>> okay. >> of the san francisco skuntd 1kub9d for may 92023 is called to order. >> thank you commissioner. >> commissioner fishing here. >> commissioner lamb. >> commissioner m. >> here. >> commissioner sanchez here. >> vice president. >> here and president here. >> thank you. >> thank you. and wanted to make an announcement about public comment we rejoin public comment for all agenda and non-agenda items and take place at the beginning of the today is regular meeting no public

comment for individual items during the meeting. >> the public can speak to an item under section w public comment. open session is 6:30 and reconvene and public comment will begin from 7:00 p.m. i would like to make people aware that as is move forward we'll repeat it again and after we come back and the board will see if any public comment on closed session items before we go into closed session. >> anyone here to make comment seeing none, [off mic.] >> (microphone feedback). >> monikers to (microphone feedback). >> give public comment (microphone feedback). >> raise your hand.

>> seeing none, virtual public hands (microphone feedback). >> . okay. (microphone feedback) for board the board. >> open session. the board does not have a read out as of yet as we will return to closed session later this evening to finish the board's business and then report -- then return to open session with a read out of the board's actions and decisions during closed session. okay. and with that we will move to item d which is d1 which is our land acknowledgment which i will read now and i will ask folks to be silent as i read please. we the san francisco

board of supervisors acknowledge that we're on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who were the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well for all peoples who that reside in their traditional territory. as guests we recognize that we benefit from as guests we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. . now we will move to

please call the next item d2 approval of board minutes for march 21, 2023 and the regular meeting of april 11, 2023 and the workshop on april 25, 2023. is there a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> roll vote call -- oh before that are there any corrections or amendments or comments from commissioners in regards to the minutes? okay. seeing none roll call vote. >> thank you president boggess. on the minutes commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> excuse me, i'm sorry sorry student delegate hansen. >> yes. >> student delegate. >> yes. >> thank you. commissioner alexander. >> still yes. >> thank you. commissioner fisher.

>> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> vice president weissman-ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> seven ayes. >> thank you. and with that we will transition to item d five which is the superintendent's report and i will pass it to superintendent wayne at this time. >> thank you and good evening everyone. just want to highlight we have a few celebrations that as we come to the end of the school year and most importantly are our graduations and very excited for our seniors. i had a chance to celebrate 16 years

we awarded a super super scholarship for our spark foundation who will be graduating and attending college this year so celebrated them last week. that was an exciting event and then -- oh i didn't know this was up there. >> [off mic]. >> yeah, let me go back here and then this is this month is asian and pacific islander hearted tang month and recognize the important corrections of these people who are essential to san francisco's history, present and future and sfusd we honor the communities everyday. many of the schools offer language programs and clubs for aapi communities. hi the opportunity to visit bessie carmichael and i think they're in the house. >> [applause] >> and these programs are what make san francisco unique and something we're

incredibly proud of and this theme for this aapi month is strength knowing the fabric of our community so we have resources online at our just check it out at our web page on aapi heritage month resource guide. it is also jewish american heritage month and come themerate the 350 history of the contractors to american cite and also recognize that their culture transactions and the contributions of jewish americans during the heritage month in may and year round and then this week coming up is -- this week that we're in is the teacher appreciation week. do we have teachers in the house? i think we have some here. let's give them a big round of applause. [applause] >> . >> give them a raise. >> yeah, you know there are many ways

to demonstrate how we appreciate our teachers and we want to be able to support all those ways, but having started as a teacher, and knowing that this is why we're here to educate our students and it takes a village but it's our teachers who do it in the classroom and this the time we have educators in many roles as well and i want to thank all of the educators and the i want to say we have some hashtags up and this week on social media thank a teacher and we are sfusd so share a story why you're appreciative of our teacher and how they impacted your life or your students life and let's celebrate them and one last celebration. where is it? there we go. i want to thank also -- sorry i lost it here. and lastly it's happy school

lunch hero day. i want to thank our sfusd dining staff and cavtear why monitors. the day was celebrated on friday may 5 and take a moment to appreciate their contributions to our school community. i want to thank them too. recognizing it takes a time to keep our students nourished at school and ready to learn and the cafeteria staff and monitors and thank them for all of their support with our students. [applause] >> yeah. and then one last announcement. a lot of fun activities at the end of the year. we celebrated -- we have an opportunity to partner with the trans america, the new owners of the trans america building, that group and erthey're doing a year long art contest and visit the building and go on the 36th floor

and amazing view of the city and draw what inspires them and select 50 pieces of art that will be displayed when the building is being finished renovated and most excitingly they get to go to aspire the top of the trans america building so that is cool so a lot of exciting things going on and again looking ford our seniors graduating so thank you and that concludes my report. >> . >> thank you for that superintendent. and now we will go to our student delegates for their report. >> thank you. we want to take a moment to acknowledge the recent mass shootings and tragedies across the country and mess our sympathy for those affected. it's disturbing that people are not able to leave houses without fearing for their live and anxiety around shootings weigh heavily on students and confirm our commitment to safety in sfusd.

>> two weeks ago we had the first an in person summit since 2019 and excited to report it went very well. students enjoyed connecting with peers about workshops and health health and listening to mayor breed and the president boggess from soda. unfortunately our adviser is not here tonight but thank you for the tireless work and making the youth summit a success and we would like to give the board members a little gift from our group. [applause] >> and that concludes

our report. >> thank you so much student delegatings for the beautiful gift and for all your hard work and delegation as student representatives, as students a leaders in the community. thank you so much and with that we will transition to item e. i'm going to kind of -- i'm going to read out a statement in regards to public comment similar to what was said before. we are trying a new approach to public comment. we are trying to have the public be able to provide general public comment as well as comment on agenda items at the beginning of the meeting this. way the public doesn't need to way for the item to be discussed which could be late at night to make a comment. this is our second attempt at this structure. right now we have about an hour and 15 minutes or so set for public comment and so i

think just to be transparent with folks we've gotten about 72 plus cards so far for public comment as well as the expected public comment online and so we're going to do our best to split time equally, but it does seem unlikely that everyone who has submitted a public comment card will be able to provide public comment based on the current time allotment so i think just want to kind of flag that for folks as we begin the process. right now we are about to begin -- >> [off mic]. >> the rave awards? >> [off mic]. >> okay. i think we're going to -- >> [off mic]. >> okay. i think we're going to postpone the rave award as we have made a commitment to do

public comment at 7:00 o'clock or -- hold on one moment. . >> off off. >> [off mic]. >> after conferring with my colleagues what we're actually going to do we're going to do our rave awards now and then entered public comment a little later than expected and i apologize to the public for that but we expect to be entering into public comment before 7:10 p.m.. so i will pass it to the superintendent. >> okay. thank you. i'm sorry for any confusion about that so we do have a rave award and we have our presenters, alicia blacknell the principal of

everett middle school. [applause] >> is she online? . >> hello. good evening. can you all hear me okay? >> yep. >> all right. great. my name is alicia blacknell principal at everett middle school and i am here to present one of our amazing staff with the rave award. mr. cruz is student centered humanizing anti-racist, team unifying and community experiencive and always learning for over 21 years he's been a phenomenal educators within sfusd. peer resources program working along middle school and high school students to grow their critical lenses and expand

academic skills towards equity and he teaches from deep love and [inaudible] for of the under reached students and works with each student with equity first. whether he is speaking about the youth he demonstrates a profound ability to see the whole student and teach each one. he recognizes the brilliance of every student. mr. cruz is committed to naming and re[inaudible] anti-blackness and centering of black students and english learners and students with [inaudible]. mr. cruz has also shown commitment to create systems to support each student's academic work and single mr. cruz facilitates rigorous research projects to take action within the community which lead him to create and facilitate workshops in spanish for the legal rights and

community builders and [inaudible] and decrease isolation and unnecessary conflict and conduct formal student observations of teachers to determine and share culturally responsive teaching practices. this year mr. cruz's peer resource class created and conducted and analyzed presented the youth of the student survey that heavily impacted our system for the next school year as well as the champs that will be implemented next year. in cruz [inaudible] sfusd vision for all students graduating as independent thinkers with a sense of agency who have a attained creative and academic skills to be productive in the community. it's an honor that i present mr. gary cruz as a rave award recipient

[applause] >> . thank you and i also want to say thank you to sara brandt who is my coach from peer resources who submitted the nomination and i also want to thank my son because my son started middle school this year and i believe he's made me a better teacher. we see middle school through his eyes as his parent and we expect a lot from his teachers and whenever i reflect on his experience i think what i am doing to meet the needs of my students just as i expect his teachers to meet his needs and thank you everyone. [applause] >> okay. sorry this

would normal normally when we shake your hand and give you the certificate and take a picture but since it's remotely we will get them to everett middle school and i saw hpc resources in action and i appreciate the idea that you support that you provide student and the idea we're challenging student to be student leaders and work with each other so thank you for your leadership and hard work. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you so much and with that we will now go to public comment. just i think just to be clear with the public about how public comment is ordered. we're going to start allowing students to provide public comment and we have some time allotted for that and so what we will ask is for folks who are in person who submitted comment cards if you're a student this

would be the opportunity to come up and provide public comment and i think we're also going to ask our folks virtually if they're students and want to provide public comment. we're going to ask those folks to raise their hands now and that way we will how to gauge the time between the online group as well as the in person group. can we have that interpreted? >> so we will hear from folks in person and virtually so at this time for the virtual participants if you're a student please raise your hands. we will have time for people who are not students to speak and can we have that repeated in spanish and cantonese and that's just to gauge the time for public comment. >> [speaking spanish]

(speaking cantonese). >> i'm seeing two hands raised. >> okay. so they think we will start with our in person student public comment. >> great thank you. yes, you can go ahead and step to the mic and you have one minute to speak and have one minute and go ahead when you're ready. >> i am an eighth grader at bessie carmichael and i attend the school at fourth and harrison and as student body president i am speaking for the students. we conducted a survey designate students what could be approved upon in the

school? a majority say that the bathrooms need renovation and the response the only one functioning stall is not enough for 200 students. we have one sink and six classed windows and electricity at both campuses. there are work orders for the facilities right away although the order and crack window was submitted in december 2021 and only fixed just last we think of the fact that the work orders were never up dated shows how little you care about us and the school s. the emergency to have basic needs is a disrespect to the community. as a community we're underserved under privilege and under resourced. the lack of regards for basic needs -- >> thank you. >> [inaudible] on top of not meeting basic needs and taking away our programs. we feel unsafe and ashamed to going to the old school bessie

carmichael -- >> thank you very much. that's your time for today. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. hi. my name is ally anna and a third greater in elementary school and on behalf of the teachers and peer educators. they're super nice and should 100% get a raise. [applause] >> okay. you want to

try? you want to try? okay. we're going to try. hi. okay. this tony and attends graton elementary in the fourth grade and in a special education classroom. my husband. do you want to say our statement? he's nonverbal and he uses a device to talk so we're going to say a statement on his behalf. hi my name is chris and my child attends graton elementary. we care about the teachers

and para-educators and seen them depleted and burned out by lack of para-educator staff and low wages. enough is enough. [applause] >> i support [inaudible] proposal for pay raises because i know that this will have a direct impact

on the district's ability to hire qualified staff. we need to have fully staffed schools now. [applause] >> thank you, you're at time. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> hi everyone. my name is kimberly and a fourth grader at bessie carmichael elementary school and please save the filipino wells at sfusd. thank you. [applause] >> hello my name is roxanne and a first grade student in bessie carmichael and please don't remove the program.

[applause] >> hi. my name is bella and -- >> [off mic]. >> please don't remove this. [applause] >> hello my name is jay and please do not consolidate fourth and fifth grade at bessy. [applause] >> . >> thank you very much. are there any other students in person here today who would like to speak? okay. we can move on to -- >> if you're a student and you would like to share your public comment please raise your hand.

shirlee. apologies if i didn't pronounce that correctly. julia. okay. dorothy. julian. we will come back. dorothy. dorothy. . >> hi. >> are you -- this is the time for

students to speak. >> okay. not for me then. [laughter] >> thank you. julian. >> yes, i am here. >> okay. are you a student? . >> no. >> okay. this is the time for students. >> [inaudible]. >> thank you. okay. that concludes public comment for our virtual participants. >> okay. thank you so much to all the students who provided public comment to get us started. with that we will go to item e three which is public comment on non agenda items. so i know we're going to start off internal process of getting our cue ready and i think we also want to put a call out for virtual participants to raise their hands and say that in all of the appropriate

languages for folks. >> so if you would -- we will also take virtual public comment. each participant will have one moment to speak. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese. [speaking spanish] . >> i'm sorry. so we have jenny and she's waiting to become a panelist i believe. >> who is it? >> she's hard of hearing. jenny and i believe she's been waiting for a while.

>> [off mic]. >> sorry. interpreter you may continue. thank you. >> (speaking cantonese). >> great. thank you. we'll get started with the in person public comment. as president boggess mentioned we will a of 15 minutes for in person and 15 minutes online as well and i will call you up and groups of five in the order i call you and you go ahead and start speaking, one minute each. >> before you call the names i think we also wanted to remind folks this is

for non- agenda items so you will hear your names called in the order we brought forth. if people aric spueing in groups and there's a lot of of you and we're encourage you to come together at the mic and that will allow to create space and more time to have more voices as well but we don't want to take away individual's rights to give comment as well and i will pass it back over to mr. steel. >> thank you president boggess. mackenzie. asa. brianna, loren peters leg, lynn stewart. and megan welch. and you can go ahead. >> thank you so much. my name is mackenzie. i am here

as a president and employee of the public schools in northern california. we have four schools in the district and i want to thank you all for your service. i watch a lot of these meetings online. i know they're very long and all the work you're doing so so thank you so much all that you do. i also wanted to invite you to our 12 grade graduation ceremony on june 8 and i will send an email. our 12th graders are graduating the san francisco college preparatory and proud of them and love for you to see it so i will follow up with an email. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> my name is asa and i teach autism at graton with students with support needs. we had four vacant positions each year and the need is increasing. we had six out with no substitutes and the only adult in the room with eight

students and a child threw up and i cleaned up while teaching and a student undressed himself while teaching. there is no one to support him. while i.ed him to put the clotheses on he scratched me in it frustration and a parent that was hired and slipped and not returned to, wow! that day i took a 13 minute lunch break. we're working in horrible conditions and it's tomorrow that we feel this on the job. we're in survival mode. it doesn't mean that the work goes away and we're spread thin that the site is straining to make it to the end of the year. raises will solve the issues for many others and our schools. >> thank you. >> [inaudible]. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause]

>> hello. name brianna hernandez and speaking on behalf of a mother at granton who is para. i speak as a single mother and employee of sfusd. my son attended theresa miller and us and an employer handed back a fourth of my back check so i could work. moved five times in the last six years working with sfusd to afford rent. i have gotten a parking ticket in my employer's parking lot at work and now my seven year old as youtivityic son denied and not wait listed of the opportunity of after school richmond . >> . >> enrichment will after him. you ask what they're important? it's so i can live. thank you [applause] >> thank you.

