>> october 22, 2024 is called to order at 5 p.m. [roll call] >> thank you. >> thank you. child care will be provided from 6 to 9 p.m. for children ages 3-10. the child care is across the hall on the first floor. before the board goes to close session i call for any speakers for closed session items. there is total of 5 minutes for speakers. >> no speakers virtual. >> alright. please know the board will take roll call on the student expulsions when we reconvene to open session. i d public comment, which is right after these opening items. so all the public comment on agenda items and non agenda items will be

heard at that point. if you'd like to make public comment and have not already done so, please submit a card to mr. steele over here. and if you are a student please make sure you write student on the card so we can let you go first. we typically allow about an hour or a little bit more of public comment in order start our business by 8 p.m. ande also make every effort to allow both in person and online public comment, which we will do tonight as well. now i'm going to begin with our land acknowledgment. we, the san francisco board of education acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded loss nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territories as guests. we

recognize that we benefit traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors elders, and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirm their sovereign rights as first peoples. now i will move to is votes on student expulsion matters. sorry, mr. first one is i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement for one middle school student. matter number 2024 2025. number eight, for one calendar year from the date of approval of the expulsion, commencing the day immediately following the expulsion order. can i have a second? second roll call? thank you. commissioner. bogus. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes

commissioner. kim. yes commissioner. lamb. yes, commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wiseman. ward. yes. president. alexander. yes. seven eyes. thank you. i now move approv agreement for one middle school student. matter number 2024 2025. number nine, for the remainder of the current fall 2024 semester, in the following spring 2025 semester through june fourth, 2025. during the suspended expulsion period, student will return to denman middle school. may i have a second second roll call please? commissioner. bogus. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes, commissioner. kim. yes. commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. westbourne. ward. yes. president. alexander. yes. seven eyes. thank you. now i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement for one high school student. matter number 20 2425. number ten, for one calendar year from the date of approval of the expulsion

commencing the day immediately following the expulsion order. student will be placed at civic center secondary school. during the expulsion enforcement period, suspended' spring 2025 semester, contingent on the student's completion of item ten f in the rehabilitation plan. during the suspended expulsion at a comprehensive high school or an alternative school. credit recovery program to enable them to graduate within two years. can i have a second, please? second roll call, please. commissioner bogas. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes. commissioner. kim. yes commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. westbourne. ward. yes. president. alexander. yes. seven. yes. thank you. here's the remainder of the readout from closed session÷xin the matter of student bcc versus sfusd. oh, case number (202) 406-0072, the board, by a vote of seven ayes, gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount in the matter of student svc versus

sf usd zero case number 2024089. sorry. (202) 408-0913. the board, by a vote of seven ayes, gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount in one matter of anticipated litigation. the board, by a vote of seven ayes, gives direction to the general counsel and on one matter of ($blic employee dismissal. discipline. release the board by a vote of seven ayes. approved a retirement agreement. all right, now we will move to item d which is public comment. so i think we're ready to begin. mr. steele. great. thank you. i'm going to call five people at a time. so if you hear your name, please come line up. we'll start with students. i only have one they were a student but if others other students gave me als card and didn't say you were a student, you can come on up at this time. so the card i do have is leah grace, and you can come on up and if there are any other students, please come right now.

who are you? go ahead. hi. my name is leah grace tan. i'm a third grader in spring valleyhool. we are worth keeping. thank you for your time. that's right. thank you. great job. thank you. are there any other students? all right, well, we'll be moving on to the next five names. i have luce h. oh, sorry. okay. come on up. hi. my name is rebecca. i come on spring barley. please don't

close my school. i start at spring valley and in kindergarten i have so many friends okay. any others? before i move on. all right. come. you can do that one if you want. what are you doing. hope they don't close spring valley because it's probably one of the best schools. and it was the first one. like the oldest and it's really cool. and i don't want you guys to like, close spring valley. yeah. all right.

go ahead, go ahead. hi. my name is angelica, and i am pleading you to not close spring valley because it was the first public school, and i've been there since kindgarten. anyone else? okay. all right. so, luce h. leah grace tan. oh, i already called that. sorrinau okay. violet vasquez and juana teo. sod please come line up and you have one minute each. good. now press the button. hola. buenas noches. my name is luz boyanka and i'm a middle school

parent in san francisco. i urge this board to vote no on appointing maria su as a new superintendent. superintendent why do you have to go to the extreme lengths of waiving legally required credentiso her when you already have credentials? top here at five, five, five that know the district temporarily hire from within the credentials. existing staff while you launch a search for a new superintendent with meaningful. yeah. yes. tran okay, so temporarily hire from within the credentialed existing staff while you launch for a search for a new superintendent with meaningful community input. thank you. thank you. all right. my name is kasani finau. and organizer with five elements and an advocate for young people here in san francisco. is that good? yes. all right. cool. i was born in s.f. and raised in

the southeast. is that cool? i'm sorry. right here. this is the. this is the interpreter. i think you need to put yourself a little away from the microphone, because when you put yourself too close, i'm unable to interpret. what are you saying? i'm very sorry. if you can repeat what you said. okay cool. thank you. is this good for you? this is great. thank you so much. alright, can y'all run my one minute back? i appreciate that, thank you, thank you. all right. cool. my name is kasani finau an organizer with five elements and an advocate for the young people here in san francisco. i was born in sf and raised in the southeast part of sf bayview hunters point. i am a third generation alumni of malcom x academy elementary school. i'm here to push you all to reevaluate the approach you all are pursuing to permanent close our schools down. whether it's a couple weeks from now or a year from now. the livelihood of our families will be tremendously impacted by the closure of schools. our families will have public transportation interruptions, figuring out

school bus budgets, young people forced to rebuild trust at a new school, increasing youth social anxiety and adding new challenges and barriers for youth and their families. i'd like to remind you all that you all once used to be a youth. we cannot let san francisco and no truly a no children city home. responsibility as an adult, ally, parent, aunt uncle, sister, brother and an advocate to make sure our youth and families, self-determi especially in education. i leave you proverb. thank you. it takes a village to raise a child and you are a part of that village again. the young people said it. it is your responsibility to make sure they are prioritized my name is violeta vasquez and i am a sfusd alum. i dropped out my junior year at balboa high school. i'm co-founder of five elements youth collective, and i'm here to reiterate that although the

conversations on school closures have been paused, there is by no means a victory for our community, as it was when you all refused to acknowledge the need muslim relatives. instead of hide it in the calendar to disguise the shame of being neutral to a genocide only to learn that you've also rescinded that vote. board that is willingly is willing to offer nearly a third of $1 million to someone who is in support of further marginalizing and discriminating against youth and families in the southeast side of san francisco. and you can rescind that vote. closing the schools is never the answer and it will never be a solution when there is a just and authentic community process, i urge you all to do better and actively engaging the people you represent. because in my lifetime, i have yet to lay$o witness to the school district prioritizing the health, safety and wellness of the children. it educates. and thank you to mr. boggess for being the only vote to be against the severance package. matt wayne should have been fired. thank you. good evening. my name is juana with five elements. if i knew now what i knew last friday at the

