Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Rules Committee 31016 20160311

The institutions of certain triggers that will red flag when a family and individual triggers that agency and support. Or triggers is one of the indicated in attendance. When a student is 10 , that student will be red flagged and well alert the other agencies. We are not using it yet. We are still meeting. This has been years and years in meeting but we are on the homestretch and well address that soon. Let me press on this one a little bit now. The homestretch is around the block . I dont know. Your guess is as good as mine. What are the barriers at this point . Is there something we can do from this seat . I really dont know. Its language. Im sitting here and i have heard similar discussions years ago and im, you know, you are frustrated, im frustrated. Frustration by itself doesnt do anything. What is it that we need to get this moving. We cant be sitting around and having more kids fail. We need to share with the Community Members and they need to be doing their part in this. Its really frustrating to me that we are not there yet. Supervisor yee, i agree that frustration goes no where if we just sit here and hearing the presentationarily yes, sir, it gives us a sense of urgency to do something. I have to say through your leadership in developing the childrens and Families Council really is that leverage for data agreement work forward. Now we have a piece of legislation to point our City Attorneys to to say look, its in the charter. We have to do this. Whatever it takes to move and to move past our separate institutions, thats what they are working on. You know, its understandable that each City Attorney on each institution trying to make sure the best interest of children at the end of the day is protected. So, i think we are moving forward and unfortunately taking a little bit more time. I have to say through your legislation, 2 years ago that is really helping to kick this a little further. One other question about the, i know that it wasnt presented, but we also know that there is quite a few that are in the category of having high percentages of chronically absent students. Correct me if i am wrong, currently there is 12 high schools, 67 of them have chronic absenteeism rate above 11 . And when you look at elementary schools, 29 of 72 of schools have it above 11 . One of the more disheartening information i have gotten that one of the schools has 39 of the kids chronically absent which is 6 years ago there was one school that has 39 , close to 40 . Is that 40 of the students that be chronically absent and now we still have not maybe one school. This is really frightening that we still have a school with that high rate. Is the Data Available and then, no. 1, to really specifying. The purpose to date for me is i would like to see if there is any improvement over all. Yes, i think the Big Development each schools chronic absenteeism is recording that data that staff is pulling there. And it is part of the schools report card. We used to have something call the the api, the academic performance index. The new index is now the sqii which addresses the chronic absenteeism and also looks at the subgroups. We are in a much more accountable era for attendance. What you are seeing there, is we are looking at it as a baseline. Because we now have all of this new data system potentials to address the students individually and also support individual schools with individual intensive plans which is our intention. What i want to just add is yes, we have the numbers now. We have percentage and data, but we need to move beyond that. We are supervisor london breed when we look at the children that we are having challenges with, i see one of the districts supports is home visits. We know that not every kid has possibly the best home environment, and i know that can be challenging and especially now more than ever with the passage of peace and the Childrens Fund and all of this new money thats being poured into the School Districts and services we have to do a better job at being more aggressive when we know these children are having trouble in their home environment, that is no. 1 and no. 2, we knew in many instances these children were in unhealthy environments and we brought in School Districts, social workers and even the police to help that child grow and thrive in school. There was just really no solution, no real possibility of somehow getting that child into a better environment or no link between getting a child in a healthy home environment to getting them into a healthy home environment. I remember one situation where there was one of the women who had children, somebody i grew up with and there were just some real challenges around her children being used to commit illegal activities by her, by the mother. The bringing the mother and family in and trying to correct the behavior and help her with a job opportunity, help her with social services and getting her on the right path, the follow through was not there. My grandmother raised us and my brother would skill school all the time and spent his whole life in and out of jail and hes still incarcerated right now. My grandmother did her best, but she couldnt control my brother, but there was no one really knocking on our door saying why isnt he in school. We would get phone calls. Eventually he never even graduated from high school. So, i would like to see a little bit more of the folks who work for the School District adding more people to do home visits, to meet people where they are and be committed in their faces. The reason why i did well was because i ended up working for the mayors Youth Employment Training Program and i had these mentors and i didnt why they were helping but they were in my face all the time and holding me accountable and i had these grown ups who cared about me and asked me about my life and what was going on and working with me and my grandmother and eventually i did okay and i even went to college. What im saying here is we need more adults who are handson with our children, and who are not just picking up the phone and making the calls, but nothing on the doors and people who really care about focusing on these individual children and just doing a real wrap around Service Support to get them on the right path. Its not a perfect solution, but working with one kid and i will give you an example. I had, when i was at the African American art and culture complex, there was one kid, grandmother was raising him but she was drinking and had problems and eventually i had him come stay with me. I worked with the grandmother, i made sure he had tutors and got him on the right path. He graduated from high school and now working on a program for the city and doing clean up and graffiti abatement. The point is these kids need an advocate and doesnt have just someone showing up because its their job but because it is an advocacy. We need more people and social workers to do this job. It is a hard job and you dont get a lot of praise for it but hopefully these kids end up doing well and they can take care of themselves and they dont end up being locked up. I just want to really target them early and make sure that there is compassion, that there is support, that there is consistency and we dont let up. Elementary school is easy. Once they get to junior high and high school, we are talking about another ball game. We should be just as persistent and supporting them. I want to make sure that we add those components to what we are doing when we talk about home visits. Mayor edwin m. Lee thank you, supervisor breed. Supervisor breed, you hit the nail on the head. I have to say that sometimes it really takes our personal experiences to realize what works and what doesnt work. Certainly one of my Early Experiences as a teacher for a Public School where kids were bussing from the mission, none of the parents showed up for teacher parent conference and i didnt just say, oh, its too bad. I went to visit them in the evening on my own town and it made such a big difference. And years later, when it was my organization, we had the largest number of parent liaison doing Home Visiting in any organization in San Francisco, and so, yes, i really do support your notion in this and at the end this hearing, i will ask for an action plan for this. I want to bring up the rest of the community. Sorry to keep you guys waiting. Thank you very much for your presentation, mr. Avn. Maria su and ocof and ocff. Because you are part of the School District, this is not public testimony right now, but you are part of the School District. Presenter thank you supervisors for allowing me to speak right