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A closed session items. Please raise your hand for our virtual participants if you care to give a Public Comment on any of the closed session items. Seeing no hands raised. Okay. I now recess this meeting at 502. As we go to closed session. 6 40 p. M. And we will start with a vote on student expulsion matters. C1 i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement of one middle School Student matter number 20232024. Number five from the district for the remainder of the fall. 2023 semester and suspended enforcement for the spring 2024 semester. Can i have a second . Second if we could have a roll call vote, please. Thank you. Commissioner alexander. Yes commissioner fisher . Yes commissioner lamb. Yes commissioner montgomery. Yes mr. Sanchez. Vice president wiseman. Ward. Yes. President boggess. Yes. Success thank you. And now i continue with a report from closed session in three matters of anticipated litigation, the board voted by a vote of six yeses, with one commissioner absent. Commissioner sanchez gives direction to the general counsel in the matter of student cc versus sf usd. Oh h. Case. Number 202 a3060826. The boad by a vote of six yeses or one absence. Commissioner sanchez gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount in the matter of student sc versus sf usd o h case. Number 202 a3070650. Te board by a vote of six yeses one absence commissioner sanchez gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount in the matter of student cbc versus sf usd h case. Number 20230806 82 the board by a vote of six yeses one absence commissioner sanchez gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount on one matter of Public Employee discipline. Dismissal, release the board by a vote of six yeses. One absence approves a resignation agreement and release in an employee discipline matter. And this concludes the read out from closed session. So next, well go to item d, our opening items and start with our land acknowledgment. We the San Francisco board of education, as acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula as the indigenous stewards of this land , and in accordance with their tradition as the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded land use nor forgotten their responsible duty as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all people who reside in their traditional territory as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors elders and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. And with that, we will go to the approval of board minutes for the regular meeting of september 12th, 2023, as well as the special workshop meeting of september 26th, 2023, and the special meeting of august 29th, 2023. Can i have a motion and a second on the minutes . So moved. Second, thank you commissioners. Any corrections from commissioners as. Okay, can we have a roll call vote . Mr. Steele thank you. Student delegate simpson here. Its a yes or no vote on the minutes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Student delegate. Yes. Thank you. Commissioner alexander yes. Commissioner fisher. Yes commissioner lamb. Yes commissioner motamedi. Yes commissioner sanchez. Vice president wiseman. Ward. Yes president bogus. Yes. Success. Thank you. And with that, well move forward in our agenda. I think i just want to highlight for the public that for this meeting as well as our normal Board Meetings, our Public Comment will happen earlier in the meeting. I believe it is listed under item g today. So that will be Public Comment on agenda items as well as non agenda items. Also want to highlight that today we have a public hearing listed under item j and that will have its own Public Comment for the hearing separate from the other Public Comment we have earlier on the other items. And so just wanted to note that for folks as its a little bit different from how weve done things in past years and with that, i believe we will transition into item d five, which is the superintend report, and i will pass it to superintendent wayne. Thank you, president bogus. Good evening, everyone. One at and its october and a lot happens in october including if you go to the next slide our pre k to 12 enrollment fair. So on saturday october 21st from 10 to 2, we will have our enrollment fair at Oconnell High School and during the enrollment fair families will be able to meet with principals, teachers, parents and students from every school in sfusd. There will be workshops on different topics, so well provide information about how to apply to high school. Our special Education Programs and applying to our transitional kindergarten and kindergarten programs for new families to sfusd. We also have their representatives from city agencies and Community Organizations, and so, you know whats really neat about San Francisco is the variety of schools that we have. And we know we have a Public School for every child here in the city. So the enrollment fair is a great way for families to in San Francisco to get to know about all of our schools and the variety of programs we offer. We also hold workshops in november for families who are not able to attend enrollment fair. And so you just need to go to sfusd dot edu backslash enroll and you can get all that information about our fair as well as the follow up workshops. I get to have. If you go to the next slide, theres a lot of opportunities to celebrate the work that happens in our schools each month and last month got to recognize the work weve done as a district towards supporting Climate Solutions for our city. But really for you know, our state and our nation. So sfusd schools were the first two stops on the 2023 Climate Solutions. Green strides tour, which visited schools and districts in northern and Central California from september. 19th to september 21st to highlight the innovative practices of honorees of the Us Department of education. Green ribbon schools. So the district was named a Green Ribbon School district in 2016, and so they wanted to come back and highlight the work that the districts like San Francisco have done. So we started off at ap, giannini at the middle school, and we launched the event. We had, in addition to myself, their president , bogus and commissioner fishers were there and we had representatives from the Us Department of education and the California Department of education, and we were in ap gianninis green schoolyard. There education garden and while the speakers were engaging, i will say the chicken stole the show and got everybodys attention. But then we also had a chance to hear from the students about their work in coming up with Green Solutions and Climate Solutions. So were really proud of the work weve done. Since 2010. The district has decreased water use by 35 in partnership with the Public Utilities commission. Weve also installed Solar Technology on eight schools. Another three schools are zero net emission ready and we reallocated 14 million of our last bond to improve school yards and expand Outdoor Learning classrooms in almost 60 schools. So a lot to be proud of our work here in the district. And then on the next slide, i want to express our pride in appreciation in our School Lunch Programs and for our school lunch workers. This week is National School lunch week and we serve over 35,000 meals every day. So the so Student Nutrition Services within San Francisco unified School District runs the largest Public School public Food Service Operation in San Francisco, serving more than 35,000 breakfast, lunch and supper meals daily. We have 220 Extraordinary Dining Staff Members across 125 schools who nourish a diverse population of 51,000 students who collectively speak more than 44 language and school meals are available at no cost to students. I just want to recognize the work weve done as a district to make those school meals not just nutritious but also desirable for our students, and particularly in the kitchens where weve been able to remodel some of our middle school kitchens. I hear from the kids how thats transform lunch, and thats the work thats being done in the district and by our staff who serve the lunch. I know some of them are here tonight. Lets recognize is our school Nutrition Services staff and the work that they do. And then theres just if you go to the last slide, youve heard us talk at these Board Meetings about a lot of Big Decisions that we need to make over the next year. And our commitment to ensuring that were engaging with our community in helping make those decisions. And so just here are different opportunities for engagement. We send these out through our family announcement bulletin. So if you havent signed up for it, make sure to sign up for our fab and so right now we are we actually are just starting our Student Success Fund Advisory committee, our academic calendar engagement committee, our math policy committee, and a District Advisory Committee on staffing, budget and facilities. So those are either have been launched or will be launching really, really soon. And then even if you cant participate in a community, theres other ways where you can share your feedback. So look for those town halls and surveys to be able to share information with us. And that concludes my report. Thank you, superintendent, for your update. And now well go to the student delegates. Hi, everyone. So just yesterday we had our Student Advisory Council annual retreat and there we set a lot of goals for what we want to accomplish this year. And were very excited to work towards these goals. But while we had a couple of full council meetings, were still looking for more representation across our School District. So were still looking for representatives from june jordan civic center, Sf International and independence high school. If you are a student or parent of a student attending these schools and are interested in joining the sac, please email our advisor, mary kate at rossi at sf ucsd. Edu you. We will also be attending the School Site Council summit on saturday and we hope to see many of you there. Thank you so much. Student delegates. And with that we will transition on to item e one, which is an update on our payroll state of emergency from superintend wayne , thank you again. And its been almost a year since we declared our payroll state of emergency. But i committed to providing updates at every regular board of education meeting and continue to do so because we have not reached stabilization yet. We have made progress as ive shared in previous meetings. But were at a point where theres still more work to be done to be able to have the systems that are employees deserve. And so if you go to the first slide, the next slide, you can see that the this shows since declaring the state of emergency how we have done with with addressing the tickets that we receive. And we did make a big dent in those tickets and started to resolve more tickets than we were receiving. But that stopped as we got towards the end of last school year and the beginning of this year. And so i shared last month how we see that weve flatlined around 3000 up to 3,500 and recognize that we are dealing with more complex cases and also needed to look at at how were addressing them to be able to have fewer issues, remain open and unresolved. And so if you go to the next slide, this shows the progress since that last Board Meeting, which was on september 12th, of being able to get the tickets back down to around 2500, and we were able to do that first. We did receive a lot of tickets around in the beginning of the year. Overall, the system we now have a configured where if youre an employee here, you will get paid. But weve noticed whenever theres a change in status that leads to is whats most often right now leading to issues. And so we had a lot of those at the beginning of the year. We also increased coordination with our functional teams, meaning these are like the issues that are dealt by the Case Management team. Sometimes, though, they really need to be dealt by Human Resources or payroll. And so weve been working with them to address these issues while still doing their ongoing work and resolving the system problems. And then also we have been able to resolve root causes, which helps address systemic issues, which means that we wont continue to get tickets on them , such as the prop eight dues and how that was addressed. So while theres progress i shared with you at the last update and if you go to the next slide that when we talk about having a fully stable and functioning payroll system, that this is what it would entail, that we would have not have many errors and be able to address issues quickly and that were fully staffed and have limited the external support and right now were not on target to have that in place by the 23rd and by the end of this school year. And so if you go to the next slide, i shared what we really need to be looking at is we want an error free, what i call enterprise Resource Planning system. So these are erp s that can be successfully implemented and sustained by the district. And so i want to share a little bit more about what that means and the decisions we need to make in the next month to determine how were going to proceed. So if you go to the next slide, dr. Clark, our Business Services lead, whos really has helped with our efforts to stabilize and has worked with these types of systems a lot i can speak to where are we currently and where do we need to go . Good afternoon. Thank you, dr. Wayne. So this slide really shows the different products that are in the district. We see the first two slides, the first two sections related to Human Resources and payroll, which is the sap empower system. However our one critical component of the system is still on peoplesoft. Thats the budgeting and accounting component. When you have a system thats broken out this way, there are a lot of interfaces that need to happen. So we have multiple different interfaces that are happening within the sap system itself between Human Resources and payroll. And then once that that interface happens, we have to have an additional interface to make sure that the information is rolling over to peoplesoft so that we can have the Data Available for budgeting and accounting purposes. And then the last piece is procurement, which is still a component of peoples off, but an Additional Software which is going fast. So thats a lot of interfaces that need to happen and connect. I think its safe to say that when the sap product was brought into the district, a little bit more planning probably could have been done initially to understand how all of these interfaces would happen successfully and succinctly. If the decision is made to move forward with another erp product. My recommendation to dr. Wayne has been to look at all of these different systems to identify if a product that we would be able to put everything on one one platform to handle Human Resources, payroll, budget accounting, as well as procurement. And there are k 12 systems that can do that. I think at this point the goal is to figure out which one works best for San Francisco. And then looking at an implementation timeline and the conditions that would need to be in place in order for it to be successful. While while we make sure that we learn, reflect on the past, learn from those challenges that we may have faced so that we dont move forward, so that we dont have the same things. Repeat again. Thank you. If you go to the next slide. So whats next . So weve been exploring those options. Dr. Clark has been meeting with county offices of education to explore how they might support an erp implementation, and that is one of the challenges we face, that of the 990 other districts in the state that arent a district and county have a county office that provides oversight and support. And many districts use the same erp that a county office uses. So for example, in Alameda County now every single district is on the same system as the county, and the county helped lead that effort and can support that effort. We dont have that. So as a former county associate superintendent of business, dr. Clark is helping us connect with county offices to see how they might support us. Also, were meeting provide meeting with providers of what she described turnkey and tested k 12 erp systems. So you know you know, sap is works in a ton of Different Industries and thats you know but but there are things unique to k 12 that we want to make sure our system supports us. Now were continuing to stabilize sap because were working with this for a while and so sap has assigned Additional Support and we will need to extend some of the contractor support for sap. But so the good thing around that is do appreciate that the board of education, in working with our experts, had foresight, have already earmarked funds for a full erp implementation because our experts said gave the same advice. As dr. Clark said, you need to update your old budget and Accounting System and they should really be on one system. So when the board heard that feedback set aside time, set aside funding for that, that can also go to support the ongoing stabilization. So hopefully this gives a picture of where were going. Well be able to come back with more firm timeline and decisions by the next update. But we really need a system that is going to meet our needs and that work seamlessly together. So thank you for the opportunity to share