>> this park is open. ♪♪ >> any member of the public can email their comments to oscar@edu by 2:00 p.m. the day of the meeting if they do not wish to make a comment during the board meeting. the comments will be read into the record. as a reminder to the public, the q&a function is only up at this board meeting for the asl interpreter services. and it's not to ask questions or

make comments. if you're using that it's blocking access to folks who may need it, so, please only if you need asl interpreter services use the q&a box. okay. language translation -- >> thank you. sfusd is providing services in spanish and cantonese if you need interpretation, please dial the following phone number, after dialing enter the pin number. this message will be repeated in spanish and cantonese. [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: cantonese interpreter, thank you. [speaking cantonese] >> clerk: thank you. president lopez that concludes the language translation services announcement. >> president lopez: great, i appreciate all of your work, you know, during this year and during tonight's meeting. i do believe that we have quorum. so i'll begin the meeting. the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for june 22nd is now called to order. roll call, please.

>> clerk: thank you. [roll call] >> thank you. >> president lopez: great, section a is general information. section b, opening item. item 1, approval of board minutes of the regular meeting of april 6th, 2021, and special meeting of march 25th, 2021. can i get a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> second. >> president lopez: thank you. are there any corrections on either set? okay, seeing none. roll call, please.

>> clerk: thank you. [roll call vote] thank you, seven ayes. >> president lopez: okay. item 2 is the superintendent's report. we'll call on superintendent matthews. i just want to double check that he is here. i am not seeing him yet. >> president lopez, we have an urgent matter but i know that

superintendent mathews will be joining. >> president lopez: yes, i think what we'll do is go through the next item and it will give him some time to settle in. and then we'll come back to this. hi. >> hi. so i apologize. >> president lopez: no, no worries. >> okay. >> president lopez: do you want a second or are you ready? >> i'm ready. you can hear me. good afternoon, everyone. i apologize for my tardiness. as you may have heard, president biden signed legislation that marks juneteenth as a federal holiday and mayor breed subsequently declared it a holiday for the city. we are thrilled that juneteenth is now an official holiday and we will work to make those changes in our calendars in upcoming years. for those of you who don't know, juneteenth, also known as freedom day, jubilee day, and

narcs the day when union soldiers arrived in galveston, texas, with the news that the enslaved were now free. juneteenth celebrates african-american freedom and achievement while also encouraging continuous self-development and respect for all cultures. and san francisco public schools, educators celebrate the achievements of our african-american and black students every day and strive for our schools to be welcoming and safe learning environments that empower each and every student to thrive in a changing world. in preparation for our fall 2021 full return to in-person learning, our district is planning to offer general education transportation services to a limited number of students -- of schools, i'm sorry. for students in grades k-5 attending elementary, k-8 schools and grades 6-8,

attending middle schools. the enrollment window is now open. to review the availability of service and to register, please visit sfsud.ed u/egbus, once again, sfusd.e d/gebus, ge-bus, for more information and you can also call the transportation department at 415-695-5505. i would like to wish everyone a restful and healthy summer. we look forward to seeing everyone back in school on august 16th. summer school programming the continue over the next several weeks with our early education excel and out-of-school time programs. finally, i'm excited to celebrate another recipient of this year's superintendent 21st century award winners. caleb parker.

caleb recently graduated from mission high school. caleb won the superintendent's award for "ready to be my best." let's learn more about him in this video. (♪♪) >> i'm caleb parker and i go to mission high school and i'm ready to be my best. i know that i can do it and everybody else knows that i can do it but my motivation comes from somebody telling me that i can't do it, so then i push myself to prove them wrong. when i do things, i do things to shine out, i want to be noticed, i want to be seen. >> caleb parker never lost sight of the possibility of attending

a four-year college. while in high school he enrolled in san francisco's state's "step to college program," attending classes on weekends. >> hi, my name is tishello heron lane, with san francisco state university and the associate director for 100% college prep. he feeds the homeless people, he does so much and it's like, caleb attends all of our virtual programs and our after-school stuff. and the zoom check-ins. his attendance is immaculate. >> supervisor ronen: he will major in chemistry and will tell you that he wants to find the cure for cancer. >> my grandma ends up getting cancer and one of my aunts ended up dying from cancer and i don't like to see have to deal with that pain and i want to find the way. >> supervisor ronen: what kind of support do you think that you'll need in college? >> i feel that i'm going to need a male mentor, someone to help me to stay on top of my stuff though i feel that i still may

be on top of my stuff and i feel that i may need a laptop because what can you do in college without a laptop? >> well, i'm proud of you, not only that you did the impossible, you're a first-generation college student. that's a burden and a privilege >> maintaining myself and going as hard as i can and doing my best is being ready to be me, ready to do my best. >> thank you, president lópez, and, finally, i just wanted to wish everyone a happy pride. we are just -- it's a privilege and an honor to celebrate our diversity. and with that, that ends my communications for this evening >> president lopez: thank you for sharing that. item 3, the delegates report.

there are none today. yeah. item 4, recognitions and resolutions and accommodations. there are none today. and item 5, recognizing all valuable employees, our rave awards. there are also none today. moving on to section c, advisory committee reports and appointments. item 1, community advisory committee for special education i'd like to call on the representative julia martin. >> hi, thank you, commissioner lópez. good afternoon, superintendent matthews, president lopez and commissioners and everyone else joining us this evening. my name is julia martin and i am proud to be here as your sfusd liaison to the community advisory committee for special education. before we start, i'd like to point out that the artwork on this slide and throughout tonight's report was created by sfusd students for inclusive

schools online art showcase. justin, thank you. i'll hold on one second as we get this set. okay. thank you so much. i'm now going to pass it on to our c.a.c. chair, although i'm not quite sure if she's up yet. danielle, are you available? >> she's not online yet. she's almost here. >> would you mind reading our next slide. i'll pass it to our advocacy chair. >> thank you. thank you, julia. i would like to take a moment to review the purpose and the responsibilities of the c.a.c. as defined by the california education code. our responsibilities is mandated are -- a, advising the special education local plan area or selpa leadership on special

education issues and concerns. b, recommending annual spending -- annual special education priorities. c, assisting in parent education priorities. excuse me -- assisting in parent education and recruiting parents and other volunteers. d, encouraging community involvement in special education issues and events. e, supporting activities on behalf of individuals with exceptional needs. f, assisting in parent awareness of the importance of regular school attendance. and, g, supporting community involvement in the community advisory committee to encourage the inclusion of parents and individuals with exceptional needs. in tonight's report we will share how the c.a.c. met these responsibilities while confronting and managing throughout a worldwide pandemic i would like to go to our chair

next slide, please. you're muted, carla. >> thank you. sorry. i'll start again. this very text heavy slide provides a comprehensive list of c.a.c.s, advocacy efforts, and special education issues addressed over the past year. as in past years, c.a.c. members participated in many district task forces and committee. this work remains a priority for the c.a.c. as it builds capacity and understanding across the district about the needs of students with disabilities. areas of particular focus were i.e.p. compliance, literacy, and accessibility issues. c.a.c. members worked non-stop to advise staff on our selpha and beyond to remember to

include our students with disability. the pandemic brought many new challenges to families with exceptionalities. we are building new and stronger partnerships with many groups inside and outside of sfusd, including the human rights commission, the s.f. department of children, youth and families as well as the mayor's office of disabilities. i'd like to pass it back it our c.a.c. advocacy chair. >> thank you. next slide, please. these were the c.a.c.'s priorities for the past year. focus on institutional racism, systemic bias, and ecinequity in education. and social and emotional supports for students post-covid-19. and increasing professional development and collaboration

for general education and special education staff. strengthening evidence-based academic interventions for literacy and math. our priorities for the coming year are very similar and we'll share those in the next slide. or show this later in the presentation. next slide, please. the four priorities that we just shared, most pressing this year was our focus on institutional racism, systemic bias, and equity. we want to take this opportunity to connect the dots around literacy and curriculum as a social justice issue and call out the works surrounding literacy in the comprehensive coordinated early intervening services plan and we ask folks to stay and to listen to the csafe presentation happening later in this meeting. this work is crucial, and the c.a.c. supports it wholeheartedly. the c.a.c. has advocated for the implementation of a.b.1369, the

dyslexia guidelines and structured literacy in every single presentation that we have made in front of this board for the past five years. now more than ever, the work cannot fall exclusively to the special education department. students receiving special education services are first and foremost general education students. the c.a.c. would like to thank our fellow advisory committees for their work, support and partnership through an extremely challenging year. the african-american parent advisory council, the district english learners advisory committee, the parent advisory council, the native hawaiian and pacific islander matula advisory couple, and in addition to the indian and migrant education and foster youth council. we were honored to work with you during the most trying of years as the advisories work to raise up the voices of our most marginalized students and families. we also respectfully ask that our students with disabilities are not forgotten in the fight for equity, and encourage our

board members to remember the importance of special education equity in creating the new student assignment system, in teaching disability history, and in ensuring that our students with i.e.p.s still have a path to graduation as we add new graduation requirements for sfusd students. now i'd like to pass it back to carla bobadila and next slide, please. >> i think that i need a button, you're muted. to educate community members on topics throughout the year. each spring, topics are chosen based on c.a.c. annual priorities and community input. during this past year, the c.a.c. covered all previously planned topics, plus additional issues that came up during the pandemic. this included a monthly special education updates as well as information about vaccine accessibility for those with disabilities and their caregivers. and we would like to thank chief

robertson and the many san francisco unified school district chiefs, directors and labor directors and community leaders who took time out of their busy schedule to address the needs of students with disabilities. during the pandemic our meetings have been held virtually and while many community members appreciated the accessibility of zoom, others missed in-person gathering. our last meeting of this school year will be held virtually this thursday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. we invite you all to join us as joe feldman from the community alliance for special education provides a presentation about special education i.e.p. processes. now i'd like to pass to our c.a.c. second chair, christina sher. >> hello. community involvement is important to the c.a.c. as it helps us to promote awareness about special education issues,

while providing important resources and information to the community. in october, the c.a.c. partnered with support for families of children with disabilities to host a watch party for the special education community about proposed changes to the student assignment system. and in november, the c.a.c. joined with other parent advisories to host a lunchtime informational session at the virtual enrollment fair. oh, my gosh, my kid will not stop playing with toys near me. [laughter] come here. oh, my goodness. close the door then. >> it's such energy to have that around. >> yeah, it's like a barking dog, whenever you want to speak -- anyways -- and then in december, c.a.c. members led inclusive school tweak events across the district. we want to give a special

shout-out to the students and alumni who participated in the young adult panel discussions, and the student artists who submitted visual art, music, writing, drama and dance pieces, to the inclusive arts showcase. in march, the c.a.c. partnered with sfusd and support for families to host the town hall specifically to address special education concerns and questions, and, lastly, in april, c.a.c. partnered again with support for families on their virtual information and resource conference. the conference was a great success and had over 400 participants. we thank dr. matthews for joining us. and we're sharing the website link here so that everyone can access the resources from this conference. next slide, please.

this year was all about the fight for access and inclusion. new programming was being put together quickly and sometimes the needs of students with disabilities were forgotten. we want to thank the student nutrition services for their willingness to include all students in our meal distribution sites and for securing a grant to expand door-to-door delivery services for disabled students. in many ways zoom meetings removed barriers to participation for individuals with disabilities. however, for those with hearing impairments and other disabilities, zoom presents many challenges. the c.a.c. advocated for closed captions in all district meetings, asl interpretation in large meetings such as tonight's board meeting, and other tools to make virtual meetings and distance learning accessible for all. we want to especially highlight mike bruce, with sfusd, the p.e.

