next bond, the full funding is not acceptable in my view. the amendment is really designed to do two things. one is to allocate the full funds and the logic behind that is to put this renovation, the full renovation of bvhm. including mission bay. i love the mission bay project. i think it's brilliant, but i think renovating bvhm is more important and has to be a higher priority and not to say we don't add $15 million extra for that money. i would support that once bvhm is on its way and maybe the full $55 million won't be needed and we save some money and put it to mission bay or these other projects. so that's one thing. would be to reallocate those funds. the second thing is does is it adds language around prioritizing the district arts

center at 135 van ness. you know, i was wondering why are we reallocating these funds. i've spoken with the advocates of that project and they're saying this is a betrayal for us as well. i think there have been two betrayals of trust one to the bvhm community and one to the arts community who've supported this project. that commitment, clearly $100 million can't be used in the next -- i support that reallocation because it can't be used right away, but i think we need to commit to get that back into the next bond and most importantly, we've got to match it. so i tried to include some language around that. and, again, the logic is all these projects are really important. in my view, and one of the parents said this, i think luce just said this. how are we going to build new

schools when our existing schools need work. for me, it's just timing. bvhm was promised this renovation in 2016. we set aside the funds and it if there's extra money, we use it for other things. i'd love to hear what my colleagues think. >> just quickly to clarify, the last part of it is a commitment for the arts center to refurnish the money that will be taken off in this bond for reallocation to the projects. but you'll up it from $75 million to $100 million. >> commissioner alexander: correct. i don't think that saving the $25 million aside really helps that much and even the advocates of the project -- i don't want to speak for them, but i don't think saving aside $25 million really helps. this project is a big project. the big thing we need to do is, you know, go back to the

private funders and really try to engage that process again. we need to get state money probably again, right as the chief said, it may be up to $400 million now. we need to go back to the sort of planning process and what did i try to say in here, a concrete and realistic timeline and we need to have a plan to accomplish that project. and not just a dream out there. that would be my thinking. >> president lopez: iris, can you mute your mic? >> yeah. it went really well. they do it every year. >> commissioner alexander: can i say one other thing. this is not a judgment on any and i respect my colleagues if you view this differently, but i actually think this is an example of institutional racism and one of the teachers said

it. i don't think this would be happening at a school that served mostly middle class and upper middle class white families. i think it's not a coincidence that working class immigrant families were the ones that have born the brunt of this. and that was not intentional on any individuals' part. that's not how systemic institutional racism works, but the system doesn't prioritize people that aren't able to maneuver the systems and have their voices heard and so i think that's what we're seeing is the result of years of that. and so, that would be where my urgency comes from in trying to make it right. >> president lopez: i'd also like to adjust to support commissioner alexander's amendment given that what we've been hearing is years of advocacy, years of frustration long before the pandemic which was a big reason why families

didn't feel safe and this is an example of that. i think it's unfortunate that it is here. the many things that have come at the same time to ask as if one thing -- one thing is better than the other. right now, safety is the ultimate prierlt and you worked in a classroom where you do not feel safe. and many of us have seen the conditions by going to the school. so i think it is an opportunity for this board to finally make that decision and make that choice for the people we're advocating for for the people who have been making these demands for years long before we were here to be able to finally move this forward and make that commitment as commissioner alexander has said. >> commissioner: thank you.

i think i would have much preferred this came before the board in january of this year than now just to have more flexibility and planning of what's possible and what can do. i think my biggest concern about the amendment and the original proposal is really just the fact that i don't see a clear timeline or a project list included and i think that's really important for me to know what's going to be done and when. i'm really curious from staff as far as the time line if we are going to allocate some portion of these funds to buena vista horace mann. what can be realistically completed by 2022 and i'm trying to get an understanding of will this address the issues of the gas leak, the ceiling tiles falling, leaks in the building, issues with the cement on the outside of the play area. what scope is possible with this amount of funds for this current school year to address

things right now and do we have an idea of that? >> thank you, commissioner. it's a great question. i think that there are still again, of the $15 million that i've proposed, you can think of it because we're still working with estimates. it's a 50/50 split more or less between funds needed to complete design for a modern sdaegs project and that design timeline rather than using a range that that it would take 18 months to expend just that $7.5 million. then the other $7.5 million, i do feel that there are a lot of smaller scales, short-term capital projects that some of which could probably be completed and addressed and

completed by spring or before the end of the school year. so, for example, the computer room is one that particularly bugs me and the sort of rooms there are jerry-rigged cooling systems. outlets are in the wrong place the server room is inadequately cooled and ventilated and that type of fix is one that we can make short progress on. ceiling tiles which is a common

complaint. pealing paint is something that can be addressed. there have been long-standing complaints about the fact that one side of the building overheats compared to the other side of the building and we have a a lot of the shades and window coverings are just higher quality in window shades that might allow for different layers of light to come through. we have the cafeteria at bvhm has been a long standing struggle and there's probably some improvements there that could also be made on a shorter timeline. there are also projects that i think again that are important for the school community that will probably take more in the 6-12 month range and when you start to talk about things like

cracks in a playground, that can go both ways. it might be a project that's easy to fix. that is a deeper problem and that's why from my perspective, it is so important that before making allocation of project funds, we have design and gone through the full planning and design process including all the regulatory boxes that we need to check to ensure that we're building a building that's addressing safety needs. i welcome the support of the city and doing an inspection in evaluation of the building. i think that would be helpful to guide to have a third party to do the work i think that will really guide the community

and my own team which projects to prioritize for the next 6-12 months, but i do suspect that a modernization project is what's going to be necessary to really make a difference and that whether we allocate $15 million or $25 million it doesn't need to be a real scope. like we couldn't spend that $55 million in the next 18 months. we are only going to be able to develop and deliver these short-term improvements and then also planning and design for the eventual modernization of the project. >> commissioner: thank you for that. i think for me i'm just concerned about if this money

is going to be able to have in a real way and i'm just worried that we are in a place kind of like the 2016 bond that make commitments that go beyond commitments we're able to feel and i would be much more comfortable making this adjustment just so that we can say this is what we've spent this money on and if it doesn't, we're going to make sure that's addressed and it just makes it hard of getting the full picture of how we're going to ensure that these things no longer continue to happen at buena vista horace mann. my next question is when did we find out it isn't up to our

standards and when should we be aware of that realm of being on the verge of not being suitable for our families? >>. >> commissioner: >> commissioner, i hesitate to answer this question given that we do not yet, i hope to remedy this as a capital plan. but we do not have an up to date condition assessment that allows us to compare schools across campuses in an apples to apples fashion. that being said, i am certainly aware just on my own review of the work order system and the requests that have the mechanical electric shop which is far and away those shops that are most impacted in terms of real life safety needs that

are put in by staff we had before the pandemic when i looked at it a three-year backlog for those shots alone. that's accumulative requests of the system struggling with buildings that, again, need to be modernized or in some cases have been modernized, but we don't have the maintenance resources even after a modernization to keep a facility running. so there are a number of sites that i'm aware of where i've gotten requests in the southeast and also in the mission. i think hearing from the flynn community about similar in nature to bvhm.

we will actively suggest data to dial in and say whether or not this building is structurally objectably worse off than another building and that is a big frustration for me. but i do think that the complaints that we've heard from bvhm plumbing, ceiling tiles, cracked floors, these are the complaints that i hear from many sites across the district. especially the heating, the uneven heating is something that i hear about very consistently across the district. >> commissioner: thank you for that. my next question kind of builds on what you said around the maintenance. i know this is really looking at the bond and the facility issue, but i'm really interested if we were looking at one particular school like bvhm, when would additional

maintenance staffing be helpful if we find fundses to help maintain things and understand the time frame of our major repairs? >> yeah. absolutely, commissioner. it's hard to know for any specific building. i would need to get back to you on that. >> commissioner: well, if you can just let me speak in general to a particular. >> yeah. i think not just for that building, but our mechanical, plumbing, electric shots could be doubled and we would still be trying to catch up with certain types of life safety compliance. i'll give another example. the fire department in the wake of the ghost ship tragedy really increased its notice of violation program and so we are receiving on an annual basis

many more notices that need to be often times addressed fundamentally by our electrical shops. of course, we need to address those notices, but that pivot and shift in resources has had a real impact on the availability of our electricians to work on the routine types of maintenance they should be working on or making sure the core priorities that it doesn't suffer and so that shop in particular is one again you can easily double the resources to catch up to this specific workload that's been generated. i'm sorry i'm using the wrong exact words but hopefully you get my meaning. and just let us kind of recover what we were doing before. i think also at buena vista horace mann i'd like to

emphasize the roll-out of the custodians, we have limited custodial services at all sites. this is another area where we are identical -- we have identical challenges across school sites that we have, you know, many elementary schools want daytime custodians and depending on the footage, you may have few custodians at night. and when you think about a school like buena vista horace mann that's approaching its 100th year anniversary and has 600 students in it every day, that is a site being loved to death and that is important and that kind of site that while you have these structural issues that need to be addressed in the longer term, you need to have more day-to-day maintenance and not just of the kind of electrical, mechanical plumbing kind, but

also one of the main complaints i've heard about buena vista horace mann is the conditions of the bathrooms and one daytime custodian for that kind of square footage is just not okay. so that's something i would just like to highlight for the board as well, that that really contributes to the feeling and i don't mean to say feeling like that's just a subjective perspective just the physical feeling of the site is rundown and unhygienic that that cuss custodial. >> commissioner: thank you, president lopez. i have a question related to

what's the average cost of modernization for our schools? particularly let's say elementary or middle schools. >> thanks, commissioner. the typical modernization as i shared is $20 million to $40 million. the elementary schools top out at $30 million. the largest project which was $55 million is george washington high school which is much larger than bvhm. >> commissioner: thank you. that's really helpful. i gist wanted to at least add a comment that it's absolutely upsetting and frustrating. i hear it loud and clear from the promises and lack of fulfillment and that's why i'm glad to see the southeast planning of that $20 million.