>> hi. please by raise of hand who heard the rumor we're in a doom spiral? who thinks that healthy schools breed healthy ant communities help us this rumor will be put to bed? i want to that and we have the ability to overcome it. i'm a parent at graton and a kindergartener and three year old and the first of 16 years with you all, and i really, really -- i didn't know what a parawas two months ago because my students are brand-new and when i understood and i heard the stories which you will hear first hand how hard they're working and how difficult this job is and i found myself to educate myself because that's what should do and i looked online and found out that a front agent at the hotel in san francisco makings more --

>> thank you. that's your time. >> we need to support them and give them a raise. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello. my name is megan. and i work as a para-educator at granton in an autism class with students with extensive needs. i love my welcome and the work they do and it gives me profound sadness i'm under paid. i can't make a living wage and i have to work second jobs to survive and i remember at work and help a student deescalate and banging his head and almost banged his head into a wasn'ting on the wall and three grown adultings to control him and keep him safe and i was left on the sidewalk

outside of the school sobbing uncontrollably as the stress and adrenaline rushed out of my body. i received zero support from the school district, and imagine a job in any other field -- >> thank you >> and work violence and you are scared if you don't show up. please support the para wages. [applause] >> hello my name is lynn. i i'm a teacher for sfusd and also a sfusd parent of two children graton elementary, ap [inaudible] and lincoln high school. recently my older son was taking a break from college and did volunteer work in the special ed class and loved it and went a field trip and the kids and we talked about the fact there's so many openings is this something he could see

himself doing a career path maybe he wanted to try out while on the break and he said no way. my younger brother makes more money at the grocery store right now. i'm not going to do this mom as much as he would haved enjoy enjoyed do. it requires stamina, humanity, so many skills and we need to pay them. we need to pay them so much more. i support the proposal for $30 an hour city administrator for paras. >> thank you. [applause] >> okay. i'm calling the next group up. kristi adams, the louise family, diana, amy clark, and nicole patterson. please come to the dais. .

>> hi. my name is diana. i have two students with autism at graton elementary school and my third at ap genie. my students have gotten have not gotten the services they legally are due. this is my third time that i have come to the board meeting asking for help to get more paras in the classroom. i feel like the board has not done anything to help our children. what can you do? you can do is use your voice and influence to promote a 30-dollar raise for the paras that the union that

the teachers union has asked for in their proposal. this wage increase will fill empty roles and our kids will be anticipate to provide -- and our kids will be have provided those crucial services that our kids desperately need. do your part for our students. >> thank you. [applause] >> my name is krista adams and i have two high school students at john o'connell one at mira loma and one at graton elementary school. three of the children have iaps. i am here for these raises. i hear many of you on the board and anything you dr. wayne talk about equity for all students in our district. i would like to remind if you for these students equity first starts in actually access their classroom and learning

environment. there have been far too many day whether is my son has had his education with held from him due to last para support and too many of days that we parents had to keep our children home because there is no adequate support for them at school. this is not a safety but an equity issue. addressing our districts shortage crisis must be made a priority starting offering a fair rate wage. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello. my name is nicole patterson hayes and a fourth grader at graton elementary in class and through his iap supposed to have a one-on-one full time. that rarely happens and it's always different and not consistent that is problematic for him. additionally the children have been

asked to stay home a number of days because there's not enough support for the kids to be safe at school. additionally the parents are instrumental. they do amazing work. no one can even believe the things they deal with and go through and support the kids so i support you the economic proposal for $30 an hour starting salary and no less. >> thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name is amy clark and this is my student and her family behind me. she's supposed to have a para full time and qualified in the fall and up to today she had zero hours and today she got a para for the first time and not a complete amount and two and a half hours and it was amazing. this little girl was sorting polygons into quad laterals and examples and non examples to came to the board to share her

example. imagine what could have happened if she had what she is legally entitled to from the fall. [applause] >> i am beyond furious about this. this should be an emergency for you guys and i know you're hard working but please treat this as an emergency. i have another amazing student william, who comes to into my class on a daily basis for mainstreaming and barely has the support of he needs so i assign my students to help him in class and they and he love its but he's not getting his aip met. $30 and no less. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello to you all. my name is alfredo and a parent of graton elementary school. i have a nine year old daughter in fourth grade who has an this program and we love the community

and i know the teachers do their best to meet my daughter's needs. however, one of my daughter's service is not being met. she's receiving -- she hasn't received any of her para minutes because of lack of para [inaudible]. every week she miss 1295 minutes of para support. this is sfusd lack of commitment to our special educators students. i am asking and begging to the sfusd put our students needs first. >> thank you. [applause] >> okay. i'm going to call the next

group. diana, sara, ally anna -- you already speak. thank you. thank you. mic kenzie. mast ro[inaudible] family. they already spoke. great. you can go ahead. >> thank you. my name is -- >> yes. >> awesome. my name is diana. i'm a special education and paraeducator and parent at graton elementary school. my children gives special education service through the iap and my comments are from experience in both real estate. we're so under staffed as you have heard. there are no substitutes in case of illness or emergency. there is no staff for coverage. we are sick and pushing ourselves beyond our

limits when your job is mentally and physically taxing and work with more children than we're supposed and the children are underserved. it is difficult to make sure each child is received to the legally entitled services. we need to attract and hire more para-educators and the best way to giving us a raise and incentivizes new hires and those on the job we're seen and appreciated. we ask to you hand with us and support paraeducator raises. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name is mackenzie and my son cooper is in a special day class at graton elementary school and i here to support the paras. i pick him up and

drop him off during the week and on campus frequently and i see the wonderful work they do on a daily basis and how the success depends on guidance and of course presence. our classroom parace are the first outside of our home that cooper felt safe with and his face still lights town this day every morning when i drop him off and greeted. i quickly learned how vital they were as part of this journey and how important they are within our community and to our community. we have also been affected by the para shortage and several occasions where i kept him home due to the safety concern because of the shortage and this needs to be a desirable and livable position. i support the union's proposal for raises and encourage the board of education and superintendents to support this as well. go paras. >> thank you.

[applause] >> hi. my name is sara and also says also a parent at graton. i am sharing this perspective on behalf of another parent of a day class child who can't be tonight. i have been a parent there for five years and since my son has been in the autism program it's under staffed if i asked if a provider could help the district wouldn't allow it and for years no action on villing the vacancies and we're now at a crisis point. she goes on to describe how her child had a fall at school, a serious injury, and notes that there are serious safety concerns in our population of students. when we under staff programs they're at higher and higher risk because there's want enough adult support folks to keep them safe. do we want to wait until a fatal accident happens before taking action?

para raises will keep the schools staff and please support raises. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> okay. i'm calling the next group, time group for this section. kate -- >> [off mic]. >> thank you. ruby. eva, maya, jay and again forgive me if i am mispronouncing. >> hi. name ate kate. i'm a social worker at little bessy. as we emerge from the pandemic we know that student mental health has

taken a dive and we need more supports not less. we specialize in emotional social learning and mental health. support the proposal to safeguard social work and nurse positions. additionally ethnic studies save lives. i have seen first hand the impact the program has at little bessy and please save our program and support our students. [applause] >> . >> hi. good evening. my name is jay. i'm a parent at bessie carmichael and last february there was council meeting share with the capacity team made the decision to consolidate the fourth and fifth classes program at our school next academic year. this

decision was made without meaningfully consulting the people that would be most impacted, the student, teacher, and the families. it was a decision about us made without us. in response parents and families wrote letters to the superintendent and the board and petition was presented last april 11 during the board meeting, and here we are again raising the concern for that, and we just don't want fourth and fifth class to be consolidated next year and we upon a confirm answer before the coming year, and so please no decisions without us, and have a good evening everybody. [applause] >> good evening commissioners, superintendent wayne and student delegates. my name is

april and i have been a bessie carmichael parent for four years. i am here to tell the district and the board that the filipinos want commitment and partner with the enrollment center and multilingual pathways and support the application and enrollment process of the filipino wellness programs at bessie carmichael and long fellow elementary school. we want an active partnership that ensures real solutions to address enrollment for filipino wellness programs and sfusd. we are here today to tell the district we want to actively partner with these groups. we want designated the staff who will meet us to discuss every school year. please save the filipino pathways at sfusd. no decisions without us.

thank you very much. . >> thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name is ruby and also a bessie carmichael parent and my student was part of the filipino language program. i am here to ask you to please keep the commitment to the filipino wellness program at bessie carmichael and long fellow lealtyistry school. consolidating the fourth and fifth grade language classes back down it is the commitment to strengthen the program and language access. filipinos maybe up a third of the school population and the third largest ethnic group in san francisco and identified as the third largest group with limited english proficiency and san francisco certified tagalog for services and the board of supervisors passed a resolution prioritizing filipino art and education and language history and culture. the filipino language

program helps new examiners adjust to life in a new country and support as they develop english proficiency. we're here today. where are you all? >> thank you. >> please keep the commitment our program. thank you. [applause] >> so we've reached time for in person public comment on non agenda items, so what we're going to do right now -- we have a large number of cards still remaining for non agenda items as well as a smaller number of cards for agenda items, so we're still up here i think figuring out the best step of action to find a balance between the virtual online participants and our folks in person so what i'm going to do right now we're going to go to our virtual participants and we're going to give the

10 of them with their hands raised from the time we start audio. >> president president can i respectfully request that we expand the time to accept all the comment cards. [applause] >> . >> . >> i definitely think we can entertain that motion to extend time. i still want to -- i still want to take public comment from our virtual participants before we have anymore time from our in person participants and prior the virtual folks and then have that motion come forward if that is okay? >> [off mic]. >> as a reminder this is time for non agenda items. each speaker will have one minute. i'm going

to call dorothy, kim and weset. dorothy go ahead please. >> . >> hi. my name is dorothy and i'm the community development equity officer for [inaudible] public schools of san francisco. >> i'm sorry dorothy. we can't hear you. one second. go ahead please. >> i'm the community development equity officer for parents of public school and i would like to read a statement from a coworker who is unable to read it "i am blind with multiple disabilities. throughout this academic year i have struggled to participate in the board meetings. there are countless barriers to participating for anyone with a disability. i am educated in the disability rights movement and have extensive personal experience advocating

for accessibility including direct relation with the office of mayor breed mayor. i was going to there in person but i realized i wouldn't be able to fill owl the guidelines and filling out the public comment card and making the comments in the microphone and the comments within the allotted timeframe. thank you very much. >> thank you dorothy. >> before we move forward is there anyway to increase the audio in the board room so we can hear it? i know i couldn't hear and i'm not sure others could hear it clearly. we're going to pause for a second to adjust that and as soon as we make that fix key will restart and kind of keep it going. just

a riminder we're now talking about non agenda items so nothing such as the facilities master plan or nominations for advisory committees. that is all still to come. this is on things aren't highlighted or listed in the agenda and outside the purview of the board's discussion action items today. >> kim go ahead please. >> hi. can you hear me? can you hear me? can you hear me? >> yes. we can hear you. >> my name is kim ellis and a spanish teacher and [inaudible] at george washington high school. i encourage you to provide your educators with a fair and competitive contract. i mentored five teachers -- >> i'm sorry kim. it is a little muffled on our end so i will see what i

can do. >> i think what we're going to ask of people in the audience and commissioners if we can be extra quiet so we can hear while we're trying to adjust. we don't have to delay the meeting and ask folks to be quiet as we get from the virtual participants and we will encourage our virtual participants to please start your comments. >> can i start again? >> yes please. >> my name is kim els and i a spanish teacher and induction coach at george washington high school. i encourage to you provide the educators with a fair and competitive contract. i mentored five contract and three left within four years of starting at sfusd to go to neighbors schools with a higher salary.

if we don't invest in the teachers train them and take the training and expertise elsewhere. please invest in the educator and the students who depend on them. thank you. [applause] >> come on up. i don't know what that feedback is. no (echo on the audio line) yvette? . >> hello. [inaudible].

>> is someone's volume on? >> [off mic]. >> [inaudible]. >> i just talk because i can't whether you can hear me or not but i want to say that at the beginning of the year this board went [inaudible] process supposedly we determining the way that our district -- >> yvette? yvette? i'm sorry to interrupt you. we're having trouble hearing you so can you give us one second. we want to make sure that we are able to hear your comments. >> okay. thanks. >> thank you. .

>> great. go ahead please. >> okay. do i get my whole time over? >> yes, you're getting your full minute. >> okay thank you. so i will make this as quick as possible. at the beginning of the school year this board promised to prioritize student outcome specifically making sure that this

district would lead in a way that was equity focused and as well as student centered and it just breaks my heart today to hear that we're still not paying teachers on time; that we're still don't have a program yet or have not proper investments ensuring that we have enough staff in the classrooms to support our students to make sure they're able to learn to make sure they feel safe. we have seen this body continually a prof contracts for subcontractors as well as other contracts giving up to almost $20 million to basically paper pushers and we're lacking the motivation to really invest in our students, and this is going to have long lasting impacts on not only the students but on our families as you can hear they're having long lasting impacts on the people who are caring for our children everyday so i would really hope

that this board really knowledge innings about what is the step forward to fixing some of the issues and they're not going a way and it's seeming to get worse. >> . >> thank you. [applause] >> next speaker. >> yes. can you hear me okay? >> we can hear you. >> okay. i just wanted to say -- i was just hope that this district and the superintendent can maybe have a little more urgency as when it comes to contract negotiations. i feel us as educators why administrators teachers or parents and we're about to jump ship and we're interviewing other place. i mean if can you teach in san francisco and good evaluations you can teach anywhere and you will probably lose more tal i want and i think this

slow and turtle pace of things is not very -- it's not really increasing anybody's faith in the prospects of existing in this district for years to come. you see the urgency in the parents of graton who are there. you see the urgency in the vacancy numbers and everyone and the dramatic experiences that we endured and time to see the emergency frommule of you. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> katelyn. >> can i speak chinese? (speaking

cantonese). >> thank you. translation. >> hi. katelyn is my daughter. she will be going to school soon is and have a bigger daughter and to middle school and i would like to request for a safety check for the district to perform a safety test at school and to protect our students and our teachers as well. thank you. [applause]

>> thank you. natalie . natalie? vanessa. >> hi. good evening. it's vanessa from public schools of san francisco. i want to thank all of the educators who came out tonight. it's public servants week and honoring all teachers and those who are searching so thank you. i am concerned about accessibility. i hired a accessibility specialist to look at the sfusd website and we found it is not accessible so i would like to work with somebody at sfusd to

ensure that we have accessibility for all of our community members who have disabilities so they can engage in the process. t. [applause] >> thank you. >> venus. >> hi. can you hear me? >> yes. >> yes. my child attends graton elementary school. ativityic schools and require high support needs. due to short staff their safety a big concern and i support the para raises. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. michelle. >> hi. can you hear

me? >> yes we can hear you. >> hi. good evening. i am michelle. i'm a custodian and i. working so much over time because of the shortage of custodians and we have a low rate of pay, and i had to take a second job on the weekend says. i have a friend who is a social worker and they get paid 23% raise by next year. all we're asking is the 16% as custodians. 23% would be great but i know we're not going to be getting that and getting 23% but 16% we're praying that you guys give it to us. we're over worked and under paid so thank you. have a good evening. >> thank you. [applause] >> angela.

