Comment. We have a motion to move this forward with recommendation. Seeing no objection this motion passes. [gavel] thank you. Madam clerk can you please read item 3. Yes item 3 is a hearing to consider that the type 40 onsale beer license to askander harooni located at 835 larkin street will serve the public convenience or necessity for the city and county of San Francisco. Sergeant. Thank you. You have a report for 5th comprehensive report located at 835 larkin street. They applied for a type 40 license and if approval allow sale of beer and zero letters of protest and in considered a lot of high crime. They located in census track as listed which is considered an undue concentration area. Central station has no opposition. Approve this license with the conditions submitted on the report you have before you and the applicant has agreed with this application i mean with this conditions. Thank you so much. And we have the applicant askander harooni here to make a brief presentation about your business. Yes. We were asked to keep it short so i will keep it brief. My name is askander harooni. Im a cofounder of this business located on 835 larkin street. We opened in 2013 as just a record store and in december after remodeling we added a coffee bar. From the beginning we wanted to add it but it took a while to get to that point. Basically our Mission Statement we wanted to create a unique space something that i experience when i was studying and working in a record store overseas in germany so we consider our space as a cultural hub. We do events that feature arts locally and nationally and were a coffee shop so we get a mix of people that come into our store, and to describe our team. We have a beer and coffee manager, Christopher Griffin who owned another coffee shop in the mission. Me, the cofounder and josh woods who is here and my brother. Obviously we are asking for your approval of our type 40 beer license and chris can explain kind of our beer set up. How are you doing . Thank you for your time. Basically our set up is going to be stripped down. Im going to do three draft beer options, and a draft combutcha option and non alcoholic and on top and nice for somebody else who is a booze drinker and then were going to have three craft can and bottle options. I am look at a couple of partners of beer company that sponsors musical events and festivals around town which we are also interested in hosting at our space. Planned to wholesale with morris and e grando and familiar. Theyre pretty much the distributors here and its going to be very basic and thats about it. Thank you. Absolutely. To close it off we do have a ton of support both from tenants in our building. Were under hearten hotel and a sro and local support and businesses in the area. We also have a great connection with hearten hotel. I always go there for every event and give me contact info and if its ever too loud and contact me. Any of the tenants can call me. Its okay and to explain our event we have a limited performance license through Event Commission and we have good reviews so if you checked online through yelp great ratings. Also ranked number two for Record Stores on four square from 105 ratings, and i guess its not working anymore but thats pretty much ti hope you can come for an event or enjoy a beer hopefully. Thank you so much. Colleagues any questions . And then i will open it up for Public Comment. Does anyone want to speak to this item . Hi. My name is steven quinoa. I have lived in that area for about 30 years and when the record store opened i cant tell you how enthusiastic i was. Its nice to have somewhere they feel connected to i dont go to the bars in the neighborhood or a lot of the other places but i immediately found a home and i have been to some of the events that have been held there and i think theyre very proper. These guys are very socially conscious. They have benefits for organizations. Theyre holding one this month for planned parenthood and i just would really like to recommend that they are able to get their license. Thank you so much. All right. Any other speakers feel free to line up and you can line up against this wall over here. Hi. I my name is justin and i live in the neighborhood. And i just like to express my support for them as well. Its a bit of a trouble troubled neighborhood where we are. Theres a bleak environment and since they have opened they have added a lot to the neighborhood. I mean including the people and our surrounding, some of the homeless and everything. They interact every day so our homeless unofficial Community Center and away and especially for artists finding spaces and they express themselves. They have a critical space for the city and theyre very responsible as well. I think the beer license will help you know add a sort of ambiance to the art shows, to the record release shows. I just cant say enough what they have done for the neighborhood and i think theyre a grate addition. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im lisa torscpez a social scientist with the federal agency over on larkin, golden gate and the record store is just a few blocks from where i work and not far from where i live so i have been visiting over the last months and fyi they have got a terrific jazz collection if you like jazz. I have been one to the recent eating events and had a dj and a great showing and i would like to support their request for a beer license. I think theyre doing terrific things for the neighborhood and theyre really sweet guys. Thank you so much. Is there any other speaker who would like to speak at Public Comment . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues any comments . Seeing none i would just like to say i cant wait to come to the record store. I havent been there yet but it sounds amazing and thanks to everyone that came out today and can i get a motion to move forward with physical recommendation and that is unanimous. Clerk clrk can you call item 4. Yes item 4 is a hearing to consider that the issuance of type 42 onsale beer and wine public premises license to Pacific Retail vcf incorporated and doing business as vom fass oils vinegar spirits located at 900 north point street and public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco. Sergeant. I will give a report for vom fass oils vinegar spirits located at 900 north point street. They applied for a 42 license and if approved this will allow to sell on sale beer and wine. Zero letters of support or protest. Theyre considered in high crime and census track considered a high saturation area. Central station has no opposition much submitted with conditions on the report and applicant has agreed with these conditions. Thank you and is the applicant here . Hi. Good afternoon. Thank you for entertaining our application. We have been in business for three and a half years. Our store is elgantd. We have a health score of 100 and high comments on yelp and not a lot of locals. We get tourists but not locals. About two years ago the board of supervisors approved our 21 license and that helped but weve chosen to focus pretty much on high end spirits and mostly organic and sustainably produced wines. People dont understand them well so they want to taste them and every day we get the tourists who are the primary customers and sometimes its difficult to sell them wines without being able to taste them so we have applied for this license in order to number one be able to satisfy that need. Number two, most of our colleagues in this business give events. Weve tried that without serving alcohol. Doesnt work. So we would like to have beer and wine so we have events with food and oil and vinegars and spices and prepare hors doeuvres and taste all of the products and not just alcohol and give them the experience of organic products and most are organ and i can naturally produced so the other thing is we would like to do events that we publicize for charities as well. A lot of our colleagues do that as well and were working with a websited called if only and automatically part of our profits from events would go to charities. At the moment and since we opened actually we have worked primarily with two charities, the San Francisco Marin Food Bank and with the Aquatic Park Senior Center because theyre across the street from us so we like to expand our ability to have events of which portions of our proceeds would go to charities. Essentially in all honestly our business struggled a bit in the last six months and while the 21 license helped we had issues with ghirardeli square and historic environment. They made changes to the garbage and recycling policies and due to some engineering deficiencies in the building the odor permerated our store and fixed now but affected us a bit and we would love to recoup that and increase our sales. Finally you know in addition to requests by tourists on a regular basis we find that the locals that come to our store are excited about having us be able to serve food along with the wine so they can actually taste all of our products at one place. With that i thank you for your time. Thank you so much. And look for your support. Thank you. Great. Seeing no questions i am going to open it up for Public Comment. Would anybody like to speak on this item . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] colleagues can i get a motion to move this forward with recommendation . Without objection the motion passes. [gavel] thank you. Madam clerk can you call item number 5. Yes item 5 is a hearing to evaluate access to quality affordable childcare in district 11 including analysis of the number children age five and under living in the district and the available spots in privately operated and city funded facilities. Thank you. Supervisor safai would you like to run your hearing . Yes. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this opportunity supervisor ronen and sheehy and yee to be a part of this Committee Hearing today. This was the very first thing i introduced as a supervisor on our first Board Meeting that allowed us to have a conversation about child care and the impetus to this was 12 years ago district 11 faced an emergency and it resurfaced about a year ago with the lost of Mission Child Care Consortium. Theyre the largest subsidized child care facility in the city outside of the School School that is part of first five. 524 subsidized slots are in this location. Its been serving the mission where it got its original name and moved to the excelsior since the 70s. Its been around a very long time and after securing multiple longterm letses the owner decided to sell the building in 2015 after they had talked about longterm lease. This facility pace over 28,000 a month in rent and 100 reliant on reimbursement for state subsidized child care slots. So the situation was more pronounced and the housing crisis and the recession in 2007 and the uptick in tremendous in cost of housing and real estate losing this access for free child care became more underscored because as you know if people cant afford to have affordable childcare its often they cant go to work and families shouldnt decide between work and child care and paying rent so i am happy to say over the last two years we started a Community Organizing effort working with the office, California Program first five, mayor ed lee, the property owner, the hellman foundation, commissioner hydra mendoza and many other people we were able to get Grant Funding and actually the timing of this hearing is very nice because in the next days the owner is signing a purchase and Sale Agreement five and a half Million Dollars. All the people in the audience sitting in the first row and myself, the mayor yes, applause. Five and a half million theyre going to be owning this property and thats the impetus so were really excited. This will be the largest 51st program in San Francisco and serve the city for the next 50 years. The issue is not just about funding but familiarities so that was facility and it is another reason and my childs facility is moved from the opposite from the excelsior to the mission and were dealing with issues of the socrates disadvantaged socioeconomic families and under five and tend to be the most vulnerable and we know there are families on wait list and in all of these centers so all of that is part of the main reason why we called for this hearing. We hope this hearing will help to inform the conversation about child care and facilities in other parts of San Francisco and it happens it rolls into the conversation of educate our housing that is the next item on the agenda that we called for so it fits nicely i think. Theres a scarcity of brick and mortar facilities and outdoor space requirements constrain the ability for locations so we wanted to think about this in the context of this hearing today so the two caveats are to be fiscal sound programs to serve 24 or more children and housing 75 square feet of open space so lets think about that, so again understanding the achievement gap and closing the opportunities and what does that mean . Children particularly of mono lingual and disadvantaged backgrounds have access to the right skills and preparing for kindergarten and thats a lot of this conversation so the idea that there could be the conversation about children being behind as they approach kindergarten is not something that we want to even have a conversation about. We want to do everything we can to get them prepared so in our district we have cleveland, giewp lupe, the spanish biliteracy programs and tag lot programs and monroe has a dual immersion path way. Jose ortiza and mandarin immersion so we have a lot of programs in the Public Education system and only San Francisco community and sheer don dont have authorized language and another way we know it helps children prepare so finally i will end by saying state subsidized early child care is mandated to run quality curriculum by the department of education. Access to the free and affordable programs is a vital component to our childrens academic success so theyre the reasons we called for the reason today i. I have a special thanks to many and from the Unified School District and the executive director of access and equity sorry if i didnt say the name properly. [inaudible] and the director of California Child Development programs for the low Income Investment fund and the school board and children, youth and their families so if we could call up september to do your presentation and then we can ask a few questions. Good afternoon supervisors. We appreciate the opportunity. We pulled together we have a brief presentation and weve tried to share citywide comparison data to put things in context. I am september jerad and the director of early care and education come in that capacity since july. Our mission as a new department is have access for all San Francisco Young Children zero to five and their families. Its a Great Mission and challenge and work we do together. Lets talk about San Franciscos Young Children. San francisco is home to over 44,000 Young Children under the age of five and you can see that district 11 is home to the second highest proportion of children of any district in the city. Far too many of Young Children start off early life in poverty and as you can see we have desperate rates by district and 11 of the young start off life with the stress of poverty. The children of our city are increasingly more diverse than the adults and the children of district 11 represent this trend. The supply of child care available for working families is a pressing issue citywide. In almost all homes all parents are working and many parents are working more than one job to make ends meet so demand for care is extreme. As you can see by this slide district 11 has proportionately fewer Child Care Spaces than other districts but amazing asset in district 1 is a thriving and actually the biggest family care child sector in the city. Theyre women licensed by the state, Small Businesses primarily women owned and women of Color Running a business and running for an educating and loving our citys children. In the interest of time i will skip these. A teaser. I want to jump to the issue of affordability because the squeeze our country puts stress on working families and more stressful for all of us but this graph shows you the colors are hard to see today. But fully 55 of our families of Young Children face affordability challenges. If you use the measure of 110 of area median income. Thats a wonky number. Its a housing benchmark we use and a policy benchmark that you adopted for thinking about the child care system. Thats about 106,000 a year for a family of three. If you look at this graph the bottom represents the income threshold by which the federal government helps family meet their Child Care Needs through the federal head start or Early Head Start program if you have heard of that. One of the partners is in the audience today. It has a family of three and caps at families earning 20,000 a year. When the state helps a family it caps out at 56,000 a year. When you factor in high cost housingue will talk about that later and the relatively low wages of working families this is where the squeeze comes in and over half of the Community Needs help meeting the cost of early care and education. I adopt to talk about San Francisco one of our strengths and its because of Public Investment and the resources that the city puts into our sector offers an amazing array of choices and opportunities for families. Theres universal preschool. Our Program Available free Half Day Program to all four year olds and district 11. We have contributed child care homes Small Businesses receiving subsidies to serve low income families. San francisco School District is a major contributor to high quality early Care Education in the district and they will speak about their work. There is parent based vouchers and choose the care choice and get support and last but not least Community Programs Meeting Needs and many of the programs that supervisor safai mentioned. This next graph is complicated but i use it to illustrate a point. Its not just families that are squeezed with the high cost of providing Early Learning for children in San Francisco. Its actually the professionals and providers themselves and programs p the blue line represents 85 of the market cost for child care. And thats a good benchmark for the cost of quality not the only one. The other lines that are well below the top blue dotted line show you what the reimbursement rates coming from the California Department of education or the state department of social services to help eligible families pay for care. That red dot is an important one and represents some of the policy guidance and change as a city family with partners agreed to which is San Francisco will bundle programs and streamline our work and help families up to 110 ami meets cost but were going to pay fair bers rates to the provideerce that do the work whether its the Child Care Centers or Small Businesses caring for children and the importance of doing that is unfortunately Early Education is among the lowest wage work in San Francisco and the average preschool teacher with a ba degree in the community is earning between 35,000 and 40,000 a year and im sorry one out of every three preschool teachers is eligible for some form of public assistance while working full time so we have pressing issues to grapple with. I dont want to give you a desperate picture. We have a very professional work force and commitment to quality and continuous learning. This scatter plotd shows that citywide. This shows you the provide erts participating in the quality system in district 11. And in some before i pass it over to my colleagues i want to say theres assets with early care and education in district 11. There couldnt be a more diverse vibrant community to support the young learner and robust child care sector and high engagement in curriculum based practices. As supervisor safai shared there is a facilities crunch especially for centers theres not enough spaces to meet the needs of families and the cost of quality care is beyond what subsidies pay for a large number of working families. Theres great facility successes that the supervisors shared. Permanent longterm Quality Control of the Community Service for Mission Child Care Consortium and excel seer family connections and i want to give the mic to my colleague from first five and tell you more about the work. Thank you so much. Good afternoon. I am with first 5 San Francisco and you heard a little about the macro level what the city is doing. Now well focus a little more on district 11 but a little background about first five. Were part of a state system. Every county has a first five and funded by tobacco tax and in san we have unique position where our fund side leveraged with local dollars so we have greater impact and part of the work is not only working with the early care system it really is focusing on families, communities and providers. And our work really is about sort of three tenants and focused on Family Engagement and support because children dont live within the context of family and communities. We really strive to having quality instruction in every Early Learning site and also meeting the needs of children social emotional well being and this we see as a path way to their lifelong success. We operate for the city well, we lead an initiative that is jointed funded with the department of children, youth and their families and department of Human Services called the Family Resource centers. There are 25 in the city but in this map mostly are concentrated on the eastern side of the city with the highest need. In district 11 there are three Family