special meeting i would have firmly spoken against the resignation details and severance package for matt wayne. that was passed 6 to 1. if we claim our district is in debt, how do we justify giving wayne a 500,000 plus send off that includes fringe benefits for his ineffective leadership, even if it gave families a temporary relief to pause the closure process? vital resources could have gone towards a salary for a t paraprofessional, or like the social worker that got cut at bessie carmichael that i just learned about outside any other student priority. wayne fueled and further caused chaos and misinf families across the district. and he should have been fired, not allowed to resign. all eyes are on this board because the next beyond the next election cycle, because we will not allow politics to be played with our children's futures, never again will we accept closing schools as a solution to budget mismanagement or reward mediocrity instead of accountability or neglect the voices of students who plead for a quality education? we will. we will return as many times as we need to protect our public

education. thank you okay, i'm calling the next group. yes. all right. o great. next. next five. i'm calling up. please line up. youcan't speak right now. not right now. thank you. reina tayo. supriya. ray. reverend amosandy markman, and vanessa marrero. i just want to make sure before we start my time, that i'm okay with the distance to the mic. i think it sounds good. all right. greetings reina tayo here with five elements. poder, the rep coalition. and i'm here to remind you that we need to restart the rei process, asking the correct questions. how do we build schools that attract and retain site, get to know what they look like beyond the paper. get to know the programs on and off.

matt wayne's list to make sure that you are looking at what the hool actually contributes to this district need to get ready for 2026, 2027, and make the same mistakes. thank you, commissioner boggess for your dissenting vote. matt wayne should never have been allowed to dig us $538,000 in wages and benefits and fringe over half $1 million went to this man who didn't bring any solutions that should not have happened. and that cannot happen to the entire. please, all eyes on maria. sue. speak u for our children. that's your job to speak up for our children. education over politics. thank you.yone. my name is supriya ray. i'm coming in tonight to speak about a couple of things. first, the subjection of the families and staff in our school district to

this constan roller coaster of chaos and dysfunction is really discouraging folks. it seems like we're going back to the drama of the pandemic years so i would hope that we would switch from that course and return to more stability. i also hope that there will be an appropriate process in the search for a new superintendent. i appreciate that the effort to find, you know, to appoint maria and carlene aguilera fought so that we have leadership ind be engaging in an appropriate process to find a new superintendent. second thing, i wanted to comment on is that two items disappeared from the draft agenda. first, the progress monitoring report on third grade the board self-evaluation. where did these items go? why are we not we're supposed to be spending 50% of time on student outc. good evening, mr. chairman andur school board. i'm amos brown and i'm president of the san francisco branch of the national association for the

advancement of colored people. now, for 48 years, i've been coming before this board. and i rise tonight to askt miss maria icu as the interim superintendent. i think we should applaud also the mayor for creating this interim. inte means to keep this school district solvent. finally, i want to appeal to all the parents here to get busy to make sure that a certain person does not get in that white 25. what is that destroying the department of education in these?= united states of america? you cannot make it with an untrained unlearned citizenry. thank you for what you'vew it is an interim move. and i say chill. it is not permanent. thank you. hello, my name is

brandy markman. i'm a san and with the san francisco education alliance, we are part of the equity for ells campaign. i am mortified at the idea of the board hiring maria sue, the former head of the departm children, families and youth who defunded community based organization and gave taxpayer money to the san francisco parent coalition, a sham astroturf group funded by two billionaires who have been working for over a year, saying, we need to close schools. maria sue doesn't even have a teaching credential. this hire of cronyism and the corruption that is chokin our city and our school district. and you're going to rubber stamp this sue has said that she wants to continue the school closure process. so why are you telling her these schools are our schools? you don't love we do. we know what's best for our kids. please vote no on e1, e2 and e3. do not appoint her to this board. we need a community

process to select a superintendent. thank you can you hear me? yes. alrighty. good. good everyone. thank you for being here. thank you doctor carolyn aguilera for your leadership. i want to share with you a press release that i think all of you have probably read by now, and it's about how to hire a superintendent. it's reall important that we have superintendents that have the appropriatelead this school district. this is a school dis impacted by disproportionality, and we need someone that's going to be around, someone that has an administrative credential, someone experience in kindergarten to 12th grade, someone that has experience with educational initiatives, someone that has show engagement with the community versus their defunding of community. it's really imperative that this i individual who w as a parent have a voice in the process. we as students have a

voice in the process, and we as voice in the process. thank you. thank you. okay, i'm going to call the next please come line up. stan. stan from spring valleysa mendoza, katrina tan, maya kay, and teresa dula. please forgive me if i'm mispronouncing. okay, so members of the board i. my name is stan louie. i am a proud spring valley alum. it. i a student in the there in the 80s and decades l after my wife and i became parents, we decided to send our son to spring valley, not only for the rich cultural diversity at also rich in economic diversity. so, you know as a as a child growing up i remember any external

stressors that, you know that came onto myña family. i remember the arguments my parents would have. so theng valley, you know, haven't changed much, right? any external stressors puts a lot of pressure on them some of the most vulnerable. so i, i humbly ask y know, if i knew that somebody was fighting for on my behalf, for my family's behalf things would have been just a little bit easier. so on, on on the behalf of all the spring valley families, i ask that you fight for them because they're already doing everything possible to table to make sure their thank you, their clothes. so please, i humbly ask you please save our school. thank you very. next speaker. is this okay? great. i'm katrina tan, my child is leah grace who just spoke. she attends spring valley science elementary. my husband is than two weeks, we gathered numerous sign petitions from businesses concerned about the closure. our

concernshistoric school. the new site is too far for most families to walk, increasing transportation costs and time. the after school program costs $500 more per month, while 50% of our kids are qualifying for freee's no support for students in the cantonese program, the merger also failed to consider retaining our current staff, who would have tremendously helped with our kids transition. i volunteered for many events, including teaching motor skills. this is my time, my contribution. when you close our school based solely on a budget, you close opportunities that go far beyond numbers. you take away from a community that works hard and fights for our kids. all we ask is for you to want the same. we can all agree on one thing. no one wants a state takeover. wek together to find a solution.the means. thank you thank you. okay. good evening. my name is lisa sue mendoza and i am a spring valley parent. as well. i know that the school closure process has this. theschool

closure has been temporarily paused, but we know that school closures are not off the table. as mayor breed said yesterday, the district ma still need to look at closing schools. so here i am to talk to you about spring valley. number one, spring valley is the oldest california elementary school in operation. it was one of the seven original schools opened during the gold rush. it is the only one that is still open. it is as old as california. number two, it is the site of our battle against discrimination. it is the predecessor of brown vers of education. i'm not going to go in length abourley. it's a it's a case that you can look up and read about it just because of time constraint. but it is it made the same argument that the brown versus board of education made, as you know, the landmark case that ended sl segregation. number three is spring valley is a great neighborhood. we offer english spanish and cantonese programs. two special day classes it's a safe place for learning. sorry, that's your time. thank you.wrap it up as you

begin the new process of balancing budgets. i just ask that you hear and see us and learn about us. thank you. i'm off agenda. i'm not on the agenda. you called my name, but i. but i'm. oh, i'm sorry. we're about to. yeah. i'm sorry.9ó can you wait? yeah. oh, no. we are on non-agenda. i didn't i didn't announce the switch, but we w. okay. yeah. so. i'm sorry. go ahead. you can go ahead. okay. i can go ahead. yes. okay. so this is about special education with with regards to the p the supervisor of special education hearing spd did not over budget by 60 million from the previous year spd submitted a budget within their allocation and according to timelines, to review student enrollment data and iep information. it's very important that the superintend to their spd executive team and the spd team and community worked hard to plan for the year ahead and follow state guidelines. watch last may self a hearing the district closed positions and then did not fund them when reinstated. all of this without the head of spd being consulted or in the room.

