>> president lopez: you may sign up forpublic comment until that item is called not during or after the discussion of the item. good evening everyone. the regular meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified district for march 22, 2022 is now called to order. roll call please. [ roll call ]

>> good evening. i welcome everyone here tonight. it's been over two years since we've had in-person board of education meeting with our community and the public. i'm excited to be presiding over a return it a full in-person meeting. i'm happy we can maintain zoom access for anyone who needs it. it's good to see you tonight. i want to acknowledge this hybrid meeting format is new for all of us. it's a time of transition and meetings are best held in person while the virtual format gives greater access for public engagement. you will see shortly, i will be striking a balance with in person and virtual public comment. i want to welcome our newly

appointed commissioners. commissioner sue, and weissman ward. they are seeded here for the first time. welcome. i'm hardened by the collective passion we have for our students, quality education and effective governance of the san francisco unified district. in the coming months be the board will be embarking on a number of priorities from training, hiring the next superintendent, stabilizing the budget while making meet -- needing to make difficult choices, building connection and trust with our student and families and landing on clear priorities for the district. i want to say again that every staff member in our district must be paid in full and on time. not paying our educators and staff is unacceptable. especially what our staff has

endured. you have my full commitment in working with superintendent matthews to ensure the payroll issues are fixed and back payments are paid in full. this brings me to why we are all here tonight. our students. our students are counting on us. as board president, they are on my mind every day and bring me inspiration and motivation to keep advancing for change. now, this newly formed board are students needs will be heard, addressed and attended. we have crucial work in the months ahead. as a body, we must work collectively to lead the school district. tonight we move forward. thank you. i want acknowledge that child care will be provided this evening from 5:00 to 9:00 for

childrens ages 3 to 10. the child care is up stair on the third floor in the cafeteria. section a, general information accessibility information. irvin g. breyer boardroom. b, open items land acknowledge. we we are on the unceded homeland of ramaytush ohlone. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgot than responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all people who reside in their traditional

territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to acknowledge that the ancestors, elders of ramaytush ohlone community and sovereign rights as first people. next is election of vice president of the board of education. as a reminder to the board and to the public, this type of election is by voice vote. a second is not needed for nominations. it is permissible for a member nominated to vote for him or herself in the election. if only one nomination, you will be voting by saying aye or name. are there any clarify questions at this time from board members and student delegates?

nominations are open for the office of vice president of board of education for the year 2022. are there any nominations? >> commissioner boggess: i like to nominate -- [ indiscernible ] >> was there a motion and second on this item? >> you need a motion to open the item and second to on the item and then open the vote. >> i'm sorry. do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> is there a second? >> second. >> we have to take a vote. >> are there other nominations? then you have a vote president

lam. >> at this time, i like to have mr. steel t reinstate the namely person nominated and then the roll call. >> commissioner alexander nominated commissioner kevin boggess for vice president. roll call now. [roll call vote] six ayes. >> thank you, congratulations and you announce that

commissioner boggess you have been elected vice president for board of education for 2022. [ applause ] moving on to number three, the approval of board minutes for the regular meeting of march 8, 2022. i like to ask for a motion and a second please. >> so moved. >> second. are there any corrections? >> i have a correction. the first sentence presiding, ms. lopez as president. that should read ms. jenny lam as president. >> at this time, no other further corrections. i like to call for a roll call vote please. [roll call vote]

>> four ayes. >> president lam: at this time, superintendent report, dr. matthews. >> thank you president lam. good evening. we've been back almost a year to the date. good to see you all back here. i want to welcome our commissioners back to in-person and with special welcome to our new commissioners, commissioner

motamedi, commissioner hsu and commissioner weissman-ward. i will start with couple of bright spots and celebrations. please join me in congratulating the school of the arts mock trial team for placing second in the state at the constitutional rights foundation california state finals. the competition took place last thursday through sunday with teams from 36 california counties. they argued people versus kobe. it's attribute to the incredible work of the entire team under the leadership of head coach, clifford yen. great job everyone.

gardening indoors helps student get the hands on experience. they take soil samples and measure the ph and learn which seasons adapt well with the environment. they have opportunity to take plants and material home with them to garden at home. which the teacher says is great for equity, so all students in the program can have plants to take care of at home. students are decorating their classroom with murals highlighting aspects of steam and steam careers.

families who applied for school during the main round april 22-february 7th you will be mailed your student school assignment to your mailing address this week. families can see their letter by logging into parent view and looking at the documents tab beginning next week. if families need help to accept or decline their school assignment, they can at the end of the -- attend our enrollment workshop.

lgbtq student services is partnering with the sfusd parent advisory council. come learn and ask questions about the basics of lgbtqia+ identities as well as how health education improves learning environment across all grades in sfusd. workshops take place april 4th, 5th and 6th on zoom. register for the workshop at bit.ly.sfusd/lgbtq101. all sfusd will be closed for

spring break. finally our health and safety update. aligned with local and state public health guidance, masking is now strongly recommended but not required at san francisco unified middle and high school. transitional kindergarten, elementary and k8 schools, you can find the latest masking information on our website. finally, rapid home test kits. each student and staff member has now been allocated two test kits. communication has been shared with school sites that include directions for families and staff to use one test kit prior to returning from spring break or on an extended time off.

we have provided multilingual instructions. president lam that ends my announcements for this evening. >> president lam: thank you dr. matthew. we'll move into agenda item c, public comment. protocol for public comment, please note that public comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from community on matters within the board's jurisdiction. student delegates, please share your report. >> thank you president lam. i want to take this opportunity to reintroduce ourselves to the public. my name is joanna lam. i'm a senior at lowell high school. >> my name is agnus, i'm a senior at mission high school. >> we want to start off by welcoming the three new

commissioners. commissioner hsu, commissioner weissman-ward and commissioner motamedi. we look forward to collaborating with you all and we are excited to come. we took time as a council to brainstorm some things we like to see and also talked about some issues that are facing our students. we sent those in a letter. we hope to see you all at upcoming meeting s.a.c. meeting. >> we plan to release applications for student delegates this week and they'll be due friday we get back from spring break. we have rough draft of our youth summit, schools and students please stay tuned. if you have any questions, please free to e-mail the s.a.c., we got an e-mail.

our next full council meeting will be on april 4th at 6:00. that is open to the public. thank you president lam. that concludes our student delegate report. >> president lam: again my apologies for skipping ahead. we'll go to item 6, number 7, recognizing all valuable employees the river -- rave awards. >> we have two rave awards. our first rave award is our special service award. this award is presented to nina shied she's a principal. >> hi, can you hear me? thank you so much for this

opportunity to present the rave award to our fabulous teacher ms. nina shield. nina is all things to rooftop. she's extremely student centered. for that reason, her colleagues has nominated her for this award. i cannot think of a more deserving recipient. we're so fortunate to have her here at rooftop. we appreciate you. >> i want to thank all my student and colleagues all the

rooftop. great. >> thank you, nina. thank you all for this opportunity. >> thank you for all that you do every day for our students and families. our second award is a distinguished service award. this is being presented to renee midsue. a teacher at diane feinstein middle school. >> thank you superintendent matthews and board of trustees and our student delegates. it's really a pleasure to introduce rene mittsui. she embodied what we like to refer as lion love.

she collaborates with grade level team with families, community partners and she often assumes key roles in facilitating professional learning for others. it's been a pleasure working with rene in my three years with her. thank you so much for your service and the community really loves you. >> thank you so much for that beautiful recognition.

it's really a great honor to receive this. this is a very special honor. i appreciate the recognition and i love the community at diane feinstein school. thank you so much. >> we're so proud of all the working that you do. you complete our mission. which is making sure that each and every student received a quality instruction and equitable support so they can thrive in the 21st century. thank you both. president lam, that concludes our recognizing all valuable employees awards this evening. >> president lam: thank you so much. thank you to our staff for the recognitions. we will now shift to agenda c, the public comment. protocol for public comment, please note that public comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on

matters within the board's jurisdiction. we ask that you reframe from using employee and student names. if you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit to the employee supervisor in accordance with district policy. as a reminder, board rules in california law do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during the public comment time. if appropriate, the superintendent will ask that staff follow-up with speakers. this evening, we've also recognized that there may be school budget comments and that will be made later available for public comment under special order business item 2, fiscal year 21-22 second interim report.

at this time we will shift to public comment number 2, for s.f. unified students. we'll have up to 15 minutes for student public comment. anyone in the audience for in-person public comment? seeing none. do we have any virtual students public comment? >> clerk: if you're a student like to give public comment on non-agenda items, please raise your hand and we'll call on you. hi, alissa?

>> caller: i did not want to make a comment. >> clerk: that concludes public comment. >> president lam: we'll move into public comment for the general public. this is for non-agenda items. when i call your name, please come time out podium.

this will give each speaker up to 90 seconds, minute and a half. >> caller: thank you. i'm a parent, jefferson elementary. i thank the board for allowing me to speak tonight and for allowing an option to resume the meetings in-person. i know it makes -- it's important for people to continue comment virtually. i want to thank the new board members and thank the continuing board members for their support,

previously of outdoor learning and outdoor classroom spaces. i hope the new members show similar support and continue this effort. i'm concerned about what's going on, however, in terms of sfusd's progress on outdoor learning and class spaces. i see real lack of urgency. when the board passed the reallocation of bonds last october, one of the main reasons was to help health and wellness of our students and our whole sfusd community. yet, we are now five months on and there has not been a meeting held. there was talk of holding a work group meeting. i never heard anything about work group meeting scheduled. what we heard about is that a stakeholder meeting has been scheduled. a stakeholder meeting is not the same as a work group.

it's great that we get feedback. in order to move the project forward, we need more. >> caller: good evening. i'm a member of the organizing center. i was born and raised in san francisco and went through the public school system. [ indiscernible ]

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>> caller: greetings. i'm a case worker at long time member of the organizing center. it's also one of the most difficult in my role as a case worker, i worked with many families struggled to make ends meet and get food. all of their kids go to sfusd schools. every arab and muslim and myself can attest the difficulties that we face during this time. going long difficult days without food, attending to your studies, dealing with unsympathetic administrators and skeptical peers. at the end of ramadan which celebrates end of our month of fasting. we're asking you to add a resolution recognizing at sfusd to your agenda, asap for implementation next year.

the families relying on you, the school board to recognize our traditions and holidays. it's about survival for our community. arabs and muslims which is a diverse, has been hit hard by trump era policies. this holiday represents to us a moment of peace, hope and collective power for our community. thank you so much. >> president lam: i will call the next four speakers. >> caller: good evening. i'm a resident of san francisco. father to three kids. went to school, other one is in college. i don't have any prepared

speech. i speak from my heart. we're trying to raise our kids as part of a community as part of society, recognizing everyone. we went to all the measure -- protest, get involved with anything with the community. we trying to be part of this community. when it comes to recognizing us as muslim holidays, we feel like we are pushed aside for various reasons.

i spoke to one my kids today when we heard about this. we have to take our kids during those days. that will be hard for us. >> caller: hello. me and my siblings went to -- being a student at sfusd was always difficult in making sure

-- i still miss a day of school and have to catch up because it is important for my family to celebrate together. many students has to choose academics or celebrate with their family or community members. passing this resolution will help alleviate issues around racism and xenophobia that others can learn or participate in. as sfusd alumni, i experienced racism and xenophobia. the recognition will go a long way in uplifting our community and our tradition. this is extremely exciting for our community members and families. when i was student, i never expected we'll get the day off or it will be a discussion. we were always in charge of the ones that had to educate our community members.

during ramadan i will be fasting. i want this board to make the right decision. this is important for every muslim in san francisco. thank you for your time. >> caller: i'm meredith dotson with the san francisco parent coalition. greetings board of education and staff. it's nice to be here in person. it's unusual. thank you for also offering the virtual option, which is so

important for families to be able to call in and hear what's happening and to make comment. i want to extend a warm welcome to the three new commissioners. i'm sending effective governance wishes to the entire board especially as you go into the first meeting tonight with your new composition. today, i also shared with all of you, our s.f. parent coalition priorities platform. i have copies here for anyone who's interested. we've listed these up from parents and caregivers during the school year. we are publicizing them today. the priorities now live on our website. they've been shared with the media and turned into a mechanism overtime. we're hoping and expecting to see the newly reset school board leading in alignment with the priorities listed by sfusd parents and community. a subject line was rereally hope to see a boring b.o.e.

i think we're very much looking forward to this reset for the board of education and refocus on the students. thank you. >> president lam: before i move on, i realized for your comment, i like to hold it for the special order of business under item 2. it's related to a school site. we will be moving for the audience, we will be moving item h special order of business up later after public comment and after our advisory committee report. thank you. >> caller: i'm chris klaus at washington high school. i'm glad to be here in person to make this public comment. the graduation requirement is coming soon for our high school students. i'm looking forward to this opportunity for them. i'm concerned it's going to be hard for younger high schoolers

to take art classes that they are genuinely interested taking. allowing them more access to advance courses in future years. this shouldn't be either or solution or either or situation.

i love for you to consider this solution so we can provide our students with a more well-rounded and self-directed education that is more supportive of them. thank you. >> president lam: that concludes in-person public comment. at this time, how many virtual -- >> clerk: there are 12 hands up. >> president lam: and a half time is remaining? >> 1 minute 45 minutes. >> president lam: how many hands? i will extend public comment to one person per person. >> clerk: at this time we'll hear public comment for total of 13 minutes. each member will have one minute to share their comment.

larry lee? >> caller: can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> caller: thank you. hi san francisco board of education. this is larry lee. i wanted to welcome the new board members, commissioners ann hsu, commissioner motamedi and weissman-ward and jenny lam, congratulations. this is new day for san francisco board of education. let's be positive and do effective governance, listen to all the parents, all your

constituency and that's all i want to say. i'm glad we have a new board and i'm positive about it. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. ms. marshall? >> caller: good evening president lam. i normally say welcome to the new members, however, i'm so disappointed that you weren't around the democratic process. in 1963, four little black girls in birmingham, alabama were killed because of -- [ indiscernible ] in 1965, president johnson signed the voting rights act. you have a democratic process that we teach our students in our history classes up. weren't around that. shame on you. at your swearing ceremony, not

one what you will do for african-american children. however, since you appointed by our beloved mayor, london breed, i will support your nomination. reluctantly on behalf of the naacp, we're watching. we want to see you will do for children who live in bayview hunters point compared to children who live on the west side. thank you. >> clerk: thank you ms. marshall. >> caller: good evening dr. williams ail cob community is devastated that two of our dedicated teachers, teachers of color recently received layoff notices. those teachers are amazing gifts to dr. cobb schools. >> clerk: we will address this during our special order of business.

we'll address this later on our agenda. you can share your comment then. >> caller: okay, thank you very much. >> caller: good afternoon. all commissioners, superintendent matthews. welcome to the new commissioner. this time i want to talk about the resolution support of the achievement of success of all latino students in san francisco and san francisco unified district. >> clerk: as a reminder, this is for non-agenda items that item that you speaking to is on the agenda and will address later. >> caller: okay, thank you.

