Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 20240712

Sheesh. Chair fewer president yee, are you done with questioning, because i see supervisor ronen in the queue. President yee yeah, i have a few more, but go ahead. Chair fewer okay. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen i dont want to cutoff president yee. I actually have a similar version of a question, so maybe you can finish up because i very much agreed with everything you had to say. Im wondering and this is sort of a similar question to president yee, how decisions are made specifically on timing and use and selection of awardees for nofas, r. F. P. S, and r. F. Q. S. And the reason im asking this is very similar in line to what supervisor walton and president yee were saying is often times, it feels like the same Large Developers get awarded and selected time and time again, and im just wondering what mohcd is doing to improve capacity in smaller organizations led by black and brown folks so that theyre able to compete with the large, Nonprofit Developers who are awarded pretty much every single contract. This is news to me, but members of the community are on these panels, as well. I had no idea. Ive never heard of that before, so that just i would love to hear more about that, as well. So supervisor, there was 3 million in capacity rebuilding money that was just awarded to smaller, communitybased developers to support staffing, process reform, and build the capacity of those respective organizations. Supervisor ronen sorry. Not to interrupt you, but i believe that was supervisor fewer who insisted was that you, supervisor fewer . Chair fewer yes. Supervisor ronen who insisted on that money. The board of supervisors this is before your time, obviously, but the board of supervisors has had to intervene to make that happen. Sorry. Okay. Well, no, no, no. So i mean, i think theres two cases on that. I think theres a healthy relationship between the Mayors Office and your constituents which include these sponsors to find those spaces. I think that in addition to that, the conversations ive had, i think ive had a chance to talk to almost all the small developers, that they are also sharing the fear theyre working with each other to build each others capacity to build a team, and then, i think in talking with some of the larger developers, i think the staff can weighin on that, weve been trying to build capacity with some of the smaller organizations, larger organizations, to get the larger r. F. P. S. Its not a process that happens overnight, but i think its happened with the mayor, that weve invested the funds to make sure that that partnership is substantive. So i think ongoing, ill maybe share with you that i want to work closely with each of the respective smaller organizations just to understand what theyre coming from. I can tell you that even in the eight weeks that ive been here, ive gotten four calls with four deals. I know that the mayor is pushing four more density in all spaces, so those are conversations that my team and i need to have with with these respective organizations. I would just say that you know that the Deputy Director for housing is also open, and this is an expectation that i have in hiring them around establishing a substantive relationship and understanding not just the pipeline but the strategic relationship of respective organizations and where we have resources. If i may jump in just to add to supervisor ronens question, i think a lot of the funding programs, like the Tax Credit Program that we rely onto build our projects requires a certain amount of experience for the developer to have under their belt to be competitive, so our strategy has really been to try to invite kind of a joint venture, a partnership agreement, so weve done that in some cases. Theres been projects, like the corner of 24 and harrison, casa d de la mision, they partnered with the neighborhood center. Bernal probably would not have been able to be competitive on their own, so we do kind of try to encourage that. We could do more, i believe. Sometimes those partnerships hamburg happen organically because a missiondriven organization wants to get that going, and they dont have the funding inhouse. But i do think we could get that going and something that we just dont encourage, but that we get moving forward. Supervisor ronen thank you. That is very true, and i appreciate all of those partnerships. I think the continuation of all of those partnerships, the money that chair fewer put in for project funding that organizations want to put together but dont have the funding will help. I think some of the frustration that you help us from and from you, director, being brandnew, it comes from a history of decisions being just lacking transparency. There was a failed effort to put a measure on the ballot, a charter amendment, to create a commission over mohcd so that there was some transparency in how decisions are made in determining these projects. But it failed, and so i think that having more transparency as you leave this organization is going to be an important step as you lead this organization is going to be an important step as you move forward, but i did appreciate what you had to say. Thank you. Thank you. Chair fewer president yee, did you have a few more questions . President yee yeah, i wanted to shift gears a little bit. This is about the local operating programs subsidy loss. Do you know that comes mostly from general funds and it fully covers the gap between the tenants, what they can pay and what the rent is . Whats your thinking now in trying to because i think that that number, if you were to continue serving the same people, will continue to grow, which means that there will be some intention to try to get that money from the general funds. Have you ever had any discussions about that . So president yee, the loss program that youre highlighting is one of the key ways that we are able to provide permanent housing to people who are leaving homelessness. It is the way to, in our Affordable Housing portfolios, as we build those projects, whether they are for formerly housing or a percentage are, its the only way we can make the building workout because the tenants, being formerly homeless, have extremely lowincomes and cant even afford the affordable rent that the building is required to have for the tax credit regulations. And so as we youre correct. The only real exit strategy options that are easy, one is creating more units for formerly homeless people, and the second would be something that we did successfully a few years ago, which is mentioned in the e. L. B. L. A. Report, whic working with the San Francisco Housing Authority to access federal vouchers that can be applied to those units and those buildings. And once we apply the federal vouchers to those units, then it takes away the burden from the general fund. The challenge in that is that theres not vouchers to go around at this time, but perhaps at some point in their future, there may be an to use some of those vouchers from the Housing Authority to relieve general fund expenses. And president yee, the first option is not an option. President yee i was going to say, what are you talking about . I will put that on the record. I agree. [inaudible] and secondly, the mayor and i signed off on the heros act, and there were other requests for vouchers and other that came out of there. So thats why we said there may be future funding that comes out of this. Its why weve asked at the state level and federal level for specific. President yee yeah. Lets push the state as much as possible because they havent done much. If i may add another response to that again, this is lydia ely. There are other subsidies through the continuum of care, called the spectrum of care, and we are ambitious to bring those in every year so we dont have to fund as many lost units. As benjamin mentioned, a few years ago, we converted about 400 lost units to section 8. In the heros act, weve asked for another 1200 vouchers. Theres also going to be a hud note this fall for more section 8. Our authority is negotiating with hud as to whether those are developer based or tenant based. Were working on housing vouchers for homeless veterans, and were putting those into projects whenever we can, so were always looking at ways to take the pressure off of developments whenever we can because theyre so constrained. President yee i hope we can do that because what weve seen what we sorted through last year when we created the s. O. S. Program, the senior operating subsidies for the same reason th, that basically lot of seniors cant even qualify to get the Affordable Housing at what is it . Whatever a. M. I. 50 of the a. M. I. Because theyre below, and they eventually will become homeless, so its a cycle that we need to stop, and im actually hoping that we can find some Funding Sources to pull that a little bit this year. Its going to be tough, but i think its probably money well spend because at the end of the day, you probably are going to spend more if you dont do it. And so then, i wanted to ask the question, we asked for looking at whats in the pipelines for our senior housing, and at the time, nobody really knew or at least it wasnt organized in a way that it could be presented, so we asked for a way to study it or to assess it because we made the argument last year, a substantial portion of the Affordable Housing bond to go towards seniors because we realized weve been lacking in that area for quite a few decades, actually. Is