We said that from beginning and i stand behind that and people ultimately have to understand the risk that what is implied in asking them to come back and right now we need emphasis. And families that have the privilege to safely work from home. I understand all the guides, but this is definitely safety first, safety number one. And the School District has gone above and beyond in enhancing our crisis learning plan during this time. We are working on making it better and hearing families and including them that is to empower families and reach out to them and make the learning at home as seamless as possible given the fact that we are in a pandemic. There is no way around that and no way even know and for me to trust the dfl department of Public Health during the time that we have been tegs communities and seeing the results and seeing the lack of support once they are tested positive. All those things are realities and i also have a really big problem with putting our students who are high need out first on the ground. This is also very risky for the communities who are most affected which is the latino and black communities in San Francisco. So i really just want us to understand the factors and to really consider that. I know this is a hard time. I think, again, we all just need to emphasize fwher a pandemic and to do as much as we can. And opening up school sites and opening up the risk of enhancing covid in sfraefrn though we are doing well is not something i condone. So i will leave my comments that the. Any other commissioners . First, again, just to recognize all the Public Comment thats come in tonight. Thank you for,000 comments. To state the obvious obvious and the fact that our district has really embraced insuring the and to ensure our students and families and educators and all the work that has gone into what we know and had to improve from the spring into Distance Learning. To try to acknowledge and that we heard from the superintendent and heard from susan solomon. We heard from commissioners and educators that we want our students back inperson in the classroom. But we cant be there right now all at the same time. So eappreciate the thoughtfulness of a measured approach and what that faszlooks like and the planning that is simultaneously of implementing Distance Learning and how we get better because we know there are major gap there is, too, and report back and the continuous feedback and learning while lan planning for a gradual return and hybrid inperson. And that is a large list. I want toing a knowledge the superintendent, the staff, our educators, and everyone that is doing this work day in and day out. This is the heart and soul. And just want to take a moment there to also recognize what families are undergoing every day, right . With the stretches and so much that is being lifted up. And with that, there is actually a lot of planning that the staff is doing that we may not have articulated, and that is something that i would like to raise with dr. Matthews and to the board is how can we show progression on meeting all the thresholds, right . So it is not about a time of tomorrow, but that we are getting ready. When it is when we check off the yess and we can demonstrate this progress and with the assessment of understanding the Elementary Schools and thank you to families that have raised it and that is part of the consideration. So that is where i want to name around how are we progressing on those part. For me one of the biggest components right now that is beyond us is we dont operate in a vacuum and one, there are things we cant control which is the Community Spread and the other pieces around testing and tracing is a really big spees that we cant do this on our own. We need federal investment. Without federal investment, our department of Public Health locally and the state is so right now compounded to being left to hold it. I want to understand a little bit more and tonight if we have details that are around discussions where the u. S. Testing and tracing is at because that is a large component, but this is a theme from over all to see the tracking progress over time. I will pause there. Do you have a specific question that you want answered . The specific question is around, one, is how do we want to engage or report to the public our constituents and stakeholders . Will that be done through i know we have a lot of committees that meet already. Are we going to be reactivating dr. Matthews working groups or do we feel like we have some infrastructure already in place to leverage that have all of our various stakeholders so that we can provide that transparency of progress, of all the different different progression points that was presented this evening and that we do this in partnership with our labor partners and want to recognize all of our educators and staff that are doing this work. I would say twofold. One on the question of the work groups and reactivating, we are in some way, shape, or form is the work groups. If it is not the work group, a Community Reaction and reactivating of some type of Community Input and so this might be the three word groups or combination of all three. Those work groups consist of community, teacher, straittors, and all the labor partners. That would be one and reactivating in some way, shape, or form. And its reactivating the groups and the second part of your question was around, oh, the updating of the community. So we have as you know the covid policy team with a big part of tonight taking feedback from the board and the community. What we heard loud and clear is sound like in some way, shape, or form and the more Transparent Communication back to the progress being made around the boxes or around the decision tree so i will be taking this back to the policy team tomorrow morning to term what that should be look like and sounds like needs more than afternoon july 28 and this is lull september 28. So to be more frequent. I am concerned about the young learners and literacy and reading and overall the social and emotional supports for the younger learners and with the gradual return is ultimately a family will be what they feel is best for their child and that