commissioner. fisher. here. commissioner. kim. here, commissioner. lamb. here. commissioner. sanchez. vice president weisbord and president alexander. here. thank you. thank you. for those watching child care. will, will. excuse

me. i need to speak clearly here. child care will be provided from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for children ages 3 to 10. the child care is just across the hall in the enrollment center here on the first floor. and at this time, before the board goes into closed session, i call for any speakers to the closed session agendas to closed session items listed in the agenda. there will be a total of five minutes for speakers. are there any speakers for public comment? there are none in person or virtual participants. if you care to give public comment, please raise your hand. seeing no hands raised for our virtual participants. thank you. please note that the board will take a roll call, vote on any recommended student expulsions when we reconvene to open session. and i now for children ages three through ten. childcare across the hall in the enrollment center here on the first floor. public comment this evening as as usual will be under section e, so all public comment will be at that time for agenda items and non agenda items. if you would like to

speak and you're here in person, please make sure that you turn in a card to mister steel over here. if you are a student, please indicate student on your card and if you are listening online, we will have online public comment after the in person public comment. all right. i'm going to move into the report from closed session item one. and then we'll then after that we'll do our land acknowledgment and review the agenda. so the report from closed session is simply. sorry. oh first we have to vote on the student expulsion matters. and then i'll do the report from closed session. apologies. so to begin the vote on the student expulsion matters, i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement for one middle school student. matter number 20 2425. number 14 for one calendar year from the date of approval of the expulsion.

during the expulsion, the student will attend. civic center. may i have a second, please? colleagues? second. thank you. roll call, mr. seal. thank you. commissioner. bogus. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes, commissioner. kim. yes, commissioner. lamb. yes, commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wiseman. board president. alexander. yes. success. thank you. now i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement for one middle school student. matter number 2024 2025. number 15, for one calendar year from the date of approval of the expulsion. during the expulsion, the student will attend civic center. can i have a second, please? second and a roll call. vote. commissioner. bogus. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes, commissioner. kim. yes, commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wiseman. board president. alexander. yes. thank you. now, i will do the report from closed session in the matter of student jt versus sf,

usd case number (202) 410-0717. the board, by a vote of six ayes, gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount in the matter of ac through guardian ad litem, ms. versus sf, usd, san francisco county superior court case number c, gc 23 610109. the board, by a vote of six ayes, gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount, and in three matters of anticipated litigation, the board, by a vote of six ayes, gives direction to the general counsel. all right. we will now move to 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 land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never, never ceded, lost nor forgotten their

responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homelands. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. now we'll move to item two, the approval of board minutes. apologies. item d2, the approval of board minutes. can i get a motion and a second on this, please? so moved. second. thanks. are there any edits or adjustments to the minutes? seeing none, let's have a roll call. vote, please. student delegate montgomery. yes. student. delegate lam. yes, commissioner. bogas. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes, commissioner. kim. yes. commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice

president. wiseman. board. president. alexander. yes. success. thank you. now we're going to move to item d for the review order of agenda items. i would like to propose moving a few agenda items. and so i'm going to ask colleagues if we could make a motion on this to move item d6. the student delegates report to before the superintendent's report. and item d7, the commissioner farewell to after public comment. can i get a motion on that or so moved. thank you. in a second. second. thank you. vote please, mr. steele. commissioner wielgus. excuse me. i'm sorry. student delegate montgomery. yes. student. delegate lam. yes. student. delegate. commissioner. bogus. yes, commissioner. fisher, i want to be a student. delegate. me too. yes. me too. thank you,

commissioner kim. yes, commissioner. lamb. yes, commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wise. board president. alexander. yes. thank you. okay. thank you. so now we will move to the student delegates report since we just moved it. thank you for your flexibility, everyone. student delegates. i'll turn it over to you. yes. good evening. i'm glad to see everyone today. we have a pretty short delegate report. we have continued the president, sac, jasmine zen, and us, the student delegates have been working closely for our survey questions to get those survey questions sent to used to formulate the survey to be launched at the beginning of next semester. so we've been hard at work on that, and i'm going to pass it over to delegate lamb to for the rest of the report. yes. and unfortunately, we have not had we have not had a cabinet meeting nor an sac meeting since our last board meeting. however,

we plan on scheduling one before the break. but on a different note, today marks the last board meeting of jenny lamb, mark sanchez, and kevin bogus. so as a moment of praise and acknowledgment, thank you to jenny lamb, mark sanchez, and kevin bogus for the care towards the youth, the challenges, the challenging decisions that you guys have made from ones in the pandemic to the current or ones that will never forget. and we hope that your endeavors pass. the board of education will treat you well. at the end of this meeting, i hope to connect with you all so we could still be connected and further implement change for the youth. thank you so much. thank you very much, student delegates. and you got to start early on the on the thanking of the commissioners, which was very nice of you. so we're now going to go to the superintendent's report. superintendent sue

great. thank you president. alexander and student delegates for kicking off the thanks. good evening everyone. can we have slides? so i just wanted to let everyone know that over the past now six and a half weeks of my tenure here, i've continued to visit schools and continue to see the joy and the love in all of our schools. however, last week we all felt that jolt right? and we got the alerts and the alarms. and so it's a really great reminder for all of us to keep all of your emergency contacts up to date. at this time. oh, okay, i know. oh, great. okay, great. there you go. so just it's a great reminder for all of us to keep. next slide please. to keep our

our contacts up to date. i just want to assure everyone that sfusd schools have plenty of safety protocols. and our school district and central office jumped into action right away after receiving the alerts, we were in immediate contact with the city, particularly with the department of emergency management. our leadership here was able to communicate very quickly with each other and tried our best to communicate with school, the school site, and we just want to make sure that we continue to increase and practice our emergency response. system. and just to remind everyone to please go into the parent view and update your emergency contact, you can see

all the different ways that you can update your contacts here. and then just once again, it's just it's a great reminder for us to make sure that we ourselves have emergency plans not only for our students at school, but also for home. so please make sure that you take the time to do that next slide please. along with reminders, i want to remind everyone that the application deadline to apply to sfusd schools is fast approaching. deadline for application is january 31st at 11:59 p.m. if your child is entering transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, middle school, or high school next year, they will need to apply for a new school. this enrollment process is made simpler this year, which means that it's important for parents and families to submit their

application before the deadline, and that families know that school, and that families have to list the schools that they want to apply. so please go on our website to learn more about it. next slide. and i am really, really excited to share that you can now apply to preschool and our toddler programs via the online application. yes. so awesome. so we're making it way more accessible so that you can go online and apply for our preschool program and our toddler program using a now new online system. and hopefully it's going to be seamless and easy and will help parents with that whole entire process. okay.

i am oh, and i'm really excited to share that in order for us to continue to have better communication with our community, with our families, with all of our key stakeholders. beginning this month, i am publishing a weekly column highlighting key district updates and programs at our school. i hope that you enjoy the column and that you will take the opportunity to read it. just to learn more about what we are doing at sfusd, and what are all the wonderful things that our schools are doing as well. you can also read my column. well, the column is on sfusd.edu, but we'll also post it in the family announcement bulletin as well as one ethnic newspaper, the singtao daily newspaper. we're hoping to grow that pick up there. and then from december 23rd through

january 3rd, our student nutrition services will not be serving meals for any of our school sites. and this is primarily due to the break. so for families who are looking for food resources during the winter break, please contact the san francisco human services agency or the san francisco marine marin food bank, and you can find different locations on our website that you can go to meet your food needs. in continuing exciting news on thursday, november 20th 28th, thanksgiving day at kezar stadium. our sfusd students have played. we had a student athletes played our highly anticipated championship game. it was a lincoln versus

balboa. and so just congratulations to everyone who played. it was a really, really exciting game. it was really great weather as well. we had lots of community support. i believe mayor london breed was there. she passed out the awards to everyone. so all fun was, was had by everyone. and then this friday i'm really excited to join the 15th annual holiday sing along, hosted by access sfusd. it is a partnership between the arc and sfmoma's education department. this event will feature live vocals not by yours truly percussions. i will be ringing bells. guest musicians and special guest speakers, all led by the talented students of access,

sfusd and the arc. so after the performance, guests will also have the opportunity to do some holiday shopping there at the moma. student student made holiday art will be available for purchase and you know, please come support our wonderful, wonderful students and just really give them props for being brave and performing in front of folks. and then, as i mentioned earlier, winter break is coming. so winter break will will be will start monday, december 23rd and will run to friday to jan to friday, january 3rd. our schools will be closed and i just definitely hope everyone have a safe and restful winter break. in conclusion, i also want to extend my heartfelt thanks to our three fabulous,

fantastic board commissioners commissioner jenny lamb, commissioner mark sanchez, commissioner kevin bogas, your dedication over the many, many years, your leadership for stepping up during really difficult times in the district has really led to paving the pathway for other leaders to follow in your footsteps. i just have greatly admired from admired you all from afar. and over the last month or two months now have worked with you as as the superintendent and greatly appreciate your dedication to our students, to our families, to our educators, and to our staff. so on behalf of everyone here at sfusd, thank you so much for your dedication, your leadership, and your commitment to all of us for all these years. thank you, thank you. thank you so much,

superintendent sue. and as i mentioned, we're going to move the commissioner farewell item to after public comment so we can have a board members can have a chance to comment at that point. so right now we're going to go to item e one public comment. so just a reminder that cards should be turned in. we will allocate approximately one hour for public comment just so that we can get to board business by 8 p.m. as i have explained earlier, we try to balance the competing priorities of wanting to hear from as many people as possible, as well as making sure that we don't have board business occurring late in the evening when people can't watch the business of the board. so we are going to, like i said earlier, start with in-person public comment and then go to online public comment agenda items and then non agenda items. so. let's begin. thank you.

thank you i didn't receive any cards that indicated that you are a student. but if you are a student who cared to speak tonight, now's the time to do that. to do that, and you can come and line up at the podium. and just a reminder for anyone who's new that the board is legally not allowed to respond to public comment, this is really our opportunity just to listen. and there is a one minute timer which will you'll if you're making comment here in person, you'll see it up on the wall there. thank you. okay. so we'll move on to agenda items i'm going to call five people. so when i call your name please line up at the podium. first person can begin and you have one minute. theresa douglas. steve zeltzer roberto guzman. rivera. zhu zhu. forgive me if i mispronounce. it's y u e. last name is z h o u. k and fang. i

believe i can't read the rest of it, so you can go ahead. yeah, press it once and then you can speak. thank you. hello, my name is theresa douglas from samarkand and i'm a former parent. and i'm actually here to say, you know, no more cuts at bessie carmichael filipino education center. the fourth and fifth grade classrooms have bee understaffed the entire year. this is not just new our schools problem. our schools are facing the same crisis. we don't need more cuts. please, no more cuts. our students and staff are paying the price for the district's budget mismanagement. go after the district, not our schools. how do you expect a school to function with a skeletal staff? these forced cuts are creating vacancies that

will cripple our schools. the district is clearly laying the groundwork for massive layoffs in the nearest future, especially in march of 2025. now, what kind of what kind of school district are you envisioning? are we envisioning? thank you. that's your time. please. they deserve the best. we need your help. thank you. go ahead. it's already on. okay. my name is steve zeltzer. i'm with workweek and united front committee for a labor party. and i have to say, people are not prepared for a fascist government which is coming into office. this government and project 2025 wants to destroy public education, public services and public health. and they want to privatize education, which is what this district is going towards, because they're going to close public schools but keep charters open and private schools open. we have to make the 50 billionaires in san francisco

pay for public education instead of going after working people in san francisco. there's so much wealth in this state, yet they're attacking poor, working class, black and brown students and community schools. and i think that unless we start organizing now, they will successfully do it. the state board of superintendent, the democratic governor, what are they doing to go after the billionaires? what are they doing to go after the billionaires? and also the attack on city college with the superintendent supported ending free city college? what's going on here in san francisco? we need to stt building public education and supporting it and making the billionaires pay. thank you, thank you. good afternoon. my name is roberto guzman rivera, and as a father of three children in the school district, it petrifies me the idea that there will be cuts in the school sites since the beginning of the school year, my

children, two of my children, didn't have a teacher. i've seen many different faces of substitutes, has been scary. please, before thinking and cutting anything. fully staffed schools. okay. and allow guadalupe to have a core substitute teacher. so we see one face and two. the teachers come back. it's scary for my kids. it's scary for me. no structure then. they haven't been learning. so please. stop the schools. thank you. thank you. i've got your hand. you know how. do we. how do. bqe ten

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district will be accountable to all students, family, and school staff. the district must listen to the needs of the community and view us as vital collaborators. when district three chinese families got word of school closures, they were so worried and anxious and they had no way of to make themselves heard on these difficult issues. going forward, the school district must value our voices and provide more opportunities for the community to make public comment. san francisco families use has and use many languages. the district should protect multilingual learners, continue having bilingual teachers, and provide high quality bilingual classes. we hope the district supports every english language learner and ensures that our children have a fair chance and an excellent learning environment. thank you. covid. how will you sing? what goes on in san francisco? to see come nintendo yokohama, come to jincheng, my son. hey mom, bqe

and jen psaki using email since by or we cannot go to hong san walk and swee kow. powerful. garden sipsong yong yuan in san jose, e.g. palo alto galaxy or manford yikatong and daily wiki ho fong bin haji or garden sadako yokokawa in. mofu yi. coin yi son ho chi cheng ho chi

yin tofu garden katong. choco tortilla. hello everyone. my name is cindy sheehan. i have one child at san francisco unified school district. i was very shocked and dismayed to hear about my child's school closing this year. i hope the district tackles the budget shortfall problem. seriously, instead of just using school closure as a first response. every school should be able to fulfill the needs of students and families, including transportation for students, having caring teachers, and maintaining each school's unique history and culture. right now, chinatown is in a geographical position where it is easy for families to get to school and is suitable for further school development. i call on the school board and the new superintendent to work together to fight for school resources, communicate with families and support education. thank you. i'm calling the next five speakers and i apologize if i mispronounced your name. yanghee lee. cindy chen, sam. murphy. havok. kelly and jeff. lucas. come on up. hello. i hope you are tiktok san francisco, dbi and mike pompeo fauci san francisco. a guide to how san lloyd austin san ignacio chela. tong sang kim sun yang bei min

ho ho. chi chi garden. bo joon ho san paolo. hong sang hi, john. you get. some fancy jinggoy. posing you some entitlement singing. gypsy. tong tong, go door to door. gung fu you go. how you go, how mike pompeo. how come some fancy mingling at a. dinner table yet some. mazinger z? come on, we got some fancy hong sang two nang tiktok ho. hi everyone. my name is aayu. i have a child at san francisco unified school district. due to the way that the school district handled the school closure recently, parents and families have lost confidence in this district. we need to rebuild trust so that families and students do not keep leaving this school district. and this is a very important. san francisco unified school district should ensure transparency about budget issues. relevant information

should be shared on many platforms and in many languages and in many ways. if the district isn't closing schools, how will it address the 113 million budget shortfall? i hope every san francisco unified school district student can get a good education. thank you. hi, my name is cindy chen and i have a first grader at starr king. i'm concerned that the district's plan lacks sufficient context and specificity to understand how these budget cuts will impact students. for example, the supplemental early retirement plan may have a positive impact on our financial expenses, but let's make sure we keep the impact on our students front of mind. more older, experienced teachers leaving our schools, replaced by new, younger, less experienced teachers will result in poorer learning outcomes for our students. we know this from the data. at starr king, we've already seen high turnover of paras and lower paid staff who have less financial stability, can't afford to live in sf and have incredibly long commutes, and they'll jump at a new job opportunity if given the chance. i urge you to show us how this budget aligns with student outcome goals, so that we understand the trade offs when making these hard decisions.

