>> live transcription can be found here.attendeeswhowishtoprd >> the attendee will need to of functioning camera to communicate with the interpreter and the board. any member of the public may e-mail their comments with the agenda item identified in the comment -- identified in the comment to board office at

sfusd.edu. the comments will be read in the record and i like to remind the public that the q&a box is only to request a.s.l. translation services. it's not for comments or questions. they will not be answered. language translation. >> thank you. sfusd is offering interpretation services in spanish an

cantanese. >> president lopez, that conclude -- concludes translation services. >> i like to start the regular

meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified district for december 14, 2021 to order. roll call please. [ roll call ] >> commissioner lopez: this is our last board meeting of a regular long year. section a, general information, section b opening items. item 1 is our language acknowledgement. we the san francisco board of education acknowledge that we

are on unseated homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as indigenous stewards of this land, the ramaytush ohlone have never forgotten their responsibilities as the caretaker of this place as well as for all people who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledge the ancestors, elders and relatives of ramaytush ohlone community and sovereign rights of first people. item 2, approval of board minutes of the regular meetings of november 9, 2021, october 26, 2021 corrected version, august 10, 2021, june 8, 2021, april 20, 2021 and the special

meeting of november 16, 2021. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> commissioner lopez: are there any corrections? seeing none. roll call vote. [roll call vote] >> president lopez: item three commissioner report. >> good evening president lopez and commissioners and members of the public. many of us are feeling heightened and the new covid variant omicron.

the san francisco department of health assured us that san francisco is able to handle covid-19 and variant and high booster up tick and other local measures such as masking and testing. health officials continue to emphasis importance of vaccination, boosters and other strategies to protect against covid-19. one of the things i said over a year ago is that we have to take care of each other. everyone five and older can get vaccinated and boosters are recommended for everyone 18 years and older. if you or your family members are not fully vaccinated, please make an appointment to get vaccinated at any of the vaccination sites on our website as soon as possible. thank you for following all of the san francisco unified safety protocol testing. congratulations to balboa high

school football team. [ applause ] on saturday, the buccaneers defeated taft high 43-0 to become the 2021 5a state champions in football. at one point they had a fourth and goal from the 40-yard line and they threw a 45-yard touchdown pass. we look forward to honoring the buccaneer fully at a future board meeting and city hall has assured me that the buccaneer colors of orange and blue will light up city hall tomorrow evening. free grab and go meals are available for children during our winter break. these grab and go sites will be open on tuesday december 21st from 2:00 to 4:00. on this day only, pick up 10 days worth of breakfast and lunches including fruit,

vegetable and milk. meals are for children 18 and younger. adults can pick up meals for up to four children. for additional resources, regarding food, please visit sfusd.edu/foodresources or call 311. we're taking time to celebrate something. we have inclusive schools which means we include everyone and i mean everyone in our classrooms and our schoolyards. historically, inclusively schools week has been an opportunity to honor all students with disabilities as members of our school community. it has become an opportunity to learn and teach about the intersection of disability with other categories of identity like race, gender, class,

cultural heritage, language preference and other dinners -- differences. you can check out resources for your child and family on the inclusive schools week page at sfusd.edu/sped-isw. i hope that we all remember to be inclusive in the classroom on the schoolyard and in our communities all year long. school sites will be closed from december 20th to december 31st for winter break. our offices will be closed on december 24th and december 31st. i want to personally thank each and every one of you for your commitment to our students during this year. this has been quite a year. just think 12 short months ago, students and teachers were in distance learning, our buildings were closed to the public and we were in the worst of the

pandemic. in the summer of 20 twenties -- 2020 i said we have to take care of each other. we brought back our youngest students to in-person learning g in april and almostal students in august. we watched as 90% of our staff got vaccinated and 95% of 12 to 17-year-old students got vaccinated. our students have led the way. i want to thank each and every one of you for taking care of each other. i my hope that you will have the happiest of holidays and a very joyous new year. that ends my report. >> president lopez: thank you for your words. we'll hear from our student delegates. >> thank you president lopez. we like to start off by recognizing our student leaders who walked out of class last friday december 10th. we thanked students for their organizing and leadership and taking action.

the council want to do our best to support students in addition, we like to name some policy action and what we look to do in the future. the lists of student demands reads as follows. the creation of a support system for survivors of sexual harassment and abuse, a safe reporting process of incidents without further traumatizing and triggering survivors, no victim blaming, clarity and accessibility in terms of information about students rights, disciplinary action and survivor protection on site even if abuse occurred off site. >> on november 15, we held a meeting where kiki williams presented on what title ix looks like. our students is working on a resolution that will incorporate some of the demands as action items. our curriculum and instruction community held a meeting on

november 30th to learn more about sfusd's health education requirements. so we can better make recommendations to improve the health curriculum. we looking to work with other youth organization to address student concerns. per the letter sent out ton friday, we're glad that the district is expanding the equity office. we want to work with superintendent matthews in facilitating the creation of the sexual harassment k-12 student advisory group. given -- we're glad that complaints do not meet the criteria are being addressed under the sfusd bullying and harassment guidelines. we're continuing working on the issue and hopes to give an update in our next report. we have our resolution to align the up for second reading tonight. we're excited to take this next step in working under the board of education and continue to bridge the gap between students of sfusd and the board.

our meetings are public. next meeting is on january 3rd at 6:00 p.m. thank you president lopez. that concludes our report. >> president lopez: thank you to our student delegates. item 5, under section b, recognitions and resolutions commendations. there are none tonight. item 6, recognizing all valuable employees. i will be calling on superintendent matthews. >> thank you. tonight, we want to share a brief news link that features link high school student michael yu. [video] >> a student from lincoln high

school has created 1000 vaccination card protect tores - protectors to donate to clinics. >> michael yu and his brother christopher have been pushing students at lincoln high in san francisco to get vaccinated. for halloween, they dressed up in a vaccine and antibody costume to put kids at ease while getting vaccinated. >> they loved it. they wanted to take selfies with me. >> at lincoln, michael is known as the student who has created these vaccine card holders that are given out at school clinics. he personally paid for all the materials needed. >> i bought them online with a money i got from a previous internship. >> michael, his brother and cousins then assemblerred them to give out to students. as of yesterday, 90% of those 12 to 17-year-olds in san francisco

have been fully vaccinated. the vaccine was only recently approved for the younger kid, 23% of them 5 through 11 years old, have received both shots. >> we focus on bringing the community together, helping each other out and we want to give that entrepreneurial spirit to students like michael. he has done so many great things. >> next month it san francisco board of supervisors will honor him with a special commendation. >> i feel honored to be getting this reward. >> check out michael. [ applause ]

>> big thank you to michael, entire lincoln high school community for moving this work forward. we continue to be excited about the entrepreneurial spirit of students like michael. we know that when we talk about every every student getting quality introduction, michael is an example of that. thank you and now i turn it back over to president lopez. >> president lopez: great. moving on to section c, public comment on non-agenda items. item 1s is protocol for public comment. public comment is in an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the board's jurisdiction. we ask that you reframe from using employee and student names. if you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it to the employee supervisor. board rules and california law

do not allow us to respond to comments or title answer questions during the public comment time. if appropriate the superintendent will ask that staff follow up with speakers. item 2, comments from sfusd students. we will hear from sfusd students who wish to speak on any matter. students will have up to 15 minutes of the general public comment period and may also speak at any other public comment time. >> thank you, president lopez. please raise your hand if you are a student and speak on any time at this time. [speaking spanish] [speaking cantonese]

>> thank you. hello, larry? >> caller: yes, can you hear me? >> are you a student? >> caller: no. i had my hand raised. >> any students who care to speak at this time? seeing no students. >> president lopez: this is a reminder students will get to comment throughout the agenda. item 3, comments from the general public.

i will be limiting this to 15 minutes as well. >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to any items not on the agenda this evening. that can be repeated in chinese and spanish please. [speaking spanish] [speaking chinese] >> clerk: president lopez, you said total 15 minutes, one minute each? thank you. hello, larry. >> caller: thank you for the opportunity to speak.

i went to a council meeting, they talked about the increase in ds and fs. they were saying for math, they look at other things besides grades because students -- some do not test well. but they are very intelligent. a teacher mentioned, they look at like community engagement activities like activism and volunteering. how do you feel about increasing someone's grades based on that. i felt that has nothing to do with math, the volunteering. that's just my comment. thank you. [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: hello, i'm here to talk about my son attends everett. i want to advocate for our african-american students as well as for our latino students. in our school, there's been lot of problems with the way that the students are behaving. we're lacking staff to take care of this and to help us out throughout our campus. i'm here to ask you to please send us more staff so we can tackle this problem. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. chris? >> caller: hi. i'm a special education teacher

at washington high school. i'm calling in because i'm extremely concerned about the way things are handled at last night's curriculum instruction meeting. the authors of the resolution that was presented on literacy, completely disregarded, not allowed to speak on their own resolution after being told that they would be on the schedule to speak, shows the amount of collaboration that apparently, sfusd central staff is capable of. it was incredibly disrespectful to educators and it makes me wonder if may be they've been pulling stuff like this for quite some time, making things that were important, take longer than necessary by using these tactics to avoid answering questions that need to be answered. thank you for your time.

>> clerk: hello, joe? joe d.? >> caller: hi. i'm a parent of a second grader at glenn park elementary. calling about the alternative budgeting plan. >> clerk: apologies sir, this item is on the agenda. later on you'll have the opportunity to speak on it. >> caller: do you know what time that will be? >> clerk: approximation an hour or so. >> caller: okay. thank you.

>> caller: hi, can you hear me? i'm calling about a couple of issues tonight. i wanted to speak briefly to procedural concerns that i have. most of time i speak on outdoor learning. i wanted to comment tonight on procedural issues because i seen those things come up and it's troubling to me. there had been lot of meetings over the past year. i would like to see the numbers of people at the meeting being put up and to see commissioners more clearly. typically we can only see one or two people including the sign language interpreter. second of all, i like to ask about the board looking into election activities and making sure that the election activity's policy is being enforced. i heard from folks that there was staff distributing election materials on site. this is just a basic, fundamental thing that people

should know that they are not allowed to do for various ethics reasons. we should be following the rules. good government and transparency is important. with outdoor education, i like to say, please, urge the district to get a working group going and let us as parents help. we want to help get outdoor education, outdoor learning to as many students as possible. we are ready with all kinds of ideas and resources and even designs. we want people to be outside. >> clerk: thank you. stephanie? >> caller: hello, can you hear me? i am a current student. we wanted to check in on a bill that was reasonably passed. called the equality for all act

of 2021. we were wondering and checking in to see what san francisco sfusd was doing to implement this. if you guys have plan for a sustainable model. >> clerk: thank you. olga? >> caller: [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: hello, my name is olga reyes. i have twins. i would like to get some help because school is having violence, problems with violence. we need more teachers. also we need more resources and i would like you as a board of education, pay attention to what is going on at everett. as a latino parent, we feel that we haven't been heard.

we need a principal who speaks spanish and also we need more members that speak spanish at school. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you. hello, brandy? >> caller: i'm calling in response to one of the public comments regarding being able to see the board members and the sign language interpret. i would actually advocate to keep it as they are. i think it's really important for the person that is doing the sign language interpretation to be on the screen we have lot of hard of hearing, deaf parents, family members who might be watching from their iphone. it's important to maintain the current vision this way. thank you very much.

>> clerk: nadia? >> caller: hi. i'm a student. i wanted to talk about the rotc program. i've been doing rotc for three years, i'm hoping to do my fourth year. i'm a junior. i learned a lot from the rotc program. it's an hour away from home. that's the only why i come to braiden. if the program gets cut, what will i do? go to a different school and

start over? what other program teaches us the discipline and stuff like that? we do community service. i know any other student like we get the option to do community services. i know any other program is not going to be able to do that. >> clerk: thank you. hello, norma? >> caller: hello. i'm a student. i would like to talk about the rotc program. for me, rotc is really important. it gives me a lot of structure. people in rotc are my family. i feel like if i didn't have rotc, i would still kind of not

be -- feel accepted at my school and stuff like that. >> caller: i don't attend meetings often. i know it's hard to translate. that was said. i think that's a significant point. >> clerk: thank you.

that concludes public comment on this item. >> president lopez: thank you. moving on to section d, advisory committee reports and appointments. item 1, appointment of members to the child care planning and advisory council. cpac. may i hear a motion and second for the approval of the cpac members? >> second. >> president lopez: i like to call on superintendent matthews to introduce the recommendation to the record. >> introducing this recommendation will be our chief of early education. >> thank you dr. matthews. recommended action is to confirm the appointment to the child care planning and advisory council cpac of two members. rosario to a discretionary seat and owen velez to the serve

three-year term upon appointment. i will give a brief context and background to what cpac is. it is the child care planning and advisory council which is mandated under education code 8499.3 to assess all aspects of local early care and education including supply and demand and to set priorities for determining state and local spending to meet existing needs. cpac analyzes all child care options including subsidized and un-subsidized, large center, small family home, licensed exempt care and after care to determine the needs of children and families of san francisco. according to the state mandated ordinance, the board of education is the appointing body

for half of the cpac membership. cpac membership terms is three years and option for one additional term should it be deemed appropriate. the recommendations include child care consumers, child care providers, community members, public agency representatives and discretionary early education experts. i will stop there. thank you. >> president lopez: can we check for public comment? >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to cpac appointments. [speaking spanish]

