Public education we need it for everyone and in that light we mentioned how the survey and had so many responses 11 hundred responses what can San FranciscoUnified School District do to help keep you as an employee in the district out of that ill not mention a i will mention a couple of negatives nothing ive returned i had enough and another person said this is one of the worst district in california im wearing a tshirt San Francisco 210 east statements are on the fast side ill hope in light of what williams talked about well be constructive how to come up with better pay for San Francisco and our students . Another one of the statements what can the district do to help me to stay here value me as an employee period that value can come with heir pay most definitely address that like crazy but is a babblsabbat please consider what we have said tonight. Good evening commissioner Vice President walton im carolyn the u a sf for paraprofessionals and a special paul rivera k through 8 there are important facts i wish to share with you the first there is currently 49 vacant paraprofessional positions in the district all last year and this year not been a time when all paraprofessional positions have been filed like cedric said security is paraprofessional that puts the most vulnerable students in a difficult situation students that need more attention rely an paraprofessionals to provide that support this affordability crisis push our paraprofessionals out of San Francisco meaning our students are losing the stability like janet comes from antioch two hours each way shes a paraprofessional we need the district to do the right thing and work with our Bargaining Team to make sure that all paraprofessionals can afford to stay if San Francisco i have been a paraprofessional for 27 years paraprofessionals love their jobs i love any job i love any school and i cant think of a admonish rewarding job but to keep our jobs and help give our students a stable and safe and supportive learning environment we must call think you to do the right thing we look forward to prove negotiations thank you. clapping. im ken tray a student teacher in galileo and had my first job anothers bop and Shawn Richard was among my first students shawn could have benefited from a safer and secure School Environment the district failed africanamerican students like shawn back then and the district has arisen to the occasion i want to tell you that u e sf is doing to try to insure those dark times of the trump era those dark times indeed what we are doing to help to insure the safety and security stability of our students were one of the founding agencies the Response Time this is how dark we have to be a Founding Member a Response Network that is preparing ourselves as educators and helping to prepare our neighborhoods and communities that to defend the worst kinds of tissues we fear during the trump era specifically without details the Response Network is preparing to respond when the immigration and undocumented students and families are under attack by ice or other federal authorities that leads to their d portion another part of the emergency respondents to prepare the educators to respond in a fiscal and timely manner when hate crimes against our amounting students and we hear against the Jew Community and the lgbt students we are creating an Emergency Response forget and during this era a very scary and dark and dangerous times the school board has to take the lead in a Response Time for the response the educators the adults in the classrooms and the hallways with our students are failing you have to dig deep and respond as if an emergency and play our role to provide the stability for the educators of San Francisco because janet is commuting if halfway to mars and Cedric Williams commuting if across the bridge and people as far away as antioch keep the teachers and the paraprofessionals in this town your part to dig dope and make sure that every bit of the resources goes to provide a decent living an affordable living in in town to compliment the efforts on the Housing Market to keep the folks here this is has to be your Emergency Response and doing everything we can to keep the communities save and do everything you can. Good evening commissioner Vice President walton and commissioners im susan and this month marks the beginning of any 20th year as one of your school indoors recruitment is upon us be aware of the community we expedite with to pay their educators more than sfusd much more up to 20,000 more in san mateo and seinquire and 20,000 more those educators have fulfill paid health care for their families and themselves last month on 27 with a Labor Committee heard the Teacher Attrition and retention this is the presentation in my hand the number one answer to the question where are teachers leaving sfusd not surprisingly dissatisfaction with salaries. What to take into consideration to bring the teachers back more than 40 percent said if i salary were higher i would come back when asked how difficult to pay rent greater than 50, 57. 