Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 20240713

Will have 0. Thank you. Were adjourned. Evening. We are now called to order. Roll col, please. [roll call] thank you. Section a general information. Theres number one is accessibility information for the public. Two propose changes to the agenda tonight. On february 25th, 2020, the mayor london breed declared a local emergency to prepare for a possible outbreak. The San Francisco department of publichealth has subsequently announced recommendations to reduce the spread of covid19 in that San Francisco the city has blocked all non essential public gathering at cityowned facility and recommended that large conferences and gatherings be minimized for the next two weeks. Accordingly i have proposed a revised agenda for the march 10th, 2020 board of education meeting. Which we will follow tonight. All information at presentation and Community Advisory Committee Reports will be postponed to the future meeting. Section b, opening items, approval of board minutes of the regular meeting of february 25th, 2020. We node a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Any corrections . Roll call. [roll call] thats thats four ayes. Thank you. Speaker cards for the regular agenda and closed sessio sessiou wish to residents a the board of education. They can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and present it to the executive assistant to my right. Members of the public have two minutes to address the board and or the time as set by the president. Importantly, according to board rules and procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item that is already before the board. So we have a number of speakers. Signed up to speak so i call your name, please approach the podium. You have one minute for each speaker. Im going to say it as one because were trying to truncate this meeting in order to avoid being in public. Council. Is that a permissable change of the rules . Yes, president. Well see michelle, anna dials, and tina morrer owe, Christina Sandoval tegis smith and Jackie Williams and rosemary sims. Lori whiteside. Eloise patten, Don Whiteside, fatima patten, and i cant read the first name, last name looks like patterson. Hello. Is i start . Ok. Hi, im wolfy tobiason a junior in high school. I played chess since i was young and from it have reaped many benefits. Chess teaches you to think a few moves ahead many of this is an important life skill. The ability to think logically, strategically has tremendous value. Since i was in kindergarten i was able to play chess at school. I wish everyone could have this opportunity. I have a few requests for the school board. One, i would the school board to voice support for the schools and this could be in the form of a resolution for this initiative. Three, as a service i would like to in a member of the usd classrooms as we can and starting with the Elementary Schools. Thank you for considering my offer. It would be my pleasure to combine my love of chess with helping students in my hometown. The report was from the agenda this evening so im reading a statement from the pack members and in addition im making the announcement the pack meeting scheduled for tomorrow night is canceled. Pack members wanted to be present to make this statement but with the report removed from the agenda and no childcare provided it was not reasonable for them to attend. We, the members of the parent advisory council, support the voices of parents, students and staff in requesting that there be no cuts or layoffs that will negatively impact the experience of our students in the classrooms and at school sites. We support making Financial Decisions that will protect our most vulnerable students and including but not limited to our foster youth, our homeless, our lgbt youth, newcomer students and our students who identify as members of the historically oppressed communities who have already experienced the systemic discrimination and we urge the board and the district to support efforts to secure funding from the city and resolution supported by supervisor gordon mar to dedicate 90 milliondollar yun in funding to sfusd. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, all guest present tonight. As the mother of two alumni of kip academy, bayview kip academy of San Francisco i can say from the bot many of my heart how happy i am the fact that they have the opportunity to attend kip school here in San Francisco. The academics are excellent and the students are disciplined and school a very close to home. Im over all very glad that kip in San Francisco because the kids will be able to the greatness of kip education from such a young age than middle school. I believe that keeping the school here in San Francisco will offer even more opportunities for kids in public schools, public housing, and like how bayview kip academy has done for my children. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. School board. I have a letter for superintendent dr. Vincent matthews from the kip h elementy parent board. I am a resident of bayview and have five grandchildren and graduate from malcolm x academy. It was designed to hold 450 students at best. Now enrolled is 129 perhaps 130. Do you think moving kip to Treasure Island will increase malcolm xs enrollment . Why once again is the School District trying to set us up for failure. Its very disappointing, very disappointing. And i know that you know that Treasure Island is too far for our children and for our parents as well. If theres an emergency, if the child needs an epipen or to see a doctor, i dont know how theyre going to do that of the please consider not doing this. Thank you. Who do i give this letter to . Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, my name is jaclyn williams. And im here to speak on keeping the kip school in Hunters Point because there might be relatives there that the kids could do to if their parents are working late or what have you. Or aunts, cousins, whatever, they know the area and they can get to the respective place to go. The school should stay there. And i thank you very much. My name is christina santa val and im appalled and really pissed off at the fact that you guys are choosing to move kids to Treasure Island. I advise you to come to bayview Hunters Point, never see none of you gis ther guys there in my l. You node to come and see all the kids that group together to walk to School Together on the school bus. Its called a Walking School bus that we do every morning to get our kids to school safely. They travel together. How are we going to ship our kids across town to Treasure Island when it takes us two to three buses to get off the hill . As me as a mother that already is been a resident of bayview Hunters Point, i totally disagree with this action that you guys are doing and i feel like im playing another victim of what ive already been immune to in bayview. You guys already have taken enough from us. Do not take kip from us either. Good evening, everyone. My name is Rose Marie Sims and im a bayview Hunters Point residents. Ive lived there most of my life and raised my four children and now have seven grandchildren. Most of my nieces and nephews have attended malcolm x. So, malcolm ex attendance and enrollment has been so low over the years and if it wasnt for kip coming in the school we wouldnt have our malcolm x there. I think it would be three detrimental to the parents and children because parents would have to bring their kids to Treasure Island. We have to think about the children and what it might not do to them. To not have their family in case something happens on the school grounds. I think children node to be considered before anything else. Thank you. Greeting president and all Board Members and communities who are present. My name is deddra smith. Im a proud resident of San Francisco and i lick to share what i heard that its a plan to transfer our babies to Treasure Island. I thought this is b. S. Here we go again. Who thought of this b. S. . Why would i thought of this as b. S. And again here we go again. Why would anyone think its ok to bus babies to an island when its an emergency that occurs you cant get on the island because of an accident or the traffic. This sounds lick a set up for a parent in our kids. If theyre late too many times, there will be penalties. Also, maybe be an expelled then you will be talking about taking our kids as in c. P. S. Getting involved. The island is under construction for the next several years to come. And some of the kids already have asthma, this is not