now. Im from the San Francisco board of education. I would like to thank you for bringing up this topic. Its a call for action for us and how its so directly related to the academic achievement of our students. We had a presentation on the African American achievement and chronic absenteeism as one of the challenges. Im glad that we are Getting Better data and i want to. That it disproportionately affects a Certain Group of children, and we are talking about our African American and latino children. Its a few things that are in common. It is the responsibility of our district and the city to address it in those terms. We are talking about schools and how its concentrate in certain schools. We look at those schools and they have the highest concentration of those populations and uncredentialed teachers and the highest concentration of turnover of teachers. They also have the highest concentration of students that do not show up. We promise to the families to give them a high quality consistent education. We are now facing an unprecedented teachers and substitute teachers. They are underpaid and they are not showing up and they are affecting the education of these students. We say to the parents everyday that a day your child is not in school is without instruction. I think that is a partnership we should work on between the city and also our School District. Then we can talk about families and the younger grades and when we get to the older grades that is a different story. So what are we doing with the older grades for those in school and why are they not making this successful and in the lessons that they are learning and also in the courses that we are teaching. Are they relevant to their lives. I think those are the things that we should be looking at because it is also, i have also asked that we look at, our African American students actually shift around a lot from school to school. That is unusual among other groups. So i just ask for the School District to look into how this shifting from school to school transferring 23 schools, how does that affect a childs education. Do the Services Following that child. Are they immediately enrolling into school and immediately a lifetime. I know that every time that her family situation was not as supportive with the family, and i know that every time that the school said to the parents that her mother would shift to schools and there was a time in between leaving one school and enrolling into the next school. Can we capture that time and follow those types of things. Our promise also to the parents are if you get them to school, our promise is we will educate your child. Their support is on our side. On the citys side, we need to look at these groups and heavy transportation and not so much for the school system. We know that transportation in the city is not distributed. And for those that never show up. That is an issue also. This is a continuous problem. Which means once we get our family on board and they are sending their child to school, we could not give up. We could not disregard that family and say now they dont need that service because these children will fall back into chronic absenteeism. Thank you for calling this, supervisor yee. It is a call to action and every time we talk about this and also when we see the data. Thank you very much, commissioner feuer. It is a pleasure sitting on the board of education with you because it were one of the commissioners that knew what i was talking about when everybody was looking at me like i was crazy. Thank you for being here. Maria sue. Presenter i just want to thank supervisor yee for calling this hearing and apply president breed for moving the item forward. To me its very very helpful. So as you have already heard from a lot of our speakers. Chronic absenteeism is a huge issue and we need to understand the consequences of chronic absenteeism on the families and on the system. In looking forward to the support services, we need to address the legal system, community, families, social services as well as faith based communities and other leaders in our community to help our students and young people succeed. I do believe that it is our responsibility as a city to ensure that all young people are equipped with educational and knowledge to be successful. Promoting School Attendance is an important part of our responsibility and one of the goals of our department. I want to highlight a couple of key initiatives that our department is doing and then yield the rest of the time to some of the other departments that will actually share a lot of the initiatives that president breed mentioned like Family Support and coordinated Family Management which i believe are the right strategies to support chronic absenteeism. I want to start by highlighting violence prevention in Case Management programs. Between july 2012june 2014. We have 28 programs that offer kid Management Services and it was for 3078 people. The majority services they provide is support for education attainment. A lot of these young people are at risk for entering the juvenile Justice System and most of our case managers provide a lot of support and to our School District to the Justice System and through their peer relationships and their community. 2 quarters of youth show risk in the years prior to or in the years their in Case Management with our cbos. Out of 1719 youth of that data, 76 had school risk meaning they are at risk of getting a d or f or dropping out of school. Another thing i wanted to highlight is tours at the Resources Center and in full partnership with the School District, the d. A. s office, juvenile Probation Department and cbos. Served 120 students last year and report 88 of students that received services through tarp received more than 100 hours of Management Services to reengage them into their schools. The other initiative i want to highlight is a new one that we got funding from the department of justice. The juvenile alternatives to suspension program. We are running this initiative out of valley middle school. Thats primarily because we really acknowledge there is a shortage of programs and support for our middle School Students. This initiative is in partnership with juvenile probation, School District and our cb o provider, rock, real opportunities for kids. Its a school base Behavioral Health program and once again its there to support our middle School Students at visitation valley to engage in school and to participate in a more full manner at school. The last couple of initiatives i want to highlight are our Summer Transition Program which is intended to compliment academic instruction that the School District provides at the school year in summer months to support the students to transition and support middle School Students to transition to high school. And then our last two our teen program and Wellness Programs. Of the teen program and Wellness Programs the majority of those programs serve young people who have academic needs and need academic support to stay engaged in schools. We truly believe that in order to address chronic absenteeism we need every person in the village to come together an Work Together because it is multifaceted. There are issues ranging from the young person not feeling great in school and the parents being involved. Every child that doesnt go to school, that child doesnt learn. We know its very important for that young person to go to school and its important to be a part of multicollaborative efforts to move this forward. I once again thank you supervisor yee for calling attention to this very important issue. Thank you, dr. Sue, you aligned a few initiatives. Im just curious. I know you also go through your planning process in terms of whats going to be part of your accomplishments for the upcoming years and spending your plan. Im just wondering, how is chronic absenteeism being developed into the community needs. Of all the resources and funding we can talk only one. Similar to what president breed was mentioned before, we are very fortunate that dcyf received not only in our extension in the departments life but also decreasing in the life to our department. We have been in the last year or so, engaging our Community Partners and actually convening Community Meetings at all districts and well continue to do that for the next several months to talk about what are the needs out there to support our children and youth and families to be successful. The things that we are hearing a lot are Family Support. So, its great that over the past several years, dcyf has prioritized and creating more access for people and creating quality proclamation. What we have not done enough of is supporting their