and that concludes our report. Thank you, superintendent. Is that going to be made available through a board docs . Yes, its uploaded now. Thank you. Thank you. Okay with that, we will go to item f which is Advisor Committee reports and appointment and we have julia. Mark julia martin. The ombudsmans person presenting the appointments. Thank you. Hello commissioners. President vargas. Nice to see you. Superintendent wayne. Tonight well just be a very brief presentation on we have im here tonight as your liaison to the community Advisory Committee for special education on tonight. We are asking the board of education to confirm the appointment of five members to the community Advisory Committee for special education. The members recommended for appointment are daniella teitelbaum, melanie bozon, roxanne lopez. Tina perdices and tara sessa as designated by resolution number 63 to 9, a seven and the csc bylaws, the csc shall have a membership of at least 11 and not more than 25 members. The cac currently has nine members in their first year of a two year term and nine members in their second year of a two year term. Plus one liaison myself, if these appointments are confirmed, 19 seats on the cac will be filled, leaving open up to six seats. The nominees is named above, were interviewed and approved for appointment by active members of the cac per our bylaws and were ratified by the cac board for confirmation through our approval process. The cac board remains committed to having a Membership Base that is represent of all families in the district and actively works to recruit and retain members from all communities. As csc membership has voluntarily provided demographic information in this report, keep in mind all information shared for the membership is for the group as a whole. As we do not share individual membership information in order to protect the privacy rights of individuals with disabilities. Thank you. Thank you for that. And i think we will see if there are any questions or comments from commissioners. Do we need a motion in a second before we do that . So moved enthusiastically. Second okay. Any questions or comments from commissioners before we vote . Commissioner fisher yeah, of course. Yes. So just as a fellow cac member, i just wanted to say thank you to all of you who are stepping up. Its a lot of work at very little pay, but your feedback is, is critically important and thank you. And its also a very good place to find community. So i hope you enjoy the ride. Thank you. If we could have a roll call vote, please. Thank you. On the on the committee Advisory Council for special education appointments. Commissioner student delegate simpson. Yes thank you. Student delegate. So, yes. Commissioner alexander. Yes president bogus. Yes yes. Commissioner fisher. Yes commissioner lamb. Yes commissioner motamedi. Yes mr. Sanchez. Vice president wiseman. Ward. Yes six eyes. Thank you. Thank you. And with that, we will go to item g, which is Public Comment. Just i think to highlight for folks, if you would like to provide Public Comment, you need to turn in a speaker card. This is the last opportunity for you to do that. And with our normal tradition, we are going to ask for Student Speakers before our non Student Speakers. So i think just to be made aware of that as we transition into Public Comment and well be giving speakers one minute to speak and just also to make the public aware that we do have a policy of giving some additional time to Union Leadership during Public Comment. So just be aware that that some folks might have a little bit more time in that regard. And so i think with that, why dont we start the process of calling in person Public Comment for non agenda items for students. I did not receive any speaker cards for students, but if there are any here, you can line up at this time seeing none president bogus. Okay. Um um, maybe lets also see if we could put the call out for our virtual participants to see if theres any student s who are ready to participate. Virtually for virtual participation for our virtual participants. This is the time for students to share their Public Comment if they would like to do so. Now please raise your hand. Can we also have that repeated in spanish and chinese . This is a time for students to give their virtual Public Comments as isolamento para todos participants stand in virtual comentarios publicos si por favor levante la mano even a moment para comisario publico. Gracias you joe biden. For you okay. I am seeing two hands raised. I do just want to remind folks to our virtual participants that this is a time for students to speak. So if you are not a student, we will ask you to pause until its your time to speak. Okay. So seeing two hands raised. Aaron. Aaron. Aaron. So starchild. Yes, sir. This is the time for students. Im a student of life, but im not a student of the usd, so i me to wait and i will wait. Okay so thank you for that, i think. Do we have the other person on . If not, well go to in person Public Comment. Thank you. So were going to start with non agenda items. Im going to call you up in groups of five, so please line up at the podium. Youll have one minute to speak each. Rex ridgway. Im sorry, im having a hard time reading this code. Chucuito apologize. Tracy breger. Nick chandler actually, well wait for that. You guys go ahead. Thank you. Good evening. Rex ridgway. For the record, more of an observation of disappointment next month, commissioner, youre going to be giving information from the High School Task force with my disappointment is of what ive read is theres no mention of the other school by name and theres no recommendations of how to improve those other schools. My understanding back in june, when this was voted, a resolution to have a High School Task force at the High School Task force would make recommend actions to you on how to improve the other high schools that are not low. So what ive read, theres no mention of any high schools. Theres no and of course, if theres no high schools listed, theres no recommendations on how to improve them. I as an observation of disappointment, perhaps it can be rectified. But the it would be nice to be able to look at a page that says thurgood marshall, this is how you improve thurgood marshall. Sally burton. This is how you improve sally burton. None of thats in the recommendation. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, good evening to the board. My name is keen acquanetta. Im with jobs with justice San Francisco. Last week we shared our priorities for the upcoming bond with district staff and with you on the board of education and about what we would like to see in the bond. And the priorities include things like air Quality Improvements to improve Healthy Learning and working environments on Site Preparation of nutritious meals, Affordable Housing for staff, things like that. Our hope is that youve taken the time to actually read this letter as it the issues raised in it are issues that we feel that many in the community would would support. And i just wanted to let you all know were going to be reaching out to you all this week to schedule meetings to discuss these priorities in a little bit more detail. Um, also just wanted to say that we have our next meeting with district staff on the 18th. Our hope is that well be able to have a robust discussion about these priorities and how they fit into the final bond that will be presented here next month. And finally, i just wanted to say that our ask to you all is that you urge district staff to respond to the priorities weve laid out in good faith so that we can chart a path Forward Together that leads to a bond program that we can all get behind. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. My name is tracy brewer. Im with jobs with justice San Francisco also. And here on behalf of a coalition of unions and community groups, im wanting to address the schools bond so from the pandemic and Climate Change raising very serious air quality issues to a backlog of deferred maintenance, its abundantly clear that district facilities need significant investment in a clear plan to protect the health and safety of students, educators and employees. A robust, right sized and Accountable School bond is a unique and viable opportunity to help address all of these challenges. If the board follows district staffs current proposal to run about a 1 billion bond every 5 to 8 years, it could currently take about 48 years to address the 6 billion backlog of deferred maintenance. So lets be clear that takes about half a century to fix things that are broken today. Also it would take about 120 years to complete the at least 9 in critical hvac electrical or other upgrades necessary to protect the health and safety of students and meet the districts goal of phasing out fossil fuel use by 2040. This is not a viable plan. So we urge you to make a right sized schools bond. Thank you. Thank you. Im calling the next group. Nick chandler, tori talavera, bernice casey. Kathy from ucsf, and reverend amos brown. We clearly need to invest in our schools. We clearly have urgent facilities, needs, has fought to bring those jobs attention for the last three years. Weve done that in community with yall. Weve done that by bringing folks in from the city, from neighborhood organizations, students, families, teachers here to let you know how urgent it is. Weve done that collaboratively. We built a plan for a school thats beautiful and was 200 plus families. Every student that goes to the school and the plans beautiful and we love it. When it came to talk about phasing, what will happen to us while we build this beautiful building . We did not get collaboration. We did not get transparency. We did not get respect. If you continue to gatekeep the parts of this process that impact students and families, you dont suffer. Are we do. You may not continue to pass that cost onto my community. We will be here until you take our invitation to invite leadership from outside of sfusd to solve this complicated but solvable problem. Please, im waiting for a call. Yes, thank you. That was a hard act to follow. Im a parent from. I havent spoken up at meetings because i keep telling myself that other peoples issues are more important than ours. But my Family Matters and thats why im here today. And im sure what i have to say represents a lot of families at bcm. We chose this school for three reasons. One was that my child, great grandmother, my grandmother came to this school when she moved here from oaxaca in the 1930. So we have a legacy. The second reason was to minimize transition. And the third was because of the community. And this plan is dismantling two out of three of those things. And so in order to do not have one transition for a kid, we came to this school. Now were going to have to do instead of zero. And thats only if we trust that the district actually has a plan thats going to allow us to come back. I feel like i havent heard a straight answer to the question of whether well have the right to return. And i would like as a parent to request that in writing from the district. Thank you. Hi. My name is bernice casey. Im a parent at buena vista. Horace mann i want to just talk a little bit about what nick said, and then i have a statement from my fourth grader. So we as a community met with the district in may of 2023 with our six requests, demands, ask whatever you want to call it. The district did not get back to us at all until six months later. So every time we come to this meeting, i hear you. I hear dr. Wayne talk about this time is going to be different. Were going to trust. So that didnt happen. And then when they came to the meeting last week, you had district staff on their phones when people were trying to talk about emotional things for them, just their body language, ignoring statements. So again, when you talk about trust, thats not happening. But now lets hear from the fourth grader. I dont want our community broke up because it will be harder for us to get there and then if someone gets sick at that school and the nurse isnt there, it will be harder for the parents to come all the way there to pick them up and come all the way back. Plus it will waste a lot more fossil fuel than it would by just walking and riding our bikes. When im in sixth grade, i want to have a phone and walk to school with my friends. When my brother was at bhm, he sometimes took me to school and picked me up. My friends have that now with their brothers and sisters. You cannot break us up. Thank you. I i think. All right. I got it. Go ahead. Good evening, everyone. Im a student pharmacist at at ucsf school of pharmacy in sylmar. Colleagues, i just have a question that will hopefully be discussed in this meeting or future meetings, which is that do you have any accommodations in place to ensure Education Access and communication for students, faculty and overall communities in the face of environmental barriers . Because last years bomb cyclone is an example of an environmental event that needs to be accounted for in this case. Thank you. Thank you all right, next group. John zabala. Oh, im sorry. Good evening, mr. Chairman and members of the board. Ladies and gentlemen, im amos brown, president of the San Francisco branch of the naacp. And again, im here today to say theres too much vulgar, violent language usage being used by adults in this School District, particularly against africanamerican youngsters. And we need to get busy and bring it to a screeching halt. Number two, right across the street, my dear Board Members, ive been dealing with now about half a year. We must get these homeless encampments away from the john swett school. Look at the book of los angeles. No encampments are permitted. Within 50 500ft. If they could do it, we need to do it in San Francisco. Those children are challenged. They already have issues and we ought to do better to make sure that we talk to the powers that be and let them know that we are compassionate. But we must have a responsible compassion and not reckless compassion to let people be out there in the condition they are right now. And i invite you to join me in the movement so that our children will be able to go to school and not have that unseemly sight that has no place in the city of saint francis. Five really. Again in the black community saying we need all hands on deck to deal with this underachievement of black students in the School District. It has gone on far too long. We are friends and we are not enemies. We want to be partners and its time has not says just do it and quit talking about it. Stop having studies. But get up and get to the point. Im making a solution on. Thank you. So next group, john zabala, leslie, who and cassandra curiel. Is my debut. Yes. Good evening. My name is john zabala. I am president of united teachers of richmond represents the certificated staff of west contra costa unified. Im here today to tell you a little bit about our Community Schools movement in west contra costa. I know i have a limited amount of time. I can tell you that this work came about through long years of partnership and difficulty. But just last year we were successfully able to negotiate eight Community Schools, language included in our contract. Theres a lot in there. I encourage you to look at this as a model for you all, but at its heart is power sharing. Community schools allows communities to develop new narratives about who they are. In many ways, its a lot of the work weve already been doing for years, but its us sitting together at a table and saying, what is important to you and what is important to me and how do we get there together for i want to let you know that one of our committees that was formed was is called the systems change collaborative, where were working with mayors across cities because were five municipalities towards goals that are in partnership together. Please take a look. Reach out if you need anything. Thank you. Good evening. My name is leslie. Who . Im the secretary and Community Schools initiative coach for united educators of San Francisco. Were in a tough moment in San Francisco right now. We have an incredible moment. Dare i say, opportunity to build Real Relationships with educators. Is Critical School staff a lot of which are here. Family is students and our community partners. Weve already heard a little bit about how we havent been able to do that work already from several of the Public Commenters. We can choose to not engage or and sweep things under the rug, or we can actually have the hard and necessary conversations with our communities to improve the work that we can do for our students. You all received a letter from a wide range of education unions in california, including los angeles, san diego, richmond and oakland, amongst others. Throughout california that have come to agreements with their districts that have similarly provided transparency to the Community School work that aligns and ensures fidelity to the 50 million that San Francisco unified has received. We hope that San Francisco unified and ucsf can come together to ensure that we are keeping our promises to our students, families and communities. First up is for us to take this work to coming to an agreement on Community Schools currently on the table. Thank you. Okay good evening, everyone. Cassandra curiel, president of united educators of San Francisco. A few of the things on top, obviously, the Community Schools letter