I think thats on us, so as community members, we need to show up. If our expectation is that we collectively need to do the Work Together to get our kids to where we need to be, so i want to appreciate your willingness to also not start from scratch and build on what we are already doing, because i do believe that there is strength in many of the areas, and we also have some areas where were weak. And you called a lot of that out, and i want to continue to work from an asset based model and acknowledging when we were actually in the areas that we are doing well, because we it always feels like we are doing nothing, and i want to understand what we will be doing differently, and what youll need from us to be successful. Because the areas many of the priorities that youve identified are priorities that weve all identified in the past. Theyre you know, your professional capacity, instructional guidance, you know, transforming mindsets, i think thats actually a new one that is is really great to see, the collaborative culture, we need to build a lot more of that, and im glad youre calling that out, high quality staff, so there are many things that we know we need, and i want to and im glad youre youre identifying the two ways in which we need to approach this, because there is a lot that we need to to recognize, but i want to know i just want to understand what well be doing differently and what youll need for us to succeed. So i think for example, in both cadres of schools, there are certain parts of those the strategies that are happening, so for example, there may be a professional development around mindsets in two of the schools, but not in all of the schools, so a big part of this will be working with the the communities in both cadres of schools, but to establish all of this in a strategic way in both of these cadres of schools, so in the cadre of high gap schools, the three components that you saw will be in all of those schools. So its really putting them in in a strategic way, but also making sure that they know as youve heard from several of the Board Members today, the resources are there so theyre not scrambling to get resources to make should happen, whithis if you look at the list, i think most schools would want those to happen, but they have to pick and choose from their own budget, and what im saying is its incumbent on me to look at our own budget, but also to go out and raise the resources so that these things are happening at these sites and schools arent having to come out of their own budgets, so whats different is these components will be in both sets of schools, whatever column that those schools are in, but they will be centrally allocated resources to make sure its happening in the way it needs to happen for students. Great, and i think how i im just trying to also identify what areas i can be helpful, and i think it sounds like were going to be needing to do some fund raising outside of what we already do, as well as think about other resources that are available, and so thats an area i want to understand. Absolutely, thats one thats one aspect, that fits in, when those times come or those calls come, because this is going to take major resources. Id say another thing, though. I want to say that in doing this research, in getting to this place, one of the areas that was really helpful for me was not only doing this research research, but was helpful from ali and especially amanda ti Amanda Dickie was the ability to see past efforts in the city around this issue. In looking at the history thats provided and seeing where those efforts either went off the track or went off the rails or Energy Around those efforts suddenly dissipated, and i i will say this one of the things that was common around those efforts not being able to succeed was when for you heard sometimes it was around politics, but what happened, really, was you saw adults beginning to bicker and argue and fight with each other, and name calling and you know, im just going to put this out there. Im a transparent person, so let me tell you what im going to do. Beginning tomorrow, im going to roll up my sleeves, and if people want to argue and fight, they can do that above my head while i continue to move this forward, because i believe its the right thing to do for our children, and i believe its going to make a difference. But what ive seen is that bickering is what took all of these efforts off the rails, so im agreeing wholeheartedly with commissioner cook in you can roll up your sleeves. This is going to make a difference for kids. My track record has been to do just this to come in, to listen. I dont believe in coming in and making major decisions without learning what works and what doesnt work, and then, after beginning to learn that, beginning to roll up or sleeves and moving forward together. If you want to come along, im down for that, and youre going to come along with us and make this happen for kids. This is going to happen. I know people who have seen this or heard this have seen past efforts, you have a right to be skeptical, but i know my track record, and i know what i believe. I grew up in hunters pointe, went to school in hunters pointe. When some people dont have believes believes in our children, i know what they can do, and i know what high levels we can achieve at. At that time that i was there, the adults were accused of taking the test for the kids. But that wasnt happening, what is happening was kids were achieving at high levels, and the sad part for me is when the name calling starts and you know im going to be real with you, im going to be transparent with you, it started tonight, people got up there and started to attack well, well take some people off the rails. It wont take me off the rails. It may be a distraction while i get the work done. If you want to do that, you can go ahead, but im telling you this is going to happen, its going to happen for kids. You asked the question im going to rant for a minute, but you asked the question, what can Board Members do . Its every thing possible on making this effort happen for the children who so richly deserve to have this