Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Education 92716 20161011

So we have been able to give back more than had a millionandahalf hours of volunteerism and 130 million in grants much to the k12 system here in San Francisco and oakland. And also, we run 28,000 nonprofits and ngos for our service. Every year we love to dedicate and focus dreamforce to a specific cause. Its a very important part of us and we get to see all of these great causes around the world and so many people doing gods work and so thrilled to partner and unite with them and we celebrate red, and ceo of red who has fought aids tirelessly throughout the world and celebrating her with this incredible red store, selling hundreds of thousands of reds products more than we expected on the dreamforce campus. Tonight one of the founders of red bono is going to perform for us tonight at the cow palace. Its exciting and were very, very excited and i want to turn it over to nancy and ed and to hear from the leaders of red as well. Nancy. Thank you very much for everything, thank you marc benioff and to salesforce and dreamforce for making the tremendous difference you are making. We have been here before whether when we tried to end hunger and you always pick up a cause of such urgency and helping aids for good, for good meaning what it means in the lives of people and in the lives of country and for good, what it means in terms of our society. I have a message about marc benioff that i want to read. It was something that was said about mozart when they tried to explain how brilliant he was. And when i was reading it, it reminded me of marc. I asked how was mozart a genius and mathematician, marc said an ordinary genius is a fellow whom you and a would be just as good as if we only were many times better. There is no mystery about how his mind works. Once we understand what genius has done, we feel certain we, too, could have done it. Its different with magicians. Even after we understand what they have done, it is completely dark. Mozart, marc benioff is a magician. Benioffs work is like a series of lightning strokes producing one uninprovable masterpiece after another and was said of mozart and can be received marc benive. The generosity of lynn and marc benioff to our schools and in so many ways and education and growing our economy in ways that is fair. They are magicians. I have only said this about one other person, and guess who that is . Bono. That was a few years ago and here we are book ends of these magicians starting the morning, ending the day with two magicians, who have the magic to make such a difference in our world. And part of their magic is the spell that they cast enabling other people to join in in philanthropy, in justice, in ending hiv aids as we know it now. Our city responded in a wonderful way and well talk about it at the theater in a little while. Got to have my glasses on but for right now, this dreamforce that were all here about, make us part of something very magical. That will make a tremendous, tremendous difference in the world. Thank you marc benioff for being the magician that you are, and working your magic spell. Thank you. Thank you [ applause ] lets hear it for marc. Thank you, nancy. Thank you, dear. Now its my pleasure and marc has 111 and salesforce. Our mayor has continued the tradition of the fight against hiv aids with his 000 and 0 deaths and 0 discrimination against those with aids. Thank you, mayor lee. Thank you, member pelsingo. Peluso. Pelosi. I associate myself with every remark that nancy pelosi has said. Welcome to dreamforce San Francisco [ applause ]. This is one of the most exciting periods of the year and marc with your salesforce, welcoming in 175,000 people and i dont even feel congested. I feel great because the innovative spirit that everybody has, their excitement coming together to not just talk about products and how to help each other out. But also coming together to do great things. This is what cities dream of doing is having people come to their cities, working and collaborating to do great things for each other. And i will tell you, its not bad to receive 200 million in revenue while this conference going on during the week. [ applause ] yes. That is how much impact this has for our city. But you know, when people talk about the company of salesforce, its much more than the economics. In fact, i would say the best way to describe is that we really have the true Civic Partnership with salesforce. The Civic Partnership that produces an infusion of support for all of our Public Schools. You know our middle schools because of five years of investment, marc, that you have made and Salesforce Foundation has made, the performance by all standards is way up. The highest performing urban schools in the entire state of california because of you are infusion. [ applause ] i have never seen teachers and principles talk as if they were hired for their jobs just yesterday. Because they get this innovation money to really change the culture of their campuses, not only the middle schools, but all of the schools. This is what caused the Civic Partnership to happen. Yesterday marc, i have to say watching the news at night and kind of being tired and maybe complaining to my wife about how hard things are to get things done. Then you see the blue angels at the benioff hospital with the kids going through their life trauma and to see the smiles with people going through the most difficult periods of their time and they are at benioff hospital and the kind of support that this hospital and the medical profession you have partnered with ucsf is an incredible story that should resonate in every city around the world. Education, health care, last year the salesforce movement turned out 1 million books for our students in the entire bay area. 1 million books [ applause ] that is the kind of dna that were creating with this Civic Partnership. This year, ill say as leader pelosi has said, aids has been a complicated disease tackle. And we have spent countless hours. We have had thousands of people come in whether they are doctors, health care professionals, community activists, communitybased organizations, companies, or nonprofits like the San Francisco aids foundation doing great, terrific work. Creating a Community Planning clinic of leadership to do all of this. And for red to now join in this marvelous opportunity with the salesforce and dreamforce, to say that they are going to contribute 1 million to this effort to end the aids epidemic, to end new cases. Last year were on our way by the way because of the Community Activism that we have had. Only 330 cases new cases last year. We need to get to zero. We need the promise and to fulfill that promise just like marc and leader pelosi have always said, when we make a promise were going to be able to keep it. Zero new cases, zero infections and zero stigma, and with that, i want to introduce our senior vp at the San Francisco aids foundation, james. [ applause ]. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Mayor, leader pelosi and marc, its an honor to be here and share the stage with you. We appreciate the invitation and good morning everyone, welcome to dreamforce. I will start by telling a personal story. A few years ago i was confronted by an unexpected divorce from my partner of seven years. The news understandably knocked me to my knees and depression is normally triggered by hitting one of lifes rough. S and hiv experts call this the season of risk. It can happen to any of us. Personally i got to mine thanks to San Franciscos network of Free Services for sexual health, Mental Health, substance health, that were available to me ondemand without shame or judgmentment, the question am i worthy of love and belonging is one of the most fundamental we confront in our work and represents a human desire to be seen and to be valued and to connect. Our citys name is synonymous with the model of care that is designed to restore dignity and heal wounds that are inflicted by poverty and racism and homophobia and violence. See here in San Francisco for 30 years we have believed that people who are gay, people who are trans, people who are homeless, people engaged in sex work, people who use drugs, we are all first and foremost people. And were all worthy of love and belonging. [ applause ] and while that is certainly not unique to San Francisco, it is not nearly common enough. And with commitments from people like marc and leadership by the astonishing leaders to my left, and from this wonderful woman who you are about to meet, i know, i know that well get there. This city was groundzero for the aids epidemic, and recently just a week or two ago, San Francisco department of Public Health released updated numbers reporting in 2015 there were 255 new infections and lets be clear, that is 255 too many and make no mistake our hardest work is ahead of us as we work to reduce seemingly intractable Health Disparities and bring more people in from the margins. That means developing innovative approaches to better need our transbrothers and sister and aids populations and communities of color and of people struggling to keep a roof over their head. But momentum is on our side. Because that number represents tremendous progress. That number is why we can stand here flanked by extraordinary leaders and see generous commitments from people like marc, who share our determination to get to a day when San Francisco becomes the very first city to end hiv transmission. [ applause ] thank you. And now its my great honor to introduce my new friend deb duggan, ceo of red. [ applause ]. Thank you. Oh, my gosh, hi everybody. This is a tad overwhelming for me, as you can see. Welcome, welcome to dreamforce and im truly honored and humbled to be with this esteemed crowd. When you think of San Francisco in the 80s, its so fitting were here now because it was the courageous city that said, you know, this is all impossible that all of these people are dying, and great leaders like you, nancy, held it up like this, when nobody wants to see it. And said this cannot be. And so this proud city rallied, and here we are 30 years later, would you have ever thought and i just have to say it nancy, that you would be here at this beautiful tech conference 170,000 people hearing about red, where we are in the fight against aids . And what you can go to help . Its just astonishing and so i thank you marc for putting on this sun spotlight and this megaphone to let people know where we are today. [ applause ] . So red is an organization that actually came to be to solve a problem. So the global fund which fights malaria, tuberculous and aids and countries came and gave 5 billion, but companis did not company and in the first year 5 million came from companies and bono and bobby schriber had the idea to create a brand, a brand for good, that people would look at and be able to somehow participate. But the main thing was to bring companies and get them to be involved in the fight against aids. Here we are ten years later and we have given 360 million to the global fund in fight against aids, and 70 partners have come onboard. Salesforce is one of those partners that lets all of this be possible. So we started talking in 2015, and typical fashion marc comes to the table with funds for the global fund. But then with his Marketing Team we started thinking, well what if there were tools that could help red run better . Because were a small group of 20 people in new york city and we actually, you know are still using spreadsheets and stuff. So there is a lot of data as everybody said here, its incredibly complicated. We now have tools to track where is the red money going for that country, how are they in the fight against mothertochild transmission of hiv . Are they having the right ultimate return on investment, saving lives . So we do that with marketing. We do that with social media. We do that with our partners sales. Were in such a different place a year later because of salesforce tools that we use. Thank you for that as well. So why are we here today . Two big reasons. One is the donations; right . So you have heard that were trying to raise a Million Dollars. You can donate in various booths. You can go to the popup shop and buy some red things, hint. You know, and the idea is that we would try to make a Million Dollars. But then marc and lynn benioff have graciously said they would match that and then the bill and Melinda Gates would double match it and talking 4 million in four days [ applause ] that is a lot of lives saved, just got to say that outloud. The other reason were here is for companies. To have this platform to be able to talk to companies, and say, partner with us, join us. We cant do it alone. We want to eliminate motherchild transmission of hiv by 2020 and 30 Million People have died of this disease. 37 million still have it. It is the no. 1 killer of women of reproductive age, and the no. 1 no. 2 killer of adolescents world and my second request, if you can donate, but if you are a Company Tweet at us red. And come join us and lets make the impossible, possible. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you, deb. Thank you, james. Thank you, ed, thank you, nancy and i will tell you what a great team we have right here and we have a great team with our whole dreamforce community as well. Everyone can do one thing to make the world a little bit better and that is certainly salesforce philosophy and we try to put that in action right here at dreamforce and a great way to do that is to make a contribution to red, buying a tshirt or cash contribution, whatever works for you is great where us and another thing we have to do is adopt a public school, because nothing is more important than our childrens education. All of us have Public Schools within a few blocks of our home and if we just knock on that principals door and ask how i can help . Thank you very much for everything that you are duke well see you at keynote at 1 00, thank you and tonight with bono 8 00 [ applause ]nk were going to get started the regular meeting of did of the board of education for San Francisco Unified School District for tuesday, september 27, 2016, is now called to order. Ms. Fewer after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns mr. Haney and miss i know and. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Lighter we want to thank everyone that joined us here in the board room for you that want to address the board you need to fill out a speaker card in the hallway right outside the door please submit it before the item is called before the item is called and speaker cards will not be accepted once the item before the board approval of the minutes of 2016. So moved. Second any corrections. Roll call. Thank you ms. Inning. Commissioner fewer schedule, speak to the staff after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow and ms. Norton mr. Walton and ms. Wynns and mr. Haney superintendent report superintendant lee. Thank you president haney first, this year the seniors of Lincoln High School are working to cut down down on the use of natural gas theyve surveyed the heating system and presented the results and are educating the teachers and finalizing a staff survey of classroom heating issues now working together with the experts of the Sustainability Office to create a Winning Strategy to create a reduction in usage and sfusd has a shared saving program if the schools reduce energy by 5 percent schools that participate receive half of the savings percentage last year lincoln earned 55 hundreds dollars and overall since 2010 sfusd has reduced by 33 percent and next this friday september 30th, 3000, sfusd Mission High School students will enjoy a free outside concert at the harley Bluegrass Festival the bank i dont and the harmonies known for the high objection at an has not nanny sounds like and entertained by cannabis dispensary cuss this is possible by philanthropists and Community Leaders and the banjo player that started the festival in 2001 though mr. Hellman passed away in 2011 the tradition continues thank you to mr. Hellman for you are generalist and our students continue to enjoy this and thank you to all the staff that helped to coordinate this by mary richard and excited to announce this morning Bryan Elementary School received 3 thousand new books and spanish and english bilingual title in the library the donation a Global Information Technology Business childrens author todd was on hand as deputy City Attorney guerrero and several other sfusd staff and burglary powers read to students to help celebrate the donations and with the partnership between first book and spark sf Public Schools sfusd goal to equip every kindergartener to 5 grad claimant to provide a rich experience this generous gift will up to the time the initiative at the halfway mark and finally im pleased to announce the fourth q t e awards have been decided with 18 school teams with awards and 9 with impact awards for those not familiar with the backward of those prize the awards were consented in 2008, as part of the quality education act to reward achievement at the individual schools and represented a corrosive effort those are managed jointly by the Superintendent Office and the invited careers and award the projects and guide the schools in addressing a challenge through the innovation wards within the award impact winners scaling full strategies to help africanamerican and latino students achieve math proficiency and the Summer Bridge program for the 9 graders and the School Projects are how to engage the students with basic learn for that the conferences that help them and their families better understand the academic goals and progress for both categories our winning applications have focused on issues of equity into a district where all students succeed a proud example of sfusd has issues of equity to the forefront and if youll allow me to make a plug for the Innovation Lab i want to invite our District Community with all the commissioners to see the Innovation Award pitch unite all showcased on november 10th at the i lab at marshall thank you, commissioners. Superintendant lee item c recognized and accommodations we have two rave awards superintendant lee. Yes. Thats my pleasure