Transcripts For SFGTV Port Commission 20240712

We only have three commissioners today, so every commissioner counts. Am i on the screen . We cant see you, commissioner, it looks like you are on hold is what it says on my end. Im going so i have to go back to open session . Correct, yes. I can hear you guys. Can you second the motion to reconvene in open session. Second. Roll call. [roll call] we are now in open session. Commissioner, can i have a motion to not dispel what was in closed session. Second. Roll call vote, please. [ roll call vote ] item number 6 is the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Clerk item number 7 is announcements. A member of the public has three minutes on each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter amount. The moderator willen instruct diein participants to use a touch tone phone to register their desire for Public Comment and ought yo prompts will signal to dial in participants when their audio input has beenen and dial in when the item you wish to comment on is announcement and please note if you are watching that meeting on sfgovptv theres a broadcasting delay. When the item is announce, dial 415 6550001 and enter access code 146 009 8501 and mute your volume and listen through the telephone which is live. When Public Comment you want to comment on is announced, dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment and then listen for the audio prompt to signal your turn to comment. Reminder for our meeting presenters and participants to mute your microphones and turn off your camera when you are not presenting. That brings us to item number 8 which is Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Thank you, carl. Well open the phone lines to take Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda for members the public for joining us on the phone. Jennica will be our operator and provide instructions for anyone on the phone who would like to provide Public Comment. Thank you, president brandon. At this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mule until l their line is open. The queue is now open. Dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. Thank you, do we have anyone on the line . We have one caller on the line at the moment. Thank you. Opening the first line now. Caller hi, my name is alex and im a neighbor of the port i live in the india basin neighborhood. For the past 20 years, and im sure certainly longer, the rendering plant at the pier has been obnoxious nuisance for the neighborhood, especially during the summertime. Especially when the winds start growing off the bay. This past spring and summer the plant has been especially bad and having been stuck here at home, the problem is much more noticeable. I used to be i was on the southern Waterfront Advisory Committee many years ago when the rendering plant was being expanded and we were promised state of the art odor control, per a community hotline, and a better management from the port and all of that has gone by the wayside. Its really vital that the port get a hold of its and if the lessee cant correct their behavior they should shut it down. Thank you, we appreciate your call. Are there any other callers . At this time, there are no other callers on the phone wishing to make Public Comment on this item. Thank you. Seeing no more callers on the phone, Public Comment is now closed. Next item, please. Item number 9a is the executive directors report. Good afternoon, president brandon, commissioners, members of the public. And port staff. Im elaine the executive director and first and foremost port staff will look into the prior callers comments about the rendering plant in the back lands. Thank you for calling in on Public Comment. My report will begin with an he equity update and the ports recovery in light of covid19 and new guidance from Health Experts as well as key project updates, hide street and harbor and i will have clarity along with michael par tin to offer reflexes on Waterfront Development in light of last weeks presentation on piers 30 and pier 32 and sea lot 330. The public is wellinformed on Waterfront Development generally and specifically the process for pier 30, 32 and seawall lot 330. We are in the final two weeks of our listening tour for phase 1 of the Racial Equity action plan. I want to acknowledge staff who have engage and offered ideas on ways the port can be a more equitable workplace. More diverse and inclusive. As on starringization. Our Racial Equity action plan is meant to be reflective of the ports collective voice and were working to do that. Im happy to announce the port has replaced Board Legislative Affairs manager as the ports rep ten to the lbe advisory subcommittee and they served on the lbe advisory subcommittee since 2016, he actually replaced me when i became port director and received an award for contribution from the Sub Commission on departure. Whether the current lbc program and related contracting processes have had the effect of reducing and reversing discrimination against black Indigenous People of color and womenowned businesses will be informing our efforts and advance equity. These finding will be important to the city and the port as we advance equity results across our systems and programs. The ertf released a report and policy recommendations at its final meeting following months of stakeholder convenings. It was task force carmen chiu, jojose, president of the chamber of commerce rodney fong and the Labor Council rudy gonzalez. Considerable collaboration and hard work went into this effort and i appreciated having a policy seat as Department Head on the effort along with other city Department Heads with missions that touched the economy. This process had thorough and i will press i have stakeholder and engagement and the port wishes to extend our appreciation to accesser 2 and all members of the ertf who took on this very important work. They have 41 policy recommendations that focus on longterm recovery and providing businesses more opportunities and flexibilities to operate and succeed in the short and midterm mayor breed has announced the first steps to support San Franciscos recovery including moving forward on a permanent shared streets Spaces Program and building on the success of the program that has been so helpful in the covid19 pandemic and and waving certain taxes and fees for businesses that remain closed. This is the begin to go get the city moving towards economic recovery and meeting the policies and goals of the task force. The port stands ready to support mayor breed in this important rebuilding effort that shes already gotten started and these first steps will have very positive impact on port tenants and equity. The port reopening. As we continue to settle into the new phase of living with covid19, the port submitted updates peer health and safety plans to our city and our plans and strategies were 80 back to reassumed duties and our Maintenance Division and the 20 are committed to delays Disaster Service workforce our main tin group through the end of 2020. I want to congratulate our employees who take care ex taking care of one another with real commitment to the Health Orders and guidelines. Into hide street harder and to continue to remove that petroleum. They have federal port for this incident under National Contingency plans to the epa from the coast guard to the epa and they are continuing to Work Together under an incident command structure and i want to command them for collaboration and activity on this effort and im going to cuts details of the operation for those in the public and our tenants and commissioners who are interested in those details and petroleum condition along work nine and at this time the area has expanded to 600 shoreline the current containment includes two 300foot long rings and and contaminate under the bridge to prevent sheen from flowing into the outer lagoon. Into the outer lagoon jay 10 area into the inner regime. The work is to rain inner and outer boom configuration. Its using pads and boom and recoverable petroleum is removed from the water once or twice a week wednesdays depending on accumulation rates and as needed each weekend. Its used to reduce africa in between weekday cleanings and today over 140 cal owns of oil and 300 personnel hours on hands on and craft and office space professionals to this regulatory support and approve of our plans and to help us in our approach of Site Management and or over all Response Strategy and. They are tzk and hats include and we have a fully executed lease disposition and Development Agreement and ldda for the projects. Current staff is working to finalize the construction plans as well as with the puc and public works to finalize on site and off site utility plans and to allowable time extensions not for the control of tzk. They have evoked one of our agreement time extensions and called force because of the profound impact that covid19 is having on the Hospitality Industry locally and across the country and its extreme as we all know and Hotel Occupancy is currently at record lows and Construction Financing may not be available in 18 to 24 months, however, there is a bright line here. Despite the economic downturn tzk is remained committed to this project and will continue to monitor the market and keep this project moving forward. Port staff will Keep Commission in informed and were hopeful the project receives. And finally, id like toned my directors report by turning it over so my martin and the Waterfront Development and with staff and we felt we could have done did more in communicating with the process and first and foremost, development always on our waterfront and always draws a great deal of attention so the process can be complex or confusing to some and we really do need to have a shared understanding of our approach to Development Projects and where we are in this moment in time with the development proposals. First, the Port Commission and the port is absolutely committed to open and Transparent Development and we cannot develop our property or meet Port Commission mission without such a process and now to piers 30, 32 and 330. We have several failed developments at this site so the port staff work with Community Partners to develop a set of Community Values to perform the request for proposals and the development of a open competitive process for the sites. We did this of course with the commissions review approval and direction. We articulated Community Values and were put into that request for proposals and it yielded several responses proposals for the Port Commission consideration. The process that we set up front put the evaluation and review of the project proposals, which includes the project approach, Team Strength and capacity and all into the hands of an impartial and experienced panel. The panel was advisory to the Port Commission. Port staff served as referees of a fair and competitive process. Upon the commissioner selection of a proposal for negotiations, port staff will begin then working with the winner of that process to refine, actually develop a project plan to perfect the selected project proposals. In these negotiations the project proposal will naturally evolve to incorporate solutions to concerns raised to the parties and the public. The project that is to be developed will change from the proposal that we all saw as part of the competition and again, these solutions will be crafted and will be consistent with our fee objectives and Community Values that we screen for and had a competition for in that rfp. We had a similar approach to our solicitation for Development Partners at pier 70 and this was approach and solicitation and and well close thank you for allowing lengthy directors report. Please take it away, mike. Michael martin, real estate and development. Can i have my first slide. I think director forbes very well summarized this first slide. The basically, the process that we filed for request for proposals on those two recent transactions at piers 38 and 40 being one and 332 and 330 being the other followed the recommendations update and we brought these recommendations back for februar specific guidar the past year as we geared up and issued those rfps and our plan is to continue to do so including to continue to follow these steps including with the item on todays agenda regarding to building 49 down at crane cove park. I wanted to walk through these when we wept on the prior rfps and were hopefully going to go. First, well come to you and we are coming to you today for a hearing to initiate the Rfp Development process. That is a hearing that we had for each of those prior rfps prior to issuing those rfps as well and its an opportunity to port staff to come thinking about why a project at this location of the coined that were proposing t would be beneficial to the port and beneficial to the city at large. They give feedback and staff will go off and start with step two which is an engagement relevant to that site its to develop some values and priors that with would bake into the rfp document that we establish this Community Dialogue that were saying to proposers, here is what weve established what we value from a project here and what you should prioritize in your project proposal. After that engage. , we come back to the Port Commission and provide more details on how an rfp would be structure including a scoring structure and a scoring Panel Process and the Port Commission would hopefully give feedback and direct staff to develop draft and release the rfp. So, after that process is over, staff develops and releases the rfp. That will go out into the world and we hopefully get a number of responses as we did for the most recent two rfps and port staff would convene the scoring panel called for through the dialogue with the Port Commission and described in great detail in the rfp document. And in this point in time where director forbes describes it, were the referee. Reshmi were not engaging and were walking through the process to make sure that these proposals are presented back to you and the Port Commission and along with the scores from the qualified members of the scoring committee that have been selected both from city staff and public stakeholders with expertise in relative areas to the rfp so after that scoring panel is complete we come back with our report on the scoring and you are able to ask questions including firms that show and they are requested to make a selection and move forward and to say we reject these selections and were going to go forward in a different direction. That action has been taken for two projects very recently. One being pier 38 and 40 so that is a Selection Process weve been through and we wanted to highlight they get a good project so first step is to adopt an annex conclusive negotiate agreement and it will set fourth a set of milestones and schedule for doing all the things that are needed to get to anna provable project. Thats a movement in time that were negotiating a document that will show a roadmap that looks like the slide with much more detail in terms of specifically how much time that project will take to do these steps and what these steps look like from a staff perspective. Port staff with work to continue negotiations and refine the financial transaction of the project as well as the project description so hearing some of the comments weve heard from the community, are there ways we can evolve the project to start addressing those comments at this early stage . Then theres a point in time where we go back for tort of an i am process approval of first of all the Port Commission approving the non gaining term sheet to look at the negotiations and the transaction and the financials to make sure this is something we still want to our our way towards and then also going to the board of supervisors for their approval under the citys fiscal feasibility ordinance which requires them to look at a project and say it is feasible and worthy of the typ time and resources it would be to do time and review. When it gets done, were into the meat of the transaction negotiations, which has, as you can see here, many different threads. The basic financial transaction negotiations of those documents. Theres environmental review, either on the state level with ceqa or the federal level. Theres regulatory review with our usual set of regulators at army score of engineers and the bay conservation and development commission, state Lands Commission and state Historic Preservation office and those are all things that will have started the conversation at that initial phase of term sheet and project description but will now continue on with those partners to understand what is needed for this project to be approve able and throughout t. Well have Additional Community engagement so that we can do more touch points and see there our proposed solutions and impacts and make sense and they all of which has a goal of bringing a set of approvals documents together and at the bo ready for approval at the Port Commission and the other relevant city agency thats would have approval and in the board of processes for this and refining and the project youve seen from this point forward and part of this is also to orient ourselves on todays agenda which you can ask questions where that is going in terms of the Rfp Development process. So, that is my summary. Hopefully building off of what the executive director describes. Im happy to answer any questions if you have them here otherwise im happy to hand them back to you to continue the meeting. Thank you, mike. I really appreciate the process. Well open the phone lines and take Public Comment on the executive directors report for members of the public who are joining us on the phone. Jennica will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone who would like to provide Public Comment. Thank you, president brandon. At this time, we will open the queue for any anyone on the phone who would like on the executive report. Please style star 3 if you wish to make and others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limit today three minutes a person. The queue is now open. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. Thank you. Do we have anyone on the phone . Yes, president brandon, we have two callers on the line at the moment. Thank you. Please open the line for the first caller. Thank you. Opening the first line now. Caller hello, this is jay wallace. Hello commissioners. Tck broadway llc. I want to thank port staff for its excellent work, as always, on this project. Ricky and rebeca notwithstanding the difficulty they were facing. Theyve done a great job and moved the project along. I want to reiterate what the executive director said. We are fully committed to the project. We are doing what we should be doing. Financing possibilities are bleak at the moment as you know. That is not deterred us and were continuing to move forward owe. We expect that the markets may come back towards the end of next year and we rebound in the market if thats comes forward over the next few years and few months and hopefully not few years. We have one additional caller on the line. Please, open the line. Opening that line now. Caller commissioners, my name is francisco decosta. I was listening to you all very intently and when we have these Virtual Meetings it is pertinent the presentations shown on the green are clear to the presentation that is in blue, dark blue, couldnt be seen very clearly now its important that we, especially during this time of the pandemic, now i have to look at my tv screen to gather a very good idea of what is happening. So, one of the things i think that we can the public do not have a very clear idea is about the seawall. There was a lot of planning done and we can the public, need to get a very, very clear picture of the seawall. Now, the public should also had. There are no other callers on the line wishing to make public on the line. Commissioner gilman. Thank you for the mark and process and i had one question and s there will be others in the future. If we want to tweak or change the processes or staff would the opportunity be more globally to communicate that to you and staff or would that be on a casebycase basis. We talk about process case by case every time we put the rfps together we have long conversations some time about perfecting the process to get it just so because inclusion and equity fairness, transparency, fro dom from bias so important to the commission so we always talk deeply case by case. Theres nothing preventing us from having a policy based conversation about what we always do. If you wanted to schedule Something Like that we would be amenable to talk at a policy level or case by case basis as we do already. Thank you so much and thank you for the report. That concludes my questions. Its good directors report and its seawall lot 337 and essentially the process is you and mark martin does give the public a better selling there are continued avenues and openness to continue discussion and for the city of San Francisco in whatever we do end up how this rfp and ena eventually ends up. So i think we are do try to be transparent or why it was a key message today. About how we go about doing our business. So, i think thats another point that i just wanted to reiterate in terms of the takeaway that i took from the discussion and i think if theres any changes in the process i think that take those and and the last time it was a little bit maybe if there was more the information was they want to take it in stride and work on it and there are opportunities to go forward on that. I want to thank you for the update on teatro zonni and i appreciate that jay was on the phone giving us an update and i do hope that financing will be more favorable. I was a little concerned its a great project for the waterfront and city of San Francisco and for the whole arena of having more cultural and Arts Entertainment in the city and for the artists that they also have a place to perform and and i think it would be an important cultural addition. I just go back moved off of the property port and americas cup and he was very involved with that and a lot of times has passed and is we had an unexpected situation occur with the covid situation and it has put it back further. I hope that we dont see this derail for too long because i think its an important contribution to the ports, the waterfront and the city that this project gets done. Thank you. Thats all my comments. Thank you. Elaine, thank you so much. I really appreciate the update and the economic recovery and thank you for being a part of the task forced to bring us back after covid. Weve been really busy. I want to followup on the request with the seawall and the sediment and we do need to see what is going on more often so i think that we should have informational items, at least quarterly because its such a huge process and also if theres someway we can get a property of the slides or email him a copy of the slides that we show for the process so the rfp process which were great for providing clarity on where we are within that and you may have said this but you may have missed it but regarding how long is the extension and i understand were in covid and financing is hard but what does that really mean . Im going to ask mike martin to step in for me or someone from the Development Team because theyll have the details close at hand. Its rebeca and i can step in. So the lbda term is one year so we find it about a month ago and they can pay for attention alex tensions. The letter they sent is stating this one year term should not start yet because of the event and a pandemic and forced and so we need the respond to that ledder and state more clear about what is the time period the pandemic may be effecting continuing and were going to have the checking in on that and so its a little bit of a dance and a discussion about how long the event will occur and the typical term is one year to get procedure financing order anproo turnover the property until theyll ready to get going in terms of the construction. Were happy to keep providing updates and were monitoring sort of the broker reports on homes and looking at how many landings are coming no sfo so were monitoring this and happy to return as the how long this force event is likely to effect the market. So the one year will start when we come up with a date. It started in september. But theyve asked for us to delay it because of the forced measure event of the pandemic. So now we need to respond back to them in order to state, ok, well well extend it for i dont know what that answer is yet, three to six months and well check in again and see whether or not theres still an absolute freeze on financing. Ok. So i guess does that help . Yes it does. My request would be that what we make that decision and when we understand what the schedule or the amount moving forward that you give us an update. Surely. Great. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk that would be item 9b, the commissioners report. Commissioner report. Im looking to report this time. Thank you. So we can go to the next item. That would be item number 10 the content calender and theres one item, 10a, a 60 day extension of one memorandum of understanding with the San Francisco office of economic and Workforce Development for the use of pier 29 as a Central Location to accept deliveries of personal protective equipment and subsequent distribution to San Francisco non profits and two the deferral of rent for such use as it supports the covid19 crisis. This is resolution 2046. Thank you. Can i have a motion. So moved. Second. Lets open it up for Public Comment. We will open the phone lines to take Public Comment on the consent calender from members of the public for joining us on the phone. Jennica will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide Public Comment. Thank you, president brandon. At this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comment on the consent calender. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. The queue is now open. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. Thank you. Do we have anyone on the phone. There are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make Public Comment on this item. Thank you. Seeing no callers on the phone, Public Comment is closed. We have a motion and a second. Do we have a roll call vote. [ roll call vote ] next item please. Informational presentation on a competitive solicitation strategy of two historic structures, the nice building and in the pier 70 area generally along illinois between 18th and 19th streets. Good afternoon, commissioners, rebeca from real estate and development. I am here presenting on behalf of the team. Jamie hurley is actually the project manager for this rfp and was unable to be here today. I also want to acknowledge erika peterson, david beaupray, mike mark tin, dianne and. Its a discussion how to get investments into the two buildings that flank the beach at the park which is very fun to say. The mcneese building and building 49. I want to let you know about the plan tag is done around these buildings and then discuss an rf strategy and this is just informational and it feels apartment with the introduction and discussions that elaine and mike gave about rfps so i feel like im hitting the ground running with this presentation because you are all really thinking about this right now. Next slide, please. The two buildings that were discussing today from left to right, building 49 is on the left and it is a singlestorey building. You will see when i show the square footages and it looks so large and it has fewer on the right and it has both have been untentative and are in various conditions. It was important for me to show this aerial of the park to show how their inner face with the park is a huge asset to the building and how they can serve what weve already delivered with that major investment of that wonderful park. A little bit more detail. Building 49 is 8,000 square feet and they will include a public rest room to replacement current temporary restrooms that are on site. The building contracts is that were looking at now does not include a seismic upgrade. Theyre high occupancy uses with retail or cafes where you have members of the public coming in and out and they would really not be possible for people to go inside the building with that low occupancy. Other uses can go in though without that seismic upgrade. Its also listed on historic register until Historic Places so its already a listed rye source. Building 49 and they have not improvements for quite a long time and its been unoccupied for many years. Its deteriorating. As part of the pier 70 trust realignment and swap that occurred with the brookfield project, it was removed from the public trust as part of that trust exchange so the if it came into invest it would have to get it listed which we believe it could be listed which would then unlock tax credit for the building. Next slide, please. Just to talk a little bit about the big context of what sort of planning has gone on and what sorts of public expectations have started having for these buildings the major planning goes back to 2010 when we did the pier 740 master plan which eventually led to historic core, it resulted in those buildings being rehabilitated and rfp that resulted in brookfield taking over the waterfront site as our partner on that location and the next slide, built on to that process in 2013. Our planning and Environment Group developed a crane cove park plan. You can see here its very similar to what ultimately has been delivered on site which is very exciting. And the kneass building was not addressed with use it might serve. Building 49 was. Its in the center of the slide. We opened it would be used for water recreation and bicycle parking on site so were not sure if we need additional as well as a site and next slide. Please. There are eight goals that apply to the southern waterfront and weve pulled out throw in particular that we think really speaks to what might go i go ine buildings. Number two listed in the staff report has to do withens hancements water recreation and enhancement to the blue green way and doing something that enhances sort of the public experience and the various public locations they can visit and the southern waterfront and number throw was implementing pier 70 projects which includes the deliver row of parks and other public realm improvements that the public can enjoy and number eight was relating to Community Partnerships and Community Benefits for the southern waterfront and delivering more Community Benefits. Next slide, please. They set out the acceptable uses for each of the facilities. You can see here that building 49 was anticipated to have water recreational boating, to relate to the parks and open space to have accessory and other sorts of short interim uses and maritime industry, retail, general office, Community Facilities as well as interim uses. Thats the whole framework of what we have to work with in terms of previous Planning Efforts and our current draft waterfront plans. A successful rfp will support our Strategic Plan. Were evolving the waterfront anand engaging working with our Community Members to speak to their needs and we need to have projects that are equitable and accessible and attractive to a very Diverse Group of people who live, work, use, or visit our recreational assets. We need money to bring up with they can be used up and creating stability in the sport of our financial side and maintaining the harbor funds and ourselves as an organization. Next slide, please. So, were proposing to do an rfp on these sites. In order to do water recreation retail and food and beverage we need an rfp in order to do the competitive process required for retail leasing. Were proposing that we use the process thats in the waterfront plan. You may recall the general process is informational at at Port Commission to discuss the particular big values for this area and what are Community Values and minimum qualifications and what not that we want to see if an rfp and we go out to the community that those with them and come back to the Port Commission. So were proposing to use that same process which ill note in a subsequent slide in a little bit more detail. We do a process respond propose to one or both buildings and so both of the buildings and this is the just primarily theyre close to one another and we can do a and we think theres an opportunity that we may be able to get one tenant for both buildings and were very opening to having different tenants in the building and one is in a Poor Condition and it would require a lot of capital to bring it up to the useable condition. The other would needles capital potentially. Theres an opportunity to meet potential tenants in both of those categories. In terms of the minimum goals, what we are stating and were going to add on to that as we go through the process with you and the community, we think at the very least we need at least one food and beverage location. It could be very casual and want to serve the needs of park goers for sure. We also need to have one personal watercraft rental storage and sales facility and some sort of ann an aquatic cen. We want to see a Community Development or communityserving youth. A tenant that will provide a lot of co benefits for being on the park. Eyes on the park and bringing members of the community and into the facility and community the elsewhere and we this is the minimum goals of from the community and what other goals there should be. And the co benefits economic benefits so the desired economic and theyre seeking through this rfp process is First Investment in these buildings and the preliminary cost estimates of how much it would cost to rehab both of these buildings is 10 to 15 million and depending on the uses. Theres quite a range because theres the opportunity to add a seismic retro fit to building 49 which is on this slide and if one did that that would cost more money but would result in more occupancy in the building which you could dense fie uses inside of the building. To give you a little bit of perspective thats 500 to 700 per building square foot and its expensive and kneass is more of building 49 in terms of per square foot cost. The second key benefit wed like is a tenant who will be responsible for maintaining watch over the Public Restrooms in building 49 delivered by our engineering group. This is a really port arent maintenance responsibility that we think having tenant on site to do this would be a real benefit for us and would really help in operations of the park and the third goal is through participation at revenues or upside revenues, rental payments to the harbor fund. To pay for the use of those sites. So i talked earlier about what the draft waterfront plan anticipates in terms of an rfp process and what we did for the pier 48, 40 and 33 and 330. They were to come to the Port Commission with the beginning outlines of the rfp. We then went to the southern Advisory Committee and at that time the swag in order to directly ask those groups to advise on the Community Values and diversity equity and inclusion goals for the rfps, we want an additional step for these two buildings because they are situated in this very public location. This great new park weve just delivered and its getting a lot of use. So were also proposing to outreach to youth oriented groups, elder groups, other at risk populations and communityserving organizations who may wish to occupy the kneass building to enhance our understooding of what we can deliver through this rfp that would be welcome and valued by the community. Next slide, please. So thats the end of the presentation. Our anticipated schedule, if you all direct, is to take this sort of a presentation, focus on the subarea goals and trying to get input on Community Values for the two buildings. Two are southern Advisory Committee and we identify other groups so we can interface with virtually to also introduce them to the site and get their input in terms of Community Values. Were really excited to work on these buildings. Theyre small in comparison to the other rfps weve done but we think they can deliver that sort of other parts of the crane cove experience that people are now getting to enjoy as a park is open. Having those buildings provide more services we think will enhance the crane cove experience. I welcome your thoughts and questions and inputs. Thank you, rebeca. We will now open it to Public Comment. Jennica will be our operator and provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide Public Comment. Thank you, president brandon. We will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comment on item 11a. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. The queue is now open. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comments. Thank you, jennica. Do we have anyone on the phone. At this time, there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make Public Comment on this item. Thank you. Seeing no callers on the phone, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner gilman. Thank you, ra baek and everyone for the presentation and the thorough staff report. Im really eager to see this process moving forward. I had the pleasure about a week ago to tour the park with randy and david duepray and it was a sight to be seen. It was incredible. Im so impressed with this project and how much it has to over. The South East End of our waterfront inside highly recommended part of the process for bidders to get maybe a more diverse pool of applicants to activate these buildings in the neighborhood its that we offer a site tour with davids commentary about the history of the parks about how intentional we were on design from ship build to the history of the waterfront and also maybe include the promotional videos that i saw featuring supervisor walton on president brandon and mayor breed. I think those bring a richness to the experience that could be beneficial for anyone bidding on the project and to make sure we can have the usual suspect thats can activate these buildings so i wanted to offer those few thoughts and i look forward to you bringing back a more polished set, a recommendation after the Community Process for the rfp and im excited to get these buildings activated. Thank you. Thank you for the reports. I think it was well positioned and i think the sensitivities of the project have been outlined and i echo commissioner gilmans conversation. I will go next week and i was looking forward and would suggest that a tour of the building is much as you can see them from the outside be included and i think that it sounds like i should ask for david buepray was my tour guide. I look forward to seeing how it herbs witmeshes with the neighb. In addition to the aquatics and the retail, do we see any of the Building Space used for office at all . I know what you want to see, but what else could we see putting in these buildings and since one of the buildings doesnt have a lot of public trust restrictions, so if you could comment a little bit more on that. Definitely, thank you, commissioner. We anticipate there will likely need to be at least some ancillary office use. The kneass building that is already built out, just to make the project financially feasible we think we will need the kick of those revenues in order to get that building to cross the feasibility threshold. So we do anticipate that that one would have some office space but were definitely open to any financial receivable projects that needs that acceptable use table that i showed. I also want to mention in addition to retail and aquatics were looking for a communityserving entity to take over we anticipate parts of the kneass building or it could be a greater part of building 49 to kind of have members of the public come and use the building and then have that kind of spill over effect into using the park. I actually have not seen the interior of these building and i dont know what shape they are to be able to see them. It looked like they have high ceilings and so there could be some interesting uses if you think about it and given that were all sensitive about internal space and how much air and ventilation and open space areas give the environment that were living in today it could be some creativity applied to whoever looks at these buildings in terms of the uses of the buildings. In addition to what you are looking for. I dont know if im correct assuming they have high ceilings. Building 49 has high ceilings and the kneass building is twostoreys and i wouldnt say theyre particularly high. They can definitely have the ventilation through i guess terrier air flow. There is no restriction. They overlook the park, correct . Is there going to be any restrictions if they want to open up the walls to have bigger windows or open doors into the park space . Go ahead question. I was just thinking that when we talked about ventilation. Ill be sure to consult with mark and others to make sure this secretary standards are met on the buildings and how many openings they could create if there are no openings there now. I hope that in this case, that would be an amenity to whoever is in the building to have a view on the park and from the use that uche given off they have calls closed so if you want to know, you can open up some of the walls there and both for light, ventilation and as well as view. I think you should check that out before you set up the rfp so whoever sets it out, knows that information in advance if there are any restrictions if there is one is Historic Preservations and one is already listed and the other could be listed. Ok. So rebeca. Which called we have committed to doing designs that are consistent with secretary standards and the kneass building has roll up doors and are on east face of the building and either roll up or barn like doors that could be redesigned to engage with the park in a more active way. That would be a very attractive part of the building if they are able to leap right out into the park area its right when the spark in its final phase which is great and weve been working forward to a long time and hopefully whatever i can say is the building in the coming weeks. Great. This is the phenomenal job its just so beautiful he is so knowledgeable and informative about all the history at the park and it is just a beautiful park so thank you involved to the creation and then this solicitation is exciting. I think we have covered most of the points for i for inclusion. Im happy were going out on a listening tour to and i hope we put an emphasis on communityserving uses. Because its has to be anna traction for families to bring tears to Community Groups and for residents from dogpatch, bayview, the entire city and to make it a draw because its such a beautiful destination so, i hope whatever were looking for is really focusing on serving those Community Needs in the park. So thank you general i ca gener. Can you give us a brief presentation of your timeline . Thank you for the comment and the question. I agree going to the park is really making me so proud to work at the port. I bet a lot people felt like that. We wanted on the southern advisory agenda in november. Were working with mark to see whether or not we can catch them in november. And if were able to we would come back to you in november if its a little bit late we would have to go to the december meeting so the issuance so were opening we can issue this calender year is it regardless of whether or not we hit the november or december Commission Meeting and so we issue the rfp and it goes through couple months review period before we bring a selection to you all so well be clear on the next staff report what were proposing in terms of the Selection Process and very interested in speaking with you more if there are things we should write now with this rfp or different terms we should take at this point to make sure that process is really smooth. I was told there was a meeting on october 21st. With all the other groups that you are reaching out to, do you think you are going to be able to do that by december . We hope so. Were really focused on talking about the Community Values and were hoping we can have that targeted conversation and bring back along in terms of issuesance of the rfp and the site tour is a wonderful idea for introducing a respondents to the building. So it will be out for maybe two months typically we leave the rfps out for six, eight, 10 weeks. Ok. Im just hoping that we can get the most Community Input that we can prior to coming back to us with a solicitation propose a im hoping that the Advisory Committee we also meet with these other organizations and get as much input as possible so that when we do print out the rfp everyone is on the same team. Good point and good advice. Hopefully this will go out early to mid next year. We will take our time and make sure we do all that work. Ok. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk item 12a request approval of the operations agreement with dhl global forward granting dhh authority to operate its brisbane location drive site for a term of five years with one option to extend for four years and outlining conditions for the usage driven site this is resolution number 2047. Good afternoon, commissioners. Good afternoon, executive director forbes. Bran den from the maritime division. Here to request approval for a Foreign Trade zone operations agreement with dhl global forwarding. Next slide, please. I want to start with some background on the program. The relationship with the port of San Francisco as a grantee. Both pieces have interesting parts to it. So first the Foreign Trade zone program was established to the Foreign Trade zone act in 1934 as a tool to stimulate International Trade by providing incentives to u. S. Firms to keep jogs and economic activity, domestic here in the United States. A Foreign Trade zone or ftz, is a designated area that is considered to be outside of u. S. Commerce allowing for some benefits and cost savings around duties and tariffs for the private entities that get activation. Program is administered through the Foreign Trade zone board by grantees like the port of San Francisco. The ftz board and u. S. Customs are responsible for compliance and oversight of Foreign Trade zone operations which pa laws the grantees like the port to offer this public utility to all those that have been vet and approved by those two government agencies. Next slide, please. The port of San Francisco ha a long history of participation in the Foreign Trade zone program. The port was given grantee status as Foreign Trade zone number 3 in 1948 when it was the third essential tee to enter the program we only came after new york and new orleans. The Port Operations originated on port property within our very own historic finger pierce. Before it a apartment requestedd adapted to the changing times and it created when is known as the alternative site framework which allows for private companies to activate their own ftz sub zones on their own properties through the local grantee if theyre within the Grantee Service area. The port service area includes San Francisco and six additional bay area counties. The port currently has six ftz operators all of which are in one of the surrounding counties and thats one of the interesting pieces of the program is we have not six active Foreign Trade zones under the Foreign Trade zone number 3 but none of them are actually in San Francisco. Each operator pays the port an annual fee to cover the ports administrative costs. This fee is really meant to just cover administrative work done by the port as grantee and this public utility is accessible to all types of businesses. The port has no oversight responsibility on the actual Foreign Trade zone operations and is asked to treat it as a public utility. I would like to bring attention to the picture on this slide biff move forward. Which is an interesting glimpse of the past and present day. I have to give a photo credit to San Francisco pd marine unit who took this picture of pier 45 shed d from the water for me last week. For those who condition se canns a finger pier from the water and from the crop in large letters, its stated letters that state Foreign Trade zone number three and its an interesting piece of the history of Foreign Trade zone in San Francisco and if that with the live Foreign Trade zone and that was to participate in the Foreign Trade zone operations so nice piece of history on the water at one of our piers. Next slide, please. The applicant for Foreign Trade zone activate is dhl global 40. Which one of the words Largest Global companies with 380,000 employees across 220 countries. Interesting through this process, finding out that dhl founded in San Francisco in 1969. Dh will had a plied through the Foreign Trade zone number three grantee status to activate a brings bain warehouse location, brisbane, california, which is within our service area and they are very experienced Foreign Trade zone operator as an organization and they are 19 active Foreign Trade zone locations across the United States and it made the application process which started back in april very smooth from their end because theyre so experienced. And both the Foreign Trade zone board and u. S. Customs have approved for activation which is pending being approved by the Port Commission. Next slide, please. In closing the ports Foreign Trade zone is within the scope of the port Strategic Plan by sustained Economic Vitality in the region providing a public utility that supports local industry. Dhl brisbane location is within the port service area and they have received approval from the two bodies of oversight. Staff recommends approving the operation with the dhl allowing them to activate their facility as a Foreign Trade zone. Next slide. That concludes my presentation and im available for any questions. Commissioners, may i have a motion. So moved. Second. Now lets open it up for Public Comment. Well open up the phone to take Public Comment on item 12a from members of the public who are joining us on the phone. Jennica will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comment. Thank you president brandon. At this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comment on 12a. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limit today three minutes a person. The queue is now open. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. Do we have anyone on the phone there are no members of the public on the phone. Wishing to make Public Comment on this item. Thank you. Seeing no comments on the phone, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner wooho. We have discussed Foreign Trade zones in the past and im familiar with them and understand what it means for the port. I have no further questions, im supportive of the item. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner gilman. Thank you for the report. Im supportive of the item and have no questions. Thank you. Thank you so much for the report and thank you for all the history on the Foreign Trade zone and dhl. I learned something new. Can we please have our roll call vote . Certainly. President brandon. Yes. Commissioner gilman. Yes. Commissioner wooho. Motion passes unanimously resolution 2047 is adopted. Next item, please. That would be item 13 new business. I have reported that we will be providing quarterly reports on the seawall program. The resiliency program. Well provide updates to the tzk milestones and timeframe. Is there any other new business . Seeing no other new business, can i have a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Call roll call, please. President brandon. Yes. Commissioner gilman. Yes. And commissioner. Yes. The meeting is adjourned at 4 46 00 p. M. Thank you, everyone. Good night. Thank you mr. Chair, were ready for the meeting. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 9, regular meeting of the joint city, School District, and city college select committee. Im supervisor haney, claihair the committee. Do we have any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 health emergency, to protect Board Members and the public, the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating remotely. This is pursuant to the local state and federal orders. 