Resource centers portola connections and excelsior connections and [inaudible] and these hubs serve over 1500 not only children but their families and its through a variety of supports. The most popular that you see is actually parent child interact growfs and this says a lot about district 11. As september demonstrated the need for licensed facilities is actually its huge in district 11 and its been so for many number of years since first five and other city did thes have done is build strategies to support families especially in the early years and one of them is through the Family Resource centers provide play groups for parents and caregivers so we see its one of the frequently used services in district 11. In terms of the demographics at least for the families who come to the Family Resource centers 89 of them are either asian or latino. We have over 81 of families speaking another language other than english in district 11. And as we will talk about in a few minutes one of the things that is prevalent throughout San Francisco is the unstable housing and so if district 11 is not isolate friday that, and we know that all of these factors are indicators actually impact childrens lives. And the work of first five is build on the quality in any community and for the work that were doing in district 11 it includes improving the lives of children while theyre in care, and lots of research around what happens with children are in high quality Early Learning programs, and one of the things that we have done in San Francisco is that we have not only invested in high quality Early Learning were investing in the external process which is called the quality rating and improvement system. Its a little like yelp for Child Care Centers but instead of crowd sourced its really through an external assessment that is researched base and looks at several elements of quality and what we do for any program that is funded by the city its required that they participate in the quality rating, and the quality rating and includes not only professional Development Pathways but we use the qrs as a framework. A way to support systems change throughout the whole system of Early Childhood and this cant be done without the support of all the departments in the city including the School District. These are some of the areas that we focus on as part of the improvement system for Early Childhood, and teaching is not just about abcs and one, two, three. Its really a collaborative process and as youre going to hear a little more through our School District partners we have similar ways of pathways for the professional development for early educators and its about reflective practice. Its about indepth project base learning and coordinated professional development supports. This is not the exhausted list of things that we provide educators, but its the highlights, and some of the areas that we also focus is around working with teachers around what is equity and specifically what is Racial Equity . Because we cant get Better Outcomes if teachers also dont have that very core knowledge and just to give you a snapshot what district 11 has in quality in comparison to citywide most of the programs in district 11 are in matd rix from tier one to five. Most of the programs are hitting the higher tier levels. So im going to skip a little bit just for sake of time and you can read this over. One of the things that were actually very proud of is through the rating process we are able to see the interactions between adults and children, and this is an area that has longitudinal information around the impact that it does not only on third grade level reading but also math and as you can see your interactions are really high not only in district 11 but across the city and funded through local investments. And then i leave you with this thought. So thank you very much and i will hand it over to my next colleague. Good afternoon. My name is [inaudible] and the executive director of Early Education programs in San Francisco Unified School District and i am very proud and pleased to have this opportunity to tell you about the wonderful things that are happening in our district in terms of our youngest san franciscans and early ed learners. Okay. Im going to give a very brief presentation and it will cover the overview of students that we serve in our district, the demographics of the students in our district, as well as share with you the Early Education schools in district 11. I will also share some of the strategies that we have in our classrooms and some of the professional Development Experiences that we have for our teachers and staff and finally i will share some Kindergarten Readiness data that weve collected over the past three years finally i will give you some information on the parent engagement practices that we have in our district for Early Education. Okay. To begin okay. I guess i am doing this too. Okay. I didnt get professional Development Using the device today so thank you. So we actually serve infant toddlers, preschoolers, transitional kindergarten as well as out of School Program children so the out of school is an after School Program for our tk through fifth grade students. For infant Toddler Program we have 24 spaces in two classes at one school in the district and that is the presidio Early Education school. For our preschool we have about 1560 spaces at 77 classes at 35 schools in the district and that is early ed stand alone schools as well as our elementary schools. For transitional kindergarten we have 454 spaces as well as sorry, 23 classes at 17 schools in the district and finally for our out of school after School Program we have 2178 space at 83 classes at 25 schools in our district and we also support 16 special day classes. I will talk about demographics. Thats not it. Thats it. Okay. Great. So our prek students range between three to five years old and so we have 676 three olds and 817 four year olds and you can see from the demographics that most of the highest or the top two ethnicities that we serve on chinese and historic as ingrid shared in her data as well. We also serve 250 prek special education students in our district as well in our early ed programs. The next slide im going to talk about the programs in district 11 that we serve. So there are three schools at full capacity in district 11 right now and those schools are share don, prek which is a 12 months the school is in session for 12 months. We have san miguel, Early Education school and a Year Round Program and we have excel sor guadalupe prek school and as i said all schools are at full capacity in district 11 and a total capacity of 230 spaces at all schools and again our highest ethnicity served are the chinese and hispanic programs. Some of the strategies in action. You know its important as part of the San Francisco Unified School District Strategic Plan not just k12 but Early Education levels as well that we have a High Quality Professional Development system and high quality strategic learning for our teachers so this happens through workshops, coaching and professional learning communities that go on throughout the year, not just in the early Ed Department but also at our colocated elementary sites where we support our teachers. So some of the classes that or sorry, curriculum that our teachers have professional Development Im sorry, professional Development Im a little nervous so excuse me so some of the professional learning that goes on is in english Language Arts and math and science so our teachers actually explore different type of math pedagogy and making sure its appropriate for our early ed students as well as our early ed students have access to eco literacy, science where you can go or visit an early ed school and you will see evaluation of gardening and students using science and record information such as drawings or different types of art media to express their ideas through their learning. The other piece that is important is the culture and climate. We want to make sure that our students are emotionally and culturally ready for school as part of our Kindergarten Readiness program. We serve students that have a variety of needs and so therefore our teachers have access to professional development where they learn more about Inclusive Practices as well as trauma, how to work with children that have all kinds of different types of issues, so theyre ready to learn and can succeed in school and have the appropriate support. Also as mentioned earlier we are in tune to culturally relevant teaching practices. Okay. So with all of this wonderful work that were doing in San Francisco unified to help make sure our teachers provide a high level of instruction and have high quality and effective teaching methods we have seen the fruits of our labor through the very challenging work it is to be a preschool teacher but we have dedicated professionals and as a result of our fruits of labor you can see that we started taking baseline data on our preschools in 2013, and 37 of our students at that time they were at 37 of Kindergarten Readiness and you can see over the past three years they have had tremendous growth and they are now at 55 which is really something to be said about the work that the teachers are doing, the professional development, the coaching, all of these things make the high quality educational experience have impact on the work. Okay. Moving right along so i just wanted to speak about the transitional kindergarten and as you may know that the Kindergarten Readiness act of 2010 required that we have traditional kindergarten. So traditional kindergarten is the first year of a two year Kindergarten Program and has grown immensely in the district and the reason why we have transitional kindergarten and the two years are important because it gives the youngest children an opportunity to spend more time learning socialization skills and learning about letters and, numbers and how to get along with their piers as well as many other factors in terms of emotional and social growth. In 2013 we had seven classes at five schools and increased from 23 classrooms to 17 school sites where we now have a presence. Okay. Im going to skip that. Next slide and move into some of our strategies and action, so what is happening in our strategies and action is at early ed schools we are consistently throughout the year make sure that our systems and operations are in place that we have we spend time looking at our enrollment, how pier were working with Human Resources and it and strengthen the structures that we have in those place. Noodle what we do at the thats what we do at early sessions and we meet monthly and having professional learning communities and review data and share best practices. We support the elementary prek five school and working closely with them making sure theyre consistently developing appropriate practices