thank you for watching. >> chairwoman: this is the first board meeting of this school year, this is very exciting school year. i would like to call the regular meeting of of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for august 10, . roll call, please. [roll call taken] >> clerk: thank you. >> chairwoman: thank you, again. we recognize that today is the first meeting of this

new school year. and i'd like to think of it as a new beginning and a fresh start. this year has been one of the worst many of us have faced, probably in our lifetimes, and there were moments where i, myself, didn't know how much more i could take. but we have reflected. we continue to learn and adjust and listen as much as we can to do what is right. across the state, across the country, many communities, schools, boards, and districts are facing the same dilemmas, and i want to remind us all that we are not alone. and we don't have to act like and be made to believe that we are. we have to keep our heads up, remember why we do what we do, and who we do it for. this is, and will remain, about our students. i recognize the many fears that have developed, the decades-long distrust of public school systems, the fact that we are still living through a pandemic, but everything we do should be centered around

our students. i encourage all of us, my colleagues, our staff, and the public, similarly to the patience we're honoring our students and families when we return, to give us patience to return to in-person learning and in-person meetings. thank you all for being here. and now we will be moving on to section "b," opening items. we will begin with our land acknowledgment, and i'd like to present -- sorry, to introduce canyon coyote woman sayers ruth, who will lead us tonight.[speakn language] >> it is so very important that by acknowledging the land, we are honoring truth and history. by recognizing that the indigenous people of this space and place are the original stewards,

caretakers, and community of which we should acknowledge always the history at this time. my mother and my grandmother have taught me that when ceremony stops, so does the earth. i, too, believe that. so i want to invite you to say this word to yourself. if we were in person, i would love to hear it. i invite you to say yalomo, who was the first name of san francisco, before it was san francisco and before it was california. i invite you to say "ramatush." "ramatush" is the language of this land. it is so very important we acknowledge these truths because when we are coming together as educators and people who impact other community members, who impact the environment, when we are taking time to become familiar with the

layers of history of the land that we are on, a land that we travel to, a land that we work and is our community, we know a little bit more. so i come from mudson maloni territory. however, i want to honor our grandmothers and all mother earth. because without them we would not be here. we share this time and space together for a reason. it is that humility that got us to (indiscernable) by offering this song here in this state. so we may honor the lawn we are on, and be aware of our how actions and words impact the next generation, and how we can all be good ancestors in training. so this is my canyon grandmother's song. at the end of the song, i invite you to say oh!

let's think about this next year and be in community together, and i will use my regalia as an instrument. it is my medicine, and my medicine is when i sing and when i share my words and how i present myself. ♪♪♪ [singing in native language] ♪♪♪ [native language] ♪♪♪

>> say oh! welcome to maloni territory, what is now known as maloni territory.

thank you for acknowledging the original home lan of the ramatush-speaking community members. i hope you can learn a little more about the association of my people, the people of san francisco, and may we also forward honoring history and be good ancestors in training. thank you for having me. >> chairwoman: thank you so much for that and for grounding us for this school year, this meeting. we are so grateful. item 2, approval of board minutes of the regular meeting of june 22, 2021. can i get a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> seconded. >> chairwoman: any corrections?

roll call vote. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call taken] [roll call taken] >> clerk: that's six ayes. >> chairwoman: thank you. item 3: superintendent's report. >> thank you, president lopez. good evening, everyone. good evening board members, good evening staff, and good evening to our community. following us at home. all san francisco unified schools will be open for in-person instruction monday, august 16th we are beyond excited to welcome all of our students back to in-person instructions. as part of our preparations for full russian for in-person learning, the san francisco unified school district is committed to

supporting students' mental health and wellness, and with the help of a private donation, we will be able to offer more health and wellness services for middle school services starting with three schools here and our district. this fall, we're asking all of our school staff to focus on fostering a sense of belonging, cultivating a positive school climate, and we're encouraging all of the adults who work with our students to practice strategies that foster inclusion and achievement. san francisco unified has created at least three weeks of lesson plans and resources to support launching the year with a set of shared common principles across common areas and grade levels. the resources were developed around a set of principles that aim to provide coherence across classes so students can feel safe, welcomed, valued, and celebrated as they return to in-person

learning. relationship-building with others, and with one self, assessing learning, collaborating among peers and with family, and technology integration. when the school year begins, san francisco unified staff will also be headacheing welcome-back calls to all families to check in and let families tell their own stories. these calls will build upon the district's family wellness check-insins initiative that launched at the start of the pandemic in springs of 2020, when they called the families in san francisco district's wide approach to family outreach to provide an individual school site and individual snapshot of how students and families were doing. the san francisco unified's department of technology hosted the sixth annual district day

on monday, august 9th, 2021. the event had over 1900 registered attendees with more than 1400 at the opening session, and offered over 82 sessions to educators, paraprofessionals, administrators, substitutes and office staff. the theme of the event was equity, agency, and opportunity, which was highlighted across the learning sessions. for us to realize the skills and competencies of the graduate profile for each and every student, we need to build our own skills and capacities. and while we've learned so much this year, it is critical that we continue to strengthen our own skills and knowledge. a few session highlights include: a key note by ken shelton, techwity, personalized learning strategies for deeper learning, transition to

high-quality blended learning post-covid, and so, so many more. the day closed with a panel of educators who shared about the lessons they learned from distance learning, and how they're preparing to continue integrating technology in the classroom as we return to full in-person learning. a shoutout to the department of technology who facilitated the day-long professional learning. families can complete the emergency card form on parent view. i encourage you to update your information there through the online emergency card form. families will be able to update their students' health information, emergency contacts, and up load health forms and immunization records. families may also submit a paper emergency card to your school. please visit sfufd/sfu for

more information. it will be closed on parent view on june 30th, 2021. if you need accessing your parent view account, please contact the student and family resource link. again, families, you're able to update your phone number and e-mail address through your account at sfufd.ed. we're excited about the start of the '21/'22 school year. we appreciate you and looking to seeing all of the students back on campus. and back to president lopez. >> chairwoman: thank you. it is also a good reminder to speak loudly, since we're all wearing masks. thank you, superintendent

matthews, for leading that. we are on item 4: student delegates' report. although they are not here with us tonight, we are excited to welcome them at our next board meeting and look forward to building with them. item 5: recnitions and resolutions of accommodation. there are none tonight. item 6: recognizing all valuable employees. our rave awards, there are none tonight. moving on to section "c," advisory committee reports and appointments. there are also no committee reports tonight, but i am asking members of the board if there are any committee appointments that you can share now.■ç >> i would like to appoint kevin tax to head out to the oversight committee

now. >> chairwoman: thank you. that is noted. section "d": discussion of other educational issues. i will call on superintendent matthews again to share this item. >> thank you. i will be begin. as i said in my remarks, we are really, really excited to give this report tonight, as well as to welcome back students to in-american learning. fully welcome them back. next slide. we begin with our mission, which is every day our goal is to provide each and every student quality instruction and equitable support that is required for our students to thrive in the 21st century. this is, as a district, why we believe we exist. this is what it is all about, making sure each and every student receives quality support so they can thrive in the 21st

century. next slide. what we would like to present to you this evening, we'll start with the communication that has occurred over the summer, and all of the communication we were able to give to families in the community. and then we'll have a health and safety update. we will have a report about facilities preparation. we'll talk to you about the online learning program, and we'll talk about before and after-school programming, and we'll end with staffing. this will be our report tonight as we prepare to return to in-person learning. next slide. with that, i'm going to turn it over to chief gentleblight to talk about townhalls and the communication. >> good evening, commissioners. i would like to go to the next slide, please. over the summer we have been doing a lot of different outreach to try to allow families to access information in different ways. we just recently were sent

home a multilingual print mailer, which all families hopefully got in the mail, and we also did 10 public information sessions, "q" and "a" sessions, and townhalls. we did vaccination outreach extensively, as well, as well assent out a variety of different e-mails with important messages related to various topics, such as policy around grade change, the upcoming online learning program and other types of things like that. we've been continuously updating our website with frequently asked questions that came out of the townhalls, as well as other ways we're getting through the family resource link, and ways we're hearing from the community things that are top of mind for them. so we're excited and continue to encourage people to get vaccinated, to share health and safety

information, and to make sure that we're continuing to provide answers as quickly as we can to all of the various questions that are coming from families. next slide, please. so this week we have some new townhalls coming up. the special education department is collaborating with our families to do one specifically for families for students with i.e. p.s, on august 11th, from 5:30 to 6:30, and then another one on thursday, august 12th, from 5:00 to 6:00. and we will share additional information throughout the week, both through media outreach and events that reach our families -- for example, today we had a chinese-language media roundtable that our board protest and commissioner lamb were present for. and we'll be doing calls,

texts, e-mails, and updating the website throughout the next several weeks, including reminding families about the persons of health screenings, and also continuing to work in partnership with ucsf, which has been a great partner over the summer to help us get out the health and safety information, and to answer family questions about health and safety matters at our schools. next slide sly. next slide, please.we want to re families that they were call the family resource link or e-mail the family resource link, which is a resource we set up when our school buildings were closed, in order to help families have a way to reach someone with their questions. we know it is an important resource as we move into this new phase. we also want to remind families that there are places that they can reach out if they need additional support that is not necessarily directly connected to s.f. u. f.d..

