12, 20. 23 is now called to order. roll call, please. thank you. commissioner alexander. i am here. thank you. good to see you. commissioner fisher. i am also here. commissioner lamb. commissioner montgomery. here. thank you. commissioner sanchez . vice president wiseman. ward here. and president. bogus here. thank you. okay. at this time, before the board goes into closed session, i call for any speakers for closed session items listed in the agenda. there will be a total of five minutes for speakers. are there any cards? there are none in person. are there any hands raised for virtual participants

? if you'd like to give a public comment on any of our closed session on the closed session, please raise your hand. seeing no hands raised. okay. if there's no hands raised, then at this time we will recess the meeting to closed session reconvene to open session in three matters of an anticipated litigation. the board, by a vote of seven yeses, gives direction to the general counsel in one matter ak vs sfusd. the board by a vote of six yeses to one recusal. fisher gives direction to the general counsel. and now i'm going to ask if vice president wiseman would read a motion. and for us. yes that would come at that item. is that

we have an item on it. it's not on no, it's not for closed session. okay. it'll be later. so then. okay and that concludes eludes the report. the readout from closed session. now we will move to item d. please give us one second while we.

okay. thank you for your patience. and so with that, we will go to our opening items and i'll start with our land acknowledgment. we, the san francisco board of education, acknowledged that we are on the unseated ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded land use nor forgotten their responsibility as the caretakers of this place. as well as for all people who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their

traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respect by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first people . now we'll go to item two approval of board minutes for the regular meeting of august 8th, 2023. special workshop meeting of august 22nd, 2023 and special meeting of august 29th, 2023. can i have a motion and a second on the minutes? so moved. second any corrections from commissioners. i there was a couple edits. judson they were corrected this afternoon. yes

can we have a roll call vote, please. student delegate simpson . yes. student delegate toe. yes yes. commissioner alexander. yes commissioner fisher. yes commissioner lamb. yes commissioner motamedi. yes. commissioner sanchez. yes. vice president wiseman. ward. yes. president bogus. yes. seven eyes. thank you. okay. and with that, that i just wanted to make an announcement about public comment before we move a little further into the agenda. public comment will be happening under item f, the board has shifted from when public comment happens from when it historically has in previous years. so now all the public comment for this board meeting for items on the agenda as well as items off the agenda

are going to happen at the beginning of the meeting versus having public comment after every item with an intention of giving more opportunity for folks to comment earlier in the evening as we also work to make sure our meetings are shorter so people can pay more attention and be more focused to what we're doing in the public. and so with that, i will pass it on to our superintendent, who will now share his superintendents report. good evening, everyone. thank you. president bogus and. let's see, we are in on the presentation up. we are in september and this month we are joining the nation and celebrating latinx heritage month to highlight month to highlight the diversity, brilliance and beauty of the latinx community. sfusd is

committed to creating, humanizing learning experiences that develop students capacity for knowledge of self and others. solidarity between communities and with the most marginalized and with the most marginalized and self-determined nation. and we do this by offering some really neat programs and learning opportunities in our district for our students. we started a mariachi program in the spring of 2014 with 14 students at mission high. it's now grown to over 300 students across multiple schools. we have continued to build robust language programs over the years, and now we have thousands of students learning in two languages as schools across the city every day. and they can participate in biliteracy programs from the very first day of schools. for our english speakers, the dual language pathways offer them an opportunity to learn spanish alongside native spanish speakers starting in elementary and to encourage linguistic proficiency and cultural literacy. the district and the california department of education award the seal of biliteracy as an endorsement on

a student's diploma for graduating seniors who can demonstrate proficiency in one or more languages in addition to english. and then we also, in 2018, renamed fairmont elementary to dolores huerta in honor of the civil rights leader. so we're proud to have a cesar chavez elementary and a dolores huerta elementary. dolores huerta dedicated her life to fighting for the civil and human rights of those who are oppressed or disenfranchized. and along with cesar chavez, she co-founded the united farm workers and helped organize the delano grape strike in 1965. and she's credited with coining the phrase si, se puede. so this is just a few of the ways we celebrate at latin x, the heritage really throughout the district. and we're pleased to celebrate it this month. this month, we're also launching an important campaign around attendance awareness. as we know, since the pandemic, our attendance, our students attendance has declined. and if

students aren't in school, then they're not learning what they need to in the classroom. and so we recognize good attendance is essential to academic success. yes, but too many students are at risk academically because of chronic absenteeism, meaning they miss 10% or more of the school year throughout 18 days. and so we know how important it is to show up every day to not just learn, but for our secondary students to make sure they're getting the credits they need to graduate and keep them connected with their teachers and peers. so this month, we're doing a lot of work to raise awareness around attendance. we're also hosting a poster and art contest for sfusd students, so we encourage students submit their artwork by september 30th at and you can go to ucsd.edu, slash attendance for contest details. and then next month, in one of our workshops on on progress monitoring workshops, we're going to look at our attendance data and talk about our detailed plans to improve attendance in the district next

. also, last monday, we celebrated our rosa parks community celebrated their 50th anniversary of the japanese bilingüe ial bicultural program . um, and so they were elected officials. the consul general yasu yasushi noguchi from japan and commissioner fisher and i were there to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the program. um, it's on september fifth, 1973. the program was established as began with three k-2 classes at emerson elementary school, now known as cobb elementary, and has been at various schools throughout the district. and it's a signature program at sfusd, and it has a unique pedagogical model that's anchored by native japanese speaking sensei, who collaborate with accredited classroom teachers to bring about language instruction in the context of authentic cultural experience on

a daily basis. since its establishment, jvp has educated thousands of public school students, offering a curriculum shaped by and anchored in the japanese, japanese, american experience and community. and then lastly, yesterday we got to go to washington high school to appreciate and celebrate salesforce's contributions to sfusd schools and over $100 million over the past 11 years. and they continue their grant giving this year and really appreciate the partnership because this is an organization that says how can we help you rather than here's what you need to do. and so they heard we were working on our new goals and guardrails and gave us some flexibility to ensure that the funding is supporting our goals, in particular our one for college and career readiness. and when a appreciate commissioner fisher and commissioner lamb for joining that as well. and then lastly, last week we had had a board

workshop where we talked about some of the challenging decisions we'll need to make this year. and we actually, though have a lot of decisions in various areas that we need to make. and so one, to encourage people to get involved. and there's many different opportunities to do that for our numerous of our decisions will have different advisory committees. so we have like the student success fund advisory committee, we actually already put out the application for that. if you're interested in that, that's the measure g funding. we're going to have committees on the academic calendar, math policy as well as district advisory committee on staffing, budget and facilities and we know not everybody is available to be on committees, and the committees only have so many spaces. so we will have other opportunities for you to share your feedback in the upcoming months through town halls, school site conversations , district surveys, as well as district workshops where we have an opportunity to share what we're working on and engage in dialog about it. so do want to encourage you next month. you've

heard us talk about oops, you've heard us talk about no wrong way . you've heard us talk about our work with aj crabill from the council of great city schools. if you listen to board meetings, you've heard he's helped facilitate some of our progress monitoring outcomes discussions. he'll actually be here on october. our fourth for our fall school summit. he'll be the keynote speaker and then we'll have workshops. so if you're a member of the school site council or if you just want to learn how schools, you know, again, what our focus is on governance, how schools, city council works, how you can be involved, we encourage you to come out. it's at everett middle school on saturday, october 14th, from 830 to 1 p.m. that concludes my report. thank you so much, superintendent. and now we will go to the student delegates report. hello. so as

well as serving as student delegates to the board of education, we also serve on the student advisory council. and we have a few schools who do not have representatives, including we were missing rep resentatives from downtown ida b wells independence, june jordan mission academy international and thurgood marshall. and we're seeking to voting representatives from each of those schools. you can access the application through sfu's dsac on our instagram. thank you for that update. an announcement . and with that, we will go to item e, which is our payroll state of emergency update and i'll call on our superinten report. are we allowed to make comments around these reports as commissioners? i don't know what the i just had a clarifying question about the student delegates. are you getting support from i mean, i think this sounds like an amazing

opportunity for the board office as well as the high school leadership team to collaborate to increase this student agency and student participation. so i'm wondering if there's anything being done to support this right now and your your need for more representation on the sac. i think we should definitely talk about it afterwards. i can get you my contact information as well as megan's. thank you, commissioner fisher. yes. behind the scenes, 100 student delegates may not be fully aware. we're 100% working with lead and the schools to try to recruit representatives. i think this is just another way to announce publicly that they have some vacancies as well. thank you. thank you for those clarifications. appreciate it. okay. thank you. again, soon, delegates and i also will follow up to see how board leadership can support and help just getting the word out and getting more people in from those school sites. and with that, we will go

to our update from the superintendent. thank you again, president bogus and since declaring a payroll state of emergency last year, i've committed to providing updates at each regularly scheduled board meeting on our progress in addressing the issues. last month i talked about how we are in a different place from where we were when we declared the state of emergency and as well as from where we were a year ago. but we are not at the place where everyone is consistently getting all their needs met and pays. being is occurring accurately for every single employee. so it's important we keep reporting both our progress as well as our areas of challenges and next steps and so when i say we're in a different place where we were from, the declaring this payroll state of emergency, you can see we significantly reduced the number of tickets. and for a period of time we were closing more tickets than were coming in. however we are now reached a

point where we've kind of flatlined. and as tickets come in, we close some. but then more come in and we haven't been able to fully close out the number of tickets we want this has become increasingly frustrating because we've kind of addressed some of the basic issues and now we're dealing with more complex cases and we're recognized. we need some additional help to get past this next kind of get to the next level around addressing these issues. and so, as you may recall, sap is the actual software provider for this for our program. we asked them to escalate even higher the support they're providing. and they're going to be sending people on site to help us resolve these issues and help us get to the root causes of these more complex cases. so we get back on track of closing more tickets than we're receiving. and one of the challenges has been staffing

. and we made a little bit of progress in terms of hiring ing and filling in staffing that we that we need. but that's been also a challenge to be able to get out, get us further along in this system. as i said, we have made progress and while i do want to acknowledge again some of the hard work of staff to make some of make a few key changes to the system that i think have been beneficial to everyone. first, we heard, particularly from our certificated staff and classroom teachers, you want us spending the time teaching, not inputting our time. and so we went back to what's called exception based pay, where then only time needs to be entered. if a certificate of staff member is out, not if present. we also have been able to address deferred net pay so that staff will now get 12 monthly payments. like they're like we're required to provide and as well as addressing some issues like dues and how staff development days were added as

well as just overall making sure pay is more accurate. so again, we've made progress, but do need to recognize there's still some notable challenges. as i shared resolving the complex cases has become difficult and requires a lot more subject matter expertise. so the same people who do the ongoing operations are needing to also help address these issues, something that has been incredibly frustrating while we're paying people generally, they're getting paid regularly. any time there seems to be a change, it just opens up an issue. and so when someone shifts position or there's a work status change like going on a leave, that's where we're still struggling with the system . and also at the start of the year, you know, we like other districts, are facing, you know , a staffing crisis and have a teacher shortage. some of it are challenges that some of it are challenges that i, i agree it's like that. that's how i feel when i talk about this. but some

of them are related to what everybody in the state is facing. like our school sites have been working incredibly hard to get candidates. we have candidates in, but they need to make sure their credentials are verified. and we can't make the ctc go faster. but there are things that we could do better. and what we've learned is it's taking twice like twice as long at least to input into this new system, new employees. and then when we have so many new employees, we're trying to bring on, it makes it hard to get them on board and to pay them in a timely manner. and that's not how we want to welcome new educators. and we know teachers and principals and parents and students are frustrated when there's not just only a vacancy, but they know someone's ready to come in it and they're not not there. and so, you know, when i hear that, you know, and i go to what we committed to, you know, doing what it looks like when we have, you know, have a functioning system, um, we're not there. and talking to our, our team and really analyzing the situation to get to this

high level like this is a fully functioning, you know, working at a high level system. it we don't see that we're going to be able to get there by the end of this year. and so we really need to ask ourselves and we're at the point where we're asking ourselves, is this the right system for us? we need to have what's called an enterprise resource planning system. that's what these systems are, that not just for payroll, but for human resources, for budget, for accounting, for financial systems like we have to have one that we have confidence in, and that one that is tailored to educational institutions. that's been one of the major challenges with this system is it's used in thousands of businesses, but it used a lot in the private sector. we have particular rules in k 12 that there are some systems that are just set up for k 12 and you know, our staff and community deserve a system that's built for schools and works for us. so we are just want to share. we are having that conversation. we're looking

at several criteria to help us decide as we move forward. is this the right system for us or not? it has to work for us and it should include all the modules we need, like right now. you know, even our board has been frustrated because financial reporting is on a different system than our payroll reporting. so it makes it hard to get accurate financial reporting. we need to make sure there's we're doing something that's cost effective not just for implementing, but for not just for the initial implementation, but on an ongoing basis. and that doesn't rely on consultants to run it. and also it is easy for use for those who are using it on a daily basis, like our site leaders, our district office staff and teachers and other staff who need to go into it. so just want to be fully transparent. those conversations are happening and i'll continue to report on them as we continue as we continue to addressing these situations. thank you. all right. thank you for that update, superintendent. and at

this time, we will move to public comment. i'm going to read some words about how our public comment is different and then we'll kind of go into our process of calling cards. we are trying a new approach to public comment. we are having the public comment be a we are having the public be able to provide general public comment as well as comment on agenda items. at the beginning of the meeting. this is a way, this way the public will not need to wait until an agenda item is discussed to make comment. so this will be the opportunity for folks to make comment. but if you would like to provide public comment, you would need to submit a speaker card to board staff staff. if you do not submit a speaker card, you are not able to give public comment. if you have not already submitted a speaker card, you will not be able to give public comment. and we will also ask for folks who are virtual to

raise their hands virtually to signify that they want to give public comment. and then we'll be able to gauge what our public comment will look like and so i think with that, we will begin with public comment here and we'll have one minute per per commenter for how many public comment cards we have. we have 31 adults and seven students. so for total 37. and then an additional. six for agenda items . so 40 something. so let's let's start with the seven students with one minute each. thank you. all right. i'm going to call your name and please line up at the podium. i think it says moni and nico. conrad h. i'm sorry. i'm sorry if i'm not reading correctly. morgan mclaughlin, liam mclaughlin,

sonia. sonia mira. nolan shizuka , eliana studley. you can go ahead and line up at the podium . you'll have one minute and there's a countdown up there so you can see where it's counting down. you see across there. and let me know when you're ready. yeah, i'm not a student. i just you got it. all right. are you ready? yeah i'm a seventh grade student at willie brown middle school, and i'm here to address the issues around a understaffing and hiring teachers as our teachers are trying as hard as they can to get us the education we need. and doing so, their working multiple jobs at a time. and we need teachers doing those jobs.

we have teachers that have been hired for a while but haven't been able to do their job as so i'm just trying to say that we need to find a way to get these teachers teaching. yes. yeah. thank you. thank hi. i'm a sixth grader at willie brown junior middle school and i have an english and science teachers that are substitutes and like after weeks there's like people who have been hired and like they still aren't in the classroom. there's also, like social workers counselor and even our principal who have been like, substituting for classes and they still haven't like been there. so thank you. hi. so are

you so. so this is my brother adonis. so say hi. what's your name? adonis oh, say, are door. yeah. so that's my brother, right? so. hi. my name is nico. i'm 12 years old and i'm in the seventh grade. i go to saint finbar catholic school. this is my younger brother donnie. again, like i said, who is in the fifth grade at grand elementary school when there is not enough staff at his school. my brother has gotten hurt by other classmates. he comes home upset just because he's already had a bad day at school. there are even times when we keep him home from school because we are worried he might leave school or get lost. the this affects our whole family. i hope you get paid. the teachers more so the good ones want to stay. don't

forget about my brother in special ed they are important too. thank you. thanks. my name is meena. i am in fourth grade and i go to groton. my name is eliana and i'm in fourth grade. and i also go to groton and we. we need more paras. go we need more paras. okay. we need more paras because all the parents here are working so hard and they're just overworked and they're underpaid and it's just not fair at all. they do the students with special needs deserve an education as good as they can get. and every student , including them, will need help

on the way. but if you help, they will make it. and i didn't do that one in order to make this happen, we need the paras to get paid well. and just a personal story. we helped in classrooms for students with special needs and we noticed that there were only 1 or 2 pairs and they were working really hard and they deserve to get paid more. we read this. we feel like the parents should get paid more for what they deserve. and now we hope that you feel that way too. okay. goodness nlcs. that's okay. hello, board members. we are eighth grade students at willy brown middle school and speaking on behalf of all the students, i want to talk about the issue of which the new

teachers are being processed through currently, my school has three onboarding teachers that are waiting to be processed, but the hiring system is too long unclear. and let's be real living in san francisco is expensive. recently we had a teacher who was onboarded and had a drop out of the process because they needed to start earning money. since the beginning of the school year, we've had random staff without credentials that have been filling in those missing classrooms. but sometimes they're not available. so our vice principal or principal has to fill in. this takes away from our learning experience and high school preparation. thank you. all right. any other students here in person who care to speak? i may have missed the card. all right. thank you. can we check on? i'm sorry, just to say, for in person. public commenters just want to encourage folks, if you do want to speak in groups or in pairs to come up to the mic together,

it's definitely encouraged. and i think we're going to see if there is student student hands virtually. if your student and you'd like to share a public comment, please raise your hand again. i see several hands raised, but this is specifically for students right now. okay. see seeing a few hands raised, raised. sarah. hi my name is sarah. sarah this is a time for students. we're asking again if you're a student and you would like to share your public comment, please raise your hand. this is a time for students to speak. if you are not a student, please lower your hand. this is for our virtual participants.

