some of the cloth masks that were given that that's the only been effective against omicron so make that available to our students. our students are concerned when they get close contact memos so please do care for our students. we want to teach. our students want to learn and they want to bethere . >> thankyou . >> caller: tara or kathy? >> tara and then copy. >> kathy go first. >> caller: all right. >> kathy is there so go ahead tara. >> caller: can you hear me? >> tara, you go ahead. >> caller: my name is tara,i'm a parent and a teacher in the

district . i just want to say that educators are at the breaking point. this is very hard this year. it's harder than lastyear and we need all the support we can get . it doesn't feel safe. many of my students have had covid and i am personally keeping my son home and i wish there was a 2 week distance-learning option for him even though i am going into school to take careof my students. it doesn't feel safe and we need better masks. i've had students to through three masks during a session and it isn't safe . please get us masks and more availabletesting . i tested on thursday and didn't get myresults until last night at 7:20 . that's just too long to wait so thank you very much. >> thank you robert, please go ahead .

>> caller: last week i phased out more kn-95 masks in the school district this is ridiculous . put a positive in person learning so we can get on top of things. stop bowing to demands of the domestic terror organization sf parents coalition. they shut down the protocols resolution issued by commissioners last october with the threat of future recall before it was learning loss but we know there's no learning going on in schools . now as a parent the health and safety of our kids and teachers is being held hostage by a bunch of entitled privileged parents. enough with this . >> please don'tcuss on this call .hello, cow. i'll have to remove robert altogether. >> i already gave my public

comment. >> cal could you do me a favor and lower your handsetplease . delaney. >> caller: can you hear me? >> yes. >> caller: ... >> delaney? >> caller: can you hear me now? i want to acknowledge the fact that the community is thanking educators for their work but i want to acknowledge that you're not listening to whatwe're saying. i want to acknowledge that we're sitting in a district that is student centered but we're not listening to what the student advisory council is a . i want toacknowledge thefact

that people are saying schools are safe but as someone who has substituted in multiple schools and multiple classrooms , the last . i subbed in today had two students have a 13.two's students are not safe in our schools. we should have been preventedif because we missed that window it's time to read reactionary . i want to say i acknowledge that parents are volunteering but where are these parents volunteering at? i have not seen one parent at thurgood marshall elementary school are on the southeast side and i want to say weare professionalsand we should be heard and respected . thank you . >> iq. hello, marissa. hello, marissa. i'm sorry, go ahead. >> caller: hi, i'm an representative of sec and i want to thank all the staff but i don't think.

[inaudible] i'm uncomfortable going to school and even students who have confirmation are unknowingly going to schoo . [inaudible] i do want to say mental health ... [inaudible] ... [inaudible]

>> thank you, that's your time. violetta. >>. >> caller: [inaudible] >> we have to pause on this a moment while we check on our audio . >> caller: i want to note that public comment will be calling to an end though. and i extended it further beyond 30 minutes so we could hear from more peoplebut we will be closing public comment . >> caller: [inaudible] >> violetta, we are having technicaldifficulties but i'm also closing the public comment time .

>> caller: [inaudible] >> i like to open this time for studentteachers and delegates who like to comment on the item at this time .and reminder to our virtual attendees i cannot see your hand but if you choose to make a comment. >> i'd like to hear from our student delegates.

there's a letter that we received and i'd like themto review that with us for staff response . >> itlooks like student delegate lam can begin . andhopefully the connection is fixed . >>. [inaudible] >> student delegate lam? one moment. >> maybe she can call one of ourcell phones . if this is incorrect. >> let me giveyou a call . and does the audience student delegates, can you hear us clearly ? i'm not sure what's going on.

's. >> hello? this is working. >> yes it is. >> i'm trip down because i'm hearingit through my own ear so i'm going to take it out . i think i want to give some remarks on our own experiences. in schools while also talking about survey and some requests we have from staff. more specific requests that ar really addressing the letter or they are addressed in the letter but they're more specific . so starting with our

experiences, i can go first. i think we might toss this back-and-forth right after this but her and i are both at home today because we are both feeling a littleunder the weather .and cannot say that is not a result of being in school last week or of the recent omicron search. thankfully i tested negative and our student delegates, she can disclose whatever she would wish to disclose but i think this is evidence that something is going on when both of your student delegates are at home and feeling sick but in addition to that we have definitely seen the effects of the recent surge in our classrooms and in our schools. i mean, just today while i was at school i was walking with a teacher and she literally had to go to another class now so

people are taking on different shifts trying to make the ends meet. obviously there's superintendent matthews something for a class and there's a situation where lots of teachers are goingon . that leaves her a nonproductive work environment for our students especially if teachers are not able to post online or do not feel well enough to kee online assignments up-to-date . so that's kind of what we're seeing. a lot of students arereporting that their classes are empty and some students are reporting their classes arerelatively fall . there are a lot of varying perspectives . before i go into the actual data from the sfusd survey and our letter i want to pass it to student delegate liang to talk

about her own experiencesat her own school site or in general . >> i might have to patcher in, one moment okay, now you are both on. >> i wanted to share, i feel i'm like echoing. >> can you mute your resume? >> i've alreadyleft audio . >> i think you've got to mute. >> let me try this again.

try it now. >> is this better? okay. i want to share my experience. recently i did test positive covid which is why i am currently speaking from home and also speaking with my peers and students at mission high school and even across the district a lot of students are deciding to stay home because they feel unsafe . and three out of seven of my teachers are currently tested positive for covid and a lot of the students, the classes half empty which is quite absurd . to think that being in a classroom is a priority for us and even though we feel sick or even though my peers feel sick they feel the need to go to

school because there isn'ta hybrid option . that's just unsafe because i feel like inconsiderate. the fact that being in a classroom is a priority for their health. >>. [please stand by]

>> everyone is frustrated and confused. i think we need immediate action. i don't know when it looks like. it makes me very angry. to be in this position right now even though it is very hard

because i think moving forward some type of option where everyone feels like included because i think having everyone go in-person is inconsiderate and it's not working. that's where i stand and i think we can talk about the letter and demands we have come up with as the student body. >> the comments i have on coming i'm going to make sure i write down and send them to staff because i know during these meetings it's hard to track down everything that is being said and any questions. i want to go over the survey and preface by saying we haven't had the data verified and also, want to know, i'm being asked to

unmute on zoom. should i do that? >> you are coming in good. >> i should not cancel this request. >> the public should be able to hear you because you are on the mic we are all speaking on. great. no echo. what was i saying. oh, this is our first survey out as an sac this year and so, obviously there were things we could have done before including question testing and all that. over the course of the last week

or so the number is 1,350 and now it's up to 8,353 responses representing 10 middle schools and counting and also 13 high schools and counting. what we asked were questions about how students are feeling about going to school with the recent omicron surge. students picked on a scale of 1-4 their feelings around certain questions. this is what are your feelings to moving to virtual school and the afternoon we got is 2.16 so in the middle. one is in support for being not and we got an answer average

answer at 1.8 and as you can tell, things are landing in the middle for both of these and it goes back to the thing that we're seeing both in public comment and now as we're discussing this where there's no one answer that fits every family. some people are very scared of going back on-line and we're offering a hybrid learning option for people that don't qualify for olp or on demand learning. meaning those that have multi generational households and immuno compromised, people in their households, having them be able to opt into a hybrid learning program and we're

making sure teachers up load classroom assignments and that one point is kind of contentious because it requires a lot more work for teachers and we're hoping that the district can offer support to make that happen. offering real-time instructions that is also one that we know that mayor is not feasible but we want it to be available for two to three weeks and be restricted and open to those that have these extenuating circumstances whether it's multi generational households or being at home with people that are immuno compromised and the most important thing that was strongly advocated for in both public comment and with students is that these students that stay home get excused absences. there's no proper protocol for all schools, each school set has

his own protocol with excuses absences and it's a google form and having to call into the office. so we want, as a request to the district to make that protocol standards and to also include excused absences because of those that stay home because of fear of transmission in schools. even the same thing excused absences not really but we are also advocating from covid sick days for teachers as mr. fong cited in public comment as many educators did as well because they understand that a lot of new educators do not have sick days built up to use and they can't redelve them back. i'm going to pause there and

toss it to agnes. i think you got it. >> awesome. i'm going to go with two more points and then i'm going to turn it over for discussion. the neck thing is communication. we have mobile testing sites and it's great and people are starting to figure out that now as we can see with the higher demand, people are going to these caller sites. we have rapid testing sites which i didn't know a lot. people are starting to figure out too. what is helpful is weekly e-mails sent out to parents and families and every single week with the new it will be helpful to families and students as well

as these e-mails should be going to student inboxes as well and not just parents. also, posters at school. what we're not seeing are these testing posters at school as to where you can get tests and who you can ask for tests, what kind of tests are available and that's on our walls where students are in school looking at walls and looking on their way to classes and things like that so we want or we're requesting that there be posters made with the testing sites or how to get tested with qr codes and any relevant information for students. i think that might be the communication piece. >> do you have one more point or can we turn it to staff? >> i think we can turn it over

to staff. agnes, i feel like i'm missing something. >> i think that covers it in our letter but if anyone wants to chime in for discussion or have any discussions. >> you had better enforcement strategies for safety protocols. required vaccinations. >> definitely. so, better enforcement strategies for safety protocols. we're asking a more clear, clear guidance around how to keep students following these guidelines meaning disciplinary action for those that are not wearing their masks or like a system of being able to the

location of testing and vaccination sites. in terms of required vaccinations, we affirm requiring vaccinations in schools and we understand that there is already a ca or california vaccination mandate that is set to be in place next year and the fall and we also know there are other district in california that are trying to implement a vaccine mandate but have not been able to. for example, i think l.a. is ex hoping to implement theirs next year and same for their school district as well. i think san diego unified is also been trying to implement that. we would like to explore that option. especially since it's going to happen next year by the state.