>> caller: hello. my name is kerry. i'm a first grade sfusd teacher and i am the parent of an sfusd first grader. after having had a difficult time learning to read via zoom, despite having had absolutely amazing and wonderful teachers. i wish to call commissioner attention to the elementary school across sfusd who wish to have an artist or literacy interventionist for next year in place of earth because of the dire situation we see our students in after coming back to school after remote learning with regards to their literacy.

>> clerk: salina. >> caller: hi. i want to welcome you, the new commissioners. i want to congratulate you. hopefully i will vote for you again in november. i wanted to thank everyone, especially sfusd for allowing parents the community to engage what sfusd meetings virtually.

thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you. charles? >> caller: hello. i wanted to welcome the new school board members this evening. i think the nature of of this board in the past has undermine its effectiveness. lot not understanding the brown act. please, consult lawyers as you move forward. central office pushed around the board of education like a bully on the playground by not allowing an audit. the board needs to take control of the district. i'm tired. the achievement gap is the grand canyon, some 11th graders score the same 4th graders in

math. please run the district, don't let them run you. please acknowledge the muslim holy day next year and educate faculty, students more about ramadan. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. java. >> caller: hi. i want to thank you you for allowing this hybrid option. the second thing is i wanted to -- i've been asking this on and off, i wanted to ask again to put on agenda something regarding learning recovery. also to address the covid recovery dollars. in addition, to that, we have a new superintendent coming in. i would like to highlight the need for the new superintendent to be educated in early literacy

and to address the gap that is not only occurred during the pandemic but prior. it's very, very important and please put it on the agenda. i've been waiting since august. i need to know what is going on on the ground to address the loss that already has occurred. other families need that as well. having said that, i like to welcome the new commissioners and thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you. caller 7032? >> caller: hi. great, thank you. good evening this is louise

whitlock. first of all congratulations. very happy to have you. also very happy to see commissioner boggess become be voted in as vice president. very good and appropriate. congratulations to schoolyard for placing second place for the mock trial. however, as mother of two low grad and placed at state, i feel bitter sweet about it. the board treated soda beautifully and lowell horribly over the last couple of years. very upsetting. it's also includes the denigration that you president lam and you superintendent matthews have also done to the school as well as commissioners alexander and sanchez. thank you, sir. related to lowell is the committee complete comparisonning mess.

it's awful. >> clerk: julie? >> caller: i'm julie robert, i'm calling to speak on behalf sfusd calendar. i'm disappointed that presidential lam decided not to put that on the agenda for ramadan this year. this is a student started effort. the first that i heard of it was now high school students who i knew in elementary school who led an either to be recognized on the same level as other community holidays and sfusd. it's important this is integrated in the calendar

because in the past, we had important dates that have conflicted. last year one of the rare in person covid test was on the school that had the language program. >> clerk: thank you. cal? >> caller: hello. i want to thank you for allowing hybrid option. it's unrealistic to expect students to be downtown for about hour after school ends. i want to say not only to the new commissioners, also

commissioners who are continuing their position. please address sexual violence within schools. we've seen over a dozen walkouts at sfusd high schools across the district. i hope that invigorates to focus on the issues that needs to be addressed. for example a mandatory consent for a patient and waiver for all student athletes. it's sape thing adding -- it's same thing adding a drug waiver. thank you. >> clerk: that concludes the time allotted for public comment >> president lam: that was our first run for in-person and virtual public comment. at this time, i like to name that in addition we've received several e-mails for public comment. these comments have been shared

with board member and are available for the public in hard copy. they will be appended to the minutes. i wanted to acknowledge and recognize the submissions of public comment. we will now move to item g, the advisory committee reports and appointments. item d, native hawaiian and pacific islander advisory council.

welcome and good evening. feel free to introduce yourselves. >> good evening. dr. matthews and board commissioners. thank you so much for tonight. i will not speak too long. i definitely want to pass it on to our advisory council. i want to introduce myself. i'm an education policy analyst for sfusd. overseeing the initiative, which is the resolution that was passed and amended in 2020. i'm excited to hear from our parents today. thank you. i will turn over to our pacific islander coordinator who will continue on. thank you so much. >> greetings. i'm grateful to be here for

opportunity to represent the district. please allow me to introduce myself. i serve as a native hawaiian pacific islander coordinator. i appreciate the opportunity to serve as a conduit for the district and our families. i will like to acknowledge my supervisor for continued support for our communities, students and parents. this evening, i have the distinct pleasure of introducing parents who will be sharing update for the continuous work. please join in welcoming our chair who will kick off the evening presentation. >> thank you.

greetings to everyone from all corners of this world and our ancestors from before us we may speak. acknowledging the ramaytush ohlone, the original people what is now san francisco peninsula. thank you superintendent, all board commissioners and families and audience to share nhpica presentation.

it's a product of the advocacy and investment. i'm a parent of first grader. i have been a member of the p.a.c. for four years and currently the chair. i'm also chair of the sfusd native hawaiian and pacific islander council. we have our agenda. we will take you on a journey where we came from, who we are and what we would like to see for our island communities and

students. >> currently i live in san francisco. i have a child at galileo. we hope you will take notice of the images that we are sharing here as representative of our pacific islander community.

these images shows ways we teach and learn and how pass knowledge down from generation to generation. also here with us is our matua advisory council and names of community support. it is my hope that we will be able to see more programs about pacific island culture and traditions. matua means parent or elders. we are passionate group of parents are here to support sfusd so that our proud to be in the space to help communities to have access to resources fur our

kids to succeed. not only in education but all areas of life. here as elected members of the matua advisory council as well as some of our educators, we are just a few here to represent our nhpi community. community, families and students. i would like to pass it on. >> good evening. i'm a san francisco native, proud alumni of sfusd and a parent of an amazing 12th grader in the district. shown on this side a map of the pacific ocean where our pacific island is located.

what we call oceana. we are west of the united states and east of asia. here are a few reasons why our ancestors navigated to the bay area. political and formal colonization, military service and other careers, educational opportunities, access to healthcare, religious work, family reunification. recently, tragedy has hit the shores of our homeland the kingdom of tonga.

although many pacific islander share these reasons, hawaii is their homeland. now that we know the reasons why our ancestors navigated to the u.s. now like to talk about the culture clashes between pacific knowledge and western education. integration, trauma, education as a colonial tool, consign spaces, a shift in the concept of schooling, language differences, suppression of indigenous value, systems, individualism. taking these problems all together, the problem is rooted in the absence of a language. a structure and a teaching it tool that is empowering uplifting and culturally relevant for pacific students.

i will turn it over to share some data of our student demographic. >> hello, everyone. 929 total pacific islander students enrolled this year. some make up 54% of islanders at sfusd. 17% of

-- while we're grateful for the samoan data, although this data may be from 2020, we're hopeful with continued support from the district, we will be able to continue to have programs and resources for our students to succeed in schools. next i will talk about the three keys that our students are stude struggling with within the school district. there are three key areas that are pacific islander students are facing at sfusd. you can see on this slide, there are 52% pacific islander student families in the phase 2a group responded to the in person learning survey, far below the

district's average of 73%. 59% plan to attend in person close to the district's average of 57%. overall, attendance in the district has remained relatively flat across past three years, even with the switch to distance learning. this is true for students across grade span. however, pacific islander students have experienced declines in average attendance during the first half of the school year. >> hello, everyone. my name is teresa. my family comes from the

beautiful village of american samoa. my children attend galileo high school. i will be discussing what's been done so far in san francisco unified district. this shows fall programming. however, we are also excited for some of our programs, launched this spring. matua mixers, tutoring program, acknowledgement ceremony and mentorship program. i like to share the matua advisory council recommendation. in addition to recommendations from last year, here is a list of our recommendation. continued support for fa' samoa

tradition. any nhpi student programming and planning to includes faasamoa initiative team. >> our presentation is snidbit of our journey. i hope we can continue the momentum to ensure nhpi student have access to programs.

to conclude our presentation, thank you to all the commissioners, student, all of our ails partnering with us. we encourage the board to continue to keep the work alive for the benefit of all students. the district and our community. we are hopeful for all of our communities to continue to be in solidarity and to be in partnership with build a more fair educational system for our students and families. this concludes our presentation. >> president lam: thank you so much. thank you to the matua advisory council. we appreciate your time, service

and presentation. i like to open up to see if commissioners have any clarifying questions? commissioner alexander? >> commissioner alexander: thank you so much for the presentation. my question was to what extent over the past year have your -- have these been met? are you feeling like you getting the cooperation and support you need? i think you laid out a impressive program. i want to make sure we're providing the support and following your lead.

>> thank you for the question. there's updates. one biggest thing is maximizing the capacity. it's great that we have chiefs that are willing to figure out ways to support. i think that's been huge. we've been very patient. one biggest request is capacity. i know there was an ask for -- to make sure we're supporting getting recruiter on board in our human resources. which as of couple of weeks ago, they were able to offer the position. we were excited to help move programs. >> president lam: at this time, i like to open for public

comment. we have one public comment. >> caller: thank you. i'm excited my first public comment get to be in support of the mac. thank you all for being here. much appreciate it. on behalf, we stand in solidarity with all of your requests and asks. the analogy of parents as voyagers and navigators resonates well beyond the native hawaiian and pacific islander community. it's true for many us families trying to navigate sfusd. thank you for that. couple of things i want to highlight here. how key sense of belonging is and the work that samoan

initiative has done. they show up as unrepresented, the significantly, insignificant to small to count. that is damaging, not only to the data collection but to the sense of families in our community. please ensure that we continue to collect data and name populations like the native hawaiian, pacific islander community. cultural relevant. as member of the aipac, that's something we fight for too. support around attendance, we were trying to fight for more support to get a student into school. schools are screaming for more support around attendance. thank you. >> president lam: we will turn

now to virtual public comment. five minutes total please. >> clerk: at this time we'll hear public comment on the native hawaiian and pacific islander advisory council presentation. if you care to speak, please raise your hand. you will have one minute to speak. can that please be repeated in spanish and chinese? >> clerk: thank you.

ms. marshall? >> caller: yes. i support all your asks. i think commissioner moliga laid a good foundation. we're appreciative to the leadership. we do need to work with our samoan community more. keep working. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: good evening. i'm a parent leader for the african-american parent advisory council better known as apac.

we like to thank them for their presentation. it was so beautiful to hear everyone announce their names in full and hear what islands they come from. little bit of their history. we definitely adore them with the parents and voyage across the pacific ocean. i want to point the intersectionality of african-american students. the path crosses many ways as far as learning and achievement. we hope all the work and the foundation has been laid down. we look forward to an immersive experience for our students and may be even language pathway being developed as well. on behalf of the

african-american parent advisory council, we thank you all for your presentation. >> clerk: can we have that repeated -- can we have samoan interpreter repeat that? [interpreter]

>> clerk: sweetie? >> caller: hello, i'm here. i'm glad to have the opportunity to speak on behalf of our pacific islanders. so you know that the williams act that was established back in 2004, i personally worked on that williams act and that's why it's named after my son. basically because of the fact that there was not enough textbooks. there was hardly any qualified teachers in the schools and also for repairing our broken down classrooms. so you know, i don't know how many the commissioners or anyone

are aware of that. that was established by yours truly. i'm from the island of samoa, re-- military retirement for many years. i wanted to bring that to what our beautiful ladies there mentioned earlier. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you, sweetie. [ laughter ] that concludes public comment. >> president lam: thank you so much. thank you for the presentation tonight and for the matua advisory council known as mac. [ applause ]

at this time, are there any advisory committee appointments by commissioners? >> i like to appoint ali a fisher. >> president lam: thank you, please note. i'm going to move up general item h, special order of business. at this time, we will hear item number 1 under special order of business. the tentative agreement between united educators of san francisco and san francisco unified district regarding payroll errors. do i have a motion and a second?

>> vice president boggess: so moved. >> second. >> president lam: i like to call upon dr. matthews to introduce to read the recommendation into the record. >> thank you president lam. presenting this item will be our acting chief of labor relations >> good evening. the recommended action tonight is that the board approves the tentative agreement between the united educators of san francisco and san francisco unified school district regarding payroll errors. >> president lam: at this time i like to open up for public

comment comment in person. mr. steel? >> caller: good evening, on behalf of united educators of san francisco, this was the right thing to do. we were working to do right by our educators. i'm really glad that this has been completed. i want to thank everybody in the room for their support.

>> president lam: next speaker. alita fisher. >> caller: please pass this agreement. i'm one of the ones -- [ indiscernible ] the fact that other educators and i had to do that to go fund

-- getfocused on payroll probles horrible. the fact than a school district with around 10,000 employees has so few people working on payroll and benefits and for them to correct errors when they occur is disgusting. this agreement does not solve all the problems. hard work will. it does not restore trust in the district. it is a first step in setting up processes to prevent problems in the future and to quickly resolve errors when they occur. i want to be able to trust my employers. we shouldn't have needed an agreement ton this. but we have one now. pass it, follow it and do

better. i don't want to have to sleep here again. >> president lam: i like to open up for virtual public comment please. total of 10 minutes. >> clerk: at this time we'll hear public comment on the tentative agreement. if you care to speak, please raise your hand. you'll have a total of one minute to speak. can that be be repeated in spanish, chinese and samoan.