color ending in four, seven eight. color ending in 478. can i move on to sam. sam. hello my name is donovan. i'm a seventh grader at one of mr. haussmann k through eight. my little sister is lucky enough to have a great pair of, but she does not have ot or speech therapist this year. i don't want her to fall behind. i want her to have an equal opportunity to learn. can you please make sure special ed has enough staff to help all kids like my sister should only does well when she needs the help. thank you for your time. thank you.

color ending in. 949. color ending in nine. hi hi. i'm a parent from marshall elementary and we have a dangerous situation. and i'm. i'm really. i'm really sorry to interrupt you. this is a time for our students to speak. okay. last call for color ending in four, seven, eight. okay that concludes our public

comment for students. okay, cool. thank you so much. if we could go to our in-person public comment, if we can call the first group, great. so we're going to be calling five members for the general public comment on on non agenda items excuse me, five at a time, please line up. you have one minute to speak. leah mclaughlin. kim tavalon, ava kelly leslie, who? andrea amani. audrey. amani. i'm sorry for mispronouncing good. my name is professor button. my name is leah mclaughlin and i'm a proud parent. to one of those kids. i'm super proud of my kids there. i have kids at willie brown and i've got a kid at lincoln. and they feel so passionately about how much they

love their schools and they love their teachers. both schools have lost incoming people that have been hired that got to you. frustrated with the onboarding system. okay willie brown is a tiny school. intentionally. there's 24 staff members currently. we're short four people. that's almost 20. so yes, the teachers are doing their best. they're giving up time to be in the classroom, to rotate through the classrooms, the principal and the and the admin or assistant principal are teaching pe and linguist and gosh, i sure hope they don't have to teach the health class. they lost the health pe teacher when it got down to contract negotiations because they couldn't make the money. okay. thank you. is that it? that time. okay. thank you. thank you . kim tavolini. i'm the

executive director of the san francisco labor council. i'm here tonight. to just tell you all how concerned i am about a bond passing in san francisco. so current negotiations sessions are not going well. i think there's a number of issues with the negotiations that should be doing better. i think the shortage. of teachers right now is ridiculous. and i think once negotiate ations, if they are to settle, will help alleviate that. so i'm going to urge you to settle those contracts so we can get on with what needs to be done in the district, mainly the bond. thank you. hi. my name is harvey kelly and i'm the cac

chair and i'm coming in tonight as a special education parent. i i'm in solidarity with all of these people that are here. but i also want to talk in general just about special education. it's at the heart our students are general education students. first, our families need support. and i'm going to be honest, sometimes we feel invisible. so seeing this. i'm sorry. i need a minute. the csc is trying to work on multiple fronts, on multiple areas, and we're a small body. we're trying to address mental health staff, having literacy, math teacher hours and allowing them to stay right, because they're overworked. but the heart of it is our our families and our

children who are really hurting right now. so thank you. that's what i want you to know. good evening. my name is leslie. i'm the secretary and community schools initiative coach. i'm here for a couple of different reasons, reasons that are sort of the core of why i believe in public education so deeply, one of which is schools belong to our communities. schools belong to our communities. young people know exactly what they need to thrive and grow and especially tonight, my third belief families are the best experts and advocates for their own children. these families are here because they're desperate in this sea of red. it makes me want to cry. they're here because they're desperate. they decided to organize a stand up and fight for their children to get the resources and staffing that they need for their

children. the district would make inroads by that commitment by coming to an agreement asap on these contract negotiations, because we're all standing in solidarity with one another. educators are proud to stand in solidarity, but even more, we are and will be in the trenches with them. our amazing parents, and the fight for our schools that our students deserve. thank you. good evening. board members. my name is raju amoni. i'm a community organizer with usf. it's a pleasure to be here with you all. i think i believe i heard dr. wayne mention for latinx heritage month the humanizing of an educational experience. will fundamental to that are humans as we don't have them in the classroom as they're missing. we got to do better here. i've had the privilege over the last month to visit schools in the bayview. i've

gotten to go to longfellow and lincoln and groton, and it's an issue that crosses color lines and class lines. no one has the resources to do the job they need to do. so are we calling ourselves a public school system or is this something else we've got to do better? y'all our children deserve better. our educators deserve better. our communities deserve better. thank you. thank you. okay, i'm calling the next group. heather woodward, rex ridgeway, braylen dandan. nicole patterson. eissa al osama, please come up. you have one minute each. good evening. my name is heather woodward. this is my 26th year of teaching. i hope to retire this year in 2021. when i was unable to meet my maximum contribution to my retirement

because unbeknownst to me, the district sent $1,000 each month for eight months to two tds to my retirement account, which i did not. i don't need it, which i did not, which i did not find out about until all tds started sending me checks saying that i had reached over my maximum. i cashed those checks. i found out when i got my w-2 that my maximum had not been reached. this was a result of $8,000. it was not my money that i had no idea of being sent over to tds, the district has received over 200 emails from me. i have written countless help tickets. i've written to you as mr. wayne multiple times about this issue and no one has said a word to me . not an apology, not anything. with that year crucial. i'm 64 years old to my retirement, being massively screwed over. i have $6,750 right now. that has taken been taken from my paycheck in may, april, may 1st second, april, may, and is yet to be in my accounts. that is

with interest that i want owed. my retirement has been massively screwed up and i'm not happy about it. after 26 years of busting my ass for my children in this district who i love, thank you. good evening. my name is rex ridgeway and i'm speaking for everybody in this in this chamber here. everybody here is at a school site. most of you guys have kids. so i'm going to talk about proposition g, which is a student success fund, $30 million. the money's already there. it was voted in november . we don't have to look for the money. everybody here should go and be on your school site council because the way the money gets to your school is through your school site council. the school site council is a law. you don't have to have a pta, but you damn sure have to have a school site council and the principal cannot tell you guys what to do because you guys

vote on it. okay? at the end of each year, the school sites get a budget and then that budget is voted on by you guys. now this $30 million, proposition g is your money. you've got to apply for it. the only way you get there is through the school site, council and if you don't get on your school site, council, shame on you. i'm on mine. i'm. i'm vice chair of lincoln high school site council. and you bet your bottom dollar we're going to get some of that prop g money. you guys should get it, too. thank you. thank you. probably send it to my retirement account. good evening, board members. thank you. i'm here on behalf of today of students that i care about at grand elementary school and their teachers and educators. i just want to note, i used to be a teacher that formerly taught in the classroom. the reason i quit my job was because i wasn't provided proper pay and benefits and support and resources. so i

just want to point out the fact that there's not enough paraeducators certainly deserve higher pay at the rate that they're currently being paid at. and the district's minimum providing the bare minimum to bring paraeducators in the classroom is not it's just not working, as evidenced by all the people in this room that are asking for more resources. so my request from the board is to look into other avenues to provide further pay as well as hiring initiatives to provide the proper resources and support for special education students in order to further iep goals to be met. thank you. hi, my name is nicole patterson hayes and my son lucas attends groton elementary. he's in the fifth grade special day class, and he loves school. we care so much about our teachers and our and our perez. and we've seen them become completely burned out due to incredibly demanding job and an unacceptable lack of support

. and the lack of perez is a direct symptom of insultingly low wages. their jobs are some of the most difficult in the district, and yet they are not even close to being compensated fairly. how can we attract and keep these in valuable educators? i know pay them a living wage, especially in san francisco, san francisco living wage, which is $30 and no less. thank you. good evening. board of education. you may not know this, but all of us here in red represent a group called special ed access alliance. on friday, we sent a letter to superintendent matt wayne. we had asks for him. dr. wayne, it's great to see you here tonight. and i really hope you'll respond to our letter very soon on one of the asks that i want to direct your attention to is a request that you spend a day in one of our classrooms as a para educator who pfizer now i know, i know that you're a very busy man. i know that you're a very busy man . i work very hard to. last week i worked 35 hours a week. that's usually what i work a week. but

remember that monday was labor day, so i wasn't paid for seven of those hours. now, when you come to our school, you will find many different things. you'll find challenges, you'll find, you know, it'll probably open your eyes. i can't wait for you to join it. join us and see my classroom. you're going to meet the students and the families that are here speaking tonight. you're also going to see incredible joy. you're going to see powerful students. you're going to see students sharing their voices. my students are unable to speak on this mic. it's not accessible for them. so i'm asking you that you meet them where they're at, that you hear their public comments at school. thank you. thank you. okay, i'm calling the next group. sarah grossman. swenson martinez. montana i'm sorry for mispronouncing hannah hughes. michelle fajita, megan dukes and maeve foley. good hi. i'm. i'm

sarah. i'm a parent at groton elementary. i'm here to support our families in special education, our teachers, our parent educator hours. i would really encourage the board to accept usf's offer. let's get this contract settled. let's move on so everyone can focus on what's going on in the classroom at school. i also want to encourage the district to look at alternative sources of funding. usf has done a bunch of great research on these topics. we have to think creatively about how to fund our schools, community schools in san francisco are so important and so wonderful in so many different ways as we want to find funding for our community schools. we don't want to close them. thank you. good evening,

everyone. all the boards are sfusd. my name is montanez ratanapakdee and i'm here today with the deep concern about regarding about the safety and education of our children at the groton school. my son's name is troy lawson. has a missing school twice due to the absence or lack of the paraeducator. this is true. he is close to home. as of my family, my father was tragically killed in 2021. it's a painful reminder to an important of the safety and an icu the doctor matt went to make this issue a top priority to prevent a further tragedy to our family, we must ensure that our schools have to necessarily stop and resource to support all students. and we care about our teachers and our educator and have seen them to work so hard and burnout and lack of their staff and then low weight and why our city get paid lower than

other another city. you know we must be better than other city, you know. yes. and i'm adding my voice to call and then dr. wynn to respond and demand from the to helping them. and we need to have fully stopped school now. and then this situation will continue to get worse if we do not solve the problem yet. thank you. hi. my name is hannah hughes. i've been teaching for seven years. i used to teach in new york actually, and i went to teachers college. like you, matt wayne and i have had there 30 students. i'm a special education teacher as well, and i always have been the whole time. so i had 30 students there and i had 14 students on my caseload. and i had an iep coordinator who would help me schedule my ieps and things like that. and yet my school was still not fully meeting all its iep goals. but there i at least had those things. i was able to schedule

iep meetings. i had parents who wanted to stay because the classroom wasn't entirely dysregulated a lot of the day and we also always had a speech teacher and our other therapists that we needed. so i know it's possible for it to be better and we're really far from it here. so i would really like to see it be better and i really hope you go visit that classroom and feel what it feels like to be with kids all day who feel dysregulated because they don't have everything they need. yes, yes. good evening. my name is megan dukes. i'm a kindergarten teacher at alvarado elementary and i'm here in support of c. we care about our teachers and para educators and have seen them be completely depleted and burnt out by a lack of paraeducator staff and low wages. enough is enough. i support ussf's proposal for para 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 or the situation will continue to get worse. my mother was a special educator in a para and a special education class, and when my mama got sick, my grandmother, she had to quit her job because she made more money driving instacart than she did working as a para. this is an unacceptable reality and i urge the district to put its money where the models are and to pay our educators, otters, all of them equally. thank you. thank you. hi, my name is maeve clancy and i have two daughters in the district with ieps. they are in kindergarten and fourth grade at sunset elementary. last year, both my kids had a terrible year due to lack of iep services due to staffing shortages. my older daughter missed five months of specialized academic instruction . in third grade, my younger daughter, who was at tca in tca at argonne elementary, missed

three months of 1 to 1 para services and seven months of ci services. this was on top of five months of ci services that she missed in pre-k. um, my kids are one of many, many kids who miss these services at their respective schools. lack of iep services has a direct impact on students and school staff. students don't learn, they regress. they make. they don't make social connections. they act out. and there are obvious safety issues. this is unacceptable. well, needless to say, i support usf's proposal for para raises the district cannot afford not to provide raises for these indispensable staff members. thank you. thank you. thank you. i'll be calling the next group up. betty, you oscar. erika bernard, christy adams. diana valdez, valdivia

and nick leone. we we just go. hello, everyone. my name is betty newhouser. i am a parent of two children in grant elementary school. both of them need iep services and are in special ed and i am here to not only support parent raises, but to really like, you know, that it is extremely dangerous for our students when they don't have sufficient support in the classroom to the point where where they cannot go to school to the point where the teachers have to contact the parents and say it might not be a good day to come to school. we don't have enough paras. therefore, your children cannot get the education they deserve. they cannot learn like they should be . and us as parents have to take immediate pto and sacrifice potential jobs. all right. this is such a problem. not just for teachers, but also for our

families, as this is something that you, dr. matt wayne, need to pay really special attention to. we reached out to you many times and we look forward to hearing from you and we look forward to seeing you on campus to spend a day with us in one of the classrooms. thank you. thank you. i'm christy adams, a para a member of c and also a parent of four students in this school district. i have seen firsthand the negative consequences of not having a fully staffed sped program in our schools. that is why i am in support of c's letter to you, dr. wayne, that we sent last week, and i have a copy here with signatures as well. basically we are asking for the very basics for perez, which align with usf's economic proposals. we also ask for you to make time to meet with our group or maybe come to our school at groton or any of our

sped programs. our calendar is wide open. families like mine and educators like me are tired of not having our voices heard. and when it comes to our needs within sped programs for families are frustrated that their kids aren't getting the support and services that they are legally entitled to. perez are tired of having to work multiple jobs because of low wages and hours and ed, teachers are tired of not being believed when it comes to their caseloads being full. so so i think that was my time. but yes, thank you. here's this for you. with signatures with from other parents. hello, my name is diane. i'm a parent of a student at grant elementary and also at ap. giannini i'm here. i'm the one that sent you the email on friday around 5 p.m. and we have not heard from you yet. and we've been coming here since

last year asking for help for our children in for their safety, for their education. i saw that you're here trying to boost attendance. our kids have missed a lot of school because there's not enough staff in our classrooms. if you want that attendance, get the staff in our classrooms for the safety of our children. thank you. thank you. let me come on. i am a paraeducator at mission high school. but first and foremost, i am a mother, a single mother. my son goes to graton elementary . me, i am underpaid and overworked. i am extremely tired . if you call yourself working education and you have not looked at special education in, you have not helped. not one single child. anybody with an

iep. and you know, this being a paraeducator half of our kids, you want to talk about anti racist teaching, half of the minority has an iep. you are not helping nobody. if you did not have special education, you didn't do nothing as an educator. if you did not help special education. i worked two jobs. okay i'm tired like and i know it seems repetitive, like you're hearing it over and over, but you have not done nothing. not your job. if you did not look at special education. so you know yourself has to walk into a special education classroom. okay my child does not have no aftercare. i beg people to watch my child. it's ridiculous. okay we need help. we need extra parents. you got to treat parents right in order to get parents, period. hi. we're asking for safe

staffing. we're asking for $30 an hour for perez. i'd like to echo the demands from all these wonderful people out here. dr. matt wayne, please do something about this. i know it's not just you, but all the board members. um, we're really at a crisis here. i think in earlier in your speech when you said this is the whole ecosystem across the nation. san francisco has some special, special problems. i think that we and everybody in this room can see it. and i'd like to commend all the parents who and all the staff who are picking up yet another shift in order for us to get the equity that you guys talk about every single day. so i'd really appreciate it if you guys did something about this. thank you . all right. i'll call the final group for in person non-agenda items. julian turk, ellen wong, cassandra curiel. supriya ray

qin, carolyn hagerstrom. and again, sorry for mispronouncing and you could go whatever order works for you. good evening, dr. wayne. commissioners. my name is ellen wong. i'm executive director with united administrators of san francisco. i have two messages. his first at usf stands in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in you. you esf and seiu. we urge the district to come to agreement with usf and seiu on their contracts. secondly we usf belongs to a coalition of unions and community groups that have come together around the upcoming bond. we want to appreciate associate superintendent don. i can't remember her last name and dr. wayne for coming to our meeting

last friday and talking to us about the bond. we look forward to continuing dialog with you on the proposed bond. thank you. i have both, but i'm just going to do non agenda right now and then i'll wait. okay. good evening. i'm cassandra curry. i'm the president of united educators of san francisco. 6000 of us both classified and certificated in classrooms. those who are in classrooms throughout the city's 121 school sites. but i want to be clear that while some folks are called special education teachers and some folks are called rsp teachers or slps or school psychs and some folks are called paraeducator in a classroom or a pair educator in a classroom 100% of united educators of san francisco is about giving the best quality, special education possible because it helps every single

