be on the screen we have lot of hard of hearing, deaf parents, family members who might be watching from their iphone. it's important to maintain the current vision this way. thank you very much. >> clerk: nadia? >> caller: hi. i'm a student. i wanted to talk about the rotc program. i've been doing rotc for three years, i'm hoping to do my fourth year. i'm a junior.

i learned a lot from the rotc program. it's an hour away from home. that's the only why i come to braiden. if the program gets cut, what will i do? go to a different school and start over? what other program teaches us the discipline and stuff like that? we do community service. i know any other student like we get the option to do community services. i know any other program is not going to be able to do that. >> clerk: thank you. hello, norma? >> caller: hello. i'm a student.

i would like to talk about the rotc program. for me, rotc is really important. it gives me a lot of structure. people in rotc are my family. i feel like if i didn't have rotc, i would still kind of not be -- feel accepted at my school and stuff like that.

>> caller: i don't attend meetings often. i know it's hard to translate. that was said. i think that's a significant point. >> clerk: thank you. that concludes public comment on this item. >> president lopez: thank you. moving on to section d, advisory committee reports and appointments. item 1, appointment of members to the child care planning and advisory council. cpac. may i hear a motion and second for the approval of the cpac members? >> second. >> president lopez: i like to call on superintendent matthews to introduce the recommendation to the record. >> introducing this recommendation will be our chief of early education. >> thank you dr. matthews.

recommended action is to confirm the appointment to the child care planning and advisory council cpac of two members. rosario to a discretionary seat and owen velez to the serve three-year term upon appointment. i will give a brief context and background to what cpac is. it is the child care planning and advisory council which is mandated under education code 8499.3 to assess all aspects of local early care and education including supply and demand and to set priorities for determining state and local spending to meet existing needs. cpac analyzes all child care options including subsidized and un-subsidized, large center,

small family home, licensed exempt care and after care to determine the needs of children and families of san francisco. according to the state mandated ordinance, the board of education is the appointing body for half of the cpac membership. cpac membership terms is three years and option for one additional term should it be deemed appropriate. the recommendations include child care consumers, child care providers, community members, public agency representatives and discretionary early education experts. i will stop there. thank you.

>> president lopez: can we check for public comment? >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to cpac appointments. [speaking spanish] [speaking chinese] >> clerk: thank you. i'm seeing one hand. hello, dorian? >> caller: hello. i'm a student at burton high school. i've been in the rotc program -- >> clerk: sorry to interrupt, this comment time is only for specific item. it's the cpac appointment.

thank you. that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: any questions or comments from student delegates or commissioners about the two appointments? commissioner collins. >> it says we appoint half. what's the other governing body that appoints? just wondering who they report to or where they share their advisory input? >> thank you, commissioner collins. there are also representatives from various districts, supervisors that also appoint.

it's sort of cross-collaborative team of san francisco providers. a few seats from our school district and there are representatives that sit on that as well as folks that are coming from the mayor's office and various supervisors from different districts also recommend. >> vice president collins: do they make presentations to governing body in the city? >> they can but they are officially sort of oversight. they can, i don't know if they have recently. but they can.

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

the primary role of the parent advisory council is to represent parent perspective in order to inform decisions. this is our report for the december 14, 2021 board of education meeting. the p.a.c. would like to take this opportunity to honor and appreciate all of the hard work that every one is doing we see you and we thank you. we also want to wish everyone a

healthy and joyous winter holiday season and whatever ways you and your family celebrate. the p.a.c. is thrilled that resolution 2111-9a1 in support of equitable representation and services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual parents and family and the creation of a queer, transgender parent advisory council or qt p.a.c., was approved to move forward with a positive recommendation at yesterday's curriculum and program committee meeting. we offer up ourselves to

conversations about what that might look like in terms of formation. we're happy to support that process. one way the p.a.c. collaborates with other groups is regular advisory alignment meetings. our last meeting was friday december 10th when we will discussed inclusive school week activities. the elementary student assignment advisory committee, which is being formed. a petition to increase state-level funding for public education. which we know we need. this means including at times that are accessible for our

families and our parent leaders before 9:00, after 5:00, etcetera. now i will turn it over to salina chu. >> thank you, michelle. my name is salina chu. i'm a p.a.c. member currently holding as co-vice chair for the p.a.c. i do have -- thank you, michelle for the information. i will continue with additional information. the p.a.c. monthly meeting on thursday december 2nd.

we also discussed funding, in-person learning for all students including those who are participating in the district's continued distance learning option. equity including the recruitment of new p.a.c. members, our discussion of funding included summary of the november 30, 2021 budget balancing townhall meeting and other opportunity to engage in this matter. speaking of the budget, we know this is at the forefront of of every one now. it's a key part of the work that

the p.a.c. is engaged. the p.a.c. has been working closely for parents with public school, sfusd staff to conduct different events to engage families, community members and other stakeholders. here is a summary of events that have been held so far and what we have heard from families and the community. to get things started, surfs released on november 18, 2021. we have received 58 responses. most of them in english. parents, family members make up half of the respondents. 10% are students, 17% are educators, 20% work for community-based organizations with many identifying in multiple categories.

