it's so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families don't have access to this food, and we're just really glad to be >> the san francisco unified school district is called to order. >> roll call, please. >>clerk: [roll call]

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i >> thank you so much. we will reconvene with open session. i'm going to read out the report from closed session remaining items. i move -- approval of stipulated

removal of one high school student, matter 2022-1 from the district for the remainder of the fall semester. suspended that will result in expulsion and graduation. >> may i have a second? can we have a roll call vote?

[roll call] thank you. i move approval of suspension of removal of one high school student from the district for the remainder of the fall semester 2022, suspended enforcement of the expulsion for spring 2023. can i have a second? >> second. >> can i have a roll call? >> [roll call] 6 ayes. >> thank you. with that, we will read the report from closed session. >> in five matters of anticipated litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel in the matter of student lm versus san francisco unified

school district. 2022-0704 a 3 sfusd. the board by a vote of 6 with a gave direction to counsel. in the matter of san francisco unified school district the board voted by a vote of 6 yeses approving a settlement of the agreement of the stipulated amount. a student -- the board voted approval for the agreement of the stipulated amount in the

matter of student to versus san francisco unified school district # 20220506, the borat voted by a vote of 6 yeses approval of the agreement of the stipulated amount. now we'll go to agenda item d which is our land acknowledgment. 1. land acknowledgement we the san francisco board of education acknowledge that we are the unseated ancestral --

acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards 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. 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, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. approval of board minutes - regular meeting of september 20, 2022 3. review order of agenda items # # # >> thank you. >> # >> thank you. now we'll go to the

superintendent's report. >> good afternoon. to mark my tenure here, i will be sharing from my last conversation of willie brown middle school last week. and really appreciated the turnout and the feedback hearing on strengths to build on and also where our challenges are. in the next slide. i will be visiting schools and would like to drop in. it's neat to see our different school communities and there are so many wonderful things happening in our schools. i have enjoyed being with the students and highlighted some of that work. i got to see the korean language program and they were prepared to meet with the

korean consulate. i also hear about challenges and empowerment implementation. in the next slide, i shared that we are in the stage of intervention. you may have noticed in the board agenda, i titled this section the superintendent's report including update on empower sf. i will continue providing information and addressed issues with staff and held the in person payroll clinic and additional sessions scheduled. marshall completed the first two weeks in sfusd and brought in people power and acknowledging the issues and right now they

are in the triage stage to identify where we can to work address the major issues preventing us from stabilizing the system. i want to bring up covington to bring up the data and cover the challenges we are facing and being transparent about what it is we are facing. with that, i will turn it over to aaron who can speak to the next slide. >> thank you, dr. wayne, and thank you for having me here tonight. you heard dr. wayne say

we are in the beginning of our engagement and week three into that process. tonight we are just giving you a brief update on what we have accomplished to date and some of the observations we have made and what we expect week four to look like and even as we turn into week 5. what did we accomplish to date? so far we have embedded ourselves and active participants of those meetings and making recommendations on the fly. in addition we have met with different leaders of the technology team to meet about the challenges about the remediation efforts. additionally, a big part of our work has been analyzing the payroll tickets. that's where the incidents are being reported by employees and the log

generated from other payroll meetings from the payroll closed process and looking at issues and looking at the issues identified and required to be implemented by emphasis. all of these inputs are being gathered, digested and ultimately were coming up with an enhanced corrective action plan to minimize the number of new tickets that arrive going forward. briefly, what we have observed. the observations are numerous so far that we've had, but really at this point can be simply distilled into these three categories. again, more focused on the remediation process. the first remediation process is really right now a series of

complex set of meetings. payroll clinics, there was one last week spreadsheets by the school district to track all the issues. all of this information is complex. individuals working on the remediation effort also have a day job to execute in order to get payroll out the door on a bimonthly and weekly basis. so it's complex. the second is the issues that have emerged, the help desk tickets of the payroll incidents. i will share you the data that we have been able to digest as we go deeper into the help desk tickets.

the lack of capacity has needed challenging to execute payroll on a bimonthly and weekly basis and ultimately it's been difficult to have that closed loop process to have remediation for the long-term. it's been an issue of let's resolve these issues and they don't have the capacity to sit back to address this issue and they have been working on it for a while but don't have the bandwidth to do it. insights to the data. as i mentioned there are many sources of errors, issues that are being aggregated, but zen desk or help desk tickets produce the greatest volumes of incidences.

the slide gives you a glimpse into the open tickets. the bottom slideshows you how those tickets have been dealt with over time. how we approach this problem is we look at zen desk and look at how many open tickets there are in the system we have looked at all the open tickets that are hr business related and they excluded help desk tickets because it's a separate distinctive work flow. # # # # in downloading this data, because of name change. as

you put those aside for the moment, there is really about 8500 open payroll related or empower sf related help desk tickets. so that is further broken down to what is more recent and older there is about 2,000 greater than 90 days and no correspondence tickets and about 2,000 help open related tickets to that time period and about 6500 tickets where there has been activity in the last ninety days. as we think about how to mobilize and enhance the corrective action plan, there will be steps based on the age

of the ticket and we'll talk about that in two weeks as we get the more comprehensive view of the triage plan. about 6500 within the last ninety days or activity within the last 90 days, we have been also able to get into the details on is how many employees are impacted in these tickets that are more recent. as you look at the 6500 tickets, it's around 3400 impacted employees. this, as we move forward, we are in the next two weeks, we are getting into more detail around what is the issue into these payroll tickets that will help inform how we mobilize the corrective action plan.

>> thank you for sharing that. you. the last graph will show you where we need to change in the data, fewer of the tickets that haven't been addressed addressed and tickets coming in addressed more quickly. # the other thing to emphasize and to minimize their time thinking about their paycheck

and rather more to spending time with students and families. we are working hard to make sure that's how our educators can spend their time. i'm responsible for making that happen. i know there are educators here tonight and we'll be able to spend more time talking it through with them. thank you, aaron, for that update. if you go to the next slide. this month is lgbtq history month and an area where we are proud in san francisco and how we support our lgbtq+community. and make sure that we are # educating students about the importance of this community.

>> next slide, please. you will see that galileo celebrated science and technology with a dance competition from the mayor's office and tribute to betty celebrating her 50th year as head secretary at galileo. you will see the different languages programs and the different languages spoken in san francisco unified school district. we have 1500 graduates from the biliteracy and we offer languages in many languages.

it just reflects the diversity of this district and commitment to supporting that diversity. a reminder for families to submit your multipurpose family income form. we are very pleased that the federal government is offering free lunch to any student in the district, but we still need this data to ensure that we are getting the funding that supports our students and families who may have in the past qualified for free and reduced lunch. please submit that. i want to end on one more sell brat # -- celebration. how they celebrated latin

heritage month. >> >> >> next slide, please. if not, i can narrate. they are putting together a mosaic called "together we rise". the students are participating in the mosaic that will come together representing the immigrants who come and how they arrive in san francisco and our

communities. this is an art project for students and history project for our students too. i think at this point, we have business to get to. we'll link it to our website. challenges we face and a lot to celebrate in this district as well. that concludes my report. thank you. >> just one thing. can the data in the slide regarding the empower situation be made available to the public? >> yes. okay. with that, we will go to the student delegates report. >> first off we are happy to announce that we had our first meeting cabinet this week, the goals for this year and what we are going to accomplish and how we are going to prioritize the

spending of our budget this year. >> we are also excited for this thursday for the student advisory council will engage with schools to have a further understanding of how to advocate ourselves. >> lastly, we want to wish a happy coming out to our lgbtqia students. thank you. >> thank you, student delegates. with that we will go to item e. e. advisory committee reports and appointments 1. resolution to appoint members to the independent citizens' bond oversight committee (cboc) i will call on the superintendent. >> thank you. we are excited to bring forward this item.

we have been eager to have a full citizens bond oversight committee full membership to conduct and fulfill its obligation that is critical to our bond program and also to demonstrate to the community how we are being fiscally responsible with the funds that been entrusted to us through the bond program. in preparing the appointments, we are bringing forward five new members. we wanted to make sure that even if a member couldn't come to the meeting, that there was a quorum so the business could continue to acknowledge that in the board summary resolution the notes in the title, it named four members. so apologies for any confusion and definitely talked to staff to make sure it all matches up so it's crystal clear in the public

what is being recommended for action. with that, we have our head of facilities and we have our interim chair of the cdsc who work together to bring forward this slate of candidates. >> thank you. we ask that you appoint the resolution for the bond committee. bond committee and state technical advisors. they were very helpful to us in

completing this process. as this election committee met we were using our guiding principals, one which is a statutory requirements and bylaws. the sfusd core values and a general goal of maintaining diverse representation of professional experiences and also geographic balance and personal experience from across the sfusd community. our recommendation is unanimous for these five candidates. and i'm happy to take any questions. mr. bridgeway, if you would like to offer a few statements? >> thank you. i would like to thank mr. wayne for stepping in and for the process. it was really good because we had two people from the program and two from outside and it was a great process and really able to look

at to bring it to you guys those who really deserve to be on it and can actually bring good oversight. i'm totally satisfied. this is a really turning point for us because we can now actually get back to work. i would like to say thank you again for doing that. >> commissioners, if i can also make a few additional notes. we really want to thank commissioner hsu for her items and then to the record. page 2 in the resolution, in the resolve clause 2, we need to change to citizens bond oversight committee, page 3, secretary of certificate, the date was changed to october 11,

'2022 whereas originally it was october 11, 2022. now we are seeking a motion to the action and then questions and discussion. the board approves who will be on the cboc. >> is there a motion? >> so moved.. >> second. >> okay, is there discussion amongst the board? >> is there any public comment on these appointments? >> yes, we have two. lawrence lee andy -- yvette.

>> superintendent wayne, commissioners, student delegates. i'm a little nervous. i didn't imagine this day would come and i appreciate consideration from joining this group to watch over the bond money. i appreciate this effort to join this group that's been working so hard with interim chair. i think this is a wonderful group of five. i encourage the commissioners to vote yes. >> hello, my name is yvette bracket and i encourage you to vote no. there is not enough to vote from and the reason why

this is very important is because it controls what money is spent on facilities. for you guys to little # literally ram the process and making up the largest percentage of the c bocc that's being presented to you today. >> that concludes in person public comment. >> thank you. now we'll go to comment with commissioners. >> are we going to see if there is virtual public comment? >> we are. i forgot. this is my first time. let's go to virtual public comment. we'll give those folks one minute as well. >> we'll have a total of how long for this item? >> ten minutes.

>> please raise your hand if you wish to speak to the oversight committee. we will have that transmitted in spanish and chinese. >> i'm going to call names. i will call you in groups of four. so, robert, latoya, marshall and tom.

>> can we have that translated in spanish and chinese. >> [foreign language] robert, go ahead please. >> public speaker: i would like to present to urge the board to reject this resolution. this was not broadcast that they were looking for individuals for this board, and it should be noted that most of the people nominated for this position are part of the board of education recall. one of them is not an sfusd parent and nor written ed pieces which is critical as a sfusd parent. it was mentioned

as sfusd values, you can't have those values if you are not part of this community. thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening, i also want to express the same sentiment. there was not enough outreach in san francisco. this does not make it equitable or diverse. you have to represent the interest of people who are black. that did not happen here. also it's clear that these people have decided to include

the people who miss appropriated these funds. please reject this appointment. >> thank you. >> # good evening, commissioners. i also ask you to reject this resolution. how can you vote on this resolution. there are 250,000 students in the district or whatever it is at the moment. every parent should receive a notification. until you do that, until you take the time to make it equal access, do not bring this

resolution to us. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> can we hold on one second before we take on more public comment. can people in the audience hear public comment? >> usually you have the volume coming out of the base of your mic. hopefully they are able to resolve it. that's your having a hard time hearing it. >> if commissioners cannot her, i would recommend if you can find a spot to hear. i'm on the zoom with my head phones as well.

# we are calling the next speakers. >> tom, yvette, 6734. thank you. >> [foreign language] >> i'm a teacher and parent in

the district. i disagree. i'm in agreement. it's just amazing how you say it. let's get to a roll call vote. i don't have confidence in the district as a teacher around parent anymore. you are trying to push through things. i don't know what the rush is right now. so please, reject it and give more people the opportunity to be involved. we say that we are being student centered and want more involvement, but every time we come to the board it's just more talk.

>> yvette? >> yes, thank you. it would be interesting to find out what kind of transparency was given to families and how you post it. given how parents have been very involved for many months and probably years, it does seem like there has been the right amount of research done by others putting out this information. if we can get more information about those from others and people who are interested in this conversation who seem they have children and students and parents and educators as a forefront of what the work will do sounds wonderful and i hope you will

move forward with this initiative tonight. thank you. >> thank you. >> caller ending in 867. >> hi, i'm a parent in the district. i haven't been to a board meeting for a few weeks but wanted to be here tonight to see what's happening with empower. this is the first time that i'm hearing this and i agree with tom who was just on a moment ago and who was there in person. the fact that these people that you are put ont commission who were recalled i find inappropriate.

i don't know the other people but there was a person mocking the land acknowledgment. he shouldn't be given responsibility for anything regarding our school district in my opinion. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> caller ending in 034. >> >> thank you. my name is john. i wish to support the resolution and thank the superintendent and the staff and the community for coming up with this c bocc. in particular it is greater than the other advisory and

appreciate the leadership to get this done. secondly, i would like to say the group has experience in these areas. just because someone is not a parent doesn't mean they don't contribute to the public schools including paying the taxes that the bond gets the support from. finally, i want to reject the notion that somehow if you are associated with a recall that you are a second class citizen in san francisco. this has no bearing on the expert on bond oversight and if anything, the supporting of the recall is support of the wide majority. they do represent san francisco. thank you very much. knoll

>> thank you. i'm going to call the next group. roberta, go ahead, please. >> thank you. i would like to support the slate and the whole process of this has been going on for months and months. if people were paying attention to this, this could have known and they were widely posted. i

truly reject the concept that this was not broadly disseminated. i approve of the slate and represents geographic diversity. this requires people who have experience in finance, instruction and represents the broad taxpayer base who truly do support better schools for our students. thank you. >> thank you. finally laura.

go ahead, please. >> that concludes our virtual public comment. >> there is one more on the panel. >> go ahead, please.