>> thank you, public for sharing that and sharing your letter. i believe we'll be getting more information around sharing that publicly as well to make sure it's highlighted. i am now going to turn it to superintendent matthews for response. i'll hear from commissioners as well afterwards. >> we responded earlier just to one part. i can tell you, let me tell you a couple of things and any staff members who would like to address any other areas. definitely feel free. so, your points about communication, i'm going to come back to some. we will work on those. i will say, let me go through them. around communication both

accepting e-mails to study males as well as weekly e-mails we have weekly digest currently but i would like to sit down with you to talk about what better communication strategy so that it ensures that most students will read. i'm going to skip. we have a policy around if it's around covid it's an excused absence but i know you are asking for students who don't feel safe or them having an excused absence. so i need to talk to staff more to see what the current policies are and so i'll get back to you on that one. transparency around resource

distribution and so once again, i would have to sit with you. you are saying students do know this so we need to talk about ways that would make it more public. it's us sitting down to discuss how we can become more transparent for students and better enforcement of strategies so i would have to sit with you to see what that looks like from your perspective. i know from the perspective of i would imagine lead and our administrators, i need to talk to you more about what you are seeing and i would want to have our administrators in the room so it would be a conversation.

required vaccinations so as you have said the currently the governor's plan is to have these vaccinations required biff july 1st and it's just one of the another of the required vaccinations like measles, rubella, we have such a high rate in san francisco unified so we didn't feel the need to go for a mandate because 98% of our students are vaccinated. those districts that you mentioned pushed it back a couple of months because they real age a large number of students that wouldn't be in attendance if they put that in place so that's one of the things we have to think about

what what happen for those students that aren't vaccinated and the last one is urge are for the board meeting which we are discussing right now. i'm sure it's another one where we want to sit down and deputy superintendent do you have any thoughts or any comments on those. >> lots of thoughts and comments and make sure i reiterate is we do have the short term independent study option available for students who are isolating because they have tested positive as well as for students who have to quarantine because of close contact and it's up to 15 school days and three weeks i know that in the sac letter there was an request

for an option. our student and community know that short term study is available. as i said, re-evaluating the criteria for short term independent study because what is not part of that criteria is if you are fearful to come to school because you might live with someone who might be immuno compromised or other circumstance. if you are in that situation, i'm speaking slowly, we have the opportunity for those students to apply for the odlp. the on demand learning program. and while you are awaiting decisions on that program to know if you got into it or not, you are allowed to be on independent study so there are a number of ways that we're trying to be responsive to families and students in their circumstances either through the on-line learning program options or the short term independent study and i hear the feedback that we need to do better in more to get that information out and again to make sure that the criteria to

get into those programs or to participate and the short term and independent study is more responsive to the current changing context and unless there's something else but i forgot what it was. the other thing is, it's on the same. >> can i ask a clarifying question about the independent study. is that clear with the teachers who assigned it? responsible for getting it out to the students? >> so the teachers are required to do the assignments. our instruction department has made a number of activities that students can engage in that teachers can click and assign even that we've used during the school close your period. we're going to try to do better to get it pushed out so teachers know it's available because there's a huge surge in uptick for the independent study but yes, there are materials available and teachers are responsible to grade those. if you are in doing short term independent study, you are

attendance is retroactive if you will so for those days you are doing independent study you are not negatively impacted attendance wise and the teacher checks to make sure you did the work and if you did you will have >> the grades aren't penalized

in high school level so i don't know if there's a way to communicate that to teachers and to say if we can have a little bit of grace here it would help because if our student delegates are saying and students are feeling pressured to come to school when they're sick it will make everyone else less safe so it's a state law that that is our policy like that but i just know, we all know how that actually works at the site level which is that the classroom teacher ends up being responsible and if they're out sick and the students are out sick and you got 35 kids in a class which is our normal -- this goes back to our funding and how schools are funded, there's nobody at the site to coordinate that. i want to say it's the reality. it's not the fault of anyone in the system and it won't change in the next couple of weeks so we will have to be -- if there's a way to communicate to students too, i would say, if you feel like you are not getting

accommodations from your teacher, let someone know so we can close that communication loop and go back to the principle and make sure they're talking to teachers so we're giving each other grace and understanding in this period. i don't know if that makes sense. >> it makes sense. there's a team of us working to figure out if our models scenarios to respond to all of the crazy and the nuances because as you said, there's some educators, don't give me pre made assignments. there's others who need the pre made assignments. that said it does not keep you on track of whatever is happening in the classroom so we're trying to our best to do this in a way that is still in compliance with the law that still gives students a rich and engaging students and that also gives educators some flexibility and support and so that is the complexity of it and again this

surge is a new surge but i think i said we're trying to figure out as many ways as possible to be responsible and the current context. >> i don't know if we'll discuss the hybrid thing but i would say, again, as a former principal and teacher, that's the obstacle of doing a hybrid option. it's just logistically honestly impossible and then it's like who is going to do that if the classroom teacher is doing that then it's we have to kind of restructure the whole school system for hopefully what is two to three to our week period of this surge. now if it goes on longer, then i think we need to take other considerations but i guess is really valuable work and i want to emphasize that and some of the other things we talked about they can do better on. some things we have to again, work with grace and hopefully

communicate better and try to not -- i just don't want to see students being penalized for this. everyone is trying their best. i know teachers are working really hard and students are working hard and we want to get through this difficult period. >> agreed. >> ok, so i want to support the conversation our student delegates were able to start and weave that into the discussion which i'm sure many commissioners will bring up similar points. i also wanted to test out the zoom option again and commissioner moliga, i see your hand up and hopefully things have been taken care of. >> we just need to turn up the

sound. go ahead. >> one moment.

>> all right. let me turn my mic off. are we still having -- is this still a conversation around student delegates conversation president lopez? i have a question outside of that. i do appreciate the student delegates' presentation. it was pretty good. >> that's a good question and it's open for the discussion which is the agenda item. >> ok. >> so, thank you for the presentation and i had a question for i know the city and county had a million dollars surplus and i think i read earlier that there are other conversations with the supervisors and the mayor things like there were two asks right

around testing and then also et cetera and i just wanted to get a clear understanding of what the asks were and then are there time lines behind the city and county being able to support us and those areas given that this is a public-health issue and the city and not just the school district isolated issue. >> yes, so the ask were around both masks and testing and any support that they could offer. today they announced that we're getting 150,000kn95 masks. and also they gave 1,000 rapid tests. we are going to schools so that

people who are coming back who need to test the return those will be available and those will be made available at schools so that is one and i just answered the mask. i don't know if i'm for getting any of the other responses from the city in regards to our requests. >> i hope that answers your question. commissioner moliga. >> thank you erin ten dent matthews. >> sorry commissioner collins i see you talking but we're still trying to figure out the tech.

