Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Public Safety Committee 32217 20170329

Hello. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the wednesday march 22 regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee at a special at at 3 00 p. M. And i am supervisor ronen and to my left is supervisor sheehy and supervisor fewer and supervisor safai has joined us. The clerk is erica major and i would like to thank sfgtv for staffing this meeting. Madam clerk do you have any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be parted of the file somebody submitted to the clerk. Items will be on the april 4 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. And we called this meeting today or i called it at a special time because were going to have two hearings, one about child care and about one staffing and teacher housing in our Public Schools and wanted to accommodate those that could only come at this time and we have a long agenda and we will go quickly as possible so everyone can get home and feed their kids and get to sleep. Check check will you call item 1. Yes, is a hearing on the Family Violence council 5th comprehensive report on the Family Violence and requesting to the department on the status of women to report. Thank you. And we will start with a representation from supervisor tangs office. Hi. Good evening. I am from supervisor tangs office and i would like to keep my comments short and go through the report of the Family Violence council and weed like to give your thanks to those that putting together this information important on the status of this important issue in our city so i would like to hand the mic over to the department on the status of women director maf ari. Good afternoon chair and supervisor sheehy and supervisor fewer. Thank you for having us today. I want to acknowledge the leadership for requesting this hearing. We were originally presented in october and after waiting three hours the committee decided we should be scheduled to today and were delighted to be here with three new members with the board. Congratulations to each and every one of you. The Family Violence council and compose upon of 24 members. 21 Government Agencies and three Community Based organizations plus many more attend regularly. I want to acknowledge some of the members who are here today. We have captain yuma bailey from the Police Department. Maria mcgee and the District Attorneys Office Julie Leonard from family and Children Services of the Human Services agency. San francisco is unique and we address violence across the life span and including elder abuse and family and child abuse. The mission is respond to the citys response to Family Violence in new and innovative ways. For example the first guest speaker to the council was representative from animal care and control known as the dog catcher so you might ask why the dog catcher has anything to do with Family Violence fam but turns out where there is animal abuse there are signs of child abuse or Domestic Violence or elder abuse and families are more likely to open the door to animal control than others and theyre a mandated reporter and one of the activities is publishing an annual report on Family Violence in San Francisco and the only of its kind in country and we bring work from 20 agencies and staffed by the department on the status of women and has three cochairs. Kate i albright and keaght and sean and couldnt be here today and we have staff filling in. I would like to thank the interns nicolette and the office of womans policy and we put together this report and switch the slides to these slides. So just in terms of a quick overview of our report. Methodology the data was collected from july ion, 2014 to june 30, 2015 from 15 public agencies and 27 Community Based agencies so today we want to give you a high level view of trends and statistics. Also talk about Family Violence deaths in 2015, achievements of the council and recommendations for 2016. We dont have time to go over all 121 pages of the report but it is available on our website so im going to turn it over to Katie Albright to give statistics on child abuse in San Francisco. Thank you so much. And supervisors its an honor to be here. Thank you so much. My name is Katie Albright and the executive director of the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center and our mission is end abuse in 50 years. I will be highlighting specifics around child abuse prevention statistics specifically and my colleagues will be highlighting Domestic Violence findings and jill highlighting elder abuse findings. I wanted to thank dr. Morassy and others for their incredible work and leadership on this report as well as the entire department on the status of women for the dedication to End Community violence in our San Francisco. We are truly connecting the dots between child abuse, Domestic Violence and elder abuse and creating Effective Solutions for families in our community. As you will read in this report i want to pull back on three highlights. One, prevention is key. Two, we really can connect the dots. As was said between child abuse, Domestic Violence and elder abuse both in terms of its cause as well as prevention opportunities in the to find solutions and finally private private truly work and i think you will see that in the report today and as you read the findings lets me start with the child abuse finds specifically and i wanted to highlight again the prevention is key. When you think about the finch finding the top line is a program by the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center and operating 24 7 for more than 40 years really thinking about as initial response to families in crisis and we see more than three times the number of calls as our Child Welfare department, their hot line so you can see that this is truly an effective measure in order to be the First Responders on the line and the calls are from suicide and crisis calls how to do encoder dropped and as you will read in the report on page 62 yearo over the cdcs rates of child abuse relatively constant from 11 to 14 year over year. Turning to the Police Department the find it is show there is a 30 decrease in the number of cases investigated by this department in 2015 conversely in later slides investigations of elder abuse have increased by four fold and we will look at later slides how those connect with each other. Finally turning to the District Attorneys Office the findings show a 33 decrease in cases filed by the district attorney, but in 11 increase in conviction rates. Theres more information in the report and the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center looked at the economics of abuse in our community and i am happy to make that available as well. Creating a link between child abuse and Domestic Violence i wanted just highlight some success numbers that we see in a program called safe starts and focused on family with children 06 exposed to violence and between 201115 we saw an increase of 103 as well as an increase in the work by the district attorneys victims is department of 41 in this last fiscal year. Again it shows the interconnection between Public Private partnerships and the importance of focusing early on prevention. I have the happy opportunity to turn it over to my colleague bev upton to focus on Domestic Violence. Thank you katie. So i want to walk you through some of the Domestic Violence statistics. I want to talk about the San Francisco Domestic Violence consortium and the community. San francisco is really rich in a diverse array of Services Operating 24 hours a day shelter, crisis line and then Community Based non Residential Services which serve the needs of specific communities, the Spanish Speaking communities and the asian speaking community and the lgbt community. We have a safety net built over 40 years in San Francisco to protect the most vulnerable of Domestic Violence and its an honor to represent them at the Family Violence council. When you talk about what katie talked about for Domestic Violence agencies and number of people served youre seeing about 24,000. That is roughly three times that were seeing at from the calls at 911. That again really echoes the fact that people want to speak with somebody who speaks their language, who understands their cultural issues and who may not be part of a criminal justice team. Now of course San Francisco wants to be ready when people need that kind of solution. Theyre here. We work with them every day but just as we saw in katie numbers for child abuse the largest number of calls and the every day solution to many peoples Domestic Violence and the exposure of children is reach out to the community so you can see shy of 25,000 folks are served in the Community Every day every year. 21,000 are reaching out on our 24 hour crisis lines. San francisco the department on the status of women funds women inc. To operate San Franciscos 24 hour crisis line ferlt the shelters and other agencies answer their crisis lines during the day but 24 hours a day every day of the year you can get many languages that are very well versed and trained in Domestic Violence issues and can help kied people 24 hours a day. As we talked about 911 receives about 9,000. Again we see those as the more serious calls. We have begun trainings with 911 new dispatchers on the language of Domestic Violence, what some of the challenges for reaching out for help might be and connect people faster in their language and their own cultures to solutions around Domestic Violence. The special victims unit they have a happy load on Domestic Violence cases. Heavy load from cases and its down a bit but up when you look at the numbers and the bulk of the cases theyre working on. When we look at the District Attorneys Office our numbers differ than child abuse but again i think we have a longer history and so we looked at 542 500 cases being filed. Thats a 63 increase over the year and the convictions and probation were 111. Also a small increase. I will take this opportunity to say that most of us in the community and our partners in criminal justice do not always see incarceration as the solution to Domestic Violence, so when we dont see huge numbers going into incarceration were not deterred by that. In fact it gives us hope that more is being handled in an alternative manner and in the community, so we see these as positive numbers. Speaking of more positive numbers were seeing convictions and probation up as well and then i think one of the more hopeful numbers were seeing in this chart 142 folks convicted and ending up receiving treatment at our rsvp. One other number i would like to add is how many other people are receiving intervention classes out in the community. San francisco has ten more Domestic Violence intervention classes where people are not incarcerated but go through probation to get to the classes so theres lots of folks to change the Belief Systems and their behavior out in the community. Certainly if it requires a Law Enforcement response we want to be there for that and partner with them but we do not see that as negative numbers. On the next slide there you go. Thank you. We can tell a pretty good story with a cautionary tale; right . When we started this work or in 1991 in the 90s we were losing seven or eight women a year to Domestic Violence. Now are these numbers always perfect . No. Women and other people lots of folks die as a result of Domestic Violence that are never captured so do please keep that in mind. Also it has an implicit outcome in suicide, so these numbers are just what our medical examiner over the years as determined to be Domestic Violence homicides. Okay. With that baseline you can see where we were in the 90s, seven, eight women a year and i can tell you if this chart started earlier would be more and in the 80 it was ten or 12 and over the last ten years we have substantially reduced the number of women dying from Domestic Violence in San Francisco. In fact when we really had an all hands on deck response in San Francisco when the community was were still robust but when we were starting our partnerships, getting more funding, establish svu, getting probation to the table, work with the da and pds office we had 44 months without a homicide for Domestic Violence that we know it and that is unprecedented for cities and San Francisco. You can see the cautionary tale as we move up were seeing increases and three is consistent for the years and were waiting for a couple of determinations from the medical Examiners Office in 2016 but you can see the trend and we need to be vigilant and we know about this. Any questions . Any questions . Thank you so much. Good afternoon. My name is jill neilson and a Deputy Director with the department of aging and Adult Services which is part of the Human Services agency. Our department operates multiple programs that promote the self sufficiency, safety and health and independence, not just of elder adults about adults with disabilities. We are one of the programs that is operated by our program with Adult Protective Services and a primary Safety Net Program to serve older adults and adults with disabilities that are experiencing abuse. One of the things that we know for sure that elder abuse is on the rise here in San Francisco and thats not just here in San Francisco, but thats also across the state and across the country. In fact the adult protect Service Program over the past five years has seen increase of 22 in the reports of abuse we receive by the hot line. Studies across the country have shown that 10 of older adults suffer abuse and we know the rates are higher when you look at vulnerable populations like individuals that have dementia. What you will see from this slide is reports to Adult Protective Services that were confirmed cases by others increased by 33 in fiscal year 2015. We also can see that requests for civil restraining orders which is another way to track elder abuse and went up almost 200 . San franciscos special victims unit is responsible for investigating reports of elder abuse, and we did see that in fiscal year 2015 there was a decline in the number of cases that the special victims united investigated pertaining particularly to physical abuse. However, in the area of Financial Abuse we saw that there was a significant increase over 200 in the number of cases that the special victims unit investigated and we owe that to the addition of three investigators that were specialized in the area of Financial Abuse. And its a highly specialized area and the cases are time consumes and require great deal of training. The District Attorneys Office reported 30 convictions and i just thought i would report that does just pertain to family crimes but crimes that might occur to an oldare adult, for example a street crime, so it goes beyond Family Violence. Adult protective services is a state mandated county operated program and were responsible for investigating reports of abuse, neglect, exploitation and self neglect. And in fact over the in 2015 the program in San Francisco received over 7,000 reports. What youre seeing here pertains just to elder abuse. We have pulled out our cases involving adults between the ages of 18 and 64 and what you can see from this slide is that psychological and mental abuse is the most commonly confirmed abuse and that type of abuse is often cooccurring with other forms of abuse such as financial and physical abuse or caregiver neglect. Our Program Works closely with criminal justice partners. One of the ways that we do that is through the Elder Abuse Forensic Center that is operated by the institute of aging elder abuse prevention program. Were also very important to have an elder Justice Subcommittee that we were able to form through the Family Violence council and it really allows us to work on increasing operational collaboration and effectiveness. Thanks very much. I am pass it back to the department on the status of women. Good afternoon. I am the policy director on the department on the status of women so i am going to follow up with some of the ways that we then are able to use the data in the report so it doesnt just sit on the shelf so looking at the summary i want to reiterate some of the points that have been made about the experience of the Community Service providers because you can see both in the area of child abuse and Domestic Violence our cbos are fielding three times as many calls than the Government Agencies and going into budget season its important to fund them that are providing the services and part of the safety net. Another way we looked at the data and really combine looking at child abuse and Domestic Violence and elder abuse and we did a dive around the special victims unit formed in 2011 and prompted by a huge contraction of staffing at at Police Department so there was a need to consolidate so there was separate units for all of these categories and consolidateed in the special am victims unit but we saw with fewer staff the number of investigations overall declined both total and for each of the areas so were hoping as we see the Police Department running more academies and up to full staffing that the special victims unit will receive more staff to enable to get back to the number of investigations it used to v i will go quick and i know you have other hearings but stop me if you have questions. In terms of Racial Disparities we see for the agencies that do provide data black and latino victims are disproportionality represented at Victim Services and the District Attorneys Office and Trauma Center clinics and for Family Violence and disproportionality represented in terms of their population overall in the city and one ways that we use the data this is a map of 911 calls by Police Station regarding Family Violence in San Francisco so you see that the bay view and ingleside have the most Family Violence calls so we use that to implement two programs, one we did an ad d campaign in october of 2015 and the person purchasing the ads were in bus routes most affected by Family Violence and we were awarded excellence communication award by the California Association of Public Information officials last year for the campaign that ran on bus and shelters and online and dating apps like grinder and okay cupid which was a first. We also have a Pilot Program were running in the bay view to target high riskinin Domestic Violence cases and prevent some of the homicides that beverly talked about and where the calls are coming from and talk to the police and about cases at risk and talk to an advocate at the scene and new program informed by our data so im going to very quickly zoom through some of our achievements. As katie mentioned our Public Private partnerships are fabulous and able to do great work and some of the improvements we have seen are coming up with better prot will cos at the on protocols and the special victims unit and i want to commend captain bailey and we had turnover and since shes been there we have better policies when Police Respond to a Domestic Violence call and when Health Care Providers have to report Domestic Violence to the police and how that report is handled. Weve done some training as mentioned at the department of emergency management, at the Housing Authority and we recognize there are tenants there experiencing Domestic Violence and as previously mentioned as a result of our last years report the special victims unit had investigators for elder abuse at that unit. So im going to let you look on your own. Our recommendations for 2016 i will point out we did include in our report a very ambitious five year plan for combating Family Violence that has budgetary needs and it would be great when looking for the budget this year to be consulting with that. Any questions . Thank you so much. Colleagues do you have any questions . Any questions . No . No . Supervisor sheehy. No, i just wanted to thank you for your report and thank supervisor tang for calling this meeting and acknowledge Katie Albright and Beverly Upton and shawna resources with the Family Violence council. I worked as a Victim Advocate in the District Attorneys Office for victims of Domestic Violence and hate crime. I was there when this happened. I take no credit but i was there from 98, 99, 98, 99 and i saw the genesis of this work and it really was lead by the community. Luckily the district attorney, the Police Department, all the various pieces came together but the drops in rate and this 44 month span and no homicides. Congratulations. Really this is astonishing. Peoples lives have been saved and i want to specifically note the comment about it really isnt about convictions a lot of the time. Its about changing peoples really their world view a lot of times. There is a power dynamic that is very sinister and people can change and families can be healed. I did want to look there was a piece of data that jumped out on page 97 at me, and that was looking at thats in the schools. Yes. And you know the different the numbers are quite dramatic when you look at physical and sexual dating violence between heterosexual kids and lgbt kids. You know 6 and dating violence and 12 for lgbt kids and [inaudible] for heterosexual kids and 21 for lgbt kids and i saw some scary dat on suicide among lgbt kids in the schools so i think there is something i may want to come back to that at another point because im not sure that is what is happening to the lgbt kids in school are safe as we hope and not as safe as they should be i think and maybe we can continue. Maybe get some data too on lgbt elder abuse. That would be very nice to have that because i am glad youre picking up elder abuse as our population ages our people are incredibly vulnerable. And i am a member of the budget and finance committee and i am committed to defending existing funding so we cannot let the cuts at federal and state level and the Trump Administration impact violence against women programs and elder abuse programs and child abuse interventions and i took a look at the funding recommendations in the five year plan to address all of these needs and in a tough budget year i look forward to work with you as part the budget process to accomplish these goals. Thank you. I just want to respond on the School District data on lgbt and actually it was supervisor sandra fewer that allocated funds for a person within the School District on those issues and active member of the Family Violence council and we would like to have any staff come to the quarterly meetings and that is where the data was unearthd and we will have conversations with the School District to address the disproportionality between lgbt and straight disparity between straight and lgbt students and Family Violence. That would be great. You might look at suicide data as well. I dont have that in front of me and not really public event it was distributed so all i had was a screen shot of that but i think theyre parts i think its two sides. Same coin so looking at the violence and not the trauma and pressures that lgbt kids are under school is important. I wanted to address it quickly as one of the trichairs. The day this information was presented at Family Violence council the gasp in the room was audible, so were going to really want to partner with you and your leadership on this because it was stunning. I can tell you the day it was presented many of us left the Family Violence council feeling like we had not done everything we could for our kids, so we want to partner with you. Thank you. I would appreciate that. It was stunning. That would be great. Thank you. Thank you so much. I wanted on thank you for the presentation and all of your work and just echo. I serve on the board of [inaudible] one of the Community Based organizations that provides this essential work that is language and culturally appropriate so want to appreciate that your focus on those types of services and the Public Private partnership. It really make a lot of sense and also wanted to appreciate a comment from Beverly Upton about not wanting to rely on incarceration as the solution to violence and sometimes makes matters worse so thank you for the thoughtful and incredible work. I really appreciate it and if theres no other comments from my colleagues i would love to open it up oh sorry, supervisor fewer has a couple of questions or suggestions. Thank you chair. Thank you for the report and its comprehensive and i have to go through the whole thing and i have some comments and i echo with sfusd lgbt students and hard to read the statistics as my son is gay and know first hand about some of the issues concerning are inclusiveness and in our classroom settings. So yes, i would love an update on sort of that resolution i wrote and also about the funding and the programs that we are implementing for that. I have a question though, and this is on this big report, the 2014 comprehensive report on Family Violence in San Francisco page 70 and i think this is probably a question for katie about the child abuse intervention program. I am looking at this that so maybe i am just seeing this data as a little i am just reading it briefly of the program the client statistics which dont seem that promising katie but i want to mention i think its pretty like theyre mandated by law to complete a minimum of 52 sessions. Is this why these stats are so low . Low . Actually this is page 70. I just want to clarify the 2014 or 2015 report . This is the 2014 report, and so are we seeing Better Outcomes gradually . Are we learning from it . Or maybe just give me a snapshot. Its a very good question supervisor if thank you for asking tthis is a legally mandated program to have a 52 week counseling session. San francisco was able to implement it several years ago. It was an initiative of many departments and the Mayors Office coming together to go forward and its an evaluation based program so evidence suggests its working as an inter vengdz. I believe those programs and others working on the front end and, wog with families and protective factors with these intervention programs will bring the numbers down and one of the things that is interesting that all of the Family Violence elder abuse, child abuse, Domestic Violence what we want to see is awareness raised and reports increased and then substantiated cases decreased over time and one thing we grapple with trying to understand the true cost . What are the true numbers prevalentacy of these abuses . So this program is an effective intervention. The city has invested in it and we do definitely believe there are other intervention programs that are effective. I just wanted to add the numbers seem low because the only people are sent by the court and convicted and we dont have a tremendous case load of people convicted of child abuse. Thats what that reflects. Thank you very much. As i rethis what i upon looking forward is sort of the correlation between wage disparity, the corlaigdz between families tripling up in households, seeing such a way. Wealth gap in San Francisco and stressing our families out and wondering if this is compounding the program i mean im not a social scientist but i can see it has an effect and speaking to people in sros now and multiple People Living in one room so wondering as a city what are some of the initiatives that we can align with the preventative things and do together . So when we look at Family Housing and were discussing it and what is an appropriate housing situation of a family of four . What is an appropriate housing situation of a family of six . Is it a two bedroom apartment of 1300 square feet . Those type of i think policy issues that were grappling with on another to solve another issue we think about housing but how these things also affect the Domestic Violence and child abuse, and i think that if we can align them a little bit and get suggestions around it knowing these statistics that we might be able to use the resources to really address other issues, not just that families need home,s, but what makes for a Healthy Family home. I will make a connection and connect dots here and you know this is near and dear to my heart. Eviction prevention want keeping the families in the homes that theyre in and also were very concerned because of San Franciscos housing crisis that people will stay in dangerous situations longer in order to keep their housing, so eviction prevention is a way of preventing elder abuse, Domestic Violence and child abuse and keeping people in stable housing and not forcing them to stay in dangerous places because theyre afraid they dont have another place to live. I think we need to connect the dots and conversations we dont have with housing and the health of the family and also i think Something Else they really would like to look at is these statistics by race, really looking deeply into race because were also looking at a Racial Disparity in San Francisco that is happening quickly and what happens to segments of our population and reporting and cbos versus the police and now in time of the trump era and we will see a decrease of people actually reporting and increase of people staying in unsafe situations . And actually when we talk about elder abuse too. Thats a growing population in my neighborhood. Its the largest growing population of seniors and i am actually probably in that category right now so i am concerned also about the statistics around where some of the eldare abuse is happening . Is it in institutions or institutionalized or in individual households . So some of the things what can we do prevention wise . What education give to caregivers and even family members so theyre able to express through the love ones what might be happening to them because a lot of times i say elders are sometimes embarrassed to speak up about it and i think this is something that has been abuse in general quite frankly in our society stigmatized by society so how can we have victims of these crimes actually come forward and to seek shelter and actually safety . Right. Before i turn this over to jill i want to say another prevention youre working on in another context is immigration, making sure that San Francisco stays a sanctuary city. People wont reach out to help and even to the community and not to the criminal Justice System which we want them to feel safe and have confidence if there is something serious going on to reach out to whoever is appropriate so all of the mayors efforts and the board of supervisors efforts around sanctuary city and keep San Francisco safe for all is a preventive tool for elder abuse and Domestic Violence and child abuse. We agree. Really quickly in response to your comments. One thing we do know for every instance of elder abuse that is reported between 14 and 24 go unreported and certainly shame goes a long way. Victims do not speak up. Sometimes the victims have dementia. Due to their Cognitive Impairment they dont know they have been victimized. They might not be willing to accept help. We know that typically the abuse is happening in the home and the abuser is loved ones and the Family Violence concept. Caregivers. We need to support caregivers and family members and there is a connection between psychological and financial stressors and abuse and thats why we need to help the families in multifaceted ways. Thank you very much for your comments. Thank you so much. Now i would like to open for Public Comment. Is there anyone that would like to speak on this item now is your chance to come forward . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] and colleagues can we move forward with filing this hearing . Yes. Okay. The hearing is filed. Thank you so much. [gavel] thanks for your presentations. Madam clerk can you call 5th comprehensive report two. Yes number two is a hearing to consider that the type 51 club license to Treasure Island yacht club doing business as Treasure Island yacht club located at 300 clipper cove way and will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco. Hello. We have someone here from the Police Department to speak on the report. Hillo. I am from the San Francisco Police Department. You have a report for Treasure Island yacht club located on 300 clipper cove way. If a driewfed the license will will allow them to sell beer, wine and distilled spirits to guests only. There is zero letters of protest or support. Theyre in lot ten and high crime and in census track as listed which is low saturation. Southern station has no opposition. We approve with no conditions. Thank you so much and now we have the applicant here. Would you like to say a few words . Thank you supervisor ronen. My name is nice an and the current commodore and the member share for the Treasure Island yacht club. Most people dont know who we are and in a serious issue and talking about yacht clubs. We have a deep history and navel history and started by the navy 50 years ago and celebrated our 50th anniversary. Were a humble small yacht club, less than a dollar for membership and a club and boating available for those that are interested that are avid boat motorists as well as new members. We recently because of the development of Treasure Island were displaced from our old location. Three years ago we didnt have running water. Thats how humble we are so we moved to a new location and over a year ago we have been filing for the departments transfer and im not sure of the challenge the previous commodore had last year and took so long and the membership is small because its a dollar a day and 44 memberships up to 93 now and im the membership chair and i do also do the dishes but so we growing and the development of Treasure Island is proceeding forward but im not sure what has taken so long for the premise and transfer from location to location. Were a nonprofit. We try to give to the community on Treasure Island and we have navy members and most are retirees and some live on the island and so as i said the membership is pretty low because we want to be open to the community on Treasure Island and those around it and the Liquor License permit is the only other source of income for us meaning when we have other yacht clubs that want to come into Treasure Island we can host them and without the liquor permit its difficult to do that so we appreciate your approval of support on that. Thank you. I know these delays are frustrating. Its something that i am interested looking into and trying to address. Thank you. So i am sorry for the delace. Thank you very much. Is there any member of the public to speak on this item . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues do you have any comments and if not can i get a motion to send this forward with recommendation . Supervisor sheehy. I thought you had a comment. We have a motion to move this forward with recommendation. Seeing no objection this motion passes. [gavel] thank you. Madam clerk can you please read item 3. Yes item 3 is a hearing to consider that the type 40 onsale beer license to askander harooni located at 835 larkin street will serve the public convenience or necessity for the city and county of San Francisco. Sergeant. Thank you. You have a report for 5th comprehensive report located at 835 larkin street. They applied for a type 40 license and if approval allow sale of beer and zero letters of protest and in considered a lot of high crime. They located in census track as listed which is considered an undue concentration area. Central station has no opposition. Approve this license with the conditions submitted on the report you have before you and the applicant has agreed with this application i mean with this conditions. Thank you so much. And we have the applicant askander harooni here to make a brief presentation about your business. Yes. We were asked to keep it short so i will keep it brief. My name is askander harooni. Im a cofounder of this business located on 835 larkin street. We opened in 2013 as just a record store and in december after remodeling we added a coffee bar. From the beginning we wanted to add it but it took a while to get to that point. Basically our Mission Statement we wanted to create a unique space something that i experience when i was studying and working in a record store overseas in germany so we consider our space as a cultural hub. We do events that feature arts locally and nationally and were a coffee shop so we get a mix of people that come into our store, and to describe our team. We have a beer and coffee manager, Christopher Griffin who owned another coffee shop in the mission. Me, the cofounder and josh woods who is here and my brother. Obviously we are asking for your approval of our type 40 beer license and chris can explain kind of our beer set up. How are you doing . Thank you for your time. Basically our set up is going to be stripped down. Im going to do three draft beer options, and a draft combutcha option and non alcoholic and on top and nice for somebody else who is a booze drinker and then were going to have three craft can and bottle options. I am look at a couple of partners of beer company that sponsors musical events and festivals around town which we are also interested in hosting at our space. Planned to wholesale with morris and e grando and familiar. Theyre pretty much the distributors here and its going to be very basic and thats about it. Thank you. Absolutely. To close it off we do have a ton of support both from tenants in our building. Were under hearten hotel and a sro and local support and businesses in the area. We also have a great connection with hearten hotel. I always go there for every event and give me contact info and if its ever too loud and contact me. Any of the tenants can call me. Its okay and to explain our event we have a limited performance license through Event Commission and we have good reviews so if you checked online through yelp great ratings. Also ranked number two for Record Stores on four square from 105 ratings, and i guess its not working anymore but thats pretty much ti hope you can come for an event or enjoy a beer hopefully. Thank you so much. Colleagues any questions . And then i will open it up for Public Comment. Does anyone want to speak to this item . Hi. My name is steven quinoa. I have lived in that area for about 30 years and when the record store opened i cant tell you how enthusiastic i was. Its nice to have somewhere they feel connected to i dont go to the bars in the neighborhood or a lot of the other places but i immediately found a home and i have been to some of the events that have been held there and i think theyre very proper. These guys are very socially conscious. They have benefits for organizations. Theyre holding one this month for planned parenthood and i just would really like to recommend that they are able to get their license. Thank you so much. All right. Any other speakers feel free to line up and you can line up against this wall over here. Hi. I my name is justin and i live in the neighborhood. And i just like to express my support for them as well. Its a bit of a trouble troubled neighborhood where we are. Theres a bleak environment and since they have opened they have added a lot to the neighborhood. I mean including the people and our surrounding, some of the homeless and everything. They interact every day so our homeless unofficial Community Center and away and especially for artists finding spaces and they express themselves. They have a critical space for the city and theyre very responsible as well. I think the beer license will help you know add a sort of ambiance to the art shows, to the record release shows. I just cant say enough what they have done for the neighborhood and i think theyre a grate addition. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im lisa torscpez a social scientist with the federal agency over on larkin, golden gate and the record store is just a few blocks from where i work and not far from where i live so i have been visiting over the last months and fyi they have got a terrific jazz collection if you like jazz. I have been one to the recent eating events and had a dj and a great showing and i would like to support their request for a beer license. I think theyre doing terrific things for the neighborhood and theyre really sweet guys. Thank you so much. Is there any other speaker who would like to speak at Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues any comments . Seeing none i would just like to say i cant wait to come to the record store. I havent been there yet but it sounds amazing and thanks to everyone that came out today and can i get a motion to move forward with physical recommendation and that is unanimous. Clerk clrk can you call item 4. Yes item 4 is a hearing to consider that the issuance of type 42 onsale beer and wine public premises license to Pacific Retail vcf incorporated and doing business as vom fass oils vinegar spirits located at 900 north point street and public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco. Sergeant. I will give a report for vom fass oils vinegar spirits located at 900 north point street. They applied for a 42 license and if approved this will allow to sell on sale beer and wine. Zero letters of support or protest. Theyre considered in high crime and census track considered a high saturation area. Central station has no opposition much submitted with conditions on the report and applicant has agreed with these conditions. Thank you and is the applicant here . Hi. Good afternoon. Thank you for entertaining our application. We have been in business for three and a half years. Our store is elgantd. We have a health score of 100 and high comments on yelp and not a lot of locals. We get tourists but not locals. About two years ago the board of supervisors approved our 21 license and that helped but weve chosen to focus pretty much on high end spirits and mostly organic and sustainably produced wines. People dont understand them well so they want to taste them and every day we get the tourists who are the primary customers and sometimes its difficult to sell them wines without being able to taste them so we have applied for this license in order to number one be able to satisfy that need. Number two, most of our colleagues in this business give events. Weve tried that without serving alcohol. Doesnt work. So we would like to have beer and wine so we have events with food and oil and vinegars and spices and prepare hors doeuvres and taste all of the products and not just alcohol and give them the experience of organic products and most are organ and i can naturally produced so the other thing is we would like to do events that we publicize for charities as well. A lot of our colleagues do that as well and were working with a websited called if only and automatically part of our profits from events would go to charities. At the moment and since we opened actually we have worked primarily with two charities, the San Francisco Marin Food Bank and with the Aquatic Park Senior Center because theyre across the street from us so we like to expand our ability to have events of which portions of our proceeds would go to charities. Essentially in all honestly our business struggled a bit in the last six months and while the 21 license helped we had issues with ghirardeli square and historic environment. They made changes to the garbage and recycling policies and due to some engineering deficiencies in the building the odor permerated our store and fixed now but affected us a bit and we would love to recoup that and increase our sales. Finally you know in addition to requests by tourists on a regular basis we find that the locals that come to our store are excited about having us be able to serve food along with the wine so they can actually taste all of our products at one place. With that i thank you for your time. Thank you so much. And look for your support. Thank you. Great. Seeing no questions i am going to open it up for Public Comment. Would anybody like to speak on this item . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues can i get a motion to move this forward with recommendation . Without objection the motion passes. [gavel] thank you. Madam clerk can you call item number 5. Yes item 5 is a hearing to evaluate access to quality affordable childcare in district 11 including analysis of the number children age five and under living in the district and the available spots in privately operated and city funded facilities. Thank you. Supervisor safai would you like to run your hearing . Yes. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this opportunity supervisor ronen and sheehy and yee to be a part of this Committee Hearing today. This was the very first thing i introduced as a supervisor on our first Board Meeting that allowed us to have a conversation about child care and the impetus to this was 12 years ago district 11 faced an emergency and it resurfaced about a year ago with the lost of Mission Child Care Consortium. Theyre the largest subsidized child care facility in the city outside of the School School that is part of first five. 524 subsidized slots are in this location. Its been serving the mission where it got its original name and moved to the excelsior since the 70s. Its been around a very long time and after securing multiple longterm letses the owner decided to sell the building in 2015 after they had talked about longterm lease. This facility pace over 28,000 a month in rent and 100 reliant on reimbursement for state subsidized child care slots. So the situation was more pronounced and the housing crisis and the recession in 2007 and the uptick in tremendous in cost of housing and real estate losing this access for free child care became more underscored because as you know if people cant afford to have affordable childcare its often they cant go to work and families shouldnt decide between work and child care and paying rent so i am happy to say over the last two years we started a Community Organizing effort working with the office, California Program first five, mayor ed lee, the property owner, the hellman foundation, commissioner hydra mendoza and many other people we were able to get Grant Funding and actually the timing of this hearing is very nice because in the next days the owner is signing a purchase and Sale Agreement five and a half Million Dollars. All the people in the audience sitting in the first row and myself, the mayor yes, applause. Five and a half million theyre going to be owning this property and thats the impetus so were really excited. This will be the largest 51st program in San Francisco and serve the city for the next 50 years. The issue is not just about funding but familiarities so that was facility and it is another reason and my childs facility is moved from the opposite from the excelsior to the mission and were dealing with issues of the socrates disadvantaged socioeconomic families and under five and tend to be the most vulnerable and we know there are families on wait list and in all of these centers so all of that is part of the main reason why we called for this hearing. We hope this hearing will help to inform the conversation about child care and facilities in other parts of San Francisco and it happens it rolls into the conversation of educate our housing that is the next item on the agenda that we called for so it fits nicely i think. Theres a scarcity of brick and mortar facilities and outdoor space requirements constrain the ability for locations so we wanted to think about this in the context of this hearing today so the two caveats are to be fiscal sound programs to serve 24 or more children and housing 75 square feet of open space so lets think about that, so again understanding the achievement gap and closing the opportunities and what does that mean . Children particularly of mono lingual and disadvantaged backgrounds have access to the right skills and preparing for kindergarten and thats a lot of this conversation so the idea that there could be the conversation about children being behind as they approach kindergarten is not something that we want to even have a conversation about. We want to do everything we can to get them prepared so in our district we have cleveland, giewp lupe, the spanish biliteracy programs and tag lot programs and monroe has a dual immersion path way. Jose ortiza and mandarin immersion so we have a lot of programs in the Public Education system and only San Francisco community and sheer don dont have authorized language and another way we know it helps children prepare so finally i will end by saying state subsidized early child care is mandated to run quality curriculum by the department of education. Access to the free and affordable programs is a vital component to our childrens academic success so theyre the reasons we called for the reason today i. I have a special thanks to many and from the unified School District and the executive director of access and equity sorry if i didnt say the name properly. [inaudible] and the director of California Child Development programs for the low Income Investment fund and the school board and children, youth and their families so if we could call up september to do your presentation and then we can ask a few questions. Good afternoon supervisors. We appreciate the opportunity. We pulled together we have a brief presentation and weve tried to share citywide comparison data to put things in context. I am september jerad and the director of early care and education come in that capacity since july. Our mission as a new department is have access for all San Francisco Young Children zero to five and their families. Its a Great Mission and challenge and work we do together. Lets talk about San Franciscos Young Children. San francisco is home to over 44,000 Young Children under the age of five and you can see that district 11 is home to the second highest proportion of children of any district in the city. Far too many of Young Children start off early life in poverty and as you can see we have desperate rates by district and 11 of the young start off life with the stress of poverty. The children of our city are increasingly more diverse than the adults and the children of district 11 represent this trend. The supply of child care available for working families is a pressing issue citywide. In almost all homes all parents are working and many parents are working more than one job to make ends meet so demand for care is extreme. As you can see by this slide district 11 has proportionately fewer Child Care Spaces than other districts but amazing asset in district 1 is a thriving and actually the biggest family care child sector in the city. Theyre women licensed by the state, Small Businesses primarily women owned and women of Color Running a business and running for an educating and loving our citys children. In the interest of time i will skip these. A teaser. I want to jump to the issue of affordability because the squeeze our country puts stress on working families and more stressful for all of us but this graph shows you the colors are hard to see today. But fully 55 of our families of Young Children face affordability challenges. If you use the measure of 110 of area Median Income. Thats a wonky number. Its a housing benchmark we use and a policy benchmark that you adopted for thinking about the child care system. Thats about 106,000 a year for a family of three. If you look at this graph the bottom represents the income threshold by which the federal government helps family meet their Child Care Needs through the federal head start or Early Head Start program if you have heard of that. One of the partners is in the audience today. It has a family of three and caps at families earning 20,000 a year. When the state helps a family it caps out at 56,000 a year. When you factor in high cost housingue will talk about that later and the relatively low wages of working families this is where the squeeze comes in and over half of the Community Needs help meeting the cost of early care and education. I adopt to talk about San Francisco one of our strengths and its because of Public Investment and the resources that the city puts into our sector offers an amazing array of choices and opportunities for families. Theres universal preschool. Our Program Available free Half Day Program to all four year olds and district 11. We have contributed child care homes Small Businesses receiving subsidies to serve low income families. San francisco School District is a major contributor to high quality early Care Education in the district and they will speak about their work. There is parent based vouchers and choose the care choice and get support and last but not least Community Programs Meeting Needs and many of the programs that supervisor safai mentioned. This next graph is complicated but i use it to illustrate a point. Its not just families that are squeezed with the high cost of providing Early Learning for children in San Francisco. Its actually the professionals and providers themselves and programs p the blue line represents 85 of the market cost for child care. And thats a good benchmark for the cost of quality not the only one. The other lines that are well below the top blue dotted line show you what the reimbursement rates coming from the California Department of education or the state department of social services to help eligible families pay for care. That red dot is an important one and represents some of the policy guidance and change as a city family with partners agreed to which is San Francisco will bundle programs and streamline our work and help families up to 110 ami meets cost but were going to pay fair bers rates to the provideerce that do the work whether its the Child Care Centers or Small Businesses caring for children and the importance of doing that is unfortunately Early Education is among the lowest wage work in San Francisco and the average preschool teacher with a ba degree in the community is earning between 35,000 and 40,000 a year and im sorry one out of every three preschool teachers is eligible for some form of public assistance while working full time so we have pressing issues to grapple with. I dont want to give you a desperate picture. We have a very professional work force and commitment to quality and continuous learning. This scatter plotd shows that citywide. This shows you the provide erts participating in the quality system in district 11. And in some before i pass it over to my colleagues i want to say theres assets with early care and education in district 11. There couldnt be a more diverse vibrant community to support the young learner and robust child care sector and high engagement in curriculum based practices. As supervisor safai shared there is a facilities crunch especially for centers theres not enough spaces to meet the needs of families and the cost of quality care is beyond what subsidies pay for a large number of working families. Theres great facility successes that the supervisors shared. Permanent longterm Quality Control of the Community Service for Mission Child Care Consortium and excel seer family connections and i want to give the mic to my colleague from first five and tell you more about the work. Thank you so much. Good afternoon. I am with first 5 San Francisco and you heard a little about the macro level what the city is doing. Now well focus a little more on district 11 but a little background about first five. Were part of a state system. Every county has a first five and funded by tobacco tax and in san we have unique position where our fund side leveraged with local dollars so we have greater impact and part of the work is not only working with the early care system it really is focusing on families, communities and providers. And our work really is about sort of three tenants and focused on Family Engagement and support because children dont live within the context of family and communities. We really strive to having quality instruction in every Early Learning site and also meeting the needs of children social emotional well being and this we see as a path way to their lifelong success. We operate for the city well, we lead an initiative that is jointed funded with the department of children, youth and their families and department of Human Services called the Family Resource centers. There are 25 in the city but in this map mostly are concentrated on the eastern side of the city with the highest need. In district 11 there are three Family Resource centers portola connections and excelsior connections and [inaudible] and these hubs serve over 1500 not only children but their families and its through a variety of supports. The most popular that you see is actually parent child interact growfs and this says a lot about district 11. As september demonstrated the need for licensed facilities is actually its huge in district 11 and its been so for many number of years since first five and other city did thes have done is build strategies to support families especially in the early years and one of them is through the Family Resource centers provide play groups for parents and caregivers so we see its one of the frequently used services in district 11. In terms of the demographics at least for the families who come to the Family Resource centers 89 of them are either asian or latino. We have over 81 of families speaking another language other than english in district 11. And as we will talk about in a few minutes one of the things that is prevalent throughout San Francisco is the unstable housing and so if district 11 is not isolate friday that, and we know that all of these factors are indicators actually impact childrens lives. And the work of first five is build on the quality in any community and for the work that were doing in district 11 it includes improving the lives of children while theyre in care, and lots of research around what happens with children are in high quality Early Learning programs, and one of the things that we have done in San Francisco is that we have not only invested in high quality Early Learning were investing in the external process which is called the quality rating and improvement system. Its a little like yelp for Child Care Centers but instead of crowd sourced its really through an external assessment that is researched base and looks at several elements of quality and what we do for any program that is funded by the city its required that they participate in the quality rating, and the quality rating and includes not only professional Development Pathways but we use the qrs as a framework. A way to support systems change throughout the whole system of Early Childhood and this cant be done without the support of all the departments in the city including the School District. These are some of the areas that we focus on as part of the improvement system for Early Childhood, and teaching is not just about abcs and one, two, three. Its really a collaborative process and as youre going to hear a little more through our School District partners we have similar ways of pathways for the professional development for early educators and its about reflective practice. Its about indepth project base learning and coordinated professional development supports. This is not the exhausted list of things that we provide educators, but its the highlights, and some of the areas that we also focus is around working with teachers around what is equity and specifically what is Racial Equity . Because we cant get Better Outcomes if teachers also dont have that very core knowledge and just to give you a snapshot what district 11 has in quality in comparison to citywide most of the programs in district 11 are in matd rix from tier one to five. Most of the programs are hitting the higher tier levels. So im going to skip a little bit just for sake of time and you can read this over. One of the things that were actually very proud of is through the rating process we are able to see the interactions between adults and children, and this is an area that has longitudinal information around the impact that it does not only on third grade level reading but also math and as you can see your interactions are really high not only in district 11 but across the city and funded through local