Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20240712

Balboa reservoir project. If we look at what the current status quo is swr have a massive parking lot across from a mini mart. Be spent years coming up with a proposed solution that would have over a thousand homes, half of which will affordable and subsidized. If you look at where these people may be currently living some of them may be crouc may cd make a life here. I strongly support this project. The only possible thing that could be improved is to have even more housing here and future similar projects. Thank you. thank you for your comment. Can we have the next speaker, please. hi. Im the chair of the balboa reservoir committee. Good evening supervis superviso. Theres been a lot of community out reach and workshops. Its led to a lot o of community benefits. The project is a well balanced project. Its providing badly needed homes in San Francisco for families. Tha lot of people have been sayg that its private land, the Development Team consistents of four developers. Private land for 100 affordable, imagine if we had to pay seven hundred thousand dollars for each affordable unit. thank you for your comments. May we have the next speaker, please. good evening. My name is pam. Im a retired instructor. Long time city college student. Member of Richmond District and San Francisco resident. A proud citizen who helped launch the campaign to launch San Francisco bank. You have the power to help keep the land public. So in the future it will always serve hello . Aller . Caller . mr. Chair, it looks like we may have lost the Public Comment line. It looks like the Public Comment line is disconnected. while were waiting, if i could just ask the developers to explain something. yes, of course. theres been a lot of talk about the affordability piece and who is paying for what. As weone of the issues is the cause of everything. I also want to clarify that at the end of the day when august is done, 50 of the property will be gic given backs back toy to control. In terms of what is needed to fund affordable units, theres many mechanisms that would help pay for it. This project just like any other project would utilize all the avenues for that. Theres gap funding thats needed. In particular the 33 percent of the units versus the 17 units that the city is going to sup or. Casupport. Can we get an expraings o explaf what that means in terms of gap funding from the developer. sure. I can speak to that a little bit. Youre just asking about the gap funding for the Affordable Housing and the amounts. i think part of it is for people to understand the financial set up for Affordable Housing. You could mention where some of the funding comes from and what else is left over. Gentleman sure. I can start offi dont know if my colleges at bridge are on the line. They are some of the people who do know how Affordable Housing comes together. which is the nonprofit that is going through the units. bridge and avalon bay are the 50 partners sm th partners. Four of those is 100 funding. A smaller piece of the project by habitat for humanity. the comment line has gone done. I will attempt to reestablish our connection. We still have about 12 callers remaining. as were waiting, maybe somebody from staff from h cd orthey do this all the time. Is there anybody there . we have people here from mohed. thank you. Ill juf explain the overall jul approach to the project. The project is structured paced on the bub lick lands for housing framework which says that the Enterprise Department must receive fair market value for the land. In 2015 when this was put forward by the city. Pe percent funding, the developers ab ligation i obli p funding for 17 percent Affordable Housing. Affordable housing is funded through a meud teud o meult te. as you know we have a number of local sources available for Affordable Housing development which includes our local Housing Trust fund, imfact fees that arimpactfees that are. We havent committed to what source were using. Gap funding closer to 2022. Well bring our loans have to be brought to the board of supervisor approval. We need several layers of funding. Our Development Agreementthe future boards will have to make that proatio appropriation at te they approve the gap amount amo. we have the Public Comment line available for the remaining 12 that we had. thank you for answering the question. is it the speaker that was cut off in the middle. operations is going to queue the line in a minute. i will try to find my place. Im not quite sure where i got cut off. I was talking about the east west access road. They have written and passed a resolution asking that the board of trustees ask that the safety of students the board of trustees may be taken out of the conversation completely fending on complete dependingon a vote. I dont know where i cut off. It isit has been a frustrating experience to feel like the valid safety concerns are being ignored and are being pushed aside for this thing that is going to go across no matter what. If it were at least 100 affordable on the public land it would be easier to follow. The idea that its going to a bunch of market rates that the Home Owners Society that is going to run the open space is going to make the rules of the place, its just really yet another slap in the face sm the botto. The bottom line is the coe is in danger. The things we have said at the meetings slb ignored and dropped. Please look at your original surplus land presentations. You talk about accessing public agencies for land and it isnt a picture of the balboa reservoir. Its a picture of the science building. There was another way to have done this at the beginning. Put the voices were not listened to. They put a lot of information out there and it was just ignored and it just keeps plowing forward. City college is going to get hurt. It really needs to help. I dont know what to say. Thank you for putting me back on the line again. thank you for your patience. thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. im quawling i calling in f the reservoir project. Im a member of a number of organizations and were all in support of this project. I understand its not interest but the city has owned this land for many many engineer years ant nothing has happened. We understand that this is probably a very good compromise. Its extremely well thought out. Child care, community spaces, homes, and education. I understand that it might inconvenient members of the college but also i dont think their safety is has to be sacrificed. I dont think people who live in this development will necessarily be opposed to people of safety in the college. Thats all vi t i have to say. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. hello. I go near the reservoir frequently. I comeetl completely support ths project. They created safety and Affordable House thag wa that wt there before. In addition to the housing, hope space, the child care is really needed. I also appreciate how this project including a lower parking ratio. Ocean avenue predates cars and is not great at carrying cars. Public transit including students and educators. I travel between my home city college an job b using bicycle. I look forward to how this will support active housing an transz transportation. They are planning to keep the hopes long term. I urge you to vote today to advance this project to the school board of supersizor supe. Speaking in favor of this im the only one leftlivin. For the last decadeempty land whether publicly owned or not five minutes from bart station. We have a chance to develop 17acres of land where half is Affordable Housing. I think we should take it to allow neighbors like mine to stay in this city. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. hi. Im a San Francisco resident. Bring it back to the idea that theres five hundred fifty below market rate housing, hows of folks who have been displaced or in precarious situations right now have housing near transit, bart, college, high quality schools and beautiful parks. I agree when the conversation started when the program was presented he wanted a use it or lose it amendment for this project. I agree. A lot of the oppositionwe do these these housing now. Theres tons of Public Benefits for this project. Thirty years of planning around the empty parking lot. Theres a parking garage. I believe theres a transit rich spot. We absolutely need those five hundred fifty affordable units. They are not needed in five years, they are needed now. Approve it as it is. Anymore delay is housing denied. next speaker please. hello. Im a member. Im alling in support of the reservoir project. I cant believe its been six years of the inception and weve been talking about imposing project housing. It doesnt matter to regular people. Regular people like the woman who attended a meeting on january 23 of a community conversation, she came to that immediating and talked tmeetinge to welcome more people to the city. I urge people to be excited about this project. Over a thousand homes for people. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. hello. Can you hear me . yes. You may begin your comments. Preeplease proceed. ive been attending the meetings for five years. I was a short walk away. The house i was renting is estimated to have increased to one point two Million Dollars. A 60 increase. San francisco desperately needs more housing. I height limits are based on aesthetics and not due to parking. I do have some reservations about this development. The wish the development contained retail. Let wish the deal had had instructions on Long Term Land deal. I disagree with anyone who said we should make it 100 Affordable Housing. Please approve the project for ththe Public Benefits. Please approve these amenments. thank you. Nts. Next speaker, please. i live right around the corner of the project. Im excited to see this project close to getting off the ground. I go by the lot quite often. I go there on sunday with my three year old son. Ive been wondering why its in the middle of such a big city where zero people can live. I have followed from afar the a development an t. Thank. Thank you. thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. hi. Can you hear me . yes, please proceed. my name is rustl russ davi. I wish to add my voice to those who want to see this project be 100 affordable. Whatever density is approved should be 100 affordable. As another matter one person mentioned that the increased tensity will increase the traffic on Public Transportation. That assumes that the Public Transportation infrastructure exists to carry those extra people. The city puts the cart before the horse. We need transportation infrastructure to carry the people who moved into San Francisco. The parking issue has not been finalized in the proposed agreement. If its not West Wood Park as a neighborhood will be crushed by thousands of City College Students looking for parking. That issue needs to be addressed in the final agreement. Thank you for your time. thank you. Next speaker, please. i encourage you to approve this project eleven hundred units is no small deal. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. hi, supervisors. Im a member of the action. I just cannot believe that weve been debating this project for longer than ive been alive. Its absolutely shameful that this parking lot is not yet housing. You know, i dont blame you. I blame your presiden predecess. next speaker please and well return to that caller if they didnt hang up. my name is marry harris. Weve been participating in the. we are specially supportive of the housing and thank president lee for additional county input and accountability. thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im calling to voice my strong strong support and really urge you guys to plan the proposed project. I think especially during a housing crisis in San Francisco in sal sa california at large, compounded with covid 19, its unconshennable we have 26 listeners and six in queue. im calling sadly to remind people we are in a time in cat cliz mic change. This is a groa a grotesque chan. We need to press pause sm thank you ver. Thank you very much. thank you very much. Next speaker, please. hi. Thank you for the opportunity to comment. My name is sarah. Im a district seven resident. Im a member of the sunny press location. I live within a half mile of the site. I see it many times walking by. Thats an under utilized space next to city college. Gent fictioi strongly support r. Ofthe development. I hope that you move this project forward. Thank you. thank you. Next speaker, please. hello, again. Thanks for bringing me back in due to the technical difficulties. As i was saying before the call dropped before. I dont blame any of you that this project isthis park r parking lot iparking lotis not. Its your decision now. Its up to you to right the wrong of previous supervisors and maybe hood busy bodies who have said no. Its beyond time to say yes to more housing. And just jumping back to the commenter before last. Im so tired of housing secure People Living in Million Dollar homes. She cited black lives matter as a reason to say no. Ive never been so offended by a Public Comment in my life. Dont just give us thoughts and prayers. Imif ugive us housing. Thank you. thank you. And thank you for your patience. Next speaker please. Looks like we have three in queue. it should be a slam dunk. I hope you vote to a approve this housing. Thank you again. thank you. Next speaker, please. good evening. Thank you. Let me get rid of my Television Screen here. Ive been waiting for a long time. I am a former five year planning commissioner and have dealt with these issues of Affordable Housing that is just sohas been so important all these years. My Home Owners Association was a park association. A Home Owners Association from the west side. Lets have an Affordable Housing plojhousing. Theres been concerns about th thisits proposed that this enormous parcel. This is a bad deal for the city to say the least. Why not lease the land to build the land for teachers and working class people. Ive been in this game for thirty years. Its time for city hall to break the hold. Lets break the mold. We own the land. Lets find a way to use this land that we own. Thats the most expensive part of building is the land. We own it. When the pu c says oh, rate holders. We have to consider the people who are paying for their infrastructure. Im sorry. Everyone cares about the city. Its time for the city to break ththe mold. thank you so much for your comments. Next speaker, please. good evening. This is annette i want to register my strong support for this project. I have to say its very seldom that you see this amount of affordable in an inclusionary deal like this. Five hundred fifty units out of eleven hundred yo in total is extraordinary. I think thats tremendous that developers are willing to do that sm bridge house p bridge ht developer. We really need the Affordable Housing the teacher and educator housing is a great boost to this. I hope that the supervisors will support the project and get this moving after twn twenty three lg years. next caller please. please ask him to explain his comment. 