the former superintendent admitted he let business services make an educational decision. he implied spd is overspending when they're not the fulfilling federal law is unacceptable. to blame the spd department for this current debacle. thank you. thank you. hello, my name is theresa douglas. i'm actually from sampson and i'm also a former parent of the bessie carmichael filipino education center k-8 school. i'm here to talk about our social workers. we were told that we had anú two of our social workers will be there was taken back. so why so we want to we, send a petition october 11th. they said that, you know, they they're actually re reassigning you know, one of our social workers to another school. but then, you know, there was a hiring freeze. but then why take our social worker? we are a two campus school. the other campus is three blocks

away from us. we are a high needs and trauma experienced school, especially with with happens if somethingto our children potentially what we will do is to right. so now that we're now, we're not here to play games because we're here to actually tell you that, you know we're not into politics. our children are not games for politics. thank you. that's your time. school is not game for i'm sorry, butha me please finish just for a few seconds. thank you. and then please listen. our school, our our our children are people. they're not animals, right? all right. sorry, everybody. i just asked mr. steele to please cut off the speakers. if you go more than

just a couple seconds over because it really is don't keep the time the same. so i apologize. i understand it's difficult to make your comments within a minute, but please respect. we're just trying to trying to follow the law and be fair to everybody. so when you hear the timer go off you got a couple seconds to finish and then he's going to cut off the mic. go ahead, steele. thank you. calling the next group stephanie i can't read the last name starts with an f. sorry from you. all right. christy sampson. rex ridgeway, laura kennedy and donisha carlos. you can go ahead. oh, press the button. one the button on the base of the. oh, the button. gotcha. hi. my name is stephanie falkenstein, and i'm a parent at jaqua elementary school. as many of you know, the last two weeks have been a veritable roller coaster of emotions. it's hard to believe that it was only last tuesday that we started these discussions. to make matters worse, yick wo has been denied the ability to speak out on behalf of our community at a

meeting wi the school district, just like our neighbor spring valley, we ask that sfusd do a better job of engaging the community with criticaons, going forward. we are more than numbers on a spreadsheet. closure approach would have turned nob hill, russian hill and north beachvy into a school desert that would change the face of d3 and the surrounding community for generations to come. we ask that the board of ed and the sfusd approach the upcoming staffing cuts in a way that takes into account the diverse staffing needs of each school, including our m sdc program. the number one most requesteddistrict and is fully staffed, is fully filled with students, but not staff as thank you, thank you. next speaker please all right. good evening everyone. i'm christie sampson, parent of two girls at yick wo. i want to just highlight the importance of walkability, especially for schools like yick wo. walkability. schools promote accessibility, safety and betterce. sfusd is already facing a chronic absenteeism

issue, and moving schools like yick wo out of d3 to unwalkable locations will likely make this problem worse. our kids belong in district three, where they can easily access their school and be part of their community. let's keep our schools close and help solve, not worsen, the absenteeism challenge. thank youyou. hello, my name is rex ridgeway and i'm glad to se sorry, malcolm x and spring valley here. i'm here for the fact that the student success funds approved this coming year, $25 million of student success funds will be made available. and i've got a list of those schools that got money last time with malcolm x and spring valley did not apply, and they could have gotten up to $350,000 of either readiness grants or implementation need to be as a parent is on the school site council. it is by california law that

every school hasol site council, not a pta. and i'm not throwing shade on pta. i'm talking about the school site council because that's where the money is. that's where you vote to say no you're not going to spend it on this. you're going to spend it on this. every parent here should be on the school site. council, i'm on lincoln school site council. we got $350,000 of readiness grant last year. so ank y school site council. get on it whenever you're ready. yeah. hello. my name is laura kennedy and i am a parent of equal to a kindergartner. i was shocked to see ikwo on the list because for our school, our kindergartner waitlist was full. when i looked at the data to the 11 impacted schools that were to be shut down, ikwo was the number one choice on the entire list for incoming kinders district wide for our special day classes for students with extensive mild to severe autism. number one choice for incoming kinder families.

district wide. how is it obvious to me? a new parent, to see these numbers and not to the process that impacted schools? i ask that you please take into consideration where demand is for families, for incoming kinders, where people are making investments for the next six years of their child's education, and also think of the ground game. the last thing i'll say is, with respect to our special day classes, when i have heard about some of the schools that were looking to send ouré students to. my understanding is we don't even have enough bathrooms for special day classes. kinders and tcks. this is something that needs to good evening. my name is danisha carlos. i'm a community member of san francisco and i want to let the school board know that the hiring of josephine tsao as the black parent liaison for james lick middle school is yet slap in the face to the black community of san francisco. it also demonstrates

the continued ethnic cleansing of the black population taking place in san francisco. this hiring absolutely did not take into consideration the students you claim to center in your core values. this is a disrespectful and blatant act of anti-blackness. and my question to you is, was anla1y trying to reach all along? thank you. i'm calling the final group up. please line up when you hear your name. chanel blackwell. min chang, eric morrill, rhonda batiste. amos brown and v. go ahead. you know. hi. i'm chanel blackwell, parent of two boys, one a freshman in college and the other an eighth

grader. i have concerns about the current san francisco unified school district budget needed to keep afloat to prevent state takeover. how can i trust the board when all theseour public school happening in the last all know what's going on. and to trust the new superintendent i heard good news about. but still i just need to know how can she work for the city and take a superintendent simultaneously on the job? and i found out about the tax plan isq. paying for doctor wayne his to 2026. and then you got doctor maria sue you pay we pay for her. our taxpayer money. that adds up. some of that can go to some of our kids. but what i'm really concerned i was upset about the iep, the money that was missing or lost and that could that. and i just want to trust the s. that's all i want to do. i want to trust the school district and i'm having a problem. thank you. thank you.

hi, my name is min chang. i'm a proud san franciscan and a mother of two daughters. i've been attending these board meetings since april and have also spent a lot of time with our schools, families and educators listening to their concerns and solutioning with them. and especially in the past two weeks, i've had the privilege to be with sutro eugene parker, and all the schools in our district. in terms of the school closures. it's good that sfusd has pause the school closures. however, this is only temporary as the mayor said yesterday at the press conference, i asked that the new superintendent and the board commit to not closing schools. closing schools is not the answer. we need to do the hard work of raising revenues cutting costs at the central office and making public schools competitive in terms of growing enrollment. we to elect new board members that bring the financial management, the leadershipas in terms of solving this fiscal crisis, and we need to really

work with the community in solutioning. we also need to be laser focused on these issues and stop the last minute political maneuvers. thank you. thank you all right. press it again. there you go. hello. my name is eric morrill, and i'm here on behalf of my daughter elena, who's a kindergartner at yick wo. we, like others walk to school. and i just wanted to bring to the board's attention the fact that district three is made up of four of california's six densest zip codes. it's san francisco's four densest zip codes. and i think that the long term impact of school closures in some of these very dense places is going to have an outsized impact on the urban planning of san francisco, as well as the local communities. so if we want to keep california on track for our goals to have walkable neighborhoods, we really need to be encouraging young families to come and occupy these neighborhoods rather than closing the schools

