Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 20240712

The next slide is one other point that i wanted to make sure to address. There was a question about this at the public hearing and in the and in the previous draft of the learning continuity plan and we had highlighted that we were pending clarification from the c. D. E. About the actions and expenditures. So i just wanted to take a moment to clarify, to explain that clarification, and the response that we have received. So we wanted to confirm that the actions and the expenditures that are at the bottom of each major section of the plan, we wanted to make sure that we were approaching that process correctly. And so the clarification that we received is that we should be considering both learning loss mitigation funds and lcff funds in our plan. But we do not need to include all of both of those sources. It is up to our discretion, the extent to which we include those funds. But those are the eligible Funding Sources and the activities that we are undertaking with those funds are what we should be thinking about. And so the good news is that means that we have taken the appropriate approach, and so we did not need to make any significant changes to those sections of the document. Really the only update that was made was on this one action listed here in the Distance Learning section where we had a havrevised total to update. But issu other than that there e no significant changes to the expenditures in the learning continuity plan. I believe that the next slide is our final slide, which is just a reminder that, one, our reporting documentation has changed several times over the past couple of months. Each of these different colors indicates when we have we have received a change in our plan, but really here today we are, you know, at the end of the line for the learning continuity plan and then pending approval from our commissioners and we will shift gears and begin planning and discussion around a new threeyear local control and accountability plan that will begin next year. And i believe that is it. So i will i will hand it back over to commissioner sanchez. President sanchez thank you so much. Any Public Comment on this item . Clerk hello, julie . Hi, as we heard in earlier Public Comments, there are Additional Needs right now for english language learners and other students. And i just really appreciated the parent who called in and drew attention to the fact that there are english language learners right now who meet oneonone and small group support. And the state of california is actually giving our district more dollars than we would usually do to mitigate learning loss and we saw in the Budget Committee that there is, you know, 24 million being allocated to address the loss for english language learners and others. But the challenge is that i dont see where those dollars are moved to be able to add in resources for direct support. So it feels like a pretty important disconnect to me. You know, we have the existing staff and resources that we have that are to meet needs during inperson learning and we know that those needs are additional at this point. So i appreciate the clarification of how school sites may actually be able to increase the services to students who have Additional Needs at this time. And an addition to this is that at our school site we had a staff person who has been able to support english language families, and that support has been removed, but were understanding that were not able to replace or hire a staff person to do that because theres a hiring freeze currently. So im just really feeling like theres a disconnect between the district level plans which largely seem to be funding our existing strategy, the increased needs in the pandemic, and the pressure on school sites and educators to meet families needs. Thank you. President sanchez hello, john . I think that he was here for another item. President sanchez thank you. Hello, michelle . Yes, thank you, and good evening again, commissioners and delegates, superintendent district staff, Community Members. My name is michelle jacganagas, to the s. F. Board of ed. And im part of the liaisons who Work Together together to provide feedback to the district on the learning continuity and attendance plan. Wed like to appreciate the efforts of staff, especially emery gordon to respond to our feedback, much to help many questions that we had. However, we still feel that responses are vague and we have concerns as emery pointed out about implementation. And i do really appreciate that our concerns were very our broad concerns are accurately represented in the presentation. So, thank you. As julie just highlighted, we heard earlier in the meeting that not all of our families are aware of and accessing the supports that have been put in place. So i want to quickly read from our Opening Statement from our report of feedback to the district. Advocates for students and family and sfsud our biggest concern is accountability. How do we know that the strategies are recommended with fidelity, and if they were successful in meeting our students needs. How will you provide the cycle of improvement and inquiry . What are your checks and balances and what are your timelines for progress and monitoring . As one of our stakeholders noted, this cannot be the end of the conversation. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, megan . Caller hi, i am megan clusa, and im a behavioral analyst in the district. I work with the section 504 program. And im also the parent of a graduate of a student who had a section 504 plan. And i wanted to call out that in the learning and continuity and attendance plan in the section that that designates support for people with unique needs, which the description says includes peoples with exceptional needs served across a full continuum of placement, we failed to include how we were going to support students with section 504 plans. It includes students with individualized Education Program plans. But students with section 504 plans are students with exceptional needs. And i know because i work with the section 504 program in the district, that we did a great deal of work to ensure that we had a plan to provide students support who have section 504 plans. And i think that it is important if this is a document going to the state of california that we show how we are supporting students who have identified exceptional needs in our district in this plan. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Hello, carmen . indiscernible . Clerk translator, are you there . voice of translator yes, im here. Clerk yes, can you let her know that its available. [speaking spanish] caller [speaking spanish] voice of translator hello, my name i carmen rodriguez. [speaking spanish] voice of translator hello, my question is my question is knowing that theres a lot of english learner students and some of them they actually do have an i. E. P. , so what are the resources they can apply for them to help them . [speaking spanish] voice of translator and so i know that at the curriculum change that happened this year, and so i dont know if theres going to be anything for them to help them or if theres or its going to be just empty money not going anywhere. [speaking spanish] voice of translator i want to clarify that i made a mistake. I missed what she said before and it was about the i. E. P. And so saying how we how you guys are going to be able to help if theyre cutting out minutes. How that will help them. [speaking spanish] voice of translator i just want to say thank you to all of you for what youre doing. I know that its been hard for a lot of us as myself, i have a son with an i. E. P. And so its been kind of like hard, but, thank you to all of you for what youre doing for us. Clerk okay, thank you. [speaking spanish] clerk hello, latoya . Caller yes, thank you. First and foremost, i want to say thank you to the board and to the district staff, educators, parents and the community as a whole. Thank you all for your service to our students and our families. But i wanted to ask that as you review the lcap presentation and the information in the presentation that you also consider how to provide opportunities for parents to offer continuous stakeholder feedback, some kind of poll or survey or something. And also consider around authentic family partnerships how they can provide feedback on the c. T. C. Teams and to have administrative or department leads. With regard to Distance Learning, p. D. , i would like to see a little bit more in terms of what diversity, inclusion and equity courses are switched from optional to mandatory. This gives the impression that as optional, and its not a priority for the district. With regards to pipe progress, also with a continuous way for parents to report feedback on School Administrators and achievements with Distance Learning and partner partnerships. I would like to have a rave award, but i have no way to do it. With regard to students with unique needs, i. E. P. And there needs to be living documents and not one and done and set in stone documents. They are evolving humans and their plans should reflect that. And if theres any supports that have historically been offered exclusively to students with 504s and i. E. P. , that they are offered to student students whod benefit from them that do not have a 504 or i. E. P. Also considering the Foster Care Services and to support the learning loss such as having o. S. T. Staff with the virtual tutoring for o. S. T. Students and their families. And then also a wellness check. Thank you. Clerk thank you. President sanchez, that concludes Public Comment. President sanchez lena, would you like to comment . Theres a few c. A. C. Members waiting to comment as well. President sanchez go ahead. Okay, thank you very much, its been an honor to be part of this process. We really i know that the district has so many people working so hard in so many ways to really address everything that is constantly changing in Distance Learning and so we appreciate the fact that parents are having an opportunity and various stakeholders to participate. But i think that speaking from my standpoint as a special education advocate, i think that one of the Biggest Challenges that were seeing, and we have referenced it earlier in the presentation is the progress monitoring. We cant take kids outside and into the hall and sit them down and do the same benchmark informative assessments that we could before. And so parents are so much more an integral part of the i. E. P. Process right now, now more than ever. You know, parents are the secondary service providers. And so its really important that when we develop these methods of progress monitoring that we are doing really robust Family Engagement and making sure that if we want to find out where our kids are, to figure out where they need to go, we need to make sure that the parents are part of the team. And everyone, families, the members all agree that compassion and grace, compassion and grace. You know, were hearing that from the deputy superintendent and we totally appreciate that and we appreciate working with the lcap team on the new lcap. So, thank you. President sanchez any other c. A. C. Members that wanted to comment . Hi, yes, hello, this is naheed the secretary for the c. A. C. My apologies for my technical difficulties earlier during Public Comment. But i wanted to just say that we are excited to see that the lcap calls out the universal design for learning and accessibility as differentiation strategies during Distance Learning. We do hope that this will be a springboard towards robust implementation as we return to inperson learning as well. Thank you. President sanchez all right. I dont know if theres anybody else . Okay. Looks good. All right, commissioners, any comments or questions . Commissioner collins. Commissioner collins hi. I appreciate the comments that were made and specifically i want to thank there were two comments. One is consistently and i read the feedback that the district provided from families, the questions, which is how are we going to know what are the checks and balances and what are the timelines for monitoring. This gets back to my previous question, right, is that we consistently say that were doing stuff and we dont do it. And nobody is perfect either. Like, i say that im going to exercise and i dont, right isnt but this isnt about, you know, me and my personal commitments. We are making a commitment as a district to families and other peoples children. And were all in this together and we need to be accountable. And we need to at least to be transparent about what we can and cant do. And so i think that gets into one of the reasons why i unless theres going to be a change or a superintendent matthews can guarantee this, that this is going to change, im going to vote no on this. Because in the in this statement, it basically says that we are providing access to families to assignments. And we are currently not doing that. We are we are giving parents access to parent view, and parent view allows the parents to see the name of the assignment, the title of the assignment, but it does not actually give parents access to the curriculum, which is guaranteed by the California Department of education, that parents have a right to view curriculum and a right to know how their children are assessed. That is in a daytoday way. And teachers assess by doing essays and group work. If i cant see that as a parent i have no idea whats going on in a classroom. I cant tell just by