50 of the lan will be deeded back to the city to control. The parameters were included in the rfq. They were supposed to be observed. They called for permanently Affordable Housing and perp petd perpetuity. The lapping waw language was tr. Its happened in foster city when the properties became a forrabilitaforrabilitypropertieo waive the height of the western port of the property. That was not vetted by anyone. The alternative road that goes through the campus that the developer and the city want. That was not vetted in the process either. I received information from the Real Estate Division that on november ninth of november 16th the Real Estate Division put out surplus city property. I was told that the Real Estate Division who funded city college did not receive a copy of that written notice. They should have. thank you. Next speaker please. im very saddened to think that someone that claims connections with city college would show such disregard to the community of San Francisco. There was a study commissioned yiers agyears ago that shows the value the city college provides comes to thirty one million per year. Its scheduled to be a siphons e building. It was meant to be for parking so people can access this. Improvements and construction to renovate city college if nobody is going to be able to get to it. Theres seven years of dust an noise an intense traffic pollution to the area while all this traffic is going on. Theres no respect to the will of the voters that are rurnlg uy needed. thank you. Next speaker, please. We actually have four in quow qe now. yes. This is equity for older students. This project reminds me of a character of pop eye who said ill gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today. City of san is in dire straights. The forty plus older adult programs. Campuses closing. P iis there to be another cut to potential growth including afford tbl housinable housing f. I would like to mention two letters that were sent to the committee and budget finance committee. One is the july public lands for public good and defend applian appliance. Both of those letters are carefully argued and presenting a great deal of fact regarding this project and the many reasons why it should be rejected. I hope you will read those and keep in mind that public land should be kept for public good and not private. thank you. Next speaker, please. were having an issue with the Public Comment line. It should be up and running in a moment. caller, please make your comments. im calling to support the housing billing at the reservo reservoir. Theres a lot of proposal that are lack of housing that we need in San Francisco. Two to three bedroom homes. The proximity due to the park and community stations. Thats exactly the kind of project we need to improve our housing crisis. thank you. Next speaker, please. im a resident of district seven. Walking distance to the site. Lets break the mold. Lets build something. This Housing Project is the best use of this site. Now it the time to build it. Over the last years, its has been carefully planned with the interest from stake holders and development. Extremely high portion of affordable units. Access to transportation, shopping, services, this is a good urban planning example. Im sure that Detailed Planning phases and safety for all pedestrians and bicyclists can be taken care of. Im in favor. Thanks for your consideration. thank you for your comments. Can we have the next speaker, please. hello. Im a city college student. I think im most excited about for this project is the urban spaces and the public parks. Having an open space for us and the entire Community Within that area is very beneficial. To address our affordability crisis in the city, its crazy. Not only am i able to stay in the city. Folks of color and my friends and folks who have an attachment to this city. Great transportation amenities. Parking for our students who are considered lifelong learners. Very excited to support this project. Thank you. thank you for your comments. May we have the neevmen next sp. good evening supervisors. Im a resident in district two. Im calling in support of this project. I wish we could build even more homes here. Ill take what is on the table. This is has been a long process. This is the project that has come out before you. Its not going to please everybody but i think it has a lot of great things going for it. Affordable housing is very expensive to build in the city. Its hard to find the money for fund it. Its a great use of land and subsidize housing to get something for everyone. We know that we have reallywe need to be building more housing. Low Income Housing and this is one examine m o examine m examp. mr. Chair, that concludes the line of Public Comments on this item. okay. With that are there any questions or comments from my colleagues or the sponsor of item number eight . i think supervisor presston might have some comments. i want to make sure i understand some of the comments on the value of the land. Is theis it accurate that the land is being sold for fair market value or less for exchange of Public Benefit for the project. the property ordinances which advise Enterprise Departments to consider high levels of Affordable Housing in their surplus property. This was a fair market value appraisal with the thirty three percent affordable residual val autvalvalue was eleven point for Million Dollars. The difference in detail is simply that the actual proposed project is 50 affordable. The difference there is that they will be providing the gap for that 17 percent. The policy background of proposition k and property ordinance does allow for the fair market value to be based on 33 percent. They must get fair market value for their land. i dont want to belayer that. Belabor that. You take into account 33 percent affordable. How would that violate. I dont understand how prop 218 locks in that value. Im trying to understand. Theres nothing about prop 218 that would prevent one from running the same number. You have a lower fair market value with the value for that marketability. Right . yes. Using a Development Approach and the way land is valued under real estate everything is factored into account that has a cost. Affordable housing has a cost that effects the residual land value. whatbecause this is land that the Enterprise Agency and because they have a fie fiduciay duty to the landbased on certain assumptions land value has been diskowne discounted atc good. Right now anybody in the market would have to assume our inclusionary rates. The rate is higher. Residual land value is less. That assumption of 33 percent is consistent and comparable with other projects of this size which is what an appraiser would base a fair market assumption on. Those are the groundings that were established early on in 2015. The 33 percent that would be considered part of the fair market value assumption. i think theres a policy decision, thats one thing. Im not seeing there would be3m required under prop k. The code allows for pu c to sell at less than that. Its explicit the administrative code on costs. It can be cold for less than the fair market value. Im trying to get clarity. I understand theres a policy choice, charge the money, sell the property, or discount that and sell more affordable units. Im not seeing what the legal restriction of 218 would be to do with making that policy choice. ill turn it over to our city attorney. Ill invite the po c to contribute as well. deputy city attorney. supervisor preston. Thank you for the question. There are charter and state restrictions that the state get fair market value s. The ordinary administrative codes conveyed for less than fair market value is restricted by that. What wein this project, we determine that 33 percent is a comparable development in the market. Thats the basis for this determination and the a raisal anappraisal. Thats the reason ft and therefore the prays of the e property isthe land doesnt bare the dmishment of th the di. in the court cases, you i assume theres no appraisals done at other assumptions. I would also add, supervisor preston, that we have spent the last four years conducting additional economic feasability analysis to show you the package of Public Benefits in the project. And just the level of Public Benefit, the costs associated with those benefits, that the developer will bear really also further indicates that the 33 is an appropriate value to make the project financially feasib feasible. Supervisor preston thank you. One other clarification question. Just on the parking and i recognize my district is very different than the terrain here. So, you know, we are obviously trying to push down the parking levels as much as possible and some of the stuff that is served better by transit. So i recognize that its apples and oranges. But im just curious to see a thousand parking spots like how much is residents . What is the ratio with the residential units and i understand that some of this is for city college sort of reclaiming some of the parking for city college. Is there a breakdown of that . Sure. Stu, do you want to discuss the parking breakdown . Sure. The site for residential parking is parked at 0. 5, so half of the you know, of the parking spots are for half of the units, right . Im sorry, im getting so tired that i cant even do my math anymore. But for the 1,100 units theres 500 parking spots for residential parking. And theres also a Public Parking garage that will be on the site. And that will allow up to 450 spaces. Supervisor preston thank you. And then the last question i had im trying to just understand i understand that its pending ceqa appeal and theres a few other documents referenced. So the Development Agreement, im assuming that is before the budget on thursday. So that hasnt been finalized yet. And then i understand that theres an m. O. U. Maybe the developer can address this. I just want to know what the status of this is, and i know that between city college and the developer i think that its going to be negotiated and i dont know if that is finalized. But neither of those are documents that i think that are before us for approval. Or up for review, right . I dont think that either has been finalized. I will just clarify that, yes, the Development Agreement is going to be heard by the Budget Committee due to the fiscal impact of the gap funding. Alternative to the developer to speak to the m. O. U. [broken audio] so its not a city acti action. Sure. Kiersten, this is joaquin to claim in as well. And we have been working for however long that it has been that we have been selected for the project, 3, 3 1 2 years now. We have made a number of commitments in the d. A. , so with our grant with the city, to fund many of the the things that we have heard that are important to the college, and the parking that you just talked about. We have been working on a parallel track to grean on an an m. O. U. With the college and were waiting for a draft from them. We have been working back and forth with the Prior Administration for a couple years. That effort stalled last year when the administration left. And the board of trustees has picked that up. We are really excited they picked that up and they had a meeting two, three weeks ago to say this is a priority and they need to get it done. They plan to hear something on thursday, we havent yet seen the draft so were excited to see what that is and hopefully were moving that effort forward very quickly as well. Supervisor preston already, so the thought of the m. O. U. And the d. A. Both done by the time that it hits budget, is that the goal . The d. A. Will definitely i mean, the d. A. Is done. And and, you know, the commitment to city college in there are you know, are set and its been negotiated with the city and, you know, as much as we can with the college. Our desire would be i mean, budget is wednesday and the city College Hearing is thursday. I dont, frankly, know what the college is intending to propose on thursday so its hard to say if well be finished. But our process has been to have the city college m. O. U. To be completed in time for for the boards approval. Supervisor preston all right, well, thank you. Those are all of the questions. I just want to say thank you. This is, obviously, has been and, president yee, im sure, an enormous amount of work to move to have this level of neighborhood consultation and this many different parties involved in such a complex development plan. So i look forward to when the whole package is before us at the board and thank you for indulging the questions at this very late hour. I appreciate it. Thank you, supervisor preston. While the d. A. Is largely done, i would like to suggest that there are still some accommodations that could be made between the parties in the d. A. , including but not limited to a representation that there will be no going back in the future on affordability and the reopening of the d. A. Will never go to that issue as well as the involving conversation around timely performance, the quote unquote use it or lose it. So those things are still in play as is the issues with the m. O. U. Of city college are but i do want to thank the Development Team, and the public and particularly president yee and his staff for a long, long haul and were not done yet. And given the pending ceqa appeal, colleagues, if there are no i see supervisor safai, so ill recognize supervisor safai, but then if its acceptable i would like to make a motion to send these items to the full board without recommendation. Given that there is a pending ceqa appeal. Supervisor safai, the floor is yours. President yee and before you do close it up let me of course, mr. President. Thank you, chair. I just wanted to say from the perspective of the neighboring supervisor, this particular project straddles both districts. Its clearly in district 7 and i just want to give a special recognition to president yee for all of his hard work and leadership on this, to jen lowe on his staff. And i know that the president will be thanking his staff but i just want to thank her for her constant communication with our office. Bridge housing and Mission Housing and avalon and the Planning Department of the economic and workforce development, and very importantly the leaders and residents of district 11 that reached out to our office and were involved in the process, many of whom spoke tonight. This is