We demanding to build on that street. 135. Van necessary why dont we build . These are not questions these are demands that all of you need to please it cant just fall on you the Labor Council and Labor Movement would work with you strongly and well and diligently to do this. Its time to really hear these people which you have done, now, act as if we have a crisis its not time to go back and tinker around the edges we have to act firmly decisively and have to act now, thank you. Thank you. Hello my name is chris im 4th. And 5th. Grade spanish teacher in tribun i live in a trailer park and one of the few transeducators in the School District i want to highlight one of the points people brought up this is equity issue whatever Housing Program is created must bring that equity lens to it when it allocates those services its march my students have made a yearandahalf of reading growth i plan curriculum for social justice on creating lgbt o sanctuaries and 2pds on the school site on top of that im paying off 10,060,000 po pay to get my credential. Additionally, im still going to have to pay off all the loans im taking out in order to take the classes that i need in order to also get that credential. I brought up my gender sexuality in the beginning of this Public Comment as a way to also bring up that im gooing to do this work as long as i possibly can just as so many in this room are going to there is no way with can do it alone unless we tackle this housing issue there will be a huge gap between the students were serving and educators were serving them i talked to my director of support who has more than a decade of experience in the district to see if there are trans, folk educators she can think of she struggled to think of five names other than myself Homeless People have four times the rate of trans, people have four times the rate of homelessness than any other population in the district when we fail the educatorers in the district were failing the most vulnerable as well. Thank you. Thank you. Hello my name is [inaudible] im a first generation native San Franciscoian im daughter of two immigrants came here from mexico who came on a dream. You keep working hard you are going to have a life greater than we can dream of for you i took that and attended Georgetown University with the purpose of serving students who look like me students of color born and raised in this city. I can say that today im over 200,000 in debt. I spent over half my salary on my studio apartment that has a discount because my landlord comes from a family of educators. I dont know that i can make a career from teaching when i spent the First Six Months of my teaching career homeless. I dont know that i can say im making my parents proud. I dont know their hard work is paid off if i can say im living paycheck to paycheck frankly im tired of going to my school on 16th. And church and following the google bus there. Im tired of answering Facebook Messages alumni asking where can i live in San Francisco with can i live there they got a job at google i cant afford to stay here n the place i love im tired of hearing from the city that i serve that im not important enough. Thank you. So my name is desiree im a para at Galileo High School. I wanted to speak on behalf of paras in particular. Every year, i actually have three jobs like many do. My other two jobs happen to be exciting i work on Clinical Trial in the Parent Leadership Team i make embarrassing four times as much an hour on that. Every year, people ask me why dont you leave the para position and just do your tech position, the genetic . And by the same token every year the principles ask me why dont you become a teacher . I want to say, there is nothing more beautiful than seeing a child learn because i have a science and math background im frequently in science and math classes. There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a child who thought they never learn math learn math or seeing a child new to this country is brilliant cant speak english get passed, that and that is work that paras in high school often do. A year ago, my landlady want today sell the house you know the story i have nowhere to live i have three jobs im fortunate i got temporary place im paying over half my income but the decision has been made for me right before i came here i got a phone call asking me again to please take full time work in genetic. They will pay six times more than i make as a para i will only work one job. I will always miss seeing children grow and learn please do something about the housing here. Thank you. Thank you. I want to make sure everyone knows, this is the last opportunity for Public Comment there only a few in line if anybody else wants to speak in Public Comment please join the line. Thank you. Hi board of supervisors. My name is jeffrey im a substitute teacher for the district living in oakland i worked as a substitute for the past two years i make 146 base a day subbing oakland starts 150 to 161. Charter schools starts at 183. Menlo park starts at 193 and 190 i cannot afford to keep crossing that bridge i spend 300 a month paying for the tolls and also bart coming over. And im affordability i like you to find apartment to find 1300 which is half people s, mortgage for studio with the economics, economics said with the shortage of supply and high demand of teacher, there should be a Competitive Salary we are not getting that or come pettive or cost of living adjustment to live here in this city. Its ridiculous and your market and economics and policy and with the district is paying is in pennies San Francisco needs to be a balanced city for low middle and high