i think overall certainly feel that tonight we will have some hard choices. i also want to name that mission bay was absolutely in my point of view that it has to remain whole in that $15 million. we are almost at the finish line for that important school that's not only going to be the school itself, but the link learning lab. i've been involved well over half a year now, almost a year on the work either it be connected to link learning or also working directly with u.c. and the transfer of that parcel and land and that is absolutely important that we continue to move forward with that project and making sure that it is also fulfilled in that promise. the greatest growth has been in

that corridor as well as the increase of affordable housing and families living in that district. i welcome more discussion. so i'll leave my comments there. >> president lopez: other commissioners. >> commissioner moliga: so first i want to thank all the speakers that came out tonight. folks from the buena vista horace mann and the folks who spoke out and the arts community as well. i want to thank commissioner alexander. i appreciate you and the work you've been doing with our families out there at buena vista horace mann. my comments are very straight forward and direct and hopefully simple, you know. i would love to support the current recommendation that's on the floor by staff and for a couple of reasons.

you know, we're in a situation right now where we have an opportunity to make immediate impact on our school sites across the district which for me generally, this reallocation does. so, you know, everything from buena vista horace mann to the southeast to protecting our schools from possible columbine, you know, the gun locks and also our hvac systems and also mission bay. i've been down to mission bay. it was one of the places i went to and i appreciate the site visit that the community took me on a tour. it's a growing community. they're building more housing out there, it's very diverse. you know, there's affordable housing, you know, and there's kids out there. and so the project has been ongoing and there's been a lot of investment in it. we had a million dollars donation from a founder i think

it was last year. and so there was work being done on that and so i feel like the presentation we have today, the offer that's on the floor in terms of us as a school district, it's a win-win for everyone. everyone's going to be able to win. schools are going to be safe. we're going to be able to modernize and take care of the issues that are on the table and we're going to be able to prepare for a bond in 2022 and confidently go out there and say we're trying to do our best due diligence in terms of supporting our students and families in terms of how we invest in schools. i also wanted to just add around just a couple of comments around the amendments, you know. tonight, i'm respectfully not going to support the amendment by commissioner alexander and, for me the main reason -- one of the main reasons, there's two of them for me, is that it discolludes, it does not include the southeast. the southeast is at the top of

the list. when we talk about families not able to show up to these meetings, my heart kind of breaks hearing all the families here knowing there's folks in the southeast that are not able to come and advocate for their schools such as malcolm x. i was at malcolm x recently. as i mentioned before, these are communities where there's active violence. it's not because these people are inviting it into their communities, it's just things that are occurring out there. and so they're in a situation where a bullet went through one of the windows, ricochet ed off

the walls. i do want to lift up the schools and the communities that are not here who we want to talk about having an impacted the most by the pandemic pacific islanders, our black community, our immigrant population. through the last decade it's surfaced into the southeast which there's been a lot of supports around it. historically, black community, so literally the amendment for me takes all of that out. not only that, there's specific funds in there directed specifically to mcclaeren. if you haven't been to mcclaeren, you haven't seen the school yet. we're talking about all these issues times ten. however, mcclaren is home to the development center for 20 years serving kids out of that

facility which part of the southeast planning funds is going to and this doesn't address that. that's another one. liola havard is a school in the southeast in the bayview which is for early education kids, pre-k. these are our pre-k kids. >> president lopez: sorry. if i could just support with that just to be clear for the public where we can find this information, i do agree with much of vice president moliga was saying. >> commissioner moliga: let me back up and apologize. it is in the amendment. i didn't see it. therefore it be resolved. >> president lopez: i'd just like to add clarity that way we're all on the same page with the amendment. essentially, the change is from the $75 million that's proposed by staff to the $100 million so that we use the full $100 million and that there's

the additional commitment to the arts project that's added at the end. and then what will shift is the $15 million for mission bay considering that many have said we cannot focus on a new school site when our current school sites are in the conditions they're in. but to what vice president moliga was saying, there's very much true in what we believe in and why it is still part of the amendment in the $31 million part of what's been added for commissioner alexander. >> commissioner moliga: okay. so just for clarification in how i read resolutions, normally anything below the therefore be resolved is what we're asking for. i do apologize for misinterpretation of the resolution. i do rescind all my comments around southeast because it's in there but i do want to lift up, you know, the work that's been happening with the mission bay school.

thank you again. >> commissioner alexander: president lopez, can i? >> president lopez: you can respond, but i also do want to give time for our student delegates. do you want to make the comments? >> commissioner alexander: go ahead if you want to comment first. >> president lopez: go ahead and respond. >> all right. i want to acknowledge those in public comment that have poured time and energy into 135 van ness or mission bay or buena vista horace mann and with anything money related it's hard to balance and i know we're going to have to make tough choices tonight. to me, student safety comes first and we need to prioritize the fullbvhm. if we hadn't betrayed the trust of the bvhm community.

it took so long to hear talking about this and to say just run the design for now. they're going to have to come back and organize and ask for a full renovation again sometime in the future and we can't keep telling them to come back and we can't keep making these promises. they need to know that this renovation is happening and it's going to happen and the descriptions of the conditions that we've been hearing at these board meetings are heart wrenching and these are our youngest learners as well. so i agree with this amendment because it fully funds bvhm and it reaffirms our commitment to 135 van ness. and i also want to clarify that student safety is super important to me so knowing that our columbine locks and the p.a. system will be included in this amendment as well is good to know. and i wanted to clarify that to the public. cool. that's all i've got. >> yes.

just to echo joanna, we've heard about these recurring incidents happening at buena vista and every time parents and students come and speak about it and no school site should ever have to experience gas leaks nor roof ceiling tiles to fall, but sadly it took these situations to where students are in danger for any discussion to take place. it took these situations where our students were in danger and are still in danger. this community does not need anymore false promises. we need action now and all i have to say i support this amendment. >> president lopez: yeah. i also am remembering commissioner boggess had two more questions. >> commissioner boggess: thank you. so i think my next question was about the air cleaner and just

to confirm, i think in conversation earlier, you said with this additional allotment of funds, we would be able to ensure we would have air purifiers in all spaces that students would be in with that and we would kind of get to that full level of coverage, so not just classrooms, but also the additional spaces, wellness centers, after school programs and things of that nature. is that accurate? >> yes, commissioner. this funding will ensure that we can cover basically all occupied spaces. so spaces that have are -- people are there for a long time. hallways and restrooms are not included in this allocation. single offices, multi-occupation offices.

a small break-out room where small groups of students and a teacher might be. all of those spaces will be able to receive portable air cleaners. the only things we're not able is auditoriums and gyms because the space is too great a space to address with the deployment of portable air cleaner that is will make sense to anyone. >> commissioner boggess: what would be the time frame for the roll-out of those air cleaners? would it be something that would be done before the spring semester or something that would take longer? >> oh, no. definitely before the spring semester. i mean, in contrast, commissioner, we have been able to in one month, you know, get all classrooms covered, all classrooms that have been identified as classrooms to us

and so that's like 3,000 spaces and we're just looking at, you know, something like under 2,000 spaces left. so we would i think be able to even accomplish this by, you know, early winter, basically. january, february if not sooner. >> commissioner boggess: i guess i'm also just curious, has there been any thoughts though these funds to staff that they've personally purchased these things for school sites? like air purifiers, dehumid fiers? other things that are in relation to the wealth of students and staff while they're in the building? >> no, commissioner. honestly, a reimbursement process would be extraordinarily difficult. i think technically it would be a general use of obligation

project. a down side of this is we as a facility team have been clear we're trying to select air purifier cleaner models that we can maintain and track over the long run and so if we're using bond funds to reimburse folks, i just would feel very worried about the kind of chain of accountability around the original expenditure and there's a whole other set of issues associated with that. we ultimately at the bond project, it does need to be a capital project and individual expenditures like this don't generally amount to a capital project in and of themselves. happy to talk about those details at a subsequent meeting. >> commissioner boggess: i definitely appreciate that and understand this may not be the best way. but definitely want to lift up the individuals that spent money out of their own pockets to keep students safe. the last question i have is

about the outdoor learning. if you could just talk about the funds that you're requesting for that and how much of that money will actually go to supporting the development of kind of outside learning spaces and classrooms in particular and would any of that stuff be available to us before this school year, before may 2022? >> thank you, commissioner. we have not launched a formal process to solicit proposals from school sites about, you know, how they would like to spend this money or, again, what kinds of projects might be ready and just need funding to push them across the line. so -- but in terms of timeline, it depends on the scope and scale of the outdoor classroom. if someone wanted us to create a structural awning that extended from the side of the building, you might be waiting

longer for that portion of it but in terms of mobile furniture outside, green areas that are more pleasant and shaded by tree cover, these are all things that could be accomplished in a relatively short time frame. i think actually would hopefully combine outdoor learning with screening and storm water diversion. there is a lot of bang for buck in terms of furniture and just site equipment and the preparation of the grounds itself to make sure that school sites can set up outdoor classrooms to the e extent they're really and can do so but we're looking forward to help us set some criteria for the funding and identify projects for the board's feedback. [please stand by]

