Mrs. Yanking if you will please join me in the pledge of allegiance we want to welcome everyone in person for those of you who want to address the board of education please fill out a speaker card and give it before the item is called this is included if you want to address the board of the appreciation of one of our Board Members no approval for board minutes item c superintendant report superintendant lee thank you president haney thank you for being here it is a bittersweet and momentous for many reasons the report that i will give is going to be a little bit different this evening and the first thing id like to do to share some of the duties of this particular report just in contribute to one of our students that was a victim of ghost fire im sorry the ghost ship fire 10 todays and that is the principal mr. Barry by the and ask the principal to come up to the mike and share some thoughts about our student. Thanks for coming open friday too that meant a lot were the school of the arts pass away friday second at at oakland ghost ship the Community Stands together in his memory the cunningham wrote this to music that was performed in his memory last saturday. Hey you were in any dpraem last night you were underlying away. Looked at me over your shoulder and smiled a glimmer in our eye rest in peace rest in peace. Thank you. Thank you, principal payne. Im going to talk about some other events that have been taken place and will take place in the next few days and then well United States of america u im going to turn it over to president haney even though this is under the superintendents comments request again, we have a special safety net proceedings during this evenings meeting so yesterday, i had the pleasure of attending the sfusd holiday sing along along with several commissioners and deputy superintendent superintendant guerrero and many members of the staff so those was the eight annual holiday sing along and superintendant guerrero was a guest musician on the violin i have pictures to prove it, it is several years hes been a member of the orchestra for that extent f evident at director mr. Rob danltz accompanied on pee that is goods on teaching life skills to students between 18 and 22 who received special Education Services thank you to all the students and staff for a wonderful sing along that was a fantastic party so, yes if anyone wants to get in the holiday spirit in a future event find your way to this sing along fantastic and last year they celebrated the i f w celebration and three years schools week was champions of inclusion powerful things happen in schools on monday assembly at Galileo High School and had many students performances and inspirational speakers and highlighted their Buddies Program as well as the kickoff throughout the week they engaged in activities in total 75 school sites of those schools 4 Early Education only and 48 Elementary School sites and 8 middle school and 15 high schools they working hard to have an assessable and equitable learning community as all schools throughout the district to do this we as administrators teachers and Staff Members need the equitable access to insure all students feel included in their community in the greater sfusd community thank you for everyone that participated in addition to the schools week we celebrated Computer ScienceEducation Week an annual program dedicated to raise awareness of Computer Science and underscore computing in all Schools School across the district celebrated from pre k and others showed videos demonstrating the relevance of Computer Science in students lives or female leader in the institute some schools held family nights and hundred of students entered a contest to show the computing were excited to showcase that work in addition hundreds of volunteers from the circling the schools invited classrooms to lead activities and talk about the computing on their careers wear a excited to build open this and disruptive who sxeekd in Community Science and finally before we begin the thanks to our two commissioners ms. Wynns and ms. Fewer i want to take a moment to congratulate commissioner leak steve and mark assistance for their victories in the board of education and look forward to welcoming them back to the board of education in january thank you. clapping. president haney. Experiment we have the opportunity to say farewell and appreciate as a board and the community to two individuals that have made measurable contributions to the sfusd community and to our schools what well do well start with ms. Fewer for both commissioners a number of 3r5i78gsz ill open up to the community and then allow an opportunity for the board first, well have commissioner mendozamcdonnell that has a proclamation from the city. Thank you so much president haney and it is my honor as i said i didnt to give this to you on behalf of the mayor youve been an incredible fighter for the children and been a pleasure to work with you professionally and be your friend i was proud of you and im going to miss sitting next to you and listening to our jokes and all the sides comments during the Board Meetings laughter but there is a real honor we want to recognize you on behalf of the city for all your work youve been been on the board a while youll have to indulge me sandy i didnt see accomplishments are worth noting chineseamerican san franciscan was elected to the San FranciscoUnified School District in 2008, and prior to joining the board commissioner fewer served on the education advocates for children and youth structural to create a Parent Advisory Committee and the first equality platform and offered resolution toe approaches to student Discipline Institute the ethic studies and create a parent gave me plan with the i description of lgbtq youth and the first local hire policy for the subject i got engaged that time and chief suhr held workshops and has been