is part of the consideration of the hybrid model. And commissioner collins and commissioner cook. Thanks. I do want to say that i appreciate the work thats gone into this and i also want to say that i appreciate parent leaders, labor leader, educators and also staff. This is one area where we dont always agree but in this area i think there has been a consistent agreement that safety needs to come first and that safety for staff as well as students and families and i am a person that is high risk. And there are many families in our district that have family members that are high risk and the reality is that you look at canada, and theyre saying they dont have as many cases and that allows them to do things we cant do in our country which is unfortunate. So i understand there is frustration and a lot of its very difficult and to serve families especially with Young Children and at the same time i am grateful for our district. We were one of the first to close and there is a lack of leadership at the national and state level and they are following our lead. So i think we are very clear about being cautious and i really appreciate staff working with community and being very thorough in our analysis of what would be safe. And i also want to let folks know that we have over 100 schools. [please stand by] we should be testing out is it safe with ventilation, with, you know, social distancing, entries and exits. All of those things should be worked out on adults before were trying them with peoples children, and additionally, i also think that involving family and community is very important. We should continue to do that, and i think it helps because as commissioner lam said, none of us have been through this before, and so its a way for us to cocreate an understanding of where we are and what we should do together. This is a partnership, and then finally i also heard a comment of how do we make this transparent. I like the idea of, you know, i understand theres a department of Public Health says we need to have ventilation. As an educator, i started thinking, i was never in a i never taught in a classroom that had operable windows, right . That was going through my mind, and i know a lot of teaches were having that experience, and so thats why right away, you know, educators were saying, wait a second, like, if thats a requirement for safety, i dont know about that. And so i know there are classrooms with operable windows and there are not, and so what does that look like . Having a quantifiable understanding i think would be very helpful, not only for me as a board, but also for the general public so that when the chronicle likes to run headlines that are exciting that say schools may reopen and everybody is wondering whats going on, i think regularly we should be communicating this is what we need and this is where were at and, you know, this is how far we need to go. And so, you know, its not as its been very stressful worrying about all these changes, and i think it will help us to regularly communicate, you know, with the larger community, you know, where we are as far as, you know, meeting the requirements to be able to open safely. And i think in some ways well also serve as a leader for other independent schools, private schools and Charter Schools. They should also be as transparent with their families as well. So thank you again, and i look forward to getting some followup in the way that we can continue to be communicating. So thanks. Commissioner cook . Thank you for the presentation, and to everyone that weighed in, [indiscernible] one of the things that i think at least i agree with is that, umm, for our younger children, i dont know how much disagreement there is Distance Learning isnt working. Theres a lot of truth in that. [indiscernible] is not working. Theres lack of Internet Access for some of our marginalized communities. Theres a lot of gaps, you know, and so theres also a lot of confusion because a bunch of things are open, a lot of people are walking around, you know, and were in a city that had a lot of restrictions, but i live in hays valley, and if you walk through there, people have their mask on kinda, you know . You see the whole city moving in certain directions. You are like why cant kids be back in school. The kids, a bunch of kids playing together in different programs, or i see them at the park through other programs. Visually, things are throwing people off. And you know, we are responsible for a lot of people, and so they are thinking if they can do it why cant we do it. As a part of the decision tree, one thing that was mentioned that i wanted to kind of have a bit of a conversation about was whats happening here versus other cities. When we decided to close, it was this discussion with dr. Matthews about being in conversation with the other counties. Is that still happening around reopening . Yes, we meet at least once every two weeks, and then all of the big four superintendents meet once every two weeks and the county, all of the county superintendents meet once every two weeks, yeah. The question is for reopening no one is no one has put a date on bringing students back yet. And as a matter of fact, san jose has already extended through the end of the school year. San jose and santa rose and those two districts have already extended have announced that they will not bring students back before january 1. Okay. Do you happen to know off the top of your head what new york city is doing . They had announced they were going to reopen, and then they pushed it back, pushed the date, september 21 was the new date. It was like eight days later, and now theyve pushed that date back. So they havent announced when they are going to reopen either. They announced it and then they pushed the date back, at least a couple of times. Okay. And for the other major driks in the country that have opened, we have, like, some very large districts in the country that have opened, are we getting what is our sense of, like, watching those protocols, those traces . Are we i know we have a lot of local stakeholders we have to Pay Attention to, but can you speak to how the team is observing those districts . So large