share multiple scenarios, have a robust discussion on tradeoffs, and provide more context in detail. it's nearly impossible to understand what's been proposed and what the impact will be for our students. thank you. thank you. hi, i'm jeff lucas. one minute. thank you. one. thank you. two. thank you three. at first i was concerned about the first interim report. i see a forecast increase of 300 million over the next three years for books and supplies and services and other operating expenses. curiously, this forecasted increase for these items is more than the expected savings from the implementation of the fiscal stabilization plan for the same period. check it out. but then it dawned on me this is only a forecast. i probably learned a long, long

wrong lesson last spring that the district financial forecasts are not yet reliable. separately, where is the people plan for 2526? how many staff do we have now? how many staff do we plan to have in 2526? the fiscal stabilization plan says the reduction of 500 staff. but from what level? thank you, thank you. hi. i'm a mother of two children in special education at buena vista. horace mann, i'd like to talk about page 146 or 7 in the budget report that says, quote, there's an unexpected cost for special ed of $41 million. i think we really need some transparency on the sped budget. i'm quite confused. we had a $231 million selpa budget, and superintendent

wayne decided to deduct 30 million for staffing, 30 million for non public schools and contracting in isolation of the selpa. i don't know that that was legal. i would like to know that the fallout is in staffing, and i'm seeing that at our own school with comp ed, we know that it's more expensive to hire contractors after you've already inadequately staffed your schools. we need actual transparency on the sped budget. was that my time? thank you. that's fine. okay. my name is harvey kelly. i'm the cac chair. i'm going to piggyback on what sam just said. first off, the cac has been calling for an independent audit on what happened. please don't confuse that with the fcmat budget that's coming out. it is not the same thing. second, we have been

calling for transparency on what the actual special education budget is, was, is i read through all 200 pages. i still don't know the answer. i do know, as sam said on page 147, it said unexpected additional costs for special education. this was not unexpected. this was budgeted for the decisions and has caused a profound impact on the district. it has impacted families, students, educators, the community at large. we need transparency. we need change. thank you. thank you. okay, i'm calling the last three speakers for agenda items. i have brandy markman. maggie perry, and frank lara. good evening. my name is

brandy markman. i'm an sfusd parent. i am asking the board to reinstate the oversight committees. one of the reasons why this budget is such a mess is because you're using the student outcomes focused governance model, which stipulates that 50% of board time focused on english, math, college standardized test scores. before the recall, we had a budget and finance committee and hr and personnel committee, a building and grounds committee, and a curriculum committee. when other school districts have gotten rid of these committees and adopted the school outcomes governance models, we've seen the same kind of mayhem. moira calida, the national director of alliance to reclaim our schools, said the ultimate goal of the student outcomes focused governance model is to dismantle public education through realignment and transformation, school closures and privatizations. this has happened in schools like pittsburgh, seattle,

houston, saint louis, kansas city, las vegas and the arsenal of school privatization, gentrification. thank you. all right. good evening. my name is maggie furey. i am a proud school social worker and co-chair of the fcac. i want to thank the district for providing a more comprehensive initial interim budget. this this year was about 70 pages longer than last year, actually. however i do. yes, i look at those details. i do have questions and want to highlight one specific line item that brings a lot of questions, and we would like to see more. i would like to see more transparency around. and that is specifically within the building fund section of the budget under expenditures, specifically capital outlay, which is a really broad category. in looking at last year's interim, the unaudited actuals of this year and the first interim, i am concerned that there's an initial budgeting that is not reflective of the actual spending by over $100 million. is that a

correction? is it an error? is it unplanned emergency? what is it? and that is not the only place in the budget with discrepancies of tens of millions of dollars. and we must know where all dollars and cents are before we even think about cutting positions at school sites that are vital to our functioning every day. thank you, thank you. evening, commissioners. evening, superintendent. i first wanted to say thank you so much to the board. for those members that are leaving, it's a big moment. i actually brought my son today to do his language exam for the incoming tk program, and we'll be joining. and the reason i mentioned that was such a welcoming experience to enroll, to do the enrollment process, even despite the tough conversations that we have as union members here, we are committed to sfusd. and i think one of the things i do want to emphasize, what my colleague maggie just mentioned, is that for the first time, we feel that we're actually seeing the numbers in the budget. we don't like what we see, but we're

seeing it. and i think that's that's important for you all to know that you have a community here that's willing to engage in those tough conversations and do the work to make it better to win the schools that that our students deserve. so let's keep up the good fight. thank. you, thank you. moving on to non-agenda items, i'm going to call the first five speakers dan nguyen, tan, amos brown, cheryl thornton, susie siegel, and sarai yolanda baca. forgive me if i mispronounce. good evening commissioners. my name is dan. since this is the last meeting for three commissioners, i wanted to come to thank the three commissioners for your public service to san francisco children and families. in addition, i wanted to simultaneously embarrass. commissioner jenny lam. while

also applauding her leadership. i wanted to sincerely thank her for being a critical bridge to city and county of san francisco and the school district over the years. for your tremendous leadership as a former president of the commission, for being a strong advocate for families and communities of color, particularly asian american families, including chinatown, and we wish you well and thank you again for your service. good evening. i'm susie siegel, guest host for jeopardy! who did i meet 30 years ago at edison elementary school, literally on saturday nights, working

tirelessly, doing everything he could to make learning meaningful for his students. who is school board commissioner and educator extraordinaire, mark sanchez, who co-founded organizations like teachers for change and teachers for social justice that fought for more resources for schools when per prisoner spending was way higher than per pupil spending. who is mark sanchez who understood the challenges and joys of working in sfusd? from the perspective of being both a principal and a teacher, and who continues to teach in public school classroom, all while working on the school board. mark sanchez who? yeah, say it with me. mark sanchez, whose bright light supported so many educators and colleagues, unwavering in his advocacy, especially for those most marginalized, humble, devoted, hard working, and a best friend with integrity that can't be matched. who is mark

sanchez? thank you, dear mark sanchez. thank you. go ahead. okay. good evening. thank you for having me. my name is sarai baca. i'm here to speak on bryant elementary school. i have a son who has autism. he's only two years, four years old. sorry for his school. has a lot of subs and there's no teacher. i need a curriculum. i need someone i can talk to. i would like a teacher that i can see every day and motivate myself to the teacher. i also have a 13 year old girl that goes to james lick middle school. i see all her teachers upset my son who is who is autism and goes to bryant school. we need to make a change. we need a teacher as soon as possible. thank you.

thank you. mr. president. commissioners of our school board and especially those of you who have during your tenure, distinguished yourselves with faithful, inclusive and consistent responses to hearing from the naacp and the african american community in general regarding the egregious problems that we've had in this school district for far too long. secondly, i wish to unfortunately share that the n-word is still with us in the school district. i have received

too many reports that are factual that we all have to collectively roll up our sleeves and live out the dictum of doctor martin luther king, who said injustice anywhere. injustice anywhere. thank you, reverend brothers affects all of us. where? and that goes for african americans in this town. so let us get with it. thank you and make it our collective problem to get rid of the mean hated speech. thank you. that has come before us. thank you. okay. my name is cheryl thornton, and i think that my card was in the wrong category. i was speaking on opposition to san francisco unified school district budget cuts, the proposed elimination of over 500 positions in san francisco

unified school district will severely harm students, staff and broader community. these cuts would increase class sizes, reduce support services, and disproportionately affect marginalized students, including those with special needs and low income families. san francisco unified school district is already struggling with vacant positions and operational insufficiencies, such as flawed payroll systems and budget mismanagement, which have destabilized the schools. instead of cuts to san francisco, unified school district should prioritize target central office reductions, advocate for additional state funding, and ensure existing funds such as the 790 million facilities bond, are effectively used. these strategies could preserve vital resources and maintain equity, avoiding long term damage. layoffs would cause to educational quality and community trust. thank you very much. okay, i'm calling the next

set of speakers. jody shuffles sam murphy, edward samaniego, amy clark, and kelly. hi, my name is jody shuffles. i'm a sixth grade teacher at bessie carmichael, and i'm here to emphasize that it is absurd to talk about cuts while our schools are still crippled by vacancies. at bessie, we have been short by two full time classroom teachers, which is hugely destabilizing, having day to day subs in a classroom for four months is a crisis, and should be treated as such every day. walking into work feels like an emergency. this burns people out and staff retention is important. if you cannot retain people, you are not building a functional organization. you are starting over from scratch every single year. not to mention how much students suffer, the lack of consistency in lesson plans, unit plans, timely feedback and relationship building is crippling to our students academic and socio emotional

growth. the egregious mismanagement in central office is at fault for this budget crisis. don't punish schools for that. we have the opportunity for a new competent direction in leadership in sfusd. so please show us as much. thank you. thank you. good evening. my name is edward samaniego. i am a teacher at sunnyside elementary school in the elementary division, chair for usf. the mismanagement by sfusd central office is the entity responsible for this budget crisis. it is unacceptable to balance the budget on the backs of school communities. educators show up every day and get the job done to serve our students and our families. sfusd leadership needs to do the same. our students and school sites are suffering because of the amount of educator vacancies this year alone. yet district leadership is considering cuts to staffing and necessary programing. say it with me y'all. where is lead?

where is lead? where is lead? taking the responsible ability to restructure the district offices to bring us to efficiency and cut the administrative positions that are not directly helping students and families. doctor sue and lead, show us some action to back up your salaries. you can start by hiring for sped positions, so that we can save thousands of dollars on legal fees due to lawsuits stemming from the district not providing mandated services. hi. how many special day classes do not have an accredited trained teacher in front of the class? there are 53 special sdcs rsps vacancies right now. how many sdcs and rsps are on emergency credential caseloads are out of compliance. this is a district asking teachers to do the impossible and it harms our children. and it moves qualified teachers into a different field. it creates lawsuits and it's unethical.

ieps literally have the minutes in them. we need to staff that. we need to staff them properly and staff with people that are part of our community, not contractors who. you know. yeah, same thing keeps getting said over and over. i'm i'm sorry. can you just back up a little bit from the mic? there you go. same thing keeps getting sucked. i'm sorry. i think you heard me the first two times. and frankly, i'm a veteran teacher 25 years, and so i've been coming here for 25 years. some of you have known for decades. and i want to tell you a couple little stories, but first, i want to say that these cuts or proposed cuts are cutting on bare bone. they are cuts upon cuts upon wounds that harm children. so i want to tell two little stories about staffing and under staffing. one is i teach 4 or 5. it's a split class with a double curriculum. we

make it work through extra hours. this year, the cde slashed our sabbatical teacher, so now we're teaching five classes with four teachers, which means that each student gets 25% less of me, less assessment, less attention, all of it. so that's one issue. also, another issue that affects us a little mini story is that we are seven paras short. and so what that means is we have a mod severe class. those paras get taken from my class to the to the mod severe class, which is appropriate. but then my ieps don't get served every week. thank you. staffing. yeah. so there was a decision to deduct a lot of money from special education in isolation of the

selpa director. part of that was they decided to summarily close 252 positions and then decided to reopen them. you can't undo something like like that. and they just go about your day. we are still in a crisis. in october, everyone was paying attention. you have stopped. this community needs to come back and understand we are in a crisis. h.r. needs to do fairs. we need to expedite, prioritize, do whatever it takes to get staffing in the classroom. if this continues, it's going to bring this district down. that's it. i'm wishing you the best of luck. thank you. the next set of speakers, frances rabbit, darcy chan blackburn, virginia marshall, chris klaus. and jamie

diner. oh, sorry. there we go. good evening, superintendent sue. and commissioners, my name is francis robert. i've been a special education teacher for 14 years at sherman elementary. i'm speaking tonight to urge the board of education of fully staff our schools for too many schools across the district showing up to educate the children of san francisco feels more like a daily crisis. they don't know if there are enough staff to keep the children safe yet alone. ensure a quality education that every student deserves. the district is currently struggling to keep experienced teachers, but in addition to that, teachers are weighing exorbitant amounts of time to even be on board and sometimes become so frustrated that they never even show up in the classrooms that they were hired to serve. in addition to

that, the needs that we're seeing are much greater. as a special education teacher, i see needs much greater every day. our students deserve better. please do not cut the schools. thank you, thank you. evening. i'm darcy chan blackburn. i teach at sheridan elementary school. i'm here to speak in opposition to one of the district's ways of cutting the budget. and that is cutting, creating split grade level classes. so if you have two small classes at similar grade levels, just put them together and you only have to pay for one teacher. well, that has obvious detrimental effects. here's a story about a second third grade split at sheridan. with the new curriculum, the teacher was instructed to teach the second grade curriculum and then teach third next year. understandably so, because, as we all know, it's a complex curriculum, but it has very negative consequences. at the same time, our two fourth fifth grade

teachers are teaching the fourth grade curriculum, and then we'll teach fifth next year. that means those third graders in the second and third split will be moving from a second grade curriculum to a fifth grade curriculum next year. just think about that. i mean, the practice of creating split grades negates the fact that these are people you're shuffling together, not things. treat them as students and the children that they are with there needs. hi, my name is jamie diner. i'm a speech therapist for the district. i've been here 22 years. please listen and please address the specific situation at bryant elementary school as soon as possible. there has not been a special education teacher in the preschool day class. special day class for students with extensive support needs. these are three and four year olds since last march, there have just been subs coming and going.

