required to state names. speaker cards will insure proper spelling of names. additionally there is a sign in sheet at the front table for those that would like to be added to the mailer list. sfgtv can you please show our slide? >> while we are wait frg the slide. as we do at every meeting remind the office of small business is the place to come if you have questions about starting or cuthing business in san francisco. we are services are free, located here at city hall or find us on the internet as well and so if you have any question about what to do next, start here. alright. let's t going. >> okay. item 1, call to order and roll call. adams, here, dooley is absent. dwight, here. ortiz-cartagena--tour-sarkissian , here. yee riley--zouzounis, here. you have quorum. >> okay. item 2. >> item 2, general pub u.lic comment allows membering to comment generally on matters within the small business commission jurisdiction but not on todays calendar and suggest new agenda items mpt . any members of the public like to comment on anything not on the agenda today? welcome. >> just a moment, let me get your--there we go. go ahead. >> thank you. good afternoon small business commission and do you know-[single]. there is no business like small business like all business i know. everything about it is appealing. everything that travlt will allow. when you are reeling that money down and there is no people like small business people. they smile when they are low and there is a one thing i like you to know, you might be stranded out in the cold, but your small business will grow. your small business will grow. okay. >> awesome. thank you very much. what a great way to start monday, thank you for that. any other members of the public that would like to sing or otherwise entertain us before we start the regular meeting? seeing none, the performance is closed. next. >> item 3, discussion and action on legacy business registry application and resolution. approve the following applications, escape from new york pizza, gypsy rosalies wigs and vintage, oddball films. presenter is is richard kurylo >> hello. three is fine, three for three. >> good afternoon. richard kurylo. i have a powerpoint presentation today. before you today are three application for your consideration for the businesses to be included on the legying legacy business registry. the application were reviewed by me for completion then submitted to planning department staff on september 3 for review and recommendation by historic preservation commission. your commission packets contain the application, case report from planning department staff and historic presentation and staff from legacy business program and draft for each business. the first application before you is escape from new york pizza. the business is local pizza shop in the haight ash berry business. provides on new york style pizza and unique business model and practice of giving to local charities. the alijinal location is 1737 haight street and expanded to 4 oirt locations. has a slow growth philosophy and business model that opt tooz share success to employues and contribute to organizations that benefit san francisco area. second is gypsy rosalie's wig and ventage specializing in wig sales and styling in operation since 1960 located at 14 five 7 powell street. best known for wide array of style wigs. the business is managed and maintained relationship with san francisco group jz communities including the [inaudible] performers, lgbt community, individual seeking wig style due to hair loss and illness and celebrities and members of entertainment community. the third application is oddball films. the business is a stock footage licensing company at 275 cap street in the mission district that served as a archivel and teaching facility focusing on film collection and preservation. stephen par is a owner of rare and historic films since 1984 and registered the business in 1994 after gaining a following of film industry clients seeking unique and rare footage. the business has grown the library and collection is a service hub for award winning filmmakers for footage to use telling the story of history of underrepresented groups. oddball films offers intern training program that teaches student btd archive and film preservation and past 10 years offered pup public screenings, sim nars classes and benefits. oddball films is less than 30 years but has no break in san francisco operation exceeding two years. it has significantly contribute today history andioid of the mission district and if not included in the registry faces displacement. the building lease is up for renewal in january and if not renewed the business will face extreme difficulty finding another 6,000 square foot space. all three businesses received positive recommendation from historic preservation commission and after reviewing the applications and recommendations from the historic preservation commission staff finds they have meet the three critear wru for the legacy business registry. there are three draft resolutions for consideration by the small business commission. one for each of the legacy business registry applicants. this concludes my presentation and happy to answer any questions you might have. >> great, any questions before we invite public comment. >> let's do public comment. >> now open up for public comment and welcome any representative oz thf businesses to make a three minute state about their business and any friends that have come along. >> our first speaker is rosalie jack. second sp ron murk, third is victor [inaudible] fourth, jeff lambert, 5th, mark [inaudible] >> i'm a little hard of hearing so if i don't hear something i will speak up. i have been doing hair for 59 years and been in business since 1957. they made a mistake on the [inaudible] that's alright. and one of the things that i find that is very important is, i not only do hair, i have my wigs, but i teach classes to the top salons in the city here and most salons just cut and blow dry hair, but i have done several salons-patrick's of sacramento, alex of union square, i have done many many of them. one of the students that i had was going to-he was going to-he was able to-what is that? my stupid phone, i'm sorry. anyway, he was going to be able to do [inaudible] and was worried because i had given him a class previously and he said i need a class because i want to do this play so he came in for a two hour refresher course and after he called me in a few days and says, i not only got to be the hair dresser for the play, he says but now i'm her personal hair dresser and i want to tell you that after-it is about three years, he now is a top hair stylist in new york and he has three salons and credits all the knowledge to me because most hair dressers they cut, blow die but dont do the whole thing and if you are in the business, the more you can do, the more you know, the more you will make in the business. so, i think that my classes are very important number one. number two, there are no wig stores in north beach accept mine and i was 41 years in north beach so i was ahead of most people with wigs. and then another thing is that i have been doing since i have been back in north beach in the last three months the city of angles i did the play for them. i have done several plays, they have been coming in this week . one thing i want to stres ask i not only do drag queens in my salon, i'm a hair dresser so there is nothing i can't do with the hair so think it is important i'm in north beach again, it is like my home because i was there 51 years. >> awesome. thank you very much. >> pleasure to have you join the registry and thank you for coming today. >> thank you. >> alright. >> ron murk. >> just reminder, we are obligated by rules to cut off at 3 minutes so not trying to be rude so when you hear the first gong you have thirty seconds left. >> which m ic am i talking into? my name is ron murk, the president of premier picture jz film and cultural programs for the metro foundation. i have been unthe motion picture industry for more than 40 years. this is great make up and hair. >> i like your wig. >> and martin scors acey was a teacher at nyu where i graduated in sfilm production. i worked with stephen paul from oddball more than twnt year jz honored to call him a colleague i good frnds and think the reason we such a great friendship is we scr amazing passion for movies. i utilized films in his collection in my projects and likewise, he sold clips from my films for other producer tooz use in their projects. resource sharing ask a enormously important part of the ability of independent filmmaker tooz get films made without the resources stephen offers a lot of films would not be made. stephen is also a film educator and offers internships to offer film preservation. education is a large part of the mission. sorry about the frog in my throat, i wasn't planning on special effects. in any event, a lot of people have mubed to digital film making and still use film making when we talk about digital. what people do not know is digital files are more at risk than films. most would think the opposite is true, but films we had for 125 years and stored properly and maintained properly, they can go on indefinitely. film is essentially the repository of our collective history and it preserves the history of our community. at oddball stephen created one of inmost important collection of films including commercial, art films, short, educational medical films and the personal collectionoffs filmmaker whose sadly left us too early. only through his relentless efforts to save and archive the films and make them available for use, have 50,000 films in this collection saved. there is a great cost to managing a collection like this and to digitize them in order to meet the cost of preserving them i hope you spourt the application and urge you to continue the work of stephen and odd bill oddball films. they are a great resource and treasure for our future. >> thank you. great testimony. next speaker. >> mr. gubya. >> [inaudible] visual and performing artist. i probably have seen the 16th street bart station in san francisco i designed the art work. also having involved in theater and film. [inaudible] met about 30 years ago. he provides [inaudible] he also provide the-one of the things about him is that [inaudible] home movies is also important because that is part thf history. [inaudible] a lot of home movies people have donated. sometimes people have in the claust and don't know what to do and the films are available. it is very important film preservation, particularly home movies, which really tell the absolute history of the city and documentaries. [inaudible] uc berkeley and meet documentary of mexican colonial art and i always find in steve's archive. one thing is he makes it available regardless if you have big budget or not so shat really important. he is really