looking at the title of an assignment. And i have explicitly been asking for access for my kids and for other peoples kids, and what i have been told is that its in parent view. But it is only in parent view if the teachers link their google classroom and their parent view account. And, thankfully, commissioner lopez helped me to hack into my kids accounts using their access violation which is a violation of ferpa. And ferpa says that parent shouldnt have access to other kids information but thats how were functioning currently and thats not acceptable. This is over a year, and not just this year, but over a year i have asked how parents get access to student assignments and to see the textbooks that their kids are reading and specifically at the high school and the middle school level, parents are being denied access because of technology. And or operations. We need to tell teachers, look, if you dont link your account, then you need to upload every single assignment that you assign so that parents can see it. And, additionally, we are denying access to money on lingual parent monolingual parents who dont speak english. And parent view does translate into six languages. So if a teacher is assigning things, parents could maybe understand what is being assigned, you know, even into a general form of translation. So i would like the superintendent to this is accountability. This is a mechanism of accountability. Us as a board approving this document, the c. B. C. Or the c. D. E. , the California Department of education, says that we are supposed to approve this. And we are not acting in good conscience if we are saying that parents have access to regular communication from their district if we are not allowing them access. Thats not true. So i would like the superintendent to respond or, you know, anybody on the staff to respond to this concern. Yes, so i will first of all let me say in my opening comments i said that you could see assignments in parent view. That was incorrect. However, this says that parents they have access. Parents absolutely have access to have communication with teachers through all sorts of means. But not just the one mean. I know that you have asked for this one means or for it to be accessible through parent view. But there is ongoing communication between teachers and parents commissioner collins sorry, superintendent matthews, im a parent. Im not getting it. So theres a consistent mechanism that is in parent view and that is what is referenced commissioner collins, you have to give the courtesy of allowing him to answer the question. I mean, interrupting people commissioner collins when he says that something is happening and im a parent and its not happening, you are hearing this from other families when the parents who are speaking as advisory members and they come up and they say we want to know that its true thats what theyre saying. Theyre saying what im saying. Right. Im not disagreeing with you. I just want you to allow him to finish his comments before you respond. Thats just courtesy. Thank you, president sanchez. Im finished. President sanchez so i thin commissioner collins i want to specifically cite this because its important. It says that it says that access to the devices and connectivity, it says sfsud will assist all students in need of technology and will work diligently to ensure that all students remain engaged as we begin Distance Learning in august. And it talks about device distribution and sfsud takes place online through a learning Management System that. Is google classroom or seesaw and it explains that. It says that virtual interactions with students require a strong understanding of Digital Agency and thoughtful consideration of how to best meet Students Learning needs. The guide to Virtual Meetings with students contains information with a Digital Agency, norms for Online Learning resources as well as information on selecting the best tools. This also talks about families and this idea that families are partners in their childrens learning. At the very end of this section it says sfsud google accounts and badges are accessible through the Family Portal for sfsud, and parent view and parent portal and student view that. Is not true. We do not as parents have access to google classroom through parent view if the act counts are not linked. If the accounts are not linked then the teachers must upload their assignments into parent view. please stand by i think its a great way to commit to communicating with family it is, theres the other piece of getting them connected to it. Many of us are on the ground trying to help them, but theres another barrier that [indiscernible] of actually activating the account. Im agreeing with whats being stated. Were say lg one thing but not doing it and theres a barrier that gets in the way. Any other comment . Can we get clarification around what the current policy is and how were implementing it . I just want to get an understanding about the operation side. The chief Technology Officer is not here this week and she would be i think the first person to respond to some of these questions about technology access. I see we have a few other people who have just turned on their cameras and may be able to assist with that response. I just want to make a quick comment. This is not a technology issue, but an operations issue. If we tell teachers if you go on weve told teachers, but your grades in parent view, thats an operational thing. Weve also told them to upload as they assign them so parents have access or link your google classroom with your synergy account. We have not set that policy up. This is more than just a technology issue. Im just going to step in. It may be also an issue that we have to do, speak with our negotiating partners with. Theres practices and testing and change practices, we might have to have the conversation with u. E. Im not saying that has to happen, but could be. It should be happening. Did you want to step in, deputy superintendent . [indiscernible]. There are changes and practices around when to be respectful when we engage our labor partners with and on and what we want to guarantee what teachers do. As you share, commissioner powers, a lot of teachers do these things and some who are not doing it. There are some conversations and some for whom this is not the experien experience. This is a workinprogress. In terms of the parent view, the chief is not here. My last update was that we had at least 80 of students had at least one parent activated. When commissioner lopez talks to families, they say they cant get on. That would be chief dodd engaging with the team on something were committed to. Commissioner lam knows, i brought this to the budget and Committee Services meeting last year. This isnt a new issue. Access to parents that have a right by california state law. California state law says parents have a right to be involved in their childrens education. It says, we have a right to assessments, review assignments, curriculum, all of that. Now that were in Distance Learning, i cant go in and ask to look at a textbook. I would like to know from the legal team, what are parents rights under Distance Learning because the state has said there has to be more communication so families can support. I would like to have parents here, what are our rights to know what our children are being assigned in school so we can help, support, and devote for their success, especially considering that High School Students this fall are being graded and getting credit. If im a parent and need to advocate for my child and im not able to advocate for them and support them, that grade could be an f. That means they are off track and may prevent them from accessing College Success or secondary success in some way. I want to hear from the legal team, what are my rights as a parent in terms of being able to know what is assigned and being able to review assignments. I think we could all agree, not only is that consistent with our mission is vision. What youre asking for is a particular type of communicat n communication, you could be asking to see the tests tests a thats where were having no, i want our district to have a consistent form of communication. Im not saying it has to be a certain way. I am saying that i am consistently as a parent asking for information and not receiving it. Im not faulting educators because everyone is doing it differently, its very confusing. As far as i can tell, there is no directive that anyone has given about how were doing that consistently. We cant tell parents how to navigate and not telling teachers how to do it to make it easy. What are my rights as a parent . Should i file a complaint if im not getting the assignments . Should parents email me if they want to see assignments. I dont want to find out about something after the fact. If i have a student with an i. E. P. Or a 504, i want to know before they get assigned how to support them so they dont fail. Thats what im interested in. I tried to answer your question. You do have a right to see those assessments. If you are requesting that of your childs teacher and they are not providing that to you, you could file a uniform complaint, but im not hearing you say youre faulting the teacher. Im faulting the district for not providing a consistent structure parents can rely on when using words that this is something we can rely on. That is implied, i think very clearly implied, and it is not true. So were going to move along. This is definitely going to come up in a different form for us to rectify the situation. I want to reiterate that these are working conditions that our teachers, especially now in this situation, are, i think and youre not faulting the educators, but they are working under incredible duress in a stressful situation, as we all are. I want us to step back a little bit. I think youve made the message clear and staff can work on it more and we can have more interaction at a later date. Is there more board comments or questions regarding this item . Commissioner lam. Well, first i just want to acknowledge that processwise, just being able to have an opportunity for different Board Members to be able to have the space so we can have that dialog. If it is being able to have a process moving forward of where we pick up from these discussion s and either be is it policy, is it operational. So i just want to name that for me this is a very difficult environment, just right now its very challenging to hear what is being raised by commissioners, by our parent leaders and on all the work thats gone on here. I just want to recognize that. This is very challenging for me right now. Absolutely, of course, we hold ourselves accountable to our students at the core. So thats first. So i just want to be able to understand what continuity that is. We know this will continue to grow the longer we are in Distance Learning. That came from our through the lcab and all the various Parent Feedback and our various educators. Thats one piece of the discussion that i want to get some understanding and resolution on moving forward. Also back to this operational piece. I am concerned about overall access for our families, particularly in the younger grades too. Ive been hearing from in the Community Around how to be better how can the district be better partners in engaging with families because this is a whole new realm. I want to be able to comment around those areas. I just want to echo commissioner carlings comments today. I appreciate it so much because she drives in on issues that are so important. We try to highlight things that are so critical. For me the things around access and people being able to get through things, being able to provide for their kids. We should be able to im not saying were not, but if were not, we should be able to meet them and their needs. Especially through covid, i think its super important for us to ensure that things are whatever system folks are using or even the website, access and having that granted. I was waiting to see what folks would do around learning loss. Weve been talking about groups that have been impacted the m t most. We go with foster youth, homeless, and one more. The one that i didnt see in lcab was Public Housing. I say that because Public Housing is a difficult ball game nirm student population. I would like to see us readin t. I would like to see us read that. I appreciate those comments. Any last comments or questions . Lets do a roll call vote. [ roll call ]. Going down the agenda, we remov removed that item. Section i, superintendent matthews, the update for the fall learning plan. Thank you, superintendent sanchez. Good evening, commissioners and community. Tonight i have the opportunity to update you on our fall learning plan and it is an update because it starts with where we left off in the summer on july 28, we came to you and talked about making the decision about many Work Group Meetings and town Hall Meetings that we would go into business learning. This is an update and goes into where we see ourselfves going a we move forward. As you see, im going to take just a few minutes to review very briefly the fall recommendation and talk about Distance Learning, how it started. We have remote work sites now in place. What were learning from those and then as we said at the end of working with the work groups, we talked about developing decision trees for how we would move forward with hybrid learning. Thats the main thing of where we are now and what next steps would be. As you all know is that every day for each and every student were