>> so we want to do the same thing so that members of the public at home can hear commissioner collins. >> they can't. we just can't hear. members of the public can hear and they can hear the person there it's just coming no this rom that's the problem. >> so you don't want to call commissioner collins and do the same thing. >> i could. >> and i will just take this opportunity to let you know that we're still having trouble getting any members of the public to be able to call so, we can finish this item because members of the public can hear your deliberations and after that, if we're not able to resolve this issue, we have to continue the meeting before we take up another item. >> sorry. >> there it is. >> you are good. >> can you hear me. >> ok, i don't know what happened. i just quickly request was the kn95 masks are for adults, is

that -- i wanted to clarify. >> yes, the kn95 masks are for adults but we also received -- i'm trying to remember now. 300,000 mask, surgical masks for adults and 305,000 surgical masks for students. >> ok. thank you. just clarifying. >> commissioner. >> just in regards to the mask, you shared numbers that were very large as far as the number of masks we received could you let us know how long will those masks last and where will that get us to as far as what we currently have and we received as well as what we're purchasing as far as the availabilities on masks and now between the end of the semester. >> so we currently had a 30-day

supply already before the donation started. so we had a 30-day supply. that's if everyone used a mask every day. so we had a 30-day supply. i'm going to ask chief are you on now? >> yes, do you know either you or chief what the supply is for what we are -- what's getting in or do we still have to do calculations? >> we're doing calculations and we currently have a 30-day supply and we're currently calculating what we have so we can put out the ask to have this supply through the end of the school year. >> the reason for this is as you heard earlier there are so many things that are happening so rapidly so the -- we have the 30-day supply but we received another $30,000 from the miz community on monday and then today which is tuesday and

another $300,000 so we just, it's coming in right now. if that makes sense. it just came in monday and tuesday and we haven't had a chance to calculate what it means towards the end of the year and how many more we need to get to the end of the year. >> that's fine. >> so i'm just trying to understand, we did hear from some of the commenters that there's masks are not available and i'm trying to understand is that not accurate? do we know what the gap is there? you know what i mean? >> the mask arrived at the end of last week and they're going out, they started going out friday and today, yesterday and today so they're arriving at sites. with those masks distributions also, the test kits that came from the state for students came in and so you heard a mother say

her test kit came home today so these are being sent home with students. we also received a donation of tests of rapid tests molecular pcr rapid tests and those went currently for classroom teachers so those i know half, two-thirds of those went out today and so those are now in our beginning to get in teachers hands and they're at schools now so they'll be in teacher hands today or tomorrow and the other third is going out tomorrow so things are, as soon as they get to us we're shipping them out immediately. our goal is not to hold on to anything to get it into people's hands right away. >> with masks specifically, by tomorrow or thursday there shouldn't be anymore -- there shouldn't be any gaps in the mask distribution anyway. >> absolutely not. >> thank you. >> one more point i want to make is on that piece around

communications, that families know these are now being provided and hopefully we can continue to provide it consistently but even letting families know it's available is where we falter. commissioner collins, i see your hand. >> thank you. so, i guess i want to come back what we're asking for is a plan. and so, i'm hearing from different commissioners how many do we have. do we have enough for the year? and we have difficulties and students and what types of masks and when will you have a plan from now until the end of the year for us to see how many masks we have now and how many we need and all of that. >> so we will have the numbers for you. we can have those -- we will have those at the next meeting, however, as just said, what happens is, we have the plan for what we need but you heard the

numbers that changed, not the numbers needed but the numbers this have come in. we will have the numbers for you and tell you what we have in place and our plan to whatever that gap is, our plan, because we can also purchase but right now, we're seeing some of those gaps are fueled by the business community or the city. >> so can we post out on-line as and i see a big thermometer that folks use or is there a way to post it on-line so people can see what the meat is and parents can also see how we're filling it the ultimate need because we want to make sure we're covered until the end of the year. >> yes, this is gentle blithe deputy superintendent and we are working on that and we have to get the correct information in order to post it so we're currently on the back end trying to make sure that we have a good

accounting of all of the supplies and then as you will see right now in line with a timeline of the distribution for all of the self-test kits going out so, what we're looking to do is to continue to be able to do that around masking as well rapid self-tests that we received so we can provide line of sight for that so i completely grow that we have a need to make all of that information available in real-time so people can contribute and people can know what is coming so we're working on that. >> i volunteered to help with any back end stuff around developing communications or things and i wanted to let you know i'm happy to let you know i help. >> thank you. >> student delegate. >> i just have a quick question with the test kits and stuff and i know that test kits were handed out at mission high school yesterday i believe, is this going to be a regular thing that you guys are aiming for? a weekly thing or just a

one-time thing? what's the plan with that in terms of handing out testing kits to students? >> great question. so i was on a press conference with the mayor this morning and one of the things she said was that especially the rapid tests, those are just you can't get them and what is happening is the federal government has made a commitment to mail one to every household so they've cornered the market on the rapid test and for right now states are just struggling to find anyway so i wish i could say this would be weekly but it's not currently and at some point it will just, for lack of a better example the toilet paper situation two years ago, there was a point where you couldn't get any and all of a sudden overflow so i know at some point we will have rapid tests everywhere but it's not in the next throw weeks or four weeks it's going to take some time.

right now it's a one-time thing unless we continue to get the city partnering with us, the business community partnering with us and even our business community partnering with us, they basically had to use all of their rapid test kits. they're difficult to get at this time. what is the plan, which has been the plan since last spring is our color testing model and the hope when this right now you heard some of the concerns about it taking 72 hours as this surge goes down which was another thing that was it and during the press conference today and is that the prediction is about another week and a half to two weeks and then our big plan is

color and i wish i could say the rapid test would be a weekly thing but it's not in the near future. >> can i just add the rapid test site that we stood up this month we will continue right now the plan is to continue through the end of the school year and it's a supplement to the color testing and the color testing is really good for the close contact testing and returning to school and then the rapid testing is actually better if you are symptomatic, right, because you want the results more quickly so we're working to stand up as many as we can but it's a supply chain issue because we have to have the people and most importantly have the test kits but those will continue as well.

>> vice president lamb. >> thank you. and thank you to fac. thank you to our educators and school staff and all staff in general. i know it's all hands on deck and i want to acknowledge to our students and families and staff what a hard time it's been since the beginning of this spring semester when we return from winter break. i have questions related to the color contract and i want to thank superintendent matthews, emily for some of the questions that i have and so i'll raise them right now and we are, i just want to name that we do have the color contract extension and i will be supporting the extension of that contract because i do not want anything to limit the testing infrastructure that we have

currently at sf unified and at the same time, i do have questions about the vendor and right now, through this surge, we are also seeing other emerging and the market is changing and so i'm really curious to you know, for thinking in the next throw months, six months, in further and what opportunity this is for the school district and leveraging and really maximizing the efficiencies, the investments and i really like the multi-layered approach that we have and i think that has really been done in partnership with sfdph and working with cdph and our rapid antigen testing partners like safer together so i just wanted to name that and

they have been charge with holding the responsibilities because it is first and foremost of us serving our students and our families and staff and at the same time we desperately need additional supports and we'll talk a little bit more in upcoming policy committee meetings about what is happening at the state level, the budget analysis coming from the governor's office and also really what covid funding we continue to need that goes directly for public-health services, not education recovery, not only with education recovery and so with that, just some questions that i have with the color contract is around the over all of they have been impacted and the vendor has been impacted f two days now on

from my understanding, a server issue and it has had national impacted that impacted the san francisco city and county sites which they had to close down some of the sites or limit their hours so just wanted to ask staff how is the last two days of colors technical problems impacted our mobile sites. >> the mobile sites or the self-plot sites so fortunately for us most of our testing is through the self-swab kits that people pick up at school sites and that did not impact this at all. the system to activate kids and pick up kids which is a courier system and process them did not impact those sites at all. we did not shut down any of our mobile sites so it didn't impact those ' so fortunately for us we were pretty much, that didn't impact us.

however, the huge demand because rapid tests are so hard to find, that has impacted everyone because one you can't get a rapid test so it takes longer to get a test so there's a delay there and two, so many people are asking for tests the time for the processing is taking longer. so, it's a over all -- it's app over all global national issue on the testing so it has been impacted in the turn around time because of the increase demand and a lot of that is driven because there's no available rapid antigen kits. so, i don't know which is leading what but it's all impacting everything. >> i just want to acknowledge just the number of volume of tests that through sf unified, you know, is we are, dr. matthews i've heard you say, we are one of the largest city testing providers in the city and i just want to acknowledge that and at the same time, just

knowing how important the demand is especially during this surge because like we heard, time and time again, not only when it's symptomatic, when students and staff are wanting to come back into the classroom, so much of them that's just the reality right now of what we're all facing. with that it's just technology and however or contract is structured, although i know that the staff has not had the space and time to look at renegotiating prices or establishing a service level agreement, those are the things i would love to work like to have staff really do that analysis of moving forward and this is really looking forward. as i bring this up. and i appreciate dr. matthews, your commitment last night when we talked being able to start that conversation as early as maybe friday but knowing where

challenged we are of staffing even next week and i want to appreciate our conversation to be able to really think about longevity and sustainable of a testing program that really meets current needs and knowing that it is a surge and at the same time, i really do think we need to look at a longer term of three months and six months analysis. so with that, in addition, i have a question and this is to the lettering, we don't have to answer this right now. i am thankful that we do have approved partners through the state like safer together and it's able to provide this rapid antigen testing and something i would like to as part of this next analysis of work, is how are we leveraging the

opportunities coming from the state and who knows, right, as the governor is revealing new covid response i just do know those things and i hope the team will also dive into what may shall coming forward for those resources at the state level. >> so may i say something. >> yes. >> so one, we are currently leveraging resources from the state. so i just want to be clear, i think there's this thing out there that says we're not so we chose to take a direct grant from the states. we've been moving towards rapid antigen and it takes a little while to develop infrastructure and doing that and we have always had the plan to write and release another request for proposals for testing services and we're hoping to do that in march and that was something we were going to start working on in january write particular because we know the landscape has changed so we have these

plans and then things happen and things get time wise will get pushed. i just want to be clear we have been leveraging the resources coming from the california department of public-health and we're working with safer together one of the partners and color is one of the partners of california department of health and we leverage california department of health resources through them as well. so known the testing labs landscape is changing and we know we will test through next school year so we need to evolve our testing plans because it looks different than and it's hard to believe, it was only less than a year ago when released our last rfp and things have changed greatly. i wanted to acknowledge that much of that work is already underway. >> thank you. i'm sorry, one last comment and i'll stop, i promise.