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[roll call] moliga absent. Williams absent. Selby absent. We have corium. Are there any changes to the agenda . There are no changes to the agenda. Madam clerk, will you please call the first item . Yes. Hearing of the impacts of covid19 on San Francisco Unified School District and city college of San Francisco. And members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the number streaming on the screen. The meeting id is 1460323750. Please waited until the system that indicates you have been unmuted when we get to Public Comment. Mr. Chair. Thank you. I appreciate that. So committee we have one item, which is an item that we are very familiar with, the general update from each of the respective institutions about the education that is accessible and available to children and families and young people and our residents during covid. This committee has been incredibly useful for us to provide answers, to problem solve, and to discuss solutions to meet the needs of students and families during this very difficult time. Today, this is the only item so you know, i dont expect that long of a committee, but i do appreciate as always the many different representatives and institutions that are here with us. I know there is a lot going on and people are working really hard and we appreciate you spending time with us and working very closely with the members of this committee. We will hear presentations and updates from city college of San Francisco, the department of Public Health, the department of children and families in that order. Again, we have to balance a lot of schedules here so i want to note that the d. P. A. Representatives need to leave at 11 00 as does the director, but he may be able to return at noon if there are further questions. Again, i want to thank everyone for their time and all of the work theyre doing during this very challenging situation for our city and its students. So with that, i would like to jump in, but are there any Committee Members who want to comment on this item before we begin . Seeing none, i would like to bring up our first presenter, which is the city college of San Francisco, if the presenters will please state their name and affiliation before beginning the presentation. Thank you. Good morning, this is tom. I am the vice chancellor of academic and Institutional Affairs at the college. Im joined today by two of our deans, dean lopez and dean cayhill. I see ive been promoted to presenter so let me put up my slides. Hang on a second. Great. So today we wanted to make a brief presentation about the impact of covid on our noncredit programs and really two of our major noncredit programs, instruction in english as a second language and our transitional studies high school program. So just a couple of quick background steps. City College Offers credit courses in a variety of areas, 80 of the students live within san francis San Francisco and the two biggest areas is english as a second language and transitional studies. Ill note and i know we had presentations of this in the past in addition to serving adult students, it collaborates with our colleagues to offer Credit Recovery classes for High School Students. These noncredit programs are an important part of our college and important to the residents of San Francisco. The American Community survey, we have about 75,000 adult san franciscans that do not have a High School Diploma and 165,000 san franciscans that report to the survey that their level of english is less than very well. About 20 of the population. So, these are important programs for us and i wanted to give dean lopez and cayhill a chance to talk about how we have been managing during the time of covid with these noncredit programs. So dean lopez to talk about english as a second language. Hi everybody, how are you supervisors and everybody there in the meeting today. So, in the area of e. S. L. , we had a few challenges in this new semester. We also had wonderful success as well. We generally have registration each semester on campus, and usually how we done that is when we are in a certain semester at the end of that like the last week, we register them the following semester. So when we had to leave the institution in late march, we were not able to do that this year, so we had to really rally around everybody on campus instruction, Academic Affairs, student services, you know, everybody on campus really had to help because of historically what we offered is usually on campus, on site. You know, with a lot of our e. S. L. Students, a lot of them have Resources Available to them. So in terms of the areas of technology, we also found that it was a challenge because a lot of them had no wifi, had no internet at home. A lot of them were working, you know, with others, within a household and as you may or may not know, a lot of the people that we serve are living in small apartments or an entire family is living in one room. So just having the Resources Available to them, a lot of them are using cell phones, which is not usually hightech, obviously, but we have that as well. A lot of those who are in the e. S. L. Classroom as well had to really learn how to use online resources because a lot of those who are hired at the college have worked there years. So a lot of them are use to the on campus work only. Lastly, we really had to go by we had to learn as we went. You know, its really a wonder to me and in terms of an institution so large and that is in a hub where we have earthquakes and other natural disasters, that we never had all of these wrap around services and resources that we were able to have in case we have a huge earthquake in San Francisco and now we can actually move forward in a way if there is another pandemic, hopefully not, if there are earthquakes, et cetera. Were able to really rally around what we actually impleme implemented there at the college. As someone who moved here a few years ago, living in l. A. I thought, our institution was the hub of just hightechnology. We really arent there yet. In terms of our successes at the institution, what we found as i mentioned earlier, we rallied around each other at the colleges where we worked sometimeses with individual s o silos on campus at an institution so large. We really unified in such a way where Academic Affairs is working with admissions in records and theyre working with academics and it really is very important now with all of the institutional initiatives and those in sacramento, we really can no longer afford working in individual silos in Higher Education. In terms of flexibility, i amount of the opinion because i was raised with a mother who was not able to go to school because it was either work or go to school, this is actually helping us in terms of flexibility because for a woman who is a working mom, who is maybe living in a homeless shelter with her family or the head of household who is working two jobs, you know, remote instruction is not necessarily a thing we should look at negatively. It gives those the opportunity, if theyre able to you know, register remotely and youre able to work, and it gives you an opportunity as an instructor and as somebody enrolled in the class. I mean to really enjoy the learning process with those in your household because if youre a mom or dad learning english and youre in a Remote Learning environment at home, you can work on homework assignments with those living at home with you who are either in Elementary School or high school. Then lastly, in terms of equity, you know, if we really wanted to talk equity in Higher Education, in the workplace, we really have to give those at our institution the Equitable Service that we offer on campus. We cant just offer, you know, embedded tutoring, advising on campus. It has to be for veterans, for noncredit e. S. L. , for working moms, for working men and women who need, you know, advising on an evening weekend where youre not able to do that because you cannot go, you know, there to the campus. So, what were really seeing is just a huge shift in Higher Education, not only within our institution but all over the u. S. Really, its really a very important time for noncredit e. S. E. S. L. , noncredit High School Programs to look at that, rather than being a negative, we cant serve those we want to serve. We should look at it in a light where how can we help those, as well as help those who we serve on campus . With that said, im going to leave it over to my colleague. Thank you very much for having me. Its a pleasure to be part of this meeting today. Similar to that challenge, you know, the transitional Status Department at city college of San Francisco had similar challenges for our students. For example, claiming the ram i. D. , which is something that the students need to have in order to access their learning platform. Summer 2020 marked the fourth year of partnership with San Francisco Unified School District. We offer a 40 Credit Recovery course for our students. From that experience, we learned that our students need a lot more support. So what we did is create a virtual help desk through our noncredit admission office, the Transitional Studies Department itself, and we also had instructors who had dropped in. All of this happened a lot. It was intense at the beginning of the semester because we believed thats the time we needed to help and support our students. The first week of school, instructors dropped zoom hours for their students. In terms of faculty challenges, and all the support, you know, Teaching Online is not easy for anybody. Shifting and moving from in person to teaching remotely is not easy. I am happy to say that transitional status was already ahead of its time. Beginning in fall of 2019, there were almost five transitional set of instructors that went through the instruction to online teaching and learning. They already had the training to teach Classes Online because we believe we have a lot of students that are older students who have family and they cannot come to the campus to take their classes, so we were slowly thinking already on offering online courses. So when covid hit, we had to shift and the office of Online Learning offered training, so our instructors went through the temporary remote Distance Learning instruction. You know, we had instructors in the summer who were using the platform, so what we did is for the fall semester is paired some of the struck instructors who felt comfortable and strong in Teaching Online with those who were starting to use the platform for the fall semester. So there was a nice collaboration with those who knew more with those who were just learning. We also have a dedicated faculty who was assigned to work with the instructors, helped them develop and create their teaching modules and that was also positive. This time, you know, we are in a challenging time. Transitional studies enrollment is good despite our current situation. Our lowest class has 15 students and the highest is 47 students and the average is 20 to 30 students. So we this situation is helping i mean its pushing us to think differently, to be able to not only support our students but also our instructors. Now in terms of class schedules, you know, there is always a challenge of taking Classes Online for our students. If there are too many people in the household, there may not be enough computers for everybody to log in at the same time or the wifi bandwidth may not be sufficient. In terms of schedule and flexibility, we can also say that now that the parents or students are able to take classes, they dont have to walk back and forth on the center , the Admission Center to their home so they have the flexibility to take their classes when its best for them. In terms of technology, the college has provided the chrome Book Loan Program and it has personally helped a lot of my students, transitional students and those go on the website and help them fill out the application to get the chrome book and many of them did. So there is fill a lot more work to do in the area, because there are still students that dont have access to a computer or wifi. That is still a work in progress. That is something we need to prioritize and you know, and facet sill at a time this for our students so they can attend classes. In terms of family responsibility and remote instruction, so we have a lot of older students who have family. If they live in a smaller place, you know, its difficult to take classes and especially they have small children because they come first. So we are working on right now, the city College Family Resource Center and the Mission Campus Family Resource center are collaborating and working on a plan so we can offer limited daycare for our students. It will be limited, but at least thats something that were offering to our students so the parents will come to the college with younger kids, leave their children at the daycare, and then they have to stay on campus, so they have a place to do their school work. Were hoping that it will be another support that were offering to our students. Now in terms of transitional studies and immaterial improving transitional studies, it has been difficult to communicate with our students. We have been doing it through emails now, besides emails an phone calls, we created a very simple gmail web page. Our College Web Page is wonderful, but it has its challenges. So in the meantime, we have the gmail website where were hoping to have it ready soon and send the message to our students on how to reach us, whether they are trying to take Credit Recovery classes or just our regular transitional status courses. This past week i met with the head of the Students Affairs and we have talked about improving through her office, were going to be able to improve our College Website and were going to have clear steps of how to enroll in our transitional studies program. Then in terms of partnership as i mentioned in the beginning, we have been partnering with San Francisco Unified School District which has been amazing. Based during our experience during the summer, we noticed that we have a lot of students with learning differences that need accommodation. So what San Francisco Unified School District did is signed teacher assistance for the classes. So they help the students, the Unified School District students in the transitional studies courses. They have access to the student portal, whatever the students need to do in the class. There is somebody helping in the class and were hoping to replicate that for our college, our city college students. So in terms of collegewide support, you know, we have been collaborating a lot with our Students Affairs department, the i. T. , the noncredit office has supported us a lot in terms of helping the students register and getting the paperwork necessary to get them into the classes. Lately we have been talking about i just became part of the next gen implementation because we noticed our transitional studies have had a difficult time accessing their educational plans and their transcript, especially for those who need the hours to qualify for ab540 or ab68. This afternoon we have a democracy know demo of the transcript and the student transcript which is great. The next step is to get all the forms, the educational plans and any of the other forms that we use in transitional studies and make it fillable, do it electronically so its easier to communicate with the students and its easier to process the paperwork. Also, im very happy to share that in collaboration with Student Affairs with city dream, the noncredit admission office, the counselling unit, we are currently working on bill the Assembly Bill 554, where students in a high school deemployee that diploma or equivalent can enroll in Community College part time and those courses count towards their college and their High School Diploma. This is something that were working on and hopefully soon we will be able to implement and offer this amazing support to our students, our undocumented students. With that, i complete my presentation, thank you. Thank you so much dean kayhill and dean lopez. Briefly, the city college serves 24,000 students annually and noncredit, but there are more san franciscans that can benefit from these programs. Ill mention that right this second, we are starting up a cbo summit. They have been invited to participate in the summit, to learn more about the college. We love to see some more folks join us. With that, that concludes our presentation. We will be happy to answer any questions. Great, thank you so much for that and for your work and we appreciate those updates. I see trustee randolph has a question or comment. Yeah, thank you chair haney. I want to thank both of the deans for their presentation. We had a similar discussion yesterday at the Student Success and policy committee, which was really exciting to see all the work that both of you have done respective to the department and centers youre overseeing. I want to go into detail on some of the Community Partnerships that you have to kind of support the various initiatives that youre doing. I know that dean cayhill, you have a close relationship with m meta and other organizations and we work a lot in chinatown with the ymca and self help for the elderly and other organizations. So, i know there are about 200 organizations today at the summit, but maybe you can explain a little bit more about how were working with some of our Community Partners during this kind of global pandemic. Thank you for the question. Dean, do you want to say a couple words about the work in the community. Yes, i just started a Group Meeting and conversations with meta, which are working and have a partnership with mission higher. Our goal is to besides looking at the data, to find a way to create a bridge where students from those two high schools will have an easy access to city college. Were already doing amazing work at city college, but i know we can do more. We can always improve and the goal is you know, we will create well, those two high schools are close to the mission district, so thats why im focusing on those two. Our goal is to create a seamless process where our students can take the city College Classes and go from there. We are at the beginning stages of the conversation but thats something im looking forward to discovering more. Great, thank you. Thank you. Supervisor fewer. Thank you very much and thank you for your presentation and your work. So is the bulk of the noncredit classes for High School Students Credit Recovery . Yes. Okay. So have we ever thought about so its Credit Recovery for high school credit, is that correct . Thats correct. The Credit Recovery classes are targeted towards High School Students that may not have passed a class and need to stay on track to graduate on time. Okay, so have we ever thought about combining as i think what the dean was saying and make it more of a instead of just a semester of Credit Recovery, but more of a program that actually is a smoother transition to city college. So we have talked in this committee before about the dual credit, right . Normally we talk about students who are already achieving at a very high level, that will be able to take a College Level course. I am wondering if there is an opportunity here with Credit Recovery to actually be a program which transitions into college credit. So they can actually see this Credit Recovery leading