Dr requests having different objectives we are not simplifying. There is a tendency we may simplify. Could you please respond . The little House Committee would support that motion. Agreed. I second. Very good commissioners shall i call the question . Hang on a second. I would agree with the motion also with the other dr requesters. Do you fully understand what we are proposing here . I think we have a good understanding and we are hearing the commission and i think you have seen dana up gibbing up the entire forth floor of union street. Again, lets focus on give and take. We are compfortable with 5 feet off the top floor on the rear building. We are only deal wg 27 foot depth so cut 9 feet out. Is this bigger than my bedroom . Yes. Is this new construction . Do they want to do something nice, yes. Not to say 20 or 19 feet isnt something that could work but we are saying we are willing to cut the forth story of union and 5 feet off the rear of the 4th floor of the aladdin terrace building and we got to findit is important to find accomodation for the two Parking Spaces considering the fact this isnt likei know it is transit rich, they have two cars and drive to work every day so i think we are getting close andim in agreement. We have been talking about this for 2 years with 5 dr requester. I think we are making progress. Two spaces in the front build ing are for you . There are 3. There are 3 so use 2 of them. Katie our garage has 4 cars in there. Katie will continue to live with us and works for sutter and does process efficiency so drives her car to work probably two days a week3 a. M. At the hospital with blood draws. There is demand for the parking space. Chris big low called me a year ago and said can ierant a parking spot in your garage. There is high demand for parking. Thank you. I would ask mr. Sanchez, is it possible to maintain for squeezed in cars in that 870 building . It sound like if that is the existing condition but it is less than ideal. Because of the way the rules for parking. We wont be able to maintain 4 spots because in the plan we have to provide egress on the east side so that narrows to a point you cant fit 4 cars. Most r motion seconded. Should i call the question . Motion to take dr and approve the project as amended allowing parking only in the front building, reducing the rear building 9 feet and only allowing the pop out for the front building. On that motion, commissioner johnson [inaudible] copal, yes. Mill gar, yes. Moore, aye. Richard, aye. Fong, no. So moved that motion passes 42 with commissioners johnson and fong voting against. Close public hearing inclined to request the variance as proposed. Commissioners general Public Comment. I have no speaker. Any general Public Comment . Seeing none the hearing is adjourned. Started the regular meeting of of the San Francisco board of education is called to order ms. Fewer dr. Murase ms. Norton, mr. Walton thank you ms. Wynns that he mr. Haney and ms. Ing thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. We want to thank everyone that joined us in person for anyone that wants to address the board of education can you fill out one of the speaker cards and theyre available outside in the hallway and please give to ms. Casco sitting over here before the item is called well appreciate that item a approval of the minutes of september 27, 2016, can i have a motion and a second . So moved. Second. Roll call. Thank you ms. Ing ms. Alleyway goes ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton and mr. Walton and thank you ms. Wynns and mr. Haney 5 is. Thank you item b superintendents report superintendant lee. Thank you, president haney ill be speaking about a number of items and id like to on the meeting by commenting on the incident at june yonder school for quality id like to begin by honoring the students, staff sight leaders and community anothers june jordan was shaken by a terrible incident last tuesday that included violence and physical injury to 4 students and emotional harm to the community i want it permit my thanks to the sfpd for their work in about Ongoing Investigation and mayor ed lee and supervisor avalos for their immediate offers of support to many staff for their dedicated efforts to support the school last tuesday and in the days since and many other individuals across San Francisco sending expression of assistants to june yornd on behalf of the team i offer our deep respect and admiration to two staff for the courage and empathy they displayed in this deeply disturbing event leadership we likewise thank you for your strength and unite they stood together strong true to form their held values called them to do as well see in a few minutes during the meeting everyone in the sfusd communities are independent when an incident strikes one of us it impacts all of us your actions to support each other really do help and unite us all finally i must appreciate the brilliance and fortitude of maria. clapping. the day after the incidents that is last wednesday the students designate was onsite ahead of School Starting talking with staff and writing message of deep Community Strength on the very site of the crime she also participated in on camera interviews with tv and during the interviews she was posed and thoughtful and moved off the negative question and on to the main message of june Jordan School for equity standing up against depression during a meeting with families she powerfully addressed the cultural sensitivities between latino and black Community Maria we are proud of you and june jordan would have been so proud of you and your peers at the School Moving on to a few lighter topics this is principal Appreciation Month and personally thank you to all the dedicated site leaders that led us our principals and advice principals above and beyond the call of duty their duties and represent their schools with pride and dignity all while tackling theyre never ending to do list thank you for all you do. Id like to invite all families looking for a school for their children to the fair an saturday october 29th the fair will take place as last year at the city college of San Francisco if the Wellness Center on 18 ocean avenue families can learn about all the Stanford Schools and the enrollment for all grades transitional kindergarten sixth and 9 grade there be will workshops to explain the language pathways and other options it is tasked with principles and teachers and parents and students for those who are ready to talk about what