>> yes. (speaking cantonese).

>> thank you. >> thank you. >> hi. my name is average lamp i have a son that is currently attending high school. i was a member of pac before and now i'm a cpac member and i here to speak about the information about pac. they're extremely -- like people are unable to apply o website it indicated the application process has ended and it's not accepting anymore applications which is not true. if you -- only the insider know that the application process is still working, so it

indicates on such on your website you should stop your application process as well. this information is not real and not true so pay attention to this problem. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> jeanette. . >> hi there. my name is janae cogs and a teacher at cesar chavez elementary school. i actually was just giving a presentation with the american federation of teachers

and we have been discussing teacher retention in deaf education within sfusd. i don't know when you're familiar with the problem but the teacher shortage, the service provider shortage and the para shortage is epidemic in the region and trying to get resources together and trying on work on curriculum, trying to recruit educators and we have no program with sfusd to do this and we're trying to find retirees for our program and don't want to close it and the curriculum development and the trainings and overall we need a investment for deaf education in this district. thank you. [applause] >> thank you that concludes public comment for virtual

participants. >> okay. so what i would like to do right now is i believe we have some additional public comment cards from some of our union representatives and i think we want to call on now and that will be our next action, and then we will have a formal process if we want to do something more. >> yes, i will go ahead and call the names. caller you're unmuted. please let us --. >> . >> (calling speaker names). >> all right. hold on one second. all right. first i'm going to read a letter. okay. "dr.

[inaudible] i wanted to give you this later as an appreciation letter. you helped me learn i shouldn't be afraid to share my feelings and who myself and who i truly am so i came out to my mom thanks to you. i wouldn't have done this without you by my side. [inaudible] (audio is not clear). a proud sfusd member and on the executive board. i'm reading this letter to you because article 40 states the critical role of social workers and nurses at school sites because we're providing students with the safe space they need to process who they are, to be able to explore their feelings and full self and not only that but addressing the critical crisis that come up at schools everything

and. last night we received the second rejection for the proposal and asking the district to keep the team accountable and show up to the table with dignity and respect. >> thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name is diana mueller and on the bargaining team and a special education para i have been with the district for 13 years. i bring home $28,000 per year. i do not get paid breaks during winter or spring breaks. i do not get paid during summer vacation. i tell you this because our union has submitted an economic package that would begin to address these inequities for our classified and certificated staff. one job should be enough. each and every one of our proposals have been created with our students, our unions members and our community in mind.

this ask -- the ask is that you direct management team to fully support and agree to the economic package of our union proposal. it is fair and equitable. thank you. [applause] >> it's been a while so in case you have forgotten a chris and a teacher at washington school and a proud member of the bargaining team. i our team spent much of the unpaid personal time preparing for the negotiations and we have been here for hours every week since march seeing our proposals wait weeks for responses. while sfusd's team has been focused on issues like taking away prep time from teachers we're focused on solving problems within sfusd. it is my firm hope that during the closed session earlier sfusd finally

presented you with respective proposals to wages and class sizes among the other outstanding proposals. unfortunately we will have to wait until the 15th yet another week of delay despite the requests to meet more frequently. we're working to get a deal before june and asking the team to bargain and get this job done. [applause] >> hello. my name is anna marie lopez and a member of the bargaining team and a preschool teacher right now so the reason i come here is because as every educator know we have to take classes to help children to meet the need they actually need, but so far i have 169 units of early child education and all of the classes have showed me that i have to meet the necessity of the children. so far that

necessity of the teachers are not met at the school district so we are bargaining right now and our bargaining sees it's not important for the people in charge. every night we come here and ask for the bargaining it look like that all the proposals are not being fair for no one so nobody is paying attention so i hope you guys can pay attention to us this night, and consider our proposal. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. >> hi. my name is michelle. i am also a para-educator here in san francisco at san francisco international high school and you heard a lot of stories today, many stories from para-educators from families and community members and what they told you that education is a holistic thing in the san francisco and in reality. it takes our teacher accident t ,

para-educators and social workers and nurse practitioners and we're losing people. >> . >> we have a shortage and come to the process to the table with the management to demand an agreement by the end of the school year so next year we can retain and attract more people in a holistic way. every single child wants to learn, has the capacity to learn, but we can't help them achieve those goals if we don't have a full staffed schools that are paid living wages. i am just one of many para-educators that do have to work two jobs. do you want to be on the side of history or against it? you need to agree to our economic package. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. >> good evening. my name is linda. this is my 33rd and final year in the school district and i am also the most

senior nurse. i've worked in all levels k-12 and at washington and i am speaking as a mother of two children that graduated from the schools. for the last years as you know challenged our district in inning imaginable way but the nurses steppeddum they provided vaccination, laptop deliveries, counseling and home visits. they continue to address equity and support 504 special ed students and emergencies and access to primary care but how are they being treated? are you all aware that many nurses in the district have 30 plus years, 30 plus credits beyond their bachelors? do you know that many of us have a national credential but teachers receive the upliftings for the achievements nurses do not and that is not fair and no way to recruit or retain.

commissioners you advocate for social justice. to make that happen we need experts to remove health disparities. do you know what i am saying? please speak through your actions and let nurses know they matter. thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening. cassandra. behind me is the members of the bargaining team and can't speak tonight and they're represented here. what you heard say wonderful breath of examples what we're dealing with and trying to bring to the table solutions. every time we come to the table and every proposal that is read and eligible -- you can click on it and see everything, everyone can. we've have come with solutions. we're not interested in idolizing a problem. we're not interested in making things

harder and we're being very ambitious and helpful that the same urgency and ambition is there with sfusd to get a deal observe the end of the year.y we know it's hard at site the way they are and we know we can fill the gap on the unstables that are about this vacancies and folks working conditions that drive them out of the profession. our job is already hard no matter the position working with youth in the public school system with government, right circumstances a lot harder than it seems and all we're asking is a willing partner across the table to come and address those solutions. we notice longer in the condition to have these solutions -- management team's doesn't see the solution across the table as anyway engaging in solve the problems that our working

conditions our student learning conditions and our students access to mental health and special education, service minutes, educators and nurses et cetera. we do critical work in this district. we want to stay and remain doing so and your job coming to the table in the next following weeks to hammer out a deal and we're committed to do would go a long way to start next year with students and families and communities and workers in a stablized way. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i will call the next group. (calling speaker names). >> please come to (enc.

>> clerks, -- who am i missing? i'm sorry. i'm a little -- these are the people that hold the school district together. without them there would be no district. i almost think that working for the district now is like working for amazon. it's ever worker in will amazon warehouses were to say no more nobody get their

packages. nobody getting their packages. i feel the same thing is going on with the district. the people who keep the district going are forced to work two to three jobs. it's unacceptable. it's absolutely unacceptable. we don't want your words of s you need to show us that you care by giving us a livable wage. [applause] >> thank you. >> hi. my name is beatrice hernandez and senior administrative analyst at the budget office. i'm here to support our union and ask for a strong contract. we need to a strong contract because employees are losing faith in the district and leaving to city jobs where they know they won't have problems with the pay or benefits and where they're valued and respected and receive the pay they deserve. the budget office lost two employees in seven months. can the district afford to

lose more employees when they're having problems hiring? we haven't received a raise since our last contract. our contract expired three years ago. we're asking for a 16% increase to fill the gap between the city and the district pay. if the district can send millions to em powersf which doesn't work they can afford to invest in employees that do work. [applause] >> okay. hi. my name is lynette. i work for the san francisco san francisco unified school district in the bond program department and i am here to support the union contract and equity pay for all to be increased to 16% for the san francisco unified to match the city pay equity. i am here to support the cost of living, gas going up, food

and living expenses. thank you. [applause] >> . >> thank you. >> my name is [inaudible]. i'm the custodian in the school district and working hard for everyone and vacation is my family time. i need to make a reservation for that. i request my vacation in february for june but still pending. the district should respond to requests as soon as possible. i'm frustrated because i can't pay for the vacation announcement my wife and kids are asking about the plans and her schedule. i should tell her mine is pending and i might have to sacrifice my family time for the job. the district should give guideline and for the employee that apply for the vacation and we used to have a lot of custodians waiting for public

comment but i don't see why they're at home right now because for what? thank you. [applause] >> good evening commissioners. dr. wayne. i am from the local seiu 1021 chapter president and same old same old. enough is enough. pay our members. they need to be paid fairly, equitable what their counter parts on the city side. their rent is extreme. inflation is at 9.5%. the last time they received a raise was in 2020. nothing since. it's not like we're asking for an arm and a leg which we should and they well deserve. our custodians are sacrificed and worked to the bone because they're so short staff.

constitute nutrition. our students are getting letters that their hours are cut with no explanation and their work load doesn't change. how does that happen under your watch? these are your administrators making big decisions that are affecting my members, and it hurts and it hurts them hard. we just heard the young man speak about vacation time. our custodians work hard, each one of our members work hard each and every year. they earn time to be with their families. let's give them that time to be with their families. it's give student nutrition the hours they need so they can earn benefit and a retirement. i had a four year employee retire from student nutrition went to the retirement board and they told her she can't get anything from them because she worked 3.5 hours for 40 years, no benefits.

enough is enough. let's pay our people so we have a good running district. like the lady said earlier you said we're doing this for the kids. everything is for our students and i agree. i come to work everyday to make sure our students are safe. our teachers come to school everyday to make sure that the students are educated. our para-educators are coming to the schools to make sure that the special ed students are taken care of properly even though they struggle and make no money let's pay them a fair wage. enough is enough. do your job. pay us. thank you. [applause] >> that concludes the in person non- agenda items. >> so i think with that we have about seven cards left for non agenda items public comment and

we're going to make a transition to agendize public comment next but i do believe that a commissioner was going to make a motion in regard before we moved on so i want to give you the space to do that. >> i move that we accept public comment and hear from everyone who is here. [applause] >> is there a second? it is my prerogative and i ultimately get to decide. i guess what i am asking to see facility -- if the board wants to second the motion by the commissioner and i understand it's up to my decision to do or not and whether there is support to do that extension which i know i don't have to do. >> . >> i would like to hear from people that are here. i'm willing to stay for

the people who took the time who submitted cards. >> [off mic]. >> just to realize we did commit about an hour and a half to public comment so we are running short on our total time for public comment by extending this. hearing the desire for commissioners to allow the additional seven cards we have here as board chair i will make a decision to do that but i will inform folks we're going to plan to keep to the set time for total public comment so we will need to make those adjustments as we move so i will ask if our staff would read our last set of names and then we will move forward.

>> okay. suzanne. i'm sorry i can't read the last name. jaclyn, cecelia, john, eduardo, and laura. please step to the dais. you can go ahead. >> hi. i'm a parent of four children that went to sfusd. one currently at francisco middle school and i am concerned about. i want to raise safety in the schools. something needs to be

done and yes focusing on education is important such as the lcap but children can't learn if they're in fear. the schools need more staff because children are lacking connection and education and when i am saying more staff i'm not saying therapists and they need it because of the lack of staff members and the education they're having. more staff is needed like paras for special education and regular education and they're need of training. also need more staff of color. as i'm fighting for my child, our children i'm not the only one with the concern and something needs to be done and more money for teachers and all under paid staff. >> thank you. >> i support the union for fighting more money and staff. thank you. [applause] >> hi. my name is john. i'm a parent and product of 17

years of public education. i want to acknowledge the huge importance of the payroll issues and the pay issues that are on the table in front of you and i always want to bring up one that is free, algebra in middle school. i didn't have to wait it to take algebra in eighth or ninth grade and supported me in seventh grade and i know if we had to be held back years to take the advance classes that we were able to take it would diminished our education and opportunities. there are students hurt that way by policies today. regardless of the noble intention of the issue with holding education from children is not a good answer. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. >> hi everyone. i wanted to thank first of all the board

and president boggess for bringing public comment early in the night. this has been a huge thing for participation by parents. i also do want to note however that it can be still difficult for some parents. there were folks that left when we went to virtual so two of the folks eduardo and laura were here and they were going to speak but they had to leave, so the earlier we can do this the better and the second thing i want to say was to thank the administration for canceling the mv t. please save us as much money as possible and losing in lawsuits and second what prior gentleman said about algebra. the more opportunities we give students the better. let's not hold anyone back and give them the opportunities they would like to see. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> that concludes

those participants. >> can we do the virtual participants and we can do that as well. >> for virtual participants raise your hand if you would like to your your public comment. each speaker will have one minute to speak. right now we're gauging in how many folks are calling in. currently seeing four hands raised president boggess. four. >> okay. so those are the hands that we take when we come back to public comment are the hands currently raised so i think with that i will pass to mr. steel to start with our in person public commenters. >> thank you president boggess so i will call the first group. susan

stoddard. (calling speaker names). . >> i am susan stoddard and the founding chair for the los angeles county high school for the arts with kiley [inaudible] attended and six children and single mother and went to the high school of the arts in los angeles and you can see his work. arts high school serve kids in ways that are so powerful and we're in a city that a arts high school should be at the center of the civic center corridor. it was promiseed in this room. there were people in this room who have promised over and over and over again to move the roots school of the

arts to downtown 135 van ness. four bonds. countless unanimous board resolutions. i stood with [inaudible] in front of frank jordan and position as conservatory director to move the school and give the town a arts high school and launch careers in the arts and show how important the creativity of the young is to put it in a platform in this town in the center of everything. the money has been spent. the promises that were made. >> thank you. >> you took $100 million. please keep your promise. >> hi. i am keith master teacher celebrating my 21st year in sfusd and i have the silver hair to proof tevidence

awarded mayor teacher of the award for my work and teacher of the year and dream catcher recipient in the arts education recipient and i have been here for a while and i am really curious why there's no mention in the master plan for the facilities of any mention of the ruth la salle or the construction of arts center on van ness meant to serve all students >> now i understand the master plan was created with an extensive survey but as a parent and teacher i never saw that survey. my husband and i adopt 2d boys last year and we keep our promises to our boys. >> . >> i like it here and i don't want sfusd to be the lagged of broken promises. please keep your promise to the voters of san francisco. . >> oh shoot. okay. thank you. hi. i am alex jones and

school of the articles graduate andin [off mic] innovation leadership. i as a process school of the arts and [inaudible] [off mic] bia huge part is the access to mentorship and relationships outside of the school and leadership in the bay area. when and if the school were to move to the central corridor of the arts in san francisco there would be ample and abundant opportunities for that. additionally i think there's other benefits which are that there's it could reinvigorate the education community, sparking new ideas evasion, all things that are crucial right now in the challenging moment in sfusd and the question is what do we invest it and can we afford to lose those opportunities and take every route to address it is issues [inaudible].

thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening superintendent and commissioners. i am sandra holiday a public school advocate for over 30 years. the facilities master plan has promotedda a work plan and school of the arts on van ness despite unanimous school board votes supporting the move and inclusion in four past school bonds. this was a major selling point that you all used to pass the bond in 2016. $100 million was later reassigned. you have the fliers on your desk and showing the unanimous resolutions. please without it in the master plan for the future home of the school of the arts

and back fill the $100 million from the bonds and you see the drawings and contracted by the school district him and his staff can do the project in phases, the arts high school first. it would significantly reduce the price tag in a well run school district we should be able to eat and chew gum and meet our current obligations and plan for the future. that are donors in san francisco that want to do this and they do want to fund this. [applause] >> hi good evening. i am jill wynns and sat in those sites for a long time. i'm here to discuss the omission of the ruth [inaudible] school of the arts and facilities master plan. i am hoping we all are this is an oversight that because this -- we've heard about how much times we voted in favor of this both in this room and

in the community. the $100 million was the key selling point for the 2016 bond. the mayor stood up with us at the kick off and some of you at that bond campaign. relied on this and promised the voters and students of san francisco, so i want to just mention some of the assets that can be brought to us. one, we have the name and reputation of ruth lavalla and we promised her when she allowed us to name the school after her it would be a school she would be proud of that would have the arts education programs that we are embed in the metropolitan transportation commission for the arts and it's time we do that. >> >> and her epieration is worth geometrically more when she le nt to us and she is now finally recognized as she should have been during her life as a

world renown brilliant artist. in addition to that we have the design before you from the architect of renown. he designed sf jazz right down the street and the redesign of the oakland museum and the opera performance space in the veterans building. these are enormous pluses that we have. in addition to that we have donors and people who have been behind this for years that we have not contacted. we all of us and all the people standing behind us that you don't see we have offered to help with this and no one has done anything to mobilize that energy so i want to tell that you what we need to do is make some acknowledgepts of this, go forward with this. you all promised when you reallocated $100 million that you would support this project in the future. before you is the plan for the future. >> we're at time >> and it's not in

there and put it in there and let it be worthy of ruth and this school district and especially of our students. [applause] >> call the next group. (calling speaker names). >> hello. my name is selena chiu. tonight i will use. >> mime title and the co-vice chair of the advisory council, known as pac. the majority pac decided to advance this and i disagree. this was riddle with problems and you're aware of that. as ipac member i agree with the legal

counsel's findings. the pac online application forum is open and closed [inaudible] [off mic] (audio is not clear) and were confused. some did not apply because they thought it was closed. [inaudible] eliminating non english speaking parents. in the end not only the process there were experience racial discrimination and [inaudible] and more fair. i am here today to represent many parents who have complained to me they were shut out. i support sfusd's recommendation outline in [inaudible]. >> thank you. >> sorry. i'm sorry. >> would you let her finish her thought please. >> so there's three concerns. the process was lill illegal, not fair and not transparent. thank you. [applause]

>> hi. i am here to speak about two agenda items. the first one is the pac. i wanted to express how troubled i was about what i read about what happened with the pac's election process in so far it was recognized apparently by the school district and counsel as improper and illegal and discriminatory. it's important if we have the pac it's credible and transparent and representative of the parents across the district. there's a lot of parents with viewpoints in the district and shutting them out is disturbing. we should find a representative set of voices. the second thing i wanted to comment on was the facilities master plan and with regard to that there are many things to be said here but i wanted to focus on the public input aspect. i'm concerned that public input -- it's not clear what was changed in the master plan from public input and i

hope to hear from that and the virtual presentations that were provided -- may i finish the sentence? okay thank you. with regard to the virtual presentation there was a question at the beginning about what school people came from and completely separate polls about what people thought with regard aspect of the plan and doesn't seem like the two things were connected and seems like district wide data was collected and in an area you want to know school by school which priorities and things were important. when i asked about this i was told they were compiling district wide priorities. thank you. >> hi. my name is keith and a parent of two students. apii heritage month and i saw something alarming regarding the process of selecting members of the district pac. i feel like we're living in 1882 when the chinese [inaudible]

happened and former pac [inaudible] email to "we received morewitz -- more applicants than could be accommodated." why is the district pushing out these families now? on april 19 in a memo the head much district staff to pac education and board policy noted that the district program cannot -- [inaudible] discrimination to [inaudible] including race. it's clear that the process is [inaudible] diversity driven. the selection process is not only harmful but discriminatory and harmful and (inaudible) >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> . >> good evening commissioners. amanda

here on behalf of the sf parent collision. three years ago we didn't exist. >> >> and grew to thousands by the end of the first year with now over 5500 parents from 110 schools. we exist because the district didn't listen to parents or respect us as partners. i never expected to make close trends from public comment at the school board a pandemic but democracy. our first call was to the parent advisory council and at the time parents were vilified by school board members and shut down when we shared creative ideas to help students and families dur this challenging time that we ever known. known parents were looking for help being heard but the pac

wouldn't listen and months after they rejected zach a founding board member we're here with the pac slate chosen under dubrous circumstances. we ask you to listen to the district and table this item. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> hi. chanel blackwell parent of two san francisco unified school district students. i will tell you right now about the pac it's a violation of the brown act and not vote on it tonight. it needs to be tabled. it's disappointing we're here discussing this but here we are but the pac must be reformed including different diversity of parents, different backgrounds, class, background, education background, religion or gender and i mean -- what i mean about gender seeing more males. don't get me wrong i am for women but i don't see men in the packs and we need that balance so please i urge you not to vote on this so this

could be done asap to be fulfilled so we get back and focus on the students agenda which is reading, literacy, math literacy, bring algebra and teacher empowerment and increasing pay because they deserve it. thank you for being a service to our kids. >> thank you. [applause] >> okay. i'm going to call the next group. (calling speakers names).

(speaking cantonese). >> hi. i am from cpac. i have two children in the district and i am here tonight to speak for to speak about pac. it's forbidding

chinese parents from participating. they have lost their trust. they have developed a monopoly that excludes everyone else. i hope you intervene and help us regain trust in pac. there is chinese present tonight. i hope the district could help cpac to help restore our trust in pac. thank you. >> go ahead. >> hi. good evening members of the school board. my name is rabbi dr. rothchild and -- what's up with the teachers money? please pay the teachers. thank you. now, president

boggess as a woman of the jewish community i see this unfortunate pac is discriminating against africans based on race. it's illegal. it's unconstitutional. it's unconstitutional and [inaudible]. simply -- [off mic] is not enough. you must reform it completely. the intent is covered by the examiner and other newspapers. let's bring back the great school expert to give the pac a new life. thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello all. good evening. my name is jessica. i'm a member of the chinese pac. i know and our chinese want to apply to the pac to

help students but too many chinese are denied. this really hurt to our chinese community. we have been in the city over 150 years and we belong and part of the san francisco unified school district. so because of too many chinese [inaudible] so i am here today and reneed to reform the fundamental of the pac and not mouth piece for [inaudible] again. thank you. [applause] >> (speaking cantonese).

>> hi. name wendy. i'm a member of cpac. there is more than 1/3 student in sfusd that are chinese. we cannot allow this discriminatory things to happen especially that we have right now in pac there's -- it only represents like in like a small group. we need to include every group possible including chinese

group. thank you. >> my name is i don't have feign. co-founder of cpac. the $140,000 a year on pac for 3,000-dollar voices to block out the other two as well as the rest of the 15 seats should have better off spent on paras or four, five teachers at graton oh bessie carmichael or other teachers. we cannot restart pac. we cannot pass this tonight. we kent are do the process and potentially a lawsuit is starting. the reason that pac has a pattern 27 months ago and now again to reject parents -- exclude parents based on certain race it's because it's built into the bylaws. it has major flaws and allow certain people to highjack it and block out other people. it's time

that we have accountability. its reporting strung surwrong. pac is paid by for the school district but it's not reporting to the school district. >> thank you. >> we need to bring back [inaudible] to restart it as you're the president of the school board now please refull your promise from last year. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> my name is shelly. i'm a member of cpac. [inaudible]. simply five members can keep out the [inaudible] and family. there were over 20,000 students from our community. to share a voice in pac. please reform the pac.

thank you. [applause] >> okay. thank you. [off mic]. >> [off mic]. >> okay. good evening. my name is deede and a member of the cpac. pac discrimination against the chinese community is on display. so president boggess please, please stop the nomination. you must

completely over overhaul pac. there's some structural issues with pac and it's important to all of us chinese. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. i am with the pac [inaudible] (speaking cantonese). [applause]

>> hi everyone. i'm a member of cpac and chinese exclusion act was in 1960. i can't believe in 2023 this is still happening that cpac is not recognized by the district. us as chinese we needed a place in the district and we needed a place to express opinions so we can we get represented. thank you. >> okay. ) speaking cantonese).

[applause] >> hi. i'm a member of cpac. last week i have a few conversations with our commissioners and also our superintendent of the

district that regained my trust but this week i know that i find out that the pac from the district is actually discriminatory against us and they don't want us to be one of them. this is very disheartening and i hope that i can be more involved so i can express my opinion about the district and about all the different policies. i hope that district can formally recognize cpac so i can talk to you guys directly. thank you. [applause] >> okay. i just want to make sure that everybody was called. jan, jessica, jean, lily, mark, win, jackie. you have spoken all right? yes. great. that concludes in person public comment.

>> okay. we will be moving on to virtual public comment for agenda items. each speaker has one minute to speak. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese? [speaking spanish] (speaking cantonese). >> thank you. david go ahead please. >> hello good evening. a parent advisory council is a good idea. a parent advisory council that has drill

torpractice -- discriminatory and cause harm. in 2022 -- [off mic] fiscal health of the district and [inaudible]. last spring i applied to a member. in my application and interview there were answer questions about the conflicts. despite this i received a rejection with an ambiguity reason of over representation of where i live. when i asked for explanation none was given. while the pac believes where you come from is important than to help the district. under no circumstances should you approve this slight -- slate on the agenda. [off mic]. a disregard for the values and endorsement of antichinese american discrimination. i trust that you do the right thing and reject and

ask for serious reform. thank you for your time and service. >> thank you. morena. >> hi. can you hear me? >> yes. >> i am here as a current community organizer and former elementary school district and on behalf of the school and parents and special education who i work closely and ensure that families that don't speak english as the first language have interpretation services and i want to thank sfusd for passing the policy last spring and translation of these documents. -- >> i'm sorry, can you please slow down a little bit. your interpreters cannot keep up. >> we're asking to you join us in supporting senate bill 445 to make sure that every family in california has access to the same quality of translation this.

bill is authored by senator [inaudible] and provide the translative copy of the iap within 30 days of request as long as the translation requested is one of the top eight languages in the district and require that documents to be translated by a qualified translator and defined by the bill. please support this bill out the district. thank you. >> thank you. reanda. >> good evening board of commissioners and superintendent wayne. i am calling in tonight to support the pac and to once again ask the board to stand on principles that are reflective of all student and families within sfusd. we can see clearly that one particular group feels isolated, one particular group is saying that the pac has

violated the policies, but as somebody who worked with the pac on numerous occasions i can tell you how concerted effort they make to reach numerous communities to ensure there is diversity. diversity is not just based on race but it's ausbased on location and proximity because you don't want to sept a pac that is centered in just one location because then you get a pac with a group think mentality and everything is one way and is not reflective of sfusd. the candidates went through a process and they were selected, and i ask that the board honor that selection process and not be threatened with lawsuits. it is exhausting how much times this board is threatened with lawsuits and now it seems to be a threat of lawsuits. if you don't stand for something you fall on anything. let's stand for something

don't please. >> thank you. frank. >> . >> hi. good evening. frank chung. members of the board of education and president boggess. in response to the most receipt argument about let's stand for something what exactly does that mean? like is this speaker trying to suggest that you take a sure loss of a lawsuit to the courts? your own counsel has advised you that group process was dependent on the exclusion of a particular group and is illegal. how much more clear can we make this? this is not about threats of lawsuits . this is about proper process to ensure fair representation for all. i hereby urge

to you reject the pac [inaudible]. >> thank you. . >> we will pause and wanted to exclusion our student delegate who is are at the 9:00 o'clock hard stop and release them and i want to apologize to not give input from the items from the board today whether action or other items because the way we structured the meeting to acknowledge that and apologize for you publically and not having an opportunity to speak and give input. [applause] >> president breed we still have five hands raised. >> . >> those were the four hands that were up. >> i think we're going to have to end public comment for our virtual participants at this point. >> okay. so we will be closing public

comment for our virtual participants. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese? we're ending public comment [speaking spanish] (speaking cantonese). >> thank you. >> once again my apologies to all the folks who were participating virtually with their hands raised who weren't able to allocate public comment. we allocated an hour and a half and we we're at two hour and i apologize for that and i direct you to email the board directly to give comments you haven't had the chance to express yet or email us directly. our emails are available

on the website. thank you so much and with that we will move to item as payroll state of emergency and the update from the superintendent. >> thank you commissioner or president boggess. let me just get this up here.

