Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Joint City School District And City College Select Committee 20240712

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The approach are exercising to protect both students and staff during the pandemic. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call the no. 4 156550001. Please press star three to speak. thank you, madam clerk. Im going to provide a brief introduction and well get started. First i want to start with a lot of gratitude for everyone who is here. I know that everyone from the commissioners and the trustees and all of the staff are just working so hard tirelessly for our young people to make sure they are protected during this time. I think that thats something that we are all on the same page about and fighting for and responding to. Since the last meeting we had a month ago, things have gotten more chal empgin challenging and than before. I think we were on some level to have control over the spread of the virus. That unfortunately has not happened in many ways. The spread has actually increased. Through a lot of changes and hard work from everyone here, i just want to really thank you all since early sincsincerely. This has been hard and challenging for everyone and everyone is responding. I also would say, and i hope we all agree, now more than ever we need to be in communication. There are a lot of people working on this. We need to be discussing these issues more, sharing information better, things are moving so quickly. I would say this committee is probably more important than ever to have this space for us to share, learn, including from the city staff to be able to share whats going on from the things that they are working on with the supersizors, commissionersupervisors, andtru. We need to utilize this on a more regular basis. Ive been reaching out to the committee and staff already. I really believe that we should be meeting as a committee at least for the next few month dollars more often than once a month. Every two weeks and keeping this hearing open to have regular updates as a space for people to have their questions answered and provide feedback. As chair, im putting out that commitment that id like to see this Committee Meet more regularly. I would really like to see for the next few months this Committee Meet more regularly and also having representatives from the department of Public Health and the department of children youth and family thats are here with us today. With that, i also want to flag with you all that well be meeting more regularly. If youre able to stay longer, i personally only have until 12 for this meeting because i have a standing event i have to be at, i want to flag that we have four presentations and i want to be able to get to all of them. Just, if we could try to raise the issues that need to be raised, questions, follow through, i will be sure to get the answers for you and work with staff to do that. We have more limited time for some of the things that we may want to say. Also that some of the staff from the city side has said they would be willing to provide separate briefings for some of the staff especially from the commissioner and School District that are here. Thrdtheres some interest in doa separate briefing for the school Board Members. Its critical that our elected official dollars and trustees and commissioners are informed and communicating. Were doing the best we can right now. Before we get to the presentations, would any of the other folks on the Committee Like to provide any introductory comments before we jump into the presentations . I see trustee randol ph. i agree with you. Especially when the cdc guidance has become more political than usual. Calling for the reopening of school and down playing the oopenninseriousness of that. Doing what is safe for our students and faculty and staff to go back to the build willingg during a global pandemic. Were looking on how to achieve that balance. You cant even believe what the cdc is saying anymore. It would be helpful to have someone from dph come to the committee and see what their guidance is saying. They have issued some guidance for schools and access to schools. I would be happy to have a conversation with dph to see what they are using as their foundation to make decisions. When we discuss this conflict at the student accept committee, i know trustees were questioning and i had somewho do you believe . Who do you use as a guidance . Do you use the cdc, the state, or the local Public Health agency . Theres definitely been some conflict between all three agencies that are all about Public Health. That would be very helpful. I see someone from dph is on the call. thank you. Absolutely. And to be clear we want to have these regular meetings every few weeks more than once a month. I would like dph and d c yf to be present at all the meetings. Today youll here from them as well. With that, are you, yes, commissioner ko co llins. I think you are here for the introduction around it. thank you. I really appreciate it both comments. Thank you so much for convening this meeting. Bringing it up all together. I agree, we need to be in communication more because theres so much information and things flying around. I also really appreciate trustee randol ph. Its non stop for Board Members because were connectors for families. We may manage different programs. People want to know what were doing as far as schools. Even that is hard amount of communication to manage. It really helps when we are all in linewe lses wan also want ta better job of communicating with you as well. When we know what is going op and help to share information in a way that helps folks feel informed and will lses help us all to stay stave and its very trawtraumatizing right now just watching news at a federal level. Thats minimum we can be doing to help us all get through this crisis. ill turn it off to sfusd. thank you so much. Good morning Committee Members. Appreciate the chance to be in communication as the Committee Members stated. Its so important nowadays. We have a team thats here. Just to spare some time, i wont go through introductions. Ill let each colleague introduce herself as her turn comes up. I would like to start by saying thank you to chancellor and we look forward to working with you. Good to see you in this meeting and thank you for letting us take the mic first. I think we owe you one. I think we went first last time too. As commissioners know, we are at a very important stage of our planning process. On the last regular board of education meeting on july 14th, last tuesday there was a threshold direction set to reopen our fall learning plan in distance mode while we monitor the health context, of course, the pandemic and make every effort to plan for the opportunity to return gradually to in Person Learning should conditions allow that later on in the fall or school year. Were going to provide an accelerated update on the planning. If you would like us to slow down, let us know otherwise were going to go at a pretty good clip. We would like to thank our partners that have been mentioned today. Both from the sfusd community and c beos and families. This is a Community Wide effort and we really appreciate all the deep engagement and hard work that people are putting into this effort. With that ill turn it over to my wonderful colleague chief of student Family Community support whom you heard from last month. This is mrs. Smith. thank you and good morning member of the board of supervisors, board of education and the trustees. I appreciate the opportunity to present. I will move as quickly as possible but if folks need me to slow down, please let me know. Do you think you guys can take the reigns and help me out with this. The San Francisco unified School Districts fall learning plan is grounded in our core values. Thats the agenda. You can keep going. Its grounded in our core values. So that we can achieve oir missioourmission to provide eacd every student quality instruction. The ultimate goal of the process is to answer four questions. What are the guiding principles, real learning options, do we have the logistics for those options, and what is the july 28th recommendation to the board of education. Our approach to that process was to create three working groups with representations from staff, students, family, labor partners, and City Partners to provide recommendations to the policy teams who will provide a recommendation to the board of education. Since may, we have been gathering input and information and continue to gather information, we are very close to the end of our time line to the july 28th board of education meeting that is next month. In addition to the stake holder information we relied heavily on the dpiedin guiding documents te from the various agencies. The California Department of health, legislation and our own San Francisco department of hell health. Next slide. As was mentioned earlier last friday an important directive was released that created space wide fie guidelines for when any California School can open. It places counties on that list if they are not meeting thresholds for particular categories including test rates, hospital capacity. Counties cannot reopen schools for Distance Learning. For those unaware San Francisco was place on the monitoring list last friday. The San Francisco department of Public Health also has released preliminary guidance. That is to provide guidance for safety and instruction. Allow schools to a reopen in alignment with the Public Health directive. In addition to the guidance that i just discussed senate bill 98 provides guidance, what are the minimum guidelines for the school year. As well as identifying the circumstances in which Distance Learning can be offered as well as Participation Requirements for Distance Learning. As mentioned by cdc and many others board of education and board of supervisors its vital that we get community engamingment as part of our fall learning plan. As part of that process what we did was we condughted seve condn hall sessions, we conducted surveys to inform our decisions. Our town halls were designed collectively with many different multi disciplinary folks. We had as diverse agenda to get as much diverse feedback as possible. We did seven town halls in four days. We hadwe used a technology called bod exchange to provide questions and rate them. We had 16000 people participate in the exchange. Thirteen questions were answer. People could put that on and people could rate their thoughts on whether they agreed or disagree. We had a lot of information coming to us. It was really helpful. We had a number of participants in all the halls. This was the count. People could participate through youtube and sfgov. This is not the full number of people who participated put the onces we could capture. We didnt ask a zip code question, of the ones that we did ask we were able to have pretty diverse representation across our city. The themes that emerged were health and safety as our primary driver for community and Distance Learning. Choice, really focusing on equity, and a lot more social interaction. In person, whether it be live interaction. The top questions that emerged that we wanted to take into consideration and the workership of what does the fall learning plan look like is what about safety questions. Employees, city and staff. How do we make social distancing requirements are adhered to. What will social lerping look like how will it be different from this frame. Choice. That was a big question in