Good evening. The recommended action is that the board approve the attached agreement between the San FranciscoUnified School District and united educators of San Francisco certificate of classified paraeducators regarding the mayors stipends at the potential schools and related Public Disclosure document. Thank you. I think we have one speaker signed up. Good evening. I am the president of did you night educators of San Francisco united educators of San Francisco. We did negotiate this agreement and the executive board did approve it. We had a very i thought i had musical there like a show on tv. We had a really interesting long engaged discussion about this item. One of the things that i felt was important to point out, and i told our executive board i would do this. The issues about providing the services and education to students at historically underserved communities is complex and we have a lot of ideas how to make it better. The 10 million from the Mayors Office for which we thanker is just one piece of what we need to do. One thing we would really want to see and you have heard our members say this before is not just more money for people working in the schools but more people working in the schools. Thank you very much for your consideration. Thank you. Any comments from the board . Roll call vote. roll call . Six ayes. Section h number one. Second amended amendment to be contract for doctor vincent matthews. May i hear a second on this item. I will read this that they approve the Second Amendment to Employment Contract for soup superintendent matthews any comments from the board . Okay. Roll call vote. roll call . That is seven ayes. Congratulations. Thank you. Section i discussion of other educational issues. Doctor matthews. Tonight we have the memorandum of understanding between the San FranciscoUnified School District and Police Department presenting is the Community Support department and captain williams in the Community Engagement division with the sfpd. Chief true wit and captain con kaepernick continue williams. This is my last board presentation. I expected more people. It is my last chance to get my emmy on television. I am kevin truitt. Good evening, i am here tonight and joined by our new director of Crisis Response and Emergency Preparedness who will take over this as the liaison and extremely happy to be joined by. Yolanda williams, captain of School Resources program. I am honored to be here tonight. I enjoyed my commander. Okay. So tonight this presentation will share an update of the m. O. U. Including the following. I will share the opportunities for Community Members to participate. Some of you have seen these if you are on the joint select committee these may look familiar. I will share the opportunities for Community Members to participate in the process of providing feedback and give you a sense of who attended and share resources to the Community Members. Some of the most mentioned topics we will share a snapshot of the arrest data and provide the examples of draft language in key areas where we proposed new language in specific sections of the m. O. U. We held four Community Forums facilitates by sfusd leadership. Two were in december and january, last year. We had over 50. Then two additional meetings were requested at schools. Those two meetings were facilitated by our cb o partners. Let me take that back. One at mission was facilitated bby ali and at the high school was by the sac. They had 23 and 41 participants. Additional meetings were convened with alliance for girls and the Youth Commission and were facilitated by the organizations themselves. In other words, we allowed participants their own meetings without staff. We provided with a facilitators guide and existing m. O. U. And blew up the top sections and provided feedback forms and sign up sheets and they provided it to us and we recorded thousands of comments. I want to point out there was diverse representations from the organizations and groups. I dont mean to go through by name, but you can see that we did have quite a bit of representation. Captain williams. The feedback obtained we received suggestions throughout the process and we transcribed and scanned all of the comments and suggestions. We shared it with anyone who provided emails. Some of the most discussed sections were in reference to the term innology for all to understand. For example e exigent circumstances came up a lot. We have make sure that regulations are included in the m. O. U. Some of the sections previously were not part of an amendment or appendition. Appendix. We are willing to protect the identity of juveniles with any incident of police involvement. Schools are to add here to the language that clearly states the Police Department officers should not be commonned to school to deal with disciplinary issues with students. Before we go into the language we are changing in the m. O. U. We want to look at what is happening . What does the data look like . I would like to share this data the last three years and go further back. Not all of these are officially arrests. Sometimes students are detained and released to parents. This shows any incident where a student was removed and became in the custody of the police. Two years ago there were 9 9 arrest 79 and last year was 38. In 20182019 there were 28 arrests. If you go to 201011 there were 195 arrests. Following year 167. Then 133, then 94, then 90, then what you see here. I mention this because i cannot proof a causal relationship. One would make the assumption providing clarity and direction may have