members and school boards. and public reports of threats of violence and even since then, i have further read quite express threats of violence. >> mr. attorney general, i want to try to keep in time in deference to my colleagues behind me. i do, i know you have said it's not about the parents. but when the doj releases the memo, and i think even more importantly, the press statement, i think that it does have a chilling effect on parents being willing to go and express their concerns with the direction the school board is going. when all of a sudden you think your words and this list of crimes that the department gets to at least the state of montana and others, it could have a chilling effect on people who legitimately have a concern they want to express, but now they may think they come cross wise with the fbi. so i do believe that it will have a chilling effect on people whose right they have to go in, express their concerns, like louden county. ridiculous overreach. i think that it will have that effect. b

i, as well, started on board 2. i'm now on board 1. i'm a certified general appraiser and involved in real estate. i've been appraising since the '80s, and been in real estate that long as well. so i understand real estate values and hope to continue and help with board 1. >> chair: thank you so much. and that takes on to paul beller. >> thank you. i appreciate it. i am residential appraiser here in san francisco. i only focus on san francisco county. i have about just over 10 years' experience, and i have enjoyed the past three on the board, the assessment appeals board, and i would like to continue. thank you. >> chair: thank you. ms. nelson, if you could turn your camera off, that would be great. and why don't we open this up for public comment. >> clerk: thank you, mr. chair. >> there are no callers. >> clerk: thank you, mr. atkins. >> chair: there are no callers for this item. okay. colleagues, i want to thank all of the ap applicants for board 1, the complex assessment appeals board and make the following suggestion to keep thing

to board and school elections.would remove the sunset date in the charter amendment and make the qualifying noncitizen parents to vote in the school board elections and make this voting right permanent. now, i'll turn it over to my colleague marco. can you go to the next slide. >> good morning everyone. my name is marco gian, i am part of the imgranted parent voting collaborative. so why is this important? we need to make noncitizen voting in school board elections important because one third of children in sf schools have immigrant parents. if this is not made permanent, one third of the parents will not be able to vote. secondly, we have 13,000 english language learners in san francisco from different language communities. this includes spanish, mandarin, vietnamese, and many other languages. we need to make sure parents can advocate for their children and make sure they are accommodated appropriately during the time where they're still learning the language. and, lastly, all families in the school district deser

do you think a parent, who makes a phone call to a school board member she's elected, that school board should be prosecuted? >> no, i don't and the supreme court has made clear word intimidation with respect to constitutional protection directs a threat to the person with intent of placing the victim in fear of bodily harm or death. prosecutors who investigate these cases know the supreme courts, this is a very famous -- >> prosecutors do, but parents don't, general garland. do you think a parent who looks at the 13 different federal crimes your justice department identified, they might be subject to and prosecuted for like making annoying phone calls, do they feel they are welcome to speak up at a school board meeting? they can be prosecuted for using the internet in way that might cause emotional threat to a victim. >> i haven't seen the memo you are talking about even from the description, doesn't sound like it was addressed to parents. >> no, it was addressed to prosecutors, why haven't you seen the memo? >> i don't know why i haven't, i do not get every memo that every u.s. attorn

school board issues? >> obviously the letter, which was public and asked for assistance from the justice department, was brought to our attention and it is a relevant factor. >> who gave you the letter? who gave it to you? >> i read about the letter in the news. that's how i read about it. >> did the white house tell you to write the memo? >> no one in the white house spoke to me about the memo at all. i'm sure i -- i certainly would believe that the white house communicated its concerns about the letter to the justice department and that is -- >> that's my next question did you or anyone at the justice department discuss the memo with white house personnel or with anyone at the white house before the memo was sent? >> i did not. i don't know whether anyone discussed the memo. i am sure the communication from the national institution of school boards was discussed between the white house and the justice department and that's perfectly appropriate. >> who at the white house talked to who at the justice dep