not an easy endeavor and i think that president yee will tell you that district 11 and district 7 have not had family Affordable Housing built on any type of scale. They have a couple of projects in the pipeline but a project of this magnitude and impact is significant. And, again, you know, both to the ballot matter and when we passed the Affordable Housing bond last year with the leadership of president yee and the mayor and many members on this board, including myself and others that were involved in that campaign in fact, all of us, but some of us were more deeply involved than others. That then is going to help to fill the gap and to keep the commitment to building 50 affordable which, by the way, there arent, you know, i have been very fortunate to have a 50 affordable at 116 units. This is 50 affordable of over a thousand units, which is significant. There will be agreements made on local hire and outreach and community. Supervisor peskin talked about some of the amendments thattee asked for, lose it or use it and some of the other things. We worked with president yees office and everyone to ensure that the neighborhood preference radius would have real impact in this part of town. I want to thank supervisor yee for working withous that. Were going to be making that through his support, the budget and finance tomorrow. That will ensure that the communities concerned, those that really need and have the ability to qualify for that will be able to do that in this process. So i just wanted to say thank you to the residents of district 11 and district 7 that have been involved in this process. And i think that this is a this is a project that will have Significant Impact for our part of town. And understand why some people asked the questions they did, but wanting to see 100 affordable, but understanding that that that is a significant, significant Financial Investment on the part of the city to build a thousand units. So 550 units is a Significant Impact for those in need during this housing crisis. So just wanted to thank everyone for coming out today and giving their Public Comment. And we look forward to moving this forward today. Thank you, president yee. President yee so, can i take the microphone . Yes, mr. President , of course you can. President yee all right. I want to thank the public for coming out and you can see how passionate people are one way or another. Its been my experience that ive seen this for the last five years where people have tried to articulate what they feel are what would be best for this city or in this cases for city callers and if many cases for people around the neighborhood or a few blocks from there. But to date, you know, i want to make a couple of comments we have for those that arent familiar with city college, sometimes it makes it sound like were taking away some of the education buildings or something from city college as people are saying that they wont have access to it. In fact, all were looking at is the the land that belongs to p. U. C. And always has been part of p. U. C. And theyve been gracious to allow for city college to borrow on that parcel for student parking. Once upon a time student parking was much more needed than it is today, but it is still needed. And even if they build the center there, i dont know when theyd ever do that, but we have remember that city college outside of the slot that were talking about that is going to build over a thousand units of housing, they have 2,000 other parking spaces. So, you know, its not going to hurt parking. And then the developer will add on more that they think that is needed to mitigate some of the impact. And as already mentioned by my colleagues, today in landuse, what were really talking about looking at the general transit amendment and also the rezonings for special use district. Those are the things that weve been looking at today. So i actually didnt go into the Development Agreement that much because i know that were going to be talking about that in two days. And my staff and my office have been working on putting in more amendments that, of course, it wouldnt be right now, wed introduce those amendments on on wednesday. And a few of those things have been alluded to. Supervisor peskin has been championing this use it or dont lose it, and i totally agree and well recommend that amendment. I work with the supervisor safai in understanding that this city college is really part of district 7, that there are a lot of people around both of our districts that can benefit from it, from having sort of a neighborhood preference. So were going to put in that amendment. And then we also i know that i mentioned that the new developers were 50 of the new property for the city to control. When it comes to park inclusioniffity and housing affordability, a whole bunch of other things. So well be introducing that amendment that the Developers Already agreed to. And the other thing that weve been talking about, i didnt want that to get lost in the discussion, is the we felt that it was important to put language in there, for the use it or lose it, that the affordability piece that were talking about, that some people felt we might lose it in 50 years or whatever. We will put language in there that will make it in perpetuity. So i just wanted to respond to some of the Public Comments that were made and they were made in good faith because they might have not known that we were pushing for these amendments. And, again, i didnt want to mention too much to take up too much of the land use of the committees time because i know that were going to talk about it on wednesday. So, again, i support supervisor peskins motion to go ahead and get it out of Committee Without any recommendations. Thank you. I want to thank all of the members of the committee for having patience with this item. I know this item was passed at 9 00 p. M. At this point. So ill stop at that. Clerk okay, if there are no other comments on the motion that i made earlier to send these items, item 7 and 8 to the full board without recommendation, madam clerk, a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated for item number 7 to refer without recommendation. [roll call] you have three ayes. On the motion to forward number 8, 200422, as stated by supervisor preston. Supervisor preston. Preston, aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Safai, aye. Supervisor peskin. Peskin, aye. You have three ayes. All right, that concludes the business before this committee after almost eight hours and we are adjourned. See you tomorrow, everybody. I had to put a sweater on like president yee. We are adjourned. Good night. Good night, everyone. Mayor breed today we have 4935 confirmed crisis of covid19 and 52 people have lost their lives. I will provide an update i tested negative for a second time after be exposed to someone with covid19. This does not mean that i am immune or can let my guard down moving forward. I will continue to keep my distance from others, wear my mask and frequently wash my hands just like everyone else should be doing. As you know, San Francisco has recently seen a sharp increase in cases in hospitalization as a result of the virus, and we had to pause scheduled reopening. On april 11, we had 94 people hospitalized. By midjune we were down to 26 people. We are back up to 80 people in the hospital. Today we want to provide an update on how we are moving forward as a city. As always, we will continue to be guided by the science in our data and Decision Making because we know how fast this pandemic can get out of control. As dr. Colfax outlined we have a small window of time to get our cases under control before we could see the large outbreaks that we are seeing around this country. We are continuing to pause our reopening indefinitely until our Public Health indicators improve and none of them are in the red. As of today, San Francisco is on the states watch list due to our rising hospitalizations, meaning we need to follow the state restrictions even though we were given a variance not too long ago to move forward more quickly with our reopening. We followed almost all restrictions. The main change is that indoor mall and non essential offers must now also close. If the state adds more restrictions we will follow them. If conditions in our city dont improve, we can also choose to close additional businesses and activities as well. We have flattened this curve once, and we must do it again. What i am afraid of is the complacency. People are tired of the virus. The virus is not tired of us. What we know from our Contact Tracing is that a large part of the new virus spread is coming from people having gatherings with others outside of their household. One of our Disaster Service workers, a person working on our disaster response, was recently infected due to one of those gatherings. She lives with a roommate and the roommate decided to go camping with 15 friends. They figured camping was a safe socially distance activity, they would wear masks and be fine. They didnt expect anyone in the group to have covid. After a few days, as is human nature, they got comfortable, started sharing meals and food and sitting closer during dinner and stopped wearing masks. One person in the group started to show symptom. They figured it was just a cold. When the roommate got home she started showing signs of a cough. She scheduled the test. The Service Worker had to quarantine taking her away from her important role. The roommate tested positive. The Disaster Service worker tested negative. The point is that gatherings remain dangerous. You need to give a lot of thought if they are worth it and how to do it safely. Can you wear a mask . Can you be socially distance . Can you wash your hands often . If you cant, you are not only risking your health and health of others but further pushing back the date when our city can open because we are not reopening until we get this under control. We need to redouble efforts to limit gatherings and wear masks outside of your household. The other major area of spread is among people going to work. Latino residents in particular in the eastern and southeastern neighborhoods are struggling. We are continuing to focus further expanding access to testing in these communities and conducting targeted outreach. We opened a new site to add to the expansion of testing sites in tenderloin, mission and sunnydale and bayview. The steep cant conduct all of the testing by ourselves. We need private care providers to step up. That is why we will be issuing a health order requiring private Healthcare Providers to increase testing by providing same day testing for patients with symptoms and close contact of people confirmed to have covid19. Additionally, private hospitals must provide testing to a symptomatic workers in jobs with risk of exposure. The delays in testing cannot continue. They must step up to do their part. The main message is that we need everyone to do their part. We have to get this virus under control right now. We dont be have months. We barely have weeks. Every decision you make affects everyone around you. If you choose not to wear a mask when you go out, you are delaying reopening further. If you are going to a barbecue and acting irresponsibly you are preventing children from being able to return to school, forcing parents to stay home from work or miss shifts at the job because you are not taking basic steps. Most importantly, you are endangering peoples lives. We want to move with reopening. We know we are going to be living with covid19 for the next 12 to 18 months. What we all do matters. How we all respond responsibly makes a difference. We have proven that time and time again in the past. We cant do that right now. We are all able to do our part. If we are going to get to where we are able to open and let people get back to work because they are financially struggling, allow kids to go to school and engage and interact with one another to learn and grow. We will see our elderly parents and grandparents in the nursing homes. How to get back to things that make life more meaningful has everything to do with everybody being part of the solution. Please know that we are not out of the woods. Know that we are seeing a spike. Know that you, only you can make the difference. Please wear your mask. Wash your hands. Socially distance and do everything to be part of the solution. That will make a difference to the city. I will turn this over to dr. Grant colfax for a update from the department of Public Health. Good morning. I am dr. Grant colfax, director of health. Thank you, mayor breed. In the past weeks, San Francisco has been experiencing a surge in cases and hospitalizations that have forced us to pause reopening plans. Increase our testing and Contract Tracing and care for many more covid19 positive patients. Unfortunately this is happening all across california. As of today, we join more than 30 counties statewide including most bay area counties on the states watch list based on the rising hospitalization numbers. I want to emphasize that the people in the hospital in San Francisco today as we speak are not only the elderly and the most frail. In fact, at San Francisco General Hospital the average age of the person hospitalized since july 1st with covid19 has been 41 years. Young people, middle age people, older people. We are all at risk for this disease. We are all at risk for serious consequences. With our designation of being on the states watch list, we are required to close malls and non essential offices again starting this monday, july 20th. We will continue to pause our reopening indefinitely. San francisco, we can do better than this. We know we can do better. We have proven that already. The virus is moving quickly. We must accelerate response. It took 38 days, more than a month to go from 2000 to 3,000 cases in our city. Now it has taken 13 days, less than two week goes to go from 4,000 cases to nearly 5,000. There are several key steps that we can take and that we must take until the Health Indicators improve and our information shows that the virus is subsiding and slowing in San Francisco. We dont have a lot of time today so i will keep my remarks short. I would like to highlight a few key points about the current situation. We know the pandemic affects some communities more than others. We must continue to focus on equity in our planning and response. In San Francisco the lat inx community makes up 50 of cases even though they represent only 15 of the citys population. Another Group Workers who must leave homes to take risk are more at risk of getting infected and are getting sick in greater numbers. The neighborhoods on the eastern and Southeast Side of the city continue to have higher rates of cases. The surge is making all of these disparities worse. We are