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 FranciscoUnified 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 wa