[interpreters] >> clerk: in order for you to speak, we will need to promote to you panelist. your camera, we'll be able to see you if you have your camera on. i'm promoting you to panelist. go ahead. [ indiscernible ]

>> clerk: thank you. jennifer? >> caller: i'm calling in favorite of the tentative agreement. i need say it is not restorative. it's a first step. in addition to what your staff are owed, we need you to do better by us. if we move towards civility, this is not it. we need to know why this was done and someone needs to take responsibility. it's unacceptable that this goes and central office is unable and

unwilling to do anything for staff. i recommend you check the language on the board of education meeting page. it states that comments isn't by e-mail will be read into the record. if you are choosing not to do that, knew toad change the language. it is not accurate and that is problematic. >> clerk: charles? stay-at-home >> caller: this agreement is ismeaningless. by not assigned enough staff, this was personal attack on school employees by central office. sfusd has proven it does not value its employees.

but why? please reimburse teachers for underpayment penalty on their taxes. many had large tax burdens. you can say sorry but it is meaningless and we are all made full. thank you. >> clerk: jennifer? >> caller: i already spoke. >> clerk: thank you.

tom. >> caller: i'm a teacher and parent in the district. i want to show my solidarity. even though my paycheck not showing up with that bad. the fact that we to get their attention, the media had to come and do it. i'm not trusting the district in the future as a parent and teacher.

>> clerk: teacher? >> caller: hi. my name is laila. i'm a special ed teacher in the district. i wanted to echo what charles earlier in terms of underpayment penalty. i don't know you don't respond to public comment. when you get to discussing it as a board, please ask the superintendent dr. matthews or someone, why is there no reimbursement for the underpayment penalty to the i.r.s.? i want you to know, there are

new mom and dads on parental leave now. they haven't been paid yet at all. my understanding is that empower was supposed to have a grace period. somebody from the district decided not to have a grace period. please find out why and who -- >> clerk: thank you that's your time. michelle? >> caller: thank you. good evening everyone. i'm honored to be the coordinator for the parent advisory council for it san francisco board of education. i'm in support of this agreement and i'm also very concerned about how this happened.

secondly with president lam's permission like toe make a comment on the matua advisory report. i had my hand raised and was not called. i wanted to say to the matua advisory councilmembers, thank you for your work and partnership. i'm glad to collaborate with them and other staff than support them. i appreciate the information and the context they provided this evening. i want to echo previous speakers comments and support mac asker for disaggregated data.

>> clerk: gregory? >> caller: i like to -- i ask request district hold those responsible for this debacle accountable. if you run the old payroll data through the new system, these problems could have been found prior to rollout. why didn't that happen?

sfusd as an organization has real accountability issues. for this debacle is too much. now is italy time to start holding people accountable. thank you. >> clerk: laura? >> caller: good evening. i'm a parent at sfusd elementary school. also here to echo what i'm hearing that we need solution for all our staff, effective by the payroll. i want top echo what we heard from many parents in our

student -- community. we need to prioritize our staff. please listen to the teachers and students. these errors are costing our community trust and we need to move forward. i hope you can do that with our new leadership. >> clerk: that concludes public comment for this item. >> president lam: thank you very much. at this time, i like to open up to my colleagues, board commissioners for comments and questions.

>> commissioner hsu: i expected our staff to have contingency plans in place that address issues that arise. i incidence that took do -- i understand that took a while to cut checks. without going into the details, while issues are not surprising, the response should have been much faster not needing teachers to camp overnight in order to fix it. i agree with the public comment. not wanting to draw too much on this one. this one is being addressed as quickly as possible. thinkable there are other

systems at sfusd that need replacement soon. i hope this is a very hard lesson that we are learning. hopeful that future projects will be handled much better than this one. >> clerk: thank you. commissioner motamedi. >> commissioner motamedi: i had have one remaining questions that i posed to staff earlier. i like to better understand what the back-end will be to ensure all paychecks accurate. not just those identified by educators are inaccurate.

>> melissa dodge was assigned to the project. she just last week, two weeks, we can and a half ago, was assigned to this project full time to address the issues. previously, the assignment was split between leaders. now we have a one leader. i will ask the staff to address that. >> thank you very much. thank you for your questions. there are number of steps that we have been and will be taking

moving forward. particularly around looking at our overall payroll processing review. the checklist that we follow, what we're leveling. adding additional measures, reviews and validation. sop we're not -- so we're able to address some up front versus after the fact. >> is there a look to ensure those who are not identified by educators aren't problematic. >> that would need to be one of the actions we take as part of our debrief.

we're developing an assessment now of all of the issues that we're seeing, whether that's a system issue t data issue or process issue. looking back to see how many employees were potentialed pote- potentially impacted so we can retroactively address those. >> is there any sort of time line that you can share or not quite yet >> not quite yet but we'll share a timeline. >> president lam: commissioner weissman-ward. >> commissioner weissman-ward: t hank youtor teachers that showed up to educate our kids. we see it. thank you. >> president lam: commissioner alexander. >> commissioner alexander: i will echo that gratitude.

i appreciate your willingness to stand up and push us into action. also, around this issue of what happened. i'm glad to chief dotson for taking this on. i'll be working together at the budget and business services committee meeting, april 6th, to present an analysis what would happen and what went wrong. so we can prevent this kind of thing moving forward. that's another opportunity. we are gong to present an analysis the week after spring break. i had one question which was, i got around question for they

apply to other employee groups as well. >> short answer yes. the rules of committee wee used, we'll move for all employees moving forward. >> vice president boggess: could can you clarify on that? is there additional tentative agreement work out. >> under the educational employment. when we give employees the benefit, we have to park in it. some sort of agreement.

>> vice president boggess: can i have someone share about the fiscal set and it's a set dollar amount. >> on i'm going to kick that to chief wallace. here . welcome. >> very surreal, isn't. thank you for having me. commission boggess, to address your question. we looked at a series of scenarios by thinking and low

cases of salary ranges, paychecks that were missed with. we are making a commitment to gel -- getting employees made. we anticipate a high range 3 behind thousand dollars a year. it tub we are looking at distances in our fairway to cover that sentence. >> vice president boggess: we don't feel like it would go above the 390,000-dollar act.

>> thank you. >> vice president boggess: that is there are some that's going on ton -- this isn't something that's leaving the radar like before. we don't want to leave the radar of the public. weapon want to have a lot of conversation and dialogue and really have a lot of transparency. i guess i say that too. this is an organizational failure. i'm ensuring that we have the appropriate staffing in place to make sure everything is is happen. we're committed having transparent process. we're committed to making sure any worker is made whole.

>> president lam: i want to express how the urgency of the resolving outstanding problems how we can get our system tobe. modernization love this and i wanted this hap -- i want to express to the public, to our educators, our staff that this is really a at the core how as a institution, our core operations

and that trust have to be there i look forward to that deeper analysis and share with the public what happened and how we can improve. any other comments? >> thank you to all the educators that came and sat in and organize. it is good to hear that we'll have a pension on the analysis of the issue on budget and services is -- really speak to

-- i like some sort of presentation to educate the public. we to have committee meetings, not everyone can attend. if we make hure we're -- sure we're transparent as possible. >> president lam: thank you. i will close discussion with commissioners. go ahead commissioner alexander. >> commissioner alexander: i want to highlight, we spoke spoken about accountability. i want to highlight that is a conversation as well. we hear that loud and clear. >> president lam: we will do roll call vote for the tentative agreement. [roll call vote]

>> president lam: , we will go into item 2, fiscal year 21-22 second interim report, positive fiscal certification and mid-year update. motion and a second? i like to call on dr. matthew for the presentation. >> thank you president lam. this evening, starting off and

taking off our presentation of this second interim report will be our key financial officer meghan wallace. she's having a team to present.

>> we'll have the presentation up in a few seconds here.

>> this is going with the flow everybody. thank you.

>> clerk: thank you for your patience everybody. >> this evening, i'm presenting this evening the second interim report and multiyear projections for fiscal year 2021-22. the purpose of the interim report is to provide update on expenditure and revenue trends

in the current fiscal year as well as the following two years. as the board may recall, the current year budget was adopted in june 2021. however, interim reports are required twice each fiscal year for school districts and county offices of education. the second interim report is due in march and upon board approval, we will be submitting the report to the california department of education. the budget and business services committee heard an informational item on march 2nd. we are seeking your adoption and approval. not only of the second interim report but the budget balancing

plan. for every interim report, follow common planning practices to ensure degrees of accuracy and commonality in our assumptions for all school districts across the state. the local control funding formula is major element of our overall budget. as you can see, for fiscal year 2021-22, we did apply 5.07% cola for lcff. we're looking at 5.33% and 3.61% cost of living adjustment. we're making those same assumptions for special education funding. which is another major funding stream that we received from the state. these other factors are really just for reference.

i won't go through them line by line. our employer benefits rate are a major cost driver. as you can see, in the current year, 16.92%, it jumps up considerably to 19.10%. she's other factors are really around per average daily attendance funding stream. you can see lottery mandated block grant and those are held relatively flat over the three years. i want to call your attention to enrollment and average daily attendance. we are currently projecting ongoing declines in our enrollment and proportional declines in our average daily attendance. this is an important factor in

why we have been projecting deficits within our operating budget. for this interim report, i will provide brief updates both on our county of office education as well as our district. we are both county office of education and a district. it is important to differentiate those two entities when we're looking at our budget. to begin for our county office, i want to share that overall, the county office budget is in positive standings. we did see declines in our revenue projections for the year. both for lcff and federal revenues. the lcff decline was adjusting for decline in average daily attendance overtime. our federal revenues were correction in our assumptions

from federal stimulus funds that offset by other state revenues. you can see increase in $6.4 million. that's a combination primarily of our educator effectiveness block grant. we received $2.7 million this year. as you may recall the board adopted an expenditure plan for that grant. we will be spending those funds down over the next four fiscal years. we built in a revenue and an expenditure line for the state's surge pension contribution. this is something we received an estimate from the state mid-year representing an assumed contribution from the state $3.5 million and matching benefits expense.

the other increases are related to anticipated spend down of our esser funds. because this is a common format, you'll see in the following slides. i want to encourage folks to look at our beginning fund balance, our total revenues, our expenditures and then revenues left expenditures. you can see all of these add up and contribute ultimately to our ending fund balance. which in the current fiscal year, we are projecting an ending amount of $5.8 million. that is being distributed across

maintaining a reserve for economic uncertainty. you can also see anticipated balances our educator effectiveness block grant as well as recovery funds that is mentioned. the main pointing about you can see that we have zero balance that we are -- we don't have a deficit. there's no negative number. that is something that i will encourage you to note on all future slides. then looking ahead in our multiyear projections, i want to highlight that the common planning factors have been

applied in our projections for the county office of education. other factors to consider are really -- you can see that our state revenues and operating expenses declined. primary driver of that is that our strs pension revenue are not assumed going forward. we haven't heard any indication from it state that investments of that nature will be applied in the following two fiscal years. you can see that our restricted ending fund balance is slowly drawn down overtime. overall, now shifting to the district budget. we are seeing a positive projection for the current year. really the availability of federal stimulus funds, one time and ongoing state revenues that

are now projected in our budget. significantly, you can see an increase in our revenues, actually driven by the receipts of $150 million overall from personal tax with proposition g or lwea litigation. this interim report includes $26.6 million that were anticipating will receive from the city as a result of loan forgiveness. by demonstrating balance use of these funds within our financial projections. we do anticipate that the city will ultimately forgive our loans and our loans. we have built that into this projection. as a result of those funds, i want to highlight some major

assumptions of the use of those funds. looking at the ending fund balance, our economic -- after looking at our economic uncertainty reserve, i wanting to highlight, particularly the budget stabilization reserve which were now anticipating at $60 million. just above that is the rainy day reserve that is using lwea. however, we're also anticipating making a $60 million investment in the current fiscal year for opeb.

this provides a greater level of detail anticipated use of the l w work ea. -- lwea personal taxrevenue. 120 of that is replacement or reimbursement to the school district for investments that we had previously made using our own rainy day reserve and borrowing funds from the city. with that $120 million ast mentioned previously, $40 million going to our rainy day reserve. $60 million overall to obeb. the board approved an agreement

that included the use of lwea for stipends and salary increases for substitute teachers. than is reflected in the $23.4 million. then $6 million payment to charter schools for revenue that we have been owing them and they are now eagerly awaiting. that's all built into the second interim report. then looking at our multiyear projections. overall, we are now projecting a balanced budget over the next two years. again, leading upon our planning factorings, both for revenue and expenditure growth, we are

balancing our projections. there's $57.5 million assumed in fiscal year 22-23. $59.6 million assumed in 23-24. those balancing lines are a combination of expenditure reductions and shifting accidentses on -- expenses and restricted resources. i'm going to go ahead on the next slide and highlight the major changes compared to the previous balancing plan. the board adopted plan as of december, included $50 million of expenditure reductions from school sites, $40 million

reductions from central office or central services for total amount of $90 million of cuts. we would have $35 million of funding sources to support our $125 million balancing plan. staff is now proposing a balancing plan, $125 million. actually, only reducing expenditures by $49 million and then identifying $76 million of funding sources. you can see on that yellow line, that is restoring $41 million of expenses to expenditures in our projected budget. that's being supported by $41 million of new funding our source. primary source is local control

formula or improved projection of that revenue as well as improved revenue projections for special education. you can see adjustments within -- not just to school site budget restoring funds but looking at direct services and administration. there are some swaps, really with indirect services, there's increase of $1.5 million. that's represent paraeducator expenses. we've built in that expense under indirect services. that's offset for pension cost under administration.

to close this out, i want to remind everybody that for interim reports, superintendents are required to certify one or three possible certifications. positive, qualified or negative. positive does state that we'll be able to meet our financial obligations. qualified means we may or may not and of course a negative certification, we do not believe

we'll meet financial certification. based upon our current balancing plan and what i believe our board and our school district commitment to following through with addressing our structural budget deficits, staff is recommending a positive certification at this time for the second interim report. i'm happy to answer any questions. thank you for your time. >> president lam: i want to know that the presentation that was just presented by staff is also available on board docs. i will open up for clarifying

questions and then we can have a fuller discussion after public comment. >> vice president boggess: i was wondering if you can talk about the enrollment projections and the projected a.d.a. versus enrollment numbers. how does it affect our budget it our a.d.a. is closer to our actual enrollment than what we were projecting? does that make sense? >> just to clarify, you're asking the relationship of average daily attendance compared to enrollment? >> vice president boggess: yes. in regards to the projection. if attendance numbers are higher, what we're projecting and closer to enrollment. how does that impact our budget outlook? >> currently, our funding streams are primarily driven by average daily attendance. enrollment are students who are signed up to attend but not

every student shows up every day. on average, we bring in approximately 95% of our students. into the classroom and seats. school districts are funded by the students who actually show up. while we're seeing declining in enrollment, we're projecting proportional decline in attendance. if we were to bring in more students enrolled, that would actually help restore and improve revenue projections. the original intent of the state funding school districts by their attendance is to encourage not just families to have their children show up to school.

i think if we could improve the percentage of students who do show up, our projections for revenue for would improve >> vice president boggess: i would love for a future presentation to get an idea how much additional funds come from those percentages as we tray to figure out ways to bring in more money and hopefully more students at the same time to generate those funds. the other clarification i was hoping for was if you could talk a little bit more specifically about what i think was around the $30 million of expenses that go beyond revenue that we kind of have projected for the future year. i know that goes beyond the scope of our balancing plan. i'm wondering how we are hoping to address the kind of expense

and revenue. >> the current budget projections do assume the cumulation of funds. we build up reserves to help close future deficit projections. we're doing that very heavily in the current year. we have more fund balance than we need. as funds come in and fill the gaps. that's a one time source. we're putting those funds away. we're like squirrels putting our nuts away, so in the winter we can draw on them. that's not sustainable. weapon don't know if destiny going to be a spring down the

road. we're preparing for the worst but not knowing if there's a better issue for us. we're going to be chasing budget deficit. i would say that balancing plan before the board now is first step step to reduce our expenses to align more closely with revenues.

