commissioner haney. >> mr. haney: i want to thank commissioner cook and sanchez for your leadership in this. i think this can be understandably a very challenging issue and one that certainly sparks very strong opinions and a lot of passion. and i think it's a testament to the way you all wrote this resolution, that there hasn't been a huge amount of backlash to this. people understand that we have to think about this in a very intentional systematic thoughtful way. and i think that's what we laid out here with this resolution. i had the opportunity to go to last week, the celebration for 50 years of ethnic studies. and you know, at that event, we talked a lot about how important it is to have all of our communities reflected in our schools. and that's how we actually represent the truth. of our past, present and future. we've done so much work in our school district to make sure we're telling the truth and reflecting our diversity in our curriculum and i think it would be a shame if we kept out of that convers

commissioner haney? >> i actually just want to thank you, all of the parent leaders and folks in the community who have been organizing around this. this is -- as commissioner sanchez has said, has been a long slog to get to this point to have actually have something that is going to be on the ballot in 2020. and the work that has been done to lay the foundation for this to pass and to educate, you know, not just, you know, elected officials and school districts who know a lot about this issue, but regular people, knocking on doors, having resolutions like this pass all over the state i think is really what is going to allow us to be successful in 2020. so hopefully, we'll sign up and others will sign up, and others will pass similar resolutions, and we'll get this done. and i also want to shout out our uesf and the unions around the state who have also been close partners in making this happen. we as we'll talk about with our budget. we'd very much like this to happen sooner rather than later, so we're

thank you, commissioners merase and haney for supporting it. >> hi. i'm carrie gray, and i'm the president of the san francisco p.t.a. i can only echo what everybody else has said, and i want to thank you because this board has passed other resolutions of increased funding. you know that we have more needs and fewer resources. that's not news to anybody in the room, and with this resolution, you can show your strong support for a very timely ballot initiative that could really change the game in san francisco. i notice in your consent agenda there are a lot of unequal resources across the district. some schools have very strong fund raising, and other schools don't, and with more reliable public funding for our schools, we can really address our achievement gaps in a realistic ongoing way. and so i'm hoping that you will again support a resolution to support increased public funding -- reliable public funding for our schools. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. so we're closing public comment. i need a motion and a second for formal introduction, plea

i want to thank vice president cook and commissioner haney for adding his name. i appreciate the first nations folks for being here and speaking to the resolution. your voices need to be heard throughout the process as well as other communities that have been so harmed over the history in the united states and in california and san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. so i also want to thank all the coauthors on this. i think this is a really important discussion for us to have and for someone who attended george washington high school and never thought about it in that way, i think it's really important for our young people to recognize where they're attending and who it represents. and i think about the other schools that my children attended, fairmont, james lake and lowell and there are some really interesting pieces of history that i think need to be discussed. and we want to have positive images for our young people. and what better way than to have it every single day that they're attending a school that holds the name of somebody who we can honor and who w

. >> commissioner haney: i want to thank you, both, for your service. i agree with vesiice prnt cook that this is a really special part of what we do as a district and i can't imagine having this board without the student delegates. it's not something that's required of schl boards and most school boards don't have student delegates. they tried to propose this at lausd. it because controversial and the board rejected it. for us, we can't think of having the conversations without you here and the central perspective that you provide. both of you represent the best of student leadership in our district. i know i got to know you when you were meeti around making sure that folks had -- young people had a voice and an opportunity to vote. and i hope that you continue that both now in san francisco and in the future, that young people should be at the table, should have their voices heard on the things that matter to them. and i want to thank the folks and welcome the new delegates. really, we look at student leadership as a pipeline. i kno you're supported b

commissioner haney? >> can you explain the timing of this a little bit more because it does seem like there's some concerns and we're being told that basically we have no choice but to approve it. which puts us in a tough position. again, i don't know how we would vote if it was just -- but again, if we're told that this needs to be approved by the board and we're getting a lot of information about the process that actually we don't really have a choice, that puts us in a bad position. so how -- what's your -- what's your explanation for that and how do we make sure something like this doesn't happen again? >> yes. i apologize for that. we actually did the process in the spring so that we would be able to bring it to the board earlier. however, there were some unforeseen delays with getting the contracts finalized once the bidding process was over. and then, we were scheduled to bring it to the board in may, and i was on vacation for some of that period of time, so the -- the presentation that needs to b

