men. the regular board meeting of the board of education of the san francisco unified school district for january, 24. 2023 is now called to order roll call vote, please. good evening. i'm here. here. vice president bogus president. commissioner alexander. i am still here. good evening. commissioner fischer. present commissioner mohammadi. here. commissioner sanchez here , commissioner wiseman ward here president lamp. here. at this

time before the board goes into closed session. i call for any speakers to the closed session items listed in the agenda. there will be a total of a maximum of five minutes of four speakers. are there any speakers for public comment? seeing that in person. if anyone on online cares to speak to the closest an item, please raise your hand at this time. thank you. please note the board will take a roll call vote on the recommended student expulsions when we reconvene to open session and now recess this meeting at 503. >> i do want to note that there is childcare that is provided this evening from 5:00 to 9:00 for children ages 3, the

childcare is upstairs on the third floor in the cafeteria, snacks there be provided. and at this time, i would like to provide the read out from closed session. i proof approval of expulsion matter number 2022-2023 number 15 from the district for the remainder of the spring 2023 semester and placement at the civic center middle school. can i have a second? >> second. >> roll call please. >> commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> vice president boeingis. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> yes. >> commissioner matamody. >> here here. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> president lam. >> yes. >> student delegate, sorry.

>> thank you, report from closed session in the matter of gee gee versus sf u.s. d0h number 2022-0903, the vote gives authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. in the matter of kp versus sf u.s. d, 1037 the board by four aye one abstain gives authority to pay up to the stipulated amount. the board gives direction to the general council. thank you for joining us this evening. we do have a full room. tonight i want to express grief and hard heartache in response

to the most resent violence explicitly gun violence here in the bay area as well as monterey park in southern california. this is also very personal and hits particularly at home especially this time of year. lunar new year is a special time to reflect, celebrate with family and friends and community. our hearts go out to the victims and families and everyone impacted by these tragedies. our schools must be safe and welcoming faces for each and every person to learn and thrive. we want to make sure students know that they can always talk to a teacher, principal or another caring adult at their school. and as a community, as a city, we must continue to work together and take care of one another, foster hope and provoid the safe and newer tubering environment for each

and every student. and at this time, we will go into the annual organizational meeting of the board which is an action item. we have the election of officers 2023 for the board education. the item is a continuance from the january 10 special meeting. the vote did not reach a super majority for the office of president, the position of the president. so per our rules the vote was postpone and continued to this meeting. at the january 10th meeting vice president bogus and i were nominated for president. at this time, are there any additional nominations for president? seeing none, if there are no further nominations of the opposite of president, i

declare the nominations closed. i want to again reinstate that vice president bogguess has been nom nailted as well as i have been nominated to serve in the president role. do you have any additional comments, invite president? okay, neither do i. before we open for discussion, brief discussion from colleagues or to take our vote, i will now open to public comment. >> thank you president lam, we do have 11 speaker cards for in-person. i'm going to call five speakers at a time. when you hear your name please line up at the dais. >> i will then up to 20 minutes of total public comment on both for in-person and virtual because we did take public comment in the previous extended previous meeting. >> thank you.

>> superia ray, selena chu, dedra wang, meg and core a camrod. each speaker will have one minute each. and superia you can go ahead. >> speaker: thank you so much. i'm superia ray i'm here commenting on the leadership leader. i want to express my concern for how the situation has resulted in the interest of our students assuming to be over shadowed by what is going on among the members here. i would ask that you retain jenny lam who has provided

steady leadership over the last months and made a districts in the tenure of this meetings and what appeared to be interactions among board members as well. it seems to me that she has proved her ability and competence to lead and there is no good reason to replace her. i would ask that she be allowed that you vote for her to continue this good work and allow the focus to go on our students and good garbe ans and showing them that everyone can work well together. thank you. >> hi my name is selena i'm a parent of two sfusd students. your delegates who spoke loued and clear. please listen to the kids and parents. it's time that we bring ourselves back on track and

start working on increasing pays for everyone here. they should be doing things other than coming here to talk to you about this again. so we're on the right track. sxibl you should reelect president lam, the president because she has been doing great with getting anything moving and now we're here we're talking about removing her from her whole and it never changed in our leadership. when you talk about equity, this is not equity, she is a mom and has kids, let her continue her job. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello commissioners, i'm the parent of two sf u.s. d elementary students and i'm here in speak in jenny lam's

support. after years of turmoil, she has refocused this board on the students and success of our schools and our district. it is time for us to continue that work it's important that students are considered and families are considered in these discussions and the work of this board. and also that the district is centered. i fully support this, we don't need distraction and change and board leadership without children in the school district taking over for their own personal gain. it's unacceptable that a faction of this board is trying to take away power and voice over our aapi community when 40% of our students are part of that community. they at the serve a voice.

>> i'm here because i want school board to focus on their students and families. president lam does that, she puts us president and i want a mom to lead the board. >> next five speakers, merideth, john blackwell, carlie lao, angela jao, sorry i cannot see the last name, sarah messian and then sarah montoya. >> you can go ahead. >> public school mom, i wonder why we're spending more time on this.

on the leadership change right now when we could be talking about student outcomes or the adults that support them at sf u.s. d. and oubt all the time spent by commissioners vying for more power rather than staying unified and focusing on our students and new vision and values and guardrail plan that the current president, who has not been elected to one full term yet, helped launch. i wonder what it was like to make this go quick and give the president a chance to cement what she started. and so soon, it's like whiplash after what this community has experienced over the last couple of years. let's do it for stability, keep the president in her place. thank you.

>> i'm the parent of two children and i'm here to support jenny lam in her leadership post. we've been through so much over the past few years and i don't need to go into great detail about distance learning and what we went through with the pandemic and we have final lea chiefed some stability and now there is a proposed change of leadership. and now, i'm really dumb founded with the timing. it feels like you have not heard what the voters spoke in the last election. the optics are terrible, but this is not about the optics, this is about the kids. do the right thing and let jenny lam serve a full term as president. thank you very much.

>> speaker: [speaking chinese]

>> speaker: i'm carlie a parent in the last 12 months, san francisco school has seen some changes one for superintendent. changing president lam early will cause her to have less than one year as the board president. this change is not a good way to governorance, it's unstable for students and families. why not give her a chance to finish her term? is this being done for selfish reason for some self member board members own own good self, sorry excuse me. lost a term there at the end, sorry.

>> speaker: [speaking chinese]

>> translator: hello i'm angela, i have two kids tht school district. i continue supporting president lam to be a president. president lam is a public school mom. she leads good governorance, student center and raises academics. she has not finished her term for one year and she should not be questioned or disrespected. pulling her down before finishing her presidency breaks her strong leadership and will bring instability to the school district. thank you, everyone. >> hello i'm a public school teacher and also parent of two unified school students. in the past commissioners have remained in office in order to provide stability in highly unstable times. the last few years have been

challenging for our district and teachers and of course our students. in the mitted of the of budgeted and payroll nightmare, at this time i think a change in leadership is needed and respect commissioner boggess, as of this time, the ship can paid. the ability to serve our students and her personal investment in the district as a whole. i was also moved last week to hear that both students delegates were supporting commissioner lam. thank you for your time. >> hello i'm sarah and i'm here to express my desire for stability and my support for president liam.

both spoke in support of president lam at our last session. and it's clear that in her abbreviated term she is focused on student outcome and listening to parents and providing what our students need. i also stayed long enough to here the workshop where the coach said, the way you've always done it is not working. i'm asking you to listen to the parents and students that have spoken up. and any vote that is not vote for support shows that we're back on frack focusing on politics and not student outcomes. >> i have three more cards, robert low, make that four,

eric mendes and joe? you can go to the podium please. >> speaker: i'm a step father of a school district student. president lam has been doing a great job, thank you. >> speaker: hi i'm leana louie i'm a mother of a child in washington high school. and i'm here to support jenny lam as president of the board, you've done a good job and kept everything going here at the school board meetings with lots of, lots of stability and reason and we want you to stay as our president. so yes, thank you. >> hi my name is eric mendes i'm a sf u.s. d parent and also

an immigrant from nicaragua and i credit my success in luck and public schooling. i'm going to keep it short because it sounds like you have the votes. think about this, why am i here wasting my time watching this when i can be with my kids? but instead, i've got to come out here and watch this. so, i mean, i'm obviously supporting commissioner lam, and i just want to say do the right thing and stop being greedy. [applause] >> good evening, commissioners, i'm a public school parent at glen park. i have a little kid who is 9 and then another son who is 2 who will be coming up in the sf u.s. d system. and i'm here today not putting

my kids to bed because i want to make sure that this board runs properly. my daughter in first grade was out of school for about a year and a half because the schools were learned for too long and we saw what that did to learning. and good district is what makes this district run. i don't know why we would be changing things right now. we had a very very bad situation in the board, that's why three were voted out. take that out and don't take changes when you don't have to. thank you very much. >> that concludes in-person public comment. if you care to speak on this item, raise your hand and can that be repeated in spanish and chinese please. >> >> translator: [speaking

spanish] [speaking chinese] >> thank you. keira? >> speaker: hi, i'm keira gaber i have a child in sfusd, and i also attended the district for 18 years. i want to support jenny lam. >> you can start over. >> speaker: okay, my name is cherry and i'm a parent and another one who is going to start kindergarten next year. and also a former student of 12 years. and i credit my success.

i'm here to put my support behind giving jenny lam her first full term. when she came on, she set the intention and concrete action to turn our district around and went back to trust of parents and family and children and educators. i encourage to you please listen to all the students that are speaking today. the student delegate also spoke in favor of keeping lam. it's important to have leadership of something that knows the action that personally affects them, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> speaker: good evening, everybody, we have a board that is 100% submitted and hopefully they're all committed to all children. commissioner lam has done great work.

this is the question about shared leadership and the trust that all the training that she has received all other board members have received as well. commissioner boggess has received eater. either--if commissioner lam, remains, it should not cause them to end. allow for shared leadership. if commissioner lam remains great, however if she is replaced as president, she would still be committed to good work because that is the type of leader she has chosen to be. >> thank you. susan wong. >> speaker: hello my name is

susan wang i'm the mother of three sfusd a lum, and i'm here to ask the board to keep jenny lam as president of board. during her presidency she lead a super focused superintendent in dr. matt wane who has shown respect for parent feedback. also she had the entire board of education under go executive leadership training to understand and focus their attention on crucial priorities. she also guided the district to setforth operational goals such as having all students reading by third grade which is leading the adoption of a new reading curriculum. and also made a priority of improving 8th grade math proficiency for all students. and the other students have

spoken up about how it was before. i would like to remind you that the board wasted precious time with renaming 44 schools during the one and a half years that the schools were closed as well as contend with a half a million dollars dollar removing the mural. i just want to remind what is at stake here. >> your time is up. hello, tom? >> speaker: hi my name is tom, i'm a parent and my wife and i are special education teachers. from my understanding, the rule routed where you needed five votes inside of four. that's why we're talking about it again. i mentioned before that,

commissioner boggess when i had a question. jenny lam has not visited our school. she is your friend, she supports what you support. so she has not reached out to the other ones. and they say lis listen to the parents, a lot of parents say i'm the only voice up there. a lot of parents who did not call in, do not speak. we're a very small large in. she would have the failure of not weighing, but found of him. >> all right, that concludes the 20 minutes allotted for public comment. >> thank you, at this time going to open the floor for any brief comments from colleagues before we do the roll call vote. commissioner alexander?

>> thank you, president lam and i'm, i hope i will go over the limit, and if i do, not by much. i'll be brief. as my colleagues know, i spent 28 years before being on the board as principal and teacher so i watched the board a little bit from afar. and this is the most hyper politicized i have seen of leadership site. and i don't fully understand why that is happening, i don't know who's interest it serves. but i don't think it's good for our kids. normally the process is handled internally with the board, there are not 501c doing email campaigns and other things happening on the outside. so i, i have been trying, i think it's been challenging, i've been trying to depot lit

calize it. and i think the best thing for the word is having a clear succession plan. >> i cannot hear a thing. i don't know what happened sorry. i may have to leave and come back on. >> jetson is fixing it now. >> we can hear now. >> okay, i was just saying, i don't think a succession planning is possible on all boards. i was in a board where we had to remove the vice president. so succession in that context did not make sense. when we have a very talented

group of people. in this context, it makes sense. that's why i'm going to continue to support vice president boggess moving into the presidency. in terms of vice president, i have respect for commissioner sanchez and commissioner lam serving as president, especially this year during a transition time. her leadership has been here oic, those of us who have not served being vice president, i would be willing to do it but i also have three amazing colleagues who ipg would be fantastic. i also heard legitimate concern about gender, if i was vice

president, we would have two men in leadership. if--just to wrap up, i think you know one of my heroes is ela baker in the u.s. civil rights movement and she warned the danger in justice movements depending on one leader. she was a believer in building leadership in others. and we can do that as a team. really value all of our talent even when we're not in the leadership role. thank you for listening to me, colleagues.

>> okay, seeing no other comment, yes, commissioner motamedi. >> thank you for your service. i just want to thank you for your service. you've given so much and continue to give so much to our students, our families and district, i want to thank you for your leadership. i heard the message loud and clear that our district needs stability when we can find it and we found it in your leadership. i'm a parent in the district. and coming on to this board, i understand your leadership, which we have all agreed was the right leadership, really helped calm things and it's been a bright spot showing leadership in our district.

and i have just been so klaesed and is wish it to continue. and i want to say i greatly appreciated the partnership that both of you have created in board of leadership and i hope wish that to continue. but first i want to thank you for leading with vision, acumen, with grace, with professionalism and in collaboration with all ofs. --of us, thank you. >> thank you. at this time, if you can do a roll call for nomination of commissioner boggess or lam to do it. >> justin will do it. >> thank you. are we doing individual roll call. roll call for president lam. student delegate hansen. >> president lam.

