is >> the meeting is called to order. roll call. >> [mic is off] >> commissioner alexander. >> here. >> commissioner weisman-weissman-ward >> here. >> commissioner hsu. commissioner sanchez? >> here. >> president lam? >> here. >> vice-president boggess? >> here >> commissioner motamedi? >> here. >> thank you. >> thank you all and thanks for your patience. we're having audio challenges so we're trying to work through them but in the meantime because this is a virtually hybrid access meeting,

we'll hoping that through our, one of our personal laptops here, that audio can be heard along with being able to take public comment virtually as well. so, again, welcome to tonight's board meeting. it's going to be a packed agenda. we will be having public comment but i wanted to just encourage both my colleagues as well as the public for keeping our remarks short and ensuring we can get through our order of business and our topics for this evening, so again, thank you for your patience. apologies for starting nearly a half an hour late. at this time, do we have

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the zoom link to you can see the presentations in case we're not able to project it on the main screen here. and please be sure to mute your mic so there's not feedback. great, thank you. i just want to recognize that -- that (indiscernible) is joining by zoom. >> thank you. >> for general information, i also wanted to note that for review of order of agenda items, i'm going to move agenda item no. i'm sorry, agenda items h, proposals for action and special order of business which is item

i. they will be moved up to, after d, which is the advisory committee reports and appointments. okay. so, at this time, our opening item of land acknowledgement. we, the san francisco board of earth cajun acknowledge that we are on the unseated and special homeland of the ramashi who are the origin habitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in ordinance with the tradition, they have not seeded, lost nor forgotten the 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 pay our respects by

acknowledging the ancestors, and elders and those of the ramashi community and their sovereign rights as first people. next, approval for board meeting of april 26, 2022. i would like to ask for a motion and second? >> so moved. >> second. >> are there any corrections? roll call vote. >> thank you. commissioner alexander? >> yes. >> commissioner boggess? >> yes. >> commissioner hsu? >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi? >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez? >> yes. >> commissioner weisman-weissman-ward? >> yes >> president lam? >> yes. >> student delegate liam? thank

you. i mea -- >> at this time, we like to call on dr. matthews for the superintendent reports, please. >> thank you, president lam. good evening, everyone. i want to thank you for being here. thank you for joining us. i want to start with an empower update. we continue to prioritize addressing pay issues that we know are impacting our employees related to the empower sf transition. we know that having to experience issues or confusion with pay particularly after all of the change we have had over these last two years created hardship for our employees and we're making progress on process and system improvements to support our communicate. for employees we know progress and resolutions haven't failed fast enough. the team is working on needed

organizational process and system enhancement. these competing priorities remain challenging to our team which has been working around the clock to support evenly caters and staff in the -- educators and staff in the district. we're focusing on the resolution of unique case of underpayment or pay adjustment to understand what occurred and why. we're also trying to answer questions on whether the adjustment is accurate or not. more hr and payroll clinics will be offered may 17th and june 14th where employees can receive support in person. we're committing to providing more timely and accurate information to employees. last week we sent an e-mail update to educator impacted on deferred net pay and the impact this will have on july paychecks. we're actively working with usef to address this issues and created nonissues and resolution page on the sfusd website as sfusd dot

ed slash empower to employees can get updates consistently. our team will provide a brief empower sf update at tomorrow's budget and business services meeting. this month is asian-american and pacific islander heritage month. it gives us the opportunity to celebrate the many accomplishments and contributions of our aapi brothers and sisters. these last two years, we've seen a rise in anti-asian violence as the number of people who have wrongly blamed asian-americans for the covid-19 pandemic has dulled in the past year and we -- doubled in the past year and we stand united in condemning this violence and raising up our aaip community. san francisco unified, we honor our aapi communities each day. many of our schools offer asian language

programs and clubs for students throughout the community. this past fall, leola early education school opened the first dual language samoan language program in the mainland united states and san francisco unified also has employees infinity groups such as native hawaiian and pacific islander ratio administer groups or filipino american staff. this month and all yearlong we honor and uplift the important contributions of our asian-american and pacific islander community members who ary -- essential to our history, past and future. may 11th is national school nurse day and we're excited to thank our school nurses for all they do. san francisco unified district nurses attend to individual school health as well as school wide health issues. these past two years we've faced a health

crisis in the covid-19 pandemic and school district numbers stepped up to -- district nurses stepped up to help san francisco unified students with this. san francisco district nurses focused on getting students caught up on immunizations that lagged during the pandemic when clinic were closed and all schools and families have access to the nurse of the day, a school district nurse available by phone 9:00 to 4:00 to address school health issues and concerns. thank you to all of our school district nurses on this special day and everyday of the year. finally, last week we presented our 7th annual superintendent's 21st century scholarship award for six of our thousands of san francisco unified students who are demonstrating the skills and com-- competency in our profile. we were hoping to show a video

from one of the students but we won't be able to. joanne ying, zinet, tashia, oling, carlos and jasmine guzman are winners, during the evening, they were awarded a $3,000 scholarship to the colleges they'll be attending and one of our community members stepped up and double all scholarships so each student will receive a $6,000 scholarship. [applause] and finally, i'm pleased to announce that once again we'll be holding our outdoor graduation for all, outdoor graduation for all events on may 31st through june 2nd at the iconic keyzar stadium overlooking grand canyon. we're grateful for the partnership

with the mayor's office and department of youth families and services and the rec. and park department to make this happen. the generous donations and support helped made this happen and have a wonderful experience for each student of sf unified. thank you, president lam, that ends my presentation this evening. >> thank you, dr. matthews. student delegates report, i believe we will forgo this evening for student delegate report for recognition and resolutions of accommodation. tonight, there are none tonight. reporting rave awards and we won't be able to feature our video but we'll do so at our next board meets which brings us to our public comment on

non-general da -- no non-agenda items. >> recording in progress. >> so, we have allotted 30 minutes for public comment and i see that we have several cards here for public comment. and we also are going to take public comment virtually. i encourage speakers speaking on the same topic to collaborate and come up together and combine comments so the board can hear all viewpoints during our time. i will be open to extending the public comment time but i wanted to acknowledge that we do have, we have 55 speakers in-person as well as -- and virtual allocation for speaker, so i encourage for our non-agenda

items for folks to come up together. 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 refrain from using employee and student names. if you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it to the employee supervisor in accordance with public policy and board rules and california law do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer any questions during the public comment time. if appropriate, the superintendent will ask that we staff, have staff follow up with speakers. and also, reallien occur arrange the public to also -- i really encourage the public to submit their public comment via e-mail to the board office. so at this time, i would like to call upon our speakers in our

first grouping. maya cook, chris closs. [cheers and applause] >> cynthia mesa. are odalese castro. and you have one minute each, please. >> am i good? >> yeah. >> cool. >> i would like to express my concern over the positions that our school is going to lose. i am a former student of the district. i'm a proud parent of the district and now i'm a teacher in the district trying to give back to that community that brought me here. [cheers and applause] i hope it's

understood that teachers try to do everything we can. we're tasked with a lot of things but there's no way to make up what our support staff gives our students and after a year of distance learn and we're this pandemic and our kids are struggling with a lot. i hope you consider funding those positions because you know, divesting in our community is just going to make things worse and there's no way we can teach and that student can learn if they don't feel safe so losing these critical positions, we have horrible consequences to them, so i hope you all can hold true to your mission statement and show us the integrity that i hope you all have to give us that funding, that not only our school needs but you know, all schools really need. so thank you for your time. [cheers and applause] president lam, i'm chris, you

called my name. i'm going to give my time to one of my coworkers so there's more time for public comment. >> hi, everyone. madison williams, it's me again. washington high school educator and in our after school programs. i'm here today because i still have unresolved payroll issues. here's a list, incorrect hourly amount for night school wage s 3/11/22 off cycle paycheck. failure to pay interest on off cycle paycheck for late wages and tampering and removal of pay stubs in the empower sf system, changes in tax calculations on 3/11/22 off cycle paycheck, lack of response to department of industrial relations claims against the district, failure to pay late penalty dispakted by oer and class cover wages due to discrepancys and hourly amount in january and february. incorrect tax calculation for

'21 calendar year. all unresolved. at this point, what other performative act can i do for you to fix my pay. i'm an exhausted teacher. [cheers and applause] i have organized a protest with my peers and spoken to abc, ktuv, uni-vision. >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> i'm going to attempt to call up groupings of particular school communities next, so cynthia mesa, odaletes castro, and stephanie, rudy madragon. qv

menia. dr. alexis williams. [cow bell] leslie macia, i'm sorry, i couldn't see this. also, leonard flint community. and alita valise. go ahead, cynthia? >> is it on? my name is cynthia and a student for 19 years and -- i was a teacher for 19 years and a parent for all four years and all of my children went there. it has been a hard year and teachers received pink slips and seen consolidations and lost

jobs at our school site and to add more injury, we have a non-reelect at our school. i know we can't mention names but i have e-mailed you that name. this is a teacher that served as a parent for ten years and entered the pathway program. has been incredibly committed to the work. she was part of my four/five teams before move to kinder. so she was aiken der teacher this year -- she was a kinder teacher without support. with her effort to switch grades, she has received a non-reelect and i want to challenge all community to do everything they can to change that; to -- we allow her to complete her credential and be a part of our fleeing community. thank you. [cheers and applause]

>> good evening, my name is -- [echoing] my name is rudy, and i have come to speak on behalf of my son's kindergarten teacher, leonard middle school. i recommend not to reelect her. i outlined in my letter in the way the teacher is aligned with the teacher body she teaches and serves and i wouldn't be handy with the result she has gotten with the result with my son or build trust and communication with low-income families of color like my own. and refer to all letters of support and encourage you to consider the positive impact this teacher had in our community and reject the

recognition of nonelection if it's within your power and take a look at a system that can push out new educator who are exactly the type of people this community wants working with us and our children. if the flint administration has concerned about her performance, then this teacher deserves adequate support to be the best educator she can be and not stripped of her livelihood in the city that she's from and told there's no place for her in sfusd. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> hello, i'm a native san franciscan here to voice my concerns over leonard principal and my child's -- this demand the boards's attention and in a climate where teacher was in

high demand, they can dismiss their teachers without cause. it's unpossible to believe dismissal is without cause and teacher deserve feedback and ensure their successes are made in partnership just as any administrator to take credit for the success of their staff and failures are a reflection of that administration and the principal at the school is a young white male is who has benefited from his white privilege and this is the epitome of the role model our kids are desperate to find and she's an immigrant woman of color and starting at elementary school and securing her higher education at sf state. i find it hard to see this as anything as per pep race of racism and unknowingly so and claiming another victim -- [mic is off]

[cheers and applause] [speaking non-english]

[applause] >> at the beginning --

>> i'm a mom of flynn and i'm very concerned that my son's teacher is going to be fired. and this is something that i want you to be just and i want you to thank of all the good things the teacher has been providing to, not just my son but everybody at the school and i feel that my son is going to be traumatized knowing that his teacher is going to be fired, so i want you to be honest and do the right thing and please make something in order for the teacher to stay. please don't let her go. thank you. [applause] >> at the beginning of the year, our daughter was hesitant to

speak and learn in spanish but with ms. lin's support anden occur arrange, our daughter is speaking and reading and singing in english. her classroom engagement helped build our daughter's confidence and made learning in bilingual environment fun and dynamic. our daughter role plays at home mirroring the lesson plan and speak us to us with the same intonation. ms. glen made a lasting impression and she has gone above and beyond throughout the year for planned absences she would notify parents and leave lesson plans for sub thank you substituents and she was a lead commercial supporting the needs of another spanish emerging class room whose teacher failed to return. she provided guidance and instruction to the many substitutes continuously assigned. flynn administration benefited from her hard work and made her feel dispensable. suddenly, no longer essential to

the organization. please review ms. flynn's contributions to flynn. thank you. [applause] >> good evening, my name is monica scott. my daughter is in cf kindergarten class. sf received in the of nonre-- reelection. working with the population that has been hit hardest by the affects of covid, and sf inspired our children to learn and providing welcoming education to parents and flynn has a sense of community without in-person events but sf organized a holiday performance in the yard as well as an end of year celebration at a nearby park with multiple kindergarten classrooms and the district should recruit more teachers, instead her career is cut short with no regard of her role for the flynn community and our

children, thank you. [applause] >> as a reminder, could you speaker, state your name, thank you. [speaking non-english]

[applause] >> interpreter: i'm also here to say that we give support to this teacher and she's been very dedicated. she's been helping our children and it breaks my heart knowing that she's going to be gone and it's also, she's always been there being supportive when our kids, one of our kids get sick, she calls and checks with us, how the student is doing and, if they're getting better and it's really hard to

know that someone so important to the community and also she's a mother and i want you to do something for her. thank you. >> [speaking non-english]

