Announcements . Clerk yes. Committee members will be in attendance and participate in the meeting as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Participate in Public Comment by calling 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 14674 1467489988. Press pound, and pound again. You will hear discussion and be muted, in listening mode only. Press starthree to be entered into the queue. When prompted, speak slowly and clearly and turn down your t. V. Or computer. Or, in the alternative, you may email me at erica. Major sf. Org. We are joined by interpreters who are interpreting in c cantonese and spanish. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk, will you please call the roll. [roll call] clerk you have a quorum. Mr. Chair, would you like to make a motion to excuse supervisor fewer from attendance . Supervisor haney yes, id like to move to excuse supervisor fewer from attendance here today. Supervisor ronen second. Clerk okay. Thank you. Supervisor haney do you need a roll call vote on that . Clerk yes, roll call vote. [roll call] clerk you have five ayes six. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk. Will you please call items 1 and 2 together. Clerk yes. Item number 1 is a hearing on how covid19 have impacted the scheduled policies and provisions for San FranciscoUnified School District and the city college of San Francisco. Item 2 is a hearing to discuss how the city can assist parents, teachers, students, and children with learning during the pandemic. Members wishing to comment on this should call 4156550001. The meeting is 1467489988. Press pound, and pound again. To enter the queue, press star and three, which will indicate you have raised your hand. I believe we have somebody here for translation . Interpreter yes, i will do the translation in the spanish language. Supervisor haney okay. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation] interpreter thank you. Interpreter my name is vivienne, and im going to do the cantonese translation. [speaking cantonese language] e [end of translation] interpreter thank you. Supervisor haney madam clerk, is that it . Do we have another interpretation . Clerk mr. Chair, we had a problem with the bridge connection during the first part of the meeting, so just to let everyone know and our listeners know who may be calling in to hear todays proceedings, this is the joint city schools meeting for august 14, 2020. There are two items on todays agenda. They have been called. We have interpretation Assistance Available for callers in spanish and chinese for callers who may need assistance. Agenda items 1 and 2 have been called, and i believe were ready to go, mr. Chair. Supervisor haney great. I hope our other clerk is doing all right, and we appreciate her work to solve the issues. Supervisor ronen supervisor haney, im sorry to interrupt. I just got a message from someone calling in who said they didnt hear any of the translation. Connie, im sorry. Can you do the spanish version and, im sorry, the cantonese, as well. Interpreter im the spanish interpreter, and ill do the introduction in spanish now. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation] interpreter thank you. Interpreter my name is vivienne, and ill be doing the chinese announcement now. [speaking cantonese language] can t [end of translation] interpreter thank you. Supervisor haney all right. Madam clerk, do we i believe they need to call items 1 and 2, as well. If y claudia, if you could call items 1 and 2, please . Interpreter sure. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation] interpreter thank you. [speaking cantonese language] [end of translation] interpreter thank you. Supervisor haney madam clerk, are we all set . Clerk you may begin. Supervisor haney okay. Great. Well, first of all, before we start, i should take a moment to thank our hard working translation staff and our clerks. It is absolutely critical that this meeting is accessible to all of our residents and families and educators, and i really appreciate that we provided translation for this meeting. You know, i want to just quickly provide an introduction to these two items, and then, i will also pass it over to supervisor ronen, who also wants to provide some introductory comments. This committee, for those of us who are watching or listening in at this time, is a very unique committee for our city. Its a committee that exists between three different institutions that have their own governing committees. Its a committee between the city, the school board of trustees, and city college. We meet regularly, and i think during this time of crisis for our city, its deeply impacting students, parents, and educators, this meeting is more important than ever. We are meeting every two weeks. We will have another meeting in two weeks at 10 00 a. M. To have suggest suggest suggested solutions for feedback, questions, and comments. We have so many folks who are here going to provide presentations and updates on their work, but this has been an unprecedented time for all of us, and i really appreciate the hard work of our elected leaders who are here, of our e educators who are grappling with thing thats no one has ever experienced, our families, and our staff, who have been leading much of this work. We know that school is starting in just a couple days, and we are going to have a school year that has it will present challenges unlike any that weve ever had in our city or anywhere else, and same for city college. And so our ability to Work Together, to problem solve together, to make sure that we are communicating, collaborating together, is essential for us to provide the supports and services that our kids, students, and