>> >> evening, the regular board -- good evening, the regular board of education for august 23, 2022, is now called to toward. roll call. >> thank you, pre-lam. >> delegate anson. >> commissioner alexander? >> here. >> vice-president boggess? >> here. >> commissioner hsu? >> here. >> commissioner motamedi? >> here. >> commissioner sanchez? >> here. >> commissioner weissman-ward? >> here. >> president lam? >> here. >> thank you. >> at this time before the board goes into closed session, i call for speakers for closed session item listed in the agenda. they'll be a total of five minutes for speakers. are there any speakers for public comment? >> seeing none in person. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to the closed session items. we'll have a total of five minutes and each speaker will have oneinute to speak. i'm seeing no hands

raised for virtual public comment. >> thank you so much. at this time, we'll go into closed session. [closed session] >> attendees who wish to provide public comment to the board and like an asl interpreter can use the q&a to type the handle and list the items they would like to comment on. the attendee needs a functioning camera to communicate with the board. the zoom host will promote the attendee to panelists and enable the attendee's video. translation, go ahead, please.

>> interpreter: thank you. this is spanish and cantonese. this will be in spanish and cantonese. [speaking foreign language] >> cantonese interpreter, please. [speaking foreign language]

thank you.? thank you. president lam, that concludes our translation services. >> thank you so much.

>> thanks for your patience. i would like to reconvene to open session and report from the closed session. in five matters of anticipated litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel in the matter of student ll verses sfusd0h8 case number 2022050468. the board by a vote of 7 ayes gave direction to the general counsel in the matter of student am verses sfusd case number 2022051023, the board by a vote of 7 ayes voted a settlement and release agreement up to stipulated amount. in the matter of student et verses sfusd08h case number 20226137, the board by a vote of 7 ayes approved a settlement and release agreement up to the

stipulated amount. in the matter of student -- in the matter of harden verses sfusd, sf superior court cgd2584301, the board by a vote of 7 ayes approved a settlement and release agreement up to the stipulated amount. and thank you for joining us this evening for tuesday, august 23rd regular meeting. we are now back into open session. i will begin tonight with the land acknowledgement. we, the san francisco board of education, we recognize that the ramaytush ohlone understand the interconnectedness of all things and have maintained harmony with

nature for millennia. we honor the ramaytush ohlone peoples for their enduring commitment to mother earth. as the indigenous protectors of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. and as guests we realize we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. as uninvited guests, we affirm their sovereign rights as first peoples and wish to pay our respects to the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush community. we recognize to respectfully honor ramaytush peoples we must embrace and collaborate meaningfully to record indigenous knowledge in how we care for san francisco and all its people. >> i want to note i'll be moving item no. g, i'm sorry, item no. i, special order of business. after public comment as sfusd

students. at this time we have our superintendent report. dr. way. >> thank you, president lam. good evening, everyone. last week marks the first day of school in san francisco unified school district. let's give a big woo-hoo for welcoming back our students and families. [applause] it was a very exciting start to the school year. i think we have pictures coming up and i had the privilege of being at willy brown and participating in the red carpet treatment the students got to welcome them back to school and it was so fun to see the kids, middle schoolers, and you saw some kids going up the red carpet and others not as enthusiastic but i think everybody was glad to be there and what felt so nice about coming back, we're not in pre-pandemic times but it's very different than a year ago when we started because a year ago

there was so much more uncertainty and concern about what would happen and while the pandemic is still here and we're deal with covid-19, we have a lot more tools and knowledge on how to manage it so there's greater sense of -- it's a sense of confidence of the students of coming back and staff was welcoming and we worked really hard to ensure that our students had classroom teachers in front of them when they joined. we worked hard recruiting, new teachers and appreciate those teachers who ended up moving some special assignment to support our classrooms and we're working hard to fill the classroom vacancies but the students have teachers which is important. great first day all around and i just want to emphasize that point about our efforts to recruit and retain teachers and educator and staff and how we know that's a

priority. at the last board meeting, we presented our 45-day budget revise and showed revision, it showed a revision of the funding that the district is receiving and fortunately the state stepped up and providing additional funding and what we recognize is we need to make sure that we're prioritizing our investment in, you know, compensation for staff to recruit and retain. we'll be working with our labor partners quickly tonight. we have the sunshine, the opening of that process and it's a priority for us because our most important job is make sure we have classrooms and educator in the room with our kids, so so they're safe and learn and pleased to see that happening on the first day and i want you to know our commitment as a district to make sure that happens each and everyday in san francisco unified so with that, i'm excited to hear from our student delegates about their

start to the school year and so, i'll end my comments there. >> thank you, dr. wayne. so yes, calling upon our student delegates for their report. >> hello everyone. we would like to begin our announcements by welcoming students back to school. and speaking foreign language and saying we hope everyone had an amazing week for the 22-23 school year. >> we're excited to start the advisory council meeting next week. it's open to the public and happens from 6 to 8:00 at every other monday 55 franklin. you should expect an e-mail with results by tonight. >> there are still open spots for represent richs and alternatives from the following schools. balboa, burton high school, mission high school and wall on bird high school, june jordan high school, academy high school, san francisco international high school, independence high school, downtown high school, and john o'connell high school. we're accepting students on a rolling

basis and students can apply at tiny url dot caulk slash sc -- applysac22. and lastly, we recommend all high school students read the student newsletter that was september out last week -- sent out last week to be up-to-date with things happening with the school district next month. >> thank you to our student cal get. cansoha and hanson and to compliment what dr. wayne opened up with opening remarks, i had the joy of being at willy brown middle school and be surrounded by our students and welcoming our families and educator and staff and just really acknowledging and recognizing just how much our educator, administers and staff, what last year was and the opportunity and hopes and joy for this upcoming year so i just wanted to again,

recognize and acknowledge our educator and staff and administrators for doing all that work everyday, all day. so with that we'll have our, recognizing all valuable employees, our rave awards night and i would like to call on dr. wayne to introduce the rave winner. >> thank you, this is my first opportunity to bring forward a rave recognition of award and i really appreciate that the board of education takes time to do because it's so important. we have so many hard-working staff and to take opportunities to lift up their efforts. i know it means a lot to them and it communicates how much we value the hard work that people are doing and so tonight, we have a special service award that will be presented by dave who is our desktop support manager and the award presented to anthony quan who is a support technician in

the department of technology, so is dave -- they're on zoom, great. we'll turn it over to dave. >> hi, thanks very much. i'm really pleased to be here and introducing anthony quan and he's a graduate of san francisco unified school districts. he went to mack tear high school. and has been a permanent member of our staff since 2009. anthony originally started out helping and supporting all the schools that we have in the north beach and china town area and did a great job at that. he currently is supporting the staff at 555 franklin street and 601 mackal

macalister and 135 van ness. that can be a daunting task for one person but anthony does a great job. he is an exemplary support technician in that he is incredibly personable and very knowledgeable and he has the ability to really be able to connect with those he's trying to support. i'm sure if you were to walk around 555 franklin or 135 van ness and drop in on the educational placement department or hr or the finance team, they would all say he's really a great and supportive technician to have. so, with that, i'd like to just say, congratulations anthony and thank you very much. we're so grateful you're on our team.