parents and supporting their guardians and caregivers. Like first five and the Human Services agencies is how do we provide that level of support for our families and caregivers. Also in terms of conversations with our School Districts is how do we create a continuum of learning for young people that not only tarts starts in the school day but continues in communities after school hours and now its more intentional what that looks like. Both of these lead to addressing some of the issues that leads a young person to be chronically absent. Supervisor norman yee thank you very much. Supervisor breed . Supervisor london breed thank you, ms. Sue, for all the work you do to support the programs. I know its really challenging and i want to make a few comments and ask a few questions. When i think about all the money thats being spent on a lot of programs in our city and whether or not those programs are actually delivering, thats important to me because we are talking about the difference between life and death when we are allocating funds to an organization and that organization is responsible for working with our children and they are not effective, they are not serving our children effectively. I want to comment that i appreciate all the work that you have done to work with organizations and to hold them accountable. I know it is hard to take away funding from programs, but i want to make it clear that a case to be made if a program is not supporting our children properly that it is appropriate to stop funding because there are other programs that need money. There are other programs that are serving a lot of children that dont have the capacity to serve our children and we should not award them with our dollars. I also want to talk about stipends and other programs. With i was 14 not too long ago, almost anyone who wanted a job who i was growing up with, we knew that as soon as we turned 14, we were going to be able to get a work permit to get a job to start working. That is so important because, you know, i grew up in poverty. So we didnt have money and my grandmother, she didnt have money to always give me for lunch or other things in high school and its tough when you cant buy the latest fashion or go somewhere else and do the things a lot of kids can do. Especially when you are a teenager, Employment Opportunity is very important. So having this fund and all the additional dollars that we have on the table, is it possible to get a commitment from the department of youth and families to ensure that every teenager especially in our Public School system will have the opportunity to work once they turn 14 especially in the summer and possibly yearround . Yes, its possible. The mayor has made it very public that jobs and Employment Opportunities are a priority for him. And hes directed to us partner with the office of economic and Workforce Development and with the Human Services agencies to think about how do we provide appropriate Youth Employment opportunities for young people. Its not to say that every young person is ready for a job right off the bat. You, supervisor breed, might be, but other young people would need a little bit more support such as barrier removal. Believe me, i was a problem child. I have gotten suspended. I talked back and i was at the principals office. I went through my challenges too, and again, having an opportunity and working with my first job at 14 was at the family school. And it was for women who were over 18 who had children who needed child care and working to get their ged. All of a sudden im getting paid and im getting responsibility and im having these adults talking to me and telling me about life and telling me about my future and potential things that could help change my life. I get what you are saying because i have had those same kids who were not ready to work for me at the cultural center. They werent ready, but it wasnt about whether they were ready, we were ready to making sure they were going to be ready for us to work with them. Getting those children into an opportunity where they are getting paid is so important especially when they dont have Household Income that can help support them especially at teenagers. I just want us to do what we can to do better. It just takes making sure we are identifying locations that really care about working with our kids so that we can and then making it a little bit easier for them to do the paperwork associated with getting reimbursed with all the other thing that you have to do to get funding. Those are the programs that i want to support, the ones that are effective and roll up their sleeves and work with our children that have challenges and work with stipends and jobs as an option. I think we have to make a commitment and make that a priority. I get the truancy issue that can be a problem if they are missing school especially if they have an opportunity to get a job yearround and get paid to be part of a program somehow. I think that makes a really big difference. I wanted to also say that and thank you for your work. Thank you very much, supervisor breed. Supervisor norman yee right now im going to move it along and bring up dr. Skolari from ocf, the our children and our familys council. Presenter thank you very much. I would like to acknowledge you supervisor yee for our support of our childs council. You may recall there was an initiative from proposition c in 2014 to align the city and county initiatives with the School District and the community. So the goal of it overall is to improve outcomes for all of our children and families throughout the city. With the em assist on those with greatest needs. The council itself is cochaired by the mayor and the superintendent. There are 13 county leaders from the School Districts from the mayor that sit on this council and come together to address issues such as chronic absenteeism. There are over 15 individuals participating on working groups actively working to addressed all the issues that are outlined by the council itself. I would like to give you a copy. I have a few copies here from the outcomes framework recently released. Its 180 pages. I hope you have the at some point to look through it at some point. For our children and families there are deliverables. The first is to look at the outcomes framework that you have before you now. It was adopted by the council on january 28th of this year. That framework itself outlines the milestones that the ste a School District and Community Want all children and all families in San Francisco to reach. So, for the council has come to gather to create this framework itself that we can align our priorities as a city together. Now that we have that framework created, the next phase of the work is to create a 5year plan to create that do you document. That plan as to how to make this come to life and how to make the changes happen for youth and families across the city. The third one is data sharing. Now as mentioned by dr. Sue, we have an initiative written into legislation that says we must share data, we must figure out how to share data across the School District and the city and we have a convening workgroup cochaired at the Mayors Office and john burr at the School District and 25 individuals who work on data across the city and get to the issue. Why cant we get the data sharing agreements together. They are stuck in legal is what we hear. We are bringing together 25 leaders coming together to finally address this issue in a form of a working group. The first data deliverable is the Service Inventory to create a citywide online one stop shop for all services for children and family youth across the city. We are starting this summer by organizing all of the Summer Services on a summer piety on line that goes live tomorrow and the coming year well add all the services across the city. I would like to point you to the outcomes framework on page 17 on the larger document that you have or it is in the shorter powerpoint. The outcomes framework itself outlines five major goals that we have come to agree as a city that we need to reach. The goals and there are 19 measures. We have 5 major goals an 19 measures. Within one of those goals is School Attendance and thats when we get to the issue of chronic absenteeism. What we know is that you cannot address the issue of School Attendance without looking at the whole child. So its important to connect whats happening around chronic absenteeism to the larger goal which is if we want students to thrive in a 21st century learning environment that the child must attend school regularly and looking at the whole child. We also need them to live in a nurturing environment, we need them to obtain economic