Transcripts For SFGTV LAFCo 32217 Local Agency Formation Commission 20170323

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 at 62942 together we can support your children. Its been my dream to start is a Valley School since i was a little girl. Im having a lot of fun with it clapping the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. A lot of times parents say that Valley Schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. We hold the classes to no longer 12 and theres 23 teachers. I go around and i watch each class and theres certain children i watched from babies and its exciting to see them after today. The children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. They get selfconfidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their good afternoon everyone and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, march 21, 2017. Mdm. Clerk, please roll call thank you. Breed, here, cohen, cohen, here. Farrell, present, fewer, present, kim, present, peskin, present, ronen, present, safai, present, sheehy, present, tang, present, yee, present. Mdm. Pres. On matters are present tida. Ladies and gentlemen these, join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] thank you everyone. Mdm. Clerk, do you have any communications . Ive known to report mdm. Pres. Colleagues any changes to the february 2017 Board Meeting minutes . See no changes, is her motion to approve those minutes . Will by supervisor used second bite supervisor safai. Can we take that without objection without objection those Meeting Minutes will be passed after Public Comment [gavel] mdm. Clerk next item item at 2 pm is the mayors appearance in this chamber. Hon. Mayor edwin lee, the be no questions omitted from supervisors the mayor may address for up to 5 min. The thank you mr. Mayer for being here today. Since the were no questions were semitic would like to make any remarks . Supervisors thank you for inviting me here and to the public, thank you for being here this afternoon. Would like to followup on the state of the city speech by discussing how we Work Together in our city. On thursday, the president signed a blueprint for his proposed 2018 budget. If the president gets his way, housing him a homeless, arts programs will be cut in 2030 . Around the nation, Critical Services will face severe funding shortages, including meals on wheels, Free School Lunches for children after school, programs, legal aid to the poor, good while it may seem that we are under attack by all sides, we have a proven track record that we are stronger when we stand together. We in the city Work Together to build a budget that helps and not arms are poor or working in the class families. We know that San Franciscos has been successful because we invest in our children might in our people in our communities. Became together to establish programs like, the dignity fund, the childrens fund, Affordable Housing fund. We have made investments in our job training, our afterSchool Programs, in our small businesses. We protect our seniors to march 11 and our families and that is why we sit here and why we will continue to succeed. We helped the day of action and february to support the american care act. The last week, we learned the proposed replacement plan for the aca will deprive 24 Million People of insurance by 2026, an estimated 52 Million People across the country could be uninsured. We know that could be disastrous for our city has more than 240,000 residents depend on some form of the aca or medicaid. We are urging congress to take action and fight back against these harsh policies. Today, i joined other mayors across the nation to demand comprehensive immigration reform, not walls and travel bans and random id checks. Many of you join me and members of our immigrant communities as we celebrated San Franciscos refusal to join any National Registry based on religion or ethnic city. So working together, are able to provide representation for san franciscans a deportation hearings, and we are committed and we have committed 14 million over the next two years for immigration [inaudible] cost. We are supporting the San Francisco Interfaith Council on Immigration Defense Fund which will provide resources for nonprofit organizations fighting for immigrant rights throughout the bay area. Last week, hundreds of people gathered at st. Peters church in the south of market district to learn how to offend their immigrant neighbors. This is what we mean when we say we stand shoulder to shoulder. It is also National Arts advocacy day today. On our front steps of city hall, we been rallying with artisan advocates to protect vital art and cultural programs that makes San Francisco San Francisco. So when we stand together and Work Together, we are the city that solves problems together. We show that earlier this year when we worked with our labor groups to agree on twoyear contracts that are equitable and fair. I coming together, those groups help ensure our Fiscal Health remains in good order and their residents will receive vital city services. So as we develop the next years budget, we must be responsible and disciplined due to the uncertainty on the federal level of threat store Vital Services and programs. But we will also not allow misguided policies to define who we are. We will prepare ourselves with plans that work for our residents. We will persist in the fight against discrimination and intolerance, and together as a city we will achieve progress towards a better future. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you mr. Mayer. With that we will return to our regular agenda. Mdm. Clerk, please read the Consent Agenda. Items one through four are on the Consent Agenda these are items considered to be routine. The member objects and items may be removed and considered sadly. Roll call out items one through four sheehy aye, tang aye yee aye breed aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, fewer aye, kim aye, peskin aye, ronen, aye, safai aye. There are 11 aye those items are passed unanimously. [gavel] next item item number five and ordinance to adopt amendment number one for fiscal year 1470 memorandum of understanding to the city and Municipal Attorneys Association to england base wage increases for fiscal year 17, 18, and 1819 and a extend the terms of all this agreement to june 30, 2019. He was collects, take this same house, same call . Be without the ordinances finally passed unanimously [gavel] next item item six experience woman the planning code and zoning maps to read that integrate and reflect the speed of the special use district generally bounded by 20 2nd st. , potrero avenue easter solders and cassius was 24th 2 barlett