next slide, please we want to remind you, also, that families update there are information card. now it is possible for them to update their information directly in parent view. and as students come back to school, families can update it through print, but if you have a parent view account, we encourage you to update it that way. now i would like to turn it over to chief laura smith. >> good morning commissioners. it is great to be able to be here on the eve of school starting. i'm going to go over some of our health and safety

protocols we have in place. next slide, please first and foremost -- [audio is breaking up] >> first and foremost, our guidelines are based on the san francisco department of health guidelines, and really focused on preventing covid-19 infection. one of the best ways to do that is to get vaccinated if you're eligible, to wear masks, and we'll talk more about this later -- to stay home if you're ill. that is a huge way to keep us all ill. to wash our hands frequently, and to maximize fresh air. all of the guidelines work around those main ways to prevent infection. next slide, please. so, starting september 7th, looking at the first guideline about vaccinations being

one of our best defenses against preventing the spread of covid-19, all s.f. u.s.d. employees will be required to be fully vaccinated unless they have a documented medical or religious exemption. and anyone not yet vaccinated will be required to test for covid-19 at least weekly. next slide, please. again, it takes all of us. i think dr. matthews has been saying this from the beginning, when we started getting excited to return to school in august, we all have to keep each other safe. we have to self-screen before coming to a district facility or a school every day and every time. and that we have to stay home when we're sick. we have to wear our face masks at all times, accept exceptfor eating and drinking, and there are exemptions for students with medical or religious reasons. and wash our hands

frequently. next slide, please. the other thing that has also changed in this past month is previously individuals who were fully vaccinated could -- were allowed to not wear masks indoors, but we now have a new health order that regardless of vaccination status, everybody needs to wear masks while indoors and in public settings. so that means everywhere. all staff will be wearing masks while they're on a district facility. next slide, please. the department of public health guidelines that came out -- i want to say kind of mid-to-late july -- really are aligned with the centers for disease control and the california department of health guidance. the priority for the guidelines was for a full return for in-person learning for all grades at full capacity. highlights of the guidelines are the idea that students and staff

must self-screen at home and stay home if ill. that means we're no longer doing screenings at school sites. everyone must wear face masks, even if fully vaccinated, at all facilities. physical distancing is no longer required. and during wildfires, or other times when air quality is poor, we prioritize maintaining healthy air indoors and we can keep doors open, even if close our windows, if we continue to wear our masks. next slide, please. next slide, please. thank you. there a what's allowed section in the guidelines, which is really helpful because it points out some things that are now allowed, that were not allowed in the spring. so parents and care-givers may enter the building to pick up and drop off, even

if they're not fully vaccinated. therapists who are not employees and other service providers may also come on to the site to provide services. festival performances and other events that involve families, tours, open houses are also allowed. drinking fountains can be used. students can share toys, computers, books, games, etc., and sports, dance, exercise, wind instruments, singing and chanting are allowed. and masks must be worn indoors for all activities. that is a section that addresses a lot of questions we got during our townhalls and from our family mailer. next slide, please. there are some shifts. in the spring, the quarantine -- the way that the department of public health wrote their guidance was students who were in a cohort or

classroom, if a student tested positive for covid-19, then the entire class was considered a close contact. there are two different ways to look at close contacts now, called a modified and a short tepid shord quarantine. the modified quarantine is complex, and we're focusing solely on opening schools. and we're going to look a little more deeply into how we might be able to operationalize a modified quarantine, but at this title we're not implementing it. what the modified quarantine looks at is if a student tests positive, and we identify who are the students who would be a close contact what is called a index case, if they were wearing a mask at all times during the contact, then that student would be able to continue to go to school if they wore a face mask at all times, were tested for covid-19 twice a week, remained free of any

covid-19 symptoms, only attended school -- that means they go to school and back, and they do not participate in any activities outside of school or extracurricular activities." so you can see that is a very complex criteria. i wanted to note that is a new part of the guidance. if that criteria is not met, students must quarantine for the standard 10days. there is an option to shorten the 10 days to seven days if a negative fest is obtained after day five with no symptoms. we are looking into how to operationalize the short quarantine because that would lessen the amount of days students would have to be in quarantine. lastly, with covid-19 testing, there has

actually been a few shifts based on when we created this slide to post this for a public notice, as you know, we have be testing from color through april, and we're testing all summer long, and we're continuing to test through august 31st, which is what our agreement was in our baseline m.o.u. now we're expanding to continue that testing beyond august 31st. so currently what is happening is we have weekly testing for students at 20 mobile sites throughout the city, which is an increase from bi-weekly in the spring. and we will be having weekly career pickup from all school sites for the self-swab kits on a weekly basis. because we were not planning to start that on august 15th, there is going to be a bit of a delay on getting all of the courier pickups to

school staffs. but staff have been able to test at 555 franklin or any of the 20 sites throughout the city, which will continue to be in place, and by the weekend of august 30th, we'll be able to have courier pickups at school sites, which will make it more convenient for our staff. we really are emphasizing that the testing is for asymptomatic staff and students. we have applied to the california department of public health to participate in a home pilot test program, with the rapid antigen testing. we're not sure that will be a viable option based on some of the information we're getting back from the california department of public health on how ready they are to scale this program, so we're looking at other options to complement the color testing that we currently have. and now i'm going to turn it over to the chief. >> good evening, everyone. i'm happy to provide you

with a brief update on the facilities' division preparation of school sites. next slide, please. facilities will continue to provide p.p.e. to school sites, including what is kind of a standard package at this point of masks, sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, and by request, some specific equipment for specific situations like face shields. i want to add that the custodials will continue to replenish soap and make sure those are filled. next slide, please. so the main -- there have been two mainstreams of work this past summer, over the past 10 weeks. one is moving all of the furniture back, which we have done the best we could with our consultant teams. and that work has gone overwhelmingly smoothly. there are some go-backs of rooms that need to be

fixed, furniture that was missing. that will be continuing through the end of this next week. mechanical ventilation work was all submitted to d.p.h., and d.p.h. has signed off as all schools being ready for in-person instruction. the simple rule of thumb is that our approach has been to ensure that all multioccupancy spaces have at least one of the following ventilation strategy: operable windows, mechanical ventilation in good working condition, and/or portable air cleaners. there are spaces that might have two, and some that might have three. but we're ensuring that all multioccupancy spaces, meaning classrooms, offices with more than one person who works there all day, lounges, etc., follow this rule of thumb. next slide, please. to that end, cafeterias,

including multipurpose rooms used for food service have operable windows or two large capacity portable air cleaners. auditoriums and gym gymnasiumsare applying the same rules across the board. there are a few exceptions. there are a few sites where the auditoriums, we could not -- auditoriums often have their own free-standing mechanical ventilation that is not connected to the rest of the site. and some of those ventilation systems have actually received the least attention over the years. so there are five auditoriums listed this year that will not be ready on august 16th for normal use. meaning you can't hold a full student assembly in those kinds of spaces, and one gymnasium. we're hoping that at both glen park and john oak

o'connell, that we'll be able to make quick process at fixing the issues. and we anticipate for the other four sites, winter break is our most conserveable update. i'm happy to turn it over to the deputy superintendent. >> our focus effort for the start of the school year is to return all students for in-person learning five days a week. at the same time, we understand there are families that at this point prevent them from participating in in-person learning. we'll be sharing an effort to provide an online learning option for whom in-person learning is not an option. next slide, please. this alternative option

has been formed by state organizations and the board, which calls us to have an online learning program. while we continue to also offer our existing alternative programs and plan for full-person return in the fall. next slide, please. we are fortunate to already have a robust, remote learning program at independence high school. we'll be leveraging this option for our high school students to provide an alternate learning option for students in nine through 12th grade. we've done so attending to guidance from the c.d. e. released on july 12th. we're calling this our yon line learning program.