>> to facilitate outdoor learning. in terms of our ability to do it at scale. we know it will require quite a

bit of training and preparedness on the part of staff. it is something we talked about before. the ways in which you support students and build the classroom community is outdoors is different from indoors. making sure they have the supplies and wi-fi to engage the students in outdoor learning. it is not insurmountable but something we have to give time and attention to to prepare educators. there are significant differences to facilitate learning within the enclosed space compared to outdoor space. again, many examples of ways educators do that now. i would say not the level of scale some of the folks making those requests are wanting. >> thank you so much. i think my last point is just that i think for me i would

prefer if we were able to wait on this to have a clear picture how this money will be spent and timeline when the projects will be completed. i am worried if we move fast we will make commitments and promises we are not able to fully commit to nor able to tell people what we are able to do. if we don't deliver on what people are expecting then we are doing a greater disservice than done to them. i am concerned that all of the good effort and energy put into this doesn't plot enough detail and clarity for me to feel comfortable to know these will happen in tamely fashion and we won't hear this summer the board hasn't been responsive. i would offer that to think about as we move forward to ensure we are doing what we think we are doing. i don't see the details enough to feel confident. thank you.

>> commissioner boggess what do you propose. the timeline or another meeting specific to these changes where we can make those commitments clear? >> i think the big concern right now is with both allocations to support it i am not sure what projects will be completed this school year. i am not sure if it will address the ceiling tiles falling. i want to know which work orders are going to be completed. that is what families are asking. the budget allocation is very important. if it doesn't include the list of projects how do we know the most important things aren't going to be not included because they can't be? will we be aware? for me i need to know what isn't fixed so we can stay on top of it to make sure it is fixed.

>> one more follow-up. for the chief considering what was just explained what will be we able to see that information after tonight's vote? >> commissioners, i think -- i was hoping to move forward on a rolling basis of addressing and developing scopes or projects for example like the ceiling tiles and computer server asap. a bigger conversation with the community to prioritize the funds. i am happy as point of information to share with the board as we develop the work to share them with the board. the server room we can have a scope for that in the next few weeks. bigger projects that might be desired and anticipated by the

community whether the kitchen or heating solutions might take longer. i would like to think within two months i could have a rough plan for how to allocate and move forward on the schedule with the funds i proposed allocating for short term. >> sorry. i wanted to go to the school safety. the proposal mentions 18 sites with the locks. which 18 sites don't have the columbine locks? >> commissioner, i need to go find my details on that. i do have that list somewhere.

i think we should move to the next question if you have another one while i look in the background and pull that up for you. >> i was wondering if we can go to commissioner alexander so it would be a little like talk more about the amendment. i was a little confused. i want to be clear what it is. more so the first parts therefore be resolved in terms of al locations of funds. >> this is what the chief proposed. this is the staff proposal. only changes that i was making were the ones suggested in here. two funding changes to remove

$15 million from the mission bay school. some commissioners don't support that. i understand why. then to take the $25 million that was unreallocated, not reallocated from the large project. 15 that was original there plus 15 from mission bay plus 25 remaining. 55. that is where the $55 million figure came from. the other change was adding language around the commitment to the arts project. >> when we see the language. right now the language that is presented from the chief has very detailed explanation where the funds are going to go. in terms of the language of the

amendment, is it going to say exactly what is on the resolution now in terms of -- i hated math problems. i have performed tsd trying to figure out the numbers. what would it say? southeast planning $20 million. construction reconstruction and improvement in other facilities? >> chief, maybe you can speak to this. i didn't understand the whereas. what is confusing as i was reading. the whereas is the only place where it is broken out like that. then there are categories that are in the therefore be it

resolved not that specific. i don't know. i was working off the original to try to change it. maybe the chief can explain that. >> i welcome feedback. i think the intent is original bond ordinance does have a specific structure. that talks about, for example, new construction. the district center. for the purposes of consistency with the measure as we move money between categories, it is important that we describe it that way using the measures original category. i would defer to council's feedback on appropriate placement of the fine grained detail. for example adding funds to

modernization program where we put things proposed tonight. is it better to outline that in some other table as part of the be it resolved? it is in the whereas clause? i defer to the council for the best way for the resolution. >> if we are making revisions to the resolution, i would strongly suggest we bring this back. we had in reviewed by outside bond council carefully. it is important to remember there are two controlling documents, if you will. resolution that the board passed setting its priorities. that is something the board absolutely has authority to reprioritize within those projects. that is what we are asking you to do tonight. there is the measure, if you will, that went to the voters. that is something we cannot alter. that is what the voters passed

the bond measure on. if we are going to alter what has been preapproved. i asked for another meeting to get review so we make sure that we are in compliance. >> can i offer something that helped me understand these amendments for my colleagues and to the public? if you are looking at staff presentation on slide 7. there is a clear breakdown of what was proposed by staff. the amendments would change that total 75 to be 100. then it would shift to buenavist take horace mann then it shifts to mission bay. that adds clarity to view this in an easier way. >> first of all, i appreciate

your team for all of this work and your dedication to trying to fix these big wrongs that are historic. i do have a question specifically about the mission bay project around the $15 million. remind me. i may have missed it. this is extra money not allocated from the 2016 bond to do what? >> commissioner, to date there has not been an allocation for the mission bay project outside of the bond measures specify construction of new schools and sets aside up to $100 million for sites including mission bay and bayview. we at the board with the board's support presented a number of

times on the program developed internally with s.f.u.s.d. staff as well as community feedback. we would like to have an elementary school and learning lab. professional development spaces. we have gone through design process and are now at 30% design. we feel comfortable the budget for this vision we have outlined is $115 million. that includes as i broke out in the slide $21 million of that for remediation. the remainder is for the building and the landscaping itself, which when you compare to willie brown, the last new school and similar square footage to today. the difference is in the same ballpark. i would like to add that we are going through a process which i

forgot to mention in earlier comments. the schoolyard actually the developer does part of the redevelopment agreement basically the schoolyard. we would like to negotiate with the developer that if it is possible they buy us out of that agreement because coordination of construction is tougher than actually just receiving the fund goes. we need and we also are going through a process of making sure this project will be eligible for future state funds for willie brown. i am asking for $15 million today, in addition to $100 million identified for new schools. it is my real expectation that we are going to be able to get and recover some of this money back. that will be in a few years. to keep moving forward with the

project we need funding to maintain momentum. i am very hopeful and optimistic based on track record of 2016 bond projects to successfully leverage state funding that we will also be able to do so with mission bay to return that funding to this. i wanted to have that. >> i don't know how many people realize i was the principal at horace mann prior to the merging from 2009 to 2011. at that time the school was completing the bond work from that era. there was bond work done at that time completed in my tenure there, including new lighting, a number of things done. however, it looked pretty good surface wise. when i went back last week, a lot of that work and this goes

across the board in our district historically. the work done is shoddy sometimes. the work completed in 2009-2010 is falling apart the stairwells in the annex building, for example. classroom that in t the wall de tear -- that deteriorated and pipe through the wall. things didn't get fixed. electrical stuff was not done at that time. i definitely understand the emergency that we have. i also think we need to address the work we get done and hold our folks accountable, the ones that do the work to make sure it stands the test of time. that was 11 years ago that was done. i am comfortable with keeping

the $15 million in for the mission bay project. which would reduce the amount going to dvhm to $40 million. the chief told us that for the project design and construction for the building that size it would be around $40 million. correct me if i am wrong, chief. >> commissioner, that is the upper generous end of the range for a modernization project but consis tent with our typical range. >> i want any subsequent bonds to, and this is a discussion for another time, to prioritize other mission schools as well that have not been prioritized. i understand why that happens.

