>> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador.

we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. you never know.

somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash

or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. i used to be like this, you

know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. >> welcome everybody. i am rudy, executive director of the violence prevention organization unite players. born and raised in san francisco. we have pretty much everybody from every walk of life in every sector from the sfpd to the

private sector, community-based organizations. brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall. mothers who have lost kids to gun violence. brady campaign. mazda action. we have the sbip. my two brothers, guy and gary, you all, soldiers for real. attorney general who is in the house. chief of police. we have everybody under one umbrella in solidarity. mayor of san francisco who is going to speak. we should have our senator here. we are all here together in solidarity to end senseless gun violence. there is so much going on right now in the city, region with the gun violence going on. somebody has to have enough courage to stand up to take a stand to let everybody know that we do not accept senseless gun

violence. i am not against the second be amendment. trust me. everybody has a right as human being to protect their family, property, and community. when you run around with guns, especially ghost guns or guns in the people of the wrong hands. we must end that. you have kids who are getting killed. two years old sleeping in the back of a car trying to get home. reporters like you guys out here trying to do your job to bring information, to be promised while gun violence and people are shot and killed to protect even you guys. everybody in between. we are here together to stand against senseless gun violence. i will bring on our attorney general of california, my

brother. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. california attorney general. i am honor to be here with unite players. so many great community leaders doing their part, rolling up their leaves to make the community better. collaboration is how we get things done working together. in united states of america every day on average 316 people are shot. that is every day. among those 106 are killed. a 23-month-old child in the back seat of his mom's car murdered by a stray bullet interstate 80. immigrant father shot in the mission district next to a playground. retired police officer murdered providing security in his retirement across the bay. when is enough going to be enough?

when is the violence going to end? we cannot accept this. folks are taking a stand. we are in a full on crisis when it comes to gun violence in america. we have a serious problem in the nation that is unique in the whole world only to us. it is taking all of the above approach to cure this sick disease. i want to thank rudy, united players for hosted the gun buy back and many partners in the fight today including mayor breed and senator weiner. at cal department of justice we are fighting to defends gun laws in court, confiscating illegally held firearms and cracking down on untraceable ghost guns. we can't do it alone. we need to fight this epidemic at every level. community-based efforts like

this are part of the solution. this is the tenth year of buy back. congratulations on 10 successful years. this year and every year united players brought in approximately 350 guns. that is roughly 3500 guns over 10 years they are doing the gun buy back. some link to serious crime are off the streets because of this one single effort. 3500 guns. thankfully, this effort is not just here. it is duplicated across the state and nation. that is many guns off the street. i support this work united players leading. they have a close connection with the community and they are on the ground to keep the neighborhoods safe. this is important work. if you want to get rid of guns, come down and make a difference

this saturday. it just takes one bullet from one gun to kill, to end alive, to leave an irrepairable wound for a family and entire community. thank you, united players for your work and to promote safety and opportunity. i will hand it back to rudy. i want to acknowledge i have to catch a flight to southern california to announce an operation in san bernadino where we have taken deadly firearms off the street. we are committed to this important work. i didn't want to miss this opportunity to be part of this effort to thank rudy and united players for your efforts to make the communities and neighborhoods safer. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, rob.

attorney general california. before our next speaker i want to say real quick this collaboration would not happen without front line soldiers. what i mean by that we have teams here that put their life on the line every day. i definitely have to acknowledge sbip. sometimes people don't see the work they do when they are out in the field in the trenches, in the mud. people wouldn't go. i wanted to say to you brothers and sisters doing this work. my brother from us against us right here. this brother right here is everywhere and anywhere. this brother is everywhere. i want to thank you for him and the leadership of my team, 23 people including the moms doing

outreach, gun buy back saturday. a brother who has been organizing other guys who came home from doing a life sentence. my brother everett butler. he came home with a life sentence to organize 23 other guys and girls who came home from behind the walls that are out there leading the way to stop violence. i want to applauds you for being a change agent, brother. i want to bring on our senator, scott weiner. scott, come on up. [applause] >> thank you, rudy. i am continually in awe of united players for the work it does. gun buy back every year to keep our community safe, work that up did during the pandemic to up sport so many families