[applause] >> anthony, do you want to say a few words. >> yes, thank you so much for the award and thank you so much for the support for all these years. and that's all i have to say, thank you. [laughter] [applause] >> thank you, anthony. we appreciate you. we will now go into public comment, protocol for public comment, we have allotted 60 moneys for public comment -- 60 minutes for public comment. i see we have many in person public commenters who also have turned in their speaker cards. i encourage speakers who are speaking on the same topic to collaborate and combine their comments so we can hear all viewpoints due to our

limited time much please note the board accepts public comments via e-mail to board office at sfusd dot edu. at this time, speaker card for public comment on non-agenda items must be submitted and public comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the board's jurisdictions. 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 policy. california rules and board laws doesn't allow us to answer questions during the public comment time. the superintendent will ask commenters to follow up with speakers -- the superintendent will ask the board to follow up with

speakers. >> as president lam ming mentioned, i'm going to call up five people. i have david koeh, i think. jackson winnington. caylee yoshi. dante popaliski and aaron marisa bullock. apologies. >> awesome, thank you very much. i have done this before. my name is david koeh and in may, i acknowledged and commemorated my seventh year teaching in the school district. i was 17 years old when i wage graded from sfusd public schools. in yet another parallel -- 7% is how much inflation we have seen in

the three years since teachers saw an increase to mr. compensation in 2019, 2022 spans, they span 18 to 15% but within that wheelhouse. 17% is also according to sylvia on her august 16th economic policy institute analysis, 17.6% precisely is the, what they call the teacher paid penalty. in the state of california the average college graduate earns 17.6% more than the average classroom teacher. this 17% irony is not lost on me and i hope it's not lost on you. please pay us correctly. [applause] >> good evening. i'm also an sfusd graduate and current sfusd teacher at mlk middle school and my wife is an sfusd graduate and teacher at aptus middle school.

we hope we can afford to stay in the city we grew up in and send our children to sfusd schools also. but that seems increasingly unlikely. we love our students, how communities and the work we do -- and our communities and the work we do, but it's frustrating that we deal with low salaries that's not in keeping with the cost-of-living in san francisco. and not sufficient considering the high stress and long hours that we put in. currently at mlk, we're short staffed with classes and duties being cover by a patch work of tsa and subs and teachers like myself on our prep and i talk to colleagues everyday who are thinking about going to school, moving to other districts or leaving education all together. not because they don't love their jobs but because our situation is so unsustainable. please raise our salaries so we can continue to do the work we love. >> thank you. [applause]

>> go ahead. >> good evening, my name is king, and i'm a teacher in sfusd, i moved here later in life, my husband is an sfusd graduate and his parents are and his grant parents are sfuds graduates and we would like to stay in the city. i love my job to brag a little bit. in the first week of school in the hallway, i saw one of must previous students and she was excited and told me her younger sister in my class and her mom was excited i was her teacher because she had a good experience with her older teacher. these are the relationships i want to build as a teacher hoefr, however, according to the urban department housing, low-income, not low-income, very low-income and sf is considered $65,250 and as a teacher during the first three years, you're considered

very low-income and you barely scratch above that very low-income threshold and subsequent years, please raise our salaries, thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> hi, my name is dante, i'm a math teacher in the boys soccer coach at washington high school. according to sf.gov, the abovity line is 8 it thousand that ares -- owe it's $66,678 a year for a teacher. with a ba and 60 credits, it takes eight years of service to pass that poverty line. without earning the 60 credits you have to pay for, educator will never cross that poverty line. this is a professional degree. we have to -- or professional career we have to earn a degree to get so if you're wondering why there's a teacher shortage in san

francisco, you have to do the math. if sfusd is serious about recruiting ask training quality educator, the first step is an immediate raise to a san francisco living wage and that starts at $82,800. >> thank you. [applause] >> good evening, me name is erin. this is my 18th year as an educator, i'm a social worker at hillcrest elementary. i'm also from san francisco and i graduated and a parent of a san francisco graduate. i'm here because we love our families ask our students -- and students and calling you on you to commit to the following steps, raises are critical for educator and school staff to staff our school and meet the needs of our students much please, we need in power to work for us. hire more

substitutes and increase pay and benefits and increase the parent educator and proposition a substitute pay immediately and we're fighting for the schools that our students deserve, thank you. [applause] >> thank you. next line of speakers, chris klaus. ron ellis or leon ellis or ken ellis. alex and lindsay and michelle cody, maybe. all right. >> oh, boy. [laughter] >> hi. i'm chris, a sped teacher at washington high school. you're going to hear from many people tonight about the need for raises for all educator, you'll hear from me about it later. the other thing we need

is an actual immediate installation to the empower pay crisis. my pay issues have been minor in comparison to my colleagues and one that his issues with her paycheck since april and she hasn't paid for rent, bills, tuition, therapy, medication and other necessities. she had to borrow money to pay for everything. this impacted her mental health and there's days where she struggles to get out of bed and let alone come to the job she loves and her issues keep being pushed back and it feels like it's not a priority to anyone but her. no one has been able to do anything about it and she continued to be told to wait or to take out a loan. and she's not the only one. we started this year with more than one hundred teacher vacancies, keep school staffed. (indiscernible) and pay us more. >> thank you. [applause]

sorry. hi, my name is kim and i'm a spanish teacher at georgia washington high school. i'll here to call attention to the salary discrepancy. for four years, i had those who i collaborated with and problem solved and finding better ways to serve our students and watched them -- for some of the kids it was their first time traveling outside the u.s. and i couldn't have done it without her. she's a dedicated worker and loved her job at wash and she's no longer my colleague because she was able to get a $10,000 bump in her salary. she works $98,000 and if she was still with sfusd, she would be at $63,000 and that's a discrepancy. without competitive salaries, i'll lose valuable working partners and the district will not find and retain educator. you will be scrambling to fill positions every year as you did at the start of the school year. avoid