[speaking chinese] >> clerk: thank you. i'm seeing one hand. hello, dorian? >> caller: hello. i'm a student at burton high school. i've been in the rotc program -- >> clerk: sorry to interrupt, this comment time is only for specific item. it's the cpac appointment. thank you. that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: any questions or comments from student delegates or commissioners about the two

appointments? commissioner collins. >> it says we appoint half. what's the other governing body that appoints? just wondering who they report to or where they share their advisory input? >> thank you, commissioner collins. there are also representatives from various districts, supervisors that also appoint. it's sort of cross-collaborative team of san francisco providers. a few seats from our school district and there are representatives that sit on that as well as folks that are coming

from the mayor's office and various supervisors from different districts also recommend. >> vice president collins: do they make presentations to governing body in the city? >> they can but they are officially sort of oversight. they can, i don't know if they have recently. but they can. >> president lopez: let's do a roll call vote on the motion. [roll call vote]

you have seven ayes. >> president lopez: item 2 report from parent advisory council. >> thank you president lopez. good evening everyone. commissioners, student delegates, staff, superintendent matthews and our student families and members of the community. i'm the coordinator for the parent advisory council to the san francisco board of education. also known as the p.a.c. i'm joined by p.a.c. members. the primary role of the parent

advisory council is to represent parent perspective in order to inform decisions. this is our report for the december 14, 2021 board of education meeting. the p.a.c. would like to take this opportunity to honor and appreciate all of the hard work that every one is doing we see you and we thank you. we also want to wish everyone a healthy and joyous winter holiday season and whatever ways you and your family celebrate. the p.a.c. is thrilled that resolution 2111-9a1 in support of equitable representation and

services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual parents and family and the creation of a queer, transgender parent advisory council or qt p.a.c., was approved to move forward with a positive recommendation at yesterday's curriculum and program committee meeting. we offer up ourselves to conversations about what that might look like in terms of formation. we're happy to support that process. one way the p.a.c. collaborates with other groups is regular advisory alignment meetings. our last meeting was friday

december 10th when we will discussed inclusive school week activities. the elementary student assignment advisory committee, which is being formed. a petition to increase state-level funding for public education. which we know we need. this means including at times that are accessible for our families and our parent leaders before 9:00, after 5:00, etcetera. now i will turn it over to

salina chu. >> thank you, michelle. my name is salina chu. i'm a p.a.c. member currently holding as co-vice chair for the p.a.c. i do have -- thank you, michelle for the information. i will continue with additional information. the p.a.c. monthly meeting on thursday december 2nd.

we also discussed funding, in-person learning for all students including those who are participating in the district's continued distance learning option. equity including the recruitment of new p.a.c. members, our discussion of funding included summary of the november 30, 2021 budget balancing townhall meeting and other opportunity to engage in this matter. speaking of the budget, we know this is at the forefront of of every one now. it's a key part of the work that the p.a.c. is engaged. the p.a.c. has been working closely for parents with public school, sfusd staff to conduct different events to engage families, community members and other stakeholders. here is a summary of events that have been held so far and what

we have heard from families and the community. to get things started, surfs released on november 18, 2021. we have received 58 responses. most of them in english. parents, family members make up half of the respondents. 10% are students, 17% are educators, 20% work for community-based organizations with many identifying in multiple categories. as well as 16 different zip codes. 17% of the respondents have a student who is english language learner. 19% a student with i.e.p.

>> thanks. good evening, i'm a p.a.c. member and a parliamentarian. i have a fourth grader in sfusd. to start our events to date on november 30th, sfusd parents for public schools or p.p.s. and the p.a.c. held a budget balancing townhall. the total of 260 participants logged on and there were hundred questions and suggestions submitted via the chat. they were able to answer live.

on december 8th, the s.f. beacon initiative hosted a community partners forum with over 100 participants representing sfusd partner organizations serving students and families in sfusd, and p.a.c. coordinator reporting on the budget balancing plan. shared the survey and collected questions which will be used to continue to inform the faq and next steps. on december 9th, individual p.a.c. members attended a close the gap coalition meeting. the coalition is composed of parent leaders, educators and community advocates. the treasurer for the united educators of san francisco,

presented summaries of the proposed plan to the budget. that represented at the decembeg of the board of education. the dozen attendees expressed concerns about how we go through this process and still keep the promises we have made to and meet the needs of our focal students and continue to provide services to our newcomer english language learning and non-english speaking students and family. challenges and hope shared, included making stronger connections to our out of school time program, adopting a more preventive philosophy and advocating for the school and educational experience we know our students need. we appreciate the coalition for including us and for the opportunity to hear from coalition members. as the district moves forward, we encourage families to get

involved with the school site council at their child's school. the school site council is the governing body for the school. composed half school staff and half of parents. it's responsible for determining the school plan for student achievement. the p.a.c. is working with d.p.s. to plan for training sessions on s.f.d. participation and best best practices. >> information on the budget balancing including links to

previous presentation, recording of the townhall, copies of the slide deck in spanish and in chinese and a link to the survey which is still open can be found at www.sfusd.edu/2021blunt balancing. we encourage everyone to participate in the opportunities to engage, learn and provide feedback on the assignment process and other issues like the budget by attending these events and others that will be announced soon and over the course of the school year. attending a p.a.c. meeting is a good way to be involved and to get an idea what we do. our next meeting will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on thursday january 6, 2022 via zoom. p.a.c. meetings are open to the public all are welcome to attend

and we encourage everyone who is interested to join us. meetings are conducted in english with closed captioning, translation interpretation can be provided with events notice so meeting information can be found at sfusd.edu/pac. agendas, zoom links help how to dial in are posted at least 72 hours prior to the meeting. if you are interested in attending a p.a.c. meeting and like to partner with the p.a.c. or have any questions or comments about this report or the p.a.c. work, please contact us. thank you. >> before we conclude our

report, the p.a.c. would like to affirm our support with several items that appear later on the agenda. board policy 5023 in support of translation and interpretation services to serve families so they can fully participate in their children's education and engage in school and district level meeting. the continuation of a virtual component to board of education meeting this allows for greater flexibility and access for families including but not limited to the volunteer parent leader who serve on the family advisory group as well as the many actively engaged family who are not currently serving in a official capacity. we have included in the report and resolution 2110-26a1

regarding the alignment of student advisory counsels and board of education office. we believe the students made a good case to this change. we continue to advocate for what they believe is in their own best interest and best interest of democracy and student representation. especially in regards to sexual harassment. we welcome any questions or comments you may have. >> president lopez: to our parent advisory council for your presentation. i like to open it up for public comment before we begin our discussion. >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to the parent advisory council presentation. [speaking spanish]

[speaking chinese] >> clerk: thank you. seeing four hands. hello larry? >> caller: this is larry lee. this question is for the parent advisory council. parent advisory council has issues or comments that are important to them. how serious does the san francisco board of education and san francisco unified school district when you have a issue or comment seriously? from your experience. especially pertaining to violence at school sites or budgetary issues. that's just my comment. i don't want to say more.

thank you everyone. >> clerk: thank you. [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: hi. i have a son at everett. i wanted to ask the parent advisory council how do you communicate with our african-american student and latino students? as you might know, our school having lot of issues with violence. specifically with the people that -- how do you communicate with them? i know that you guys advocate for equity, social justice and i know that lot of this african-american students are --

how do you guys communicate with these parents and students? >> caller: [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: i have the same question. i have two kids in sixth grade. i haven't heard from you. i was very involved in the s.

e. my kids don't have teachers. they are losing learning. i was wondering how you can help us? i haven't seen in -- this organization at the school. thank you. >> clerk: hello. >> caller: i would like to thank the p.a.c. for another amazing collaborative report as well as the wonderful work they do in community and all the time spent on educating families and i have to say that the previous two commenters really highlight the need for more work like the work that's being done at the p.a.c. for more support of the family

engagement networks for the parent advisory council. especially as we move forward and tieing our budget to our priorities and our values, the work that the p.a.c. does in making sure that families are engaged, not only needs to continue but be expanded. thank you for everyone doing the work. we look forward to continuing to work alongside you. >> clerk: thank you. josephine? >> caller: hi everyone. thank you p.a.c. for your great work. thank you for including our community and also i wanted to congratulate the lgbtq p.a.c.

i would like to concur three speakers ago, there are incidents of bullying and violence that have been in our community and schools. please look into that as well. how do you deal with aapi hate? that's rampant within our community now. >> clerk: thank you. anna? >> caller: good evening everyone. i'm chair of the p.a.c. [ indiscernible ]

the p.a.c. has done amazing work. >> clerk: that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: are there any questions or comments from the board or student delegates? seeing none, thank you again for your presentation and we look forward to the next report. >> thank you. i know we can't respond directly to folks. i like to say if people have

questions and would like to know more, would like to have conversations, please reach out to us. my e-mail is pac@sfusd.edu. i would like to say, the p.a.c. can't do it all. we certainly don't do it alone. we do this work in partnership with all of the other district advisories as well as other community partners and organizations of families that are not officially under the district. we look forward to continuing to do that and figuring out how we can better reach and hear from all of our families in the district. thank you to everyone who called in tonight. >> president lopez: there's one comment from commissioner lam. >> commissioner lam: big thank you from michelle for all the

work and putting together a community budget townhalls. i know it is not easy and the amount of partnership and intentionality and having successful engagements of community and parents really help shape of the conversations we've been having as a board. when you interpret or really break down very complex topics and issues like a district budget and public education and how it's funned to making it accessible means a great deal. i look forward to that continued partnership. thank you so much. >> president lopez: last item under section d, i like to see if there are any advisory committee appointments. >> i want to reappoint alita

fischer to the charter school official. >> president lopez: thank you. that will be noted. section e, consent calendar. i need a motion and second on the consent calendar. >> so moved. >> president lopez: let's see if there's public comment on consent items. >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to items on consent calendar. seeing none. >> president lopez: any items

withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? >> none, president lopez. >> president lopez: any items removed? seeing none. any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion and vote tonight? seeing none. let's do a roll vote on consent calendar. [roll call vote] >> president lopez: section f, discussion on consent calendar resolution for separate consideration. there are none tonight. section g, proposals for action,

item 1. urging the sfusd board of education to support the alignment of the student advisory council and the board of education office. one, requesting the superintendent to relocate the student advisory council under the board of education office and 2, requesting that the student delegates have unput in hiring it any staff member who are assigned to support the student advisory council panel. this was moved and seconded on october 26th. it's now before the board for action. can i call on student delegates commissioner to alexander to share comments. >> as twos says, this resolution

mostly to move the student advisory council under the board of education office and give members say in the hiring of any staff that are assigned to support the student advisory council. we hope to continuing being a body under the board of education office. >> i like promoting student voice through this resolution and bridging the gap between students and the board is really important. we want to elevate student voice this year for a term.

>> it's an honor sponsoring this on behalf of our students. they wrote it. it actually started last spring with the previous year, student advisory council, it's been revised and updated by this year's student advisory council and delegates. i'm happy to support that process. it was all their work. >> president lopez: let's check for public comment. >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to the that was just read in. student advisory council moving to the board office. [speaking spanish] [speaking chinese]

>> clerk: thank you. hello, everyone. on behalf of the consumer advisory committee on special education, we are to see the work of the student advisory council. we're so excited to see their advisory and looking forward to working alongside them. thank you so much student commissioners for writing this resolution. i hope this passes. thank you. >> clerk: that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: any questions or comments from student delegates or

commissioners? >> commissioner boggess: i will be interested if staff had any idea if there was cost related to this resolution and if there's been physical impact that's connected to what she relate related here. >> i can answer that. student advisory council has a small budget. that budget will be moved to a larger office. >> i had another question around

staffing and how that's seen in this now -- is there a different supervision instruction for staff? >> i don't think that all of the details have been worked out. i don't believe -- i think there lab connection with the presidential of the board. the staff report would remain. that staff report would be part of the boards operate me. the student delegates will be

part of those conversations as well. >> commissioner boggess: we're defining input with regard what hiring mean. >> with respect to the hiring, we probably would follow the same hiring. students are on other hiring panel an the high school level. >> in if this resolution passes,

the -- i will be doing the hiring along -- if threat -- >> commissioner boggess: my last question, are there any legal to shift to the structure. how is there no concerns like that? >> president lopez: do you mean in terms of move mowing the student -- >> commissioner boggess: i'm worried we want to put someone in the staff position who wants

to silence student voice or something othat effect. is there any thing of that nature? is that not something that we have to worry about as much? >> i don't see that as a concern. will continue to report to the board office. there will be accountability for conduct and performance that doesn't meet the board's expectation. >> president lopez: let's do a roll call vote on the resolution. [roll call vote]

seven ayes. >> president lopez: cool, congratulations. section h, special order of business. i will be calling items 1 and 2 together. item 1 fiscal year 2022, '23 and '24 budget balancing plan. and item 2, proposed alternative budget balancing plans sponsored by commissioner alexander, 21122-14so3. i need a motion and second on special order 2 and 3. >> so moved. >> second. >> president lopez: superintende nt matthews can you introduce

the needs who will be sharing information about these special orders? >> thank you. good evening everyone. before i call on our chief financial officer, meagan wallace, i like to thank staff for their work on this item. i want to make sure that the community knows that this is superintendent's proposal. it is my proposal. i work with staff on making this happen. we do our best to work within the means that we have to put a budget together. it's my recommendation. i'm the one who works with staff. at the end of the day, i have the final call on what proposal, our constituent is presented to the board. i want to make sure that the public knows that. if you want to blame, saff is

working with me and i my proposal. we have an -- we've been working together to come together to figure out a way forward. we're going to have chief financial officer meagan wallace talk a bit about some of the changes that occurred and what occurred overtime. i then it will be turned over to deputy superintendent lee. >> good evening to the board of education, to the public.