there any plans of looking at the pipelines . I can check on that, too. I know weve made some initial investments in that, as well. I think one of the things that i raised when i first got here was a change in the theory change of the office, and making sure we have an alignment in that theory, as well, just an alignment for the Community Development side, as well. Were we able to generate a list on that . Well, i can tell you that the three r. F. P. S or nofas that we issued, one was laguna honda. President yee yea yea some of the bond funds that were approved by voters in the fall, and 42 geary was approved as a senior site, so two of the fee. So we are understanding the need to push forward as many senior projects as we can. We can look quickly at the pipeline and get you what will be planned in the shortterm, the next two years and get it to you as soon as we can. President yee okay. Appreciate that. One more thing. The b. L. A. Report indicated that theres a couple policy decisions that we can chew on, i guess. A lot of them are decisions made for funding for Community Housing grants, and then, the last thing as an option, which is, you know, consider amending administrative code to require mohcd, in its quarterly reports on Affordable Housing and development, to include the detai details regarding how developments have come to them for approval and so forth. So when i already had a preliminary look over this report, i already asked my start to start looking into this, whether we needed to pass any legislation to make this happen, so my question to you, director shaw, given these recommendations, the best way, in my mind, to sort of atddres these issues is for you to do it sort of as a matter of practice, and then, can you have a little bit of control on things that get reported and so forth. Otherwise, were going to sit, you know, on our computers and makeup a lot of things for you. Thats definitely not an option. Im coming at this with fresh eyes, which i think is hopeful, but how does this piece fit in with this piece, and its really about how do we communicate information to yourself, to the Mayors Office, and the public, as well. I saw those recommendations in my draft, as well, and so noted. President yee would you forward those onto my office so were sort of confident that this is going to get taken care of, otherwise, well do it. Maybe you would agree that we need to do it through legislation. Thank you, chair fewer. Chair fewer thank you, colleagues, for your questions and comments. I had one question about the awards. Will there be reductions, and will there be reductions across the board. We heard that 15 reductions and oneyear contracts instead of fiveyear contracts. Is that true . So yes, i think there will be oneyear contracts. We have been looking at three things in picarticular. Covid did affect our ability to ma and then finally, the mayors been clear about this, and i said in my remarks, that we are taking a hard look at organizations and their outcomes, their Racial Equity outcomes, and so i think as my staff and i look at those, to really make sure we have the alignment, were trying to make sure theres two things. That we have the appropriate investments to advance in Racial Equity, and then were also putting the appropriate conditions to ensure that were meeting the outcomes for that. So im pushing on that right now, but yes, therell be one. We are trying to make sure we have the cuts that there will be cuts, and third, that we are making sure that the cuts do not exacerbate existing Racial Equity issues that weve seen and have been discussing in this hearing. Chair fewer but so are they going to be awarded this friday . Because what weve heard is that its been held up for months, and the funding deadline is july 1, which is just around the corner. And as you can imagine, all of these nonprofits are sort of in limbo. So are they going to be awarded this friday . They will be i cannot guarantee that, but they will be were working our best to make sure that theyre awarded before the end of this fiscal year. So this friday, i cant guarantee that because were still doing the final consultation with the Mayors Office and doing our analysis around Racial Equity. But we have but our team sorry, chairman. Chair fewer but its been held up for months now, and if we think that the funding will start july 1, its just next week, so were coming up to this deadline, and i think nonprofits have been waiting to hear, and so i think its a little disturbing to hear that this is wednesday already, and that next monday, the money is supposed to be available to them. Its a little unfair to the nonprofits because theyre figuring out their budgets, too. And then, i also want to say on the housing side, that personally, that i have found that there is little transparency about and communication about why the funds dont go out. So when i met with the director of housing, the funds, oh, they havent gone out. So what is the hold up, and why is there no transparency . It seems as though and the b. L. A. Report also mentioned is that theres a lot of discretion in the Decision Making at mohcd, and also, just about the transparency. So i know you just got on board, but i just want you to know that this has been an ongoing issue, and i just wanted to bring it to your attention. And also, the b. L. A. Had a recommendation of quarterly reports, and would you be open to this recommendation . So i believe its you that called the hearing, and you invite me, so i will accept the invitations that you extend. But i think once again, president yee has taken a hard look at the recommendations in the b. L. A. Report, and if we need to adjust those, adjust how were communicating that information or put in additional information, then i have a commitment to do that, as well, to make sure we have as much transparency and communication on our end. Chair fewer yeah. I just wanted to say that its frustrating. Eventually, i called the mayor myself personally, and she says shes going to look into it, and then, it doesnt happen. So i would say that it is frustrating, and it is also i just dont understand i see that supervisor walton has a comment or question. Supervisor walton thank you very much, chair fewer, just a brief statement. I just want to make sure that director shaw knows that we have a Healthy Group of Strong Developers here in San Francisco, so i want you to know, and im pretty sure youve had conversationed already with a lot of our Nonprofit Developers, but we do rely on that force, and they are ready and prepared to do a lot of those that we have here in San Francisco, so i just wanted to make sure that i put that on record. Chair fewer thank you very much. So colleagues, anymore comments or questions . In closing, i would say that i would like to you know, we are going to have mohcd come back during the full budget process, so i would like to file this item, please, item number 1, because we will have the Department Come back when we discuss this. So i make a motion to file item number 1. Could i have a second, please. Supervisor ronen ronen, second. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, please, a roll call vote. [roll call] clerk there are five ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Now, madam clerk, two hours later, my apologies. Sorry this went so late. Is can you please read item number 2. Clerk yes, item number 2, hearing on the citys funded programs for Job Development focus on vulnerable population, specifically homeless and formerly incarcerated residents. Members of the public who wish to call Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001, meeting i. D. 1451400281, then press pound, and then pound again. To request to speak, press starthree and you will be added to the queue for Public Comments. Chair fewer this was on our list of topics precovid, but it feels like this is a pressing topic given the urgency of our housing crisis in the midst of this pandemic. Ive been concerned that we have been writing off Homeless Individuals as unemployable. We must deploy strategies, and its concerning that our outreach efforts have not historically included referenced to [inaudible]. We have a previous presentation today from the b. L. A. , h. S. A. , the office of economic and Workforce Development, and the office of employee collaborative. Lets start off with fred russo from the b. L. A. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor chair fewer and members of the committee. Should i go ahead with the presentation . Chair fewer yes, please. Okay. Is the slide appearing . Chair fewer no, we cannot see them. I have just shared my screen, so if you are not chair fewer okay. Madam clerk, do you have a copy . Clerk yes, i believe i do. Chair fewer okay. Would you please assist the b. L. A. . My apologies. Chair fewer should we go onto another speaker first . Caller, should we move onto the first speaker or clerk yes. Chair fewer yes . Here we go. Thank you very much. So linda, ill just ask you to advance the slides, then, is that correct . Clerk yes. Okay. So im going to present a quick summary of our work on workforce delivery programs targeting homeless and other populations. This was prepared for you, chair fewer, and distributed yesterday. The first question that we were asked to address is is there a link between homelessness and unemployment that we can add to sort of set the context for this topic . So heres some results from the point in Time Homeless count that was sent in in 2019. You can see the top reasons for the homeless. Lost job was the most frequent response. And then, on the panel on the right, the question was what are the top obstacles to permanent housing . Rent was number one, but next on the list was no job and no income. So we can conclude, and i think the survey bears out the link between homelessness and unemployment. Next slide, please. The survey also asked some questions of the chroniclealal homeless. It amendme while they identified job loss also as a primary reason for their homelessness, a higher ranking issue was substance addiction, at 24 of the respondents, and then, the job issue was lower right. So its clearly an issue for all homeless, but it gets more complicates complicated is our conclusion. As identified in the first slide, issues like substance addiction or Mental Health issues or physical Health Issues also affect the homeless at large, but more pronounced for the chronically homeless, and well come back to this issue a little bit later in the presentation. Next slide, please. The quick snapshot of the Workforce Development Services Program in San Francisco. This is from fiscal year 201819. There are 294 programs citywide, so its a very wide ranging and diverse set of serves. A program generally represents a contractor, but in some cases, theyre provided by inhouse staff, also. 17 departments are involved. There was a budget of about 150 million for all of these programs in fiscal year 1819 of which 64. 8 million was general funds, about 43 . [please stand by] roll call, please. role call zip would like to start the meeting with a moment of silence in memory of george floyd. Thank you. I dont really have any words. I will be an up and down meeting. We have a meeting with the school of the arts and a reading from school of the arts. Commissioner collins, did you want to chime in here . I just want to say that even though this has been a very difficult time, i think its also showing us ive been getting a lot of hope from youth and from what im seeing and so a senior with the school of the arts and i think that she excepexemplifies the intelligen, intellect and just the leadership that we see in so many of our youth, including those who are serving on the board with us. And i just really appreciate that shes willing to share her talent with us and i think she serves as an example for adults who should be doing everything we can to support youth. I think that gives me hope and inspiration when im looking at just what our next steps should be. And i just really appreciate jara and im glad she can be here. Thank you, commission collins. Miss martin. Thank you. In this piece piece, i just wrot today. I have a chalkboard wall. But this piece is called to be alive. I was scrollin on sustai instae other day, a white Police Officer looking down at a little boy and asked, what do you want to be when you grow up. The little black boy looked up to him and said alive and in that moment, my eyes traced every letter that word intricately because that word was so common, a rare to me. As a little black girl, i was taught to live in fear and taught to stay in my place. I was taught to play dead so i wouldnt end up dead. When the animation popped up, i thought, i dont want to live in fear. I dont want to be silent or played dead any more. Whats the point of death if youre already living dead. Thank you so much. We have a short video from two students, as well, kyle and julian. Thank you. This was actually played during the michelle is barack obama ceremony. I wish the point of the past has been easy, but since we started high school, this road has been changing under our feet. We faced hurricanes, floods and wildfires, violence in our neighborhoods and on our campuses. Weve lost icons we admired so much and loved ones we miss so dearly. We have believed and sometimes, we walked out of school for our beliefs. Then 2020 came, our year. Well, we all know whats been happening, but fellow graduates, maybe we werent made to walk that easy path. These crazy challenges in high school have been our mountains and were learning to climb. If these years are supposed to prepare us for life, maybe what were figuring out is not only how to hunker down and deal but how to get involved, to do our part, to do extra so we face our challenges headon. We have to remember, we are not alone, our families, teachers, mentors and communities, theyve helped us to get where we are. Plus, we have each other and together, well always find our way across the stage. So fellow graduates, as we turn this page in our lives, lets step into the moment. Let us each find how we will give back and make post quarantine life safer, kinder and more sustainable than before. Because were not just ready to be in a world of change. We are also ready to be the change in the world. Our students rock. Theres so much hatred in the word but theres so much love and may love prevail. Well move on to the meeting and we need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Any corrections . Seeing none, role cal, roll cal. role call . Thank you, thats six ay session. Es. The item regarding the mou is towards the beginning of the meeting. I want to add my congratulations to all of our seniors moving on to college or otherwise. Superintendents report. Superintendent matthews. Thank you, president sanchez. Good afternoon, everyone. First and foremost, congratulations to the graduates of the class of 2020. Over the laugh wee the last wee0 Unified School District seniors will be officially graduating or district. We know graduation didnt look the way it usually does, but it doesnt take away from your accomplishment. I would like to congratulation i would like to congratulate each and every one of you on persevering and achieving your foal goals throuh unprecedented circumstances and like to congratulate all elementary and middleschool students who are elevated to the next grade level, as well. Last saturday was the fifth annual africanamerican signing day. High School Seniors and families virtually celebrated and honouring africanamerican high School Seniors across San Francisco. This year was aligned with the reach higher virtual Commitment Celebration posted by former first Lady Michelle obama. Congratulations to all of the students who shared their future College Plans and thank you to the organizers of this annual event. June is pride month and happy pride. This june, the San Francisco Unified School District is proud to honor the lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and transgender. During this historic moment of social protest against Police Violence towards black youth and adults, we remember the first pride events were not parades but protests often lead by black lgbtq leaders. The work of solidarity is an important legacy with the Lgbtq Community and cultures. San francisco Public Schools celebrate and strive to support our lgbtq studentse students ev. We welcome all experiences including race, class, culture, gender, gender identity, Sexual Orientation and ability, all of which shapes our dynamic classroom and school community. We work to ensure that schools celebrate learning environments where every student is welcome and actively responding to discrimination and largesment based oharassment. Yesterday, jul Summer School began. We will be hosting limited Summer School. Those students who are eligible have been notified. Finally, i would like to share a letter i shared with all of our colleagues this morning. The year San Francisco Unified School District colleagues, Funeral Services for george floyd are being held today in houston, texas. Mr. Floyds murder at the hands of the Minneapolis Police has set off a massive Inspiring Movement demanding systemic change to the institutions that have disproportionately killed black people in the united states. It is also a call for us in Public Education to do our part to create a system that delivers the promise of Public Education for our black students. George floyd is but one of the many black lives lost to police brutality. If you are able to, i invite you to join me and others across the city today for a full eight minutes and 46 seconds at 12 noon to mourn the killing of george floyd and so many others. This is the same amount of time a minneapolis Police Officer pressed his knee to mr. Floyds neck murdering nym m in broad daylight. We stand for social justice hon torrinjusticehonoring the pain e had in our district. Black lives matter. Thank you. Thank you, dr. Matthews and thank you for sending that out to our community. Time for student delegate reports. Good afternoon, everybody. First item is sf Student Leadership application. If youre interested in making a change and being an advocate for your peers, wor were accepting applications. We will be hosting a meetandgreet event. Nominations, all students will be presented to the large sec council for final approval. We have the mentor and menee program. We provide a paid opportunity for High Schoolers for high school student. This internship will be held virtually instead, but it is paid and we invite everyone to apply. Our goal is to provide the best mentoring experience and also provide an internship experience for our students. We would like to thank the department of dcyf, sf youth works for providing this opportunity. In memorium of understanding the focus group, yesterday we held a focus group to spread more awareness and provide information on the mou with the sf tv. We hosted a meeting with district students, Adult Community allies to answer questions regarding the mou. Our goal was to answer as many questions as possible to properly inform our peers about the agreements and expectations that are expected to uphold. We would like to thank the school of equity and mr. Cyrus who broke it down as well as answered questions we have. We would like to introduce our summer student delegates Shavan Foster who ifoster. Our goal is to continue to provide Student Input throughout the summer. We are excited to see what the student delegates will bring to the table this summer. We would like to thank you for continuing to support students and we are sure this wont be the last we hear from you and we cannot wait to see the amazing work you will do. Is it ok if gothea and shavan say a few words . Sure thing. Theyre on a as attendees right now. I see shavan right here. Right here. Are you there . Yes, im a rising senior at lowork ell higlowell high school promote equity between large is small schools. 