[inaudible] >> remind full to have an application window to assign students for the beginning of this school year, august 16th. we understand for various reasons some families were unable to submit their applications by the deadlines, and for those families we're working on a way to capture their information so we can respond to them if capacity and space changes. at this time, though, we're going to assess and plan the program around the students who have currently applied. next slide, please. we began the planning process really attending to that idea of limited capacity, and original planned for serving about 450 students, about 1% of our student population. as you can see on this slide here, there were significantly more applicants to our online learning program. it gives us a snapshot and grade span. we want to confirm the programming and respond to

this first batch of applicants before we expand the program to folks who did not meet the original deadline. i'm going to now pass it to chief minu to share more office about the after-school programming. >> thank you, director. i am going to provide a brief update on our district school offerings, in which there are three. next slide, please. so the three offerings are: excel after school programs, which are operated, as you can see, within 89 school sites. in the excel program, after-school programs are funded through state and federal grants for schools that reimburse at a rate of about $10 per student per day. that is not enough funds to serve all of the students in all of the schools. the grants prioritize students experiencing homelessness, foster care, to qualify for free and

reduced lunch. similarly, the s.f. u.s.d. o.f. t. program is for lower income families, and funding comes from the state subsidies that are based on family income and number of household numbers. and we have additional tuition spots as well. there are also community organizations and private groups that individually make arrangements with schools, using a memorandum of agreement and the facilities use permit in order to operate. those are school by school, and they're not managed centrally. next slide, please. we know that there have been questions about capacity and timing, with school time changes. with o.s.t., we are staffed and we do have openings for students, so we are actively

recruiting. with excel, there are national and -- there are state and national trends related to staffing shortages, and this impacts the number of students that can be served because you have to maintain adult to child ratios. so in order to grow the program, they need to hire more staff, and that's a challenge if there is a staffing shortage. with both programs, we have made adjustments to accommodate for the new school schedules, early or late release. and as it gets closer to school-time opening, we'll be working with sites to provide additional support as needed. and i will stop there. >> hi, everyone. it's good to be here tonight. i have the next slide about the staffing. go ahead.

so we -- you know, staffing has been extremely difficult for our district this summer, and that is in line with what we're seeing all over the country and even in some of our neighboring districts. right now, the number has gone up. we have 53 remaining vacancies. about 30 of them, if not higher, has opened in the past few weeks as we prepare to reopen weeks. our focus areas are special education in particular, and bilingual spanish and world language spanish. the team is working incredibly hard to fill every vacancy we can, but it seems like the teacher shortage that we talked about for a long time is really acute this year, and we're really feeling it. i'm guessing in large part because of covid. so in terms of our staffing efforts, we are continuing to host hiring events to interview candidates. we're posting recruitment information in the family

digest and on our social media accounts. we are planning for coverage of these vacancies on the first day of school, so we're in talks with other divisions, and we're asking for volunteers so every student has an adult with them in the classroom as we try to fill the remaining vacancies. we will employ substitute teachers and additional staff as needed as well. and we have had some ongoing conversations with u.e.s.f. on how to redouble or recruitment efforts, and we appreciate that conversation and are going to do everything we can to close out as many of these positions by the end of the week. >> so that is our update and report regarding the return of in-person learning. and we welcome questions

the board president. >> chairwoman: perfect. before we begin the discussion, we will open it up to public comment. so raise your hands. we don't see you, but justin will let us know how many there are. >> thank you, president lopez. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak on this item tonight. i'll wait a moment or sew we can get an assessment of how many people would like to speak. >> i'm sorry. there are only 10 hands up

right now (laughing). [laughter] >> chairwoman: okay. we will do one minute for speaker, and no more than 20 minutes for this item. >> thank you, president lopez. hello, you can go ahead. >> caller: hi. thank you so much. welcome back, everyone. it is so exciting to be at another board meeting, and to see all of you in the same room brings joy into my heart. i'm alita fisher. we appreciate being a partner this past year and continue to plan to do so this year. we have a few questions related to today's presentation. as far as facilities, as we stated, opening doors and windows can be a challenge for some of our students. that can impact acoustical modifications, for our deaf and hard of hearing

students, for example. we have challenges with students at risk of eloping. we have questions about what before and after care will look like for students with disabilities. we saw that has a huge challenge during the summer, there were nowhere enough spaces for the students. and very often they didn't have qualified staff to understand students no,' needs. and one question about vacancies? does that include paraeducators and other staff as well? thank you. >> laura, you can go ahead. >> hi. my name is laura wolfram, and i'm calling as a parents' leader with increasing the distance. i'm a teacher and i'm a mom of three children who go to s.f. u.f.d. schools, and i'm looking forward to them returning to

in-person school on monday. there has been a ton of media coverage and speculation recently that has made a lot of parents anxious about school safety. but we want to remind people that monday's reopening will be the first time that all students have been able to return to full, in-person in over a year and a half. thousands of parents have fought hard to get to this point because we believe that public education is absolutely vital to kids, and because of the negative impact that prolonged hybrid learning has had on students. we urge this board to stand strong for full, in-person learning. [inaudible] >> given the many mitigations the school

district has worked to get in place. [buzzer] >> thank you. >> saline? hello, saline? >> can you guys hear me? >> yes. >> i'm sorry. my question is: can i register for distance learning right now? >> i'm sorry. this isn't a question and answer section. this is just public comment. neither the staff, nor the board, can respond to any questions right now. if you have anything to add about the presentation just given, you can do that. >> okay. i thought i could do this at this meeting here. >> you can call the family resource line with your questions, and you should be able to get that answer right away. >> okay. >> thank you.

>> hello, hava? >> yes. first, i would just like to add to what alita just said, and also to thank you for talking about the excel. i just want to add that low-income families have struggled before with capacity issues, especially when there is a cut in. pier one schools.my son is in oe schools because of special day classes, and it has been difficult in the past. so i appreciate you keeping that in mind. the second thing is, i am wondering when the district or the administrators will provide information about the covid recovery program, and what the plan is to help mitigate some of the academic loss, as well as the social and emotional. as someone just said, this is the first time our

students are going back to school. it will be a massive adjustment. in addition to social and emotional, my son is behind. so i was hopeful to hear more about that tonight. please provide it soon. [buzzer] >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> hello, beth. >> hi, my name is beth kelly. i have a couple of quick comments. the first is, i just want to express a huge amount of gratitude for the mandate for vaccinations for all staff. i think that is a huge advance forward, and i'm very grateful. another issue i'd like to raise is a concern, and that is, you know, based on the wait-pool list and openings at different schools, i think you're going to end up with quite a number of highly

under-enrolled schools. and it is really going to create both a fiscal and equity crisis for those schools. and so i just want to make sure that there are finance committee meetings and kind of an all-hands-on-deck approach to make sure we're serving all of our students, especially the most vulnerable. thank you. [buzzer] >> thank you. hello, sabrina. >> hi. thank you for taking my comment. i also want to say at the beginning, thanks so much to everyone for the very succinct presentations today. these were useful, and i really appreciated their, you know, just basic information and thorough information. i also want to thank the district for reopening and adhering to public health

guidelines. and most families have been desperate to return, so i really, really appreciate that the district has moved forward with this. i'd also like to remind people that outdoor-learning is something that is continuing to gain steam, and that is fundamentally an equity issue, as well as a huge aid to social, emotional learning and recovery in terms of bouncing back from this pandemic and helping with learning loss as well. it not only provides fresh air and sort of a much healthier environment for people overall, but it provides a lot of kids with access to the outdoors that many children in our city do not have. [buzzer] >> i'd like people to keep their attention on this and make sure we maximize youth and outdoor space. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, sharin? >> yes. here. >> go ahead.