department, and sasha trope with special olympics for holding virtual assemblies during inclusive schools week that promoted inclusion and disability awareness. over 3,000 sfusd students participated in these inspiring events. c.a.c. members advocated to ensure the rights of students with disabilities were considered in planning for a safe return to school. the most recent c.a.c. advocacy has been for access to "summer together" programming with bcyf and the special education department. and now i'd like to pass to our new social media manager, sam murphy. >> the c.a.c. -- i think that we need the next slide. the c.a.c. was busy this year advocating to ensure students with disabilities could participate in distance learning. this included advocating to ensure students received

emergency learning plans and service minutes that were sufficient for students to make progress on i.e.p. goals. receiving speech and physical therapy over zoom is not ideal. and even harder when service minutes are cut. we appreciate the stakeholders who heard c.a.c.'s public comments and worked to ensure the needs of students with disabilities were included in the final usefmu. and the c.a.c. is excited about early literacy grant block that awarded $50,000 each to five schools and sb237, a new law that proposes early screening for dyslexia for all students as well as consistent structural literacy interventions in special education planning. we were disappointed not to see structural literacy mentioned in the lcap. lastly, we wanted to point out the ongoing enrollment barriers for students with families with disabilities. school videos and school websites and the school finder

do not include all special ed classrooms. in addition, requiring families to upload i.e.p.s electronically is not only a ferca violation, but creates an undue burden on families as not everyone has access to technology. finally timelines for second enrollment rounds were so late that families could not hold i.e.p. transition meetings. we look forward to continued discussions with district staff on all of these topics. now i would like to pass to our outgoing c.a.c. secretary. next slide, please. >> the last c.a.c. responsibility we're going to talk about is the inclusion of families of individuals with disabilities. the majority of c.a.c. members are parents of students with disabilities. surviving a pandemic and stay-at-home order while caring for a child with disabilities is a heavy burden. c.a.c. members relied on each other for support and resources during this difficult year. we put together care packages

for our members, held a virtual member social, and made sure interpretation and closed captions were available for our meetings. c.a.c. parent members raised up the voices and concerns of the families of students with disabilities on multiple district committees as well as collaborating with our advisory alignment partners. c.a.c.'s special education advocacy addresses pressing family issues and concerns. c.a.c. members meet regularly with special education, district leadership, and participate in special education task forces. in may, the c.a.c. took their special education advocacy to the state level and met with state legislators -- state legislators and c.a.c.s across the state at a virtual selpa legislative advocacy day. you can see the bill that the

c.a.c. is advocating for in our appendix. now i will pass to our c.a.c. treasurer, william len. next slide, please. >> you are muted. >> sorry. as we look ahead to the 2021, and 2022 school year, we want to share our annual priorities and asks to the district. so here emotional and mental health supports and interventions are crucial priorities this year. we ask the district to continue to address the i.e.p. assessment backlog, build inclusive environments at all schools and provide a distance learning option for children who cannot return to school. racial, ethnic, and socio-economic justice and

inclusions remain an important priority. we ask the district to expand conversations surrounding implicit bias to include individuals with disabilities, improve accessibility in the enrollment process, and increase flexibility and communication in the transportation department. as we have shared, we believe math and reading interventions are civil rights issues. we ask the district to increase structured literacy in general education, provide covid recovery services to address regression and learning loss, involve parents in planning for return, spending for federal recovery funding and improve extended school year covid implementations. lastly, none of this can be

accomplished without staffing stability. we ask the district to increase special education, education and professional development and expand offerings to general education teachersing and to improve communication between the central office, teachers and families. now i would like to pass it back to our c.a.c. chair, danielle, next slide, please. >> thank you, everybody. thank you. i'm danielle, the chair from c.a.c. i'd like to take this opportunity to invite all of you to our monthly meeting held on the 4th thursday of the month. the topics and dates are listed here in this slide. as well as on our website. which is also noted in the slide. in december, we do not have a monthly meeting, but instead have plans for multiple events for inclusive school week, for

inclusive school week, and we hope that you will join us in this year's celebrations and activities. in addition, we have shared some of our favorite resources in the appendix of this report. so please look into that. and as always feel free to reach out and to contact us with any questions or discuss any of these topics further. our email is included here. and we look forward to hearing from you. again, hopefully we'll see you in august and thank you all for coming. >> president lopez: thank you for that. i do want to make sure we get to ask questions and share comments. but before we do, let's open it up to public comment where we'll do a minute each for each speaker.

>> clerk: thank you, president lopez. please raise your hand if you care to speak to the report that was just given on the advisory council for special ems. can we also repeat that message in spanish and chinese. >> interpreter: [speaking spanish] >> interpreter: [speaking cantonese] thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, michelle, would you like to go ahead? >> (indiscernible). >> clerk: yes. >> they put their hand down.

>> clerk: maybe i'll come down. >> caller: actually, i'm here, sorry. >> clerk: okay, go ahead. >> caller: i got mixed up on my unmuting too, even after 15 months you think that i would be used to it. i'm michelle jackman and i wanted to thank the members of the advisory committee for special ed and julia martin, the liaison, and ombudsperson for special ed. i really just want to appreciate your hard work this year and your continued collaboration over this year and previous, and i just request that you really take a good look at and listen to the things that the c.a.c. is asking for, please. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, paul, you have been un-muted. you can go ahead. >> caller: thank you, i appreciate your time. i just wanted to reach out and talk to the board as well as other people here about the implementation of the new start times for the fall, right? >> clerk: i'm sorry, paul -- i'm

sorry, paul, this is not the general public comment, this is only for comment on the -- >> caller: okay. >> clerk: yeah. a little later in the meeting you can speak on this. >> caller: i appreciate that, thank you. >> clerk: no problem. hello, megan? >> caller: hi, thank you. my name is megan cleus and i'm a behavioral schoolteacher in the district and a special education committee member. and i just wanted to thank all of the c.a.c. members who presented this afternoon, and also i want to remind everybody what an amazing partnership it is between our families and our educators. the priorities that you just saw in this presentation, um, are not just priorities of families these are priorities because our students need what they need and

our educators and our families have a partnership in trying to find ways to make education better. and i really appreciate all of the efforts of the c.a.c. in my 10 plus years being a member to make sure that that partnership is strong. that the lines of communication are open. and that we are working towards that common goal every time we are speaking before the board of education, at a committee meeting, or just run into each other at an advocacy event. it's been an honor to be associated with the c.a.c., and to help with that partnership. so thank you to all of you. >> clerk: hello, michelle parker? >> caller: hi, this is michelle parker, i'm a parent in the district and also a member of the p.t.a.

as we're finishing up this year i want to spend a massive amount of thanks to all of the parent volunteers, advocates that are part of it. i don't think that i am understating it when i say that i think that your continual presence and members from the c.a.c. being part of different committees throughout the district and part of p.t.a.s has been transformative in my importance over the past few years. the conversation around special education and how we can better serve our students with disabilities and look for those discrepancies among different groups of students has been critical. and i just don't remember those kinds of conversations happening to the same degree when my children were very little in sfusd. and i really credit this collaboration between sfusd staff, chief robertson and others in this group. so i want to just express my appreciation and also to the approach they would describe as critical fund approach that holds this district to account. but in a very supportive

collaborative way. so i just want to share my thanks there and my excitement about some of the collaboration that we have with the fall, and ways to involve p.t.a. -- p.t.a.s and understanding how students with disabilities and general education students first. these are over and over and how our schools are only as good as our special education programs are. >> clerk: thank you, you're out of time. sorry. >> caller: thank you again. >> clerk: all right. hello, rebecca? >> caller: hello, can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> caller: hi, i just wanted to give an amazing, like, thank you and appreciation to the c.a.c. like megan said, all of our goals in special education committee are totally aligned with everything that you put out, and i love how articulate and clear you guys were on your goals and i really appreciate

that. i do want to add that we'll try to hold the district accountable as well. we want to make sure that we're doing better by our students. just want to add a little comment that i have been serving the members about their experience with summer programming and i'm hearing a lot of people spending a lot of money on essential supplies and being told that they're not being reimbursed and they won't be reimbursed. if the kids have sensory issues and we have staff that is there, and they don't have a meltdown and there's a lot of sirens and they go out and they buy headphones so that kid doesn't have to suffer, it's our district's job to reimburse the district for that. we love to have some support in that. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, rianda.

>> caller: good evening, everybody. i'm rianda, one of the parents of leaders with apac and we just wanted to join tonight to thank julia and c.a.c. for their amazing partnership that we have had over the years. and especially the collaboration that we've had, even despite distance learning. we would like to support and echo the priorities that the c.a.c. has had for the 2021 school year, especially around structured literacy and ensuring that all of our conversations around implicit bias and racism include our babies with disabilities. this is one of our vulnerable populations but they're rarely talked about, so we just want to make sure that all of our work continues to focus on and to encompass those babies as well. thank you. >> clerk: thank you.

hello, chris? >> caller: hello, can you hear me? sorry, my phone just went off. good afternoon, i'm chris claus, a special education teacher from george washington high school. the work of the c.a.c. is so very valuable and our district is lucky to have this great group of advocates. i sincerely hope that sfusd will listen to their recommendations and notes. especially around communication with both families and educators of students with learning disabilities. families need to be made aware of and educated on their rights and the rights of their students to help to ensure that our students receive what they need to get their free and appropriate public education. this also means that when it comes to things like in-person e.s.y. after over a year of distance learning, families need more than just one email in a sea of emails or one robocall that they miss and not receive a voice mail about, so they can take advantage of their i.e.p. services, which are the rights of their students. of the eight students that

started on my roster this storm, not a single one of them received communication from the district about the e.s.y. placement. they all got communication from me. >> clerk: thank you, chris. >> caller: thank you. >> clerk: hello. >> caller: hi, first, i just want to thank everyone as a fellow family member as well as a c.a.c. member. your work has epic meaning for many, many families. the second thing is that i just wanted to highlight a couple things that were already mentioned. the first is, again, the literacy program for general ed students and as well as redefining and upgrading for special ed as well. the structural literacy programs across all schools are really, really important. the second thing is that i wanted to uplift encouraging

more knowledge about the history of civil rights for the disability movement and ethnic studies and curriculum and other areas as well as highlighting what it's like to be a disabled student. more books in libraries, more programs, art programs. anything to represent students who have disabilities so they can see that they're not alone and they are beautiful for who they are. so i would really encourage that. and the third thing is collaboration between general ed staff and special ed staff, within school sites. i think that this is highly, highly important and it will make a difference for every student, particularly special ed students beyond the i.e.p. meetings. as well as i would love to encourage any general staff that's here please to go to c.a.c. meetings, to go to

professional development opportunities, just to learn. >> that is your time. >> caller: thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you. hello, efron. >> caller: good afternoon, everyone. my name is efron and i'm the parent of two children with special needs and first and foremost i would like to thank the c.a.c. for all of your amazing work. your advocacy is very inspiring i want to present the priorities that you brought forth, particularly the ones around curriculum and structural literacy. i have to say that having a child that struggles with reading, it is essential to shift the approach on teaching reading. i can definitely see it with my own child and so i do -- i would like to see the district respond to these requests that have been

brought up time and time again, so i hope that they don't fall on deaf ears. so i'm really excited at the prospect of really influencing the approach, the curriculum, and the approaches to teaching reading moving forward. so thank you so much for all of your amazing work. i look forward to continuing to engage with you in the coming year. >> clerk: thank you. hello, tara. >> caller: hello. hi. my name is tara and i'm a teacher and a parent of a student with an i.e.p., so i really appreciate the c.a.c. and all the work that is done. i am teaching e.s.y. this summer and my admin is amazing and going above and beyond for students that were able to make it to e.s.y. this summer. so five of my kids were not able to get transportation and could not afford the upfront costs for the transportation. so i just want to put that out, that is still a problem.

but i really appreciate your work. and i also really love all of the parents calling in and requesting more information or the district to being doing structured literacy moving forward. my team that i work with is really excited about this and doing some personal studies on this and i hope that the district can encourage and increase that in our district this year. so, thank you for everything that you have done so far. see you tomorrow night at c.a.c >> clerk: thank you. president lopez that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: great. and i'm so happy to hear all of the appreciations that people have for c.a.c. i'd like to open it up for discussion. is there any questions or comments from commissioners? okay. okay. one thing i'll add before we

wrap up is that we are hearing a lot of the calls for literacy and really improving that for our students. i know that you all hold a lot of that knowledge. i recently attended the last meeting and i honestly learned a lot so i encourage a lot of us to do that and we would reach out to you as we're building up our literacy instruction within the district. and hopefully throughout the state. thank you for your work. okay. we are still in section c, advisory committee reports and we're moving on to item 2. appointment of members to the parent advisory council. i would like to call on michelle, the past director. >> thank you, president lópez. good evening, everyone. vice president moliga and commissioners and superintendent matthews and staff and community members, i am the coordinator

for the parent advisory council for the san francisco board of education. i am joined this evening by outgoing chair naomi to present the pac proposed slate for the 2021-2022 school year. i'm just saying this as a reminder to myself and to any of our candidates if they speak, we're going to try to go to a little bit slower so that all of the interpreters have a chance to keep up. now i'm going to turn it over to naomi. naomi, are you on? >> hi, hi, hi, everyone. i'm naomi laguna. and i have a rising a little grader and a -- eighth grader and a rising 12th grader. it's with a heavy heart that i have decided to resign from the pac at this time because we are putting our youngest son in a

private school for eighth grade and i just wanted to, you know, to be super positive that i really enjoyed my time on the pac. i have especially enjoyed my time as the chair working side-by-side with michelle, and that -- just to also to be really transparent, the pac brings a lot of different opinions and a lot of different views. michelle and i specifically don't always agree on things. but we've always been able to have a robust dialogue. and i'm often surprised by how many times michelle has influenced my thinking, changed my thinking, and made me much more open-minded, you know. we always come to the table that we're very open-minded but there's always more opening that can be done. i've always really appreciated being able to have such a bird's-eye view into how the

district works and i have valued my one-on-one conversations, the generosity of the district leaders i have met with, and one of the colleagues, hun may, i'm a bit of a know it all and do this and do that and they've always received my feedback with such grace, i literally couldn't do what they do in terms of hearing that kind of feedback. and with danielle, the head of h.r. for the district, he's also taken time to talk me through things and explain things and the generosity from these sfusd leaders has been really appreciated, very valued, and i feel so honored to have them. my interactions have all been positive, and without getting too personal, it became apparent that after multiple attempts to work something out with tommy school, we are moving him to a smaller private school, with a

better option for his academic achievement. and i am well aware -- no one needs to remind me, though i am sure that people will, i understand that my privilege and that i could do this and that there are a lot of people in similar position that i'm in with kids that are struggling post-pandemic that are not able to do that. at this point, i'm super committed over the summer to close out the school year with michelle, to prepare for next year, to help get the amazing candidates that we have coming forth, to get them orientated and to partner with michelle and i'm not going to leave anybody empty-handed. so i'll turn it over to michelle to present our future parent leaders. >> thank you, naomi. before we get to the actual presentation of our pac candidate slate for the 2021-2022 school year we thought that it might be help to feel give background and contextual information.