>> thank you, that's time. thank you. [applause] >> interpreter: i'm ms. lepa and my son attends kindergarten with the teacher we're talking about. and thanks to my son's teacher,

he has been able to be a better student. when he actually first went into kindergarten he was very fearful. he had a lot of issues and with her health, he was actually able to get better. she's a viable person and for the school. she even does things that a lot of teachers don't do and it's very important for -- for the school community and she's important for the country and it's important for the latino community and knowing she's no longer going to be with us breaks my heart and also it will break my son's heart when he comes back and he's not able

so to see her so i have confidence in god that she will be back at and i want to know if you -- back at school and if you have something in your heart, please help her so she can come back next year. she's an amazing person and valuable tool for our school. thank you. [applause] >> press it, there you go. >> this is josephine jout. i wanted to speak up for the chai nine and bilingual educator

>> josephine, i didn't call your name yet? >> i'm sorry, what? >> i haven't called you for general speaker. >> so i'm going to call the next round of speakers and thank you to the flynn community for coming this evening. next grouping of speakers for the active community, travis wildgrutral. sorry, apologies. maria sanchez. carlos alvarado. jacqueline samiro. alejandro and

caroline calavick and kaitlyn and marissa. eunice and clayton weirdny. again, i ask, given our numerous speakers, we kindly ask if folks would be willing to consolidate your time. that's the request. we also have public comment virtually as well. go ahead, you have one minute. >> all right. so, we're losing one school counselor and path position, two coaches. last year, we had a maternity leave for one of our counselors so she was out for half of the year. that put such undo stress on of the rest of the counseling department to go through that

next year is really unsustainable. like, it's literally impossible for them to do their jobs like that. additionally, our understanding is the revised budget, the money is going to come in so it's possible that we're going to have to rehire these positions in september after the start of the year which makes no sense. -- all right. so we need these positions funded immediately. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> hello, my name is maria sanchez and the math teacher. i'm here today to advocate for the needs of our students and community members. this is my 7th year at athes and i can't express how resilient our community has been throughout my time here but i'm expressing my concern about the state of our school. as you may know we work with approximately 975 scholars

due to the budget crisis, the school had to cut services to students by eliminating valuable positions which include one grade level counselor and one school staff support. these positions cannot be consolidated. we are, they are needed for the students to feel safe, supported and loved. during the pandemic, our support staff mentored students to encourage them to come to school and mentors them. i can't tell you the number of times counselor helped us with community circles and helping with the application for college and homeless visits and that's some. we need so much more. cutting services do more harm than good. this year has been a challenging year and push for the money, we need the money to hold important and -- [mic is off]

[cheers and applause] >> hi. sorry. good evening, everyone. my name is jacqueline. i'll the vice-president of the atos school counsel and i attend 8th grade at atos middle school. [cheers and applause] speaking from experience, we need our counselors and when applying for high school, i needed recommendations and that came from my counselor. i thought mr. reyes would write me the recommendation. you got to know your counselors so well and if we take them away, students can't connect like i was able to and that will affect our community. with the -- with the councilors, the year was hard and i can't imagine how how much worse it will be. if our students lose a counselor, my peers will lose someone they trust and understand our

programs and please do not cut our school's funding for counselors, we can't afford to lose them, nearly 900 to 2 is the ratio and their job will be impossible. and thank you, and please do not cut our funding -- [cheers and applause] >> hi, good evening. my name is eunice, but i'm speaking for amanda vu. she is currently the student body as an 8th grader. at athos, every member of our staff is important to the well-being of our school. our school feels as if we lack support and cutting our faculty team will greatly affect students learning. we are being forced to cut out a counselor, t10 and two coaches. how will our schools function? the state of california has the money to support our school. use it.

students need more support and mental health services. taking away support staff will make it harder for students and the existing staff. it is unreasonable to cut these positions that are crucial to our schools well-being. each and every student deserves the attention, the safety, the unbiased and uninterrupted support that our staff gives each and everyday. the sfusd district board of education can make this right for the 900 students at athos middle school. please do not cut our funding. [cheers and applause] >> i'm carolyn. and i'm going to be yielding my time to sarito. >> hello, my name is sarito and i'm a teacher at george washington high school. board, i wish i sent you last week when i were invited to attend the

salary and payroll offices to get our pay issues resolved. unfortunately, you were not there, continuing a pattern of silence. one of the people in this room was there. the superintendent. dr. matthew, i'm deeply disappointed in you specifically. you're responsible for ensuring your employees are paid, this empowered fiasco is on you and the illegal violations of our contract and unpaid -- unpaid back pay and teacher layoffs, ie not being a school holiday. that's on you. i know the amount of money being stolen from me by the district means nothing to someone who makes six figures but it matters to me, an educator who lives paycheck by paycheck and. you said you weren't in the building but those took personal days and shut out by security. it was demoralizing to see you attempt to sneak out the back and drive away in your bmv instead of

paying your teachers and teachers the pay they're legally owed. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> good evening. my name is -- alejandro and i'm one of the teachers and we're losing our band program. music is essential to all human beings, students need the opportunity to make music in school. it is one way students go, cope with stressful times, connect with other students and express their creativity. please help us keep our band program at aptos middle school. thank you for listening. [applause] >> hi. i'm clay. i'm the

computer science teacher at aptos middle school and my colleagues said we're losing a counselor and t10 and both coves and math teacher and band program at aptos next year. i would hope that anyone who spent time with students with educator this year, would recognize what a difficult year it has been due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. and just making sure all of our communities needs are met. so i find it disappointing that during this troubling time, that positions are being cut. so i deeply urge the board of ed to find some solutions, secure funding for our school so the needs of our students can be met adequately. thank you. shall >> hello, i'm dr. hundley and i'm the dean head counselor at

aptos. we like to ask every panel member around this table here, if you can disconnect for 15 seconds from your electronic devices? take a look at this for a moment. i know this must be the buzz word going on about cutting and mental health, but as a school counselor, we do this every single day. imagine your child, niece -- or nephew and you wake up to a child no longer here because a counselor is not there. cutting a counselor with the capacity of one thousand students is beyond measure. i deeply, deep -- i deeply encourage you to reconsider. i wear a shirt that says wonder woman. there's no way to be the dean and 7th grade

counselor. it's not possible. it's not possible. if you think it is, i encourage you, do a wheel, each of you take nine weeks and come sit in the role as a grade level counselor and support that role and tell me how you feel? [cheers and applause] >> stay with us. stay with us. >> hi, we are the counselors at aptos middle school who have had the privilege of working with dr. hunltly. kaitlyn. >> francis. >> any name is marissa. >> when we learned a counseling position was cut for next year we were shocked. asking our dean of students to step in as a grade level counselor is unreasonable. and unfair. it's not fair to our students. the decision to cut a counseling position doesn't align with districts vision. this is not a

student centered decision. because we feel that maybe a lot of people don't know what counselors do on day-to-day, we're going to briefly explain to you some of the things we have done in the past week. >> risk assessments, consulted by the cps. >> made safety plans for student who's had self harm or been in dangerous situations. >> have i to go to a family's house as soon as i live here for an incident that happened here. >> we have held meetings between students and teachers and gone to foster care meetings and supervise and consult with admin, we do so much every single day to expect that next year one dean and two counselors get this done for nine hundred students is unreasonable. unreasonable. [cheers and applause]

>> that was good. >> okay. >> hay, what's up. my name is carlos. i'm a, i grew up in san francisco, california. i'm a graduate of san francisco city college of san francisco, san francisco state. i'll now a para professional aptos and it's an honor and privilege and i can spell the district. it ain't no y'all without us, believe that. all right. y'all get paid six figures and matthew, i don't know what you want, i don't know you personally but you're cutting positions and the livelihood of people. look at the people in the room, they shouldn't be here and you're in a position of power and all you got to do is vote. come on now. y'all don't want to see people organized, for real for real. i'm at the mic now. i want to take the time since i don't

believe they don't give you the love, everybody in this room, thank you for what you do. the children, it's the honor and privilege to see the kids and you don't know how cool kids are, for real. yeah. y'all got the money. it's bigger than us, san francisco is a very delegate place and what you're doing is going to have repercussions in the future, not for y'all but your kids and your kids' kids. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, thank you to the aptos community. at this time, i would like to call bridgette, chris garza. [applause] >> hello. i'm here advocating

for the needs of everett middle school and my name is bridgette early. i'm one of the social workers and been there for 14 years and everett have gone through transfor makes but one thing is constant. our school has always been impacted by larger issues including generational poverty, racism, housing equity and budget deficits and we mirror the city and many inequities between our white students and students of color is raging and this lights my fire to do this work and there's so much work to do. our children need us to fight for -- for them and not against each other. help us fight for what the students need. the students need safety and predictable and mental health support and valued teachers and yes, our way forward is through love, advocacy and listening and understanding ask keeping our amazing teachers and recruiting

more teachers and staff who want to see what is possible at everett. i invite all reporters, parents, colleagues, former and current to do what we all want to help our everett -- >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> good evening, my name is chris garza and i'm a long time educator and i work at everett middle school. given the media coveraged, i wanted to say i love our everett community. and all of their middle school quirkiness and the story -- isn't the story about us but how the school will respond with open hearts and commitment to education justice or with indifference and sent vichl. i choose to be at everett because i believe that all our student was worthy of respect and dignity and deserve to have a world class education that's equal to their brill generals and we need -- brill generals

and we need to confront this because our students need teacher was time to collaborate and resources to implement restorative practices and our students show up everyday ready to learn and we need to show up for them, thank you. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> i like to call william kingle and reg and gregory and nadia molst. go ahead, one minute, please. >> hello, my name is william. i'm a san francisco resident since 1980 and my three children are grown now but went to san francisco schools and i'm here to talk about the bungalow classrooms taking up space in the playgrounds of elementary school. i remember when bang lows were constructed in

elementary schools during the as -- this makes the bungalows 30 years old. i've been reading that currently enrollment is down. so under enrollment is down, would it be possible to remove the bungalows and open up the playgrounds for the kids? you could deal with reduced enrollment by doing something positive. the kids would have more space to run and play at recess and the schools would look better and the school board would be the good guys. i ask you to please consider removing the bungalows at lake shore school at lotten school and jefferson and all school bungalows be removed all over the schools and the playgrounds are open for the regular sizes for the benefit of all, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i'm sorry. i wanted to note for rex ridge way, you're agenda item d.

>> i'm agenda d1 but i also put in for public speaking on item l-3. so my card should say l-3. >> if you're mr. ridgeway, if you're giving comments on non-agenda items, go ahead. >> i'm good. i want to make sure my l-3 is the -- >> you see, you're at l-3 and agenda item coming up later. >> got it. it will be later. i'll call you up, thank you. >> thank you so much. >> sapria. go ahead. >> hi, yes. my name is sapria and i'm be speaking about outdoor learning now but later. i'm speaking about everett middle school and i'm here because i have been at various meetings at everett and i've been asked to make a comment on behalf of conrado who is a leader of latinx moms and she

asked me to request that her, that their latino advocate parent group be recognized and respected. and she has also, i've expressed abuse that we both have based on our meetings and so forth and what we have observed. at everett, we have seen teachers assaulted, stalks and students beaten, one to point of hospitalization. latinx students and the newcomers have been hit the hardest and parents have been discarded and dismissed repeatedly. i want to note the district talks all the time about health and safety and equity, but what health and safety and equity has been brought to everett where the conditions prevail. we need to treat this situation as the crisis it is and do something for those students now. the board does something at bhbm and why not everett, thank you. [applause] >> hey, i'm gregory. i

understand that enrollment is down and that staffing must be adjusted to match enrollment. however, it does not make sense to cut classrooms at schools that receive many applicants for each spot and these are the schools families want to send their students to. cutting classrooms will drive more students out of the district making the budget deficit work. the district refused to explain the rationale behind the decisions. instead state that it is -- this is a complicated math problem. this processes to have engagement with families. we are, we are in fact smart enough to understand. thank you. [applause] >> hi, my name is nadia and i have been teaching at mission high for six years and my

comment is the payroll -- payroll fiasco. i wasn't -- every year i get a refund so this caught me off guard. i have to teach summer schools and other two other jobs although i'm burnt out because there's no way i can be sure there won't be another mistake by the district in the future. i'm one of many teachers in this predicament. it's disrespectful to teach in a difficult environment while simultaneously worried about the most basic component of any job, being paid for the work we do. it has been impossible for myself and other colleague i have spoken to do understand or accurately read our new pay stubs through empower. the combination of unequal pay and mistakes with tax withholdings and the overpaying and underpaying of people's paychecks make it impossible to know what a correct paycheck looks like and this knees to be

fixed or more teachers will leave. [applause] >> i like to call up our next grouping of educator, our speakers. i believe madison spoke, right, madison? katie. chris close. . speglman and carl. darcy blackburn. erin bollock. malia tarani and david coe. sarita loving, allyson white, and i like to have