>> i also think it should be delayed. it goes down to communication and we never know who is involved. we need to know what you are expected to do. i think there is no rush and there are other priorities. i understand this bond, there needs to be oversight in so many parts. i don't think the oversight needs to stop because c bocc is not slated today. i think we should have a better understanding of how this is useful in any committee. just a better understanding of how that process is again in multiple languages and also that are involved. thank you.

>> there are three hands up. >> i think it's important to learn to the community especially black folks who have told you that they have not received adequate outreach and how people can be qualified in one way and totally unqualified with how they view sfusd and making sure they keep the values of our work. thank you.

>> i want to withdrawal my public comment at this time. i will wait until the next public comment. thank you so much. >> that concludes public comment. >> thank you so much. >> so with that, we will go to comments from commissioners. >> i think we will start at the end and work our way around if folks have comments.

>> commissioner sanchez? >> thank you. i would like for you to go over the process utilized to select candidates. >> commissioner, thank you for the question and in addition to talking to this quite extensively at c bocc and the public that attended we had this also on our website for a long time and the bulletin as well to try to encourage folks to sent it out to communities. we also posted in our social media channels. and i did reach out to both staff connections and a pac to see if we can get a little interest but i did not personally contact those bodies but reached out to folks to say it would be great if we can get

some candidates. they are responsible for only oversight and makes it actually a fairly unattractive proposition for many folks in terms of participation. so we did intend to remedy that with our initial composition of the body and west side leaning and why we started to get this most recent round of applications made a real effort when folks were coming from other neighborhoods from richmond and sunset to try to prioritize those recommendations and that's what you see. and also i would just add for folks, everyone who has made public comment tonight, our application is actually a rolling one and they don't close per say. to the point that people are interested in the c bocc in the future, you should

go through those now. and we go back to reinterview everyone who is interested in participating. >> what is maximum membership? there is no maximum membership. by statute you need to have seven seats. with the current bylaws we are going to have a body of level if all of these appointees are approved by the board. >> what will be the breakdown in terms of west side and east side? >> you are still going to have a few east side members. i think actually mr. ridgeway and also we have excelsior and mission represented but still going to be west side middle. >> to add on, i think something to note too, i appreciate that there is this effort for the diversity, but cboc as the title is an oversight committee. they

are not actually making decisions on the bond program. that's the board's making and staff follows that direction with implementation. so, they are providing oversight of how we execute those decisions, making sure we are using the money in a responsible way following state law, but it's not a decision making body around bond funds. >> may i chime in on that. that's one important thing. the cboc committee is not an advisory committee. we are governed by state law and california ed code. that's our mandate. our job is to over see and ask questions, investigate after the fact of how bond money was spent. we don't tell the bond program where to spend it, what sites to consider. that's not our job. our job is to come after those funds have been expended and then ask questions.

it's one comment that the bond oversight committee gets involved in how the money is spent as far as where it goes and to what project, that's not true. we are an oversight committee. we come in after things have been done and question has it been appropriately used. thank you. >> we'll continue with questions or comments from commissioners and continue to go around. >> it's been about seven months since cboc went below the seven members needed for a legal body. i'm glad that dr. wayne has stepped in and put a committee together with some at large members as well as our bond sfaf and the cboc as well to review the applicants. i'm wondering whether this process of appointing a committee and the process that

whether that can be memorialized to when the time comes, what do we do, same thing, different thing? >> yeah, we can definitely, i think it's a good idea to describe what we have done, and typically as mentioned, it's harder to find members and where we are recruiting members. if there are more applicants available spots. hopefully we don't have a fiscal advisor in the future too also to consider any changes that are needed next time. can it be somehow documented in the bylaws. is that appropriate?

>> commissioner, to the extent that the cboc's current bylaws to amend their own bylaws in agendaizing the item and making the vote. it is up to cboc what their bylaws are and the conversation that began at the last meeting and all of our new members will be able to participate in that conversation to decide if they want to do so or not. >> thank you. >> >> thank you. i wanted to make a comment around this theme that was raised in public comment about the concerns around folks that were involved in the recall and others being in the committee. i think folks probably know i was a big important of the recall. it had a huge problem of $2 million of real estate money to try to impact schools in that way, not

to say the results were bad in terms of the appointments, but i was a huge oh # opponent and still think it was wrong to do. i think there ought to be a variety of different points of view on this body. and i support him being on this committee. that's an important diversity of viewpoint to have. so i'm going to support this slate. >> may i make a comment? hold on comments for now. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner alexander, for the point that you made. i agree. thank you for that. i also really value and think

that we do a better job when we have diversity and perspectives. i think we need to be respectful and thoughtful and engaging. if we are all coming from the same viewpoint, we are probably not going to be able to gauge that in the quality of work. i appreciate the two questions which is what was the process, and i knew there was a process but it's good to hear the details and i feel confronted knowing how extensive that outreach has been. also sort of the power because i think a lot of the concerns about what does this mean in terms of members of this committee. so the reminder that this is oversight, that members of this committee, this committee does not make decisions on where this money does or doesn't go is really important. i want to underscore that. thank you for reminding us of that, and i'm not actually

going to refer it to as a slate because i don't want this to be political and we are trying to get the work done. i'm going to call it the recommended appointments. thank you. >> thank you. i see in the bylaws that there is a minimum but no maximum and the east side doesn't feel represented by the appointees, will there be any action to go over the recruitment? >> the combination of the cboc is a matter for the board of education. >> so, i think a lot of us asked, when does the terms come in to have some history as well as not to have to replace the whole membership at once. >> the initial set of appointees hit their one year initiatives

this august and it's a one year term. >> okay, we will be recruit ngt spring and start early for that. also, not only there is not necessarily a limit. i recommended when talking with larsson about having more than 7 because if one is absent and you don't have a quorum you can't do your work. the meetings are open to the public comment and there is public comment time and also there is an opportunity and how current people were appointed showed interest by coming to the meeting. we want that perspective seeing the oversight and contributing to the process as well. >> yeah, i guess my follow up question would be that since in the bylaws there is no minimum, why isn't there a maximum why we

are treating this as a maximum. if others were to apply, would we tell them to wait to the next application cycle? >> commissioner, i think the state statute that creates the oversight bond committees is made up of the seven members and also specifies five specific types of seats that you always need to have on a cboc no matter how many seats you had. that was the priority to come into compliance with that state law and other than that, the board is given the discretion to determine how long they want to be on the seat. >> there is no minimum or maximum. san diego has 11. we would have 11. >> on behalf of staff, there is something to be said around efficiency of meeting management and having managed a 24 person

citizens oversight committee before for go bond, i would encourage to see if we can stay on the moderate size of that. we are also meeting monthly which is more than the state statute requires and managing all of those logistics is not a small thing for our team. >> thank you. student delegate? >> i was just concerned, are you going to consider this in the future being that there is a rolling deadline? >> commissioner, i'm actually pleased to see some real interest. i think my approach for the future is going to try to provide a little bit more targeted information for examples of issues that come up because i think it's hard to visualize what you will get out of it unless you have a natural

inclination for these issues. that's something i want to do. we were also under pressure to pull this together quickly to get it into compliance. having a longer lead time in advance or recruitment will allow us to really schedule time to make in person outreach with different parent groups and make sure that we can have a more in depth outreach process. >> got it. thank you. >> i don't have a whole lot to add other than i'm glad that we'll be going beyond the minimum. i know there has been a struggle to have meetings. i also just want to appreciate, it relates to the next agenda item and really like that the bylaws are part of this item and we have never looked at that with appointments. it's really important to understand the bylaws and the scope of work and

for how appointments are considered as far as skill set or required need. i also appreciate the way the recommendations of individuals are mapping to the requirements that the state has put forward for this committee. thank you for the hard work. i do get the notices of the meetings taking place and i know they are noticed well on the district website as well. so, much appreciation and i'm excited for this work for this body to start being able to dig in to do the work and convene as you have been wanting to do. >> >> thank you. identify three questions. i guess i'm curious because of the comments that came up during public comment. not about anyone specifically who you are bringing forward, but how are you gauging their commitment to the values of the district in the same exact kind of anchor in the process of

bringing people forward? >> thank you, commissioner. we do reach out to each one of the folks that applied and confirmed their interest. some of these applications have been from months ago and we interview them and interviewed our first round of the candidates. we asked quite directly, what are you hoping to get out of this experience? why do you care about this particular body? what do you think is important for us to accomplish together as a district? what are you hoping to learn? so we ask people to also self identify the extent to which in their applications and in person in which they meet the seats that has been established by the bylaws or by statute, and to just tell us a little bit about themselves. so all of those things come into play. but we do like an in person or should say at least on the phone interview with each candidate. >> thank you for that clarity.

my next question is in regards to the relationships of committee members to each other, and is there a concern around i guess cliques or people having relations with each other or on the bond and board together and would people coming with shared affiliations and operating that way in this position. and for you and also one of my comments on how you are viewing that? >> commissioner, we looked for it again. i'm pleased to see the continued interest and maybe even through the concerns generating more interest in the wider application pools that you would normally see in oversight bond committee. in the comments in the overall applications as several candidates who know me

personally and professionally and provide that in the media outreach. before the pandemic, we were having trouble getting interest. there are people that know me and those other members that know each other. ultimately that is not a requirement of the statutory committee. i have known members of the board of education for years in different settings. i think we do run into san francisco being a small town sometimes. but right now, what we have tried to do is look at diversity of professional experience, diversity of geographic representation, ethnic diversity as well as meeting the statutory seats to cover the decision making. outside of that, i'm not sure there is more criteria that are particularly pertinent. >> that has been a concern with the first group that became cboc

officially may i think 2021. the seven of us there were five that had professional or personal relationships with the facilities bond program. so one of my personal things will always like this next group of people that we need to find should not have any personal or professional history or relationship with the bond program leaders, and we have accomplished that. so i'm settled on that. that was my big push. we could not have more people coming onto cboc who have relationships with the bond program leaders who determine how the money is spent. so that was a big push. and with dr. wayne stepping in to say look,

we need to have this new slate of members come in that no one knows who they are, and that's what we have accomplished. these are new people. now, i do know two of them. so i will be honest and upfront. i know two of the five, but i don't know the other three, neither does don or lucynya. >> a question to staff, can you talk about what we do as a city preparing for the bond oversight. >> commissioner, one of the best ways to participate is by attending the meetings in public comment. they are a lunchtime meeting in the middle of the day and virtually. people are also able to attend virtually and do

public comment. i encourage that first and foremost. secondly, actually i think to get through the presentation is a way of doing that. i'm planning to do much more extensive presentations and dedicated outreach to different community groups and i'm hoping to cultivate really a whole constituency of folks who have a good vocabulary for talking about capital planning, and are able to articulate and advocate their core priorities and what they would like to see happen. if they are interested on being on cboc and our interview process, that's a little educational process. we have an opportunity for people to describe that these are the issues that you will be engaging in and here is a look at the roll to understand that roll and make them familiar with the meetings themselves. those are all opportunity. i think the

coming 18 mother of the condition assessment master plan and ngo bond planning will be fantastic opportunities to build folks capacity for engaging in these issues. >> thank you, i guess the last comment i would make is we do need to figure out what it does for us for providing general training for the public to determine how they best operate and interest or interact. and to engage and to learn to see if they are interested. i would offer that up for consideration for staff, the district and the bond oversight

committee. >> i just want to comment. this advisory committee, people who gravitate to this committee, we came from finance. i was a stock broker, other people on the committee had financial experience and know how to look at a balance sheet. these are people who look at it and want to participate in that. we do need to put a wider net of people, but this is such a unique type of oversight committee of the type of people that like to participate are those types of individuals. not to say that we are not kate -- educating them and knowing this is big going forward. the meetings are open, and it's sort of like you really don't

know until you get in. >> thank you for your response. i think it's important to have those conversations and later on approach overall. thank you very much for answering my questions. at this time i'm going to end comments and questions on this item and we'll go to voting on this item. >> [roll call] >> yes. >> thank you, we'll go to the next item. >> 2. community advisory committee for special education (cac) - confirmation of appointments and

advisory report thank you. the title explains who we'll be hearing from this evening. i appreciate them and had a chance to meet with this committee as part of my learning and they bring a very thoughtful approach to how we are supporting our special education students and families, as well as how they can work with us to make sure that we are supporting our students and families who are in our special education program. welcome and you will hear the report. >> good evening and commissioners. we are very happy

to be with you tonight and to present to the public. before we go into our report, we would like to go into our advisory appointment which is a memo we shared with all of you. the first part of our business tonight is a requested action from the board of ed, that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district appoint to the committee advisory committee for special education to serve a two year term beginning all 1, # -- august 1, 2022. >> that is our first order of business. we wanted to be clear on that. i think there is usually a --

>> i believe we will see if we have a motion to move forward the appointment and then we will get the proceedings moved. >> so moved.. >> second. >> now we will take public comment on this item. >> we will have ten minutes for in person, ten minutes for virtual. and we'll have one minute per speaker. >> there are no in person comments. >> please raise your hand if you care to share your virtual public comment. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese. >> [foreign language]

>> public speaker: i wanted to say thank you to the community advisory committee for how they include families along the way as they do the work that they do. i wanted to say thank you and acknowledge how they are inclusive and diverse and equitable.

