For the late antonio gahilig, on behalf of supervisor peskin and supervisor yee, and on the entire behalf of the board of supervisors, for the former director of recreation and park, director mary byrnes. President yee sorry about that. Now this brings us to the end of our agenda. Any other Business Today . Clerk that concludes our business for today. President yee okay, thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues and members of the public joining us today, wed like to remind everyone that the regular Board Meeting scheduled for next tuesday, september 8th, 202020, is cancelled. Our next regular Board Meeting will be scheduled for tuesday, september 15th, 2020. As there is no further business we are adjourned. Clerk thank you. Thank you. Supervisor haney our clerk today is erica major. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk [inaudible] and the board, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. 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I will now make the announcement in cantonese. [speaking cantonese language] interpreter and im the spanish interpreter. I will now make the announcement in spanish. [speaking spanish language] supervisor haney thank you. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. May we have a motion to excuse supervisor fewer before i take the roll . Supervisor ronen so moved. Hillary ronen. Clerk okay. As far as the roll [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, you have a quorum. Supervisor haney thank you. Madam clerk, will you please call the first item . Or actually, will you please call items 1 and 2 together . Clerk yes. Id number 1 is a hearing regarding how covid19 has impacted the schedules, policies, and the provision of services for San Francisco Unified School District and city college of San Francisco. Item 2 is a hearing to discuss how the city can assist the School District, teachers, parents, and children to start the school year successfully providing engaging in Distance Learning. Members who wish to call in, call 4155540001 and enter the meeting i. D. 1464087451. Press pound, and pound again to enter listening mode. And we have interpreters here to announce the meeting. [speaking cantonese language] interpreter thank you. [speaking spanish language] interpreter thank you. Supervisor haney thank you. Anymo any more announcements, madam clerk . Clerk that concludes the announcements. Supervisor haney okay. Great. We have two items on the agenda, the same two items we had two weeks ago. Obviously, things are changing so quickly and moving so quickly, including, most importantly, the start of school for sfusd and beginning of classes at ccsf, so we wanted to make sure to continue to hear these items, as we said, use this venue as an opportunity to get updates, to answer questions, to provide a space for solutions and collaboration. I do want to make sure that, with each of these committees, especially moving forward, that we have some level of focus in terms of where we are putting a lot of our energy and time. I do want to know, i think the last meeting went for about six hours, and we had many important conversations within that, but today, some of the folks who were at that meeting will not be with us today, although we have representation from all of the institutions again, and despite some of the time limits that some of them have, im going to do my best to make sure we hear from everything. Im going to flag some things that are important for today. Earlier this week, the budget identified 4. 3 million of funding for Community Hubs, and an additional 1 million for testing at the hubs. The hubs are going to play a key role for families and students for the next few months, and i do want at that make sure that we have time and focus to hear more about those Community Learning hubs, the coordination, and connections to the School District and educators, enrollment, and opportunities for Outdoor Education. I asked all of the presenters to talk a little bit about Outdoor Education. This is something weve had a little bit of education and interest in. It will happen in the Community Learning hubs, and thinking about how Outdoor Learning is factoring into how were thinking about our next steps collectively. We will have presentations from sfusd, ccsf, Community Hubs, and rec and park, and d. P. H. Will only be able to be here for the first hour. So again, i want to thank everyone for their hard work for the last few months in light of the challenging situation we are in. Im not sure if uesf is going to be here, but i want to make sure i always give an opportunity for our educators to provide updates, and i will make space if theyre going to now be here. Im just told that they are being referred to as Community Hubs, not Community Learning hubs anymore, so i note that. I will move forward to the presentations, but first, i want to open it up to any members of the committee to make opening comments. Just so you know, im going to start with ccsf, city college, because we did not hear from them last time. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you very much, chair haney. I just wanted to give you an update on the progress made from last hearing on all the todo list that i had created, together with the School District, dcyf, and d. P. H. So i did want to let you know that we did get 1 million for testing for both the staff at the Community Learning hubs as well as the children. What i asked d. P. H. To do is to write up the plan for what that testing will look like, and i can give a preview of that plan, but theyre refining it as they learn more about how the virus, you know, spreads in environments like the Community Hubs. So the way that it would work is staff would be tested prior to them starting and then every two months thereafter. Any child that is exhibiting symptoms of covid19 will be tested, and all will be eligible for free testing at the city testing centers. Thats the plan as of now. I personally think it should be a little bit more proactive and intensive than that, but at least we have somewhat of a clear plan on how we will surveil the Community Hubs so weve got a handle on testing. Turn out the state had some concerns about the 20children limit at each hub site, so they created a limit of 14 children at each hub. Thats the feedback weve gotten from d. P. H. , so that definitely seems more in line with the Safety Measures that weve heard about so far. What that means, though, is that dcyf needs to find even more locations than they already found to keep to that growing to that 6,000child goal that we have for these Community Hubs, so that remains a huge priority is finding the spots where we can host these hubs. In terms of Distance Learning, dcyf is still working on that, and theres still some negotiation. Ill just leave that there until we have some more information from the Teachers Union and the School District on that, but theres active work to make sure that any child with disabilities receives the services that they need in order to be able to engage in Distance Learning in a successful way. The the server that we talked about two weeks ago, were still trying to understand the priority population for the Community Hubs so that we can tailor the survey to those populations, so that is under works. The 4 million that chair haney mentioned that we were able to secure in the budget process is specifically going to be used to give additional pay to the nonprofit workers who are staffing the Community Hubs. Thats thats really great news because these workers are doing work above and beyond their Normal School activities and deserve to be compensated appropriately for the role that theyre going to be playing, and thats really exciting. And finally, ive asked the d. P. H. To really acknowledge that parentled hubs so separate from what the city is setting up for vulnerable communities, but parents that are working fulltime and have hired coops or fulltime child care to do Distance Learning, it makes no sense that we as a city would say that this is an activity thats not allowed when its practically impossible for the parents of Young Children who are working fulltime can help them engage in Distance Learning without Something Like this. Its sending a very, very confusing message that needs to be corrected, so we are in the process of changing the language around the guidance of how to keep those parentled hubs safe for all kids. And with that, i just wanted to make sure that i updated everyone on the todo list from two weeks ago, and im sure were going to create a todo list today that well update in two weeks, but all forces in the city, from the School District to the school board to the Educators Union to the board of supervisors are hard at work, and of course dcyf, if i didnt mention them, are hard at work making sure that these hubs are not only safe, successful, and established as soon as possible, but making sure were doing so in acco coordination with the School District, the school board, and the Teachers Union. Supervisor haney thank you, supervisor ronen, so much, for your incredible efforts. Im surprised youre not asleep. Yesterday morning at 2 00 a. M. , they finally voted on the budget, and i know that supervisor ronen was working hard to ensure that the Funding Priorities that we discussed in this committee and are essential for our funding for educators and our schools were part of that. So with that, if there are no other members of the community that want to provide introductory comments, we can jump to our presenters. And if our presenters would state their name and affiliation before they present, were going to start with Kristin Charles from city college. Thank you. I believe grace is going to be pulling up my presentation today. Hello, supervisors and trustees. I am Kristin Charles with city college of San Francisco. Thank you so much for this opportunity to fill you in on where we are with respect to fall instruction and services in light of the pandemic. I just want to acknowledge how challenging it is to make decisions and pivot under these circumstances for everyone, right . Our students, our faculty, our staff, our administrators, our trustees, everyone involved. All right. As you can see from this slide, were starting with all classes via remote Distance Learning. I just want to emphasize that remote Distance Learning is not the same classes as our city online but were developed as online classes from the beginning. There really is a significant difference there, and, you know, we are of course planning for inperson instruction in certain areas, pending state and local restrictions. You can see those areas listed there, mainly in the areas of Health Instruction and culinary arts and hospitality. And, of course, we are following department of Public Health guidelines to ensure the safety of our faculty, staff, and students, we will see where we end up with all of that. So in terms of providing support for faculty during covid to deliver remote instruction, we have a Community Canvas system, and all faculty with instruction assignments have been receiving instruction in Distance Learning, again, distinguished from Online Learning, online classes. Equity is really paramount and emphasized by the office of Online Learning and educational technology, and the ways in which they promote equity are listed here asynchronous instruction and flexible attendance. I want to point out that that is really important because many students have children at home and or they have others at home for whom theyre caring, and in many cases, they have limited wifi access, so this access is really important to them. Okay. We can move to the next slide. So i mentioned that, for our students, we are you know, we provided a welcome to canvas user module, which is embedded in each of the remote instruction classes. We also had a passport to canvas training that students could selfenroll in, we have a 247 canvas support hotline. We are also providing Online Library services, Online Tutoring Services also embedded into canvas, and weve posted tips for successful Remote Learning to help students be successful. All right. Next slide, please. With respect to Student Services during covid, we have essentially set up established a virtual campus on our website where students can access virt service counte v Service Counters via zoom, so theres help with registration, counseling, financial aid. We also are providing emergency aid to students through cash grants and safeway gift cards. Were also making Technology Available for students. We have a chromebook loan program. Were also providing them wifi hot spots. And i would just like to also comment i think we were also asked to talk about how the first week of school went. Were actually completing the second week of instruction at this