there. we also in these four zip codes have some of the lowest car ownership. so if the solution to closing schools is that we have to leave with car public transport, bear in mind the hills and think about trying to really keep people close to the communities where they're living. thank you. thank you. so good evening, board commissioners. i am rihanna batiste, and i am a proud aipac parent leader. tonight i'm here as a black mom, and i wanted to express how disappointed i am to learn that josephine zhao was hired as a black family liaison a james lick high school. this individual previously relinquished her run for school board associated with her racist and bigoted beliefs. hiring this individual to act as a liaison for black students and families is a complete slap in the face and once again highlights the anti-black racism that exists in this district. as usd. please step up for black students and families. we represent a small

number but i guarantee you that we are small but mighty. if you truly care about black students and family engagement, then you need to hire someone that believes in the brilliance of black students and families. thank you. thank you, thank you. good evening. i'm virginia marshall, retired educator. i saddened to stand here tonight. number one, matt wayne should not have received one brown penny. he should have been fired. he brought our school to school district to disaster. thank you, commissioner bogus for standing up for our children. number two, theperintendent should have an educational credential. miss marina missile. you do not. you should not be sitting in that position. we ask the community. ask the educators. i have two names right now who could work with superintet.gv ford, who have great experience here in san francisco unified school district. ask us number three

immediately, please. mr. alexander, get rid of josephine zhao. a few years ago, she came to this board. she protested alley. she protested aipac. now you're insulting our ancestors. she's in that position. please. tomorrow morning, transfer her to another position. thank you. did you care to speak? reverend brown? martin said it all. all right. thank you. amen. amen. all right, that completes in-person public comment. we will now move on to public comment for virtual partictime we will start with students. so we ask i see a lot of hands going up if we could allow our students to speak first. so if you're not a student, please put your hand down. thank you. i see a lot of hands going down. thank you very much. so i'll call noah. gloria. sorry. i'll call noah.

can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese oker? will have one minute. and we're starting with students. and then we will move on. buenas noches. todas las personas. so levanten su mano y todos los estudiantes tienen absolutamente un minuto. nada mas y después del comentario$ de los estudiantes. el resto puede levantar su mano. gracias. a fabio see you fabio eugenio ncaa fabio. hi, mom. come neil gorsuch or t fine. thank you. noah. noah. yes. hi, my name is noah los.

i'm a proud parent of an sfusd student. sorry to interrupt you, noah. this is an opportunity for students to speak. so we're going to let students go, and then i'll. we'll call on you after. after students. sorry. thank you. i'm actually seeing. no students, so go ahead please. noah. sorry about that. okay. no worries. my name is noah sloss. i'm a proud parent of a sfusd student. i wted to share some recent history about maria su as the head of the mayor's h and their families, her department denied funding to 14 local orgreach category. the only nonprofit awarded was s.f. parents, whose director had been featured in photo opportunities and special events with the mayor. when one of the mayor's direct reports isointed as superintendent two weeks before an election. this creates the appearance of and potential for favoritism, corruption, and political patronage. now, will be in charge of a $1.2 billion budget, awarding tensf of

millions of dollars to vendors. i'd like to urge the board to reject her appointment. this is a bad idea. thank you. aaron. thank you. yes, my name is aaron horn with parents for publichools. i am horrified by the. election of doctor su. i echo what her complete lack of experience in public education. and i'm very concerned that the board wants to allow maryland and breed to the superintendent. there needs to be some checks and balances. maryland and breed has only been approving grants and funding to

organizations aligned with the parent coalition. as for the sc side, council comment yes counselors are wonderful but only if you are connected to as a parent coalition funded by billionaires. will your grant be. thank you. the mayor needs to mind her own thank you. so that's that's a lie because you are a parent, you can be on the school play council. what? tom1&? hi. yeah. as an educator, i also think we need doctor cali front. when i was in the bargaining and bargaining, there was a comment he made. we're in a crisis sped. and if we lower the case number of students for sped teachers will be more in crisis. so what was the answer? not improve working conditions, give everyone $1,000, but sped teachers, educators and paraprofessionals needed better working conditions. he barely showed up to the sped meetings.

i'm sorry, but i'm just telling you the truth and my experience. and if you ignore it, then you ignore it. if you don't question him about those comments, that's really sad. if you don't listen to the voices of the parents about closing schools in the future, that's sad. it's not just saying yes, but it's like making, you know giving us evidence of why this is going to be beneficial. matt wayne said. closing schools is not going to save money. so why are we doing why are we possibly going to do the future? if it's resource alignment, we need to see the evidence and we shouldn't have these mistakes that keep happening with special education. do not appoint doctor in front unless. sophie rich. hip2. i've been an sfusd parent for nearly two decades and i question what's really going on here with this mou thrown together in a matter of days at this critical moment, two weeks before an election, waving the credential requirements for a superintendent of an entire

school district makes no sense. ands your job. why are you handing it over to the mayor? this is the same mayor who filed a lawsuit against this district just a few years ago. while we were all struggling to navigate a once in a century pandemic. this is the same mayor who just installed a charter school director tod a few months ago. these are not the actions of someone looking out for everyone served by public schools. these are political stunts. and with all respect to doctor sue, i believe that putting her in charge of our district is clearly pandering to the moneyed interests who hold such influence over our mayor, who look at our schools and see real estate profits. please do not proceed witese actions. doctor sue is on record saying that it will still lead to school closures and everybody in the community is united in saying we do not want our schools closed. we need our small community schools. they are. thast a gentle reminder, everyone. when you hear the timer, please wrap up your final thought. everyone

will have one minute to speak. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese? buenos noches, por favor, or tienen determinar su comentario? los comentarios son solamente de un minuto para cada persona. gracias. thank you. thank you. fabio d.o.j. anthony gonzalez vega de. san miguel thank you. thank you, charles. yes, thank you. i would like to first welcome the new superintendent and to implore you to give over both hiring and payroll to sf city hall. you've seen the dysfunction firsthand. and please cut those parts of sf usd central office permanently. also, be honest. as soon as possible about the percentage of classroom teachers that will get

pink slips. march 15th i need the district as a taxpayer to promise not to just put the poor fiscal management on us, or admit that homeowners taxes will go up $500 a month. i have been an active participant in the student side council for a decade and this may be my last year. i disagree that it is equitable if my school site gets $5,000 per student, while some students while some schools get 25,000. is it equity to have one third of the students a (p aed staff? sped budget is bloated due to outsourcing. we never bui the capacity here and i will be voting no on a until the distric current projects. thank you very much for your time. thank you. galen oh, hello. it's galen. i am a parent of a student at san francisco community school. i have been

one of these parents who has just been rocked by the last couple of weeks of activity with our school ending up on the list, and i was shocked to learn that well, not that shocked, but matt wayne injected the 260 arbitrary 260 number into the stanford magical math for composite composite scores and that's why all the schools on the list why it wasn't an equitable snapshot of schools to close. yeah, you could have done a better job with a dart and you would have had a more equitable outcome, is the quote i've heard. i'm grateful we're having a pause. i am terrified that the mayor has appointed this person and that we are, you know, going into this for until 2026 with this hamstrung situation with the deputy. and i really urge you to make it a shorter contract. can we make it