>> thank you. >> hi, this is chris, a special education teacher at washington school. i would like to thank the community advisory committee. you have always been so involved and i love the list of priorities especially calling out guiding from staffing in the classrooms including co-teaching. i also would like to add to your beautiful list of priorities one more which is talking more in depth and looking more considerably the requirements for all students to graduate with two years of a world language which winds up excluding many students who can not succeed in general education in language class because we could not offer another version.

no student should be able to graduate with that just one requirement that makes it almost impossible for them. thank you. >> thank you. >> >> public speaker: hi, i would like to thank the cac for all the work they do. i'm an african american advisory council spokesperson and we support what they do and they support what we do. good job, cac. keep it going on. thank you. >> thank you. >> this concludes our virtual public comment for this item. >> >> thank you. are there any questions about the appointments

from commissioners. >> okay, seeing no comments or questions from commissioners. roll call. >> since we spent some time on the last one, i just wanted to give you a chance to talk about your process and how you go about identifying folks that would be a great fit. i know it's in your bylaws but i feel like due diligence. >> thank you, commissioner. so, our cac can have from 11 to 25 members in our bylaws. we'll talk about this more in our report because we found in previous years it was hard for folks to look at everything. so making it very clear in our report is what we have done

going forward. the majority of our members through the statute are required to be parents of students with disabilities and reflective of the students within our district receiving special education services. so we have some graphs to share here and we'll share our members self report, and we looked at the diversity, the ethnic groups of the children represented and we share all of that as well as where our members live, and kind of spread out throughout this city. so we share all of that information voluntarily with the district and the public. but we also really look at how are we reaching out and connecting with all the local groups. it definitely warms our

heart because we partner with the groups and the other focal groups in the district to make sure that every focal group is represented and has the opportunity to work with the cac. our members are elected. that's why this is a confirmation. they are elected by other members and this is the process of the bylaws in the statute and that is looked at the beginning of the year for confirmation by the board of education. does that answer your question? >> yes. thank you. >> thank you so much for that extra clarity. can we have a roll call vote, please. >> [roll call]

>> six ayes. >> thank you. and now we will go to the presentation. >> thank you. tonight we have five of our parent volunteers who we are honored to have this report presented to you. >> hi. my name is kelly. the cac is a unique group at sfusd and advisory in our california ed code. our purpose is to advocate for our special education programs and services and advise the board of education on special education priorities in the state. the cac provides free

meetings and community presentations as well as support for advocacy for parents and staff at the district at our state level. to ensure clarity at our meeting we provide spanish and cantonese interpretation as well as live transcripts and interpretation in other languages and asl upon request. the meeting flyers are translated into seven languages and posted in the sfusd and cac website, attached to the procedural safe guards given out at every iep meetings and sent out through many district channels. now, i would like to pass it on to ms. fisher. >> next slide, please..

>> hello, first of all, happy national employment and disability awareness month. the cac bylaws state the composition of our membership shall reflect the disabilities and ethnic backgrounds of those receiving special education services. these graphs represent the 31 children of our members whom have many disabilities. all information provided here is voluntarily. >> these are languages. and residents of eight districts. in addition, 63% of our members are eligible for free and

reduced lunch and actively recruit members in under represented student groups. as we have many times before we would like to up lift our cac resolution in inclusive education practices which state that special education students are first and foremost general education students. unfortunately families of students receiving special education services continue to report being turned away and excluded from wellness centers, everyday school activities and field trips from their special education appears. the cac calls all staff and educators to look further into these practices not just when it's called in the iep. in our first meeting this

year, jean robinson had and instructional coherent plan rubric to the cac community. we were happy to hear this as this has been a policy for many years for many years of inclusive practices. now i would like to pass it to our cac secretary. >> one of the main tools our district has in supporting inclusive practices is celebrating the first week of december each year. a reminder that we are all stronger together. we ask schools to follow the practices all year long and use this week to celebrate our week of inclusion

and focus on what else needs to be done including students who are marginalized due to digit, gender, socioeconomic status, cultural heritage and language and other factors. the cac takes the leadership role on the district inclusion task force and staff and community members. the school includes community wide events and including delivering inclusion packets with posters and materials for schools. you can learn more about these plans on our sfusd website and feel free to email us if you would like to join this team. there are still a lot of stigmas about disabilities making it this hard and uncomfortable work. study after study finds inclusion is for everyone but to

have successful inclusion programs we must address ableism in our school district. we encourage everyone to be aware of this experience and how to talk about disability sensitively. now i would like to pass it to our treasurer. >> these are the priorities. these priorities built on what has been done in the previous year and were developed based on

what hoped during the community session and public hearing. we used this priority as a guideline to form our community and partnerships. we would also like to point out the work of the cac is aligned with the district core value which calls on all of us to be student central, united, folks on social justice and diversity driven. in the next few slides, we will share more of our work on each of these priorities. >> first off, the cac would like to thank the sfusd district staff and teachers for being fearless and persisting through challenges. on going staff vacancies and challenges this year has been

extremely challenging. we are missing teachers, the latest service provider and parent educator, not to mention social worker and bus drivers. this impacts our children and teacher working conditions and willingness to stay in the district. all of the staffing recommendation listed here are in alignment with staff and family across the state are asking for this school district. we need sfusd to provide sufficient resources to support inclusive classrooms and schools and guidance for best practices like co-teaching. being a teacher is hard work. special education teachers carry additional certifications and responsibilities and has many administrative burdens. it's time to look at ways to

lift some of the extra work load special education teachers carry and additionally pay needs to be increased and hours need to be adjusted to the school day. staffing vacancy are impacting opportunity to support collaboration, co-planning and planning for special education teachers which is crucial for student support with iep. lastly, it is imperative that sfusd show their respect for special education staff by making sure they are always included in a school site staff meeting, have space to work and above all are treated with respect. now, i would like to pass it to

leah tinsley. >> as we face to continue staffing challenges, it's important we stay united. it is important for staff to do great things and an opportunity for all staff. we need to be sure our path way teachers are properly trained. we must increase special education and for our staff and teachers. every school staff member should be trained in deescalation and positive behavior and intervention strategies, ability awareness and assistive technology. these trainings should be mandatory and included in all professional development cycles. early release days and an asynchronous video models for our staff development. we

encourage the district to find more creative options. for example, can staff get stipends or incentives for completing training? are there outside partners we can work with such as diagnostic center? we ask the district to integrate training on these topics onto all staff pd's, not just special education staff. now i would like to pass it back to howard kelly. >> >> next slide, please. >> literacy is a civil rights issue and a long standing cac priority. the cac would like to highlight the importance of the instruction and literacy audit. we ask the board of education, the superintendent and our school communities to take action surrounding the findings of this audit. this slide highlights data from the audit showing the alarming lack of

foundational reading skills our students are receiving. it also shows the lack of educational cohesion across school sites. when the results were released, the cac families felt validated. the issues highlighted in the report directly correlate with our own experiences of watching our children struggle on a daily basis. the cac is very excited to hear that cni has made a commitment to update our literacy curriculum by 2024-2025 school year. we are grateful that cni is providing an opportunity for all stakeholders to be engaged in this process. the early literacy block grant was the outcome of a state

lawsuit. lot and resulted in five sfusd schools receiving additional funds to address low literacy rates. this is the unique opportunity and could be a pilot to help us strengthen tier one and two instructions district wide. in addition, we are concerned that some of these sites are still using lli as tier 3 instruction, that is iep level. the cac would like to see more cross departmental collaboration moving forward. we are excited to learn more about the work sfusd is doing with ucsf and their universal screening tool.

we would also like to highlight the need for assessments that help educators and families to gain insight into a child's acquisition of all foundational skills needed to become proficient readers. finally, we invite the commissioners to join the cac in a pac on november 17th, as our groups come together to discuss the topics of early literacy. i would like to pass it onto sam murphy. >> next slide, please. >> in order for the district to be truly driven we need to understand all families across our district. this includes responding to children's bereavement article.

the pandemic hardships overall have disproportionately affected black and indigenous and people of color and found that black and latin x loss caregivers twice the rate of white children, among the native-american communities was twice this rate. they have the least to support children. students with disabilities have always been excessively impacted and need lessly put at risk. the refusal of some officials to accept the recommended protocols to those americans with disability act and students and family members with disabilities

have also have concerns about covid-19. the community calls on the district to improve air quality and improve the vulnerability of students. those are chronically immuno ill, immunocompromised and asthmatic and we have dealt with this during the pandemic but there is still more to be done. on a good note, we applaud the special education department for making strides in addressing iep assessments backlog and encouraging school sites to keep up with the important work in identifying all students. we would also like to thank scott and cynthia ortiz, our sfusd psychologist who attended

our meeting and the national alliance on mental illness share many free and many virtual resources. to better support all of our students, it is imperative that all school site staff and all members who interact with children is trained on how to provide positive behavioral intervention on school sites to be sure that all students receive all the quality care they deserve. we look forward to seeing you at our upcoming meetings and town hall. please visit our website and feel free to contact us to discuss these topic further. thank you very much for your time. that concludes our presentation.

>> thank you so much. >> i think at this time what we'll do is we will take public comment and then we'll take questions and comments from commissioners. >> there is no public comment in person. >> please raise your hand if you care to give public comment. each speaker will have one minute to speak and we'll have a total of ten minutes.

[foreign language] public speaker: hi. the professional development notes are wonderful. i would also like to note for the board and the sfusd leadership that it would be really great if professional developments were offered outside of school hours so we didn't have to take a sub day in order to pursue them. a lot of times the professional developments that i would love to go to require that i take a day or half day off of work and as a teacher, i don't feel i can manage. thanks. >> thank you. >> apologies in advance. apologize if i did not pronounce your name correctly. public speaker: yes, i would

like to comment on the indoor air quality for the entire san francisco unified school district and a topic that i brought up to superintendent. right now the san francisco classrooms don't yet meet the recommended air changes per hour recommended by the department of california public health. this was a document shared by superintendent to all parents in regards to covid safety and also good for wildfires as well. it's very similar to how fish tanks are cleaned four times an hour. and should be cleaned 12 times an hour. we are down now depending on the estimates, it's two to four changes per hour. this is something that is very

important for us to address with the district for all classrooms in new areas. i would like to see what our plan is to address that in the district. >> thank you. stacy? public speaker: hi there. my name is stacy mcclanahan, a parent of a third grader at the academy. thank you very much for your time. i will keep this short. i'm just here because we are new to this school. our previous sfusd school couldn't accommodate us for our health issues and harvey milk is. it's an awesome school. we are sad to find out that we only have one kindergarten class

at this school and we have room for more, and i'm here to advocate for this school. we want to keep this school going strong. with only one kindergarten class and multiple classes of other grades, we have a bottleneck. i'm here to put in a request to have some thought to forward to getting another kindergarten class at our school. thank you all so much. >> thank you. >> caller ending in 867? public speaker: sorry, can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you. >> okay, sorry, thank you. i'm a parent in the district and

just wanted to call and support everything that sam murphy said in her presentation regarding covid-19 protocols and the impact that it's had on already disadvantaged communities in our district and how we need to do so much better. there is such an on going experiences going on now with repeated covid, and a caller previously called about improving our in door air quality. thank you. >> thank you. >> public speaker: is this general

comment for non-agenda items right now? >> no, public comment on the community advisory committee for special education. they just had an advisory report. >> that's what i thought. i will come back during general public comment. >> okay, thank you. >> ms. marshall? >> public speaker: thank you. i just want to thank the committee for their great report. i really do appreciate the idea of having more filters in the classrooms and not just in special ed classrooms but in all classrooms. i'm sad to hear what we all know that even going to major events like covid, african american children and latin x children lost their family members more than any other ethnic groups. i hope there is services for those families. i still think we need to push the use of masks wearing in schools

as well. thank you for keeping our children safe from preschool to grade 12. whatever germs they pick up in school they take home and elderly family members. thank you. >> thank you. >> this concludes virtual public comment for this item. >> thank you so much. thank you to our presenters. now we'll have questions or comments from commissioners. >> we will limit it to one minute. >> i will be brief. i think this report is a fantastic example of what needs to happen with our special education and educaors

and around para professional hours. i know that wasn't in the written report, but i know as a former principal, that was a huge barrier to providing effective services. i don't know if -- i see a lot of nodding. maybe it should have been included in the written, that should be noted, i guess. i don't know if staff have any comments on that. to what extent we are thinking about that. but if not, i can get it later. >> i think we can get the superintendent to come back too.

