Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

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. It did take a village. I was really lucky when i was 14 years old to get an internship. The difference that it made for me is i had a job, but there were other people who didnt have a job, who, unfortunately, needed money. And they were shown to commit illegal acts to get money. That is what i want to prevent. [ ] today we are here to officially kick off the first class of opportunities for all. [applause]. Opportunities for all is a program that mayor breed launched in october of 2018. It really was a vision of mayor breed to get to all of the young people in San Francisco, but with an intention to focus on young people that have typically not being able to access opportunities such as internships or workbased learning opportunities. Money should never be a barrier to your ability to succeed in life and that is what this program is about. Theres always these conversations about young people not being prepared and not having experience for work and if they dont get an opportunity to work, then they cannot gain the experience that they need. This is really about investing in the future talent pool and getting them the experience that they need. It is good for everyone because down the road we will need future mechanics, future pilots, future bankers, future whatever they may be in any industry. This is the pipe on we need to work with. We need to start developing talent, getting people excited about careers, opening up those pathways and frankly giving opportunities out there that would normally not be presented. [ ] the way that it is organized is there are different points of entry and different ways of engagement for the young person and potential employers. Young people can work in cohorts or in groups and thats really for people that have maybe never had job experience or who are still trying to figure out what they want to do and they can explore. And in the same way, it is open for employers to say, you know what, i dont think we are ready to host an intern yearround are all summer, but that they can open up their doors and do site visits or tours or panels or conversations. And then it runs all the way up to the opportunity for young people to have longterm employment, and work on a project and be part of the employee base. Something new, to get new experience and meet people and then you are getting paid for it you are getting paid for doing that. It is really cool. I starting next week, i will be a freshman. [cheers and applause] two of the things i appreciate about this program was the amazing mentorship in the job experience that i had. I am grateful for this opportunity. Thank you. Something i learned at airbnb is how to network and how important it is to network because it is not only what you know, but also who you know to get far in life. During this program, i learned basic coding languages, had a had to identify the main components and how to network on a corporate level. It is also helping me accumulate my skills all be going towards my College Tuition where i will pursue a major in computer science. For myself, being that i am an actual residential realtor, it was great. If anybody wants to buy a house, let me know. Whenever. [applause] it is good. I got you. It was really cool to see the commercial side and think about the process of developing property and Different Things that i can explore. Opportunities for all was a great opportunity for all. We were aiming to have 1,000 young people register and we had over 2,000 people register and we were able to place about between 50 and did. We are still getting the final numbers of that. Over several weeks, we were able to have students participate in Investment Banking they were able to work with our team, or technology team, our engineering 20 we also gave them lessons around the industry, around financial literacy. There are 32,000 young people ages 16 and 24 living in San Francisco. And imagine if we can create an opera skin it just opportunity for all program for every young person that lives in public housing, Affordable Housing, low income communities. It is all up to you to make that happen. We have had really great response from employers and they have been talking about it with other employers, so we have had a lot of interest for next year to have people sign on. We are starting to figure out how to stay connected to those young people and to get prepared to make sure we can get all 2400 or so that registered. We want to give them placement and what it looks like if they get more. Lets be honest, there is always a shortage of good talent in any industry, and so this is a real great career path. For potential sponsors who might be interested in supporting opportunities for all , there is an opportunity to make a difference in our city. This is a really thriving, booming economy, but not for everyone. This is a way to make sure that everyone gets to benefit from the great place that San Francisco is and that we are building pathways for folks to be able to stay here and that they feel like they will belong. Just do it. Sign up for it. [ ] [ ] for joining us here today. We all know that our Public Transportation system in San Francisco is important to our present and it is definitely critical to the future of our city. As our city grows, as our economy grows, as we build more housing, as more people work here, we know that we cant continue to grow in those areas without thinking about improvements to our Public Transportation system. As someone who grew up in this city, i relied on muni, the 31, the 22 philmore, the 44, you name it, i was on those buses. The 19, i know the routes by heart. But the fact is, you know, we need to do better. We need to make sure that people, especially people who rely on muni to get to work, school, doctors appointments, so many of our seniors who cant drive and need to pick up their medications and other things, we need to make sure that our Public Transportation system is reliable for all of our communities, in all parts of San Francisco, especially on those communities that have consistently been neglected. It means safer streets for pedestrians and bicyclists and all of its users. We know over the years the city is a lot more congested than it has ever been, but we also know to make it a better city and to reach our climate goals, we have to leave it less congested. We have a lot of work to do and we are doing the work. In june we created a working group with city leaders and staff and Industry Leaders with the goal of making this better. I am looking forward to seeing the recommendations coming out. Over the past few years we have made some significant investments. We committed to doubling the pace of building more protected bike lanes. We established a Quick Build Program to increase the delivery of lowcost units. And we expanded our focus on traffic safety. Thankfully the voters gave us one more tool to improve streets with the passage of proposition v. This will allow us to invest 30 million in light rail vehicles anduses as well as Street Safety improvements. So the work continues and we will continue to do the work that we can to move these objectives forward as quickly as possible. These objectives are the responsibility of the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. The m. T. A. Managing our streets, Public Transportation, other Mobility Options like bike shares and escooters, and a lot of Public Infrastructure projects, like the central subway and van neessb. R. T. This is a system