>> actually, regarding the reopening of schools, we respect those people who want to go back to school. but how come the pandemic is getting worse recently, in just one or two weeks, and then 15% of the cases are children? so as part of being a parent, we want to keep the virtual class for our kids to stay home to study because we believe that it is not a safe environment for everyone to go back to school. we reserve our right to keep the kids safe at home. and even though the vaccination is mandatory in the future, but who can guarantee that at lunch time, without masking for every kids, they can be close to each other without a safe distance. and, in addition, under 12-year-old kids do not get any vaccination. we believe this is also a

very high chance to have infections. [buzzer] >> thank you. hello, robert. >> hello, my name is robert, and i'm a parent of two kids at the elementary school. i'm deeply disturbed by s.f. u.f.d.'s anticipating covid waves like we're having today. absolutely no plan "b" for distance learning. not allowing parents to decide if being in person is right for them. if you work in the "q" and "a" section of the zoom call, i implore you, everybody is desperate for distance learning, and s.f. u.f.d.has failed. the government has failed. i know the funds aren't

there from the state, but l.a. is able to offer distant learning to every child, and testing. we're a fifth of the size. why can't it be done here? this is a failing, absolute failing. i would like to thank allison callings for bringing in air purifiers and being robust about budget. this is gross. [buzzer] >> please do not use the "q" and "a" for questions of that sort. it is only for interpretation. hello, chanel. chanel? hello, grace. >> hello, my name is grace, and i'm a parent and also a public educator in the field of public health. i just want to coastline on what robert just said.

it is preposterous to me that we're using data from spring 2021 to say that transmissions were low in schools. and that is not even when delta variant was circulating. that was the alpha variant. so for anyone who is following the current information on delta, you need to pay attention and care about our children and risk. i understand it is not a one-size-fits-all situation. but some of us are asking for a distance learning option, not just for kids at risk, as for everybody as really required by ab130. that is truly disappointing. i'm a fan of public schools, but i have been extremely upset with how they have not anticipating this most dangerous wave. [buzzer] >> thank you.

chanel, are you there? >> hello. can you hear me? >> yes. you can go ahead. >> hi. first of all, i would like to thank you for your hard work of making sure that students come to in-person. i'm a mom of arriving 10th grader. and they have many departments with large assemblies (indiscernable). they will have trouble safely practicing their art if distancing requirements come back. outdoor spaces, many covered, are a viable alternative to safely practice their art. we want to recognize ron and sam of the san francisco unified school district, and our wonderful principal, and her work to meet the requirements from the state for the conditional use of these spaces, to

provide safe access, and use of out door space is necessary to make sure there is no interruptions. [buzzer] >> (indiscernable) additional use of outdoor space. thank you for your help and being of service for our kids. >> thank you. hello, juliette. >> hi. i just wanted to thank you guys for agreeing and mandating vaccinations for teachers and staff. i'm not sure why it took public shaming to get you guys to do the right thing. thank you. >> thank you. hello, brandy.

brandy? >> hi. can you hear me? >> we can. go ahead. >> hi. thank you very much, everyone. i just want to thank you all for your hard work. i know it is a really stressful time. i appreciate each and every one of you. i stand in solidarity with the parents who have been asking for an online option for their children. i think we all know this is what needs to happen. and i would like for some folks on the board -- i'm just going to call out because of your position, commissioner lamb, because you work for the mayor -- the reason why we don't have a robust distance learning program with huge capacity is because parents pressured, and successfully, to basically have the california state legislature take away a lot of funds for distance learning. so that's why such a very small amount of students are able to go into that

program. there needs to be some pressure put on the california state legislature, by the mayor, to make sure that there is -- te authorized because we just can't be doing this to children. it is really immoral. thank you. [buzzer] >> to force them to go to in-person when it is dangerous. thank you. >> thank you. hello, jennifer. >> hi, this is jennifer. i want to thank you for taking my call. i know a lot of comments are commenting on wanting a distance-learning option, but the california distance-learning waiver expired on june 30th, which is why s.f. u.f.d. has the option of the medical waiver that was

put in place for medically fragile children. so, yes, just like the last caller said, we really need to, um, go to our california legislature to change back to distance learning, if that is what is needed, not s.f. u.f.d.. thank you. >> thank you. president lopez, that concludes public comment on this item. >> president: thank you for supporting that. commissioners, do you have any questions or comments on the presentation that we heard previously? commissioner bogus? >> thank you. i have a series of questions. but the first question i have is: how are we monitoring air flow in

classrooms? kind of understanding that we did an initial assessment, but kind of on a day to day, week to week basis, how are we monitoring our classrooms and maintaining our desired amount of ventilation and air flow? >> dot, if you're there? >> i'm here. commissioner, i heard half the question about air flow, and how are we monitoring air flow? but, i'm sorry, my laptop is having a little spotty wi-fi. is it just about air flow in classrooms, or was there another ventilation question in there? >> it was really about air flow and the frequency that we're checking and monitoring air flow in classrooms. >> commissioner, i think at this point, we are complying with the d.p.h. requirements that we, again, employ in all multi-occupancy spaces, one of the following

strategies: operable windows, portable air cleaners, or portable vent and l ventilation. and we have also put in place ways for folks, to the extent that operable windows fail, to request their repair. that is what we are resourced to be able to monitor right now, in terms of making sure that the systems we have put in place continue to function as planned. we have our consultant teams, the contractors who have helped us get school sites ready for august 16th in place, and shop to continue them throughout the year to make sure that filters are replaced, and also again that the systems that we have remain in good working condition and can be addressed quickly if repairs are needed.

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speak more with the board and stakeholders about this question, but i would also encourage us that it is not something that anyone should take away that this is something that they need to do on a daily or weekly basis. the fact is once we set up these systems, the conditions are pretty stable. we have selected portable air cleaners for classrooms that will circulate the air in the classroom four to six times an hour, but there are many variables, so it's difficult for us to land on a by-space calculation of the air flow on a space by space basis. >> thank you for that answer. i think, for me, i'm really

interested in us having a standard for what we want to see for ventilation air flow and classrooms. i feel like that would make people more comfortable and give us better tools of what we can expect. i am glad to hear that families and students do feel safer when they are sure that things are how they're supposed to be. my next question is i think a relatively short one. are people expected to wear a mask on school grounds and in school buildings or just inside of school buildings?

>> so right now, masks are required in school buildings. that comes from the department of public health, and we also have physicians from san francisco department of public health if you want to dig deeper. >> are we encouraging people to keep masks on [inaudible]. >> and there's no guidance as far as what people should be doing kind of in the outside spaces or things like that, just kind of inside, is that correct? >> in outdoor spaces, like, for

recess and outside? >> yes, exactly. >> well, currently, the guidance does not require masking to happen in outdoors, and i don't know if the doctors wanted to add anything to that. >> good morning -- or good afternoon, everyone. i'm daniel woolridge, one of the physicians in the division of general pediatrics at ucsf. yes, per guidelines, masks are only required indoors, and that's per guidelines. i don't have too much more to add outside of that? doctor at kin -- dr. atkinson or dr. mcevoy, do you have anything to add? >> no, i think that's pretty

much with the guidelines. >> thank you. i'm looking at how we can encourage people to use masks even if it's outdoors, but i think encouraging a culture of wearing masks at all times as people are returning to school is something we're excited about. i just want to see if i have any other questions -- >> i do want to check before you continue in case someone wants to add. commissioner collins? >> i really appreciate commissioner bogus' question, and i just want to continue -- i just want to highlight a discrepancy. what i'm hearing from commissioner bogus is real specificity. we have the guidance from the

department of health, but what i understood you were asking for is what is our expectation, right, and what are we communicating to schools? so we have the guidance, and what we know is being interpreted a little differently in different districts, and it may also look different in different schools, right, when we think about where kids eat, outdoor space, those kinds of things. so i appreciate your question, commissioner bogus, but parents want to know the answers to these questions. i'm a parent, commissioner bogus is a parent, and i want to be honest, i'm super excited to be here with my colleagues at the board, and i'm also a little nervous. this is the first time we've all been together, and i'm high risk, so, you know, we all come into this situation with our personal experience, and there are families that just can't wait to get back in schools,

and there are families that are excited to go back, but they also want to get clear information when they send their babies back. my kids are older, so they're vaccinated. and so specifically, i want to address the questions of ventilation. last fall, we had a meeting addressing ventilation, and we agreed we didn't want to hold up school openings in order to address this issue of ventilation, which is a national issue. it's a really cumbersome issue.