so in 2003, parent advocates lamenting the fact that there wasn't a formal mechanism for families to have a real voice in the decisions that affected their children, worked with the commissioners on the board of ed to pass a resolution that revitalized the parent council. it had been created about 10 years previously but it languished. so the purpose of the pac is to provide parent perspectives to the board of education commissioners in order to inform their discussions and decision-making around policy issues. those policies then, when implemented, guide the district in providing instruction and other services to students which directly impacts, of course, the students and also families. in order for the work of the pac to reflect the rich diversity of sfusd families, we strive to have our members reflect that diversity as closely as possible. and this is where i want to extend a sincere apology, i had planned on showing you some nice visuals that would help you your

brain, anyway, sort of -- sort of the diversity that's present in our family population in sfusd and sort of match that to, like, the number of pac seats and how well we represented, where we've got some gaps, but, unfortunately, i've been spending a lot of time in the past couple days responding to a lot of calls and texts and emails and the visuals didn't happen. it's summarized in our official memo that naomi will read in just a moment but i'm here and i'm happy to answer questions at the end if there's specific questions. i would turn it back to naomi to read the memorandum with the candidates nominated to the pac for the 2021-2022 school year. >> thanks, michelle. so the parent advisory council hereafter referred to as the pac, respectfully requests the commissioners of the board of education to appoint the following candidates recommended by the pac for appointment: amy

lee, maury vilaluna, sira mccannlis, michelle chan, selena chu, and iris maw as an alternate. the terms for these candidates will be for two years, beginning on july 1, 2021, and ending on june 30th, 2023. biographical information about these candidates and the pac's continuing members has been provided to you and is available on board docs. pac members discussed this on the meeting on may 25th, and also june 3, 2021, and our year-end meeting on june 16th, 2021. at our meeting on june 6th, the pac voted unanimously to approve these candidates to serve for the 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 school years. we present this recommendation to the board of education to

approve and to appoint these candidates to serve on the pac. the action will leave six regular and two alternate seats open. the pac is electing to leave these seats open in order to continue our recruitment. while the pac made significant progress from the previous year, recruitment for the 2021-2022 school year was still heavily impacted by the pandemic and continued school closures. the pac is committed to reflecting families from diverse cultural backgrounds across areas of the city and different types of schools, and aims to reflect the family populations of sfusd as closely as we possibly can. the pac currently underrepresents the district's indigenous, arab, southeast asian, filipino x and latinx communities as well as those supporting foster youth and those experiencing homelessness the pac is committed to representing the voices of all

sfusd families in addition to continuing our outreach to recruit more parents from these communities to apply. we will work with our community partners in order to reflect the voices of these families regardless of whether or not they can serve on the pac. the pac's full membership is 15 regular members and three alternates for a total of 18 members. serving stagged two-year terms. to fill the open seats the pac will continue to foster relationships in the coming year with other advisory groups, community-based organizations, and parent groups at school sites to recruit qualified candidates. pre-pandemic, the pac was conducted -- sorry -- the pac had outreach through district-wide events and stakeholder engagement efforts as well as attending schoolates and attending p.t.a. and other school site meetings and partnering with sfusd school liaison and other advocacy groups and the parent-community

networks. this past year, the pac has pivoted to doing more intentional outreach to community organizations that work directly with the parents and families, especially those supporting families in our least represented communities. all applicants were interviewed by pac using standards that had applicants attending a pac meeting where they introduced themselves, shared why they wanted to be on the pac, and answered questions that the pac recommends that these candidates with several factors in mind. sorry, that was a run-on sentence and i'll read that again. this year the pac is using a standard set of questions and applicants attended a recent pac meeting where they introduced themselves, shared where they wanted to be on the pac and answered questions. the pac recommends these candidates with several factors in mind, including their understanding of issues facing

sfusd, their volunteer and advocacy previous experience, and the pac's role to represent different communities and parent perspectives and the demographic makeup of those continuing and prospective members. that's it. and then we go through -- do you want me to read who is currently on the pac? >> no, that's okay, thank you, naomi. so this part concludes our official presentation but before we end i would like to say a few things. i know that there's controversy surrounding some of the candidates on our slate and through multiple conversations with parent leaders and colleagues and others, i reflected on why this is and why it's happening now, this year, when to my knowledge pac appointments have not typically been a controversial issue. and one thing is that this past year parents have been faced with being much more directly impacted and seeing the direct impact on their children of the decisions made by the board of education and district

leadership. i believe that many parents still feel unheard and they're more invested in the workings of the board and district in groups like the pac as a result. this contempt inspires activism and in times like these it's all the more important that pac be a broad range of diverse parent voices. for those who may not know, the pac operates as a team. we come together with our difference experiences and perspectives, different goals and we engage in dialogue. we share with and we listen to one other and we learn from each other like you have heard, and together we come to a place of understanding. (please stand by)

>> this is last time i will share this platform on naoimi. we worked closely together to guide the p.a.c. through the pandemic and distance learning. during this time, she has been a tireless advocate and an invaluable thought partner from whom i have learned a great deal. while i support her and her family decision, i wish them all

the best. i will miss her deeply. i know we're losing an important voice for families. thank you, this concludes our presentation. some of our candidates are online. we welcome your questions and comments. >> president lopez: thank you for sharing. ky get a motion and a second before we continue? >> so moved. >> second. >> president lopez: thank you. i want to say quickly, i understand your decision and hopeful for your new journey. i want to share messages before we begin public comment on this item. given what we heard this week, there's a campaign targeted

bullying by sharing personal contact information, commenting on photos of their child and misgenderring them. which is disturbing during pride month. sfusd has nondiscrimination policy about harassment and discrimination. many people are watching and learning from our behavior. i will not allow this level of bullying and harassment to continue that targets the parents who dedicate much of their time and work to helping our students. i do want to say this has been a time of deep reflection and learning for the board. we appreciate all the work that the p.a.c. did to bring you recommendations forward. for those who are trying to bully and harass the nominees, i suggest you take a step back to reflect on the way you want to participate in this work, especially when working for children and trying to model for them how he should treat one another. we'll continue with public comment and we'll do one minute

each. no more than 20 minutes during this time. >> clerk: president lopez, please raise your hand if you care to speak to the parent advisory council candidates. we also have that in spanish and chinese. [speaking foreign language] [voice interpreter] >> clerk: thank you. caller with the 415716 number. go ahead.

caller? another caller with the 415310 phone number. are you there? ms. marshall? >> caller: thank you. to president lopez, vice president moliga, i'm honored to give support for mari villaluna. she gives so much of her time to sfusd. she has been forth right and always student centered. mari i apologized that you and

your family has been bullied. being bullied is not the sfusd way. i thank the team for sponsoring mari to present her name to us. she will make an excellent candidate on the p.a.c., because she's student-centered first. thank you so much. >> president lopez: i want to add, mari their preferred pronounces are they, them. >> clerk: julie? >> caller: i'm calling to voice support mari villaluna on the p.a.c. mari was part of the original effort to remove police from schools following at incident at thurgood marshall.

they may be the first out non-binary parent on an advisory board and already helped the p.a.c. and sfusd adopt gender affirming languages on their forums. we'd be lucky to have them. without taking away from mari the accomplishments incident to take a moment to condemn the attacks on mari yesterday. resulted in non-binary indigenous parent and their child being targeted and harassed. this crossed the line. increased the distance has been asked to take the post down. it remains up. i would ask that they take this post down immediately work to repair this harm. i believe there are some folks called on earlier who were speaking. i don't know in they were

unmuted. thank you. >> caller: hello, thank you. i am a friend and i would say family member of mari villaluna and their child. i have worked with mari with the children's council with removing the pioneer statue, removing the washington mural. they are a fierce advocate for marginalized communities, most especially bipoc, black and indigenous people of color as well as queer and gender nonconforming people.

i feel like these are very important perspective that need to be represented while also, being a fierce advocate for any and all other marginalized communities. i think that they would be an excellent choice for the parent advisory council and i would very sincerely ask to please support her bid for the parent advisory council. thank you. >> clerk: amy? >> caller: hello. to the members of the board, president and vice president, i'm also a parent and there were times in my life when i really wanted to be more involved with advisory council. i knew that my child really needed more of me.

we've got mari now. can you believe it? we've got mari where mari is finally with their child, able to say, you know what, we're ready. i can dedicate more of my time to more of this volunteer work. we know those of us who know mari, if you don't know, mari will show up to everything. mari will dedicate so much time and energy and create documents and make them beautiful and colorful. will give everything to it. didn't mean -- [indiscernible]. this is a strength of mari. mari will bring so much dedication, time and energy and perspective. especially during pride month. we got to recognize, they, them pronouns. thank you.

>> clerk: remainder to everyone. you have one minute. hello brandy? >> caller: hello my name is brandy markman, mari was loved and just so excited that the p.a.c. has chosen them for this role. i got to know mari through removing the washington mural and the richmond district high school that my son will likely attend. i have the world to respect for mari. they are someone who many of us that are social and racial justice encompasses to. our trans children really need a voice on the p.a.c. they don't have one. i think it's so important and so many ways. i want to echo what a previous caller said about decreasing the

distance. publicly calling out mari on social media. also tagging in a real estate and tech group to pile on. both of -- [indiscernible] >> clerk: lee? >> caller: hi. i actually like to ask the board to consider rejecting display of candidates and send it back for further consideration. not because of the qualification or passion of any of the individuals, i admire all their passion. you turned down a very highly qualified candidate recently because he didn't bring enough diversity, despite there were no men and men make up half of the caregivers of students in sfusd. he is, i think, he would have been the first and only gay member of the committee. now to hear people lauding

someone who yeah, someone of that community. that is a good thing. it seems pretty hypocritical to focus on that. i also -- we know the evidence is out there. some of the people on this on board is buddies with the commissioners. the purpose of this p.a.c. is to be independent. when we can see that some people are funneling social media to a commissioner to publish and giving them a language, i don't think -- [indiscernible]. please reconsider to include especially male voices. we got to have that. >> clerk: meredith? >> caller: hi. my name is meredith osborne. i am a sfusd alumni.

i think it's deeply ironic that the parents who sought to understand and repeatedly called out the board failurely to school reopening were repeatly to work through the p.a.c. now those same parents are being excluded from the p.a.c. this shows the p.a.c. and the board a lack of legitimacy and credibility and any subsequent claim that the p.a.c. represent current voices is deeply suspect. bullying and harassment is never acceptable, genuine criticism of the board's critics is vital part of the democracy against corruption. >> clerk: that's your time.

honey? >> caller: hi, my name is honey mahogany. i'm the chair of the san francisco democratic party. i'm speaking in my capacity as a concerned citizen. i'm proud to be here to speak in support of mari villaluna. mari embodies many of the qualities hope to see in the member of the p.a.c. as someone who group in the city and raising child here and advocate for trans and non-binary rights and rights and needs of indigenous people and organizer for children and their family, mari will be an important and powerful addition

to the parent advisory council and i hope the board will affirm the past recommendation and approve mari villaluna application. i want to say that i'm disappointed but not surprised by some of the attacks on mari and her child. these attacks are shameful, they are why mari approval is essential. >> clerk: meredith? >> caller: hi. this is meredith dodson. i deeply respect the p.a.c. and hoping it can become independent parent body it serves to be. last i-team parents reached out to the p.a.c., parents from our group reached out to the p.a.c. regarding reopening. we were told the p.a.c. couldn't advocate for that. if the p.a.c. truly represent the diverse effect of families across the district, this would need to exist.

our recent social media post wasn't about one person. i'm certain that mari is a wonderful person, fierce advocate and i would love to get to know them. our post was about the gross political appointments being made by the b.o.e. in importance to direct lobbying. which didn't include mari as well as the previous caller, brandy and julie who smear attack our group and our parents all over social media and elsewhere. i'm disappointed by the ongoing political favors that show up. i'm saddened by the politicalization of our district. >> clerk: thank you. hello cal? >> caller: where are the dads?

there also only one queer member. this is not diversity. we have to remember that taking into account intersectionality while ethnicity is a huge part of diversity, it includes the diversity of genders, diversity of identities, sexuality, genders and this p.a.c. is not representative of that. they recognized it and wanted to have a p.a.c. here we are, more than four months later with a slate that does not include a dad yet again. this is not a critique of them. we understand that you're operate within your means. the p.a.c. is supposed to be a body that is able to put itself together and then provide recommends to the board. yet, even when the p.a.c. identifies qualified candidates, they don't get to make sure those people are painted. it doesn't make any sense. please listen to the parents.

>> clerk: thank you. tara? >> caller: i'm a parent of second grader. i'm call to support mari candidacy for the p.a.c. mari has been an advocate in the district. i think that they have proven that they are here for all students. they have some parent who are new. we have some parent who are new to advocacy this year because they see their children were affected by distance learning. i would encourage them to look and listen at the advocacy that already exist in the district and learn from what people have been doing and work with people instead of trying to counter advocacy efforts and replace

advocacy efforts with their own people. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: i want to surface that bullying is never okay. criticism is not bullying which mari was part of a campaign led by prior callers to discredit the candidacy. they attempt to -- discredit. commissioner collins was directing mari to post articles on behalf. which is an extraordinary discovery. the point is we're rubber stamping yes persons. people who are tasked with opinions into parent communities

are now getting tap to reportedly represent parents. the purpose of the p.a.c. is to provide parent perspective to the board. in other words, the exact opposite of the manipulative behavior that collins is engaging in. particularly with the members and the district for $87 million. >> clerk: that's your time. >> president lopez: i want to remind people it is under a minute. we trying to get many voices in as possible. >> clerk: thank you. kerry? >> caller: i'm a parent of rising first grader at sanchez elementary. given the recent conversation on

social media, i'm calling in support of mari villaluna being appointed to the sfusd parent advisory council. it is significant that mari is an indigenous person of color who will be the first member of the sfusd parent advisory council committee to use they and them pronouns. mari's advocacy is part of a long history of student and family centered truth telling and community building that earned mari the incredible reputation. i feel confident that mari will provide the representation and collaboration, sfusd needs to make our district excellent, equitable and inclusive. >> clerk: thank you yvette?

