demarcus davis. jorge turkoo. alicia sandoval. >> hi. i just want to thank you for everything that you did. when randy kwon and i showed up at your office to meet danny, you were really great. the conservatory has been great. we're getting ready to go to beautiful units and to have the opportunity to live in such a nice place after living in a dump for so many years, is really nice. i'm not going to take up a whole lot of time. i just want to say that at first when we found out that our building was being torn down, we were so squared that we would be homeless and in the street and we all met downtown stairs and we decided that we wanted to stay together as a community and that we wanted to live where we live. because we had decided this together, i -- you know, it's important to acknowledge that this was a community effort. and i speak up because i'm that kind of person, but i don't want to pretend that i was something better than my neighbors because, you know, they stood up, too. and i just hope that this gets passed so we can get acr

i'm demarcus davis. i'm study violin performance at the conservatory and serve on the student council. i'm here on behalf of students to show our support for the project. this is a special place for us. we're the most diverse conservatory in the country, or perhaps the world. of all the students enrolled, we have 423 enrolled. 98% of us are on scholarships. that's a huge, drawing factor to get top talent and students to study with world-class artists that teach at the conservatory. what the housing project would mean for us, one, the students that live in our current space, it's about 220 students. so it would allow us, one, to come together as a community and house our rapidly growing population, but, two, to create a sense of community the students come from around the world. for many, this is their first time in america and being away from home. it's important to have a place that we can call home and is ours so we can open up our doors and go out and know each other. being away from home is scary. th

i'm demarcus davis. i'm study violin performance at the conservatory and serve on the student council. i'm here on behalf of students to show our support for the project. this is a special place for us. we're the most diverse conservatory in the country, or perhaps the world. of all the students

i'm demarcus davis. violin performance at the conservatory and serve on the student council. i'm here on behalf of students to show our support for the project. this is a special place for us. we're the most diverse conservatory in the country, or perhaps the world. of all the students enrolled, we have 423 enrolled. 98% of us are on scholarships. that's a huge, drawing factor to get top talent and students to study with world-class artists that teach at the conservatory. what the