to at this time introduce the first of the second i mean the first of two rave award accommodations it goes to ms. Denise a special education anothers Lowell High School and presenting the solars award it holy the assistant principle one of our assistant privileges at lowell ms. Childs. Good evening, members of the board and students its my great pleasure as a principal at Lowell High School to introduce this months recipient of the rave distinguished award ms. Denise a community assess transition teacher at Lowell High School for 17 years with helping students 18 to 20 years old to learn selfhelp and career transition skills i was nominated by the parents of one of our africanamerican students hfa have because of their excuse and support into an individual confident young woman hfa have has lots of friends and catches transportation and attended city college of San Francisco once a walk according to hfa have ms. He denise is a good teacher i present to you this months recipient of the rave distinguished award ms. Denise solar clapping. thank you so much i really, really appreciate this award and im so honored i want to thank the parents that i work with because every single them have very difficult jobs to do and a lot of them have at children, too, and i work working closely with them i think i spent a lot of time communicating with them and work as a team he also want to thank the parents i work with i fell very, very lucky to have such dedicated parents that are constantly doing everything to improve to make sure that every single student learners and that we evaluate our emotions, our methods and skills to make sure they improve in life and are happy i also want to thank the students themselves because i just think theyre beautiful i think theyre so purehearted i love working with them and love any job thank you. Ms. Solar please dont go far we have a certificate please stay put well be right there laughter clapping. thank you very much. Thank you. This one is for you. How do we do this shall i open it . So i am also pleased to present the next rave Services Award and scanning to see if ms. Jenkins is here, yes okay. We may if it is okay president han why a can we put a 3i7b in this and maybe ms. Jenkins is stuck in traffic. Item d student delegate report report. Hello, everyone good evening president haney so yesterday we have a meeting and our student leader engagement with superintendant lee and chief hogan an dike and we were talking about the student leaders goals for the years and how can superintendent and chief hogan an dike provide support to us that would be helpful thank you for coming the students appreciated it and some of them getting to meet you guys and goals for the year and student leaders opportunity to develop the valencia view communication skills and learn about media and getting closer to media and getting dispacific islander and providing feedback how can the material be our sustainability representatives will be giving back the Ferry Building to get student leaders to participate. We would like to thank dr. Murase for coming to our meeting and speaking on behalf of the reds for High School Voter registration we had a great discussion and came to a conclusion about requesting an amendment to the language and thank you commissioner murase for the girls festival that will be happening october 15th and the fcc reps will be presenting that and thank you hydra and presenting on proper pr protocol so knowing how to phone the district officials and communicating via email and phone call that was helpful since most of student leaders will be coordinating with a lot of important people yeah are our next meeting is november 12 here in the board room is a Public Meeting if you have any questions, please contract salvador thank you. Thank you students and thank you appointments to the committee by the Board Members one from the Community Advisory committee for special education and have the representatives come up. Hi, im katie the chair felt Advisory Committee for special ed and this is joan on the executive committee the executive board for generations i think were here to do a short recap of what is coming up for this year and kind of tying it into what we presented at the end of last year in terms of some of the issues that we were 90s workplace special ed so joan will take it away good evening superintendant guerrero and members im joan as katie russel mentions well do a recap of what our last report to you on june 28 of this year. What is the cac the cac the state Education Code mandate that each special education local planned area as sever fiduciary needed a Advisory Committee the cac the purpose of cac to advocate for special Education Programs and services and advice the board of education on the excelsior requires a majority of cac members be parents. Were going to skip this one our cac Guiding Principles if the last june report im doing a quick overview 70 percent are served in general education parents are an International Part of every single i e p team meaning individualized Education Program the i stand for the individual so areas of focus for 20162017 were monitoring staff levels of vacancies at all conditional sites, monitoring special education departments prelims of new protocol for faith meaning free Public Education implementation of con planning at all schools, broadening of candidate bias consideration for students with i e p and approved ac services and support were also continuing on the area of focus implementation of evidence based 3 reading for inclusion and placement the development for other writing disabilities for inclusion and class placement and timely innocenceness for transmission of services and katie will take over. To support those points of focus this year we have split out our meeting topics and first of all, we invite all interested families in coming and advice the commissioners and invite the school staff particularly teachers and the last two meetings had happened in august 7th level and Staff Professional Development ill talk about Staffing Levels shortly i want to thank the people that who arranged for the budget we had there was quite a few of the of Staff Development over the summer i really appreciated the parented and im sure the staff appreciated 2 far more than in the past september we had a meeting on the protocol for intensive services and the protocols are new and they were extremely well presented to the families therapy you know there was a lot of port for it so if any parents that wanted information information on it ask their whoever is leading on the i e p team for the new protocol that will be rolling out as people request the protocols will be rolling out the purpose of protocols to have Fair Distribution appropriate direction not only for the parents with the lawyers and the people that are squeaking wheels but the whole community were encouraged by this protocol in october coming up were having candidates site for did you San Francisco Unified School District board of education and the majority of candidates are coming theres. Few i havent heard from by the way, a few people maybe in the room ill be contacting you again i know but in november were doing a presentation by the school on issues of their preefshg in regards to special ed we have the administration you know the topheavy present but we want to hear how the units and teachers view the special education particularly in light thought how were trying to have the bulk of the special ed kids and if thats presenting issues or something we can workout together in december we dont have a meeting that makes everyone happy at the cac in january we have another new program you know the sdruths has been working hard with new initiative the dispute resolution in conjunction with San Francisco Bar Association and the special ed for the San Francisco Unified School District and in which case a volunteer lawyers oracles as a third party neutral party to work on some of the issues that come up with families in regards to their i e p and the meeting the needs of the students and also getting you know hitting the points on the i f p anyway we are hoping that we will this will result in less lawsuits and result in happier families i do know where we work we use the tentative dispute resolutions it is very successful and the lawyers are very encouraged the skblth is it doing that in february were talking about an update in pilot tier 3 intervention and assisted technology for students with 45 owe 4 programs in march the Transmission Services with students of i e p and the timeliness of the transmission in april were going to do a program on the candidate bias and education that has an issue with communities where the feeling about special ed it is a place you send the inner rule kids a place you send those unlaw school kids theyll not be educated, of course not the purpose 6 special ed and the district historically theres been suspicion of the special ed programs but the idea is for us to really like discuss that openly and honestly and in may were having an unanimous advocacy worthy of excellency and we have not invited him yet but ask the superintendent to give a state of the union and in june and mini fair with different speakers that will come and talk about what is available to families okay our meetings are at one six 63 Mission Street 7 floor again families are invited we have childcare and interpretation please call ahead of time starts at the 5 30 and 6 30 if you have a specific program 6 30 to 8 regular meeting of with specific topics we encourage people to come we have a lot of good information okay. Now we have a pop quiz it is the question how many parents and teaches and related providers positions are currently open in the special Ed Department anyone want to venture a guess. Or even a word a what. Ill guess lots. Youre right i got is this is september 23rd now ill say it was a lot a lot a lot at the beginning of the school year and the Human Resources department has done a great job i heard them on the radio trying to recruit people im not people people down but a constitutional right with you know educators and special ed and 2, 3, 4 particularly as of september 23 september 23rd uncertified teachers we have 18 out of the Central Office we have like 8 positions im talking about positions for long term and one for middle school and one high school i think that is the Central Offices is suffering and as far as paraprofessionals their divided throughout the variance pre k and high school and others so with gets me to the next slide as of 5 oclock gosh if youre listening you havent signed this bill he did im not going to im going to this is one of the piece of the puzzle to get housing for teachers now make sure it happens very good gosh, i want to announce a couple of things a coming to fruition at the same time the survey will surveying families with i e p it is disgusted they were anonymous theyre starting the rollout the special Ed Department can get feedback from families and my friend here she mentioned something that friday the place we have the meeting support for families a fantastic 501 does so much with families with disables and offer the Services Free having a demo thats great but honoring the cac as recipient we must be doing a good enough job were thrilled and lastly this was a couple of parents asked me to put this on first, i got a hoe hum learning the sdranlt Ronald Reagan find the awareness and dyslexia the budget of kids that have i e p reading and writing problems and math problems that one executive functioning difficulties and ah d and adults too by the way, i know a lot of these conditions are hereditary if you see it in your kids theres a chance you have that a. D. D and it is something i limitations to yesterday just yesterday for my own state of michigan theyre doing terribly in michigan with early reading their status are down and a huge program they talked an hour and talked about 24 and this this they and never mentioned the word dyslexia and kids that need you know interchanges but any kid that cant read at grade level that will be held back im i have to tell you if youre teaching a kid in a way not progressing you, you can teach them this kid maybe has dyslexia thats 20 percent of the population and send them back to school and using the same methodology and the kid feels their stupid this is the the reason there has to be Awareness Month base stupid legislators they dont know a darn thing about disabilities it is important to have disability Awareness Month and dyslexia Awareness Month avenue that rant ive told the mr. Superintendent i wanted to thank you thank you for your time and well be back with the exciting recap in june 2017 thank you. clapping. i have one question thank you for your presentation or maybe two one about the vacancies for paraprofessionals do you know if there are vacancies in the one program. Yes. Do you know how many we might have liz vacancies. inaudible . The program is in not completely full well staff with 3 clamors every clams has one or two paraprofessionals and were on process with boarding staff i dont know the exact number ill say it depends on how youre looking at 2 there is a vacancy in every program but not filled with children at this time the numbers are lower. Thanks i know that is a challenge i want to shout out to senator mark leno for that bill about teacher housing well miss him at the state level. You mentioned something for clarification if students are not reading at grade level third grade or at the end of the third grade. Northbound michigan theyll make them repeat thats fine for some students but not if they dont have the proper instruction. Go exactly you make a good point. I apologize quickly one card for Public Comment on this Susan Solomon and then ill good evening commissioners and everyone else in the room, i really wanted to thank the special education Advisory Committee i tried to get to every meeting i go because i learn so much from the parents therapy wandering to make sure our students get what they need he want to say thank you for inviting us in november to talk but the communication has been helpful ive been strathd out on a few things and deep up the good work. Were not done. Thank you guys for your motivation and passion sorry shes used to go to our school and and from our part well be bringing up the disability Awareness Month october to our City Hall Services and bring up to the schools and probably build something or build up awareness or shout outs to we can make students aware of it and celebrate the most thank you very much. I want to thank you for that as well and the school is june just for the record for equity a Small Public School but they do a job. Thank you commissioner murase. I wanted to express any appreciation for all the cac member ive been to meeting people working hard and so important to our families i wanted to announce the very informative website you have so families that are listening to look at up the United Kingdom meeting i appreciate the fact you have the whole year laid out were not out of the woods cac spread sf. Org and thank you for your hard working. Commissioner Vice President walton. 75 percent of our students with i e. C. Are in conclusion classrooms the other outside of placement wheres the other 25 percent. It could be a variety of separate classrooms we have a program for autism so we try to have another program for Mental Health support and try to make sure if children are getting something that is special were working on continuing to build those programs but the 25 percent will have some time with general education peers theyll not be out more than 50 percent of the day could be up to 49 percent we have a lot of Inclusive Practices and a percent for a i appreciate the presentation this evening thank you for always keeping us informed on the things and held up us accountable one of the things were doing in personnel is focusing on recruitment and retention of educators a major focus youll see a plan dedicated to some of the Innovative Strategies we will be focused on educators in the classroom all of the classrooms and spell 2 it out and call it out with an intentional plan we mare that and be on this and the first exciting personal meeting this thursday at the 6 00 p. M. Here in this room thank you very much. Im going to stop being the chair and making everyone else look bad. Ms. Wynns thank you. This report is great i appreciate the way the year is laid out go unfortunately, were not able to attend the meetings it is good to know i appreciate the summaries we get very efficient and unusual for an Advisory Committee this committee worked the way it shed and depreciates us lots of information thank you and most of work youve urban design done this committee has done a remarkable job the work of the volunteer members of the committee and i want you to know how much we appreciate it thank you very much. All right. Well, thank you for your presentation and want to express my gratitude for your hard work and long service on the committee and impressed youve laid out your agenda for that the year so thats incredibly expressive and the tops and the work youre doing extraordinary and we appreciate it thank you. Any Advisory Committee appoints from members item f on consent items there is none tonight. Item g the consent calendar can i have a motion and second on the consent calendar. Move the consent calendar second any items withdrawn. Mr. Haney for once no withdrawals or corrections tonight. Not so fast i was kidding so mr. Sal vary lopez who is by the way, standing in for mr. Steel sorry about that sal. Thank you. Superintendent there are 4 items to address tonight withdraw from the agenda online resolution one six 927 k11 found on page 202 and withdrawn from the agenda is resolution one six 927 k25 found on page 1 61 theres also a correction to 2 e16927 b 5 on page one zero one specifically number 13 city and county of San Francisco department of health and lastly correction to one six 927 k44 found on page 243 specifically in the second code of k44 numbers should send with one zero and not one 54. Thank you any items removed for First Reading by the board. Any items severed by the board for superintendent and vote. Going once, going twice. Roll call