>> caller: the hypocrisy is rich. i understand people calling in and they have issues with candidates. that's fine. that's what supposed to happen. i want to push back on lot of what has been said. it appears that only disconsent when it is politically connected. that is a shame. you keep talking about pride month, -- i hope these new members will be mindful of their responsibility. i hope they put aside any sort of issues they have with communities and bullying? i wish sfusd and acknowledge the bullying that taken place against previous candidates that came forward. this is a community. we do not have to disagree and we should be respectful of each

other. good night. >> clerk: we have over a minute left. >> president lopez: one do one more. we'll do one more and we can hear from the panelist who are also waiting. >> clerk: thank you. jennifer? >> caller: i'm calling in to thank the p.a.c. for their really extensive outreach they did bringing a complete plate forward. toward the building a p.a.c. that reflects our families and our students of san francisco unified district i like to note

that mari villaluna who's tireless work has been an incredible benefit and always focuses on supporting students and their families, especially underrepresented students and their families. last summer, mari on her own -- on their own time, on a friday night, reached out to my school to support us in engaging renaming process. they engaged actively with us, on doing outreach on sharing information and always available to answer questions. they helped us in many ways making connections with other advocates and with indigenous voices in our community to help us in the renaming process. >> clerk: carla b.? >> caller: you know what, murphy had her hand up first.

i will her go first. >> clerk: sam, go ahead. >> caller: i'm speaking as a parent and not a c.a.c. support. i want to speak in support of mari villaluna for the p.a.c. i been in several meetings with mari and their perspective has given me great insight to what a solo parent in our expensive city is going through. i find it disgusting some groups seem to be pretty ignorant of the p.a.c. membership process are targeting mari. mari is part of several groups. please don't let an organization group of parents derailed from our equity goals. aim very upset of the public online cruelty trying to pit the lgbtq+ community against each other with lies. mari is braver than me. i appreciate them putting

themselves forward to this. thank you. >> clerk: carla? >> caller: i would like to show my support for the p.a.c. for all of their hard work. i want to highlight all of the candidates that were put forth. i want to defer to the fact that all of these families, all of the parents are volunteers. there's no accolades. there's no monetary value that's getting attached to their time and their service. it's very difficult, especially during a pandemic to find parents who have the strength and the wherewithal to continue to volunteer during this time. we need a diverse group of people. we need different voices. we need our lgbtq voice. we need our disabilities voice, we need our people of color voice. we need all the voices at the table. we need to stop the divisiveness

that's happening. p.a.c.s want to bring a voice to their specific issue but also including all of the voices in the room. >> caller: as it's been said multiple times, this has been a tough year to be on any p.a.c., c.a.c., any of them. thank you for those doing the work. this kind of toxic rhetoric makes our recruiting for years in the future a lot harder. it makes it harder for us to bring people in, to hear all the voices. we have moved forward this year. we had -- the c.a.c. had an

agenda what we wanted to do. that got twist upside down by the pandemic. we've done the best we can to stay with it. we welcome new voices. all the other advisory committees done the same thing. we appreciate those who have joined this year. work in partnership with us and who have tried to be allies and co-conspirators to elevate voices in our community. it's really important for our communities to be approving members who have been there doing the hard work. >> clerk: president lopez this concludes public comment.

>> president lopez: i want to open up for discussion before we vote. i see michelle. >> i'll be brief. i do i want to correct a few incorrect facts that came up. one is -- [indiscernible] unfortunately, no fathers applied to the p.a.c. for the spring. that's why there's none. steph did not put his nomination forward again. to my knowledge, as well, no one affiliated with decreasing the distance applied to the p.a.c. in this spring round. we interviewed everyone we can get a hold of and gave

opportunities to everyone. i want to clarify that the message from the p.a.c. earlier this year wasn't that we couldn't advocate for reopening schools because it wasn't a district priority. because it wasn't, we weren't hearing it as a priority on our group and from the families that we were connected to. thank you. >> president lopez: commissioner lam? >> this is a really awkward place to be. i expected this from hearing about what happened on social media. i will say this.

we don't need to bring up the past yet again. everyone has mentioned it. none of us was happen how that was handled. that's a huge bummer. we have to move on from that now. it's not going to help anybody to keep going after that. i think that the language we're using about bullying that happened on social media, i do feel, in my opinion, not only the p.a.c. as a parent, we're over using that word. i think that other people said very equivalent things about seth. it's like tit for tat. the slate that we have, we all feel good about or we wouldn't be doing this. we welcome those that are interested in joining the p.a.c. we are not a political

organization. however, the board of education is a political position. we're working with the board of education. whether we like it or not, there's things that happen within the climate of the work that we do. i want to say that it's heart breaking to see parents in such disagreement. i think that we have to at some point, tray to come together and advocate for our kids. >> president lopez: commissioner lam? >> commissioner lam: thank you naoimi for your service. i learned a a lot from you over the past year. i appreciate our one-on-one conversations. i want to thank you for your

service. i'm sorry, i'm sad to see you go. i want to acknowledge and recognize that you're making a decision that's best for your child and your family. so thank you. i want to thank michelle and the overall p.a.c. for this process. it was a transparent process. as the board, last time had wanted to have a more diverse slate. i want to acknowledge that process that this is also a slate that's brought forward and a p.a.c. that's unanimous. i'm going to take a few minutes because i felt like i have not articulated since we all were together with our previous p.a.c. nomination. the main purpose of the p.a.c. board is to provide and it remains my hope that we maintain representative and active parent voices in our school district.

this year, our district lost the voice of a gay father with excellent qualifications for this p.a.c. because we deemed he was not diverse enough. i regret how the board displayed poor behavior and the process that came up that evening the last time was disheartening. this is not how i and i hope my colleagues see us conducting ourselves as a governing body of the san francisco unified school district. as spoken with the father, who has sense made a decision, not going to renew for p.a.c. and making some decisions for his family, i want to ensure that we continue to make decisions with parents that are inclusive. we don't lose good parent leaders in our district. we need to ensure that as part

of the ask or i would say charge to the p.a.c., was to ensure that we had more racially but also language diverse of slate of candidates. i'm very happy and positive to see that we have a slate of chinese speaking and chinese-american parents. which we had zero chinese-american on the p.a.c. thank you. thank you to the p.a.c. for really taking this to heart. again, this process, building up a relationship and rebuilding confidence and trust with our school communities and families. i recognize we have much work to do. although, i know concerns have been brought up about candidates. i think it will be critical to see how this body is going to

work together with very differing perspectives. that's going to be the challenge before this p.a.c. collectively. similar to what has been raised earlier, we do need to move forward. we need to move forward on behalf of our children and our students. i said this time and time again. they are counting on us and we are just about to return all of our students back to in-person learning. i encourage parents who are interested, who kind of sitting and observing. i served as a parent volunteer for the district nearly 10 years before coming to the board of education. those parent voices are critical i do not take them for granted. also technology. we still have slots open. we have available slots and i

have been in conversation with michelle and naomi and p.a.c. members how we will bring diverse voices. i want to acknowledge the importance of encouraging fathers and dads to serve on this body. when i led a parent leadership program, often similarly, recruiting and retaining fathers and dads participate was an important one. we had to do it. it required deeper outreach as well as communities that aren't represented. i wanted to thank the p.a.c. this has been a difficult process and year. i wanted to send my appreciation. >> president lopez: any of the candidates who would like to

share or add anything before we vote? let's do a roll call vote on this item. [roll call vote] that's seven ayes. thank you. >> president lopez: thank you so much everyone. moveing on to section d, discussion of other educational issues. item 1 is our regular update on

return to in-person learning. >> thank you, president lopez. we're having a regular update regarding our return to in person learning this fall. our mission is that everyday for each and every student, we provide quality instruction and equitable support so they can thrive in 21st century. that's what everything that we're attempting is all aimed around doing just that. meeting our mission. as we're planning for the fall, what we're doing, we're monitoring state and local guideline and directions. we're scheduling summer convening that allow us to hear from stakeholder. we're planning for a full return

this fall, august 16, 2021. we do this in the context of our commitment to our students and families and making responsible commitments given our current context. being united and student centered are key core values to this work. we're working through reduced capacity this spring and summer as staff will deployed to support school site and school year calendars. we're looking at addressing our budget deficit. our commitment remains centered on our students. we want to make sure that we're taking responsible steps to serve our students and our families. as we prepare for the full fall return, we will continue to focus on key components that include health and safety

measures, preparing our facilities, focusing on instruction and accelerating learning and including additional academic and wellness resources for students, supporting our staff full return and aligning our resources to support all of these efforts. we will focus on three of those in the update today. current health and safety information, instructional planning and communication. as an organization, and a team committed to being student centered, we will remain fully committed to the full return of in-person learning. we will continue to follow all state and local guidance as we plan for the coming school year. since the january 8th, board of education meeting -- since the june meeting, the state has official it will roped.

the new begin eliminates mandatory masking for vaccinated people indoors. eliminated social distancing in most settings. however, masks will still be required in some settings including transportation and indoor school class. the california department of public health that the intention is that all students should be safely back to full in-person instruction on school campuses this summer and fall. we will await the guidance from the california department of public health and the san francisco department of public health for schools. cal osha is released emergency temporary standards which align with both the california department of public health and cdc. among other things, safe coverings are not required for vaccinated people and physical distancing has been eliminated.

we're currently working on a plan to reopen central offices in alignment with cal osha guidance. cal osha guidance requires documents and employee vaccination status and the san francisco department of public health will require vaccination for employees for some settings but not in school setting. however, any vaccination requirement could not go into effect until the covid-19 vaccine have. full approval from the f.d.a. which city officials expect will happen later this summer. now, i'll turn it over to our deputy superintendent of communications. >> thank you dr. matthews. we continue to partner with the san francisco department of public health mission wellness and ucsf cares. we thought we might have a school site that will be opening

in the mission. because sfusd has partnered with many mission agencies, they have decided to no open a vaccine site at all sfusd mission school. we continue to send regular messages to families regarding both burton high school as well as other vaccine opportunities. from now until july 15th, family members 12 years and older can receive pfizer vaccines at the burton high school auditorium every wednesday and thursday from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the coming weeks, we'll have a personal guest. tomorrow, representatives from the warriors organization, not team members, wonderful part of the organization, will be on hand throughout the entire vaccine clinic at burton. handing out warriors stickers and face masks.

in addition, they will have giveaways of warriors memorabilia every hour. state superintendent will be visiting at 5:45 p.m. at burton high school. very own superintendent matthews, commissioner jenny lam and other commissioners will be in attendance. we also wanted to emphasize that in addition to the burton opportunity, we continue to share with our families the many locations throughout san francisco where they can receive a vaccine. we are working with the city as well as with sfusd to reach our focal population who are underrepresented in our city vaccine rates. which are overall very high. in order to really help make

sure that we can have our community stay safe as possible. that we i can find various ways to ensure there's access for those students and families to get vaccines. in addition to communicating about vaccine opportunities, we continue to share relevant information updates with our families and staff over the summer. this week, we're focused on getting the word out about the new cal osha requirements and what they mean for our non-school based offices. we're sharing messages regarding the availability of general education transportation services to k8 students at a limited number of schools starting in the fall. now i want to tell you more about some of the townhalls that we mentioned at our last meeting. we are continue to prepare to

host three townhalls as well as to make ourselves available and ucsf through our partnership with them, also has doctors available to attend other community convenings as well. we hope that these three townhalls will provide families specifically with answers to questions related to health and safety. we will also have people present to talk about other topics of interest to family members. we will be reaching out in the next week letting families know that they can participate in one of these three townhalls that we have scheduled july 6th, we'll be offering a townhall in english with interpretation. we will on july 7th, we will be hosting a meeting in spanish with english interpretation and on july 8th we'll be hosting a

meeting in cantonese with english interpretation. we will provide closed captioning and a.s.l. which will be hosted virtually on zoom to help ensure access for families as well as through facebook live. now, i will turn it back over to superintendent matthews. >> thank you. for instructional planning sections, we'll be sharing information about our independent study proposal and high level components of our planning for the opening of the 2021-2022 school year. this will be very high level components. our district is excited to be planning for full in-person return this fall.

as i said many times. five days a week and we're excited about that. people have asked what that mean. the response is think about what is looks like december of 2019 before the pandemic. what five full days of instruction is. as we prepare for the fall, we doing small subset of statutes will not able to return to school as they had before the pandemic. in addition, our board resolution calls for an alternative option for virtual independent study of pilot program. the pilot program will be for those few students extremely extenuating circumstances related to covid-19. as we work with our educators to develop this program, we are building from the current successes we've had at independent high schools and best practices we have learned from virtual learning.

