All right. Thank you very much for that. Can i substitute . No, im sorry. Thank you. All right. Commissioners, comments, questions . Commissioner walton . President walton thank you for coming tonight. One statement and a question. Its good to see you collaborating and going off on trips together and working together and hopefully we can see more of that collaboration. And then just a question on slide 9. We dont see Graduation Rates for 16 17. Are we waiting on those . Okay. Commissioner murase thank you. I was on the board when the facility having an Indian Education center, a physical space, was a very big issue. And i was pleased when we were able to carve out that space and be at the opening. And there are other communities, Pacific Islander community, thats seeking space. I want to know what difference thats made to have a physical space where you can meet and teach from. The difference is everything. It is, as the name implies, the center. The center that brings many together. The center being that in the middle of the serbingle. Its the hub, not only for the Academic School program that supports k12 and their needs after school, but it is the Family Center space. It is the cultural night. It is professional development. It is a safe space in this city, a city that has no space for anyone. And yet our children make their way from all the schools to spend time together. To be supported. To know more than words. Theres genuine care. Were a family. Were relatives. Were healing with each other and that space allows us to do so. In terms of the space allowing the program to expand, four years ago there was no space. Four years ago, we were being asked to make a difference in the outcomes of our children. The Graduation Rate and the dropout rates. We were not able to make as deep of an impact as we are now because we have the center. And i just wanted to give some testimony to your comment or question, my son, marciano, who is in the audience, and he often gets the calendar of the month, places it on the refrigerator and thats his goto spot. What is going on today . Im there. Yesterday as we were sitting there in the center, we were talking about what the late mayor ed lee and how he supported us and just because he has that center, he knew what he had to do. He needed to burn some medicine for that late mayor. If we didnt have that center, where would he do it . Where would he go . Who would he be part of . Its critical as developing him. Without it, where we would be . I would like it say quickly what it brought my son. One would say leadership. He is the student representative and has been for over a year. He was honestly on like five boards. So hes become a young man and a leader. As well as family. Countless times hes said, i have friends from every culture, from my school, but when i come to indian ed or the few other indigenous spaces in the city, we have family there. And for kids that are often the only native student in their schools, that means everything. Because they dont have to worry about anything there. Theyre home when theyre amongst their people. It means everything. Thank you. Are you done . Okay. Student delegate. I want to say thank you for your presentation today. The mural at George Washington is in the process of being addressed by the school site council. The Student Advisory Council will be collaborating with its representatives at Washington High School to make sure its dealt with. We cannot tolerate any insensitive artwork. So we will be in contact with our representatives at Washington High School and continue to follow up with them until weve taken the steps necessary on this mural. Thank you. [applause] thank you. First of all, i want to thank you for your work and your advocacy. Its a report i look forward to and have learned something. This is the case for you, challenging to keep on bringing back some of the same questions and same demands and i do want to say that it does matter. I know for a number of years, the need to have a center and a space was one of the regular requests that were made. And i think its a testament to your advocacy that that piece has been dealt with it and we can work with you to chip more off the loss and ensure the success of our students. I wanted to i had one question and then a statement. To see the graduation and dropout rates, theyre very concerning. And i wanted to know from your perspective, is there more that we can be doing as a School District to be supporting you and the students you work with. Is there anything that comes to mind that would be helpful in terms of resources or and i dont mean to put you on spot there. You did outline some of them. You can repeat those, too, if you like. Did want to recognize that it would be a critical priority for us. Many of our young people, they respond to oneonone support. When we look at the needs of our children, the unique needs, you will see that the priority was identified under the academic, social and emotional support, and i will add culture, where were looking to increase our Staff Support from a parttime position to a fulltime, at the indian ed center that would allow us to reach more of our children during the day and after school. And provide to them the support they need. Thank you for that. We hope that can help you make happen. A couple of quick points. I appreciate the priorities around cultural competence and humility. I hope as a district, we can make a commitment to offer these trainings and partner with the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center and the supportive policy. It sounds like theres a bill going through the state legislature, so i