tonight, we're going to have a brief presentation. limited number of slides. it's been a long road. there are few things we want to recap as we take the final step. i'll start by saying, the intention of the presentation is to provide a brief overview of our budget balance project as well as some of the details around the plan. on the next side, ini want to look that we started this

process back in september. really, the deep hard work began in september when we first received a letter from the california department of education calling for san francisco unified district to develop a budget balancing plan. we carried forward that work with a vision for meeting that mandate by developing a new plan that preserve the -- this has been a very short timeline. now we are here finally in december. we have been working tirelessly to engage our families and community on this effort. on the next slide, i want to

remind everybody that since the beginning of november, we held six public meetings. really rolling out the details of the plan. there's three meetings and gathering feedback from the board and the public. here we are tonight with our final proposal to adopt this balancing plan which is critical for -- on the next slide, i want to highlight that overall, we iced -- it does include

$90 million production including $50 million to school sites for way, to yew -- on the next high, [ indiscernible ] [please stand by]

>> retirement obligations for those people who get confusion who get a plan for managing those obligations. this is step one. it is not the end of the road. it is the beginning of the road to recovery. i have the strong recommendations to improve the

recommendation stabilization plan and improve the interim report as put together by staff i want to thank everybody. doctor matthews office. i think i have or talked with each one of the commissioners. i want to thank each one of you for your commitment and hard work. i can attest to the fact that all of you have put in hours and hours from staff to commissioner to superintendents. so thank you for your commitment to the children and i think it's essential that you as a district move through this first step and continue to the rest of the process for long term budget stabilization. so thank you, it's been a pleasure and will be a continuing pleasure to work for

san francisco. >> president lopez: thank you, elliott. we'll go to the next >> so this particular slide is a followup on a request to get into the details of the anticipated impacts of the balancing plan proposal on two programs in particular. avid and peer resources. avid is a key funded program and it is a program that has seen reductions over time. so the program currently serves fewer students than it did in the past and although the current proposal does -- would eliminate the funding for avid in '22-'23 then staff is to restore proposed reductions so that we can continue avid

programming across the district. peer resources is funded by the unrestricted general fund and the -- and so the central portion of the funding is part of our balancing plan. our proposed reductions to direct services and should we move forward with that approach. it would mean that sites would need to fully fund peer resources teachers with student formula allocation. schools currently receive a mix of allocations between .25 fpe and 1.0. some sites already use at least a portion of their weighted student formula allocations, but obviously that would change with this proposal and the impact would vary site to site. a reduced allocation is not a guarantee that the program will be eliminated, but it does mean

that it changes the dynamic and it changes what having a peer resources program might look like at a school. this mean fewer resources at a school. in addition to conditions that are typical for a high school teacher. in some cases, peer resources class sizes are larger depending on the students that are enrolled. we can certainly discuss the details if so desired, but really just wanted to share a little bit of additional information on the support of some of the requests we've seen. we'll go ahead and conclude the presentation on the next slide and deputy superintendent young lee will be speaking. >> thaus, colleagues, and good evening commissioners and student delegates.

so i have the last slide. thank you. and i want to say, this is the most encouraging of the information that we're going to share tonight and i'm glad i get to speak to this. so as we've said many times throughout the many meetings, this is an important milestone but not the last milestone in this process for planning for next fiscal year. and after tonight's meeting, after tonight's action, i just wanted to highlight a few particular things that will happen in the near future. one is that beginning -- well, it's already begun, but through january, we are committed to continuing to explore patterns of centrally budgeted investments. you know, that's been the topic of great interest for commissioners in our community. we are about a month away from

having the governor release his proposed budget for next fiscal year for '22-'23. we'll restate we are very hopeful that that will map to improvements in our revenue projections and we will be updating the board and all of our community on our revised physical outlook during the latter half of january. in february, we will report back to the board on school allocations for next year. and multiteared systems of support. and we will work on revising and updating the balancing plan for the second interim report. that's the next required submission to the california department of education we are

continuing to advocate at the state level. this presentation includes a link to a letter that dr. matthews and superintendents in seven other large districts in the state just submitted to the governor for the local control funding formula, special education funding, support with paying for the cost of pensions. so i encourage commissioners and the community to look at that letter and on a closing note and if revenue and/or expenditure projections improve, the highest consideration for funding restoration will be given to direct school site budgets, direct services including programs like avid and peer

resources which were just described by ms. gordon and central services that most directly support students. so i think we have a lot of convergence on those being the highest and most important priorities for hopefully new revenues that come into the picture. with that, i would like to turn it back to dr. matthews. >> just once again, i just wanted to say how much i appreciate the opportunity as i had the opportunity to talk to many of the commissioners about the budget, about questions, about possible solutions and have had the opportunity to work really closely thus far with commissioner alexander. and so i just wanted to turn it over to commissioner alexander about the conversations and possibilities going forward

thank you so much. >> commissioner alexander: i'm really grateful for all the dialog and conversations we've had over the last couple of weeks and i feel like we're making really good progress on starting to address some of the concerns that have been coming up for awhile and so i'm happy with where we're at in this path forward. i wanted to direct my remarks mainly actually to the people, the educators, parents and students who've helped developed the core values plan. we think it's important for them to understand i think, you know, and i'll say, you all out there who've done that advocacy, you've been the ones who oh, pushed this situation.

you know if you're educators in our schools, the schools were hardly overstaffed before the pandemic and, you know, the teachers, paraeducators. social workers. counselors, programs like avid, all of those would have a devastating effect on our school. and i spoke this weekend, i was at a cookie decorating party and people were coming up to me saying if you cut that money from our schools, i'm going to leave. these were veteran teachers saying i can't work in a school where we cut another 10% from our budget and that was not me kind of soliciting that that was me saying that's what we need as educators and so i just want to say thank you and to say that i think you are making your voice heard and i think i

also just want to say, again, i think my colleagues on the board have shared these concerns and so i think i just want the focuses out there that the board what i really like is being willing to keep that dialog and conversation even when these conversations are difficult. i feel like where i was at last week that felt hard was that we were hearing from our fiscal

advisor that we basically had one option. you basically vote for this and if you vote against it, you're voting for a state take over and now we've gotten to a place forward and so i'm just really excited about that. we can share more moving forward, but the superintendent and i have talked about engaging in some former sfusd staff and some others to do some deeper dive into the core values plan and provide us and

the budget committee and the board in early february to see what adjustments we can make. i would love to see beyond that, continuing the conversation in the spring of really engaging in the thoughtful discussion around central office supports. i want to say again, you know, i've put out some statistics which are true statistics around the growth of our central office over the last decade and i just want to be really clear, the people in those jobs are really good people. they're smart people. they're incredibly hardworking and committed. and so it's even hard and some of them are my friends. so i want to say, i know, when i say, you know, we have too many of these jobs, i want to be very clear. i'm not talking about a critique of any individual. what i'm talking about is that we need to step back collectively and think about our systems and say is this system really the most effective system for serving our students and our schools. i don't think we're going to

need to cut a lot of people because unfortunately, with the people, the number of people that are leaving the system due to the trauma and the difficulty of the job, i think we're going to have more resignations than layoffs. i think our job is going to be keeping people and a system at work and putting people in the right roles and i think to me, that's the job that's going to happen and unfold over the next six months. and so, again, i'm just really grateful to the superintendent for being willing to engage with this and really listening and sort of hearing that a majority of the board does support the core values plan hearing that we need to take a close look at the central office structure and that's what we're hearing from parents and educators and others. i'm just looking forward to that. and, again, to the educators, to the parents and student who is eave advocated for this. we actually need you to keep

speaking up for our students and our schools. we need you to be back here in january and february telling us, you know, if we come up with some proposals, some may be good, we need that public input and the input especially from the people that are part of our system. please keep up. you're organizing our leadership. keep reflect z those sfusd values and thank you for working with us as we chart a better course forward for sfusd. >> president lopez: all right. thank you to our staff and to commissioner alexander for sharing that information. before we begin our discussion, i'd like to open it up to public comment and judson, let me know how many speakers you see. >> clerk: will do. please raise your hand if you care to speak to the budget

balancing plan this evening. and can that be repeated in chinese and spanish, please. >> translator: [speaking spanish]. >> translator: [speaking chinese]. >> clerk: thank you. >> pardon me, president lopez, could you clarify for the public, this is public comment on both the staff's budget proposal and commissioner alexander's plan? >> president lopez: that's correct. thank you for clarifying. i'm following the process we did last week at the committee as a whole so it will be for both. >> clerk: thank you. so there are 24 hands so far, president lopez. >> president lopez: okay. >> clerk: going up slowly. >> president lopez: so we will do a minute each and for now i'll keep it at 30 minutes. we'll just see how many hands

come up. >> clerk: okay. >> caller: hi. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> caller: okay. great. first of all, what i want to say is that this is for the school board. for the only state approved plan and southeast state take over. if you continue, then the board [inaudible] doesn't care about our kids and just want to get back because how dare we cross three of our board members and if we do this, i will remember this and also the members of this current board and also i would like to thank you,

superintendent matthews and your team for all the hard work because no one will blame you because your budget balancing plan is into our crisis. maybe last week's meeting was just a production show for our constituents. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: bye bye. excellent. >> clerk: next caller. >> caller: hi. thanks again for taking my call. i'm calling to express my relief. if i understood correctly, it appears that commissioner alexander is now planning to support the staff plan. and i want to say how important it is i personally agree with

many of the people who called looking at the central office, but it's much too late in the game. we're at the 11th hour and so we need to do what is required. our district remains for the students. we need to make sure it continues and look at staff to central office and wherever else it may be needed as we move on once we have, you know, once we have a stabilize plan. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, chris. >> caller: hi, judson. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> caller: okay. we have a rally going on outside of 555 [ indiscernible ] we have hundreds of people out here in the cold and they are saying no cuts to school.

we cannot afford to cut school [inaudible] and understaffing and underresources and student services. cutting already bloated central office staffing and people who are making hundreds of thousands of dollars compared to educators like me [inaudible] with $80,000 a year on average. that's where it makes the most sense to me. some of the people in central office may have started with great nings to say and do, but our student enrollment has declined over the past five years. we need people actively working. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: please. >> clerk: hello. >> caller: hi everyone.

so on behalf of the community advisory committee for special education. thank you, commissioner alexander for all your work for the collaboration. i'm excited to see there's been so much communication behind the scenes and everyone is really working to bring this together. i'd like to call one's attention to slide eight in the next steps. the c.a.c. and i'm sure other parent advisory committees as well look forward to being and all stakeholders look forward to being part of these continuing ongoing conversations where we explore patterns in cuts. as many speakers have said over the past few months of comments related to the budget, this is outside of the normal timeline, so those of us that would participate stay true l-cap. and you know so many things

that we have to consider when talking about central office staff and direct versus indirect. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: we look forward to furthering the conversation. >> clerk: hello, josephine. >> caller: hi. thanks commissioner alexander for your leadership. i think it's super important for our board to retain local control even though i do or do not like some of the things that are done. but you having the control is more important than everything else. we can fix it later. cutting anywhere is not desirable. cutting central, cutting sites, none of it is good. the most important thing right now is to create policies that we attract families to come back to san francisco and do things to make sure that our customers are happy and can come back or retain in our school district.

thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, gregory. >> caller: hi. thank you, judson. we've lost thousands of students from sfusd over the last couple of years. it's not realistic to assume we don't need to cut any staff to both the school sites and the central losses after enrollment of that size. especially given the size of the unfunded pension and obligations the district has. even after realigning staffing, we still have one of the best teacher to student ratios in the state. please vote for the staff plan so that sfusd is not taken over by the state. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: hi there. thank you for taking my comments. i want to echo what many parents have said. please support the staff plan. it is unrealistic that we can't

expect cuts in the near future as much as i don't want them, it's unfortunately the position that we as a district have been put in and like gregory just said, we need to reattract students and families to come back in order to bring everything back to the way it used to be. please vote for the staff plan and do not allow state take over. >> clerk: thank you. hello, sarah. >> caller: hi. my name is sarah. i just wanted to provide public comment. first off as a parent and public schoolteacher myself, i mean, the thought of cuts to my kids' classrooms, it breaks my heart. i don't really think anyone wants cuts like that. it sounds like from the conversation there were some really constructive dialog between the superintendent and the board and i really appreciate that. it was always my hope to avoid state take over. i think that losing local

control is just too devastating, but i also think and appreciate the sentiment that we need to continue to have conversations about how to prioritize classrooms and teachers and students and come up with creative solutions to do so. i want to thank the board, the district, and the superintendent for making these hard decisions. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, jerry. sorry, jerry. go ahead. >> caller: hi. this is cassandra on jerry's phone president of uesf. we have had hundreds of educators and students out here tonight, family members, kids, all of this is out there. this is because we stand with

our values. our students are clammering. to balance this budget placeded on their backs. resources out here tonight. all of our educator substitutes and paraeducators. we are at the end of the semester. we are covering classes and vacancies and to hear some considerations that a compromise would be adrift by laying off 300 individuals is not okay. that is not in line with values and to speak to the enrollment issue, if enrollment needs to be right sites, it should not come from school sites. that is a year out and if this plan can be revised in january and there's though reason why that can't happen as well.