struggling. it is an amazing organization to help people turn their lives around, helps people get on track, keeps young people on track and supports everyone. thank you, united players. it is a scary time in this country when it comes to guns. we know the data is really clear that the more guns you have, the more gun violence you are going to have. this fantasy that everyone can have a gun or 10 guns as long as they are responsible it is good. there is a direct correlation. the more guns in state, community, society, more people are going to get shot and killed. it played out again a few weeks ago. more high school students getting murdered by another student who had access to a gun. his parents gave him the gun. this has to stop. we know our federal government,

congress is paralyzed. can't even pass the most basic reforms with 90% support in the country. members of congress have taken to posing with young children with assault rifles. it is sending the wrong message. i am worried what take radical supreme court might do in terms of the second amendment. we can't control the federal government. we need to take it back and change change. we can control locally. in california we have some of the strongest gun safety laws in the country and it has an impact. we will continue to work in sacramento. you have my commitment. locally we can take action here.

what united players is doing with gun buy back is taking large numbers of guns off the street. it is so impactful. i look forward to saturday. let's keep fighting. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, scott. i cannot forget my brothers from cyc. thank you, rico and henry. where is henry? we got stories. i ain't going to share them now. next we have a couple more speakers. i will bring up the chief of police of san francisco, my brother, chief bill scott. [applause] >> good morning everybody. i want to first of all, say thank you. i know many of you might not know how much work it takes to keep us all safe.

there is a community infrastructure that is absolutely necessary to get guns off the streets, to reduce gun violence and to engage with people who are the most at risk. what i am here to tell you this morning is the people that you see surrounding me, people from the community. mothers, fathers, people that have been through the criminal justice system and come out to help their community. that is what it takes. that is what it takes to lift a city up, lift a community up. i am so thankful to be in partnership with united plays and all of the -- united players so we can make a difference. we have to make a difference. far too many times we knocked on doors to say a mother, father, aunt, uncle or brother or sister

their child is not coming home. we have to do everything we cannot to allow that to happen. 10 years of gun buy backs 3500 guns off the streets is the way to do that. i am very thankful for the partnership and for these people that are surrounding me that do the workday in and day out. they are all doing treacherous situations. they don't have equipment that i have. they don't have backup. they have back up because they have us. they don't have body armor and guns and radios and things that we do. those of us in law enforcement. they are out there day in and day out getting the job done. i thank them and i hope you thank them. i shout out to one of the captains from the southern

district, tim, who supports united players and this effort. he is a partner as well. they are members of the san francisco police department. thank you for allowing me to be part of it. we have got to be here. when you are here it is serious. the chief is in the building. we have a couple more speakers to bring up. he is my brother. district supervisor, district 6. give it up for matt haney. [applause] >> thank you, rudy. thank you, united players, cyc, moms that demand action. this is what it looks like when people who have seen firsthand the pain and devastation that is caused from gun violence come together for solutions.

these folks are in our community in the south of market every day working with young people, working to prevent violence. some folks have been working here for a long time. they have served time, incarcerated and come back to our community to prevent harm and violence hatching to anyone else -- happening to anyone else. that is a power full statement of what it looks like when we listen to and support the people who know what needs done. i thank sfpd, chief scott, senator weiner and attorney gen. so many of us watching what is happening in the city are watching what is happening across the country. there could be a sense of powerlessness when it comes to gun violence.

we see it on the tv. we don't know how to help. this is a way to help to get guns out of places where they hurt people and get them destroyed so they never hurt anyone again. this is a way to help. a lot of people might think i have a family member or friend in the home. it is safe. >> it is not safe. and the data bears this out. if there is a gun in the home there is an exponential increase somebody is hurt from violence, accident or suicide. we have in this country about twice as many people who die of suicide and from homicide. very often that is because there is a gun accessible to them.