>> vice president boggess: just having an understanding, even though our expenses are above our revenue for the next few years, because we're able to put this money in reserve, it gives us time to address those deficits and get things in place. >> that's correct. >> president lam: clarifying questions. commissioner hsu? >> commissioner hsu: on page 10. if you can bring that back. i have a clarifying question. >> we're having technical difficulties now. our laptop is frozen. >> commissioner hsu: it was a page about the site base budget

reduction and from the adopted and proposed. the adopt was $50 million to the site and then the proem is $15 million. i want to ask that site-based budget, does that mean that $50 million was asked by all all the sites to cut and now we're asking them to cut. >> december at the time of adoption balancing plan, we identified the need for $50 million of reductions to school sites. however, before sites were given

their budget template, we recognized $40 million new revenue from the state. budget targets that the school sites have been working with. , assumes $15 million reduction. >> commissioner hsu: there's a director from central site that says you need to reduce this much. is it from the site that we recommend this much reduction. do you give them a target of 10%? >> we have -- that has been reduced by $15 million.

overall pool of funds of the weighted student formula funding has been reduced by $15 million. >> commissioner hsu: is that the same across all the school sites? >> the formula functioned in the same way across all school sites. since there's allocations based on enrollment and based on characteristics like the number of english learners at a school, they'll receive more funding and if they have fewer, they will receive less. it depends on the specific changes at classroom.

you can go to the sfusd website. you have to you croll 32 information. the first is the spring allocation compared by school. if you want to see the change school to school that, is available online. >> commissioner hsu: thank you. >> president lam: at this time i like to hope -- open to public comment. i like to open to in person first. >> caller: i'm a parent of fourth grader at marshall

elementary. >> president lam: you have 90 seconds. >> caller: we've its -- our family has christmas. -- our social worker doesn't do friendship circles. she finds housing and food vouchers. just 14% of students in my kids fourth grade class tested grade level english and 18% tested grade level in math. now we're slateth -- slated to lose $175,000 next year. our math and reading intervention internationalists, we don't have any adults to

lose. covid hit our school hard. our families are full of essential workers. we lost ground. we need help. losing educational staff is unacceptable. we're begging you. please find a way so we don't continue to fail our children. >> caller: the point i want to make sheer, when we put support and services in place to support

some of our kids who need the most help, it ends up benefiting the entire district. the matua was here talking about one of their priorities, one of their challenges that enrollment is declined. when you tie that to the fact that means we are losing dollars as a district. when we don't have the support and services in place to get our kids, butt in the seats. i understand and recognize we have to cut are we doing it strategically? another issue we haven't talked about is eraf.

that's our money. >> vice president boggess: i have a process question. i'm confused people that want to speak but aren't allowed to speak because they didn't turn the car earlier. i'm just trying to clarify what the process is. >> if you like to speak to an item, you need to turn in speaker card to me, prior to that item being started. >> vice president boggess: has that been the normal process?

>> yes. >> vice president boggess: it's creating some confusion i think. >> president lam: for the public it was announced at the beginning of the meeting. i can read it again. it's imperative that persons providing in person testimony, fill out a speaker card and return it to mr. steel.

>> president lam: at this time, we'll take virtual public comment. we're going to take a total 20 minutes for this agenda item. we have three minutes in person. one minute each. >> clerk: at this time we'll hear public comment on the 2021-22 second interim report. if you care to speak, please raise your hand. you will have one minute to speak. we have total of 20 minutes for this item. larry?

>> caller: eight, therefore, please support request for $2 million in funding to make

lowell funding equitable with other school sites at 9%. thank you. this is larry lee. >> clerk: thank you. >> clerk: jennifer? >> caller: i'm concerned about lowell about other schools. given how the cuts impact schools with various pathways. it's a 9% at all schools. i am curious about how those slightly over 70 central staff upper management layoffs. that seems really problematic. i would also like to add that i see mpd is using language that

bilingual classes are underenrolled. thatst not true. >> caller: with record inflation you should show school employees appreciation by giving them a raise when talks reopen. please, in the future, dedicate a significant amount of money to the unfunded pension liability in the district.

does lowell gets half what the state gives the district per student? that's pathetic. thank you. >> clerk: tina? >> caller: hi, thank you. i'm a parent of of lowell student and also hoover middle school student. i like to formally welcome the new commissioners and thank you for your time this evening. one of the major factors facing san francisco -- [ indiscernible ]

>> clerk: tina, are you there? >> caller: hi, yes. i think there might be an issue with forced mute. >> clerk: sorry about that, i'm so sorry about that. go ahead please. >> caller: was any of my presentation heard? >> clerk: feel free to start over please. >> caller: i'm a parent of a lowell student and a hoover middle school student and welcome to the new commissioners. one of the major factors of the schools, the district budget crises is reduced enrollment in lowell in particular has been in the local state, international news including recent article in the "new yorker" please help

restore san francisco family faith in the public school system and confidence. i want toe to do a quick shot out to principal dominguez who is a talented school leader. >> caller: i'm concerned it looks like the vietnamese language teacher at the middle school level is not being allocated. which means that the commitment made under the board policy to vietnamese will not be

completed. we were told that the site was under enrolled. we were told there weren't enough seats left. we were told that the district wasn't able to hire teachers to come to our neighborhood. we like to work together to implement in program instead of closing it. thank you. >> clerk: thank you so much.

lillian? >> caller: i'm a parent of two sfusd students. budget should be prepared based on the students and we should avoid budget cut to the sites that will affect the students. lowell would have 21% cut and would lose about 22 qualified teachers. we are concerned that this budget cut will --

[ indiscernible ] please support $2 million in funding to make lower funding cuts in line. >> caller: hi. i am both an parent and an educator in the district. my son elementary site was told they needed to cut one of two kindergarten positions. i'm hearing this is happening at many of our elementary schools. i know that we're working off projected numbers. this is really detrimental to our student. we're coming out of a traumatic

pandemic. we need to reassess where we're taking money from now. while we're working hard to build enrollment. our school and other schools we are taxed. >> clerk: simon? >> caller: hi, i'm a parent at

sophomore at lowell and seventh grader at everett. welcome to new commissioners. i thank you all for your service. all seven of you. i'm deeply concerned about the disproportionate impact of the recent budget cuts at lowell being reduced by 21%. i'm concerned that cutting the budget by one fifth will have a drastic unacceptable impact only lowell's ability to educate 18% of the high school students. most concerning, we risk failing students that are most in need of support to thrive in high school. please support principals funding request to make lowell's funding cuts more in line with other school sites. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. brandy? >> caller: hi, i live in the

richmond district. i want to echo some things that a teacher said. it is not fair when schools on the west side of san francisco are demanding more of their fair share than some of the other schools in other parts of town that have been victims of real estate redlining for years. that is resource hoarding. it is wrong. it is unfair to children. there are some schools that get less money per student. that socially because they serve fewer students that are high need.

>> clerk: jerry? >> caller: hi everybody. i'm talking to you from the lobby. we try new things out multiple times. i wonder if the budget has been updated looking at the actuals? i just went through this process where we revised the budget base the on our actuals. for example like our pension expenses, were reduced of the actual spending.

it doesn't seem like how school sites got to create those changes. i'm wondering about the money coming in from the state. i understand that we have to wait for that process to occur. i'm wondering if there's some projections there in terms of how that changes the site budget for spring and for adoption of the school budget. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. that concludes the amount of

time allotted for public comment for this item. >> president lam: i can extend fiver minutes to reading e-mails of public comment. >> i will be reading e-mails received in the board office. during this time -- this is is from barbara -- during this time of budget crises, the decisions need to be made with the focus on direct services to youth that support their academic and emotional wellness. policies and rules that don't support sites doing the right things for their students need to be adjusted and flexibility encouraged. if you site these direct service literacy specialists -- the money is not an issue. allow us to be creative for the better. social workers and school nurses must have access to the equity,

supervision and professional development to better serve the wellness needs of students, families and school staff. our principal should not be a social worker. they consult with us. we consult well professionals. this is from claire field. dear san francisco school board. i'm parent at rosa parks elementary. which has outstanding veteran faculty and broad diversity throughout san francisco. the covid pandemic has brought challenges to many students. today, 57% of students in our esteem program are reading below grade level. this is a crises for each of these children because of continued education. we need to help them now and fortunately, we have a solution.

literacy support special at rosa parks can provide the support to prevent these students from falling further behind. please act with us to make the change in these children lives by funding the literacy support specialst and provide direct services. we know that sfusd is committed to equity in teaching all its students to read well. our student needs provides the children and fundamental aspect of early education. please help make sure sfusd deliver the promises made to our children. there's an additional e-mail from rosa parks supporting the same issue. i will read couple of more. thanks for sharing my public comment. my name is lisa. i'm a teacher at rosa parks elementary and alumni of sfusd. 40% of our students are reading below grade level. 50% --

>> clerk: can you please read at a lower rate? thank you. >> 40% of students are reading below grade level. 57% of students are esteem program is reading below grade level. sfusd is preventing -- please revisit this arbitrary budget policy and allow us to convert an existing position that does not provide direct services to students to a new position that provide direct literacy support to struggling readers. this was a need before the pandemic and covid has exacerbated the essential service for our students. thank you for your time and consideration. this is from geno wang.

this will budget cut will force middle schools -- mlk has a highest student rate of 82.5% which means mlk students need more assistance than any other middle schools in the district. students deserve to have counselors and teachers in school for their mental health and academic success. most mlk families are not speaking english at home. without family liaison, means parent will lose connection with school. considering the mlk students and family situation, if you can't offer more resources to mlk, please, at least, don't cut the budget. this is from karen thomas. to the school board. i'm a parent of a junior and incoming freshman at lowell and

i want to express my concern about the 21% budget cut to lowell. this cut totally $3.6 million is much more severe than the 9% cuts being made at every other single school in the district. due to the a.p. funding cuts, lowell's budget was reduced by 21%. lowell already receives the lowest amount per student in the district. based on way school formula. lowell educates 18% of all sfusd high school students. more than any other school. please support principal dominguez's request of $2 million in funding to make lowell's cuts equitable with other school sites. karen thomas. that was the five minutes. >> president lam: i want to recognize that we have received e-mails for public comment. these comments have been shared with the board members and they are available for the public and

hard copy. they will be appended to the minutes. this will conclude public comment for special order of business and item number two. i like to open up for broader discussion with commissioners and superintendent. commissioner alexander? >> commissioner alexander: thank s so much to all the public comment. i do have some good news for those of you who are concerned about budget cuts and impact on schools. even though we made our best effort to make enrollment base cuts, lot of the cuts ended up impacting schools in different ways. lot of schools had to cut social workers and family liaisons or other things. that ended up getting rolled back. it's impacted schools in a lot of ways that aren't just direct classroom reductions based on enrollment. at the high school level, the

a.p. issue, lowell has been particularly hard hit. lot of high schools has been hit and other cuts aren't enrollment base. the good news is that we're hopeful that there's going to be an increase in the allocations in the may revise that the governor puts out in may which will impact our budget for next year. in anticipation of that, this week, i believe tomorrow, we'll get information about doing some contingency planning where they could think about restoring funding. if that money comes through. we won't know for sure until mid-way.