investments. And then i leave you with this thought. So thank you very much and i will hand it over to my next colleague. Good afternoon. My name is [inaudible] and the executive director of Early Education programs in San Francisco unified School District and i am very proud and pleased to have this opportunity to tell you about the wonderful things that are happening in our district in terms of our youngest san franciscans and early ed learners. Okay. Im going to give a very brief presentation and it will cover the overview of students that we serve in our district, the demographics of the students in our district, as well as share with you the Early Education schools in district 11. I will also share some of the strategies that we have in our classrooms and some of the professional Development Experiences that we have for our teachers and staff and finally i will share some Kindergarten Readiness data that weve collected over the past three years finally i will give you some information on the parent engagement practices that we have in our district for Early Education. Okay. To begin okay. I guess i am doing this too. Okay. I didnt get professional Development Using the device today so thank you. So we actually serve infant toddlers, preschoolers, transitional kindergarten as well as out of School Program children so the out of school is an after School Program for our tk through fifth grade students. For infant Toddler Program we have 24 spaces in two classes at one school in the district and that is the presidio Early Education school. For our preschool we have about 1560 spaces at 77 classes at 35 schools in the district and that is early ed stand alone schools as well as our Elementary Schools. For transitional kindergarten we have 454 spaces as well as sorry, 23 classes at 17 schools in the district and finally for our out of school after School Program we have 2178 space at 83 classes at 25 schools in our district and we also support 16 special day classes. I will talk about demographics. Thats not it. Thats it. Okay. Great. So our prek students range between three to five years old and so we have 676 three olds and 817 four year olds and you can see from the demographics that most of the highest or the top two ethnicities that we serve on chinese and historic as ingrid shared in her data as well. We also serve 250 prek special education students in our district as well in our early ed programs. The next slide im going to talk about the programs in district 11 that we serve. So there are three schools at full capacity in district 11 right now and those schools are share don, prek which is a 12 months the school is in session for 12 months. We have san miguel, Early Education school and a Year Round Program and we have excel sor guadalupe prek school and as i said all schools are at full capacity in district 11 and a total capacity of 230 spaces at all schools and again our highest ethnicity served are the chinese and hispanic programs. Some of the strategies in action. You know its important as part of the San Francisco unified School District Strategic Plan not just k12 but Early Education levels as well that we have a High Quality Professional Development system and high quality strategic learning for our teachers so this happens through workshops, coaching and professional learning communities that go on throughout the year, not just in the early Ed Department but also at our colocated elementary sites where we support our teachers. So some of the classes that or sorry, curriculum that our teachers have professional Development Im sorry, professional Development Im a little nervous so excuse me so some of the professional learning that goes on is in english Language Arts and math and science so our teachers actually explore different type of math pedagogy and making sure its appropriate for our early ed students as well as our early ed students have access to eco literacy, science where you can go or visit an early ed school and you will see evaluation of gardening and students using science and record information such as drawings or different types of art media to express their ideas through their learning. The other piece that is important is the culture and climate. We want to make sure that our students are emotionally and culturally ready for school as part of our Kindergarten Readiness program. We serve students that have a variety of needs and so therefore our teachers have access to professional development where they learn more about Inclusive Practices as well as trauma, how to work with children that have all kinds of different types of issues, so theyre ready to learn and can succeed in school and have the appropriate support. Also as mentioned earlier we are in tune to culturally relevant teaching practices. Okay. So with all of this wonderful work that were doing in San Francisco unified to help make sure our teachers provide a high level of instruction and have high quality and effective teaching methods we have seen the fruits of our labor through the very challenging work it is to be a preschool teacher but we have dedicated professionals and as a result of our fruits of labor you can see that we started taking baseline data on our preschools in 2013, and 37 of our students at that time they were at 37 of Kindergarten Readiness and you can see over the past three years they have had tremendous growth and they are now at 55 which is really something to be said about the work that the teachers are doing, the professional development, the coaching, all of these things make the high quality educational experience have impact on the work. Okay. Moving right along so i just wanted to speak about the transitional kindergarten and as you may know that the Kindergarten Readiness act of 2010 required that we have traditional kindergarten. So traditional kindergarten is the first year of a two year Kindergarten Program and has grown immensely in the district and the reason why we have transitional kindergarten and the two years are important because it gives the youngest children an opportunity to spend more time learning socialization skills and learning about letters and, numbers and how to get along with their piers as well as many other factors in terms of emotional and social growth. In 2013 we had seven classes at five schools and increased from 23 classrooms to 17 school sites where we now have a presence. Okay. Im going to skip that. Next slide and move into some of our strategies and action, so what is happening in our strategies and action is at early ed schools we are consistently throughout the year make sure that our systems and operations are in place that we have we spend time looking at our enrollment, how pier were working with Human Resources and it and strengthen the structures that we have in those place. Noodle what we do at the thats what we do at early sessions and we meet monthly and having professional learning communities and review data and share best practices. We support the elementary prek five school and working closely with them making sure theyre consistently developing appropriate practices and prek instructional learning opportunities. Final lie i would like to finally i would like to talk about the Family Engagement and its not just having that relationship with the family that as was mentioned earlier. I mean it takes effort by everyone in the district to develop the relationships with families and therefore we have workshops for our teachers and have professional learning communities on how to build and strengthen the relationships with the families that we serve in addition to having our site clerks participate in workshops so when theyre enrolling our parents into our schools theyre able to communicate and be culturally sensitive to the needs of the families in the community as well. We also have Family Support specialists in the schools to help negotiate difficult and challenging situations that the family may have, going into the homes and communicate with families or work with social workers or other support people that are that the family is working with to make transition and communication smoother and access support in the community and we work closely with the partners that just did the presentation. First five, cpac among others to make sure that we are working in concert with meeting the needs of everyone that our families and students and everyone in our early ed community so with that being said i have one last shot that you can see here and basically its a short letter from one of the parents that talks about the aspirations that they have for their child and we support this in every way possible because what the parent wants for their child is what we. As early ed staff, our teachers, our principals and everyone in early ed in sfusd to support our children. Great. Thank you. Im only going to ask a couple of questions for both of you and move on to the next item. Okay. But one question i have seen the question in tk from 2012 to now and you know the original slide said we had the second highest number of children under the agest of five but only one tk site in district 11 so are there expands tk in district 11 since we have the second commissioner hylandest number of children. Under five . Its something that we are looking at and in order to expand the tk site you have to find the space and so i know that we are at capacity at our schools but this is definitely something were mindful of and our plan is to address this issue. Okay. And then so i think thats the only question i have for you because some of the others you answered them but i wanted to bring september back up or ingrid. With regard to the Family Child Care homes providers does the office of early care and education Early Education and owed is there strategies to work with Small Business owners to access state subsidies and training so they can have access to curriculum by the California Department of education . Is there anything planned to work with them since we discovered there is so many . Thank you so much for that question supervisor. I think we do a fair amount and a fair amount more we can do and child care and Small Businesses. I failed to mention the city supports a Family Child Care network and strategy on professional support and curriculum and instruction issues or pedagogical issues in the homes and business and Small Business issues. We have partners for Small Business and the Mission Economic development association, the Child Care Facilities Fund providing support to the child care sector on real estate issues but i think we can do more and better to strengthen the businesses and deepen the supports because they really are extensional at caring for our youngest children especially infants and toddlers where we lack options and theyre the backbones of the neighborhood and i would like we can certainly do more to strengthen the supports and grow the support. And is there would monthly child care expenses be reduced if the providers enroll the into the state program and are they connected to that . Not at all. The cost of doing the cost you would for my child or your child is completely divorced and shouldnt be but from the bers rate. Were trying to flip the scipt in San Francisco but we have a obligation to leverage the dollars and set in the case of the California Department of education reimbursement rates are set on a statewide flat berg reimbursement rate that shows the gap and several thousands of dollars a year per kid and run that out in a Community Center and explains the squeeze that not just the families but providers who are relying on government sources to support them. And then do you think it makes sense to work with owed or city college to come up with a curriculum to help Small Business development and fostering the creation of early child care homes . We have some of the curriculum but we can always do more with city college, with the Child Care Facilities Fund and the Mission Economic Development Fund but we can do more. And my last question are there partnerships or other agencies or Community Based organizations that currently exist to identify and recruit amongo lingual non English Speaking families and participate in free or subsidized programs . Yes. I can speak a little bit about that. The city at this point and time contracts with two important agencies that are part of the early care and Education System. Childrens council of San Francisco and [inaudible] Children Services that provide resource and referral outreach and engagement to San Francisco diverse families in multiple languages. Great. That was my last question so i appreciate everyone coming today. I appreciate all the hard effort and work that was put into this. This is really informative and we will certainly follow up with your departments respectively. I see commissioner mendoza is here. I thanked you before and thank you again for participating and moving the conversation forward and i dont know if colleagues have any other questions. I see a audience of people waiting for the next item and i know theyre excited about that as well. Thank you. Thank you so much. These items are interrelated. I am sorry were running later than we expected for the last item and i know so many of you are waiting so patiently. Were about to get to that item but before that i am opening for Public Comment on item number 5. Does anybody like to speak to this item . Please come up and anybody else that would like to speak you can line up against the wall over there. Good afternoon my name is cindy and i am with Mission Neighborhood centers, head start and Early Head Start. We Serve Centers in the mission, ten in the excellsor and Hunters Point and mission bay and have a small center for 24 preschool children, three and four year olds in a full day program with teachers who are qualified and have spent a lot of time and attention making sure theyre providing a safe space for those children. We have a wait list for that site of approximately 29 an internal Mission Neighborhood center wait list of 29 children who are preschool waiting to get into that site. The San Francisco Child Care Connection february monthly report for 91304 has 298 children waiting for infants and toddlers and preschools waiting for child care in that zip code. I would like to ask the city to take a look at a location that we have looked at. Its 35 and 45 an dagga avenue and as a potential site to establish a state of the Art Education early care and Education Center for head start and Early Head Start using a continuum of care for infants and toddlers and preschool children. The properties as they are now theyre not feasible for such a project. However, with the hospital and support of the city and together with our vision and expertise for the mission center. We believe a site at this location would fulfill the urgent need for a high quality facility for space for head start and Early Head Start. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is leah and i am here today representing Mission Neighborhood centers to urge you to invest in Early Childhood education in the excelsior district and we provide programs to 400 children across ten sites in San Francisco. As we heard access to quality affordable child care is a significant challenge to families in the excelsior. Despite the vast number of families and children under five in the district quality programs are rare to find and even harder to access. In addition sky rocketing rent prices and the lack of Affordable Housing continues to put a burden on low income families that already suffer to meet ends and we ask for Affordable Housing and head start classrooms by partnering with nonprofit providers and Affordable Housing developers. An example of this as you have heard is at 3545 an dogga in the excelsior. These buildings and formerly Emergency Hospital serving residents for free and has been vacant since 2008. The city released an rfp to lease the buildings because of black mold and wear and tear is an environmental hazard. A better story would be to develop Affordable Housing for families while offering Early Childhood education on the first floor. The city needs to be creative and support at risk families and children. We urge to consider the request and other options for Early Childhood education in the excelsior. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is gabriel and i will be brief for the next item. Thank you supervisor safai for calling attention to this matter. As a constituent i certainly and a graduate of Mission Child Resource Center i understand the needs of the district and glad calling attention to this. I want to thank the providers like Mission Neighborhood centers who is doing a stellar job and high rating providing the services and impressed by the presentation today and speakers and representatives from cpac, first five, department of children, youth and their families and i want to let you know and the supervisor know that meta, Mission Economic Development Agency is willing to work on helping to meet the needs to really see where the disparities are because there is over representation of disparity in the southeast sector of the city and also with families of color so were happy this matter has been called so thank you very much. Thank you so much. Is there anyone else for Public Comment for investment six . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel]. Is it okay if we file . Yes thank you very much. Thank you for making time for this. Thank you so much and without objection this hearing heard and filed. [gavel] thank you madam clerk can you please call item number 6. Yes item 6 is a hrlg on the city and School Districts plans to create Affordable Housing for educators in the city and county of San Francisco. Sorry. Thank you so much and i want to thank supervisor safai for calling this hearing with me and obviously with the number of people in the room and there is an over flow room in room 263. There is incredible interest about teacher housing in San Francisco. Im going to run this hearing in a slightly unusual way so please listen. I am going to start off by allowing the supervisors to give opening comments and then open for Public Comment before the departments give their presentations because i understand theres been a lot of people waiting a long time that need to get home to children. I am too going to have a child care issue so you might see my daughter running around here and then well have the departments presentations and for those that would like to wait to give Public Comment after hearing the departments presentations there will be that opportunity as well but each speaker is only able to speak once so make your choice now paused . As parents received assignment letters yesterday many are wondering if i enroll my child in Public School will she have a permanent teacher . This is scary and unfortunately a realistic question that parents are asking ourselves throughout San Francisco. From 2009 to 2015 sfusd had fewer than six classroom teacher vacancies on the first day of school. However on the first day of this Academic Year that number climbed to nearly 38 vacancies. Heather knight of the San Francisco chronicle reported halfway through the classroom there were 26 class room it is without a permanent teacher. I dont see how students are receiving a quality education without a permanent teacher. For the upcoming year i understand the School District is working hard to fill 650 credential teacher vacancies and normally the number of vacancies at this time of year is closer to 500. To make the under statement of the year this is extremely troubling. What we know is that this is not just a San Francisco problem and i want to make it clear that the role of the hearing today is not blame the San Francisco School District. 75 of School Districts in california are facing Teacher Shortages. However we know that San Francisco high cost of living and lack of Affordable Housing are exacerbating the crisis in the city. The crisis is extreme were asking the School District to develop housing for the work force. I can appreciate the stress that this places on the School District whose primary is to educate our children and i know how hard this work is because i too have to be a Affordable Housing developer of sorts to make sure that my non ultrawealthy constituents can go about their lives worrying whether they can make rent this month. In San Francisco for many of us to engage in our core work functions and our mission we must actively work to produce more Affordable Housing. Neither the School District or nor the city and county of San Francisco has a choice but to solve this crisis in earnest and my understanding is that conversations and plans around the needs to build teacher housing has been happening for 13 years since 2004 when the district pledged to selected a teacher housing site. The big question for us today is why havent we been able to build housing for teachers and paraprofessionals and what can we do now to urgently build this housing . Theyre the foundation of our educational system. If theyre not stable at home, if they have to leave the city and classrooms for contra costa and beyond then the children in San Francisco simply are not going to thrive. The teacher housing crisis is not just a teacher crisis or a School District crisis. It is a Community Crisis that is affecting all of us. The good news because there is some good news is that all eyes are on this issue and so many people want to step up to help. This hearing is an opportunity to understand the nature of this crisis and take clear future steps to resolve it. This is an opportunity to strengthen our school and city partnerships and address the teacher housing and paraprofessional crisis. We dont have a moment to waste. In preparation for of the hearing i commissioned the budget analyst to look at levels and rates for the hearing and we will hear from them shortly but i wanted to highlight a few statistics in their report that i found absolutely astounding. The average rent for a studio in San Francisco is approximately 2695 a month and about 32,000 a year. Based on their salary the affordability gap for a first year fully credential teacher is about 16,000 a year or 1,363 per month for a studio and over 23,000 a year, close to 2,000 for a one bedroom. Even a senior fully credential teacher with more than 25 years of experience, the highest possible earning step facing an annual 6,000 gap to be able to afford a market rate studio in San Francisco. If that senior teacherred wanted to live in a one bedroom apartment and the gap would be close to 13,000. Other important statistics 58 of sfusd teachers report its difficult or very difficult to pay rent or make mortgage payments each month and 70 of teachers reported that their salaries provide the majority of their Household Income. Now, we will hear about programs and the down payment assistant loan program and theyre limited in their scale to solve this problem. And this hearing will primarily focus on the strategy that has gained the most traction which is the construction of brick and mortar housing for teachers and School District property. Before i open up to my colleagues for opening comments i want to thank everybody taking the time and waiting so long to come today. The presence of you all here and i know there are teachers and paraprofessionals is really heartening. I know you worked a long hard day and youre here to talk about this means a lot. I also want to thank the budget analyst analyst for their report and the School District. Thank you for being here. I want to thank the Mayors Office of housing and director olson lee and amy chan and also the night united educators united educators of San Francisco and the school board for engaging on this issue and with they upon open it up for additional comments. Supervisor sheehy. Yes. I think the School Assignment letters are out. They were delayed this year and parents were freaking out and i cant blame them and close to decision time for private schools and i hope we didnt lose parents to private schools this year and i certainly have heard from a number of folks. I want to talk about the incredible value of teachers. I have been in San Francisco Public Schools for seven years now and the hard work and dedication of the teachers and the paraprofessionals that we have experienced has nothing short of extraordinary and i hope no parents got discouraged because there is something rare and unique and phenomenal about the work that goes on every day in San Francisco Public Schools and i for one as a parent am incredibly grateful. I also have experienced at the beginning of every school year and this year it was stark the notices that go out through the community. Do you have a spare room . Do you know someone who has an apartment . Do you know someone who needs a roommate . For teachers who had been newly engaged by the schools that we have been at and it is really heart wrench to think about someone who just signed up to work in the district and excited to be in the classroom with your kid and knowing they have no where to live, no where they can afford to live. I dont want to make the remarks too long because i know a lot of people are waiting to speak but i really want to first of all thank supervisor ronen for this report which is great. Its a great data point but also to encourage and support the work of the district and the Mayors Office of housing to find solutions for this problem and to create housing for our teachers because theyre one of the most valuable resources in our community. Thank you. Supervisor safai. Thank you. Its funny when two people have the same idea and so supervisor ronen and i at roll call for introduction a few weeks ago bumped into each other and youre calling for a hearing so we merged them together so i thank you for working together on this. This is an extremely important issue. Myself and supervisor sheehy are both supervisors with children already in Public Schools. Were the only two supervisor. Supervisor ronen will join us in the fall as a tk parent and we will have three and i know supervisor fewer is a parent with older children, and so weve all experienced this system. Did i say that correctly . Your children are grown, correct supervisor . Yeah, theyre way older. Okay. But you have experienced the system so were going through or gone through it so you have the right four supervisors in the room today. The reason i called the reason i wanted to call the hearing because ive had personal experience with the conversation around building educator housing. I see dennis kelly in the audience and we had a Conversation Mission years ago and this conversation has been going on for a long time but were past the point of crisis. We can talk today about salaries of educators and i think were on the board support the idea of an increase in salary for teachers but even an increase is not going to address the issue. The issue in many ways is about the availability of accessible housing so the two things that we know i see a bunch of Nonprofit Developers and we have the house here. One of the most important things with housing is site control. And having control over the site you are going to build on and the district has site control but the impediment is designate and were working through the issues and housing exclusively for teachers and this issue i hope were educated on is what are the strategies that the district with the Mayors Office is going to employ to address the crisis and move in a fast forward manner . And the other one lets have a real honest conversation how we will fund and get that housing built because theres not a lot of funding streams to build housing once you talk about outside of the paraprofessionals. When talking about the actual teachers themselves what are the funding streams . Where are they coming from and how do we build housing for teachers although they dont make a tremendous amount of money they make too much to qualify for the low income Affordable Housing . And what are the strategies and i am hoping to hear that from the Mayors Office of housing. I grew up with my familiful individual with teaching and we have one of the highest concentration of teachers in the city and play a specific role and i know i am preaching to the audience but the importance they play an Important Role in the community and educators in our community so theres a particular value and i think theres a value of having a conversation and creating housing to keep them in San Francisco, not only they can educate our children but part of our fabric and what makes San Francisco great so thank you supervisor. Thank you. Supervisor fewer. Thank you chair. I will be brief. I think most of you know i was on the school board for eight years and i i know first hand about the problems with retention and attracting talent to our School District. I also want to say that i was many, many meetings when teachers came and stormed the Board Meeting saying we cant afford to live here and then i felt like saying go over to city hall and yell at them because theyre not Building Teacher housing for you and after this hearing i might regret saying that but i am glad youre here because frankly i think we have this huge wealth gap in San Francisco. I think we havent been building for teachers or committed to building for teachers. I dont think every supervisor has been committed to finding a site for teacher housing in their neighborhood so today i would like to center our collective thoughts about how we can get this teacher housing done . What are some things the mechanisms we can implement . And i dont think this take the time to talk about other issues within the School District but really about this upon teacher housing issue. paused . So lets not forget them when talking about housing but i am excited to hear what everyone has to say today and also in particular what kind of solutions we can collectively come up with. Thank you very much. Thank you so much and again just to explain im going to run this hearing a little unusual because i know theres a lot of kids and parents that have been patiently waiting that need to get home so usually we would hear the departments presentation first and Public Comment responding to those presentation presentations but i want to give the opportunity to those that need to leave early and speak now and i would ask anybody to wait to wait until after the presentations but those that cannot wait to make a line. No worries about having filled out the speaker cards. I have them here but please if you would like to speak first now is the opportunity but there will be an opportunity for Public Comment for those that havent spoken after the presentations. With that i would like to open Public Comment. [gavel]. Thank you very much supervisor ronen. Its a pleasure to see 2 3 of the odd number district it is represented here. I wonder what is going on in the even districts . Thank you supervisor ronen for pointing out this is a 13 year emergency. The emergency started when healthier and jill put together a resolution that the district was dedicated to housing and we use that with paraprofessionals also. At that time there were eight parcels in the district that were surplus to the district. Since that time one of them has become a charter school. One was given a ten year lease to a private childrens center. The most desirable one, the one that supervisor safai referred to has been traded to the city so the city can build housing which is not teacher housing and in exchange the School District got the right to its own parking lot. There is not exactly been a commitment on the part of the School District to participating in the policy that they established 13 years ago. What can you do about it . Supervisor fewer was clever about making sure that in the parse emtax excuse me, the bond that went forward there is a possibility of using funds to build teacher housing if you also have an educational purpose there. There are a couple of properties that you have. There are plans for 135 van ness to be sota but those plans dont use any of the air space at all. You could use seven, eight stories above that for housing, offices to pay for housing or whatever. You have the land at eighth and lawton. You have the Pumpkin Patch land there. That is School District land in a place where people would love [off mic] actually face down the neighbors there. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you sprfer supervisors. paused . Our city faces this crisis of affordability and a symptom of the shortage of housing. As long as it persists talented teaches that want move here and teach in San Francisco cant do so. As long as the shortage exists and the displacement that pushes teachers out is unabated. As long as we forget how to streamline houses our costs will remain high. Our city must accelerate housing and market rate housing projects. We must insist on strategies that maximize the below market housing and address the number of units built. The strategies that the city uses to ease the crisis must maximize the numbers units produced. 40 of ten is four but 20 of 100 is five times greater and five times more opportunity for dispeemps firefighters and paraprofessionals to move into the city and critical to address the shortage at the level of production. That includes every kind of housing project. Thank you for your time supervisors. Thank you. Hello supervisors. I am Lara Nicholson and a special education paraprofessional at Galloway High School for nine years. I enjoy working with the kids and i feel like i am getting more skilled every year and of course i feel energized by being around the kids. Its very hard to get and keep special education paras at sfusd. We need people with Longterm Service so their skills increase and abilities increase so they can assist students better. I live in a studio close to the school. Thanks to rent control i pay 50 of my salary so but it gets harder and harder every year so we need rent subsidies. I didnt hear anybody mention that. We need subsidies and Affordable Housing so give me a subsidy and affordable place i will move anywhere. Okay. We want to be able to live work and retire in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. I want to thank all of you for being here. Supervisor ronen, supervisor fewer and supervisor safai. And i want to thank all the members of usf and families that are here. [applause] we would have had five times the number of people if our members were not commuting down the bay or the peninsula because theyre looking for a place to afford to stay. 30 years ago i came to San Francisco after renting a one bedroom apartment for a couple of years and my husband and i bought a modest flat where we raised our two sons. Thats what every teacher and paradeserves and thats what we want for the educators here in the city. We applaud and support the efforts we have made through the task force but theyre not enough. The eviction support work is good want the counseling is good but right now in addition to the brick and mortar project which were talking about today i am putting it out there that the most equitable Housing Support is the significant across the board raise for all our educators. [applause] if you could pause. Im sorry. This my most hated part of the job and there is a board rule not to clap i cant stand the rule but i have to enforce it so if you could use hands that would be great. Thank you. Okay. So that was a challenge to the district leaders to the elected leaders of the city. I challenge you to take action to make San Francisco more affordable for educators. You could offer a tax credit to those that rent to educators and a dedicated revenue stream for housing. Isnt it too late to make Tech Companies to pay the fair share . Lets find a way to do it. Thank you. Thank you. Susan solomon executive Vice President of esf right now. I was a Kindergarten Teacher after being a preteacher for a long time and i feel its great that we have such a large tiewrnout here today. What is terrible is that so many of the people who are here are here to speak because they are in a housing crisis. We shouldnt be able to fill up a chamber full of people who are ensecure in housing. I want to speak in particular about special education. As you heard the paraprofessional Lara Nicholson speak earlier and special education we should be proud that in sfusd we welcome students with special needs into the general education classrooms and into specialized programs. However its a shortage area. Its really hard to get enough special Education Teachers and other educators. There have been 60 vacancies of paraprofessionals special education positions all year so we are talking when talking about paraprofessionals were talking about individuals who earn 27,000 to make 32,000 a year so if you can imagine its hard enough for teachers to afford to live in San Francisco. Its even worse for paraprofessionals and we need paraprofessionals in special education. We cannot have a decent operating special Education Program without having special education paraprofessionals. Later on if theres time you will hear from a parent whose son has an iep and she can feel the housing crisis through her son, so we do hope that everybody can do something will do something about this crisis. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Next speaker please. Hi. My name is leon sulton and a teacher. I was born and raised in san frap and went to school in San Francisco and im Second Generation and hes third. I served the students for 12 years. My wife is a paraprofessional. Every day i put effort to give the children in the city a world class education and educators such as myself providing students of our city with the best education possible. Many of our students from lincoln go on to four Year University the first of the family to do so. I hut my heart and soul into teaching on a daily basis and providing opportunities for the children of the city. I have my own family now. We work for the district and we live in a one bedroom apartment with our son. Its rent controlled. Our stuart in the city is tenuous. We are able to remain because ree have rent control. If we want another child or a backyard or teddy wants a room we have to leave. I study historical narratives and familiar with San Francisco, a liberal bastion and progressive values [laughter] the birth place and social movements and vanguard of just causes. Thats the San Francisco i grew up in and not today. All that seems to matter now is money. What you contribute to the community of the city is no longer relevant. We give twitter tax breaks and allow others to use corporate shuttles and people that built the city are forced to leave ti know narratives can change. If we care about the city we will take actionable measures to make sure that the people who contribute to our communities and serve our children are able to continue living here. If we dont i am afraid that San Francisco values are going to be lost. Theyre going to be replaced by corporate values, not social justice. The ball is in your court. Thank you so much. Hi. My name is ivany and a teacher in the district for 15 years. I am late for my second job so i will talk facht. I am at hard on staff schools with vulnerable learners and on special assignment. I love my job and passionate about the students in the district but after spending 15 years working for the district i am really concerned that because of my job i couldnt afford to have kids and live in the city. Thank you for your time. Thank you so much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors and colleagues. I am a literacy coach here in San Francisco unified at john muir and educator for over 20 years in San Francisco unified School District for 13 years. My daughter and i have been evicted and i just want to ensure that we as teachers and students receive the best learning and instruction im going to go by my notes. Sorry. I am usually a really good speaker. Im in the middle of finding another school for my daughter outside the district. I dont think we can afford to stay here. There are no special privileges for us as educators or employees of the district either and thats not what were asking for. We just want Affordable Housing. Thats it. The new teachers they leave after one year. I put my heart and soul into what i do. I have been at hard to staff high need underserved schools. Thats where my passion lies, and thats i am going to continue to do for the rest of my career. For the first time in 20 years i have to question where i am going to do that. The new teachers i coach have to leave after the first year and get the support and its just they cant do it, financially they cant do it. The impact diminishes the quality of learning and teaching at our schools in San Francisco. I picked San Francisco to work in and for my daughter to attend school here because this is where we are from. This is our home and something needs to happen now. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. My name is mary and i was born and raised in this city and i am that statistic that youre talking about. Its not just floating out there in the space,. The struggle is real. I have had to move out of this city twice. Ive gone further and further out, and every time i have moved out a little bit further i have to down size even more and more and more. The children at our school suffer when we live far away. We could spend more time with our kids. The kids that we love in the city that we love if we had Affordable Housing here. My mother was an educator from the south. She came and worked for the School District for over 25 years and she told me if you work as an educator you will have a secure solid job. Well god rest sow. She didnt know. She couldnt see the future. Its time to stop talking. If youre not going to do stop talking. You have to step up. You wouldnt like to see your parents like us. Im a senior now. Seniors cant parents we cant retire because our retirement is awful but for us to be pushed out and worry about transportation, all of that. Its up to you. Youve got to do something. Thank you. Thank you so much. pause. And i was then homeless sleeping on peoples couches and while i have credit and full time job and looking from commissioner matsuda to san rafael and i found a place and every year its will there be another rent increase that is going to kick me out of here . And im sorry i am looking for another job. Half the people that i work with one colleague pays the entire paycheck to her rent. How can you possibly stay here and do anything like that . Down the peninsula they offer 30,000, 40,000 more a year so what we need is a fix for proposition 13 to stop the people from selling the Holding Companies and avoiding tax. In 1970 70 corporations paid 20 of the tax. Today they pay 2 of the tax. Coming up the city needs to do what denmark does, do what the other companies in countries do in scandinavia is buy housing and renting it mortgaging it to their citizens. Those corporations like google that allowed not to pay tax which makes me so angry theyre gog to be putting the estimates that i saw is that 30 of us is going to be unemployed in the future. We have a crisis going on. Two years ago i came for this. Youre different faces and nothing is being done want leave. They dont care. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is dottie and im a special Education Teacher at Lowell High School here in the city. My beautiful daughter goes to sunset Elementary School. We love the city. I have been working in special education. This is my 15th year. I was a paraprofessional for two years before that and were hanging in by a thread. Half of my paycheck as others have said goes to housing and thats being threatened by a predatory landlord trying bullying tactics to push us out. She succeeded with one unit and while some of the tactic it is some are illegal, some are legal, even with tenants rights its extremely stressful day in and day out to live in that environment where youre pushed out. Hey dont want you there. The home is not a sanctuary and protecting with every fiber of our being and on the stressful. We are worried about possibly having to go through substitute teachers at her school. You know i dont want to leave my job and its just extremely stressful. I dont know how much longer we can stay in the city. We love the box and dont want to live. Think outside of the box and not just the brick and mortar and think about subsidies or landlord incentives and think outside of the box and the bmr which we cant afford anyway because of the hoa fees are ridiculous so most of are entirely unaffordable as well but theyre all on certain parts of the city which we live on the southwest side. I would love to see things happening in different parts of the city because you know im a single mother. I dont have help. I have arranged my life on that side of the city and i dont want to commute across town every day as a single parent and special Education Teacher is extremely difficult so please take that into mind. Thank you so much. Thank you. Hello. My name is sida and i dont think its fair for any of us that we have that we cant afford housing and that so many teachers cant afford to live here so how it affects kids that their teachers cant afford to live here because they live in apartment and they get kicked out by their landlady and they have to move and they leave all their friends behind and then they miss so many people. Its just not fair for anyone. Thank you so much. Youre such an amazing speaker. Thank you. Hi. My name is jearn robertson and the principal at Glen Park School in the glen park neighborhood. I am also the president of the united administrators of San Francisco and we cover supporting principals and supervisors and program administrators. So i am wearing a couple of hats and im a mom in the schools and a renter for the past 28 years so i am here to give you some insight into the day and life of a typical Public School and the ramifications we experience daily due to the housing crisis lack of Affordable Housing for teachers in the city. We cant hire and maintain teachers to teach the children due to what i mentioned and what were here to discuss today. Because of the crisis we have children showing up every day and often time there is isnt a teacher to teach them. I had a minicrisis at my school this year that you may have read in the newspaper and a teacher went on leave suddenly and no qualified person to be in that position and after subs if they showed up i was able to give intervention for the lower performing students into this and its not an optimal solution. I received support on the issue. My Sister School shared her stories with me and similar. This is not a lung sfusd issue. This is a city issue. I had 28 instances where this thing happened where teachers or substitute teachers were not available. This translates to 28 loss days of education for our young kids. We are in a crisis. Our city educators are beginning to feel more like indentured servants than Public Servants. There a feeling of undervalued and under supported and the kids are losing elements in the necessary foundation. Thank you so much. I am from [inaudible] resources and representing the San Francisco education path Way Coalition and dozzent entities and sfusd and university of San Francisco and multiple organizations and were coordinating a path way for home grown san franciscan educators. Essentially what that means we have martienezs in our schools San Francisco students that want to be teachers and in San Francisco. They need to see its possible to do that. We can provide a lot of supports, education, Work Base Learning experiences, scholarships. We cant provide housing. One of our partners, the university of San Francisco Teacher Preparation Program typically has about seven to seven under graduate students apply to the San Francisco Teacher Residency Program and provides credential and guarantees a job in San Francisco provided you commit to work in San Francisco unified for three years. Typically seven students apply. This year only one student did and when the university surveyed students and said why . Students said they werent prepared to make that commitment to teaching in San Francisco because they couldnt afford living here so this is clearly a huge issue. At the coalition weve heard that the current campus site is a place for a lot of housing so were interested in hearing more. Thanks. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. I am the executive director of bright line defense a Public Policy nonprofit. We have been quietly working on this issue since october 2015 where we started conducting Legal Research and analysis about the constitutionality of teacher housing. Since then actually weve had considerable progress through the form of the state legislature. Senator mark leno jumped on top of the legality question and passed a bill. And the document is a support letter signed by close to a dozen organizations in need of teacher housing and then it was signed by the governor as of september 2016. That this issue has been discussed for over a decade and a half without progress is a social injustice to the teachers and to the students because when you look at teacher turnover and how the cost of living has negatively affected the School District and service to the youth it makes this Public Policy more important than any other policy in terms of trying to retain an economically diverse city so thats why bright line continues to retain interest in this. Were interested in commissioner mark sanchez proposal proposed in a school Board Meeting about properties and scale is important and brick and mortar house suggest important so were committed to making sure that scale as large as possible. So thank you for the attention to the issue and supervisor safai thank you as well. Thank you so much. Good evening. My name is loren. I am a native of San Francisco, born and raised. Probably one of a few of the last black men remaining in San Francisco unfortunately. My family is also theyre natives of San Francisco. Im a native of fill more and [inaudible] and i rise in the work i have done at the San Francisco teacher residency and one of the things i tried to employ there we are intentional about making sure that the teacher educators that we cute and teach in San Francisco. Historically in underserved neighborhoods are set up to be successful and thriving and prospererring. Not that when they come to teach theyre struggling to survive but prospering and one of the ways that we do we try to do our best to make sure they have financial incentives to make sure they can live here because at the end of the day them not being able to afford to live in San Francisco really is an equity issue and teacher educators and those working in the historically underserved neighborhoods are going to be there and constant in the neighborhood and invest and intertwine themselves with that community and that neighborhood so i applaud you on starting a discussion tonight on teacher housing and Building Teacher housing for our awesome teachers and i applaud the superintendents as well and the board of education for starting this conversation and i hope after tonight we can sprint to start Building Teacher housing because l. A. Has passed us three times over in conversations ive with them and the work there they surpassed us and i know were the best city in the country and we can do it. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is Susan Kitchell and a pediatric and adlessent Nurse Practitioner and worked with the families since 1981 and currently the school nurse at galileo and i love my job. Unfortunately im being l listed and evicted effective in august of this year in the apartment i lived in since february 2000. Brought my son home to the apartment and mourned the death of his father there and the success of college there. The apartments holds memories past but no opportunity to create new. I live in district 1. I lived in the space of ten square blocks of district 1 since 1981. Throughout my years in the city i see students in my neighborhood and muni and all around town. I earn my salary in the city and spend the salary in the city and i spend it exclusively in the shops on geary boulevard and clemson street. My neighbors know me. I know my neighbors. Unfortunately its the ground zero for evictions and there are five vacant units and as a result of evictions. So what what happens now . What happens when i am ousted from my apartment . In all likelihood i cant remain in San Francisco. The time and expense of commuting considers me to consider the feasibility of working in the city. San francisco unified is experiencing way too many vacancies in educator categories. How do we provide safe and supported schools to the students and families if we cant afford too live here . The Affordable Housing crisis is real. Its way too real. Too many of educators of forced out of the city. We need Housing Assistance now in order to insure safe and Supportive Schools for our students. Thank you. Thank you so much. Hi. Good evening. I am gill. I have been in the district for 30 years. I have a son and daughter one at lowell and one at james [inaudible] middle schoom. I never witnessed a crisis of this magnitude facing teachers today. My personal circumstances are out of the ordinary but separated from my wife. At one point during the great seresidence she lost her job and were still trying to recuperate. As soon as we didnt made the obligations as homeowners of course chase bank foreclosed on the foam. I was one of the few lucky ones that find a bmr, below market rate unit they can afford. The situation were in now its indefensible and just like everyone working with students. I love my job. I have been doing it for decades. I am proud of the work. Students love me and they want to be in the class and parents tell me their children are happy to go to School Every Day and teachers we are a bed rock of the community and profession and students are demeand and devalued. Arguably we have the most important job there is, certainly more important than shooting a ball through a hoop or running a hundred yards with a pig skin and volunteering 20 hours a week. I dont know if you are but theyre working ten, 20 hours volunteering. When friends come from outside San Francisco or the country they say how progressive San Francisco is. You know what . Its not that progressive. If we want to be a world class city we cant do that if housing is not a basic human right. This situation has to be rectified immediately. Thank you. Thank you so much. Hello. My name is Darren Peters and a teacher in San Francisco unified School District for years. My wife and are teachers and we met and nine years of experience and we basically rent a tiny junior one bedroom so like a gorrified studio really but we recently had a son in january so weve out grown our space. His bedroom is our entry way and got a minicrib and we have been creative and solutions to make small places work but ultimately the guilt of keeping a kid in a entry way is probably going to cause us to look for housing in another School District and probably where we can get paid more so really our only question we have been asking if we will both move to a new district or one will commute into the city. Thinking about commute time and time away from the child and again we love the school sites and our families and students but when looking at raising our son its going to quickly become impossible. Once he can walk its impossible and thats coming up soon so im not sure if you can do anything in the time to save like to get us housing but clearly its a need. San francisco invested like a lot of training in me. San francisco invested training in my wife. Like was talked about were training teachers and theyre leaving so were wasting resources by not trying to keep teachers. I use redwood forest analogy stronger trees grow in a old growth forest and you have trust in the communities and kids looking forward to being in the class. Thats how you have strontd schools and one teacher and train them but not [inaudible] teachers and over and over again. Thank you. Thank you so much. Good afternoon. My name is john and a spanish teacher at Lowell High School where i have been for 25 years and in the district teaching 31 years. However in 2010 i was forced to go to los angeles where i was offered a job as a bilingual spanish teacher because my studio apartment which was 1200 and exempt from rent control apparently in 1979 and in june multiple buildings were exempt and your 1,200 is now 1,500 1,500 more. Please make a check for 2,700. I came across the teacher next door loan and grateful and given a forgivable down payment and 3 and proud owner of the Bay View District which is getting more awesome by the day but now its awesome with Million Dollars homes in the area and were losing tenure teachers because they cant afford to live here and flock toght peninsula and east bay and salaries are higher and cost of living is less and please have the blessing that ive had of offering more of the Affordable Homes possibilities which is the American Dream. My family is from cuba and we came to leave communism and the American Dream and i got and let Everything Else have the same. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hello. My name is sunshine and a High School Teacher at Lincoln High School. Growing up in San Francisco i have seen the city prioritize investment and profit over families and communities. I have seen skyscrapers and outsiders replacing neighbors and friends. Now as a second year teacher i want to serve the district that raised me and work in San Francisco which is my home. But the more they think about this the more i realize this is become being an impossible dream. As educators we understand that we have chosen a profession of timeless hours, of constant arguments. What we dont understand is why our city is not working timeless hours and having constant arguments to defend the warriors that choose on a daily basis to fight for and to serve alongside the communities and children of our city . Thank you. Name brendon and i teach at lynch ion high school and native of San Francisco and live in the Mission District with two daughters. I went to a Retirement Party at Lake Shore Elementary School with supervisor cohen went as well and in my 20s and went to a old school spot and there was alts principal of the school and many teachers and all teachers that supervisor cohen would remember and there after 30 years and i went in there and got life advice. It meant a lot to me and why were they still there . They had secure housing. They made a livable wage in San Francisco. As you know were in a crisis. Two years ago i took a job at Lincoln High School. Why was there an opening . An eviction. Okay. Among the new teachers i hear a new theme. I live with my parents and worked for a little bit in the late 20s and after you have a family that doesnt work. Okay. Worse than this recently i met a teacher who is homeless. Can anyone raise the hand have you taught by a homeless teacher . Anyone in the room . There is a homeless teacher in San Francisco and students taught by the homeless teacher. How are we going to solve this . Im not a policy maker. I teach but i disagree with the supervisor safais comments that is not about teacher pay. This is about teacher pay. After seven years a San Francisco Police Officer makes 115,000. After seven years the teachers are paid 55,000. This is not fair. What does is it tell about our civilization and our city . Okay. So teacher housing is the issue. Thank you. My name is Janet Everhart and a parent in the city for 31 years. Are you tired, run down, sleep deprived, less and less energy . This is not a commercial for geritol. This is about describing the commuter. I have commuted for 31 years and i unfortunately like most of you ive never been able to call this city my home. Im a single parent that raised my child outside of the city because i could never afford housing in the city, but this is not about me. I was asked to tell my story because i commute over two and a half hours every morning and again two and a half hours in the evening. 