these subs have no idea what's in the kids ieps. they don't have experience with preschool or special education. the kids have no one to provide their curriculum, provide accommodations, consistency or routine. and also these kids are being separated into a separate classroom away from their typical peers in order to receive a special education. and they're not receiving it. it's a civil rights violation. and these are non-speaking kids who can't come home and tell their parents what's happening. imagine if your child came home day after day, week after week since last march and said, my teacher doesn't know my name, my teacher, i don't know my teacher's name. i could say a lot more. sorry, i ran out of time. thank you. i'm chris klaus, the sped department head at washington high school. i spent much of my summer in the last trimester of my pregnancy interviewing candidates for our open positions. and despite being on my child bonding leave this semester, i'm well aware of the vacancies that we have been

struggling struggling with this year. we are constantly forced to make decisions about which students will or will not receive the para support written into their ieps due to vacancies and para absences. my classes have had a rotation of at least five subs this semester. we are also down to one teacher. we are also down one teacher case manager, which has prevented us from opening up additional co-taught english and math classes to provide appropriate support for all students needing those courses. despite best faith efforts for our co-taught class, enrollments do not exceed 50% of students with ieps. we have multiple co-taught classes at or above that percentage, including my own with 64% and one freshman english class at 85%. students with ieps enrolled. so you can understand my fears when i hear about vacant positions being cut, we need to address the reasons why the positions are vacant and make sure to fully staff our schools. good. good evening. i

didn't bring my bell to say thank you to commissioners lamb. commissioner mark sanchez and commissioner bogus. thank you so much. especially thanks to educators sanchez and to bogus for especially to commissioner bogus for your work and your tireless efforts to help black and brown children in this district. sitting here for a board meeting is very disheartening to know that it's december and many of our schools do not have a teacher. it is disheartening. you need to commissioners of superintendent, icu and commissioners. you need to staff the classroom as if your child was in that class. if your child was that mother over there, that class would have her child a teacher. it is very disheartening. i'm also and of course, no budget cuts. i don't know where you get the money you waste the money on on. you know what i'm going to say? you waste the money on the payroll system. $44 million, another ten for a consultant. get that money back. find the money, please. and your student delegates. you do a

herculean job every board meeting. thank you. but my main point tonight is to talk about a position at james lick middle school where there's a woman in that position who should not be there. please help us get her out of that position. thank you, thank you. okay, i'll call the next group of speakers. aga gorska. nora atkinson, gina. shearer. leslie who? and laura kennedy. good evening. my name is aga gorski. i'm the speech and language pathologist at bryant elementary school. i've been teaching there for 11 years, 11 years, and i'm fluent in spanish and i'm part of the community. i'm really disheartened that we don't have special day teacher in our sdc class since march. our kids are not being provided what they need. also, last month they closed our jeanette and pre-k

class so our students have no longer access to typically developing peers for mainstreaming and one student who should be mainstreaming is totally regressing. so it's very disheartening to see students who were who going backwards. something needs to be done. this is just unacceptable. please hear us. thank you. all right. hello. good evening. i'm nora atkinson, and i am the third through fifth grade extensive needs teacher at ikwo elementary. i'd really like to talk about the staff vacancies at my school. since the start of the year. the k through two extensive needs class at my school has not had a classroom teacher. there seems to be no posting on the position for at the district website. despite admirable efforts of the

principal and the staff to fill the gap, these students need the expertise and the consistency that only a trained special education teacher can provide. i don't understand. i don't understand how nine kids don't have this teacher, and you're not trying to fix the situation. thank you. thank you. i'm gina scher, i'm the reading specialist in second grade, math teacher at uco. nora's crying because children, people are getting injured in that classroom. it's very it's very serious. in addition to that vacancy, we have no music teacher, no pe teacher. they are music and pe are part of a

healthy, rigorous, well-rounded curriculum. voters approved parcel taxes to ensure all students receive high quality music and pe instructions. parents have a choice. they can go to charter and private schools to get the quality instruction their children deserve. we can't afford to lose more students. they deserve better than random subs each week, babysitting them when they should be learning content that they need for life, for reading comprehension, for everything. there is at least one applicant for these positions. please fill it now. good evening. my name is leslie. who? i'm the secretary of netta, educators of san francisco, and also works centrally supporting the community schools. specifically, the success of the california community schools partnership program grant and student success funds. i'm here because of the proposal to eliminate over 500 positions. this will

decimate the workforce and therefore destabilize the schools that would directly, negatively impact students. this proposal is happening in the exact same breath that we have over $13 million of guaranteed monies from student success funds that dozens of our schools cannot hire for this year, dozens of artists, lit coaches, parents, social workers and other staff cannot be hired. this is use it or lose it money. meaning if this money is not spent, all these schools will lose this money at the end of june of 2025. i don't understand how these things are all happening simultaneously in the same system. how do we as adults get our act together in order to best serve our students and families? why are we going to the nuclear option of eliminating positions instead of fixing our books and improving systems so students have the schools our students deserve?

for all? hi. thank you to outgoing commissioners. my name is laura kennedy. i am a parent to a kindergartner at jaqua elementary. last week, schools across sfusd celebrated inclusive schools week at yuquot. miss nora, who you heard from, saw to it that all kids in our schools, including my kindergartner, were able to experience that. the theme was every voice matters. today i want to give voice to the students across the southwest who are still without special day class teachers or paraeducators. you've heard from many. tonight at yuquot elementary, ten students in our k through two program are still without their full time teacher. my understanding is that we do have somebody lined up and there's something tied up with credentials. and i think this is true for many special education teachers and paraeducators. i know there's been tremendous focus on rectifying and stabilizing the budget. i work

in finance. i get the complexity of that and the challenges. my request is that we do not yet turn the page on this school year and fill positions that are vacant, especially for those most in need. thank you. i'm going to call the final group. you can come on up. tiana tillery. allen i'm sorry i can't see your last name. allen day i can't i can't read the apologies. michelle. pseudo and cassandra curio. allen. hello, my name is michelle chanel. i am an educator in the access program at san francisco international high school, and i am a proud member of united educators of san francisco. i'm also on our special education committee. and although i'm glad

that the district has put more details in its budget, the proposal to balance the budget on the backs of our students and our educators is not only disheartening, but it's irresponsible. giving the district's historical mismanagement. our students deserve the best education that our district can possibly provide our educators, including paraeducators, including our nurses, including our counselors and our social workers. they are the ones who provide the education to our students. it's not central office management. in just last week, we have been hearing horror stories that some of you heard here tonight where educators and paraeducators have been describing these conditions about being hurt because they're not fully staffed, not being able to meet the iep needs of

their students, and they're thinking of leaving the district. we have been in conversation with regina and other district leaders in special education to provide. i'm sorry. that's your time. thank you. yeah. we want more educators. not. good evening. my name is alan d'souza. i'm a librarian at city college. i have the joy of serving your students that come through our doors. i have a joy of working with a dual enrollment students that come through our doors. and i love what happens there. i'm afraid of what's happening in 2025, where the threat is going to cut down on your students staying in our city, your students staying in our college, and you're doing the job by by cutting schools and cutting cutting classes and not letting. your students learn. you're doing the job of the next administration. don't do that.

please. please keep your schools open. keep your fill your fill your positions, and make sure every student has an opportunity to get through life successfully. i'm double checking in case anybody came. hi, everybody. i'm cassandra curry. i'm the president of united educators of san francisco, representing 6000 paraeducators teachers, counselors, nurses, social workers. i left some people out, i'm sorry, who work in the schools, right. teaching our 49,000 students who are. that's up a thousand. can i just tell you from last year's number i told you, right. the better our schools and more stable our enrollment is, which is one of the things i heard in our report and hoping that that really streamlines through the easier it is for families of san francisco to enroll and get into a neighborhood school where they can get their student there because muni hasn't come back online is easier for our students to remain in san francisco public schools. we want enriching public school

environments. our students want as many opportunities not just to learn the a through g requirements, to get their diplomas to get out, but also to enjoy their school experience. and when our folks are under attack in multiple ways, whether it's our federal government's rhetoric, whether it's even here locally, no matter what's happening, our students need to know they can come to school safe. and when we have understaffed classrooms, they're not able to come to school safe. i am watching these issues happen. my members are taking care of students as much as they can, and we know that there are not enough people. so any rhetoric that somehow we got too many teachers up in the school, you please any rhetoric around how much money we make? that's not a thing. that's not a thing. you should be proud. you should be promoting how much money san francisco can promote for educators to come and teach here, to fill the vacancies we have now, and not move forward with any further cuts that would destabilize our programs? thank you. thank you. i did have a card for tiana tillery. tiana.

okay, great. thank you. that concludes in-person public comment. we have approximately. 15 minutes for online public comment. so at this time we will have our online public comment. each speaker will have one minute. we'll start with our students, move on to agenda items and then non-agenda items. if time allows for that. can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese? el bueno es este es el turno para las personas estan en linea. esto es para los estudiantes y cosas en la agenda. cuando tener un minuto solamente gracias. so i, i will. so among. the ad hoc

sang to see how they were gonna go home and how they are eating home. okay. thank you. so at this time, if you're a student, please raise your hand again. this is an opportunity for students to speak. if you're a student, please raise your hand. sb. hello? can you hear me? yes, we can hear you. wonderful. thank you so much for having me. there's a lot to say about the report that was given, but among other things, i would really be appreciated if your staff that presented. i'm so sorry to interrupt you. are you a student? no no no no no. okay, i'll be quiet. sorry. this was a time for students to speak. oh i apologize. no worries, no worries. i just want to make sure we're not missing our students. okay? chris, if you're. i see, christy, there's a hand up. if you're a student, this is a time for students to

speak. no. okay. we will now move on to agenda items. anyone? please raise your hand. sb, i'm so sorry about that. go ahead. please. okay. i'm back. am i back? yes. yes, please. great. i'm sorry that the students were not there to speak. there's, as i say, there's so much to say about the report, but i would really appreciate if the report did not quietly blame the need on site based budget cuts on the overdue recent teacher and para raise agreements, especially after this district just paid the outgoing superintendent a full year severance package in healthcare after he was only mucking about here for two years. i hope that you will stop, please, blaming your educators and gaslighting families about that. in contrast, i actually wanted to come to appreciate the commissioners who have the lived experience as being line staff within sfusd, and in particular, i wanted to shout out the outgoing commissioner sanchez, for decades of work as a board

commissioner of sfusd. thank you for your dedication over so much time as you kept students at the center, particularly our under taught black and brown young people. thank you for your essential role as the duckduckgo external hard drive for this board, often humbly dropping essential historical knowledge somehow without mansplaining and history that may disappear without you. thank you for the essential lens you have brought as a current working public school teacher. as a former sfusd principal, and as a creative leader who truly centers our students social justice and equity even during challenging times, centering the codified tenants of sfusd that sfusd sometimes only mentions performatively, and failing to keep those at the center of this work. your voice will be missed during this. again, quite challenging time. thank you for your service. thank you. good morning. can you. bernice, good evening. my name is bernice casey. i'm a parent of two sfusd

kids. i want to take a few seconds to really acknowledge and appreciate commissioner bogus. i will miss you. you have been one of the few commissioners that held the district accountable when they start to blame sites. i hope that your peers will follow that lead. and thank you for coming to school sites and hearing directly from families. before this meeting started, you had a closed session in which you decided who you were going to pay and who you weren't going to pay. if you keep underfunding special education, you're closed session will be even longer. crunch the numbers. if you don't provide services that are mandated by state and federal law, you will be sued. thank you. thank you. tom. hi, my name

is tom. i'm a special ed teacher at dolores huerta. i have two students there as well. i think this is an agenda item because it's in the city of san francisco, and it's astonishing to me that i've worked in this district for ten years, that if you go to the main website, if you're a parent, which i am, and if you're a teacher, which i am, you don't know who to contact for certain things. this is why the there is so many vacancies. it says leave a message and no one ever calls you back. board commissioner said email us. no one ever responds back. so it's kind of i'm kind of done with the lip service of the district leaders and the board commissioners who say, yep, we hear you. yep, we'll respond to you. and then they never does. and it just goes silent. and then we hear you ask questions and comments and like to hear yourself talk for 20, 30 minutes, but then you don't really hear what is being said and make change. i have seen commissioner bogus and mark sanchez do that. it's

unfortunate that they're leaving because other ones that are there and the ones that are coming in hopefully, like you actually do some action instead of just the lip service. i'm sorry to interrupt you. that is your time. thank you. tina. oh, hi. good evening. my name is tina. i'm a parent of a student at everett middle school. in the special day class program. mild moderate pathway. and i'm calling in tonight to speak in support of the nomination of two new members to the community advisory committee. i am a member and a board member at large, and excited to congratulate and welcome our nominees, viola garcia and ariella velu. as we've heard tonight in many comments, there is much, much work to be done in our special education department, as i'm sure you're all aware, and we are just thrilled to have two new members

joining us to continue this very arduous work, and we thank them and welcome them. thank you, thank you. galen. hello, it's galen, i am a parent at san francisco community school. i also have the bug that everybody seems to have at school right now. so i've lost my voice and i apologize. so, sfc, we would like to concur with so many things that we've heard tonight, especially coming from the staff and heartbreaking. i'm also really sad to see commissioner bogus go. thank you for everything you've done. we're going to miss you big time. so we have not had a new monitor or any new monitors since august, or a para. other, other staff

and sometimes parents like myself have been doing the work to help out. and so often staff members should be prepping or doing other valuable work with students, and they're trapped covering an open position, and people are reaching burnout. i keep hearing that sfusd has kicked the can of fixing the budget far enough, and now we have to do something. but kicking the can, fixing the budget is not going to happen on the backs of our students. further, i concur that you will be cutting the bone. thank you. i'm sorry to have to interrupt your time. thank you. christy. hi, my name is christy erickson. i'm a teacher at abraham lincoln high school. i've been in the district for over 30 years. i just want to say the last few years have been extremely difficult with staffing. we continue to have para vacancies. we're still waiting for a special educator to be onboarded. since the summer

time. security vacancies. the schools need to be fully staffed. it is very, very challenging for the students to be able to learn and affirm when they have no teacher. we added an asl class this year. the district decided that they were not going to hire the teacher that was in the pipeline because they needed ada accommodations and the district didn't want to pay for those. so we have students sitting in a classroom now with no teacher, and will continue that way until june. we need our classes staffed. thank you, thank you. anna. this is anna garcia. sorry i got caught in the middle, i was eating, i came to talk about the budget

and the cuts that are happening to students. and it just it's making me think about how we treat our most marginalized is reflects us as a society. and i think about the schools that were targeted for closure and are now staying open, but are under-resourced and set up to fail. and the sped budget cuts that are proposed. and i just think that those budget cuts and those budget decisions are reflecting how we are treating our kids in society and who we're targeting. and i think those are the most urgent needs. thank you. anna. hi, this is anna klafter. i'm principal at independence high school and

president of united administrators of san francisco. i hadn't planned on speaking, but this feels really important right now. as a former special education paraprofessional teacher and rsp case manager, these are the kids who need support the most. we talk about social justice and we have so many students without teachers and support staff in the district. these are the decisions that are going to damage us as a district and an organization. we really need to staff up. we need to prioritize serving these students. it's not just a federal mandate, but it's at the core of what we do as a school district. thank you, thank you. shivangi. i am actually a parent at mira loma, so i wanted to bring up some

issues specifically related to flooding and nonfunctional bathrooms at mira loma. the principal reed has actually requested for infrastructural updates, but a lot of the changes that have happened are are like band aid kind of changes. so today, kids don't have a functional bathroom. the tk k classroom, the k classroom was flooded. there is sewage smell. there is really bad odor. we have raised william complaint as as parents. right. but we need support from the board and from sfusd to help miss reed make all the infrastructural changes to look forward to the upcoming rain season like january on so that we have safe environment for our kids. thank you. that does conclude the amount of time allotted for virtual public comment. thank you very much and thank you to everyone who shared public comment. it's always.