happen for them. Gl so ju so just a couple of more comments. Several times we heard that there was a question about our commitment, and i just want people to be clear, so that theres no question, that all of us up here are committed to our young people, particularly those that are most vulnerable, and we each committed to many ways to improve the out comes of our students, and youve heard for many of our leaders, the same problems that existed 40 years ago still exist. The social issues that plague our communities that isolate our families and support our cycles of poverty, and our work has to be a holistic approach, and thats what im hearing from you, dr. Matthews in that we cannot wobe the only ones tt work to help our students be successful. I want to publicly say that i do have a conflict with innovate. I find your aggressive approach unproductive, and your inability to learn more about our district and our communities, and its not an environment that i support, that i will put myself in, our staff, or my colleagues, and the unity of our work and willingness to come together is critical. Work with us, and as districts continue to go under we continue to expand our opportunities for young people, we tap into every resource that we have in our community. People work closely together with us, as work as part of a collective and not against us or pit families against each other. And we continue to expand these opportunities because we believe in equity, and we do all of this work through anecwhich toe lens, and this work is hard. This work is really hard, but were here, were away from our own families, and our kids are our kids, and i will keep working really hard for them. Im on the side of the superintendent, and i will stay focused and make sure that these interactions that were going to be Going Forward with on these strategies will not go off the rails this time. Thank you. President walton thank you, Vice President men do mendozamcdonnell. I dont want to repeat most of what my colleagues just said, but i do have a few things, student and educator relationship being the most important relationship in our schools. That is the reason why i pushed very hard for dr. Matthews to be the superintendent of this district because those were his statements in our very long marathon of interviews. The student and educator relationship being the most important relationship in our school system, and if we provide the supports to make sure that that relationship is successful, then we will be successful. I want us to all remember that as we continue to push through this work that we have to do, and i say we because it is a we thing. Slide 31, when we talk about good to great and not accepting average, also, it lets me know that the superintendent sees that we have a long way to go. We can to yut many things thate do successful as a district, but were missing the mark with our most vulnerable students. We know we have a superintendent that understands that, and we have strategies in place to address that, so i just want to be clear that we understand that as we focus in, you know, as we talk more about good to great, theres also this thing about having the right people on the bus. Its one thing, its not just about people on the bus, but its the right people on the bus, so everyone in this room as we focus on that student educator relationship, its important for us to all be on the same page. Also as we look at slide 33, when we talk about the inequities that exist at sites, and im going to say this, im going to always believe this, and superintendent knows that i push on this every time, we have to stop just fronting based on perpeople allocation, we have to stop just funding based on attendance numbers at schools because that inevitably takes resources away from our schools that need our supports the most, so we have to leverage other alternatives and other resources to make sure that even if enrollment changes and shifts at our schools that need us the most, we dont penalize and punish those students that remain there. What i dont want to happen is our schools, like mlk, and i see the principal i dont want them to be penalized for the successes. I dont want them to be penalized for their successes. These are schools that are doing tremendously changing. I want them to stay on our list because we cant penalize schools for being successful. They become successful, and then, we say theyre off the raid or and off the list, that has been problematic for me and always has been. We also have to work better, and im glad to hear our superintendent talking about other resources and other le l leveraging, because we do have to work successfully with our cbos and public schools. Our cbos do better because of the work with community, because of the support with community, and because of the support of surrounding organizations that work well within the schools, and im not saying every Organization Needs to be in the schools. Everybody knows ill be the first one to tell you that every organization does not deserve to be in schools, but we do have great organizations that are doing very well with our young people, specifically to the people that were talking about. So when we talk about college prep, these are organizations that are doing great work with our populations of student, First Generation College students, students in poverty; third through fifth grade, these Young African american and latino males. Its important. When we talk about sparksf, when we talk about leveraging Community Resources agreements, those are the types of things that we have to do, and those are the types of things that we work on at a policy level, cause the work happens outside of this room, by the way. We can have a hundred people in the room every second and fourth tuesday, and im glad to see that. This is very important and im glad we have people here tonight, but this is a 365 days a year type of work, so we also have to stop just being reactive. We see reports, we get excited, we get upset. Were in the trenches every single day. That data as you said hasnt changed for decades, so we have to keep that same enthusiasm