22. 50 a day to get to work as a paraprofessional but just take me out of the equation and think about the teachers and parents who commute daily to be here for the students of San Francisco. They are committed, dedicated and they love the students of San Francisco. My daughter has asked me repeatedly mom, why do you continue to do that commute . Its because i love the students of San Francisco and so do all the other teachers and paraprofessionals that commute on a daily basis. Please do something about this housing crisis. We want quality teachers who are here and ready to do their best with students, but then they must be at their best, so please do something about those of us who have to commute every day. Five hours of my life thank you. Commuting. Thank you. Before the next speaker i wanted to jump in. I think there is a misunderstanding of the statement i made initially. I am 100 support of increasing teacher salary. What i was saying its not just about that. We can increase the salaries but if we dont have the housing that people can access its also about that as well but thank you for bringing that up. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisor. My name is to bias cane and basically i want to put a face to my pain. I am a native san franciscan. I was born here in San Francisco General Hospital in 1949 so i decided to work with the School District. I have been with the district since 1971. This is 45 years. I just want to say that an injustice to one of us is to all of us and then the face that were forgetting we have a housing problem but were doing an injustice for the kids of San Francisco because we cant come in and work at our best and be at our best when were tired from either having commute or look for housing or whatever the problem is. Myself the house i am in just went to escrow last friday, the 17th, so i am looking at two months before i move and to where . I cant afford anything. Save money in order to move someplace. I dont make enough to save. As soon as i get my check its gone out and i want to say this is really a crisis. Its a disaster and we really need some help and thank you very much. Thank you. Hi. My name is brad and i work in San Francisco. We have conned and advocated for tenants and affordable San Francisco and we proudly stand with every teacher and parent in the room right now and i am honored to fight loon side the individuals being evicted. I would like to talk to but fighting that. As city hall deliberates over deeply Affordable Housing which we support but simultaneously do what we can to protect the affordable units that exist and house the teachers. Last year i met two professionals that i focus on. One dante is here today. He and 50 of his neighbors live in below market rate on post street and protected since 85 and at risk raised to market rate. Today the primary owner of that location and equities and one of the multi. Larger real estate owners on the west coast and agreement to protect the units in the works. For dante and neighbors fighting against rent increases and countless contributions to the vitality of San Francisco including the Public School it is. Were also looking at this building and seeing a preventable situation, one of many, but only if the elected officials stand with us and hold them accountable to the crisis they contributed. paused . Increases between tenants. Thankfully there is a repeal bill in the assembly and under the bill to contact member chiu and coauthor and the committee so its the steep increases that cause displacement. Thank you so much. Thank you. Hello. My name is dante. I im a math teacher and soccer coach at washington high school. I worked in long since 2010 including three and a half years as a paraprofessional. When i choose to become a teacher despite i would be paid less money than my friends in the private sector but i consciously made that decision because i knew i would spend every day helping young mind using problem solving skill it is they would use for the rest of their lives and go on the soccer field and teach athletes about team work and sportsmanship every day and collaborate with educators every day and make the lessons accessible to all students. However, i am currently fighting to keep my below market rate apartment and if i lose that battle i am facing the decision having to move out of the city and either commute which will mean i have to give up coaching and collaboration or leave the city all together and give up relationships that i have spent my entire career building, so i am just hoping that this hearing gives the board of education and the city incentives to solve this affordability crisis that affects so many of us. Whether thats paying educators a San Francisco living wage with the new contract, or whether thats providing teachers or educators specific Housing Solutions that allow us to live and be a part of the communities which we serve on an every day basis. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. My name is victoria and i teach market at the academy of San Francisco at [inaudible]. I came to california a couple of years ago and decided to stay. I startedded process of transferring my credential to live and work in San Francisco. The first attempt at permanent housing a found a room for 1200 not far from the school and gave me the space for the students that i serve and recreation time for art coordinator and coach. On december 1 the room had been foreclosed on the day before and the new owners gave me the paperwork and started hassling me for rent. I just paid rent and asking double rent and all i wanted that day was rest and food because i worked the entire day and missed lunch. I was forced out of the living situation right before the end of a grading period without time to plan where to g my first option was a local hostile and i didnt miss work and arrived on time for planning and preparation. The hostile option worked for a couple of months but it doesnt serve the needs someone that needs housing. I didnt get the 2,400 back from the original landlord or the provisional credit and stop payment for the rent. Out of 3,600 and the option of the hostile because im a local i had no place to go. The housing crisis has impacted my routine and serve the students because i was without a stable place to go before a fellow teacher helped me out to have a proper place to plan lessons and time to look for permanent housing. Thank you. Thank you so much. Hello. My name is anna. I represent uasf and ace so i have been a teacher for 22 years in San Francisco and lived in my apartment the same time. I grew up in San Francisco and educated here as well. So i have been committed to this profession but ive been committed to my community and i live in the Mission District. What i saw clearly most recently is that my situation if i am evicted from my home which is a rent controlled place there is nowhere to go and same for the community because in fact were part of the community and all the things that have been fabricated, this crisis that affects the community and dedestabling the community and us and were inter twined and the solution is the same for the community and charging and you asking your conscience and any of the people on the board in the wholesale of the San Francisco and fast track being luxury building and slow tracking affordable buildings and allowing rent controlled units turned over to airbnb for Luxury Vacations which is shameful. Taking money from hedge funds and Silicon Valley and moguls and destabilized our city and your credibility. Now that we have the chance to do something about it. I hope you take this opportunity and housing is a opportunity but not enough. 70 of the city are renters and 70 of educators are city and if were 6,000 people there are 4,000 units i know youre not building that. Thats not what were talking about today. We need overall policies and tobias and evicted where he lives. He could have bought that home my lesson plans n1 had i couldnt sleep i had to pick up a second job waiting tables i didnt know how much it impacted my work until i saw how many starbucks gift cards i was getting it cant fix my payments. With my class Self Reporting that i care about them, i love them and i expect nothing let than their best they know this so i love my job, im good at my job but i cant afford my job. Good evening my name is roberto a proudal i work with junior high students Jordan School of equity what is equity here i ask. Students have a hard time refocusing them when i get to hear they dont have a home to say theyre being kicked out this is happening at those grounds where the students i serve then i get to hear from my friend who says i need a room i have been evicted here i go opening my house to a friend of mine and i have to keep his name out because he asked me to he doesnt want to be that popular i guess. Any way, he has been going through this for quite a while hnd and he has left my home and come back its recuring you hear the obvious and look at the people still its time we need housing. I wanted to finish with this is that you know we have the sites, the district and you can Work Together i mean, lets Start Building now lets Start Building. Thank you. Hello my name is claudia hello hilary. Hi. I have been teaching in San Francisco for 17 years. Treasure island sanchez red heart Elementary School fair mount and i have run into my students now theyre older and vig tor victor hugo is one of the students in my Elementary School and he was in front of my house he told me he struggled with housing as well and his family was kicked out and living in a single room occupancy i was really touched to see him become an activist in the Community Come to my protest because i came to be an act ti activist. My husband is a taxi driver ii have my son we cant get preschool easily were dont qualify were not poor enough were not rich enough its hard to keep things up then we get eviction notice our building is sold we get eviction notice from somebody that is not a landlord interested in buying a seven unit property for renting he was interested in evicting us and using the ellis act evision so our neighbors came together and fought him in the court of law on the street we won and won and won. And he died and his brother has the rights to the property, and they bought the building for 1. 4 he wants 3. 8 million for the building we were working with the land trust to get it punneded and the land trust cant touch it because its too expensive and none of the teacher programs teachers next door or anything like that there is no funding for us to purchase that working on. Thank you so much. If you can help please do. Thank you claudia. Good evening Board Members im with the Council Community housing organizations. We are Affordable Housing providers and housing activists im a parent i have a daughter at mckinley and my son is at mission high i get it they talk about their teaches and some travel great distances this is home for a lot of us in fact all of you know what its like to be parents as well as policy makers we have a Historic Housing crisis expanded to more and more folks its not just the populations we served in the past its expanding dramatically one of the ironies of the economic boom is the housing crisis has gotten worse not better our organization choo choo has done a lot. In 2014 we have the largest down Payment Assistance Programs in the state prop c inclusionary in 2016 clearly all of these together are not enough we need to do more collectively we are here to stand on solutions stabilization is as important as new supply were not going build our way of out any Affordable Housing needs we got to have a solution that is driven as much by speculation as it is by shortage of supplies we got to have a set of solution that tackles those problems choo choo stands with the educators were here to work with the city and the educators and all in this room to tackle the problem. Thank you. Thank you, peter. Hl low. Good afternoon im from gateway high school. I love my job because i get to work with some of the most Vulnerable Children with learning disability and pursue this idea that all children can learn and succeed as a parent im an integral part of the classroom serving as a back up to help teacher to do more of what they need to do to be more effective to reteaching entire parts of lesson who wasnt there and needs it explained to them parents and teachers we are told our jobs are vital there is no retention like myself and fellow educators here there is no way for us to stay here. I used to live in the city in the former working class of San Francisco i am now in vallejo i spend 20 hours on commute a week on the ferry to get here every day running Robotics Team i started and running several years i cant spend as much time with my students because it eats into my commute time people are tired an poor we will hear it again there is a pattern to what everyone is saying. My fellows out here thank you very much. Have a nice day. Thank you. Hi my name is armando debate coach at high school the reason i can stand here is as a product of education i grew up poor my parents are refugees and grew up in poor schools i had great teacher, administrators but that is not sustainable with a cost of living that is higher we pay less than berkeley, emeryville and peninsula the cost of living is dramatically higher. Of 664 positions need to be filled next year we likely know we will not be able to fill 164 that means needs are not going to be met substitute teachers are going to have to fill in or student landscape not have teachers period that is unacceptable. I understand this is a difficult crisis and complicated situation i urge you so much to be urgent to be fast to move we have been talking about this for too long every single month, week, day we delay and dont something is a teacher and classroom not being helped thank you very much. I hope you do the right thing. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening im a teacher at Public School in San Francisco montessori for children who are mentally ill who cannot come to school on the weekend i work with another program the Parent Teacher program. I teach para professionals studying for credential exams its not enough i barely survive with three jobs im a teacher of color, i im from the south so very traumatic educational experiences and fortunate to work in sf u. S. D i wish i hated working here it would make the decision of leaving next year easy for me but i love it. The pod goingy the support the fund has been extraordinary the three years teaching here compared to the five back home in texas has been empowering to say the least. But i will become another statistic when i cant afford to come back to the school and community that i love so i might be too late for me but help para professionals stay here who are able to provide representation of student of colors that look like them that have shared experiences and relate with them i hope and i pray. Thank you. Thank you so much. My name is morgan wall lis a product of San Francisco Public Schools and i have been teaching for nine years im here because of the teacher next door and down Payment Assistance Program i got in a window where i could qualify and afford to buy a home with my sisser they work thats why im here that program doesnt work any more the housing cost is too much and the pay has not gone up. We have a large group at Lincoln High School new teacher some who speak today who are young teacher of color and proud residents of San Francisco and Ethnic Studies Program who live in their parents home like mr. Fury spoke to earlier they will leave if they dont get their own place it matters to me so much for Lincoln High School to hold onto teachers and transform that school. Another way this effects our youth is that because i live close to many of my students, just in the last week or two, i have been able to stop by ygc to stop for my students on the way home i did not have to commute. I visit my student diagnosed with cancer with her family and support her and bring her food that doesnt happen when a teacher has to commute. Ii have a kid on the way. I want my kid to have teachers that live in my community. I had a student ask me yesterday how do i become a peer resource or ethic studies teacher in San Francisco i was scared for them for them to stay in San Francisco stop speculation support ore youth address this issue now. Thank you. I will make an announcement since the majority of public decided to give Public Comment now i will hear all of Public Comment now and we will close out before we hear the presentations from the departments ignore my earlier announcements those if you would like to give Public Comment now stand in line you are blow us away with this testimony its compel and heart wrenching thank sow much. Good evening my name is colean turner my husband and i hail from six generations of family lease in the bay area i can drive around street and see structures that my father built with his own hands decades ago. We are educators in sf u. S. D. From tenderloin Elementary School and another one at alverado elementary. I work at presidio middle school. Your honor my husband and i have bachelors and master degrees with numerous certificate and credentials we have 40 years working miracles in the field of education, however, because we chose to be educators and live in San Francisco with my husband as ald instructor and me in education were making a difference in the lives of the citys most vulnerable however we are a family of six living in one bedroom apartment if it were not for rent control we would have no home at all we need help so we can daek care of the children as well as we care for the children of this city. Thank you. Good afternoon my name is cynthia mesa im a parent of four children all sfd students at one point i have been a teacher for 14 years at [inaudible] middle school in district nine. And i consider myself one of the lucky ones. We are six living in a two bedroom house we have no options if we were to get evicted there would be nowhere to go with four children. Im a lucky one. Im also a member, people organizing to demand environmental and economic rights and fighting for housing i used to talk about teachers staying later in classrooms and in the districts i cant make that argument any more. It kills me my argument now is can we just keep teachers in the classroom im in the latin American Teachers Association to reflect the students were teaching to reflect the student ins the classroom we cant make that argument any more can we keep teachers in the classroom . Last year we had ten teachers only three of us returning. We had seven new teachers one of our classrooms spent time empty going sub to sub broken apart twep class rooms that were not the right grade. Can we keep teachers in the classroom . How are we going to do it we have to increase the amount of Affordable Housing not at the expense of poor families we cannot decrease how many are housed their poor. There has to be increase we have to have a bigger part of the pie number two yes we need increase pay so help us work with our School District to increase our pay and increase the housing for all of us for our students for family and for teachers. Thank you cynthia. Thank you. Good evening supervisors my name is Gabriel Medina with the Economic Mission agency im amazed by the teachers of San Francisco im k12 and here today. With our Mission Promise Mission Initiative this effects our vulnerable schools more than any. While california has 9 of ratio of teeveners less than three years San Francisco is at 14 our Mission Neighborhood stantd stands at 20 this is a crisis that effects we are losing experienced teachers as of this i support what i have heard today of course with the subsidies that depletes early Affordable Housing not at the expense of lower income families we need a bigger piece of the pie. On school sites and of course raise for salaries of educators even incentive for landlords, to keep teachers in place we would like to work with you and with the city to find solutions for this. The students and educator of San Francisco are where the city will be in the future thank you. Thank you gabriel. Hi my name is megan i have been educator in San Francisco 12 years i started as par professional i got my teacher kreshl while working in the district and special educator for seven years im now working doing behavior supports all over the city. I work with some of the schools that have the highest needs and i work directly with teachers social workers and staff. To provide needed supports to students. And so i really depend on working with staff year after year. I myself have been living in San Francisco 20 years i have a family and i live in an apartment with 0 rooms and i pay 75 of my salary every month to stay there. Because i dont want to commute from outside the city its kind of a ticking time bomb i dont know how much longer i can spend 75 of my salary to live with three people and no bedrooms. So i really want to figure out what i do next not just for me for a lot of the teachers i work with amazing teachers and social worker and nurses and para professionals n the classroom every year this time of year its the time i hear theyre leaving last year an ahaze mazing teacher was commuting from san pablo one i admired i wanted to grow up and be that teacher she left. This year one of the teacher i thought was amazing that got a Christmas Present for students asking for donation because she works n a high needs school is leaving these representatives people i depend on with the students not just for me and my situation but for of the teachers and para nurses and everybody we need to do something soon. Thank you so much. My name is Christine Soto special education 4th year teacher i work at Francis Scott key. Im lucky to call myself a homeowner in richmond california i commute two hours a day about two weeks a year is how much time i spend in my car i have colleagues that live five minutes from work they live in an inlaw partially subsidized by parents and dont have a kitchen i have colleagues that live ten minutes away that work three jobs and have several roommates i know this is a dit session i make to commute every day. But my colleagues are making a hard decision which is whether to stay in the city. For those colleagues that are able to ford to buy a home now unfortunately now its expensive ii have colleagues that are going to buy their first home to sacramento to rent they cant live in the first home theyre buying while others use teacher to buy the home next door they couldnt get a big enough loan biwells fargo in San Francisco. I know you have hard decisions to make in favor of the students and educators that compromising schools come together and create a solution. Thank you. Thank you. Hi my name is con knee muenda im the teacher kids fear i dont put up with it these representatives ones they send the kids to. Put them aside and get down to the business of learning im saying that to you all these nice people are asking you. Im warning you, either you are going to give us housing or you are going to have a mess its that simple now what you really want is to make sure all of these nice people in nice homes teaching these kids otherwise, you are going to be stuck with those kids out on those streets messing with you. Okay . Thats what i do. I make sure those kids are getting the education they need so theyre out on those streets dont make the mistake of keeping the teachers out. It wont be pretty. Thank you. Thank you. My name is lisa guzman. Of dsf and the organizer of San Francisco international where two teachers sent me statements to be read i know were running out of time i will read one of them [reading] with a persistent mold and mildew in ground apartment and generally with the San Francisco market from confirmation from the landlord he wasnt able to do anything. My mold allergy made it difficult to live in the same place we decided to look in different apartments even with my descent salary there is no way we could afford to move most places we could afford would be a longer commute than coming from some places in oakland and more expensive we found a place in oakland although i live living in oakland my commute is 45 minutes longer i feel less connected to the neighborhood, news, and updates please do the right thing. Thank you. Next speaker please . Im art simon teaching with the San Francisco School District since the 80s i have been at Lowell High School since the 90s teaching Computer Science i enjoy my job but getting to work has been difficult i was evicted from my rent controlled apartment when my son is six months old i looked forward to being not only San Francisco teacher but parent as well. I was able to find a place to live in the east bay but my commute is significant. I have to measure and coordinate everything i do as a teacher with that commute. I used to sponsor clubs after school and evening and weekend functions at the school site those are things i cant do any more. I do miss it even though im lucky enough to have a place to live now and im almost embarrassed to admit that with the stories i have heard tonight, i just dont understand how people can do it now. Thank you very much. And thank you. Thank you. Good evening my name is chris albert i have been in special education my 12th year in al ba. My two daughters have been raised by San Francisco Public School from presidio Child Development care to now at lowell. I say raised because i know how important teachers are to the place we love. They have been expelled, truant, through foster care and through the juvenile Justice System some are homeless abused and traumatized i cant stress enough that is important to help raise them. We lost our social studies teachers last year due to the housing crisis culturally relevant curriculum with social justice in mind as well. We now offer social studies online were losing special education this year for a staff of nine that impacts students in thatd of trusting and consistent adults often time they feel their first School Success with us my desire is to keep my family in San Francisco and help raise our citys youth i received a call from my landlord that said i want to sell the home. As the appraiser came mru the apartment my daughter said dont make me leave lowell day help our dedicated teachers stay in the city we love with the students we love. Thank you. [inaudible] im a teacher at betsy car michael almostry school i am lucky as well i have a 200 square foot apartment in an inlaw with no kitchen but my College Professor landladies charge me only 45 of the take home pay for that space i wanted to speak on behalf of teacher in that school we are hard to staff school and serve underserved children one of the teacher felt nervous about exposing her landlord she also had to work so im going to speak for her this is my 14th. Year in education ii have three clear kreshls a masters doctoral degree working full time for sfsd as an adjacent at local university combine jobs apartment at all is because i have rent control and landlord has increased my rent one time in the last decade i love my work and spend working poor families im falling deeper into debt. Nothing to send my daughter to college and precious time to spend on anything other than work i may need to leave education to survive its crazy to me to leave my job as a Public Servant simply to avoid becoming homeless. Thank you so much. I just want to say, my name is maria [inaudible] i have been a teacher more than ten years at sheridan now at betsy car michael. We have one of the highest homeless transitional families in our school i want you to dig deep i know its bigger than you too bad district 11 where i live for ten years now is gone. Because i really want you to understand the criticalness of it. I was a classroom teacher now instructional reform facilitator i coach new teachers every day social Emotional Trauma physical, menial, spiritual that they go al, spiritual that they go tal, spiritual that they go through. You want to help them but you cant right . They come to work they have this passion to serve their kids they cant because theyre sleepy they travel two hours or live in a condition that isnt best for them. Now, i know my minute is up i want to tell you this story my landlord im very in a unique place right now my landlord is waiting two years to buy his parents house he inherited for 50 years they lived there he waiting two years for me to buy it. The dell program is not helping even with that we have to pay a mortgage of 4,000. The teachers next door it is helping for a bit you need qualification for that and it runs out because so many people are applying as you can tell there are a lot of teachers that need housing im lucky to be able to afford a low rent but if i cant, my partner who is also a teacher and myself has commute. Thank you. Hes considering going to another district in san mateo getting paid 65,000. In a master program. Thank you for your time. I want you to understand that housing is a basic right. Thank you so much. Hello my name is cassandra i teach in middle school 6th grade Language Arts and been there seven years i dont know if you know, but the middle. School s a title school we serve San Franciscos most vulnerable families and one of the populous areas in the city. At seven years in a title one school, im in my prime. Im confidentable with what im teaching im dedicated im constantly searching for new ways to improve. Im experienced im motivated and it kills me to say no to my students when they ask me to stay after school. They know that i live in oakland they know i commute 23 hours a day. And that knowledge goes right out of the window they forget all of it when they need me. They ask me to stay after school and its a toss up ii have to decide in that moment do i say no to you you have asked me, you need me i have said yes in the past or do you say, sorry ii have to go sit in traffic on the bridge for two hours. My value in that traffic is 0. My value in that classroom for 2 or 3 extra hours i dont even get paid for that. Its incredibleably difficult. Im still doing debate coaching i do the coaching in the morning a couple days a week when i dont have a which is rare. Theyre texting me 8 or 9 oclock at night for a debate on sally im explaining israeli palestine conflict in a text message its incredible difficult i wont be doing it for long. Thank you. I see empty seats here this is a citywide crisis they should be here too my name is lizzy i started teaching in 1984 i retired 7 years ago and substitute i havent heard many stours of the 4,000 Child Development Department Part of our School District professionals and teacher in our department make less money than Classroom Teachers do and are equally as dedicated. I want to say that last july i attended a workshop i believe the union organized it for people to come to hear a representatives from the Mayors Office on housing and a woman got up there and said she is animated how many of you are here to learn about buying a house . 