families and educators need. So we have two hearings that weve called together. The first, as i mentioned, is our continuing conversation about the impact of covid on our schools and on city college, and the policy solutions, protocols, and steps being taken to address the changing needs of our students, educators, and families. The second hearing is specifically on Distance Learning, which obviously is one of the important tools that is being implements, and folked have a lot of questions. People still if this is going to work, we need to make sure the information is there. We need to make sure we hear from our students, our families, and our educators, and theyll have a chance to speak today via united educators of San Francisco, and were thankful theyre with us today and a part of that. So i know we had a number of these topics discussed two weeks ago or i guess it was three weeks ago because we had a recess in between. We are going to be talking every two weeks about these things, every time we meet because thing right side moving to quickly, and we need to get out information to our parents, students, and educators. So with that, im going to turn it over to supervisor ronen for her introductory comments and anyone else who wants to put forth any comments. I thank you, supervisor ronen, for bringing forward this hearing. Im proud to be a cosponsor of this hearing with you, and we will continue to focus on what we can answer today and any other questions and solutions that we should discuss in further hearings. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you very much, chair haney, and its a pleasure to be here. This is my first joint select hearing, and im going to be joining you every two weeks to make sure that we you know, every single child is successfully learning in this new environment. As supervisor haney said, School Starts monday under the most unusual of circumstances, and todays hearing is about getting information. Information about what the school day will look like, how many hours will our kids be learning directly from teachers online, when its referred to as synchronized learning. My daughter is in Elementary School, and i have absolutely no idea what to do on monday morning, and so i hopefully will learn a lot about that today. It will also be about getting information for our educators. How are our educators going to teach if theyre also going to be at home with children doing Distance Learning . Its also about families. What are families going to do if they have to work fulltime . What will happen if they dont have any space, Reliable Technology or space to allow their children to learn, especially the little ones. If they had united with other families to make it all work, is it even allowed. What are the hubs that dcyf is planning . Are they for children with disabilities . When do they start . How do i get a space . So many questions. And then, for me, personally, whats most important about this hearing today is to hear from families. What do different types of families facing different Distance Learning obstacles need to make this work . Because despite our best efforts of our educators, our school board, their union, and the city, were in the midwilling of a pandemic middle of a pandemic, and switching to Distance Learning is an extremely daunting task. I as a parent of a child whos in Elementary School, dealing with this right alongside you, i want to do everything to help to make Distance Learning successful for every child in San Francisco. Today is a first step to learning whats already planned and what more is needed, its about asking a lot of questions and getting the clearest answers possible, and its about looking forward, not backwards. I know that i share the optimism of supervisor haney despite how difficult this moment is, that if were all working together and communicating regularly and clearly, that we can get through this, and we can do it really well. And so with that, im looking forward to this hearing. I just i just wanted to let you all know that, in order of presentation, were going to first hear from d. P. H. Because dr. Aragon has to leave us early about the Different Health orders in place and how to do Distance Learning in a safe manner . Then, were going to hear from sfusd about the plans that are in place and then from the united educators of San Francisco to talk about the m. O. U. That was just ratified as well as what teachers and educators need, and then, finally, from dcyf about the Community Hubs that that department is organizing. So after we hearing opening comments, we look really forward to hearing from the city staff that have been working so hard. Thank you. Supervisor haney great. Any other trusties ees or commissioners that would like to provide any additional comments . I s im looking for any hands. I see a sure. Commissioner randolph . Yes, thank you for putting together this hearing. I think its important for us to continue to discuss this. We actually have our flex day in San Francisco whether our teachers are putting together their plans to discuss the hearings here at the joint committee. We are going to be fully online for the fall semester, as you heard in the previous presentation, but it doesnt mean that our students are secure online. We still donhave studentes thae food insecure or other students that still dont have ways to take classes. Thank you for putting this together. Im looking forward to hearing from d. P. H. And others on how we can work Better Together to make sure that we have all the information that we need as policy makers and leaders to make decisions that impact all san franciscans. Supervisor haney great. So im going to move forward. I