Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Joint City School District And City College Committee 20240712

Announcements . Clerk yes. Committee members will be in attendance and participate in the meeting as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Participate in Public Comment by calling 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 14674 1467489988. Press pound, and pound again. You will hear discussion and be muted, in listening mode only. Press starthree to be entered into the queue. When prompted, speak slowly and clearly and turn down your t. V. Or computer. Or, in the alternative, you may email me at erica. Major sf. Org. We are joined by interpreters who are interpreting in c cantonese and spanish. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk, will you please call the roll. [roll call] clerk you have a quorum. Mr. Chair, would you like to make a motion to excuse supervisor fewer from attendance . Supervisor haney yes, id like to move to excuse supervisor fewer from attendance here today. Supervisor ronen second. Clerk okay. Thank you. Supervisor haney do you need a roll call vote on that . Clerk yes, roll call vote. [roll call] clerk you have five ayes six. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk. Will you please call items 1 and 2 together. Clerk yes. Item number 1 is a hearing on how covid19 have impacted the scheduled policies and provisions for San Francisco Unified School District and the city college of San Francisco. Item 2 is a hearing to discuss how the city can assist parents, teachers, students, and children with learning during the pandemic. Members wishing to comment on this should call 4156550001. The meeting is 1467489988. Press pound, and pound again. To enter the queue, press star and three, which will indicate you have raised your hand. I believe we have somebody here for translation . Interpreter yes, i will do the translation in the spanish language. Supervisor haney okay. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation] interpreter thank you. Interpreter my name is vivienne, and im going to do the cantonese translation. [speaking cantonese language] e [end of translation] interpreter thank you. Supervisor haney madam clerk, is that it . Do we have another interpretation . Clerk mr. Chair, we had a problem with the bridge connection during the first part of the meeting, so just to let everyone know and our listeners know who may be calling in to hear todays proceedings, this is the joint city schools meeting for august 14, 2020. There are two items on todays agenda. They have been called. We have interpretation Assistance Available for callers in spanish and chinese for callers who may need assistance. Agenda items 1 and 2 have been called, and i believe were ready to go, mr. Chair. Supervisor haney great. I hope our other clerk is doing all right, and we appreciate her work to solve the issues. Supervisor ronen supervisor haney, im sorry to interrupt. I just got a message from someone calling in who said they didnt hear any of the translation. Connie, im sorry. Can you do the spanish version and, im sorry, the cantonese, as well. Interpreter im the spanish interpreter, and ill do the introduction in spanish now. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation] interpreter thank you. Interpreter my name is vivienne, and ill be doing the chinese announcement now. [speaking cantonese language] can t [end of translation] interpreter thank you. Supervisor haney all right. Madam clerk, do we i believe they need to call items 1 and 2, as well. If y claudia, if you could call items 1 and 2, please . Interpreter sure. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation] interpreter thank you. [speaking cantonese language] [end of translation] interpreter thank you. Supervisor haney madam clerk, are we all set . Clerk you may begin. Supervisor haney okay. Great. Well, first of all, before we start, i should take a moment to thank our hard working translation staff and our clerks. It is absolutely critical that this meeting is accessible to all of our residents and families and educators, and i really appreciate that we provided translation for this meeting. You know, i want to just quickly provide an introduction to these two items, and then, i will also pass it over to supervisor ronen, who also wants to provide some introductory comments. This committee, for those of us who are watching or listening in at this time, is a very unique committee for our city. Its a committee that exists between three different institutions that have their own governing committees. Its a committee between the city, the school board of trustees, and city college. We meet regularly, and i think during this time of crisis for our city, its deeply impacting students, parents, and educators, this meeting is more important than ever. We are meeting every two weeks. We will have another meeting in two weeks at 10 00 a. M. To have suggest suggest suggested solutions for feedback, questions, and comments. We have so many folks who are here going to provide presentations and updates on their work, but this has been an unprecedented time for all of us, and i really appreciate the hard work of our elected leaders who are here, of our e educators who are grappling with thing thats no one has ever experienced, our families, and our staff, who have been leading much of this work. We know that school is starting in just a couple days, and we are going to have a school year that has it will present challenges unlike any that weve ever had in our city or anywhere else, and same for city college. And so our ability to Work Together, to problem solve together, to make sure that we are communicating, collaborating together, is essential for us to provide the supports and services that our kids, students, and families and educators need. So we have two hearings that weve called together. The first, as i mentioned, is our continuing conversation about the impact of covid on our schools and on city college, and the policy solutions, protocols, and steps being taken to address the changing needs of our students, educators, and families. The second hearing is specifically on Distance Learning, which obviously is one of the important tools that is being implements, and folked have a lot of questions. People still if this is going to work, we need to make sure the information is there. We need to make sure we hear from our students, our families, and our educators, and theyll have a chance to speak today via united educators of San Francisco, and were thankful theyre with us today and a part of that. So i know we had a number of these topics discussed two weeks ago or i guess it was three weeks ago because we had a recess in between. We are going to be talking every two weeks about these things, every time we meet because thing right side moving to quickly, and we need to get out information to our parents, students, and educators. So with that, im going to turn it over to supervisor ronen for her introductory comments and anyone else who wants to put forth any comments. I thank you, supervisor ronen, for bringing forward this hearing. Im proud to be a cosponsor of this hearing with you, and we will continue to focus on what we can answer today and any other questions and solutions that we should discuss in further hearings. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you very much, chair haney, and its a pleasure to be here. This is my first joint select hearing, and im going to be joining you every two weeks to make sure that we you know, every single child is successfully learning in this new environment. As supervisor haney said, School Starts monday under the most unusual of circumstances, and todays hearing is about getting information. Information about what the school day will look like, how many hours will our kids be learning directly from teachers online, when its referred to as synchronized learning. My daughter is in Elementary School, and i have absolutely no idea what to do on monday morning, and so i hopefully will learn a lot about that today. It will also be about getting information for our educators. How are our educators going to teach if theyre also going to be at home with children doing Distance Learning . Its also about families. What are families going to do if they have to work fulltime . What will happen if they dont have any space, Reliable Technology or space to allow their children to learn, especially the little ones. If they had united with other families to make it all work, is it even allowed. What are the hubs that dcyf is planning . Are they for children with disabilities . When do they start . How do i get a space . So many questions. And then, for me, personally, whats most important about this hearing today is to hear from families. What do different types of families facing different Distance Learning obstacles need to make this work . Because despite our best efforts of our educators, our school board, their union, and the city, were in the midwilling of a pandemic middle of a pandemic, and switching to Distance Learning is an extremely daunting task. I as a parent of a child whos in Elementary School, dealing with this right alongside you, i want to do everything to help to make Distance Learning successful for every child in San Francisco. Today is a first step to learning whats already planned and what more is needed, its about asking a lot of questions and getting the clearest answers possible, and its about looking forward, not backwards. I know that i share the optimism of supervisor haney despite how difficult this moment is, that if were all working together and communicating regularly and clearly, that we can get through this, and we can do it really well. And so with that, im looking forward to this hearing. I just i just wanted to let you all know that, in order of presentation, were going to first hear from d. P. H. Because dr. Aragon has to leave us early about the Different Health orders in place and how to do Distance Learning in a safe manner . Then, were going to hear from sfusd about the plans that are in place and then from the united educators of San Francisco to talk about the m. O. U. That was just ratified as well as what teachers and educators need, and then, finally, from dcyf about the Community Hubs that that department is organizing. So after we hearing opening comments, we look really forward to hearing from the city staff that have been working so hard. Thank you. Supervisor haney great. Any other trusties ees or commissioners that would like to provide any additional comments . I s im looking for any hands. I see a sure. Commissioner randolph . Yes, thank you for putting together this hearing. I think its important for us to continue to discuss this. We actually have our flex day in San Francisco whether our teachers are putting together their plans to discuss the hearings here at the joint committee. We are going to be fully online for the fall semester, as you heard in the previous presentation, but it doesnt mean that our students are secure online. We still donhave studentes thae food insecure or other students that still dont have ways to take classes. Thank you for putting this together. Im looking forward to hearing from d. P. H. And others on how we can work Better Together to make sure that we have all the information that we need as policy makers and leaders to make decisions that impact all san franciscans. Supervisor haney great. So im going to move forward. I know theres a lot of folks that im sure have a lot of questions, and we need to leave time for that. Why dont we move forward to supervisor ronen, as you said, and bring on our first presenter, who is from the department of Public Health, dr. Aragon. Good morning, everyone. My name is dr. Tomas aragon. Im the Public Health officer of San Francisco. Im going to do a very brief overview on the current status of San Francisco and then ana will go onto plan for the status of opening up schools. Just to let you know, i was born and raised in San Francisco. My wife is a first grade teacher in San Francisco. She has been teaching for over 25 years. Shes currently teaching at bessie carmichael, and she taught at malcolm x for ten years. I feel very connected to this very specific issues, and the Health Department is committed to making progress on this issue. Im going to briefly do an overview of hospital cases so you understand where we are in San Francisco, and then, im going to cover some key principles that we need to think about when were doing Virtual Learning at this time. Next slide. [inaudible] the amounts of deaths that you saw in new york city was 45 times higher per capita. The number of deaths that weve had since june, on the lefthand part of that curve. And then, when you move over to the right hand curve, you see thats our hospitalizations. Youll see we have an initial peak early on, and now, were in another hospital surge. So the hospital surge were experiencing now is worse than we had in the past. So because of the conditions that we find ourselves in, what San Francisco is experiencing, the bay area is experiencing, all of california, including Southern California and, right now, its very a lot worse in central california. We ended up whats called on the watch list, which means that schools schools cannot cannot open, and we had to close down malls, indoor nonessential offices, and then we are put on pause. So this is the condition that were in right now. Next slide, please. Overall, across the united states, including california, latinos have been infected the most, and in terms of mor mortality, its been African American and pacific islanders. You see there on the east side of the city where we have the highest rates of infections, thats primarily driven by infects in our latino population. African americans have been less impacted in San Francisco, but that can change, and its up to us to continue to do everything that we can. If you go online, you can look at all the neighborhoods to see where the per capita rate is in that part. An important principle is for us to eventually get kids back in school, we have to Community Transmission down because when schools start, you are going to have kids arriving to school who are infected. Next slide. Im just going to cover a few principles that are very critical for everything we do, whether its going to school, running a meeting, its important to everything. We know so much more now than we knew even just a few weeks ago. Ive already mentioned the state surge, that were on the watch list, and were on a pause for opening schools. Under mitigation, theres four three principles thats critical. Mobility. Every time you leave your house, youre going to be in an environment where youre going to be interacting with people outside your household. Thats mixing, so it really depends on how many people youre going to be mixing with outside your household. Ventilation. Outside is much safer than indoors. When youre with other people, the number of people youre spending time with and the length of time youre interacting with them is really important. If you it can be a high risk, so its important that we mitigate it as much as possible. The next portion is phase coverings. Youll Face Coverings. Its really important that everyone wears Face Coverings, and although it reduces the risk dramatically, it doesnt lower it completely. Thats why youre seeing the person wearing the Face Covering is still putting virus into the air, but a lot less than if they were not. We want everybody to wear a Face Covering, and we want the little coming out to be diluted by ventilation. Of course, hand washing and environmental disinfection. So these are really, really critical principles. On the cityside, i just want to s mention the way we focus on this are directives, rules that have the weight of law behind them, and then practices. We use this three tier approach to implement policy. In general, San Francisco has been more health protected than other parts of california, and were doing better than most places. We really feel strongly about mitigating the risk so we can get kids back in school. We feel this is our equity and racism challenge, where we can have a big impact on kids and their future. Im going to turn it over to ana, whos going to go into detail. Thank you, dr. Aragon. So as dr. Aragon has said, we need to move forward with safer reopening for schools and carefully consider what are the minimum health and Safety Standards that must be met in order to reopen schools to be safer, and this is regardless of whether were on the watch list or not. So we are developing baseline criteria that we will use as a gating mechanism to decide when to reopen schools. And we want this to be grounded in data and science. And research has shown that schools are safer to reopen when there is lower rates of Community Transmission, so well be monitoring our status on the state watch list, so well also be using the key indicators in San Francisco that we have to move forward in our policy decisions. Next slide, please. As dr. Aragon had alluded to earlier, there are guidelines that we have developed and also the state has developed to prevent and mitigate the spread of covid19 specific to the School Setting. The ones that are specifically to the School Setting are to develop stable cohorts that are small and do not mix, similar to the concept of not mixing households. We want to look at the amount of movement within the school, again, to try to prevent the cohort from mixing as much as possible, we have developed symptom screenings and Health Screenings to be implemented for students and staff. What are the triggers that would need to be met at a school site that would have a school switch to Distance Learning . And, of course, specialized trainings and communication plans for schools. Some of the guidelines that are universal that are four schools and any other setting are cleaning and disinfection, Face Coverings, practicing healthy hygiene, physical distancing, and testing and contact tracing. And we have updated our guidance for reopening schools for inperson instruction and posted it on our website this week. The main updates were to bring it in alignment with the state guidance that was published in july and also to bring it into compliance with our Face Covering order in order to have more Children Wear Face Coverings. Next slide, please. But as you all know, schools are not open right now, so we have issued times for Distance Learning, including care and recreation activities, including a limited amount of youth sports, but this is limited to small, stable cohorts of physical activity that must be conducted outdoors because it is safer, and again, implementing physical distancing and also that theres no shared equipment. It is important to note that the outofSchool Time Programs can use the