150 people sitting there wait to learn no one raised their hands in other words all renters and in the process of being ellis acted out too. This is a renters city. Yes there is rent control but there is ellis act, there is two other state laws that are gripping at us the ellis act is killing us my situation i will finish up quickly i have rent control. I pay a wonderful rent but the owner is old he will not be around too much longer and i will be in the mix with everybody else im still a great teacher without subs this School District does not function. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening supervisors my name is monica levit ii have been a substitute teacher primarily since 2001. I had a pretty good apartment situation but the manager was harassing a lot of us to force us out so they could get the googlers in they did a pretty good job. In the meantime, i got my special ed credential work out of the way by 2010 thats when everything started to spike so its getting really difficult. Hi to go back and forth while my mother was de divorcing in Southern California i was able to buy a home for them in vallejo for her and my brother who is severely disabled so i could be closer to them now i continue to be a substitute teacher which works okay but i prefer to be full time special ed teacher. If there were a situation i could live here, then oh, ii have never done this before so yeah its getting difficult for my mother 85 to take care of my brother in vallejo there is nothing for anyone. A commute couple times a week i have apartment here i share with friends but its difficult. So i spend a lot of time commuting too. I wouldnt mind living here so i could not have to well, i prefer to have them with me so they could be taken care of. Thank you so much. Thank you. And be able to work in the district. Thank you so much. Thank you for your testimony. Good evening my name is morgan mc donalds a Third Generation San Franciscoian. Im a special Education Teacher at Roosevelt Middle School the same one my mother attended. Currently my landlord is in the process of raising my rent to double my monthly salary i live with another special Education Teacher she is currently not here because it is iep season she has a lot of work to do. I would like you to keep in mind for every teacher you see here there are 30 or 40 who cannot be here because of their obligations. It pains me to say come may depending on what else at 25 vaness i might be not be able teach the same kids im a product of the special Education System my lifes work has been to give back to this community and i cannot imagine its acceptable. We can kick teachers out of their homes and forgive me, this is the first time i have cried in many years. But we cannot talk about this crisis in terms of building new homes we have to talk about this crisis in terms of incensives google incentivize to come in and ship from here to campuses down there. Not just google all of these Tech Companies are incentivized to do this we incentivize every aspect of our economy in San Francisco except the people that are teaching our kids. And it is absolute wrong. It is morally ethically wrong it is basic human rights wrong. I can not stand here and say facing a crisis but all were talking five years down the line. We have amputated leg were putting a band aid on were going to die. These people cannot live here i know im above and beyond my time. Again for every teacher here there are 30 or 40 who cant. That need to have their voices heard. Thank you so so much. Thank you. Hello. My name is Rebecca Bradley im a spanish teacher Cleveland Library where march sanchez was a former principal until recently i love my community i walk down Mission Street and chat with parents and students i go to baptism, bit day parties and cleveland student and former cleveland students right now i finished the workshop to purchase bmr condo this is the person going through the workshops got my certificate of completion at the same time im paying for classes at San Jose State University to get my credential and im saving for down payment im a frugal person i believe the teacher next door will be a help but i look at the mayors housing listing and i get discouraged because the prices are out of my reach theyre 450,000, hoa s crazy i know you are trying to do something for us i appreciate the effort there has been talk over the years hasnt resulted in much i hoping mark sanchez and the board of education can work with you to make things happen for us i want to stay at cleveland i love my school i want to stay there. Thank you. Thank you so much. Hello. Im theodore. Back in college i used to tutor after school to kids mostly in math and science. I really liked doing that. I considered whether to get teacher certificate then looked at the market and said no, i decided to get career with a company that actually has money. So i like my job, i miss my kids i still tutor them sometimes if they ask for help. My concern is the system we have here to produce housing, it just doesnt work. Its way too slow. The resulting housing is too expensive. The public land for Housing Program that looks like it will make housing ten years from now or something, this is way too late. Why not tonight . Why not buy a trailer that you can put some where so beginning teachers might have somewhere to go. Why not actually do something . So the system we have here i dont blame you for it we inherited an awfully broken system. And its been broken for longer than both of you have been alive most of us have been alive. But that means we have to defect from the system we have to change it. We have to move faster and actually provide for the needses of the community. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is mita flores a preschoolteacher i wanted to make a statement that Early Childhood educators are just as important as k12 teacher we dedicate our time to children learning social skills to have the ability to self regulate to be prepared to focus and have the body coordination to sit in a classroom for 12 or 13 years of their life without counting college its a long time the first five years is important is start of Lifelong Learning and we are mainly women of color and struggling to find Affordable Housing in San Francisco. I have worked in the field for six years ii have applied for the bmr and unfortunately, i was very sad and disappointed to see my application, raffle number was way down on 4,000 something on the waitlist. So obviously , im not close to getting housing with bmr apparently. So in order for me to be live independently in a place i can call my own, i will be needing to leave San Francisco. Thank you. Supervisors cony ford for the San Francisco Labor Council we represent as you know 100,000 worker in the city half of them dont live here any more but we still represent them im here on their behalf to urge you to act decisively and quickly i dont have to tell you anything you dont know that these good people havent told you in this economy in San Francisco where we have the greatest economic disparity in the world, practically they remind us were like ruwanda we have money here 9 million budget here we need to think out of the box, think big we dont need to tinker here and there we need this think out of the box and big. The School System owns 8th street and laton. That is huge why arent we building on that . Why arent we demanding to build on that street. 135. Van necessary why dont we build . These are not questions these are demands that all of you need to please it cant just fall on you the Labor Council and Labor Movement would work with you strongly and well and diligently to do this. Its time to really hear these people which you have done, now, act as if we have a crisis its not time to go back and tinker around the edges we have to act firmly decisively and have to act now, thank you. Thank you. Hello my name is chris im 4th. And 5th. Grade spanish teacher in tribun i live in a trailer park and one of the few transeducators in the School District i want to highlight one of the points people brought up this is equity issue whatever Housing Program is created must bring that equity lens to it when it allocates those services its march my students have made a yearandahalf of reading growth i plan curriculum for social justice on creating lgbt o sanctuaries and 2pds on the school site on top of that im paying off 10,060,000 po pay to get my credential. Additionally, im still going to have to pay off all the loans im taking out in order to take the classes that i need in order to also get that credential. I brought up my gender sexuality in the beginning of this Public Comment as a way to also bring up that im gooing to do this work as long as i possibly can just as so many in this room are going to there is no way with can do it alone unless we tackle this housing issue there will be a huge gap between the students were serving and educators were serving them i talked to my director of support who has more than a decade of experience in the district to see if there are trans, folk educators she can think of she struggled to think of five names other than myself Homeless People have four times the rate of trans, people have four times the rate of homelessness than any other population in the district when we fail the educatorers in the district were failing the most vulnerable as well. Thank you. Thank you. Hello my name is [inaudible] im a first generation native San Franciscoian im daughter of two immigrants came here from mexico who came on a dream. You keep working hard you are going to have a life greater than we can dream of for you i took that and attended Georgetown University with the purpose of serving students who look like me students of color born and raised in this city. I can say that today im over 200,000 in debt. I spent over half my salary on my studio apartment that has a discount because my landlord comes from a family of educators. I dont know that i can make a career from teaching when i spent the First Six Months of my teaching career homeless. I dont know that i can say im making my parents proud. I dont know their hard work is paid off if i can say im living paycheck to paycheck frankly im tired of going to my school on 16th. And church and following the google bus there. Im tired of answering Facebook Messages alumni asking where can i live in San Francisco with can i live there they got a job at google i cant afford to stay here n the place i love im tired of hearing from the city that i serve that im not important enough. Thank you. So my name is desiree im a para at Galileo High School. I wanted to speak on behalf of paras in particular. Every year, i actually have three jobs like many do. My other two jobs happen to be exciting i work on Clinical Trial in the Parent Leadership Team i make embarrassing four times as much an hour on that. Every year, people ask me why dont you leave the para position and just do your tech position, the genetic . And by the same token every year the principles ask me why dont you become a teacher . I want to say, there is nothing more beautiful than seeing a child learn because i have a science and math background im frequently in science and math classes. There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a child who thought they never learn math learn math or seeing a child new to this country is brilliant cant speak english get passed, that and that is work that paras in high school often do. A year ago, my landlady want today sell the house you know the story i have nowhere to live i have three jobs im fortunate i got temporary place im paying over half my income but the decision has been made for me right before i came here i got a phone call asking me again to please take full time work in genetic. They will pay six times more than i make as a para i will only work one job. I will always miss seeing children grow and learn please do something about the housing here. Thank you. Thank you. I want to make sure everyone knows, this is the last opportunity for Public Comment there only a few in line if anybody else wants to speak in Public Comment please join the line. Thank you. Hi board of supervisors. My name is jeffrey im a substitute teacher for the district living in oakland i worked as a substitute for the past two years i make 146 base a day subbing oakland starts 150 to 161. Charter schools starts at 183. Menlo park starts at 193 and 190 i cannot afford to keep crossing that bridge i spend 300 a month paying for the tolls and also bart coming over. And im affordability i like you to find apartment to find 1300 which is half people s, mortgage for studio with the economics, economics said with the shortage of supply and high demand of teacher, there should be a Competitive Salary we are not getting that or come pettive or cost of living adjustment to live here in this city. Its ridiculous and your market and economics and policy and with the district is paying is in pennies San Francisco needs to be a balanced city for low middle and high income earners not a safe haven for the rich Beverly Hills pay their teachers commiserate rate. San francisco should be able to do the same with their budget. Police and firefighters have 1 3 what teachers have and credentials and make 30 more teachers have to get ba masters pass the cset the cbes and firefighter are starting 80 to 1,000 grand all they have to do with a six month academy this is ridiculous the deputy of innovation said this is a buyers market at a teachers recruitment event. This is off, i dont know where he got his economics from. Im getting my masters in Public Policy so i took. Your time is up we have to get moving im so sorry. [speaking off the mic]. If you would please wrap up your testimony. The board is holding the market [speaking off the mic]. Thank you so much. My name is eddy. Im in 2009 i moved here from san diego i picked San Francisco because i thought it was going to be one of the best cities i could possibly live in and i felt this place had a reputation of caring about everybody regardless of how powerful or not it was going to be worse giving the city a chance and shot. And in 2009 there wasnt a lot of opportunity to get into full time position because of the recession and all of the lay offs that had taken place. But knowing that when came here, i accepted a little room it was about 11 by 12 no kitchen and at the time i didnt know i was going to be a trendsetter, its ridiculous its kind of a joke. I dont know how anybody can still do this. At this time about a month ago i was sure i was done and i was going to move back im trying to give this place a Second Chance i work at alternative Continuation School and i feel like what were about and i want to make sure if i give this place a Second Chance that there is something here its worth it and im hoping we can do anything. We need to know what is going to be done to have people be able to live here i know you know the stories you have heard these you understand we need to know what is going to happen thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is gabry el will lopez im a spanish by lingual teacher ai came with a master education along with the loan attached to that. The rest of the time goes to my work at site or at home. Im not just a teacher as the rest of us are we are so much more. When my focus has been working with families both years i have taught home visit its listen to countless stories of families who have been here for years who dont feel comfortable, in the city they live in because of the change they have seen or families who recollects have been evicted or displaced although i have been teaching for a short time im well aware of the issues education faces and housing should not be one of them. Thank you. Thank you for listening. I will try not to repeat many of the things already said i will say have been in the district teaching 17 years im a special ed teacher i was a para i had to work three jobs to navigate through that i will fast forward and say i too work at a very underserved population i work in the Bay View District where i have committed my years to service i live in san leandro and commute through a variety of different challenges i have been atacted on bart. I have to make sure i have to protect myself just to get to work and i get to work early and i leave late so i can actually accomplish the impossible job were being asked to do. The thing i want to residence ig nate is when you take care of teacher, you do take care of students when you take care of the teachers you take care of society it trickles down and goes together what i also want to say is, if we really value education value our children if we want to interrupt the achievement gap if we want to interrupt all of these things we have been struggling since i was in school we must make sure we are positioning ourselves and creating ourselves in a position to do, that one of the prime ways is making sure teacher can live where they work. It is not necessarily a choice we dont get to choose i want to live here or there. Its a blessing if you actually have a roof over your head even if its just a room. In a roommate situation. So i just want to i hope this conversation translates into real action. I appreciate you all taking your time to listen and those sharing stories and being vulnerable about the situation i want to it rate me too as a teacher of color the skin im in we will not interrupt the gap coming year after year with most needy students im going to leave im not going to hold you but i want to make that point if we want to interrupt the crisis were having we need to take care of teachers thank you. Thank you. Hello good evening my name is claire im a teacher at marshall high school. I come here because i have talked to several teachers that have cried in front of me because they have lived in little rooms above stores they have to go down the store to go to the bathroom they have to take showers in gym s. I know teachers slet in their cars if you saw these teachers you couldnt tell they live like that because they come to school with a smile to work with the kids, like nothing happened. They are just there, pure energy and pure hope they can make a better life for their kids because the students are our kids. So, you know, im a high schoolteacher im constant i work only with minority children. Only children of color. And one of my emphasis is go to college. Become something professional do this, be a movie director be a writer. But you know, its getting harder and harder for me to say, be a teacher. Because when i meet my young colleagues and i know they cannot live with the salaries they receive and no place for them to live it is hard please do something about it. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening its now evening my name is ken tray the political director of united educators of San Francisco im a high schoolteacher i started student teaching in Galileo High School in 1985 got my first job at Balboa High School in spring of 86 went onto mark twain Continuation High School moved on onto lowell was part of Community Wise linking San Francisco amazing work around the city. Students and teachers turning the city into a social lab of education and i left the classroom in 2010 im going to retire this year. So, i have been in this School District for 31 years now, going on 32. Going into teaching is the greatest thing i ever did. I had a great time in the classroom and im proud to help represent the folks i work alongside i will tell you what, when i started in 1985 even as a student teacher driving cab to support myself im a proud former cabdriver in San Francisco. Housing was not an issue. Salaries have always been problematic you can find a studio one bedroom apartment if you had the audacity have a family you can actually raise them in San Francisco. One of the first things i learned in Balboa High School that senior faculty the group of hardworking folks who kept that School Together who caught kids and parent and uncles that was a marvelous things that was a challenge in the 80s if people recall. So i have lots more to say you have heard tons. In a few minutes you are going to start hearing from the School District and the Mayors Office of housing they will give you statistics and hopefully plans to get housing done. But there is an emergency and an urgency. The one thing i would ask after my [speaking off the mic]. Thank you, ken. [speaking off the mic] they have the same opportunity to take their [inaudible] in classrooms but its up to the folks standing behind me to make that real. Thank you. Thank you. [applause]. audience chanting . Thank you School Board Commissioner sanchez being here. Thank you for holding this hearing supervisors commissioner mark sanchez on the school board. Joined by. Hidra mcdessa and you will hear from superintendent lee in a minute. First of all its beyond heart breaking what were hearing i thought crisis its beyond crisis when i was on the school board 2006 president of the school board i was raising this issue got no traction at all it was a crisis then if you go back to 98 the School District had a proposal to build on the park side of Elementary School destroyed by the earthquake that was blocked by the neighbor they didnt want tiecher houghs in the neighborhood. Im hoping that has changed over time we need to work with you as supervisors go hand in hand to make that a reality. Because we cannot on our own do this we have to make it a reality. Im for all of the other options in terms of mortgage rental assistance anything we can do to stabilize teacher and para professionals in our districts we have to build housing it cant be 100 or 200 unit it has to with 500 to a thousand units to start we have teacher and para professionals the vast majority are phasing fiscal instability. We have excess surplus under utilized property we need to identify and start working on it. I will add one more thing the reason i talk about soda a lot as the housing popgs for para professionals and others its the Largest Properties in the center of the city. And we can build the housing there when soda goes downtown. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Thank you commissioner sanchez. Is there anyone else that wants to make Public Comment that has not already okay then Public Comment is closed. From the bottom of my heart want to thank you all so much. Im a brand new servers i have been a legislative aid for a long time i have been in this building a long time i have seen a lot of hearings i dont know if i have been part of a hearing that is more moving and meaningful than this one. I want to thank you all for coming out tonight for telling your personal stories for fighting so hard day in and day out im the daughter and daughter of a teacher barely holdingen on wouldnt be able to make it raise their son i know you work three jobs and barely hanging on and you buy slys for your classroom and prints for your kids and give everything you have because you love your community and love your job i can not thank you enough were going to fight day in and day out for you. Were with you were here were with you were not going away were not going to take light away with this issue were going to fight you thank you for coming out tonight and telling your stories and for your work every single day. Thank you. With that, were going to call cambell from the Budget Analyst Office to give the presentation. Thank fur your presentation and thank you for staying the whole time. I have a power point im not sure i will be able to call it up on here. Lets see. Im cambell from the budget legislative analyst office. We were requested by supervisor. Row ronene to look at staffing salaries vacancy in the School District i will give you a brief overview with the information we came up with. Apologize for the technical eric k you help . So basically the San Francisco School District s the 7th largest in the state. 58,000 students and more than 3300 teacher one of the things we have discovered looking at this statewide is 75 are reporting Teacher Shortage even if theyre lower income districts theyre finding a problem with Teacher Shortage. If you are looking at teacher salaries talked about tonight are based on years of experience to level of education to 60 Additional Units from bachelors degree. When we look at the bachelors degree started with 50,000 a year. A teacher with more than 25 years of experience can go up to 86,000 a year. These are based on School Year Salary so there are teacher who do work extra income but this is still below the area Median Income one of the thing the School District did a survey of the teachers and found 58 found they had some difficult in meeting their rent or annual mortgage payment having trouble here. So with the paraprofessionals the classroom aid are on an hourly basis 20 to 25 an hour. Most are part time. When we looked at this about 68 three quartersover the time pay scale rang 24 to 47,000 in terms of looking at vacancies the School District is a point in time. You will see here that if you are looking at the number of teacher vacancies at the school year you will see for many many years 2008 to 2015 it was stable. In 2016 i can barely read 38 vacancies at the beginning of the year. The School District according to their information nutrition rate has been stable at 10 the vacancies has to do with recruiting rather than retaining teachers this is a statewide problem also. The learning policy institute said that enrollment in teacher programs Teacher Training Program is all time low for the state not just San Francisco. I think one other thing we wanted to point out if i can manage to get this to go is what chiar ronen is talking was talking about the gap in San Francisco. Teachers 70 reported their income is the majority income in the household. If you can see this, a studio apartment is 2700 a year or market rate 32,000 err year and affordability gap of six teen thousand a year and experienced 60,000 with 25 years of experience is going to have affordability gap of 6,000 a year that is a brief overview if you have any questions. Colleen did you have questions for the budget and legislative analyst . No . Okay. Thank you so much. Next i would like to call jeff buckley from the Mayors Office. Hi supervisors jeff buckley supervisor to mayor ed lee its hard after hearing these testimonies to talk about all the things were doing because no matter what we do, the need surpasses the effort. But i do want to at least talk with you with some of the efforts we have done briefly the mayor directed us a number of years ago to work with the School District to help the School District and bring our expertise to bear in the district to look at Surplus Properties as well as urnt utilized properties and being able to collaborate on those. So the result of that effort so far is young lee will also go forward with that that effort has served Sf Initiative oon [inaudible] hill. Help address the urban ewe of affordability within the Mission Neighborhood. That effort has helped to deal with Homeless Housing issue. And through that effort, we realized we needed to confront educator housing crisis that was before us. The reality is there are a number of significant challenges to do that those are funding as well as welltory challenge that come with it. The mayor has asked us to bring our expertise to figure out. Thorny issues and provide effort for them to be able to assist. What have we done besides that passed prop 1a. For 80 million for moderate income using the other is repurposing the dap loans to be more usable within the current market and rereplenished teacher next door that had run out of funds we looked at the regulatory challenges the mayor was the sponsor of mark lenos Teacher Housing Initiative to dress and bring to bear the issues of the housing challenges providing housing to educators has made it difficult for past efforts to get through these issues we brought resources. We brought our expertise to bear. As you have seen, the challenge is going to be to scale up these efforts but i wanted to let you know from the Mayors Office perspective were committed to work with the board to work with the board of education to work with the School District to address these issues. Jeff in 2015, the mayor and board of supervisors announced a plan to preserve housing for 500 San Francisco teacher by 2020 that is about 100 units a year. How have we faired in 2015 and 16 towards that goal. That 500 we were working to provide counseling it was a three pronged approach it looked at providing eviction counseling for ed ewe kaepgs and housing to keep people in place as best we can and make sure the Legal Resources are there. The effort of 500 went towards that effort and also went towards housing counseling for educators as well the third to that prong is buildlo buildlogy building housing we modelled 500 we served 100 of the people served would be through the units created through that process. But actually, how many towards that 500 