-- >> good evening, my name is katie. and i have two children at hoover, one will be at mission next year. and i'm also a child of teacher and i remember growing up and when summer came around i was always so glad to have some attention in from my mom because during the school year, all of her attention and all her focus had to go to the kids and her classroom. she would get home late every night and be up early grading papers before i got up every morning and i remember the end of the summer when the money was running out because that district had the ten-month schedule and all of us teacher kids had to wait to get new clothes for school and tighten the belt at the end of the summer and so, i'm here to

support the union proposal to move the november payment up to july. and also to add an extra payment from the rainy day budget because there's no reason for tauch -- teachers to live like that during the summer and figure out how to pay rent during the summer when they work hard all yearlong. and they're the hardest working people i know and i have grown up around a lot of teachers. i can't be a teacher because it seems too hard for me. they need the summer to replenish and recharge so they can be there for the students in the fall so that's why i'm here to support moving the november payment and also adding an extra paint because there's no one who deserves that more than the teachers, thank you. [applause] >> hello, my team is kayla. i'm

combining my time with carl. carl has been an educator and sfusd for 34 years and he wanted to emphasize what's happening with the payroll. empower is not normal. he hasn't seen anything close like this in his over 30 years of being a teacher. he sees other teachers, first year teachers and teachers to pay over their paycheck and this is hurting students if teachers can't use their prep for job and they're using it to get paid. i do appreciate some district representatives came to wash last week on tuesday. we had little notice, i think it was because the new 30 teacher were going to take personal leave the next day. we had very little notice. even so there was a long line, some teachers didn't get helped because we shouldn't be the only ones who get support. there should be district

representatives sent to every site because these issues are across the board not just at wash. so please move the november to july paycheck. please proceed stipends for the rainy day fund, thank you. [applause] >> good evening, i'm darcy and i teach first grade at sheraton elementary school. i'm asking you all once again to make things right for the evenly caters who are going to have -- educator who's will have smaller paychecks this july and they'll face an income of 1/3 expected so educator i know and you have heard some here are having to go into debt to take planned vacations or cancel those plans and many will be scrambling or scrambling for summer jobs so they can pay bills and put food on the table. this occurred during the summer when we need the time to recharge and prepare ourselves for next year's teaching. you know how hard we have worked truring the pandemic

and how hard we have worked to bring our students to in-person learn and you realize how the children have been impacted by the challenges of this pandemic and continue to need support to overcome those challenges. you must recognize the importance of keeping a strong, stable experience and dedicated workforce of educator to meet the knees of our children and we love and care for our students and show us care by making this right. sfusd -- >> thank you, darcy. [mic is off] [applause] >> yeah. okay. good evening, my name is erin and a teacher at june jordan. this is my 7th year. i'm from san francisco and a mom of public school graduate. i'm here again to talk about the empower issues. i personally

have to pay $6,000s and i know i'm not the only one that has to pay a high tax return. also, the fact that growing up in san francisco around a lot of teachers and communities and protest and organizing, i don't remember having to go to a protest where queer asking to save our central office workers and it's our taechbers and social workers and nurses and i had something else to say but that was dawning on me and also what opt said tonight is true to the heart. how much they will be losing by losing a counselor. that's not a job you can make up. so, i'm here to say yeah. it's raining and we have the money and we're spending a lot of our hours trying to figure out how to read this paycheck. i'm not an accountant. thank you. [applause] >> hello, my name is david and proud sfuds student from k

through 17 and educator for 17 years and i provided to help my colleagues understand their pay and every person i look at has their own unique variety of issues. within the past week, i found colleagues who are not being paid for the correct number of steps. yesterday i found an educator who, their pre-tax muni deductions were doubled for the months and earlier today i spoke with a california who didn't have california taxes taken out of their april paycheck and given wrong enough for emergency room coverage. these are not known problems that are being addressed. they are ongoing problems that are newly being created or discovered and even if none of this was the case, we would have a catastrophic financial shortfall in july. with this context is necessary that the july paycheck is the same size as the other paychecks by whatever means necessary. thank you.

[applause] . >> hey y'all, my name is amelia and i've been watching committed educator work over time while they beg for the tools they need to support students such as counselors and promised ways. your daily choice to commit wage theft is hurting students and teachers and future community. i don't know how you expect folks to want sfusd as employees. you're destroying public education and you need to stop committing wage theft. [applause] >> hi, my name is allyson and i have taught at mission high school for ten years. i'm here to express my outrage at the district personnel responsible for urinating $14,000 on the new paycheck known empower. they failed to pay teachers and staff. forcing us to forgo lesson plan and grading and phone calls home and self care

and self preservation and time with our families for sfusd to bounce paychecks. when issuing corrected checks and gave no explanation for why and teachers are showing up to the pharmacy learning they're uninsured and you haven't made the payments to the insurance companies. we're facing huge budget cuts and mission local reported that you have spent, excuse me, $300,000 in february just trying to repair these issues. that money is being cut from our sight. this is class welfare. what you're doing is violent and we will fight back. what you are doing is violence. to create this kind of -- >> thank you. [mic is off]

[applause] >> hi, i'm chris, my name got called. so i'm back up here for my own time now. in the lobby of 555 franklin there's a sign about promises to students and families. one of the promises is they'll be educator in the classroom for them. there will be supplies for their students to use in school. that the people who work with those students will be able to do that job without having to sacrifice their time, their energy and their emotional well-being because of payroll issues. that time we've had to spend on this has hurt our ability to serve our students and you have broken your promise not just to us as employer to employee but to the students and the families that

you serve. thank you for ignoring the e-mail that i invited you to our action last week. i appreciate it. thank you for ignoring that for so long. these issues became so big. because now we finally broken and sharing the issues. fulfill your promises and make it right. >> good evening, everyone. i'm kassandra and the president of united educator of san francisco. [applause] you've heard a litany of items that need to be made right. quite a lot that, that term is needed in every single school site and we are understand we're going to be hearing about and hearing from you all's decision about what actions are going to be taken. not one single solution is going to operate as

the solitaire answer for this. there's so many problems that requires concerted effort each and everyday to make sure that this problem does not follow us into another academic school year and doesn't follow us into another fiscal year for that matter. the one before you tonight, you've heard from educator across the district in your e-mails, here physically and we've been bringing this up since july, i'm sorry, since january when the first issue became aware that this was maybe far larger than just a small implementation of a system and educator are inherently extremely patient people. extremely patient people. so, it is true that what you're hearing tonight, what you have seen in your e-mails and the exacerbation of folks is coming down on hard school year that hasn't happened before. there's increased health services that

have increased year over year and starting before the pandemic came into place. we understand there's a budget shortfall that's projected and all of that is happening at the same time that folks need to pay bills, they need food on the table and they need to make rent. with that being said, your rainy day fund has funds in it and we watched that in the fall and there's funds on hand. let me state it would be usd members giving to them self business moving the two thousand stipend to july. that's allocated as our money. it would be making sure our folk was good or make ends meet in july so that's something we're willing to do. we want to make sure that our newest most vulnerable teachers struggling to find housing, they struggle to pay rent even in shared housing conditions, right. those folks are the folks that aren't

going to be able to buy groceries and i lived off $20 a month eating ramen in my first month in educator because it was how little my paycheck was and how much food and rent is in san francisco. it's not the quality of care of you have and it's not quality of care we want for educator so making sure that's recognized for what it is. that's the members, moving our planned money to that space. what's needed for you to decide and the amount of compensation and make sure folk was made right. no one planned for this. we had no idea. and it's now in your hands and we look forward to hearing what the outcome of that is and of course, we'll be back again to make sure this is all happening each and every month in the way it's supposed to. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. we have now had 45

minutes of public comment. we will now go to our virtual public comment. mr. steel. >> yes. speaker, we have 13 hands raised currently. >> i'll extend it to hearing from the 13 virtual hands. >> okay. >> after the 13, i will conclude public comment for non-agenda items. >> thank you. reanda. >> good evening, board, commissioners. sorry. superintendent, matthews and everybody on zoom. i'm speaking as the parent leaders but specifically as a mom. a brilliant, beautiful black baby. the principal at yola and specifically, it's not --

they're failing to acknowledge her use of the n word and the harm it has caused. we all know when our babies are in stressful environment, they aren't able to learn. if we say we care about the achievement of our black babies, then it's time for us to put our money where our mouth and remove educator and teachers who are causing harm to our babies and i understand action was taken but if that individual still refuses to acknowledge the harm and issue a public apology, that individual doesn't deserve to set the tone for any of our students and it's time we take action and show our babies that they matter and care and we're here as adults to support, love and care on them. we need to have this administrator removed immediately. and it doesn't matter if there's one black baby in that school. all of our babies deserve that support and

care and acknowledgement to know their learn and overall mental health is important and they matter so please, remove this administrator immediately. thank you. >> thank you. >> i don't think they can hear me. >> mary. >> they can't hear me. >> go ahead, mary. >> my name is mary. i'm a parent of two girls and also a member of the apac leadership as well as the apc. i'm disheartened and saddened the things i'm hearing as it relates to black students and families and i think about the administration progress and the lack of support at everett

and i'm speaking as a concerned parent and i wanted to bring up and make sure that this was discussed from our ongoing concerns and demand on march 23rd regarding the principal and the youth of the explicit n-word and the complicit of the staff an speaking up and we appreciate the support of dr. matthews and gibson and naacp and the apac leadership and the board of ed, we're concerned the principal made minimal effort to make things right to own the right she has done and prevent her staff from participating in the antiracism work of our apac and it's direct observation verses [audio difficulties] i'm going to highlight one thing. the principal has two community circles with our 5th graders and

they -- [audio difficulties] she did not apologize. she did not apologize to the student. and it was so disheartened because it wasn't until our students -- told their parents and they show up. [audio difficulties] >> thank you, mary. >> you got caught off. >> don't say thank you if we can't hear what they're saying. >> ms. marshal? >> good evening. yes, can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you. >> yes. good evening. on behalf

of the naacp and the lives of black school educator, i have several heartbreaking issues to share in one minute. number one the use of the n-word is always inappropriate. i'm very disheartened to learn after a meeting with dr. gibson and the union and gray and the naacp, they still have not apologize. she has harmed this young male student for life and she needs to be removed immediately. she should -- she shouldn't be allowed into the school tomorrow. i want to thank the (indiscernible) policies and operation for its dedication to sfusd. he's not solely it blame for this debock coand every staff deserves to be paid on time. thank you so much. you are not alone in this mess. and you should not be blamed for it. the

-- i can't -- i look at my notes. [timer] >> the pay issue has to be done and the word is inappropriate. please remove this principal tomorrow. thank you so much. >> thank you, ms. marshal. lucas. >> hi, can you hear me >> yes, we can hear you. >> my name is lucas and i'm a 7th grader at aptos middle school today and i heard our band program is being completely cut next year. and honestly, i'm upset about this because music and band has been my favorite classes and not only has it made me grow in my skills but allowed me to make friends. i don't think it's fair you should have to have money to learn an instrument outside of school when you should learn it in school. i do think that the

school district should provide this opportunity for everyone and also our skounsers are really -- our counselors are important in supporting students so we can have good environments for learning in the classroom so please don't cut these programs. thank you for your time. >> thank you, lucas. >> adam lux. >> hi, can you hear me? >> yes. >> my name is lex, and our son has been a kindergarten student at leonard flynn elementary this past year. i can say without hesitation that teachers given nonreelection is the most compassionate teacher i have met and i'm grateful for what she has done for my son. my son has a neuro diversity and she has been stability for him and she continuously ensures that every

child in the room feels special, confident and bright and she does it so every single parent can feel the love she has for children. she doesn't just teach a class but formed a community which was no easy feet with the restrictions this past year. as our city struggles with attracting and retaining quality educator and when the -- the public school system is dire, please reconsider the non-reelection and she would be a loss for sfusd, thank you. >> thank you. >> chelsea, i need to promote you to panelists and we can see your camera for you to talk. i'm promoting you now and we'll be able to see you. chelsea? >> hi. can you hear me >> yes, we can hear you. >> great. thank you for your

time. i'm here to talk on behalf of the -- chelsea, can you speak us, please? we're not able to hear you. >> can you hear me now? >> yes. >> okay. i'm speaking on behalf of the deaf and hard of hearing early education program. the toddler class provides services for childrens zero to three years owed. it's connected with early start. it receives funding from the county and state. sfusd has decided to cut this program to close the classroom, we don't know what they're doing with the money. we don't know where these children are going to receive

services they need. these children are born deaf or hard of hearing. they need devices, they need therapy but they need a language rich intensity program that this district provided. this is a very special issue to me. i have three children, and two are sfusd and my kindergartener went through the toddler program. he wouldn't be in general education, please do not close it. we're going to -- >> how much longer? i wanted to finish that up. that's all i need to say. >> thank you. >> leonard flynn, pta. >> hi, my name is alexis joanne son williams and i have two daughters at leonard, flynn and kindergarten in fourth glade and

i'm speaking in support of the are kindergarten teacher at flynn. she's been a great teacher to her kindergarten class. this is a school year that has followed a year of isolation and distance learning that left many students and teachers and families traumatized and she came into this atmosphere her first year teaching kindergarten and fostered learning and fostered the love of learning and she has been accessible to spanish and english speaking families and empowered families at home. after hearing the speakers from the school at san francisco unified, i'm more impressed by her love of teaching and her desire to keep teaching in the district. we need to support her and our teachers especially teachers of color and bilingual and cultural teachers. please to not do nonreelect for this teacher.