sites, but the sit sites cannot run separate programs. Youll find this information on our website. Next slide, please. We have been extremely busy, especially this week, updating or publishing a number of pieces of guidance for our community as we move forward. As of today, there has been an update published today earlier, and weve updated some of our previous documents to bring it in alignment with the state and with the c. D. C. Guidance. We also published the tip sheets for these covid learning pods that are forming. Technically, learning pods are not in compliance with the stayathome Health Orders because it mixes some households in indoor setting, but we realize that some people are moving forward any way. We have published some safety tips for those that are considering this option so we can reduce the transmission of Community Spread. And all of these guidance can be found in this website thats published in the white box at the bottom of this slide. Next slide, please. One of our key strategies to mitigate covid19 is for testing, and we are strongly urging anyone who is considering to be tested to please contact your primary care provider to get tested . The California Department of health has filed an emergency regulation to require health plans to pay for covid19 testing, and San Francisco has issued a health alert to providers to conduct covid19 testing, so this should be covered by everyones primary care provider, but there are also additional testing resources that are available in the city, and you can go to this website to find those testing options. We are also encouraging everyone to get their vaccinations to be as safer as possible, including the flu vaccines, because we are trying hard to prevent as much of these transmissions come the fall, including covid19, and hopefully preventing flu at the same time. Next slide, please. We recognize that this is a very stressful time for everybody, and im very poor substitute for [inaudible] but just going to bring forth some resources that we have at the Health Department for Mental Health, and this is for teens and families and the parents and caregivers . So there is an access line that we have and that we maintain. We have a list of providers, multilingual providers that offer programs and clinics . We have an Early Childhood Mental Health initiative, and this is for child care sites, prek sites, kindergarten sites, and then, we also partner with the School District for the Family Resources. Next slide, please . We also provide Mental Health resources for suicide prevention, including our talk line and working we have a comprehensive crisis unit that could be called if a child is in psychiatric crisis, and we also partner with Human Resources and child resources, and these resources are available 247. Next slide, please. We also know there is increases in domestic violence. Theres some Mental Health resources for prevention of domestic violence. Were working with our partners at la casa de la decimadre and child protective services. And next slide, please. I think that is the end of our presentation, and we welcome your questions, and we thank you for any comments. I just wanted to say that some families are having access issues, in terms of getting on the call. Through the chair, so again, just one quick announcement. If folks want to listen to the meeting, they would just need to call the number 4156550001. So that numbers 4156550001, and then youll be asked to enter the meeting code. The meeting code is 1467489988. Again, thats 1467489988. Press pound, and pound again. Once you press those two pounds, youll hear the meeting, but you will be in listening mode only. If you need further assistance, please feel free to email me at erica. Major sfgov. Org. Thats erica. Major sfgov. Org, and ill walking through it. Supervisor ronen and my understanding is this is being broadcast on channel two of sfgovtv, is that right . Clerk supervisor, just checking with our support staff, and youll just give me a moment. I can see it on sfgovtv, too, so i assume its being broadcast with a delay. Supervisor haney okay. So people can view it they can call in, and thats how they give comment, and they can listen it to that way, or they can view is on sfgovtv. Clerk it looks like we are on channel 78 for the city and county of San Francisco. You can also stream it online at sfgovtv. Org, and its streaming on the second channel, not the first. If people want to comment, how do they raise their hand if theyre on the phone call . Clerk they need to please starthree, and on our end, well start to see folks lining up. D. T. Is saying we have one im sorry, 19 listeners with two in queue so far. So theyll only need to press starthree once. If you press starthree over and over and over again, that will toggle you in and out of the queue. I apologize. Update, we have 16 listening with three in queue. Supervisor haney all right. Great. So supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen yes, thank you so much for these presentations. I have a first kind of basic question. Are School Educators public School Educators considered essential workers . This is tomas. Yes, they are considered essential workers. Education has always been considered an eventual activity, and i think what happened is when schools closed in march, they sort of went off the radar because we ended up focusing on the other Industry Sectors. We still advise people if they want to get tested, they should first start with their health care provider, and then, if theyre having any problems, we also have Additional Resources in the city, but yes. Supervisor ronen okay. And im asking for a number of reasons, but one of the main reasons is that i, for one, am worried about educators who have their own children that are doing Distance Learning, and how theyre supposed to do those two things at the same time, i have no idea. And so i know that the city runs a hub, you know, for hub for essential workers, and i wanted to make sure they were eligible if they chose to participate in those child care learning hubs . Ana, do you know about that . I believe that dcyf is handling the enrollment for the learning hubs, so well ask dr. [inaudible] to speak to that. Supervisor ronen, do you want me to speak to that now or should i wait for my time . Supervisor ronen okay. So youre going to present about children with essential workers . Im not, but we are working on a program for children of essential workers. So the recreation and Parks Department will be standing up six sites throughout the city to support children of essential workers. However, it is based on the existing number of children in their sites now, so theres theres limited Slots Available for those children. Supervisor ronen okay. But technically because he h educators are essential workers, their children would be eligible for the slots. The question is, would there be enough to them. Correct. Supervisor ronen okay. When we come to Susan Solomon, i would love to ask the question if she is working on making more of these slots. Just f. Y. I. , i was asked this question so many times, and nobody knew if educators were considered essential workers, including their own union, so thats good to know. Okay. Secondly, with this the learning hub model and were doing this out of order in a way because of dr. Aragons schedule, but you know enough about it, if it how are we going to ensure that the staff, the students, and their families remain safe. If you could comment on that. Yeah, so the model that were going to use is based on the experience that we had with running cybercamps. I dont know can you hear me . Clerk if someone is talking, please put your cell phone on mute. Yeah. So the model that were going to use is the model that we use for running summer camps, and so thats why the guidelines are really critical. We know some people are going to be doing these informally, so we want to get this information out there. We know from our experience over the summer that if you really follow the principles carefully, you really minimize risk. You dont eliminate it completely. We had infections over the summer, and we had to do some outbreak investigations, but overall, the experience over the summer was a positive experience, so we can mitigate risks, but Everyone Needs to follow the guidelines carefully. Supervisor ronen and could you summarize the guidelines briefly. Yeah. So small, stable cohorts, doing as little as possible, physical distancing, hand washing, environmental disinfection. If a child is sick, do not come in. If staff is sick, do not come in. Theres daily screenings. One of the things that we recognize, oftentimes, the way that staff becomes infected, they dont become infected from the kids, they become infected from each other. Oftentimes, what happens is when people let their guards down, thats when infects tend to happen. So if we follow these guidelines, we can minimize the risk. You can never eliminate it 100 . Supervisor ronen okay. And for the infections that happened this summer weve had a lot of experience both from the essential worker cohorts in the spring and in the summer camps. Can you talk about what happened when there was someone who was was positive in one of those cohorts . So what generally happens is when somebody is positive, theyre taken out of that theyre taken out of that cohort; that then, we have our contact Case Investigation and Contact Contact tracing team evaluate the risk and really try to understand what happened. Its more challenging with younger kids, when the kids are really young, were going to assume in general the whole pod was a close contact, and were going to go ahead and quarantine and recommend they get tested and not come back together. We want to make sure that there wasnt a lot of transmission. And we do have specialists that have really dedicated the whole summer. We have pediatricians and people that are doing this really efficiently, and they have put together a slide set documenting their experience over the summer, and wed be happy to share that information and send it over to you because it already has been presented to ucsf just so you can have more information on that experience. Supervisor ronen okay. And how many positives were there this summer and in the spring in these cohorts . Skbl yea. Yeah, i dont have that Information Available at my fingertips. Id have to get that information, but i can get it to you. Supervisor ronen okay. That would be great, and id love that, but the whole point of this hearing is to get information to families because theres families trying to figure out for monday if they should take this risk and do this and whats right for these families. The whole purpose is todays hearing is to give concrete information, not that its going to come later, but to give it today so they can start to spread that information. Clerk supervisor ronen, if i may im sorry. If youre not speaking, could you please mute yourself. There are approximately 500 cases in summer camps. We dont know the exact denominator, but we know there were quite a few. Most of the cases among children in San Francisco were among children ages 8 to 17, and it was approximately around 2 , and the entire county was around 4 . Supervisor ronen thank you. That was so helpful. Thank you. There you go. Thank you, ana. Supervisor ronen so 500 cases out of thousands registered. And was there an outbreak that happened in cohorts themselves or was it you know, there were several individual children, and you were able to contain it. The purpose of these questions is to give families a sense of whether or not they feel comfortable participating in a cohort. So if i may, i will take that question because im the team lead for the schools and child care hub, and any youth setting contacts or hub first, and we help them collect whats called the line list . Theres different protocols whether theres a case a suspected case versus a confirmed case, and one of our documents that we published this week on our website is a quick guide for a use program in what to do in all those different settings and communication tools. And im happy to share that afterwards or even just put the link in the chat. But in the event that there is a confirmed case, we typically have the whole cohort quarantine for 14 days and immediate conduct contact tracing. There were very little cases of covid19 spreading to another cohort. In fact, i think there might have been just one or two. Typically, it has stayed within that cohort, and that is why the concept of a small, stable cohort is so important because it can contain the spread of the virus since this is so contagious. Supervisor ronen okay, and when you say spread to another cohort, thats really Important Information, but my original question was, in a cohort itself, when there was one child or adult who tested positive for covid, did you find that, in general, a majority of the cohort then tested positive or was it contained to one or two people . If you could just give us a sense of that . I dont know the exact numbers, but the majority of it was basically one or two. The majority of it was the staff bringing that in from the community, and its very it was very rare that there was more than two cases in a cohort. I dont have the exact numbers, but that was the general experience and the general pattern over the summer. Supervisor ronen okay. Is that data published anywhere . Okay. Its not published, but the leader of that section did put it together and presented it at a ucsf grand rounds, so we can make it available. Supervisor ronen okay. That would be fantastic. Thats really helpful, and maybe we can even have her come on next in two weeks and present that. Yeah. So one thing just to think about, and one of the reasons why a learning hub is going to be very different than a summer camp, in a summer camp, the class sizes were limited to 12. Class hubs at this point are going to be limited to 20. The other thing is summer camps would usually just be a few weeks long, but a learning hub may go on for a period of time. Learning hubs, the environment is indoors, whereas summer camps, most of the activities are outdoors. So you cant quantify the risks because we dont know the risks from summertime. If people follow the guidelines, we can reduce the risk, but because it is an extended period of time, it will be longer, and the cohorts will be bigger. We can imagine that the percentages will be higher than over the summer. Supervisor ronen the advantages that we had over the fall that we didnt have over the spring is now we have some data that parents can evaluate what their risk tolerance is, whether its participating in a hub or participating in these selfforming family whatever they are hubs . In this ucsf presentation, im sure there wasnt a lot of people there. Ill work with you to distribute that widely, but thats great information for families to use to determine their own risk tolerance. I agree. We have a specific form that lays out the facts, heres what we know, and its very transparent. Its not a riskfree environment; that kids can become sick, and the parents have to signed. Its similar to an informed consent . Parents have to sign so they understand and acknowledge the risk. Ana, is there anything you want to add to that . No, thats pretty much it. Thank you. And thats why we want anybody thats considering to did a learning hub to please register . We want to know of every single learning hub so we can make sure we can connect with them with Important Information, not to do it informally on the side, and well have people that will tapeople have ana talk about that. Yeah. Well have registration similar to what was done for the summer camp, and that will be done through the dcyf website, and ill let the director talk more about that later. Supervisor ronen and i have been talking with families, but i do want to talk about the staff thats going to staff the hubs themselves. If you were saying that the most cases were among adults, not kids, thats very important to know, as well, and to analyze. So thats really helpful. What is the difference between so you you issued two different documents. One was a directive about o. S. T. Outofschool time and then, you issued guidance around these i dont even know what were calling them where families are getting together to engage in Distance Learning together in many different forms. Why are there different rules for these two different types of Community Learning experiences . Yes, i can tell you i can tell you the way that weve been thinking about it and working with the city attorney. Thats been really the way that we have rolled out for any activity thats allowed in San Francisco. The state usually the state usually provides us with some guidance that we start with . And if youll see what happens in most counties, most counties just say the guidance is on the state line, go for it. And in San Francisco, weve been very what we actually do, is we take that state guidance, we have subject Matter Experts look at that really carefully, pull out the latest core science, and say these are the things that we want to make sure that absolutely everybody does. So minimum standards, and the reason theyre in the directive, and the reason were putting the force of law behind it is we may shutdown the activities that you have. So usually, theres other things that there are additional things that people can do, other best practices . We put those out as guidance, and also, our information and guidance takes all of this information, and well try to make it in more plain speak in the guidance. Thats why we end up having these three Different Levels, and thats the approach that San Francisco has taken . We dont just take what the state just gives us . The state has been more p permissive around risk. It creates more work on our end, but we have been doing a great job. If i may expand on that, supervisor ronen, i think to your point, this is a guidance and directive on outofschool type programs, and there is a tip sheet on what families are organizing on their own. To be clear, the programs for outofschool time, the directive provides Legal Backing to the guidance that we have issued. What families are organizing on their own in a household is technically not allowable under this stayathome order because we are not allowing different households to mix. We are very worried about the levels of Community Transmission that might occur from these kinds of learning pods or microschools. We recognize families are doing this any way, and we published a tip sheet for families to consider to make sure that its safer, but again, it is technically not allowed under the stayathome order. Tomas, is there anything youd like to add to that . No, thats perfect. Supervisor ronen so what happens if its happening any way . Are you going to shut it down . Well, we cant regulate what people are