and other districts. so i come to you all to really consider what is your ethical roles and responsibilities to really ensure that you provide access and equity to these families that are struggling. we just heard from a family earlier today, how hard it is, right? so putting yourselves in their shoes around what are the steps to really ensure equity. and lastly, want to echo the support as a mother at bessie carmichael to ensure that they're redesignated as a newcomer school to filipino families to ensure they have access to resources when they first he want our school district. thank you very much for your time. and please support this resolution. >> clerk: thank you. >> my name is tony. i'm a local children's author. i would like to thank member haney for introducing this resolution. i'd like to urge you to give bessie, the newcomer designation. if we don't give families the tools, the basic tools that they need to give to in order to thrive, in order for the families to thrive, we're setting them up f

i think it's a district. we have a responsibility to ensure that whatever we are doing is directly related to the success and the educational attainment of our students, and we're hearing again and again from the people who are in the classroom with the students every day, that the way we're doing it could be better, and that we could improve on how much assessing we're doing and what type of assessing, and that their ability to deliver what we need them to do for students is really challenged by the amount of assessments that we're doing. i think it becomes a matter of trust to listen to our educators, and i really appreciate the way you've done it. there is a lot that's required by state and federal laws, but if we can do it in a way that's most informed by the people who are doing the work with our students every day, i think we're going to get to a much better place and be able to serve them better and also meets the needs of our educators and parents. so i agree. i think we to a good compromise on this,

should not be applied in our historic district. they simply do not relate to our specific concerns for preservation as we work towards the future. we hope you'll exempt the historic districts from this plan which really has no specifics and is very vague on the details. [bell ringing] i find that many of the qualities that are mentioned are so subject to interpretation that they cannot be considered. thank you. [please stand by] [please stand by] and it's a risky proposition. the last quote over time and there's layers that uphold san francisco's unique neighborhoods and support their evolution. i ask you whose to decide just what appropriate design is and wed like historic districts have the urban design guidelines. >> commissioner: thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. earlier when the department unveiled the first draft of the documented public at large and i told you the issues with the guidelines chief among them was the over arching aspect to apply to san francisco. why? we found the focus was mos

the fifth district struck it down, it went to the entire fifth district here in the case. they sent the case back, the judge then found it to be a violation of the voter rights act. when it was up before the entire fifth circuit, one of the more conservative judges on the panel about politics. it has nothing to do with race. politics,flects party not racism, and the majority of this court, in their hearts, know this. it is race or party, it is not both. with the race or party approach, it is completely nonsensical given polarization. it can lead to arbitrary results. one judge considers racism, another considers partisanship. can you determine the predominant factor in a place like north carolina when 90% of african-american voters are voting for the democratic party? this will threaten the voter rights act itself did as race and party overlap they say it is all about race. i said there were three approaches, the second is treating race as a proxy for party. certificate the fit -- fifth circuit said these two things are not separate. turning to the case the judge told us a

or district compared to the state. but i don't know if -- i could try to find the comparison to spanish speaking el's in other districts as well. >> commissioner sanchez: i think that would help us with the state average as well in terms of targets. thank you. >> yeah. >> commissioner norton: in the past it seems we have gotten data from long term. i wonder if i could share any data on the status of our long term english learners because that has been an item of concern in the past. >> there are numbers of long term el's over time have dropped significantly because we are trying to really zero in on these students that are stuck and providing them with the instruction. we still do have those numbers, but we are really making sure that they are on the road to reclassification and that they're not continuing to be stuck at level three or four. >> commissioner norton: so, not tonight necessarily, but could you share information with the board on that -- that progress? i would like to make sure i'm monitoring that. >> okay

and it's going down to the school districts. but it's going down to the school district. it goes to the district office, right? it doesn't go to the school, it doesn't go to your kid, right? it's not backpacked on your kid, right? it goes to the district which gets to spend it on, what, things like teacher union contracts, right? and there is a part of the local control funding formula that is called the local controlled accountability plan, right? and so the money that the districts receive are supposed to be accountable to all of you, right? as parents, as members of the pluck, as tax -- public, as taxpayers, right? and there's districts that are supposed to implement activities that will make their use of that money more transparent and more, and have all of you have an impact on how that money is spent. have any of you heard about that? no? surprise. in fact, you're probably with 100% of the rest of californians who have never heard about that, who have never attended a school board meeting to talk about that, never knew that it was on a school district web site, neve

