The citys strategic fiscal solutions, and collaborate with the various transit agencies and various city agencies that would play a big role in this major project of connection between the Transit Center and the 14th kings station as well as the other operators that would utilize the transbay Transit Center, the high speed rail, as well as caltrain. Supervisor safai okay. Thank you. Colleagues, any questions . I think her experience speaks for itself. Now well hear from our second applicant, is director tilly chang. Good afternoon, chair safai. Supervisor safai good evening, really. Good evening, supervisors. Tilly chang, executive director of the county transportation authority. Im pleased to seek your support for my appointment to the seat four, the alternate seat for the same tjpa board of directors. Im happy to present a brief overview although you have it in my application. Im happy to speak to the tjpa, but im happy to serve as you wish. Supervisor safai i think were very knowledgeable of your qualifications, and were happy that this is an applicant and alternate applicant. Good. Supervisor safai any questions for miss chang . Okay. Any members of the public wish to comment on this item, please come forward, you have two minutes to speak. High, happy valentines Day Community members. Thank you so much for reviewing the qualifications of the two applicants we have here this eep evening. Im a legislative aide for supervisor jane kim, and im happy to support [ inaudible ] and tilly chang. The supervisor has known both of these applicants for a very long time, and they both have a wealth of qualifications pertaining to issues relating to transportation and infrastructure. The tjpa board requires a 70 of members being in attendance to make quorum . Being that thats the case, it requires five out of seven voting members to be in attendance to start meeting and to conduct business. Being that thats the case, supervisor kim will be introducing a resolution at the february 27th board of supervisors meeting . That allows the alternate appointed to serve on behalf of either of the board of supervisors appointed members to the tjpa body. We know that voters passed proposition h in 1999 calling for the construction of the Transit Center, and this center was supposed to open in 2017 . Our office is hopeful that with the added leadership of nadia and tilly, that there will be no further delays in the project, and thank you so much for considering them to join this board and we appreciate your time this evening. Supervisor safai thank you. Any other members of the public wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comments closed. Supervisor, can we have a motion . Yes, id like to make a motion to send this out to the full board with positive recommendation with 234 ad nn seat four, and tilly as the alternate. Supervisor safai for the transbay joint powers authority. Yes. Supervisor safai so moved. Thank you ladies for all your continued leadership as directors and your continued work on this project. Its very important. Thank you. Supervisor safai please call the last item. Clerk item number 7 is an item to accept or reject Melissa Johnson to the Planning Commission for a term ending june 30th, 2018. Supervisor safai please proceed. Thank you so much. Good evening, chair safai, supervisor stefani. Im happy to be the closer this evening, and i really just appreciated all of the testimony today, which resonates with my own personal background and so much of what ive advocated for during my career. I am honored to be nominated for the San FranciscoPlanning Commission, and i am so excited to express my desire and present my presentations to serve. To under my desire to be a part of the Planning Commission, i have to get a lull vulnerable and take you back to a form ative experience in my life. I grew up in queens, new york, and was raised by an amazing mother who worked hard to give me the best of everything, even when it was hard to make ends meet. She believes that getting a best education was the best that she could give me in life, and so when it came time to send me to public school, i remember her doing research on nights and weekends to find the best school in queens to send me to. She eventually found that school, but it was in a district that started just three blocks away from where we lived. As my mom began to describe the district process to me as a seven or eightyearold, i realized that there were invisible lines drawn around certain communities to keep them from opportunity. That realizization has really been a northstar throughout my career in wanting to create opportunities for others. In college, i created my own major in social justice studies, and i wrote a thesis on hows discrimination in housing in the u. S. , including hud. I went onto work for a state representative, where i chaired several interagency working groups on housing development, code enforcement, Public Safety and land use. This is where i really came to understand and participate in the planning process, including those long, nine, tenhour meetings, and its there where i deepened my commitment to developing resource rich communitied for all. I came here to work for green line institute, i worked throughout the state of california traveling from sacramento to bayview, Hunters Point to the inland empire, talking with residents and Community Organizations about