teacher vacancies and turn overs by paying a competitive salary, thank you. >> thank you. [applause] my name is alex, i'm a special education para professional at francisco middle school and i'm told prior to the beginning of this school year, there were a 175 para professional vacancy in this district. it is no mystery why there's so many para professional vacancies and we're not paid enough. if teacher was making poverty wages, imagine what it's like to live in this area on the income of a parent professional. it's a difficult life. but i'm not here to talk about what it is like for us. what does it mean for the students at our schools to have so many adults being missing. it means our classrooms, they are not safe. i, myself, had three head traumas last year working in a classrooms of francisco middle school. our students (indiscernible), it disrupted their learning and it's not the

school -- the school they deserve and i just want to say to everybody here, these people know what the situation is. we're not telling them anything that they don't know. we have to force them. [applause] >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> hi, my name is lindsay, i work at francisco middle school and an 8th grade english teacher and this is my 6th year in the district. and my third year in a global pandemic working in a school. they needs to be a revolution in this country to restore the value ask respect of public educator and in turn lifrt the quality of education for all students much we need to treat educator like or treat education like other industries and pay a competitive livable wage to attract quality educator. the reality is edge kalters are working 60 to 70 hour a week to give their students what they deserve and this shouldn't be on educator's

backs but that's where we find ourselves being the wealthiest city in the worlds and our unstable. it leads to burnout and attrition. educator are working over time to fill classrooms due to shortages. the future of education is at stake and the city of san francisco needs to lead the way by giving teachers the wages they respect and deserve. >> thank you. >> okay. [applause] >> i'm going to give my one minute. i hope everyone is giving all my colleagues their attention. i like people to pay attention and don't be on your e-mails and phones and give the respect that they are here on their time off to tell you how important this is. i want to focus because my mom is a para educator and she's only to live in san francisco because we own a house prior to her becoming a para educator. she does not have a living way. she does not have

-- she doesn't has what she needs as a woman of color. you wanted to invite (indiscernible) but if you look at your educator, most are older women of color and you don't (indiscernible). you know it's okay for you to sit here and say you're going to do something but you need to do what you say and to the young folks on this team, if you want those folks to come back and come to your classrooms everyday and work for you, then you need to let the adults in the room know they mean business. think about your grandmother and auntie and want to make a living wage and they can't because they have to work more than one job just to survive. do you have to work more than one job to survive? you do not, so think about that. thank you. [applause] >> next five speakers. erica,

erin young, kerry, jahari, i'm sorry. and lisa. >> good evening, i'm a parent of an sfusd student and i'm full time substitute teacher. yep! and my last paycheck in july was $637. and if it goes last last year, my next paycheck, august 30th will be under one hundreds. i'm a full-time substitute teacher. and that's my only job. i can survive here because i don't pay rent. many parents and substitute teachers like me, they max out their credit cards, they depend on charity of friends and family. we are professionals. we are

committed. raise our salary. and also, please consider doing something over summer months. there's no school and there are no summer jobs for all of us substitute teachers and para professionals and most of us don't have jobs during this time, thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello, my name is erin young and i'm a history teacher at lo high school. my site is down 22 para educator. 22! we are in violation of the american with disabilities act which i may remind you was fought for at the civic center plaza at the federal building. last february, this board approved a tentative agreement that cut my budget by 20% but we were promised a raise in exchange. don't let that be

another empty promise like your promise to fix empower back in march. our para educator need a raise. our subs need a raise. our custodians and janitors need a raise. our teachers need a raise. if you're truly prioritizing recruitment and retention, you'll give us all a substantial raise. if you're flushed with money from the state, give us a raise. [applause] >> thank you. >> [speaking spanish]

[cheers and applause] >> translation, just a moment. is translation there? okay. we'll circle back to that, go ahead. >> can i hit this button? >> no, it's on the right. >> hi, i'm a special education

teacher at visitation valley elementary school and many of my colleagues have already spoken so eloquently about the things i was going to say that we deserve a living wage as to our para educator, we should walk with passion in our hearts and a drive to support our students and give them what they deserve. and we show up and we work extra hours and our para educator work extra hours despite the fact they need more than the para educator job to survive. we're not able to sustain the life that we have in san francisco because we can't afford to live here. that is unfair and that's unjust for our students. if you're a studenter centered, you'll make sure we get the pay we deserve because people are not able to stay here. i have been a teacher in 20 years and this is my third year in san francisco and i'm not sure i can stay in san francisco if we don't is a living wage. we should have teachers and parents who live where they work so we

can be a part of the community. thank you. [applause] >> hi. i'm airy and i work at lake shore elementary and i'm the parent of an sfusd second grader. i stand with the demands and our students deserve schools in which every educator is respected with a live being wage and durable job. i do want to use the rest of my time on the topic of the resolution and live it out with courage and maintain -- despite the lawsuit. it's a cultural and religious holiday. christian students don't have to justify having their days off, the calendar is organized to accommodate them. districts and states like virginia, new york, michigan and maryland celebrate ed and so should sfusd and raise our salaries and keep the power and keep the ed holiday, thank

you for your time. >> next speakers, tiana, syleena, dominic and i'm not sure the last name. dominic, robbie -- rabbi, oh, i'm sorry. rabbi dr. sofia katherine. go ahead, apologies. >> good evening, evening. my name is tiana and i'm the new vice-president for para educator. [cheers and applause] i wanted to give you an update on the abusive relationship that we talked about last year. it's the relationship that the parents and educator have with sfusd. you tell us that you love us and that you need us. you (indiscernible) from layoffs and we thank you for that but is that enough to keep us going? no. you continue to abuse us.

many of us have not been paid what we are earned. checks stipends and benefits were impacted. and you tell us to follow the process which we have. we have put in hepaticets, plenty -- plenty of help tickets for no response to be given and parents don't know how they're going to pay their rent after they have borrowed from people. one job should be enough but before we talk about one job, let's talk about the job we do have. please pay us. [cheers and applause] >> my name is dominic lighter, i teach junior/senior english at george washington high school and it's my 6th year in schools and 10th year as a classroom teacher -- i rent out my apartment to a college student

to come back for this year. when i returned, i had five classes and i have 35 students each and i have to spend my off hours crunching numbers to make sure empower is paying me correctly. you are letting morale job to very low depth at your schools. in 16 years of schools, i have never seen it bottom out to bad, please fix this. [applause] >> hi. my name is syleena chiu. i'm a parent of two sfusd students, sorry. i'll hearing so many of you are struggling with the -- i'm hearing so many of you are struggling with paycheck and i hear you because i have been living from paycheck to paycheck and survive ongoing credit cards trying -- survive on credit cards making minimum payments so i hope sfusd can fix them because this is not the first time hearing this. please fix that. i'm here to kind of

remind other folks because there are essential workers and they have holidays from, between 7 to 10 paid holidays per year, so i want to let you know in order for more holidays, look that too. that means, just christmas alone, not christmas, winter break, we have a new name for that, winter break alone is 7 to 10 days, that means healthcare workers needs to take off time to care for their kids. >> thank you. >> there's more, thank you. >> my name is rabbi (indiscernible) katherine. let's get this party started. the first priority of a school is make sure they can read, write and count and to do that, you have to have good teachers. so why stop paying the teachers. it

is embarrassing and israel and germany and in countries such as the ska nad january countries and japan, teachers are taken well care of and treated with respect and dignity and not a pass off. the world is watching, fix it. one more thing in regard to the way the (indiscernible) goes about the process for selecting holidays, i think it's flawed and needs to get fixed and it goes against the "brown act" and the u.s. constitution. with that being said, i think we should also add (indiscernible) so the process can go a little more forward, thank you. >> thank you. next five. elaine.