know theres a lot of folks that im sure have a lot of questions, and we need to leave time for that. Why dont we move forward to supervisor ronen, as you said, and bring on our first presenter, who is from the department of Public Health, dr. Aragon. Good morning, everyone. My name is dr. Tomas aragon. Im the Public Health officer of San Francisco. Im going to do a very brief overview on the current status of San Francisco and then ana will go onto plan for the status of opening up schools. Just to let you know, i was born and raised in San Francisco. My wife is a first grade teacher in San Francisco. She has been teaching for over 25 years. Shes currently teaching at bessie carmichael, and she taught at malcolm x for ten years. I feel very connected to this very specific issues, and the Health Department is committed to making progress on this issue. Im going to briefly do an overview of hospital cases so you understand where we are in San Francisco, and then, im going to cover some key principles that we need to think about when were doing Virtual Learning at this time. Next slide. [inaudible] the amounts of deaths that you saw in new york city was 45 times higher per capita. The number of deaths that weve had since june, on the lefthand part of that curve. And then, when you move over to the right hand curve, you see thats our hospitalizations. Youll see we have an initial peak early on, and now, were in another hospital surge. So the hospital surge were experiencing now is worse than we had in the past. So because of the conditions that we find ourselves in, what San Francisco is experiencing, the bay area is experiencing, all of california, including Southern California and, right now, its very a lot worse in central california. We ended up whats called on the watch list, which means that schools schools cannot cannot open, and we had to close down malls, indoor nonessential offices, and then we are put on pause. So this is the condition that were in right now. Next slide, please. Overall, across the united states, including california, latinos have been infected the most, and in terms of mor mortality, its been African American and pacific islanders. You see there on the east side of the city where we have the highest rates of infections, thats primarily driven by infects in our latino population. African americans have been less impacted in San Francisco, but that can change, and its up to us to continue to do everything that we can. If you go online, you can look at all the neighborhoods to see where the per capita rate is in that part. An important principle is for us to eventually get kids back in school, we have to Community Transmission down because when schools start, you are going to have kids arriving to school who are infected. Next slide. Im just going to cover a few principles that are very critical for everything we do, whether its going to school, running a meeting, its important to everything. We know so much more now than we knew even just a few weeks ago. Ive already mentioned the state surge, that were on the watch list, and were on a pause for opening schools. Under mitigation, theres four three principles thats critical. Mobility. Every time you leave your house, youre going to be in an environment where youre going to be interacting with people outside your household. Thats mixing, so it really depends on how many people youre going to be mixing with outside your household. Ventilation. Outside is much safer than indoors. When youre with other people, the number of people youre spending time with and the length of time youre interacting with them is really important. If you it can be a high risk, so its important that we mitigate it as much as possible. The next portion is phase coverings. Youll Face Coverings. Its really important that everyone wears Face Coverings, and although it reduces the risk dramatically, it doesnt lower it completely. Thats why youre seeing the person wearing the Face Covering is still putting virus into the air, but a lot less than if they were not. We want everybody to wear a Face Covering, and we want the little coming out to be diluted by ventilation. Of course, hand washing and environmental disinfection. So these are really, really critical principles. On the cityside, i just want to s mention the way we focus on this are directives, rules that have the weight of law behind them, and then practices. We use this three tier approach to implement policy. In general, San Francisco has been more health protected than other parts of california, and were doing better than most places. We really feel strongly about mitigating the risk so we can get kids back in school. We feel this is our equity and racism challenge, where we can have a big impact on kids and their future. Im going to turn it over to ana, whos going to go into detail. Thank you, dr. Aragon. So as dr. Aragon has said, we need to move forward with safer reopening for schools and carefully consider what are the minimum health and Safety Standards that must be met in order to reopen schools to be safer, and this is regardless of whether were on the watch list or not. So we are developing baseline criteria that we will use as a gating mechanism to decide when to reopen schools. And we want this to be grounded in data and science. And research has shown that schools are safer to reopen when there is lower rates of Community Transmission, so well be monitoring our status on the state watch list, so well also be using the key indicators in San Francisco that we have to move forward in our policy decisions. Next slide, please. As dr. Aragon had alluded to earlier, there are guidelines that we have developed and also the state has de