how the foreclosure crisis and predatory lending was rachblg ravaging their communities. I used those stories and solutions to bring together legislators, Financial Institutions and other financial stakeholders to create winwin partnerships that invested in those solut n solutions. Fast forward, i have worked with organizations like Tipping Point community, and bringing together multiple stakeholders in our community to strengthen our region. As Planning Commissioner, i want to use my skills to be a translator and community builder, and my passion for equitiable access to Affordable Housing and opportunity, to u unite our Community Around a multitude of backgrounds. So with that, id like to open it up, and im happy to answer any questions that you might have. Supervisor safai thank you. Supervisor stefani . Thank you for your desire to serve our city. As we discussed, your background and personal experience is extremely impressive, but your Actual Experience with zoning and actual land use is less than some of the other commissioners, and id just like to know if you can talk a little bit about how you believe your experience will help facilitate a robust conversation at the Planning Commission as the items come before you. Great. Great question. You know, i would say i didnt necessarily study planning in college, but i have done my homework. I have attended Planning Commission meetings for about a year now. I know actually whats up in the next Planning Commission meetings, the fact that a transportation study is umm canning through, really looking at our longterm transportation and how that affects housing, looking at car ownership rates in our city, looking at retail in our city, and vacant storefronts, which are issues in multiple districts in the region. I also know that, you know and i have worked on the facts that we have a housing crisis an Affordable Housing crisis, and also a homelessness crisis. And i also have a long track record of working to bring different stakeholders from different parts of our communities together to create communitybased solutions. And finally, i would just say that i bring a fresh and new perspective to the Planning Commission, one thats balanced, one that really looks at systems and how we can transform them and how we can make all our processes more equitiable, and so i think that will benefit the commission. Supervisor safai great. Any other questions . Okay. Great. Well, then, why dont we open this up for Public Comment. Any best testimoniers of the public wish to comment on this item, please come forward. In the spirit of valentines day, be concise, be direct, and be brief. Good eepg, supervisors, your meeting stamina is very impressive. My name is ed center. I am a longterm resident of San Francisco, a parent of two kids, one in public schools, a recent homeowner, all is to say very invested in the city. Im here to advocate for my colleague and friend, millicent. I would like to address the question you asked. We worked together two years, and she is an incredibly fast study, and she raises the game of the people around there, if im in a meeting with her, im researching and coming in with game because i know shes coming in with it. I will say that an appointment of millicent is a deep belief in equity. She is the most thoughtful and passionate person around Racial Equity that ive ever met. We Work Together to bring a greater Racial Justice lens to the organization we work for, Tipping Point, which is a Nonprofit Foundation fighting poverty. And as an example of that, milicent convened Corporate Stakeholders who donates money to Tipping Point and was able to move the conversation from money to money and jobs, getting them to hire low income people of color into high salary, secure jobs in San Francisco. I she will bring that passion to this commission, and in concluding, i will say that on valentines day, unlike our child care advocates, i didnt make you cards, and i apologize, but i think elected milicent to the commission would be an act of love to San Francisco. Thank you. Supervisor safai great. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening. My name is gail gilman. Im the president of housing partnership, and a proud resident of district three. Im here to ask that you send milicent forward with a full recommendation. I had the honor to introduce her to the late mayor ed lee, back this summer, when he was considering making the switch on the Planning Commission. The reasons milicent came to my mind when i had learned that mayor lee was considering putting a new person on the Planning Commission to replace Christine Johnson was her diligence. She looks at all sides of a community issue. She looked at community input, whats best for the city, and she played that role both at Tipping Point, also when she worked at the sharing economy, and her role at the womens collaborative. I am impressed by her dill jeps diligence and thoughtfulness on matters. Her dedication to spend one week one day every week at commission meetings, i will say is dedicatition in itself. I really hope this commission sends her forward unanimously, and i hope she gets a full 110 vote by the supes. Okay. Anybody else wishing to make Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor . Thank you to those who came out for Public Comment, and i just wanted to say that when i met with milicent, shes got a lot of