this is ridiculous, this district. get that, but it's part of the legislature, matt, to set this, no matter how ridiculous. that's my stance. >> rich? sharmain? >> i think that it is really a good step. there have been people who have been arguing this point for many years, so this just didn't happen. there was a young lady who actually pushed this case ahead because she looked at the districts and said, "these are absolutely just not fair, and we need to do something about it." and so the committee of seventy, the league of women voters, and others have been pushing very hard to try to get fair drawing of maps for congressional districts in pennsylvania, and i'm glad to see the supreme court has taken this issue on. >> we'll get to rich and ed in just a quick second. i want to tell you what governor wolf says about this. again, he will have to submit it back to the court on the 15th of february, provided that the state legislature gives him the new map by the 9th. governor wolf says he will not accept the new map and

district 28, and 25 people, and house district 28 were given ballots for house district two.ow, if they are successful, what the voters in this district are asking the court to do is to go back in there, and order a new election in this district. but we should tell you, time is not on their side in this. they would effectively need a decision from the fourth circuit court of appeals sometime tomorrow, because as you know, the virginia house of delegates is set to take issue with their current legislative session on wednesday, so as it stands right now, the republican incumbent, bob thomas in that race, is slated to take that seat. now, the course is a seat that is being replacing of the outgoing speaker of the house of delegates howell. so a lot was riding on this, and you saw that situation last week, where they actually had to deliver a decision based upon a random draw, at this point, jim, it seems that we are heading toward another situation where another judge and another court is going to have to step in and decide what happens in a virginia delegation house -- >> sure.

from tamalpais in marin couty to the albany and piedmont city districts and three districts in contran lafayette, pleasanton and san ramon valley.niche=dotcom doesn't name the worst schol districts, but it does give vallejo high school a grade of "d"only five percent of students in the working class city say they feel safe at school.just 15 percent are proficient in math, 37 percent in reading.the student teeacher ratio is 25 to one.by comparison, in the wealthy town of palo alto ... 93 percent of students feel safe, 82 percent are proficient in math, 77 percent in reading, and there are more teachers. coming up in some parts of san jose you can literally search for furniture, without ever leaving your car if you need it, it's available, but before you get too excited there's a catch, i'll explain in the next edition of people behaving badly. (ácommercialá) sfx: squeak sfx: stair creak sfx: clink sfx: deep breath sfx: grunt sfx: tinny headphone music sfx: feet shuffling sfx: slice sfx: gasp sfx: inhale. exhale. sfx: lights scraping on roof sfx: metallic scrape sfx: grunt covered calif

accordance with district policy. if appropriate, the superintendent will ask the staff to follow up with speakers. so my three speakers are fernando aguilar, joseph adams, and james burke. >> good evening, commissioners and superintendent. i'm fernando aguilar. i'm the director of creative arts charter school. i'm here tonight to speak about creative arts charter school for funding to rhenvate the golden gate campus that's currently occupied by creative arts. i'm here to request that our prop 51 application for funding be placed on the board meeting agenda. six years ago broadway middle school was moved across the campus. we have done our very best to maximize all available space at the golden gate campus and have developed a positive, strong and collaborative working relationship with gateway middle school. five years ago, i came into this very hall to ask for approval of our charter petition. the board voted unanimously. our charter stated that cac would grow from 256 students to our current enrollment of 440 stude

and in the historic districts we have to remember we have lots of sites in historic districts where there's non-contributing component. have you elements that are going to be used to help define what a new building is go to be. we're looking to specific characteristics. there's a lot that may not be covered. the sequa process always takes precedence. >> commissioner: i think that's important. we do see projects in historic districts. there's elements where we want it to apply. there's more sensitivity to context but they're called out generally in the historic guidelines and that's paid attention to more rigorously than in other neighborhoods that are not historic districts. i think these make sense. i encourage folks. i think there's an oddness about the discussion. and i encourage people to read it and how they were applied. that's how we see staff face projects in neighborhoods. and i think the process makes sense and we should continue on looking at this. commissioner richards. >> i want to step back in and piggy back off this. i'm serious if we can get one building from each neighborho