doing inside their own homes, can we . No, it is really a challenge. I think, yeah, what happens inside peoples homes, its hard to monitor just the activity across the city. I think in general, we focus on education . We tend to have more leverage with entities that have you know, that are organized, like a school even though schools cant do it at this point, but if, for example, if a forprofit is charging for this activity, we tend to have more leverage in folks that have a business entity that allows us to be able to leverage the law. Supervisor ronen alison, im almost done, and then, well move on. Okay. Well, i do appreciate that youve issued the guidance because it is happening, because the bottom line is that parents are working fulltime, and so if they have young kids, they have to be there next to their kids the entire time Distance Learning is take placing place, and you cannot do those two things at the same time. I know. I tried, and you cannot do that. So i appreciate that you issued this guidance, and that youre basically saying that its not going to happen. And even with these learning hubs, theres just not even close to enough space in them for all of the families, even if were talking about the same families the entire time. I have a lot of questions, but i know that alison is itching to ask, so maybe well come back to me. Thank you. I just wanted to jump in and ask im looking theres a pandemic pod facebook group. People are very cavalier about it, and theyre asking Health Related and theyre saying, is it safe, and theyre getting booted out of the group. It seems to me like this is a significant enough Health Concern that, just like when we have july 4, you know, we know people tend to get together for barbecues. There was a lot of messages that went out around safety for that, and im not hearing any messages from the department of health around this issue. Yeah. So i think were going to we will do a better job in terms of the messaging. I wanted to express one of the big challenges that we have as a city, and this is just true this is true, really, in california and the united states. In order for us to get our kids back in school, we need to get Community Transmission down, so its all of us, and i think this is a different mindset that we have to have. If you can, you cant just focus on the families that have kids. Every adult, every business, thats where the transmission is happening, and thats why were not opening schools. I agree, its not just a message to those families, but its a message to everybody in the city, every adult in the city, that we have a duty to mitigate risk, and we have to put our kids back in school first. Thats one of the frustrations that i have. Dr. Colfax is closing the parking at the beach this weekend, because he knows its going to get hot, and he knows that hundreds, if not thousands of people are going to start gathering. Thats what were up against. I appreciate i know that everybody has the same goal, and so i really appreciate everybodys support. So i guess in that, i was really specific. When people are talking about pods, theyre also talking about these micropods. Theyre talking about pods to talk about nanny share, and they theyre also using pods to talk about share care. Theres a lot of ways that parents are trying to take care of their needs, and so i think a lot are less risky than others, so i think you might be able to add that to the list that youre sharing. It might not take too much time, but if youd add that, and then, we can promote it as a district. Yeah. I think ana has already published some material on those topics. Well make sure that everything is published is in one place and make it accessible . And additionally, i did want to comment on reporting about the covid cases over the summer. As a district, we closed an almost 3,000student school based on a parent having covid, and that was when we were scared and didnt know a lot of information, but i think the public deserves to know when we close cohort in, you know, city programs . That doesnt i think the public deserves to know about that. And additionally, as far as testing goes, i think its we cant just say, you know, we want families to get tested if they may have contact. I heard from a parent who was in whose child was in one of these programs, and they said that they got a lot of different information, had difficulty getting testing. They didnt get contacted until about six days after there was potential contact from the teacher, and i feel like especially, at least, you know, for city programs, and this is for dcyf, but i do feel that d. P. H. Could provide specific guidance for what needs to be in place. Because im seeing the language in your guidance, it says you should call parents afterwards, and i think they have to have a really clear care plan and not just expect, you know, that the y or something is going to call parents and help them walkthrough a lot of im hearing its very difficult, depending on your health care provider, you know, to get that kind of to get quick testing. And, you know, folks have Different Levels of access to health care, and depending on where you are in the city, people have access to those different kinds of testing spots, so i think that information needs to be clear, you know, for the learning hubs and any of the care providers. I agree. And then, i guess, i had a huge question about why, you know, your guidance allows for 22 its 20 is it 20 students for outofschool type programs, and then, you say mixing is not safe for a pod of ten kids. That seems like opposite and schools arent open at all. Were going to open indoor longterm learning, which is also mixing of up to 20 kids, and then, pods are not recommended. Those seem like three thats very confusing, i think, to the public. Yeah, yeah. So we the way we we we were trying to be realistic of what was going to happen . We knew that people were going to come together, and we knew that some were going to be more than 12. We are also saying if your space cannot accommodate physical distancing, the lower the number, the better. So we were trying to be specific, saying we didnt want more than 20. We actually wanted it smaller than that. We wanted to make sure that you can accommodate physical distancing. So were trying to be we realize smaller is better, but we realize that its hard for those people that are going to do it because for those people that are putting it together and staffing it, theyre trying to be realistic on how they can accommodate it and make it happening. It sounds like youre making the recommendations based on what people can do, not whats on scientifically recommended. Well, youre bringing up a really good challenge. Thats why i showed those cu e curves in the very beginning, and i showed those curves in the very beginning so i can be str straight with everybody. We have more Community Transmission right now than weve ever had in San Francisco. Right now, we are on the watch list. In spite of that, people are still going to do activities, so were trying to give people information so they can mitigate the risk, but were trying to put information out there because theres risk. I appreciate your effort. I do, but i think as far as an antiracism issue, the families in most needs are going to be black families, homeless families, foster youth. Those are going to be the heightest risk highest risk, and what your recommendation allows is those children to be placed in a higher risk than what they would have been over the summer. Thats why we didnt want to open until the state gave us guidance. Families may decide that they cant take that risk because theyre already highrisk communities. And so youre kind of creating a bear yes, sir for them to participate; the most highrisk communities have a higher bare year because they may not be able to take that risk. I know several black moms living in Public Housing in chinatown. If they go down, they are the sole, like, caretaker for their family, but they need child care. But they might choose not to put their child in a learning hub because they might decide that 20 kids is too high of a risk. I i i completely i empathize with what youre saying. Theres no right answers, theres only tradeoffs, and i think when rhea sue comes to talk to you, shell explain it. Theres so much education loss thats happening thats going to affect the life course of all of those communities. Its tragic, and thats why, for me, its its bigger its bigger i agree with you completely, and i think youll see from maria sue, people are trying to figure out, how do we close this learning loss thats happening in the most affected communities. To me, thats the antiracist challenge that we have. As a city and a state, we have to invest the resources into doing exactly what youre saying, which is to invest resources in places the kids need it the most. I completely agree with you, and thats why i think its important to have the board of supervisors behind this because all of us are going to need to advocate not just locally, but at the state level so we can have the resources to get the kids back in school. Thank you. Well, i appreciate you, dr. Aragon, and your willingness to engage with us, and i want to help do everything i can as a commissioner to help share information with families and health and safety risks and also be a partner in supporting families while schools are closed. Im going to i do have to leave, but i want you to know that for me, because i have three kids, and my wife is still a first grade teacher, so for me, this has become my true north because i know that by focusing on the kids, we have to get the whole city squared away. Thats the only way were going to were going to get it together for our kids because everybody has to get together. Weve got to get all adults behind this, weve got to get the number of cases down, and then, weve got to get kids in school and keep them in school. Supervisor ronen before you i dont know if theres anyone else on the call, but i want wondering, before dr. Aragon leaves, if i could ask him a couple of more questions. Supervisor haney trustee randolph and commissioner moliga are on stand by. Supervisor ronen do you have questions for dr. Aragon specifically . My questions might be answered by others. Supervisor ronen okay. So just really quickly because we can fight for funding for this supervisor haney can commissioner moliga go first. Supervisor ronen im sorry. I thought you said the opposite. Go ahead. Hey, tomas, i so appreciate you. I just wanted to say one of the things that i appreciate about the city and county is the city and county always highlights the need for pacific islanders, and, you know, i just want to try back, you said our Latinx Community has experienced covid the most, but the communities that have experienced the most deaths are the black and pacific islander. I say that because myself and commissioner collins and commissioner lam are and this is more of a comment and i you know, and i and there was another followup. Were working on a Data Resolution right now, because the truth is theres a large group of folks who are not being highlighted, not only pacific islanders, but our vietnamese community, our middle east community. So i think it would be interesting and ive been interesting conversations with the School District about this covid19 has been rippling through communities and showing different outcomes across the board. [please stand by] inperson. We have to get immediate answers that it doesnt take a week to get the results back. What do you need to make that happen . Right now our Covid Command Center which is the unified command for the city and this is becoming a major focus for them because they realize as i pointed out earlier that when schools close and summer happens, they are focused on this area and the Covid Command Center is investigating time and resources. We have a new team who is focussing on testing and surveillance that will be focussing on schools. And we will be putting together strategy and a plan and resource requests around that specific topic. And so because the School District is not in session right now, that gufs us that extra time to really do that careful planning along with the School District in other stakeholders. It is the parochial schools. Its everybody. And we can come back with that and i agree with you, thats really critical. School starts monday and the Community Hub starts from maria and is the 14th or 15th and we have until that time to figure this out, and if you can tell me who is in charge of that team so i can start working with them and with the school well create a committee from this team to work with that. But we have to make that happen. Who should we be working with . Well, what ill do is whats that . Is it onna . Actually, onna might be probably the best contact to put you together with everybody on the schools. There is a whole team and schools are safer so that schools can open. We do have to have everything in place. Right now we will be using the existing infrastructure and the mayor just a couple of weeks ago announced the testing strategies to get 5,000 tests per day. And that infrastructure and that goal as part of the strategy for taking care of the things that are happening right now. We have to plan for months ahead when were going to have more resources. Just to make crystal clear, i wanted to be the intention of the city and the School District and that when the Community Learning hubs are up and running that we are testing both the adults and the children in the hub weekly so that we can make them as safe as possible and so parents can feel more comfortable because you know theres no right answers and just tradeoffs, and more comfort sbl the tradeoff is the hub and i want to get a sense from you if that is a realistic goal something ewith must achieve. I dont want to leave things up in the air. Concrete action. I will give you i just let you though that there are resource constraints. I cant promise you that were going to do what youre asking for at the moment. An i understand that, but i want you to know we have to make this happen. Its not an option. We have to make it happen. What do we need to make it happen so that we spend between now and september 14 fighting i am on the Budget Committee. In fact, i am missing the Budget Committee right now for this hearing. I will fight for the budgetary needs if we need a budget. I will fight to hire personnel if we need to hire personnel. The answer is for me. Well have to come back to you with that information. I know the way you feel is exactly how i feel. The whole testing enterprise is very complex with laboratories and backups and we will come back and i agree we have to move in that direction. Thank you. To be clear, you have the entire city to deal with and that is why this supervisor and this committee has said, we will fight to push to make this happen. You dont have to worry about because i will make noise and yell and scream until it happens. I am so grateful. I want you to tell me what you need and just give you the big picture and this is the epidemiologic challenge that we have. In order for us to get kids back in school, we have to suppress the community and maintain the achievements that we have had in longterm care facilities, jail, and right now regular testing the homeless. So we have to preserve that. And we have to get Community Resource investment and i see that vision. Its big, a big ask. And that is why people say, whoa. And that is where we need to move in that direction. We cant we have to community the committee mitigation and there is an effort and neighborhood strategy and bayview hunters point, in the mission, and just to do that is requiring a big investment and were going to have to invest more. I know. So commitment i want to make to the public that is listening, to the School District, to the parents, to myself, is that by the next hearing, we will be able to report back exactly where we are on achieving what we must achieve which is weekly testing in the Community Hubs. That is on your todo list to make that happen. An i am going to wait. And i have to run. I am really late for the next meeting. You have amazing presentations coming up. I am sure they will fill in a lot of information. Trustee randolph, did you want to jump in t an all . Yes, please. I know president williams is here now, too, and she joined the meeting. So welcome, president williams. The two of us feel a little left out of place in a lot of this discussion, but we do feel like a lot of things that are concern to the School District are also concerning to us. Maybe the second important quote of the hearing to add to what supervisor ronen said is when aragon said the state is more permissive on the risk than the city and county of San Francisco. I think maybe one of the reasons we are going compare toughly better is the work all that you have done locally to reduce the spread. I am a little concerned because the focus of the hearing seems to be more on sfusd and parents and children, but there is another component to education San Francisco and that is city college and Community College classes. I know that we are mostly online this fall semester because of the threat to our students and faculty and staff, but i am a little concerned that the guidance from d. P. H. Has predominantly focused on k12. I am not sure if you have seen the state guidance that they issued and if you have any feedback and would be very helpful for the board and the administration and to get local guidance from Community College and our goal to get back to campus in the spring. And the reason i am seeing that i understand we have more Community Transmission in San Francisco than ever before. A huge part of our plan to go back to campus is a low number in Community Spread. We cant have classes back at stu college if Community Spread is still significant. So do you have plans or are your working on local guidance for the 11 and 13 and 14 or the 13 and 14 piece of k14 . And kind of helping us with our plans to go back. Absolutely. I share your frustrations and there is just a lot going on. We did see the state guidance that was published last friday. Frankly, they had been telling us for weeks they were going to issue that and it had been constantly postponed. We had been waiting for the state to issue that. We do feel it is a little too permissive. We are actively working on a higher ed guidance and were expecting it to come out next week. If u may through the chair, chair haney and supervisor ronen, is it possible to have part of the local guidance be part of the next Committee Hearing to have a discussion about that and would be helpful and two weeks from now and hopefully enough time to provide feedback. And i agree with you and i tread state guidance and it felt like it was written in april or even before the Current