>> sorry, delegate mosa. >> president lam. >> commissioner alexander? >> commissioner boggess. >> commissioner fisher. >> commissioner boggess. >> commissioner lam. >> lam. >> motamedi. >> president lam. >> sanchez. >> commissioner boggess. >> ross ward. >> president lam. >> president boggess. >> commissioner bogguess. >> three ayes for commissioner lam. >> thank you. >> so i would like to announce that commissioner boggess has been elected the board of education for 2023. we will now move to congratulations, move election of vice president of the board

of education for 2023. as a reminder if any member called for acclimation only by general consent of the board. i would like to declare are now open for the office of vice president board of commissioners of education for the year of 2023. and i do have a nomination, i will lead with the nomination. i would like to nominate commissioner lisa wiseman ward. it's been a joy serving from lis with. she has demonstrated her smart and thoughtfully and deeply analytical. she spoke passionately about our students. all students deserve an

excellence in educational opportunities and our hard working staff are the heartbeat of our district and they need to be recognized and acknowledged for their contributions every day. she embodies values, leading with equity for each and every student. she brings decades of experience fighting for justice, fighting for individuals and communities that often don't have a voice or representation. she is fierce. she is des sting abilities not only work withing many communities but bringing people together. to listen and tackle tough solutions and doing so with compassion. i know she will lead in the role with fairness and diligence. i remember at her first board meeting, she had her board meeting printed and highlighted in different colors along with

notes, maybe even post it and also a sf u.s. d mom and we know moms get things done. and i'm proud and excite today have wiseman ward to serve as vice president. i ask my board colleagues to join me in voting to support her. are there any other nominations? seeing none, general consensus. by acclimation. congratulations. >> noted. before we do a formal transitioning of our new board leadership, i want to personally extend my gratitude to my colleagues here. it is been a privilege and honor to serve as a president of the board of education this

year. it has been trying and difficult times for this district. and at the same time, it is our students, our staff, and this district that brings me the joy and the work that i do every day on behalf of our students in this district. and i want to extend my gratitude to president bogus, we have been a great pair. we would not have gotten the work that we accomplished as a board had there not been leadership and collaboration that has lead this board. so at this time, i would like to formally invite president bogguess to come to the seat and we will formerly change seats.

and from this president boggess will lead us through and chair the remaining of the meeting. >> okay, before we continue

with the agenda. thank you for the support from my fellow commissioners and thank you even for the commissioners that didn't vote for me for your commitment to the students and your district and your willingness to not let politics get in the board of business. since you all have been on the board, since i have joined the board, i have seen a commitment from the commissioners from the board to try to put students first. it has not always been easy but i feel the leadership of president lam has set us in the path to be successful and put forward a new district to really address the things that we're struggling with. it's time to acknowledge that we're in a time of crisis but multiple crisis. and how do we really address that and stay focused on our mission to do everything we can to make the schools and our families and our districts successful.

just appreciate, there were a lot of folks that came out to give comment and weren't able to. know na we're all fighting for you and your families. we want to see you be successful and hope that you continue to earn your trust and who you are and that we're doing a good job of representing you and your families. so thank you so much. and i think with that, we will go to our land acknowledgment. is i ask folks to stop speaking as we begin our land acknowledgment. >> we the board of education acknowledge that we're on the

unzeeded homeland of the ramotushaloni. and as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their tradition, they have never seeded lost nor forgotten the responsibility as the care takers of this place. as well as for all people who reside and their traditional territory. as guest we recognize that we benefit from work anding living on their homeland. we wish to pay our xekt by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramotesh community and honor their soverne rights. and with acknowledgment we'll go to board minutes.

can i get a motion for the minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you, we have a roll call vote. anyone want to ask for corrections. >> ms. hansen. >> yes. >> yes. >> commissioner alexander: >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> vice president wiseman ward. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> and president boggess.

>> yes. >> 7 ayes. >> okay, thank you. and with that, we will go to our next item reviewing the order of agenda items. at this time, i would like to notice a change in the agenda accountser we will be moving k-1 up to happen before public comment after advisory committee reports and appointments. we'll be moving that up. and with that, i believe we will transition into.

>> good evening, everyone. gong hay fat choy. i want to wish everybody a new year as which ring in the year of the rabbit or the cat and i hope this brings your family hope and peace. as our community gathers to celebrate lunar new year, we work to serve students and families each and every day. what is really neat about san francisco schools is we're a place where we want students to be themselves and see themselves and the diversity is celebrated each day. and we know that our community is made stronger by celebrating the difference that's define us. i hope everyone enjoyed the day

yesterday and looking forward to a year filled with hope and peace. so i've been conditioning school communities and see most importantly our students in classroom learning. so impressed with the different programs that we have in our schools as well as the work that has been done for student achievement. on the right is a picture which has innovative program to support teachers professional learning around math instruction to help improve student outcome in math and this is also supported by the city of san francisco and just to, you can see in the picture these are teachers and other staff in the room observing a colleague to then debrief how the lesson went. and that professional learning is ex example for what we want to do as a district.

and also got to visit washington tool high school, we went into a auto body shop and fwot a chance to see what the students are doing. so if you want to press play. got it or not? okay. it's okay.

>> i'm sorry. >> so he's pointing, pointing first to the engine that the student build. it takes 10 to 20 minutes and talks about perseverance and graduating to working on cars, you can see two cars in there right now that they're working on. and it's just, an amazing space that they have there. it's a case that fills up quickly and many students participate. just need to be out in the schools and see what we are offering. and with that, reminder that our enrollment deadline is approaching. so if you want to take advantage of these incredible opportunities for your students, make sure you have enrolled in the february third is the main round deadline, that's the last day to submit

tk applications if you want to be in that first round. >> very serious including graduation rate. and our graduation route to 92.2%, the highest rate in 6 years. in our vision 2025, we have done a lot of work to ensure that our students are graduating and graduating with the skills that they need with the 26th century. and we've been doing a portfolio to help them make sure if they're facing challenges that there are different opportunity for success. we're pleased to see in our overall graduation rate. and but it's nice to be able to celebrate ultimately the progress of our students and teachers and staff who are work withing them. and len lastly, i want to end

by thanking sfusd mentors. and we have a mentoring program which is called ment organize for success. so ment organize for success is court court naided and any employees welcome to apply. so impressed to see that it's our staff many of our staff are providing mentorship. so after, or often during, they're still meeting individually to provide that guidance. really appreciate the mentors and staff that are doing that.

that concludes my report. >> thank you, superintendent and now we call on student delegate. >> thank you, president boggess. student council has been preparing for annual summit. this will be a gathering of sfusd students to participate in workshop and listen to keynote speakers and watch the debate for next year. >> isabel and i would like to take a moment what is in our pursue as there is understandable confusion. we serve as representative of sfusd students, so our focus will always be on student. it's not up to us, we do not wish to be escape goats and pawns for any parents always thinking what is best for students. we do not participate in closed

session and we're not pref' to legal information. isabela and i wish that we could have real votes and ensure that if not all commissioners would support this but it's a state matter and not a board, so we ask that this frustration not be shown to our colleagues and you show respect to us and them. >> we appreciate the voice and happy lunar new year to those who celebrate. >> thank you, student delegates. and with that, we will go to item f and i'll call on superintendent wane. >> good evening, again. on november 4th, i declared a

payroll state of emergency to address our payroll issue. and since declaring a state of emergency i committed to providing updates on each of our board meetings in addressing this issue. so tonight i'm going to provide an update. be clear on what it means and fix sf and talk about what the past forward is over the next 90 days. and so since declaring the state of emergency, we have been able to make meaningful progress in key areas. we have worked to resolve some of our highest priority issues. so we learned that people were losing their health benefits and we were able to put in place a fix so that is not happening anymore. and we're work informing address to help anyone who's benefits were impacted.

employees were wanting to contribute to their retirement fund. we were able to fix that. including, we have staff who are on parental leave and rules in the contract of about paying staff on parental leave that were not able to do that. so we can resolve issues as soon as we hear about them. in all of these areas, we know there are still concerns coming up to us. but we're working to address those individual issues but we've been able to make the fixes. we know that it was important to move ahead with the 6% raise. by doing it for uasf, we have a time line to follow through on those. we did our end of the year close out and set out for 2023

more than 10,000 employees and implemented w2s and our staff will be receiving them shortly. and another key area we have been able to implement the command center, we have a case management team and identified 40 unique root causes. and this is critical for us to be able when i speak to what it means to fix it, this is a critical step for that. i did want to highlight one key, i'll share a little more data about these accomplishments. when i started in the district, we invited, alvarez and marshal to come in and provide support. and they showed that each month, since the implementation of empower, we were receiving more tickets meaning there were more issues coming in than we were able to close. so one of the main reasons we

thought was getting worse and not better. we're pleased to say, that after declaring the state of emergency, we have been able to bend the curve. meaning we have for two months to close more tickets than we've been able open. there is still way too much tiktsz that are open but that is the progress that we're waiting for and it's a blueprint how we can quickly resolve other issues. so i share those accomplishments but i know what people really want to hear is when is this going to be fixed? first, i want to explain what it means to be fixed. and what it's a fully functioning system. so we looked at what other districts do and talked with alvarez and marisol and they

show that say in functioning in districts with functioning payroll there is less than 20 errors, you heard me say that we have 10,000 employees. so there may be issue. so when there is an issue, they are fixed within one sickle. --cycle. also we're able to run all of our operations. and while we appreciate the support, really when those contracts are limited to technical support and we're not relying on them to run the system. and i know everybody wants an answer and you have not heard me provide a definitive date because we need to understand the problem. part of the process has been

asking alvarez and marisol, what will it take to fully fix it? on the next slide seoul see five factors and i would like to introduce aaron to speak to those. >> thank you, superintendent. just before i speak into the specifics i want to be clear that we did not go back and do the implementation of empower sf. what i'm going to discuss are document that's we reviewed since we came in the door this past fall. what we observed is why the district in the current state? it was deployed without defining requirement to support

the broad variety of complex payroll and benefit issues that the school district supports. as a result complexity were not adequately configured to empower sf. therefore resulting in pay roll errors. more specificallily. once the district went live, they did not have a rebust plan or resources to roll back the previous system. because they were so focused on the implement and supporting the platform. and also working remotely so

that furred contributed to the issue resulting from empower sf. finally, the support was and continues to be under staffed. the volume and complexity of the issues continues to slow the efforts. when we established the command center, was over 500 were now below 8700. so we're making progress but just because the complexity it takes time to work through these items. >> and thank you, and i think really in learning about this, i think the first point is so key. the first two points are so key that it was set without clear requirements.

and that the complexity were not factored in. every month there have been new issues that emerge and each month has brought new challenges to figure out. we've now been through a year of this. we're finishing that process and that's one of the thinssing that you can expect to see in the next 90 days. this what what the mild stone. i want to highlight three, that you, that we should be accountable to report on over the next 90 days. so one is, we have learned a lot in closing the dikts.

and should we the employee backlog reduced by at least half. now that we've been through a full year, all need to be modified. so we can say now we know the landscape of the issue. and then third that we're filling key vacancy so that we have the people power on resolving the issues. and know that i understand that that's what everybody wants to hear. you have things that you can look for over the next 90 days and we'll coming back on what is the timeline for full resolution so that concludes my report. thank you.

>> thank you for that update and now we'll see if we have any public comment and then i'll see if there is any public comment from commissioners. >> there is no public comment. >> we don't typically take public comment. >> my apologies. >> please raise your hand. please repeat that in spanish and chinese. >> [speaking spanish] >> [speaking chinese]

>> thank you we have two hands up. >> dr. sophia catherine. sophia catherine. >> can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> speaker: thank you for hearing me. the purpose is to educate the students first. and with 4% of the school board agency, it's critical that we have and critical position of leadership on the school board. >> that's a different item. >> speaker: also, >> i'm sorry, sorry, this is only to comment on the pay roll

state of emergency update at this time. >> speaker: okay, thank you. >> thank you. >> yeah, i think i appreciate the superintendent explaining, what was ruled out with implementation being thought of and i agree with that. i'm angry because we say only this many people, one person not being paid is wrong. every time, every time our paychecks come up, my co-workers, my wife, it's a gamble how can we not trust the district.

we're losing people because of this. i wish, more parents, i'm a parent would call in and say we have four hands. when it comes to negotiation, support staff it's not just the teachers that make the schools run, security, professionals, we have a staffing crisis because of this untrust and it's crazy and not right. >> thank you. >> the person who just spoke before me, still a lot of tickets. i'm here hoping to hear from the staff who have not had a paycheck. we start today talk about this

a year later and still not fixed. thank you, we must do better. think if this was you not receiving your paycheck. >> thank you, that's right. >> josephine shau. >> speaker: thank you superintendent for your report. i'm glad that there is better understanding about what is going on with the complex system. there is a lot of things going on with proper planning. i was a software developers and appreciate the of all of these ip complete planning. i hope that you can get to the bottom of empower ace asap so educators and staff can be paid.

also, thank you for the message of lunar massacre, we're holding a vigil. hung high fat choy. happy new the rest of chinese new year. >> thank you. >> speaker: all-time high, and so much that they should quaf. and district not only. accurately.

>> i'm sorry, we have a really bad connection. if you can try to get back in, i can try to get you after this. hello susie. >> speaker: my name is susie i'm a happily retired teacher, i'm a substitute. i'm very concerned about, some of the errors that were overpayments, under payment, i'm worried about doing my taxes, are you going to send an account or turbo tax expert to make sure that we're not paying taxes on money that was not even suppose to get to us? or didn't get to us? we may be giving back. i have a lot of anxiety over

this. this is like big and i'm hoping you're considering all the elements to this. okay, thank you. >> thank you, that's better. i'm sorry, bad connection. that concludes public comment. >> and thank you and if dorothy, we can have her provide comment in public comment. >> yes, or we can have her email. >> yes, so we'll see if there are comments or thoughts from commissioners.