>> thank you. erin. >> you're unmuted. >> i'm sorry, go ahead, java. >> okay. the first thing is i just wanted to ask, regarding empower, if the $300,000 budget is still $300,000? and if that could be addressed at some point. when you present kind of where you're at and what is needed and i believe some form of a report or something is going to be happening and the second thing is, i want to second what the other parents spoke about. multiple parents have reached out to the cac regarding the hard of hearing program that has been closed. i recognize that typically sfusd does not provide services for

under three years old. however, as indicated, this program has existed and from what i understand, the parents were notified in may they would no longer have this option as of the fall, so my ask is the district reaches out and tries to facilitate additional resources, communication as to what happened, just anything to help these families. that's what i'd like to ask. i have heard from many families that's very, very, very concerned right now. and then finally, once again, i would like to ask at some point, i guess in the fall that the district addresses in general the boa meetings and learning law as well as the new literacy agenda to audit the k-4. thank you for your time. >> thank you, java. >> hello.

>> aaron? >> yeah. hi, i'm, my name is aaron and i'm a teacher at rooftop. k through 8. i found out this evening about a teacher we have who is on the non-reelect list and he's a passionate teach whoer have been given this non-reelect teacher and he worked his way through this. this is related to credentialing and i ask the district to consider grace. that we have been providing many students and many people over the pandemic. this is the real districts that's short of people and males and people of color. i think it's a loss of the district to lose this teacher. and what he contributes to the district. i'll close by saying, my check was $4 -- $4,000 short

and i haven't received an e-mail from the payroll department and it's now the tenth. thank you. >> thank you. tom. >> hi, yes. my wife and i are special education teachers and we have a kindergartner in the district and i appreciate all teachers but also all the school staff. i think it should be staff appreciation week. this goes out to the parents and security guards and secretaries. custodians, you know, those are all the people who makes a school. i have said it many times and you have heard the issues going on with school staff. not just the board members, i would urge you to come to my school and i will greet you and show you around and much can be improved and district staff can come as well. i think if you go it the school, you'll see what's working and not. not just about the payroll but things we can share but also

you get, when you come to schools, people see that. and we feel that. we see that you care because otherwise, this is just talk. please, give us some action, thanks. >> thank you. iris. iris b? >> hi. yeah, my name is carlos. i'm a parent of a child that's hard of hearing and i'm here to speak on behalf of the early start program. again, as mentioned earlier by the parents, this is a huge mistake on the side of the education panel to cut funding for that service. the 18-month to 3-year period for a child is critical for their development. if you cut funding to help them during that time, actually the financial burden on the system is going to be greater when they go get older and need more services, that they may not need

if they get early services right on time and they learn the way to be part of the general location program as opposed to needing special services throughout their life at the school system. please reconsider funding the early education program for the kids that need it, thank you. >> thank you. anna carney. anna carney? >> can you hear me now >> yes, we can hear. >> i'm from george washington high school and i'm muse -- i'm a music arts teacher. closing a band program is completely against your own resolution. and

you know, there are many other -- i wrote to you and gave you a real clear run down on what the issues were around arts education and how important it was and i know you guys know that it's important and there have been many movements to, you know, to increase the amount of art. there's p-funding, so i don't know understand why a band program is being cut. that's one and i really think that you should be reconsider that because our music programs are really crucial throughout the entire district. hundreds and hundreds, we just had a coral festival. they were four hundred kids there. 3, 400 kids there, just coral alone, think about the impacts on hundreds of students you're making by cutting music programs. second of all, unprofessional. you want us to get credentials and be ready for our jobs and yet we don't get the money to, we don't get paid. very unprofessional

from your end and you really need to make that right because you know, in profession -- [timer] it's inexcusable. $13 million or whatever you spend. it's a waste of money and you need to fix this soon so those are my issues, please consider. >> thank you. jennifer? >> yes, can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you. >> jennifer? >> i'm calling because i'm frustrated. i do not want to call in again. >> i'm sorry, jennifer, we cannot hear you. >> but i get out of school at

3:45 and it's impossible for me to get down there with a small family. i can't imagine what it's like -- >> we can't hear. >> can you -- can you hear me? >> jennifer, you're cutting out. we can't hear you. >> [audio difficulties] >> we're having a bad connection, jennifer. >> that concludes public comment. >> thank you to the public for providing public comment tonight. i will move to public comment for sfusd students. you'll hear from sfusd students who wish to speak on any manner and students will have up to two

minutes to speak and dedicating up to 15 minutes of general public comment. >> if you're a student and you wish to speak, please raise your hand and i will call on you. again, this is the time for students to speak. kate. >> hello. can you hear me? >> yes. >> this is the time for students to speak. >> yes, i'm a student at gorge washington high school. >> okay. >> i just wanted to ask why are schools being crunched into a graduation ceremony with two others when for the last 80 or so years, our school has been loading a ceremony at the stadium itself and us being

moved to keeter stadium, the students are limited to six family members per student and i find it very difficult for the students who are bringing a lot of family members and it's a throwing away of tradition.

first presentation is the citizen bond oversight committee to improve transparency and bond program. commissioners. good evening. i wanted to really today this presentation is from our citizen's bonds oversight committee. ever wanted to introduce our interim chair of the bond oversight committee. we have been meeting throughout the summer. on a biweekly basis through

summer and early fall with the bond oversight committee. since early fall we have been on a monthly meeting and managed to maintain quorumisment to commends the c for embracing prettet significant w load and a set of tasks around coming up to speed on a complex bond program and taxling the backlog of outids and w this needed to be done. we met quite intenseively and commissioner hsu i want to thank her and driving a productive conversation about the ways that the sfu sd facility program you will hear later in audit system i well run program and mysterious we have work to do to

make the w that we are doing more transparent and accessible to the public. we heard good recommendations, we are in agreement you will hear tonight about communications and our website and the need for enhanced reporting and made significant cantz strides the past 6 weeks. learningly i want to recognize, she'll be here tonight our new program manager who started 2-1/2 be evermonths ago and embraced the feedback they provide. i will turn the presentation over to mr. ridgeway and welcome your comments and his feedback. >> thank you. there will be 10 minutes.

presentation time. gi appreciate that. thank you. >> so -- the slide presentation if you notice, everyone the date is approved by october 6, 2021. that was the date that ann hsu was chair. and i was -- vice chair. keep it there, please. this same slide show, 14 slides was presented by hsu to this board of education. on that date when she was the chair person. keep the date out i will connect the slides. the same presentation of the 14 slides was presented to building and grounds committee in february. again and hsu presented the 14 slides as chair. when she was appointed to the

board of education. she had to leave that position and now i am interim chair in her seat. now it is may 10th i will make the presentation. i footnote i was not consulted at all about the slides. with the put in or anything. i did in the know this agenda item was on the agenda until friday. so with that exception and i thought i should have been no text or phone. you are on the presentation will happen today i done know until friday. okay. with that qualification i want to proceed. next slide. of so this is a quick background. saved for 2 of the board members you have seen this slide. a recap on back grounds. prop 39 puts us in play. i'm executive vice president of

my lincoln high school's pda and hsu of the pta's. every school has a council. prop 39 was you put in play in 2019 temperature it is a state law we are separate and independent. okay. we had an up to 2018. turned out and there was none operating for 3 years until ours is in play now. >> next slide. next slide. now. this slide is important, because what we are what you need ton -- ladies and gentlemen of the board, is what is going on with

the bond money. 744 million by the taxpayers of the city. who are paying. the bondses are no back up. the full faith in credit of the san francisco residents who are taxpayers property owners are paying for the bondses. they we are in play to make sure that everything going on with how the money is spent where it goes and why and for is our job. when we start in the june. june, july and august meeting every 2 weeks to catch up. caught up with financials, that would never looked at why? because there was no c bok for 3

years we sxent sum and fall catching up. we have approved 2017, 18 and 18/19 financials with don and nathan will present after me. they were looked at. we're at the moment -- on a pending approval of the audit for 2020. footnote. we have not at all received anything on 2021. oovenlg here it is 2022. where is 2021? am this, i'm getting asmed up. you don't want to hear what you would everwant you to tell need to know things and don't want to let me tell you. sounds good and looks good. wand

to know things and don't want to let me tell you. sounds good and looks good. a letter from neil to president lam, you are busy. i will not 3 shade there. it is important that down the road the don -- nathan her department is looking to offer a 1 -- i don't know the number. 1 billion dollars bond and it has been pushed back. it was wise to push it back to november 23. there is time to get it right. remember the taxpayers of the city voters are going to have to -- warm up to that. and they need to know that this bond that was float in the 2016 of 74 billion dollars was dealt with openly. everything was disclosed.

and remember, this is a city with 30% of the parents put kids in private schools. you don't go in a private school unless you have means or borrow the money. 30% of san francisco parents put kids in private schools. this is the interceptor can you slow down. thank you. >> okay. i'm sorry. >> i want to acknowledge your time. want to make sure we get to covering the recommendations. where we are is that in it is a major impasse. the george washington murals has been a problem with getting information for our to report you and the public of how much money the bond money were used from the 2016 bond moneys that were paid to the law firm.

i sent a letter to doctor matthews and copied the board on my position as interim chair as what we need to go forward in our position as we don't agree with that. at last week's meeting, we were going to vote on that being the position of the committee we ran out of time. my colleague said, rex, put a pause on this and meet with doctor matthews. friday morning i sent a letter to him asking him to mote with me. he set the conditions, time and circumstances. i'm waiting for this reply. ir get that everybody is busy.

we are all trying to dot work. but here is the problem. the challenge. we cannot approve the audit 2020 unless we know how much money has been expended. regardless the question of whether it is appropriate, to pay a law firm to defend the school district in a lawsuit with bond money. i'm tired of that. we need to find out how much was paid. and until that happens, there is not going to be an approval of the 20 audit. this is serious business. we are talking about 2023 a billion dollars. and we can't tell the sideses of san francisco what 30% of them kids don't go to the school other taxpayer paying property owners paying on this bond. this is a series matter. i don't need to belabor the ponent. everybody should understand this. everyone. next slide.

one thing that was put tonight. i will run through these were different graphics a better way the average person can go in the website. look that is going on. some of the slides are examples of long beach, and again. you got everyone who can read. i don't need to take valuable time. these are not our schools zee not done this . reason why our website is in the beautiful we have not had the time. spent sum and fall catching up on financials the hard work. this is where we want to go with. the comum it is are beautiful

sthchl is how an average person see a school site. what has been done. committed to the finished product and the visual that will encourage people not only to look but to be comfortable with okay, i understand this. now we are not there this is aspiration. the same slides were presented last year october 6. this is a repeat for most of you. next slide. the graphics visual world is looks better. you read it. again. this is fremont. doing. next slide. this is actually the oversight results of the city and county. this is our city and county's website. what they do and how they do

with their officials. this is when we arc spire aspire to. it speaks for itself. i'm aware of time. so this is slide 13. stay here. former transparency enhancement committee. this subcommittee they have 7 members. 6 because offan hsu is with you. we have to replace her. one is having a subcommittee to work with the staff and auditor to deal with them during the times where we meet. we meet once a month now that

30-day period where the subcommittee will be able to continue to work with don the auditor, nathan and others at the bond program committee. no worries. so -- as we are wrapping this up, one of the things that has not been done or it is -- it part of the presentation from the auditor. is something that is personal thing i'm thinking if i don't stay on it. it will not get done. and that is the recommendations from the bond department's own auditors on something they need to put in play. it says here that the district. auditor i'm not make thanksgiving up i'm reading it

from the audit report this . is the end of 2020 now the same one here recommendation that the own auditor is asking bond department to put in play and has not been done. the district approved the professional service charge or change orders review there is no protocol to investigate if this professional error or manner of unforeseen of the professional service provider. and says, here is the recommendationch listen. district should define a normal scope of change order. classification. except exceeding a normal range trigger an investigation. well is no as far as i know, no normal number or percentage. if a construction project goes over 10% it is that the

threshold? the auditor say list is none. should be established the investigation to determine if the professional who made the error is of the change order will was because of conscience or change of s. the bond program management should create a data basech to monitor the situations where hay went yndz the threshold there is no threshold tochlt make my case of how that has happened. and i will close on this. i will read off the schools and tell you how much they went passed the final bid. redding 15 fors. marina, 15%. tul elk 15%. sheraton 14%. of lanthat will 27% and george washington high school. 26% that is after the final bid.

so the question is, how do we do that, is it likey accepted practice whchlt a school guess over budget that is money from the same box that box is running out of money now and of course, we know that we are looking for approval from you guys nathan will talk about the 148 million dollars of bond that needs. it was 284 billion. there was a pause because of the change in the amount and the structure. so -- this is a series conversation. i hope i covered it. i hope i captured your attention. get sdpoun dot work and make it happen. people of san francisco watching this and in 2023 they have to say, yes. let's get them to say, yes. thank you.

are there question from colleagues? i would like to call up ray. >> hello thank you for taking my comment. well are a kwoum things i want to note. first is, i would like to especially given the transparency and trust issues raised urge this board and urge the district to very carefully look at how the reallocated bond funding from 2016 is spent. i don't think we assume tell be upon spent properly or well. given construction changes. there are things coming up. we need to watch this money we owe taxpayers an obligation. it is in the right it proceed

the way things have been going. i uponed to comment on the legal fee issue raised. i want to note the district as i understands, claimed a mental health reason for this george washington mural issue and paid a law firm an amount of money we have not found out how much and yet somehow not found a way to help many children with mental health problems, learning loss and issues like this reflects something disturbing in our priorities and allocating funds. and in addition, on the subject oft bond expenditure itself for a law firm no voter would consider that appropriate t. it is a breech of trust. thank you.