about what is best for our kids, this is sounds like its a hidden agenda for failure for our parents and children. We are not going to accept this. We are asking your support to please, not let this happen. Keep our babies there in their communities. Thank you. Good evening, im a disgusted disturbed San Francisco native. You have already taken my people, my culture, and now you are trying to take my education out of my community. By moving these kids from bayview Hunters Point which is a beautiful neighborhood and community to go to school at a construction site is totally unacceptable. Theres too many trials and tribulations and hazardous things going on out there. Give our children a chance to realize what we have left as a community. Let our kids grow up in the community that we grew up in. Do take that from them that you have taken from us. Im done with that one. Hello. My name is jan butler and im against moving schoolchildren to Treasure Island from 94124 bayview. A lot of parents have been never been to the island before. Its presently under construction and there are two ways in and one way out from case of emergency, children would be separated from their families. This could be traumatic experience. My question is why are you constantly attempting to make us move out of district 10. Hi, my name is fatima patten. I have two grandchildren that go to kip Bayview Academy and it would be detrimental to them and me. Its much easier for me to get my grandkids to school and i refuse, listen to me, i refuse to let them go to Treasure Island. It always comes to im wondering if the majority of kids that was going to kip was caucasian would they be moved . Thank you. How are you doing today. Im a resident of bayview. Basically, when i first heard that kip was getting moved, i thought the same thing was b. S. You know what im saying. What we can agree on, two things, in the morning its about timing and its about kids dont taking up in the morning. It comes to the shower and the food and then you have to get them there on time and some sing mothers dont have course so its the whole bus thing. Going to kip is extra stress and they have to worry about their kid getting back. You know what im saying. Im totally against it it dont make sense. Me growing up, going to school it was like an escape from my neighborhood. You know what im saying. You sitting in class and you dont worried about getting shouted at so we want our kids to be able to make it to school on time and make it to school period. Just like my mom said, when it comes to tardiness and absences, thats what gets c. P. S. Involved and everything and theyre going to be ready to take them. The first thing we want our kids to have in life is education. You know what im saying. Kids are our future and we can all agree. So, thank you. Were trying to keep Public Comment to a minimum because we have more than 50 people in the audience. Turn the microphone back on. Ok. Good evening. Hello to everyone. My name is ta leash a patterson and were actually ex residents of San Francisco because of this thing being gentrified and moved out. My children get up sometimes between 4 00 and 4 15 in the morning sometimes 5 00 to get to San Francisco kip bay academy. And i drive from va laio, california to San Francisco. In that traffic there in the carat minimum, probably an hour and 25 minutes coming to San Francisco and they have to stay here all day. Its ridiculous. To troy to get them on that island its too much traffic and chaokay owes andchaos is you wor the tragedy so rethink your options. Good evening supervisors. The board. My name is Don Whiteside and i have concerns about Treasure Island itself. Ive been to kip academy and ive spent time there and i see what theyre doing for our children. Not just black children. Ive seen latino children, ive seen other races, samoans, ive seen children. When you takeaway hope from a family that has no hope and i lived in San Francisco all my life. I lived in great neighborhoods. I have seen great schools. But what you [please stand by] [please stand by] the other issue that i wanted to bring up and ask at some point is nobody is going to give you a building, so i would think that youre going to have to pay a rent. If this board already has budget deficits, what sense does it make to rent facilities and all of the costs associated to bus us once again . I say no more. Stop it today. Thank you. [applause] [names read] were limiting Public Comment to one minute. Section d, Advisory Committee reports, there are none tonight. E, consent calendar. We need a motion and a second on the consent calendar. So moved. Second. Items removed and or corrected from the superintendent . First withdrawal is travel from wallenberg high school. Second is a correction to the sex code to read 01079402020111021005803513. Thank you. Any items for First Reading on the board . Any items for sever, vote, and discussion tonight . Thank you. Roll call. [roll call] clerk six ayes. Thank you. G, proposals for action, there are none tonight. H, special order of business. Superintendent matthews . Tonight, we will be presenting the Second Interim fiscal year 2019. Presenting will be megan wallace, our chief Financial Officer and deputy superintendent, im not sure if you wanted any opening on this item, can we get a motion and a second . So moved. Second. Thank you. I apologize for the wait. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. Im megan wallace, chief Financial Officer for the School District, and this evening, im going to present on the Second Interim report for fiscal year 201920. So first, as you know, the fiscal year 201920 began on july 1, 2019. The California Department of education requires local education agencies, School Districts, and county offices of education to provide two updates over the course of the fiscal year. In december, i came before you with the first interim report, and here i am today, presenting on the Second Interim report that identifies changes to the budget based upon adjusted fund balance, expenditures and revenues, and any other balancing adjustments. Before you is a resolution that identifies the positive certification stating that San Francisco unified San Francisco and School Office will be able to meet its financial agreements of the year. As in the first report, there have been identified structural imbalances in our current year budget as well as fiscal year 2021 and 2122. However, i have developed a revenue outlook, and the district is currently underway with the process balancing our 2021 and anticipated 2122 fiscal year budget. First, i want to revisit whats going on in our budget. Sfusd has been operating on a deficit since 201617. We carried a healthy reserve in blue that helped allow the district to balance its budget with minimal impacts on its services. However, this fiscal year, we did run out of reserves and therefore are not able to absorb the growing costs of special education services, leaves for our employees, and other costs of keeping our district operating at our current or required levels of service. Additionally, its critical to acknowledge that in fiscal year 2122, the district will no longer have in its reserve the money to cover the living wages for educators act covered by prop g but subsequently is under litigation. This table is to help show the changes in our budget between the [inaudible] beginning fund balance, our required reserve, and our anticipated year end, and as you can see, we began this fiscal year anticipating a 10. 8 million deficit. The relative good news that i have to share is that the current year forecast has improved that deficit . The overall deficit has been reduced by 9. 2 million. Now were anticipating a 22. 6 million budget shortfall this fiscal year. The projected shortfall for 202122 continues to be around 95 million. This table is intended to help illustrate the changes both between the current budget, the second first and Second Interim budgets compared to the improved budgets as well as the transition, changes between the first interim and Second Interim. [inaudible] this is based on p1 reporting of our average daily attendance within our district. Additionally, by looking at the citys projections for sales tax, we were able to update our own forecast for sales tax by 3. 8 million. However, that improvement in revenues was offset by growth overall in our expenditure forecast, and here, you can say that its broken out in expenditures related to special education and other uses. First to focus on special education, you can see that in the first interim, i had reported up to 25. 