So it looks like were all here. So welcome, everybody, for being here today for our school Board Meeting. Welcome, everybody, and superintendent matthews. I think you have an announcement regarding todays agenda. Yes, thank you, president sanchez. Good afternoon, Board Members and members of the public. Being withdrawn from the agenda today in section g is item 1. Its board policy 6142. 7, physical education and activity. That is being withdrawn, and in section h, items 3, Second Amendment to the Instructional Calendar 20202021. Both items will be heard at a future meeting of the board. Thank you, dr. Matthews. We are going to vote on the approval of the board minutes for september 8. We need a motion and a second. So moved. One one moment. Could everybody whos a panelist please mute your screen while youre not speaking at the meeting, please . Thank you. Motion and a second, please, for the board minutes. So moved. Second. Thank you. Any corrections . Okay. Seeing none, roll call vote, please. Clerk thank you. [roll call] clerk thank you very much. Thank you. We are in section b, number 2, superintendents report. Dr. Matthews . Thank you, president sanchez, Board Members, and members of the public. Good to see you all. My report from today, first and foremost, id like to encourage all families to complete the multipurpose Family Income form for the 2021 school year today. Completing the form provides benefits beyond meals, including essential funding for your Childs School. Benefits include eligibility for free meals through september 2021, eligibility for future e. D. T. Funds, discounted utilities and internet access, free enrollment in excel after School Program, free s. A. T. Waivers, benefits regardless of citizenship status, and this provides essential funding for your school. Its critical for us as a district, and it absolutely benefits your child, your family. Please go to sfusd. Edu mfif to fill out the multifamily information form. Today is also National Registration day, so if you have not registered, register today. Make sure your voice is heard. Register early. Make a plan to vote early, and then vote early. Among the many important issues san franciscans will vote on, proposition j, which addresses a legal loophole to continue to provide funding for sfusd, and proposition 15, which would increase revenue for Public Education and other services. Mayor london breed placed prop j on the ballot to replace proposition g, which was passed by San Francisco voters in 2018. Proposition g was a 298 per parcel and proposition j is for 350 per parcel in San Francisco. Californiia californians will vote on proposition 15, which would amend the state constitution to adjust the original 1978 proposition 13 to enable commercial properties to be taxed at their fair market value as opposed to the value at the time when they were purchased. Proposition 15 would not affect property taxes for homeowners. Upon full implementation, this initiative would raise between 8. 5 million and 12. 5 billion in property tax per year for education and other public services. While i cannot say how to vote on these and other ballot issues, i want to encourage all san franciscan voters to exercise their democratic right by voting in this election and every election on these important measures. Make sure your voice is heard. It is more important than ever for our San FranciscoUnified School District families and gua guardians to have active information on their schools, their classes, and the district. We share information as it becomes available with you in our weekly digest. Theres a lot of critical information someone has there mic their mic on, so once again, if youre a panelist and youre not speaking, please make sure to mute your microphone. Thank you. Going to start again. The district can share information that affects many families and students, but there is a lot of information unique to each student. Families are more fod when their schools and districts keep them in the loop. Our information is can communicationed in a confidential member through our family portal, parent view. Parent view allows parents to use a single login to follow their student the entire time their student is enrolled through our public schools, kindergarten through high school. Through parent view, parents and guardians can access their students grades, and the digital platforms their students are using. Parents and guardians can also update their information in parent view, including cell phone numbers, address information, and more. Parent view works on phones and devices, including a handy mobile application so if they prefer to use their phone, they can still stay up to date on their childs education. If a parent has more than one student enrolled in our district, a parent view account lets them log in to them all. Families can change languages to their preferred language. Because it is highly secure, families need to get a unique active jags key from their Childs School to set up their account. If you are a district parent who hasnt activated your parent view account yet, you can find more information here. We look forward to here on our district website. We look forward to staying in touch about one of the most important things to all of us your childs educational journey. Thank you so much. That concludes my statements this afternoon. Thank you, superintendent matthews. Student delegates, this is the time for your report. Thank you so much, president sanchez. This months update is the sfuchd rez for Pacific Island a sfusd resolution for Pacific Island and hawaiian students. Sfusd supports the efforts to close the opportunity gap and increase hawaiian and