a direct impact on reducing the arrest at school. Lets look at the language. What i have done here is anything you see in white is current language. Highlighted is new language. In this section formally section 11 which is now section 9 it discusses requesting police assistance. There were three situations when a school can request school assistance. These three situations it is necessary to protect the physical safety of students and staff. The community here asked for specific example goes to fall under these categories. That is what we provide. Instead of saying necessary to protect physical safety of students, which could mean a lot of things. We offered examples. Distribution of child pornography, violence causing serious body injury. We provided examples what that actually means. Slide nine is revised proposed language. On the procedure for school staff to request police assistance. In the previous m. O. U. It was fine for sros to be called or text for immediate assistance. That is a problem because it takes and places the responsibility of documenting the call for service in our system on the sro who has to lead and it can lead at this point to underreporting of incidents. By calling for the Police Dispatch number this will ensure every call is properly records, monitored and prioritized. We found it is problem attic they might be called when they were off work on holidays or regular off days or taking a vacation day. This last two call and not being answered in a timely matter. Some sros in some high incident schools are texted by one principal and another principal texted another one at the end of the school day it is better to call dispatch. Section 10 which is now section 15 refers to officers entry on campus. In the current m. O. U. Officers entry on campuses begins with absent exigent circumstances. This raised concern for Community Members unclear about the definition of exigent circumstances. Here we provide the definition of ex get circumstances as circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe caution that caution was necessary to prevent physical harm to the public or officers, prevent escape of a violent suspect or destruction of critical evidence. On slide 11 we refer to arrests on School Campuses the Community Feedback requested examples of consideration officers should make in determining whether the arrest should take place on school grounds. For example, consider whether the arrest in response to a schoolrelated offense. If the arrest is for conduct that occurred outside of the school, this would weigh in favor of making an arrest away from the school grounds. There are other examples listed such as if the law did not require an immediate arrest. It can take place away from the school grounds. In the officer can make the arrest at another location the arrest should take place away from the school grounds. Policing on campus. I dont expect you to read that. That is a lot of new language. I highlighted the main four Points Police interviews on campus will cover. We have added the new board policy requiring a one court order Parent Guardian consent to allow an interview by police. The new law requiresault students 17 and under in San Francisco must be provided with consultation with the public defender prior to the interview and miranda. We added language to permit the student to contact their parent with their own cell phone. Parents will pick up the phone if the caller id if it is their child. This states specifically that students and families will be provided with interpretation and provided copies of the know your rights brochure. Slide 13 regarding location of arrest. Once police determined the reasonableness of the arrest as defined by section 16, the current m. O. U. States to the extent practicable all at a private location out on of sight and sound shall be arranged for arrest. The new language states they shall take into consideration the students right to privacy when escorted offcampus. Officers who arrest a student should make reasonable attempts to conceal the student identity sand keep the student out of public view when escorting a student offcampus. Those are some major sections. What happens next . We want to receive some feedback from anyone in the public and from the commissioners, at which time we will submit if final draft for approval, signatures, then it will come back to the board under the m. O. U. Section not for another presentation necessarily but under the m. O. U. Agenda and you will vote on it. We will promote and publicize it rejamulpel modes via multiple modes. That is what i have. There is public comment. Good evening, commissioners, delegates. All of the great people in the audience, i am kevin bogus. I work at children youth as political director. During this m. O. U. As well as past versions of it, coleman has been involved in the creation of the m. O. U. S. I think we feel the process has run its course. It is not helps address the issues in the district around safety, around things that promote Restorative Practices in schools. One of the big challenges in the past with the Police Department is there is no one to hold the School District or Police Department accountable when it is broken. There is no commitment to bring the Police Officers to the community. I think a good example of this is an incident last year at Balboa High School a gun was discharged at the school and the swat team came in and shut down the school for part of the day. The police werent present in the process to take part in that. I think we need other ways to promote safety at