point. As you can imagine, its a very busy time. Students are adjusting their schedules and adjusting to their schedules, and wed anticipate, you know, that theyll be doing that more than usual given that its remote. You know, its just a lot of unknowns right now. And of course, there have been some technical challenges, as one would expect, but we have a technical team, addressing issues as they arise. So there really are support systems in place to handle technical glitches, and this is really also why we emphasize asynchronous learning in combination with synchronous learning. If you have a zoom meeting, and thats your one chance to connect with students, thats an issue. The good news is that the technical issues that we encountered were limited in that time frame, so thats a good thing. So i just want to close by echoing supervisor ronen in the last meeting, in that switching to Distance Learning is an enormous task, and this certainly is unprecedented, and it puts educators at all levels in a very difficult place, you know, just profoundly difficult place. So were were so proud of what our faculty has been able to accomplish under these circumstances. I mean, generally, we always are, but especially now. So thank you for this opportunity. Supervisor haney thank you so much for that update, and sorry about a couple of weeks ago. No worries. Supervisor haney committee members, any question or comments anybody has for city college . Trusty randolph . Hello. First of all, i want to thank miss charles for all the work that shes done getting ready for Online Learning. This was new to all of us, and the scramble that faculty and staff and everybody had to do to move online i think two weeks, we got ready in two weeks. We moved up spring break and everything. But it doesnt come without issue. Yesterday, we had a really long Board Meeting, and one of the things that i learned about Online Learning is that, you know, doing everything online specifically during the fall semester when a lot of High School Graduates come to city college for the first time to experience college, having a sense of community and inperson support is incredibly important. I remember, you know, when i started community college, i was all on my own, and it was difficult, you know . I had two jobs, i had to figure out how to take classes, i had to figure out how to do homework on my own schedule. I had to pay rent, i had to buy food, and i almost dropped out because it was just so overwhelming. But because of the inperson support and my peers and faculty, i was able to make it, and then, here i am, you know, going to a fouryear university, getting my masters. And i am worried that that is missing for a lot of our students, especially students of color, who dont have that inperson support right now. So i know that all of us are working hard right now, but i know there is going to be some longterm impact on Student Outcomes and success. The likelihood of some students coming back in the spring or finishing their certificate or even transferring is incredibly low, and thats what i hope we can monitor, and i hope we can come up with some potential solutions. I know that these Community Hubs that most people put on, you know, the k through 12, but there are a lot of students who need those Community Hubs. Also, the first or second semester at a community college, i have no idea what that is going to look like, but the homeless that are attending city college that normally get the inperson support, none of that is happening right now. So there are students that need our support that cant be done virtually. So maybe over the next couple of weeks, while were dealing with this fall semester and i know that it looks Like City College is potentially planning to be all online for the Spring Semester, is we kind of think about how we can better support those students like me. Because i dont know that i would have made it in an allonline environment. I dont know where i would be today. If you lose your first semester, it impacts the rest of your life. So thats what keeps me up at night. I hope that maybe two weeks or a month from now, we can have some discussions what those solutions are for or needed for. I know that we are submitting our accreditation report which specifically has learning outcomes and objectives that can only be done in person, so what does that mean to our accreditation as well as ongoing support for our students. Programs like puente and arise, those are peer supports. How does that look like in an online environment . Id like to have some discussions on that. Because what weve learned in our meetings between the School District and the College Board and i know that chair haney was part of them in his time on the school board is that, you know, the programs that were doing collaboratively that make sure that High School Graduates can come to city college or even have programs during the summer to catch up, those are all impacted, so thats what i am i little concerned about, and i hope that we can get together and discuss. The question i have now is a followup from two weeks ago have we moved any further with the Community Hubs that we were potentially going to have at city College Locations . Is there an update in the conversations that i know dcyf has had with city college . Are we any closer to potentially doing something there . I dont know if dcyf is here, someone from city college can address the conversations that weve had . I would love to hear what the status is of those. This is leslie molloy, chief of staff to the chancellor of city college. We asked them for an informal written proposal so we can work through with our attorneys the response and what kind of real estate and space we can provide, so weve been waiting for that for a number of days, and as soon as we get it, well move quickly. Okay. Because the reason im asking is i think it would be great not only to help sfusd by opening up our centers, but also, i would like to see if theres an opportunity to open up those Community Hubs to our own students. Because i know that even during registration for our e. S. L. Classes, theres a lot of monolingual students who dont understand how to do registration or even attending e. S. L. Or other noncredit classes over zoom, so theres been a lot of challenges around just enrollment and registration for monolingual students. So i think Community Hubs specifically in chinatown would help kind of facilitate that inperson interaction. I know that there are guidelines from d. P. H. And others that need to be respected and adhered to, but i dont want i dont want us to lose that potential Opportunity One way or another, especially if the Spring Semester is going to be online again. Absolutely. Thank you, trustee randolph. Great. Thats all i have. Thank you. Chair haney. Supervisor haney commissioner moliga . Commissioner moliga thank you, supervisor haney. I just wanted to piggyback off of trusty randolphs comments. I agree. You know, i think the conversation does need to expand to prek to 14. Right now, its k through 12. I think we need to definitely think about the model from prek to 14. I also want to just mention that, you know, this learning laws thing, im glad that folks are talking about it at the secondary level. I think it really is a Public Health issue, and i think the burden right now is put upon the academic institutions to be able to identify these. But what it sounds like to me, its becoming a Public Health issue, right . And i think a collaboration between all entities to maybe form a task force with folks that are on both sides to really figure out what this actually looks like and how do we begin to identify [inaudible] the truth of the matter is we talked about this at our school Board Meetings. We have kids, young adults, folks that are pretty much, you know, spread across the city. And the challenge is how do we put eyes on all these folks, you know, how do we put eyes on all these folks, and how do we leverage everything from sfusd, from the city and county, you know, to reach all these families and students . And i dont think thats an isolated issue, right . I dont think thats definitely an isolated issue. I think thats a good place where d. P. H. Can fall in line, you know, Public Health. Like, how does d. P. H. Fall in line supporting this thing behind learning for folks, because i do think its a Public Health issue. And i also just wanted to kind of give a highlight, you know, as much as, you know, a lot of this has, you know, really been challenging, the program, you know, for some kids, you know, has been really successful. The one challenge i hear from some kids is the enrollment process is a little bit difficult, right . So, you know, i think what folks was telling me is they were saying something, like, if you could build a more high School Friendly enrollment process, i think it would be able to streamline the process even more efficiently. So i think thats something we can probably Work Together on with sfusd and ccsf. But for the most part, i also hear kids that havent gone to school in a long time are showing up. Kids that are bullied are having more participation around online learns. So there definitely are some pros, but i definitely wanted to highlight that. Supervisor haney thank you, commissioner moliga. This is one of the things that i wanted to collaborate to make the Student Experience as good as we can right now. These are all of our students. I mean, theyre all san franciscans, you know . Theyre all touching different points in our system. When i think about, going back to trustee randolphs comments, the students and all the systems they touch all throughout San Francisco, the Single Parents and all the systems that they touch all throughout San Francisco, making sure they dont slip through the cracks, i think thats a really great opportunity for us, and i would just echo the comments earlier, figuring out if it is a task force or someone within this body to look at some of those touch points because its really about creating that safety net, that safety net right now that we can for our students, given that were in a virtual environment. I know its challenging for us, and i know it is for the supervisors right now, realizing that safety net for folks, realizing for those people that we serve, there are those intersections, so it would be good to map that out and think about some Creative Strategies because i dont see in the near future when were going to be out of this crisis. We are going to be online for spring and, you know, same thing with our sfusd and looking at, you know, whats happening in, you know, next year there. This is kind of like a new normal for us, so just really want to get ahead with the conversation about that and just thinking creatively because theres also the Mental Health piece, as well, just going to school and trying to navigate. I know were all in the middle of that, trying to go to work in the middle of a pandemic when theres wildfires and everything else. Theres an isolation piece to this, as well. I know for students, its a big part of their success at city college is being able to have that community, which is very challenging to be able to have that community online, you know, in this environment. So would love to think about our safety net and our shared safety net and think about how we can put our arms around our most vulnerable students right now. Supervisor haney thank you. Miss williams, is there or sorry. Miss charles, sorry. Abc charles, is there anything that you wanted to respond on this . It seems like theres a lot of questions and comments about how were reaching students who may fall through the cracks, what type of outreach that sfusd, you know, shared a lot with us, some of the different strategies that they have to stay in touch with students. I know its obviously a [inaudible] in terms of how youre addressing [inaudible]. Im afraid youre cutting in and out for me. Is that true for everyone else . Supervisor ronen yes. Okay. Supervisor ronen erica, should clerk you may want to turnoff your camera. Thatll help the connectivity. Supervisor . Supervisor haney i just wanted to turn it over to clerk sounds like he want going to say turn it over to the vice chair. Do you know whos the vice chair of the committee . Clerk it is supervisor fewer, so supervisor ronen im happy to play that role, so i dont mind filling in for her. Clerk okay. In the meantime, i will get in touch with supervisor haney and let him know how to call in. Supervisor ronen oh, are you back, supervisor haney . No. Are you back, supervisor haney . Nope . Okay. So it looks like theres nobody else on staff to speak. Is there any other comments . I think supervisor haney was around the middle of a thought, like, how do we formulate thoughts around how to keep students from