Pacific Islander representation by implementing an amendment that promotes selfsustainability, our essential goal it to create a longterm migration into our School District. Yesterday at our s. A. C. Meeting, commissioner moliga presented at our s. A. C. Meeting, and we voted unanimously for the resolution. Special thanks to our adult ally, commissioner moliga, and the entire s. A. C. Team for disseminating this important resolution to our peers. Peef preserves sfusd programming and sports, libraries, art, and music while supporting other Educational Opportunities and academics and student and family support. Our s. A. C. Goal is to distribute the opportunity to our constituents so we can have a total of six students nominated to serve on peef c. A. C. Our student representatives will meet the peef c. A. C. Once a month on the third wednesdays at 5 00 p. M. We would like to take the opportunity to thank mr. Edmond diaz for taking the opportunity to present to us and answers all of our questions. Next, the s. A. C. Has a coalition of committees where students are driven by their passion to create a change in our School District through various projects. Our goal in the s. A. C. Is to roll out campaigns for each specific committee. For this year, we have a total of five committees health, environment, student support, social justice, and a district and accountability committee. Jet at our s. A. C. Committee meeting, we presented about each committee, and we are now beginning finals. Thank you to our president of leadier for giving this presentation. Our next meeting will be on november 5 at 3 00 p. M. If you would like to attend a meeting, make a presentation or would like a meeting agenda, please contact salvador lopezbarr. All right. Thank you so much, especially the last part. So item 4 is recognitions and resolutions and commendations. There are none tonight or today. And then, 5 is recognizing all valuable employees, rave awards. We do have some today. Dr. Matthews. Thank you, president sanchez. This evening, we do have a rave award, recognizing all valuable employees. Presenting that award will be gene robertson, the chief of special education, and kristin defi devine, the director of special education. Miss robertson . Thank you, dr. Matthews. I have the extreme pleasure this afternoon to formally present this wave award to karina mcgraw. Its have you awkward because karina, i cannot see you on the screen, but i know youre with me. Karina has served the sfusd and now as an administrator in the special Education Services department. She was called out by a colleague in the field as one of the hardest working special education administrators in the district. It was noted in the nomination that she was like part human and part octopus, having her hand in almost every pot to make sure that important is given to the site, the family, and most importantly, the child. She is responsible and seamless in the way that she addresses the issues. Thus making the job look way easier than it is. Her nominator has noted that she is super smart, and i couldnt agree more. We have a Wonderful Team in our special Education Services department, and we Work Together now more than ever during the pandemic, and karina continues to set the gold standard, and she uses her many gifts to help move the work forward positively. So on behalf of Kristin Devine and, most importantly, dr. Matthews, and all of you here today i just wish sort of we could have a virtual class, a mini class for karina mcgraw. Thank you for your kind words, jean, and for your service. I landed here 19 years ago, and ive been working here, as jean said, 17 years. I would not be here both in my experiences, what ive learned, how ive grown, without each and every student and family, so thank you. Im very grateful to be a part of sfusd. Justin, i think there are a couple of speakers who also wanted to speak. Yes. Miss fisher, did you want to go ahead and start . Of course, absolutely. So my comments are both as a member of the Community Advisory committee for special education but also a parent who has had the opportunity to collaborate and work with karina, and wearing both hats, i would like to say thank you. You have always been an amazingly collaborative partner. At our c. A. C. Meetings, we have an opportunity for parents to troubleshoot and problem solve with our special education reps, and karina is there always. All of our c. A. C. Members appreciate that. Having been a parent at a school where karina was a supervisor, i have to say, karina, i give you a lot of parent for turning me from an angry frustrated parent into a collaborative partner. You were totally instrumental in helping us understand not just the process but also part of why the bureaucracy is the way it is. You helped us understand why the system is a little convoluted and helped walk us through it, so on behalf of me and my family, id like to say thank you very much. Miss martin . My name is julia martin, and im the sfusd ombudsman and parent of a senior, long time member of the c. A. C. And got to know karina many, many years ago through c. A. C. Meetings and really appreciated her at that time as someone who was willing to lend an ear, even if she wasnt my supervisor. But to lend an ear, to give a hug, to be there to support families, and you really helped through some difficult times. I really appreciate that. Ive become even more impressed with her leadership, with her voice and empathy and strength in always speaking up for families, and now in her new role in early ed families, helping guide them through a very convoluted and difficult process, so thank you for all youve done for families. All