heart, and i think you can tell about that with someone right away. With that, i would like to make a motion to forward this out to the full board with recommendation. Clerk mr. Chair, we need to amend the motion first to approve the nomation. Supervisor safai well make a motion to clerk make a motion to strike the rejecting language. Supervisor safai oh, oh, is that right. Clerk its a mayoral motion. Clerk you need to make the motion to amend the motion to strike all rejecting language. Supervisor safai okay. So lets make a motion to strike all rejecting language first. Clerk yes. Supervisor safai okay. So thats ordered and moved without objection. Now we can make a second motion. Clerk recommendation as amended. Supervisor safai and recommendation as amended. Clerk okay. Lets try this again. Third times a charm. Id like to make a motion to move the mayoral appointment nominee out to the full board with positive recommendation. Supervisor safai for milicent johnson. Supervisor safai okay. Without objection, that item is ordered moved. Congratulations, miss johnson. As i said earlier today, we had a great conversation. I think the thing thats the nicest at this point, you can clap, theres no one else here. I hope you bring that smile and positivity and it lasts. For all four years, youre on the Planning Commission. Any other business before us on this commission . Clerk that is it for today. Supervisor safai we are adjourned. You. Today, i wanted to kickoff and welcome you to the first every family well forum clapping. compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of Community Meetings and were he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids. The family Forum Benefits throughout San Francisco im supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers and they dont thinks the planning. What youll notice if you walk around todays activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have oneonone free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. We did if grassroots on the radio and worked with all nonprofit and partners to get the word out we personally went to Community Meeting to tell people about this event well have a whole line of people that will wait to ask skews im thinking about passing on my property or so glad i can speak but i cannot speak english well we created in first every family forum and hope that will bring a lot of people good information to plan for their future three hundred people signed up for 101 counterand we so hope that is a model for success for the future and hope to do more if we learn from this one to be better the board of education. The board of education, Unified School District for february 19th. 2018 is now called to order. Thank you. Mr. Kirk. Dr. Morsi. Thank you. Mr. Sanchez . Here. Mr. Walters. Miss min. Thank you. The section a is Accessible Information for the public. Open items. We have five tonight. Number one, approval of board minutes. As announced. As it has been announced the past two meetings. The members of the public are reminded that if they wish to address the board of education, an individual can complete a speaker card for the item b column. And present it to the executive assistant. Importantly, according to board rules and procedures, the speaker cards will not be expected for an item already before the board. Superintendent mr. Reid tonight. Thank you, Vice President. And everyone has gathered by now. Standing in for dr. Matthews on one of the rare occasions he is out of town for an educational conference. With the Vice President and myself. Good evening, everyone. I would like to begin this evening by acknowledging that it is february, which is black History Month. During this month, we celebrate the rich history of African Americans in the city and in the country. This month, the students will participate in meeting challenges, they will read as many books by africanamerican authors as they can. They will create art and host events at their school to honour historical africanamerican figures. Although, we celebrate this month with a host of events and activities, our students dont just learn about the history and contributions of African Americans in february. As you may have read in dr. Matthews column, he stated that teachers incorporate africanamerican history into curriculum all year around and at all grade levels. All of the high schools are for ethnic study. The educators work to include all historical narratives in the course work. I would like to announce a highlight to black History Month events. First, on tuesday, february 20th, next tuesday, from the 6 to 8 p. M. Is the 23rd annual africanamerican honour roll ceremony. It will be at the cathedral at 111 goth street in San Francisco. The educators and the African Community request the honour of your presence at our honour roll academic roll ceremony and reception. We will honour 312 grade students who achieved a 3. 