Meeting of the joint City School District and city college select committee. Im supervisor haney, chair of the committee. Our clerk stood erica major. Madame clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, city employers and members of public, the board of spo ifs sortss legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee meeting will attend the meeting during Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item of this agenda. For both channel 26 and sfgov tv and the numbers are streaming across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Call in for opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 4156550001. The access code is 1457195549. Then press pound and pound again. Once connected, you will hear the meeting discussion, but you somebody muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, please press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may see the Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email me at erica. Major sfgov. Org. You also may submit Public Comments via email and it will be forwarded to the supervise source and included as part of the official file. Thank you, madame clerk. Can you please call the roll . Yes. Thank you, chair haney. On the call of the roll [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you, madame clerk. Can you please call the first item . Yes. Item number 1 is the hear regarding how covid19 has impacted the schedules, policies and provision of services for services for unified School District and city college of San Francisco. The approach of sfusd and ccsf are exercising to protect both students and staff during the pandemic. Those who want to provide Public Comment on this should call 4156550015. Access code 1457195545 and press pound again. If youve already done so, have not done so, please press star 3 to line up to speak. Your system will prompt that you have raised your hand to speak. Thank you, madame clerk. I appreciate it. And, first of all, thank you for your work in the Clerks Office for fixing those technical difficulties and allowing there to be Public Comment for this meeting. Welcome back, everyone. I just first want to say hello. It is good to see you all. And just to the trustees and the commissioners and the staff, thank you so much for everything that you all are doing right now. I know this is a very challenging time for our city, for our families, for our educators, for sfusd, for city college and ive just been really grateful for the leadership that you all have demonstrated during these challenging times to make sure that you are leading in a way that ensures our students can continue to access education, we can continue to support our educators and that we really think about what were doing right now and also what were going to do in the future. So, im really excited that were having this meeting. And im looking forward to discussing all of these issues with all of you. But i just wanted to start with a big thank you for the leadership of all of the folks who are here during this time. Its been really impressive. A lot has happened over the past few months. And this is a critical meeting to discuss how we are responding during this crisis to meet the needs of our students, educators and families and communities. I wanted im going to recognize our presenters in a moment. Were going to be sort of guiding us through this conversation that this meeting is an opportunity for the City District and city college and the city to maintain the lines of communication that we fought so hard to establish and provide both sfusd and city college with the opportunity to report on all of your hard work. We also want to provide the public with the information on what they can expect in the upcoming months and what to look for in terms of planning their own decisions and what many can expect to have information and what things look like. Some of you notice ive been supporting this work in another way as a cochair of a committee that the president norman yee and mayor breed set up around these issues so there will be conversation that reflects the timelines and processs that are in front of us. They are huge decisions that are in front of our city, School District and city college. How we will reopen and how we continue to support our students, families and educators this summer in the fall and beyond and how we will face together the looming budget challenges that affect all of us. And i do think its something that we have to plan for together, that we have to be there for each other and we shouldnt expect each of these institutions to go at it alone because, at tend of the day, these are the same people that were serving. These are the same families and students and educators who are san franciscans who all of us have a responsibility to support and be responsive to. So, were going to introduce the presenters in a moment. But i do want to open it up if there are any of my fellow Committee Members who would like to comment on this item and im also grateful, of course, that i give a lot of shoutouts to the trustees and commissioners, but also my colleagues, supervisor fewer whos here as well. Could any would any of the Committee Members like to provide any comments before we start the presentations . Let me see how to call on people here. I see trustee williams and then also truce tee randolph. President williams. Can you hear me . Yes. Yes. Ok. Im not used to Microsoft Team so im getting used to it. I just want to thank you, chair haney, for all of your work bringing this item forward. This is so need right now for both of our institutions and for sfusd and the only way to make it out of this is to Work Together and im excited to have the conversation