4 million in additional expenditures related to special education services. However, now, im anticipating a 12. 6 million increase, and thats through a combination of an improved outlook in terms of our staffing, and when i say improved, i just mean that it has a lower fiscal impact in the current year. In reality, due to the timing of hiring, were seeing that the level of staffing the level of staffing that were trying to achieve this year is slower. It just takes time to hire people, so were anticipating that the overall cost this year is closer to 7. 2 million, so thats a 7. 8 million lower impact than had been anticipated. The other really good news, however, in this picture is new revenues for special Education Funding for associated with prek students. This is a onetime Funding Source from the state. We are hoping to see some level of continuation in future years, but this is a higher investment than what were expecting into the future. I do want to highlight some of the details of other uses. Our leaves and substitutes costs are coming in at a higher level than what i had reflected in the first interim. Staff took time to look at the costs of hiring substitute teacher to allow family and staff to go other leave and had increased the ask by 6 million for families to go on leave. There are other increases. Utilities and nursing contracts are two other significant areas that are newly identified in the second area, and we are identifying weakness in our recoveries for Service Related to medical, that we are anticipating contributing to our medical program when in fact we budgeted to fully offset those costs through revenues. I do want to highlight that with the with covid19 becoming a high impact within our School District, let alone the city, state, and nation, that it is there are impacts that we may need to anticipate to our average daily attendance, so we are working with acfs, and sales tax may be impacted as a result of people choosing to stay home rather than going out and spending their money in the city. So when it comes to balancing, you can see that this table creates that its going to be now 22. 6 million. Overall, the solutions on the table have increased by 2. 1 million, and you can see the current year balancing relies heavily on our ability to shift revenues onto onetime sources, and theres generally restricted sources such as p and dcyf. Another new item to lean upon is i have been savings on our reserve. Were required as a district to have 2 of our budget go towards maintenance costs. We are seeing some savings in that reserve, and we do have eligible expenses that i anticipate well be able to move onto that reserve, particularly for custodial services. Its important to highlight our multiyear outlook, so as i noted at the beginning of the presentation, we are anticipating 57 57. 2 and 97. 2 million of deficits in the coming year, so this illustrates the balancing plan that i illustrated for you in the previous slide. And the next two fiscal years, you can see that were anticipating 26 million coming from Central Services. Were currently working to determine how that will be split across the district, and also really thinking that there will be solutions that will come from Cutting Services at a particular site. You can see special education revenues, looking at options for Early Education are critical to looking at the district wide piece of this puzzle. We do have 11. 9 million in this part of the equation, and for us to finalize our budget in fiscal year 2021, we will need to find solutions. I just wanted to make sure that we can share this calendar ahead, to show that in march 10, were in the stages of school and School Office budgeting. We will be back to talk about solution trends and theres a lot of work to be done between now and june 9, which will be the timing of the First Reading to the board of education in anticipation of the budget approval on june 23. So i ask this board to review the resolution, which states a positive certification, that San Francisco unified School District and the county office of education will be able to meet its financial educations. As ive stated, we do have a budget imbalance this fiscal year, however, weve been working diligently to find solutions to help close our current year shortfall, and were underway with developing a balancing plan for the future fiscal years, so thank you. Thank you so much. We have a number of folks who are signed up for speaking on this item. When i call your name, please come to the podium. Youll have one minute each. [names read] good evening. Im susan solomon, president of united educators of San Francisco. I dont understand how the board can vote on this. This is not the Second Interim budget, this is a report on the Second Interim budget. Its hard to know exactly what expenditures are and what the figures are. There are at least seven unions at the bargaining table right now. We do not have that report, and its not online, either. Its not online, its not out there, so we dont know what youre talking about. We have concern about the last sentence. Thank you. Good evening, superintendent, board. Im also concerned that you would make a positive recommendation. That means that youre able to meet your budget. Ive been to several different meetings and ive seen different numbers. Im not sure what youre getting at. We need to see the actual budget report. 22. 6 million actual budget deficit . Last month, it was 26 million. Youre asking the school sites to cut their budget. Thats money that goes to the educators, to the students. And the schools havent sent their budgets in yet. I heard it wasnt sent in until march 20. 9. 2 million . Where is that money . Im very confused. Please do not pass this resolution. [applause] if i could just educate what the Educators Union president and other officers have said. Im representing seiu field representatives, our custodians, our Student Service workers, we can all read a budget, but we havent had an opportunity to do so. This is a presentation of the budget, but nothing that we can actually discern where the money is at, and you know thats where we want to know. We can justify those decisions as well as you can. Please postpone this vote. Please postpone this vote because its not the transparency thats needed in the public arena, and you are public officials. Wed like you to be that. This is Due Diligence on your part. Remember that. Please postpone the vote so all of us can have an opportunity to look at the budget. Thank you. [applause] i am speaking to you today on behalf of the students at dr. Cobb Elementary School and other socially economically disadvantaged students within our current cohort. Our teachers, staff, parent dos, and students are devastated by the current cuts. We are in danger of losing multiple teachers and staff. One of the well publicized sfusd priorities is to promote African American students and other diverse learners, yet a majority of our students and parents are overwhelmed just to get by daytoday. 75 of our families fit the definition of s. E. S. Our families are at a disadvantage and cannot at this time raise the money to fund our own support positions as many sfusd with strong p. T. A. S are able to do. Please, the mtss okay. Ill stop. I have a full copy of the letters for each of the Board Members and dr. Matthews. Thank you. [applause] hi. I am here on behalf of another cobb elementary teacher. Here is what she wrote. At the beginning of the year, some students came in reading below grade level, and some students were reading at below prea. Our rtip told me about the Reading Recovery Program that she was going to implement with the group of my students that had the most need in reading and writing. Through the Reading Recovery Program, those students found their stride and ran with it. At the beginning of the year, they didnt know their letters, sounds, and their ability to read and write and confidence level. Now theyre reading and writing at or above grade level, and theyre reading so fast. Without that funding, i fear what next year will look like without that current position, so please help. [applause] good evening. My name is crystal, and im a mother of three children currently in the sfusd system with a fouryearold on the way. Ive been with my children in the system almost 16 years, and i think that with each year, the budget deficit increases, and its ridiculous. Like the lady before spoke, where is the money going . All we want is the transparency, and i think that its ludicrous that the first thing