student. all of the 48,000 of our sfusd students and we are all heavily invested in this fight to ensure that every single school site has all educators filled. but our highest priority is to ensure that when we do the most for those who need the most, all boats rise. we are insistent. that we will be able to close so many of our staffing gaps and address so many of not just whether or not someone has a caseload of a state maximum or minimum, but instead that every student is getting every minute of their iep met, that every student is getting a high quality san francisco unified school district education to the best degree necessary. and we can't do that when we are in a consultant and constantly contracting out work that our bargaining unit would be doing at a higher rate actually than what we are actually paid. so

this $30 minimum for a pair of educators doesn't look the same way. when we pull up contracts that are are on board docks for the necessary needs for sped. and so the district is currently spending its money to do that to address some of these needs for folks that are not unit members that do not live and work in our members of our community like who are sitting here today, but instead we want to ensure that folks like erica, like our member erica, who is both a parent and a para educator, and so many of our other folks here are able to do that work for the quality fauci that our students deserve and for the livelihood that they deserve. thank you. good evening. my name is carolyn hagstrom. i'm also a parent of one of the willie brown middle school students and i'm here to urge you to get teacher hours that are already hired into the classrooms. i mean, getting teachers into the classrooms

anyways. but the teachers that are learned today are already hired. our principal has worked all summer to hire them. we have already lost one of four hired teachers to another district because of paperwork, missing paperwork. so we don't want to lose those other three teachers. please make sure they are in the classroom as soon as possible. thank you. i'm supriya ray. i wanted to talk a little bit about public comment itself and thank you first for putting public comment earlier in the evening. this clearly enables more folks to participate than would otherwise be the case when you hold it later and i also wanted to comment on virtual public comment, because one of the things i've been doing for some time now is helping folks who reach out to me to try to make public comment. and i've gotten repeated communication

from folks who have tried to make public comment virtually that it is incredibly difficult to do so. they often have, i mean, literally a window of seconds in which to raise their hands virtually. and that makes it extremely difficult unless you can sit at your computer or on your phone every second and be right there to raise your hand when you're called on to raise hands virtually to make comment and someone, again, just last week who would even ask me to text them, i texted them and she texted me back. she was like, i think i was just a second too late. i don't know if i'm going to be called on. and she wasn't called on. so if you have 10 or 15 seconds, max to raise your hand, it's real hard to participate. so please also consider how to fix that. thank you. if i'm here to discuss the bond in the master plan, is that agenda or not agenda? that is an agenda item, so you should wait to the next one. thank you. okay, that concludes in-person public comment for non agenda

items. okay. please. raise your hand if you care to give a public comment on non agenda items. each speaker will have one minute to speak. i'm currently seeing 12 hands raised and we will. president bogus get to all 12 of those hands. there's 12 hands raised. okay, so seeing 15 hands raised, no problem. have a good day. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese as you state and congratulations on the agenda for the comment. area gracias. i you are you we are.

thank you. sarah but this is also not not made for public comment. it's just the best way to do it. sarah. sam hi. i have big concerns about family voice in this district. no building, no building committee means our community cannot ask about lead testing in the district. and i will remind you, my children drank lead at buena vista for his man. now there's an attempt to reduce and control the advisories. the pac was the only group that expressed my concerns about an agenda. i'm so, so sorry to have to interrupt you this is an agenda item. so so we

will come back to you when we're on this agenda item. right now we're doing non public comment for non agenda items. if you raise your hand, i will come back to you during this agenda item. color ending in 9.49 color ending in 949. hi, i'm a proud parent of a marshall kindergarten honor. marshall is a title one school. our staff has been gutted between last year and this year. the classrooms are not safe teachers and staff are forced to choose between preventing a child with special needs from escaping the

campus and leaving the rest of their class unsupervised. we have zero paraprofessionals, zero and several special needs kids in each class. how can a title one school like marshall have zero paraprofessionals? i am so concerned for marshall student safety. thank you. thank you. color ending an 853. good hi, virginia marshall who hasn't voted for attended wayne and commissioner. i am very sad to hear all the negative things i hear does not going right with the school district school that's just started in my recommendation. they're interview every day to get the

job. take a leave. you go to the school or go down the payroll and get everything done. how can you things are all these horrible things. that's not working right for our schools. our students deserve so much better. i also want to thank you for listening to the community and putting public comment first. you voted to do this some years ago, so thank you for to remind you that you need to hold staff fauci your word. you all owe reverend dr. agency gröllmann college especially who president bogaerts for how you treated him at the last board meeting. i want to do a comment with my granddaughter, susan ringbang. i had no idea what happened to after the meeting. so you. i'm being calling columbariums over the interview to say something for me. you owe him an apology and never let that happen again. this is that we must. we must always respect our elders and please support and the contract. thank you.

miss me? i can speak today. please support them. otherwise you all need to resign. thank you. thank you. miss marshall. rebecca hello. can you hear me? yes, we can hear you. hi. board commissioners and everyone listening. my name is rebecca fedorko. i am a special ed teacher. i'm an itinerant teacher in early education, so i popped around the city and work with kids in different ways. i am so tired of being taken advantage of because. cause i love my students right now. i need seven days in the school week to do my job, and that is just meeting the minute needs of students. i have expressed my concerns to supervisors and they have not been heard. we need to hire more special ed teachers and we need to pay them more.

why should i go? why should i stay here when i can go to surrounding districts and make $20,000 more? why are recruiters calling me and telling me that if i go through their agency and i get hired through usc, i could make more. i want to be part of usf, i want to be part of this community. but i also would like to be paid appropriately for my work. and i want my kids to get quality minutes from me. i don't want to be sitting in the back going through emails because i have 300 minutes of service to do in a 360 minute school day, day. that's absurd. please, you need to focus on special education. if we don't work, your district does not work. thank you. thank you. in my right. is sean within the district, only 58% of middle

school students are english proficient. this issue is even more pronounced for english learners since which is a population that increased by 150% in 2019. post law consent decree. the district introduced a new plan for english learners. but i feel that these goals were derailed by the pandemic and have faced barriers in being implemented. my name is sean bhattacharya and i stand virtually before you today as a student nurtured by the district, which has set me up to pursue further educational opportunities. however educational inequity is an issue that i noticed during my nine years in the district and when i spoke to administrators and teachers last year as part of my project to support english learners, they told me that the root of the challenges english learners, english learners face is a shortage of teachers and literature that allows students to see their own identities reflected in stories as the president of an organization in the process of being chartered by the democratic party and having worked for the us house of representatives as a california state senate, i want to work with the board to support these students in october, i'll be bringing a resolution that is sponsored by multiple democratic party officials. the board and hopefully they included

recommendations will be abused. thank you. thank you. vivek. vivek. hello yes, we can hear you. okay hey, hey! ho ho. superintendent matt wayne. you have got to go. you have spent hundreds of hours focusing on how to close schools and putting our students at risk, not listening to sped teachers, not listening to ucsf, not listening to students, not properly distributing appropriate resources to make sure that all of our children have quality education and also the comments from marshall and bratton

elementary school are ridiculous . i don't even see how this board can function properly and say that you're actually doing business when you are refusing to pay bad teachers and you're paying consultants up to $150 an hour to $75 an hour to basically substitute teachers in the classroom and parents, this is ridiculous. you're literally paying the parents. recall sister made of dobson and her company $150 an hour to do the same thing that a parent doing for less than $40,000 a year. this is ridicu useless. something needs to change. and although you guys keep saying the mantra is that student outcomes won't change until adults behavior is changed, it's your behaviors that need to change. you guys need to actually do your work, read your books. you know what the superintendent is bringing before you asking questions and stop some of this bullshit. jesus. tom hi. my name is tom

anderson and my wife, a special education teacher for district and students at dolores huerta elementary. dr. when what you've heard tonight doesn't make you go to grad and show your face for a photo opportunity or to marshall or to dolores huerta or any other school that said services are not being met because we are not supporting. i don't know what will. you can sit here and say, you're not talking about closing school, but what are you doing? why are we not supporting special education students who need the most support? when you don't go to the schools, you don't know what's going on. there's been an onboarding fiasco where my wife, who works at denman middle school, has said that five teachers, five cannot come to work because there's only 1 or 2 people who are doing the onboarding of new hires. so you can cut me off in a minute here,

but that's a big thing when those people want to work, but they can't. they can't be paid and they're going to go to another district. they're not going to come back. so at the board, when you say, oh, you know, we got to we got a middle school and high school, you know, course listing, is that more important than students missing that stop with that. thank you. sorry. caller ending . in 034. caller ending in 034. hello. am i on? yes, we can hear you. thank you. tonight you have heard from students, paraprofessionals, teachers and parents crying out for help and yet you're about to spend $667

per day for yet another consultant. the consultant doesn't have to work all day. she can work two half days for $1,334. what if you work just one hour and she still gets her $667? this is unacceptable. pull that contract and put the money into the classroom. thank you. thank you. yvette. yes. hello. my name is yvette edwards. i am a of two children with usd. i am also a co-founder and board member of parents coalition. i'm calling tonight as a parent of willie brown middle school. you've heard many of us speak tonight. i agree with so much of what has been said tonight in

regards to supporting our educators, our parents, and figuring out a resource alignment and some way to get them paid appropriately. correct and fully. what the common thread is here for me is that we do not have an hr department that is prioritizing and moving things along quickly in the onboarding process, in particular as willie brown, the struggles that we've been talking about and we've been experiencing, our educators have been trying to facilitate this. they've been trying to do placement of newly hired teachers. so they've been navigating complicated and laborious process while all this is an urgent matter, if willie brown right now, as many people have talked about tonight, it's an urgent matter for so many schools. i am hoping that somebody in sympathy with an hr can commit to revealing the current courfaivre initial applicants for positions at all sites as soon as possible. it includes reviewing and approving any and all qualified potential candidates as quickly as possible who are currently going through this process. we don't

just need it for willie brown, we need it for our position. as you are hearing so much from so many people. thank you, everyone . thank you so much. thank you. please thank you. valerie yes. hi can you hear me? yes, we can hear you as a parent. and i want to talk about covid. we are we are currently in a significant covid wave. i have been sending regular emails to the board office over the past 18 months requesting mask mandates during surges and documenting up to date covid research. covid is not a cold. it is not the flu. it is a systemic, vascular damaging disease that only spreads by the respiratory route

by aerosols. could it is neither over nor is it a harmless infection without consequences. i am asking usd to adopt california department of public health guidance for k through 12 schools, which is number one filtering the air in may, the cdc recommends ended five air exchanges each hour. the district. hepa filters only provides one air exchange per hour. we need to ventilate the schools. many schools don't have any h-vac we need proper masks. the teachers should all be masked in setting a good example for the children, and everyone needs to keep up to date on the vaccines. today, the cdc advisory committee recommend the xb booster for everyone six months and over. thank you. reply to at least one of my

emails. thank you so thank you. leonard hi, my name is autumn and i am the pta president at leonard flynn elementary and the parent of two kids at flynn. i'm calling to raise an issue that was shared with me, and i'm wondering why several of our new staff who have been hired have not been placed in the school due to what has been communicated to me as a backup and paperwork process of the district. a fourth grade teacher is waiting to be placed at flynn. we are also waiting on our community schools manager. she was previously directing our after school program over many years and now she's waiting without a job. our phoebus is currently subbing in a classroom and i'm certain there are other things happening that have not been told to me on the blacktop in the morning, please move this paperwork along so that these folks don't find other work and conserve our school. our title one school. honestly, i'm

shocked. tonight to hear that this issue is so widespread. i thought this was potentially just something happening at flynn, so please help. please get these people hired. they're waiting and they want to be helping our kids. thank you. thank you. caller there's no name here, but caller. go ahead. yes we can hear you. fairchild so i would alcs g and care for school board. and i'm an advocate with children. the hierarchy of the school upside down. i think everybody realizes, recognizes that teaching is the most difficult and important job in a school district. i was just looking at open pavlosky they the rest of the 100 top paid people and

employees, not one of them is a teacher. you have a superintendent out for $300,000 a year base salaries of local school, of other administrators, lawyers, etcetera as of 2020, over 554 employees were making six figures. salaries and meanwhile, you know, all these people are getting money. the. few school scheme such as reading the government school system, they're going to independent schools and homeschool. francisco chronicle earlier this year, enrollment was down about 15,000 students around 2002, two lower than 50,000 today. and there's reason for that. there's little education. thank you. the government schools are getting too much money into administration. audit into the classroom. thank you.

vanessa. for vanessa. thanks. i just got the unmute. good evening, everybody. my name is vanessa moura. i'm the executive director for parents of public schools of san francisco. i'm also. a 27 or 28 year long educator and i'm calling in today about an issue that really concerns me. there are many issues on the table that i think usda is going to need to really focus on and do something about. however the issue of hearing from community and being responsive is just not happening. i wrote the district a letter related to jose ortega's community management

community, who had concerns about an enrollment that happened out of policy and i got no response to that letter. the reason why that concerns me is not because of my position or my influence in the education community. it's because parents deserve a response. the district needs to be transparent about its mistakes that it's making and needs to meet parents. where there are two, try to get to solutions. to me, it is highly unacceptable for a district to not just respond to emails. we just had several cases of this that went before public comment as well. i feel like the district is favoring families. thank you, vanessa. that is your time. i'm sorry to interrupt you. thank you. pearl hello. good evening. hi. my name is carl brown. i'm a parent of

four. one of my children. one of my one of my child is at dillon high school. people in the panel, people on this call people all over that are just looking at this broad cast. look at the panel up there. they are the ones with all of the budget and all of the money and hitting fringe benefits. they're the ones that's benefiting wholly off of the san francisco unified school district budget. and it's really sad that people got to rant and scream and beg for you know, for services. it's really sad. but anyway, that's hammer right there is the ones who's benefiting from the unified school districts budget. that's all. thank you. thank you. that concludes virtual public comment for non agenda items. okay. thank you so much. and we will go to the cards for the agenda related public comment. okay

great. i'll call the first group. christine to share. kelly superior ray selena chu. hi everyone. my name is christina share and i'm here to comment on the proposed changes to parent advisories. there confusing. they're alarming and it really feels like the goal is to eliminate parent voice. and i get that. it's hard to listen to people telling you how bad things are. but but you still need to do it. parents need to be able to tell you that our sdc is are barely functioning, not not able to maintain safety. and after safety we that would be when you would look at the learning we need to be able to

tell you that things are broken until they're not broken. that would be a great time to rearrange parent input and streamline it in some different way. that will alienate parents and i support usf bargaining. please meet their demands. they're telling you what they need to staff our schools. thank you. thank you. fellow cac member. yeah yes. i'm my name is harvey kelly, and i'm also wanted to talk about the proposal to change the advisories and or the pac and or and answer to something that happened on may 9th. the point is that it's many different things, all in one memo. and it's very confusing. and i'm uncertain what the exact process is. the pac has a resolution and

bylaws that may or may not have been addressed, nor amended officially. what is the process ? is the advisories we don't know what this means because there was some information that was not made clear, nor does the boe know what the process is. so my ass really is that this boe and district has been talking about a community parent engagement process for over a year. can we start there or can we make that clear? and then let's take it from there. thank you. thank you so much. um sorry, virginia yeonguijeong was joselina chu will san francisco. fauci chong iba wu yi kashi jenny dao shanxi, tony mayo, yeager wallen, jason xinhua. so