appreciated. all right. we will now move to item d seven. the commissioner farewell. and as everyone i think knows by now, this is a significant moment for us as we say farewell to three of our wonderful colleagues who are stepping down. i want to take a brief moment to recognize each of them, and then i'll open up to see if my colleagues want to, and then we can see if they have comments they want to share. so kevin bogus has served for the past four years, and he and i joined the board together. and i have just it's just i felt like we were kind of comrades in arms, but but more importantly than that, i've just really appreciated your integrity and consistent commitment, especially to our black students, our low income students, all of our students of color and our most marginalized students, and your willingness to continuously push even when it was unpopular. and so just

thank you. it's been an honor serving with you. and we'll miss you. commissioner jenny lamb, who has served for five years and who six years. oh, that's a that's a script mistake on my part. sorry. i shouldn't throw six years. well, it's because she she had to be. she was elected so many times. she was elected like 12 times within those six years because because she was so popular and she was showing such good leadership that she kept getting reelected. but it's true. and i just it's been i feel like i've learned so much from you and your leadership. and in particular, one of the things that will always sit with me is how you stepped in after the recall and took the risk, really to make a courageous decision to say we're going to lead the board in a new direction, we're going to get student outcomes governance done. and you did it in a collaborative fashion. you did it in a way that really brought people along, but it was also

bold and it was a risk, and i think it was the right risk to take. and it's been shown that it's paid off. and i just think we'll svusd will be in your debt for a long time for that. so just much respect. and it's been really an honor serving with you and commissioner mark sanchez, who has served on the board for about 75 years. if we're going to if we're going to get the numbers wrong, i'm going to really get the numbers wrong. but that's accurate. yeah. he actually and for if people want to know the real story, he was on the board starting in when 2000, 2001, 2001 was on for eight years, then left and then came back and has served another eight years. so he's served more than most in the history of this, of this district, i think. and just, you know, yeah jill wins maybe has did more. yeah. so jill is listening. she mark doesn't have you beat but but

just i've known mark that entire time. and just so he's an old friend and colleague and someone who i first met him when he was a teacher and was advocating for the rights of teachers. somebody else, i think one of the public commenters mentioned it, teachers for change back in the late 90s, and has just consistently stood as someone and bringing the voice of educators to the district over the course of that quarter century and more of service. so thank you. it's been an honor. and i'm sure with all of all of you, i just hope i know you'll continue to be involved in sfusd in different ways. and just, just i want to express my personal gratitude on behalf of the board and the district. just we are we are deeply, deeply grateful to all of you for your service. so thank you. so yes, we can feel free to applaud. and do others colleagues want to want to make any comments, commissioner fisher? well, i would like to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude to all three of you. i'm going to

call you retiring school board commissioners because while you have 26 years combined, your years of overall service in the classroom and parent advocacy is well over 50. so i think this should be a retirement party then. right? so. but your leadership and commitment have made a profound impact on the future of our community, keeping us focused on our most marginalized students, keeping us focused on our educators, bringing in new governance structures. as president alexander said, you're helping us ensure that we not only meet the needs of today, but we're set up for tomorrow. so thank you so much. your work is often behind the scenes. i did not expect to be working with such a collaborative, thoughtful group,

such a smart, insightful thought group of people. i don't know why i didn't, but getting onto the board, especially watching everything that happened in the pandemic, the things that you shepherded us through the. i'm so grateful to have served from you and appreciated watching how we don't all always agree, but everything we do is in service of our students. and so thank you for setting that direction that hopefully the rest and the next will continue to model moving forward. so thank you very much. i will also echo the gratitude, the deep, deep gratitude for this, not just the service to this board, but really a service to our city and the leadership that you all have set for. if i say a young educator as myself, but organizationally, i think our board is just a different place today because of the work that

you all have put forward in this room. and our district is in a different place today than we have been in the past. so, so thank you for that work. and personally, as an educator of color as well, to see three strong, focused, principled, honorable leaders of color in this district. it means a lot to me. i know it means a lot to many of our educators out there, and we are losing a lot. as you all step away from this, from this dais. and so thank you for your leadership. thank you for your friendship and for the drains, mark, and thank you all for just being just champions for me, for us and for this district. thank you. all right. would any of you like to share

some parting wisdom or thoughts with the rest of us? we have one last part to our. okay, okay, no time limit. this is one of the ones where you could talk for the next 30 minutes if you want. oh. one minute. oh okay. yeah. we have a in the spirit of, you know, focusing our time on student outcomes, i'll keep it brief. i won't take up too much time. other people's time. i do want to thank my colleagues on the board, past and present, all these years for the collegiality and for their their challenging, sometimes challenging views on things and their opinions, as well as the successes that we've had over the years. it's been really tough, obviously, over the last five years since the pandemic, particularly, and i think that i definitely am the oldest person on this board at the dais, but i think i aged a lot more during the pandemic and the subsequent years. so i'm really happy for myself in a

way, for leaving at this particular time. but i'm also a really grateful for all the support i've had over the years i've run four times and been successful with a lot of support from educators, folks in the queer community, and so many others. i'm really grateful for that ongoing support and for the support of our family from our families and students. it's my actually more gratifying to me than being on the board, actually, as was being a teacher in this district and being a principal in this district and really working with students and families on the daily and understanding their needs and helping to work collaboratively to make sure that their lives and outcomes were better. and so having that lens has been really good for me on the board, i think to be able to share my, my experiences and to help make decisions on this board. i also want to say thank you to one of

my besties out there, susie, who who spoke, she she actually she did talk about jeopardy! but we actually did a little road trip once to the price is right and bob barker and susie when she got on stage and won. and so just like i've had such wonderful educator friends and over the years and i'm just really, really grateful for all of that and also for just the folks that have worked in this district. they're such hard workers. you deserve more, obviously, and we will eventually get out of this huge rut that we're in. and best of luck to the people that are coming onto the board. so thank you all. and i'll i'll go next. i think i just just to reflect my time on the board, i think starting as a student back when i was young in the 80s, graduating from the district, then coming back and volunteering at my high school and then working at coleman advocates and working with students and families in the

district. i think it's really given me a great perspective on being in this position and the importance of accountability and solidarity and transparency. and so i think, like the people who i want to thank the most are the people who probably have yelled at me the most and who have consistently filled up my email or my voicemail, because i think a lot of what we do is reflected in the frustration and the anger and the joy that the public shares with us to really keep us accountable and open. when i ran for office with some of my other colleagues here, i think a lot of what we wanted to see was the district regain the trust of the public to solve the structural deficit by bringing in additional revenue and really address the gap that our students are facing, our high achieving students and our low achieving students. and we did not solve that problem. but i did think we had turned our attention to it. and so i think

as we move forward, it's just really important for us all collectively to work together. and i have higher levels of accountability and really to not accept the status quo and really try to push back on that. i think it's really easy for us up here to want to feel good about ourselves and kind of reflect on the progress, and like when i started in the district, it was a much more horrible place than it is now. and like we've made progress and things have gotten a lot better. and i think we're hopefully on a path to continue that. but i think being honest about where we are, and i think for us is the leadership of the district to do a better job with our student delegates and the public of just letting you know what's going on and why it's going on, like, why are we making the decisions we're making, whether you like them or not, to really give you that full transparency, because it's different when you sit up here and you have to try to reflect and balance on everything. i guess the last thing i will say is, i think it's really important for us to figure out what we can let go of so we can get to where we have to go. the way our school district is set up right now is not sustainable.

both the good things and the bad things just don't work in a way that gets us the results we want to see. and i think we really have to be honest about ourselves of what are we willing to let go? what are we willing to reconsider? are we willing to start over in some ways to build something that really works for our community and our kids? because right now we're not doing enough to support all of them. and as a parent, i care about that a lot. and i know you do, too. and i know the folks up here do, and i know the folks who are going to be up here will as well. and so i ask all of us to do our part. elected officials making good decisions and the public yelling at us if we don't, and helping us learn in real time how to be better partners and representatives of you. thank you so much. thank you. tonight is definitely a bittersweet moment. after six intensive years, and it's been just an incredible journey. that's one that's been filled with joy, heartache, challenges,

accomplishments, and just immense gratitude. who would have imagined a daughter of immigrants from hong kong to oakland? the year that i was born and a proud product of public schools in the east bay. i still remember the first day of kindergarten not understanding one word of english, but yet really feeling the sense of connection and care from my teachers and my educators. and i just benefited so very much from the innovative teaching of educators from the time i was five years old to the time, i would say in middle school, that's when i started to lose that confidence. i think it's natural of adolescent development, and adults at that time just started to my relationship also shifted, and those are some key moments in my own educational journey as well as in high school. i like to

share the story, especially to our students and to young people, that it was a high school counselor that i was meeting with mr. g. that mentioned to me that i didn't have the test scores nor the grades to go to uc, and perhaps not even cal state universities. i looked him in the eye and said, mr. g, i'm going to be the first in my family to go to college, so i am going to apply and fast forward, i received my acceptance letter to uc santa barbara, and that is how the history goes. and ever since then, in my adult life, i have dedicated to ensuring that young people and students, each and every one of them, that deserves an opportunity, a chance would be how i lead. and as a parent of now, get to be a proud. in my

15th year, i calculated 15 years as an sfusd parent, and i will also be wrapping up my journey as an sfusd parent this spring when my son graduates. thank you and i have such immense gratitude to the educators that have raised my children with me and my husband. and this district has given me so much, and given our family so much. and it's just the least that i could do is to serve here on this board. we've been through a lot together, and it has tested us time and time again from crisis. it felt crisis after crisis, going through a pandemic. but really it is the community that's come together around this resiliency and that we're rising together back

again. and i just am very proud of this work and the gratitude to each and every one of you in this room. to everyone that makes up the community. sfusd and i often talk about that. systems don't live and breathe on their own. it is people who make up systems. so when we talk about the words of equity and justice, we each have a responsibility on delivering on those values and principles. and that self-reflection is what it takes. and if we're finding that the system is failing or not serving our communities and our children at its heart, then it is upon us to be part of that change and to look inward. and so i am so thankful to superintendent sue. we've been through it, and i am so grateful that you've stepped into this

role. i am grateful to you, president alexander. we've been through a lot as well. and to have to continuum of our only educator starting in january to serving on the board, i think is really important to ensuring that the voices and experience of educators and parents will continue. so i am so grateful to you all. i also want to give a big thank you to my family. they have been the rocks and pillars for me and my husband's actually here. i was shocked to see him. i think this is his first in-person school board meeting. and i am so grateful for the love and trust. and while this chapter with sfusd is closing for me in this way, i know the

important work continues and i look forward to working with you all in my new capacity, however they may be. and yes, to our student delegates, i am here to support you. i would not be in this role of leadership had it not been my own mentors over the years. so i absolutely am ready to serve you in these new ways. so thank you. okay, but before we let you go, well, you do have to vote on the budget and some things like that. but before we get to that part, there's also a few things we want to thank and celebrate. you. our mayor, mayor london breed has would like to say thank you. and her phenomenal representative hong peng, who is here to share some words from the mayor who's been, by the way, as we know, a really strong partner, especially over the past. i mean, for the whole time we've been on the board, but especially for the past, past month. so welcome. thank

you. thank you, president alexander. and good evening, student delegates, commissioners and superintendent sue. my name is hong peng and i am the youth and family advisor to mayor london breed. and i want to take this opportunity to extend my appreciation for commissioner sanchez, bogies and commissioner lam, for your courageous leadership and your public stewardship during your tenure. i specifically want to, on behalf of mayor london breed, make a special presentation to commissioner jenny lam tonight. commissioner lam, you have been a steadfast advocate for education, equity and civil rights for over three decades, removing barriers to narrow the opportunity gap for children and young people, particularly those furthest from access. and it's been my privilege to be able to work with you over the years, dating back to our time in the community. during your time in the mayor's office, you provided instrumental leadership to bring people together to solve big problems while being on the

school board. you were instrumental in helping the district navigate through a once in a lifetime pandemic to mitigate the impacts of learning loss and support the social emotional recovery of children and young people in this city. you have been a clear eyed leader, whether on the school board, to enact student outcomes focused governance or as a city leader to champion greater access to universal early child care and education, and as a public school alum and parent, your belief in the transformational power of education provides a powerful anchor for how you have led, and a compass for how we ought to carry forward. so, on behalf of mayor london breed, it is my honor to extend this recognition to you. thank you for your leadership and service and to all the outgoing commissioners. thank you, thank you, thank you. we wish you all the best in your future endeavors. so, commissioner lam, this is from mayor breed. thank you. and now

we have a few gifts so you won't forget us. and so some. thank you to the board, office, staff, superintendent su and the staff for arranging these. all right. thank you, thank you, thank you again to all of you for your service. we will miss you. and but you're not done yet. like i said, we've got a few more items to go. so let's

