Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Ive been pushing our district to educate families. Im a 20year educator in this district, and i still dont understand all the ins and outs of education law and the process and i was talking about a principle today and she was explaining the difference between an io4 and the other document. In my heart there is a lot of issues and its like going to the doctor and getting a diagnosis that youre uncomfortable with. I want to urge our legal team, communications team, and those that work with family liaisons, i dont know know of ways that were educating people on their rights. Parents can request assessments and its confusing how do we do that. I dont think its Common Knowledge that a parent can say theyre concerned about their comments and they want them assessed. If your child is assessed and you want them to go through the process, im not aware of any protocol for educating families on their rights. Maybe we have that, but its not visible on the website. If i dont know it, im assuming im one of those pretty involved parents. I look for those handouts and things to help families. I dont even know where to look. So i think we really cant partner with families and we need our families because theyre the capacity that we dont have. They increase our capacity to serve students when we work in partnership with them. Were less likely to get in lawsuits and less contentious relationships with them when we feel welcomed. If you can speak to anything around the Parent Education around rights, that would be great. Thank you for that. When you were asking i know youre doing the rights and i appreciate that, and i reflect a lot, did i do that or that. In special education, every time we communicate with the parent via any kind of a document, we give them how many pages . I hate anything that has too many pages because i run fast. I have a lot to do all day. I want the cliff notes version. We have to give a short version. They go home with any document, i believe that its one of those things that its very heavy. When i was a resource specialist back in the 1990s, there was a book, i think a 20page book, and it had a lot of white space and it was perfect. When i joined this position and started working with my partners, that was one of the first things i said and it was in three languages. After that another book that came out by Charles Schwabb and our ombudsperson just found a copy. Were looking at the simple pieces we can get out there before we do our whole fiveyear mapping plan. That is something we are working on to get a parent friendly sort of thing. When i was a first year r. S. P. , that was my plan book to help me navigate all of the timelines to navigate. This is something that we could work on. Thank you. If we could make it available on the website in our language. It is on the landing page of education for families. It linguist to the content developed by the special education folks in the past, but there is a link there. So it can be updated when ready. Did you want to add to that . We have a memorandum of understanding with the parent facility in San Francisco. There is a conference that is coordinated that is all about Family Engagement. There are workshops in english, spanish, chinese once a month that support families and parent workshops all the time. There is a huge amount of Family Engagement that is done and the process is overwhelming, but the work is still done and we still try. Thank you for your patience. Just in hearing the discussion tonight and the fact that we are all at capacity and this is work being done by the department of education, what are they doing to support us reaching this . Is there is that yeah, im just wondering . Its frustrating. I think what susan said about the ieda moneys not coming. We stomped in washington in may to get better funding for all of us so we can do this good work. The c. D. E. So our partners statewide are unified. This is not unique to San Francisco. These issues are happening across the nation. So the Technical Assistance stuff is interesting. They monitor us and tell us what we have to do, but dont tell us here, this is what you have to do. They will steer us to some resources on the web and we can pull from each other. We also have a very active sort of engagement with each other as the selfa directors. We share ideas and best practices that way as well. We helped our partners out as well. They liked our presentation so well that some of our partners will be using the template for their presentation to do their report, but no one is coming to us with the package and say were going to give you this, and, and this. This is engaging your community, think out of the box, silo the issue, prioritize, and get to work. I think were at a critical point to start thinking different. Its not to say the demands arent valid, but the reality is why we have what we have. So i wanted to focus on any advocacy or to push to get any resources. We need to put our reform hats on right now and started thinking differently. Picking up on what commissioner lopez raised, because were on the policies committee. What im curious about is taking your recommendation and looking at reform and things differently, if there can be some sort of Business Analysis around what would it take to quote all districts and not just ourselves, if were part of the a bigger network, what would it take to address the corrective actions. From there, we should raise that to the state of california. The governor has put forward his education agenda and there were some bills that went