as well as 16 different zip codes. 17% of the respondents have a student who is english language learner. 19% a student with i.e.p. >> thanks. good evening, i'm a p.a.c. member and a parliamentarian. i have a fourth grader in sfusd. to start our events to date on november 30th, sfusd parents for public schools or p.p.s. and the p.a.c. held a budget balancing townhall. the total of 260 participants logged on and there were hundred questions and suggestions

submitted via the chat. they were able to answer live. on december 8th, the s.f. beacon initiative hosted a community partners forum with over 100 participants representing sfusd partner organizations serving students and families in sfusd, and p.a.c. coordinator reporting on the budget balancing plan. shared the survey and collected questions which will be used to continue to inform the faq and next steps.

on december 9th, individual p.a.c. members attended a close the gap coalition meeting. the coalition is composed of parent leaders, educators and community advocates. the treasurer for the united educators of san francisco, presented summaries of the proposed plan to the budget. that represented at the decembeg of the board of education. the dozen attendees expressed concerns about how we go through this process and still keep the promises we have made to and meet the needs of our focal students and continue to provide services to our newcomer english language learning and non-english speaking students and family. challenges and hope shared, included making stronger connections to our out of school time program, adopting a more preventive philosophy and advocating for the school and educational experience we know

our students need. we appreciate the coalition for including us and for the opportunity to hear from coalition members. as the district moves forward, we encourage families to get involved with the school site council at their child's school. the school site council is the governing body for the school. composed half school staff and half of parents. it's responsible for determining the school plan for student achievement. the p.a.c. is working with

d.p.s. to plan for training sessions on s.f.d. participation and best best practices. >> information on the budget balancing including links to previous presentation, recording of the townhall, copies of the slide deck in spanish and in chinese and a link to the survey which is still open can be found at www.sfusd.edu/2021blunt balancing. we encourage everyone to participate in the opportunities to engage, learn and provide feedback on the assignment process and other issues like the budget by attending these events and others that will be announced soon and over the course of the school year.

attending a p.a.c. meeting is a good way to be involved and to get an idea what we do. our next meeting will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on thursday january 6, 2022 via zoom. p.a.c. meetings are open to the public all are welcome to attend and we encourage everyone who is interested to join us. meetings are conducted in english with closed captioning, translation interpretation can be provided with events notice so meeting information can be found at sfusd.edu/pac. agendas, zoom links help how to dial in are posted at least 72 hours prior to the meeting. if you are interested in attending a p.a.c. meeting and like to partner with the p.a.c. or have any questions or comments about this report or

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

official capacity. we have included in the report and resolution 2110-26a1 regarding the alignment of student advisory counsels and board of education office. we believe the students made a good case to this change. we continue to advocate for what they believe is in their own best interest and best interest of democracy and student representation. especially in regards to sexual harassment. we welcome any questions or comments you may have. >> president lopez: to our parent advisory council for your presentation. i like to open it up for public comment before we begin our

discussion. >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to the parent advisory council presentation. [speaking spanish] [speaking chinese] >> clerk: thank you. seeing four hands. hello larry? >> caller: this is larry lee. this question is for the parent advisory council. parent advisory council has issues or comments that are important to them. how serious does the san francisco board of education and san francisco unified school

district when you have a issue or comment seriously? from your experience. especially pertaining to violence at school sites or budgetary issues. that's just my comment. i don't want to say more. thank you everyone. >> clerk: thank you. [speaking spanish]

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

that -- how do you communicate with them? i know that you guys advocate for equity, social justice and i know that lot of this african-american students are -- how do you guys communicate with these parents and students? >> caller: [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: i have the same

question. i have two kids in sixth grade. i haven't heard from you. i was very involved in the s. e. my kids don't have teachers. they are losing learning. i was wondering how you can help us? i haven't seen in -- this organization at the school. thank you. >> clerk: hello. >> caller: i would like to thank the p.a.c. for another amazing collaborative report as well as

the wonderful work they do in community and all the time spent on educating families and i have to say that the previous two commenters really highlight the need for more work like the work that's being done at the p.a.c. for more support of the family engagement networks for the parent advisory council. especially as we move forward and tieing our budget to our priorities and our values, the work that the p.a.c. does in making sure that families are engaged, not only needs to continue but be expanded. thank you for everyone doing the work. we look forward to continuing to work alongside you. >> clerk: thank you. josephine? >> caller: hi everyone. thank you p.a.c. for your great

work. thank you for including our community and also i wanted to congratulate the lgbtq p.a.c. i would like to concur three speakers ago, there are incidents of bullying and violence that have been in our community and schools. please look into that as well. how do you deal with aapi hate? that's rampant within our community now. >> clerk: thank you. anna?