slipping through the cracks. I dont know if we should wait for him to hop back on, but i dont know if abc charles or vice chancellor charles can speak to that piece. I know that theres representation from dcyf thats on the line, but i just dont want to lose that comment because i think its just so critical. So id be happy to speak to that. First of all, yes, what youre saying resonates with me in terms of thinking about how we can provide some hub structure, something akin to that for our students, and i think the idea of a task force to think about all the intersections. You know, unified students are our students. We share a lot of students. Unified parents are definitely or students, or are definitely our students, so we do share a lot of intersections in our world. I do want to think about the support that were providing [inaudible] limitations. One thing i think we are working on, in general, providing sort of the wraparound hug support, if you will, for students is something weve been thinking about for a long time precovid. One thing we have been working on through our reimagining the Student Experience initiative, or r. I. S. E. , which commissioner rudolph referred to, is our Student Success teams. Weve actually organized for students getting ready to come to our college, weve organized into academic and career communities, affinity groups, if you will, so we have developed groups in terms of career communities. This semester, we are having our first meeting of two our two teams our two concept teams. One in health and safety, and one in s. T. E. M. This includes counseling faculty, student aid advisors, librarians, student coaches, and others who are really coming together to provide that kind of support for students who will be working through our communication mechanisms for how that will work, and its really a very exciting development, and its been you know, other colleges have used this approach, as well. And i think it really holds a lot of promise, and its something, in particular, that becomes very critical right now but is always critical for our students. So and there are other efforts. Certainly, you know, the virtual Student Services counter is a big part of supporting our students. We had a day for students, letting them know were here as they walked through everything about the college, as well. We have a whole lot more, but i did at least want to mention that. Supervisor ronen i think we have chair haney back. Supervisor haney yes, im here. Can you all hear me okay . Supervisor ronen yes. Supervisor haney okay. So thank you, associate vice chancellor. We definitely appreciate it, and we will look forward to hearing from you again in a few weeks. And i did want to just i know department of Public Health has to learn in a couple of minutes, and so trustee randolph had a question a couple of minutes before they had to takeoff. Trustee randolph . Yeah. I was wondering if you had a chance to look at other colleges or campuses in regards to covid19, and if you issued feedback or recommendations for us . Yes, we have received the states guidance, and then, we also have, last friday, a week ago today, released our own guidance and directive for higher education. Thats in all institutions of higher ed and all Adult Education learning programs, as well, and i am very happy to circulate that all to you, but i believe city college has already received that and is preparing any of the plans necessary for all of you. Great. So i would love to see if we could have, maybe in two weeks or a month from now, once everybody had time to look at it or review it, if there is a way, chair haney, to maybe have some type of conversation or discussion here in how it interacts with everything . Supervisor haney absolutely, yeah. Well well bring that back for a couple weeks. Great, thank you. Supervisor haney great. So with that, i think well move to our next presenter. Our next presenter will be Mele Lau Smith from sfusd. Thank you, chair haney, and i think we have a hopefully a short slide deck for you, if that can be loaded. What i am just going to update on today is the presentation that we had at the board of education on tuesday and outline the roles that sfusd will take moving forward to collaborate with dcyf and the city in the Community Hub. So next slide, please. I wont spend too much time because weve talked about the Community Hub initiative a lot. So we know that its designed to provide inperson support and following the Public Health guidelines and being neighborhood based and focusing on our most vulnerable student populations. Next slide. We also know that dcyf is the main organizer in executing the initiative, including sf in demand, focal students and conducting registration, and that dcyf and other student partners are organizing and providing the staffing, technology, and materials for the Community Hub. Next slide, please. We also know that the Public Health guidance currently requires that schools remain closed, and that as we School Districts continue to that we all, sorry continue to limit contact with people not in our household, which is really vital for us to flatten the curve and to get back to all the inperson things that we really desire strongly to do. We also want our focal students to have access to learning support opportunities in person, and we do, as sfusd, continued to plan for gradual return in a hybrid form, and we are primarily focusing on Elementary Schools at this time when data and science indicate its safe to do so. Next slide. [please stand by] we do want to sink up any space with the gradual return because we know how disruptive it is to be in one place one week and another place another week, were trying to coordinate that. Thats probably what well do with scheduling and Distance Learning materials and things like that. And we do hav have state and fel grants for after school programs. Those fund lz no will not be usr the Community Hubs. Money of our community bases organizations that support our after school progranses ar proge working at the school days. We all talked about many times before, health and staift bein g the primary goal. Some Additional Guidance that has allowed us to address the cohort side. Testing capacity and cohorts that are being developed around buPublic Health. We have to talk about who our agreed upon population for those community spots and what data is needed to identify those students and how we Work Together to get to those numbers. And just a continued conversation of locations how can they be acceptable thins this is a neighborhood based strategy and what does an acceptable out Reach Program look like. We have continual forms with our Community Partners to support students and families well look to that structure to continue to support the c bos to support student nz the hubs. Were always hope to go get more Technology Support and Family Resources will continue to be at the forefront of our planning. I already said were going to keep working with d c yf and continue to Work Together on this. Its very great to have the board of edto be to spo be so positive and in support. Thank you. I see that supervisor ronan has a question. A few questions. Why is fsusd not pursuing and looking at offering it. We are look kining into it. We are not offering it right now. If you could explain why. We have agreements with our labor partners and need to understand what buildings will be used, what buildings will continue to be open. We are also working through that with our administrators principal. We should have a lot of those yeses answereanswered in the nef weeks to identify that. Theres a lot of work that has to be done at school sites to be prepare it to be ready. Were trying to focus to open for elementary students. Students receiving special education education learning. That doesnt mean that we wouldnt have any hubs in them. We have to make sure they are ready. If we needed that school site to be open for hybrid learning. We have to have an exit plan. Educators are providing the learning and whatever we can do to help them engage in Distance Learning. Thats our first priority. I think we have a meeting in three weeks or something. Im sure well have an update of where we are in that thinking. You kind of answered a little bit of my question. Is sfusd looking to pursue a limit waiver to allow students with disabilities to cam back and learn in person on campus. We havent had that discussion with the board yet. I know thats something were all thinking about. That guidance just came out tuesday. We have to wrap our heads around what that means and wait for guidance from the department of Public Health. I dont have an answer for you but its high on our list to have discussions. Ill keep asking the same questions every week. Its high on our list of things to do. I know its only been two weeks. Im wondering how participation is going. Do you have any data on participation. You mean in terms of Distance Learning . The great thing about what we are doing is taking attendance. We know that immediately whether students are engaging. We dont have that, well make sure that well provide that information in our next presentation. I dont have it off the top of my head. You dont have exact numbers. But do you have general. Par wer were getting a ls from families asking how to engage. I would say that its more than the spring. I really dont know. I appreciate the question. Some really positive feedback. Id use that tech line. It is amazing. People answer immediately if not get a response back. I really want to appreciate it. Its working so well. Thank you so much. Thank you. The amazing people who are the architects behind it who designed it. We got the grant and put all of the resource nz people instead of people. It is an area that were looking to enhance with more support. Weve expanded it to students which is great. Were getting a lot of calls from students on how to navigate the system. Theres a few great things. A lot of time, i dont know if you know this but in the budget you also did support additional funding for more resources for the resource link. Its all part of the budget process. Thats great. It makes sense that it really is, ive only heard fantastic feedback about it. The other things i know folks always ask is we do have buy los angelebilingual staff on it. We have a Language Line for the many many other languages sm you donlanguages. You dont have to. You can immediately someone on call for translation, were developing all those types of enhancements to make it work today is the end of the second week of school. Educators are going above and beyond. Were hearing about challenges for students. Educators are pretty exhausted. Distance learning is so different from in person teaching and learning. Certainly not our choice. Were doing what we can. Each student deserve ses a quality education. I wanted to add some Additional Information based on chief smiths report a couple of Different Things s things. Seven hundred of our members requested access because they have some challenges of other working people and parents. Thats going to start probably next week with the phase of a little over a hundred of them. They westbound work withing a total of four schools. They are not guaranteed in their own schools based on the capacity that she touched on. Elementary schools arent being used because of the possibility of the hybrid model at the Elementary School level. We havent started negotiations yet but well be doing that soon. I want to make it cheer tha clet there needs to be a balance between what families need. We know the district has worked hard to provide these work spaces. I want to make sure that this doesnt become that educators are taking up space where we could we having children in those spaces. We are talking about four schools and a few more might be added. There are about a hundred and twenty work sites in sfusd. Because of the potential implications for Public Education. This isi have a lot of respect and admiration for the hard working folks who are working in Community Based organizations, and parks and rec and libraries to provide opportunities for students. But we also know, this is not about them. I want to front load that. We also know there are forces out there, particularly under the current federal administration that would like to dismantle Public Education all together. We need to make sure that the plans were put innin in place e base on an extreme emergency situation and not Building Blocks for replacing Public Education teachers and trained educators with folks who work also work hard with students but its a dir different situation. Were calling them Community Hubs and not learning hubs. I dont think its pair know yas can be a continuing conversation. I thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you for