>> i can go, thank you for the update. really appreciate the work and progress that has been done. i would just say, i do feel like you went a little bit quick with the slide with the timeline, just to say that, i believe the document is available so folks can see that if you're not able to capture it. since you've been coming in, i've been really excited about the way that you jumped and hand the issues. i think there is still a lot of frustration for me and about the progress that we've made. and we're still not in a place where we have resolved this issue fully. can and we're going to need to figure out how to address the fact that this is lingering and there is the expectation from our families and staff that we would have the issue resolved. also how do we make this whole

for the toll that is taking on this whole community whether it's the workers or the families who care about the workers impacted. so as we continue to have these conversations, i appreciate the increase transparency and the conversation. but at a certain point, we want to get to a solution. we want to use the full power to support you to do that. but i think just to be really clear, anything short i don't think it's going to be viewed as a success and there is a lot of urgency for us to have success. >> thank you, i definitely hear that and i appreciate the support that you provided since i started and the urgency that i hear about this. but what you can think about in the next update. there is a fixing and in the meantime, how are we recognizing the harvest cost. so we just heard from a caller

on anxiety they feel as we approach tax time. and thinking how we're going to address that, that's something that i can include in the next report. and in the meantime, be understanding and providing support to staff so the focus can stay where it should be in the classroom. >> okay, with that, we'll close out this item and transition to item g advisory committee reports and appointments and we'll call out the islander parents. thank you. thank you so much for being here.

>> [speaking in native language] good evening i'm a hawaiian pacific islander parent advisor, i'm here to further introduce them. so i would like to pass it to the co-chair. thank you. >> please continue by pressing the button.

and let me know when to advance the picture. >> [speaking in native language] i'll be reading for my co-chair teresa tonight. from the village of american samoa. she is a parent of a senior at balboa high school and has been a member advisory council for the last three years and currently my co-chair. shown here on this first slide are mate i have from pacific islanders. our acknowledgment in these phases we're in and greetings to everyone and our ancestors from before so that we may speak.

acknowledging the rell haloni the original people of what is now the san francisco peninsula. thank you superintendent dr. wane, all of our board commissioners, and families in audience for the opportunity to share our nhpi presentation tonight. next slide. >> on this slide, we have our agenda, we will take you on a journey where we come from and who we are and what we would like to see for our pacific island families, students and communities. next slide please. sorry, next one. our greetings in tongan my name is finao and i was born in the

kingdom tomau i reside and work in san francisco and my child attends gal leo high school i've been a member since 2020 and currently i'm co-chair to teresa. the term means parent or elderly, and very passionate community driven group of parents, grandparents aunts, uncles and care givers to pacific islander students. current enrolled sfusd. we're proud to be in this space to help our communities regain access and resources that will support our children to succeed not only in jurn's but all areas of their life. on this slide are the current members of council as well as community supporters and educators.

we are just few here to represent the nhpi community. families and students. on this map is a map of the pacific ocean where 26 pacific islands are located and 30 indigenous communities live. in the records of writing and anthropologist, ohan, is expanding. ohania is hospitable and generous and humanity fire deeper still, osheana is us, we're west and east of asia.

many of our people migrated and raised their families overseas while trying to instill the value and cultures that our parents taught us. here are the many reasons our ancestor navigated here. military services and under careers and educational opportunities, better income opportunities access to healthcare, religious work and family reunification. next slide please.

>> i think you need to turn the microphone on. >> i should have known this one beinger ieb here this long. maliala. i'm a tunguan villages of my father and mother. i'm a parent of second grader and i've been a member of the parent advisory council as well as the council for some years now. i'm currently the special education representative from the advisory council. and those are our challenges between knowledge and concern education. inter generational trauma. many of our young islander are affected by poverty that have conditioned from our parents and grandparent.

many of our youth end up being incarcerated. education is a shift. our children need to learn to learn about their identity. power structures for example. village versus individualism. we excel as community not as individual. these challenges are due to the challenges of language and sfruk tour and teaching tools that will uplift and provide cultural basis relevant to the pacific island students. next slide please.

the total pacific islander students overall grades pre-k to 13 as you see in 2022 to 2023, we have 880 students. in 2021, we had 927 students. a total of 56 of our pacific islander student population, identified as samoan. a total of 29% of students are receiving special education. for the school years 22/23. here are three things that they

would like to do immediately. that falls under pron i can absenteism for the school year 21-22. designer program to address the lack of education or awareness of who pacific islander people are and the accurate history of our pacific island. teachers and staff to help support our pacific islander children. what the status show, what this data does not show is that there is many pacific islanders that are not represented? while we're grateful for the samoan population data, we will

continue to hold sfusd accountable to providing us with accurate and i'll say it accurate, desegregated data. next slide please. >> my name is casey my family's origin are from the villages. i'm a san francisco native. and sfusd alumni. i'll be talking about the vision and goals for our native and pacific islander students.

these are the college career goals set by board of education. third grade literacy students, the percentage of all grade students reading at grade level will increase from 52% proficiency rate in october 2022, to 70% by october 2027. our students were only 20%. 8th grade math students percentage of all grade students performing math at grade level as measured by the state test will increase from

42 proficiency in october 2022, to 65% proficiency by 2027. for nhpi only 19% were proficient. college career readiness, the percentage of all high school 12 graders who are college career ready, as defined bit california department of education, will increase from 57.5% in june 2020 to 70% by june 2027. due to the pandemic, cde college career report for 2021 and 22 include only a sub set of cci measures reporting of all measures and overall rate will resume in 2023. next slide please.

this slide i want to cover some by our students. most are caring and voyful and when we want to keep high by implementing more programs, workshops and give them a sense of belonging and identity. with these there are challenges our students face such as cultural differences which leads to chronic absenteism then leads to less access to school and content learning, next slide please.

i am the district a lum class of 85. really? >> i got you. all right, now only did you make me sit here for two days. okay. my name is john mar, i'm from the village in american samoa and also a lum of district class 1985 my kids are a lum and now my grandkids attend in the district. i want to go with our current programs and nhpi programs.

we have our nhpi study hall, our tongan our high school pathway from sfusd to city college in san francisco. our summer credit recovery program. all of these programs were catered to our students. but also to not recruit but make sure that they have the

adequate credential. make sure that they have the right predeshls. please continue we continue to support the initiative. we need to get duel language. my grandson graduated great program but where are they now? they're in regular kinder guard ebb, please support the effort to continue.

somewhere where all the pacific islanders are. please continue samoan interpreter and continue more hands-on program. our kids work in community. we're not a selfish community and we do not do good in individualism but we do great as a group and teams, so please hear us on that. and also rename a school in our district after, artunita val lino and continue with the video translations that we have. and i want to go for new recommendation foeser this school year that we would love to expand the support for pacific islander content curriculum and events, work closely with the elected members to elect the following.

we only have 900 students, and houston we have a problem. recruitment of students and nhpi programs, add interpretation resources for for families and students, extend the pre-k and pathway it kindergarten and expand the sports for girls such as rugby. support all recommendation and migrant, explore funding resources for initiative team. support mental resource for middle school students. last but not least, we would like to know the updates from our school year and some of the recommendations implemented in the school year 2021 and 2022,

we have recommendations for this year but please, we would love, we still have unresolved issues from the previous years. our students are strug areling. they need more support need more programs and by all means, thank you and definitely we need your support moving forward. god bless. [applause] >> thank you so much for your presentations. it was greatly appreciated. before we take comments, i think we'll see if there is any public comment from the people who are here in person or virtually. >> thank you, president boggess, we do have 9 cards in-person. i will call five at a time and then five and then four.

and please forgive me if i miss pronounce. aqesa, ca risa actual a, swedi tajida, palimule. forgive me again. you can go ahead. >> yeah, we'll go a minute each. we'll remind folks to hit the microphone. >> it's on. >> i'm here today to talk about the staff members. i tend to notice that we're at the bottom of the system and that we're struggling in

different areas such as mental health, grades, truancy. and we need more members, that would help us because we would connect better with them and they know what we go through at home and at school. not only outside of school but in school too. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hello i'm a tungan freshman. i'm going to talk about education for pacific islanders. most piing youth are strangers to their history we should be

taught about our culture in schools. if we're required to take a language class, we should have the right to learn about our own language. thank you. >> you can go ahead. >> i'm a freshman at galileo high school. and i want to talk about how islanders are under represented as a whole. one example mostly signs sbriet on the asian community. and for another example is when we tell people what we are.

most of the time people are unaware of our existence. thank you. >> hello i'm and junior and would i like to talk about the pacific ways. i would like to talk about how the only way that people acknowledge is being being athletes and musicians and anything out that genre. we don't have the same resources that we need and that is offered to us as others. i wanted to be recognize that we do want to be physicians and i think there should be more opportunities and pathways for the younger generation and our generation as pacific islanders. for example, programs that help find your passion in school and

actually expose the achievements in other things other than sports music. thank you. >> speaker: hello i was here two months ago and we addressed the issue of absenteism, tonight i don't want to address that. i want to educate you, because samoan don't represent all islanders but we're a small population and small group here in san francisco however when you look at us as a pacific islanders, as a whole, you're looking at samoan, fijians and we need to make some changes up there. i see you doing the seat

shuffle we need a pdi so they can fight from within rather than us fighting from outside. >> speaker: that was my brother i was with him when we came couple months ago. it's pretty heart breaking to see all the data that was up there. and first of all, thank all of you for being here and thank you for acknowledging us, foreseeing us, if god can see us, we should be able to see each other. at the end of the day, it's just, it's just us, right? money does not matter, we matter. so here's what i'm saying, don't forget us in the spaces that you're in, when you're giving out money, don't forget us. we are not selfish as john mentioned, we are are helping everybody.

i've got a resolving door in my house and everybody can come in who really needs help. we're going to help everybody. that's just how we is, we feed you until you get diabetes. don't forget us, the next time i come up, it may not be pretty for you. thank you so much god bless you, let's have a great year. >> thank you, i have four more cards. tino, marissa robertson and i believe it's chrisna. >> speaker: good evening, i'm a tino, i'm a father of a student

and community member. so all the data that has been shown by our council, thank you so much. that's the data that we've been looking for a long time. all the programs that were provided to you in the presentation. as scdc, i know you may have heard too, it takes a village to raise a child. for our students, it takes all of us here to come together and stand in solidarity and also to support our students and families. we talk about cultural, you know, cultural values and all that, we think that is needed. we want other programs outside of times. some of you may know that, they're running after school programs. we want them to learn it within the school district. so we're both fighting outside to educate our folks and everybody else too. thank you.

>> hello my name is, hello my name is queeno martinez, and i'm sfusd alumni i'm here to support our families and youth of nhpi community. i'm here to show that we have community assessment by the community for the community sharing our needs. also many recommendations that you can see during the council presentation and more. so please look in that path and thank you so much for this opportunity.

>> i hear many hats including this cute one tonight. i'm the african-american advisory manager, and i'm also a parent in the district, i have five kids y'all. also a community member that lives in visitation and i say all of that to connect the circles and dots. i also say that that when they're moving and shaking, as a program manager for the apac i know how hard it can be to leave all of that work when there is all that students.

to invaes and get their babies to school. so when we know that they can implement they need to be supported as well at the district level to implement the same strategies and solutions for their families. thank you. >> good evening, pastor williams, born and raised, joined the military in 1975, retired in 1995, retired out of texas, tried to go back to samoa to see what was in the island and it was not good. so i came back and got my four boys, they went to school in balboa, one of went to sunnyvale, he came back three days in a row, no books no

homework, and i'm saying, this is why i left the island. and here in san francisco, we file a lawsuit. anyone familiar with the williams act, commissioners, superintendent? williams act, 18 years been in the book. it's a tool for every parent, i named it after my son eli williams, number one to have sufficient textbooks for every child. number 2, to have qualified teachers to teach and train your children, our children, your investment for the future. number 3, the making sure that they have repaired classroom. that was the contribution of a pacific islander to not only san francisco but to the state

of california. thank you very much for that opportunity. and my hat on to all of you for being there continuing to serve our community. god bless you. >> that concludes in-person public comment. please raise your hand if you wish to give a virtual public comment. please repeat in spanish and chinese.

>> can i talk? >> no, sorry, we closed public comment for in-person. >> vice president, wiseman ward. >> can you here to speak on this item? >> speaker: yes. >> well this is my first time. one moment please. okay, look who is here. >> we were studying online comment and this gentleman wants to know to talk in-person. >> typically we would say no but we'll give you a minute. >> speaker: i believe the san francisco school district are doing the best that they can do because i got hired in 1994 as a custodian and i believe all

the teachers, are the best to do whatever they did back then and in the 95. and still doing the best they could until this year. so, i believe that you guys are doing a good job. that's all my comments. >> thank you. >> ri anda >> speaker: good evening i'm one of the members of our parent leaders for our tremendous support for the council. and to thank them for their partnership and we ask that the board listen and actually implement them.

when you have a community that can do what the board can't do, you need to listen. if you're xhieted to make a change within the community, thank you. >> thank you. >> i support everything that you said in your recommendations my heart is sad that absentee is unacceptable and i applaud for all the things that you're doing after school for the community that was api board member.

so i see that you have some students come out of galileo to make to get those and in the schools. get them back in school. thank you *. >> thank you. >> good good evening and graduations to president boggess. i serve as the director of policy and learning for schools in san francisco. and we would like to appreciate and support the matua advisory council and their steadfast work on behalf of all pacific islander students.

to enact how approaches and ensure it's accountable for having goals so that students receive full and appropriate education. we're continuing to watch equity unfold in san francisco, thank you. >> thank you. >> colet. >> speaker: i'm going to let my son speak first before i continue. >> speaker: hi, members, my name is radimpula, i'm here to talk about how my experience from the islands of fiji and i

will say that coming here, but i took it as a way to assess this situations in schools. i notice that there is no proper assessment for international students. and there are some class that's are unreasonable, yeah. not be taken for international school. to be honest my next topic is bell schedules. it's too long and i don't think it's really reasonable for a 15-minute cross especially one hour, should be shorter because most of the classes that i take are just stalling. and yes. thank you.