dr. matthew, thank you for all your work on this. really appreciate the effort on it. >> i want to thank the team. deputy superintendent lee. what we're trying to do, say good news. i will say potentially good news. we don't know it's going to happen. we're being clear about that. we don't know if it's going to happen or not. all the wins look like there's a possibility that we would receive additional funds. we're asking schools to do, we'll be asking site administrator, you'll be receiving an e-mail from me tomorrow morning. saying to do just this to prepare for potential of additional dollars coming. then on friday, schools will get

the target amount that we hope will come through. >> that's going to help our schools. hopefully staff will be less likely to leave. families will know that we're exited to reinvesting in our schools. we have an balance budget. we addressed our gap that we had with no longer out of balance. now as we get new revenue, we can begin to reinvest in our schools. potential good news is good way to say it. i want to leave some hope out there for folks that we don't -- we understand it can get better. another thank you to the budget team for closing that budget gap. we made lot of really hard decisions. there was a lot of back-and-forth on the board and we've arrived now at that time a

place where we've done it. i think now we still have to keep continuing that process moving forward. in terms that $125 million gap that we're facing, it's not there anymore. i think that's a big accomplishment. thank you. >> president lam: vice president boggess? >> vice president boggess: if you can talk a little bit more about how close are current budget as well as our budget documents that we share are close. how close they are to a final budget. what limitations do we have in our projections based on kind of estimates of what the state might do. kind of building on what commissioner alexander shared. >> i can start. i think -- i guess where i would start is that we are really actually approaching the end of

what is typically our spring budget development process for school sites and central office. based on the state budget in january from the governor's budget. we used that information to finalize what we typically refer to as our spring preliminary allocations for school sites. that has what has been communicated and what is all budgets are due by spring break. we're really in the final week. typically, we use the additional time between now and june to review all of the information that school sites and central offices have planned. the budget office does review to make sure everything lines up with how we submit our budget information to the state. we prepare all of the materials from there. i think typically, may revise

does provide us helpful information. it is an important update. it comes very late in the process in order to incorporate significant changes by the time you all see budget first realing at the beginning of june. that's where the constraint is. significant changes that late do pose a serious risk to really big swings, really big changes in order to meet required deadline to have approved budget to roll out july 1st. [ please stand by ]

>> goes beyond that would be allocated during a small revised and staff go from the may revise until the fall to make any adjustments necessary to balance things outis that

how it works ? if you could walk us through what role will the public take and that process as far as communication or giving input and how would it impact planning for schoolsite and their ability to do those things ? >> what you said, my understanding ... i mean, where we go from may into the fall, one of the nice things is that we may and the fall is our recommended budget presentation discussion and approval. so there's really robust discussion of the budget and how wemove forward during the month of may . at that time period will be an important moment for both looking at what is in the recommended budget based on what's happening right now with

budget development and what additional information we have been made because that will be incorporated. we just have to figure out exactly what it's like for june versus how that results in what we would do during thepolicy divide . >> i think if i were to add anything to what anne-marie just said it would be through that discourse around the budget board and the public can weigh in on priorities so thinking about should there be let's say a $10 million increase inrevenue for the states . are there reductions or restoration funds that would we would want to plan for through the fall revised adjustment for what we want to set those funds aside for additional stabilization? i think an important factor in

all this is the type of funds the state might restore. are they one-time or ongoing? that's going to have a major impact because if they are one time we might anticipate that restoring funds we don't want to keep the can on addressing our structural budget deficit although if we want to kick the can for one year and say we're going to restore funding for one year, we justwant to be clear about that if it's a one-time source of funds . if it is ongoing then that would give us more leeway although i want to go back to that original question about how we've been able to create a balanced projection because of the use of one-timefund balance to help stabilize. i guess i've come to think of it as a glide path . where a plane, we're coming in towards the landing of the alignment of expenditures and

revenues and this buildup of budget stabilization reserves helps ease that clap crash landing. it gives us more time to make decisions so i think we just want to forever heat that too, three-year trajectory in mind before we turn and spend and increase our revenues. we want to make sure we're looking at that longer-term trajectory . >> one additional question. if you could talk about the ability of additional funding coming after the may revise being available to support with preventing layoffs at school sites with personnel ordo those events occurred too late in the calendar to prevent the things that are already in motion for that process ? >> i'll take a crackat that . i believe our chief of hr

christian is having trouble seeing way in the back but if she's there she may want to add on comments as well. at any point during the staffing process including the place where we are now, the time that we're in now. i think commissioner so, the first major event in that process for notification of employees in central layoff happens by march 15. that's a statutory deadlinein educational code . but then there's a second notification that must happen by may 15. so almost always the case there's a smaller number of notices that are distributed at that point and at any point beyond may 15 additional notices can be rescinded. so to answer your question in brief, yes.

that does happen. we typically see that occur. it's been several years since we have sent notifications of potential layoffs. the last time we did it was 2014 but prior to that we did it several years in a row and in each of those cases there would be restrictions of notices from here on through may 15 and beyond may 15. >> commissioner mahogany. >> had to take abreath . saw you do that. >> first of all, thank you wallace and director gordon for all the hard work you've been putting in over the past many months to get us to this place and to positive rendering of the budget at thispoint .

one thing i did want to raise is and we submit this eventually as a final in june orjuly 1 , it's part and parcel of the local control accountability plan and i think a lot of the questions we hear from thepublic , a lot of the questions we hear are meant to be addressed in that process. and i don't know how many people in the public or even within the district have fought with a 200 page document of all of our goals and measures and implementation tactics . they want into the hundreds. i think there's an opportunity for an exercise and i think actually the department of education is encouraging if not prodding us to be more rigorous in our process around mentoring on our students and our purpose as the district to focus on the

student outcomes that we want to see. theactivities we want to see and to hear part and parcel of that is hearing from our school sites , the site plan for student achievement and rolling those up to inform us as leaders of the district to make these hard decisions that we now are finding ourselves in. this is a moment of time and i just walked into this moment and you all have been working so hard and there's been so many things coming fast and furious over these past two years but i see a real opportunity to partner with the document as a strategic plan to help all of us, our school sites, our educators, our families center on the students so that when we come to these difficult decisions it's more transparent and there's accountability it's understood what the trade-offs are thewhen we have opportunities , may hopefully that there's more funding coming is more clear to

everybody what the likely priorities and outcomes are for new funding. so i do appreciate all the work that's gone into this from staff and board members and i know it's been a long slog but i definitely encourage and excited to really focus on our local control accountability plan as a strategiceffort, not just a budget exercise . that in my opinion is all streamlining around clear understandable priorities for all of us within thedistrict . all of our partners within the district and the general public and our city partners and hopefullyfoundation partners . so i just wanted to state my peace and my perspective on that process and i know you've heard this at nausea and as has miss shirt in the audience as part of the task force. i'll say it here from this seat now.>> i just want to also

comment in making it so imperative on this board working with doctor matthews our superintendent, with our budgetteam on the house .and talking about it for a while how we're going to center l as that strategic approach and the systemic approach to our budget so we can now be fulfilling our outcomes for students so i look forward to working with this body around the house to and the next steps here. commissioner shoe. >> thank you chair.kind of piggybacking on what commissioner mel, he said. i had more practiceon her last name . as the new commissioner who just joined at the eighth-inning, maybe the ninth. i can't say that i'm up to speed on all of the budget details and all that was done

to balance it. i appreciate all the work and i really am not understanding all of it one weekend. however, from what i understand i don't believe the actual zero-based approach was used to arrive at the balancing plan proposals . and while it's great that we're getting more money from various sources, i don't think it was all just from actually doing a real analysis of us and how well the district is run. and i hope going forward we can fit a few priorities, not dozens, maybe just a handful and maybe we can take a more logical and transparent approach where we can list all the services that sf usd provide and maybe categorize

them into core ones, indirect ones. the ones that you list, what are they, list themout so that everybody , for members as well as the public can see you know this is what sf usd does and these are course services, what we consider core. these are direct or indirect and maybe assess how closely adhere to ourserving students goal . maybe we attach data like number of students this particular service serves. as an objective data. for each of those services. but once it's done we can more easily decide which services to reduce when we have to reduce and which ones to put back or even grow as we get more funding. and i think this approach similar to this would let the public see our process. and even if theydisagree with

our decisions, they would know how we arrived them . and i think that would go a long way to providing transparency and building back the trust in sf usd. so maybe we're too late for this round because we are two or three months from that final version that wehave to submit . that maybe next fiscal year, maybe with a new superintendent i hope we get to do it the right way. not depend in the future for more money to fall out of the sky. but really look at with the money that we have are we spending it efficiently. adhering to the goals and i think it's first start, either understandpresident lamb is going to organize us and try to set some goals , not too many, a handful . >> student delegate lamb.

>> i have 2 questions. the first is while we're on the topic of how we do things and making sure that we have systems in place tolook at how we're allocating our funding , i was wondering if there's an update on and correct me if i'm wrong partnership with stanford university and analyzing central offices. is there any update on when thatmight happen ? >> i'm not familiar with a study with stanford on central office. i am familiar with the study that's ongoing with stanford about and he sf. i don'tknow. there are other studies as well as part of the stanford sf usd partnership . so i know and i'll say for the anti-sf piece the findings will be shared in may.

so help inform that kind of work next year. >> i'll come back. >> i know the reason doctor matthews is working this. i think there was a miscommunication as to what you are asking about . >> that or i have community. >> you said stanford but i think you meant ... >> i meantthis central office . >> so that process is occurrin . just actually right now. it's a partnership between hr and police. with elliott dishon providing support but the analysis is happening right now internal. we expect to have a report and recommendation to the board at the end of april about possible

reorganizing in some way shape or form. we're looking at form and function of district officethat goes to , backto what commissioner shoe was talking about .are we organized in the best possible way? that's what we're looking at right now. i don't know if that answers your question. that process is happening as w speak . >> i guess a follow-up to that is you mentioned this process is happening internally. are there anyplans for a third-party analysis ? >> we actually have embarked down that road. we actually as a team talked to a third-party that we thought was going to be able to come in but the calendar was twofold. now we definitely have opportunities long-term but

short-term, we're trying to look and see if there's the possibility ofteaming with the city . some of the analysts on the short-term because we know the runway has shortened. does that answer your question? >> thank you and switching topics. something i wanted to ask abou . in the proposed changes to indirect service, it was stated. educators would be built into the proposed changes for indirect service but as i remember when we did not pass the layoff notices, the amount was closer to 3 million. to explain thatand does that cover the entirety of the parent educator non-layoff ? >> that is correct.the amount we discussed was ibelieve 3.6 million at the time of the parent educator layoff proposal . the was the total potential

amount of the salaries of parent educators. i like to think of it as the totalauthority of potential savings that we would have seen in our budget . however, this 1.5 million reallyrepresents a group of educators that are currently funded centrally . that had been identified for savings within the central office budget reductions. so by restoring those within central office , that did create a new cost that we balanced around . other educators are looking within school site budgets and i believe the direction is that those positions will not be laid off from school sites and therefore we do not need to account for them as an additional cost that they are being absorbed within theschool

site budgets . >> i'm going to go commissioner wiseman ward. never has my name been the easiestone . thank you president lam. thank you all. this is new to me and i'm in all of the work that'sbeen done by the staff, by the board and i'm grateful for you sharing your wisdom with us . i have a follow-up question that's piggybacking on a few . commissioner shoe described money falling out of the sky. doctor matthews described it as potentially good news but as it relates to commissioner mcconnaughhay's excellent point about making sure we're

focusing and prioritizing and having a through line to students in packs and outcomes and centering ourselves around the l , that's going to be take time so as soon as this money comes in, falls from the sky sooner rather than later. in the spirit of what we've been talking about, transparency and building back trust i wonder if you can tell me how will the decisions be made in terms of prioritizing where to restore that money, dental office versus school sites. i heard you get a distinction between whether it's a one-time fund versus something. what are the other ways are going to bethinking or the budget office is going to be thinking about prioritizing how to restore that money because i think that's important . >> thank you commissioner. i dobelieve going back to the creation of the balancing plan , we applied various lenses and be it from the student

achievements, access in equity and accountability so that's one lens is using the goals from the lcap itself. that is one lens i would certainly encourage us to apply . additionally we applied the lens of core versus priority and enhancements. so to the extent that there are core services that were inadvertently cut, that would be the first place we would want to restore because really that means that we're cutting deeper and we as a school district or a county office of education would actually want to in order toprovide the necessary services to our students . and then additionally, looking at the proximity to the students so thinking at school sites, direct services, those

are where students have direct interaction and feel the sports most closely reverses all the way back to administration, business services for example is feels the furthest.however there may be ways you can look at administration and say that there actually are support provided to schools that are felt by students . so there aredifferent , by applying those lenses i think that those would be some guiding factors for the board to ultimately be able to evaluate options for restoration of funds and staff would be prepared to make recommendationsbased upon those different lenses . >> thank you chair. a quick follow-up, does that mean this board will be presented with a list and priorities ?

