Right now. Good evening, everyone. San Francisco Unified School District provides free cantonese and spanish interpretation tonight for this meeting. So if you know anyone that needs a cantonese or spanish interpreter, please have them find us. We have signs up right here. We also have childcare provided over at the e. P. C. Center. So if you need childcare, please head over to the e. P. C. Center. And the interpreter will repeat this in cantonese and spanish. [speaking Foreign Language] [speaking spanish] thank you. Section b, opening item, approval of the board minutes of the regular meeting of february 11, 2020. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Are there any corrections . Roll call. Thank you. [roll call] speaker cards for the regular agenda and closed session are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. Members of the public are reminded an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and present it to the assistant. Members of the public have two minutes to address the board or the time set by the president. The speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board. Item 2, superintendents report. Thank you, president sanchez. This past i had the pleasure of attending the 26th annual africanamerican honor roll at st. Marys cathedral. It was attended by over 800 students from nearly every san Francisco Unified School District school. 15 High School Students were honored for having 4. 0s. Con garagelations to all congratulations to all the students who were honored and thank you to the staff who supported the event by volunteering their time. The superintendents 21st century awards are accepting applications through this friday. And i encourage all graduating san Francisco Unified School District seniors to apply. This award will be granted to six seniors who exemplify a particular strength in one or more of the characteristics of the graduate profile. Winners will receive a 2,000 scholarship and be honored at an event with myself and other district leaders this spring. The scholarship is available to all students regardless of citizenship status. The deadline to apply is this friday, february 28. Please go to sfusd. Edu to learn more and to apply or talk to your School Counselor or principal if you have questions. Our district is developing a new Student Assignment system for Elementary Schools, and we want to hear from you. Attend the Community Workshop to provide input that will help our district develop a new Student Assignment policy for Elementary Schools. The final workshop is february 27 at the l. A. Hutch community center. Please r. S. V. P. To www. Sfusd. Edu to attend the upcoming Community Workshop. Finally, i would like to announce that the School Planning summit is this saturday, march 7 from 8 15 to 1 00 at everett middle school. The summit provides the opportunity to Work Together as a team on your school plan for student achievement. Invited to attend are principals, teachers and other Staff Members of the school site counsels. English learner Advisory Committees, africanamerican aanyonety groups and other parent affinity groups and other parent family groups. Talk to your School Principal about how to attend and participate in School Planning. Attendees will hear about the strategic priority, programs and services for 2021. You can develop your School Priorities and plans for next year and learn about funding and other sources to serve your students. There will be interpretation, multilingual materials, breakfast and childcare provided. Again, the School Planning summit is saturday, march 7, at everett middle school, 450 Church Street between 16th and 17th street from 8 15 to 1 00 p. M. That ends my announcements. Thank you. Item 2 3 is student delegates report. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Superintendents 21st century award, ai deadline for the scholarship is this friday the 28th. The scholarship is available to all seniors regardless of their citizenship status, who demonstrate the core values of sfusd. Our goal is to encourage students in the School District to apply for this opportunity and to get all the help they need to make their College Experience less helpful with this opportunity. We would like to thank dr. Matthews for continuing to make this opportunity available for all sfusd students and laura for bringing this award to our attention. Perspective experience program, last night at our meeting we received a presentation on the Student ExperienceProgram Collaboration with the department. We learned more about teacher biases and the impact it can play on their students. Our goal as student leaders is to take this information back to our school sites and promote the importance of antibias work. We would like to thank chris lee for getting in contact with us and giving us this important presentation. Good evening, everyone. Just like dr. Matthews, we would like to announce the annual School Summit program is approaching. It hosts families, staff and Community Members planning the budget for next year. It is an important meeting where data such as attendance records, academic testing and School Climate surveys are viewed to conduct academic and curriculum planning. The s. A. C. s goal is to promote the event and share the opportunity for students to volunteer. It will be march 7 at everett middle school. And we would like to thank kia for sharing this opportunity. Our last item is the student delegate application. The application for next years student delegate is now open. The student delegate