2025? can we just you. brad. hi. my name is brad chapin. i'm on the board of the harvey milk democratic club and i'm just speaking as an individual here. i just want to ask the board to please start organizing with us. if i know i've heard a lot of private conversations amongrtain board members. and it seems to me that sometimes certain board members think that the public or that parents are not smart enough, or we don't really understand the details of what's going on. so i really encourage you to let us know what these details are. i want to know why wendy sue, why we can't have a non a person who doesn't have a history of racism be the temporary superintendent on our schools for our schools.

i want tsao, who has a history of transphobic and racist comments why is she th liaison for our school district? and how can we work with you to fight so that we have the funding that we need so we don't have to close any schools? how can you help us and be organizers and do the job that you were put in this role to do? thank you. to protect our students. thanks. jennifer. hey, can you hear mes, can hear you. okay, just real quick. i don't think people commenting over zoom can hear the one minute buzzer, so you might want to check that. i just hope that this board learned we aren't going to let you close schools. i think you've been talking to a lot of people who aren't truly part of the community who manufactured consent. buthe reality is san francisco is not closing schools. we're not compromising. if you supported it, we're voting you out. if a board is elected, it supports

closing schools. we're recalling them. come up with a better thank you. aaron. hello. i am a parent at sunnyside elementary. i just wanted to echo some of the sentiments that i've heard tonight regarding doctor sue. i urge the board to vote and e3. she doesn't have a credential and this is basically a mayoral appointment at this point. and i also would like to urge the board to reconsider the hiring of josephine zhao. she's a known racist and a known transphobe. this is shameful.i really think the james lick students deserve better. thank you. thank you. will. yes. hi. my name is. my name is will patterson. and i want to speak to maria sue's appointment. i'm

actually quite in favor of this appointment because she is a psychologist by education, and she has been running adult or the children, youth and families in a way that supports sfusd and understands the mental health needs of our students. a large part of the special educationidized by the work that her department has done to provide and without those resources, our students with mental health challenges would be much less served. however, i do want to raise concern about something i read. the other day where it said that she didn't see herself as being responsible for curriculum changes, and i hope that that was acause we really do need someone who can lead on curriculum change now, especially with english language arts. thank you. thank you. gloria. hi. can you hear me? okay. yes, we can hear you. thank you. i echo the sentiment of not of the last caller, but of many of the previous callers. james lick children deserve far better. i

the commenter who said that this was a continuing ethnic cleansing of the black community, is 100% correct. i also beg the board to see the potential in this school district. one of the things that drove me crazy hearing about through all of the dac meetings and the resource alignment, was that we're going to just continue to drop kids. how about we let the greater bay area community know that people outside the city can enroll their children in our schools? we don't have people going after people that are outside the address zones anymore, do we?e we could fill these buildings and we need to fill th that we were taking schools out of the densest neighborhoods is our 100% correct. look at where these closures were lined up to be. please do something about getting kids back in pumping up our district. do a better job of this. stick yourqw necks out. fix the budget. please audit the epc that really needs some digging into there because that's being mishandled. so terribly. i can't believe it.

thank you. thank you. caller ending in 671. caller ending in 671. i am proud african american parent advisory council parent leader. i am horrified that josephine val has been hired as a black parent liaison. miss val has expressed her lack of empathy for black people. please make it make sense. and she also has been exposed to be transphobic. secondly, why would you hire maria sue when she is not credentialed? just last week you all consultant. you keep sending us mixed messages please. education be the leaders for all san francisco being so political. thank you. thank you. hope. hi board

i come as a former francisco usd san francisco unified school district, a black liaison, and i have to say that it's time for you guys to step up. i'm also a parent, and as a parent and working for you, over the years i have endured the trauma because it's more about being anti-black than really supporting the black students. i have endured racism as a black employee. i have experienced it as a parent, and now you guys slap us in the face when there's opportunity now to have black liaisons that you decide to sit there and not do the right thing and put someone that isn't going to serve but has talked about the community. my mother served this district for 30 years and had and endured. i thought it would be different coming on this side to impact, but i had to leave because the traumt

i have have had to go through as a parent, seeing that you guys are more worried about the political than the actual children, it's enough. i'm with everyone else. if you guys don't line up, i'm going to lobby too because you guys get out. thank you. leilani. hi. i'm just very. the hiring practices, everything that youst year. and then to hire josephine sound as the black family liaison who did this? why? and how? in one of her tweets, she tweeted that the black community was not a priority, that our our our priorities are not aligned with education. and then you put her inlack children. this is this is justlly

needs to stop. if you t pattern of not caring of not payingon. and that people just come in your face and say a few sweet things or they come to the boe all the time and you think, well, you know what? they're a good person. it was very clear that she still has a lot of development, and bypass a lot of good people. leilani. thank you. and susie. good evening. i'm a long time teacher in this district, and i feel that san francisco unified school over by the state, but at 100% has been taken over by the mayor which i find detrimental to the well-being of this district. thank you. thank you. that does conclude virtual public comment for agenda and non agenda items.

thank you. and thank you to everyone who commented today. we will now7u move on to our action items. board members, i'd like to propose a revision to the agenda so that we calendar item f first before the action a motion and a second to move the consent calendar? so moved. thank you. second, thank you. do we need to vote on that? okay the agenda to adjust the agenda commissioner bogas yes, commissioner. fisher. yes. commissioner. kim. yes. commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wise. yes. president. alexander. yes. seven eyes. okay, so now we will move to the consent calendar. may i have aon a second on the consent calendar. so moved second. thank you. are there any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? no. great roll

call on the consent calendar, please. thank you. student delegate montgomery, on the consent calendar. yes. thank you. student delegate lam. yes. thank you. commissioner. bogus. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes commissioner. kim. yes commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wiseman. ward. yes. president. alexander. yes. seven i thank you. all right. now, we will move to the action items in section e. there are four items. the agreement between the city and county of san francisco and the san francisc unified school district for superintendent services is number one. the number number two is the approval of resolution appointing maria sue as the superintendent. numberapproval of resolution for credential waiver and number four is the approval of contract of district executive deputy superintendent may. let's see, do we need to move in second all of them before discussion

because we were going toan look it up or discuss it all together. whatever. we okay. so but should we do a motion first. yeah okay. so let's i'll ask for a motion and a second on these items. so moved second. thank you. and so we're going to have discussion board discussion of all four. and then we'll do the votes. so let me open it up to comments or questions from board members. let's start if there's any questions from board members. and then we'll go to comments. are there any questions. first of all clarifying questions or anything for staff. thanks. yeah i'm a little concerned about the credential waiver. not knowing too much about this. i am just asking just a basic question on why for the superintendent of the school district, we're like breaking a legal norm to not have our superintendent have the teaching credential. so just like a question, just like why we're doing that. thank you for your question. i just want to

say that there are many districts that hire dents that do not come from a background in education and9w so the education code provides a statute that allows school districts to appoint such people by utilizing the waiver process. it's not something that is unique to san francisco. this is a process that is available to any district in the state that can utilize this particular statute to allow folks that are not credentialed to lead a school district. so that was legal answer which was expertly given by our general counsel. i want to give you my answer as an educator with 20 years of experience in this district. so i started my teaching career at balboa high school in 1996. as i've shared with folks and spent 20 years as a teacher and principal. and if you had asked me five ten years ago, should we appoint a non educator to lead this district, i would have absolutely agreed with all the folks that said no. but what i've seen over the last

