i want to speak a little bit about what this project means to betsy carmichael. one of the things i do in my job is facilitate the soma youth collaborative which is a network of over 20 organizations, businesses, community-based organizations that serve youth in soma but specifically serve youth at betsy carmichael. it is a k-8 school, the highest number of homeless students in the district, and it is a split campus where the middle school is right across the street from the project. the middle school is at a former child development center. so we've got about 200 middle school kids of various shapes and sizes in all of that energy on a former preschool site. and so there are a lot of space challenges. there are a lot of infrastructure challenges. and we're super excited that boston's commit tonight help the school and district work through some of those. 85% of those 200 students are reading at below basic reading levels. so for us as a violence prevention organization, that means a that a large majority of them will end up dropping out of high school at one poi