Congressman John Robert Lewis at the age of 80. He passed from pancreatic cancer. Long receipt man lewis helped organize the 1963 march on washington and the 1965 Voting Rights match in selma, alabama. He was six main organizers including Martin Luther king junior of the washington march where he gave a speech at the lincoln memorial. Congressman louis often spoke of the importance of getting into good trouble. He represented georgia in the house of representatives from 1987 until his passing. Johnathan capeheart asked representative lewis what he would say to people who feel as though they have already been giving it their all but nothing changes. Lewis answered, you must be able and prepared to give until you cannot give anymore. We must use our time and space on this planet we call earth, to leave it better than we found it and now that need is greater than ever before. He will truly be missed. The San FranciscoUnified School District is offering support to teach students from distance during the covid19 pandemic. The district is pre paying fed indicators in roles in San Francisco unified passed away to teaching programs on how to teach virtually. Halfway teacher candidates are learning how to teach and the teachers are gaining practice and how to use these schools so they can be prepared for Distance Learning and instructions and eventually facetoface teachings. The 74 participants at credentialing program a tea them to learn their teaching credential are finishing their seven weeks of course works and preparing for lead classroom when the 2021 school year is program is a reacher program proved on teacher credentially. Now in its fourth year the Program Begins with a seven week intensive summer teacher prep operation program. Pathway to teacher teaching incorporates an anti racism teaching lens and helps remove barriers for those who want to be a teacher. 90 are local to the bay area so congratulations for starting your first teaching and president san fresca, that ends my report for this evening. Section 3 is student delegate report, ms. Heinz foster. Hello, thank you so much. President mark sanchez and Board Members. You start off id like to read our sac business. So first, we have sac application review and on boarding. Wore currently reviewing our sac application for the next school year. As student leaders, our goal is to create a learning environment that echos the Student Interest in values we hold dear in our community. The sac application is on going this summer. We would like to think all of our a. S. B. Leaders for going back to their school and circulating this wonderful opportunity to our constituents also, a big thank you to our supervisor for organizing facilitating and setting up meetings and they have express their interest in joining the sac team this summer. Our second item is the sfusd School Renaming task force. The topic is rename something of our Public Schools that restrict social justice and Cultural Values in our current state of living. Our gel is to present the opportunity to our Leadership Team and designate two qualified representatives that are passionate about this project and echo what our constituents have to say. In order to get the ball rolling, well have to on board our new team, host a general meeting and nominate two general representatives to take the lead. Wed like to thank our deputy superintendent and chris armendra. We are pleased to recognize that our student voices matter. Next, School Safety advisory. The School Safety advisory project will make all students feel safe. Our goal is to make sure all of our students of of their rights so that we can go from this point forward and we hope it will provide an opportunity and hosting this session via zoom on august 4th, at 4 00 p. M. He with like to thank them for spearhead north student project woad like to thank ms. Williams for taking time to meet with us and make this project a success. Our fourth item is 16th resolution. Providing students with the opportunity to vote at age 16 and be more involved in Civic Engagement with our city and School District. If would you like to attend, make a presentation or you would like a copy of our up and upcoming sac agenda, please contact our sac supervisor mr. Salvador lopez bar. Thank you. Thank you, you are hitting the ground running. I look forward to the vote 16 resolution coming to us as well as students and representatives on the renaming committee which is some of the 3406 most importt work being done in this most important time so thank you again. Section 4 is resolutions of accommodations and there are none tonight. Recognize all scrabblal employees or the raid a words there are none tonight. And this afternoon. Section c is Public Comment and mr. Steel will call on speakers and keep two minutes eye time and if i need to change the time i will tell you, depending on how many folks are raising their hands and this will be commenting on items that are not on the agenda and we might have to repeat that a couple times. If you want to speak o items that are not on the agenda, you may do so. During this section. First im going to read to you a little statement. 