from staff to decide? if and when more moneyfalls from the sky ? >> staff would be prepared to make recommendations. either for restoration of funds to various expenses particularly the other scenario of looking at one time versus ongoing if there's an ongoing course of funds that by restoring unfortunately then wouldn't create, wouldn't perpetuate the structural budgetdeficit . then we might make recommendations and we would offer those suggestions versus a one-time source of funds. we would probably take a different approach to the proposed budget. >> but it would come to the board for us to fight. i just want to thank student delegate land for bringing up thatcentral office analysis project . my only comment is that i think

it's very important to have a third-party to this for objectivity and for the objects optics that i think the public would much more likely to believe the recommendations of the third party than from internal staff. not saying the quality may be different but from optics. i think it's really important to understand maybe the schedule didn't work but i think it's really important to really try and have a third-party do this project and not us. >> if i may want to make one point of clarification that mister duchamp isan appointed physical as expert from california department of education . sowhile he is partnering with our human resources chief , he is actually a third-party. so if that has adds an element of what you're looking for a

third-partyperspective . >> mister duchamp is the third party? >> we were actually bringing in someone else. but he is not an employee of the district. he actually worked for the department of education and he's a fiscal expert from the california department but we were still looking and are still looking to it possible to get someone from atleast an analyst from our couple of analysts from the city department >> thank you very much . >> just a quick question because i thought i had recalled that the health risk analysis was likely to be on this agenda and speaking of third-party looks at how thing are going, do you happen to have an update of when that may come to us ? >> yes commissioner, it is actually the report has been pleaded and it will be

presented to the board at the april 12 meeting. and i believe that we will be to provide commissioners a copy of the report very soon. >> commissioner alexander. >> i wanted to thank my new colleagues for their comments. i think i agree with the points around the lcap that the commissioner mentioned and commissioner shoe! around zero based budgeting are well taken . that was something we wantedto engage in and didn't get to it and didn't do it . i think if we could combine those two between the lcap and real zero-based budgeting we would be in a much better place in terms of transparency but as you both said although making sure our resources are aligned withour priorities and being clear about those . the other thing i wanted to be clear about because there was a

lot of conversation is i think the proposal from my understanding of what's happening with this idea of the potential good news for the potential new funds would be that the schools have a budget. they're turning it in before school break and is based on these thisbalancing plan so that's in the balancing plan . you heard public comment saying other schools are getting caught. that's in the current budgets being turned in. my understanding is what we are proposing is staff is identifying somewhere i think between 15 and $18 million of restorations that if those funds came in and revised they would be prioritized to school sites so schools would say that whole amount of 15 to 8 million goes in the schools and you would get 200,000 or an additional million depending on

which school and how much but then they would say here are the things we would want to spend thosethings on if it comes through and if it does come through and your realizing we get that amount or more, then the trigger is pulled and that money is added back. so those schools and then they can retain the staff, prevents the layoffs . i want to clarify that is the process because it seems like then if there were additional monies and they revise there would be a discussion. what do we want to do with those? do we want to save themfor next year ? i want to make sureit's clear to my new colleagues in terms of . >> in terms of the understanding or the scenarios that a school site might work with to make, to outline how they would use those funds, absolutely. you are spot on. the challenge would be that the timing of finding out exactly how much of a new could be coming into the districtwould

be in mid-may . that's the time about which our budget team would be actually as close to as possible finishing up completion of the documentation necessary to move forward to the board for review and approval . so the process ofupdating individual school site budgets , if we were to go through that and fully update budget templates for each school site based on the final outcome of the may revise it would put us at risk of not having documentation ready for adoption by the end of june. so staff would actually be making recommendations more along the line of setting priorities for how those funds would be restored but not necessarily fully connecting theirreallocation of those funds to individual school sites . >> i want to be clear because,

i want to be clear what's happening. doctor matthews and i had a conversation about this and i don't want to confuseschools. my understanding is we had people advocating . ourschool needs x, y, and z restoration .so this week they're going to get some potential amounts and it could be this amount and they're going to plan that out and when the may revise comes in, we would say okay, now you cango ahead and hire those staff, keep those staff or are you saying that's not what's happening ? >> i'm going to ask anne-marie tooutline some of the steps of what it would take to implement those changes . and it sounds like there may have been some discussion or decisions that we have not been informed of because i do want to communicate that i do not think what you're asking is possible of the budget on the

timeline. >> so we're going to, we're givinschools a target , correct ? when we give them the target and we say let's say it's 30,000 and that comes to be then what happens whenthe dollars come in ? >> providing a target is a very different asked then fighting a secondary round of mental budget development that we would need to be prepared to implement either fully or partially or in some way on the timeline for budget approval. and so providing a number and saying here is the number for you to think about and consider is one thing but actually operationalizing that in budget templates is a, that is what budget development requires

five months to do in its current state so a secondary round. and i don't think that it's feasible. to interpret the information that we receive at may revise turn that around to that level of detail in time for a budget to be approved. >> so we're asking the schools, i want to be clear.we're asking the schools and saying it lets say 18 million years. or in the may revise redware for the saints that we're going to give you a target ace on what we're hearing. why would we ask to give them the target if they're not going to be able to then put that into their budget. i don't want to ask them to do something you're saying deputy superintendent lee if you can address this cause i knowthe

conversation we had and i thought that's what we were seeing . >> the question is about timing . so my understanding of our discussions has been that as gordon said that we will run allocations, share them with school sites. so that schools can plan on a better scenario. and that we will see what happens with the may revise. hopefully we will get better news but that we are not in the meantime attempting to operationalize the budgets. we're not directing theschools to turn back in . the budgets on that different scenario. with an intention to operationalize and incorporate those detailed budgets and staffing plans into the recommended budget that would be presented to the board in

june. that was my understanding. >> i want to be clear they don't have to turn in. i understandthat we're not asking them to do anew budget . that would , if they're setting a target and then those dollars do materialize, what does the school get those dollars ordoes the school not get those dollars. i want to be really clear about that . >> they would get the dollars. we have to concern that the shape of the money, the amount of the money is consistent and aligned to those targets that we would be sending out. there's some big policy questions the governor and legislature have to hash out in that regard but if that is true , then it will have been helpful for the schools to hav done some planning on their own it's a matter of timing . so ms. gordon has mentioned the fall revise at the juncture which we typically collect the

revised budget and load sort of slot at the appropriated amount in our financial system to reflect the revised budget, the better budgets and the budgets that they are on track to submit this friday. and they would have had the benefits of knowing what the priorities would be within their context. so that that wouldn't be a surprise for them to be able to turn in that provided also on a parallel track we would be able to make some staffing moves including the revision of layoff notices that vice president logan asked about earlier. that would allow us to rescind more of those notices based on an awareness of improvements in our overall budget situation.

>> so they would get it in the fall. is that the bottom line? >> they would know in the spring. >> but theywould get in the fall that we would collect their budgets back in the fall . >> but as a former principal, i'm going to use my example of we got somebody to look on this level. i'm joe dominguez, principal and i know he already has is less of $2 million. of potential affects of critical programs that he wants to based on his, he's already on the dialogue. let's say again and imagining all the hypotheticals let's imagine that made comes and we get $60 million is a huge windfall and it's all unrestricted money . may not happen but vic is going to get $2 million or more. can he keep those teachers or does he have to wait until the fall to add those positions

back? the key is our those teaching positions going to stay at lowell. can he say i want to keep this teacher and that teacher in ma , that's the question. >> that's an important questio commissioner . i think frankly i would want us to have some conversations with our hr colleagues because there are provisions that are contractual about consolidation or future. just. procedures for adjustments to staffing and we're talking about something out of the ordinary. we're talking about hypotheticals scenarios and actually we wouldn't have information in the meantime . we have to operationalize those

steps before we have certainty about the actual revenues. and those dates are set in our agreement. or ourbargaining agreements . about consolidation . >> if i may, i'd like to share with the may revise at that point the revenue is not set in stone either. at the state level, the budget will not have been adopted . so i would recommend that the board establish priorities for how many identified are allocated. that is determined that all of it goes to school sites. in order to operationalize that within the budget first admission to the state we could

include that lump amount within some of our budget show that with that increased revenue we have an increased expenditure would in order to operationalize that and implement that at the site level we would need more time. furthermore, in addition to wanting to get the final state budget adopted because of the movement of students at enrollment at different school sites and hence the need for a fall revise where we allocate the funds according to where a student lands it would be advisable to finalize that allocation of funding for school sites based on final enrollments plans in the fall. that is the main reason, one of the main reasons in addition to wanting to build more time for updating school site budgets . making sure it's allocated by final implement age sites. >> that doesn't work for us school. you understand that red as an example they have a schedule,

student classes. so joe as a principal has to decide by may and may is till late. for everyone, it's going to be a rush but if he knows in may he can get that $2 million and higher the teachers that he can offer classes that he can offer right now that are not in the schedule right now so he's got to know may 15, 16, he's got to know right awaythat he can keep those teachers and then we can offer those classes. youknow how this works . that's what the ask is from schools . and every indication is that we're going to get a lot of additional revenue in may. this we can't be certain that's what we're hearing. if we were to get this money andthen not be able to use it , it just seems like that seems unacceptable. i guess we've got to

collectively figure out how do we between may 15 and june 1, whatever we need to do we need to do it in my opinion and if we need to get help from the budget folks, i'm confident that we can do that. i feel like we've got to figure it out. >> i would suggest you allow staff to be off-line and come back with what we think we can. clearly i heard you loud and clear but we've got to be off-line to figureout what we can do and can't do and come back with aplan around this . we're still going to be sending this letter out . and to begin prioritizing but let us come back to this board to say what we can andwon't be able to do . >> vice president boggess. >> the question i had touched

on this and the part that is tricky and i want to just a to ensure that is clear to the public is with the may revise and additional funds that come in, that process is happening outside of our normal engagement budget process for school sites so that's what's creating a lot of the tension and in how we normally do things and because the timeline is so short between the may revise and the time we have to approve it i think what i'm hearing the concern from staff is about the labor-intensive process of finalizing all those individual budgets and having a short time to do it versus what happens in the fall where the central office plays a more robust role in working to get those funds to sites without

going through the traditional school site budgeting process. i think maybe us having more conversation collectively as a board about how we want to direct that process and make sure school site leadership as well as families have access to giving us direction on how we want to allocate these funds or any shift that wants to happen . it's a good time to say we don't need to get everything set by june but trying to balance the urgency of giving school sites information early so we can plan for their schedules and giving us time to make sure we have all of our things lined up an appropriate, knowing that money might come but not knowing the form it's going tocome, whether or not it's going to be multi-year or single year. i guess to add i think there's procedural things that we have to work out in this unique moment to make sure people understand what's happening . school sites and families are empowered to engage and one

other thing for me as it seems like the information going out to schoolsites with that additional target funding is helpful because it will allow us to see what their priorities are but it won't be super helpful in reorganizing the budgets because we won't know the money we have to play with until after that point . hopefully that makes sense. for me, that's where i took off is we're trying to do our regular process so we don't have enough runway when the may revise happens and it will be important to push it early and late to ensure we get that but it would be important if we were able to get it updated by june when we make the move and have clarity so whatever we can do to support that process and any additional support understanding the support that putson staffs timeframe . >> i want to add quickly in response that during small replies that is reopening the school site planning process. i know we haven't done it for a couple of yearsbut it is actually . we redistribute all the budgets and materials with finalized

enrollment numbers and that's when schools typically complete their final school plan for student achievement as well so it isn't that small revise. it is an opportunity to reopen that conversation about how funds should be used and it's intended to be a moment to kind of calibrate and reevaluate if anything should change based on change in enrollments or changes in funding , things like that. >> the issue with that and speaking as a school principal, it's incredibly destructive . i understand that's how it works statewide and it's unfortunate but in september you can't hire new teachers. if you getadditional enrollment and morekids who are you going to hire in september ? good teachers hangingaround looking for jobs . so it is ,that happens every year and it has to be done but it's not , that's not an effective process i don't

think any educator will tell you that's a good process . i just want to say that from the point of view of a school principal. >> i totally agree with you and understand. i think that the driving issue in all of this is the fact that we're facing declining enrollment and the fact that we're in the midst of a structuralbudget deficit. the only reason why we haven't projected balanced budget is we're jumping through hoops to shore away funds . so while we're sort offalling down our budget , getting to a nice balance state it's very tempting to look at that shiny possibility of state funds coming our way but in reality it'sdistracting us from committing to stabilizing our budget . >> with all due respect we're not talking about shiny possibilities, we're talking about kids in classroomsand this , we heard from schools as to what the impact of these

cuts are so i think investing, if we're going to get a potentially 40 to 60 million more dollars which could happen and if it's unrestricted to not invested in classrooms because we don't have the capacity to do the technical work which again, i'm not saying you should have the capacity. that's a question of when i say it's unacceptable idon't mean the work is not good enough. our budget system is designed in a particular way . you have a team, your supercontinent. it's great the process is smooth. what i'm saying is given the situation, given the urgent need at school sites pandemic, learning loss. the social and emotional needs. if we have that money it's irresponsible not to get it in classrooms if that's the work decision just because of the technical timing piece . we need to figure out a way.

if we're prioritizing putting more money in classrooms let's figure it out together. let'sget help between may 15 and june 15 to make it happen . this is not acritique and again, you have done phenomenal work . that's why we're even able to havethis conversation because of what you said which is we made some hard choices . i thinkinvesting a little bit of money to stabilize schools again. if were going to see friends it feels like the right thing to do . if it comes back and we're getting 10 million more dollars that's a different conversation buti'm just thinking we need to be ready. >> when i said shiny objects i don't want to discredit the importance of whatwe're talking about with our students . that's not what i meant . i want to state that clearly . what i mean is it can be a distraction on the other priority that we have set which is to stabilize our budget which also is a commitment to our students. and that by identifying the use of easter funds to balanceour

budget for the year , we've allowed ourselvesto maintain instability . this really is a balancing act for sure . i think this is a critical conversation and i'm glad that we're having it and it does seem that we have some important trade-offs to consider around the technical feasibility of implementing versus the need to get information to our sites but i would encourage us also to pace ourselves and recognize that you have a deep commitment that we're making to the state and to our students and to ourselves to stabilize this budget turning around and if we have funds coming in may, making decisions.i would be very, we're starting to work now to not make it a quick decision is the bottom line. so thank you, i'llstop there . >> i'm going to wrap up our conversation, student delegate land how to comment. >> i wanted to talk about

certified kid in classroom. talking about the practicality of implementing this in schools. not only are you not going to find teachers to commissioner alexander! in september, you also might want to find kids to fill those classes because we take our schedulein may . you can't just add on for example let's say we get an unexpected revenue using goals as an example because i know what's on thelist . but things like our leadership fund, mentor in class . specific electives that students want to take. if we were to get more revenue in the fall we can just bring those classes back and students are not going to be able to select those classes for that

school year because we've already made those decisions in the spring so that's further in support if we can. i know we be discussing so many challenges in trying to get this out between may and june but that's theonly feasible time to actually make a difference at the school site if that makes sense so iwanted to offer that perspective . as a student we we won't be able to add a class in the fall . if we workit would be disruptive , especially for those first coupleof weeks as we comeback to school when everything is topsy-turvy anyways . thank you and i just wanted to add that . >> it sounds a little bit like the payroll fiasco we just went through. we can't do it because we can't doit. actually, we can . i would rather to superintendent 's question of comeback with what we can and what we cannot , i offered to saycome back with how we can do

it . >> i'm always going to be transparent with you so i'm not going to what we can do, definitely, that's what we're coming back but also i'm not going to tell you we can if we can't . >> but the decision-makers are all here. we can decide to dosomething and if it's not the whole formal process of budgeting maybe a limited version . all of us here, weare the decision-makers . if we decide to doit we can figure out a way to do it . that's my part. given the importance of what we've heard , the impact on th school sites , i think it's imperative for us to find a way to do it, not saying yes, with a traditional process we canno . i understand that but maybe we

can modify the traditional process because we have unprecedented situations here. that's all i'm going to commen . >> one more comment doctor matthews. i don't know if mister dishon is tuned in it or not but i would just recommend process wise that we as part of our report back to you that we convey cde's perspective through mister dishon about this general notion of planning deeply including operationalize our budget preparation on the basis of less than certain assumptions.

i'll just leave it at that. i justthink we will want to incorporate that consideration or that set of considerations when we report that . >> i do think that's important because mister dishon had talked extensively about our overreliance on one-time funds and the policy reset tonight makes a difference on what type of funding it is. i want to name and thank you colleagues for this dynamic discussion because it'sclearly really the tough choices that we've had to make for well over a year, year and a half . i also want to note it might be the obvious what it is this conundrum that wherein that as families are considering if they will continue on with our district, it's like a spiral. that in order to offer families and students more comprehensive

education experience we need that student enrollment so that's something we haven't talked about explicitly tonight but i'm very mindful and. >> frankly i'm going to use th word. just really understanding for example the secondary investments in the secondary . because what i worry is we know the attrition. it's from sixthgrade and then ninth-grade . and if we lose a family in the sixth grade, that is seven years of student enrollment. so i think in this balance around, i don't have specific solutions but to be mindful of that that as a body we're going to have to embark on it as we continue toreduce or reduce sites for the student experience . then it may also compound

families to be able to for us to retain students in the district. i know they've seen that across the bay and with our colleagues also filled out with our own higher institutions aswell i wanted to name that . that is something at top of mind for me is how do we retain our families and not lose them prominently because it might be onechild , then it might be the entire family . so that's something that i do hope as a follow-up at doctor matthews will work with the team so for the full board discussion following this. thank you. >> at this time we're going to take a roll call vote. on the interim, second interim. >> student delegate lam.

