As a final exam to write to us, their feelings about the murals and the opinions were really varied. There was definitely as many variety of opinions as there in this room. I think that was a really brave, and great piece of teaching. I just want to commend him for that. We heard tonight, in fact, he supports taking down the mural. I think we can draw from that that students were encouraged to engage with us on what they felt they werent told what to feel by their teacher. I want to commend him for that. I think its really important and i think its what we hope all of our teachings in our schools is about. I have been particularly guided, by the students, that told us that they felt the murals were demoralizing. I dont think they should be forced to view images at school that make them feel that way. I find it incredibly disrespectful, and intolerant, the adults that have said to us that somehow these opinions dont matter. Even if it is a small group of students that ultimately feel this way, every students view is important and it is really important for us to listen to students, and to that we are listening. I dont pretend to know how a person of color feels when they look at these murals. I can try to hear others describe their experiences. The question, for me, is how do we respond to and support the young people who find these images upsetting . On june 25, the board voted to paint over the murals. I was not present at that meeting because of a long planned a family. I said, at the time, i believe the murals should be covered. I continue to believe, right now, this is the appropriate course of action. I would be supportive or willing to change my mind at some point in the future, that is found to be possible to move the murals to another location. That would be better than having them on display in a school. But, for now, i do think covering permanently the murals is the appropriate course of action, and balances the concerns of the community that we have heard a lot, and the concerns of the students which of their welfare needs to be paramount in our considerations. I want to finally just thank you, president cook for your leadership. I know this has been a really difficult and painful discussion for our community, and the board trying to help us to navigate that. I appreciate your willingness to continue a dialogue, and i support your resolution. President cook thank you. Commissioner moliga if i get emotional i am going to be emotional. It took me a lot alike muster. I was thinking i should write something because im going to get emotional. I figured i am samoan. I know how it feels i know how it feels to be overlooked, and we express that every day as pacific islanders, in San Francisco. It hurts me that we have to go through these conversations, and decisions, you know, its not as simple as folks were lighted like it to be. When the vote first came around, i supported painting the murals down. As i progressively saw things out and how its impacting every thing else i used to have to jump over the bart stools to go to school, because i did not have enough money. I lived in a dope house, during my time at city college. I say that you know, will we talk about fighting for your life, as a person of color, i get it. I completely get it, right . This issue, im surprised the media is here. Why are people paying attention to this stuff . I dont get why people are standing up for this, you know . There are black and brown boys dying, and people are making noise around, you know, and i was just confused. I was like, what are we supposed to be doing . Is this a smokescreen . Is this the okeydoke, like they say back in the hood . Are we supposed to get caught up in this so we can be confused about the issues that are really impacting our kids of color . I was confused. I was like man, i dont know what is going on here, okay. Lets see if this bypasses us, but it hasnt. My hat is off, you know, you have three alumnis on this board right now, from the School District. Black and brown, africanamerican, samoan, the most underserved communities, in San Francisco, are sitting on this board right now. Each has a story, going through this School District. So, i want to uplift my superintendent. The load and the work that he is carrying, and the work that he has to continue doing because its not easy, and we are doing it, you know, we are here, we are put together, but as a person of color, there is a lot of other stuff that people how to navigate. I dont like hearing my superintendent saying he spending 90 of his time on this mural. We got school next week, right . How long is this going to go . I bring up my fight, because i am here today, because i had to choose my battles. With all due respect, you know, with all due respect, i am with the first nation every day, you know . In dakota, we were there. Ive got people flying out to hawaii right now, right . I cannot continue this. Im not trying to fight with you people. Im not. We have kids, and i have staff, in the district here, to support as much as it breaks my heart, you know, to go the route that i need to go it is my journey, and my feelings, and im going to have to deal with it. Tonight, for me, i need to hold the recommendation that is put out, by the district. That is where i stand. Thank you. President cook commissioner collins. Commissioner collins Toni Morrison said, since emily had a quote the function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps your explaining over and over again your reason for being. If somebody says you have no language, so you spend 20 years proving you do. Somebody says your head isnt shaped properly, working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no arts, so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing. I want to apologize, on behalf of the district for any contribution that i may have had , in did you the opportunity to have your voice heard. I think this is a very symbolic vote. The ceqa process is a process. Because of all of this that we see here, we see this as an example of the fight that we have ahead of us. If we really seriously want to remove Structural Racism and White Supremacy from our education system. I identify as black. I have learned a lot in this process. It is up to me to listen to indigenous people, follow their lead. I just want to add a democratic process can be an equitable, when we put peoples rights for provo. I wanted to be mindful, when we make these ballot measures, or we have a whole school of over something, like we did at George Washington high school the last time around, the majority at that school is for white students. It was at a time we didnt even integrate our School District. I hope the media here makes that , its also important to report on demographics, who is speaking, right . I been noticing a different articles, some people are getting more time, on the microphone, when it comes to what is being reported. Some people are doing a better job than others. I encourage you to go directly to the people who say they are harmed, and i also encourage you , to take the quotes off of traumatized. When people are saying theyre traumatized, they are saying they are traumatized. When you put quotes around it, your say they are making it up, that is disrespectful. I believe children when they say they are being traumatized. It is not my experience, but i believe them. I will not be supporting this resolution, but i will be supporting a peaceful resolution where i can, and i will be offering resolutions where i can to support the indigenous community. Thank you. President cook ultimately, as president of this board, it is my responsibility to bring items on the agenda. This is definitely an two issue that has garnered a lot of national attention. It is an issue that has caused public debate. There has been deep passion on both sides. In some ways, its harmful to see its an issue that is dividing our city, when we really need to be coming together in the service of our students. I take responsibility for that. There are people that dont like the resolution im putting forward. The deeply advocate to paint over it, i know this alternative is harmful to them. There are people that, from the Preservation Community and alumni, that do not think this goes far enough. I know this alternative is also not pleasing to them. So, you know, when it came to the vote on the 25th, when it comes to the vote tonight, when it comes to, who you want to make sure you dont ever vote for again, i am the person you should be looking at. It was my responsibility to bring this forward. I brought it back. If youre upset with somebody, be upset with me. Ultimately, my time on this board, i want to be about addressing serious issues that i now have a lot of urgency with our young people. More than 2500 students are homeless us. Homeless. Theres been a couple of reporters that have talked to me about that. Not everyone that is here tonight. I know there are advocates on both sides of this issues that have been engaged in that. I know theres pretty much agreement that the murals depict a racist history. I think everyone agrees, that that is the case. It is a history that we have to tell. It is important that every student in our district no, there are also truths about the history of this country that are deeply inspiring to me. I started this meeting reading a quote from Toni Morrison, who i think is the greatest american author who ever lived. She inspires me. My greatgrandfather came up here with an eighth grade education, bought a home in the redlined district, in the western edition, raised six children. My grandparents met at schools here. My personal history is deeply tied to this district, and my time on this board will be deeply committed to serving our students, ensuring that they have an empowering future. If you continue to be upset, directed toward me. [roll call] that concludes this item. You are welcome to stay. Were going to move on with the rest of the agenda, so this will be a. Im going to im going to ask of you having a conversation you move into the lobby. Section c, Public Comment on non agenda items . Please note the Public Comment as an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the boards jurisdiction. We asked that you refrain from using employee student names. If you have a complaint about a district employee you may submit it to the employees supervisors in accordance with district policy. As a reminder, the board rules in California Law do not allow us to respond to comments, or attempt to answer questions during the Public Comment time. If appropriate the superintendent will ask that staff follow up with speakers. I have two names here for Public Comment. When you hear your name, please make your way to the podium. He will have two minutes. Sorry, have more than two names. [reading names] thank you to the San Francisco school board for the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is margaret ray as i a former employee 18505. Im here to request that this board began to take responsibility for the current abuse of power among a few at George Washington high school. In february, 2019, after i refused to drop a rent a bandaid, higher law firm, willfully and knowingly published my full drivers license number, ample birthdate on a website that is publicly viewable. Also february of 2019, your inhouse attorney, who works directly for the School District sent out a copy of my personal medical records that he had been specifically, and ordered by a federal court judge, to destroy more than six years ago. Attached to the medical records was much commentary about age, religion, racial and ethnic heritage, National Birth origin, weight, body