that looks at daytoday operations as well as looking at the future and how we make sure that the challenges that existed now dont continue to exist in the future. This requires a strong vision and strong leadership. So today im proud to announce that the s. F. Board will be recommending the s. F. M. T. A. Board will be recommending Jeffry Tumlin as the next director of s. F. M. T. A. This is jeffry. You can clap. [ laughter ]. Mayor breed jeff is an International Transportation expert who brings over 25 years of experience of improving transportation in cities. He was recently the interim director at the Oakland Department of transportation, where he laid the foundation for the agencys future success with a lens on environmental benefits and equality. I believe jeffry will do the same at s. F. M. T. A. Throughout his career, he has been known for bringing a visionary perspective on transportation in cities and helping to implement innovative ideas that are desperately needed. He will be joining the city as a longtime resident of noey valley and will be the first lgbtq director in s. F. s history. I look forward to working with jeffry to help us deliver a great Transportation System in San Francisco, and i want to thank the board, including the president of the board who is here today, malcolm heinikie and gweneth borden, thank you for your leadership and coordinating the interview process and everything that you did, to make sure that we found the best person possible to do the job to make our Public Transportation and infrastructure and all that we need to do to improve mobility in San Francisco in a safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly way to choosing that person who could do just that. Ladies and gentlemen, Jeffry Tumlin. Good morning. My name is jeff tumlin, and i have been in the Transportation Industry for a long time, for 25 years, advising cities and transit agencies how to clarify their values and then use transportation investments to make those values manifest. I like asking questions about what is most important, what does success look like, and more importantly how would we measure whether we were actually successful or not. Thats where my Technical Work comes into play, trying to use tools to be able to measure social equity and environmental outcomes and to align our transportation spending in order to best achieve the public good. I ended up in this industry against my better judgment. I discovered very early in my career and sort of by accident that we in transport have a bigger impact on Public Health outcomes than the medical industry does. We have a bigger impact on Economic Development, than Economic Development programs do. And more importantly, we are arguably the biggest driver of opportunity. We decide how many jobs people can get to in a reasonable commute time. We determine whether children can get safely to school, which impacts their academic performance. We are fundamental drivers of Economic Opportunity or destroyers of Economic Opportunity. We have resources. If we use those resources wisely, we can correct the ways in which my industry has historically destroyed opportunity and wealth for people of color. Early in my industrys history, if you wanted to build a highway project, you got extra points for removing light. Light of course being defined as africanamerican and latino ownership. The city and county of San Francisco did not escape that dark period in our industry, and we have a key responsibility to correct for the past and to equalize opportunity for everyone. We can also do what some Mobility Tech Companies want us to do, which is to provide more exquisite convenience for the privilege. Im committed to doing the former, and using transportation as a tool to make San Francisco achieve its potential. That includes addressing problems like the fact that 25 people have died in our streets this year and were on track to injure nearly 3,000. We lose in injuries and fatalities about 647 people in San Francisco. I want to change that. You can see from my social Media Presence that ive long been an outspoken proponent of changing core practices in my industry and using the power that we have in transportation to reduce climate change, improve quality of life, foster Small Business success, and advance equity. Ive reached the point in my cle career, however, where its time to stop advising and start doing. Ive worked all over the world, and San Francisco remains the only city that i felt was my home. San francisco has assembled all of the pieces that we need in order to create dramatic and progressive change. Weve got a visionary m. T. A. Board that i cannot wait to work for. We have the most talented agency staff in the industry. We have a tenacious and harddriving mayor who i know will make a great partner. We also have a progressive board of supervisors ready to ask the tough questions. I am ready to serve all of them. I dont have a 30 or 100day plan. My first task is to listen carefully to staff. We do have the most incredible assembly of talent of any city in the country. I trust their professional expertise. It is my job first to listen and then secondly, and more importantly, to remove obstacles so that they can do their good and productive work. I do not know all of the answers yet. Its going to take me a while to learn from staff what the best answers are. I want to close by saying that we have talent, resources and some clarity about what our resources are in San Francisco, but there remains a gap between San Franciscos potential and its current reality. I am deeply excited to do the hard work to close that gap. We have the tools and all of the resources that we need, unlike really any city in the world. I cant wait to get started, particularly with the help of all of you in this room, the press. With that, im happy to take questions. Malcolm, did you have words to say . Absolutely. I know i stand between you and the questions for our new director of transportation. I am the chair of the new m. T. A. Board. If i seem excited, its because i am. We are in the process of hiring a star for San Francisco. We are very excited here today. The first person i want to thank is is the mayor, not just because of her commitment and support, but also i want to thank the mayor for not just her support and partnership in this, but the fact that you challenged us you were the result of a challenge to get a bold leader to take this agency forward. Im grateful for that challenge. That challenge led us to an international search. We searched far and wide. I want to thank the Search Committee for the wonderful job that was done to conduct a Truly International search that led us to someone in our backyard, a san franciscan to run our agency. What has struck us about jeff more than his expertise, dedication, and his experience is his passion. You just heard it. He recognizes how transportation affects peoples lives, making it better when it goes well and worse when it doesnt. With that, we are very excited. I wish jeff the absolute best. I know he wont need luck because hes a true professional and im excited to see him be a star and a partner. In my closing comments, i would like to say this, the last few months have been tumultuous at the agency, but not as much as without a director. The acting director kept the ship steady, was professional, calm, and an absolute pleasure to work with. Thank you for your service. With that, i will turn the podium back to the super staff to answer our questions. Thank you for the questions. What questions do you have . [ indiscernible ]. [ ]