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selena chu. the the district has started since 19 since 1850. and and there hasn't been any chinese tech. and i think we have an issue over the district is because we have over 4,040% of people are asians in the district. and we believe. and as and as the parents, we believe the system can we believe in a good system and we believe that have the district that they can teach our kids. and i feel that diversity is very, very important because as it would if we have the chinese or asian pac or enable parents to voice their opinions and their comments in their mother's home and also to voice their needs and constraints. thank you. thank you. hi again, supriya ray, i

wanted to comment briefly on two things. the first is to thank you all for taking a closer look at the situation involving the parent advisory council and the various committees. definitely there seems to be a lot of need for work to make parent voices come through the committees in a way that is more representative and effective district does need to listen and they're probably also needs to be a lot of work to make sure that those committees are represented live. i actually would like to second what selena had said. i was going to note that there seems to be significant asian underrepresented asian in on the pac and in other groups. so i would hope the district would pay attention to that. the second thing that i wanted to mention relates to the bond program. i would note that the city is putting up a 300 million bond program for affordable housing at the same time, as i understand that the district is planning to ask for a bond measure of around $1 billion,

and at a time when so many people are expressing major distrust and concern, i have to wonder how this is going to go without the district showing gaining trust. thank you. thank you. all right. i'm calling the final group, rex ridgeway, tracy breger, brandy markman. okay. one thing i forgot to say when i was up here before, this is rex ridgeway that paraeducators can be paid out of the student success fund. prop g money is for paraeducators. okay, so the bond program, um, there are three openings on the citizens bond oversight committee. i was on that oversight committee for almost two years, just under two years. and they have lost three members, from my understanding,

they're looking for more applicants. so this is going out to parents who live on the east side because they're looking to spread who's on the oversight bond committee. go to the website, type in citizens bond oversight committee or cboc, and you'll see the application. and you should apply because again, we're worried about that bond money and therefore, it really would pay to have more parents on that. citizens bond oversight committee. kevin bogus as the leader of the. board of education, i just want to say this bond is going to have a difficulty passing. it's going to be a photo finish. i think a big thing that you can do and i really want to say this, making a mandate to put algebra one back in eighth grade, a lot of people are going to say, wow, okay, i'm not going to i'm not going to leave the school district right now. it's a canary in the cave mine. and when the canary dies, everybody runs out. okay. so right now, the canary is okay. it's up to you. this is your legacy. put it

back. algebra one, eighth grade. thank you, rex. thank you. all right. okay acquanetta jobs with justice for labor and community coalition. just wanted to discuss why is it that we weren't consulted and during the facility master plan or bond program development process where there are efforts to ensure that the diverse communities represented in san francisco were actually part of that process, where the materials that were put out to the public translated and made available to those diverse communities, and if not, can we commit to doing that going forward around equity? i think that's a huge priority that's listed out in the facilities master plan, and i'm yet to see a process released from the district that indicates how those bond funds will be distributed equitably. what metrics are we going to use to ensure that that happens and that the students most at risk are prioritized? and then lastly, i wanted to talk a little bit about some discrepancies between the master plan and the presentation we'll see later tonight. so i think there are 16% of the bond funds are going to go towards what's called core functionality. so think hvac, electrical, things

like that. and in the master plan, it says that 48.9% of costs over the next estimated cost improvements over the next five years are in just hvac and electric school. so why isn't it being prioritized there? and the final thing i want to say is we've previously found success when we've worked together as labor and community members to find investments that safeguarded the future of our district. and right now it seems like you're gearing up to go out to the electorate and just based on the temperature of this room and what i'm hearing on zoom, it looks like it's going to be a posse of one. so you need to turn around and make sure that you get everybody in this room on board with you before we move forward to something that could end up, you know, not getting the money that we need to keep this district safe. good evening. tracy brewer, deputy director of jobs with justice with my colleague keen. so following on his comments, we all know that from climate emergencies to smoke days to pandemics, our schools are in dire need of infrastructure upgrades to protect the basic health and safety of educators, students and other employees. and the upcoming bond is a great

opportunity to do that. but we do have concerns about the priorities, the overall amount of the proposed bond and how to ensure transparency and a focus on the students most in need. the district has to be much more responsive to the needs of those who are in schools every day, including the unions and community groups that represent students, educators and employees, hvac and electrical upgrades are some of these priorities. we know that it's going to cost at least $6 million. we need to upgrade school kitchens. it many other things. so the bond needs to be much bigger than it currently is proposed to be. we have several questions, including how much of the district's available bond limit is being utilized in this cycle. does the district have a plan to leverage bond funding to take advantage of federal inflation reduction act rebates? what's the rationale of the proposed size of the bond? and finally, we absolutely must ensure that there's strong labor standards, a strong community workforce agreement covering all of this work. thank you. thank you. good evening, brandy markman, parent and member of

the organizing committee of the san francisco education alliance . we put out a press advisory today opposing one of the items on the consent calendar g 28, which was the contract for controversial aba therapy going to a private company, kyo care ab is very controversial. we've had a lot of adults with autism tell us that it was damaging. the sped pac had a wonderful presentation this spring about a more humane approach called the collaborative and proactive solutions model. have you been talking with the sped pac? also, why was this speaking of paraeducators being underpaid, if you look in this contract, it's paying behavior specialists $69 an hour. they get a fraction of that because a lot of that goes to the company. this came out in the agenda on friday and items had to be severed by 9 a.m. on friday. the agenda was published at 5 p.m. why wasn't this wasn't this as this agenda item severed and why are you

privatizing services and money that should go to our hard working educators? we want answers. thank you. okay. back to agenda. hi, cassandra. president usf okay so in respect to the bond program, i want to i'm not going to repeat much of what our colleagues have been bringing up. we've had the meeting. we just want to make clear that there are a lot of questions to be answered and some of those connections be drawn to the white paper. we issued the payday loans and pumpkin patches right? like over 20 years worth of practice that actually in addressing in the district, addressing those issues be that at a board meeting in public comment over the course of these public meetings that are scheduled and also behind the scenes in work with staff that a lot of that can build back the trust that we've we've discussed is an issue. and many of these questions around what the plan actually is. so, so many of us

every teacher almost has been at a school site that's had bond work done and many, many family members and students have been at a school site where bond work has gotten done. and we have a lot of feedback about that. and the process for how that was done. i know administrators have a lot to say about it because it impacts their work very specifically, but also the outcome of that. and so it's not so much going to be like detailed and picky, but in putting forward what we know to be a very needed measure, right? every school site in san francisco unified needs work done. and there's some core functionality that keane mentioned that needs to be worked on. when we talk about hvac, like a few folks have brought up, that requires multiple layers of in-depth work, right? the all the electrical has to be redone at the site. then that has to make sure that all of the plumbing, all of these things that are possible for the infrastruc other parts. and that's a big ask and also a big lift for every school site. if we had a

plan and we saw more details up front, it would make it a lot easier and a lot fewer questions. and much the same way that educators build out a whole year's curriculum map, like we're not making lesson plans on the fly unless we're covering a class. and then we are right, because that's not our class right? but for the most part, we plan everything out all of our bones are there and they're filled out. we know what's going on. and so we want to see that happen, too, with the bond because we want to help get that past. and we can't do that if we don't know what's going on and if we're not a part of that process. and so it needs to be extrapolated all the way out. and we wanted to have the highest success threshold as well. and so maybe the conversation around, if that comes up in march, is actually a good idea or not. it needs to be assessed on a very public fashion. thank you. that concludes in person. agenda item public comment. all right. thank you to all the folks who provided in person public comment. i think now we'll go to

virtual public comment for agenda items. and i think what we'll do is we'll set aside 12 minutes in total for that and we'll have one minute for each of the folks who want to give comment. okay. again, we'll have 12 minutes for our virtual public comment. each speaker will have one minute to speak again. one minute per speaker. so at one minute i'll start. i will thank you so that we can ensure to get to everyone. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese? can we adjust that to 14 minutes please? 14 minutes. each speaker will have one minute. um comentario publico acerca del tema de la agenda. but the only one 30 minutes in total. gracias you guys. i. have. i call up fabio. tom how are you guys? how

tanjong. thank you, sam. hi. i have big concerns about family voice in this district. no buildings committed means our community cannot ask about lead testing in the district. i will remind you that my children drank lead at buena vista. horace mann. there is an attempt to reduce and control advisories now. the path was the only group that expressed my concerns about air quality. he packed into pendant respect them. i also invite you to our our special day classes at buena vista and breathe the hot air and drink the water one minute to address systemic racism is not enough. thank you. thank you.

yvette. hello. yes go ahead. we can hear you okay. i just wanted to remind everyone that unified school district and all public education in california wouldn't exist without a black man by the name of william. mr. who gifted this land to san francisco. so to sit here and hear person who's like selena choo, who is a co-founder of the pac and a member of the pac, makes virulent lies about. what happened on the pac last year. this board and watching this board listen to her lies and go through a fake investigation process is absolutely disheartening. moreover, i'd like to call out maureen trujillo, who i did file a complaint with about her behavior and which justin also witnessed her trying her as well as excuse me, but we're not. excuse me. excuse me. this is

justin. you're not to use employees names or anyone's names there in public. comment, please. okay. sorry. i'll scratch your name out. can i get my 30s back? yes, you can. okay. you can go ahead. babette. yvette, you there? yes, i'm here. sorry you can go ahead . okay, i can go ahead now. okay. because i was being muted. sorry about that. that was an accident. go ahead. okay i just wanted to reiterate that security witness and has to make them leave the building because they tried to physically attack me. i made a complaint to mark marin trujillo about what happened on the path about the anti-black sentiment that was going on in the district at that

time. i received no response to this day. i also would like to say that your bond will not pass because it's filled with errors and any financial institution will underwrite. it is actually defrauding voters in 2016. you did not fix the schools promise and as a result, students drank poisonous water and a five year old. thank you. that is your time. thank you. caller ending in 853. five addendum i thank you for the opportunity again and to the board. i am in support of parents voice. it's met you and the only agenda that you concern hearing rearrange the disruptions of the past so pact as a viable part of every

school you want parents to come and have their leadership skills and how it's empowered input into that child's education to that community and globally built all of usc. so we look past alone. you have so much to do to make sure every child has a credential teacher and a subject matter that every every staff gets paid on time, that every school is safe, which you have not. done. so this is type of and along. and then lastly, i will say i fully support of bond gun measures as long as every school has get enough money for every school and every school has what is what they need. and no child should have to get close to let that. every child has clean drinking water that every child has access. to. assessment. i think both these other schools. thank you. i'm

concerned. and then american community would have. thank you. thank you, miss marshall. rebecca hello? can you hear me? yes we can hear you. hi my name is rebecca fedorko. i'm the special education teacher. i just kind of want to speak to contracts in general and contracting out things i've heard. i completely understand complaints, but i have heard people say that these people are not part of our communities. and i want to say, as a special educator, i highly value the work that many of the contractors i work with you many of them are former parents, and i am not hating on any of them individually for going and getting a higher paying job. they're very existence in our classrooms and their work with our students proves that you can afford to pay us more in special ed, you can afford to pay us for our ets, you can afford to pay us for behavior therapists. we

need these things. we want these people to be part of our unions. we want them to be bigger parts of our community. please let us invite these people to be a part of our community by paying special educators appropriate wages. and i really have to say i am tired of the sites in this district that don't get the funds or the people that they need, being the sites that. thank you, rebecca. i don't have parents that do. that is your time. thank you. vanessa. thank you. alicia. um so if i have a right to due process, so if my voice is not heard here, what i'll do is i'll go up to the state and have my voice heard. okay one of the things that the district needs to do related to the parent advisory committee is to ensure it follows at code

point blank. there are three specifications in the code that say that adults parents need to be represented. and if you do not know what that code is, please look up our twitter and you'll see the code number to your legal counsel that's there. so i want to know who on the advisory committee meets those requirements because those are the requirements for the lcap. thank you. thank you. rianda. commissioners and superintendent lane running as you have the chief and i am a very proud parent and i call tonight to let you all know that i am greatly disappointed in the district attempt to squelch parent voice. the apf was formed from a parent and i was one of the family members prior to any board acknowledged payment or request

. we were trying to advocate heavily for african-american parents and black families and that is something that we still desire to do when the numbers for our babies are so dismal. it is an absolute disgrace this for the board to decide to come in and try to fix something that's not broken. we ask respectfully that you stay in your lane and you deal with the issues in the district because you have plenty where you don't need to mess with any of the pacs. allow the pacs to help the families the way you been doing and you all work to fix the issues that are in the district. you have too many issues to try and realign the pac. we got first. so please . please, please, respectfully stay in your lane and allow us to stay in our. thank you. thank you. yvonne. eight. and they

hope when you don't mind. yes we see how pictures my, my you naacp page thing you can see see . how clearly until bogeyed yet are you are you regarding and speaking home you 13 six you got are you regarding why you vote for you or the cassingham it sunday how yet project thank you. hi translation thank you. hi. i'm a parent of usd and i. i feel that since there was no no

voices over 100 years for asian or chinese family and i feel very, very appreciative that we are forming this asian pac tonight. and i thank you for the board. and i appreciate that you guys gave asians, asian family a voice to speak and as a usd. thank you. thank you. shirley. shirley yeah, this is a realistic. yes, go ahead, please . yeah. oh, facial dulcea. how. 16 roe. roe wasn't there. how

could in this happen? sensitive dazhen bailey doug emhoff. through the broken-hearted talking the five most talking facial. how come. to fauci walkaway conversation going? thank you. hi. i am. i am here to speak about the asian pac tonight. we have over 35% of asian population in our students. it is the largest percentage of the of among of the of the races and i feel that finally that asian students and parents are recognized and we

have corrected chinese exclusion back in the days and i feel very appreciated creative that the board has allowed this opportunity to do that. thank you very much. thank you, joe. josephine. thank you. thank you. school district. thank you. the school board. i hope i don't. each one will pass today. that will mark the end of the pattern of chinese exclusion and asian anti asian sentiment in exhibited in the school district for the past. i don't know dozens of years and since 1980s, when pac started, we've been waiting for a chance to be recognized. and tonight there's a chance, hopefully, that we will be an asian american has been an integral part of the

school district and we deserve a seat at the table for the round table pac and we're really grateful for the new leadership that is correcting the past. and we finally feel that we belong. we belong to our school district, and we wish you the best success and let's continue the reform for better family engagement in sfusd. thank you. thank you. president bogus. that was the 14 minutes for zoom. i think we will take the remaining seven hands and then we will close out of public comment. aaron. yes, hello. thank you. my name is aaron from harrison public schools of san francisco. and thank you for allowing the rest of the seven people on on

zoom to speak. um, i'm just speaking on a practicality that it seems as though some people are allowed longer to speak and others seem to be cut off pretty early. um, i just want to remind you that attending these meetings is not the job of parents. not the job of teachers. they are giving up of their time to be here because they want to speak out. when things got worse enough that they chose not to be at home with their family or working tonight or whatever to speak. and also that they want to be able to finish what they've said, but also know that they're being heard. and i think that would just help if you all could listen, even sometimes, you know, try to be non biased about about who you might speak. we

know you are doing your best. we know you are trying, but we also need to feel like we are being heard. thank you for your time. thank you. jay. hey jess, am i ready? yes we can hear you. jay go ahead, please. hello, everybody. thank you so much for the opportunity to speak on. this is jay from parents for the public school of san francisco. everyone here, like all the individuals who possess significant drought, are granted a greater amount of speaking time. whereas those who lack wealth encounters interruption. this behavior is regarded as highly inappropriate and intolerable. so we kindly request, fully request that

engage us, abstain from imposing restriction on the opportunities available to those who are presenting factual information to the general public. thank you . thank you. lose. again. give me a yes. we can hear you. hello. my name is luzuriaga and i'm a member of speaking on behalf of myself. i'm also still trying to understand the advisory's proposal and i am worried that voices of the district continue to be silenced. the path is an independent body. you're serious about parent input, involvement, perspective as you move the path of resource alignment, you must keep the path as an independent body. one big alert from me on this proposal is the expectation that schools had canceled. parents must double up if they want to be on the pac. this is a way to make it even harder, not easier, for families to have

their voices heard, especially those from marginalized communities that may not have the time or the resources to participate in multiple meetings. please stop silencing voices, reactivate the pac immediately. staff and let us better. thank you. thank you. angel. yes, thank you. good evening, commissioners and superintendent. i appreciate the opportunity to speak up. i'm a member. we support the motion funding the asian-american pac, which represent over 35% of the student population. we are glad to see this milestone set for the first time in usd history. this looks more inclusive fitness and belongings to our community with the establishment of asian-american parents are more likely to engage in the

district activities and development. and this is also a very good channel to build up a communication between the district and the asian american families. thank you so much. thank you. iphone. caller. all right. and minutes later. we are parent concerning about another issue at formosa high school on monday, we received a letter from school saying that there is no gun, but some student her student caused the teacher caught on the walkie talkie that there's a gun, someone saw a gun and then later connected with someone outside. and so the problem outside look like it. a

does a successful and we are concerned that will come back to do it again to create gun pandemic to have an excuse to control gun. um they want to take away second amendment from us and neither have done at some school this year and last year. we hope that school and at the usd has a way to prevent this matter happen before it's too late. thank you. thank you. de hi. first off. thank you very much, president, for allowing the remaining speakers to address the board. hi my name is damon. he and his we heard earlier about the need for an asian pac. i would agree. i used

to wonder why that asian community has been quiet on many school issues. but maybe that's because there was a barrier erected before them. agents. i guess, seem to make a big part or make up a big part of the student body in usd. the asian families need a voice to so it makes sense for them to be part of the conversation as a side note, earlier, there's a there's a comment attacking another one. i don't appreciate that. it's very disheartening and this seems extremely disrespect hurtful. i do thank the board for addressing it so quickly. i mean, it did happen. thank you very much. and thank you very much for your time. thank you. tony. tony broadhead and unmuted me

yet. um, good afternoon. can you hear me now? yes, we can hear you. good evening. i am tony hines, a proud african american parent, advisory council member . all of my children are graduates of sfusd. now i'm advocating for the next generation in my home and my community. if not for the advocacy of apac. family coma advocates and other cbos, my children would have fallen through the cracks. please leave the parent groups alone. listen to families. let our voices be heard. please recognize any pac group who wants to advocate for their children. parents are the first teachers and you all can focus on paying staff and education equity as rianda said, we got us. thank you. that concludes virtual public comment . okay. thank you so much to everyone who provided public comment virtually. and with

that, we will transition to our next item, which is item g, and i will pass it to our vice president to lead us through this item. thank you. item g is a consent calendar. so first would ask if there are any items withdrawn or corrected by the superin attendant? no, thank you. and can i get a motion and a second on the consent calendar ? so moved. second. thank you. roll call. student delegate simpson abstain specifically from 28. thank you. student delegate toe. i also abstain from number 28. thank you. commissioner alexander. yes commissioner fisher. yes

commissioner lamb. yes commissioner motamedi. yes commissioner sanchez. yes. vice president wiseman. ward. yes. president bogus. i recused myself from item 83 and yes to the other item. thank you. seven nights. thank you. and with that , we will transition to item hh1 and we will have a staff presentation and i will pass it to the superinten ant to introduce that. thank you, president bogus. if we can bring up the presenters on.