terms of what will be the choices that students, families, and staff have . Next slide. Im turning this over to deputy superintendent. we had three working groups. We had three specific working groups looking at how might we come back together for fall 2020. One of those groups i was able to lead is the teaching and learning working group. This was comprised of over 20 folks. Representative of parents and families, c bos, labor workers. Yoshould we prioritize getting l of our students back immediately given the information we have or a delayed hybrid response. As was said, we want to bring our babies back. We know thats the best place and way for them to learn. This team in conjunction with our logistics working tbreups gs suggested it was best to start off with Distance Learning and move into that model as circumstances allow. good morning, everyone. Chief facilities officer. We also convened as logistics working groups that has met about three times now comprised of the same mix of personnel, staff, labor, and parent advisory organizations to help us work through the questions surrounding the needs and assumptions to be in place to support Distance Learning in the fall. Think about the gradual return and hybrid option and what that might look like. Next slide, please. We spent time as a working group reviewing all the different guidance documents that have been provided from the local state and federal levels. Spent the bulk of our time introducing our stake holders to dee operational constraints that are shaping in Person Learning opportunities. This is just a quick set of highlights of that information has been provided. This is a complex cast of thinking about how to utilize sfusd four hundred thirty acres in a very different way. Weve been referencing the vision 2025 document that guides sfusd and the ten big shift. Reimagine time and space. We have taken that as our central challenge. As we think about that challenge, we have to think about the resources we have and how they need to be doa ploye dd differently. Square footage is close to eight hundred million square feet. On an average Normal School setting day, you have three hundred custodians that averages out to two per building. Some of those buildings are really different with the high schools being much much larger than Elementary Schools. Kufschoolscustodial was alreadyr protocol. Not just kreening th cleaning tt using the kuft ode custodial tea Single Person can cover in an eight hour shift. Thats an important constraint. Realistic we can think about using a little under half of our existing instructional Square Footage on a daily basis. Secondly there are major transportation constraints in play right now. Public transportation is projected to operate at 30 of its normal capacity by the end of august. Students and families are major users. And sfusds own transportation can double the budget to serve existing students if were moving them to the assigned sites. A choice model as students move across the district everyday from their homes, zip code of origin and rely on Public Transportation and sfusd transportation to do that. With the constraints of custodial cleaning and around transportation not just financial but the sheer number of buses and drivers that would be needed if you want to accomplish social distancing. The same protocols that apply around cohorts and cleaning, disinfecting, Monitoring School buses. All of that really requires a really different transportation approach. Sfusd doesnt have the resources to implement. Running through the feedback that weve gotten from our stake holders are one that we really need clear rules for cleaning and disinfecting. How much educators will be asked to do on a daily basis. Theres consensus that everyone at a school site has a role to play in keeping the site clean and safe. But really understanding and fine tuning what the ask is of all the different groups of staff and students who are on site everyday and what their role in in maintaining those standards needs to be very clear as we move forward. Theres a lot of concern for differently abled students and vulnerable populations about social distancing and these protocols might negatively impact their educational experience. We have a lot of personalized support for individual students that requires hands on interaction. Students and teachers and students and paras working very closely together physically. How do we continue to serve those students while maintaining social distancing and the other requirements that have been established for us. Lastly and i think this is particularly relevant this week. What are the ways to support families and kids with enrichment options that sup supt Distance Learning. Lots of ways Outdoor Learning can occur. Questions about how that would work. Outdoor learning is a wide spectrum of activities from having a classroom out side to proposals that are ambitious and engaging with the park as the subject matter itself. Theres a wide spectrum of opportunities and not to mention the fact the use of outdoor spaces to support things like eating meals and recess and recreation. Serving as a third space to the School Building in a different way than we normally would. Those are a lot of the key themes and feedback. Over the next few weeks we are continuing as an Operations Team, policy and Operations Team to vet and think about each of our sites. Quite specifically, literally reviewing the site plans for every school site with a focus on Elementary Schools and layering on different restrictions about the resources we have available, staffing band width across different groups. The sites readiness for a covid 19 school day. Thats a significant data lift. We do intend to that have entire review and have that completed by ends of august. With that ill turn it back to my colleagues. i am not the chief of hr, but he is not here with us today, ill represent him as best i can for the personal working groups that he led which was also put into interdisciplinary teams. As youve heard from all of the speakers to date. The ongoing dominant theme for the personal work group was safety and wellness of our staff and students and families is paramount. The focuses of the work group was the fact that adult to adult transmission creates the highest risks for covid 19 transmission. We talked a lot about what would we have to do for our vulnerable populations for our staff. Looking at age as one example. Im going to move to the next slide. We did crossreference the different classifications of work. You can see from this slide we have a good percentage of our staff who may be part of a Vulnerable Group and have to create systems and structures and environments and protocol it ensure their health and safety. Can you go back to the previous slide. The other questions we really looked at is what is the claire it in roles anclarityin roles a. How will we fully utilize our para educators in any reopening scenarios. Those are some of the areas explored. Im going to ask you to go to the slide after the next slide. Thank you. And finally throughout this process district leadership members were also part of city led work groups and teams. Primary childrens from the department of children youth and families. Many agencies participating on that working group. There were subgroup thats were formed out of the working group. San francisco mpa and the city administrator and sfu working together. Those groups meeting in parallel as the sfu work groups meeting. Meeting three times a week to discuss all of the difn information and bring it all together into fall learning plan ma that was presented on tuesday. Im handing this over to the superintendent for the next slide. thank you. This slide is a little bit of a nonsequitur. Just a pause to talk about state and federal funding. Ill just cover this real quick unless anyone has questions. There was a federal stimulus package passed in march for k12 scols. Ou12schools. Our share of those funds is 12 millions. Theres an active debate about next stimulus bill or relief bill. That is stalled a little bit in the u. S. Senate. The Senate Republicans are working and struggling to come to a consensus of what that package should look like. Those discussions will continue next week. In the meantime we and many other urban School Districts are part of a coalition that sought significantly more funding from the federal government and the Senate Democrats have introduced a package that introduced funding along these lines. More than the cares act included. An interim budget was passed in late jeun. A fum ojune. Features is fundings maintained including very importantly holding districts harmless for enrollment or attendance from last year to this year. However, there was not a cost of living adjustment. That was omitted. That cost us about 12 million. That would be the difference of a comfort of living adjustment which is typically included. On a bright note there was a infusion of one time learning loss funs to help support our students for additional learning time and supports as well as social emotional support. That is very helpful. One last point is that in the absence of federal stimulus funds which, again, are being debated now, the state budget concludes a very significant amount of defeferrals of paymentdeferrals to schools. Hols fiscal year. Making those Cash Payments next year. Thats another interesting topic but it does present Cash Management challenges for us and other School Districts in the state. With that i believe im passing back to chief smith to head towards a wrap up for us. Gentleman thank you. Where are we . Where does all this information take us in temple terms of res n for fall twenty twept. Distanc2020. Distance learning id as the science and data allows in school learning. A more detailed plan for the board of education meeting. What we wanted to do in designing this man and also as a caveat we know that many of the items that could probably be in the plan arewill require collaborative discussion and discussion with our labor partners. Were undertaking these discussions to make sure were meeting our obligation to bargain in good faith. These are high level ideas and deliberations as we develop the fall learning plan. All of this is from the really strong feeds that came out of town halls and strengthening families and relationships is really important. How do we develop systems and structures to ensure that happens. A few of the commissioners spoke to this in the beginning, we need to have regular and consistent communication to minimize the amount of confusion and anxiety that could be created. We have to have consistent expectations for live interactions for staff. See a difference between the spring an the fall. Instruction that connects students with each other and their instruct joors. Morors. Attending to different tf learners and how do we pivot to that in a Distance Learning mode. Critical piece is access to printed materials. Developing capacity in the only of our staff but our students and families to navigate distance instruction and really be sure that were attending to health and wellness in all of the Distance Learning because we are in the middle of a global pandemic. Thats it. With that im go to go wrap upi. We have the full report to the board on july 28th. Were working dlibl diligently n monitoring and training. Weve been surveying our staff and families regarding choice. Well continue to do that as we move forward. With that i believe im concluding our presentation. Thank you. thank you so much. That was an impressive