going to provide quality instruction and equitable support so they can thrive. This guides how we move forward as a district. This is an overview of our learning process for the fall. Next slide. As you remember, we had three work groups, a logistics work group, teaching work group, and learning work group. Those work groups took recommendations and brought them to the board. These were themes we heard, but what we heard repeatedly that health and safety is paramount. There was also realization that our students benefit most from inperson instruction, but Overall Health and safety had to be the top priority. Next slide, talk about the town halls and the numbers we heard from throughout the district. So the recommendation that came forward was that we would begin in Distance Learning, but the recommendations from those town halls and the recommendations from the work groups were to start in Distance Learning and to phase in a hybrid model once it was safe to do so and then consider limited inperson schools of small groups of students at a limited number of locations. These were the recommendations that actually came from the community, from the town halls and the work groups. So beginning in Distance Learning and then moving to a hybrid model when science and data suggests its safe to do so and that would be phase two. Teaching and learning began, as you know, with digital Distance Learning. Much of our work was around Distance Learning with students having the opportunity to learn with devices that we put in students hands. In some cases we were able to put some nonDistance Learning in for students. Our three priorities that we heard over and over again around Distance Learning was the importance of connection, the importance of communication, and the importance of us being consistent. We have a Distance Learning guide on our website, with expectation samples, professional development, roles and responsibility. Then we developed a guide for the first 30 days around wellness and developing partnerships, what professional learning would look like. And then making sure the connection was in place for students and families. So once again, these recommendations came from the community and we are implementing them. In the meantime, we developed an m. O. U. With our partners. In that m. O. U. One of the requests was that a number of teachers needed the opportunity to work from the remote locations instead of from their home. We have established 10 Work Locations. Educators in that in those Work Locations could work from the different one. Each of the participants had to complete Safety Training and conduct daily protocols. When they come in, there is actually a q. R. Code that you hold your phone up to, enter health information, that they arent sick, no fever, no cough. Then they go to the work location. Theyre given cleaning materials to make sure the location is clean as well as hand sanitizer. Theres a site monitor at the beginning at the front. So were learning a lot from these work sites about the return. Right now, the teachers that are at these work sites is just the teacher and theyre doing Distance Learning from the work site. Its giving us the opportunity to see what it could be when people return to their work sites once data and science suggests its safe to do so. You can see this is color coded with purple, red colorblind with the tiers. You can see this is based on the number of cases and also testing and positivity. What are the other two colors . You have purple and red and then a mustard or orange and then the final is yellow. For inperson instruction with a waiver, they are not allowed to reopen without a waiver. This just gives you how this state is looking at reopening schools with the tiered framework, giving counties permission to reopen schools. There was also the development of the blueprint for the safer economy for the state of california and San Francisco is currently at the substantial widespread. So theres widespread virus, which is purple, and substantial is red. San francisco has moved into the red, as well as other counties are starting to move into the red. So with that in mind, as i said, there was a strong recommendation that we developed decision tree based on how we would determine when schools would return. As you recall from the previous slide, the first one was developing decision guidance on how we would bring small groups of students back. As you can see, this is the decision tree. The first column that you see talks about Health Guidance and the recommendations from the county. Then the county is in purple, you can see the small group returns, that needed to be yes. Previously that wasnt yes. Since its in the purple, small groups could return, thats all yes. If you look over, everything here has to be yes to look at the next set of boxes. Im going to go through that column with you. All of that needs to be yes and im going to go through it in a minute. If any of those are no, we would not resume inperson instruction. This is just for the small group. This is just 2 a. If all of those were yes, then you could move to returning students. Let me go through the boxes, first the Health Guidance and then each of the boxes in the second column. In the first column what it states is San Francisco county would need to stay at tier two red for 14 consecutive days, it would need to hit red for 14 consecutive days. Then we would have a public order that modifies the order in place, issues health order and directive for inperson operation. If any of those were no, we wouldnt resume. If theyre all yes, we would move to the second column. Currently those are yes p these are those items and boxes that you saw in the second column. A small group of students would have to be identified. We would need general measures in place, including a staff testing plan. Each of these bullets are the boxes you saw previously. All staff and families have been informed of the safety protocols. Covid19 prevention measures are in place. School facilities would need to be prepped for social distancing and hygiene, including three months of p. P. E. Instructional learning plans would have to be in place and labor agreements in place. These are not sequential, but those are all the things we would need to have in place. If any of those were no, we would not move back small groups of students. Im going through the small boxes. We would have to identify students in priority groups, identify staffing, and identify site locations. If any are no, we wouldnt resume inperson operations. When you look at the box, all you saw was small groups of students identified, and this is another click down that shows you all the things we have to do in this box. So i will show you all the things weve already done is identified those small groups of students. These are the students we have identified that we would bring back first who would return first. P. K. 13 students with disabilities, our youngest learners, and the p. K. Early education standalone sites. Those are the students weve identified currently for returning first. We would have to identify staffing and site locations. Both of those are currently beginning as we are beginning both identifying those site locations and we are starting or we have begun negotiations around an m. O. U. With our labor partners. The next box is general Safety Measures and this shows you all the things we have to do. We have to do the prevention. This is giving us a lot of guidance about how to put these plans in place. They have to go through a module and pass the module on Safety Measures while theyre on site. We want to make sure so as you saw from the summer, safety and health are number one. We need to be able to test all staff over two months. This is where the state guidance all staff tested every two weeks or 50 every month. Im not sure were still going through this, but were not sure if that is robust enough. This is what would be in the plan currently. We would have to see how we cooperate with the San Francisco department of Health Collection of data. We dont currently have a plan in place to test all staff. Were working on the plans we already have the plan for repeated closures. The plan for supports were working on. I received some questions on what is the districts work, what have we been working on as we implemented Distance Learning, and this gives you a sense of what weve been working on and still have to do. It if some are still no, we would not resume inperson operations. Currently for the small group, we are not at that place for bringing back small groups. Now what im doing is going through each of the boxes. These are the screening protocols, designated isolation areas. This gives you a sense of all the things we would have to do to bring back any student. Disinfecting Surface Areas and rearranging the classroom furniture. This is the next box in that column. All staff trained, families informed of the safety protocols. Were putting that in place now to get that communication out. Even if were not immediately returning, we want to be able to have as much of this checked off as possible. These are the things were actually putting in place right now. If you can see any of those are no, once again, we wouldnt resume inperson operations. Covid19 prevention measures in place. Plans in place to implement the protocols, testing, plan for health screening, identification, and Contact Tracing, plan for testing of students and staff who have symptoms of covid19 or have been exposed. All of these, once again, have to be yes for us to resume inperson operations. School facilities prepped. Three months of p. P. E. Need to be at the sites we open. We definitely have that in stock. Classroom furniture removed. [please stand by]. Inperson learning model, Distance Learning model, outdoor instruction, all of these are being worked on as we speak. And so this gives us the ability even if students did not return to, lets say, january, and we want to make sure all of this is being put in place now so when that box is checked, we can begin the process. A big part of this is for us number one is health and safety. If any is no, we will not resume inperson operations. Next slide. This just goes into what our guiding Design Principles are around instruction for that box. And you can see consistency and continuity. Next slide. Then our priorities around the current Distance Learning and when the point comes in to rush and antiracist practices and making sure students are well and working in partnership and consistent support support and the graduate profile. Finally not finally because none of this is sequential with certain things will happen with one box and in another box we will check off and we have to have all of that in place to resume inperson operations. So that is 2a. The small cohort group and this is injure from 500 students to 1,000 approximately. And next slide. And 2b, and i will go through a few slides here because the slides are very similar and let me go over the two columns and then i will get to where we can open it up for two questions. 2b, phase 2b of hybrid learning and looks similar but you notice there is the middle box and there is the California Health as for us and was from 2500 students to 10 to 15 thousand. So not the entire district but is bringing back to gradually bring the students back and you can see that i will go through these i will not go through the last column because those are similar and once again, this is the same and if any of those if all ares, we move to the second column and all that has to be in place and the first two are completely around health and safety. That in the twoweek time and so if they are all yes, we move over to the third column and this goes through a similar priority populations and general measures and some of these will be in place because we put them in place for the small groups. And i do want to do this one. And for the first time, and the priority populations and next slide. And what is added for the first three groups and now students demonstrated with limited Online Engagement would be added at home and in foster use. And now as you can see circles become larger and identify staffing and identify site locations and this is more students now and go through next slide. And then the general Safety Measures are in place. Now it is on a larger scale. Next slide. Next slide. And so this is the same training and making sure this is all in place. And now lets say youre opening 60 sites and it becomes larger and with the communication plan in plan for 60 sites and if the answer is no, we would not resume forward. If it is all yes, we move forward. All this, the same measures have to be in place and on a larger scale, next. And School Facilities pressed on a larger scale next. Instructional learning plans on a larger scale. Next. With labor agreements with this so you can see what some of those and were already developing and will have plans to parents and those are things we will be working on even if some of the things arent done yet or gist mean we get everything in place for when students would eventually return. The recommendations are a product of the feedback from the summer where we are anxious and eager to solicit additional feedback from stakeholders in the community. That is what we will be doing with the action on the different operational indicators to get things in place with how we are moving forward. And president sanchez, that ends the presentation for this evening. Awe thank you so much. And lets see if there is any Public Comment on this item. Raise your hand if you care to speak on the update on the fall learning plan. Should i just begin . Sure. Carmen . Carmen, are you there . Megan . Go ahead. An i just wanted to i appreciate the presentation and thank you, dr. Matthews for being so thorough and going over and helping the public understand the complexity of creating a plan to return in the phased roll out. As a member of the public, i think it would be great if there was a way that we as the public could understand where we stand in our progress toward all of these indicators of readiness for reopening. Again, i sincerely appreciate you going through and explaining how important it is that each and every one of these is met before we reopen but there are a great number and it is very difficult for us to understand how were moving toward the goal of getting students who desperately need inperson instruction back to place where they can learn. So that is my request as the public that i hope there is a way to be more involved. I was on the teaching and learning task force and i also appreciated the information being laid out in a way that was comprehensible that we could understand a very complex set of requirements in a way that helps make decisions and giver input. I think thats very needed for a Public Engagement in this process. Thank you. Thank you. The fact if we can do more Contact Tracing and maybe not shut down so many schools because he said if all the boxes werent checked, it would be a no. I dont know if that is something the school board came forward with. That is it. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead. Thank you for taking my comment. I appreciate it. I wanted to speak to a couple of issues. First, i notice how often dr. Matthews emphasized safety but i find it concerning that the district doesnt seem to be seriously considering what would be the safest option which would be outdoor schooling. To have classes outdoors. We hear repeatedly from experts such as dr. Fauci who i heard again on the atlantic today being interviewed and indicating that being outdoors is the safest thing that you can be doing here. And that anything that can be held outdoors should be held outdoors. So i am really troubled by the fact that literally i only heard one thing about outdoor instruction today, and i saw that as a single bullet on one slide of many that were presented. There were 2500 people who signed a petition this summer asking for Outdoor Education. It appears that this option has never been given any serious consideration. In addition, its troubling to me that the presentation seems to be geared toward almost not reopening as opposed to making as opposed to having a whole sort of impetus and effort to reopen. The district acknowledges, dr. Matthews,s a knowledges that the acknowledges that the best thing for students is to have inperson instruction. We need to be working to achieve that and not essentially moving as if everything is a constant obstacle we cant overcome or are not likely to overcome any time soon. We can and there is parent interest in trying to help the district do this. A lot of things to be concerns are not concerns that the School District move toward holding school outdoors. Finally, i want to talk about my concern about where resources are being spent. I have heard this from parents and teachers that the district is spending a lot on technology. They could be spending the resources on other ways of getting students back together again. I would strongly encourage the district to pursue an Outdoor Education option. Thank you. Hello, ian. Ian. Good evening, commissioners. And i am ian hart, a parent of two students at sunnyside elementary school. My husband and i with thousands of other parents took part in the summer parent town hall and i feel that dr. Matthews is not reflecting the desire for inperson learning expressed alongside health and safety. Further, earlier in this meeting i heard a lot of calls for various dashboards and glad to hear the commissioners were on board for that because given the number of metrics required for reopening, and we will need significant dashboarding. That will really help with transparency and with those parents who are anxious about when we will return to school and how close we are getting. Like the reopening plan presented this summer, this feels much less like a plan for reopening and a recipe for keeping schools shut all year. Further, given the requirement, it feels like a requirement or a plan for keeping schools shut next year as well. Like the last caller, i would like to see much more emphasis on what is sort of the realism of getting cur kids back to school. Thank you. Thank you. A couple of things that i want to say and united educators [no audio] susan, you are breaking up. Now i am there. Thank you. I got muted again somehow. Thank you. So united educators of San Francisco we absolutely agree that the union and district have to be prepared for when schools open so we are having two bargaining sessions this week. We are willing and able to come to the virtual bargaining table as often as it takes so we can be prepared for opening schools and i want to echo when it is safe to do so. And very, very few people preferred price assistance learning. It is extremely difficult for students, for parents, for educators, for educators who are also parents, but we are looking at the health and safety of all of us. And we have seen all over the Country Schools that have reopened too soon and have had to close down again. Weve seen covid cases not just brought into school because of outside contacts, but because of contacts in school. So again, were not trying to avoid teaching in person. We would much prefer that, but we need it to be safe and we need funding for our schools. The problem is Public Education is undervalued in our country. California is near the bottom of per pupil spending in this country. That is unacceptable. And that is why it is so extremely, extremely important that people vote yes on proposition 15 for schools and communities first to provide as much as 12 billion a year to School Districts and communities throughout california and also locally voting yes on proposition j to make sure we continue the funding that has meant to be brought in by proposition g that has been challenged in court by antipublic services, antitax organizations. Weve got to Work Together on this at the bargaining table and at the ballot box and with keeping each and every person healthy and safe and provide a high quality education. Thank you. Thank you. Hannah. Hi. I am hannah, a school nurse, in Elementary Schools and prek. And i just wanted to thank dr. Matthews for his overview of the different phases of reopening. I just wanted to kind of echo maybe what susan was saying about safety and health, and that alto Distance Learning isnt ideal, some things are working better for students. I think it is ideal right now while we are still in crisis learning and just to bring it back to were in phase two of crisis learning. Were still dealing with the pandemic. And so the ideal situation isnt going to probably be able to evolve right now because of whats going on, but i also wanted to mention that lately just the feedback that i have been getting from familys is that there is a lot of support needed for families for single parent families, for all the families that were mentioned, and that theyre requesting tutoring or support for after school time which seems like something that we could possibly offer, but either way, i am just feeling like there is a lot of questions coming to me about reopening and it might be good if we could somehow update the School Communities about maybe an interim update and some sort of update between now and winter break about what is going on. Thank you. Thats it. Ruben . I am a parent of two students at jefferson, and i would like to make three points. The first one is i appreciate dr. Matthews discussion of basing the openings on health and safety. I am a proponent of school outside. And on the San Francisco department of Public Health document of august 10, 2020, reopening k12 schools for inperson, on site instruction, preliminary guidance on page nine it says increasing outdoor air circulation lowers the risk of diluting ininfection and being outside is even a lower risk. I wanted to make that point about keeping all students, teachers and staff safe and maybe considering or pushing forward as you mentioned dr. Matthews that you are working on outside education. The second point is how do we become how do we get listened to on the next steps that dr. Matthews mentioned was to continue to get feedback from stakeholders and community. I find it very difficult to get in touch with sfusd other than the town hall communities and there is no chance for discussion. Its a just one way, either one way or the other. And finally, i would like to advocate for funding. Vote for proposition 15 and also a Nonprofit Organization and after school the cleaning of the requirements for social distancing for staff and keep health and safety important. How do we get to feedback . We are the community and i dont know how to get in touch with sfuds. And lets get funding. Thank you. Thank you. Molly. Hello, molly . Josh . Hello, josh . Caller im here. Thank you. Go ahead. Two minutes. Caller i am the parent of a student at gunpark elementary, and thank you for the opportunity for Public Comment. I want to take a minute to talk about how Remote Learning is going in my experience because i think that is another relevant factor in considering how the xhithers should consider the need to proceed to some sort of inperson instruction without having the orientation that the district is looking for reasons not to open rather than looking for ways to open in some, way, shape, or form. This is not on all or nothing proposition. And there were two things that happening that meeting. One is when supervisor ronen expressed dismay at the fact that the m. O. U. Only required teachers to vied 120 minutes of synchronous instruction and that wasnt a guarantee and district staff said two things. One, they expected teachers would treat that as a minimum. And some would go above and beyond. And second, that they and from nonteachers to get up to 120 minutes. I assure you neither of those things are happening in my experience. My daughter receives 90 minutes of synchronous instruction. And 140 minutes on friday because of the schedule that has been put together where the teacher delivers small group instruction, which is valuable, but it deprives other parts of the class live instruction which is replaced by endless video lessons on seesaws. And so Remote Learning is not working right now. It is not working well. It is not working in the manner the district staff promised it would a month ago. So please take that into account when you consider the importance of reopening and balancing the need for students to get back in the classroom for better learning with the laundry list of reasons that superintendent matthews has provided to not open and the opinions of the most dangerous person in San Francisco, Susan Solomon. Thank you. That is your time. Caller what is the board going to do for providing ppe and cleaning supplies for schools that would have reopened and there is no guidance that is no longer federal assistance to cover the supplies for schools. I encourage the board to write a letter to the council and State Government to ask for assistance and encourage fema and cleaning supplies and ppe for schools because explicitly removed from the policy. And even if you have labor ingreements and ppe on hand and school sites planned with the state through the waivers. We need to Start Talking to parents now to what it means to reopen schools. Not everyone will feel safe enough to send their student to school. And what are the implications of folks that can no longer have an excuse to work remotely from the offices and on top of the outdoor remarks, we cant have outdoor schooling if it is rainy season. If you are projecting in january we will reopen, some schools or most schools, we need to look at the air quality in the buildings to see if we have mrv ratings of at least 11 but preferably 13. Now, programming in the Distance Community learning hubs is not working and i would encourage partners to encourage students to enroll in the programs. Thank you very much. Thank you. I am a teacher at willy brown. We are not happy teaching from home. It takes away from the authentic relationship we get to have with our student. It takes away from our ability to engage and to understand what our children are understanding. But more importantly, if we go back too early and we ris it can health of our students and our families and ourselves, what kind of message are we sending . It is bad enough that public educators are not paid well enough and i have to provide a lot of stuff for the classroom. And even with my masters degree, i am not able to live in San Francisco like the rest of my friend are. So for you to say my life doesnt mater is sending a strong message to not only our labor partners and teachers and educators and everyone who works at the schools but is also letting families know we dont value Public Education. I encourage us to look at the data and the science and not talk about emotion. There are parents who feel that need to go back outweighs the desires to keep your teacher safe. I am so sorry that that is a priority to you. And if you havent looked in the news, we have seen teachers in their 20s dying from covid19. And that is unacceptable and