right. Thank you. Dr. Matthews, i assume that the certificates in the mail . The certificates definitely on its way, and we have a second wave award this afternoon. Dr. Matthews, i just want to quickly say compa oh, yeah. Its so nice to see one rock star, jean, give another rock star a rave award. We are so lucky to have so many great people in our Community Working so hard to serve our students and families, so just wa wanted to put that in there. Our next office will be given by helen petifore. This next rave award goes to Blanca Gonzales. Shes a student advisor at mission high school, so miss petifore . Thank you, superintendent, and all of those present this evening. We are going to honor Blanca Gonzales. She has worked for the district over 23 plus years in serving migrant education program, which is a unique program thoroughly funded to serve these children of farm workers. This is a very vulnerable, fragile population that moves often from the city back to the Central Valley, from the city to the Central Valley to really make a living, so we can imagine the obstacles that these students face. What i was to say about blanca, when she started her role, she didnt have an office, a desk. She would work out of her car to identify families to bring them into the fold of sfusd so that we could provide their students more opportunities to go onto college, become professionals. Blanca served in this role children who are now parents, who many of them are outside of the migrant farm workers now. Theyve gone onto college and become professionals, so the work that blanca does is precious beyond words because she is really making the change for families who dont have adequate you know, families who, at times, face some of the hardest things we can imagine. So tonight, we want to honor blanca by first starting in her car, serving families from place to place, driving to school, eating lunch in her car, helping wherever schools would give her space. Blanca is warm hearted, she easily connects with people. Principals, come on in here and have lunch, teachers she has been, really, a servant to the district in serving these families, and i want to recognize her tonight, and the whole team of access and equity curriculum instruction stand by the work that Blanca Gonzales does for our students. Her work is really, really from her heart and from her soul. Thank you, blanca. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Well, this i would like to thank god first, and my family, and also my team. They are good support, good support for me. Working with migrant families is not a job for me, its a passion, its a labor of love. I am very grateful for the families that i have worked with through all these years because they taught me a lot of life lessons. These family share with me the humility and their hard work of wanting a better life for their children in this country. They alwa they i trust in god, and i trust in my families and my team, and i dedicate this award to my son, caesar, who pass away, but he guide me to my life journey. And i love you so much, my son. This is for you, and this is all for the families, who i love. I love work with the families every day, every day, and i see them every day. They are more than families, they are truly love. So thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you, blanca. So much more rock stars in our midst. Thank you so much. We are going to move onto Public Comment. So mr. Steele, you want to make the announcement and then the protocol . So yeah. If youd care to raise your hand, if you want to speak on general Public Comment on items that are not on the agenda some evening, so something that is not on the agenda, you can speak during this time. Please raise your hand, and then, well call on you when its ready. Go ahead. Perfect. Thank you. Well see what happens. All right. So the protocol for Public Comment, please note that Public Comment is an opportunity for the board to hear from the community on matters in the boards jurisdiction. We ask that you refrain from using employee and student names. If you have a complaint about a district employees, you may submit it to the employees supervisor as per district policy. Rules under California Law do not allow us to respond or answer questions during the Public Comment time. If appropriate, the superintendent will ask that the staff follow up with speakers. Okay. It looks like nine hands are up right now, president sanchez. So two minutes . Yeah. Hello, angela . Hi, yes. Can you hear me . Yes. Hi. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is angela watson, and im the Vice President of local 1741. Our union would like to thank those who spoke in support of the bus drivers for recognizing us as part of sfusds family and a Union Workforce. I would like to add in support of School Bus Drivers letter, there includes a description of student bus services. We are all aware of the budget deficit the Transportation Department faced prior to covid 149. The community is dependent on our elected officials to truly represent the core values of sfusd. It is essential that the School District considered rebudgeting School Bus Drivers health care so we can continue to serve the community, which weve done for almost 50 years. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Hello, natalie . Hello, natalie . Natalie, are you there . Gerardo . Gerardo . Hello . Yes, go ahead. Two minutes. Yes, good afternoon. My names gerardo martin, and my wife and i are School Bus Drivers in San FranciscoUnified School District. Were already going through some hard times, trying to help the kids with their zoom meetings, and now were facing another chall