and prek instructional learning opportunities. Final lie i would like to finally i would like to talk about the Family Engagement and its not just having that relationship with the family that as was mentioned earlier. I mean it takes effort by everyone in the district to develop the relationships with families and therefore we have workshops for our teachers and have professional learning communities on how to build and strengthen the relationships with the families that we serve in addition to having our site clerks participate in workshops so when theyre enrolling our parents into our schools theyre able to communicate and be culturally sensitive to the needs of the families in the community as well. We also have Family Support specialists in the schools to help negotiate difficult and challenging situations that the family may have, going into the homes and communicate with families or work with social workers or other support people that are that the family is working with to make transition and communication smoother and access support in the community and we work closely with the partners that just did the presentation. First five, cpac among others to make sure that we are working in concert with meeting the needs of everyone that our families and students and everyone in our early ed community so with that being said i have one last shot that you can see here and basically its a short letter from one of the parents that talks about the aspirations that they have for their child and we support this in every way possible because what the parent wants for their child is what we. As early ed staff, our teachers, our principals and everyone in early ed in sfusd to support our children. Great. Thank you. Im only going to ask a couple of questions for both of you and move on to the next item. Okay. But one question i have seen the question in tk from 2012 to now and you know the original slide said we had the second highest number of children under the agest of five but only one tk site in district 11 so are there expands tk in district 11 since we have the second commissioner hylandest number of children. Under five . Its something that we are looking at and in order to expand the tk site you have to find the space and so i know that we are at capacity at our schools but this is definitely something were mindful of and our plan is to address this issue. Okay. And then so i think thats the only question i have for you because some of the others you answered them but i wanted to bring september back up or ingrid. With regard to the Family Child Care homes providers does the office of early care and education Early Education and owed is there strategies to work with Small Business owners to access state subsidies and training so they can have access to curriculum by the California Department of education . Is there anything planned to work with them since we discovered there is so many . Thank you so much for that question supervisor. I think we do a fair amount and a fair amount more we can do and child care and Small Businesses. I failed to mention the city supports a Family Child Care network and strategy on professional support and curriculum and instruction issues or pedagogical issues in the homes and business and Small Business issues. We have partners for Small Business and the Mission Economic development association, the Child Care Facilities Fund providing support to the child care sector on real estate issues but i think we can do more and better to strengthen the businesses and deepen the supports because they really are extensional at caring for our youngest children especially infants and toddlers where we lack options and theyre the backbones of the neighborhood and i would like we can certainly do more to strengthen the supports and grow the support. And is there would monthly child care expenses be reduced if the providers enroll the into the state program and are they connected to that . Not at all. The cost of doing the cost you would for my child or your child is completely divorced and shouldnt be but from the bers rate. Were trying to flip the scipt in San Francisco but we have a obligation to leverage the dollars and set in the case of the California Department of education reimbursement rates are set on a statewide flat berg reimbursement rate that shows the gap and several thousands of dollars a year per kid and run that out in a Community Center and explains the squeeze that not just the families but providers who are relying on government sources to support them. And then do you think it makes sense to work with owed or city college to come up with a curriculum to help Small Business development and fostering the creation of early child care homes . We have some of the curriculum but we can always do more with city college, with the Child Care Facilities Fund and the Mission Economic Development Fund but we can do more. And my last question are there partnerships or other agencies or Community Based organizations that currently exist to identify and recruit amongo lingual non English Speaking families and participate in free or subsidized programs . Yes. I can speak a little bit about that. The city at this point and time contracts with two important agencies that are part of the early care and education system. Childrens council of San Francisco and [inaudible] Children Services that provide resource and referral outreach and engagement to San Francisco diverse families in multiple languages. Great. That was my last question so i appreciate everyone coming today. I appreciate all the hard effort and work that was put into this. This is really informative and we will certainly follow up with your departments respectively. I see commissioner mendoza is here. I thanked you before and thank you again for participating and moving the conversation forward and i dont know if colleagues have any other questions. I see a audience of people waiting for the next item and i know theyre excited about that as well. Thank you. Thank you so much. These items are interrelated. I am sorry were running later than we expected for the last item and i know so many of you are waiting so patiently. Were about to get to that item but before that i am opening for Public Comment on item number 5. Does anybody like to speak to this item . Please come up and anybody else that would like to speak you can line up against the wall over there. Good afternoon my name is cindy and i am with Mission Neighborhood centers, head start and Early Head Start. We Serve Centers in the mission, ten in the excellsor and Hunters Point and mission bay and have a small center for 24 preschool children, three and four year olds in a full day program with teachers who are qualified and have spent a lot of time and attention making sure theyre providing a safe space for those children. We have a wait list for that site of approximately 29 an internal Mission Neighborhood center wait list of 29 children who are preschool waiting to get into that site. The San Francisco Child Care Connection february monthly report for 91304 has 298 children waiting for infants and toddlers and preschools waiting for child care in that zip code. I would like to ask the city to take a look at a location that we have looked at. Its 35 and 45 an dagga avenue and as a potential site to establish a state of the Art Education early care and Education Center for head start and Early Head Start using a continuum of care for infants and toddlers and preschool children. The properties as they are now theyre not feasible for such a project. However, with the hospital and support of the city and together with our vision and expertise for the mission center. We believe a site at this location would fulfill the urgent need for a high quality facility for space for head start and Early Head Start. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is leah and i am here today representing Mission Neighborhood centers to urge you to invest in Early Childhood education in the excelsior district and we provide programs to 400 children across ten sites in San Francisco. As we heard access to quality affordable child care is a significant challenge to families in the excelsior. Despite the vast number of families and children under five in the district quality programs are rare to find and even harder to access. In addition sky rocketing rent prices and the lack of Affordable Housing continues to put a burden on low income families that already suffer to meet ends and we ask for Affordable Housing and head start classrooms by partnering with nonprofit providers and Affordable Housing developers. An example of this as you have heard is at 3545 an dogga in the excelsior. These buildings and formerly Emergency Hospital serving residents for free and has been vacant since 2008. The city released an rfp to lease the buildings because of black mold and wear and tear is an environmental hazard. A better story would be to develop Affordable Housing for families while offering Early Childhood education on the first floor. The city needs to be creative and support at risk families and children. We urge to consider the request and other options for Early Childhood education in the excelsior. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is gabriel and i will be brief for the next item. Thank you supervisor safai for calling attention to this matter. As a constituent i certainly and a graduate of Mission Child Resource Center i understand the needs of the district and glad calling attention to this. I want to thank the providers like Mission Neighborhood centers who is doing a stellar job and high rating providing the services and impressed by the presentation today and speakers and representatives from cpac, first five, department of children, youth and their families and i want to let you know and the supervisor know that meta, Mission Economic Development Agency is willing to work on helping to meet the needs to really see where the disparities are because there is over representation of disparity in the southeast sector of the city and also with families of color so were happy this matter has been called so thank you very much. Thank you so much. Is there anyone else for Public Comment for investment six . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel]. Is it okay if we file . Yes thank you very much. Thank you for making time for this. Thank you so much and without objection this hearing heard and filed. [gavel] thank you madam clerk can you please call item number 6. Yes item 6 is a hrlg on the city and School Districts plans to create Affordable Housing for educators in the city and county of San Francisco. Sorry. Thank you so much and i want to thank supervisor safai for calling this hearing with me and obviously with the number of people in the room and there is an over flow room in room 263. There is incredible interest about teacher housing in San Francisco. Im going to run this hearing in a slightly unusual way so please listen. I am going to start off by allowing the supervisors to give opening comments and then open for Public Comment before the departments give their presentations because i understand theres been a lot of people waiting a long time that need to get home to children. I am too going to have a child care issue so you might see my daughter running around here and then well have the departments presentations and for those that would like to wait to give Public Comment after hearing the departments presentations there will be that opportunity as well but each speaker is only able to speak once so make your choice now paused . As parents received assignment letters yesterday many are wondering if i enroll my child in Public School will she have a permanent teacher . This is scary and unfortunately a realistic question that parents are asking ourselves throughout San Francisco. From 2009 to 2015 sfusd had fewer than six classroom teacher vacancies on the first day of school. However on the first day of this Academic Year that number climbed to nearly 38 vacancies. Heather knight of the San Francisco chronicle reported halfway through the classroom there were 26 class room it is without a permanent teacher. I dont see how students are receiving a quality education without a permanent teacher. For the upcoming year i understand the School District is working hard to fill 650 credential teacher vacancies and normally the number of vacancies at this time of year is closer to 500. To make the under statement of the year this is extremely troubling. What we know is that this is not just a San Francisco problem and i want to make it clear that the role of the hearing today is not blame the San Francisco School District. 75 of School Districts in california are facing teacher shortages. However we know that San Francisco high cost of living and lack of Affordable Housing are exacerbating the crisis in the city. The crisis is extreme were asking the School District to develop housing for the work force. I can appreciate the stress that this places on the School District whose primary is to educate our children and i know how hard this work is because i too have to be a Affordable Housing developer of sorts to make sure that my non ultrawealthy constituents can go about their lives worrying whether they can make rent this month. In San Francisco for many of us to engage in our core work functions and our mission we must actively work to produce more Affordable Housing. Neither the School District or nor the city and county of San Francisco has a choice but to solve this crisis in earnest and my understanding is that conversations and plans around the needs to build teacher housing has been happening for 13 years since 2004 when the district pledged to selected a teacher housing site. The big question for us today is why havent we been able to build housing for teachers and paraprofessionals and what can we do now to urgently build this housing . Theyre the foundation of our educational system. If theyre not stable at home, if they have to leave the city and classrooms for contra costa and beyond then the children in San Francisco simply are not going to thrive. The teacher housing crisis is not just a teacher crisis or a School District crisis. It is a Community Crisis that is affecting all of us. The good news because there is some good news is that all eyes are on this issue and so many people want to step up to help. This hearing is an opportunity to understand the nature of this crisis and take clear future steps to resolve it. This is an opportunity to strengthen our school and city partnerships and address the teacher housing and paraprofessional crisis. We dont have a moment to waste. In preparation for of the hearing i commissioned the budget analyst to look at levels and rates for the hearing and we will hear from them shortly but i wanted to highlight a few statistics in their report that i found absolutely astounding. The average rent for a studio in San Francisco is approximately 2695 a month and about 32,000 a year. Based on their salary the affordability gap for a first year fully credential teacher is about 16,000 a year or 1,363 per month for a studio and over 23,000 a year, close to 2,000 for a one bedroom. Even a senior fully credential teacher with more than 25 years of experience, the highest possible earning step facing an annual 6,000 gap to be able to afford a market rate studio in San Francisco. If that senior teacherred wanted to live in a one bedroom apartment and the gap would be close to 13,000. Other important statistics 58 of sfusd teachers report its difficult or very difficult to pay rent or make mortgage payments each month and 70 of teachers reported that their salaries provide the majority of their household income. Now, we will hear about programs and the down payment assistant loan program and theyre limited in their scale to solve this problem. And this hearing will primarily focus on the strategy that has gained the most traction which is the construction of brick and mortar housing for teachers and School District property. Before i open up to my colleagues for opening comments i want to thank everybody taking the time and waiting so long to come today. The presence of you all here and i know there are teachers and paraprofessionals is really heartening. I know you worked a long hard day and youre here to talk about this means a lot. I also want to thank the budget analyst analyst for their report and the School District. Thank you for being here. I want to thank the Mayors Office of housing and director olson lee and amy chan and also the night united educators united educators of San Francisco and the school board for engaging on this issue and with they upon open it up for additional comments. Supervisor sheehy. Yes. I think the School Assignment letters are out. They were delayed this year and parents were freaking out and i cant blame them and close to decision time for private schools and i hope we didnt lose parents to private schools this year and i certainly have heard from a number of folks. I want to talk about the incredible value of teachers. I have been in San Francisco Public Schools for seven years now and the hard work and dedication of the teachers and the paraprofessionals that we have experienced has nothing short of extraordinary and i hope no parents got discouraged because there is something rare and unique and phenomenal about the work that goes on every day in San Francisco Public Schools and i for one as a parent am incredibly grateful. I also have experienced at the beginning of every school year and this year it was stark the notices that go out through the community. Do you have a spare room . Do you know someone who has an apartment . Do you know someone who needs a roommate . For teachers who had been newly engaged by the schools that we have been at and it is really heart wrench to think about someone who just signed up to work in the district and excited to be in the classroom with your kid and knowing they have no where to live, no where they can afford to live. I dont want to make the remarks too long because i know a lot of people are waiting to speak but i really want to first of all thank supervisor ronen for this report which is great. Its a great data point but also to encourage and support the work of the district and the Mayors Office of housing to find solutions for this problem and to create housing for our teachers because theyre one of the most valuable resources in our community. Thank you. Supervisor safai. Thank you. Its funny when two people have the same idea and so supervisor ronen and i at roll call for introduction a few weeks ago bumped into each other and youre calling for a hearing so we merged them together so i thank you for working together on this. This is an extremely important issue. Myself and supervisor sheehy are both supervisors with children already in Public Schools. Were the only two supervisor. Supervisor ronen will join us in the fall as a tk parent and we will have three and i know supervisor fewer is a parent with older children, and so weve all experienced this system. Did i say that correctly . Your children are grown, correct supervisor . Yeah, theyre way older. Okay. But you have experienced the system so were going through or gone through it so you have the right four supervisors in the room today. The reason i called the reason i wanted to call the hearing because ive had personal experience with the conversation around building educator housing. I see dennis kelly in the audience and we had a Conversation Mission years ago and this conversation has been going on for a long time but were past the point of crisis. We can talk today about salaries of educators and i think were on the board support the idea of an increase in salary for teachers but even an increase is not going to address the issue. The issue in many ways is about the availability of accessible housing so the two things that we know i see a bunch of Nonprofit Developers and we have the house here. One of the most important things with housing is site control. And having control over the site you are going to build on and the district has site control but the impediment is designate and were working through the issues and housing exclusively for teachers and this issue i hope were educated on is what are the strategies that the district with the Mayors Office is going to employ to address the crisis and move in a fast forward manner . And the other one lets have a real honest conversation how we will fund and get that housing built because theres not a lot of funding streams to build housing once you talk about outside of the paraprofessionals. When talking about the actual teachers themselves what are the funding streams . Where are they coming from and how do we build housing for teachers although they dont make a tremendous amount of money they make too much to qualify for the low income Affordable Housing . And what are the strategies and i am hoping to hear that from the Mayors Office of housing. I grew up with my familiful individual with teaching and we have one of the highest concentration of teachers in the city and play a specific role and i know i am preaching to the audience but the importance they play an Important Role in the community and educators in our community so theres a particular value and i think theres a value of having a conversation and creating housing to keep them in San Francisco, not only they can educate our children but part of our fabric and what makes San Francisco great so thank you supervisor. Thank you. Supervisor fewer. Thank you chair. I will be brief. I think most of you know i was on the school board for eight years and i i know first hand about the problems with retention and