So fortunate to be a part of this process and life transforming experience for me. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. I have dolly and julia that are going to experience the ideas that weve had over the course of 6 months. Good evening, im julia garcia i that had opportunity to work on the prototype and i saw how the kids like to play and being able to serve themselves and not waiting in line. And i believe that this idea will make lunchtime a better experience for the students. Hi. Good evening. Im the School Cafeteria manager. I work in the School District cafeteria for 22 years. Thank you. Thank you. So what you see on the slide today here in front of you is sort of the vision for a student centered financially sustain able system where kids eat good food. It is a balance of Student Needs on one hand and the Financial Stability and the designs we are recommending all aimed to deliver on the student values and shift to a more sustainable future. So, the design strategy is an e
Recommendations going to be, what is the low hanging fruit, what are the things that will get us our biggest bang for the buck and get our kids, this next generation of kids into this. As i was peeling my orange thinking about my child who is now in college and standing behind her in kindergarten and i was peeling oranges for all the the kindergarteners. Thats not what we want to do anymore. We want them to be able to socialize. Put me to work. Im excited about this. I want to see us move forward, do something not 5 years from now. Hopefully on my time while im still on the board. I want to see this happen in our schools. Lets do it. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you commissioner. Thank you, let me just say ditto to what commissioner just said. And add on a little bit. I am so grateful for the dinner take home idea. So many of our students have to take care of themselves after they leave school and take care of siblings. I have seen this scenario so many times and they have to get thos
I would like to call upon our superintendent mr. Carranza to set the stage for us. Thank you, i would like to welcome everybody to this special meeting of the board of education of the San Francisco Unified School District. I cant help but being giddy tonight. Im so excited about our agenda this evening. Not that im not excited about every Board Meeting agenda, but im particularly excited about this evenings agenda. Many folks who are watching and the public, this is a long time that has been coming and Building Momentum and at this time we have the opportunity of san franciscans and specifically as San Francisco Unified School District members to lead in nutrition addition. I want to share if you were to right now use a Search Engine and search the westbound for some of the destination cities for food, for food easy, San Francisco would pop to the top of the list in pretty much every Search Engine. The question that is begged is if San Francisco is a destination food city, why shouldn
Feed each other and share that love. I cant wait for that to happen. Because teachers supporting staff and supporting kids, this is an immense way to show how we care about children and we want the best for them. That i want to say kudos for it. Im very ready like commissioner mendoza, how we can be ambassadors. Yes im really ready for this and want interpretation. Im ready for all of these smaller meetings. Im excited about this and what i want the families to understand what is going to happen for their kids. I have seen those round tables that fold up. I absolutely believe they exist and can work for that dining experience. I love that. Im less worried, i heard the concerns, im so not worried. You have so much going on here that makes sense and that you partnered it with a deep financial fiscal analysis. Im not worried. From the time that i have been on the board, i have seen shifts for the better. Im not worried that we will not be able to do this with such validity and incrediblit
Happen. Because teachers supporting staff and supporting kids, this is an immense way to show how we care about children and we want the best for them. That i want to say kudos for it. Im very ready like commissioner mendoza, how we can be ambassadors. Yes im really ready for this and want interpretation. Im ready for all of these smaller meetings. Im excited about this and what i want the families to understand what is going to happen for their kids. I have seen those round tables that fold up. I absolutely believe they exist and can work for that dining experience. I love that. Im less worried, i heard the concerns, im so not worried. You have so much going on here that makes sense and that you partnered it with a deep financial fiscal analysis. Im not worried. From the time that i have been on the board, i have seen shifts for the better. Im not worried that we will not be able to do this with such validity and incrediblity and so im not worried. Im ready to go as all my colleagues.