amount of information and work in a presentation. Thank you very much to all of our chiefs. Apologize for calling you director. Our chiefs and our deputy superintendents. Thank you so much for your work and really trying to figure out a lot of thipgs all a things alm th. The commissioners will receie this preptatio presentation anda deep dive. I want to make sure that the other members of our committee has a chance to speak. thank you very much. What a wonderful presentation as always. Im so impressed with the amount of data and research you have very quickly put together in these incredibly difficult times. I want it to say kudos to you for being on top of what is really a difficult situation for a will the of students. I really only have two questions. If you can at all give us any indication, im assuming that youll go into this in more depth. What where are the students responses sm iresponses. Id like to hear from the students and what they are saying. I know weve all seen some of the articles out there and ive seen some of the data especially the k through 12 students who may have a more difficult time learning from Distance Learning. Im curious what you dpot. Got. You have a sense of who those students are. I doan know who i dont know ws of. we had a town hall of all of our students and got feedback beyond the town hall. It was predominantly high school and middle school. The trend from their feedback is they definitely want more interaction. They want more from their educators themselves and more opportunities to ipt act with ih each other. Both from teaching and learning but clubs. They wanted more systems and structures, believe it it or not. A lot more thoughts on how to deliver teaching and learning in a remote or distance format. They were the ones who said every piece of content isnt appropriate to transition into an online format. Pick and choose what we endisbaij them in and hogaugeen. Around wellness, how you are doing, resources, supports that can be offered to them. As they navigate odd and unprecedented times. Did i miss any . no. That was perfect. That was exactly what we heard in every way in which we listen to students those were the themes that emerged. thank you. the second part of that question is all data seems to point to the possibilities that students from lower incomes are going to actually suffer much more than students who may have more resrs a resources at their disposal. Kids from black and brown neighborhoods, they might be behind, those kids may be behind ten or two months mplet this was in the New York Times article recently about math in particular. Im wondering, do we have any thoughts about how were going to help these students get back what theyve lost in terms of learning . were still in perfects he is of fiemizing our ways to assesfinalizing what we canasse. How do we make sure that the ways in which teachers interact with students and the work we are having them do is rigorous and designed in value. That tier one of first level of instruction is always the most important instruction. Make sure quality instruction is delivered and shared regardless of the format. How do you do the tier two, and tier three. What might Small Group Instruction look like. How do we support our teachers and educators to make sure they are ready to provide that support. We know that were going to have to do more of a deep dive around that learning loss that is tippic cal itypical in the summw you have the covid 19 loss as well. thank you so much. Supervisor fewer. thank you so much. Thanks for the presentation. I just have some questions. I think that trusteebrings up is on the forefront of my mind. That learning loss should be the first thing we are thinking about. I understand how to reopen and all that stuff. If youre go to go start Online Learning then they learning loss and veiling what the learning loss and who is the most vulnerable. I think thz a strong commitment to equity and in times hike this this is when equity really kowny counts. People who come from English Speaking families and College Educated families definitely have more of an advantage. A third of families come from families where a language other than english is spoken. The majority of our students are actually free or reduced lunch. This creates a learning challenge and an equity challenge. My first question is, i think that what i wanted to observe is that, i hope that were moving on and focus with equity. I i know theres an overarching gel of racial achievement gap. That continues to actually exacerbate under this covid 19 if we dont really talk about the Racial Equity that is involved here p. Also, if theren evaluation tool that was actuallactually given to studenn the spring for them to fill in about their own living experience during the spring Distance Learning or was that done separately . I thought it was a Good Opportunity for all of our students actually to participate in maybe an Online Survey during the spring to jogi also wanted to say about custodial care. This is the time now that more and more stews ar are needed itn opportunity to work with the janitors to help pick up the jobs and could we use other custodians to keep it clean. Also we wont be able to bring back students if we dont make sure that those spaces of learning are sanitized properly. I just wanted to say that are we doing anything aroundevery teacher and commissioners are also mandated reporters of child abuse. Many times our teachers and schools are the first reporters to c ps around suspected child abuse. Im wondering if theres a mechanism for that under these situations to make sure students are safe also. You mentioned that you really folk you can oweve all seen t. We want to close this racial achievement gap. When were looking at k through two those crucial years of learning. What is the focus now . We cant just give them the packets that we mentioned at the last meeting. It has to be much more robust. I just want to say that dofor some of of our High School Students in 11th and 12th grade, they are actively taking College Level courses. Could we have our seniors and this is a Good Opportunity to start rethinking about the resources that we have on hand and how we can also give them a brief to college. There are other jurisdictions that their senior year they all graduate with one year of city college under their belt. Could our students instead of taking calculus at high school levelmany classes of calculus are at a College Level any way. We have a lot of students that take ap classes could be taking online classes and giving them a boost up and opportunity for them to be educated at a very high level to prepare for four years of college. Many of our students are First Year College goers. If they can get that experience in high school, they can boost their confidence and resiliancy and fulfill the requirements that we require of them. We have learned a lot of things. We are able to be a model for the nation. I would love to hear more. If you see Going Forward that you are going to call for a greater dependency on the communitybased organizations. The city is looking to cut funding for many of those organizations. If you feel those services are imperative for you to deliver instruction in particular to the students, in the warning Early Warning signs or whatever the whole thing is about your assessment, then you should have a strong working relationship with the city on how imperative the work is. They are positioned to take massive cuts during this budget process. I think the closest that we Work Together, as a city we have more resources. The majority of the board feels as we do on this committee that it is the responsibility of the city and county to get people back to work. People cant get back to work if caring for children. We know not all children have the same opportunities as others. If we want to talk about changing. We had a lot of talk about defunding police. We have to look at why is crime committed . Why are people turning to crime to survive . Also, we have to look at education because it is really about an opportunity gap. Quite frankly, it is a rational gap. I wanted you to know we have an office of Racial Equity doing a lot of equity analysis. It would be helpful to work with them. One of the things you are looking at are education at outcomes. I know we have a short period of time. I wanted to bring those to your attention. I am hoping we can actually work with some of the resources we have in hand such as city college to educate our students so they are not so they dont miss out on opportunities to succeed, and especially the students that we serve are students of color, students in poverty, students who are marginnally making it. In a nut shot i want to thank you for your work. We want to focus on equity. Lets Work Together as city and county to use Resources Available to be most effective for our students. Thank you. I want to flag we have less than an hour and three more presentations. Unless we are able to recess or supervisor fewer if you are able to stay longer, i want to flag that for the time we have. Also, we did invite mta. We hope they can be at the next meeting. It is important to have them for many of the points raised. May i suggest usd colleagues, thank you, supervisor fewer for giving us a lot to think about. Good news as we think about those same questions. Perhaps my colleagues could not attempt to respond to every question that was just raised but if there are quick responses on a couple of them that stood out or if supervisor fewer if you had specific things to prefer to hear from us about in realtime, then we could narrow. I know the deputy superintendent and chief smith had specific responses to share. I will try to respond. One of the things you said that i want to respond to. You hope sf usc we have our focus on equity. We keep that focus and hold all things that we do. I did hear you made a comment around desire to focus on assessments to figure out the learning loss. I home my response we have not figured out what assessment of learning loss will look like. Tools will be developed with our labor partners. We will have to figure out what learning loss looked like and prioritize that. We want to prioritize the wellness. This experience has been traumatic for educators and students and families putting together the 30day plan to make sure in those first 30days that we set expectations clear and take time to assess where students are to make sure whatever learning opportunities we provide are responsive to that. The other question is around prek through 2 and how we will do that differently. One of the things is that it requires nondigital approach. It is print based. We will not have the packet we gave before. We have a series of workbooks teachers will use for Early Education students. We picked resources that are accessible to families. Those are available in multiple languages. Many teachers will use those versus the packet you saw in the spring. We are still doing the learning kits and we will distribute devices. For that age group it is new. We are doing professional education for educators as families transition to using the digital devices. We will have more detail later. Thank you. Thank you. I want to say in specific because we are short on time. Have you considered the High School Students taking online classes at city college . Thank you for that question, supervisor fewer. We are exploring those options. We have a dual enrollment through the Postsecondary Program through city college and we will lean on that heavily with partners