>> caller: good evening everyone. i'm chair of the p.a.c. [ indiscernible ] the p.a.c. has done amazing work. >> clerk: that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: are there any questions or comments from the board or student delegates?

seeing none, thank you again for your presentation and we look forward to the next report. >> thank you. i know we can't respond directly to folks. i like to say if people have questions and would like to know more, would like to have conversations, please reach out to us. my e-mail is pac@sfusd.edu. i would like to say, the p.a.c. can't do it all. we certainly don't do it alone. we do this work in partnership with all of the other district advisories as well as other community partners and organizations of families that are not officially under the district. we look forward to continuing to do that and figuring out how we

can better reach and hear from all of our families in the district. thank you to everyone who called in tonight. >> president lopez: there's one comment from commissioner lam. >> commissioner lam: big thank you from michelle for all the work and putting together a community budget townhalls. i know it is not easy and the amount of partnership and intentionality and having successful engagements of community and parents really help shape of the conversations we've been having as a board. when you interpret or really break down very complex topics and issues like a district budget and public education and how it's funned to making it accessible means a great deal. i look forward to that continued partnership. thank you so much.

>> president lopez: last item under section d, i like to see if there are any advisory committee appointments. >> i want to reappoint alita fischer to the charter school official. >> president lopez: thank you. that will be noted. section e, consent calendar. i need a motion and second on the consent calendar. >> so moved. >> president lopez: let's see if there's public comment on consent items. >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to items on consent calendar.

seeing none. >> president lopez: any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? >> none, president lopez. >> president lopez: any items removed? seeing none. any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion and vote tonight? seeing none. let's do a roll vote on consent calendar. [roll call vote]

>> president lopez: section f, discussion on consent calendar resolution for separate consideration. there are none tonight. section g, proposals for action, item 1. urging the sfusd board of education to support the alignment of the student advisory council and the board of education office. one, requesting the superintendent to relocate the student advisory council under the board of education office and 2, requesting that the student delegates have unput in hiring it any staff member who are assigned to support the student advisory council panel. this was moved and seconded on october 26th. it's now before the board for action. can i call on student delegates

commissioner to alexander to share comments. >> as twos says, this resolution mostly to move the student advisory council under the board of education office and give members say in the hiring of any staff that are assigned to support the student advisory council. we hope to continuing being a body under the board of education office.

>> i like promoting student voice through this resolution and bridging the gap between students and the board is really important. we want to elevate student voice this year for a term. >> it's an honor sponsoring this on behalf of our students. they wrote it. it actually started last spring with the previous year, student advisory council, it's been revised and updated by this year's student advisory council and delegates. i'm happy to support that process. it was all their work. >> president lopez: let's check for public comment. >> clerk: please raise your hand if you care to speak to the that was just read in. student advisory council moving to the board office.

[speaking spanish] [speaking chinese] >> clerk: thank you. hello, everyone. on behalf of the consumer advisory committee on special education, we are to see the work of the student advisory council. we're so excited to see their advisory and looking forward to working alongside them. thank you so much student

commissioners for writing this resolution. i hope this passes. thank you. >> clerk: that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: any questions or comments from student delegates or commissioners? >> commissioner boggess: i will be interested if staff had any idea if there was cost related to this resolution and if there's been physical impact that's connected to what she relate related here. >> i can answer that. student advisory council has a small budget.

that budget will be moved to a larger office. >> i had another question around staffing and how that's seen in this now -- is there a different supervision instruction for staff? >> i don't think that all of the details have been worked out. i don't believe -- i think there lab connection with the presidential of the board. the staff report would remain.

that staff report would be part of the boards operate me. the student delegates will be part of those conversations as well. >> commissioner boggess: we're defining input with regard what hiring mean. >> with respect to the hiring, we probably would follow the same hiring. students are on other hiring panel an the high school level.

>> in if this resolution passes, the -- i will be doing the hiring along -- if threat -- >> commissioner boggess: my last question, are there any legal to shift to the structure. how is there no concerns like that? >> president lopez: do you mean in terms of move mowing the

student -- >> commissioner boggess: i'm worried we want to put someone in the staff position who wants to silence student voice or something othat effect. is there any thing of that nature? is that not something that we have to worry about as much? >> i don't see that as a concern. will continue to report to the board office. there will be accountability for conduct and performance that doesn't meet the board's

expectation. >> president lopez: let's do a roll call vote on the resolution. [roll call vote] seven ayes. >> president lopez: cool, congratulations. section h, special order of business. i will be calling items 1 and 2 together. item 1 fiscal year 2022, '23 and '24 budget balancing plan. and item 2, proposed alternative budget balancing plans sponsored

by commissioner alexander, 21122-14so3. i need a motion and second on special order 2 and 3. >> so moved. >> second. >> president lopez: superintende nt matthews can you introduce the needs who will be sharing information about these special orders? >> thank you. good evening everyone. before i call on our chief financial officer, meagan wallace, i like to thank staff for their work on this item. i want to make sure that the community knows that this is superintendent's proposal. it is my proposal. i work with staff on making this happen. we do our best to work within the means that we have to put a budget together.

