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Transparent and we can really go along and seeing what is happening at our sites, knowing that teachers and administration, students and families are not getting the support they need and can easily assume that is because we are not funding appropriately. And so, i think ultimately, this conversation is it is about the Police Department and what we as a School District want to have as far as the relationship with them. And what that really means to people. But its also about the overall just structure that we have that allows for these scenarios to play out. This is happening at our sites, at school sites and i need to be educated to understand they as Authority Figures perpetuate similar instances that cops are doing outside on the streets. Its not at the same level, but its still targeting black and brown kids and still taking them out of our classrooms and suspending them and kicking them out of our schools because of the Power Dynamics that were seeing cops dont know how to deal with. And that could be that again could be tied to the training that they are or are not getting. But i think its onall obeyond f the efforts were getting and its calling out our colleagues, as well, who are continuing to uphold that at our schools. We can no longer pretend not to see this. Anyone othe who is at a site kns this. Its recognising your role as a person of power and this is how School Systems work. Ive been in Teacher Education programs and i know how a lot of them are structured and the idea you have more power over a child is embedded in you. We all grew up in a system that is based in the racist society and we know that. Im hearing from a lot of people who are on our side as far as removing our relationship and really thinking truly on what a school can provide for our familiesbeyond what were doing which is a lot. But there are a number of people who arent at this meeting and arent advocating and still behaving in that way. And so, im interested in seeing what this will mean as far as what were providing in schools and what were calling out in schools and what were allowing teachers to do to our students. Commissioner malia. Thank you, president sanchez. And so, i just had a couple of questions for staff and the superintendent and i can make comments, also, about the issue. I have a love and hate relationship with the police, right . One, i cant stand them, but two, at the same time, growing up in the projects, you know, watching people all of the shootings and everything, so, they its just like a convoluted thing with the police. And, you know, i still dont think its something that we need to be positioning ourselves with is planning around and partnering with and i think its something we need to move away from. I say that because when i first got on the school board, i had conversations with staff and i want to know more about th the protocols in place. Were calling Police Officers and theyre assisting us for many issues, like handson stuff and you name it, right . And so, from my understanding, it was a protocol thing on the School District side and so, one, i want to know if that was cleared up because i heard it was rerouted back to the t10s and we just wrote a resolution around traumainformed that states in it the need to work with our crisis team and Safety Support Team Including with including social workers, and this is exactly what it is. This is exactly the work we need to be doing around that resolution. Dr. Matthews . Are you talking about Crisis Response . Are you talking about when the police are called to come to our campuses or both . Lets just talk about those are two good examples, but, like, what are the overall protocols on how we engage with the police . I know dries is one of the cris. We have three ways of thinking about Police Coming on to our campuses if its necessary to protect the physical safety of staff. Thats up for interpretation and if thats not combined with good training and addressing biased and a lot of things, that may end up looking the way we dont want it to look. If it is required by law, then possession, drug sales, that type of stuff and the other one is if its appropriate to address criminal behaviour. So someone coming on to our campus and trying to harm a student or do some type of criminal activity, so that those are the three ways. And does it look different and does it always lack th look thet should be . Probably not because there are not as robust systems in place to ensure thats happen asking i think thats one question that you were talking about and secondly, and just in terms of when police come thats related to cps report or related to a crisis intervention, that is another time when police may be brought on to the campus. I think we have had such an opportunity with the pandemic to sit and think didn and partnerh our city agencies, that we are thinking, how do we do that differently . I think with the resolution that you and commissioner lopez and Commission Collins sponsored around the coordinated care, were working towards that and we started with the wellness checks and we have the resources and were have worked to partner with the department of Public Health and well be providing services and well be looking at mobile services. And so all of the things that i feel the commissioners have been asking for, we really are starting to have this ability where were working as a city is district to do that. Do we have a long way to go . Absolutely. But were turning in the right direction to support students and families in the ways that we should from an antiracist standpoint and from a radical human practise and all of that stuff that doesnt end up pathologchanging the system. The change was in odd to ensure parents are called and public defenders are called immediately if the police come on. Commissioner norton. And then commissioner lamb. And thank you to everyone that came out. I know that this is just a really charged moment and its a good conversation for us to continue to have. And its certainly this mou has periodically been debated and discussed in the entire time ive bon the board, as it should be. I moon, thithis is an importantd getting this right which weve been trying to do for a long time is crucial. The point i was going to make is the one that superintendent matthews made which is that the mou is intended to be protective of students and their rights. And what scares me, i think, is the idea that police can come on the campus whenever they want, if they can prove that the certain positions might exist, whether its weapons or drugs or looking for a suspect. We have seen this happen and it will continue to happen because police are going to assert that power. Whether or not we want them to. The mou does to a certain extent try to set up rules of the road and protect our students and make sure parents are there. Weve had issues, also, you know, in undocumented students. The idea that students that ice or other authorities can come on campus and take students into custody is really terrifying to me. And so while im actually i mean i think theres a legitimate question about what truly is the role of the police in our society and have we given police agencies, you know, too much power and too much room when other kinds of services would be better for our communities . I thinks tha think thats a lege conversation and one as School Leaders we want to be a part of. But i do agree with the commenters who said, like, whoa, whoa, just be thoughtful about this. And lets think through all of the implications of if we end this relationship. And im happy to continue to have this conversation. I think its really important and, again on, i would be ok ife as a board and staff team go a different way and i want to articulate the really, really important protections for our students, because officers will come on campus when they think something is happening and i want to have some control and some assurances around that. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner for lamb and then commissioner lopez. Unmute yourself, please. I want to thank everyone, including our students, our parents and families who have shared their voice, not only today, but all of the thousands of emails that weve been receiving, as well as the tens and hundreds of thousands of folks in San Francisco and in the bay area have showed up to really demonstrate just how modern oimportant of a time andt this is. As leaders, also recognising that we have the Authority Importance of changing the paradigm that weve known to be problematic for far too long. You know, i want to acknowledge that reform, even with the best intentions have not gotten us as a society to where we need to be to be able to address Police Violence against people of co allergcolor, particularly blackd brown communities. I want to name that first and foremost. Related to our relationship, the School District relationship wits relationshipwith the polim concerned with the longterm presence of officers on campuses. Weve heard time and time again about young people not feeling safe and feeling threatened. One piece that i think i would also like to name is that we as a system, including our administrators, our staff, our educators, leaders ourselves have to do some real work in real work in ourselves. I am curious because i often hear, well, the reason the police were called is because it could have been that someone on school site didnt feel like they could handle that student. And the behaviours that are coming up or i heard it was a parent that called the police. So i think thats some of the information around that it would be important for us to