i have a request for the upcoming budget and business services around the budget overview and i think it's important to then, why if there's a way to be able to lift out that in kind of leveraging of resources and so that frankly, that the 12.8 million may be what we're spending or the funding sources to pay towards that cost but i want to demonstrate to the public how much is it really truly cost that it has to operate these systems because i really want school districts to be recognized for the scaling and the infrastructure that is really needed and have been needed and we have been holding. so i'll just conclude my remarks there. >> i just wanted to do some math here. to answer the question about the math, just so we get it clear,

we'll still get it on the website. we have enough to get us through march now. we need another between 460 to 500,000 to get us through the end of the year. >> that is if everyone, if each adult used one mask per day. >> that's not -- >> that's the assaults. the staff members. >> just to follow-up. or can you remind me, what do we do from students. do we provide surgical masks and we have a supply of 305,000 currently. at least 305,000. >> do we have any plans to get more high-quality masks for students? >> yeah, cal osha ordered them

but they're not recommended for younger students so it really is a -- if the student choses to wear it but wore working to get those. >> and just to add to that i think what everyone is pushing for is ensuring that people at least from the option as we heard in one of our public comments families are fearing the ability to have to pay for it themselves instead of having to pay for food or other costs and if there's a way the school district can provide that on a daily basis, it doesn't mean they'll wear them but it is an option. >> commissioner alexander. >> thank you. i wanted to follow-up on vice president lamb's comments around testing and what you just said, is where i wanted to start with maria's comments about that and

just hearing families talk about being scared and not being able to get access to tests and not knowing being able to pay for food or not knowing what to do. it's something i heard over and over again and i think i don't want to be -- i don't want to look backwards and i appreciate vice president's proactive view of looking forward but it's possible there may be another surge so i do want to ask -- it feels to me like maybe we weren't as prepared as we could have been around the testing piece here and i'm just, again, not in a judgmental way but can we in terms of thinking about next time, my understanding is that oakland and some other district were able to get rapid tests out before winter break and there were some pilot programs that may have been available and so i'm just curious, do we have an assessment of what we could have done better to get rapid tests out and or what is our plan if there's a -- what's after

omicron? is omicron or whatever. whatever the future thing that we do know of if is another surge hits, which is likely, what is our plan in terms of -- the rapid tests are really -- thinking about modified quarantine the five-days testing and test to stay and we could have staff, some of those public commenters said if we have rapid tests it would be easier to have people on campus than feeling safe so i just think obviously they're not available right now but thinking forward. >> may i swerve that. >> please, thank you. >> yeah, so we a employed for the pilot program and we did not get it. we had too high of a request for numbers. this was back in the fall. i can't remember the dates. in the fall because they were very small numbers. the test kits that were made available went in less than a

day. it was so quickly how quickly they said here is -- if you want these test kits sign up and by the time i got it and tried to sign up they were gone so the reason we were not able to have test kits was not for lack of trying or planning they went immediately. everything is going immediately and second, so there's that and we tried to do that and we were unsuccessful. maybe next time maybe i should -- i don't know how the self-swabs are really good if we can when the demand starts going down we can level back to the 12 hour turn around and those are the best for the modified quarantine or the test to stay

and that can send them back because students don't leave school so you get two kits and you do it and come back and drop it off and so we're already been planning to how that would be implemented when we get to the point when we have adequate testing supplies whether it's a rapid test or the self-swab so it's part of the accommodation to meet the needs as well as we could and also just you know, oakland also actually had more positive cases in their school last week than we did so, they handed all the kits, we did know if everybody used them. i think we do have to think like, i know it would have been great how we were able to do that and i wish and also other sites that did that it also didn't have the impact that there was the hope for it to have.

>> thank you i appreciate that detailed response. >> i guess i'm curious to what is kind of our budgetary timeline providing ppe. i would love to see us with a throw-year plan how we will continue to offer those things and i know a lot of it is contingent of us getting funds from the state and federal government so i'm interesting if we could just talk a little bit about kind of if there's any kind of long-term plan or commitment that we've kind of identified and our planning to make sure that there's adequate testing contracts tracing and ppe and future school years. >> we are ak session the female resources for all the supplies. it's on going and something we've been doing for quite some

time. we're trying to access all the fema resources and one of the challenges that is cost reimbursement so you have to spend the money and you ask for it to get reimbursed but i don't know if chief wallace is here she might answer better than i. >> or see, i'm here, just a little slow to get on camera. i'm happy to take time and answer that. i think your question commissioner is around this scope of the needs and how we position our resources to make sure that we can fund that need so i like to say to program staff that is funding and the need is a chicken and egg thing. i can, in my world, we would look for resources to align with

the expenditure needs so, i think it is important for us as a district to look at that future of testing where are we going with covid and what are other school district doing and so i think it's a combination of looking at that on going demand for providing testing and it will actually be necessary. but then, assuming that it is necessary, my hope would be that there would be at least some level of resources and i'm not into the future. i would hope that it won't be the expectation of the state we use our local control funding dollars to provide testing to you're students. so, i think to that end, we will need to continue to monitor what is going on with fema funding and state dollars and so i think

it's a bit too early at this point but, i guess i would say that we do have some really good mechanisms in place and that is we're talking together as a district between staff who are identifying the need and mapping out that trajectory and talking with the fiscal folks who will keep our eyes outlooking to see what funding sources are coming our way and when there are gaps, talking with you all, and seeing if we need to see other types of funding sources to help build that gaps. >> is there currently an end date for the fema money that we're using to support the testing for reimbursement or is that pretty much on going until someone stops it because of the

trajectory of covid that timeline was extended. i would anticipate if we continue to see trends with covid that fema would adapt. >> thank you, i have a few more questions and i'll try to keep them brief. in regards to the slides around ventilation i was curious if there were air cleaners and small office space and host students and i didn't see those lists and i know it was something brought up previously and just curious around the maintenance of the filters and how often are we changing the

filters is that someone from the central office team that is changing them or that someone at the school site and if we had any issues with the systems failing and if we were able to quickly get fixed and replaced and they assess our maintenance and taking care of the devices. >> certainly commissioner happy to spend to those questions. i think the good news is that we have not received reports of failures of the devices and or the portable air cleaners and they've been all functioning as intended which is good to hear and we do hear quite a bit of portable air cleaners going wandering between classrooms and spaces in school districts and people make trades or decide to move units around for convenience or diffuse patterns that weren't anticipated by us.

and in terms of maintenance, we have a number, we have an on call mechanical contractor who have been helping us with our first round of filter replacements for some of the first filters put in place in building and pacs, right. there's two accept types of filters. and so those earliest spring in-person learning sites we have retained a mechanical contractor to go through and replace the building filters. and we're also doing the same for pacs that need to have filters replaced. the filter replacement schedules vary by model and almost all of the pacs, if i remember correctly, require at least some sort of once a year filter

change and it was just discussing this with my staff yesterday now that they've we want a stable routine so we are preparing an associated budget for their routine replacement and we do not have sufficient staff within the buildings and grounds teams. to handle this within our existing sfusd staff. >> i asked about the place that's have stuff or students in them and whether or not they were able to have air

purification as well and the same way a classrooms are. >> to the extent that principles have identified for us that they have a multi occupancy space that we do not catch, right, so for example, i can get you an

updated statistic around like requested spaces for multi akpan see as much as we caught and my conversations with my staff, my understanding is again that the over we willing majority of those space have been discovered at this point and what remains outstanding are single offices and single occupancy offices. >> thank you. i have one more question and then i will be done. just lifting up a lot of the concerns that have come from students, from the commenters and from labor and i feel like we've address touchdown some but i feel based on the level of