1. What was the other name . Aalthea carear. Im extremely passionate about furthering ethnic studies into our school expos schools ag a lot more because i know that is very valued by our students of color and im super excited to work with all this coming summer, so thank you. I just want to say im extremely proud of these two girls that i might start crying. I think weve reached our maximum amount of people for our account. We are not on sf gov tv. Has that been an issue since we went in shelterinplace. Our meeting is not live right now so even if people wanted to observe it without commenting on zoom, they cant watch it. Ive been working with sf gov and theyre linked into the meeting right now. I just checked on my phone, and the public utilitys Commission Meeting is happening and another one on the Police Commission appointment which i know happened last week. Commissioner lopez, at times, if there are Committee Meetings and televising our Board Meetings, theyre aired at a later time but that evening theyre always there. At some point in time when theres not another meeting taking place at city hall. They go up on demand, are they not . Yes. Commissioner tomlin. I received more emails this week than ive ever received on any one topic and it feels to my have caught folks off guard as far as the 500 limit and then the conflict with it televised and im just wondering if we cae this in the future is were still in shelterinplace, it would be great if we could work with the city to guarantee these meetings are televised at this time so folks can follow along in realtime. Yes, i agree. I didnt realize there was a 500person limit. But i did know that the city prioritizes its own commissions over ours. And theyve been doing us a service by televising and streaming. Were at 509 right now and apparently, were able to exceed the 500 limit. And so well leave it at that for the moment and item 4, section 4 is recognition of commendation and we have announcements of scholarships awarded by our Education Support organizations and we have first, united educators of San Francisco, susan solomon. I would like to acknowledge the chief of staff who is a member and dr. Matthews for being present. If i may, i will read the scholars this year from the top, angela gonzalez, kaha ramar, audrey hermosa, cruz mckai and daniel mcgolian, gavin delphin, harleen from burton, and jayleen from balboa, janine from ga galo and on our commission from lowell, as well, and judia consara and julia abergas and mia celestial from balance e boa. Thank you so much. Thank you, commissioner. So susan, solomon, are you there . Thank you, president sanchez. Im here, but unfortunately, i cannot announce the names of our Scholarship Recipients because i dont have the list yet. I really hope we can do this at the next meeting. Well did it at the next one. Thank you so much. Thank you, susan. Out so well move up item 5 right now, which is the mou discussions around the department and were going to allow for Public Comment at the beginning of this actually, well have a little presentation. Dr. Matthews. Thank you, president sanchez. I just wanted to make sure, i wanted to tell the public what im expecting, which is well have an hour of Public Comment and each person will be limited to one minute. And i want to thank one of my colleagues for suggesting this. We dont want a repeat performance of two weeks ago. But we have heard much from the Public Commission i think i received over 3,000 emails and most from people who reside or work in the city and so weve heard many, many folks at Budget Committee lead by jenny lamb, commissioner lamb. And so well have ample time to hear from more people. Are sanchez, if people wanted to speak for less than a minute, more people will get to speak for that hour. So thats another alternative to sum. Some. I want to recognise that we heard a lot of comments on wednesday and so if you have something new to say, wed like to hear that, too. Dr. Matthews. So this evening, we just are going to have an update on the status of the mou and the mou is our memoranda of understanding with the San Francisco Police Department and it actually guides how police will interact if they have cause to enter our schools. So it says what they will and wont be able to do. Were in the middle of the process of reaching an agreement on the mou and we have not reached an agreement and presenting this afternoon will be our chief of student Family Community support department, miss smith, who will give you a brief update on that status. Thank you. Thank you, commissioners and thank you, dr. Matthews. Just briefly, this outlines our shared expectations and agreements to Police Presence in our schools. For example, updat the mou provs the report to the education as requested and this outlines the process and expectations for student interviews and arrests that occur at our schools and lists the enoug number of circumstances that must be considered before the police decide to enter or schools and it also lists the circumstances where the police would be called by a School Principal or other school site staff. The mou has no information if thats related to money being exchanged for the mou being implemented. And can i have the next slide, please. And currently, the previous mou was signed in 2014 and expires this year in 2019. The former chief, concern shrewitt completed a review process and that information was relayed in a Board Meeting on november 12th and i leaked the presentation so the folks can see the process. The mou was updated based on comments from that presentation and constantly, sfuc has sent this so the sf Police Department for review of the City Attorney and Police Commission. At this time, we dont have a schedule of when the Police Commission will hear it. Their schedules are a little bit off schedule and so thats what i can till about the update on e are with the mou. Can you clarify, so the presentation, when they got the mou, our edits were in november . Well, the edits were the presentation was in november and the edits were made and they were actually sent to sfpd, probably in april. There were delays because we were working on the edits and then we had shelterinplace and that got delayed and we sent it to the Police Department and early april. Is that the presentation . Yes. Thank you, gentlemen. Great, so now mr. Steel is going to host our Public Comments. Great. So one minute, is that correct . Yes, or less. Or less, yes. So raise your right hand if you would like to speak at Public Comment. Were speaking at 3 34. I want to be able to keep i want to count time against people when theres in between speakers and i think we can time when people are speaking and so, if you cant do that, ill do it. I would need to ask miss costcos assistance. Ill do it. Ok. Yes, im ted wechter and i live in the richmond district. Im a local of unit two and calling to demand sfusd discontinue with sfpd. I think evacue weve seen who te police are and its not healthy to maintain this relationship with sfpd. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, jade . Hi. Im ha yorvae. I share the vision of fully funded education and as an educator, i wish to see the role policing eliminated from the lives of our students. Last year the American Public Health Association declared Police Violence as a Public Health issue. Im here to share promising frameworks that are in line with the Racial Equity and eliminating the role and scope of policing in schools and reallocating funds from Police Partners to Public Education. Were here to ask that the board of ed and board of supervisors work to reallocate 50 of sfpds budget to promote and to support healthpromoting services. We need widepar, culturally learning, ethnic studies, communitybased alternatives to address interpersonal harm including crisis responsive that does not rely on police intervention. Thank you. Hello, mika . Thank you, commissioners for your time and im here to speak in solidarity with our families that have been demanding the board that we end our relationship with the sfpd. We know that we need a transformative restorative approach. That its focused on wellness and health to support our young people whenever we are dealing with behavioral issues. Additionally, we need to not only end this relationship but also look more deeply to hold the Police Accountable when they do violate. Theyve done it in the past and i been a topic of conversation i know at past meetings and would like for there to be policies that have actual that can actually be in true solidarity with