under Section Organization and item h superintendents proposal a few actually going to do if this is all right. Take Public Comment first, i know we have a number of parents that are here so im going to take you know without objection moving up item f Public Comment on general matters and call up the speakers and come on up in each person has two minutes. Whats that . calling names . If im missing someone come on as well apologize, sir. This is item j Public Comment on general matters. Hi, my name is argon a parent other sunny side my son a fifth grader for all the sunny side parents that are here please raise your hand. Unfortunately, this is my third time presenting the same issue my son didnt have a teacher and no clear direction when well get one weve now given correct and clear information this week we were told to have a new substitute teacher starting 24 week and led to believe that person will be able to stay long term just yesterday the first day that substitute was here we learned shell only be here two weeks so two weeks well have another teacher in the classroom at that point were at least having a sub in the classmate theres no specific teacher to speak to how my son is doing and none taking overflow room ive already been to quite frankly a pointless and insulting back to school night we sort of basically learned how great the other fifth grade class was and now halfway to the teacher parents conferences in november im not or im not sure what the point of going to that conference will be in early november none will say how my son is doing about a week and a half go we were forces to strike and pull our kids out of school to make that clear over 60 skids were kept out of school from first to 5 grade to have the support of entire community, however, with that effort and that decision still all that came out of that at this point was a new substitute teacher starting this week for two weeks im distressed there is not been a face to face meeting with the principal, h. R. And union to repeating really come to a decision okay. Thank you. Hi, my name is tor i didnt a parent of a fifth grader i feel like a regular at this point, were advocating for a permanent teacher for one of the 5 grade classes been without a teacher and 7 weeks ago were told this is one of the districts Top Priorities after a 7 substitutes killing through 9 classrooms how do you feel this is how i feel really disappointed we understand the complexity involved i cant fathom the lack of effort the school is a eager to move on the school says they want to move on but no sit down meetings the district is waiting for the teacher to make a move and the school is trying to fill a hole a giant gave him of chicken for the pieces to fall into place the 33 kids in the classroom whose opportunity inform prepare for 6 grade is slipping away one day at the time kids with i p p and its the tip of the iceberg as this impacts our School County we have none to talk to about the kids progress and in consistency and no timeline for change so we ask again how do you feel about the progress that is made it is time for the district to stop waiting for the change and make the change happen thank you. Hi, my name is jenny and im the parents of two students at the sunny side a second and 5 grader im extremely disappointed with the lack of response for the Sunny Community i was one of the 60 parents that pier 39 their kids out of school and shocked that no progress has been made as of the deems im finding it difficult to explain to my child 33 kids are still without a substitute teacher and finding it difficult to explain to parents and in lower grades why they should support how community and district as it goes on and on points been 7 weeks 10 percent of year and im here to urge the district to remove the barriers that are keeping our children from the year of education they deserve and entitled to thank you. Hello my name is user sale a mom of a 5 grader at sunny side and i put him into the School Everyone said a great school this is a true for other classes but not my son not welcomed sweet spot class and in consistency and stability i have no teacher to connect to figure out how he is progressing hes going to school and hes for the happy and im pretty confidence as parents said the parents teacher conference will not explain me no teacher to observe any child longer two weeks we the parents from sunny side are advocating for our kids and told at the beginning be patient we were patient but things didnt workout and told you have to speak up we showed up at the Board Meetings and sent emails and spoke daily to the principal and families you heard including mine we showed our concerns but the same situation no permanent solution in place i dont said how we have to speak up to get a permanent teacher shouldnt it be the job of the sfusd to provide a quality permanent teacher and ive heard the new teacher was told only going to be there for two weeks and she has other assignment she was told the original teacher would be back why are we are dealing with temporary teachers why cant this be resolved we were told we were aware of the sidewalks and however it dont look like anyone it talking with each other please lets make that possible we know there are ways to do this. Good evening my name is linda long i have 3 obesity another sunny side im aware the situation is complicated and it is boring and it is a headache for many people so were moving into the 7 week of school thirty xhaeveng days it is getting old and more importantly our children the staff is working tooirlsz to fill in the gap theyre not affected the situations is no reflection on her shes juggling all the responsibility hover we need a teacher not a substitute teacher or are core substitute teacher a qualified passionate credentialed teacher one that our will greet our children day to day we the parents are in a situation but not stop advocating and fight for our children again, it is 31 academic days please we need a teacher. My name is dana im agree fifth parents at sunny school and had a daughter in fifth grade that participated in the stick with the other 60 children on september 16th i can repeat everything that the previous people said it is been 31 days we dont have a teacher we want a credentialed teacher that is 7 people into the classroom last week any child and her friends were late to and lost their pe time with the teacher a new teacher that teaches pe to the kids once or twice a week they lost their time because they were saying Governor Brown to their sub how much time will this happen and sdruchd from their leon monday they came in the class and played a get to you know you gave him with the new teacher we again had a new teacher and the sub who will only be there too weeks had to get to know their names at this point you need to do the right thing and get a teacher into the class thank you. Hi, my name is suzy this is my second time at 555 franklin im the mother of laney that is effected by lake lake of a teacher at sunny for the record i was one of the parents of the 60 families that walked out we feel strongly and weve been talking about this topic ad nauseam i believe youre our elected officials were demanding that you do something about the teacher situation think facing had something done with their situation you work on the vertically advertising for the i tech covers beyond why we cant have more attention the right attention and resources devoted to this topic those are my kids one of my kids and wants to speak as well. Hello my name is laney and we are students at the effected classroom in sub i didnt side and sometimes, we feel that the only way to get attention is to cause trouble and some of the obesity in the class take advantage and dont follow the rules we dont have a solid set of rules our teacher changes so often there is none nothing but, do because they asked us what the rules are and a lot of people dont say anything to none knows and wellal High Percentage of children in the class avoid the rules and dont do the work we all do i feel that is unfair and that we should get attention without having to cause trouble. I feel they take advantage the rules and just get into trouble so i think what madeline is trying to say she feels the same way about the situation i have to point out that we did a math assessment and some people are take it home for homework instead of doing the assessment by the way, they were not doing it during school and some people just try to avoid the work and just do their journals when were supposed to be doing and play random games on the computer when were supposed to be doing oures cases and my name is dalai were in the fifth grade class. And we dont have a teacher our class is getting restless when were learning in class it is hard to focus and sometimes get bored were learning things over and over again because we get substitutes every week or in some cases everyday they dont know what were learning and finished learning we already have about 5 or maybe 6 substitutes this past week and hard for us to transition teacher to teacher the teachers we have are different and teach differently they teach things without us finishing the thing were learning before please help us get a permanent teacher. clapping. hi, my name is Lauren Powell im a parent at sunny suicides with two sons im here because my younger son is in third grade last year my older son had mr. Yee we thought the problem was addressed and not returning to sunny side i thought dr. Murase addressed a lot of parents felt this school year was a disaster she was helpful in trying to address it we thought the problem was solved this year his name was on the roster that seemed a disaster but worse he didnt show up and not had him or anyone as a permanent teacher im concerned at sunny side this will be disadvantaging to our school i dont want to see my son be affected you know have a teacher like this when he gets to fifth grade i want to support this parents that is a problem for the community and leave kids were pushed to go to another school i dont want to see families leaving they feel their child will not get an education as this goes on it gets worst of the worst for the community ive working hard a lot of parents at sunny side to make it a good school weve had Great Teachers and a good experience but no a good experience last year and this year cant happen and keep on going on you have to arrival this position there is a way to work out and you need to do this this is effecting our school and you know this is your it is difficult and complicated but were here tonight to ask for your attention and help in doing that thank you. I apologize. I should have said this before please refrain from saying any employees name and i have two kids at the sunny side and because of the things that happened last friday, i want to point out this is not consistent one day my son came home that any im afraid any child is failing behind im afraid at 3 stamp stage this is not just for this year but the future and ask him to do well, thank you. Hello my name is stephanie my son a teacher class it no longer there this is my first time coming to the meetings. Your confidence people this will be resolved but when i went to the back of the school night the other day i went to the classmate it wasnt there we met in the library together but the classrooms has the name of the teacher and my son has not seen him he has a 504 we need more resources than we got at the Previous School and sunny side is a great school that is a critical year my son is getting ready for middle school and he needs a strong leader someone to help him hes bright but if you dont hold him accountable hell not do the tests and thinks this is all good wants substances all the time im trying to teach him the education is the most important thing and i want to focus on a Mission High School next year i dont want to be stuck 2, 3, 4 traffic if i didnt show up for work for 7 weeks my name would not be on my office door i had complete faith this would be resolved it is a long term sum put someone in there that will hold the children to the standard and help them prepare to ab be an adult plea please. All the parents and students thank you for coming out superintendant lee. Thank you commissioner president haney and thank you to you all the parents and students echoing president haneys last comment i want to echo some perimeters are important what we can share before whether that is tonight or in general, i want to assure everyone here we all share the same goal of having a apparently teacher as i said to each of classroom we are working Telegraph Hill to make sure that happens as quickly as possible i know it has been much longer p than any of us wanted especially the parents and Students Affected we are working very intentionally to address the situations in the meanwhile it does seem like that people are somewhat different message will the plans in the short time and so we will regroup and make sure were clear with you about what is in place and what will be in place and stay tuned for clarification along those lines. Thank you for to everybody for your patience in the meanwhile. Thank you leah. Can i make one comment im sorry, i know we dont comment on Public Comment but i want to say that it is beyond i think the efforts i mean what participants should have to do the teacher in the classrooms i understand we have circumstances but want to say a past parents of this district when i see you come out here for 3 meetings and the strike and theres multiple multiple emails and it is not resolved but i cant emphasis enough so i want to say that thank you. clapping. ned a. Good evening. Im president of the invited educators he can or want to thank the mike and thank you for listening to our concerns about the use of the verizon logo on that been given to the Mission High School students youve heard the direct marking and urge to to guarantee that resources are used appropriately and support our students Public Education and not a vehicle for free advertising i heard from commissioner Shamann Walton that was the resolution so glad to hear that you stood up for the right thing to do and workout things with verizon as our corporate sponsor thank you. Mr. Haney. I understand were not going to have a dialogue about testimony i want to say that i think the parents of sunny side but i need to have update on what happened weve all raised issues the parents have and students and a everybody have been doing this is a daily basis our right communications over a weeks ago they say basically, were working as hard as we can at a time not adequate for me and the school if we could get more timely information and really an update what is going on the likelihood. I understand we cant get discussion not because of lack of a interest or a desire but what the issue comes up not on the agenda. I understand im asking the staff to respond to that. So i think the superintendant lee addressed that and theres going to go communication out to the community and is there anything more you want to clarify. Thats about what i wanted to say president haney if i may the pd the procedures governor jerry brown o governing those discussed this part of agenda for the public to spaeng not for us as staff to respond and engage with them were also not trying to come across as stonewalling but abide by this portion of the meeting including by the superintendent and staff. I understand. However, nobody has obtained to the members saying in response to a question can we get information basically thats what im asking. All right. Item h moving back to h superintendent proposal 169 dash 9 adaptation of 12 30 School Connected organizations can i have a rotator from the rules committee yes. So excuse me let me find my notes from the rules committee. So we this policy came before the board twice before the Committee Twice and we had some the Committee Members requested some amends or clarifications in the policy which or so ms. Howe would you like to sure the changes to the policy requested by rules are found in the bottom session of the cover page for the superintendents proposal essentially the committee asked we clarify the add language for the mandated donation from families and to clarify that School Connected organizations are formed for advocacy to advocate for Public Education weve accomplished that and the requested action but approve documentation of board policy Community Relations for the organizations. After those changes were made send a positive recommendations to the board. Superintendant lee. If i may ask if anything to be asked ms. Howe daniel to comment on the item and read into the record. So nothing more to audio were seeking our approval of board policy 12 30 School Connected organizations. No public speakers any comments from the board superintendent. Reinforcement. Thank you ms. Angle ms. Fewer mr. Reiskin dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns and mr. Haney, 7 is. Sp one for a conflict of interest code. Rules committee. This policy went to the rules committee there are a so we have a obligation to have such a policy which weve not had so the Committee Recommended to the board we adopt this policy. Superintendant lee. I dont. Embed. Again ms. Howe can you read the items under the requested action into the record. One point of clarification that was caused confusion at the rules committee two parts to this the first a resolution that asks the board to adopt a conflict of interest code the board adopted every two years this code is required by the political format that requires each approximately agencies to designate which agency referred to as form seven hundred this code to update our position that must report and i will noted that o note that new code simplified 3 categories we have 2 a health level and elect level for straightforward the board of education of the San Francisco Unified School District adopt the following conflict of interest code with the appendix of designate employees and disclosure categories. No speakers any questions or comments from the board. Ms. Wynns. I have a question i realize there are some lists in the appendix there are some things in conflict with the requirements that we report every year so one based on the financial our Financial Report