it's my recommendation. i'm the one who works with staff. at the end of the day, i have the final call on what proposal, our constituent is presented to the board. i want to make sure that the public knows that. if you want to blame, saff is working with me and i my proposal. we have an -- we've been working together to come together to figure out a way forward. we're going to have chief financial officer meagan wallace talk a bit about some of the

changes that occurred and what occurred overtime. i then it will be turned over to deputy superintendent lee. >> good evening to the board of education, to the public. tonight, we're going to have a brief presentation. limited number of slides. it's been a long road. there are few things we want to recap as we take the final step. i'll start by saying, the intention of the presentation is to provide a brief overview of

our budget balance project as well as some of the details around the plan. on the next side, ini want to look that we started this process back in september. really, the deep hard work began in september when we first received a letter from the california department of education calling for san francisco unified district to develop a budget balancing plan. we carried forward that work with a vision for meeting that mandate by developing a new plan that preserve the -- this has

been a very short timeline. now we are here finally in december. we have been working tirelessly to engage our families and community on this effort. on the next slide, i want to remind everybody that since the beginning of november, we held six public meetings. really rolling out the details of the plan. there's three meetings and gathering feedback from the board and the public. here we are tonight with our final proposal to adopt this balancing plan which is critical for -- on the next slide, i want to highlight that overall, we

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

>> retirement obligations for

those people who get confusion who get a plan for managing those obligations. this is step one. it is not the end of the road. it is the beginning of the road to recovery. i have the strong recommendations to improve the recommendation stabilization plan and improve the interim report as put together by staff i want to thank everybody. doctor matthews office. i think i have or talked with each one of the commissioners. i want to thank each one of you for your commitment and hard work. i can attest to the fact that all of you have put in hours and hours from staff to commissioner to superintendents. so thank you for your commitment to the children and i think it's essential that you as a district move through this

first step and continue to the rest of the process for long term budget stabilization. so thank you, it's been a pleasure and will be a continuing pleasure to work for san francisco. >> president lopez: thank you, elliott. we'll go to the next >> so this particular slide is a followup on a request to get into the details of the anticipated impacts of the balancing plan proposal on two programs in particular. avid and peer resources. avid is a key funded program and it is a program that has seen reductions over time. so the program currently serves fewer students than it did in the past and although the

current proposal does -- would eliminate the funding for avid in '22-'23 then staff is to restore proposed reductions so that we can continue avid programming across the district. peer resources is funded by the unrestricted general fund and the -- and so the central portion of the funding is part of our balancing plan. our proposed reductions to direct services and should we move forward with that approach. it would mean that sites would need to fully fund peer resources teachers with student formula allocation. schools currently receive a mix of allocations between .25 fpe and 1.0. some sites already use at least

a portion of their weighted student formula allocations, but obviously that would change with this proposal and the impact would vary site to site. a reduced allocation is not a guarantee that the program will be eliminated, but it does mean that it changes the dynamic and it changes what having a peer resources program might look like at a school. this mean fewer resources at a school. in addition to conditions that are typical for a high school teacher. in some cases, peer resources class sizes are larger depending on the students that are enrolled. we can certainly discuss the details if so desired, but really just wanted to share a little bit of additional information on the support of

some of the requests we've seen. we'll go ahead and conclude the presentation on the next slide and deputy superintendent young lee will be speaking. >> thaus, colleagues, and good evening commissioners and student delegates. so i have the last slide. thank you. and i want to say, this is the most encouraging of the information that we're going to share tonight and i'm glad i get to speak to this. so as we've said many times throughout the many meetings, this is an important milestone but not the last milestone in this process for planning for next fiscal year. and after tonight's meeting, after tonight's action, i just wanted to highlight a few particular things that will happen in the near future. one is that beginning -- well,

it's already begun, but through january, we are committed to continuing to explore patterns of centrally budgeted investments. you know, that's been the topic of great interest for commissioners in our community. we are about a month away from having the governor release his proposed budget for next fiscal year for '22-'23. we'll restate we are very hopeful that that will map to improvements in our revenue projections and we will be updating the board and all of our community on our revised physical outlook during the latter half of january. in february, we will report back to the board on school allocations for next year. and multiteared systems of

support. and we will work on revising and updating the balancing plan for the second interim report. that's the next required submission to the california department of education we are continuing to advocate at the state level. this presentation includes a link to a letter that dr. matthews and superintendents in seven other large districts in the state just submitted to the governor for the local control funding formula, special education funding, support with paying for the cost of pensions. so i encourage commissioners and the community to look at that letter and on a closing

note and if revenue and/or expenditure projections improve, the highest consideration for funding restoration will be given to direct school site budgets, direct services including programs like avid and peer resources which were just described by ms. gordon and central services that most directly support students. so i think we have a lot of convergence on those being the highest and most important priorities for hopefully new revenues that come into the picture. with that, i would like to turn it back to dr. matthews. >> just once again, i just wanted to say how much i appreciate the opportunity as i had the opportunity to talk to many of the commissioners about the budget, about questions, about possible solutions and have had the opportunity to

work really closely thus far with commissioner alexander. and so i just wanted to turn it over to commissioner alexander about the conversations and possibilities going forward thank you so much. >> commissioner alexander: i'm really grateful for all the dialog and conversations we've had over the last couple of weeks and i feel like we're making really good progress on starting to address some of the concerns that have been coming up for awhile and so i'm happy with where we're at in this path forward. i wanted to direct my remarks mainly actually to the people, the educators, parents and students who've helped developed the core values plan.