that you guys decide to take away from is from the schools. The children are our future, so i would advise each and every one of you to go back to your core values where the first sentence of that core value says we put our students first. In which way in this situation are they being put first . Theyre not. I dont understand how a city who has almost 900,000 residents who pay taxes cannot afford a budget in our schools. Maybe the thing to do would be to forfeit your bonuses or the extra that you receive to ensure our children have a bright future. Thank you. [applause] good evening. My name is crystal. Im a fourth grader at dr. William l. Cobb. I would like to speak to you about how the 26 million that might be cut from San Francisco unified schools. It seems like you dont have the heart to donate money when you see we are struggling. Students need all these teachers and support teachers and without them, we wouldnt be in the place we are in math, writing, and reading. Also, i feel really disappointed and sad because i feel like you arent even thinking where we will be without all these teachers. Ive jumped so many levels in my reading, my writes, and my math, because of all these teachers, i wouldnt be where i am now. So please dont take them away because they can help many other kids out who need them. Thats why we need 26 million that youre trying to cut and dont take it away from San Francisco unified schools. [applause] my names azia. Im a fifth grader at dr. William l. Cobb, and i strongly disagree that you guys should cut 26 million from our schools. I know by losing some of our teachers and support staff, all of these teachers have helped me when i was down. They have taken their lunch break off to help me if i did not understand work. Also every one of these teachers have worked hard to teach us. How do you know what theyre going through already . Can i ask you, if i took something really important from you, how would you feel . So i agree that taking money from our schools is a real tragedy. [applause] good evening. My name is andrea. I go to cobb school. I am a fourth grader. I am upset because 26 million might be cut from our San Francisco schools, and we might lose support from teachers who help us read, write, and do math. How would you be where you are today without your teachers . We care about our teachers, and i bet you cared about the teachers that cared about you. Maybe you could ask Large Businesses to give money to our schools. [applause] hello. My name is nadia, and im in fifth grade. I go to dr. Cobb Elementary School. If the district is voting to cut 26 million from schools, and if that happens, the kids wont learn. We need our teachers, we love our teachers. For example, when you were a kid, imagine one of your favorite teachers had to leave your school. How would that make you feel . Also, how would that affect your future . We are the future of San Francisco. Also, just because you dont have enough money, you guys didnt take our teachers away from us. Since San Francisco is one of the richest cities, cant you find the money somewhere else, and thank you, guys, for coming out today. [applause] good evening. My name is gregory, and i am a teacher in the district. I would like to help the district and the board to come up with solutions as opposed to budget cuts for the teachers. I do not believe that cuts are the solutions. I believe that we do live in the healthiest city in the world, and with that being said, i believe that we should find solutions to tax the wealthy. I just want to bring some Practical Solutions from other parts of the country. Did you know that in cambridge, massachusetts, they spend 30,000 for their students, yet their homeowners pay 40 less property tax. Cambridge taxes their Biotech Companies to educate their children. Facebook could open up their checkbook and wipe this 26 million deficit out. I say dont vote tonight, please. Postpone this and lets be aggressive in going after the tech industry, and lets go to court and ask gavin newsom to release those funds from the soda. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much. Board members, anybody want to speak to this item . Commissioner cook . I just want to thank everyone for coming out and speaking on the item, and especially students at cobb. I appreciate your comments tonight. Can we just talk about the timeline and what in response to what voting tonight or postponing tonight would mean for the our legal obligations . Im going to have deputy superintendent lee address this. So superintendents, this is one of two things thats required in each fiscal year, so the first interim report is based on the first four months and submitted in december. The Second Interim report is through, i believe, january of each year and submitted in march. Im not aware of any specific consequences for submitting past the deadline, but we typically do submit by deadline as its march 17. Givokay. So in terms of the other reports that were looking to get back from schools, is there something related to us internally looking to get the budgets back for the school year . Can you speak to the timelines around our fiscal planning . Go ahead. Yeah. So we are in Budget Development phase, that [inaudible] and how well be developing those solutions. Okay. That was sorry. That was my understanding, as well. So to close out this fiscal year, were not making any midyear cuts. We found enough to finish 1920, and the deficit that were looking for some court of cost reductions is in the upcoming fiscal year . Thats correct. There is an item of tbd items for fiscal year 2021. This is an area where we do need to continue to explore spend rates and im seeing some items on nonpersonnel general expenses that can help us balance that year. For the current fiscal year, is there any staffing at sites that we can the final thing that we have in our budget on our desk, is this now available to the public . Are we making copies to give to people . Im happy to post that on our website. That is a draft. My understanding is that has not been historically posted on the website. Im happy to do soso that folks can review it, and i would encourage us through the upcoming budget and Business Services Committee Meetings to do some budget 101 really looking at our different types of expenditures, doing some analysis around trends and really having those conversations that are detailed in the budget. A lot of my presentations have been very high level. This is the problem, this is how were going to solve for them. I would love to engage on looking more in the weeds and having the public engage on that level. So i just saw mr. Steel and miss casco go to the back, i would assume, to make copies, so this draft budget that were talking about for the coming year will be available to you. Nau [inaudible] okay. Excuse me. I misspoke. Commissioner . Thank you for the clarifications to the questions. I do want to dive deeper around understanding the specific trends, line items, and projections for the coming two years. Im comfortable with this years analysis and in doing the onetime shift and balancing strategy, but i have so many questions related to the upcoming subsequent two years, so im curious, you know, to given that were theres no negative or we dont know what the impact is around if we were to decide or im comfortable with our budget remaining for the fiscal year 1920, but i do have some major questions as we fulfill our duty on the board in the coming three months to look at the coming two years. So similar to what my colleagues have shared, i want to get a better understanding of what im voting on. So i mean, its not clear to me, and its not clear to the public, so making that as transparent as possible is really important . Im gathering that the vote will be for this the remainder of this fiscal year. Is that correct . To be clear, the Second Interim report does include multiyear projections, so the primary focus is on the current year, which we have a strong balancing plan. For the following two fiscal years, those are we are the resolution will be certifying that we, in effect, believe that we can close these gaps, so i want to be frank that this i want to be sure on this before i vote on it. Weve had lengthy discussions on Different Solutions and how we can ensure the least amount of impact at school sites. Im hearing Different Things from different schools about their budgeting process. I theres still a possibility of us getting funding from the city, which we have to push for, and that could change the projection. I need the plan to