through the Legislature Last year that were funding potential education and looking at some structural opportunities and they did not make it through. So i think this would be a prime opportunity for the district to also take some leadership and to leverage that into Something Like you said, its beyond ourselves and were at a crisis moment. We have been for a very long time. That would be my request. Maybe when Capital Advisers comes back to our next rules committee, i like to start asking what the budget process is going to look like and how we can work with our sacramento partners. Thank you. I appreciate that feedback. Thats making me think that we need a revolution, and we can start it. I think again we can address this. Legislators are thinking about the california budget process. I think we should look to that as an opportunity. We have been looking at the multiyear plan and how that measures up for our own planning process. Thats another presentation, and im happy to take some time to go to the rules committee. We did go to the rules committee and we will be responding to you, but we are twothirds of the way through the planning process. Our consultant is out in the field. We have a consultation tomorrow. We have a lot to share about what weve engaged, but were not done yet. There are Many Community partners that we need to engage with. I know there was some oneonone time with some of the commissioners. Then were going to put meat on the bones and look at order of operations for our priorities. We do have some of our priorities popped out. We need to look at the case loads and our sore program. There is just a litany. So you will be apprised of that throughout the rest of this school year. Then we will be ready to literally hit the ground running. Weve already started some pieces in play. I cant wait for that to start, but i hope that answers your question. Its an ongoing process. Were about twothirds two. Shes about to start in january, but theres a whole plan for it to continue into the spring. Prior to that operationalized plan, im assuming well have budget implications . Yes. Budget is always a part of it, but yes. Huge budget implications. Thank you for the presentation. Section k, introduction of proposals and assignment to committee. Number 1, board and comment proposals. We have a First Reading to the board policies 0460, accountability plan. 0520, intervention for underperforming schools. 0520. 1, comprehensive and targeted support and improvement. Also to number 3, board policies 1431, waivers, number 4, 3553, reduced lunches. And to number 5, resolution 1911112a1, the Affordable Housing policies. Can i have a motion to second First Reading of the board policies 191112a1. Seconded. So moved. I see we do have Public Comment on the new resolution. Thank you. Ill be brief. I want to thank commissioner moligo for putting together the resolution on having a housing policy. Now that the voters of San Francisco passed proposition e with 75 of the vote and prop a with twothirds of the vote, we now have material to work with. So its we talk so much about housing because we have to, that this i think having a policy in place will really help us get on the road to realizing what we need, so thank you. Thank you. Any board comments on the First Reading . Im going to refer the policy to the rules committee and the resolution of the building and Grounds Committee and Ad Hoc Committee on personnel, labor, and affordability. Section l proposals for immediate action and special rules, theres none. Section m, Board Members reports. Before we begin, i would like to announce that i am last time commissioner moliga is switching with me. I remain as a member of the committee that this change is effective as of today. Report from recent Committee Meetings. Vice president sanchez has reported out. Is anyone ready to report out before i start calling on people . We met at the budget and Services Commission meeting. It was a packed agenda. A lot of it was updates on some of the Business Service items that have been coming up. Those continue to happen. Im very excited about that as a means for us to communicate with families. I want to state that a lot of families who have i. U. P. S are supporting their students. I encourage folks to look at the board docs because our budget team created a comprehensive overview of our budgeting process. I encourage all commissioners to look at that as well. It is a nicely done document because it shows at what point in time throughout the year we have very budgeting items that come up and with our budgeting and different points that come before the Budgeting Committee and the full board. I think thats a great way of getting the longterm plan. We spent most of the time discussing the latin x resolution which im excited about. And i want to thank commissioners lopez and sanchez were introducing it. I wanted to just inform other Board Members that while there was i think expressed support for this muchneeded resolution and i think folks echoed that as an initiative we supported these students, we dont have any currently that call out the needs of the Latin X Community and students. Many of the supports that were provided are kind of directed as supporting students with language needs, but we dont kind of address the cultural and just specific needs of the Latin X Community. I do appreciate the resolution. At the same time, the Budget Office has difficulty quanti quantifying how we would potentially fund the initiative because we hadnt had a conversation with Curriculum Committee to outline the staffing and resources