there for the knhunty community when you need it. >> thank you very much. >> jeff lambert. >> yes. my name is jeff lambert and executive director of the national film preservation foundation. we award grants to archives and promote through online and print publication squz here to support oddball film to the legacy business registry. i have known stephen par since 1999 which wh i par tisitated [inaudible] that is a group of individuals corporate and non-profit dedicated to preservation of audio visual heritage. stephen is active member of amea and director of independent media committee for 10 years. i know that film arvist make a point visiting with stephen to discuss the archiveing field. he was instrumental [inaudible] easy to use and free for everybody. oddball also works with other film organizations in the san francisco bay area hosting benefits, copresenting programs andprinting screenings of orphan films, educational industrial and home movies and archivels that wouldn't exist without supporters like stephen and national film preservation foundation and non-profit archive-all the non-profit archives in the state. stephen has been great-there is one thing about having films on a shelf but what we try to do and what stephen is great at is bringing the films to the public and getting them it into the world where they live. he participates with senate for home movie and presenting home movie day where people in the bay area bring the treasure films and are available to view and share with others. and make copies for the people who make the films so get to take them home. oddball films and staff spent hours preserving footage and collaboration oon preservation projects with other institutions. one example is film behind avenue good man, a portrait of gay life in los angeles in 1966. the fimm only existed in a few 16 mm prints, oddball had one and sent to ucla that completed the restoration that presented last year. i view oddball contribution to the historical legacy of film san francisco as a valuable resource for educators, filmmakers and historians. there is a film called blacky the wonder horse swims the goldsen gate and can see it on the website. >> thank you very much. awesome. next speaker. >> mark [inaudible] >> hello. thank you so much for having us. first of all i want to congratulate and say what a great program this is. legacy is so important and for those of us that have been around a long time, it is really important that we preserve our memories and our businesses that have been here to support us. my name is mark hoousts one of the foundsers of the lez beian and gay film festival and started in harvey milks camera store in 1977 and after i was diagnosed with hiv 15 years of hiv/aids documentarys and finished my work as a [inaudible] at the castro theater bringing back old movie stars like tony curtis and debbie reynolds and jane rustle. stephen to me is the very definition of legacy. if anybody walks through the hall of oddball sw sees those reals of films they are not only films those are lives in each of the cans and it is amazing that in all of those reels that we have-any one of them you would just open up and see a whole world at your fing ertips. he has been a very strong advocate for lezbenian and gay works and represents a few short films i made for the first gay film festival developed at harvey's camera store. he is a tireless and honest broker of films. it is always a thrill to get a check. but beyond that, it particularly in when i did my shows that castro he would have the most oddball films i have seen like i had ann blife who paid mildred pierce and known as the hostess cupcake girl and who accept stephen par would have a commercial of ann blife stuffing dig tongs into her childrens throats from the 1960's? it was particularly great because when i did that show the daughter that we have the footage of, actually came to the show, so-and he had like a debbie reynolds old footage called scope tones that nobody else had so i really love the work he does and feel strong and passionate about it. i feel strong and passionate about there is the line in the simon and garfunkal song, preserve your memories, they are all that is left you and hope you will help preserve our memories because they are what is left of us. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> paula fiscal. >> good afternoon commissioners. it is my pleasure to be here to speak on behalf of gypy losea lees wigs and vintage. my par pisitation goes back a couple decades. might add that i have been in these rooms a couple decades ago working for supervisor silver who was hope toog be here and speak on her behalf also. my participation for her is that i am her volunteer social media director. and me about yelp, facebook and anything that goes through the air, that is how i help her. i'm also the business development consultant so that in april when she was asked to double her rent to stay where she was on sutter, i assisted her along with the urban something that is funded by the city to help her relocate. so, that when she relocated to north beach i helped negotiate the lease. unfortunately the landlord was not willing to give a 10 year lease. you can see perhaps why. however, we did get a three year lease, so my recommendation is, could you change it down to 5 years in order to be able to have the businesses take advantage of getting the $500 per square foot compensation at the end of the year? on that note, i will move right along with other accolades for mrs. gypsy rosalie. she has done work with eta james and doing work with holly penfield which is a well known singer and entertainer from london. juanita more is her number 1 fan and juanita moore has been getter her hair done there at least 3 or 4 decades. >> dopet let juanita hear you say that. >> we'll keep it a secret. i have a show on sf commons called thepologist show. it is a talk show and rosalie is always my great great sponsor of my show. so, we have here today the amelia and she is always been there for us in volunteer work. she also helped when i worked on the saint luke's coalition. she was right there getting signatures to keep saint luke's open and contradict today the community for many many years. it is helping her with the legacy ever preservation committee to help with her promotions and her pr and so we want to thank you for listening to some of the-was it supervisor peskin who pushed her work but all the work you do to assist small business so thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next up. >> paul gefer. >> hi. one the scary things about the legacy business program is how old we are. i mean, i'm here-i started in san francisco as a street artist and then with my friends we started captain video and mark used to work for us and it is a thrill- >> [inaudible] >> thrill for me to see him again. how much water is under the bridge, huh? i wrote just something for the moment. my nomis paul gefner. for us in every business it is never about the pizza or the videos, it is always about the people. in a way, a business is its own nation and responsible for treating its employee, customers and neighbors with kindness and respect. we feed hospices after school program addiction service and many orelt charities. i also start the commission community market with two other people. not only in addition we have extensive [inaudible] for all employees and the other four owners beside myself started as employees as escape from new york. one was a dish washer and one gave out coke cards and the orelt a prep cook. after 30 years i'm proud to say we created that personal nation i talked about. driven by the concept of what is gooed framy partner, my neighbor and employee is what is good for business. i like to say finally, that is not only my values but believe them to be the values of san francisco and why i'm proud to be here before you. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> walter [inaudible] >> walter sang already. >> walter was our earlier performance. >> i don't think we have- >> any other members of the public that would like to comment on the item or any of the businesses? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you so much for your testimonials. this is i think for all our commissioners the favorite part thf agenda to hear great stories about our legacy businesses and i hope to be a legacy business. i feel like a legacy, but not a legacy business. thank you for coming out, i appreciate taking time out of your schedules to come here. commissioners, any other comments? commissioner adams. >> this is for paula at escape new york, i want to thank you because you do show up at a lot our or mall business meetings, you are out in the community, i'm a customer of yours. when you are in the castro if we needed anything you guys were right there with us all the time especially during castro fair street fair feeding us. your haight street location, my neighbor, andrew young worked for you on haight street. him and his son were at your 30th anniversary party. you are what is a small business owner in san francisco and getting involved. i have seen you at meetings. you are always there and out front and give give give give give. this is just a honor today to have you up here and to have new york pizza as one of the legacy businesses. this is awesome. thank you. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> i just want to add to that. i know all three bezs, i was born and raised in san francisco and i knew all 3 businesses i didn't know the wealth of history you contributed to san francisco so i want to thank you and honored as well. >> anyone else? alright. dowy have a motion? >> like to make a motion to approve all three. >> second? >> i second. >> if i can just ask to specific to add the word resolutions to your motion. >> okay. >> approve the all 3 resolution frz the legacy business registry. >> okay. we are going do roll call vote. adams, yes. dooley is absent. dwight, yes. ortiz-cartagena, yes. tour-sarkissian, yes. yee riley is absent. zouzounis, yes. that motion is approved 5-0, 2 absent. >> success! thank you all very much! [applause] we wont be offended if you leave because the rest isn't nearly as exciting, but feel free to stay. yes, indeed. thank you so much. >> should i read number 4 into- >> yes, please. next up. >> item 4 discussion and action to amend legacy business registry resolution 006-16 lbr. discussion and action to amend legacy business registry to loan star saloon to indicate the business operated in san francisco more than 20 years but less than 30 years with no break in san francisco operation exceeding two year jz small business commission finds the business contributed to history or identity of a particular neighborhood or community and if not included in the registry the business would face a significant risk of displacement. discussion and action item and our presenter is again richard kurylo. >> good afternoon present dwight, commissioners. richard kurylo legacy business program manager. before you is a -minded resolution for your consideration for loan star saloon. a legacy business that was add today the registry august 8. loan star saloon atthry 54 harrison was the first business add today all legacy business more than 20 but less than 30 years old. such businesses may be added if the small business find the business had no break in san francisco operations exceeding two years, significantly contribute today the history or identity of a neighborhood or community and if not included in the registry the business would face significant risk of displacement. the resolution approved by the small business commission did not include this information regarding the business being less than 30 years old. therefore, i submit a amended resolution for consideration for loan star saloon that includes this information. apologize i forgot to italicize the information so will in splawhat it is that changed. the a-minded ruzlution includes the word or after the second whereasstatement and the third whereas statement more than 20 but less than 30 years old. a similar change is made to all proposed resolutions to adding to the legacy business registry so won't have the problems in the future. jurks >> question or caumentds? >> you know they sold the bar? >> do i know they sold the bar? not familiar with that. >> i just read that in the bar. two employ ees. they sold to two other bartenders. >> we'll follow up with them. >> do we have members of the public that would like to comment on the item? seeing none public comment is closed. do we have a motion? >> i motion to accept loan star saloon as is for the--tew mend the resolution. >> the motion is amend the legacy business registry resolution for loan star saloon. second? >> second. spnt enough money in here. >> all in favor? >> aye. any opposed? that motion passes 5-0, 2 absent. >> awesome. on to item number 5. >> number 5, presentation on shops small and by local activities during holiday season. our presenter is jason lalak. >> good afternoon, jason lay lalak from small business coalition. i know some of you and don't know some. the small business coalition laurned in 2011 to provide grassroots support for too the small business effort to get community engagement with shopping local neighborhoods on the saturday after thanksgiving. we are honored to have the commissions support since 2011 and efforts in san francisco and love your support again this year. there is a presentation that i had handed out to all of you. the coalition has grown exponentially and proud to count over 430 organization nation wide work thong effort and this ranges from lorj organizations like aarp and national restaurant association, down to local grass roolts organizations like the hayes valley merchant or castro merchant association. we had unbelievable support on the elected official level so last year we had 14 psa's that ran nationally including one for mayor ed lee as well as pretty strong support from the sba and white house. the overall purpsh purpsh of the coalition is help communities engage in the efforts and we have really highlighted this in san francisco if you move to page 3 with partnership with office of economic and workforce development and cobranding small business saturday and shop small with city efforts on buy local. last years campaign was a huge success and not only are we repeating and expanding the campaign in san francisco, it is aumsh use ed for a modelal in other cities including new york, seattle, chicago and san diego. we are very excited to be cobranding shop small with shop in dpine dine in the 49 and this wail take place in the street ban rs that are up year round as well as partnership with sfmta in transit advertising and bart with our bart program in helping people connect how you can get around the city and visit multiple neighborhoods on the day. i like to invite mary ann thompson from oewd to join me to provide some insight from her office as well. >> i think i'll take this one. so, i first of all would like to thank jason and lynne for being our partners in shop and dine in the 49. this partnership as jason alluded to blossomed into other cities like chicago seattle and san diego saying we want to cait like san francisco so it exciting partnership. we will continue with the art work that we have, we will continue our outreach effort. this year we will have two press events, a kick off from the mayor and looking to do that somewhere around [inaudible] in december work with the mayor in the corridor highlighting the importance of shopping in your local corridors and as we said, we will continue our expanded with muni. muni has been a fantastic-mta is a fantastic partner by allowing to put cards in their buses. this year weal we'll update the website more. many remember, last year the piece that everyone loved so much was the map. everywhere we went they wanted a map. that map is aults housed othen website and a little more interactive so if people want to go to noe valee and figure what is there the map is there as wem. we are excited it is a expanded program this year and really grateful for all the work jason and lynne have done. >> thank you, mary ann we are grateful for the partnership with the city and hope to continue your support. in addition to the whole campaign which will run for november and december and want to call especially attention to two more specific dates program. this thursday is there is handout included. we will be doing a small business boot camp in san francisco. it will start about 4 o'clock at the financial district. it is a fantastic program. raunda abrooms from usa day is the speaker. it is really unbelievable content for business owners to understand how to maximize marketing during their holiday shopping season. then in addition to the boot camp this thursday, on small business saturday we will have a host of event taking place across the city. in the presentation is a overview of what took place last year. i know this year there will be a moe morning event that is a exercise dance program to get people up and motivated to go shopping for the day and then different neighborhood engagements that will take place throughout the day and afternoon. >> shop aerobics. >> happy to entertain any questions. >> commissioners--any question or comments? >> i saw you got new signs up . >> these are the ones from last year so will have new ones coming in november. >> yfs at diverse dareo and oak yesterday and they looked like they were new signs. >> they are permitted for a year. they held up well. >> they held up well. >> awesome. thank you very much approximate you coming out to give a overview. any members the public that like it comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i want to say thank you to lynne as well and mary ann on this. it really is driving people into the neighborhoods now. the day after thanksgiving everyone was downtown or irn in a mall and the last few years in cas row and noe, west portal and cument street they are busy the friday after thanksgiving and think a lot has to coo with your promotion so whaurfb you are doing right so thank you. >> thank you very much. alright. on to the next item, please. >> alright. item number 6, approval of meeting minute and the two meeting minutes for consideration were october 3, 2016 and march 9, 2015. >> commissioners any questions or comments on these two minutes? okay. do we have members of the public that would like to comment on the minute under consideration? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion? >> so moved >> second. >> motion and second to approve the minutes for october 3 and march 9. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? okay that passes 5-0, 2 absent. >> does that bring us up to date? >> we are all most there. we have two and whatever current meetings, right? >> perfect. item 7. >> item 7 is directors report. update and report on office of small business and small business assistance center department program, policy and legislative mat rs announcements from the mayor and anoujsments regarding small business activities. discussion item. >> commissioners it is a little quite on the legislative front though we have gotten a few things that we'll get out to you, not massively critical pieces of legislation 2 possible be heard at the next meeting or else following. this week at the planning commission is the conditional use for 1650 mission, the retail space that will-the office of small business will have a satellight position along with small business development center and potentially the legacy business program, so we don't anticipate any issues, it is on the consent calendar so once that is done we can start working on the build-out and hopefully february, march we may be able to have a move in date for that. um, and then i'm also participating in the earthquake retail working group and this is a-the patrick oat nealy working on the e resiliency project is taking itarve the napa earthquake working on developing a plan for developing not only in terms of doing the seismic ret row fitting for the buildings the businesses occupy, but whaet need to create to help bring businesses back online as quickly as possible. so, there is-they are developing draft recommendations, so i'll be attending a meeting wednesday to take a look at that and likely in the next couple months we might have a presentation on that. and then i just wanted to let you know for the legacy business program, rick submitted the last set of applications that will work their way through the process in time for businesses that want to be on the registry and able to apply for the business assistance grants so they will have their hear ing december 12 and the last filing date for had application is the 15th of december. so, we will have a few meetings or couple meetings ahead of us where we have between 10 and 15 applications that will be heard just so we can get that first kind of chunk of nominations through this process. so, it has been a little light on our meeting agenda in termoffs the number of nominations and applications for the registry, but the upcoming meetings we will have anywhere between 9 and 16. >> great. >> so, that is really it unless you have any questions. >> commissioners, any questions? we have memberoffs the public that would like to comment on directors report? seeing none public comment is closed. on to item 8. >> item 8, commissioners reportsment allows president, vice president and commissioners to report on small business activities and make announcements of interest to the small business community. discussion item. >> i have nuth toog report today. commissioners anyone else have anything to report? >> this may be premature, but the castro we are having our annual christmas tree lighting monday the 28th of november. we'll have the mayor da have been invited. our ceremonies is at [inaudible] santa claus, elf. we usually get a 50600 people there. >> perfect. on the record. anyone else? alright. do we have members the public that would like to comment on the commissioners report? seeing none public comment is closed. on to item 9. >> item 9, new business. allows commissioners to interdue new business. >> commissioners any new business recommendations? seeing none, we won't have any. any member of the public want to comment on lack of new business. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 10 but before item 10 can we show our ursour lide >> the office of small business is here to help with any and all matters concerning small business in san francisco whether you are starting or running a business, start here if you have any questions. thank you. >> okay, item number 10, adjournment. action item. >> do we have a motion? >> i motion. >> second. >> okay, all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? that motion passes 5-0, 2 absent and meeting adjourned at 252 p.m. >> gavel down. >> thank you mrs. president. [meeting adjourned] started the regular meeting of of the san francisco board of education is called to order >> ms. fewer dr. murase ms. norton, mr. walton thank you ms. wynns that he mr. haney and ms. ing thank you. >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> we want to thank everyone that joined us in person for anyone that wants to address the board of education can you fill out one of the speaker cards and they're available outside in the hallway and please give to ms. casco sitting over here before the item is called we'll appreciate that item a approval of the minutes of september 27, 2016, can i have a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> second. >> roll call. >> thank you ms. ing ms. alleyway goes ms. fewer ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton and mr. walton and thank you ms. wynns and mr. haney 5 i's. >> thank you item b superintendents report superintendant lee. >> thank you, president haney i'll be speaking about a number of items and i'd like to on the meeting by commenting on the incident at june yonder school for quality i'd like to begin by honoring the students, staff sight leaders and community anothers june jordan was shaken by a terrible incident last tuesday that included violence and physical injury to 4 students and emotional harm to the community i want it permit my thanks to the sfpd for their work in about ongoing investigation and mayor ed lee and supervisor avalos for their immediate offers of support to many staff for their dedicated efforts to support the school last tuesday and in the days since and many other individuals across san francisco sending expression of assistants to june yornd on behalf of the team i offer our deep respect and admiration to two staff for the courage and empathy they displayed in this deeply disturbing event leadership we likewise thank you for your strength and unite they stood together strong true to form their held values called them to do as we'll see in a few minutes during the meeting everyone in the sfusd communities are independent when an incident strikes one of us it impacts all of us your actions to support each other really do help and unite us all finally i must appreciate the brilliance and fortitude of maria. >> (clapping.) >> the day after the incidents that is last wednesday the students designate was onsite ahead of school starting talking with staff and writing message of deep community strength on the very site of the crime she also participated in on camera interviews with tv and during the interviews she was posed and thoughtful and moved off the negative question and on to the main message of june jordan school for equity standing up against depression during a meeting with families she powerfully addressed the cultural sensitivities between latino and black community maria we are proud of you and june jordan would have been so proud of you and your peers at the school moving on to a few lighter topics this is principal appreciation month and personally thank you to all the dedicated site leaders that led us our principals and advice principals above and beyond the call of duty their duties and represent their schools with pride and dignity all while tackling they're never ending to do list thank you for all you do. >> i'd like to invite all families looking for a school for their children to the fair an saturday october 29th the fair will take place as last year at the city college of san francisco if the wellness center on 18 ocean avenue families can learn about all the stanford schools and the enrollment for all grades transitional kindergarten sixth and 9 grade there be will workshops to explain the language pathways and other options it is tasked with principles and teachers and parents and students for those who are ready to talk about what is so special about their school and again, the enrollment fair is saturday october 29th at city college of san francisco wellness on 18 ocean avenue from 9:30 to 2:30 and register for childcare at from - sorry i'm not seeing the phone number but the e-mail address is w uc 2 at sfusd at the east side you is on the website so anyone wants to register for childcare please finally please remember that election day is tuesday november 8 the last board of education between now and election day please remember, if your eligible to vote to vote on or before election day we are past the point as which we can say how to vote on any of the raze or propositioned but i will point out several measures that are of special interest thought education community specifically on the state ballot proposition 51 is a state school facility proposition 55 relates to school funding, extending the property tax and that passed a furious and on the local san francisco ballot prop a it is school bobbed and not telling you how to vote on any of the measures but please be aware there is an important election coming up. >> thank you superintendant lee. >> item c recognized of resolution of accommodates two rave awards this evening superintendant lee. >> sorry lost track of my place the first services award is for carol the principal at the locally la elementary school and presented by superintendent richie. >> thank you superintendant lee it is my honor and pleasure to introduce someone that i will describe unremarkable and keeps the society justice in all the work she does no spice up that carol was 23450789 by a community member i was to read a short excerpt the question is why are they nominating this employee and the parents shared that the child was in a transition always but the principal asked to keep here language chinese she got into the school and principal fong remembered her and that impressed that parents what is the expressive characters she gets parents involved and makes sure that students keep their bilingualness and bye literacy and raised the fund with limited resources that she has to do with right to children and building in does the arts and has the chinese dance and some things this employee does that you want to recognize she's always aiming to have her students do better and embodies that walks the walk and she likes students that brings don't ideas to the clamor no surprise they are seven years in a row her school get the title one academic achievement award a distinct school twice and a national blue ribbon school a role model for others colleagues and teachers as well as district office staff carol fong does lots with this we're proud to honor you as one of the exemplar treasures in our city so, please come forward and receive your award. >> (clapping.) >> first of all, i want to thank the board inform this recognize i often wonder what i'll be doing i love flowers and would have been a good in front of the i walked into a clamor and joined dates i didn't she came from china sitting wither classmate and has all the visible support yet not able to participate that was me 45 years ago the memories are fresh it is a school of students 60 percent are free and reduced lunch over 50 percent are english as a second language learners but in spite they excel richard mentioned in 2011, we received the national blue ribbon and we won the trip crown we're so proud and excited. >> (clapping.) >> but as a accomplished as we are as a school daas i didn't see stories remember we have tlooebld so her story and my personal experience have something in common they served to reminding remind me not only to bring my professional best and personal best everyday to my work some people think that the title as a principal independence who you are i'm in the school of thought who i am existences any principalship it validates in any personal best thank you for the opportunity and the wonderful years of services thank you >> (clapping.) >> thank you, principal fong very much and you desire more than 50 seconds next our rave service award is going to christina counselor at george peached and presenting the award our principal at george peabo]. >> good evening and congratulations carolpeabody. >> good evening and congratulations carol. >> any pleasure at george peabody elementary school to present this to christine our amazing social working and nominate by a parents that says she goes above and beyond were the emotional experience for students at the peabody elementary school this is our social emotional learning program our favorite are many and runs countless workshops and tackling issues of guilty to insure that peabody elementary school is inclusive of all families in clus our achievement gap and teaches weekly lessons during the lessons she uses a curriculum called brain obstetrics/gynecology that teaches the students how the brain works and the difference between a mindset we've seen the impact on the students academically and social time and time again as program i feel very, very fortunate to have her a member in the peabody elementary school team and in a mission to go above and beyond and on a personal note as a role model as a working parents thank you and congratulations >> (clapping.) >> well, i think carol is a great person to follow i'm grab my 15 seconds thank you, mr. wu i feel like i hit the jack pot when i landed at george peabody elementary school in the district more than seven years or so but i know or knew i wanted to be a full social worker never knew i would be fortunate going to a place everyday i love you was a child that loved school and made me want to work towards help students love school whatever that means helping families and helping children joy their school day i'm really fortunate to work there 4 days a week i wish every school could have a social worker w4r days a week i'm eager and excited i need to share that award with mr. wu and all the amazing folks at the george peabody elementary school