Slide 6. Locam i reading it correct its gone down when youre comparing the 18, 19 to the fall of 2019 . This is slide 6 . Yeah. Sorry. Yes. So what this is showing you is the yellow bar is what the 18, 19 school year chronic absenteeism rate and the blue bar is showing what it is in the fall. Right . So our goal is to keep steady at the blue bar which would mean that at the end of this year, our chronic absenteeism rate would go down. Okay. But if we have the jump that weve been seeing over the past three years, it will go up. Okay. Thank you. Does that make sense . We need to it shows how its gone up every year, that slide. This is last year versus midyear and they are trying to maintain yeah. Its a little bit of apples and oranges. Were doing a fall to a year. But this is what were saying is that this is were seeing here is an opportunity we have to hopefully turn back that chronic absenteeism and then for your question, commissioner norton, the last three years of data, and i would
Dragged down by the more powerful bond market taking 357 points, s p falling. 82 nasdaq advanced a basis point, stunning comback but lets not get too carried away, still the worst woke for the averages since the financial crisis the bond market is bigger than the stock market we dont talk about it because its boring. But its important to the direction of your portfolio. Everythings wrapped up in bond yields always has been. I learned that 40 years ago. There are multibillion dollar programs that sell stocks whenever those yields go down. Its form got as lows a 1. 1 today, closing at 1. 16 thats a record low level, signaling the economy is growing weaker, and quality investors hide money in fixed income, coronavirus supply chain the bond market is screams that the coronavirus is far worse than most people realize Global Commerce will take a real hit and it might even be something similar to 2008 when all hell broke loose i cant tell you whether the bond market is right im not an epidemi
Right now. Good evening, everyone. San Francisco Unified School District provides free cantonese and spanish interpretation tonight for this meeting. So if you know anyone that needs a cantonese or spanish interpreter, please have them find us. We have signs up right here. We also have childcare provided over at the e. P. C. Center. So if you need childcare, please head over to the e. P. C. Center. And the interpreter will repeat this in cantonese and spanish. [speaking Foreign Language] [speaking spanish] thank you. Section b, opening item, approval of the board minutes of the regular meeting of february 11, 2020. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Are there any corrections . Roll call. Thank you. [roll call] speaker cards for the regular agenda and closed session are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. Members of the public are reminded an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and present it to the assistant. Members
And those are the applications . Implications . We can posit any time because we are doing things and phases and this is something we do not have the luxury of not doing. We are, you know, working in increments to figure out how we can reduce each one of the component costs and working with the contractor and bidding it out. We are pretty much, you know, going through the path of bidding out each package and we can let you know what the trends are what we are doing and mitigate it. I mean, at a certain point you have to decide if you want to continue building this or not . Im just speaking for myself. On the commission we are going to likely commit to continue to build it. I want an understanding of what that actually means wheres the money, did it come from some other important project or is that coming from reserves. How does that really look. We are planning to present to you, as soon as the new director comes on board to look at rhe baselining everything based on what we are experi
Are there any questions or comments on the minutes . Any Public Comment on the minutes. Motion to approve . All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. The next item is general Public Comment. I have a card from mr. Decosta. It afternoon. Ellipsis good afternoon. I dont say this too many times. When i fill out my card you will see Environmental Justice advocacy. I have gone your website. In all of this time from 2,002 up to 2019, how has sfpuc addressed Environmental Justice when it comes to our infants, our children, our youth, our young adults, our elders, those with compromised health, the physically and mentally challenged . I want to know. Do we have a department, or whatever term of external affairs chief strategist . I would like to have some sort of an explanation with all of the money that has been set aside for community benefits, how much is really being satisfied when it comes to children . How much of it has been satisfied . And, if San Francisco Public Utilities co