be shared, or i need something in order for me to vote on this. Even though theres a chance for a change in the next couple of years or a chance positifor amendment, i would want to hear a plan before. Maybe honing in on the Central Services and school sites solutions, Central Services, that our divisions currently have our budgets. Weve worked very diligently as staff to develop and meet those plans for how divisions are going to meet their specific targets. Were trying to figure outweighs of using peak dollars, using opportunities for savings, so the items for district wide solutions, the main categories i always like to lean on are shifting cost to prioritized sources. Limiting supplies and vendor spending, just trying to find savings where we can look at trends and say hey, we actually budget more than we need in a given year, just trying to find ways on how much we hold back for budget on particular expenses. And then, theres, of course, finding more money to put on the table. And thats where special education revenue, Early Education are some really great examples that i believe will have tangible results in helping us balance. But i cant skip over that other t. B. D. That my staff and everybody in Budget Services are working to figure out how we can do things differently in order to find that additional 11 million in savings. So i think the summary of all of that is is were well in the thick of it. Were well underway in our Budget Development, so i dont have a plan to share with you that that would come forward in the proposed budget, but we have a couple of months of work ahead of us where i think the budget and Services Meetings will be that opportunity to make sure that people understand what is within our budget, and my assumption on those forecasts, so kicking the tires, so to speak, not only on the projections and this deficit outlook, but also talking about prioritization on expenditures. Can i just add onto that, commissioners . So i just want to sort of reinforce the point that chief wallace made that these interim reports, including the Second Interim report, which is submitted in march, the focus is really on the current year, updating the assumptions at a broad level, especially for the current year. And with respect to the current year and upcoming years, its not that the county and l. E. A. And another district or county would have all the detail to represent a proposed budget. Its mostly at a broad level to certify that the district and the governing board feel confident that we can meet the obligations to avoid a loss of local control. So even though there are a lot of decisions that me and you and the community are wrestling with, that we will have options to control our fiscal destiny rather than having looking to the state to provide, like, an emergency loan or point or overseer, so thats really the key certification for these fiscal reports, not the detailed, linebyline budgets for the coming year. Commissioner moliga . Thank you for the presentation. There is a lot of questions i do have, also, and as im looking at the budget that you guys just handed us and i do understand the timeline that were on, right . And so but if there is an opportunity for us to be able to move this back so that we can get a clear understanding of what were looking at, i think that would be the recommendation from me. And then i did have a couple questions. So theres a so if im looking at this, so were all on the same page, okay . So thats the San Francisco unified Second Interim budget for fiscal year 201920. And so, you know, as we start to break these numbers down, im really curious about im looking at page its theres a section that says services and other operating expenditures, and theres a line item for professional Consulting Services and operating expenditures, and correct me if i am wrong, are we spending about 18 million there. I apologize. Which page can you clarify which page youre on. These pages arent numbered. Got it. And actually, just to confirm, there are two reports before you. One is for the county education and one is for the unified School District. And its in the first header. So this would be one, two, three on the county one, not the School District. Okay. Thank you. This would be the third page, i guess paper number four, actually no, not page. Itll be on the left side. Great. Okay. Yep. And so so yeah, so if this is what were sending in, i i im curious to get a better understanding of current operating and expenditures for 18 million is that right . Roughly 18 million . So just wondering what all that includes . Yeah. So let me see, actually. I could really dig in if youd like. I think just a summary of it might be actually, a quick walkthrough of this document, youll see at the header that it said 201920 general fund unrestricted. And as you make your way through the document, itll show the unrestricted portions of the budget. And then, towards the end, it combines. So this section is focusing on unrestricted. It includes all of Central Services, it includes student sites, so weighted student funding, mtss. So that budget then includes all the expenditures within Central Service department, and what are the costs of things like various contracts. I hesitate because some big contracts that we might see might be, like, excel, so for after school programs. I believe another portion of this would sit in here. Another portion might sit in unrestricted because we get special ed finding. Thats fine. Is there a place we can go to find that . I think we need to dive into that level in our budget discretions, but i think the main take away that i just really want you to have is this is both Central Services and school sites, so its all of our schools, any services that are contracted out are represented in this line item, and Central Services certainly has a fair amount of contracts. Any projects may be yeah, so im happy to share that in future reporting just because it is a particularly large line item. I think one main thing that we see in this budget, as you look at the different categories, is that its mostly staff, and that when you make your way down into an area of professional services and see a big line item like that, i can understand why it would pop out, and i think thats a good one to elaborate on. Okay. And then, i had the same question around just right on the right side, the next page. Mmhmm. All other transfers, and then, total other outgo, excluding transfers and direct costs. Yeah. So this represents the transfers primarily to special education, so so youre under the major header of other outgo, i believe, where the total is 44. 3 million was the original budget, and 54. 9 million was the board approved operating budget, so thats whats being represented in the Second Interim report. So you can see that theres a line item, all other transfers, its object 72281 through [inaudible] we just want to make sure that Everybody Knows both the district and the county interim reports are online, on google docs and boarddocs. And then, all copies are out . Theyre being made right now. Theyre being made right now. Okay. So theres been some suggestions postponing the vote, and i think particularly around because people hadnt been able to see this, even though its a draft. So if we did postpone it, that would be the fallout, if any . You did address this earlier. So i were not totally clear, to be honest, about whether there are consequences. I dont think there are, you know, specific consequences for submitting for submitting these interim reports to go past this deadline, but i want to confirm that with c. D. E. And the deadline is the official deadline is march 17, so with we have another meeting thats scheduled for next tuesday, but if we learn something to suggest that that that passing it on the 24th would be problematic, then, it seems like that would might present an option, but but we we would want to confirm it, either way, with t. D. E. Thank you. Commission Commission Commissioner lam . What is the distinction between a positive certification and a qualified certification, and the level of impact is would have as far as, again, this report is submitted to the state of california and the state department of Public Institution . Just wondering, again, what those are . I think its just a difference in the language. Positive certification states the district will be able to meet its financial obligations. A qualified certification states that we may or may not be able to meet our obligations, and a negative is an outright we know that we will not. And in terms of