>> speaker: my name when we came in earlier, last year, we came in because my son said he wanted to complete his education in the u.s. and i said okay, we're going to have to find out how to go about this. we're here and i'm just seeing how the the challenges that he's had having to adjust you know, fit in with the u.s. education system. and one of the rain issues is particularly to do with the councilors not being pacific island origin.

it's very important that we have a pacific islander councilor for our children. i endorse all the recommendation that's they the parent or advisory council have put forward. i'm secretary and i've only been appointed and hopefully we'll be able to work with all of you. i can see that your contribution is challenging but you're all trying to make it work. thank you. >> president boggess that concludes public comment. >> thank you so much, comments from commissioners, commissioner lam. >> thank you so much for all of your work. i didn't get the ask the superintendent before but i think it's very important that i put this on the record,

particularly around the chronic absenteism that we've seen this for many years even before covid. so i would love to hear from matua from the council, we talked about the power and strength of the community conveniencings. if you can share about that work and where recommendations are actively working with the district staff and i'll ask the superintendent for a follow-up. >> thank you, commissioner lam and i just wanted to highlight that you know, commissioner lam was a big part in our first policy ever and that was our samoa initiative. so i do want to you know, acknowledge that and thank you for your work, all of you guys that are here. i know the new onescious you

were not here but i know some of you from outside of these doors. and i'm glad you asked that question. as you can see the nramz were created in the one slide, i'm going to keep it real because i'm hood. but at the end of the day, most of the programs were all created by the community themselves with no support not so much of the city and sadly and unfortunately not even here. we have our policy analyst, she is my sister so i'm not going to talk so good about her because i don't want no conflict of interest, we don't forget where we come from no matter what our titles are and no matter what political stuff people got going on.

heavenly our other sister's name in hr, salala, you know, we all call sister and bro so sorry about that. that's just three, right. and at the end of the day, i can keep it real that i don't feel that they have the support. what is sad is this, when it comes to our pacific islanders, we have the highest, and i don't know how many times we're going to say this. we have the highest of all the negative statistics out there. i don't know how many times we're going to come and cry and get angry until people sit there and say, we're really going to support. so you'll mind us here, but the answer is, we have not seen any support.

we would like to see that change. whether you knew it or not, you know we do this work. how we can work together how we can really look at this and i'm going to bring something i know it's done and over but i real since the recall, it's just like you forgot about us again and we fought long and hard with our commissioner molena. so no matter what, i'm not going to sit here and bring up old wounds because we're highly impacted by that. everything stopped because of that. but we couldn't stop, as you can see, that 69 percent and look at how many students we have. we're doing the work, just do it with us. that's all we're asking.

>> if i may add, it's definitely, and i said it earlier, and i know people laughed at it, because i wanted to laugh because i tell you the truth i want to cry, when 70% have absentee, come on now. houston we've got a problem and you hit it in the nail, commissioner, thank you. i graduated in 1985, nothing new today that was not, that we had going on back then. the same issues we faced back then, and why? it goes back to how committed is this body and school district. we have a lot of things that looks good on paper. and not being put in the shelf and people trying to figure out where the money is at.

and for me i would really like to ask the board to support, all the other initiative to help all of our kids in the school district. there is a lot of stuff that has been passed and people just wait until years pass by and all of a sudden, it was not my problem. we live in mostly, 73% live in low income housing. so we take the show right inside those neighbors that way we can bring them to the and educate them on what is really offered in their schools. make them participate of people, even if we have to knock on doors make sure that kids are being transported in

the schools, out of 900 students that 70% of them are having absenteism, come on now. look around the city. it's bad rare that you barely see us in any of the spaces that matter now you got our kids set up for the same way. for me as a san franciscoian, this is small old city, right? everybody knows somebody and we can all help each other and up lifts each other. some of them are running around with their heads cut off because they don't have support. superintendent, i talk to you when i first met you. and i talked about it, for me it does not how many kids are graduated for me how many are

working and attending college come fall. i don't want to see all of this data that are being inflated, let's focus. if our kids are not going to school, how are they going to be taught. because they don't know how to file an application. we have too much resources and this city have too many bright minds sitting in front of me, and behind me and sitting at home can really put our students and set them up to succeed and not to fail. and on that note, thank you commissioner for asking that question. [applause] >> i know that we can all hear the passion, we can all use al va res and marchsell in this work.

i wanted to support on what the community is doing to tackle the absenteism. in the beginning, we were figuring out my name is ursla i'm a analyst for initiative the one that is overseeing the policy in support of the equitable services for our native hawaii islanders students. and when the chronic absenteism was revealed, we moved into a realm of trying to figure out what was in place in the district already. and so, we were able to meet with folks that tackle the different tiers that we spoke about the different tier, tier 1 and 2 and 3 supports and we're able to learn about the different processes. on when truancy hits.

i turn to our community and advisory council for support. just knowing that it takes that collective effort, definitely align with our goals, the level of coherans of knowing the transparency what everybody is doing about this issue. and if there is nothing that the community has been prepared to move. all they needed was information on the processes examine was already existing and i think that there is been probably fine schools that have reached out because they were aware of leads resource that's two of us in the district can help support in. and i think that's a mine that we've been addressing as we go. and just finding ways to adjust it as a team and additional

team. hopefully that helps, i know that we're in plans for the next upcoming year. something that we're talking about like, building a campaign around the first 40 days where we're all as a community really built to make sure that our students are in classroom and in school. but we want to acknowledge the community assessment, that's align with our l.a.-cap goals and advisory council recommendations as well. just to note that there is other things that we can do to build that as well. thank you. >> i really appreciate getting some inside to some of the work happening in the staff level. and really leaning in the community strength that is happening. as a follow-up superintendent, i think it's essential that as

a board, we dive deeper around the chronickism that has been a trend for many years particularly for our students, like pacific islanders as well as african students that we've talked consistently throughout as we were going into community. so what i would like to ask superintendent is around what that may look like for po sensing workshop as we're looking at our interim goals and the next steps. >> thank you, and i appreciate this presentation, having to get your group a bit, there is a lot of work to do. putting in our context how our

nhpi students are doing. to your point, the goals are what students know and able to do. chronic absentee is a measure of the adults not student learning because what are we doing to ensure. we do have a guardrail on serving the child and one of the measures is on chronic absenteism. so as we're planning our calendar, we'll have, we'll that will be a foc pus of a workshop. and we'll also look and talk about the data, clearly there is a lot of work to be done. >> i also want to note that there are going to be accelerated conversations around community schools both here within the district and in the city. and that is also going to be an

dunt to max feiz. so i really encourage superintendent that you and your team are working with the staff with our advisory committees like the matua council around how are we looking at the maximizization between the district and the strength of the community. >> i want to start with a big thank you for all the work that you have done for tonight and recognize and see it and now i think we need to engage and account. i have five maybe five and a half points. i'm going to slash questions and they may be responses for you all or superintendent wane or whom ever you think is appropriate.

so i had a similar question about how the data maps on to our goals. and i appreciate that absenteism is reflected in interim goals and guard rails but i'm wondering if we can be intentional about using the targeted universalism approach as it relates to this community. when we see a gap that is that wide, we have to focus. that does not mean that we don't focus on anyone else. that's one thing that we talk in the workshop. the second is, i would love for our facilities team's to think about the space that is currently used by the sa

moanian and make sure that we're prioritizing the safe pace for the incredible work. what really ask that that building be discussed and thought about. i would wonder if you know super wane or somebody in hr, are we engaged in any targeted recruitment in order to gigt more folks into our schools? is that something that has happened? and if something can it?

and then i'll have two more. >> we'll have more information than i do. >> thank you so much. vice president for the question. interestingly enough, before i was in this role, i was a recruiter in hr. she left. there is recruitment for all positions and certificated and there is been work around this team to start developing, cross over of information sharing. on the different types of employment that folks can have here in the district. and criteria and what we need. i know that our current person works in hr in the certificated, and that's been a

high priority for a long time finding certificated staff that is the demographic of our population and specific school sites. we need kids to be in school and that is something that we need to make sure that can happen. and okay so the last two points, i just want to shout out the report i had the privilege of attending, online zoom and just filled with such gratitude that is in the report.

if my fellow commissioners have not read this, it's brilliant work of data gother lead by community for community. that centers students two-thirds of the data comes from our youth themselves. i would ask that your staff really look at this so much work has done and we have talked as the district not work withing in silo and so much work has been done here. and the last part maybe folks had responded to, these are not new recommendations and i think

this is a second time that max has been since i've been on the board, i'm wondering whether we have, we've already taken a lot of time not just being here but the work that has been done. can we have regular report backs to us as commissioners on the status of these? we cannot wait until we have mac. can we get status reports on where we are on these recommendations that would be useful as a commissioner. yes, more of what we need to do as a district is okay, the recommendations have been presented consider are they going? we had this theme with the

a-pack presentation. present recommendations but it's unclear like, are they adopted? i think first we have to answer that question. the forum is in our l.cap is suppose to be representative of our engagement with our community. we had the amazing leaders, what recommendations got in versus what didn't and why. yes but first we need to have that conversation where what are we committing to based on these recommendations and how do we make sure we're part of that overall plan.

so this will be part of the process. >> and then we'll communicate back. >> yes, and i've also known that we need to improve our overall reporting on what we're doing >> we're getting close to 9:00 o'clock and we commissioner alexander. >> hello. yeah, i will not be long. just three quick points, i just appreciate the mention of commissioner form per commissioner molinga and again, honor him and i think it was one of the really too bad about the recall losing the only pacific islanders elected first and only in the city of san francisco.

again to honor that. and what we're discussing, i think we need to figure out how to shift the culture right? of all of these adviser reports, you come and we listen and we say thank you and we love you report and you come back and give us the same report because we have not done anything. so i think we really need to think outside of the box on how this is working. one shot, why don't we have representative and we're talking about student outcomes, i want to know what is happening. i want you to have that conversation. what is it like in kindergarten? so i just think maybe there is,

maybe there is different ways of thinking about it rather than having a separate report. i don't know, that's a suggestion. and then the last piece, i want to lift up what the students said earlier around language and culture and this feeling of belonging. the reason that people don't come to school is because they don't feel like they belong there. if you feel like that was a, your spot and you belonged, you're going to be drawn there. you're going to show up. how are we going to shift the culture in every single school? and i think i think those things matter because they make people feel like they belong. so thank you.

>> commissioner fisher? >> thank you all for being here. >> any of us that have worked to this board really that resonates. i want to thank you all for this conversation. recognizing in the my brief overview of this and i'll do a deep dive. especially recognizing one of the data points, 29% of our

samoan youth. particularly in the category surrounding behavior. so i think we have a lot of work to do in many areas. i think if i had any follow-up questions, is what would it look like for our staff our nhpi staff to feel supported at the schools where they're staffed? what would that look like for them? that's the question i put back to all of you. >> thank you repeat that question please.

>> wla would it look like what would, reflect to us, in order for staff to feel supported at our schools beinger our nhpi schools feel supported. we hear a lot from so many of our communities and we're having trouble recruiting, we're not recruiting enough nhpi staff. help us understand why and give us as you seesing to improve the culture to make it more amenable for our staff to work there and stay. >> i can start, first it's what you see. for us going to college was not even the next thought.

we're already big, let's just go cut and smoke cigarettes because we're built to body guards or military. if teachers come and see them in leadership goals beinger that's one given. and then two, the participation of families going back to what you said. i guarantee you put me in a school every day, why? because they're going to see everything in there that feels and looks like an island. i'm not just a kid thrown in the mix. it all starts with environment. if you're a teacher and you see pacific islander on honor roll, come on now.

my back is bent over because i cannot find a name that starts with a vowel sound. to draw people here, you have to create a culture that is inviting. you have to put in place that look like us in leadership roles. make sure they group in the town and understand. if you're not from san francisco, you will not understand san francisco. and to help our families, like i told you guys, you want to see changes, let's go into these neighbors. we can do that but we need support. we can definitely get the

parents to meet us halfway but first we need the school district to make the move. hire some people, come on now. some of you as old as me or even colder, we all been looking here looking at each other for a minute. let's make it a reality right. so go back to your question, you want to make it more inviting, be part of their family, right. make them come in here and our students, right. don't just make them. a lot of us that are islanders, we feel like we're in a white and black world. that's how we feel. the best thing for me is when i go back to hawaii and when i go back to the island, i'm part of the majority not just left over, when they talk about

white and blacks and latino and asian, that's most us feel. that's how i feel. imagine our students. imagine how it feels when you walk in and you see nobody that is teaching and nobody in the leadership role. imagine how you feel. and then you go home you see some leaders. you don't see them in the schools of san francisco. anyway, thank you. >> thank you. >> i had to let my son know that i was still in the meeting. so just to help support. there was a amazing push in advocacy with staff around

implementing affinity spaces. and the feedback from many of the educators and some of the leadership that were native hawaiian eye identified, really created that sense of belonging. so i think that's really help and so. that's space is we're trying to maintain to make sure that we're that space is continuing. so jut having the students that the

>> i think the question is how do we support our staff? i think when they are feeling part of the school not just an extra, you know, that is there or to depend on, you know, i'm not clowning on my of our folks that have been you know, security guards or hall monitors without them, there would be probably more violence within the schools and everything going on they help deescalate and do a lot of the work that you don't see. i do want to acknowledge that, but i do also, we always talk to them when we go to the schools or we do a lot of work in these realms, there is a lot

of stuff that they see and they say that if they knew there was other opportunities to excel, you know, in their career with an sf u.s. d and that it's going back not only what you have meningeded but what we have mentioned as well and a lot of our folks in the community is just that inclusiveness. making us all feel, you know, that we're included in everything and including employment, including you know that we're not just stuck right here in this one career and that's it. like you can actually grow, you can become a superintendent who knows, commissioner. we're not talking about all pi, everybody has different feelings but majority of us and stuff and everyone that we work with, you know, is that's what has come out.

so you know, just to answer your question on any level whether it's employment, sfusd or students or community or parents, we don't want to be the little dog that gets thrown a loan anymore, we want to eat too. we want to be at the table. those are definitely some of the biggest changes that need to be made. and i say this a lot. a lot of things, one thing that i'm prideful of being here besides the 49ers is that i can come outside the my door and we're so diverse, i don't care who you are, if you're cool, i'm cool beinger that's being a native of here. i look beyond or a lot of times

culture and race. what is more logical, i would like to go back to the place one day in our city. so along with that, is just feeling inclusive. it's like hey, we're here. we're good for other things too. i hope that answered some of our questions. >> thank you. okay, thank you for presentation and answering your questions. en encourage commissioners and student delegate to follow-up with questions and please go visit and be in conversation with community. thank you so much. [applause]