at city college. I think that is fine. I feel like if i have further questions or we can set up a meeting. We are short on time. The two other institutions i think have powerpoint presentations. Commissioner collins. Thank you. I just want to say that the other thing i dont think was covered this idea we want to build capacity for families. There is a lot of work happening already. Kids are relying on families, especially younger children, to get connected. There is a lot more resources online and i know commissioner lopez is working with the latin x task force and there is a lot of other teachers and parents working on ways to help families educate other families and create support structures so that families can help their kids get connected and learn to do that. Your comment about cbos is important. They are a link. When you have a teacher that is teaching families in different languages. Doing zoom with families in latin and viet nam in the classroom. I have done more work with cbos to bring them up to speed as partners. We need the city and we also need the cbo partners and family leaders and volunteers to help us make those connections, especially for the vulnerable communities. We are rely on. Part of the resolution as well talking about violence, supervisor fewer was mentioning about. How we prevent, you know, how we support Community Wellness and prevent violence. We wrote a resolution to remove police from schools. We wanted the money from sro to helping schools to really connect families with resources. We were asking for a Community School coordinator. What we saw the two schools that pivoted the best online were schools identified as Community Schools. Mlk middle school had staff and infrastructure when families were in need they got them devices and helping them get online. If there is anything you can do outside of the infrastructure such as muni or testing to help us help our communities by investing in the cbos providing services to families directly and have contact with those families directly and they can help us be a link with those families most out of reach and help us get nor Community Schools to the system to have an infrastructure within our system to help connect both our resources and resources from the community and resources from the city. We are all having trouble making those links, dedicated staff in the system to help families and School Communities make connections is going to be a huge resource. That is the missing piece when it comes to those most vulnerable communities. I appreciate the questions and i look forward to partnering with you and city leaders to figure out ho to do that. Thank you so much for those very important points and questions. I have one question. How much is Outdoor Learning part of what you are looking at we obviously are aware that some of the Public Health guidance has said that people, young people, children being outdoors is a lot safer environment. That is true for what we have done over the summer with rec and park and things the city is doing. Outdoor learns is part of the planning and phasing in and hybrid model . Could you speak to how that is being integrated . I am happy to take that question or at least start a response to that question. When we think about Outdoor Learning, yes, i think that has to be integral to the approach. It is complicated. We actually have a lot of schoolyard space that is most often times under utilized over the school day. We have tremendous space. We are lucky to have a number of schools immediately adjacent to parks that are under the jurisdiction of the recreation and Parks Department as well. We are looking on a site by site basis at each school that will likely be a site for in Person Learning to evaluate and rancoreddiness for in Person Learning within the context of covid19. That is a screen check of the sites to rank them based on in classroom sinks, refrigeration in cafeteria, how big is the schoolyard . How many entry and exit points between the classroom spaces and outside . We think it is not just about the location but also the schedule of the school day is going to require the creative use of outdoor spaces to have kids moving kids and staff moving safely and in an organized fashion throughout the school day and maintaining stable cohorts. To have kids outside, we can do that. If we want in the San Francisco micro climate make that comfortable with shelter, shade above and maybe screens so kids arent completely distracted, hopelessly distracted in a schoolyard with 30 classes out there. Once we create a structure associated with that classroom space the department of state architect has jurisdiction. What i am working on now is developing prototypes that meet department of state architecture requirements for being safe. This is not the same as going to home depot and buying event tents for a picnic or barbecue. We are working to develop that and engage with the department of state architects to get feedback and approval so we can start really working this into eventual schedules and layouts what the school sites will look like when we resume in Person Learning. I have been in touch with former colleagues at recreation and Parks Department. They are supportive. As we identify school sites where, i was thinking of flynn elementary that in some places where the schoolyards are not sufficient to support what it would mean to have all prek through 2 kids on the site in one day. We can think about ways to spillover into the parks. There are a lot of dimensions to this idea. That is the most basic idea of using classrooms outside, and there are more ambitious ideas which i am happy to let the the deputy superintendent use about using park spaces as subject material for instruction as well. Deputy superintendent did you want to add to that . That is a long conversation. That is a foundation. Thank you. Well, if it is okay with i wh everyone i am moving to city college. Thank you to th to to the s. F. U. Staff. We want to make sure the city and county are stepping up to support you. It cant just be on you. It has to be on all of us. Whatever we can do to be supportive and help with communication, i think we are committed to that. With that we are going to thank the folks and move to city college presenters. Interim chancellor and senior vicechancellor who are here from city college. Thank you again, s. F. U. S. D. Good morning, supervisors, commissioners and trustees. Thank you for having me here today. As the incoming interim chancellor it is a great pleasure for me to come to the meeting and to see and meet with you and talk about promoting education in the beautiful city of San Francisco. As i was listening to the commissioners presentation and questions, i was reminded of a few things. We are going through a major pandemic right now, and even good teaching in the classroom the gap between high performing students and low performing students gets wider. Now at this period in time with technical difficulties and instruction is done remotely, we are adding an additional layer of difficulty to the students. The gap. [ inaudible ] technical difficulties. To the chair. Do you have his contact information. It can help if he turns his camera off. I just sent a text message and he is on campus practicing social distancing. He is there by himself. What you are seeing some of the challenges we have with our technical i fro infrastructure. I am coming back now. Back to what i was saying, with good teaching in the classroom the gap between higher and lower performing students gets wider. When we add to that the technical difficulties now with remote learning, that gap would get even wider. It is so important that we do everything we can to provide the necessary support to the students so that gap cab narrow. City college is working diligently with the district to see how we can better promote dual enrollment and the pathways to get students to move from k12 to the college and help the students. I have heard you mention ap classes and taking Community College classes. It is so important to promote dual enrollment. Community College Credit will do much more for the students than ap classes. Community College Credits are the same credits you will be earning at the state university, private colleges and universities. Ap credit is not necessarily transferable. As we move forward, it is also important for us to realize that the disparity that exists in successful Completion Rates of students of various groups is not exactly the same. We need to be able to bridge that disparity. At city college we are working with faculty and staff to see what Additional Support we can provide our students so the successful Completion Rate of students, transfer rate of students will be more or less equal across the board, across ethnicity and diversity. Today we will be telling you a little more what we are doing at the college to address the needs of our students as we do remote instruction is going to play an important part again this coming semester because of covid19. I am going to turn over now to our senior vicechancellor ms. Diana gonzalez to tell you what we are doing at city college. Thank you. Also with us today for city college is the chancellors chief of staff and mary who is going to drive for me for the presentation. What we have for you today. This is an update from the last meeting which everybody remembers the data we presented. I am slightly joking. We have more focused and brief presentation in terms of what is happening since the june meeting. The impact with respect to covid19 on instruction for summer 2020, we were almost entirely online. The difference between the delivery of instruction that took place when we had to do remote instruction during the Spring Semester was converting most of our in person classes to remote delivery. For the summer session what we offered was two things. An already reduced schedule because of the budget situation. Is summer offerings were half what they were the previous year, and they were classes that were already designed to be delivered online. The primary focus of summer session was dual enrollment and the Credit Recovery. Partnering closely with San Francisco unified. We were engaged and i will show you a few details at the end of the presentation. We were diligently working towards in Person Instruction for fall of 2020. We created a task force in late april to do just that. Much like s. F. U. S. D. We engaged with employee groups and unions and started to prepare for a great deal of in person classes, but then the shelterinplace continued, and we took a more gradual return to campus approach. Then as other Community Colleges, primarily in the bay are partners at the csu also delivering remote instruction. As the state was also slowing down their reopening, we responded accordingly. We are responding mostly to the city and county of San Francisco department of Public Health guidelines. We recently received a memo dated july 7. We received it july 14. It prohibits nearly all in Person Instruction. We tapped the brakes slightly. We are continuing to plan for a very gradual return to in Person Instruction this august. Our remote instruction, unlike spring, will include credit and non credit classes especially for esl students. As i mentioned we are taking a phased in approach starting first with city build because thethey have a earlier start tie august 3 and the allied health such as denssuch as dentists an. There is a lot of work to be done by hands on, and we are also being responsive to the mayors Economic Recovery Task force