working with Community Leaders and Community Members to improve outreach and communication. That work includes targeting Testing Services where they are needed most. In the past two weeks we have expanded low barrier testing in the mission, bayview, tenderloin, potrero hill and sunnydale neighborhoods. Testing has been a reoccurring issue since the beginning of the pandemic. We have come a long way. At first there were no tests at all. Then there were extreme short ages of supplies. After that we had to let people know how and where they could get tested. Today we are acceding our testing goal of providing 1800 tests each day in the city. Now providing an average of 2599 tests per day. As demand grows, access to appointments is getting harder and test results are taking longer. While testing challenges are a National Issue as a result of lack of federal leadership, we need to improve the situation where some san franciscans are waiting a week or more for an appointment and sometimes as long as that for results. More than 95 of san franciscans have some form of healthcare coverage. Private providers need to do their share in our testing effort. The citys public test sites are current bely conducting an average of 60 of all of the tests that are being done in the city. Therefore, on monday we are issuing a health order requiring private providers to test their patients with symptoms, those in close contacts of known cases, and a symptomatic workers at higher risk of exposure. This testing must be done on the day requested. This will help and will free up the capacity of San Franciscos public Testing Program with the goal of allowing residents who are uninsured or members of impacted communities to get tested from a more timely manner. We need to realize that while testing is a key tool and will continue to be a key tool in our response, we are not going to be able to test ourselves out of this pandemic. Iin fact, the more the virus is around the harder it will be for us to keep up. We will fall behind. That is why prevention is so key. Today a covid positive person in San Francisco is expected to infect more than one additional person causing the disease to spread. A positive test means that prevention did not work. This is important. A negative test is not a passport to do what you want. Dont get complacent and take risks because you tested negative. Gatherings are opportunities for the virus to spread and must be avoided. If san franciscans stop gathering, wear face mask at all times and socially distance, we will be able to get the situation under control. It is that simple. We know how to slow the spread of the virus. We know how to do it. We just must do it. We must do it quickly. The key next step if everyone something to do to flatten the curve. This includes residents, businesses, Healthcare System and the city. First, we will continue to pause reopening until the Health Indicators and other data show that the virus has subsided in San Francisco. Second, we will abide by the states restrictions as a watch list county, and i emphasize this we reserve the option to go further than the state in closing additional businesses and activities while continuing to pause reopening if our local and regional conditions call for it. Third, to reenforce the mayors comment. San franciscans need to change their behavior. Do not gather. Cover your face. We know many of our new cases can be traced back to social gatherings of families and friends. Think about that. The Birthday Party or barbecue can spread the virus and get many people sick. Remember half of the people with the virus dont show symptoms. You cannot tell by looking at somebody or asking somebody how they feel if they have covid19. A symptomatic spread is a key part of the surge we are seeing. These gatherings can and could delay the first day of school or the chance to go back to work and worse than the inequities we are seeing in this pandemic. Do your part, please do your part. Our individual actions have a big impact on the entire community. Fourth, we will continue to focus on equity and the communities that are most affected by the pandemic. We are working with Community Leaders to expand testing, outreach and partnership. We are conducting extensive multi media campaigns to reach people in their own neighborhoods and languages. 5. We will continue to expand Testing Capacity and access. The health order coming out monday be will guarantee providers do their share while the city continues to expand testing in the neighborhoods most impacted. We will, we must continue to follow the data, science and facts. Together we have the power to flatten the curve once again. We can emerge from this pandemic with strength and pride in our communities and our collective effort. The work we have done together has saved lives and improved health and will put our city back together. The time is short. It is up to us to take action now and i thank you, San Francisco, for doing just that. Thank you. We will now begin the q a portion of the press conference. We have the first set of questions for dr. Colfax only. From mission local. Before going to work and latino residents are struggling. Why only 300 tests at the hub. Why were people turned away yesterday for lack of tests . I was at the hub yesterday. It was remarkable to see the work done there. We have been partnering with the Latino Task Force since the early days of the epidemic to expand testing. We need to expand testing, particularly in the mission and lat inx community. We are continuing to build that capacity. As i said we are requiring providers to provide same day testing to workers and people symptomatic. We also have other testing sites in the Mission Neighborhood including the zuckerberg General Hospital and continuing to work the Mission Neighborhood Health Center offering popup testing and ensuring people understand when and where to get tested and expanding the Contact Tracing. Half of our cases are among latin x residents and half of temperaturofthe exact tracing i. People understand if they test positive and they qualify, they can access the right to Recovery Program to have the support and resources necessary to keep themselves and their families were safe thank you, doctor. Next set of questions janney harwith associated press. Most School District start with year with Distance Learning. Governor will issue the orders soon regarding schools. Under which conditions do you feel comfortable allowing in person classes . Would all county wide indicators have to be at certain level and the safety conditions vary by age or class size . What do you tell pris private schools. The city issued guidance with regard to schools. We are going to need to see indicators improve before School Openings would be allowed. The complexity of the question is addressed by the School Guidance we issued. We want to ensure that schools do make the decision to reopen that they are following best evidence in terms of reducing transmission to people most vulnerable for the virus and that children or families and school staff are as safe as possible. It is a very complex issues and rapidly evolving issue. We will follow data, science and facts to ensure when schools open they are doing so in the most safe way possible. From crown 4. The city is giving mixed messages. In noey the tables and chairs are return causing people to it is next to each other. How many sites have had tables and chairs returned . Doesnt this send the wrong message. Outdoor activity is much safer than indoor activity. The science has shown that being outdoors is much safer and people need to get outside for mental and physical health. We cant stay inside for long periods of time. When we are outside, we need to follow the guidelines. The people need to stay at least six feet apart. It is very clear our health order makes it clear that people need to wear facial coverings, including mask or other facial coverings when they are within three feet of each other. The message is clear. The mayor was clear and i am clear. If you are outside within 30 feet you need the facial covering to keep the community safe. Thank you, doctor. From melanie from abc 7. Can you clarify the change to San Francisco around testing as of the monday health order. Had private providers not been testing people previously . Will they have tests and supplies to do so . They have been doing testing. I would emphasize that across the city of all of the tests done, 60 are tests supported by the Health Department or other city departments. That investment is huge. Providers have been doing testing. What this health order will require all providers to offer testing to people who are symptomatic, who have been in close contact with a known covid positive or who are workers at high risk for the virus. That will be required to be same day offering of the test. Their Health Systems that have the ability to get the supplies and to do the testing and if that is not the case, certainly this order will require that they get them. Thank you, doctor, thank you may or and director colfax for joining us today. This concludes todays press conference. Hi. Im Chris Mathers with channel 19, and youre watching coping with covid19. Today, im going to be talking about exercising during the pandemic. First, im going to tell you what ive been doing, and then im going to be checking in with some friends and family. Ive been riding my bike. All i take is a pair of gloves and a mask if i come into contact with anyone. I try to ride my bike during the time im sheltering in place. I try to ride for at least 30 minutes. Surfing is my other regular outdoor activity. California state guidelines recommend you dont drive more than ten minutes for a spot to exercise, and although im close to ocean beach, im a bit wary to go there, so im using the time to do some maintenance. Filling in gouges and dings, and sanding it down. Im also repairing holes in my suit. Fellow sfgovtv producer chris took his first yoga lesson a couple of years ago and used to go to a class regularly before the lockdown. He and his wife set up a space in their garage for exercising. This routine is from an online class by power yoga. Deann and andy have been using the ping pong table that they bought off craigslist and set it up in their back yard. Ellie has been using this home gym to stay fit. It has everything she needed. And lastly, if the weather is bad outside, you can exercise your mind by doing a puzzle, sudoku, or just by reading a good book. Heres a quick recap. Since i started this episode, the guidelines have changed. For instance, jack may be able to go golfing with some restrictions. Go to sf. Gov to get the most uptodate announcer youre watching coping with covid19. Todays special guest is dr. Steven getnick. Hi, im chris man us and youre watching coping with covid19. Today my guest is the director of the Behavior Therapy Center of San Francisco and Professor Emeritus in counseling psychology at the university of San Francisco. Doctor, welcome to the show. Thank you. Lets talk about managing anxieties during this pandemic. What types of issues are people facing at the moment . There are a number of issues and i really want to point out that this is affecting everyone and has come on very quickly. So it is normal. If you are not experiencing some anxiety, something is a touch off because this affects us all. I think some of the main ones are our health and worried about getting the virus and our developing serious complications. I think for a lot of people who are single, living alone, in isolation, has been very difficult. I think being in close quarters with people who we normally have some space from now are together 24 7. Thats produced a lot of stress and anxiety. That loss of connection with others. We already addressed. And having kids home. For a lot of people. Yes, absolutely. What are the other problems that they might have . I think without that dynamic, the good things are not a problem. It is the difficulties we have. And when were together 24 7, again its like hooking everything up to an amplifier. So, what kind of problems could be created from working home from home, perhaps for the first time in your career . A lot of people are not used to working at home and a working at home just isnt the same. For one thing, there is a lack of social interaction. Some people find that that affects them greatly. Some people are actually finding theyre getting more work done at home without distractions from work. The lack of structure is probably the most common. We see it here with work at the office. People are kind of watching. We know that our schedule is, suddenly youre at home and you are on your own. Absolutely. If those are some of the issues people are facing, what are some of the techniques people can use to overcome their anxiety . Caller i think there are many. One of the first is how managing and keeping track of your thinking, we think and talk to ourselves a lot. Thats normal. We have a dialogue with ourselves often and we need to monitor that a bit. People tend to ruminate versus problemsolve. That is they tend to worry about all the things that might go wrong. And what i suggest is, look, there are things that can go wrong, but ruminating about the worstcase scenario is not going to be very productive. Sit down, figure out what the things are that you have to deal with and try to problemsolve. I think any of the selfcontrol techniques for anxiety can be helpful. And there are dozens of them. The common ones are meditation, relaxation techniques, yoga, for example and another is diaphragmattic breathing. If you google that, you can learn diaphragmattic breathing in about 10 minutes online. Its incredibly simple and it is a really nice way to reduce anxiety in the moment. Selfcontrol procedures, exercise. Whether if youre fortunate enough to have equipment at home, thats great. If youre not, get outside and go for a walk, keep your safe distance, of course. But you need to be active. Thats helpful. I think people marry be dealing with information overload at the moment. How do you suggest people manage that . I was just going to say that. I think it is really important to kind of limit the information you get. Not in terms of accuracy. I think in terms of accuracy, you want to identify a few sites where people are coming with evidencebased information and scientific information so you can form yourself well. Once youve informed yourself, you need to not be watching all day long. Ive talked to people who are mesmerized from the tv and a it keeps that anxiety going so you need to limit your viewing for sure. This can be stress for people who have economic concerns and worried about their family and friends and loved ones who are essential workers. What would you suggest they do to help manage anxiety