welcome once again alison collins and gabriella lopez. my name is nicole powell, i'm part of the pack committee and i'm also a parent. my son goes to thurgot marshall high school. >> i don't think your mic is on. >> in late december, pack members met with jennifer, executive director and noel, engagement manager from nutritional services. they provided a overview of the department including the meals they served each day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. we had discussions about what is working in areas for improvement. pack members shared their concerns. we've heard related to the quality of the food that they're serving, the vending machines and students leave campus to buy unhealthy food. we learned the actions the department is taking to improve food services and the over all dining experience for sfusd students by addressing the anesthetics of the cafeterias, expanding freshly prepared meals in five school sites, listening to students' feedback with results in 20 new recipes this year. also emphasizing local food purchasing and upgrad

cassandra curio, and mary wayne, and alison collins. >> i'm impressed by the budget concepts and how you take these huge tariff concepts and make then attainable to us mere more mortals. and where's commissioner haney? i'm preaching to the choir here, i know, but i can come across the street and say this again later, too. it's fine. but education's a civil right. education's a social safety net, and multiple studies have shown the correlation between high school drop out rates between under employment, incarceration rates. in fact it seems to me that the best way to reduce our homelessness crisis, to address it, mitigate it a little bit might be to, i don't know, spend more money to educating our population, especially when the fund, as commissioner haney has previously pointed out, includes the name education. so thank you for all the work that you're doing here, and hopefully, we can share that message across the street. thank you very much. >> my name's julia roberts-fong. san francisco education association. >> i don't want to talk for three minutes. it's late. thanks for making