raising all of those questions and concerns. I do want to flag and maybe we can ask this which d c yf and rec and parks come up what are the options that could be available or are available to educators who are also challenges with provide sg provg Distance Learning to their own children as they provide Distance Learning to others. I want to ask about that. I did have a question which i think is prepared to talk about this. We had a lot of questions about Outdoor Learning and Outdoor Education and how that is being considered or assessed as we think about potential hybrid models in the coming months and maybe chief smith may want to comment o on that as well. Many parents and teachers have been organizations around Outdoor Education, and questions about that. Just wanted to get your thoughts and how youre thinking about that. Sure, yeah. We are getting a lot of questions about Outdoor Education. I wish we had an answer. In six weeks time well have this many Outdoor Education. Were really trying to provide quality Distance Learning. Its hard on everybody. That is also at the for fron fof our planning. Its the grace and compassion. Were moving as quickly as we can. We know thats an option. Were looking at Outdoor Education. We know thats something thats coming. Just to chime in. Well be able to provide an update in the next week or two, its more of a technical thing. I know its really not the most glamorous topic. She is figuring out how to move furniture around, we cant really open up the outdoor space until we can move our things indoor and outdoor to make it safe. Its a tease tedious task. Well be able to provide that update to you likely in two weeks with something more concrete. Thank you. I appreciate that. Well get updates on engagement and attendance. Im sure youll be presenting that regularly to the board of education and we would love that have more information about that as well. Community members any questions before we move to our next presentation. Thank you all again. We greatly appreciate all of the work and the perspective and the approach a youre going about it with grace and compassion. Thank you president solmam for being here and your Critical Partnership in this. I believe we have director sue here. Thank you again for joining us for another Committee Meeting and for all the work that youre doing. It looks like its not working. Sorry. I apologize supervisors we are having some technical issues. We can see it now. Oh, you can. For a minute. You got it . Perfect. Good morning. Thank you for again inviting me back to share updates on our Community Learning hubs mish hus initiatives. For the sake of public members who are tuning in today i wanted to very quickly go over the initiative a little bit more information about the initiative before i give you an update. On july 23 our mayor agreed announced that the city will be standing up Community Hubs to support our highest need children. Her announcement it will take a village to address the wide range of learning needs of our children. Trying to get them through this pandemic. A village is what we ended up creating. I wanted to emphasize that these Community Hubs are not shadow school. Theres no intention to recreate school in these hubs. Our staff are not certified teachers. Were relying on the great exert ees oexpertise of sfusd teacher. These hub hads are meant to give stability at a highly disruptive moment in their lives and our lives as parents. We created these Community Center it support learning for children. Several key factors for these hubs are that they will have more stable cohorts of young people. The hubs will focus on Building Social emotional well being and of course providing opportunities for children to play and socialize safely which is crucial for their Emotional Health. They will all be staffed by Youth Development professional. When you think of these hubs as full day summer programming but just happens to be running during the fall. When we designed the hubs, we designed it with Racial Equity at the forefront of the process. We create the hubs to prioritize our most marginalized in the city. Low income resident, as well as the camps. Our hom homeless youth, foster youth. We acknowledge there are many disparity with our african americans, a latino, latina, lan x. We can speak to a lot of data how hard Distance Learning is this past spring. Most Distance Learning was really really hard for these highly disconnected young people. Research pointed to this new term called the covid slide. Which is just a cominnation of nocombination carean not being s where they are with their peers. In combination together its turning into not a soaf i ha coe but a covid aits really important to us to prioritize these highly disconnected young people. So we dont continue to lose all that learning. I wanted to show the process for how we are going to do out reach, registration and enrollment. As you can see, we are leveraging the very wide and deep connections of our Community Based organizations to connect to families. As well as the very well established relationship that our Sf Department as well as Housing Department and other government institutions have with families. We are now actively doing out reach to those families. And then, we will be providing essentially an enrollment package for family ses s familin decide whether or not participating in the Community Hubs one righhubs is right for y ses. Thephams. They are make sure thee meeting the right criteria. We want to prioritize families who are involved in multiple systems who do not have access to the internet and learning devices. Finally we will make the appointments of young people toll each of the hubs. I want to give you a very quick update on enrollment. On monday august 24 24d c yf released the invite only application. It was trans translated into six different language ses. Looking to stand up on september 14th, 66 sites that will have two thousand slots available. And i just wanted to share the status of sites for all of our phases. As of right now we have almost a hundred sites we have secured throughout the city. We are on a daily basis building more sites. Aseas was mentioned earlier regarding the sites over at city college at San Francisco were actively working with city college to see if we can activate any of their site nz phass inphase two. Once again, i want to recognize the partnership that is make tgg this work. We have a Great Partnership with the recreation and Parks Department as well as our Public Library, dupt o department of h, technology, Public Health, department of public works and all of our c bo ses. Theres a list of all our c bos. We cant do this alone. Throughout all of these hearings, its all of us coming to together. All of us standing up and working to the because our children success really reflects the success of our city. We are all working together. To the public who is watching this, for those of you who are compelled to say, what can i do . How can i be a part of this village that the city is designing and creating. I want to share that for those who can, please, make a donation to give to sf. Because we will be able to use thoases funds tthose funds to se Community Hubs. And of source your donations will be tax deductible. That concludes my presentation. Thank you. I want to open it up now to Community Members for questions. Thank you. Thank you director sue for the presentation. I had a couple of questions. Thank you for the work, pushing this out. I first wanted to actually say, you yoa know, i heard susan jumn the call earlier. Theres a very crucial piece theres interconnectedness. Theres a lot of things happening. We have to figure out how to bring everybody together. I just wanted to say that i had a couple questions aroundyou mentioned public house hadding d hope sf, didnt hope sf represent Public Housing. Hope sf is only a few housing sites. There are other sites throughout the city. Thats what i thought. When i saw Public Housing and hope sf, it was kind of confusing because they are all Public Housing. I wanted to make sure we were covering the entire San Francisco. In terms of the out reach of our homeless population. What does that actually look like. Were talking about 15 percent actually applies. What is that percent in our homeless population. Once again, its 15 percent as of this moment. A lot of our Public Housing residents dont have access to internet and computers. Were working with the development on housing and homeless, sfhs to reach out to the families and bring applications to them. I dont have the actual percentage of how many children are homeless in my head right now. I can get that information to you. Okay. I appreciate i that. For me. That population is super vulnerable. You know, i understand we have a lot of programs running in and out with Public Housing. Weve done a good job. That population right there for me, is what is the stree stratec plan. I want folks to dig deep and identify what our out reach points are for our population. Can you talk about what are the Access Points for sro family ses. We are relying on our connections were srf families. If you have suggestions we would love to connect with you. Right fow ttio now it is workinr c bos and our net hason tuesday the board of education is now in full support of the collaboration between the city and the School District. We are now being very focused and more targeted in trying to direct families who are living in sr os or are homeless. Gotcha. I know folks have been working a lot wf alot with c bos. I know a lot of folks are running through the clinics. We have programs and i feel like, you know, those are all good Access Pointses. Arpoints. Are we interconnected e folks for Access Points. Im pretty sure we are. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. In terms of the last question, have you worked at all with the so collaboratives and the family cla collaborative thy are all over the city and work with families. They would be the right entity to work with to get those paper applications in all of those families hands. I actually have an email that is one click away from being sent right now. Good d good good. I remember you had an online sort of form express interest in the program, you had received upwards of a thousand interest at the end around, yes, around two thousand five hundred throughout the city. Of those 2700 hown o 2700 hof those would have been eligible under your priority system . Hi, how you are you . We pulled those names and we ran them against all the youth that we have in our system who, you know, the priority population. We were able to pull them out and be able to out reach to them through our c bos who were currently connected with. Some of the other youth, you know, its funny because weve had this conversation of self identified. Now being able to work in full partership with the School District and take the name sessd say do these youth stay within the population that you identified. That needs to be priority. Theres no way to do checks and balance unless you have some other system that you can run those names against. Now what youre able to do is receive an application and sfusd can confirm whether or not this person fits within your priority population. Yes. I see. Of those 2700 do you have i doafn dont have a number. We have give you the number that is in our system. We can give you that number but i dont have it off the top of my head right now t. Once we as we get more applications in, data sharing, you cant really share names across certain entities of some of those names once we get applications and run against that to see if any of those names come off and any of those families have been connected through other entities. I remember two weeks ago you said of those 27thre fethere wy few of them were eligible for the program p program. No disagreement, just acknowledging that theres a huge need out this. Theres a definite need. I shared with you in past presentations that of the fifty six thousand Public School students twenty six thousand qualify for free and reduced lunch. Theres no way we can serve that population. Theres need. Its ufn unfortunately we only e the capacity. Tar taits its another thing te on parents. A lot of nodding but i dont have an answer. We called out to our team. We continue to increase the form on our website. Its a path of collect toing daa that youre looking for supervisor. I hoaf yo hope you get the ie from people that arent eligible for the program. Thats what we found out when did you that. So youre out reach plan then, is based on, you know where youre putting the paper applications. Its not just on population. Is your out reach plan that youre going to get a paper application in every homeless families hand. Or is your out reach plan based on neighborhoods and spots