>> i think at this time we want to excuse our student delegates that have to leave. thank you so much. okay and before we move forward, we also will take appointments from commissioners. >> i have two appointments i'm asking--to the pef character. >> can you use the second name. >> serin zen, i'll forward you both of their contact information. >> thank you. >> seeing no other appointments from commissioners, we will move forward with our agenda. just remind folks that we did move up item k1, to be our next item. so definitely want to apologize for the folks who have been

waiting to give public comment understanding that it's a little bit later, our apologies and we'll work to get to it as quickly as possible. with that, we'll go ahead and start item k. i'm passing it to you. >> this presentation. excuse me, and i want to start by, sharing some background as a reminder.

about where this conversation started. and this conversation started because of a student, a student who wanted share her experience and had an opportunity to present to the human rights commission. so we tauktd about being a district that was student centered. so when i recognized that it was a student that surfaced this issue of how we're honoring and respecting those who celebrate. as i go through and talk about process and policy and procedures, imagine if i'm the student who brought this up, students out there that those words don't communicate and speak to what they want to hear. i want to recognize that as we

go through the conversation. that's our goal as the students are seen and heard and being respect and reflected in our overall community. thed resource center advocated to establish these days as a school holiday. so there was some initial work last year done to create a resolution to do that. and with so many going on last year, it was not revisited until this year. and after recognizing how this can be an important step in recognizing that the diversity in our districts, we also said that slow down and said, if we're going to take a step like this, we need to be in the clear in the process this we're following.

making decisions based on best practices. so what the board did in september, they brought the resolution on hold and directed staff and me and my staff to analyze best practices from other districts and present criteria for adding any holiday to academic calendar. so if you go to the next slide. so the board spent time, and establish the governorance procedures and in public, establish what is relevant to this work. making sure that when we're making decisions we're speaking

with those impacted. we analyze our demographic data and reached the practices and policies in other district. we reviewed legal guidelines and talk to ski constituents, so we learned that in other districts holidays are added for various reasons. so if you go to the next slide, beyond the federal holidays additional days off, from school to address attendance and staff, to address the attendance of staff and students, address staff and students concerns and to support diversity inclusion based on changing district and community needs by recognizing days of culture significance.

i'm going to talk about the research that was conducted and some of the conversation that we should take when making this decision. >> again, do they representative the complete district just of what we have heard. changes to school calendar result in system level impact that do affect students families and educators in different ways. for students, any holiday is an interruption in instruction at the time, a gender instruction to it does hinder learning. for families when school calendars do not align with work calendar families also need to arrange childcare.

to main stain instruction at a time. it tells about the holidays for some groups and not others. the system decision that are connected to the school calendar. any change to the school calendar does or adding a holiday does have to be read alongside to the calendar which can go due to many reasons, our latest reasons do happen to be around on going recovery efforts.

it will require to make sure that we are still providing the childcare dha could be needed. and then school operations like facilities transportation and neutral services will also need to make adjustments for holidays. how dot process align how can we build it? next slide please. there are two main reasons. we did look at it attendance rates we did analysis for the

last three years, we dis aggregated the data brought by ethnicity and language groups. and data by race and by language groups and we did not find any impact on attendance. the second reason is very very applicable to san francisco. we are a very diverse community. i can tell you that we have like 25 different ethnic groups.

76 different languages. also at the civic level, we can find one that actually shows diversity in the san francisco metropolitan area, that's how they defined it and you can see that we have 48% of our adults who said they were of the christian religious rate. it's a if you click on any of the did i vaoersity you can see additional detail. thank you. #sing slide please. thank you, now i'm going to come to two best practices and

policies that we saw in other districts that were really really good policies. one policy to ensure that when a holiday, it's educated around the community, the taf and educators know about it. and this policy does support learning with greater flexibility. so they did take into consideration all the issues and the policy that i want to highlight is what washington state did, within their calendar, they actually have not just the name of the holiday and the religious group and the date, but also additional notes to explain the holiday.

and this is on the website, the link is there as well as they do encourage that it becomes an excused absence. center office department and our school sites, should have those efforts to actually know about those holidays and that's something that they have been pushing for within the policy. that have the same as well as acknowledging these different holidays and we have put the links right there in all the other, the santa cruz county and many others. we also have a report in which

you can read more details on this. thank you, next slide. >> second best practice and i'll get to the recommendation. >> okay, and then the second best practice that i want to share, is around establishing a process in community engagement when the determining district holidays. so in this i want to highlight one school district which is school district of philadelphia and what the district has really done is not only established administrative procedures on how to prepare a calendar but how to include stake holding engagement that is diverse in stakeholder group and in the demographic culture back grounds and engagement strategies to engage in this book.

zoo it has the timeline and process to develop and review within each, this is 8 month timeline before it comes to the board. thank you i'm going to send it back to you. >> thank you, and i appreciate the thorough research. in light of what we found, if you go to the next slide. we have two recommendation sxz then we're seeking board direction. so one is to create a comprehensive policy by march 2023, 2023, we did see some excellent policies and we heard from our community members and students who said when holidays with occurring during school, they don't know how that is being respected if they want to celebrate it.

we feel we can move on this quickly because we did ample district policies that we'll be able to implement. and we want to recognize that elofatir is celebrated february first. so we can see if already there would be a difference in student experience. and thin secondly, staffing community input and making potential changes including days of cultural significance. i do see this as a major decision. and we put on our last flight and you know, we've done things in the past, we changed recently we changed the bell schedule and change start and end times, that impacts all of our families to talk to them to understand how it would impact how the doctor highlighted like

around childcare and transportation, it's very similar with this issue. commissioner fisher shared that they have practices. so those are two recommendations. so this is an action item we're just presenting what we learned and seeking direction. one do you want us to move forward with recommendation one? if so, we'll bring that forward in our march meeting and then we'll take action.

if you, want us to establish that process, then the request becomes whether to proceed with it, i guess whether and when to proceed with it, so you know, and so, i think i just wanted to highlight in the end some consideration when providing direction. i want to recognize that our 23-24 calendar are being finalized, families are anxious to know what the school year will look like. during the process will take longer than that. so really, if you're having us proceed following this process, would it be clear that that would be for 24-25 not the 23-24 calendar. and jouft recognizing, we move a little bit more quickly on

changing that our adopting a policy on how respecting and recognizing students religious customs and beliefs. we can look how that is impacting our community. and what our staff capacity is for that. we have, the l.cap process and something to be mindful. so those are considerations, one more time, do you want us to move forward with the policy and process? if so what is the timeline and again the timeline if you follow the process as presented would be for the 24-25 school year.

thank you, i'll give folks a minute each and encourage if folks are a group together that you can pull your time together and all speak as a group which is something we want to encourage folks to do. >> we do have 14 cards for in-person and whatever we'll have on online. i'll call foexz up five at a time. and again forgive me if i'm miss pronouncing any name. iesha, budra, sabrin, nour and shahin shake. >> speaker: hi i'm a student at

gal leo high school, i would like to start up that growing up i thought why myself, but most holidays why, i felt a sense of exclusion. at that time, there was not a lot that i can do since i was a kid. but now that i have grown-up, i stand here not to tell you about all the things why you e should be a holiday but to speak that this is wrong. my arab friends want to celebrate this holiday. even when you do take off all you can do is hurry. what is going on is a broken proments, you said ehid is a

holiday. and i set, sfusd office of equity has responsibility that they're treated equity. it's a quality for it and instead of saying that he rab and muslims need to be recognized. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for sharing and hearing from our students is important and you spoke to some experiences, that no matter what, the calendar is going to be set. i'm going to ask staff of contact information that speak, because the policy to implement this year will be good to get student perspective, so if staff does not mind getting the contact information, that would be helpful. >> you can go ahead. >> i mother of three boys part of your sfusd for the last 20 years.

the strug of whether to send them to school or miss that instruction day, i cannot tell you how detriment al is for a parent. 150k arabs that are housed by bay area. we hear boost about our diversity, our city being diverse and i'm proud of it. but why are we behind? that passed this resolution years ago and open heartedly accept it and so did our board. it's no joke that our board accepted it and you know, approved it.

i would really appreciate that coming forward. thank you. >> thank you. >> hi i'm a teacher and family supporter. today i came to not only leaned my choice but the youth. there were a lot of noises today i'm bring him with me because i know they drove me crazy, and i i'm going to be speaking. what they say to me, why they break my promise, they thinking about it, because it's a big thing. so some day to be off. but first, we really not talking about really big holiday, this is basically culture. with the kids image in mind, the days that they have happy days, just like the chinese new year, it's like christmas time.

please what i want you to do is thinking about it. like the trust they give it to us and ask, are you going to do the right job. i'm going to pass the message to them and they will take that from the shelf and think about it. and also happy new year, and i support the hawaiian because you guys are awesome i love what they did. and think of us like that. thank you so much. hi, hi guys, sorry i didn't mean to say guys. i'm sabrin, a couple of months, i i was at barns and noble and i came across the book with

this dilemma and her holiday having to deal with the picture day. and i was literally, this is the fiction reflection of what our communities have been fighting for. and through my work, we do programming for work and we also organize working class in iser iser and all of our meetings have used this topic of insolution alization of recognition of muslim holidays and arab holidays not being recognized and practice it comes up again all the time. so this children story is not like this children's story.

thank you. [applause] >> all right i'm calling up the next set and please forgive me if i miss pronounce your name. kadid, dema, thank you. wassem, liz leadman. >> hello superintendent and delegate and members of the board. born and raised in san francisco. it's important to contextualize why we're here tonight. let's acknowledge this process that my community is faced for

the last two years and to be clear, we did go through a process with ease until our holiday came up and then it became an issue. and what it that look like? many community base organizations, we brought the data and student reports time and time again the cultural significant with organized black community members and teachers at every single board member. so, not once did i also hear anyone name in racist lawsuit that scared the district into backtrack anding putting a resolution on the say and why we're here tonight. what more needs to be done? why is our labor being erased from the context of this context. it baffles how disrespectful

this is. it says in this resolution, that the resolution that ede resolution has been removed. we brought this to a larger board, bring it to the next agenda, thank you. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. going back to the sentence you said earlier, that you are here for us and our families. are you here for arab and muslim families? as arab grandma what can i tell my grandchildren when they ask me why we don't have ede holidays at school? especially after fasting the month of ramadan from the sunset to sunrise no food no

nothing, and ready to celebrate with their friends just like we have other holidays we ask you do the same for us. arab and muslim people deserve to be treated equally. and you already agreed to make this holiday, why are you not stick to go your promise, thank you. >> speaker: hi commissioner, i'm brasim i'm a case manager. we cannot have an equitable approach without acknowledging why the resolution was paused which was absent from mr. wane's presentation. last year, our resolution was paused because of this board along with countless with black

and board was put under attack by racist and islam phob. we sought to mean anything or anything to believe in them, the process to have any significant abs to anyone, the san francisco communities need to trust you and to earn their trust, you have to keep your word. you have this independenting resolution, we urge you to implement the resolution for 2023, 2022 school year. thank you. >> hi, my name is leslie and i'm a jewish san francisco resident, a member of joyce for peace. i spoke in favor of making ede holidays, saying that doing so

was anti-semitic, i'm here to anticipate that racism to say that those people don't speak for me or most jewish people. recognizing and trading arab neighbors is not anti-semitic. i call to champion the muslim and communities and to be example that san francisco is for california and entire country. not only surprise but they will not be tolerated. make it a holiday for the 23-school year. thank you. >> hello i'm born and raised in

san francisco as well as alumni k through 12. for over two years now. the resolution must be implemented by the new school year, 2023, 2024, we've attending these meetings while fasting, i was one of the folks and along with others, and we'll do that again, if that's what is needed. we've stayed late nights, you have stayed late nights, some of these youth start at 8:00 am, 9:00 p.m., a lot of folks starting early so it's important to acknowledge. that was a lot on youth and please, this is a lot to sit through this meeting but they're so excited about this holiday and implementing the resolution that they will stay and they're excited to say. we're here to ask once again that we work to protect our

families from phobia and take our minimum step to recognize the holidays and not to cave into arab phobic, it only harms our communities. thank you. >> thank you, let me call the next set up including you, okay. nadia rolan, leslie, halaja, lara, and kerry fleshman. >> speaker: hill owe commissioner i'm a district 1 resident i'm an activist here in san francisco and i'm a member of the muslim community.

the reason that i'm here today is to remind all of you for a point that we have all shared in the meetings proceeding this with the resolution. a care survey in 2021, found that over 50% of students who identified as muslim have been bullied in california schools due to their muslim heritage, that's the reality for california students, that's not a departure from our muslim students are experiencing in sfusd, making the point that this was a student lead initiative. we heard from the nhpi community about how their students need to be heard. we in the community know that a lot has been going that is anti arab and we're just asking you

to move forward with this implementation. and you can governor well and practice good governorance and figure out the calendar in an equitable way. and that's what we're asking you to do, thank you. >> good evening, i'm lara executive director of arab resource and organizing center also a faculty in the college of ethnic college in san francisco state. i want to express our solidarity to the pacific islanders, who are joined them to say that we need san francisco to make good on its promise to equity and social justice. i want to thank the superintendent for your presentations and presenting them to the board of education. and i want to remind everybody that this is not just about recommendations for all holidays, this is about making good on your promise as a holiday and we're demanding all of us for you to remove existing stay on the holiday

that you passed. we maunt to remind that this was put on hold because of racist back lash and that you have addressed the conditionser of white elites, let's address the concerns of working families. we're going to ask to you dress otherwise simply put the message you're lending, this is all lives matter solution to racist back lash and it's excluding arabs and muslims. you have the right to do right and continuing with the processes and procedures for all communities. thank you. >> speaker: hi i'm karen sfusd mom and i would like to echo the comments of sanchez, maybe i said the wrong commissioner that the culture shift within our schools, that is going to

drive attendance, that is what is going to drive participation. on the august night when the full of young people muslim people who worked hard, thought that they were going to have ede and then stolen from them. what signal does that send to them as how they are valued. do the right thing and ede resolution as a holiday. thank you. [applause] >> good evening, i'm leslie woo of part of the educators in san francisco. i thank you for taking this, i want to uplift the something that dr. wane said about process and also in this case it's been problematic and it's good to improve upon. sxl in this case, it came at

the expense of a community a community that has been historically oppressed. this was part of the intentional harm and systematic racism in the name of process. which by the way is a characteristic of upholding white supremacy. i sat here last time twice when we had to go until midnight when families examine children had to stay here until midnight, bare witness the racism that was perpetuated by this body of leaders. there is still i resolution that was at the time followed by the current process. and still in limbo not being acted possible. upon. this community deserves an apology and squarely in solidarity with this amazing community.

