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Org if you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors. Written comments can be sent to cit city hall. Mr. Chair. Youre on mute. Thank you madam clerk. Will you please call the roll . Yes, supervisor haney. Present. Supervisor fewer. Present. Commissioner moliga, moliga not present. Commissioner collins. Im present. Sorry, i apologize. Moliga present. Commissioner collins. Present. Trustee randolph. Present. Trustee williams, williamses not present. Trustee selby. Selby not present. You have corium. Were also joined by supervisor lopez and supervisor ronen. Are there changes to the agenda . There are no changes to the agenda. Thank you madam clerk. Will you please call the first item. Hearing of the impacts of covid19 on San Francisco quiet fied School District and city college of San Francisco. For those wishing to provide Public Comment should call the number streaming on your screen, 4156550001, access code 1464148285. Press star 3 to line up to speak. The system prompt will indicate that you raised your hand. Wait until you have been unmuted when we get to Public Comment. Mr. Chair. Thank you madam clerk. Since today we are hearing what has been a standing item for us, for the last number of meetings, and it is an item that i think weve been able to focus on, especially at the last few meetings specifically on sfusd and how our city departments and our partners can support sfusd so they can be in a place to support our students and families during this very challenging time. We are going to continue with that conversation today and i want to just before i provide a brief opening in terms of what we are going to be discussing today, i do want to acknowledge and thank all of the hard work that has been done by our respective boards, the sfusd board of education, the city College Trustees and all of the staff who i know are working so hard during this time. Its an unprecedented moment for our city, for our schools, for our kids, and i really appreciate the way in which everyone is stepping up and of course our supervisors and city staff as well. I mean as you all know, covid19 has seen a dangerous spike all across the country and even here in San Francisco where we have in many ways led the nation in our response. We are seeing a rapid increase in cases across populations. In response, the city is taking a step back from their progress in reopening and rolling back the schedule of Indoor Dining and pausing the implementation of inperson learning at our high schools. Obviously these trends in the resurgence of the virus is disturbing and they outline the importance of having adequate safety protocols in place and open and swift communication in partnership between our schools and city government. Today were going to hear two important presentations from both the department of Public Health and the San Francisco unified School District. They will present on the Current Situation in regards to the rising number of covid cases and the current prevention and mitigation efforts planned and recommended for schools. During the last joint select committee, the board of supervisors and all of us on this Committee Really wanted to focus on how our city departments and the board of supervisors, the mayor, all of us can come together for our schools and kids at this time. The district said theyre securing on a testing contract and has worked directly with the city and received support by deploying 20dfw employees to conduct Site Assessments at their facilities. Also, the board of education introduced a resolution requesting staff to provide a clear timeline for pre k through 12 reopening and the resolution will be voted on in a special meeting next tuesday. Today the staff will be presenting on their progress on phase two of reopening and preliminary list of asks of the city and well be able to provide a more detailed list of needs in the coming weeks to align with the boards resolution. I also wanted to acknowledge that this is the first meeting we have had since the election. I want to congratulate the folks who were elected and reelected on the respective boards. We are looking forward to working with all of you and also to acknowledge that we are going to have a change in administration in washington and we hope that we get more help. We hope we get more resources, more support, more guidance. As much as we said here over and over again that the School District or city college cant do this on their own without support from the city, we as the city also cannot do this on our own together without more support from the federal and State Governments. So im sure moving forward in the future, in the new year, well have more conversations on the way which the federal and State Government are stepping up more to be key partners for us in these efforts on how to best serve our student in these challenging times. As always, we welcome our staff and our educators to participate in this conversation. I believe we have representatives today both from the united educators of San Francisco and local 21. I am going to invite them after the sfusd presentation to speak as well. So, with that, before we jump into presentations, do any of my colleagues, fellow Committee Members have any opening remarks you want to share . Seeing none, we will jump in first as i mentioned, were only going to hear from d. P. H. And sfusd. We are not going to hear a presentation from city college today and dcyf is here and available for questions and answers but are not going to be presenting. So, d. P. H. , i believe we will turn it to you all. Will you state your name and i believe you have a powerpoint. Good morning supervisors and Board Members. Im going to ask dr. Bova to speak first and then im happy to present this presentation. Good morning supervisors and members. So in terms of what supervisor haney was referencing, the city of San Francisco is seeing increased cases. This is a trend were seeing throughout the nation. We monitored this data very carefully and we saw this trend pretty clearly over the weekend and wanted to implement and work fast because we know that covid has an exponential growth rate so we wanted mitigation factors in place to prevent further increasing. Part of that included pausing on our high schools. We wanted to make it clear that were committed to keeping education open and we know specifically in Elementary Schools and in younger children, the risk of transmission is fairly low. Elementary and middle school will continue to proceed as planned. If there are other schools in those categories that warrant t continue to reopen, we will definitely support that reopening. For high schools, we know that High Schoolers can transmit like adults, so we want to be careful in terms of reopening to make sure those cases or that were not seeing cases in the high school realm. So were going to follow the high schools that are open very closely to ensure that they are opening in a safe manner. Really, if all of the prevention methods that we recommend are utilized, there should be no issues with high schools being able to stay open. Just getting the rapid resurgence of cases, we wanted to do this in a thoughtful and careful manner. Were 100 behind the educational system, reopening and doing it safely and ill turn it over to ana to talk about how were doing that as a department and city. I think youre on mute. Sorry, thank you. If the clerk would be so inclined to bring up the slide deck because i have challenges sharing on my computer. Sorry. Thank you. So were here to present the what the covid command has prepared for School Reopenings in terms of preventions and mitigations. Next slide please. Next slide please. So, in terms of prevention, we have a schools and child care hub in a covid command and im the team lead for that hub. We have three main goals for our hub, which is to support