many of our schools don't have adequate hvac systems, but we did discuss ways that we could increase mechanical ventilation, so i would like to ask staff if we have assessed -- the requirement was all schools would have increased ventilation, and also, i'm hearing in oakland that many classrooms -- i'm hearing that many classrooms -- as part of the agreement, that many classrooms would have filtration systems, and i'm very thankful as a board that we have air filtration. so i want to be honest and transparent with the public that we're not going to slow down, we're going to keep moving, and i think all of us

are tired of being at home, and we recognize the challenge of distance learning, but that doesn't mean that we gloss over very serious questions that families have, and we should provide them with answers. i don't think we have the answers, but i think we need the data of how many schools have filtration systems, how many classes have circulation fans. you can go to my blog, and i have a lot of links to those meetings so parents, it's all transparent up there and everyone can see it. i want families to understand what the conditions are when they bring their children to school, and i want -- you know, i want that for staff, as well. so i would like to know, from

our chief facilities officer, how many schools have increased ventilation and how many schools have circulation fans? >> we have now the data for all school sites basis, essentially. we also have -- we can also

provide for you, and we've just been focusing on getting the work done today, but my staff and i have been working on a dashboard that allows school sites to be able to see the operable window data where portable air cleaners have been assigned and installed, and also, the good working condition investment of mechanical ventilation.

all filters that exist have been replaced or installed at sfusd school sites. i think that it is most prudent for us, given the -- you know, the fact that we can -- even if we were to have $1 billion

tomorrow, we could not spend it. i think our best way is to layer on multiple layers of air cleaners where the system can support it and also identify sites that need more substantive modernization components. but i do want to convey that there has been an increase in work to improve ventilation systems at schools over the last few weeks. >> i appreciate that, and i also wanted to ask about co2

monitors, and that was listed by the sf department of public health? although they did not require those, they did state that it was a way that we could monitor air flow. >> yes, and we do, as a facilities division, we have co co2 air monitors as a district. for example, in oakland, i had colleagues connect with their counterparts over there, and they have co2 monitors for basements where they basically have gas boilers. not for covid prevention purposes, but to make sure that it wasn't unsafe for workers, so i think that we have -- again, as a facilities

division, have access to and can use co2 monitors. i think that it's a good conversation for us to have, again, around the frequency and use and protocols that we want to use and under what conditions. but you are going to see increased requests for funding for more portable air cleaners and we're hopefully going to make very steady progress on adding those to school environments over the next few months. >> thank you, and i'd just like to request that we get a follow up for the public or the school board at a building and ground

committee. >> thank you. and commissioner collins, this is a good reminder for the chairs of all of our committees that this is a good chance for us to capture all of the material that we'd like to see at committee meetings, which are going to start to be in session later this month. are there other commissioners that -- or commissioner bogus, if you still have questions. >> i do, but i can let other folks go just so we don't have me asking many questions in a row. >> commissioner lamb? >> thank you, and thank you to the staff for all the preparation. my questions is related to covid testing. i'm happy to see we're going to

continue providing testing for asymptomatic students. are those sites at school sites or are they at sites of san francisco department of public health? >> thank you for the question, commissioner lamb. great question. to clarify, they are at our sites across the city, and we've been running testing and programs there all summer, so we kept the testing there, and they're at all sites. >> great. thank you. and with the variant obviously increasing and having its impact, you know, certainly

been having a lot of questions from families around that mitigation so i am aware that p.c.r. testing is available valuable and how could we use that as a tool to also screen students? >> that is a great question, and i will let dr. atkinson and dr. lee add to it. the benefit of the antigen testing and the rapid testing -- well, i think i'm going to let them answer the strategy. so dr. woolridge and dr.

atkinson, you want to talk about some of the testing and the benefits? >> i'll go first. a couple of benefits of being able to do the antigen testing is the rapid results, that they can be obtained within an hour? so in that case, if somebody is positive, you know almost immediately and to remove them to prevent there being on going exposure? the other piece that can be helpful is just sort of the flexibility doesn't require a lab to do it. it's sort of a point of care test, and so it can be done in many more locations, and you don't have to have full abat the scene -- full access to a lab? and then, the final piece is, if done often, it can approximate some of the accuracy that we see with the p.c.r. testing.

>> i have very little to add? the only difference, again, is when you're thinking about public health impact, there's not much of a difference of asymptomatic individuals getting tested. like it was said, you get immediate testing back versus 24 to 48 hour results, so with asymptomatic individuals, you get an immediate result for covid and if they are positive, if they go home, so in that scenario, the p.c.r. is the gold standard test. >> thank you, doctor. >> so commissioner lamb, your

second part of the question is whether we are considering adding antigen testing to the p.c.r. testing? >> yes. >> okay. so we definitely are looking at that. one of the lifts, and it's a huge operational lift, and it's definitely a resource lift. we have been working with color. color does not do the asymptomatic testing, but we've been working it out, the corner routes and all of that. so in order to add the antigen testing to that, we'd have to have basically a parallel operating system. the antigen system, it does take 15 to 30 minutes. folks swab, they put it in the kit, and it goes to the lab, and from 12 to 24 hours later,

you get the results. so for asymptomatic screening, that's working pretty well, and we're able to pivot because we have an infrastructure set up. we have a -- the california department of public health has offered, on a broad level, has said they would be able to support us on a level for the rapid testing, and we're trying to figure out what that means. for something like that, we don't have the staffing resources to do that. we would have to have the california department of public health to come in with anywhere from 60 to 90 staff and go into our 160 school sites and just be there all day to see if somebody needed to be tested in a rapid way. and then, we do have some questions because that staff member can't stand there for 15 to 30 minutes, so what does

that mean operationally? what does that look like. so we're definitely in conversations to understand. we do not want to stop the testing that we're doing. you know, we do want to continue that, and if we were, as a complement, to bring in active p.c.r. testing, we would love to do that, but we do not have the operational support to do that in such a quick amount of time. >> thank you. that is super helpful, so i look forward to updates to where those conversations are with the california department of public health. i know they are offering resources and the importance of really understanding, you know,

when they call it, brass tacks, rubber hits the road and what that would mean for our district. but i think the reason why i raised those questions specifically is around the opportunity to screen our students, and i know that we've made some announcements today with our staff, but really, for me, i'm particularly interested in the student testing. >> this is vice president moliga. first of all, it's been a really long, long pandemic. i remember sitting in the room with superintendent matthews when he got the call about the first covid case, and i remember his face, and it was just in shock, and ever since

then, it's been a tough situation, trying to support our students and families with education, so i just want to commend everyone for being there and holding it down. staff all over the country have been working around the clock. i've been hearing so many stories, and i just want to commend our staff, first and foremost, for working tireless hours, putting out a presentation such as this today, which, you know, we were at a point where we were just trying to get inch by inch, and now looking at the presentation, we've come so far, and so i want to thank the staff and superintendent here at the san francisco unified school district for really working with families, the community-based organizations and the school board members of the i'm excited about next week. i really am. trying to hold myself back from going to a bunch of schools to go do visits.

but i am myself excited. there is a real -- there is a real anxiety about the new delta variant coming around, but i do trust that we've done everything we can do, and i'm happy to learn that we're looking into this rapid testing that the chief is speaking about. i think the more that we can stay in front of this issue that we're dealing with, the better we're going to be able to support our kids and educate them. so i want to thank all the kids and the family members who have been patient and strong at the same time. as a parent, i know how it is, and how hard it's been on all of us, and so i want to say thank you. i did have a question -- not major question. i was curious about the c.b.o.s. it seems like c.b.o.s are coming back, and they've been having a hard time during the

pandemic. i'm curious to know if c.b.o.s, have any fell off? the pandemic has decimated some programs, and i'd like to know what the status of our c.b.o.s are at this moment, and i had a question about recruitment. chief mendez said we're working hard to staff up, and i'm really curious about the staff level, but again, i want to thank the staff and families for being supportive during these times. >> thank you, vice president

moliga. i'll tell you about [inaudible] we have had a lot of m.o.u.s coming through, which is great, meaning that agencies have been waiting to be able to enter into memorandums of understanding with our school sites, so that is an indication that folks are still out there. we do know, that as chief yashar mentioned, community agencies and service providers are having challenges with staffing, and that's just everywhere, so, you know, working very hard to do that. there's certainly ways in which we all have to work together to meet those needs, and that's pretty much what i with tell you about our service -- what i can tell you about our service providers, and i'll turn it over to chief mendez to talk about recruitment. >> thank you very much.