i feel lucky to be there and my husband can contest to the fact i used to be many a profession i didn't love and he knows i can't wait to get started everyday and thank you for the opportunity to work ♪ fabulous role and for this award tonight thank you >> (clapping.) >> thank you and congratulations again to principal fong and the team item d student delegate report maria and jessica. >> good evening board of education we have a couple of things and have a short video we want to share with you the first one or first thing is an update on the voters forum that happens on november sorry not november, october 20th in preparation for the november 9th election day so youth readers from the commission and all students came to the high school to learn been the alphabet of student propositioned on the ballot and at the end everyone took a vote that was pretty cool to see the students given a chance would vote and also, they had a great opportunity to register voters 16 and 17-year-olds that was a new program and preregistering come the next election date and an official form by the secretary of the state that was pretty cool. >> thank you and a resolution so our first meeting was on the thursday and we got around 50 to 40 people and looking to the next steps to see how we can support all students and looking forward work together with different high schools across san francisco district. >> so yesterday we have an f ac c meeting the topic that came up was around what happened and june just for the record as a student i don't go there but i can't imagine how the students feel around this issue but admire your strength and resolve yesterday the f ac c shared what their schools were doing to share their is it not correct with the staff and others so they're good marshall accurate posters and washington i think talked about this in their lgbt and ethic study classes although the support at the sites all the students alleged that june jordan showed a lot of great unity during their difficult times. >> we have been - as you may know i don't know only represent the students but june jordan in the district and first of all, thank you all sfusd staff and usf across the cd for their support and solid outlet minutes before and after that happened we definitely failed the support and solidarity and felt the solidarity and we recall very, very grateful for that and yeah going to june jordan as i mentioned my priority to go to june jordan and was one of the first ones i wanted to make sure that june jordan we are mourning this i think june jordan shows who we are for justice and eligibility and show we'll come together to build community and awareness of those events gun violation and violation is not just a problem at june jordan but across the country and the world and i think that this is not only the problem, of course, we see in our city and across the community but a good moment san francisco schools are go talking to come to together and work in solidarity my school is cereal an example of what happened of oppression and students don't get the love from their participants and community this is a result my principal has talked about that and quoting one of our sisters this leads to not seeing what he said how can students and young men feel hopes it is easy to take someone's life so easily there is a great moment for us, to come together and work together june jordan is devastated we'll overcome and get the support we need and all appreciate it from everyone who showed the support in many ways and we've gotten at least from our students postcards from elementary schools from the youngest to 9 oldest staff they've come to us in supporting you guess alumni staff and organizations that support june jordan so we are appreciated it in this video i want to thank the superintendent for helping us this last minute technology difficulties and the request for the certification i think the video will speaks for itself it is a way if it didn't happen everyone is moving fast i was talking about how everyone - across san francisco to be awareness of this so i'll let the video speaks for itself and thank you to everyone. >> what occurred in that school october 18th didn't reflect us as a school like what we're fighting against oppression not that something happened that what happened to us is now taken care of and it is like coming back home to a place i feel safe spiraling and emotionally. >> june jordan is a school question came together no solidarity no matter what solidarity no matter whai solidarity no matter whan solidarity no matter what happens. >> in my voice is important in that what is on my mind can be important. >> the first day june jordan opened the children walked through our doors they're our children we treat them like family. >> we still agree who we are without you know not being ourselves. >> and i have a lot of freedom here i'm able to bring my - as a mother and i think that is actually helpful - >> it is an important vibe here you know are interest problems yes there are problems everywhere. >> i love the way it the teachers and everybody combines and comes together. >> help the students and the connection and the - >> you know all the students and all the staff i have so much love they're like extend families my kids are any family and they're my brothers and sisters. >> i need someone who is here and the parallel is really - >> everybody is together and look out for each other and really need that and do it out of the love not out of fear. >> we put ourselves in the shoes of another or skin of another help to understanding and understanding is a complete application. >> (clapping.) >> i just want to point out that moments you saw in there were a day after the incident happened i think we did talking we had a huge circle across the quad and brought out the community so the video speaks for itself how beautiful organized the community is coming together across san francisco and one of the most beautiful things that can be accomplished and will be accomplished thank you a lot guys. >> sorry. >> never mind not done sorry (laughter). >> so we're inviting you guys to our next meeting on wednesday november 7th at 5:00 p.m. in the room it is a public event if you guys are welcome to come and few guys want to come contact contact mr. salvador lopez. >> to get the agenda and get you guys the schedule so thank you yeah, that's a monday, i apologize thank you. >> i wanted to say first on behalf of the board thank you for sharing that video and let's please the people that created it and the entire school communities have the solidarity and appreciation from our board and. >> also it for your leadership and encourage you represented the facts of our student body you represented the best of your school and have such pride in june jordan as a school community for you to illustrate that in the face of all this and we show what that school represents and what you stand for and embody that we have appreciation 0 thank you and anything we can do as a board we'll lend our support to you, please let us know and thank you. >> item e advisory committee report we have one we have a report from the african-american parents advisory council. >> so i'm going to ask the representative to come on up. >> okay. a power point great. >> parents and future city hall there looks like. >> (laughter). all right. >> thank you for the time to share all the wonderful work the patents have put together to do what we do to make sure there are replacement for the - so thank you for that video it was very touching and it seems often i have a high schooler and interested what her experience is i'm the program corridor for the african-american parents visitorsy council and here with - >> drop the baby off - we have the support of alison here and i'm going to turn it over to those wonderful ladies. >> good evening, everybody and thank you for inviting you guess out tonight to give you an update what pooiblg has been doing since june so what you see above the mission of the african-american advisory council i'll read it for those who carton see that the mission of advisory council to provide a forum for hear the ideas of san francisco unified school district african-american parents community and respond to those genocides by educating of the resources and policies and programs our goal to xoufr the lives of african-american families by providing the skills necessary to advocate for high quality educational experience for our children the african-american parents advisory council develops resources for parents that support the vision of their children and receive with educator and others in the sfusd we ama to lift every parents voice and help the parents find their voice and this year we started off with the first annual apac it was held and seen with want african-american or missouri add the purpose of sustaining the initiative. >> the agenda was designed to recenter on the well-being of students to use the data to drive our goals and team build the confusions and reverse active practices and set the goals with the support and we worked together to build a collaborative with an outreach team then our next was a followup on the retreat we finally listed the scope of work 6 program goals for the assurance of the issues we take on are aligned with the goals we have so that one, the goals to increase the number of families to participate in apac monthly meeting by the thirty percent to build the capacity of apac parents to efficiently advocate for students academics and increase the participant to vaccine for high quality instruction through active engagement with the school sites for the sfusd advising to influence the decision and sfusd policy programming and budgeting and want to increase the participant leadership and abilities to serve on governance committees one apac and at school sites and would like to evaluate the development of 6 more sites to increase the african-american family engagement in their school sites. >> all right. to further grow our group we worked with different sfusd staff members and community operations working with sfusd departments with partners to provide resources to the african-american students is one of the main priorities we worked with special education specifically (laughter) with the community advisory council and the eis team office of xfrment with the ali team we joined the black family network for the support for black family day an september 17th apac has hosted two workshops with title how the how to start a partnership in the child's education we continuing hold our monthly meetings and their held on the third thursday of every month equip november due to attendance of the alliance in african-american achievement and leadership team and black school educators the first meeting the school year was on september 2016 the theme was school are you ready this is presented by doctor back on in a way that are