deadline and i'm way late for that, what do i talk to? if it was more of, it was literally the past is the past and how do we engage with families, who i do send them do? that's my question? >> so the resource link is responding to questions that are coming in and from families and we're providing, as you know that set up with a group of agents who, you know, rotate

that and staffed that way so that is one way in terms of dialogue if a family is interested in changing schools they obviously would contact the educational placement centers and then in 'em of the before and after schools solutions, we'll be working with -- we're working to figure out solutions and that information would be passed out to school sites who would share it with their family. >> that was three different people. do they call the family resource link? is that the thing to do? >> yes, ok. i just, i mean, again, i don't know who -- it may not be possible to address their concerns but i think we need to have a system for us to listen and engage and i think again, this is my fatigue respectfully of the process and i don't think it was respectful of family. it was disrespectful and that's why people are frustrated. if back in february or march we had a conversation with jefferson and said look, here is

the proposal, we're really sorry, this is why we need to do this and we would engage with families back then we making having a different response so now we're having that response and i think we need to engage with it and my frustration is i'm getting e-mails and it feels like i'm not clear to staff is engaging with them. it's principal at jefferson, it feels weird to tell them to the call the family link line and get a random staff person when we know, we have a school like jefferson there's a large number of families that are experiencing the same frustration. i don't want to judge, to me it might make more sense to deal with it on a school-by-school case knowing whether they're impacted. that was just my question. if you send them to the family link line, i'll do that. >> i can also share some additional talking points that commissioners can send in response to families but the

resource link, to give you a sense of it, we look and there are folks that lock in review and the questions and the input coming in and prepared responses to responded to that say good way for families, it's important to always work with your school site so i mean, that is obviously the best way to get the most direct support is working with the principal of your school site. >> yes, i guess my question is to the principals have those, if the principal of jefferson gets a sponsor a request from a family and i want to make sure that whole process is being supported in a way that respects, honors the fact that the families are being impacted differently. >> yeah, i think so. i'm in constant communication with the lead team so we can collaborate that way and that's the best way to have the most personalized and kind of conversation with the principal

and then we're available to support that too. >> thank you. >> thank you. i won't take up too much of the repetitiveness of what colleagues have raised. first, i want today ask about summer program, just following up to a request for year 2. as the be able to narrow in what is the gap. specifically of number of families or students who wanted to enroll in all the parts of summer programming that were unable to or there's current wait lists for. out do we then use that data and the utilization of our education recovery funding for year 2 because you remember, we are ready allocated those california stay education recovery funding

for both year one and year two of summer programming and with that, i think we're happy to put that forward as a request and also the question around r.p.d. and knowing the team will look at both the inputs and the out puts or the impacts of summer programming, are we currently considering research evaluation for the utilization of education dollars from the state as well as looking at those year around supports from summer, excel rate learning, education recovery and year two of summer? >> yes. thank you for your ideas for the future. yes, we are working with the research, planning and accountability department to assess what we're doing this summer to see what is effective and we're planning ask reviews

to make sure that we learn from all the different feed backs that we received and from the programming to make it better for future summers. >> are we considered outside research evaluators, in addition our inhouse that provide this comprehensive approaches because again, this is kind of one in a lifetime of investments that are coming both from the state and the federal government just look agent it -- this may be related more deeply in curriculum and program but just curious around the dollars and all the supposing coming up. >> i don't believe that we have contracted with any outside evaluators on this aspect. we are using different tools and some of which are related to the programs that we are using and i know that r.p.a. is using a scale that is based on research

and based on outside expertise. >> thank you. shifting into a lot of discussions are focused on after school and before care and i worked in after school programming for about a decade and this is very near and dear to me and so i want to thank the staff for being responsive. we raised this at the last board meeting about how port not a it was to identify the shift and you schedules this makes as far as the bell alignment correcting recognizing it was with the families and our administrators and we have room to improve and i wanted to follow-up to commissioner collins and and i'm curious if in addition to the 14 schools that have been

identified as a system wide and thank you to ms. smith recognizing there was a previous after school for all and curious in addition to doing that if a refresh of that k-5 if we know about other, right now as i directing, do we have that infrastructure to truly understand 102 school sites where our programming, what type of programming we offer and where do we want to catastrophe for? does that currently exist and how can we support that work over time, obviously, we're focused on returning to in-person but looking forward and looking ahead it alliance well with those education recovery plans. >> thank you, commissioner. i think what you are asking, do we have the ability to inventory and have a clear picture of what