we think it's important for them to understand i think, you know, and i'll say, you all out there who've done that advocacy, you've been the ones who oh, pushed this situation. you know if you're educators in our schools, the schools were hardly overstaffed before the pandemic and, you know, the teachers, paraeducators. social workers. counselors, programs like avid, all of those would have a devastating effect on our school. and i spoke this weekend, i was at a cookie decorating party and people were coming up to me saying if you cut that money from our schools, i'm going to leave. these were veteran teachers saying i can't work in a school

where we cut another 10% from our budget and that was not me kind of soliciting that that was me saying that's what we need as educators and so i just want to say thank you and to say that i think you are making your voice heard and i think i also just want to say, again, i think my colleagues on the board have shared these concerns and so i think i just want the focuses out there that

the board what i really like is being willing to keep that dialog and conversation even when these conversations are difficult. i feel like where i was at last week that felt hard was that we were hearing from our fiscal advisor that we basically had one option. you basically vote for this and if you vote against it, you're voting for a state take over and now we've gotten to a place forward and so i'm just really excited about that. we can share more moving forward, but the superintendent and i have talked about

engaging in some former sfusd staff and some others to do some deeper dive into the core values plan and provide us and the budget committee and the board in early february to see what adjustments we can make. i would love to see beyond that, continuing the conversation in the spring of really engaging in the thoughtful discussion around central office supports. i want to say again, you know, i've put out some statistics which are true statistics around the growth of our central office over the last decade and i just want to be really clear, the people in those jobs are really good people. they're smart people. they're incredibly hardworking and committed. and so it's even hard and some of them are my friends. so i want to say, i know, when i say, you know, we have too

many of these jobs, i want to be very clear. i'm not talking about a critique of any individual. what i'm talking about is that we need to step back collectively and think about our systems and say is this system really the most effective system for serving our students and our schools. i don't think we're going to need to cut a lot of people because unfortunately, with the people, the number of people that are leaving the system due to the trauma and the difficulty of the job, i think we're going to have more resignations than layoffs. i think our job is going to be keeping people and a system at work and putting people in the right roles and i think to me, that's the job that's going to happen and unfold over the next six months. and so, again, i'm just really grateful to the superintendent for being willing to engage with this and really listening and sort of hearing that a majority of the board does support the core values plan hearing that we need to take a

close look at the central office structure and that's what we're hearing from parents and educators and others. i'm just looking forward to that. and, again, to the educators, to the parents and student who is eave advocated for this. we actually need you to keep speaking up for our students and our schools. we need you to be back here in january and february telling us, you know, if we come up with some proposals, some may be good, we need that public input and the input especially from the people that are part of our system. please keep up. you're organizing our leadership. keep reflect z those sfusd values and thank you for working with us as we chart a better course forward for sfusd. >> president lopez: all right.

thank you to our staff and to commissioner alexander for sharing that information. before we begin our discussion, i'd like to open it up to public comment and judson, let me know how many speakers you see. >> clerk: will do. please raise your hand if you care to speak to the budget balancing plan this evening. and can that be repeated in chinese and spanish, please. >> translator: [speaking spanish]. >> translator: [speaking chinese]. >> clerk: thank you. >> pardon me, president lopez, could you clarify for the public, this is public comment on both the staff's budget proposal and commissioner alexander's plan? >> president lopez: that's correct. thank you for clarifying. i'm following the process we did last week at the committee

as a whole so it will be for both. >> clerk: thank you. so there are 24 hands so far, president lopez. >> president lopez: okay. >> clerk: going up slowly. >> president lopez: so we will do a minute each and for now i'll keep it at 30 minutes. we'll just see how many hands come up. >> clerk: okay. >> caller: hi. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> caller: okay. great. first of all, what i want to say is that this is for the school board. for the only state approved plan and southeast state take over. if you continue, then the board

[inaudible] doesn't care about our kids and just want to get back because how dare we cross three of our board members and if we do this, i will remember this and also the members of this current board and also i would like to thank you, superintendent matthews and your team for all the hard work because no one will blame you because your budget balancing plan is into our crisis. maybe last week's meeting was just a production show for our constituents. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: bye bye. excellent. >> clerk: next caller. >> caller: hi. thanks again for taking my call. i'm calling to express my relief. if i understood correctly, it

appears that commissioner alexander is now planning to support the staff plan. and i want to say how important it is i personally agree with many of the people who called looking at the central office, but it's much too late in the game. we're at the 11th hour and so we need to do what is required. our district remains for the students. we need to make sure it continues and look at staff to central office and wherever else it may be needed as we move on once we have, you know, once we have a stabilize plan. thank you. >> clerk: thank you.