>> excuse me, this is the spanish interpreter. we have some difficulties with the mic. is it possible to bring the person that spoke in spanish back so we can interpreter her comment? >> absolutely, thank you. >> is she still there? [applause] >> to the interpreters, i ask that you're going to need a little pacing to be able to interpret, not just through the one minute but break it out. >> [speaking spanish] >> hello, my name is jahara and i work as a -- to work here at the school district and i'm here

tonight. >> interpreter: public schools have been struggling with the global pandemic and racism. we haven't had enough vacancy for workers in the school district. and a lot of my colleagues have actually start working in different school districts because they just realize that they are making $25 more somewhere else than here for the same work that i do here. so

we're working and we love our children and our families. we need a proper payment now. we need to be respected and we're sick and tired of being treated this way. so, come here, come back to us with a dignifying salary. come here and bring us and give us another more. so we're fighting for the schools that our students deserve. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. suprio, are you

here? great. elaine. laurie hughes. jordan davis. and kassandra. >> hi, good evening. this is ray, speaking again. i'm speaking briefly about outdoor learning as i generally do and i wanted to just let everyone know that as far as i know and folks i have talked to, there hadn't been any word to schools about the outdoor learning bond fond applications that schools were to submit by june 7th and they were supposed to heard back by june 30th and they haven't heard back so far. i under from my recent communications, this summer with folks that there is no timeline now and it seems like a timeline should be set and there should be open transparency when schools should be notified and i wanted to take

a moment to say welcome to superintendent wayne, which i neglected to do the last time i was here. i appreciate your presence and i know everyone is frustrated with the payroll and it should have been fixed long, long ago but i want to acknowledge that you all put in a lot of time to be here. thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening, my name is jordan and pronounces are she and her. (indiscernible) demanding raises, staffing and making sure they get paid. second, i speak as a former sped student, and commissioner (indiscernible) should remain on the school board and sfus did be (indiscernible) against black students, muslim students and transgender der students. what's happening, we don't need that and you should resign and i yield my time and [bleep] you. >> hey, hey.

>> press the button one more time. >> i'm sorry. >> yes, thank you. >> hi, good evening, my name is elaine and i'm with the filipino community center and a parent to a student at long fuller elementary school in district 11. who a member and a part of the filipino (indiscernible) program. you might remember as we're here in june, we mobilize our community school in our greater community to support the filipino program because we were facing enrollment cap. we're happy to say that we have full classrooms this year. we wanted to come here and extend our gratitude to the sfusd board of

education, to the students and teachers, to everybody who came to support us. what we learned from this experience and we have never done a board of education campaign, what we have learned is when we come together, when we work together, when we organize, when we mobilize, we can make things happen. we can make progress and make people have the power, listen to us and give us what we need. we learned that we are a community who knows what we have. and so, last thing, we have a thank you card, thank you to all of you. this is our school community much we would like you to remember us, it's our ten-year anniversary for the program this year. and also solidarity to sfusd, you all should be paid. [applause] >> hello, my name is laurie hughes and i'm a grand parent of two children at long fell and i'm here with elaine to thank

you for the support to remove the cap of the filipino cap at long fellow. today there were 20 students in the first grade program and 17 students in the kindergarten class with more ge students wanting to join the kindergarten ales program. without the removal of the cap, this wouldn't have happen. this shows that families want this amazing education and that they do show up. while we appreciate the support, we also hope that the district learns to listen to individual schools voices and needs. long fellow is a gem. they have an amazing staff, wonderful students and dedicated families. please remember to include them in all decision-making processes and please pay our staff a living wage. they tee -- they deserve it, thank you. [applause] >> good evening, happy start of the school year. i'm sandra,

president of usf. i'm going to focus on public comment on something that's more abstract and the issue you're dealing with and what's going on at school site, it's about respect. what we can do immediately, it will take up and i'll speak to that on item k, we're talking about getting paid on time, making sure folks knows someone is on the case and deal with this issues. we're talking about folks who can't get answers to whether or not they have been on boarded. questions around our fellow colleagues who know that somebody wants to work at their school site and they are trying to get them through and the things are inundated and a part of the process not happening and these are crucial things and when our tsa's get sent to other sites and we have done this year over year and this isn't the first time but part of that comes with a cost. our tsa's who

we have relied on us to support us is in classrooms in front of 30 kids and that's great. no one is saying that's a bad thing but i can't get coaching and support and i can't have my lit coach and (indiscernible), we're talking about real consequences to the work that sfusd has been progressed over progress every year making headway. we have student outcomes every year and curriculum map to do that. if we don't have the resources, we can't do that. we need to think about input verses outcome. what we put into income is what we can get out of it. we are prepared professionals to do that but it comes at a cost when we have to shift gears like this and this is the overall respect and issues that we're dealing with at the school site. folks having to work on their prep sucks. it's unsustainable. last year you saw way more

resignations each month over month as folks becomes stressed out and burned out from a job that's difficult nationwide, people don't respect education and educators and that's a district of those. we come everyday to make sure we can be in front of our students giving them. we can't not move forward in the ways we have progressed in decades, in the decade i have been a teacher and moving through barriers and over challenges in order to give sfusd kids what they deserve, we can't keep going if our folks aren't here. we can't keep going if they can't rely on pay, if they can't rely to their school site community, the families they love and deserve are there, we can't keep going. if we can't pay rent, you see where i'm going with this. there's so many things interconnected and our issues cannot be solved. we're going to try and solve one

for sure, that's going to happen and that's only part of the process because we're going to be back here over and over again. we need to see and feel and we need to see and feel it happening. we need to see the commitment and ways that make actionable and substantial gains in our working conditions in our respect at school sites with each other, with each other, as well, right. this mutual relationship where we know we can rely on our employer and continue to do that in a way we show up powerful for our kiddos everyday. thank you. [applause] >> that concludes in person public comment. we have ten minutes left for virtual public comment. >> excuse me. >> at this time, we will hear public comment. >> you didn't list anything on your card. but you can go ahead. and you're not for general

public comment. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. we have one more. she did submit a card but there wasn't a topic on it. >> thank you. how to choose between process and public pressure. how to support equity for the vulnerable and inclusion for all. there's only one commissioner that strike the balance. commissioner hsu. please do not call her names just because she didn't take a vote like you. as a staff member, please pay teachers and (indiscernible) staff and pay us fairly. we have a classroom teacher shortage and please be sure to deploy to classrooms. >> that concludes in person public comment. >> at this time, we will hear public comment on non-agenda items. please raise your hand

if you care to speak. we have a total of ten minutes and each speaker will have one minute to speak, can we have that repeated in spanish and chinese. >> >> interpreter: [speaking spanish] >> victor. >> i'm an sfus parent. schools with a middle school component must start their classes at 930 tp. this is ridiculous for a kindergartner because now how we