>> thank you. like to other comments? commissioner hsu. >> i want to thank mr. ridgeway and mrs. nathan to present this to us. i was the chair when we did all this work. last year. to understand the program to -- get our heads around the audit report. we spent a lot of time and thank you for spending time educating us and wing through that with me and the rest of the team the presentation that we went through is a summary of what we would like to see the bond program and the auditor's do. which means that those recommendations the points were not there.

we did in the see them. we put them in summarized them in this document. in the hopes that going forward, when the bond program and auditor implements the recommendations the public and the committee will be able to see more as you say the mystery behind the bond program. i understand that w is being done. so that the -- 2020's audit did not include some of this recommendation. but 2021 audit will include? ; is that correct? if not directly in the audit as an auxiliary document to address the questions raised. >> thank you. i look forward to seeing that and i urge that the bonds program work with the committee

and really not just in the letter of what is allowed in the by law or other law -- but in the spirit of more transparency to the cboc and the public and by the letter of the law you don't have to disclose things. binot disclosing certain things you are making the. public and the cboc distrust the bond program and therefore the school districts more. and that will harm the school district and i'm now part of the school district. i have a vested interest in us passing more bonds for our students. so really i encourage the bond program to work with the cboc and talk and get the questions answered. and really stick to the

territory of transparency. cboc we will her public comment on the oversight bond raise your hand if you care it peek we will have 5 minutes each speaker will have one minute. can we have that in spanish and chinese? [instructions in spanish] [instructions in chinese]

>> thank you. allison. >> hi. [inaudible] parent and taxpayer. my comment is addressing the response to the cboc regarding the murals at george washington high school they understand the fees paid to the law firm using fwounlds the district response on march 28 of 22 neglected their obligation under prop line and the opposite of transparent. i suggest that you don't think of asking the city to raise more bond funds until you get your house in order. pay teach and ares follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you >> thank you follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you >> thank you follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you >> thank you follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you

follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you >> thank you follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you >> thank youfollow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you >> thank youe follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you r follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you s follow your legal obligations under prop 39. thank you >> thank you. >> lex. >> good evening i'm lex i'm a member of the civic bond oversight committee. i wanted to thank rex ridgeway for presenting tonight and under score the importance. recruiting new members. current members are working hard to do right by the responsibilities of the bond oversight committee. they have professional experience in finance. bond financing and real estate but moving forward i hope that we add trusted members within our diverse communities who will do the work and build a shared understanding of the very necessary much needed and impactful resource. bond financing can address the safety needs and plant needs of schools. we have, lot of w to do this committee has been wonderful to work with and and go further,

faster with more members. and work to recruit members. we meet state requirements and we appreciate your support on this matter. thank you. >> thank you. patrick? >> sorry. this is patrick wolf. my comment i like to underscore what ridgeway and commissioner hsu was speaking about the importance of transparency and credibility. i would urge the district to think of the credibility with the broader community as a greater asset and not something that get in the way. for example, the presentation suggested that ordinary taxpayers outa be ail to go to our website and see how the bond

money is spent. you can do that in long beach you cannot do that in san francisco. how money was spent? ordinary residentses and taxpayers want to know that it is building credibility which is valuable for us. we should be eager to earn the credibility of our community. i urge the district to think in that manner, thank you. thank you. >> greg. >> okay. thank you. this is an urgent issue. we have been without a cboc for 3 years. thankfully we pulled one together but only after a whistle blowerch pointed that out. here is my question. will this board commit to demand that sfu sd collaborate and

mother coming with the cboc? that to patrick's point, is the absolute basis of transparency and trust. will the board, tonight demand sfu sd to disclose everything? because it is in the doing it now. we heard that, >> thank you >> thank you. kate. sorry. >> i wanted to just reiterate what he had said earlier about george washington oversight on funding -- with the construction and i have seen a lot of their mistakes. one of them was covering the windows with a -- wood it got wet and blew through and cost

the school thousands of dollars to redo all that work. and there has been multiple mistakes by the construction crew hired throughout the schools renovations. and i like to bring that to attention. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> caller ending in 7853. thank you so much. i want to thank the chair for that heart felt report. however as a citizen and educator and parent i'm concerned locked like you are not [inaudible] the new committee. we need to do what we teach our students, get along and dot work. the chair you help the new chair. well is a lot of machiney at

stake we have teachers and parents and all types of educators that need to be paid the money is there work together. if you come back again we will hear that you are working together. looked like you are not x. that is horrible. we give our students earn d's and footwork's for not working earn an a. students are at stake. earn an a and i hope you did not spend your money on washington mural. looks like you did. again, thank the chair for a heart felt report huin become we want to hear you all are working together for the students. thank you. zoo thank you, mrs. marshall that conclouds public comment. president. >> vice president boggess. >> if staff could address the gap between the recommendations from the oversight committee and

where staff is as far as supporting them or not? and i think trying to get clarity on what it is that we are doing versus what we are not doing based off when is requested. >> on the question of the george washington high school murals i will defer to council i think that is the main source of disconnect now with staff and cboc. on all other items i said we embraced the recommendations. put in resources working on our website we changed reporting templets some we shares at building and groundses part of our monthly update we are doing to the committee. or for the committee. and that also we have had challenges with agenda management in cboc we had around 6 items repeatedly reagendaized including discussions that we want to have

as staff. . because of attention and again frustration with the reporting around the george washington murals we have been unable to move forward. that said the work is here it is done. it has been done. i think to the so around we were overhauling the reporting. we are owner hauling our website. we have much to share. we have heard the recommendations about the odd and i wlp it technically incorporates it in the audit do you remember or whether we provide that information as in a wrap around document to make sure questions are addressed. we are not objecting to those issues. i think that and so, i think that is probably i think

accurate low characterizes the conversations so far. >> i see the head nod. so as we advise the board when chair hsu now commissioner hsu -- made the request, the amount of attorney's fees and the line item details are privileged under the attorney/client privilege the case law in california is clear that is the case. reasoning that the courts have used is that even the amounts have give insight to the opposing side. as to strategy. so once the case is concluded, we will of course respond to records request from cboc or

anyone it is pending the board knows it is appeal at the court of appeal. >> thank you. >> appreciate that. well 2 things i want to -- respond. number one, c box is in the subject to the records act request. we are a state mandated body. that is required to find out when is going on with the bond money. of rex ridgeway can't. i can't go and get information on a pending lawsuit. however, from my understandings, cboc as a body can do that. we are not subject being blocked out of a record's request act. 2, the fact that on november fifth the letter from the bond department told us that -- remy law firm was paid 144 thousand

dollars. from the bond money in our position. that -- upon waves client privilege. you have given it up when you told us you paid them money. now i will grant you a pending lawsuit gives you you know you have that going on -- but it is the question is -- our question is, how much money is upon given to the paid to the law firm? i'm puzzled as to how can it be a strategy. but i'm not a lawyer. i want to put that out. i feel i'm getting in your area i will get in trouble. that's our position. i don't want to get there. thank you. i wondered if we could talk a bit about the decisionmaking process of the funds. for this purpose and how this fits in and is this normal,

typical what was the decisionmaking process on this and how do we navigate that? i don't know the best personful i'm curious is this a common practice? >> yea. i'm looking at head of facilityis cannot recall if the discussions occurred outside of the presence of council. and i would not want her to wave attorney/client privilege by sharing here. if those conversations or decisions happened outside the conversation with council of course, answer. >> commissioner, i would respond with a broader comment about the role of cboc and mandate. role of cboc is very

specifically to determine that expendures are consistent with state law. george washington high school is a bonds project and the focus is seismic stablization of a complex building and a number of other modernizations scopes of work. it it is i'm going to reminds folks in addition to the george washington high school murals well is a freeze boo john singer. who is african-american sculptor and other notable pieces of art work at george washington high school. all of which we had to carefully address and consider as we deliver that bond project. in terms of eligible expend tours, which is the dense of cbocers we advised cboc

they are eligible. and i think that part of the debate as we tried to chairifiy around having feedback what we should spend money on as a district is a policy decision of the board of education. to the extent they have feedback on that topic many do, they are free to share temperature but within it is mandate of cboc, it is a narrow question. which they are tasked with answering. narrow and important question, which is have the expenditures you review are they consistent with the purposes of the ordinance? and if they have feedback to the contrary they are free to offer that is the extent of the dialogue on this topic. question to council's right if the conversation about the use

of bond money to deal with the george washington was it public conversation. why yes. i can't pin the month. there was conversation as recorded at a public board of education meeting where -- mrs. nathan did speak options. a question asked, what options or where can money be pull friday to deal with the mural situation and one options she gave was the bond money. that was one of 4 options. i wish i knew this question was coming. that's a fact. we knew that publicly that was a public disclosure to her. she is saying i have options one is the bond money. that started this thing. what i got involved with make me trigger this thing was that on inform fifth, when we had a 4

had an answer to our question. what entities were paid for george washington high school number 3, the law firm and 144 thousand dollars, rounding, for this and this and ended to respond to legal questions. that's all it said. i said what the hell is that respond to legal questions. i did a dive of my dpoinld out all the documentless relateded to the lawsuit. that in october 19th the george washington association sued about the murals.he lawsuit. that in october 19th the george washington association suedabout the murals.lawsuit. that in october 19th the george washington association suedabout the murals. the lawsuit went 2 years. the decide in the favor the alumni association in october of

2021. was bonds money spent topate legal bills. i will not disz pew if it is okay. question is as c box our job is to tell the board and the citizens of san francisco every dime paid for whatever. >> thank you and look forward to reporting back from the cboc to the board. and following through on the recommendations of the audits. >> and thank you. >> at it time i like to have our parent advisory council

michelle. >> a reminder to our presenters of please be mindful of the time of 10 minutes, please. >> we'll be brief. thank you, president lam, good evening commissioners, student delegates online. staff, superintendents. families, members of the community. thank you. >> as you know the role of the pak to represent parent perspectives for discussions and decision. this is our report for manipulate 10, 22. board of education meeting. we will begin with appreciations and asks. touch on concerns and recurring issues and conclude with information on upcoming appeal engagement opportunity including our next meeting.

before i turn it over i would like to appreciate the citizen bond oversight committee for work and appreciate all of the students, parents, educators and other who is spoke tonight we wish you did not have to and hope you have been heard. now lucie. >> >> thank you. pac like to appreciate president lam for the time a lotted for in person and online public comment tonight and at the april 26, 2022 board of education meeting. as well as the extension of time to arc luall public commenters to spoke. we understand the board's desire to shorten the often time extremely long meetings, however we stand firm in our belief the voices of the families and measures vital to ensure equity and he successful out come of

students and a well furthermored democratic process. the pac would like to hear from the board about our request and raised by many during comment and theed board of education >> and etch families time to do the things they need know >> this critical territoriville tear parent leaders prosecute all of our groups. on dates when they present to you. the pac like to receive an update on the status of the queer, trans, parent council. and like to know which commissioner will the status. education go eligibility of

councilmembers. interested for family members to apply they are waiting to hear more on the press and time line for application. the p ac is concern body coverage regarding the concerns and pep and staff to understand the situation. along with what if anything we can do to be support and keep the board updates. condition to hear from family and community members concerned about the audit and action planning commit eye. at the 2022 study's task force spurred the creation of the audit and action planning committee are still happening. bug and he racism.

the board to be open and communicating exact he what is happening with the commit each etch >> reconvene. and the absence of information it is assumed nothing is done and mistruths spread. the pac would like to support our solidarity with the educators and staff who paychecks improper low processed we had to fight and suffered. we are concerned about the reports and problems persist. and we are losing educators from our district. and ask that you consider their asks for summer funds. the local control and, countable plan task force is work to confirm for new events.

current 3 year plan. more about the -- >> and the various communication channels we want to acknowledge it has been challenging and -- at this time there is a rise in covid cases and it is trick tow plan in person and people are burned out with online. so -- we will do the best we can and we are planning how to -- start that process much earlier in the year next year as well as have a more comprehensive aligned like training for fall they are appropriated in the spring and this thing. and there will be an update tomorrow as well in the l cap wednesday's package and business services committee meeting.

executive director of damage services will provide an update. tomorrow at 5 o'clock but public comment only in person. more it is on the board's website. and we be sharing findings from when we learned at the june first -- budget and business centerses meeting. >> thank you. the pac rescheduled the may meets from last thursday to this thursday. we don't have a meeting update at this time. we will meet in person from 6-8 on the lower level of golden gate avenue. accessed behind the entrance of mc calster street. all are welcome and we encourage

anyone interested to join us. meeting in english and trans lagz with 72 hour's notice. >> we have received xhieting applicants. if you are curious about the pac and see first hand what it like or have questions what it moneys to be a pac member reach out at pac @sfu sd. edu and come to our meeting on thursday evening. meeting information can be found at sfu sd. edu/pac, agendas and

location is posted 72 hours prior to the meeting. if you are interested in attending a meeting we like to partner with a pac or have questions or comments about the report or the work. contact us pac @sfu sd. edu. >> thank you. finally we would like to encourage the board to explore ways we can be responsive to the ever changing situation with covid. cases are rising now. the same time masking mandates are falling away. and impacting the pac and other groups as well. and volunteer parents leaders. we are required to meet in person but challengered to find childcare providers are hesitant top provide care for children and the cases are rising come are catching covid. and of course it is the end of

the year and providers might be students at different levels are also wrapped up with their stuff. but a lot of folks are feeling unsafe. i know it is tricky because of the brown act and it requires state action but -- we appreciate if there is strategizing around the potential to better support hybrid meetings, for example, our members would like to return to virtual. we understand that is in the a possibility. thinking forward, you know this is something that will be with us for a long time. as well as other situations may come up. wild fires in the fall or whatever come our way we would like to >> proactively we are not reacting behind the curve. thank you that concludes our r. we appreciate this opportunity and welcome your question and comments and responses.

