my name is alfie massas and have been an at-risk teacher 12 years with the mission -- 7 years with youth art exchange formerly out of sight and five years with sf jazz. my work in san francisco has been specifically with our youth and i'm here today because the youth have inspired me or reminded me what it is to be a san franciscan. what it is to be a civil individual, to step forward and live in the city where the people have the voice. this is a working-class city bottle by working-class people and not by twitter and not by facebook and not by air b&b. everything that they want, we built. and the commission needs to look at that. where mayor ed lee has championed his tech tuesdays and what happeneded to public schools wednesday? what happened to non-profit thursdays? what happened to san francisco families fridays? i'm sorry i'm getting a little emotional, but these youth have reminded what it is to be here and be a san franciscan and i ask that you stop all privatization of public seats that belong to -- for the people, by the people that built them. this is a matter that is much grea