goal, how many teachers have we helped either purchase a home, with rental subsidiys avoid eviction . We havent built units for teachers particularly i want a number towards that goal. Part of the presentation were going to put forward is to put those numbers before you. So you will see that i believe in the presentation to follow. Okay. Did you have any questions . No . Okay. We might have more questions after hearing the presentation thank you. Next i want to call up. Yee and olson lee are you doing joint presentation from my understanding . Thank you. Thank you supervisors to your attention and interest in su parting paraprofessionals and give my thanks and i think all of us do that work for the School District as well as the city and county for all of the mostly i think with very few exceptions employees of the San Francisco unified School District who provided testimony over the last couple of hours we have been working and are extremely motivated to make progress on providing Housing Assistance providing access to housing providing stability to housing for our employees we do face a crisis. It is one thing to know this and its a different thing all together to hear the types of story of story in the kind of setting we just experienced together tonight thank you for being here we know you are extremely busy many of you are stressed and under great pressure in your day job and you have multiple jobs as you have attested to. So definitely thank you for being here and sharing your stories it makes adifference to all of us in terms of continuing to motivate us in this work. So my task for this presentation is really just to set a little bit of a framework and then ultra mali the director of the mayor a office and housing on community and development is going to present most of the ub assistantive information about the four prongs we have been working on together. I will come up at a certain point in the presentation coughing on a couple specific points. I do want to also say this is an issue we need the city and countys help on as well as potentially many other partners intellectuals if nothing else it is very heartening to see the broadening the extent of the interest. And the offering of support. And we look forward to continuing this conversation with the city and county as well including the supervisors. So i dont know if there is a trick to getting the slides projected. Power point please . Thank you. I had a quick question in the process of hiring someone with expertise in Housing Development to be on staff with the School District . We are not in the process of hiring an employee, we do have resources to fund a project manager through profession contract really and that we can talk about that a little bit in the presentation coughing its a broad team from the city and county jeff buckley from the Mayors Office olson lee and those devoting time on this effort working closely with the Vice President of the school board hidra mc donald as well. Then we have four members of the district staff who are not experts in housing we are, as you mentioned, supervisor we have been learning a lot over the last few years i will say i personally have taken a pretty active interest and active role in this work in this project so its not incidental amount of time that the district is devoting in terms of our staff but at the moment we dont have housing expert per se on the staff. Maybe that will be part of the presentation what im trying to understand is the brick and mortar discussions on School District lands have been going on for upwards of 13 years im trying to find out and understand why we have been unable to realize the project and maybe thats a question for olson. I would love to have an answer to that question. I can comment on that real quick. This is sort of a general response to that. I think there are probably at least three different factors understood lying that history and commissioner sanchez alluded to some of this in myself comments so in that earlier part of the history where the School District had stated the school board itself stated an interest or an intention to really develop teacher housing i think that has been true and its ebbed and flowed the intensity of that interest has ebbed and flows over the years but what is lacking is the understanding of how to do it. So there has been conceptual recognition that we have the opportunity with some of our real estate assets we have not had the knowledge or know how how to develop housing and another factor is we havent had the financing it has not been clear how that would be funded. A brick and Mortar Development. Olson is going to talk that in his part of the presentation. That i would say in the last couple of years has been a break through that the city and county through the property bond inclusionary housing funds they have committed to 10s of millions of dollars for such a development thats a new and Important Development that has not been part of the equation in host most of that history you are referring to while its true conceptual ly if we had the no how and the staff that Previous School boards could considered dedicated more of our general Fund Resources to this. That really does then present a tradeoff how much of our very scarce Resources California has been through that whole time under funded in terms of its support for Public Education so in that context, should the district have been setting aside pretty significant amount of its preliminary revenue to housing uses versus Employee Compensation or other priorities and frankly, there has ambivalence about that. The county and city to fund the bulk of the contribution that is necessary to make a project a reality that is fairly recent. Okay. Is there any other question . No . Okay. We might have more questions after olson lees presentation. Thank you supervisor just to get through the substance of it i will go quickly through the slides this is the road map for the next several minutes of presentation. We have a little bit of ol s paraprofessional an teacher salary that mrs. Cambell just presented we are twent between mr. Lee and myself going to provide a summary of multipronged strategies these four prongs and close with next steps around the brick and Mortar Development concept. So, the working group we have been at this for a couple of years. Happy to say, this is new in that longer history, this coughing first time we have had the working group composed from the united educators of San Francisco the School District as well as the Mayors Office. sneezing the Union Teachers union united educators of San Francisco. And the district have had various phases of the partnership having the city and county at the table has been a break through for all of us want to thank the Staff Members of the Mayors Office as well as Vice President Mendoza Mcdonalds for uesf we have had five solid members come to almost every meeting president anita balconik Vice President political director ken tray and Communications Director mathew hardy so its a robust participation from colleagues at uesf i will not name all of the individual members from the district. We have also had expertise from the acio Housing Trust as well as teacher and they are experts they are helpful in our work as well. The goals of the working group. Broadly stated are to surrounding this need for housing opportunities, we have been trying to identify ways to support paraprofessionals conceptually, new paraprofessionals and veteran paraprofessionals and for teachers also recruitment of new teachers as well as retention and Housing Support for veteran teachers in terms of the number of employees aka members, these are relatively current counts we have 3300 teachers. We have about less than 1600 paraprofessionals almost 5,000 total employees between teachers and paraprofessionals. A little bit of information about the sally beginning with the teachers we have been making progress im happy to say over the last few years we have made meaningful progress. We have incredibleably long way to go. Especially in terms of providing Housing Affordability on the ba base, salaries we have increased the last three years of teachers 15 and most paraprofessionals 18 we have a long way to go, but these are some of the example salaries for teachers so a new teacher First Year Teacher with bachelors degree make 53,672 currently if a teacher comes to the district with 30 units of continuing education they will make less that 57,000. During the course of a teachers career they will attain Additional Units of continuing education or ba plus 60 you can see the range for First Year Teacher less than 59,000. For ten year teacher less than 75,000 and the top of the salary scale for the base school year is about 93 right now. Excuse me, could you give me the hourly wage for teacher we have the hourly wage for paraprofessionals not for teachers. I see. Im going to ask a colleague to do that math. I see there is someone from Human Resources wouldnt he know the hourly wage of teachers . Daniel you have been given an assignment. So basically, the teachers represented on this scale work again, this is the official work schedule its not necessarily representation of a typical teacher how much time a typical teacher spends in a day its a seven hour day and 184day calendar not able to do that math in my head that is basically the number of hours in a year then you just divide each of these numbers by that number of hours. You know me. Okay. Thanks. Okay. So we can get that represented im sure during the course of this presentation. Another way of looking at this is to consider Household Income. So, this next chart this next table and i apologize its hard to read this from the audience here basically there was a survey done a year ago where we had pretty good response half of the teacher responded to the survey that asked a number of different questions one is about Household Income. This considers whether educator teacher is theyre the only earner wage erp earner coughing or dual or additional wage earners in the household. This chart shows the Largest Group of responses for Household Income which is 1 3 of our teachers who responded to this survey their Household Income is 50 to 75,000 the next Largest Group is between 75 and 99,000 so that is 1 3 to a 5th. We wont go through this but we thought this was treing and valuable information. For paraprofessionals its a different picture these are represented hourly rates so they typically range from 19. 90 per hour to about 31 an hour. And also should say most of our paraprofessionals earn who work in special education earn between 20 and 25 an hour. Its important to know these are less than full time positions. So, for one thing, the number of days or the number of weeks that a paraprofessional works is bates based on a School Year Calendar each instructional day a typical. Paraprofessional varies a lot based on the individual a typical schedule would be between 4 and 6 hours a day there is a typo in the last bullet point where it says special education, paraprofessional working that should say, 6 hours a day or 1200 hours annually will infrared between 24,030,000. The next panel slide shows results of a similar survey about Household Income for paraprofessionals. And you can see that a little less than 40 about 38 of the paraprofessionals who responded to this survey earn under 35,000 years for Household Income. And then about a Quarter Report through the survey Household Income of 35,049,000. Again i wont go through all of those numbers. I wultd like to pass the presentation to lee. And talk about eviction protection and rental assistance. Thank you. Im lee director of the Mayors Office of housing and graduate of Lowell High School a long time ago. Before i start, young talked ability the task force we developed put together. I have not been working on this the past 13 years and one of the things that is different in this effort than other efforts were not asking the School District to do it by themselves the mayor asked his staff to provide additional expertise to the School District on this particular issue as some have mentioned and the mayor directed funds within some of the bond proceeds specifically for teacher housing and obviously approved budgeted targeted towards teachers overall this effort is different because its broader. In addition to our expertise which is in Affordable House the fact that Housing Investment trust is bringing expertise to the discussion is helping in terms of crafting solutions to this issue. The other part of it not only are we bringing, again, the question of expertise, its also the question of the funds that the Mayors Office has committed towards this and together between the funds were providing plus the land, i think we will be able to achieve a bricks ard Mortar Development i think the policy question will be how many more bricks and Mortar Developments do we do . And where does that resource come from . And that will be a big issue for the future. So this chart does not do justice to the statements people have made today about the question of the affordability gap and the fact that many of your teachers and peers k not afford housing in the city or inadequately housed in the city as it relates to the quality of their housing this clearly shows that even at 100 of Median Income, which, for a family of ofour is 100,000 there is an affordability gap across the board. Many of your parents dont come any where close to that amount. When it comes to ownership its even worse. And in terms of the median home value this just, again restates the obvious based upon what you have heard today about how difficult it is for all folks of limited income of even modest or even working class income to buy the median price house in the city these are the affordability gaps at the various income levels obviously at the 100 Median Income again. Its the largest amount and goes to 150 of Median Income what does thats a . We will talk a little bit about the doubt program and tnd and used it together clearly at a Million Dollar million 1 there will be affordability gap. Even with the generous were providing for the down payment on loan Assistance Program. We always get this confusion about who are we talking about when we talk about particular Median Incomes. And again its to try to put the salaries the classifications the size of households into our typical Affordable Housing lingo so we nor we that relative to the Median Income. I will try to move quicker. One of the goals in terms of the discussion with the task force is looking at the broad range of people we can San Francisco from renters all the way to homeowner ship and this gives us a sense of the affordability levels from range that the projects of the Mayors Officer of housing serves. Prf coughing at the top are typical Affordable House individuals from 30 to 60 of Median Income. The inclusionary units and the hashth rate unis serves 55 of Median Income. Our bmr inclusionary serves up to 90 which may change anytime future our down Payment Assistance Loan Program serves up to 175 Median Income and the teacher next door goes to to 200 Median Income. Again, this shows the eligibility by new teacher and paraprofessionals and various combinations whether there is some coverage with our programs to try to assist various individuals. I will just move quickly. There is the coverage across the board. Mi young is going to talk about the multiprong strategy and i will come back to talk a little bit about the bricks and mortar. As we mentioned, we got four different types of strategies were working on in this working group. So, one falls under the heading of homeowner ship assistance that predom nanltly the dap program and the teacher Assistance Program tnd those two programs can Work Together. Next, we have housing counseling and to leave to supervise chiar ronens earlier question so far from the 2015 announcement that the mayor made about trying to reach 500 educators households over the next five years, that has been the largest numbers i should say the largest numbers of educator households that have been reached of these different prongs have been reached through the housing counseling. And reached meaning. Also going to talk about this later. They have for the largest numbers but they have participated in cuss tumbized housing counseling in the clinic and follow up. Sorry. Sorry if i missed this. How many teachers have received assistance and obtained housing through the dalp and teacher next door combined . This is part of our presentation. Might as well address it now. The number is approximately 16. Maria is going to correct me. Good evening Maria Benjamin i work with the dalp program. We have helped around 12 households since july with home owner ship. Most of the households used a combination of either the down Payment Assistance Loan Program to purchase a market rate home or purchase of below market rate home with the Teacher Next Door Program that is just since july. But since 2015 when this announcement was made. The announcement might have been made in 2015 the money was not there until 2016. Since the announcement is made we helped 12 teachers. No. Thats where the number 16 comes in since 2015, we have helped 16. Since the announcement the bond was passed we reupped. The Teacher Next Door Program that was july that was 12. Okay. Thank you. With housing counseling im a numbers persons i think we need to achieve goals, through numbers. In my district over a decade we are on tract im counting my two years as a legged so i have a personal goal of achieving 500 units a year in district nine. Im constantly holding myself accountable to that goal. That is the only way that i see were going to be constantly individual lently accountable to a goal that will move the needle even if it doesnt solve the problem i would love to get tonight an idea of you have this goal of five years of 500 units a year. Where are we in terms of achieving that goal. What do we need to do to achieve it. So with the counseling what im interested in how many teachers and paraprofessionals were at risk of Legal Assistance because of counseling you saved their housing. We have in total both counting the housing counseling and eviction council selling have assisted 146 different educator the number of evictions are low. We are looking through that. We want to understand from the city side are the services are we getting to the population within the educator world in the time we need to get to it. The overwhelming bulk of the number i mentioned are for housing counseling assistance. What does that mean assistance. Homeowner ship counseling that means also just general assistance we have maria if there is anything else you want to add. The home buyer housing con selling assistance can mean anything from i got eviction notice to what do do you to my rent got increased what resources are out there for me i got lsact notice is this legal . That type of assistance as well as access to learning about the below market rate program and the other programs the city offers. And how to apply where to go one of the public speakers talked about being the poster child for continuing education. That maneuvering those systems. I understand. So are we tracking the outcome. Absolutely. Of the 146 teachers and paraprofession nals we provided assistance too. How many have stabilize in San Francisco. I will have to get you those numbers i will tell you that that education helps we consider all of them f they finish all of them a Success Story i know this is not what you are looking for. Im a renter i have taken the ohm ownership class and i stint done own a home. That does not equate to buy a home i get out bid every time i buy a home. I can get those numbers for you. I would love those numbers. I also wanted to say we have a commitment in this city to house 500 teacher is that what the commitment was . Yeah. The goal is to be able to stabilize 500 educator households. Okay. So what are you doing with this 146 people actually i have a Housing Rights Committee in my district is exactly what they do from we heard tonight is eviction after eviction. So just knowing about your rights and eviction actually i have to say i personally as a School Board Member have written so many letter because teachers have asked me to help with their evictions and i have written the letters. The mayor hasnt written the letters i have written the letters for them. Not to raise the rent 200 . Not to evict them. I personally have written multiple letters and then im hearing testimony we heard the hours of how many people are evicted or facing eviction now i dont think its a real thing. Im sorry sorry. What i say did you want jeopardize in the neighborhood to stabilize 500 people doesnt mean when theyre getting evicted the housing rights tells them. I hate to push so hard, just think reach 500 educator households the Housing Rights Committee in my districts have helped hundreds of people i can say that i have the second most evictions in my neighborhoods and many teacher live in my neighborhood and theyre being evicted through elisac and other means our hands are tied on a lot of these issues, to give them this advice is advice you can go to the Housing Rights Committee and get this advice i dont think its stabilizes them i dont think this is viable or real something that is real is like these stipends what you are doing with the School District together about this multiprong approach we heard it i think it can work im disappointed when i look at this and i see out of these Obligation Bonds the sources of funding that adult programs 4 million annually from the trust fund 4 million . 4 million is nothing. Up 3 million last year you krnt buy a home in San Francisco for 3 million with a family. This is not 14 million in general Bond Obligation what about this Housing Trust fund. I always look to the Housing Trust fund can really help them. This is why were not going to be able to stable 500 educators within three years were not going to be able to. When i look at this. I know it. I think to set this goal of 500 is admirable i think when we set it was a real goal. Jeff i want to say were not going to make that goal. To not know how many you have stayed in their households when you cant give that number right now that is a number we should be tracking every day we meet with a client this is what we should be tracking and hold ourselves accountable to this goal. So when im looking at this maybe its because its late and i had to cancel three meetings that was supposed to be tonight and im listening to this i just dont were going to get there. I think we need to be honest about it. I need to be honest. This is not going to get us to our goal of stabilizing 500 educators in housing, this is not the way were going to do it. When were at this meeting here lets think of solution here that gets us to the goal. And Holding Accountable to this goal too. So, if we can move on. With rental assistance. How many educators and paraprofessional have we helped stay in their homes. The rental assistance is the rental assistance element is actually the least developed. So, we have the most policy discussions have to be held predominantly between the district sfus. D and us ucsf we have begun the structure of rental assistance would be. When i say rental assistance were talking about nonplace based rental subsidies for some number of employees it could be 100, 150 something on that scale we actually have to flesh out a lot of these ideas and reach some agreements between the district and the union issue like what is the a of the rental subsidies who is allocate what are the priorities be many many if not all of the district employees now be happy to have or have need for rental assistance. We have no helped teachers stabilize Housing Assistance. That is correct. I know its late were tired all of us but what im getting from this presentation is in two years we have helped 16 teacher and paraprofessionals is that right . That is the numbers i have been given. We are not addressing we are not even beginning to scratch the surface to address the scale of the problem we do not have the urgency not just on the school its on us as much as the School District eare equally to blame. We have helped 16 teacher and paraprofessionals in two years when we made a pledge two years ago o to be on track to stabilizing 500 which is not a large enough goal to begin with but at least lets meet that goal. Its mind boggling. Lets move on. I want to understand. It sounds like the rental assistance is very complicated and expensive. I get that its great were counseling that is important, but its unclear how many people that help and with the price of housing, we all know how difficult it is to attain even with wonderful programs. A home to own especially because everyone gets out bid by all cash offers using these programs is complicated when they work they work we get that but dont work often enough to address the scale. Where are we on the brick and mortar. I will ask olson to lead off on that. I want to say, i w was on the school board for eight years i worked on this too the School District has a mission to educate they are not developers, they are not landlords, they are build housing i think its unfair to put it on the School District i was in Mark Sanchezs seat he knows how hard it is. We are not in the business of building housing it is not our job at the School District it is to educate children. And when we are in this housing crisis, the city created this. Its not the School District. If you go to any nonprofit they have the same problem. They are not in the business you also you go out to my neighbor in the Richmond District Neighborhood Center after School Programs its not just teachers its School Secretaries it is the people who clean our office it is the people who cross our children across the street. These jobs we have lost our way as a city. This has never been a city for only rich people until now. I think this idea of build build build i will tell educators n this room do not believe the hype. 85 or 80 being built is not for you. You cannot afford it. The 20 or 15 or sometimes its 25 that may be for you. But the 80 to build at market rate is not for you. I want to put it. I dont blame the School District theyre trying to keep it together around a state that under funded education shamelessness theyre not in the Business Building housing the city is in the business of building housing it is what we do as a city. We have lost our way when i look at this i just think i have been in many meeting as hidra knows building and grounds we have tried on this. I think with market leno legislation it does open a door for us i also want to say educators, teacher housing is blocked because of neighbors in Single Family home when i want to build teacher housing in my neighborhood among Single Family homes that is not used to density i want you to come out too i want you to line up and testify too if you think its that important you should be at the Planning Commission and you need to be in my neighborhood when i want to build teaching housing for teacher and educators and my neighborhood said no not in my backyard you have to come out too its not enough to come out here and say this is my story and im suffering and there is no housing for me and where is my teacher housing we have to all be responsible for this. It is not just on me it is not just on the people here, not the city it is on everyones back. When people sell us out you have to call them on it too. I am done with it. I feel like we let people who are in pockets of developers, if you want housing, then preserve the housing. Push back on air bnb on Tech Companies that want to build offices but not housing the colleges that are here push back on all of them. This is not a single problem. Mayors office of housing can only build so much housing its all about last use here im saying push back on those things that are really proven to effect our housing tax. Air bnb the influx of text theyre shipping their economy actually back these businesses are making money theyre not building housing and having their businesses in the pen nen sue la no one is billing housing. So push back on it. I am frustrating i know you guys im new to the board just fyi sf u. S. D knows this about me i think we have lost our way you must stand with all of them theyre in the same boat as you their jobs are important too, just want to say we have lost our way here. Lets just try to find a way back. Im wondering if we can skip to slide 25 talk about mark lenos legislation and talk about brick and mortar. Thak thank you supervisor. Before director lee takes on this next section i do want to underscore the point that councilmember fewer have made this is a bigger issue than this working group can really seek to address. Were not in a position to provide stable housing to all the educators who need and seek it within the auspices within this working group. Were trying to make a meaningful. Dent. I do take issue for what is the fucking group for and what is it wasting time. multiable speakers . The gol is not to create 700 units of housing lets stick to what the goal is 500 units and try to achieve that then moving on if this working Housing Group is not the vehicle i will create the legislation we need. You need to till us that today if you are telling you this vehicle is not going to achieve the goal we set it out for itself lets know this here and now and go with Something Different. Were trying to make a difference to 500. Households. Thats what this is about lets achieve our goal. Im just trying to achieve. That goal. So are we supervisor thank you. Can you go to page 13 slide 25 and tell us where we are on the brick and mortar project. To talk about that, could i go back two slides. Sure. Some in the audience arent familiar with the Mayors Office of housing and the work we done we have 20,000 units of Affordable Housing. Much of it is income eligible. To parents. The problem one of the problems were trying to solve. With the leno. Bill sitz not restricted to educator nor is there a program to