what we are saying is a plan that's in line with our values. our students need each and every individual that is on campus and more showing up right now and folks have had quite a long time to discuss this and this should not have come to this point. we are looking to you to lead with your values. we are looking to you to vote to make sure that our students know that their classes will be fully staffed in the spring and this year. the prospect of layoffs of new educators both of which you might not get back. and that's not including and to attract new students. it's a ridiculous concept. we are trying our hardest to do what we can with our budget and we're going to keep doing that. we're going to show up every single month that this goes on to show up for our students, to

show up for all the educators to make sure that you all are honoring the value in a we have on our school sites and that we instill in our students every day to become the best adult we can be. and here you are before us with the hard choice to make sure you vote our values, to make sure we have enough staff for the future of sfusd. >> clerk: thank you. i believe we have someone for asl interpretation for public comment. should i add spotlight? >> president lopez: sure. >> clerk: okay. are you available for asl interpretation? >> no. sorry. >> clerk: i'll get to you. you shouldn't be in the chat unless you're requesting asl.

hello, amanda. >> caller: good evening. i've once again missed din we are my kids to tune in tonight. my kids protested. i'm really thrilled to go back to my children tonight and share that you worked hard together and are seemingly passing a plan tonight. [please stand by]

>> caller: hello, i'm a parent. it's all because of my child's classroom it's heart breaking. a state takeover will be devastating to our district. i would like to image the boarde board to vote to stop the state takeover of our district. i'm totally for superintendent

dr. matthew plan on this. please do so. our children, our san francisco children are dependent on this. we cannot let them sit down. please keep an open mind and vote for the only state-approved plan and stop the state takeover of our district. thank you for being a service for our children. >> clerk: reverend brown? >> caller: good evening. mr. superintendent and president of our school board. i just called to commend you verying for -- for having the fortitude to be tough enough to

iron out challenging problems. we ought to thank god when people come together in a reasonable, rational and responsible way to make things happen for the good in tough times. our times are tough but you proven that you are tough enough to make a hard decision. i commend everyone for brings us to common ground on this almost impossible problem. >> clerk: thank you. hello, tom? >> caller: i'm a teacher in the district and so my wife. we also have a kindergarten in the district. the district plan was more,

let's keep all the people at the top to make these giant salaries. didn't hear anything about reduce salaries because it's about the students. let's cut from some of the people who make the most money, six figures. what i heard let's cut the people at the bottom who are doing the most direct work with students. we're working our tails off. we have over 200 paraprofessional openings. i hear no one talking about that. i hear them praising the district plans while teachers and staff will get cut. attendance clerk, who reach out to families to say ensure students get here. that's going to get cut. it doesn't same like -- seem like that's important.

>> clerk: thank you. hello, brandy? >> caller: i'm a public school parent. i'm in solidarity of the things said about stopping cuts to school sites. it can really cause a lot of damage down the road if we do that. i hope that people make a very forward-thinking plan. i'm also really concerned about how some of the central office staff has senior staff has presented the budget information to parents. when i was at a meeting with some of the senior office staff, the san francisco p.t.a. had organized, all parents were asked to take a poll whether we thought the district should

prioritized equality over equity for funding. that was pretty egregious. i'm concerned about the staff to make good decisions. >> clerk: thank you. hello, greg? >> caller: good evening, my name is greg peters. i'm speaking as a member of the cpac. latest annual funding $80 million for san francisco voters. i hope to add context to this conversation. my experience on the committee is that of busy and process but not real impact. our recommendations continue to be limited by a process that has

fulfilling fund gaps rather than fulfilling the intent to create supplemental revenue sources to benefit student. we are not making recommendations when we receive proposals that equal the amount of money we are to make recommendations. most recently, we've been brought into this political arena related to the budget crises, specifically we continue to fill gaps created by serious, deep cuts. the biggest impact will be on our vulnerable priority population. thank you. >> clerk: thank you.

hello, anita? >> caller: hi. i'm calling to say to support the staff budget and no state takeover. our schools suffered really badly in the few years due to a lot of reasons. we need to make sure we stay local. >> clerk: thank you. hello justin? >> caller: hi. i like to say, lot of the reasons you lost money is lot of people with options that can go to private or move, left the city because you destroyed one lowell one of top schools. we lost lot of money because of

that. there's a lot of of racism in whites that were loaded in attacks calling people privileged, you do that to a white people who are racist. you don't motivate kids to work hard. you need to teach them that all the immigrant groups that study over 15 hours a week outearned u.s. average as adults. there's a reason why you have higher achievement gap in san francisco, lower test school scores among black and latino kids. you waste $600,000 to paint a wall, you waste $18 million in upgrade. you're not teaching kids that hard work will pay off. you are teaching them systemic racism. that's wrong. >> clerk: thank you.

>> caller: good evening dr. matthews, deputy superintendent and board commissioners. i greatly appreciate your plan and all the hard work that went into it, i respectfully ask that you find way not make cuts to school site. i understand that we're in a budget crunch which it happens pretty much every public agency. we can't keep putting the onerous on school sites. our babies are the whole reason why we're here. we owe it to them to make sure that we're giving them all the necessary resources including teachers, paraprofessionals and whatever other individuals that are needed to support them in the classroom. please, put our students first.

thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: hi. first thing i want to ask is more transparency on covid recovery and it is related. the reason why i'm asking is that this budget crises is not just about in a normal time. teachers are expressing that they are in dire straits, families are in dire straits. commissioner alexander, in principle, i love your plan. without the details, i could not support it. the other plan is painful. i'm asking about covid recovery funds and what happens. part of this is about the trauma what happened over the last

couple of years. if we can find a solution there, or at least you can be more transparent there, i don't know what happened. so many things going on are related to that. thank you for your collaboration. >> clerk: thank you. hello, emmanuel? >> caller: good evening. president lopez, support dr. matthews and other commissioners. i'm the proud principal at harvey wrights academy. you have a deal decision. i say to you that administrators across san francisco have made difficult decisions within the past two years during our pandemic. your administrators have made difficult decisions to support their school community. they have taken on the task of managing distance learning,

contact tracing, quarantining in classrooms, subbing in classroomings, support our educators i haven't mention budgeting. i ask that you make this decision but you make a decision. whatever your decision is, please understand that your administrator will work directly with the school site counselors, families and students to support the individual schools and their school community. thank you for the time. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: good evening commissionerrings. thanks for taking my comment. my name is seth, a board member with the san francisco parent coalition. as commissioner lam put it last week, the clock has run out. we must take our budget crises seriously. now and pass the only plan that

will balance and budget. state takeover could take decade or more to recover. districts that gone through to do everything for sfusd and children. as the adults charged with responsibility for our students and for this district, please continue to collaborate, to ensure that san francisco unified district is a growing concern. thank you for taking my comment. >> clerk: thank you. ronald? >> caller: hello. i'm a student. first of all, i like to say that please don't cut the programs. i believe they would be helpful for students in creating leadership skills, community

building, jrcp personally, they've done ocean beach cleanups and helped with the community and give back. as a senior and immigrant, i would not be able to speak here. jrcp helped me build these skills. i want to give back to the community. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, jennifer? >> caller: first like to say something, which is given the state we're in, it is a true shame that the city and county of san francisco and state of california are placing these poor budget scenarios on our city schools. the state needs to do better. we shouldn't be waiting for

support from the governor in january. i'm concerned with the ongoing need that i hear from district management to rebuild trust. i agree, we should always build trust. my concern rest with the community because we have never built trust in the first place. our black students and our indigenous students are experiencing homelessness. instead of rebuilding trust with a budget plan that will allow wealthier schools to face no cuts, while schools that depend on funding will receive nothing. it's a budget that rebuilds trust with certain communities. it is inequitable and it's wrong. we must do better. >> clerk: thank you. hello, beth? are you there?

latoya? >> caller: good evening. i like to say thank you for the opportunity to speak. i am a parent and a volunteer of three current sfusd students. i'm not sold on either the state taking over or not taking over. i think there's an opportunity for more transparency in the budget. i think at the district level, there's a lot of cloud in some areas. it will be nice if entities like the cpac was present and other groups were involved in the process. i appreciate that regardless of

who's taking over or who's leaving. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. donnie? >> caller: our student members are keeping the children fed. our custodian members are keeping the school clean. we are overworked because of staffing issues and you're talking about cut. we need to invest in more staffing to ease the workload. we need a consultant to come in to see where the district wasting the money. thank you. >> clerk: ms. marshall? >> caller: thank you. good evening, commissioner lopez

and other board commissioners. on behalf of the naacp, what i said last week, i say again with the full board. please do not make your budget cut on the back of our students. please do not make your budget cuts on the back of our schools and low income areas, particularly bayview hunters point. there's no reason for this. i don't know how we got here. there's always warning signs.

[ indiscernible ] >> clerk: kendra? >> caller: i'm here to say, we should vote for the state approved plan and stop the state takeover. our children are dependent on you. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: i want to refer to the slide that next steps and budget development. i think it's slide 8. i don't quite understand how anyone can give a definitive

opinion based upon very broad generic terms. it's like this is important work. if revenue or expenditure projections improve, if okay, then the highest consideration, how do you define the highest consideration? i feel like it's very difficult that i can oppose or go along with things that are little bit broad and obtuse. i understand it's a work in progress. i think we can be little bit more definitive with our terms here. >> clerk: thank you.

tlcbd? >> caller: apologizes. i'm calling as a parent. i want to say thank you to the board for listening those parents last year who felt strongly we should reopen the schools in full for in-person learning. both my daughters are very happy to be back in school. the comment i would like to ask tonight of the board is to please pass the state approved budget. the budget that establishes a foot forward. i can't think of anything -- as we struggle for the past couple of years, been very difficult times for our students and teachers and for our schools.

>> clerk: hello william? [ indiscernible ] >> president lopez: is there a way to cut off the mic so we

don't hear it? >> clerk: i think we're ready to continue now. we have one more commenter. hello, charles? >> caller: yes. my comment will be quick. i wanted to thank the board for unifying for local control. no state takeover please. schools with 50% enrollment should not be funded the same schools 100% enrollment. the union should be concerned about raises in record inflation.

without a pension and health benefit in retirement, teacher will retire in poverty. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: thank you. >> if i might make a couple of quick comments? >> clerk: yes. >> thank you. this is michelle again with the parent advisory council. i wanted to really quickly appreciate folks that called, shared their concerns, their appreciation. i want to appreciate our students and our educators and everyone who is outside on this cold night standing up for what they know is important and right. i do want to acknowledge as others have said tonight, this is not -- no one wants to be in this position. this is not easy. this is going to be hard. we though we have to do this because someone just recently said, state takeover is one thing that can make this

situation worse. i wanted to appreciate miranda martin for their partnership in organizing community events. i heard folks who say they want more involvement. we hear you. we're continuing to plan events throughout the years. i want to appreciate the response by staff. we saw specific things addressed than have come up before. especially, appreciate the collaboration with commissioners and superintendent matthews and staff in figuring out a way forward and what i heard is that we know we need to make a plan, got the details thought out and the c.de wants to see. thank you so much.

>> president lopez: thank you, again for everyone who came out and we are recognizing that our educators are standing outside and joining us in a different way. i like to open it up to public comment from commissioners and our student delegates. >> commissioner lam: thank you. i want to say that i have quite a few remarks. if that's okay. >> i want to thank staff for all their hard work and commissioner alexander for putting forward the core value plan and the public organizing around the core value plan. please don't mistake. i am extremely grateful for the work that has been put in this process over the last couple of months. most of my remarks will draw back to the resolution prioritizing classroom spending

that was passed beginning of this year. this board decided we wanted to prioritize classrooms since the beginning of 2021. we honestly had the time. i believe that we should have been creating the core value plan and developing it since the beginning right when stat resolution passed. we got to last week and it was too late and because of this, we're making cuts to school sites and have no choice but to pass the staff proposed plan tonight. like i said, every day on campus, i hear from adults about the inability to do basic operations because there's no support and no funding. to imagine this problem growing worse than it is today, it's unimaginable. i was in rates. -- in rotc. i see what amazing leaderrings come out of that program. for me it physically hurts to

pass the plan tonight knowing the effects on school sites. i know that a state take over will be more detrimental. i'm supporting a balancing plan while calling on us as a board to figure out how to adjust this plan before the second interim report. we need to minimize how many educators are getting cut and minimize how many will resign. we need to look closely at our central management and not depending on possible incoming state revenues. i hope that moving forward we can prioritize our school sites. to conclude, because we did not take action with the priorities that we set forward, we are making the hard decision tonight. we need to keep this in mind as we move forward. i look forward to further conversation and having said all this, i'm grateful that it seems like we will be taking the first step in balancing the budget

tonight. thank you. >> president lopez: commissioner boggess and they believe commissioner lam. >> commissioner boggess: i have a statement and follow-up question. thank you for figure out naff gait -- navigate the first step. i support all the recommendations that you put forth and using that to help our decision-making. for me, no more your representations did you lift up district property.