our young people when this happens. And the resources that have been going to sfpd are not supporting our young peoples education. I just wanted im an educator and i wanted to share a quick story of something that happened in march. One of my black students was kicked in the stomach and no one at the school informed her parent. When her parent came in to voice her concern about her daughter being harmed in our school, she was met with six Police Officers. Our entire school went into lockdown and she was forced off the premisses, simply for voicing her concern for her child. We have police in our school, it brings a culture of terror for so many kid. Kids. I hope this doesnt happen again. My student didnt come back for a week is that the community could heal. She missed a week of school because she was kicked in the stomach and the police were called on her mother. This cannot happen again. That was a first grader because of policing in our school. It is paramount that we divorce ourselves with our relationship with sfpd. Thank you. Thank you. Molly . Hi, can you hear me . Yes. Im a teacher at sfusd. Im here to advocate that the board of education of San Francisco affirm that black lives matter and i see two ways to do this. One is to discontinue the mou that you currently have agreed to and thats not enough. We know that. We know that you also need to go further. You need to use your position of power to demand the City Government completely defunds the sro program and redirect that money back into our schools. You can fully fund Wellness Centers with Council Workers and social workers. The police should never have cause to enter our schools. We know they dont keep our black and brown youth safe. We are here to demand you take a stand. Thank you. President sanchez, can i make a quick comment or update . Yes. Ive learned theres a livestream available for folks, so for folks listening on the zoom call or on the phone, theres a livestream if you go below the sf gov page and if they log on and off of the zoom call, that may create more space. I wanted folks to know theres currently a livestream available via the computer. Thank you. And it looks like mr. Steel, zoom has allowed us to exceed, were at 546 at the moment. I think were good there and we should be ok. Board members, i just wanted to say a few things about the budget, which is coming up later on in the agenda, but this budget should reflect our core values and priorities. The last two weeks has been very challenging for many of us across the nation and this is not business as usual. You are the leaders of this district and so, we are expecting you to make the change. Take your time, review the budget and keep your promises to our students and families. Keep cuts away from the school sites. Make social justice a reality. Thank you. Im an educator at sfusd in favour of cutting associations with sfpd. One thing im trying to figure out is aspects of the mou because it outlines protections if police ever do show up, ways to make sure that so the main thing is mou is not approved and ties are cut, making sure we have ways to protect our students and interactions with police. Thank you. Monica . Yes, hi. Im monica and i am a kindergarten and firstgrade teacher at the San Francisco community school. Im here to demand the board discontinue the mou with the San Francisco Police Department. I looked through the mou and not only do i see a need for police in schools but it actively traumatizes our youth. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So having police on our campus asks us to solve issues that we caconsider safety issues. If were actually interested in investing in the safety of our students, real safety comes from investment in traumainformed social emotional learning, from the arts, Restorative Justice, from Mental Health services and so, we need to not only discontinue our mou with sfpd with the School Resource officer program, but that you as Board Members need to use your positions of power and publically take a stand to defund the sf Police Department. The Community Feedback provided by students is parents and other Community Organizations was entebbe into account in the mou edits. I think this can show how the sfpd takes concerns of community, especially students and how this can affect the relationship between sfusd d and sfpd. Im a parent of three students and them being young black boys and i hol hold off on making a decision, but i think the parent voice needs to be included as well as educators voice and also, to give folks time to really digest what this means and what is going on in our students lives. Also, considering more students and programming on the radio stations, as well as realtime broadcasting to the highest priority of programming to participate. Thank you. Megan . Megan . Im an educator with San Francisco unified and as we look at breaking ties with sfpd, we must keep at the forefront our own values and regulations to the black and brown children. Its most enough to remove one racist institution like the police from our schools, but important and an essential start but we have to work to reform our own racist institution Public Education. When i look at the current budget, i dont see how we can continue to work. Weve devalued many programs to lead us to ending oppression for black and brown students and there are no staff to train and restore practises. Weve taken funding from peer resources, cut funding to supports like Wellness Centers and support services which are our social workers and health outreach. We have never fully implemented a program that could bring about systematic change needed to lift our students out of oppression. We cannot rely on suspension and outof class punishments. We need to put this in reform as if our students lives depend on it. Thank you. I currently chair the San Francisco Youth Commission and im a recent graduate of the Public Schools and im here today to affirm the San Francisco Youth Commission support for ending the mou between sfusd and sfpd. We have seen so many incidents of sfpd not following the mou and using brutality, antiblack racism in schools and we support investing sfpds budget and the 45 thawed that they spend on the program into Restorative Justice, our Wellness Centres and ethnic sized classes and all other ways we can create Racial Equity if ou in our schools. Our schools cannot be fully equitable until we get our police out of them. Thank you. Ilene . Im a former president of pta at presidio. During the time i was president , i supported sfusd and school with the transition and the director of the school and ensured the schools pta was registered with a californias apta. Some of the things im proud of is ensuring 60 of population was low and we laid a foundation to support children and families and deaf and hard of hearing to move on to the preschool programs. My now 12yearold attended the preschool program for two years and my 9yearold started and made its way to the toddler programs. Presidio is an important place for children who have needs that are academic, physical and emotional and these needs are met by being immersed in an environmental with loving and supportive staff and families. The school is an oasis with families with children of disabilities and families like mine barely making it in the city and had an option just five minutes from our home to send our children to an affordable preschool in the city. If it were not for presidio, my family could not stay living in San Francisco. We urge you to renew the lease. Thank you. Just a reminder, this Public Comment time is restricted to the decision on the sfpd mou with the district. There will be Public Comment on following this period of time were speaking about the sfpd. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. inaudible . We cant hear you very well. I wanted to just speak to the mou and the many versions that sfusd have and i want to respect all of the comments made about what sfusd has done to eliminate restorative practises and all of the other ways that we put together over the years with community and families and teachers and educators and staff to help bring about change. And eventually get rid of the police. Look at hidden pockets where they have to pay police where they come on a school site. Im not talking about the money thats 40,000 or 50,000. There are other ways sfpd is called on campus and they have to pay them. So please look for other areas in the districts funding and note those, as well, not just the mou and the funding behind it, but other areas where they have to compensate the Police Department to come on our campuses and not support our kids. Ethan. Yes, good afternoon, im the senior class president and the outgoing sac commissioner of engagement and last two years when mou was instituted, i participated in the process and we were also on a separate note calling for money on eraf and is education issues we believed to solve problems here. I wanted to talk about regardless what you do with this, whether you throw it out, postpone a decision or significantly revamp it, in our minds, the central issue this board has to consider accountability for sfpd how they interact and how they use the mou, whether or not they follow it or interact with students on campus. Youve heard so many different antidotes violating their agreement and high time the board of education makes time they follow it to the letter. So thats all i have to say and thank you for your work and moving Public Comments up on this item. Thank