that came in today was a representation of the fact that there are other districts much larger in size, some smaller in size, some very similar size that grappled with the same conditions that were currently dealing with in order to come to an agreement to what works for us and what weve proposed at our bargaining table around Community Schools is we think, a step forward to the format and the space in which we can collaboratively Work Together to implement a successful model. We know that we need a systems change across the district on many levels, and this is particularly one of them that can be rolled out, as we know, to over 40 sites that now qualify. And the more that we hope to come, another issue on top is the bond measure. Right. Our colleagues, tracy and qin, who spoke earlier and a number of us unions, have been working together to try and elevate the major issues that we see because we work in the school sites, in the classrooms, at the various work sites. And with the onset of the opening of shirley chisholm, which is staff housing and the prospect of many more, we have a lot of work to do to ensure that this district can implement a lot at one time and that is possible when were all on the same page and we want to be partners in that work and that ensures that staff have direction around how to work with us. Its not an engagement. Its not hated. I participate. We get no grades for participation in my class. We work towards actual goals and make those needs met through working together and finding a way to make that work. And we can do that when were discussing that at the table and ensuring that that our staff partners across the table have that direction as well. We need to know that were working as equals to get everything that our students and our staffing need. And we need to fill up, what, 400 more housing units, right . So were ready to start that work with you. The last thing on top is our contract fight. You know that we want to come to an agreement. We want to make make this work for everyone. We need equally a lot of work to be done on the other side to ensure that what we have to move forward is a non Strings Attached issue where we can come to an agreement where 6500 of our members can manage to get through the end of our contract and whether through the challenges that this district has ahead of it, right in the empower update, we see clearly whats coming. We understand we know that the work thats been happening and we need to assure our 6000 members that we can weather through that storm together because we have an assurance and confidence and security from all of our leadership on the board and at the district level. That we can do this because weve come to an agreement together. Its critical that we know that were not just heard, but also understood and have partners to move forward. Thank you. Calling your next group. John nepomuceno forgive me if im mispronouncing. I have two for you. And then francis lee, you can come to the podium, please. Good evening. Board and its good to see you all. So my name is John Villanueva villanueva nepomuceno sister, principal of balboa high school, and im here representing usf. I want to first urge the district to sell negotiations with our family members at seiu and usf with all full care and expediency so we can all focus on educating our kiddos and serving them with peace of mind. In addition, ill speak briefly about the svc bond which is being put together by district staff. A few folks have already spoken about it, but last week a coalition of labor unions and Community Organizations shared our priorities with the district staff and with you on the board of education about what we would like to see in this bond. We hope that you all have taken the time to read them as the issues raised within like bond size, transparency, equity and Healthy Learning environments are issues many our community can get behind and i can speak personally about my house at balboa. Lord knows theres a lot that needs to be happening tomorrow. Our friends are going to be descending upon my house for a major vote. So lets take this. Think about them as well and figure out what we can do to help them all. Love to you all. Thank yall. Hallows school and Superintendent Committee and members. My name is francis lee. I am an seiu union member. My union represents valuable and hardworking clerks, custodians and student nutrition workers. We represent you and to serve our student, family and school communities. As we have been working diligently with our a labor contract for the past three plus years. And during the pandemic, we need pay parity to our city counterpart, who received more than 20 over our pay rates. We cannot keep up with the high cost of living without taking on and working multiple jobs. Please support us by negotiating a good faith contract and allow us to continue to do our job without any stoppage or cause any inconvenience to our families and School Community. Thank you. Okay do we want it . Do we want. What . Do we want it . What do we want . We dont get it. Dont get it. Dont get it. Janet yellen get the power. We got the power. The power. The power. Without the power we got the power. What kind of power . You. The power. Thats our message. We dont want to shut it down. We dont want to hurt the education of our students. But give us a fair contract that you can forget. The speaker and you dont want your speaker comments. Is this good . Raphael all right. Right on. All right. Today is that we want a contract. We want it now. We dont get it. We will shut it down if we dont get it, well gorgeous. We will strike. Yes. Focus. We will strike. Provoke us. We will strike. Group yes, we will strike. Ruthless. We will strike, provoke us. We will strike. Provoke us. We will slay, provoke us. We will strike. Who got the power . We got the power. What kind of power . Union power. Who got the power . We got the power. What kind of power . Union power. Who got the power . We got the power. What kind of power . Union power. One, two. We want a collective one, two. We want it now. Well get it. Shut it down we go get it. Shut it down. Do you go for it . I think we are pretty. Yes we got the votes. Yeah. Lets negotiate. Lets get that contract signed, sealed and delivered. And dont let. Dont let your employees down. They work hard for this district. Yes, they love our students. Yes. We dont want to hurt our students. Education in yes, we want to make sure this district thrives for showered with positive activity for everybody. Were a team unions united and we also like respect the bonds demands. We also part of that coalition. Make sure you do the right thing. Were tired of this district fairly and every direction for the last five years, ive seen it do better for do what you said you were going to do. Make this district better. Yes, yes, yes. Thank you. Yes now, what do we want . Were going to continue with the Board Meeting it out. We dont get. What do we want . When do we want it . Now. What do we want . Contract where do we want it now . If we dont get it, shut it down. We dont get it shut it down. Youve got the power. We got the power. What kind of power you get . Power who got the power . We got the power. What kind of power you get power. What do we want . What do we want it now . We dont get it. We dont get it. Shut it down. If we dont get it, shut it down. If we dont get is shut it down, were going to need to continue our Board Meeting at this time. Is there any way we can read for the virtual Public Comment, the announcement again , weve got the power portion, no power union power. We dont go shut it down if we dont get it, shut it down. If we dont get it, shut it down. If we dont get it, shut it down. Who got the power . We got the power. What kind of power . You dont get power. What do we want . When do we want it . Now. What do we want . Contact. When do we want it . Now. So we are going to go ahead and move on to our virtual participation, get it, shut it down. Were going to get it. If we if we arent able to have quiet, were going to have to recess the meeting. Who got the power . We got the power right. We are going to take a five minute recess right now. Were going to take a five minute recess. Can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese for our virtual participants . Again, five minute recess if we dont get it now, what do we want . God back. When do we want it . Now when do we want it . When do we want it now . And if we dont get it now, we dont get it. Shut it out. If we dont get it shut it out. If we dont get it, shut it out. What do we want . God, when do we want it . Now. If we dont get it, shut it down. If we dont get it, shut it down. It is a shame that you all have gone on for four years without a contract at 20 behind and the city. Thats a shame. Come back. Shame shame shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame shame shame shame shame on us of us. Say with me. Shame on me. Shame on me. Shame on us. If you see shame on usd shame on less of usd shame. On at usd. Shame on at usd. Shame usd shame. All at usd. Shame usd shame all at usd. Shame im going to for the delay in the meeting, but also thank everyone who came out to give Public Comment on non agenda items in person. And now were going to transition to non agenda item Public Comments virtually as of now we have nine hands. Well have about ten minutes or so for Public Comment. So again, we are transitioning into virtual Public Comment for non agenda items as each speaker will have one minute to speak. We see about nine hands at this time. Were dedicating a ten ten minutes for our virtual Public Comment. Each each speaker will have one minute. Please be mindful of that so that can we have that repeated in spanish and chinese. Thank you. Is this lamento para aquelas personas quieren hacer un comentario publico. Vamos comentario publico es para aquellos grupos un centro de la guarda participant tendra un minuto solamente. Gracias. Hello. Hi you guys highway me along for using home from fighting as you can get. Neil gorsuch solar. Dont forget you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Air aaron. Aaron horne. Yes. Hello my name is aaron horne from parents for Public Schools of San Francisco. Can you hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Thank you. Sorry about that last time when i was called , i just wanted to speak on the issue of students who are not primarily English Speakers and how that how isolating that can be for them, for the child in the parents, but also the frustration for the teachers and staff. I would really hope that we can. You know, i know you all are taking on a lot and i appreciate that. Theres a lot of work to do in in this district. But i would just hope that we can put more focus on providing teachers who can help, who speak the language, who can be a bridge for the students, because the students are often misjudged by, oh, theyre not speaking up in class or theyre not following the directions in the homework. Theyre not smart , theyre not trying when really its just a barrier in their way. Its just a simple fix of getting more language support and interpretation for them. Ppe really go a long way. Thank you. Thank you for listening. Thank you. Star child. Yes. Can you hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Yes. May i see the clock displayed for my comments and then not start until i get the preliminaries out of the way . I had asked a question about this on the q a thing online, but didnt see a response. I hate suddenly running out of time when i dont know how much time there is having a clock displayed would be very helpful. I dont believe we have the ability to display a clock, but i definitely can give you 32nd and ten second warnings as we get to the end of the minute. Just to kind of flag it for you. Okay. Thank you. Please go ahead and start the clock now then. My name is sasha and im chair of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco. First thing i want to address is there was a comment or announcement at the beginning of the meeting about us being on alone. Ramaytush ohlone land. Its actually specifically the yelamu tribe that lived in San Francisco. But i find this kind of announcement just really to be kind of like lip service and virtue signaling. I dont see any actual change or intent of the district policy to do anything substantive for the ohlone people. And so it really raises questions like why are we doing this . You know, youre at the 32nd mark. Just to give you a heads up, uh, the ohlone, for example, were camping on public land for centuries. They didnt have government. They didnt have government schools, kids were raised in the community and learned that way. Yet today, you know, the descendants of the ohlone are subject to compulsory education laws, forcing them to be in school unless they ten second mark some kind of other plan. You know, maybe they shouldnt be criminalized for this. Maybe the School District should be asking them what to do instead of imposing something on them. Regarding the striking that is your time. Starchild, im so sorry to have to cut you off. Thank you, miss marshall . Yes um. Good evening. Im going to forego the greeting. Um, i have several comments. The first one is that i joined reverend brown in the naacp. Members who are on this call, we are so outraged by middle School Teacher who called a little sixth grade girl a very inappropriate word. The little girl had never heard those word before and she had to look up what it means. This teacher should be removed from the school and the School District. Thank you. Of president vargas and Board Members and superintendent wayne and all of us, the student delegates for moving up the climate up to the beginning of the agenda as she had agreed to do some years ago. So we want to congratulate our Food Service Workers who serve more than 35,000 meals every day. You need to be reminded that some many of these children, if they happen, was not for the school meals, they will go hungry. Thank you. I am a little bit concerned about the menu, but well talk about that later. I went to the meeting of the Lowell Admission Committee a week or so ago. I was outraged and i walked into this room full of mostly caucasian and asian people. I had there was a handful of africanamericans there. Speaking strategy and im really sorry, miss marshall. Well, thank you. Still have not paid everyones. Thank you, linda. Hi. Can you hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Im just really quick. I just want to remind all of our virtual participants, again, everyone is getting one minute to speak. So if you can try your best to stick to that one minute. Thank you so much. And then can we just have that repeated again in spanish and chinese as well . I noticed les vamos repetir participants el publico por favor. Logan an un solo minuto no vamos a ver mas de menos un minuto por favor. Gracias. Come on. Yahoo doyan cadena come on, ginger. Say verify you. Yes thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Linda. Go ahead, please. Hi. My name is linda lagunas, and i have a child. One of the Students School im calling regarding the proposed split of the school during construction. And i just want to say i dont trust San Francisco usd as funding the school. Seems like a way to chip away and divide our community. I dont have faith in you and what you divide us that will reconstitute the school as it was and if you think im paranoid, then tell me why we never received our money in the first place. So i have what . I dont know. If you were waiting for us to atrophy and shrivel up so was also school or this is a new tactic, but most most of my thoughts and you know, for the love of god, give those people that the contract. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Tom hi. My wife and i are both parents and special education teachers in the district. I feel bad for the seiu members that they had to go there. Theyre not being disruptive. Theyre trying to get respect from you. Dr. Wayne. As a parent, i was appalled by the two emails, he said. Since one from the seiu and the other for the esf. These are not fair. Youre telling half truths. Youre not saying that the district has not budged on the special education caseload numbers. Youre trying to fool parents and try to make teachers and school staff look greedy. I urge parents families to think about this more. We dont want Strings Attached. Contract. Please treat people fair. Please treat them with respect so they stay and want to come back. Please visit our school. Dolores huerta. Please visit all schools. Dr. Wayne. Not just the ones where you go because you get to take a nice photo on. Im tired of this. Thank thank you. Maria. Maria. Lacava the annual. Radiation is thoi moved to conejo middle for and suburban for no separate busses. Gracias. Can we please. Hi my name is alejandro and i study at at. And im here because i am very sad and im very scared because you want to separate from my brother. Thank you. Thank you. So cheryl. Cheryl. Oh. Oops good evening. My name is cheryl barton. Im the youth advisor for the San Francisco branch of the naacp. And im here tonight to talk about disproportionate suspension rate of black students in the San Francisco unified School District. Black students achieving equity in education for black students is crucial and requires addressing these underlying causes. Some of the reasons for the disparity in the School Suspension include implicit bias, zero tolerance policies, socioeconomic factors and socioeconomic disparities that can impact students behavior, lack of cultural, relevant education and lack of cultural, relevant curriculum and teaching practices can disengage black students. S. We need to work towards having a we need to work towards having a suspension rate go down. I understand that theres supposed to be Restorative Justice in the schools, but that is not happening. I have two youth in my Youth Council that have already been suspended twice in the school year, is only six weeks in and their traumatized. One of them is a new high schooler in the ninth grade and shes completely traumatized. And so i think theres some this has to be addressed in this issue. And i also want to say that i support the seiu 10 to 1 number. Please give them a contract. Thank you, cheryl. Vilma. Hello. Good evening. My name is vilma. Im a community member. And i just im i just wanted to share my support with the united educators of San Francisco and bringing shared governance to sf unified as well as expanding Community Schools. Thank you. Thank you. Carmen. Las vegas torres. So my name is rodriguez de la escuela. La vista de mi comentario me petition for homesteads is not supporting lagunas de la escuela in total drama. It is. It is about settlements. He when i visit la comunidad oneida queremos alcs uyghur buena vista is a kindergarten for is a separado gracias. Gracias hello, my name is Karen Rodriguez and. So are you. Im sorry. My name is Carmen Rodriguez and i am a leader at hmm. And so my comment and it goes towards about not separating the community. We just think about the trauma and the psychological issues that youre going to cause to our students. Students, we are a very unified community and we are k through eight school. And so please do not separate our students. Thank you. Thank you. Sarah. Hello. Good evening. Board my name is sarah shemesh. I i teach second grade in oakland. Im a member of Oakland Education Association and i just wanted to express my support for the esf and San Francisco teachers and in fighting for Community Schools and shared governance. Ive been in school sites where there is a wonderful communication throughout and its a really, really Supportive Community where really wonderful work can happen at. And ive also been in sites where thats not happening at all, and its very cycling. So i really, really support, um, the, the wide spread adaptation of shared governance and Community Schools because it really is better for students, for it in order to serve the whole child. Thanks. Thank you. President bogus thought is the ten minute mark that you allotted for our virtual Public Comment. We do still have some hands raised. Why dont we go ahead and take those last hands and then well transition. Okay. So i will call the names. Is it okay to call the names of the hands that are currently up . And just so okay, i have kiki, david, vanessa. Peraza, yolanda, kylie, kampala and sealy. I just see laura and charles. So the names i just called will be the last ten folks. And then again, you have one minute to speak and well in Public Comment will be closed by 805. I think just to indicate that this will be the end for this this round of public. Okay. So we will close Public Comment at 805. David go ahead, please. Okay. David fellow Teachers Association or association mta was one of the first in california to include the Community Schools articles in our collective Bargaining Agreement with the district and form of that agreement. That article was a School District steering committee. It is difficult to commit to share. Decision making, but its critically important to do so. This San Franciscos have truly transformed into Community Schools that deliver to students , families and community what they deserve. Ucsf is asking for a commitment they are asking for this board to partner with them with students, parents and communities. Coalitions just like david. Yes hello. Yes, you can go ahead. Theres about 15 more seconds for you to continue with your comment. Did you not hear my comment . I just read i just said, oh, okay. Thank you so much. Im sorry i didnt realize you were done. Thank you. Vanessa. Vanessa thank you, alicia. Good evening, everyone. My name is vanessa. Im the executive director of parents for Public Schools of San Francisco. Im really excited to hear that the Us Department of education visited to see how awesome were doing around green. So lets make sure that we also get more visits for academic achievement. Im i guess im just trying to understand what Effective Partnerships mean to the district given the recent partnership with a Political Action committee. Im really concerned about the ethics and how partnerships are being determined and how that intersects with the brown and green act. So i look forward to hearing more from superintendent wayne about the defining terms related to that and to hopefully work towards an Effective Partnership, take care. Thank you. But elsa or peraza. Yes . Can you hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Hi, my name is norma. I am a mother of three current children at buena vista haussmann. I just wanted to reach out and say, i hope you guys think of the decisions that you guys make in separating our community. It is very painful for our children even to even think about being separated at all and even out of the mission. I think there should be a better thought and keeping the students together and think about what benefits the children in this point and my second or my first grade daughter wanted to say something. I really wanted to go to target school because kindergarten, first grade, because can they . The first grade, the bigger kids can be more bigger than us. Yeah it might be traumatized children just being sharing a school with high school kids. Thank you. Yolanda. Hello . Can you hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Would you like to wait until one of the Vice President s of the naacp today voiced deep concern and protest of the recent changes in the boards meetings. Its disheartening to learn the opportunity for Public Comments which used to be available at public meetings, has been reduced to just one meeting and limited to a mere one minute. This decision to stifle Public Discourse silences the voice of concerned residents and Community Members who are deeply invested in education and wellbeing of our impressionable young students, particularly those from minority backgrounds. As a collective, we must recognize the importance of open dialog and transfer agency when it comes to shaping the future of our educational system. By limiting Public Comments, you are effectively suppressing valuable input and diverse perspectives which could contribute to the growth and improvement of our schools. I implore this board to reconsider your decision. Its your duty to reinstate the Public Comments for both meetings, allowing for sufficient time for meaningful discussion. Doing so will ensure the Education System remains inclusive, equitable, responsible to all the needs of the students. Let us Work Together to foster an environment where every voice is heard, respected and considered in the Decision Making process. Our students deserve nothing less. Thank you. Thank you. Kyle. Hi, kyle. Weinberg president of san diego education association, an indian sibling of usf and seiu, and representing more than 6000 union educators in san diego. Weve advocated for transformational Community Schools that provide services and support that fit each neighborhoods needs by empowering parents, community partners, students, educators and administrators to problem solve collaboratively and help our highest needs. Schools become a hub for community action, power and resources in san diego unified and in partnership with district leadership, weve now enshrined shared Decision Making in Community Schools into our contract. We know that shared Decision Making is the foundational Community School pillar that allows us to implement the rest of the Community School pillars with fidelity without that guaranteed family student and staff voice in key school decisions, were leaving out those critical perspectives that we need to make better policies that bring equitable resources and practices to our highest need communities. I strongly urge San Francisco unified to work like we have in san diego with the district unions and Community Allies as equal partners to improve the Community School strategy together. Thank you. Kampala. Good evening. Board my name is kampala transfer. Im actually a graduate of whittier high school, which i believe now is the school of the arts. And now the Vice President of the Oakland Education Association, an oakland teachers are standing with usf fight to expand Community Schools and bring about real shared governance that will bring families and students and Educator Voice into schools, which ultimately will improve academic outcomes. It is something that clearly youve heard from several other labor unions that came on, but we also in oakland were able to achieve in our contract, please settle this contract with full service Community Schools and shared governance. Thank you. Thank you. Cecily. Thank you, cecily myartcruz president of united teachers, los angeles. 37,000 members strong Community Schools are the truest antidote to privatization because it centers our babies and their families and the community with transfer formational change. The state of california recognized that this Community School model is the future of public education, and thats why theyve invested 4. 1 billion into this transformative model. We are asking you this board, this district, to stand with you. If in their quest for shared Decision Making on the Community School model, this model works in los angeles, it is enshrined in our contract. It it is providing power and transformational change for our babies and the community in which we serve. We want you to right now not survive it means that we have to become collaborative partners in doing so. Thank you, sicily. That is your time. Thank you. We are. Laura. Hi, everyone. Medea, i have two kids in the district. I am beyond moved by the support of the representatives statewide are supporting our babies, our San Francisco babies. Im here to echo shared Decision Making. It must be the way we lead. The Community School model provides a wholesome framework that guides us to lead this transformative work. Please lead with courage and include this language in our work and contract. S. Please listen to our unions and provide a fair and inclusive contract. Dont delay. Our babies are waiting. Thank you. Charles. C. S s you to give context. The current s ss us offered seiu women that the sfusd employees will make the current city pay rate in two years. So why do we have a problem recruiting people . Well, the pay is horrible and you only want to delay to further pay improvements. Theres a reason why we only have, you know, 75 of our teachers are credentialed. So please just pay them better. Find the money somewhere or thank you. Thank you. President. We are at 805. Theres still a couple of hands raised. I think were going to have to move on to our the remainder of our in public are in person Public Comment on agenda items. And then i think we have Public Comment on agenda items virtually as well to finish up. So well well have to stop Public Comment on non agenda items. Now im sorry for the folks who werent able to provide Public Comment and well go to the folks with cards in the room. Thank you. We have one for inperson Chanel Blackwell chanel. Testing. You guys hear me now . My name is chanel and my kids are grades 12 and seven. And i would like to bring attention to the grants and contracts. The board will approve multi contracts and budget amendments. We are still waiting on a stronger process that connects these contracts to students outcomes and our vision, values and guardrails. At a time when we are in major budget and resources alignment, ensuring a stronger process for contract management might be critical and overdue. Focus on the district team. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes inperson Public Comment on agenda items. Okay. We will now take a virtual Public Comments for items that are on the agenda. So again, these are speaking to items that are on the agenda. Each speaker will have one minute. Please raise your hand if you care to give Public Comment on any item that is on the agenda. Can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese . My sentence is algun comentario relacionado la agenda por favor de la mano. Gracias. Hello. I have long the only. Con home. Comments out you leaving home park. People think they. Cant. How you guys all right. Thank you. Starchild yes. Starchild, chair of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco. In light of people being silent, not able to give Public Comment at when the meeting time should be extended , id like to use the balance of my time for a minute of silence. That is not a comment on an agenda item. So. Kiki. Kiki. Well, actually, i did not. I mean, i didnt actually have my hand raised. Im not sure this is a good time to comment, but i do have a question about the number of people who have. Kiki, i am sorry. It is not sorry. Go ahead. Sorry. Sorry to interrupt you. Is your comment on an agenda item we are currently taking Public Comment on items that are on the agenda. It has to do with the with the contract negotiations. Which is not on the agenda. Thats not an agenda item. So i do apologize. Were going to move on and then thank you. Charles. Yeah i just have a quick question on about the Financial Report and the gann limit. I guess thats in the actuals or the reports at the end of the meeting. So i just wanted to know if it had anything to do with a drop in the average daily attendance or ada. So thats my thats my comment. Thank you very much. Thank you. Vanessa. Yes, good evening. Its vanessa again from parents for Public Schools of San Francisco. I wanted to really congratulate the community Advisory Committee. Its members, for stepping up as a parent of two individuals disabilities, one on the spectrum. I believe its really important to have parents at the table. So thank you for stepping up to do that and count on us for support. Um, and then lastly , really want to congratulate Christina Wong, who is the special assistant of the superintendent who has done a phenomenal job on the multi learner achievement and success roadmap, where shes literally talked to almost everyone about their feedback. Um, i really appreciate that Effective Partnership and looking forward to collaborating with her again. Thank you. Thank you. Ismail. Good evening. I want to comment on the budget items so my name is Ishmael Armendariz and i am the president of the Oakland Education Association. Today at and my message mostly is to the educators of San Francisco regarding the budget. Last year we went on a seven day strike because our district bargained unfairly around Community Schools. And my message to the educators of San Francisco, if you dont get it, shut it down. We will be with you. We stand with you and we will shut down the city. We will shut down oakland if they dont put it into your contract. Thank you. Its like a guest. Im sorry. This is harvey kelly, and im calling on behalf of the cac and i just wanted to congratulate the new cac members and just to let you know that im with you, even though im not there at. And i also wanted to thank Christina Wong as well for reaching out to the cac special education Advisory Committee to work on the new multitiered goal and fees and really looking forward to seeing how that evolves. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. That does conclude virtual comment, virtual Public Comment for agenda items. Thank you so much and thank you to everyone who came out in person or virtually to provide Public Comment just to make the public aware. Were trying to find a balance of creating a space for the public to comment, as well as a space for the board to get its work done at a reasonable time before people run away from our meetings. Also, just want to make people aware that california state law does not allow for us to respond to Public Comment or engage in any kind of dialog or conversation at this space, knowing that thats kind of how the space has been used a lot. Were working to create some other spaces for both. The board and the district to engage in meaningful conversations and dialogs about a lot of the issues that folks care about in the district. And so hopefully folks will be able to come out and participate in those events as they come. If you do have questions for the board or things that youre curious about, just please direct those in email to board staff or call the board office. The question and answer function on zoom is not something that is meant to be used for question and answers. Its really for accessibility to ensure that all people in our School Community can access the meetings. So your comments in there may not be responded to. Just to think, to give a heads up for folks who are asking questions about the board procedure or agenda items and so with that, i will stop talking about Public Comment and we will transition on to item h, which is our consent calendar. Can i have a motion and a second on the consent calendar for ill move the consent calendar. Second, thank you. Any items withdrawn or corrected. Superin superintendent . No. Okay. And with that, we have a roll call vote on the consent items which can be found in the agenda. Thank you. Student delegate simpson. Yes, thank you. Student delegate cho yes. Thank you, commissioner alexander. Yes commissioner fisher. Yes. Commissioner lamb. Yes. Commissioner motamedi yes. Commissioner sanchez. Vice president wiseman. Ward yes. President bogus. Yes yes. Six eyes. Thank you. Thank you so much. And with that, we will transition to transit action to item i, which are our action items. Well start with item one and were going to be doing something a little bit different with the presentation. Were going to utilize the clock to kind of set a time limit for the presentation as we move things forward. No pressure, but just kind of letting folks know. You did you want. All right. Thank you, president bogus. And we are pleased to be presenting our multilingual roadmap to the board for approval. And so well get right down to it. And want to welcome Christina Wong, special assistant to the superintend ent, who has been the lead on what has been really a collective effort to develop an updated plan for our multilingual learners. Thank you, superintendent wayne. Good evening. Commissioners and student delegates. I am proud to present the new roadmap for multilingual learner achievement success next slide. Today we ask the board to consider and adopt the roadmap. This is an asset based approach to providing multilingual Learner Services and support, and its been developed and informed by the experiences of our students, educators, teachers and education partners. Just as a point of background, every School District in california is required to have an english learner plan approved by the school board and so this plan, this roadmap would actually replace our current english learner plan, which was developed under the Consent Decree. So i think the biggest change is the change in terminology. So instead of using English Learners, we will now use a more inclusive, asset based and holistic term. And this is really inspired by our student fellows who helped design the multilingual learner roadmap map, multilingual, sorry, multilingual learners refer to students who are learning english as a new language while honoring, preserving and developing the academic proficiency of students Home Languages whenever available. Note we will still use the term english learner for specific state and federal data requirements so that we are still in alignment. Just one Demographic Data over our 52 of our sfu students speak a language other than english. 7. 6 are. If initial fluent English Proficient English Learners make up 26. 4 are reclassified. Students who have demonstrated proficiency. We are at 18. 4. And when looking at our data, we have over 60 languages or dialects represent it. So this visual just gives you a depiction of our evolution of the San Francisco english learner plan. We actually have been under the Consent Decree for over 45 years, as that means we were under federal Court Supervision in this sunset in 20 1918. And since then weve continued to use the Consent Decree and till hopefully this point in time when we hopefully will be able to move forward with a multilingual learner roadmap, it is to serve this roadmap will serve as guidance to educators on supporting and educating our diverse population of multilingual learners and their families as and at the same time, its also aligned to state and federal legal requirements, which monitors every other year wanted to share some of the multilingual Roadmap Development process. This started almost immediately after we sunset the Consent Decree in june of 2019. We had a l Plan Leadership Team that was made up of educators, district departments, dlac and other Community Organizations that serve our multi lingual learners. We also had two semesters of working with english learner student fellowships fellowship, one cohort were actually newcomer students, and then the other cohort were reclassified students. So it really gave us an idea of the journey that a lot of our multilingual learners go through. We also made presentations to our ell coordinators and as well as the dlac families as they have been part of this throughout the entire process. After we had a draft in spring of 2023, we met with all of these organizations that have had some history in serving multilingual learners or has had a history in advocating on behalf of multilingual learners through the Consent Decree. They provide us with feedback. So we incorporated a lot of the feedback. Some of the feedback actually will be very helpful as we develop regulations and protocols and guidelines. So just wanted to share a vision statement for multilingual learners. This actually is taken from the california roadmap state roadmap for English Learners. So in addition to the districts vision, we also have for multilingual learners, that includes attaining high levels of english proficiency, mastery of grade level standards and opportunities to develop proficiency in multiple languages as and if the mission is also from the california roadmap. In addition to our district mission, we want to have schools affirm. Welcome, respond to a diverse range of multilingual learners, strengths, needs and identities. We hope that graduates leave sfusd with a linguistic academic and social skills and competencies that require for College Career civic participation in a global diverse and multilingual world. In summary, we wanted to share whats new and whats the same. So so for a lot of the state and federal requirements that will remain the same, we thats something that weve had spent years developing systems and infrastructure for, to make sure that we are meeting the various state and federal requirements. So you can see from Home Language survey to lpac down to translation and Interpretation Services for families to the evaluation monitoring of the system of support that we have for multilink learners. Whats new . So it really is the framework of services and support for multilingual learners. It includes both the promising practices that we learned from years under the Consent Decree as well as the local, state and federal required payments. And it is approaching the work with an assets base approach to supporting our multilingual learners and their families and really recognizing their language and culture and creating a cultural responsive learning environment for their students. Also, something that was missing from the Consent Decree was this connection and alignment to our school plan for student achievement, as well as our local control and accountability plan. So as school sites are developing their synapses and as we as a district develop our lcap, we want to make sure that there are clear alignment around what our goals are and what our measures are for multilingual learners. This is just a visual of the six chapters that we have, but ill just go into clusters of chapters. Thank you. So for chapter two, this really speaks to the journey to multilingual proficiency from enrollment and identification of our students to the lpac that they have to take and as you can see, we i tried to also include not only multilingual learners, but also multilingual learners with ieps. So for the lpac, for example, students would take the standard. But then if their iep indicate its, they can also take the alternate lpac. Same thing with the Services Based on ell typologies and ieps. So services are also going to be based on if they were a newcomer to or a long term deal. And also any of the linguistic goals that happen to be in an iep for reclassification option as a district. Weve had a standard process and also an individualized process that we will continue. And at the end for high school is the seal of biliteracy and those are students s who have demonstrated proficiency in english as well as in a target language. Okay so before i mean, the work that weve done with the roadmap actually came a little bit prior to the goals and guardrails. But as we move forward, were always trying to align what the goals and guardrails and particularly for the teaching and learning chapters that are in the roadmap , there is some clear alignment , but especially for interim goals one and two. So in the chapters, chapters one, three and four, thats where we have those particular chapters actually support the connection in and implementation of students reaching interim goals for third grade literacy as well as eighth grade math. There are many guardrails that connect to the roadmap, but one in particular speaks to the asset based approach, and thats guardrail three under curriculum and instruction. And so the superintendent will not allow curriculum and instruction. That is not rooted in excellence, challenging, engaging, student centered and culturally responsive and differentiated to meet the academic needs of students. And so again, its these are the three main chapters that speak to this particular guardrail. For chapter five. This is centered around family and Community Engagement and connections. And so you can see in the center is translation and Interpretation Services for families, the services that we continue to provide will remain as we move forward. But we also wanted to clarify the connection between elac and the ssc and also dlac with lcap. So those connections are clarified in this particular chapter. And chapter six is where the program evaluation, monitoring and accountability happens. There are many Different Levels and layers of monitoring. The first one is looking at the data sets that we have for multilingual learners, particularly around the english learner proficiency indicator lp, which is what the state requires us to look at. And its critical every school site has access to their own lp data for their students and teachers are able to see the growth that they make year to year. And so from the central level, we want to be able to look at that and be able to make any strategic changes for the monitoring implementation and resource allocation. This is really trying to get into classrooms and being able to see is our implement is happening, do they have the right resources to be able to implement the services that we need . The last one is around monitoring multilingual learner requirements at the state and federal levels. We seem to be a favorite of cd, so we are monitored every other year and so far for the last 15, 20 years, thats been the pattern. Whether its an online audit or an inperson audit, these are just some of the current these are not exhaustive, but some of the current investments, they do not include existing school site allocations, ins. But as we were looking at the investments and the roadmap, were not anticipating any fiscal impact with the roadmap because a lot of the systems and structures and allocations that we have built in over the last, well, 15 years, 15 years are still remain in place. But this will give you an idea of our current investments. And lastly, the board is taking one step of the process by hopefully approving this board policy, the roadmap. But after this, just to let folks know that we will be developing regulations to provide more specific policy implementation requirements and then guidelines for our school sites in terms of all of the policies and regulations and how do we provide that specific direction to teachers and administrators. And i think thats the last slide. I do want to say before i take questions and discussion, this has been a really long journey with a Wonderful Team right here. Okay with a Wonderful Team. And they have all played an instrumental part in being contributors to this particular roadmap. So i just wanted to acknowledge that. Thank you. I was turning on my microphone to do the same. I do want to appreciate the team effort and the work over several years and both in the presentation, christina shared where theres the connection to our goals and guardrails is one that wasnt highlighted is i think in this process this process started before we talked about working with the community on major decisions. But i think the work that theyve done to proactively outreach to different groups and the feedback theyve received on that is an example of what it means to engage our community when making decisions such as how were going to proceed to better support our multi language learners. Thank you so much for the presentation action. Thank you so much to the team for all the hard work and the attention to detail and pulling this together. I think now we will take comments from commissioners and then well do the other parts. Okay okay. Well start with commissioner lamb and then well go commissioner fisher and well see if theres additional comment. Thank you to the team that put this very important roadmap together. Christina, i had a question. We spoke very briefly beforehand and i understand that with the regulations and guidelines will be really kind of the depth of the implementation. There was a board question that was submitted earlier before the meeting around how monitoring will occur in meeting our Student Outcome goals, either both for the district or through this roadmap. So i just wanted to have an ask when and how will smart goals be be integrated into the regulations or guidelines to ensure that that we are making progress because i do understand that right now how we will measure ourselves around those 3 or 4 frame works. But having those smart goals i think will give the board a clearer indicator of when were on track , off track or what its going to take in order to meet the Student Outcomes for our our multilingual learners. Yes, thats why i did mention the regulations and also the guidelines, because in the past what weve done as a team, we do have an internal Oversight Committee and that continues to be remain in the roadmap and every year the internal Oversight Committee actually decides and prioritize what theyre exactly going to look at and so i think thats going to be part of some of the implementation that will happen when the internal Oversight Committee comes together. But creating smart goals would be the first step. So to the superintendent, i think being able to integrate that into the monitoring for the board will also be important just as a refresher, im sure the staff knows this data, but for the public, when we did our monitoring workshop last month, we have at least an indicator of our multilingual learners from 21, 22 to 20 2 to 23. There was a decrease of ten points Percentage Points for our multilingual learners. I know that is top of mind of how we can really support our students in their progress, and this is related to the third grade proficiency. One other question is what do you anticipate . I mean, the district sfusd has been under the Consent Decree. Weve been, you know, under federal state monitoring for decades. What do you anticipate will be some of the most difficult or challenges as we continue to realize to this roadmap and for Student Learning and their outcomes . I think always in terms of consistency and implementation is always a factor. Thats why even in the Consent Decree, there was always a requirement of constant Ongoing Professional Development and awareness of what the requirements are. And so as we continue, thats i know thats a commitment that the team has to really make sure that our educators, our administrators are aware of what those requirements are because we have many transitions. We have so its not just a one and done kind of thing, its just this ongoing thing and providing the support that our that our educators need. Thank you very much. I am super excited about this work and i have to apologize because i we aim to ask strategic questions, but i think mine might be a little more technical. So i apologize in advance for that. But i just had a clarification on slide ten and what i saw on page 24 and 25 of the manual in that i see whats the same is reclassification. But when you go into page 24 and 25, it states that there is no opt out. And is that a change . Ive actually sat with iep meetings and teams at schools where because of a childs the elpac test has been the barrier to a child being reclassified and so we have a form where students ive actually filled out that form with school teams. So is did that change somewhere or. So there isnt a waiver for the lpac like there is a waiver for the sbac, but what you can do in the iep is basically he said, well, the lpac may not be the appropriate assessment for the student, but now that that was like maybe a couple of years ago, but now we have the alternate lpac. So so in the iep, if they select alternate lpac, then thats the appropriate assessment for that student. For some students, they actually can do like the listening and speaking portion of the lpac, and then maybe they need support. So that can also happen too. So i dont know if that answers your question. Yeah i mean, just going back to the equity issue there, we dont want a test to impact a students ability to be reclassified, right . So just as long as we have, im just again, this is overly technical and i apologize, but the way this is written, i im worried that it could be a barrier depending on how its interpreted. There is also a section on individualized reclassification that also looks at that too. So yeah, so i think that might help balance the what youre seeing. Okay. Okay thank you very much. And then i think the other issue that we see, we again translate in policy 50 to 23. I was really excited to see that that referenced here and that specific states that every effort will be made to translate documents ahead of time like ieps, the very Technical Assessments and so to commissioner lamms point, every effort is not measurable ahead of time, is not measurable. And when youre talking about Something Like a psycho educational report, thats a whole lot of Technical Information that a family has to read. And its hard to get the English Version ahead of going into a meeting, let alone a translated version. So im wondering, when we talk about measuring, is that the kind of thing that will be measuring as well if were referencing board policy 5023 like are we actually , i havent attended an iep meeting in sfusd since january other than my own kids, but but i have never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever sat in a meeting where a parent has been handed a translated version of their iep or their psycho report or anything. It always happens. 