needed. I think the Budget Office did a wonderful job of presenting a potential model and they based it on the ali initiative, we agreed that wasnt necessarily an appropriate model to use and further discussion was needed. We decided because we felt it was needed and this was a conversation we want to move forward and we do support it, we decided to move it forward with a positive recommendation with the understanding that we needed to flesh out the specifics of what types of staffing and supports we needed to implement it. We wanted to make sure this discussion process is an iterative process and doesnt prevent us from putting it in in a timely way. Its going to come back before the Curriculum Committee meeting, but then were going to have one day and its going to come back before the full board. Commissioner lopez is going to meet with commission and Community Members to get a clear idea of the actual implementation so we can have a richer conversation at the Committee Meeting because were going to have a shorter amount of time. I encourage you to engage with staff if you have questions on that or commissioner lopez. Thank you. It was actually my first budget meeting and it opened me up to a process that is trying to be highlighted. There is already policy and plans in place so what were really trying to touch on is pulling from what were using and utilizing what we have, not necessarily starting up something new but having the conversation of whats in place now is not effective and being able to participate in that with the lens of funding was really enlightening. Unfortunately the committee was canceled because of an abrupt shift that came last minute, but Many Community members planned to be there. Were hosting something informally tomorrow to share where we are in the process in preparation of the december 9 meeting. We meet every month. Im very dedicated to hosting these meetings. Were meeting tomorrow and then hopefully having enough conversations in between so that when we vote on december 10, we will have all the information ready. Thank you. Number 2. Any other reports from Board Members . Commission commissioner, congratulations. Calendar of Committee Meetings. Lets see, the standing ad h ad hoc okay, budget of Business Services is disease, december 4, at 6 p. M. Rules, policy, and administration is monday, december 2, at 5 p. M. Curriculum and program. Its monday, not wednesday. Its monday its monday, december 9, but it says wednesday. Monday, december thank you. Building grounds and services is monday is that the week of thanksgiving . Yes. Monday as of now, its monday, november 25, at 6 p. M. , the Ad Hoc Committee on personn personnel. The committee on Student Assignment is monday november 18 at 6 p. M. The joint City School District is friday, december 13, at 10 a. M. That meeting will be held at city hall in the legislative chambers. Any other members posted in the agenda or the following staff reports. Number 1, the Quarterly Report on williams uniform complaints for august through october 2019. And an annual report on williams uniform complaints for 2018 19 school year. The Vice President and then commissioner collins. So the williams report tend to be pretty pro forma, but i do have a question. I dont know if anybody on staff is here to answer. If not, we can get back to this later. If you look at the document, there is 11 facility complaints, and nine were resolved and two unresolved. So i want to know first of all, i would like to know what the facilities and the complaints are, because there is no supporting documentation around that and what the timeline is to resolve the issues. I dont know, dawn i can follow up on that and get you a response, commissioner. But an even bigger issue, and ive been bringing this up in different matters or forms, the first item is textbooks and instructional materials. I would contend that part of our instructional materials at the elementary level is having a robust Classroom Library and we dont have that. So i feel like were violating the williams laws or rules that are set in place by williams, which actually was part of my first time on the board. Because the textbooks are not really being used in elementary schools. If they are, shame on us. So i want us to really look at this. How can we put robust, meaningful, culturally relevant books in our classrooms so that teachers can do the work that theyre supposed to do and theyre trained to do the in classrooms. Can we put that in click cim aluminium . We are going to address that in the december 9th meeting. You read my mind. I was concerned about that as well, but i want to highlight this textbook that i keep bringing is the social studies textbook, im hearing that its racist and teachers dont want to use it, but they dont have materials to supplement it. I dont think teachers should use this textbook, but this is considered as compliant and that is a concern for me. Additionally, my daughters english teacher has a place in the school and she is being asked to bring these back in. If i personally walked into schools and asked, do you have enough books for reading, if were just counting textbooks, were not counting enough this says instructional materials, this is more expansive in this thing in what im reading here. So im not seeing that. Additionally, i received an email from a room parent saying that its freezing cold in one of the rooms and they didnt know that was a potential complaint nor did the teachers. So one of the things that comes up for me is that parents and educators dont even know what williams complaints are