Situation when it didnt really address some of the real concern around Community Spread and transmission. And it was frustrating to see the guidance and doesnt give us a lot of time to reflect on what we need to do. Most of the classes lub online. And the classes that can be taught online and still classes like city build and construction trades and carpeting and stuff that you have to be in a classroom in order to learn those things. Like nursing in our allied Health Courses have to be taught in a lab and in classes. And they are in the important medical skills that we need that arent done online. Is there a plan to when you revive the Covid Command Centers and a Higher Education component as part of the command center . Our hub works with child care, School Settings, programs for youth, and also colleges and universities. And weve actually been meeting with city college, San Francisco state, and many other Higher Ed Institutions over the summer. We all share your frustrations on how late the state guidance is. Our working group has been waiting for weeks for that and so we have been in constant communication and we have heard this concern of these classes that absolutely cannot be taught virtually but they are very hand on. How can we make the classes safer . Because they cannot be done virtual. That will be part of the guidance. And its such a big piece of the other thing and that the other thing that gets lost in inperson classes is there are classes that will not be taught in the fall semester or potentially the Spring Semester that have a negative impact on Mental Health in San Francisco. A lot of our seniors take classes at City College Even with the unfortunate class cuts in physical education in, for example, pottery and ceramics that you cannot teach online. You cannot take a ceramics class online, but we cannot teach it safely inperson either currently. The work we are doing is critical for us to do this work back in the spring. And hopefully teach the important classes that have a direct Mental Health impact and positive impact on a lot of life long learners in San Francisco. And they are the ones who want to be left out of education right now with Community Spread. And a lot of the students are in a very Vulnerable Group that cant really go back to class even potentially with some of the safety mechanisms that we will have in place. The next couple of months will be very critical for that group of our students and for our college because i know that the supervisors and Everybody Knows that a lot of our funding comes from enrollment been reduced. People cant take online classes so theyre not going to enroll at city college, right . That has another huge impact on our budget. So thank you so much for all your work. Thank you so much for all the work that you are doing. I am looking forward to the guidance that you are working on. I want to reemphasize what they said earlier that this is a shared experience that in order for us to safely have safer reopenings of schools and institutions of higher learning, we have to reduce Community Spread. And we all have to play our part in order to make that happen. From there anymore questions or comments for d. P. H. Before we move to sfusd . A quick one. Thank you. I would love for d. P. H. To add to its information around pods. The other forms of child care and socializing that parents may be considering. And i have been specific about nanny shares and outdoor socializing and also share care. Those are three kind of things i hear about. Parent coops. And in the micro school but coop kind of version where parents share it throughout families. Im also requesting that i think this is really Important Information for the community to have, right, and the more that they get, then the more buyin were going to get from folks to participate the information you show with the mask and i have seen Police Officers wearing their mask below their nose. Just basic things. I am wondering if you guys could work with us or the board of supes or another agency to host town halls so that just this General Information about how it spreads, whats safe, why is it inside and not as safe as outside to host you and say basically what they are saying here to more audiences. I think that is just a question if you think that would be helpful. And i wanted if you could clarify, i know you said there were revisions that you made to the guidance around i think it was out of School Time Programs and potentially i know you made changes to the school guidance. I think i noticed changes as far as masking requirements or guidelines as well as social distancing and because there is a lot of miscommunication and also because as we learned more, we have changed recommendations. I think it helps to be really clear about whats changed because i think i remember the very beginning you were saying, dont wear masks because we needed them for health care providers. Now were saying wear them. I want to be really clear with the public if they saw them before, whats different now than what has been revised in any of the documents that youre sharing this past week . If i may go in order of the questions you have just posed, i hear and you brought this up with tomasz as well to add more information to the different type of child care, and i will take that back to the team so we can work on that. I think as much communication as possible to go and move on to your second point, about basic Community Education and we need to definitely get that out there in an effort to reduce Community Transmission, so i can take that back to the communication people and see what they can coordinate on getting out to town halls and some speaker and better messaging particularly out for certain communities. And then to your third point about what updates to the guidance, so it was specifically to the schools guidance. It was really to bring it in alignment to what the state had published. For example, the point you made about physical distancing now says that everyone, staff and student staff must stay 6 feet and students must stay 6 feet when feasible. The masking requirements are per the state that all students third grade and above member Wearing Masks and grades two and below are strongly encouraged to be Wearing Masks. And those are two of the main examples of what was updated and just so people know, what was it before . How did it change . It got more strict, more lenient, or we took the pieces from the state that are more stricter because in general whatever is stricter is prevails. So that piece about physical distancing is stricter and masking is stricter and language on ventilation from the environMental Health branch to make it much more clear around ventilation and we thought the state wasnt clear on that and we included that. The other pieces are so minor that they its not worth mentioning. I appreciate that because i do think over the summer i have a family tell me that they were concerned about masking. There was suggested masking but not required masking for the summer programs. That is the reason that one parent pulled their child out of the program because they were told they did not require masks. And the parent felt like that wasnt safe. I think that also so it sounds like they are not required up to a certain age, is that correct . In order to participate. Your child is not required to wear a mask. I know there is also language for students with disabilities who may not be able to wear masks. But i think those expectations were clear in the district in term of dress code and i think we should be clear with families on their who want to participate about what they can expect for their child and other peoples children. This is also in alignment with our local Face Coverings health order, and this spans more than just the school environment, but for children under two, there should absolutely be no Face Coverings because of risk of suffocation. For ages two to nine, it is strongly recommended that they wear Face Coverings and it must be with adult supervision. Ages 10 and above must wear Face Coverings. And that closely aligns with approximately third grade. Thank you. I would like that information to be lifted in the signoff sheet and i read it for the ost program and there is a model and dr. Aragon was referencing that you are taking a risk because any time you go out of the house there is a risk. I think it would be helpful to lift those specific things and even for teachers, would you feel comfortable teaching . For me as a teacher, i would feel comfort fbl i had good ventilation but not feel comfortable if i dont have operable windows. Being specific about what families can expect when they participate. I think that is really helpful information. If i may, all Industry Sectors including all programs that serve youth must complete a health and safety plan and have that publicly available and posted and that includes all of the ideas and all of the recommendations that you just mentioned. It doesnt really necessarily have to be part of the risk acknowledgment form. We can reference that, but that needs to be posted in a publicly visible area that everybody can see and that includes the staff as well as the family. Thank you. Im done, chair haney. Thank you. Thank you. Trustee president williams and then i do want to flag for everyone that we are about two hours in and we have four or five more presentations in. If we want to get to the folks my comments are super brief. I am here as long as we need to be here, but i wanted to make sure that everybody knew that. President william. No worries. I want to align myself with trustee randolphs comments earlier and also add to that i wanted to hear what youre sharing about the opt optimum serve site and the city of city college and would like to hear a little bit about what has been happening there at the optimum serve site. Im sorry. I dont have much information about that site that i can share right now and bring that back to you. I personally dont know. From the department of Public Health who would be the point person to followup with you. I can get that answer back to the committee. Thank you. That was my only question. All right. Last call for d. P. H. Questions. And we appreciate i do have one question. Sorry. D. P. H. , i want to demand d. P. H. I took a test at pier 30 and my husband and i he was coming back from afghanistan and we wanted to test and the process was incredible. It only took 12 hours to get the results. I took the test a month ago and it was something that took 12 days to come back and irrelevant to get the tests and you are doing a great job with some of the city run sites. I also think that the site of city college is doing well and i would love to get more information on that. I think it should be able to have our students get access to that as well. And it takes about a week or two to get an appointment there. And so i think it would be great to get some information on that the next Committee Meeting from whoever is in charge of that site there. But overall, you are doing a really good job. The question i do have quickly before you leave is under state and under the state law and passed and the cities are supposed to start collecting lgbt Background Data or lgbt demographics as part of the testing. I have not seen that happening yet during registration process at any of the city sites. I know l. A. Has started doing that. Do you have a timeline or idea when the city will be starting to test or take lgbt data . I do not have the answer to that. But i can again just like with the optimum, go and get that question and bring that back to the team and get that answer for you. Im sorry. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. All right. Thank you so much for that and again well look forward to hearing from you again in a few weeks and some of the specific guidance around city college. I think that will be really important and a lot of updates in questions and things. So thank you for your work and with that, im going to turn it over to deputy superintendent lee from sfusd. Thank you so much, chair haney. And good morning still for about two more minutes, Committee Members. Appreciate the opportunity to provide another update about the work thats happening in sfusd and also want to thank the partners that are represented in the various presentations today. Were working really closely with many partners in the city and county and cbos and family organizations. And we appreciate all of everyones collective effort. So our update today is going to be focussing mostly most intensely on our Distance Learning plan for the fall as well as our plans for distributing the technology and the nondigital materials that our students and families will need to be engaged in our Distance Learning plan this fall. As everyone knows, we are for the time being for the foreseeable feature in a Remote Learning mode. And we will talk in a moment about what we are planning in the meantime for a hopefully gradual return to inperson learning. Were going to comment on that, but really just to set the stage a bit, we understand and know very well that families, students, parents and guardians are very anxious as supervisor ronen alluded to in her comments at the beginning of the hearing about whats going to happen this fall. And it has been a very tight timeline and hopefully this hearing will provide some really helpful and substantive information about the work that has been happening. We reached a really important milestone last week in reaching an m. O. U. With our labor partners in united Education Partners in San Francisco. We will talk briefly about that, but i hope you will see that there are a lot more specifics to share. We probably brought too much content as we have tended to do in these hearings, so we other going to probably take your cues, committee member, about how much depth you want to go into. Were going to proceed at a brisk pace until and unless you ask us to slow down and go a little bit more deliberately. With that, i would like to ask my colleague to comment a bit about the work thats happening to plan for a return to physical inperson learning when the conditions and the course of the pandemic permit that to happen safely. Then well go right in to the information about Distance Learning. Great. Thank you. The chief facilities officer for sfusd and i am happy to report to commissioners and supervisors that we actually continue to make substantive progress in our planning and for resuming inperson learning as well as Distance Learning at this time. And that there are a number of persistent questions that have been presented to us over the past few months and particularly the summer. And i wanted to talk about the process for figuring out what being open will look like and where we are. Next slide. As you are aware, our current plan is to stay and we are required to stay 100 Distance Learning as a School District and so we will not be doing inperson learning on august 17. In addition to our 100 Distance Learning right now, we are moving towards a gradual return and what we are calling a hybrid scenario where we would have limited inperson School Smaller dproups of priority students at a focused number of physical student locations and then as we continue to have both the science that allows us to reopen schools and resources that come into compliance and alignment and to allow us to open inperson schools, we will do so. And talk a little bit about the high level of what were thinking. And starting first with Distance Learning, then phase two hybrid and one day hopefully sooner rather than later a full return to inperson learning. This next slide really i think summarizes much of the progress thats been made in our own thinking as the School District. And most importantly, we have made a recommendation which the board of ed supports around who we should prioritize for inperson learning when that is able to happen. We want to focus on the younger learners particularly pk2, students with moderate to severe disabilities, vulnerable population, especially homeless and foster youth, and students of all ages who are participating with less than 60 of the time engaged in online learning. That actually that step actually has huge implications for the choices of facilities and how we would allocate resources as a School District. Particularly pk2 students can only be located in classrooms that have already been built for them. So you cant put a pk2 student in a High School Classroom or a middle school classroom. They have to be in Elementary School classrooms that are located on floors that meet fire code and other kind of safety access and restrictions that are applied to the student groups, so that means as we think about resuming inperson learning we are focussing first on Elementary School buildings in order to be able to serve the youngest learner population. Older student cans be in classrooms physically designed for younger students but as a practice, we would also try and maintain separation of ages. So thats an important thing just as were going through the very complicated decision tree about who arrives first and what order and how students move across school sites is important to understand. Having made our first major cut in our Decision Making of focussing on Elementary School buildings and youngest learners and vulnerable students, we begin to play with scheduling. Again, deciding to prioritize pk2 students and depending on the desk distancing, right now the current d. P. H. Guidance allows for a range of 3 to 6 feet. We dont know what the final health orreder will say, but that range is pretty dramatic. 