the dvhm project completed in 2010. when you look at that and other projects that hadn't been done 15 years prior to that are going to get on paper leap frog a project like dvhm. i feel like we need a concerted effort for schools that serve the populations and prioritize them. i feel like that is why i am happy about the $20 million for the bayview. that is something that is long overdue. i am very, very happy to allocate from the arts project. i appreciate commissioner alexander for your work not just on the amendment. ongoing work with the community, really listening to people on the ground floor of the district and amplifying their voices. also for adding that last part

about compelling us in future bonds to prioritize the arts. i think we deserve a longer discussion with the community what that would look like. i always felt that now that it is $400 million to complete this project and more when we complete it if we ever do. i hope we do. that we should go to the public for almost the full amount. school districts aren't built for philanthropic work. it is not one person's fault. it is a longer discussion but worthwhile discussion. i am willing to support again $40 million price tag for dvhm. that will cover it. i do appreciate the commissioner boggess' concerns. we will have to be at the board

on this and having regular updates around the work orders that are going to be put through the pipeline to complete over time. >> can i ask a follow-up of the chief? i apologize if i misunderstood something you had said to me and the cost. i thought the cost for a full renovation was between 50 and $80 million. i apologize if i misunderstood that. that informed the $55 million figure. if you could clarify that. that would be helpful. >> commissioner, i think i tried to comment when someone asked me on the fly without design how much would it take to the do the building. i will be conservative and talk about what i would call replacement cost in our industry

rather than strict repnovation. i -- renovation. i am giving that as complete overhaul curb to curb project. might get to those kinds of numbers. as we heard from the community to first focus on the basics and also take into context the typical spending on modernization for elementary schools that number seems unrealistic given the trade-offs we have. it was to indicate the size of the building, complexity of site conditions and this is a serious project. it was not meant to suggest this is a number we should budget around but rather indicate magnitude of the challenge ahead and the type of scope that if you were to go

again most conservative best project possible curb to curb, nothing left untouched, maybe you would be talking about the kinds of dollars. for a classic modernization which is consistent with how we treat school sites and trying to improve functionality of the overall building. dvhm is approaching the 100 year anniversary. it will be more than $20 million elementary school site. i don't know that $55 million at this point is more meaningful than $40 million as an investment. i think that $40 million is more consistent with the ranges that we have seen today. >> so just to clarify that. you think $40 million investment would allow for that. i understand the timeline concerns. that would allow for a full

renovation of dvhm? i know you can't say for sure. your best guess or judgment. i want to make sure that we are again giving the school an investment that is sufficient. that is why i am asking. your best judgment. >> my best judgment is that with $40 million i would hope that we could at least accomplish a substantive phase of work rather than committing to whether or not it does a full renovation. we have not completed design yet. i do think that $40 million should be sufficient and may be, in fact, too much to fund an important first phase of work. the most important thing is we move forward with design to develop more real estimates for

you and look forward to coming back to the board with that information regardless of this evenings outcome. >> the timeline and process for dvhm. if we commit $40 million as commissioner sanchez has suggested we would move forward with the design in something like 12 months we have a design with an actual estimate. then we could come back, the board could come back and either lower the number or increase the number if it happened to be more. adjust it to the amount that was needed. is that correct? >> commissioner, yes. i think it would be sooner than 12 months. we hope to have a complete design in terms of drawings and submit to the department of state architects 6 months into the schedule for that process. i would hope that in the six to

nine month range we could give you early indication if we can get this project off the ground and get started as soon as possible. >> just one more point. the design is separate from immediate improvements that can happen as well? >> that's correct. >> i believe we are able to wrap this up to vote on the amendment. >> i have a comment. reiterating again because we have been working towards 135 arts for decades. that was also a promise within the bond. as we go through whatever the outcome is tonight, i am hearing there are a couple opportunities if we leverage more state funding eventually to reimburse the mission bay there could be funds that come back.

i just want to name and acknowledge i would want those dollars as stated in this amendment that it comes back. we also are carrying forward two previous bonds that would help continue with the design of 135. also, it is imperative that we really do have a longer range plan. $400 million investment. it is a very next level scale than what we have embarked on traditionally as a school district. i want to acknowledge and recognize it is going to require, yes, infrastructure of $400 million. even additional resources for philanthropy team for the relationship. concrete timeline for implementation. i do not want to put forward

another promise to the arts community that we cannot fulfill. >> just based on what legal counsel said i am wondering in terms of process if it might make more sense to ask staff to redraft this based on a set of parameters to make sure it is done properly as opposed to voting on the amendment. at least from what i am hearing there may be problems with how it is drafted, is that right? >> i haven't had a chance to review it carefully. yes, if the board is inclined to vote on it we will bring it back consistent with the direction you give tonight.

>> is it possible to vote on it tonight and amend later if we had to? >> it would be cleaner to do it correctly the first time. if you are inclined to vote on it, let us vet it and bring it back to you is my recommendation. >> in future meetings can we know that ahead of time so that it is clear? as we are discussing where this might have to be voted on at a later date given the circumstances? >> sure, president lopez i didn't see this amendment until 30 minutes before the board meeting or i would have let you know that. >> regardless of what was in the amendment, a change in it would mean staff would need time to look. i think for future when these amendments come up it is important for the public to know that there might be an instance

where we have to wait on a vote for a future meeting and probably shift the discussion at another time. that way this 2.5 discussion could be on another moment. >> i want to check with colleagues. the majority of the board will support. i get the sense the majority of board won't support the amendment i have written. perhaps an amendment that was to take instead of $55 million for dvhm added $25 million for $40 million. then also included this language around the arts commitment would perhaps -- i see a couple of nods. if we are going to take this

back let's know what we are going to vote on. we can do that in public since it is an open meeting. >> i will comment. again acknowledging what is currently in the bond ordinance or that legal languages. i would want new school construction. the mission bay school is part of that new construction. >> this is coming back. commissioner alexander are you removing? >> i wanted to see if other commissioners wanted to comment or not or if we just want to -- >> i think you know where i stand. >> i would support $40 million

to dvhm and keeping mission bay $15 million. one thing to bring up is that there was confusion in the whereas clauses and there for be it resolved classes if we bring back this amendment making sure in the construction, reconstruction and improving of other facilities including the individual items for things like the bayview planning or the 10,000 for security improvements in there so it is more clear. yes, i support it. >> i am okay. if you understand and i can work with staff to do the details of what the amendment would look like. i understand what folks are saying. i support the green schoolyard, other elements are important. i would want to make sure that

they are maintained as well. >> i think what i hear we want to table this this evening and bring it back at the next meeting after it is vetted and clarified to the student commissioner's comments to be clear with board direction. >> can it be brought back for the thursday special meeting? >> i am sorry. >> can it be brought back to thursday's meeting? >> that is too soon. we have posted that meeting. my recommendation is bring it back to the regular meeting in two weeks. >> okay. we will be bringing it back on october 26th. >> thank you everyone. i do want to excuse our student delegates. they need to get back to their

work and home. the next item. reminding everyone we moved around. i am going back to section e consent calendar. i need motion and second on consent calendar. >> so moved. >> second. >> check for public comment. >> please raise your hands if you care to speak to any items on consent calendar this evening. repeat in spanish and chinese, please.

>> gregory. >> i apologize. i did not mean to have my hand up. >> president lopez. >> can we check if it is on the consent calendar. >> did you care to speak to the consent calendar this evening? translate that, please. >> i wanted to check something quick. it has nothing to do with consent calendar. >> not at this time. i am sorry.

>> that concludes public comment. >> any items with the superintendent? >> i would like to request item 25 be unaudited financial statements be severed. i need a commissioner to sever it so it can be discussed and not voted on in consent. >> i can make that motion. >> thank you. >> any items severed by the board? commissioner alexander. >> i would like to do what the superintendent just suggested sever the unaudited actuals for discussion. >> which item is that? >> i believe it was 25.

>> thank you. item 25 is severed. let's do roll call on consent calendar. >> mr. alexander. >> yes. >> boggess. >> yes. >> ms. lam. >> yes. >> 25 has been severed. thank you. mr. moliga. >> yes. >> mr. sanchez. >> yes. >> ms. lopez. >> yes. >> six ayes. discussion and vote on consent sever. we will hear about 25. approval of unaudited financial reports. >> if i may, could i ask the

chief to briefly comment on this item. >> good evening, commissioners. staff is requesting approval of the 2020-21 unaudited actuals for the san francisco unified school district and county office of education. seeking approval of the limit for that same fiscal year. with board approval staff will submit the actuals to the california department of education prior to the october 15, 2021 deadline. item was presented as budget and business services committee on october 6th. that presentation is available on board docs. i am happy to answer questions commissioners may have.

>> any questions or comments from the board? deputy superintendent lee. do you know if superintendent matthews wanted to share other information before we vote on this specific item. >> i don't believe that he had a specific discussion in mind. we did just in general understanding that the budget issues are of increasing importance and we know the commissioners appreciate that. there has been a convention with these mandated reports and the board approved actions related to budget and closing that they are on the consent calendar. in light of our current seriousness of our situation, and commissioner alexander made a suggestion that there be a discussion about this, and that

is the reason why we thought it was appropriate to at least flag for yourselves and for the community members that there was a robust discussion on this topic. i believe the slides are identical that took plays with most of the commissioners present at last week's budget and business services committee. we wanted to spotlight that. >> thank you for the explanation and naming that. commissioners, do you have any questions or comments on item 25? >> i just want to thank deputy and chief wallace for doing that. it makes sense. we have a lot of things on the consent calendar. given our current situation on the budget it is important to highlight for the public. the budget is a public document.

these unaudited actuals are being presented publicly. they will be audited and brought back to us as well. i hope that -- it is our responsibility as board members to know what is happening here, right? we are the fiduciary trustees. i appreciate that. i am sure i will keep asking questions. i appreciate the answers and the dialogue. >> with that let's do roll call vote. >> mr. alexander. >> yes. >> mr. boggess. >> yes. >> ms. lam. >> yes. >> mr. moliga. >> yes. >> mr. sanchez. >> yes. >> ms. lopez. >> yes.