that are hope, youre going to do out reach to fill those spots. Were working with our port partner. Im been in contact with a bunch of different agencies that have their hands on homeless families and the youth. Its multiple, as were work withing them yesterday, we were explain t it might not be the neighborhood that they are in. They can be placed anywhere they have space. It might not be the neighborhood if thats not the most convenient. Were trying to develop what is the best strategy. The staff is entering those applications into our systems and work withing the different point people. Whether its whatever entity it is to connect that family or that youth to a hub that makes sense. For some, theres no address. I was having a conversation with one agency and i was like, can you use our address and does that mean they have to come to a hub thats close to us. No, not necessarily. How our system works theres a manual system where we gave this code to you. This family is hulll hull actuae bay view. Theres a manual process of placement as well. Were not necessarily going by neighboneighborhood by neighbor. How many families are you trying to out reach to. Here are the codes, lets pult them iputthem in the hub that me sense. We wouldnt be able to switch them. Maybe we cant if thats not the most convenient hub right now. We have to work out those mechanisms and components because we dont know how that will look until we get started. We are trying to put in some preliminary steps. This is what the steps will be for the paip every paper applid out reach folks who are going to use and fill it out and put it in and connect with as many as possible. Even then try to connect with many more. I think we have to do it in partnership with ourwith the agency thats were work withing. It might look different for compass families than it will look for hamilton or the folks were working with sfhs. What im really focused on is how many families want this and need this service . Thats all great what you are doing. There is a much Better Partnership with sfusd and the Educators Union. The person who knows best about their students is the educator. Im wondering iftheres a commitment and i dont know if susan is still on the call theres a submitment tha commith Elementary School level can say that program would be good for this student or this student. That would cover the whole universe. Absolutely, yes. I really want to have the most optimistic outlook on the process thats happening right now. I really do but it is actually not true that theres a Stronger Partnership with uesf wrying now. Thats a work in progress. Im very glad to be here but we have work to do on calling this a partnership. Thank you. Can i ask you a question. I think that the partnership with uesf is so essential to making this as successful as it can be. I would love to participate in deeping that partnership an deepening that partnership and making it a Partnership Like you said. Judge ping by the reaction they were feeling that the teachers of educators in the classrooms being part of identifying which students which would most benefit from the programs. It seems like a really important part of it. I just wanted to know if you had any thoughts about that hand how we could put a process in place and if thats appropriate. If educators could weigh in on which of their students should get an invitation to this program. This is the first ive heard of this idea. Ive just come up with it as i was speaking. I dont know that its an official idea. I came up with a question as we were having this conversation. Just fyi about that. The next steps would be for uesf and the School District to talk together about what it looks like for participation for such an endeavor. Were open to that. Im just going to say, its not clear to me what our relationship is to d c yf, or if we have one. I would like to. I would love to play the roll of maybe in between these hearings setting up a meeting with all parties to discuss that. Would would that be something that would be welcomed . Yeah. I think it is critical for the district to check in as well with president soloman. I will reach out with my kowner partmycolleagues. We can connect with your office and d c yf as well. That sounds great. Thank you. Did you want to say anything else . No. Thank you. I will let you know. Thank you. Sounds good. I just had one more question, is that okay . My last question is about food. I am infuriated about what ive been learning about thethe federal government and the usda not subsidizing the foods that are going to be provided in this Community Hub and to president solmans point, i think its related to president somans point about a really sort of under handed way of trying to privatize the system. Make it as difficult as possible to assert the needs of children in these hubs. Im woonderrin wondering if youk a little about that. How we can fight and get our federal delegation on the case and backmy office is drafting a resolution to put before the board of supervisor ses rights. We need to educate the public to this really mysterious act of federal government to deny food to children. If you could elaborate on that. It impacts a lot on the School District site. Our School District now not only are teachers trying to, you know do the Distance Learning curriculums and engage with children. They are also trying to figure out the logistics of which child is connected to which schools so they can pick up the food. It is logistic cal nightmare. I dont want to speak on behalf of the School District. This is very different than what was happening when sheller in place first started in place in the spring. We lived under a waiver that allowed us to essential say children who show up at our fisties to get food will get food. No questions asked. We prioritize our children for eating. We have that waiver for a long time for our state of emergency. Now moving into the fall, that waiver is now pulled we dont have that anymore. What is ending up is that from the hundreds perspective, unless these children actually are part ofwe would have to do some time of logistical rearrangement to get reimbursed for the meals that well be revieding t provie childrenning sm werchildren. Were looking at a fan financiap because were not going to turn away children. We will be feeding them. All children deserve to have access to food and to meals. Particularly while were all living through this pandemic. [indiscernible]. Trying to connect the dots because were trying to ask the board of supervisors to actively help us with these technical guidelines and details and help us with our federalwith our federal delegation to push on the waiver. And so i know that this has beenthis is now going to be an issue with sfusd students are snot going to be able to qualify it will be a fiscal rim pac impn the city to meet that dpap. Thergap. Theres been a lot of discussion. Were follow thg aning this andk withing our teu student nutritin team. Our offline from our conversation were having here. Im working with supervisorror who helped draft this resolution. If this is a joint effort. Well work with your office as well to help with that introduction on tuesday. I know its a speedy process and a lot of Technical Details amongst it. Please go with us as were trying to get as much up to date information for you sm. I didnt realize the bigger impacts. Ill be happy to help on this. Im glad were talking about this so we dont double up on the work. Thank you for the update. Its outrageous. I cant believe what a cynical and cruel act this i is on the part of the federal government. It will never cease to amaze me how cruel they can be. It really can a big deal. About twenty school sites are eligible. In order for students to qualify they have to apply for it which is more difficult. Its a paper application. Theres so much to fill out. People is that have students, students and family that received free and reduced lunge last year welreduced lunchlasto provide that through september. But unless they actually apply for this, they wont be able to receive this after september. These barriers are things that have have been created by the federal government. The public charge order is causingthey want to qualify for this. We have been able to provide the meals based on the quawl fibbingfallcall fictioqualifica. Each school sites. They have to apply physicallya lot of attention from school staff. A lot of rebuilding trust and to be able to do it. These kind of barriers have been really problematic. It will in return bleed into the city resources in order it provide meals for these families that desperately need it. Any support in interprets of advocacy will be really appreciated. Thank you so much for your work and fighting for the nutritiousal needs of our students and count yes in. Anything i can do to help sm making noise. And really educating the public. Just when you think that the trump machine admission cant dy crueler. They do Something Like this sm we havsmwethis wehave to createt this. Thank you. Thank you. I know we want to get out here and not be here for six hours. Ieim also super disappointed ad hearing about people being inconsider using our kids as bargaining tools. Im super disappointed. In full sup or. Thank yosupport. There were two s that came into mind. I wanted to make sure they are in mind. Are we in the shelters, vetting and searching for kids and imettingetting support. Were working with the the department of Housing Services to not only go into their family shelters but their safe sites to make sure that we out reach to homeless families in those facilities to share with them that theres an opportunity for their children. Okay. And thank you for that. Can you talk a little bit more about what our Current Partnership with our organizations that are supporting our lgbt families andthats the one group i havent really seen being in the data recently. I know there is needs in that community that i want to make sure were also paying attention to. I can get back to you on that question. I know that we partner with a lot of c bos that prioritize our lgbtq population. Were leveraging our relationships with our c bos. They have staff that they will be an anchor for us through the lens of their expertise and connections to certain populations sm populations. I can definitely come back to you with those c bos who are working with our lgt dpcq popu population. Thank you. One thing i wase i was going to. I know a lot of family ries are picking up food and meals on a regular basis. When theres that direct out reach when it comes to the Community Hubs is information being provided to them directly . I know were working mainly through our nonprofit port ners but not alpar ners. Nonprofit. P. There are students that are not engaged and showing up for the learning. They areas a connected question about enrollment, are you concerned that we received 26 or 28did you expect a lot more than that. Has it effected your assessment of the need in any way. Can i answer this from the application. The krmc bos just started react on wednesday. We expect more to come in through the weekend. The last meeting we had talked about focused out reach. We have open spots for two how. We only out reaches to about eleven hundred families so far. This is the first wave, second wave. Phase one and phase two. Our first wave is ow reac out ro our c bos. We have principle contact that social workers who contact us about we have this student who really needs to be in your hub. Can we get them there. So were doing what were calling ad hoc. To sending those out specifically. We can do thoases in the mechanism ithing rzthings are. Its very controlled. We know how many are going out in the number of youth we have slots for. The initial waive we have are the c bos that are gradually going out to second tear, third tier. We can make those connections. Once again, two thousand for phase one. Were going to try to go to another two thousand in phase two. I had a wonderful conversation with the youth on Treasure Island and connect withing the families and making sure they have the resources and they understand whats happening and hearing how many studentswere trying to make these connections and create these opportunities for families who that are first wave not connected to the c bo but have Access Points. We have to be very careful because we dont want family ses to get their hopes up and not necessarily be able to get into a hub. You were talking about keeping it active application and keeping it open. Thats one of my biggest fears is that its open and we have so many and so many families start to believe and have hope that they can potentially get into a hub. We would have to tell them no or turn them away. How do we balance that expectation around actually possible. Great. Thank