examine for ourselves. And i also want to understand what has been our plan, right . So what is your that plan and protect that from the parents that were illuminated this afternoon if we were to terminate or change the relationship with sfpd . I also want to speak to and thank you commissioner maliga, you are the expert because you are doing this everyday and trained and doing the work on the ground around this yard coordination of care and the work the team has put in and accelerating during the covid piece and we absolutely need to accelerate that work. And really and im glad were working toward it, but we have to understand that, again, there may be some school sites that are well versed in kind of that coordination of care and others that are not didnt thats understanding the Quality Control impact and really how does that look like systemwide . And so ill just comment there. I think overall, you know, just similar comments to most of you all, my colleagues that have spoken. And ill just close that, you know, being a mom of a high schooler and now my daughter also getting active in her own activism. I said, do you see Police Officers regularly at your school site or even patrolling or do you feel a presence . She goes to school in the sunset and said, no, i havent seen that. I think that speaks to which schools in our district have higher presence. And so, you know, i think, again, i want to thank all of the young people, the fact that young people are organizing our students are the ones organizing these actions right now in the city and you all are very inspiring, so thank you. President lopez. I know that commissioner collins had a point earlier and i want to recognise that before i speak. Go ahead. Commissioner collins, did you want to go and unmute yourself . Yes. What i have to say is really difficult to talk about. Because on the one hand, i have a real problem with the police, like, in general, and policing. And im personally ive had negative interactions with the police in the city executive thinand i thinkthe response wem the community and youth and educators, its about policing in general and this idea of, like, who polices the police . And seeing videos that are clearly people are like, i saw a video of police popping peoples tires in a city. Yowere seeing this now. Its blatant and ive seen Police Called out in our city because black people are, like, too wild in a walgreens and dont show up when i see a white person punching someone in a van. I have a personal experience and i think we have per special perl experiences. This wave of change which i appreciate, it deeply disturbs me that the folks doing this work since the beginning, right, before even i was hip to it or anybody else, a lot of them are black women is parents and their voice is not here. The africanamerican Parent Advisory Council, i specifically reached out to parents and they deserve to have a decision on what we do. Because they are the most impacted by this, as well as youth, ok . Those two grooms, in my opinion, should be centered and i feel like theres no mechanism right now in this moment. Theres a lot of pressure that folks are creating and i do appreciate that pressure, but i also feel like we need to support the folks who are on the ground didnt doing the work and that includes the svip, united players and coleman and all of the people in the neighborhoods doing the work. And even captain yoland williams, the liaison, suing the sfpd for racis racist behaviour, right . Shes another black woman doing the work, right . And so i agree, this isnt working, our system, but there are people who have been trying to change it and whatever we do, im working on a resolution for us to look at our stric districd its a bigger picture. I dont police the police and our mou is whether we had it in the past, theres Staff Members who dont follow it and there are Police Officers that dont follow it. And so, who decides so what does it matter if we have an agreement and nobody is following it, right . And i dont have the authority, i dont care what people say. My own personal power, i zoo the authoritdonthave the authoritye police and thats a larger conversation and thats for our mayor and board of supervisors and also for our mayor and board of supervisors to support us in funding some of the needs in the community. That have to do with violence, prevention, food is housing. I dont have that budget for food and housing and its causing people to steal from other people to feed themselves and causing conflict. Its all a big picture. So i just i am happy that were having this conversation, but i want us to make sure that we are centering black women and youth and families and the folks that are on the ground that are doing the work and i really appreciate this opportunity and i want to acknowledge one last point, chief scott, ive seen him. He seems like a good man, but at the same time, theres the Police Officers association, which we also have to name. Theyre wearing their thin lined blue masks and youre not supposed to wear those any more. Those are Masks Associated with White Supremacy and yet the Police Officers association is still selling those masks as the official mask of the San Francisco Police Officers association. So im having a real disconnect between, i dont want a shift and throw up my hands and say we wont have an mou if that means no support or any protection for our families because black parents have worked on that mou. Folks need to know that, black folks have worked on it because they see it as a way of protecting our kids. Its not working, maybe we need to throw it away is im hop opeo that conversation. But i dont understand how we can be in a relationship that is full of people who associate with white supremest flags like a thin blue line flag. So that is also something that we need to name and we need to put it on the table and we need to wrestle with that as a city and as a board and if we mak ife to tear up or mou. If we do that and i am all for saying, you know, i dont know how to be in a relationship with an organization like this, but if we do that, we cant do that and leave folks who are most vulnerable with nothing, with no plan. And so, i neednt just other commissioners to hear this. I need folks who are listening in on this conversation to hear this. If youre activated right now, im glad youre active, but Pay Attention to the folks doing the work and stick around for the solution because this is a long fight. It has been going on for a long time and im here to fix it. The police have been by and large bad actors and the poa are, in my view, rogue, and have not helped the matter. And we need to make a decision at some point if we want to have an exit strategy. At the time, police were patrolling in the hallways of our schools andthy were not on the perimeter and actually patrolling our high schools and middle schools. And then, as you probably all know, it was referred to by tornadthere was an incident in e early 2,000s where it ended up being the Largest Police presence in the history of the United States on a school campus. I think the it was 16 167 Police Officers, riot gear who descended on thohogood mash shall and injured many schools. Any money were spending on this program is not ok. It sends a horrible message to the thousands who are emailing us and i dont know about you guys but my phone has been blowing up for days and weve been spending those thousands represent tens of thousands of people in San Francisco and we need to listen to them. Pai pleaseplease stand by so i understand having something to protect us, but laws are broken all the time, rules are broken all the time. Its clear that the cops are doing it and getting away with it. Im for finding solutions, but we know those exist. In fact, im having a conversation with the School Board Member in minneapolis who wrote this. So im looking forward to exploring what were going to do to truly protect our students. That doesnt reinforce Authority Figures who care more about their ego and power than about protecting people. I think ill leave it at that. If anyone wants to jump in and say some final comments, then we can move on. I dont know if this will be a resolution around this program or if staff will be able to come up with a plan. Im getting the sense that the board really wants some resolution to this. I just want to mention that commissioner cooke is not here, but he was a senior during the police riot at marshal. His experience is valuable. Our current students experiences are so valuable. Im honored and cherish the student delegates speaking up. Any final comments . Lets go with the student delegates. One last thing. If we could cut ties with i. C. E. [indiscernible] and highlight i. C. E. Is not allowed to be on our campuses, we could do the same thing with the p. D. Its sending a strong message to our black and brown students at this time. Youre right. We dont have an m. O. U. With i. C. E. We have a resolution and a process. Commissioner collins. This is a larger conversation. This is a citywide conversation about how we invest our resou e resources. We need support as a district and the city and District Needs support. There is a meeting tomorrow, and so i encourage folks who have made their voices heard here make their voices heard at that level. We need to be having this at all levels if were going to make change. Thank you. Thank you. I dont see any other hands. I dont know if staff wants to say anything. I just wanted to thank you for the conversation. I want to thank the callers who called in. We hear the direction loud and clear. We will get started on getting something in place so that we can continue this conversation and eventually get to a place where the relationship is where it needs to be. Thank you. It was 1999 when the board took up the resolution for this program, the meeting ended at 5 45 a. M. So get ready. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] are you kidding me . More than jrotc, more than that. We were always done by 2 00 in the morning. Wow. Thank you. That, we are moving on. Protocol for Public Comment. And in this time im going to read what i have to read to the public. If youre going to be speaking or you want to speak, can you get a count for me so i can make a decision on how to approach this. Public comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters within the boards jurisdiction. We ask that you refrain from using employee and student names. If you have a complaint about a district employee, you may submit it in accordance with district policy. We cannot respond to comments or answer questions during the Public Comment time. If appropriate, follow up will be asked for. With that, were going to ask for Public Comment. I see 33 right now, although i see some of the same names as before. They may be speaking again. I dont know if the hands are speaking again, but its 33. If its 33, well give them a minute each. Hello, mr. Marshal. Hello . Hello . Michael, are you there . Michael keifer . Im sorry, im having trouble for some reason, i cannot unmute anyone. So im hoping for the backup to help me. One moment. Are you saying there is a glitch . Yes, i am. If it lasts for more than a couple minutes, i can move on. Let me try to ms. Costco can unmute people as well. In the meantime, this is barb, i was allowed to unmute myself. Im a parent at versidio Public School and a board member on the p. T. A. There. We want to work with the board to find a solution to avoid our schools closure. The programs at this school are so unique and has been life chawngeing for our family and all families. Itsnging for our family and al families. Its the ability for us to get our heads above water and to a safe place. Were asking for transparency and a seat at the table to look at possible solutions. There might be a solution to instigate this process. In the word of one of my favorite educators, impossible is nothing, we know we can do this. In the face of covid, in the big campus of presidio e. S. , we can hold onto this and continue educating our kids in these circumstances. I think we have a shot working with the trust to find a number that works with everyone. Thank you. Unmute yourself. Michael will be unmuting folks and ill be keeping the time. Go ahead, michael. So caller 415517, you can talk now. Okay. So caller virginia marsh, please go ahead. I think that these hands are left up from the last Public Comment is my deduction, president. Im going to lower all hands right now, which i can do. If theres someone who wants to speak on general Public Comment, please raise them now. There are a couple coming up. Can you see them, michael . Yes, i can. Great. Cassadora, youre up. Hi. This is cassandra trio again about a totally different topic. So im coming to speak to you today as a member of the bargaining team, in addition to im a teacher for the last 10 years. In specific regarding budget. I know that theres a budget shortfall. We got the judgment presentation precovid. Then covid happened. Theres just a lot more that needs to be done and that the board and Central Office continues to make efforts in the way of closing some of the most detriment spaces [indiscernible] currently one of the issues i want to address is this idea of safety and budget for cost neutral and that somehow teachers and staff and principals and so and sos are supposed to be able to operate and do all the things were doing in the assistance learning, which is difficult on the teacher and student end. Everyone in this situation is not experiencing this with ease. To be able to do this with a costneutral mindset is not appropriate. Thank you. Thank you. Kim, you can go ahead now. Thank you. Im kim, the field representative for sciu local workers, folks that are at the warehouse and transportation. I know that cuts were pushed out to the site, but now those cuts have come back. Theres just an extraordinary number of our membership that are glued to our schools that are being cut. Just because its a centralized cut doesnt mean its not happening. It doesnt mean that teachers and other administrators and other folks in schools wont need the help. We are the schools helpers. Please reconsider. Please consider what youre doing and how it decimates schools. We want to support the folks out at presidio and trying to figure out how to make that work. Thank you. Anybody else, michael . Can you hear me . Go ahead. Thank you, michael. Thank you to the board. Good evening. My name is matt bells. A parent of a child at the Early Education school and an employee in the presidio here in San Francisco. I just wanted to say that i think that we need to work towards a solution where we keep that Public School safe because it is such a unique Public School in San Francisco. Because it is in the Mission Statement of the presidio to conclude that education and access for all, i think that our school site works towards that. It is in a beautiful space. Its also important that our students feel welcome and as a part of that space. Its afforded me to continue to work in my job in the presidio to have schooling that i can afford for my child there. Im not sure what i would do without that. I know that there are a number of other parents who feel the same way. Thank you. Time. Thank you. Hi, can you hear me . Go ahead. Thanks for your time. My heart right now is with the injustices in the Larger Community. Im also commenting on the proposed closure of the presidio education school. Im a High School Math teacher and my two children currently attend the Early Education school. My experiences havent prepared me for how heart broken i am for the proposed closing. Im heart broken for the students and the teachers. Im also heart broken for the Larger Community of San Francisco. In a time when i feel like many cities are moving in a promising direction of a prek and more robust funded services for children under five, i believe that San Francisco is moving in an opposite direction, one of the most funded schools in the nation. I ask for you to keep our schools open. Thank you. Gwen, you can talk now. Thank you. Im also a parent of a student at the school. Its very emotional. My daughter only has one year left, so shes covered. But i cant imagine the children in the future who would not have this opportunity. I feel its the opposite direction from what we should be doing. We should be studying it and finding out how its successful it is. I understand the challenges because i work in the presidio and i understand the challenges of rent in the presidio. So even if you moved this to somewhere else in the city, i just cant see closing this down. Its just too important for the families and for the community in general. Thank you. Mitchell, youre on. Im not fully aware of the protocol of the meeting. Im the c. E. O. Of a small startup in the bay area. We have been trying to offer the s. F. U. S. D. And all the students preschool photos. You can take it from your smartphone or tablet. Weve been trying to mind the were not here to overly push our application on anyone. Our offer is totally free. We wanted to see how we could get on the agenda for a privately funded gift. I at least wanted to put it out there. I think it would be great for kids to have some kind of degree of normally because they have that for every student. If they can do it for free, thank you very much. Superintendent matthews, would it be possible for anybody to follow up . I think we have either michael or justin, can you see the email or the number . I can just see the name. Michael, can you determine a phone number or a contact from it . No, i cannot. It just says the name. If the caller can call back and talk online. I dont want to give your information out. If the caller could call back and give the information, we could follow up. Thank you. Thank you to all the commenters, i support you. I am so grateful to work in this School District. As a parent of two graduates of this school, im asking your support for protecting this magnificent preschool that is uniquely situated in the park. Please do what you can to preserve this school so these students can experience the transformative nature. This school stands out among all the private businesses in the presidio where democracy is upheld through the power of Early Education. The staff of the presidio integrate the transformative effect of nature in their teaching. The staff is superb. I challenge you to look up the Board Members of the Presidio Trust, especially the latest appointees. When i read up on what these appointees value, none of them speak about diversity, Public Access time. Thank you. Michael, do we have another Public Comment . I was just given permission to unmute. I am andy tom, a former employee at the presidio Early Education school. I am here to express my concern of the possible closure. This school, when i worked at it, not only is it in an absolutely beautiful location that allows us to take our students out for different types of exploration in the beautiful presidio park, but more importantly and what others have said, its an opportunity for infants and toddlers to be in a classroom, for deaf and hard of hearing students to be in a classroom. Its one of the t. K. Locations in San Francisco. We need more schools like this to help with the Early Education process and to help our children prepare for