hello, chris. >> caller: hi, judson. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> caller: okay. we have a rally going on outside of 555 [ indiscernible ] we have hundreds of people out here in the cold and they are saying no cuts to school. we cannot afford to cut school [inaudible] and understaffing and underresources and student services. cutting already bloated central office staffing and people who are making hundreds of thousands of dollars compared to educators like me [inaudible] with $80,000 a year on average. that's where it makes the most sense to me. some of the people in central office may have started with great nings to say and do, but our student enrollment has

declined over the past five years. we need people actively working. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: please. >> clerk: hello. >> caller: hi everyone. so on behalf of the community advisory committee for special education. thank you, commissioner alexander for all your work for the collaboration. i'm excited to see there's been so much communication behind the scenes and everyone is really working to bring this together. i'd like to call one's attention to slide eight in the next steps. the c.a.c. and i'm sure other parent advisory committees as well look forward to being and all stakeholders look forward to being part of these continuing ongoing conversations where we explore

patterns in cuts. as many speakers have said over the past few months of comments related to the budget, this is outside of the normal timeline, so those of us that would participate stay true l-cap. and you know so many things that we have to consider when talking about central office staff and direct versus indirect. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: we look forward to furthering the conversation. >> clerk: hello, josephine. >> caller: hi. thanks commissioner alexander for your leadership. i think it's super important for our board to retain local control even though i do or do not like some of the things that are done. but you having the control is more important than everything else. we can fix it later. cutting anywhere is not desirable.

cutting central, cutting sites, none of it is good. the most important thing right now is to create policies that we attract families to come back to san francisco and do things to make sure that our customers are happy and can come back or retain in our school district. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, gregory. >> caller: hi. thank you, judson. we've lost thousands of students from sfusd over the last couple of years. it's not realistic to assume we don't need to cut any staff to both the school sites and the central losses after enrollment of that size. especially given the size of the unfunded pension and obligations the district has. even after realigning staffing, we still have one of the best teacher to student ratios in the state. please vote for the staff plan so that sfusd is not taken over

by the state. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: hi there. thank you for taking my comments. i want to echo what many parents have said. please support the staff plan. it is unrealistic that we can't expect cuts in the near future as much as i don't want them, it's unfortunately the position that we as a district have been put in and like gregory just said, we need to reattract students and families to come back in order to bring everything back to the way it used to be. please vote for the staff plan and do not allow state take over. >> clerk: thank you. hello, sarah. >> caller: hi. my name is sarah. i just wanted to provide public comment. first off as a parent and public schoolteacher myself, i mean, the thought of cuts to my kids' classrooms, it breaks my

heart. i don't really think anyone wants cuts like that. it sounds like from the conversation there were some really constructive dialog between the superintendent and the board and i really appreciate that. it was always my hope to avoid state take over. i think that losing local control is just too devastating, but i also think and appreciate the sentiment that we need to continue to have conversations about how to prioritize classrooms and teachers and students and come up with creative solutions to do so. i want to thank the board, the district, and the superintendent for making these hard decisions. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, jerry. sorry, jerry. go ahead. >> caller: hi.

this is cassandra on jerry's phone president of uesf. we have had hundreds of educators and students out here tonight, family members, kids, all of this is out there. this is because we stand with our values. our students are clammering. to balance this budget placeded on their backs. resources out here tonight. all of our educator substitutes and paraeducators. we are at the end of the semester. we are covering classes and vacancies and to hear some considerations that a compromise would be adrift by laying off 300 individuals is not okay. that is not in line with values and to speak to the enrollment issue, if enrollment needs to

be right sites, it should not come from school sites. that is a year out and if this plan can be revised in january and there's though reason why that can't happen as well. what we are saying is a plan that's in line with our values. our students need each and every individual that is on campus and more showing up right now and folks have had quite a long time to discuss this and this should not have come to this point. we are looking to you to lead with your values. we are looking to you to vote to make sure that our students know that their classes will be fully staffed in the spring and this year. the prospect of layoffs of new educators both of which you might not get back. and that's not including and to

attract new students. it's a ridiculous concept. we are trying our hardest to do what we can with our budget and we're going to keep doing that. we're going to show up every single month that this goes on to show up for our students, to show up for all the educators to make sure that you all are honoring the value in a we have on our school sites and that we instill in our students every day to become the best adult we can be. and here you are before us with the hard choice to make sure you vote our values, to make sure we have enough staff for the future of sfusd. >> clerk: thank you. i believe we have someone for asl interpretation for public comment. should i add spotlight? >> president lopez: sure.

>> clerk: okay. are you available for asl interpretation? >> no. sorry. >> clerk: i'll get to you. you shouldn't be in the chat unless you're requesting asl. hello, amanda. >> caller: good evening. i've once again missed din we are my kids to tune in tonight. my kids protested. i'm really thrilled to go back to my children tonight and share that you worked hard together and are seemingly passing a plan tonight. [please stand by]

>> caller: hello, i'm a parent. it's all because of my child's classroom it's heart breaking.

a state takeover will be devastating to our district. i would like to image the boarde board to vote to stop the state takeover of our district. i'm totally for superintendent dr. matthew plan on this. please do so. our children, our san francisco children are dependent on this. we cannot let them sit down. please keep an open mind and vote for the only state-approved plan and stop the state takeover of our district. thank you for being a service for our children. >> clerk: reverend brown?