you. Appreciate that. Im sure well continue to get updates. In a couple weeks when we meet again well have many more applicants and more updates on the demographics and supervisor ronan would love pob involved in ways we engage our educators and work with you as well im sure. Well all followup on the things the federal government is doing that is unhelpful. This is one of many. With that i want to let sfusd go. And insight our last presenters before we turn to Public Comment. If we have our last presenters from rec and park who are here. I guess i get to be the first presenter to say good afternoon commissioners. I dont no if ive ever presented before for this committee. Thank you for having us here. Before i get into what, we would provide a little bit of context of what the Recreation Department work during covid since this is my first time presenting to this commit he, i wanted to say a word about our partnership and the work weve been do withing the department of children youth and family. We often talk in government the need to breakdown silos and Different Missions Work Together. Weve been working hand in hand with d c yf for the last six months. I think it is a benefit, not just for our staff an services we provide but also i think it is a Silver Lining in all this that i think will be to the benefit of our communities the type of partnership and collaboration weve been working with together. I really want to thank maria and their entire team. I want to talk a little bit the Recreation Departments role in all this. If you can advance the next slide. One thing that has become more important than ever is im sure you sense how important parks have been during covid. What weve learned is parks and recreation amenities are not nice to have. They are must have nz thes in te community. They have have been the place for many months now where all people have an opportunity to invest in their own mental and physical health. Theyve been absolutely vital. It is also important to note that were now six months into the citys covid response. Our park system has never closed. Our staff is fully supporting student ses everyday. All of our parks have been open, all of aw of our restrooms haven ohm. We had to modify so they have safe s. Som. Some activities have been closen closed. Kids are allowed to use some of our outdoor amenities even though they have not open to the public. Thats a hemt Health Policy decn designed to contain community spread. We have been able to give our children some access to these important amenities. We have lots of spaces and while they have been open for Peoples Health and welfare, weve constricontributed to places whe weve modify p parks to social distancing circumstances. We have safe sleeping sites. Weve been distributing our resources to the citys fight against covid as best we can. Just a little more detail on our popupon learning that Public Health considerations to close, i believe the date was march 12th. In partnership with d c yf and our friends at the San Francisco Public Library been a great partner in literally four days we set up a proar gra program fs and nonprofit agencies we made emergency child care availabl availableour organizations were an continue to be on call three times a week to both plan and monitor and overall it was quite successful, we had over five hundred front line workers involved. A lot of people have a variety of child care options. It was a very successful program. And significantly not a single documented covid positive test traced to either emergency child care efforts or our Summer Camp Program which i think is important to note that we were able to did it safely with great help from the department of Public Health. Once the school year officially ended we transitioned to our prebreadand butter. The social and Emotional Health of our youth. We were restrained a little bit. They required us to operate with much smaller pods. Although we have many spaces if you can only have a pod of 12 youth it requires both space andit pren presents staff and e constraints. But we had over three thousand available slots s slots. One of the terrific things we have done. Were the largest provider for children in San Francisco. Theres a vast net work of nonprofit partners and some private partners. The collaboration between d c yf and the park result pd froed fra private net work for San Francisco families with information about what the capacity is a little about the program and where its located. A little Silver Lining in our collaborative work. We employed about a hundred and thirty or a hundred and forty youth. This summer who are slightly older. They are 13, 14, 15 year oals os who got paid and worked in these camps. 40 were scholarship and receiving a free camp experience for the free and reduced lunch program. Through a program that mayor invested in with the support of the board, an extraordinary amount of out reach as done in Public Housing sites and saw actual upticks in yu youth fromr programs. Moving onto this fall. What rec an park is doing and we are playing a verywe are close partners but playing a supporting role to d c yf in our Community Hub effort. Were providing a hybrid of comukcommunication sites. One is parent focus or pront linfrontline worker worker focu. Thrsestheres some overlap in te populations. We are continuing to operate five emergency hubs and youth care sites that actually starts on monday. We have close to two hundred slots weve been getting guide an. Were trying to a accommodate as many kids as we can. Right now we have approximately thirty to forty vacancies left. Enrollment was to go back to the population of family ses thatiee enrolled with us in the spring and offer them slots first. At least those that had regular attendance in the program. In addition to our e c y c sites we have another large number of sites that are being used for preschool and prek child care. As i started to note were first reaching out to those families that participated with us in the spring. A lot of them are our scholarship families. Were working with the department of health and Human Resources to make sure every available slot is taken. Okay. Our Community Learning hub, in addition we are also par nerring witpartnerwithing a larger progd operating nine different sites for our community subs. You see them listed here. This number isnt accurate. I think its over three hundred students that were able to accommodate. This program will start september 14th. Were staffing these sites our ourselves. A couple of things worth noting, you see Eureka Valley on the list. We have two, let me confirm my notes. Three cohorts of eight to ten children who are either deaf or hard of hearing or other form ses osof disability that will be staffed and supported but our own inclusionary staff. That will be our inclusion in this program. Our goal here is not to do what our fantastic School District does or incredible teachers. To help them and support them by providing children who are in engaged with sfusd teachers with some support and answer to families to provide them with social Emotional Development and enrichment activity. Here are the sites we have identified as Community Hubs. We have another five site thats are already committed tothat are going to be used by nonprofits in our system and we still have another five or six that are in maybe hoods where we expect to draw concentration for children eligible for Community Hubs that could be available for nonprofits to operate. This obviously is a village and we have not just partnered with the library but with a number of our largest nonprofits. Our own ym c a and the boys and girls club and others. I think maria presented this slide. This is the breadth of nonprofit partners that weve all been working with in this program. You asked a little about Outdoor Education. I dont know thats been covered yet. I think the opportunity to expand or offer education in an outdoor setting is a super important one. Want to share with you a little about what we do and how were thinking about adapting in this model. We actually have a Great Partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District. We were providing opportunities for twenty five hundred students through this program which takes students closest to their school for Outdoor Education. We directly with teachers in this program. In the year prior to covid we provided 25 hour hour of educat. Were providing outdoor focused education in these sites sm we. pleasplease stand by supervisor haney this is an area where i think our partnership with San Francisco Unified School District can grow. Mainly, theres some [inaudible] right now, the best model is a hybrid of indoor and outdoor placebased learning, but this is an activity that were very interested in, and i do want to note something that you all should be proud of called the San Francisco city and Nature Network. San francisco is one of eight cities working with the National League of cities, and the National Childrens Nature Network to standup sort of an intersectional collaborative between city, School Districts, and nonprofit. Precovid, we have engaged nearly 8,000 children through this initiative, hosted 350 preschools in naturebased play days, hosted nature events, and opened up nature play places, and we have trained 275 Early Childhood educators in Outdoor Education. Aga again, this is a cross sector collaborative, and these efforts are continuing between the School Districts, cities, and nonprofits to see how we can get these opportunities to these hubs. Next slide. Nearly 70 of our facilities will be programmed this fall. Obviously, we have some facilities in some neighbors that because of constrained resources are not included in our Community Hub program, but we are opening our parks to a variety of providers who are looking to use park spaces for outofschool time activity. In fact, in just a few short days, we have received nearly 1200 inquiries have providers about how to use park spaces. We are trying to sort them. This is complicated. We do run into use conflicts, and so i have an entire team that is sorting those, getting back to the requesters and figure out how can go where most safely and most appropriately, and we again, the sites for which we are not staffing directly or which we do not have existing nonprofit providers ready to go or near committed or are committed, we are working with dcyf on that list as other nonprofit providers move to support the Community Hub model, we move to make those spaces that were not previously available, available. Next slide. Next slide. Maybe youre trying. It might be actually, that might be the end. But its really been a great honor to collaborate with so many providers and organizations and to support so many children and their needs. Ill stop there. Supervisor haney thank you, director ginsburg, and i just do want to thank you and your staff for all the ways that youre stepping up. I know that is not your sort of core work in so many ways, but youre doing everything you can to be there and provide your facilities and staff and everything, so i really do want to appreciate that. Pods to access our play structures, but they are not yet open to members of the public. While i dont want to speak for Public Health, we have had these conversations, and i think Public Health understands that this is very much an equity issue. What we are finding is while we are not able to accommodate every highneed child through a Community Hub or a pod, there are many, many children who are blessed with families with resources who have been able to figure out some options for recreation and structured play. Supervisor, in your district, as you know, ive been working very closely with a lot of youth advocates in your community because we just invested nearly 4 million in amazing neighborhood playgrounds that we have not yet been able to open to the public. The rationale is this is as you all know, covid is impacting our highest Needs Community and communities of color more severely than any other neighborhoods, and that is exactly the neighborhoods that we want to open for public use, but there is concern about neighborhood spread. There is a possibility that mirrors the opening of playgrounds with some testing or perhaps opening playgrounds in a limited capacity, such as when we open, when we have street closures, like were contemplating in the tenderloin, maybe on those days, we should be opening playgrounds, too. Again, im not the Health Expert and dont want to misrepresent anything, but it seems like what we understand more after several months is this is not about touch and about sanitation, because it is very difficult to keep a playground clean, but really, a little bit about capacity and making sure that children are wearing masks, and that were all wearing masks. And