every single day. Id love to see you here every single second and fourth tuesdays, but i know you all have families. But we cannot do this work alone. We have to do the Work Together to be successful. So the last thing that i want to say is we have some plans in place. Like commissioner haney. We do need to make sure this work is resourced. We will be in school sites, we will be in schools, and by the way, i meet with everyone, so everybody to say that i wont meet with them or havent met with them, its actually not true. Everybody knows me. If i call me, ive met with you. Now if you meet with me, and i dont agree with your philosophy, then i might not met with them. People say i havent met with them, but its not that i havent met with them, its that i dont agree with their philosophy, so i wont meet with them again. If youve ever emailed me, youve gotten a response back from me. It may not be the response that you like, but youve gotten a response back from me because i know what i got elected to do, i am fair and equitable, and i do provide access, but somebody said we dont want to play games, im not going to play games if i think what you have to offer is not going to benefit the students that need us the most. We are going to continue to work hard, we have a superintendent that is dedicated to this work. Theres not a district in this country that calls out black students, black student, black student supports more than we do. Thats not enough, and im not saying thats enough, but i am saying we recognize the problem and were working on it, and we need our community to work with us 24 7 on these outcomes. Our principals that are here today, our teachers, our administrators that are here today working on our schools that have been demonized in some aspects, i want you to know that i love you. I love working with, and were going to continue to Work Together. We might not agree on everything, but were going to continue to fight together, and i applaud you for all of your hard work in our district, and i thank you for being here with us this evening. With that said, i believe weve heard all Public Comment on this item. Superintendent, anything you want to close out with moving forward. Just want to read a statement can i make a comment . And dr. Brown, youre right. Like commissioner haney, i agree 100 with this state of emergency. I personally think weve been in a state of emergency for a very long time, but i personally agree with the state of emergency. And the way you understand that we hear you, the way you understand this state of emergency is very real is by the way were going to do this work on a daily basis. Its been a state of emergency for a very long time, and like commissioner sanchez stated earlier, its going to require the board of education, its going to require the board of supervisors, every elected leader, every Community Leader in this city to Work Together, so consider a state of emergency declared, consider a response by a superintendent in this district and how were going to address that continuously daytoday, consider the growth and the changes that are happening at mli do you know Vis Valley Middle School had to hire more teachers because they had too many sixth graders . I wish i had more time tonight to give a dissertation about all the things that are happening. This work is for all of us together, and you can consider this state of emergency declared, and you can consider us ready to fight hard and work on that state of emergency. Superintendent . Just want to end with a statement. You got it from mr. Dickey this afternoon. This is from ron edmunds. We can, whenever and wherever we choose teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to do that. Ever whether or not we do it must depend on how we finally feel about the fact that we havent so far. Thank you, dr. Matthews for this report and for your vision. Section f, Public Comment on general matters, there are no speaker cards for Public Comment this evening. Dr. Brown . Ive already been called discriminatory because i theres one room thats never failed, and that is room for improvement, and i will commend you mr. President and the superintendent and all the commissioners for having the courage to say were going to fill that room, and were going to be in the community, pitching. Reverend walker is in the house. Reverend townsend is back there, and earlier, reverend michael gilmore, and several other faith leader who could not be here tonight. Always remember, historically and socio logically, the black Safety Movement is the black community. All we have to do is lean on some faith quotient to make it through the held in this country that weve been through. Since were in this age of trumpism, doesnt even know that Frederick Douglas is dead, and also his secretary of education has stated that historically black colleges were the First Experience of choice for us. It wasnt a matter of choice, that is all we had, and i recommend you read the book by Andrea Williams up there at harvard when she talks about selfdetermination and the desire of blacks to be educated it underscored, documents that our forebears literally dug pits out in the woods, and they called them pit schools, and through reading the bible, and by counseling, light, and candles, they educated themselves. Dont let nobody tell you black people dont want learning. Its been our escalator up to higher things out of this pit of racism in these United States of america, so again, the audience ought to give you all a big standing ovation for what youve done here tonight, and we are on our way working as a team, as partners, and were going to have each others back, and were not going to let go until victory is ours. Thank you, mr. President. President walton thank you, dr. Brown. Thank you, everyone. Section g, special arrested of business, may i hear a motion and a second to the annual five year report relating to collection and expenditure of developer fees . Student delegates are excused. I want everybody to know i tried to excuse them, but they wanted to stay here and be heard and also respond to the report, so thank you so much for being her