serve on the rental basis the teachers at that higher income level. Its not that we dont know how to build Affordable Housing its not that we havent, we are taking on the challenge now to try to figure out ho to best leverage our funds to create this et ewe indicator housing. I want to look at two examples one is the la model. Part of the workforce process is trying to figure out what other communities have done in the area of educator housing what can we learn from them in terms of trying to do it here in the city. This is the la unified School District leased to a nonprofit developer and financed with low income tax credits even though this is advertised as teacher housing no teachers were housed. Part of the reason was there was a small geographic preference but not a requirement this be restricted to only educators not only grant give la credit for trying the teachers income were too high relative to the credits therefore, the teachers were over income. The teacher and the issue we were concerned about is how do you restrict it not just the first generation of renters that is the reference but subsequent renters that would be educators, that is the Lesson Learned there. Santa clara unified School District did employer housing semioperate from the low income tax credit doesnt have Public Finance issue on there because theyre using public funds they use all local funds to do the development the School District own that development the People Living there are School District employees they live there only because theyre employees this is a very different model. One of the issues related to that model is its difficult to serve the parents between the gap and the cost and what the parents can afford in terms of rent is great. So paras as far as Tax Credit Program with subsidy there is rules related to access because its a public source that teches us to the leno bill. What we tried to do coughing what we tried to do with the leno bill is basically to provide a legal way of creating permanently educator housing legislature and a lot of people in this room voiced their support for this, created the opportunity on land owned by the School District to create educator housing. That provided the level of protection from future claims about whether this housing being built on School District land had to be available to the broad general public. Because this is a big issue in terms of pair housing were working our way through that fair housing process even though we spent a lot of time and effort getting leno bill through. Many of the other two examples did not have the leno bill what were looking for is trying to bend. We know we can do the employee housing model. Were trying to see if we can leverage additional funds through low income tax credit, so we can do more of the same amount of dollars which is the goal for everybody. That is the difficult were working through now. Do we know how to issue an rfp and to do a soft loan for development on School District property . Sure we want to make sure we do it because of the cost subsidizing it to be available for subsequent educators in general. Andish use to be resolved. coughing between uefc and the School District what is the target . You and i heard the range of Housing Needs among paras and teachers. It is a very, very broad range of needs. So one of the most difficult questions is who among all, how do we decide who gets these units . So those are hard issue we have not resolved were working hard with the city Attorneys Office with the School District council and outside council to resolve the question whether we can access low income tax credits and do it consistent with fair housing and tax code f that opens up. That will give us a sense of structure financing for the future. One of the other slides that we have here is the milestone. Again, accountability our goal is to issue joint rfp for a site to be named by the end of the year. We have to deal with these technical issues that are sort of nerdy but very important if were going to attract a developer, if were going to attract financing and very important if were going to be able to preserve this house in perm tuty for educators. Thank you. I appreciate it. And do some closing. I have some questions i know your throat is bothering you. But i was with you up until by the end of the year i was like, no. So, i want more exact information. You stepped over the next steps slide. So working group reached agreement on proposed tear structure for income restriction check which is a big issue. Were now researching detailed questions regarding hud and fair [reading] and the goal is to build initial development that can serve as a template for additional projects. These are the next steps you are actively engaged in now is the working group is the vehicle or the place where these questions will be resolved . There are a couple of venues obviously, the uesf and the School District talk about who they would like to serve and the question for us as the technical technicians is what does that mean in trms of affordabilities rentals and can be paid in terms of first debt assisted through tax income credits and what rents we need to make the Development Sustainable for the long term. Thats what i would defer to the mi young where that discussion happens. Thats a very, very important discussion about we have a broad understanding were going to serve teachers up to 120 and par ras up to 60 of the two tis up to today. That may or may not chang. Beyond that, we dont have a sense of some of the issues about are they early teachers mid Career Teachers all of those sorts of things. So typically when rfp from development is issues from the date the first individual or pamly moves in what is that typical time period . From the time rfp gets issued to the time they move four years. Four years. So were having Record Number. Every marathon starts. I understand. I want to appreciate the urgency here. We have Record Number of teachers vacancies we have Record Number of classrooms with no permanent teachers not only on the first day but half way or eight months into the school year. We have other parts of the strategies that are not serving numbers that make a dent then we have a time line in rfp isnt issued until december even though we have been having st discussion by 2004. Being generous its taken three years before we issue the rfp i understand. We need the leno. Bill. This is not easy that is not lost on me im feel an urgency as a city and School District i would like to see mirrored. I dont know what else to say. Supervisor its always aurgency. I know that. From missions 2020. I cant build it fast enough. I cant build enough of it. We want to build Affordable Housing. In terms of this because were doing something new and Something Different we we need the time to do it right so we can make sure we replicate it. Once we figured this model out we can replicate it. Then the big policy question is, where does the money come from . I need the time to make sure that im going to accomplish four the School District for the city and for the board what we intend it to did. Sure. I understand that and you aring hard on this and i know its incredibly complicated with you beneed interim strategy that is going to deal with the crisis between now and five years and then we need Start Building at a pace that matches the urgency. Im committed to being involved not just bringing up questions and issues but participating on a solution we will continue to have this conversation i will ask if we can continue this hearing to the end of this to the call of the chair and have regular updates so we shine light on progress. And make sure this is progressing as it should. Perhaps this will be a vehicle for other types of strategies as well. From the chair i havent had an opportunity to say anything i think its been a fruitful discussion the last point is really the meat of the conversation today. What has been the impediment to getting a lot of this accomplished although you have only been involved in the conversation the last two years can you speak a little bit more can you speak more and there were a lot of questions asked and theres a lot of meat in this can you drill down more what you mean about where is the financing going to come from and what that means because when i look at this slide one of the most telling slides in the presentation today is that 70 of the teacher make between 50 to 125,000 a year. That is 70 of the teachers surveyed yet the only ones that would be served by current rental program outside of the brick and mortar is a First Year Teacher by themselves. I want you to drill down on that were having this discussion in other parts of the board tell us what you mean in terms of where the financing will come from. Im going to make a conjecture about the prior efforts and the fact and people are looking at building housing the whole notion of financing housing is based upon what First Mortgage you can support and how much this is going to cost to build and can you support the First Mortgage to build that housing. I think in most cases, as as superintendent speak to it directly , there say gap and given that gap, the question for the School District was, what are the resources we have to actually fill that gap . Do we take it from class maintenance . Do we take it from playground equipment do we take it from salaries . That is the gap we have to fill. That is the difference between then and now. We do have a source from the Affordable Housing bond to try to fill that gap. In that Affordable Housing binned how much of that is available. To the income levels are you talking about. Theres a couple of things i think you asked about how we finance Affordable Housing. Most of our Affordable Housing is at 60 median and below. In part because thats where the subsidy is available. So the state if theyre doing housings they will say 55 or 60 the feds will do 50 or 55 maybe 60 we as a stit always try to do lower than that that was the area of greatest need there was never any sort of funding to subsidize people at 61 as the case might be. Thats why the whole Affordable Housing industry always focused on that developed expertise havent done housing between 61 and 120. So this is a new era for us because we have never subsidized in that area its taking a while to do it but we have never done it before at that Affordable Housing level. Are there tools in your tool kit that can finance housing to date . The simplest tool is we do soft loans so in some respects for our tax credit developments, the sale of the whole Income Housing equity brings 200,000 or so from investors i dont have to subsidize. So say the unit costs 400,000 a year. I got 200,000 from my low Income Housing tax credit actually the developer gets it puts it into the transaction and i put in another 200,000 for a total of 400,000 and i have a fully financed project where the upper income where i dont have tax credit i have higher income they may be able to support bigger loan, First Mortgage that cover 50,000 of the 400,000 im bringing to the table 350,000 to make that project financially feasible. That is the challenge. For the higher income its a lot more expensive and you dont necessarily have the pool of money to draw from. That is correct. There are there no subsidy that is the challenge the fair housing questions to making sure were maintaining long term restrictions to educators is going to bay challenge. Those are thee challenge. Those are the challenge. Those are ta challenge. Those are the two thing to build this educator housing. We know how to do it. There are steps and impediments to ensure were getting what we intend to build from the get go. For the purposes of this con ver education on the bricks and mortar side were talking about rental you wouldnt sell the unit of the School District or public property talking about in that context rental housing. Were talking primarily rental if were successful to use it for the paras housing obviously is rental housing and we have a down Payment Assistance Program i think that we will have to go back and get the exact facts how many dalp loans we did over that period and how many were educators there were a number that were successful in taking advantage of our existing Housing Programs without the designation of educator only. Again, we have even as a city, we have a limited number of opportunities for middle income people primarily the bmrs inclusionary bmrs and the dalp that is it. The educators are taking advantage of it, but again, with the rise in the housing prices they are it is difficult. Over the life of the dalp program we have had 62 educators take advantage of down Payment Assistance Program that is not in the last two years over the life of the program we have to build this program over the life of the program. We have served educators in the past. Is it enough . Obviously not. Again, we are struggling to serve. Not just indicators the entire city were trying to do our best this is the first time were trying to do strictly educator housing. This is the last question then i will hand it over to my colleagues reading from your chart i dont know what slide it is the bmr Inclusionary Program is helpful at the current income levels is helpful for the paras and First Year Teachers the thing that is really helpful for teacher in your tool kit is the homeowner ship program the dalp, and teacher next door the inclusionary is not serving teachers within the range i just said which is 70 of their income level between 50 to 120. One of the reason s we have increased the dalp income levels up to 175 the mayor in terms of looking at the program he said two teachers, two kids and what would that be . That is over 120. We increase that level higher because we were cutting out two teachers and two kids. Most are inclusionary units were at the 90 or 100 . Those levels were too high for inclusionary homeowner ship were too high for those two teachers and two kids so the dalp would be the only thing that would serve the two teachers and two kids. And then , this is my last question. I looked at the example you gave us in santa clara where they use certificates of participation in conventional loans is that something you are looking at as a possibility . It is a possibility. The raises the question, again who recollects is going to pay for the gap . Is it the School District through its bond issue . The School District has issues cops in the past. Are we expecting the Mayors Office in the housing of the city to pay for it from the Housing Trust fund and bond proceed are we doing Affordable Housing bond in the future they will create a different source for educators as we try to replicate build on the success of this first bricks and mortar project. That is the million million Million Dollar question where will the source for the gap funding come . Should we decide this concept is successful and we can replicate it ongoing forward basis. Thank you. So i wanted to say olson that i know you have to build housing that is just for teacher but there are seniors there are disabled people. Many segments coughing we need that kind of housing because coughing we have created a situation where theyre out priced in San Francisco. So i just want to say that, we have worked together on upcoming project that i hope will answer questions i did meet with these people the developers that developed the housing for san jose i met with them. Olson working on 1950 mission together. We wanted that to be tiecher housing it was the same issue we spoke about how do we fund the moderate way we talked about the Teachers Retirement Fund would they be investors could they bridge it now . I know theyre a fiduciary they have to guarantee so much of a profit im wondering, what are some of the other outside maybe not physical districts we did have certificates of participation and garcia was reluctant to do it before. We have coughing and we felt so relieved okay its done we have paid that off. So i dont know really if the School District is the entity to do cops because we dont know what is coming down with Public Schools also in the future which could be hor end out we might be providing our own free lunches we just dont know there is something in the meantime fs u. S. D maybe this is to mi young i mean uesf, there is something we can do togethers maybe this is to mi young i mean uesf, there is something we can do togetherf maybe this is to mi young i mean uesf, there is something we can do togetheru maybe this is to mi young i mean uesf, there is something we can do togeths maybe this is to mi young i mean uesf, there is something we can do togetherd maybe this is to mi young i mean uesf, there is something we can do together i have to stop saying we in the School District. I got emailed that said i i am a landlord and want to rent to a teacher i directed them to u. S. F there was no mechanism fshgs to connect them. Im a landlord myself. I rent to someone who was a teacher who is not a teacher any more. Was a teacher and i think teachers actually make great tenants theyre employed responsible finger printed and they can vouch for after they ten youre theyre hard to ged rit of. Give a hotline if you are a landlord help out with the Public School this is what you can doo you can put a teacher in a classroom. We have uasf as partners getting people who need housing maybe its people recently evicted and we set up sort this thing through hr or whoever this is something we can do immediately its something we can connect landlords with teachers because they make first as a landlord im looking for a good tenant i want a ten ant that is going pay me and take care of the property that is responsible and i have a tennant for 17 years this is a campaign you can easily launch with a minimum amount of money people who have rentals even in particular rent controlled apartments because teachers wages dont go up as the rent. I wanted to make that suggestion. I think it could work immediately i want to say olson that i think i know were building for populations in San Francisco. But i think this population needs a little special attention because it is the foundation. Public education is the foundation of democracy we pride ourselves again i use ourselves San Francisco unified were in a world class city we want world class Education System. Theyre doing their part. We lead the nation in education and innovation. But i dont think this is not a nut we cant crack. I also would pit it on every supervisor to look at available. Building sites in their own neighborhood and think of ways we can free up some of the housing for teachers. Any way i apologize if i yelled at anyone one quite frankly it wont be the last time i had to apologize to many people in San Francisco unified and many are sitting in this room right now. If i offend anyone i apologize i feel like this is an issue we have been struggling sfusd has been struggling with for a long time its frustrating when we see the direction and the housing in my own neighborhood people evicted out of their apartments now there are full time hotels it breaks my heart. Its beyond frustrating. Thank you. Mi young did you want to make a closing remark briefly are you good . Thank you supervise. I think good. I dont have a lot of add i appreciate the robust conversation that took place tonight especially members of uasf that stuck around thank you. I wanted to end by thank everyone that stuck it out to the end this was amotionally and intellectually hard meeting mr. Mendoza that was here a second ago listened to the whole hearing and mark sanchez. Special that i thinks for the erica being a super star clerk figuring out logistical headache tonight this woman was behind the scenes taking care of everything. Thank you. Thank you to my colleagues. I want to close by saying i want to repeat i know were all exhausted its worth repeating the testimony that highlighted the urgency. We heard that young people who want to be teachers see no future in the profession. We see a speaker late for a second job but stayed here to testify and another teacher who has three jobs, to make ends meat we see a teacher that wants to stay after school that beg her to do so but cant because she has to sit in a two hour commute on the way home we have one teacher that commutes five hours a day another 12andahalf hours a day. We heard about homeless teacher people moving further away that cant retire we heard teacher looking for another job that broke their heart even though they love their profession. We heard teachers that use entire paycheck or 75 to pay towards rent living with three people. Without separate bedrooms we heard from young kid eviction is a regular part of her experience of rour life and friend and parents friends we heard of a family of six living in a one bedroom and family of three live w a baby living in a studio know who knows what theyre going to do when the kid starts to walk. We heard of a teacher just on here floor of the school only three out of ten teachers were returning this school year. We heard young teachers struggling to clear their credentials and Student Loans still make housing payments and still have 164 vacant positions we dont expect to fill this next school year if this is not a crisis i dont know what say crisis is. I deeply appreciate the work of mo and the School District and uasf and the participates of the school board of this group. I know you feel this crisis and urgency like i do. I know you are working hard there is no quick simple solution to this crisis we have to solve it because we have no choice. Not solving it is not an answer. Im looking forward to continuing this conversation and this work with you very closely to figure out how were going to get this done as quickly as possible. Thank you everyone staying for so long. With that, colleagues if we can continue this item to the call of the chair and thank you and good night and thank you cosponsor safai for cosponsoring this. Thank you. Madame clerk are there any further items on this agenda . No. Thank you. This meeting is adjourned. meeting adjourned at we think over 50 thousand permanent residents in San Francisco eligible for citizenship by lack information and resources so really the project is not about citizenship but really academy our immigrant community. Making sure theyre a part of what we do in San Francisco the San Francisco pathway to Citizenship Initiative a unique part of just between the city and then our 5 local foundations and Community Safe organizations and it really is an effort to get as many of the legal permanent residents in the San Francisco since 2013 we started reaching the San Francisco bay area residents and 10 thousand people into through 22 working groups and actually completed 5 thousand applications for citizenship our cause the real low income to moderate income resident in San Francisco and the bayview sometimes the workshops are said attend by poem if san mateo and from sacking. We think over restraining order thousand legal permanent residents in San Francisco that are eligible for citizenship but totally lack information and they dont have trained professionals culturally appropriate with an audience youre working with one time of providing services with pro bono lawyers and trained professionals to find out whether your eligible the first station and go through a purview list of questions to see if they have met the 56 year residents arrangement or theyre a u. S. Citizenship they once they get through the screening they go to legal communication to see lawyers to check am i eligible to be a citizen we send them to station 3 thats when they sit down with experienced advertising to fill out the 4 hundred naturalization form and then to final review and at the end he helps them with the check out station and send them a packet to fill and wait a month to 6 weeks to be invited in for an oral examine and if they pass two or three a months maximum get sworn in and become a citizen every single working groups we have a learning how to vote i mean there are tons of Community Resources we go for citizenship prep classes and have agencies it stays on site and this is filing out forms for people that are eligible so not just about your 22 page form but other Community Services and benefits theres an economic and safety Public Benefit if we nationalize all people to be a citizen with the network no objection over 3 million in income for those but more importantly the city saves money 86 million by reducing the benefit costs. Thank you. Ive been here a loventh i already feel like an american citizen not felt it motorbike that needs to happen for good. One day i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, for liberty and justice for all. Youre welcome. singing . clapping. introduce the San Francisco field officer director ribbon that will mirror the oath raise your hand and repeat the oath i hereby declare on oath repeating. Citizens cry when they become citizenship to study this difficult examine and after two trials they come back im an american now were proud of that purpose of evasion so help me god please help me welcome seven hundred and 50 americans. speaking foreign language. she wants to be part of the country and vote so much puppy. You know excited and as i said it is a long process i think that needs to be finally recognized to be integrated that is basically, the type of that i see myself being part of. Out of everybody on tv and the news he felt that is necessary to be part of community in that way i can do so many things but my voice wouldnt count as it counts now. Its everybody i hoped for a bunch of opportunities demographics and as you can see yourself theres a good life for everyone. Thats why. You have people from all the walks that life and theyre standing in water 8 hours to be an american citizen and contribute to the city and thats really what makes this worthwhile. San francisco is known worldwide for its atmospheric waterfront where spectacular views are by piers and sight and sounds are xhanl changing we come to the here for exercise relax ball games entertainment, recreation market, exhilaration a wide variety of contributions easily enjoyed look up the bay the waterfront is boosting for activities boosting over 25 visitors every year the port of San Francisco manages 7 may have Million Dollars of waterfront from hyde street and Fishermans Wharf to the cargo terminals and name shoreline the architecture like pier 70 and the Ferry Building is here for the embarcadero and a National Treasure the port also supports 10 different Maritime Industries alongside with the recreational attractions making San Francisco one of the most viable working waterfronts in the world but did you think that our waterfront faces serious challenges if earthquake to damage the seawall and the embarcadero roadway rising seawalls will cause flooding at high tides and Major Repairs to a safe many of the piers the port is at a critically turnl point time to plan for the future of San Franciscos waterfront this year the port is updating its marts plan the Plan Working Group to invite a wide variety of poichdz from the city and bayview and other advisory teams to share their expertise if intense and Maritime Operations the waterfront Land Use Plan has guided the use and development of the lanes for the last 20 years major physical changes take place along the waterfront and now is the time to update the waterfront plan to continue improvements that will keep our waterfront vibrate, public and resilient the Biggest Challenges facing the waterfront are out the site an aging seawall along the embarcadero roadway and seawalls that will rise by 21 hundred to provide and productivity of tides seawall is built over weak soils and mud the next earthquake will cause it to settle several feet without the urgent repairs that will damage the promenade and other things weve been fortunate over the last hundred years less than one foot of seawall over the next hundred years Scientists Say well have 6 feet of seawall rise imagine the pier 30 32 will be floated, the embarcadero will be flooded our Transportation System is fog to be heavy impacts unfortunately, the port didnt have the Financial Resources to repair all the deteriorating piers let alone the adaptations for Sea Level Rise. It is clear that the port cant pay for the seawall reinforcement or deal with the Sea Level Rise on its own needs to raise money to take care of the properties at take care of the maintenance on the properties no way absent anti funding the issues of Sea Level Rise or the schematic conditions of seawall can be development. As studies talk about the seawall challenges the working group is look at the issues please come share our ideas about recreation, pier activities, shoreline habitat, Historic Preservation and transportation issues and viral protection. We know this planning process will not have one question and one answer we need the diversity of the opinions how people feel about San Francisco waterfront and want to hear all the opinions. The challenges call for Big Decisions now is the time to explore now and Creative Ideas to protect and preserve San Francisco waterfront. Now is the time to get involved to help to shape the future of our waterfront. We need the debate please come forward and engage in the process. This is your waterfront and this is your opportunity to get involved be part of solution help San Francisco create the waterfront we want for the future. This is really to dream big and i think about what our waterfront looked like for all san franciscans today and generations to come. Get involved with the planning process that will set the fraction for what is coming at the port. Find for in upgrading dates on the ports website. ship blowing horn in distances the matter will come to order. Just a moment. Sfgtv is catching up. Here we go. The meeting will come to order. This is the march 22nd, 2017, special meeting of the local Agency Formation commission i am the vice chair of the commission, i am joined by ronen to my left and fewer to my right. And i would like the thank the staff of sfgov tv for bringing use,