0 or higher in the Academic Year. The commissioner received invitations to the event. It is open to all. There is a 10 request for guests. February 24th, from 8 30 a. M. To 12 30 p. M. The 37th annual musical contest. It will take place at the middle school at 2055 silver avenue here in San Francisco. And this will be a phenomenal day where we celebrate our students as they showcase the musical and cultural skills. The other good news, the center for Disease Control has identified the created a program in the National Story of success. Groups are presently in process at 8 high schools reaching 308 young men of colour. Cdc called the project a practice in reaching young men of colour specifically black and latino students with information regarding healthy relationships, healthy sexuality, access to Sexual Health and Group Participants show connectedness and be consumers of their own health. The model working closely with Community Based organizations with High School Wellness staff. The success led to having the Group Curriculum used in los angeles and florida. Further, the implementation success has led us to rewrite and implement groups in middle schools as well. Two additional announcements, one is schools will be closed february 16th in the observance of new year. Sf u. F. C. Office will remain open. Finally, all the schools and offices will be closed on monday, february 19th. In observance of that day. Thank you. Thank you deputy superintendent. We have resolutions for commendation. Mr. Lee. Tonight, we have our national, our annual National Board certified teachers recognition ceremony. [applause] the wonderful National Board of teachers. And i would like to begin by calling on our chief academic officers Brett Stevens to make opening remarks. Mr. Stevens. Good afternoon. Members of the public. This is a special moment in every Academic Year when we are able to welcome our certified National Board teachers for commendation. It is the pinnacle in the teaching profession. The equivalent of earning a masters degree. It is that much work. They are recertifying. They have been through the process two times successfully. And typically the case that each year, we invite a large group of folks who are earning certifications for the first time. A year ago, i described to you because of changes to the board certification process, that we will be acknowledging our recertified teachers. We had a smaller number last year. This year again, we are acknowledging the recertifying teachers in front of the year and will host a separate ceremony for the larger number of first time certified teachers this year. We have 47 teachers in the district who have earned National Board certification. We would like you to keep in mind, we will keep the teachers to the Cultural Center down the street and we will kick up our heels to acknowledge their good and hard work. I would love to point out people who are instrumental to the process. They are a Program Coordinator. Would you please stand. And further behind, our executive director for the office of professional learning and leadership. He is here. Doctor. So my congratulations to everyone of you. You worked so hard, not once but twice. I am not sure the incentive that drives you to do this. Thank you very much for your service for children. So i am happy to share some of the key facts, and history and some statistics about our program. The proud track record of so many of the educators being involved and bestowed with the honour. It is hard work. Let me start by saying our First Certified teachers, were certified in 1999. A little less than 20 years ago. The district began to support the program in the year 2000. We had hundreds of our educators. In terms of staff, 8 of our certified staff currently and that compares to 3 nationally. We are more than twice, almost three times the national average. Candidates have to partake in a test and participate deep analysis of student work, video recordings and analysis on video recording. And then each candidate articulates the choices and rationale of choices. We have the highest number of Board Certified teachers per capita in the state. Current candidates, we have 188 candidates and 280nbct. This is a potential increase, represents a potential increase, 15 of all educators in the district becoming nbct over the next two years. We are only getting more and more of our teachers becoming National Board certified. In terms of impact, onethird to 1half of our National Board certified teachers are in leadership positions in the district. The students of nbct make two months than students of nonnbct. At this point, i will hand it to the National Board certified teacher certified teacher and Program Coordinator for the program. Thank you very much. It is great to be back here. The educators we honour tonight as you heard, the original certification. And since the original certification, some have moved into different roles within the site or the district. One of those tonight is matthew. He is going to share his thoughts on his thoughts of National Board certification and then we will present to the honourees. Good evening. It is a great honour to be here tonight. I am grateful to speak on behalf of the National Board certification. I am proud i was able to achieve this honour. It was in collaboration with a lot of people and support. It is not something everybody would want to take on. I encourage you to think about it. Certified 11 years ago. One of the most rewarding experiences i have gone through as a teacher. The process required open eyed critical self reflection. Analysis of student outcomes. Which i have never been asked to do as part of a scripted curriculum i was trained in previously. One of the most important components of the process was the peer learning that happened on account of collaboration with stanford and the National Support