would want to ask that we bring that to our rules committee and potentially take a position of support as a School District, so i can join in the advocacy for that and implement it in the district and the challenge around Curriculum Development and we bring this up and want to express our support for your continued advocacy and commitment to make sure that nowhere in our curriculum are we offering negative and inaccurate and ahistoric portrayals of americanindians. So as far as were concerned, if were offering curriculum in our district it should be in partnership with you all and you should see it first. And i appreciate the comments made here. I have long felt that the murals at Washington High School are an embarrassment, as least as far as im concerned. And i think its that we shouldnt have those portrayals. The school should be safe and accurate and to look at this history that you have shared with us here and to think that somehow we would be offering any portrayals that continued that persecution and that historic discrimination of americanindian people in our schools is shameful. So i would like us to continue that conversation. I appreciate you bringing that forward here and hopefully it spurs a conversation here in the School District about what can be done to address that. I think its shameful that it continues to be in any of our school buildings. Thank you for your work and thank you for bringing this forward. [applause] thank you. Commissioner sanchez thank you. And thank you for your presentation. I would like for staff to give a report back to us in a month or two about where we are on the priorities, so we can move on some of them or all of them. The mural, to me is an ma embarrassment. And i would like to be advised about what the council says. And also do we have a policy about native feathers . Weve always received support within the School District. Because in our School Districts in Southern California and other districts, have not allowed students to wear their feathers and regalia. So our hope is that San Francisco often leading the way will say, we support this. Im willing to work with you on a resolution to do that. Great. Thank you. And then as far as staffing from a parttime to fulltime, i support that as well. Has it always been halftime or has it been full time in the past . Seven years ago, it was part time for the entire program. Up to four years ago when i took the position, it was one full time staff for the School District. As of this school year, 17 18 we went from independent contractor support, 25 hours a week, so. 6 part time position sfusd. So total staffing is 1. 6. No consultant . For the cultural nights, yes. Were looking for something more sustainable. And thank you, again. Thank you, mark. Any other comments . Can i ask how many nativeamerican students we have in the district . That is a great question and thats often asked. Its not the data that we receive. Unlike any other group, they have to verify, who they say they are through tribal enrollment. So the form they have when families come to the district, that allows us to see who is enrolling. If you put anything other than hispanic or another race, thats not coming to us. We have it search through the data or its word of mouth. Weve gone from 226. Were at 250. And not everyone there may have that eligibility point met. So were 250, k12. Okay. Thank you. I want to extend my support for the hard work and efforts youve done to engage the nativeamerican community and empower our young people that you serve and strongly support that we immediately after a racist depiction and groups represented in our schools. It is embarrassing. And its we should be embarrassed also, we had some Community Members come here and talk to us about it in 2018. I want to support staff and the conversations at washington. We do all we can to quickly remove the mural and to the extent we can have restorative circles to discuss the impact and the trauma its had on our community. So thank you for bringing it forward. I look forward to working with you more closely and reporting next year. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. [applause] our next item is appointments to the advisory committee. I know student delegate ang and commissioner walton have appointments. Thank you. The Student Advisory Council is making an appointment to the Public EducationEnrichment FundCommunity Advisory committee. Well nominate a junior from mission high school, zariana reeves. The next meeting will be february 7 at 6 00 p. M. At 555 franklin. Thank you. Commissioner walton . Thank you. I would like to appoint tracy brown gallardo. Any other appointments . Seeing none, next is our consent calendar. I need a motion and second. So moved. Second. Thank you. I have no Public Comment on consent items tonight. No, theres none. Any items removed or severed . Seeing none. If any items are severed we dont have any, so we wont do that. Roll call vote, please. [roll call] yes except for k1, 2, 3 and 4, theyre retroactive. Section d is discussion and vote on consent calendar. Section e, proposal for action. Our first is proposal for staff coordination and delivery of programs and services to meet the needs of Homeless Children. This was authored by matt haney. 