school. What other all auternatives do we have alternatives do we have. This is better than maam programs programs across the nation. We think the document worked on is better than what we see in a lot of cities across the nation. We dont think it addresses the primary issues in the school and isnt reflective of the direction the School District is trying to take as part of promoting Restorative Practices, Community Accountability and not criminalizing students. African american and latino students rving the majority of police contracts. If it is not addressing that, what purpose is it serving . Thank you. Good evening. I am a budget advocate for the Student Advisory Council and i assist that department. My role last semester was Facilitation Organization on a public forum. A great deal of Community Members from the Youth Commission and parents, commissioner lopez came to join the public forum. I want to speak on the weight of the Student Voice and exposure to the drafting of the m. O. U. There is a great deal of them. There is value in having this memorandum and having a set understandings but i feel there is a great deal of weight between the students exposed and it in language which the students could understand and get feedback on, and, you know, it is an incredibly contentious issue. There is a lot of divided temperature about the revised m. O. U. I would like to speak how important it was to have so many students see it, provide their feedback and really see those changes manifested in the m. O. U. Proposed to you today. Thank you so much. Good evening. I wanted to go last when this was mr. Truits past presentation. I appreciate you provided this to some of the partners early to review. I am here on the committee for special education. One of the things that standing out to me is that when you do a search you find the words disability, iep,504 plan, manifest determination. Zero times in the entire 15 pages of this m. O. U. In the presentation none of the data included students with disabilities. I will give you statistics. There is a Data Collection project. The last data publicly available is from 2015. At that time specific to fu they accounted 32. 1 of inschool suspension. 39. 9 of out of school and half of expulsions. This m. O. U. Contains zero information about the special protections our students eaching special education are entitled to in the discipline andy escalation is not included. Students like my son are not obvious with disabilities. When he is frustrated he loses disability to hear and respond. He is an africanamerican boy who at age 14 is now taller than me. For him and for every other africanamerican student with disabilities we need to update this m. O. U. To be more specific and supportive. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Any questions from commissione commissioners . I will come back to you. I am doing my book club every time we meet. I am reading dance the blues. It is written by doctor morris specific to the experience of criminalization of black girls. It has a whole chapter on removing police from schools. The problem reliant on the presence of Law Enforcement it is a fabricated construct of safety in the first place. I appreciate kevin bogus comments. This is not just about an m. O. U. We should talk about student safety. What she discusses is the idea there is so much discretion in school policing work across the country. The idea that officers. We had some wonderful communitybased sros in the school. Most of the policing relies on police to make decisions on their own discretion. That was called out by fisher. How do we support students with disabilities . How do we make sure that the folk are aware how to deescalate and they are informed and trained how to make decisions not based on common sense. It says Police Officers are particularly ill equipped because they tend to respond with the same tools used for impression. These methods dont facilitate safety in schools. Police may need to remove a dangerous person. The continuous presence is not to prevent violence nor do they prevent safety from girls of color or other students. I am having trouble with the whole m. O. U. Process. I think there is a Robust Community process, and i believe as a district we do a better job of thinking about these things. If we dont have safe schools, if students are not welcome and if we are not Building Community and we dont have Restorative Practices in schools, these are the schools where we see children acting out or bringing weapons to school to protect themselves from bullying. This process is disconnected. From the larger conversation which we have. How do we support a safe schools pracand then the question would be how does policing fit into that . There are Community Members involved in kind of keeping the peace. I think of united players and organizations working in communities to help heal communities. It is interesting that we are looking at an m. O. U. With the police but not with organizations doing gun buy backs in the community. They are preventing violence from coming in the schools. They should be involved. I wish we were talking about m. O. U. S were folks who know the communities and are doing kind of antiviolence work as members of communities of color. First of all, i want to advise you that our offices take a lead from the staff administrators. Certainly we dont know the full positions, what has happened in the School System, and we dont propose that you have that willing. We take the lead from the School Administrators when we respond to the school. Deescalation t