actually to a pathway of something else. I dont know how that would be, but i am also thinking about the same thing, the Credit Recovery about your two year Certificate Programs and how we can make this a smooth transition because most people who want to also take classes to beef up their english skillings that are looking for greater opportunity in employment areas. Im wondering if we can do Credit Recovery and connect it to our two year, your one year or two Year Certificate Program that can lead to more opportunities afterwards. So that is incorporated with it. So i just want to say im just putting that out there. I dont know if you put there out there already. I was one of those students, full transparency. I barely graduated from high school and went to city college, but i think this connection from getting these credits to graduate and seeing this pathway to something at city college it just gives you hope and pathway. Most of our High School Students who need to make up credit are wondering what is my pathway. To take an s. A. T. Or to go to california state college, they dont see a pathed pathway to that. I wanted to mention that and i wanted to thank you for your work. Thanks for listening. I dont have anyone else on stack or in anyone else has any questions. I do want to move to our next presentation. I dont know if you can hold your questions for city college or maybe there arent more as were balancing a lot of time constraints. It doesnt look like there are other questions, so thank you so much city college and deans and we really appreciate your work and your time and we will see you in a couple weeks and there may be more follow up questions then. Thank you so much. Thank you for the opportunity. Thank you. So we want to move on quickly to the next presenter from the department of Public Health. Good morning commissioners, thank you for allowing me to come. I dont have a slide deck. Im coming to give a brief update on any changes to our directives or guidance since the last time we met. The update is related to city college so we expanded the services that higher ed and adult ed is going to serve so that if there are any outdoor or remote instruction that is not possible because of the need for specialized space or equipment then indoor, inperson instruction is permitted, as long as there is the completion of a prevention plan and that Higher Education program that can complete this prevention plan and can self certify that and post all the requirements can begin operation and that we are no longer limiting indoor instruction to the category of core essential services, we did put a limit. We removed the limit of two hour instruction for outdoors and so classes can be as long as possible outdoors, but the two hour limit still does apply for indoor instruction and then we included updated recommendations related to testing into the directives for higher ed. That was the most major update. We have no updates to our out of school time guidance or directives, which is what the Community Hub falls under. We did make an adjustment to the School Directive related to testing and making sure that any schools that are working with testing labs, that they are certified with the state and the cal re cal Ready Program so we can receive the results as a local health department. We have had some reports of schools working with labs that are not cal ready certified and then we dont get the results and thats not the intent of working during this pandemic. We amended that in the directive. Those are the main directives i have. I do have to leave at 11 00 for another critical meeting, im sorry. Are there any questions . Supervisor fewer. Yes, thank you very much. I do have some clarification on the two hour limit for indoor instruction. Are you saying that they can be indoor, no longer the limit is for two hours and then if you were to take a break, could you do another two hours of instruction . Its per class. So if you have one class with two hour instruction. So if you cleared out everyone from the room, take a break, and then could they come back after the break of an hour or two hours and have another two hours of instruction. Is that possible . I i just want to say in an instructional day, you could really have eight hours of instruction. So what im wondering is, because im hearing there is a two hour indoor instruction limit, is that for the morning and then a two hour instruction limit for the afternoon or is it a two hour instruction limit for the whole day . Thats my question. I am pulling up the exact language in the directive right now, so i can better answer your question. My understanding is that its a two hour limit for each class, per day and that is in accordance with all the other layers in the prevention plan, making sure the schools have adequate ventilation, adequate cleaning protocol, and that everyone is using face coverings. The idea being that if the class goes longer than two hours, its the same cohort and theres no cleaning and there are no mitigations in between, there is a commutative effect of the droplets in the room. Thats why there is a limit of two hours in the classroom. So say they cleaned the whole area, could you have instruction two hours later, lets say after lunch, after whatever, apoth apothem and then come back for two hours of instruction. Thats my question. I also wanted to know if it requires any Temperature Check before actually people enter the two hours of instruction. So for the facilitator of instruction or for the students. We are asking for schools to do symptom checks, not just temperature. All the symptoms related to covid. Looking at our guidance, it does say that the indoor, inperson instruction involving two or more students or instructors requiring the use of specialized space and equipment, such as indoor laboratories may be offered with the posting of a prevention plan. There doesnt seem to be a limit to indoor classes and programs must be scheduled to conclude in no more than two hours. Higher ed programs must prohibit students and personnel from congregating before and after the scheduled classes and programs. That is the most we offer about the two hours. It doesnt say if you can have two hours in the morning, two hours in the afternoon. Were not that prescriptive with the schools. We wanted to give them flexibility on how they set their schedules, but making sure theres a mitigation plan and prevention plan in place. Okay, personally speaking, i think thats very vague. Because it doesnt allow the city college actually to fully plan an instructional day, if they were to, just f. Y. I. I just sort of, you know, the two hours of instruction, i am just wondering if there could be then a series of two hour of instructi instructions throughout the day. I think thats my question. So, to be clear, the indoor instruction is very limited. It is only for classes that cannot be held outdoors, that need specialized equipment such as chemistry, biology, or anything that has specialized equipment that cant go outside. So it is not for the full course offerings that one would typically see for a full college offering. So it is a limited amount of classes. Okay. Thanks. Supervisor ronen. Yes, thank you. I was wondering if d. P. H. Is working directly with the School District on meeting its so the School District has laid out a series of conditions that it has to meet prior to reopening the schools. The last time when we were speaki speaking, she explained that they didnt have information yet and hopefully we will get it today on where they are on meeting all of those conditions. Im wondering if dph is working directly with the School District to trying to help them meet those conditions and if youre monitoring at all your progress in meeting them. We are working with the School District and helping them with the meeting our guidance and directive about school reopening. Were not monitoring the another not monitoring, but helping them achieve the conditions. Ill just editorialalize this for a second because it doesnt seem like this is happening, that children and families are suffering enormously right now. I do not believe that we are doing enough to help every single family. I think there is almost nothing more important to our economy than getting kids back in school so parents can work. Im getting more and more emails every single week with parents in tears because they cant work and educate their children properly. Children are not learning because they because Remote Learning doesnt work as well for small children and because families often live in conditions where its impossible to learn from the home. The achievement gap is growing and this is an endless future that we have in sight. Its 100 unexpectable. We need all hands on deck from the city side to help the School District open back up so that families can have some relief and children can be learning. I just dont know and havent seen quite frankly on either side, but im going to focus here on d. P. H. s side that we are doing everything in our power to help the School District achieve its conditions so that it can reopen. Im wondering what we need to do in order to get there. So we are working to support the School District and we have a safer Schools Reopening Task force within covid command and it will be finalized next week, drafting how were going to operationalize testing, Contact Tracing, case investigation, and outbreak matter of minutnagemen schools when theyre reopening. Were researching testing labs, seeing how that can be extended to the School District to cover some of the testing requirements. So there is a lot of effort being wait, im sorry. So there is a testing r. S. P. Going out . Thats for what . Dont tell me that were providing the tests for private schools open. No, no. The city has released the general r. S. P. On testing, the testing lab and we are using our r. S. P. Resources to see if we could see how those services can be inclusive of the School District as well, with the testing lab. Our requirements with the directive and guidance is that if a school is charging tuition, they are to enter into a contract with the testing lab themselves to cover the testing cos costs. So we are not covering the cost for private schools on testing. Thank goodness. So one thing were doing is creating a plan for testing and Contact Tracing we will provide to the district at no cost to the district. The plan will be of no cost to the district, right. Okay, and were very close to being able to implement that, that plan should they meet the other conditions to open . We are assembling a team within covid command to make that all happen, yes. Okay, is it possible for me to join that team . I would have to go back and ask. We can give you im making a personal request to join the team, so if you can send that back and ill talk to mary ellen as well. In my opinion, we are not prioritizing this enough or moving fast enough for the level of heartache and damage that is happening to children and families here in San Francisco. I want to join every Committee Just like i joined this one to put pressure and work. Im willing to join and do this work myself, but we all have to step it up, including me. We have to step it up. I want to see how d. P. H. Can assist the School District to meet every one of their conditions as quickly as possible to reopen schools. So, i look forward to making sure that the testing plan is up and running and seeing what else we can do so that we can provide any assistance to the School District that we can. So i appreciate that and i look forward to working with you more closely on this effort. Trustee randolph. Yeah, thank you for that. A quick question, since i heard something about testing, i wanted to make sure. I know that the college board, city college hasnt really had any information yet around testing and im really excited to hear and see your guideline that allows us to bring back some classes in person, specifically some that you can online, like the labs and some of the allied Health Classes like nursing and e. M. T. That you have to have in person instruction. I know that part of that is kind of Community Spread and keeping that low and testing is an important piece. So when you discussed testing and charging for testing for educational institutions that take tuition, is that only for k12 or how are you going those requirements are only for k12 schools. So what are the testing requirements that you have laid out for the city college of San Francisco or Higher Education institution . Are we expected to potentially pay for testing or equivalent things or is that going to be provided by the city students as well . That is not as strict of a requirement about requirements for testing as for k12 schools. The language and the directive and the guidance is asking schools to consider scheduled periodic surveillance testing for screening for asymptomatic students and staff, especially for those living in school owned housing. The programs are encouraged, if its feasible to cover the cost of testing. It is worth noting that all teachers and staff are considered essential workers by the state department of managed care and those tests are then covered by Health Insurance. There are labs that are now setting up testing that can directly bill Health Insurance at no cost to the institution that is setting up a contract and that would be we are working on getting a list of recommended labs that we can share that out, making sure again that they are certified with the state and meet the basic requirements that we are asking for testing. Okay. So basically if somebody has insurance provided by city college of San Francisco, whatever the city plan might be that is offered as part of the employment, they will be able to go and get tested and have that charged to the city college of San Francisco provided Health Insurance. Yes. Okay. What i noticed because i did look up some of the citys testing sites that are currently offered. City college of San Francisco is not considered an employee as part of the list. You just said that our staff and faculty is considered essential workers, but when you go and have to enter a new employee, the city of San Francisco is not listed and the prompt is are you a City Employee and when you answer yes, you have to have a d. S. W. Number, which i dont think city college of San Francisco staff of faculty have, but wouldnt they be considered semi public city college, semi public City Employees or how would they manage that . I think its actually a Bigger Picture than that. Its that while it is not just whats at our city sites, but any one that has any Health Insurance, the state department of managed care has changed their policies to all teachers and staff can get tests and get covered for that. So its not just through our labs, its everywhere. So its up to the and thats why were encouraging everyone to go to their primary care provider because then it can get covered by their Health Insurance because the state changed the requirements to make this much more accessible. Is there a way to include city college of San Francisco as one of the employees that are listed on your drop down menu when you try to go to one of the cities testing sites . I will have to take that back to the people working with our testing labs and see if thats feasible. Because that is one of the concerns that i received from one of our classified staff that they were trying to get tested and they were confused on the sign up project because they couldnt find city colleges and employees. So thank you so much. Commissioner collins. Thank you. I appreciate the questions that are being asked and this is a really, really appreciate supervis supervisor ronens comments and questions. Im speaking to many parents across the city and i think were all very clear about specific populations that are in need of school and struggling with Distance Learning so i appreciate the urgency on that. I guess, this isnt specifically directed to well, i guess i had one specific question with the hubs because i know thats now something that were trying to do to meet that need and i was wondering if d. P. H. Could release the data for under 18 cases in their programs, so we can have a sense as a public, i think theres also families that are going to be more likely to want to return to either participate in the hubs while we dont have them or participate in hybrid learning, but we also needed to have a sense of safety and just get a sense of what it looks like with kids in programs now. So can you release is there data you can release to the public so we can see how thats going . Im sorry, the data related to testing . Yeah, for cases under 18, for children under 18, so we can get a sense of just whats the data citywide and whats the data around children participating in current programs, full time programs. We have our data posted by age group on our dashboard. [captioning will resume momentarily. ] thee. And im seeing a whole bunch of them that are basically just falling off the radar, but because they seem independent or they seem like theyre doing okay, we have no Communication Systems with high school parents. We have laws, as well, so just, chair haney, ive been doing research on a. B. 77, which is a law that gave the School Districts extra money, but then requires we do extra outreach to parents when we see kids are absent. We have even huger absence rates for kids participating in Distance Learning at all levels. So thats just something thats on my radar, and i wanted to have a follow up where we can really address were looking at pulling kids back into school, but theres going to be a group of students i dont see when theyre going to come back to school in the near future because theyre not the first ones on our list, and yet, they are still also in great need of their education, so that means offering a high quality Distance Learning program and making sure that were doing anything and everything that we can to support them, and im seeing problems with kids, you know, not knowing how to turn in homework and things like that. I just wanted to put that out there. Supervisor haney and maybe its something we can have a future meeting on. And also, im going to call up sfusd next. I know that our presenter has to go for an important 11 00 meeting, and director su had to go, so we had somebody from dcyf who will present, and we may get director su back, but were going to have dcyf go next. Hello. Good afternoon, commissioners, and trustees, and members of the board of supervisors. Today, the presentation that well be providing is the Community Hubs update, information around the enrollment. We were able to obtain from dcyf the number of students enrolled in the sfusd hub, so well be able to provide the population demographics related to that enrollment. We dont have attendance information at this time because we will be presenting that to our board of education commissioners first probably at our next Board Meeting, and well be bringing that to the select committee. So my presentation is relatively short, and then, ill certainly take questions that members of the board of supervisors or School Board Commissioners have. Dcyf has designed the hubs for community schoolaged children, and i think we are four weeks into the first phase one. Next slide. And as you also might remember, i cant remember a few joint select meetings, we presented that the board expressed their support that dcyf and sfusd Work Together with the hubs. We are continuing to look at needs for space with dcyf if we need to continue the conversations on space. Next slide, please. Then, the other thing that the board of ed commissioners expressed support for was that sfusd would support communicating Registration Information on the second phase, and ill talk a little bit about that later on in this presentation. You can go to the next slide. So what we were able to receive, if you look at these two this slide, the upper table shows you what our fall sfusd demographics is for prek through 12, and the lower table shows you the enrollment sfusd students who are enrolled in hubs. We dont have attendance data yet, so we cant tell you out of the sfusd attendance who is attending the hubs, but ill give you a quick update. But it shows that we are reaching the students that we wanted to. This is a time when we say usually, disproportionate, but its not. 84 of the students in the hubs are Elementary School students, and thats compared to 49 across the district. The enrollment in the hubs for African American students is 15. 