is so special about their school and again, the enrollment fair is saturday october 29th at city college of San Francisco wellness on 18 ocean avenue from 9 30 to 2 30 and register for childcare at from sorry im not seeing the phone number but the email address is w uc 2 at sfusd at the east side you is on the website so anyone wants to register for childcare please finally please remember that election day is tuesday november 8 the last board of education between now and election day please remember, if your eligible to vote to vote on or before election day we are past the point as which we can say how to vote on any of the raze or propositioned but i will point out several measures that are of special interest thought Education Community specifically on the state ballot proposition 51 is a state School Facility proposition 55 relates to school funding, extending the property tax and that passed a furious and on the local San Francisco ballot prop a it is school bobbed and not telling you how to vote on any of the measures but please be aware there is an important election coming up. Thank you superintendant lee. Item c recognized of resolution of accommodates two rave awards this evening superintendant lee. Sorry lost track of my place the First Services award is for carol the principal at the locally la Elementary School and presented by superintendent richie. Thank you superintendant lee it is my honor and pleasure to introduce someone that i will describe unremarkable and keeps the Society Justice in all the work she does no spice up that carol was 23450789 by a Community Member i was to read a short excerpt the question is why are they nominating this employee and the parents shared that the child was in a transition always but the principal asked to keep here language chinese she got into the school and principal fong remembered her and that impressed that parents what is the expressive characters she gets parents involved and makes sure that students keep their bilingualness and bye literacy and raised the fund with limited resources that she has to do with right to children and building in does the arts and has the chinese dance and some things this employee does that you want to recognize shes always aiming to have her students do better and embodies that walks the walk and she likes students that brings dont ideas to the clamor no surprise they are seven years in a row her school get the title one Academic Achievement Award a distinct school twice and a National BlueRibbon School a role model for others colleagues and teachers as well as District Office staff carol fong does lots with this were proud to honor you as one of the exemplar treasures in our city so, please come forward and receive your award. clapping. first of all, i want to thank the board inform this recognize i often wonder what ill be doing i love flowers and would have been a good in front of the i walked into a clamor and joined dates i didnt she came from china sitting wither classmate and has all the visible support yet not able to participate that was me 45 years ago the memories are fresh it is a school of students 60 percent are free and reduced lunch over 50 percent are english as a second language learners but in spite they excel richard mentioned in 2011, we received the National Blue ribbon and we won the trip crown were so proud and excited. clapping. but as a accomplished as we are as a school daas i didnt see stories remember we have tlooebld so her story and my personal experience have something in common they served to reminding remind me not only to bring my professional best and personal best everyday to my work some people think that the title as a principal independence who you are im in the school of thought who i am existences any principalship it validates in any personal best thank you for the opportunity and the wonderful years of services thank you clapping. thank you, principal fong very much and you desire more than 50 seconds next our rave Service Award is going to christina counselor at george peached and presenting the award our principal at george peabo]. Good evening and congratulations carolpeabody. Good evening and congratulations carol. Any pleasure at George PeabodyElementary School to present this to christine our amazing social working and nominate by a parents that says she goes above and beyond were the Emotional Experience for students at the peabody Elementary School this is our social Emotional Learning program our favorite are many and runs countless workshops and tackling issues of guilty to insure that peabody Elementary School is inclusive of all families in clus our achievement gap and teaches weekly lessons during the lessons she uses a curriculum called brain obstetrics gynecology that teaches the students how the brain works and the difference between a mindset weve seen the impact on the students academically and social time and time again as program i feel very, very fortunate to have her a member in the peabody Elementary School team and in a mission to go above and beyond and on a personal note as a role model as a working parents thank you and congratulations clapping. well, i think carol is a great person to follow im grab my 15 seconds thank you, mr. Wu i feel like i hit the jack pot when i landed at George PeabodyElementary School in the district more than seven years or so but i know or knew i wanted to be a full social worker never knew i would be fortunate going to a place everyday i love you was a child that loved school and made me want to work towards help students love school whatever that means helping families and helping children joy their school day im really fortunate to work there 4 days a week i wish every school could have a social worker w4r days a week im eager and excited i need to share that award with mr. Wu and all the amazing folks at the George PeabodyElementary School i feel lucky to be there and my husband can contest to the fact i used to be many a profession i didnt love and he knows i cant wait to get started everyday and thank you for the opportunity to work fabulous role and for this award tonight thank you clapping. thank you and congratulations again to principal fong and the team item d student delegate report maria and jessica. Good evening board of education we have a couple of things and have a short video we want to share with you the first one or first thing is an update on the voters forum that happens on november sorry not november, october 20th in