attracting talent to our School District. I also want to say that i was many, many meetings when teachers came and stormed the Board Meeting saying we cant afford to live here and then i felt like saying go over to city hall and yell at them because theyre not Building Teacher housing for you and after this hearing i might regret saying that but i am glad youre here because frankly i think we have this huge wealth gap in San Francisco. I think we havent been building for teachers or committed to building for teachers. I dont think every supervisor has been committed to finding a site for teacher housing in their neighborhood so today i would like to center our collective thoughts about how we can get this teacher housing done . What are some things the mechanisms we can implement . And i dont think this take the time to talk about other issues within the School District but really about this upon teacher housing issue. paused . So lets not forget them when talking about housing but i am excited to hear what everyone has to say today and also in particular what kind of solutions we can collectively come up with. Thank you very much. Thank you so much and again just to explain im going to run this hearing a little unusual because i know theres a lot of kids and parents that have been patiently waiting that need to get home so usually we would hear the departments presentation first and Public Comment responding to those presentation presentations but i want to give the opportunity to those that need to leave early and speak now and i would ask anybody to wait to wait until after the presentations but those that cannot wait to make a line. No worries about having filled out the speaker cards. I have them here but please if you would like to speak first now is the opportunity but there will be an opportunity for Public Comment for those that havent spoken after the presentations. With that i would like to open Public Comment. [gavel]. Thank you very much supervisor ronen. Its a pleasure to see 2 3 of the odd number district it is represented here. I wonder what is going on in the even districts . Thank you supervisor ronen for pointing out this is a 13 year emergency. The emergency started when healthier and jill put together a resolution that the district was dedicated to housing and we use that with paraprofessionals also. At that time there were eight parcels in the district that were surplus to the district. Since that time one of them has become a charter school. One was given a ten year lease to a private childrens center. The most desirable one, the one that supervisor safai referred to has been traded to the city so the city can build housing which is not teacher housing and in exchange the School District got the right to its own parking lot. There is not exactly been a commitment on the part of the School District to participating in the policy that they established 13 years ago. What can you do about it . Supervisor fewer was clever about making sure that in the parse emtax excuse me, the bond that went forward there is a possibility of using funds to build teacher housing if you also have an educational purpose there. There are a couple of properties that you have. There are plans for 135 van ness to be sota but those plans dont use any of the air space at all. You could use seven, eight stories above that for housing, offices to pay for housing or whatever. You have the land at eighth and lawton. You have the Pumpkin Patch land there. That is School District land in a place where people would love [off mic] actually face down the neighbors there. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you sprfer supervisors. paused . Our city faces this crisis of affordability and a symptom of the shortage of housing. As long as it persists talented teaches that want move here and teach in San Francisco cant do so. As long as the shortage exists and the displacement that pushes teachers out is unabated. As long as we forget how to streamline houses our costs will remain high. Our city must accelerate housing and market rate housing projects. We must insist on strategies that maximize the below market housing and address the number of units built. The strategies that the city uses to ease the crisis must maximize the numbers units produced. 40 of ten is four but 20 of 100 is five times greater and five times more opportunity for dispeemps firefighters and paraprofessionals to move into the city and critical to address the shortage at the level of production. That includes every kind of housing project. Thank you for your time supervisors. Thank you. Hello supervisors. I am Lara Nicholson and a special education paraprofessional at Galloway High School for nine years. I enjoy working with the kids and i feel like i am getting more skilled every year and of course i feel energized by being around the kids. Its very hard to get and keep special education paras at sfusd. We need people with Longterm Service so their skills increase and abilities increase so they can assist students better. I live in a studio close to the school. Thanks to rent control i pay 50 of my salary so but it gets harder and harder every year so we need rent subsidies. I didnt hear anybody mention that. We need subsidies and Affordable Housing so give me a subsidy and affordable place i will move anywhere. Okay. We want to be able to live work and retire in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors. I want to thank all of you for being here. Supervisor ronen, supervisor fewer and supervisor safai. And i want to thank all the members of usf and families that are here. [applause] we would have had five times the number of people if our members were not commuting down the bay or the peninsula because theyre looking for a place to afford to stay. 30 years ago i came to San Francisco after renting a one bedroom apartment for a couple of years and my husband and i bought a modest flat where we raised our two sons. Thats what every teacher and paradeserves and thats what we want for the educators here in the city. We applaud and support the efforts we have made through the task force but theyre not enough. The eviction support work is good want the counseling is good but right now in addition to the brick and mortar project which were talking about today i am putting it out there that the most equitable Housing Support is the significant across the board raise for all our educators. [applause] if you could pause. Im sorry. This my most hated part of the job and there is a board rule not to clap i cant stand the rule but i have to enforce it so if you could use hands that would be great. Thank you. Okay. So that was a challenge to the district leaders to the elected leaders of the city. I challenge you to take action to make San Francisco more affordable for educators. You could offer a tax credit to those that rent to educators and a dedicated revenue stream for housing. Isnt it too late to make Tech Companies to pay the fair share . Lets find a way to do it. Thank you. Thank you. Susan solomon executive Vice President of esf right now. I was a Kindergarten Teacher after being a preteacher for a long time and i feel its great that we have such a large tiewrnout here today. What is terrible is that so many of the people who are here are here to speak because they are in a housing crisis. We shouldnt be able to fill up a chamber full of people who are ensecure in housing. I want to speak in particular about special education. As you heard the paraprofessional Lara Nicholson speak earlier and special education we should be proud that in sfusd we welcome students with special needs into the general education classrooms and into specialized programs. However its a shortage area. Its really hard to get enough special Education Teachers and other educators. There have been 60 vacancies of paraprofessionals special education positions all year so we are talking when talking about paraprofessionals were talking about individuals who earn 27,000 to make 32,000 a year so if you can imagine its hard enough for teachers to afford to live in San Francisco. Its even worse for paraprofessionals and we need paraprofessionals in special education. We cannot have a decent operating special Education Program without having special education paraprofessionals. Later on if theres time you will hear from a parent whose son has an iep and she can feel the housing crisis through her son, so we do hope that everybody can do something will do something about this crisis. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Next speaker please. Hi. My name is leon sulton and a teacher. I was born and raised in san frap and went to school in San Francisco and im Second Generation and hes third. I served the students for 12 years. My wife is a paraprofessional. Every day i put effort to give the children in the city a world class education and educators such as myself providing students of our city with the best education possible. Many of our students from lincoln go on to four Year University the first of the family to do so. I hut my heart and soul into teaching on a daily basis and providing opportunities for the children of the city. I have my own family now. We work for the district and we live in a one bedroom apartment with our son. Its rent controlled. Our stuart in the city is tenuous. We are able to remain because ree have rent control. If we want another child or a backyard or teddy wants a room we have to leave. I study historical narratives and familiar with San Francisco, a liberal bastion and progressive values [laughter] the birth place and social movements and vanguard of just causes. Thats the San Francisco i grew up in and not today. All that seems to matter now is money. What you contribute to the community of the city is no longer relevant. We give twitter tax breaks and allow others to use corporate shuttles and people that built the city are forced to leave ti know narratives can change. If we care about the city we will take actionable measures to make sure that the people who contribute to our communities and serve our children are able to continue living here. If we dont i am afraid that San Francisco values are going to be lost. Theyre going to be replaced by corporate values, not social justice. The ball is in your court. Thank you so much. Hi. My name is ivany and a teacher in the district for 15 years. I am late for my second job so i will talk facht. I am at hard on staff schools with vulnerable learners and on special assignment. I love my job and passionate about the students in the district but after spending 15 years working for the district i am really concerned that because of my job i couldnt afford to have kids and live in the city. Thank you for your time. Thank you so much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors and colleagues. I am a literacy coach here in San Francisco unified at john muir and educator for over 20 years in San Francisco Unified School District for 13 years. My daughter and i have been evicted and i just want to ensure that we as teachers and students receive the best learning and instruction im going to go by my notes. Sorry. I am usually a really good speaker. Im in the middle of finding another school for my daughter outside the district. I dont think we can afford to stay here. There are no special privileges for us as educators or employees of the district either and thats not what were asking for. We just want Affordable Housing. Thats it. The new teachers they leave after one year. I put my heart and soul into what i do. I have been at hard to staff high need underserved schools. Thats where my passion lies, and thats i am going to continue to do for the rest of my career. For the first time in 20 years i have to question where i am going to do that. The new teachers i coach have to leave after the first year and get the support and its just they cant do it, financially they cant do it. The impact diminishes the quality of learning and teaching at our schools in San Francisco. I picked San Francisco to work in and for my daughter to attend school here because this is where we are from. This is our home and something needs to happen now. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. My name is mary and i was born and raised in this city and i am that statistic that youre talking about. Its not just floating out there in the space,. The struggle is real. I have had to move out of this city twice. Ive gone further and further out, and every time i have moved out a little bit further i have to down size even more and more and more. The children at our school suffer when we live far away. We could spend more time with our kids. The kids that we love in the city that we love if we had Affordable Housing here. My mother was an educator from the south. She came and worked for the School District for over 25 years and she told me if you work as an educator you will have a secure solid job. Well god rest sow. She didnt know. She couldnt see the future. Its time to stop talking. If youre not going to do stop talking. You have to step up. You wouldnt like to see your parents like us. Im a senior now. Seniors cant parents we cant retire because our retirement is awful but for us to be pushed out and worry about transportation, all of that. Its up to you. Youve got to do something. Thank you. Thank you so much. pause. And i was then homeless sleeping on peoples couches and while i have credit and full time job and looking from commissioner matsuda to san rafael and i found a place and every year its will there be another rent increase that is going to kick me out of here . And im sorry i am looking for another job. Half the people that i work with one colleague pays the entire paycheck to her rent. How can you possibly stay here and do anything like that . Down the peninsula they offer 30,000, 40,000 more a year so what we need is a fix for proposition 13 to stop the people from selling the Holding Companies and avoiding tax. In 1970 70 corporations paid 20 of the tax. Today they pay 2 of the tax. Coming up the city needs to do what denmark does, do what the other companies in countries do in scandinavia is buy housing and renting it mortgaging it to their citizens. Those corporations like google that allowed not to pay tax which makes me so angry theyre gog to be putting the estimates that i saw is that 30 of us is going to be unemployed in the future. We have a crisis going on. Two years ago i came for this. Youre different faces and nothing is being done want leave. They dont care. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is dottie and im a special Education Teacher at Lowell High School here in the city. My beautiful daughter goes to sunset elementary school. We love the city. I have been working in special education. This is my 15th year. I was a paraprofessional for two years before that and were hanging in by a thread. Half of my paycheck as others have said goes to housing and thats being threatened by a predatory landlord trying bullying tactics to push us out. She succeeded with one unit and while some of the tactic it is some are illegal, some are legal, even with tenants rights its extremely stressful day in and day out to live in that environment where youre pushed out. Hey dont want you there. The home is not a sanctuary and protecting with every fiber of our being and on the stressful. We are worried about possibly having to go through substitute teachers at her school. You know i dont want to leave my job and its just extremely stressful. I dont know how much longer we can stay in the city. We love the box and dont want to live. Think outside of the box and not just the brick and mortar and think about subsidies or landlord incentives and think outside of the box and the bmr which we cant afford anyway because of the hoa fees are ridiculous so most of are entirely unaffordable as well but theyre all on certain parts of the city which we live on the southwest side. I would love to see things happening in different parts of the city because you know im a single mother. I dont have help. I have arranged my life on that side of the city and i dont want to commute across town every day as a single parent and special Education Teacher is extremely difficult so please take that into mind. Thank you so much. Thank you. Hello. My name is sida and i dont think its fair for any of us that we have that we cant afford housing and that so many teachers cant afford to live here so how it affects kids that their teachers cant afford to live here because they live in apartment and they get kicked out by their landlady and they have to move and they leave all their friends behind and then they miss so many people. Its just not fair for anyone. Thank you so much. Youre such an amazing speaker. Thank you. Hi. My name is jearn robertson and the principal at Glen Park School in the glen park neighborhood. I am also the president of the united administrators of San Francisco and we cover supporting principals and supervisors and program administrators. So i am wearing a couple of hats and im a mom in the schools and a renter for the past 28 years so i am here to give you some insight into the day and life of a typical Public School and the ramifications we experience daily due to the housing crisis lack of Affordable Housing for teachers in the city. We cant hire and maintain teachers to teach the children due to what i mentioned and what were here to discuss today. Because of the crisis we have children showing up every day and often time there is isnt a teacher to teach them. I had a minicrisis at my school this year that you may have read in the newspaper and a teacher went on leave suddenly and no qualified person to be in that position and after subs if they showed up i was able to give intervention for the lower performing students into this and its not an optimal solution. I received support on the issue. My Sister School shared her stories with me and similar. This is not a lung sfusd issue. This is a city issue. I had 28 instances where this thing happened where teachers or substitute teachers were not available. This translates to 28 loss days of education for our young kids. We are in a crisis. Our city educators are beginning to feel more like indentured servants than public servants. There a feeling of undervalued and under supported and the kids are losing elements in the necessary foundation. Thank you so much. I am from [inaudible] resources and representing the San Francisco education path Way Coalition and dozzent entities and sfusd and university of San Francisco and multiple organizations and were coordinating a path way for home grown san franciscan educators. Essentially what that means we have martienezs in our schools San Francisco students that want to be teachers and in San Francisco. They need to see its possible to do that. We can provide a lot of supports, education, Work Base Learning experiences, scholarships. We cant provide housing. One of our partners, the university of San Francisco Teacher Preparation Program typically has about seven to seven under graduate students apply to the San Francisco Teacher Residency Program and provides credential and guarantees a job in San Francisco provided you commit to work in San Francisco unified for three years. Typically seven students apply. This year only one student did and when the university surveyed students and said why . Students said they werent prepared to make that commitment to teaching in San Francisco because they couldnt afford living here so this is clearly a huge issue. At the coalition weve heard that the current campus site is a place for a lot of housing so were interested in hearing more. Thanks. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. I am the executive director of bright line defense a Public Policy nonprofit. We have been quietly working on this issue since october 2015 where we started conducting Legal Research and analysis about the constitutionality of teacher housing. Since then actually weve had considerable progress through the form of the state legislature. Senator mark leno jumped on top of the legality question and passed a bill. And the document is a support letter signed by close to a dozen organizations in need of teacher housing and then it was signed by the governor as of september 2016. That this issue has been discussed for over a decade and a half without progress is a social injustice to the teachers and to the students because when you look at teacher turnover and how the cost of living has negatively affected the School District and service to the youth it makes this Public Policy more important than any other policy in terms of trying to retain an economically diverse city so thats why bright line continues to retain interest in this. Were interested in commissioner mark sanchez proposal proposed in a school Board Meeting about properties and scale is important and brick and mortar house suggest important so were committed to making sure that scale as large as possible. So thank you for the attention to the issue and supervisor safai thank you as well. Thank you so much. Good evening. My name is loren. I am a native of San Francisco, born and raised. Probably one of a few of the last black men remaining in San Francisco unfortunately. My family is also theyre natives of San Francisco. Im a native of fill more and [inaudible] and i rise in the work i have done at the San Francisco teacher residency and one of the things i tried to employ there we are intentional about making sure that the teacher educators that we cute and teach in San Francisco. Historically in underserved neighborhoods are set up to be successful and thriving and prospererring. Not that when they come to teach theyre struggling to survive but prospering and one of the ways that we do we try to do our best to make sure they have financial incentives to make sure they can live here because at the end of the day them not being able to afford to live in San Francisco really is an equity issue and teacher educators and those working in the historically underserved neighborhoods are going to be there and constant in the neighborhood and invest and intertwine themselves with that community and that neighborhood so i applaud you on starting a discussion tonight on teacher housing and Building Teacher housing for our awesome teachers and i applaud the superintendents as well and the board of education for starting this conversation and i hope after tonight we can sprint to start Building Teacher housing because l. A. Has passed us three times over in conversations ive with them and the work there they surpassed us and i know were the best city in the country and we can do it. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is Susan Kitchell and a pediatric and adlessent Nurse Practitioner and worked with the families since 1981 and currently the school nurse at galileo and i love my job. Unfortunately im being l listed and evicted effective in august of this year in the apartment i lived in since february 2000. Brought my son home to the apartment and mourned the death of his father there and the success of college there. The apartments holds memories past but no opportunity to create new. I live in district 1. I lived in the space of ten square blocks of district 1 since 1981. Throughout my years in the city i see students in my neighborhood and muni and all around town. I earn my salary in the city and spend the salary in the city and i spend it exclusively in the shops on geary boulevard and clemson street. My neighbors know me. I know my neighbors. Unfortunately its the ground zero for evictions and there are five vacant units and as a result of evictions. So what what happens now . What happens when i am ousted from my apartment . In all likelihood i cant remain in San Francisco. The time and expense of commuting considers me to consider the feasibility of working in the city. San francisco unified is experiencing way too many vacancies in educator categories. How do we provide safe and supported schools to the students and families if we cant afford too live here . The Affordable Housing crisis is real. Its way too real. Too many of educators of forced out of the city. We need Housing Assistance now in order to insure safe and Supportive Schools for our students. Thank you. Thank you so much. Hi. Good evening. I am gill. I have been in the district for 30 years. I have a son and daughter one at lowell and one at james [inaudible] middle schoom. I never witnessed a crisis of this magnitude facing teachers today. My personal circumstances are out of the ordinary but separated from my wife. At one point during the great seresidence she lost her job and were still trying to recuperate. As soon as we didnt made the obligations as homeowners of course chase bank foreclosed on the foam. I was one of the few lucky ones that find a bmr, below market rate unit they can afford. The situation were in now its indefensible and just like everyone working with students. I love my job. I have been doing it for decades. I am proud of the work. Students love me and they want to be in the class and parents tell me their children are happy to go to School Every Day and teachers we are a bed rock of the community and profession and students are demeand and devalued. Arguably we have the most important job there is, certainly more important than shooting a ball through a hoop or running a hundred yards with a pig skin and volunteering 20 hours a week. I dont know if you are but theyre working ten, 20 hours volunteering. When friends come from outside San Francisco or the country they say how progressive San Francisco is. You know what . Its not that progressive. If we want to be a world class city we cant do that if housing is not a basic human right. This situation has to be rectified immediately. Thank you. Thank you so much. Hello. My name is Darren Peters and a teacher in San Francisco Unified School District for years. My wife and are teachers and we met and nine years of experience and we basically rent a tiny junior one bedroom so like a gorrified studio really but we recently had a son in january so weve out grown our space. His bedroom is our entry way and got a minicrib and we have been creative and solutions to make small places work but ultimately the guilt of keeping a kid in a entry way is probably going to cause us to look for housing in another School District and probably where we can get paid more so really our only question we have been asking if we will both move to a new district or one will commute into the city. Thinking about commute time and time away from the child and again we love the school sites and our families and students but when looking at raising our son its going to quickly become impossible. Once he can walk its impossible and thats coming up soon so im not sure if you can do anything in the time to save like to get us housing but clearly its a need. San francisco invested like a lot of training in me. San francisco invested training in my wife. Like was talked about were training teachers and theyre leaving so were wasting resources by not trying to keep teachers. I use redwood forest analogy stronger trees grow in a old growth forest and you have trust in the communities and kids looking forward to being in the class. Thats how you have strontd schools and one teacher and train them but not [inaudible] teachers and over and over again. Thank you. Thank you so much. Good afternoon. My name is john and a spanish teacher at Lowell High School where i have been for 25 years and in the district teaching 31 years. However in 2010 i was forced to go to los angeles where i was offered a job as a bilingual spanish teacher because my studio apartment which was 1200 and exempt from rent control apparently in 1979 and in june multiple buildings were exempt and your 1,200 is now 1,500 1,500 more. Please make a check for 2,700. I came across the teacher next door loan and grateful and given a forgivable down payment and 3 and proud owner of the Bay View District which is getting more awesome by the day but now its awesome with Million Dollars homes in the area and were losing tenure teachers because they cant afford to live here and flock toght peninsula and east bay and salaries are higher and cost of living is less and please have the blessing that ive had of offering more of the Affordable Homes possibilities which is the American Dream. My family is from cuba and we came to leave communism and the American Dream and i got and let Everything Else have the same. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hello. My name is sunshine and a High School Teacher at lincoln high school. Growing up in San Francisco i have seen the city prioritize investment and profit over families and communities. I have seen skyscrapers and outsiders replacing neighbors and friends. Now as a second year teacher i want to serve the district that raised me and work in San Francisco which is my home. But the more they think about this the more i realize this is become being an impossible dream. As educators we understand that we have chosen a profession of timeless hours, of constant arguments. What we dont understand is why our city is not working timeless hours and having constant arguments to defend the warriors that choose on a daily basis to fight for and to serve alongside the communities and children of our city . Thank you. Name brendon and i teach at lynch ion high school and native of San Francisco and live in the Mission District with two daughters. I went to a Retirement Party at Lake Shore Elementary School with supervisor cohen went as well and in my 20s and went to a old school spot and there was alts principal of the school and many teachers and all teachers that supervisor cohen would remember and there after 30 years and i went in there and got life advice. It meant a lot to me and why were they still there . They had secure housing. They made a livable wage in San Francisco. As you know were in a crisis. Two years ago i took a job at lincoln high school. Why was there an opening . An eviction. Okay. Among the new teachers i hear a new theme. I live with my parents and worked for a little bit in the late 20s and after you have a family that doesnt work. Okay. Worse than this recently i met a teacher who is homeless. Can anyone raise the hand have you taught by a homeless teacher . Anyone in the room . There is a homeless teacher in San Francisco and students taught by the homeless teacher. How are we going to solve this . Im not a policy maker. I teach but i disagree with the supervisor safais comments that is not about teacher pay. This is about teacher pay. After seven years a San Francisco Police Officer makes 115,000. After seven years the teachers are paid 55,000. This is not fair. What does is it tell about our civilization and our city . Okay. So teacher housing is the issue. Thank you. My name is Janet Everhart and a parent in the city for 31 years. Are you tired, run down, sleep deprived, less and less energy . This is not a commercial for geritol. This is about describing the commuter. I have commuted for 31 years and i unfortunately like most of you ive never been able to call this city my home. Im a single parent that raised my child outside of the city because i could never afford housing in the city, but this is not about me. I was asked to tell my story because i commute over two and a half hours every morning and again two and a half hours in the evening. 22. 50 a day to get to work as a paraprofessional but just take me out of the equation and think about the teachers and parents who commute daily to be here for the students of San Francisco. They are committed, dedicated and they love the students of San Francisco. My daughter has asked me repeatedly mom, why do you continue to do that commute . Its because i love the students of San Francisco and so do all the other teachers and paraprofessionals that commute on a daily basis. Please do something about this housing crisis. We want quality teachers who are here and ready to do their best with students, but then they must be at their best, so please do something about those of us who have to commute every day. Five hours of my life thank you. Commuting. Thank you. Before the next speaker i wanted to jump in. I think there is a misunderstanding of the statement i made initially. I am 100 support of increasing teacher salary. What i was saying its not just about that. We can increase the salaries but if we dont have the housing that people can access its also about that as well but thank
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