8 percent exactly paying hair mortgage was difficult or very difficult and as someone that is evicted from her long time residence i know that what feels like if i feel this is difficult or somewhat difficult was before image what im facing 70 plus teachers say their income is the majority of their income the data reflects a single most driving force for enhancing recruitment and retention a significant salary there time for you to come to the bargaining table with a financial commitment to the people that do the direct work of the district and recruiting and retaining educator is directly related to save and Supportive Schools with our educators in the classrooms and support in the building the work the district didnt happen you must make good on our promises to the families of this city by making a promise to our educators and pay them more thanks so much. clapping. good evening commissioner Vice President walton and commissioners and sprernt youve heard from half hour the Bargaining Team i think theyve made their points im sussusan thus with 32 of our schools as part of national day with the alliance to reclaim schools hundreds of educators pledged to keep our students safe in light of the new United States agenda on saturday there were over three hundred women at the march with a lot of you and championship education not deportation and dump hate we have students to educate we are here for our students as youve heard our rallying cry is safe and Supportive Schools the new reality adds a dimension to the word safe our schools are the heart and the sanctuaries we are ready to fight for the students and schools but the other reality the affordability crisis in San Francisco and the longer and longer consultants creates a challenge for the educator what weve heard from the educators is about safe and Supportive Schools and reporting the and the affordability crisis we thank you and look forward to the negotiations starting february 14th thank you. clapping. thank you any comments or statements if any colleagues. No hearing none, roll call vote. Ms. Casco. Mr. Cook mr. Haney. Ms. Mendozamcdonnell. Dr. Murase. Ms. Norton mr. Sanchez and mr. Walton. 7 is. Thank you and our last special order of business the adoption of the calendar for the 20172018 school year i believe you all have a corrected copy in your packet sprernt for the hat trick our chief of the Labor Relations. Thank you so the background is the process of setting up the structural calendar for the Ferry Building feedback from parents the board of education has the Sole Authority to adopt the structural calendar for the district and i would like to read into the record there are two corrections to the calendar include in the board agenda the first correction is that there are 18 structural days in february not 19 and the second correction is that the last day of instruction is wednesday, june 6th not tuesday june 5th. Thank you, sir and we do have Public Comment on this item. calling names . You each have two minutes at the microphone. Mr. Chairman we have Miranda Martin been sitting her. And Miranda Martin audience good evening superintendent and commissioners a special welcome to mr. Cook and conveyance welcome back ive served think this committee over 10, 12 years now on and off and i choose not is to be involved im richard executive director of the u a sf this year i choose to come the meetings i sat with all the labor partners with the parents representatives, etc. And we did interpretation work we xhoemsdz and brought up facts about moving here and there and a mathematician figured out the days and dealt with the units we did hard work and im wanting to represent 200 and 82 of the administrators to say this is the calendar that we can live with that is initiative and progressive and it move forward and i think we feed to adjust for the childcare issue opening up different venues for this during the week the thanksgiving with other times parents are working and need daycare i am proud and support this new academic calendar for negotiation thank you. Hello and holly a parent in the district i want to say i appreciate the new academic calendar starting closer to labor day it makes things easier for me as a parent. Im the director of the policy for schools we had the opportunity to sit on the calendar economy i agree that was very hard working committee and a lot of thought both the proposal that is before you today, i do want to note this is something that persistent care about a lot parent dont have a direct say in in decision but this year there was a survey that went out with the Parent Advisory Committee and translated into 3 languages sfusd helped United States to get it out to many families and 4 thousand responses and it was very mixed people have strong feelings about on both sides and the one thing that came through loud and clear it will be people existed about a longer break and thanksgiving the people that are not exist is it is a hardship i hope we keep in mind and work underway to figure out if there is an appetite for the x tell essential program not funded through the grant but find ways to support the families that cant afford the care during it went it is a burden on families shifting a burner from sfusd to the families i hope that there is an effort probation officer make that as easy by providing lists of caregivers and onsite help at our schools thank you. clapping. thank you thank you all it is amazing to be here and see all the work you guys are thats the biggest commit and wanting and commissioners, thank you for being here im mr. Scott a teacher in the district my history the change that has happened now with the calendar i was when it changed before the only thing want to get it on the record for the symmetry and Summer School program and working backwards june is a high hiring time for businesses hiring time for businesses and thats when many of the kids need to be involved in working and also my is a good cut off time because for any business stand point airfares go up and balancing out the first and second semester the first time that was good for the second semester to be longer we had statewide testing in april that is decreased also working backwards on the calendar you were looking to indigenous day that is a good thing to have and Business Days a good