preparation for the november 9th election day so youth readers from the commission and all students came to the high school to learn been the alphabet of student propositioned on the ballot and at the end everyone took a vote that was pretty cool to see the students given a chance would vote and also, they had a great opportunity to register voters 16 and 17yearolds that was a new program and preregistering come the next election date and an official form by the secretary of the state that was pretty cool. Thank you and a resolution so our first meeting was on the thursday and we got around 50 to 40 people and looking to the next steps to see how we can support all students and looking forward Work Together with different high schools across San Francisco district. So yesterday we have an f ac c meeting the topic that came up was around what happened and june just for the record as a student i dont go there but i cant imagine how the students feel around this issue but admire your strength and resolve yesterday the f ac c shared what their schools were doing to share their is it not correct with the staff and others so theyre good marshall accurate posters and washington i think talked about this in their lgbt and ethic study classes although the support at the sites all the students alleged that june jordan showed a lot of great unity during their difficult times. We have been as you may know i dont know only represent the students but june jordan in the district and first of all, thank you all sfusd staff and usf across the cd for their support and solid outlet minutes before and after that happened we definitely failed the support and solidarity and felt the solidarity and we recall very, very grateful for that and yeah going to june jordan as i mentioned my priority to go to june jordan and was one of the first ones i wanted to make sure that june jordan we are mourning this i think june jordan shows who we are for justice and eligibility and show well come together to build community and awareness of those events gun violation and violation is not just a problem at june jordan but across the country and the world and i think that this is not only the problem, of course, we see in our city and across the community but a good moment San Francisco schools are go talking to come to together and work in solidarity my school is cereal an example of what happened of oppression and students dont get the love from their participants and community this is a result my principal has talked about that and quoting one of our sisters this leads to not seeing what he said how can students and young men feel hopes it is easy to take someones life so easily there is a great moment for us, to come together and Work Together june jordan is devastated well overcome and get the support we need and all appreciate it from everyone who showed the support in many ways and weve gotten at least from our students postcards from Elementary Schools from the youngest to 9 oldest staff theyve come to us in supporting you guess alumni staff and organizations that support june jordan so we are appreciated it in this video i want to thank the superintendent for helping us this last Minute Technology difficulties and the request for the certification i think the video will speaks for itself it is a way if it didnt happen everyone is moving fast i was talking about how everyone across San Francisco to be awareness of this so ill let the video speaks for itself and thank you to everyone. What occurred in that school october 18th didnt reflect us as a school like what were fighting against oppression not that something happened that what happened to us is now taken care of and it is like coming back home to a place i feel safe spiraling and emotionally. June jordan is a school question came together no solidarity no matter what solidarity no matter whai solidarity no matter whan solidarity no matter what happens. In my voice is important in that what is on my mind can be important. The first day june jordan opened the children walked through our doors theyre our children we treat them like family. We still agree who we are without you know not being ourselves. And i have a lot of freedom here im able to bring my as a mother and i think that is actually helpful it is an important vibe here you know are interest problems yes there are problems everywhere. I love the way it the teachers and everybody combines and comes together. Help the students and the connection and the you know all the students and all the staff i have so much love theyre like extend families my kids are any family and theyre my brothers and sisters. I need someone who is here and the parallel is really everybody is together and look out for each other and really need that and do it out of the love not out of fear. We put ourselves in the shoes of another or skin of another help to understanding and understanding is a complete application. clapping. i just want to point out that moments you saw in there were a day after the incident happened i think we did talking we had a huge circle across the quad and brought out the community so the video speaks for itself how beautiful organized the community is coming together across San Francisco and one of the most beautiful things that can be accomplished and will be accomplished thank you a lot guys. Sorry. Never mind not done sorry laughter . So were inviting you guys to our next meeting on wednesday november 7th at 5 00 p. M. In the room it is a public event if you guys are welcome to come and few guys want to come Contact Contact mr. Salvador lopez. To get the agenda and get you guys the schedule so thank you yeah, thats a monday, i apologize thank you. I wanted to say first on behalf of the board thank you for sharing that video and lets please the people that created it and the entire School Communities have the solidarity and appreciation from our board and. Also it for your leadership and encourage you represented the facts of our student body you represented the best of your school and have such pride in june jordan as a School Community for you to illustrate that in the face of all this and we show what that school represents and what you stand for and embody that we have appreciation 0 thank you and anything we can do as a board well lend our support to you, please let us know and thank you. Item e Advisory Committee report we have one we have a report from the africanamerican parents Advisory Council. So im going to ask the representative to come