that we went through. It gave us support with the writing. Moving forward, across the district, in the support network, i went on to become district leader in various curriculums. Even later, i supported coworker of teachers to take the National Boards. I encourage the board to consider any way possible to support the process. Thank you very much. Good evening. Board coordinator. We have 10nbct that have renewed certification and showed their ongoing commitment to the students. And to the professional. With the vigorous renewal process. The nbct, when i call you, please stand. When i read all the names, please come forward to receive your pin. And then move to the center for the group photo with the commissioners. Names being read. [cheers and applause] please come forward and receive your pin. Again congratulations. The 2018 and 2019 school year have been released. The candidates must attend the training session. And come on march 17th to give a short speech. For a meeting opportunity. 5 30 p. M. On the topic of 6145, extra curriculum and pro curricular activities. Administrative regulation that provides opportunities for all students to participate in and attend extracurricular and cocurricular activities without compromising programs in place. We know the show must go on. The objective is to produce a system that has goals from both side in the best interest of the students. And because our commitment conducted research and gathered student imput, the student groups will weigh on it and vote on a regulation and hopefully input it. Our campaign has raised money to help students. We provide them with emotional support. This year, they managed to use the funds to purchase toys, arts and crafts and donate money to shelters and families. While maintaining this toy for tots efforts, they would like to sponsor the need of the younger kids by organizing more efforts. Next week, we will meet with our Family Department head. May richards, to collaborate on how we can continue to serve the kids. Thank you to all who generously donated to our campaign and it would not have been successfully launched. Quickly approaching, is the summit held on march 16th at fort mason centre. We want to cultivate youth leaders for workshops and you can attend march 16th, 2018 at fort mason centre. And the next meeting will be on february 26th at 5 p. M. Again, if you would like to attend or make a presentation or like a copy of the agenda, please contact us. Thank you. Thank you. Number 5. Advisory Committee Reports and appointments. We have a report from the chair and advisory council. Good evening to all. This report is an update on the path, the support alignment across the district advisory, in collaboration with the Education Department and plans for stakeholder engagement. The past saturday on february 10th, the apparent leaders, from the Education Department came together to learn about the diverse needs. The africanamerican peer advisor council, the Advisor Committee for education and the Advisor Committee in collaboration of Family Partnership welcomed over 70 participants to the First Advisory summit ever hosted at the site. Building stronger partnerships with families. Collaborating with the Education Department to gather feedback from family and staff how they will improve the enrollment process. In january, we facilitated a focus group. There will be a focus groups. One at the Childrens Centre and another with program staff. The pack will share decisions in the march pack report. This is the fifth year of engaging families in conversations about the budget and the plans score card process. General support for the budget for the accountability plan. What we are following in the discussion, to engage population, including families and [indiscernible] participate in the Site Planning of the process to inform. Last week, members of the task force highlighted, and shared our report. And shared what information will be helpful in the budget. One focus i want to bring was the multidimensional needs of students. 80 of students in foster care are africanamerican and latino and qualify for [indiscernible] we hope we work across the district departments. There are a number of students in the school that are homeless, we hope to increase organizations to work with them. Gathering information from the community that will will be part of the decisionmaking process to implement Action Service and support for our schools. The pack is recruiting members for the new school year, 2018, 2019. Applications are available at the website. And are due by friday, april 20th. The next meeting is scheduled for wednesday, march 14th, from 5 45 to 8 p. M. [indiscernible] thank you. Comments from colleagues . Thank you so much for the presentation. I still have one question and i dont know if you could answer it tonight. It would be good know if there will be increased participation of homeless families coming to the meetings as well . I have not seen it. We are trying to encourage we have been working on it. At the meetings, we are targeting the schools that have a homeless population. We will engage them there and encourage them to come to the meeting. Thank you. Thank you very much for the report. I just want to reiterate that the deadline for the applications is friday april 20th. And the application is in spanish as well. I had a wonderful experience at the meeting. From across