>> six ayes. >> s6. 219-28a1. resolution and authorizing document for the sales of the general obligation bonds not to exceed 284 $250,000 by negotiated sale. this is moved and seconded on september 28th. i would like to call on maygan wallace to share more information. >> this is the first of two items staff is requesting for moving forward. bond issuance and sale associated with the 2015 bond program. i do have slides available. actually i would be happy to walk through them if there are specific questions. the main highlight here is there

are two proposed issuance first is $284 million new money general obligation bond which is actually appropriately aligned with the prior discussion around the allocation of bond proceeds. i will go ahead and reserve my comments for the refunding bond which is associated with the following resolution. i am happy to answer any questions commissioners may have. i can see there are slides if you would like more details about the assumptions associated with the bond sale. thank you. >> let's check for public comment before we discuss. >> thank you. if you care to speak to number one proposals for action raise

your hand at this time. please repeat in spanish and chinese. >> thank you. one minute, president lopez. >> gregory did you care to speak to this item. >> i did. i looked at the slides a fair amount of money is allocated to new school projects. i think in a district with falling enrollment the new schools aren't what we need right now. we are not going to have the money to staff them. i think the district should take into account the ongoing operational costs of these schools which won't come from bond money but for allocating

more bond money for new schools. that is all. thank you. >> that concludes public comment on this item. >> any questions or comments from commissioners? seeing none. roll call vote. >> a1. alexander. >> yes. >> mr. boggess. >> yes. >> ms. lam. >> yes. >> moliga. >> yes. >> and chez. >> yes. >> lopez. >> yes. >> six ayes. >> 219-2882. authorizing document for issue was and sale of the general obligation refunding bonds not to exceed $145 million by negotiated sale. it was moved seconded septembe. i will call on maygan wallace

again. >> thank you. this is specifically to do refunding of prior bonds previously issued bonds. we do anticipate that by doing this refunding we would be able to secure lower interest rates and save taxpayers 20 to $24 million and furthermore by timing this refunding with that of the new money bonds we will save the costs of issuance. i am happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you, chief wallace. check for public comment. >> if you care to speak to item 2 please raise your hands at this time. please repeat in spanish and chinese.

>> questions or comments from commissioners? seeing none, roll call vote. >> thank you. a2. alexander. >> yes. >> boggess. >> yes. >> lam. >> yes. >> moliga. >> yes. >> sanchez. >> yes. >> lopez. >> yes. >> six ayes. >> section h we have done. section i other educational issues. fall 2021 enrollment data update. >> thank you, president lopez. presenting this evening will be a team. beginning with deputy superintendent of housing operations. >> thank you, dr. matthews.

we have a presentation tonight updating all of you about the latest enrollment figures, and this is on the heels of the official census day occurring last wednesday. it used to be called c beds. some people still refer to it as c beds that is the official snapshot all school districts report to the state for official enrollment figures for each school year. that was last wednesday. a team across multiple departments has been working to annual bize data both prior to and after last wednesday and we are going to present some statistics and also make some observations about potential strategies that we can all work together to boost our enrollment going forward. first speaker is karissa

friendly, director of policy and planning. she has been primary facilitator of the team and she will be followed. are you there? >> i am here. good evening. good evening especially that you mentioned you supported 46 poured members but also the many student delegates which i am a former one. i appreciate you. for this evening, we are going to be examining the current year enrollment. putting that in context to prior years as well as estimating impacts on next year's fiscal year revenue projections.

this slide gives you key findings and take aways. mirroring national and state straights we have a 6.6% drop in enrollment over the past two years. i apologize for the 6.4% as stated on the slide. next slide is correct. as we have been looking at 10 day count september data before last week when we updated it. those drops were particularly felt in elementary school grades as well as interestingly the ninth last year's ninth grade and this year tenth grade. it doesn't appear the students leaving over the past two years we're choosing other options such as charter schools or private schools. key take-aways that we wanted to

share. it does appear unlikely we will see magic recovery or immediate bounce back we might wish to pre-pandemic enrollment level. these have been widespread phenomenon across california and the country. demographic trends we see in city populations don't point to large increase in children. we are concluding we need to continue establishing program capacities based on current reality. those capacities determine the student needs and staff needs we need to be sure those reflect the new normal enrollment. in the school portfolio being sure we offer programs and

environments family wants and to offer families more confidence when choosing to enroll at the district. i will transfer to chief of research planning and assessment. >> good evening. thank you for everything. as you can see in this bar graph, it displays the enrollment fall of 2018 to fall 2021. you will see that in the first it is explained. we pulled the data on the first wednesday of every october. that is approximately in the beginning of fall 2018 and 2019. which was pre-pandemic data

enrollment was stable. you can see it stable 52619. in fall of 20205, 52934. it was stable during those years prepandemic. during the first full year the post pandemic last year in fall of 2020, what we saw is a drop of 1.96%. in this one year drop 1.96%. by the second school year of the pandemic this year fall of 21, we saw drop further of 4.75%. the enrollment today is 49,435. the total decrease in enrollment

over the past two years has been 6.61% or 3,499 students. by the state department it begins with the statement. significant enrollment declines nationwide generated conversations around repercussions for public education. k-12 declined 3% across united states over the past year. california follows the national trend in enrollment declines and in some categories. the k-12 public school enrollment in california dropped by a record of 160478 students. this is the number of factors one being unenrolled

kindergarten students. other important data related to enrollment is transfers in and out during the school year. as you can see again in the graph above during the pre-pandemic the transfer in nearly equals transfer out. at the end of the count. that was not true the last year. number of transfers out exceeded transfers in by. [indiscernable] this enrollment drop by grade received significant drops. the changes shown reflects the difference in numbers and percent over the one year period. those are the columns in green.

at the elementary grade levels drop was significant for k-4. at the middle school level the pandemic has led to enrollment decline of 7%. decrease in enrollment for tenth grade began with ninth grade enrollment last year. numbers fell by about 400 students drop and that is what you are seeing. by race decline greatest for american indian asian white and filipino. the program the decline among homeless students. noted that the english population vaguely dropped in enrollment last year by 8.1%.

this year we see another additional drop by 2.6%. these patterns are also seen in the recent csb report the number of students identified as homeless has dropped 6% year-over-year for the past two years. other drops are seen among english learners. thank you. i will transfer to megan. >> next slide please. i want to show you this was created by public policy institute of california 2019-2020. in comparison to 20-21 by county. this is statewide for this current school year. it is to understand statewide enrollment changes. san francisco dropped similar to

other northern california and coattal areas. if you visit that hyperlink you will be able to access that and can hover over the informations. you might see that they are recording 2.9% decrease in san francisco county which differs from the number we are reporting of 2% between 19 and 2020 and it is possible their analysis was in the programs we did not or subgroups. this would apply the same method to each county to make sure apple to apple presentation for the past four years. putting sfusb in contest.

the doctor had gone over the numbers. i won't repeat each one. i think one question is not just what we are doing to adjust. how is the state and federal government supporting the schools and school district for the effects of the pandemic? early reports indicate that this year we continue to see lower enrollment across communities in the united states. we saw on the media lusd is down 27,000 students, chicago public schools are expecting 10,000 student drop as well. the pandemic has really slowed down immigration which had been slowing due to national policy. as the chief mentioned we didn't

experience the transfers in during the year that we normally might have to welcome pre-pandemic numbers of new students. [please stand by]

>> when i last looked at preschool enrollment account is september. we're actually at, had lower enrollment so we are steadily increasing the preschool enrollment this year . the early education component is year-round and there's no deadline for application. to reduce that number to continue to increase throughout the school we are proud to say there have been a number of schools which have mister

taylor, mister chavez that had experienced the enrollments bob and our staff andcounselors are working hard on that . so putting some of this data in context with city demographic trends and how can taking about how those can broadly help form estimates for the future and how might our enrollment levels bump up. so the left-hand side a lot of people were wondering if at the onset of the pandemic we would have a baby boom, baby bust but now they're showing itwas a baby bust in 20/20 with so much uncertainty . birth rates then go on to inform student projections and help us anticipate the size of future kindergarten so growth

rates are down and we will probably see the effect of that in five years . post data analysis at the chronicle showed a lot of movement out of the city in 2020 . looking at that middle circle and the data does not reveal the number of families, just the numberof households . and although there's some data such as rental prices and additional postal service announcements to indicate that some people are returning to campus, it's also unclear whether those families are deciding to move twice in a short span of time. we've also known that the

proportion ofchildren relative to the overall population in san francisco has shrunk over the past few decades . go to that right-hand circle. the 20/20 census data indicates they have not yet reversed that trend so san francisco currently has the lowest of all cities in the nation as reported by the recent san francisco chronicle analysis . so all those put together help us lead to the conclusion that the short-term picture doesn't seem likely that we will see a big bump of more children in san francisco in the near term . now, that in contrast to ... and i don't think that it reverses the longer-term predictions of growth due to new housing andpopulation . so san francisco is still