[audio disruption] when we have jobs to be at. this is (indiscernible). >> thank you. >> sarah muskin. >> hi. thank you for listening tonight. i'm a teacher in the neighboring district and i'm a parent at san francisco unified. i think one of the big concerns for both teachers and parents is currently how we're addressing student outcomes. kids have had a really, really hard few years and (indiscernible), has said they are going to begin looking at student outcomes and looking at how to support students and i think the best thing that the

district can do at this point is to get community engagement so that teachers and families throughout the district are kind of coming together to figure out how we can best support our students so i really hope that in the future, the community is given an opportunity to engage in these conversations so that we can best figure out what to do for our students who have really been through it the last few years, thank you. >> thank you. cara jones. >> oh, yes. i want to comment about the two new holiday, ie holiday. i think the children should have the extra holidays and only one person (indiscernible). i think i'm going to respond to the other commissioners voting. also on

the social media, i saw a lot of people express they are feeling sorry because their own religion, they didn't get a holiday. last year (indiscernible) jewish holiday, so i hope you can consider the equal from the old communities and (indiscernible) the new school holidays and then yeah. maybe recognize all the religion, thank you. >> thank you. paulina >> good evening, commissioners, and community, i'm paulina. i want to say first of awe, the teacher payment issue, they did begin before some of the board members were school board members so with that being said,

the teachers do need to be (indiscernible). as in regard to the religious holiday, there are commissioners on the board that i overall do support on policy that voted to allow these two religious holidays but you think you know, there has to be a separation of church and state and as a lot of the other comments have said, we can't do this for everybody and we can't have more days off, we need instructional times and need kids to be in school so i don't see how this is sensible, the two muslim holidays. they don't make sense to me. sadly, i mean, as much as i support inclusion and diversity, just on a practical level [timer] >> thank you. sarita.

>> hello, my name is sarita and i'm a teacher at george washington high school. this is my second year at sfusd and every time someone hearsay why are you still here? get out while you still can. the longer i stay in this district, i see why. you don't pay us and you don't respect us. people are working multiple jobs, we're exhausted. people are taking out loans and unable too pay their rent. coworkers of mine are owed thousands of dollars in unpaid wages and can't get an e-mail back. this is wage theft. and in the meantime inflation adds to our contract on our payment and it's district to the sfusd employees and you urge you to make two decisions of equity in our schools, not performative equity. disregard the law school against id and this is a crucial holiday for students and it's a

crucial holiday. i call for the residential nation of bigoted ann hsu and i i have experienced it and it's antiblack and anti(indiscernible). >> thank you. [applause] >> gozar. >> hey y'all. i hope that y'all are ready to actually support our students and teachers because as the two weeks, we come here and every two weeks our teacher who work so hard and the parents who work so hard come here after work when she have tom thing to do because there's not enough hours in their school days to do it and they beg you to pay them and it's embarrassing for y'all and i look forward to see the day that the parents and teachers get paid and they need just

wages and 9 to 15% raise will get you those teachers and parents that you desperately need. these wages is cheaper than the lawsuits that are coming towards you. if you don't figure out how to pay people, as employers, that's such a basic part of your job. and also in (indiscernible) to reside and ad needs to be on our calendar. thank you. [applause] >> hava. >> yes. i'm asking, sorry, let me start over. i'm calling about the data that was recently released by sfusd, one was on attendance and another was on outcome. the data does not include, it includes white, asian, black, latinx, it does not include students with

disabilities. it does not class reference low-income families, homeless families, foster care youth, pacific islanders and i'm asking this because if we're going to put out data like this, i would like it to be more thorough, so the community and the boe and anyone who is reading it can be more informed. so, i'm respectfully ask you that when you put out data like this, that you cross-reference and include other communities. the other thing is -- can you please put virtual and in person a little bit more in half. i have a physical disability. and i'm a single parent. i just can't come over time. i'm grateful i had an opportunity to talk tonight but other times i couldn't. i'm asking and finally, unfortunately from -- snacks are not -- from what i understand, snacks are not included and parents, low-income

families, i'm speaking on behalf of low-income families -- >> i'm sorry, that's your time for today. >> finally, dorothy. >> hi. parents for public schools of san francisco stands behind our earth caters who are parents striving to live through incredibly challenging inflation and other cost of living needs. please support them so they can keep retention high in san francisco and assuring sustainability services for our schools, thank you. >> thank you. president lam that, concludes virtual public comment on non-agenda items. >> thank you. before we conclude public comment, i just want to note again, the importance of decorum both in person and in this boardroom as well as virtual. i will not stand for

swearing, dehumanizing and degrading and i certainly know as public comment that feeling the need necessary of expression of passion, of frustration and anger, but that will not be tolerated as similar to what i have said at every opening of board meetings. we want this room to reflect how we model ourselves for our students and in our classrooms. so at this time, i do want to move to being of our students and modeling in our classrooms for public comment for sfusd students so we'll hear from sfusd students who wish to speak on any matter and speakers will have up to two minutes unless indicated. we'll have 15 minutes of public

comment set aside for sfusd. >> thank you, commissioner lam. any students in the crowd who would like to speak this evening? i don't see in any person, can we check on zoom? >> if you're a student and you care to speak, please raise your hand. you'll have up to two minutes to speak. i'm not seeing any hands raised. >> thank you. so, that will conclude our sfusd public comment time. as noted earlier, we are moving a gen -- agenda, item special order i. at this time, we'll go to the attendtive agreement between international love group of local six. i would like for a motion and second