for. We could go to the educators and ask if the room is too hot or cold. In a lot of times they dont even know they could be filing williams complaints. How are we educating families on the williams complaints. It says we are supposed to post information in every classroom. When i met with the student advisory committee, they have a whole list of high schools that they say the trash cans are overflowing, the trash cans dont have toilet paper, thats a williams complaint and they didnt know that and theyre student leaders. So we cant doing our job in educating Community Leaders about what williams complaints are for. So i want to work with the Parent Education and whoevers in charge of that to educate families, students, and staff about williams complaints because they shouldnt have to organize and advocate to get toilet paper. I want them organizing for social justice. So i dont know what the venue is for having that conversation. Like, is there a committee or how do we talk about that . I dont know if that could be put on there to be able to report things that arent happening in our schools. Section o. At this time well take Public Comment for those who have submitted cards for closed session items. Seeing none, the board will now go into closed session. Thus, i call a recess of the pled guilty meeting. Resuming the regular meeting. Number one, student expulsion matters, i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement of one agreement on 2020. Number 3 for the remainder of the fall semester, can i have a second. [roll call vote]. I move for movement of the expulsion of this student for the remainder of this semester. [roll call vote]. The contract of one principal in the case number 2019100237. The board by a vote of six gives the board the authority to pay a stipulated amount in a matter of [ indiscernible ] the board votes six to give the ability to pay the amount in the matter of George Washington High School Alumni association a Public Benefit Corporation Versus sfusd [ indiscernible ] the board gave direction to General Council on a matter of litigation. The board authorized General Council to initiate litigation by a vote of six ayes, one absent. Section r, adjournment. This meeting is adjourned. Good night. [ ] i just wanted to say a few words. One is to the parents and to all of the kids. Thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a Soccer Program in the bayview. Soccer is the worlds game, and everybody plays, but in the united states, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. I coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. It is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. When the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. Only one or two of them had played soccer before. We gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. I think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. I get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. This is new to me. Ive always played basketball or football. I am adjusting to be a soccer mom. The bayview is like my favorite team. Even though we lose it is still fine. Right on. I have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. My favorite memory was just having fun and playing. Bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. They are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then they will be back on the pitch next fall. Now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. We want to be united in the bayview. That is why this was appropriate this guy is the limit. The kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. We have some potential collegebound kids, definitely. Today was the last practice of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field, and seven or eight of the kids were playing. This year we have first and second grade. We are going to expand to third, forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. You know why . Why . Because we are . Bayview united. Thats right. Lets get started. Welcome. Yeah. You can be excited. You should be. Welcome to the beautiful new playground, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. My name is phil ginsburg. I am the manager of the recreation and Parks Department. Were so pleased to have everyone here to celebrate what is really a transformation for this playground, a place where childhood memories will be created and opportunities for imaginative play are endless. There are a lot of Community Supporters and folks that made this happen. Were going to introduce and recognize all of them during our short program, but im so honored to introduce someone who has kept her eye on this playground for many years. As District Supervisor and now as mayor, she is our park champion and chief. Our kids do not need an advocate, because theyve got mayor london breed. Mayor breed thank you so much, phil. Let me tell you, i cant be more happy than to be here today. I remember a couple years ago when we cut the ribbon on the new basketball courts and there were conversations going on and on and on about the playground and the next to do something better. The parents who bring their kids here on a regular basis reflects what we see here today. As much as i love. I grew up in sands, so im a big fan, but the fact is these kids are going to have a great time. We are so lucky in San Francisco that we have so many people in this community that are so generous and were actively engaged to shape what this playground looks like right now. We have amazing contributors who have invested so much money into supporting and making