income earners not a safe haven for the rich Beverly Hills pay their teachers commiserate rate. San francisco should be able to do the same with their budget. Police and firefighters have 1 3 what teachers have and credentials and make 30 more teachers have to get ba masters pass the cset the cbes and firefighter are starting 80 to 1,000 grand all they have to do with a six month academy this is ridiculous the deputy of innovation said this is a buyers market at a teachers recruitment event. This is off, i dont know where he got his economics from. Im getting my masters in Public Policy so i took. Your time is up we have to get moving im so sorry. [speaking off the mic]. If you would please wrap up your testimony. The board is holding the market [speaking off the mic]. Thank you so much. My name is eddy. Im in 2009 i moved here from san diego i picked San Francisco because i thought it was going to be one of the best cities i could possibly live in and i felt this place had a reputation of caring about everybody regardless of how powerful or not it was going to be worse giving the city a chance and shot. And in 2009 there wasnt a lot of opportunity to get into full time position because of the recession and all of the lay offs that had taken place. But knowing that when came here, i accepted a little room it was about 11 by 12 no kitchen and at the time i didnt know i was going to be a trendsetter, its ridiculous its kind of a joke. I dont know how anybody can still do this. At this time about a month ago i was sure i was done and i was going to move back im trying to give this place a Second Chance i work at alternative Continuation School and i feel like what were about and i want to make sure if i give this place a Second Chance that there is something here its worth it and im hoping we can do anything. We need to know what is going to be done to have people be able to live here i know you know the stories you have heard these you understand we need to know what is going to happen thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is gabry el will lopez im a spanish by lingual teacher ai came with a master education along with the loan attached to that. The rest of the time goes to my work at site or at home. Im not just a teacher as the rest of us are we are so much more. When my focus has been working with families both years i have taught home visit its listen to countless stories of families who have been here for years who dont feel comfortable, in the city they live in because of the change they have seen or families who recollects have been evicted or displaced although i have been teaching for a short time im well aware of the issues education faces and housing should not be one of them. Thank you. Thank you for listening. I will try not to repeat many of the things already said i will say have been in the district teaching 17 years im a special ed teacher i was a para i had to work three jobs to navigate through that i will fast forward and say i too work at a very underserved population i work in the Bay View District where i have committed my years to service i live in san leandro and commute through a variety of different challenges i have been atacted on bart. I have to make sure i have to protect myself just to get to work and i get to work early and i leave late so i can actually accomplish the impossible job were being asked to do. The thing i want to residence ig nate is when you take care of teacher, you do take care of students when you take care of the teachers you take care of society it trickles down and goes together what i also want to say is, if we really value education value our children if we want to interrupt the achievement gap if we want to interrupt all of these things we have been struggling since i was in school we must make sure we are positioning ourselves and creating ourselves in a position to do, that one of the prime ways is making sure teacher can live where they work. It is not necessarily a choice we dont get to choose i want to live here or there. Its a blessing if you actually have a roof over your head even if its just a room. In a roommate situation. So i just want to i hope this conversation translates into real action. I appreciate you all taking your time to listen and those sharing stories and being vulnerable about the situation i want to it rate me too as a teacher of color the skin im in we will not interrupt the gap coming year after year with most needy students im going to leave im not going to hold you but i want to make that point if we want to interrupt the crisis were having we need to take care of teachers thank you. Thank you. Hello good evening my name is claire im a teacher at marshall high school. I come here because i have talked to several teachers that have cried in front of me because they have lived in little rooms above stores they have to go down the store to go to the bathroom they have to take showers in gym s. I know teachers slet in their cars if you saw these teachers you couldnt tell they live like that because they come to school with a smile to work with the kids, like nothing happened. They are just there, pure energy and pure hope they can make a better life for their kids because the students are our kids. So, you know, im a high schoolteacher im constant i work only with minority children. Only children of color. And one of my emphasis is go to college. Become something professional do this, be a movie director be a writer. But you know, its getting harder and harder for me to say, be a teacher. Because when i meet my young colleagues and i know they cannot live with the salaries they receive and no place for them to live it is hard please do something about it. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening its now evening my name is ken tray the political director of united educators of San Francisco im a high schoolteacher i started student teaching in Galileo High School in 1985 got my first job at Balboa High School in spring of 86 went onto mark twain Continuation High School moved on onto lowell was part of Community Wise linking San Francisco amazing work around the city. Students and teachers turning the city into a social lab of education and i left the classroom in 2010 im going to retire this year. So, i have been in this School District for 31 years now, going on 32. Going into teaching is the greatest thing i ever did. I had a great time in the classroom and im proud to help represent the folks i work alongside i will tell you what, when i started in 1985 even as a student teacher driving cab to support myself im a proud former cabdriver in San Francisco. Housing was not an issue. Salaries have always been problematic you can find a studio one bedroom apartment if you had the audacity have a family you can actually raise them in San Francisco. One of the first things i learned in Balboa High School that senior faculty the group of hardworking folks who kept that School Together who caught kids and parent and uncles that was a marvelous things that was a challenge in the 80s if people recall. So i have lots more to say you have heard tons. In a few minutes you are going to start hearing from the School District and the Mayors Office of housing they will give you statistics and hopefully plans to get housing done. But there is an emergency and an urgency. The one thing i would ask after my [speaking off the mic]. Thank you, ken. [speaking off the mic] they have the same opportunity to take their [inaudible] in classrooms but its up to the folks standing behind me to make that real. Thank you. Thank you. [applause]. audience chanting . Thank you School Board Commissioner sanchez being here. Thank you for holding this hearing supervisors commissioner mark sanchez on the school board. Joined by. Hidra mcdessa and you will hear from superintendent lee in a minute. First of all its beyond heart breaking what were hearing i thought crisis its beyond crisis when i was on the school board 2006 president of the school board i was raising this issue got no traction at all it was a crisis then if you go back to 98 the School District had a proposal to build on the park side of Elementary School destroyed by the earthquake that was blocked by the neighbor they didnt want tiecher houghs in the neighborhood. Im hoping that has changed over time we need to work with you as supervisors go hand in hand to make that a reality. Because we cannot on our own do this we have to make it a reality. Im for all of the other options in terms of mortgage rental assistance anything we can do to stabilize teacher and para professionals in our districts we have to build housing it cant be 100 or 200 unit it has to with 500 to a thousand units to start we have teacher and para professionals the vast majority are phasing fiscal instability. We have excess surplus under utilized property we need to identify and start working on it. I will add one more thing the reason i talk about soda a lot as the housing popgs for para professionals and others its the Largest Properties in the center of the city. And we can build the housing there when soda goes downtown. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Thank you commissioner sanchez. Is there anyone else that wants to make Public Comment that has not already okay then Public Comment is closed. From the bottom of my heart want to thank you all so much. Im a brand new servers i have been a legislative aid for a long time i have been in this building a long time i have seen a lot of hearings i dont know if i have been part of a hearing that is more moving and meaningful than this one. I want to thank you all for coming out tonight for telling your personal stories for fighting so hard day in and day out im the daughter and daughter of a teacher barely holdingen on wouldnt be able to make it raise their son i know you work three jobs and barely hanging on and you buy slys for your classroom and prints for your kids and give everything you have because you love your community and love your job i can not thank you enough were going to fight day in and day out for you. Were with you were here were with you were not going away were not going to take light away with this issue were going to fight you thank you for coming out tonight and telling your stories and for your work every single day. Thank you. With that, were going to call cambell from the Budget Analyst Office to give the presentation. Thank fur your presentation and thank you for staying the whole time. I have a power point im not sure i will be able to call it up on here. Lets see. Im cambell from the budget legislative analyst office. We were requested by supervisor. Row ronene to look at staffing salaries vacancy in the School District i will give you a brief overview with the information we came up with. Apologize for the technical eric k you help . So basically the San FranciscoSchool District s the 7th largest in the state. 58,000 students and more than 3300 teacher one of the things we have discovered looking at this statewide is 75 are reporting Teacher Shortage even if theyre lower income districts theyre finding a problem with Teacher Shortage. If you are looking at teacher salaries talked about tonight are based on years of experience to level of education to 60 Additional Units from bachelors degree. Wh