commissioner haney? >> so we had an action item on the petition for mary l. booker leadership academy, which we heard tonight, and was forwarded to the board with a negative recommendation. we heard board policy 3110. we had two -- three -- two informational items. we had an update on the governor's may revise, and we heard a full presentation on the s.n.s. budget, the student nutritious services budget and the transportation budget. >> thank you. section -- item 3, any other board reports? commissioner merase? >> i completely want to thank the lowell community for allowing me to speak to graduates this year, 35 years after i graduates from lowell. can't put anyone to sleep with a five minute speech, and also want to acknowledge the tap niece consulate who attended the rosa parks graduation ceremony. >> thank you. item four is a calendar of committee meetings, although the schedule of the upcoming meetings is posted in the agenda, please feel free to announce any other date and time of your particular committee meeting. so your next budget and business servic

commissioner sanchez, and then, commissioner haney? >> thank you. so would we -- miss o'keefe, would we then engage in another r.f.q. this fall to prepare for the eventuality of getting another food service? how would -- if we decided we didn't want to go forward with them at the end of the year if we didn't have a process in place to contract with another organization. i'm feeling if the food doesn't get dramatically better, and kids don't start eating it, then i'm not going to be prepared infoto vote for their contract, and if we don't have that for next year, what do we do if we don't have another organization lined up? >> yes. one of the things that we're focused on is increasing the number of s and s prepared meals, but if the board -- i think what we would have to do is set a time frame that we would come back with an update and determine whether there's a need for us to go out for another proposal again. >> and then, would it be possible -- and i don't know if any other district has done this, but could we offer contracts -- could we offer th

. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: commissioner haney. >> commissioner haney: i want to thank all the hard work that went into this. i'm always impressed by the number of people that we're able to reach and the full bredth of the process that we take around this. and i agree with commissioner walton. i think that it would be great to see a response to all of these questions that were shared with the board and also shared with the community. i think that sometimes the questions can be put out there and if we don't get a response and we want to make sure it's fully integrated into our next steps. also really want to appreciate the piece around sharing best practices and highlighting some of the best practices. i think sometimes we can talk about everything that, you know, should be happening or isn't happening, or all the problems, and then we miss looking at where we've had some successes. because a lot of what we would like to see is where things are working. we want to see those replicated and see those spread, and see those shared. so i hope that we can -- as we move forward with so

commissioner haney? >> commissioner haney: so there's obviously a lot in there, a lot to process at this hour. i feel like, you know, this maybe should be something that we need to bring back for a committee as a whole or maybe a time we can dig in a little deeper. i was also wondering, and i don't know if this is the venue to discuss it, but what is the timeline for the superintendent's evaluation and how does this fit into it? and do we have a timeline for that yet? usually, that is also in the venue where we really get into, you know, directly sort of progress on -- and planning and that sort of thing on the real measures that we want to see improvement on and the plans that will get us there. so i don't know if -- >> so yeah. so he and i just met, and we want to get together with vice president cooke to talk about the retreat and when that'll happen, so we're hoping to get a better sense of what else needs to happen in the retreat so that we can put some more information out there on that. but i agre

commissioner sanchez and commissioner haney. >> thank you, miss o'keefe, do you have any response to the public comments? >> thank you, commissioner sanchez. i appreciate the opportunity. i'd like to thank all the families for coming out this evening to share their perspective. we serve over 30,000 meals a day, and over 20,000 students a day are eating our school meals, and there are many different perspectives about that, and students from all different socioeconomic levels are eating our foods. i appreciate the perspective from rooftop today. there was a strong showing, and i will commit to following up with what's happening at rooftop -- >> okay. i'm sorry. so we're not going to have this kind of an engagement, so please allow her to answer or 1307bd respond to the comments. >> i agree with what i heard. i agree. school meals are incredible important to our students health and well-being and their academic out comes, and we're completely committed to that. and the vision and the goals and the mission that we're facing in the presentation, that's our northstar. that's what we're st

