served on the boards of thier baa buena* and the california box society. what he was known as an exceptionally hard worker. never put a job before his family. and he's survived by his wife carol to whom he was married for 60 years as well as four children and six grandchildren. and the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor wiener. supervisor ye. >> thank you, madam clerk. first of all, i want to announce that clean team event that's going to happen in district 7. 15th year that this has happened. and this year the department of public works will be hosting the event this saturday at 9:00 am at lowell high school. kick off there. and just in case, you know, you want to do more cleaning, the greater west portal area, it's also having their cleanup day at west portal playground at 10:00. today colleagues, i'm requesting a hearing to get an update basically on the work to prevent chronic absenteeism. at our san francisco public schools. years ago i had authored a policy to look at this whole issue of chronic absenteeism in the public schools. and when i say "