and stress . There is a number of things. One of major ones for depression is behavioral activation. Simply, it really means that people will tend to not be depressed as a number of reinforcing activities to engage in. Whether it is hobbies, you read, you listen to music, you crochet, you whatever. These kinds of things are very important so you want to make sure that youre engaging in activities that literally make you feel better as opposed to sitting around ruminating, worrying about the worstcase scenarios that might happen. What about trying to do some selfdevelopment . Yeah. Its a very interesting time. Ive talked to a couple of my own clients who are finding, in a very positive way, that this isolation, while at first can generate a lot of anxiety, particularly if youre just not good at living alone. For a number of people, its giving them a chance to sit back and really think about what is important in their lives, what are the priorities. I think that maybe if there is any Silver Lining in this epidemic, its really forcing all of us to kind of rethink whats really important. Indeed. You know, though, at the same time, there are people who are feeling very lonely at home. How would you encourage them to overcome that . You get online. Facetime, skype, zoom, like what were doing right now. You can stay connected. Its very possible. Most connections are important. We are social critters and we need that connection. I think for people who dont have those options, pull up photos, take a look at pictures of family. You need to stay connected. And its very important. And finally, do you have any suggestions that are specifically for families . Yeah. Well, again, i think one of the interesting things thats come about from all of this, is i talked to families on video is theyre obviously spending more time together. While its a bit awkward, particularly for parents who are in the house working a lot. Its a chance to really deepen relationships and spend more good, quality time together. I think parents really need to step back and kind of plan their day a little bit. Not micro manage it, but have some ideas. Can the family play games together . A lot of people i talked to, theyre even together as a family for the first time. So i think there are a number of things that people can do. I think it is qulaouzful for the families to take five, 10 minutes and say how did the day go . I talked to someone in the phone book before we started who said they noticed what time of day all their anxiety kind of comes together and they start sniping at each other. Now theyre taking a few minutes at tend of the day to say, ok, how are we doing . I think they need modeling good behavior, something you can do within the family, too, to try to thats right. I think thats relevant. Very relevant to how children are going to do. Most of the research from crises, particularly things we cant control showed that children do as well as their parents do. So i think it is important for parents to think about how theyre react aing and they stay calm because whatever they do is modeling, coping for their children. So, that can be very useful. It can also be problematic. When we talked earlier, you mentioned that acknowledging that your kids are afraid is important. Yes. I think that ties to your last question. I think modeling you know, its not incompatible with saying, yeah, you know, mom or dad is a little nervous, too. It means a lot of stuff is going on, but were going to be ok. Were going to stay together. We have our time together. Were going to be safe. Well fill in the blank. So you can do both. You can reassure but in a realistic way that once the kids know its normal to be anxious in these times. Thank you for coming ton show, doctor. I really appreciate the time youve given us. Youre welcome. Thank you for having me. And that is it for this episode. Well be back with more covid19 related information shortly. You have been coping with covid19. He is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. Brought this department together like never before. I am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, ladies and gentlemen, lets welcome, Jeanine Nicholson. applause . I grew up total tomboy, athlete. I loved a good crisis, a good challenge. I grew up across the street from the fire station. My dad used to take me there to vote. I never saw any female firefighters because there werent any in the 1970s. I didnt know i could be a fire fighter. When i moved to San Francisco in 1990, some things opened up. I saw women doing things they hadnt been doing when i was growing up. One thing was firefighting. A woman recruited me at the gaypride parade in 1991. It was a perfect fit. I liked using my brain, body, working as a team, figuring things out, troubleshooting and coming up with different ways to solve a problem. In terms of coming in after another female chief, i dont think anybody says that about men. You are coming in after another man, chief, what is that like. I understand why it is asked. It is unusual to have a woman in this position. I think San Francisco is a trailblazer in that way in terms of showing the world what can happen and what other people who may not look like what you think the fire chief should look like how they can be successful. Be asked me about being the first lbgq i have an understands because there are little queer kids that see me. I worked my way up. I came in january of 1994. I built relationships over the years, and i spent 24 years in the field, as we call it. Working out of firehouses. The Fire Department is a family. We live together, eat together, sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. When i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. I didnt want to talk to any of my civilian friends. They couldnt understand what i was going through. The firefighters knew, they understood. They had been there. It is a different relationship. We have to rely on one another. In terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. That hasnt been there for a while. Part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. I worked there. People know me and because i know what we need. I know what they need to be successful. I have known Jeanine Nicholson since we worked together at station 15. I have always held her in the highest regard. Since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism. She is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. I appreciate that she is concerned with the issues relevant to the Fire Department today. There is a retired captain who started the Cancer Prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were getting cancer. He started looking into it. In 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the San Francisco Fire Department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. It was a higher rate than the general population. We were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didnt have to worry about the paper work when they go through chemo. The turnout gear was covered with suit. It was a badge to have that all over your coat and face and helmet. The dirtier you were the harder you worked. That is a cancer causeser. It casser. It is not cancer causer. There islassic everywhere. We had to reduce our exposure. We washed our gear more often, we didnt take gear where we were eating or sleeping. We started decontaminating ourselves at the fire scene after the fire was out. Going back to the fire station and then taking a shower. I have taught, worked on the decontamination policy to be sure that gets through. It is not if or when. It is who is the next person. It is like a cancer sniper out there. Who is going to get it next. One of the things i love about the Fire Department. It is always a team effort. You are my family. I love the city and department and i love being of service. I vow to work hard to work hard to carry out the vision of the San Francisco Fire Department and to move us forward in a positive way. If i were to give a little advice to women and queer kids, find people to support you. Keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep trying. You never know what door is going to open next. You really dont. this meeting will come too. Welcome to the july 23 twep twenty. Im supervisor chair of the meeting. Do you have any announcements . yes. Due to the covid 19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members City Employees and the public. The chambers are closed. This precaution is pursuant to the state wide stay at home order and complies with all the regulations and directives. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. By calling 415 6550001. The meeting i. D is 126 4284197 press pound and pound again. When connected youll hear the meeting discussions but be on mute. And in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up police press star three to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location. You may submit Public Comment by emailing myself the joint City School Board and city clerk. If you submit Public Comment via email it will be forwarded to the board of supervisors and submitted as part of the file. thank you. Can you please call the roll. thank you. roll call you have a quorum. thank you, madam clerk. Will you please call the first item. a hearing how covid 19 has impacted the schedules and qualities and provisions of services for the unified School District. The approach are exercising to protect both students and staff during the pandemic. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call the no. 4 156550001. Please press star three to speak. thank you, madam clerk. Im going to provide a brief introduction and well get started. First i want to start with a lot of gratitude for everyone who is here. I know that everyone from the commissioners and the trustees and all of the staff are just working so hard tirelessly for our young people to make sure they are protected during this time. I think that thats something that we are all on the same page about and fighting for and responding to. Since the last meeting we had a month ago, things have gotten more chal empgin challenging and than before. I think we were on some level to have control over the spread of the virus. That unfortunately has not happened in many ways. The spread has actually increased. Through a lot of changes and hard work from everyone here, i just want to really thank you all since early sincsincerely. This has been hard and challenging for everyone and everyone is responding. I also would say, and i hope we all agree, now more than ever we need to be in communication. There are a lot of people working on this. We need to be discussing these issues more, sharing information better, things are moving so quickly. I would say this committee is probably more important than ever to have this space for us to share, learn, including from the city staff to be able to share whats going on from the things that they are working on with the supersizors, commissionersupervisors, andtru. We need to utilize this on a more regular basis. Ive been reaching out to the committee and staff already. I really believe that we should be meeting as a committee at least for the next few month dollars more often than once a month. Every two weeks and keeping this hearing open to have regular updates as a space for people to have their questions answered and provide feedback. As chair, im putting out that commitment that id like to see this Committee Meet more regularly. I would really like to see for the next few months this Committee Meet more regularly and also having representatives from the department of Public Health and the department of children youth and family thats are here with us today. With that, i also want to flag with you all that well be meeting more regularly. If youre able to stay longer, i personally only have until 12 for this meeting because i have a standing event i have to be at, i want to flag that we have four presentations and i want to be able to get to all of them. Just, if we could try to raise the issues that need to be raised, questions, follow through, i will be sure to get the answers for you and work with staff to do that. We have more limited time for some of the things that we may want to say. Also that some of the staff from the city side has said they would be willing to provide separate briefings for some of the staff especially from the commissioner and School District that are here. Thrdtheres some interest in doa separate briefing for the school Board Members. Its critical that our elected official dollars and trustees and commissioners are informed and communicating. Were doing the best we can right now. Before we get to the presentations, would any of the other folks on the Committee Like to provide any introductory comments before we jump into the presentations . I see trustee randol ph. i agree with you. Especially when the cdc guidance has become more political than usual. Calling for the reopening of school and down playing the oopenninseriousness of that. Doing what is safe for our students and faculty and staff to go back to the build willingg during a global pandemic. Were looking on how to achieve that balance. You cant even believe what the cdc is saying anymore. It would be helpful to have someone from dph come to the committee and see what their guidance is saying. They have issued some guidance for schools and access to schools. I would be happy to have a conversation with dph to see what they are using as their foundation to make decisions. When we discuss this conflict at the student accept committee, i know trustees were questioning and i had somewho do you believe . Who do you use as a guidance . Do you use the cdc, the state, or the local Public Health agency . Theres definitely been some conflict between all three agencies that are all about Public Health. That would be very helpful. I see someone from dph is on the call. thank you. Absolutely. And to be clear we want to have these regular meetings every few weeks more than once a month. I would like dph and d c yf to be present at all the meetings. Today youll here from them as well. With that, are you, yes, commissioner ko co llins. I think you are here for the introduction around it. thank you. I really appreciate it both comments. Thank you so much for convening this meeting. Bringing it up all together. I agree, we need to be in communication more because theres so much information and things flying around. I also really appreciate trustee randol ph. Its non stop for Board Members because were connectors for families. We may manage different programs. People want to know what were doing as far as schools. Even that is hard amount of communication to manage. It really helps when we are all in linewe lses wan also want ta better job of communicating