position is a great leadership opportunity and it enables the student to represent the sfusd voice on the board of education. It is a personally, i agree, it is a fun and awarding experience where you work to create change in your district. If you would like to apply, please see your school represent representative. I know you will miss me as much as i will miss all of you. Our next meeting will be monday march 9 at 5 00 p. M. In room 11 at the i lab. The Public Counsel and anyone is welcome to attend. If you would like to attend, make a presentation or would like a copy of our agenda, contact mr. Salvador lopez bar. Thank you, student delegates. I am for recognitions, there are none tonight. Five, recognizing all valuable employees, which is our r. A. V. E. Award. Our first r. A. V. E. Award winner is the secretary at mckinley Elementary School, ms. Jennifer hancock, and presenting this award is molly pope, principal. So please. Thank you. Right there. [applause] all right. What a night. Good evening. My name is molly pope and im the principal at mckinley Elementary School. It is an honor to be here and to be able to introduce jennifer hancock. The Mckinley Community is delighted that jennifer is getting public recognition for her contributions to our district. The job of Front Office Clerk is enormous and foundational to setting the tone of the school. It embeds the jobs including nurse, social worker, therapist, systems and budget analyst, receptionist and family liaison. She handles these roles with such expertise that it makes her annual Halloween Costume of wonder woman seem more like a daily uniform. [applause] our school wouldnt function without her cando attitude. She is driven to improve outcomes for all students and is as gifted with google docs as she is at deescalating a student, often doing them simultaneously. The coworkerrer who nominated her her work that words are inadequate to appreciate all she does each week, her positive attitude makes for joyful learning. There are no truer words. She makes a formidable job look easy, and i am forever grateful to her. [applause] thank you. Finding out i was nominated for this award by a colleague a year and a half ago was a huge honor because it meant some of the things ive tried to do over the years to make the teachers live a little easier have worked. It helps i am the kind of person who gets excited by google spreadsheets and finding the exact perfect size of pencil box to fit both an epy pen and inn hailer at the same time. It has been in honor to work with such an amazing community. Founding out i won this award a few weeks ago has left me a little bit conflict, and i feel i would be letting myself and all of you down if i didnt attempt to explain why. I want to start saying i am grateful for sfusds recognition of my efforts to make mckinley a great place to work for staff and a great place to work for students. I strive every day to have the office be a soft place to land. But after five years of doing this job, im really, really tired. The last few weeks have been full of newspaper articles about dysfunctional middle schools with challenges im sure most of us recognize from our school sites and emails laying out the prospect of severe budget cuts. Remember that i like spreadsheets . I actually clicked through on dr. Matthews Powerpoint Presentation and got deep in the weeds about rising costs and declining revenue streams. It is clear this is a simple math problem. There isnt enough money to pay for everything our schools need to be successful. I hear that, and i believe that. And i dont know how to help fix it. I have no bandaid or ice pack that will save the day though they do work for most every other problem in an Elementary School. But what i do know is that cutting funding for our school sites is not the right answer. [applause] ten more seconds. In fact, school sites desperately need more resources. Our schools are being tasked with not only teaching our most vulnerable students, but healing them as well. And for that, we need more people walking the halls and manning our Wellness Centers and offices. I am honored to accept this award on behalf of all of the really, really tired school staff site and our partners in Central Office, giving more than they get every single day and still showing up each morning with a smile on their face and a coffee in their hand. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much. [applause] chop from the top, chop from the top. [chanting] the next award is a teacher in our district. She is a teacher at Frank MccoppinElementary School. This award will be presented by bennett lee, her principal, and the award winner is tina huie. [applause] good evening, everyone. Im the principal at mccoppin. Tonight im giving the award, im honored to be giving an award to ms. Huie, one of the hardest working teachers. Just a story about how when she won this award, i told her congratulations, im going to come out to a Board Meeting and present the award, her first words were dont tell anyone, i dont want to be recognized. I go i already responded, im going to be here tonight. I want to proudly give her an award. But i broke my profess because i told staff, why are you going to a Board Meeting . And im like number one, to hear people cheering for needing less cuts and also giving an award to one of your own, and they were like who, and they said they were going to congratulate her quietly. One of the things that stood out is because of all the extra things she does. Shes a mother of three, always