so and it is at the top the Financial Disclosure open property within the ream one, two miles of district boundary or any land owned by the district we are actually and the business positions were our own homes are excluded from disclosure under our of him requirement disclosure requirement so im i dont know if there are other i mean, i have glanced through it im asking the legal office to give us an analysis we have to do definitely ramp under state law. I appreciate that point if doesnt represent the which was in the conflict of interest code or under state law youll appreciate that legally if you see at the top were incorporating by reference the provisions of two cc rs and that code of regulation has specific exceptions youve mentioned for personal property that is as the principle place of residence and under the portions ill be happy to provide you but clarify this didnt represent a change in what youre reporting only reduces the reporting categories from 4 to two and updates our position. I think when you read through this the other questions like that will arises we have the issue which weve tubed many, many times and theres appears we dont know what applies to us and what form we have to report various different categories of information so i think if we know clarify that first of all, by the way, we should clarify it for everyone on the list not just for the board of education we have other reporting requirement that others dont have but it is a complex and payroll it appears there are not clear what different roles might apply as a School District as opposed to a state agency, etc. Right this so this conflict of interest code proved or disproved to the form seven hundred that is mandate by the state but with regards to the local indies in the campaign and the government conduct code those are reflected in the next item bylaws their, their by the form seven hundred and certainly put out Additional Guidance at the time of reporting. I hope that helps to clarify for everyone thank you. Anything else all right. I have a questions or comments. So counsel is referring to actively enterprises and i see were now adopting commissioner. Thanks. Ms. I know ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell ms. Norton ms. Wynns and mr. Haney 7 is. Sb two adoption bylaws and this is there is a motion that has been seconded open august 23rd can i have a report if the rules committee. The issue is related to the other conflict of interest policies and as you can see on the requested action to confirm with local and state law issues unclear about what exactly this is so hopefully, this will clear this up and i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. Superintendant lee. Thank you commissioner president haney so once again ask our chief council shes gone to do a few years ago to make additional comments about this item and read into the record. So i can that ms. Fewer and probably other commissioners may have comments on this this mostly is bylaws in the works for several months ill say the part of the Unified School District and to clarify what rules apply to Board Members and superintendent which specifically the San Francisco local rules apply some ambiguity in the drafting of the rules one thing i do think is important by virtual declaring that the San Francisco knocking it out of the park governmental code applies thats for a court or perhaps the Ethics Commission but this bylaws is simply stating the committee will subject its to the same rules at the city level. Ms. Fewer. Thank you General Council i think that so im glad we are clarifying this for our own policy and state that actually, i had been in conversation with it is Ethics Commission and over a number of employees and also superintendent are not subject to this so that was the information i was getting consistently from the Ethics Commission i understand that the City Attorney is looking at this it concerned us and city college theyre not stir employees and on the payroll of the city and county of San Francisco so there was confusion and the answers ive provided every School Member of copy from the Ethics Commission this is what i was told repeatedly on many occasions so im glad were clarifying it and i think this policy that were clarifying and also updating theyre really important to have them updated for that the district because the documents that everyone can refer to that were volunteering verily could go this but update other Political Activities in the past that needed updating i think for this circumstance it is an abundance of caution and right thing to do and also remember we have a high turnover of principals and also teachers and administrators and really important for them to know theyre right about contributes and what people ask of them and we have outoftowners of superintendent and Board Members this was really important i think that our teachers and administrators actually are fully aware of their Voting Rights of contributing to this so thank you for bringing this forward. So just a couple of things one thing i also that this is good to clear this up ones for all this will lead us to a general review of the local and state rules that apply to us and dont apply to us we have a number of various things we are required to take the same mifkdz training even though some of the components dont apply to us and other things that is good if we could resolve the conflict and finally understand and the last thing that is important both we and the public should know that at the present time the position of the Ethics Commission those rules dont apply to us if we say in our policy as were here proposing well voluntarily comply those legally overseeing rules apply through our own policies were the bodies that enforces that well provide so no this didnt give the mifkts any jurisdiction over what we do we cant actually change the law to say it applies to us we can say we think overseeing rules are good therefore well put them into the policy and abide by our own policies but this taking this action is a policy move and will not actually make the citys rules apply to us. Ill add one thing mr. President , so i think that General Council once the City Attorney makes the rules open this will you he notify the Board Members thank you. Yes. Commissioner murase. I appreciate the thoughtful discussion i want to read the clause that we are referring to because this is from the representative as mention we have an Ethics Commission guidance that the School District is not Board Members are not subject we are proposing tonight is the language from the San Francisco government code that Board Members and the superintendent should not directly or indirectly solicit contributes from city officers or employees or from persons on employment list that the district receives unless it is a solicitation from the public in the spirit of my colleagues that wants to make sure that all of our staff understand what is acceptable and not acceptable i want to read into the record. Now can i ask a question for clarification i understand the pieces of that relate to school Board Members not slltd contributions from district employees who are under our clearing from under our jurisdiction and potential question of conflict there why are we including all the employees of the city or persons on employment listed of the city and other Board Members beyond is that because we sort of mapped on their policy and used their language i mean, ill include i see why were including all the district folks were clearly a separate equity. You hit on the issue that makes that ambiguous this conduct code uses 3 terms interchallengely so it defines us as so what we struggle with in interpreting this did they mean that the School Boards members cant solicit from any destroying employees it is a structural to interpret but we have the reason you see the language in the policy the way you do it is exactly how is it so here in governmental and conduct code. One thing and open it up finishing the train of thought here it was my understanding we were adopting this as our own policy to create clarity youre telling me were adopting language that is ambiguous what exactly does this mean for us we have an opportunity to adopt language were clear in terms of who is this applied to and now im entirely confused. The way we drafted it applies to all city and county employees and officers that is in the governmental conduct code if the board chooses not to do that thats a decision the board can make the one thing i wanted to point out about the opinions out of Ethics Commission so it is an informal opinion sort of represents their best thinking based on the fact at the time but we need to wait until the City Attorney will opine and then it is possible that a taxpayer or somebody can litigate so ultimately if the language is not redrafted that will be up to a court to interpret thats why were as counsel is giving you the congesting advice how to applies in the worded way it applies in the code that means every city and county employee and officer. Okay. Commissioner norton anybody and commissioner Vice President walton. You answered any question im not saying i have clarity but you answered the question. So 73 if we adopt this policy im i hearing some of you will not like me once we adapt this policy all of the clarifications for our unions automatically get paid the same rate as the city completed with the same classification. No commissioner Vice President walton that will not be the effect of adapting this policy. I guess i see why the city has this policy and why they include City Employees in that i dont understand why the recommendations for us would be to downtown it in a way that includes City Employees for us their intairl a different body did their policy explicit include the School District employees. So the issue is whether or not the term city and county employee andmembers. Which by the way, we can adapt it for us but were also accepting this for all candidates in the fire chief for all sfbdz that are running and not significant for clarity why. I appreciate that and i cant give you more clarity than the status but the one thing this is not prohibited soliciting anyone who happens to be a city and county employee what that prohibit direct solicitation on the act that is targeted to the city and county employees you cant take your list of city and county employees and specifically target them for donation but if you, you send out a mass marital youve violated this. As a example my sister is a public defender so a number of the people who i may want to reach out directly to solicit directly to that relationship with them are public defenders ill no longer be able to and this is why other people from my personal you know situation but that it seems to me beyond the conflict were trying to prevent by prohibiting now or in the future for any School Board Member for a Campaign Contribution commissioner mendozamcdonnell. Thank you so on the city does what weve been told is that you cant solicit your not solicit city and county employees or sfusd or anyone through the Government Employee and so that will be me requesting sending to you at our sf gov. Account or your workplace or accept and expend to the Accounting Department at the Controllers Office which is different from hand selecting a group of people that you know and want to send this to if youre random people in a bulk mailing to a department for example, thats not cool thats illegal but if were all in a solicitation for you along with a thousand other people then thats the different act this is not a tarlths act i think what our interpretation my interpretation of this having gone through 10 years in training the city you cant go targeted acts to groups of people at a particular you know like you cant send to the entire department of the City Attorneys office but you can send to aaron and 10 people at the City Attorneys office along where other people you want to that send the slths out to a distinction between that and i mean this is to me is doing a number of Different Things number one the origin intention to insure that our staff feels protected no dmufgs about why we are asking you to support us for what we have reason and that you know we have relationships and those relationships turns into support for a variety of reasons but no exclusion around that this is the part to achiever but it is also i mean a little bit tricky sometimes, we want to be city and some days we dont and were in a Civil Service system and get the city benefits and everything but were a state agency but you know the mire will appoint if there was an opening on the board of education and so theres a lot of really bizarre charter things that cross over that makes us sometime to see our advantage and sometimes not so i think the clarity that i want to have is you know look you guys we should know the difference how we solicit to the people we want to have support United States and making the good decisions so the clarity id like to have it somewhat something that makes the scenario basis or the limited that you, you cant send a direct email to 4r50ed and ask them for supportive or to the City Attorneys office and ask them for support i dont know what language is for that but that will help us to clarify that is not you cant ask for anything in the city we have 26 thousand employees but not in a way that targeted for a group of people that fall under this category. So dr. Murase is next did you want to respond dr. Murase. So there is we ask add it into the bylaws a regulation that the city published under this code that provides examples of what is okay. And not okay so we could several pull that into the bylaws as it stands up but i think the issue about mr. Haney is getting at it is a decision as to whether or not you want to be the most convert approach we simplify it until an opinion it didnt or were going to adopt more tailored version of 24 that says right thats our own. So there are risks with the executive approach if you dont and the City Attorney or a court says the status same side for a reason were not in compliance. Commissioner murase. Any suggestion and id like to know how my colleagues feel is to trafrl it to say Board Members and the superintendent shall not have a political contribution from the district or from people on employment lists of the district for a significant portion of public the reason to protect the employees feeling pressured to contribute and overseeing are employees and persons open employment lists they have to give to increase their chances of getting employment and setting aside as ms. Mendozamcdonnell condition to be restricted against other employees who work for the city but who are not city completed on the school board having a more targeted make sense for me rather than a proposal. It sounds like the commissioner like this portion of this sort of more customized and maybe rewritten to reflect the decision of the board and ask our attorney that perhaps there can be a conversation with the attorney for the city college because their sort of under the same effects and youre right i think that commissioner mendozamcdonnell theres a lot of cross officers were different and state employees for the state of california and not City Employees there is ambiguity so ill suggest a drafting out that maybe is everybody on the board can a agree that that pertains specifically to us and our old policy but ill caution it abides by the state law to state employees for were bound for as state employees thank you. Yeah. I mean, i agree with both those comments something that would be clear would be to focus on the district employees i think that also reflected it is our own policy the intent what were trying to do and appreciate the example that commissioner mendozamcdonnell brought up i think on the side and School District i think this could potentially be broad to the point that you couldnt individually solicit any City Employee i think that is ordinarily broad and no understanding how to set that a policy so commissioner wynns. I agree i dont think there is any purpose and actually, i think were interested in things said trying to clarify the jurisdictional difference between San Francisco Unified School District and the city and county of San Francisco so not adopt a you cant solicit donations from City Employees you can but i dont think interesting is should be any prohibition no conflict we have no jurisdiction over any City Employee except i can think of one except no jurisdiction there is confusion but for us to voluntarily say we think we should be restricted from solicitations of this and that not under our jurisdiction is silly in my opinion. I appreciate that comment commissioner wynns and had i think drafting this legislation that would be in the forefront of my mind the reason not to tailor it as commissioner president haney and didnt mean you cant do it but recognize a risk if you tailor to the district and later the opinion is issued it applies to the Unified School District well have a policy not in conformance with local law we can bring it back and fixtures it i only is that to caution you if youre reading this to stay in compliance with the conflict of interest and rely on that this is an ear not clear and not thank you. Is this something the City Attorney will give an opinion can we have this at the next meeting or do you feel comfortable to vote well bring it back. I dont know when they intend to issue an opinion i imagine this opinion will rice high for review so i will imagine that will it takes time and theyve started to look at this in the past two or three weeks so i wouldnt anticipate any time soon we could cavity this piece and leave it silent and bring it back whole thing we have clear guidance tailor to the district and commissioner president haney suggested and a caveat this is under review by the City Attorney there are things if the board is resistant to adopt it. Commissioner norton. I personally be in favor of catering to what dr. Murase suggested i think whether or not you like it i will has not to act action that might be a backlash. A broad agreement to have something applying to the district to have clarity there is a cnn season it is good to god where we feel confident to draft something i thought