move on to item f, which is advisory committee reports and appointments. first we have the appointments for the community advisory committee for special education. superintendent sue, do you want to introduce this. thank you. president alexander, as designated by resolution number 60 3-987, which creates the community advisory committee for special education. the our our sped ccac is forwarding to two members to be appointed to this body. both of these members have demonstrated strong commitment to the ccac by attending two consecutive meetings already have already started participating, and so we recommend a approval of their

appointment. okay, so may i please have a motion and a second on the appointment of the two members? it's not here in the item, so i'm not sure if we need to read the names. maybe somebody could help me out. no. okay. the members to the go ahead. yeah, it's number one. via velu. sorry if i'm mispronouncing and violeta garcia. yeah. so to the community advisory committee for special education. correct. so is there a board? so. sorry, can i have a motion in a second? so moved. second. wonderful. thanks. so now, is there any discussion, comments or questions from board members? commissioner fisher, did you want to go? did you want to go. sorry. did you was your hand up? you can go first. go ahead. thank you. i want to extend my thank you to all the parents and educators who've spoken out

about issues in the district. with that said, with all the understaffed classrooms that were clearly upset about, how could we ensure that the early retirement plan benefits teachers well-being? okay, wait, this is about the early early retirement. are your comments about the early retirement? yeah, yeah, yeah. okay. so let's wait on that because this is the yeah. so this is the community advisory committee for special education. okay then, commissioner fisher yeah, i just wanted to thank both violeta and mariella for their service. they have as as doctor sue already mentioned, they've already stepped up and been of huge apparent leadership within the district and done a lot of great work with the cac. and as i've said before, you know, it's a heavy lift at a pay grade of zero. and frankly, the cac's

leadership has been transformational in raising alarm bells when and raising topics of special education under staffing. and they've really been the canary in the coal mine. and really without them, a lot of the issues that we're talking about today might not have even been uncovered. so i do want to thank them for their dedication, the work they do, the meetings with district staff, the executive board meetings, the planning for the every month is a different parent education workshop. and so first of all, thank you to the cac leadership. and secondly, if you all haven't attended a cac meeting, they're the fourth thursday of every month except for july and december attend. there's a lot of great information that's shared and it's a great way to find community. so thank you. all right. let's have a roll call. vote if there's no other comments. thank you. student

delegate montgomery. yes. student. delegate lam. yes, commissioner. bogas. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes. commissioner. kim. yes. commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wiseman. board president. alexander. yes. six eyes. yes. thank you. so now we'll move to item f2. the approval of hannah dore for the parcel tax oversight committee. superintendent sue, thank you, president alexander. the parcel tax oversight committee provides essential services. i'm sorry. it provides the essential service of ensuring that funds from the quality teacher education act of 2020, 2008 and the fair wage of educator act of 2020 are being used in a manner consistent with the will of the voters. the ballot measure language for each parcel tax explicitly requires sfusd to maintain this body for this purpose. so the request from staff here is to appoint hannah

dore to serve on this committee as a member for a two year term. hannah is actually a well respected community member and has been a service provider in our nonprofit organizations as well as in the community for many, many years. thank you. may i have a motion and a second on this item? so moved. second, thank you. is there any discussion or questions from board members? commissioner fisher, i would just like to thank mr. for her service. seeing no other comments. let's do a roll call. vote please okay. thank you. student delegate montgomery. yes. student. delegate. lamb. yes, commissioner. bogus. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes. commissioner. kim. yes. commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wiseman. board president. alexander. yes. six eyes. thank you. all right. we will now move to item g to

section g, the action items. and the first one, g one is the fiscal year 20 2425. first interim report negative fiscal certification for the san francisco unified school district and county office of education. may i have a motion and a second, please? so moved. second, thank you. superintendent sue. any. this is the moment everyone's been waiting for, which is for us to share with everyone. the update, which is our first interim budget. so i'm going to call doctor michelle huntoon, our associate superintendent of business services, amy beyer, our associate superintendent of air marin trujillo, our chief of staff, and roseanne lascano, our interim cfo, to the dais to present our first interim. and how long should we put for the

timer for the presentation? five. oh, sorry, i was sorry, i wasn't kidding. no, no, i would just love to know how long so we can. and if you need to request more time, you can. but i'm going to say maybe 20 for the presentation or including. so let's do the presentation part. should we set it for want to set it for 15 okay okay. and we can extend the time i just i think it's good to have a time and then we can decide to extend it. and so thank you so much. for the. good evening. president alexander. superintendent sue and commissioners, thank you. this evening we are presenting to you the first interim report.

budget report in this report is the first checkup for the 2425 adopted budget. so that budget was adopted in june. and this is a checkup to that that action that was taken. so we're going to cover several areas this evening in this presentation. first the first interim report, we will talk about the budget assumptions associated with that as well as the fiscal stabilization plan. we'll start out with just an update. thank you. we're going to start out with just an update from the legislative analyst's office. so each year the legislative analyst's office in november does an update. and they review the adopted budget for the year that was adopted by the legislature and the governor. and they really checked to ensure how are the projections,

the revenues coming in that were projected as part of that budget? and so what they're seeing is that the revenues that are coming in are better than expected. and so they look at the current year, but then they also take a brief look at the subsequent year. so looking at 2526. and they are also seeing where revenue and increase in revenue for 2526 is currently being projected based on the data points that they have available to them, but they are also seeing an increase in expenditures. so for the most part, what what they're projecting for 2526 year is a flat funding. and this is really kind of the first blush of what we might see in 25, 26. so as we look at the enrollment this chart depicts in the green bars, the number of schools that we've had starting in 1999, 2000, going through 20 or 20, 23, 24.

and for the most part, for the majority of those years, you can see that those the number of schools have been pretty static. the red line depicts the enrollment from that same year of 99 2000, starting at 60,000 students and going down to 2324 at 49,000 students or thereabouts. so this next enrollment trend is really pulling together. seabeds the p2 ada, as well as funded ada. so we'll see in the blue line is the seabeds. the orange line is the p2 ada and the funded ada is in green. can we. sorry. yeah, i was going to say just for the sake of the public, can you say what p2 and ada mean? i was going to. yes. thank you for that. and seabed. so yeah. so seabeds this isn't a certified enrollment number that is taken every year in school districts.

it's the first wednesday of every october. and so that is a certified number by the department of education. and our p2 ada. that also is reporting period. that determines what we are funded on. it's on or before april 15th. april 15th. it's the last school months of the year before april 15th. and then our funded ada actually is something that happened during covid. so as we went through the years of covid, we had two years where we were held harmless. so in 1920, whatever that number was, we were held harmless for two years. after that point in time, it was pretty clear across the state that declining, declining enrollment was pretty significant. and so there was a change in the law that allows for three year averaging of average daily attendance. and that really is the students attending school. okay. we have

our enrollment. that's what we serve all students. but the ada that we are funded on average daily attendance is actually the number of days that a student is attending school. so you might have students attending maybe 100%. not very often because students get ill and there are times that they are out of school and miss lascano will talk about some of the assumptions that we used, but that just shows that trend. can we go back? i'm sorry, just one minute. i just want to show you can see very clearly in those out years of 25, 26, 26, 27 as the green and the orange line comes together, the further we move away from covid, we see that those three year averages are starting to come together. so thank you. okay. next slide. sorry alicia. thank you. so now i'm going to turn it over to miss lascano. and she's going to

go through the county office of education financials. yes okay. the county office of ed started the year with $13 million. and that is a leftover carryover from 2324. we're projecting to receive 20 million in revenues and spend approximately 23 million. that is that is a deficit. we're spending 2.7 million more than the revenues we're bringing in for the year. but because we have an ending fund balance, the carryover of 13.5 million, we can cover that deficit. and we end the year with 10.8 million, that 10.8 we're projected to carry to 25, 26. our revenues are projected to go up to 23.6 million in the

following year, up to 24 million. our expenditures are relatively flat at 21 million each year, and we do not deficit spend, and we're not projected to deficit spend in either of the out years. and that's leaving us in 25, 26 with a fund balance of 13.6 million and 26.27, a fund balance of 16.8 million. and i forgot to say thank you for giving me the opportunity to work here. so what did i sorry? the numbers you were just saying verbally were not the same, are not the same ones that are on the slide. i don't know if that's. because we started with 13.5. no, we started with 13. yeah, yeah. oh sorry. the slide that's on board docs. the one that's on board docs is different from this one.

oh okay. okay. yeah. the print i'm looking at the printout and it's different. so i don't know. or maybe that's okay okay. can we. sorry to interrupt but can we get the updated one and get it uploaded after the presentation. because the one that's on board docs is the old one. yeah. or whenever you have it. yeah. thanks. yeah. let's move forward. but i mean, i guess. yeah, we really need to get our documentation consistent. i mean, this i'm looking at the one that was posted with the agenda on friday, not the early one, but the one that was posted by the agenda on friday. and this is these numbers are different. so that creates a lot of confusion for the board and the public. so i guess what we're using, what we're seeing and i guess is different than what you've got

on board docs. so we will we will make sure that we check the board docs after there's an adjustment. well, it would be good to understand why it changed after the posting. also, thanks. thanks. to the. yeah just go to budget assumptions okay. so the budget assumptions are are the building blocks that we use to build the budgets for 2425, we have the enrollment of 49,185. we're projecting a decrease in the out years to 48,005 20 and 2526 and 47,636 and 2627. and we're using a 93% attendance rate, which is the average that we're seeing right now. so that brings the attendance, the ada, the projection to 45,682 for this

year, 45 324 for 25, 26 and 45, 273 and 2627. we are given a cola and based on the economy, and that's 1.7% for this year, 2.46 and 2.46 in the out years. because of the declining enrollment, though, the actual impact of the cola is 3.3%. so the effective change on the lcff is 1.96. and the other years we go up. at this point in time, though, these numbers may change based on the negotiations between the governor and the legislature. so our target base, our class size reduction lcff is

15 million in each year. well, it's up to 16 and 26. 27. our career technical education supplement is 4.5 million. and the total entitlement for this year is 634,000,448 231, which may change depending upon the student attendance and the number that we report at p2. our total per ada is 13,888. for 24, 25, 14,000 projected to be 14,261 and 2526 and 14,732. in 2627. the next one. so, based on these budget assumptions, our

our interim, our financial reports, without any reductions are as presented on this slide for 2425, we're deficit spending 110 million. but because we have an ending balance of 118 million, we are meeting our required reserves in 2526, we're projected to deficit spend by 127.9 million. but because we are basically using up the one time ending balance in 2425, we do not have, we end the year with at $9.2 million negative, which we do not, does not allow us to meet our economic reserves for uncertainty. and then in 26, 27, we're deficit spending again. and our ending fund balance is projected at 120 7.4.

and so we again do not meet our reserve for economic uncertainties. and these two are representing a structural deficit where we do not have enough in our ending balance to cover the reserves. the required reserves, our restricted budgets, deficit spend in 24, 25 and 2526, but come out in 2627. they aren't as much of a concern or a concern because there is an ending balance to cover those deficits. and we and we're projected to end 26, 27 with 135 million. so but those are all the restricted dollars that can only be spent for the bar, only be spent on things that the grantor allows. okay. i'm going

to go. can we go back to that slide. i just want to make a comment. and so why. so we do have a negative certification on for our first interim. and if you look at the 2526 and 2627 on the unrestricted side, you can see that we have the structural imbalance of 9.2 increasing in 2627 to 127 million. so that's really where we're getting to that negative certification okay. thank you. so the other funds i'm not sure if this is something that you've seen in the past, but it is something that we need to keep an eye on. and it also is an opportunity for us to share that with the board. all the other funds that we are maintaining in the district. and this is showing the beginning balance. so this would have been your july 1st, 2024 beginning balance and the projected ending fund balance.

at this point in time, if you are seeing a number at the ending fund balance, that's lower than the beginning fund balance, that means that there's a deficit. if you are seeing more at the ending of the year than at the beginning of the year, that means that it's a surplus. so this is sort of i'm going to say this is a start. we shared the budget assumptions this year. and in the book there's a full page of budget assumptions, which is we only showed a portion of that in the presentation. but these are a few things that we're beginning to introduce as part of the presentations. and we have a lot of work to do, but that's a good start okay. and so the next slide talks about cash flow. so and many of you may have heard this when fcmat was here they said cash is king. yes cash is king because without it it takes us into a different status. we already went through 15 minutes.

okay, okay. all right okay okay. thank you. okay, so we did a review on where did we end in the 2324 year? we ended cash at $540 million. then as we move into the projection year 25 2425, we can see that at the end of the year, we're projecting $359 million. that's a drop of about 34%, $181 million. now, let's move into the projection year of 2526. and we are now going to 143 million. and that is a 60% reduction in 215 million in dollars. and then our last year of that projection of the 2627 year, we're now at $80 million. and that is about a 44% reduction in that year over year

is 63%. does anyone happen to know what our salaries and benefit costs are for one month? for san francisco unified school district? doctor sue, you can't say. it's $60 million. that's really close to the 80 million. we can also tell you that as we look at the cash flow for the 2627 year, because these are just ending numbers, but we literally are looking at every single month. and what is happening with cash. and it is in november of 2026 that we actually go negative. so we will continue to watch this very carefully. but this is something that, as you all know, if we don't have cash and we don't want to talk about a state takeover, but that's what will get us there is if we are running out of cash. but the other reason for looking at when we are going negative is to be able to plan for any kind of

financial instrument that we may need as a short term loan, but you can't get a loan if you don't have revenues coming in at a certain level, and it has to be paid back within a certain period of time. so this is this is a significant issue for us, and we are watching it very carefully. and i think this is probably new information for you as well. excuse me. so the next slide is we have contributions. we have programs. we have contributions to restricted programs. there are two mainly routine restricted maintenance which is a state mandated program. it's a consequence or a requirement of receiving state building funds. so we have to set aside 3% of our budget every year to invest in our buildings and keep up for upkeep. the other is the special education fund. and of particular note

there is that the federal government is supposed to fund at least 40% of special education. at this point, they're only funding around 16%, so they're not keeping up. and consequently consequently, the district has to make make up the shortfall. and that happens in every district in the state. and the very last line there is the dollar change per year and how we're increasing in our encroachments in both programs. okay. so we are now going to talk about the audit for 2324 and much to i'm going to say my dismay. we are going to we did apply for an audit extension for the 2324 school or fiscal year. we were notified of this pending action and items that were needed for the audit to be completed and to be issued on or