you. Sarah . Hi, how is it going . Good. Im sarah and i live in the outer sunset and demand you cut ties with the sfpd and redirect homes to help schools. In the last couple of weeks, we know police dont play by the rules and it feels weird to put them in the way of, in my opinion, our most Vulnerable People in the community and we know that its extremely unjust and man, i wish was a better public speaker. But its unjust and i yield my time. Thank you. Miss marshall, are you there . Hello, aaron . I think he spoke already. Got it, thank you. Sandra . Yes, can you hear me . Go ahead. Im sandra. Im born and raised in San Francisco, went to the San Francisco School District, have worked k12 in the School District and have a child. Im a parent of an 11yearold in the San Francisco south dakota. I am siding with removing the sfpd. A child had a gun pulled on them and i have yet to see an adequate response from the Police Officers that did this years ago. Quickly, my son was bullied in the south dakota. School district. I was told to call the police. The people that should be training adequately. How do you implement Restorative Justice models and dont adequately train your staff and teachers . So instead of paying you should be paying the teachers to get adequately trained to implement the models and really implement a zero tolerance because our black and brown youth are being incarcerated in outrageous numbers and pointed the finger at by teachers. Thank you. Miss marshall, are you there . Monica . Hello, can you hear me . Yes. I teach at balanc balboa higl where two years ago a student brought a gun to campus. Brought multiple points of the mou and they didnt show up. And that is why i believe it is our students best interests to cut our relationship with the police and consider what will actually heal our community. The police act above any protocols in place and the work teachers do at the classroom level, the safe spaces, the lessons on empathy and all of that work because of our ties to police who do not practise any of the values or uphold safety when entering our campuses. If we want to show our students were down for them, we should cut these ties. We need comprehensive, transformative Justice Programs on our campuses with its own dedicated staff so we can focus on relationships that actually matter, the ones with our students. Thank you. Thank you. Last name solanki. Yes, can you hear me . My name is nivy, im an Elementary School teacher at sf community in the excelsior. To add on, i want to demand that we that sfusd divest from the sfpd and discontinue the current mou. Those funds should support the Mental Health and the black community and communities of color. In addition to this, im demanding that our funds should be taken out of sfpd and invested in our schools to provide more support to help students thrive and create spaces of healing and growing. This means investing in resources that have been cut in the past and providin providinge support for teachers and fund transformative justice practises and eliminate methods of policing bodies at our schools. And to be honest, this will be the first step of eliminating Police Presence at our schools and lets continue to listen to our youth during this time and create the changes theyre calling for. Thank you. Jennifer . Yes. Go ahead. My name is jennifer caldwell, im a social worker with sfusd is advocate for continuing any mou with sfpd and i feel like this validates and organization that killing students and families in our community and if we are working to dismantle white supremacy, this must be one step that we take as a district by ending this mou and sfusd has a social justice as within of the core values and should be shown in action and not just rhetoric. The board of ed passed resolutions and most recently healing practises and its important for them to show that you want money to be going towards those programs like restorative practises which has been gutted in the new budget and hsp. And these are the types of programs that we should be putting our money towards, not sfpd. Thank you. Thank you. Andrea, are you there . I am. I am in support that we do not the district does not go into another contract with the Police Department. Our young people need councillors, Wellness Centers and we need Restorative Justice programs and we need more community and partnerships for our students. They dont need to be policed if theyre being policed in their communities. We want to make sure our students get the resources that we need to be in a better place, especially returning to schools and knowing that its going to be a challenging time, so i want to make sure that we listen to our young people, right, because theyre the ones that are there in the schools and we Pay Attention and we let them lead and teach us and help us to make them better students. Hello, maxwell . Im a searc sfuds teacher. I am in agreement with a lot of the other commenters, that we need to end our relationship with the police and instead of repeatinrepeating their points. When i was in high school, i was arrested by an sro officer because i was laying down in the hallway. Yeah, i was being a jerk, but that is not a reason to handcuff and arrest someone. It was traumatizing and hue mill humiliating. I can only imagine the students of color thats occurring and i wanted to share that experience. We need police out of our schools. Thank you. Im a teacher at bona vista. Today there was a Public Statement in support of emptying the mou with sf police and i want to share the eight ways this our school addresses safety without centering the police. So one, invest and train councillors and social workers, two, train certified partners, three, establish and maintain trust and open communication with families and four, prioritize mental and Behavioral Health Screening Services and referrals for those experiencing toxic stress, five, create staff supporting behaviour, teach sf throughout all grades, implement in the classroom and transitions that emphasize low staff to student ratios and trusted adults in the school day and afterschool programming. I think there are many, many ways to support without using the police. Thank you. Theres work focused in San Francisco revealing police still have an impact on the marginalization, despite the contacts through various mous. The presence of police in schools increases the chance that youth will be referred to Law Enforcement for less serious crimes. My daughter is in Elementary School and goes to a school predominantly black and for me, showing up at school one day to see an officer there with a gun was just really alarming. Theres no reason at all why armed officers should be in an Elementary School. You know, this is also a school that doesnt have a fulltime nurse and a school whose social worker is pressed to the max and so, yeah, theres no reason to have police there. You know, their presence can be traumatizing and also, money can go into properly training the staff who have their own racism to deal with and their own issues to deal with. So thank you. Ar irk arianna . Im an educator. I along with my fellow colleagues and students am calling on you to enour relationshito end ourrelationsh. Discontinuing is the support for our black Indigenous People of color communities and im urging you to advocate across local and State Government to defund the police and invest in proactive and restorative Community Support so we can dismantle oppression of our people. Black lives matter. Maxima douglas. Yes, good afternoon. Im a leadership in Advocacy Program manager at young Womens Freedom Center in San Francisco and a high school student. And young womens freedom provides sistrans and nongender around the gender spectrum. Im asking to invest in their needs. And promote healing for students in their family. We ask that you advocate for students by demanding that 50 of the San Francisco Police Department budget goes to San Francisco youth by allocating it in our School District. Black lives matter, thank you. Gigi. Are you there . Can you hear me . Go ahead. I am asking tha asking to rer youth, justice and racist training through all educators and in a Wellness Center that uses traumainformed and Restorative Justice practises that will support our students and communities. And police have always upheld white supremacy, protected property and they have to place in our schools or communities. Thank you. Im calling to ask to terminate the mou and get every sfpd officer another. People across the city, state and nation are protesting. The sfpd trying to intimidate High Schoolers after they arrested two dozen High Schoolers walking home from of the protests last week. They were simply walking home and is an activity that was exempt. Police do not help do their homework and they dont help them improve relationships or keep students safe. They terrorize and arrest students for people of color. Im asking the board to stop any actions or services they supposedly provide. Both portland and minneapolis have acted to kick police out of their schools. This is not and action item. The board should take an extraordinary vote to eliminate sfpd to keep our kids safe from police brutality. Thank you. Jennifer . Go ahead. Im jennifer and i have attende. We cannot reform a way r function to kill and white supremacy. This is not a matter of reform but a matter of function. We cannot weve got our reform and our body cams and review boards and theyll continue killing people. These reforms do not work and we have to abolish police now and cannot be referring processes for list interaction because there cannot be Police Interaction for students. This is a direct threat to students and its not right that students are studying out of textbooks that are ten years old when were funding our police. Thats my peace. Terminate the mou today. Thank you. Thank you. Can you hear me . Yes. Thank you so much. Im katie green, a student of social work at uc berkley and i grew up in sanfrancisco and im also calling to demand that the sfpd get out of the School Districts. Evacuee seeweve seen this is ur students and should be prioritizing student safety. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Hello, shera. Im an sf resident who is calling on sfusd to end their time with sfpd. This criminalizes black and brown students, as well as students with disabilities. Im vested in discussing the alternative policies and programs that will keep our students safe, learning and growing. Thank you so much. Thank you. Frankie . Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Im frankie, a Family Service specialist with Mission Neighborhood centers, born and raised in sf. Thank you for making this an agenda item, just wanted to echo everybody and yeah, demand to end the mou with sfpd. The budget will always reflect the experience of the schools at the end of the day, so please, thats what i would like to echo with everyone to end mou with sfpd. Thank you. Hello, jan, are you there . Yes, im here. Im jan gin, is i work for the sf Dot Department is im the president of the protect local 21 union, which represents programmers, facilities, people, Occupational Therapists and our professionals and i would also like to vote in support for severing the mou between San Francisco Police Department and the San Francisco School District, which i understand theres a couple of positions totaling maybe 100,000. And number one, we need all of the money we can get in these next coming years. And given the current climate and the way things are going, i cant see the police being any sort of positive having any positive impact on our students right now. Thats what i would like to say, thank you. Hello, emma. Can you guys hear me . We can. Thank you for hearing me today. I was an intern for the student Mental Health community in sfusd this last Academic Year where i saw black and brown youth criminalized as young as first grade. I saw extreme underfunding of schools with the highest rates of black and brown student enrollment. I did not see an Equitable School system by any means. The worst thing to do is make black is brown students vulnerable to further criminalization and policing. Please, please, please use everything within your power. You all have the power. You were elected and you can do this. You can be on that side of history to end the criminalization and targeting of black and brown youth. Thank you so much. Can you hear me . Yes, we can, go ahead. My name is francis and i graduated from the school of arts in 2014. I support discontinuing the mou and i just wanted to quickly point out that back when i attended sota, it had a white student body compared to the other schools and the high rates of drug use in the district. But despite this, i never saw a Police Officer on the premises. I dont think Police Activity in schools has much to do with keeping students safe and healthy and serves much more to criminalize much for students and take away their sense of dignity and i urge you to discontinue the mou. Thank you. Im a resident of San Francisco and born and raised. Ive been to most of the schools in San Francisco Unified School District, paul revere, and im a social worker with the Public Defenders Office here in San Francisco and on behalf of the public defender raju and our entire office, im here to voice our support of the school board cutting ties with sfpd and i stand in solidarit solidarity wf the youth organizers and across the u. S. And while i consider it such an honor to be lead by our youth, having to sacrifice their lives to End Police Brutality and demanding accountable for the murder of george floyd and many others is not the burden i would hope they take. I dont think sfusd can align itself with sfpd and claim to fight systemic racism and we cannot shy away from your role in that. Time. Is that time . Yes, it is. Thank you. Derick . Derick . Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Im a latinx usd native. indiscernible . I am with ending the mou. Resources should be allocated for restorative practises and so many do Incredible Community work, but you need to step up right now. Alison, gabriella, vincent, youre awesome but can do more work from the community. We heard from youth at the beginning this meeting and caring about social and Racial Equity that werent available. Mission was a site of youthlead protests against police brutality, and the academy has organized a protest on thursday at the bayview o opera house at three for black youth, advocating for police and polic thats time. Thank you. Casandra. Yes. Im a teacher at the Valley Middle School and here to speak to the point that many speakers before us have made. One in particular stuck out to me and i would like to rehighlight what she said from San Francisco Community Schools about the policy that the board of education quoted for safe and Supportive School initiatives and through initiative has remained truthless to some degree in that theres no funding and positions made available widespread throughout the district that provides the services that the families, students and educators need in order to provide the services that would support students who are currently victimized by the sros who are called to our campuses. To be clear, the call is not to amend or edit the mou but to cancel it. In addition to that, to use your position of power and access to information to analyze sfusd budget and use krystia . Yes, you can hear me . Yes. I am a teacher at Balboa High School and ive been in the district for 14 years. I support an end to the mou between sfpd and sfusd for all of the reasons mentioned. I want to add that if we stand with minneapolis and portland so far School Districts willing to cut ties with local Police Departments, we achieve two things. The first is we close sfpd off from one space which they have done and can do immense harm especially to black and brown students and families. Second, we help set a precedent by demanding better for our children and by doing so, we demand better for ourselves. The truth is, we deserve better. The equitable and just system many of us have dreamed of, that brought us into teaching is closer than we think and so we are asking you as our school board to not own represent our concerns but to dare to dream as big as we are dreaming. We can treat better as a concern by first dissolving this mou and looking at what is looking and what we need more of. In my opinion, we have sfusd who have gone above and beyond in handling oncampus violence and complicateconflicts than any poe officer do. Thank you, thats time. We spend so much time talking about the mou and i dont think that we ever take that much time to really provide space for communities to come together and strategize about what we think keeps us safe and those things Restorative Justice and communitybased violence prevention and putting our backs into implementing those things because we cant afford to spend one more thing. The reality is now that eliminating School Police here and now could save lives. That is it, thank you. Can you hear me. Yes. I represent five Elements Youth Program in the justice collective and im an educator and Service Provider in sfusd and i stand in solidarity with black lives matter to and i echo to defu defund the police. Its important we use this moment in history to reenvision safety in our schools and community and challenging a systemic cause of criminalization and educational disparities. This is ashame that defunding education and healthcare has become normalized for the past few decades. We must reclaim. Today were advocate with sfusd and i urge this board to stand with the people as we demand local city budget, also prioritize People Services and education over policing. Its going to take all of us, students, educators, administrators, parents, Community Organizations, Public Health and medical professionals to redirect critical funds towards services to health that our students most need. Thats time, thank you. Hello, raina. Hi. Im an alumni of sfusd and also a mother of a student and a student at the middle school. I will be an active parent for the next ten years. As im sure you are well aware, our students were struggling to fight and educate for a Wellness Center. We must invest in Mental Health support systems that can support our students. Thank you. The initials kh, are you there . Yes, thank you. Im a mother of two children in sfusd is i want to echo most of what was said today already and especially urge the board to pass resolution soon folks calling for defunding of police and putting money towards our schools and particularly all of the programs people have spoken so passionately about needing, Restorative Justice has worked for my children and i have seen how powerful it is. And i just want to say that i see with my own eyes our policing after school in front of our high schools in particular, how that quickly escalates into something that is completely inappropriate in terms of interacting with children. And we dont need policing, discretionary