and continue the conversation of. What we can do to bring resources to these very vital educational institutions. Our students are depending on it, and our families are depend ing on it. And i know its very hard for city and county of San Francisco, the city is facing its own billion dollar deficit so really putting on our thinking caps and being creative. I think it is really going to be inspiring for all of us. So, just thank you, chair haney, for your leadership and thank you to all of our commissioners and my colleague, trustee randolph and my colleagues trustee selby. Thank you so much, president williams. Absolutely. Trustee randolph . Hello, chair haney. Thank you so much for convening this meeting. I think i agree with president williams and you that this is a critical time. I know that our respective districts were facing Financial Issues even before covid19 due to a variety of different factors so it has been made worse through this crisis and as you know, from being on the board, whenever there is a recession, the state when Education Funding is needed, the state unfortunately cuts their support and we are seeing a significant cut coming down the line from the state of california, which i think our team is going to talk about in a minute. I just want to thank the city for all the support that they have given city college already and the board of supervisors has supported us through the city funding that we were able to secure for the next 10 years. So i know that the city is already doing a lot to help city college and we continue to provide education to our students, specifically the underserved communities. And i know there is going to be something coming in november, hopefully, that will continue to support us. But i want to thank you for your leadership and the city for already stepping up in the past and working with us to make it through this really critical time. As you know, when people are out of a job during a recession, they come to community klefjs all over the state. That is when were the most critical to really help with recovery, with Workforce Development and with training so we need make sure that the resources are there when, you know, our members of the community really need it this fall and this coming spring. Thank you, trustee randolph. Appreciate that t. Commissioner colins . Thank you. I just i want to echo all the comments that have been made and i very much praoernlt the opportunity for us all to come together. I really also appreciated trustee williams comment and just in terms of us both facing Economic Uncertainty right now at a time when were already facing uncertainty around our health and wellbeing, of family members and just want to reiterate that students and families do not experience government in silos and this has made it clear that it is imperative for us all to work in coordination with one another. We have our own house were responsible for. Basically not working in alignment. Were going to create gaps for families that are the most vulnerable. And so what ive actually been very hopeful is in seeing how we are developing new systems to coordinate between the district and the city and also communitybased organizations. Were creating more systems of listening to the community and filling gaps. And being more flexible, i think. And that is one of the positive things that i think is coming out of this. In addition, i just also want to say that, in the last few weeks, you know, covid and the economy were the number one topics with our socalled [inaudible] but weve been taught about irn tuitional racism, Police Brutality and safety. And that conversation is connected with budgets and its connected with education and its connected with city, you know, support of social services and investment in our communities. So, i just like i said, they are connected so i really, really appreciate the space and the leadership of the board of supervisors in working to get this committee together so that we can continue to Work Together, not just to meet the challenges that we save in dealing with covid or our education system, but also all of us are responsible for, working together to eradicate institutional racism and investing in communities of color so that we can thrive and so, again, just great gratitude and appreciation for the leadership on this collective team. Absolutely. And i appreciate those comments. I do think that some of the work that you discussed there would be a good topic for a future meeting with all of us and how we can coordinate on some of the really incredible work that you all have been doing around those issues. Supervisor fewer . Yes. Thank you very much, chair haney. I just want to say its great to see everybody. I feel like i havent seen folks for so long and everyone is looking very well. And thank you for your continued work. I just want to make a comment that, you know, i think that california was the fifth largest economy in the world. And yes, we are facing a deficit but we have a thriving economy here in california. I understand from our state legislators that higher lead take a hit and theyre looking at sfusd and ccfu but i have not heard about where our Community College was at. Knowing we were going into this budget year already with quite a heavy deficit and knowing that youve probably had to use resources to actually boost the learning gap during this time, and then also the city college, knowing that you also had financial challenges and trying to get back on board andive a lot on your plate this is coming year. And i also just want to say that it is really true that we, as a society, have looked at Public Safety mainly as Law Enforcement. In fact, Law Enforcement is a small part of Public Safety and Police Respond to crime. They actually dont prevent it. And education, as we know, is the foundation for our democracy. It is a great equalizer of our society. And in particular public kaefj i hope that you know that supervisor haney and ahavent been on the board for many years that we hope to be partners and allies as we enter into the [inaudible] season and beyond. As you know, were having an estimated 1. 