de la cruz a parent at betsy carmichael two children enrolled there i'm a very reactive member of the pta as well thank you >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good evening after all you ami and have two children one of them third grade and one in kindergarten they attend the valley. >> good evening superintendent and president fewer and commissioners i'm caesary banks two students i have a daughter in 6th grade and ethnic grader at gateway thank you. >> hello good evening. i'm he esmeralda micro i have a son at the elementary school and active parent in the community in the school and i'm a busy parent. >> thank you very much for your patience georgia you want to say anything. >> first, i wanted to take a moment to say thank you commissioner maufas for your years of service on the board and for the support and more importantly thank you for your groundbreaking work as one of the original pack members with the structure; right? the portfolios and the by laws for the nitty-gritty work and i i really want to say thank you on behalf of the pack members it's appropriate that tonight is the

de la cruz a parent at betsy carmichael two children enrolled there i'm a very reactive member of theta as well thank you >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good evening after all you ami and have two children one

a 7th and 6th grady at betsy carmichael middle school and a kindergarten. >> good evening, president fewer, commissioners, superintendent carranza, i'm georgia williams, coordinator for the parent advisory council. >> i am going to be presenting the parties that we had picked. just bear with me, because i am visually impaired. >> thank you for waiting through the public testimony. i know we took it out of turn. >> we as members had picked out six items, and one is going to be support the planning, design and implementation of the family academic -- basically for university. second will be strengthen the implementation of the lau plan, supporting programs and services for english-language learner, including increased access two to district information in their home language. no. 3 is support the momentum for vision 2025 including the implementation of sfusd's building the digital district plan. next one is strengthening the implementation of the restorative practices. building stronger connections with families to improve school climate and culture, and the next point will be advocati

and finally opened the signal an ross for many families that walk across the street to go to betsy carmichaele today to open this signal (clapping) is it so exciting that improvements that we've been able to make on the last 4 years to make this neighborhood a safer place for you'll have us and remind the people 3 walk and commute through the districts that seniors and kids live here on isle on fulsome and howard and significantly again, this wouldn't have been possible without our residents that took the leadership to make it a realty want to thank our city agencies for working hard to put this on the ground as quickly as possible tilly chang the prop a dollars that helped to fund this today and, of course, edward reiskin but also with an night the engineer that put this on n place an significantly street the sf pd side commander is here oh, my god oar commander ali and commander and i will i is the traffic commander to make sure you're increasing the enforcement in the tenderloin and the south of market and the city to make sure we're telling the chiropractors and pedestrians what how we ca

. >> reporter: at san francisco's betsy carmichael school, on the playground to warn parents of tomorrow's districtwide closure. >> this is something that is knew to them. we just told them that we want them to be safe. that there is a storm coming, and everything will be okay. >> reporter: the last time san francisco schools closed in an emergency was on 9/11. parents we talked to around the bay area agreed with the decision. >> it's bad that he's missing his school, because he loves school so much, but i would rather have him safe at home than anywhere else. >> i will be available, but it is a concern for working parents, and they didn't have enough notice perhaps. >> reporter: with school closed, the hope is that students will stay out of the weather, safe at home. >> that's the plan. stay home, and be safe. >> and study. >> and study, right guys? >> yeah. >> reporter: the school building maybe one of the safest places to ride out a storm, but for many of the bay area districts, the safety was for parents and students on their way to sool in the morning and on their way home from school