inquiry around it i'm curious if we can address that a little bit in this space and troy to respond a little bit to the dough sire to see something different happen and kind of what our capacity is to do that separate from our desire. >> legal constraints. >> yeah, like i know that there's a restriction on us returning to full scale distance learning. to my knowledge, i'm wondering what other legal constraints are there to how we operate to ensure that we receive the proper funding for our school district. does that make sense? >> i could rephrase it. >> the ability for us to get average daily attendance or paid right for student attendance for remote learning. unless it's done through the independent study program we don't have a means of capturing

that ada. the other impediment or maybe that's the wrong word. the other necessary step would be a conversation and a memorandum of understanding with our labor partners and because of that expired when we returned to in-person learning. so if the district wanted to pursue that we would need to a way to capture ada through independent study and we would need to negotiate that with our labor partners. >> ok, so then just to recap that. the constraints are a combination of how do we insure we transition people to the appropriate program from in-person learning which people are kind of already in and receiving those funds as well as at negotiating new terms with labor partners to ensure that we have the labor agreements worked out to deal with any kind of

changes that would come from that. >> exactly and those are the legal and labor constraints and i could defer to deputy superintendent but you would see a different personnel constraint because we don't currently have that remote learning staffed to handle large numbers of students transitioning into remote learning. >> just to clarify, is that like say if the school district shifted to virtual, like we did in the past, or is it separate if someone wants the option they have it. >> i'm asking about both and how we're viewing it as a district and our preparedness. there's a desire i think for a little bit of everything from folks and so i think just trying to be really transparent about what we feel that we are able to do kind of at a moment's notice

what we kind of have limits because of how we're fund and what is kind of the legal constraints on how we shift things and just so that can be really clear for ourselves and for the public and we can adjust. our requests and desires hopefully accommodate the realities we're into. >> she kind of said it all. the only other thing to add is always thinking about the logistics of all the different models and making sure we have the resources and the infrastructure to make them happen. you hear folks asking for hybrid or concurrent there's a whole structure and things that need to be in the class almost for teachers to facilitate a classroom. quality is an always an issue when you think about a district and otherwise the things that danielle said are the bigger

ones. >> ok. commissioner san december and sanchez andcommissioner collins. >> thank you, president lopez. i want to piggyback on what commissioner bogus brought up and i also >> my feeling is that if schools shut down, it will be because we can't staff them.

it will be a defact owe not a dej ho ur decision. it will be we can't staff the school and even though we've done a good job, i want to com pend to you dr. matthews and deputy superintendent for making that happen and i don't know if that is sustainable if the rates rise at an

>> it's a series of questions that we're asking and it really is about, as you just said, it's a combination of the number of adult owns campus versus the number of students and it really is about safety and keeping our schools safe and our students safe if we hit that breaking point, we will do at that point is contact parents and to let them know we're going to, we couldn't say if we operate the campus at this tome on this date and it is a conversation that we're having with our staff members at the site and our admin site members. >> thank you. i know we have the list of sites last thursday that the quote-unquote added to the numbers of teachers who weren't on site in paris and that

mission high for example, through 4 classrooms that were -- didn't have certificate of people through passion so what do we do in that situation? what happened there? did it just become a really big baby-sitting operation. is anybody learning? what happens then? >> i can give more information about what is occurring at mission and i know that was an abhoration to all of our other sites which actually there were classrooms in place and in each and every site so i will get more information about what occurred at mission and the questions we're asking, were boar able to keep students safe and actually educating them and so, you have more information on, ok, so, we will follow-up on

that one and get information. >> thank you. >> if i can actually jump in just quickly. to highlight that experience because that one thing that i kept hearing and i hearing is we're in a battle between staying in schools or not. and i really want to emphasize that we are working on all of the options to make sure that we remain a float. i want to move away from this idea that there's fighting. i know we all want the same things but the reality is, that teachers are drowning and they do need support and that the rate, we need to do everything possible to ensure we're providing the supplies that will help them feel safe in order to do their work and as an educators and someone who went to a school site because they didn't have enough educators, it's important to note that the

learning that's happening right now is not the effective creative, engaging learning that we've missed during virtual learning that we say we wanted because we were in-person. so, even though our schools are open and our classrooms are open and taking care of it however we can and we're all hands on deck and it's not necessarily saying that there's effective on going consistent learning and until we address all of the requests that people are making everything that our students are pointing out and that will continue and it's the reason why we're in this battle or why there's this idea that we need to keep schools open or not is what is on the ground isn't working and i have to keep highlighting that for people who are not experiencing what is happening at our schools to recognize to

appreciate the work being done and honor the work being done and also do everything they can so that we can get what is needed to keep people safe and keep people in their role. teachers need to be heard. they need to feel like we are appreciating and valuing their work and i see us all moving and i see us all making these efforts to make that happen but right now, as it stands, it's not sustainable and we will continue to loss more and more folks because this work is becoming too exhausting to continue. >> may i -- i think what you are talking about president lopez also relates to this larger question of the budget and sustainability in the long-term and i think that this is why i and others of us have been really advocating for not making cuts to schools for next year

because if we come out of this, and in march, february and march we tell school sites you've got to cut 10% of your budget which is what our balancing plan was doing in december, people are going to quit. i talk to teachers at their breaking point saying i just can't keep doing this and if we -- we're seeing the effects of under staffing our schools and i want to thank dr. matthews for the work, i think we're getting closer and closer with the governor's budget and we'll get details soon but we're getting closer and closer to a place where we hopefully can avoid cuts to school sites next year but regardless, and it's not even, that's going to be really hard because we have to make painful cuts to do it. we're underfunded as a system and so this is where we have inadequate staffing a cross the board we're trying to do amazing work and we have phenomenal educators at every level of the system and we have money and

this crisis hits and this is what we're dealing with and that's the situation that we're in. >> i have a couple more points. i know commissioner collins you were next and we might wrap this item up by 11:00 but i can't make any promises. commissioner collins. >> thank you. i want to say i just want to

echo the comments of the educators on the board. and i know i just want to say, it was hard enough to see a teacher with kids in a school serving a lot of students with needs in our district and it was not sun tape able for me as a person and a mom and then having health issues and having parents and that needed support and that was 10 years before covid so that's their normal reality for most educators and educators with family. and so i do want to say you know, it was already unsustainable for a lot of educators and we're already seeing an ex owe does of people leaving the profession and that

reason. i want today say thank you to all the kids' teachers and educators out there and acknowledge staff that are not teachers support custodial staff and all the folks with nutrition services working all year and before we even opened schools and the fact thaw guys are really just doing work you shouldn't be doing and it has an impact on your families and also on your physical health. and so i want to acknowledge that sacrifice and i want to tell you how much i deeply appreciate it and i'm fighting as hard as i can to make sure that we do better for you. on that note, i want to move over to the families and i think this is important to me. i want to acknowledge that i'm deeply appreciative of central

office staff and parent volunteers in helping out this past week volunteering and pitching in is not a plan and not enough and what i'm hearing which is really rewarding is to hear us talking about making plans and sharing those with staff and sharing those with family and also sharing those with folks who want to help us and in business community or the state or working with the mayor to figure out how we can fill gaps and i want to also be honest and feel like there's sometimes that i'm hearing folks talk about things and i think about what i'm also hearing from the community as well is that there feels like it's a disconnect with reality and that when i talk to parents or talk to teachers and i hear the superintendent or sometimes central office staff talking about what is happening, it's like, i feel like we're not talking about the same thing and i do feel like we need to

recognize what is going on so i want my experience this past week and we acknowledge testing was, we did not do it, we failed as a district to meet the needs of our community and this week my children utilize one of the take home tests offered through their school site and this could be an option and my kids were tested last friday and we have yet to receive results. it means it's going to be about 60 hours if i get my test results done and they'll be no longer useful and i want to add to that fact for the department of public-health has been mentioned all the city testing sites were down for the last two days and due to problems with the labs and the antigen tests that were sent to the district last thursday have not come to my daughter's school and a points are three to four days out and their results come in

three days. so my family's story is being replicated over and over throughout the district and so when i hear like a district communication that i know is meant to be helpful but it says go on-line and get tested or when you tell me how many other families how many parents have -- how many tests have been distributed it feels really disrespectful because i know there are families in crisis and i'm hearing from parents who have waited over three hours on-line this past three hours in line this past weekend and in some cases are missing school to get their kids tested. and so, i need to hear that reality is understood and if we're on a different page like we got to get on the same page and so there has to be a way central office knows what experiences are happening and i'm feeling like that's even bigger than testing. that is the problem is just that the disconnect. i also want to state that dph

doesn't limit us and so while i respect the fact that we are not a public-health providers and we do not and should not determine department of public-health guidance, we don't have to limb ut ourselves and other districts are look ago head and making choices that are helping their school communities feel safe and we are not limited by the minimum requirements that the department of public-health says and so i just want us to be able to have an open conversation about what we want for our teachers and our students and our families and it makes, it's imperative that we listen and we're responsive because parents and teachers and students are making their own decision and they're not coming to school sometimes. even when they're not sick. and so that is also learning laws. and that is students in schools