with you as well. When we know what is going op and help to share information in a way that helps folks feel informed and will lses help us all to stay stave and its very trawtraumatizing right now just watching news at a federal level. Thats minimum we can be doing to help us all get through this crisis. ill turn it off to sfusd. thank you so much. Good morning Committee Members. Appreciate the chance to be in communication as the Committee Members stated. Its so important nowadays. We have a team thats here. Just to spare some time, i wont go through introductions. Ill let each colleague introduce herself as her turn comes up. I would like to start by saying thank you to chancellor and we look forward to working with you. Good to see you in this meeting and thank you for letting us take the mic first. I think we owe you one. I think we went first last time too. As commissioners know, we are at a very important stage of our planning process. On the last regular board of education meeting on july 14th, last tuesday there was a threshold direction set to reopen our fall learning plan in distance mode while we monitor the health context, of course, the pandemic and make every effort to plan for the opportunity to return gradually to in Person Learning should conditions allow that later on in the fall or school year. Were going to provide an accelerated update on the planning. If you would like us to slow down, let us know otherwise were going to go at a pretty good clip. We would like to thank our partners that have been mentioned today. Both from the sfusd community and c beos and families. This is a Community Wide effort and we really appreciate all the deep engagement and hard work that people are putting into this effort. With that ill turn it over to my wonderful colleague chief of student Family Community support whom you heard from last month. This is mrs. Smith. thank you and good morning member of the board of supervisors, board of education and the trustees. I appreciate the opportunity to present. I will move as quickly as possible but if folks need me to slow down, please let me know. Do you think you guys can take the reigns and help me out with this. The San Francisco unified School Districts fall learning plan is grounded in our core values. Thats the agenda. You can keep going. Its grounded in our core values. So that we can achieve oir missioourmission to provide eacd every student quality instruction. The ultimate goal of the process is to answer four questions. What are the guiding principles, real learning options, do we have the logistics for those options, and what is the july 28th recommendation to the board of education. Our approach to that process was to create three working groups with representations from staff, students, family, labor partners, and City Partners to provide recommendations to the policy teams who will provide a recommendation to the board of education. Since may, we have been gathering input and information and continue to gather information, we are very close to the end of our time line to the july 28th board of education meeting that is next month. In addition to the stake holder information we relied heavily on the dpiedin guiding documents te from the various agencies. The California Department of health, legislation and our own San Francisco department of hell health. Next slide. As was mentioned earlier last friday an important directive was released that created space wide fie guidelines for when any California School can open. It places counties on that list if they are not meeting thresholds for particular categories including test rates, hospital capacity. Counties cannot reopen schools for Distance Learning. For those unaware San Francisco was place on the monitoring list last friday. The San Francisco department of Public Health also has released preliminary guidance. That is to provide guidance for safety and instruction. Allow schools to a reopen in alignment with the Public Health directive. In addition to the guidance that i just discussed senate bill 98 provides guidance, what are the minimum guidelines for the school year. As well as identifying the circumstances in which Distance Learning can be offered as well as Participation Requirements for Distance Learning. As mentioned by cdc and many others board of education and board of supervisors its vital that we get community engamingment as part of our fall learning plan. As part of that process what we did was we condughted seve condn hall sessions, we conducted surveys to inform our decisions. Our town halls were designed collectively with many different multi disciplinary folks. We had as diverse agenda to get as much diverse feedback as possible. We did seven town halls in four days. We hadwe used a technology called bod exchange to provide questions and rate them. We had 16000 people participate in the exchange. Thirteen questions were answer. People could put that on and people could rate their thoughts on whether they agreed or disagree. We had a lot of information coming to us. It was really helpful. We had a number of participants in all the halls. This was the count. People could participate through youtube and sfgov. This is not the full number of people who participated put the onces we could capture. We didnt ask a zip code question, of the ones that we did ask we were able to have pretty diverse representation across our city. The themes that emerged were health and safety as our primary driver for community and Distance Learning. Choice, really focusing on equity, and a lot more social interaction. In person, whether it be live interaction. The top questions that emerged that we wanted to take into consideration and the workership of what does the fall learning plan look like is what about safety questions. Employees, city and staff. How do we make social distancing requirements are adhered to. What will social lerping look like how will it be different from this frame. Choice. That was a big question in terms of what will be the choices that students, families, and staff have . Next slide. Im turning this over to deputy superintendent. we had three working groups. We had three specific working groups looking at how might we come back together for fall 2020. One of those groups i was able to lead is the teaching and learning working group. This was comprised of over 20 folks. Representative of parents and families, c bos, labor workers. Yoshould we prioritize getting l of our students back immediately given the information we have or a delayed hybrid response. As was said, we want to bring our babies back. We know thats the best place and way for them to learn. This team in conjunction with our logistics working tbreups gs suggested it was best to start off with Distance Learning and move into that model as circumstances allow. good morning, everyone. Chief facilities officer. We also convened as logistics working groups that has met about three times now comprised of the same mix of personnel, staff, labor, and parent advisory organizations to help us work through the questions surrounding the needs and assumptions to be in place to support Distance Learning in the fall. Think about the gradual return and hybrid option and what that might look like. Next slide, please. We spent time as a working group reviewing all the different guidance documents that have been provided from the local state and federal levels. Spent the bulk of our time introducing our stake holders to dee operational constraints that are shaping in Person Learning opportunities. This is just a quick set of highlights of that information has been provided. This is a complex cast of thinking about how to utilize sfusd four hundred thirty acres in a very different way. Weve been referencing the vision 2025 document that guides sfusd and the ten big shift. Reimagine time and space. We have taken that as our central challenge. As we think about that challenge, we have to think about the resources we have and how they need to be doa ploye dd differently. Square footage is close to eight hundred million square feet. On an average Normal School setting day, you have three hundred custodians that averages out to two per building. Some of those buildings are really different with the high schools being much much larger than Elementary Schools. Kufschoolscustodial was alreadyr protocol. Not just kreening th cleaning tt using the kuft ode custodial tea Single Person can cover in an eight hour shift. Thats an important constraint. Realistic we can think about using a little under half of our existing instructional Square Footage on a daily basis. Secondly there are major transportation constraints in play right now. Public transportation is projected to operate at 30 of its normal capacity by the end of august. Students and families are major users. And sfusds own transportation can double the budget to serve existing students if were moving them to the assigned sites. A choice model as students move across the district everyday from their homes, zip code of origin and rely on Public Transportation and sfusd transportation to do that. With the constraints of custodial cleaning and around transportation not just financial but the sheer number of buses and drivers that would be needed if you want to accomplish social distancing. The same protocols that apply around cohorts and cleaning, disinfecting, Monitoring School buses. All of that really requires a really different transportation approach. Sfusd doesnt have the resources to implement. Running through the feedback that weve gotten from our stake holders are one that we really need clear rules for cleaning and disinfecting. How much educators will be asked to do on a daily basis. Theres consensus that everyone at a school site has a role to play in keeping the site clean and safe. But really understanding and fine tuning what the ask is of all the different groups of staff and students who are on site everyday and what their role in in maintaining those standards needs to be very clear as we move forward. Theres a lot of concern for differently abled students and vulnerable populations about social distancing and these protocols might negatively impact their educational experience. We have a lot of personalized support for individual students that requires hands on interaction. Students and teachers and students and paras working very closely together physically. How do we continue to serve those students while maintaining social distancing and the other requirements that have been established for us. Lastly and i think this is particularly relevant this week. What are the ways to support families and kids with enrichment options that sup supt Distance Learning. Lots of ways Outdoor Learning can occur. Questions about how that would work. Outdoor learning is a wide spectrum of activities from having a classroom out side to proposals that are ambitious and engaging with the park as the subject matter itself. Theres a wide spectrum of opportunities and not to mention the fact the use of outdoor spaces to support things like eating meals and recess and recreation. Serving as a third space to the School Building in a different way than we normally would. Those are a lot of the key themes and feedback. Over the next few weeks we are continuing as an Operations Team, policy and Operations Team to vet and think about each of our sites. Quite specifically, literally reviewing the site plans for every school site with a focus on Elementary Schools and layering on different restrictions about the resources we have available, staffing band width across different groups. The sites readiness for a covid 19 school day. Thats a significant data lift. We do intend to that have entire review and have that completed by ends of august. With that ill turn it back to my colleagues. i am not the chief of hr, but he is not here with us today, ill represent him as best i can for the personal working groups that he led which was also put into interdisciplinary teams. As youve heard from all of the speakers to date. The ongoing dominant theme for the personal work group was safety and wellness of our staff and students and families is paramount. The focuses of the work group was the fact that adult to adult transmission creates the highest risks for covid 19 transmission. We talked a lot about what would we have to do for our vulnerable populations for our staff. Looking at age as one example. Im going to move to the next slide. We did crossreference the different classifications of work. You can see from this slide we have a good percentage of our staff who may be part of a Vulnerable Group and have to create systems and structures and environments and protocol it ensure their health and safety. Can you go back to the previous slide. The other questions we really looked at is what is the claire it in roles anclarityin roles a. How will we fully utilize our para educators in any reopening scenarios. Those are some of the areas explored. Im going to ask you to go to the slide after the next slide. Thank you. And finally throughout this process district leadership members were also part of city led work groups and teams. Primary childrens from the department of children youth and families. Many agencies participating on that working group. There were subgroup thats were formed out of the working group. San francisco mpa and the city administrator and sfu working together. Those groups meeting in parallel as the sfu work groups meeting. Meeting three times a week to discuss all of the difn information and bring it all together into fall learning plan ma that was presented on tuesday. Im handing this over to the superintendent for the next slide. thank you. This slide is a little bit of a nonsequitur. Just a pause to talk about state and federal funding. Ill just cover this real quick unless anyone has questions. There was a federal stimulus package passed in march for k12 scols. Ou12schools. Our share of those funds is 12 millions. Theres an active debate about next stimulus bill or relief bill. That is stalled a little bit in the u. S. Senate. The Senate Republicans are working and struggling to come to a consensus of what that package should look like. Those discussions will continue next week. In the meantime we and many other urban School Districts are part of a coalition that sought significantly more funding from the federal government and the Senate Democrats have introduced a package that introduced funding along these lines. More than the cares act included. An interim budget was passed in late jeun. A fum ojune. Features is fundings maintained including very importantly holding districts harmless for enrollment or attendance from last year to this year. However, there was not a cost of living adjustment. That was omitted. That cost us about 12 million. That would be the