the pta president and 11 school side counsels and whereas chief suhr is ms. Fewer is a most of the 3 sfusd graduates and been the moralal conscious the school board for 3 years and whereas ms. Fewer got the champaign from chinese for affirmative action and the award from the parents Leadership Action Network and the bold award from the be lgbt center to name a few and whereas the city of San Francisco warmhearted appreciates ms. Fewer for serving two terms on the San FranciscoUnified School District with the focus on fighting for the students who need our support and commitment and look forward to her leadership on the board of supervisors representing district one therefore, be it resolved that i mayor of the city and county of San Francisco do hereby proclaiming tuesday, december 13, 2016, as ms. Fewer day in San Francisco thank you sandy. clapping. before i call up Public Comment a proclamation into the board of supervisors where you will be soon and apparently having a longer reason dont leave we want to add there are two we want to reading two of the sclausz shell not stop being a mom well mess dearly here and be it therefore resolved that the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco call upon all residents to join us in grateful recognition for ms. Fewer commitment to excellence and lasting impacts on the bicycle board an tuesday, december 13, 2016, now im going to call comments calling names . Hello commissioners how are you today, i wrote this down short and to the point he want to thank sandy and until for her tenacity and sandy for her social justice inclusive supportive leadership for the students in the district and proud of sandy and her yes, we can organ to provide a worldclass education for the future leaders thank you from me my family and community. clapping. yeah, he just want to come up and share some appreciation for sandy since you left kohlman advocates weve missed that and good to see your friendly face on the board when it came to pressure on the speak directly into the microphone. We thought was important and we appreciate you and the rest of the board standing up and helping to pave the path to set an example when School Boards across the country should be doing i know your leaving and more pressure on the Board Members we expect them to steady and wish you well, if your cleavers and the meetings youll have to go through in the future and good luck with our navigation clear. Hi, im don harris the executive director of the art and im here to honor the commissioner for their Incredible Service representing any colleagues he know how hard you work and difficult being on the right side of issues is tricky and knowing with you hits my pleasure to work with you and seeing all the people here jill in 1992 you were elected when gas coagulation 1. 05 i looked at a couple of things george w. Bush was the president and elected licking ibm bill clinton and jill and i worked on many things youre in media head i have to process to get you into the building you get to cut a retain and sandy before i left for oakland we worked on the prop h and the last thing one o 1 30 in the morning and allotment the last dollar and look where that is both of you have done incredible work and done things that matter and care about you and thank you a. Congratulatio congratulations. All right. Board members. Oh, yes superintendant lee. For commissioner fewer yes. Thank you, commissioner president haney for allowing me to cut the line in terms of making some of my appreciations for commissioner fewer commissioner fewer has been a champion for our students for all the years ive been in San Francisco which are 16 and counting and i want to thank you commissioner fewer for all of your services our dedicated service as a parent organizer at home advocates and prior a member of 12 pta president terms and your 8 years of service on the board of education we have an interesting history we didnt get off on the positive footing when i came to San Francisco but appreciate that okay. Well keep it short and save the longer version for another night ive appreciated our openness to seeing our relationship evolve and grow and strengthen it happens on a common purpose and value i think that there was a turning point he remember i dont know if you will as clearly we talked about your son and just kind of a human moment and that was a moment of connection for us i think it paved the way for a lot of good work weve done together and Partnership Since then i appreciate that you in your approach to this work including our service as commissioner youve always brought an organizer and he stated connected to the community on behalf of the students and families and that is always difficult and tricky and some respect it is difficult for a member of the board of education but served us really well and youve pushed us as again an organizer and a member of the bruks pushed us to focus on opportunities gaps and to have high exceptions of ourselves to help all our students and especially the most underserved and marginalized students to be successful and sometimes, we know that we fail short of those goals but important to continue to hold those goals and to work as hard was we can i appreciate when it is difficult and youve been a model for courageous leadership as well as staff and im happy to say that we will look forward to Work Together in our new chapter you have a bigger megaphone if possible and a friend and supporter as a supervisor thank you. clapping. commissioner norton. So sandy you know we as we started an board together we remember elected in 20092008 and youve chaejd me and youve pushed me and pissed me off sometimes laughter but also laughter thats the true it is maturity youve reached out and taught me and ultimately such a good friend and ally im just so grateful to you for that on a personal note im incredibly grateful how