in addition to providing our independent study options in the fall, we will offer a virtual academy program for students who cannot return. we're leveraging our current independent study resolution to launch this virtual program. this evening's amendment to the resolution are on our agenda. students participating in the virtual program will have a dedicated teaching staff, former application for the program and student work expectations. this limited program will prioritize literacy in mathematics instruction for student who cannot return to in-person school in the brick and mortar. we are extremely happy to return to in-person learning in the fall. we're planning to return to full instruction for five full days. we'll be back to full in-person learning five full days. it's important to know that as we plan for the fall, we will

hold vision 2025 and our graduate profile, that's what we expect for all graduates when they leave our system, we are holding these as our guiding start. we will continue to work to make sure our students are engaged in learning that is meaningful and collaborative in an environment that is responsive and humanizing. in our district, we call that deeper learning. we're committed to building capacity in our leaders, to build the capacity of our educators as a means to achieve the graduate profile. we are reflecting on all the ways we've innovated this year. students should expect to return to the classrooms. personalized learning experience for each and every student. we're planning to launch units focused on community building,

individual relationship building through culturally response --responsive and humanizing pedagogy. we're planning to differentiate instruction through intervention, acceleration and enrichment strategy to accelerate learning. we're committed to continue to move towards a graduate profile through deeper learning. in order to achieve these outcomes, we're planning to leverage consistent structures of support to align professional learning, coaching, resources and materials to the instructional priorities i just shared. you maybe asking, what can you do? support the effort to increase vaccination rates in san

francisco. please get vaccinated. that's critically important. this is how we take care of each other. this is how we come back in the safest environment possible. students 12 and older get vaccinated, all adults please get vaccinated. we are still waiting for guidelines from our legislators. please contact state legislators and release these guidelines. once again, families, please make sure your contact information sun to date. we will be sending out information this summer. it's important that in order for you to get that information, your contact information has to be up to date. this allows us to alert you immediately with important updates relate to your child both over the summer and when we return in the fall. president lopez, that's the end of our presentation for this evening. >> president lopez: thank you for all of that work.

i know we'll be taking a break in july from board meetings. that's not to say that this is going to continue throughout the summer. let open it up to public comment. we'll do a minute each. no more than 20 minutes for this section. >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to the return of in-person update. [speaking foreign language] >> caller: hi. thank you for taking my call. i'm a parent of a student at jefferson and a student at a.p.g.

i want to comment and encourage the board and the district to seriously work on putting outdoor learning into the plan for the fall. if we want to be helping our children get back to normal, one of the major things that we can do is help them with their social, emotional well-being. one of the best ways to do that is to get them outside and interacting. where nobody is worried and where everybody can enjoy fresh air and be able to learn in a variety of ways. we can also help advance sfusd goals of providing a 21st century education appropriate for our children by doing so. being part of an understanding natural environment is going to be critical to solving problems like climate change as we progress. that is already a burden we have put on our children. we need to help people get comfortable with being outside, learn how to do different things. we need to help people get comfortable with adapting to change. there's a lot of change. this is one concrete way that we

can get kids and staff and adults and administrators all feeling better and working towards positive change. >> clerk: thank you. meredith? >> caller: hi. we're really happy to hear about the updates here. thank you dr. matthews. happy to see the work being done on the shape of the parent independent study option for kids. it's so important to have that option for the families who are unable to return to in-person learning because of being immunocompromised or other circumstances that they have. thank you for that.

we're really delighted to see things moving along with the buildings getting ready. thank you for those posts. >> caller: i wanted to bring up just -- i'm not sure what the status is on ventilation and in terms of every site being ready for reopening. like to see on that list, whether or not windows are opening. whether or not things are properly ventilated. i think that would be a good transparent document to have as

we begin school in the fall. i think this is going to come up at the next townhall. the covid vaccine, the childs only 6 months out when teacher got vaccinated and 9 months out when a student, i'm wondering if there's any thought or consideration about need more booster shoots. lastly, the governor just announced that rents can be forgiven. there should be a district wide housing resource center for families. thank you. >> caller: good evening board and commissions, superintendent matthews. tonight, as a parent, we have

some real questions this time. often times sfusd operates with blue sky thinking. we want to know what are we going to do to actually support our teachers with process of returning to school? what is the curriculum? can we name it? how are we ensuring that there's enough curriculum being distribute to each and every one of our classrooms? right now some schools is second steps but that is only in certain classrooms. other classrooms has to share. how are we ensuring that every single class and every single school has the resources to support our children? we also like to know what training will our teachers get around social and emotional well-being? thank you. >> clerk: thank you.

>> caller: thank you all for working so hard on reopening. i hope we're able to stick to that guideline of getting fully in-person by the first day of school. obviously, first priority is working out of what it would take to meet that deadline. i hope that all of you will consider things like guidelines surrounding extracurricular and sports. part of school is working outside of class, joining interest clubs and also beyond that, it's a big part of college acceptance and large aspect what the district is looking for to get their students in college and good colleges. having an entire year or whatever without -- [indiscernible] can be detrimental to students mental health. please consider it.

>> caller: [inaudible] >> clerk: gabriel? >> caller: i'm a parent of a second grader. i wanted to urge the board and

the school district to consider the early year start time. we did a poll only about 4 out of 100, 8 out of 71 parents polled said that early start time works for them and their family. earlier start time seem to give the majority of parents real concerns about mental health impact, about early learning. >> clerk: this is only about information that was given to return to in-person learning

update. >> caller: we're not talking about the school start time? >> clerk: we're not. jennifer? >> caller: hi. my name is jennifer. [indiscernible] i think i heard you say that even vaccinated kids are going to have to announce. i'm wondering how that is going to be good for social emotional development as well as speech development. i think it's going to be very hard for her to wear a mask all

day and be understood and heard and feel included in the conversation. thank you. >> clerk: kris? >> caller: i want to share that i know that you ucsf is actively bargaining for full return to in-person instruction this fall right now. i have two requests regarding return. the first is that sfusd communicate effectively with student families and staff. especially with complications of returning start times when no student family or even on the ground educators staff member input was considered in a sudden decision to change start time a full year with little to no notice. the second is that sfusd fully

consider the needs of students with i.e.p.s, english learners, foster youth and disadvantaged group of student, many of whom who fall into multiple categories. that means that online learning options need to actually meet their needs but overlap with the needs for higher level and academic support. you need to support all students. thank you. >> clerk: meagan? >> caller: hi. i too, very proud to know that ucsf is at the table. making sure we are fully prepared to receive students it full-time in the fall. i want to remind everybody that we don't want to go back to business as usual when we return. we want education that reaches

all students. that wasn't the case for the pandemic. we can't go back to the way we were. we have this rethink what works for students and families and support our educators in meeting their needs. our educators are ready to embrace education that opens up for students. we are asking that the school board and the district embrace this change and work with us to make it happen for our students.

>> caller: there's so much work that needs to be done. not just the families in the p.a.c. not just families on these calls tonight. i hope we can encourage our educators, our p.a.c. and everyone else to talk to families on the ground. this means reaching out via whatever way is necessary to get to those families. this meeting is not going to do that. while i love this plan. i hope that you're talking to people everyday about what they

really need in a way that meets them where they are. thank you guys so much. i'm so excited for being back in the fall and full day, appreciate all the work. please make sure that you are talking to families that are not just on these calls. thank you. >> caller: just couple of things. i like to thank commissioner lopez for reaching out to cdc to try to get more guidelines. in reference to social distancing and other relevant areas in we need to know, i wanted to support you and to encourage others to advocate in that area. to get that information as soon as possible. the second thing is, i wanted to thank you for making this work to the best of your ability for all students. i want to echo that is important. all students.

things like second steps, they might be okay. they might not. it's important that we collaborate, we talk to each other, we keep talking to local groups and their parents and advisory committees and every one to figure out truly what our students need versus relying on a program like second steps or even covid recovery. that would be my ask. thank you so much. >> clerk: forgive me if i mispronounce this. >> caller: hello. good afternoon. i'm a youth leader -- we're currently have been prioritizing our work. one of the most important points is having live classes for every student in the sfusd school system.

[indiscernible] these personalized assessments assessmentsare to get students e and not fail. i hope this can be great for our students to make sure we make come back better and stronger. thank you. >> clerk: joanna? >> caller: good evening. i'm a member of the student advisory council. i'm glad to see that we have planned townhalls in tonight's reopening update. echoing cal students are looking for transparency around

extracurricular guidelines. i hope to see this at the townhalls and see students voice prioritized. thank you. >> clerk: sheila? >> caller: hi, i'm a teacher and a parent in san francisco unified district. i'm excited about the return to in-person learning five days a week. we talked a lot about communication. we talked about bullily tonight. i seen lot of bullying including from members of this board. i think as we move forward, we need a plan for the adults to treat each other with kindness and inclusiveness. i don't feel safe speaking right now. we really need plan where we treat one another. we need to do better all of us.

thank you. >> clerk: moving to panelists. danielle, would you like to go ahead? >> thank you very much. i'm chair of the c.a.c. for special education. we wanted on to share we're grateful to see there's a virtual independent study pilot program. we would like to offer a collaborative partnership in developing this independent partner study. a program that could potentially work for many of our i.e.p. students who found success in distance learning. i appreciate that there is an actual teaching staff and other people dedicated to making that distance learning the best it can be. we want to echo the questions that were raise on behalf of

apac. >> i want to echo what danielle said about lifting up the questions and comments that apac brought forward. i want to thank the staff for all the work. i'm really happy to see the expansion of an independent learning option through independent high school. i got to tour independence couple of years, it's an amazing school. i feel like hardly anybody know about it. i only wish that i had been turn on to when my youngest was a freshman. maybe they would have had a different path. if they had an option to do distance learning back then, they may have had a different path. i hope this will benefit

students who don't fit in the box. thank you. >> clerk: ms. marshall? >> caller: thank you for this very support of open up in the fall. on behalf of reverend brown and the naacp he's concerned about the social and emotional needs of our children. i hope you will include that not only for the students but faculty as well. since we've been in shelter-in-place for a long time, there's a great need for social emotional support. we want to remind the district, you already know that our student will live in bayview hunters point to access a computer. congratulations and thank you so

much. >> clerk: that concludes the 20 minutes. >> president lopez: okay. thank you for that. let's move on to the discussion portion of this item. are there any questions or comments from commissioners? commissioner alexander? >> commissioner alexander: just real quick on the independent study. i know there's a vote on it later. i'm curious from staff as to what the rationale is for limiting it to covid related medical reason. i thought it was broader than that. resolution says, remote learning -- [indiscernible]

it's written a little more broadly. i'm curious the decision only limit independent study pilot to covid related health issues and not even health issues. >> what the spirit that is so that it's clear, in the spring when we were announcing the return in-person, it was if you wanted to come back, you could. if you didn't want to come back, you didn't have to. the spirit of what you see here is that it's not to same. it's not if you don't want to. as always, if there's legitimate health reasons, then independent studies is and will remain an option. we want to make it very clear that as we move forward,

especially around -- it won't just be the fact that if a parent or a family says i'd rather just say that's not a legitimate reason to take advantage of the independent study program. >> commissioner alexander: the question was limiting to covid.

>> president lopez: okay, thank you for that. section e is public comment on non-agenda items. anything that is not on tonight's agenda is up for discussion. as long as it's within the board's jurisdiction. we ask that you reframe from using employee and student names. if you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it to the employee supervisor in accordance with district policy. board rules in california law do not allow us to reply to comments or attempt top answer

questions during the public comment time. if appropriate, the superintendent will ask that staff follow-up with speakers. item 2 is comments from sfusd students. if you are a sfusd student, please raise your hand. we will hear from students who wish to speak on any matter. you will have up to two minutes for a total of 15 minutes. you can also speak to any other public comment time throughout tonight's agenda. for now, we want to dedicate this space for our students. >> clerk: thank you. again, please raise your hand if you're a student. that can be repeated in spanish and chinese please? [speaking foreign language]

joanna? >> caller: good evening again. i'm a senior at lowell high school. i like to speak on the topic of future p.a.c. member recruitment. after the appointment of the proposed slate tonight, there's still regular slots and two alternate slots left vacant for purposes of continued recruitment. seeing as the p.a.c. is non-male parental figures, i urge that we make an organized effort to recruit dads and fathers to apply for these open slots. thank you.

>> clerk: hayden? >> caller: hello, i'm a student at lowell high school. i want to echo to the students who spoke during the opening. it will be helpful to have more outreach to students around the reopening, particularly around extracurricular, sports and other outside of school activities, clubs, various other things. maybe have a dedicated townhall that's specifically is doing outreach to the students and really promoting that among the students.

i think having a youth specific townhall will be good. thanks. >> clerk: sherman? >> caller: i am a teacher with sfusd. >> clerk: this section is only for students. it's a 15 minute allotted for students and then adults can speak. >> caller: sorry, apologies. >> clerk: if there are any other students who care to speak? i believe that concludes the student section. >> president lopez: thank you. move on to item three, which is general public comment on all item that are not on. agenda.

we will allow for a minute each for up to 20 minutes. >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to any item not on the agenda. can that be repeated in chinese and spanish please. [speaking spanish] [speaking chinese] >> clerk: chris? >> caller: i'm a specialized

stephen from -- teacher from washington high school. thank you justin. on to the business. sfusd needs to do better by our students with i.e.p.s and 504s their families. we need real structure and support that have been researched and staff properly trained to lead students through them. we need real communication to families and educators working with students with learning disabilities. one e-mail, notification among 40 a day gets lost. one phone call gets missed. when these attempts get missed, district failed to follow-up and our student suffer. you need to do a better job communicating clearly and thoroughly with educators and

families. please, fix your communication before the district loses more money to lawsuits that could easily be avoided. thank you.