what commissioner murase makes a lot of sense basically to strike everything employees of the district and persons on unemployment lists in the district well tailor that and certainly in the city come out with a condition and were no longer conforming to local law well change that without a doubt. Doesnt make sense everyone agree on that. Yes. So General Council ms. Casco just gave me a copy of resolution 166 dash 20 a1 that is the resolution to we actually passed a couple years ago about the costs to the employees so i give you a copy of this so see if any of the language will cover what were getting this offering evening this bylaws only pertains to the board and to the superintendent and we elected to thats superintendent carranza made before he exited but doesnt apply to the School District employees the second piece not bylaws policy this is the employee piece and that does not incorporate local law because local law didnt bind the employees in this respect. All right. So should we move forward with that with the amendment is everyone have a sense of belonging what well be approving Board Members and the the superintendent shall no directly or indirectly solicit contributions in the employees or persons on unemployment lists unless solicitation to the a sector of the public. Okay. And then youll keep us updated on the city do and will have to update this policy. Absolutely. All right. I have one question. General council im sort of on one hand about gifts and about solicitations and its about board administrators selling items or accepting gifts from employee is there anything we should be aware of around that so you know raffle tickets or cookies girl scout cooks mission bay anything you want to caution the board. Encourage you to read page 20 the exception to give out limits and i appreciate your highlighting this is exactly where why we want to put together a xhvrts as opposed to what you had this lays it auto clearly what you can and cant accept and employees are different rules regarding the categories theyre in. Did you have a specific question ms. Fewer. Im wondering i guess one thing is a gift and another thing is the solicitation for sale so im seeing gifts im wondering a solicitation on sales. Raffle ticket those types of things chocolates. No as a board member or administrator to the employees. So, yeah i might need more factual details a board member is selling chocolate for what purpose. Fundraisers those types of things raffle ticket maybe under other provision we can visit. Okay. Thank you very much. Uhhuh. Welcome i was going to ask for clarity around a point ms. Fewer i had a kid in school selling cook dough can i come and sell to fellow Board Members and district staff, etc. Or shouldnt be practiced. Be in violation of our standards by the way, and im going to practice any policy refrance from legal advice in a public setting back but happy to get back to you on that. Roll call vote. As amended ms. I know ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell with the amendment correct. Yes. Dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns mr. Haney 7 is. All right. One six 9 dash sp one 4 15 firearms on september 2016 can i have a report from the rules committee. Yes. Do we had had incompatible they know. Yes. This is a requirement of state law we have the policy would you like to you tells you whats in it so well have a positive recommendation. State law recently was amended to provide the Unified School Districts and the superintendents specifically with discretion to allow firearms on campus with an appropriate permit so this policy is recommended bye bye the agency whether or not the board wishes to grant discretion for the firearms to allow them on campus with an appropriate permit if doesnt apply to Law Enforcement so we are recommending that consistent with this board position on safe and supportive companies we dont allow firearms with the exemption of Law Enforcement. We didnt want to make that acceptance. Right thats our recommendation corrections comments from the board. Sure. So i have a question about the last time we passed i dont realize it had implementations for our paraprofessionals providing service after school and outside of school hours after that vote im asking permission if i may ask a question about that thank you. Thank you, ms. I know ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell ms. Norton mr. Walton plumbing. Ms. Wynns and mr. Haney 7 is. Board member proposals there is none tonight. General council i understand that when an employee like a paraprofessional cant i mean, im looking at the language here and it says that the policies has been amended to include the following language if an employee wishes to tutor to another student shall first be clarified from the supervisor in accordance with that board policy i want to know if theres and provider of a student who is special needs but not that paraprofessional isnt the oneonone provider. May parents contract being another paraprofessional in the school or the subject to provide services after school or on the weekends it does that prohibit that. Yes and no this particular provision under tim Frye Department staff represents the status quo in the district policy for many, many, many years and acceptable it says if youre an employee providing services to a student during the day then you may not provide services to that student privately after the end of the school day but some exceptions one change the policy makes we previously required paraprofessional or teachers that wishes to work in afterschool programs has a number of issues and our labor partner asks you to look at that in connection with a grieves weve revised the policy to make it clear that paraprofessionals and teachers that wish to work were our communitybased organizations for afterschool programs thats their time and under the supervision and on the payroll of the communitybased organizations so thats one change but to our specific question if a student in the school the teacher or paraprofessional works in that employee cant provide services to that student if the student is in some other District School the employee did work no conflict not incompatible with the paraprofessional and whatever the terms of paraprofessional or teacher workout. So would you explain to me why this will be see because im just, you know, puc for a lot of parents with special Needs Children are comfortable with a particular paraprofessional for the communication needs and style and i think theyll rely on the paraprofessionals that is in the Unified School District to evaluate them im wondering why we would prohibit someone in the school and yet allow is someone from other school to provide services. I appreciate in any. Given situation that might be a great match between the student and employee the problem and that is policy is hard to draft a broad policy to apply and hard to make exceptions for a great match but my understanding this is status quo there are a number of concerns so one it puts the employee in divide loyalty so an i c meeting are they attending for the private provider or are they feeling pressure to say one thing or the 09d by the district or family now their loyalty are divided pay dhekz from two sources another concern employees are feeling going to to accept they work offstreet parking and entangled for some reason didnt workout what is the impact theyre continuing to work in the same school in close proximity everyday so all personalities and frankly liability issues i think that generate as policy the other piece from a liability is wvrm to what extent is the family relying on our you know our approval of this employee when they hire them we hire the paraprofessionals to have School Settings were not changing theyre great in some other setting but september up the exemption on the part of parents this person is cleared for services not necessarily the case. So there is no recourse or no exceptions sometimes it is a Perfect Match and sometimes not so im wondering is there any opportunity for a waiver or for a special six or it seems so final and doesnt really allow our parents to actually get assistants they might need you also think that also in the paraprofessional perhaps is not the the students 101 paraprofessional could there be an exception or i would say through the parents point of view this as professional that is trained but knows and has intimate knowledge of a child that may not be able to communicate at a sufficient level but someone that understand what the child wants or the student need so im wondering is there any possibility of having a waiver or an evaluation of special circumstances. So when i first started in the district sxhoefrp i see smiling or grimacing everyone will have an essential circumstance all children deserve the care im aware of the particular case i think on your radar that creates xooenl exceptional so theres a larry term a lot of unique circumstances to that case and that may not worth revolving by hard to craft a resolution you and feel like every superintendent is signing off ill discourage that that is hard to craft with the caveat we can follow on the case youre concerned about. Commissioner norton thank you this is an issue ive been concerned about for awhile and you spelled out the issued ill say just because it is important to put on the record those informal arrangements exist and the employees are putting themselves at risk because of policy and often those informal arrangement are beneficial to students and to the employees that secondarily their aribnb additional income providing noneducational services so for the kids i hear all the issues you and i went round and round and appreciate ms. Fewer bringing this up this case is compelling as well you know, i just encourage us to find a way to resist in the particular case but in general, i think so many of the arrangements are as i said beneficial to students and happy and working for the employees and he certainly i mean the reason he sort of dropped this one of the issues youve mentioned he certainly dont want our employees to feel pressured into the arrangements and got that my proposal didnt account for that so you know but some kind of waiver process to protects the employees, allows the students and families to get the Additional Support and the employees to receive additional income for providing noneducational Services Just to be clear that would be helpful i think. One option i want to point out now available something were working on and enclosing with the families that is a concern to you as a result of this policy the families can procure the citys through other agency so golden gate Regional Service employees several paraprofessionals and then that agency that is employing the paraprofessionals not the family and thats consistent with the policy. Thats interesting i mean i dont understand enough how that works youre saying if a particular paraprofessional choose to be vendized though the Golden Gate Center that will allow them to have the waiver for respite care. Not a waiver but compliant. That would be it. All right. Where was i now i totally okay. I think were now at item k special order of business the next two items on page 32 and 38 will go together im going to call the textbook as required by the section can i have a motion and second. So moved. Yes i was going to call on Something Else but i see doctor Brent Stevens approaching the staff table please let me ask me to ask doctor stevens to present the item. I leave some of you disappointed i know good evening, commissioners im brent the chief Financial Officer for the, district im going to read loud for approval of our unanimous williams audit that verifies the material across the district. So this is ill read allowed to the audit process requires the board to hold and public hearing for the sufficiency and materials in the public hearings the board must make a resolution on the status of the efficiency or inefficiencies on the materials in the district their aligned to the content and consistent with the content of the framework adopt by the board mathematics and history and social studies and language and art including the language adopted program the board must make a written depreciation on the vietnamese of Laboratory Science courses offended in grades 9 through 12 and post by law a public hearing 10 days in advance the notice encouraged the parents and have teachers and interested Community Community members the asked action that the board hold did public hearing with the sufficiency of textbook as Education Code and then following as several pages in the board agenda a report to the commissioners from director huhumanities their asked to verify the clams and request the materials when the materials are missing so 9 report describes some of the challenges to make sure that all our adopted curriculum materials are include that includes lost items and different numbers of students for classes offered we have a number of milestones in the annual properties that permits us to understand the sufficiency of those materials we order materials in the spring if thats possible and order in the summer at the we get closer to an account of the schools and continue to order materials throughout the year as theyre recorded as insufficient so youll see in the report the full set of survey finding tierpt were able to report that materials are sufficient in all the subject areas weve ordered them or their rectified by this meeting or shortly avenue and have a number as you can see presented in detail only page 37 the specific responses from the high schools related to the science materials as a quick notice in a year in vaps of curriculum of science so we dont as a district have a defined set of materials in the science classrooms so a variation but try to respond to those things by making purchased or trying to arrange for swapped materials and Mission High School and high school be a position go and im driveby what is core material and notice one additional point there are some of the notification made by holiness that holidays the board recorded relate to labor equipment like eye washes or vent hoods and work to update those item is ongoing through the ohio at a future date report on mitigation but trying to address the specific issues related to laboratories shall i read the action. And ill read the be it therefore resolved. Always get along with help im also to be official to read the be it therefore resolved paragraph on page 34 so that the request from the board this resolution therefore, be it resolved that that the board of education of the San Francisco Unified School District has determined that has of the instrumental materials materials hearing on september 27, 2016, each pupil as sufficient instrumental materials in science and absorb and the language of an duped program and therefore, be it resolved each pupil has forgotten Laboratory Equipment as indicated on the science survey. Ill pause here. Questions. Okay. Reinforcement. Thank you ms. I know. Im sure. Ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns and mr. Haney 7 is. Item l there is none tonight. And calendar removed for that a second reading there is none tonight. Item n vote on consent calendar moved and seconded through index m g. Ms. I know ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell except on items k 20 and 22. 20 and 22 dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns and mr. Walton. Thank you. Item o vote on consent calendar resolution severed for separate consideration i dont believe there were any introduction to committee im going to read into the record the following superintendent proposal for the First Reading for the board policies calling numbers. Can i have a motion and second for this resolution. So moved. All right. Im going to refer that resolution to the rules committee. There are no Board Members proposals for the fdr tonight item q introduction for proposals and suspension of board rules can i have a motion and suspension for the resolution declaring september 19th through 20 High School Board Education Week introduction by ms. Wynns. Have a vote on suspension of the rules. Ms. I know ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns and mr. Haney. 