all right. so since declaring a payroll state of emergency i have committed to providing updates at our regular scheduled board meeting so i wanted to follow through with that. i have been starting my updates with just a reminder what it looks like to fix empower power and it's two long we have been dealing with this and what does it take to be resolved and then identifying -- while what does it look like over the next 90 days? in particular we're focusing on right now reducing the employee ticket bag on log and resolving new tickets and addressing the staffing issue that makes it challenging and working on what we call the work packages to actually be able to establish the timeline when the

system will be stabilized so we can exit the payroll state of emergency. with respect to the tickets i have been showing this data at our meetings. can you go to the next slide? that shows the overall number of tickets compared to the at this times that come in versus that tickets that are closed and we of consistently closed more tickets since open since the payroll state of emergency and you saw our focus over the next 90 days is to get under a thousand so i wanted to give another picture of what we're looking at in a more granular level. if you can to the next slide you can see what we're tracking just the monitoring that is happening in our command center where we implement the corrective action plan we're tracking weekly how we're doing

towards that kpi, that key performance indicator and we have 24 phon open tickets and we need to reduce by 1591 to get to that goal see we have a difference of sixty one% and you see we reduced last week by 94 the backlog. the challenge that would put us in a trajectory in 17 weeks but we only have 90 days so this gives an idea to strengthen our efforts or put more resources in order to meet the goal and it's becoming challenging because these tickets are often the more complex issues that we haven't addressed so i wanted to give that picture a little more detail than the usual one you see. backlog what it goes down to monitor the kpi. another i want to give another

picture of what it looks like when we really put the resources and put the resources behind our efforts, so when we declared the payroll state of emergency one of the biggest frustrations our staff they couldn't talk to anyone. you had to send in a ticket and no one to speak to so we launched a call center using our staff that we reassigned and it was appreciated that we launched this but we heard about frustration beam would call and not get an answer or wait a long time and had two staff members per person in the call center. center. >> . >> so as we worked to increase staffing and temporary staffing we set up the center to have more staff and trained staff who can better respond to the issues so you can see the dramatic difference and 90% of calls are answered and less wait time to

get resolved and i share this to say we invested resources to resolve the issues. this is an example when we do that. if you go to the next slide. i department to provide an update on a few topics and commissioners were interested making sure we're clear what is happening with the tax with holding issue so as a reminder we didn't submit the tax with holding information to the state in a timely manner so we made the corrections and submitted all corrections to the state franchise board and submitted the data and reconciliation to the irs and submitted all known anomalies and making sure there's no issues with that and we're working with the city of san francisco to offer financial assistance to all employees and tax service for those that received the w tc or over payment letter when

there was a bigger issue. we know that the employees are taking advantage of the services which is good and we know for the tax provider our employees asked questions that the districts that to answer and we're providing the answers so their issues can be resolved. and then just looking forward you know when i share these updates i try to be very clear that while i am highlighting progress there are significant challenges and risks we face with our current system, so one risk is we know we've invested too many money in the system and now we maybe facing state penalties for the delays in the information so we're working to address that. for staffing very excited. we are getting in a financial services officer and other staff. we still need a lot more to meet our kpi over the next 90 days though. we're in labor

negotiations. you can see in this chart we have implemented salary increases that we've negotiated. we know it's frustrating because that took a while but i do want say we're planning to reach new settlements and it's going to take time so we will map out with the labor partners the time to implement those and then we brought in alvarez & maral to do an analysis of the situation and developed the corrective action plan. they're not the ones to solve all issues and get us fully to stabilization and they're transitioning out but it's a risk and there are areas we need support so we're working with them on what the transition will look like and you will hear another report next month and i appreciate the feedback that we get and people's -- i won't call it patience but people recognizing we're working hard to do right by our employees

and to address this issue. >> seeing no questions or comments from commissioners i think we will move to our next item which is our consent calendar item h. oh my good think i skimmed one my apologies. the next item is g parent advisory council and participates and report and we will have the nominations from the parent advisory council and i believe we have staff to introduce the item and i wanted to i think provide some context from the pac. >> thank you. our pac in the past has been supported by a pac coordinator. we don't have a coordinator right now so the head of staff has been working with them so our head of

staff is going to provided background on this item. >> good evening board. per board resolution 33-25a15 vacancy on the represent rent the pac will be filled with nominations to the board and the pac is nominating seven parenting for a two year term, five returning members are interested in returning and being brought forth for consideration as well. the pac originally intended to bring the nominations back in september 2022 however the district identified concerns regarding the selection process. they were shared at at meeting with the head of staff myself and the pac coordinator at that point. in october 2022 the pac coordinator left the position. the district has not yet identified a new coordinator and the pac didn't meet again april 6, 2023 and had interest in

bringing forward the nominations and the page raised concerns that were identified boo the process and the district didn't speak to the individual members but engage in a new process and parents to nominate to the council. at the may, 2023 the meeting the pac broad forward its nominations to the board of education. >> thank you. we we wanted to share that was is the recommendation on this. i want to be clear and i appreciate everyone on the pac and their valuable time who spent the valuable time on the committee. they're parent volunteers stepping up and i want to acknowledge the pac didn't receive the support that is expected with the transitions that have happened. two, i want to really appreciative of the motors and nominees. they have been patient and come to meetings they can't participate because they're not members yet and anytime a parent wants to step

up and support the district we wanted to honor and support that and understand that may not felt that way since it's been a while before being able to consider any nominations but we do value their time and lastly we're making this recommendation purely for process concerns. this is not about the people. again our parents are stepping up wanting to help and we as a district need too figure out the best way to support that and so it is about the process. it's not about the people involved. >> thank you superintendent. i think from my last visits and the pac meeting where this came forward just for transparency there wasn't agreement from all of the pac to bring forward the nominations but there was from the majority of the pac. in speaking with members of the pac felt good with the nomination process, the nominations they brought forward, not all of them but the majority of them and

they did follow the brown act and no discriminatory practices they engaged in as a pac is what they relayed to me and they feel confident in the nominations they brought forth and the process they have gone through. i also want to highlight that there have been a lot of claims as far as what has happened but the district did not do a formal investigation to verify those claims so at this point they do exist as claims that are disputed by people in the pac so i think that is something as well to lift up as we go through this conversation. we haven't got all the answer to the questions that are there and there is a lot of doubt as to what the actual facts and the case with the nominations and kind of where we're at so i think just to lift up that up as far as some of the reasons from some of the pac members why the majority felt comfortable bringing forward the nominations and it was

urgent to do is that and i kind wanted to share that why i as board president decided to bring forth the nominations at this point even though there's a dispute from the recommendation from staff >> and with they believe we will go to vice president weissman-ward. >> i have a process -- do we need to move and second this first? . >> yes. >> that would be the first thing that we would need to do is move and second it. then we would be able -- so is there a motion to start the conversation so that we're able to i think figure out how we want to move forward. >> so moved to start the conversation, correct? >> right. because we need to introduce t move and second so we can start the conversation.

>> [off mic]. >> all right. so we have a motion and a second from commissioners and now we will start the conversation with vice president weissman-ward thank you for the words and your acknowledgment and the import of parents and volunteer time. >> . >> and the work that goes into this. i wanted to share my perspective, my concerns and my hopes as it relates to this discussion. i strongly believe that it is in the best interest of the district our sfusd families, all of our students and the pac itself to have a functioning and robust pac that allows for meaningful, diverse and inclusive engagement. we benefit from a pac that can focus on work that is student and family focus would. we have been advised there might be brown violations

and legal violations including discrimination and bias in the applicant and review process. to be clear i'm not making personal acquisitions of bias about where it's documented it's incumbent upon us to do the work to make sure that the process is not tainted. these concerns documentation were brought to the attention of both the pac, the former coordinator and the district many months ago. they remain unresolved and without thorough review. facing litigation over possible violations of state and federal laws whether intentional or not is a distraction that the district simply can't afford nor does it benefit our students or improve their learning outcomes in anyway. it's an adult centered problem created by adult centered decisions. this is not about a particular slate or names. in fact i have no doubt that many of the individuals that applied for the pac are

undoubtedly wanting serve all in the district but this process is subject to legal challenge. by not addressing the system in the process we're not going to evolve as a district and we owe it to the students to evolve. i will yield the rifted of the time to commissioner motamedi to provide the information about a pac that is functional and support of the district introduce the board for the board's consideration. >> thank you vice president weissman-ward. i agree with your comments and thank you for sharing them. students need to be at the center of our decision making. we're a governing board of the state over seeing educational agency. we hold responsibility to operate in compliance with educational codes and'd here to state and local and federal laws. as educational institution we must rebuild trust with parents and and the community at large. infrastructure and systems

must be in place to deliver for students student families and we can't stand up to the changes and make the changes and improvements are not just needed but required. it's cereal that we addressed root causes that caused the document where undocumented concerns go enurunchecked for month. >> . >> input is essential to make sure that the district delivers on the duty to educate challenge and they're challenged and meet the potential it's mandated by education codes. given the multiple and serious concerns in the lack of clear resolution or process i respectfully make a motion to table this matter until first the superintendent conducts a review of sfusd's human resources and legal department policy and practices for receipt and response to concerns and complaints when brought to our attention when legal and

personnel violations are raised and should include actionses to address deficiencies in compliance to the law and align with best practices. second, an independent investigation by california department of education of sfusd's parent and family engagement policies and practices as it relates to district compliance with lcap and rules and identification of deficiencies and necessary remedies and best practices and recommendations for improvements. third and last the superintendent returns with recommendations for how the district will support parent advisory council so it's in compliance with state lcap and federal esha rules and deficiencies and remedies and best practices for improvements. the superintendent is responsible for the oversight management and support of the pac. i ask for my colleagues consideration of this motion.

>> commissioner sanchez. >> thank you for that. do you have a time certain on this in terms of the deliverables? and can you answer that part first? >> i would defer to the superintendent to come back with a timeline. >> okay. superintendent do you have any thoughts? >> initial thoughts would be to bring something back in the fall like i think i can provide a specific date after reviewing the details of the direction and just a little more context in closing out the -- we need to close out this school year so then and some of the review will take a little bit of time >> and then lastly do you mean for this for the pac to be under the superintendent's office instead of the board? >> i believe the superintendent -- i

believe state and federal education code indicates that it is a district responsibility as such. i believe it should be the superintendent responsible for the ongoing oversight and management of the pac. >> i agree with that. >> commissioner alexander. >> does that motion need a second? because i am happy to second commissioner motamedi's motion. >> did we get a motion and a second for that? >> [off mic]. >> but i wanted to clarify with the superintendent because the part i wasn't totally clear on the cd's role and i don't know if we can commit the cd to something. i prefer we word it around the superintendent. i'm not we can commit the cd to do something this a

motion. >> the code does give cde jurisdiction and review authority of the leas parent and family engagement policies. >> yeah, i guess all i would suggest that we ask the superintendent to work with them around it or something. i can't remember. it's hard with all the phrasing without it in writing and i can't remember all that you said and just to be clear we can't direct them to investigate our practices. >> so i can modify -- i can read it and modify as a request opposed to a directive. >> yeah, well, yeah if we're going to be that specific i thought we should have it in writing. i thought we would give the superintendent direction. i guess i am saying i want to clear what we're committing him to and when he comes back it's really crystal clear if

that makes sense? >> it does make sense. >> if i can jump in since we have our second. i think i have an issue with the superintendent assuming the ability to assume responsibility for the pac when there's a clear resolution from the board that i think dictates the relationship between the pac and the district, and i guess i feel for us to change that would need a act of the board to do that. i think that what's initially have spoken about and that's not something i personally support and i guess before we give direction we need official board process to dictate that if that's a part of the conversation we're having. >> maybe just to clarify maybe -- do you want to say something? >> go ahead. >> i wanted to clarify where i was coming from. i agree in spirit with commissioner motamedi's resolution definitely and really appreciate it. that's why i would like to second it but i want to make sure of

the specifics because to me i was understanding it not making the decision but rather asking the superintendent to come back us to by a time certain with a decision around it and we're not make agdecision at this moment and switching the pac but we recognize there have been issues and i want to point out that the issues of anti-chinese racism in particular are really troubling and i mentioned this in september when it came up and i feel we can't proceed without resolving it and at the same time i think there are larger issues with the pac that we colleagues have referenced and we have issues around the qt pac and other forms of form parent advisory councils and i appreciate the ability to work with them and what are best

practices of ensuring parent vasing to a board that needs to be managed by the superintendent. >> . >> and i think that's a -- >> no, that affirm what is my intent was and that is the return with the recommendations. >> yeah. >> commissioner fisher then we can go to commissioner lam. >> did you want to go first? >> [off mic]. >> okay. i'm not a historian. i'm the newest member of this board but as i understand it part of the reason the resolution was created for the pac was to have independence from the district leadership and the ability to act in a more -- in a way that didn't -- where they weren't beholden to the superintendent to district staff and they could report

honestly on behalf of families without any fear of reprisal, so i always want to make sure that whatever we do here we're not handcuffing family, stifling parent voice and honesty, and i always want to recognize that all of us who have served on any parent advisory over the last years have felt like political football. and to correct the record seth bendal was brought forward by the pac. the pac was trying to be inclusive and was shot down and frankly we've all in the parent advisory role felt like over the past few years we had our voices stifled. there is no office of family voice anymore. the only way to get in touch with someone at the district is send an email to the family

link line. there ising in on the website and how to connect people and up the way through the chain of command. all you can do is come to the podium and give public comment and we're limiting that. we have to figure this out. if we want to improve student outcomes we have to engage with family and right now we stifled all family engagement. we want to change behaviors give families better ways to engage. >> thank you. i want to thank vice president weissman-ward and commissioner motamedi for laying out the road map for the pac. earlier in the fall i continued this item as chair because i

was really discontent, disturbed by what had illuminated through the process. i have deep concerns and continue to have deep concerns with the infrastructure or lack of systems in place in the district to be able to support our parent advisory council and our various advisory parenting and community advisories overall. it's clear to me that as we talk about the importance around family and community engagement that it is clear that the superintendent and the staff do need to do the examination of what to design for that deeper and authentic engagement. i do want to also acknowledge that this board over in the last year

has engaged in tremendous community engagement. the superintendent search engaged in over 1,000 pieces of evidence for what i feel was a very thoughtful process. we then advanced to historical vision values guardrails process that collected 4,000 pieces of community evidence. it was acknowledged by national coaches there is not one district in the entire country they have worked with that engaged at the comprehensive level that we did so in a matter of six months, so it is in the dna and spirit of the values of this district but tonight i want to express my support for the amendment that is being brought forward. i cannot support any processes moving forward until this

district has an infrastructure and a systems in place that we can be responsive more in a timely manner and a respectful manner to our communities at large. >> seeing no more comment from the board i don't know if there's any responses from staff before we vote on the motion that was brought forth by commissioner motamedi. >> thank you. i think some of the clarifications addressed so just to the motion i think for the second point yeah i hear it being revised. we will reach out to cde to ask them to provide the overview, the review, and offer the assessment that was noted there i think most importantly as you all shared i think what several of you shared is they

