i'm christina rutter and i'm the assistant administrative director of san francisco ballet school. and i'm a native of san francisco and i have studied or worked in the civic center area for 19 years. my role at the ballet school is to ensure the well-being of our 500 children and 300 adult students who attend chances weekly. we're at 455 franklin street at foul ton. across from the opera house and one of our community partners the boy and girl's club. the ballet building is open 350 days per year and the school is in session nearly 300 days per year. children ages 4-18 travel from all over the bay area and the final portion of the travel is through the civic center to get to our building. every morning the front steps of ballet are occupied by overnight campers and covered in cardboard, crash often needles and feces. the community district has been instrumental in making these overnight campers, getting them to move along and removing debris to the city trash cans. due to the north station being stretched the officers are unable to be helpful and enforcing the campers and drug use