this happen. Our incredible partner, the Parks Alliance, thank you so much for your continued alliance and this playground. Thank you were jody pritzer for your major contribution to this project. And brian baker who hosted. Thank you so much for your work and for your advocacy. The work that you do to raise the funds and contribute to make this possible makes it happen sooner rather than later. So thank you, because the kids that are here today are going to be able to have a good time and enjoy this amazing playground. I know they dont want to hear a bunch of long speeches. I know they cant wait to get started with playing. Thank you to the nopa community and the ashbury community for your work and advocacy. It is so great to be here today to have this incredible experience. I know you are wondering why is sheriff vicky hennesey here today. Shes not here to take anyone to jail. Her granddaughter is a lover of this playground and we are happy to have her as a supporter, so thank you for your service to San Francisco. Fill, you say that i am the park champion, i tell you no one works harder to bring in the resources and move these projects faster to get these done so that you have these results today. Thank you and your team for the work that you continue to do. [ applause ]. Mayor breed last but not least, i started that and she finished it. Valley brown has been an amazing advocate for this community for decades and she made sure that we got this project done. I will say in absolute record time. We just broke ground on this project last year and in bureaucracy time, this is fast. Ladies and gentlemen, the person who was making it happen and doing the work for this community, your supervisor, valley brown. [ applause ]. Thank you, mayor breed. I remember when this was a twinkle in your eye, phil. I see the ashbury council is here. People have come here because this is an amazing park and the way that it was done with the contributor contributors made it what it is now. Look at everything. I was looking around. I cant believe how cool it is, and im going to take a slide down that slide. I dont know if anybody has done it yet, but i want to go and slide down that slide. It looks so fun. I have to say that the city is like a tanker in ice. Every time we try to do something, it takes that long. This is something that went fast because of community support, because we had private people coming in and saying lets make this work, and we can turn faster than a tanker in ice. Thank you, everyone, thank you, mayor breed, and lets play. Supervisor brown said it perfectly, lets play. The mayor has keys to the city and gives proclamations at the board and we give away park signs to true park champions. Thank you for all of your incredible support. [ cheering and applause ]. The mayor alluded to the fact that this was a Big Community effort. We need partners and friends. Government doesnt do it all alone anymore. We need the support. Im pleased to bring up our closest friend, drew beker. The alliance of Parks Department have worked together since 2013 or 2014 on lets play s. F. Which is our campaign to renovate the 13mo 13mostdeserving playgrounds around the city. It is a 30 million effort that has a significant amount of public money, but that wasnt enough to get it done. We are the Parks Alliance and is the San Francisco recs and Parks Department Work Together on so many things, including our 150th Golden Gate Park celebration. This is part of that. The panhandle itself was practice for building Golden Gate Park. Around the park are 80,000 trees that were planted to figure out what would work best down the road. Im so pleased to bring up a special partner, drew beker. Thanks, phil. I want to give a shout out. Thank you, mayor, thank you, valley, thank you, phil. The Parks Alliance is so happy to be a part of this wonderful event. I would like to give a shout out to the civic committee. Thank you so much. You helped make this possible. I want to give a shout out. Thank you, liz, for everything you do. Also brian baker held an event before this. Thank you for you and your family to support us and the San Francisco Parks Alliance. Thank you so much. And the rec and park commissioners, we couldnt do this without them giving the okay to make all of this happen. We have partners with rec and parks and they dont get shout outs that much. I want phil, lisa, and abigail to know how much we appreciate what you do. It is so amazing to have one of the top rec and Parks Departments here in San Francisco. You have no idea how important it is to push these types of projects forward and make this happen and thats because it comes from the top. Your amazing manager, phil, ginsburg, lets give it up for him. This publicprivate partner that was alluded to, we raised about 11. 