>> caller: it's hard for people to be have any measure of trust with sfusd. thank you. >> caller: jennifer? >> caller: i'm also calling in regards to the start time.

my school had to start time moved with no consultation despite the district's promising the board they will consult on this issue with families and school communities. families most prefer 8:40 start time. we got 9:30. we heard from a dad who prefer a late start. these are the issues that you should have gotten before doing this algorithms are valuable. failing to do outreach breaks your promises to the board and females. female -- families. this is on management and not on the board. i strongly urge you to hold this off for a year. i want to speak about my personal situation. i have a medical condition that requires regular monitoring. i previously been able to do my doctor appointments after school. which will no longer be an

option for me. i will need to take off a day at least once a month to take care of my own health. you failed to do outreach to transfer. please hold off for a year. >> clerk: thank you. sandra? >> caller: thank you very much. i have students in our district need equitable and accessible art program now more than ever. we passed a facility bond -- last big facilities bond that we passed included $100 million for the art center at 135 van ness. the voters have spoken. they want this project. i'm concerned about will this

project is right now. i'm concerned looking at the -- we heard people talking about no consultation. the district does have pattern of that. it's a pattern of disregarding community input. there was many parents and artists that came together to create refresh of the art education master plan. that never saw the light of day. it failed. i really feel like we need to come together and have a serious conversation what we're doing with art education. it's a great time to all come together. >> clerk: thank you. raphael? your connection is

bad, rafael? >> caller: i want to say, we've been dealing with the health and safety negotiations. we're still not done. it's hard between the district and union we didn't schedule a meeting toe. -- we should have had one this week. we need your support in helping us settle this contract. let the district at the table to meet with them. secondly, i want to talk on behalf of it mari, a strong advocate of the community and a great leader and teacher. i believe mari will be a great apac addition.

i hope she got you guys support and backing and get her part of the p.a.c. i believe she will help our students. all students, not just our students but all students. thank you. >> clerk: this section is for items that are not on the agenda tonight. >> caller: i question the timing and profits for implementing these changes. to make a changes after our school choices are made is a slap in the face to all the parents who ranked all the schools and decided which system to send their kids to. we feel stuck in a bad situation in result of bad planning and

impulse movement by sfusd. second, this rushed change will have an impact with those with the least flexibility. such of those from disadvantaged background. this is a racist act that can will affect these people who are at the -- are going to be suffering the most. this district seem to have habit rushed decision. communication discussion with parents is lacking. i have no flexibility with my job. i urge you to delay this dilation by a year so at the very least, we can make an informed decision and we choose our schools that will let us have a equitable and access to school for the next year. we're totally stuck and we can't get into a school we want to send our kids to. we feel angered and upset by

these actions. >> clerk: sherman? >> caller: i like to speak to -- [indiscernible]. i'm an sfusd teacher. i'm proud to offer make-up tests with our children. i am proud to ensure that every child succeeds. dismissing something who is so important to our indian community, based on a test is not only terrible example for our children and not what education stands for, it's harmful to an community who already suffered through so much through covid. i urge sfusd to prioritize the indian ed community and family and try to mend ties rather than check boxes with who is taking the right test and right number of years.

>> clerk: thank you. patrick? >> caller: hi. i'm a parent of two kids in sfusd. i come on two different topics. i like to call your attention to item 9 on the consent calendar, $744 million bond program. the contract was fine. the problem is the agreement was signed one month after the other. it highlights the bond program and exemplifies why the district has such financial problem. second i want to ask the board to engage in some self-reflection around the politicalization such as the p.a.c.

>> clerk: excuse me, this is for items not on the agenda. >> caller: i do understand. >> clerk: speak to other comment and not the one on the consent calendar. you have to wait then. that's your time. julie? >> caller: i'm calling to follow-up on concerns about the full implementation of the vietnamese and arabic language at pathways. i want to thank commissioner collins and commissioner lam for working with superintendent matthews to gather information and share back with the community details about that program. folks are heartened that there is a commitment to complete those pathways. there remain some concerns about the idea of sharing a teacher across schools. i had the benefit of learning

before the pandemic. she's an excellent teacher. that doesn't mean it's possible to stretch across two schools. thank you for confirming that there is commitment to completely language to pathways. >> clerk: thank you. paul? >> caller: i wanted to piggy back on what some people talking about the implementation and the new start time. just a feeling of frustration and anger of this implementation process. i went through this in the district that i teach at. it was a yearlong process.

everybody going in their own direction. everybody felt they were heard. at the end of the day, people need to make changes, there was time to do so. here in this situation, none of this occurred. it feels like kind of like a finger in the eye at the end of the year where you could have made some changes but you weren't given the opportunity because this change was notified and communicated at the end of an e-mail and right before a summer vacation. it feels as if it was planned as such to have little feedback as possible. i think that's a tragedy considering everything that we've worked with our children over the past year to get them where they can be. appreciate if you would suspend it for a year. >> clerk: thank you.

j.r.? >> caller: i apologize for that. my name is j.r. thank you for your patience with the technical there. i'm a father of of rising first grader. while my son is looking forward to first year of elementary school, he's not looking forward to disruption of his sleep schedule that he worked to establish. when we were picking elementary schools, we looked at start time and proximity. my wife work a big schedule and i have a lot of evening obligations. to have this change without the

opportunity for us to change our school and for us to be accommodated in any way and have no conversation about it, it's another bit of evidence how the sfusd fails to support parents. it's unfortunate that i feel this way because i had lot of love taken by the sfusd over the last year. now i feel like we're being left holding the bag as we start to get back to a real elementary school experience. i hope you take the opportunity to delay this and talk to parents. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. gabriel? >> caller: thank you, so much. i'm a parent of second grader. i was calling in about the start time. i know that everyone here passionate about education. i want to thank everybody for the effort they put in. i appreciate that what we have here in the interest of our children and families and also the teachers and administrators that make all this possible.

what we've seen is a real concern about the earlier start time working for this community. i hope the comments are taken to heart. the reason that this early start time even happen was in response a law that california is now enacting that forces us all to have later start time for middle school and high school because of the signs that shows later start times are better on children. better on adolescents. the studies were done on children. if you talk to the parents, early start time is becoming clear it's not what is helpful at this time. i hope everyone can consider that. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: i'm a parent.

it's not just inconvenient. it would make it hard for us to send our child to daniel webster because of the way my job schedule is. i will use the remaining time. i understand this forum is not to get a response. i would still like to at least hear if there's a possibility of this feedbacks making an impact on the decisions? is it this something that we are spending time on trying to figure out pointlessly? i hear about the upcoming townhalls. i hear about other things. there's no point in having a townhall if the feedbacks will not make a difference. if you can just take a second to tell us if this will at least make you reconsider? >> clerk: thank you.

i like to go to jenae cobbs. >> i'm here to talk about a california law within the educational code protecting deaf and hard of hearing students. are you aware that our students are supposed to have formal academic a.s.l. instruction? we don't have a formal a.s.d.l. program. we don't have any structure or support to make sure our kids are ready for statewide testing. we don't have any material specific to our deaf and hard of hearing program.

we look at other programs that has all kind of instructions and support. i love to put this forward for your consideration and express the hope that in the fall and in your future planning, you all can include american sign language along with spanish, along with cantonese and all of the other languages that our district respect. a pathway that would be helpful for both our deaf and hard of hearing students and hearing students who might be interested in a.s.l. for future and academic and career opportunities. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. president lopez, you want to make an announce. >> president lopez: i do recognize that we won't be meeting in july. i will add 15 minutes to our timer.

>> caller: i'm one of the parents impacted by the early start time. the bottom line, you get the gist of it. it can be extended for one year. do we have to do this and the mission process. can you wait one more year? what are you guys thinking? you are parents and you have families. please, just extend it for one year. that's the only comment that i have. >> caller: hello shelly?

>> caller: good evening commissioners and superintendent and all the staff. i hope all will take that long deserved vacation after this very long dark period. as you know, i'm secretary of the sfusd chapter of seiu. i'm here to report to you before you start that break, that we still have no contract agreement agreement. year just ended. it's disappointing, everyday i receive phone calls from clerks asking me all kinds of questions. please do what you can to encourage settlements so we can move into the next fiscal year without looking back. thank you and enjoy your summer.

>> caller: hello, everyone i'm calling in today about the indian education program. the staff person eliminated her contract. it was done in the dark. now there's nobody in that role. we just got lot of funding from the mayor's office for the indian ed program and given what happened with this role, especially since january, the school district just passed a reparations act to work with the american indian community. this is horrible. it's disgusting and mistreatment for over 700 our american indian student. we will not stand quietly while you sit here. it is time you eliminated the position for indian ed. we don't trust the school district. we don't trust you with our children. we're going to ask you to elevate these matters and see what you did to our community to make sure our community is in the hiring process for indian

ed. our american indian students will not be left in the dark and will not be left without a leader. >> clerk: mary? >> caller: good evening. my name is mary. i am the advisory board president for the american indian cultural district. i want to echo what she just said. it came as a shock to us that this coordinator that had dedicated more than eight years of her time tirelessly to serving more than 700 students, received a notice saying that the contract will not be renewed and just simply thank you for

your service. it's more than that. it is her dedication to our students. our students that have been underserved. i want to remind this board that you get federal money that is specific to the educational needs of our students. i'm reminded about the resolution you passed.

>> clerk: ariana? >> caller: hello. i'm on the board of the american indian culture center in san francisco and sfusd alum and indian education program i alumni. i would not have graduated high school without indian education. it hurts to hear that your district chosen not to renew the contract for our indian education coordinator. at a time we hear so many things coming out about these residential schools. our community already knew. it's hard to be a native student in any school district let alone san francisco school district. now you will not renew her contract. that is disgusting? we need a commitment from the school district that you will not lose the indian education funds. they will only be used for

indian education. we will be included in the hiring process. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. meagan? >> caller: hi. i am working e.s.y. this summer. i just wanted to keep putting it out there that we need to do better for our students with i.e.p.s who require summer education as part -- this is an afterthought. shouldn't be something someone's side job. i'm working with so many dedicated educators and administrators related service providers who are going out and spending their own money to get what students need. who are spending hours after they are done working with students, trying to advocate and get students what they need. our system failed this year to make sure that this summer

learning. we have to rethink how we are making an effort for our students. e.f.y. isn't on board of education agenda. it should be. we should be talking about it. we should have an open space for families to make sure that their voices are heard. we're ensuring education students required is given in the way they can access it. thank you. >> clerk: hello michelle? >> caller: good evening commissioners. >> clerk: sorry to interrupt, you have a very bad echo. you might have two devices on. >> caller: is that better?

>> clerk: no. you have more than one device open? your mic need to be off. >> caller: i am here for the indian education program. i work for the native american health center. i'm also on the board for the american indian cultural district. i'm here to voice my anger and frustration with the school district for letting our program coordinator go from the indian education program. she is the only staff that we have for our students in the school district.

she's the only support that the families have for the school district. now we have no one. that's unacceptable. it's unacceptable that we only have one person in support for our students, american indian in the school district. i'm here to reiterate what was already said about the indian education program coordinator. we need to be one of our community members or p.a.c. members need to be on the hiring committee to ensure that we find the most culturally competent person for that role. that's so crucial for our success of our students. as far as the funding that has been allocated, recently to the program, the additional funding, we need to put that on hold with the cultural district until we are able to ensure that funding goes to our american indian

alaskan native students in the school district. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: i wanted to elaborate little bit more about communication in particular for special education. in particular for these townhalls, if you could have at least one for special education families that mean something. if there was separate communication on occasion or perhaps in conjunction with the weekly newsletters, that actually spoke to issues that are relevant, that will be helpful. i can say that the only way i ever gotten truly accurate information is through the c.a.c. i was blind. i would be blind without them. this is my ask. the second thing is, that i am

concerned about the turnover rate for staff. special ed staff. i'm asking that there's more support. it affects them. it affects the student. the turnover rate for my son in service providers is extraordinary. the burnout rate is extraordinary. please consider this as you're moving forward during budget and so on. thank you. >> clerk: sarah? >> caller: thank you so much. i'm a parent of a second grader. the new start time is going to make it difficult for us. i wanted to voice my support of please rethinking that or give the parents a chance to have some say in how we move forward with that and not force it on us so quickly as we transition into the new back to school fall.

thank you so much. >> clerk: paloma? >> caller: greetings everyone. [can't hear] [inaudible] i'm coming here today to give life back to the fight that i've been in for the last year. bringing increased awareness cultural competency for american indian, alaskan students. to build in the curriculum development to ensure how we are represented is true. working with leadership over the years to develop that resolution, taking on issues such as washington and we talk

about threats. i have not shared that with you. i'm still receiving from that experience. i'm here today because we need truth and reconciliation for our california indian people. if you look at that resolution towards the end we have that. we need support for this community. whether or not it's myself in this world, we need support for this community. i worked tirelessly this last year to secure additional funding to ensure that we can make the reality for our students a real-lived experience. knowing that i attempted to get support from our school district and was told that we're in a budget deficit. i looked at getting staff support and was told that we don't have it at the moment or this is what we have. we're going to go into the reopening plans. i had to stop everything that i planned and to accept and graceful respective manner what is currently happening.

this is not only a disaster. this is everything that we've worked for up against us. this is not honoring the work and the agreement that we have engaged in over the last few years. our students have already deserved more. we're facing a broken trust. one that begins the moment we were forced to go into these school systems that were never design the for us. the moment is now. you had a chance to heal, to do right, to build within. to show that your word is followed by action. now here we are. >> clerk: thank you.

ms. marshall? >> caller: i want to thank justin steele for your patience throughout this school year. two quick points. i hope that every sfusd student will go see the exhibit in golden gate park and tribute to the juneteenth celebration. it represents 350 slaves came to america 400 years ago. secondly, i want to have a strong advocacy for my dear colleague. there are exceptions to every man made rule. board commissioners, dr. matthew, please find a way to keep paloma our indian coordinator in our current position. i was there eight years ago when she had this opening to open up indian ed center. i been to most of her events.