discussions in terms what contribution can city college make to the economic recovery for San Francisco . We are anticipating additional state and local guidelines in the next few weeks as well as just paying close attention to what the city of San Francisco does from the department of Public Health. Changes to instructional policies. These were derived from the state chancellor in spring and summer. We implemented changes from the state Chancellors Office, automatic withdrawals and reimbursementses to our students. We provided pass or no pass to the classes. We provided the data in terms of numbers in the june meeting. I am not repeating here. If we repeat same policies for fall depend upon the state chancellor. They are coordinating with four year institutions. We dont want to add versely impact students who opt for pass or no pass or withdrawal that could impact their transcript. We are continuing to provide faculty training during the summer months and the cares funding we received is paying for most of the training. As you know our faculty are not required to work during the summer. We have gotten a lot of cooperation from the aft and individual faculty members. I want to shout out to the dean of Online Learning. He staff pivoted in a heart beat and continue to provide an incredible amount of resources to our faculty. As you can see, the topics during the summer, the use of canvas. That is the learning management system, being able to document the continued interaction and reagaregular interaction is cril from the federal department requirements. Thaning on the best practices use the best practices using zoom and making sure everything is complete with federal and be state requirements. Over 700 faculty have been trained full and parttime. Both in credit and non credit classes. Student affairs. We are focusing on retention and outreach. Because of the number of students that withdrew from spring, Student Affairs led these efforts working with Academic Affairs and institutional research. We targeted student groups. Communication by text, email and phone calls following up with those students. Retention plans developed to go through audit the education plans originally developed between the student and counselor and updating accordingly and connecting students with Career Education program, work force. We are also focusing on students in these programs that you see here who tend to be sometimes our most vulnerable population. Eops, extended opportunity and program services, cal works and the working adult degree program. These are cohorted. Meaning the students go through the program together as a group. We are also advising as to the course repeat ability. There was a relaxation of the rules from the state level so that students have the ability to repeat courses in the following semester. Also identified short term Certificate Programs in high demand and outreach engaging in aggressive outreach for those particular programs to also have grow our fulltime equivalent students, otherwise known as our enrollment. I am going quickly. I want to be mind full of the time. I will wait for questions afterwards. Students and faculty and staff and administrators had access to the rp group survey. It is a Nonprofit Team every sevenners and annual of temperature researchers. They work with Community Colleges in different initiatives and efforts to improve delivery of services and success rates for students at the Community College. The local results are available. I am not sure if the link will work. I will leave it. We will give you a quick preview. The rp group is working on statewide report in conjunction with state chancellor in early september. We will provide to our board of trustees at the Student Success committees and the joint select committee. Greg, if you would like to preview the student results. Actually it was the link on slide 7. This is whether othis is what ty looked like. They did this for each Community College in the system. This shows number of participants. I wont go through this completely. There is a lot of really good data. This gives an idea. This is how much experience they had previous with distance ed. You can see the majority had at least one class they had taken remotely. This question which is the following challenges faced right now and this is in response generally to how students are reacting to the shelterinplace and how it is impacting their education. The biggest thing right now is for our students they were not able to concentrate on school. We have a large number of parttime students in our college. You can see it drove down to some of the details. Fortunately, a majority of students but slim majority are comfortable using canvas. 40 are not that comfortable. We have a lot of work to do not only with faculty but with students. Again, you can see it starts out with drilling to the detail. Then if you keep scrolling there are questions about their comfort level, similar to what was asked of the students, challenges and so forth. If you want to go to be information. As we started the return to campus efforts, we sent a survey out in preparation for two things. One is getting campus ready as well as making and anticipating those employees who were on High Risk Group themselves or caring for somebody in High Risk Group. This is the breakdown who responded to the survey. How comfortable do you feel returning to work. The majority of the folks between somewhat comfortable and uncomfortable. They are hesitant about returning to campus. Then we asked what initiative would make you feel more comfortable coming on campus . Check all that apply. Their concern to coming on campus was getting exposed to the coronavirus. Getting exposed to the virus and potentially spreading it. What would make you feeling more comfortable given these concerns . The leading response was Wearing Masks on campus, limiting the number of people that are within the area, hand sanitizing stations. It is consistent with what we were already planning to follow based on the cdc guidelines and Citys Department of Public Health. We continue to put into place training and protocols for employees that are faculty, classified, returning to campus, same for students as well. Such as requiring all employees, all students to do a symptom check online every day before coming to campus. They are also agreeing to abide by the protocol such as wearing Face Covering while on campus and they must whether they are an employee or student take the Safety Training which is about a 15 to 20 minute video before coming on campus. We are also working closely with aft and fdiu to ensure employees are safe. That concludes my presentation. Thank you so much. Trustee randolph. Thank you. I have a couple questions. I think they tag on to what supervisor fewer said earlier around the support for High School Students. Supervisor haney and others know we have been discussing dual enrollment for several years now and have seen a pretty positive Partnership Growth in support for High School Students and access for High School Students at city college of San Francisco. My concern is how are we ensuring continued access to city college during this weird time and new way of doing things because i dont want to lose momentum. I understand we might have to lose some of that momentum that we built and the strength we built. I dont want this year plus to be a lost year. A lot of students graduating from high school over the next year still need access to affordable education. As we know Higher Education is getting more expensive every year. If you have a year or two under your belt when you graduate from s. F. U. S. D. That is thousands of dollars our students wont have in Student Loan Debt to inflate them for most of their life. I have 80,000 worth of Student Loans to pay off for years. My question for both is to go into detail is the support for dual enrollment students in the new world. I dont think you touched on that specific piece that we are interested in. I dont know who wants to take it. I can provide you with an answer right now. The Pathways Program which is between the unified School District and the college will continue regardless of the remote situation of learning in place right now. That path was programmed the dual enrollment and current enrollment will continue and students will be encouraged to keep taking those classes. As you mentioned earlier on with the College Credit they will be earning they are in path for the transfer to San Francisco state university. This is what the legislature wanted to happen and what the faculty have been doing. We have been working closely with the unified School District to make this a reality so the students will have access to that education. They dont have to pay for it. When you complete those units they are good for your whole educational career. You do not have to worry about those classes again. I just want to make sure and the question asked was are we maintaining the same level of classes, cutting back in changing the type of classes we are offering or no change in the schedule of classes . I will turn it over to the senior vice chancellor. She has it. If we dont have it we will provide it. Chancellor gonzales. We are continuing to focus on classes that provide more access to s. F. U. S. D. And other high cool programs. During the summer most classes were for the Credit Recovery and classes we partner with with San Francisco unified. That was 90 of the classes. We have also restructured between academic and Student Affairs. The dean of dual enrollment who used to be in Academic Affairs is now part of Student Affairs to focus on efforts for outreach. The dean is responsible for dual enrollment and High School Programs and outreach to ensure that we have solid pathways. I dont mean by way of the program the doctor spoke of but access. Providing access in these challenging times to those students. Similar to the free meals, a fair number of students used to have access to food banks and Farmers Market on campus. A lot of students are food in secure even before covid. It has made it worse. Some of the students lose their jobs and now with the federal and State Government ending in a couple weeks or a week from now potential eviction our students or families are facing because they wont be able to pay rent, how are we shifting our support in a Digital World to those students facing Food Insecurity who dont have access on campus and facing potential eviction . Are we strengthening the outreach to make sure they know there might be some programs or things the city is offering around eviction protection and preventing them from becoming homeless. The worst thing to happen now is losing your job, healthcare and Food Insecurity and homeless. I want to do everything we can to prevent that from happening and partnering with the supervisors who have done incredible work around emergency legislation to protect tenants. Are we plugged into those resources . Yes, we are. We received 3. 5 million from the cares act and federal funding. One of the reasons why we were unable to join in the lawsuit was because unless we received the funding we distributed funds to those eligible students by way of grocery cards, gift cards and other means of getting more direct support to them, and we are also looking at partnering with a couple of the food banks to provide we used to have a food pantry on campus. We havent been able to do that. We are looking at in addition to continuing with the gift cards for groceries is partnering with food banks to provide not just for students but surrounding community. For the homeless we were talking about still making our facilities accessible. Especially for the students. We are working on that. Showers and locker rooms so they have access to a place to come in and clean. I know that we have pretty much spent the 3. 