parents are showing up in record numbers and school board meetings as they should be of school boards in making decisions that go against the wishes of those children. millions of children have had ayear of their life taken away and so shining a light on it is important and showing a video of those parents is something that we all should be wanting to see of the fact that chairman nadler wants to censor it, that shows you you don't want people to see it but people are seeing it. jim jordan is highlighting a point that so many people are already very well aware of and may be more people will be aware of it. >> so this is the reconciliation bill that democrats are arguing amongst themselves about and what it should be shrunk down to. senator mitch mcconnell on fox this morning said the democrats goal is to shrink the apparent cost of the bill and setting expiration dates on programs, but then hoping that they will become popular enough and the committee for the responsible federal budget is calling out the democrats tactics saying these proposals don't actually shrink the package, they

from the board? public comment, please. >> clerk: thank you. moderator, do we have any callers on the line in. >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no calls, public comment is closed. president casciato? >> item 13, please. >> item 13, discussion item, sfdcp monthly report. >> thank you very much. that will be a nice change next month. it'll be our quarterly report, so that will be a nice one. i will be brief in my comments. i'm aware of the hour. first is the stable value crediting rate, which has increased to 1.71%. this crediting rate is guaranteed for the entire q-4 and will reset for q-1 this year. they will value wholes just under 1 billion and is the most conservative fund in the lineup. as of august 31, the fund is just shy of 5 billion, and you can find the fund performance in the attachment activity report starting on slide 10 in the item 13 materials. as a reminder, the plan is 100% contribution dollars that employees have made to com

the board. before we had our sunshine laws and acts in place, made sure things were made public, you made sure our meetings were recorded on cassette. [laughter] made sure it was available to the public when we asked. you've been such a light in this district and we're so grateful. i remember when i first started a long time ago, early in my career, you were the translator and still are for so many in the public. we usually have to call and give you a list of names that we thought would speak. and you were so gracious and helpful. just throughout. the time and the patience. more than anything, you've been patient with all the things that you have to set. we are super grateful to you. enjoy your retirement. take care. >> thank you. >> hello, riando. >> good evening, our beloved ester. tony is going to give our official farewell from apac but i couldn't let tonight go past without giving you a special farewell from me. when i first started coming to the board meetings in 2013, i was so new to it.

last week and our board response is proof by the board of supervisors on tuesday. this one response around van ness was continued after a presentation last week from mr. mcgire and the grand jury and i want to, again, thank the grand jury for all their work on this. the departments for their responses, and also my colleague supervisor mandelman for his work digging in on all these detailses and drafting our board response which we'll be discussing later in this committee hearing. so i want to turn it over to supervisor mandelman. the mic is yours. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, chair preston. i did have additional conversations with the city attorney and we reached out as well we continued to follow up with m.t.a. and p.u.c. and i think based on those conversations, i think we can have a full and frank conversation about these findings and recommendations in open session. i don't think that we need a closed session and we will have a set of responses for our findings and recommendations to suggest to you all. again, i also want to echo your thanks to the civil

he was arrested at a school board meeting in july or back in may and the school board members have come and said they didn't know about that at the time and they learned about it through the media but you say you have a letter that proves otherwise. >> wtop of the local news station, last night, and email they are acquired via foia showing superintendent email the entire school board on may 20 eighth when the incident happened, describing sexual assault in a bathroom so that means when the superintendent went to a school board meeting where mister smith was arrested on june 20 second and said there were no records of sexual assault in bathrooms he was lying. when school board members came out last week and said we weren't aware of any specific details, they didn't have every detail but they knew about this on may 28th. they covered this policy up, pre-cooked questions from the school board meeting to hide it because they wanted to pass the controversial transgender policy that would allow bathroom used by people who identify with whatever gender they chose. this is a massive cover-up. a

board?to the board of education? >> supervisor melgar: yes. >> well, i would have to go back, and i'm not sure if there's an on going -- like, if we have funds dedicated to on going improvements, of course we have that. but the most current bond in 2016 was $744 million. over $10 million was dedicated to construction, reconstruction, and improvements, so -- and then, we did identify, as many school sites, as you may know, as the city, as well, every bond measure would not be able to meet the full demand of the scale of what we -- all of our schools need, but we do try to, you know, address them in a priority. we are working, as you know, chief [indiscernible] has joined us a couple of years ago, and a full scale capital planning and capital improvement has begun, but it's not ready for her portfolio yet. that is part of her portfolio of work to be done. we don't have one to present to you today. >> supervisor melgar: thank you. >> supervisor? >> supervisor melgar: i'm sorry. who said that? >