implications, my understanding is even starting with a qualified certification, that the state may need to intervene and provide Additional Guidance to help close our deficit. And when we talk about guidance from the state, is that around governance or what type of support essentially, what type of path would this put us towards . We can team up on this, commissioners, chief wallace and i. But there are there are a range of of different actions that are that come into play when the district or county files other than a positive fiscal certification. So ill just mention a few, that if the district is qualified or positive, then typically, it would be a county office. In our case, it would be c. D. E. Directly California Department of education, would assign an expert to review the managing teachers workforce, would require a report of cash flow expenditures and estimates, would review any post collective bargaining agreements, would approve any issue of debt. [please stand by] dont they charge us for that too . Yeah its not cheap too. I would agree with the characterization that qualified certification is something to be avoided at all costs. We want to maintain control with our community of our budget. So if theres no objection, lets postpone, and then we will find out if theres any penalty and if we need to have a special meeting to address this, we can do that. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Discussion of other educational issues, none tonight. J, discussion and vote on consent calendar items removed at a previous meetingsing, none tonight, k introduction of proposals and assignments to committee. Public and board comment will take place following the introduction. I dont think we have any comment tonight. Board policy 500, accountability, board policy 4033, lactation accommodation, 3600, consultants, board policy 5022, student and family privacy rights. The emotion second for First Reading for the policy. So moved. Second. Thank you. Any board comment on these First Readings . Unless i hear otherwise from legal council, im referring the policies to the rules committee. Section l, proposals for immediate action suspension of the rules, there are none tonight. M, Board Members reports. Calendar of Committee Meetings. Budget and Business Services wednesday april 1, 6 00 p. M. , buildings grounds and services monday, march 23, 6 00 p. M. , curriculum and Program Monday april 13th, 5 00 p. M. , rules policies and legislation april 6, 5 00 p. M. Ad Hoc Committee on Personnel Matters wednesday april 15, 6 00 p. M. Ad Hoc Committee on Student Assignment, monday, april 20th. Yeah. [off mic] sorry. April 20th, 6 00 p. M. And joint city School District and city college select committee, friday, march 13, 10 a. M. That meeting is at city hall legislative chamber. Yeah. Mr. Chairman, Student Assignment is meeting march 16th. All right. That was the plan. Is there are we canceling Committee Meetings because of the no, no, i dont think so, not at this point. There will be an ad hoc meeting on monday, march 16 at 6 00 p. M. Thank you. Section n, other information item, one, initial proposal from International Brotherhood of electrical engineers, local 6 to San Francisco unified School District, 2, initial proposal from common crafts to San Francisco unified School District. Three, initial proposal from services employeesber national union, local 1021 to San Francisco unified School District. Four, initial proposal from union of operating engineer, local 39. Five, quarterly report. Section o is memorial adjournment. We have none tonight. At this time we will take Public Comment for those who have submitted speaker cards. I dont think we have any. So we are going into recess. Reconvening open session. Number one, vote on student expulsion agreement. I vote on the expulsion of one student for the remainder of Spring Semester of 2020 and fall semester 2020. Do i have a second . Yes, second roll call. Thank you. [roll call vote] thank you. Number two, vote on Employment Contracts from chief executive employees. None tonight. Three, report from closed session. In five matters of anticipated litigation, the board by a vote of i guess 6, one absent, provided direction to general counsel in the matter of George Washington High School Alumni association the California Public benefit corporation v. [off mic] forget i said that. [off mic] the board by a vote of six ayes one absent approved a contract of two principals. The board by a vote of six ayes one absent approved a contract of one program administrator. This meeting is adjourned. [please stand by] mayor breed thank you. Welcome to chinatown. Thank you, supervisor peskin to allowing us to come and hang out with you today. I am San Francisco mayor london breed here with many members of the board of supervisors, state officials, sf travel, wow, a lot of people here. We all know that one of the Biggest Challenges that we are facing not just here in San Francisco but in this country and throughout the world is the threat of the coronavirus and how it has not only impacted people and Public Health but how it has, unfortunately, impacted our economy. When we first heard of this virus in january we launched the Emergency Operations center. What we noticed during that time and supervisor peskin can attest to this. We didnt get support and people visiting our community in chinatown and other places and as we can see as this develops, this virus is not discriminating based on race. This is impacting people all over the world and has impacted a number of people right here in San Francisco. As of today we are up to 14 cases. I am really proud of the work that has been done with the department of Public Health to be proactive and making sure that we are prepared and making sure that we keep people healthy and safe and looking at the vulnerable communities, seniors and people with illnesses answer challenges and providing resources and support and being aware we have a vulnerable Homeless Population and making sure we have places for people to be quanteened and in case there is a situation that we as the city we are prepared to handle it. I want to be clear we cant live in fear. We have to make sure we are doing everything to keep ourselves, our families, our communities safe but we also have to make sure that we are addressing some of the other challenges that have happened as a result of this issue. That brings us to the economy. We are definitely going to feel impact. We are in china town because we know the businesses in this community have probably felt the impact, the Economic Impact more than any other community in San Francisco. We have been working together, my office and the state and, as i said, a number of the board of supervisors, we have worked together to come up with a number of immediate things to do now. We will be coming back with other things that we can definitely do in the future. We want to provide immediate relief to our Small Businesses. I wanted to make an announcement today about some of those things that we plan to do. Working with our treasurer and other city departments, we have been able to identify a number of ways that the city can provide immediate assistance to Small Business. To begin with, we are allowing Small Businesses to defer the next round of Quarterly Business taxes to next year in february of 2021. I know that is going to provide significant relief for Small Businesses. We will also be delaying a collection of our unified license bill for at least three months. These bills include charges for restaurants, food trucks, bakeries and smal small busines. Our time is to delay those fees. We are actively looking at other ways to delay more fees for our Small Businesses as they deal with this challenge. We also understand that our communitybased organizations or nonprofits wonder what is going to happen to us and our work forces specially those who may stay home to care for a child or sick parent with no sick leave. We will work to make sure all communitybased nonprofits that receive funding from the city continue to receive that funding. We want to make sure that you know that in todays Emergency Declaration that i signed it was a revision to make sure we are able to support our Small Businesses through this situation. We are also establishing a fund to provide immediate relief with 1 million in the fund to provide at least 10,000 grants for Small Businesses and our goal is to, of course, assess the need and provide the support immediately and look at increasing that support as time continues as we are able to determine