>> hi, everybody. super happy to be here. i really loved the presentation. you knocked it out of the park. as to how to extend the professional hours, i can assure you especially after mr. alexander having been a principal for years, yes, that would be a fantastic thing we can all do. but we would have to do that together. that is not something that happens in a special ed bubble. that is a bold conversation with all of our cabinet and looking at all the different pieces to have in play to do such a thing, but it would certainly help us out with transitions at the beginning of the day, managing the middle of the day with lunches getting appropriate professional development on everybody's plate. so yeah, it would be

fantastic. so we are absolutely ready and willing and able to have that conversation with everybody like i said when we are invited to that table. >> other comments or questions for commissioners? >> i just wanted to say thank you. i always appreciate how thorough your reports are and one thing i regularly heard from you as well as from administrators and teachers at sites is the challenge around leadership and coordination with special education, and i just wanted to see if you had specific recommendations or places, ways that you see it working successfully even at a particular site. if there are examples that we should be

expanding upon and so forth because i definitely heard that as a theme. also superintendent, if you wanted to weigh in as well. >> i think speaking on behalf of the collective parent brain here, i would say for any of us who sat in iep meetings, when the leadership team at the school have knowledge of special education and lead with an inclusive lens, with inclusion, with the mantra, with the understanding that all special education are general education students first where we feel where services are talked down. when we ask for professional development, it very much extends to administrators and the entire leadership team. the difference is stark and can be

felt school to school where principals and other administrators understand the legal obligations of an iep and understand the rights and responsibilities. it's very very impactful as opposed to someone from a central office having to come into the meeting. it makes a huge difference. >> can i add? just my journey when i first started, i looked at quite a lot of schools. i already knew my son was struggling a bit, and i was very mindful of that. i chose a school that had two special day classes thinking that that automatically would make the difference, and what i learned was that it didn't unfortunately. the reason why is because the general ed

administrator or the head didn't have the training or resources. i just have to say that at this point. and no. 2, there was a silo, a divide. it was educators and general educators. because of that, the special educators in the special ed class were isolated, the students were isolated. students like my son who were in general ed were not isolated but they were isolated. so that's why it's personal for me in some ways. and so the call is training from the top, and providing a principal to be honest, a principal and administrators within that site team that is mindful in creating a setting, right? it's in your

mind. it's not about i'm teaching you in a book, you have to take that in, right? but they have to create a setting and an environment that enforces this training to provide an inclusive mind-set for all students involved and that also includes educators. when you have that shift, it's mind-blowing, the difference for everybody and the educaors too. they feel the difference. >> thank you for that information. it's something i'm learning and we have unique communities that is special with san francisco unified but also coming out as a challenge is determining what should not be unique about each school community and what should be consistent across all school communities and what we are hearing is that there needs to be some consistent around

schools and inclusion regardless of what programs they offer. similarly around staffing and questions we need to engage in in our budgeting process and it also leaves a lot of staffing to school sites and not leaving staffing and schools to be unique, we want to include this for all schools and those are questions that we will be considering and where we are use our goals and guide rails for how to answer those questions. >> one last question that you didn't touch upon that i'm just curious because i have you here that i have heard consently also and i really want your thoughts.

when i have done school tours, one of the questions of what kind of supports and that is true for k through elementary school and really what transfers into sixth grade and high school. if there is anything that you want to offer around that, again going to like the uniqueness versus what every site should be communicating. i would love to hear that as well if that resonates for you. >> again, consistency. so, i understand that there might be limitations where part-time occupational therapist

where they are going from school to school, but there needs to be a foundation there, and that is a social worker, psychologist, ot, physical therapist, especially if you have special day classes and even if not, right? and when you are on tours, for example, it's important that you have a liaison there that understand and can answer these questions, right? i got a lot of, it's all the same no matter what school. it's just not, that's not accurate. so, yeah, create a foundation. if the services are needed, right? if they exist, then they are needed in every school. and every time you tour, there should be a liaison there who can break that down in a way in which that parent will understand and feel comfort by it.

>> thank you for this question because it is one of the things that the cac hears most in how frustrated they are when they call the school to say i want to sign up for a tour for special education, and the majority of what families hear is, oh, we don't, oh, we don't do that, or let me put you in touch with a special day class teacher or an rfp and that teacher is pulled away from her job and there isn't the structure. that should when we talk about visions, values, goals, guard rails, a nice guardrail would be that expectation of inclusion. it's harder at the schools where tours are run. my kid and i used to have a button and would say ask me. i was a very popular

person. it has tobacco -- to be -- cohesive. >> thank you. also for me when we are talking about consistency, not a cookie cutter approach but how we capture the uniqueness of the schools while making sure we have the services that every school needs. >> on slide six you presented your priorities and your asks for 2022/2023. the question i have for you is what are the expectations that you have in response to those asks and what has been directed or the response from district staff in relation to those issues? i guess just lifting it up as we kind of shift the way the board

operates with us really supervising and assessing the superintendent and superintendent being the one that direct the district to help make the changes to improve those kinds of things. if you can share a little bit to that. >> i don't want to do all the talking at the district here. i want other people to help. i think my response here is going to be above and beyond the cac response because this is not just an issue that we run into but in all the work with the joint advisories too. we spend a lot of time putting these reports together, volunteer hours. i think i have said here that in the past, where our pay grade is zero. and the same is true for all the other advisory committees.

sometimes the responses we get are 0 or gaslighting. you say that, but look at all this wonderful stuff that's happening over here. that's the opposite of what we are asking for. if you can help us show -- and this is part of what we are working on with the consultant as well. in the feedback we give you, please reflect back to us where it's being taken into account. thank you for the process that you are under going now because we hope this will be part of that work. just reflect back to us how you are taking this and turning it into action and our time is valuable and this work means something not for us individually but for the families that we have been advocating for including our own kids.

>> thank you. maybe we can take that to transfer into smart goals or achievable goals throughout the district. thank you so much for your presentation and all of your hard work and commitment. thank you so much. i think with that, we will go to our next item which is appointments by commissioners to committees. i do believe that we have at least one appointment. >> >> thank you. so i would like to appoint eric mendez to the public education and enrichment fund. eric mendez is a father of three. one ofwhom is a kindergarten in the district and he is a native of nicaragua and

first generation graduate from college. he then went onto graduate school to get his mba at stanford and deeply committed to working with families in communities because that's how he has been able to achieve success and meaningful options in his life. so i'm excited to appoint him and think he will be a really wonderful addition to the committee. >> thank you, commissioner. i think with that, we will go to our next agenda item which is public comment. i do, i think i will note the commissioner and maybe the public i will bring it up with board leadership about public comment being the first thing, but we do when we return from closed session to get the public and a little bit earlier and

then get to the rest of our business even though we know we like to prioritize our advisories and families who are here. we are going to start with public comment and then take a break to get to the student delegate priority to have a little bit of public comment now before we get too late. so with that, if we can start our public comment. >> certainly. i will call the first five up. please stand at the podium when you hear your name.

>> david, rex, lana, joanna. >> go right ahead. public speaker: hello board members, students, mr. steel, welcome on board, dr. wayne. i'm dave, shop steward local 21. san francisco student, parent, employee of department of technology. being a resident, i get to vote or not vote for a lot of you. i feel empowered, probably poor choice of words tonight. but i would like to first restate local 21's commitment to excellence, support, for our

students, administration and educators. and have to bring up the fact that unfortunately there is still some anti-sentiment unions and expressed and in view of that, i would like to state that is kind of meaningless if you have supporters that work against that. in addition to that, during this crisis, i know there are contractors and temporary workers to be hired. we would like to be sure that those are just temporary and upward mobility paths created for our union members and employees at previous boards and superintendents have made for past for students to have

careers here at sfusd. so let's work for celebrating diversity and not divisiveness. thank you. [ applause ] >> as a reminder for public comment, you will have one minute. >> good evening. rex, for the record. so algebra one was moved out of the eighth grade into the ninth grade. i have talked about this several times. it has been a mistake. we really need to move algebra back to eighth grade. it is upsetting the trajectory of high school kids wondering if they have to take this course which certain university are not recognizing as an acceptable course coming into college. also will kids be on track for statistics and calculus if they can't double up in the ninth grade. i was fortunate enough to put my granddaughter in a summer

program to take algebra one and geometry in the ninth grade so she is on track. other kids who don't take it in the eighth grade are not on track. a lot of parents don't know this. also one last thing, five seconds, we are losing parents with kids in the fifth and sixth grade and middle school who are going to pull their kids out of public schools and put into private schools. we need to have algebra back in eighth grade. >> public speaker: hi. i'm a teacher in middle school. this is a meeting of two hours talking about empowerment but you have a true crisis in your hands. teachers are feeling

furious, we feel abandoned, disrespected and our pay checks are missing for months for now, the lack of acknowledgment around it. we need you to come to our schools and sit with us one on one to help us go through our pay checks and figure out what is wrong and fix it. having empowered clinics at our schools. districts don't end until 4:00 p.m. we need you to come to our schools and show us that you actually care. thank you. >> public speaker: hi, i'm ashley, middle school teachers at roosevelt middle school. i would like to echo what she said. this is out of control. we are losing incredible teachers. this is our

first school job experience that i have ever had in my 30 years where i have never ditched a day, never skipped a day except for serious things because i love my job. i was out of town last week for a family thing and i was sad to lose my kids and i have been thinking about quitting my job. i have never known what else i will do, but the lack of trust that i have for the district and the lack of support that i feel for the district right now is untenable. thank you. knoll public speaker: hi, i'm joanna. i also teach at roosevelt middle school. there was a delay of $495 from my check going to social security and i want to

move forward and focus on my job that is teaching. i didn't have health care for one month. crying in the bathroom from stress is not better teaching. we are supposed to be teaching. please restore the trust that has been broken and come to our staff meetings and be a human because we keep hearing that things are getting fix. i emailed everybody in this room if front of me and got a response from one person. thank you to that one person for being human. i appreciate it. public speaker: hi, i'm here because i was at the special meeting when we were discussing the consultants handling the empower contract and fixing it

and i brought up all of these issues and said specifically that the contract and contract for services did not fix the real issues and the employees will continue to have issues because the contract only dealt with back orders and back records. therefore we are going to see continually payroll issues coming up and it's just going to be added to the list. that's what you saw in the graph, the will full stating that these will be fixed and we had educators talking about their coworkers dying because of this. and you have not offered a solution. second, you lied when you said that you don't get enough people to apply for cboc. actually in august, 2021, they actually rejected a whole slate of people because dr. matthew's

recommendation -- and wrote a letter stating that he didn't want them on there and kicked off. >> next five speakers. public speaker: susan kelly. a teacher in high school. i'm here tonight because i want to be paid for the work which everyone agrees that i did last semester. i would love to be the last san francisco unified employee that feels like a fool for working here instead of a proud member of a team of committed professional amazing teachers who are here. it's time for this school district to stop its policies of quiet firing because we are losing people, we are losing

programs and we are losing the san francisco unified school district core values. what is clarifying, it is district policies that require teachers to appeal district paycheck errors within 15 days or automatically lose. it is when m power errors threaten teachers housing, retirement and security. you are doing it. stop it. public speaker: hi, i'm jeff lucas. i appreciate that the district up-to-date the interactive dashboard of 2021/2022 data. it grabs my attention.

attendance predicts student outcomes. look at the attendance data, the difference helps to explain outcome differences. i don't know if you can change attendance, attendances in adult behaviors, they are hard to change. i don't know if improving attendance will improve outcomes but our financing is based on attendance. i totally appreciate where you have been focused the last 3 months of trying to fix empower sf and how you are doing this year for 2022/2023. thank you. >> public speaker: hi. i'm mike atkins, a science teacher. i'm here to speak directly to dr. wayne. the empower clinics during work hours, once a month

for three hours is unacceptable. it is my personal opinion that whomever is at that health clinic should be put in a bus and taken to every school site. if you manage to do two a day, you can do all the sites, how many are there, 70? you can do that a little bit faster than alvarez recommendation would be. if that is the thing that fixes the problem, take it to us. we are required to be in that room with those children and we don't have an option to actually do what we would like to do. please allow us to teach and take this problem away from us by showing up at our school site. good night. >> that concludes in person public comment. >> thank you, can we move to

online public comment. i appreciate those who have come here and we have staff available to follow up and hear the bigger feedback about having the on going follow up that is needed to answer questions to resolve these issues. >> i'm sorry, did i call your name before, please lineup. >> public speaker: hi, i'm david, member of the media, mission local. i just wanted to bring up that superintendent dr. matt wayne mentioned that educators who are frustrated and then he said "as questions come up we outside of this room will be able to spend more time talking with them". i know that you can't answer things direct from public comment but would be great as members are waiting, oh, there is a meeting outside, when? if that could be clarified or maybe i

misunderstood. thank you. >> that concludes public comment. >> thank you for in person public comment. i believe we are going to virtual public comment. i believe there are staff outside to support if people have empower issues to talk to someone from the district about.

>> ides # # >> [foreign language] >> thank you. thank you for being a man of your word. thank you for not using the n word. >> the date was changed. >> please put public comment early on the agenda.