couple of decades in san francisco unified is how actually our fiscal and aziçoperational dysfunction has made it almost impossible to achieve our academic goals. and one of the reasons i'm so excited that maria sue has agreed to be considered for this position is because what she brings to us is the an experience leading a large government agency an experience building teams and doing the kind of work of building structures and systems in a actually think is lacking within sfusd. i think a lot of education ranks and i'll speak for myself as a principal and as someone with lots of friends in education, we don't get the training as educators in sort of leadership and management often. and so i thint's really exciting that we're bringing someone in from the outside who has that level of expertise to address systems that i think we all agree are not working. i'm also really excited that carlene aguilar, who's a veteranor, special ed teacher principal from sfusd for many years, has agreed toerve as

deputy superintendent. and so the way that i'm thinking about it at least, is that this is going to be an incredible team where we bring in someb who has the outside perspective and the expertise in running a effectively running a large bureaucracy with someone who has the deep educational expertise and they're going to work really closely together hand in hand to help run the district. so i don't know if other colleagues have thoughts on this topic this question, because i think it's a i think it's a really good question. it's one that many people have. so that's just my opinion as someone who has probably changed my mind on this topic over the past five years, but commissioner fisher, i think one of the intricacies that's very unique to us here in san francisco also is that we are a county office of education as well as a school district. and in there are only three other 2 or 3 other occurrences of that in the state. and those school districts that are a county office and a school district are much, much smaller than we are teeny tiny, small and sparse.

they're called. and so generally a county office of education provides a lot of technical assistance, a lot oversight budget support, special school support, mental health technology, you know, community county schools. and for us instead of having oversight and a district, i'm the visual i'm using is one hand above the other for those who are not seeing what i'm saying we are enmeshed and so now i'm combining my hands together. we are. we don't have that same level of oversight. we have lost that over the years, and that is very muchpart of our big problems, especially with special education right now. so while we have a strong educational leader and doctor aguilera fought, we really have so much work to do to tease apart our technical requirements as a county office and our educational requirements as a district. and so it's really exciting to me have to have both of those roles and

hopefully redesign and rebuild both of those function. other comments on this topic or other questions? i have a clarifying question. i've heard a lot from the community about fears about the operational enmeshment now between the city and the school districts. can someone clarify what is going to happen as the contract is written with doctor sue and her city employment versus her district employment? can we can we state that a little bit more clearly for the community to hopefully build there? at the risk of sounding like a lawyer, the way the agreement between the city and the district is structured monsieur will be taking leave from her employment in the doctor. sue will be taking leave from her employment in the city. she will be working. she'll be loaned by the city to san

francisco unified. and she will be working for san francisco unified. the contract clearly states that all the direction all the work that she will be doing will be at the direction of this body. the board of education for san francisco unified school district. she will not be taking any direction from city government because she is going to be on leave. the district is going to be paying for the service and the direction of the board is what she is going to execute in her capacity as the superintendent of e san francisco. can we also clarify how long? i mean as as we've heard from the community, there's a we're electing a new mayor potentially the same mayor potentially a new mayor in a couple of weeks here. how how long could this contract run i work out? who gets to decide? can you help us

understand that a little bit more to please? really good question. the contract as written runs through june 30th 2026. so it's from october 22nd. if the board were to approve the contract through june 30th 2026, both parties have the ability to give notice to each away from the contract. if this is not working out, we also, as part of the negotiations, the city government was aware that there might be a new mayor for the district. we have potentially a new board be seated and so both sides made sure that there was a mechanism by which the lever could be to each side, without cause to be able to walk away from this agreement so it doesn't have to last through june 30th, 2026. if things are not working out, if something extreme were to happen with both parties, or one party decides

don't want to do this either side can pull out of the agreement. and one l don't mean to cross-examine you here. we did hear a lot from the public tonight about about contract buyouts. we heard figures being raised by the public of over half a million dollars. is that something that we could have to assume? i mean, i have i'm excited to be voting for this so i don't want to send it. i just would we potentially be onhe hook for that here or because of the i'll if the city and the if the district were to decide that this arrangement with the city i not working out, is there a buyout provision in thicontractf@ with the city? the answer is no. this is a mutual agreement whereby the city is loaning us experts who can fix our systems and for us it is utilization of pu to pay for the service.

there is no buyemployment agreement with doctor sue. other questions or comments from board members about any of this? yeah. now i think to any. so let's open it more broadly to did you want to go, commissioner bogas? go ahead. yeah. i mean each other questions. so that's like an interesting like shift. so i think i'm curious if you could could share i guess from board leadership's perspective or your perspective. president alexander, just kind of like the timing around it and kind of the urgency of kind of moving forward with the time frame t put forward. and i think kind of the thinking around it for the new su you mean the timing of moving forward with like, the process for doctor sue to kind of become superintendent versus kind of having more of like a community process or a dialog process? oh, got it got it, got it. engage like community around the conversation. yeah. well, in my view, we are in a crisis situation and so i think it it

requires swift action. but as, asb>r general councilor brown just just noted, it doesn't anything. right. so i think what's, what's beautiful about this arrangement is that we are able to move quickly. but yet the board at any point can decide to initiate a search. and so i think there's a lot of flexibility in it, but it also provides much needed stability as we've also heard from members of the community. you know, the chaos needs to stop. we really sta. and i frankly am excited aboutis. i think that you know, maria has a has a long track record of stable really competent leadership. and i'm grateful that she's willing to do this. i'm grateful that the mayor is one of her best employees to be able to do this. i understand pert of thinking there's something political going on. to me. this is about people coming together beyond politics, across politics, to do

what's best for our kids and people can believe that or not. but that's my experience. again, as a 20 year veteran educator of sfusd, someone who's on this school board not running for other political office but here because i care about these kids, i've just been really impressed with what the what what's happening here. and so for maria's willing willingness to do it. and the city's willingness to step up and partner with us in itice thing about this mou, frankly is that it doesn't lock us into anything. go ahead. don. thanks yeah, on this topic though, i think i agree with yo think the chaos does need to stop, does need to stop, but this does feel, i think, on the district's behalf, a bit chaotic with this being such a swift action without much community input. and you mentioned how like the board is not locked into anything, and then that could be any sort of like search or anything like that. but then that does feel like more chaos to then have a big switcheroo and be like, we're investigating this because this is something we're disagreeing with that feels like more chaos. that does

not need toe district. so i think taking a little bit more time from especially like a student perspective, like to get to know the people because like, i'm actively researching some of these peoplese i have no clue who's going to be in charge of my education in a couple of days because i am not fully like in i think the process going a bit quick, at least for me. i think vice president weissman wanted to nk i think it's important for i really appreciate all of your questions. and i think it's really important to distinguish between sort of what commu)ñnity input looks like in a superintendent search. so superintendent searches are highly confidential. so at no point would there be i mean, en sort of a nationwide search and we are sort of when we're reviewing resumes and applications are super bound to not not naming a name to anyone outside of our board members. so ?tit's not an event that would say, oh, we have these five names, please give us input. so and that would never be the type of input. what potentially is what the former board before us did. extensive maybe

commissioner lam can speak on this. got a lot of input on the type of leader that we wanted. and i would like to think that when board leadership was thinking about what would auú steady hand look like in this moment, we were thinking about that input thatíe came about, what was it three, three and a half years ago? it was very extensive community engagement on the types of values that we hop you want to speak to that commissioner, since you were board president at that time and led that effort? yes. so for our background, that we when doctor matthews announced his retirement, the board of education launched into an extensive search and it took essentially nearly a year. and i'll just name that, we were t time still in covid, in the midst of a historical recall. and it was beehe board for six years. my term ends in december. i'm in my

