office administrators compared to other departments. i would -- we're arguing for more teachers in schools, those are direct services, not central office administration. this is what peef says. we're also concerned that the saturday arts lab, there's concern around that, okay? so i'm going to go back and go to 2015-16. we're going to go back in time, and we're going to see -- i'm sorry. i'll go to -- this is from 2016-17. it says, the peef investment and arts teachers is a secondary level has increased while the number of schools and other funding support for arts has decreased. while we understand the district is consistently challenged to stretch limited resources, peef was explicitly meant to increase offerings to students. we should increase funding so western ae concerned to see -- we're concerned to see inclusion for the arts center added to the budget that do not appear to provide direct services to students. the c.a.c. would like to see administrative costs for the arts center moved out of the peef center in the coming year. several years ago this recommendation was made, and yes, there's $335,000 that is still in this budget an

and our recommendations were that more of the visual and performing arts central office administrative staffing funding be reallocated in order to support direct student services at the school site level. we heard from so many people that kids do not have access to instruments, instruments are broken, the materials are not available. at different sites, there's different things being offered. we have not seen a consistent inventory, yet, we've seen a growing administrative central office budget over the many years that vapa has been in -- oh, shoot. well, there you go. i have more to say, but i really appreciate all the comments, and i appreciate the clarification that this is not -- that this is what peef funding is focused on, which is direct and equitiable focus to students. hopefully -- [inaudible] [applause] >> my name is jessica golm, and i'm a stay at home mom and arrest activit artist, and i'm a school volunteer. at the beginning of my school year, my cochair and i decided to ratchet up some of our action items because we found that there were some red flags in providing opport