anxious not hearing because they're stressed and teachers having half-filled classrooms not being able to teach because they don't teach a third of the class that might come in and out over the week. i'm asking the superintendent and i'm glad we'll see some models for students testing and i want to be really specific. the easiest way for parents to know where they can get testing is at their school and they're doing it in l.a. and in other district. i've asked for a model for how other district are doing weekly and i'm hopeful when they get things together, if a school site has a friday pick up day or a tuesday pick up day, parents can pick up their weekly, they can do weekly testing and when the turn around is faster and they can get it through their school sites and that is currently is not happening. and i don't know superintendent

matthews, this is a question i have for you, when we spoke you said it was available and i told other parents about it and they were confused like i was and we went on-line and it says there's a page on the website and anyone can go there it's a surveillance testing and it says very clearly it's a way to keep our communities safe which is what my family wants to do and many families want to do and people come up with asymptomatic test results it worries us we're going to get our families sick or we're going to get our teachers sick or our friends sick. so, we need to have this surveillance testing and very clearly on the website in letters it's only available for students who are symptomatic or close contacts and that that is the way you get it distributed and i had one parent call their principle and the principle said no we don't have tests available for kids to take home. so i don't know if that's true or not now and is it true that parents could ask for this weekly testing through their schools and if not, i want to

know why can't we have that because i just heard is that we've got fema funding and the fema funding reimburses up to 100% so if we already have an infrastructure that is easy for parents, i can go to my kids school every week like i normally do if i know it was a pick up day and we have infrastructure to pick it up, parents want to help and they can support and make sure just like wednesday folders, whatever needs to happen but parents that want it and students that want it can get their kids tested every week and school communities can band around that and say let's get our test kits weekly so we cannot only am i making sure my kids are safe, but i want other kids to get tested too so i feel safe with my kids going to school with them so if we help each other we are make sure schools are testing regularly and that's surveillance testing. i'm not aware currently of surveillance testing we all get tested and on a regular basis.

>> can we have a superintendent matthews respond? >> i would really appreciate that and then i have a specific question around fema. thank you. >> so, as we discussed this week, yes p. at schools sites students can get tested weekly and this is at every school in the district. >> can i ask, why is it? >> you have to finish or i just let you go ale of your questions out and i'm not going to start talking and you cut me off. >> i'm sorry, when you say they can and i know a parent who couldn't, and that is confuse to go me so that's the disconnect i talked about in the beginning. when you say they can, and a parent couldn't, like, that doesn't -- that doesn't make sense to me. so that's why i don't mean to interrupt -- it's multiple parents told me they were confused when i told them that was possible and no one heard of it.

and it doesn't say that on the website so i'm meaning honestly i'm just really confused. >> testing is available at every school, parents just have to pick up the color kit and they do the testing and then they drop off the kit. so, when i say can i mean it's available for every parent and as well as every staff member. >> so, may i ask why on the website under surveillance testing does it say that tests are distributed to students that are close contact and asymptomatic and it's in bold letters it makes it look like they're not available for you and i'm telling you, parents told me this and i didn't like look for this. three different parents told me they were not allowed to get them. >> i think you are pointing out commissioner collins is how when things change and pivot, how

sometimes we don't catch all of the places where information is confusing. we are going into the winter break, we have about 450 to 60,000 arriving this week and we are communicating this out so, i think that is the confusion and i agree with you that there's always a lag time between what we've had planned and the communication and then everybody actually getting the information in their hands. so, it is available and we are -- >> i'm sorry. so just to really quickly. so it's in process the communication or did the communication already go out. >> the website has not been -- >> i didn't get that

communication and the parents i spoke to didn't get that communication. we didn't get that andre >> we didn't get that and we are all running around the city to find it. it was very easy when i talked to the school. you can getou one. great. another parent said they were not aware of this policy. >> and i am going to say again, because we are in such a moment where everybody is testing. results are not going to come as fast as you wanted them. >> you done that in december you probably would have got results in 12 hours. now is a different story. >> the test this week from the state we are covered. mike kids come on a regular cadence to know the pickup dare at every school. they can know they can test their kid, drop it off before 10:00 on the day they pick it up

and they can get like a result every week. that is the plan. i just wanted to say. >> the goal which we are working on in nonecation is to encourage people to put health information in it. we have such a low rate of people adding health insurance information that we are paying millions of dollars more than we need to. that is the plan in place to encourage people and all of that. >> i appreciate that. i think that is the place where parent involvement could support at school side level and coach parents to fill out stuff online. middle and high school students can do a lot of that on their own. i think that is where the parent community can help. i would like to work with you on that. my other question is i wrote in a resolution. this is something parents have

been running. we wrote this in the resolution for weekly testing. i am glad you found a way to make this possible. i wonder why you didn't tell me about it because like. >> i would say in the november board meeting, we launched this in november. the week of november 15th we were launching, and we had limited supplies. we were ramping up. at that time certainly could i have done better 100%. alwayshind site. even my best plans have failure. i am going to be honest. review the plan. i appreciate your comments. >> as a board we want to help. we want accurate information.

there is a lot of families. i want to recognize that when health guidance changes. when did it change before schools opened? health guidance? >> january 1st. you had like three days? >> 48 hours and i run a test site. >> you have to go through the guidance to interpret what it means and you have to translate it. >> three days to translate. >> multiple languages then e-mails, on websites make sure that all suffers. it is hard to check. do we check ever place we presented the information. the parents with the weekly reminders are doing a good job.

i want to keep three thank you for the weekly testing. that is the number one if parents can can get weekly testing from the school. i hope we can have more families return. >> i do want to make sure we wrap up after this. it is now 11:00. i also do want to convey that this will be an item at the committee tuesday. it is something to discuss in the future. >> thank you. >> thank you for your work and

patience tonight. student delegates i know it is time for you to step off and get a good night's rest. >> speedy recovery. >> good night. >> before i continue reminding the public, we switched around the agenda we are on c. i note the time. i want be to put up a vote to continue the meeting. i just need a second. >> second. >> could we do a roll call vote?

(roll call). that is five ayes. >> he said no. >> that is four ayes. >> can i change my vote? >> we needed four.

>> okay. section c public comment on non-agenda items. 1. protocol for public comment. note public comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community in matters within the board jurisdiction. refrain from using employee names. if you have a complaint you may submit to the supervisor in compliance with district policy. as reminder board rules in california law do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during public comment be time. we will ask staff to follow up if appropriate. the first part of the non-agenda items public comment is dedicated to students. i would like to see if there are any students who are able to give public comment during this time. >> thank you, president lopez. if you are a student and would like to speak this evening

please raise your hand right now. repeat in chinese and spanish. [speaking in foreign language] >> hello, cal. >> thank you to the board for acknowledging the fac letter. we tried to write it quickly.

as an author when writing it we thought it might be extra burden to the teachers. i want to note it was supported via instagram. not all teachers are part of the union but it is something to show support. i wanted to talk about the conditions within our school. students have gone up to a week without soap in bathrooms. i remember mentioning this a year ago at board meetings. this is an issue since i was a freshman now a junior and at other schools. it is hard to be covid safe when we don't have the necessary hygiene products to keep ourselves covid free. hand sanitizer in the halls are out. i want to make sure you encourage the schools to stay

up-to-date with hygiene products as well. >> hello. i am not a student. >> this is not time. this is student comment. lower your hand and raise in a few moments. that concludes the student section of public comment. >> thank you. to clarify the student section is open for any item on the agenda. we are now going to public comment time for all non-agenda items. anything we have not and will not hear at tonight's meeting.

>> raise your hand for any item not on the agenda this evening. please repeat in spanish and chinese. [speaking foreign language] >> i sea sicks hands so far. >> a -- six hands so far. >> a minute each. no more than 10 minutes. >> i am chris cloud a teacher at washington high school. i hope i am not shouting. when will you approach

bargaining around health and safety seriously. this needed done last week not pushed off. the means of your labor force have been clear for quite awhile. we need a minimum of 10 covid sick days and test when we show symptoms. reliable stock of sites for students and staff and reliable testing at all sites. my site has never had a test supply for students. no surveillance testing. it is impossible to get to outside of school hours testing. when will my shared office receive a shared air purifier. we have six adults in there. we needed it last semester. where is it? >> it makes me wonder if i am

shouting in the void. >> thank you. >> hello. i am exhausted. i wanted to thank everybody for staying this late. i want to bring up something i haven't brought up in a long time. there is so much going on. if we could please have an agenda item or more information on the learning recovery program. there is so much that i need to know as the parent and other parents need to know. there is a crisis but don't forget that also, don't forget

about the students in general. it is complicated in both scenarios. it is a really rough ride. i am speaking as the parent on behalf of my son. that does not mean i don't recognize what is going on with our educators. my heart is just broken. thank you so much for your commitment. everybody. >> gregory or whoever is on his account. >> i am a special ed teacher and parent of a sixth grader. having student comments for at 11:07 p.m. rolling out new payroll and time sheet system last week and be

this week, empower system is also unacceptable. no one knows how to use it. we haven't been trained to use it. this has been the most challenging week and a half of my teaching career after 20 years. to put in a new system makes no sense. that is pretty much it. i would like to just say that persons that we were speaking about has happened in our classroom. it has a snowball effect. we had a positive case last week so we all tested on friday. no one has results back. that is a color issue. there was another positive case today that would have been prevented. >> thank you.