later years in school. It is a large campus with each classroom having two sides, which allows for the social distancing, which will be great for the future. Then its just a Beautiful Community of parents and students. All of the parents come together for so many events in the year. You live in the presidio, but you cant walk to school and be involved time, thank you. Thank you. Holly, go ahead. I already spoke for two minutes and got time, but ill read my last paragraph. No. Okay. Page, youre up. Hi, im actually the parent of page who is a student at presidio Early Education school. Im concerned with the news of the school closure, because we as parents did not receive any request for comment. No one asked us to participate in any district Advisory Community or any sort of opportunity to figure out what really is going on. We have absolutely no information as to the Financial Health of Presidio School. We dont know what the student operating costs are. We were just vaguely told that the rest is being increased and this school is going to shut down. All in all it doesnt seem fair. Were going to request a hearing and a due process being given to us, an opportunity to be heard, and figure out any opportunities available other than the closure of the school. This is not a feasible option at this point. I would like to make myself available and request that we be heard, but we are also going to prepare to request injunction or anything else that we need to do to keep the school open. It is a wonderful school. It has afforded me to work and take care of four minor children that i have. Single mother. Thank you. Mary, youre up. I would like to appreciate the board for allowing parents to speak. I know it is beautiful that there is this movement to make real change, but asking not only at this time are we looking at the mo. U. , but real systemic change, getting black parents and students to speak up. When we have our list of demands, i would like the board to really listen and act. I know the board is working on equity studies that would help our black students and communities. I also want to highlight the importance of having culturely responsible health practices. One of the things that i feel like needs to be highlighted is keeping two positions open. One position, i cannot say her name, she was consolidated. She started ethnic studies there. That has helped the students to find their sense of belonging and taking a pride in history and who they are. That has to be cultivated into Mental Health practices. I want her position to be saved in addition to another position who has supported black and brown students who have been on the verge of suspension and expulsion. We need to save his position. Thank you. Time. Thank you. Lisa, you can okay. Sorry, i unmuted myself at the same time as you unmuted me. Thank you for this opportunity to speak and all the board of ed, i appreciate you guys. I am a restorative educator. During this historic uprising, the people created an opportunity to stop the horror of unchecked totalitarian violence. In order to truly serve and protect our black and indigenous lgbtq children, we need not only to defund the police and actually commit to restorative, transformative justice, but also take a look at ourselves. Weve gone from having a transformative department to having zero transformative coaches, none. Im at a loss for where the transformative money is going to go. If were going to dismantle White Supremacy thoughts, we need to show that we value transformative justice. In service of that, we need to take a hard look at how our district thank you. Thank you. [indiscernible] thanks very much to the board for the opportunity to speak. We were shocked to learn that this school would be closed. Weve been privileged to be a part of this school. While our son will age out, weve benefitted from this resource. Unicef, among others, has highlighted the broad body of research. The greatest dollar spending has been in the recent years. We ask what processes followed, when, with whom we ask for a seat at the table. Thank you. Thank you. I want to apologize, but some of the teachers and i have been talking about the teachers and principals that were allowed to share programs with us. We signed up for these programs, but they are predatory and have really high speeds. A lot of us are getting out of them now. So were learning and moving on. Im worried about other teachers and younger teachers. Im wondering if there is a way to sort of vet companies more. They bring subway sandwiches and pizza, and slightly uninformed people like me sign up. Thats our responsibility. There have been articles in the New York Times about these companies and their high caps. Sometimes i wish we could prevent those companies from coming into our schools. Something about it doesnt seem right. This is nowhere near an important issue. Since im here, i wanted to make the comment. Thank you. [indiscernible]. The reason families are here today is to advocate for keeping presidio Early Education open after this coming school year. The loss of a site closure that includes infants, toddlers, prek rooms, a hardofhearing desk. The School Brings tuition based and subsidized programs with staff and students that are diverse, which is such an important part of the conversation. The parents and families are asking for transparency in the budget position. That is allowing for closure of a school site that there is a racial and socioeconomically diverse community. I know covid19 is turning things surveys. We need to return to work time, thank you. Next speaker, please. Now more than ever, budgets are important value statements. In this time of crisis now more than ever, its important to recognize that we have to prioritize funding whats most important to us. As youve heard over and over today and as you will hear in the special education budget and as you will hear from the Advisory Committees, all of us share the priorities that are most important to us and what weve shared for at least the five years that ive been involved and longer than that, we specifically called out the need for Restorative Justice and practices. And this past year we asked the district to take steps that are being taken to name racism in our schools practices and policies. Thats time. Havevanessa, are you back . Yes. My kids went to presidio from 2010 to 2015. I served on the parent council. I want to say in support of the families that are there, i was devastated to hear that this school will be closing. I cant say enough. I lived in the presidio. I lived here for 18 years. I looked at the financials and i guarantee you something should be able to be worked out. This program is phenomenal. I want to please, please give the parents and the teachers and the staff the closing that they deserve. Closing this school would be a tragedy. Its a special, special place. Thank you. Kim, go right go ahead. I was a student when the riots happened. Rely, it was not a riot. It was what was called a riot. It was an invasion of police into the school because there was a fight of an outside source of a Family Member outside of the school premise. What was called by the principal at the time based out of fear was that it was a riot. I witnessed a friend of mine get hit on the gun in the head. I witnessed a teacher record what happened on their phone what happened. Im here as an educator to strongly urge sfpd out of our schools. It is not safe. I witnessed it myself. I have trauma from it. Our students have trauma from it in many, many ways. This is important. This should be done already. This is many years too long. Thank you. Thank you. We are fighting against a closing of a school like the presidio. Parents are looking for how this can be done. I urge the board to get back and think of the presidio of a way to think about this as an Early Education program. I hope the board can look at these ideas in more detail. Thank you. My name is barbara galio. I am a teacher at the presidio Early Education school. This is such a unique school. Having the nature around the school is so special to all our students. I have students in my classroom. I have three special ed students. I have other students outside of the special ed students who have clearly been trauma sized. I also have students who are in the middle of the task. This quite large group of students are the students that get the most from that outdoor environment. We know from research being outside and being in nature is one of the most calming things, one of the best things for the human brain and their emotional regulation, theres nothing better. I would urge you not to close the door on the lease. In five months, we seal know whether the school and Community Measures can be tasked or not. Lets not close the door on our options at this point, where right around the bend could be the solution to our programs. Thank you. Geo, go ahead. [indiscernible] i support all my peers earlier demands to terminate the m. O. U. With the sfpd. Schools are meant to be a place of learning. A lot of schools provide a stable environment as my schools are for me. Police officers get 120 hours in use of force and eight hours in deescalation and conflict resolution. What message does that send to our students when we send armed officers trained to brutalize disproportionately. I urge you to terminate the m. O. U. Agreement with sfpd and support your efforts for the resources for teachers and programs that support our underserved youth. As another note, i would like to note how thorough the sfpd is in examining the training that the Student Resources receive in interacting with students and if you are providing specifics if you have them. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] confidence in what theyre doing. Thank you. Elaine, are you back . Yes. Can you hear me . Yes. I was calling on behalf of the possible closure for c. D. O. Im a long time Early Education teacher. I know that many of the educators at the site. Ive been up there several times. As a really, really great site. I encourage the Board Members to go out and look at this site and see what theyre doing there. I encourage the Board Members to do the research and actually sit down with the Presidio Trust and see what the issue is. Lets not balance the budget on the backs of our educators and our children and families. Its really important that you know exactly whats going on there. Thank you. My two children attended this center and are now graduates. They benefitted from being in that space. They were enriched by the whole abilities of the teachers as well as the experience of being with such a Diverse Group of students from subsidized families to others. Being in the presidio, my daughter recently graduated. They paraded out our Public School students. The only Public School in this space, as a demonstration of what that park is and who its supposed to serve. By divorcing these students of that space is a huge injustice. I can only echo the experience of Early Education and the necessity that sfuc should not be deprived of this. They can take the presidio bus and learn the history of San Francisco. Thank you. Please go ahead. [indiscernible] as one of the speakers previously, we are one of the most prosperous cities in the world. We can extend the [indiscernible] go ahead, please. Hello. My name is bryce. I was a student at presidio. It was a really enjoyable two years i was there. The teachers were nice. I liked the programs and i liked how everybody taught and i had a lot of fun there. I liked it. Thats really it. Just try to keep it open. Its a really good school. Thanks. Hello, can you hear me . [indiscernible] the presidio early ed program feeds into our program at lafayette as a daef and hardofhearing schooleaf and hardofhearing school. This is the first im hearing about this. I am texting with my colleagues and they have not heard about this. We want some transparency about what they can do to either relocate this school to a better facility or keeping it as presidio the Presidio Trust and working with them. I mean, in this time of strife and difficulty, this is one of those things that can get slid under the rug and nobody knows its happening. Im a big advocate for our special education students and especially our special education students of color. That is affecting our deaf and hardofhearing students. We want to keep these students in a safe environment that theyre used to. Thank you. This school is not only a place to go. My daughter is going to enjoy nature and be in a nature environment. There is diversity. Also as a resident of the presidio, i think it is something that brings value to be inside the park. I feel like we wont be able to work with you and try to work with the trust to try to work together. This is going to be a big loss for not only the presidio community, but the whole San Francisco community. As a working mom, having a place that i can leave my young daughter there and knowing that i can pursue my own dreams and knowing this is the only place that you can find in San Francisco is the Presidio School. This is an important place for kids of different races that i just mentioned. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for the opportunity to do the talk here. Im calling on behalf of the presidio Early Education school closing. There are a lot of emotional things attached to this. There are a lot of things attached to that, but i want to focus on the display and the presidio and the district put out as a News Conference for walking our students out, talking about inclusion and how important this is for the presidio itself. Just a few months later the presidio is being closed. Thats even a farce on itself. Even as there was a celebration on the diversity available at the school. School and that space isnt just for the property of those who can afford it. Our Public Education system is suffering a big loss at school. Thats time. Thank you. Hi, can you hear me . Yes. My child graduated from presidio. My child is special needs and he graduated. There have been so many studies of how Early Intervention mitigates delays for students learning. My kid is a primary example of a success story. He no longer needs i. U. P. Support for the remaining years of his academic education. Presidio is an amazing place as you hear from parents and staff. Its one of the few schools where we dont feel like we live in a concrete jungle. Please dont remove it. Did you want to speak . Hi, my name is julia. I am a mom who has a student at the Early Education school in presidio. This is a great school with teachers and staff. This let me continue with the workforce without being worried about my child. It brings trust into the Public Education system. Talking about the events in the last couple of weeks, education and especially Early Education in what builds the principles in the system. We have to keep education for the youngest levels to strive. This is the only Public School in the city that takes Young Children and infants. It also supports families in need. We have children from Different Levels of society, which is amazing when they start in a good school at such an early age, it opens so many opportunities. Im on the board of the student at the moment. Were ready to work with Presidio Trust and with the City Government if needed to keep the school open. Give us all the facts and let us talk together. That includes Public Comment on this item, president. Thank you. I want to thank all the people who came out to speak. We hear you. We will be following up on Presidio School as well as other topics that were brought up. So i was just informed that this is our last meeting with our student delegates. Is that accurate or no . That is very sad. I know you probably want to get on with other things. Maybe you could say a couple words and im happy to have Board Members give you time. Okay. Thank you. [indiscernible]. I want to thank my family and friends for supporting me and the sfusd for providing me with an amazing education. Thank you. I know our next student delegates and our next president will be great. As of now, i officially step down and will virtually pass the torch to our next student delegates. Thank you. Hello, everyone. It has been my pleasure and honor to be a student delegate for the board of education. This school year has definitely been a difficult and unique school year for us, but despite the challenges we all faced this school year, there was not a moment i wanted to stop being the voice for my school members. I want to thank the Board Members and dr. Matthews for taking a step back and allowing me to speak first on topics that were on the agenda. I also want to give a huge thank you to those for supporting me on the campaign and encouraging me to apply. If not for them, i wouldnt have ran for student delegate. I want to thank the former principal of mission who was urging me through my campaign and urging students to vote for me and making sure i was active throughout my campaign. I really want to thank him for that. To all the undocumented immigrants listening, i know you can do it too. I encourage those with the same immigration status to pursue this type of role in the future. But i know that my fellow students will be amazing student delegates. Im hoping its not virtual. Im hoping for the best. Even if it is, i know they have this. I know that because of this experience and because of all the amazing educators in my life that i want to pursue a career in education. Wow. If theres any staff that want to make any comments, that would be great too. I just want to say i appreciate you guys. You fwoois helped us navigate this pandemic being theguys hels pandemic being the student voices on the board. I really, really appreciate that. I know you both do a lot of work in the community. I want to honor that work. I hope you guys have a good time in college, continue giving back. Reach out as needed. Were going to be here. Enjoy the next four years where you guys are going to be headed. Just closing it out, i just want to say thank you for being with us this year, especially through the pandemic. I just want to wish you guys well. It is always such a privilege as 12 years on this board working with the student delegates, i sai this every year, i say this is the best group of student sa is the best group of student y say delegates every. You are inspiring and both of you have such a way of cutting to the heart of an issue and really, you know, cutting through all of the other stuff, the politics, and getting to what is true and right and right for students. I really appreciate it. Thank you for your leadership. I wish you all the best in college. I know it has been the craziest senior year ever. I think its going to get better from here. Im excited to see what you do in the future. My very best wishes to you both. Its been an honor to serve with you. Thank you so much for all of your hard work. You always not only showed up at the Board Meetings so clearly, but just how much your heart and your soul is in this work representing students and young people across the district. I got to sit the closest next to both of you. So i got to feel your energy and young people is how and why i got into this work. Just the fact that you spoke in your truth and have been bold and courageous, it has allowed me to step up with