president for the national school boards association.in that piece. but we do want to make clear that you're not speaking in any capacity for the organization. you are representing yourself, your point of view. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you very much. >> so mr. wilson, what is this really about? i mean, i'm not hearing anything from the many people who were interviewed, they're not talking about trying to get enough pencils in schools, books in schools, making sure that kids are getting a balanced education. but instead there's a lot of dissension, and we're hearing a lot of detail and seeing a lot of detail about how people's lives are feeling threatened, people being followed, et cetera. what in your view is really at the core here? why has this become so contentious? >> i think it's a multitude of things, but i think the primary motivation is an attempt by certain dark money groups to undercut public education. public education has been under attack all across this nation, and at the federal level for about 30 year

very much like the circumstances with respect to the school boards when the national school board association wrote us a letter advising of threats of violence and violence. earlier this year, we received communications from the national association of secretaries of state and the national association of election administrators raising concerns about threats of violence and violence in that area. in that -- soon there after i met virtually unfortunately because of the pandemic, with a large number of election administrators and secretary of states where they recounted these -- the kind of threats that you are talking about. and that led us to establish a task force which again coordinated efforts between the federal law enforcement agencies, u.s. attorneys offices and state and local law enforcement across the country. it is the case that many of those kind of threats can be handled by state and local law enforcement and should be where they are capable of doing that. the federal government has an important role, as you say, in protecting our democracy and protecting threats against public of

board, not a meeting that belongs to the public. each speaker is asked to state his or her name for the record and failure to do so will result in the individual not being allowed to speak. participants are prohibited from calling out or addressing any individual school board or school district staff member. >> laura: do you understand what she said? if a parents concern is not on her agenda, i guess the controversy or concern didn't happen, it's like magic and it just goes away. it seems like there's another school board that needs be replaced. taxpaying parents, and any politician stands in the way of this legitimate exercise of parental rights and any bureaucrat who uses procedural gimmicks to insulate himself from criticism should be tossed from office as soon as possible. this spells political defeat and countless democrats who believe they are above reproach as long as they are woke. and that's the angle. joining me now is it utah senator mike lee who was at today's hearing with the attorney general merrick garland, and senato

, the mask board.f that stuff, just how we're putting those things into practice or are those questions the district is looking to the board to provide answers to an direction in this moment as we attempt to address the situation . >> thank you for the question andit's a good one . i would say those are questions that we want the cities to practicein our classroom. those are questions we need to askourselves about the instruction that they're providing , about the assistance we're providing . about the environment we are putting students into. those are questions that are relevant to our day-to-day academic environment that we're providing for students and we revisit those so aswe collect data we ask those questions . what problems are we trying to solve?what are our benchmarks ? how do we know if we're making progress and how do we improve? those are what we should be asking ourselves and that we revisit time and time again particularly if we have new data to reflect on and i want to also say that we

i talked to a bunch of my school board members today in preparation, one school board member literally said to me, it's been pretty unpleasant, i feel sick before every school board meeting. every single time. i do everything i can in my power not to latch out, because i am here for the kids, i'm here for the kids. so you are right, i had the chance to serve at the township level, the state level, for six and a half years, and now the federal level. but, my champions are you. the school board members who are volunteers for our children and care about our children and they should not be subject to the horrendous vets that you are absolutely right, are the limits of donald trump and those who support donald trump. >> you know, heather, i honestly didn't know but that group was, they had to tell me, i had to google that, and it is the locals national socialist club, aka, nazis. so, again, the nazis are showing up at your school board meetings, how does that make you feel? >> well, first, thank you so much for having me and including me in this conversation. it was pretty hairy there for a