on up. Okay. A power point great. Parents and future city hall there looks like. laughter . All right. Thank you for the time to share all the wonderful work the patents have put together to do what we do to make sure there are replacement for the so thank you for that video it was very touching and it seems often i have a high schooler and interested what her experience is im the Program Corridor for the africanamerican parents visitorsy council and here with drop the baby off we have the support of alison here and im going to turn it over to those wonderful ladies. Good evening, everybody and thank you for inviting you guess out tonight to give you an update what pooiblg has been doing since june so what you see above the mission of the africanamerican Advisory Council ill read it for those who carton see that the mission of Advisory Council to provide a forum for hear the ideas of San Francisco unified School District africanamerican Parents Community and respond to those genocides by educating of the resources and policies and programs our goal to xoufr the lives of africanamerican families by providing the skills necessary to advocate for high quality educational experience for our children the africanamerican parents Advisory Council develops resources for parents that support the vision of their children and receive with educator and others in the sfusd we ama to lift every parents voice and help the parents find their voice and this year we started off with the first annual apac it was held and seen with want africanamerican or missouri add the purpose of sustaining the initiative. The agenda was designed to recenter on the wellbeing of students to use the data to drive our goals and team build the confusions and reverse active practices and set the goals with the support and we worked together to build a collaborative with an Outreach Team then our next was a followup on the retreat we finally listed the scope of work 6 Program Goals for the assurance of the issues we take on are aligned with the goals we have so that one, the goals to increase the number of families to participate in apac monthly meeting by the thirty percent to build the capacity of apac parents to efficiently advocate for students academics and increase the participant to vaccine for high quality instruction through active engagement with the school sites for the sfusd advising to influence the decision and sfusd policy programming and budgeting and want to increase the participant leadership and abilities to serve on governance committees one apac and at school sites and would like to evaluate the development of 6 more sites to increase the africanamerican Family Engagement in their school sites. All right. To further grow our group we worked with different sfusd Staff Members and Community Operations working with sfusd departments with partners to provide resources to the africanamerican students is one of the main priorities we worked with special education specifically laughter with the community Advisory Council and the eis team office of xfrment with the ali team we joined the black Family Network for the support for black family day an september 17th apac has hosted two workshops with title how the how to start a partnership in the childs education we continuing hold our monthly meetings and their held on the third thursday of every month equip november due to attendance of the alliance in africanamerican achievement and Leadership Team and black School Educators the first meeting the school year was on september 2016 the theme was school are you ready this is presented by doctor back on in a way that are empowering the superintendent was lee our october meeting was held on october 20th and the theme was yes, we can advocate in and in and out the clam presented by assistant superintendent ford for her 3 executive director and family liaison christine and focused on owning the parents teacher experience and becoming politically educated to hosting a school board panel this year we are excited for the apac activities that include ask the site workshops and navigating parents and fast Forward Support and starting our Family Engagement movie night and laughter our Family Engagement movie night will consist of discussion around the methodologies our families that are important and continue with the black family day and also this is our Second Annual year were hosting the College Signing date in april so i pass to you guys in the packet the following items a copy of power point slide, our 2016 and 2017 scope of work and our apac letter and our lastly update we superintendant throughout the email server and we share a site with the apac. So we would like to make the following recommendations tonight so go feed the baby sorry. So that the africanamerican parents Advisory Council continues to support the following ethic studies c2 and africanamerican family loans liaison at all schools with africanamerican populations additional opportunity for High School Credit recovery and increase the cultural awareness professional development are training for all Staff Recruitment and hiring of africanamerican educators assigning highly trained educators for under professionalism schools and with the practices of limits and black histories throughout the school year not just in february and affinity groups at each school site the apac asked to take the lead on creating additional strategies to implement the above recommendations any questions. Well, first of all, ill start off by saying i had the privilege of attending a meeting last week we want to thank the two of you and everyone who has taken the lead with apac i was incredibly expressed by the engagement, the leadership the conversation, how many people were there it was an engaged group of parents and excited to see everybody youve laid out at the impact it is having and our increased partnership with the apac and board i appreciate the need to working closely together sometimes with the Advisory Councils we forgot that part of advisory that helps us do a better job at the board level he want to express our desire to work closely and let us know when things are happening and engage us in addition to know the district staff i know your working closely one question and then other Board Members have questions or comments you know were also going to hear later this evening the lists property i wonder in the report well hear later on if youre directly involved with that and your involvement as apac with support