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 students names. If you have a complaint you may submit it in accordance with district policy. As a reminder, board rules and California Law do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during the Public Comment time if appropriate, the super intent ant will ask followup with speakers. With that, mr. Steel. Thank you president sanchez. So raise your hand right now if you would care to speak on any item not on our agenda. It will come later in the agenda and this is any item that were not on our agenda tonight so please, raise your hand. Assume mr. Steel. Yes, sir. Does that mean they should wait until later . Yes. I just wanted to make sure. Its the first item. Yes, thank you. Its our first bit of humor. Thank you. [laughter] so it looks like we have 11 hands up president sanchez. Everybody will get two minutes and thank you very much mr. Spiel. You are welcome. Hello, are you there . Hi, im Jim Alexander i have a question about the announcement of four hours of instruction per day and im not sure if this is a time for the comment or later. Later. That would be later. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, david. Hello, mr. Steel. Thank you. Superintendent and Board Members, id like to comment on our budget and our staff i notice the board has approved a lot of contracts just the other day and made whole this years special superintendent and many administrators id like to ask the board and superintendent to apply some of our own template and what we want the public to know about us in terms of social justice, fear lessness is being united by providing social justice to our staff certified and classified in terms of making their presence financial situation whole or just as firm as the contracts you just approved. Be fear less in terms of making clear the budget to us the public and asking made them to be clear in terms of having us see how we can be in a surplus financially in the state and making us whole and yet threatening budget cuts and so fourth. We ask we remain united in staff and administrators and make us even more united by providing some of these areas of clarity and social justice. Thank you, very much. Tom hello, tom . Tom, are you there . It you hear me . Go ahead. Ill be quick. My wife and i are teachers and i want to do a shout out and thank you to commissioner collins, lopez and sanchez. I feel you all three have teachers backs a lot. All the Board Members but you three because you are asking good questions and being transparent and thoughtful and it goes a long way and feels supportive. I know our school staff and my wifes school staff appreciate it and thank you for taking the time to do this. It means a lot, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, carmen. Carmen . Go ahead. Si. Yes, we can hear. [voice of interpreter] all right. You can ask her to, well come back to her. Well see if we can her in a break out room. Ill teach out to her. Yes, let her know she cant hear us. [voice of interpreter] thank you. Hello, jim. Hello, my name is jan june and im an employee of susfd and im also the Union Steward of local 21 that represents all of our Technology People and all that and ill take to thank mr. Sanchez for his opening speech about how were all in this together and we definitely are and were all in the same boat and i think one thing that would make a lot of us feel 589 better is knowing the budget is ok and were being asked to give up some things and we would like a little bit more transparency what we see what money is being spent and particularly with private contracts and all of those unrepresented people weve not been able to get we dont know what theyre being asked to give up so to speak. All of us in the boat for the long run are all of us that work permanently here at the San FranciscoUnified School District and have done so for not years and have made it our careers. So, i would just like the board to see if you can make the make some of the information weve asked since february about outside contracts to become a little more visible to saul so we can all see what to do in case of a particular budget that is coming up. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, matt. Yes, hi. Can you hear me. Go ahead. Wonderful, hi, everyone. My name is Matt Alexander and im a 20year veteran of sfusd teacher and principal. First, id like to comment on the superintendent mentioned the Administrator Institute opened today and there was a poll taken of who was in attendance and apparently 48 percent, only 48 of the administrators were school site administrators and over half were Central Office administrators. I believe that reflects a misallocation of resources within the district and those are very talented people. Some are good friends of mine. This is not a critique of them but a critique of the allocation of resource and we need to continue the leadership the board has shown in moving allocation towards school sites. I also want to thank the board and in particular commissioner collins on the issue of pandemic pods, taken a National Voice from that and its exciting and San Francisco may provide an alternative path that could be a model. The roof stop have create aid cor horting model that is much more equitable and just as focused and really, i hope that is beak being shared with other schools in the district so the other schools could follow in their footsteps. Im sure other schools are planning as well. We can really be a model for the country and how to cohort Young Children who need social interaction in small groups safely and doing tech witt blee in line with our social justice value and we can show the rest of the country the way. So thank you very much much for your leadership and i want to thank you during this difficult time. I just want to take this opportunity to thank all Board Members during this very, very difficult time and stepping up and being leaders in San Francisco. Its not easy and good trouble is not always easy to live with and i havent spoken at a Board Meeting and quite some time and i have been working with ms. Lamb and in the past, mr. Cook and mr. Sanchez. Around other issues that we didnt necessarily always agree on but what i felt was important is the dedication they clearly had to 9 district and to the children and families there and i want to thank dr. Matthews. The work that we have done with dr. Matthews has been invaluable. His patients his directness, his capped candidness is they are exemplary and qualities that he brings to the district in addition to the work that he does on behalf of the children and families in the district in addition to the teachers and administrators. I think there couldnt have been a better choice for superintendent of the year. Thank you very much for taking my comment. Thank you. Hello, heather. Id like to register my opposition to charging sfusd families and the infant, toddler and preSchool Programs while schools are closed for inperson education. Thank you. Thank you. Caller, are you there . 