steadily building new housing for thefuture . our last student enrollment has anticipated 5000 students in 2030 due to new housing and although we need to continue updating our student enrollmen forecast , that is still going to be coming online and there will be more people and more children in the near term. i'll transition tomegan wallace . >> thank you clarissa. now that we have a clear understanding of enrollments we can anticipate we will see a proportional decline in district average daily attendance for ada and as you may know our ada grads for school district in california funds are allocated through the

states local control pumping formula. it's the largestsource of funding for our district in general . so an initial estimate of our ada trends relative to the shift in enrollment indicates we will see an over $30 million decline in our overall funding. that decline was not included inour prior multi-year projections . so this does impact our deficit spending in our most recent multitierprojections . next slide please. so what can we do about it? now you understand some of the trends that are leading to the decline in enrollments but at what point do we support either bringing students back into the district or increasing revenue

from those things who are remainingwith us. as you can see there are three main areas here . first increasing enrollment by rebuilding trust and interest in sf usd so having usthink of our families as clients who we're actively trying to meet . in some examples identified here are working on replacing our current district choice system for student assignment for example . but also maximizing the funding determined by ouraverage daily ada .so really building sites to accurately capture attendance data on an ongoing basis because we know we aren't always capturing the actual attendance of our students and just by improving our documentation we could improve our reporting ada and therefore the revenue that wegenerate . and of course maximizing state and federal funding as determined by our information

forms. if you have not submitted your multipurpose family information form please do so right away because that information controls how our district generates additional revenue. but an additional solution that's not actually identified here and i'd be remiss to exclude from this discussion is advocacy at the state level for fiscal year 2022 23. in the current year are but was held harmless by ada. we're still using our fiscal year 2019 20 average daily attendance numbers. and in fiscal year 2000 2223 where anticipating we will no longer be held and we will need to report an ada that as mentioned reflects that the decline in enrollment so advocating at the state level to advocate support from the

governor to hold school districts harmless for example or even increasing per pupil funding to adapt to the changes that have occurred across the community to help stabilize our budget as well as those across the city because aspreviously presented this is a statewide issue and trend . and it's something that we're not alone in advocating for an ongoing solution to help stabilize our budget. for that i will have it back to clarissa. >> next slide please. we're sharing some data points here on the slide that we think will help better understand the picture you can use on full over the next year. staff will continue to monitor district enrollment trends with the connection between enrollment and revenue and thoselarger macro trends .

those data points and implications for action shared this evening are not exhaustive and as a team wecontinue to explore these indications . and in addition to those implications and other next steps that we want to reiterate that we continue to look for return families to enroll in sf usd schools, visit our website to learn more. next slide. although we want to see these enrollment numbers go up to track our mission to provide each and every student we do have enrolled quality instruction required to thrive in the 21st century. thank you thatconcludes the presentation . >> thank you for that. before we hear from the board

may we have public comment? >> please raise yourhand if you care to the enrollment update . that will be repeated in spanishand chinese please . [speaking spanish] >>. [speaking chinese] >> clerk: seeingsix hands, president lopez . hello, julie. >> caller: can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> caller: thank you for mentioning advocacy at the

state level as relates to our budget. i was able to continue to get to that place and second i think it's important always that we are responsive to family needs and think of them as clients isn't quite the word i want to challenge the narrative that this is being driven by white families who are leaving the city and the impact of english language learners as families show that gentrification is also one of the dynamics here so stabilizing our families and mitigating gentrification is important to maintaining our school district and our budget and third i'm curious about the impact of the 60s, i know it's more days than usual and it's not equallydistributed across the district . iq.>> caller: good evening

board of commissioners and president matthews and deputy superintendent more about. i'm one of the parent leads and it is difficult to see we are losing students but we understand there is no cost for pandemic panic.we want to echo a whole list ofsupport or supporting the whole child and family are key . covid has sideeffects including the lack of resources and unemployment . opportunities offered in the city as a whole, so the city sets up and even though we do we must have a holistic approach because i must our families have their basic needs met or access to those resources we will continue to see similar achievementdata and enrollment data . we can't afford to lose any

more black families in the city and it's disheartening to see our small american indian population decrease along with our small filipino population in the course our families dealing with homelessness. it's sad as a district do not meet their needs. it is reassuring to see that we are building trust as a priority for ways we can increase enrollment. we agree. it's also mentioned that replacing the current student assignment system will aid in the area but we want to remind everyone families want quality school. when building our school portfoliosit's really defined and designed with quality schools in every neighborhoodas a priority . we invite back families across the district to join us on thursday, october 1 . thank you dierks. >> hello gregory. >> this topic is emotional for

me. i have a lot offriends that leftthe city and in one case the country because of decisions made by this board and its district . this drop in enrollment is the direct result of bad decision-making by the sport . when our schools remain closed while thecity reopens families left. our schools remain closed while schools in large cities throughout the country , families fled. parents spoke out and this court must step up and not ignore them. you did not care what we had to say. you want to know why sf has the lowestpercentage of children in the us ? because of sf usd and one of thehighest rates ofschool enrollments because of sf usd . because this district and this board treats families with disdain . we lost the best family too. families that put the most in. families that were president of

the sca or coached kids soccer teams or were just the amazing glue that held ourcommunities together . they're the ones that left because of your decisions . >> caller: hello. >> thank you fortaking my call . i want to express how sad i feel about these incredible drops inenrollment . i think the data speak for themselves as to who has left the district largely and that is very sad . i myself also know a number of families who have left the district because of the school closures . people are not willing to gamble their kids futureson , they're just not willing to gamble on them and that's how they see it which is really sa . i would strongly encourage the district and board to change course on how they actually

listen to families. there's a question here about the importance of getting familytrust . i don't even know . that's a hard thing to do when the district does things like making unilateraldecisions and doesn't even tell the truth , hidesthis from people and pulls out last-minute . it's really disconcerting. i would advocate programsto get people to come back but it would be a hard sell . >> thank you. >> hello rebecca. >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> caller: i am the special education teacher at future elementary school in the richmond district and it's fantastic, enroll your child . i would like to say i'm obviously very sad we lost the number of students at our school. i can say that the time change was a direct result of at least five families i know of leaving

our school so that is definitely a point to be made to the board and to the district. why should a parent trust you if you'remaking their child start school an hour and a half to two hours after they left work . that's pretty upsetting. i didn't really see anything about ensuring sf usd as a high-quality academic district. our reading reportcard came out and we're 267 out of 287 . we invested a couple 8 million or $18 million on the third addition of a useless curriculum wherethey may be changed a couple of questions and a couple of words . that's a great start, thank yo . >> clerk: hello ms.marshall . >> caller: commissioners, this is miss matthews and my beloved

esther i appreciate this call . the report from the research team appreciate your slides but i am concerned as a grandmother about that my granddaughter who is a preschool child now has to stay integrated untilnext year . i thoroughly believe that every child from december to january of that year should be allowed to go to kindergarten. are we ashamed of the age of graduation to 19 and not telling parents ? that's what it looks like to me and i'm very concerned that young children, there is no reason their pre-k early education students should be going to school 7040 and the oldestis going to school at 9:30 . they should be the first so

this year, look at the student body. follow the data and come back to this in may because it doesn't make any sense. almost everyone all schools don't have to start this way. thank you so much. >> hello chris. >> caller: can you hear me? apologies, my husband is talking in thebackground . i'd like to thank you for your report andthe data i might like to go what rebecca said . you need to selling smarter when you find curriculum and attract families to the programs on the curriculum we offer and we also need to do something around advocacy to make sure that the students who are struggling the most in our city can stay in our city. i had a student and it was

great working with them. they had to leave last year because of gang violence in their neighborhood and had to move outside the city caused the gangs in their neighborhood were actually trying to report them and those stories do not get told as often as the ones families that were upset about learning being offered over turning and we needto do better by the students as well . >> clerk: thatconcludes public comment . >> president: any questions or comments from the commissioners on this item ? commissioner alexander and commissioner lam. >> thank you for this comprehensive report. i want to just make sure that i'm clear on the trend as compared to benchmarks and i

know slide nine talks about that a little bit around kindergarten and pre-k comparisons. that's superhelpful . do we have data for thewhole district ? that last presentation around enrollment i had written down in our presentation are decline in enrollment was slightly under two percent and more have said the statewide was .6, af he was around 4.7 percent and that was from 2019 2021 and i want to make sure we're getting the public apples apples comparisons because i've seen things in the mediaand other places where it's like we've had a six percent decline. the state decline was larger than that and the national

decline was comparable . i want to make sure i'm understanding and apples to apples comparison so maybe i'm missing it. i don't see in here the overal enrollment decline.do we have that data ? >> it's .6 percent . >> slide four shows sfusd in the past few years relative to the current year. and then it's slide nine tk through 13 enrollment on the left-hand side andkindergarten pacific on the right-hand side . because that has been a great experience . in many areas. so it also matters which year you're comparing. so because of the data that i mentioned earlier, when we're looking at other communities

statewide or nationally, the 2020, 2021 school year is the most recentyear for which we have that data to compare . and soin those larger data sets . so for other reports on the current school year in the fall would be more kind of ad hoc. so we have our own data and its whatever jurisdictions or communities areself reporting . >> that makes sense. i want to make sure do we have something like slide nine but for the overall enrollment, not just tk? the left slide is tk 13, that's everything. >> it is. >> that is overall.the left side is a real comparison.