17523a1 proposed amendments to original resolution, shown in redline. This was moved and seconded on may 23, 2017. Couldnt get a Committee Report from the Budget Committee on an updated fiscal impact analysis. We just heard the updated fiscal impact and there was no change to the recommendation. Thank you. Do you want to read the recommendation into the record . Commissioner haney sure. One second. I dont want to read the whole thing, right . Okay. Commissioner haney in support of staff training delivery of programs and services to meet the needs of Homeless Children youth and families in the sf unified School District, to build on the sense of urgency around student and family homelessness and empower staff to support homeless students and their families in connecting to services and housing. Sfusd is rich in Human Resources and students and we can and must do better for vulnerable students. At the end of the 15 16 school year, 2,144 homeless students were reported in k12, with a total of 1, 093 hispanic students. Im going to skip over and just read the resolves here. Therefore be it resolved sfusd and the board recognize the requirements for the must mckinnie act requirements, to provide homeless students with a safe, positive learning environment that is free from discrimination and harassment that proposed selfesteemed outlined in 6173. The board of education directs the superintendent develop a student and family experiencing homelessness action plan that incorporates the provisions in the resolution. A report of the policy changes, strategies and partnerships including the status of the learning centers in support of students and their families as outlined in the resolution. Im going to skip ahead. Its a lot. Further resolve addressing enrollment barriers prek and especially those that have recognized required, proof of residency and credit transfers should be temporarily removed to expedite placement. This is a really long thing. Im going to skip ahead. Sfusd will collaborate with shelters for the resources needed to support the learning centers and identify and assign a liaison and school site liaisons at schools that will support the afore mentioned and in addition to a number of things there. Sfusd will pursue opportunities to collaborate including referring students homeless to lifelearning and initiatives. I will go to the end of it. Sfusd shall improve Data Collection by entering into a datasharing agreement. And further resolve to pursue opportunities for sfusdowned land to build Affordable Housing. Including potential partnerships in our Funding Sources from city and county and state philanthropic resources. Well get a report in six months and further resolved that well collaborate to develop an urgent response system when a student is unsheltered or about to lose their housing. This urgent response system with services administered by hsh. Sfusd will collaborate for training on the Family Process and to ensure that sfusd staff knows the best way to connect homeless students and staff with city services. Thats about 1 6 of the resolution that i read, but i will leave it at that. Thank you, commissioner haney. Im going to call up speakers on this item. If you would please come over and step up to the podium and turn on the mike. Eugene alaho, maryjane rodriguez, aaron agdelo, daniel lumon, tony robles, david wu, and p. J. Ilhenio. Come on up. You have 2 minutes. Okay. Good evening, tenant counsellor south of Market CommunityAction Network and alumni of k8 Betsy Carmichael. I support this cause because many of the homeless families are attending Betsy Carmichael elementary and many of them live in doubledup units and dealing with roaches and bed bugs on a daily basis. Its not contributing to a stable learning environment. I urge you to support this cause. If this resolution passes, a lot of students, not only in Betsy Carmichael, but districtwide will be provided adequate housing. Thank you. [please stand bsfusd sfusd sfus sfusd if this passes, this will be instructed to provide for families in need. Like my family, we need speaking staff and the research and opportunities for sfusd on land to be made available to Affordable Housing for families like mine. I recommend that all of this board member pass this resolution and that School District staff to work with our community in making this reality, thank you for all of you. We have already started this item, so were not going to be taking any more cards, so what i have is what i have and were not going to be accepting any more speakers on the item. Let read off the last few im taking on this item. Alexis david. Raul fernando. Raquel and jennifer. I am the t. K. Kindergarten leader at filipino education centre. Ive studied child and adolescent development with advocacy systems. Ive studied how policy has affected poverty and poverty has affected the intersections of family and children developing. I understand that homelessness is not only on issue, but it is something that threatens the development of children and families. For the students who are facing this issue, its not just an academic issue, its a social and emotional issue as well. Having a sound home environment will not only help them with their Academic Studies but with their social and Emotional Development as well. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good evening, im daniel, im also an educator. I work with 6th grade and one, i want to appreciate the ambition of the resolution to use sfusd land, i hope you all have a good portion or the Homeless Youth out here, but there is a sizeable amount. Ever since i started working, i do get comments about Living Conditions and house conditions and i just wanted to make it known that it is imperative there are childrens lives at stake and livelihood. And truly this resolution is an investment because right now, as we can see, the current return is very if we dont make moves fast, im afraid ill lose students, because im having a hard time with students not eating and if they dont make it in time for