>> before i open up for questions i like to call upon public comment. have arc a lita fisher. >> on behalf of the community advisory committee for special education i would like to thank you for your report and engage am. we appreciate your work. and like to lift up the commencements about the qtpac. all parents deserve an avenue affinity space. all parents deserve support from the district and raising and highlighting their issues and this is an important stake holder group. all of us committees exist because of the assistance and collaborations. making sure that is prioritized and this group is, is something that many of us are very

passionate about. also, l cap is the main stake holder around budget. and michelle has done a heavy lift this year herself around stake holer engagement. this is a job that should not be on an independent person we need a district liaison and need someone managing that work. our gj budget should reflect the values. i'm a parents of volunteer parents on the pac. i'm here today michelle was surprised why i'm here i felt like it is important for mow to come out and speak. so i had to e mail the after school program and have to also

arrange childcare with a friends. i encourage to you look to alternative option in addition to in person may be a parent group. it important the parents needs are also looked at. they have work and they also have kids. might not have transportation to come out here to -- you know to join the meetings. think about you know hybrid option. or may be even you know resume to virtual. and allow people to speak. thank you. >> josephine here. thank you, pac and michelle and lucie for being here making the reports. i like to speak with the participation of pac.

i know the number of members of pac is less than optimal. we could use double or triple the size of participation. and especially the a lot of people are terming out. so i think but we have inclusivity that we can talk about diversity. we need people starting to participatement and include everyone we can the active parents deserve to have a spot at pac and then we can continue to elevate the diversity within our parent body. i support upon hybrid. so parents we can make it to the meetings. as well as hoping that the chinese parent council can be introduced. thank you.

>> we will take public comment virtually. and wanting to keep it within the 5 minutes and we have 3 speakers. take the 3, please. >> thank you. care to give public extent on the parent advisory r. raise your hand and i will call on you. >> raynell. sorry can we have that translated. please.

>> because i think there has been a lack of clarity. the committee has been pause said. and -- there were issues with the last meeting around people not attending in person when we were doing in person meetings. and expressing that was in the going to work. so -- so we delayd that meet and vice president boggess and i are speak individually. we want to talk with everyone and hear from them. and then figure out -- once we hear that. we will come become to the group with upon next step in terms huthey will work and there are -- lack of clarity around the purpose. we get that in order by hearing from all the members before moving forward. >> thank you very much. commissioner alexander.

i am sure members appreciate that. >> it is taking arc while and you know we are full time we have other full time jobs, it is in process but we are making happen as quickly as we can. >> that is what folksment to know they want to know what is going on. thank you very much. i want to thank vice president bog sxesz commissioner alexander for taking on narole to be able to do the intentional follow upy conversations and able to put forward both a recommendation that needs to the core of the purpose of that committee moving forward. >> thank you. so much. lifting up and appreciating you for echoing and amplifying the voice of families and students who have issues and bring those to us here and to say for me, on

the board want to figure out a way to extend the conversations outside of the board room and enengage in dialogue and conversation before we get to the decisionmaking place. hoping to figure out how to do that. and our communities partners and school sites and supervisors and be in dialogue and have transparency, understanding of intentions we are putting forward in the work. thank you for your work and report. >> thank you. that would be great. i love this idea. thank you. >> vice president boggess and thank you for presentation. i am -- i am wondering if -- well is any possibility if for out reach to our ssc's or pta's

on the advisory committee to -- i'm not -- i'm run nothing parents who are not familiar with it despite the work you put in regular meeting times and report out to the board. it would be lovely as we move towards elevating the process that our school site members are assuredly and made aware. i don't know what the heavy lift is i encourage that connection if it is not difficult. >> i would being happy to drop something that would be an over view i could share and then i think the question is may be partner with second district to get contacts. and in terms of site council i don't know where that information is heldz if state and federal or if there is a list of folks or may be through

add administrators. second district would be great. and ask them to push it out to their schools to keep it easier. >> thank you. >> i had a question related to recruit am i appreciate sharing as upon numbers are terming off how important it is to have a call the pipeline and leadership development this has been why pac an important district. what is the timing as far as recruitment and i did not see this in the report and helpful to share that with the public. >> great point, thank you. i did not think to put this in. we in the current recruitment phase. the process is that we have a form on our web page and so tell autotranslate to other languages that are supported on the page.

and i check this and we set up meetings. i reach out. do you have questions and -- we set up like an interview with myself and a couple of members and the person interested. virtually. and we are looking to have a list of folks for our june ninth meeting and then we would bring that to the following board of education meeting. i rescue noise well is not probably wield miss our time to turn in information -- by the wednesday if we are doing that the next tuesday. we might need to finesse this a bit. ir would hate to wait until the end of june. that is when we would do that i know i have been in discussion with commissioners over the last year about make ay slight change to our by law this is formed the pac so we would be able to make

recommendations that are nominations. pac members times other than once a year. because this left year we had folks that came on and expressed interest in the fall and not able to have a process to support them. this is manage we love to move on. >> thank you very much. seeing no additional. thank you for your presentation to the pac and members in attendance. >> thank you. >> we will go to the presentation of the charter school oversight committee. like to call upon direct [inaudible]. >> good evening i'm chris director of policy and planning. i'm the staff liaison for the

charter school committee. and privilegeed have than honestoir honor and will pass it over to our chair >> thank you commissioners i'm michelle parker chair of the oversight committee joined by colleagues. alita fisher. and we thank you for the opportunity to present to you and share what we have been wing on the past year. >> a brief agenda will give an introduction. the purpose of our committee. and over view of our priorities this past year and you wants on our progress advancing the priorities and a few recommendation and hear questions you might have. this is a list of committee members concern there are 11 seats. 6 vacancies and love to reminds and encourage you all to fill

those seats. we are a mall but mighty team we could use more folks. thank you for that. and reminder well are a couple of student seats. i know we don't have students tonight we have reminded sdmem love to have students on the committee as well. why this year has been a bumpy year. the destruction. thanks. this has been a bumpy year for us as it has been for many people. we had turn over members moving out of san francisco a teacher limited the focus to the classroom. new board members this year and some appointed by previous commissioners. now it it is sorted out and look forward it advance our prioritiesil share in a minute. now will share about our

committee and our purpose. >> hello, everybody i'micidea. the charter school committee formed with the passage of the board resolution in support of increased oversight. transparency and accountability for charter schools with educational and impact on san front 62 students. form in the 2019. the responsibility of the district and burden to provide oversight to the charter schools to make sure students are served in the application. the school submit said. approved by this period this is an important committee doing work that does in the rise to the level of priority. that many others do. need to responsibility of the district. the resolution sets outer charge and purpose and committee members which i would like to

share now. you can find this on the san francisco school district website page devoted to our committee. this committee views the following. demographic of students in each charter school. segregated by subgroup. demographic of students who leave by subgroupful demographic of students year to year by grade level at each charter school by subgroup. teacher credentials and purpose assignd and retention rates at each charter school. parents and staff representation and charter school governance. the provision of service to the charter school students by schools special education local plan area. and investigations of come mrints received by the san

francisco school district concerning the charter schools. i will pass this to share the questions committees exploring the past 3 years. >> thank you. this is next slide. this is a list of data point and information our committee is looking for and asking charter schools to share when they make presentations. which is when their charter up fur renewal. sometimes we follow up on previous conversations with them to share about initiatives they have coming up. the items in our next on the slide are list in the the board residence lugsz that formed this committee. commissioners on the board last year have seen this list included in sum rows we sent related the renew petitions left year. however, the list above rises more data than reviewed before.

we are a small and mighty committee. we would like your feedback about what areas, additional areas within the slide you like us to priorize for review next year and michelle will talk about the priorities on the next slide. >> thank you. the charter schools oversight committee held a retreat in august and those were first of all to gain an understanding why students leave charters. wanted to know what data is available. how is this tracked. desparit else with subgroups. second item we wanted ensure families have support experiencing occurrence at school. we want to things do families been charter school. a clear process. [fast]. and the third area is we wanted find out if we could determine

how different special education local planned areas impact students. we want to know is there a clear benefit to students and families in the sopa and should or can the committee recommend membership in a peculiar one for authorizationed charter schoolless. >> to get in detill on the first priority that is to gain a better understanding why students leave charter schools. one question has been about why students leave. this is a question we have about students when is they leave for charters it helps us understand what is missing. is there a way it conduct exit introduce. given the charge we will focus on charters. how do we get the real data why studenters leaving is it a push out or family choice.

how does this relate to develop. >> question when we speak with charter school what is place. behavior and mas >> longer term we would like to see a procedure developed for authorized charters for accurate information why students are leaving we want to know in f we hear from teachers and parents from the charter cool add administrators. we want to not make assumptions about why people are leaving. of charter schools enroll being

there were 6 charters there today 47ed whiching 2 authorized by the state. has been about the number in plus or minus 1 or 2 the past 10 years the total enroll am the ceremony 10 years okay. a little under 52 thousand. enrollment and nonsfu sd schoolsum during that period by 1500 students. some is caused by expanded grade levels and cites. we met with staff we ask about retention and subgroups and like to compile this in one place. the i'm sorry, this it is too fast can you slow down. way too fast. >> i will slow down. thank you. why the data we hear from staff is about where families go not

why. this includes families moving out of the city true for all schools. moving to sfu sd or somewhere else. we will continue asking the questions i listed of our staff what possibilities we are allowed to pursue surveys for families as they leave. now will talk about our second priority area. >> weep want any and all schools to provide a clear process for sharing occurrence including charteder schools. we have been wondering if the process are clear at san francisco unifyd and where parents might find them. we did an audit to finds 3 things. one, mention of the schoolo committee on their website. 2, clear press addressing concerns on the website.

family handbook or other process. or other resources. 3, reference to uniform complaint property required by law. we found that one school mentioned the charteder school oversight committee. leadership high school invited people to read our website and report and encouragement. only through contact forms. other formal. all schools but the uniform complaint procedure of the website and a handful have many more compliance and legal documents easily findsable on most website this is was not easily to find. sometimes under accountability or legal link and sometimes with family resources pages.