6 feet distancing reduces classroom capacity by about 50 and whereas 3 feet would allow you to get pretty close to the maximum classroom size currently allowed for k2 students anyway. And there are huge implications of whether you will be forced to alternate students on an every other day or every other week kind of basis and serve that entire focal population with inperson learning. If you can put more students in the classroom being able to resume something with the daily instruction and that is what we are playing with next. This is the dialogue in close communication with d. P. H. To help shape the thinking and the next piece is to think about the ways to reschedule. And we are also thinking about all the spaces and not just buildings but particularly the outdoor spaces and other outdoor spaces in the city and ways to think about that can support inperson learning and that is a wide range of options and the actual classrooms outside to think about eating outside during the day. All this plays into very details scheduling exercise we have to do to think about what the covid19 school day will look like. So with that, those are the next steps to really focus having identified targets and stay tuned populations to work on and limit Elementary School buildings and the next dimension is to focus on scheduling and how to play with that and serve the most students possible and the way that is also supported by the resources we have. And all that is going to require we rethink time and space in terms of the school day. That concludes my comments. Thank you, dawn. So moving onto the really heart of the discussion today ant what happens starting monday. So as i mentioned, two weeks ago we reached a tentative agreement with united educators of San Francisco, and by the way, we are happy to be sharing billing with Susan Solomon and president of ucf and wanted to give them the highlight with the linn in the presentation to the full m. O. U. In the presentation. And in the meantime, they are very important to the students and families and staff. For one thing, the m. O. U. Calls for teachers to provide no less than a minimum 120 minutes per day of what we call synchronous instruction or interaction. That can take the form of whole Group Instruction with the full class or it could be small group or one on one interactions. The length of the work day is back to seven hours. And one other provision to call out is that they shared with us in our discussions that many of their members needed and really wanted a space that was provided through district arranged site. So were taking steps together with uesf to survey the demand and get more information about how to make that happen for those educators that really strongly desire to be provided a space to do the distance teaching and learning. Can i ask a clarifying question . Certainly. A does 120 minutes per day of synchronized instruction, is that per teacher or for each student . Thank you, supervisor. So that is per teacher. That is requirement for each individual teacher to provide no less than 120 minutes of instruction or interaction. I will say that there are many cases that we know that will be lower time block than what many teachers provide, but that that represents a floor for each individual teacher. So that means that because it includes one on one instruction or small Group Instruction that there is no minimum per day that students will receive synchronized learning. That is correct. And before i get to the details, i think i would inwyatt the deputy superintendent of instruction and when she presents her information to highlight that specific point and we know it matters greatly as well as president Susan Solomon. For now the state law and the senate bill 98 with laid out a number of provisions regarding Distance Learning for all schools in the state did establish that every student has to receive live interaction with their teacher every day. But it does not state what the amount of time is required to be and so your point, supervisor, nor does our m. O. U. Between sfusd and uesf state a specific and minimum time at the student level. Those details we know is a really important question for our families and our students and invite or ask deputy superintendent and president Susan Solomon to speak to that. They are better able to do that an i am because they have been working really at a very granular level to plan for those implementation details. So with that, that is a perfect segue and at this point i will turn the mic, virtual mic, over to our deputy superintendent instruction and you have seen her at the last two hearings of the select committee and she has a lot of information to share about Distance Learning and also pass to our chief Technology Officer and possibly our chief academic officer as well. Are you on . I am son. When he mentioned a lot of content, i think he was specifically talk about my slide. In the interest of time, i will not go through every slide, but i want to make sure that folks listening know that all the slides that i have have live links that can direct you to other information. So my part today is to speak more about what Distance Learning is looking like in the fall. And so in our stakeholder engagement, we engaged multiple stakeholders and students, educators and parents and other Community Engagement in a number of listening sessions, town halls, survey, focus groups of various kinds and to get the sense of how Distance Learning learned in the spring. In the spring we were going to the crisis and what that meant as sfusd. And there is a lot of reaction and Quick Response without much time to plan and cocreate. The things we heard throughout all of those engagement sessions were clear. There was a lot of variance in the experiences of our students and our families and even between educators themselves and so what we have done is really done a lot to address that sense of variance. And another word is inequity and even in the School Building and the brick andmorer to as i call it and in the brick and mortar, and there was much inequity and a clear call for if we were to go back into Distance Learning and here are the thins folks wanted us to make sure and more time or connection and adults and students and adults and teachers and families as well as students with students. There was a call for much more with the with the streamline and how to do teaching and learning. Next slide. From the district and with the priorities and highlight the need for reaction and consistency and structures and actually back in the fall called out the need to focus on antiracist inequity and name it a be that much more specific about what does it mean for individuals as again and as the School System to be discorruptive and antiracist. There is antiracist approaches and practices that are woven throughout our Distance Learning model. We also wanted to elevate and highlight the components of our graduate profile that lend themselves to deeper learning and engage remotely and have agency of the learning to really tap into the ability to be critical thinkers and innovation. And last but not at all finally, should have been probably first, we definitely wanted to make sure that the action show a true intention to really partner and recognition of the humanity. The fact that we have to tend to the whole child t whole adult t whole person, and incorporating wellness and health throughout everything we do. Those are the four Priority Areas and the priorities translate into action at Different Levels. I will go through and tell you about some of the actions for each of the priority buck. Next slide please. The same again and the action priority rounds consistent for structures and support and some of the ways we have manifested that and we have worked really heart over the past several weeks to make sure the schools have more schedules and if you recall, in previous life, there was schools that start at 7 45 and others started at 9 00. We worked really hard to streamline that and the majority have a start time of 9 00 or close to 9 00. And a couple of schools that might have a 9 30 start. The educators and the staff really just return back to work on tuesday officially, so we know many of them are working around the clock even in the summer month. And so a part of our process as we think about School Schedules is treelly make sure that the edge kayer tos also understand the schedules and are or board. There might be some of the sites that havent shared out the schedule yet to have the School Community and what made sense for them. As schools are communicating again, the common start time was the focus of having more consistency. And to get more consistency in terms of the instructional minutes and for t. K. K. And 180 minutes ills, and these are all minimums and first through third grade is about three hours and 50 minutes and fourth through 12th grade and the question of specifically that was asked around the next bullet and the synchronous time of 120 minutes a day is about teachers provieding but through the schedules and through the principal expectations in lots of planning happening at the site, it is our goal to ensure that our students have about 120 minutes or so of synchronous as well. To be clear, though, that synchronous time might not only be what the childs classroom teacher. It might be from a specialist or might be music or might be intervention class. And so even though the classroom teacher, him or her or themselves are committed to 120 minutes of synchronous and as supervisor ronen pointed out, that doesnt necessarily translate to students, schools are putting together chances to increase each student each day having about 120 minutes of synchronous as well as the age group and the schedule for the day. So to expect the live and from that point of consistency and the materials and a lot of pacts and things that we created that went out to schools and to communities and it was a difference in what students got. Now we have more time to identify intentionally clear work packets and work books and other curricular materials that every student at his or her grade level will have access to. A lot more consistency with the materials themselves. And all of the materials are common core aligned and follow the districts golden sequence different from the spring and creating the own things and speak with each other and once again students had variability in the experience and what they were actually receiving for instruction. And finally the consistent instruction we worked on and in response to the crisis and a couple of hubs and through which we gave out devices and materials. And that left variance and inequity and in charge of their own distribution to allow families and students to pick up materials to lift that call and the community to be in communication face to face. We understand some families are not able to make it to the distribution or pick up site with a lot of reasons. And to schedule deliveries as well. And the high level with the more consistent structures throughout the system. Next slide please. And next slide please. To think about consistency and we are thinking about in the spring and a digital approach and non we have giving devices to the pk2 students and in the nondigital formats and engaging in the digital distance mod well the device and is asynchronous or the nonlive or the independent work, that often acquires a nondigital approach. We are making sure the students have access to vote and the nondigital materials are much more robust and aligned at the school site. I feel this slide captures it all. And highlight and sb98 requires and want every single one of the students to have daily live interactions which means every day there is a phone call, zoom call, some way that the educator is connecting with that student just about wellness and checking in but also about teaching and learning and the instruction. The highlight twine the difference between synchronous and the live and the asynchronous which is at your own pace and your own learning. Next slide. I have mentioned that we moved from essential distribution to a site level distribution. Every site was in charge of communicating to their stakeholders and their families and their students what their distribution was able to be listening for folks who are listening that we anticipate multiple distribution events and many held them last week and there will likely be a need for families to come once or twice and for families to know the School Distribution is over several days and listen out for the communication around which day do i come to pick up the materials and which day do i expect to pick up. We starred distribution for many sites on august 10 and distributed more than 4,000 chrome books and nearly 800 hot spots and 38 is the last number i had is 38 of the schools distributed i think yesterday and up to 57 today. So those Distribution Efforts are happening and will continue to happen even into next week. Next slide please. Weve also worked really closely with the educators, with a lot of opportunities for our families to give input and be a part of the creation as well to think about consistency and streamline and isnt disjointed and variable. And four things and i want to be clear it doesnt stop after day 30 and continues to make sure we have focused in deeply in these areas. We have a strong focus on wellness and Authentic Partnership and educators and School Leaders have gotten information and ideas, strategies and how to partner with our families. And we talked about partnership and basic level is listening. Listening and creating space and taking a very responsive action to whatever you heard or saw. And making sure we communicate with families and how to connect and engage. And foe cushion and circling around wellness and the key part of 12 30 and spent a lot of time the first 30 days and our site leaders and educators and cure rating a hope of p. D. Web nascar and resources for families and students to be ready to engage in Distance Learning for the fall. The other priority is making sure there is alignment in the instruction itself. The schools have received launch unit to make sure that the kick off is similar from site to site with some site variance between grade levels and content areas. Next slide. Im thinking about the families who are listening and drilling down from the first 30 days. And in the first week of instruction and just like in the regular school year, and you dont get a chance to see it and educators focus on conduction and building community. Even though we are in a remote format, and for sure for day one and week one and as we come back next week. And phone call and assessing need and some of the time will be who has a device and doesnt have a device. And who has the Wellness Check and materials and the expectation is not that every single student or family has everything they want on day one, but the expectation is the educators are reaching out and interacting to find out what you have and what you need to prepare for your successful engagement over the weeks to come in the fall. There will be a lot of Team Building and welcoming of new students and video and town halls and school sites and to pump up excitement and set up the stage for the successful and question around attendance and sb98 has provided guidance as we didnt have in the spring. And as you may recall we jumped into the springtime in response to the pandemic and it really was a crisis response. We have some strategy but not a lot to contend with for our students and pushing grace and compassion and saying if you can get on, you can get on. We are still very much about grace and compassion and we are saying that students should plan to, families should plan to make sure the students are engaging in the daily activities as a part of their attendance and engagement. So its no longer an option. Were back to school even though were back to school remotely. And so as families are finding they have barriers to engaging, educators and principals will be reaching out to get that information. Then there is teams at every site that will be creating support plans and interventions and otherwise trying to figure out how to engage. And attendance does not mean that the student is on a zoom call. We talked about a nondigital and digital approach. Attendance can be taken by the teacher calling the student or staff and checking in and going over that and students completing the assignment and whatever criteria the school has set out. Attendance is back and required. There are multiple ways to attend and everything single teacher will be checking and tracking attendance every day. That information will be available in parent view that i will speak to later. We wanted to get folks around clarity and engagement and a glimpse of what it can look like the first week or so. Next slide. I cant see your faces so if you want me to go faster or say less, i need somebody to make a noise, other wise im going to go on. I talked about the priority actions around the graduate profile and what is listing that and the power of doing that. And we actually were in collaboration not just across our educators but across educators across the country and with different districts and a lot of learning and reading around best practices for Distance Learning. Our attempts to make it more aligned to the graduate profile and more robust and rigorous are rooted in us providing education and development to educators about how to do that. Our students will have more access to rich and diverse books and how folks interact and engage with that content and learning and a lot of the p. D. Has been around for the teachers and what does it look like to have rigorous instruction remotely. What does it look like to create projects and assignments and tasks that allow students to make connections and to apply real Life Experiences and one of the best times to go live with instruction and that synchronous time and be better to have a student work independently or asynchronously. All that is impedded into p. D. As we have gathered a lot of best practices and hopefully the students will be more engaged as a result of it. It is not here. And with the resources and provide clarity around resources and teaching and remotely available to families as well. And so families can understand and see how we tap into the rigorous instruction. With more communities and educators and remote and on the screen and a lot more cross sites and collaboration and we had over 200 educators just sharing some best practices and ideas and how to kick off and teach different subjects. That will go into the fall. With the digital resources and a couple of things to note and too many apps and too many Management Systems and to streamline that as well for the grades pk through 2 and the majority of feedback to push out content to interact and grade 312 and many will be able to get with over the spring. We have the digital backpack. One difference is for our educators and no longer have ton of apps and online tools and we have organized that they can find whatever tools are best. And nondigital materials i have spoken about how they are aligned to the common core and the spoken sequence. We have done a lot to pick materials that are responsive to and supportive of the families who are monolingual and the households that are multilingual. More content is available in spanish. More in chinese and mandarin and still getting materials in language and guidance and support for families in all different languages to engage and support. We have more resources around best practices for families and are also giving out School Supplies once again with pencils, journals and markets. For those interested in the app, more information about the various platforms and apps we are using both resources for our educators and Classroom Teachers as well as resources for the families on the righthand side. Next slide. Similarly, if you are wanting to know more specifically what does the dmoijal or prince based materials look like for our students, you can see that we have broken it up by pk and k5 and 612 and