16th year as a sfusd parent, and i will share with you that it has been trying times for this district. it's been trying for students, families and our staff and we did go through an extensive process and the held over 68 conversations with our advisory committees, with our staff with the community and our consultants commented that it's been one of the most extensive community driven superintendent searches that their companyth. then we launched into at that time, once the student governance student outcomes governance framework work that was by this board or the previous board also launched into with the council of great city schools extensive community engagement, we ended up gathe 8000 pieces of community evidence in order to

have the five year goals that the board and ultimately adopted for our student outcomes, i raise this because it is absolutely critical that san francisco engages deeply with its community, and when it doesn't, we see what is the effectt

stability. and while it is very challenging and difficult times not only where we've been, where we are today and where we're going to be in the future, that we need to provide assertive leadership. and i will name for you as board president, former past president that was navigating through the debacle and the payroll debacle that the challenges are deep and it is going to rre to come together. and i recognize there is a lot of fear, there's a lot of hurt. and at the same time, we will not recover. we recover to providing the best public education, the best public schools that our students deserve. unless we come together to coming to solve for these probls and putting our

children first and foremost. and have been fighting and advocating for equity and justice, our student outcomes and our educational learning our children have not been realized. and if any gone further from the core of what we believe in as a district and as a city, and that we must deliver on. so i stand before you today as your past president, as som and that every part of me is going to leave it all on the field. so to speak. by the end of my tenure, and wi serving in the community of my professional career, and i would not be here today for it, not been for comi am thrilled and excited to entrust my vote and confidence in doctor maria su as superintendent. and with doctor aguilar ford to embody in bringing a team who's

going to be reaching into as well as building in community with our school communities and our leaders and our parents and community at large. and i just returned from a national convening of our colleagues of the largest in the country, and it was really important to be in community with one another, to share about both the challenges but also the hopes and the dreams that the younge in our students are counting on us, that our staff are counting on us. and so i also just want to bring them into the room that we're not doing this alone. we'reoñ not doing this alone as one unified school district here in san fraisco, we are going to be doing it in partnership with our city and that we very fortunate to have the resources that we do and how we're going to make that even greater impact in working with our city and our state

that i know that so many of our colleagues just across the bay or even across the country, in georgia, that look at us around the amount of resources that we have. so i am hopeful and i am going to be calling to, even as a civilian after my service here formally on the board, that this work is going to be is absolutely so critical and important. and essential that i'm again tonight. thank you to president alexander, to vice president weissman. maud, you all have also been that steady leadership in a very trying time. and i know what it's like to sit in the to just bring this body together is a real testament to the focus we have in a commitment that we have to our community. as the board of e. thank you. thank you, commissioner lamb, are there. let's turn to the commissioners that haven't yet

spoken. i don't know ifcommissioner kim. no. let's go. commissioner. d either of you want to say anything else? so let's go. commissioner bogas then vice president weissman ward. thank youink i think i'm concerned with with the items we have for today to vote on. i think just to kind of lift up that i wish we were taking a slower process and engaging in a more deliberate process around dialog. i felt that our last superintendent, we made a choice not to have a more public proces prioritize the candidates that we wanted. right? because let people know they want to leave their job when they're and so i think we have to decide what our priority is. and i think how we want to go about this. and i think for me, being able what is wrong with the relationship between the board and the superintendent's office and the position as a whole, how do we keep ending up in a place where we don't reach the goals that we want to see? and so i really

would love to see us spend a little bit more time investigating those things and really crafting a solution for our unique district that we aren't really set up to do i think that helps kind of lead to some of the issues that to overcome. and so, i mean, i think for me, you know, just really trying to figur center dialog with the community even if we able to be in community, let people understand the reasoning for our decisions. and i'm glad that we had the opportunity to do that some today during thisersation, really kind of express where the board is coming from, because a lot of times people don't get that and they just feel the impact of the decisions. and so i would just, you know commissioners to think about how we can go slow in this process and create space for more dialog and voice from folks in our community who are going thank you. and i want to say commissioner, bogus, i don't disagree at all in terms of the need think we can we can hold multiple things at once. we need to have a leadership team in place to be

with some very, very very urgent and important things that are impacting our school sites our kids, our educators we know now from hearing from general counsel and from reading the contract, that there are options as well in terms of additional engagement, should we choose t route. so i think we can hold both. but what i don't think is an option is to have sort of a leadership vacuum. we are not in a position to have a leadership vacuum at this point. and i am really really thrilled about the idea of think that understanding and this goes to commissioner fischer's point, that we are a district in a countyvz in one, and that there has been a real void and a real lack, at least from from the very, very very top being able the expertise in both the operational systems and also the educational systems, and to know that we will have two experts working side by side, hand in hand to make sure that we can meet our goals, not only our actual goals, our vgs, but

also our operational and syste goals, so that our educators are getting paid so that we have staff in the classrooms so that our that our educators have places where they can go and get their jobs done, and where our kids can be educated by by competent, happy, supported folks. so i am excited that we are going to have two really, really brilliant really kind really thoughtful leaders to help us tough this next continued hard times. i was making of the things that i was thinking about was growth mindset. we expect growth mindset out of our students and hopefully we as the adults here in leadership can model that as well. and i think one of the areas where i see a huge amount of need for growth, us as a leadership and the district as a leadership team ishos tran

xactly for what you said. vice president weisman ward, about the one two punch and the strengths that both bring. i just my one ask, is that to you, doctor aguilera and to doctor sue when she joins us is for transparency in the work. you're doing in the infrastructure changes that need to happen. the we still have a lot of accounting to do for things that have happened in special education. we have a lot of i mean, a lot of accounting for the budgeting process to make things more student center so many hard things to do while trying to alleviate our huge budget deficit structural deficit over the next couple of years with the help of our friends at fcmat. so that is one my one ask, i think, on behalf of to. someone askedl; me earlier to make sure that i reflect the values

of the community tonight. and so to me that means acting with integrity and doing it transparently. so i hope that i can lead with that. alongside our new leadership team. all right. any last comments? maybe i'll just say just a word of appreciation for the skepticism from commissioner bogas, from members of the public. i think i think that skepticism is appropriate and helpful, and i think it goes in line with commissioner fischer's comments about the need for transparency. and i think the other thing i would say is meaningful community engagement is critically important. that's one of that's our first guardrail, in fact, that as we represent the values of the community and frankly, we're going to be holding our superintendent accountable to that starting on day one. and so i think the you

know, the, the what matters, the rubber meets the road in actions. r up here and say all we want, and each of us is going to make our decisions tonight and put our reputations on the line. i'm going to put, like i said, my reputation as an educator on the line, saying, i support maria su as our superintendent because i to do based on my experience and based on my knowledge of her. and as soon as she's appointed superintendent, our job collectively is to hold her accountable as we hold her and the team accountable to produce the result so i think that's what you're going to see from us. that's what you ought to see from us. and that should be the community's expectation. so, you know, i think again that is that's what accountability looks like. i think it's appropriate. and each of us as an elected official, has to make those tough decisions. and, and decide where our integrity lies. so for me, i feel like the level of chaos that we've been experiencing is unacceptable. i think we need a level of stability right now.

