carranza. >> thank you, president norton and good evening, everyone. i have a few thoughts to share this evening with everyone here, present, and at home. first and foremost, i hope that everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving and a nice thanksgiving, but for this evening, as many of us know, many of the jobs in this country are being created faster than they can be filled and more than 50 percent of all future math and science occupations will likely be in computing occupations but fewer than 3 percent of students graduate with a degree in computer science, here in the unified school district, we know this and we take the lead to help the students in science and engineering and math and what we call the stem and we add the arts to our work, which we call steam. and we have a thriving career, this week we are celebrating the science and education week in an hour of code and many of the high school computer classes are opened to drop in and learn the science and computer programming for science. the hour of technical is happening and, teachers danny tan a

and i also want to deeply thank maralee and the former superintendent and current superintendent carranza for their dedication to working together on so many fronts and for taking this chance on making this happen. and sandy, i don't know if you recall, us sitting in mayor lee's office with the superintendent and david and others and the door kind of being swung open to work together. and to take advantage of what the city has to offer. and that as a school district, we are, this is not our forte, educating the kids are the forte that we should not be in the business of development and we should not feel like we are alone in all of this. and it took a lot of courage for us to come together and which makes me want to just mostly thank young and david and joe for not letting go of this and for allowing me to push on many real estate issues and i know that there were times that you guys wanted to push me, like over a bridge. because there were many challenges, that i kind of came to you, for on a variety of reasons. and on a variety of topics, but you never kind of said that we can't. you al