>> thank you. >> >> thank you. i didn't expect public comment to be the late. sfusd is losing educators. they are not getting paid and when they go into grievance about it, they are not getting paid. this is too late. we need

you to help solve these issues. we could not all make it to the clinics. thank you. >> hi. i teach at harvey milk academy and have been a part of the school community for over 13 years. we were assigned milk even though it was our choice. fortunately this opportunity was available. but if enrollment in classes might have been available, and last year we were

told we had a new classrooms but there should be two kindergarten classrooms and still happy to be able to join the school. we will do our part of the school to welcome families but ask that you do your part by reopening another kindergarten class and please fix empower. thank you. >> thank you. >> latoya? >> it's the getting really old

as the issue with empower and for those who employ this software. this needs to be corrected expeditiously and you need to create a contract and make it look like you are doing the work and be accountable. most recently this school has done nothing to address the issue that there is gross negligence towards the students and our educators. at the naacp a week ago i told them my son had been sexually assaulted. i'm still waiting for a phone call or email and still nothing. this is disgusting. >> thank you.

>> i'm calling the next group. >> tom? >> i'm a teacher and parent in the district. my wife is also a teacher and parent in the district. one educator and two are not getting paid. we are all impacted because we are a union and strong. when one person is affected, we are all affected. stop saying it's 3,000. it's all of us. it needs to stop with that. there are many that are afraid to submit tickets because they

don't get replied to. stop with the lying. we wasted another 300-0000. so the people who are making money off this, we are not. we are educators. >> thank you. josh? >> allison? my name is allison.

a parent of a child at galileo. we need to pay our teachers. today is national coming out day. i really wish the superintendent and the board had taken this opportunity to provide lgbtq services to update and inform our community about the services and supports that are available to students like mine. my child experiences transphobia almost on a daily basis and do not feel safe. we are thinking about pulling them from galileo just like we did last year pulling them from san francisco. today would have been a perfect opportunity to address this. you didn't invite the lgbtqia

community to the table today and i'm disappointed. >> can you hear me? >> that concludes our virtual public comment. >> is this josh? >> yes. >> this ticket is an example of the problem. there are thousands of tickets and now we understand the issue with the tickets. there are thousands of teachers crying in bathrooms because they are not getting paid. i drop my child at roosevelt every morning and i don't want to drop her off to a place where the teachers are not getting paid because they do a fantastic job of teaching her everyday and

what they have done is teaching her exactly how to fight back and i'm going to be on the picket line with them because that's what's going to happen if you keep treating them this way. >> thank you. that concludes our virtual public comment for this item. >> thank you. do we have any public comment from students either in person or virtual? >> if you are a student and you care to share public comment, you have one minute to speak. this is a time for students to give public comment. >> can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese.

>> [foreign language] >> i'm not seeing any hands raised. >> thank you so much. with that, let us go to item g 1. >> is there a staff presentation? >> for this, if you want to announce your opening for public hearing.

>> i call the public hearing 1. public hearing on and approval of resolution regarding the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials as required by education code section 60119 (2010-6so1) >> thank you. to present the information related to the public hearing. i would like to call our head of academic officer. >> good evening. this evening i'm reporting on the annual sufficient material recording with the williams act. the background, williams versus the state of california with the class action suit filed in 2000 of san francisco students against the state of california and the california department of education for failure to provide students equal access to instructional material and safe

routes to school and this was adopted to address issues raised in the lawsuit. one of the laws adopted to ensure that public schools students have equal access to instructional material per the code and this law requires school board to hold annual instructional material hearing at the beginning of the school hearing to determine whether students of sufficient materials in reading, language arts, mathematics, science and history and sociology studies. in relationship to the sfusd process, on july 25, 2022, the williams survey was distributed to all elementary and middle school and high schools in sfusd. on september 21, 2022, all surveys, 100% of our schools returned them to the office of instruction. at this time,

either all requested materials are provided to schools or provided in the process of being purchased. tonight we are asking for approval that the school board of education of the san francisco unified school district has sufficient textbooks and instructional material in history and mathematics and science and language arts and component of adopted programs. that concludes the report. >> thank you so much. >> can i get a motion and a second for this item before we begin public comment and discussion? >> >> so moved.. >> second. >> thank you. >> do we have any public comment on this item?

>> none for in person. >> please raise your hand if you wish to speak to the resolution regarding the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials. please relay this in spanish and chinese. >> [foreign language] >> seeing no hands raised for this item. >> thank you for that. are there questions or comments from commissioners. >> we'll start with commissioner

ann hsu. >> thank you, i have a question on the document where it mention the language arts and development where k-3 are studying spelling, and the elementary mathematics, some k-5 schools that adopt it use japan math. i understand that there is some controversy about possibly both of these either partially only or not meeting the expectations. where are we on possibly evaluating the instruction of materials? >> thank you for the question. as mentioned in the previous

presentation, we are moving towards an elementary english language arts adoption for the 2025 school year. last year we had all of our elementary english arts material evaluated through tntp and we have a report on that, and we are this year moving into a pilot phase reviewing of materials and in the spring and into a pilot phase and preparation for adoption. that is for english language arts. at this time, we are considering and looking to the evaluation of our math materials. we do have several adoptions that we have outlined over the next several years and at this time we are considering an evaluation to give us information and to consider what might be the most possible next steps in

addressing the issues that we find. >> i have a question. >> just to be clear about the definition that is saying that each site has the textbooks and instructional materials for all students enrolled in that school. is that the same as saying that all the students have the instructional materials? do you hear with an i'm saying? is there a situation where we pass this saying that we have this that could be a family thing. i don't have a material that i need. >> that is possible. we rely on the process of our schools to give us the survey and what is in their building. sometimes schools distribute their

materials differently. it may not be in hand but may be using different material in the classroom. yes, it is saying this particular survey that we have provided schools with adequate and appropriate materials and that the standards align and depending on how they might be distributed that some may say i don't have that or i may have something different that might be in front of me that a school might be utilizing. so that is possible. >> i appreciate that. also to confirm, this is a point in time survey. so we are looking at a specific date of when we do this and there is things that are happening in between then and there, is that correct? >> that is absolutely correct. >> all right. i think that will include questions and comments from commissioners. i think with that, we will go to a roll call.

>> i just wanted to say for so quickly answering my questions today. i wanted to give you a shout out for being so prompt and thorough. >> i'm very welcome to do it. >> thank you. >> >> roll call, please. >>clerk: [roll call]

>> that is unanimous. >> i would like to go to g4. employee contract on representative executive employees.

>> my apology. with that, i move to approve the contract for the head of labor at a salary set at grade 6 step 4 effective october 12th through june 30, 2023. >> second. >> i'm going to call for the second item as well. i move for approval for the contract for the officer effective october 12th, through june 30, 2023. may i have a second?

>> second. >> 4. employment contracts for unrepresented executive employees - interim head of labor and interim head financial officer >> commissioners, tonight we are recommending two contracts for employees. we are recommending the head of labor placed at salary grade 6 step 4. and the interim head of financial operations at salary grade 6 step 2. okay. with that, we will take public comment. >> we have one in person. lawrence lee.

>> sorry for the timing. >> i have no problem with these appointments, i just want to say the prior officer really made it a point to speak about the accessible and especially with the l cap. that is a priority and hope that new interim would continue. >> thank you. that condition

includes public comment. >> let's go to virtual public comment. >> please raise your hand if you would like to speak to these contracts. you have one minute to speak. >> please state in spanish and chinese. >> [foreign language] >> latoya? >> public speaker: thank you. these contracts should be postponed. they are rough and especially one of them that is going to be inspecting all of our school sites. with the fact that one, the company is not

even bonded with the state of california is a great concern. as a parent. >> sorry, we are speaking to the interim head of labor and interim head financial officer right now. so you are on a different item. we are not there yet. >> my apologies. i will reserve my time. >> thank you. >> that concludes our virtual public comment for this item. >> thank you for that. do we have any comments or questions from commissioners? >> i think with that, why don't we go to a roll call vote. >> thank you. >> [roll call]

>> 6 ayes. >> with that, we will go to g4 for sexual harassment. >> can we go through g 2 and g 3

since they are related items. >> second. >> we are going to move those items right now. we have moved and seconded and noted. we will go to the superintendent. >> thank you, i first want to introduce this item with just sharing. you've heard me mentioned numerous time how i'm here listening and learning and i have learned that there have been in the past newest discussions around policies and procedures and issues around sexual harassment at schools and what i learned by 9:00 p.m. our student delegates are dismissed. unfortunately they are not here in person. i believe one of our student delegates will be able to call in. that's a note for me

if we have the student delegates in the presentation that we'll get to it before 9:00. i wanted to note that. but it is important to move forward with this presentation. we are bringing forward these apologize because we need to implement them for our policies and wanted to bring it forward for action to be discussion around concerns around policies and procedures and response to sexual harassment at our schools and then we'll hear from student delegates and open up to conversations from the board. the policy changes are more in response to language given the state but we wanted to have a broader discussion. i will turn it over to staff for a presentation.

>> good evening commissioners. my name is ms. williams, the executive director. i will give you a brief overview of why we are here today and provide more information about title ix in general and what we have done recently to respond to students concerns. title ix in general is a federal law that prevents discrimination on the basis of sex and educational programs that receive federal funding. in 2020 there was a pretty significant change that came down from the department of education through the trump administration. currently the regulations in our policy cover a very narrow set of sexual harassment behaviors and because title ix did heighten the level, we really expanding on our bullying and

harassment policies to take the position where no such behavior is acceptable in our schools. we have two policies that prevent sexual harassment that provides students with multiple protections. as superintendent wayne said the policies for approval tonight don't provide real substantive changes to policies but minor changes to comply with california law and federal program monitoring that we have to do, but we also listen to students when they really protested and used their voice and a lot of the changes are to make the policy more clear and make sure that the language is more transparent. so that's why we thought would be a good idea to come here tonight and do a short presentation with those policies. very quickly, the content warning, there is sexual harassment and violence discussed to take themselves

away or when there is violence in the conversation if there is children, a warning about that. currently in may 2020, a couple months after we went into shutdown, the department of ed issued new regulations as of august 2020, narrowed sexual harassment and created a scripted long and formal procedure and to implement the legal requirements and for all the protections that students need to be sure we encompass all we are seeing in these policies. this is up for approval tonight to just provide clarity from what we heard from students and legal requirements. so, as you can see in the slide,

the title ix is very legalese. sexual harassment has to be so severe and offensive that it denies the student equal access to our district programs and also an option for quid pro quo interactions where the employees can issue benefits and for misconduct and assault and battery and our examples provide definitions and we have made an effort in response especially to the students to be very transparent of what these definitions are so we can all use these working definitions. title ix has changed and now conduct has to be within our educational program and we must

have control over the person being accused. and also these current roles only apply to issues that come up after august 20th, so issues from before then, we have to revert back to the older policies. we understand that are confusing and take time for us to talk through when these issues come up. big pictures, must adopt policies and procedures for harassment and to work to prevent harassment and form title ix complaints. when i came on seven years ago we also designate title ix officers who are seven additional people who receive training and support from us. realizing we are a bigger district and the one title ix coordinator couldn't do it all and really wanted to be sure we are providing support and response to our students. once the schools receive a

report, they are required to inform the students of their rights, take steps to make sure the behavior stops, provide supportive measures so students feel safe and supported. everything that does not reach that title ix level of sexual harassment are in the bullying policy. i talked about two policies. there is the formal title ix investigation, investigated at the district level. there are different roles that have to be different people. so our office has to designate an investigator and appeals officers which are all different. the complaints must be signed and submitted by the student and families. they don't have to submit. they can take 60-90 days depending on the nature of the complaint.

in the meantime, schools are tasked with providing support to the student while this is happening at the district level and we work really closely with our school site. for behaviors that don't follow this title ix, it's not just bullying but harassment and that guess to the school site and it could be verbal and we can step in to address it in a much quicker timeline and much more student friendly manner and our school site can provide supportive measures and investigation. we did have a lot of student protest. a lot of student meetings came forward in the fall of 2021. in response to

that, we really listened and i personally talked to many many students about their concerns. we also added another investigator in response to this case load we were seeing. we created a full-time title ix coordinator and which i have been for many years but we needed more client support and support to the school site on how to best deal with really tricky issues, students that were going through family dynamics. we also have case coordinaors to help with our case load and last year we started our advisory group and we started this group with students and provided them a space to give their voice and how to harness this energy that they had. and for me this was ground breaking for the district to do. we updated our equity

related policies. by this november and the next couple weeks, all administrators will have received in person training, also our social workers, nurses and staff will receive this training. we are also providing real time training on issues that arise and available during office hours and not just responding to school sites but able to reach out directly with the family or school site. i had disappoint student delegate is not here because she was on the student advisory group last spring but she couldn't continue. what i wanted to highlight for them is that their advocacy really led to this creation of the student advisory group. we have increased even what we are planning from just kind of an initial 3-4 meetings to really

create longer term plan to help us understand student perspective to build comprehensive understanding of the different situations that we are seeing through data collection analysis and also anecdotal stories and looking at beyond just what we are currently dealing with which is often a lot, but establishing a one and two and five year school plan and informing students of their communication and support so they can actually be advocates and ambassadors and collaborate with the students to create age appropriate prevention, and then what we'll talk about shortly is development of board policies and regulations in the future. >> just to note, cal has joined us online and he has feedback from isabella as well. he's available now. >> perfect. right after this

slide, i will hand it over to cal. this year we have 11 high school students. we have four schools represented. we meet once per month and seven meetings this year. we have been meeting virtually but hope to come together one time this spring. we pushed out information on the high school bulletin, social media and we had students who reached out after the first meeting and who are joining and open to schools and students joining and with the upcoming title ix changes which i will talk about after cal shares how we have a voice and policy that we'll go into next year. we are really excited about that. i don't know if cal has anything else to share. >> i can read the statement.