that is not okay. And i want to elevate Susan Solomon as a leader of our group. If we we feel like she is a dangerous person, great, because she is working hard to make sure not only are we safe and families are safe and doing all we can to make us a better union. Sum all that up with, at the end of the day, as long as everyone is safe, lets forge forward to get back into the classroom because i want to see my babies. I want to be around my students. I want throb to help support and guide them through the educational process around i am not able to do that effectively at home but i am able to do that safely at home. Thank you. Julie. Hi. I want to start by speaking to the science and data guidelines given by the department of Public Health that say that its not safe for us to bring students back to the classroom in larger numbers than tiny, tiny groups until we get to the point where they are fewer than four covid cases per 100,000. Currently we are at 77 cases per 100,000 so we are very far from being safe for students and families and educators to go back into school sites. It may not feel like that to everyone around the city. I am looking at the city of San Francisco map and seeing that in the sunset there may be 34 cases per and in that neighborhood in the tenderloin, there are 300 cases per sorry, it flipped over on me. So we are not experiencing this crisis in the same way across the city, and i dont think anyone who is calling in is advocating far plan to open west side schools before we open schools serving our most vulnerable students but that is what comes across in that advocacy. I want to also ask us to really consider equity in the reopening plan and there are more school sites to work out of previously and if we look at those on a map, they dont necessarily represent an equitable distribution of school sites. The three neighborhoods that are highest hit by covid the bayview, tenderloin and mission now school sites we have been led around by our facilities that are a reflection of racial inequity. The tenderloin has not had food or computer Distribution Site or even a popup pantry. I want to ask the district to seriously look at returning to school through an equity lens and begin to figure out what it will take to get students back to school in the tenderloin and prepare facilities to get us there instead of running the risk of reopening where the facilities allow us to and creating inequities in the reopening plan. Thank you. Kelly . Hello, kelly . Hi. Im kelly taylor. I appreciate the press conferences and i took quite a few notes and am excite about whats to come. I appreciate your attention to everything. My concern is and is also is the biggest thing is preventing preparation. So we know what is happening now, but we have to make a lot of changes right now. Theres action to be done before we can open up safely. And i think safety is a key. So we all want that to happen. I love children. I teach them. I am an advocate swim coach. But my biggest thing is ill get on board with you. I will literally come and ill assist you and what indonesia need to be done with a lot of the safety stuff. So we need to do that first and make sure before we get everybody coming back in. We need everybody educated. It is not just about childrens education. Adults need to be education and we are some together in this and hang in there and just to tell you very quickly, i am im teaching a threeyearold right now. And i am a teacher. But i am helping and teaching them and he is got and i am sure his parents want that. I want them to know their safety so weve got to end this now. But that is all ive got to say. Thank you. Cindy. Caller jar jar aam the a first grader, and i ges i want to speak up for parentsable that in science. Im in health care and theres a recent publication that showed San Francisco even though we do have a large number of cases, i guess total per 100,000, our death activate the lowest in the country as far as cities goal and that they are able to be very effective in treatment. I think if the department of Public Health is telling us that we reached a level that is safe to reopen, i really hope that they have been saying follow the science and getting drush crushed and the amount of and we are not feeling supported. But it is very hard and the teachers are going and this learning is not pretty good young kids. My son cries almost daily, and knots a good situation. Being told youre not going to try is really disheartening. I worry that a lot of parents are just going the leave the district and just and i think its going to be a big loss. Thank you. Randy . Caller hi. I am brandi. I am the parent of a third grade boy. And in the mitch monday district and i want in the Richmond District and i am in full solidarity with our teacher who have the most at risk if schools reopen. I really appreciate proo and the district the following to the letter the guidelines very closely. I have a sisterinlaw and brrnl in vancouver, canada. And they are back and inperson school and they are terrified. So i want to that and with all the teachersed a and so grateful for teachers who are parenting and teaching at the same time and a lot of times sacrificing their own childrens education so they can have an education and how much we need to value our teachers. I want to say publicly i am grateful for president Susan Solomons leadership. I cannot imagine what its like right now to have this role and so much in appreciation for all the teachers, too. I hope that we can really keep that as a focus. Thank you so much. Thank you. Tom . Can you hear me . We can. And i want to thank teachers. That goes a long way. We do it for the love of it, not the money, and is if and no one has the right to go through this in any School District. Everyone is trying best. I am a parent of a twoyearold and fouryearold and my wife is also a teacher. We are doing what we can and i am reaching out to parents daily and constantly and my coworkers are staying up to complete lesson plans as best we can, but Distance Learning is awful. I know that as a special ed teacher and if we go back now and we have to shut down, that is just as awful. We need to have more robust plans and say thank you for what you are doing. Work with them. I am sure deep down they want to work with you. I know some of my families are struggling to get by and to have that meal. So send them back to go outside. And some cant even think like that. Some of them are sick. I know my coworkers are excited about getting sick and schearer working and they are a real concern. So thank you and i wish you well. Thank you. Mr. Jeffreys. Caller good evening. Can you hear me . Yes, good evening. I am a first grade teacher. And i am going speak clefkly and and so that we can be in the same space as adults and not spread it easily given what ppe is available and utilize the space and i did not see that reflected in the plan at all. That seems to be a missing piece. Everyone wants to rush to get kids back. As a teach we are no children myself, i teach because of the young people and all the work that i do. When you go to vote in november for your school board and your presidency and that all has a big impact. And so we need to move in steps and staff being able to move about the skoal space and Food Distribution from school sites as we would before we bring kid back into that space and worry about an additional 50,000 people moving around that space to make sure they move safely to distribute food and splice and materials and those are things that we can do safely now. And to deny mee access to the classroom or put me in the High School Space with a laptop is not the same as providing support for me to do Distance Learning. So this is really important that the intermediate steps are taken to do what we can now to test the waters with the adults long before we get to the young people. Thank you. President sanchez, that concludes Public Comment. All right. I want to thank everybody who came out to speak. Go ahead. Sorry. No hand raise function here. Im sorry. And so on behalf of the cac, i am really grate to feel see that students are especially in our mod severe classrooms are focused to go back into school first and all of us in the cac are, but there are some very real concerns with that, too. And many students do qualify for space in the classrooms as very severe needs and are often times immunosurprised. It wont be safe for them to go back to school until there is a vaccine. If half of classroom returns and the other half doesnt, what does that do for the teacher and their teaching time . Are people our bus drivers dont have Health Insurance in a week and may not be able to transport kids to school and there are so many things to worry about and the parents and special ed teachers and the reason we got into the field is because of family members with disabilities. It might not be safe for them to learn based on what they could potentially bring home. How do we support that as well . So while i appreciate the priority, i hope that the Health Concerns are forefront as were doing this planning as well. Thank you for the information. And i am staying all over social media and the questions all the time asking for more data. This is a great first step. As far as the next step steps, i was surprised that the reopening task force and parent and cbo and labor and Stake Holder Group wasnt meeting and many of us are not meeting and havent had input and some of us since july and some of us since august. And so some of what we were talking about last time and Parent Feedback and parent in addition is the task forces would be a great way to collaborate and engage. An i believe that concludes Public Comment at this time. I believe so. Thank you for coming out and wait l. I know it is a late hour. Commissioners . Commissioner norton and then Vice President lopez. I wanted to speak to some and i have to start by thanking you, dr. Math use, for everything you and the staff are doing under really unprecedented circumstances to keep people safe, to reopen schools, to navigate what is an incredibly complicated and uncharted circumstances. I wanted to start there and say to all the parents that came out, i hear you. I cant imagine what it is like to have to be trying to work and have this Distance Learning with a young child. My hat is off to all of you that are coping with really, really difficult situation. At the same time, we have to keep people safe. And i also want to appreciate ueff and the leadership of Susan Solomon and the way she is standing up for her members and the stories that we have seen around the country of teachers getting sick and we have to proceed in a really, really and i think its difficult all around so i dont have i think i appreciate everything the staff is doing. I believe that no one open p opens up and aappreciate everything they can trying to do to and i and and i hear you and is gift and were doing the we can for your comments and for coming out and for everything that you are doing. Go ahead, Vice President lopez. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation and also for everyones comments. And i have a few questions around the plan but also wanted to respond in general to whats been sate given i fully support educators and president solomon for holding it down and insuring that the safety of teachers and staff are number one. We said that from beginning and i stand behind that and people ultimately have to understand the risk that what is implied in asking them to come back and right now we need emphasis. And families that have the privilege to safely work from home. I understand all the guides, but this is definitely safety first, safety number one. And the School District has gone above and beyond in enhancing our crisis learning plan during this time. We are working on making it better and hearing families and including them that is to empower families and reach out to them and make the learning at home as seamless as possible given the fact that we are in a pandemic. There is no way around that and no way even know and for me to trust the dfl department of Public Health during the time that we have been tegs communities and seeing the results and seeing the lack of support once they are tested positive. All those things are realities and i also have a really big problem with putting our students who are high need out first on the ground. This is also very risky for the communities who are most affected which is the latino and black communities in San Francisco. So i really just want us to understand the factors and to really consider that. I know this is a hard time. I think, again, we all just need to emphasize fwher a pandemic and to do as much as we can. And opening up school sites and opening up the risk of enhancing covid in sfraefrn though we are doing well is not something i condone. So i will leave my comments that the. Any other commissioners . First, again, just to recognize all the Public Comment thats come in tonight. Thank you for,000 comments. To state the obvious obvious and the fact that our district has really embraced insuring the and to ensure our students and families and educators and all the work that has gone into what we know and had to improve from the spring into Distance Learning. To try to acknowledge and that we heard from the superintendent and heard from Susan Solomon. We heard from commissioners and educators that we want our students back inperson in the classroom. But we cant be there right now all at the same time. So eappreciate the thoughtfulness of a measured approach