type, gender, sexual preference, perceive lifestyle, marital status, pregnancy status, perceived social economics, my complexion, various physicalitys, clothing choices, et cetera. I want to be abundantly clear that you Legal Counsel sent out Choice Medical language that is highly politically charged, sexist and can only be used against wyndham women. Your Legal Counsel had been ordered to destroy this medical record more than six years ago. In the interest of time, ive only scratched the surface. I would like to review some of your part out of it, to my knowledge, nobody has disputed. The average age for a person in sfusd is 53 years old. Eleven years older than the average age for sfusd teacher. This does not account for the countless people who retired, simply because they are the average age for africanamerican women is 63 years old. At least one ethnic group is completely missing from your data. Im willing to speak to any of you about it. Again, i ask that you start to address thank you. Good evening. My name is Sharon Chapelle and i am a proud San FranciscoSchool Bus Driver. I am here tonight to not only represent smart 1741, my brothers and sisters who are here, but im here to also look at you, for you to see us, there is a discord about who we are. You see our students, but you dont see us. I would love to open up a dialogue as we continue about what we are, and who we are and this is us. There are a lot of things going on. We do know school is opening next week, and we are here to let you know that we are not just bus drivers, but we are caretakers. We are sometimes the first people that some of the students even see. We are the ones, when my nose is bleeding on the way to school, we have to attend. We are the ones, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and a parent was out working hard, and cannot get to the bus stop on time, we are the babysitters. We are not a number, we are School Bus Drivers who are caretakers, who love what we do. I want the school board to start seeing our face, not the students face, but we are the face of First Students. We are here to take care, we have been here, it feels like over 50 years, i have been with First Student and i have been a bus driver for 36 years. I went to school here, i am a native san franciscan. My parents was a schoolteacher at cob. I am a proud graduate of George Washington high school. I have been with the city, we have been with the city, and i want the school board to know that we are here, we have partnered, we are part of the village and we want to be here for whatever the needs are of our children. We are here. President cook thank you. Good evening, i am the chairman of local 1741. We are here to voice some concern, it could be, it may be false, but we are concerned that the board may have an intention to subcontract 300 of our most vulnerable students to a nonconforming vehicle, that does not conform to federal and state standards. They will not be required to pass chp inspections. There drivers would not be required to recertify every five years, just like you do not want an unqualified teacher, you do not want an unqualified professional School Bus Driver. There is no stigma associated with it, when you think about safety. If you decided to put your child on a lift lyft or uber, is not a felon, if he is not federally fingerprinted. If he has lived outside of the state, at any moment. We understand that the Yellow School buses very safe. Going to talk a lot about the design, and construction. Do not undermine, all of these state agencies that endeavor to keep tilden safe in california. The highway patrol, the d. O. T. , and the department of education which certifies instructors who teach curriculum that is mandated. We need to have first aid training, basic first aid training. A lot of our drivers have cpr training. This is ongoing. We also have staff development, mandatory training. We are required to receive ten hours of inservice training, by state law. If we dont we lose our credential. Thank you for your time. I mean, there is a move to replace some school buses, at this time, with white vans. That are nonconforming. What that means is they do not meet the federal centers of safety. We are very concerned about that i mean, i was going to talk about the buses, you know, there is absolutely no man made that meets the high federal standards made for school buses. There is 36 federally mandated Vehicle Safety standards that trucks, buses have to meet. The school buses alone have to meet for additional requirements , not required of any of the others you the first is rollover protection. None of those others have rollover protection. It dictates the structural strength a school bus must have to sustain integrity, in a rollover, so they dont crash and. Vans do not have to meet those standards. The School Bus Body joint strength, that is the second standard. That is the strength standard between the panels that compromise the bus body on the bus structure. Our buses have welded steel cage structure with interior and exterior body panels which provide a tough resistant impact body. Not sheetmetal like vans. The third mandated standard is that vans dont have to meet is the School Bus Passenger seating on cross protection requirement. In school buses, the deal passenger seat frames are well anchored to the floor, there is a continuous seat that runs the entire length of the wall. It is much less likely than a van to rip free, in an accident. School buses have high seatbacks that have high Energy Impact value. President cook thank you. Thank you. We already ended your time. Good evening, i am sherry klein, i am a School Bus Driver and ive been driving 415 years. I am native San Francisco generation, born and raised. I love my job, have a lot of pride in what i do. Also, these white vans, nonconforming white vans do not have the Warni