what students will be getting in the levels as well. And i wanted to say that we werent sure and continuing the partnership with ktvu and sf Love Learning is the Television Show and we will be reairing that whole new series starting i think starting in a month perhaps. And every monday through friday at 2 00. And definitely that is a part of our asynchronous instruction and for some teachers will maybe be a part of the instructional day. Tune in. We also know during Distance Learning there were a number of student populations that we had a hard time engaging and even when we were able to engage them, the content and quality of the engagement was not able to meet the needs. Those groups are not different from the groups that are called out during the school year and iep and English Learners and done a lot more to create p. D. And resources for our educators with the students to educate and differentiate and meet the needs with a lengthy Distance Learning guides with a lot of resources as well as many p. D. S and office hours and professional learning opportunities for our educators as well as resources for our families of students who are in the categories to support them as well. We have a new category from the spring that were saying students who were who we were challenged to engage. Originally we said students minimally engaged and putting the onus on the student. We have named a nice group of students, a pretty Significant Group of students a z many of us no that we were not able to reach at all during Distance Learning. Similar to the demographics of student who is we had a hard time reaching the School Building. Those are africanamerican students pacific islanders, student who is live in Public Housing. And so in addition to partnering with Community Organizations that work with and support those students, weve also again really boosted up our professional development with our educators around how to reach students and have clear expectation that, again, educators are tracking and paying attention to who they have been able to connect with. And that each site supported by the Central Offices have a plan to reengage with the students who we know has not been engaged. And that will do this as well as the wellness and one to one checkins. At the basic level, access to information matters. It is hard r hard to partner if we were not transparent and folks arent aware to create what is going on. We have done a lot to boost communication. One of the challenges that is inherent in everything being remote is that in the springtime we at Central Office took over communication. Families that are in the habits habit of looking to us and not to the sites. Into the fall we will continue to communicate and share information through the website and other means that i will share later, but a lot of the a lot more communication is back on the site to communicate as they differentiate for the specific community. And we are asking every site to have a regular cadence for communication with families. Meetings that were held previously and were skl sites to pick those back up again. That was a regular way for families to be vfd in part of the Decision Making and see a shift in the increase and that is a critical piece. Families to build the meals contribution and doing the Wellness Checks four times throughout the year. One in the spring and a more robust, regular system to do thoiz with the communitybased form and partner and align and think about how to best support the families and students during this time. Next slide please. I think i shared this last presentation. And in addition to the structures that in sites had, and prior to closure, every site now starting in the fall will have something we call a coordinated care team. That team has existed in many forms at many sites and every site will have a coordinated team to move to the Wellness Checks and to the every source that we have laid out in the mission statement. To guide them and everything on the website is to complement the communications and the guidance from the school sites. We have a family Distance Learning guide this year which is big. Families were asking for some guidance of what to expect and what is going on. And key components have been pulled out and translated and shared the guide and many families dont use the web or the emails are the not the best and they will also share the information with our families. Next slide. An i would be remiss not to do a plug for a parent view. A lot of folks are going to know how to get communication and the best families is parent view. And they will give them the access to not only district and letter notification. And it wills the childs attendance and assignments and grades. This page has a link to really make sure that families know the steps that are needed to do and give their parent view setup and as of june we had about 66 of the students with the active parent view account. And 45 of the parents have a live account. Were asking for everyone to push that to the families again. This is the best way to get information. And another need in this remote board, information is hard to share and making sure they have the Contact Information updated and super important and that is the right phone number and email address and setting up the parent view account. Next slide please. And the next several slides i am not going through each one, but one is the highlight from slide 28 and take over and the resources that we have curated with families and for families and a new Program Ready for learning and pk2 families with Text Messages every day about strategies to support Distance Learning and another way to communicate and a Family Partnership webpage and faq and in the interest of time, just gives you more information. And created videos for our families to help explain different apps and different sites and highlight the various tools that we have and named a lot of the tools Available Online or in print form. Were still looking for creative ways to get the word out. So i am going to turn it over to melee to talk about the wellness priority no, im not. Its still me. My mouth is getting dry. You want to do it . Go ahead. Ill take it over for you, sure. Good. And take it over from tdeput superintendent. And the family Distance Learning guide to frequently ask questions and this is a great to see what will happen next week and in the next 30 days. And so this is another way to say whatever has been doing. And resources on school and technology and access and all different ways that families and our educators request provide fall learning and seasoning. Next slide. A lot of different strategies are redeveloping and presenting information and chunking it up into different ways to support and these are just examples of how were getting this information out to families and information to the educators and the other school staff. Next slide. Same information. And really important think links, though. Just want to keep letting folks know that in the decks we embed links and these are important links to i bookmark all of these and when i get questions, i can turn that information around quickly. And i think now i get to turn to yes. And deputy superintendent did a great job talking about the Wellness Checks and some of the things that we are doing on the district wide level. We did them in the spring and we have embedded into the first 30 days and the whole 180 days and the first Wellness Check are set to start on august 17. However, that doesnt necessarily mean a family will be receiving a Wellness Check call next week. They may be receiving the information that the Wellness Checks are coming but we are excited to use that opportunity for live interaction and elevate certain things. For example, in the first Wellness Check, that is coming up and we will be specifically asking folks about parent view to know that is an important communication strategy with an opportunity to say do you have a parent view account . If you dont, this is how you can sign up for one. We are exploring district wide student checkins and we want to have some way to have the pulse check of what is going on with the students so that we can also coordinate the support to them and also understand what are the things that are coming up for students and whats working and whats not working for them in Distance Learning and as much as we can take that information and pivot as we can throughout the year. Next slide. We have expanded the Family Resource link which we started in the spring to the student of Family Resource drink and other ways that they are also get information and the district wide checks and the student surveys and this is an ongoing resource available on a weekly, daily basis. Next slide. Finally for me before i turn it over to i believe our chief of technology, we are going to continue to grab and go meals as were in Distance Learning. There have been some shifts because we do no longer have the waiver that allows us to provide meals to any family with a student and can provide meals to any family and also provide free meals to eligible students and this is a big shift and certainly is a big concern of ours and making a concerted effort to get families to complete the multifamily purpose income form because we dont want to charge families if they are eligible and havent submitted the form yet. And we have been really spending a lot of time in the partnership foryou remember and asking them for help and asking them to submit the forms. That is something we know challenge and Food Insecurity is a big issue as we work proactively to address that as this need comes up. I believe thats it nor me. I think i am turning it over to keith dodd. It is nicole priestley. Dr. Priestly, i apologize. A thank you. Looking back to the spring and the nondigital distribution, we were able to support 15,000 students in grades prek2 with learning packets. We also gave each student in those grades three to five level books as well as trade books and that totalled out to be over 30,000 books that we gave out to students. We also provided learning packets for students who did not show up in the digital classroom. And looking at the grade levels and 312 and creating content that we had delivered to their homes. And looking forward to the fall, we are currently in the process of targeting the pk2 students with the nondigital distribution and just the highlight of a few upgrades from the spring and one is the pack of much more robust and we are scheduled to hand out over 60,000 books to students that will be level texts. And those are for the students take home library. We also were able to provide materials for students who were in pathway programs for the students who are learning languages. They are receiving specific materials that are also be distributed from the school site. In the event that a student may lose a material or need a replacement, we have purchased a limited supply and so that we can reflect the materials as we go through the course of the school year. And with that, i am going to pass it on to our chief of technology melissa dodd. Thank you, dr. Priestly. Deputy superintendent mentioned that distribution for technology and instructional materials is underway and we are as you can see in terms of what we focused on in the spring and reach more than 13,000 of the students with the device and approximately 4,000 for wifi access. And expanding access to include the pk2 grade for the families who need technology. And the family who does not have a device at home for the child to use. And really focussing in to focus in on the focal population to make sthur most vulnerable students have access to the internet connect toughty. And we have more than 57 to 56 schools and are distributing today and as we present here and our middle schools and high schools will launch their distributions next week because we focus and built a Strong Foundation of access in the spring at the upper grades. We wanted to make sure that the Elementary Schools have a bit of an onramp and with this, i will mention that the device itself is understanding knowing how to use it and how to log on and how to support a child with Technology Particularly in the younger grades. And we shared previous slides and how we expanded support and resources for families around technology and quick videos and one to one tech support and available in multiple languages as well. Next slide. And the deputy superintendent spoke about the number of information Communication Channels and as we are with the schools and sort of launching fall learning on monday and we are looking to the schools to bring back the Communication Systems and structures within their own communities and we do have structures that are universal across. One in particular is the weekly digest that we get a lot of positive feedback on goes out on wednesday afternoon. Its available in multiple languages. We have google translations for that and that parent view is where we were able to pull in updated Contact Information. Cell phone and emails so that we can then share out information through the channels in terms of phone calls and we have a School Messenger that we use and as well as for text messaging. We have the targeted opt. In and leverage the social media and talked about, i believe, the Family Resource links that has been povrt and expanding that to students as well our website and the parent and partner groups and cbos. Next slide please. So we do that big push and plug to help to stay connect and help us to stay in touch with you. And for being able to get families on to parents view and as deputy superintendent mentioned and 66 of the parents have at least students, excuse me, have one parent or guardian vifr. We know we have seen thousands more that are getting activated in the coming weeks. I was at a Distribution Site at one of the Elementary Schools with a great station set up to help families activate the account. We are going to be rolling out more ways for families with more functionality within the Family Portal parent view including emergency cards, being able to update mailing addresses, and to be able to have that twoway exchange between sfusd and our families. Next slide. I think that might be the last slide. And i am closing out i believe to deputy superintendent lee. Thank you so much, melissa. Thank you, colleagues. Committee members, hopefully we didnt go too, too fast. We know were trying to share a ton of information and so just to close out here, we have a lot of work thats still ongoing. We feel like were weve hustled to get as close to being ready for next week as we can, but we know that things will continue to evolve into the first weeks of school as well as you have heard. So were continuing to work with our labor partners and you will hear from president solomon shortly. We are in the meantime chief facilities officer share and planning various steps to prepare for that return to inperson learning when its safe to do so. And were constantly being mindful of communications and engagement of stakeholders of all different parts. So i hope you have the impression and we certainly do that the emphasis this fall is to make a significant improvement on the Distance Learning experience for our students and our families relative to what we were able to pretty much improvise in the spring. And a lot of careful work and really diligent work has been going on both at the system level, at the district level, and very much so at the classroom educator level and the paraeducator, the school administrators, so many different individuals and groups of individuals are working hard to try to make the Fall Experience as successful as it can be. And we know that we are going to continue to face challenges and need to work in partnership with everyone here. And all the partners throughout the whole system. Were grateful for the opportunity to present this information and to provide the updates from time to time. Great. Thank you for all of that. I really appreciate all of the hard work and all of the staff who are here to present this to us and all the preparation. It is much appreciated and very impressive. I have some questions, but i am going to go to the Committee Members first. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor i am trying to remain calm. First of all, thank you for the presentation. Thank you for all the work that youve done. I see it. I appreciate it and i understand how difficult this is. Fully understand it. I am just trying to wes will the fact i thought the 120 minutes minimum of sin synchronous learning was per child. And i thought different from the spring, parents were going to have at least two hour where is they can know that their kid is going to be engaged in learning without them having to sit by their childs side. And i am thinking mostly about young kids. Young kids pk2 cannot learn and do Distance Learning unless they are directly engaged or there is an adult by their side. As you all know, we live in a most expensive city in the country and in order to survive here, most parents have to work full time. Not just one but both. Its impossible to accomplish those things at the same time. It is literally impossible. What i am feeling worried about and frustrated about is that i dont know what the schedule looks like for my Childs School on monday. And its friday. And i am lucky because i get to work from home, but what about parents who had to determine their shift at work two weeks ago or last week. They dont know the schedule for their child on monday. Thats number one. Number two is, i just cannot see how this works for working parents. Especially of young children. I see how it works for older children. I do not see how it works for younger children. If they do not have another adult to rely on to help them with Distance Learning, especially if what i just found out is correct, there might not even be an hour of synchronized learning a day with their childs bathroom and it might look different every day. I just when you started off with your presentation with the three values and connection, community communication, con sis ten, i still have no idea what the schedule looks like. I have no idea if its consistent every day. I have no idea if synchronized learning is consistent every day. I have no idea how to plan my life and my childs life because theres two working parents at home. And what i know parents have done in the spring to deal with this because i have talked to them is some parents working outside the home have older children who take care of the younger children, so the older children help the younger children distance learn, but the older children didnt engage in Distance Learning. And i know parents that just opted out that said this is pointless. I cant teach my child. And so watch tv all day or play with the friends or go outside. And i know parents that had to find outside of the home child care and if they could afford it and then these working with other families and which we just learned today is not even technically allowed. They illegally did that because they had no other option and are planning to do so in the fall. So my question to you is, what are parents supposed to do with younger kids especially prek2 if they are both working full time . Literally walk me through. [please stand by. With the one of the things that we are asking everybody to do is not just send out a schedule, but that every school and every educator will be communicating directly with the families, that this is my schedule for the week, and so we do hope that that gives more consistency or is able to help families set a schedule for what to expect. And, as well go ahead. Supervisor ronen and is there any requirement that that schedule be consistent every day or it might look different every day . So it might look different every day meaning what happens on the window of school. So maybe on monday, math follows reading circle, and on tuesday, theres art. What she will do is have a school today, and youll get that schedule as a parent or guardian telling you what to expect during that time. Youll get a detailed schedule that tells us what will happen within that block. And everybody has gotten the message around consistency, supervisor ronen, and i know that staff and educators are making that day today, and theyve been working hard to inform educators and families. In the beginning, we didnt have a lot as we tried to respond. Last week, staff came back tuesday officially, and this week, we are trying to get schedules out today. If that is not the case, i would definitely ask for you to reach out to me, as well. We have to find a way to reach families who dont interact in those ways. Every single student should have a schedule for the first day of school. If you havent received it now, you should receive it today, so theres that. The synchronous time, we definitely phrase that from the perspective of the teacher. Every teacher will provide no less than 120 minutes a day. But again, as i said earlier, going back to those schedules, the goal is that each students will also have about 120 minutes a day little bit less for the younger kids, the kinders and the p. K. Doing that synchronous schedule, but you will get a schedule showing what your student will be doing every day of the week. Were asking our educators to check in. Part of that checkin is to find out whats working and whats not working. Were trying our best to set up ways that we have consistency but also opportunities that we can actually, you know, pivot and differentiate for our different family needs as appropriate as possible. So i do know, in your sight, itll be coming out today. And hopefully, that schedule will give you that clarity that youre looking for. Supervisor ronen but to clear, im not worried about myself, im worried about all families of the school. I just understand it cause im going through it, right . So what im trying to say and again, i really appreciated dr. Aragons quote of the day, which is theres no writing upstairs, theres just chaos. I dont want this to feel like an impossible situation or that im blaming because thats not what im doing. What im trying to do is to be realistic and to give to understand what families are facing and to be clear with families about what they can do, and then most importantly, to create interventions to truly help the circumstances that families are facing. So right now, when i read the 120 in my head, i got really disappointed. I thought, as horrible as the spring was, when i thought we did not have one moment to synchronize learning in our house, shell at least be learning two hours a day. Shell be in synchronized learning two hours a day, but what i just learned is that is not true. She may or may not have synchronized learning each and every day, and the minimum standard is per teacher, not per child. And there is not a consistent schedule, which if i wanted to team up with other families which is illegal, and which im furious about, because i thought the outofschool time applied to everyone, and i dont see, whether its a citybased learning hub or parentbased learning hubs, how theyre taking place. Well hear from families soon, and my phone is blowing up from all of these families across the city, saying, thank goodness someone is asking these questions. The learning hubs are illegal. Oh, my gosh, its not 120 minutes of synchronized learning. What i want to challenge us all to do is to come up with some answers for families that are real and realistic. And again, this is prek through second, because i know it gets better third grade forward, right . I guess that. This is a more realistic plan for older kids. So i guess that what im asking from you is three things. Im asking for minimum amount of synchronized learning that is required per child, not per teacher. Im asking for consistent schedules so that it doesnt look different every day so that parents and i dont know. I mean, i want to hear from parents on this, too, but if thats easier to organize around than something that looks different every single day is what im imagining. And if thats true, i ask that that be a requirement, not a goal. And number three and well talk about this more after maria sue presents on the Community Learning hub, but that we Work Together to create to use as much space as possible to make those hubs as widely available especially to those younger kids as possible. And right now, i know one of the most limiting possibilities to those is space. And those arent even available until the middle of september, but at least were giving them a light at the end of the tunnel given the fact that parents live and work in the city, and they need to work to survive. Those are my three requests to you and request for conversation during this hearing. Supervisor haney so i want to jump in because Susan Solomon has joined in, and then, i know that commissioner coli cou collins wants to speak. Thank you, supervisor. I do have several things to add to the conversation. So one of the things i want to say is that schools being closed during dp due to covi is necessary for Public Health, and its also very, very difficult for families, including educators. You know, the lack of support for working parents is a government failure. Its not a failure of the Public School system we have. In fact, they could just easily turn into a way for betsy devos to get her way and say Public School is not working, now, lets privatize and have vouchers and do whatever we want, so i want us to keep that in mind. Public education is the cornerstone of our democracy, and its already under attack before covid. So i also want to say that educators, who i represent, we would love to be with our students in person, but we want everybody to stay healthy and to stay alive, and i know that everybody shares that interest, too. We are in a crisis. Were moving as fast as we can, and things do change when youre in a crisis. One thing that i specifically want to mention about the agreement between uesf and sfusd is that all certified bargaining unit members will be interacting and instructing students for 120 minutes a day. So it goes beyond Classroom Teachers and visual and performing arts teachers and p. E. Teachers. Its nurses, social workers, behavioral analysts, psychologists. Everybody who has a credential who works with students will be working with students 120 minutes a day, and i think thats important to note. I also do want to caution, as the labor the Union Representative in this conversation, i do want to make sure that this body is aware that we are not bargaining our m. O. U. Or our contract in this venue. We can hear your advice and take it under consideration, but this is not the place to change anything thats in the m. O. U. Its an important fundamental feature of collective bargaining. And so a couple more things to add. Uesf educators absolutely share the interests and believes that the deputy superintendent and lee expressed. We do want students to have daily interaction and instruction. We know that it didnt happen to the agree it should have happened in the spring. We want to see that work. We want to get our schedules together. Predictability in schedules is important for educators, too. They also many of our educators have children of their own, and there are going to be days where theres some flexibility around the schedule because our own members or educators are dealing with the same thing other parents are dali dealing with. One thing that we achieved in this m. O. U. Is that we dont even have a contract with is that master schools have to give priority in the m. O. U. To students with the highest needs students with i. E. P. S, students with 504 plans, and students with tier three and tier two supports. Even before this plan was designed, there were instructions to place these students in the forefront. Paraeducators, i know the m. O. U. Is clear that they will also be providing supports to students engaged in Distance Learning. That is clear. They are often the linchpin between families and educators. Also, families and students must have the supplies that they need. So i know that one of the questions that is part of this hearing is what can the city do to help . So the district has been doing a phenomenal job of getting devices to everybody and getting devices to students come as a first priority. We found out yesterday that there are not enough devices for substitute teachers and substitute paraeducators, and we are going to need all of them to educate all of our students. So hope im not speaking out of turn, but perhaps theres a way that this could be helped. At this point, i think thats all i need to say, except that maybe this is it is a huge problem. Its not insur mountable, but we do have to make sure that we keep everybody healthy, and some of the language about the way things should be done, unless its not possible to do it when its about health, i will say personally is of concern to me. We know that our students education is important. We also know that families are important, and keeping everybody healthy is important, so thats the sum total of my comments for right now. Thank you. Supervisor haney commissioner collins . Commissioner collins hi. I just wanted to address this because i feel like im in the middle of these conversations. Im listening to families. I am a parent myself. I am not in the throes of dealing with a child care issues because my children are older, but i really feel for parents that are trying to find different ways to piece things together, but also, at the same time, i want to really reinforce what president solomon said, and theres a lot of frustration coming from families, and that is being directed to educators, and its also being directed at office staff and educators. And as president solomon mentioned, part of the reason why were in this situation is Public Schools didnt create the situation, and yet, we are, in so many ways, being expected to fix things. Weve been feeding families that arent our kids all summer. Weve been delivering devices to families. Were now giving out, like, books and, you know, crayons and things like that, and i think whats what i think we need to be really careful is understanding on the one hand, you know, educators have been working all summer everybodys been working all summer to save our budget, and then, the union and labor negotiations, and the district has been working to come up with new a new m. O. U. For how we work in this situation, and that takes time. And i understand that a lot of that isnt visible to the public. And at the same time, we have Central Office staff whos been doing a lot of work. In this presentation, i heard 11 Different Things that were doing as a district that we have never done before that ive been asking for a decade. We have a number that you can call for tech help, for resources. We have videos on how to get a Wellness Check. Theres all these things that are going on that are central, but at the same time, we havent had our educators onsite yet, and i think, for a lot of families, that feels like a disconnect. I respect our educators, and ultimately, the sitebased educators are the ones that know our kids best, and theyre going to take all the work going on during the summer, and theyre going to translate that. Right now, i dont know what my kids are going to learn next fall because their teachers are finally coming together. This week was the first week they can come together and figure out what theyre going to teach next fall. I just really want to caution us. I know theres a need for families to plan around that, and i think theres a need for City Services to plan for wraparound support. I got my schedule, and my first reaction was oh, thats not going to work, and then, i remembered i had that reaction last spring, when i got the schedule. But some of that is just i think we just need to trust them, and theyll come back to me with that information. Everything is so jammed right now, and were all so stressed. I think teachers have the right to negotiate a schedule, and thats at a site level, and i support that, and i think a lot of families dont understand that that is why some of this is taking longer, because we respect our sitebased educators, and if we had private schools, we could just tell people what to do. But we dont respect the expertise of the folks that are really on the ground doing the work. And because we do believe, in our district, that they are the experts of learning, we need to give them time to do that work. And then, child care, because that is a separate issue, that is something we need to figure out together. We want to help as educators, and i think our teachers, as was said twice, i mean, ive been in meetings with nicky. Like, theres kids crawling around. Ive been in meetings with dawn and melissa, also in central or the offic the Central Office. I think what we really need to focus on, and i think this is why this committee is so meaningful, how do we come together as a community to support working families and what will it look like . It cant just be Public Schools because we need help, and so im really interested in working with you to make sure how do they get support and child care . But i feel uncomfortable when its kind of, like, you know, like, well why isnt Central Office fixing it or why isnt my School Fixing it . Because its a much larger problem, and as president solomon said, it sets up the education system, and those kind of narratives set us up to fail, really, when there are larger issues at play. And those same narratives, like, theyre being used by devos and trump to say were failing at something the federal government really should be doing. So i appreciate all the opportunity for us to come together, and i want to caution for us putting everything on the plate of teachers, and i want everyone to feel supported, as well as i want teachers to feel support. Thank you, chair haney, for allowing me to speak. Supervisor haney supervisor ronen . Commissioner renne thank y you supervisor ronen thank you, chair haney. I want to say, this city and county want to help. We all know our federal government is failing us. Both my sister and my mother are teachers. I hear about their experience every single day, and the societial ills that theyre supposed to deal with while also dealing with children in their classrooms is literally impossible. So i just i want to be clear, when im saying what im saying, im not putting it on the educators, who i adore. Im not putting it on the administration, i am putting it on us collectively. I am saying that i am here, and we need to do this now, and we need to get it right. The white families, for the most part, they have the means to figure a way out of this, right . The families that dont have the means are oftentimes disproportionately families of color. Im not putting it on the district, im not putting it on the educators, im putting it on all of us to find realistic ways to find that child care in ways that are as safe as possible. And the way we fight betsy devos and their awful privatization that i will fight with everything i have for the rest of my life. Theres no more institution more vital to this country is the Public School institution is by stepping up to this moment and stepping in and providing parents what they need to make to allow educators to educate, right . Like, the reason this is important from prek to second grade, no matter how the educator is using these new techniques to educate, if theres not someone on the other end interpreting it, its not going to get to the student students, and were going to waste more time. Im not trying to blame anyone, im trying to solve it together. So my question maybe we should hear from maria sue next, and then get into questioning because maria is trying to offer a model of solution then, and then perhaps after we get that presentation, we can all discuss that model, and ways that we can clarify it and ways that we need to expand it to make sure that every family can be successful. Thats what i would offer up, unless anybody wants to respond. If i may, theres two separate conversations here. Theres child care, and theres learning. I think you cant have the learning without the child care for young kids, so to me, theyre one and the same, and we have to solve them both if we want to make education accessible for kids for Distance Learning. Supervisor haney okay. So why dont we go ahead and dr. Sue, are you here . Director sue . I am thank you, supervisors and commissioners and staff. My name is dr. Maria sue. Im going to share my screen, and let me know if theres anything that you have questions about. For benefits of families that are watching, ill just very quickly go through what are Community Learning hubs. So we are creating this initiative out of some key data points that weve collected over these past several months. First and foremost, as youve all heard, our School District, stuffed sfusd, is planning for Distance Learning, and we will start Distance Learning until the spring. As the city starts thinking about and planning for reopening our economy, we want to make sure that our children have safe places to go to learn and to be with their peers and then also parents are able to go to work so that they are not needing to decide between going to work and making a living and staying home and caring for their children. And then finally, just the acknowledgement that our City Services and Public Schools that most parents rely on, such as muni, will not be at huge capacity, so it will be a huge stressor for parents to try to move around the city. So because of all these key factors, back on july 23, mayor breed, along with the rec and Park Department and our department, announced that we