Weve added to the record to this file a letter from the San FranciscoHealth Commission supporting this request. And recognizing brandons mother, louise lee, has been a dedicated staff member at the department of Public Health for the last 40 years. Alongside supervisor haney we have been advocating on this issue for over a month. In that month, Community Members have come together to raise funds and to send a delegation to the philippines to visit brandon, including supervisor haney and to organize an incredible breadth of grassr509s advocacy, fueled by hope, anger and love. In that month we havent seen enough from our federal government or national media. In addition to security for brandon, and an investigation, with this resolution we are calling on congress to end u. S. Military aid to dutertes regime until the extradition killings and and to provide immediate support to bring brandon back to San Francisco, away from his assailants and that he can receive the medical care that he needs and deserve. We call on the conscience of this country to stop subsidizing abuses and violence that have now hit so close to home. So thank you again, everyone, for turning out and not just this afternoon, but so often and in such a powerful way over the past month. And, colleagues, thank you so much for your support on this. President yee okay, supervisor safai . I will be brief and i appreciate the speakers who came out today and thank you to the leadership from haney on this. And i think that one of the things to underscore is that a threat to democracy anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere. And this young man being a u. S. Citizen and being an environmental advocate and being one that wants to fight for justice around the world in his country of, you know, where his mother is from and family is from, i think that its an important thing. And so i want to thank you to all of the advocates who came out here today and say that we stand firmly shoulde shouldertoshoulder with him and we want to see the speedy return of brandon to the united states. So thank you for all of your hard work on this. President yee supervisor stefani . Thank you, president yee. I want to thank my colleagues for their passion and relentless courage to speak out and to thank all of those who came out. Im so sorry for what youre going through. And i wanted to be added. President yee supervisor brown . Yes, thank you. Its pretty powerful when you come out and you speak about it, friends, family, and advocates. And i would like to also be added to item number 23. Thank you. President yee supervisor haney. Thank you, president yee. I want to thank supervisor mar for your leadership, as well as your staff, edward wright, for being there for brandon and his family from the beginning. And for preparing this resolution. Its been, you know, humbling to partner with you as well as brandons friends and family who are here. I want to thank them. I want to thank all of the organizations. I know that brandon was very much a part of San Francisco and was raised in and politicized in many of the organizations that are here. The malai movement, and c. P. A. And the league of filipino students. I want to thank you all for fighting for brandon. When i visited him and his family i was able to share with him that you are all fighting for him, that you are sending your love and your solidarity. And he was able to mouth back, thank you. So i wanted to be able to share that with all of you. And i know that he knows that youre fatin fighting for him. His strength is incredible. I cant imagine the level of resilience and strength that it takes to survive being shot four times, three bullets that are still in his body. Eight cardiac arrests. And he will not give up. And so i know that this conversation and its in this spirit that he sai is leading ho continue to fight. And i know that you are all fighting for him. What we do know is that the work that were doing to raise attention and to put this on the agenda of our federal representatives and the u. S. Embassy is making a difference. They are responding. They werent before, but they are now. But as supervisor mar said, theres so much more that they can do and we finally got a response related to how they can do a humanitarian evacuateion and they said something about providing a loan to the family and so this is information that wasnt previously provided. It should have been provided immediately to the family. And because of the attention theyre now responding. Brandon represents the best of San Francisco. He his Cross Cultural and Cross National solidarity represents a tradition and a history and a legacy in this city that i think that we should all be very proud of. And the last thing that i want to say is that we during our time in the philippines we were able to meet with many of brandons comrades and his colleagues, indigenous leaders, Leaders Within manila and in all of them they shared with us that what happened to brandon should not be viewed as an isolated and random incident. But its part of a campaign of targeting people who are standing up for environmental rights and for human rights across the philippines. And i think that brandon would want us to connect with what happened to him with what is happening with so many people, especially poor people, especially Indigenous People in the philippines. And to say that that their stories and their experiences are not going to be silenced and that to the extent that our government is quiet about this, were going to be louder, were going to demand that we no longer be complicit by funding such mass murder and political assassination that now has impacted one of our own in brandon lee. So thank you all for your leadership with the passing of this resolution and we have a lot more work to do to make sure that brandon comes home safely and that this campaign of terror and murder that the Philippine Government has been responsible for that we do everything that we can to end it. Thank you for being here. President yee supervisor mandelman. 