7 billion deficit also, but it is also important to remember that San Francisco has a thriving economy. We are not fresno and we are not modesto. We have actually economies that have been thriving even throughout this covid19. So, having said that, looking forward to your presentations. I have some questions. But overall look like you guys have been very busy. Thank you for all youre doing. Building a safety net for all of our san franciscans. Thank you, supervisor fewer. And everyone for your comments there. I definitely echo that. This is supervisor fewer and i are committed to working with you all as we move through the budget process in the coming months and this is really a space that we should use and i hope, you know, now that we took a few months off because there was a lot going on, but that we can have regular meetings here and we may want to have this item be something that is moron going because of how, you know, immediate and urgent these issues are and we really want to be champions for both of these institutions at the city and coordinate appropriately. So, with that, i want to move on to our first presenter. Were going hear from sfusd first. And i believe that i am going were going to start with deputy superintendent meiun lee. Ill pass it over to you. Thank you so much, chair haney, and Committee Members. Its been a long time coming. This presentation, this conversation. We know youve been very accommodating for our requests to arrange this on a date when we could have a little bit of band width and space to prepare and communicate xaekively. So, we really appreciate your patience with that timing aspect of this. We, too, are very excited to share both a progress report, a highlevel summary of the progress weve been making since march in response to the covid pandemic as well as looking ahead at the many questions and many dilemmas that were looking at and planning for a restart of learning in the fall. So, were going to cover a number of topics today. Ill joined by several colleagues. Ill introduce them in a moment. But well be talking about our efforts to provide Food Security during the pandemic and distributing meals. Theyre going to talk about trying to bridge the Digital Divide by providing access to Technology Devices and internet connectivity. Were going share information about the amazing work thats been happening to design and implement a distant learning program. Immediately. It was very short notice, obviously. But many folks have worked really hard to get up that and running. A lot of work to do still. But that an was an impressive effort. And also to talk about how were trying to look after and check in on our students and our families. By conducting wellness checks and reaching out to them and caring for the whole range of experiences and needs that theyre going through these days and many of which have been intensified as commissioner collins mentioned over the last few weeks with the tragic events and illuminating events of Police Brutality across the country. I would like to ask, we can go slightly out of order in our slides. Because one of our colleagues, who is the deputy superintendent of instruction, she has suhana interview to conduct. If its possible to go slightly out of order and go to slide six of our presentation. And then well pick back up at the beginning. If erica can send us the materials, that would be great. [please stand by] [please stand by] actually, if we can start on slide 5. Good morning, everybody. Its good to be here and share the amazing collaboration on what we have learned on covid19 during this crisis. As you know, schools in sfusd closed on march 19, and that was our first day of Distance Learning. Our official teacherled interactive Distance Learning started on april 13, and that was when we moved all of our instruction to two phases either a digital distance approach or a nondigital distance approach. During the weeks that led up to that april 13 date, we spent a lot of time like, myong will speak to you later, but we engaged our students in learning remotely, as well as making sure as many students and families as possible had access to technological devices, which would be needed, especially for our second and third grade students. So what you see is some of our bright spots and highlights. You should know that a number of our second and third grade students already had electronics to be able to do school studies, but we had a way for students to sign up for technology, and of those students, 99 we were able to get devices distributed. We had a number of methods to distribute our devices. School pick ups, as well as home deliveries, and the use of the postal service, and we are in the process of building out a dashboard to give us data of not only who has a device and usage, but who accesses the device. In the first week of Distance Learning, april 13, we saw 99 of our families engaged in Distance Learning, meaning some form of home instruction with their teachers. Next slide, please. Next slide, please. Im sorry. Clerk there might be a slight delay. So our process is twofold. As i said, it was a digital approach which requires the use of the devices and then, a nondigital approach. That really prioritized our students in prek through two, so our nondigital approach, a