3 or 4 weeks after the meeting, which is a barrier to meaningful parental participation, which is a parents legal right. I think what we can do is to look at the data that we currently have and just build upon that. So thats something that translation interpretation unit keeps very close track of. And if theyre not tracking the right information because i think we will also have to know when the iep meeting actually is and then kind of backwards map, we can build that system in. I think if were going to talk about meaningfully engaging with families is knowing when the documents are provided versus when the meeting is held is going to be really important. I have one, commissioner alexander, then ill have one final comment. Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much, christina and team for this incredible work. Its really in depth and yeah, just looking forward to seeing it roll out my question was more around the context that our newcomer students are facing right now. And i know this may be this is outside the scope maybe of the report, but just curious if you have comments because, you know, we have so many newcomer families. Theres been a huge uptake in the last couple of years. I believe its between 800 and 1000 kids arriving every year. And many of them right now are unhoused and living on the streets. Kids are sleeping in busses, public busses in vehicles, all of our family shelters are full in the city. The Hotel Voucher program that the city has is also full. And so you know, these are families. The families are seeking asylum in almost every case. And so kids have already been through a lot of trauma. And now are experiencing trauma here in our city as they attempt to, you know, to even just have a roof over their head and food on the table. So im just curious, you know, how that is going to impact these efforts. Right, in terms of educating ing our kids. Like if they dont have stable housing and food, it becomes really difficult to implement a plan like this. And so thats not necessarily our responsibility as a School District. And we are already hosting the shelter at bvm, which is phenomenal as as an example of us partnering with the city on that. But im just curious if we have thoughts as staff about what how that plays in how that reality on the ground right now plays, plays into this. Thank you. Thats a really great question. Its a reality check that we all have to face. We currently have rise sf, which is our newcomer orientation and referral service. So these the staff is actually based in the Enrollment Center and they provide on the Spot Services and referrals and the social workers are very much connected to whats available in the community in terms of maybe not necessarily housing because thats very limited right now, but other services around food insecurity, community services, legal services, a lot of those types of services. I think that this is something that we have to continue to partner with our Community Organizations that we work very closely with right now. So but it is something that we are very much aware of. Delegate i was just curious to what extent these resources courses or specific resources are going to be provided to educators to ensure their proper supporting their multilingual students. That includes Translation Services for when they are in meetings where they require that on the day of the meeting, as well as antiracism training to an extent to ensure that they arent out, whether its an english teacher talking down their student for misplacing a word, misplacing grammar rules, etcetera, or a language teacher, a teacher teaching, for example , spanish marking down a student for using slang as opposed to textbook spanish. So training and resources for educators to ensure that doesnt happen. Is that part of this plan. I while my colleague Amy Gottesfeld comes up, were i can comment on the language services. So every school site has access to Language Line, which they can actually immediately call right there. But if there is an iep or another community, a meeting that happens and they do have to give adequate notice so that theres an inperson but at the very least, they have Language Line that they can access for services. Hello, commissioners, my name is Amy Gottesfeld. Im the supervisor in multilingual pathways and in regards to training for teachers and educators of all grade levels, were working on in a variety of contexts in order to ensure that teachers not only have the right access to the instructional materials, tools that are differentiated and support all levels of language proficiency, but also that theres professional development provided so that educators understand the best way to implement and use those materials and most certainly maintaining a mindset, an assets based mindset about students so that they see the strengths and the talents that their students come with with. And thats going to take some work, some ongoing work, because the work of shifting mindsets is a long term project for all of us. And when we constantly have to weave in to any professional development that we do about materials or strategies or pedagogy, thank you. My question maybe is more directed to the superintendent, but i think the appropriate staff, i guess, can can answer. I guess im curious about what is our thought as a district of how we will fully implement this roadmap in a way that addresses some of the historical gaps that weve seen in achievement across different student populations, thinking about things that were dealing with, like staffing shortages and kind of how were pulling staff from all over to kind of fill voids and as well as all the other things that are happening around like staffing and how were restructuring some of those pieces. If you could just talk a little bit about how all of those things factor into the way students will see and experience this and how we wont fall into some of the pitfalls we may be experiencing. Some of our previous plans as far as not having all students be equally successful and kind of trying to deal with those outcome gaps. Yeah, i think, i mean, in general, as we continue to work towards our particularly our goals for Student Outcomes, its, you know, again, how is the our strategies and initiatives continually aligned to those, you know, to those goals . Right . So when were talking then about our multilingual learners, we have this asset based approach. But then when were saying for literacy and were working on foundational skills, what does that look like in, you know, our english only classrooms and our biliteracy classrooms . So i think its going to be a continuing thing to make sure that the strategies that were working, putting in place to meet our goals are are, you know , are taking into consideration the needs of our student population and our multilingual, multi language learners is an important population for whom we need to take into account their needs. No, i appreciate hearing that. Thank you so much. Yeah. And i guess for me, its ultimately, i think having confidence in staff and their assessment that we are in a place to fully implement what this roadmap as its laid out and that weve aligned our resources to do that. Hearing from folks. It feels like weve done that. And i think as we check in periodically through this process, if that changes or if it seems that weve miscalculated, i think the board would definitely love to know that, to figure out how we can allocate the appropriate resources to ensure that were successful. I think i speak on behalf of all of us up here that this is a very urgent priority for us and that we really want to see this fully implemented in the way that we envisioned it. So all of our students, families and sites can be successful. And so if theres any issues or challenges with that, please let the superintendent know. Please come back to the board and let us figure out how we can find more resources to support what youre trying to do. Thank you so much for your presentation. Okay. And with that, we will go to our next action item, which is item we actually need to take a vote on this item. We do need to do that first. We also need to we also need to move it in a second because i have a motion in a second on the side. Second, thank you so much. Can we have a roll call vote, please . Yes. Thank you. Student delegate simpson. Yes. Student delegate toe commissioner alexander. Yes. Commissioner fisher. Yes commissioner lamb. Yes commissioner motamedi. Yes commissioner sanchez. Vice president wiseman award. Yes. President bogus. Yes. Six ayes. Thank you. Thank you for that. Im very anxious to move forward. My apologies. We will go to the Second Action Item and i will pass it to the superintendent to present the presenter. Okay thank you. This is another action item. This is the presentation of our unaudited actuals. And so in the budget cycle, for every year we start back in june of the Previous Year with presenting our budget. So this year were talking actually about the 2223 budget. So that was presented and approved for by the board of education in june of 2022. And then we have different reports we do for that budget. We do a first interim report, a Second Interim report in june of 2023. We did an estimated actuals this is thinking about estimated how much we spent for the year and then this report is the unaudited actuals. So this is then our closing of the books would be what this is this report is how were we are determining what we actually spent for the 22, 23 school year. And what that leaves us in terms of our ending fund balance moving forward. And so this does need to be presented and approved by the board. And then the final step for the 2223 budget is youll receive an audited actuals. Thats done by an independent auditor to review our our review of closing the books and to reconcile any differences. So to present the unaudited actuals, id like to introduce our new Financial Services officer, jackie chen. Thank you. Pressure. Pressure. Mike button. There you go. Thank you, dr. Nguyen. Good evening. Board commissioners and the Community Members and the student delegates. And tonight, i will present to you the unaudited actuals for the 22, 23 year before i dive into the financial details, id like to take a moment and to express my thanks to my colleagues. Fiscal Services Department manager carter chen, rachel tang, Business Services executive director marie Budgeting Department director emily and jennifer and all of the Business Division staffs who worked tireless over the past few months and to close out the fiscal year 22, 23 year. Next slide. Fiscal year 22, 23 year ended on june 30th, 2023. As a district and a county of education, we are required to submit the unaudited actuals by october 15th, with the boards approval tonight, we are on track to meet the official Submission Deadline by october 15th. Next. Here is a high level overview of the county office of education fund. This table provides a side by side comparison between the 20 to 23 year unaudited actuals and the estimated actuals as of june 30th. This compares and covers the key points elements of beginning from the balance revenue, new expenditures and the net surplus or shortfall which ultimately contributed to the ending fund balance. The ending fund balance for 2223 year improved by 2. 3 million in compare to the estimated actual , which brings the ending fund balance. To 8. 9 million out of the 8. 9 million, ending fund balance. 4. 2 million will be available for pending salary compensation. Cost of overall county of education maintains a very healthy ending fund balance and also meet the minimum reserve requirements next, lets now shift our focus to the district financials comparison between the unaudited actuals and the with the estimated actuals. The ending fund balance of the district has shown a positive improvement of 8. 1 million, resulting in a total ending fund balance of 413 million. In the upcoming slides , we will dive into a more Detailed Analysis for the total revenues, total expenditures and ending fund balances. Next. Compared to the estimated actuals the unaudited actual of total revenues show a decrease of approximately 50 million and in the recognized revenue, this decrease of the report and revenue is primarily due to the deferred federal and state funding that was not expanded or recognized in the fiscal year 2223 year. These programs, including the one time funding such as the esser three funding , 26. 8 million, as well as the various other federal and state Funding Sources listed above. Title one, title three, no child left behind educator effective grant and a strong workforce grant. Next compared to the estimated actuals, the unaudited Actual Expenditures were also decreased by approx. Similarly, 60 million because of vacancy vs attrition in personnel costs and other materials and supplies. Next. Continue of previous and presented. This represented the components of both restricted and unrestricted. The district ending fund balance. The ending funded balance has improved by 8 million and compared with the estimated actual which contributed to the total ending fund balance of 413 million, with those ending fund balance, 2. 1 million is unspendable all such as the revolving cash store prepaid 193 million are restricted, ending fund balance, including federal state and local grants. 125 million committed ending fund balance, including stabilization plan to address the structural deficit spending and awful 6 million other committed funding balance are assigned to the system implementation and rainy day reserves. 22. 4 million represents for the required district of reserve for economic uncertainty. There is another assigned ending fund balance of 70 million allocated to various purposes, including health and welfare workers compensation, collect Bargaining Agreement pending settlements and a small amount of reserve to the address. Empower sfe regular cities next as a highlight as the previous slides and the 2223 year ending fund balance has improved due to a combination of a sales things in salary expenditures and the uses of one time money, federal and state funding to offset the operational expenditures. Looking ahead to our upcoming first interim report that we will be focusing on updating the beginning fund balance in incorporating any changes from the recent proposed labor agreements and adjusting for personnel and operating expenditures. Changes compared to the adopted budget. Along with the updates for the federal, state and the programs as our ongoing analysis will also help us identify the trends from 2223 years that could impact the current fiscal year 2324 and shape our future budgeting. And for the 2425 year, the next reporting would be december. 15th. For the first interim report. Thank you. If you can go back to the previous slide. Thank you, miss chen. And just want to emphasize here what is noted around next steps. This report is really looking back at 20, 22, 23. Its not a plan for 23, 24 and beyond. And you can see the headline is we closed the books as and when closing the books, we have some more funding available all than what we anticipate dated. And that is in part helped us be able to increase our offers to our labor partners. But as is noted here, that we are going to need to reflect that in our ongoing budget moving forward when we start to do our reporting for this year and beyond. And so while any of these additional funds and when were looking at restricted funds, these are one time funds that were using. Ultimately, though, were going to need to have Ongoing Solutions to be able to provide the compensation. We know our employees need and deserve. And so were looking at the ongoing expenses being, you know, what weve already offered has been 100 million of ongoing expense is. And so this closing of the books helps for us to be able to do that in the short term. Long term, weve had and the board has given direction to have that resource alignment conversation as a district so we can make sure that were using our resources to support our staff who in the end are essential in order to meet our goals for Student Outcomes. And so, so i just wanted to highlight thats what youll start seeing now in future reports around the 2324 budget and beyond. Thank you so much to staff for that presentation. Thank you for all the hard work and for helping keep us on point with our fiscal responsibilities before we take any comments from commissioners, if i could get a motion in a second at this time and then well go to comments from commissioner. So moved second. Thank you so much. Do we have comments, questions from our student delegates or commissioners seeing none. Im seeing commissioner alexander start us off. Thank you so much for these this report. And i really just wanted to especially appreciate the slides where with the explanations which i know something that we had talked about of kind of breaking out when we had a difference between the estimated actuals and the unaudited actuals and then and then kind of breaking down like on slides five and six. Why is that happening . Thats really, really helpful. And so my question, i dont know if this if we havent done an analysis of this yet, but its fine to defer this. But i thought i would ask because it stood out to me. I wanted to ask about the classified salaries because that was a particular area that i remember during the budget conversation. A number of us raised and it came up. There was a blogger who wrote a post about it about our dramatic increases in budgeting for classified salaries. And then it looked and then it turns out that we actually didnt spend 33 million in salary. And i imagine a great deal of benefits as well was from classified. So im just curious, are those positions we expect expect to fill, are they in, you know, hr and business ops and places where were still trying to fill them or or or whats the whats why do we have an analysis yet of why there was that big variance. Partial offered are the vacancies we are having right now and the partial of it are the unrecognized revenues of the deferred revenues, which are the federal and state programs and we are planning to spending down those programs such as esser three and 22 million. And we are going to planning to spending down over the years. So its a combination. I dont have the percentage and the to how how much percentage and the to the vacancy and attrition how much but we can look into there in more detail. Commissioner motamedi. Yeah, just i guess a follow up question to that is and maybe its more for the super intendent as we lead into the first interim and december 15th, how, how were planning particularly around the classified staffing line item and then the question so you can think about that. And then the question that i had for you and thank you very much for the presentation is, is i know the audit the auditor is going through 2021, 22. Do we anticipate any changes is based upon that process and any findings out of that . Just that we should be prepared for, especially as we go into first interim . And then im also curious about how things are going with our new auditor since we have a new auditor and what the process is looking like there. So we dont have continued delay with our with our books being completely closed back to your first question, the 21, 22 year audit data, actual and the audited Financial Statements and our previous auditor, i debated and we just have assigned an engagement letter for them to come back again to look at all those findings. And because we they havent complete the audit and complete completed report, right now we have the disclaimer opinion and we are going to take to the board at the next meeting and then their work going to start from november six and from our previous auditor and ibt and hopefully we can have the updates and the before 22, 23 years as the audit and im going to present to the board next year, january. Okay so just so i get the timeline correct. So i. Bailey expects to have their work completed before our november 14th meeting. Ing and then the, the new engagement with the new auditor is beginning november sixth. Is that what i just heard . Yeah. Let me clarify a little bit more. And the 2122 year in the general in on in general should be completed already and by last year already. But we havent and we are extending this and engagement with bailey and they are going to come back and to the field and to complete this report started in january 6th. We all started in january. Im sorry, we all started in november 6th and then we are aiming to complete it and before the 22, 23 year, our new auditor , Christy White, because those ending found the balance and needed to be aligned with each other with the two reports. So just more timeline questions. So the so when would this new engagement with this Second Chapter . Because i, i understand that we are delayed and have asked for extension from cde. Do we have a anticipated deadline of when we will see the complete audited. Final for 2122 just because i mean, just as a commissioner, i am wanting to understand to any implications Going Forward from that work. So do we know when bailey will finish . So if theyre starting november 6th, do we have a deadline for when they will finish . We dont have a deadline. And the specifically when to finish and but we are aiming to finish it before the 22, 23 year audit, which will be end in january. Okay. So the 20 so the 22, right. Because there is a timeline. Were bringing this to this meeting because by october 15th, the 20 the unaudited actuals need to be approved and audited actuals for every year are approved when january by january 15th. Yes okay. So then are so we want the 2122 audited axles compm treated before the 2223 audited axles are completed because otherwise. Yeah so then what i would say is i know were reengaging with bailey for whatever you know, there were various challenges in completing that audit, but we are, you know, we have been frustrated that it hasnt been completed as well. So what id ask is that we get a timeline from bailey, like say, this is our timeline an and then if theres a concern, any concern about meeting that timeline that we are informed of that at the beginning of the engagement rather than when we get to january and were presenting the 22, 23 audited actuals. Yeah. Thank you for elaborate that. I appreciate that. I, i also i guess it would be helpful to understand category ically what the delays as, as a board member. I, i dont understand what the delays are in that completion. It was supposed to be done in january. I im nervous about seeing a first interim december 15th that doesnt have closed out books from the that were supposed to be completed in january. And so i guess the absence of that closure is if there could be a summary, would as as you go into an engagement with a bailey november 6th, a summary of categorically what what it is that is holding up their conclusion the finishing up of this work and what potential, if any exposure there is to the district. It does does this. Yes and we have received a draft report from bailey already and they closed our book already with the findings and the review coming back work. And its going to address all of those findings. So the address on the report and we are going to take to the board for approval for the 2122 audit, the financials. And in november Board Meeting, we have a draft already. Its even though its an incomplete, but we have a draft already. If we can hold that line of question there will come back to it. Were going to go to our student delegates because it is past nine. Me and megan do have to go, but i would like to advise i dont know who this would fall on, but making a form of this that is more accessible role in terms of i havent started my econ class yet, thats spring semester, but as a student, from a student perspective, this makes absolutely no sense to me. There are parts of it that are pretty straightforward and but i think to increase student engagement, it would make sense to give students something that they can engage with. Thank you. Thank you for those comments. And we will release our student delegates at this time. And i think we will also call for. Did you have more questions, commissioner fisher. Um, thank you for this. I thank you. Student delegate simpson by the way, for that. I think many of our other Community Members would echo what you just said. I think my question, im surprised to see slide five to see so many of our most restricted funds listed here. If theres one thing ive learned from our well, hopefully ive learned many things from dr. Clark and from elliott duchon and our fcmat folks. But it is that when we talk about resource alignment , we should spend our most restrictive funds first so we dont lose them, right . So when we get to the larger conversation about resource alignment and resource allocation, what are we doing to ensure that funds like these are spent first and that our what were seeing on this list should be our least restrictive funds right. And if my logic is wrong at all, please correct me because im new to this level of budgeting. We are planning for spending down all those ending fund balances, not ending all those deferred revenues in the next few years because like, for instance, like a one time money and a three has the deadline. And so spend in the next two years and all of those funding, some of them are one time, some of them are continued in the federal and the state programs. You know, we have a plan to spend them down before the before the deadline. Okay seeing no more one more question. There was the question to the superintend that i had. I didnt know if you wanted this is related to the classified vacancies. Right . So i two things. One is, as i shared, of course, and we heard this tonight, that it you know, our seiu, who are many of our classified employees and usf classified you know, but seiu in particular has been without a contract for a while and thats why were eager to reach a settlement. But the other area that has been challenging with particularly our classified employees that are classified employees are actually members of San Francisco Civil Service and there are rules then that apply to the hiring process that that we need to have a better understanding of to be able to move more expeditiously on filling positions for the district. And so with our new associate superintendent of Human Resources, amy baer, ive connected her with the director of Human Resources and theyre having ongoing meetings to truly understand the system. So we could we could do what we can to expedite that process. But i do know that that has been a factor in our not being able to fill positions is having to navigate the city process. And i say that without saying yet whos responsible for that or not, just saying. But i do know is we need as a system to understand that much better. So we can make sure were navigating it as effectively as possible. And then just a final comment. I would i would like to see the i dont recall seeing the ed bailey report. So if that could be the next Board Meeting. And we are going to present or whatever that they prepared for the district, is that. Sorry, sorry. Thank you. Dr. Clark. Hi just want to clarify about the unaudited. Im not the audited actuals, so and full disclosure, i wasnt with the district that year that the audit was done. So earlier. So we did receive a draft copy of the audit report. And ill be very honest with this board, there were a lot of pieces where information was missing. We did not give the auditors the information that they needed in order to finalize the report. And everybody here knows a lot of the things that have been happening within the Business Services department. And so we were at a crossroads. And that was do we look at take the information that the auditor provided to us and accept it, which could potentially mean returning money back because we werent able to provide information to validate and affirm the financials. We said no, we do not want to return money. Were asking the auditors to come back and finalize their audit. So thats why you have not seen the final report, because were still fighting to try to hold on to some of those dollars here in the district. And so if we give if we if we go forward and not do this, this extra layer of reengagement, it could potentially mean millions of dollars being returned. You know, by the district. And that is we dont want to go there. So were not trying to hide the report. Were trying to get the auditors all the information that they need to give us an opinion. Were fine taking an audit finding, but were not okay with the auditor saying, well, you just didnt give us enough. And we dont know if your stuff is right or wrong. And so thats thats the crossroads that were at now. As ms. Chen said, we have asked the auditors to come back out, and we are working to make sure that we can do our very best to give them the information. But just know that jackie and i were not here. And so were trying to make sure we get everything that they need. And so once thats done, again, the expectation will be that they will, you know, put annually revise their position and then we can bring that information forward to the board. So on our end, weve kind of got to audits going concurrently, trying to close out and clean up 20, 21, 22 and then weve already started the process for 22, 23. And so its a lot that were trying to manage. But but both of those lanes are moving and we will absolutely bring you everything. But i would like to avoid a situation where were bringing your report and saying, oh, and by the way, weve got millions of dollars that we may potentially have to pay back in terms of state or federal or federal dollars. So hopefully that clarifies the question. And just just know that it is coming. More information is coming. Thats exactly what i was looking for because i could feel something, you know, i could smell something. But this is what this is precisely what i was wanting to understand because as part of it is understanding what the potential exposure is and then also what the reconstruction process looks like. I wasnt here either. So, so, so thank you for that. Thats really helpful Going Forward. One thing i do hope that is part of the engagement and i believe it is in the scope of work with the new auditor. Previously we really the audits that came forward to this board were in my pretty complete science oriented as opposed to best practices. What can we do better like the learning of just how how do these systems function . So im hoping as we work with the new auditor that not only will they be looking for material deficiencies, but theyll be looking for opportunities to help us be a stronger, more functioning district. And so is that part of the kind of the relationship thats being built out or the approach to our new auditor relationship . Chip and im sorry. Im sorry we didnt have a chance to connect before this. I dont mean to put you on the spot. All those questions are very good. Yeah, a very good. And we have been already talking with our new auditors and Christy White already. We met at the two weeks ago and they are the very fully aware of our situation for the 21, 22 and what they are going to do is they are going to extend their example size and also address some of the beginning fund balance, which related to the 21, 22 year and i have confidence you know, with the new auditor and we are going to strengthen our practice and also listen to their opinions and recommendations as well. The only thing that i would add to that is during that process, during the process, when we, you know, of course the goal is always to avoid audit findings, but, you know, audit findings are also a way to identify, you know, system issues. And the auditors are really good about calling that out. Whats also important is the managements response to those audit findings. Its like here is the audit finding, and then here are the things that we as a district are going to do to correct it so that corrective action plan is very important because this is a School District slash county office. We dont have the luxury of having a county office say, hey, lets make sure all those things are done. But we can also hold ourselves accountable by making sure that those corrective actions are in place. And another step could be to come back and follow up with the board in terms of heres what we said were going to do and heres where we are in terms of implementing those things. And thats something that could also be a part of an update to the board. Well go to commissioner lamb next. Great. This is a great follow up then, because because we are sitting in county, i mean, were one School District and the county office of ed. Dr. Clark, do you have any sense of any recommendations or maybe through the auditor around some of those clear kind of the role of the county office of ed versus the School District . Because weve talked about this now as a stronger governance, like how do we really hold ourselves a bit more to hold ourselves more accountable, or the functionalities of that those systems . So i know that was addressed to dr. Clark, but im saying, yes to and will be coming because its one of the areas in which we have asked dr. Clark working with the education experts to provide an analysis and a response. And so you can share the timeline on that, because i know youve been working on it and you said we should be seeing some recommendations soon. Yes so we have been working on that. We have what we basically done was looked at, did a crosswalk between, you know, roles and responsibilities for a School District versus roles and responsibilities for a county office of education. An and then we took it a step further to look at the seven single district sites codes to see where San Francisco may be in alignment with practices within those with those six organizations