Relieving the disparities between schools. And the other item that we discussed was whether to continue to extend the timeline and we talked about it and we considered extending the timeline for the redesign into the past the election into the winter. And decided as a committee that we wanted to stay the course. And still stay on track for a vote on the final plans in the late fall of this year. So more to come. I have not scheduled the next meeting of the committee yet. I believe that it will were going to take a little pause for the summer and then reconvene in august. President sanchez thank you. Although, you know, were probably going to meet throughout july anyway. Okay, so we have curriculum and program on thursday as commissioner collins has mentioned, thursday may 28th at 3 00 p. M. I want to make a plug that well talk about the summer so thats the time that people can talk about summer learning. President sanchez thank you. And rules, and policies and legislation will be monday june 1st at 3 00 p. M. And budget and Business Services committee is wednesday, june 3rd and i want to verify with the chair that is at 3 00 p. M. Yes . Yes, it is. President sanchez thank you. Commissioner lam. And section n, other informational items, hosts and agendas and acceptance of gifts. Monthly report for april 2020. Section o, memorial adjournment. Theres none tonight. And this time well take Public Comment for those who wish to speak to closed session items. Mr. Chairman, are you going to go back to section 8f, number nine, and theres challenges to the resolutions. President sanchez yes. We need to do that and i forgot. So superintendent matthews, i dont know if the staff has been able to this is on the contract for items and if we dont vote tonight, if the contracts will be able to be brought to us in the next meeting for a vote . Yes, im getting that information now. There was a recommendation for at least two and now i cant the other members, do you have oh, number 13 in terms of the ones that need to be passed tonight, 13 and 1 16. And the relationship reasons fos to start inservice staff work next week for summer learning. And 16 i believe is the bond audit, its a routine process and it has to be held and it needs to be funded. So theres recommendation for those two to be passed tonight. I dont know if staff had any others. To be clear, you are meeting the resolution for 200,000 yes. And those dollars actually are from sales force and theyre directed just for that. And then the one for the bond work, i think that its number 16. President sanchez so can we vote on those and hold off on the others to the next Board Meeting . Okay were talking about the k resolution, is that k13 and k16, mr. Superintendent . Or is this 13 and 16 in its quite different. Theres a difference here. Number nine is consent calendar item 9. But within that the one that is for the bond you see them or no . President sanchez so well vote on those two and the rest well hold off until next one, okay . The amendments where were getting credit those i think that we want to pass those as well, right . They are credited to our account. Right . President sanchez i dont understand. Yes, those are amendments to return money to the district. Right, so we would want to pass those today because were getting money back probably. Theyre belo below 21, 22, 23, l the way down to 31. President sanchez do you understand . No. I need clarity on this. On number 9 theres an attachment. With all of the k resolutions that have separate case numbers. Right. And so theres amendments all of the amendments were saying that we want to pass those because the amendments are theyre crediting our accounts. Were getting money back. President sanchez why dont we follow up afterwards. K31 yes. K9 k13 and k16. Okay, so they are k numbers. And k13 and k16. Yes, they are. I needed clarity. Thank you. All right. Got it. President sanchez roll call. Miss collins . Yes. Mr. Cook . Yes. Miss lam . Yes. Miss lopez . Yes. I didnt hear it. Sorry. Mr. Moliga. Yes. Miss norton . Yes. And mr. Sanchez . Yes. Okay thats seven ayes. Thank you. President sanchez just make sure that you are circling back thank you. All righty. I think that were there. So at this time well take Public Comment for closed session items and theres a total of five minutes for Public Comment. Is there any comments on the closed session items . Not seeing any, president sanchez. President sanchez all right. So section 2b, well go into closed session unless i call a recess of the regular meeting. And why dont we take at least a fiveminute break. Todays special guest is claudia dume. Hi. Today, my guest is claudia gorham. Shes the deputy managing director of the real estate dri division at the city and county of San Francisco, and shes my special guest. Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much. I know that your department is the department for managing and renting properties, and also cleaning for the city. How has your department been preparing for the crisis . Well, because our citizens are sheltering in place and our buildings are closed to the general public, a substantial amount of city staff and City Departments are still open and operating and doing city businesses. So we still have to do the cleaning and engineering on the portfolio and things that need to be service. And the other thing is all our workers are Disaster Service workers, so we have been providing the Emergency Operations center with various staffing needs such as drivers of trucks and accounting staff to assist them in this crisis. Have you obtained Additional Space for the city to use during this crisis . Yes. The crisis has actually required numerous transactions, and so we help basically the department of Public Health, the department of human services, and the department of homelessness determine where they can put the services that they need. So, for example, if they need a testing site or if they need a building a vacant building to put supplies or if they need to put some trucks, we will help them locate that Office Building or that property based on their factors that they need. We will then contact the landlord or the Property Owner of the space or the Building Owner decides they want, and then, we negotiate the terms that they need, whether its a permit or a lease, well help the City Attorney draft that agreement. Nice. So can you talk about how some of our iconic buildings, such address the palace of such as the palace of fine arts, has been repurposed during the pandemic . Certainly. The city needs as much space as it can use during this pandemic, and the department had to relocate to Moscone South Convention Center so that we could do social distancing as required by both the city and the state. We have hundreds and hundreds of staff people working on this covid19 crisis. All of the department of Public Health and the departments of homelessness and human services, including several other hundred people, they need several different sites. They need testing centers, they need shelters for the homeless, those with the covid19 virus, those who need a place to stay after they get out of the hospital. So weve been assisting them with places to stay. You mentioned the palace of fine arts. It has over 100,000 square feet of space. It could it we were going to use it as a shelter, but now, were going to use it for different needs. Were going to negotiate a different lease so that the city can use it for this crisis. Were using the bill graham Civic Auditorium and tfor the deployment of ambulances. The Fire Department needed additional supplies, so were using it for that service. Thats great. I also understand you have a staff of custodians, electricians, janitors and other support workers. How are they helping the city . We could not be more thankful for our civic and engineering