whether or not more businesses would need that as assistance. Those are just a few things that we are doing here locally to immediately support Small Business community and we know that even though this is a small step forward that there will be more work we need to do to support the Business Community. As you can see with many of the leaders here today we are committed to doing just that. I also want to talk a little bit about our efforts with our state officials, our partners to find relief around employment benefits. In fact, this past monday i was in sacramento meeting with a number of other mayors and the Governor Newsom and state senator scott weiner to talk about expansion of unemployment and disability benefits in a way that will help support people during this issue. We are also working with the private sector in looking to partner with our Financial Partners and identify resources line of credit loans and things for Small Businesses as well and businesses in general. We are asking private sector employers to step up and be as flexible as possible with their employees. Helping the employees take time off if they are sick. In the city and county of San Francisco with all City Employees because we are encouraging people to stay home. If you are sick without enough sick leave we will allow you to advance that sick time. You dont have to wait until you accrue the sick time, we will basically allow you to take the sick time, get paid for the sick time off and you can pay it back after you work for the time you work later on. We in the city are leading by example by making sure if someone is sick and they need time off for whatever reason they are able to do and not worry if they have an income. The office of economic and Resource Development are working over time to develop Innovative Strategies to help the Business Community, employees and employers. There is more to come. This is the first in what will be a number of announcements as they come. At the end of the day we want to make sure that what we promise we will do to support the Business Community and employees and residents of San Francisco, we want to make sure we can deliver on that promise. We know that these are just a few things we can immediately deliver on. That is why we wanted to announce them here today. For resources, you can check the website oewd slave covid19. If you have questions or concerns or want more information call 311. As i said, we are here to Work Together. We know that this has been a challenge for so many people. There is a lot of fear, uncertainty and folks wonder how we will get through this. We will get through this. This is not unfamiliar tear for refor territory for San Francisco. We can think back to the h. I. V. Crisis. We got through that because we have some of the best Public Health officials anyone in the world along with the h1n1 and the sars. We got through it. We got through it by coming together, making good decisions, providing the facts, using data to communicate the message and not living in fear. That is what is going to get us through this. That is how we will be stronger and more resilient. I want to thank all of the folks here today working with us and i want to start by acknowledging some of our elected leaders who are here. Our recorder is here, our treasure is here, and then we have members of the board of supervisors including our president , president norman yee is here along with your supervisor peskin and Catherine Stefani and sandraly fewer and Rafael Mandelman and hillary ronen. That is a quorum. We have been working to deal with these challenges. Along with other leaders from the San Francisco chamber, Chinese Chamber, Business Community, sf travel. We are all here because we are in this together. We are all here because we are working together to make sure that we are providing the city with the resources that it needs in order to make sure we get through this together. I want to start with state senator scott weiner to talk about the work they are doing at the state level to help us address this significant challenge. Senator weiner. [applause] thank you, madam mayor. First and foremost, i want to just say that i have complete confidence i in may or breed and the supervisors and the department of Public Health and the City Government is doing a great job here. We are very focused at the state level on the health of our community. No city or no county is in a vacuum. We are all in this together, and the governor and the leadership of th the legislature are focusd on this every single day. We are going to get through this. We will keep our community as healthy as we can be. There is a lot of pain that this process is causing and it is going to cause with people getting laid off, Small Businesses struggling and potentially shutting down, people losing hours and workers struggling to pay bills. We need to make sure we soften the blow and support the service workers, people who cannot tele commute and take time off and Small Businesses who have very, very little margin. We have a number of safety net benefits. Not everyone knows about. I encourage people to look into it to see if you can be helped. We have disability insurance. When people are sick unable to work, particularly for an extended period of time. If someone has to take care of a loved one, they can file for paid family leave. We have some of the most robust paid family leave in california among the 50 states. There is unemployment insurance. In addition for employers and businesses impacted, there is a redoesed work hours benefit where someone whose hours are cut can get partial unemployment you dont have to be completely laid off to get unemployment benefits. Businesses experiencing financial hard ship can apply for 60 day expense for payroll taxes. The state we have made sure to wave all copays to make sure people can get tested for covid19 and they are not charged for Hospital Services as a result. This is the beginning. We will see more work happening at the state level to make sure we are having that robust social safety net for individuals who are at risk for workers struggling and Small Businesses and i will close by saying we need the federal government to step in a big way. The federal government is the only level of government that can spend and go into deficit spending, which we cannot do at the state level to make sure we provide a stimulus and not a bad stimulus like what the president is proposing but a stimulus to support workers and Small Businesses. The federal government is in the best position. We are all doing everything we can at the local and state level. We need the federal government to be a Strong Partner here. Lets pull together as a community to get through it. This is the best city and most resilient city on the planet. I am optimistic what we are able to do. Thank you. Thank you. President of the board of supervisors norman yee. Thank you, mayor breed and state senator scott weiner. I am glad that the state is weighing in on this. We cant do it by ourselves and we cant do it in isolation. Mayor breed, as you named off my colleagues on the board of supervisors. There are eight of us. We have a majority so whatever you want we will give you. This is not a joke. We have two branches of government, executive and legislative. We do battle sometimes. We disagree sometimes and we agree sometimes. This is one commitment all 11 of us on the board of supervisors are agreeing to. This is not about the legislative branch or the executive branch. We have one government. We are going to Work Together. We are totally committed to this. In terms of solving this issue and also to provide some of the relief that we need to give to businesses to workers and to everybody else impacted with this virus. Now one of the things i want to mention is that the board has not had the opportunity to come together to have a discussion. My colleagues urged to have this type of discussion. Thank you supervisor ronen for spearheading the push. Next week at some point we will have a discussion in which we could be part of the solution and the mayors and Department Heads will be there to help with this discussion. Rest assured we have no division when it comes to the virus. It is going to take all of us to battle this. We will defeat it quicker than people will realize. Thank you very much. Thank you for your leadership, president yee. I would like to introduce the supervisor for this community, supervisor aaron peskin. Hello everybody. I am district three supervisor aaron keskin. Kespeskin. Well to to a community that on the