policing from the sfpd. We need more afterschool programs that help our children do the things they are interested in after school. Im demanding sfusd that the city defund sfpd and support our communities of color. They have a disregard for black is brown citizens, running parallel to the systemic and equities that underserve parents and teachers in black and brown communities as evidents in disparities and health and various other areas. As a district, it is contradictory for us to have equity as goals while collaborating with the Police Department as to have vast racial disparities. If we want to serve black and brown communities, we cannot align that are contrary to these goals and we must divert towards programs to replace the role of sfpd to resolve conflict as well as reinvest in Restorative Justice, antiracist and biased training and afterschool programs and momentu mental heah resources. Thank you. As i am a former alumni and i have cousins and siblings who are attending sfusd and social justice is a core value, then we need to not only work on that, but to cut ties with sfpd and that budget and that money needs to go to our youth and be invested in our youth because that is the reason why we have school. So, like, our schools need new textbooks and we need to fund Wellness Centers because i know of countless students just like myself where Wellness Centers and social workers and councillors so we need that. We need to address, like, problems that go back to, like, our homes, like food and housing and Restorative Justice, like we need therapists and more nurses and the schools mentorship programs and we dont need more police that will criminalize black and brown youth. Sfpd caused ptsd on our students. Im friends with some of those students and they experienced trauma over 20 years ago. The city calls this sfpd and we know its wrong tor cops to respond to Mental Health crisis. We need a mobile health unit. Please end the mou and divest from sfpd. Thank you. Thank you. I would echo students earlier calling for ethnic studies in all schools k12. We need to make i happen. Thank you. Thank you. N iricola schultz. Can you hear me . We can, go ahead. Hi. My name is nicola, born and raised in the bay area and current sf resident and im calling to end the mou with the sfpd. According to a report, we came to learn a call for action by the advancement project and the alliance for educational justice and indigenous and latina are more likely to be arrested. In the school, black students accounted for 31 of those arrested or referred to Law Enforcement. This isnt limited to boys and black girls accounted for 43 and this is expulsion and arrests that funnel those into the criminal justice system. And i would like to yield metime. Thanmytime. Thank you. Jessie . I stand with everyone else t too away with sfpd support. Im calling into demand to remove presence from schools of the sfpd. Mou seems to be a piece of paper that doesnt actually represent the traumatic experience that black and brown students are experiencing with Police Presence in their schools. So its not enough to edit this piece of paper and hope for the best. Studies show that young kids of color have higher anxiety when having contact with police. This relieves ptsd, depression, Poor School Performance and School Suspensions and expulsions and knowing this data, how can we place police in a place meant to be safe and one of learning if there are actual alternatives which people have mentioned on this call . If there was proof that any other thing, like a drug or a pill or a textbook had this federal government on the learnineffect on students safei feel like the immediate decision from the school board would be to remove that factor from schools. It should be just as easy to remove police from sfusd schools. Its easier because the board has full control . Will that be to maintain the racist Environment Police creates in schools. I yield my time. Were going to end Public Comment on this item with that. Thank you very, very much. The board now with our student delegates will discuss this item. Although our discussion may feel directive to staff, so lets start and i cant see everybody. Sigh miss lamb, commissioner lopez and commissioner malega. Who would like to start. Student delegate sandibaugh . There was over 500 participants which shows the importance of this item and i want to thank everyone who is here advocating for their community. On behalf of my peers who would have wanted more than a minute to speak or to those who didnt get to speak at all. I say enough is enough. In these times, especially, we need to listen to our students, to our Community Members who are, like, advocating right at our doorsteps. Our community does not feel safe with the police who are supposed to protect which we sadly havent seen and i know this is an information item, but we should listen and take action to discontinue the mou with the San Francisco Police Department. Miss hererra, would you like to add your thoughts . You know, i got voted to be the student delegate because a lot of my peers believed that i was the right person to advocate for young peoples needs and right now, it is my duty to be the one to strongly highlight and urge sf usd to cut ties with uspd. You know, theres a lot of conversations going around that not all cops are bad and that not all cops are racist, but the truth is that the system is racist in itself. If the system wasnt racist this is such an emotional topic for a lot of young people. Students dont feel safe and if were always advocating for equity is social justice, it is our duty to stop all work with sfpd and we need to give all of this money that were defensiving tgivingback. Resources work directly to create change as well as restorative changes in our communities. And how is this possible were giving this money to sfpd instead of our schools, helping our students, were cutting Wellness Programs and get rid of nurses and healthcare workers. Just to support this racist institution. So i ask everyone and i urge everywhere that this is not the area that we want to follow. We want to do better. We live in one of the most progressive cities in the world and how is it that this will be a conversation . This shouldnt be a conversation. This should be a straightforward answer. And for everyone who decides that its a no that we need to continue doing this work, i ask you to really, really focus on yourself and question why you want to work with this program. And how come this mou i is only worked on every four years. This mou should have been looked over a long time ago. Im deeply saddened and struggling with just dealing with all that weve been seeing on the media, all that is going on in our country and all of the violence that were seeing in our streets. And as just a young person, i cant imagine what that would feel like to be graduating into this world right now with that, you know, as your future. And so then it calls on all of us to take action. I think as adults and young people, we all feel called upon to take action and we want to do something and im heartened by what i see in the shift that im seeing. My family is from st. Louis. I have family, you know, with ferguson. I watched video of those rebellions and did not see this type of response. I want to open this conversation up that we are not funding the vast majority were not funding the Police Department and we fund a very small portion of the sro, the School Resource officer program and so, i want to clarify chief smith, how much do we spend on the sro program . So we have an agreement thank you, commissioner collins for asking. We have an dream agreement thaty 20 of the salary for the person who is the liaison for the sfpd program to sfusd and thats 45,000. We can do another check, but neither one is aware of anything beyond the 45,000. And then additionally, i want to make it clear, we are facing a budget deficit in our district and we were facing this before covid19. And were looking at proposed cuts to social workers, nursing and site support staff that existed well before covid and now were looking at increased budget deficit and were hearing from the state that we may have to consider a 10 cut on top of that for next year. And i just want to make it clear to the public that i agree, we agree, im speaking for my colleagues that it is unacceptable that we dont have more support and resources for families and students in our schools and 45,000 isnt going to cover what we need what folks are demanding and what i think we should be demanding. Ill hold my comments, but i want us to frame or conversation because i want the public to understand that we get funded from the state and we get a set budget. The city gives us additional monies to support some of our work but does not fund the majority of our work and we are currently facing a budget deficit that could not be filled by transferring our own dollars over to other programs. Thank you. And i would like to comment afterwards but would like to hear from other commissioners. Me, too. Vice president lopez and commissioner maliga. Thank you. I just really want to recognise that the hurt is clear and it has been for many, many years, just given what happens at our school sites and just to comment on what commissioner collins brought up. Whatever number it is, i think symbolically for me ending a relationship with sfpd is very meaningful. Im happy to do that and youre right, the number is not a large one, but it draws attention to the fact thatur