empowering the superintendent was lee our october meeting was held on october 20th and the theme was yes, we can advocate in and in and out the clam presented by assistant superintendent ford for her 3 executive director and family liaison christine and focused on owning the parents teacher experience and becoming politically educated to hosting a school board panel this year we are excited for the apac activities that include ask the site workshops and navigating parents and fast forward support and starting our family engagement movie night and (laughter) our family engagement movie night will consist of discussion around the methodologies our families that are important and continue with the black family day and also this is our second annual year we're hosting the college signing date in april so i pass to you guys in the packet the following items a copy of power point slide, our 2016 and 2017 scope of work and our apac letter and our lastly update we superintendant throughout the e-mail server and we share a site with the apac. >> so we would like to make the following recommendations tonight so go feed the baby sorry. >> so that the african-american parents advisory council continues to support the following ethic studies c-2 and african-american family loans liaison at all schools with african-american populations additional opportunity for high school credit recovery and increase the cultural awareness professional development are training for all staff recruitment and hiring of african-american educators assigning highly trained educators for under professionalism schools and with the practices of limits and black histories throughout the school year not just in february and affinity groups at each school site the apac asked to take the lead on creating additional strategies to implement the above recommendations any questions. >> well, first of all, i'll start off by saying i had the privilege of attending a meeting last week we want to thank the two of you and everyone who has taken the lead with apac i was incredibly expressed by the engagement, the leadership the conversation, how many people were there it was an engaged group of parents and excited to see everybody you've laid out at the impact it is having and our increased partnership with the apac and board i appreciate the need to working closely together sometimes with the advisory councils we forgot that part of advisory that helps us do a better job at the board level he want to express our desire to work closely and let us know when things are happening and engage us in addition to know the district staff i know your working closely one question and then other board members have questions or comments you know we're also going to hear later this evening the lists property i wonder in the report we'll hear later on if you're directly involved with that and your involvement as apac with support the broader african-american achievement inpatient a longer conversation in the african-american district and love to know your thoughts at that point what we'll be hearing and how you've been engaged with that work. >> i'd like for the parents to say 24 yourself our retreat that was a very dmaltsdz effort to know where our students and staff stands this is presented to us we're making sure that all our goals are aligned with the goals of african-american achievement the ali team (calling names) we all come together some of our team members meet every third thursday to working closely but the ali comes to the apac they meet to plan what they'll do for families an open invitation for community members and the ali team every thursday and there are ali members presents so we're thrilled we're pga the apac be making timing suggestion what we need and want and desire as partners. >> with the apac we've been working collectively with ali team and can't express enough our appreciation they're open to our suggestions because ali heard the numbers wait a minute what is going on many can't be happening what are we're going to do that's where the rising workshops okay. we have to make sure our babies are getting the congratulation. >> i'm happy i had a graubt senior last year so i want all families to experience that is that the greatest experience in the world to see your baby walk across the stage as our investment in that child we want to make sure that all families are the schools they need to be successful and help the children or parents understand the importance of advocacy and understanding the importance of being involved regardless of age the child even if they try to pushing back that is harder and let them know you're going to form the partnerships and relationship with their teachers so they see you and know you are going to be working towards making sure your child is successful. >> i wanted to add adds a parent to get involved in forming the school sites and working as a advocate for parents crossed the district this is been an amazing experience to come to the district and not able to get the support but see it come back and latisha we bring her questions and suggests and see something come back i'm using in my school and sharing those with other sites and truly it is the addition of turner pierce the work around the district when parents come to the table the staff is ready to meet us as partners that has been a huge shift that i seen and i feel like i can speak for other members it is greatly precedent as well as kind of the gentleman making himself to individual endeavors as well. >> thank you before i open up to the board one public comment signed up before this item lee fisher. >> good evening my name is lee fisher the second chair for the advisory committee for special education and have 4 kids african-american my oldest at the mission and my too young it at mira loma i appreciate everything you're doing as an african-american advisory committee and appreciate our focus on special education and how you're helping us engage with the families and do better for all the students and thank you for everything on behalf of the special ed you're doing to promote our activities and meetings and just you're willingness to collaborative it is helping us to provide better outcomes for all the students so thank you very much. >> yeah. reverend brown. >> good evening mr. president, vice president and members of the board. >> let me say i applaud the parents committee has done however, let us learn from history on may 17, 1954, a decision was handed down by the warren court that separate education through this nation was not equal and that court also said that they should correct this egregious sin and error with deliberate speed deliberate i've been in this town for 40 years and in 19 hundred and 78 there was a similar report released to this board then in the 80s we have the redbook and we're here with our report and the one we'll hear from mr. dickey tonight it is my appeal as president of the naacp in the past third baptist church we're not just hear a nice civil report but this board this administration and this entire community make sure that all of the agency of this unified school district have the resources necessary to make this happen without delay as fannie said to eloquently i'm seconding of being seconding of reading about the disparities and achievement actively if no earthquake this evening of a 6 or 7 or 8 we will stop everything and run to the rescue friends we don't need to hear anywhere that it takes time doctor king said the time is always right to do right it is time for us to leave this meeting tonight as make sure that all the agencies of city government the deduct community-based organizations see we're fired up and ready to go we'll show we'll walk the walk and give the wrap up around services we have not said that much about that and many of the community their challenged because they have issues not have they're making but issues that been created by this society this racist separate, mean, evil society i pray and hope this night not another nice report with eloquent we'll give concrete critical, courageous movement to stop this stigmation of black families and black children and the black community in this city we claim to be a progressive liberal city not like other places but the record reveals as long as you have the pocket of islands of ignorance, lack of training and violence in this town we are no better than that community in my native state of mississippi just to week 40 bullets fired into a place where someone murdered in 1955 the same state you have people on the football team leading black aforementioned with a noose that is happening we may not be leading with a noose but had that rope around our neck in this city of low achievement that needs to be cut and thrown into the pacific ocean thank you for your indulgence and time i hope you hear me tonight and we're not sitting on this report we get up and go out of this meeting and make something happen for the good of all when black children succeed all children succeed when black children excel your society excel when black children what read and write and celebrate their future and do more than flo throw a basketball only then what san francisco say we are a city of st. francis and you can leave our heart in san francisco >> (clapping.) >> thank you reverend brown. >> it is hard to follow after pastor brown. >> is a couple of of things thank you for coming in and giving us this report tonight i've seen the growth in the work over the past year and go forward to move forward and commend the oracle and the team the district i love the goals their choeshl and focused on the high quality instruction as we provide save and supportive schools and we have to remember the main goal if so the instruction pieces to make sure our students can graduate thank you for the focus on the increase of 09 sites the entire parents and the caregivers how to get the students the support that is how it happens at the all the schools and it will help to continue to focus on the support for the parents community and working with parents so thank you for that arrest plaintiff second i appreciate the continued alignment with the african-american initiative also talk about this with mr. dickey and pastor brown and my colleagues as well as and the leadership cap to make sure that all department within the district align and that everyone has a certain focus and goals to enroll to make sure all our initiative the ali initiative have a achievement in the success and continue to push to continue to hold us accountable i share that with parents if you're not sending e-mails and not licensed and not letting us know what is happening in the school we can't address it so make sure that things are not happening and the mistreatment we're not doing what we're supported supposed to what we're committed to say happening and also love to see at smooiment maybe the next time we have a conversation