sheehy's district, but i happen to do a lot of organizing in district 5 and i will say that district 5 could use representation and we would love it if we had our representative back. right now the representative is doing three different jobs and we're concerned that the people in the district has not been able to get the attention that they deserve, especially the tenants the midtown, which is an important issue to all of you, as it is to me. thank you very much. >> president breed: thank you, sir, for your comments. next speaker, please? >> hello, board of supervisors. i'm david wu, born and raised in san francisco, in the haight, where i still live. i am here to talk about the conflict that exists with the current mayor also being a current supervisor and running a campaign at the same time. this is a great conflict. no one person to do all those things by themselves. our current district ever supervisor before they fell into the role of acting mayor had been largely unresponsive to many core, community needs. the role of this district 5 supervisor will only exacerbate issues that

because in our school districts in southern california and other districts, have not allowed students to wear their feathers and regalia. so our hope is that san francisco often leading the way will say, we support this. >> i'm willing to work with you on a resolution to do that. >> great. thank you. >> and then as far as staffing from a part-time to full-time, i support that as well. has it always been halftime or has it been full time in the past? >> seven years ago, it was part time for the entire program. up to four years ago when i took the position, it was one full time staff for the school district. as of this school year, '17/'18 we went from independent contractor support, 25 hours a week, so .6 part time position sfusd. >> so total staffing is 1.6. >> no consultant? >> for the cultural nights, yes. we're looking for something more sustainable. >> and thank you, again. >> thank you, mark. >> any other comments? >> can i ask how many native-american students we have in the district? >> that is a great question and that's often asked. it's not the data that we receive. unlike a

i'm a parent of a student with the san francisco unified school district. she's attending charles drew. i want to bring attention to the board about an issue with my daughter where she's missed 18 days of school based on a situation where teachers and administrator claimed she had -- it was a birthmark. i went to the nurse and let her know of the birthmark and i was rudely dismissed after seeing that she wouldn't look at pictures that i had in my phone of the birthmark. i googled the birthmark to let her know about the birthmark. she refused to look at it. so i went to the principal and vice principal and they said that education is separate, so he referred me to the supervisor of that nurse. they did not get back to me with what i wanted, which was to at least access the medical records because the birthmark was in her medical records and they can't access it. as of today, they had not accessed it for her to be back in school. so i wanted to bring that to your attention what type of result that ended in. my daughter with a birthmark and since the ongoing s

of the district? paul: the problem is it can't be that every district that happens to be a republican map is unconstitutional to republic -- the democrats and that the democrats are unconstitutional to the republicans. they want to focus on specific intent in saying that flipping is an instance of retaliation that was clearly done deliberately. is any of this done accidentally? [laughter] >> just randomly with a little pen. paul: again, try to be faithful to their theory, they draw a distention between people knowing the effect of what they are doing and having the punitive retaliatory intent. evidence ase opposed to just best paul: it's not even -- opposed to just -- paul: it's not even disputed. trying to seize the opportunity they had available. >> it seems to me, doing some moves in advances, the gill argument and looking at the oral argument transcript, one of the challenges is what kind of proof will be necessary, how you can scrutinize this. do you happen to know if they built into their theory

in north carolina's 115 school districts, that places the school district about 100 out of 115. what we've been able to do and kind of what put more so on the map is what we call our digital conversion. the digital conversion, we are 1 - 1 with k-12, with ipads and kindergarten and first grade on laptop computers in second grade through 12th grade. we started our journey about a decade ago and 2007. one of the biggest reasons behind our digital conversion was we wanted to close the digital divide that existed between our students, those with means and those who did not have economic means to have access to technology. what you'll hear throughout the course of my presentation is very similar, there was a disconnect between our students and what they were learning in education and in our schools. it's almost like our kids had to powerdown when they stepped onto the school ground. what we wanted to do was to prepare our students for their futures and not our past. that quote came from our former superintendent doctor mark edwards and he really believed that technology was a way to