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>> it's no easy feat to do everything we need to do in our own homes as well so having support of district personnel is critical and if our first core value is being student center then that means supporting the family. we really hope that you will provide staffing necessary to keep this program and this program coordinator in place. and also i cannot highly echo enough the comments about more support for our students who communicate with asl. the pathway, wearing my special

education hat and that pathway option, that's powerful. thank you. >> thank you. and, sam. >> i wanted to speak about hvac, but first i wanted to express my own support for the indian ed program. and i hope that we're able to find a way to get them staffed and supported. back to hvac, we're about to encounter fire season and also we've been talking about hvac in terms of covid and some of the solutions came up with the facilities with just and so we will need to close these windows and we will need president lopez, that includes

the time for public comment. >> president lopez: thank you for that. we do want to definitely follow up with superintendent matthews to see and get more information. so i appreciate everyone for coming out and for taking the time of our meeting. we are at hour three of tonight's really packed agenda and i do appreciate the flow of this meeting and everything we're getting accomplished, but let's take 5 minutes to stand up and get a break. we'll be back at 7:08. [please stand by]

. >> president lopez: that does make sense. any items withdrawn by the superintendent. >> i call on justin steal to move any items rehave reported by the superintendent. >> thank you, dr. matthews. tonight being withdrawn from the consent calendar is item number 21 it will be brought back at a future meeting. >> president lopez: thank you for the purchase of muni fast passes for the transportation department. so that is being withdrawn. we'll discuss it tonight. thank you for the heads up for the public. any items removed for first reading by the board.

any items severed by the board for discussion tonight? commissioner alexander. >> commissioner alexander: that's the one i'd like to discuss. yeah, i'd like to discuss item 10 just the contract with empower sf. >> president lopez: did you name what item number that is? >> commissioner alexander: yeah, it's in item 10. itemten has a lot of things in it, but just the one contract, the info contract and then i'd also like to discuss item 13. >> president lopez: okay. thank you for noting that and commissioners for following

along. let's do public comment on all of the items except for the one that was pulled by superintendent matthews, item 21, and then we will have our discussion and both. >> thank you, president lopez. please raise your hand if you wish to speak to any of the items on the consent calendar excludeing the ones that have been withdrawn. can we have this repeated in spanish and cantanese please. >> [speaking spanish]. >> [speaking foreign language] thank you. >> clerk: thank you. i'm sorry i may have missed it. how much time would you like for this, president lopez. >> president lopez: we'll do a minute each. >> clerk: thank you. hello, megan. >> hi, my name is megan with the school district and i

actually just wanted to bring attention to one of the items in the consent calendar that i think is exciting. we're planning on entering into an m.l.u. with ucsf around safely returning and re-opening our schools and they're planning on working with us around safety protocols, re-opening plans, guidelines, this is a great one, effective communication, diverse staff. this information is important for our families, our students and our staff to know we are seeking out contracts to help guide us in this uncharted territory of re-opening schools after a pandemic and i think, i hope this comes up in our town

hall and we can have more robust conversations around it because this is what's on a lot of peoples' minds. so i'm just bringing attention to this because i think it's worth a conversation. thank you. >> thank you. >> clerk: and that concludes public comment. i'm sorry. a hand just popped up. go ahead. hello, sandra. >> yeah. hi, just very quickly. on item i8, i see we're entering into a contract with the university of kentucky but the city and county of san francisco is supposed to nod go into any kind of contractual -- >> clerk: i'm sorry. that item's later on the agenda. >> oh, okay. >> clerk: no problem. all right. okay, president lopez. >> president lopez: okay. let me try to wrap up where we are because i know we moved a

little bit and it was confusing. we're on section f, we're about to do a roll call vote on the consent calendar after our discussion and then we will discuss the items that commissioner alexander discovered. are there any questions or comments from board members? okay. so let's do a roll call vote except on item 10 specifically and if you're following on board docs it's numbers 37272 and also we're not voting on item 13. that will be in the next section. roll call vote. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call]

that's seven ayes. thank you. >> president lopez: thanks. okay. section g, discussion and vote on consent calendar items severed for separate consideration. >> commissioner alexander: this is the increase discussed at the budget services committee and it makes total sense in terms of why the empower sf system sounds like a really important shift in terms of our hr and systems. what i'm not clear on and i understand why the timeline was pushed back, but what i'm not clear on is why there's such a large increase in -- it's like a 20% increase in the contract for this additional support

after we make the transition. i guess we don't understand why that wasn't included in the original proposal regardless of what happened in january and june. i understand with covid. it just seems like a really large increase and i'm concerned because we had several public commentors earlier talking about sciu and how we wouldn't get this agreement and it's been challenged to compensate our lowest employees and we're able to do a $1.6 million increase to this large corporation, multinational corporation that makes huge profits in order for them to do an important task for our district. it just seems like a lot. it was originally around $9 million. so i'm just trying to understand that. it's confusing to me and i just -- i'm not super comfortable with it. so i don't know if staff has other thoughts or we can just

vote. >> go ahead. >> sure. thank you, commissioner alexander. so we can take your lead on how much you want to, how deep you want to go into the details, but as you pointed out, we did have, this project has been years in the making and specifically, we've had what we call our legacy system, the people system for 17 years and this is a multi-year project. we've started i think three plus years ago in terms of the current stage of migrating to a new system and in that regard, we have had a number of evolutions in the project including the time line and scope and we have altered the timeline and this scope as we discussed that budget and

business services committee long story short really is in our judgment necessary to help us it's really a broad change to our enterprise systems. payroll budget and recruiting and onboarding with the earlier adoption. i'll just say at a high level, this implementation partner contract is a fundamental and absolutely necessary part of our adoption we think it will pay dividends to all our employees, but we do need robust support and we've got many dozens of employees that are working really hard to

implement the new system as we speak and so we just need technical support to adopt this really critical stage of the live migration and i'll follow your lead in terms of how many more details you'd like and we also have the whole project steering committee that can address specific questions if you'd like. >> commissioner alexander: that's right. i don't need to take anymore time. i appreciate all the work and i definitely support the system. for sure, i think it sounds like a really important transition. >> thank you, commissioner. >> president lopez: okay. let's do a roll call vote on this item. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call]

we have six ayes. >> president lopez: great. and then last item under section g is discussion on item 13 which is operating agreement with spark sf public schools. >> commissioner alexander: yeah. sorry for being the one who keeps pulling items tonight. this one i just received questions from the public about the relationship between sfusd and spark sf and i had made a request earlier for more detail. i guess i'm just curious if that would be possible. the budget in the annual report is very general and so i'm wondering if it would be possible to get, i don't need it right now. it will be possible to get a more detailed riveted expense

report from spark sf to better understand the relationship there. >> yes, hi, this is deputy superintendent blithe and i would be happy to give you more details and the one that is in the annual report is definitely a high level of our actuals and it also shares where the funds are getting designated within sfusd and as i think is helpful for the public to know spark is both an independent 501 c3 nonprofit with an 11th person board and also a physical sponsor for projects that require a 501 c3 for sfusd. so we've raised an average of about $15 million a year that is then directly distributed to key initiatives that are identified and prioritized as part of our vision 2025 and this agreement is basically a contract that is per the

by-laws of spark that is in place between the district and then spark public school. so i'm happy to share any information. there's also spark sf public schools website has additional information and we have a variety of levels of detail in terms of budget so if the one in the annual report is not detailed enough i'm happy to discuss that further and share more with you. >> commissioner alexander: thank you so much. >> president lopez: okay. great. any other comments. i wanted to check before. roll call vote on item 13. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] that's seven ayes.

>> president lopez: thank you. we're now moving on to section h, proposals for action. and just sharing in advance, i'll be combining some of these policies towards the end and we'll explain further once we get to that. we'll begin with item 1, superintendent's proposal 215-25sp 1, approval of the public age indication enrichment fund expenditure plan for school year 2021-2022. this was already moved and seconded on may 25th. can i call on superintendent matthews to introduce a designee. >> so the designee tonight will be edwin diaz. >> hello commissioners. superintendent matthews.

as was mentioned earlier, most of this information was already presented at the committee as a whole last week. we do have a presentation up, but it's -- we don't plan to give a presentation, this is more informational just sharing, noting that that information was shared at the cal last week, but the recommended action before you today is that the board approves the superintendent proposal, approval of the public education enrichment fund expenditure plan for school year 21-22. more resolution 215-25sp1. >> president lopez: okay. thank you. and just to clarify, the presentation that you have you're saying is available on board docs for public view? >> yes, it was the presentation that was given to the committee as a whole last week. we just loaded it up there

again for the community in case they didn't have a chance to attend the community meeting. >> president lopez: thank you so much. let's do public comment on this item. this is on the piece expenditure plan. >> clerk: thank you. please raise your hand if you care to speak to the p.e.e.f. expenditure plan. and can that be repeated in spanish and cantanese. >> [speaking spanish]. >> [speaking foreign language]. >> clerk: thank you. >> president lopez: okay. we'll do a minute each. >> clerk: hello sandra. >> yeah. hi. the expenditure plan that was developed with advice from a long range master plan for the art its, my understanding is that arts education master plan

refresh was never actually publicly discussed and so i'm wondering which long range master plan for the arts is that referring to. very concerned about that arts education master plan being represented in a document and the plan never got its refresh. so it's confusing. >> thank you. and, panelist alita. >> hi again, everyone. so one of the points that the c.a.c. made in our presentation earlier tonight was the theme of connecting the dots and so the p.e.e.f. expenditure plan is one of that tonight. many of the expenditures here in the plan related to literacy mentioned either balanced

literacy or they're nonspecific about the levels of training we might have. for example, if we're going to be hiring artists and literacy coaches and intervention specialists, the science of reading and the research shows this now that for our kids to make academic progress if they're struggling readers, we really need to be working with structured literacy. so i'd like to see more not just me, many families would like to see more explicit information about what it means to be a literacy coach. what are we paying for? what are we getting for our money. thank you. >> thank you. president lopez, that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: okay. thank you. let's open it up to discussion by board members. are there any questions or comments before we vote?

seeing none. okay. and i know we've had many discussions on this item at previous meetings. so happy to hear it and let's do a roll call vote. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call] seven ayes. >> president lopez: okay. item two under section h is superintendent's proposal 216-8sp1-fiscal year 2021-2024 local control accountability plan. the lcap. it was already moved and seconded on june 8th.

superintendent matthews can you introduce the designee. >> yes, introducing this item is our executive director of budget services, ann marie gourd. >> thank you, dr. matthews and good evening, commissioners and members of the public. the recommended action this evening is that the board of education approves the local control and accountability plan and federal addendum for the san francisco and the san francisco unified school district and for the information available on board docs, we also have the presentation from the committee as a whole for reference as well as the lcap document. our formal response to stake holder feedback which includes the recommendations we received at the end of may as well as additional discussion and questions from our lcap task force meeting in june and final

note is that translation of the lcap are on the budget and lcap section of the sfusd website. thank you. >> president lopez: translations are available through the website translation portion? >> so on the sfusd website, if you go about budget and lcap and scroll down to the 2021-22 section, we have the text of the lcap available. so underneath the volume one document, we have a translation available as links. you can click on each language in arabic, chinese, filipino, samoan and chinese. >> president lopez: thank you for that. let's do public comment on the lcap. we'll go a minute each. >> thank you. yes, please raise your hand if

you care to speak to the lcap. you'll have 1 minute. can that be repeated in chinese and spanish, please. >> thank you. [speaking spanish]. >> [ speaking foreign language ] >> thank you. hello, rianda. >> good evening again, board commissioners, superintendent matthews and deputy superintendent. it's rianda again with apac and i'm again one of the parent leads and tonight on lcat specifically, we wanted to know how are we actualizing anti-racist practices, what are the steps to ensure we have a common definition about what anti-racist teaching looks like? what anti-racist spaces in our

schools look like? and how are we ensuring that everyone is trained and that there's full implementation of these practices. we also wanted to know. i'll let you know we know that students come to school when they are engaged and when they feel safe and supported. how are we going to be using those strategies for african american students and going to make sure they are meeting the needs of the students and the families and how are we ensuring that when our students can be present, they're still going to get the academic resources necessary. thank you. >> thank you. hello, michelle. panelist, michelle, you can go ahead. >> thank you. i just wanted to michelle with the parent advisory counsel. i wanted to appreciate director gordon as well as jill hoagendike and all the work that's gone into this.

i really appreciate the feedback and recommendations and i just want to elevate the questions and concerns and requests that rianda of the apack just presented. thank you. >> thank you. and alita. >> hi everyone. i can't echo strongly enough the requests of rianda batist and the apack for those clarifying questions as always. and also, again, the c.a.c. would like to point out this is another area of connecting the dots. everything we do is so inner connected. we really love that the r.t.i. that's mentioned here and in the response to questions from the advisories that, you know, we're seeing literacy frame work that includes response to intervention that includes udl, you know, different reading

instruction, explicit and systemic word study, we want to see this go further and actually name structured literacy, though. we need to be using the word "structured literacy." so and also when we're talking about recovery funds, those can be used for teacher training. those can be used to teach more teachers how to implement real structured literacy. thank you. >> thank you. president lopez, that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: okay. let's open it up for discussion by board members. any questions or comments? seeing none. roll call vote. >> thank you. [roll call]

>> president lopez: thank you. section 3 of h. it was already moved and seconded on june 8th. superintendent matthews. >> thank you, president lopez. presenting tonight will be our chief financial officer megan wallace. >> good evening, dr. matthews, commissioners, and the public. this evening, the recommended action is that the board of education adopts the superintendent's fiscal year 2021-2022 recommended budget. staff presented the budget as a june 15th meeting and that is

available and i'm happy to answer questions. >> president lopez: great. thank you. and similar, the recent items, we've discussed this at several meetings and we'll continue today if needed. let's do public comment on the recommended budget. >> so please raise your hand if you care to speak to the recommended budget next year. you'll have 1 minute to speak. please repeat that in chinese and spanish please. >> thank you. [speaking spanish]. >> [speaking cantanese] thank you. >> thank you.