appreciate the opportunity to step back and think how we're working with our advisory councils and parents proactively and in response to critiques and concerns and when i was talking and limped and learnd and making plans for the district i felt we have the tale of two districts and the district where i do go to get an answer for things and not have a clear path in the district or sending emails to not people but to family link line, right, but then there are times when i am out in community and at our schools or get invited to schools to talk to parents and we have town halls and conversations and there is we have a really engaged community that wants to talk to people and share questions and concerns and figuring out how it's not these diverse importances that people have and

have a clear path forward and i that's the real direction forward and coming around apparently advisory council and are we proactively engaging parents and when there is a complaint or concern responding to that, and i guess i put it that way because i appreciate i'm not hearing a direct come back with a recommendation to do x. it's just come back with your recommendations based on best practices and being in compliance with the state guidelines around parent engagement >> and also to clarify that we're not, this is not eliminating the pac. in is not saying that the pac members who are nominated are not qualified because they all likely are so it's actually trying to address these issues so that folks like the people that -- again generously volunteered their time can engage in a productive manner. it's not fair to the members or new people

to bring them on with no plan how to engage them, with no coordinator; right? there's still no coordinator and as frustrating it is for the people that volunteered time on the pac and went through the work and now they're delaying again i think we need to do it right and that's on all of us to ensure it's done right. >> can i ask one thing because when i originally read it into the record it says the superintendent returns with recommendations now the district will support the parent advisory council but after hearing the discussion i am inclined to say "parent and family engagement" and move on from there so it's a broader -- not only we're addressing the concern specifically but more broadly as well. >> although that's giving staff more work. i think i -- yeah, i guess i share that because these advisory

councils work independent of the context of parent engagement and we're working on what that looks like as a district so yes specifically address pac but we will also speak to broader how we're working with persons. >> great. >> i guess additionally if this pass and goes i would love to see staff at a future meeting presented plan for community engagement and in line with the guards and rails and goals and how they match going forward. >> so i believe at this place we're at a place we're going to take a vote on the motion to table this item. i'm going to ask -- >> i have a clarifying question. >> please. >> what happens to -- we have a pac right now albeit with three members. >> five. >> five. thank you. what happens to that body? >> [off mic].

>> well, for one thing i think they should be part of this process so i think this make sense for them to be part of the process that the superintendent is designing >> and is this just process wise a substitute motion to the original motion? okay. >> [off mic]. >> so i think the original motion was just to move to discussed item, correct? >> [off mic]. >> to move to vote? okay. so i think the question is -- commissioner motamedi offered a different motion so be considered a substitute motion substituting the original motion? >> i don't necessarily think so because simply the motion originally was to discuss -- >> my motion was to discuss. >> so that would

satisfy the discussion and then there was a new motion -- >> commissioner alexander seconded my motion. >> yes. >> yeah. >> [off mic] >> and then there was some clarifications as to the three points raised initially but we will go back to look at the video and make sure we're all on the same page. >> so before we vote i'm going to ask if we can restate what it is that we're voting on just so that we can make sure that we have clarity and then we will proceed to have a roll call vote on the item of tabling. >> would you like me to read it again? okay. given the multiple and serious concern and the lack of clear res in the process i respectfully make a motion first the superintendent conducts the review of sfusd eyesores source and legal policy and practices for receipt and review and response of concerns

and complaints when brought to our attention especially when legal and personnel violations are raised and address deficiencies in compliance and audio herance to the law and align with best practices. second -- actually this is good we're reading tthe district requests or in order nates with california department of education. >> . >> to conduct the review of sfusd's parent and family engagement policies and practices as it relates to district compliance with state lcap and federal esha rules and identification of deficiencies and rem bises and best practices and for improvements and the superintendent returns with recommendations how the district will support the parent advisory council and parent family engagement so that it is in compliance with state lcap and

federal esha rules including identification of deficiencies and necessary rem wees and best practices and revenueses for improvements. the superintendent is responsible for the oversight management and support of the pac. >> . >> maybe i will just clarify two points. i think the last part you said is i'm going to come back with recommendations and that may say -- recommendations related to like who oversees -- you know is it -- where it's situated but i -- so i am clarifying that versus understood that overall the pac is still -- whatever its level of independence it's still a district body because the board authorized it and operationally the superintendent is the representative of staff so that's clear. then the second thing i will let you -- i'm going to assume that cde has an interest in this and

we will let you know if we don't hear from them or they say they don't have capacity and let you know long before we bring forward the recommendations. >> i would like to draw everyone's attention to gard rail number one effective decision making. the. the superintendent will not make decisions without meaningful consultation with the parent /guardians and student and staff impacted by those decisions at the inception adopt adopt and review so i request that he also add that the current advisory committees that are impacted by this are part of this process as well. superintendent in whatever policy they are meaningful participants in whatever policy you're going to prepare to bring forward to us. >> see that was the problem with broadening it because i will say to be able to access all of

the advisory committees on the timeline in the fall might be challenging but i will say -- let me think what i would say. >> could you bifurcate it? >> what's that? >> bifurcate it into two steps? >> no. i think if you develop a policy -- >> for all advisorys? yes. >> they need be involved. >> yeah, i am wondering -- >> [off mic]. >> i think i'm going to interject. i think if we want to do anything different than what commissioner motamedi said we need to do something in regards to that motion before we make in changes -- >> do you want me to make a friendly amendment to include that? would you accept a friend amendment? >> i'm not going to accept the amendment do this because i am going to defer to the superintendent how that he will interpret that guardrail and comply with it. i'm not going to get proscriptive.

>> [off mic]. >> so then considering that this board and superintendent i guess i would ask how would you do this with this guardrail in mind? . >> i'll be considering it and think on what the response would be and how we incorporate it recognizing that bringing it back the recommendations that question is going to be raised at least commissioner fisher. >> all right. i think we're at a place where it is the time to caught question. i do still think have concerns and i think issues of things not as clear as i want them to be, but i think recognizing where the board is at and seems like we settled as far as our discussion on this particular item so i want to call the question. i'm going to ask mr. steel if you

can engage us in that. >> okay. so we're going vote on the motion correct? the motion to table. correct? >> [off mic]. >> sorry. >> well, we're not taking. aren't we voting on it. >> [off mic]. >> oh it's a tabling? okay. okay. >> it's a table with the three steps. >> with the steps? okay got it. >> on the motion to table. >> just want to make sure that commissioners don't have any questions and that we feel good to vote? all right. >> on the motion to table three steps. commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> pass for a minute. i need to process. >> okay. commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> vice president weissman-ward. >> yes.

>> president boggess. >> no. >> back to commissioner fisher. >> i think i have some clarifying questions for the superintendent but yes. >> thank you. six ayes. the motion passes. >> thank you staff and thank you commissioners and with that we will move forward to our next item which is item h, the consent calendar. can i get a motion and a second on the consent calendar? >> so moved. >> can i have a second? >> i will second it. >> all right. any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent or staff? >> no. >> okay. i think now we will call for a roll call on the consent calendar. >> i'm sorry, i missed the motion and

the second. can we repeat that? >> commissioner fisher and commissioner alexander seconded that. >> thank you for that. commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. vice president weissman-ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> six ayes. >> thank you. and with that can i get a motion and a second on the retroactive contracts for our consent calendar? >> so moved. >> second. >> second on the retroactive calendar? okay. thank you. >> any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent or staff?

>> no. >> all right. let us have a roll call vote please. >> commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes. >> vice president weissman-ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> seven ayes. >> thank you for that and with that we will proceed to item j and we will start with item j one which is the adoption of the san francisco unified school district facilities master plan. because these are action items i will call for a motion and a second and then ask for the superintendent and their designee to read the recommendation into the record. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. good evening again and

we're excited to present our updated facilities master plan and with the recommendation to approve it we presented a draft facilities master plan after sharing our robust assessment we did of all our facilities and based on the feedback we received from that discussion as well as the process that our staff has gone through to engage the community we're coming forward with a finalized facilities master plan for approval and so i'm going to turn it over to our head of facilities dawn kamalanthan to present our facilities master plan. >> thank you superintendent and commissioners. good evening. we're very excited to be here tonight to move forward we hope with your support on this important milestone of adopting the district's facilities master plan. so tonight we're going to give a brief presentation. i know

that it's late and try to cover a lot of ground. i think the focus again what is our facilities master plan? this is a 10 year work plan to guide physical improvement of sites. with that said it's a high policy document and not meant to go over specific projects and the work but guide the emphasis and alignment of funding sources that we have as a capital team to pursue cal tap improvements at the district. this has been a long standing process. we're in step two of a three part sequence. we're did the conditional assessment and doing the master plan now and move ahead with 2024 with a general obligation bond. the point of tonight is circle back with the board after hearing the good quality feedback that we got in our last conversation, and to focus on sharing with you in-depth a

couple of the biggest changes that we made but also let you know that we heard some of the smaller points as well and incorporate into the text on slide four. there was a real emphasis i think on the importance of investing in deferred maintenance needs and thinking about what we call core functionality of school sites. how to accelerate some progress on that initiative and we have some ideas that that we really need to talk about middle school and high school sites in the capital program and what it means to do ambitious but realistic projects there, continued support for health and safety and continue as a district to meet accessibility needs. there was desire for more information on tk expansion and coordination with the city. directive to do focused out reach of sites in fair and

poor condition per the condition assessment and acknowledgment that we need to build on the interrelationship between assignment zones and their potential future impact on the school buildings and capital needs so we feel we have made modifications to the text for each of those. if you have specific questions i am happy to answer those. tonight we're going to focus on out reach efforts that we've conducted between. we started before the last meeting but continued since then and talk through the core functionality, deferred maintenance needs recommendation that has been added at the board's direction. so sorry i am moving super quick and not would you go up. if we go to slide six. great thank you. so what was our outreach process? we wanted to be a comprehensive as possible. we really relied on school site both communication through official

internal sfusd channels like the lead bulletin, the weekly principles bulletin, our newsletters. we always though did build to the extent possible a comprehensive roster of school sites councils and reached out to those councils, in some cases multiple times. we reached outcome to the advisory committees as well as posting on social media and we made tremendous progress we feel like. we dedicated staff to canvassing those various contact lists and reaching out to folks and we managed to am cobleat our schedule at least 15 in person presentations with different advisory groups and ptas and also for the second time continue to iterate on the success of asynchronous workshops. that is a practice that we're still refining, but we have been pleased with the results, and this

time around we got even more responses than we did a similar practice for outdoor learning so we will talk about that in more detail. let's go to slide nine. so again we our asynchronous workshops we had 325 participants. at the end they represented a cross section of 83 schools with solid representation across elementary, middle and high school sites in terms at least one comment approximate and in many case more than that with a good balance also i think of parents and families of sfusd students and also internal staff. next slide please. this just reflects again the outreach and it does is candid about the fact there were some sites we didn't get a response from despite multiple efforts and on slide 11 you

can see that again 100% of schools were contacted, and many times multiple times and that 20% of the schools scheduled or completed an in person presentation. 74% of the schools completed the virtual the asynchronous workshop. next slide please. the feedback there were lots of different details here but again the field really aligned with the board's directive about trying to focus on core like deferred maintenance needs at school site and things impacting the day to day functionallivity school sites and that includes a lot of emphasis on heat, lighting, electrical. there was also i think one of the newest themes were increasing emphasis on bathrooms both their design and safety issues associated with design as well as maintenance. there were a lot of questions about future

bond planning and wanting to see more transparency about the development of that project list, so there were some pretty clear themes that came through as well as an emphasis on the shared spaces. a lot of the modernization program as we know is focused on classroom upbraids with the exception of the sff program the neglect or shared spaces of auditoriums and school yards and that maintenance has built up and a clear request to engage on those. if you go to slide 13 now. so we asked folks to both rank their satisfaction with how these different type categories of needs function at their existing school site as well as asking them what should we prioritize across the district? when we describe classroom environment it's really again classroom comfort and school site comfort, school site

safety was second, and third was outdoor learning and school yards. all right. we included just a cross section of some of our some quotes just taken we felt like encapsulated the spirit of the feedback we were hearing across the board, and again very much aligned with basics focus on quality of water, on heat, on long standing plumbing issues, on bathroom conditions, and that has been sad for us to read about some of these conditions, but it's also been very helpful as we start to think we're starting to already really focus on specific areas like heat and now starting to think about bathrooms and how we might really create targeted improvements and investments to address some of the long standing issues. when we look at the next

slide another reason for the core functionality program is that you can see sites that the overall campus that has a good fci but there's building systems are failing or aging more rapidly then the rest of the site so you can see at a place like lawton alternative school has an overall score but the plumbing and hvac are out of date and need to be upgraded and on the bond and the lopez settlement and then a modernization program that often time excluded some of the core building systems and we're looking to remedy that. next slide please. we added a recommendation around core functionality, and we made this study because any you look at at dollar announce and how many sites are impacted this to accelerate it

would throw the system into chaos and we're not staffed from a staff or procurement perspective to support that work and it would have wide scale impacts but we're focused particularly on heat right now and figuring out a three year plan to make a dramatic difference in the winter in classrooms. before we -- last thing i always want to talk just in acknowledgment of the public comment we heard tonight that in our -- there are a lot of things buried in the plan. you know it's a huge document. we recognize that ask one of the things we haven't talked about as much is portfolio management and we talked about this a little bit and treasure island and have a series of underutilized site across the site that we need to think about each of the sites individually but also about their contribution to the district as a whole and what their future purpose should be and how to

leverage them most effectively and that includes not just leo-ard at library library and downtown properties and mccaller and eddie and this building and the one in the mission. we have a lot of property down here and we need to think about the future of the properties should be. at 135 van ness the project is clearly an option but we've gotten clear feedback we think from the donor community that the project is currently conceived it didn't work and we can -- i am happy to talk about the lessons learned and that doesn't mean that the spirit of that project or certain goals can't move forward but it is important that i think we again look at this as a portfolio because all of these projects as you make one move has a domino effect on other properties and look forward to talking about that and that is part of the plan as well of work to think through the portfolio analysis over the next decade so in

terms of next steps we want to -- we've already started to doing this reviewing the pipeline for deferred maintenance with a focus on heat but starting to align projects for our annual deferred maintenance funding with the facilities master plan priorities. we're launching scoping teams that will operate through the spring andum and summer and the investments in the campuses continuing to conduct more outreach around tk expansion. we'll continue this conversation about out reach with the community as we start to segue some time over the next months from the facilities master plan to thinking about projects for both deferred maintenance funding, developer impact fees and bond funding and we're actually having workshops tomorrow with the internal stakeholders to build out