>> i want to echo what the prior caller said about students in general public comment starting after 11:00 p.m. completely inappropriate and unacceptable the students went to sleep and parents as well. i want to comment in general the most important item on the agenda h1 was not prioritized. this is a pattern. there are periods when this was prioritized. we need to get to this earlier. i wanted to comment on the staff shortages. i know somebody who applied for two positions three weeks ago. it is eminently qualified. nobody has ever contacted her from s.f.u.s.d. when this district is suffering shortages it is beyond me that

it is not contacting people to bring into the classroom, people who want to be there and are kind to come in to help. thank you. >> i am donnie. i want to speak on power sf. i have opened up my paycheck stub today. tomorrow morning i will get the positive 1/4 of what my normal paycheck would be. one forth. i am missing 60 plus hours sick time and 90 hours plus vacation. two pay periods no increases. this is unacceptable. i need my money. it is crazy. thank you. >> thank you.

>> sharon. >> thank you for the effort to prevent the code of covid-19. i am going to say that the first is what we need to protect the students and teachers. please revert to hybrid learning to have the students learn. >> we are not speaking on hybrid learning or anything discussed earlier in the evening during this time. thank you. >> that concludes public comment on this item. general public comment. excuse me. >> thank you. moving on to section e. consent calendar. i need a motion and second on the consent calendar. >> so moved.

>> second. >> thank you. can we check if there is public comment on concept items? >> yes raise your hand if you care to speak to item on the consent calendar. repeat in chinese and spanish. speaking a foreign language] >> seeing none. >> any items withdrawn or corrected by the sprint? >> no. >> any items removed for first reading by the board? seeing none. let me doublecheck virtually. any items severed for discussion

and vote tonight? >> seeing number. roll call vote on consent calendar. (roll call). >> section f. discussion and vote on consent calendar for separate consideration. none tonight. section g. special order of business. the item we hear from every month. 219-28. resolution finding as a result of the state of emergency declared by california governor newsom march 4, 2020 it is

necessary to conduct virtual meetings to avoid risk to health and safety of attendees. i need motion and second. >> motion. >> second. >> you moved it commissioner collins? >> yes. >> sanchez second. >> legal counsel. can you share more about this item? >> same item. you have seen there is a slight change in light of the recent surge. the governor executed a new executive order january 5th. to extend time by which electronic meetings can happen. previous deadline was end of january this year. it is now march 31st of this year. provided the board continues to

pass a resolution every 30-days you may continue to meet in this format through march 31, 2022. >> to clarify. if we choose to switch the format we have the ability to? >> yes. this resolution gives you the ability to have a virtual meeting. it doesn't require you to. if you adopt the resolution you may choose to have an in-person meeting. >> check for public comment on this item. >> raise your hand if you care to speak to extend virtual meetings for the next 30-days. repeated in spanish and chinese speaking a foreign language]

>> seeing two hands, president lopez. >> hello, chris. >> i am glad my previous comment was funny. i didn't think it was. i think that it would be great for you to continue virtual options for the meeting. i would love to be back in person when i make comments in the future i guess that i can be laughed at by the board for expressing my concerns in person. thanks. >> lolita. >> hi, everyone be. i think that as we found with the cac, having a virtual option

provides a lot more opportunity for community members to participate. i appreciate all that you are doing to help engage families and other community members through the pandemic. i would respectfully request that as these meetings move forward be more careful. i think it would be helpful for community members to see speakers, to see the commissioners. for me that is part of the engagement process. i think that hopefully to assume that intentions our previous commenter i am hoping there was something else going on in the room we all couldn't see because of the way the speakers were pinned and that she wasn't actually being laughed at. there are some confusing moments

tonight. where commenters may not have felt heard or valued because what we see on this end. thank you. >> thank you. >> hi, everybody. i was thinking about an idea. if you were all to use your computer that way the ones on zoom and the ones in the meeting

we could all just see you. do you know what i mean? i guess you can't answer me. i can understand what the speakers are saying. it is hard for the people who are in the audience to see you all. i think if you all had your computer and entered zoom it might help. thank you. >> i am the executive assistant to the board and the one who is facilitating the zoom in this meeting. this is a complicated set up to have this combination of sfgovtv and our zoom. you can't everyone can't have their computer. we are doing our best to provide the best experience for you with the tools that we have.

by no means are we not trying to let people be spotlighted. it is a technical setup for this purpose. we are doing our best and will continue to improve as we can. >> you sure are doing your best. i was thinking it might work for the people in there. >> thank you very much. >> that was the last one. >> before i begin i want to express apologies for any public members who thought there was

instantial where we were responding negatively to a community. that is not the case. that is why we are having this discussion to hopefully limit interactions like that that happen in person on the board that are simultaneously happening. i do apologize if that was the experience we don't want to have you have that feeling. let's begin the discussion with the board and any staff who can support that around the item that we are on. >> commissioner. >> thank you. >> i plan to vote no. it is the ability to have public in some fashion be part of the meeting. even if it is in a limited

capacity due to covid guidelines. i feel like it would put us in a place of transparency and being open. i want to just understand the frustration that folks have with the different views that you get from the different camera angles. at least five of us right now are on video. i don't know if that is helpful for people. it is a fact. i really hope that we can figure out how to keep people safe and return to in-person meetings and figure out how to be creative in our attempt to do so and ensure that people feel seen and heard as we go through this process. thank you. >> i also wanted to share. i understand that the accessibility piece in helping

folks reach us virtually. i am also recognizing after more than a year of this the fact that we go late to the night and the reason is because that tends to happen is the amount of public comment we hear and amount of discussion that tends to go longer in many cases. it might be helpful for folks to be here in person to recognize a lot of what we are trying to convey to get to the point so we don't have late night meetings, items coming up at an hour that is inaccessible for the public and to switch to in person i do want to support the option to do that. i look forward to hearing from staff what is within our capacity to bring people back into the building.

>> can you fill us in on the information you have. >> good evening, commissioners. we have some information but it is definitely incomplete. what we can tell you at this point is that the facilities and space assessment is completed for five by five. as you are likely aware, our facilities department assessed each of the multi occupant spaces to ensure that they have one of the following ventilation. operating windows or ventilation or portable air cleaners.

in the boardroom we have mechanical ventilation and portable air meanners. we know the maximum occupancy of the boardroom is -- is 136. social distancing might need to be mate for seating members of public. we don't have complete ass around the technology. there are two options we are exploring. we can determine if sfgov can support this with additional meetings. right now they can support with regular board meeting to use their capacity to project and cover -- project live from the boardroom and cover the zoom capacity. we also need to complete a technology assessment to determine what we can do that

without sfgovtv. that has not been done. in the context of other considerations, about bringing people into the room for technology and acknowledging past board meetings in person where we were often including members of the public when all of the seats were not available. we would need to consider a process for assigning those in person seats so that we could be sure not to exceed capacity. we might need to consider costs for security to manage entry and exit. we might want to consider adjusting the maximum occupancy rate depending on the social distancing we wanted to apply there. that is where we are right now

with that assessment. >> thank you for sharing that. any other comments from commissioners? seeing none. roll call vote on this item. (roll call) four ayes. >> section h. we have already heard. section i and j there are none. k. board members reports. we will be hearing from three committees that have medicines the last meeting.

beginning with the buildings, grounds and services committee. >> that would be me. we met december 2021. we discussed two items. first was around the updates around mission bay in terms of ceqa and other pertinent deadlines coming up which the chief will be checking in with commissioners about. trying to get over this. stumbling off my words. we will reach out in terms of updates around mission bay. the second item we discussed was the repurpose and the terms of.