alita is your hand up for this one. >> you bet it is. hi everyone. continuing the theme of connecting the dots and tying everything back to equity, racial equity, racial justice. and the apack and the c.a.c. has pointed out multiple times tonight reading interventions is a social justice issue, it is an equity issue. so our budget is our value statement and it determines what is important to us. we fund what's important to us. and while this is a big picture over arching document. the details are so critically important here. so making sure that we've got everything funded here to talk about as the apack has been mentioning tonight, you know, that are we providing curriculum in each and every one of our classrooms. are our teachers appropriately

trained? you know, right now some of our schools have second step and some classrooms, some don't. some have literacy interventions, some don't. what are we doing around training for social and emotional well being. what are we doing around literacy training. where is the funding for these top priorities? thank you. >> thank you. and that includes public comment. >> president lopez: thank you. any questions or comments from the board superintendent matthews. seeing none. roll call vote. that's not true. >> commissioner lam: i just want to acknowledge that we are fortunate to get the federal

funds as well as the state funding to provide a so i just wanted to thank the budget team and particularly with megan wallace for a very detailed discussion in our budget and services committee to working with us one on one as board commissioners having some serious questions around how do we make cause you know we're going to embark on a process where even more light is going to be needed to shine on how we're going to arrive at

decisions in the up coming year. so i just wanted to take a couple of minutes to acknowledge the recognition of the work that's gone in, you know in addition to not only preparing the budget but just to remind folks we've had to submit reports just to the department of education how we're going to spend our education recovery dollars to getting ready for the lcap to acknowledging improvements being intentional about how we're building staffing capacity so that we're engaging our families and communities earlier in the year and then what is before us is zero base budgeting which is really going to be the hallmark of getting us to landing on our values and to our budget in the coming year and, again to address the structural challenges.

i know we want to offer hope during this time. that's what zero base budgeting is gong to allow that so we are prioritizing those values into our funding while keeping our students of the center for all of our students leading with equity and our students have not had the same access to opportunities and outcomes. so i just wanted to note that while we're passing a budget for tonight, the work happens, i think tomorrow morning. the people is ready to go. they've committed on five year projections. we're embarking on bringing in fake mats and supports there, also the considerations of how do we build out capacity so that budgeting is grounded in community engagement with our

site leaders and staff that it is going to be all hands on deck and that it is, you know, going to be so i would just encourage my colleagues and thank you, superintendent, and the team that, you know, we're going to have to roll up our sleeves even more so even post pandemic as we recover through the pandemic. so i also have additional considerations around how in this up coming year how we will hold ourselves accountable to the education recovery plans we have put forward and really being, you know, having more consistent report backs between staff and the board and for that dialog. so thank you all. >> i also have a comment. i want to thank commissioner

lam on the budget. in the second half since i've joined the board. i also want to appreciate staff for the work that you've done to get us to this part and pulling together all the different pieces. i say that and also i say that i plan to vote and support the budget as we move forward, but also i'm just really concerned that i personal don't feel like our budget does enough to close the gaps and that's definitely a priority of mine to figure out ways to bring in more revenue as well as how do we imagine our school district to address some of the structural concern and put something forward that says every student deserves to have a learning environment that really supports them in a new and different way than i feel like we're currently offering and i feel like this is a step towards this and i'm really excited about the zero based

budgeting process that we have coming forward for us and the community to impact the budgeting process. that will create a trajectory that gets us to a place where we're able to find everything we need within our schools so i think just a lot of appreciation, but i think also just being really critical of how we can get better and how we can improve and just understanding that small steps forward to make really big gains is what we're hoping to do here. thank you so much and hopefully folks in the community understand we're trying to get better every time as we move forward. >> president lopez: that's right. and if there are no other comments. we'll do a roll call vote. for the budget. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call]

seven ayes. >> president lopez: thank you. so we're still under section h and the following will be concerning items 4 through 10 if i hear no objection the next one will be one vote and are now back to our board meeting for action. okay. seeing none. i'll read the titles into the record. so board policies 6172.1 duel enrollment in college classes. 4112.2, certification.

1312.13 uniform complaint procedures. 4034, sexual harassment. 4012.8, all personnel personal relationships. 4019.1, all personnel professional adult student boundaries. 1312.1, complaints concerning district employees. 5030, wellness, and 3555 nutrition program compliance. sorry. i didn't call for a motion and a second or was it already moved previous meeting. >> so moved and seconded. >> president lopez: before we introduce a designee, i invite the chair of the rules committee to share briefly if you'd like, commissioner alexander. >> commissioner alexander: yeah. i think the only context is that these are pretty much

technical changes. at least as we discussed it at rules. the one substantive new policy is the nutrition program compliance policy that basically ensures that we have a compliance coordinator, it's something we've been doing, but it wasn't in a policy, but most of the other ones just have to do with kind of reformatting or changing the terminology or that sort of thing and the only other thing to mention is the wellness policy this is not it, this is just a sort of technical adjustment, but they have on the calendar coming up soon, a more sort of comprehensive community based program. so i think that was the context from the rules committee discussion. >> president lopez: okay. thank you is there anything you

want to add, legal counsel. >> i think commissioner alexander summarized it nicely. >> president lopez: great. so let's do 1 minute each and for the public, this is for all items 4 through 10 under for board policies. >> yes. please raise your hand if you care to speak to the board policies on the agenda and can that be repeated in chinese and spanish, please. >> thank you. [speaking spanish]. >> [speaking chinese] thank you. >> thank you. seeing none, president lopez.

>> president lopez: okay. any discussion by board members or superintendent matthews. seeing none. roll call vote. >> thank you. [roll call] seven ayes. >> president lopez: thank you. we are now on section i, special order of business. there are eight items that we will discuss and vote on individually starting with item 1, 216-22so1.

sfusd and san francisco county office of education. may i have a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> seconded. >> president lopez, presenting this item will be the state and federal programs roderick caster. >> hi and good evening, president lopez, vice president moliga, superintendent matthews and all commissioners. this evening, i'm presenting the school plans for student achievement often referred to as the sipsas. what you have before you are the pdf versions. tonight, we are requesting approval of the preliminary versions of next year's plans. to provide some context, this document represents the strategic process. it's meant to be a two-step process. firstly, developing a strategic plan for the site which is the sipsa and then creating a

balanced budget which uses a variety of federal and local funds to meet the objectives described in the sipsa. it shows actions for these priorities and allocates and aligns resources for those priorities. the work of strategic planning at at site is supported by a number of district apartments. they include research, planning, and accountability, lead, multi-lingual pathways, human resources and my department state and federal programs. in san francisco unified, the strategic planning takes place two times a year. state and federal programs developed and oversees ongoing training in person and as requested on the school plan template. additional online resources are offered on the district's web page and through regularly updated online guides. videos, exemplars and templates

for the school counsel to use. to help support and a data night in the fall. covid-19 has limited in-person support but we have limited to find a process to participation and is tailored to the specific needs of our communities. so thank you for your attention. i'm available if there are any questions on it. >> president lopez: great. in a moment we will check. that's the school plans for student achievement. let's do a minute each. >> okay. thank you. please raise your hand if you care to speak to this item. and can we repeat that in spanish and chinese. >> thank you. [speaking spanish].

>> [speaking chinese] thank you. >> thank you. hello, kit. >> hi, my name is kit hodge. i have two children at sfusd. a few of these plans, i was formally on sfd. i was surprised and concerned that many plans are far from complete or contained outdated information. there are blank spaces, there are goals that reference 2020-2021 school year instead of the next school year and there appears to be very little coherent thought at sf schools and what the actual goals are for improving the outcome. without knowing those, you

know, those efforts and what those goals are, i'm not sure how schools are going to make those things happen. we should have high goals for all schools. so what support have schools had to make sure that these fit the plans and really are the best they can be and please hold off until they really are coherent because right now, thank you. >> thank you. alita. >> hi everyone. okay. just to continue in my theme of connecting the dots, as we talk about in the parent advisory committees very often, you know, this is where the rubber hits the road. this is where what we talk in the lcat should be mirrored by what sfds should be talking about. when i looked through some of

these plans and i'm a data nerd. what i'm seeing is reading interventions like lli. i'm seeing fontis and pinell. i'm not seeing wilson. i'm not seeing orton gilling and reading interventions as even though these are the you know what we call out in every single parent advisory committee when we talk about intervention, but we're going to talk about here in a few minutes, we were talking about the need for real interventions, real structured literacy interventions. so if these sipsas are what our schools are supposed to be using to actually implement, these are their road maps, these road maps aren't going to get us where we need to go, thank you. >> thank you. that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: thank you.

let's check in commissioners if there are any questions or comments beginning with commissioner boggess. >> commissioner boggess: thank you. i have some questions. just specifically to how the plans are created at the school site level just kind of how are we monitoring the level of engagement at school site council in the process and really i think interested in how we're monitoring kind of the level of student and family engagement kind of in these plans. >> so i would have to refer to lead on that because lead works to direct the principles in terms of the concepts. i developed trainings to how to use like what the school site

counsel how it has to be con figured and whatnot and how to use the template. we've had to switch over from the template when every student succeeds that past. so, for example, i've created some tools and set up some trainings on how to read the template. with the school site counsels and their support leads are really the support of the content. they're going to be better at knowing the goals and their communities better than i would because i don't work with them on a regular basis. the so i would have to defer to them on that. yeah. and maybe there's someone that wants to speak to that. >> commissioner boggess: yeah, can you want is there someone that could talk to our engagement around counsel to ensure families are participating in these plans

developments? >> i can just add to that. we do provide a number of trainings to our site leaders around engagement, around what's needed to have a properly con figured sfc and how to get feedback from stakeholders. [please stand by]

>> in the future, figuring out how we can better resource the engagement at a individual school site level to really ensure the majority of families at a school site are able to be aware of this process and give feedback and be able to hold us accountable to it as we move through the process. so just to lift that up, thank you. >> i appreciate that. any other comments or board members? commissioner sanchez. >> thank you for those questions. i also have a question. there was a public comment around the incompleteness of some of the challenges maybe that was presented this year? >> with covid and completing them and can we can we turn them

in in complete? >> these are living documents and we have an internal convention of doing it twice. in san francisco unified and county office of education. in terms of compliance and they have to be approved by the board in november. and i think it's because we can have these conversations and say, let's take a really critical look at what we're doing and this is important to acknowledge that as well and schools are starting to look at the next school year and looking at data and projected budgets trying to get an idea of how they're going to get that school launched in the fall. that being the case.

things to change and conversations like these are important. san francisco, i think, is one of the that they does this twice to have stakeholders involved on a regular basis. if they don't look complete, i'm not going to speak for all 100 plans, but if that wouldn't be necessarily all that odd. we do it twice, where most people do it once. we think it's important enough to have these conversations going every six months and that is a big lift too, right. i mean, getting your community mobilized to be able to come together as many times as we do in san francisco is going to be a lint more logistically difficult and complicated all the more by covid-19, right. so we worked really hard to make sure that we were up-to-date with any sort of way that we can make things easier for communities to come together with respect to meeting and then codifying the work they did.

the challenges from covid exacerbated, i think, a challenge that all districts have, how do we get meaningful, deep, parental and community involvement and we continue to work on that and like said we have so many different departments in san francisco we're getting better at it as we moved along. >> we migrated from the balance core card to the sipsa so my assumption is the if so, is it the same templet we're all using? >> ours is altered slightly but it's, we follow the state's template which are we are now mandated to follow because of like i said, some technicalities involving every student succeeds act and school designated and we follow the template and it's

augmented and if we can followed in our vision 2025 for example. >> thank you, very much. >> let's do. >> i'm sorry. >> i just saw commissioner collins had a question or a comment. >> thank you. i'm not seeing all the schools and i wonder if there's a few schools missing from the left and i am et questions from the public there's a few schools and and so i just wondered if there's any, if this is the comprehensive list or if there's some that are missing from the board documents. >> it should be. i confirmed that all the schools had completed it and i can double check with respect to they're big files and they have to be uploaded but i can check

on that. >> i appreciate that just for the public to have transparency, thank you. >> does that point to an issue with not having uploaded all of the schools' plans? >> if they're not available? >> >> the board can approve tonight so if mr. castro goes back and discovers that there are plans that are not on the agenda we'll need to bring them back but there's no reason that the board can't approve what is obvious. >> that's good to know. >> then i'm going to do one last check to see if there are questions or comments from commissioners. let's do a roll call vote. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call vote]

>> clerk: seven ayes. moving on and i'm moving and on item 2. 216-22so2 and fiscal year 2021 and education protection account and i hear a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> and superintendent and. >> yes, president lopez. this evening we have presenting this expenditure plan our chief financial officer, megan wallace. >> hello, guys. commissioners, dr. matthews,

the item before you is a request for the board to approve the po posed expenditure of state revenues anticipated to be received in fiscal year 2021-22 from the education protection account. this includes $43 million for the directing and 878,000 for the county office of education and just for a brief bit of context, these funds were approved by california state voters in 2016 for personal income tax, the high income earners in the state. the funds are set aside each year in the education protection account and are transferred to school districts and county education through the funding formula so this is part of the over all lcff funding that you've seen and approved in the budget for fiscal year 21-22. as school districts and county offices are required to slain

how we're going to expend these funds and he will see in the expenditure plan attached to this item the staff has proposed using the funds solely for educators salaries and benefits and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> great. thank you. let's check for public comment before we continue. >> thank you, please raise your hand if you care to speak to the expenditure plan for the education protection account at this time. i think we have that in china chineseand spanish. [ speaking spanish ] [ speaking chinese ] thank you.