>> caller: good evening. mr. superintendent and president of our school board. i just called to commend you verying for -- for having the fortitude to be tough enough to iron out challenging problems. we ought to thank god when people come together in a reasonable, rational and responsible way to make things happen for the good in tough times. our times are tough but you proven that you are tough enough to make a hard decision. i commend everyone for brings us to common ground on this almost

impossible problem. >> clerk: thank you. hello, tom? >> caller: i'm a teacher in the district and so my wife. we also have a kindergarten in the district. the district plan was more, let's keep all the people at the top to make these giant salaries. didn't hear anything about reduce salaries because it's about the students. let's cut from some of the people who make the most money, six figures. what i heard let's cut the people at the bottom who are doing the most direct work with students. we're working our tails off. we have over 200 paraprofessional openings. i hear no one talking about that. i hear them praising the district plans while teachers and staff will get cut.

attendance clerk, who reach out to families to say ensure students get here. that's going to get cut. it doesn't same like -- seem like that's important. >> clerk: thank you. hello, brandy? >> caller: i'm a public school parent. i'm in solidarity of the things said about stopping cuts to school sites. it can really cause a lot of damage down the road if we do that. i hope that people make a very forward-thinking plan. i'm also really concerned about how some of the central office staff has senior staff has presented the budget information

to parents. when i was at a meeting with some of the senior office staff, the san francisco p.t.a. had organized, all parents were asked to take a poll whether we thought the district should prioritized equality over equity for funding. that was pretty egregious. i'm concerned about the staff to make good decisions. >> clerk: thank you. hello, greg? >> caller: good evening, my name is greg peters. i'm speaking as a member of the

cpac. latest annual funding $80 million for san francisco voters. i hope to add context to this conversation. my experience on the committee is that of busy and process but not real impact. our recommendations continue to be limited by a process that has fulfilling fund gaps rather than fulfilling the intent to create supplemental revenue sources to benefit student. we are not making recommendations when we receive proposals that equal the amount of money we are to make recommendations. most recently, we've been brought into this political arena related to the budget crises, specifically we continue to fill gaps created by serious, deep cuts.

the biggest impact will be on our vulnerable priority population. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, anita? >> caller: hi. i'm calling to say to support the staff budget and no state takeover. our schools suffered really badly in the few years due to a lot of reasons. we need to make sure we stay local. >> clerk: thank you. hello justin? >> caller: hi. i like to say, lot of the reasons you lost money is lot of people with options that can go

to private or move, left the city because you destroyed one lowell one of top schools. we lost lot of money because of that. there's a lot of of racism in whites that were loaded in attacks calling people privileged, you do that to a white people who are racist. you don't motivate kids to work hard. you need to teach them that all the immigrant groups that study over 15 hours a week outearned u.s. average as adults. there's a reason why you have higher achievement gap in san francisco, lower test school scores among black and latino kids. you waste $600,000 to paint a wall, you waste $18 million in

upgrade. you're not teaching kids that hard work will pay off. you are teaching them systemic racism. that's wrong. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: good evening dr. matthews, deputy superintendent and board commissioners. i greatly appreciate your plan and all the hard work that went into it, i respectfully ask that you find way not make cuts to school site. i understand that we're in a budget crunch which it happens pretty much every public agency. we can't keep putting the

onerous on school sites. our babies are the whole reason why we're here. we owe it to them to make sure that we're giving them all the necessary resources including teachers, paraprofessionals and whatever other individuals that are needed to support them in the classroom. please, put our students first. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: hi. first thing i want to ask is more transparency on covid recovery and it is related. the reason why i'm asking is that this budget crises is not just about in a normal time. teachers are expressing that they are in dire straits, families are in dire straits.

commissioner alexander, in principle, i love your plan. without the details, i could not support it. the other plan is painful. i'm asking about covid recovery funds and what happens. part of this is about the trauma what happened over the last couple of years. if we can find a solution there, or at least you can be more transparent there, i don't know what happened. so many things going on are related to that. thank you for your collaboration. >> clerk: thank you. hello, emmanuel? >> caller: good evening. president lopez, support dr. matthews and other commissioners. i'm the proud principal at harvey wrights academy. you have a deal decision. i say to you that administrators

across san francisco have made difficult decisions within the past two years during our pandemic. your administrators have made difficult decisions to support their school community. they have taken on the task of managing distance learning, contact tracing, quarantining in classrooms, subbing in classroomings, support our educators i haven't mention budgeting. i ask that you make this decision but you make a decision. whatever your decision is, please understand that your administrator will work directly with the school site counselors, families and students to support the individual schools and their school community. thank you for the time. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: good evening commissionerrings. thanks for taking my comment.

my name is seth, a board member with the san francisco parent coalition. as commissioner lam put it last week, the clock has run out. we must take our budget crises seriously. now and pass the only plan that will balance and budget. state takeover could take decade or more to recover. districts that gone through to do everything for sfusd and children. as the adults charged with responsibility for our students and for this district, please continue to collaborate, to ensure that san francisco unified district is a growing concern. thank you for taking my comment. >> clerk: thank you. ronald?