>> she said i'm really grateful for title ix for giving me the opportunities to work towards the solutions for students advisory group and for lack of resources. we as students are the first to experience this necessary perspective and for how resources and practices should be implemented in schools. i hope the title ix advisory group will continue to lift the students voices throughout this year. i'm excited to see where the title ix and advisory group now that are really addressing our concerns and updating our current policy that will be student centered. >> that's what she had to say. >> >> thanks. finally i wanted to share that there is going to be again some

pretty sufficient title ix changes being made for important rulemaking. i anticipate the final new rules will be dropped probably mid-spring, and hopefully give us more time to discuss and implement what we did in 2020. i think that they are definitely in a more student friendly language and it really does allow for k-12 districts to create a process that works for them while complying with the law in a much better way than it currently does and also brought in sexual harassment that was generally offensive, all three of those had to be true and now one can be severe or pervasive meaning multiple and could be true but not have to be all of those. so hopefully that will be

helpful and we don't have to explain all of these processes to students and families. and will have a district wide and we have to comply with california education code and will allow us to explore and i know our young students are really interested in that and there are also explicit protection for student gender identity which currently in this title ix, it does in the provide for this grievances and beyond gender and sexual harassment. our next steps are really to be incorporating feedback to the title ix student advisory group. we have new members and working towards grounding up what our policies are and working through what are the things that we want

to see and what we can do with the law. we are not official until the spring and able to start our discussion now which is great. we plan to bring in the spring hopefully with our student advisory group here to present our proposed high level changes to the board and public mid-to late spring and we are hoping to have the policies approved in june so we can get ready for the next school year. i anticipate it will be going into effect for the 2023 school year. going beyond these are practices for what my office deals with for resources and policies and procedures and for school sites

and to have these conversations and supporting students with disabilities and schools working with iep teams and on going collaboration with developmentally appropriate tier one and two intervention and next year's title ix regulations. we will talk about what the school sites are doing to preemptive strategies. >> our k-12 teachers continue to use california health education standards and youth acts and swd board of education policies to address education. in addition, department d offers teacher training to school sites. >> in addition, our elementary, middle and high school addresses title ix related topics such as

consent and bullying as well. and our wellness centers at middle and high school reach staff promotion on support to referrals and community. >> that is our presentation. we are happy to answer any other questions. >> >> thank you. i think with that, we'll go to public comment in the room. >> thank you. we have two speakers. >> please come to the podium.

>> # # thank you very much team for this amazing work. please don't forget disabled students. people with disabilities are nine more times likely to be bullied and 2-3 times to be bullied. the cdc has questions, will this space be available. are the people doing the work appropriately trained, are partners supporting children to be involved in the work. and we are looking to seeing this move forward from compliance to

commitment. >> i want to echo a lot of the sentiment to say that i'm actually very happy to see students involved in this process and the work being done around this especially since this is one of the hot topic issues in 2020 once this came out with the sf program that was shutdown by the principal after students complained and there was rampant abuse on campus with sexual and racial harassment. i want to note since then that process was shutdown this created a lot of trauma for chin because none of those issues were addressed and cyber bullying that went to the high school and the resolution 2120a with this board which disbanded

this audit and did not formally address bullying in this district. this continues to be an issue throughout our medical school and high schools. this district must have a policy that is explicit and explains the process because it is not right. >> thank you. >> that concludes in person public comment. >> please raise your hand if you would like to speak virtually. >> please state this in spanish and chinese. >> [foreign language]

>> ms. marshall? >> thank you so much. >> the policy must not be in writing alone. it must be implementable. we must implement this when we hear of sexual abuse on our children. there was a person that was raped. i hope there is help for her. there was a young woman in our high school who said her coach had been abusing her for years in the high school level. at the moment that you find out that a staff person is abusing a child, please, please, get them out of the school right away. they should be fired. we have to teach our students also to keep their hands to themselves and to not touch anyone. that is from

prek to 12 grade. it's very much needed. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> latoya? >> thank you. my son was not raped in the bathroom. had the equity audit not been shutdown by this board, you would have been able to develop a thorough policy to give 90 days to investigate and for the protocol for investigations. in my situation conducting the investigation and talking at the victim, being non-cooperative with police and pursuing this

impact in place. this policy will not work. you need to go back and have more people at the table. >> thank you. that concludes public comment for this item. >> thank you. are there questions or comments from commissioners? >> i can have commissioner go first. >> yes, thank you for this comprehensive work. i think the involvement of the students is really exemplary and i do appreciate that. you probably noticed this but the slide on preventative -- at the school site is a little thin and would like to see it moving forward on thoughts and what are the actual expectations of every

school having a plan to create a culture where this kind of conduct is unacceptable and this shift that it's normal in our society. it's not easy but we need to prioritize it at the school sites. thank you for your work on this. >> next, if we can go to our student delegate who is on virtually. >> i just want to start off by thanking the student equity for this important work specifically because when everything went down last year with the student advocacy is the biggest act that it was put into writing and on the harassment policy and thank you for making sure that was incorporated into this resolution or the change of the board policies. i think my

biggest criticism would just be that we need more, and i understand that there are legal implications for what we can do specifically with the title ix policy, but again it goes to the idea of having more cohesive supports for going along with this and one of the biggest examples for the means for education. for example, the only education was information provided to students about title ix policies with posters made by students associated with the wellness centers and included things like this is not in our planet and students slapping students on the butt and that is inappropriate for school sites. we could not have this kind of poster in hallways and even after adults not taking them

down and students having to take them down by themselves. we need to be sure that all the student know the title ix policies. if you are looking for ways to support students beyond just the title ix requirements, i think last year the resolution about the solution that prevents these strategies and were to support the curriculum at all levels and nobody had any consent or education at the middle schools and had nothing to do with verbal or spoken harassment, and because there is such a pervasive issue of rape culture and we see multiple coaches being accused by students and students shared their stories last year, there is a

correlation with the athletics department with the students. we think they should be targeted training for the athletics department in the same as there is a mandatory orientation for athletes for trying out drugs, there should be the same for title ix. as a student that was actively involved, i do appreciate you and would like to see what you can do in the future. thank you. >> thank you for that. we'll go to president lam now. >> thank you for your advocacy for your work as student delegate and isabella as well.

i have a question about the athletics department. with a kind of training is going on with that in terms of athletics department and reference to title ix. >> currently, as you know we had a shift with a new athletic instructor in march and we have been doing a lot of review of the different policies. the way that the athletics department works is each school has an athletics director that is hired and athletics director and principals hire the coaches that provide the coaching to the students. we have some coaches that we would call walk on coaches that come in for the season and then we have some

long-term coaches. so what we have discovered is that our coaches are required to take training however we have discovered more opportunities to work more closely with athletic directors to provide them with more resources to provide more specific training for coaches and athletes. so that's all a work in progress. we are working closely with the director even from having clear instructions and we are working on that. # in addition to

student boundaries. >> we have been working on that and i'm trying to get on the athletic director agenda to revisit this with them. there are programs that we can bring in from outside. there is middle school and high school. so the logistics is pretty much a very big lift that if we had the resources for is something that there are programs that speak to athletics dynamics with sports and there is resources out there and the logistics is a big lift

that i found when i was trying to do this 3-4 years ago before the pandemic. >> thank you. just a couple other questions. >> oftentimes we know while there might be policies that we have on the books that there is a seriousness that we must be responsible for us. i am course to know what are the challenges of this implementation of these policies and what are your hopes and opportunities for the 23/24 as you look ahead? >> thanks for that question. some schools have wellness

centers, some don't. i think as us meeting the needs of every different school is always a challenge, but we do every single day and i don't think there is an email or call that goes under responded to from our office from the school site and there is three of us. i think that pushing out the curriculum as brought out and some schools have advisories and some don't and we have the materials but to be sure that it is implemented on an educational piece is also a challenge. i also think making sure we have training that is trauma informed in a way that someone from a new principal down to an athletic director can understand how to respond when they see these issues when these issues are brought forward to them when we have so many schools, so many staff members

is also something we grapple with every year and now being virtual we are able to get even more and doing more work in our webinar to get to the staff that we haven't gotten to and to get issues on the forefront and each case is different and difficult, and we are dealing with children and families. it's a difficult dynamic that we do have to navigate. >> i just want to add on, thank you for sharing in the efforts. it is our responsibility as leaders and the adults who are in charge of educating our children to respond to those issues. i echo what commissioner alexander said that it's also a culture we are trying to create and as much as we can leverage our students and this is a culture that can be created and

more influential among our appears. appreciate the work by our delegates and will continue on developing the conversations and lean on this and ensure what we are doing at our schools that are meeting their needs and creating the culture that we want for all of our students. >> thank you. >> thank you. i would like to know if there is going to be someone at our school sites that can handle this issue appropriately. >> yes, when i came when we had

this policy in the books, now we know that every administrator knows who to call. what we are navigating this year is two different policies and figuring out quickly and talking through those is from different school site to school site. they do know to call and we have to respond and there are a lot of people for them to get support with. we have to push out even more resources than before and administrator resources and students and family resources. if they can't get us on the phone or email or zoom, they have everything in front of them in a checklist to have a variety of ways that as soon as they are reported to know the students

are safe and start the investigation in whatever process we have to go through. >> i appreciate that. it's great to hear the progress. i'm troubled by because i hear a lot of stories from school sites where the incidents happen and there doesn't seem to be a staff that has knowledge or informed and because an administrator was off that day. so i'm wondering how do we know that we have that fidelity of practice at a school site? how do we identify if something is broken or isn't working and how do we catch the problem before we have students marching and protesting here and do we have internal systems right now that capture that and don't breakdown the system. >> for our title ix at each of our school sites we have

administrators and work with them closely because maybe the administrator is gone and we have someone that has the understanding of the specifics of this and work also closely with wellness. i said this to someone and i don't feel like i got the response that i want and we hear from certain cases and from wellness staff that have raised concerns for advocacy for students and for treating staffing, pushing out resources. this would be more helpful if i feel we have that open communication with our staff and do surveys to better under the process after we have spent an hour-and-a-half with you. it's not indicative with everything but speaking pretty consistently with our school site and will it

be every single moment and there is multiple factors involved but working closely with our administrators and staff to make sure that we are best supporting our students when things come up. >> i appreciate that. there is probably two people at the site that are the lead on it. if both of them potentially weren't there, the school wouldn't be as equipped as they should be to handle the situation in a moment or there is another chain of command? >> the title ix officers we are hoping to be the lead on investigation because they are tricky, but we are also treating counselors, deans, nurses. who we are not seeing in person are teachers so that's why we are creating a webinar. but we don't want teachers investigating. we want to be sure they are reporting. so counselors,

nurses, child care, wellness. if those two officers were off-site, the people would know, something has been reported to me, there is a process to me and let me reach out to help and we would fill whatever gap until those people with more expertise would reply. >> the stories that i have heard from staff is that nothing was reported or followed up on. that is my concern. what i have seen across this district specifically not with this issue but we don't have the resources to address this issue and which leads to some students fall through those gaps and not getting access. really figuring out how us as a district is doing a better job of ensuring

consistency and fidelity of practice and that everyone is following the rules and have the protocols in place and we have a way to verify that that's happening. because i think that for me, that's the next step to really ensure that we have the level of understanding that we have. i guess i say this because it breaks my heart to come here and to know that we aren't doing everything that we need to do even though we are doing everything we can right now and how do we bridge that gap. for me, it really comes down to safety. like if we aren't doing our job in following up on reporting and investigating, to me that's telling the public that we don't care and they need to take care of these issues, they can't rely on us so for me to figure out how to be proactive and how to be sure

that east side can be and what are we doing to make this a priority for everyone. i have some additional questions in regards to the limitation to title ix that we are currently under that states only within the district's educational program and activities. how are we defining that and what is the scope for the program to cover? >> it would be anything within the school day and the after school program and sporting events that we organize even away from school. we have to have some control over the activity. an example of what it would not be, a party on the weekend, something that happened over the summer, unrelated to a program we provide. >> what about buses, bus stops, after school program, cbo's

connected with the school district, how are those? >> after school yes. we have some program activities and they have their own investigation responsibilities and we worked on training to let them know we work with programs to make sure they are receiving that report and following up. buses that we have control over. our zoom buses what we have control over when students leave at the bus stops. muni, title ix doesn't cover conduct. in the ed code, we have jurisdiction for come and going and we have a lot of information from the buses that call us and we determine if it's harassment or title ix. i don't know if you want me to get more into the weeds on that. title ix, muni, no, and sf, yes.

>> what do you mean about muni? >> we do not have control on what happens on muni once they leave school. that's based on the current regulations and limits title ix and only says students or adults that we have control over and activities we have control over. >> control would be we have paid staff that is supervising over seeing is that how that is determined? >> yeah. >> thank you for that. i think that will end the questions and comments for this item. thank you very much.

>> we need a vote on this. >> yes, >> roll call, please. >> on items 2 and no. 3. >> [roll call] >> 7 ayes.

