City School District and city college select committee. I am supervisor haney. Madam clerk, will you please call. Do you have announcements . Please silence cell phones. Completed speaker cards should be snu submitted to the clerk. Please call the roll. roll call . Mr. Chair you have a quorum. Thank you. Will you please call the first item. Yes, i seem one. The hearing on the implementation of the affor affe homes for families now and the partnership between the city and county with the San Francisco with the unified School District to finance projects streamlined under the initiative. Before i call up our speakers and give an opportunity for other folks who may provide introductory comments. I want to say this is exactly why this committee exists, to be able to talk about an issue that really cannot happen without all of us in communication and on the same page, and i know that our respective staffs are always in communication. It is important that each of the elected bodies and leaders from city college and the School District and the board of supervisors are discussing, planning, coming to a shared vision of how we are going to address our challenges, and certainly this is a challenge that all of us have been grappling within our respective roles. We had a huge victory in november with the passage of prop e. We want to thank the voters for supporting prop e. This happened because of historic effort by our educators to stand up to say we have been talking about this enough, lets do something about it. Lets come together with policies that are needed to make it happen. I want to recognize the united educators of San Francisco, aft2121 and those who played a key role in this. I want to shout out to supervisor fewer, supervisors mar, peskin and walton and the entire board of supervisors for support. And, of course the City College Board of trustees and board of education for their support. We passed this truly exciting and historic legislation that is going to get more housing built for educators and for people beyond that, and it is going to make a huge defense for folks at city college and sfufd. I know as the former commissioner on the board of education this is something we have been working towards for years and years, and i am excited to see progress soon. We are all aware that the housing crisis could not be mere urgent. We have reached a boiling point where our schools and city college cannot continue to function and do the responsible things they have to deliver for our kids and families without addressing the housing crisis for educators. Today we are going to talk about financing and implementing the educator housing projects to maximize affordability levels and to be complaint with prop e. The perspective this committee will offer with the School District and the city college here and the city here, it is going to be tremendously valuable to what we do moving forward and how we implement this quickly and effectively for the city and educators. I am going to offer an opportunity for anyone who wants to give introductory comments. I want to apologize i have to leave soon and supervisor walton will be taking over as chair of the committee and supervisor mar will join us soon. I know that trustee randolph had a statement to make. Let me call on supervisor walton. I want to briefly state that i love the fact our education institutions are working closely to address one of the major issues that exists in the city, Affordable Housing that we are making sure the educators are housed. This work is important, and i am not sure if other cities can brag and boast about doing this together with their education institutions. I am excited how we move forward. Thank you. Trustee randolph. Yes, thank you, mr. Chair. This is a very exciting day for us here at city college to kind of find out and push along the important project to build housing for our faculty and classified staff. Work force housing in San Francisco is one of the most difficult to find, and it is the forgotten middle of workers in San Francisco. I am excited to take care of the important educators in our city. We dont have a formal presentation, but i want to mention that city college and the board commissioned the Housing Survey of our faculty, staff and students in march of 2019. It showed we have a deep need for housing. About 125 unitses for employees and 693 beds for students. We have already made plans at the ocean campus to develop housing at the current parking lot east of our football field. We also are hoping that through this and other entities we will receive funding and resources to build and start thinking about building housing. As our aging staff is set to retire, especially classified staff, it is important to recruit the next generation of workers at city college. It has been tremendously difficult to recruit staff to work at the city college because they cant move to San Francisco. It is expensive to stay in San Francisco. It is almost impossible. I know the School District faces the problem of recruiting new educatessors and faculty to come and teach at city college. We are blessed a lot of faculty has taught at city college for decades. A lot of them own their homes. The new generation of faculty members starting out cannot afford to live in San Francisco and have to travel often times a lot of distances to come to city college. If you know what the life of an educator is like they have open hours, they meet with students. If they have to spend hours on the freeway getting to and from work, those are hours they are not spending with the students or grading homework so this is critical not only for the wellbeing of our faculty but the productivity and support our students are receiving. I am happy to have this conversation. We