>> so moved >> second. >> dr. wing? >> we're pleased to present this agreement for your approval. in our efforts to ensure that we are compensating all of our staff, this was -- this represents negotiations that have been worked on with the international brotherhood of electrical workers to reach a tentative agreement that we're asking for your approval tonight. so, the agreement is before you. and if you have any questions, let us know. >> is there any public comment? >> none for in person. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to this tentative agreement. can we please have that repeated in spanish and

chinese. >> interpreter: [speaking spanish] >> thank you. no public comment. >> thank you. colleagues, any comments? seeing none. roll call vote, please. >> student delegate hanson? >> yes. >> student delegate canso >> yes. >> commissioner alexander? >> yes. >> vice-president boggess? >> yes. >> commissioner hsu? >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi? >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez? >> yes. >> commissioner weissman-ward? >> yes. >> commissioner lam? >> yes. >> item no. 2. tentative agreement between san francisco unified school district and the international federation of professional and technical engineer, local 21 and i would like a motion and

second. >> motion. >> second. >> dr. wing. >> similarly, we worked hard to reach an agreement with the labor partner as well. these are represent areas where much, they provide incredibly valuable service and want to make sure we're compensating our employees so we want to approve tentative agreement between sfusd and international federational of professional and technical engineers. >> any public comment? >> none for in-person. >> raise your hand if you plan to speak to the tentative agreement between international federation of professional and technical engineer. can we have that repeated in spanish. >> >> interpreter: [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. >> seeing no public comment. >> thank you. comments from

colleagues? seeing none. roll call vote, please. >> [roll call vote] >> >> 7 ayes. >> thank you. item no. 3, land disposition agreement between the regents of the university of california and the sfusd san francisco unified school district, to transfer and convey 2.2 acres of real property in fee simple, for future use by the district as the mission bay school site. and i ask for a motion and second. >> so moved. >> second. >> i like to call on dr. wayne.

>> thank you. we're excited to bring this forward. the board voted in june to approve the mission bay project and so, as part of moving forward with this project, we need to have this land disposition agreement approved and so this is a part of the process and necessary next step when moving forward so, we do have our head of facilities here, dawn, to answer any questions you have about this item. >> and i'd like to call upon public comment. >> thank you, president lam. we have three speakers on this topic. please line up when i read your name. madison tam, ben summers, and jr apler. >> hello. my name is madison tam and i'm a ridge slaytive aide for matt dorsey and i'm speaking on behalf of the supervisor who

wish he could be here to support this item. the supervisor is in support of the mission bay school. we're ascetic with the neighborhood organizations that organize around the school to see the agreement finalized and moving forward. according to the sfusd, there are more than five hundred public school students living in the mission bay community with another two hundred expected as the rest of the planned housing is completed. our city has the ambitious goal to build housing and it will come housing and children for generations to come. this isn't about enrollment for this year or next year or the year after that, but enrollment for the next 10, 20 and 30 years and the mission bay is a benefit and necessity for the emerging bay neighborhood and the city. we want to thank sfusd for this project that's on schedule. isn't that fantastic, let's not delay and move forward

so we can get that school built. >> hey, everyone. my name is ben and i have spoken once or time in this forum. president lam, you said don't stop now and keep coming back and we'll be back in october for the ground break and we're proud and enthusiastic it's on schedule so thanks to the board and staff for all their hard work, so thanks again. >> >> evening, commissioners, my name is jr and i'm president of the neighborhood association and the father of a second grader that started last week again at daniel webster where he was very well welcomed by the wonderful educator that are here tonight, do pay them because they're a part of our community and should stay a part of our community and community brings me here tonight because the existing communities of mission bay, petrel yo hill and dog patch don't have enough seats in our neighborhood and we have -- that doesn't count for the communities that are emerging and being built whether

it's in lincoln hill or continues in mission bay, whether it's in dog patch, the power station, para 730. the rebuild of potrero. we have school because the demand is there. let's have a full community and let's build the school, thank you. >> that concludes in person public comment. >> thank you. please raise your hand if you care to speak to the land disposition agreement. can we have that repeated in spanish and chinese. >> interpreter: [speaking foreign language >> thank you. seeing no public comment for this item. >> thank you. thank you to

public comment. any comment from colleagues? okay. i'll take this moment to say a big thank you to our head of facilities and team. thank you so much for this work. it has been a long time coming. i also want to thank the usf f team to transfer ha good and affairs team. there have been extensive discussion that happened over the years but we are here today and i am so excited and so thrilled to have the mission bay school and all the things that the school including our link learned opportunities and professional development, space for our educator and staff. it's going to be on its way to being that

vision, so again, thank you to the team here as well as to the usf and what we're voting on, just in a few seconds for that transfer of that land. okay. seeing no other comments. we will do the roll call vote, please. >> thank you, president lam. [roll call vote] >> 7 ayes. >> thank you. and i would be remised if i didn't name our city partners that's instrumental in being part of this agreement and the transfer so i want to acknowledge our city partners as well and the mayor's office of housing and so many other agencies.

real-estate, yes, thank you. they were engaged. at this time, we will go to our next item, which is a vote on employment contracts for unrepresented executive employees - head of technology and special project and i'd like to ask for a motion and second. >> so moved. >> seconds. >> so i like to call on dr. wayne. >> thank you. when -- contract for unrepresented executive employees, they are require to be brought back to the board for action item and i'll turn it

over to legal counsel danielle to read the information to the public and to the board. >> president lam, would you like me to do that or do you want to take over? >> i'll go ahead, thank you. i move to ratify the contract for the head of technology with a salary set at-grade m28, step 7 for a term commencing on july 1, 2022, and terminating on june 30, 2023. unless terminated earlier, pursuant to the previsions of this agreement. how did i do, general counsel? >> perfect! >> i would like to open it up for public comment. >> thank you, president lam. no card for in person comment. >> please raise your hand if you wish to speak to this agreement. can we have that repeated in chinese and spanish.

>> interpreter: [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. seeing no public comment at this time. >> thank you. roll call vote or discussion. roll call vote. >> we'll do discussion and first we need a second and we can do the vote. >> we did get a second? >> i'm sorry, i missed that. who was it? >> commissioner sanchez. >> thank you. >> any questions, comments. seeing none, roll call vote, please. >> thank you. [roll call vote] >> 7 ayes.