the district. I want to thank you for your service and encouraged interested families to apply. Thank you for the report. Do we have board appointments to advisory committees . None. Section c, i get a motion and second on the calendar . I move. Thank you. Any items . There are not. Any items removed from First Reading by the board . There are none. A vote. Mr. Cooke,. names being read thank you. Section b discussion. Resolution. Section d, proposal for action. Board policy. Use of school facilities. It was moved and seconded on january 9th. We have a report from those committees. The rules committee has moved regarding allowing which groups would be considered. Some of the discussion, the proposals have four different tiers. The use of School Security and one of these samples that was offered was to be exempt from permanency and discounted. 15 were groups that demonstrated more than 75 . And we had a discussion about our educator association. Basically the teachers, the latin american teachers. The educators. The filipino educators. I know that when they plan or other events they are being charged by the district and there is something wrong with that picture. I would like to see that those teacher assistants that have a direct benefit to the students they move into tier one which is a district sponsored event. Because they were considered to be in tier 2 which is the same as piano teacher. I just feel like including our partners, are benefiting our district directly. It was going to be made clear the criteria for district sponsored events so that the educators associations had known clearly how they can become how they can sponsor the events that put them in key with the lowest i would like to ask staff when we can see the criteria of how to become a sponsor of an event. Thank you for the report. Council. My recommended action is that approve use of school facilities. Commissioner . I would like to hear the commissioner on that question. I can respond to that. We are working with the Real Estate Office to draft administrative regulations for the policy. As soon as those are ready, we will share them back with the board so you can see how we capture the direction. And the proposed time line my hope is that because with the exception of commissioners request, this is all answering status quo. We are not changing what we are doing. Our hope will be that will be in the next few weeks. That is the basic time line. Questions or comments . We do have Public Comment on this item. You have three minutes at the podium. Commissioners. I am the secretary for the association of teachers. We are a Nonprofit Group of teachers, retired teachers and community members. The past week, we held a professional drill, the direct result of an act. [indiscernible] taking the jobs away from other americans. Despite the fact that they built the western section of the transcontinental railroad. Before they were entered the country, they were subjected to questioning and were incarcerated. On february 3rd, the commissioner took a tour and dropped by to see this. The power points teach about angel island and what fuelled it. Different workshops have been offered of teachers that include Asian Americans in our district. There are few titles. Many teachers may not be familiar with the history of Asian Americans. They may not know that we have the second largest number. They dont know that 40 of the housing is single room occupancy buildings. The families do not have kitchens. They cook on a hot plate. They have no tubs. They must share with one toilet. They are under third world conditions. There are various workshops. In 2015, we paid 261, in 2016, 200 for the workshop. This may not sound like much, we 500 to 800 for the insurance. We have to pay for publicity. We are volunteers. We have no office. We are totally funded. The resolution would help bring the School District facilities for professional development. It will increase the number of resources to provide for teachers. If you are eager to share the experiences with other teachers in the district, thank you. Good evening to all of you. The officials and members of the teachers federation. And the board members, i know some of you. Talking about the dreams and goals for their district. Teachers who are trained and supported. They are not just the words of our teachers an expert in the structure but experts in education. I want to follow that up with a little bit of history. It is nice to hear the talk. I know as an educator, 26 years ago, it was so active. Something happened. Our, you know, with the Union Executive board i felt so passionate about the reenergizing. We have educators [indiscernible] we are raising money. The educators in San Francisco are in alignment with the vision. Every year, we have a graduation of seniors in a ceremony. They is recognition of the studies through high school. Our association also american teachers from our district and professional development conference. Educators, association conferences. We have collaborated together. This is why we applaud and support the resolution. For professional development and education and sponsored by our association to receive our Service Teachers as family. It is an obligation that we share a common vision and that we are indeed together. Thank you. I am a member of the latin american association. On behalf of my organization, we support what