stability and housing security and we need to make sure they are physically and emotionally and mentally healthy and if we can get them to attend school regularly they will thrive in a learning environment and e, they will succeed in post secondary education and able to earn a wage in this city. We are looking at the whole, all of these initiatives. It was brought up earlier. The goal around our children and aligning all of these Services Together but with a particular focus on equity. The powerpoint that you have in front of you is bringing up the issue around chronic absenteeism and which are the groups affected by absenteeism. We know that African American and islanders of the school are the once with the most problems around attendance. We need to look at it in other lenses. What we are pushing for is to look at are there equity gaps around neighborhood of residents. Are there gaps around primary language, grade level, crossreferencing the issue of chronic absenteeism and all other issues of lenses of equity. Thats a basic overview so you can understand how chronic absenteeism list these 19 measures overall. Supervisor norman yee thank you for your presentation. The report framework that you are talking about. The framework is what i had hoped for in terms of incorporating beyond just children in the services. As you mentioned and as supervisor breed will understand, this is not just about the services of children and Everything Else that impacts them whether its housing, Employment Opportunities. Im glad this is in here. I hope you flush out chronic absenteeism in a more visible way. I would love to see some wordings in there. This is only the basic framework. The next phase is a 5year plan which will be created around july and you will see more around that goal, d, we will have a working group coming together to talk around the four measures that sit within goal d including regular School Attendance. We will have more content to share with you. Thank you very much. Keep up the good work. Right now i would like to bring up the first five, raymond lane to do a short presentation. I would like to mention at the time 6 years ago when we were talking about this, the preschool level was not part of this description. It wasnt ready. Im glad to see that now we are ready and im a believer that its not just at kindergarten when we need to get started. We need to get to this much earlier. The floor is yours. Presenter thank you for including first five in this important discussion. A lot of the patterns that we see in our elementary and secondary Education Systems establish themselves much earlier as the children enter formal education. In San Francisco in part to your leadership, education starts before kindergarten. We have 83 of the children going to the district now have an chance to go through the school system. Im going to speak about the care and education aspects of chronic absenteeism, but im going to ask shelly and to speak more on the first four department side and address the issue holistically. We are currently serving about some where between 5,0006,000 children a year in San Francisco. We have had a very strong focus on making opportunities available to children to go to these programs, but also to improve the quality of the programs so children are getting the most they can out of it. The research has been very clear and more is better in the area of early care and education. Full day programs are better for children and park day programs. Children that participate for 2 years in a Quality Program benefit more than children that only attend for 1 year. It stands for reason that a child that attendance regularly is going to do better than one who only attendance sporadically. The School District has been making these opportunities to making high quality Education Programs available to as many children as possible. I thank katie chang for bringing this to our attention years ago that we should be paying attention to these patterns because it speaks to maximizing the benefits for children especially those African American and latino children who is outcomes are certainly not there in terms of our k12 program education. Until very recently, it was very difficult to sort of get any kind of information about attendance in early care and Education Programs. Most of the programs are operated by small nonprofits or sort of Small Business owners in the case of family care homes. So you dont have Big Information Technology departments backing these programs or data analyst. So about 8 years ago, first five wanted to improve the capacity of these programs to look at their own data and we created a system called coco which is used among 50 plus sites around the city that are participating in preschool for all. About 23 years ago we actually started trying to think of ways that we can start to system some of the education around. We have eight sites around the city piloting a program where they drop off their kids they sign off on a tablet computer much on when you go get a cup of coffee and when they do that, the system logs their child as being present and over the course of the year you have a data base that contains a lot of information about children with attendance patterns and why they maybe absent. Now, this is all very preliminary, and so, i cant really sort of speak to this as being a pattern of the city across the whole but this is working on children of color and southeast part of the city as well as the mission district. Thats where the major thrust of this work has been. I can tell you there are really no surprises here, but the problem of chronic absenteeism does start as early as preschool. We have children alarming numbers of children that are missing 20 of the days that they could be there and that is going to have a very dramatic effect on their readiness as they enter kindergarten. What i can also tell you is that the reasons for absence are 99 times out of 100 is going to be something related to illness either of the child or the parent affecting the childs ability to go to school. Im not sure yet without digging a little bit deeper and having greater conversations with these programs how many of those cases are legitimate illnesses and if they are, i think we have a Public Health issue we are going to have the address in the community. The other issue we might be dealing with and this is something that maybe more within the realm of Care Capacity of programs to do something about which is preSchool Attendance not mandatory. Im not saying that it has to be but i think we can maybe do a better job message to go families that whenever a child is in school that is contributing to that childs readiness. Missing a day no matter what the reason is, is a lost opportunity. So, i think that as we explore the data further and dig deeper to talk to the teachers and the administrators that work with the children in our universal preschool programs will get a better handle on what exactly the root causes of the absences are. Those that we have within our control we have to do something about, and those that speak to broader issues with Public Health or Chronic Health issues i think we are going do have to talk with our Community Partners. Supervisor norman yee thank you very much. You mentioned Family Support. Presenter thank you supervisor yee. Im with Family Support. I wanted to let you know that we are also concerned around chronic absence. We run a jointly funded family Resources Center initiative along with cyf and Family Services. We have programs all throughout San Francisco and the impacted neighborhoods and populations that have been spoken about today, all have one if not more Family Resources in the neighborhood includes Case Management, Parent Support groups and developmental screening. As we know some of the reasons why parents are not able to get their children to school especially at the young ages is because of barriers and issues in their lives. Family support services that we provide are designed to address that so that kids can have success in school. Supervisor norman yee thank you very much. So next up is hope sf. Presenter good afternoon, supervisors, and members of the public. Im with hope sfchlt. Im here to work with health and wellness with education and housing stability. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be able to present today on this important issue of chronic absenteeism. Excuse me while i just pull up my slides. The work is the focus on the rebuild of the hopes sf sites. There are many things that make the work of hope sf unique in the world of Affordable Housing and Public Housing which is our drive to take an equity approach to this transformation. As you can see from these latest select statistics hope sf residents and communities have experienced this in revoking trauma and see this across all areas with experience. Particularly relevant to todays discussion we see the data that 53 of our students attend sf usd schools will complete school. We have partnerships to improve these outcomes. Housing and infrastructure alone will not resolve the challenges and repairs of these neighborhoods and it will take more than these programs to address this challenge. We believe this requires an integrated Systems Approach. As such, in addition to the physical rebuild of these communities, hope sf holds ambitious capitals and integrated care and education support. This epitomizes the practice to our work. With a began as a pilot for a systems strategy with public investment. Im proud to say that our city departments are represented here. As well as our cbo partners some of who are members of the public today. This slide at the end here represents this integrated Systems Approach to our work. Hope sf has worked with sf usd to integrate housing developments. This is the hope sf schools. Those eight schools on the outside and you will note their relationship to the neighborhoods. Hunters view and potrero and sunnyvale. Each hope sf site has targeted partnerships with two hope sf schools represented in the outer circle. Each one has one full time liaison, two with the centers. They are responsible on programs that focus on reducing chronic absenteeism through a dual family generation approach. They are Staff Members of resource centers, funding by dcf and acts as a conduit between the housing and school sites and partner with schools and help families navigate services and school systems. Because they are located within the system, they are able to connect families to the plethora of dual services some of which were mentioned today and the Parent Child Services offered and our other cbo partners. Through the support of sf us d include the sites. The activities include but not limited to attending iep meetings and engaging families in teacher parent conferences and enrolling students in programming and attended families at the housing site, operating Walking School buses, things of that nature. In addition we know that student attendance is linked to parents ability and working with families to connect to additional Case Management, support and services that parents need in addition to support. In addition to potrero, the services wide is working to create a Pilot Program to support education and the overall objective of this work. Finally the hope sf education approach includes the tables at all intersections of this model in front of you. For shared professional development to family and strengthening approaches and the knowledge needed to address Public Housing. This needs to increase their understanding, their steps of understanding. They used the terms cultural competence. I think there is a lot of work that needs to be done to really have our schools understand the needs of Public Housing residents and to bridge that divide. We have these two placed based services if you will, we have housing in the community and we have schools in the community. They currently arent connected. They are not talking and they dont understand each other. If we want to improve our rates of attendance, that connection, that understanding is very important. That relationship on bridges is really an important piece of this as well as to train the family liasons around this important issue. This work is challenging and to the dedication and partnerships from the partners, we have seen great success. As an example, at griffith we have 28 students at risk factors working with an education liaison working to improve Educational Attainment and we have seen great work through the principal and work through the family which is being reviewed by the work and its continuing to evolving and we appreciate the many partnerships in this room that have come together to make this work possible. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your work. We have a public speaker. The Division Director at the Neighborhood Centers. Public speaker good afternoon. Thank you norman, thank you supervisors for calling this. Youve heard from the departments, youve heard from some of my colleagues, youve heard from the interest that the City Investment has made on the chronic issue that we continue to have with chronic absenteeism. I serve the Southeast Community and we need to make sure that we are talking about absenteeism linked to poverty and the stresses that we understand have been communicated today by framework to strategies, interventions, policies, dollars that we need to invest in the 2generation support. I serve predominantly latino communities and the African American and Samoan Community and others. These communities in some instances are marginalized to housing complex that sf hope just spoke about and we see huge disparities of linkages with schools. We have been working with first five and with attendance works now and we have a model of head start and staep supported programs and that allows us to have staff that not only are teachers, but staff that are Family Service are advocates. They do Case Management. So what weve begun to identify in terms of strategy is to look at the families not from a deficit perspective but from a positive spin of intergenerational support with them. We are hosting apparent cafes parent cafes to talk about this and for them to do their own sign in when they come through stars and recognize children who have not had any absences. We have seen increase in attendance because of the short and small intervention. Supervisor norman yee i know your type time is up but i want to ask you a question because i know your program does good work. What supposed would benefit your staff in working with the families . Thank you for the question. I think that one of the things that we all lack here together is a more coordinated effort of messaging. Every year i transition 240 children approximately out of my system to either unified or to of charters or the private catholics. We are arent messaging together the value and the importance of what chronic absenteeism does and how it unfortunately builds in lack of skill sets at they move along the school communities. I think the second thing is, it would be important for us to, i really appreciate, though it was a lengthy conversation, i really appreciate the different players that are here and how can we come together to coordinate our thoughts, strategies and investments to ensure the messaging is getting done correctly to both the parent and to the staff that operationalize this. Supervisor norman yee thank you very much. Next up and one more speaker after that. Good morning. You have love this. You target the families and teach them how to write a grant. When the family itself is targeted and you teach them how to write a grant. That means all of these little dots are granted by billions of dollars. This might be a curriculum idea. Start teaching early on each individual family how to write a grant. You understand what im saying. If you have one grant writer in the family, then that family can become its own nonprofit. Think about that because then the funds wouldnt have to come from school. I have been doing it a lot around the schools in the city and including universities. Learn to write a grant. You can do it right here. You can write each individual family, a family can become a nonprofit. Think about that and this city wouldnt have to pay a dime of its own money because that comes from a bunch of different money. For example, rent Freeze Foundation is called angels. She has billions of dollars waiting at the World Foundation grant center. Correct . What do you think of that idea . Each family becomes its own nonprofit. That is something to think about. That wouldnt cost the city a penny. Ask me a question about that. Its pretty good. Anyway, i love america. Think about that as a new curriculum idea for the schools of San Francisco. Supervisor norman yee thank you. Youre welcome. You ms. Breed, have a great day. Youre welcome. Public speaker good afternoon, supervisors and public. My name is betty canton for potrero housing. The opportunities to speak to share with you the experience about what is happening in the neighborhood. The potrero Housing Project through hope San Francisco and ymca, what its doing is Building Support in the community thank you. Last speaker. Public speaker to learn to something good. Yes. Tell me that you like to learn. Yeah. This time i know good luck youre going to stay. Good luck. I hope you are going to stay. Cmon now. Come see about school. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor london breed i can looking forward to getting the breakdowns. With a we didnt talk about is our kids who are homeless and living in shelters and the absenteeism and what we are doing to connect those families with services. I want to make sure we are looking at the number of students we are talking about and taking a holistic approach to providing that support and doing everything we can to connect those families to resources working to get them signed up for housing and getting with our neighborhood preference legislation folks who live in a district priority in terms of Affordable Housing for those particular homeless families and when we build more Affordable Housing in the southeast sector and other parts of this city that we are working with them to try and help get them into housing in someway and making them a priority. I want to make sure that we are just taking things a step further. That we are not only supporting and taking care of our kids who are thriving and doing well and that they are not neglected. But we are looking at the ones that need more wrap around services for them an their families and how we can do a better job collaborating to support them so they can support and thrive. Because sometimes when we are helping the kids and working with the kids, there are still a lot of wounds at home and challenges at home. We want to make sure we remove as many barriers to success as possible and thats just a lot of work. Im grateful to the voters of San Francisco who are supporting this fund and making sure we are invest negative investing in our future. I would like to thank the providers for working on this solution to get rid of this problem once and for all. Its sad in california in terms of our investment and some of the issues we deal with, we are one of the wealthiest cities in San Francisco and california is one of the wealthiest states, and we are in the bottom ten in performance of our kids. Im glad we have committed folks at the table helping us move things forward. Im committed to support your efforts, support your plans. I was one of those kids who was problematic and thanks there were a lot of programs and adults and i am here today. As a result, im president of the board, but my brother wasnt so fortunate. This is the difference it makes. We hope our kids dont end up in that situation. Thank you, supervisor yee for holding this important hearing and hopefully we can get some results out of this and changing the situation now to better. Supervisor norman yee thank you very much. Thank you for your patience. I want to thank all the Department People and all the individuals who have come out to this hearing. I know its been longer than what i anticipated. But its to me and obviously to you a really important issue. If we dont address this issue and tax those kids and the families lives in the future. It was 83 that students that are chronically absent in kindergarten do not read at grade level and Research Shows that students are more than likely to drop out if by third grade they are not reading at third grade level. We have data and continue to see trends that really to me arent new. Many of the same schools in 2010 are still showing the highest rates of chronic absenteeism. San francisco unified School District only presented some of this data. Im hoping to see more of it. The first five is collecting preliminary date at the younger age. Thats really one of the more refreshing data that i have heard. I know the connection between the younger age and kindergarten. The population that we are failing and the most vulnerable are the African American children and latino population. We have programs in the city departments on this issue. Through prop c we have strengthened and increased our citywide planning bodies. The ocof which we heard today was passed unanimously in january. Close out chronic absenteeism and as a key measure for youth and transitional youth need to be addressed. We are going to have it thrive in the 21st century and discussion with the Neighborhood Centers for preschool programs working with educational liaison through first five and families who are connected to hope sf. We really need to continue to support these efforts but create a district and across the board systemwide collaboration to address this. Our data must be sound which it seems we are being, we are taking that as a first step and strategies must be developed. For this reason, sometimes we just end up hearing about things and thats the end of the hearing. Im willing to take this a step further and i hope supervisor breed will join me. I want to create an ad hoc group under the ocof and come up with a plan within the next 6month. I would like to be comprised of attendance works, sfusd, first five, oece, its going to be under them, dcyf. The ad hoc workgroup will develop a comprehensive plan for strategies for policies and implementation to reduce absenteeism in Public Schools. The plan should include programmatic activities to support not only the students but parents in school sites and Research Intervention and starting prevention in preschool effective to addressing School Attendance. We also know to successfully address this issue, we must use the multiprone approach which includes our citys agencies, our School District departments and Community Based organizations and our thought leaders. It was mentioned today, one of these that we should talk about is this common messaging that we should have so we are not all talking about different things. In our approach we should consider more staff that is working with parents where there is parent liasons based at the school sites or Community Based organizations. We should discuss the what are some incentives that can get our parents to focus on bringing the children to school everyday. Sometimes, i remember when i was with the San Francisco foundation focused on one particular grant across the bay and it was really talking about this issue. They didnt know what the words were but somehow the parents are not coming to school and we dont have enough people to talk to these parents. When they do talk to them, sometimes the issues are very very serious and complex. But sometimes they are issues that are not that serious and complex and once we talk to them, we found out what it is. We found out these parents werent bringing the kids to school when its raining. Why are you not bringing the kids to school when its raining . We dont have money to buy umbrellas. Or i work in the evening and i cant get up. Im just too tired to bring my kid to school. So the parent liaison arranged for some of the neighbors to pick up the kids and help out. We need to do that. I want to create this workgroup and hope everybody will join in this effort. Im committed to also look for resources thats going to fund this effort. So thats my commitment and again, i thank you for being here. Is there a motion to file this hearing. So moved. Okay. Any objection . This hearing is filed. This matter is filed with member of peskin being absent. Yes. Anything else on the agenda. That completes the agenda for today. Supervisor norman yee thank you very much. This meeting is adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] good monering, welcome to Rule Committee meeting of march 10, 2016. Im katy tang and to the right is malia cohen and the right is eric mar. We would like to thank sf gov tv [inaudible] herb and [inaudible] josh alexander. Any announcements . Please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices [inaudible] submit today the clerk. Items will appear on the march 22, march [inaudible] thank you very much. Will you please call item one, hearing appoint one mb tern to childcare planning and advisory council. There is one seat. Thank you, if we can have mrs. Candice wong. Good morning, my name is candice wong. Im currently the applying for reappointment to districtly advisory council. I have experience on [inaudible] business side and [inaudible] working at the low Income Investment fund of california director Child Development program. I have been there for 10 years so continue to serve the city in the capacity of Early Childhood education and proud the work we have done over the last 2 decades and love to continue to serve the city in that capacity. I brink both the perspective of running programs but business perspectives and how we support the minority owned businesses. Im also a proud resident of district 4 and happy to answer questions you may have. Sure can you tell a little about the things childcare Planning Advisory Council has worked on in the past year and also what do you