so last year, during my first year as as superintendent, i talked a lot about listening and learning and i learned about the rich history of parent engagement and advocacy in san francisco unified, but also learned there's a lot of frustration around how it's organized and how the district is working with families and with our different councils. and so this is something that also the board of education has shared questions and concerns and wanted to make sure that we're looking at how our parent advisory council in particular is being set up, but also overall how we're engaging with our advisory councils. so last may, the board made a motion and directed me to do take three actions. one is reviewing our our human resources and legal department policies around how

we're addressing complaints and concerns because as i said, there are concerns that have come in about how we're how we're supporting parents and complaints in general. second, working with the california department of education to look at our family and parent engagement policies and practices us and our compliance with state and other federal guidelines. and then third, to come back with recommendations for how the district will support the parent advisory council in particular, and parent and family engagement in general. again, using the state lcap and other federal guidelines as a guide. so that was on may 9th. and since then we've been working to bring back both the reviews and some recommendations, actions for the board of education. at that meeting, the board of education did take action to say the superintendent is responsible for the ongoing oversight and management and support of the

parent advisory council or whatever comes forward from that this evening. and so this is a discussion item because as we've worked on determining our different roles and responsibility in terms of operationalizing how the district is engaging with families, that is staff's role and our responsibility. and i think that's what's being recognized by the motion on and the direction that the board of education gave. so with that, it i'm pleased to welcome our head of staff, maureen trujillo. he is our head of staff. but because this was a cross division task, he helped coordinate this, but working with a lot of other departments and divisions and also many conversations with advisory council members and other people interested in this topic. so with that, i'll turn it over to maureen trujillo. good evening, commissioners. thank you, dr. wayne. so next slide, please. so we have for you as the updates

and findings that we have from the first two items in that motion, we were charged with doing the pulse. we were charged with doing an analysis of the effectiveness of our ucp process . can we go back. i'll wait to go back. there we go. thank you. and what we found is that sfusd has a robust measure organism to address this. lots of different types of complaints, all the way from bullying and safety concerns. there's a lot of code that guides this information that this requirement sets. and in general, we are in compliance. and that was a request. is the process working? it is. i would add that it's heavily dependent on people,

right? so we do need to get better at training our frontline staff on what to do when someone asks if i have a complaint, what do i do? and that's information that we need to train all frontline staff, all of our families that we serve on how to do that well and fast and that it's not dependent on someone being in the know, to know how to access those resources. so we have very robust mechanisms, but we could improve in that area. okay. next slide. the next item that we were asked to do was to check with the state of california on how were we or we were not in alignment with the codes that require for many of the creations of these advisory committees or other family engagement requirements in general, we are in compliance. we know that our areas of growth, for example, with the cap, we know that when i first came into this district, what i encountered was a very dormant task force, which is unusual in most school districts. that is a very robust and engaged group

and that we didn't have a membership protocol. so again, very unusual. so there is work to be done there. and before this conversation was going on, we were working on improving outreach membership selection and formalizing how that group was constituted. and i heard earlier in some of the comments to ensure the families that are representative of those unduplicated populations are represented in the committee. so although the state believe that we're going in the right direction, they did caution us to i do believe i don't know if this is 100% a fact that i need to verify, but san francisco unified may have the highest number of parent advisory groups in the state. i think someone there might be. and so they were cautious. they advised us to think carefully as we do this, because it does create a big response ability for the organization to ensure that we engage effectively, that we reconcile those recommendations so that families don't feel like we're going in circles and

asking them same questions over and over. so they didn't have any best practices. they just had a cautionary tale for us about being very careful for that. next slide, the next item is a set of recommendations that we're bringing to you in relation to the third point about what to do with the parent advisory committee. so we believe that one of the best things that we could do right now is transition the parent advisory council to the parent advisory committee, responsive for the lcap. as i alluded earlier, this will require that we create a strong membership selection process. this to ensure that we have representation even from those family ses that are typically found in the task force, such as parents of english learners, socially disadvantaged, special ed foster youth. et cetera. to that end, we're recommending that the advisory councils and we might need to do the math here might be nine now would have a seat in the in the cap plus these regional composition of ssa members and we would extend a one year term as ex-officio to the five remaining

dac pac members. if they choose to join next slide the second recommendation is to standardize and i would say document our procedures of how the different advisory councils and committees align to promising practices of family engagement and comply with the legal requirements. you'll see in the appendix and in the memo that's attached to this that some groups follow the green act, some follow the brown act, some are not required to follow anything. and so we need to make sure that we have room rules that comport to the state and federal requirements to ensure access. now, i want to make a note that we heard loud and clear that we should not do this alone, that we should consult with the people who have been here, the and take into account what has worked in the past as we move into the future . so we will be doing this in collaboration with our advisory groups. next slide. and finally

we bring to you the recommendation to establish two outstanding committees that are done from resolutions. i do believe that the parent advisory council sorry for that, that typo, it's a council, not a committee. and it might be a council for the latinx parent advisory council as well. and we propose the establishment of the parent advisory committee for asian-american families and finally, the feedback that we heard in the consultations that we had in one on ones or in group meetings was to slow down to do this right, engage everyone in ensure, as i said earlier, that we engage, know what were the best things that have worked in surveys around family engagement. and on a personal note, i'll pause and say that many years ago i got coached on what quality family engagement looked like from this district, and i took a lot of what i learned from here, and i adopted and applied it to my previous district. so i know

that there's a lot of rich history and sfusd has always led. so i completely get that. so we will engage with those and make sure that we honor the past as we move to the future. there was a lot of concern around making sure that whatever we end up with is collaborative and not top down and that we don't settle at compliance. right? so and i would agree that leveling at title one, legal requirements and the green act is, is the minimum that's not that's it's the baseline. but we should have a foundation in which we're working on another thing was keep equity at the front line and ensure that those most marginalized have a voice and are represented and this is a thing that happens when we open process to selection. it's difficult to control who shows up and who doesn't. there's a robust you need to spend a lot of time doing the right outreach and having that staff correctly and we also heard from a lot of people that the pac in its current configuration configuration is needed in sfusd

and that it provided a value add for many years and that the focus should we choose to go in that direction is not a broad enough space or big enough space for all of the other work that the pac used to do. thank you. okay. and now we will take comments, questions from commissioners and student delegates. and we're going to start with our student delegates and kind of give them the floor . okay. viewing the pac recommendations, i appreciate the possibility of having the asian american family or the asian. yeah, the asian american family parent advisory committee, as well as the latinx and pac, which will allow for a more diverse representation in our advisory process, is in our school district. i am wondering, will there be an opportunity for the board to vote on the pac recommendations and how will outreach be conducted. on the

vote? so the question the question is, will there be a vote tonight? this is a discussion she know you're asking when the pac makes recommendations, how will they be brought to the board? will there be a voting process for the board? right. yes. if you want to speak to by the pac being part of the lcap, you're saying when they bring recommendations about what to do in the district, that's what you're talking about, right? yeah so they talk about what it means to be aligned with the process, right? so so the, the, the role of the different advisory groups in relation to the is to provide recommendations on how we use those. typically sought out funds and most other districts and you have to ensure that we consult with the different advisory groups, engage in review the recommendations to answer in writing to other feedback, and then ultimately that draft lcap is presented back to the board for review.

and then the final approval is i'm not sure if i'm getting to your question, maybe ask it in a different way if i'm not. yeah i was just wondering like there's different recommendations, so how do we know which one? like how can we vote on which one will actually be be be the be the pac that we're following? yeah. sorry. that's confusing. yeah it makes a lot of sense. that's okay. i think if you could just. yeah. for me also, i'm interested if you could explain a little bit more about the recommendations and specifically speaking to recommendation three. and i think the authority needed to make those things happen in the process that will determine whether or not those things exist or not within the district , if that makes sense, which is the establishment of the latinx parent advisory council, the establishment of the parent advisory council and the established of a parent advisory committee for asian american

families. right. we have about four minutes left in terms of the student delegates, and i have concerns that i'd like to bring forth as well. so will that answer take up that four minutes or no? we can wait to give the answer until after you go and we can kind of stack the responses so you can go ahead and add. i would just i'm wondering if there are processes in place to ensure equity even within that breakdown, specifically with recommendations. number one, because that breakdown is specifically having members from each school as well, like each school level. but then there is the fear that those would end up primarily white institutions would end up representing a large percentage of that. and then also people who tend to have the ability to participate in their school site council are people with less packed schedules, not in all cases, but often. and those don't necessarily represent families that are working multiple jobs

or families that have multiple more children to care for and ensuring that there's equity even within that selection. yeah. is there any processes in place for that? yeah. great question that is a tension. i would say in all over the state of how do we ensure that those most marginalized have a voice in the process. there is in in this process that you see, it's not presented on on the on the screen, but this membership process is suggesting, not suggesting it requires that we have some way of balancing who raises their hand and says, hey , i'm interested and ensure that we have the representation in the group that's required by code. so we are required to have balanced representation of parents of english learners and parents of socially disadvantaged sped and other criteria that we can add. so if two individuals, all things being equal, are interested and there's only one spot that we would then add those other

criteria to see who is most eligible. now i look forward to having that problem. that means that we have a lot of people interested. typically we even that's not a known issue, but if it were to be, there are several things that happen. one, we will create in the bylaws a process for a final selection, a tiebreaker. and often what we ask if someone would like to step back and become an alternate. right? so part of this work and i meant i heard it earlier, is that humanity and you know, people want to help. we want to take everyone's help. but when it comes to equitable represent station, we want to make sure that we have a process that is transparent and that anyone could find out why you were a member and why i did not get to be a member. right? so i won't leave this question by saying it's a perfect process because it will not be, but it will strive to ensure that we have a clear and transparent process that takes into account the representation of, especially with the cap of those families that are the most marginalized. so going back to

did we answer your question, megan, was your question about whether about the current board taking action tonight or how the board will take action on recommendations from the pac in the future? for the pac? okay yeah. so and appreciate the question, too. i think just to two more points i want to make about the membership to lennon's question and i'll get to yours is one is by ensuring one is that it's important that parents are selecting parents to represent parents. right. we want family to represent. they decide who will represent them, not us. and so by having it be selected by either parents from the advisory councils or through the scs, where we have a process like maureen is describing as parents who are putting forward who they want to represent them. and then we have those protocols in place to make sure we have a

balanced representation. then secondly, i think one thing definitely heard from the board of education was wanting to make sure that our advisory committee is connected to the school sites. and so i hear what you're saying about how well these are family members. you know, parents who've already committed to being a part of one council means they may have more access and opportunity to do so, but also means they're very connected to their schools. they understand what the needs are so they can really represent what's happening at schools. and that's what was critical to this. so, megan, to your point, what it is, is what maureen was describing is that the parent advisory committee now, they will they will present their recommended actions to our lcap. that's a local control accountability plan, which is basically our district plan. they present that to the district. we're required to respond to those and then include that response in the in the lcap what we did last year that i would want to replicate as well is we had members of our

task force who are parents actually share with us their feedback at the board meeting and that informed the conversation we had as well. so that's where there's the opportunity to include the recommendations from the pac into the our district plans. thank you. sorry do the students delegates have any other questions or comments on this item or any other ones before we release you? i would like to tentatively advise that the structure of the board meeting also takes into consideration allowing for student voice, because often these meetings aren't as accessible for students. and the same way that parent voice should not be limited in any way. me and megan's presence here represents our student voice. that's what we were elected to do, and we need the space to do that. thank you. thank you. student delegates and now we will take

comments from commissioners asking folks to keep their comments to keep brief. and we would like to start for us. okay. we can start with commissioner fish. why don't you go ahead please start with your comments. well, thank you. and i apologize. president bogus. but these are not brief remarks as so first of all, thank you. i think that there are a lot of great things in this proposal bringing to fruition the long anticipated pac establishing a latinx parent advisory committee or council, and an asian american parent advisory committee or council. to be clear, we do have the lack that to has provided that role in the past in some way, shape or form . and i really appreciate the

feedback. slide and the acknowledgment of what community has told us to date and it's not new. we've been hearing that for years. right but let's be clear community engagement, even family engagement is broken in sfusd. i want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who makes the herculean effort to come to board meetings. school site meetings, attend engagement events, participate in an advisory council and an an anecdotal piece of information in 2018, when i was the chair of the pac, we were advocating for a full time liaison. we didn't have one at that point. and so i analyzed my calendar for that month as the chair of the mac. i went and attended 24 hours worth of meetings during the day, mostly with district staff, some in the evening, mostly day, and i was invited to another 12 hours of meetings that i could not attend for a total of 36 hours where i was expected to

represent as a parent and volunteer zero pay and that year actually that was january. school didn't start until january 8th. so that was in three weeks. so we ask a huge amount of our parent volunteers and give them very, very little in return that was unsustainable. and so now we have an amazing liaison and we have other groups where we have liaisons who do that same herculean effort above and beyond the other jobs they work. so thank you. thank you to that staff. so slide three made the point that we're in compliance with laws because we have procedures, and just because we have procedures doesn't mean that families understand how to engage. we see all the time in our williams act, we see zero violations and we know for a fact that's not true. compliance doesn't get us to commitment, which is again, something that our advisories have been telling

us year over year over year and as far as so, mr. trujillo, just to respond specifically to your point about an anemic task force , to me, frankly, that's quite offensive because we and too many of the people, not only in this room, but who are listening, who spent years building a very robust community engagement process within the lcap task force. we had years where we had volunteers visiting more than 30 community groups to spend hours gathering feedback. we had huge, robust data analysis sessions at middle schools where i think one year we ordered 80 burritos and ran out before half of the families were checked in huge, robust sessions. that year was james lick middle school, run by danielle utley, by the way. amazing but that community engagement mechanism was broken

during the pandemic. and when you came in and i mean this as no discredit to our current lcap task force coordinator, but the work that is attempted by one person took two full time staff members and a huge amount of volunteers behind them to manage . so yes, post-pandemic, you absolutely walked into an anemic system that wasn't anywhere. what we have done in the past, nor what we should aspire to do now. and thinking that one person who should run, one person should be able to do the work that it took a whole team of people to do before and manage the pac, i think is setting both of those up for failure. let me get back to my notes. um, if you could start to wrap up your comments. i am i have a whole nother page. i'm sorry if we can come back to you and let other commissioners get in, please. okay i'll stop here and then i'll come back next. so the other point i want to make,

we are all very much following this vision, values, goals and guardrails process. we've all committed to that, even those of us who may not have voted on on the goals and guardrails that we're following now, hashtag me . but guardrail number one flat out says that the superintendent will not make major decisions without utilizing a process that includes meaningful consultation with the parents, guardians, students and staff who will be impacted by those decisions. as at the inception adoption and review and based on emails we've received from pac members, it seems like these recommend actions, for example, were handed to pac members to have a one hour zoom meeting with them, which they were notified on a friday before a major holiday that they could maybe attend for one hour on zoom two days later, which coincided with a couple of theirs back to school night so

they couldn't attend and no other alternate was provided for them to review these. as we would say in the world of special education, pre determined recommendations. and that doesn't appear to me to meet the meaningful consultation at inception in guardrail 1.2 talks about two way engagement and so this doesn't appear to meet that either. so i'll stop there. i will have more comments later, but thank you, commissioner fisher. commissioner sanchez. thank you. i just urge the board to abide by president bogusz as you know, limits our comments. otherwise we will be here very, very late into the night. so i just wanted to maybe ask if staff has any response to commissioner fisher's comments around the inception of this process and the commitment that we've made or the superintendents made to

include those affected by our decisions in the process? yes. so first, i think it's important to state that the there this work does take time for sure as we endeavor in having we started with one on one conversations as and we had those with multiple some i did myself some were done by other staff members and we did that intentionally to some extent to allow all feedback to be heard. we to the last point about facilitating a meeting, we that's all we did. we created an environment for the five members to come together should they choose to. we had already spoken to them individually and we offered a time that worked. we also extended the opportunity for them to select a time that

worked for them. so this was not an imposed come now, never come. this was you know, in good practice, knowing family engagement. we want people to come together if they choose to. three people attended. one replied that they could not attend and the other one did not reply to me. so i don't know why they didn't come. um, i recognize and then we spent a lot of one on ones with other groups and other educational partners to do this work. so could we have done more? absolutely absolutely. we could do more. could we do more even after this? yes and that's what we intend to do. we would benefit as an organization by having a robust team, a family engagement that can support this work. this is not chief of staff work. i would say it's part of it. i used to have a different job where i did this 100% of my time, and there i say, i know how to do it well, but i would need to be 100% dedicated to it . so yes, some of what you're

alluding to, and i do want to apologize i didn't mean to any disrespect in making an observation, but in the spirit of feedback, that is what i observed right now. you know, it's important to name that and move forward right. with the spirit of moving forward. and what i've heard a lot here is that's why it's on the feedback slowed down. what you see is not everything that was here can consult with us to do this. well so there's a tension here about coming here with a complete plan and co-creating a plan. so it's an interesting tension because we don't come with a plan. then we also have heard, well, you need to give us something to chew on. well, if you create a plan. now, you did it for us, so what's the point? so it's okay. it's about being in engagement, in conversation. and so i there's more that can be done. i hope this person station does not try to convey this is it and more can be done. and we need a robust family engagement division to do that. well yeah.