you. Congratulations. Best of luck to you and also similar to my former students. You can call me years from now and i will always return your call. I hope you will do the same if i reach out to you. Please enjoy, given everything that is happening, you have shown resiliency and strength graduating in the year of the pandemic. Please stay in touch. This is inspiring how both of you are. You give me hope. I think of my own Development Even in leadership that i can easily say began a few years back. To see how active and involved and honest you both are is more than anything i can hope for for our youth. I know you will carry that on. I know the people coming after you are looking up to you. Thank you for your work and for everything you do and for showing how much caring you have for bettering our schools and communities. Thank you to all of you. Since we were students and high School Students at one time, we would have known what was best. We were not high School Students in 2020, 2019, 2018, or 2017. Thats why your voice is so important. You brought it each and every meeting. You came out, you spoke your truth, and you made sure we understood where you were coming from. I just want to knowledge that i appreciate that. I agree with the commissioner. Each time you two are fantastic and then the next two are fantastic. I want you to know how we frooesht you. Dont go far. We want to hear from you and how great youre doing. Thank you both. Im really proud of you, betsy. I remember when i met you, you were so quiet. You were just the megaphone. Youve developed into a beautiful leader and talented writer, researcher, and mentor for the younger students. Im really indebted to you. Thank you so much for being a great representative. Jett, i remember when you were in 10th grade and your older sister was writing the s. A. T. S. You blossomed and grew so many feet. You were so tall. You maintained your demeanor of being on the board and listening to those who voted for you. I will always have an opendoor policy, whether professional or personal, you have my contact info. I want to recognize all the people who supported our students. The board, you all have embraced these students and their other leaders so welcomely. They dont feel intimidated. I want to applaud you that because you are part of that service as well. I want to thank our supervisors that work with these students. You all have paid a tremendous support of these students, not just the student delegates, but the s. A. T. In general. I want to thank cyrus for being such a great ally during these troubling times. Dont forget to write. You guys are so inspiring. Im excited to see what youll be doing. Im available. Let us know how to continue to support you. When youre ready to run for school board, mayor, president , sign me up because im your biggest fan. Everything that youve done so far, i know that youre going to continue with the work. Thank you. I also want to thank you all, you two, and your mentors. Ive enjoyed working with you. I dpooir you. I think youre amazing young people. Youve worked so hard and on such big issues. Its just been amazing. I really appreciate you two. I also want you to send a big thank you to your parents for raising such wonderful and beautiful kids. Thank you again. Good luck in your future. Were all here like everyone says. Youre going to be Outstanding College students. We expect you to return and to be a better place. Thank you so much. Bye. Thank you. Bye. Im also going to miss you trying to steal my water during Board Meetings. Sometimes it would be noticed but then you didnt want to get up and get your own water, so you could take my water. Im going to miss moments like that. Thank you so much for everything. Im so sad about this because i thought it would be next meeting. Please join us, advisor from the parent council. Ive also got two parents. You have their info, so you can unmute them. Theyre in attendees right now . Thats correct. It might be phone numbers. I dont see names. Patricia might be here. I sent you the phone number i called in, this is danicia. You called in. Thank you. Danicia, were getting a little bit of static on yours, so if you can mute until we speak. Thank you. Good evening, president and commissioners. Im certainly going to miss the student delegates as well. Theyre very inspiring. I love that betsy brings herself fully to these meetings and doesnt let emotion get in the way. As a young woman, i was afraid to speak up [indiscernible] im the coordinator of the Parent Advisory Council to the board of education [indiscernible] im joined by two p. A. C. Members who will present our final report for the 20192020 school year and will introduce themselves. My name is patricia [indiscernible] i have a sixth and an eighth grader at [indiscernible] danicia. My name is danicia. I have two children in the San Francisco unified School District. [indiscernible] great [all talking at once]. Were going to go into the role of the Parent Advisory Council, which is the p. A. C. The role is to represent parent voices and perspectives in order to inform board of education, policy discussions, and decisions. This report provides a summary of our work during the 20192020 school year. We would like to begin by acknowledging that we are living in extraordinary times in many ways. We celebrate our parents and these new circumstances. The p. A. C. Would like to express our sprooerks again for the efforts of everyone who works and continues to work to support our families throughout this school year in the spring and through the summer. We would like to extend our thanks to all students for completing this year, despite the obstacles. The p. A. C. Would also like to acknowledge the service, commitment, and contributions of the following p. A. C. Members whose terms will end in june, johnny, deny, rebecca, patricia, and sharin. These members have provided valuable insight to the issues that have been addressed. Their work has helped to inform the development of policy recommendations, new enrolment processes, the selection of food vendors, and so much more, as well as hearing the parents and families voice at district levels. We hope they will continue their advocacy efforts in other ways going forward. Thank you. [indiscernible] with the district we provide each and every student with quality instruction and support that is required to survive in the 21st century. This informs the work that we have done. Over the course of the year, the paths continued to be strengthened are a collaborative effort with the society as well as the partners [indiscernible] this helps us continue to support families, engaged parents, and Community Members in meaningful conversations and gathered inputs to issue the [indiscernible] board of education to represent parent voice and include the experiences of the families in order to inform of the health of the sfusd policy as well as the implementation and importance of the district incentives. The p. A. C. Met with district Staff Members, Community Staff leader, and received updates to provide family perspectives and feedback on specific projects, including educational placement west coast research, planning, assessment, student nutrition services, technology, and whole portfolio planning. [indiscernible] Community Policy of planning teams including the local control Accountability Task force, the equity Student Task Force sorry, studies task force and Study Systems redesigned and the School Planning summit. [indiscernible] collaborative teams, bug annual [indiscernible] and the Community Partnership and forum. The community worked with the sfusd advisory communities, including africanamerican Parent Advisory Council, the community Advisory Community of special education, the district learning Advisory Community, and the new [indiscernible] sp young Youth Services to ensure that together we are hearing from, reflective of local student and family populations. Due to the shelter in place, the p. A. C. March and april meetings were canceled until we could determine the best way to have an online forum format while still meeting legal requirements of an open meeting and ensuring that we could provide appropriate language interpretation and translation services. This also allowed the p. A. C. Members to settle into their new family routines from working and learning at home. At the main p. A. C. Meeting, we discussed the full impact of the closures on students and families, using questions developed from the California Department of education from their School Districts and reports on covid19. The impact from the discussions is along with the input of the meeting with the a. A. P. A. C. , c. A. C. , and dlac. The school site was used to inform the joint advisory report of recommendations preparatoried on the may 25 meeting. [indiscernible] weve seen that many of our students and families have been in Distance Learning. Others are experiencing challenging in the necessary technology, tools, and reliable internet kerks connections. The ripple of the pandemic has impacted the ability to fu fundraise. [indiscernible] we will continue to we continue to work with the [indiscernible] spons sponsors [indiscernible] and our current founder, including evelyn and walter hash jr. Fund to study how to ensure the Financial Sustainability of the pact. Despite the challenges facing this district in the coming years. We hope that the vital work of the pact will be supported [indiscernible] the pact takes its mission to support we are proud of our accomplishments over the past year and we use the cycle of Continuous Improvement to reflect on ways to build our capacity and [indiscernible] we know the