5 million quickly. That is demand for gift cards and other grants. It far out paces the funding we have available. Are there plans for us to see and i know that the supervisors would like to support efforts around the covid emergency. Do we have an estimate of the budget needs to support these students moving forward . This was spent for the last half of the Spring Semester and part of the summer students. Fall is starting next month. They will need additional food gift cards and other grants. Is there an opportunity or do we know how much money we might need that we can ask outside entities for that support . Yes, we can get that information you. You are spot on with respect to the basic needs. Food and security, homelessness. Some of the moneys from the cares act was spent on chromebooks and hotspots for students. As you may recall, the cares funding was initially we were not able to use it for daca students. That was a challenge. The other thing to point out the state Chancellors Office eliminated hunger free campus funding for the current fiscal year. The expectation is that the student equity funds, the student equity funds support that. It is not enough. We can get that information for you for the committee in terms of the financial need for those programs. Last question through the chair. It would be great to have some type of Digital Resource fair. We cant do it in person any more where people can go meet with city agents and nonprofits helping students in housing and food. It would be great to figure out a way to partner on Digital Resource fair where students can log into and learn about the resources the city has available to them to prevent eviction and homelessness and connect our students with resources they might need to prepare and be successful over the fall semester. We partnered in the past on physical resource fairs that were really helpful to students. There is a way to figure out how the committee and different agencies can do that as we get ready for fall. It can happen in the near future. In the interim, if we are not able to provide the service, we, mening city college, we river students we refer students to the closest food pantry. Along those lines is communication is a challenge to get the word out. A lot of the information i am sharing is on our website. It may not be easy to find or if the students dont have access to a website. It is a great idea. To broaden the communication and let folks know where they can go for additional resources. I think you make a good point it is available on the website usually only in english. We have a lot of limited englih speakers facing these situations. Having a translation or digital conversation with these groups is more helpful. Seeing if the Key Resources could be translated to other languages. We have done that including what i mentioned earlier. Engaging in out reach to students, phone calls. We have identified rigs. Vietnamese, languages that we need for esl and non credit classes. We are find full of the reach diverse population in the city and make sure we are accessible to them. Thank you. Thank you very much. I will be quick. I appreciate you bringing forth this survey. I would love for us to talk about it during a City College Board meeting as well. Some of the things that you werent able to mention because you were trying to go so fast struck me when i was looking at this survey. First is request number 26. How often in the past week have you been bothered by the following problems. Anxiety to no sleep to worrying to becoming annoyed andirtage. What shocked me about it and mirrors my own Mental Health state is that a large percentage of people out of the 1300 surveyed are feeling a lot of anxiety from several days to every day on the 70 to 80 of the students who responded. I want that out there. I am sure the students at s. F. U. S. D. Are suffering from this. It is something piggybacking on to commissioner collins comments. Mental Health Assistance through the Public Health department and finances is something we could all Work Together on. Something else that i know students have lacked. That is jobs. We were able to continue their jobs in the spring and continue to pay them even though they werent working. I dont belief all of those on campus jobs but i would be curious if those jobs will continue and financially we are not able to do that. Is there something we can do to help 25 of the students who are essentially homeless as far as i can tell. They have different issues with housing of the ones surveyed. That is pretty high. Anything to do to help students who are able to work on campus or get some sort of tie penned during covid to help them to be able to continue. The last thing i wanted to point out was request number 30 which is given my current understanding how safe it is, i am most likely to reenroll at the college if. The results are certainly people want hybrid or in person much more so than they want to be clear about this. This is a survey that it says fully online, you have people okay with it. Do notary open campus 37 . Hybrid and in person is 63 , i believe. I think that is something that we really have to think strongly about. Of those not continuing the number one reason was because the clas class is online and tws safety. Number one is because the classes are 100 online. I want to just put those out there recognizing that we are in a difficult situation. We also need to figure out a way to help our students ability to learn. Recently the members of the federal group of Community College and trustees came to us and asked us to help at the federal level. I would like to present a resolution. Community colleges dont receive the right amount of funding. The way funding is done at the higher ed level is ftes. Ftes assumes that students are going to school fulltime. Many of our students have family, multiple jobs and dont go fulltime they go as much as they can. We missed out on felt ker federg we will miss out if we dont allow Community Colleges to be counted by head count as opposed to fte. I would like to have a resolution to that effect. I would love it if the board of supervisors and perhaps s. F. U. S. D. Could join in support. What will hand is Community Colleges, the backbone of the economic recovery, are going to see less funding than the c su and sds. It is being used instead of head counts. If there are comments on the Mental Health and jobs, i would love to hear it. I want to note that supervisor mar is here and will take over for the next 30 minutes as chair. We do not need to pause until supervisor mar takes over and then i will return and continue at 12 30 p. M. Excuse me i have a meeting at noon. I may be able to return would that upset the quorum . No, as long as supervisor mar can be here and chair for 12 00 to 1230, i wil i will be back ad would love you to join us. As long as there is no gap in between you will be okay. we have received clearance to be able to hire students again. Were working with the supervisors and primarily the Department Chairs in each of those areas to be able to hire lab aids and so long as they are able to work remotely. In the Mental Health, one of the areas were looking to bring back in person is the Student Health center. They are working to get that started august 16th and students will be able to get Mental Health services through our student helming center. Either online, zoom appointments, but the Mental Health will be available. thats wonderful. And my question really then is is this something that we have funding for . I mean, we can be completely transparent here city colleges are in dire straights. One of the reasons to have these joint meetings is to see if theres something we can pull or supervisors can maybe pull some money out of city funding to assist sfu and city college funding. The students who are suffering from a variety, according of that survey, anxiety, sleeplessness, enab inability to relax and all of these things, would it be helpful to potentially Work Together on this to try and make sure that theres funding for it . the short answer is yes. We can all agree that education as a whole is under funded whether its eu unified k12 or Higher Education. We can work with our office of research and Student Affairs to identify the unmet need. Well get that information to you. thank School District. Maybe we can move onto the third presentation. That is frl the departmen is frf Public Health. i do not have a slide deck. I was asked to come and answer any questions so i do not have a presentation. Im happy to answer questions. commissioner kol inns. its critical to maintain social distancing. Parents are worried about what they are going to do in the fallhang on one second. Sorry. Im working from home. This is a struggle for a lot of families. Some of what families are doing is whats called pods. When they are saying that theyre talking about a variety of Different Things. Some of them are talking about nanny shares. Thats families sharing a nanny. Theres parents talking about joining park groups. And hiring teachers to actually just teach a group of six to ten kids and rotate. Im hearing about them in garages and also in peoples homes. Its a National Phenomenon that educators are dealing with. The department of Public Health im not seeing that. As a parent that is concerned for spread and concern for families i wanted to know if the dedepartment of Public Health hs any recommendations for this activity. thank you, commissioner collins. We are aware of this National Phenomenon and seeing National Headlines related to this. We dont have any recommendations at this moment in time but are discussing it internally. We just received the state guidelines for schools last friday and are revisiting all of our guidance as a result of what the state has issued into the state as to whether any guidelines they will be releasing on the micro School Dollars or pod pods. Its a phenomenon thats not occurring just in San Francisco but throughout the state and nation. We are experiencing community spread. We are in the middle of a surge. Were definitely working on this. The Health Officer is considering it and whether and how it can be done safely. We dont have any recommendations at this moment in time. great. I have one more question aroun aroundfirst off, micro schools is what im learning is the actually nawm for these groupe actually the name for these grouped kids in families. Time thinking they can set up day care and liability issues. As educators were all mandatory reporters for sexual abuse. Im just wondering if some folks may be handling those logistics but families thinking they can do their own thing. As an educator im fully aware theres a lot of requirements that relate to taking care of other peoples children as well as for Young Children there are even more requirements. I was wondering if you were pre vieding goidance o guidanceprovu are the agency or maybe not, ad hoc child care that is shared among groups of families. i think what we can say is we can inform on the health and safety aspects of these micro schools. Whether or not we have the governing authority on reporting asereportaspects such as child. I can find out and get back to you unless anyone else on the call has a better answer. perhaps when we have the presentation