dr. sander herself and a round of applause, the california endowment and others provided tremendous financial support so thank you very much for that. [applause] . we really do appreciate it and the cohost and mary lee and tom torque son and who you met this morning and our next panel is planning for student safety opportunity and success and planning for action around the bay. our moderator is jill tucker an education reporter at the san francisco kron cell. i told jill it's hard to find bios online for reporters. they can stay out of google. she's award winning reporter and covered california schools for 14 years and knows a lot about this subject and was honored by the california teacher association and received the highest award about the growing number of homeless students in the school system. she is a san francisco native and was in the peace corps and tout in west africa and please welcome jill tucker. [applause] >> thank you. she just dated me with that 9090 peace corps thing. okay. i want to say how great it is to be here. i have been looking at everyone's name tags and awed by the

dr. ronald sanders, the head of -- and associate dni, in charge of the event apple planning, and then he at booz allen. these are companies that are making every attempt to seize every business opportunity they can and federal government contracting. a lot of people want to put youe on contractors but also have to point the finger at the federal government. first, the agencies. it is a somewhat bad position because they have to ramp up and do a lot of this work. commerce has efforts to reduce , andize of the workforce they decide that we have to shrink the size of the federal government workforce. at that point it comes to the cost, but at the same time, it is something that we need to worry about, are we over relying on contractors? host: scott amey, hundred of government oversight -- project on government oversight. hi, david. caller: thank you for taking my call today. i appreciate it. i have a question for guest this -73ning concerning the 1972 civil service act. i was wondering where he stood on that, and whether or not he was in support of her return to that, and where pogo stored