the board's legal assistant alice one way and i am the board's executive director . we will be joined by representatives from the city department presented before the board this evening . the administrator representing the planning department as well as scott sanchez, zoning administrator. we have joe duffy, acting acting deputy director and the building inspector both from department of building inspection and acting urban forrester for san francisco public works euro urban forestry. the board request you silence all electronic devices so they will not disturb the proceedings. the board's rules of presentations are as follows . permit holders areeach given seven minutes to present the case and the three minutes for remodel . people affiliated must include their comments within this period members who are not affiliated after three minutes each to address the board and no rebuttals . time may be limited to two minutes if there are a large number of speakers.mister long wayour legal assistant will give you a verbal warning before your time is up . votes are required t

the board of supervisors agrees with finding f-2 and the same response for f-3 the board of supervisors agrees with finding f-3. with respect to the two recommendations for the continuity report on recommendation one that the board of supervisors reports recommendation r-1 has been implemented as detailed in the mayor's response and r-2 that the board of supervisors reports that recommendation r-2 has been implemented as detailed in the mayor's response. colleagues, i wanted to open up for comments from either of you before i ask for a role call on those amendments. and seeing only thumbs up from my colleagues, we will translate that into a vote since thumbs up doesn't do well on the record. so on the motion to amend the resolution with the proposed responses, mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion to amend the resolution proposed, [roll call] mr. chair, there are three ayes. >> chairman: thank you, mr. clerk. and the motion passes, the motion to amend. is there a motion to send this resolution as a committee report with positive recommendation to the full board of sup

the board. the server room we can have a scope for that in the next few weeks. bigger projects that might be desired and anticipated by the community whether the kitchen or heating solutions might take longer. i would like to think within two months i could have a rough plan for how to allocate and move forward on the schedule with the funds i proposed allocating for short term. >> sorry. i wanted to go to the school safety. the proposal mentions 18 sites with the locks. which 18 sites don't have the columbine locks? >> commissioner, i need to go find my details on that. i do have that list somewhere. i think we should move to the next question if you have another one while i look in the background and pull that up for you. >> i was wondering if we can go to commissioner alexander so it would be a little like talk more about the amendment. i was a little confused. i want to be clear what it is. more so the first parts therefore be resolved in terms of al locations of funds. >> this is what the c

, which is a board appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. the rate increase is then approved by the san francisco public utilities commission at their september 28 meeting with an effective date of november 1. the average cleanpowersf customer bill for a residential customer will go up 4% from its current level. that worked out to a $3 increase for the average residential customer or a $15 increase for the average commercial customer. changes maintain the same margins between pg&e and cleanpowersf's rates as what's effective on november 1. next slide. this rate increase is fundamentally about ensuring our financial viability through this really tough fiscal year. it addresses the increased cost that we're seeing in power supply, ensuring in a range of scenarios, we end the year with sufficient financial reserves to meet our financial policies. this protects our credit rating, which is currently the highest of any california c.c.a. a strong credit rating helps us enter into power purchase agreements with more favorable terms. our long-term fi

because violence occurred at school board meetings? no.oser and you will find this one, "the justice department will also create specialized training and guidance that will help school board members understand the type of behavior that constitutes threats. oh, so it is a propaganda operation funded by you out of the department of so-called justice designed to tell teachers and school board members that when parents complain it is domestic terrorism, not the first amendment, not your constituents voicing legitimate complaints. it is effectively a foreign adversary trying to kill you. the biden administration is trying to convince school board members using the department of justice that they are in physical danger from parents and those parents are national security threats. once again, nothing like this has ever happened in this country. this is an utter perversion of the mission and the power of the united states department of justice. it is almost impossible to overstate how sinister and crazy this is. we almost never play the equivalenc