staff under our real estate division. They have been working 247 since this crisis began, not only doing their daily responsibilities to keep the public buildings open and operating for the city staff continuing to go into the office but also because once the crisis started, several memos came down as to additional cleanings and how to do disinfecting, and we have to do the c. D. C. S recommendation does. So not only do they do recommendations. So not only do they do their regular cleaning, they are also doing deep cleaning and disinfecting in places like the Public Safety building and the haul of justice. But theyre also going in and doing a deep cleaning and disinfecting after we had a suspected case or a confirmed case of a person having the coronavirus. So theyre going in and doing this every night since this started. Our workers are continuing as laborers to make the buildings safe and secure and maintained. And however we help or however we can help the e. O. C. , we do that. Well, thanks for coming on the show, claudia. Id like to thank you and your entire team on behalf of all the residents of San Francisco for all the work you continue to do. Thank you very much. Its been a pleasure. Thats it for this episode. Well be back with another pandemicrelated episode shortly. This is coping with covid19. Im chris mathers. Thanks for watching. clapping. i think we have more companies anywhere in the United States its at the amazing statement were not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. The most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think hes a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think were not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. I thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are Great Stories for on opera. I was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. A friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. Why isnt it are that i have the support now we can do that. I realized that was something that wasnt being done in San Francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in San Francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision thats the final product felt opera. I was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. So much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work theres great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs weve worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. I had a model they have a professionally music yes, maam assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor id be able to work with them and its helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. Thats part of the opera lab i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so thats why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. There were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and its different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and thats part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. So one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. Thats what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people dont like it and some people do were concerned about that. Its about thirty something out there thats risky. You know, disliked by someone torn apart and thats the whole point of what were drying to do you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. music herb theatre,open rehearsal. Listen to the rehearsal. I think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. It is good for us. We kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. Msk music we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. We are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted. My ambition when i came on as music director here it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. Also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. This was my purpose. And after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. My plan and im absolutely dogmatic about my plans were delayed slightly. I would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and everyone, especially the arts, its phenomenal how new century has grown where many unfortunate organizations have stopped. During this period we got ourselves on National Radio presence; we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd. We continue to tour. Reputation grows and grows and grows and it has never stopped going forward. Msk music the bay area knows the orchestra. You maybe take things for granted a little bit. That is simply not the case will go on the road. The audiences go crazy. They dont see vitality like this on stage. We are capable of conveying joy when we play. Msk music any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the program that you havent heard before. String orchestra repertoire is pretty small. I used to be boxed into small repertoire. I kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. If you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. Is our gift. Msk music and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. The most challenging of all. String orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. The challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. I cant tell you how aware i am of the audience. Not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. I have been doing this for a long time. I kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. There is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. And that is our encore on tour. By the way. I am proud to play it, we are from San Francisco. We are going to play that piece no matter where we are. The regular meeting of the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, may 26, 2020. Roll call, please. President caen . Here. Vice president vietor . Present. Commissioner moran . Here. Commissioner maxwell . Here. Commissioner paulson . Present. We have a quorum. We begin the meet, id like to make an announcement. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and that Governor Newsom and mayor brown have lifted restrictions via conference, its being televised via sfgov tv. There is a brief time lag between the live meeting and what is being viewed on sfgov tv. On behalf of the commission id like to extend our thanks to sfgov tv staff. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 8882733658, access code 3107452 and pound, followed by pound again. When Public Comment is called, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. You will be you will hear an automated voice that will tell you when it is your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. I will alert you when your time has expired. These instructions will be repeat. If they havent already done show, im going to ask the commission and staff to minimize microphones to minimize background noise. And id like to note that item number 9 has been removed from the agenda and will be rescheduled to a different meeting. Madame president , your first order of business is item three, approval a of the minutes of. May 12, 2020. Yes. Commissioners, before you have the minutes of may 12, 2020, are there any additions or corrections . Seeing none, madame secretary, could you please open this to Public Comment . Members of public who wish to make Public Comment on item 3, a approval of the minutes of may 12, 2020, dial 882733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the speaker line. [dinging] mr. Moderator, do we have any comments on minutes . Operator madame speaker, there are three callers in the queue. You have three questions remaining. Callers, please note this is for item number three, the minutes. First caller, go ahead. Hello, caller. You have two questions remaining. Hello, caller. This is Public Comment for item 3, minutes. Go ahead. Caller im sorry. I messed up.