districts in georgia or texas or whatever the case may be. Yeah, they have definitely had some setbacks. I cant speak for every district. We definitely know there have been some setbacks. They have had some setbacks where they had to close down either some schools or entire districts, and then try to pick back up. Ufs going to comment after commissioner collins commented. It was only six months ago, as you recall, that last week that we were open we actually had three schools that we ended up closing, and as you recall, when the School Closed initially we had to put out notices to the entire school that they need to quarantine, entire schools needed to quarantine or 14 days until we got more notice. It was around the classroom, but its those kinds of one of the things that i would say, and this is in agreement with commissioner collins, that we dont want to open just to shut down. We know thats a long answer to your question, but the short answer is we know there have been some setbacks, and there may be some that have been successful, im sure, because the entire state opened up or different counties throughout the state, like in georgia. Clearly some may have had some success or may be successful. We know also know that there have been quite a few that have had to shut down either classrooms or entire schools. We will get into the protocol, what is the appropriate protocol if someone is positive, right . Because an entire shut down i mean, that made a lot of sense when this first came out, but it may not make, like, as much sense. Maybe its just me, but i thought, like i thought i had covered five times, right . So ill call kaiser they said if youre coughing youre probably fine. So we have a better sense of if somebodys positive this is what were going to do . Im going to ask ms. Lyle smith if you could just briefly are you on . Yes, i am. Could you just briefly talk about the states guidelines around the recommendations they made for the number of cases in which you need to do . Sure. Thank you, superintendent, thank you, commissioners, for the opportunity. Commissioner cooke, youre right, our knowledge of sort of transmission and what we would do in a case of a positive, in the case of someone testing positive is different than what we would have done, what we did do back in march, so really the key issue when somebody when we are notified that somebody has tested positive is the first part of the Contact Tracing is to understand who have been the close contacts of the when was the person there . Were they there 48 hours before their symptoms started showing . So if they were there, like, they were there and then a week later they had symptoms and they tested positive, nobody is at risk because at the time they were at the site we would not have to close the site down and tell everybody to go home and quarantine. Now if you have a situation where youre in a classroom and somebody tests positive and we find out that they were actually at the site, 48 hours before their symptoms showed, then we go and try to find out who have they been around, were they wearing their mask, how close were they, are they a close contact, and thats considered next to somebody with a mask less than six feet for more than 15 minutes. So we go through this whole protocol to determine who would need to be the people who would quarantine, and if were in a classroom where we think everybody is a close contact, then we would maybe close that cohort down, but we might not close the whole school down. But we wouldnt make like, all of these are sort of guidelines, and we would make the decisions in the moment. We would sit and think about it before we and work with the policy team and work with the department of Public Health. And there are some guidelines that the state will say that if you have say you have a number of cohorts in a school say you have four cohorts in a school and one out of four closes, you would close the entire school. And if we had four schools open when we opened up, if one of those schools closed we would close the entire district. Theres, like, a 25 threshold that the state guidance uses. So hopefully that wasnt confusing. That was a lot of information. Yeah. I mostly followed. Sounds like theres a plan. Theres a plan, yeah. This is all very serious and important, and its important that we have these scenarios. Its good to know we have that. Generally we understand that testing positive doesnt mean that youre going to die for everyone that gets it, and also. As a city we see that things are kind of moving back to the way that they were, right . If youre on the bridge, theres rush hour. Like, its like like, people are back, and they are out. So this piece about people on Public Comment mentioned having workspace that, like, their classroom is a part of their practice, and just having a room doesnt mean its going to be adequate to do the work that they do. So you listed out the remote locations. How are you thinking about people just going back to their classroom, like, at what point would that be . Im wondering if you can respond to that, people just being able to go back to their own classroom. So the issue is if it was if everyone was if a number of people, i know it wouldnt be anyone, but lets say its a large number that wanted to go back to their own classrooms, it would mean opening up more buildings. So the reason that if we kept it confined is because we had sof site captains for each of the buildings. We had to have someone basically in charge of the buildings. The administrators arent back in the buildings, so there had to be someone in charge of the buildings. That would mean that basically were opening up more buildings. It means more people are coming back, and at the same time that thats happening, remember, were trying to get some sites ready for small groups. So its a its a which one is a priority for us, either putting people teachers back in their classrooms who wanted classrooms. As you heard tonight, many arent ready to go back at this point. They feel theres a concern around safety. Or the party was going to get ready for the priority was beginning to get ready for at some point small groups coming back, and we believe