i i don't know if that answers. i'm looking to see if there's any additional comments. a commissioner. um, i just wanted to say thank you. i appreciate the relatively quick turnaround when this came before the superintend and staff in may. so i appreciate the effort that's gone into this to both look at our complaint procedures and improving the practices as look at state and federal laws. and really in my from my perspective to bring the unified back into this district out by focusing and strengthening student and family voice at our school sites and bringing those voices together collectively to provide input into district planning, both specifically at their school sites and broadly as a district and from my perspective as a parent, this is long overdue. know you know, i had the opportunity to serve on the lcap task force on the public education, an enrichment fund,

community advisory committee, and a-10 and pac meetings and other advisor meetings. but i never heard about them at my school site. i learned about them in various different places, and i'm really the purpose of the lcap well, first i want to applaud the district for 2003. sfusd did have the foresight to include parent voice into decision making. it's been 20 years. a lot has happened at the federal and the state levels and i'm really pleased that we're bringing we led and now we are catching up to where the state and the federal government has asked parent engagement to be and how it's to formally support, support and advise district decision making. that is what the lcap is meant to be. i've never seen a survey as a parent, for example, that is a totally normal practice in every other district i've looked at. so i think we're beginning to normalize as to what the

expectations are and to start to have the opportunity both for people who want to engage more at their school sites and be supported by the district in doing so, but also have the understanding and the ability to engage collaboratively and collectively on a on a broad level at the district level. so this is a first step. and i, i completely agree with and support your perspective that like, you know, it's not all going to get done in a day. there will always be more to learn and to and to improve upon along the way. but there's there have been elements that have been languishing. i think we heard from asian american families about how important this step is for them. for instance. and that has been something that is long overdue. so i just want to say thank you. and this gives me hope that come june, when this board does see the lcap, it's going to be a

much stronger daca argument. it will be much clearer how our parents weighed in and how the district is responding and how our lcap informs. and then i will just close by saying this board is also intending to go out in community starting, i believe at the end, at the beginning of october here. so there will be not only ways through these advisory committees and councils, school site councils, but also in increasing ways to engage with the district. and this board outside of these one way board meetings, which is another bonus of the changes, there were no longer that the parent advisories won't be constrained by the brown act. so thank you to you and your work and thank you to the superintendent for taking the request of this board board seriously. last spring. and i think we're off to a stronger start start this year.

commissioner alexander, then vice president wiseman, ward, thank you. yeah, i well, first of all, i think it's important just i want to name the contradiction of my experience on this board over the past two years with the advisories. i found the advisories to be some of the most valuable conversation we've had here as a board from, you know, whether it's pac or the matua advisory council or the apac. and there have been moments of just real truth and depth and analysis that have happened in those conversations. and then what i witnessed was those conversations occurred here in this space, and then there was no accountability and no follow up. and in many cases, a year later, the groups came back with the exact same recommendations because there had been no follow up. and so that that just broke my heart because i was like, this is a this is it felt almost like gaslighting, right? in that situation in in terms of how so

i definitely i agree that something needs to change and i think and the forming of the asian-american pac, the latinx pac, the pac which the latter two we've already passed the resolutions on, i think are also critical. so i think but it also sounds like there are some critiques and legitimate critiques that some of my colleagues have named and other things. so but it sounds like your intention, if i'm hearing you correct and staff's intention, is to continue to respond to those. this isn't like a done deal. this is a sort of progress update. am i right about that? that's that's absolutely correct. i'll go to your first point. there's a beautiful tradition here of presenting to the board. it's a very strong muscle memory. how does that align to our new governance structure? right. so we need to find the right balance in a way that doesn't just like a school side council. if a parent showed up and said, i have a concern about a teacher , what do we say? that's a

conversation for the principal, right? but if there's a big issue around bullying, then that would say that's part of the school side council plan and there's something there. so we will struggle together on developing the operating norms to find how do we balance that, that muscle memory, that value or that value and make sure that we're not overpromising and say, well, here i came to the board, i made my complaint, and it's been resolved, which is, i think the disconnect. right. so, yes, this is a this is a an update on our efforts. and like the feedback slide says, they ask us to slow down and co-create together. so we have a starting point on the operating norms as it talks about composition and delegation. it talks about about responsibilities of the know what where does where does their good work get visualized? does it happen in this venue? we need to work through that together. yeah so i have a suggestion. and one last question. so my suggestion would be i think i

made this before, but i think the outcome. student outcomes workshops would be a really helpful place to have a representation from advisory councils so that we're specifically talking about third grade literacy. and let's say we look at the data and we're not seeing the outcomes we want. let's ask parents what is your student experience like in school and how might that be changed in order to help your child learn to read better? right? i mean, those are to me, those are because those were the level of conversations we were beginning to have in those spaces, but then they never got connected to the sort of academic side of the house. right? people would come here and share, but it didn't inform that conversation. so that's just a suggestion around a way to do that. that i think would be really powerful. and then my other clarifying question, which is one of the critiques that i think we came up, is what if something comes up that's beyond the scope of the lpac? can the pac still address it? because that would again be an important thing. i wouldn't want to say,

oh, well, if it's not in this these checkbox is then the pac can't bring it forward. yeah, great question. what i can tell you from my previous experience is that the lcap is a pretty big lane. a lot of things fit in there and in fact part of the work of staff is hearing the input and the tensions and localizing them in the lcap. and then once in a while there might be something that's outside of the lcap and it's it is possible and i think healthy to hold this sort of in-between space. but everyone would be clear, oh, this is a little bit above and beyond the mandate and the purview of the group. but yes, the superintendent would like to entertain a conversation about traffic safety at a school site or the sites. right. for example, we don't control that. it's outside of our purview. the district doesn't control that, but it's a pain point that needs some connection. it i would say if we survey other districts typically at the lcap task force or committee, those are conversations that are held within context, right? so it's

understood. and then even in those conversations, someone might say this is a different place. we need to take this to a different space, build a town hall specifically about this. so i think it strengthens the muscle to find out what's within our purview and where and how do we create a space for other things that go beyond this. being sensitive to the fact that we which i heard loud and clear, we can ask people to go to 10,000 meetings all the time. but yes, i do think that the cup is a big enough and it can expand when needed within context to address issues. and i wish we don't have time to get into some hypotheticals, but like we should pressure test it and see like what really would not work in there. and i've thought about it. there's just very few things that probably don't belong. you know, typically at the epitome of family engagement and parents get really interested in union negotiations. they ask, can we be part of negotiations for example? that's outside of the purview. we wouldn't entertain that conversation here, but individually, board members could, i guess, yeah, yeah. we

have vice president and ward, then commissioner boggess, and then i think we'll see. we'll have commissioner lamb and then we'll see if there's additional comments from commissioner. thank you and i will keep mine brief. i want to echo many of the comments made by my colleagues and want to start out again with a thanks and gratitude and appreciation to dr. wayne and mr. trujillo and the other staff that have been working on this as commissioner montgomery noted, this was, i think, a big undertaking and one that we gave direction to you all to embark on not too long ago. so appreciate that that going through and coming up with these recommendations. a few things that that i'm particularly pleased by, just the connection to the lcap seems so key. we've talked so much about how siloed we work as a district just in terms of staff and so too, i think sometimes parents we might approach it in

a similar siloed way and this feels like a way to really have some connective tissue among parents when thinking about the important lcap goals. i also so appreciate that my hope would be maybe this is a little optimistic, but that these will allow for additional, more streamlined conversations and a place for parents to work really collaborative early about the issues that that many parents are grappling with as opposed to always being being siloed. i also also want to flag that. i'm thrilled to see that that we're not shrinking things. we're making things bigger. plus with recommendation three, with the establishing additional parent advisory committees, we know that these are much of our community and community members have believed and have have advocated for these. and i think they are long overdue in terms

of making sure that we are being inclusive, in terms of where where we have voices are and parent committees, and then the last thing i'll say is the standardizing operating norms is huge. and i think that's a place where we as a district across the board have have been weak on sort of patchwork a little bit of, you know, whack a mole and the idea that instead of fixing it, just when something pops up, we're going to really understand ahead of time what are the operating norms, making sure that they're really clear, making sure that we're transparent, so that there is less confusion and that there is an easier ability to engage. so i'm i'm excited to see where this continues to go. thank you . thank you. yeah, i would just definitely want to appreciate staff for like the time and energy that was put into this. definitely appreciate it. i think the response to at least the feedback that i had and i

think like a willingness to shift focus and really try to figure out how to match some of the different expectations that the commissioners have. and i have myself, i do feel well, at least for me, i feel just a very disappointed in how this process has gone and the amount of time that we haven't had a pack. and it just really feels that we as a board are in a worse place because of it and that we're missing a really foundational part of the community voice as we engage in this work that we do when we make a lot of these very big decisions. i do feel that we seem to be missing, i guess, connectivity in the purpose of our advisory committees. and i would love as we move forward to just kind of see, i guess, more, i guess, intention and consistency both in how we approach them and how we staff them. i don't feel that i have seen enough of a commitment and an intention to

truly full engagement and community processes as and i think that's something that we need to address. and i think from a board position, that's something that we need to fund and be committed to really see as a part of the institutional structure if it is going to be a priority for us. i think we have a lot of priorities right now and a lot of things that we're trying to wrestle with and we have to figure out a way to manage all of them because they're all important and really none of them can fall by the wayside. so i'm going to stop talking because i'm on my time, i think. but i think i just wanted to say that i'm hopeful, as we have more conversations and this comes back that we are able to figure out a process for doing business here in the district that that utilizes the expertise of communities, whether that's staff or family or students in the initial phases of our thought making before we have plans is developed. and i am definitely committed to figuring out how the board can play a much more

robust role in really holding district staff. and really the superintendent accountable for the decisions that are being made and auditing whether or not those decisions are leading us to the outcomes and the successes that we want to see, whether it's in regards to this or related to contracts or other things. i think what we really are hoping that this new process allows us to do is have a much greater focus on accountability. so when mistakes happen or things don't go right, we're able to identify them and correct them and really ensure that we aren't letting our problems fester. but really being assertive about correcting them. and so i'm really hoping that as we continue this process and include the conversations, the only additional things i'll say as i talk for too long is that under the report from the findings, i was troubled by the lack of ability for the district to monitor the fidelity that all these things are happening within the complaint process and with monitor bring and

definitely hearing from staff both today and in other times just about the lack of our ability to fulfill our obligations and our commitments. and what are we actually doing to really address that in a meaningful way. and then i think also on the feedback, just also concerned about the slow down aspect and just really trying to get a better idea of when we will have a parent advisory council or a parent advisory committee as you're proposing, because it feels like right now we have a gap that we need to figure out a way to feel and knowing that we kind of transitioned from what we had previously, it still feels the need for us to have something in this moment. and so i know that there's been talks about what we can do in the interim, but i just want to really lift up for us to be really intentional about what we're going to do and intentional about our processes and including as many folks as possible. and i would love a response to any or all of that. well, i hear hurry up. you know , and make sure that we work on

this and tomorrow for example, there will be an lcap i would say still task force. we need to hurry up and finish the bylaw process and operationalize the selection so that we transition to the complete membership of the lcap as presented here. and we shall endeavor to do that as fast as we can. we do have to wait for elections to be done. this september, typically the month when scc elections happen. so we're going to pull from from that population. we need for that to be done first. and i would just name that typically when you create a committee in this way, that's this is the tension. this is the swirl that happens at the beginning. and then we get into a sustainable rhythm, right? so and for sure, you know, the process of monitoring ucp and maybe the idea of a dashboard to monitor these things, i it's heavily dependent on people and normalizing that when someone

has a concern. and the answer is sounds like you have a sounds like you have a concern, here's the process. and we do have landing pages, we have links, all of that exists. but as someone mentioned earlier, that's not enough, right? we are dependent on that and hear loud and clear that there's more input to be had, not just by our families, but by the rich history of our community. cbos who have done family engagement, including them in this process. i would just say as an this is not going to be a linear journey. this it's not this is it's a very human process, right? so we need to allow every group to slowly comport to this process. may do it right away. we need to co-create this and do it right. and i think one of the best ways that we can do this right is by slowing down a little bit and co-creating. i know that doesn't that conflicts with the hurry up. so yeah, but just to be clear, there's two different tasks. we have.

there's the establishing the standard operating procedures which that we definitely want to do in partnership with our existing advisory councils. then there's the establishing the parent advisory committee. so the full intent is to have that established inform this coming lcap actually this next year we have a full rewrite of the lcap . it's the new three year plan. so we need a parent advisory committee in place to fully inform that. so when we're talking about the timeline, it is talking about getting that then set up, you know, before the end of the calendar year, after the elections and having that process so we can get moving on that. thank you for that response. and now we'll go to commissioner lamm. i'll try to be brief. thank you to staff for this planning and the review around the assessing agents, where we've been and where do we want to go. i do also want to thank my colleagues for their

comments. i just wanted to acknowledge that i began my parent engagement work in this district almost two decades ago and really had the opportunity to deepen that work in 2010 when frankly, the district could not and did not have a space, particularly for monolingual all immigrant chinese families based in visitacion valley. so the organization that i worked for, the civil rights organization, took it upon ourselves to be responsive to community, to create that parent leadership engagement program in vyse valley and i bring that up because i think that shows us and highlights that it has been a journey and, and that has been consistent, brought up before the desire, the need for what does deep parent engagement

community city really mean to this district and this authenticity to that accountability and transparency to families citywide and so and so. i'm very happy to see after two decades as the establishment of that parent advisory committee for asian american families, the latinx and parent advisory committee as well, council as well. another aspect that i think will be important of the pac or the committee parent advisory committee is to do some similar onboarding, muscle building as the board is doing ourselves is around inputs, outputs and outcomes. i think that's been some of the understanding, the different roles between board governance and student outcomes and the daily work and implement actions

within a school district. and that also sheds more light. and we've talked a lot about this as a board. so that parents can understand how to navigate the system and how to navigate the bureaucracies and the recommendations. the vast majority, if i had to do an audit around the recommendation that's come forward year after year from our advisories have been in implementation within the purview of the day to day of the operations of this district under the superintendent. and so those are examples i think as this co you know, the collaboration goes on to be able to understand, you know, what is the operations and who as staff members are accountable to that work on a daily basis. and how do you monitor that as a parent? and that is through the muscle building i think as well through the council's and through the school site. the school site

based ones, as well as the district wide advisory councils. i'm also very happy to see the roster of two members from the early education schools, particularly with universal pre kindergarten transitional kindergarten being a significant endeavor for this district and the voices of our earliest learners being represented in this district and the visibility of those of our earliest students, the youngest students and their families. thank you. we're going to have one more comment from commissioner fisher, and then we're going to close out this item. all right. well, thank you. and i appreciate all the comments from everyone. thank you so much. oh, i am so intrigued by having an advisory council members at our workshop sessions and labor partners to would be amazing to

have their and just to be clear, you shouldn't have to join an advisory committee or come to a board meeting to have your voice heard as a parent. right. we need to have so many mechanisms, you know, commissioner motamedi mentioned our upcoming engagement sessions and we saw in the superintendent's report the school site council summit coming up. and i to your point, commissioner motamedi sorry, commissioner motamedi, i have heard nothing about any of those from my school. nothing. so i think that's a really, really good point. kimberly. if you have kids at only one school, this year and you know it's our obligation as a leadership team to make sure that we have the mechanisms. and to your point, mr. trujillo, you said we need a robust family engagement division to do this work, a division to do this work. i think the one really clarifying thing i'd like to point out, the lcap, the local control

accountability plan is, is the accountability mechanism for local control funding formula, which is our state funding only our state funding only our state funding. and i think that was pointed out in the recommendations here is this is very narrow. and in fact, the three focal populations named in the local control funding formula, the populations that we get are concentration in supplemental grants for our foster youth, english language learners and students receiving free and reduced lunch. and good luck counting the students receiving free and reduced lunch with the low response rates to our multi-purpose family income form. right. so we know that's way underreported, but so i think it's the point of the pac initially was because, you know , the, the need for family voice spanned so much more than and it's been around before the lcap but one of my big fears is again

compliance versus commitment. and we can't pigeonhole family voice into just lcap. it's so much the family experience doesn't just fall into the lcap and local control funding you know we've got title one title nine special education funding and you don't need me to you know to board of education member splain this to all of you professionals in the room. you know, it's so much more than that. so i think it's just really and in years past, the pac has done such an amazing job of not only being a pac, but having committees that work directly with the student nutrition services around improving school lunches or transport station around so making sure that we do have those authentic, robust met organisms for engagement where folks want it is going to be so. and if that's the workshop model now, wonderful. well, lots of

ways to do this. but i think my real question is, are we we've heard a lot in public feedback. we've seen a lot of emails. and so going back to guardrail number one, where our is this feedback taken into account as we move forward in this process . yes. in truly engaging with our families and other ed partners, because we're hearing over and over again here where this is one of the few mechanisms that families have to engage right now that they don't trust us. they don't feel engaged. they they don't feel like we're listening to them. so how are we using this process to disrupt it and actually follow our guardrails? that's my overarching question. yeah. i want to respond to that and i appreciate you raising the question of our goals and guardrails. and i think one thing that's clear from our workshop and as we are addressing guardrail one, we what is the expectation, mission

and standard for what that meaningful engagement looks like? so for example, last meeting i started sharing what that idea of saying that, you know, for the major decisions we've talked about, there is a lead committee, there's direct engagement with labor partners, with, you know, with families, with school sites, and then there's various opportunities to get involved, you know, to share your feedback, town hall surveys . so i think that as we continue on making these major decisions, we need to be clear on like what's what is the expectation and the standard. now the parent advisory, the direction here was not actually categorized as a major decision. and one of the things we did last year was identify what are the areas of the, you know, our major decisions. but we all agree that the spirit behind this is still inform what we're doing. so i'm not saying so for the pac. i don't know that we're going to have and particularly for developing the recommendation, the standard operating

procedures like we may not have a lead committee, a town hall survey, but we will be working with our advisory councils to develop those. and you know, and so that will be you know, that will be key. but part of this was like, you know, we did feel and so i guess the last thing i want to share is like the timeline for bringing this forward. and, you know, it was may 9th when in this direction was given and we felt like we didn't want to make sure we have a parent advisory committee this year that can inform the work forward. so there was some of that give and take. then in summer, where's the opportunity to meet with families? so you know, short answer, long is that yes, there will be that engagement, but ultimately and that collaboration. but overall , we still need to get calibrated on like what's the standard? what does that look like? okay thank you, commissioners, for your comments. and i think with that