outside of this some kind of list from parents point of view in terms of what they feel is the best schools are for the black children there loose amiss things i tend to disagree with that we look at the resiliency and schools are focused on guilty and a lot of leadership from the young people in the schools you see that note let anyone blame the schools because of there are schools isn't district that are great for the children i'd like to hear under the parents perspective i have two children one at marshall and have a reason they'll be fine but again, if we don't send the right message resupport the schools right for our kids we'll continue to hear the list i'd like to hear from our parents and just to talk about some of the things we're responding to particularly about more option for credit recovery you saw the opportunity for doing the enrollment added city college more than that city college classes are taken at the level of credits you get from the district perspective and summer school stunt and more night school and more opportunities we'll continue to push the work on more than that credit recovery opportunity we hear you and doing things and the last thing from a safe space perspective we saw the recommendations there we say have not forgotten what happens at lowell and focusing on the effort eel you'll hear what is take place and push that community and all school community to make sure working with all parents and in the and backgrounds and make sure that when black children succeed all children succeed and have the biggest gaps in achievement with the latino you notice the things that are tend to be broken and the whole link comes together and the whole chain we'll continue to push and again sometimes we don't get information we run around and try to get the information so thanks. >> commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell. >> thank you so much for your time and energy and organizing in the community we all appreciate it i'm curious on your current membership how many you have a goal of increasing it by thirty percent i was curious what our membership currently looks like and the levels across the city and parents or students attend. >> so when we came to june we were looking at an average of 24 african-american parents we have over the sums our retreats and leadership teams trying to figure out and determine what membership it is we have community members that want to be active in the apac african-american members that have past parents very important and private school parents that have potential with the sfusd that want to come back and make sure we're not pushing away the support but on the african-american parents and sfusd that he determines our membership what did it look like according to our operating guide it is you must be a parent of an african-american student and people that attend quite often not parents of african-american students but 25 on average since the last two apac meetings we'll have pretty great turns out so something that sparking and in the reports we want to engagement our family and pass on the information it is expanding i think the last meeting we had on mrs. marshall said one hundred i'll not say one hundred it was a nice packed room i think that sxhaengs know that is incredible and hopefully, they'll contact and become members the apac in addition to that general apac meeting our school remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individuals. we're feeding information from the general apac so it is individual sites and their using it and thinking about changing our location or not changing location but spreading the love across the country e across the city because current our meeting are in the bayview and people don't have transportation of my own and can't make it there but thinking about the leadership team and the parents are proponents of that and the parents are thinking of ways we can do is one of the places for the continued activity was a workshop and beyond they're pushing the ali team working with the ninth grad workshop but how to prepare the parents and special ed our first apac meeting superintendant lee was at parents want to know how to navigate and support the students so because we can't take the entire meeting we'll move that and bring it to different sites in the city and have them so membership look like funny. >> thank you peri wanted to just understand how we can be more helpful in making sure that people know this is a space and opportunity i want to quickly tell a story about something that happened at a high school fundraiser i attended with any husband that upset me if i didn't leave the room i would have been escorted out i had a conversation with a parent that basically was engaging me around what her kids need and the kids of the other students at a particular school and i as a board member needs to focus on that if that was what i needed to pay attention to and she had made an effort to come to an apac meeting she heard the apac parents feel fortunate so have their kids graduate and that was my lug took a few steps back they legend into me she said oh, i offended you. >> no every single parents in the school district those things happen in our schools that increases this idea that our kids are not worth and don't believe in them that there's no need to support them, that we have to change i go i personally wanted to say i can say this we believe in all our children and we are trying to set up as many mechanisms to not only deal with the institutional deal that puts our children in a place they are already but and increase the number of opportunities so they can be successful in college and career and i share that only because as i listen to some of the recommendations that are to me absolutely we need to be on top of all this in addition to all this we need to do a lot more and the idea that a parent feels comfortable to approach me and say that allowed is appalling we need more voices to be part of the organization of our district to be more representative so that when those kinds of comments come at us we can knock them down way faster than that before i want to appreciate our work and appreciate our commitment to all of the kids and i mean, i think you've seen over the years the support we want to provide and we've done this to our staff and the commitment we are making this is really important to us so thank you. >> thank you i want to thank our presenter and every member of the african-american parents advisory council i'm blown away by the progress you've been able to make when we sat down with mr. dickey to review in detailed was the resolution we introduced labor that was supported anonymously by the board i never imagined it would come this far in such a short period of time we want to shout out to virginia marshall and others i want want to pooij meeting a couple of years ago an argument where we can forward first class postage and it was such a hard struggle to get the attention of the resources necessary and to be here and see how much progress we've made i want to acknowledge my mentor in this area linda jordan and carl, and mitchell and bill miller came up with black lives matter to gal in his this i went to black family day and see see outpouring the enthusiasm and acknowledge our work and thank you very much i know that is lots of hours away from our families your hungry not fwlam reduce work but on behalf of the district and board we thank you. >> first my apologize to the audience for arriving late. >> thank you for the presentation so i just have when i really want to supervise my comments on the recommendations i also think and hearing about our membership i understand that there are a lot of supporter but i think first and foremost it is about our african-american parents and also parents students that are african-american we have the loudest and strongest voice and the most to gain other supporters i feel like are important to the group but as we grow in membership make sure it is really those apartment in our school system that are vocabulary and fight not only for their own children but they know first hand what the experience this is the venue that is adequate i want to mention that you know, i understand that we have a facilitator and staff but that really i ran a parent combrfrment group we have facility oversees i was one of the facility oversees i realized not until the group was 22 or 25 they pooushd on me that was sort of this power structure that i had naektd a school system before i was good and teaching them but it was not until 22 or three parents in the room we upset that power structure their pushing back on you this is the goal that we should have and even though we're failed by sfusd that i would like to see this group be opposed to not compromise and not be complacent this is the group that actually has the power and voice to say this is wag is wrong and call us out and be the ones to interrupt this racism in our deduct and this is the power you have been you as parents users you're the ones that are impacted the most and should be the biggest voice that's why it is great to know why to navigate and support our chrnl child and give you our critical friends to advocate d organize so there's ass is an organizing element for empowerment. >> group of empowered people that know what quality education looks like what fairness and quality looks like and demand it and actually take steps in order to object this is when we know at the unified school district we have finally succeeded in overcoming our historic racism in the district i want to talk about some of the recommendations in that light one i think that it is important to know that some of these things i mean some of the things i hope the african-american parents advisory council been ask for the data. the ethics study was going on where are we now and where do we need to go and the outcomes for the black students in the ethics class is it serving them well and positive and if it is a mechanism we want duplicated those are the kind of questions we really want the parents to understand so if you're power to request the information that it is actually a powerful tool to have the real data, data can be persuaded to analyze the data very well and the measure is about how are the black students doing that's the measure so african-american families and schools let's talk about how many of them are there what's the outcome what are the roles in those schools are they empowering and how are they being used and the recovery how are the resources serving black students are they getting black students to graduation if not why not and increased the cultural and diversity awareness for all staff you should have a first aid and review the design of what that training is you know is that through the loans of quality or presented by someone that is not who didn't understand being a stakeholder and has the most to lose