our committee recommends is this all schools make all 3 of these items findable for the websites. including in language if they have large populations of certain native speak rememberings. now we will share information about our third priority area. >> thank you. since the committee was formed near low 3 years ago we vehicle interested to understand the way charter schools are serving students as welled including special education service. of based on when we understood about the eldorado sop at state wide charter only special education local plan area. we worryd that families motive not receive the support than i node in navigating a complicated special education system. we wanted see if this was trough and if there a better choice for

best serving studentses and families and staff. the committee developed i survey to send and special education professionals about the sopa participation. we sent this this spring. we asked them. what factors lead to the choice if than i knew. what was work and passport they might need and if there is anything that would make them consider switching sopas. 7 schools responded and the main criteria shared that let to the cell pachoice. support for students. what we heard regarding san

francisco they like that students have access to service including many special day classes. and we heard that staff at san francisco unified have not had the development other schools got. they serve support meeting and available upon responsive and knowledgeable education supervisors support their jobs. get excellent communication and clan rigz with staff. and that when no content specialist is available due to staff reassignments it is harder to serve students. hay noted the switch to empower this year has been difficult as well and because they are an extra layer removed from the h r department. traditionaling challenges reach

with implementing hr issues has been difficult and made it hard to support staff and help staff get answer as well. and also report they wish they had more school psychologist available on staff for students. >> what we heard with eldorado selpa it is user friendly. staff is organized and knowledgeable. 1 school told the cell pavos not an option when they applied as a charter. the excellent staff supports students and they would like more help with innerventions through professional development support for new teachers. and flee is misinformation about their selpa and the family supports available. and foal this is used to create dissension. as far as those this may consider switching they would if

they would receive more support. if costs in eldorado increased or if they lost the ability to select their own staff. we noticed some of the comments from folks in the selpa had similar concerns to those boy in the committee for special education. we plan to share the feedback throughout responses with sfu sd selpa staff so they hear the positive and more opportunities for improve am were. and this leads to our recommendations in this area. we report develop a path way for charter schools to join more or i'm sorry. sfu sd to join the selpa if they chose. we recommend that all staff within the spael have more consistent training available. and we think that they should

hire more school psychologist. now michelle will summarize and close us out. >> thanks. here is the summary of what you heard about priorities. first our committee is going to learn why families leave chart ands where they go. regarding making sure that families are able to address concerns at school we request make available information about oversight committee presence and availability. uniform complaint information on their websites easy to find and sharing with schools. and regarding the cell pas we would like to recommend could develop a path way to switch to sfu sd. and that we want more consistent special education train to staff in the selpa and that the school district should hire more school

psychology. thank you for opportunity to present. please fill our seats and happy to hear requests or feedback. thank you. >> thank you. at this time i like to open up for public comment. i will have michelle -- thank you, so much. coordinator for the pac i appreciate the charter oversight for their work. really -- interesting to hear what the schools and the families are saying and the concerns they have the supports they are asking for and what they are looking for. thank you and encourage to you listen in to when they say.

thank you. if you care to speak raise your hand and i will callow. have hain spanish and chinese? >> thank you. caller? >> i'd like to thank you. i'm a mom of a student with ip. i appreciate you uplifting selpas. a suggestion i have is that -- often when our parents who have studentses with i ap's are

trying to figure out if a charter is a possibility. that information about that there might be another selpa is not clearly parents are not informed about it. i have mixed feelings about charters in general. but sometimes -- families need other options. and i would like to request that students with ip's and other [inaudible] that is uplifted and their needs are met and that in a better way and the oversight conditions it is very important to have a choice. thank you.

why thank you. >> president lam that concludes virtual public comment. why open up for commissioner questions. i see -- commissioner ward and commissioner sanchez. >> thank you. thank you for being here as a new are commissioner i'm learning. this is helpful to learn about not only the committee i know i have an appointment to make but the w that you are doing. thank you for sharing. i had 3 specific follow up questions. swn -- on slide 5 when you i being were within over the information what i heard an ask is there other information we are curious b. another peeves information i would be curious about whether you are tracking which of the charters are have bargaining agreements with educator and staff that is

something this is important to know. um -- i had another question about of the recommendations/requests, which is what is an -- over of sight/accountability mechanisms if recommendations are not followed through or requests for information or things to be poeod websites are not done. what is the mechanism for accountability there. and i have a third but i will pause there to let you answer the second one. >> yea. i will take that and i might needs chris to jump in a bit. first is we have been asking about collective bargaining and we have some we have -- creative arts. has collective and 5 keys.

right. >> or -- edson and also -- it does not envision. yea. envision. we got 4? leadership combined with cat and the collective bargaining. and thomas edson and creative arts. 4 of them. with accountability i think we are limped in when we can require. but we can make strong sgsz whattil would offer is that --

when there are cases like state law. we point that out and raise that for the charters and encourage them to follow the law. there may not be immediate accountability. >> >> there is a third i hear the small and might and he appreciate this is important work and nice to have more folks lifting that load and so -- from your perspectives on the committee are there certain additional per specificives and backgrounds would be useful in terms of rounding out your work you mead to do? families whom english is not

their first language would be important. additional answer to previous question the sharter school members sit in on the reviews and when a charter school is up we visit and participate in that process. we are becoming more visual chart parts of the process. we hope overnight next foo years that will lead to the recommendations taken more serious they see us as part of that renewal process. i agree with when she said. parents are important. especially parents that feel they may not have a voice. or might feel like there is they want some type of transparency. we forguest that when a school

loses the trust of i parent typeset is heard to get it and want accountability or type of unbiassed you know investigation or look into. i think parents other most important thing. we said before, students buzz i think that sometimes students forget they have a voice and when we have been trying to do this generation is teach our kids they have a voice and able to see what they are feeling and their. and accountable. honest low when they come to us the kids other most important we definitely need to listen to. we have one former teach or our committee. not able to join us tonight.

but more teachers having the education perspective we had another is helpful and the other thing i wanted to note, when she was talking about huwe are presence with the charteder schools and as we meet with them they will spends an hour with us and they are receptive to our questions. we make upon often requests of information and they are pretty quick to get become and follow up. we had some schools who have not parent representation who have made moves to bring parents to their bodies. they are quick to get us the information it has been good healthy diwilling as they joined us. they are and i think there is -- a lot of value in asking

questions it brings that issue and that topic just to the forefront of attention. and so when we are asking the questions you mentioned, commissioner ward, on slide 5, we give them this list before they present to yous. they know when we want to know so they can be prepared. they know they are look and can they look and present temperature creates transparency and dialogue on the topics that it is positive even if we can't enforce some of that it credits more awareness and dialogue around it. commissioner ward asked the question i was going to ask. i want to appreciate you public low for the work you have been doing. are we calling the [inaudible] c sock. okay. i really i know we appreciate the hard work and there are 4

members. 5? we have 5 currently. there are 6 spots open >> we need to update this slide. so 5 and that means there are 6 or 7 open including our student delegates can appoint. commissioners if you have not appointed yet. make that one of your priorities so we can have a full body. it is amazing what you were able to accomplish with a small group. i'm interested in more follow up on priority one. of the why. that choice is made. and follow up, you asked earlier in the presentation if there are additional yours from the list we have interested in and i would love to have more information about achievement

data by subgroup program because charters were developed to prop teaching and learn nothing a different way. if we see there are differents than when we see and things we should be concerned about at a charter or the things we should learn from as had. highway closely the charters are track when we are tracking. thank you. and yes, noted. the vacancies. >> i want to thank you when you are asking a question tell help that is a longer list. we can prioritize. we will and i want to let you than is manage we ask the achievement data and the information we have on the committee web page has a library

we have been trying to build and each time we do a spotlight or a school visit we will get hasubgroup data and compare against similar sized and location schools and similar schools to cam pair that to the points you just made. >> i had a comment. thank you be for the work especially priority b. switch selpa and digging around responses that arc lined with our [inaudible] and the concerns there with the selpa. i think moreover as we no one on county, county versus our school unified school district, that will be anning important

y at had time i like to have item number one under proposals for action. resolution of san francisco board of education 2231sp1

recognizing juneteenth and declaring june 19th 2022. john 19th as a local holiday. superintendent matthews.

at this time we'll hear comment on independence day, please raise your hand if you care to

speak to this item. rianda? good evening, matthew, deputy supervisor and everybody else in attendance and virtual tonight. i am a member of african-american advisory council and we are at one charges full support of recognizing june teenth as a national holiday.

good aong, i am tony heinz and i am extremely proud of you all for making this a state holiday because you're not shying away in critical race theory and some of the other stuff going on throughout the nation. thank you san francisco board of education for being a partner and have a good day, appreciate you. >> thank you. mitchel. >> speaker: yes, thank you. this is michelle and i want to echo my support and the pack support for the observation for the juneteenth holiday and to

talk openly and educate our students and children about the importance of the holiday. thank you so much. >> thank you, that concludes public comment for this item. >> thank you, i like to open up for colleagues, any comments? for superintendent? >> speaker: so i have a procedural question, i thought we approved juneteent when we approved the calendar and it's also a national holiday. i guess i'm unclear how we bring holidays and it bo seem to me that this board would differ to the federal state and sitting county when a holiday has been, so i'm not sure, why this is before us for a second time. >> commissioner the first time

it appeared as a notation but that was not asking you to approve juneteenth as a national holiday so that families would know and staff would know that that was pending board approval through this resolution. juneteenth is one of those holidays that president biden created that does not mandate that we as a state entity observe it. so it's at the discretion of the board to and unless governor newsom to create an official holiday. >> thank you. i would like to have roll call and do note that our student delegates are joining us.

>> sorry what was that? thank you, yes, of course. student delegate. >> yes. >> student delegate? commissioner. >> yes. >> commissioner willis? >> yes. >> commissioner shu. >> yes. >> commissioner etabani. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> commissioner wiseerward. >> yes. >> president. >> yes. >> 7 ayes. >> thank you, now going to item

number 2 under h, public hearing the material revision to the city arts and technology high school charter. i now open the public hearing to the material revision 2 the city arts and technology high school khafrter, i would like to call upon superintendent matthews to introduce a designee . >> thank you, president man, presenting will be director and planning chris. >> good evening again, commissioners. i'm director of planning and charter school liason. i'm presenting tonight for the arts and tech high school. i'm also joined by ms. gea trun for vision education, ms. trung was unable to appear in-person

as she's quarantine for covid. with your permission, rather than read each slide in detail, i will instead provide a high level of the process, analysis and the recommendations to the board and then hopefully we can use the available time to address specific questions or concerns that you may have. slide 2, please. the vision is to allow high school leadership to operate a single campus rather than a two campusing beginning in the 2022-23 school year. the material revisions are governored by california code which require staff to review them under 5 specific criteria.

waoez include educational program and governorance and fiscal impact on the district. the stack review of each are detailed within the report, and in the slide deck. it is staff's opinion that this material revision does meet all five of these criteria. it does not change the governorance nor its instructional program if the community desired this revision and to be operating in a single campus. the campus will be crowded in 2022-23 but the school has taken multiple steps to help mitigate this including apply a maximum classroom use. finally a fiscal impact with the loss of 130,000 in rent. but the district will regain the use of the property providing the district with additional space and flexibility in their facility

use. slide 9 please. so in summary it's the staff's conclusion the arts and technology meets the criteria setforth in the education road. it's our recommendation that the board approve this and allow the school to single dwin beginning in the 22-23 school year. >> thank you. and for clarification, are we having a presentation tonight by the petitions? >> no, open for questions. >> as you recall, you did the presentation at first. >> thank you. i don't see any in-person public comment, do i see any

online virtual? speakers? not seeing any at this time. >> thank you, i would like to ask for a motion and a second please. >> so moved. >> second. any comments from board or superintendent? seeing none, roll call please. >> student delegate lamb. >> yes. >> student delegate lian. >> yes. i'm so sorry, i don't know why i could not unmute on the last item but yeah. >> okay, thank you. >> commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner bogus. >> yes. >> commissioner should you. >> yes. >> commissioner de.

>> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> commissioner ward. >> yes. >> president. >> yes. >> 7 ayes. >> thank you, we will now go into item number 3 board policy 5127 graduation ceremonies and activity, i would like to ask for a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> dr. matthews would like to call upon to introduce a designee . >> general council daniel. >> tonight, we're asking that you approve board 5127 graduation ceremonies and activities. >> and public comment, we have one in-person public comment, chris clouds.

>> hi for my review of this i think it's an awesome idea to participate in graduation. it's something that i know that some colleges have done for a while. and i think it would be really awesome for respect who struggled recently. and i would like to ask a graduation question why high schools are required when our communities prefer to do at washington, where all staff members to attend to support the students that we have been supporting for the last four years. especially through a pandemic. we cannot go because it's on a school day just about. anyway, thanks. >> there is no--sorry, there is a one comment. go ahead. >> speaker: thank you.

this is michelle, i would also just echo what chris just shared. i think this is a fantastic idea. and i also echo the ability of sites to hold their graduation ceremonies as they've done on their campuses for the reasons that you just heard. thank you. >> thank you. >> that concludes public comment for this item. >> thank you. >> open up for discussion and i know that student delegate lam had comments. >> thank you, president, yes i want today echo what was said during public comment. and i apologize, i cannot turn my video on for whatever reason, tech is not working with me today. but i think this is a great idea to include students especially given, i think how arduous the last couple of years have been but also

knowing how tough high school is. if we know that students are going to be able to xlaoelt their credit or at least have a plan to complete graduation, i think they should be able to walk the stage. and i think this is a great step as many people have brought up, i also wanted lift up that piece relate today graduation ceremonies and then, i've had a lot of students from washington in particular come up to me and ask why they're not holding their graduation on their field like they used and i understand that all of these things are in place at the moment. but would i like to make sure that we keep that in mind moving forward that we, honor traditions that certain schools have had in holding graduation and at their sites so that the community can participate. but again i'm super in favor of this hol see. --policy. >> thank you, student delegate and commissioner sanchez.