, we will end discussion on this item. and just a reminder to the public that this and the next other than the next item in air only for discussion. and we will not be taking votes on either of them, but that will close out h one and we will move to h two presentation on on 2024 school bond resolution proposal is to be calendared for the president primary election ballot dated march 5th, 2024, and i will pass it to the superintendent to introduce the presenters. thank you, president boggess and we've talked a lot at this meeting and other meetings about needing to improve our overall system, not just be responding to individual issues and we appreciate the work that that now associate superintendent of operations don kamalanathan and her team have done to take a systemic approach that started with the facilities assessment that identified $6 billion worth of need in our

schools just to get schools to know they're kind of meeting standards and not remodeling every school and really going through looking at every one of our buildings and identifying the needs and organizing those needs. so we are clear, like what's eight buildings have greater needs compared to other buildings then that got translated into a facilities master plan that said high level like, here's the work that we need to do to bring our facilities up to the level that's acceptable for our to educate our students because ultimately impacts their ability to meet our educational outcomes . and in developing that facility master plan, there's a recognition that we have a lot of work to do and we need to, you know, we need to be addressing that $6 billion worth of need. and we're not going to be able to do it all at once. and so start organizing how we're going to both get the

resources and sequence out the work. and so to get those resources, we're coming tonight to talk to you about the idea of bringing forward a bond to support the work that is needed on our facilities. as you stated on the march ballot. and so this isn't an action item. we're not asking you to approve that, but we wanted to have a public conversation with the board and for everyone to hear our thinking about why this is important to move forward. so with that, i'll turn it over to don and the team. good evening, commissioners. we have a very brief presentation for you tonight to make room for as much discussion as you would like. again, i really feel like this moment deserves something of a drum roll and that we have been talking now for over 18 months about moving forward with our next general obligation bond proposal for voters and so i'm very excited that we have kept to our sequence, our sequence of events. sorry. yeah thanks. yeah. no, it is, um, yeah. so,

yeah. anyway and so very excited that we have kept to the sequence of events that we outlined about two years ago around really continuing to do a condition assessment and have a data to actually drive our decisions in a way that's very transparent and available, accessible to folks, and i can do the next slide, please. i think something i want to emphasize in addition to the proposal itself, which right now we have a placeholder amount of about 950 million to 1.2 billion range is an and that number is a range to allow us over the next few weeks as we conduct further community outreach and also work with our partners to really scope our needs as well as understand what our goals are and what we'd like to accomplish that this program is very much

funded. i'm sorry i found it. it is pandemic brain as well as late night that the program continues to build on the work that we've been doing over the past 18 months, particularly relying on data from the condition, assess assessment and that i really also want to emphasize that our capital program, which has now like close to a 20 year history, has been very effectively moving forward in alignment with best practice standards for how we set up and manage the bond program. we have a robust set of standard operating procedures. we have clear goals and metrics for our success and also have really now benefited almost every neighborhood in the city has been the benefit of our bond work. next slide, please. i

think it's important to understand that just like with the city and county of san francisco, we're going to have a continued bond program as well. right. that we have now a 20 year history of our modern bond program, which has accomplished a number of important policy objectives for the district. and we've accomplished those success fully. so we've invested hundreds of millions of dollars in making school district sites, ada accessible. all we have invested in making sure that buildings are seismic, safe and meet code, other code requirements. and we have done classroom modernizations and site upgrades as well. at many sites. we have innovated over time as we've accomplished our past goals. we've added funding and investment categories for student nutrition services, as well as department of technology and all of those programs as well have managed to touch school sites across the district as we think about the evolution

of that program, the major shift we're making now is to continue with our modernization program, but to really focus on serving the whole child and so we intend to continue with our sns and dot programs, but we also really want to emphasize, and this is in direct response to the overwhelming feedback of parents and families and students during the pandemic, as well as doing during the outreach from the facilities master plan that we emphasize the basics of school site functions ality that we have working mechanics and electrical and plumbing systems is that you can plug your devices than five at a time into the wall so that you have of that persistent plumbing issues at a site be addressed when we go there or that we have again reliable heating and improved ventilation systems. so that is a major pivot for us. and that

was in direct response to feedback we heard from the facilities master plan. i'm joined tonight by lisa o'barry, our bond program director, and john dutch, who is both new to the team and had been around forever. he's worked with us for a long time as a partner and as our director of construction. and i'll let them complete the presentation. great. thanks, don. go ahead to the next slide. good evening, commissioners. you'll recall that in may, this board adopted the facilities master plan, which set capital planning priorities to be addressed in a future bond measure. and this four part graphic that you see here appeared in the facilities master plan that was adopted by the board and attached to tonight's agenda are these slides as well as a draft bond measure resolution which expresses the proposed program that we're outlining tonight and is provided for the board's review and consideration in anticipation of a recommended action at the november regular

board meeting. as don mentioned, over the past few months, i have been prioritizing building a team within the bond program that's focused on continuing to deliver the 2016 bond program priorities and setting up for a successful new bond program if supported by the board and approved by our voters and a key hire in that is john dutch, who joined as the construction program director in may. john is going to walk through the school modernization program framework aligned with the facilities master plan and response to the board's commitments and feedback . thank you, lucina. good evening, commissioners and superintendent wayne, the facilities master plan highlights data from the district wide facilities condition assessments, which identifies $6 million in improvements needed to repair our schools. the facilities master plan provides a roadmap on how we can continue to move from the schools we have to the schools we want, which is safe, modern and comfortable. all next

slide, please. as many of our schools were constructed over 30 years ago, the classroom layout is set up for educators to teach in a traditional way with all students facing forward. my modern pedagogy requires a more fluid and flexible space that encourages class participation. student centered learning and active engagement. next slide, please. another key goal of the bond program is to create spaces that are comfortable. many of our spaces have gas fired central heating systems that are outdated. we want new heating and ventilation systems with modern controls. that creates a comfortable educational environment for our students. next slide, please. our schools tend to have asphalt yards which are unwelcoming and have few natural features or shade. elementary schools often have playgrounds that need updates.

midland high schools do not have spaces for social engagements, which leads to a lot of our kids sitting on their phones during breaks and lunches. we really want to create schoolyards that are welcoming for our students and providing an environment where students can eat, play and socialize. next slide, please. thank you. many of our school kitchens and cafeterias are antiquated up. grading our school kitchens is essential for the district to provide nutritious meals for to students supporting their health and well being. next slide, please. so what this slide here shows some of the first projects, the bond team, if we are successful with the ballot, will undertake and these are unfinished commitments from the 2016 bond we will complete modernization projects at denver middle school when vista, horace mann k-8 and west portal elementary school. the next slide, please, is during

the facilities master plan process. the board of education directed us as staff to address high schools, high school campuses, and the most complex projects due to the scale and the density of the sites. many of these specialized spaces need to be kept operational during the academic year, and it creates for housing challenges and interim housing challenges. that being said, the team is committed to undertaking at least one high school modernization as part of the 2024 bond program. thank you. the bond modernization program addresses four of the facilities master plan emerging priorities. there were 13 outlined in the facilities master plan shown here, ten of which can be addressed through a bond. these ten are proposed to be distilled into six investment categories, also shown here. the six

categories described on this slide with a proposed investment range assigned to them, which sum to a total bond program size in the range of 950 million to $1.25 billion. each category is sized at an amount that materially meets the proposed category objective and is also realistic to be spent down within bond proceeds. legal requirement is the descriptions for each of the investment categories are listed here and i think generally are self-explanatory. so i will skip over that for to be shorter. go ahead to the next slide. the program proposes these accountability measures, including semiannual reporting to the board and maintaining our new website for greater public transparency and staff, welcomes board and stakeholder feedback on these measures. in addition, the program offers four success indicators to measure its benefit delivering modernized projects previously promised and improving the district's overall facility conditions. installing security features in 100% of school sites and implementing a

program that garners positive feedback from students upon project completion. with this proposed program and set of metrics and indicators, the next two months will be a comprehensive stakeholder engagement push aligned with the superintendent's effective decision making and resource allocation guardrails. the outreach effort will be focused on sfusd stakeholders, including school sites and families. those stakeholders will be asked to help shape the bond, including project prioritization principles and accountability metrics. we propose to return to the board on november 14th. to recap the stakeholder engagement effort to provide an update on bond planning and to request that the board consider the final bond measure resolution. the ballot measure is due to the department of elections by december 8th to qualify for the march 5th, 2024 ballot. thank you for your presentation, ryan.

and so what we will do now is we will take questions and comments from commissioners is what we'll ask is for commissioners to keep their comments to a keep their comments brief and we will try to have all comments, all commissioners give comments before we have commissioners. give a follow up questions or additional questions. is there a commissioner who would like to start? commissioner sanchez, please? thank you and thank you for this wonderful work. i'm really looking forward to this bond passing next march. we have a really good track record of our bonds passing around 70. i know there's a lot of more strife now than ever in the district, a lot of lost trust. but i think your department has not lost trust. i think you've done such a good job and your predecessors, there was a day when facilities from head to toe were so corrupt that people went to jail and we cleaned that up

and literally went to jail. and some people actually didn't make it their term in jail because it was such a long term. but we've come a long way and you guys are i'm just mentioning that because i'm the oldest person on the board and i was here and i was here during that time. that was not one of the people put in jail. but ever since then, we've passed bonds that have that. we've done really well with. they've come in, you know, at or under budget and on time generally speaking. and so i have a lot of high hopes for this bond moving forward with alacrity at pace. but i do have a question around the amount. it's up to $1.25 million. that's correct. and we have a $6 million need. and i know a lot of folks it is still even at the lower amount, the highest bond we would ever put on the ballot . but just how we landed on that

figure with the $6 million need. and then if we're not going to raise it, which i would prefer, what are our plans for the future then to meet that $6 million need for our facilities ? thank you, commissioner. it's a great question. so i think there are a number of very pragmatic concerns that shape our recommendation around the size of the bond. in addition to , i think, the inevitable political considerations that go into developing a ballot. so let me just start with the practical stuff. when we think about what a geo bond program can deliver in a certain amount of time, you have to look at not just your own staffing resources, which of course you can adjust to some extent and consult and team resources. but how much construction in your system can actually withstand at any given time? and while we have that $6 million plus in need, when you're looking at projects where to do a major modernization

project, whether it's, you know, again, along the lines of a mission bay even brand new school a top of the line brand new meets all new code requirements coming in at $115 million right that is a huge project. and then if you were to do that level at each, for example, any elementary school that we wanted to renovate, we have to essentially move everyone out, right? and so we have a very tight construe, paint around the staging of our projects and we don't have much in the way of swing spaces anymore that allow us to do that. right? so then if you're constrained to even if you're trying to do an ambitious project, still having to do it surgically, you can't spend $6 million fast enough that way. and then if you look at, well, why not do $6 million and spread it out over ten years? what i've seen in my career as a capital

program manager is the future is very murky. after year five, right? your ability to predict what's going to happen with the market rate for good or for bad and is uncertain, uncertain. and then what tends to happen is your ability to manage expected options with voters degrade. right? like what can you really guarantee you'll be able to do for someone over ten years? i feel like i actually have a pretty good sense of like what we can do in three years at and or i should say, a great sense of what we can do in three years and a good sense of what we can do in five with some kind of plus minus ranges right around what our buying power will be of our funding. but to think, especially now at this time in our history as a country, state and locality, what year nine might hold is very difficult. and so that's a caution that i really want to offer the board of ed that you really nicely called out the fact that we've

actually met a lot of our promises as a bond program, and i'd like us to continue doing that. and when you stretch out a bond program for ten years for especially for something that is as personal and has as school sites, right. that people really experience your ability to forecast out what you can deliver really shifts. that's in really strong contrast to like the puc program where you're just laying pipe over and over again, right over and over again, or an mta program where you're doing track and you're doing storage facilities, those things feel really different and your ability to just well, we just we're always doing this. so you know, whether we're doing it tomorrow or 15 years from now is different than really trying to make clear, transparent, accountable commitments to people of what will about what we'll be able to do for sites. i don't know if ms. berry wants to add anything. i think the only addition i would make is a note that don said on slide. i think it was 2 or 3, which is

important that sfusd at this point, we're just assuming that we will continue to need bond programs in series. and so while this isn't $6 billion, $1 billion plus one plus one plus one over the course of the next several decades, hopefully it gets us closer to where we need to be. thank you for your response. i'll give comment and then i'll see if other commissioners have comment. i would say definitely a lot of appreciation to staff for the work that went into this. i definitely can see a lot of intention and a lot of thought that went into the proposal. i mean, the presenters action, i think just to lift up some of the challenges that i have, i think the biggest one is really around what we're able to do with the amount of money that we're getting in the bond. understand that it's kind of a multi-phase part and there's limits on what we can do within kind of a reasonable time span. it's just hard to go out, i think, and ask the public to

support us and not make a commitment to modernizing all schools and knowing that that's a significantly larger dollar amount than what we're asking for and a significantly larger project like than it seems like we're able to maybe handle in this moment effective. but it does feel like that is something that we need to figure out how we can do a better job of messaging and building towards and really finding how to better utilize relationships with city partners and the city as a whole to kind of maximize all the investments that we're making in. so yeah, i definitely would support a larger bond amount. i could go for a bond of like $15 million, but i definitely understand that there are constraints around that. also i would just say i think something that troubles me and i think it's been kind of reflective in some other areas through the course of meeting as well is just the lack of participation and cooperation from community members, from union partners. i feel like this proposal, this discussion would be much

stronger if we had all of the people who are invested in our schools that make our schools a true community to be a part. i mean, really to tell us how excited they are to go into this fight. i think we are doing a lot to fight a negative perception around our district and what we have to provide as well as kind of the larger negative connotations around public education and public institutions and whether or not they deserve funds. and so i just feel like it's really important for us to figure out how we can walk hand in hand with our community partners and allies as we kind of rev up to kind of engage in this this really big campaign. and so those are my comments and my thoughts. and i think with that, i will see if there's other comments from commissioners. we'll go with commissioner alexander. yeah, this is very exciting. thank you for your work on it and yeah, it's what our kids need. so we're very,

very excited that we're that we're moving forward. i think a couple small things. one is around what is success look like on slide 14? i love that. and i think we could be even more specific. i think i mentioned this in my written comments too, that some of the bullet points on slide 14 are sort of measured metrics and some of them are not . and i would love it if they all were. so like when we say receive positive student feedback on school improvements after modernization, i think we could write a smart goal that's , you know, we're going to survey students on these four areas and get a rating of at least such and such. and again, even maybe we don't meet the goal, but i think we should have one and i think we should be specific about what those are, because i think to the extent that we have been successful, i think we need some data to show it and maybe we have data, but i think just as we set goals moving forward and, you know, or and maybe those categories are around the things you laid out in your comfort classrooms, cafeteria, whatever, i could see

a framework that's, that's tied to our goals that we then survey people and say, look, we did this, this is what people thought and then we can the next time we go back for our next billion, we can say, this is we have data to show that we that we produce the results on a related point, the one thing that i think did come up in the last bond that was that maybe was troubling or tricky was this issue of how do school sites get selected. and so even in this presentation, we on high schools , we mentioned mission balboa, galileo, sf international. now, i can imagine folks from all those communities saying, yay, we're going to get our school renovated. i'm going to go work on this bond. so so and again, these are, again, things i don't necessarily need two responses, but just to flag. so we need a clear, transparent, inclusive process. when the bond passes to say, all right, here's how we're going to decide which of those four high schools gets it and which don't. and so if people don't feel like, oh, well, we were promised something and then we didn't get it, and then the