talk about creating a homegrown pathway to education. A key component is housing educators in the future. Thank you so much for holding this hearing. Thank you, trustee randolph. A couple thinks. Our clerk is erica major. I had that wrong. I apologized to her. We had it wrong in the script. And linda sharp. I also just want to thank the staff here from s. F. U. S. D. For your hard work. We wouldnt be here if it wasnt for your commitment and the School Districts and city colleges might say this is not what we do, this is not part of our responsibility. For you to be willing to partner with the city and i know sometimes get into the mess that is Politics Around here. I want to thank you for doing that and to recognize as well commissioner who has been leading this work on the board of education. I had the opportunity to read over the resolution you introduced, and i am excited about your leadership and i know, commissioner collins, you support that. We appreciate the leadership you are taking on this, and i want to thank honey and courtney from my staff working hard on this issue for some time as well. With that, i am going to call up our unless there are comments i will call up our first presentation. I want to say while i have the opportunity to do this. We have a number of important things that are going to come in front of this committee in the coming months. I want to appreciate you for your ideas. We have a packed agenda for the spring. I am excited to see the work we will do together. Obviously, i thank sfusd and the Mayors Office of housing and amy and the folks from city college that are here. I will invite up our first presenter who is from sfusd. Are you presenting . Welcome. I think you have the presentation in front of you. I am going to hand the gavel over to supervisor walton. Thank you so much. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I am the project lead on educator housing at sfusd i am joined by our chief facility officers from the Mayors Office of Community Development for todays presentation. We will actually have the chief kickoff. We wanted to spend a couple minutes for the committee to hear from us. We know land is extremely valuable. We feel that every day in San Francisco, and we are lucky to have a chief that has been looking at our land and our land as sets for the time she is here and how we can leverage that and how educatetor housing fits with that. Good morning, committee members. Chief facilities officer for sfusd. I want to start off by placing context around the issue we are talking about today and for those who are new to sfusds assets you might be aware the School District is large. To put more specificity around that. Sfusd owns 430acres across 150 school sites within the city and county of San Francisco, and i think as public land committed that is dedicated to accomplish a public mission, the education of San Francisco youth. Real estate you talk about the concept of highest and best use. In our case as Public Agency the highest and best use of the sfusd property is for the benefit of the sfusd students. One of the things i am most excited about is the opportunity to look at sfusds assets from the portfolio perspective and to think about ways to use that strategically to advance educational outcomes. As i looked at it over the past 15 months there are four major uses that emerge from our portfolio right now. The top priority is student goes. School sites are most important way to deliver educational education to kids. In particular as we think about the next year there are interesting parallel policy conversations happening at the board of education around School Assignments that could have real implications for the ways we use the portfolio and think about investing facility dollars as well as the new Campus Program to include mission bay that are in design and Treasure Island and thinking about sites in the bayview. The second piece of that is around staff. I think that includes as we are talking about today educatetor housing and the way to use our land to improve retention and make sure we have the highest quality teachers who are very experienced. It also thinks about the administrative and operational soaces how we think about where the staff are located and in what facilities and does that support the highest quality education to youth . We have a number of partners, both nonprofit and for those not aware sfusd is required to provide land and space for Charter Schools in the city and county of San Francisco. As we think about those spaces, we are pushing for alignment. We are pushing for alignment with the vision and programming our partners offer with sfusds goals and standings to educate kids. That space is provided at a discount but we are getting something in return, which is partners who help u accomplish r mission. We have identified some potential sites and a west field mall which was news when i started the position. Also, the 1235 Mission Property which houses about 600 Human Services agency staff right now. In those instances, our goals are really for positive activation. They do provide revenue for the district on an ongoing basis. These are our four common uses. As we move over the next year not only with School Assignment and with educator housing, we will have a number of opportunities to think about ways to align the way we are using land with values and goals around educating kids. Just wanted to provide some of that context because i think it is important as we move forward in thinking about educator housing and School Assignment policy that they are connected and they will influence and impact each other. We will continue to talk about those impacts and tradeoffs as we move forward with all of the policy discussions. I