business side and residential side has been impacted long before the rest of the city and county of San Francisco, and thank you, mayor breed, and to my seven colleagues for gathering here today because chinatown is indeed suffering. Let me also give you doctor colfaxs advice which is after today none of us should ever stand so close to one another as we are right now. That was bad material, sorry. To ms. Lee and her son here at 150 Waverly Place who are suffering like many businesses throughout the city and county of San Francisco, thank you for making your shop open to all of us. To all of the folks from chinatown, the chinese companies, presiding company, to the Chinese Chamber of commerce represented here today, and to this community, and i have seen it all before. I have been a member of this board during 911, i was a member of this board during sars, and i was not a member of this board during th aids crisis. We will pull through. What the president of the board said is right. We are going to tran send politics and work in the public interest, and we all understand that our number one priority is Public Health. Part of Public Health is economic health. The package that the mayor and the board are announcing today is the first step. There will be many more steps to this. This is going to continue to evolve as the situation evolves. These are extraordinary sometimes. Today the mayor and chief Health Officer took extraordinary actions. This is going to be the new normal until we reduce and then defeat the virus. Wash your hands, wash your hands, 20 seconds, wash your hands. Thank you, madam mayor, and thank you colleagues. Thank you for continuing to be leaders on this issue. I really truly appreciate it. Now, i would like to introduce the president of the San Francisco chamber of commerce rodney fong. Thank you very much. As the mayor alluded to San Francisco has seen many challenges. These walls, this alley has senmany challenges. I want to thank mayor breed for taking fast action, decisive be action to support Small Businesses and working class families in San Francisco. This is the kind of leadership we need. Our Small Businesses and employees are going through a critical time. Small Business Owners in the Tourism Industry understand ho difficult and fragile Small Business is. One bad week or month can take you over the cliff. We know this economic crisis hits the folk the hardest and that is the Small Business and families and front line staff in San Francisco. This will bring immediate relief to Small Businesses and employees suffering from major cash flow for the moment and next several weeks. This will allow Small Businesses to pay rent, continue to pay employees, so important. This is a first critical step towards creating an economic resilient city that may be on the journey but we will succeed. We are proud to work with the electives and mayor to make this a great city to make this a learning lesson for other challenges in San Francisco. We will be strong. Chinatown is very strong. Thank you very much. [applause] we have the Vice President of the Chinese Chamber of commerce. On behalf of china town and Chinese Chamber of commerce. We are so glad that the mayor and supervisor are proactive with action against this virus. To promote the businesses in the community. I hope the Community Around the chinatown and San Francisco we have to do something else. We have to do the business in our part. We come out to shopping, we come out to eat, to support the local business. We are working together, we can overcome this difficult time. Now let me use a chinese word. [speaking chinese] applause now, i would like to ask our recorder to say a few words. I would like to ask our treasure to stand beside me. The leaders today not only the mayor and board of supervisors and state representatives but jose and i have been working around the clock to figure out ways to help to support our community. A lot has been said already about the importance of all of us taking Decisive Action to make sure we are doing all we can to support local businesses. One thing to say is that this is not the last action. What you are seeing a united front to say no matter what it is we believe in terms of political preferences this transcendses all of that we will address it appropriately. When we talk about Small Businesses and the people employed by those Small Businesses, this is not something about people once removed. These are neighbors, friends, people who are in our community who are impacted. As much as we are seeing this relief package hit the local Small Businesses it is about helping neighbors and city and our communities. I applaud all of the efforts here. I know all of us before you are committed to ensuring we continue to monitor the situation, continue to take action to preserve and make sure we are healthy and we are going to continue to support our local communities, friends and neighbors. [applause] i am the San Francisco treasure. I am proud to stand with mayor breed and city leaders to deliver help to support Small Businesses, particularly businesses suffering during this time. The Treasures Office we manage the city banking, investments and tax collection. We work very hard to make sure we can do everything to support our local community and the businesses in it. I want to expand on what the mayor announced. There are two important payments that we are as a city deferring in order to provide some relief to thousands of businesses here inen the city. All of the businesses that pay business taxes, many are required to make quarterly payments during the year, and the Small Businesses that we have selected there will be 8,000 of them that will not be required to make first quarterly payment, which would have been due the end of april. They can make that payment on time and in full by the end of february of next year. A 10 month deferral on the time they can have to make that payment of their taxes. Over 13,000 Small Businesses here that pay license fees would normally have an annual payment due at the end of this month of march, a couple weeks from now. The mayor and leaders in front of you have coming together to give a three month extension on that payment for over 13,000 businesses here in the city, most Small Businesses to wait until the end of june to make that payment. We are doing everything we can to support the Small Businesses here to make sure everyone survives these difficult times. Thank you. Before we end it i want to thank sf travel and the Hotel Council as well as many of the members of the Small Business commission that are joining us here today. We will continue to Work Together to make sure that and i appreciate what supervisor peskin said. We have to protect Public Health and economic health. That is what we are committed to doing. There will be other announcements. Thank you all so much. Please make sure after this press conference you eat at a restaurant in chinatown. Thank you. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of San Francisco. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . Im one of three owners here in San Francisco and we provide mostly live Music Entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and its not a big menu, but we did it with love. Like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. For latinos, it brings Families Together and if we can bring that family to your business, youre gold. Tonight we have russelling for e community. We have a tenperson limb elimination match. We have a fullsize ring with barside food and drink. We ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. Were hope og get families to join us. Weve done a drag queen bingo and were trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying Different Things. This is a great part of town and theres a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. Theres a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. We have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. Some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and its exciting. We even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. Its in the San Francisco Garden District and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. Its important to shop local because its kind of like a circle of life, if you will. We hire local people. Local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. I hope people shop locally. [ ] president bleiman hello and welcome to the march 3, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco entertainment commission. My name is ben bleiman, and