the broader africanamerican achievement inpatient a longer conversation in the africanamerican district and love to know your thoughts at that point what well be hearing and how youve been engaged with that work. Id like for the parents to say 24 yourself our retreat that was a very dmaltsdz effort to know where our students and staff stands this is presented to us were making sure that all our goals are aligned with the goals of africanamerican achievement the ali team calling names we all come together some of our team members meet every third thursday to working closely but the ali comes to the apac they meet to plan what theyll do for families an open invitation for Community Members and the ali team every thursday and there are ali members presents so were thrilled were pga the apac be making timing suggestion what we need and want and desire as partners. With the apac weve been working collectively with ali team and cant express enough our appreciation theyre open to our suggestions because ali heard the numbers wait a minute what is going on many cant be happening what are were going to do thats where the rising workshops okay. We have to make sure our babies are getting the congratulation. Im happy i had a graubt senior last year so i want all families to experience that is that the greatest experience in the world to see your baby walk across the stage as our investment in that child we want to make sure that all families are the schools they need to be successful and help the children or parents understand the importance of advocacy and understanding the importance of being involved regardless of age the child even if they try to pushing back that is harder and let them know youre going to form the partnerships and relationship with their teachers so they see you and know you are going to be working towards making sure your child is successful. I wanted to add adds a parent to get involved in forming the school sites and working as a advocate for parents crossed the district this is been an amazing experience to come to the district and not able to get the support but see it come back and latisha we bring her questions and suggests and see something come back im using in my school and sharing those with other sites and truly it is the addition of turner pierce the work around the district when parents come to the table the staff is ready to meet us as partners that has been a huge shift that i seen and i feel like i can speak for other members it is greatly precedent as well as kind of the gentleman making himself to individual endeavors as well. Thank you before i open up to the board one Public Comment signed up before this item lee fisher. Good evening my name is lee fisher the second chair for the Advisory Committee for special education and have 4 kids africanamerican my oldest at the mission and my too young it at mira loma i appreciate everything youre doing as an africanamerican Advisory Committee and appreciate our focus on special education and how youre helping us engage with the families and do better for all the students and thank you for everything on behalf of the special ed youre doing to promote our activities and meetings and just youre willingness to collaborative it is helping us to provide Better Outcomes for all the students so thank you very much. Yeah. Reverend brown. Good evening mr. President , Vice President and members of the board. Let me say i applaud the Parents Committee has done however, let us learn from history on may 17, 1954, a decision was handed down by the warren court that separate education through this nation was not equal and that court also said that they should correct this egregious sin and error with deliberate speed deliberate ive been in this town for 40 years and in 19 hundred and 78 there was a similar report released to this board then in the 80s we have the redbook and were here with our report and the one well hear from mr. Dickey tonight it is my appeal as president of the naacp in the past Third Baptist Church were not just hear a nice civil report but this board this administration and this entire community make sure that all of the agency of this unified School District have the resources necessary to make this happen without delay as fannie said to eloquently im seconding of being seconding of reading about the disparities and achievement actively if no earthquake this evening of a 6 or 7 or 8 we will stop everything and run to the rescue friends we dont need to hear anywhere that it takes time doctor king said the time is always right to do right it is time for us to leave this meeting tonight as make sure that all the agencies of City Government the deduct communitybased organizations see were fired up and ready to go well show well walk the walk and give the wrap up around services we have not said that much about that and many of the community their challenged because they have issues not have theyre making but issues that been created by this society this racist separate, mean, evil society i pray and hope this night not another nice report with eloquent well give concrete critical, courageous movement to stop this stigmation of black families and black children and the black community in this city we claim to be a progressive liberal city not like other places but the record reveals as long as you have the pocket of islands of ignorance, lack of training and violence in this town we are no better than that community in my native state of mississippi just to week 40 bullets fired into a place where someone murdered in 1955 the same state you have people on the Football Team leading black aforementioned with a noose that is happening we may not be leading with a noose but had that rope around our neck in this city of low achievement that needs to be cut and thrown into the Pacific Ocean thank you for your indulgence and time i hope you hear me tonight and were not sitting on this report we get up and go out of this meeting and make something happen for the good of all when black children succeed all children succeed when black children excel your society excel when black children what read and write and celebrate their future and do more than flo throw a basketball only then what San Francisco say we are a city of st. Francis and you can leave our heart in San Francisco clapping. thank you reverend brown. It is hard to follow after pastor brown. Is a couple of of things thank you for coming in and giving us this report tonight ive seen the growth in the work