>> thank you for all the work that you've done, you've been me nominal. i want to thank you for your leadership. i thought it was a two-minute comment so i'm going to go over a little bit. i'm a former city employee for 16 years and commission on the hrc until november 2022. the resolution was approved in september 2022, after being tabled and going through hrc. a three-year process. now the focus should be on student outcome and your guard rails. i'm not haour why we are back here again with the same talking points and recommendations by interest groups who lost a race for this governoring board and who sole process is a guide for other motel nation. i'm concerned that the recommend as before us are the rehashing of the preapproved

resolution and designed to intentionally exclude this community creating another kind of legal hurdle, whether intellectually, it's dis ingenuous, if it was any other community we would not be here today. this should not happen in the city of saint francis, if states like virginia can implement 8 holidays then so can we. i would like to close with a story, i was a commissioner last year and when i was an employee. i went to eid because i was concerned as a commissioner that my absence was not going to be approved that, it was not going to be approved the absences. and i'm a commissioner, i'm a gloen women and i had a fear that as an appointee it was not going to be an excused absence. so i can imagine how the

children and youth and high school students are going through this. so please keep your word, keep your promise and make sure that this city is as inclusive as it can be. thank you. >> that concludes in-person comment. please raise your hand if you care to speak on the cultural holidays. can you please repeat in english and spanish. >> thank you, there are 8 hands up. ten minutes. we're going tore a total of ten minutes, we should be able to fit that in. all right. reyanda. >> speaker: good morning, board members and anyone in a tented

ans, i'm speaking as a mom. i humbly that the council honor at a minimum while the board decides on a new policy and all this sh* have a day off without penalty. : [audio echoing] very disappointing and sfusd needs to do better. please honor their commitment this year in whatever way that needs to be done to ensure that the students don't have any negative impact from eid. thank you. >> thank you.

>> gason? >> speaker: i wrote my master thesis about racist and discrimination against palestinian in united states. so i feel qualified to speak on this. to say it's a religious holiday, cultural, our entire community shuts down because it's bigger than one subsection. never one was the center during open the ied even though it was run by my christian uncle. equity is only as complicated as you make it, our community fought for years to recognize this as a culture holiday and now racist are standing in the way. if you care about equity i

suggest that by moving forward, making eid a holiday. and also the presentation given tonight is racist, we're not recognized did i religious. so refuse to acknowledge that is justice. justice is denied. thank you. 12346789 >> selena. >> speaker: this is see selena, my daughter needs to do homework. the culture celebration as excused absence, i've been hearing a lot about, like, it's not giting but it seems like

sfusd is allowing that and people need to remind that essential worker only have 7 paid holidays in the whole year. so even black friday, they're on paid time off to care for our kids while our students are out. and our students need to be in school in order to work. we're having a crisis, our kids can't read and math. so if we can have a floating holiday, align with that. so parents can also earn money, we're all working people. we cannot suffer anymore financial crisis, while we need to go into these board meeting. have a floating holiday. have excused absences for kids families that need to celebrate.

i'm in nor that, but please be reminded that a lot of working parents, families they are working families. >> thank you. he will item? --elliot? >> speaker: hi, my name is i'm a member of jewish and i'm a member of synagogue here in san francisco. the ways in way he rabz and

muslim right side attacked and marginized. and i also want to you to think about the message that it it will send to the muslim members. think about what it sends to them if their request is once again delayed or even worse, denied. so live to stay and implement the holiday. thank you. >> i believe it's pronounced yaya. : >> speaker: good evening i'm a teacher in the bay area and tonser of eid is important

holiday and issue that hits home. it's not well-known but jews have been celebrating eid for years. as moroccans, because we grew up each other. my jewish participated in ramadan, the fact that jews joined that this is in fact a holiday of tonser and it cannot be reduced only to significancement here we are today, two years observe at the only to see the resolution put on hold because of islam phobic back lash that have positive representations in the schools. as somebody who grew up or serving by not attending school that day and culture traditions, would i want the same for my muslim members out of respect and love.

we're in full support of any holiday brought forward. the hold on resolution must be lifted and must be implemented for the 2023-24 school year. >> thank you. nora? >> speaker: good evening, everyone i'm nora i'm alumni of san francisco. i want to first start off by saying that i think it's distasteful to talk about muslim make up 1% not only in the district but the city. if we want to site data, let's show data that 39% of muslims make under $40,000 a year. usfd has a lot of data so i think the district step up. now as a former student of san francisco, i remember taking and i was a nerd so i hated

missing school and materials. and i just always had to do the work of catching up and communicating and i felt like i was being punished for choosing to take the day off. and i had to do the work of writing a letter for my parents to sign. so i'm asking you to consider that what you're actually as a district. you're removing the labor from yourself and you're asking families many of them first generation working class to kind of figure the figure out accommodations by themselves and work through it. i'm asking the district to step up and to have the day off for all students and families.

>> hi, san francisco i want to thank the superintendent for giving us a thoughtful presentation. we believe that access the public education is a fundamental right of our children and we realize that a diverse community where there are certain instance that's our community members have not long so we want to make sure that we think about solutions that will help celebrate them and celebrate the culture fabric that makes us who we are. it's our goal to continue our community who are most affected. by helping them make sure that there is accessibility and uplifted their voices. commissioner i urge you to make sure that we keep our promises. the board did adopt make a decision a while back. so let's keep the promises and

as we move forward, let's create policies that are not going to stieple education or outcome for children while also ensuring that all children and all cultures are celebrated and honored. thank you again for your time. >> thank you. all right, sarah it's the final speaker on this item. >> speaker: hello good evening i'm sarah i'm speaking just to have my heart to the so many young people who are being force today be lieb this resolution that is yet to be implemented bows it's been entangled with the superintendent intention to see create new processes. and as a prior speaker pointed out this did follow all established process. the prior president chose not to do this, but i hope that this president will make the

first remove the stay on the resolution so it can be implemented for next year. and as it has been and kept your promises kept to this community and while you focus on for future holidays, you can extricate the entangled resolution as it has al the processes. this is a resolution organized by sfusd students to move our district towards justice. they offer the data, interviews and surveys and conversation wz community most impacted, they talked to teach sxerz communities. which are being veiled and not being about eid. stop putting the young scholars of being recognized again late into their school night and remove this day before moving on. thank you. >> thank you.

president boggess, that concludes public comment. >> thank you to the public we'll take comments from the commissioners. i think what we'll ask commissioners to do is to keep your first round of comments two minutes and after everyone goes we'll assess folks desire to enter in another round of discussion. and after we finish, we'll take a motion to extend the meeting as we're getting to our edge. is there somebody that would like to go first? commissioner sanchez. >> thank you very much. and i too want to thank the public for coming out to speaking for this item and superintendent for the work that you've done to your staff. i do want to acknowledge that there are legal issues around this and brought up in public comment. and i don't know, i didn't give our council a heads up but i

wonder how much we can share with the public. it's a huge concern for myself and other people on the board that, we couldn't entangle yet again in a lawsuit that we might lose and have to pay a lot of money for. so that to me is really paramount in my mind. and however, am total support of the resolution as i voted for it but i'm very concerned about this aspect and i would like to see if council can comment on the issue. >> this will not come as a surprise but i'm going to decline the invitation to share legal advise in a public comment. i'll reiterate that we advised you pretty thoroughly and that's a discussion foreclosed session, and maybe that will be the last time i share that with you. >> all right, thank you.

>> i'll try to be brief. so, you know, ifls the sponsor of the resolution. last yae, i was an honor to do it and i just want to reiterate a couple of points. one is connected to student outcome as we said several times this evening. feeling the culture of inclusiveness really matter and there is greater sense of belonging, that he have higher levels of achievement that's one thing. holidays are not the only ways to accomplish that. there are one strategy. second thing is i think there is a lot of clear there is a lost community support. overwhelming community support from across, you know, different groups and i think a reflect san francisco values to honor this kind of a holiday.

the only major problem has been and i think some name it, it's a threat of a lawsuit. and i think that lawsuit my understanding it was premised in this notion that we were promoting a religion. and, i'm not a lawyer so this is not legal advise. am i, i don't understand that as a non lawyer, because there is nothing in this whole process that has been about promoting a religious faith. it's been about a cultural tradition and eid is a culture event that's what it is. so, and that's always been our intention in this process. so i do think it's really unfortunate that, we i think that's not consistent to give as threat.

we need to figure that out. we can't talk about legal issues in open session but that's something that we need to figure out. i think, the last thing i was going to say is i think, we have been through the process. i have a suggestion because i do think the one thing we have not done is the internal decision making process. do we want to add holidays, the impact on working parents but we have not been through the decision making process in line with our new guardrail. my suggestion why don't we put out a draft calendar for next year eid on it, as a draft, this is a proposal and really

go through a process with our parents and staff and say what do you think? and we could get overwhelming support, let's do it? we could get some people will say, let's add the jewish holidays. those are individual conversations because we have not engaged in that process. or we may hear some concerns. i think right now we're having this internal conversation with the board and almost like arguing with ourselves over it when we need to do is engage with the community. my believe most people when they hear the kind of comments, they're going to say let's do it. i would suggest that we quickly engage in that process of getting feedback in the calendar for next year. that would be my suggestion, i know there is different points

of view. >> thank you, i echo everything that you said commissioner alexander and would like to take a step further. first of all, to all our galleo students, thank you for being here for everything. [applause] we do absolutely need policies and procedures, that's a lot of work of governorance is that making sure that we're consistent. there definitely was a procedure there was a whole process that we have followed to get to this point. it might be not memorialized in the appropriate policy but we have a road map to turn this into a policy. thank you very much to staff for all the work na you've done to benchmark all the other districts.

to quickly get to the point of providing the policies and procedures that we need to follow to do this and listen to our families. hear our families that have been year after year after year. i also want to recognize that in past year, the calendar reapproved had a significant shift that didn't include any family engagement. in the 21-22 school year. we shifted to a wednesday start day which was impactful for families, no feedback no engagement so we have a history of this board, all of you approved that calendar change, right. so this wouldn't be the first time.

so this to me is just, having been on the other side. i really want to recognize and everyone who has worked on this issue for years. and to the staff who helped support this, thank you all. >> i want to provide some comments. i want to thank everyone for coming out today and all the foexz who have been engaged in the process. and also the stud entsds and community members who have been engaged over a multi period. i think the most difficult part is that the reason that we're here today and dealing with this, is because we as a district didn't handle this right initially. even before the student came with the resolution, the fact that this was not something

that we were able to send as being an issue and prior to, i think represents our shortcoming. i think one thing that we heard from our meeting today is that, families, community members who are a part of smaller population groups in our district don't feel included, they don't feel respected, and i think a lot of ways this process has magnified that. and even to lift up the stain of the resolution and what that means to the folks who have been engaged and fighting for that. it's important that we start by acknowledging it. le and also i want to just lift up the body of work and community building that folks in the community have done to

kind of get us to this stage whether it was the students, human rights, all the folks who gave public comment. in a lot of ways you did the work that the district should been doing to get us to this place. i think that the biggest struggle i think for me in this, we changed the rules in the middle of the process in some ways for how we select our holidays. we went through the process that was not committed to making sure that everyone was at the table. but when this came forward, that changed. that was part of our board governorance but it was part of us as i board seeing the limitations how we act, without having the superintendent be the ones who are showing the proof of the work. getting things in order.

and i think the thing that i'm struggling with a little bit is the recommendations, i think address the larger point but they don't address the harm that the community is faced or the reason that we were brought here today. and i think for me, we still need to figure out how we're addressing that and bringing it forward. we definitely put a stay in the resolution as we were waiting for recommendations to come forward. and i feel that the recommendation dresses the overall process examine how we as a district need to move forward. but i think they don't address the issues of the community that brought it forward and how we as a district are respecting the different cultural tradition that's exist. how we're educating and honoring them. so i think that's a little bit of a struggle of what we're wrestling. understanding our responsibility to do what is best for the district examine trying to figure out how to make sure that aligns with us

making sure that we're seen and included as we move forward. so i will just remind folks that this is not an item that we're not voting on but to giving direction to the superintendent. i'll see if there are any other comments from commissioners. vice president wiseman ward. >> thank you, i guess i'll start with maybe where you left off which is about the recommendation sxz since you're asking for direction and maybe respond to a few other things. i think since it's not an either or, i think recommendation number 1 is very important. i appreciate that it's something that should be relative easily list. it should help level set us if i'm using, commissioner you used level set, i think that may be some of our phrases setting us with the neighbor

and having a base line of what we should be doing a decade ago. i think that for the recommendation number 2, this is also, i do think it's important. i've gone back and forth between wanting to do a hottest number land land if we check in with a folks saying that are these steps that we're taking is there an impact and then thinking staff resources and holding off on step number 2 after we have some feedback so i'm not quite sure. but i would support both recommendations. i think i have, to commissioner alexander's point about moving things quickly, and i think to commissioner fisher's point about we have not a history of not engaging. i don't think if we have not

done something, we should change that and we need to do bert by everyone. from some sort of practice in terms of what our rolls that we have a duty as a district to be thoughtful and intentional. and i, i think in terms of whether this can get done in time for the next school year, what i'm hearing is that, there are capacity resource issues and that's not the recommendation of the district of superintendent way en if we're going to do this we need to do this right. i will just say, to commissioner about lit tation, i'm going to be very mindful, general council about what i say, i don't want to be deposed at any point, i may very well agree for the reason and

motivation on a lawsuit being based on islam phobia and hatred but that's not exclusive with whether i want to make sure that we're not in a position that we lose a lawsuit if there is a legal basis in theory, that puts us in a really rough spot so i appreciate commissioner sanchez raising that as well. >> commissioner alexander? >> i just want to speak to the issue of the speed, what i was thinking just to clarify, we need to agree on a 23-24 calendar anyway, and we're really late. we would like to have it, to have it much earlier in the year or even two years. that's how we ought to get to that point. i guess that's what i'm saying, we ought to get input on that.