before december 15th. so we immediately filed for an extension to february 15th of 2025. the goal is to complete the audit by january 31st, but it will give us a little bit of runway time if we need it. so the hope is our goal is shorter than that, but it gives us until february 15th. okay, so the current year we're in november and december, we are submitting our first interim report to the cde. but it comes to the district or to the district board for their approval before it goes on to the cde, we are filing a negative status based on what we just saw with our budget imbalance in 25, 26, 26, 27. but as we as soon as we hit january, we are starting on our budget development process and there's a lot going on with that, including community

community outreach. we also you'll be hearing about the serp in the next agenda item. so i don't want to get too far out in front of that. we will be working very closely with our schools and our departments for budget development. and then we have our second interim report that comes to the board in march, along with any potential notification of layoffs. and then in may, there is the governor's may revise that updates the governor's budget that's released in january. there is an update to that in may. that really is what we use as we're developing the budget, the final budget for june. and then in june, we have our first in first hearing early in the month for lcap and the budget. and then we have a second hearing on that. and then we go into the next year with our adopted budget. okay. we're going to move into the fiscal stabilization. i'm wondering yeah, i'm wondering if it might make sense to pause here because we also we only moved and

seconded the first interim report so we could i'm wondering if it makes sense to pause here, see if there's questions. and then we could move on to other items. and would that be okay. all right. so board members are there questions or really about the first interim. and again to be clear, this was sort of our current fiscal state with no cuts. right. we're about to hear the plan for the cuts. so but but maybe we'll just take a moment and say like are there questions that we have about or comments around the current fiscal state as represented in the first interim? and if not, that's okay. but i just wanted to pause and check. yes. go ahead. yes. so first of all, i just want to thank the team for putting all of this together. we've been discussing for years, ad nauseam how unreliable our budgeting systems are. we're in the middle of implementing a new payroll system in order to, you

know, we have no position. we have so many things that we have identified and we're working on that. i recognize there's data that we just don't have. and so you're trying to work miracles here with limited information. so thank you very much for everything you've done to put this together. and i really just want to elevate from the standpoint of you only know what you know, what we heard from public comment a lot today was the fact that we are still reeling from our budget. oopsie. i guess is what we can call it now. our $30 million budget oopsie from sped. and i know we have the fcmat special education audit that's coming, but from the context of where we are now, from a budget, we heard in public comment just how many open positions we have and what we saw on the consent agenda is it seems like there are positions where we have just given up on hiring them this

year, and instead we're we're moving funds into supplies or we're hiring contractors. is that really where we are? are we? i mean, we heard that we've got kids who are at risk from a like they are in unsafe conditions in our school. i got a separate email this week about a kid who, at a different school, who was able to leave school on it. i mean, just like the things we're hearing about are criminal, like the they're negligent. and so from the we're talking about budget here, but 80% of our budget is people and we're talking about where our budget is right now. what in the world is going on with getting the right people into the right positions to make sure that our reality meets what we expect, and what our families and our educators expect, so that we're not in a place where we were in

november, where or, i'm sorry, october when we talked about the actuals from last year being so like, that's what i don't what's what's your question, commissioner? can we try to. no, i'm just trying to get it so that they can so many to boil it down to something that i think is answerable. now, what i would what i don't see in these budget documents is the relationship to where our staff are. 80% of our budget, like i said, approximately is people. where are they? where are the vacancies? what are we doing to fill them? how? what are the where are the details that are giving us and the public the accountability, the transparency, the trust, the belief in us that we are being the strong stewards of these public dollars and that we're implementing them in correlation

to the vision, values, goals and guardrails that we've outlined. that's the disconnect i see here, and i think that's what the public is asking for. so thank you. i'll stop. i just want to get them to get a chance to respond. thank you. i don't know who wants to. so this sounds more like a staffing question than a budget question. so i'll jump in. first of all, i want to be clear. all of our positions are still advertised and posted. we haven't given up. and if people have colleagues they'd like to refer, it's careers dot sf ucsd.edu all of our jobs are posted. there is a nationwide special education teacher shortage. and so, you know, i can go more into that at a future date. but, you know, from the hiring standpoint, we are still actively recruiting for all of those positions. can i to follow up on that? there's a bit of cognitive dissonance there between what you're saying

and what we were hearing from public comment about teachers being stuck in the onboarding process for months, losing staff who are interested because we can't. we saw the position control issues that happened over the past couple months. so i appreciate that you're saying that, but that doesn't match what we're hearing from the community. so what are we doing to dig in deeper and make sure that we're not missing some of what the public is telling us? so i do want to acknowledge that over the summer, that was a significant problem with our position control and our cde approval process. i'm not aware that that's a problem. now, credentialing is a problem because the applicants were getting do not have credentials to teach. and so we are having to work with the ctc and make sure that everyone who steps in a classroom has some sort of emergency permit. and that's a time consuming process that has a multitude of reasons for delay, whether it's not enrolling in a program or a fingerprint clearance issue. so,

you know, if there are specific cases, i'm happy to dig into them, but i'm not aware of any systemic delays at this point. okay. so i think we was i think we should see if we can get a motion and a second on the item. two, the supplemental early retirement plan and item three, the fiscal stabilization plan update, and then let staff present those and then make comments on those. make questions and comments on those. is that all right, colleagues? so well unless there's other items on this first one i mean i think again like if there's if you have specifics, if we want to follow up on a staffing update that's they weren't prepared to do that. this was the first interim report. so i don't want to i think it's a reasonable question, but i don't want to also put staff on the spot to answer a question they weren't prepared to report on. so and i appreciate that. i think my only other question is more specificity. and doctor sue, you and i have talked about this. so that's why i'm not

directing it at staff. more specificity in the special education budget. and i understand that we are waiting on the fcmat audit, but i have real concerns about what we what can we expect from fcmat, and is it going to be an accounting of our current special education systems versus i'm still expecting a full accounting of what happened about the decision making that led to our complete disconnect between what we approved as a selpa budget and what was actually budgeted for special education, and i'm not sure where and when to expect that. and i'm getting a lot of questions from the community about both of those. thank you for that question. and yes, we are waiting for figma to complete their review and assessment. they spent many weeks at the district interviewing many, many staff, and we expect to receive that report hopefully by the end of december, early january. after

we receive that report, we will go into an in depth audit of the process and procedures that led us to the you called it. oops. but the, the snack food that we experienced regarding special ed several months ago. so there will be more assessments, more audits, more reviews to come. thank you. commissioner kim and then commissioner lane, i have a question about the cash flow slide. is this what you're describing as the swing that you've mentioned in the past? the swing you mentioned the ending balance swing that we're trying to minimize as much as possible. yeah. can you just clarify the distinction. yeah. the difference between so the cash, you know at each reporting period we're looking at cash now every month. but in addition to that when we have our reporting

periods we have to do a projection of that cash through. and we're not required to do it out to 2627. but we're doing it because of concerns about running out of cash. and so the cash is different than the ending balance, the ending balance when you've got one period. so in particular, estimated actuals versus unaudited actuals. that's where i like to see that pendulum as close to the middle as possible, which that, you know, you've you're gone way past your 75% of your year. so when you have your estimated actuals at that point in time, you really should have very little swing between where you are, say, in june to where you are closing your books, and it gets submitted to the board in september that that's the difference. and cash is not the same as ending balance. and to be clear, the practice of looking at our cash balance at the end of each month is a practice that's new. it's new

within, i would say within the last year ish. yeah, i would. thank you. i have a couple of follow up questions. i know that when michael fine from fcmat spoke to the board, he was really clear about one us delivering on our fiscal health, you know, report that's been outstanding for a couple of years. one particular highlight on expectation was for this year's audit report to be done on time. and now i understand that we are filing for the waiver. can you speak to why the delay and what's going to go into ensuring that we do meet that extension waiver time? perfect. thank you. so there's a governmental accounting standard board 87 that has to do with leases. and so that particular item is being handled by outside consultants. and so as soon as that is completed and staff

needs to work with them to get that completed. and so as soon as that's done that that will be handed off to the auditors for them to complete that. thank you for that. so that's really helpful to understand. that's just very narrow of an outstanding piece of the audit. yeah. i also just want to comment to colleagues that i've raised this in the past and that the minimum 2% reserve is really, yes, you know, required by the state at 2%. but as doctor huntoon has spoken to that our monthly payroll commitments are 60 million. so within that 2% reserve of only 28 million, that is barely. that's one, you know, a little bit over a third of what's necessary, necessary for one month's payroll. and, doctor huntoon, can you speak to some of the other sector guidelines beyond the state minimum requirement of what school

districts are adopting? yes. thank you. so thank you for that. and yes, the economic uncertainty that we're required to set aside, it's 2% for this district. that percentage is a sliding scale depending on your ada and which is ironic as you have a larger ada. the percentage that you have to set aside goes down. and so there are other mechanisms and guidelines that can be followed under the government financial officers association. they actually have a limit of 17% at one point in time. they've also had a recommendation of setting aside three months of average salary or average total expenditures for a district. and so those are some of the other recommendations by other agencies that you can utilize in setting aside those funds. because if you were to dip in to your economic uncertainty by 1%,

it invites people to come in and help you like we have right now with the fiscal advisor. so yes, thank you for that question. so i think i just further to my colleagues and to the new sitting board, really looking at how do we build up that additional reserve, knowing that what a healthy district would embark on, on having that reserve for an economic uncertainty. and we saw that with our colleagues at city college. similarly, i think in what we've seen, their financial challenges has also been layered to those, you know, barely meeting that minimum reserve. and it just doesn't, from my point of view, provide enough of a financial safety net, especially when we're looking outwards of the two year and three year. okay, so here's the plan. i'm going to ask for a motion and a second on item two,

the supplemental early retirement plan. and item three, the fiscal stabilization plan update. yeah. so right now and then and then let me let me do that first. so i'm asking for a motion and a second on those two items. oh hold on hold on i'm sorry. one second. so the first interim is in this agenda item for approval, the cirp is a separate agenda item and action item. so i just want to make sure that, you know, i understand that i want to get them all on the table so you can talk about all of them because because otherwise we haven't moved and seconded the fiscal stabilization plan. and so i want to do that before you. yep. so moved it. yeah. second. thank you. okay. so we've moved and seconded. now item one two and three. so we probably should have done that at the beginning i apologize. so now we can discuss all of them. and then we'll vote on them sequentially at the end. and can you. so. so

right now i'm going to ask our fiscal advisor elliott duchon, if he would like to comment because i understand he may have something to say. and then and then i'm gonna turn it back over to superintendent stew and sue and doctor huntoon to continue the presentation, if that if that's okay. thank you. president alexander, if you could go back to i think it's slide eight that shows the red lines with your budget deficit. right there. this is not good. and this is the way it's looked for several years. and i want to say that you're worried about the future. but the past has been stressful for the district. and i have not attended a board meeting where people are not worried about losing their jobs, where the sped budget hasn't

been an issue, where staffing hasn't been an issue. and i'm not saying they are all because of your budget, where people haven't brought up being taken over by the state. so i want to tell you, being taken over by the state is not what you need to avoid. what you need to avoid is overspending. it's unhealthy for the district. it's unhealthy for your staff. it's unhealthy for your children, the community, and for you as board members. it detracts from your goals and your your ability to focus on your visions, values, goals, and guardrails. fixing it is not easy, but living with it is even harder. and what the staff is presenting to you tonight? a negative declaration, a negative certification is not good. i think i, i may have said this in your last meeting, but i'll say it again if i did, there are only eight out of a

thousand districts in the state that have a negative declaration. i'm sorry, certification. and you can avoid it. and what the staff is presenting to you tonight is a way to do that. you're talking about how your budget is staff and that's true. and staff are what you teach your kids who mow your lawns and who do all the things that make the district a wonderful place. but you are. you're living in a time of declining enrollment and yes, declining revenue. you have used one time revenues to pay for ongoing staffing, and that ongoing staffing has get put you in a position of staffing in a way that is richer than what your your resources allow you to do. good budgeting will allow you to focus your resources on a truly excellent education. that

is why pam and i are here. and i want to say, you know, we want to be optimistic. we want to be hopeful, but there may be pain to go through before you get there. and if you don't go through the pain, the pain will continue on and on. it will be chronic. this is what i would call a chronic problem that can be fixed in the end. you know, you were showing us a time, a calendar. you don't know how you end up the year till you end up the year. and unfortunately, you have to go through things like a layoff process before you know the budget, before you know all the people who will retire at the end of the year. before you know your attrition. that is a horrible process. i can't tell you it's easy. it won't probably resolve itself over time. and we are doing everything we can to

work with your staff to avoid that. that's why you have a serp on the agenda. there are a number of things that your staff can go through, so i want to just end my comment by saying it's time to bite the bullet and work with your staff, who are working really hard to present to you the best possible way of getting out of an overspending scenario. that's going to continue to put the district in a spiral and forget for a second about state takeovers. the real consequence is the effect and stress it has on your programs, your children, your your staff and your families. so i want to thank you for the hard work you do. i would have liked to take ten minutes to thank. commissioners. bogus, sanchez and lamb. you've done a wonderful job, but this is kind of a serious moment. so thank you. president alexander i don't

know. thank you. that's great. and we'll get to let's get to the plan too because i think that's i think the key right now is for us to understand the plan to do exactly what mr. duchamp is speaking about. and i think the other thing to remind the public as we go into this part is this is very high level because we're at the first step of the plan and it's not it's not new. right. if you've been following along, we passed a version of this in june as part of our adopted budget. here's a this is a slightly updated version, but it's still pretty high level. and over the next six months, the time the slide that we were looking at at the end of the last part of the presentation shows the timeline, and there's going to be many more opportunities for public engagement, for community input between now and next june, when we actually approve the 2526 budget. so let's hear now from staff about the plan, including

the retirement part. thank you. and there is a separate retirement plan that's going to be a presentation that will be presented to you. yeah. that's kind of why i was yeah. sorry. the agenda had this. it had fiscal stabilization plan as number three for some reason. so that's why. yeah. so anyway now they're all together. they're all on the table. we can discuss them in whatever order you prefer. okay, great. let's go to the fiscal stabilization plan, and then we'll go. and what's i don't want to get ahead of myself, but it's actually a resolution that's in that other separate item. it's the resolution that's going to be approved. so that that's the only item that's in there. okay. so we talked about the structural deficit. i don't need to beat that one to death. we already know what it is. we went back and just looked at it with mr. duncan. and so as we look at that fiscal stabilization plan, really looking at what happened in june, that it was adopted,