often teenagers. people who for whatever reason feel depressed or afraid. experiencing violence or trauma they may being a decision we can never bring back. i lost my best friend 19 years old to suicide. he shot and killed himself because he had access to the gun. if you have a gun in the home please consider bringing to the gun buy back on saturday. if you think this will never be used in an act of violence somebody could be hurt or die because they hurt themselves. we can save lives with the gun bike. they have been doing it for 10 years. >> if you know someone with a gun and they will get rid of it, that can save someone's life.

we hope to see you this saturday. >> as we anticipate and weight for our mayor to speak, i have to make sure we have people survivors of gun violence. my brother dame me another on . on. i am a san francisco native. i am one of the individuals who have been on both sides. shot five times in the city. i have also served 10 year in prison for possession of firearm. i am part of all of the gun buy backs. i am in charge of violent cheers

that come out. it is very important that we get home -- guns out of homes. we see a lot of senior community come out, husband passed on. he had a lot of guns. they are in the house. i want you to think about a father who passed on who collected guns properly now his wife and grand children are in the home or someone breaks in the house. now someone not trained to use the weapon has 10 unregistered guns out in the community. that is what we fight against. not against the second amendment if you are trained through the proper channels you have the right to bear arms and defend yourself. that was the case in my situation.

if i didn't have a gun i wouldn't have done 10 years in prison. i am screaming loud and proud in support of these amazing community activist i work with every day on the front lines. i had a meeting yesterday at the youth lounge with the district attorney's office. we had the family of jada who caught a stray bullet. those individuals didn't have a registered firearm, now the family has to deal with the holidays without their baby girl. i can't have it. i have been fighting for it. i will continue to fight. i will stand here. i am going to keep on doing it.

we have been doing it for 10 years. we will do it for 10, 20 or more, whatever it takes. thank you, rudy. >> i want to acknowledge my brother rod. front line soldier. thank you for putting your life on the line every day. that is one of the highest sacrifices you can do on this planet is to put your life in front of somebody else's life. to sacrifice your light so people will live. we are brothers and sisters on both sides of the guns. i want to bring up somebody who lost their kid to gun violence. a mother. you can never know the mother's pain when you lose one of your

kids. mamma lia, you all. >> thank you. thank you for being here for us mothers who lost children to gun violence. thank you sfpd, san francisco police department for working with up and all of us to get guns off our streets. i stand today other as mother representing killing for families and nation and representing every mother and father, brother and sister who lost a child to gun violence. i am elizabeth torres and i lost two sons to gun violence. it is a pain no mother or father or family member should have to

endure. i am here for my sons. francis to and al better to. the weapons used to kill them had the numbers scratched off. i fought because i couldn't see in this city or any other cities someone coming into rob my sons from me. they had a future. i sacrificed to bring them up the right way. yet the bullets found them and took them away from our families. the most important thing to say is to the mothers out there, fathers, sisters, brothers, cousins who loved and lost their dear once, take a breath. take a spend. i know you want justice.

justice is going to come at its own time, not in yours. what you can do in the meantime, take care of yourself. your loved ones are looking at you. yes, i do believe that. if god could open up a window to our lives what we are doing. what do we want our loved ones to be proud how we are taking care of ourselves. they would want us to keep going. after all we are the only ones that can help and bring justice by being an example, by cop operating with the police. by getting on the investigators to not let them forget or loved ones. that is what we could do. the holidays are rough. every holiday, anniversary,

birthday. it is very hard. go easy on yourself. please stay away from the drugs, alcohol, anger. get into peace. that is the most precious gift. find your peace. thank you very much. (applause). >> thank you. as we anticipate and wait for the mayor to get here, i want to say it is serious business, you all. this is not no game. one of those bullets leave the chamber from the gun, it is going to destroy everything in its path. that bullet that has no name on it does not discriminate. it will kill and destroy anything it comes out. black, white, pepper min stripe, paul, gay, straight, doesn't

matter. a lot of guns out here in the hands of people. reckless people that should not have guns in their hands. that is what we are about. getting guns off the streets. destroying the guns so they will end somebody's life that will affect the community. you will see the ripple effect it would do. if that 2-year-old kid had not got shot and lived or the guy who was protecting the camera people was alive you don't know what impact this person will make on this planet. it destructs everything in its path. why do we do this? >> i am not against the second amendment.