anticipate for the year coming up ahead . One the major things we are working on and supporting office of [inaudible] developing the 5 year plan for Early Education in the city. That is in process. I also sit on that council. The process with hopefully should be done in the next month or two, approved by the board of supervisors, within that planning we do a variety of things look from 0 to 5 and look on the [inaudible] of the programs and quality of the policeman and access ability for families. [inaudible] the next phase is how to look at the 05 continuum and how do we do that to make sure our kids are ready for kindergarten and continue to 024. I also sit on the council with the mayor and superintendent around the city wide planning for 024 in that plan and that is also a 5 year plan. [inaudible] office of ece on the advisory committee, so i think the few areas around quality and how we coordinate with the state and make sure the state is accessing all the federal and state resources we can, how do we use the local dollars to leverage. Planning for the infrastructure so there is the business side of education and facility size as the city grows, how do we make sure we have adequate facilities to serve the kids in the growing population so we worked on a variety of issues, infant and toddler and preschool. [inaudible] i know there is also a lot of talk in terms of salaries and really how it is we are supporting the providers in a lot of the childcare setting and making sure they are able to attract and recruit quality people and retain them as well and that is a challenge here in San Francisco. Is that something that [inaudible] or through childcare Planning Advisory Council that you will be tackling that issue . That is a major issue for our city. Just like finding k12 teachers we have a big issue around [inaudible] teachers so that will be a major issue. The wages and benefit issue is a whole package. I know supervisor you are away y aware of that how we attract the quality teachers we need in the city and especially in the area of Early Education so that is actually one of the highest Priority Issues we will tackle in the next few years. Thank you. Supervisor mar. I just wanted to thank candice, mrs. Wong for years at work really helping to stabilize Community Based childcare and working on wages issues with sf cares to many other programs and with supervisor yee developing into a Amazing Organization that helps build capacity throughout the city. I want to say that think her involvement on the commission is critical given the budgetary experience how to support the capacity of smaller Community Based businesses and organizations as she stated. Knowing directly how the low Income Investment fund helps smaller family run Childcare Centers and other places, stabilizing them whether in the sun set or richmond is critical work. i want to ask at the city level and having Adequate Funding stream frz preschool for all is a great example of your leadership over the years thank you supervisor. Early education for all. Thank you, it looks like that is all the questions and comment we have so at this time ill open up itm 1 to Public Comment . Anyone who wishes to speak on item one, please come up. Good morning rules committee and supervisor tang and supervisor cohen and mar. [singing]. These dreams go on in the first five, every second youre alive, theyre a good guide. Thank you very much. Alright, any other members of the public who wish to speak on item 1 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. I think mrs. Wong is a wonderful incredible represent on the counsel and glad district 3 ipointsed her and glad supervisor paskin is glad he would like her to continue the role so happy to support her. We vamotion and second by supervisor cohen and without objection congratulations mrs. Wong is appointed to sheet 3 of of childcare advisory council. Item 2 conforming the [inaudible] Oversight Board termseneding january 24, 2020 i see we have mrs. Sesay and mr. Lee so if you would like to come up and make a presentation. [inaudible] nadia sesay [inaudible] Public Finance and delighted and honored to be honored to the Oversight Board. I work frd the city over 17 years, kind of scary. Im in my role as Public Finance director and manage the cities [inaudible] debt obligation is over 3 billion dollars in outstanding debt and work closely with Capital Planning and special projects directed by the mayor and board of supervisors. I have bij on the committee since tent 12 after the disillusion of the Redevelopment Agency and [inaudible] get all the successor agencies and [inaudible] we were also able to all the [inaudible] completed and [inaudible] all the funds back and got a state finding of completion. We are also successful receiving final and [inaudible] of 3 project areas, the ship yard and transbay and mission day. We also have been able to achieve [inaudible] on the long range Property Management plan. We moved from semiannual approval and issues [inaudible] we also continue to maintain a oversight role as well as new obligation and the Oversight Board is also charged with reviewing and approving issuances as well as properties that are under the successor agencies jurisdiction. My expertise i bring to the table is debt issuance and [inaudible] so there is a huge level of debt issuance required to issue debt not to just deliver on the infrastructure but Affordable Housing. The housing isnt under the Oversight Board [inaudible] i am thrilled and honored and love to stay on the committee. Great, thank you very much. Maybe if you can tell us a little abouti understand a lot of the work is probably very much ongoing because they are long term projects but what do you anticipate to be some of the major issues or challenges for the upcoming year . I should acknowledge that we have been able to overcome a lot of the issues when disillusion came about we had a challenge of issuance of bonds for housing and we didnt have clarity on transbay for issuance of bonds in transbay. Most preently recently the state approved legislation that allowed to issue that so in terms of Going Forward the challenge will be on [inaudible] with development or Cost Increases with infrastructure, the [inaudible] already executed so have the ability to issue that on their behalf. It could be [inaudible] we have a recession or not, but in terms of the project and develops we have partnerships with we dont anticipate there to be a issue. What could potentially be something we will have to observe in the long run is the timing of when Development Comes on line so there is enough [inaudible] with housing as needed. Most importantly it is probably timing of when Development Comes on line but the [inaudible] is already pledged to the development and center a agreement from department of finances that have those allowable contracts. Great, thank you. Colleagues any questions, comments . Okay, seeing none well move on to mr. Olson lee. Good morning supervisors. My name is olson lee and a current member of the Oversight Board and director of office of housing and commune tee development and work between the Mayors Office and Redevelopment Agency for dwix 26 years. Prior to my position at the Mayors Office i was the depsty director at the Redevelopment Agency and assisted in many redevelopment plans that are implemented now through the office of Community Investment and infrasfruckture. I ran the Affordable Housing plan through the Redevelopment Agency. [inaudible] we received the completed Housing Projects of ocii so my role on the Oversight Board is to insure that process goes smoothly, that ocii is implementing the enforceable obligations appropriately and as one of the questions of the work for the futures, there is still a lot of work to be done. Still a lot of Affordable Housing to be done. With the passage of sb 107, with the assistance of the state delegation, Affordable Housing received additional funds from prior redevelopment project areas to help complete many enforceable obligations in transbay and mission day and candle stick point and look forward to the opportunity to provide guidance on the implementation of the work of ocii. Thank you and then just the same question but from your perspective, what do you see as the major challenges or issues you will work on the next year . I think the major issuers are figuring how to implement sb 107. [inaudible] i think the other major question will be some of the transfers of the former ocii property, one being yerba buena gardens and the governing structure for that in the future. Thank you. Seeing no questions or comments thank you very much and well open up item 2 to Public Comment. [single] [inaudible] i