and where are our finances at this point in time? what do we need? what is the hole? and we are still at stay the course with 113,000,000in 25, 26 and 13,000,000 in 2627. so we are showing we're this is this slide just depicts what we've we've already talked about. but it shows you very clearly we've got deficit spending in all of those years for unrestricted. and it's leading to a structural imbalance in both 2526 and 2627 okay. now we're going to look at the first interim with the reductions that we just talked about. and i'm going to ask miss lascano to walk us through that. so. we have no change in 2425 to the projected budget. but the deficit spending in 2526 reduces

down to 76 million, leaving an ending fund balance of 42.1 million. so we are able to cover our minimum reserve for the economic uncertainties in the out year. our deficit spending reduces even more to 13.6 million. our ending fund balance is 28.5 million, and we are able to cover our reserve for economic uncertainties, but just barely. so i'm we balance but so it's clearly the effect of the cuts. and again the restricted there's no change and there's no they end with a positive ending balance there. and so you're going to say add to that or no okay. well that's it. it just shows the effects and the positive ending balance on the budget. yeah i think the only thing that i would say is to go back to what president alexander

had just mentioned. you know, this is at a high level. we're continuing to review the budgets, the restricted side of the budget, to really look at what we're leaving no stone untouched and uncovered. so we're continuing to work on that, working very closely with our hr partners as it relates to both the serp as well as any potential layoffs that may be needed. and looking at seniority lists, all of that is work that has to be done. so there's still a lot of work beyond what you're seeing here this evening. so i'm going to turn it off and turn it over to mr. trujillo. actually. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. before marin starts, i just want to emphasize that slide again. what? doctor huntoon and roseanne was just referring to. if you look at the reductions here, you're going to see that the total line over there where

we end 2426, which is this this year with a deficit of $181.5 million. now, if we did nothing, if you all remember to the slides that on slide eight that that our cde advisor was referencing earlier, we would then move. if we did nothing, we would then move into 2526 with a deficit of $215 million. so if we did nothing, our deficit would just continue to balloon. and in this proposal here, we're showing that if we are if we are going to address that, the structural deficit, we have to implement cuts to then bring our deficit in 25, 26 down to $102 million, which then in turn bring the debt, continue to

bring the deficit down, actually to no deficit in 2627, where you see the total line there in 20, in 2627, you don't see any red lines, any red numbers. so in 2627 we will be in a structural balanced place of actually ending the year with $53 million positive. so this is why we need to make those cuts so that we can get out of the deficit spending, so that we will be able to manage our own district on our own two feet. sorry. that's good evening, board. that's a good segue. as a reminder, as president alexander mentioned, this is not news that we in our stabilization plan set out to reduce by 113,000,000 in 2526, followed by 13 million both from the restricted and the unrestricted. and that key lever that we established last year

was the creation of a staffing model. this is created to provide predictable predictability of allocations to sites. we will continue to have the same model of staffing model for 2526 currently working in development of it. it's a critical lever and strategy to stabilize our budget and to support our school sites. thank you. so the next item, the other thing that i would also say about the stabilization or the fiscal stabilization plan, there really is a three pronged approach looking at contracts and other expenditures at the serp as well as the in the last item would be layoffs. and so really trying. and so when we talk about leaving no, no stone unturned, that really is that that approach, the last thing that we would want to do is do layoffs, but know that that may need to happen. so the supplemental early retirement

plan, i'm not going to go too deep on it because, miss beale, we will be doing a presentation from keenan on this in in detail. but this is one mechanism and strategy that can be used to reduce our potential layoffs, because we know that as we look at 113 million, that that is high. and so, in fact, i think i'm going to let this lie until you see the presentation, because i think we've been talking for a while. okay. then we're going to miss bear. so as doctor hunting said, we really want to avoid having layoffs. but i will talk about what will happen if we get to that point. first, we would review any central office positions that could be eliminated. as marin described, the site positions will be determined by the staffing model. what we'll need to do then is review vacancies and overstaffing by credential areas, and we would likely need to reduce just in particular

kinds of services. it wouldn't be a blanket reduction. it would be targeted by credential type. if we need to notice certificated and paraeducator staff, that would be march 15th is the deadline and civil service staff would need to be noticed by may 15th. okay. and some of these budget reductions we've talked about the contracts, looking at all district contracts to determine they still meeting our purpose. are they still meeting our needs. review of all technology applications. what are we using across the district again. are we using them. are they meeting our purpose? is it meeting our needs. and then review of all materials and supplies? everything kind of in that same vein. and then we have the reduction resolution that you will see in in two action items. and so this is really to demonstrate the board's commitment to fiscal solvency and to demonstrate that through the passing of a resolution to

do so. and so we have some key. i'm sorry, i'm moving maybe too fast. i was going to the goals and milestones. okay. so and this is just kind of going through some of those areas that we would be working on as we go through the process. some of these you've heard already, if the serp is approved, then we would begin on that immediately tomorrow with information going out and some of this information you've already heard this evening. so i don't want to regurgitate that. was there any questions? and then the last slide is showing the sf usd plan of action. looking at the plan, the deficit plan, the deficit spending and the one time resources. and that's part of what has what got us to where we are. we had covid funding that

funding for a couple of years, but it was one time funding. we had declining enrollment and it came together. and so we are now moving ourselves out of that by doing the reviews that we need to budget development is and for the most part, we've started that through enrollment projections already, and we will continue to be steadfast in budget development. just as a reminder, we are going to be doing budget development in the new system in frontline, and that is huge, which would include position control. and so until really the district gets in a fully integrated system, it's going to be very difficult to have as much accuracy as we would like. i will leave it at that. the fiscal systems, but also our practices and procedures, that is something that we work on every day. i now have a new term that so we have the sf, usd onion and it's going

to grow into a flower. and so we with each peel we are going to create a flower. and we're going to address those practices and procedures. so that's that's my positive spin on that. so thank you. thank you very much okay. so i'm going to recommend that we go to board member questions and comments now. and i'm not sure that we need a detailed presentation on the early retirement plan. but i think if commissioners have specific questions about it or want to hear more, we should ask them because we've we've had all these materials. i mean, commissioners have had have been able to review all of these. so but if we have but if there are areas we want to go in-depth, let's just ask and we can hear about that or anything else, because we're being asked to approve that. the retirement plan. sorry. the first interim report, the fiscal stabilization plan and the retirement early retirement proposal. so if folks want more detail in their early retirement, by all means ask for

it. and we can go in depth. but i just think there's a whole other powerpoint. but we've all had a chance to look at it. so and we're not employees, so we don't need to know all the details of how it works. so who would like to get us started? and again, let's try to i mean, if folks want to make a framing comment, that's fine. but let's try to let's try to ask questions that help increase our understanding that we need, we need so that we can make an informed decision on our votes. okay. we can start down there, commissioner fisher, and we'll come around. i have two questions. one on the serp. so a question that was asked of me by a community member was, can't we do this directly through calstrs and spurs? why? why would we contract with an outside broker at additional cost when we're already bleeding money with consultants, when we can do this directly through our retirement system? so that's question one about the early retirement. the other question i have about the

fiscal stabilization, the resolution, the link in the resolution to exhibit a includes category 800 contributions. we include a $10 million contribution reduction to special education with no details, no explanation whatsoever, no accounting for the fact that that's actually legally compliant, that it meets our maintenance of effort requirements, that looks illegal to me. so without any details, i'm not sure how we could, and especially considering where we are right now, i'm not sure why we would we would try a similar maneuver as to what we tried last year. i'm like, mind boggled to see that. so if someone could give me some details that show that it's legally compliant and it meets our maintenance of effort obligations, great. otherwise

holy guacamole. why thank you for that question. i'll go ahead. i'd like to also welcome miss gail beal, who is here from keenan that will address the cert. but i'm going to address first the 10 million that you see that actually is not a reduction. it actually is a shifting of funds. those funds are coming from pif. and so it was not it was not a reduction. so thank you for that clarification. good evening. and thank you very much for having me. excellent question. you certainly can go through calstrs for an early retirement program. a couple of differences. they only have a couple of different payout options from which an individual could choose. typically you have to pay for it in a more in more frequent payments. and typically the benefits aren't quite as high.

it's not considered a qualified plan under the irs. so with the cert program, individuals can choose options where they can roll money over if they don't need the cash or move part of it over. however, they would want to do that, but that certainly is your choice. i would say. also. you're actually approving to offer the plan if you don't get the results you need either operationally or financially. the plan does not move forward. it costs you nothing. you only pay for the plan over a five year period into a fixed, guaranteed annuity, and you would pay us the same way over a five year period. but again, if you don't get the results you need, there's no cost, no obligation. and we come back at the end of the enrollment with

the final cost analysis based on specifics, rather than kind of the averages of groups. so you can see what it means individually by classification. but again, to reiterate, you certainly can go through calstrs if that would be something you would want to do. commissioner lamm or sanchez, do you? just a question, a clarifying question, i guess, about cirp on slide seven. just to clarify, it says there's a 1372 eligible folks that's from our district using our numbers. and what is the threshold that we must meet out of that number to actually make this worthwhile for us so that we can pursue it? well, again, all these assumptions are based on average salaries, average ages, that type of thing. so if you look at the column that says break even with non replacement,

if your certificated group, you don't replace 40 positions out of the 167 that take the program, your break even is about 65. so it works the same way for the other classifications. it it could change honestly, if it turned out you didn't replace any of the positions, the break even is almost irrelevant because you're you're at 133 million net savings over a five year period. and when you look at that net column, that's after all expenses. that's after your payments into the annuity for each individual. any keenan costs. and like i say, we come out and do the enrollment. we bring in retired teachers and other district personnel to actually meet one on one with each individual showing them the

respect to have an individual meeting, not necessarily have to ask ask specific questions in in a group meeting. but again, that is that is all something that is included in the plan. and that and these are the net numbers based on the averages and the assumptions used. could you i didn't understand. yeah. i basically asking like what's our threshold that we must meet. absolutely. you're saying basically because it's these are estimated averages. yeah. so i would say 300. the 314 illustrated here would get you a good savings and where you should be. so just like because we're our messaging is really important that we put out there for the public or for our employees to make sure, because a lot of people are going to want to do this, they want to look into it. but if they go down that road and then we don't meet that threshold, they're going to be upset. we need to let them know that that's a possibility. absolutely. and in in the resolution, it states

that if the district decided to rescind and pull back the program, individuals certainly could rescind their resignation. yes, yes, yes. thank you. commissioner. bogus. no thank you. i think my question, i guess, is maybe to the supplemental early retirement plan as well as the fiscal stabilization plan. i appreciate the information that's been provided. i think i would love to just get a better understanding of what will be the experience kind of at school sites and classrooms and kind of what is our best guesstimate of what that looks like and kind of what is the expectation of kind of what people should be expecting. and if there's, i guess, a and i guess how we are gauging whether or not we have the appropriate safety nets and procedures in place to ensure that students don't have a dramatic decrease in their

experience and opportunities, kind of because of these decisions. thank you, commissioner brogan, for the question. i think that is a that is something that we're very mindful of. there are upwards of a thousand plus people who are would be qualified for this opportunity. and i hope that not all of them take it, but that would put a lot of stress on our hr system. and i know that amy baer and i have had conversations about this. and how do we ensure that we fast track to figure out how to hire staff? and i do feel that the cert process would be the most humane way for us to try to get to a reduction number that

honors individuals in our in our district who has worked many, many years. and this is an opportunity for them to get a nice incentive so that they can take this, this package and at the same time help us to balance the budget. i appreciate that, i guess maybe to follow up briefly, i would just love to have an understanding of like, what is the district's response, i think, to families or staff who i think are kind of questioning how this is going to support us in reaching our the goals that the board set. and kind of i think the turbulence that we've kind of been accustomed to and how this is like navigating us out of that. and i know that some of these things are still being like, fully fleshed out, but i think just getting a little bit more clarity from your perspective as superintendent of kind of how you're managing it and the message to folks at sites where

i think struggling with understanding what this is going to mean, and if it's going to mean more negative experiences, like we heard some in public comment today. so i just want to remind everyone, at the end of the day, we are still looking at a very drastic deficit. and so as as doctor huntoon already shared, we are proposing to make reductions upwards of $113 million so that we can, by fiscal year 2627, be in a place where we are structurally, financially sound in order for us to get to $113 million, it equates to because the majority of our budget are salaries, it equates to around 300 535 employees. i, i certainly it pains me to know that we have to we have to lay off individuals, people, people that i've seen on

my visits and, and i, i think my response to you is that we are trying our best to, to get to a responsible fiscal health in a way that also prioritizes the experience and dedication of our employees. i still firmly, firmly believe that we can achieve academic excellence and operational and fiscal health at the same time, i believe that we are building towards a future where we will be able to oversee our own budget, where there will be more predictability for our teachers, where we will be able to make purchases of books without having to figure out where we can find the money to do it. but we've got to make the

hard decisions right now. and unfortunately, this is part of that hard decision. commissioner kim. oh, sorry. commissioner lemon. thank. thank you so much. this is a question for superintendent sue, and i think it's on the lines of what commissioner boggess had raised is that i see in our budgeting process, i recognize tonight's discussion and vote is around our snapshot for the first interim. but we know that in january is the release of that strategic staffing model to sites and departments like to understand and have the public understand what's going to be different than what was implemented this year, and the anticipation of that staffing model for the following fiscal year, and what goes into the design to ensure that we are moving towards closer to the goals and guardrails? since my

time here at the district, it has not been clear about how are we truly aligning those resources to deliver on those goals and values. and, you know, we have the history of mtss. we have history of how we've done things as a district here, but yet we have unfortunately not delivered on those. we made very small. we have made gains like in high school graduation. but when we start to disaggregate the data and look deeper, as we've done with our goals and guardrails, we know that that equity gap has just widened. so i just want to give superintendent su an opportunity for you to share with us of some of your initial thinking around the design of alignment with the staffing model for the following year to our goals and guardrails, and how that's different than what we currently have today. thank you, commissioner lamm, for the question. well, i first want to just applaud the fact that the

district we have actually implemented our first staffing plan last this year. this is the first year of implementing a staffing plan where we are trying our best to maintain position control, where we are trying to align the needs of a school with the amount of money that we have to meet those needs. i think the one thing that we've realized in this staffing plan is that we did not take into consideration very unique factors of student population. and so, once again, this was our first year of implementing a school staffing model. and so the next iteration of our school staffing model, i have asked doctor carlene aguilera and our, our team here to do a rough draft of it from where we are now. and then the difference here is work with our