to answer your question, commissioner moliga, i believe the biggest concern are at high schools, and then, at k through 8, no school has i think more than one and maybe no more than a handful of sites have two vacancies, but we don't have a situation where there's one school holding down ten vacancies. that's not the case. it's spread out across the district. >> thank you for the update, and i want to say thank you to everyone out there. please come and work for us, best school district in the bay area. >> commissioner sanchez, you have one question, and then, commissioner bogus, we'll wrap up with you, and thank you for your patience. >> no, thank you.

i just want to share commissioner bogus' questions about masking up in outdoor spaces, and i share that concern. i know that kids will be masking up outside, and that'll be their choice, but that's raising concern for staff members and families, and i don't know where we're going to land on that, but that's where we're standing right now, so i just wanted to get some responses to that and where the doctors land, as well. >> thank you, commissioner sanchez. i guess i want to be clear what your question is. so currently, the guidance does not require masking outdoors, but that it is recommended, and that's the information that we've been sharing.

that is the answer to your first question, and then, your second question -- >> my question, really, is -- i know it's not in the guidance from d.p.h., but really, as we are seeing with this new variant how virulent it is and how contagious it is, that there's going to be more and more families that are concerned about having their kids unmasked, especially for elementary school kids because kids will be up in each other's faces. i know for a fact because i've seen it myself when i have recess duty outside, and kids are on top of each other practically, so i want us to all be aware that that is hard to not have students be really close to each other, and if they're maskless and carrying the virus, that we could have many of these super spreader events. >> i wonder, doctors, if you

could speak to that masking outdoors is a potential way to keep the virus from being spread? >> i think as we are looking at our guidance, we are aligning it with and have been aligning it with san francisco department of public health. we have been really careful as we move forward with lessons learned, and one of the lessons that we believe we've learned is trying to not go above the guidance. we believe that the guidance is designed around health and safety and really uses data, so that's why we have aligned ourselves and are sticking with the guidance at this point. so the guidance that we have gained is masks are absolutely

required indoors but we're not requiring masks outdoors, and that's what we're requiring right now. i don't know if our ucsf doctors want to talk more about the science behind why masks aren't required outside. >> i can speak to that really briefly, and then, i can ask dr. atkinson or dr. mcevoy or one of our other doctors that are here to weigh-in. data is changing constantly. we are getting new data in week by week, and so our main focus particularly as physicians here and particularly all of us are pediatricians is really to provide the support and share the facts that we have in regards to, you know, what is

happening. and we are also here to support the school district in meeting the guidelines. now that's not to say, and i do want to say that the school district, we've been in meetings with them all summer long and before that, and they've always been aligned with the guidelines, and as those guidelines change, i am certain, as we've all seen throughout this pandemic, guidelines from d.p.h. will change, and we will be meeting those guidelines as they change. do you have anything else to add, dr. atkinson or dr. mcevoy? >> thank you, dr. woolridge. so the part that makes it challenging with the delta

variant, people want exact information. we know that it's performing differently indoors versus outdoors. we know that being outdoors is almost the ultimate in ventilation. there's not a trapped room for particles to spread. again, if people are in close proximity, that sort of increases your risk, so as we think about how to support sfusd and creating guidelines that they think of as guidelines, we need to keep in mind the information from the san francisco department of public health and the c.d.c. i think parent should have some input into their risk tolerance, and so for a given

family, if the risk tolerance is low, meaning, they want their child to be as safe as possible, they can train their child to keep their masks on at all times except for eating, so including outdoor play. but again, as the data comes out, if there is some suggestion how the delta variant is performing in outdoor spaces, we would make sure that the sfusd knows that as soon as possible so they could adjust their requirements, and that sort of information is shared and adjustments would be made. >> and another just key thing i did want to add -- thank you, dr. atkinson and dr. mcevoy, as the data exists, we want to share all the data as it exists. it can be very confusing just

to follow the date down a particular rabbit hole. i have seen talk on the q&a about 14 to 15% of cases in children. what i want to remind people is cases occur out of 100 people, and that means we have 85.7 to 85% of those covid cases being adults, and that's a thing, so that's about four-fifths to nine-tenths are being seen in

adults. i do want to make sure that we're looking at the data in a very well rounded fashion. i would encourage you to get that chart on cbs news, the american academy of pediatrics slides, and it shows you where we are seeing cases among children in the nation, and it color codes them. i can tell you that what we are seeing in the upticks, california is not one of those states. and i will just leave that there, but i want to make sure that people are looking at all the data. >> i do feel with us staying at the minimum guidance, it doesn't allow us to be as prepared, and i do think we need to be as things are changing, and it's about how do we create the safest

environment. like, even if we're not mandating things, how are we encouraging people to take every precaution that they feel that they need to stay safe, but thank you very much for that update. the next question i do have is in regards to the vacancies. i believe we were told that the vacancies for classroom staff were likely to be filled by the first day of school. i would request to know that, and also request a list of those vacancies just so i would know where they're at and when they're filled. i also would want to know how many of those vacancies that would be filled are assisting students in special education and english as a second

language learners. >> thanks for the question, commissioner bogus. we're going to work really hard to fill as many of them as possible, but one of the things that's happening right now is folks are quitting in the two weeks leading up to school, so as i mentioned before, of the 50 vacancies, 35 of them have opened, if not in may, since the beginning of july, so i definitely want to kind of send a note of caution about the vacancies. it is high, and it is concerning, and we're going to do everything we can to find those qualified candidates before the start of school and even after the start of school so that people in those

classrooms can get a break before they go back to their jobs. i don't have the vacancies in front of me, but we can include how many of those vacancies are for special education teachers. >> just to follow up on that, for clarity, what should parents do if they experience a vacancy in their students' class the first day of school, and what should they do until that situation is resolved for them or would they have input as to what the ultimate outcome is in regards to that? >> so they can expect to have an educator in front of them, and we will be transparent in cases where that is an educator where they're basically subbing in, whether they're a sub-tut

staff member, and we will let parents know as we ultimately hire and fill the position. i will tell you this year feels different, and i don't want to overpromise, especially in terms of the number of folks that were leaving right before the school year starts, it was particularly high this year, and the overall number of vacancies was high. we will certainly do our best to be transparent and as we fill those vacancies, but no one should be worried that when they go to school, that there won't be an adult for their students. if that's temporary, we'll try

to fill that with a teacher as fast as we can. >> let me piggyback on what daniel was saying, because you asked a question, what can families expect or how long. i think when chief mendez said that this feels different, it definitely is different. in speaking with my colleagues all over the bay area, the numbers are exceedingly high. one of the local districts started already, and they opened with 40 vacancies, which was extremely high for them, and the other piece of this, though, is the -- in order to -- like, for example, they tell a family that we accept a teacher at this point, if the numbers are high here but not high all-around us, then, we know that at some point we're going to be able to fill the vacancy. but the numbers are high everywhere, so there's a

concern of where we are going to find an adequate number of teachers to fill this vacancy in the bay area. we are going to continue to work to fill those vacancies, but it is concerning at this time. >> thank you very much for the clarity. the next question i have is in a similar vein, and the school vacancies, and are we [inaudible]. >> commissioner bogus, could you be a little bit more specific regarding what type of position because that's a real big swap, so i just want to answer your question with some granularity. >> yeah, i wonder people that kind of help and support the operations and the school sites that allow the folks in the

classroom to do what they want to do but don't actually work in a particular classroom. >> do you mean, like, teachers on special assignment? >> no, i mean, like, other staff as school sites, like, people who might work in school offices or people who might, like, work in hallways, kind of, like, the support staff that support all the things that we do. >> yeah, let me see what i can pull up. in terms of school clerks, i know that we have about ten vacancies right now, but we do have a robust pool of clerical substitutes, so any school that has a clerical vacancy will receive a clerical substitute until that position is filled. in terms of other school sites support positions, i would have to go back and check, but we can include that in our update on friday.