thing to have and behove youre having thanksgiving off this is more break and with the starting the year starting earlier like the idea of symmetry two 9 weeks in the first and second semester it does allow us time to get the students i understand the idea the thing that comes up is Getting Started closure to labor day what is problematic won on the high school and school gets started you have students Getting Started and their immediately taking a break breaking the continuity i know youre familiar with a law passed we are are have to work on students not working especially with mathematics to support i have as a mathematic structure continuity is very, very important and the balance with the calendar dual enrollment is an option for High School Students with the city college this takes us off the calendar match up and i think thats all i have i want to make sure you have that and get it on the record thank you for all you do clapping. i do want to speak about the calendar for paraprofessionals youre a week off at the thanksgiving is going to be a hardship for parents they will have two days extra not paid in that pay period i want you to look at that i understand theyre paid at the end of the just year but before the holidays theyll be paid 3 days that will be a hardship for paraprofessionals i dont know if that whether two paid unpaid days in that pay period thank you. clapping. commissioner norton. Thank you i want to say im in favor of the new calendar i have gotten some folks camp mather be me about the hardship of the week at thanksgiving i want to acknowledge that that will be i know a hardship for some working families and parents as mentioned i do think that given the pattern weve seen in recent years over a a long time absence during that week this is an acknowledgment it is the way it is going to im in favor i want to urge the district to try to partner with rec and park and with you know other nonprofits to see if we can off options to families prairie with care on those days parent work or cannot afford to take the days off i want to thank you u e sf and the commission for coming up with a solution ive been disturbed with the absence and the last instruction that happens that is difficult for students so thank everyone inform coming together on this proposal i think that will be better for our kids. Dr. Murase. Two questions weve heard from the first family nativeamericans if we could choose the indigenous language and has theyve been a saifsz those two days will have and if so possible to redirect overseeing savings to create options for families to have childcare during those two days i emphasis ms. Nortons with partnership with the city but shouldnt be openal but obligated to have a list of resources for families that need conferring for that week. I can respond we are working now working closely with millie executive director for our Community Schools and family partnerships and reaching out trying to determine just what the need will be and to that end when parent rental that are the excel Program Register in the spring have a part on the registration are you interested in having some kind of childcare during the thanksgiving week get an assessment and determine and where the sites will need it issues around providing food for the students that do come to the programs do you have a School Program also that we need to look at because there will be an increased day for out of school not going to be a half a day but a full day so theres a number of issues that we have started to discuss and depending on the boards action to explore to provide options for families come next year. Mr. Sanchez. Apropo to the title of the day any prohibition for that term instead of columbus day were using that. It is a catchall kind of. Weve gone beefrt over the years and now thats a standard why not take columbus day have a board resolution. Can we just do that. I dont think we require a board resolution advertised clear where our focus is tonight. Well take it off for the instruction am calendar thats fine one thing at a time laura. I want to echo i mean commissioner nortons concerns why we are heading direction seeing many, many teachers and others that are Staff Members taking one or both days off and the students not being there the instructional is optional and the loss of ada we want recoup is amazing high we should obviously we need to come up with childcare opportunities for families that are struggling during those two days commissioner Vice President mendosamcdonnell. Thank you so i am willing to support this although weve gotten concerns if parents particularly from families that are working two or 3 jobs to be able to have this work for them. So in addition to rec and park im more interested in figuring out how the students what come to the site so it didnt impact the families in that way and curious what carolyn was ref to she said the two days the paraprofessionals will not get paid explain that, please. Those are two unpaid days but in discussions in the committee and before this the request by the union they have floating holidays one of the i dont know if it is one or two of the floating holidays are identity to a day so well we want to give them more flexibility that he requested flexibility when theyll take for example, the lunar new years this is designated if they can have the flexibility to take that during the thanksgiving week balance it out the lunar new years week is one day and more to give them flexibility with their floating holidays. So we could use their floating holiday for those from days. Yes. Thats were going to discuss this in negotiations to go into the contract. That has not been determined