>> thank you. item no. 5. tentative agreement to the collective bargaining agreement between san francisco unified school district and the international union of operating engineers, stationary engineers local 39. i like to ask for a motion and second. >> so moved. >> second. >> dr. wayne. >> thank you, once again, bringing another tentative agreement with our labor partners and i want to appreciate for all three we brought forward tonight, the time spent with our labor partners making sure we're getting an agreement that works for them and supports our district, goals and vision. and i want to thank our acting head of labor and negotiations, daniel for her effort as well the labor and hr teams that were working with him to reach the agreements, so with that, presenting to you this tentative agreement for ratification between sfusd and the international union of operating

engineer, station engineer, local 39. >> thank you, any public comment? >> no one present for public comment. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to the agreement. can we have that repeated in spanish and chinese. >> interpreter: [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. seeing no public comment for this item. >> thank you. roll call vote, please. >> thank you. [roll call vote] 7

ayes. >> thank you. we will now move to, back to agenda item, consent calendar, board members may remove or sever items prior to vote. any items at this -- actually, can i have a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> members of the public may provide public comment on any matter on the consent calendar, but members of the public shouldn't sever agenda items for discussion. at this time, i'll take public comment. >> thank you. we do not have speaker cards for in person. >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to this item. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese.

>> interpreter: [speaking foreign language] >> seeing no public comment for this item. >> thank you. at this time, any items for, which were corrected by the superintendent? >> no items. >> any items removed for first reading by the board? any items severed by the board or for discussion tonight? seeing none. roll call on the consent calendar. >> [roll call vote]

>> 7 ayes. >> thank you. and agenda item g, retroactive contracts constraint calendar. i would like a motion and second. >> motion. >> second. >> public comment. >> none for in person >> please raise your hand if you care to speak to the retroactive contracts. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese? >> interpreter: [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. seeing no public comment for this item. >> thank you. any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent?

>> no items withdrawn or corrected. >> any items removed for first reading by the board? seeing none. any item severed by the board or superintendent for discussion or vote tonight? seeing none. roll call on retroactive contracts from the consent calendar, please. >> thank you, president lam. [roll call vote] 7 ayes. >> going to item j, board members reports. report from standing committees, none tonight. report from board delegates, two membership organizations. seeing none

tonight. all other reports by board members. i do want to note that we have appointments from board members and i don't know if this is an okay to capture this general counsel. >> i think it's appropriate. >> thank you. so, if there are any appointments at this time, i would like to open it up to the floor. >> thank you. so, this is my first appointment as a commissioner and it's (indiscernible) piece. she's not here because she's home with her two littles but measure name is adrian carrier. if you can have your attention for 45 seconds because she's incredible and i'm excited she's going to be supporting the board. she's a parent and cultural arts -- with building cross sector relationships in and around san francisco, centering art ask creative practice in community. engagement built on a culture of

trust and inter depend dependence. she guided in artist and transformative relationships. she joined y bhshgs ca in 2016 -- >> i'm sorry to cut you off. i'm sorry to cut in. this is the asl, when you're reading, you way speak faster than when speaking off the top, so please read more slowly, thank you, bore. i appreciate it. >> thank you for the reminder and thank you for apologies. angela was the market street festival, a project and partnership with san francisco planning city design group. prior to wbca, she was intim marketing director for the music center and initiatives manager for the california historical society and acting managing director for bava for women in the arts, brava theater and she

chaired the arts -- in the latino district and a member of the bay area chapter on independent guam and founded the (indiscernible) collective and creative collective of artist in the bay area and i'm excited she'll -- that she'll be joining the peace. >> thank you for your appointees. moving to our calendar of committee meetings. chairman motamedi? >> oh, that's right. tomorrow will be the third and final ad hoc committee onboard governance practices. and we will be meeting from 5:00, our intention is end by 7:00 and at this meeting, we'll be completing the process that we've been doing with our governance to finalize recommendations and moving as a

committee to bring them back to this board at the bore president's discretion for agendizing. >> thank you. we look forward to participation engage the from the public at tomorrow's committee meeting. we are now moving to agenda k, other informational items. we do have public comment. we won't be having any staff presentations or taking any action as they are informational items so i want to recognize quarterly report on william's complaints. the initial proposal from seiu 1021 and initial proposal from united educator of san francisco, and the side letter from sfusd and uesf regarding emergency staffing plan as well as supplemental disclosure from san francisco unified school

district regarding proposals to united educator to san francisco and it's uploaded to board docs and it's important for us to provide as much information and informational items. i'll open it up for public comment. >> thank you, president lam. we have three speakers. chris, tiana and kassandra. please line up. >> hi. i'm chris, the sped teacher from washington high school. there are 22 para vacancies at lowell alone and more than 100 more across the district and sf had more than one hundred classroom vacancies and there's other vacancies as well. that's serious, so let me offer you a funny story. i logged on to claber today, it's

one of the online systems and learn that i work in san rosel and based on that, i should be making $15,000 more a year than i am now. i guess that's not funny. my sfusd teacher partner who is an sfusd alum and i want to set down in roots we love. we want to know we can afford to stay in sfusd assuming we get paid correctly. supporting the students and school communities that we love. and we are not the only ones who this (indiscernible). please, keep our schools staffed ask keep our students in the schools they deserve and pay us more. >> good evening, tiana, vice-president of para educator, united educator of san francisco. i want to always keep para educator in the forefront when talking about anything with sfusd particularly with money. we deserve a living wage as

well. you hear many students who came and talked about their hard -- teachers who talked about their hardship and divide it in half and that's what our para educator are dealing with. and para educator are working two to three jobs to stay in the city they love and work in. it's very helpful and so, i don't want to beg but i will if i have to, please, please pay us what we deserve. one job should be enough. thank you. >> okay. hi. so i'm going to talk about the numbers and somethings we expect and this is a large part, having to do with what we have heard over the last few months in regard to the state's money. we know there's $70 million allocated for this year and $50 million on going. the other thing to be clear about is the state is where the

majority of our income goes, i have been studying this, right, now that i'm out of the classroom, i get to study school finance. so many new things but of the nuance to be clear and direct with is that we just spent a good part of the year working to make sure that we get on the ballot and we will get it passed. an initiative to bring up upwards of $60 million for district so we're partner and finding income for this. (indiscernible) as we heard from earlier is the secretary of usf and she's one of the lead in the nation for community schools. she works for the national education, cta and she has her steering community determined by cde and she's an integral of creating community schools ask we know that sfusd is committed to this too and this is where

this comes in. we are investing in making sure we're the best educator and have the best education system but want to make sure we have the money to make this happens and it takes investment to make growth. that's true anywhere. this is also true to make sure your education workers maintain, right, i would not be the best educator that i am if i weren't still here. i've been doing this for 11, 12 years, going to conferences, all of these work we do, all-time we do to get better, we can't afford to lose that to other districts and this is a common problem. when i first started, it was called the $10,000 commute and it hasn't changed number which is fascinating to me that it is a choice that folks make. we need to sit down and talk about at the table real solid investments that sfus is prepared to make

for educator to remain in san francisco unified school district because we grow them so well, you have so many educator who are really, truly -- sfusd grads and sfusd parents and that gets lost. we hold so many hats rights and we are a roots in our community. i have a student who studied this year and he asked how is my job going. [laughter] he was a kid i taught language arts in sixth grade. we're roots in our community and he hasn't been to school in two years so it's important we make sure the work we're doing together is not just substantive transaction alley, but it's also investments and growth. what we can do together to make sure that sfusd is the best possible education environment that san francisco deserves. something totally different than other districts.