i don't remember anything popping with the exception of paraeducators. we do have a number of paraeducator vacancies. that's not completely unheard of this time of year, but we are working to fill those positions, and we are working with uesf to try to find new ways to try to fill those positions, so i'm happy to do a round up on friday with the board about those standings, but i would say the efforts are teachers in particular and paraeducators because that's where we're laser focused because that's where we have the greatest need. >> the last question i have is

more general. how do we get to a place where we can have before school and after school programming available for all students who request it and what are kind of, like, the financial costs and kind of the administrative changes that we would need to take as a district if we wanted to embrace that as well as what kind of relationships would we need with c.b.o. providers in the city, just kind of understanding that we're not able to serve everyone who wants access, but i think that's a goal that we all have, and i'm not necessarily sure who can answer that question, but definitely interested in getting that answer. >> do you have thoughts? [inaudible], are you there? >> i am. i'm so sorry, commissioner bogus. could you repeat the question?

>> yeah. just wondering what it would take for us to expand before school programming, after school programming to all students that request it, both kind of from our side to the students that request us to provide the services we do. >> thank you very much. so i can speak on behalf of the o.s.t. and would defer to chief smith on excel. but for o.s.t., it is sfusd numbers. these are employees who have a current contract to serve a certain amount of hours year-round with the option when we offer full summer programming. so many of those people in those positions and who have been in those positions for many years have additional -- to accommodate for the part-time hours that they have

during the school year, like, also, they wear another hat. for example, they would be a para for special ed in the morning, and then, in the afternoon, they are the o.s.t. teachers, so they may already have a full time schedule but just have a different role in the morning than in the afternoon or they have another job outside of the district in the morning. so really, in order to look at accommodating morning slots or, you know, a longer day or something like that, we would probably need to go back and renegotiate contracts. we've asked staff about their availability, and their some instances in which staff can be, and then site principals can work with them, but if we were going to make a site assistance change, we would have to make a change to their contract. >> thank you so much for that answer. i don't know if there's any

other comments for the excel program. >> thank you for the question, commissioner bogus, and i think i would start with one of the challenges is we don't have an overall strategy in the district around before and after school and part of that is because it isn't part of education funding. it isn't, unfortunately, what the legislature believes is part of the school day, so it comes through different federal or state grants. and what chief yashar is talking about, that's a tuck funding stream -- particular funding stream, and then, the additional programs have additional funding streams, so i think it's a patch work quilt, so i think in order for us to have a district wide strategy, that would be a pretty big lift because we have to determine as a district where does it sit, how is it coordinated and operationalized

because as you know, before and after schools take up almost every other part of our operational facilities, right? it's facilities, it's meals, it's custodial and all of that, so all of that has to be organized and coordinated in the sharing of spaces at school sites, so part of it is in order to get sort of to that vision of having before and after school at every child who needs it, we'd have to create a district wide system for everyone who needs that and coordinate between all the additional districts and location. so i don't know all the effort that it would take to do that or how we would get there. >> thank you so much for that. i'm interested in having more conversations about the path to get there. i understand that the funding is lagging, and that prevents

us from having the necessary kind of staff and investment to provide to all students, so i'm hopeful we can figure out a plan to show people that we don't have all the necessary funding, but we're ready to provide an appropriate program to support before school, after school, and every other point. thank you so much for your responses. >> okay. and i am going to wrap up this item to be under an hour discussion, so we have a couple more minutes. >> i guess i just wanted to highlight, i really appreciate commissioner bogus' question, and i don't think that staff is answering it directly, and part of it is we can't hold that work, and so i think sometimes as a district that we don't like answering questions that we can't by ourselves. i do remember last year having this dialogue, and i do remember that we asked or i asked for a district wide survey of what parents wanted.

because if parents don't want before or after school, we shouldn't be working to provide it for them. but we can't ask for support from the city or from the state if we don't know what the need is. so the after school for all resolution, which was way before even my kids were even in school, i believe that our school board has said that they wanted every family to have after school care if they wanted it, and we were probably not able to meet that need. but i think now is a different time. families are in need, especially when we're shifting schedules, and i feel like i'm not alone on the board in wanting to support other commissioners and families in way, but we can't move forward if we don't have an accurate assessment. so i would like to put it on the record, what do families need, and i would like that

assessment based because i do know that some families have bigger needs than others, and we need to figure out how to work with city partners to fill those gaps. and i appreciate the question from commissioner bogus in continuing to lift that up. thank you. >> thanks, everyone, and again, i think it's really important to know the issue at hand. there's so many things in this presentation that allowed for a really broad discussion, but i also want us to continue to uplift the committee meetings as a setting where we can dive deeper, so i'm encouraging the chairs of the [inaudible] committee to follow up on this discussion and the chair of the buildings and grounds committee to follow up on ventilation given that there's a lot more that we'd like to share and bring to the public. section e, public comment on

nonagenda items. item 1 is protocol for public comment. please note that public comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the board's jurisdiction. we ask that you refrain from using employee and student names. if you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it to the employee's supervisor in accordance with district policy. as a reminder, board rules and california law do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during the public comment time. if appropriate, the subject will ask that staff follow up with speakers. item 2, we will begin public comment listening to our students. we will hear from sfusd students only who wish to speak on any matter. students will have up to 15 minutes of the general public comment period, and you may also speak at any other public comment time throughout the

agenda. >> okay. so if there are any students who would care to speak now during general public comment, please raise your hand. looks like we have two so far. >> okay. we can do two minutes and up to 15 minutes. >> thank you. [please stand by]

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>> just wanted to talk briefly about the new schedules and the start times and kind of the impact that's having. at first during the pandemic i've talked about this at previous meetings before the summer, but it was nice having the shorter days and not having to wake up as early. but now seeing the schedules in practice and how our schedule has changed three times, it's been very confusing. and also our day now for assume students will be over 8 hours starting at 7:45 for people who are starting or doing the extra euro period class all the way until 4:00 p.m. that is not healthy for student to be at school for eight hours a day and go home and have homework and extracurriculars.

there has to be more thinking about the extracurriculars and there is already enough stress and that will create even more. >> hello, carrie. >> caller: i would prefer to stay at home because my little siblings aren't vaccinated. >> thank you. i believe that concludes the student time. >> thank you for that. and as a reminder, student wills still have the opportunity to comment. we are still in section e, item 3, public comment for the general public on non-agenda

items. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to nonagenda items. about five hands are up. we can do a minute each and again, no more than 20 minutes. awe thank you. >> this is supria calling. i have two quick things i wanted to say generally speaking. the first is i would like to find out if going forward we can

get the number of people who are attending the meetings. i noticed in many zoom that there is an indication of how many participants or listeners there are. it would be nice to know that to know how many people in the public are attending and doesn't seem like that should be too hard to show. the second thing that i wanted to ask about is the use of the q&a. i understand that's for asl specifically. and there's clearly a need for that, but there's also a lot of people who are trying to ask questions in the q&a. frajly, i don't agree with the viewpoints, but it seems like there should be a way for them to post the questions even if the board can't directly answer them at this point. this could be a good forum for the board and the district to be able to get more opportunities for parent feedback or for whoever is calling in so why not have general questions where

people can submit questions and those can be considered going forward if they are not responded to in a specific meeting. >> thank you. >> hello. >> caller: are you there? i thought i unmuted myself. can't believe we are having technical difficulties a year and a half into zoom. anyway, i wanted to take this opportunity to invite everyone to tomorrow night's town hall with the special education department, support for families of children with disabilities, and the community advisory committee for special education. if you need information about registering, it can be found on the support for families website. that's support for families.org. or it can also be found on the district's special education website. thank you. and thank you for all everyone is doing. we really, oh, what a year it's

been. so thank you to all who have gone above and beyond to support kids and have worked so hard to prepare for this upcoming year. thank you. >> hello. >> caller: i wasn't planning on commenting again, but i just wanted to highlight one more time the academic plan i heard at one point that it might be before school or after school and additional tutoring, etc. this is very important. i don't know what this is line. and the schedule has changed. and i know you cannot respond, but i was hoping that somebody would have at some point. so that's all i want to add.