we know now that that is kind of the key driver. So, you know, i do think to the good, that in my conversations with dr. Aragon and dr. Colfax and ana, who was on the call today and i know the mayor feels very strongly about this we are all aware of the increasing impact of covid on our children. And i am increasingly passionate to work with this committee and our Health Care Experts and our city leaders to provide more opportunities for our children to resume healthy, normal lives or at least what is as close to normal as can be. Our Children Play is very serious business. It is about risk taking, about creativity, about socialization. It is about problem solving, strengthening their immune system, and stress relief. Playgrounds are some of the most equitable resources we have, and Public Health services is very blessed. From an access issue, we ha have we are trying. We understand the emergency need. Supervisor haney thank you. We appreciate that, and of course we need to ensure that everything is done safely, but as we are looking at the next phases of things, i know that we are we need to think about how we can provide the safe places for all children to play, you know, especially our neediest children. So i want to have members of the committee to want to ask questions or make comments. Trustee randolph . Hello. Its good to see my former colleagues on the rec and parks committee. Good to see you. I want to make a comment, but i want to thank the rec and park. It wasnt in your presentation, but you also maybe provide more indirect support to our students who are without internet connection, without a home. Some of them still live in their cars, so having access to wifi is a very important resource to our students, especially when everything has moved online, and the digital device has become more problematic in the city when everything is literally online when it comes to education and access to education. So i know anecdotally from our students, to take care of their Mental Health and wellbeing, they are out in the park, but they also are taking advantage of the wifi in some of the parks because the traditional places where students used to access the internet, like libraries or cafes or indoor places are no longer available to them. So they need to have places to do their homework and connect with their fellow students or professors. I dont know if youve thought about that or the importance that that plays to peoples educational endeavors, but i just wanted to raise that, and thank you for that initiative that i worked on at rec and park when i know that i was with some of you, but thank you for that. I probably should have raised that in my initial presentation. I really appreciate the opportunity to comment now. So yes, and when you were at rec and park, trusty randolph, you helped us with free wifi, and i think correct me if i am wrong in at least over 15 public spaces. But i know when we started working on emergency child and youth care, and now this program in partnership with the department of technology and our own amazing Information Technology staff, we invested significantly in upgrading wifi and bandwidth in some of our clubhouses and rec centers, knowing that they are taking on a heightened purpose, right . You know, wifi for parks and recreation is a mixed bag. We want a very good argument. A compelling argument can be made for people to put their phones down and theurn their laptops off and connect to people facetoface. We know that children are connected to devices precovid nine hours a day. We know its there, but we want to encourage particularly or children not to use it. But for people who need to engage in Distance Learning or just able to participate in a life that is increasingly online precovid, this is something that we are leaning in. One of the projects that you are aware of, trustee randolph is the india basin. This is the deepest dive we have done into a concept called Equitable Development planning where we work with the community not just in a traditional Concept Design construct, but the community has ownership with us in trying to figure out how to develop strategi strategies, when we improve the space, we dont do what some refer to as gentrification, and we dont weaken the neighborhood, we strengthen it. Thats not just the design inside the park but outside of the park and how we leverage every single drop of a project to reinvest in the community, and weve been in the equitable planning process with neighbors that are in india basin, in hunters view and shore view for well over a year now. As covid starts, our equitable leadership came up with an idea that we embraced, which is they asked for a tech hub at india basin shoreline park. And this was even before some of the Community Hub this is before we knew what the fall was going to look like at sfusd. This was really for people of all ages. Yes, our children, but also our adults who need a little bit of support and a little extra resource and yes, extra bandwidth maybe to go on job interviews or to work or to go online and policyish up a res or do some work. In india basin, we will be lending laptops, giving chrome books, providing support for children and adults where they can come and safely use the bandwidth and engage in their lives. Its a Community Support annex where kids can come you know, older kids can come and engage in Distance Learning. Youre very right to point out the importance of Digital Bandwidth and everything we can do to close the divide right now. Thank you. Supervisor haney thank you. Trustee selby . Thank you, chair haney. I also want to think everyone thank everyone at rec and park. If it were not for the rec and park, i would not be here because after covid hit, i started a daily trek to Golden Gate Park, and i see a lot of people are there. One of the things that i see, particularly with golden gate in particular, is theres a lot of criticism that theres mostly white and asian people using the park, even though its open to others. I actually just texted the mayor to say, would you like to walk in the park with kids that you know so that they sort of experience that . Theres black and brown people in the area, but yet, they dont seem to be going to the park. There seems to be some inequity there. Well, this is the 150th anniversary of Golden Gate Park, and the slogan is golden gate for everyone. We had provided free transit from every single neighborhood to the park, so Free Transportation to Golden Gate Park. Many years ago, we renovated the beach soccer field, and that has resulted in one of the goals of that project was to bring a significantly more Diverse Community who plays the International Game to Golden Gate Park and to the ocean, which has been very successful. We are in the process of renovating the Golden Gate Park tennis center, a 30 million project that will include, in the clubhouse, something called our Tennis Learning Center t. L. P. Tennis Learning Center program. We are partnering with five schools where kids come to engage in learning and tennis supports. The kids that are most engage, most interested and these are kids coming from every neighborhood, primarily children of color. Our new Stewardship Program brings kids from a variety of schools, so does greenagers. There is a commitment to make sure that Golden Gate Park remains everyones park. In the music concourse itself, we have the great wheel standing there, the symbol of hope that is 70 completed. The idea is to bring children from every neighborhood for free to the whole, and then, the other side of the music concourse is renovations that are being done to the band shell, and theres something for a program that will bring neighborhood performing arts groups to the band shell. So there are just a number of initiatives where we engage in neighborhoods all over the cities. Listen, our parks are all about geography, right . And people are most likely to use their local parks, so youre going to see the besides taurus, the greatest numbers of Golden Gate Park come from the richmond and haight and panhandle and cole valley neighborhoods, and those de demographics are what they are. We agree 100 that we want to work with additional Community Partners to ensure that i think that Golden Gate Park is the best shaurban park in amer. I may be a little biased, but i want to ensure that. So you mentioned environmental educators, and are those environmental educators, are they coming from golden gate city college, are they coming from sfusd . Im just wondering where your environmental educators come from . Well, they come from us. We hire them, we train them. They also come from the conservation corps. We have a Theater Program with staff on internships to us. Some of them come from San Francisco state in our recreation, parks and Tourism Division and or theyre people that have a background in conservation, natural resources, and community engagement. This is a big part of our own internal staffing model. Thats wonderful. I would love to see if we could add ccsf to your recruitment pile. We can see that. Yeah. And trustee selby, i know you know we have a very important and Close Partnership with city college with our gardener mode el. I want that thank the supervisors and the Budget Committee for supporting this during a time we had to make some tough decreases. And i wanted to say that it appears that park and rec is doing a wonderful job of outreach. Sometimes, when i look across the city, i see that some departments may be great in something, and other departments may struggle with it. I just want to see that theres some cross pollenation between yourself and other departments, all of these folks at this very difficult time that were trying to reach kids. I just want to say that i think it sounds like youre in good strong relationship with sfusd and dcyf and maybe a little bit of, you know, communication regarding outreach because it sounds to me like youve sort of got it exactly what you need to do. Thank you. [inaudible] outreach and engagement. Its something you can always improve on. Its something that we take seriously, and were continuing to improve on. Its impossible to have every Single Person in a community paying attention to the same channels where outreach happens, so the formula, the recipe has to be a network, and i personally think the department of children, out, and families is outstanding at outreach in part because their mission and work, where we we are our own provider in a sense, and so we work with the kids and families that come through our system one way or another. It has a pleasing system of nonprofits an Amazing Network of nonprofits, you know, in every single nook and cranny of the city. And obviously, everyono one knr kids better than you at sfusd. Its something we all have to approach together. And then, just a quick followup on your question, trustee selby. [inaudible] our youth Stewardship Program and interns, and we are actually recruiting for that program right now, so after this hearing, my staff will get you and trustee randolph the recruitment information. Thank you. So you can share that within your network. So im sorry. One last question, and that has to do with a statistic that came out recently, that 44 of san franciscans are suffering from anxiety or depression right now, and on average, in america, its 19 . So i dont know what its like elsewhere. I suppose its very, very high, as well, because of covid, and i think one of the things thats really difficult is the yoyo effect of open, close, open, close. First of all, kudos for not having a covid case in the work that youve done so far, but i cannot imagine theres not going to be a covid case moving forward. You know, thats how viruses work; they move through the population. What happens in the case of a covid case in a hub . I apologize. I just got here about an hour ago, so what happens if that happens . Do we go back into shutdown . A couple of good questions on that. First, im very humble i pointed that stat out. Its not that we havent had covid cases, we havent had covid cases traced to the program itself. Youre right. The virus travels, we all live with families. We all have some social contact and social engagement with the world, so we are very humble, and we fully expect that thats certainly possible and plausible. For the last six months, we have been working very, very, very closely with d. P. H. On what the rote cals are. We did have an example of a positive protocols are. We did have an example of a positive covid case that came from the relative of a staffer. The staffer called in and said i just tested positive, and, with Public Health guidance, we closed the facility down for a couple of days, talked to staff and the students and family participants and were able to open pretty quickly. The city has done a good