if we move two days here and there, why not put out a draft since we have to get input anyway on the calendar. we've got to go through a decision making process. i'm just suggesting that we include the proposal and see what people are saying. i was not suggesting that we do the whole comprehensive holiday process, that's been done for this. and i do think as we move forward we should have a much more deliberative process, that takes longer and farther in advance in holiday. >> i'm going to step in and say, i appreciate the comments before me and thank staff for the work that they did in putting forward these recommendations.

when this first came forward, the question was when is our calendaring process and there was no answer. and that is at the root of what the issue is in one way. the other more systemic while the other, also systemic problem is a continuing requests by so many of our communities to be seen, to be heard, to be recognized, to have a place to go, if they're identifying issues around feeling supported and their learning in our district. so i fully support and i'll use the level setting, what is being done in so many districts elsewhere around recommendations number 1. both of them around impact on attendance but also around the

education, ultimately we are, we're public education and district. and the point is to educate our kids so they both have a sense of belonging so that everybody is much more understanding of each other and you know, i shared earlier, my family, i grew up with a family celebrating noroose and one of the most assignment that i mosted hated in the classroom was the family tree i hated because i had a very unusual background for the classroom setting that hifs in. and it was also around a lot of political unrest and hostility towards the culture and the country that half of my family is from. and that is the holiday conversation what i really

craved was inclusion and understanding of who we are and a sense of belonging and some interest other than hostilities towards my outing for my background. and so for me, a lot of what comes up for me is really around what are we doing as an educational institution, what we heard from our advisory group this earlier today, is has been said and again and again and again, so what are we doing? so this is what i'm, i'm when i look at recommendations number 1, i honestly while it's level setting, it's fricking heavy list for this district. this has not done that. we're going to do this and report back and tell you how this is working and the calendaring process is part of

that. so i'm very much in support of 1 a and d. and i also don't want to be disposed, i do think our process to date has not, i am sorry, i am sorry for the process that you have all gone through. this has not been pleasant for anyone. this is a process where we established a calendaring and look at criteria and invite all to be part of that. and that needs to be something that we iterate overtime, it's not one and done said it and forget it, the fact that i could not get an answer to our calendaring process, nor our calendaring timeline, is incredibly problematic and

until that gets resolved we're not going to resolve anything. i'm sad to say, 1 a and 1b are a heavy lift especially given the resources and you know, if you look at our agenda today, empower remains a standing agenda. we still have not hired adequately to address our payroll issues. we're doing our best and progress is being made but i want to acknowledge where we are as a district and where i would like us to focus on the educational parts and what our students need and getting them to want to come and be at school and feel like they can participate their whole self. >> that's where i'm at. >> i wanted to provide some

brief comments much has been said my my colleagues. i want to thank you for the work and not just turning up but the years of engagement and thank you to the superintendent and staff for the work. it's essential that our families feel respected and it's so clear that the district continues to not fulfill itsz promise on delivering. i'm a parent of a 10th grader, so i've been in the district,

and to hear from our advisory for decades, really not necessarily feeling that there has been systemic changes. and i also want to apologize and apologize to the community apologize for the fact that this district didn't have and doesn't have strong processes and systems in place from the post basic systems of paying of our staff on time in full and recognizing them for their work and their dignity. and that is what there seems to

be the themes so with that, i'm in support of the superintendent recommendation and we absolutely need the administrative procedures implementing a wide system for these changes. and i want to recognize. i want to appreciate my colleagues and all the remarks that and discussion that they brought forward tonight. >> is there more direction that you need? >> so so i think what i hear that the poll through with recommendation with one and two as presented. >> can i make a follow-up?

so one of the things that i heard getting into the goal of the governorance related to the vision and guard rails. so we talk about the goals being smart goals right? i think part of the problem that we one into here is, we you know, to use we are talking vaguer reese, the rubber meets the road literally in the specificity in the details. i have not heard anything time pound in, and that's not true. that's not fair to frame it that way.

i heard the proposal of coming next year, i think we're still talking and that's why, in my experiences as parent advocate in my tist and as a special education advocate, unless you have a specific goal, specific you make no action in your progress, same thing here in a larger scale. what we expect the staff to be doing so support you here and more generally. so thank you. >> was that a question? >> it was a comment not a

question. >> thank you so much for your comments, thank you so much for the coming for coming out. i want to lift up before we transition it. as we go through this process and figure out how to handle the policy that we pass. and made amendments when figuring out a way for us to be in community to have some of these conversation so they don't just rest here at the board level as we have more action as we try to make sure we're including all the communities that we have in our district. so just to clarify, the proposal is to wait until next year just to be clear? >> no. >> that's the recommendation that you're saying.

>> i want to make sure that we understand. >> you can talk about the process, you can talk about approving the resolution and make and implementing it as you said publicly and privately for all of us. >> we're going to ask folks to reframe from having comments. >> so, mr. steal, can you put the presentation back on? >> because i also mentioned, i was proposing something which was moving quickly with the draft calendar for 23-24 that includes eid. that's why i heard it, follow-up as presented. so that's why i wanted to bring

those up. which is not what i suggested. >> respectfully disagreeing but i wanted to be clear. so one is bringing forward the policy we'll talk about this at the march meeting. and two following a development process community input while making changes and under that it says, you know, we would base it on best practices identified in our report. so what it says if you go to the slide before. april would be when we need to start the committee.

cultural groups using various input methods. and what i did hear, i was not sure where we go, that's why i was affirming, you want me and staff to move forward with that process, buts recommended it would be on this timeline? >> okay, that will end for discussion on this matter and we'll close out this conversation here. at this time we'll move to public comment.

public comment for agenda, i believe. we are moving to item h, we took k out of order and now we're back to item h and we'll start with public comment based on the that we have. >> we have 12 cards for in-person. >> before we move to public comment if i can have a motion to extend the meeting. >> so moved. >> second. >> roll call vote please. commissioner alexander. >> yes n.vice president. >> i didn'ts. >> commissioner fisher.

>> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner moore. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. sth. yes. >> six ayes for extending the meeting. >> thank you commissioner and now we go to public comment and thank you to the public for waiting and being patient. and we will give a minute per person. >> i'll be calling the first to the dais, kevin and mell and rafael, qui ing and sue i'm sorry if i i'm miss pronouncing. if you can step up to the die is hes if your name is called.

kneel, jodi. thank you. all right, lydia. i guess i'm going to go up script i'm a parent at harvey a second grader and in coming kindergarten. earlier you had showed some lovely videos and photos of schools you had visited. and it was great to see.

there were some that came here and wanted you to come to our school. and it has not happened. and our school is at serious risk of closure, e pc closed two of our kindergartens last year. based on the, we're very frustrated by the lack of transparency and clarity, okay i didn't get through any of that. hopefully you can finish. thank you. >> i'm in coming hinder garden, i'll talk about what i was going to talk about. using first choice when you

know it's broken does not make any sense. we know the system is broken in 2020, we were presented the new lottery system and now it's delayed and delayed. anyway we have a really small school and the school feels this. our staff and our children feel these things. i feel this is setting up the school for failure and setting up our students for failure. >> hi, everybody shake around a little bit so you can still listen. i'm a parent at harvey milk,

last year the decision was made to close one of our kindergarten classes. there were top rated yet one of our kindergarten classes was closed. this year last week, we asked a representative to come forward. they were suppose to come. we were instead given the interim c.f.o. anne marie gordon. informed us this the only way that we're going to get our second kindergarten is to get 44 familiesed to list us first. it's false advertisement for our families. i want that school but it's a shame that we're going to close the only school one of two in the country that is famed after

a civil rights icon and we're going to close it! all we're asking for is give us the opportunity to fill the second class. don't just make us go off a sem that is not a lot wee thank you. hi i'm a parent at harvey milk. this forum is impossible to be heard. it's impossible the people that were talked, how can you volve in our unbelievely for us. this forum does not work for us to get our message across.

can somebody tell me today, one of you how can we meet with you personally? and talk at length about what is going on in our school? we need to you listen and need it personally, this forum is crazy for that to happen. somebody answer me please, i need an answer. i've been here since 6:30, i need an answer. >> i'm going to ask the superintendent. >> yes, so we're going to our process of setting capacity. i do recall meeting the harvey milk family. and part of the process, i heard the lack of transparency on how decisions were being

made. obviously that conversation raised, you know, while, you, you know, saw the process that was being used, there is further questions and concerns. >> speaker: you said that you would meet up with us and you didn't. >> i'll follow-up after this. >> i just want to remind the public we're not allowed to have a back and forth but if people are interested in having commissioners, we're not the people to fix all the problem but we want to listen to the concerns. so if you would like me to talk to your school site, reach via he email and figure out how we

can make these things work better for all of us. and with that, i believe, i do have two more cards. go ahead. >> thank you so much for stick around. >> speaker: sfusd mom and anti racism educators. i have serious concerns that for political reasons, they have set up to rubber stamp to maintain the status quo to the detriment. there was no application process to serve on the task force. it's members announced on a day of its first meeting. at the most resent meeting, there were three commenters. they're holding three public input next month that are not

well publicized. they're looking at the projectory of 2022 not 2017 or what the long term outcomes are. currently only 58% of sfusd are career ready. we heard tonight how our nhpi students are faring. this is unconsciousable, tremendously important and necessary which has shifted the culture of and aimed our 150 year plus legacy of racial inequity. it has to stop. we have to redesign our high school system to ensure 100% of

sfusd graduates graduate into the college of their choice. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> >> speaker: there should be a positive outcome of every graduate. >> hello again, i want today comment and stay for general public comment, i wanted to address something that some other folks have addressed how hard it is to get through. i grew up with a single parent and lived in very difficult circumstances one of the reasons i come is because of my mother could never have done this thing. i want to you bare in mind how you can reach the community. it's 10:45 now and most people are not able to do this. i'm fortunate that i have a flexible schedule and a partner that can stay at home with my

kids and most don't have that. i want you to go into the community at least that brought the board to schools and gave opportunity for people to comment. just find other ways to help, thank you. >> okay, raise your hand if you care to speak to this item. please repeat in spanish and chinese. thank you. shy? >> speaker: yes. do you care to speak to general public comment? >> yes. >> thank you as a san francisco unified employee, i would like

to note can you hear what the employer want and do you care what your employee needs. the state of california only mention of equal and fair. our employer and income outside to be common in the city of san francisco. as 27 custodian, we received about 17% less than other departments. are you telling me that is equal and fair means in the district. to wait our income by telling us what is the equal and fairway now. thank you. >> thank you.

>> congratulations to president and board commissioners superintendent i'm very concerned like the other folks ahead of me are concerned about the lateness of comment. if i was young children now, now i have grandkids i would not be able to come to these comments. one board was when president walton was on the commissioner as a%backer they voted to have public comment begin one hour after the scheduled meeting for instance, you start public comment at 7:30, i hope that you consider doing this. and i also you should always have public comment along with town hall and some of those town hall are very interesting. having a choice going to

college or earn the living and we do that through the careers. we used to have excellent catering program examine i hope that we give to students again. the college education which is so expensive now and our careers, thank you. >> thank you, selena? >> speaker: thank you, i wanted to say, the diversity and we have unique names and i do struggling with names, please consider having the names onscreen so they can see that. we have people that are hard of hearing or deaf and i want to upset upsetness with the last

meeting when a commissioner was actually, you know, making comments about another commissioner and that was not okay, because my community is asking what is wrong? what is wrong with this asian american commissioner is she not able to do her job? why is she being called out while this whole board together. you have the discussion, you approved these resolutions and you are all equally at fault. why is she being singled out and we have not heard any apologies. so i think that commissioner should say her apology if not in the public, say it publicly. her community felt disrespected for her that she is being singled out and she is demoted right now, because you think she is not able to perform her job. this is not okay.

we're so used to being disrespected in this city and we're here to ask for respect some recognition, not being singled out and called not being scapegoat. >> thank you. >> speaker: thank you. >> hello, robert. >> speaker: hi, my name is robert, i have two kids here at harvey academy. and i'm concerned about the reduction of kindergarten classes, we went from two to one. another another parent had pointed out, the school was remodeled in 2020, so the idea that we would remodel a school site and then immediately lower the admission to see eventually close it, i really, i'm

requesting the board to investigate why the reduction at harvey milk. thank you. >> thank you. live. >> speaker: i'm tia, i have my daughter's name on the phone. i wanted to thank everyone for staying on so late. i have two children at harvey milk kindergartenering, we had harvey milk at number 4 choice. and i know that is a lottery was different back then. but we've been so happy that we are there, we love the community. a lottery system that is broken at our school.

i know at the loss our second kindergarten, teacher will be forced to get pushed out examine we really appreciate this staff that we have right now. we would wait for that to happen and thank you for your time. >> thank you. two for welcomes on this item? aubrey? >> speaker: sorry, i was muted. i'm another harvey milk parent, in coming second grader i want to comment on losing a kinder gaernd class is for the future of our school.

and like the last speaker, it's a special community and i've never been happier and the teachers are fabulous and we really need some answers from you about what the lottery system is and how we can reinstate a kindergarten class, thank you. >> thank you. ' vet? >> speaker: hi, thank you. i just want to say you have heard from so many parents and educators here tonight. everyone is different, everyone has their own special energy and their own special interest but they're here for their children, they're all here for their educators what i really hope from you guys tonight, when you hear these people that everything should just probably focus on what you're hearing. everything should have been done earlier, i agree with ms. marshal, it should be actual

issues that affect people in the classroom that affect people that are actually going into the classroom so all of this drama, nobody has time for it. honesty, you represent all parents whether you like us or not, whether you like them or not, we have different views. we all have kids in this district and that's your job. we are depending on you to listen to everybody. it does not matter if you don't agree but at the end of the day, listen, harvey, buena vista, anyone else that wants to advocate give them the same respect always. thank you very much. and that's all i have to say. president boggess that concludes public comment. >> all right, thank you so much. now we will hear if there is any public comment from student

speakers? >> any students in the audience that care to speak? any students on zoom that care to speak, can that be repeated in spanish and chinese please. >> seeing none. >> all right, thank you so much. and with that we'll move forward to item i, consent calendar can i get a motion and a second on the consent calendar. >> so moved. >> second.

