Any items withdrawn or corrected . Yes, could you please read the items that have been corrected . Yes, thank you, dr. Matthews, i will. We have three items being withdrawn from the consent calendar 2069a 24, 26, and 31. Also to the consent calendar on number 14, change the words in that item from Dell Chromebook to hp chromebook. And finally in the attachment 20526k13 and 16, which were adopted at the last Board Meeting were inadvertently left in the group of ks. They will be removed from the group of attachments. That is it. All right. Please recall that we are also voting on the k resolutions voted on at the last meeting and guard forwarded to this meeting. Any items removed from First Reading by the board. I just have a question of which specific the local 21 member spoke about a number. I missed the actual resolution number. K12, special services. Is that in the k items . Is that in that table . Im not looking at it right n now, im looking at something else. [indiscernible] i think so. So that was 20526k12. And special services to the tune of 64,211. Do you want to severe that for discussion . Yeah. I think its practice for us to discuss when we can. What item is that . Its 20526k12. Its from the batch of resolutions that you forwarded to this meeting for adoption. Theres two charts on the k resolutions, one from last week and this week. I see. Its in that table . Yes, theres two. The very first table and chart, the left over k resolutions from last meeting and k12 is part of that. Okay. Yeah. All right. So youre going to severe for discussion. We can vote on it. Right . [indiscernible] is that one of the ones that we pulled because it was left if it was inadvertently left . I was just double checking. No, it was not. So its not part of last meetings. Okay. So were going to have to discuss that and vote on that separately. So we did pull 2069k26 . Yeah. Well get a roll call vote on the rest of the consent calendar now. [ roll call ]. Go ahead, do you have a question about this. Im having trouble finding it in the document. Its about independence wellness. Id like to know more about that, if staff can explain why were hiring a contractor, as opposed to using staff. Its gene on the excuse me [indiscernible]. Hi, everybody. Thank you. This is [indiscernible] to contract with some Occupational Therapists from an agency. The way i understand this from a colleague who oversees related services, its roughly over 100 f. T. E. S are involved. It encompasses physical therapists, Occupational Therapists, speech and language therapists and a few others. Occupational therapists could have been a hard and concealed position. Obviously i would prefer district employees. But when it comes time to provide services in the fall, if we dont have these services filled, it falls into another line item on the budget. We tried to hold a balance so were ensuring that we are fully staffed when we kick off the new year. Any other questions and comments . Based off of that, we dont have a position filled. This is to hold the funding because we suspect they wont be filled . I asked this question myself last week and i was told that we anticipate not being able to fill these positions because thats why they went to agencies. We had several other positions because we had an increase in numbers that [indiscernible] we looked for that sweet spot of how many we can post the positions and then put them in the nonpublic agency. All right. Any other questions or comments . All right. So we are going to vote on this item. Roll call. [ roll call ]. We need a report from rules committee. Commissioner. Yesterday at our rules and policy committee, we reviewed the student use of Technology Policy thats before the board tonight. Just again, to recognize that we dont have a policy in place and this is for specifically the use of districtissued devices. We as a Committee Also talked about the importance of having further discussions of use of phones during the Traditional School day and what that means for a later point, but just wanted to reiterate that policy for district devices that were district issued. The committee did a positive recommendation to the boards consideration tonight. Superintendent matthews, we need to read the recommendation into the record. Yes, reading that recommendation into the record will be the general counsel. Yes, the recommendation is that the board approve for policy 6163. 4, student use of technology. Thank you. Any speakers that have signed up want to speak to this item . Seeing none. Roll call, please. I have a question. Just as far as district distributed diviss, we have chromebooks thatevices, we have chromebooks that weve given out. Ive heard from presidio families when theyre giving out the ipads that there was huge concerns from parents about their inability to regulate their childrens use of those distric districtdistributed devices. Its about the cellphones and which parents can regulate and tablets which we never established a policy around. Ive gotten multiple emails from families that they were not able to regulate devices they did not give out. Im wondering if this is addressed in this policy. I dont think it is. This is not dealing with the distancelearning reality. It wouldnt apply to onetoone devices that were distributed at a school during a Normal School year, that kind of districtdistributed technology. I dont know. I would need more clarity on your question, commissioner. When you say regulate, do you mean what students could access . They were able to access youtube and they werent able to monitor screen time. I can see what websites my kids are accessing and what websites they were on. Parents were expressing frustration that because they werac sseed and managed by the district, it prevents parents from monitoring and regulating how much time kids are on devices and what