i am a survival. that is why i am passionate about this. i will bring up somebody else who is very passionate. on both sides of the gun. i want to bring up my brother, everett butler. shots out for urban for the great work you all do. >> good morning. as i listened to the stories, i was a promoter of senseless gun violence. one of the decisions i made cost me the death penalty. after knowing i could sit on death row for two years, wow. that is traumatizing. we ain't going to talk about the lives taken and the life taken

in doing the life i lived because i chose it. i made the conscious decision to become a gang member. then i ended up in prison. it saved my life. prison afforded me to be out hear what i am doing for the community every day. where you meet us? in the back field. a lot of work. we have to show up. it is not hard. it has to be done. we don't do it. saturn it in. help us save another life. i will share something before i leave. day of remembrance was right here on the steps of city hall. it was a picture of a youngster killed watching fireworks. fireworks. you in what the picture read?

don't shoot. i want to grow up. if that can't encourage me to get out and help stop it, i don't know what will. i encourage you to get out here and help us do what we do. one bang, one sound. that is all we got. boots on the ground. me and my brother had 10toes, one sock. facts for gun buy back. this is important. this saturday, december 11, 8:08 howard street in san francisco gun buy back. one hundred dollars handguns. $200 for assault rifles. no questions asked.

pull up we will give you the cash. we ain't asking for id, no information. we will give you your money when you turn-in your guns. guns in the trunk or walk up. you know, either way it doesn't matter. we have a team trained to make sure they are professionally handled. this is not easy around a lot of people driving up with guns. you have people against what we do. we have to make sure we stay professional, vigilant. anything can happen. everybody involved will demand action. brady campaign and community-based organizations and sponsors. don't forget our sponsors. weed dispensaries who supported making it happen.

private sector. sbip. everybody on stage. urban brothers and sisters, united players, chief of police. everybody coming together to make this happen. shout out to our district supervisor. asha. supportive against gun violence. altogether if we pull one gun off the street that will make the difference. with that said i will bring up one of our sisters on the front line who comes out all of the time to help with the gun buy back support. shantay. say some words. >> good morning.

you put me on the spot. i want to thank rudy. i appreciate this gun buyback. i lost my brother in 1998. once the victim is gone, it is the families affected. to this day i am still affected by it. i stand before you and do this work for the street violence intervention to save another life. thank you, rudy. thank you to all of you guys that are in support of gun buy back to those out there one gun can change one life. thank you. >> you got to get ready that is how we got to stay 10toes to the ground.

captain falvey. >> i am proud to work with united players to participate in the gun buy back. we will bring out enough staff to retrieve these firearms from vehicles to take them if they walk up, we have them destroyed through property control division. a lot of reasons for the gun buy back are stated. i will reiterate. a lot of people have guns in their homes they inhaled or relative passed on and you are never going to use that gun in your mind. you don't won't children finding your gun in a closet. don't say a burglar are looking in closets for guns. we don't want that to harp. this is our tenth year to do this. third year participating as captain. i will be there at 8:00 in the

morning. you have heard why we do this. i ask people to come participate and bring guns. take the money for holiday shopping, get the community safer and we will continue to work with united players until the guns are off the street. it is the long process. the officers at southern station will be there with them and the rest of the sfpd. thank you. >> i think she is pulling up. i want to bring out another leader of san francisco who has been leading the way to help making change. district supervisor asha. >> i will say real quick, you know this issue with regard to violence in the city, guns,