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, which is a board appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. the rate increase is then approved by the san francisco public utilities commission at their september 28 meeting with an effective date of november 1. the average cleanpowersf customer bill for a residential customer will go up 4% from its current level. that worked out to a $3 increase for the average residential customer or a $15 increase for the average commercial customer. changes maintain the same margins between pg&e and cleanpowersf's rates as what's effective on november 1. next slide. this rate increase is fundamentally about ensuring our financial viability through this really tough fiscal year. it addresses the increased cost that we're seeing in power supply, ensuring in a range of scenarios, we end the year with sufficient financial reserves to meet our financial policies. this protects our credit rating, which is currently the highest of any california c.c.a. a strong credit rating helps us enter into power purchase agreements with more favorable terms. our long-term fi

the school board civilly began to shout over them. the legal counsel to the school board literally cut them off midsentence and began yelling over them and screaming at them, you are done. it's remarkable to see, and you can find the clips on youtube. you can go to our site for a full briefing on the case. the way it works is, a school board or public body does not have to have a public comment period, but if they do, that becomes a limited public forum and the school district can't only allow people who agree with its policies to speak up. it can't only allow people who say what they want them to say to speak. if you will have a public forum, you have to let the public speak. these people were rationally trying to make a case and they were shouted down, talked over, cut out. in many cases, the school board was editing the remarks out of official transcript of the meeting as if they never even spoke, and so that is a case where we are suing to vindicate their first amendment rights. if the school board is going to have a public commen

that is the national school board. somehow. >> they managed to it and have been bragging about the fact they have been working with white house staff for weeks on this. we know what happened. he needs to apologize and it is inexcusable. this can't ever happen. laura: thank you and we appreciated the question today. speaking of what is going on in virginia terry mcauliffe is trying to fight back against the idea that he doesn't care about school safety with flashy new mailers, the timing is awkward not because of how he downplayed the sexual assault of students in virginia high schools but also because of what the daily wire is reporting, the story notes but mcauliffe's former law firm, when he reported some income is currently fighting on behalf of the school that covered up one of the cases where a student was brutally assaulted. the law firm is -- a woman says she was repeatedly raped on her fairfax county middle school campus is a 12-year-old and slashed with a knife, burned with a later, penetrated and here is the

the board of supervisors will accept public comment by mail using address san francisco board of supervisors, 1 carlton b. goodlett place, room 204, san francisco, california, 94102. you may also send an e-mail. use the e-mail bos@sfgov.org. there will be interpretation assistance provided to begin listeners with the public appeals beginning at 3:00, and finally, if the public is experiencing any trouble connecting to this meeting remotely, please call the clerk's office at 415-554-5184. we do have a live person standing by to assist you. thank you, mr. president. that concludes my communication. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk, and colleagues, before we get started, just a friendly reminder to mute your microphones when you are not speaking. madam clerk, as you mentioned before, before we move forward with the consent calendar, i want to sever item 64 from the for adoption without committee reference calendar and call it out of order, would you please call item 64. >> clerk: item 64, this is a motion to allow teleconference meeting under california government code section 54953,

that school board, almost all women. you know, i think that we are the ones we have been waiting for as they say, right. we need to do this. it's not -- i don't want to sound like poly anna. it's not easy. i have a lot of privilege in saying this it takes a kplunt to do it. and a community we're not used to. making the community more diverse than we have had before and being a little uncomfortable about that. but i love what you were saying that quote from ms. jenkins it takes one person to terrorize you. that's true. it takes a community silence to let that terror continue. but it also can be a community that stops that terror. so weirdly i'm hopeful. this very panel makes me hopeful. >> well, no, i am hopeful. i have to be. honestly like i'm sitting literally right now in front of a photo of my grandfather who marched in selma. if i wake up -- hope is required in this house. that would be silly, right. i wouldn't be sitting here without that hope. somebody had to hope. but how do we turn back? like, i -- so i want to p

we will elect the first parent to the board in the november board meeting. we also really agree with the staff recommendation and look forward to ratifying new facility use agreements as soon as possible. our families want to know. the facilities of the merged school are secured. we really appreciate the commissioners approval of our vision and to move quickly on the fua. thank you so much. >> before we continue i would like to open it up to public comment. >> please raise your hands if you care to speak to the city arts tech and leadership merger. [speaking spanish] >> five hands are up. hello, corinne. >> good evening. i am corinne benson. i worked as the director of administration since 2013. leadership and cat have strong programming in a community of families with a strong sense of pride and gratitude for the educational experience they receive. leadership joining with cat to become part of the educational network is a stronger pool for more courses and enrichment opportunities and retaining the benefits of the small school community. long-standing lead