haney yes. dr. murase yes. mr. sanchez, yes. mr. walton yes. president mcdonnell yes. >> i wonder if there is any pathway to allowing us to increase the fees beyond what they are? >> i think one of the things that has come up with the developer fees, the question whether there are enough developer fees to invest in a school. the idea around the fees is that we would be collecting to build a school in a community. but we never collect enough to build a school. but we collected over the course of several years, but it would be really interesting whether it is rules that we should kind of figure that out. even to the conversations we're having with planning. you know, how that whole thing works. ok. thank you. thank you, all. our next item is section h, discussion of other educational issues, there are none tonight. section i is consent calendars, there are none today. section j, proposal and assignment to committee, public and board comment on proposals, there are none. board poll 6184 continuation, education, board policy 6142.7, physical educat

many community forums including several in which many of the commissioners, including commissioner haney, commissioner walton, spoke at and others, we launched an action plan, which you can find at mbsk.com. and there was a commitment on behalf of the school district for a five-year, longer-term alliance what was really signature and i will hand it over to director davis, mayor lee found a home for this work appointing cheryl davis as director of the human rights commission, regarding permanent funding and this aligned with our children framework. the short story, really, the san francisco alliance for my brothers and sisters keeper was about the data across the course. it was about looking at kindergarten readiness. the impact of violence and juvenile justice on our young people. of course, high school graduation rate and the precipitous decline of low-income familiar lives color being able to stay in san francisco. and the alliance had a direct and explicit focus on racial inequality in the city and county of san francisco and the intergenerational trauma that our families were experie

. >> my name is tom haney. i've been with the san francisco fire department for 25 years. currently i'm aligned as a lieutenant -- assigned as a lieutenant in the plan check division of the fire department. as such i'm a co-worker of mark mau. i'm reading a statement from a co-worker who could not be here this afternoon. i'm fred stump. i have 47 years of engineering experience. i feel that mark was not treated fire fairly by sffd or h.r. and was terminated without getting to tell his side of the story. mark took it upon himself to try to correct the perceived conflict of interest. it is a shame that this person took it the wrong way. from my working with him he was very respectful of everyone he interacts with, both in the public and sffd. i feel this was a learning moment but not a termination offense. i feel this was too harsh. mark deserves better and should be given another chance. sffd is missing out on a grate "politico"y. he tries to do the best for the sffd and the citizens of the county and city of san francisco. at the time, our plan check backlog is very large,

my name is jess haney with critical resistance and the san francisco no injunction. and much appreciation for having this hearing because the policing tools often go unrecognized and unacknowledged and it takes year of community effort to have them be seen. when the folk who are directly targeted with them stick their necks out and try to defend themselves, the first few strikes are not treated with designa dignity. i am glad you are taking the community seriously and falling in line with the rest of california. and organizing against gang injunction and stop the injunction coalition. and started a beautiful community garden and is an intergenerational and if it were up to the city, the people we started the garden with would have been kicked out and dismissed. part of the time we were starting the garden, one of the people had to commute from a city 40 minutes away because he was forced to live out there because the family was harassed every day by police. and so investments in community and organizations such as courage which george spoke from show what's really po

publicly -- actually, she spoke publicly in a different way, but the first time she spoke pulytacy haneythe west virginia airport and told the story that was really the beginning of this mystery. she knew that she and her kids had benzene if their bodies, she knew they'd been exposed to arsenic. she had found that a quarter of a mile from her home there was a massive waste pond, an industrial waste pond, but that's all she knew. and so afterwards -- and she was really nervous to speak out. she was really nervous because at the time she thought her water was contaminated. and the gas company who owned the pond was supplying her drinking water. and she was afraid that if she spoke out publicly, they would retaliate and take the water away. so when i approached her after this meeting, the idea that i didn't -- i wasn't, i didn't have to write something the next day for "the new york times." i could just go hang out with her, and she and i could talk about her story. i think that was appealing. i think that made her feel safe. and that's why she decided to talk to me. >> and one of the thing