look forward to having that conversation to all of you. I will turn it back to my colleagues. Thank you. As we now dive into educator housing. The working group and the vision with our properties. We first want to share our deep excitement about the passage of prop a and b. There is a great need for educator housing. We conduct an annual survey of teachers as well as surveys with the paraeducators. We ask about housing and financial security. The annual survey has about a 60 response rate. They provide information to help us guide our educator housing work. As you can see in 2019, the survey said 30 of the teachers said the cost of living in San Francisco as too high is why they located out of temperature bay area and leaving us with sfusd. In 2019 the Teacher Survey said 80 of the teachers are experiencing financial anxiety. That is 10 increase since 2016. These are the other data points we shared in regards to a. M. I. Ranges for teachers and people who consider returning to sfusd if compensation or Affordable Housing options are available in San Francisco. Because of the pressing need to address housing affordabilities for teachers, fud stu sfusd hasn working with the united educators to come up with a multipronged approach. Since they convened in 2014 we have four strategies, one through housing counseling, two, teacher next door and down payment. Three eviction preventionlogical services that started before the implementation of the citys right to council program, four, educator housing. To date we have surveyed and supported hundreds of teachers over the last five years we are now working to set a new target. Quickly, so we can go and look at what has happened in terms of numbers, prior to 2014, 51 households received Teacher Next Door Programs, 38 educators benefited from the down payment assistance loan totaling up to 89 educators. 300 teachers received counseling. This is data that we are gathering outcomes. 41 employees facing eviction. They received legal services. As we go deeper into what we have been doing with our housing program, 134 units are projected to be built at the project and we also issued an r. F. Q. For more educator housing. When we think about educatetor housing and the goal we are thinking about, we are still in the process of working through our policy setting about building 500 units of Affordable Housing not currently met by the market. The resolution will be the key marconcern fomarker to focus onl also. We will pursue opportunities to subsidize for paraeducators at lower a. M. I. Levels. On building educator housing, the fourth strategy, we are excited the Francis Scott key will be the first sight for 134 units. Sfusd will provide the land and the city will provide the gap funding with the 2015 housing prop a bonds. Additionally the project sponsor will apply for federal tax credit for units below 80 a. M. I. The project is in predevelopment phase and has submitted the environmental application. Once it passes, trailing legislation for prop e we will streamline the project approval utilizing prop e and sb35. It will require eligible projects to be approved within six months. That is where we are with that project today. After this experience we have learned many lesson the project. The project was made possible thanks to the support from the city with the support of the large funding gap. We know that 134 units is a great start, it is not enough to meet Affordable Housing of all educators. We began to explore different opportunities to meet the Housing Units as we continue to look at data. We felt that strongly to move forward to continue moving on with additional ways to provide housing for our teachers. That led us to the r. F. Q. Where we directly serving the need that has been shown in our surveys. We ask in the qualification we ask no subsidies. At the time there was not any subsidies and maximizing units for educators. However, since the issuance of the r. F. Q. , we have the passage of prop a and e at 20 million towards educator housing and prop e rezoned sites for educator housing. Now we are made aware we have additional popups that we could pursue on the state levels and the matching funds and state tax credits. Within the board of education since the passage of prop e and a the commissioner has set a new introduced the resolution and has set a new target for us to builded yo educator housing. We will identify prop a 20 million and prop e how we can leverage those two mutuals that we have for us. Then additionally, we will continue to work with what currently what the need is currently pushing for us to push for, which is to build more housing. With that said, we will be looking into in terms of next steps, one, to be able to pass this resolution as being scheduled around in january of 2020. Also, we will be engaging with our qualified developers to be able to do a Feasibility Analysis on prop a and e. We really still want to be data driven. In the spring we will be administering a new qta survey, being able to connect the household levels with our teacher population. A lot of the times the data we receive back is from individual teachers. Housing is more than that. We need to understand household income. With that, this is our really quick brief presentation and we will be happy to answer any questions. First of all, thank you. The only reason i am using first names i do not want to butcher the last name. Colleagues, do you have any questions for the district . Trustee randolph. Yes, thank you. That was an amazing presentation especially coming from city college. It definitely shows the School District has put a lot of time and effort for several years to get to the point where you are able to start thinking about educator housing. I know that city college of