>> any items? >> no, i don't have any items to pull. >> any items removed for first reading by the board? per the new rules, we need to change that language, so if you want something pulled, you had to inform. >> i did, i said if i get a different response i don't need to. >> but i believe the rules have to request that, am i incorrect? >> i'll second whatever commissioner wiseman ward needs. >> did i get an email that would be just to clarify.

>> i did send you an email. >> oh you did? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> with the questions stating that if you would like an item pulled per 9:00 am. >> while we're sorting this out, i, it would be helpful for the public and all of us. so to note, i didn't get to note this at the beginning of the meeting. this is our first process with our new process of publishing a draft agenda 12 days in advance. and then we have a time period when board members can submit questions and staff can respond. so we learned in this first time and we'll debrief the processes. so but one of the guidelines was that when submitting the questions, if knowing ahead of time if something wanted to be pulled, and then, also then, so

then what you're saying right now, the process if two members of the board want to an item it would be pulled and then discussed at the next meeting? >> that's correct. two board members by 9:00 am of the day of posting need to notify the board office that they want to pull an item. so that is the two board members. >> i'm looking at the commissioner request, there is two individuals that asked a question about the same item. i responded and said, this does not answer my question, if there is more information i don't want it pulled basically, i need more information to base whether i want it pulled or not and then i did not get an answer. it's item number 49.

>> do we have another item? let me review this for a moment. give me a moment. >> i don't find the email. >> it's not a big deal i was just confused the process because i don't think we got the email. >> i think we're going to suspend that rule and move forward. so my recommendation to set the rules, we need five votes. >> second. >> yeah. we can do it. >> then not a big deal. >> okay, so since this is a new

process, we had a question, why don't we have an exchange on what this was. there was a question on i49 around the janitorial services and so this is being brought forward, this is a contract to provide for prop a bond program contracts, right? so then the question was around whether is then why would theses be contracted out. so how we contract for one time focus janitorial for example. all of our custodians have what is called custodial routes. so if you have three custodians, one covers wing a and b and c.

when there is an additional project that is one time or focus, that's when we need additional support. because if we pull custodians from the route, they're not able at that then clean, do their routine routes, that's what this is trying to explain. there was in cleaning that needed to be done to prop a, bond program. >> okay, and i just wanted, just confirmation that we're not violating any of our collective bargain agreements the relevant union that works on this site. yes, no this is not about contractual work. >> i highly suspect that this is the september but since the this is the first time and i have not reviewed the contract and talked about it with staff, i'm reluctant to say that.

but but, they know our labor agreements well, she is not new to this program. i would be surprised if she was contracting out bargaining work. >> okay. just to see if the motion on the floor is still stands from commissioner? >> not if we're moving on. >> i mean, i will take, i will take your word that we assume that this is done in good faith and we're not violating the law. it will be great to get confirmation. >> we can follow-up. >> great. >> okay, so i think with that then, we are there are no items removed for first reading by the board.

and there is no items severed by the superintendent for discussion for tonight. is that correct? no items severed? okay. okay, and so with that, we'll call on public comment on this item? >> yes, thank you. brandy markman. >> thank you. >> speaker: i'm brandy. >> press the button. >> speaker: hi, my name is brandy i'm a public school paesht i'm asking that the board reject and consider rejecting the grant from crank start foundation. this is item 52 under section i, crank start is funded by silicon michael more moorets, he made huge donations have been given more than 5 million dollars and crank start giving $100,000.

two experts are racism, it's not clear what information sharing and collaboration refers to in the granted. we know that silicon billionaire mriek mothers, i use today use grant proposal for san francisco state university, it's very irregular for grantor to specifically say, that they should not announce this grant on social media. i'm concerned about a lack of transparent for public institution gift. thank you. >> thank you. if you care to speak on any items on the consent calendar and can that be repeated in spanish and chinese.

thank you. yvette. >> speaker: thank you. yeah, i just wanted to kind of comment on this, i think any money that comes into our district right now is probably good money. the offer is great, we don't know where it comes from. i do believe that the money that we're talking about, might be unrestricted or at least from what i read in the original notice that you gave, it might be unconditional. so i hope that give some people some ease and just knowing that perhaps, it's coming in it can do some good. if it is in fact unconditional

and unrestricted so you can do what you need to do to make it beneficial for sfusd children. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. folks on zoom we'll ask you to mute yourself. with that we'll vote on this item. >> sure thing. on the consent calendar, commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes. >> sanchez. >> yes. >> vice president. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> 7 ayes. >> okay, now we will go to item j consent calendar retroactive

contracts, is there a motion and a second on the retroactive contracts from consent calendar. >> second. >> thank you. any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent. >> no. >> any items severed by the superintendent for discussion or both tonight? seeing none, is there any public comment on these consent calendar. >> none in-person. anyone in zoom care to sbaek to retro active consent items, raise your hand. can that be repeated in spanish and chinese. >> thank you. i vet?

' i vet do you care to speak on the items. >> speaker: it was up from last time. >> no more comments. >> can i ask a clarifying, the fact that we have public comment in the past that has impacted, i've been in the audience multiple times when public comment has impacted and commissioner has been decided to pull something from the calendar sever it, how will our new rules impact the public's ability to participate and engage and allow us to do that? >> yeah with the shift of the board policies what would happen now, that would need to happen before public comment. so that the board would have the ability so with the shifting of the board and the ability, i think the goal is

that folks will have ability to see that in advance and be able to reach out to commissioners. at this point, it would take two commissioners to pull the item to table it for more information versus moving forward. so i think this new process takes a little while to get through it and what you're listening to is for us to communicate as we move forward. maybe i got it wrong. >> i'm going to make a slight amendment to what you said. yes we're publishing and everybody can ask questions ahead of time. thn the items gets moved to action discussion and action. if during the meeting a commissioner wants to pull an item then a majority of the board must vote. and in that case, it moves to

the next meeting. it's no longer able to be severed and discussed separately for a separate vote. >> and the public, public has questions about an item on consent is it logged by staff? so that the commissioners can see it. >> so the public does not have the ability to ask questions, they have the ability to reach out to you. but they don't have the ability to ask questions. >> to be able to have them in one space? >> so the board members questions without your names is published on the agenda. and the public can see that. >> talking about a public, i'm just questioning the process. couldn't it just go to a single place so we can all see it. >> they can reach out to us. >> the public ask the board member a question?

>> you just ask staff and we get access to those questions. right. dr. wane? >> well there is a board email already, or no. so we would just direct people to that board email? >> is that clearly labeled on the agenda? perhaps we can. >> yes. >> moving forward to clarify the community input process. >> i will say that board leadership will take the conversation back to the superintendent and we can iron it out and if there is any additional concern definitely feel free to reach out to me and we'll try to address them as we move forward. i think with that, we are did we finished the voting, we did not, we were about to vote. so i will pass it back so we

can engage. >> thank you president boggess. commissioner alexander. >> yells. >> fisher. >> yes >> lam. >> yes. >> motamedi. >> yes. >> sanchez. >> yes. >> ward. >> yes. >> president. >> yes. >> 7 ayes. >> with that, we move to item l., board member reports. seeing no reports from membership organizations or other reports, we will move to adjournment. and with that, we will adjourn our meeting at 11:14.

>> by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. i came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [♪♪♪] >> hello, friends. i'm the deputy superintendent of instruction at san francisco unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. what you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our san francisco teachers for

our students. >> our premise came about for san francisco families that didn't have access to technology, and that's primarily children preschool to second grade. >> when we started doing this distance learning, everything was geared for third grade and up, and we work with the little once, and it's like how were they still processing the information? how were they supposed to keep learning? >> i thought about reaching the student who didn't have internet, who didn't have computers, and i wanted them to be able to see me on the t.v. and at least get some connection with my kids that way. >> thank you, friends. see you next time. >> hi, friend. >> today's tuesday, april 28,

2020. it's me, teacher sharon, and i'm back again. >> i got an e-mail saying that i had an opportunity to be on a show. i'm, like, what? >> i actually got an e-mail from the early education department, saying they were saying of doing a t.v. show, and i was selected to be one of the people on it, if i was interested. i was scared, nervous. i don't like public speaking and all the above. but it worked out. >> talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, it's so very weird. i'm used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where they're all

moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them? let's listen. >> hi guys. >> i kind of have stage flight when i'm on t.v. because i'm normally quiet? >> she's never quiet. >> no, i'm not quiet. >> my sister was, like, i saw you on t.v. my teacher was, i saw you on youtube. it was exciting, how the community started watching. >> it was a lot of fun. it also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. >> i want to end today with a thank you. thank you for spending time

with us. it was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. >> i'm so happy to see you today. today is the last day of the school year, yea! >> it really helped me in my teaching. i'm excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. >> we received a lot of amazing feedback from kiddos, who have seen their own personal teacher on television. >> when we would watch as a family, my younger son, kai, especially during the filipino episodes, like, wow, like, i'm proud to be a filipino. >> being able to connect with someone they know on television has been really, really powerful for them. and as a mom, i can tell you that's so important.

the social confidence development of our early learners. [♪♪♪] >> my name is amanda [inaudible] over see the girls sports program. when i came to san francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated i moved to candlestick park and

grain r gain adlot of experience work with the san francisco 49 and [inaudible] be agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. i coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too [inaudible] >> immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. i think that is what drives other people to do this. what drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. i use today work in advertising as a media buyer and it wasn't fulfilling enough and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. the moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and inspire a child by the words

you say and actions you do. >> you have a 30 different programs for girls through rec and park and fast ball, soft ball and volley ball. i started the first volley ball league and very proud what i have done with that. being a leader for girls is passion and showing to be confident and being ambiggish and strong person. [inaudible] for about 5 years. programs offered thraw thirty-three rec and park and oversee thg prms about a year. other than the programs we offer we offer summer camp squz do [inaudible] during the summer and that is something i wherei have been able to shine in my role. >> couple years we started the civic center socking league and what an amazing opportunity it was and is it for kid in the neighborhood who come together

every friday in the civic center plaza on green grass to run and play. you otonly see soccer and poetry but also see books t. is a really promoting literacy to our kid and giving them to tools to make it work at home. real fortunate to see the [inaudible] grow. >> girls get pressureed with society and i know that is obvious, but we see it every day, magazines, commercials the idea what a woman should look like but i like to be a strong female role for it goals that play sports because a lot of times they don't see someone strong in a female role with something connected with sports and athleticism and i love i can bring that to the table. >> soccer, poetry, community service. we now have field of dreams. we are [inaudible] all over the bay area and excited to be share our mission with

other schools across the bay to really build the confidence and character of kids when they go out to play and close their eyes and think, why was [inaudible] we want to make sure-i want to make sure they remember me and remember the other folks who [inaudible] >> get out there and do it. who cares about what anybody else says. there will be poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. that happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no left and right. whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel people will say no. go out and get it done. i can be the strong leader female and i love that.

>> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their neighborhood centers are more vibrant and mildly. sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. people with disabilities enjoy all types of spaces. please provide at least 8 feet of open uninterrupted

sidewalk so everyone can get through. sidewalk diverter let those who have low vision navigate through dining and other activity areas on the sidewalk. these devices are rectangular planters or boxes that are placed on the sidewalk at the ends of each shared space and need to be at least 12 inches wide and 24 inches long and 30 inches tall. they can be on wheels to make it easy to bring in and out at the start and the end of each day. but during business hours, they should be stationary and secure. please provide at least one wheelchair accessible dining table in your shared space so the disability people can patronize your business. to ensure that wheelchair users can get to the wheelchair accessible area in the park area, provide an adequate ramp or parklet

ramps are even with the curb. nobody wants to trip or get stuck. cable covers or cable ramps can create tripping hazards and difficulties for wheelchair users so they are not permitted on sidewalks. instead, electrical cables should run overhead at least ten feet above sidewalk. these updates to the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so that we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf.govt/shared spaces.

>> manufacturing in cities creates this perfect platform for people to earn livelihoods and for people to create more

economic prosperity. i'm kate sosa. i'm cofounder and ceo of sf made. sf made is a public private partnership in the city of san francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in san francisco. sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other small business support organizations who provide more generalized support. everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow. for example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide small business owners

with education. we have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city seas partnership with small business, creating a 100 company selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or two-person shop, and who don't have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes back to how do we help companies set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their relationships, so that they can continue to grow and continue

to stay here in san francisco. i'm amy kascel, and i'm the owner of amy kaschel san francisco. we started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. san francisco's a great place to do business in terms of clientele. we have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things: architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. i think it's important for them to know where their clothes are made and how they're made. >> my name is jefferson mccarly, and i'm the general manager of the mission bicycle company. we sell bikes made here for people that ride here. essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban

environments. our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. we care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. when people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. it's a pretty fun shopping experience. paragraph. >> for me as a designer, i love the control. i can see what's going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. going through the suing room, i'm looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look? is this what she's

expecting, maybe if we've made a customization to a dress, which we can do because we're making everything here locally. over the last few years, we've been more technical. it's a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a small business owner. >> sometimes it's appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. we need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us, so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to

overcome another problem. >> moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how they're going to use it, whether it's the end piece or a wedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so that's the direction i hear at this point. >> the reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and making the city something that it has always been and making sure that we're sharing the opportunities that we've been blessed with economically and socially as possible, broadening that

>> okay good afternoon. the meeting will come to order. welcome to january 22, 2023 of the land use transportation meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. i'm supervisor melgar, chair of the committee joined by vice chair dean preston and board president aaron peskin who is joining us remotely. the committee clerk today is erica major and are i also like to acknowledge michael (inaudible) at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. madam clerk. >> the board and committees are convening hybrid meeting that alloy inperson attendance and public comment while providing remote access via ep