job, and i know theres money for additional testing for the workers that are going to support these Community Hub initiatives, but i think the staff were up to 6700 tests for rec and park staff right now. So we encourage our staff, and we provide them with information how to get free testing, and we take our the guidance and the not just the orders themselves, but the idance from d. P. H. On how were supposed to do this very seriously. I started by saying parks are nice to have. We all like to go to ribbon cuttings, and parks are nice to have, and theyre great for the occasional barbecue and Little League games. Even though they foster happiness and joy, parks are very serious utilities in the cities, and we need to treat them as such. We need to treat them as importantly as we treat our water system, our streets, our Public Safety system, our Emergency Health care system. Because what the data will show, as we confront serious Mental Health challenges right now, in which were forced to respond to a level of Substance Abuse and Mental Health you cuity that you health acuity, what the data will show is front end access to open space, front end encourages access to nature, strengthens immune systems, increases problem solving and activity. We need to be taking this seriously, and even though the investments you make, you wont see the r. O. I. Overnight, right . But we will i guarantee you, the most we invest in our parks and our open space, the the healthier San Francisco will be ten years from now and 20 years from now in terms of its Mental Health. Thank you. Supervisor haney thank you, director ginsburg. I did have one question to clarify about the emergency child care, and i know you and i have talked about this on a number of occasions. Just if you could clarify exactly who is eligible for it. We had a conversation about the needs of our educators as it relates to Distance Learning, emergency child care. Are our educators eligible for this emergency child care, and who specifically is eligible, and whos enrolling . Right now, given the limited capacity that we have, the limited criteria that we have are limited active workers and response workers. My youngest child is going into her senior year at lowell, and she is working with her teachers quite a bit these days, and so we certainly understand that teachers need child care, too. I dont have a perfect answer for you at the moment. In the limits capacity that we have in limited capacity that we have in this model and there are other models that have sprung up. We were in march, three days after the city shutdown, and everyone else in the district was not allowed to operate. We have 40 to 50 slots left, given the capacity that we have, and im happy to have a conversation that, you know, makes sure that, particularly if there are available slots, that we take care of those that need it most. And i know that sounds like a little bit of a vague answer, but because of the size of the pool, we have limited the Eligibility Criteria right now for our Emergency Health care workers and Disaster Service workers within the city and county, but particularly and well see what happens in the next week or two. But if there is sea remaining existing capacity and or we can figure out some strategies together to offer, then, we want those slots to go to those on the frontline, our teachers and those who need help with child care the most. Supervisor haney i will follow up with you on that because i think expanding to our child educators are essential. They are disaster workers in their own way and should be treated that way. Also, im thinking about ensuring we meet the need of frontline and hospital workers. It sounds like there are some facilities that are not being used right now that could be in terms of having the space for it. I think its something that we could revisit soon, and i just want to express my continued willingness to work on you on how to make that happen. Of course. We do have Staff Resources are really the challenge with expansion, so maybe theres some creative ways to approach that. And, you know, this is fall and this is, i think, an important in dealing with the conversation, weve shifted focus a little bit. When we go back to the spring, when we had many more emergency child care facilities open, our focus was on the parents, right . The parents who needed to be on the frontlines and participate in covid response. This Community Hub abnoms to our kmfrgs earlier about playgrounds, that we need conversations earlier about playgrounds, that we need to shift our focus a little bit more to kids and the emergency circumstances of their parents. Look, in an ideal world, we try to do it all, but weve made a very specific and deliberate policy shift towards supporting the Community Hub model and our highest need children at the moment to make sure they have what they need to participate in sfusds learning model, given all the health constraints that sfusd needs to confront. So thats been our priority, but i hear you, supervisor haney, and i totally understand the point and very much committed to supporting our teachers as much as we can. Supervisor haney great. Thank you, director ginsberg, and thank you to all of your staff for their work. I do want to open it up for Public Comment now. Madam clerk, do we have anything in the queue for Public Comment . Clerk mr. Chair, operations is checking for callers in the queue. If you have not done so already, please press star, three to be entered into the queue. For those already in the queue, please continue to hold until the system indicates that you are unmuted. Sean, can you update us, please . Operator we have two callers in the queue. Clerk hello, caller . Hi. My name is sucrea ray. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can. Okay. Great. I really wants to speak to the importance and urgency of making Outdoor Education essentially having school outside a priority for the school and for the district. I am a parent of two children, one who has just entered second grade, and one who has entered sixth grade. I can tell you that Distance Learning was effectively disaster learning for us in the spring. I had to stop working to teach my daughter because as a first grader then, a sixyearold, she was definitely not prepared to be in front of a computer all day, and frankly, her teacher held only one halfhour zoom session twice a week. So its an unsustainable composition for us. We continue to do most of the education for our daughter whos now in second grade, although her teacher is putting much more effort into our schooling, but i appreciate. But when you talk about children that age, they really are not meant to be in front of a screen that time. We even have had to get our daughter computer glasses because of the discomfort of looking at the screen is causing her. Its difficult for children her age and children in general from any disadvantaged background to go to school, learn in person for their social development, for their physical health, for their ability to learn interaction skills, but also, for the ability that parents work. I was privileged to not work very much this spring, but i cannot do this indefinitely. Ive been sitting, working all morning while im trying to make a comment on this. I also want to say school outside is a completely appropriate and feasible and wonderful thing to do. It does respond to the concerns that parents have about safety. It is the most equitable solution because it allows everyone to go to school. I grew up in a very disadvantaged background. I would have been one of these children whose parents wouldnt have been able to attend school Distance Learning. My mother was a single mother, a nurse, and theres no way that she could have surpris surprised supervised our Distance Learning. So i want to encourage the School District and everyone clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. You have two minutes. Youll be notified that your line has been unmuted, and you may begin your comments. Hi. My names Julie Roberts fung. I want to express my appreciation for all the work thats being done for students and efforts around testing. I agree with supervisor ronen that once every two months is not enough for testing. I also want to ensure that our c. B. O. Staff have sick days and benefits provided. I want to remind everyone that safety is the highest priority for families . We now have 1,000 youth covid cases in San Francisco . Im disappointed to hear that d. P. H. Has been under pressure to declare home pods safe, given that they wont have the testing and oversight towards safety that we have in Community Hubs. Im really glad to hear about the efforts around food being highlighted. Families are already feeling the crunch. Weve estimated that weve lost 8,000 meals in the tenderloin. Were doing all the thing that we can to get families through the complicated system to qualify for food. I want to emphasize we need a full restoration of the grab and go sites, where d. C. O. Allowed students to come from the neighborhood. Theres a lot of families with children who hadnt in the Community Hub arent in the Community Hub that still need food. The c. B. O. Sites are the only ones that are meeting this need, so i really want to emphasize the urgency of that. Thank you all for your kefeffo that more families are getting their needs yet, and we can get students back into school where their full needs are met. Community hubs are good alternatives, but they arent replacements for schools or school resources. Clerk thank you for your comment. Sean, do we have another caller . Operator there are no more callers in the queue. Supervisor haney thank you. With that, Public Comment is now closed. Fellow commissioners, trustees, supervisors, anything more that anybody wants to ask or share . Again, we really just want to appreciate everyone for the work that theyre doing, for all of the presenters and departments and institutions. We appreciate you and your staff. I do want to flag that our next meeting will have to be moved. Our meeting two weeks from now will be the week of labor day, where the board of supervisors will be on a recess, so well figure out the next time for our meeting, and i would now like to entertain a motion to continue these hearings at the call of the chair. Supervisor ronen so moved. Clerk would you like me to take roll call, supervisor . Supervisor haney sure. Clerk on the motion to continue items 1 and 2 to the call of the chair [roll call] clerk you have four ayes. Supervisor haney great. Thank you, madam clerk, and so we will revisit these, im sure, with a lot of updates in a few vehicles, and im theres some follow up items that came out of this meeting, as well, and well be in touch with everyone about that, and supervisor ronen and i will work on moving some of those forward. Madam clerk, are there anymore items . Clerk that completes the business for today. Supervisor haney great. Thank you, madam clerk. This meetings adjourned. Ey nef assistant to the energy and Airline Sector . Well, its a very good first measure. But as i said to the deputy Prime Minister today, i suspect that the canadian economy will need measures that are in order of magnitude larger than this. I noted yesterday, the British Government announced an additional 330 billion pounds of additional backstop and income support. The french government announced 300,000 euros. Were talking in the range of 10 to 15 of gdp. This situation is moving so fast that a week ago when i was meeting with chrystia freeland, i was talking about a Counter Cyclical stimulous in the gdp and i think we all agree it will be an order of magnitude larger. Well do our part here in alberta and im confident the federal government will, as well, and i believe that i know they are working specifically on packages for the aviation and the Energy Sector recognising their unique vulnerability right now. Do you have a followup, chris . There was no childcare benefit. So we just found out the federal package this morning at, i guess 9 00, and minister toews and his team are pouring through this to see where there are gaps. There was a significant enhancement of the canada child benefit here of 2 billion, as well as the gst credit and goes to a lot of lowincome families with kids. So well go through that and see if more needs to be done. Today was an initial package and well see if there are gaps to supplement in the days ahead. Perhaps were being kicked out. Is that something you could pass legislation into . Look, first of all, we would just call on landlords voluntarily to show the kind of flexibility that banks have on mortgage payments. I think thats the first step rather than government footing in. When it comes to landlords, youll have everybody from a re
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