schools have programs and what types of programs they have and where there might be gaps? is that what you are asking and. >> yes, thank you. >> y. i mean we have some of that information. as i said, there's basically three three different ways a school has a before and after school program. there's the 89 schools that have the after school program because they received the state, it's called aces after school in richmond, supports or the federal money which is another acronym, i'm sorry, commissioner collins, i can't remember what they mean. federal grants are five years grants we a ploy for every five years. if they continue that's great, if they don't, we have to address that gap and we did run into a situation about six years ago, where we lost almost two million dollars and that's when we implemented the fee-based program to mitigate some of

those losses we added some money as a district. the spending is a little bit better it renews every three years and that funding just conditions so that it's like a more secure funding that we can count on and then chief talked about the title 5 which is another funding grant so we have that kind of information. those are the two big name ones. the second way we know whether or not there's an after school program at a school is through or m.o.u. because if there's a provide that comes into the school they need a m.o.u. so we can do that type of analysis and there are a lot fewer than there's been in the past because we've shifted them all over to m.o.u. there were parent runs, like a p.t.a. would have some parents volunteer for after school program and for families with

not the state, not recognizing that before and after school is part of school. so, that is the challenges that we have and however, the board works with the state and recognizing that that obviously helpful for our students and our families. >> yeah, i think, i ran programs that were funded in the 21st sent row before they were block grant for the federal government so we have a moment right now that funding at the state of california what has

been stagnant and flat for many years and what they have a closer decade if not more. now, with governor recognizing that the recognition is similar that we can't approach things the same way and i encourage our board working with the staff around that analysis that we get our kids back to in-person learning we can lift up where those needed resources are and if there's an opportunity at a state level our experience and strict and it's tied right into when we look at our and we're aligning that during the school day and in after school programs and that's what we've just passed and i just want to take

knowledge. thank you to the team of launching forward with the ucsf partnership. i'm super excited and i know we've actively been partnering through them throughout pandemic and i'm excited about them helping us reach our communities through new ways that we may not, so much new information comes out with cove and building the confidence and our ability and that and and the important information and. >> thank you for that. >> i had one request, we still

are in and of the academic year and meeting in committees is one day that i've been able to track progress and it's also, i can get a report from staff but it's not public it's not transparent so i am making on the record request, i would like for building and grounds, if they can meet this month and we could actually get follow-up on air filtration are implementation of those concerns. i didn't get to ask all my questions about ventilation and we don't have time. but i know it continues to be a question as well as academy so that's the mack a tier campus and also the concern for and air quality in the fall is an ongoing can that be discussed in depth and i would think before and after school care that could be followed up and instruction

meetings and how we support students with trauma informed care of and make sure it doesn't fall on the shoulders of our teachers. i want to make sure there's enough support and they're not the ones that are kind of trying to do everything and so that lies in instruction and around how we're going to build out our coordinated care model to make sure we're responding to tram and doing it in a way that doesn't burnout teachers that are already burnt out and i want them to know that they're going to be supported so authorize he is my two questions that we meet those two but they didn't met in the last few months and if we can meet it's a way and to do it outside on the meetings and so that is my question to tell the commissioners. >> thank you. and i'll be happy to follow-up with the committee chairs.

enable is all for this item. thank you, everyone, for all of your work and coming out for your consistency, we'll hear at the next meeting on this item. moving on to item 2, ssmta muni, i know we have guests here who will be holding this portion of the meeting. >> so presenting, we have guests from sfmta presenting will be julie cursebaum, john knox and chava cronnenburg. >> i. everyone, i'm joy and i'm a transit director. i'm also an sfusd parent and so a big shout out to all the teachers. especially ms. kimberley and

george peabody who teaches k-2 special ed. super, super grateful. we at sfmta are working really hard to support the school directing and support students and parents currently and as they plan to return to school in the fall. i know you had a very long meeting tonight. i have a short presentation prepared that i'm going to share my screen now. i will keep my remarks brief and troy to answer anything that i cover too quickly with questions. can you see my presentation? >> yes. >> ok. great.