and i think maria su is the leader who's going to provide it. she again has a wealth of experience as running a large government agency. she's ae leader. she's someone that has the systems and operational expertise that we lack in sfusd and we have phenomenal educators like doctor aguilar fort, who are also going to lead our educational side. and we're really really grateful also to you for your service. i'd also appreciate if members of the audience could not speak while board members are speaking, because it becomes difficult for others to follow the meeting. so just please, if you need to have a conversation, go outside and do it just again to respect the process. but so again, for the team together i think is going to be really solid. and we're just really grateful to both of you for stepping out. so with that let's proceed with our votes starting with item. item one the agreement between city and county of san francisco and the francisco unified school district for superintendent services. thank you. on ite one student delegate montgomery.

no. student delegate. lamb no. thank you. commissioner. bogus. no. commissioner. fisher. yes. commissioner. kim. yes. commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wiseman. ward. yesl. president. alexander. yes. passes with six ayes. great. thank you. item two e2 approval of resolution appointing maria su as the superintendent district. thank you. on item e2 student delegate montgomery. no. student delegate lam no thank you, commissionener. bogus. no. commissioner. fisher. yes. commissioner. kim. yes commissioner. lamb. yes, commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wiseman. ward. yes. president. alexander. excuse me. alexander. yes. six eyes that passes. thank you. item e three the approval ofol res to education code section 35029.

thank you. student delegate montgomery. no. student delegate lam. no. commissioner. bogus. no. commissioner. fisher. yes. commissioner. kim. yes. commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wise. yes. president. alexander. yes. six eyes that passes. all right. and so i would like to before we do the next vote, i'd like to invite our new superintendent. do you want to invite her t. superintendent su, thank you for joining us this is already decided. you don't have to. that's always performing. thank you. welcome. thank you. all right, so let's vote on item e for the approval of thecontract of district executive deputy superintendent. and do

you need to do the read out for that? pursuant to the brown act we have to only report what the monetary value of the contract is equivalent to. so the board will be considering the approval of contract for deputy superintendent for doctor carlin aguilera. ford. the term of the agreement is through june 30th 2026 and the proposed salary under this agreement is $320,000 per annum call please. thank you. on e4. student. student. delegate. lamb. no. commissioner. bogus. no. commissioner. fisher. yes. commissioner. kim. yes. commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. westbourne. ward. yes. president. alexander. yes. passes with six eyes. thank you very much. andw? welcome to our new superintendent and deputy superintendent. we look forward to working together to bring

stability to our school districts, to working as a team of us to really get sfusd back on the right track. and i'm just super grateful for both of you for your willingness to serve. and i'm feeling very hopeful in this moment. so thank youight. with that, this meeting at 810. this meeting is adjourned.

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i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our p makes all the effects of climate change worse. the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. >> in the early 90s san

francisco hired some engineers to analyze therial san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization stud showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill coul composted. it was things like food scraps coffee grounds and e and sticks and leaves from gardening. together ñgre-ecology in san francisco started this curbside composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. it kept 2.5 million tons of out of the landfill produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms orchards andineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. we're doing something to slow change. >> i have been into organic

farming my whole life. when we started planting trees it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how iñ work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the pld our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes withd they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes ife and that will feed and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into the soil. you are helping turn a farm into international model. del countries have come to study this program.

and it actually helped inspire a new law california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025. and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles and the carbon cycles government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean foryes, sir and so forth. -- forest and so fors. we know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission and that the corporate community has significant role to play in ducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirem that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint the core

operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and will change behavior because we know thatorporations have to transparent and haveat accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the gislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city.

but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older conceptsat engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants it

holds any rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health climate health human health one conversation. if we grow our food differently we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s 60 year, we turned it

into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat.

thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious cl action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues and we gejet calls from all over the world really to getformation. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions.n

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you're watching san francisco rising with chris manors. today's special guest is jeff tumlin. >> hi, i'm chris manors and you're watching san francisco rising. the show on starting rebuilding and reimagining our

city. our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting projects across the city. mr. tumlin welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m.t.a. having to balance between transportation routes open buthow are we doing with our transportation recovery plan? >> so we just got good news this week. we're getting an extra $115 million from the american rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when we'll have to find some additional revenue sources in order to sustain the agency. in the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to restore

services and to make sure muni is there for san francisco's la economic recovery because downtown san francisco doesn't work without muni. >> quite right. i guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements hadld. are we starting to gear up on those again? >> yes so study. of right before covid hit, we were about ready to invest in quick build bike lanes. arguably the most bike order in san francisco. that got stopped with lockdown and then a during covid we invented all kinds ofs like shared spaces in order to suppor businesses as well as sunday street light events for neighborhood commercial streets where streets were closed off to cars and turned over to commercial activity. those successes now that c(they've been made permanent actually interrupt the draft design we had put together. so we've gone back to the drawing board and we are

looking forward to some additional community conversations about other design ideas for valencia. we're committed to completing a quick build project on this calendar year. >> that's such good news. valencia is a really great street for biking. so there are two huge and exciting projects that are about to be or have just been completed. let's talk about the bus rapid transit project on van ness avenue.[ improvements been? >> what's called the van ness transit rapid project is in fact more about complete and most importantly, the 100-year-old utilities underneath the street. so all of the water, sewer telecommunications gas lines under the street were basically rebuilt from market street all the way to lumbard. the part on the surface which provides dedicated bus lanes for golden muni, that was relatively

straight forward and we're so excited we're going to start revenue service for muni on april 1st. >> that's fantastic. re were some sidewalk improvements too. >> there were sidewalk improvements. we planted 374 trees. there is new storm water treatment including infiltration in the sidewalk there's a bunch of art. there's all kinds of things. we put in new street lights for the entire corridor. >> finally, the other big news is about the central subway. can you briefly describe the project and give us an update. >> yes, so the central t-line project, another stop at union square that connects directly into powell station and a final stop in the heart of chinatown at stockton and washington.

that project has also run into challenges. it's 120' under muni under bart 120' down and out under chinatown in some unexpectedly challenging soils. but that project is nearly complete. it's at about 98% completion right now which means we're testing trains, we're testing the elevators and escalators al electronics and we're still on track to open that in october presuming all of the testing continues to go well. so fingers crossed on in a one. we're really looking forward to a subway ride from the heart of chinatown all the way to the convention center to the caltrans station and all the way down to bayview and visitation valley. >> it's great to see all these projects coming to completion. we're all grateful team's hard work and i really appreciate you coming on the

show mr.tumlin. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> and that's it for this episode. for sfgov tv i'm chris manors. thanks for watching. >> hi, everyone, my name is sunshine. everyone calls me sunny. i own the tie dye shop on the corner of haight and [indiscernible] tie dye shop 32 years. where i bought my first tie dye. i came to the haight ashbury not having any friends and in the haight it is cool to be you, which is perfect san francisco thing. we support over 175 artists, half of the shop is cut and sewn in the city and the other half made by people who work here including womens

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