hope you have good oversight. Maybe im a open book because i make the items right, but i sure hope that you pake a good board member this time. For your good look with the [inaudible] thank you very much. I didnt think you could come up with a song for that. Colleagues ill close Public Comment, there is no one else for item 2. Supervisor mar. I like to move we reappoint two incredibly experienced people for our city to seats 1 nadia susay and seat 2 olson lee. Thank you. Second by supervisor cohen and we are lucky to have you in our city and family. With that, without objection that is confirmed. If we can call item 3. Item number 3 is hearing to consider 22 members terms ending [inaudible] assessment appeal board 3. There are two applicants we have two applicants for seat 2 and seat 5. I believe mrs. Nelson said she could not appear today. Is mrs. Bryant here . Great, please come on up. Good morning supervisors mar, tang and cohen. I have been in San Francisco for 52 years [inaudible] and i have diversifyed experience in the [inaudible] for 15 years i was in the trust division with [inaudible] doing trust accounting and also real estate. [inaudible] for the individual banks. As a tax accountant i was doing the taxes foremost in the Tax Department before [inaudible] for doing the trust division. [inaudible] i was doing the actual [inaudible] beginning from the application until the conveyance of the property. I also have experience [inaudible] taking classes with city college working [inaudible] i did an appraisal on a Single Family residents in Mountain Spring and [inaudible] which i had from the [inaudible] and i also have done the private trust with other conservativeship and also a conservative for the city listed here in San Francisco but i didnt do the [inaudible] i would be happy to join this group and based on [inaudible] and based on the facts and do the research for it and hopefully this is [inaudible] and i hope to be with this board [inaudible] and thank you very much for your time. Thank you for your presentation and think you answered the question i was going ask you which is how you would approach the role and i was looking for someone for this role and body on facts, making sure everything is done fairly, transparently in concert with all the other members with the assessment appeals board so glad you brought that up on your own. Supervisor mar i want to thank you for meeting with my office and your long time Neighborhood Work in potrero hill and bruno heights. Your volunteer with various neighborhood association. It says something about your professional work as a appraising which you meet the minimum qualifications but [inaudible] pg e Energy Audits to open space work with open Space Committee and involvement with lots of Different Community organizations, i really find that tremendously commendable besides you meeting the minimum qualification. Your expertise and work as a appraising makes you well qualified for this seat so im proud to support you. Supervisor cohen. Ill be supporting mrs. Bryant as well. Just a question so you are able to make all the meetings for the assessment appeals board . [inaudible] i would like to be able to [inaudible] be able to work with people and im pretty good with that. Im very good with the public and communicate and dont have no issue for [inaudible] i mean my question is, are you going to be able to atened all the meetings . Are you going to be able to attend all the meetings . Yes i know there are quorum issues so want to make sure i did have a question because im also involved with the commissioner [inaudible] also [inaudible] but that is one hour once a week. Alright. Okay, thank you very much for your presentation and interest in serving. At this time well open up item 3 to Public Comment. Any members who wish to speak on item 3 . [singing] [inaudible] hope you do good good with all your dealing [inaudible] in the sky keep on [inaudible] good luck and [inaudible] thank you very much. Any other members of the public on item 3 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. At this time we have a nomination . I would like it nake a nomination to move Kristine Nielsen to seat 2 and mrs. Bryant to seat 5. Second by supervisor mar, take that without objection. Congratulations. Can we resend that and send forward as a committee report. We take that without objection as a committee report. Now item 4. Item 4 is hearing to consider appointing to the Food Security task force, there is one seat and one applicant thank you, if we cani apologize if i mispronounce your name [inaudible] good morning board of supervisors. Im honored to be nominated for the Food Security task force. My name is [inaudible] and im the Nutrition Services director with the mu turnl child and adolescent helths program with department of Public Health. I haveas sth Nutrition Service director i oversee the Supplemental Nutrition Program for women and children known as wic and oversee the work for snap ed program known as [inaudible] here in San Francisco that provides Nutrition Education to cal fresh [inaudible] also in my career i have worked with vulnerable populations, specifically women infrant and children at most risk for nutrition issues and being a part of the task force i have attended several meetings so far. I think i bring a voice for our most [inaudible] folks within the community and really bring up not only food issues but also issues as they relate to nutrition and health, so you know, that is something that i passionately believe in and really have worked for my career. If you have any questions you mentioned the focus you would like to bring to the task force if appointed particularly regarding nutrition and health, can you expand on that a bit . Yes, currently there are a lot of projects involving nutrition, providing meals whether it is through cal fresh or delivered meals and there isnt a big focus on women infant and children. [inaudible] i do a lot of work related to Breast Feeding and there is a different dimension to Food Security piece because you really dont see it as a Food Security issue when it come tooz infants but it is a critical piece that first year and it is something i really feel that needs to be brought to the table and that is something i plan to work on. Thank you. Glad you mentioned that. I think that is incredibly important. Supervisor mar. I want to say mrs. Rein is extremely qualified and love the passion toened hunger and your work within the department of Public Health for food Stamp Education to maximize people qualifying for Food Assistance and the work with wic. You didnt mention [inaudible] that is how i connect with the folks that i have worked with. You know, i have a 8 year old son and he definitely inspires me and through that i can really see how difficult it can be. I mean, i have been blessed with [inaudible] in my life and the participants we are serving may not be there and still taking care of these children so yeah, the passion goes to a different level when the mother [inaudible] i know that with tarry oly and Food Task Force members focused on seniors and people with disabilities, the children and families issue is really critical as well and know the School Districts and [inaudible] are working but i think you bring a lot of valuable expertise. Your work with immigrant communities and food and hunger is another great area, but im happy you will be joining the task force. Thank you very much. So, i dont see any other questions or comments so at this time ill open up item 4 to Public Comment. [singing] [inaudible] security food task. They are taking away your ham burger and i hope [inaudible] security, food, task, security, food, task, supervisor mar we are going to fix that big mac. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public, we are closing Public Comment for item 4. We have a motion and with a nob nub i move we epoint [inaudible] to seat 10 on the Food Security Task Force Second by supervisor cohen. [inaudible] yes. Alright, thank you. Without objection, congratulations. Item 5 item 5 hearing to consider the Quarterly Reports of the Shelter Monitoring Committee. Alright, thank you. I think that we have some representatives to present on this item today. Good morning, my name is jonathan bunoto and chair the Shelter Monitoring Committee appointed last year by the local homeless coordinating board and just became chair a couple mointh uzago so bear with me, not completely familiar with the Quarterly Report and this is my first time here. So, with regards to the Quarterly Report, and thewe did 20 site visits this First Quarter of the year and what were looking for are issues such as the facilities cleaned, bathrooms