reminding people that we're not at that state. the question i have for staff is kind of understanding that we're going to have sites winding down support for students and programs that are geared towards supporting student success. what is going to be in place to support sites in developing kind of plans to manage that type of stuff. is that a question that we get more answered and more detailed in the spring, we would now. is there any intention supporting school sites with the transitions away. understand we're going to do everything we can in the short-term to stabilize but they are moving the core of our budget how do we handle that generally and are we doing that in those sites that are

impacted. >> i would say that some of those specifics, we will be finalizing as we finalize the plan even moving into budget development and second interim. we're definitely thinking about and getting feed back from site leaders about certain changes based on carrying out the plan as it's proposed. i think one of the things i think we really heard from site leaders about the plan and different pieces of it is really having a clear understanding of what these changes mean in terms of how they build their master schedules, how they organize the supports in place. i think that there's going to be more to come. some of it will be specific to each school or how certain allocations are changing for

certain programs. i would say we don't have the exact details in each case right now. that is definitely something that we've gotten feedback from site leaders on and planning to provide guidance and support and backup just to make sure that site leaders feels like everyone has what they need information wide to go through budget development successfully. >> i would add to that. one of the key aspects of sitting down and looking at budget and beginning to figure out what to move here or there is partnership. one of biggest supports that they will have in terms of move forward is thought partnership with the director of cohort as well as -- that thought partnership is going to be key as we move forward into thinking

about how they are allocating resources that are aligned to the mission of their school. >> commissioner boggess: it's really important that we get ahead any gaps that we might experience. lifting up the fact that, we might have a school site that's going to lose some of these programs that are vital to that school community, it might affect their tier status or amount of support those students need and change aspects in ways that we can't 100% foresee but having to have that knowledge so we can have additional supports available to support these transitions. my last comment, i do plan to support the plan that was put forward. for me, this is just the first step and really looking into the spring to see when we'll see the

budget and what the true impact is for the individual site. figuring out if those sites have they need to serve all their students in a way that's expected. if it's not, figuring out how to adjust and make that right. i think this moment really just highlights the fact that we need change our budgets process our structure. how we fund things internally and how we communicate it and the amount of transparency and how we spend. things we need to increase in change and really do that through a collective process where we can really talk about how we're staffing, how we're holding ourselves accountable. i think in lot of ways, from what i seen at our school sites, we need a higher level of staffing at all our school sites to fulfill our mission. we're also being asked to produce our ongoing cost. as we enter the new year, that's going to be what we need to

figure out and to resolve. just really understanding that for me, it's important that the size of our budget is reflective of the quality of our schools and that families can see that we have a billion dollar budget. they feel that every time they walk in the public school system. hopefully there will be more money in the next year and hopefully long-term commitment to support us through the long-term effects of the pandemic. i would say to the public, finally, the final decisions about the budget will be made by the board. we will kind of ultimately be able to figure out how we make sure we do as little harm as possible to school sites and ensure that every student and family and staff are getting what they need to be successful. i'm really excited to engage in

that process as we more information to be transparent and really to make sure everyone understands our process and decision-making. both the hard decision we have to make as well as the decisions that hopeful realize happy about additional revenue that we found from the state or federal government. thank you so much. >> commissioner lam: thank you to the staff for tremendous work. i appreciate the recommendations, not only tonight that we're voting upon and the work that we know is important in january as far as really looking at our administration, centralized office and really how do we minimize those impacts in our school sites.

through the budget and business services committee over the last half year if not more, really about how we're going to tackle what we know as a district that we're facing. we have structural deficit. the struggles that we have as a district financially is not just one year out. it's two years, maybe three or even more. that we have to really take a close look at how we're putting our funding into work and what educational outcomes and experience and well-being for students. i'm very excited about the work moving it forward. it's an opportunity to create more transparency and alignment.

i think out of this process as painful and hard it is, i think this is going to actually make our district even better. to be able to really speak to how are we putting our investments to that educational experience. right now we do have a call to action state. i want to talk about the advocacy with the large urban school districts and the impacts to prop 98. we are also meeting with dr. pam on thursday to talk about additional funding separately

for covid recovery. really, how do we continue to limit the amount of children that are missing out on long-term instructional time or time at school because of extended quarantines because of covid. i wanted to express that the strategies i had also very important. one thing about -- i'll speak to experience directly, when it gets taken over by a state, it is detrimental.

just this week i had the great fortune to be on a townhall discussion with former board president, tear friend and colleague who talked about those implications and what it meant to lose that local governance. 20 years later, oakland unified is also in a very financially vulnerable spot similar to us. that district near and dear to e, born born and raised in east bay, has not recovered after 20 years. we've seen that with community cities, losing 40% of its student enrollment. i appreciate my colleagues taking the difficult choices we

have before us. also really thinking about long-term investments to ensure -- how we're going to take a look at the long-term financial -- to echo commissioner boggess, the work i had in the next two months is really about how will sites be impacted and it's going to like. that's what we heard time and time again through the townhalls with parents and what i've been hearing from so many of our stakeholders.

in closing, i want to express the collaboration and having tough conversation really moving towards a sustainable path for our student and for our students. >> president lopez: commissioner collins. >> vice president collins: i want to say thank you to who helped move our district moving forward. thank you commissioner alexander by incorporated such core values. huge shot out to parents, students and educators and everyone who has been involved in this process. it's heart breaking that the budget, classrooms and sites are getting cut. i as a student delegates that are here, that talk about their

experiences it these wonderful programs, there are some students from schools talking about av aid and resources. most of my peering through my -- this is heart breaking. i believe that it's curable to pass the -- i want to stay this is no easy decision and no doubt

a long -- lastly, i like forward engaging in meaningful conversations to make sure stunt students are prioritized. thank you. >> president lopez: i really appreciate the comment made. i'm also grail for work of staff to prepare information for us and the public. i'm having very grateful for commissioners. i appreciate my colleagues on

the board for our willingness to ask questions and work in collaboration with one another in service to our district. i want to note that while this is a serious issue related to getting our district into solvency. i think there's a dramatic a -- we may not always agree on the best path forward, i think the

ultimate goal -- i have beyonds -- it'simportant for us as a coy to be able to examine different viewpoints and different ideas in order to reach the best solution. as i stated in the meeting last week, i think it is uncomfortable. i i have faith as a board that we'll continue to move forward and make sufficient decisions. one area that left me very sad t

.i think this process has been dacking -- damaging. it feel -- there's been a broken trust with our community and with our educators and families and with our students. when i hear that peace task force members. they oversee money that's collected in addition to the money provided to the state pen when they say there's a lack of transparency, when i hear they are disidentitied -- invited to

gives their -- i have lotto of concerns about the process. if we initially put forward commissioner sanchez and commissioner alexander put forward a resolution i have to wonder how we're going to move forward and. even if we can find additional fund, row -- i'm glad to hear

that staff intends to prioritize it. when staff says that funding will move to sites, that means most programs will die. i think that needs to be very clear for the community that most pier resource program -- additionally when we hear that

there are multilingual programs, i think the public so in the future we can fight to get -- centrally. when they say they are moving it to sites, we also have to understand that we're reducing the money that we're giving to schools. i also know that when we work together as a community and when we advocate, we have achieved great gains. we've achieved higher pay raises for students and i'm glad there's advocacy going on ate

the state. there are hundreds of millions available in grant. i want to make sure they are doing everything and anything to get money where we can to put back programs that we are cutting. i made a request in september grants be placed online so educators can understand how we're doing in terms of potential -- some of them are one time and some are only

available. >> that information has now been posted on the district's website. >> that is very good news. i'm glad to hear that. i'm also hearing from the public when we share information like that, they are willing to help us advocate. they are willing to help us. our community want to support us in this work. we can't leverage the partnership of our students, parents and larger community if we're not working in first.

i'm looking forward to working with commissioner alexander to figure out ways that we can create more transparency for the public. specifically around central office funding and also looking for ways that we can do a better job in advocating for state and federal dollars. thank you very much. >> may i pick up one aspect what you shared? i'm soph at -- on the issue of advocacy and linking our effort, broad graduate soon -- that letter that i referenced earlier that is accessible through that

slide -- >> is it list on board docs? >> it's not a separate attachment. i think we should go ahead and make that more visible on the front page of our website. i will say, it's quite well aligned with discussions and the rules policy legislation committee as well as in the bunnell -- budget and business services committee. it has very important recommendations and requests for how the state starting with the governor, how we would hope that policymakers would allocate the significant growth in prop 98 revenues that seem to be around the corner. it's a little dense. we are really eager to engage our whole community in making

those appeals. >> i appreciate that. as a former english teacher, words have power. write a document like that is important. making that public is really wonderful. i'm happy to work with you to find ways we can communicate to the larger public. ways that they can advocate and support our efforts to the district.

>> i want to thank staff as well for this really hard work that you been engaged in for months now. i want to thank the public for their comments tonight. it's been hard for us. hardest obviously two years all of our lives. working together is super important. commissioner alexander, thank you so much for your excellent work in engaging community and your proposal. i expect that we'll continue this work going forward so make sure that we have a plan going

-- if this budget goes through and pass it as is, what will happen at the sites is going to be a disaster. we're already in a disaster and ongoing tragedy. to be sure, it's not just about pier resources it's about people who work with our kids day in and day out. who provide them love, support, academics. they are already suffering. it is -- we definitely are looking toward a more rosy budget outlook from the state.

if that happens, i'm very glad to hear from deputy superintendent that the sites will be prioritized that the programs we talked about will be prioritized. we can move forward and not have as many cuts to our -- sites. i want to thank the educators. they are the ones doing the work day in and day out with our students. they deserve our support time. i value everybody who works in our district. i value everybody who works at our central office. it's not about the people. it's about what we have to provide at the site level. we have to make hard decisions

moving forward. some of those decisions are going to be how we can reduce our -- i don't want people to lose their jobs. we can't continue to make decisions that means sites get their budgets cut. [please stand by]

>> thank you for walking us through this and to expert elliot. it is a continued fight moving into the next couple of months. i was at school today and working with a kid. it is true. we do need staff on the ground. the kids do need us on the ground. so as we build out, we have to continue to keep that in mind and work towards a budget that is reasonable for us to operate at a school district and be able to meet the needs of the kids in the schools. together with our staff i'm committed to working with our colleagues and student delegates to make sure we get this. i appreciate everyone for supporting us.

for me, the best thing is communication. we constantly need to be communicating all the time. over communication, maybe not over. healthy communication back and forth is the best thing for us to be productive. think you, all. -- thank you, all. >> i would like to make some comments to build on what i have been hearing tonight. over the last couple of months, and i really trying to hold it because this is very infuriating to think of this idea that we are basically cornered into accepting a proposal that deeply impacts school sites and we keep saying, but we don't want students to suffer. we don't want students to think

they are impacted. i think 10% will be impacted. i think they are fighting out on the streets to protect their worth to stay motivated, to continue to show up every day for our students. and we are essentially saying that we got to this point because of the process we have engaged in, and we are trusting that that will continue in the next coming months. i honestly don't see it. i don't see how there is a semblance of hope that, given how we got to the situation, we expect our district to continue to process that maybe if we get

the revenue we need to, we can save our programs and get the educators we need. my first question to our staff and, i'm sure we have been asking this, i just want to very clear and direct answers, given that we keep hearing and excuse about it late in the game to support our schools over central office, how did we get to a point where, in may, we passed a resolution that is titled, classroom instructional spending and other school based spending as a priority in light of upcoming deficits. how is may 11th, 2021 not enough time to bring in a budget that prioritizes classrooms? >> okay. >> go ahead.

>> and marie, i would like -- the deputy superintendent was about to speak. let him speak and then you can add on anything that you were going to cover. >> thank you. >> i was going to suggest maybe we team up on this response. it is a broad question, president lopez. it is an appropriate question and we heard that expressed by our student delegates as well. one thing i would say is that, and we have had conversations with commissioner alexander to this point as well, i will say that for the team's part, we did not, and have not viewed this is the worst that we have been

engaged with. and in conflict with the spending resolution that was passed in may. we can see that there have been different perspectives about that, and in terms of -- i don't want to speak for anybody, but how somebody might look at where we are, this doesn't seem to align with what we might have expected there are many ways, perhaps the director can speak to some of these, where we have implemented or attempted to to make a good faith effort to implement multiple provisions of the resolution. and as chief wallace said, we got the particular directive to develop a plan on this timeline in september. it wasn't clear to us until

fairly recently that this particular mid-december deadline was in effect. we certainly were planning to confront this large structural deficit in preparing for the next fiscal year. it is not that we had the understanding from back in may or prior to september, frankly, that we had to deliver this particular type of plan on this timetable. do you want to add anything to that. >> i just want to point out, with the resolution it speaks to coming to bringing us an update in september of this year. may be it fell along the same timeline where we had to submit something mid-december, but if we were to have gone through

this path, we would have had a proposal. we would have had information provided to the school board in september of this year to at least enter those discussions with the priority of classrooms. >> my recollection is in one of the presentations that we did make, that staff did make, i believe in the october committee of the whole, it was the first tuesday in october, so we were a few days late on the september 30th deadline that is referenced in the resolution. we did address that particular part of the resolution that called for a progress report or a timetable on implementing the provisions of the resolution. that was incorporated into a

presentation that was made on october 4th. i might not -- i might have that date mixed up. it was not its own separate presentation, but our progress on implementing that clause of the resolution was incorporated into that in october. >> okay. i appreciate that. i know sometimes we don't stick to those timelines, but my main concern is how we got to a staff proposal that was focusing on cutting these really crucial programs that have provided crucial experiences for students, versus the least amount, which is being cut to our administrative budget. how did that conclusion come to be?