busy, always rushing off to pick up her kids or get babysitting services, yet she finds the time to run marathons, and she also started the girls on the run club, which was really, really a Great Community effort that neighbors and Community Came out, watched her as she did a relay. It was just an amazing moment where our teachers ran up to me, im going to nominate her for a r. A. V. E. Award. I thought this is a true exemplary example of a person that really gives so much to the school and people recognize it, and we need to recognize her. And i want to recognize her student. Congratulations, ms. Huie. [applause] i just want to briefly say thank you. Its hard for me to believe that this is my 27th year of teaching. Time flies by. And i want to say that i feel very honored and blessed to be in a career that i still love and feel passion for. I feel like its not a career, its my calling. I love my students and i love my community, and i hope to be serving them for many more years. [applause] section c, Public Comment on nonagenda items. Ill call your names in a minute. The protocol is please note that Public Comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the boards jurisdiction. We ask you refrain from using employee and student names. If you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it to the employees supervisor in accordance with district policy. Board rules and alaska r California Law dont allow us to respond board rules and California Law dont allow us to respond to comments. We have a number of speakers. When i call your name, approach the podium. Youll have two minutes each. [calling speaker names] ill do the rest later. My name is grace, i work at a middle school. Im a second year classroom teacher. [applause] im a member of this community. I have i wanted to say these proposed budget cuts are not only going to have real life consequences for all schools but especially our school, which you may have heard of recently. Our school has three counselors for 1,000 students, and we get written about in the press as not answering emails fast enough. Our admin are i think generally feel unsupported by the district at times. And are trying their best in a hard situation and all being new to their jobs. Every teacher at my school is working three different jobs in one. Im a classroom teacher, u. B. C. Rep and a head of Technology Department in my second year. No one at my school every at my school cannot survive on these budget cuts. We had probationary counselors and teachers who are working harder than anyone ive ever seen in my life. And our students deserve more. And our families deserve more. And in this time of crisis, we cannot have we cannot go to our schools and say heres less. We cannot settle for less. Every year our schools have been funding our students with less money for every year, and our classroom teachers, counselors, clerks, Security Guard, nurses, administrators, cannot continue to settle for less. And we need to show our students and our families that we are going to Work Together to find solutions and not compromise. So i ask you on march 10 that you vote for no cuts and no lay offs. Thank you for your time. [applause] im megan, a behavioral analyst with the School District. And part of my job is going to schools, i go to a lot of schools. And im there to try to help them figure out how to support students who need more student, and that is an impossible task, because everybody that i work with at every school ive ever gone to is already giving 110 . If we plan to interrupt the predictability of inequitable outcomes for our stantons, laying the burden for our students, leiing the burden laying the burden of cuts on our students is not a solution. Schools without good connections like schools ive been at in the Southeast Side, dont have matching grants for their p. T. A. S. They are going to get left behind. So for those kids that are doing okay or at schools are lots of funding, they are likely to continue to do okay. For kids struggling at this moment who need more, struggling at reading, have social emotional needs, those are the kids that are going to suffer if we decide to put the burden of these budget problems on our school sites. Its going to be an uphill battle for every child who has more than just the basic need in our school. Budget cuts are hard on everybody. But they perpetuate the cycle of inequity we are here to stop. [applause] we cannot afford to put our children through that. I urge you, i demand, that you vote no on any budget cuts that affect our schools. Vote no on layoffs. We owe it to our kids to stop the cycle of inequity, and we cannot do anything less than that. Thank you. [applause] hi, michelle, lowell high school, im also a parent of a balboa, shes a junior. I couldnt remember. Im also teaching four sections of a. P. Computer science at lowell, former student. And i have some concerns that are budgetrelated and also personal. One is that i currently have a colleague in our shared office who has very serious cancer. And she is afraid to take off work, because she is out of sick days from being treated a few times. In our contract we have 100 days of extended leave she would have to pay for a sub, and she cant. And so i am asking you to consider for bargaining that we dont continue this policy of asking teachers to pay for subs out of their salary. [applause] this is not a cost sorry. Anyway. We currently have a sick bank that members contribute contribute to. I tried to go to the Labor Relations office and say can i give h