i think we do a really great job. we just need to make sure we can retain and attract educator that have the same values and the most that we're making in order to make that happen. when we get to the table over this, we can get this done quickly when we see a voted, very serious committed concern in our response to each other, right. and i really think we're in the same place in our heads and our hearts, but we need to make it manifest and we are more than committed to this. (indiscernible) that you're hearing, we're talking about a raise. it relieves the other stresses as well. there's been a lot of pressure, so much pressure on people and this is one of the ways we can alleviate that. i'm looking forward with working with this on labor and i hope you have the same commitment in that action as well. goodnight. >> that concludes in person public comment. >> thank you. please raise your hand if you care to speak to the

informational items. you'll have one minute to speak. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese. >> interpreter: [speaking foreign language] thank you. >> thank you. seeing no public comment for this item. >> thank you. so this concludes agenda k. dr. wayne? >> no, just, i know this is an informational item. but since there's people interested, i would like to make a note the process. so these were sunshine, so they need -- sun shine and proposals needs to happen before negotiations happen. so this is the initial reading of the sunshine proposal and then we have to bring it back for a

second reading at the, for the second presentation at the next board meeting and then we're allowed to begin negotiation, so i wanted to make sure the public is clear on that process and we share the urgency represented by the union members who spoke to come together and work on this. this is just a process that we have to go to in order to negotiate, so just wanted that to be clear to everyone. >> thank you, dr. wayne. so that concludes the agenda number k and tonight, we have no memorial adjournment. so this brings us to adjournment of the board meeting at 8:13. thank you.

>> today's special guest michelle ginsberg. >> i'm chris and you are watching san francisco riegz the show that focused on reguilding and reimagining our city our guest is the general manager of the san francisco rec and parks, with us to talk about new parks,

music and other developments. mr. ginsberg, welcome. >> thank you a pleasure to be here >> nice to see you again. >> last time was during the pandemic and virtual. so it is good to be back here. >> indeed. before we get in specifics, let's start with a broad question, how can will park's system play a part in the economic recovery? >> well, our parks system playing an important role throughout the pandemic. parks were here when people in san francisco needed them the most. a place where people could gather and could care for mentality health and fizz cat health and have a sense of community and a sense of place during a really weird time. and now that things are reopening and figure out how to recover, parks are going to continue to play a significant

role >> people are out and having a good time. there are special events happening in parks. concerts and the weather is good. the best way parks play a role in our economic recovery is to motivate -- people to come to our city from other places and to motivate our residents to get out and enjoy themselves >> exciting to her we opened a new park and there is another. what is special about the 2 new projects? >> sure. san francisco is going through, i think, a park renaissance. we opened the francisco park, which is just magnificent property that sits on top of an old reservoir dating back to the gold rush and has tremendous views of the golden gate bridge and bay and a place where you can bring kids. a cool play ground to bring dogs

an amazing dog park. a meadow to watch the fireworks. fog willing. fleet week, community gardens, it is just such an incredible unique space. we are proud of it. >> and then right down the road in a few years, we will be pleased to welcome everybody to india basin in the bay view in the southeast part along the southern water front. 1.7 miles of waterfront that until recently has been under utilized and under fulfill in the a community this needs it the most. india basin is really a feel moment for the bay view and southeastern part of san francisco. it is going to be san francisco's next great and one of the most important parks >> that's fantastic.

now, we have a great history of having conference in parks. can you touch on the year's highlights? >> upcoming and on going. this is something i'm particularly excited about. i don't think there is ever have been more music in san francisco parks than there is right now >> so, let's go around the city and talk about music. stern grove, is in the 85th concert season. back after the pandemic. in this just fabulously treasured meadow. free concerts all summer long. in golden gate park, at the man shell not guilty music concourse free concerts 4 days a week. wednesday, friday, saturday and sundays. we have sing are song writer wednesday. jazz and seoul on friday. communities performances on saturdays of different kindses and sundays reggae it is

extraordinary. and of course, later this summer we are pleased to welcome back outside lands for an exciting 3 days and 3 nights of incredible concerts and food and community. as we go across the city, we got wonderful performances in the jerry theatre in mc clarnin park a special jerry day coming back to the theatre. on june 21st we had make music day appearing all over the city in park in civic center. on the marina green. again in golden gate park. it has been a great time for music and ties into the recovery and the tremendous energy where we are feeling and -- you know anybody who says san francisco is struggling needs to hang out in the park system. where well is joy and beaut and

he inspiration every day. >> so, the san francisco board of supervisors passed legislation to make jfk drive in will golden gate park car free. how have residents responds. >> the san francisco residents responds positive. families. bicyclists, joggers, people with dogs and people from every corner of san francisco have discovered that jfk promenade is a treasure. it enhances the parks so much. imagine a beautiful day in the park and weather on foot or on bike you are strolling down jfk, you pass sixth avenue and head to the music concourse for a concert or the museum; it is joyous and made golden gate park sproord. i have been hering about disk

golf and pickle ball. can you tell us about and where people can practice and play. >> i knew you were going. pickle ball the fastest growing sports. you know across between 10 and is ping pong and may be with a whiffle ball. ping pong on a life sized course it is easy to learn about skill based people who are good are irrelevant good and it is easy to play. it is fun and accessible. we are trying to accommodate sport. we have over 55 courts around san francisco. 11 dedicated just for pickle balt others per pickle ball and tennis. we have 5 or 10 space you can play pickle ball indoors and keeping up with the tremendous popularity of the sport. disk golf has a loyal following it is also going to continue to

growch we opened our first disk golf course in golden gate park in 2005. and you know, whether you are an expert at disk golf or beginner, the idea of chucking a frisbee through the beautiful park and. it does not matter what you score t. is just a good excuse to be outside and enjoy a beautiful day in nature. >> exactly. well, thank you. i really appreciate you coming on the show, thank you for the time you have given us tuesday. >> thank you, i hope everybody enjoys summer. get out and play in san francisco's parks. >> thanks again. that's it for this episode we will back with another shortly you have been watching san francisco rising i'm chris manners, thanks for

♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities,

symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place.

we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and

thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up

in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

>> for us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are

active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many

communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very

active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you.

august 6, 2022.l always take san francisco board of supervisors meeting. >> good afternoon, everybody.