>> may be i will just observe that and, chief wallace, please correct me if i got any of these dates wrong, but we have been sharing our thinking for a couple of months as the plan has taken shape. i believe we shared in three different meetings through the course of three different meetings that we shared the proposal that is basically in front of you today. this was back in early november. we have tried to be explicit and concrete about the elements of the proposal, so if i understand your question, president lopez, you are asking, how did we get

here? part of my response is we have been showing our thinking in chunks for the last couple of months. >> you are correct. i also know this is not the first time you were hearing this argument from the board. even within each time that we've listen to the budget, i not understanding why we continue to prose -- propose something that prioritizes staff positions that aren't higher up than the ones who are on the ground. i seeing commissioner collins and commissioner alexander want to comment. >> i want to say that i want to, you know, validate your statement, president lopez. when i was budget chair, that was a recurring conversation that we had. i believe that commissioner sanchez and others introduced a resolution at that time which talked about zero-based

budgeting. i was excited to think that that would have happened in 2019. we were starting that conversation of, how do we decide what are the necessary things for a school? and i have consistently asked that. i think, to some degree as a board, we have to answer that question. and what is upsetting to me, honestly, is that we haven't moved past asking the question, and we are still allowing our definition of what is the minimum requirement at a school. i don't think it is what a school needs to be fully functional and support students. i think we need nurses and social workers and art teachers and r.s.p. and eric -- and educators and we have never had that discussion. we have continued to just put it off and say, well, we will let the school figure it out, and we had discussions when i was on

the budget committee as a chair. what that means is, do i want to cut off my arm or do i want to cut off my leg? that is a choice, but it is not actually functional. that is what we're doing right now. i do appreciate president lopez for naming that and commissioner sanchez for naming that. this current budget does not support students and it will not encourage educators to continue to commit to working in conditions that are unworkable. thank you for raising that question. >> president lopez, i think it is a really important question. i have had conversations privately with staff about this question. i'm since you raised it in public, i would like to comment on it a little bit and give my thoughts on it. there have been times over the whole period where i have been

really, frankly, angry and frustrated, and wanting to almost find somebody to blame. i was having similar thoughts. we passed a solution in may that was unanimous and it was really clear. i went back and read it and it talks about our core values. it talks about comparing to similar districts that have allocated more resources to school like long beach. someone people told me, you brought this proposal for the last minute, i thought wait a minute, i think we actually passed this back in may. i have had that very similar feeling. so i have been asking that question myself and trying to get a good dialogue on staff with it. i think our staff are incredibly dedicated. i think they are working in good faith. they have done pieces of it.

it's not like the whole resolution hasn't been implemented, but there are key pieces that haven't happened. and one is one that the staff initiated which was zero-based budgeting. that has been really interesting. when i came on the board, we knew we had a deficit. we knew we had a deficit in january. staff were engaged in a process around zero-based budgeting that was intended to inform the 21-22 school year. then if you will recall in the budget committee, we talked about it in great detail. we made a decision at the recommendation of staff, which i think was the right decision to postpone the process because it was really hard. we allocated those american rescue plan funds to kind of hold budget and we said, you know what, let's pause on your budget cutting and give us until december, which is where we are now, to engage in zero-based budgeting.

our teams have made their best effort at that, but the truth is, we haven't done it. i don't think this is -- even with the staff plan, zero-based budgeting is starting from zero, which means you have to analyse every single position. it would be at a school as well. that includes, why do we have classrooms with eight or 10 kids? it also means, why do we have three different places in the central office that coach principles? and those are structural problems within our district that the current systems don't offer any way of addressing. i almost wonder, and this is really wondering whether a large organizational bureaucracy can reinvent itself? i think there may be a need for

outside help in doing this because it is really hard to ask a division chief to cut their own people. it is really hard to ask, when you have an organization with 12 division chiefs, which is grown over the years, that was not a deliberate decision to go from three division chiefs to 12. that happened over a course of years. they said this is an important job, this person is good, let's promote them. now it has gotten to where it is. and to ask those people to then coordinate amongst themselves, figure out whether there is duplications of services, cut their own departments, that is a big task that, my conclusion is, it is not because, and again, i think you all can speak to this, i don't think it's because they didn't want to do it or didn't work hard at it. i think we collectively maybe in need to get some independent

help to do a detailed analysis. so my hope would be -- i mean, part of what we talked about is bringing in folks who are more independent, who can really look. we can't do this all in january, but in january we could say, let's identify another set of possible cuts, of duplication, of high paid positions that may be uncommon. we could do a piece of that work in january and come back to the board. i think the longer restructure the conversation will take longer than that. may be we will need to engage in an outside firm or someone who can really look at what has happened. this is not a decision that was made. a lot of this happened before dr. matthews got here. commissioner sanchez and i have been nursing old organizational charts and talking about what it was like in 2006, 2009, 2010. there is a historical forensic

process that we need to go through to unpack how this happens, but really ask the questions, are these positions necessary or important, you know, and often it is a position that is highly paid. sophia one person working as an executive director, that may fund two teachers, three or four paraprofessionals. those are real trade-offs in our district, and i think that some of that will be a longer process. some of that we won't be able to do. what i'm excited about in this moment is i think that it feels like there is, for the first time a commitment to do that work, so that is what gives me hope. i don't know. i don't know if i'm answering, but that is my analysis. i don't think it is because they didn't want to do it or didn't try to do it, but i do think on

an organizational level it is challenging work. especially as we head into the pandemic. we have been trying to reopen schools. i do think, i'm not trying to make excuses, but it is work we have to do. there's a lot of reasons why it hasn't happened. i don't know if i answered your question. >> i would like to respond. and if you wanted to touch on that, i don't disagree that this is a longer process. what is true is the people we need to engage our our teachers. if you want to talk about any of the effectiveness of our programs, whether they are impacting students were not, how well or not well they are working and supporting them, they are the ones. when we talk about disengaged -- this engagement process, i would love to see educators engage directly on the ground and every single one of the school buildings. i get we didn't have enough time because the timeline that we have now, my hope would have been to send a message with what

we are voting on tonight that we are choosing our educators, and knowing in the coming months there will be revisions, there might be more funding, there is more money we can work with. at least we can say we are working with you. the people who are with our children right now. no one sitting here tonight, except for commissioner sanchez, will be in the classroom tomorrow. after having a discussion about who we want to choose and who we value the most and the message we are sending, and again, i know we are all struggling with a process and i understand that, but we have to keep bringing it to the people who are there. many people have so many ideas. i knew this as an educator when i was teaching. i always heard of how we need to do this work from people who have never gone through this and who don't understand the educational systems and who have committed all this work, paid all this money to be a teacher and we are having this conversation, we are hearing

them, and it is really frustrating to get to this point, to continue to be pushed and pushed. i don't know what we will do when we reach the point where people are going to choose themselves over this work because of the messages we keep sending. >> can i just say, i agree with what you are saying. this is what i have been so frustrated with because i think even symbolically, when we have a plan that preserves 75 executive directors and 12 chiefs. i love them, this is not about any chief. we can cut 50 minutes from school, no problem. we can't cut a single chief? that, to me, sends a strong and disturbing message. i totally agree with you, president lopez.

>> i haven't had access to the zoom. i apologies. >> go ahead and speak. >> he is not muted, so i'm not sure. he may have to log off and log back on. >> hold on. there we go. thank you. >> thank you. can you hear me?

>> go ahead. >> thank you. i want to raise two points about the recommendations. i have focused on the initial ones and secondly, the words were chosen very, very carefully. so i will draw your attention to number 2. and that was staffing at all levels with student enrolment. all levels means all levels. one of the foundational reasons, the problem you are dealing with is you have declining enrolment. and when you have declining enrolment, we see staff -- it doesn't necessarily mean reducing services. if you have 400 kids and you lose 100 of them, you don't need as many teachers. that may happen to attrition.

the underlying statement of that is there is still work to be done. secondly, if you look at our midterm recommendations, which i did not go through, is it was to analyse district office staffing and assign staff the task of coming up with any additional recommendation or reassignment to schools. your work is not done. while this may have struck -- snuck up on you, the problem you have tonight is a realignment. i will also say that in my role as representing the state, you are in a very critical period and you need to be cautious about not realignment, but restructure. we will bringing on a superintendent at the end of the here. i think it is important for the

long-term process. so long as you get through the short-term. i don't know that it will be as painful as what you have heard from a lot of the speakers, there has been some attrition, there will be some realigning in terms of moving people from one site to another, and i recognize that nobody wants to change school sights. that may be necessary. i cannot promise you more money. i know everyone is working hard, but the task before you tonight is to approve a concept. two things, that you will make the necessary staff cuts and that you will realign staff at all levels and they will all meet the needs of the number of students that you have. keep in mind, you went from 57,000 to 50,000. that is a 14% loss of students. there's a lot of districts.

that is significant. so the work at hand, and i know it is easy to point fingers, i think it is a little bit more difficult to just move forward and take care of it, but that is the reason the state has stepped in. not because they want to take over. the state wants the problem fixed and to be able to say that san francisco took care of it. we are here to help in any way we can. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. unless there are any other comments from commissioners or student delegates, we can put this up for a vote. i just need guidance on how to proceed. >> that was an important conversation. and on a more helpful note, i

want to remind everyone we do have a path forward and i think these things have been acknowledged. i think, like i said, this work is really hard and i think, to expect, you know, i think it is expecting a lot and we have a path forward. i would, if it is okay with my colleagues, withdrawal my proposal with the understanding that we will proceed with, and come back in early february with a deeper analysis that would inform our path moving forward that is based around that proposal. not withdrawing -- i withdrawing it formally, but not withdrawing the concept. it will be analysed more deeply in january and to come back in late january, early february. >> the process has already started as we started scheduled meetings to do just that.

>> president lopez, just to help out our clerk, could we get a motion and a second to approve the fiscal year 20 -- 2022, 2023, 2024 budgeting plan? , both the proposals were moved and seconded. the vote should be clear which one you are voting on. >> that is correct. that is what i wanted guidance on. it sounds like commissioner alexander is moving. does he need to make a motion? >> the board does not need to approve. you just need to not move and second and vote on that. >> we moved both of them. can we just move and second? >> that's what i recommend. >> i will move the staff proposal. >> i will second that.

>> i will reread it to add clarity. we are voting on item one, fiscal year 2022-2023, 2023 -- 2024. roll call vote. [ roll call ] >> all right. we have done item two. moving on to item three.

i need a motion and a second. >> second. >> presenting this item will be our chief financial officer. >> thank you so much. for this item, i will be very brief and say with the adoption of the fiscal year 2022, 2023 and 2024 budget balance under item one, we request approval for the first interim report. with a positive certification for submission to the california state superintendent of public construction by tomorrow's deadline. and this is a reminder that this

was from the december 7th special meeting for the committee of the whole. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> before we do that, i would like to open it for public comment and remind us to turn this off -- turn off our phones. >> please raise your hand for the first interim report. please repeat it in spanish and chinese. span-mac -- [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> i'm seeing forehands.

>> brandy? hello, brandy? brandy, did you care to speak. >> sorry. no problem. >> hello, marie? are you there? hello, chris? >> hello. can you hear me? >> i can. thank you. >> i a special education teacher. while i disappointed that there are considerations about these cuts to sites, i hopeful the

conversation will be continuing and the information in the interim report will be accurate and presented clearly to the members of the public and that people will be given actual opportunity to provide feedback that is listens to. it hurts me when i hear that people didn't know that people wanted things when i myself have commented, hey,, i need more clarity on this. and when i have heard others comment that. i would like to thank you all for the work you have done on this so far and encourage you to continue making this work and avoid making harmful cuts to school sites, wherever humanly possible. >> thank you.

hello, terra? >> yes. i want to say that, you know, we go from 57,002 enrolled and that is a decline in enrolment. that is true. i feel like we have pointed to the easy away -- the easy way out. we get about 20 kids per class and so let's decide -- divide that by 350 teachers. so you have 20 kids per class. i don't think that is the best way to go about things. one of the main things why people don't want to choose or that are privileged enough to not choose public schools is the teacher to student ratio. if you want to make students come to your district, how about maybe only having 15 kids per

class. maybe that should be the cut off, instead of saying, well, social -- so long as we are at the cut off of 20 kids per class. it is the first thing to go. >> think you. >> hello, gregory? >> thank you. i do think that, you know, the district is very top-heavy, all the chiefs and executives and that cuts do need to be made. i think it is pretty much impossible for a bureaucracy to make cuts within itself. i think the board should continue getting outside help to make those kind of cuts. at the same time when there are 7,000 fewer students, do not think it is realistic to not cut school staff.

i don't see numerically how that will ever end up with a balanced budget. i ask that the staff budget continue to make cuts from the executive positions where possible. thank you. >> thank you. collar with a 379 phone number? >> yes, hello. do you hear me? >> yes. >> i a teacher with san francisco unified. i taught for the district for about 23 years and all teaching positions at various levels. so in that time what i have seen is that there has been cuts. he used to be home at, used to be shop now there is no shop, the used to be. resources and now there is no peer resources. it is less fun. and then the flip side, like you

could talk about is the admin were teachers on special assignments. the earth, all that, it has increased. i really hope in your january and february meetings you look at the achievement gap. it has been talked about. it has been exactly a thing. what we are doing is wrong. my opinion could be more helpful, but i think you need to start looking at getting more people with credentials in these buildings and really honing in on the work at each individual school. the schools are so different. i go to totally different schools and they are night and day. thank you. president lopez, that concludes public comment. >> thank you. any questions or comments from student delegates or commissioners?

seeing then, let's do a roll call vote. [ roll call ] >> item four, annual and five-year report relating to the collection and expenditure of developer fees. i need a motion and a second on special order five. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. i would like to call on the chief to present this item.