>> >> with that, we'll go to item h. >> this is a very important discussion item and the board and community has been interested in learning more about. this is an update on our facilities assessment. the way we have organized this, is this is a discussion item and if this is okay, we'll do in our presentation we are going to present the facilities assessment and before talking about next steps and taking public comment, we want to just pause for a moment to allow questions from the board to make sure that the information is in the assessment is clear and understood because a lot of data that's being shared. and then we'll identify next steps and there could be public comment and then again this is a discussion item. so if you have any direction after hearing the next steps, just in general as we prepare for facilities master

plan because it will lay our foundation to the next conversation. with that, we'll turn to our facilities team for the presentation. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm very excited today to be presenting to you our first findings around the facilities conversation. i want to state that this is just a center of our own values and being student centered and one of the ways that the facilities supports the district in students being centered to prioritize our scarce resources to improve student and staff comfort and

experience. i'm going to move very briskly to allow enough time for our discussion. so very quickly, something i want folks to understand and we just did this model for how the assessment that we are doing in presenting to you really relates to an asset that most people understand owning which is a car. the main point here is that the data that we have is not so much about systems being broken or not functioning, but that they are outdated and the comparison between addressing those outdated systems and replacing the asset entirely and should think about tearing that down or renovating that substantially.

some quick notes on the scope. we looked at basically all of sfusd property with the exception of eight sites who have tenants long-term obligations to those sites. every building was visited. this is one of the most important slides for you to internalize. this is our scoring system. it's not a straight up abcd letter grade. when you get to 30-60%, even though 30% might feel a little low, you may feel that in the building and we call that poor and over 60% is deficient. this is a p.d.f attached the

board docs and shows the overall score as well as specific systems. i'm just going to define a few key values here and you can feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. the campus requirements is again a system that is about to be outdated or are outdated now in the next five years and the total replacement value of that asset. we focus on the entire property as the campus, building and only buildings, site development meaning school yard and other non-building assets and you can see all of these sub systems. site is school yard and we are likely going to combine all the furnishing and equipment into one column. right now we are working with the definitions that have been provided to us by our consultant. when you look at that worksheet,

this is the columns that you will see and the projects that were deferred. this is a summary across the district. $1.7 billion in total requirement costs for repair or renewal needs recommended for the next five years. this is against a $6 billion replacement value. again, both of these terms refer to putting things back the way they were right now. it does not mean modernizing or upgraded to the current standards. it means returning back the radiator, which is when you compare, these the data points which does allow

us to make apples to apples comparisons with real life conditions. the highest dollar amount for an elementary school in terms of requirement cost was $26 million. the highest cost for an elementary school replacement cost was $52 million. the new construction of a mission bay school that reaches all of those modernization standards we want, $115 million. the numbers we are sharing while they might present a sticker shock are actually still very conservative. with that being said, i do want to reassure the board that as we look at this data with our consultants overwhelmingly have to do with life cycle exploration. there were very few items flagged as being flight safety risk. these buildings are outdated but the environments are still safe. as far as we know, we have another set of protocols to

ensure that safety there were a few hundred dollars that almost had to do with active safety systems than the functioning of the safety system themselves that means crowded maintenance closets that have too much stuff in them preventing access to a fire alarm panel. these are average ace's across the system into the different categories. again, the averages are right on the cusp and can cover a lot of the data that you will find interesting. here is a map that shows the areas that have been renovated and overall we see an even

distribution partner with the exception of soma, we see some clusters there and some sites have poorer buildings than the other cohorts. this slide also shows a line in this chart is showing the sci score and the bars showing the cost in millions of dollars and projected requirements. for us that went through pandemic together, i think this validates quite a bit of the presentation and i'm talking over about the substantive assessment required not just on the systems but on top of that modernize so for example you have mechanical ventilation. it's largely focused on heating distribution

systems. also our electrical system has bigger categories to get more detail on and that electrical system is outdated and still functioning in many places but unable to support the supply and other distribution aspects electrical that are outdated and we should make progress on them than a full modernization. >> as i mentioned, we are going to pause here to see if there are questions on this analysis and what it means, and then we'll get to next steps. >> colleagues, any questions? >> yeah, i guess i'm curious about kind of what you shared about our district and how that compares to other districts kind

of around us. i mean, it's just i guess sad that a lot of our students are going to schools with poor facilities are not cleaned as often as they should be, and i guess, yeah, the understanding of how unique san francisco is with this issue versus our counter parts? >> commissioner, that's a great question and we are happy to work with our consultant and look at other regional master plans but our state structure is statewide if not national issue. when you look at the infrastructure agencies even at the city and county of san francisco that have to do with streets and rec's and parks are consistent with the conditions that you see with these properties as well. while we benefited from good public investment and voter support over the past few years or few

decades, really, even then, the types of infrastructure that we have created here in san francisco are pretty extensive. 155 building in over 140 acres is a lot to take care of and our maintenance resources. we are bond rich but maintenance poor and the ability to keep these facilities up, you will see this deterioration. >> that's helpful. thank you so much for that. >> it's just worth noting that you can't use bond money for maintenance. you can't use it for capital improvement. >> that's correct. we could not pay for gardeners and for craft people and routine maintenance work with bond dollars. >> commissioner? >> just in looking at the map, there is two slides 10 and 11.

what would be helpful and just for clarification is being able to see, i can't tell which are elementary schools, which are early ed, high school, etc, and when you compare it to the slide above with the condition finding, it would just be helpful to identify what kind of -- it's getting after 10:00, and i start to get less articulate, very much less articulate. [ laughter ] so anyway, that was just something that jumped out at me that would be helpful for my understanding. >> i won't if it might be helpful just to share with the commissioners and we can probably post this publically. the detailed document to make that sortable right now that is sorted by the highest sci and we

can send them as an excel version to see the elementary and high school. >> also the mapping is also handy. thank you. >> to go back to the schools and to have the beautiful dream that we have with our hundreds of schools and acres of property, is there an estimate of how much, how many elon musks we must have? >> commissioner, i hesitate to produce such an estimate for you because it would be such a variable on many substance but

as we comply with the new campus is really relevant and we'll be coming forward within the next few months for these larger projects and should be looking at the campuses for $100 million for these investments to do a curb to curb modernization. there has been a rule of thumb to let's try not to spend more than $30 million per site but what that means for balboa campus, that money will go in a flash. we need to make these investments to where they feel the impact. which is also our priority. >> the spreadsheet, the other

attachment, the enrollment numbers don't align with the current enrollment that i'm seeing. it would be helpful to have that updated too. >> we will absolute update them. the numbers were shared with us this summer. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i can continue? >> okay, we will have to how to allocate funding and really plan for the future. we have definitely look at those numbers, 1.7 to $6 billion number is definitely not going to be on the low end of all of

our needs and definitely beyond that and to future bonds and how to replace that out. as the head of our facilities will share a little bit of thinking on that and the timeline for these discussions with the board. >> thank you. so, again this is the first part of a three part really trajectory. we have our facilities condition assessment and this data which we will share broadly or as broadly as we are interested in and presented to the public to get our feedback and that will shape our overall priorities which is what is the facilities master plan is to use or funding for and after that, we will begin the very specific process of identifying projects and building in general obligation bond proposal.

we will create a next master plan and create an asynchronous to interact with that information and get information from the public to get back from you for what should be a facilities master plan. what would be in a facilities master plan. we have a lot of choices. the statute out of a very few basic requirements around demographic projections. we really in particular, we want to talk about ventilation, we want to think about how we've used the capital funding sources we've had so far and want to layout more of a vision for how to move forward on technology investment and school yard

improvements and school safety and security much more specifically. there is also policy shifts on the horizon that we need to be prepared to meet and that includes the universal thek requirement as well as alignment to the policy and we are hoping that we'll produce a document that speaks to all of these issues. after that, we'll look at the go bond and our first budget. we do engage regularly with the county of san francisco and will be presenting with the san francisco planning committee early november and share the data with them. we'll have a real conversation to be had planning for the november 2023 ballot with this november's measure consolidating to even year elections. that means that we have to think about whether

or not we want to move forward with the march 2024 or november 2024 ballot. we will rely on pulling freebeed all of our stakeholders to make that decision. we need for go bond 55% threshold passage. lastly, i really want to thank the facilities division team. this has been an important body of work that they have managed to maintain a momentum on despite the multiple distractions. we are joined by capital improvement project and management planning and if anyone would like a presentation on this information, they can reach out to us and we are happy to arrange that and looking forward to connecting with all of our school sites and hearing their feedback. >> i would like to echo for the

team. as much as i'm focused on student outcomes and what's happening in the classroom, we know to reach those outcomes, we need a positive learning environment for our student and this is an important conversation to lay the foundation for the facilities master planning that needs to happen over the next year. there might be questions and comments on the next steps and so, we'll turn it back to you for that and there is public comment. but no action needed tonight. >> before i open up for discussion, i would like to see if there is public comment?

>> public speaker: dr. wayne, you know bonds and you came from hayward unified and that speaks well to the fact that you know bonds. the public comment i have is the fact that this is the future that we are asking for about $1.8 billion that is more of the budget than our school district. we need as a school to have transparency so i would like to have presented to you on a monthly basis what's going on for school spending, $15 million mission bay, $20 million east bay facility improvement plans,

$40 million, $1 million air procurement. these are real dollars being spent today. again, we only report to you guys once a year. we meet once a month with the bond program. you guys need to see what's going on. i would recommend this bond program give an update on what's going on. thank you so much. public speaker: let's just call this what it is. this is an opportunity to close black and brown schools in our neighborhood as named by the committee before admitted to the board. i'm very concerned that this attack on the schools and we continue to balance the budget on the backs of schools

that serve blacks and latino families. the superintendent knows this as well sense he closed a bunch of schools in 2021 and this board along with superintendent hwang hired -- that built his whole business model that closed black and brown schools in st. louis and texas. this is extremely concerning to me. >> >> this concludes public comment. >> we need to check zoom. >> sorry. >> please raise your hand if you

wish to speak. >> please state this in spanish and chinese. >> [foreign language] >> thank you. >> ms. marshall? >> yes, i would like to thank the complete for this report. however, a greater work for that, that we do not want any schools in our black and brown neighborhoods to close. as we heard x amount of dollars for

particular schools. i'm not sure why over one side of the building. the schools have not been remodeled. so please add that to your list and do not close schools in the black and brown communities. make those schools a great place for learning. thank you. >> thank you. >> latoya? public speaker: i join the sentiments for our black and brown communities. too often, we don't talk about how these schools have been totally dismantled. as a matter of fact, sfusd property sat there unused

and was a public school. it makes no sense that you don't want to look at what created the outcomes. it's another level of non-accountability especially by this board. >> commissioners, comments? >> commissioner alexander? >> i have a question of the kind of thinking from staff as to the saving of this process because as chief noted there was a lot of inter locking in slide 16 with all the different factors. in particular with the policy is

really critical in terms of getting that figured out first. so i'm just curious do we have thoughts on that? >> i will say this. as i have come in and we have been talking as a team, there is a recognition that there are three very interconnect iv conversations that have to happen simultaneously. the facilities master planning, the elementary assigning rezoning process and the programs and where those programs are placed. and i think right now, we recognize all of those need to happen. we are working on the phasing and expect to come in january to talk about the

elementary zoning assignment and when we share then, we'll be able to share how the facilities master plan and the program conversations we need to have as well. around next steps, there are certain themes that i get regularly asked about and school safety is number one from our parents. i was wondering if there was any update. i know it's outside the scope. as far as next steps, what can we expect as a board on the

implementation on the current bond and preparation of the next phase of planning. i don't know if superintendent if you have given any thoughts to that. i sounds like you are coming back in the next few months in the meantime and if there is going to be public communication or updates to the board in between. >> i think at our next meeting we'll be looking at our board governance calendar. i think it's worth having a conversation is what makes sense is a board meeting update and other reasons we might share with the community as an example with the interim and monthly cbsc committee meetings and as that information is being shared and is the board meeting a place to

do that and there are questions around our facilities. we do have a new head of communications also and thinking of some communication strategies will be helpful and can consider that for next meeting when talking about the next board governance calendar and moving forward as well. >> commissioner, a response to your question about the security systems, i'm happy to provide an update. of the $11 million that was reallocated from the 2016 go bond for site security and improvements, we have set aside a little bit under $4 million to combine locks in the next 12 months for school sites that need columbine locks in classrooms and those that were lined up in the queue and next practices, the next priority that i would recommend to the board is that we now invest in

public announcement systems. there are a number of school sites that don't have public announcement systems and that is an important investment and also cost around a half million per average site and that is necessary for the pa system and a buzzer intercom, but the main priority is getting pa systems. we have also allocated about half a million dollars to upgrade for school security and security cameras particularly at middle schools and high schools. we have heard very clearly the feedback and appreciate everyone's patience to organize this and with bandwidth to move forward. >> a comment in regard to the

placeholder amount for the next bond, the $1 million. i guess that feels like a very small number to me based on the size of our need and just thinking about how that stretches across the district depending on whether or not that would be more impactful than what people experienced with the last bond and frustration around it and trying to figure out how we are either lining up this one to lead to next one and have a clear vision on how all would lead to these efforts and to emphasize how we are committed to all of the school sites to continue to invest in them. >> thank you. that is the part of a master plan to discuss not just what is in front of you but think of about how that long-term set of investments work. so i appreciate that feedback.