7 is. There is a motion and a second for the formal introduction. So moved. Second. Can i have a reading commissioner murase and commissioner wynns. Thank you very much i know the student delegate report have an amendment to make following that but read it as whereas in 2017 with the june primary election established the full weeks of september as High School Voter education statinged statewide and whereas in april 2016 the board of education adopt the resolution engaging students to exercise theyre Voting Rights and states the rights of students to a wear theres a typo political buttons for expression and b use billboards without approval by the administration of the board of education and c district the leaflets or other material inside and outside the School Property by the administration or the board of education and however the time may be limited to before and after school and after periods to prevent interruption by the and their appearance from the popcorns is not disruptive and f reasonable use of public dress in School Without sensorship but limited before and after school to preventive disruptions of school and related anonymously to support the ballot measures to allow the vote 16 to vote in the School Board Election therefore, be it resolved the board of education declares september to thirty 2016 High School Voter Education Week and further be it resolved, that the board of education encourages School Administrator staff and student leader for the organization of events for voting and in the weeks leading up to the november 8th general election included but not limited to and straight superintendent review the High School Voter Education Week on the strooirt and im not going to read the whole thing and partner with the elected officials and invite the overhead and learn from the experts how to register and vote and provide a link to the secretary of state on the websites for patent and another website and rental in the my vote students mock election that takes place on november 11th this allows the students to cast a vote for actual candidates and receive a free gift and the website is highlighted and to the students how to learn and get paid as workers on election day and the website listed and use the california bill of rights to teach the students about the acts of voting and adopt the recommendations from the k through 12 and use the planned and other resources from the power of democracy ending with that website. Thank you commissioner murase and commissioner wynns i believe we have an amendment if the student delegate report. So yesterday we have the fcc and had one amendment id like to make to the language so for the be it therefore resolved we decided that be appropriate to say 0 further be it resolved, that the board of education kaurjz students to organize and oversee the events that promoting Voter Education as needed ill second the student delegate we like to request us being added as spokesman of resolution. So do we have any and thats a friendly amendment and happy to add the student delegates. I believe we need a second. Second. Any questions or comments i dont know we dont center any cards for Public Comment want to make sure any comments from my colleagues. Seeing none, lets vote. Thank you. As amended ms. Inning ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns mr. Haney thank you thats 7 is. Can i ask a question of the superintendent about how we can get this information out you might note the actual vote of student voting has take place were encouraging the activities through election day id like to request that we do something to get this information out to schools particularly because which we could do in part through the student Advisory Committee but the resources lettuce in the website that could be useful for people we want them to start right away. So thank you, commissioner we will confer tomorrow superintendant guerrero and assistant Bill Sanderson and his colleagues and take action to implement those steps. Thank you very much thats exactly what i wanted and youll note we want this to begin right away so i appreciate that. Thank you for bringing this forward are you voting as we know for the future voting and making sure the information gets outs in the school is important well entertain a motion for suspension of the rules in support of the inclusion act chineseamerican to establishment of transcontinental reenforces for the Historical Tour being introduced by ms. Fewer. Move suspension of the rules. Thank you reinforcement for suspension of the rules. Thank you, ms. Inning. Ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns and mr. Haney. 7 is. Can i have a motion and second on the resolution of motion. Ill move acceptance. Reading of the resolution ms. Fewer. So i have an update on this actually by mr. Davis our governor was set to vote on this september 30th but already voted on that so as i read this resolution i would like to make an amendment we switch this not to send a letter of supportive but that we send a letter of gratitude for support in support of inclusion of chinese act of 1882 chineseamerican to establishment of transcontinental to the statewide curriculum whereas the history of commenting in california is an important lessons as chineseamerican contributed to california as builder farmers and advertent and entrepreneurs and scholars and soiled and whereas asians make of 44 percent of california population and chinese in the population and whereas to the largest percentage of children in the San Francisco Unified School District are of chinese descents and whereas the San Francisco Unified School District and the state of california has a commitment to teach the students about the racial history as ethic students and offering and whereas the education placed an important rule in creating an active Senior Citizen this is important to teach the curriculums to study the origins of discriminates and society and developing an acceptance of diversity and the chinese act of 1992 has the policy relevant to modern day history and whereas the ab 2864 insures the chinese act of 1882 at contribution of chineseamerican so the transcontinental road they make the curriculum therefore, be it resolved that another board of education submit a letter of support for ab two 64 to the governor of california before the vote an september 30th, 2016, so id like to amend the language that the last therefore, be it resolved that the San Francisco board of education submits a letter of gratitude and appreciation to the governor of california for the passing of ab 2864 thank you. Comments. Great im glad he signed it thank you ms. Fewer for bringing it forward. Id like to give a personal comment that was a time of great anti chinese sentiment the first time they have an immigration against one specific ethic group and on the his own books until 1965 not removed my only grandparents came to america as my gather as a paper son having to buy papers in order to come to america that is an important policy their inherently we have a history of inherent policies in the United States so perhaps our future legislators will remember this when theyre setting policies for immigration and other things in the society so for you support commissioners and reinforcement. Thank you, ms. Inning. Ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell. Dr. Murase. Ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns mr. Haney thank you that was as amended commissioner. Great, thank you. All right. Item f Board Members report Standing Committee can we have weve heard there a lot from the rules committee shes waving the report can i have a rotator from the Building Grounds and Services Committee commissioner mendozamcdonnell. Yes. You can we had a great meeting on b and j i want to pull this up because mr. Golden is now with us part time sent his team i thought was terrific he gave us a chance to get to know the rest of his team that presented at the b and g so we had 3 items on the agenda sharon fwaufs a history of demolition that was completed and the grounds have been cleared well be making a decision on next steps on that and sharon is the project manager overseeing that light fence thing and leveled ground at the very large sites were excited about the next steps and the second item 42 avenue friends of facing the Parks Alliance came and deshgd or determined the use and anything that happens at the yard theyve had set up and the site is utilized and really grow great to hear all the positive feedback from the site and making minor tweaks the same i think more importantly to report on that the skate park will remain and adding some work on this and some cameras and will think expanding the time the park is open to 7 00 p. M. So that should mitigate some of the challenges we remember having there so speaking from the park lines alliance was there and lastly 3 presentations on the status of School Readiness and sheltering talked about the many schools done over the summer a lot of the programs over the summer were completed on time and david sent us beautiful photos of Daniel Webster and what happened there that a preview and others did an update on facility what is happening there thats great and kevin that leads the buildings and grounds gave a great presentation about the number of work orders and the part that you need to know that work orders are online so theyre no longer paperwork orders. So a designated person at each site has assess to doing withholds and youll love this our employees are answering those work orders have it on books that were given to them they respond to work orders in the field and online and get things it done nor proficiently and a work proprietor order and thing are distributed out according to actually attend to more work orders i wish i had that number it was a significant number i dont if you know from a high number of work orders to a lot less that would be helpful and willie gave a report on custodial work and the summer cleaning and landscaping work and proud of whos happening and it is requiring a lot of time and energy and coordination we have Summer School and have a lot of things happening that was really great report and said to thank david and his steam they came out that was a great opportunity for us to connect with everyone else thank you for that. Thank you commissioner mendozamcdonnell can i have a report from the ad hoc committee. Thank you i want to welcome my colleague to the new position to the director of the Placement Center and many years in that position the meeting was staffed by caregiver la that has oversight responsibilities we heard from a graduate student from the university i understand was present mr. Haney professor at stanford and we have one information item analysis of the options to explore the student redesign possess a walk back into history of what was a model that was considered and why was going to be spending in coming year flagging issues around Student Assignment in preparation for proposals to revise it not this school year but perhaps in the next school year this year to flush out what are the key issues and sort of pinpoint and so i wanted to announce our upcoming meeting september 21st was when we first next is tuesday november 29th with an analysis proximity and School Diversity from the existing staff on thursday january 19th well be having a constitution about special Education Services and applications for Student Assignment wednesday march 8 looking at the willie l. Brown middle school and then monday may 15 the Historical Context and next steps staff will be creating a dedicated website for the student review so all of this information will be uploaded to the website we want to use the coming year to engage the stakeholders and guardians and participants and different departments and across the district for robust decision to get ready to look at the changes to the Student Assignment thank you. Thank you. Other reports from Board Members. Comploern commissioner norton. Yes. Make sure aim canceling the meeting of the budget and Services Committee that was scheduled for october 5th so we will have to reschedule that meeting ill talk with the Committee Members when to do that commissioner mendozamcdonnell. So we had our joint meeting for city college and scheduled for this wednesday the 28 but unfortunately, we will need to reschedule that as well. Commissioner Vice President walton. Commissioner president haney we will have a Personnel Matter Committee Meeting this theirs at 2 00 p. M. And get out of there in a quick time but exonerating. Nirls. Youve added a new adjective youve added hillary. Commissioner wynns i wanted to stop telling this but wanted to give shout out and recognize to my alma mater in recent days nobody in the country that heard the name hopping for the record universities thats where i graduated im proud off hows take care the only place in the United States they have 4 consequence approximately debates and for elections anyway in case anyone wants to know im the one that to ask. Ms. Fewer. No thanks by october 3rd curriculum Committee Meeting at the 6 oclock here at 555 and very exciting and thooifrl thanks. You have competition all thank you a shout out to the folks responsible for the black family career day and resource fair with the landon and jordan i know that the superintendant was there on saturday 17 it was fantastic a lot of prizes and really good energy and good discussions and i want to thank the staff who worked on it including those that worked on the families submit secondly, and my last announcement about the girls festival that was referred on october 15th students have depended upon one thousand free tickets later tonight ill put a feed and kids under 12 are free but a square feet not so secret environmenty website points made possible by generous philanthropists for october 15th at fort mason 9 to 5 they want one thousand girls from over the bay area there interactive and mark cunning ban and workshops. All right. Item s other informational items proposed on a staff gifts for the most of june and august 2016 item t in memoriam adjournment there is none tonight. And u closed session the board will now go into closed session as i call a there is none tonigh recess of the regular meeting all right. Ill now resume the regular Board Meeting to reader out of the discretion from tuesday, september 27, 2016, the board by a vote of 7 is approved did contract of intern chief in the litigation the board by a vote of 7 is gives the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount the report of closed session actions from the special meeting of the tuesday, september 27, 2016, in the matter september 20th in case no. The board by a vote of 5izing absent commissioner mendozamcdonnell gives the district the authority to pay up to the stipulated amount and the cal case the board by a vote of 6 item gives the authority to pay up to the amount the meeting is adjourned im emily executive director of the San Francisco department on the status of women. Welcome to our event to mark Domestic Violence Awareness Month. So i want to invite the folks with the signs to come on in and walk in closer. Before i introduce our speakers tonight, i want to recognize the Domestic Violence survivors among us, they deserve our continued support and a round of applause for our survivors. [ applause ] next i want to recognize the frontline staff of our Partner Agencies and all of the folks here who work on fighting Domestic Violence every day and lets show them our appreciation [ applause ] Domestic Violence continues to be a huge problem in San Francisco last year there were almost 9,000 911 calls for help, 3,000 Domestic Violence cases reported to the Police Department, and according to official counts we lost four lives in the last two years. Were so fortunate to have a mayor who has made ending violence against women, including Domestic Violence a priority. At the begin thing of mayor lees tenure in 2011 the city was investing 3 million in a year in direct services to survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking and under mayors leadership this funding has increased to 6. 3 Million Dollars today. [applause] [applause] without further ado, please help me welcome our mayor, edwin lee a true leader in ending violence against women. Please give him a warm welcome [ applause ]. Thank you emily and everyone, welcome to city hall. As you all know, october marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and i want to say thank you to members of on or our board of supervisors, supervisors campos and weiner are here and they agree with me that funding for more doors to safety is really important for this city. And you know, i think Domestic Violence and abuse of loved ones most of the time happens behind doors. So were trying to open more doors. So it doesnt happen. And that is why we have resources to spend to make sure our prosecutors and our da and Police Department are working together to make sure that we hold individuals accountable. That is, of course, our criminal Justice System. But we also know, given the great work that our department, our status of women, our great, wonderful communitybased nonprofits that are working every day, have seen other doors close, and we have opened them up. Because we need a School System that educates our youth. Violence is not acceptable. It may be good for certain types of sports to hit a ball, but its never good to hit another person. That is what education door is opened with this funding. We need our Health Care Centers to have their doors opened so we can treat and find those that are abused and help them out of that misery and Housing Authority to make sure Public Housing residents dont feel any less than anybody to get treatment and support. We open up the workplace to make sure that we can talk about it, and that reports can be made around Domestic Violence. Our schools, our youth, are there to help us prevent and to support those who are victims. All of these systems, we are opening more doors with this resource. So i have been proud to work with the board to increase funding. Its not so much about the dollar amount, we actually all have to feel that we have completed every single door opening to make sure we prevent violence. Because every time we hear of that fatality, we look upon ourselves and say what did we not do to try to prevent that from happening . That is why were going to be even more successful. Finally, were in the process of creating a brandnew program. Again to connect survivors of Domestic Violence, who call the police. We want to connect them immediately to an advocate to make sure all of the things are done properly at the very time that person that victim is in need. And were going to do that with this additional funding. Were using data from the Family Violence Council Report to start this program, and were starting it right in the bayview, because the bayview and the Bayview District has the highest call volume of 911 calls related to Domestic Violence. So let us all keep focused. Let us make sure that not only are we making awareness, but were actually investing in the very programs that will end Domestic Violence. With that, im happy again, tonight, to announce for the fourth time with everybodys support, but especially with the support maybe its 6 million times support from our San Francisco giants tonight, city hall will be lit in purple for the support that we have for awareness of Domestic Violence. Let us all celebrate that and continue with the giants. Thank you [ applause ] thank you so much, mr. Mayor. Next please help me welcome someone who represents the heart of the community, my dear friend, woman warrior, Beverly Upton with a very special presentation to make to the mayor. [ applause ]. If you know me you heard me say before i have the best job in the world and now i have the best job in the best city in the world. Thank you so much. Were really here today with this letter signed by so many of you that are ending violence against women, violence against children, violence against transgender womens, violence against the lgbt community. We are here to say that we stand together to end Domestic Violence. We want to take a moment to thank mayor ed lee for his continuing support for raising those dollars for