the board pretended to be crazy at their school board meeting. they acted like they didn't know what was going on at that time. so, not only do you have sexual assault that is being covered up, but whether you have the dad that comes to the school board meeting to petition them on sexual assault. by the way i don't understand what the fbi, know what the fbi did with sexual assault. they haven't been able to figure out the guy did with the olympics, and they didn't take that investigation serious. so we have this school board meeting and the school board members pretend like they had no cool commented these people are. i don't understand candidly how the fbi is not investigating that whole operation. >> there you go. >> right, lawrence? that sounds to me like a conspiracy cover up and there were overt acts to engage in the violation of people's civil rights. i thought that was the kind of thing we cared about. i mean, this -- listen, man, this country's soul is lost. not that we can't save it i'm not an optimist but i'm a real list. got blessed wh

the board of supervisors will accept public comment by mail using address san francisco board of supervisors, san francisco, california, 94102. you may also send an e-mail. use the e-mail bos@sfgov.org. there will be interpretation assistance provided to begin listeners with the public appeals beginning at 3:00, and finally, if the public is experiencing any trouble connecting to this meeting remotely, please call the clerk's office at 415-554-5184. we do have a live person standing by to assist you. thank you, mr. president. that concludes my communication. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk, and colleagues, before we get started, just a friendly reminder to mute your microphones when you are not speaking. madam clerk, as you mentioned before, before we move forward with the consent calendar, i want to sever item 64 from the for adoption without committee reference calendar and call it out of order, would you please call item 64. >> clerk: item 64, this is a motion to allow teleconference meeting under california government code section 54953, subsection e. >> president walton: tha

hopefully before the board soon. lastly, i want to recognize again as i did in committee, our g.a.o. clerk, john carol, who put in lot of time and energy in coordinating with departments and the san francisco superior court. finally, the various departments who also had to provide responses in mayor office. i want to thank them for their thorough responses as well. finally, turning to the one grand jury report that i took the lead on. i wanted to make some brief remarks on that. that's breaking through a living wage report. civil grand jury report. came out at a really critical time a moment when many san francisco residents are living with unrelenting financial insecurity. they are looking to change careers or stuck in jobs that do not pay a living wage in our responsive city. i think the report does many things really well. one of the things is really highlighting the important distinction between minimum wage and a living wage. living wage which allows an individual to support themselves and families, minimum wage

we often can't see the board members. often, we can only see the a.s.l. interpreter and, you know, perhaps the face of one other person while a presentation or something is being made. we would like to be able to see the folks who are in the room and making decisions and discussing things, and it's very disconcerting to discuss all of these things without knowing who is conversing, so it would help to know who is talking when they're talking. thank you. >> thank you. hello, tom? >> hi. i'm a teacher in the district, and we just hired a parabecause we had a parawho's on medical leave. he was hired a few weeks ago, and he still does not have an e-mail for the district, and he also still does not have an employee number, so now, he's not going to get paid on time, and myself and my principal are rushing to get him paid over there. this is someone who took the job and who needs the money, and we're just sort of saying whatever. he also didn't get the parabonus because they say they've got a backlog. that's really not cool, ei

who elect their school boards, sense their children to the class rooms, why?ause they are challenging the poison. the rot. the radical marxist propaganda that is being taught to your children from k-12, thatat is too much to tolerate for them. this is the memo that will go down in history as one of most egregious violations of your liberty, signed by merrick garland, gone to criminal division of justice department, the national security division, civil right division. the executive officer of u.s. attorney, federal bureau of investigation, as if this is a east german stasy. they will spy on you, they will track you, and organizations that you belong to, and a special phone number is set up so that a teachero a bureaucrat or a union or whom ever thinks if you are threatening or has -- harassing them, they the set loose the fbi. and they will look at effort to intimidate individuals based on their views. they have a dedicated line of communication for threat reporting. there is a a problem, the federal government has no authority. no authority in the classroom i