[roll call vote] >> thank you. i am at this time going to excuse ourstudent delegates . it's close to 9:00. so they can go to their studies,thank you . and i heard my colleagues requesting for a recess or break. i will recess for five. let's five minutes. let's return back at 9:05so seven minutes .

>> i'm now going to take us back to consent calendar agenda item e. board members may sever an item prior to vote. do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. at this time, i'm going to open up for public comment. members of the public may comment on any matters on the consent calendar, but members of the public shall not be permitted to sever agenda items for discussion, so we will take up to five minutes of public comment. >> clerk: president lam, there are no in-person cards, so we'll be going directly to remote. >> thank you. >> clerk: if you would like to

comment on the consent calendar agenda items, please raise your hand, and you will be given one minute to speak. can we have that in spanish and chinese, please. [speaking spanish language] [speaking cantonese language] >> clerk: can we have that translated in samoan, as well, please? okay. kim? kim?

sherin? >> yes, this is sherin. congratulations to the three new board members and thank you to superintendent matthews. we understand that the budget is essential to the financial healthness of the district, but we also think learning program students are also part of the sfusd, so please maintain on-line learning program open and improve the teaching quality for all the students who deserve education opportunities as other students. thank you.

>> clerk: thank you. >> as a reminder to public comment, this is on agenda item e, the consent calendar. >> clerk: thank you, president lam. that does conclude public comment for this item. >> great. thank you. at this time, any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? >> none. >> thank you. any items removed for first reading by the board? thank you. seeing none, any items severed by the board or superintendent for discussion or vote tonight? seeing none, roll call and consent calendar, please. [roll call]

>> thank you. moving onto section -- agenda item g, proposals for action. number 1, board policy 6170.1, transitional kindergarten, do i have a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> do i have a -- >> second. >> i'd like to call on the superintendent to call on a designee to read the recommendation into the record. >> thank you, president lam. reading the recommendation into the record -- [indiscernible].

reading the recommendation into the record will be our general counsel, danielle houck. >> good evening, commissioners. tonight, we're asking that you approve board policy 6170.1, transitional kindergarten, as listed on the agenda. >> thank you. i'd like to open it up for public comment. >> clerk: thank you, president lam. there are no public commenters in the room. >> let's do remote public comments. >> clerk: if you would like to make public comment, please raise your hand, and we will call on you. could i have that repeated in spanish and chinese, please? thank you. [speaking spanish language]

[speaking cantonese language] >> clerk: thank you. miss marshall? >> yeah, thank you so much, president lam, vice president boggess, and superintendent matthews. on a deeper level, i'm opposed to transitional kindergarten. there are no reason why children who were born later in the year, who will be 19 years old when they finish high school -- no other reason other than they were born too late in the year.

i was born in december, and i think i'm just as smart as anybody born between january and june. i know you're going to pass it, but it affects so many children born down the line. >> clerk: thank you, miss marshall. >> you're welcome. >> clerk: president lam, that concludes public comment for this item. >> thank you. at this time, i'd like to open this up for comments and discussion for commissioners and superintendent. seeing none, roll call vote on board policy 6170.1, transitional kindergarten. [roll call] >> clerk: that's six ayes.

>> thank you. moving onto board policy 0420.42, the charter school renewal, i'd like to ask for a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> call on superintendent to introduce basic need to read the recommendation into the record. >> reading this recommendation into the record will be our chief general counsel, danielle houck. >> as with the last policy, commissioners, this policy was heard by the rule and policy commission on march 7, and received a full recommendation, and tonight, we're recommending that you approve it. >> thank you. opening it up for public comment. >> clerk: again, no speakers in the room. we will go onto zoom. >> we will take up to three minutes of public comment. >> clerk: anyone wishing to make public comment, raise your

hand. you will have one minute to speak. can that be repeated in spanish and chinese, please. [speaking spanish language] >> interpreter: thank you. [speaking cantonese language] >> clerk: thank you. tina? >> yes, thank you for taking my call. as a listener who's been listening to public comment for about four hours, it would be helpful to just maybe give a real brief synopsis of what's being talked about, and

secondly, kind of an open appeal to avoid using acronyms because a lot of what you're talking about is technical jargon, and as a member of the public, it's hard to follow acronyms. >> clerk: thank you, tina. right now, we're speaking to the board policy, 0420.42, which is a charter school renewal. would you like to share public comment on this item? that's what we are discussing currently. there's no further comment.

>> may i have a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> second. [roll call] >> clerk: six ayes. >> thank you. moving onto agenda i, discussion of other educational issues, update regarding resolution 199-24-a-3, in support of the achievement and success of all latinx students in the san francisco unified school district, commissioners gabriela lopez and mark sanchez. [indiscernible]. >> thank yo and welcome to our new commissioners. this resolution was passed by the board in december 2019 --

sorry. you can go to the next slide, please. thank you. this resolution was passed by the board in december 2019 and covers a number of areas, four of which you can see outlined here on slide 2. we will be providing an update in these four areas, and with me is my chief of community support, our chief medical officer, and chief of agency. so first, we will start with the professional development and programming, and we can go to the next slide. >> thank you, chief, and good evening, commissioners, and welcome to the new commissioners. the implementation of this resolution is truly a team effort as you can see here in front of you, and many staff and departments support the work. the student and family services division support developing resources to develop the

coordinated scare approach, which is designed to develop student and family activities. on this slide, you can see the different implementation guides, and these were cocreated with families through an advisory group model. in addition, we've worked on providing more resources to expand professional development opportunities to develop implicit bias, and you can see the different types of training -- it is implemented in the different types of training and family partnerships. >> good evening, commissioners, and welcome, new commissioners on the board. the latinx resolution was passed in december 2019 -- i'm sorry. if i could have the next slide. the latinx resolution was passed in december 2019.

shortly thereafter, we were able to convene a stakeholder engagement meeting in the midst of the pandemic in june 2021. this meeting included a cross section of internal and external stakeholders, and we were able to discuss the resolution deliverables, discuss the current and upcoming work streams, and hear about the needs of the latinx students of the community. this has partly informed the work streams and the cultural team. we will work appropriately with the board to launch the application process this spring. next slide, please. this particular slide gives an overview of the spring on track rates for latinx students. the spring on track rates for latinx students increased by about five percentage points

compared to last year and has steadily increased over the last five years. the on-track rate is a measure that reviews credits earned and courses taken to determine likelihood of graduation, starting in their freshman year. college and career readiness has been implementing programs which target latinx students in order to improve the on-track rate as well as the graduation rate. in the next slide, there's a summary of the major programs in college and career readiness which serve latinx students. these programs include avid, early college and career technical education, otherwise known as c.t.e., and students who enroll in these programs have a higher graduation rate

than the district average, and we are now seeing an increase this spring in college enrollment. it is our goal to continue to expand access to the college and career readiness programs impacting latinx students. next slide, please. last summer, we were able to conduct empathy interviews with latinx students, and as a result, we were able to develop a latinx cohort where students will be working at early sites to begin a trajectory of education. these students will be onboarded and worked into a cohort. we are partnering with dcsf to provide dual enrollment courses in education and in a latin

ethnic studies course. the goal is to create an education career pathway pipeline for our own latinx students. i will now turn it over to the chief of students. >> just to tether right to what dr. priestly was talking about, i, of course, lead a department that's charged with effectively staffing schools, and so i'm going to speak to two parts of this resolution. one which is about recruitment of educators and one which is about recruitment of substitutes. on the next slide, you'll see this is initiatives that we have undertaken in the human resources department specifically to increase the number of latinx educators. our recruitment teams prioritize attending career fairs and giving presentations at california universities that

have the designation of minority serving institutions and hispanic serving institutions. we also have a program called latinx lunes, which is a teacher-led definitive exam-based support group which helps prepare noncredentials educators in cassing -- passing the cbest and cset exams. finally, we just do a lot of personalized candidate cultivation of latinx educators. our team reaches out to highlight career opportunities within the district, share specific school site information to help latinx applicants identify schools

where they feel they could serve and thrive. on the next slide, you'll see that part of this resolution asks us to be very intentional about how we support substitute professional development, how we're supporting substitutes to be effective in their roles so that students who -- teachers who serve latinx students when teachers are absent, that those substitutes are well prepared. we -- the substitute office is partnering with a program called substantial, which provides independent and small group instruction for substitutes. the self-paced programs are in

several areas, and there's a series of live events for substitutes with small group classes on classroom management and facilitated instruction, and you can see webinars on the power play, diversity and equity in the classroom, and supporting english language learners. i think that's the end of our presentation. >> thank you. thank you for that presentation, staff, and at that time, i wanted to ask if there's -- we'll have public comment. we have one in-person public comment, alita fisher. 90 seconds, please. >> hi, everyone. thank you so much for the work being done about this -- around this resolution. when this resolution was

passed, i think my comment was pretty much the same at the time. i appreciated the inclusion of reclassification of the resolution because that is such a huge equity issue. if students aren't reclassified by middle school and high school, they start to lose electives, they start to, you know, not have the same level of access that many of our other students, and in the special education world, we find that it's hard for a lot of students to pass the reclassification exam, so making sure that everyone understands that there are alternate methods in the reclassification so that our students who are intersectionally challenged to be able to have access to their elections -- or their electives truly have the resources needed to access the best of sfusd, so thank you. [please stand by]

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resolutiongoing forward . the slides i thought to myself this would be great for all our students, especially african-american students so i'm happy to hear they're going to teach in and i hope you will make every effort to help these teachers and work with our program to get some of those students involved in this program as well. as they travel with our parents and all that and the need this kind of assistance as well so i like what i heard and i implement a call for the district, thank you so much >> president lamb that include public comment for this item .

>> i'd like to openup comments for commissioners . commissioner seward. >> i don't have a question, just a few comments. i think this is my first board meeting. one of the things i said i would do is learn and when i was on the advisory council i've focused on acknowledging you all are here, acknowledging the work of listening and i want to saythank you to youall for a presentation . thank you for the updates . i specifically appreciate the collaborative model that you described in terms of this process and thank you to the former colleagues that got this process underway. i have heard representation matters and the idea that this will focus on educatorsis wonderful and i'm happy to hear that . i also hear that focus on not a

specific college pathway but that leaders can be career tax and not valuing one as greater than theother . i appreciate that larger focus and miss marshall's commented in terms of how great would this be to have it with other populations and this is a model that works, let's think about how you all can share your wealth of wisdom to take it into and work on behalfof other communities so thank you very much . >> commissioneralexander . >> i also want to thank the former president lopez and commissioner sanchez who may be, i think he's on his way for their work on this and staff

for the analysis and i think the other piece of this that i'm reminded of and looking what's in here iswhen we really sent a focus on particular target populations it benefits all students . the first order of practice is the family partnerships, their college assets work, the substitutes which i hadn't even thought of i realized was in this resolution and i thought if we have our substitutes get trained everybody benefits so thank you for this continued good work and let's keep it up because i thinkthat improves education for all kids . >> vice president boggess. >> i had a question. if you could talk about the achievement report and whether or not that's something that is put on pause until the council has pulled together, is that something staff canbe presenting a soft the data we have .