illegal guns on the street. opportunity to have a buy back program driven by the community for the community. i appreciate united players and all people that have driven this conversation. we are here to be support and always think about safety. this is a really important opportunity to look to folks with experience and history with violence. turn their lives around and drive safety for the community. i appreciate that. thank you so much for the opportunity to say a few words. [applause] >> thank you. we caught you off guard. i don't care if you are sfpd with a gun in your house up locked and loaded with children in the house. turn those guns in. i will shout out to the urban

brothers right there. front line. [applause] >> she is here, you all. i will bring up the san francisco leader. our mayor london breed. [applause]. >> mayor breed: thank you, rudy. i want to take this opportunity to celebrate and recognize so many amazing organizations who have been at the forefront of addressing the challenges around violence in our city. in fact, as we celebrate 10 years of doing this gun buy back and betting thousands of guns off the street and out of people's hands it is important to recognize that this work is not easy. yes, this gun buy back is important. the work we do to change policies in this opportunity

tree and city are critically to turning things around for the communities. shout out to so many people who are on the front lines including street violence intervention. can you raise your hands if you are joining us today from urbannal cammy and svip. these are the people who constantly put themselves in harm's way with united players to ensure the safety of the communities throughout san francisco. they are always there when there is a tragedy orthopedic any situation. brady, mom to demand action, united players leading can cause.

which one would stop something from hatching because we don't be want to lose people in the city and opportunity tree to gun violence. we can do it. i want to voice supervisor stefani. yesterday we signed legislation banning the sale, distribution and purchasing of these ghost guns that had been rampant in our community. last year alone 42% of the lines in san francisco. imagine if those ghost guns never entered our streets. those people would be alive today. thank you so much steve scott for your work and helps us get guns off the streets of san

francisco. mattie scott is not here from the healing circle. she has been at the forefront of advocating for change. she is a mom who lost her son. who was an amazing person. i grew up with him in my neighborhood. there were people like george scott and others i grew up with that i police, that i loved as we played in the schoolyard and played tag and all kinds of other fun games before there social media and technology. when i go to united players and go to their home. i see the board with the people that we lost. african-american and latino men

in the city mostly in their hail teens and early 20s. i know almost every person on those boards. what we ask people to do put down the weapon. here is your opportunity. no questions asked. turn-in your guns. let's have peace on our streets. let's have love on the streets. come together like we once did before. we were one san francisco to catch buses all over to the bayview. sunnydale by 501. we were in every community in the city growing up. we can get back there. it has everything to do with putting down the guns. you have these incredible people

and organizations to emplace you and help you turn your life around. to those with guns and lock boxes. turn them in. for parents know your child is struggling for mental illness or you may by him a gun? i appreciate parents being held accountable in that particular case. we are better than that. getting guns off the streets why we are here today. what team takuma sato at 10 -- no questions asked no questions asked. turn-in your guns.

make san francisco and this country a safer place so that your child is not the next victim. thank you. (applause). >> thank you, london. leader of our city. before we end i want to say do not wait until somebody you love and you know is shot or hurt and is victim of gun violence. you need to get involved. do not wait until somebody you love or somebody you know gets shot and killed before you say i want to get involved. like mattie scott would say it is about. none of us. special shout out to james who helps us get together under one umbrella to unify to ender the

gun violence. a lot of people helping us out. front line soldier. i see you. all of you guys. reporters. you feel up safe because you felt unsafe about you getting robbed. >> it is not going to happily with us. look at the front line soldiers her to protect community and pemin between. you are looking at them right here right now. the brothers on front line, sister, leslie. chief of police our super-veessors coming together to end the gun violence. thank you for coming and taking

a chance. we got your back.

>> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciousness.

i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community. >> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas

as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the

opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to

come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city.

you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people.

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i am the owner of this restaurant. we have been here in north beach over 100 years. [speaking foreign language] [♪♪♪] [speaking foreign language]

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>> 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 ]

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>> 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