>> thank you. good evening. this will be a very brief presentation. tonight i'm here to present an annual report that is required by state law that allows us to collect developer impact fees. our recommendation is the board review and adopt the attached developer impact fee annual and five-year report for the fiscal year ending june 30th, 2021. as you maybe aware, the district is the beneficiary of a san francisco citywide developer impact fee for schools. we use this money overwhelmingly for capital expenditures. it is limited in that day and it can be used by very few salary expenses, and overwhelmingly it goes through the facility's design construction team to deliver expansions of sites and expansions of capacity, which is also limited is asian of the funding force -- we collected

six-point for million dollars in 2021. we expended about $6.2 million. we do use these funds and will continue to rely on them, particularly as we contemplate expansions and changes to sights in response to future demographics. i happy to take any questions. >> great. let's check for public comment before you do. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to the collection of expenditure fees. can that be repeated in chinese and spanish, please? [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> thank you there is one. chris?

>> hello. i switched to a different system. can you hear me? >> yes. wonderful. >> i wanted to ask if these funds can be used to improve school sites as we expand programs and want to offer better services to students, for example,, at school sights where there are broken windows that are almost impossible to close when it is rainy and windy, which is what i was teaching through yesterday or giving finals through yesterday. can that be used to -- can these funds be used to fix some of these things? thanks. >> thank you. that concludes public comment. >> thank you for that. any questions or comments? >> thank you. >> page 10, table four, it illustrates all these projects.

one is i happy to see, cleveland. i think they are building there and tearing out the bungalows and actually building classrooms. how do we prioritize which projects get funded through these developers? >> i think a lot of these projects are projects that have been in the pipeline and we do have a fund balance that has accumulated because, again, it is restriction of the constrained funding. we can't use these funds for deferred maintenance. we need to use them to expand facilities in response to, you know, student population growth. there are funds here that have -- i will have to go back and get the precise amount on the existing fund balance that can be programmed, but traditionally

this has been, again, in response to sight requests and when we find a project that matches the eligibility of the funds, we do try to do it and move forward. we are moving slowly through the project. the answer there is we have not come forward with a request in a

while to prioritize the funds, but it is something, particularly as we think about southeast facility planning, that i would like to contemplate how to use these files -- how to use these. >> can you remind us what the balance is here right now. >> there is a fund balance of $35.5 million and some of that balance, and i'm sorry, i don't have that number, have been allocated to projects, but not spent. i have said a considerable portion of that is unallocated. you can see in the reports that there is a whole pipeline list of potential projects and so that is the universe of projects that have been contemplated, but we have not, you know, precisely budgeted and scheduled those projects yet. >> when we were having the temp discussion around facility needs, could this be used for that? >> probably not unless we were expanding the footprint of the building to accommodate an even larger student population. >> okay. >> thanks. one question i had related to this is how does the developer fees fit into the broader capital planning that you are thinking of rolling out? i think now that we have come back to in person learning, we

are really carrying this out for 2022 and i'm thinking about how we look at the whole portfolio of assets, land assets including schools and all the modernization that needs to occur along with the funding that comes with the facilities. >> that is a great question. i would be happy to discuss this in more detail at a future building and grounds committee, i think the headline answer is there are a couple of core funding sources, all of which we will discuss in our upcoming capital plan, including general obligation bond, including the life safety tax, and including these developer impact fees. i think one of the things that we need to plan for strategically is that notwithstanding the current contraction of the student population, overall we are still looking at a dramatic growth in

the city, particularly in the eastern side of the city over the next 15 to 20 years. we have to continue to think about this, especially if there are significant changes to the student assignment policy on how to align our building footprint and the populations that we can serve on the eastern side of the city with that projected growth. i look forward to having that conversation with the board as part of our capital planning process. >> great. thank you. >> all right. if there are no other comments, we will do a roll call vote on the motion. [ roll call ]

>> item five, we are still under section h. memorandum of understanding between united educators of san francisco and san francisco unified school district regarding the online learning program, the on-demand learning program and the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, this -- i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> presenting this item will be our acting chief of labor relations. >> good evening, dr. matthews and commissioners. the recommended action tonight is to approve the memorandum of

understanding between the united educators of san francisco and sfusd regarding the online learning programs, the on-demand learning programs, and the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. >> thank you. let's check for public comment. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to the m.o.u. with the united educators. can that be repeated in spanish and chinese, please? [speaking foreign language] >> any questions or comments on this item?

[ roll call ] >> item six, san francisco county office of education, san francisco county plan for expelled and at risk youth, fiscal year 21 through 24. this is item 2112. i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second.

>> the staff presenting this item will be our chief of student services. >> thank you, dr. matthews. i will defer to the superintendent on this one, but i can give a quick introduction on the plan. this is a triannual plan. we have to have a plan every three years on the services provided to students who are at county schools and programs. and the assistant superintendent can talk more about the details of the plan. >> okay. thank you so much. just to go over, there are three particular schools that will carry out this plan. that is civic centre secondary school and the centre for academic -- it is located within the ymca of buchanan and

bayview. and then we have youth chance high school. those are all of the programs that we use to serve students located within the juvenile probation department. i more than happy to have -- answer any questions. those are the three primary programs that we utilized to serve students. i'm sorry my video was off. i just realized the video was off. >> no worries. are there any questions or comments? sorry, let's do public comment before we do that. >> please raise your hands if you care to speak to the plan for at risk youth. can that be repeated in spanish and chinese, please? [speaking foreign language]

>> thank you. i seeing two hands. >> yes, i a parent and i just discovered this for the first time. i wanted to say that i grew up in a small city. programs like this didn't exist when i grew up, so i just want to take a moment -- this is a moment where sfusd, from my perspective, they are doing something really good. having said that, i hoping that we can continue to prevent this so we are not expelling students who don't need to be expelled. i just wanted to take a moment where i grew up. they were lost and there was no

additional opportunity for education. thank you. we are doing it. >> thank you. >> hello. thank you for this plan and i must say, i knew to this. and my first pass at reading the plan, i see it for a lot of behavioral support. i see a lot of mention for behavior. and unless i missed it, i don't see any mention of academics. what we find it very often and what we are finding is that a lot of our students who are suspended, we are finding a lot of students are over identified or fully missed. we are finding, that we see all the time, very often, students who have externalizing behaviours, those behaviours are coming from academic

frustration. what are we doing to address the underlying academic challenges that students are facing, or as much as these behaviours? thank you. >> thank you. that concludes public comment. >> now are there questions? >> would you like to speak first? >> i just wanted to say that when i go to public commenters, i glad that we have options for students that are expelled. but i wanted to ask that we get some detail as to how students are doing in terms of academics, but also in terms of behavior and social and emotional health. i just putting this in as a request for later on, but i would love to see those, as we do, at the beginning of the year.

thanks. >> on my end, the hyperlinks aren't working. when you click on or try to click on the school resolution, it doesn't go anywhere. i don't know if that is supposed to or not. [ indiscernible ] >> it might have been in the conversion to pdf. we will convert that. >> you white -- you might want to connect the amount of students. it says we have approximately 53,000 students. this was a number of times in the document. >> thank you. >> any other questions or comments on this item? okay, let's do a roll call vote. [ roll call ]

item seven, and this is a few sections away, but we will be hearing on a report from every one of our committees. heads up to all of our chairs. item seven, under section h., resolution finding that as a result of the state of emergency declared by california governor gavin newsom on march 4th, 2020, it is necessary to

continue to conduct virtual meetings to avoid imminent risk to the health and safety of attendees. just to clarify, we are voting on this once again because we have to do it every 30 days, correct? i need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> i would like to call on the general counsel. >> president lopez, the board and the public has seen this item many times. it probably doesn't need a lot of explanation. the one thing i would add is i did get questions why we did this -- why we're doing this again. it is necessary to look forward. in order to have virtual meetings for the next 30 days, we need to have enacted a resolution. does because of the meeting schedule, it is necessary to bring this back to you. >> thank you. [please standby for captioner switch]

>> i want to also reaffirm the rapport earlier this evening. what we've continued to say each time this comes up and what you're hearing from others that being able to participate virtually is really a game changer for families of all sizes and shapes as many of our grandparents are raising our

kids. it keeps a safer and also improves our ability to be abl to participate for our parent leaders . thank you somuch . >> president: thank you. chris? >> caller: chris strauss again. just saying my support the idea of continuing a virtual aspect to meetings but am very much looking forward to being back in person at board meetings and continuing advocacy with you all physically in the room. i just think it's a lot easier to do it in the room when you are able to see the microphone and see the timer that's onthe wall and see the people that you are talking to and have you all see the people you are. from . i think that would increase the advocacy that people feel capable of and it would increase their confidence that they are heard and that their

comments are appreciated. i'd like to point out that i want a virtual version of our meetings at washington high school while the faculty meeting is happening in person for those members who have concerns about covid so iknow it's possible to run a hybrid meeting and if you need help i'm more than happy to help you figure that out . >> clerk: hello, tara. >> caller: i agree with continuing to run our virtual meetings and as the previous speaker said we can do hybrid easy . we have excellenttechnology to do all these things . you have everyone connected. i know we have to do this every day, to say do we want to keep doing this but maybe as a district we can just an act this to say this is how we will do itfrom now on . even if we have to say every 30

days just you know, to be in line with the requirements just as a district that we know forever we're going to do virtual and we're going to do inperson . i think hybrid is the way to go and we should past something says. >> thank you. leslie? >> my name is leslie, secretary of usf and i would like to advocate for both having ... >> president: go ahead. >> you can hear me now? you. i'd like to advocate to continue having an online version. we've always had some tv version where you can view or zoom, whichever but i also

think it's important to have our leaders have a closer relationship with the constituents theyserve and that includes students , families and educators and thecommunity . and it helps bring that relationship closer together in order for us to move forward together and collaborate. >> thank you, paulina. >> this is paulina they are. i wantedto say i support the virtual meeting . i am open to hybrid maybe going forward but for this 30 day window i think weshould stay virtual . not even necessarily because of covid but the time these meetings go up to his hard to plan around if you go in perso . and i think that virtual aspect allows people like myself to be ableto get on from thecomfort

of our homes . that's how i would be able to join . >> president: thankyou and that includes public comment . >> thank you, any questions or comments from our delegates or commissioners? i see commissionersanchez and commissioner center . >> i'm just hoping the staff, but there's hybrid where the districts, how they're doing it because i would rather have hybridthan just one or the other . and how can weemulate them if we do get it at all ? do you know of any other districts, superintendent matthews ? >> i know that you in the east bay that i talked to are still, one isvirtual . and in the south bay there

actually back but it's not hybrid. so no one isdoing hybrid . i'm not saying wecan't, i'm just saying none of them are doing it . but i think part of it is we think the issues that in closed session of a microphoneopen , all of those things have been capability to be a problem. >> i've raised this issue the last few times and i'm getting increasingly concerned especially now that we have public comments. union leadership just now we have public comments from parents and others who want to be able to be here in person and i guess i'm concerned. my understanding of state law

is that we can, like, we have to be related to covid. i'm reading the result that says because of the current limitations, meeting in person will continue to cause imminent risk to the health and safety of attendees at public meetings of the board and i don't see how allowing at least some people in this room would cause imminent risk to health and safety. so in my view i think i'm not even sure we are following the requirements of state law prohibiting people from being here so i'm curious if we have a thought on that . and aside from that i guess sorry. i hear what the public is saying. they want that access at home but the state law says we actually have to meet in person unless there's an imminent risk and providing access is something we do voluntarily. am i missing that?