5d aadd me as a cosponsor. President yee supervisor . I asked to be a cosponsor and if im not already on there and i would like to be added. And i wanted to thank everyone so much for coming out today. Your love and your fight for brandon and for all of the people of the philippines that are being abused by the government came across so clearly. And were with you. And just really appreciate all of your work on this issue and your fight for brandon. So, thanks. President yee supervisor walton . I would love to be a cosponsor. President yee supervisor fewer . I just wanted to say thank you for coming out today. And i have already added my name as a cosponsor and to include me in any of your fundraising efforts. Thank you. President yee okay. I also want to add my voice to this, which is to thank the friends and relatives and organizations that came out to support brandon lee. And as you can see we stand in solidarity with the community on this issue. I think i believe that everybody has added names as a cosponsor. And so thank you very much. And right now, madam clerk, i say that we take this item, same house, same call. Without objection. Then this item passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Lets see. Madam clerk, read the memorial. Clerk todays meeting will be adjourned in the memory of the following beloved individuals. On behalf of supervisor peskin for the late jerry crawly, and on behalf of president yee, for the late Lawrence Joseph fonk and on behalf of supervisor brown for the late marcia marcela harvey. President yee colleagues that is the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, any other further business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business for today. President yee okay, thank you. We are adjourned. This is the regular meeting of the board of education for the San Francisco unified School District. It is september 10, 2019. [roll call] tonight, i would like to open this meeting in owner of carmichael, who said our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation is out of breath. We aint running no more. Section a, general information, number one, information for the public. Number one, teleconference information for there is none tonight. Number one approval of board minutes. The approval of minutes for the meeting for august 27, 2019. Can i have a motion to second . So moved. Speaker cards for the regular agenda, roll call. [roll call] speaker cards for the regular agenda and closed session unnecessary if you wish to address the board of education. Members of the public are reminded that individual to complete a speaker card, prior to the item being called. Presented to our executive assistant, members of the public have two minutes to address the board, as set by the president. Speaker cards will now be accepted for an item already before the board. The superintendents report. Doctor matthews . Good evening everyone. Beginning this thursday evening, september 12, any member who goes to our district website will experience something new and different. I am excited to announce our new website goes live this thursday evening. It is accessible, and mobile friendly, and translations are available for every page, it has a modern design with content organized by topic and user. This will eventually be our home for all school, public and employee information, and it has more features. You need to check out the School Search if you are exploring what our schools have to offer. I also want to acknowledge that a new website is still a work in progress. A lot of important content is not yet built on our new website. Many links on our website will take viewers to content on other websites while we continue to build this website out. We appreciate your patience, with this transition, and your feedback is always welcome. You can find the link to give feedback on the top of every page. It goes live this thursday evening. I would like to congratulate and thank everyone who played a part in the 20th annual historically black colleges and universities fair yesterday. Over 30 historically black colleges and universities attended to meet with students. This is the first time that the event was held in city hall, and it was a great success. Our thanks go out to mayor and breed for attending the event, and for speaking to our students commissioners cook, collins and thank you to the africanamerican achievement and leadership team, the San Francisco alliance a black school educators, blacks for the future, the San Francisco human rights commission, opportunities for all, and to anyone and everyone who played a part in this event. Hundreds of students came and met with recruiters from nearly all of our high schools. Many students were accepted on the spot and they received scholarships on the spot. Congratulations. [applause] i would like to remind families and caregivers over the next few weeks, our district is having our back this week, the week of september 9, is Elementary School backtoschool week. Next week, the week of septembes back backtoschool week, and that week of september 23 is a backtoschool for our high schools. If you would like to attend a backtoschool event and meet your students teachers and see what they are doing this year, please contact your school. President cook that ends my announcements for this evening. Thank you, doctor matthews. Number three, student delegates report. Our first item, we had the Student Leadership opportunities to serve. We would like to promote leadership and engagement the Student Voice representation, as well as the funding