great. i'm making sure i'm understanding it. it's true our enrollment declined less than the stateof california in that period . >> yes. >> okay, great. i know that's not good news but i think what is good news about it is the state funding overall is my understanding is prop eightguarantees in most cases and maybe the family can this . it's likely the state will have to address this on astatewide level because every district in the state is losing millions andmillions of dollars in funding and it's a statewide pattern . isn't it likely the state is going to adjust funding in some fashion ? >> commissioner, these are questions that are at or near the top of our minds as well given themagnitude of the

decreases . in a way the way prop 98 works is it depends on which test is applied to which ever fiscal year is in question. so in most years that is true that prop 98 establishes a baseline of funding that is distributed across all the collective ada across all the districts with the funding formula and othersources . there are certain years and as long as i've been here i don't know all of the mechanics of the details of which tests apply but there are certain years in which enrollment growth does establish or enrollment changes to establish a total amount that goes into prop 98. but that is typically not the case so usually it takes on overall changes to economic

indicators or the amount of properties or amount of statewide general fund revenues and the indication is a big portion of that total. so certainly all thatin light of all of that , and a lot of other districts omission or lam thank you forsharing information on this point . there's a lot of interest to pursue policy changes or policy solutions at the state level that either would boost lcf at funding to higher levels per unit of ada or student in other words or to have some sort of protections for declining enrollment that sit outside of the local control funding. and all of this as you know and

as you'reobserving here is based on the statewide trend so most districts are in this type of situation . that then strengthens the case for a policy solution. >> that's really helpful and in fact i guess what i'mseeing here at and correct me if i'm wrong is that we're in a better situation than many districts in the state . and on average every one is less than the state . it's stillan issue we need to deal with and we have a structure that was there already but in terms of the additional or enrollment declined issue , we're actually in abetter situationthan a lot of districts in the state . so we should be helping to advocate for a policy solution with other districts . thank you. >> i have a question related to

the enrollment. i know we're closing the gap we're still at aloss of -28 percent i believe it is . do we know what the city preschoolprograms are at and what their enrollment is ? >> omission or lam i don't have that information currently but we can consult with city partners andsee if they can share that data . and chief meaning rs standing by so if you have more information on that feel free to add in but otherwise we'dbe happy to follow up with . >> i think for me honing in about how are we offering families to see long-term investments into our public schools and to me creating the space now for our tk with the state policy and i know we're

coming right into planning for transitional kindergarten which is a game changer for two-year preschool offerings . so i just wanted to support and acknowledge the importance of sf unified partnering with the city as we look at the pre-k and preschool opportunities both within the district but overall trends that we are seeing citywide. i next question is around do we actively have a preschool campaign if we're still have it sounds like availability. certainly i know that you said since schools have done that outreach at what scale right now are we actively advertising or letting the broader city community know that there are spots available.

>> i'm here and i can take tha question. we are actively advertising . there's actually a citywide fare for preschool that's coming up in the next month and we have a boost and we work with the children's counsel to make sure that our slots are available and we are definitely advertising. and then to your question about spots in the city, we can move back with our partners and find out as well. i do know anecdotally that our city partners are also in the same situation buti don't have those impact numbers . ican get them. yes , we're definitely advertising and i agree with you. it's an investment we start early and those families will stay with us. thank you.

>> commissioner boggess and vice president moliga. >> thank you. i was curious if you could talk about the impact that quarantining and other things related to covid have on the current enrollment numbers and if there's any impact we think any of that stuff and have on our numbers or if those things wouldnot be captured in this and not be negatively impacted in this report . >> thanks commissioner. this presentation focuses on enrollment and i think the analysis that we would need to provide to answer your question would bemore focused on this year's attendance .

>> those would be captured separately. it wouldn't be a reflection of each other so it would necessarily have a big impact on enrollment numberswhether people were at school for a da or were out for a week when this was happening or you need to follow up with me to give m this answer . >> this is all active students . this is not impacted . >> i'm very curious, is there a way we kind of are attracting the losses and the reasons why. i know someone mentioned in public comment about start times being a factor for some people leaving the district as well as community issues . is there a way that we're measuring that, capturing that and capturing the narrative comingout of our school sites as to why people are leaving ? >> i believe the educational

placement center does kind of code in where that's available. reasons for students exitingthe district . but i don't know that we be able to kind of capture the nuance or kind of pandemic related reason . >> thank you for that. the last question i guess and this goes back to attendance and chronic absenteeism but is there any information about the number of students who are chronically absent. kind of in the previous year are no longer enrolled in the district who fell out or classified in that and trying toidentify how much of the loss in enrollment is referenced and advise students who are regularly attending schools . >> i think commissioner that's

a great question . let me check on that and get back to you. >> i appreciate it. >> thank you for the presentation. i'm just curious around the homeless population in terms of the decrease. i was wondering if staff are aware what is causing our families who are homeless to be leaving the school district and is there a plan? have we been ableto get in contact with these families ? >> the drop in homeless rates is actuallystatewide . the research was put out by the state and its religion was

released with therelativity of the data . so there was the validity of the data that's put into question and it is a statewide trend that we are also measuring. >> on the same slide can we get a statewide comparison in terms of the a decline in enrollment so for example it looks like we went down five percent, what would thatlook like statewide ? and then for each student. >> we can come back with that information. >> that would behelpful not just for me but for the public because there might be some trends statewide .

>> i'm wondering about the thinking in getting this information back to us, if we can have another in from meeting with another update or get thisinformation to us that we can share publicly in some form . i've just heard several accounts of getting information back to us and i want to know how to get it real quick. >> deputysuperintendent lee , maybe you could weigh in in terms of some typical methods that staff have that can come back with information . >> commissioner lopez, i think there are options in terms of whether a written report would

be appropriate and sufficient or whether there should be additional presentations and interaction in one or more meetings . when we originally contemplated this presentation there was some thought on the part of staff to connect this to a budget -related discussion. and we decided to separate them because they're both as you can tell pretty weighty topics. we wanted to pace out the subject matter but recognizing that there are several meetings that will take place in the next couple of months and the plan is to have a committee fall meeting innovember and also december focused on the

budget . that's one option to incorporate a module of those presentations on and we can share back any research that we've gathered together by the end of budget and business services committee and also have robust agendas anytime that committee meets and just also at the same time want to recognize there is a strong nexus between thistopic and the budget . and it's not only related to budget. i think that's the logical place to connect it but we also want to round out some of the innovation with these dramatic solutions as well. >> back to slide seven, is there a reason why it's not captured in the seabed but could we add to this socioeconomicstatus of this category ? that's the only one i see.

>> we would find those numbers on the sesstatus . that's included as one of the disaggregated groups but we will do so as we finalize the ses numbers . >> i also had a follow-up. i certainly appreciate slide 14 as far as the enrollment and what we can do.i'd ask the superintendent to think through this between staff and the board but how do we quantify some milestone to getting us how to increase enrollment and i'm not planning to changetime frames but it's important as the board to measure what is the progress we are making . the timing just kind of sounds

like we're setting goals for ourselves and because this will be structural as far as multitier projections that we've been talking about as we are also looking at investing in our younger grades how do we boost that for families and rebuilding their trust and engagement of the district overall. that's the only thing ihave is just a question to put forward to board leadership and superintendents to think through with staff . >> any other questions or comments on this item ? great, thank you for that information and we look forward to a follow-up at a future budgetmeeting . before we move on to item 2 under section i, i am

recognizing the time and wondering if board members are open to hearing this at our next board meeting and i also wanted to add that there have been discussions about entering that update on teaching and learning to continue on our agenda once a month. >> we definitely are recognizing the time. we definitely could move this to the meeting ofthe 26 . >> thank you. we will hold off on that and i am encouraging board members and everyone in theroom to get some water . eat something,we're almost done .section j, introduction of proposals andassignment to committee . item 1 , public and apologies.

may i hear a motionin the second to the following board policies . board policies 6102.6 independent study. for rule and procedure 9320 meeting and notices board rule and procedure 9012, board member electronic communications and board policy 5148 child care and development. >> so moved. >> may i hear a motion and a second to the following. resolution number 2110 1281 reading is critical to lifelong success being introduced by commissioners. allison holland and garcia lopez. >> so moved.