would be standing up these Community Learning hubs, and in her statement, she talked about the village. And i agree that the village consists of all members of this community right now and then some. Ill go through some slides later on who just is joining us in this village and running these Community Learning hubs. So just very quickly, there are some key tenets of what these Community Learning hubs will be. Number one, they will be community based. So they will be local facilities that are in neighborhoods that have high concentrations of children, and thats primarily because we want these facilities to be in Community Hubs. Number two, we want to provide supports for Distance Learning, however it will look like. We want to make sure that children will have the ability to ask someone for supports if they cant log in or if theyre having problems submitting homework or theyre having problems with whats going on. And then, we want to be focused on building supports for children. I want to be clear. This is not a school. We dont have teachers in these facilities. These are Youth Development experts who are going to be running programs in this facility, and folks can just envision or imagine this is essentially a summer program, like summer camp with a learning component to it. So the big difference between this and schools is were talking about very small groups of children. Youve heard dr. Aragon talk about the smaller cohorts and the stable cohorts thats going to be required for these learning hubs. So thats what were going to do. Were going to be limiting the number of children in these facilities, number 1 through 20, with a maximum number of 20 children in each of these. They have to be stable cohorts, with a maximum of 20 children, with a maximum of 20 thats allowed. But its depending on the ability of that site to meet the distancing requirement, thats how many kids will be in that facility. Now, we need a lot of facilities because of the requirement, and thats the struggle we have right now. We are planning on rolling out and starting these Community Learning hubs on september 14. They will be from 8 30 to 5 30. We will provide nutritious meals there for the children. Like i said, well have support for Distance Learning, and then, well also do and provide all the other supports that children need the distance supports, the mental activities, as well as family and health supports. This data is not a surprise to anyone in this committee, but i do want to mention that we are all familiar with the academic difficulties of our children, and we know about the summer slide that our children experience. Right now, our children are literally experiencing what im calling this covid avalanche. A lot of our disconnected children, children who struggled during the spring, and even before, before. And a lot of our children have continued to slide. 19 of our families say they needed other resources to make Distance Learning decemb learn so we wanted to make sure that all of these resources are available at these hubs. A lot of our families are saying they would much prefer to have inperson learning. Youve heard some commissioners talk about this. There was the development of these pandemic pods, which quite frankly, as a city staffer, as a city servant, i feel it was my duty and our responsibility as a city to make sure that our lowest need highest need families also had options because we had financial opportunities to create programs and design things that would support their children, and we wanted to design something that would highlight their support. I want to take a moment to highlight who were prioritizing in these learning hubs. I do understand there is a lot of needs out there. Sfusd, San Francisco Unified School District, has 56,000 children. Of the 56,000 children, 24,000 children qualify for free and reduced lunch, so there are lots of children that would need an opportunity such as this. Unfortunately, our department is only able to standup maximum 6,000 slots, and thats due to a number of constraints, but theres also a financial constraint. So thats why we are prioritizing these specific areas. We are prioritizing lowincome families, and children living in s. R. O. S. We are prioritizing our Homeless Children and children in foster care. We need to prioritize those children first. So what will children get when they come to a hub . Ive already shared some of that. They will have access to a dedicated youth professional at these sites. I want to remind everyone that were not teaching, were providing that emotional social support for children. Heres a little example of what does that mean . So for kindergarten to fifth graders, well be providing some of that literacy support. Actually, before i say that before i go through the slide, i do want to say that all of our Service Providers that were providing at the learning hubs are the same Service Providers that provide this type of support and services in schools precovid, so this is the thing that theyve been doing, and they have a lot of expertise in doing this during the school year, when we were back in school. And so what were asking our c. B. O. S is to pivot from providing that type of service in schools to now providing that service in these hubs. So literacy, physical activities, and for high school students, well add in some of that College Career readiness. All of the sites will have Distance Learning supports, the food, the family supports, Mental Health supports are all going to be available. How are we reaching these families . We are working with our Family Services agency as well as our c. B. O. S to do targeted outreach to children and families to offer them an opportunity to register for these for the sites. We want to make sure, and we want to give parents and families this choice. If they want to be in the hub, theyll have it, and if not, well go through the list to enroll more families. And then, just in terms of other city departments thats been helping us do this really heavy lift getting this off the ground, definitely, our partners over at rec and park have been amazing. Theyre offering eight of their facilities for the hubs. Our partners at the libraries, theyre offering 15 of their facilities for the hubs. Mayors office of housing and community development, our hope s. F. Office and department of technology are help us to do wifi at all these sites,. This is a partial list of our dcyf grantees, and we have contacted and are working with each one of them to decide if it makes sense to provide their services in these hubs. I just want to say that it does take a village. It is all of us, and i think Susan Solomon says id we need Work Together to support our working families. We need to come together. Theyre our children. Theyre not just School District children or city children, theyre our children, and all of our responsibility. So very quickly go over that. There were some questions about where are these hubs, and why have you been so secretive about them . We havent been secretive of them, weve just been trying to amass their needs. This is a map that weve distributed internally. I hope that you can see the geodots that indicate where most of our School Children live. In general, were trying to make sure, once again, these hubs are where children live so they can walk to them. I know that there was a question around emergency child needs care that supervisor ronen asked about. I want to share that this is a program that our partners over at rec and parks will be running. When shelter in place was issued in midmarch, dcyf and rec and parks quickly pivoted and created an emergency child in needs care, and the intent was to serve our hospital workers as well as activated essential workers. So the ecyc program, the emergency child and Youth Care Program will start august 31. Unfortunately, theres only 150 Slots Available, and theyre going to be prioritized for Health Care Professionals and activated d. S. W. S in the city. So i know there was a request to see if there was more Slots Available for other essential workers, and unfortunately, right now, we only have funding and resources for this many slots primarily because rec and parks is allocating the rest of their sites for the hubs. So that concludes my presentation, and im happy to take questions. Supervisor haney does anybody else have any questions . You know, i guess i will i will jump in first on this. In the mission and soma, we have a large number of families who may want to join a Community Learning hub. Whats the sense of i mean, how do you prioritize within communities like that . Will you, for example, be able to provide for all of the families in need that meet those qualifications that you put forward in those projects in the tenderloin or in the mission or are we going to be saying no to some of these children . Yes. Thats the unfortunate thing that my staff is not interesting in doing. I see our director of programs and grants just joined. I do want to say that, once again, there are 24,000 children in sfusd that qualify for free and reduced lunch. Based on the data that were getting from sfusd, there are around 4,000 children who actually fall into our Public Housing, homeless, s. R. O. S, and foster care categories. But once again, we only have funds to serve up to 6,000 children, so we will have to have very, very difficult conversations, and shireen can talk about the algorithm that were using. Right. So depending on the neighborhood, the number of sites that we have and the capacity, were only going to outreach to the number of families and youth in which we have space for. So, for example, in the t. L. , if weve only secured 100 spots because we only have space for 100 youth, were going to work with the c. B. O. S, and were going to have to do a certain approach. Here are the students that fall into the population, as well as here are youth involved in multiple systems, and maybe you two well, ill just go with youth that are involved in multiple systems. With that, knowing that we only have 100 slots, in c. B. O. A, you can only serve 20. Youre going to have to do an approach in which 20 out of those 60 will be in this hub the most . We dont no one wants to sit there and say this young person needs it more than this young person, but because were restricted by the space, we can only do so much, so thats why its a focused outreach. We know, in the tenderloin, there could be 400 kids that want to access the hub. If we only have 100 slots, were not going to reach out to 400 kids and have to touch 300 away. This is where working with h. S. A. And our c. B. O. To help identify the youth that youre serving, and out of the space thats available, who do we need to prioritize first and then kind of work from there. As we secure most sites, well be able to add more youth, but thats the the process that were going to have to use. Supervisor haney so eventually, as you open a site or you confirm a site, youre going to work with the site operators themselves, and sort of through a combination of saying these set of families and students qualify and directed outreach, youre going to fill that site one by one, or there wont be a wider registration well, there will be. This is where were working out the algorithm. We have a combination of c. B. O. S that have their own brick and mortar, and they serve populations that we already have. We have sites like the rec and park sites and library sites. But some are schoolbased providers and they dont have their own brick and mortar, and theyll be going in those sites. And others, like the boys and girls clubs, that have staff, theyll be going out and staffing the sites. We were meeting with a group on monday to do the outreach for youth that are in s. R. O. S. We do have to be coordinated that we only outreach to the number of youth that we have space for. Now if the plan is, if you send out an application, the families return it, we check to make sure the Eligibility Criteria is met. They then get an acceptance letter. They have to sign off on the acceptance on what the emergency protocols for for each site. They understand where their assignment is, and theyre full in. Now if a family decides not to take the slot, itll go to the next person. But we need to do it in a very focused way so were not offering more than whats available. Supervisor haney i think both commissioner collins and supervisor ronen have questions on this particular point, so ill let them jump in. Commissioner collins . Commissioner collins im talking to African American parents in my district who have never heard of this. And specifically their leaders, leaders have contacted me, commissioner i mean supervisor haney around these issues in their communities, and im kind of shocked that they dont know about this program and have been trying to get information and feel locked out and excluded from informing, you know, where they are, what they are, in terms of the Wraparound Services and things like that. So id love to hear, you know, how youre doing outreach because it seems like its not reaching the families you intend it to be. And when you say you do outreach for the number of families that you have space for . I dont know how you do that. If youre not opening a very clear message of your target audience, then youre already going through organizations that you already use, and thats a problem. In my d3, how high is an organization leading a lot of work. I appreciate the organization. Theyre a great organization, but they are not the folks that are working directly with s. R. O. Residents like scdc, c. C. A. , that actually have students in the housing complex and s. R. O. S. It feels like a real disconnect because they dont know anything about this. And those are black lowincome moms living in Public Housing. They should be informed that this is an opportunity, and theyre not informed of that at all. So we havent started outreach yet. You wanted to know commissioner collins right. But havent you posted that people can get more information on your website . Yes. Commissioner collins so thats what im saying. People dont know that they can sign up. And ymca is also messaging out to members, and so youre already privileging a Certain Group with information that other folks dont have. Supervisor ronen can i just say once again, were being very targeted very can i say that, once again, were making sure that the kids are being targeted. Were not saying everyone sign up. Its not going to be that way. We are working with key operators and providers that do work very closely with these high need populations to do targeted outreach. Commissioner collins what youre not understanding is youve already selected c. B. O. S that youre reaching out to, and thats going to exclude folks from the c. B. O. S that you have not selected, and that is excluding folks from participating in this. Im talking to folks that i have heard from, specific to Treasure Island, and they are trying to participate and share information in their community, and these are, like, real parent leaders, like, really amazing black women that are, like, basically brought food to Treasure Island through their advocacy, and you should be partnering with them, and they feel like theyre not being included in anything. I know youre not signing anyone up today, but they need to be partnered with so they can let their community know. Im seeing that as a design flaw. Thank you for that. We have not landed and chosen all the c. B. O. S that well be working with. We also said were not going to be able to serve 6,000 off the bat, so it has to be done in phases. I understand if parents are feeling left out because theyre not necessarily clued in, but ive been in several calls and at several town halls and in several forums, talking about the hub, talking about what were trying to do, how were reaching out, which encompasses did just idcyf. In fact, im going to be in a call on monday with a group of folks, this is what our outreach is going to be commissioner collins ill tell you, im giving you feedback, im telling you no, this isnt happening. Youre not being effective in reaching folks, and youre not engaging with the African American Advisory Council leaders. Theres folks that are on the ground. They know whats going on in their neighborhoods, and im hearing that they are not hearing any of this information and are not feels like their voice is valued in this process. Im more than open and willing to talk to any families that were trying to reach. We can only provide the information that we have. We still have a lot of stuff that were working through. None of us listening on this calling has ever been through a pandemic, none of us has ever tried to do anything like this. All were asking for is some grace and patience while were trying to do that. I understand were not hitting all the entities that we need to hit, but were more than welcome to bring them into the fold. We dont know everybody who we need to hit, and thats why we depend on our c. B. O. S. Im more than willing to talk to anyone. Im meeting with bmagic. They work with a lot of c. B. O. S in the bayview that we dont work with, who have a voice, who work with the parents that you are talking about, who say, this is what were hearing, this is what we want to see happen. [inaudible] that we dont have. We want to make sure that were accurate in the information that we provide so people have the information they need to understand exactly whats going to roll out . Commissioner collins so who should i tell people to contact if they want to get more information . Have them contact me [inaudible]. Commissioner collins and then, another question im hearing is youve identified library sites, and that is a great use of public space, but then, im concerned that that will prevent those sites from offering neighborhood pick up. In my neighborhood, d3 i dont know if this is true or this is just in the planning phase, but i want to be clear, this may not be set for the public, but i heard that you might be considering north Beach Library and chinatown library, and those are sites 2 that a lot of families rely on. They rely on those sites to get books. If sfpl San Francisco Public Library is developing a book pick up for the fall which me as an educator, i really, really want kids to get books because they used to get them through their schools. If their learning hub in chinatown prevents them from getting books, thats a problem. So im wondering how Decision Making is going on around how youre using various sites . Were working with go ahead, maria. Just that thats a good question, where we do want to balance the needs of our question and make sure we utilize as many of our facilities as possible while balancing the needs. In collaboration with director lambert, were trying to figure out which ones make the most sense to turn it into a hub. Commissioner collins are you talking at