lead staff and with our site leaders, because we need our site leaders to have eyes on this model to make sure that they can see how their schools are going to be able to function, not just well, but function appropriately for their staff and for their students. and so we will be presenting our new school staffing model in our january meeting, because we need the time to share this model with our school site leaders. so in january i will be bringing we will be bringing the staffing model here so that you can then start seeing the how we're how. it's a little bit different, but it's still holds true to the fact that we are allocating within our means. this is maybe

more a reflection, but perhaps an area where you can come in and it's carrying a little bit off of what commissioner lamm has named. but i do want to ask just more on a systems level from a district perspective. so you mentioned 535 positions. i'm looking at the exhibit a linked into the resolution, the fiscal stabilization plan for 25, 26, 2627 details. my assumption is that the 530 well, this year adds up to 534.09 positions under the fte for total general fund are the positions that you're you're talking about, right? if we reflect back on the fiscal stabilization plan being implemented, even back to last year, i mean, we knew that there were some challenges in, for example, staying saying that we were going to do a layoff and

didn't actually fully implement on on layoffs. we saw the challenges of sped, where we moved money around without realizing the impact that it had programmatically on sped, for example. i guess my question is more on a systems level. what are the what are what are we? what are we doing to make sure that those don't happen again? right. like i totally understand from a staffing model implementation perspective how we need to be in closer partnership with school leader managers and school leaders themselves to ensure that that almost, almost fully baked processes moving forward. i think my concern is also at the systems level of the majority of the stabilization plan isn't new. we knew that these numbers were going to be ahead of us, and yet we still didn't have things adding up at the end. and so stopping short of asking a direct question that necessitates a direct response. right now, i think my concern is

moving forward that we may say that we have 534 positions to lay off. what are we doing differently to make sure that that accurate number, rather that number, is accurate and effectively laid off, if that's what we need to come to. and i think that's my question from a systems perspective, because i do think what we saw and experienced with sped, where we shifted some funds around, understandably, because we were wanting to meet a certain target for savings, we did that pretty. it did not yield the results that we wanted to in terms of the impact that it had programmatically. does that make sense? and there wasn't really an explicit question in there, but more of a like general system from a systems perspective. yeah. yes. so in preparation for us moving

forward with layoffs, we have already our hr department have already, i guess, produced. is that the right word? produced a seniority list and have shared this with our labor partners. so that's the first step. i think the second step is for us to see what the supplemental early retirement plan will yield for us so that we can understand how many people were that will take us up on this offer. and then the third step for us is to look and see in january, when the governor's budget comes down, and see how that will impact our budget. and with all of that, well, and then finally continuing to comb through all of our contracts and material supplies line, because we are doing that actively now, with all of that combined, we will

then see where the final number for layoffs will look like. i've said this before, the district has done a really good job in tightening our belts. we have we have learned really well at this point to live within our means, and so hopefully we will be able to recoup some of the savings that we have not spent. and that way we can continue to use those savings to reduce the cuts that we'll have to make for next fiscal year. so by february, we will have a clearer number and a clearer picture of what exactly will make up the $113 million of reductions. and just to be able to close the loop on that, i guess. and so i just also want to acknowledge, i do think that that timeline is somewhat articulated in the budgeting process with the green and blue boxes. that's really helpful. i think what what's illuminating or what i'm learning right now, or maybe this is me just

catching up, rather, is that this february timeline is a critical moment for us to know whether we are on or off, especially as it comes to when the surp closes. and we understand the fiscal impact of that. i just think it's really important for us and the public, especially for new board members and returning board members, to know what we're expected to experience this coming year. and the timeline of that, because i think there are i mean, not i think there are so many things going into trying to balance the competing priorities. the more that we can bring that up, i think just more helpful it will be. i couldn't agree more. and i was actually going to ask a similar question, but i think my colleagues have sort of covered it. but maybe just to clarify, to make sure i'm understanding it correctly. so like on slide 20, slide 25 when it talks about the goals and milestones by february 25th and it says balanced unrestricted general fund and restricted general fund with the projected reductions identified. so at that point we

would have then am i understanding this right that we would say it would be out of 113 million? i guess that's just is that total or unrestricted? i forget, but out of that amount, x x is from contract reductions and y is from technology application reductions and z is from the early retirement plan. and then this other amount and then and then this is how many layoffs will have. and this is how many will be central office. this is how many will be school based. that that level of detail would would be then in place by then. yes. that's fantastic because i think we've never had, at least in my memory. correct me if i'm wrong, we've never had by february that level of detail. i think that's exactly what we've been asking for a really long time in terms of the budgeting process, to be able to then, you know, have that by february so that we can say, okay, how do we then adjust that, you know, based on new information, based on feedback from the community, all that

that's that's fantastic. i feel i feel like that's where that's the budgeting timeline we ought to be on because and the question, did you want to respond to that? go ahead. i just realized i was echoing, oh, sorry. and then i was going to say the other thing is like from the board's perspective, the criteria that we're going to be using to judge that budget is the goals and guardrails. right? and the alignment so we can so the questions the public should expect us to be asking in february. well, some of us unfortunately, but we're excited about the new members too. so we'll be asking in february are, you know, how does this align? right. so you've decided to cut this amount from this area. how how is that how are we still going to achieve our goals? right. how are we going to and where are we increasing investments in order to achieve those? and then what are we not doing so that we can make those investments and make these cuts? so those that level of discussion, i think we just haven't been able to have before in a real substantive way. and i feel like with this timeline, we'll be able to have it, which is really exciting in that.

well, yes, we're hoping to be able to get some final numbers or earlier semi final numbers by end of february, and then just to throw everything in a tailspin when the governor sends out his may revise, we might have to go into another process. however, for us locally at least, we will get our part done. and yes, we are. and that's why next month, when we share our school staffing plan, you will start seeing how the staffing plan mirrors and lines up into the vgs, the our goals and guardrails, our vision and values. yeah, doctor, if i could add on to that a little bit, that level of specificity is required in february because we need to provide march 15th notices if we are going to have any staff reductions. but it makes a lot of assumptions like you just talked about. the governor's budget will come in different. it assumes we know how many students are coming and what classes they're going to

take. so it makes a lot of assumptions that may change over the spring. and so that often means that districts have to over notice staff on march 15th, which is a really unfortunate process, because if you get a notice, you're likely to go look for another job. so just know that we have to have that level of specificity. and it's based on a lot of assumptions that will change. yeah. but i think what's been missing is even the assumption, even the estimate based on the assumptions. so i think we're excited in svusd to get to the point where we're doing what i think other districts that are in a more stable, operational place have been doing. and but i think that is a really good point, that it's not final at all. right. obviously it's going to adjust, but but to have a draft right, that then we're then working on that we can be transparent with the community and the public about, i think is really important. and i'll just add to like being constantly reminded of those assumptions is really helpful. i think i will say as an individual board member, and i'm sure the rest of my colleagues and i don't think

it's a we can say enough how helpful it is to see even early iterations and plans as soon as possible. i think one of the challenges that we had in this past school year in implementing our staffing model was everything was happening so last minute that we weren't able to then respond and reiterate or iterate on that prior to it going live. and that that i think shift i first, i just want to acknowledge that that there is a shift in both the timeline and how we're approaching the implementation, not just of the staffing model, but of our budget. and, and appreciate, i guess, that shift that we're doing, because i think that that is a tangible difference in how it's been approached, at least from last year, 100%, and specifically the feedback we get from educators on the ground at school sites who look at it and say, hey, you didn't think about this, right? and if we do it at the last minute, then we can't make those changes. whereas if we do it the way we're doing it

now, we have time to make those adjustments with someone over here going to say something, i think more. just to be clear. so the statutory deadlines for layoffs or notices are for certificated and classified. the other item or line was for central office staff that are not in those categories. and so there's no statutory deadline for those so accurate. the civil service positions have a 45 day notice, but there's no spring deadline for that. that could be at any time. it could be october, you know, whenever it'd be a 45 day notice. but the certificated and the paraprofessional positions are march 15th for preliminary notice. and what about other people that are in. so none of those categories administrators fall into the certificated category. so they would need a march 15th notice as well. certificated administrators. so it's really we really only have the certificated administrators, the paraprofessionals and the civil service employees. those are really the only two groups

in the district. i just want to comment with the onboarding of the new board, how i think important. and we had talked about this with michael fine as well at our one of our past fiscal discussions. i strongly would recommend the consideration of intensive fiscal training for january and february, not only about understanding kind of the sfusd staffing model approach that we're going through, but the process of the notification of layoffs. and overall, the again, the may revise may shift. i just think it's a lot for not only individual new board members, but as a body, how this governing team is going to move forward. and then, of course, in working in relation with our labor partners and our and our community stakeholders. so that's just something i think is going to be critically, critically important. and if we do that, that means we're, you

know, the planning is going to have to happen very soon. any other comments before we wrap up and vote on these items? i just have a question about the staffing update or the staffing guide. and i of course, coherence is important and consistency as much as possible. but we also have schools with very diverse populations, you know, and so we've talked about the difference between baseline and core. and so just making sure that the staffing model is going to flex to your point, more than it did in years past or in our first year. and the lessons learned. i think really for me, just seeing our focal

populations and our outlined in that and what we're doing to make sure that we are closing that equity gap is going to be that's part of what we can expect to see. correct. yes, yes, yes, for sure, for sure. not only not only making sure that we align with our focal population, but once again, making sure that we will be able to achieve our vgs. and i you know, i said this before, i firmly, firmly believe that we can have and i firmly believe that academic excellence can and will and should coexist with operational and financial health. and we will get there. all right. i was just going to i was just going to share. there was an after action report. and so we did circle back around on the current staffing model. and

that was done in september and october. so we are utilizing that as part of our guidance moving forward. all right. so let's go ahead and do a roll call. vote first on item g one which is 241210 sp1. the fiscal year 2425 first interim report negative fiscal certification for the san francisco unified school district and county office of education. thank you. commissioner. bogus. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes, commissioner. kim. yes. commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. mr. weissman. board president. alexander. yes. six eyes. that's great. and now let's vote on item g2241210 sp two, the supplemental early retirement plan. thank you. commissioner. bogus. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes, commissioner. lamb. yes, commissioner. kim. i'm sorry i went out of order. yes,

we'll do that again. commissioner kim. yes. and then, commissioner lamb. yes. thank you, commissioner sanchez. yes, vice president. weismann. board president. alexander. yes, yes. passes. thank you. okay. and now item g3241210 sp three. the fiscal stabilization plan update. right, commissioner. bogus. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes. commissioner. kim. yes. thank you. commissioner lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president wise and board president. alexander. yes. it passes. thank you. all right. now we'll move on to item four, the resolution by the district board of education approving logo, logo, installation on district real property per board policy. 1325. may i have a motion and a second, please? so moved. second. thank you, superintendent sue. your designee, i believe, is. yes, yes. good evening. go for it.

sorry. good evening. commissioners. thank you for the opportunity. i'll make this really quick for this action item. just a little background. the nba partnered with the heart of america to provide these improvements to the bret hart gymnasium. and with that, it includes the installation of the nba logo. and as part of that donation, that nba logo is required. so i am here on behalf of the school because district policy does allow the board to approve the display of a logo. if the improvements will have a positive effect on the community. and i can tell you that in talking to the principal and the bret hart scholars and their families, they're very excited about this logo. it will bring a lot of pride to the bret hart bears. there will be a warriors logo with it and an nba logo on the floor, and the scoreboard and the plaque, so we're grateful for having this

action item. and i'm here on behalf of the community and they're very supportive of it. thank you. if you have any questions, happy to answer them. questions, comments okay. roll call. vote please. commissioner bogas. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes, commissioner. kim. yes. commissioner. lamb. yes. commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wiseman. board president. alexander. yes. six eyes. thank you, thank you. all right. now we'll do item h1, the consent calendar. may i have a motion and a second, please. so moved. second, are there any items withdrawn or corrected by the superintendent? there are no items. thank you, thank you. so roll call. vote, please. commissioner bogas. yes, commissioner. fisher. yes, commissioner. kim. yes, commissioner. lamb. yes, commissioner. sanchez. yes. vice president. wise. award. president. alexander. yes. six eyes. thank you. board member

reports. are there any reports from board delegates to membership organizations such as the csba conference? commissioners? pick me, pick me. yes. so i spent a very sunny week in anaheim last tuesday through saturday for the csba conference. thank you, commissioner lamb for joining. we were also joined by commissioners elect gupta as well as ray for some new board orientation. the delegates meeting was tuesday and wednesday. as everyone likely i think i've discussed before, county office of education's have now a region within csba, which is mostly focused on school districts. so i get double the pleasure to caucus with the county offices and the school boards. and there's a lot going on there to understand in the county office what that's going to mean for us. and one of the things that we should look

into is we were previously members of both coe and csba, the two membership organizations now under one. are we getting double whammy for dues? we should probably check into that and like how much we're actually paying for this organization. just no one had a clear answer for me. so just not that they're not worth the money. they do a lot of great things, but but yeah, cost savings right here. thank you very much. engagement instead of board docs might be another cost savings. but anyway. there was there were a lot of great presentations from the education legislative action. the you know, there was a great presentation on equity from ceo and president vernon billy. and csba is very interested in having us reengage. basically, there's a lot of legislation, lettuce legislative action that has been happening, and they very much

would like us here in san francisco to be part of that. they did a lot of work at csba this year on protecting prop 98 and avoiding the governor's maneuver, which would have really changed the floor of how education funding prop 98 is our lcff funding. and we had a lot of conversations. lcff there are only two members left in the legislature who were there when lcff was passed. so because of term limits. and so that is part of why we like the point of lcff was actually to equity, to provide equity to education funding. all the categoricals were removed. everything was put into funding, concentration and supplemental grants based on focal populations. but as that historical knowledge leaves the legislature, now we see more

categorical funding funding creeping back in. and so there was a lot of talk about reforming eraf and how districts are funded, which is a huge impact on us. that's a legislative third rail, but absolutely necessary, and a big push to switch from ada to actually enrollment funding, which as we talked about tonight, you know, we could get fundinrddional 3000 students if something like that. so our legislative action could help with a lot of that. and so a lot of great information. and then the actual aec conference, the was fantastic. a lot of great information, a lot of great connections. thank you, commissioner lamb, for serving on one of the panels. and thanks to karen sullivan and district staff to help me prep for the educator workforce housing panel that i was on as well, which was very popular. and we have a lot of people who want to come see shirley chisholm village. so and disneyland was awesome. not at

district expense, but fun. so that's it. thank you very much. yeah. any other reports or appointments to advisory committees? all right then. this meeting is adjourned at 9:55 p.m.

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