i am darron gardner, apprentice. born and raised in san francisco. i ask you to move this forward. it is piggybacking to help us out. we are trained well. i work in the city i was born nor, and i am in support for it. [please stand by] .please stand by] . . >> we think there's more work to be done to insure that this does not negatively effect vulnerable minority contractors, particularly african-american contractors. we are thankful for the work that they have put into this and not enough attention has been given to the attention of micro l.b.s and how they will be effected. the letter that i am submitting talks about how under the sfusd-pla or under the district itself, over a 15-year period from 2004 to 2018, five out of 1,136 contracts were awarded to african-american contractors. that is a rate of .44%. we found that since the 1990s, and there were three times more african-american contractors than there are sod. and we are with the latest monitoring report, there are 120 left from the micro l.b.s. this is the basis for the concerns around title 6 violations if there are not s