other sites theyre accessing. Districtissued Technology Devices are subject to our fire wall. The chief would probably correct that term. They are intended to prevent students from accessing sites that are inappropriate. I know thats not 100 accurate sites that are approved, kid can [indiscernible] it doesnt permit parents to regulate screen time, thats correct, there isnt a way to do that. If the board wants to have further discussion, i know the chief flagged this that she wouldnt be here. We can discuss that later or follow up. I guess my question is, is it germane to this specific policy because theres a fine line between kids use of cellphones as when kids are using them and teachers. I dont want to hold this up if its separate. Is this something we should talk about in relation to this specific policy. I wouldnt want to move forward without if conversation. When we go back to school, hopefully it will be a bigger issue if we havent tackled this. I would want the chief to give you the factual answer on whether or not we have the ability to regulate screen time. I dont know if thats something were able to do. Thats the fist thing. The second thing, i would ask the board to go ahead and adopt tonight. One of the reasons theres urgency is to some extent well have Distance Learning and we will have it over the summer. We need to have a board policy on use. That doesnt mean its set in stone and the board cant make amendments or rescissions. I would like to make a request of the policy committee that we take this up in the near future because hopefully we will go back to school. Thank you, commissioner. Any other comments or questions. Roll call. [ roll call ]. Section h, special order of business, motion on the resolution authorizing the student to negotiate an agreement with the planning in Partnership Group not to exceed 93,000. We have a short presentation to give you and the board and the public an idea of what the group and the process is. Presenting tonight will be the chief of h. R. Good evening, commissioners. Im the chief officer for the district. I will be walking you through how we selected the planning and Partnership Groups and we will be happy to take your questions and comments. If you could go to the next slide. Knowing that the work of reopening schools was going to be a massive undertaking, given all of the uncertainties and complexities, we published an r. F. Q. On may 8. We wanted a comprehensive plan for returning to inperson schooling and returned to this partnership. We have received seven proposals for our consideration. The way we went about selecting the group that we hope to award the contract to is first scoring the written proposals. Scores was done by our deputy superintendent and our chief of student and family support, and myself as chief of h. R. We scored all seven and moved the top three finalists which was an interview with the executive leadership team. We selected the proposal from the planning and Partnership Group as our finalist as their project expertise and their facility with facility and diversity work, which approach needs to be robust and fairly quick because we have a limited amount of time before schools open in august. The founders of this group is have worked with the district before. They have expertise with the district from work with the district before. One thing i should mention is that in addition to these colleagues, they are bringing in an additional staff. One of the things that is true is that the way we envisioned what is possible in early may is different in early june once weve gotten in june. What weve gotten to do is to focus on a scope of work that accounts for multiple contingencies and scenarios. A Stakeholder Engagement plan rooted in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. And i think speaking to some of the comments weve heard earlier, we know how important it is to engage with our staff. There is a short amount of time to do the engagements in. Were pleased to have our expertise to do so. Following all of the different guidance and policies that are coming out that feed into the policymaking that we will recommend to the board over the next couple of weeks. That is what we are doing and i look forward to answering any questions that you may have. Is there any Public Comment for this item . Yes. Hello . Im here. I just want to make it very, very clear. Im commenting in my formal role with being with sfusb, can we please, please stop connecting ourselves to folks that are part of the privatization world. This is playing out over and over in sfusb. I am deeply concerned and trying to hold my composure around this. Please stop going to these folks. Theyre experts in doing this and they thrive on public money to feed their corporate machines. Please do not coordinator these people or hire them. Thank you. Hello, i want to echo the previous comments. Im not sure how we ended up with the previous organization. If you look at the partner page, you will see they are connected to Partner Organizations that are suing San FranciscoPublic Schools to get more access to [indiscernible] and the be bellweather group. The principals themselves have worked with [indiscernible] budget cuts on the one hand and hire organizations that are connected with organizations that are invested in pushing online and privatation of Public Schools on the other hand. I would ask the board to reject this. Thank you. [indiscernible]. For Public Education in San Francisco come august. So its really very disappointing. Your students experiencing homelessness and who are marginally housed, those [indiscernible] when we hire firms that work with these groups, my question is the past chair of the Advisory Committee as a member, how can they engage and represent and support and make sure that the populations who have very little experience