bessie carmichael is a public school. everyday my kids go to this park and for that reason, i'm greatly disappointed that the seven-story luxury market rate housing project will be allowed to shadow our beloved park. v.m.d. is only full-size community park in the soma district. it is a district which has lowest per capita of open spaces in whole city. new shadows would occur for eight months out of the year affecting heavily used areas including the basketball court, children's play area, grassy areas, benches and park entry. i would like to add that the construction of this high-rise will be hazardous to the kids health and interruption to their daily educational routine. please support this appeal and tell the developer to redesign the project so there's to shadow on v.m.d. park. >> hello. i'm here on behalf of committee for better parks and regular creation in chinatown. we strongly support the somcan appeal. we were founded in 1969 to advocate for open space and recreational area through volunteers. in particular, we

demanded data district wide that showed all the schools, sanchez, el dorado, new traditions, drew, bessie carmichael, george carver, there's a pattern in these schools. these are schools where no students participated in a music program which cost a lot of money. at that time, five years ago, i raised questions, just as you are. i stood at that table, and i ses i want all students to have access to programming. and i also share a similar concern reflected by many members and also reflected in the peef c.a.c. our district also said we give instruments to everybody. we make sure all the instruments are given out. i'm not hearing that from the peef c.a.c. there's some concerns around the information we're getting about how programs are administered. i also want to bring out we have school libraries, arts en masse. when it comes to vapa teachers, we have -- currently in our district, we have $11 is million allocated to 92 teachers insite, and we are very much supportive of those insite staff being in our schools and doing what they do. we also have 72 teacher librarians that we're accountable for that.