huff met me and my daughter in particular and im so i excited as a new that resident youll be an incredible tenacious fighter for my district and told the people how im proud to support you youll do a great job do an amazing job for our students im happy were going to be allies in 70 city hall and youve been a good leader and working hard at great personal costs sometimes and you deserve all success and our thanks for your services. Commissioner shamann walton. Thank you president haney im going going to try to be brief with any remarks when you run for office the first advise sandra fewer is one of the reasons laughter sandy a definitely a friend of mine and you know our original part of our journey when i ran for office she wouldnt speak to me we didnt center a conversation the second time a fairly lengthy and long conversation she couldnt support me but would be watching me the moment he was elected to the board of education and had a chance to work on policies and formulating what we wanted to see and the moment we started to take votes and the moment we had a chance and opportunity to see where we were both coming from we developed not only a working relationship on the same page but a friendship youve been mentor you know youve been a great example of a parent as well as someone that fights for their community and focusing on the students that need that the most im always going to love and appreciate you for that at the end of the day the reason why you make us work so hard and the reason you dont embrace individuals you want to see people will do what theyre going to do and not only youve asked for that from us i want to thank you for that weve got a lot more work to do in our new role whether around immigration arrest Affordable Housing for educators and teachers in the city making sure we do right and other atlanta priorities the city supports the district i know well be fighting together thank you for your leadership our mentorship and being up front and focused on the work for the communities that need it the most. I really want to thank you on behalf of the children and families that youve working hard in our role and we want to extend a personal thanks you may not remember this when i was brand new you asked me to work with the community and he really appreciated your guidance during if process and he had the opportunity to serve as Vice President when you served as president of the board most recently i know whether you and commissioner norton introduced the assignment resolution you took a lot of arrows from the communities im happy to help you, we didnt prevail but it was a strength of character thank you. Commissioner mendozamcdonnell. Thank you. Ive already said a few things i want to i miss our facial expressions if youve sat across if sandy when she didnt like it youll easily know she doesnt like it ill miss how you work with the students and you always go to the students first when it comes to issues that are impacting them this is a beautiful im going to miss her venting session weve called each other after night weve seen something that was wrong and kind of had it out lightwell me and tell me he was right in feeling the way i felt and you come out and tell me a story that is similar im going to miss just laughing and crying with you we have many times on the board where weve been able to share and enjoy and weve had some hard nights but all in all the thing ill always loved but you to come out and you come out when we need you and you show up and youre so incredibly passionate about this work and with all of that im going to go glad your closer at the city hall and youll give me your facial expressions im text you in the chambers youll be getting support. Delegates ms. Fewer i wanted to share the first time ive been 0 on the committee for 3 years night i remember you came in and had a resolution for the slooudz studies classes and direct and beneficiary and wanted us to succeed in the past 3 years has proved that im grateful for your leadership for all students and families in the district thank you. You know i think everyone has said everything last week echo, for any part thank you for being true to yourself and for three and four that speaks a lot having a people of color it gives an example of how high a woman in San Francisco, california get and as superintendant lee and suggested my school is all about that it gives hope to everyone but how high we can get in life and learn into our stories and journey and im hoping to learn more from you and i mean, the students dont know but like learning like the stories of everyone like any principal or it is great to know all the things happening and everyones voice to listen to thank you a lot for your service. Congratulate you, you on the board of supervisors thank you for your service on the board of education. I will also be brief sandy well miss you a lot i think that you know when you think about what an elected official should be and can be youre the person that comes to mind and you know, i think that we need more passion we need people who like you are not afraid to wear your heart on the sleeve and an issue that comes from the board many matters to the community and students we can look to you to speak for all of us i feel so privileged to sever with you over the last 45 years to learn and get a sense not just what, if anything, passion looks like but courage weve had things come groven us and people told us nothing we can do or one hundred reasons the answer is no youve refused to take no and called us to a higher level of not just what we should be trying to do but can do so everybody o everything in the board room something that says were not doing as well, you were mindful of that im grateful youre service and also grateful perching fewer friendship and the very first issue he worked on before he was sworn in sandra said i have a local hir