>> will we hit $2 billion? >> thank you again to the team and for your work. we are very much looking forward to having you back here in january, but i'm certain that you will hear from many of us before then, and particularly around working with the superintendent around the different phases and the inter connectedness on the decisions and considerations that the board and superintendent will be working on. thank you again so much for all the work. all right. colleagues. we will now move into agenda item i. consent calendar and thank you again to vice-president for chairing tonight. i'm just coming in on the final ending here. >> i would like to have a motion

and second on the consent calendar? >> so moved.. >> second. >> thank you. >> public comment. members of the public may comment on any matter on the consent agenda. any items? at this time, i will go to actual public comment. >> public speaker: hi, again, everybody. i was some questions about the last few items on the consent calendar particularly 50, board

policy 5145.9. i'm not sure why that wasn't included in the item g, and all the other policies that were discussed around the complaint process presentation. specifically this policy needs to go a lot further. there has been a lot of request for 0 tolerance policy around this behavior. the policy states that students or families when an incident occurs they should report to a typer or other staff member. at that point the trust is broken. what is the next step. where do people go if they can't go to the school or if they have broken that trust. we have not addressed that here. please discuss this more in

detail. that concludes in person public comment. >> we'll take virtual public comment. each speaker has one minute. >> can we have that repeated in spanish and chinese. [foreign language] >> thank you. >> latoya? >> thank you. thank you for bringing that up. i completely

agree. it should have been part of g. also there is nothing, you have a 0 tolerance policy but there is no policy and behavior towards students and parents. you missed the mark on this one and you are not operating on the standard for how you proceed. i wanted to call that on the record. thank you. >> thank you. this concludes virtual public comment for this item. >> thank you. >> i have a question for general counsel. because we have not fully implemented our days in advance for general public, at this time, i want to see if we would be able to sever for discussion should board members wish to do so for discussion?

>> that is a discretion as chair because board members have not had a full opportunity to address this. another note if we have staff here to answer your questions. so hopefully we will. >> colleagues, tonight i will then ask if you have any items you would like to sever for discussion? >> seeing none. we are severing no. 50. >>

>> roll call, please. >>clerk: [roll call] >> seven ayes. >> we will now open discussion for item 50 board policy 5.5. >> i think i severed it because i would like to get more information why this was determined to come before the board now, and i guess the relationship between the board policy and the practice at the school site and how they inter secretary # intersect.

>> all the policies tonight are the program monitoring that require that we update our policies based on guidance from the state. similar to the title ix presentation, we didn't necessarily receive many substantive changes to the policies. so we needed to bring them forward. then as i should, we brought those policies in particular for discussion because they have been a topic of interest with the board and our student designates. i do want to acknowledge having participated in my listening and learning, this was an issue that is also of importance to our community. i have heard the concerns about interest in other types of time and having clear practices in place. this would be something again that will be addressed in various forms, but

in terms of reviewing the policy, we highlighted the ones on title ix and sexual harassment because we have actions in place to speak to and most importantly our student designates and this was an important topic to them and we wanted to get an opportunity to discuss as a board. that is the rational. i don't know if you want to add anything. it is just the required changes that we are bringing forward tonight. but hear how it doesn't address all the concerns that we face at the district. >> the only other thing i would add is one of the explicit changes we did make to this policy is to clarify that parents and students can make the complaint directly to the office of equity if they don't feel it is being addressed at the school site. we did try to give another avenue of readdress. >> thank you. the other question

i had both in regard to this particular policy in general is i guess what is the bridge between the board policy and the expectation that folks have as far as what happens at schools. is this kind of outlining the extent of what we do in regards to this behavior or i guess how do we balance that? does that make sense? >> vice-president, are you asking what sort of training or professional development we are providing around this policy? if that's the case, i'm not sure i can answer that question. >> no, i think i'm trying to get an understanding as we implement policies and updates, how do we ensure that they are being implemented with fidelity at school sites and that our policies are being rolled out in the ways that we have stated? >> good question. i think we can do a better job frankly of publicizing when we update our

policies. we've struggled with that in the time i have been here. i think it's work we are still undertaking. and sometimes it's hard to prove a negative, we have to fall back on policies to implement but we don't hear when good things are happening. so it's hard to know if sites are resolving these on their own and why we don't hear about it. i don't know if you have anything else to add to that or in terms of how we would hear about it with student discipline. >> yeah, thanks for reaching out or asking me. sorry, it's late. i think what legal counsel said is correct. that is always our challenges to policies and

implementation of them and those that have been racially motivated, sexual harassment and bullying and try to address all the areas and i would say we have gaps and ways to go. >> thanks for that. i have one more question. if we wanted to change or update this policy to go beyond what the minimums are set by the state, what would be the process of doing that for us as board members, and if the public has thoughts about board policies that they would want to see changed or amended, what would be the process to provide that input and who should they direct that too? >> they could direct it to any of you, they can't direct it to the office of equity if they think we have a gap in the

policy. if commissioners see something in the policy you want to change. we haven't talked about this, but in my ideal world you would talk to us about that first to try to vet the idea and give you some legal advice on that and talk with board leadership you and president lam about whether this is the policy to bring forward to revise. i almost wanted to sever 47 so i will should shoe horn this to save time. what i was concerned about was the county, normally you would go to the county, that's a county issue 678 -- with these

policies, is it too hot? i'm trying to delineate what is a normal response as to chain to county and how that would be handled. the problem is that you are complaining to the people, you are asking people to adjudicate when you are complaining about them. so explain to me how we handle this and if there are lines. >> every state such as california is required to have this uniform policy. but what i think you are getting at is when you are not satisfied with the district response you can get to the county process and appeal process. you can do the same as

a parent in the school district. it doesn't go to the county but the state. we go directly to the cte. >> i was close to filing a complaint years back and cde doesn't know what to do with uniform complaints. they don't. i have worked through that system to find someone who knows what to do with it and they don't know what to do with it. so i'm asking as a county, we are a county as well as a city district. so as a county, how are we offering that service? >> right. it's hard for me to understand what information you got because i can tell you we have uniform complaints. we have learned recently, superintendent wayne, you got a copy of it to the state and the state will adjudicate it. they won't take it directly and you have to work through your district and if you are not satisfied, you have to

appeal. that's been our experience and hard to comment on the circumstances that you are describing. >> may i address superintendent wayne on this case. i would love given that you have operated and been a superintendent of a non-county lea, could you give this a little bit of response. not at the moment, i realize this is a consent calendar and not putting you on the spot but this is causing tension within many of our policies because people feel like you reach a dead-end pretty quick. so i think with some county thinking would be handy. yes. >> commissioner, as board

leadership, we'll also follow up with superintendent wayne. let's go ahead and have roll call vote on item no. 50. >> thank you. [roll call] >> 7 ayes. >> move to agenda item j. may i have a motion. >> so moved.. >> second. >> public comment, public comment may be made on any consent agenda items but not up for discussion otherwise-- for

discussion. >> any items severed? >> item no. 5. >> mr. steel, let's have roll call. actually sorry. is there public comment? >> yes. we have two speakers. >> rex and -- yvette bracket. 92 public speaker: thank you for pulling no. 5. i sent you guys a write-up that i did when i did the report. the same individual that gave horse man all good. he probably didn't show up and when you read the contract, that 25% of them shall be visited unannounced. great. if it's unannounced he didn't have to show up. i think this should not be approved because how many are

inspected and how do you verify the inspection. when you look at the horace man, we don't need another one and this needs investigation. thank you. >> you are speaking to all the retro contracts. >> yes. >> since i have to reply to all of them at one time, the biggest thing that i want to say that as we are talking about facility resolution in particular, as rex said there are a lot of properties and contracts that

are happening that are not going through a public process or even there being a review of some of these contract for services specifically kag learary and i don't think you guys can contract with him for review of all of our properties. so that should be rejected and the work that is specifically tied to the facilities and from the meetings that you plan to divide the districts into seven different districts and with that forcing parents to go to only districts. this is a historically racist

policy. >> that concludes in person speakers. >> now we'll turn to virtual public comment. please state that in spanish and chinese. >> [foreign language] >> >> thank you. seeing no hands raised for this item, that concludes our virtual -- sorry. i do see a hand. >> ms. marshall? >> yes, thank you so much. >> i agree with what the other speaker. it's simple. come up with a way that when folks come out to the school site and to

inspect for student safety that they have someone to sign off on it, otherwise do not pay them. for someone that is not licensed, why would you even consider them? more importantly, if a lawsuit is waiting to happen, everyone needs to have a choice. do not put us in a lower box. there are many lawsuits. >> we are not talking about student assignment. it's not under the retroactive contracts. >> okay, i will end there with the contract. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> latoya? >> public speaker: thank you, i completely concur with the comments prior to me as stated with making sure there is some

accountability. i know it's something you don't believe it. i think there should be some oversight board who is also consistent of these particular schools to make sure they are conducted with or without advanced notice. these investigators are not going to be planning on these structures. for example, there was a school. there were six kids who were injured because there were bolts loose on the playground and that is not something that is necessarily officially, but the medical records. definitely need to relook at that contract. and he should not be on our campuses if he is not bonded. >> thank you. that does conclude or virtual public comment. >> thank you. >> let's have a roll call vote on the retroactive contract items no. 5 severed. >> thank you. [roll call]

>> before we go into discussion, or questions for consent item number 5 active contracts it is 11 o'clock, you have been here since the beginning, that is 6 hours so if i can ask the questions be concise and that would be great. >> i already talked about my concerns so fine voting this. if others want to discuss i'm happy to explain them or not. >> (inaudible) >> basically the short version is that my concern i raised a concern around this one because last fall-raised the same concern last fall

because this contractor produced a report-(inaudible) saying the facility were exalismary last fall. i never received a explanation why that occurred or why that was possible. raise a concern last year and now we are asked to hire again on a ret roactive contract. those are my concerns. i understand there may be reason frz it, i just can't support it given the fact that i raised it last yer and it wasn't addressed. >> (inaudible) >> i was going to ask a secondary question. i guess if someone could also explain the difference between what we received today with the facility assessment versus the williams inspection? just the difference between intwo if there is one. >> sure. and, thank you for commission alexander for sharing your concerns. i did

in response to the concerns the district did a rfp for the services and only received this response but this is one of the challenges being a city in a district. a city and county as one district. we need a external provider. typically the county office of edge condition. this needed to have been done beginning of the year but for future ones we will speak with other counties to who they are using for this or if they have staff that is willing to do it to try to get a different provider. so, we definitely will move forward with that. i think and appreciate your question vice president because it is different. i'll take-i'll try to describe it and then if general counsel wants to add more and believe mrs. (inaudible) i don't see her here. the

williams is looking at-some baseline requirements met around our facilities and if not, it mandates that they addressed. the facility assessment-it compared what we want the facilities to be like and what is needed to bridge fully up to the current standard without speaking to what it will be modern-how it will be modernized. related but the facility asestment is more looking at overall the needs and to serve as baseline where it would go. the williams is just checking off basically is it working or not and have three different levels that can be noted. exlempary, good and needs improvement basically.

>> so, then because they have different standards are you-are the districts saying that the assessment from the previous williams complaint was accurate based off everything we understood or is that different? because it came back positive, then we had a bunch of issues at the school and have a facility report that says there are things the school needs to be to address. i guess the verification of the work and our confidence in what was produced. >> i think it is hard to say, because the inspector is there at a snapshot in time. they don't go back unless there is issue they need to go back and inspect and make sure it is repaired. both can be trued. bbhm had sockets that were malfunctioning and it could be true the inspector walked through and nobody said that socket and

malfunctioning and he doesn't test all the electrical sockets so it is a snapshot in time. i will also say to the comment, he isn't at the site. he attests he does visit the site. he has a very detailed inspection rubric he must comply with. if there is fraud or dishonesty happening we would want to know about that and have no reason to believe that that is true. >> is that inspection rubric publicly available and something we can share if people are interested? >> absolutely. >> i'm just looking at the date of the contract. (inaudible) i assuming have been rendered, so- >> that's-(inaudible) >> sometimes it is retro and sometimes a couple week. if this

person renders services isn't there a obligation to--that's all i'm raising. >> commissioner (inaudible) >> i know we are not allowed to comment, respond to public comment so this isn't response to public comment this is question to general counsel. if in fact this individual doesn't have a contractor's license, but is able to do this work, do they need a contractor's license to do the work because i do see the person doesn't have a contractor license but does have bonding information and appears to have a active bond history. >> no, we do not require a contractor license to perform the work.

>> okay. discussion for item number 5. roll call vote, please. >> thank you president lam. number 5 on retroactive contracts. [roll call] 6 ayes. >> thank you. moving to item number k. board member's reports. report from board delegates to membership organizations. other reports by board members. for item l, information item. just want to note the initial proposal from the united administrators of san francisco is posted on the agenda and it is the initial proposal from uasf. and we

will now move to adjournment. this meeting is adjourned at 1109. thank you, have a great evening. [meeting adjou

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there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music]

>> hello, i'm shanna with the league of women voters of san francisco. along with the league and sfgov tv, i'm here to discuss proposition d, a billion on the measure which will be for the voters on tuesday, november 8th. currently, under city law, various city boards, commissions and officials generally must review and make decisions to approve or deny the development of new housing. development of new housing must