st. And to approve the ceqa dirt termination and make appropriate findings same house, same call the house . Without objection the ordinances passed unanimously. [gavel] next item item number seven is a ordinance to amend the ministers go to all cash out proceeds received by an owner of an Affordable Housing development aborted by in whole or part taxpayer funds should be used for only for residential or Tenant Services and Creation Development and preservation of Affordable Housing supervisor farrell colleagues, theres a number of amendment that are handed out that i get your offices yet. I would like toim happy to discuss if you theres any question. Very much so but otherwise like to motion to adopt those amendment before we get to the meat of the item. Supervisor farrell, i apologize. You have an expiration of the amendment be sure. So a few sure. A few demented person while there were concerns about it about percy being restricted to remove any reference to the property to make baltimore cricket was never intent to regulate about herpes and i want make sure that was stricken from the record. There was concerned that the legislation did not allow for broader Community Development. To that end specifically nature that any spending in accordance with virus i when c3 was permissible. And it allows for any kind of spending cash out proceeds just want political spending could then there were concerns about implementation was a lot of backandforth between Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and the developers as we just took out the any references out these funds would be restricted and would be that of two policy discussions between our Mayors Office good so it was three simple amendment and response to a lot of the needs over the last week i want make sure on the record okay. Cc no comment specific about the amendment,okay. So supervisor farrell, has made a motion to amend. Is there a second . Second by supervisor tang before we adopt the amendment supervisor farrell, before i move on to other members of the board, is that all you want to say . No. I like like to say a few things okay. I think is an questions on the amendment. Supervisor peskin thank you madame president. For the sake of procedure, if im fine with adopting the amendment. In i will speak further to why i would vote against this as amended or not as amended but there is one issue relative to the amendment that i think is selfevident and unnecessary and already a matter of law. Which is on page 3 the amendment that says, may not be expended for participation in supporting or attempting to influence a Political Campaign for any candidates or ballot measure. The law is already abundantly clear that nonprofit organizations cannot support or oppose any candidate for any office at the state local or federal level. So i just think that language any candidate, is already the law. So i think its really specific to ballot measures but im going to vote against the item amended or simon and happy to speak to wipe out about language was unnecessary thank you supervisor farrell that is fair enough and were happy to strike that from them amendment. Okay. With that, colleagues, can we take the amendment specifically, without objection . Without objection the amendments pass [gavel] supervisor farrell okay. So colleagues, to me the item at this point everyone knows where im coming from on the issue but i want to reiterate in the last year we saw Affordable Housing developers we finance Affordable Housing projects that would mix of taxpayer dollars make millions off these transactions and spend the money and private Political Campaigns. Call me crazy, but it seems to me common sense to dictate precious local portable housing dollars should be spent on Affordable Housing needs and priorities. Its not the case on the ground today. Local Affordable Housing overs are refinancing buildings. Building with multiple notice of violations and these buildings including low income seniors going without hot water for months and publicly reported fears about innovated forward porting those issues and using these refinancing ocs for the political bands and self pride how water for residents to me its appalling to think with the developers under investigation. I firmly believe we should ensure every penny of able for Affordable Housing in San Francisco is been so useful for browsing needs. This legislation is up with the standard legislative process as my colleagues will test the Land Use Committee to zero opposition publicly until this board was getting me to vote on it two weeks ago. I want presented out to committee after the bill is set for months in the past few weeks however, as ive heard some concerns and those amendment address them, as much as we can find Common Ground on the issue, at a meeting with the developers, and others in the community, to come up and try to find common language that meets the goal. Now i know most of developers are doing the hard work of structuring financing deals, building of fort housing provided Tenant Services bring allies of the communities they represent should i support this work immensely. I think we all to see it continue. I tend with the policies to ensure the public dollars in Affordable Housing continue to be used for Affordable Housing. Neither priorities that we all know we must address. When the as a City Government out the money for a formal housing, we are very clearly say that solely as represents of the Public Interest leaves the best use of those funds. Plan simply commotion beginning of any taxpayer dollars 11 a formal Housing Developers are quite frank that think this is were anybody else that we received Public Policy these funds for private Political Campaigns. Attackers demand more from us than they should. We already of section 12 in a code which is that public funds during the budget process are being used for political purposes without a loophole now. Its been exploited and we need to close it. I want to go over a few issues raised by some these brokers or the past weeks First Parliament in the ordinance was 12 without the input of nonprofits. First of all, which we very clear that private to introducing the legislation did discuss the policy with a number of local developers a formal housing overs twitter this would not harm the production of badly needed Affordable Housing. I believe the ordinance appropriate dress their spending needs short of allowing direct political contributions which is the core of what the issue is right now. My conversations began very clear we differed philosophically on whether cash out proceeds she retrieves public dollars or not. I, do not believe that public funds should the user private mp