specifically in arts, physical education, last night, it was clear that a lot of our representatives werent really interested in being a part, on monday we will deliberate, on who art interested, and would nominate for representatives in the next cabinet meeting. On student delegates, we will elect to members each. Thank you. It would like to thank mr. Diaz, who camped came to us yesterday and presented. Thank you. Thank you, betsy. On our second item which is our sec cabinet elections. Our last meeting representatives were nominated, they campaigned and were elected to serve as cabinet officers for this year. The cabinet team, and to student delegates, president kevins zell, thurgood marshall, Vice President jessica chen, secretary hanan from galileo, kenny from thurgood marshall. Treasurer megan law from burton, and ethan, congratulations. [applause] thank you. Our third item is our committee up mission. During our our retreat we discussed as a whole, companies that we would like to form, and these communities were what students were interested in, programs and ideas that they want to commit fully to pursuing this year. Our goal is to have communities that will effectively support and encourage our Community Led projects. We will continue to work on any ongoing projects, but also research and develop new ideas and our perspective communities. That is all. Our fourth item which is the Student Leadership and engagement retreat this Labor Day Weekend we hosted our annual Student Leadership retreat during which we were able to structure and help our team team build. This teambuilding retreat was held at the bohemian reservation in sonoma. Besides developing our leadership skills, we had a great time taking we would like to think mr. True attend the Outward Bound team for supporting student leaders, providing us a pathway to being better advocates. Our next meeting will be september 23, at 5 00 p. M. In the board of education room. Thank you. Thank you for your report. Number four, recognitions and resolutions of commendation. Proposal brought before this board by the superintendent, its resolution 19910 sp1, honoring the 40th anniversary of peer resources. [applause] this evening im proud to introduce this resolution to honor peer resources in 40th anniversary in advance of their celebration on september 28. Peer resources trained youth as leaders of systemic change and service as peer and mediators to 16,000 piers each year. I will now be this resolution of accommodation into record. Honoring the 40th anniversary of peer resources. Whereas in 1979, after a violent incident School District high school, peer resources was founded to give students the tools, resources and training to be first responders, advocates, and allies for young people, and whereas peer resources is committed to just change institutional change, Restorative Practices and putting love into action. And, whereas the goals of peer resources are that students are empowered as agents of change, and schools are transformed institutions. And, whereas a peer resources trains you to see themselves as leaders of systemic change by working with 700 middle and High School Youth across 14 severed cisco Public Schools as peer mentors, serving 16,000 piers each year. And, whereas peer resources is a Founding Member and lead agency for the San Francisco educator Pathway Coalition who in partnership with the District YouthDevelopment Organizations expanded learning and youth worker employers, k19 educational institutions and Community Nonprofits are committed to growing educated leaders of and for San Francisco that reflect the student population of the district and, whereas peer resources celebrates its 40th anniversary on september 28, 2019, and whereas peer resources honors 40 changemakers for their socially just and pack for our Community Engaging in advocating for their peers and acting as champions of youth leaders, making our world a safer for young people to grow, and find their purpose. Therefore be it resolved that the superintendent of schools recognizes september 28, 2019 as peer worse resources changemakers day at the San Francisco unified School District in celebration of its 40th anniversary. [applause] i need a motion to second on the proposal. Second. So moved. Thank you both. We do have people signed up for Public Comment. You will have two minutes. Whenever youre ready. All right. Good evening, my name is gabrielle de la cruz, im a coordinator. First i want to thank you say thank you for recognizing peer resources and honoring us for the 40 years of work that teachers, coordinators, behind the current staff, and young people have been doing for 40 years. Peer resources has allowed me to be the teacher ive always wanted to be. A teacher that helps young people to understand and have knowledge of themselves, and to apply to address systemic oppression. Lastly, peer resources has allowed me to elevate young peoples voices, in places that i would not be able to as a sfusd teacher. In that spirit come i would like to say a few things that young people have said about peer resources. Peer resources has given me a sense of community. We are a community was never there before me. Peer resources has allowed me to become who i am today. As a reader for my people, my school. Peer resources has affected me positively by helping me improve that my public skills and help me with both sides of arguments and concepts. Peer resources has been positive for me, and helpful, because it shows me that justice looks and sounds like. Peer resources has given me the space and opportunity to not only learn about our community, but make an impact on the struggles that we face. I also get to bond with my peers in ways that other classes do not allow me to. Peer resources has helped me realize the Bigger Picture