they want districts that are influence districts.his is way more complicated than people make it out to be. but the substance is, vote in every election. >> okay, here's -- i want to play in. i want to move on because we have a lot of ground to cover. i want to play president trump's comments on african-american unemployment earlier today. >> i'm very proud of this -- african-american unemployment reached its lowest level in history. think of that. and on the campaign trail, remember i said and would constantly say, what do you have to lose? meaning, what do you have to lose if you vote for trump? now it was just reported that african-american unemployment is at its lowest level in history. i'm very proud of that. >> bakari, i know you feel strongly about this. what's your thoughts? >> he's a condescending liar, that's first. if you want a more intellectual answer, the fact is that the black unemployment rate when barack obama took office was about 16.8, if i'm not mistaken. when barack obama left office it was cut in half -- >> 16.1

and downtown commercial districts. as you can see on this, the orange is where the urban design guidelines would apply. the purple is where the r-districts, the rm, rh and r.t.o. designing is and that is where the residential design guidelines apply. they all stay as it is. there are some instances we're proposing that the urban design guidelines would support projects in the residential districts where the r.d.g.s would also apply and would supersfaoeds there was any conflict between them. we certainly hope there aren't conflicts. i'll be explaining that later in the presentation to unpack that a little bit further. and this is meant for everyone to use. this is meant for us to have a common dialogue, of course for the planning commission, planning staff, community groups, members of the public, project sponsors and architects and variety of designers that twork on projects. it is really for all of us and it is why we're going through this process and making sure that people are collaborate rating and contributing as

to a broken-winged pterodactyl. >> this is illinois' fourth district.nd it on end and what does it look like. >> they call it the ear mufs. >> observers say north carolina 12th district straddling interstate 58 is so narrow could you open your car doors and kim everybody in it. >> wow. that description got really dark. i feel like those maps ares will a rohr shash -- rorschach test wa, do you see. >> ear mufs. >> what do you see. >> an opportunity to murder people using my-- i think you need help, man, who thinks like that. the national debt is so high you could push your spouse off of it and no one would ever know. you really need to get help, man. now you don't need to be an expert to see that something is not quite right with these districts. look at these shapes. it's like when two relatives have a kid together, something is clearly off. and recently, recently the american court system has started to agree. >> pennsylvania's supreme court has thrown out the state's congressional map ruling that it quote clearly, plainly and palpably violates the sta

we're a small school as you guys know in the district. and i have about 13-15 kids and around when we talk numbers, the pacific islander community is one of the most rapid growing communities in the states. this number is going to get bigger. so, we do need that space. and you guys' help to implement the curriculum. our kids need to be empowered. not just empowered, but empowered through education. education through their roots. not just during the regular poly club. we need to educate them what we are showcasing about and through that education, we have empowerment and it is being done and needs to be done. look at city college program three years. we could do that in probably less. we have the people. we have the power. we just need the space and you guys' help. thank you. >> public: how do you all do? my name is lawrence. i'm one of a number of parents from an elementary school in the district. five of those parents are here with me tonight. i'd like to read a letter written collectively by all of us. dear president walton and members

my district. probably nobody in this room and nobody in the department of transportation can tell you where the buck o'neill bridge is. 40,000 people cross it every day and it is near collapse state. when people come to me and there's a news article, an editorial saying we hope that congressman cleaver will go to congress and push for the construction of a new bridge. ladies and gentlemen, they don't understand, i have nothing to say about the new bridge. i can write a letter to the white house and say would you please, pretty please think about putting some money in this bridge. this is absolutely ridiculous. our constituents come to us and say can you help us on this or can you help us on that. that's not what we do in congress. so i am absolutely committed to earmarks and when you talk about the possibility of a transportation bill coming up, why in the world -- and this is a serious question. why in the world would i vote for a transportation bill when i know that the people who are going to m

my district. that was not at all the politics though of how that thing played out. so you had a whole host of folks saying you're not watching out for the district. i directed it here and it would get there. by not directing the earmark myself it was a political fire storm. and in that regard what i suggest is we have to be careful about -- my colleague from north carolina suggested, if you don't participate or play, there's a substantial political downside for you in not doing so. so there's a balance somewhere and i don't know where it is. you have to ask solomon and all his wisdom in the deliberation. i have to warn you about that i have seen it firsthand. thirdly, i would say that earmarks do in fact foster more spending. only about 1% of the pie and you -- but what we all know is that once you've gotten that earmark in a bill for your district, how do you vote against the bill? and that's where the leverage that my colleague from north carolina was getting at. again, that's a tricky thing. an