more specific capital plans for example technology and student nutrition services so with that i am happy to take questions. >> thank you so much. i will start with questions and then go to other commissioners with staff and this is the staff and the superintendent. i guess if you could talk about i guess the gap between our facilities i guess where we want them to be and i guess where they're at? and what we're able to do to address those? i think lifting up the abilities for us to do everything and i guess my frustration also with us kind of understand that means that students will still not be going to school in fully renovated facilities or facilities that are fully functional for them or worry about falling ceiling tiles and how is that handled or

negotiated and what transparency can the communities and can have as far as the things we have committed to do previously to do and how they felt fit in this prioritized process or restarting and starting and recommitted to and reprioritized. >> . >> thank you commissioner. i will start backward" second question. we have a couple of projects that we completed design for but didn't deliver construction because we ran out of funding. while it's ultimately the board's policy decision what is included in our ballot measure i recommend that we move forward with the projects that are for thed and which are which we have a clear scope of work and can deliver the projects and of

course we're moving forward with buena vista horace mann and in the midst of that right now and reflecting on the projects we didn't get to in the 2016 bond and we did a crosswalk between the list and the condition assessment ranks different propertys and the good news there is by in large a large amount of alignment there and the data sources all tend to point in the same direction with a few differences across the board so we're moving forward with our modernization program with more and better data than before to help with scoping but we have very much in mind the projects that we have kind of picked up and thought about. i think to your point what we can do for the district as a whole? i would offer a couple different thoughts here that are again outside the idea of our

historical experience of a modernization project. there are procurement tools for example job order contracting that the district doesn't use. job order contracting allows to you basically bid out a whole set of routine kind of light weight to medium weight construction tasks, replacing fencing, repaving asphalt, places where you're not doing major design work but it it back the way it was but better. that will take time to build but use the design facilities construction funds more effectively and deal with the things that are frustrating people that don't require redesign of the site so when you have a sport court and for example on the last legs and you couldn't need to go through a whole process to get that taken care of necessarily so there's things like that i think we should be doing that

would make a big difference. i think our goal right now is really focus on the basics of seismic safety, right? we have -- there's always work to do on that but continued work there and to really focus on a mechanical electrical and plumbing assessment of the schools identified as the top third -- top quarter of worse scoring facility implementation scores so as we go through the modernization in the past and do classrooms and leave the safety system the way it was and this time we're redesigning the modernization program and we're not going to ignore the obvious at school sites as we're planning our modernization and i think that will make a big difference. >> i appreciate that. i hear you saying that but i guess i don't see it and what is put forward and the concern i have and visiting

sites that are renovated and feels like they're only halfway done and parts of the school aren't functional and beautiful and set up for what we want to see and i guess what i am curious about and i don't know if it's the superintendent or you answer that dawn are we going to maintain that approach to mondayern i'm going our buildings and identifying the key projects and focusing on them or looking at doing things that are more holistic that actually encompass the issues at the school and when we're done we're walking out different and i am curious how that feeds into it? >> yeah. we're getting to project scoping and i am happy to answer the question where are you from i think the direction we're going but look forward to giving you more proof, right and evidence, and again this is a high level policy document but for example i think it's going to be a blended approach in

really what i would recommend there are certain sites for example that are so geographically and tightly constraintod the block that the work that need to be done and whether it's one of the sites and displace that population. if you do a project there go all the way because you don't want to come back for 50 to 80 years. you want to do the project you need to do and disrupt the communities one time. impact them one time to get the right project and do as much as possible there at one time. there are other schools sites like balboa high school and doing a comprehensive project is a bond in itself and there's scoping trade offs we need to make but we're intend to pursue a definition of a modernization project that like i said tackles at the very least the core life safety needs of each building as a

higher priority rather than an equal priority to classroom modernization so that we aren't for example doing classroom and leaving a boiler that we know is on its last legs in place which is what you're describing and has been a pattern >> and what you're saying as we move forward now that your planning is taking those things into consideration so we don't follow the same practices and practices but we're considering those things and we will assess whether or not we have to continue that process going forward. does that difference make sense? >> i don't think this early in the process that you can tell which lane you're in. the main thing we're doing right now is again starting the process of more detailed mechanical electrical plumbing assessment focus each one of the buildings so the facility condition assessment gives a high level look at and the heating is out

dated but doesn't say this boiler has six months left or three more years or actually the boiler is okay but the duct work is a real problem. same thing with plumbing. we don't right now the condition assessment does not reflect what we learned from the water quality testing; right? those are different levels of detail but that we have water quality testing detail from the summer and this past year we can go back and ask for more detailed plumbing studies to say do we need to changed on the pipes or here the wholesale fixture replacement? what can we do to addressed basic issue? when we emerge from the end of the summer with a rich data set on the questions that will allow us to say for these 20 sites there are five of them it really makes sense to go with a bigger project and not a complete curb to curb but something more comprehensive and that the other sites

we may want to more surgical and bet a lot of bang for buck and functionality and less in esthetics and those read trade offs we need to discuss and bring to the board. >> thank you for that clarity. the last appointment i will make and stop with my questions. i guess if you could talk to the amount of community engagement that has gone outside of our individual schools but to the broader communities our schools are in with our respective elected officials, stable organizations and kind of groups within the communities to really i guess reflect you how our schools will reflect the needses san francisco and the community there and how we take that into consideration to develop the schools and maximize the impact not just for the schools but the city and the surrounding community and interested in that and where we are with that conversations?

>> i think the outreach is an ongoing process and continue to go through spring and particularly with the board's support tonight that we can then turn in more detail and brief some of the sfusd external stakeholders in more detail. i have shared and go to the 10 year capital planning committee in the city at least every two years, every year to talk about the direction we're going and we do have our only form of outreach for us as a facilities quiz is not just the meetings we have, right, but the nonstop flow of emails and constituent concerns that come in through my in box, through the work order system, through our government affairs colleagues, and that chorus is again very aligned with what we're hearing from families and from teachers and staff. it is focus on the basics please. and so i think that

we're in a good place actually that there are some very consistent themes building that we can -- that are actually actionable so look forward to moving forward with those more specific plans to be able to share with the board. >> thank you. any other questions or comments from commissioners? we will start with commissioner lam and then go to commissioner fisher. >> thank you. and thank you to the team for putting this really critical facilities master plan together and really being grounded in data. a couple of questions that i had. if you can speak to how does this facilities master plan acknowledging that it is the very highest level how does it serve in the advancement of the establish student outcome goals through the vision, valleys and goals and

guardrails? >> . >> thank you commissioners, a great question. since the board developed the vision, goals and guardrails we had a number of conversations within the team to synthesize that for ourselves and where we fit in? the document itself really emphasizes serving the whole child and as we think about the work we're under taking we don't have any illusions that the condition of the facility is going to make an impact on you know moving the ball forward in terms of academic achievement but we know that the negative or poor condition of our facilities is a distraction for everyone for learning and teaching, and so unlike other teams that might have a more constructivist positive goal associated with their actions ours is to make sure or try to get us to the place

where we fade into the background into where people are spending their time and think about the whole child we're building facilities that allow us to provide food and children have access to adequate nutrition and getting to school on time and have reliable transportation and that the condition of the school supporting their learning rather than distracting from it. >> thank you and a follow up question is although i think most folks can put their arms around so what are the projects and want to acknowledge that again the fnp doesn't dive into that but what is going to be the criteria of how the staff are going to be approaching to ensure it's consistent to the facilities master plan and how will you report back around that progress? >> yeah. that's a great question and we actually -- i also

really welcome feedback from the board of education how they would like that reporting and data. in partnership with our citizens oversight bond committee we got feedback how we're communicating around finances, projects, our website. we wanted to continue making progress on that and building out the work products but i do think that the last facilities master plan that we had actually had a lot of useful information in them. they were rarely referenced in decision making so i think on the city's side there's a practice as you make recommendations for capital expenditures new to reference the alignment with the underlying plan and that's what we intend to do is frame our investments in alignment with the priorities that have been characterized here. >> commissioner fisher. then

commissioner sanchez. >> thank you for all of this information and i think one of the things that was really validating to see on slide 12 was bathrooms at at top of the list for functionality. that is my family's personal experience that every middle and high school you named and it's distracting from the learning. can you give anyone still listening a little bit of hope please? >> right. it's a multilayered problem. first let's talk about the distraction. i am personally saddened and tired of hearing stories from families about how kids won't go to the bathroom during the day because of the condition of the bathroom so when you talk about distractions from learning, right, problems that you're managing that's unacceptable, so there's two

layers to that. there's the maintenance layer of making sure that we have adequate custodial staffing and we talked about the challenges in that arena. we continue to move forward and make the most of what we have and advocate for resources but that is a separate set of operational funding streams but there's a set of interesting issues around design. any i worked at the recreation and park department our restrooms were frequently a site of undesirable to criminal behavior on a regular basis and as we engaged with the community we started to think about how can we design these differently so they're easier to clean and easier to monitor and that evolved into design solutions and shorter doors and can see if someone is in there

from far away. at mission dolores we had a drop down garage door and lower park usage to make the bathroom smaller and then on the weekend when is everyone is there open the garage door and have more stalls but the whole thing was designed to be easy to hose down quickly and move on and then come back later. we need to think about the design of our restrooms now not as meeting a series of codes but important place to have student dignity and create an experience that like addresses the basic of human dignity and as we think about gender neutral restrooms that's important part of this we have completed the signage project. that's an important first step there but again we need to start to think about as we modernize buildings where can we make design modifications and choices and

that will have again domino effects for the rest of the building but i really taking very seriously student voices in this and we've heard from different students who have thought about this issue and i think there's a real opportunity to think about a different kind of standard in a way that we engage on design on them thank you for my name ising all of that. >> thank you for everything. the presentation is very comprehensive. can you talk more about the mosaic project and the private capital campaign you mentioned earlier and how much money is actually left in the bond since we divert funds away from that project and how much money cumulatively remains for the project and the delta of what remains and what we need to complete the project? and can you talk about the outreach to the campus itself?

>> yeah. so -- wow you've been here through the entire conversation so there's a lot to potentially talk about. i think that in terms of what's left in the 2016 bond for the 135 arts project there's no funds. we reallocated the entire allocation for other uses. that being said we did spend of 2016 bond and like 95 million because we spent -- sorry. it's all blurring together. we spend about $5 million to date to design a concept for 135 arts and that was the mark cavin design which was widely distributed and worked on. the amount to complete the project realistically at this point by the time you could get funding in hands and mobilize complete

-- because the design is not done. you need to complete construction drawings which would be easily another $20 million and then the project itself is going to clock in at over north of $500 million by the time we would get there. when we had -- when i started we did an intense year trying to make the project work and estimate of $300 million and a rough plan that said a third from the bond, $100 million from the 2016 bond and one monday million dollars from philanthropy and the state school bond failed and went into shelter in place and the world changed and our ability to convey the project at the most important priority for sfusd to under take was we were not credible. we didn't want to do and

we wouldn't have been credible want. we got a lot of feedback and around the mosaic project and the project had two pieces and one part was the roof of the school of the arts moving downtown and another project of mosaic and special arts creativity making lab space that could be available to all students in the district. there was some funder interest in that portion of the project but it was a much smaller portion of the project and even then post pandemic that kind of interest i don't think could be sustained, so we're at a place now where we learned and to the last part of the question when we heard from the campus we do get inquiries from reso thea from the community about the status of the project but the overwhelming feedback we

have issues at this building. >> . >> that building is structurally okay but again the same mechanical, electrical and plugging issues hitting the sites are impacting their current campus and those have been in part deferred because of the idea there would be some huge renovation some day and it's important to address the concerns and not just the impact there and the school of the arts but also the academy so that's my very brief summary of a very complex history and welcome any additional comments or questions on that? . >> thank you. obviously there's different views from the public comment. i hope you're able to join in further the discussion with the community. >> great. thank you. >> thanks. >> seeing no other comments from

commissioners i will call for a roll call vote. >> thank you president president. on the facilities master plan. >> . >> commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> vice president weissman-ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> seven ayes. s. it passes. >> thank you. with that we will go to item j two, legislative overview consideration and actions of district positions on selective legislative proposals. can i get a motion and a second on this before we go to the superintendent or his designee? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. thank you dawn and karen for the presentation and i appreciated the discussion. and i want to welcome our head of

communication and external affairs hong mei pang to talk about this item. >> thank you superintendent. good evening commissioners. i am joined tonight about staff from capital advisers to present our recommendations on the selected state legislative proposals. by way of background the san francisco board of supervisors considers san francisco board education considers on policies that contribute to sfusd's vision, values goal and guardrails. we have provided a summary of all k-12 bills and a smaller list of bills of interest for your consideration. topics include but not limited to curriculum and instruction, other childhood, government and operations, finance, school safety and special education and student services. we are pleased to share the final selection of bills and recommendations for action tonight based on the following

considerations, fiscal administrative and student impact analysis in relation to sfusd vision, goals and guild rails and landscape and those in opposition to the bills and comparison of the competing bills. we're asking the bills to ratify the legislation before you and it is to note by way of feedback that bills we're considering tonight do not include budget bills. we are closely monitoring the state budget process and waiting for the governor to release the may budget revise and have accurate picture for decision making. please be advised as the legislative process progresses it's common practice for the superintendent to take positions between board meetings before the decisions are ratified by the board of education and

in a moment we will introduce the partnership between sfusd and capital advisers and provide an overview of the bills and recommended positions. we are happy to discuss and take questions afterwards. i wanted to thank you for your engagement in this process. we are trying a new process this year and i also wanted to share an appreciation for my colleagues who have weighed in on the chair's proposal. i will now turn it over. >> thank you very much. i will keep our comments as brief as possible so we had the privilege of representing the district for many years now. i have worked with many of you want i will briefly say the main two jobs really simplifying a bit and keep the district leadership and staff informed of what is going on in sacramento. we were thinking largely of legislation so regular policy and budget bills but also you know what is going

on with state agencies that count so department of ed, state allocation board, et cetera, so that's one part. the second but more important piece is make sure this district and the leadership of the district has a voice in what is going on in sacramento so it's important for us you know soon after the may revision is released which is happening this friday to start thinking about where we are on the various things that the governor's is proposing and we know how the legislature is going to respond to some of it and make sure that the policy makers at the state level are aware of the implications for the district and your point of view on them so we can shape it to be something that works for the district so briefly that's what we do. it's been our great privilege to do it for many years so with that we will jump in quickly start with the bills that we're recommending support on and cathy you want to take

the first one? >> yeah thanks. so this evening we have eight bills that we're recommending your support. the first we'll start with ab247 by assemblymember [inaudible] and coauthored by assemblymember fong and wilson. one of two bills moving through the legislature that would put a statewide facilities bond on the ballot in 2024. this bill doesn't have an mount attached to it yet and k through las positas las -- -- comment colleges and the last bill failed with voters and the other bill is identical to prop 13 so a lot of the support at least in the k-12 field right now is going behind ab2 from. we think there's a strong work

working group and good conversations going and we suggest that you support it. doesn't mean if going down the line that another bill is the vehicle you can't jump on to that as well but is the recommendation you want to jump out and s the second bill is ab483, also by the same assemblymember who is the new chair of the assembly education committee. this has to do with the medi-cal billing option. this has a long story of being over bureaucratic and the audits are not terrific, very inconsistent from district to district. they made the program hard to administer at the local level. this is an opportunity to reestablish and revise what the audit process is so hopefully nay can pull this off, get this through the legislature and get it signed. it would

really expand the educational and health service to the students and just make participation in the program a lot easier and a lot better so this is also something that has widespread support. it's bipartisan. it was in the health committee earlier in the month and passed out 14-0 so that would be possible rather than making it so difficult and no one participates and the last bill i will talk about before i send it back is a bill by assemblymember gallagher and with special education, local education plan areas or selpaing and before the governing board of a district considers the wanted to do of the update of a lcap

and when they're in knifed differentiated assistance for performance of students with disabilities that the superintendent and school district consult this group. make a lot of sense; right? it maybe happening in some areas but not happening everywhere and this would codify it and a more comprehensive and effective approach to serving students with disability actually make a lot of sense and has widespread support. we think this is a good bill to support as well. >> thanks cathy and after we go through these we're going to stop for your comments or questions. then perhaps on a vote on these and then we are not going to go through just given the time available we're not going through each of the other bills that are there on the watch list but we are happy to answer any

questions on them, so sb 274 nancy skinner bill and consistent with bills from the past and essentially extend the ban on expulling for willful design. there is a provision for a classroom teacher to suspend from the classroom for willful difines or destruction or this is getting at the (paused).