the reopening for schools on Ongoing Operations and for pre k to 12th grade. Ill get into the details of what all of that looks like in a minute. Were the group that receives all the School Reopening applications, reviewing that and monitoring complaints. We also provide Community Support. We have many meetings with all of the different stakeholders and the educational community, hearing their concerns and making sure its reflected in the directives and the guidance that we develop. We also respond often to any emails or phone calls that we receive from the community and we hold regular meetings with our educational partners. Then lastly, we are the first point of contact in covid command when there is an exposure or confirmed case. We work with schools, as well as other programs in education or that serve youths on what to do when there is a positive case or an exposure, including collecting close contacts and what the school needs to do in terms of their site. Next slide please. So, as this with all other industry sectors, covid command has developed a demand and guidance for all schools and highlighting the possible ways to reopen, including all the prevention and mitigation measures. Some of our measures are school specifics and some of them are universal to all sectors. So, for schools we require a Daily Symptom screening for all students and staff. We do not require Temperature Checks on site. We allow the schools to determine that on site just because temperatures are not the only symptom that is present in covid, but yet often etc. Specialingly for younger children they may not present a temperature in the drop off or pick up. We ask schools to set up a screening symptom check that parents and families and caregivers can do at home or very quickly on site. We also require small stable cohorting, and this is essential to containing the virus in the event of an exposure so it doesnt impact an entire grade but just a small cohort and limiting the amount of entrances and movement within the school and staff training and family education, what are the triggers for Distance Learning at a base minimum allowing Distance Learning to those with underlying medical conditions or if a cohort has to go into quarantine and then obviously School Communication plans for the staff and the Parent Caregiver community. Then we have recommendations that are universal that we have seen in other sectors as well, including cleaning, disinfection and ventilation. Of course primary for recommendations being face coverings and any other protective p. P. E. , physical distancing, heavy hygiene practices of washing your hands or Hand Sanitizer and allowing for testing of student and staff, which we explained in our last meeting in the Case Investigation and contact tracing. Next slide please. So in order to prevent covid19 and the mitigation of this, we will have to go from the picture on the left, which is the traditional picture of a high school, of which we all might remember from our days and we will have to go to the picture on the right in order to reduce the spread of covid19. Next slide please. This is an overview of the application process for School Reopening. I will walk through this very quickly so everyone understands that its a pretty robust process that we go through when were evaluating a school for the reopening, so a school will first submit a letter of interest to covid command and to our hub. Then we will kick off the process and send all the application materials to the school. Then they will complete the application and send it back to us. Then we have a colleague that will screen the application and make sure that its complete. Often it is not, so it takes a couple of days for us to work with the school to make sure we have all of the appropriate materials and once the application is complete, we kick off a three pronged review, one is the desk review of the application. We will have people review the application. We have a facilities worksheet that we have our technical experts review, which review the cleaning and disinfection protocols, including the products that are being reviewed, the exact measures on ventilation and also Water Systems and making sure that they are flushed because many of these buildings may be empty for a long period of time and we dont want any Waterborne Diseases at a school site. So once all of those three also we have our inperson Site Assessment that we do on site to make sure that the school is actually implementing the prevention measures that we have put in our directive and guidance. Once all three of those are complete, we create a composite score and decision is made. So if the School Scores under 80 , it is considered not compliant with our directive and our guidance. That means there are serious issues our team has identified and the school needs to mitigate before they are permitted to move forward with reopening. If a School Scores between 80 to 89 percent, they are considered adequately compliant. We found some concerns, but it is not enough to prevent reopening. Its usually related to signage in the schools and we allow the school to reopen, but they need to send a corrective action plan to d. P. H. To show how they addressed these concerns. If the School Scores above 90 , they are considered fully compliant. They are allowed to open and there is no action that is needed other than participating in a regular session and staying in close contact. Next slide please. This is a picture of our public facing dashboard where everyone can see the progress of all of the schools that have submitted a letter of interest to our hub. This is a bit outdated, but we are moving through these list of schools and supporting them in reopening as much as possible. Its important to stress that this is really about supporting the schools as much as possible. We have made this very clear to schools. This is not trying to find out whats wrong. We really do want to support the Education Field in making sure that it is as safe to open as possible. Next slide please. There are two categories of monitoring that our hub also conducts while its one stage prior to approval and one stage is after approval. So first we have prior to approval, if we received a complaint or identified concern in the process and the School Scores under 80 , they need to address a number of their the issues that are identified before we will permit reopening. There have been a hand full of schools that have been in this category. Im proud to say we worked with those schools to convert a lot of those issues and have permitted reopening as a result. Moving on to section number two, systemic issues, we have received numerous complaints. Theres been Health Violations in the application. There have been issues identified in the application. We do an indepth review of these schools and we do repeated Site Assessments until we see that the issues are resolved and the schools are not allowed to reopen until they reach 80 or above. Then moving on to stage three where there is no confidence in the school, but there are significant safety issues that are identified after at least three on site visits and the school is not permitted to reopen and they must wait 14 days. Im proud to say we never reached that stage to date. Next slide please. After reopening, we also continue to monitor the schools. We partnered with the City Attorneys Office and these are prompted by complaints. So if we get a complaint either to d. P. H. Or to the 13 Community EducationResponse Teams and the City Attorneys Office or through 311, we received that complaint. We will follow up with the school. We review and assist with education and compliance if its needed. However, if we continue to get complaints, the team will go back and this is usually conducted by the cert team to move on to stage two, where there is a notice of violation, where there are documents to comply wit