627 . Caller i am. Hello. Everyone, representing alliance 6 blacks who are educators. We congratulate superintendent matthews for superintendent of the year. Special shout out to our friend pringle and everyone who has been nominated. The alliance has a concern about the virtual morning and o we think will are 70 plus who are trained in Virtual Learning and of that number, we would like to know how many are African American and and thank you for supporting the efforts, those who are supporting African American students and African American educators in this district. Thank you. Thank you. Hell oh julie. This is julie and a parent. I want to appreciate district staff who set down with us to talk through the representation of our budget. I want to appreciate, especially ms. Wallace, mr. Wong, mr. Tang and commissioner sanchez. It was really helpful to have a report back from budget staff letting us know that they have corrected the site report to reflect that redding is losing 1. 5fte and not gaining. 5 ft e and it helps them catch other schools facing similar cuts. We really appreciate them taking this feedback about changes in the stability of our Teaching Staff and were looking forward to hearing back whether that will change our fall allocation. It really remains urgent in the time of covid19 to have our social worker full time supporting our families and were looking forward to how to ensure in tss happen in an equitable way and not in a way that benefits tier 2 schools as it is now. Hello, robin. Robin. Robin . Hello robin. Juliette. You are on video. Yes, im here. Could you let her know shes on video because i had to promote her to panelist to let her speak. Ok. So you [ speaking spanish ] [voice of interpreter] good afternoon, my name is juliana and i have three kids. Brian, Elementary School and i am a member of the eloc at that school. One thing that i wanted to comment today is that we would like to have more time with the inPerson Instruction during the next school year. Also, i would like to request that the new educational plan for the 20202021 school year has not been translated. My understanding is that the students from first to third grade are going to get 3. 8 hours of instruction but it is not clear how these hours are going to be divided and how many hours are going to be instruction and how many hours are going to be inpersonment i would also like to have more clarification about the and also i would like schools have more inperson meetings with their school staff and parents. Thank you very much. Thank you. How many folks are there . There are five and then six if carmen is coming back. And mr. Diaz, can you explain in spanish that these comments are nor non agenda items . [voice of interpreter] frank, are you there . This is frank. Im a parent of a inaudible . I guess it might be a little late to bring this up but im just curious what is the rush to stop schools so fast. Can we just take a month or two months to see what is going on . Either should we see or give them an opportunity of another month or two months to get a better plan in place. Thats all my comments. Thank you. Thank you. Rosalba spanish . Sui[voice of interpreter] tell her she has two minutes, she can go ahead. [ speaking spanish ] good afternoon, my name is rosalda and i have my child at hover middle school but now i change him to another school. I have a question regarding the agenda. It seems to me that i was really the agenda and theres a lot of explanation for the next school years for children that are in kinder, first, second, third grade but i couldnt find anything about the second grade. I would like to know about the curriculum for these students on sixth, seventh and eighth grade. How many classes are they going to have on for internet and how many classes are they going to have inperson and i dont have that kind of information and i would like to know where i can find that information or when that will be released to the public and whether that would be translated or not. Thank you. Hello, steve. And the classroom and teacher and the pod teacher. What liabilities parents face have children in their home and teaching children in their homes and the over all safety precautions that parents hosting children should have in this era of covid19. If parents can split the cost for a teacher, their parents that still would welcome being in a learning pod. The school, this dedicated staff could pair parents who really couldnt afford that with parents who can and it could be on a sliding scale so that everyone benefits so im wondering if theres going to be a dedicated staff and a resource . Is that going to be promoted quickly and is that the help now . Thats it. Thank you for your time and i greatly appreciate the work you are doing. Thank you. Hi. This is margo my name is margo and i am the mother of three kids and i have two kids who are at peabody Elementary S