last thing saying, oh, i think this relates to what president boggess was saying around community engagement. i think so related to that point was sort of like as we go into this, the plans on community engagement, i think and i know that process is just beginning. so maybe it makes sense. some folks haven't been consulted, but i think that needs to be really proactive in deep and the i would love to see real input from as many school sites as possible. and again, to see a metric on that. i mean, we say there we want to try to contact our schools, but but let's let's really do it right. i mean, this is to me, it's a it's an opportunity to practice democracy. so many schools have been through the bond program. we can ask them how it went. we can. i just think it's a it's an exciting opportunity. de and then to say, what do people want from it, right? that's data that we can get right now. and get people excited about supporting it and also begin visioning together. so i just hope i'm really excited. those are so those are just three suggestions

in terms of move ing forward. so i don't know if you have responses, but i don't need them. thank you. we'll go to thank you. your feedback is well taken. we'll go to commissioner motamedi and we'll go around the diocese and everyone else. i have a lot of questions and i first but firstly, i want to say i really appreciate the work that that the team has put into the facility master plan and getting to as to a place where we feel educator and aware of what the state of our schools are and administrative sites. and so forth. so i feel as a board member, this team has done a phenomenal job of increasing my confidence in what is out there and what we're looking at and the numbers that are involved. i what is what do you anticipate happening between now and when it comes back to us to

vote vote to make a decision about whether to go forward? i mean, i have areas that are very open questions for me, but you know, first, if i could hear from you all what what i what you're anticipating, i should expect anyway, it's a great question. commissioner and i think besides soliciting feedback on some of the questions that commissioner alexander highlighted, i think one of the things we want to engage with folks too, is because we are not you know, again, to manage expectations. we are not listing a series of specific projects, but we want to engage folks on what a set of guiding principles could look like to shape like project selection and how we approach the bond. so, for example, one piece of feedback we've already received quite a bit and questions is, well, how do you balance this with resource alignment and you know, one of the things we can say is, well, we can commit to not doing a

large scoping and launching a new set of large modernization projects until that process is completed. and but we can still move ahead with sns and wi-fi and internet connectivity and all a lot of other projects that we've got that we know absolutely need to move forward no matter what. and so guiding principles that to help us shape like what that kind of post bond process can look like is important as well as how we're going to approach scoping the projects as well. we also want to share with folks kind of just again, some of our pragmatic concerns that we weigh and make tradeoffs around as we're selecting projects, so do some education as well as getting feedback and make sure that the feedback we heard things change quickly, the feedback we heard a year ago around facilities master plan that that still feels relevant to folks and be able to just kind of confirm the priorities that we've tried to

establish over the past year and a half and i'll also ask ms. berry to add anything that she'd like to that. sure. from a stakeholder engagement perspective later this week in whatever channels you're on, we will start pushing out a kind of large volume of requests for people to engage with us. the primary way that we're going to collect broad feedback is through a text based survey and we have a consultant team working with us to make sure that we can push that out to as many school sites as well to all school sites, and then follow up with as many school sites as possible. we'll be offering in-person presentations to anybody that wants one. we will also have a recorded version that's available for people to participate asynchronously and also a short form for people that only have like a announcement blip in their pta meeting and don't have time for a full presentation. and then as far as the draft resolution goes, i think for any members of the board that are interested in

sort of workshop ing the language and coming up with proposed edits to that, that's something, of course, that that we are open to and invite and we will, as a result of the feedback that we get, look at the language that's in there and , and see if there's tweaks that we can make that are responsive to community feedback. and the last the last piece that i think is important as far as the resolution goes is that we are of course consulting with bond counsel to ensure that all the language is legally ago. and so there might be some modifications to the language as a result of that consultation. do you mind if i ask a follow up ? i do like i can i can give you like a laundry list of like my areas that i want that i would need fleshed out prior to making a decision. but. one overarching is what have we learned from the last bond? and i say that as someone who lived through two,

you know, quote unquote, modernizations at one at an elementary school, one at a middle school, um, and also based upon feedback from the cboc. what's different here, commissioner? it's a great question. i think kind of a separate presentation that we'd be happy to sit down and give you the full answer. but i'll emphasize again, the main thing that i've taken away from the past few years, the prior bonds, while successful in reaching their overall policy objective, for example, like ada accessibility, we were effective and then they met the goal and also every school and certainly every neighborhood benefited from those bond dollars. but each of those projects felt like surgical strikes, right? so you're going in, you're deploying a construction crew, you're mobilizing, you're saying, we're doing some work and maybe you get the project that was scoped and like a few

other things that we can get to. but then we leave and you're still like, the heat doesn't work, though, right? or i got brand new classroom rooms that now are modernized for wi-fi and are beautiful. and have you know, are set up for modern instruction. but again, that sewage backup that's been happening every spring for 15 years, while we didn't do that. so the pivot that we want to make with this bond is to do more holistic projects that when we go and do a modernization project, we are not leaving the site until we have addressed these. again core functionality of the site concerns and that for sites that maybe even got a modernization 20 years ago. but now at this point, the roof of course, is aging at a different rate than the structure itself. right. or the asphalt in the

school yard. we want to create funding through the core functionality program to not only deal with those kind of really persistent drive you crazy at the school site, mechanical, electrical, plumbing issues. but also when we have important building systems that are aging at a faster or different rate than the site as a whole, that we're still investing to deal with those problems. a roof is not cheap. i looked at my list this morning of roofs. we just have been asked about and it's like $7 million, right? so and it was only for like a handful. i know that there's more out there. right? so that's for me, kind of the big pivot that we're trying to make with this bond. and again, it is going to require consistent invest ment every, you know, 5 to 7 years. we should think about doing a bond to try and make sure that our facilities stay in and the kind of shape that again allows them to be welcoming and comfortable

places for students and staff. if thank you. we're going to go to comments from a vice president, wiseman ward thank you. echoing the thanks and the feeling of confidence in this team. one very specific question an and hopefully it's not too in the weeds and i suppose it could have been a pre ask question. but i think it's important to do it in this form as well. and i'm wondering if you can confirm that the school district's project labor agreement pla with the building trades will apply to work funded by the bond and assuming that the answer is yes, that's what i'm going to assume. but i would love confirmation. what's the proposed project threshold dollar value for which the pla would apply? and is that information that you have at this point and can share? thank you, commissioner. the answer yes. could i ask that we define pla for the community, please?

yes. project labor agreement, which is an agreement between an owner, in this case the district and our partners in construction trades usually and sometimes there are carve outs for some other neighborhood contractors and things like that. so the city has one, the district has one, and actually the pla is specific to the bond program. there are no other ftc projects. for instance, don't fall under it. the bond program. it is only the bond programs, pla and the threshold is currently $1 million, which matches the city and county's threshold. and at this stage, we would assume that we would continue with the same threshold to mirror the city's. thank you any other comments from commissioners? we have commissioner fisher. then we'll go commissioner motamedi and then i think we'll close out this section of discussion. thank you. and i appreciate that. our bar is a little bit higher than not going to jail

this round. that's that's very good. thank you. you know. yeah right. and i really appreciate the focus on the working the basics. right. because, you know , you tied it back to the whole child and as our labor partners say all the time, they're working conditions are our children's learning conditions. right. and so it relates to retention. our kitchen capacity relates to our labor partners and student nutrition services. this is just this is foundational work. so i really, really appreciate this. um, some of my questions were answered, so thank you, fellow commissioners. but i think i'd like to dig a little bit deeper into the engagement with our labor partners and our other community members because as we know in the past at bond, bon approval depends on community buy in and a big portion of

previous bond passages has been because our labor partners have been out there knocking on doors, leafleting, making sure that they are talking up this bond. and they're working with us to help engage community to make sure it passes. so what what is the process to ensure that they their feedback is included throughout and that we reach their buy in before we move forward? thank you, commissioner. it's a great question and i do want to state again our hope in structuring our outreach this way was to mirror the facilities master plan of doing kind of a launch with the board of ed, doing intensive outreach and then concluding with recommendations based on that outreach. and so we apologize to the extent that we have not not been directly as in contact with labor partners, as maybe prior history and expectations aligns. but we have

had a series of good conversations over the past week to open discussion. we've committed to having regular meetings between now and november. 14th. and as you know, so i think those conversations are now well on their way in terms of being scheduled and having a consistent rhythm to them. commissioner motamedi, you ? yeah, so i guess what i want to circle back to is probably broader context first than just what is within your purview. but i do think we are in an environment where there are more headwinds. as for a bond, we are negotiating with labor, which creates a dynamic that we need to be aware of. um, there are

other bond measures that also have to do with facilities that i think were just approved today. and the board of supervisor chairs from so, so contextually what i'm what i'm grappling with is how how our story fits with this because when i talk to parents about this potential for a bond without giving any sort of information, but just say like everyone agrees, yes, our facilities need to be improved, like there's no one that thinks our schools are fine the way that they are. everyone wants to see more investment. but the big question is, is around trust building? what's going to be different, as i asked earlier, but also what what are we designing for in those buildings ? and so one of the questions i have is how this is being coordinated with like our epc with ed services is i appreciate

the response to the earlier question about this is going to be different and we're not going to leave until it's done. but i've also been at sites where the rooms, the special education classroom is in the corner of a building with no access to the outside, etcetera. so how is ed service is and the epc partnering around the design for our student success now that we have goals and guardrails that we've put in place and are designing for our educators success in a way that relates. to this community, but also voters understanding of what sfusd is not as a facilities manager, but as an educational institution. and so what i am seeking this this commissioner is seeking between now and november for is a strong story

that has and this is for me, i'm going to apologize for going on a little bit, but this is this for me is covid 2.0. and i'll say not sitting now. i'm sitting here before i was in the ether listening into these meetings and i would ask myself again and again as we went to open facilities where there is ed services, where are the people that are closest to our students around this design in and i, i trust that this team is knows how to build facilities and will build what but i don't expect you to understand and to you know the people who are living in the rooms it's different when you're designing for a house. you're going to look live in versus, you know, the show house , right. user deep understanding of user experience and needs is

the first step of any successful design process. right? and so i think that is what you're really emphasize ing and that that i agree i think we need to build more of a narrative about how we connect and facility improvements to an instructional vision, right. and a student and staff experience. so thank you for that feedback and we're happy to build out that narrative. i would say if you steps that we're taking right now to try and be proactive on that point is i actually have asked john dutch just about two weeks ago, right. to start thinking about a more formal post-occupancy evaluation program that we can use, which is different than just a customer service survey. did you like it or not? because you get a lot back in there. you get, oh, it's great. and also, like, i can't believe you chose green

for the hallway, right? so but to really do a disciplined post occupancy evaluation program, which really says, did we meet our goals and then did we meet like the real needs of this site and how does it feel to live in it after after a renovation? and then how does that translate to designing the next project? right. so that's an important cycle that we need to institutionalize and formalize inside the bond program. yeah, please. i'll just add and i hear that so we can definitely come back with more information on that. i'm looking at the slide where we talk about the classrooms. we want. i think we actually have examples in our system where we've done that, that then the educators can speak to the impact. so i was just visiting cleveland elementary. they have a new kindergarten wing. yes. and you know, got to see how the space was intentionally designed to support the kind of kindergarten classrooms we want this bigger space. there's different places for kids to go. and then there's different types of furniture there, like that's that's those should be kind of the drivers. then of when we talk about the

classroom, we want, we have our educators giving us a clear picture of what that looks like and then and then the last pivot is just recognizing that, you know, if we know it's going to be $6 billion to take care of all of our facilities the way that we want to, i do have questions about resource alignment and the potential for using working with our city partners around affordable housing and ways to make that work for all parties is that's a question that i've been getting to. if these two bond measures are sitting side by side, how what what is the call and response between that that so i'll just leave it at that and just i think we ended the conversation or know there was more comments. yeah, we have one more commissioner to give you. we have commissioner lamb adding comment. i think just to be transparent, i think we're going to try to make sure we get close to adjournment around 1030 just to give a heads up. 1045 we're

going to let aspirational one minute aspirational so that you hear it for more than from more than one. commissioner. thank you, commissioner. i, i was going to raise about that broader portfolio, particularly around how we're looking at the entire portfolio. how does that fit in within the city context, particularly housing as we know? that makes sense for our educators and our staff members. we talk a lot about the recruitment and retention. just tonight, and that is absolutely as we know, that we've heard directly. so curious to continue to see and understand. how does that play within both either this bond or what is happening within the city? i'm really thrilled to see the schoolyard outdoor learning. it was an unrealized, i think, vision even throughout covid. and i think similarly to the discussion tonight. i think that would be

important to also hear directly from the design from educator was then how will those spaces be designed and utilized? and in its full leverage of outdoor learning? and i think i'll just pause there. one other note. i know that as part of the community outreach is to land on principles, but at least from my limited exposure of hearing from the dais time and time again over the last two bonds around promises us. so i think we just have to be crystal clear, crystal clear before folks land out in the streets to do door knocking or leafleting. that was it. that guiding principles are . and what does that really mean? i just think we need to be very transparent about that. when we've made promises to build multi hundred million dollar specialized school that

wasn't realized to promises that have been made to our schools in the southeast as well as citywide to our schools as well on the west side. so i just wanted to make note of that because we cannot continue doing going down this path because that is how it has eroded trust and that transparency can i make . i really appreciate you naming that, commissioner lamb. and i think that one of my biggest worries when you look at slide 11 and the high school strategy with for schools named and they're only being slot for one, i think worst case scenario would we would end up pitting school communities against each other in the quote unquote fight for these funds. so i think rather than putting it out there, i think we really need to we need to nip that in the bud and make sure that we don't set up a system that where that

happens or make it be a, you know, a northwest side of the city versus a southeast side of the city fight. right. i think we it's our obligation to prevent that from even happening. so thank you. thank you. and thank you to all the commissioners for your comment and staff for your presentation and responses. i just would also encourage the public, if you have additional comments to send them to the appropriate staff or the superintendent and commissioners. if you have any expectation questions that you feel like you need to convey that weren't fully conveyed, please do that via email to ensure our that its staff is clear on the expectations we have as this comes forth to us again in the future. thank you very much. and with that we will transition mission since there is no votes on discussion items to item i, we have two action items, so we will start with item i one which is board to consider and adopt response to

the civil grand jury report dated june 15th, 2023. i believe we're going to start with a motion and a second, and i believe i'm going to read read our the motion and then we'll kind of have everything go from there. so i move that the board submit the proposed response to the civil grand jury with the following edits. one one strike the phrase to the extent possible, and two, to add language that confirms the district committee to follow all of the civil grand jury's recommendations and that the superintendent will report on the item by the end of the 2023, 2024 school year is can i have a second and six and. i think with that i will pass it to the superintendent. sure. just for

some additional context, as president boggess shared, the district received this report from the civil grand jury and said they were investigating an issue that is very familiar to us and one we're working diligently to address. and that's how to ensure that we're staffing our schools with highly qualified classroom teachers. and so as part of the civil grand jury, there's a prescribed way of response thing. the superintendent needs to respond. i submitted my response and the board needs to respond and consider it at the board meeting , we presented a draft response for you to consider these revisions. you know, help clarify then how we'll follow up. you see in both my response and your response, we agree with their findings. we recognize these are areas in which we need to improve. and then there are recommendations are ones that really we we've had either have in progress or intend to put in

progress. and you know, for example, understanding why staff are leaving the district and doing that in a formal way. so appreciate these additional revisions. and if the board votes to approve the motion, as is our legal counsel, emmanuel martinez will revise what's on the board agenda to reflect that and submit it by the deadline of september 14th. thank you for that. seeing no additional comment from commissioners calling for a roll call vote. thank you. commissioner alexander. yes commissioner fisher yes. commissioner lamb yes. commissioner moody. yes commissioner sanchez. yes vice president wiseman. ward. yes president bogus. yes seven eyes. thank you so much. and with that, we will go to item i to the board to consider and possibly take action to form a subcommittee to recommend act.

i'm sorry to recommend edits to the board's ethics and conflict of interest policy. and so i think now we would like a motion and a second for this item. second. okay are there common cents from commissioner? was commissioner fisher. and then i think we'll have a comment from board leadership ship. i'm just excited to see us form a committee to have further discussion into into an issue of such great importance. so thank you very much. and just to give some transparency around and the committee in which commissioners we're assigning to the ad hoc committee as well as the time frame that we're expecting results from the committee, we're planning to have commissioner alexander and commissioner lamb and vice president wiseman ward sit on

this ad hoc committee that will have a completion date of january 31st, 2024, and that is the expectation that they will be able to produce and bring results back to us by then. and so just, i think, wanted to clarify the committee structure for the chair of being commissioner alexander and the completion date for said committee and so i think with that, if we can have a roll call vote i'm sorry, additional questions or comments for commissioner, just i mean, there's no attachment or anything. can you just verbally explain what the scope is and what the deliverable is anticipated to be? just so we have that in the record? what i'd love to see that. so just because i'm just just so we have it in the record and if there's, you know, for instance, a

council of great schools document that we should refer to or just a little bit of substance here. yeah. so the committee is going to essentially be looking at the ethics and conflict of interest policies and make sure that they align with best practices as well as city and state laws and that there isn't conflicts. i think there are some things unique to our dynamic that we just want to make sure that we're aligned with, and it kind of reflects what we're trying to go and i'm going to pass it to. vice president wiseman more to add a little bit more. sure. yeah so this, as you all know, this came up during our board self evaluation and it was one of the items that we thought we could get through an important item, but one that we thought we could get through with relative ease and relatively quickly there was a number of evaluate metrics that were included with the council for great city schools self evaluation