the things that i'm going to cover today is how we're working to restore muni service and the safety and some of the special service we have is specifically focused on students. also, talk about our active transportation programs and some of the many choices that families have to get to schools and talk about how we're trying to communicate these changes being here tonight being one of them and i look forward to any suggestions that you all have as well. sfmta is really proud of all of our school programs and whether you take your students to school by walking or biking or drop-off, we strive for people to have good, convenient and safe choices that compliment our

agency's other values around equity and climate change. last year and and a half has been an extremely charging one for everyone and having had an opportunity to hear your meeting tonight, i appreciate that the school directing is grappling with and approaching in a thoughtful way a lot of same challenges that we had. the beginning of covid was extremely scary. we had way more questions than answers. we were charged with getting people where they needed to go for essential trips to get to hospitals, and to goat to the grocery stores. the sfmta who is particularly the muni operators, made that

possible and they came out every day under very difficult and scary conditions and i'm so grateful for that and as a result result the pandemic we had to make difficult choices because we did not have the staffing or the resources to provide all of our service ex because some of additional protocols that we put in place to keep our employees or our customers safe during covid, we also had some built in efficiencies that further limited our ability to deliver service. we started out in april of 2020 with less than half of our pre covid service hours and we focused that service on equity neighborhoods and places where people relied on muni to do their very basic and we stood up

supplemental programs like essential trip programs which provided seniors and people with disabilities living in areas that we were not well serving very discounted taxi rides and since april, we've been able to restore service steadily in preparation for the return to city business and our next big push to restore service alliance with the school directings' plan to restart school in mid-august. this is a map that shows gray. all the routes operating and the routes we plan to restore for august. with these changes, our

neighborhoods will be in a two to three block walk of muni. there may be instances where people have to travel differently than in the past because we're not able to restore everything the way it was pre-covid. we are stretching our resources and trying to be as creative as possible so we're serving muni steps but differently than we did pre-covid. all the the route modifications that will be rolling out in august and are just temporary and would be this map here shows the muni coverage that we

currently have in place and what we plan to have in place for the start of school. the dark pink is every that are is within where we're starting gaps for the start of school. on our website, and i believe it went out also in information from the school directing, is information on all of the service that will be in place by august so i'm not going to read through this exhaustive list of routes but one is parents and teachers and other employees to be aware of all of the service. we've also have about a dozen routes that will be extended or modified. these are being done to pick up segments of other routes. the 49 mission runs its regular routes and then it also covers

the north point section they are used to cover closing that gap. we also have about 10 routes that will not be running. these routes typically have parallel options or have been covered in other ways and we hope to be able to more fully restore service and anticipate that in january or february, we will have another round of service restorations and at this point, this is what we have the

resources to deliver. the ocean view is currently operating as a bus route from westportal to balboa park. it's the one route that we currently have a little bit of uncertainty where we stand after july 1st retirement and our current training class. we're very optimistic that we'll be able to restore some if not all of the rail line in the start of sfusd as well as sf state but we don't have all that information right now and we plan to communicate that to the public around mid-july and we have a better sense of how many rail operators we'll have available. there's something offer the next couple weeks that will stay the

same about riding muni and there's some things that will be different. and this is this is a federal requirement placed at least through september 13th and we would really appreciate all of the help that the school directing can provide and emphasizing. we will go back next week to our pre-covid vehicle clean program so we will no longer bring them to be sanitizing but we'll clean many of women continue to keep

windows and doors open for circulation and we will also be return to go pre-covid capacity with the state reopening in june of 15th, which we believe will really help and get more customers where they need to go. muni is really important part of the over all sfusd transportation programs. almost 30% of middle schoolers and 50% of high schoolers use muni as a primary way to get to school all of our heavy routes, like the 38 and the 49 and the 8 bay shore have all had heavy student activity and we also have some routes that are really, i think, almost defined

by the fact that they serve multiple schools like the 29th sunset or the 22 fillmore and these routes have all been prioritized for service restoration and have actual low been up and running since august of last year. also, we provide a school tripper service and this is primarily focused on routes that already have a lot of mid-day activities and a whole bunch of students letting out in the afternoon might lead to too much crowding. what we do is we start empty buses at the school at the end of the day and they make all the regular stops. we're not, as an agency that takes federal money, we can't operate exclusively as a school

bus so all of our services are open to the public. by starting our routes empty at the end of the school day, we're able to help with school crowding and the school trippers are among the most difficult service for us to restore and in part because the way we used to deliver them, is our downtown express service would go out a couple hours early and they with do a school trip and head downtown. we are not going to be providing express service this fall. the downtown recovery is slow and our existing routes will cover it. we will be coming up with other ways to provide this service but we did need to reduce the locations in order to be able to

deliver three schools ta have eliminated school and close that have capacity. marina middle school is at the stockton terminal and the buses are already empty. and we also have a transit program called our mtap program and this program has been in place for many years and it will be restarted this fall with inperson middle school and high school. these are muni staff that ride the buses at busy times and school times and flag the issues