difference of a comfort of living adjustment which is typically included. On a bright note there was a infusion of one time learning loss funs to help support our students for additional learning time and supports as well as social emotional support. That is very helpful. One last point is that in the absence of federal stimulus funds which, again, are being debated now, the state budget concludes a very significant amount of defeferrals of paymentdeferrals to schools. Hols fiscal year. Making those Cash Payments next year. Thats another interesting topic but it does present Cash Management challenges for us and other School Districts in the state. With that i believe im passing back to chief smith to head towards a wrap up for us. Gentleman thank you. Where are we . Where does all this information take us in temple terms of res n for fall twenty twept. Distanc2020. Distance learning id as the science and data allows in school learning. A more detailed plan for the board of education meeting. What we wanted to do in designing this man and also as a caveat we know that many of the items that could probably be in the plan arewill require collaborative discussion and discussion with our labor partners. Were undertaking these discussions to make sure were meeting our obligation to bargain in good faith. These are high level ideas and deliberations as we develop the fall learning plan. All of this is from the really strong feeds that came out of town halls and strengthening families and relationships is really important. How do we develop systems and structures to ensure that happens. A few of the commissioners spoke to this in the beginning, we need to have regular and consistent communication to minimize the amount of confusion and anxiety that could be created. We have to have consistent expectations for live interactions for staff. See a difference between the spring an the fall. Instruction that connects students with each other and their instruct joors. Morors. Attending to different tf learners and how do we pivot to that in a Distance Learning mode. Critical piece is access to printed materials. Developing capacity in the only of our staff but our students and families to navigate distance instruction and really be sure that were attending to health and wellness in all of the Distance Learning because we are in the middle of a global pandemic. Thats it. With that im go to go wrap upi. We have the full report to the board on july 28th. Were working dlibl diligently n monitoring and training. Weve been surveying our staff and families regarding choice. Well continue to do that as we move forward. With that i believe im concluding our presentation. Thank you. thank you so much. That was an impressive amount of information and work in a presentation. Thank you very much to all of our chiefs. Apologize for calling you director. Our chiefs and our deputy superintendents. Thank you so much for your work and really trying to figure out a lot of thipgs all a things alm th. The commissioners will receie this preptatio presentation anda deep dive. I want to make sure that the other members of our committee has a chance to speak. thank you very much. What a wonderful presentation as always. Im so impressed with the amount of data and research you have very quickly put together in these incredibly difficult times. I want it to say kudos to you for being on top of what is really a difficult situation for a will the of students. I really only have two questions. If you can at all give us any indication, im assuming that youll go into this in more depth. What where are the students responses sm iresponses. Id like to hear from the students and what they are saying. I know weve all seen some of the articles out there and ive seen some of the data especially the k through 12 students who may have a more difficult time learning from Distance Learning. Im curious what you dpot. Got. You have a sense of who those students are. I doan know who i dont know ws of. we had a town hall of all of our students and got feedback beyond the town hall. It was predominantly high school and middle school. The trend from their feedback is they definitely want more interaction. They want more from their educators themselves and more opportunities to ipt act with ih each other. Both from teaching and learning but clubs. They wanted more systems and structures, believe it it or not. A lot more thoughts on how to deliver teaching and learning in a remote or distance format. They were the ones who said every piece of content isnt appropriate to transition into an online format. Pick and choose what we endisbaij them in and hogaugeen. Around wellness, how you are doing, resources, supports that can be offered to them. As they navigate odd and unprecedented times. Did i miss any . no. That was perfect. That was exactly what we heard in every way in which we listen to students those were the themes that emerged. thank you. the second part of that question is all data seems to point to the possibilities that students from lower incomes are going to actually suffer much more than students who may have more resrs a resources at their disposal. Kids from black and brown neighborhoods, they might be behind, those kids may be behind ten or two months mplet this was in the New York Times article recently about math in particular. Im wondering, do we have any thoughts about how were going to help these students get back what theyve lost in terms of learning . were still in perfects he is of fiemizing our ways to assesfinalizing what we canasse. How do we make sure that the ways in which teachers interact with students and the work we are having them do is rigorous and designed in value. That tier one of first level of instruction is always the most important instruction. Make sure quality instruction is delivered and shared regardless of the format. How do you do the tier two, and tier three. What might Small Group Instruction look like. How do we support our teachers and educators to make sure they are ready to provide that support. We know that were going to have to do more of a deep dive around that learning loss that is tippic cal itypical in the summw you have the covid 19 loss as well. thank you so much. Supervisor fewer. thank you so much. Thanks for the presentation. I just have some questions. I think that trusteebrings up is on the forefront of my mind. That learning loss should be the first thing we are thinking about. I understand how to reopen and all that stuff. If youre go to go start Online Learning then they learning loss and veiling what the learning loss and who is the most vulnerable. I think thz a strong commitment to equity and in times hike this this is when equity really kowny counts. People who come from English Speaking families and College Educated families definitely have more of an advantage. A third of families come from families where a language other than english is spoken. The majority of our students are actually free or reduced lunch. This creates a learning challenge and an equity challenge. My first question is, i think that what i wanted to observe is that, i hope that were moving on and focus with equity. I i know theres an overarching gel of racial achievement gap. That continues to actually exacerbate under this covid 19 if we dont really talk about the Racial Equity that is involved here p. Also, if theren evaluation tool that was actuallactually given to studenn the spring for them to fill in about their own living experience during the spring Distance Learning or was that done separately . I thought it was a Good Opportunity for all of our students actually to participate in maybe an Online Survey during the spring to jogi also wanted to say about custodial care. This is the time now that more and more stews ar are needed itn opportunity to work with the janitors to help pick up the jobs and could we use other custodians to keep it clean. Also we wont be able to bring back students if we dont make sure that those spaces of learning are sanitized properly. I just wanted to say that are we doing anything aroundevery teacher and commissioners are also mandated reporters of child abuse. Many times our teachers and schools are the first reporters to c ps around suspected child abuse. Im wondering if theres a mechanism for that under these situations to make sure students are safe also. You mentioned that you really folk you can oweve all seen t. We want to close this racial achievement gap. When were looking at k through two those crucial years of learning. What is the focus now . We cant just give them the packets that we mentioned at the last meeting. It has to be much more robust. I just want to say that dofor some of of our High School Students in 11th and 12th grade, they are actively taking College Level courses. Could we have our seniors and this is a Good Opportunity to start rethinking about the resources that we have on hand and how we can also give them a brief to college. There are other jurisdictions that their senior year they all graduate with one year of city college under their belt. Could our students instead of taking calculus at high school levelmany classes of calculus are at a College Level any way. We have a lot of students that take ap classes could be taking online classes and giving them a boost up and opportunity for them to be educated at a very high level to prepare for four years of college. Many of our students are First Year College goers. If they can get that experience in high school, they can boost their confidence and resiliancy and fulfill the requirements that we require of them. We have learned a lot of things. We are able to be a model for the nation. I would love to hear more. If you see Going Forward that you are going to call for a greater dependency on the communitybased organizations. The city is looking to cut funding for many of those organizations. If you feel those services are imperative for you to deliver instruction in particular to the students, in the warning Early Warning signs or whatever the whole thing is about your assessment, then you should have a strong working relationship with the city on how imperative the work is. They are positioned to take massive cuts during this budget process. I think the closest that we Work Together, as a city we have more resources. The majority of the board feels as we do on this committee that it is the responsibility of the city and county to get people back to work. People cant get back to work if caring for children. We know not all children have the same opportunities as others. If we want to talk about changing. We had a lot of talk about defunding police. We have to look at why is crime committed . Why are people turning to crime to survive . Also, we have to look at education because it is really about an opportunity gap. Quite frankly, it is a rational gap. I wanted you to know we have an office of Racial Equity doing a lot of equity analysis. It would be helpful to work with them. One of the things you are looking at are education at outcomes. I know we have a short period of time. I wanted to bring those to your attention. I am hoping we can actually work with some of the resources we have in hand such as city college to educate our students so they are not so they dont miss out on opportunities to succeed, and especially the students that we serve are students of color, students in poverty, students who are marginnally making it. In a nut shot i want to thank you for your work. We want to focus on equity. Lets Work Together as city and county to use Resources Available to be most effective for our students. Thank you. I want to flag we have less than an hour and three more presentations. Unless we are able to recess or supervisor fewer if you are able to stay longer, i want to flag that for the time we have. Also, we did invite mta. We hope they can be at the next meeting. It is important to have them for many of the points raised. May i suggest usd colleagues, thank you, supervisor fewer for giving us a lot to think about. Good news as we think about those same questions. Perhaps my colleagues could not attempt to respond to every question that was just raised but if there are quick responses on a couple of them that stood out or if supervisor fewer if you had specific things to prefer to hear from us about in realtime, then we could narrow. I know the deputy superintendent and chief smith had specific responses to share. I will try to respond. One of the things you said that i want to respond to. You hope sf usc we have our focus on equity. We keep that focus and hold all things that we do. I did hear you made a comment around desire to focus on assessments to figure out the learning loss. I home my response we have not figured out what assessment of learning loss will look like. Tools will be developed with our labor partners. We will have to figure out what learning loss looked like and prioritize that. We want to prioritize the wellness. This experience has been traumatic for educators and students and families putting together the 30day plan to make sure in those first 30days that we set expectations clear and take time to assess where students are to make sure whatever learning opportunities we provide are responsive to that. The other question is around prek through 2 and how we will do that differently. One of the things is that it requires nondigital approach. It is print based. We will not have the packet we gave before. We have a series of workbooks teachers will use for Early Education students. We picked resources that are accessible to families. Those are available in multiple languages. Many teachers will use those versus the packet you saw in the spring. We are still doing the learning kits and we will distribute devices. For that age group it is new. We are doing professional education for educators as families transition to using the digital devices. We will have more detail later. Thank you. Thank you. I want to say in specific because we are short on time. Have you considered the High School Students taking online classes at city college . Thank you for that question, supervisor fewer. We are exploring those options. We have a dual enrollment through the Postsecondary Program through city college and we will lean on that heavily with partners at city college. I think that is fine. I feel like if i have further questions or we can set up a meeting. We are short on time. The two other institutions i think have powerpoint presentations. Commissioner collins. Thank you. I just want to say that the other thing i dont think was covered this idea we want to build capacity for families. There is a lot of work happening already. Kids are relying on families, especially younger children, to get connected. There is a lot more resources online and i know commissioner lopez is working with