6 . Same thing with latinx. 37 enrolled in the hubs, and we have 27 enrolled in the district. Pacific islander, its 1 versus 8 . For english language learners, its 27 versus 24 . Foster youth im sorry. I cannot see that. Ill go back to that. For students living in Public Housing, 18 are in the 18 of students enrolled in the hubs are in Public Housing versus 4. 3 in the districts as a whole. For students living in s. R. O. S, 4 compared to 8 district wide. And i think yes. So those are the comparisons, so we are reaching the priority populations that we were hoping to reach in this first phase, and i believe its 980 students in the first phase. Go to the next slide. So phase two is only going to include 340 slots, and thats in the k through 6 grades, and dcyf provides us a number of slots and the zip code, so we have to do some matching in the last few weeks [inaudible] when we took all the information we had, and we could compare it to the 340 slots by grade level and zip code, we were able to match can you go to the next slide. I think that has the data that well be sending out invitations next week to families both by mail, email, and then, schools will be reaching out individually because well be providing this information individually to each of the school sites, and their coordinated care families will make sure that they receive it by email, mail, or theyll get a personal phone call. Of the 340 slots, 141 of the students being provided are in Public Housing. 139 are english language learners, 31 identify themselves as homeless. 192 have less than 40 of [inaudible] and then 251 are low s. E. S. And as you can tell by these numbers, that means a number of students are more than one of these categories, if that makes sense. And then, next slide. This is also the breakdown by ethnicity and race of those 340 invitees. And next slide. I think that may be it. So i mentioned this already. Were doing the outreach, translating the letters into all the different languages in the district, and then, we are going to continue to monitor applications come in, and well continue to work with dcyf if space if sfusd is needed if warranted by demand. And hopefully, the person from dcyf might speak to some of the other factors re space besides demand. So short and sweet, and im happy to take questions. Supervisor haney supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen yes, thank you. I am a little bit disappointed because i thought you were going to come back this week and report on conditions for reopening. Mmhmm. Supervisor ronen that was my understanding that you were going to do that this week. Perhaps i misunderstood for that update. Well, i misunderstood because i thought this was the update. As i spoke the last time, we were developing, because of our board of education commissioners request, a dashboard on reopening our schools. Dr. Matthews mentioned that last tuesday, that we would bring that into our october 20 board of ed meeting. That will be the dashboard on where we are in the reopening. With respect to i mean, theres a lot of operational indicators and testing. We have met with kaiser and other health care members. Weve been meeting with d. P. H. The past couple of weeks talking about how d. P. H. And others can meet our testing strategy. In the last few weeks, we mentioned how d. P. H. Can provide guidance for that. Were meeting with d. P. H. Later today to discuss that. I dont have anything much closer, but those are the activities that we have been involved with. We are waiting for information from d. P. H. For example, a directive came out just on wednesday with a whole bunch of other information we have to do with testing, as ana mentioned, so as soon as information comes to us from d. P. H. , were making plans as quickly as we can. Supervisor ronen so chair haney, is the next join city, district, and College Meeting the 23rd . Supervisor haney its the 23rd. Supervisor ronen so by the next meeting, youll be able to share with us the dashboard well be able to share that. Supervisor ronen in the next meeting, well be able to discuss where we are. And in the last meeting, we discussed the need for parents to just know what you know. Are you able to say that you believe we are going to open this semester for any students . That, i cannot say for sure because theres so many different parameters, and i hope that on the 20th, well have at least where we are and how close it is and whether its feasible. But again, totally understand how frustrating this has to be not knowing this information, and i definitely hope that by the 20th and that we can start communicating with families. At least youll know itll happen or were hoping itll happen, like, some tangible information so folks can plan, so were well aware that that is the request, and i apologize that we dont have the details today. Supervisor ronen okay. But by next meeting, we will have a detailed presentation because ive been communicating with mary ellen carroll, whos the head of the director of the Emergency Operations center, and it looks like i will be joining the safer schools Committ Committee at the e. O. C. I want to push those programs forward at the citys end so you can get every assistance needed and theres no delay on our end, but we need specifics in order to get this, and the public needs specifics. Parent families need specifics, educators need specifics. We feel like weve been given the run around for a very long time now, and its time to give clear information. And if its bad news, wed rather have the bad news and know it than everything up in the air constantly, so i appreciate that youll come back to us with that information. Now getting back to the hub, since thats the only thing weve got helping parents at this point and families at this point, i visited a couple of hubs. I know that supervisor haney, chair haney did last week, as well. One of the hard things about it is because theres such limited involvement from the School District with the hub, that the kids all have different schools, and so you can imagine on the you know, that was the hub at the presidio center. You have these education providers who are experts in outdoor activities. They want to get the kids out and get their minds and creative juices flowing, and do music and other enrichment activities, but they are all day juggling schedules, and it is extremely hard to do enrichment because of that. And im just wondering, in this next phase, where it seems like sfusd is finally rarpting a little bit more and coordinating with the city on these hubs, whether or not theres any effort of getting kids and hubs that have the same schedule so that, you know, they can be learning together and not, you know, hearing different voices. I mean, theyre in relatively you know, socially distant spaces, but nonetheless can hear each other, so its hard to concentrate if theyre not all doing the same thing. I wonder if we can get to that next level of coordination where were trying to put kids in hubs where theyre on the same schedule, if not in the same class. You know, i cant say that were going to do that very well for this phase. That is really complicated. Ill have to think through that because we are limited by grade level slots, zip code, and students scheduled in a hub may be scheduled different. You know, they meet less than 40 and all of that. So we can run some to try to think about is what i saw. And the site at st. Peters was much better because its a different setup, obviously, but they were all in the same class at the same time. And they were oh, my gosh, i was tearing up. They were happy, they were engaged, they were normal, they were joke, they were talking, they were oh, my gosh, it felt like school. And i just havent seen kids in that mode for a really long time, and it was one of the most joyous things ive seen since weve started, and i just know we can do that in these hubs. Yeah. These are things we should thing about. One of the things, since we just got the enrollment data, were sharing that with the schools. I dont know if the schools know all the students and where theyre going, so that is an area where the schools can also figure about, oh, maybe this is a way we can get this to work with the different organizations, so that will be at least the first part of thinking about better coordination. Supervisor ronen okay. And then, on the flip side, the referrals from the teachers to the hubs. So a teacher friend of mine who teaches at flynn, fourth grade class fourth and fifth grade class has three students that are not participating or not learning, and she said oh, my gosh, if i could get them in a hub, then i could help them. How do i get them in a hub . So i said, well, you mail maria su, and theyll put you on the list. Were trying we ran the numbers based on what we have, and we did get, here and there, people referring people, but we didnt have a process to take all of the referrals and do some of the backwards mapping because there are some students who may need it who arent getting referred. So that has been a challenging and complicating process, and we have 340 slots, and so i think i probably got about i mean, i just got a whole bunch of referrals for students we have no slots for because theyre all 7seventh graders, and we have no seventh grade slots. Were trying to figure out a way that it can be equitable where you have a student who needs it and no slot . Supervisor ronen and im just, at this point in this process, we need to be nimble, and we just need to be able to meet students and teachers where theyre at, i wonder if we should the educators know better than anyone, and ive been saying this since day one, and i feel like ive been beating my head against the wall. Who needs help in classes more than anyone . Nobody knows that better than the educators who are with these students and responsible for their education every single day. So whats worrying me about this invitation only process and i understand why you did that in the beginning, when sfusd wasnt collaborating. So up until now, what dcyf did makes perfect sense to me. But now that we have this collaboration, my big concern is we are limiting ourselves by the spots and never understanding what the true need it for these Community Hubs. If every teacher and i dont see this doesnt have to be rocket science. We just let every teacher know in Elementary School well start there, and then, well go to junior high and high school, because i think commissioner collins is right. Can we just say that every teacher can give the principal the name of students who theyre worried about that are not getting the education they need through Distance Learning, and then, we can see what the universe is through that regard, and then, we can say we have enough funding and space for 2,400 slots or whatever it is now. We went from 6,000 down to 2400 and say okay, we all need to fight as a city to get slots, and thats how well know if we need sfusd schools for locations or not. But well really understand the universe if i can finish. Can i finish, please, and then, ill pass it over. I appreciate that, as well. But if we pare it down and create the universe, then, we know what the universe needs, and we can create those spaces. I just understand why we havent gone about it that way, and i still feel like i dont understand it, and every time i talk to a teacher, whether its my own childs teacher or teachers that are friends of mine, they say we dont even know this exists. Of course, i can tell you right now who needs the spots. You know, if i knew, i would have been fighting to get them in those spots from day one. So i just think that we really need to move in that direction, and thats the easiest way remember, we were going to do surveys before, and all these complicated things. We dont need to do that. We just need to know how many students in your classroom need the most help, and then, we get our full universe list. And i know sfusd has been incredible, but i just want to know how we do this. No, i understand and agree. We had social workers reach out to us directly and teachers reach out to us directly. I think what maile laid out was what the School District did decide what the process was going to be. We did tell School Districts and social workers to let them know, heres your list of kids, but sfusd came up with their process of how they were going to identify. Were open to whatever process they were going to use, whether it be just take direct referrals from teachers or principals. I think where it does become limiting is if theres no space in the neighborhood that a family needs, thats where we kind of run into an issue, so that is where the neighborhoods come in as far as sfusd saying this is how many slots are available and you know, in neighborhoods across the city. But as far as the students, were fine if they get the direct referral from principals, from teachers, from social workers, and then, you know, create the outreach from there to see, you know, this is how many slots we were able to give sfusd in the Western Addition or o. M. I. Or bayview and look at the referrals that theyve received from the principals or social workers or teachers, and then be able to outreach to the community that way. [please stand by] and see what the need is as you mentioned supervisor ronen and try to then understand where we have limitations in grade level, zip code, type of thing. Thats fantastic. Thats really helpful. If its possible to share some clarification that answers your question hillary, but i also want to be respectful of process. I feel like there are state laws that address your question. If its okay with supervisor fewer, i was wondering if i can share that with the committee. Sure. Supervisor fewer im asking if thats okay. I just wanted to say that it is very, very short alison, otherwise im next in the queue. Okay, i just wanted to let folks know that it requires the School Districts to ensure were reaching out to families that are disconnected and we have to provide a process for that. Its a tiered process on how to engage students and get them the support they need or connect with inperson learning and were calling that the coordinated care program. Thats the process youre asking about. So i think we need to know what the is coordinated care plan because thats how were currently identifying students who are not learning. Thank you. And alison, isnt that the responsibility of the city of San Francisco . I think these issues should have been brought up with the Board Meeting because that is under the responsibility of sfusd. We dont have the authority to do that. I just wanted to make that clear. Yes. Supervisor fewer. Are you done supervisor ronen . Yes, thank you. So i just want to ask, i am a little disappointed about this getting an update from the committee. Youre getting this information, this is something that we can easily access as supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco. I think that we come back to the same conversation and what i think this Committee Meeting should be doing is moving us forward a common goal of educating 60,000 Public School students. I understand that we have Community Hubs that are serving 2,000 students, but actually the responsibility of the San Francisco Unified School District is to educate 60,000 of them. How often is the school Board Meeting . Were meeting oh sorry. Go ahead alison. Okay, so we have