from the dep of children andepartmentof children hear a response to that question. i had a couple questions. Is dph and c yf working in collaboration or folks in their own departments to support sfusd. Im just trying to get some clarification to prepare the rest of the questions i have in place. were working with the School District and representatives from city college. okay. Thank you for that. My question is then what is dphs ideas and will they sup or sfsup orof sfusd. Do you have a plan or are you only fielding questions today. today were only fielding questions. Were building the health and safety aspects of covid 19 prevention and mitigation for San Francisco unified School District as well as the Community College. what do you have going on specifically out side of what you just mentioned . our department has many initiatives with the san fan sis koa unified School District and im not sure i know all of them to be honest with you. specific to covid 19. the guidelines that were released in early july, the states guidelines have superseded those. Also developing and giving Technical Assistance for testing, Contact Tracing and case administration, what protocols need to be in mace if and when schools open in order to be safe. my last question before we move own in terms of communication, i wanted to followup with things weve had discussioned around in the School District. What a partnership would look like when folks use these recommendations and policies so we can have a dialogue on what folks are seeing on the ground versus Public Health. Is there an opportunity to tighten that communication process up and make it more transparent but so the parents and School Leadership is aware of it. yes, of course. great. im sorry. Can i piggy back on that. I field a lot of questions from families and district leaders and i dont even know how to contact your department. I dont know where to go sm i do want to representif you are getting information and guidance, i want to support that. I dont knowif i doapt know im assuming most parents and families dont know how youre reaching decisions. I think its important to pre vied the basis on which you make those decisions. Todays question and a are dprait. Agreat. Things are rapidly changing, if we have opportunities to engage with you in the public so we have transparency and people can see how we are collaborating and how were being informed by yourthe work you are doing and forming our planning. Do you know how we mieg be able thaveconversations about that. not that we can discuss right now. We want to be on top of everything and minimize the amount of confusion that the public is experience. All of you have mentioned earlier in the call. We can take this conversation of offline and figure out how to do that. supersizor mark can you help with that as well. I dont know what is the next step. i just would like to piggy back and say city college would like toif you figure out a system, we would like to participate. id be happy to participate and say we havedid you have a question . thank you supervisor mar. I wanted to make a quick comment if i may on the recent discussion. Just by in a way vouch for the frequentsy of the conversations that do take place between sfusd staff and our partners at dph i dont have a whole lot to say about the specific question that commissioners and truste trust d people of the public are facing. In the meantime, many of our staff work rally closely with the dep of numbe departmenti do leave anyone with the question that there isnt frequent contact because there certainly is. i apologize if i was implying that. That whole process is not transparent. That makes it hard for Community Members to understand. And its difficult for me because its not transparent for me. Were all public servants. I think our public processes should be visible. People should be able to understand how we all Work Together. If meetings are happening and no one knows when or how they are happening. Folks are really anxious. Part of what helps is this all calm down. People need to know who is making the decisions and how its being decided. They know who to knoll up with and who does what. Thats hard for public, is understanding all the roles and how we Work Together. thank you, commissioner. This meeting, this committee since there has been discussion of meeting frequently. This does seem like an opportune place for that discussion to take place. thanks. If addition to make sure its in language, whatever is out there we need to make sure that the message gets out there, thats it. thank you. I did have one question oni understand on the dph data dash board today that if you choose 10 of individuals under 18 years old sm this number is this number is prizing. Rising. Do you have the demon graphics of those cases race, age, zip code, neighborhood . the most that i can share at this moment in time is that we are definitely seeing a risewere seeing evidence of community spread. We have seen a rise in cases for ages zero to 18. Were taking that as evident of community spread. Four hours of praik down i doapt have that data readily availabl. if you go to our data tracker, it shows you a breakdown of the demographics. Its not broken down by age, i would have to go internally to get that data. it would be helpful to understand especially if the numbers and percentages are rising. Are there any other comments or questions . i just have to say, i mean, i dont know, maybe this isnt a normal thing. You know, this is really important and this is an opportunity to communicate with the public and for us to ask questions publicly. I guess i was hoping to interact with some type of information. I really appreciate that the public of health is here but im also kind of disappointed. This is an opportunity for us to react. You referred to things you are working on or trends you are seeing. Im really hoping that next time we can have a more robust conversation based on information that you can share. absolutely. thank you commissioner collins. Let me move on from the presentation from youth and families. it has been really great working really closely with dph on all things related and services for children. Particularly her entire tea teamCommunity Learning hubs. What these are are neighborhood based centers, hubs that will be available for sfusd families, i have a slide here on rational and youve heard all of these things shared already by our School District partners and before i jump in further about this, i just want to recognize that working with sfusd has been really good. We have regular conversations all the time. I fully recognize the heavily lift they have to do. Not only are you thinking about the children and families and how to support teachers to do their best in Distance Learning and all of these other things as well. I know how difficult it is and i just wanted to make sure on the city side we were there and available to provide whatever Additional Supports that we could offer. The other things wefor the rational why were creating these learning hubs. We know for the most part teachers work really really hard this past spring to do Distance Learning. A lot of our children had a really hard time with it. We wanted to make sure that, once again, we did our part to support Distance Learning. Regarding a lot of the reports around the American Academy of pediatrics and reports under the importance of in also considerig social emotional support and think about how we move into the fall. And of course, on the city side, as were working with dph opening up industries, we wanted to make sure as we open up industries and parents have to go whac back to work there are e places for children to go to as parents go back to work. Our own Public Transportation infrastructure will not be at 100 at the fall. It will be closer to 30 because of a number of things. So what our Community Learning hubs exactly . They are neighborhood based facilities. Were very intentional with the neighborhood based piece. We wanted to be sure that children could walk to these places primarily because we dont want to increase congestion on our streets and having parents deal with these things. These are rec centers. Public libraries, cultural centers, hopefully city hall facilities and other city owned buildings that provide in home support for chiropractor in youth. We are thinking hubs will open from 8 00 a. M. To maybe 6 00 p. M. Hub rs are operated by rec and park facilities and staff. Hubs will be providing children youth and families access to technology and will be aiding the Distance Learning that are very capable that teachers will be providing. Theyll be providing social emotional support. Main components. I do want to emphasize that we are doing this in full partnership and guidance with dph. Right now were only standing up the hubs for kindergarten t to fifth graders. We understand how difficult it is for our sixth graders to transition going from a small school to a middle school. Theres lots of Different Things going on. We wanted to be able to provide some Additional Supports for them. Once again, business learning supports. Well also be providing meals and Family Support and Mental Health services. These hubs are operated by both rec and park ep surensure that they dont experience that covid 19 slide on the academic side as well as the social emotional side. Which for me as a psychologist is really important. I want to continue to support our childrens well being and social emotional development. The next couple slides are School District slides. These are data that we received from our School District partners regarding number of students. Number of students in each cohotter. Because of our limited facilities were only projecting upwards of 6000 children total. However sfusd has close to 56,000 children that they serve. Were go to go have to make some really hard decisions as we are standing up for these programs. Administer information and data around the populations that i referenced earlier. This is data that shows the number of students in each of the zip codes and are broken down by age group or school grade. Time lines. We announced the hubs yesterday. We are planning to have registration start on august 15th. It will close on september 4th. Between now and august 15th anyone who is interested in these hubs want to learn more about the hubs please go to d c ys dot org care to fill out an Interest Form to let us know where you are, where your address is. Also how many children you have or what grade you are interested in. Were going to go after these hubs and meet the needs of our families. That is the end of my slide show. thank you so much for the presentation director. I noticed supervisor had haney is back. Im going to have to hand this off because i have to leave for another meeting right now. Thanks everyone. im here so we can continue. Commissioner collins, i see thank you so much for your presentation. I really appreciate it. Ive been hearing your name and youre like on the other side. I mentioned before, our c bo partners, rec and park, ive always been a really big fan of the park system before i was an advocate. Library programs, now that my littles are big i missed the fact that we couldnt do the Summer Library kind of thing. Im happy to meet you and got to hear your presentation. Im excited you guys are thinking about this but i didnt know anything about this. Im the curriculum chair. Im really excited that you want to partner with us because we need help. Youre that connector in a way for us. I alsoone of the things that