coming school year will many challenges and opportunities to the board and School Districts [indiscernible] for the policies and decisions that are in the best interests of our schools and families. As this School Year Comes to a close, we look forward to working with the board over the summer and school year to [indiscernible] while also keeping our students, teachers, and other staff safe. The final meeting of the p. A. C. 20202021 school year will be held tomorrow. [ ] [indiscernible] for the coming school year. Information can be found on our website. We would like to apply [indiscernible] thank you. Thank you, ladies. I didnt know if there might be comments or questions . If theres any Public Comments on this item. Yes, thank you, president. Please raise your hand if you would like to speak on the p. A. C. Report this evening. Im not seeing any Public Comment on this item, president sanchez. Thank you. Any Board Members . Vice president lopez. Hi, thank you. Thank you for that presentation and for being here and really recognizing that you are now teachers because of what were experiencing on top of being parents. And we honestly really honor your support and suggestions and want to hear from you. Im happy that that was named. Im really wondering what the meetings looked like as far as outreach. I think we talk about this a lot. But there are parents who want to voice their concerns and be involved. Who attend your meetings, what people you see, who is in the outreach, through whatever method, could you share that . Yes, absolutely. I go to my daughters school, shes in elementary school. I post flyers on the office and doors of our school. I put up flyers. I go to the p. A. C. Meetings to get a sense of where the data is going and later finding out that most of it is going to the Health Department that i currently work at. We do the local control and accountability budget. We go over that and discuss it at the monthly Board Meetings that happen on tuesday. We get a feel for socioeconomic environments that our children are in and ways that we can actually better their environments. We are firsthand communicators with the with dr. Matthews or the superintendent or anyone who can help out when it comes to extra communities for the children, programs that they qualify for. Like dlac, which is like second language learning. I can address that a little bit more. We network with the other advisories a lot. Oftentimes well have people attending our meetings that are currently attached to these things. Weve had those people come. Weve also had people come to have heard about it at a pa. C. Meeting. We reach out to school sites. We havent made a huge effort to draw large crude. I think the work may send to be focused on these are the current member representatives. These are the things we will work on and we will have guests come from different departments in sfusb. We have a p. A. C. Representative that serves on the tax Advisory Community. She comes and gives a report. Ive been doing more outreach this year. And amidst the whole pandemic, she reaches out to make sure we can include the voices of parents, even those who find it challenging to come to meetings, parents who are serving our foster youth, those with experience of incarceration. I hope this has answered your question. It did. This might not be the space for a forum. I certainly recognize that there is a need there. If the work that you all are doing can at least be shared with the Broader Community so we know what has been discussed, and also, im happy to be involved and learn about your process. Great, come to a meeting. Youre welcome, you know. Any other questions . Thank you all for the presentation. As we move forward in our process, that were now calling planning and partnership, im sure that the p. A. C. Will be consulted with in terms of the work thats being done to open our schools safely and adequately whenever that is going to happen in terms of brick and mortar. Thank you again. I will be appointing alita leblanc to the advisory charter committee. Section e, we need a motion and a second for the consent calendar. So move and second. Thank you. Public comment on consent item. Do we have any Public Comment . Yes, we do. We have one. Thank you. Hello, jessica. Hello, can you hear me . You have two minutes sorry, president sanchez, is it two minutes or one . Im jessica beard, the field rep from the local 21 field chapter. I just wanted to Say Something about the resolution 205206k12 thats listed in the consent agenda. It basically is work that our Occupational Therapists could do. I wonder why it adds to the further privatation in local 21. I just wanted to take this moment to raise some questions about this particular contract and ask why our workers cant do that work. Then also make the point that were at the point where it looks like the Occupational Therapy program in the district is almost privatized because only three of the workers are actual district employees. And just comment that it doesnt seem like the district has a consistent investment in this work if theyre consistently contracting it out. Thank you for your time. Thank you. One more, actually. I also want to support local 21 and their understanding about the private tooisation. This often happens where our work is contracted out and well deal with that and comment on that in the Board Meeting. Our employees do that work but havener been given opportunities. Their desire to do that is somehow subverted. Thats not how the district is and it doesnt fit with our values. Local 21 is our al had i ally and they need to be supported. We dont want to take away work from workers. Thank you so much. Thank you. President sanchez, that concludes Public Comment. Any items withdrawn or corrected . Yes, could you please read the items that have been corrected . Yes, thank you, dr. Matthews, i will. We have three items being withdrawn from the consent calendar 2069a 24, 26, and 31. Also to the consent calendar on number 14, change the words in that item from Dell Chromebook to hp chromebook. And finally in the attachment 20526k13 and 16, which were adopted at the last Board Meeting were inadvertently left in the group of ks. They will be removed from the group of attachments. That is it. All right. Please recall that we are also voting on the k resolutions voted on at the last meeting and guard forwarded to this meeting. Any items removed from First Reading by the board. I just have a question of which specific the local 21 member spoke about a number. I missed the actual resolution number. K12, special services. Is that in the k items . Is that in that table . Im not looking at it right n now, im looking at something else. [indiscernible] i think so. So that was 20526k12. And special services to the tune of 64,211. Do you want to severe that for discussion . Yeah. I think its practice for us to discuss when we can. What item is that . Its 20526k12. Its from the batch of resolutions that you forwarded to this meeting for adoption. Theres two charts on the k resolutions, one from last week and this week. I see. Its in that table . Yes, theres two. The very first table and chart, the left over k resolutions from last meeting and k12 is part of that. Okay. Yeah. All right. So youre going to severe for discussion. We can vote on it. Right . [indiscernible] is that one of the ones that we pulled because it was left if it was inadvertently left . I was just double checking. No, it was not. So its not part of last meetings. Okay. So were going to have to discuss that and vote on that separately. So we did pull 2069k26 . Yeah. Well get a roll call vote on the rest of the consent calendar now. [ roll call ]. Go ahead, do you have a question about this. Im having trouble finding it in the document. Its about independence wellness. Id like to know more about that, if staff can explain why were hiring a contractor, as opposed to using staff. Its gene on the excuse me [indiscernible]. Hi, everybody. Thank you. This is [indiscernible] to contract with some Occupational Therapists from an agency. The way i understand this from a colleague who oversees related services, its roughly over 100 f. T. E. S are involved. It encompasses physical therapists, Occupational Therapists, speech and language therapists and a few others. Occupational therapists could have been a hard and concealed position. Obviously i would prefer district employees. But when it comes time to provide services in the fall, if we dont have these services filled, it falls into another line item on the budget. We tried to hold a balance so were ensuring that we are fully staffed when we kick off the new year. Any other questions and comments . Based off of that, we dont have a position filled. This is to hold the funding because we suspect they wont be filled . I asked this question myself last week and i was told that we anticipate not being able to fill these positions because thats why they went to agencies. We had several other positions because we had an increase in numbers that [indiscernible] we looked for that sweet spot of how many we can post the positions and then put them in the nonpublic agency. All right. Any other questions or comments . All right. So we are going to vote on this item. Roll call. [ roll call ]. We need a report from rules committee. Commissioner. Yesterday at our rules and policy committee, we reviewed the student use of Technology Policy thats before the board tonight. Just again, to recognize that we dont have a policy in place and this is for specifically the use of districtissued devices. We as a Committee Also talked about the importance of having further discussions of use of phones during the Traditional School day and what that means for a later point, but just wanted to reiterate that policy for district devices that were district issued. The committee did a positive recommendation to the boards consideration tonight. Superintendent matthews, we need to read the recommendation into the record. Yes, reading that recommendation into the record will be the general counsel. Yes, the recommendation is that the board approve for policy 6163. 