regular Board Meetings, twice a month for the regular Board Meetings. We have Committee Meetings that have been intermittent, depending on need so normally we meet once a month. Those have been suspended or we had twice as many meetings, that kind of thing. Its been irregular. So i worked on the school board for eight years. This is a crisis situation, the fact that the business of the school board is only meeting every two weeks is absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous. Alison, you are on this committee and who else is on here from the board of education . Is there anyone else on this call . Speak up if you are please. Nobody. Okay, this is alison, this is completely unacceptable. You should meet at least every week. I agree. Committee meetings once a month . Thats ridiculous. I cant believe you have not instituted Board Meetings every week. This is where you do the business of the board. It is ridiculous you would meet every two weeks. In two weeks, a whole lot of shit could happen. Excuse me, i probably shouldnt have said that one. I also think that we are spending a lot of time talking about the Community Hub, which i think is important, however, when i see the numbers, it is typical of what School Districts do. We get the numbers. I want to know how are we measuring the educational impact and the educational success of these students in these Community Hubs . To say a we have students in seats is not doing a damn things, its not doing anything. We have black students at seeat at school sites and theyre not achieving at the same level. When you come back and give me data that says we had so many of these students in seats and we had so many of these students in seats, i am done with this. What is the measure for educational success . This is a gap we are trying to close. This is not just by filling seats but delivering a curriculum that is having them actually achieve Educational Excellence and closing our racial achievement gaps. When i see this conversation and no offense, but quite frankly when i see the data that shows me how many seats you have warm does not tell me how they are succeeding. How are we closing the gap on this . This is a job of the School District. This persist tents gap, this persistent gap amongst English Learners and kids with different backgrounds, this is ridiculous that were given data on that we had so many kids in here, we are doing on these kids. Were not doing good on these kids. How do you know . What measures are you taken to actually measure educational success, to get these numbers we can get these numbers ourselves from dcyf. Dont waste our time on this committee, tell me how are the students doing . Are they providing more than babysitting . Are they providing an educational experience for them . This is why we have this committee. It is our job. Now we push back on Public Health. Man, we cannot do this without you. The idea that i am hearing in the news about time, were going to rename schools, just god. Just educate them. Lets get on the same page. I think this is a bandaid for what is happening. This bandaid cannot stay forever. This is not the normal. We will not accept this as the new normal because if we had a racial achievement gap, youre going to have an impossible situation after this. This gap is growing right now as were having this meeting. The gap has been growing and growing. So those of us who have resources, whose parents are college educated, whose parents can go to these small groups and pay someone to supervise, yeah, those kids will probably be okay. We do that Public Education is challenged, this is a gap. This is about education. So at this next meeting when we come to it, wherever this is, what i would like to see, where are we in enrollment . What are we in enrollment for our High Schoolers . We want them to attend college. We want to give them the opportunity. I gave a suggestion, if you think its ridiculous, otherwise i want information about it. Dont tell me that its just money. If thats the case then lets just do it. Im tired of these meetings where were walking in circles around it, but were not getting to the core education. You know what . The board of education should be meeting more than every two weeks. We look at your leadership actually because at the San Francisco board of education, you are the top of the food chain. You are the executive board. The fact that youre meeting every two weeks is ridiculous. You know, when i think about we will further we will have further discussion on whether or not it is necessary to open up School Fights for Community Hubs. This is a city that had a 94 Million Rainy Day Fund for our schools. This is a city that invests in about 80 million every year for funding. This is the idea that you would have school sites empty and say were going to consider the idea of Opening School sites for Community Hubs if we need to. The city and county of San Francisco, i think has been doing their fair share on this and even more and i have been out to Community Hubs too and ive been speaking to executive directors of these nonprofits. I am going to be out of this game in a couple of months, but school board, its your responsibility. As someone that served there for eight years, we know the work of the board happens at those school Board Meetings. This idea that parents dont know when schools will open and supervisors dont know when schools will open and every day, were closing the achievement gap, i think its unacceptable. So im asking more of you. We can have these Committee Meetings and go over and over and over, but i feel like were going in a circle. We are not going to get anywhere if we dont start moving the needle. I am firmly requesting that the next time we have the meeting, what i would like to know, what is the plan to reopen, do you even plan to reopen, if you do, what are the things that the city and county of San Francisco needs to help you reopen safely, and keep everybody safe. Also, i would like to know what are the Educational Measures you are using to actually measure educational success or achievement during this time among our most vulnerable students and also what i would also like to know is get an update on where we are on this dual enrollment, which is something we can do so quickly with city college. They already have the curriculum, why arent we doing it . Then i just want to say that i think this arena is used for problems that we can all solve. Do not bring issues to us that is an sfusd issue. We have no jurisdiction on that. Hopefully our houses together can create a community where we can educate children and once and for all close our racial achievement gap that has been plaguing us for decades. Thank you chair. Im done. Supervisor fewer, commissioner collins. Yes, thank you. So i just wanted to respond a little bit and also echo similar concerns. I think that this is an urgent time and i am also in agreement with supervisor fewer. I dont see an urgency in our response. As a board member, i feel personally responsible for how our district engages with the community and how it takes action and i dont see a responsi responsiveness that i would like. I want to be specific when im talking about the coordinated care program. I think its important for us to all use the same language and what i want folks to understand is that when supervisor ronen is asking questions about how are we identifying students, were saying that the way that we do that is a coordinated care plan. So i need people to understand that because i didnt know that. When i was asking a lot of these questions, so i would like to see i think thats something that we all would benefit from being educated on, if were looking at how are we supporting the students with the most need the way the state defines that is students that are not in school 60 of the time or three out of five days. What im hearing from families is that i talk to a parent, she was actually identified by one of these coordinated care programs. She was called and told her son was not in school for about three or four weeks. This is a child that is in one of the demographics we worry about. He is a latinx student, low income, and then the parent and family is very involve in this childs education and there is no reason why he should not be going to school. I turned out that one of the teachers assigned an assignment that he didnt know how to turn the work in. She put it in google slides and he said i dont know how to write on the slide. This is a seventh grader, sweet heart, he was embarrassed and he just stopped going to school. The parent didnt know about it. I have been working with this parent to try to understand, not just to support her, but to understand how we as a district are supporting families like hers and i checked on her a few times and in the process, they basically just helped her log in to a parent view, which is the way were communicating with families. She doesnt know how to use it. They didnt connect her with a counsell counsellor. She needs help now coordinating with all of our childs teachers to get her kid back on track. I reached out to the state to learn more about what our requirements are as a district because i feel like its my responsibility to know those things and we havent been educa educated. Were supposed to have a plan for this. If its unclear to me and teachers and parents that are being identified, thats a huge problem. It demonstrates a real lack of transparency, a real lack of partnership and accountability to us as a body, to the public, and to the families that really need help right now. So i have made continued requests to get information on just what were doing as a district and i will continue to make those requests. I agree with supervisor fewer. We do need to be meeting more, but i also think having meetings to continue seeing presentations is not doing the work. So all i can say is i agree, 100 with supervisor fewers comments. We are not doing enough. We are failing our students. I am doing everything i can to hold our district accountable and also doing as much as i can to educate community as well so we can Work Together to make sure were serving students that have the most need, but i see right now at the middle and High School Level that our Young Children are getting behind. Were going to have amazing drop out rates, amazing just amazing as in bad and i requested our grades came in for high school, not this past friday. They were turn in last friday by teachers. I requested grades for students so we can look at dfn lists and compare with last year. There is a crisis right now thats a hidden crisis that were really not talking about and were not asking. So chair haney, i think one thing that would be really helpful and ill leave this to your discretion, but if we understand what the district is doing to identify students and what the state says is we must identify a tiered program to reintegrate students for every child in our district. In doing that, were saying as a district, that were doing that at a school by school level, but i have no idea how thats happening and how were monitoring that its happening and what im hearing from one parent, which is just a sample of one, is that its not working. So, im extremely concerned. So, i would like for the district to be able to share that with all of us, because we should all be concerned about how were supporting kids that are not connected and additionally, i think we should be looking at middle and High School Students, looking at what supervisor fewer said, having se seats, butts in chairs is not learning and also having parents logging in to a Communication System that is not useful to them, that doesnt mean theyre engaged. Im looking for ways that we can monitor real performance, like real academic really assess how students are doing and so ill be asking for the grades, but i think there are other measures too that we can ask the School District to report on as well. So, i can work with you on that in terms of reporting on other assessments that were conducting in this kind of environment. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, i just im going to go to trustee williams, but i do this committee is challenging for a number of reasons. You know, we have different institutions, we have updates that we want, we have questions that folks want answered, and we also want to use this base for problem solving. Sometimes i feel like its the balance of things we do here can sometimes get pulled in a lot of Different Directions. I appreciate what you had just said and what supervisor fewer and supervisor ronen has said about what we want to see and supervisor fewer as another member of this committee, for us to Work Together and to get your input in terms of what you want to see happen in this committee. You know, i think the fact that were meeting every two weeks provides an opportunity for what can be done here, but i think that im taking the feedback from you all in terms of how to better use this space. I can feel pulls in a lot of Different Directions and im sure that the institutions feel that way as well. Supervisor ronen. Yes, i just had one additional question because this is a big concern for me as well. At the beginning, we had 64,000 students in the sfusd, correct . Of eastbounding okay, so my question is what what has been the overall reduction in enrollment to students in sfusd this Academic Year compared to last . I dont have that information on the top of my head. I have reports from our education Replacement Center but i have to go back and look for that. I do know that what i showed you this morning, the enrollment data for the fall says 52,764 students so i have to find out what the difference is. Were not at 64,000, i know that. Were around 54,000 or 56,000. I have to look for last year. Yeah, we havent been in the 60s for a while. Its been under. I guess for the 23rd, if we could know how many students we lost this Academic Year because in addition to the longterm consequences of the achievement gap that supervisor fewer talks about, im becoming increasingly concerned that were never going to overcome for the students that missed since march of school, that were also going to lose so many students in the district if we dont start picking up our game in terms of how were educating these students, that we will be doing longterm damage to the institution overall and the amount of funds coming in, and the amount of students that choose Public School as their option. Im just very, very concerned about it. So i would like to have that ongoing conversation as well. President williams, sorry i skipped over president williams. Sorry about that. I just appreciate your comments in regards how to use this space to support each other and be an effective space to move the needle forward. I also want to appreciate commissioner collinss leadership. I know you are here today and this is a critical conversation and just as someone thats an sfusd graduate and one of those youths that fell behind, i feel this conversation and the importance of the work we need to do here and wanting to offer myself to you commissioner collins and to sfusd and figuring out how do we get this out there, you know, to really sound the alarm. I really, deeply appreciate supervisor fewers comments, supervisor ronens comments. This is critical. Folks will be left behind. The new normal were in is unacceptable for a number of our students and we know the most hard to serve going into an all virtual environment, its just i just feel it. I feel it in my heart, you know, and i want to be of service to you all and figure out how we can do this and maybe city college, if there are ways with the Credit Recovery programs we have. I know supervisor fewer mentioned the dual enrollment. I dont want folks to slip through the cracks and with all of us here together, i think this is a powerful committee. This is a place for problem solving. We have a number of our own problems that have been brought before this committee and we had some candid conversations on how we can do better. Appreciate this and i want to recognize your leadership because i know this is your passion. I know that you are dedicated to ensuring our most vulnerable students in the system and sfusd are seen and theyre not going to be invisible. I just want to really just say that my heart is in this with you all and you know, this is a really important critical conversation that we can all Work Together to elevate in some way, so i just wanted to offer that. Thank you president williams. I could not agree more. Supervisor fewer. Youre on mute. Also, director is here if we want to move soon. I just wanted to say supervisor haney, im happy to work with you on an agenda around what the areas we should discuss. I also just want to say again, that this the purpose of this is because how can the city support what is happening and right now the Biggest Issue at hand is how were going to get kids back to school, quite frankly. I actually do think that its detrimental to Public Education as a whole. There is a fallacy out there that people believe that private education is better than Public Education. We know that in ourselves to be not true and false. I just think that this committee so you have a list of things that either and supervisor ronen just added something in. What i would like to see is actually a plan where you actually and perhaps it would be beneficial to have commissioner lam here because she represents the office of the mayor for resources on how we then can coordinate as a city with the resources to help you get to a point where perhaps we can look at reopening our schools. I have not heard yet what you need to actually do that. I think that we have heard what Community Hubs need, blah, blah, blah. Done. I just want to know, what do you need in order to open safely . This is one of the richest cities in the United States. We have over a 13 billion budget. We have one of the lowest birth to 18 population in