. >> i did want to point out governor newsom and governor jerry brown vetoed bills similar to this so not sure yet whether this bill will have a better chance than the one and the point point was because of a fiscal one and there's a requirement for state reimbursement and another bill by newman and discussing about facilities and all gender restrooms and

require by january 1, 2025 for every school site to have at least one gender restroom and of course there's the cost of this and although this policy is consistent with the district is already doing and supported by groups like the aclu and superintendent of public instruction and cathy do you want to take the last bill. >> sure. this bill we have seen many times over the last 10 years and expands education for kindergarten and it's not mandatory in the state of california and an effort to make it so and the bill would say beginning with the 2024-25 school year a student complete one year of kindergarten before admitted to the first grade and identical to what we have seen before. all of the efforts have failed and either gotten through

the legislature and vetoed by jerry brown or governor newsom or stalled in the legislature so this is another attempt at it. there's widespread support and sponsored by lausd and in years past it's been supported by you all so with that i think we will open it up to any questions. >> seeing a few questions from commissioners we will start with commissioner sanchez and then go to commissioner fisher. >> i want to say hi to abe. i miss him. >> good to see you. >> good job of distilling 80 pages of education related bills to six pages so thank you very much for the work. >> thank you very much. >> i just want to echo that and thank

you for all the work and reaching out to us but also including the feedback of the cac. we had legislative sharing day last week and i know there was a lot of work done with staff to prepare head to sacramento and lobby legislator and a lot of that is reflected in here as well so thank you very much. i think 11 question there's a lot ofis who have been doing work around literacy intervention and what we think is a big part of that is early screening and so sb691 while it's framed as aiolis lexia screening risk bill it's also a very aspect of good literacy, foundational literacy, so and i see that right now i think it's on the suspense file, so i don't know. i

personally think it would be supporting anyway for no other reason just making a statement, so and i'm sorry for not getting that feedback to you in time to make it into the list. thank you. >> vice president weissman-ward -- did you want to respond? >> i just wanted ask for clarification. is there a proposal to move that port tino bill to the support list and i am wondering if there's any analysis we would benefit from hearing from capital advisers around that and it's a dynamic process and at any point we're able to make change to the slate of bills that are in the support and/or watch list. >> so when a similar bill to this was brought last year and killed it did have local support from us as a board also

from people across the street at city hall, senator wiener as well so i think anything we can do to advance requiring and mandating the tools that help us bring strong literacy programs and tools our yes i would like to see it moved from the watch to the support list. i don't know what everyone else has to say and i'm sorry i didn't make that feedback earlier. >> before that let's take additional comments and go to vice president weissman-ward. >> thank you. i also want to echo a thanks to you. we had so much information with plenty of time and i appreciate the ability to engage and do follow up with you and i think this is a continued shift that we have been seeing in the district in

terms of our district leadership and our staff really working to engage in communication that goes both ways and i thank you very much. i guess i might respond i don't necessarily disagree but based on the fact it's on the watch list i haven't looked at the detail and the devil is in the details and i might want what you want but want more information before we move it to another category and because it was on the watch list i didn't go into a whole lot of additional reach so full transparency. >> thank you vice president weissman-ward. abe i am wondering if you could share bs691 and in overview and some of the criteria we set forth impact on district viability et cetera?

that could help inform this conversation. >> i would be happy to and i do agree that the devil is in the details and one of the details would be a cost implementation for the district but essentially what the bill is encouraging and requiring in fact would require is greater screening for dyslexia which includes several components but at a minimum training, implementation and support, so for that reason i think it had broad support in terms of the goal, but has had some opposition including from cta who believes that without sufficient funding there's going to be uneven and difficult implementation of the bill. the other thing i would say about it interestingly governor newsom vetoed a similar bill and i don't know all of the details

around that but part of the reason it was vetoed he was pursuing other options through the budget for funding related to dyslexia and training so that's what i can say briefly about the bill. i don't know it's unusual and a stretch to support it. i think we probably kept it off the list only because we don't think the dynamics changing and so unlikely that the governor will sign it this time but if the district, if the board wants to send a message of general support that's not a problem. >> we will go to commissioner lam and commissioner alexander. >> thank you for all of the team and your work. hi abe. miss you all and our policy. >> good to see you. >> -- committee. i just wanted to respond to commissioner fisher sb691. i definitely had

conversation with hong mei and i was support and visible around the support and early screening but i also acknowledge some of the concerns that have been raised and i am curious to hear from capital advisers are you aware of some -- while it's on suspense anything that is coming through from sacramento around getting closer to some of the feedback for the author for senator portino to consider? >> i apologize i would probably have to look into it more to see if there's any considerable movement and i would say and cathy please weigh in as well. i see this bill getting out of suspense. port tino has a lot of sway. it would be surprising if it

didn't make it out of suspense and on to the other side. if it comes out in the form that governor newsom would sign i'm not sure. >> yeah, i would add that senator portino is the chair of the appreciations committee and that's where the bill is and it will definitely get out if he has his way and he will and the committee is political and bills look similar and sometimes different and if i guessed this one will be similar to when it came in and it will definitely move. >> commissioner alexander. >> yeah. i mean echoing one of my colleagues' comments i think my issue and on the watch list i didn't look at as carefully and i want to know more about the concerns that cta raised. i want toad least understand what they

are before taking a position to support it and potentially in opposition to our union partners. >> >> and then i would also to learn about the opposition for bilingual educators and we need to do a better job and know more about the details before taking a position >> and what little i know from looking into it before this meeting is that cta's main concern was skepticism it could successfully implemented before and i think for the bilingual educators without a high level of training there is a possibility of miss living english

learners and didn't want that to happen. that's what i know. i'm happy to look into more and bring the information back at a future board meeting if that makes sense. >> yeah. i think we will close out with commissioner fisher. >> thank you all for this conversation. i think this is really important. i always want to recognize that we're actually piloting a screener right now in many of our schools in conunction with ucsf with the dyslexia center and no cost to us at their staff and a app that is done in less than half an hour per student so when this is done right with the science behind it it can actually reduced amount of assessments that have to be done later. it can provide appropriate intervention earlier and end up actually reducing cost and reducing the number of kids that wanted

special education services. >> and as commissioner sanchez pointed out better outcomes for students around reading and happens to be one of our top goals. >> okay. seeing no amendments or changes from the commission at this time i will call for a roll call vote on what was presented from staff. >> thank you president boggess. commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> i'm not sure where we landed on the my wanting to move this to the -- yeah. >> did you want to make a motion -- >> yeah i would like to amend the motion to move this from watch to support? >> is there a second? >> second. >> is there any discussion that commissioners want to have on it? seeing none let's have

a roll call vote and staff repeat where we're moving it from where to where so we have confirmation before we vote on it. >> yes. we're moving sb691 senator port tino's bill on dyslexia risk screening on page six, last bill on the watch list to the support category. >> noted. >> all right. and roll call vote please. >> on the amendment? correct. commissioner alexander. >> no. >> commissioner fisher. >> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> no. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> vice president weissman-ward. >> no. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> four ayes. it passes. >> all right. if we can have a roll call vote on the item now that we voted

on the amendment. >> yes. commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> vice president weissman-ward. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> seven ayes. >> can i just ask a clarifying question, not about what we did but generally with the process and i realize we're doing watch and support but there's support with amendments or you know or opposed unless amended kind of thing so when do we get to that point? >> thank you commissioner motamedi. and i appreciate your engagement so i had mentioned this in the beginning in the overview portion that is common practice for the superintendent to weigh in as bills progress e evolve, and move through the legislative process so in between board meetings we will continue to work with capital

advisers to monitor these bills and where there might be changes that requires weighing in we will continue to be in communication and what we would continue to do is have the superintendent take positions until the board can formally ratify these recommendations at the following board meeting. >> so basically i'm going the designee but similarly what i sign things it's pending board approval we we have been in contact and have shared values and priorities so i think that's a good way to proceed. >> thank you so much. okay. and with that we have three items remaining on our agenda just for a point of reference. we have item j three which is employee contracts for district executive employees.

we have item k which is board member reports and we have item l which is informational items with the report on the quarterly williams complaints that the district has received and that is available via board docs but at this time the board is going to recess into closed session to finish our closed session business and after which we will reconvene, read our report out from closed session and then finish our last set of business items, and with that i recess . >> we will finish our open session agenda item. the first item we have from closed session a vote on student expulsion matters. i will now read the first expulsion and then i will call for

a second. i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement of one high school student matter number as cited from the district from one calendar year from the date of the board of education's expulsion's order. can i have a second? >> second. >> roll call mr. steel. >> (no audio). . >> yeah. thank you. you're correct. thank you for catching that. i'm going

to read that into the record again. that is correct. and again thank you for the catch commissioner alexander. so for our first student expulsion matter. i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement of one high school student matter number as cited from the district for six months from the date of the board of education's expulsion order. can i have a second? >> second. >> roll call vote mr. steel. >> thank you. commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> no. >> vice president weissman-ward. >> yes. >> commissioner. >> yes >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes.

>> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> six ayes. >> with that we will go to the next item. i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement of one high school agreement matter number as cited from the district for the remain urof the spring 2023 semester and spring semester semester. roll call vote, mr. steele. >> (calling roll). >> seven ayes. >> all right. thank you for that and finally we have i move the approval of the expulsion agreement of one middle

school student as cited for the district for the remainder the spring 2023 semester and the fall semester. can i have a second? >> second. >> roll call vote, mr. steele. >> commissioner alexander. >> no. >> president boggess. >> yes. >> commissioner lam. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> yes. >> commissioner sanchez. >> yes. >> vice president weissman-ward. >> yes. >> commissioner fisher. >> no. >> five ayes. >> okay. and now i will continue with our read out from close session with action the board took

n the matter of pierce v. ccsf, sfusd, sfmta san francisco superior court case no. cgc-22-599362. the board by a vote of six yeses give authority of the district to pay the stipulated amount. in the matter of student mrsv v. sfusd case no. 2023020292 the board by a vote of six yeses gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount and then in the matter of student tsm v. sfusd case no. 2023020041 the

board by i vote of six yeses gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. there was one recusal for the matters for commissioner fisher and that concludes the read out for may 9, 2023 and with that we will recommence with our public agenda and with that we will go to our next item which is going to be item j three employee contracts for district executive employees. before i go to the superintendent i will ask i will go to the superintendent first and then we will take a motion to and a second. >> thank you. and so personal appointments typically fall under the

personnel report and consent. however, per cal government code as cited the board shall orally report a summary recommendation for the local of a local agency executive for any government entity anything school districts so we have executives on contract so i'm going to turn it over to legal counsel manual martinez to do thorral report and then you can do a motion and take action. >> thank you superintendent. the board will consider agreements that will run through dates cited with the placement of the salary schedule for the following employees. jean robertson. dr. nicole priestly septemberant superintendent curriculum and

instruction. step six. ana de arce great six step six. hung hung with the correction to the coit as cited and revised from six months to 45 days. davina goldwasser superintendent of high schools salary great six step four. (end of captioning).

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yes mr sanchez? yes. vice president. jasmine ward. yes president. bogus? yes. seven. eyes excluding contract for gene robinson, six size all right. thank you. for and with that we will transition to item k board member reports seen none. we will transition to item l information items there is one information item quarterly report on williams complaints. is there any comment or anything from the superintendent seen none. i called fist meeting adjourned at. we have the day switch on us may 10th at 12:06 a.m. we adjourn. happy mexican mothers day to everyone who celebrates.

>> 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. [♪♪♪]

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it was fast-paced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. there was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. i continued working for the grizzlies for the 2012-2013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the san francisco giants. i applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didn't apply. i was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays fridays -- fresno, and i got an interview. and then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. but i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14,

2014. every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. i have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. it's fun to put that al together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. a lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. and then i'll talk to lucille, can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers. i just organize it from top to bottom, and it's just fun for me. something, we don't know how it's going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but you've got to try it. or if it fails, you just won't do it again. or you tweak it. when that all pans out, you go

oh, we did that. we did that as a team. i have a great team. we all gel well together. it keeps the show going. the fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and that's our job. i have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and they've been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. renelle is the best. she's all about women in the workforce, she's always in our corner. [applause] >> i enjoy how progressive the giants are. we have had the longer running until they secure day. we've been doing lgbt night longer than most teams.

i enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. that means a lot to me, and i wouldn't have it any other way. i wasn't sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadn't have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. i've grown more in the past four years professionally than i think i've grown in my entire adult life, so it's been eye opening and a wonderful learning -

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