[indiscernable] outdoor learning and the other items that were part of the $100 million repurpose. what we decided to do was we are going to agendize that item monthly to keep track of progress of the funds. we will continue that to our next building and grounds meeting. >> thank you. enough we will hear from the budget and services committee. >> thank you. the budget and services met on january 5th, 2022. three informational items, two around the public education enrichment fund performance evaluation report and arts and

creativity 2025 equity plan and updated fiscal impact analysis of resolution 195-2881. we have really great discussion and deep dive into both the evaluation report, reviewed the detailed evaluation that staff has put forward and really wanted to acknowledge and recognize the co-chairs and staff that did the presentation and the importance around how we as a board really continue to support the work and they want to understand more of a one district one budget having that broader view of the work that -- the programs funded through piece and the impact analysis of

serving directly with students. also the importance of following through around timely transparency as recommended through the audit. those were the overall acknowledgments there from the evaluation presentation. second was around the arts equity plan. we did a deep dive around the fiscal analysis as well and the recommendations moving forward. it was an informational item for the board to adopt the art equity plan as proposed. there are still some questions around the ability to fully fund the resolution around the art equity plan, particularly around staffing and the commitments there. i think that was the work that staff is committed to one's the budget was released at the state

level and it will go through the budgeting process through the cycle to look at the potential funning to fund that arts resolution 195-281. thank you. >> last we will hear from curriculum and program which took place yesterday. it feels like a long time ago. >> it does feel like a long time ago. thank you for that. yesterday we had three items that came before the committee. one action and two informational items. the action item was resolution 211012a1. reading is critical to lifelong success. that left the committee with a

positive recommendation with amendments to be made by authors and district staff. to come before the budget committee for a final analysis. we also got informational update on the mission bay hub overview of the mission bay hub as well as update from the assessment committee. we are going to come back to the committee next month and provide a more detailed explanation of the presentation work that they have been engaged with. that is the report back. thank you. >> great. moving on to report from board delegates to membership organizations. cfba and cgcf. seeing none tonight. all other reports by board members. seeing none tonight.

calendar of committee meetings between now and next regular board meeting we will have a committee as a whole next tuesday, january 18 at 5:00 p.m. section l. memorial adjournment. >> tonight's memorial is for colonel george. civil air patrol pacific region commander, commissioner, executive council member at the japanese american veterans association and the san francisco director of jrotc instruction. died unexpectedly december 30th. he was 59.

he is a native from san francisco and graduate of the lowell high school class of 1979. he graduated from from san francisco state university with degree in speech communication and rhetoric. the general staff college in military security policy and strategy. civil air patrol career began in 1977 serving as cadet before embarking on a career in the u.s. army. over the 43 years he served at multiple level of thesive vit air patrol leading the california wings san francisco cadet squad don 86. also at the winning and region level. he was national cadet program staff coordinator september 2017

until his tenure as regional commander began. he served with civil air patrol officers school with the international air cadet exchange. colonel retired after 30 years of active service. he served as military intelligence officer holding positions at the highest level in iraq, afghanston and cosovo. jrotc teacher at lincoln high school helping students become better students. received two service medals from the army and a bronze star. five service medals. other military honors include

the federal asian pacific council service award in 2006. his civil air patrols include five exceptional service, two maretorious and five commanders awards. he left often and much to win the respect of bell doesn't people and to endure betrayals of false friends. find beauty in others, leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child garden patch or redeemed social condition. to know one's life has breathed easier because you live there. this is to have succeeded. ralph waldo emerson. by any measure george

exponentially embodied the life well lived. >> thank you for sharing that touching meckmorial. at this time before the board goes into closed session we will take public comment for those who wish to speak to closed session items. five minutes for public comment. >> please raise your hand if you wish to speak. translate to chinese please. speaking foreign language] >> thank you.

we have one hand up. >> hello. i don't know if i missed it. i hear a conversation regarding the in-person meeting. i just want to speak on that. >> i am sorry to interrupt. this is for items on closed session agenda. >> okay. i apologize for that. >> thank you. >> that concludes public comment. >> okay. sectionm. closed session. board will now go into closed session. we will call a recess of the regular meeting.

>> commissioner bogus. (roll call). >> that is seven ayes. >> i move approval of the stipulation agreement of one high school student matter 2021-2209 for the remain derf the spring semester with suspended enforcement in the spring semester. >> second. >> roll call. (roll call).

>> seven ayes. >> i move approval of the stipulated ex pulls agreement between district and one high school student to waive the expulsion hearing of one high school student 2021-22 from the district for the remainder of spring semester with suspended enforcement in the spring semester. can i have a second. >> second. >> roll call. (roll call). >> seen ayes. >> item 2. report from closed session. in the matters of oah case 2021-110252 the board with seven ayes give authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount.

in the matter iv of case number 2021-110383. vote gives authority of the district to pay up to stipulated amount. in matter of studentmmversus s.f.u.s.d. case number 2021-080392. board gives authority of the district to pay up to stipulated amount. matter of student hv case number 2021-110188. board with seven ayes gives authority to pay stipulated amount. four matters of employee discipline the board by seven ayes approves settlement and release agreements. with that this meeting first meeting of the year is adjourned.

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teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. >> working with kids in the ocean that aren't familiar with this space is really special because you're dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. >> when i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. >> we'll get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who don't like the beach. it's too cold out, and it's those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day.

>> over the last few years, i think we've had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. >> surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. >> we've start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. >> swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all -- not being anxious. >> so when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p.e. credits. just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. but now that we've been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids that's consistent, and the word has spread, that it's super fun,

that you learn about the ocean. >> starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. >> we usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. we once did a special trip. we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know

people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, i'm going to be okay. >> it gives them resiliency skills and helps them build

self-confidence. and with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. >> i went to bring my family to the beach and tell them what i did. >> i saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. >> for some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a mentorship program like this, it's they want to surf, and then later, they'll find out that they've, like, made this community connection. >> i think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. >> for kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been

willing to do on my own is really special. >> we go on 150 surf outings a year. that's year-round programming. we've seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. >> i just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that they're engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how they're doing, like, in general. >> what i like best is they really care about me, like, i'm not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. >> we're creating surfers, and we're changing the face of surfing. >> the feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. it's definitely faster than i

think you expect it to be, but it's definitely fun. >> it leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kid's going to go out and do. >> i think it's really magical almost. at least it was for me. >> it was really exciting when i caught my first wave. >> i felt like i was, like -- it was, like, magical, really. >> when they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know -- their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. >> i was on top of the world. it's amazing. i felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. it was, like, the scariest thing i'd ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after

>> the city has undertaken a pilot program to hook up private privately -- owned hotels. >> the community members say this is helpful for them especially for the seniors and families with kids from seniors being able to connect with the family during the pandemic and too watch the news has been really helpful during this time where they are stuck inside and are not able to go outside. for families it is important to stay connected to go to school, to get connected so they can

submit resumes to find jobs during the pandemic. [speaking foreign language] >> challenges that might seem for the fiber in chinatown is pretty congested. the fiber team found ways around that. they would have to do things such as overnight work in the manholes to get across through busy intersections, and i think the last challenge is a lot of buildings we worked on were built in the early 1900s and they are not fitted with the typical infrastructure you would put in a new building. we overcame that with creative ideas, and we continue to

connect more sites like this. >> high-speed internet has become a lifesaver in the modern era. i am delighted that we completed three buildings or in the process of completing two more. i want to thank our department of technology that has done this by themselves. it is not contracted out. it is done by city employees. i am proud and i want to take a moment to celebrate what we are doing.

>> when i look at an old neon sign that's working or not working, i feel the family business that was in there. >> since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. >> you know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of san francisco. >> sf shines is such an amazing program, and i can't think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned

funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if they've got a neon sign, they've really got a great way to advertise their business. >> this is a continuation of the sf shines program. >> focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. of the seven neon signs, we've invested about $145,000. >> a good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. as opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. >> in san francisco, the majority of neon signs are for mom-and-pop businesses. in order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community.

>> part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. in the time that we've been here, we've seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. >> there are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. i have worked with randall and al, and we've mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. that information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. so if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, we're going to pick these five, and they're putting together clusters, so they build on top of what's already there. >> a cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a

cluster of grapes. when you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. if you havy got two of three of them, you've created an atmosphere that's almost like a movie set. >> some of the hotel, we've already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some we've done in chinatown, as well as the city's portal neighborhood. >> we got the fund to restore it. it took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. >> neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the

hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. >> you would go downtown and see the most recent humphrey bogart film filled with neon in the background. and you'd see that on market street, and as market street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. >> the film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. >> one of my favorite scenes,

orson welles is chasing rita hayworth with neon signs in the background. >> i think what the office of economic and workforce development is very excited with is that we'll be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. the first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the western hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. >> neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. we want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in san francisco, and so do they. we bring the expertise, and

they bring the means to actually get the job done. >> people in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. as you're driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. >> knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. it's a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. >> there's so many ways to improve public safety. the standard way is having more eyes on the street, but there's other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. but what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. >> when i see things coming back to life, it's like remembering how things were. it's remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise

their money or to provide a service, and it just -- it just -- it justspeaking, pleas

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