i think district eight is different than other districts because of the castro, right?is really the birth place of lgbtq civil rights movement in san francisco. it's historic for that reason. it's a great district because it's very diverse. you have booming night life in the castro, a lot of families, we have an amazing array of parks, rock climbing wall in glen canyon is super cool. it was the first facility with a rock climbing wall. the book stores are treasures, charlie's corner is unique. >> charlie's corner is a children's book store but so much more, community space where care takers and children come together over storytelling, books, it's a gathering center. i am charlotte and we are at charlie's corner on the corner of castro and 24th. the type of books we carry at charlie's corner range from prenatal to young adult, 18. we have musical books, art books, all built around children of course. history, nonfiction, we have a wonderful picture book section. >> i love going to charlie's corner, number one, because you can find a whole range of books. my kid loves to

and the issues inside my district, the residents of my district. we have a huge array of things that need working on. and i think we need a supervisor who gives 100% of his or her attention to these problems and i'll tell you -- i just made a quick list. we need as much low- and middle-income housing as we can get. we need protections for all of our tenants. we need our streets repaired. we need pedestrian safety desperately. we need jobs for people that actually live in district 5. we need more bus stops. we need additional services for our seniors, disabilities, people with drug issues, mental health issues. we need equitable solution for the failed promises to the residents of midtown park apartments. we need more -- our supervisor, whoever is our supervisor, must not have divided interests. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon. i'm peter warfield, executive director of library users association. and i'm here to talk about something completely different. and that is about the san fra

unified school district in 2012. following this, in 2016, under the leadership of the then school board member sandra fewer, the san francisco unified school district became the first institution outside of l.a. to adopt the program. after that, the program spread like wildfire and we received formal policy adoptions through oakland, chicago and chicago public schools. we're working with 24 institutions in 12 cities with purview over $500 million in institutional food purchases. the good food purchasing program is a collective impact initiative. these are many of the partners at the national level and the local partners assembled here today who help expand the program nationally. i'll give you a quick overview of how the center supports institution. food service director approaches us and we perform a baseline evaluation to show them where their food dollars are going, how the purchases align with the set of standards and at the same time, a local multi-sector coalition mobilizes to ensure that the institution's prio

the location is in district 10 one the edge of district 9.it's an area that often hosts large tent encampments. my office is working on short-term improvements that will improve bicycle and pedestrian safety, but another issue has been the fact that many homeless people trying to stay out of the way of areas where there are many businesses and homes sleep underneath the freeway. and these encampments have been problematic because of the dangerous area with the speeding traffic, the curves where you can't see pedestrians when driving in your car. so i worked very hard with the office of homelessness and supportive housing as well as mohammed naru and former mayor ed lee to find this location and want to send a special thanks to assemblimember phil ting that obtained the $10 million from the state that will help to fund the lease and operation of the center. this is the only way that i know how to humanely and effectively address the homeless crisis, provide the services that are essential, keep people safe and living in dignified spaces and im

but it's going down to the school district.it goes down to the district office. it doesn't go to that school. it's not backpack on your kid. against the district that gets suspended on things like teachers union contracts and there is a part of the local control funding formula that is called the local control of accountability plan and so the money th the districts receive e supposed to be accountable to all of you as parents and members of the public and taxpayers and the districts are supposed to implement activities that would make the use of the money more transparent and all of you have an impact on how it is spent. have any of you heard about that? surprise. in fact you are probably with 100% of the rest never heard about that and have never attended a school board meeting to talk about that, never knew that they were on the school district website, never knew any of that. so even though there is this accountability plan, there is no accountability because no one is holding them accountable for how they are spending the

commission commissioner ronen, my district and your district. i'm just saying that i am concerned that it would not allow us to have more input. when i think about the navigation center that we opened up just in june-july of -- earlier this year, we have no idea where the data is. that's why i requested a meeting on the introduction center. we don't know anything, other than it feels good to be able to say hey, we opened up a navigation center, and we're moving down the road. okay. but at some point, we need to start to look at the data, and so i'm concerned about giving this emergency declaration -- because it allows certain emergency contracting provisions that again, i think would have an adverse impact on the quality of life of the people that live in district ten, the people that have been more than tolerant, more than generous and shouldering their responsibility as a resident of this county, and accepting the resources and accepting the bids that are needed to do our part to address this homeless crisis. so this -- director, this is where