3 million for 13 playgrounds across the city. Our goal is to raise 14 million, so we have a little bit more to go in order to make this playground and close out this program and have the most equityfocused Playground Initiative in this country called lets play s. F. Lets make sure you visit lets play s. F. Make sure you are part of this movement to bringing this movement to 20,000 kids across this city. Its about making parts a part of each and every community. Parks are part of the big puzzle, about keeping the parks part of our story. We need to move neighborhoods forward building parks. Thanks for being a part of this movement and lets play. Thank you so much. Thank you, drew. This playground is about play and its about community. So representing our community today, we are so pleased to welcome 45 preschoolers from steppingstones preschool. Your granddaughter is here, but steppingstones has a spot in my own heart. Representing steppingstones and speaking on behalf of the community, im pleased to welcome a few members to share the importance of lets play. Hi. My name is rakoia. Im a director of a local preschool up the street, but more importantly im a mother of a 2 year old who is up there right now. I actually came here from l. A. I went to ucla. When i came to San Francisco and looked at the preschools for work and realized none of the preschools have outdoor spaces or if they did, it was tiny. So steppingstones uses the community for their playground. What a resource to have playgrounds like these. This is an amazing playground just for the preschoolers, but also now that im a mom, for communities like this for playgrounds that inspire community and imagination. We were just here in april for the ground breaking, and now its november and its incredible. Thank you so much, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. Before we do our first slide with our steppingstones preschoolers and supervisor brown, we have some gratitude. I need to do some closing acknowledgements. We have a lot of gratitude for all of our supporters. Without their help and support as i said, this wouldnt be possible. Let me echo my thanks to the pritsker family. For brian and lesley baker, thank you so much for your support. For the folks from kaiser permanente, they have been big supporters. This weekend we lost an advocate for health and equity and diversity and true supporters of playgrounds and someone who understood the very important experience of play. We would ask you to take a quick moment of silence in mrmr. Permi mrmr. Permi mrmr. Permi mr. Permit permanentes honor. Thank you. Lets give a round of applause. Were also pleased to be joined today by sheriff hennessey and her granddaughter. Vivian liang, and then dmitri barstani is here with his mom, georgia. Are you here and can you raise your hands . Theyre over there. Thank you, dmitri and georgia for being here today. Were honoured to be here. His memory and gus memory will live on. I would like to thank niko and marie who helped to work on the bench plaque that i believe are here. Tim sieford and michelle welsh. Steve courier from the parks and recs open space advisory. And then to the design and construction teams, you have an inspired design and project. They deserve our thanks. To the landscape project. Jeff cooper from c. P. M. Services. And then to my own amazing team, the project managers for this effort, it takes a village, karen rupert, brett emerey contributed to this project. Thank you, lisa branson, to your team to make this dream come to reality for our kids. Were going to have some honorary preschooler that is are going to join us. Supervisor brown, if you want to join us too. The mayor is going to lead us in a countdown. Mayor breed okay, supervisor brown, youre going to have to put a kid in your lap. Are we ready, kids . Five, four, three, two, one, lets play thank you, everybody. In the words of our mayor, lets play. [ ] i love teaching. It is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. This really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. This is very enriching as an artist. A lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. There are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. That is a really big draw. This is a signature piece. This is the bill largest darkroom in the u. S. There are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. I think it is the heart of this place. You feel it when you come in. The people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography. We get to build the community here. This is different. First of all, this is a great location. It is in a lesspopulated area. Of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. It is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. The people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. We offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. We offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. We offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. There is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. Hello, my name is jennifer. My name is simone. We are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. Cmon, cmon, cmon. Actually, i have been here a lot. I have never looked closely enough to see everything. Now, i get to take pictures. We want to try to get them to be more creative with it. We let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. You can focus in here. That was cool. If you see that . Behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. The see any more hills . These kids are wonderful. They get to explore, they get to see different things. We let them explore a little bit. They get their best. If their parents ever ask, we can learn they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. Some of the things they come up with are fantastic. That is what were trying to encourage. These kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. A lot of people come into my classes and they dont feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. This is kind of the best kept secret. You should come on and take a class. We have orientations on most saturdays. This is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. Ready to develop your photography skills . The Harvey Milk Photo Center focuses on adult classes. And saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes