>> this meeting will come to order. welcome to the public safety neighborhood service committee. i'm supervisor stefani chair. to my right is vice chair engardio and to my left supervisor dorsey. the clerk is mr. john carroll and before we begin i like to wish member dorsey a very happy birthday. we won't sing. today ewoo meeting with the san francisco youth commission civic engagement education committee and i like to introduce the 4 members from the committee present today. we have committee chair valentina alioto-pier. isabella perez, joselyn

marroquin and ewan barker plummer. i like to thank sfgtv. >> police please silence cell phones. if you have documents you like to include, please submit them to the clerk. public comment will be taken on today's singular item. when public comment is called please line up to speak along the western wall of the room. you may submit comment in writing in either of the following ways, e-mail your written comments at john.carroll@sfgov .org or send to 1 dr. b goodlett place if you submit public comment in writing i will forward your

comment to the members of the public safety neighborhood service committee and also include your comment within the file upon which you are commenting. madam chair, just one final bit of housekeeping. i will recognize my colleague in the youth commission, the youth commission clerk joy chan to take the roll for the youth commission. >> thank you. on the call of the roll, commissioner barker plummer, present. commissioner marroquin, present. vice chair perez, present. chair alioto-pier, present. [indiscernible] you have quorum. >> madam chair, that concludes our announcements and the roll. >> thank you to you both and will you please call the first item? >> hearing to evaluate the lockdown and other safety procedures with the san francisco unified school district. >> thank you. and thank you colleagues and

everyone here today. i called for this joint hearing after initially hearing about distressing incidents at george washington and galileo high school december 8, 2023. the youth in the city have been vocal about gun and school safety and i'll support them in the journey for safety on school campus. i look forward to keep safe. this is a issue i think you all know i care very deeply about. gun violence prevention and as a mother to two kids, 19 and 14, it is just to me asser baiting gun violence and leading cause of death for children and teens in the country and i want to make sure the hearing y you and hear your voices. i could go on about this, but i want to make sure know you are supported and we look forward hearing from you and conducting

the hearing so your voices are heard today. i want to welcome director greg markwits. joined by assistant superintendent of family service division, eric-[indiscernible] they are also joined by their colleagues, [indiscernible] and laura--[indiscernible] great. she's the policy communication coordinator and with that, i'll turn it over to commissioner alioto-pier for opening remarks and then we begin the presentation from sfusd. >> thank you supervisor stefani for calling this hearing, and thank you to sfusd for presenting. it is a absolute pressure to be

here. as you probably assumed since we are here, school safety is a issue very near and dear to the youth commission heart, as well the civic engagement and education which is here right now. yeah, we are very very excited to hear from sfusd on how to further school safety and make schools a safe place for children, as it should be. thank you. >> thank you commissioner. i think we can start with our presentation. >> are we able to display the presentation? >> mr. clerk. >> sfgovtv when the slides are ready please display them here. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is greg [indiscernible] i serve the san francisco

unified school district as director of emergency planning and preparedness. on behalf of the san francisco unified school district, i like to thank you for calling this hearing and for giving our team the chance to present. in addition to myself, eric, the assistant superintendent of student family service will also be presenting. i like to introduce colleagues. colleagues joining us are davina [indiscernible] tara and [indiscernible] second, i want to lift up and honor the voices of our students in the room and student in washington high school and sfusd as a whole who organize in school safety and emergency preparedness. we understand student have the right to feel safe at school and we want to work to that end. next slide. a overview what we will be discussing today. we'll share our mission as a

district, talk about our school site security matric, crisis coordination, [indiscernible] lockdown drill protocol. the definition of active shooter threat and school climate cultural partnerships. our district mission is as follows:every day we provide each student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21 century. as a district the safety of staff and student is forfrent of daily decision making at sites and centrally. sfusd is continually modernizing and upgrading facilities. in late october, 2021 the board of education reallocated $10 million in bond funds to improve safety and security. the district completed assessment of secure door

hardware and identified where door hardware was insufficient. today 90 percent of the classrooms have secure hardware installed and will complete by summer 2024. the district updated remote door access with door buzzens with integrated cameras to allow visitor identification and remote access at schools and will complete the work 2024 as well. for building public announcement systems, pa sestms we assessed every school to understand the existing set up and why every school has a pa set up there are around 30 schools that require upgrades to meet the district standards for comprehensive pa coverage in all areas of the campus such as the auditorium and gym and hallways. the $10 million allocation from 2021 will get us most of the way there. with additional 2 to $5 million in funding need we will need including the $10 million. excuse me.

the november 2024 bond system is a opportunity to secure the pa modinization work in 24-25 and safety improvement to campus features. in the event a bond does not pass it is still a district priority and we'll explore other funding sources for the work. the funding outside bond measure is very limited. the bond presentss the best opportunity to be thorough about security improvements. next i will talk about crisis communication in the district. during the incident depends on the scope of the event and impact and safety of students. every situation must be addressed based on multiple factors and sfusd reserve judgment in each case. works with the school closely to determine communication

strategy. the team breaks down incidents into three categories and depending on the level of empact the notification response is adjusted. our crisis communication threshold can be found on our district public website on the page titled, student safety and parent notification. a little about third party and social media. apps such as citizen report events real time so the students and families hear about messages before able to send messages home and that information shared is often incorrect. we understand when the stakeholders find out incidents prior to hearing from the school this creates frustration and confusion. regarding the washington incident communicated as soon as we had all the communication we needed to confirm for the washington community there was no active threat on campus. we have a responsibility to insure that we have all

pertinent information relating to a incident before we share with the community as disinformation can be detrimental to emergency response protocols. i will talk now about our coordination with sfpd. i serve as liaison with sfpd so meet with samual chris to share information consult with one another and [indiscernible] captain chris is also on call during the week and weekends in case of emergency and vice versa for myself. the main goal of the partnership are, maintain direct line of communication, coordinating incident response to and monitor developments, protect student rights and centering community needs and thought partnership.

additionally, our communication division pio works with sfpd to align on messaging as needed to insure the messaging is accurate and consistent and does not compromise active investigations. a little about safety planning and readiness at school sites. the district has a comprehensive crisis plan. schools have individual safety plans and security measures that include evidence based prevention measures. preparation is key to readiness. schools audit safety plans, engage in safety drills and provide timely family communication and notification. information about lockdown protocols. the decision to call a lockdown at a school site or not is based on whether a threat of violence or harm is identified on campus or directed by law enforcement. it is necessary to prevent the

perpetrator or perpetrators from entering any occupied campus areas. the lockdown protocol as well as all other emergency protocols are research based increated and refine in collaboration with law enforcement and dhs recommended actions, department of home land security. as far as active shooter definition goes, government agencies such as the doj and hsa among many others define active shooter as a individual killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area. most cases use fire arms and no pattern or method to selection of victims. i want to once again honor the voices of student who organize and support school safety emergency preparedness at washington and across the district. based on a after action debrief of the incident at washington including reviewing details of the facts of what transpired

sfusd protocols were fallowed. the school prioritize sharing accurate timely updates with families and staff as we recognize the importance of curbing misinformation and confusion within the community. a lockdown was not initiated at washington because per the lockdown protocol it was determined no active threat on campus. i like to now ask my colleague eric, invite him to come up to finish or presentation. >> thank you everybody for inviting us today. before i jump in, i do want acknowledge-i will talk about the bigger picture thinking about culture and climate of the classroom and key partnership with the cities and range of agencies. this is scary so i don't want to undermine as a parent myself having raised children in sfusd it is is a scary proposition and i'm very grateful to you all providing us here and opening up this partnership

that we can have together collectively because we have been thinking about the issue of community violence. it isn't solely at the school level. it is in the community and spillinize to the school and often can spill from the school to the community. with that, i will start with the first slide for us around the critical nature of relationship building and one of the areas and a key shifts in our district in the last year and a half with the board is vision value goals and guardrails and the key guardrail i work to uphold within the student family service division is around the idea of sense of belonging. we know at every school site students that feel seen, heard loved and cared for are more connected and more likely to let us know when something is happening and also the more willing to be part of the solution rather then the causing issues. that is a key driver for us.

one way we do that is to coordinated care teams at every school site supervisored by the lead school division and my folks in student family service division so that is place where they meet weekly to talk about student concern and issue and how to create what we call a tier 1 level of what we expect in our culture and climate, how we want to connect with each other, how we want to behave with each other and think about tier 2 and 3, the services and supports we need to offer for small groups and individual students showing more issues. that is directly connected to the wellness centers which we have at every high school now and next year we will have at every middle school as well. for the schools that don't have some of the k-8 that don't have a wellness center, they all have social workers and all

have or most have school nurses, so the strategies of building the sense of belonging and sense of hearing and understanding where student are coming from. we also have within my division a district crisis response team that deals with high level issues as well on a daily basis. if we are hearing unfortunately even in elementary school a student says i want to hurt somebody, we take that up and deal with that. social worker involved. we can do things like behavior threat assessment, contracts we are working to figure out what the crises and how to mitigate as much as possible. we also initiated a year and a half in, maybe 2 years actually, the say something anonymous reporting. which is great. we trained over 8 thousand students just this month alone. going to continue training student and i know we are training because we have gotten a lot of prank tips, which i feel personally. that is fine because it shows me the system is working and

student are trying to out to see if they get a response, which they do. in terms of centering student and youth, a huge partnership and want to recognize jasmine dawson my partner, we created what i think is a extraordinary model for the country around community partnership with the city of san francisco, [indiscernible] and many interdepartmental teams where we meet on a weekly-twice weekly basis to coordinate issues of violence and how we not only deal with the ones happening and how we are proactive and getting involved and making sure students have violence interrupters and case managers and life coaches to support when something occurred or prior to occurring so we can do restorative practice and mediation and acsess all the rich resources the city has to offer that might be housing services, might be mental

health services. this partnership coordinated between dcyf is key. another the drivers is recently we are now part of a interdepartmental working group. meets twice weekly bobby lopez and her team puts together with the mayor's office, with dph, juvenile justice and sfpd and range of folks to talk what is coming up in the community, how it might impact schools or what is happening at schools that might impact the community and been able to leverage for families in distress and students as well. we offer many assemblys and workshops and club to build the sense of belonging and we have very many community partnerships addressing culture and i identity and student safety and student wellness as well. the team i was mentioning is

multidisciplinary team. i will not go into great detail, but it involves the district, myself, what we call violence interrupts. folks on my team, dcyf folks, the national institute for criminal justice reform and [indiscernible] and a range of community organizations, including [indiscernible] ycd and cyc. many thoughtful-and juvenile probation. the way it works, monday we have a leadership meeting talking about big picture issues and thursday, i got off a call, we meet with the violence interrupts and cbo and talk case by case what is happening and who will support that school or this student or that family or community in real time and we have this for virtually every one of the middle and high school. we pilot around 15 schools now as well and that is a very

impactful program and with the bureau justice administration grant as well and we really appreciate that partnership. finally i'll close up, these are the people that do the work. i want to shout out some of the school violence interrupts there at the sites every single day. coming from [indiscernible] and very very importantly, ucsf wrap around who gives a lot of great information. i want to shout out folks including chico [indiscernible] incredibly instrumental in the work and i want to close by saying we recognize that it really does take a village. it takes a community to try to impact what we are seeing i think in our city and in our nation unfortunately around a rise in violence and rise in incidence with youth in the world and lastly, i think the other thing i didn't talk about

is my team delves into how to get at the root cause, because we know guns are real problem, but there is something behind that too, such as housing, such as food security, such as jobs. with that, i will end my part. thank you. and turn back over to greg to finish us up. >> just thank you once again and we are available for questions or-- >> thank you so much. that was very informative and i will turn it over to the youth commissioners to see if you have any questions of sfusd. it looks like we have commissioner barker plummer. >> thank you and thank you chair stefani for not only facilitating the conversation and calling this hearing and my thanks to the san francisco unified school district for presenting. before i ask a couple follow-up

questions i want to speak about the hearing and the importance. safety concerns from students and families have been a consistent issue raised to myself and many youth commissioners. today hearing is a important opportunity for us to address the concerns, both where improvement is needed, but also to share publicly the school district along with partners in the city have proactively taking for school safety so i want to express thanks to supervisor stephanie and partners at unified school district for being here and facilitating this. one area i with am wondering if i can hear more about is the procedure between sfusd schools and sfpd when there is a emergency incident. specifically, what is the first contact look like and follow up on that if there needs to be another call made how is that

done, especially between school sites and emergency services and how central office is included as well. >> that is a great question actually. one thing i'll say is, when there is a incident at a site and emergency service are called whether medical or law enforcement, our principals at the site the site leaders serve as incident commanders so the first person to generally speak with and meet law enforcement or medical personnel is our site leader and site principal who has the most information about the incident. that initial contact during a incident-and that-those interactions, that interaction happens throughout the incident. when police are called-i do want to say that you know, since we came back from the pandemic the relationship with sfpd has been incredible and it has been appreciated in the sense of the partnership we

have and their willingness to meet us where we are at with regards to police presence on campus. what i will say is that, after a incident there is a follow-up in the sense of after action reports and that collaboration that exists between sfpd and the district. we meet mondays for a hour. eric is generally there, i'm there, any other folks that in our lead division that serve schools come and maybe bring up questions they have, but what i will say also is, i'm on the phone with captain chris probably 1 or 2 times a day checking in about incidents, consulting, asking questions, best practices, and it st. the same for them as well. they call us a lot asking about like, best practice and how they interact with schools and any concerns that come up. it is really like a ongoing

conversation via text, via phone. >> if i can ask a follow-up question. so, what i heard from some students is that, they are under the impression that once there is a first initial contact between a school site and emergency services then essentially the policy is it should always go through central office. i wonder if that is accurate and so--say there was a incident reported, the school principal calls 911 and says we need a response, they end the phone call, are they able to then per protocol call 911 again or do they have to go through central office? >> absolutely. we want them to call 911 when there is a emergency. so, i'm trying to answer your question here. there is no intervention between central office and the site. we talk to--we learn about it

afterwards, if that makes sense. like, there is no-they don't have to get permission to speak to the police. is that what you are asking? >> yeah, and i think there were concerns around what that incident--it grows to be including central office, once you guys become aware of a incident happening? >> absolutely. >> there were concerns around what the process looks like and how they might inhibit and complicate the situation between law enforcement. >> there is literally no intervention, it is more-we talked about this before at the may hearing, we have a central emergency operation center and what that is, it is a [indiscernible] all the people in support of schools come together and i lead it to say, what's going on, what do you need, if it is around lunch time do we need stable food instead of hot lunch. it is what is going on at the school site and how we make

sure that as little disruption to the school day occurs, other then what is going on. >> thank you. >> any other questions? supervisor dorsey. >> thank you so much. so, a few days ago i was listening to npr and there was a story that i think all things considered and knowing this hearing was coming up, i looked it up. it was about exploring the connection s between bullying and school shootings and one thing i really grateful to see in the presentation was addressing some culture. just curious if that is something that the story that npr ran focused on a incident a school shooting in iowa and some of the students-there is no motive. the person who did it took i think killed 5 students 3 staff

members and took his own life. one thing reported is he had been bullied since elementary school and there was discussion about that. obviously this isn't to forgive it or explain it, but it did go into things we need to do and i think there was a reference to addressing root causes. just to invite somebody to explore that a little bit. what the school district does around bullying. i just appreciated the attention you gave to school culture and also i think as you wrap up you mentioned getting at the root cause, which include access to guns too. >> that is scary story. that is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night and greg and all of us. i think the culture and climate piece and sense of belonging and really how we support sites

and building that place where student walk in the door and feel that sense that they are okay, that they are valued, regardless of where they come from and who they are is absolutely critical. when i talk about tier 1, that is what i mean. the expectation across the whole school, the hallway, the cafeteria and classroom where students feel they can be themselves and be kind and respected with each other. bullying we take deeply seriously and we agree, bullying could be a root cause then we have to look why the bully and where is that is coming from. we do trainings with social worker around bullying and interventions. we have monthly [indiscernible] all the social workers, all the counselors, all our nurses and all our community health outreach workers that run the support the running of the wellness centers, so that's a key piece. the other piece around social

emotional learning from pre-k through 12 grade and we have a office of equity which deals with specific incidents of bullying we then investigate with the school sites and actually then follow up and figure out is this going to lead to what kind of discipline, sometimes expelling which i didn't talk about but that is my shop and other remedies to make sure we are addressing and mitigating incidents of bullying. >> thanks so much. i think the only other thing i would offer and this isn't really a question, you can come up, it was more a observation. being here with a younger generation, i all most feel i want to apologize on behalf of the generation that got it wrong. this country had second amendment since 1787 but we never had a court holding of a individual right to possess

fire arms until 2008. it was the roberts courts and it changed everything. it eviscerated our ability as policy makers to have meaningful gun control in this case. it was the helling decision fallowed by the mcdonald decision and under mined the ability to have the gun control we should be having and now this 15 year s later we are just seeing these kinds of problems. i really do appreciate the leadership of my colleagues supervisor stefani and the work being done here on the youth commission, so i just appreciate this and value this hearing. >> thank you supervisor dorsey. if you want to make your blood boil read why the supreme court decided the way they did in the heller decision and what the nra had to do with that. i can send literature about all the academic articles written to support the individual right

and they pret a much made it up and anyway--it is very upsetting, so thank you supervisor dorsey for those words. i see we have commissioner perez up next. >> thank you chair stefani for calling this hearing and also the san francisco unified school district for presenting and also supervisor dorsey for your comments. very appreciated. this issue as commissioner barker plummer mentioned is important to the youth commission and myself because speaking on behalf of the commission, some colleagues attend the schools and specifically alluding to both galileo and george washington and those incidents on december 8 and aware of the progress and improvement yet to be had to insure students are safe within sfusd. in the presentation you mentioned difference between-the goal to improve the

pa system across sfusd. specifically for the 30 sites considered to be the top priority. my question is what measures are being taken to insure proper funding will be had if this bond measure does not pass? specific measures for that and the second part to the question is what exactly is the state of these current pa systems if a issue were to happen tomorrow? would they be able to effectively communicate a issue to the public to the school at large? what is considered to be a malfunctioning pa system. >> excellent question. i'll address your second question first, which is, like i said, every school site has a pa system. when we have been doing the bond modernization project off the 2016 bond we have been district standards changed in terms what we want to see in a

pa system so those sites with the modernization done have the district standard pa system now. the current schools that do not are the ones we are attending to. every school has a pa system. they are just not the district standard pa system and as far as the funding goes, i spoke to the bond team and preparing for this hearing and i think what they have a understanding of this is of the upmost importance and not the sole responsibility of the bond team to find funding if the bond does not pass, but i think overall the facility division and operation division, the understanding this is a top priority is there, so there is a commitment to if the bond does not pass so everybody vote for it, please if you are a sf resident. if it doesn't pass we have to move things around in terms of

projects in the pipeline or queue to make sure the jobs get done. >> great. thank you very much. >> commissioner marroquin. >> thank you. first of all, i want to say thank you supervisor stefani for calling this meeting and san francisco unified school district for presenting. school safety has been a really important issue to the youth commission for a very long time and i think it is really important we are addressing this today. my question was in the area of crisis communication, specifically, what is the process for timely crisis communication for especially students in ongoing incident? >> thank you for your question. i'll go on to say that, the team breaks down incidents that occur between low impact,

medium impact and are high impact and depending on where the incident falls in terms of the threshold, different communications level exist. one of the most important things like i said previously is we get all the information before we share information with students and families and to make sure that we get it right, because misinformation is often detriment al like i said to emergency response and very frustrating when we don't get the information correct. i'll just say, when we-i can go through the different levels, but low impact is posing no minimum risk to the safety of the school, no disruption regular school day. this is example of a small disturbance or fight and that's usually parents of the involved students will be contacted. this won't be a full school message.

medium impact, police activity in the neighborhood which result in students being brought inside during lunch, something like that. we send a message by the end of the day via e-mail, phone call or website posting. it isn't immediately need to get the information out, but we need to get it out eventually because we want to communicate with the families. high impacts, a gas leak, school evacuation, school closure, school goes into lockdown, lock-out, some high impact major event, our com s team will spring into action and the message goes home immediately via text message, our school messenger system. if a matter of public concern, the coms team may provide social media updates or put out a press release. >> thank you. i just wanted to say, thank you again to the public safety and neighborhood safety committee

and supervisor stefani for calling this meeting. >> thank you. commissioner alioto-pier. did you have- >> thank you. so, i just want to cover a--thank you for presenting. i just want to cover a little more about drills. i was wondering if there is district policy for schools on how to actually practice lockdown drills regularly and if there is a certain way that drills are done differently at each school or each district? just to insure the safety of our students and make sure they know exactly what is going on for such different schools and how they are built. >> thank you for your question. so, every school year it is state mandated law that schools complete comprehensive school safety plans and those plans need to be completed, shared with the school site counsel approved and including in the

plans is all the information and resources sites need to complete these drills in question and the 4 main drills are fire drills with evacuation, earthquake drill, lockdown and lock-out. in the plan you have information what the protocol looks like, you have information about how to plan for a drill and then one pagers you can put around school and in classrooms so students know what to dine a emergency drill. schools are required to complete two of the drills every year and we work with school sites if they want help planning and creating materials to share with their staff or students in terms how to train them. i have open office hours every week three times a week and a lot of schools reach out to me for support and every school is different like you said. we have some schools that are

giant, so it really takes sometimes you do a drill and doesn't go well and that is really important because that teaches all the deficiencies in what you are planning. at a small elementary school it looks a lot different and you have to account for different things because you have smaller children, or you know, there is a rule that says first and second graders can't go down the stairs with kindergartners. there are all these things you have to take into consideration. like i said earlier, all this material and all this information is laid out every year in these templates the schools get that they complete which includes the evacuation plan, the off-site evacuation and people they need to contact. it is all right there. it is a living docu■fnt, people can click on it, it's a really

comprehensive doc. you're welcome. >> thank you. i think we have commissioner barker plummer. >> if i am allowed to speak again. i have plenty questions. >> you can ask as many questions you like. >> thank you. once again i appreciate that. i sort of have three different areas i want to follow up on. if other commissioners want to go in between, let me know. the first is sort of following up on the pa systems. you mentioned we had a hearing last may. i know this is something that i and other commissioners brought up and especially considering the bond has been moved from the march primary election to the november primary election, seems a more important question to ask of, you basically said in the case the bond does not pass you will find alternative ways to fund it. why has not been done already

with urgent issue that frankly i would argue needed pressing-needed a more timely response then waiting to november 2024 to even pass the bond and then after that implemented? does that make sense? >> sure does. three things or start that with that one? >> i'll let you respond to each one. >> i wanted to write all these things down. that's a great question. i mentioned briefly that a lot of this modernization work and this bond work happens when the bond is passed. so 2016 bond. modernize schools as we go. i totally agree in the sense that, this is just me personally believe this is one of the most important things we need to work on as a school district so i'm glad we are working on it. as far as why it has not been done until now, that is a great

question. i don't have a great answer for you, but i do believe as somebody who is working on this participating in the work now, it is in front of us so how we make sure it happens now is probably the best answer i can give you. i joined the division a year ago and so i was actually a high school principal along with [indiscernible] previous to this and so and i do know that before my modernization between the years of 13-16 we didn't have a modernized pa system and then we did and it made a huge difference, so i want to make sure we can make a huge difference in all the schools that need them. >> i mean, i appreciate that. i do just want to say you know, i and fellow commissioners have had meetings with leaders on the local level and state level. i know there are grant programs on the federal level when it comes to school safety.

to me it a little odd at least that that hasn't been considered, especially when safety is supposed to be the number one priority for the school district. i don't know if you want to speak to that more or if i should move on, but i want to give you a opportunity to respond to that as well. >> i mean, eel polk i'll just reiterate, i totally agree it is one of the most important things we need to work on. >> thank you. and then another-my second area is among crisis communication. i know you said third party apps provide a real challenge i think. i know that is conversations i heard among other areas of city government as well, even the youth commission is still learning how to deal with up and coming social media as well. i am wondering what your plan is long-term to actually deal with that, because we know

young people are not go ing to stop using instagram. i wonder if you have thoughts on what the long-term plan is whether you can work with these platforms, whether you need to express to students that this isn't always trustworthy? >> one thing we work on is digital literacy and making sure they understand what these different apps represent and where this information comes from and how you consumers are social media and information that comes across. to be perfectly honest, it is really-i wouldn't say impossible, but really hard to combat these third party apps, social media apps even when we deal with issues in the school regarding social media, instagram. it isn't facebook anymore, i know the kids don't use that. my parents who are older use it.

but as far as instagram and don't know what else is popular, i apologize, but it is really hard to address those issues because we don't have a ton of control over it and as you astatutely mentioned, working with our students and families to understand that all the information that comes across this app isn't totally--it is more often times not accurate. it is information that comes across police scanners, things like that and so the initial thing they hear is that there is a gun at x school and they don't--you want to speak to it? please. in terms of-i feel strongly what said about crisis calms. we want to get the information right because you don't want to put information you have to retract that changed

afterwards. >> i will use this one. so, i'm not going to speak directly to citizen app. i think it is problem for the city. but in terms of students on social media and causing issues, that is a area that we have known for a long time as a serious area of concern for us so we work with our teams the com team and the grant i talked about with dcyf as the next iteration how we help students understand thoughtful positive respectful use of social media and how we get a handle on that. we have work we have been doing at school sites and build messaging around that and also working across the teams with violence interrupter because we also know it is a individual one on one meetings where they can really see their ways because they posted something they were mad and lost a video game and said something they

shouldn't have said and it blew up. we see that all the time. how we channel that in a different way. as a team across the city we recognize this is a huge area of growth for us and of concern so we will continue to tackle it. not necessarily from the citizen app piece which seems separate from this, but very alarming because sometimes things are misreported and they blow up and that could be hard in the investigation because we think it is this because we saw it on citizen app and it is absolutely not that, and then how do you counter the narrative? that is something we are working on collectively as well. >> i was going to add as part of the communication department, i think our social responsibility as young leaders as elected officials and community members to think how we share communication when a

crisis like this occur in the community. we have to be sensitive and it is our social responsibility and i call out all of us so when we experience or see information that about incidents in the schools or community think about before you share that information because we might just cause panic and we want empower the students and communities to get the right information from trusted sources like [indiscernible] investigating the cases of incidents that happen in the school sites. a invitation for all of us to be socially responsible when we use platforms that are at our disposal. >> one thing thing i like to add, i'm a parent. i have two daughters, 10 and 13. they go to public school in oakland and if i-i want to name it is really important to get that information out as quickly as possible because i want to know when something goes on at

my child's school. i also want you to know, prior to me coming into this role there wasn't as much-as far as i know, not as much collaboration between my work and the work this position engages in in the com division and [indiscernible] colleague and i about a year ago really sort of decided that we were going to be very much aligned in this work, because crisis calms and making sure communication is quick and accurate and so families know what's going on at their child's school site is probably one of the most important parts of emergency response and preparedness is making sure that is squared away. i want you to know it is really important piece to the work we do and we care deeply to make sure it is done a respectful swift and accurate way. >> thank you. one more follow-up question and

then i know i think commissioner perez wants to speak. so, you spoke a lot about in the presentation and also in the recent response in terms of what notifying families looks like. i think one of the issues that came up at george washington high school was, there were these beliefs perulating and spreading that there was either a active threat or had been some kind of active threat and that lead to questions around should a lockdown have been called. what does communication with students look like, especially in real time? as a student i think it is great my parents get a e-mail later that day that say something might have happened but i'm more concerned about getting a e-mail in my in-box that says everything is okay or everything is not okay. i wonder on two levels, what is like in real time emergency

communication look like to people who are on campus, do you have a emergency alert system or student signed with cell phones, sfusd e-mail they are sent to, and also more generally how you take into consideration the impact that that has on students, because so far you really only have spoken about families? >> i understand what you are asking in terms of impact on students and i think what is challenging about you spoke about the washington incident. i think what is challenging about that incident is, students were getting one piece of information in real time from the citizen app because i think that is what happened and there was something happening alternatively real time that was different and there was no way for us to know what was being shared on citizen app, versus what is happening real time. the realty of what was

happening. i think once we all understood and it all gets to us in different ways in terms of the students think x is happening and so once we start to understand--what i would also share is, we don't get information as quickly necessarily as you might think. information comes to us based on what is happening in relation to what you are saying and students not know what is going on, so once we come to understand, the correct information goes out. again, we have school messenger, which is what we use to get information out to students, families, staff, and so when information is-when we understand what actually happened and we can set the record straight, we do that. >> let me ask one more question. if there is a active situation,

how quickly are you able to communicate to students or faculty on campus beyond just a public announcement? i know a lot of schools don't have ones deemed to be sufficient, but also, school sites have people outside between classes and passing periods, all these kinds of things. do you have a active alert system or i don't know if that is the correct terminology, but i want to know how quickly you can get a message out that says we need to lockdown, or there is a threat on campus you need to be aware of, or don't panic? >> sure. again, we use the different systems we have available to us when we have to evacuate. when we have to engage in a lockdown. if there is a lock-out. lock-out is different because it is a little more-it is quite. you do a lock-out so nothing is coming in or out. it is a good question. i had to engage in several

lockdowns as a principal and it's not always clean and that's what we do our drills, but ultimately you know-i think depending on the incident, god forbid we should ever have a true active shooter situation. you get the word out as quickly as you can with all the systems available to you and if it is an active shooter situation, a lot of times that-i'll just leave it at that. >> commissioner perez. >> thank you for answering all the questions. i did just based on what commissioner barker plummer mentioned about the george washington incident, curious, is there a uniform response afterwards in terms of from a

emotional standpoint having resources for students to express their concerns to get the necessary mental support or whatever that may be or is that on the student to search that out or can does the school have again, this response that is put in place like an assembly or something like that? >> yeah, in any-i talked about the crisis response team and so one of the key things we would do there and washington was no different is we working with for example i see tera here, working with tera directly, we make sure the school is capable and able to support student that may triggered or--it is really scary as i opened when i was talking so our wellness centers we work with the crisis response team. they are social workers and so they are connecting and say be ready for this, there may be students coming in and we work with our lead folks and the

sites themselves to say feel free to send kids and let them know the wellness center is there. if we need to go in classrooms and check in. we didn't do it in the washington case i know of, maybe-we may do lessens in the classroom or pull out or push in to make sure students feel safe at the wellness centers, especially the high school and middle school level. key drivers in the work so after--a incident such as washington which wasn't a active threat but could be very alarming triggering and scary, we are there to support them. >> i think from a personal standpoint and necessary. going back to belonging how student may not feel confident and comfortable going to a teacher, counselor, to express how they felt triggered so i think it should be on these different committees that are focused on the issue for them to go into classrooms for them

to take the initiative because it might not always be on the student so i'll just say that. >> can i just add that i mentioned the coordinated care teams. that is a strategy to get a handle. after a incident the coordinated care team can come together and talk about do we go in classrooms or offer some peace rally or get a dj and do something that is fun or maybe breathing and meditation, mindfulness so they are aware when a incident like that happens it can be traumatic across the board. >> thank you. >> thank you. that was one of my questions in terms of the traumatizing nature of these lockdown drills and what happens to the students after that really are triggered and do they have resources, where can they go, do they know about them? i think sometimes the traumatizing nature of just going through a idea someone may be on the campus as a

active shooter perpetuates anxiety and depression and everything facing our youth and we have to have resources for them and it sounds like we do. i just want to make sure for the youth that you all know about it and they are utilizing these resources. >> i couldn't agree with you more. >> hi, everyone. i wanted to ask something about that decision. i think that is why we also don't always jump to the lockdown is because we also have to balance when we have information where we feel confident and we have to investigate this first, if we were to do that that could be a weekly occurrence from any random thing. we have to first investigate and is this a valid thing because we don't want to overly traumatize and that is a huge weight on the shoulders of a principal to be the person that needs to navigate that and why it is great we have a team because we don't just-it could be how you feel that day or the principal is busy and have to get to a meeting so we feel

comfortable we go into the crisis response of let's let this out and you are doing this and you are doing that, because that is the disadvantage of always reacting is that. also going into every class or doing a big whole group thing like a assembly format, everyone deals with things differently and that may be very uncomfortable where they are like what i want to do is focus on math, i don't want to be in the conversation. it is a hard balance we have to weigh. >> thank you for that. i see we have commissioner barker pumer on the roster again. >> it is good timing. so, my last question was basically how see something say something is being advertised. i know that you said there is some success to it, and i know some students know about it, but one thing i heard from the

fall out, repercussions at washington and galileo is people are saying why don't we have this kind of system. we do, but there is clearly lack of awareness this is system they are able to utilize, especially like in real time as well, so wondering if any of you can speak to that as well? >> well, we are actively working to train all our 6-12 graders. that is the grade age level that we work with the sandy hook team. we are over 8 thousand right now, but that is just for-many students have been trained prior. washington including last year and part of the year before. the training isn't different and app isn't different so it it is all still there. there are posters at all the schools with the qr code and information how to access it. we will continue and are continuing because we believe this is critical for our work to push it and we [indiscernible] i was looking at the list to see which

schools still have not or completed the training and the executive director of my team takes the lead. we meet with the sandy hook folks and monitor and push the trainings throughout the year to make sure we are as high as-we are about 45 percent right now, but we do much better, and we will do much better. >> thank you. i would also say, the youth commission is a resource for you to hear from young people what the best ways to communicate those type of things are, so let us know if we can be helpful in like best practices for submitting information to young people. i think that is a constant challenge as social media becomes more complicated and so many schools sites and sfusd so let us know if we can be helpful in that sense as well. and then the other last thing i want to ask about is the distribution of safe firearm storage information. i know we have many mom demand

action volunteers leaders here today and this is snng they have been working on and i have been working on not only in schools and other community organizations making sure the city is sharing that information as well. i know that you said it is included in some district wide news letters. i know that people have felt it was quite burried in a lot of information disseminateed. one of the recommendations also is to have students go home with a piece of paper their parents are supposed to review and sign and send back at beginning of the year to make sure they know that is happening. that is something we brought up last hearing, so wndering if there is any positive movement towards having that actually be implemented? >> i'm going to say a little about our communications in terms of sharing very vital important information with our families. most of the communications we send out in the news letter are

posted on the website, so we also recognize when families dont have access to get the information via a news letter because they not open e-mail they might browse the website. we have a commitment to update the information and communication department we think beyond the news letter and beyond e-mail and other channels of communication like other channels we can activate to insure families and students are receiving the latest and grating information about these issues. part of our commitment is how we make it accessible to families that are mono lingual. it is long that comes into planning and sharing and activating the proper channels so we reach the right audiences, so in terms of how we share that information, we will continue to use and implement some of the channels activated. early last year since last

year, and again, our commitment is to continue enforcing and implementing other channels to best communicate with multiple audiences, bringing language to to r our work and accessibility. >> thank you. i would just say this has been something that has been asked for a lot is have this sent home as a physical copy, because sometimes there is nothing better with a physical copy with news letters and social media so i hope i see a commitment to doing that maybe for the next school year soon would be something i appreciate. >> absolutely. we are taking the recommendation back to the team and that is something we can work on printing and doing mail out to the families so everyone has access to a hard copy. >> thank you. >> on the see something say something anonymous reporting system, are you using the app from the sandy hook promise or how are you facilitating that

information? i don't know if everyone knows what that is. it is anonymous reporting system 365/24/7 that my understanding anyone with report whether they are feeling they may harm themselves or somebody may be harmed in school. wonder how the information is getting out and i do love the fact that i want to acknowledge the moms demand action members. i see them with their shirts. love them. the work they put into making sure that information was going home about safe storage. if we can do the same for the see something say something program. >> we shared on our website and many spaces as well. the way it works is, it is a app as you said and there is a center that isn't us through the sandy hook promise and they field all the calls and distribute them out. they are every single school has a team of of at last 3,

many cases 5 that have cell numbers so they get alerted right away and i have a team as well so there are parallel alerts so many folks get calls. the sandy hook folks talk to students, you see the transcripts, they talk with students through what is going on and happening and what do they need and they make a determination whether it is high level or high risk incident or low risk or sometimes a prank. i will say, i won't say specifics, but while we were training and kids were practice, we did pick up a student in emotional distress and it was in very real time that i actually got the call myself, able to reach out to the principal and able to get the student the support they needed immediately. i believe as we continue to build it is a extraordinarily impactful for individual support for students that may not feel comfortable reporting and other stuff coming up in the community or school site. >> thank you so much.

if anyone wants more information about it, it is you can find it at sandyhookpromise.org and it is called say something promise system. thank you so much. i remember talking to superintenant matt wayne about this when we met and was very happy you are embracing this because i think it is really important and throughout it is used throughout the nation in many different schools and stopped many school shootings. it has been a good tool. commissioner alioto-pier. >> thank you. so, this is just to go back to emotional support within schools. while talking to a few colleagues, like orientations or during meetings or something, we have come to a understanding that within schools it is very very difficult to get and meet with your counselor, and when you do actually meet with your counselor you only get 15 minutes with them from personal experience. that would not be enough.

i was wondering if there's a situation to arrive. if there a plan in place for after that situation, like something in wash for more support to be put out there and just more of those resources. maybe another cunsler counselor for a month so in the high school elementary middle school where ever it may be will get enough time with their counselor and enough time actually speak? >> couple things. i love you to clarify what you are asking, but i think a lutal little distinction, counselors in the school are there for support but also there for academic support. i think it is great to go to your counselor, but encourage going to the wellness centers and they are where there are social workers there, there is therapists there, there is cbo partners child community outreach worker. that is a space to really connect and to be able to be

there for a while to maybe get involved in a group, get involved in one on one therapy or counseling and connect. i do think that in some cases going to your academic counselor is great, but it isn't necessarily going to give you the same level of social emotional support long urterm then you can get at the wellness center. i know washington has strong wellness center so highly encourage that. i will say we are in a state of staffing shortage, so we are short on counselors. i think we are fairly good right now at the academic counseling level, and we do have social workers at every high school and middle school, but it is definitely not-it is still-we talk about the teacher shortage, but the nursing shortage and social worker shortage is quite real as well.

>> okay, see no other names on the roster and we have people that i know want to get to public comment, why don't we open up for public comment. mr. clerk. >> thank you madam chair. if you have public comment on our agenda item number 1, please line up to speak along the western wall of the room. i am pointing out with my left hand. if the first speaker would come forward to the lectern, i'm start a timer for 2 minutes per speaker and the first speaker with approach the lectern at this time. >> hi, thank you so much commissioner barker plummer and supervisor stephanie and thank you to sfusd leadership for your thoughtful replies and sharing the information. i feel good you give such care to students and thoughts to violence intervention and prevention and social emotional support. i want to make sure just as much attention is given to the horrible possibility that a active shooter could still none the less happen and that i want to feel more secure that every single thing that can possibly

be done to keep our students safe in the situation is being done. that includes of course the interior door locks, working pa system and information home so parent and guardians know it is illegal to have a gun in a home with a miner unsecured. also, it is so important the students feel safe. it is obviously so hard for student to feel safe in 2024 in high school, but as much communication being done as possible with them and as much listening to what they need to feel safe, i think that is really going to do a lot to help them learn and hopefully improve the situation. i want to say how terrible i feel that our educators and administrators have to deal with the issue because they shouldn't have to, but that is where we are at so thank you so much. >> thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is sarah montoya, a

volunteer with [indiscernible] public school parent. someone who has been impacted by gun violence in my life and also coming to speak up for san francisco parents coalition. we have reached out to community and heard from parents in san francisco that they need more transparency. they don't know what is happening but they know about the facility issues and do know that the pa systems are not working and they are concerned and they want more transparency. grateful for the presentation. at the same time, i think our parents deserve more and our students actually ultimately more then anyone else our students deserve more. they deserve to feel safe and i also want to share that last year i sat across from a teacher as she cried looking around the clasroom telling me she could see all the ways that she knew her students were not safe. she was just sitting with me crying and talking about my own child and she knew she couldn't keep him safe if something

happened and that breaks my heart it across the board our schools do not feel like safe spaces now, so thank you for the work you are doing. and please do more. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is sophia. if you are supervisor or local politician i e-mailed you about safety concerns. as a studabout from wash, i like to say we don't do the drills twice a year. we haven't had lockdown drills. we just had our first in several years. normally shay e they show a video instead of the drill. also the same week as the gun incident we had two bathroom fires two days. my parent and i were not notified. i think that is a incident that would be needed to be notified about. also, they said they can reach out to wellness centers if we are feeling unsafes or traumatized but the centers are

under staffed and if i make a appointment it takes up to 6 months. see something say something, i have been at wash, my third year now, i never heard of it before i talked to administration and told me about it. i never heard of it before. there are no posters. i never heard of it and didn't know it was a thing and that was a possibility that i could reach out for. so, obviously the district is saying a lot of stuff and lot of good things that need to be implemented but the students need to know they are option jz need to be staffed and need to be funded. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm a student of george washington high school and i say thank you for being here to have a meeting on school safety. i want to also point out as per my class mate sophia said, our school we have not been communicated properly with say

something system. my question is for the sandy hook promise app. is that inefficient for communication to be sent to a organization and then to the school administration if we can't just talk to it the administration our severals? i want to add that our school has a lack of communication systems in place, the pa system. we have been told for the past 4 years they implement that by the summer and the school district has not delivered on that, so i was wondering if you have plans to hold sfusd construction accountable as well as a timeline for modernization of school and implementing these changes? >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. commissioners, my name is tom pier.

30 year resident of san francisco, proud to say my wife and i have raised three children in the city. first off, i like to really commend the youth commission for bringing very important perspective to these issues. a perspective i think is generally lost among the people of my generation and the people who are the legislators who really are running the show for lack of a better term. and, the reason i'm raising this issue is in light of the united states senate hearings yesterday i as i'm sure everyone in the room is aware that, ceo's of all the social media companies testified before congress. i didn't hear young people testifying during those hearings or asking questions.

so, the point i'm trying to make is that i really encourage the youth commissioners and also the board of supervisors to become engaged in what is this nascent regulatory environment that is taking place first at a national level, but will trickle down. i appreciate that we are sort of looking at the back-end of school violence, but the front end is the social media bullying and harmful conduct that takes place online towards youth. in summary, i really encourage you to get involved in this regulatory process. thank you for your time. >> thank you for sharing comments. next speaker, please. >> hi, jen [indiscernible] here as a public school parent. i have a first grader.

thank you supervisor stefani for calling this meeting and for all of the advocacy and work you do in this space as a parent i am greatly appreciative of that. i have been in sfusd for a year and a half now. i don't know that my daughter had a lockdown drill. i know when i go to the campus of her school it's open. there are not conversations about safety that are happening with the parents. there is conversations happening in some rooms, but those are not conversations happening across the district and they need to be. we need to know what's going on at the school and we need good communication. watching this presentation i feel like we don't have a great path forward yet. we are not prepared with the technology. we are not prepared with infrastructure and we need to be doing more, so thank you all for being here today and making this is a top priority.

>> thank you. >> next speaker. if we have further speakers after this one please line up to speak along the wall. >> i'm here as a parent of a sfusd second grader. i served on my school council for 3 years now so very aware of the school safety plan. i would like to make sure we address a system of checks and balances however, because of where i'm located i'm in d3, galileo is the closest high school. i know there is a pa system not working at galileo. not just a problem for the students, but the student for all of the adjacent elementary schools which evacuate to galileo. days before the galileo incident, we basically had signed off on our school site safety plan knowing francisco, another challenging school and galileo are both our schools and supposed to be a place of safety where our students can go if there a incident and that

is a bit concerning to me as a parent. i also know galileo did not have a plan in place because their principal was out on medical leave. this is is one system of checks and balances i think needs to happen in our district. at our school we had a issue we had a gas leak, luckily it was not a real issue, but parent were not all notified of the incident and the evacuation, because our principal was out that day and had to rely on the school secretary. i believe that the system is great in theory. i think there still needs to be a application of that and where so i really want to see a further application and oversight of what is currently in place. but i definitely appreciate the youth commission and supervisor stefani and dorsey and engardio for taking the issue seriously. >> thank you for your comments.

anyone further with public comon item 1? madam chair. >> seeing none, public comment is now closed. thank you everyone for coming out for public comment. i don't know if the school district felt like responding to any of the comments they heard or can touch base with some of those commenters that had questions, but if you want to respond, great, if not that's okay. i can turn it back over to our youth commissioners for final questions or remarks. >> great. i can go ahead and close us off and i think we all have brief statements to wrap up. i just want to say i know we are all on the same page about the importance of insuring our schools are safe learning environments for students as well as the educators and staff who are there. i think the fact the hearing was held shows we have people from the school district, from

our city government, even the young leaders we have of our city that we all care. i also think it is clear today that there is a need for improvement and that we need to make sure this is a urgent priority for our school district, for our city and for our wider community. so, i want to thank supervisor stefani for calling this hearing and supervisor engardio and dorsey for joining us as well as as my fellow civic engagement education committee members and also my appreciation to sfusd for presenting today. we all play a part in making sure our schools are safe and welcoming learning environments that includes teachers, administrators, students and our supervisors. i think it is important we make a collective commitment to doing this and make sure this is the first priority when it comes to our schools is making sure they are safe for everyone. thank you.

>> again, i want to say thank you supervisor stefani for calling the hearing and public safety neighborhood service committee. school safety has been a priority on the commission for years and will continue to be a top priority until youth feels the schools are safe learning environment they were built to be, especially to grow in their academic and personal development and yes, there is a great importance to be placed on all issues brought up today with additional comment about the importance of expanding wellness centers at school across the city. we all want to insure the safety of our city youth so speaking on behalf of the youth commission, there is great work to be done, we are excited and hoping for the further commitment to school safety and continued partnership on the issue. >> great.

i have the same appreciation. thank you for your time and the presentation. this has been a important issue of the youth commission for a long time as mentioned before. we are committed to continuing to work on this matter to insure that my peers and our peers have the piece of mind during school hours that they are provided with necessary resources for issues that can impact safety and wellbeing. i was intrigued how since of belonging or lack there of directly impact the student ceftsds and willingness to go to a trusted adult and find support if they believe safety is threatened but this committee will work to [indiscernible] and the confidence to find the necessary help. >> yeah, i just wanted to echo what my other community members also said. i think it is great that we all have come together today to have this holding, parents--the

public safety and neighborhood committee and my other community members. i think is really great we come together and just us being here right now really shows that we are committed to uplifting student voices in all schools making sure we get them proper safety and i think it is great that we are making measures to finally get this done, so thank you so very much to the public safety neighborhood committee and supervisor stefani for calling this meeting. >> thank you to all of you so much for your remarks, and thank you for your advocacy. i want to thank you in advance for being the generation that is going to put a end to the insanity in this countsry around gun violence. you are the ones who will make a difference. i promise. i see it in your compassion. i see it in your attention to

detail. i see it in everything how you show up and the walk out you did. was that last week or the week before? all the weeks are running together. i'm so impressed by all of you and the one commenter that said there was no one in the senate talking about the impact on the youth, it is your voice, it is your experience, it is what you are going through and what you know your peers are going through that needs to be heard and we adults who are in positions of power, we need to figure how to change it. we really need to figure how to do something about the the say something program so everyone knows about it. we need to figure how to get the money to fix the pa system. we need to figure how to communicate better with parents and we can do that and i'm impressed with the school district--everyone who showed up today. i know they care. i know they are strapped not having enough resources but i know they care and are trying

and we'll keep trying together. again, i think about all most 6 years ago which will be valentine's day when the shooting occurred at parkland high school in florida and i remember standing here talking about that just sobbing that i couldn't believe that this continued to happen in our country. that it wouldn't stop and that we know it is preventable. we know, we all know in this room it is preventable. we know that there are solutions. we know this doesn't happen in our peer countries. the change comes with you to make sure there are people in positions of power that put solutions in place. again, i can't thank you enough. continue to advocate, continue to tell your peers to come and speak out and just continue to fight for your lives. they started march for life. it is such a sad commentary as supervisor dorsey was saying we

have to do this. but i just want you all to know that we are committed to not only helping solve this issue with you, but to elevating your experience. it so important so thank you for this today. i want to thank everyone for coming out and speaking at public comment and for all the advocacy organization, moms demand action, brady campaign, united playas. there are so many people that are really committed to this and that is quhie i have hope on what seems such a horrible insurmountable problem but all you give me hope so thank you. colleagues, do you have anything else you want to say? okay. i think at this time i will move to file this hearing and we'll make sure we stay in touch on things going forward. >> motion is offered by the chair this hearing matter be heard and filed. on the motion, engardio, aye.

member dorsey, aye. chair stefani, aye. madam chair, there are three ayes. >> thank you mr. clerk. are there any other items before us? >> there is no further business. >> thank you, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] meter. >> hello, i'm captain tom the coordinator for the san

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successes to the because of fire the last recommendation to look at the gas meter electrical gas lines cause fires in the loma linda earthquake and we want to show you how to turn off the gay only turn off if you hear gas or hear hissing and coordinator nathan will demonstrate how to turn that off. >> with a whenever i'm going to turn it over one quarter turn. so in on holler orientation in turn off our gays meter don't turn it back on get a service call from

and sit down, i won't bite. i promise. come on over, everybody . thank you for coming. okay hey

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