and what that faszlooks like and the planning that is simultaneously of implementing Distance Learning and how we get better because we know there are major gap there is, too, and report back and the continuous feedback and learning while lan planning for a gradual return and hybrid inperson. And that is a large list. I want toing a knowledge the superintendent, the staff, our educators, and everyone that is doing this work day in and day out. This is the heart and soul. And just want to take a moment there to also recognize what families are undergoing every day, right . With the stretches and so much that is being lifted up. And with that, there is actually a lot of planning that the staff is doing that we may not have articulated, and that is something that i would like to raise with dr. Matthews and to the board is how can we show progression on meeting all the thresholds, right . So it is not about a time of tomorrow, but that we are getting ready. When it is when we check off the yess and we can demonstrate this progress and with the assessment of understanding the Elementary Schools and thank you to families that have raised it and that is part of the consideration. So that is where i want to name around how are we progressing on those part. For me one of the biggest components right now that is beyond us is we dont operate in a vacuum and one, there are things we cant control which is the Community Spread and the other pieces around testing and tracing is a really big spees that we cant do this on our own. We need federal investment. Without federal investment, our department of Public Health locally and the state is so right now compounded to being left to hold it. I want to understand a little bit more and tonight if we have details that are around discussions where the u. S. Testing and tracing is at because that is a large component, but this is a theme from over all to see the tracking progress over time. I will pause there. Do you have a specific question that you want answered . The specific question is around, one, is how do we want to engage or report to the public our constituents and stakeholders . Will that be done through i know we have a lot of committees that meet already. Are we going to be reactivating dr. Matthews working groups or do we feel like we have some infrastructure already in place to leverage that have all of our various stakeholders so that we can provide that transparency of progress, of all the different different progression points that was presented this evening and that we do this in partnership with our labor partners and want to recognize all of our educators and staff that are doing this work. I would say twofold. One on the question of the work groups and reactivating, we are in some way, shape, or form is the work groups. If it is not the work group, a Community Reaction and reactivating of some type of Community Input and so this might be the three word groups or combination of all three. Those work groups consist of community, teacher, straittors, and all the labor partners. That would be one and reactivating in some way, shape, or form. And its reactivating the groups and the second part of your question was around, oh, the updating of the community. So we have as you know the covid policy team with a big part of tonight taking feedback from the board and the community. What we heard loud and clear is sound like in some way, shape, or form and the more Transparent Communication back to the progress being made around the boxes or around the decision tree so i will be taking this back to the policy team tomorrow morning to term what that should be look like and sounds like needs more than afternoon july 28 and this is lull september 28. So to be more frequent. I am concerned about the young learners and literacy and reading and overall the social and emotional supports for the younger learners and with the gradual return is ultimately a family will be what they feel is best for their child and that is part of the consideration of the hybrid model. And commissioner collins and commissioner cook. Thanks. I do want to say that i appreciate the work thats gone into this and i also want to say that i appreciate parent leaders, labor leader, educators and also staff. This is one area where we dont always agree but in this area i think there has been a consistent agreement that safety needs to come first and that safety for staff as well as students and families and i am a person that is high risk. And there are many families in our district that have family members that are high risk and the reality is that you look at canada, and theyre saying they dont have as many cases and that allows them to do things we cant do in our country which is unfortunate. So i understand there is frustration and a lot of its very difficult and to serve families especially with Young Children and at the same time i am grateful for our district. We were one of the first to close and there is a lack of leadership at the national and state level and they are following our lead. So i think we are very clear about being cautious and i really appreciate staff working with community and being very thorough in our analysis of what would be safe. And i also want to let folks know that we have over 100 schools. [please stand by] we should be testing out is it safe with ventilation, with, you know, social distancing, entries and exits. All of those things should be worked out on adults before were trying them with peoples children, and additionally, i also think that involving family and community is very important. We should continue to do that, and i think it helps because as commissioner lam said, none of us have been through this before, and so its a way for us to cocreate an understanding of where we are and what we should do together. This is a partnership, and then finally i also heard a comment of how do we make this transparent. I like the idea of, you know, i understand theres a department of Public Health says we need to have ventilation. As an educator, i started thinking, i was never in a i never taught in a classroom that had operable windows, right . That was going through my mind, and i know a lot of teaches were having that experience, and so thats why right away, you know, educators were saying, wait a second, like, if thats a requirement for safety, i dont know about that. And so i know there are classrooms with operable windows and there are not, and so what does that look like . Having a quantifiable understanding i think would be very helpful, not only for me as a board, but also for the general public so that when the chronicle likes to run headlines that are exciting that say schools may reopen and everybody is wondering whats going on, i think regularly we should be communicating this is what we need and this is where were at and, you know, this is how far we need to go. And so, you know, its not as its been very stressful worrying about all these changes, and i think it will help us to regularly communicate, you know, with the larger community, you know, where we are as far as, you know, meeting the requirements to be able to open safely. And i think in some ways well also serve as a leader for other independent schools, private schools and Charter Schools. They should also be as transparent with their families as well. So thank you again, and i look forward to getting some followup in the way that we can continue to be communicating. So thanks. Commissioner cook . Thank you for the presentation, and to everyone that weighed in, [indiscernible] one of the things that i think at least i agree with is that, umm, for our younger children, i dont know how much disagreement there is Distance Learning isnt working. Theres a lot of truth in that. [indiscernible] is not working. Theres lack of Internet Access for some of our marginalized communities. Theres a lot of gaps, you know, and so theres also a lot of confusion because a bunch of things are open, a lot of people are walking around, you know, and were in a city that had a lot of restrictions, but i live in hays valley, and if you walk through there, people have their mask on kinda, you know . You see the whole city moving in certain directions. You are like why cant kids be back in school. The kids, a bunch of kids playing together in different programs, or i see them at the park through other programs. Visually, things are throwing people off. And you know, we are responsible for a lot of people, and so they are thinking if they can do it why cant we do it. As a part of the decision tree, one thing that was mentioned that i wanted to kind of have a bit of a conversation about was whats happening here versus other cities. When we decided to close, it was this discussion with dr. Matthews about being in conversation with the other counties. Is that still happening around reopening . Yes, we meet at least once every two weeks, and then all of the big four superintendents meet once every two weeks and the county, all of the county superintendents meet once every two weeks, yeah. The question is for reopening no one is no one has put a date on bringing students back yet. And as a matter of fact, san jose has already extended through the end of the school year. San jose and santa rose and those two districts have already extended have announced that they will not bring students back before january 1. Okay. Do you happen to know off the top of your head what new york city is doing . They had announced they were going to reopen, and then they pushed it back, pushed the date, september 21 was the new date. It was like eight days later, and now theyve pushed that date back. So they havent announced when they are going to reopen either. They announced it and then they pushed the date back, at least a couple of times. Okay. And for the other major driks in the country that have opened, we have, like, some very large districts in the country that have opened, are we getting what is our sense of, like, watching those protocols, those traces . Are we i know we have a lot of local stakeholders we have to Pay Attention to, but can you speak to how the team is observing those districts . So large districts in georgia or texas or whatever the case may be. Yeah, they have definitely had some setbacks. I cant speak for every district. We definitely know there have been some setbacks. They have had some setbacks where they had to close down either some schools or entire districts, and then try to pick back up. Ufs going to comment after commissioner collins commented. It was only six months ago, as you recall, that last week that we were open we actually had three schools that we ended up closing, and as you recall, when the School Closed initially we had to put out notices to the entire school that they need to quarantine, entire schools needed to quarantine or 14 days until we got more notice. It was around the classroom, but its those kinds of one of the things that i would say, and this is in agreement with commissioner collins, that we dont want to open just to shut down. We know thats a long answer to your question, but the short answer is we know there have been some setbacks, and there may be some that have been successful, im sure, because the entire state opened up or different counties throughout the state, like in georgia. Clearly some may have had some success or may be successful. We know also know that there have been quite a few that have had to shut down either classrooms or entire schools. We will get into the protocol, what is the appropriate protocol if someone is positive, right . Because an entire shut down i mean, that made a lot of sense when this first came out, but it may not make, like, as much sense. Maybe its just me, but i thought, like i thought i had covered five times, right . So ill call kaiser they said if youre coughing youre probably fine. So we have a better sense of if somebodys positive this is what were going to do . Im going to ask ms. Lyle smith if you could just briefly are you on . Yes, i am. Could you just briefly talk about the states guidelines around the recommendations they made for the number of cases in which you need to do . Sure. Thank you, superintendent, thank you, commissioners, for the opportunity. Commissioner cooke, youre right, our knowledge of sort of transmission and what we would do in a case of a positive, in the case of someone testing positive is different than what we would have done, what we did do back in march, so really the key issue when somebody when we are notified that somebody has tested positive is the first part of the Contact Tracing is to understand who have been the close contacts of the when was the person there . Were they there 48 hours before their symptoms started showing . So if they were there, like, they were there and then a week later they had symptoms and they tested positive, nobody is at risk because at the time they were at the site we would not have to close the site down and tell everybody to go home and quarantine. Now if you have a situation where youre in a classroom and somebody tests positive and we find out that they were actually at the site, 48 hours before their symptoms showed, then we go and try to find out who have they been around, were they wearing their mask, how close were they, are they a close contact, and thats considered next to somebody with a mask less than six feet for more than 15 minutes. So we go through this whole protocol to determine who would need to be the people who would quarantine, and if were in a classroom where we think everybody is a close contact, then