>> in response to your question of whether we are in compliance, the reason we know we have limited resources is because of the pandemic so if we had unlimited resources we could probably fashion a way to have in person and remote meetings and if the board directs us to do that we will direct resources to that effort but currently because we have resources going in many other directions including keeping schools safe, that has been the impediment to bringing back in person meetings. >> president: any other questions orcomments ? >> for the parents, i know we have more participation from families, especially families

with multiple children because we have the ability to participate online . at the sametime, i feel like we've lost a lot . i think you'venever served on board where there was an actual audience . that's kind of crazy . so there's times it feels more unsafe in this climate andat the same time , people are here in person and their participating in person and thatdoes change the dynamic , beingable to see people face-to-face . i guess what i'm getting frustrated in his not knowing when this is going toend . and i think with new variants, we are consistently going to have to deal with covid. i want to start bringing people back in a way that is safe and i want to know when staff would be able to share with us what our optionsare because we keep kicking the can down the road . we had a major change to the

budget so that priority on our agenda i wonder if that's something we could prioritize, having a conversation about how we can move towards a hybrid model. >> we could definitely put that on the agenda for january and bring it up to the board.>> president: asked everyone let's do a roll call vote on this item . [roll call vote] all right, before we move on to section i'd like to excuse our student delegates. thank you for all your work and actually we're on our winter

break. [inaudible] >> we have a few more items. section i, introduction of proposals and assignments of committee . item 1. public and for comment on proposals being introduced for first reading at board policy 50 23, translation and interpretation. can we see if there are any public speakers for a policy whichwe will limit to 10 minutes . >> please raiseyour hand to the board policy on translation . thatwill be repeated in chinese

. >>. [ speaking spanish] >> on behalf of the community advisory committee for special education i'd like to respectfully request that iep documents be added to this policy. as you all know,ied is going to take up to a month to translate . if a family has gone through the meeting and is waiting to sign their documentation without a physical copy that they can review then we are delaying assigned services and support to these families.

that is definitely inequitable so having some guidelines in here for best practices with a much shorter timeline or distribution of documents is something that thebac is respectfully requested . thank you. >> michelle, go ahead. >> michelle here with the pack and i just wanted to lift up what you heard from the pack report earlier this evening that we support this policy in order to serve families that participate in their children's education and engage in district meetings and decision-making processes. that being said i want to elevate alida fisher's comments about the need to be able to do this in a timely manner so that we are adequatelyproperly supportingour student families in education . thank you . >> caller: i'm calling as a

special education teacher who deals with these ied's. it is so frustrating to me as a case manager to sit there and say you know family, i'm sorry. i'mstill waiting . and not be able to give them what they need to actually provide consent to get necessary changes to iep consented toand get services to students who need them. i'm also concerned with all the talk about budget cuts . i want to make sure we're not thinking of cutting interpretation and translation services because i can only imagine that slowing the process down evenmore and it's already slower than it should be . so does while you're talking about this , keep that in mind. >> clerk: thank you. geraldine . >> caller: my nameis geraldine

anderson and i'm in support of this policy . i've been in several meetings with miss robinson who deals with the iep's and a lot of latinx parents and it's true that we do need this policy just for diversity, equity and inclusivity especially for those who do not speak the english language. you need to member what your website states that you will be inclusiveof all languages . thank you. >> clerk: hello, tom. >> caller: i'm a special ed teacher. i've wanted iep's with interpretation and the interpreters that come, the people that have to do the writing , there's a lot on their plate so i don't want to put anything inthis . on the form use of it to have

interpreted i just think for myself sometimes it comes back quicker but you save the date that the you want, i'm not saying that happens throughout the district . i'm just saying that i know everyone's working hard so i don't want to assume the worst and i also think it's a parent and iep agrees to it the site can figure out how to put those places in the that doesn't have to be the end all be all. >> clerk: that concludes publi comment . >>president: thank you . and given that this is our first reading i will be referring this to the fall policy andlegislation committee unless i hear otherwise . >> clarifying question. >> i was wondering if there could be i guess a fiscal

analysis of what we're already spending on and if there's any changes or increases in spending that we're protecting moving forward based offthe need . >> that analysis exists, i'm glad you asked. i don't know if staff once to it at the rules committee this month, we presented a detailed and comprehensive analysis with cost and projections and so maybe that could be shared. i mean, it's on board docs and we could email it to all commissioners. this item had been introduced by this idea was talk about the last committee meeting and it will becontinued at the next meeting as well . >> the only thing i would add

to that is if we do make changes as we heard some speakers suggest tonight it would have budget implications. then we could refer some rules back to budget so it could be read there. >> i definitely will look at the docs from the last meeting to get that information and i want to make sure we have information about how much this we're getting for those dollars so not just the numbers but how much of that is having us reach our total goal or it is enough for its short and inwhich way . >> as director how mentioned there were ideas from adding services which would definitely cost more. that's in addition to the point you're raising. all those things hopefully we can take it, i think it should go to budgetas well as rules . >> i want to ask questions about the process because ihad

some concerns .we talked about we can put all these things in the list if parents don't know those are their rights things that are currently in our policy parents don't even know exist so i had questions about how we were assessing the to determine how to budget for things and how we are communicating and how we are kind of holding ourselves accountable for providing what we're putting inour policies . so what's the process? it sounds like commissioner boggess had things he might want to add what the process for having that conversation? i know this is the place to do it but i want to know where that is because this is such an important issue in ourdistrict when it comes to families being in fall and feeling supported . >> there are acouple of choices commissioners . if we think that this is going to require substantial or more

and let me put it that way substantial involvement and comments from commissioners that we could refer instead of tools and budget or we could of course comes rules and/or budget and makethose suggestions, comments and ask questions . >> i would propose this is such an important issue in our district and because if i make a recommendation and it has budget implications it's like it could keep going back and forth that it might make more sense to put it in a cow but i'll leave that up to other colleagues to see what their ideas are. >> any other comments? >> we just need your guidance as to where to refer this. >> we want to make that decision right now. >> i might support the idea because i do think it is cost-cutting and i think actually what staff put together for rules last time would be worth resenting to the

full board andactually maybe adding some analysis from some of these other questions in the options . i think that might make sense to do that in my opinion. >> that's referred to committe . all right. section j, board members report item 1 report from recent committee meetings will begin as mentioned we will be hearing from all the committees. we will begin with the ad hoc committee on student assignment which happened monday, november 15 . commissioner. >> just to provide an update from that committee, we share updates from staff kind of on the progress as well as the comments from the public. and really i think trying to figure out how we can meet more

often as we go into the new year. so that we can really is the work identifying our zone parameters and priorities and in which ways we will have to alter funding and staffing for school sites and ensureeach of those zones are equitable . i would say those are the big highlights we are planning to have two meetings, a meeting in january and a meeting in february of next year so as we get those scheduled we will make sure to post those comments sofalse andparticipate . that's all i've got . >> president: this is followed by the budget and business committee, commissioner lamb you've met twice since then. so feel free to report on both november 17 and december 1. >> no surprise, it was focusing in on a budget balancing plan and having deeper discussions

around the year projections. we also had presentations about our long-term liabilities and surrounding ourbenefits that we provide to our workforce . and really looking at what that analysis looks like long-term and we had some discussions around with proposition g and the positive ruling from the court ruling in favor of proposition g. we had discussion around the potential proposals where we would like to spend that estimated hundred $50 million recognizing what came out of that dialogue that hundred $50 million, the majority of the committee did express that we wanted to go towards one-time funds and acknowledging the

structural deficit that we would be able to rely on a source like top g. >> president: thank you. item 3, report from the ad hoc committee on personnel matters labor relations and affordability . commissioner santos. this happened november 18. >> i haven't chaired a meeting in a while . this committee only meets three times a year. the biggest take away is from thestaff report, a 30 page report . it's really well done reflecting the diminished capacity of californians to achieve robust staff and particularly at that level so throughout the state there's a growing number of retirements and resignations further reducing supply of teachers and others work inour schools . the pipeline problems are exacerbated by teacher testing

policies and inadequate financial for completing programsand future workload and burnout are major concerns . s usd opened this year with 49 classrooms not filled and we had 137 openings most of which are special education. 32 teacher openings. the good news is there are no administrators and the fulfillment rate for substitute for teachers, parents and early educationrange from 35 to 44 percent . in other words substitutes are not showing up and classes often lead to students having to be split up and put in other classrooms or existing staff being put into those classrooms. there's other information in the report around the diversity in our recruitment efforts and

so we have staff in ourschools to look at those . you. >> president: item 4, report from the building groundsand services committee monday, november 22 . >> we met with the grounds commission and there was one item on the agenda that was an updatefrom the mission bay school project . there are several milestones that the school project is walking into and the big ones are the completion of the eir. there is a land transfer we've been working on and in the beginning of the site remediation, this is an item that's going to come back next week on the 20th or for further discussion. mission bay also has several next steps that are going to be things that are colleagues

should come into and i think she needed maybe making around checking in with folks in terms of critical next stepsfor commission bay project . >> president: item 6, we already heard from business services. report from the rules policy andlegislation committee monday, december 6 . >> as i mentioned we spent a lot of time discussing the education andtranslation policy . we have public comment from a number of parents and a great staff report that laid out what we do now and a couple possible changes which were once again we haven't done any budget analysis but there in the end of the powerpoint and those were recommended by parents in response to feedback although we just had an issue that

commissioner collins referred to witches there are things that werealready doing in our policy that may be inconsistent in terms of implementation . so we also thousand long discussion of the meeting and we talked about our state legislative priorities. which you saw the link to the letter that superintendentlever for doing the presentation today . the rules committee we actually adopted a set of priorities which the two main ones are which were also both inlet letter were working on increasing lcs at funding and the special education funding issue and advocating out the state level for that. i think staff has a good again, deputy lee and vega is taking over all the relations and i think they have a great strategy for addressing some of those issues and they maybe

asking commissioners tosupport with that in the coming weeks and months . interms of doing that state-level advocacy . >> last item 7, report from the curriculum and program committeethat happened yesterday . >> we have three items on our agenda, one information action item . the informational item was an update on the success for all latin asked students resolutio . and that presentation is available at board docs and folks want to look at that and we had two action items. one was on the creation of the ct tax and that was moved forward with a positive recommendation from the budget committee. and the other item for action was a literacy resolution which

we continued and will continue at the next curriculum meeting. >> president: section j continued. item 2, board delegates and membership organization . i have see sba and i believe commissioners moliga and lam recently attended .>> we attended csba's annual conference and overall it was pretty exciting because folks hadn't been together for 2 years in person and it was nice to be with colleagues around the state and i think people just really appreciated sharing what we've all been through in the last few years through covid, the pandemic. and some of our colleagues are

experiencing quite different things that we areexperiencing here .but overall, there were workshops and we attended physical oversight and overall just i think it is a very positive space for trading and building, continuing to refresh and continue with learning as board members and hearingabout some of the latest advocacy tracks similar to what deputy superintendent lee and team ar already working on . and looking ahead on sustainable funding . but you know, going back to that we're seeing workforce crisis similar to what we are experiencinghere as well as all loss of student enrollment . it was a consistent challenge that school boards are tackling in all areas of the state.

>> how do i follow that? we had a great time. it was nice being in san diego with other school board members, superintendents and their staff and commissioner lam. i encourage our school board to go next year. it's a good way to kind of meet everyone in the state and see different methods and also the connections. so many good opportunities again, mentor ships and just learning from folks who have beenin the game for 20+ years . but just wonderful people willing to share their experience with us and we were definitely out there talking up our school district and a lot of people are supporting us. lot of love, mother of support throughout the state . we are experiencing similar issues across the state.

85 percent of the schools are going through thesame thing so we're not alone . it was a good time so i hope next year we can all take some time and go up there and enjoy. >> commissioner moliga and i were doing our jobs, so definitely putting it out there to the network knowing that we have on our process and hopefully some interested folks will be reaching out to ho i a. >> president:item 3, all other reports by board members . seeing nine, item4, calendar of committee meetings . announcing what is posted in the agenda. the budget and business services will be meeting

wednesday january 5 2021 at 4 pm. buildings, grounds and services is meeting monday,december 20 . at 5 pm. sorry, but it's andbusiness services will be meeting in 2022 . curriculum and programs monday, january 10 20 3:40 pm. rules policy and legislation monday, january 3,2021 4 pm . >> we decided toactually cancel the january meeting . especially now that we've decided to send the item to a cow because we don't have much legislative update . we will just gowith the february date . >> the next meeting there will be anupdate on the february .

>> the first monday in february. >> ad hoc committee on student assignment to be determined as well as personnel matters , and affordability. >> personnel meeting matters meeting onfebruary 17 . >> last item memorial adjournment. i like to call on doctor matthews for adjournment in memory of sir sherman elementary school educator andrew lehman . >> thank you president boaz. during this meeting in memory of andrew lerman. andrew was a longtime member of the sherman elementary school community . heserved for seven years as a parent educator , a new monitor and after school staff member. he also attended sherman as a student, as did his father and his great uncle.

andrew was tragically killed in a car crash as he waited to cross the street to get to work on november 10. he was much loved by the students at sherman and highly respected by the staff. he was known for his caring and kindhearts , calm and cool demeanor and for making all students feel seen and heard. as an educator hewas dedicated to honing his craft . he invested a lot of time in building meaningful relationships with students , gettingto know them as learners and as people . he was truly a warm commander, workingto maximize their growth and awareness . we appreciate the impact andrew has had on the many lives of students, families and staff at sherman and we share our sympathy with his family at the sherman community. we are grateful to all of our

parent educators who like andrew strive to bring out the best in studentseach and every day . we thank you for your service and dedication. >> thank you very much. section l, closed session. before we go into closed session i call on any speakers to the closed session items listed in the agenda. there will be a total of five minutes . >>please raise your hand if you'd like to speak . any of the items on the closed session agenda cannot be repeated in tiny's and spanish. [speaking spanish] >>. [speaking cantonese]

>> president: irecess the regular >> i resume the regular meetin . section l, reconvene to open session, item 1 . roll on student explosion matters. i moved approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement of one high schoolstudent , matter number 2021 2022 06 from the district for the

remainder of the fallsemester 2021 and the followingspring semester of2022 . can i get a second ? rollcall . [roll call vote] seven aye. >> i moved approval of the expulsion agreement of one high school student matter number 2021 2022 number 07 from the district forthe remainder ofthe fall semester2021 and following spring semester of 2022 . can i get a second . rollcall . [roll call vote]

>> item 2, report from closed session into items of litigation the board voted seven aye's,provided direction to the general counsel . and second end, adjournment. there is no further business s this meeting is adjourned .

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