and where there are some outliers as that information is together, were working to have the final executive summary put together. So i envision within about two weeks ill be able to present all of that information to the superintendent with some recommendation and some follow up questions and clarification for next steps. So the work has been done. Were just putting the last few pieces on the report. And then dr. Wayne, definitely if we need to bring it here or have some other conversation, we can we can move forward. Okay calling for a roll call vote now, mr. Steel, thank you, commissioner alexander. Yes, commissioner fisher. Yes. Commissioner lamb. Yes commissioner motamedi yes. Commissioner sanchez. Vice president wiseman. Ward yes. President bogus. Yes. Six eyes. Thank you so much to all the staff and for the presenters and with that, we will transition to item j, which is the public hearing. I call the public hearing on an approved of a resolution regarding the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials as required by education code. 60119. Can i have a motion and a second for this item . Second. All right. Thank you for that. And now i will call on the superintendent to introduce the designee to read the recommendation into the record. Thank you. This is our annual public hearing on the sufficiency of instructional materials. Im going to turn it over to our assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, along with our executive director of content. Its nice to see you all this evening. Good evening, superintendent wayne, president bogus and other members of the board. And again this evening i am reporting on the annual sufficient instructional materials hearing in accordance with the mandated williams act. So the question is often asked what is the williams act williams versus the state of california was a class action suit filed in 2000 by sf students against the state of california and the California Department of education for failure to provide public School Students with equal access to instructional materials. The case was settled in 2004 and various laws were adopted to address the issues raised in the lawsuit. One of the laws adopted to ensure that public School Students have equal access to instructional materials is education. Code 60119. The law requires School Boards to hold an annual instructional materials hearing at the beginning of the school year to determine whether all students have sufficient sufficient standards aligned textbooks or instructional materials in reading Language Arts, mathematics, science and history, social studies. On july 24th, 2023, the williams act survey was distributed to all elementary, middle and high School Students in sfusd, and on september the 8th, 2023, all surveys were returned to the office of curriculum and instruction at this time, either all requested materials have been provided to schools or expected to have been delivered prior to the instructional materials hearing, so therefore it be resolved that the board of education of the San Francisco unified School District has determined that as of the instructional hearing held on october the 10th, 2023, each pupil in the San Francisco unified School District has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials in mathematics, science, history, social studies, english Language Arts, including the english Language Development component of adopted programs. Be it further resolved that each pupil has a sufficient class of set a class set of textbooks or instructional materials in Foreign Language and health classes, and that the high schools have Science Laboratory equipment available related to the core science classes. As indicated on the science survey. So this evening were asking the board to approve the resolution related specifically to equitable access to instructional materials in sfusd. Thank if you have any questions. Thank you so much for that. Before we take any comments from Board Members, i think we dont have any Public Comment cards on this item. And i guess if we could make a virtual announcement to see if we have any hands for Public Comment on the public hearing. Please raise your hand if youd like to share a comment on the if youd like to give a comment on the presentation on the presentation we just heard. And can we please have that repeated in spanish and chinese. Going out of your microphone . Youre gonna show you how you have a single vocal and open you how. The emotion goes out on the side. Spanish, please. Uh, spanish interpreter, please. I am so sorry. I got all caught up. Do you want me to repeat about Public Comments . Yes, please. We just Public Comment on the public hearing. Please im sorry. Thank you. Thank you. But this is a simple metaphorical. So it is public because from the somalo gather participant un minuto para su comentario. Gracias. Thank you. Seeing one hand raised to hands. Miss marshall. Miss marshall. Just a second. Thank you, doctor, for this great report. I am concerned about parents and making this point, but express some concerns about materials and computers and all that. So so i think that i would. I accept your report at face value. However for however, i think that especially in young parents are very concern and whose children attend bayviewhunters point there is another parents who went to look at the schools and businessman scoring and they were not happy with what they saw. The teacher was so energetic and want their children to enroll. However, when they went to the west side schools, it was like night and day difference. So im hoping that i have not mentioned that school just me, but i will go. So im hoping that their concern are not founded. Most likely they are. I accept your report, but i think the district has to do a better job and making sure that they these children have everything that west side students have and they absolutely do not. Thank you. Thank you. Vanessa hi. Good evening. Its vanessa from parents for Public Schools of San Francisco. Thank you, dr. Priestley, for this report. However i dont see the data. I dont see the survey data that takes all of the counts across the district. So perhaps you can upload that or i can request that over public records. But i think its important that we see the survey data. Thank you. Thank you. That does conclude virtual Public Comment for the public hearing. Thank you for that. Thank you for the Public Commenters, for your comments. Thank you. Again to staff for presenting and all the hard work that you put in to come and bring this for us. Is there any comments or questions from commissioners before we vote on the item . Commissioner fisher thank you for the work of surveying all the schools. Its not an easy task and i know you have a lot that youre doing, so thank you for this and i think this work aligns so well with guardrail. One effective Decision Making guardrail three curriculum and instruction guardrail for resource allocation was just alluded to. Right and you mentioned that it sounds like we have a bit of a disconnect. Well in my experience as a parent, too, i think one of my struggles as in seeing these williams reports, is they always seem to be pretty glowing. Yeah but my experience for my kids at my schools tends to be completely different. And i appreciate the mention of chromebooks before because for some of our some of our kids, that is how curriculum is accessed now. So are we accounting for technology in our instructional materials when we put together these reports . So that would be one question. I mean, my High Schoolers neither one of them have brought home a textbook all year. So i think the majority of the material theyre getting is online and not. And i see we see donors choose online all the time where teachers are asking for supplemental material, things like that. So im just im excited to see that there arent any findings. But i always worry we talk about compliance versus commitment. And its one thing to check all the compliance boxes, but yet its another to be committed to equity. And i dont im not sure that this report captures the full experience choices that our kids have. And the last comment and then ill stop. I see under the elementary Language Arts and Literacy Development that Elementary Teachers grades k through three received heinemanns, fountas and pinnell. Phonics word study and spelling to support the explicit instructions of phonics skills. Those are f and p phonics doesnt teach all the foundational skills. Were still missing a lot, if thats what were using. So and i know weve got pilot programs that are moving in other ways, but this seems to go against the work were doing with goal number one and literacy. So just seemed to be a little cognitive dissonance for me to see that here and i hope were not still spending talking about resource allocation. I hope were not still spending money on anything f and p, anything f and p, thank you guys. You actually use as an example what i was going to just share with you. Your point is well taken. I mean, this is a compliance exercise. We are required by law to show that we have sufficient materials, sufficient materials doesnt necessarily speak to the quality of materials. So for. So you were you just cited the example i was going to give that weve already stated publicly that actually both in literacy and math are while we may have sufficient materials, theyre not of the quality and meeting the expectation we have for where we need to go in order to meet our goals for student Student Outcomes. But that is but were still required to present this and these are the materials we have now. So they are sufficient in that sense. But totally hear you in terms of where we need to go with our materials to reach our Student Outcomes. Thank you so much, commissioner fisher, staff, for your response. I think at this point i will call for did we have this moved in, seconded already . Yes. Okay well call for a roll call vote. Thank you. Commissioner alexander. Yes. Commissioner fisher . Yes. Commissioner lamb. Yes. Commissioner mahtomedi. Yes. Mr. Sanchez. Vice president wiseman. Ward yes. President bogus. Yes. Six eyes. Thank you so much. And with that, we will go to item k oh. With that, we the public hearing is over. Therefore the board will go back to regular session. At this time it is 9 31 p. M. Now well go to item k board member reports. So seeing no reports or seeing a report from commissioner alexander or an appointment, well, no, this is just an update on the Ad Hoc Committee on ethics and conflict of interest. I am pleased to report that our first meeting will be thursday, november 2nd at 6 p. M. And if Board Members who are not on the committee have particular issues they would like us to discuss this. Please send them my way and we can add them to the agenda that first meeting were going to basically compile our current policies and look at them and see what issues come up and questions come up and then we the plan is to have a second meeting, probably in december. Realistically where we would go into deeper discussion on the issues that seem to require it. So thats sort of the plan for the committee. I dont know if the other Committee Members want to add anything, but were excited. Thank you so much for that exciting update as the boards work to improve continues and with that, we will go to item l a adjournment. This meeting is adjourned. At 9 32 p. M. Sf govtv San Francisco Government Television todays special guest michelle ginsberg. Im chris and you are watching San Francisco riegz the show that focused on reguilding and reimagining our city our guest is the general manager of the San Francisco rec and parks, with us to talk about new parks, music and other developments. Mr. Ginsberg, welcome. Thank you a pleasure to be here nice to see you again. Last time was during the pandemic and virtual. So it is good to be back here. Indeed. Before we get in specifics, lets start with a broad question, how can will parks system play a part in the economic recovery . Well, our parks system playing an Important Role throughout the pandemic. Parks were here when people in San Francisco needed them the most. A place where people could gather and could care for Mentality Health and fizz cat health and have a sense of community and a sense of place during a really weird time. And now that things are reopening and figure out how to recover, parks are going to continue to play a significant role people are out and having a good time. There are special events happening in parks. Concerts and the weather is good. The best way parks play a role in our economic recovery is to motivate people to come to our city from other places and to motivate our residents to get out and enjoy themselves exciting to her we opened a new park and there is another. What is special about the 2 new projects . Sure. San francisco is going through, i think, a park renaissance. We opened the francisco park, which is just magnificent property that sits on top of an Old Reservoir dating back to the gold rush and has tremendous views of the Golden Gate Bridge and bay and a place where you can bring kids. A cool play ground to bring dogs an amazing dog park. A meadow to watch the fireworks. Fog willing. Fleet week, community gardens, it is just such an incredible unique space. We are proud of it. And then right down the road in a few years, we will be pleased to welcome everybody to india basin in the bay view in the southeast part along the southern water front. 1. 7 miles of waterfront that until recently has been under utilized and under fulfill in the a community this needs it the most. India basin is really a feel moment for the bay view and southeastern part of San Francisco. It is going to be San Franciscos next great and one of the most important parks thats fantastic. Now, we have a great history of having conference in parks. Can you touch on the years highlights . Upcoming and on going. This is something im particularly excited about. I dont think there is ever have been more music in San Francisco parks than there is right now so, lets go around the city and talk about music. Stern grove, is in the 85th concert season. Back after the pandemic. In this just fabulously treasured meadow. Free concerts all summer long. In Golden Gate Park, at the man shell not guilty music concourse free concerts 4 days a week. Wednesday, friday, saturday and sundays. We have sing are song writer wednesday. Jazz and seoul on friday. Communities performances on saturdays of different kindses and sundays reggae it is extraordinary. And of course, later this summer we are pleased to welcome back outside lands for an exciting 3 days and 3 nights of incredible concerts and food and community. As we go across the city, we got wonderful performances in the jerry theatre in mc clarnin park a special jerry day coming back to the theatre. On june 21st we had make music day appearing all over the city in park in civic center. On the marina green. Again in Golden Gate Park. It has been a great time for music and ties into the recovery and the Tremendous Energy where we are feeling and you know anybody who says San Francisco is struggling needs to hang out in the park system. Where well is joy and beaut and he inspiration every day. So, the San Francisco board of supervisors passed legislation to make jfk drive in will Golden Gate Park car free. How have residents responds. The San Francisco residents responds positive. Families. Bicyclists, joggers, people with dogs and people from every corner of San Francisco have discovered that jfk promenade is a treasure. It enhances the parks so much. Imagine a Beautiful Day in the park and weather on foot or on bike you are strolling down jfk, you pass sixth avenue and head to the music concourse for a concert or the museum; it is joyous and made Golden Gate Park sproord. I have been hering about disk golf and pickle ball. Can you tell us about and where people can practice and play. I knew you were going. Pickle ball the Fastest Growing sports. You know across between 10 and is ping pong and may be with a whiffle ball. Ping pong on a life sized course it is easy to learn about skill based people who are good are irrelevant good and it is easy to play. It is fun and accessible. We are trying to accommodate sport. We have over 55 courts around San Francisco. 11 dedicated just for pickle balt others per pickle ball and tennis. We have 5 or 10 space you can play pickle ball indoors and keeping up with the tremendous popularity of the sport. Disk golf has a loyal following it is also going to continue to growch we opened our first disk golf course in Golden Gate Park in 2005. And you know, whether you are an expert at disk golf or beginner, the idea of chucking a frisbee through the beautiful park and. It does not matter what you score t. Is just a good excuse to be outside and enjoy a Beautiful Day in nature. Exactly. Well, thank you. I really appreciate you coming on the show, thank you for the time you have given us tuesday. Thank you, i hope everybody enjoys summer. Get out and play in San Franciscos parks. Thanks again. Thats it for this episode we will back with another shortly you have been watching San Francisco rising im chris manners, thanks forrrrrrrrrrrrrr good morning, Everyone Welcome to the october 17 meeting of Transportation Authority board im Rafael Mandelman chair of this board our vice chair is Marina Melgar i thank matthew from sfgovtv and our clerk is elijia saunders. Commissioner chan