and our bus operators really don't have the ability to be monitor on the bus and that can be very hard for students. they're used to looking to the adults as the authority figure and for our operators, it's really their primary focus needs to be on safely driving it's something that we're very proud is a very welcome part of our school service programs. we also provide free for youth for kids ages 5-18. they're living in san francisco and have low to moderate inand and we provide a dis counted fare for youth and have a variety of fare programs for other folks that may be riding with students like parents and

grandparents and caregivers. we've been very appreciative of the school directing to help us promote the free muni for youth program and lastly, i know questions are around muni so i wanted to focus on that but i also want to say we have a lot of other ways to get students to school and we have been working very closely particularly this spring on loading zones, realizing that at least in the short term there may be more people driving and making sure is that we have the proper loading we need for safety and efficiency. in front of schools and we also have almost 200 crossing guards.

many of them worked throughout covid to provide customer information and to help social distancing but, really, their passion is to be out helping the students and it's been really great to see them back this spring and they will continue to be back. we will coordinate all of the school start times with their shifts so they're there when they're needed. we've been partnering to help kids learn how to bike and walk to school and for many families, this is an opportunity to be outdoors more and to experience other ways to get around. and then finally, really have enhanced biking and walking options including 45 miles of slow streets that link up with

many of our bike lanes and we'll make it easier for folks to get to school on walking and biking and all of our slow streets are still open for local access so if a school is on a street, that is a slow street, we still accommodate all of the loading needs and we'll be sharing through local newspapers and community groups and we're really grateful that information went out in the sfusd e-mail this week and we hope to do another one closer to when school starts. as i said, earlier, while we are

covering most stops that we have pre covid, there may be instances where people have to do things a little bit differently than they did. i really appreciate your time. i'm going to stop sharing my screen. i look forward to a good discussion. >> thank you so much. before that, i'd like to open it up to public comment. and depending on the number of hands we'll do one to two minutes but we won't go more than 15. we'll end at 7:50. >> translation, the let public know this is public comment for

the sfmta muni presentation. [ speaking spanish ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> one minute per person president lopez? >> yes. >> great. hello, cal. >> caller: thank you for that presentation, i've been really concerned about how muni will return to help students so i have two main concerns based on that presentation. one is i question, as it's not mentioned, what will the frequency be of returning lines so, you know, during school, there would be buses are so full

we have to wait and watch buses past. if the frequency is not back to regular, the normal frequency, there's no way that's going to be enough to accommodate students. similarly, if we're clothing parallel lines, that assumes the students will be able to go to that para line space and there will be space for the buses. using an example i know, the m and k are parallel lines that students use to get to school and if the m isn't open, they're going to be forced to go on the k which has capacity issues so how are you going to accommodate for the capacity issues created by pushing people from the m line to the k or other parallel services? thank you. >> thank you. >> caller: hello. surprise, surprise, i'm not wearing my hat right now. i am a member of the o.m.i. community collaborative and invest black in district 11 did

we look forward to meeting with director tumlin tomorrow but i can't emphasize enough the importance of the ocean view to the excel see year to o.m.i. zip code 94112 which is the o.m.i. and the excel see areaers the highest of the students in the zip code in the city. over 15% if we can't be at partial capacity, it's the m. hopefully the m. m tap ambassador, it's an amazing program but it's important to make sure they're trained in cultural humidity and key escalation techniques that pair part of the anti racist

training our district is doing right now and so thank you very much for all the work that you are doing m.t.a. >> i'm hayden miller a student at lowell high school and a person who attends a lot of m.t.a. meetings so i've seen a lot of this but i want to voice a few specific concerns i have as a student. the first thing i want to say is i'm extremely concerned about pass-ups and capacity limitations. even before, when we had 100% of service, students were being left at the curb and now with muni only running 70% of that service, it's going to be a nightmare for students and they'll be waiting at the curbs forever and the other thing i want to talk about, is the issues with discrimination

against youth by m.t.a. employees. many m.t.a. employees, whether by mistake or on purpose, mostly on purpose, would discriminate against youth, pass us up, i've had interactions with p.o.p., where they have harassed me for showing an i.d. to prove i'm a youth. >> thank you. >> when i'm clearly under 18, drivers say youth are not allowed to ride express buses, et cetera. and you know, i know that i'm right and when i'm wrong about m.t.a. policies, but most youth do not and if someone tells me they cannot get on the bus and they're an authority figure, they're not going to get on the bus and people are going to be late. >> thank you for your time. >> there needs to be a change towards youth discrimination. >> thank