we would maybe close that cohort down, but we might not close the whole school down. But we wouldnt make like, all of these are sort of guidelines, and we would make the decisions in the moment. We would sit and think about it before we and work with the policy team and work with the department of Public Health. And there are some guidelines that the state will say that if you have say you have a number of cohorts in a school say you have four cohorts in a school and one out of four closes, you would close the entire school. And if we had four schools open when we opened up, if one of those schools closed we would close the entire district. Theres, like, a 25 threshold that the state guidance uses. So hopefully that wasnt confusing. That was a lot of information. Yeah. I mostly followed. Sounds like theres a plan. Theres a plan, yeah. This is all very serious and important, and its important that we have these scenarios. Its good to know we have that. Generally we understand that testing positive doesnt mean that youre going to die for everyone that gets it, and also. As a city we see that things are kind of moving back to the way that they were, right . If youre on the bridge, theres rush hour. Like, its like like, people are back, and they are out. So this piece about people on Public Comment mentioned having workspace that, like, their classroom is a part of their practice, and just having a room doesnt mean its going to be adequate to do the work that they do. So you listed out the remote locations. How are you thinking about people just going back to their classroom, like, at what point would that be . Im wondering if you can respond to that, people just being able to go back to their own classroom. So the issue is if it was if everyone was if a number of people, i know it wouldnt be anyone, but lets say its a large number that wanted to go back to their own classrooms, it would mean opening up more buildings. So the reason that if we kept it confined is because we had sof site captains for each of the buildings. We had to have someone basically in charge of the buildings. The administrators arent back in the buildings, so there had to be someone in charge of the buildings. That would mean that basically were opening up more buildings. It means more people are coming back, and at the same time that thats happening, remember, were trying to get some sites ready for small groups. So its a its a which one is a priority for us, either putting people teachers back in their classrooms who wanted classrooms. As you heard tonight, many arent ready to go back at this point. They feel theres a concern around safety. Or the party was going to get ready for the priority was beginning to get ready for at some point small groups coming back, and we believe that what we heard loud and clear from the work groups is after you begin Distance Learning, the next priority everybodys in Distance Learning, which they are, which provides a level of consistency, the next priority should be, okay, beginning to move down and starting to get ready for small group return. So that means that if you noticed those sites, you noticed they are all middle and high schools. So the elementaries arent being used because we know that that would be the first group that we would, as you saw from the student priority, bring back. Okay. Well, my last thing is about facilities. I want to keep. This is a really important equipment. I mean, just like we talked about the plan for if theres a case, can you speak to a plan of if theres a need on equipment, how youre going to address it . Does that make more sense . Yeah, i would say that we would as you said, there are cases there are some cases when im sorry for the interruption. That happened to me a few times tonight. So as so if someone puts a work order in, the work order doesnt get responded to. Thats the working example i have. Im saying now that we have the situation, how do people get what they need . I would say for sure its right now, like you said if the work order isnt completed, were talking a work order with 130 sites, when we would start, there would be a far, far fewer number of sites. At the max it would be a third of our students, 15,000, versus 45,000, and all of these, as we start, if its if we start if the small group is only a thousand probably wouldnt even be a thousand, but it would be far fewer sites, which means, you know, its much more difficult where work orders are requested to fall through the sites when the number of sites and the number of requests are much smaller. I think the other piece is that clearly, for example, whats going on now, even with the sites that we just the remote sites with teachers back in place, i mean, the needs are being met immediately. The cleaning supplies, hand sanitizer, all of that is just immediately put in teachers hands as they enter the building. So i would say that would mitigate the things falling through the cracks because the numbers are much smaller. Looks like chief, you want to Say Something . Commissioner, happy to add a few details if its helpful for the conversation. To your point, just wanted to acknowledge the legitimacy of the concern and also let you know that we have actually spent this summer trying to use the time that students have been out of the sites basically sweeping through them, addressing work order backlogs. So in particular we focus on southeast, the southeast cohort, and we actually eliminated the backlog of work orders at most of the sites in the southeast. And from Little Things like relamping and replacing every single light bulb to also doing Major Mechanical system checks and overhauls. We are continuing that process, like, as we speak, basically, continuing to move through sites, and as we are planning for hybrid learning, we are also working and want to work and have actually started working with some volunteer sites even to figure out how to quickly working together as a team with staff at the site divide the work of assessing the conditions, the physical condition of the site, so that some of the easy things, the site path can help assess, and then that frees up as well our bng teams to be able to just work on the core mechanical systems and Structural Systems that i think are, to your point, the things that tend to really impact negatively student and staff comfort. We have also looked at our work order systems and created, of course, a covid19 response flag, and elevated and are going to just were going to have to shift the priorities for electrical and also mechanical crews in the coming year to say that these kinds of problems have to be put at the top of the list right off the bat, and ill be reviewing those work order lists with the team myself on a regular basis. So hopefully that provides some reassurance that while there are some types of mechanical failures that cannot be remedied in a 24hour basis, right, that you do require extra support and help, that at the very least those problems are going to be tracked really rigorously and prioritized in a way that they have not been in prior years. Okay, thank you. You are working very hard on that, and things have gotten a lot smoother and clearer, at least definitely in the communication to you with us about where things are. One of the last things that ill just say, just related to this what the chief just mentioned, a bunch of work happening at sites to catch up on things that havent been done, it highlights this tension that i was trying to mention about seeing if things are happening, why arent schools happening. People are working together to build entire buildings, today. Constantly amongst each other, edifices are getting they go up, Certain Industries havent closed, so theres a lot of people in close proximity with each other, which means theres a lot of ongoing examples of how those folks are or are not contracting covid, but the precautions are for those employers that are doing that. So theres just a lot that, you know, we can also go from and see and learn to get a better idea of how are we going to ensure that the people that work for our district are safe, because those people are still working and they are doing it in close proximity. So you know, we much prioritize safety, and we have these other examples of whats happening. At least the precautions we could take if we decide to as we decide to move forward. All right, thank you. Any other comments or questions . All right, i will just i think the commissioners covered all the bases on this one, but i do want to reemphasize the appreciation i have for the public coming out and speaking to us, and also to our staff superintendent and your team, folks out in the field, folks who are actually working outside now, the folks who are distributing food, et cetera, continuing to do devices, theres a lot of hard work going on, and of course our teachers, you know. We know im a teacher, so i know what it feels like, but our teachers are working really hard, our paraeducators are as well, and i know its not enough for our families. It will never be enough, Distance Learning cannot be enough, but like others are saying, we have to be as safe as possible. And we will be diligent and work with an abundance of caution as we move forward. So thank you again, and we will move on. The next item is j, discussion and vote on consent calendar items moved to previous meetings, k, introduction of proposals for assignment to committee. We have well, a number of things. Superintendents proposal 20922sp1, renewal for city arts tech in high school. I think thats the only proposal, and so do we have any Public Comment on that item . Please raise your hand if you care to speak on this item. I see a couple hands. Ill find them. They should also have their hand up. Pardon . Ms. Fisher. Thank you. Hello, hannah. Im sorry, i didnt mean to have my hand raised. No worries, thank you. Sorry. Kelly . Yeah, can you tell me more about this item . This is the introduction and proposal and assignment to committee for the renewal petition for the city arts and tech high school, the first reading, and its being referred to committee. Renewal petition for a Charter School. So what does the renewal permission charter what does that mean . So one of the things that has to happen is that in these meetings you have to read the background and then if you raise your hand, its to speak to it, but its not for us to explain the item to you. Im sorry, i didnt read that ahead of time because i have been working with a 3yearold all day. So i do have to say that i would like for you to reiterate, tell me what this means for me to vote on. So as i said, thats not how this works. You have to do the background and then if you have a comment, go ahead and speak to it. Otherwise were going to move to the next speaker. But what is this about, though . Its about a Charter School thats seeking to renew its charter, and the Charter Schools name is city arts and technology. And they are just wanting to renew their charter . Yes, so they are going through the process of doing that right now. Well, i would approve that charter. Okay. Thank you. Ms. Fisher . So as a member of the Charter School Oversight Committee, we look forward to on behalf of the Charter School Oversight Committee, we look forward to working with the district, and our meetings are open to the public. To the previous commenter, you are more than welcome to join us, and you can find our meetings on the district website. Please come and learn more about Charter School oversight. Were always looking for Public Comment and additional people to attend. More information coming once we fully review. Thank you. Thank you. And before i forget, we need a motion and a second for this item. I second. Kellyanne taylor. So moved. That was all we need. All right, this is referred to the Curriculum Program and Budget Services committee. Im really happy to see that our Oversight Committee will be looking at it as well. Section l, proposals for immediate action and suspension of the rules. Theres none tonight. M, Board Members report. We have reports from our standing committees, budget and Business Service committee, which was wednesday, september 10. Commissioner lamb, i dont know if you have anything to add. No, we voted on both of the proposals, the transportation resolution as well as the [indiscernible] pi resolution. Ad Hoc Committee on students which met on monday, september 14, commissioner norton . Umm, yes. The ad Hoc Committee sorry, i wasnt ready. Can i pass . Believe me, ive had to do that in the past. Program which met yesterday, vicepresident lopez . Yes, we had a discussion on virtual learning, and its actually led to another meeting that were calling in order to get some of the questions that we raised answered, and this is around just the spaerns that were having experience that were having right now, the communication piece, which is a lot of what weve discussed tonight. And we talked about the language pathway that carmichael and just in general how we can have a broader discussion as a full board around language programs, but there was a lot of Community Support around this item, and we are hoping to host our next Curriculum Committee meeting on october 8 at 4 p. M. And the Bessie Carmichael is to staff recommendation for a program instead of a dual immersion program. Theres an article about that today in the examiner. The following Committee Meetings have been scheduled, the joint select Committee Meets this friday, september 25, at 10 a. M. The ad Hoc Committee meets tuesday, september 29, at 4 p. M. Not at 5, which was the original scheduled time. Buildings, grants and services, wednesday, september 30 at 11 a. M. Rules, policy and legislation monday, october 5, 4 p. M. Budget and Business Services, wednesday, october 7 at 4. And then vicepresident lopez just mentioned theres a curriculum for october 8 at did you say 3 p. M. . 