>> caller: hello. i'm a student. first of all, i like to say that please don't cut the programs. i believe they would be helpful for students in creating leadership skills, community building, jrcp personally, they've done ocean beach cleanups and helped with the community and give back. as a senior and immigrant, i would not be able to speak here. jrcp helped me build these skills. i want to give back to the community. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. hello, jennifer?

>> caller: first like to say something, which is given the state we're in, it is a true shame that the city and county of san francisco and state of california are placing these poor budget scenarios on our city schools. the state needs to do better. we shouldn't be waiting for support from the governor in january. i'm concerned with the ongoing need that i hear from district management to rebuild trust. i agree, we should always build trust. my concern rest with the community because we have never built trust in the first place. our black students and our indigenous students are experiencing homelessness. instead of rebuilding trust with a budget plan that will allow wealthier schools to face no cuts, while schools that depend on funding will receive nothing. it's a budget that rebuilds

trust with certain communities. it is inequitable and it's wrong. we must do better. >> clerk: thank you. hello, beth? are you there? latoya? >> caller: good evening. i like to say thank you for the opportunity to speak. i am a parent and a volunteer of three current sfusd students. i'm not sold on either the state taking over or not taking over. i think there's an opportunity for more transparency in the budget. i think at the district level,

there's a lot of cloud in some areas. it will be nice if entities like the cpac was present and other groups were involved in the process. i appreciate that regardless of who's taking over or who's leaving. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. donnie? >> caller: our student members are keeping the children fed. our custodian members are keeping the school clean. we are overworked because of staffing issues and you're talking about cut. we need to invest in more staffing to ease the workload.

we need a consultant to come in to see where the district wasting the money. thank you. >> clerk: ms. marshall? >> caller: thank you. good evening, commissioner lopez and other board commissioners. on behalf of the naacp, what i said last week, i say again with the full board. please do not make your budget cut on the back of our students. please do not make your budget cuts on the back of our schools and low income areas, particularly bayview hunters

point. there's no reason for this. i don't know how we got here. there's always warning signs. [ indiscernible ] >> clerk: kendra? >> caller: i'm here to say, we should vote for the state approved plan and stop the state takeover. our children are dependent on you. >> clerk: thank you.

>> caller: i want to refer to the slide that next steps and budget development. i think it's slide 8. i don't quite understand how anyone can give a definitive opinion based upon very broad generic terms. it's like this is important work. if revenue or expenditure projections improve, if okay, then the highest consideration, how do you define the highest consideration? i feel like it's very difficult that i can oppose or go along with things that are little bit broad and obtuse. i understand it's a work in

progress. i think we can be little bit more definitive with our terms here. >> clerk: thank you. tlcbd? >> caller: apologizes. i'm calling as a parent. i want to say thank you to the board for listening those parents last year who felt strongly we should reopen the schools in full for in-person learning. both my daughters are very happy to be back in school. the comment i would like to ask tonight of the board is to please pass the state approved budget. the budget that establishes a foot forward. i can't think of anything -- as

we struggle for the past couple of years, been very difficult times for our students and teachers and for our schools. >> clerk: hello william? [ indiscernible ]

>> president lopez: is there a way to cut off the mic so we don't hear it? >> clerk: i think we're ready to continue now. we have one more commenter. hello, charles? >> caller: yes. my comment will be quick. i wanted to thank the board for unifying for local control. no state takeover please.

schools with 50% enrollment should not be funded the same schools 100% enrollment. the union should be concerned about raises in record inflation. without a pension and health benefit in retirement, teacher will retire in poverty. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. that concludes public comment. >> president lopez: thank you. >> if i might make a couple of quick comments? >> clerk: yes. >> thank you. this is michelle again with the parent advisory council. i wanted to really quickly appreciate folks that called, shared their concerns, their appreciation. i want to appreciate our students and our educators and everyone who is outside on this cold night standing up for what they know is important and right. i do want to acknowledge as

others have said tonight, this is not -- no one wants to be in this position. this is not easy. this is going to be hard. we though we have to do this because someone just recently said, state takeover is one thing that can make this situation worse. i wanted to appreciate miranda martin for their partnership in organizing community events. i heard folks who say they want more involvement. we hear you. we're continuing to plan events throughout the years. i want to appreciate the response by staff. we saw specific things addressed than have come up before. especially, appreciate the collaboration with commissioners and superintendent matthews and

staff in figuring out a way forward and what i heard is that we know we need to make a plan, got the details thought out and the c.de wants to see. thank you so much. >> president lopez: thank you, again for everyone who came out and we are recognizing that our educators are standing outside and joining us in a different way. i like to open it up to public comment from commissioners and our student delegates. >> commissioner lam: thank you. i want to say that i have quite a few remarks. if that's okay. >> i want to thank staff for all their hard work and commissioner alexander for putting forward the core value plan and the