>> so vice presidents boggess. the student achievement reports, the latinx theater is included in our general achievement report. we have a resolution that calls on us to identify multiple student groups so we do have that information that's included in the data dashboards that rpa team builds and share at the district level and for individual school sites . >> so to clarify even though the resolution does call for we decided that it fits in tothis report have been incorporated in there, is that correct ? >> that's where we are right now because we do have that data and we can identify those students to be able to share that level for our latinx students. >> thank you for the clarity. my next question is i'm curious

what kind of budget allocation have we made to accommodate the things that we're working towards and the resolution and do we have anyinformation kind of of the cost of the resolution , kind of as we are currently implementing and also is there like a projected cost for when we get the full implementationor is that something that where maybe not thinking about itin that direct way . as staff implements it as we move forward . >> i'll take it first a global standard that. in the context of board resolutions when they come before the board there's a fiscal analysis i have to pull that original russell analysis of . and to quote our chief financial technology officer who said sometimes when we do things they cost more than what we initially project so i don't know whether or not that's the

case but what i do know is you can see this work in this particularresolution crosses over many departments . we have a multilingual department and our curriculum instruction division and doctor beasley can say more to that but we do have relatively stabilized funding there to maintain the apartment which was also a component of the resolution and i think what we do is aim to achieve the components of our resolution times within an existing budget and that means that sometimes there are limitations on whether or not we can fulfill all of the components of our resolution. i don't know if my colleagues haveanything else to add . >> i wanted to add from the perspective of human resources , this is physically about the heart of the resolution about recruiting divers educators.

in human resources we have kind ofspread around the responsibility for recruitment . staffing team does errors certificate of recruitment, admin team does their own soap withoutchanging the cost , we've been in the process of reorganizing that to build a strong recruitment team to recruit for all positions. and to devote more fte resources to actually doing all those things that i put on really being intentional about diversity and recruitment across all our employee classifications so that's an example of that not costing more but it's reorganizing in terms of this kind of resolution. >> i appreciate that and i was able to find that fiscal impact from when it was passed in december 10, 2019 and i guess as the estimates of around $2 million that would need to be spent.

i don't know the time frame for it but i guess that's something we could follow up at a future meeting or the budget meeting to get clarity. i think for us at the board have her having a better understanding ofhow our policy relates to the budget process as well as the way budgets are allocated so we could have a little bit more transparency . the other question i had was around the increase on track rates. i think it was like a five percent increase and i was wondering if we could share what changes in approach kind of like to that or if it is more of the numbers just change but we didn't necessarily have any , we don't know why or we canreplicate that in the future to keep that increase. i'm wondering what clarity do we have on that . >> the first i'd be the first to say i don't know if we can identify onespecific thing that

led to that increase . we work to remain consistent in our messaging and our access trying to reach the students in a hands-on manner and we find that to have been very productive in terms of having student enrolled in various college and access opportunities so from a budget standpoint, we want to maintain what we have. we would love to expand because we know more hands-on we can be with our students, we tend to have more response so i would say we are continuing to be really proactive in reaching them early and being consistent and sharing far and wide the opportunities we have. >> i think definitely being consistent and intentional is a good reason to see things as powerful. the last comment i have is centered around how are we monitoring the effective list of some of the new efforts that

are coming apart and this is i think one example that was given up was around the some schools . how do we monitor thosethings that we are putting in place there , we're seeing the resultson the backend and how do we gauge that is being successful ? >> with that one in particular, to begin with we are just measuringimplementations . how many are taking up that opportunity or the professional development. first were trying to get seated and use to then figure out is that for example increasing when substitute for example take the professional development opportunities to that increase sites request for those particular sobs because they see that those sums are very effective and students are connecting with those substitutes so right now we're in the implementation phase hopefully we will start to measure and look at that kind of metric. >> right now it seems like the

initial gauge is out affected people participate in the school sites rather than how much they're signing up for things. >> howmuch are substitutes signing up to take these ,use the webinars or the self-made modules . can we even getsubstitutes engaged in this and then study the impact . >> i had one comment related to the higher college going rates around the strategies around early college, career technical education and no surprise i feel like i will continue to be voicing the importance around how are we having a systemic approach for our high schools overall from all ofour students . that not only is it around graduation rates but looking at those supports of raising that and how did that relate ultimately the support that are

required for our focal point relationships tosee the game that we continue to grow in and i want to see that districtwide . that's going to besome of our discussions this evening as a body .how are we centering around those student outcomes and what is it going to take for those supports for our high school students districtwide. and that this is going to be ... i call it the final sprint for the last mile that our students are with us and how we're going to set them up for success but the past is going to be with us beyond their high school graduation, diploma. something that i'm also wanting to dig deeper into the data is for example the number of students that are high school years and how do we have those early interventions so that we can supportthose students particularly again , our focal

populations. children with ivs and wanting to be strategic and imagine those investments that we spent a lot of tonight's discussion on so thank you. that was more of a comment than playing some of the groundwork and in the coming months i'd like forus as a board to start to review and dig a bit deeper . thank you to the team. and i will now move us on to agenda item j, introduction of proposals andassignment to committee . and i will take in accordance with board rules and procedure 9322 agenda meeting. these items will be introduced and acted upon bysingle vote . as a reminder that they will be introduced and assigned to committee so do i have emotion and the second?

>> so moved. >> we encourage members of the public to adjusttheir concerns and a proposal to the committee . i'm not going to open it up for public comment and therefore it is limited to a totalof five minutes for all items within section j . and we will take the in person testimony first. on the fisher, you have one minute please. >> it's me again. my public comment is arounditem j2, board meetings . it's exciting to be back in this room again. thank you for everyone who worked so hard to figure out the text to make this happen as well as making it accessible to the public who cannot be here. it was great to hear the presentation tonight. and many other advisory committees will behere

presenting in front of you . my request is that, can we have that 601 mcallister conference room back because it's lovely that we have childcare upstairs on the third floor but when we advisory committees come into present we need a space to maybe each first. to practice ourpresentation. to be able to be our best selves when we get up here in front of you . and maybe there's another space in that building that that could be but i don't know of i . if there is i would love it to be available please and for our meetings because we all have to comeback in person to .>> thank you. >> at this time we will open it upfor virtual public comment . if you'd like to speak to item j, assignment to committee, please raise your hand and you'llhave one minute to speak .

can we have thatrepeated in spanish and chinese please ? >>. [speaking spanish] >> thank you, miss marshall. >> i'm sorry,did not have my hand raised . >> selena. >> so i wanted to make sure i'm speaking on the right topic. ibelieve this is regarding the board meeting , right? so i'm looking at the today's agenda and i wanted to encourage you to continue to think about options for hybrid

meeting in the future. i did receive a lot of feedback from parents because working with children and working families, they do need the flexibility to actually you know, multitask and to be able to stay engaged. i think if you can continue to think about this and also for the ones that want to go in person, please do again to a childcare option for the families and also some families might need some sort of accommodations in regards to transportation so just wanted to add that. but thank you so much for your worktonight . >> thank you, rihanna.

>> good evening board commissioners, presidents lam, superintendents and everybody in the audience listening tonight . i am one of the parents leader . i'd like to formally request to keep this hybrid option in place as it is 9:49 and the meeting is still going. for me it would be almost impossible for me to attend this meeting with an almost 18-month-old baby if there's anybody else that has young children having this hybrid option makes it possible for us to attend the baby's needs and also be sure we are here to advocate on behalf of our babies so weask that you respectfully keep these hybrid meetings as an option in the future . >> thank you. miss marshall. >> sorry, thank you. i saw looking at aipac when it

wasdone before these meetings in hybrid form. it gives everyone an opportunity to participate, thank you . >> erika. >> i am a teacher in mostly schools and classrooms with spanish speakingnewcomers and multilingual students . and i just want to make clear regarding the previous one and i have a comment for this one but i wanted to make clear that substitute teachers did not get an announcement thatthose pdas are available . now, we're not having those trainings that were mentioned. for this item, i'd like to make sure i did not read the item so

maybe i've out of place here but i'd like our commissioners to consider that if there is some interaction the public comment.it feels quite isolating. i'm not part of a group and sometimes we don't know if the board commissioners are taking it into account or not or if they're going to. thank you, that's my comment. >> that concludes public comment. >> thank you for public for your comments. commissioners are a minor under our rules and procedures we do not engage indiscussion of the first reading . so if there are no objections, i would like a move by general consent. the board and rule procedure 1920 meetings and notices as

well as board rule procedure 9323 needing conduct as well as board policy 1313 facility to rules and policy committee. followed by board policy 5127, graduation ceremonies and activity. movingback to the instruction committee . seeingno objections, general counsel, thank you . at this time we will now move into item k which is board members report. before i move into the first agenda item i did want to announce our new configuration of board committees tonight. i will read off into the record our new committee assignments. at this time for budgets and services commissioner alexander his chair followed by commissioner tumlin serving on budget as well as myself

turning on budget. buildings and grounds will be chaired by commissioner shu. members in good vice president boggess and commissionersanchez . curriculum chairedby commissioner sanchez . members include commissioners shu and commissioneralexander . rules, policy and rules committee will be chaired by commissioner motility. >> motamedi. >> your mike ison . >> also commissioner alexander and commissioner wiseman ward.

>> student assignment chaired by commissioner boggess and also will include commissioner weissman-ward. and the personnel committee will commit personnel and labor relations will be chaired by commissioner weissman-ward. members include commissioner sanchez and commissioner hsu. and that concludes the committees. okay. at this time i'd like to have report out from vice president

boggess from the report from the augmentedad hoc committee on student assignment . >> that seems like so long ago. we have had a good meeting and staff prepared slides that are available for folks to take a look at. one thing i would highlight on the slide is staff prepared a slide that shows the things that the zoning process won't be able to address and fix by itself so it will fall on the board to take up and address those things like whether or not our schools are segregated by neighborhood and kind of equally distributed students are and how do we balance the funding and equities across the

district as we move to a system that no longer gives students the choice to choose their own schools so there's going to be a meeting where we will see some of the models for the max and i want to encourage folks to give us input and shape the process of what school enrollment will look like for the next few years . thank you. >> i realize i have a correction on the committee assignments . i wanted to reiterate for student assignments will be chaired by vice president boggess. members will include commissionerweissman-ward and commissioner hsu . personnel will be chaired by commissioner weissman-ward. members will include commissioner sanchez and president lam . please clarify thatfor the record, thank you . at this time number two, report from board delegates to

membership organizations . seeing none commissioner sanchez is on his way back from thenational league of cities . and then any other reports by board members this evening? seeing none,calendar of upcoming committee meetings . do we have any attendance tonight? >> if i mentioned earlier budget services will be wednesday april 6. now i'm forgetting.i want to be clear. it's five, right? 5:00 on wednesdays and that will include that agenda item around the payroll postmortem analysis. as well as other items. >> thank you and at this time since we had designated new committee assignments tonight,

please check that for confirmation of upcoming committee dates and times. and as a reminder, committee meetings will be held in perso . there will be a virtual option as a webinar public comment will only be in person due to limited staffing capacity and the technologysupport at this moment . and at this time we will move into memorial adjournment. nonetonight . and we are now at item and foreclosed session.at this timebefore the board goes into closed session i call forany speakers to the closed session item listed in the agenda .

there will be a total offive minutes for speakers . >> there are no in person speakers . >> if you wish to any of the closedsession items these raise your hands . seeing no hands raised at this time. >> the board will now go into closed session as i call a recess of the regular number one, i move approval of the belated expulsion agreement of one high school student matter number 21 to 22. number 14 from the district from one calendar year from march 23rd, 2022, to march 22nd, 2023. with suspended enforcement placement at independence high school. can i have a second? >> commissioner: second. >> president: roll call, mr. steel.

>> secretary: [roll call] six ayes. >> president: thank you. i move to expel one high school student matter number 21 to 2022 from the district in the spring 2020 semester and the fall 2022 semester with placement at civic secondary school. can i have a second? >> commissioner: second. >> president: thank you. mr. steel, roll call. >> secretary: [roll call] six ayes. >> president: thank you. report from closed session on two matters of anticipated litigation, the board gave

direction to the general council. that concludes reconvening to open session. i'd like to formally adjourn our meeting tonight. thank you. >> secretary: thank you.

>> by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. i came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [♪♪♪]

>> hello, friends. i'm the deputy superintendent of instruction at san francisco unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. what you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our san francisco teachers for our students. >> our premise came about for san francisco families that didn't have access to technology, and that's primarily children preschool to second grade. >> when we started doing this distance learning, everything was geared for third grade and up, and we work with the little once, and it's like how were they still processing the information?

how were they supposed to keep learning? >> i thought about reaching the student who didn't have internet, who didn't have computers, and i wanted them to be able to see me on the t.v. and at least get some connection with my kids that way. >> thank you, friends. see you next time. >> hi, friend. >> today's tuesday, april 28, 2020. it's me, teacher sharon, and i'm back again. >> i got an e-mail saying that i had an opportunity to be on a show. i'm, like, what? >> i actually got an e-mail from the early education department, saying they were saying of doing a t.v. show, and i was selected to be one of the people on it, if i was interested. i was scared, nervous. i don't like public speaking and all the above.

but it worked out. >> talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, it's so very weird. i'm used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where they're all moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them? let's listen. >> hi guys. >> i kind of have stage flight when i'm on t.v. because i'm normally quiet? >> she's never quiet. >> no, i'm not quiet. >> my sister was, like, i saw you on t.v. my teacher was, i saw you on

youtube. it was exciting, how the community started watching. >> it was a lot of fun. it also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. >> i want to end today with a thank you. thank you for spending time with us. it was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. >> i'm so happy to see you today. today is the last day of the school year, yea! >> it really helped me in my teaching. i'm excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. >> we received a lot of amazing feedback from kiddos, who have seen their own personal teacher on television. >> when we would watch as a family, my younger son, kai,

especially during the filipino episodes, like, wow, like, i'm proud to be a filipino. >> being able to connect with someone they know on television has been really, really powerful for them. and as a mom, i can tell you that's so important. the social confidence development of our early learners.

♪ >> it is unclenate's creativity time. welcome to uncle nate. we are are going to draw bubble letters. you need supplies. you need a pencil, markers, something to color with and a few pieces of paper. gather up supplies and meet me back right here. all right.

let's go. got all supplies out. draw your name lightly in the center of your page. give yourself room. give each letter a little room. all right. now, i want you to draw around each letter like you are driving a car around each letter. next, let's erase the center. take away the original outline and then we will be left just with the bubble letter. make sure you get the center part out of there. okay. we will touch it up. time for color. i chose yellow, orange, and red. yellow at the top, then the orange in the center, and i am

making a stripe right through the center all the way across. last, my red, which makes a cool fade. time for the outline. unclenate's creative time. figure it out. now we are going to do a drop shadow. a shadow underneath each letter and to the side. it is really going to give it a 3-d look. wow! great job. i bet you didn't think you could draw that. now you can draw bubble letters you can use it to draw things for your friends, cards. it is really useful. i hope you had a good time. i will see you next time on

uncle nate's creativity time. ♪ >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries.

for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop

that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ]

good morning everyone. and welcome to galleleo high school. let's go mighty lions. you guys know i used to be the announcer over the p.a. system during home run so that's where i get it from. first, i want to thank the principal, principal baneau who's here with us today one of the co-chairs for peace. someone i think the only person who was left since i was at galleleo high school ms. grenell is here. betty grenell. she was there every time i showed up to do the