supporting will be represented and heard. Thank you. I want to speak to some of the comments made. I was glad to hear from the advisory groups and i appreciate that. I was un awaaware and concerned about some of the stuff i heard. Can you hear me . I think that San Francisco folks have made it clear that we dont want Charter Schools taking over our district. Its happened in other cities. Its not something we want here. I want to weigh in on my partnership with them as a consultant and hope that the board sees this as well. President sanchez, that was the final speaker. Thank you for the Public Comments. Daniel, do you want to respond to any of this . Let me start. One of the things thats important to i believe is important to remember and appreciate the comments. There are a couple of things. One, if not all, have some connection with charters and traditional Public Schools, all of the seven or almost all of the seven that apply [indiscernible] the second piece is that when we went through the process what were looking for is really a project manager. Its not someone whos going to come in and try to start a charter school, but theyre managing a project forward and not giving us the answers. The answers are going to come from us and the community. In our selection as were listening to the responses of the best project manager and this is the team that came through. Hopefully that clears up some. I want to make sure thats clear. I dont know if you want to add more. The only thing i would add is a clarification. From some of the Public Comment is the network of Charter Schools is not. They are doing an equity and Inclusion Work in spaces. They are talking about inclus n inclusion. This is one of the things we appreciated about them, there is a clear commitment to look at the organization who sits in high leadership positions that we thought that was aligned with our core values of being diversity driven. I wanted to respond to that because i didnt think there was a conclusion of charter 54 being a chart er school association. Even through the process, people werent involved, families werent involved, the union wasnt involved. It was district led. A many of our chiefs were involved. I do appreciate the prosperity in the entire process. Its very clear for us to understand how you went about it. I think we have a lot of power in our School District. Making this decision in house without even working with an outside organization. For me its what the messaging is when we are connected, whether we want to admit it or not and whether that was the only option that we had come to us, what is the message if we do work with these organizations and really following the money. We know that within child supporter School Associations that funding ends up hurting school systems. For me, im trying to be open of anything i support, whether its through my funding or not, that im trying to help, and whether funding is part of that. All of the language is filled in the charter language [indiscernible] doing any of th that. Ms. Cover weve engaged before and shes done a variety of training with staff. We are trying to [indiscernible] delivering a performance evaluation and we made that widely available. That led to a group in h. R. That has been doing work in our department to make sure we have sound practices in hiring and sound initiatives in the department. So it was a strong engagement. Board questions. [indiscernible] makes them School Leaders and they go around to empower parents to make Charter Schools. If you look at the financial documents, its theyre charter documents and about how we suck and Charter Schools are great and [indiscernible] i dont even know what they do. People use their money and move it around. Its like a Crime Syndicate or something if you really get into it. These folks are associated with those folks. I dont think we should be doing anything to do with them. Theyre working collectively to take money out of the system. When youre paying money to a private organization and youre not developing capital, it is concerning to me that we have to hire somebody to do project management. We should be able to do that. I cant understand why we cant do that. Ill tell you why this is ridiculous. I used to be a consultant. I worked for west ed and i was tired i was given money by the Gates Organization to do work for oakland. Im a wellmeaning black woman who wants to do change. Some things came out of it that werent doing the work. I think in Public Education, we need to build our own capacity to engage our community and work with families and labor. We have administrators who cant do project management, thats a concern for me. If were going to spend 90,000 to do project management, we should have that capacity in our shop or we should be partnering and supporting people are saying, invest in black businesses. How are we building capacity for home many of grown and communitybased businesses, if were spending money on people funded by the Walton Family organization. Theyre working with the new schools for new orleans. New orleans has no more Public Schools. Its because of all these privatizers that are coming in. This organization is a part of that machine. We ned to educate ourselves on that. Its complicated. I dont want to have anything to do with an organization thats working with these people. [indiscernible] its a machine and its a disaster. Capitalism is another thing thats happening. Weve got to find a better way to get our projects done than hiring organizations that are so closely aligned with the privatization industry. I dont know, vince, if you want to respond to the capacity issue. Yeah, a couple of things. One of the things that as you recall, we were thinking about the previously the 26 million, our request was to cut from central. Out of that 26, remember 22 came from central, which