i want to say as a parent who struggled health problems to figure out what is best. that is a daunting thing. the goal coast is always moving and i want to say that i am with every parent no matter where they are and every teacher no matter where they are. and i just, my heart goes out to you. thank you for all your work. >> caller: good evening. i am a parent leader for the african-american parent advisory council. i want to take this time and opportunity to thank everyone for returning this fall, but to

especially welcome in our new black families and babies into the district and welcome back our returning families to keep this as a reminder to serve for black families and students in sfusd. to find out more information, you can email us. thank you. >> hi. i am listening to the two students who spoke earlier and their concerns need to be addressed in the board. and i believe the first student spoke about the school time and

taking off late. there is a concern that with the asian american community and there is violence that is retrending for the past year. i wonder what the school district will do to ensure there is no what precautions that my kids won't become the target for being asian. and i wonder if there is an option for those family to have distance learning as an option because student might not have the medical condition, but there

is some family member that can be eligible and not have the exposure and risk. >> thank you. the handle says usgs. one more time. usgs it says on the handle. okay. hello, paul. >> i am here. thank you. wanted to follow up with the student prior who was talking about the new school start time

to bring in the elementary perspective as well. my child goes to daniel webster. recently spoke to a parent, an older parent who has a student go to daniel webster and they said interesting enough, the school my kid goes to used to start at 7:50. because of so many students coming truant -- excuse me, coming late, entering the truancy court system, they moved our daniel webster start time to 8:40 to accommodate the students that were being affected by this. and i don't think it was remembered because in the process of changing to the new school start time, that's been forgotten. and i worry that this system that was created isn't giving voices to these kids and as a result, we will have a lot more

kids in the truancy courts that deals with the at-risk kids. >> thank you. >> i'm asking the superintendent to create a stop-gap for this year to have a proper process to hear -- awe thank you, that is your time. >> to create an equitable solution. >> thank you. >> all right. that concludes public comment on this item. >> moving on to section f, consent calendar, item one, i need a motion and second on the consent calendar. >> so moved. >> second. any items withdrawn or corrected be i the superintendent? >> there are none. >> any items removed for the first reading by the board? seeing none. any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion

and vote tonight? roll call vote on consent calendar. >> thank you, commissioner. >> mr. l a [roll call on consent calendar] that is six aye's. >> section g, discussion and vote on consent calendar resolutions, severed for separate consideration. there are none tonight. section h, special order of business. item 218-10so1, tentative agreement between sfusd and ifpte local 21 regarding the period of covid-19 school and work site closures and partial reopening. may i hear a motion and second to special order one? >> so moved.

>> second. >> superintendent math use, can you introduce the designee to speak to this item. >> yes, president lopez. the staff presenting this item is the acting chief of labor relations, daniel menezy. >> hello, again. the recommended action is that the board approve the tentative isd and with work site closures and partial reopenings. >> thank you. can we check for any public speakers on this item? >> yes. thank you. please raise your hand if you care to speak to this item for the tentative agreement.

seeing one, president lopez. >> let's do one minute. >> go ahead, jan. >> i am actually the sfu is, d president of local 21. and i would very much like to see basically this go through because we have been working on this for a long year. and just to try to get it done and over with. that's pretty much what i would like to see. i am totally for this. >> thank you. that concludes public comment on this item. >> a great. are there any questions or comments from the board?

seeing none. roll call vote. [roll call on item 1] >> a seven aye's. >> item 2, 218-10so2, tentative agreement between sfuds and uesf regarding implementation of partial tax proposition g and j. contingency language. may i hear a motion and special order to two? >> so moved. second. >> awe once again, the acting chief of labor relations. >> so the recommended action is to approve the tentative agreement between sfusd and uesf regarding implementation and partial tax and propositions g and j contingency language.

>> thank you. can we check for public comment before we hear from the board? >> please raise your hand to speak to the tentative agreement, special order two on the agenda tonight. seeing one. president lopez. >> we can do a minute. >> thank you. >> caller: hi, good evening. this is cassandra, president of united educators of san francisco. i think i am on the right item, but please correct me if i am not but this is about the prop g and j language, correct? >> yes, that is correct. >> caller: thank you. so i wanted to bring to the attention of the board that the contingency language with the prop g and j and there are some differences in those and perhaps

you might have noticed. to highlight and converse with the district is around language we feel strongly about the leadership over july 1 and looking through these things and found there is a component missing from our prop j language that references the 2.7 million dollars that was served schools in particularly at the equity focus and in san francisco often the most underrepresented students and in this particular case our black and african-american students. support is needed. in the event that we can address this at another time addendum wise or such, we are open, willing and encouraged to have that conversation please.

>> that concludes public comment. >> thank you for that. i am so excited. we definitely are excited about the new leadership at uesf and welcome them to the school year and the first board meeting. any questions or comments from the board? >> can we get an update on president cassandra's comment please? >> an i am wondering, deputy superintendent lee, do you have the history on that? sorry to put you on the spot. >> that is okay. chief, yes, i can speak to that. so basically the main general comment that i would make to this is there are elements of the negotiations between sfu is,

d and uesf that will need to continue and be completed after this tentative agreement is ratified. so one of the negotiations and that is 75%. the remaining component wills not consume the full amount, so there are other aspects of this agreement that acknowledge there will need to be additional bargaining over the remaining balance. that is an example what the president mentioned is an example of an issue that would carry-over into that subsequent

bargaining. chief, if you want to add or modify anything that i said. >> we are excited to talk through and to bargain around these really important issues. >> a let's do a roll call vote. [roll call vote] >> seven aye's. >> section h, special order of business continued, item 3, 2218-10so3, memorandum of understanding for health and safety between sfusd and seie

local 1021 pursuant to reopening in-person hybrid distance learning. may i get a motion and second? >> so moved. >> once again, our acting chief of labor relations. >> the recommended action here is to approve the memorandum of understanding and the last hybrid distance learning. >> great. let's check for any public speakers on this item and do a minute each.

>> good evening. long and finally came to an agreement. >> can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> thank you for being here. i have a question about being a inl to open more options to the

we can give you the email and you can send that right away.

>> thank you. this is only to comment on the memorandum of understanding. public comment is already over. >> that concludes public comment. >> questions or comments from the board? >> go ahead.

>> these mous are great and a shout out to president raphael for sick statisticing in with us and doing great and thank staff and the labor partners for coming to an agreement. thank you. >> great. roll call vote. [roll call vote] >> seven aye's. >> last item under this section, item 4, 218-10so4, tentative agreement between the district and common cross regarding distribution and proposition j revenues. can i get a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> once again, our staff

presenting this will be the active chief of labor relations. >> here we go. >> the recommended action to approve the tentative agreement and with proposition j revenues. that is a tongue twister to say. >> we love our protocols. let's check if there is any public comment. >> please raise your hand to the tentative agreement between the district of prop j revenues and only this item. seeing none. >> all right. >> questions, comments? roll call vote. [roll call vote]

>> seven aye's. >> section i. board remembers reports. item one will be hearing from our most recent committee meetings which are all picking back up this month. report from the curriculum and program committee from yes. >> one dealing with a musical edge cakes audit and with the mr. opus foundation and the sf arts equity plan. art and creativity and both items were informational to give an informational update on them. we will be following up on the items more and having more conversations with folks.

>> thank you. i am going to ask for the next item to hear from commissioner bogus who is on our city's rise committee. this is for item two, board delegates, board member delegations. >> for the rise work group, we are getting to the place where we can getting ready to make our first set of recommendations as the month comes to an end. to highlight how the city and school district can better support families accessing the supports and this will be the first round of recommendations and a more details report that is generated over the course of the year, but that is all the update is right now. >> great. thank you. item three, all board members and we actually just did that.

item four, calendar of committee meetings. i am going to say they will be forthcoming. that will be posted shortly. section j, other informational items are the williams quarterly report with the agreement between sfusd and uesf with the next part. section l, our meeting is adjourned. no.