the United States. If we cant do this, we should just pack it up and give up my jobs. Well, i am giving up my job, but i do think that this is where we all come together to solve these problems. If what you have to say is not within the authority of this of all of our committees, then dont bring it here. This is a problem solving committee. I also want to say, good intentions without good work means nothing. We have to have actions. We all have good intentions. People depend on us to do more. Its not about where your heart is. It is kind of like right now, where your mind is, and actually where the will is. I think just come on, can we just get to the work . These meetings are so frustrating because we are not actually moving the needle at all. So im going to encourage everyone to do that and actually supervisor haney, hold me accountable because i will help do a more streamlined agenda that we can send out together of what is expected of the members of this committee and the city and county of San Francisco, sfusd and city college also. Okay, thank you very much. Im done. Thank you. Happy to Work Together and i can still handle the agenda. I think that the important thing here for us is that were also having things changing all the time and people want updates and they warrant want to hear those updates. Im getting tons of questions and people want to ask those questions that we spend a lot of time on. I think part of what im hearing is that we want a more streamlined focus from what we can do to support and help sfusd and it sounds like with the indicators coming forward in a couple weeks, and sort of the questions around reOpening Schools, really focusing on the role of the city on that and how we can be supportive and definitely supervisor fewer and i will Work Together on that. So we have director sue here. I think im going to bring you back in and trustee is here. I havent been here so i dont know what you have discussed. Coming in as i have now i appreciate the supervisor saying we want to get the kids back in school. I know there has been a lot of emphasis on how we do Distance Learning well. I know city college, im proud of the strides we have made in distance this and distance that. You know, i would love to see us move a little bit faster, safely yes, but very clearly what are the steps we need to do to get this done . This is not just at the k12, but also at the Community College level. Were losing the people, potentially permanently in this case. Were losing people through distance only learning, which is the situation that we find ourselves in almost all cases. I know that for the faster we can figure out how to push that forward, biotech in particular, i will tell you ive been having a lot of discussions with them. Their actually pews where they do the labs are separated already. Theyre already sort of, i dont know if its plexi glass or what it is, but some of these things should be able to move quite quickly. I dont know if you saw the article the other day, but were testing all of these people for government jobs in a room, 50 people to a room, or whatever it is, with no windows and thats going on. Theres no reason we cant be helping the people who matter the most, next generation of san franciscans, and the folks that are trying to get ahead through Community College. Thank you trustee selby. I know a couple of people have to go at noon or have left us. Director sue. Thank you chair haney. I actually have just a few slides to share so im going to thank you. Everyone on this council is very, very passionate about the work of the city and the city college and i know that the work is really hard. I just want to recognize that everyone is working really hard and are super passionate about this. So i wanted to give a quick update on the Community Hubs work. Our mayor announced this back in july and i do want to acknowledge that we are working very closely with the department of Public Health to ensure that not only are the children in the hub sites safe and the staff is safe and the families are safe. We adhere to very Strict Health protocols where we are testing all staff before the launch happens, before the launch date. We are working with the department of Public Health to ensure there is regular Testing Available for the staff. We are also requiring masks for children who are 10 years and older and ensuring the 6 feet of physical distancing, regular hand washing, and the stable cohort. Here is a quick status update of where we are as of today. So we have 55 hubs that are operating throughout our city. 47 of them are operated by our nonprofit agencies, our c. B. O. S. Eight of them are operated by our rec and park partners. All the hub sites as i said earlier, staff are asked to get covid tested before they launch and then they will have to go back and get testing regularly. Sort of the focus outreach, we have worked really successfully with our Human Services agency, hope sf, and recreation and park, and our department of homelessness and supportive housing. We helped over 3,000 families and out of that population, 1,095 young people registered and placed in our hubs. Moving into phase two, we are working very closely with sfusd to outreach to those students and then engage them in our hub. Very quick reminder of the priority population, so once again, priority population is to our low income neighborhoods, African American children, hispanic, latinos, latinas, pacific islanders, low income asians. Our focus outreach is to use inPublic Housing, young people in ink is single room onni occupancy hotels, and our english language learners. So here is a count of all the children in the hub as of yesterday. So, we have 373 children who identify as African American, 121 identify as asians and 376 who identify as latino, latina, latinx and the rest are comprised with a multitude of different ethnicities. In terms of our focus population, we are serving a large number of Spanish Speaking families and then after that, our chinese speaking families. We are targeting the highest needs neighborhoods that have that has the largest number of children in Public Schools and then the side numbers are the breakdowns of children in each one of those focused outreach populations. So 310 children living in Public Housing, 91 who are homeless, 40 in our Single Room Occupancy Hotel and 16 in foster rooms. This data is for our ksixth grade population. This is a breakdown of all the children who are enrolled in our hubs right now totaling 1,095 children. Then here are all the hub sites that we are planning on standing up for the entire initiative. That is it for my presentation. I am happy to answer any questions. A are there any questions from the members of the board . Im getting a little bit of an echo. Is this similar to what we heard from sfusd in terms of the information, so i think that a lot of the questions were asked there. Are there any questions that folks have or sfusd is still here if there are questions for sfusd. I have a quick question. Thank you, that have wonderful and glad to hear it. Im curious, the number of young people who are in these hubs, how does that compare to the need for the number of kids . If you look at the total need and the total as well. Thank you trustee selby for that question. This is a question that supervisor ronen asked us in terms of do you have a wait list . Because we are being very focused and targeted in our outreach, we do not have a wait list, but we are i see our staff joining. We do we are collecting some increase from families right now. We are collecting we had families who reached out in various ways through other Service Providers that we taken their information and what we called these ad hoc referrals and we are keeping on that information compiled and we have based on extenuating circumstances where it was like glaring that they needed to be placed. We have pulled some folks off of that ad hoc list, and we are starting to generate a wait list in that regards. So my question is do you have a sentence of how many young kids out there need this as opposed to and you may not. Im trying to get a general sense of it. Also, would this continue when schools are brought back . Would that go away . We will have the hub services until the end of the school year. When the School District goes back to inperson, we will definitely continue to have our conversations with sfusd on trying to figure out how to ensure that the children who go back and i dont know whether its children going back full, five days a week, or if there is a hybrid. So those are all questions that we have, that we need to work through with sfusd. However, the hub and our dedication towards this is to ensure that there is stability and continuity for families who choose to stay in the hub for the full school year. In terms of your question about need, i do have some data on that. I dont have it available on me, but i would love to forward some of our data gathering, the data that we used to think about and plan for the hubs because we did use data to determine. Yeah, i am sure there is data and i love to see that and understand that we have 1,000 kids were helping, how many kids out there could potentially need that help . Thank you. So i had a question earlier supervisor ronen brought up some points which also i observed when i visited the hubs, which are some of the challenges around having a lot of students who are in different schools, with different schedules, and all of the coordination around timing that, that brings about. We had a bit of conversation with chief smith about this. Is there a particular way in the interest of problem solving on the spot here where it might be more ideal for you all and the feedback youre getting from the hub operators in the sense that if there was a way, there was a way you organize the students or sorted them in cohorts based on similar types of schedules and things that would be helpful to recei receive that maybe youre not receiving or ways theyre coordinating schedules to make things work more smoothly for students at the hubs. So i can answer part of that for you. We have been trying to you youth by school and certain hubs. Some its easier to do than others. Depending on the neighborhood that kids are coming from, 10, 12, 14 different schools in a neighborhood and need access. We have been successful with several of our hub sites that you know, its only one or two schools for example. Theyre focused on webster and theyre setting up their pods so they can be able to pretty much have pods by school sites or grade level within that. We are trying to do that whenever its possible and makes the most sense and were like okay, maybe well just do all the youths that will be at the hub and its goal based and goal focused, but its not always that easy to do when you have, you know, 60 kids and they go to 13 different schools and they need access to that particular hub site. We are trying to do that when possible. I would like to add that yes, it would be so much easier if we were able to have one class of all the kids or at least a few different groupings of kids that all go to that particular class so there is a little bit more coordination and just clock learning with the kids. I think supervisor, when you went to one of the rooms down at the rec center, you saw the majority of the kids in the room were from the t. L. Community schools. It was great. You saw the interaction and the comradery that was happening between the kids because they know each other and theyre friends and once again, part of the reason that were designing the hubs is to ensure that we continue to support our social and Emotional Development for these children. They need to have friends and that interaction. At minimum, we should try to the best of our ability to bring kids that are at least in the same School Together so they can just be each other. When its not possible, we try to cluster by age, by grade. Yes, in the ideal world, it would be great if we could group the kids by their actual class, so that there is common learning on whats happening and then by schools. We do have great examples of great partnerships with sfusd where there is coordination with our provider at some of the hub sites and for those sites, its working really well. Great, yeah. I did notice when we went to the run in selma, with most of the students being from betsy, that it was a much smoother experience and easier to support the students and all of that. I think that is to the extent we can do that or at least have a common schedule as best as possible. Great. I know this had come up and supervisor ronen has asked about this as well. Our c. B. O. Staff is able to Access Staffing easily and effectively from the feedback youre hearing and are there challenges around that and if you can tell us if there are any requirements around regular testing that the c. B. O. Staff have to do, regardless of symptoms. Yes, so we are working very closely with this permanent public house and we have asked all of our c. B. O. Providers to get covid tested before they launch. Our c. B. O. S are actually doing regular testing throughout the program times. Right now, c. B. O. S are accessing eating the city testing sites or the popup sites, which have been amazing because they are able to just go in and out and our c. B. O. S are essential workers and they can access those services. Great, thats great to hear. Yeah, i noticed there has been an improvement in terms of the ability to get tests quickly and get results back and all of that, which is fantastic. Great. So are there any other questions or comments from the board from the board, i mean from the committee before i open it up for Public Comment . All right. Thank you mr. Chair. Looks like we have one listener. Okay. If you can queue in the caller. So ive been listening to all of yall for a really, really long time. Its typical of San Francisco Unified School District meeting where you have a long agenda and you listen and listen and listen. So you eluded to some other ones. What you have here is people who really do not have their heart in the right place. You cannot do a needs assessment. They want to kick the trend down the street. So if anybody has empathy and compassion for our children, they will make a sacrifice. So when the San Francisco Unified School District decides in a pandemic to have a meeting once a month, that is not only disgraceful, that is utterly unspeakable, that is so low. It is something that needs a revamping of the entire San Francisco Unified School District. Thats all ill say. Thank you very much. Thank you, and to be clear, i believe they meet once every two weeks. Dme members. Mr. Chair, we actually have one more caller. Next speaker please. Hi, this is julie roberts. I want to speak about the importance of d. P. H. Providing Public Health information for covid cases. Its unabderstandable but not relevant. The Previous Data was released on 8 3 20 and also the hub information was released by ucfs on august 10th. Thats crucial information for families to have the planning. As long as were not focusing on the intersection, we should be able to provide that data. Previously that meant that were able to see 64 of covid cases were latinx and bay view had the highest percentage of cases increasing from 19 to 23 over the summer programing. I would also like to add that what i most like to see at sfusd is them telling what funding and support our students need. Regeneration has shut schools because they havent had other options. I am hearing in our wealthy cities right now that we want to do more to support them during this challenging times and i like to see the district put forward that mission and do what it takes. Thank you. That completes the queue. Thank you. Anymore questions or comments from Committee Members . All right. Well, it does seem that we have some clarity on some of the things we want to hear updates on in two weeks so we were also really focused our agenda and our expectations from the presenters around those issues and i think we will be coming out of that week, a presentation to the school board about some of the indicators and dashboard about reopening. So well have an opportunity to hear that in this committee and also really focus our questions and comments around how we can support that and what the outcomes of that are and what other information and data is needed. The last couple of weeks we focused the last two meetings, we focused on the Community Hubs and i think there has been a lot of interest from the Committee Members around those and i think it sounds like for the next meeting we wont have as much of a focus on the hubs as on how we can be supportive of sfusd and the data and indicators and of course we will also have a similar conversation with city college. It sounds like with the new Health Guidance at city college, we will have decisions to make and well have an update from them around how the city can be supportive there. So, with that madam clerk, are there any additional items before us today . That concludes the agenda for today. Great. Thank you so much everyone. Have a great would you like me to call the roll . We will continue this item to the call of the chair. Okay. On the motion to continue to the call of the chair, supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Commissioner. Commissioner collins. Aye. Commissioner randolph. Randolph absent. Trustee selby. Aye. You have four ayes. There are no more items, then were adjourned. Thank you all. Good morning, everyone. This is the october 6th, 2020 special budget and finance Committee Meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. Today im joined by Committee Members supervisor Rafael Mandelman and supervisor mat haney, substituting today for supervisor walton. Our clerk is miss linda long. Id like to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. Id like to put a motion to excuse supervisor shamann walton. Do i please have a roll call vote. Clerk on the