weve been doing and were trying to be really intentional about it and i do really want to celebrate our district is weve been having a lot of town hall so that as we were reflecting on plans, we were working on really taking input directly from families and sharing out plans sm for many families it may have solvedsome people want to know now and how to include everybody. Build a labor plan. Im struggling to understand how we fit into your plan thats supposed to be supporting us. Does that make sense . Were the educators, i know youre talking educators sm the commissioners are also helpful in setting policies and directing staff so they can work in alignment with you. Im just wondering why nobody reached out to me personally. Theres also two other commissioners that are also educators on our school board. once dpen, this is the citys desire to support our most Vulnerable Children i totally support that. I think thats awesome. Im asking why didnt you communicate with us while developing these plans. i guess i am now. in the future i gres i would appreciatguess iwould appd text me. Commissioner lopez has been holding meetings. Were all really in the community. It would be really great if we could know what you guys are thinking so that wewere also fielding a lot of questions and we can inform and share that, us as commissioners can november also what were thinking and hearing so we can work more collaboratively together. d c yf works closely with our c bos. We have regular conversations with our c bos. We hear from them we talk to parents though, directly. We all just have to be communicating together. Same kind of question. What kind of structure, i think were waiting for these meetings were not going to get into the nuts and bolts, were pressed for time. What is the structure to have regular meetings to talk through what you are planning to do. conversations with chair haney he suggested for this body to meet and have a higher frequency of meetings. I committed to him that we would come and provide regular updates on what is happening with d c yf. He sz bb amaz has been amazing f this as well. were really nuts and bolts on our side. We like to talk really specifically about what were hearing from staff about how c bos can help us expand our out reach and support us. Would you be willing to come to a curriculum Committee Meeting and havewe run meetings less formerly and listen directly to families and talk abouttalk directly with our staff but its all public. Families have an opportunity to see how those conversations happen and they can come and peek during Public Comment. Those are opportunities to make those opportunities transparent. One more opportunity for families to share their concerns, thoughts, and questions. sure. Thats perfectly fine. Deputy superintendent lee is here. We are not providing teaching or academics. We fully acknowledge that teachers will be doing their best in Distance Learning. We want to help with that. Thats it. i have one more question if thats okay. I guess the other thingmy question is a lot of the materials in your slide presentation you show a bunch of kids together in the presentation. None of the kids are socially distancing. i will remove those pictures. one of the questionsits concerning there was a news story and there were news photos and mini love play ground. I shared that. If were messengering out where the communityim an educator and we learn most through modeling. What we say is what we do. What we show folks, im really considerate about are we six feet apart and wearing a mask. I want to make sure were communicating to folks in the images that we share of children and staff that were also doing that as well. noted. i dont know if supersizor haney im here. Did you want to jump in to make a comment . i just wanted to sayjust to give a tiny bit of background to conversations that we did have and commissioners apologies if we should have been giving you more information about this, but i just want to share that dr. Sue and a couple of her colleagues at the city county did give usi think it was fairly recent but did share information about these, the concepts and some of the plans about ten days, a week, ten days ago. We had some discussions and i know dr. Sue had a conversation with dr. Matthews as well. Were notwe werent comeetly cy caught off guard by the announcement yesterday. We will note that we could have done a better job of sharing that information with commissioners. Apologies for that. We were surprised and impressed by how quickly the plans were, you know, were designed because weill speak for myself. The one or two conversations i was in did not anticipate the speed of the public announcement being ready so quickly. Credit to dr. Sue an the team for doing a lot of work quickly just in the interest of operationallizing. I just wanted it provaid that typy by of pacprovide thatbit on initially. first of all, i want to thank you dr. Sue for mentioning something im particularly concerned about which is the Mental Health. I would love to know if you are considering something and i understand the need to start with k through five and six through nine. There are a lot of students who are coming from similar back grundbackgrounds sfusd studentsy may be in worse positions. Not getting the support they normally would through fak you. Online learning has a different cosine of ko contact. Im wonnerring if you have any plans on including city colleges. I know we dont need after school prodprams sm you mentioned mentaprograms. Im wong to be keeping the other students in a different parteverything. Those are two questions and i have a followup question that has nothing to do with this. yes, i would love to talk about partnerships. Its been amazing to work with dr. Gonzalez over the last couple months. She has been very helpful to making the college initiatives. Thank you for this offer. I would love to followup and figure out way it support. We do acknowledge that particularly our higher age transitional age youth for students have similar problems in terms of connectivity and access to devices. We want wabt to figure out weighs to provide Public Health. Jfor each is city its going to be so important in this upcoming year. Related to funding, could have. Were hoping it can both funnel students in a way of learning that doesnt break the bank as trustee randol ph alluded to earlier. All the skills building classes that we have including city build that was refer to before. We want want to ensure people have access on that. we think its great profrm sm we appreciate his leadership in making sure we continue that program. We had an oversight meeting with the board of trustees there and we can followup with you. i can followup with trustee will yans sm that will. Thats fine. Thank you for continuing. great. Anymoreany other folks have comments. I know we held director sue over her time. Appreciate that. Do any of the other comightsers ocommissioners have questions . I apologize for having to step out quickly. thank you very much. do you have anymore final comments director sue. no. I look forward to working with you and the select committee. I guess ill see all of you more frequently now. Thank you. Take care. thank you. I think what is clear that we need a lot more conversations together. That was something that came up again. Director sue, you and i can Work Together to make sure the city schools and college are working together in the partnerships. You offered to meet with them directly as well. We can facilitate that in some way. The next meeting is august 14th. I hope we plan to meet every two weeks essentially keeping this hearing open. Madam clerk, whats the right process to keep this hearing open and continue to the next Committee Hearing . mr. Chair. I believe erica should be there. She may be muted. I do believe we need to take Public Comment still though. oh, okay. I wasnt sure if that happened. Okay. Can we open it up for Public Comment. yes. thank you folks who are waiting for your patience. We will make sure to prioritize Public Comment in the next set of meetings as well. I apologize for that. okay. For members of the public who are waiting on the line and interested in providing Public Comment for this hearing. The phone number is 415 6550001 meeting id press pound and pound again. Once you are connected please press star three to be queued up to speak. We have four individuals listening and two on the line. If there are any individuals who would like to speak, press star three now. Could you please queue up the first speaker. hi this is julie roberts. I appreciate having this hearing at this time. Its really become clear that our families exist across the various systems and for communication and coordination and open democratic public ways are really important. I want to appreciate everyone that presented today and echo the sentiment p having more on going and public communication. Especially appreciate supervisor marks question. Ive opinion watching the zero to 18 infection rates for covid 19. They have been increased. If were talking about learning hubs, or school restating or families trying to figure out how to support themselves to understand the age ranges and demographics of children under 18 getting covid 19. Neighbors that are impacted and Contact Tracing to understand where these cases are being initiated. To understand if its safe at all. Im a little concerned with c bo staff who has been terrific. I want to encourage folks to look at the tender loin as you come up with these plans. We have the second highest rate of covid 19 in the city but have continued speakers time expired. thank you. Next speaker. If you would like to line up to speak, press star three. Youve been unmuted and may begin your comments. yes, hello. This is peter with equity for older students. We can be reached at equity for older students. I have three main concerns to bring up for the meeting and im sorry there isnt more time for you to consider theming. Policies and services that covid 19 has impacked. Impacted. Theres a disenfranchisement for remote meetings. Anyone without a computer. Surveillance capitalism. Libraries. All the city libraries are closed with maybe opening in august for only curb side pick up. The only thing thats available for people to have access to the internet and therefore the Library Programs online is a shrunken Telephone Service hours. I appreciate all of you working on and discussing how thats going to be. thank you. Next speaker, please. mr. Chair, that completes the queue. thank you to the Public Commenters. We agree about the importance of these meetings s. We will have our next meeting august 14th and expect to have more regular meetings. Thank you to all the departments and special intuitions. Do we need a motion to continue this hearing is that correct . yes, youll either need to continue to call to chair. as motion as stated. roll call you have four ayes. all right. Thank you again so much for your time and well see you in a few weeks. Ill followup personally on making sure some of those other meetings happen. Madam clerk, are there any further items . no. thank you. This meeting is adjourned. thank you. Hello im San Francisco mayor london breed i want to thank everyone in San Francisco. Thank you for your patience, for your resilience and listening to our Public Health leaders. I know the last several months havent been easy for anyone. They certainly havent been easy for me. Everyday i hear about the struggles people are going through from friends from family members and from the communit