>> second. >> iq. can we check for any public speakers . on the items thatwe just read into the record ? >> yes, sorry. please raise your hand if you care to theitems read into the record and please be repeated in spanish and chinese . >>. >> president lopez. >> we can do them in each. >> alida. >> good evening everyone. it takes me back coming in at

10:44 at night. advocacy chair for the committee of special education and i would like to thank all of the commissioners particularlycommissioners lopez and collins , president lopez and collins for offering resolution to 110 12 a1. eating is difficult to lifelong success on behalf of the cec and in gratitude for partners and the aipac as well as us sf special education committee. britney o'connor, megan collude up. ryan guzman and so many more. and i just like to recognize that the authors of this resolution at cac included that this is, we want to recognize this is a difficult year for the board to be authorizing new resolutions the budget discussions at night alone have been terrifying. congress has spoken but in a year like this, it's important

for us to recognize the work that many are already doing. and this resolution is an opportunity tosee best practices and really do right by our students . thank you. >> hello will. william. >> my name is william paterson and i'm a former teacher in san francisco unified school district. i was a special education teacher there and work largely with eating intervention and the experience i had and the teacher we often have students who would come to us who have not had adequate exposure to the basic fundamentals of reading. at the science of reading curriculum . doesaddress . this program is a program that works for many but not for enough. there are 4050 percent of students in s wfc will not be reached by these programs and manyof them get inappropriatel

referred to special education . instead of getting the appropriate introduction . so i just want to encourage and move forward with this and learn more about it, find out and adopt these classes as they remain and turn around reading performance so they're not like we heard earlier 267 out of 280 in california. >> thank you. >> resa. >> the evening, my name is bernie robinson and i'm an african-american parents. we'd like to thank the commissioners and committee advisory council of special education along with the committee on dyslexia for their help in drafting this legislation. we support this resolution. where aware of all the budget constraints and we know money

is money but this is a top priority as a social justice issue and it's about each and every child in the district . the week concerns for the need for evidence-based socially and developmentally appropriate instruments and core perfection of development. thestaff administrators are implement in the services. we haven't had a chance to fully look like this . we like also not have the funds from our seas that can help and supportsome of the strategies that are outlined in the plan of support for a particular resolution . thank you. >> thank you. hello, megan. >> my name is megan potentate and onto post state director for california and also a former sf ust teacher. thank you to all who contributed in writing this resolution which i enthusiastically support. in my years as a literacy coach

and teacher on special assignment it was my job to support teachers in implementing thedistricts comprehensive approach to literacy modelcommonly referred to as balanced literacy . there came a point however when i had to leave that work because i witnessed how these methods are harmful . s and p and lucy hawkins methods and curriculum harm are most vulnerable students across the board includingenglish learners and students like my son who has dyslexia . in fact the instructional materials based on these methods have been hand in several states and against the law to use them. closer to home a settlement from a class action lawsuit has banned smp for use in unified. this is an intervention curriculum that sf ust is spending more money on as we speak. i support this resolution because i know promoting teaching methods at their core do not teach children how to read words in asystemic denial of access to appropriate

education . guessing is not reading. here at class we are in a crest of a literacy crisis. we must fix this so we can no longer claim to be a district that supports its children. thank you. >> clerk: hello. >> caller: my name is hope kelly and i'm the parent of a beautiful intelligent creative and capable child . i am a parent of a child who wants to learn. that goesto school every day and gives it his all . but i am also a parent of a child who has been struggling to read and write for years in this district. this resolution and everything that it represents is the reason why i am here. it is the reason why i first reached out to support from families so long ago and is the reasonwhy i am the parent

advocate that i am today . because wanting your child, watching yourtrial child struggle to read your after year is heartbreaking . because watching the light that is my son's true essence fully disappear creates despair. because despite advocating on behalf of and collaborating with so many wonderful educators who want to help i cannot help my son. i cannot afford outside resources so he can have access to hopefully this curriculum that's going to come from this resolution. please meet this moment. >> hello amy. >> my name is amy.

i am a pediatrician for tampa general and i'm the mother of a second-grader at ss ust and as a pediatrician i've had many patients struggle with reading and this often leads to behavioral challenges that puts them further behind academically and for a long time i did not understand why reading difficulties were so prevalent but it became clear to me as a patient when schools closed my daughter was in kindergarten we realized we needed to teacher to read on our own began to investigate best practices and found there's this extensive body of scientific literature on how kids learn to read and the most effective strategies but we also discovered the sfusd curriculum is not based on this evidence. ibelieve individual teachers

incorporate evidence-based practices but they're doing this on their own without training from the school district the delivery is inconsistent . i support the resolution becausei think we need to do more to create opportunities for children to learn to read using the science of reading . thank you. >> clerk: hello tara. >> caller: myname is tara , i'm a parent in the district and i'm so excited and hopeful about this resolution. as a parent and educator it's imperative our district adopte the resolution. i've been following this movement in oakland and hope w can learn from what they are doing . dreamweaver from the ability to attend oakland they had a cast meeting later this month and i hope everyone comes .

our educators are working so hard for the latest efforts to teachthe schools and training students for their best opportunities . as one of the many educators that is working on my own to learn about the science of reading, i think it's better for our districts. as one of the many educators that chime into this resolution i hope that the school district passes it and board of education passesit . thank you for your call commissioner lopez for offering thispresentation . thank you. >> thank you. >> rebecca. >> can you hear me. >> clerk: yes. >> my name is rebecca, i'm one of the authors of this resolution and i'm a special education resource teacher . i don't know if you can see it but i do send profile pictures to something my students and i call staffing monsters and what you should know about these is

staffing monsters ate pizza and they also hate products. every time we use our phonics skills we go to work successfully and use our phonics toolkit, our knowledge the words on the page we get a star to defeat the monsters in the final battleonce we've covered the stars is a phonics pizza party which is just a pizza party with books . obviously i'm really passionate and creative about this i really hate that i had to make these. i created these monsters because unfortunately the current directorutilize that teaches children to read. it encourages exactly the wrong skill set . what i had to do creative onset. we're not doing right by our kids were not setting them up for success and we don't teach them how to code, how to know the al makes o sound and every other littlerules . we leave them guessing and guessing does notmake you confident . it doesn't make you feel empowered.when kids guess they feel stupid and if you've ever heard a six-year-old tell

you they want to die because theydon't know how to read i hope it never happens to you . please stopempowering the guessing monster empower our students literacy is liberation . let it liberate ourkids . thank you. >> that concludes public comments. >> thank you for that justin. unless i hear otherwise from legal counsel i am referring the policies to therules committee and resolution a1 to the curriculum committee . section t board members reports. item 1 reports for committee. we will hear from the rules committee and thebudget committee commissioner alexander .

>> i'll give a high-level overview but no surprise we've spent extensive time discussing the structural deficit that's looming over $100 million july 1. we also discussed which we approved tonight a couple of items particularly from bond applications as well as ... i'm blanking out. as well as the audit actual. another word foran actual process .and again the importance of submitting a balanced budget plan in december. from mid-december. you're going to be increasing the number of meetings to have more transparency discussions

around progress that we're making in the zero-based budgeting as we sprinted to the mid-december deadline. and will also be forthcoming around confirmations of town halls and community discussions about the status of the district budget and next steps. >> and the rules committee, the fourth of october we actually had a lengthy discussion or somewhat, maybe not like the discussion about the state funding issue that kind of we refer to the little bit earlier tonight around how all districts around the state are seeing declines in enrollment. the state of california overall is seeing a big increase in revenue and so there may be opportunities again to kind of

for advocacy around dealing with the enrollment decline statewide without hitting school districts across the state with large cuts so we will see where that comes. there are also we talked about a number of bills that we had taken positions on supporting which have passed and either have been signed by the governor or are about to be signed by the governor. so i think there's a pretty good summary of those in the notes if anyone's interested and if you want questions i can answer them but that was what we talked about. >> thank you, yes. lots of excitingchanges in statewide law . item 2, board delegates to membership organizations see sba or ctf. are there any reports? item 3, all of the reports by

boardmembers . seeing non-, item 4. calendar of committee meetings between now and our next regular board meeting which will be october 26 . we will only have a curriculum committee meeting on monday, october 18. at 5 pm. 4 pm. sorry, very sorry. we're going to double check. it's 4. >> it is for. >> sorry for the confusion. monday, october 18 we will hold ritalin committee meeting at 4 pm and as commissioner lamb mentioned there will be additional meetings added to our calendar that i want to flag. a committee as a whole in

november and december we usually do not hold one but we will around the budget discussion. the last thing i wanted to say was our student delegates have shown interest in joining our committees so i'd like to formally appoint commissioner land to the curriculumand instruction committee . sorry, delicate line and student delegate lam to our budget committee. i wanted to make a note of that andwill go to the regular budget process . i did want to share we will not be holding our closed session tonight and instead moving it to thursday'sspecial meeting . if we can double check. >> president lopez, did you want to continue this meeting or repost the meeting for

thursday and add a closed session ? eitheris legally permissible . >> yes, let's continue. does that mean we willhave that at the beginning of our meeting or can we still hold it at the end ? >> know, it just means you will have to meetings on thursday. one will be this meeting that continues and you'll have the special meeting that we posted. >> you don't have to. the question was can we do the closed sessionafter the other meeting . >> president: that works for us thank you. section l, memorial adjournment . i'd like to close tonight's meeting in honor of daphne dorman and i'm going to read a

few words by our san francisco communityorganizer . stephanie dorman was a san francisco-based actress, comedian, software engineer and mom who died by suicide two years ago this week. daphne volunteered to teach people coding skills and she donated to many coffers throughout the city. she was loved by many friends and acquaintances for her big heart. she was one of the most generous people i've ever met and is dearlymissed . she dealt with depression for many years and it's tragic that she lost her battlebecause she was a beacon of hope for so many people . we know that the lgbt queue students are still significantly more likely to concentrate suicide and that's why the work that sfu as the lgbt queue students and a possible queer transparent advisory council isstill important . let's let this be a reminder

that we have to continue working hard to implement programs that will reduce bullying provide mental health support and keep students safe. thank you. and with that this meeting is adjourned. recessed.

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