and recruitment and hiring the black educators are the educators are they kre7b8dz are are they have the skills to teach the children that's an important thing i think we've had this board many discussions about what is a teacher that we would wanted in a classmate for african-american students a teacher with a perfection of the class and then you know assigning a potty trained educator our for the schools chases the turnover and the measure we're looking at to actually make it not is school anymore we have the practices this is sort of the push back that i hope my times on the board is short i'm leaving in december but hoping that when i listen in i will hear a push back of suggestions that i guess recommends you have the data to support and push as a group users an organizing model to punish on the district make sure we are doing our job and board members we come and go quite frankly but your children you have them for the rest of your lives this is so important i think to remember that even though the site is sometimes terrifying and someone's uncomfortable but to think of a whole group of students not be successful in the 21st century this the kind of thing when we had this group it started off this is the element we want to make sure it is really integrated and do you feel empowered to do if i could leave you may be with one thought and i will hope it is - you have the power to do and your voice is your power but must be organized this is how to this is how the change happened i was a pta parents and ran a parent advocate very group one or two people three or four, all of a sudden 25 and we want to pack this room with one and 50200 people brown and black and that's how we make the team i think that so i applaud all the parents here and the applaud the work and want to give you an encouragement let's see the change and thank you, thank you for taking this step >> commissioner norton. >> thank you. i want to thank you for the work and apologize for not being here last week, i was sorry to miss it but want to talk about the recommendations that you made really i think they're interesting and important but i have some of we've heard that we need to make - we need to - them to be discussed within the context of what is already happening and how we can get some of the things done the principles you've are articulated and things we'll support but i'm interested in helping and also understanding knowing more about where exactly where we are and the next one after that and after that so i'm not tonight do we have any african-american liaisons at school sites are those school sites that have families liaisons at all because that's something i'm interested i believe that all schools should have additional ones and also how many schools actually have african-american parents advisory counsels what i understand that's your job but i think i'd like to have more details about that so we can be thinking about what else is going on at the schools things that we both ask them to do and push them to do and how those things are aligned and cooperated i'm thinking we staff mainly but have the kind of pull pet to you make the next step happen you have are doing both the work on the ground and having the context that is essentially, we can't do the next step without the context and have citizens about that i think we do i'm very excited about the work particularly the alignment with the initiative i think that the work of initiative is something i have great hopes and very supportive of and some of the things we've talked about we'll hear about that tonight but the specific work in specific schools in the areas you're talking about fits in with what is happening those are the things i think sort of the next layer the knowledge and information that i would like to have and i think we'll all benefit from again, thank you for your commitment and all the work thanks. >> can i ask a question is that appropriate? i feel we've gotten a lot of support and a lot of parents working on site and have the port of ali team won questions that comes up with based on in their experience as a parents a lot of the work an apac or bs u or celebration of african-american cultural is based on the capacity or the interest or the ability the site leadership and it is not the job to manage principles and a lot of competing things in the district i guess my question to you you can commissioner wynns and i guess to after all you when we surface things what is the metabolism at this point foresight that don't the the capacity or list the efforts to put some of the viruses in place i don't know of a specific structure to serve hey, i'll trying to start an apac no one is listening or conversation amongst the parents something is going on obtain at lowell i don't know where to go with those types of questions and don't know what structure currently exists to meet out ios kind of exceptions >> - expectation. >> a lot of people want to respond to it superintendant guerrero. >> so over a quick response ms. coming down the pike we expect our families to work in collaboration with the administrators i do believe they share the deep commitment to the challenges we're facing, however, if at any point there would be benefit to some additional support or expectation i'll certainly invite the families to reach out to the principal supervisors and the superintendent their more than happy to broker some of the conversations and if at many point it feels like this need to be elevated don't hesitate to bring that to my attention as at deputy superintendent. >> commissioner wynns. >> not my role to say this but this superintendent should be his role it was perfect (laughter). >> commissioner norton i apologize for the presentation i'll watch it online but interested in the recommendations and grateful for your work and just the engagement that is happening that is really the beginning of moving from commissioner fewer to an empowered model for parents i'm appreciative of the parents work and i said to just over a suggestion i see the leadership the folks in the back of room and heard what you said about the parents asking a lot of questions about special ed as a former member i think they'll be thrilled to collaborative with apac and their kri78 incredibly knowledgeable people that advise parents all the time i think that feels like a great collaboration to have the leadership how to work together. >> i wanted to say they spoke on the partnering we've been trying to work closely with the safety team and the community advisory council for special ed and working closely with the folks at special ed. >> thank you so much for the presentation i had an inquiry while listening to it as an ethic members and from a student perspective i was wording how soon can we get involved in that this is called upon apac the student advisory committee students would be interested in getting involved and a lot of strong people in the city that want to bang about due policy i'm not sure where the students can come into this yeah, that general thing. >> thank you. we actually did a forum we're interested in what the students have to say excuse me - so if you have any students interested in coming out we think plan that and actually set up a panel for student discussion because we do want to know what the students want i am not as parents we know what we want as paefrpt but it is important to work with the students and the teachers and the parents to selectively to make sure the students have what they need to be successful. >> yeah. thank you all for the representation i have 3w0ik9d a lot of the meeting i've boycotted like two weeks ago they were unexpected but about the community organizing definitely you have to ask what you want and giving the input hoosiers realistically he was able to do that yeah how dot communities make a difference and he would like to reach out to you guys, i know that jessica said this is a parental led thing but if we can find a way to get more members and talk to bs u i know this is the first year so this will be personally want to - they're the minority and be representative in the students board in the district me myself coming from a majority we are and i'm liking to see the process of sfusd so reach out to you guys and kind of echoing what a lot of people say something i've learned from any school and being in this position and working on the project is accountability and you guys said that is the beautiful thing about that we're seeing today that you guys are keeping accountability and allowing this in the district the changes and i definitely hope that all this gets into action so thank you a lot and for coming tonight. >> commissioner walton. >> just a brief response to a question that was raised by a presenterer. >> from the board of education we don't manage principle leaders that's not our role but ms. fewer answered the question parents working together to brfr each other at various sites if you don't have a b issue you work with the community or bring it to our attention like the parents do and do well, we work together on issues but sometimes, we need the extra persian and attention and working together with collective parents it is variable and powerful from that end and perspective. >> yes. i'd like to say that has a parent with the least amount of resources that i can have the heart harder time to organize this is so much power and so that's why we see a pattern; right? of come - it is the participants that have the less amount of resources and time to advocate i know that it is a very time consuming thing to do and quite frankly but once you do it you teach others to do it it is really powerful and the changes you want to see in individual school sites it is stakeholder around the organizing the people that stand together for a common process and we've seen that change it's course of instruction because of voices that came out and said this is not right i'll say that is the key but continue to actually, i know that colleagues you do this for so many communities but continue to punish on our elected official that's what they're there for quite frankly thank you. >> so i wanted to - one of the goals to say to talk about black history month not only in february the apac when sitting down to work on the goals for the year maybe that was tony and some of the parents said we have to talk about black history month and making sure that is important because cultural is important we need to make sure that is front and center and tony volunteered to make sure we're bringing in some history so you wanted to end the presentation if it is okay to give you on every flier from apac jaunldz now and on the presentation you'll see a symbol that is a slight way to increase the way we share that cultural with them. >> hello commissioners nice to see you all i know some of you are super busy can someone put

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