Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Secretary silva, would you please call the roll. [roll call]. Clerk madam chair, you have five votes to approve the minutes. You are on item five, communications. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency, this meeting is being held virtually, and all members of the staff and the public are attending Via Teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors, t
Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Secretary silva, would you please call the roll. [roll call]. Clerk madam chair, you have five votes to approve the minutes. You are on item five, communications. Due to the covid19 health emergency, this meeting is being held virtually, and all members of the staff and the public are attending via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors, t
Fund departments may mead extra Staff Members to do various things. I think people have been doing more with less and that works for a while but after some period of time people cant do more without having more and they are all stressed out. We may need more resources for the clerks office. Perhaps some other general fund departments. I do agree with the clerks recommendations that were on that slide that i cant see right now. Those are the recommendations today. We no, i thinks may change early next year and probably will change several times next year. I understand that the mayors budget instructions are due out next wednesday. I understood that this committee was not meeting next wednesday and perhaps this was the last scheduled meeting for the year. I am wondering when the mayors budget instructions will be up for discussion at the Budget Committee . Perhaps someone can address that question. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments, sir. Next speaker, please. That complete
Process where families may apply to any Elementary School in the district. Despite our well intentioned efforts, the process has not worked as well as intended meeting goals related to diversity, predictability and proximity. In our Current System. Families must chose from 72 different schools and arent guaranteed an assignment to any of them. The families with the most time and resources are best able to figure out the application process, research schools, go on school tours, and ultimately receive one of the top choices. Despite the complicated process, our schools are just as segregated today as they were when we implemented the system. What weve heard we know that every family wants to send their child to a highquality school and that students assignment alone cannot create highquality stools but it does have a role to play in creating diverse robust enrolled schools. And sfusd our mission is to provide each and every student with the highquality instruction required to thrive in
Your microphone and turn off your newscast. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 14156550001. Entering access code, 146 013 1154. When you are connected and would like to submit public testimony, press star and 3 to be added to the queue. Please do not hit star 3 repeatedly as star 3 will raise and lower your hand. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. When you have 30 seconds remaining, youll hear a chime. When the allotted time is reached, i will announce your time is up and take the next person to speak. Best practices are to call from a quiet location. Speak clearly and slowly. And mute the volume on your television or computer. Id like to take roll. Commissioner moore here. Commissioner chan here. Commissioner diamond here. Commissioner fung here. Commissioner imperial here. We expect Commission President koppel to be absent today. First on the agenda is item 1 for consideration of items proposed for continues. 20