4 p. M. Thank you. Any reports from delegates to membership organizations, like the csba and others . Probably not. All those commissioner norton . Go ahead. Im ready. So we did have a student Assignment Committee on the 14th. We heard it was very interesting. We saw simulations from the Stanford Team thats been working with us. The committee did were asked by staff and agreed to take the first concept off the table which is a concept that would have just had one Attendance Area School for every you know, one attendance area for every school, and we agreed to look at the other two concepts and consider those, which are more multiple schools within a zone concept, and they differ based on how restrictive the choice is and how many schools are in the zone. The simulations definitely find that you can improve diversity, you know, you have a lot more ability to improve diversity if you are willing to have oddly shaped or noncontiguous zones, and we have some concerns about that, but our, you know, willing to continue to explore various ways of drawing zones in order to try to maximize all the goals which are diversity proximity and i cant remember its been a long night. Anyway, we are i really want to encourage Board Members to attend we have two more meetings before we really zero in on a concept that will come to the board as a proposal, so president sanchez just noted that the next meeting is going to be next tuesday at 4 p. M. , and then we have another meeting on october 14, so if you can attend those meetings, i think it would be really, really helpful to give your input and be part of the discussion, because its moving fast and furious now. So predictability, thank you commissioner collins, predictability, thats the one. All right. What . [indiscernible]. We had a lot of conversations about all of them. Simplicity, predictablity, diversity. Im a little punchy, everybody. So hopefully you can join us at the next meeting on the 29th. Thank you, commissioner norton. So if theres no board delegate or reports out, are all other reports by Board Members . Anything people want to mention . Commissioner collins . Yes, i do want to mention that theres a Human Rights Commission meeting on thursday, and its we will be presenting as a staff, so if deputy superintendent marcel, if you just want to share that, because that is a community its open to the community. Its an opportunity for us to listen to the community and speak within that forum. I dont know if shes with us. Its on thursday i want to make sure that i get the dates right. Ill look it up and then ill come back, but its one of the ways that we as a district are actually working with Partner Organizations to actually just be more accessible to the public in various Community Forums as a part of our equity work, so well be discussing our equity work, and i believe updating on equity studies and things like that, and potentially Distance Learning. Okay. The meeting starts at 5 00, and we are presenting on our equity studies resolution, a brief update, as well as an update on Distance Learning. We will definitely share that in our digest as well tomorrow. Thank you. I had something, president sanchez. Go ahead. So we have been as a Community Around ethnic studies in the state, actually, weve been pushing to get other groups that have been pretty much some have been excluded from the current curriculum, and so it has been a movement to, you know, get folks back into the curriculum, and so theres been a lot of success around it. We have been able to, you know, help get the Pacific Islander group, arabic group back in. Theres still more work around other communities that have been excluded from the curriculum, and so on thursday we as a community with Pacific Islander folks are meeting with state superintendent tony thurman to kind of go over the current recommendations that we have as a community. In addition, were working im actually working with other Pacific Islander school Board Members across the state to advocate for the inclusion of other southeast asians that have been excluded under the curriculum. My hope is that as we continue to ethnic studies in our School District in San Francisco that we are able to capture a good amount of representation that exists within the School District. Such important work. Thank you, commissioner. Section n, other informational items. I have one thing. Go ahead, sorry, i missed you. I just wanted to briefly acknowledge and thank educators for their welcome back ceremony that they had online. They gave an award to dr. Priestly, and i believe [indiscernible] got an award you guys know her, right . There are other educators. I wanted to and student delegates came and participated, so thank you to the alliance for continuing this moving forward of programming, elevating our educators and keeping our Community Close together, even though we are virtual. I appreciate you. Commissioner collins . I also wanted to acknowledge in connection with the commissioner talking about the earth nick study work thats going on that we are as a he is leading as a leader. We as a district have been leading. President sanchez, you can speak to the fact that as a district, you know, we have led in ethnic studies in our district, and im really proud of that work, and i think its notable in the sense that we have a current president right now that is trying to actually erase this type of work and actually teaching history. Actually true history, but also history that is diverse and inclusive, and so i just want to honor and respect just that as a district we are leaders, and in this nation as a district, and we have been for a while. Im just joining the board, but we have a history of that. And i just wanted to say thank you to teachers for social justice, united educators, previous Board Members and our staff across the district who are leading and even, you know, deputy superintendent marcel, superintendent matthews, the fact that we are saying as a district we want to engage in antiracist education is notable in this time. It is not something to ignore, so i want to say thank you to all to everyone, to our community, because we wouldnt be able to do this if it werent for our community as well. Thank you. I appreciate that. All right. So next n, other informational items . None tonight, but just a reminder that the next regular Board Meeting in october will be on the first tuesday of the month, october 6. At 3 p. M. Section o, memorial adjournment, theres none tonight. At this time we will take a total of five minutes for Public Comment. Thank you. Please raise your hand if you care to speak to items on the closed session agenda. Hello, kelly. Hi. I just had so many comments throughout this evening. I cant see my face looking amongst you all, but i can see all of you from your positions, and i have to say that having had a loss of our Supreme Court justice person, its been a difficult week. And i do want to say that i appreciate all of your members doing all that you can do within the city of San Francisco. I do have to say that i have much concern for the future of your board. I do have great admiration for a few of you that ive seen online, and i have to say kudos. I have to say great job, keep going forward, but i do want you to know that you need to stay on court and do your diligent job, do the best that you can do. Kelly, this time is to speak to items that are on the closed session agenda. So if you have a comment on an item thats on the closed session agenda, go ahead. Otherwise were going to need to move forward. Actually, i do have a comment. I do have a comment. I do have a comment. Okay. My comment is you talked about young kids, like two, threeyearolds that are in their own homes and mom and dads that have, like, got fulltime jobs thank you for your time, maam. Thats not on the agenda this evening. We thank you. All right, that concludes the closed session Public Comment. All right. Thank you so much, mr. Steele. The board will now go to section t, into closed session. Thus i call a recess of the regular meeting. See you all in the other meeting. Session, vote on number one, vote on student expulsion matters. Theres none tonight. Two, vote on Employment Contracts for unrepresented chief executive employees, none tonight. Three, report from closed session, on one matter of Public Employee discipline dismissal, the board voted by seven to approve the settlement with one community and approved the contract for an administrator. And two matters of anticipated litigation, the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent, lamb, provided direction to the general counsel. So we are adjourning section r, adjournment for this meeting, and then we are reconvening, and so we need a roll call. Youre on mute. Youre still on mute. Yes. Can you mention the meeting, commissioner . Yes, we are convening regular meeting of the San Francisco board of education for september, whatever date it is. I second. Second. So we need a roll call. Thank you. [roll call]. Its a roll call for check in. Yes, im here. We are going to go into closed session, but before we do, im going to open up to Public Comment for anybody that wants to speak to the closed session item. Noo please raise your hand if youd like to speak to this item on the agenda this evening in closed session. Seeing none. All right. So we are going to go into closed session. Well see you on the other side. You. What do you think about working at an airport and i love it is busy all the time. We want it to be an those away was this is a venture if i didnt love it ill be an accountant. We want the experience that is a nonairport experience the negative stigma were trying to erase that. Everything is in a bad food to excite them about the food and they have time to learn about us. 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Thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe Neighborhood Parks bond, the Sunset Playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. Here we are. 60 years and 14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brandnew rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. The new rec center houses multipurpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing pingpong and arts can crafts. You can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. On friday, november 16, the dedication and Ribbon Cutting took place at the Sunset Playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. It was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, Community Members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] were here to raise awareness and money and fork for a good accuse. 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Food truck for thought is an opportunity to eat from a variety of different vendor that are supporting the mission graduates by coming and representing at the parks were giving a prude of our to give people the opportunity to get an education. People come back and can you tell me and enjoy our food. All the vendor are xooment a portion of their precedes the money is going back in whats the best thing to do in terms of moving the needle for the folks we thought Higher Education is the tool to move young people. Im also a College Student i go to berkley and 90 percent of our folks are staying in college thats 40 percent hire than the afternoon. Im politically to clemdz and ucla. Just knowing were giving back to the community. Especially the Spanish Speaking population it hits home. People get hungry why not eat and give San Francisco parks, Golden Gate Park transforms into one of the greatest Music Festivals of all time, lets journey, inside, outside land. To this, our 6th year doing the outside lands and our relationship with San Francisco, rec and park. And we work very closely with them in the planning and working very closely with the neighborhood organizations and with the city supervisors and with the city organizations and with the local police department, and i think that the outside lands is one of the unique festivals in the world and we have San Francisco and we have Golden Gate Park and we have the greatest oasis, in the world. And it has the people hiking up hills and down hills and a lot of people between stages. I love that it is all outside, the fresh air is great. They have the providers out here that are 72 local restaurants out here. Celebrating, and that is really hot. 36 local winerries in Northern California and 16 brewers out here. And you have seen a lot of people out here having a good time and we have no idea, how much work and planning has gone into this to make it the most sustainable festival in the united states. And literally, in the force, and yeah, unlike any other concept. And come and follow, and the field makeup the blueprint of the outside land here in Golden Gate Park and in the future events and please visit sffresh parks. Org. Chairman good afternoon, and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee for the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, miewnchts monday, october 5th. 2020. Im joined by safai. And our clerk, ms. , major, do you have any announcement . Due to the covid19 health emergency, the board of supervisors in the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be