>> so that issue where high schools can or cannot have ceremonies that does not pertain to this resolution but it will be wise for staff to have out reach decide about this issue. >> thank you. vice president. >> i was wondering if staff can talk if there would be and still graduation ceremonies for students who graduate in the summer separate from their class and kind of how that will be handle. will it essentially you would graduate with your class and go to a summer program and there would not be a connection to that? >> that would be great because you've already been through a sermon. >> all right, thank you. ro call vote please, start withing student gel dates. >> thank you president lam.

student delegate lam. >> yes. >> yes. >> alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner bogus. >> yes. >> commissioner should you. >> yes. >> commissioner metobani. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> commissioner wiserward. >> yes. >> president lam. >> yes. >> 7 ayes. >> thank you, i do want to have one adjustment because it's the clock, i'm going to move up item j for introduction of proposal to committee instead of i, so we will item i after the special order of business after introduction and proposals and assignment to committee. so at this time for item 225 observant in the academic and instructional calendars

sponsored authorized by commissioner alexander. i would like to allow 5 minutes of public comment generally again for colleagues we do not have extensive discussion among board members and would like to open it up for public comment at this time. i want to acknowledge that there are five speakers so we should be within that one-minute time. so tima, a lita fisher, wasim, and sharif takut. i also noticed that there are four public speakers. i encourage if you spoken earlier this evening to yield

your time to speakers who have not spoken this evening that are virtual as well. my name is he lita fisher on i save my time and approve. >> thank you. >> good evening, members of the board, and superintendent matthew my name is sharif with the organizing center. thank you so much for adding this item to the agenda, it's been long overdue as we named time and time again it's been important for our families recognize. as we've been saying for the last few months what we were afraid last week we were able to celebrate with our families and we had a beautiful event. we were also able to uplift the mothers and realize that ap testing as well as california standardized testing was happening last week and because eat was not named on the

students now it's up to the teach sxerz families to go make up the test. this is more than just an he quit ability issue this is just making sure that we have access especially for our families who are coming from occupied or war torn countries and really are struggling with basic things with being listed as white. so sf unified has had a legacy of programs. we want to continue this program of uplifting our communities, thank you very much. >> thank you members of the school board. i'm a case manager with the air resource and organizing center. you know, i'm here today, i support all of the teachers and educators who have been advocating for, you know, educational justice today. one important piece we feel is the recognition of, those on

the calendar as soon as possible. as sha rif said, we have this beautiful community event. people kept coming up to us, they know that and asking us when it's going to be recognized. it's something our communities have been asking for a long time, years even and now you guys have an opportunity to make it make our communities whole and recognize our holidays, it means a lot to you are people and thanks a lot to the consideration. we look forward to the next meeting. >> hello, hi my name is behind a, thank you for having us on the agenda today. as i mentioned today as i'm also an alumni of sf u.s. d and we talked about the event that we had the other day. which was really excited and some people were like oh like new york, like and it was

really sweet, it had a lot of excitement and a lot of people were talking about how they were like, their kids have to take notes to school something that i experienced and just like the simplicity of it, also they love the representation of it and some people knew the resolution. and some people were like wow that's cool. so really excited to see where this goes and echoing what has been said earlier. and thank you for moving us up on the agenda as well. thank you. >> speaking not for myself but for educators who could not stay this late. a lot of my folks at my site support celebrating elid but for those who celebrate ramada and celebrate eed, we have holidays around other religious holidays. we should celebrate this as well.

thank you. >> we'll be taking virtual public comment at this time. >> because we're limiting to 5 minutes because it's introduction to committee i want speakers who have not not spoken tonight. >> can we have repeated in spanish and chinese. [speaking spanish] [speaking chinese] >> thank you, key key. >> yes. >> good evening, can you hear me.

>> yes, we can hear you. >> speaker: thank you. my name is kiki and for the past 11 years, i have been the program manager for the mother program. i have worked extensively with this community and with these people who i hold very dear to my heart through their many issues of you know, adjusting to light. on this particular issue however, i must disagree. i do not support this resolution, it was consent it will be drafted. it's not even been thought through. the way the resolution has been drafted is mixing apples and oranges and completing recognized holidays with religious holidays. and aid is a truly religious holiday.

and contrary to what a previous holiday, we do not celebrate other religious holidays. they are many other religious problem wz this. >> thank you. >> i really disagree with this resolution. thank you. >> thank you. >> president known to five minutes. >> we have three speakers to let's extend three minutes. >> apologies if i'm not pronouncing this correctly, shadiki. >> we can hear you. >> speaker: i'm on organized and activist and student from the commission district here in san francisco. today i stand in solidarity with the organizing center who you just listened to.

to support the recognition official holidays at sfusd. community members like mine are looking for a specific assurance that their belongings matters to the city contribution and others who need somebody and that somebody will stand beside them and i'm committed to my believe that in recognition of our community members in the public arena that their story is a part of a larger story in san francisco especially at a time that has had loss on millions. communities could not only see themselves buffering and receive or worse the lives that they're too insufficient to be recognized unless they come to believe themselves. this will and future and to

give our community to a sense to what they say no to and what to affirm and respect, the respect for prison hood that builds their core, teaches them to trust life and determination. thank you. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you. and lara kisuani. lara? >> hi, everybody this is lara executive treker of a ra and organizing center. i just want to echo support for this resolution. i'm so glad it's on the agenda and i do hope that we don't stall it any further. that we don't allow anybody who races reddick as we just heard from the other speaker that i would call the--i do hope that

we air the voices of muslims and others. and hope that it's a easy and smooth process and i do hope that our community can celebrate with you, thank you so much. >> thank you. that concludes public comment for this item. >> i see one more. julie? >> hi, my name is julie robert wong i'm speaking in support of the resolution i'm glad to see that it has been introduced tonight. i also got to participate in the ead and mother's day event and my favorite part was talking to you leading in this effort by starting a petition to separate ead's and also to the way that the students who testified here who are so empowered and so proud so

fulfilled that they're able to do something for their community. i also want to speak against the idea that this is celebrating recognizing ead holiday is different than organizing our entire calendar around christmas and other religious holidays. i'm fully in support of the resolution and i hope that the board will vote in support in a couple of weeks. thank you. >> thank you. >> that now concludes public comment for this item. >> thank you if i don't hear otherwise, i will refer to the rules committee. we are now going back to our agenda i special order of business, item 1225s01 resolution approving the form and authorizing the execution with a revised president value for not to exceed 145 million

dollars of general obligation refunding bond. >> i'm sorry, president did we move the last item? >> i'll move it. >> second. >> thank you. >> thank you. i also like to ask a motion and second on this special item of business. >> moved. >> second. >> dr. matthew would you like to read the recommendation into the record. >> thank you president lam, a read will be chief financial officer meghan. >> thank you and good evening. this evening, spaf is requesting the board to adopt the resolution approving and authorizing execution and delivery of a bond purchase

agreement with the value saving for the san francisco unified school district obligation refunding bonds. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> colleagues, actually let me go to public comment first. do i see any public comment? seeing none, any online? >> there is no virtual public comment at this time. >> okay, comments from board members? >> commissioner should you. >> i remember correctly this particular refunding was tied to the sales of the series c of the 2016 bond? and i don't see that one here. what is the relationship? >> yes, so commissioner i was

just here in april requesting board approval of an updated preliminary official statement. this is tied to the same refunding bond just now that we're getting closer for getting out to the market for this refunding effort, our, our team is looking at current interest rates anticipating that we will not achieve the same savings that we had hoped. so the primary intent of this item is to give a lower threshold for us of savings for us to move forward. it had previously stated 8% now we're lowering it to 3% which is the board's hol see. we do hope to have more savings than that. so this is the same refunding bond that i had previously brought forward to the board. >> so is it tied to the series c?

the 284 million dollars sales? >> no, so the 284 million is actually our new money bond. and this is for prior issuance where we're going back to the market, we're basically, we're seeking a lower interest rate on prior bond issuances. >> so it's not tied to that that's a separate matter that has gone ahead. >> we're preparing to move forward with the new money bond and refunding bond this week. we're starting with the prepricing, we'll move forward with pricing this week. so we're, we're trying to make sure that we're successful when we go to the market. with this adjustment of lowering the saving threshold. >> so the only reason this is here now is there is more policy that we have to approve

when the threshold is lowered by x amount? >> yes, the board had previously authorized us to move forward with refunding with a minimum of 8%. however, because of the changing market really it's a global issue that we're not anticipating as much saving. so we're lowering that threshold so that we can make sure that we're meeting that requirement. we were uncertain that we would be able to achieve 8% saving. so this is really just an effort to have more flexibility when we go forward with the refunding. >> so why i'm curious and again i'm relatively new with this, it's not my background, i'm an educator here. but i'm curious why we ask the board to approve 8% previously?

is it not resident of 3% which is the board policy? >> i think it was simply that we were more optimistic when we first brought this forward to the board in october. we ended up moving with the new money sale and with the refunding for various reasons. but now with changes in the market and previously it had been a forward refunding which meant that we were going out earlier, you know, before we were it was sort of forecasting, the timing of the refunding, locking in a lower price before we could officially do the refunding. now we're within that official window of the standard refunding. so those are the two things that really change the timing. it's no longer forward advance refunding and the market is changed and we're, we're less

optimistic about that saving. still hoping for perhaps around 5% but we figured that it could be best to tie it to the board policy just to make sure that we have that flexibility. >> okay. seeing no additional comments. roll call vote please. >> student delegate lam. >> yes. >> student delegate liam. >> yes. >> commissioner alexander son. >> yes. >> vice president bogus. >> yes. >> commissioner should you. >> yes. >> commissioner. >> jess. --yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> commissioner ward. >> yes. >> president lam. >> yes. thank you. i want to recognize that our student delegates and excuse them for the rest of the evening.

>> president lam there was a mistake in the referral to what they need to go to, they actually need to go -- ~>> sure our recommendation president lam is that it it go for the could rick lum and also budget. >> so it stands corrected it's being advanced tolt two committees. >> thank you. student delegates would you like to say any parting words for this evening? >> have a good night, everyone. and yeah, i'm going to mute now. >> yeah, i was going to say the same thing. good luck and yeah have a good rest of your night. >> good night. >> they are tired. they have been working hard in their exams as they both are graduating seniors and have

been just a few more weeks before they graduate with us. so at this time i would like to move to our second item, 225sr2 external audit reports for prop a. 2003, 2006, 2007, and 2011 for fiscal 17 and 18, i would like to ask for a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> i would like to call commissioner for designee . >> our designee will be our chief officer dawn. >> commissioners we're here tonight to recommend that the

board of education approve the external audit of 20003 2006, 2007 and for 2011, as prepared by company. i also wanted ask the commissioner if we're calling both items simultaneously since they're the same presentation and i'll read the second recommendation into the okay, we will combine them for proposition a i o would like to ask for a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you commissioners we

would ask that you accept and approve the external audit proposition a audit reports for fiscal year 2018-19 as prepared by bailey. commissioners we're going to do a very brief presentation this evening to talk about these two particular audits. i'm joined by nathan who represents our auditor bailey and i'll provide a quick overview and turn it over to him to walk through the high level content of the audit. the headlines here that we are required by law to conduct general audit of our bond program not only a financial audit but also a performance audit. we're also required to have a standing fee lock in good order and we have reconstituted this

summer they met and spent a lot of time working and discussing these audits and asking a lot of great questions recommending that the board accept both of these audits. as you're aware, we're still reviewing the fiscal year 2020 audit and the fy2021 audit is still in preparation. i think overall headline that i would like to emphasize there are no material audit findings around our bond program. while there are best practice recommendations which we again accept and embrace as something to work on the next year, fundamentally there are, you know, no materials findings with respect or i should say with respect to our bond program. and so with that, i will turn

it over to mr. edelman. >> all right, thank you. again my nathan i'm the independent external auditor for the next slide please. my turn i'll keep it brief. the scope of the audit, i look at myself as the messenger. we ask questions, we look at the documents and we form these reports to report back and it's, it's folks within the district. it's management and really responsible for implementing the board program for rules and regulations and they get credit or blame, i guess if you have a good or bad audit. next slide please.

so, you have actually in this packet, you have a lot of audits. actually covering two fiscal years, financial statement as well as these performance audits, one for each of the years. these have been discussed with the much more detail, you're going to receive the high level executive summary. really the scope of the audit each of the bond programs has a balance income statement almost like it's own separate entity, the audit is comply with the accounting standards the performance audit probably a little more interesting, especially to the cbok and that is expenditures with the allowable uses do they compare

to proposition 39. the primary objective, and this is something that is set by the state of california this education audit appeals panel list out these specific scope requirements which is to ensure that expenditures are listed projects on each of the authorization and ensure that they're capitol instruction project and then salaries that need to be consistent with this general opinion which says that you can charge salaries to the bond program as long as there is a direct nexus, folks who are working directly in support of bond activities. next slide please. and, the conclusions high level conclusions but one expenditure align with the voter listing, which really means that there were no deviations,