us, for the board of supervisors, for really making this a priority, and really raising the issue that this hurts everybody who lives in San Francisco. So we just want to take a moment to thank you for your continued support, mayor lee. Your continued support, and also, may the purple on city hall be a beacon to everyone in San Francisco and beyond for safety, justice and healing. Thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you so much, beverly. That is such an important acknowledgment of the citys support. Next i want to welcome Supervisor Scott Wiener who stands with us today in the fight to end violence against women. Please welcome Supervisor Scott Wiener. [ applause ] good evening. And welcome everyone to San Francisco city hall and i especially want to welcome our students from school of the arts and the district that i represent. Welcome to city hall. [ applause ] thank you. So Domestic Violence, its one of those things that it is always present, and its often just underneath the surface. And i think a lot of times people dont talk about it, and its very silent, and its secret, and its hidden. But it is always, always there, and it is deep and broad and toxic in its impact on our community. And once in a while something happens that brings it to the surface and people finally start talking. That happened four years ago this month in this building when sadly the board of supervisors, a minority of the board of supervisors made the wrong decision in allowing our sheriff to keep serving. I will just call it out. That was one of those moments when people started to talk, and i remember in the days and weeks after that unfortunate decision, a tragic decision, i really was reminded how broad and deep this problem is. The people that would talk to me about their experience in a relationship, about their experience as a child, observing or seeing one parent abusing another parent, or the experience that they had with a college roommate, or a friend who had been abused. People who havent been abused, but it has impacted their lives and how many people in this city, in this society have been deeply, deeply affected . Yeah have been deeply affected by Domestic Violence . And so it is so important to talk about it. And not just to sweep it under the rug, or quietly take care of it. We need to be talking about this problem, because that is the only way that were going to put an end to it once and for all. So lets keep fighting thank you. [ applause ] thank you, so much, scott i want to acknowledge a few senior officials Assessorrecorder Carmen Chu is with us today [ applause ] and if you might hold your applause, we also have list liz and jackie and Police Commander greg and adult probation chief karen fletcher, if we could give them all a big round of applause. [ applause ] i also want to thank mayors deputy chief of staff Paul Henderson and our budget analyst laura bush who joined us today and chief fletcher asked me to make one quick announcement to save the date for friday october 28th, 9 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. The Adult Probation Department is supporting veterans and survivors of Family Violence from trauma to healing from 9 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. And please join us there. I would like to if any introduce the Deputy Health director at department of Public Health and please help me welcome dr. Chan. [ applause ] thank you emily. I just want to spend my five minutes just giving a little bit of the data that reflects supervisor wieners and the mayors sentiments about us coming together. The mayors sentiment and also the underlying prevalence that we all know is in San Francisco and most of us know that the prevalence one in three women have been victims of intimate Partner Violence and in San Francisco we know among our most vulnerable women, those in ninemonths of pregnancy, there is a wide disparity in ethnicity, as well as socioeconomic class. So amongst those who are most stressed, those in poverty. The prevalence is 11 . That is about three times higher than those who are not in poverty. So that really speaks to the increasing gap between the haves and have nots in San Francisco and what that does to all of us. Im in Public Health and im a pediatrician and tell you this issue profoundly affects women and children. This prevalence of Domestic Violence experienced by lowincome women and women of all classes, causes an increase in coping and reactive behaviors and that is why we have this link in intimate Partner Violence causing a fourfold risk increased risk in drug use, fivefold risk in depression and of course, increased risk of suicidality and it affects babies too. Women who are experiencing intimate Partner Violence are three times more likely to have a baby born preterm or lowbirth weight. So this all attributes to life course of consequences in child abuse and neglect and drug addiction. But there is hope in the Health Community and research we now recognize and understand that your interventions are aeffective. Primary care intervence and communitybased interventions are effective and its more and more important that we come together, integrate our Community Programs and health services. So that we can better address this issue as an entire community. One great example is that our county hospital led by many of you advocates, and internal medicine physicians, dr. Lee kimberg, who has received a federal grant, the arise grant. That really builds upon the partnership of San Francisco General Hospital, ucsf, bay area legal aid, la casa, against violence and Trauma Recovery center to provide integrated screening, counseling, quality counseling, and effective referrals to all of the women who go through our county health system. So this type of integration we feel is very promising. Its a National Leader and its becoming a National Model of how we in San Francisco can integrate our Services Better to serve our most vulnerable population at their most vulnerable times. Thank you very much for all you have your service. [ applause ] thank you very much, dr. Chan and i want to acknowledge kathy, who is here representing sheriff Vicky Hennessey and our Assessorrecorder Carmen Chu would like to say a few words. Thank you, i serve as San Franciscos elected asesor and im so honored to stand with beverly and with you, emily and all of our Community Partners to bring awareness to Domestic Violence. My comments will be short. When i stand here today i see how wonderful it is to see over the 100 people here all behind us, but also in front of us. Who came out because they understand just how important this cause is, to bring awareness. And i know that here we have 100 people already who know that they can each play a role when they see Domestic Violence happening, or they are worried that Domestic Violence might be happening, that they are going to do something. That we all take a pledge to do something about it and to make sure that our loved ones arent suffering alone. Emily was just telling me there are a ton of resources that are available and listed on the department on the status of womens website and encourage everyone who cares about this issue to please take a look at it and if you know anybody of your friends or any of your family who is going through something and not ready to take about it, please be a shoulder and please share with them all the ways that we might we able to help them. I think that is the only way were going to end Domestic Violence with that, congratulations emily on your tireless leadership year in and year out [ applause ]. Thank you carmen and i want to next introduce carmen chung and gabby, High School Seniors who participate in the young asian women against Violence Project of the Community Youth center. Lets give it up for carmen and gabby. [ applause ] hi my name is gabby. Hi, my name is karlen and were from the Leadership Program called young asian against violence. We dedicate its a program dedicated to positive empowerment and development of api High School Youth young asian women in San Francisco and to strengthen resilience, pride, healing and knowledge of young asian women to advocate for the end of Domestic Violence in our community. We educate about violence against women through creating and for thiating workshops and education creates longterm effect rather than a bandaid solution and enable using to create a foundation of change. Together we stand in solidarity with the 15yearold meadows who was incarcerated for defending herself and her family from her abusivefather and today is the day of her Court Hearing and instead of being given a safe space to heal she is being isolated from her community and loved one as she faced prosecution. It angers us to see one of our own peers for being punished for defending herself. Why are systems that are supposed to protect us harming us . As youth, our experiences are often invalidated. We have few opportunities to speak up for ourselves. We are disempowered. There are limited resources and space for healing and safety. And its really rare for us to find the resources. It} n a society where youth hold less power than adults we need spaces to be heard and four survivors to be visible and validated and providing a space for young women to share their ideas and experiences and create and opportunity to heal and grow from trauma. Youth are capable, but we need a community willing to stand with us in times of need, rather than turning away. The end of the violence starts with us. We urge you to keep your ears open to the voices of youth. To keep your mind open, to learn. To keep your heart open to our experiences. We urge you to stand in solidarity to stand with survivors of violence. [ applause ] thank you carmen and gabby, we have a whole crew here from Community Youth camp center. If you want to wave, i want to invite the Sheriffs Department to talk about the positive reapered of sheriff hennessey, please welcome dahlia [ applause ]. Good afternoon everyone. Again im davila the survivor restoration director for the San Francisco Sheriffs Department and as i look out at all of you, im reminded once again how important it is for our community to come together to support survivors of Domestic Violence. I have had the honor in working in our Sheriffs Department for over 20 years, and proud to be in the position that i am as the director of our program for the survivors. I would just like to take a moment to share how the Sheriffs Department has supported innovative programs for Domestic Violence survivors over the years and continues under our new sheriff Vicki Hennessey to not only provide those same services, but also we have enhanced them. Many of you in the audience, i know, know about our resolve to stop the violence program, our rsvp program that was started in 1997. Yes, its been 20 years. And its still here, going strong. But it was the first Justice Program that specifically worked with male offenders who have violence documented in their criminal history. Particularly Domestic Violence and again, that program is still going strong today. In fact, with our Court Collaborations in 2015 rsvp participants that were in custody for Domestic Violence increased 93 , which was a substantial increase from 2014, which was only 20 . The Sheriffs Department also has our out of custody Community Programs utilizing the Violence Prevention Program man alive, which is used in both our Community Programs and in custody programs. While we do need programs to hold offenders accountable and to give opportunities for them to change their behavior, we need to equally and more so provide services for our survivors of Domestic Violence. The San Francisco Survivor Restoration Program which i have been honored to be with over 20 years, provides services for survivors through their own process of restoration, empowerment and providing opportunities for them to contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of all the key components of the program. As we know, as we all know the importance of having Survivor Voices at all of our takes. Tables and we offer with our Sister Community agencies many of whom are here today direct Crisis Services through the Response Program along with our empowerment groups which is under our Survivor Empowerment Program and i would like to give special acknowledgment to my staff here and my team, that together with their fierce advocacy in 2015 as we supported 65 survivors who obtained their visas and six granted political asylum and permanent residency and db survivors graduating from our empowerment program. Our Newest Program in the Sheriffs Department is our survivor in custody program. A Reentry Program that we make contact with incarcerated survivors of Domestic Violence, and provide resources which are traumainformed and culturallyresponsive to the many challenges that they face. These services are also provided for our incarcerated db transwomen, stalk and trafficking victims. I will just end with this quote, one of my favorites from helen keller, that i love and its just simple as to say, alone we can do so little, but together we can do so much. And when i look around with all of the agencies here, and the hard work in changing our systems together we can definitely make a change. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you so much, dahlia. I just want to acknowledge a couple of staff people who are here, alden from Assembly Member tings office and i want to acknowledge the Family Violence counsel chair Katy Albright who here as well. Next up is the Community Education at las casa delas madras that opened as the first Domestic Violence shelter in the state of california and only the second in the nation. Please welcome cara. [ applause ] im going to put this down, but i was holding the door to shelter. Good evening, its wonderful to be here with all of you standing in support of Domestic Violence survivors. Over 40 years ago we began as a small shelter for battered women in San Francisco and today la casa is still providing Emergency Services to women and children in need through confidential shelter and 24hour crisis line. We also provide counseling, case management, support groups, a teen program and Legal Services at our jobs center on Mission Street four of our advocates work as the only two womenspecific Supportive Housing sites in San Francisco, providing emotional and practical support to over 150 female residents. This partnership is entering its 18th year. La casa also had the opportunity to extend our support services in San Francisco by providing targeted programming to specific populations alongside amazing Community Partners. I would like to highlight four of these programs today first were pard to be pard of zuckerberg San Francisco gener hospital and la casa advocate is onsite to meet with patients that dispose instances of intimate partnership violence to their physician and providing danger and risk assessment, safety planning, grief counseling and resources and referrals. This individual will also provide training on intimate Partner Violence to health care professionals. Second, funded by the department on the status of women, colocated at San Francisco Housing Authority. As many of us know survivor safety challenge is navigating the Public Housing system in San Francisco. We work to ensure they have safe places to life and raise their families. Our advocates at the Housing Authority also educate Property Management and support staff at housing sites across the bay area and to incidents of Domestic Violence onsite. Third, there is say la casa advocate at 850 bryant street and follows up on Police Reports of Domestic Violence to provide the survivor with resources, referrals and support. And finally, as mentioned earlier, in partnership with the department, glide, will have a advocate responding to all Domestic Violence situations. These four programs allow our staff colocated at the hospital, sros, the Housing Authority, hall of justice and bayview to provide advocacy, support, resources and referrals to survivors. Survivors that are navigating complex processes made even more challenging by experiences of trauma. Were proud at la casa to be part of the first line of response to survivors of Domestic Violence and proud to serve as a continued support system to survivors on their path to healing. And of course, were proud to be part of a community of organizations, many of whom are here today, working tirelessly to end Domestic Violence in San Francisco. Thank you. [ applause ] thanks so much, cara. I want to acknowledge the executive director of la casa, kathy black is in the audience and we have another cochair of the council is here and our last speaker is commissioner on the status of women, olgareyerson, our newest commissioner who joined us after retiring after a oyear career much of working as mayor lees invaluable aassistant and please women the commissioner on the status of women, olgareyerson. Thank you [ applause ]. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for coming to this important event. We gather annually in october to recognize Domestic Violence Awareness Month, to celebrate how far we have come and to renew our efforts on what we still need to do to end intimate partner velocity. Violence in 2015 the department of Emergency Management received 18917 calls related to Domestic Violence. One in 13 Violent Crimes calls are Family Violence related and in 2015 Domestic Violence was the second most Violent Crime to which the Police Department responds. During that same time our Community Partners received over 21,000 calls to their Domestic Violence hotline, nearly three times as many as 911. This shows the importance of having multifaceted response to Domestic Violence. Many survivors may not want to involve the criminal Justice System and so we must ensure that we open many doors to safety so that different systems can assist survivors of Domestic Violence to be safe. Today we have heard from our health care system, and the wonderful work at the department of Public Health and San Francisco General Hospital and we heard from our communitybased Service Providers who provide counseling, shelter, Legal Services and advocacy and we heard from our peer educators who provide Intervention Services by working with youth to help teach healthy relationship skills and heard from our colleagues at the Sheriffs Department, who do not just house Domestic Violence offenders, but provide programs to victims and perpetrators of abuse in our jails and of course we heard from our city leaders who help ensure that we fund our public agencies and the commission on the status of women is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year from our earliest years we have focused on responding to Domestic Violence. The First Program we funded was la casa delas mad res. As you heard earlier it was the first Domestic Violence shelter in california and the second in the United States. How amazing is it that we have gone from one 75,000 grant for one program to our now over 6 million in funds to 27 different agencies . But our work is going on. In the past two years there are been four Domestic Violencerelated homicides each year, two out of those four Domestic Violence homicides in 2015 involved guns. We cannot stop our work until no one is killed by an intimate partner. Thank you for joining us. Together we will one day end Domestic Violence. [ applause ] thank you so much olga. I want to acknowledge jeff the head of the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, who has joined us. To close our event today, i want to introduce the ensemable that will sing a piece that fits to music a text by the famous africanamerican poet audrey. Please give up for the ana cruces travel ensemble. [ applause ] [ music ] [ applause ] i want to bring up deputy chief of staff for Public Safety Paul Hendrickson for a very special unanticipated special announcement. Paul. Thank you, emily. How is everybody doing this evening . Great [ applause ] im a little disappointed i wasnt asked to sing [laughter ] but i think there is a reason for it. That is okay. I just wanted to thank you guys, all for coming out here tonight. Its really important to do the work that we all do, and there are so many different agencies and individuals out here, representing the work that we do with Family Violence from the Police Department to the district Attorneys Office to the Mayors Office, to the nonprofit agencies, and really it all begins and it ends with community and the fact that you are all here tonight is a big deal. You all saw earlier when the mayor was out here and he was presented with the big letter signed from all of the agencies that are funded through the city services. And whether when we went back into the building he wanted to make sure that i presented to you and you know that letter will be on the display in the Mayors Office in room 200 for the next few weeks and this is something that i havent seen done in past, but he was really touched by the fact that so many of the agencies came together to thank him and thank the city for its collaborative work to end Domestic Violence. So people that will be coming into this beautiful building and into room 200 for the next few weeks will see that letter, that many of you that are here tonight signed. And it will be on display inside the Mayors Office. So thank you all so much for coming and being here. I would encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity that you are here tonight to make sure that you make a record for yourselves. This would be a great thing if you stick around in about oh, i would say about an hour or so, youll see the building lit up in purple to take a picture of that, to take a picture of some of the other speakers and your friends that you saw here tonight with your message and put it on out on your social media messages and facebook and twitter and linkedin accounts to know its end Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Thank you all for being here tonight. I look forward to working with you through the year with the Mayors Office. [phra ufrplts ]. [ applause ]. I want to thank paul and the Mayors Office and thank the Domestic Violence consortium and my amazing staff, policy director candell who came up with the idea of lighting city hall purple, lets acknowledge her. [ applause ] and i want to thank our policy members for putting together all of these signs. And i want to thank everyone for coming out tonight. See you same time next year. Thank you very much. [ applause ] how is everyone doing today . All right. So we are here to announce the grand opening and cut the ribbon on duc loi pantry. How about a big round of applause . [ applause ] as you all know, duc loi is a long time San Francisco business that is expanding and opening here on 3rd street in the bay view, filling a vacancy on 3rd street, bringing good local jobs, and providing Fresh Produce to the neighborhood and the community. We have a number of speakers here who want to celebrate this milestone and important occasion and beginning with mayor lee, supervisor cohen, Assembly Member david chiu and howard ngo, the owner of duc loi and anthony page an employee at duc loi and the assessorrecorder carmen chou and without further ado, mayor lee. [phra urt ] [ applause ] come on up, the School District and school board is here as well. Come on up. All right. Congratulations everyone, you now have a local Grocery Store [ applause ] you know, i want to say thank you to you and the staff for working so hard with the Supervisors Office and all of the neighborhoodss and with howard. Let me say this, good things just dont happen. All right . For this community a lot of good things never have happened, but when they happen, its because of good leadership, steady leadership, and im proud to have worked close, shouldertoshoulder with supervisor cohen, with her staff, because she has been passionate about getting passionate and patient. Because we have had stores here before. Weve talked about the dream of having people more healthy in this neighborhood. And we have never forgotten that. So kind of like what were always doing in the bay view, it is new, but its really fulfilling an old promise for people who have lived here for generations. Promised that you will be part of a city and youll be healthier and all have more housing and youll have neighborhood Grocery Stores and, in fact, i kind of think that is why they asked me to come back here early. They wanted to put me right next to the vegetables something was talking to anita too much, put meg putting me right next to the vegetables, with no candy or nothing, but vegetables. [laughter ] no soda that is right, no soda. Im excited for our neighborhood, im excited for San Francisco. Because everybody belongs and Everybody Needs to have a connection to healthy lifestyles. This is part of that promise. You are going to get better parks. You are going to get more housing. You are going to bet a lot of seniors taken care of with the dignity fund and you will get a lot of thing because you are part of the city of San Francisco and i dont want people to say and feel that they feel isolated here. This 3rd street corridor is amazing. It is hot, its really a great part of the city and were going connect up even more when the central subway gets finished in a couple of years. Its exciting to be down here and quite candidly its probably the most affordable place in the city right now. So i want to say congratulations to all the neighborhoods advocates who worked tirelessly to say were going to be patient. Were not just going to invite another liquor store or Something Like that. Were going to get the right kind of food, the right folks, the people who also say and by the way, opening up a business, you have 16 new San Francisco jobs, 7 of which are filled by residents of this neighborhood. How about that . You [ applause ]. That a commitment. Thanks to our workforce people thinking about that as well because we have to do all things right by this neighborhood. We cant make mistakes because mistakes have been made in past and were always trying to recover from something. Lets celebrate this as a good thing from the jobs to howard, the great owner, to the employees who are going to be here, to the fresh vegetables, and the good, healthy life this represents. Congratulations to everybody in the bayview, third on 3rd, that is why its happening. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you, mayor lee. There is no greater firster champion for any distribute in the city than your supervisor, Supervisor Malia Cohen and for my part im going to be relieved now this is open, that to not be getting the call every day of the last month when is duc loi going to happen and im happy to say, supervisor, today. [ applause ] good morning everyone. Good morning i think i just have one word finally [laughter ] right . Finally. And if you think about it, its appropriate. Here we are in the fall time, traditionally when farms begin to harvest. We planted the seeds years ago, and now we are bearing the fruit of a Grocery Store, full service, right here in bayviewhunters point, finally. [ applause ] that is incredible. I want to acknowledge the bayview residents that have worked with me for the last three years on trying to find a Grocery Store, a provider to come in. Thank you for being patient. Thank you for being thoughtful in your feedback. And for those of you overzealous neighbors thanks for reaching out to other Grocery Stores when you didnt think i was doing enough but im here to say also this is really the beginning. This is beautiful. This is a beautiful jewel our community deserves. No other community in San Francisco should go without options to healthy food. Aim wrong . Am i wrong . Could you imagine, this community has been living for years without a Grocery Store. Let me tell you a story how i have come to know duc loi. Three years ago when my staff and with my were brainstorm and drafting letters to send to different retailers across the United States, one of my Staff Members came up with the idea about going to visit duc loi. So one day after work, i just went simply into the store in the mission and walked around, upanddown the aisles and i believe i bought in oxtails [laughter ]you remember that . Salt and pepper and howard didnt know who i was at the time. Amanda didnt know who i was at the time, but i interacted with both and i was in the store and amanda said do you need help . No, because at that point i knew that i found what i had come for. Not only did i find great healthy food options at a great price, but a found a phenomenal familyrun business that paid attention to customer service. So when you come into this store, you will be greeted by howard, who is the owner and the operator. And his righthand woman, amanda. Upanddown the aisles, they know the store like the back of their hand and that is a gift. We dont need a cold, corporate entity. We need someone to recognize the uniqueness and the beauty and the charm that is right here in the southeast of San Francisco. There are many people that i want to thank today. Todd, jokingly mentioned my harassing phone calls for about a year. But there are other members of his staff that i have harassed. I want to walk Joakim Torres [ applause ] and to represent a bayview resident and i think she got the brunt of my wrath. I spared you, mr. Mayor. I just went straight to the staff. I didnt even bother you about this. I didnt. I want to recognize michael, are you here from the Produce Market . [ applause ]. Incredible, incredible he is out there in the back. I see your hand mike and to remember the Neighborhood Partners bayview heel zone or southeast food access . [ applause ] and just again in closing the community in general, the neighbors that i see from the various hoas and homeowners, people committed to make not only this corridor thrive, but the entire community. And remember, this is the fall season. And we are harvesting the seeds that we planted years ago. And i want to say thank you. [ applause ] x thank you supervisor. Our next speaker knows a thing or two about Small Business as a Small Business owner himself and a member of the Small Business commissioner and former board president , im proud to announce and welcome Assembly Member david chiu. [ applause ] good morning do we have bayview in the house today . Is the sun shining on the bayview today . Are we believing today . I am so honored to be part of this conversation in part because this is personal. I think many of you know that i have in my hands one of the newest residents in the bayview, my son, who is ready for a game today, but is also ready for this Grocery Store to be opened. When my wife and i moved here, we experienced what we all read about, what we all know about, the reality of a food desert. Of what it takes to have to plan for 45 minutes or an hour for one of us to take a trip halfway up the city to a safeway or trader joes to get fresh food. As the father of a newborn we know how important it is for our kids to have the freshest and healthiest food possible. So i want to just thank all of you for being part of this long journey. When i was president of the San Francisco board of supervisors i remember speaking to mayor lees processor and supervisor cohens press sore predecessor and thank you all for chasing 120 possible groceries before duc loi came here today. This is a long journey, but i know this is going to be an amazing spot of community. This is going to be my neighborhood grocery. I live six minutes away and i look forward to seeing many of you here. I tip my hat to howard and all the workers that are here and i look forward to all of the amazing food were going eat. Have a wonderful day and go giants [ applause ] Small Business owners pour their heart and soul into think business and no person i think exemplifies that better than howard, who this, as i understand, is a 25year culmination of entrepreneurship to this business, howard ngo [ applause ] good morning everyone. Thank you very much for coming by today. I am very honored. [ applause ] to see all of you here. Thank you. As you all know, the community here and neighbors here have been waiting for this for the last three years. When i took over last september, the city supported us, the Community Supported us and the entire year for 12 months and finally today, i am so happy. We are done, and now were going to open it up. Im so grateful, and we are so grateful to the city of San Francisco especially mayor lee and his office. [ applause ] and supervisor cohen and all the staff and Planning Department for helping us, especially the community here. And we will work even harder to bring good food to our neighbors especially at a good price. How about that . [ applause ] i try so hard personally to bring coffee to serve the community, but now that we open might be two more weeks due to the construction. Thank you very much for all of you toe. Today. Thank you all for being here. [ applause ] mayor lee and supervisor cohens charge to our department is not only to create good jobs, but make maug sure its the residents of the community that get those jobs and im proud to invite up anthony page, who will speak to his role here and his new Employment Opportunity here at duc loi. [ applause ] how is everybody doing today . Good im feeling good. Im feeling excited for the grand opening here in the Bayview District. Im also a native of the Bayview District and i grew up here right up the street. So once i heard about the grand opening i was now i can just walk to work or just get on the little train right there. Its good working for the store. With howard and his family, giving back to his family his family giving to me and helping me with a job and hiring me. I will do whatever i have to do to make sure our store satisfies the customers in the bayview District Community. Come by, shop here, you know were fun we talk. We get personal, too. I do, you know . [laughter ] if the line is long, i wont meet be another time. [laughter ]stuff has to be done, right, howard . [laughter ]. Stuff has to be done. Or i have to deal with him and im just excited as you can see i have a big smile and i hope everybody has a good day today and just enjoy your day. This meeting is reasonable for the grand opening, all the hard work, you know . This is a big accomplishment for them and the Bayview District and now you dont have to go super far to get groceries, just come down the street and shop here and i look forward so seeing everybody and helping you before you walk out our doors. Have a good day [ applause ] now our next speaker is perhaps the most important speaker of the entire lineup because the assessorrecorder is the one responsible for making sure she brings in all the money that were able to invest in great businesses like duc loi and without greater ado our assessorrecorder carmen chiu. I really just have two points that i want to make. First i want to give a very, very big thanks to not only mayor lee and his staff through todd, but to supervisor cohen, having been a District Supervisor in the past, there is no bigger difference than how hard your District Supervisor advocates for you. We have been very fortunate in last month to have two really exciting opportunities that opened up in the bayview. Not only this great super market, but a Senior Center that recently opened up and none of those opportunities this super market, nor the Senior Center would happen if you didnt have such wonderful leadership with supervisor cohen and please join me in a big thank you to supervisor cohen. [ applause ] and the second reason why im here this is something that is deeply personal to me. My parents were Small Business owners and my husbands family shared the same story as howard and amanda, where they were immigrants, refugees from vietnam and they stayed in indonesia and they made it and struggled in San Francisco and eventually create a Bright Future for their families. So to howard to, your family, i want to say thank you for not only taking a chance on San Francisco, but also taking the opportunities you were given to invest back in our communities. This is what happens when we do it right. When we invest in our local merchants, when we support our local merchants, they in turn give back and they in turn hire back in the community and they in turn take a chance on communities that are overlooked by everybody else. So with that i just simply want to say thank you to all of the leadership that s