4, student use of technology. Thank you. Any speakers that have signed up want to speak to this item . Seeing none. Roll call, please. I have a question. Just as far as district distributed diviss, we have chromebooks thatevices, we have chromebooks that weve given out. Ive heard from presidio families when theyre giving out the ipads that there was huge concerns from parents about their inability to regulate their childrens use of those distric districtdistributed devices. Its about the cellphones and which parents can regulate and tablets which we never established a policy around. Ive gotten multiple emails from families that they were not able to regulate devices they did not give out. Im wondering if this is addressed in this policy. I dont think it is. This is not dealing with the distancelearning reality. It wouldnt apply to onetoone devices that were distributed at a school during a Normal School year, that kind of districtdistributed technology. I dont know. I would need more clarity on your question, commissioner. When you say regulate, do you mean what students could access . They were able to access youtube and they werent able to monitor screen time. I can see what websites my kids are accessing and what websites they were on. Parents were expressing frustration that because they werac sseed and managed by the district, it prevents parents from monitoring and regulating how much time kids are on devices and what other sites theyre accessing. Districtissued Technology Devices are subject to our fire wall. The chief would probably correct that term. They are intended to prevent students from accessing sites that are inappropriate. I know thats not 100 accurate sites that are approved, kid can [indiscernible] it doesnt permit parents to regulate screen time, thats correct, there isnt a way to do that. If the board wants to have further discussion, i know the chief flagged this that she wouldnt be here. We can discuss that later or follow up. I guess my question is, is it germane to this specific policy because theres a fine line between kids use of cellphones as when kids are using them and teachers. I dont want to hold this up if its separate. Is this something we should talk about in relation to this specific policy. I wouldnt want to move forward without if conversation. When we go back to school, hopefully it will be a bigger issue if we havent tackled this. I would want the chief to give you the factual answer on whether or not we have the ability to regulate screen time. I dont know if thats something were able to do. Thats the fist thing. The second thing, i would ask the board to go ahead and adopt tonight. One of the reasons theres urgency is to some extent well have Distance Learning and we will have it over the summer. We need to have a board policy on use. That doesnt mean its set in stone and the board cant make amendments or rescissions. I would like to make a request of the policy committee that we take this up in the near future because hopefully we will go back to school. Thank you, commissioner. Any other comments or questions. Roll call. [ roll call ]. Section h, special order of business, motion on the resolution authorizing the student to negotiate an agreement with the planning in Partnership Group not to exceed 93,000. We have a short presentation to give you and the board and the public an idea of what the group and the process is. Presenting tonight will be the chief of h. R. Good evening, commissioners. Im the chief officer for the district. I will be walking you through how we selected the planning and Partnership Groups and we will be happy to take your questions and comments. If you could go to the next slide. Knowing that the work of reopening schools was going to be a massive undertaking, given all of the uncertainties and complexities, we published an r. F. Q. On may 8. We wanted a comprehensive plan for returning to inperson schooling and returned to this partnership. We have received seven proposals for our consideration. The way we went about selecting the group that we hope to award the contract to is first scoring the written proposals. Scores was done by our deputy superintendent and our chief of student and family support, and myself as chief of h. R. We scored all seven and moved the top three finalists which was an interview with the executive leadership team. We selected the proposal from the planning and Partnership Group as our finalist as their project expertise and their facility with facility and diversity work, which approach needs to be robust and fairly quick because we have a limited amount of time before schools open in august. The founders of this group is have worked with the district before. They have expertise with the district from work with the district before. One thing i should mention is that in addition to these colleagues, they are bringing in an additional staff. One of the things that is true is that the way we envisioned what is possible in early may is different in early june once weve gotten in june. What weve gotten to do is to focus on a scope of work that accounts for multiple contingencies and scenarios. A Stakeholder Engagement plan rooted in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. And i think speaking to some of the comments weve heard earlier, we know how important it is to engage with our staff. There is a short amount of time to do the engagements in. Were pleased to have our expertise to do so. Following all of the different guidance and policies that are coming out that feed into the policymaking that we will recommend to the board over the next couple of weeks. That is what we are doing and i look forward to answering any questions that you may have. Is there any Public Comment for this item . Yes. Hello . Im here. I just want to make it very, very clear. Im commenting in my formal role with being with sfusb, can we please, please stop connecting ourselves to folks that are part of the privatization world. This is playing out over and over in sfusb. I am deeply concerned and trying to hold my composure around this. Please stop going to these folks. Theyre experts in doing this and they thrive on public money to feed their corporate machines. Please do not coordinator these people or hire them. Thank you. Hello, i want to echo the previous comments. Im not sure how we ended up with the previous organization. If you look at the partner page, you will see they are connected to Partner Organizations that are suing San Francisco Public Schools to get more access to [indiscernible] and the be bellweather group. The principals themselves have worked with [indiscernible] budget cuts on the one hand and hire organizations that are connected with organizations that are invested in pushing online and privatation of Public Schools on the other hand. I would ask the board to reject this. Thank you. [indiscernible]. For Public Education in San Francisco come august. So its really very disappointing. Your students experiencing homelessness and who are marginally housed, those [indiscernible] when we hire firms that work with these groups, my question is the past chair of the Advisory Committee as a member, how can they engage and represent and support and make sure that the populations who have very little experience supporting will be represented and heard. Thank you. I want to speak to some of the comments made. I was glad to hear from the advisory groups and i appreciate that. I was un awaaware and concerned about some of the stuff i heard. Can you hear me . I think that San Francisco folks have made it clear that we dont want Charter Schools taking over our district. Its happened in other cities. Its not something we want here. I want to weigh in on my partnership with them as a consultant and hope that the board sees this as well. President sanchez, that was the final speaker. Thank you for the Public Comments. Daniel, do you want to respond to any of this . Let me start. One of the things thats important to i believe is important to remember and appreciate the comments. There are a couple of things. One, if not all, have some connection with charters and traditional Public Schools, all of the seven or almost all of the seven that apply [indiscernible] the second piece is that when we went through the process what were looking for is really a project manager. Its not someone whos going to come in and try to start a charter school, but theyre managing a project forward and not giving us the answers. The answers are going to come from us and the community. In our selection as were listening to the responses of the best project manager and this is the team that came through. Hopefully that clears up some. I want to make sure thats clear. I dont know if you want to add more. The only thing i would add is a clarification. From some of the Public Comment is the network of Charter Schools is not. They are doing an equity and Inclusion Work in spaces. They are talking about inclus n inclusion. This is one of the things we appreciated about them, there is a clear commitment to look at the organization who sits in high leadership positions that we thought that was aligned with our core values of being

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