the latin x task force and there is a lot of other teachers and parents working on ways to help families educate other families and create support structures so that families can help their kids get connected and learn to do that. Your comment about cbos is important. They are a link. When you have a teacher that is teaching families in different languages. Doing zoom with families in latin and viet nam in the classroom. I have done more work with cbos to bring them up to speed as partners. We need the city and we also need the cbo partners and family leaders and volunteers to help us make those connections, especially for the vulnerable communities. We are rely on. Part of the resolution as well talking about violence, supervisor fewer was mentioning about. How we prevent, you know, how we support Community Wellness and prevent violence. We wrote a resolution to remove police from schools. We wanted the money from sro to helping schools to really connect families with resources. We were asking for a Community School coordinator. What we saw the two schools that pivoted the best online were schools identified as Community Schools. Mlk middle school had staff and infrastructure when families were in need they got them devices and helping them get online. If there is anything you can do outside of the infrastructure such as muni or testing to help us help our communities by investing in the cbos providing services to families directly and have contact with those families directly and they can help us be a link with those families most out of reach and help us get nor Community Schools to the system to have an infrastructure within our system to help connect both our resources and resources from the community and resources from the city. We are all having trouble making those links, dedicated staff in the system to help families and School Communities make connections is going to be a huge resource. That is the missing piece when it comes to those most vulnerable communities. I appreciate the questions and i look forward to partnering with you and city leaders to figure out ho to do that. Thank you so much for those very important points and questions. I have one question. How much is Outdoor Learning part of what you are looking at we obviously are aware that some of the Public Health guidance has said that people, young people, children being outdoors is a lot safer environment. That is true for what we have done over the summer with rec and park and things the city is doing. Outdoor learns is part of the planning and phasing in and hybrid model . Could you speak to how that is being integrated . I am happy to take that question or at least start a response to that question. When we think about Outdoor Learning, yes, i think that has to be integral to the approach. It is complicated. We actually have a lot of schoolyard space that is most often times under utilized over the school day. We have tremendous space. We are lucky to have a number of schools immediately adjacent to parks that are under the jurisdiction of the recreation and Parks Department as well. We are looking on a site by site basis at each school that will likely be a site for in Person Learning to evaluate and rancoreddiness for in Person Learning within the context of covid19. That is a screen check of the sites to rank them based on in classroom sinks, refrigeration in cafeteria, how big is the schoolyard . How many entry and exit points between the classroom spaces and outside . We think it is not just about the location but also the schedule of the school day is going to require the creative use of outdoor spaces to have kids moving kids and staff moving safely and in an organized fashion throughout the school day and maintaining stable cohorts. To have kids outside, we can do that. If we want in the San Francisco micro climate make that comfortable with shelter, shade above and maybe screens so kids arent completely distracted, hopelessly distracted in a schoolyard with 30 classes out there. Once we create a structure associated with that classroom space the department of state architect has jurisdiction. What i am working on now is developing prototypes that meet department of state architecture requirements for being safe. This is not the same as going to home depot and buying event tents for a picnic or barbecue. We are working to develop that and engage with the department of state architects to get feedback and approval so we can start really working this into eventual schedules and layouts what the school sites will look like when we resume in Person Learning. I have been in touch with former colleagues at recreation and Parks Department. They are supportive. As we identify school sites where, i was thinking of flynn elementary that in some places where the schoolyards are not sufficient to support what it would mean to have all prek through 2 kids on the site in one day. We can think about ways to spillover into the parks. There are a lot of dimensions to this idea. That is the most basic idea of using classrooms outside, and there are more ambitious ideas which i am happy to let the the deputy superintendent use about using park spaces as subject material for instruction as well. Deputy superintendent did you want to add to that . That is a long conversation. That is a foundation. Thank you. Well, if it is okay with i wh everyone i am moving to city college. Thank you to th to to the s. F. U. Staff. We want to make sure the city and county are stepping up to support you. It cant just be on you. It has to be on all of us. Whatever we can do to be supportive and help with communication, i think we are committed to that. With that we are going to thank the folks and move to city college presenters. Interim chancellor and senior vicechancellor who are here from city college. Thank you again, s. F. U. S. D. Good morning, supervisors, commissioners and trustees. Thank you for having me here today. As the incoming interim chancellor it is a great pleasure for me to come to the meeting and to see and meet with you and talk about promoting education in the beautiful city of San Francisco. As i was listening to the commissioners presentation and questions, i was reminded of a few things. We are going through a major pandemic right now, and even good teaching in the classroom the gap between high performing students and low performing students gets wider. Now at this period in time with technical difficulties and instruction is done remotely, we are adding an additional layer of difficulty to the students. The gap. [ inaudible ] technical difficulties. To the chair. Do you have his contact information. It can help if he turns his camera off. I just sent a text message and he is on campus practicing social distancing. He is there by himself. What you are seeing some of the challenges we have with our technical i fro infrastructure. I am coming back now. Back to what i was saying, with good teaching in the classroom the gap between higher and lower performing students gets wider. When we add to that the technical difficulties now with remote learning, that gap would get even wider. It is so important that we do everything we can to provide the necessary support to the students so that gap cab narrow. City college is working diligently with the district to see how we can better promote dual enrollment and the pathways to get students to move from k12 to the college and help the students. I have heard you mention ap classes and taking Community College classes. It is so important to promote dual enrollment. Community College Credit will do much more for the students than ap classes. Community College Credits are the same credits you will be earning at the state university, private colleges and universities. Ap credit is not necessarily transferable. As we move forward, it is also important for us to realize that the disparity that exists in successful Completion Rates of students of various groups is not exactly the same. We need to be able to bridge that disparity. At city college we are working with faculty and staff to see what Additional Support we can provide our students so the successful Completion Rate of students, transfer rate of students will be more or less equal across the board, across ethnicity and diversity. Today we will be telling you a little more what we are doing at the college to address the needs of our students as we do remote instruction is going to play an important part again this coming semester because of covid19. I am going to turn over now to our senior vicechancellor ms. Diana gonzalez to tell you what we are doing at city college. Thank you. Also with us today for city college is the chancellors chief of staff and mary who is going to drive for me for the presentation. What we have for you today. This is an update from the last meeting which everybody remembers the data we presented. I am slightly joking. We have more focused and brief presentation in terms of what is happening since the june meeting. The impact with respect to covid19 on instruction for summer 2020, we were almost entirely online. The difference between the delivery of instruction that took place when we had to do remote instruction during the Spring Semester was converting most of our in person classes to remote delivery. For the summer session what we offered was two things. An already reduced schedule because of the budget situation. Is summer offerings were half what they were the previous year, and they were classes that were already designed to be delivered online. The primary focus of summer session was dual enrollment and the credit recovery. Partnering closely with San Francisco unified. We were engaged and i will show you a few details at the end of the presentation. We were diligently working towards in Person Instruction for fall of 2020. We created a task force in late april to do just that. Much like s. F. U. S. D. We engaged with employee groups and unions and started to prepare for a great deal of in person classes, but then the shelterinplace continued, and we took a more gradual return to campus approach. Then as other Community Colleges, primarily in the bay are partners at the csu also delivering remote instruction. As the state was also slowing down their reopening, we responded accordingly. We are responding mostly to the city and county of San Francisco department of Public Health guidelines. We recently received a memo dated july 7. We received it july 14. It prohibits nearly all in Person Instruction. We tapped the brakes slightly. We are continuing to plan for a very gradual return to in Person Instruction this august. Our remote instruction, unlike spring, will include credit and non credit classes especially for esl students. As i mentioned we are taking a phased in approach starting first with city build because thethey have a earlier start tie august 3 and the allied health such as denssuch as dentists an. There is a lot of work to be mars economic recovery taskg re force discussions in terms what contribution can city college make to the economic recovery for San Francisco . We are anticipating additional state and local guidelines in the next few weeks as well as just paying close attention to what the city of San Francisco does from the department of Public Health. Changes to instructional policies. These were derived from the state chancellor in spring and summer. We implemented changes from the state chancellors office, automatic withdrawals and reimbursementses to our students. We provided pass or no pass to the classes. We provided the data in terms of numbers in the june meeting. I am not repeating here. If we repeat same policies for fall depend upon the state chancellor. They are coordinating with four year institutions. We dont want to add versely impact students who opt for pass or no pass or withdrawal that could impact their transcript. We are continuing to provide faculty training during the summer months and the cares funding we received is paying for most of the training. As you know our faculty are not required to work during the summer. We have gotten a lot of cooperation from the aft and individual faculty members. I want to shout out to the dean of Online Learning. He staff pivoted in a heart beat and continue to provide an incredible amount of resources to our faculty. As you can see, the topics during the summer, the use of canvas. That is the learning management system, being able to document the continued interaction and reagaregular interaction is cril from the federal department requirements. Thaning on the best practices use the best practices using zoom and making sure everything is complete with federal and be state requirements. Over 700 faculty have been trained full and parttime. Both in credit and non credit classes. Student affairs. We are focusing on retention and outreach. Because of the number of students that withdrew from spring, Student Affairs led these efforts working with Academic Affairs and institutional research. We targeted student groups. Communication by text, email and phone calls following up with those students. Retention plans developed to go through audit the education plans originally developed between the student and counselor and updating accordingly and connecting students with Career Education program, work force. We are also focusing on students in these programs that you see here who tend to be sometimes our most vulnerable population. Eops, extended opportunity and program services, cal works and the working adult degree program. These are cohorted. Meaning the students go through the program together as a group. We are also advising as to the course repeat ability. There was a relaxation of the rules from the state level so that students have the ability to repeat courses in the following semester. Also identified short term Certificate Programs in high demand and outreach engaging in aggressive outreach for those particular programs to also have grow our fulltime equivalent students, otherwise known as our enrollment. I am going quickly. I want to be mind full of the time. I will wait for questions afterwards. Students and faculty and staff and administrators had access to the rp group survey. It is a Nonprofit Team every sevenners and annual of temperature researchers. They work with Community Colleges in different initiatives and efforts to improve delivery of services and success rates for students at the Community College. The local results are available. I am not sure if the link will work. I will leave it. We will give you a quick preview. The rp group is working on statewide report in conjunction with state chancellor in early september. We will provide to our board of trustees at the Student Success committees and the joint select committee. Greg, if you would like to preview the student results. Actually it was the link on