so my name is elaine meriwether, and i'm currently serving as vice president of united educators of san francisco. i know last year, before the implementation of prop g, we saw a vast number of our educators and paraeducators struggling in the city just to make ends meet. and also, many of them left because they couldn't afford to live here, so that was a crisis for sfusd. but within my current role, i get an opportunity to talk to parent educators and teachers priet often just to see -- quite often just to say how they're doing. many of them are excited about what prop g has done for them. it has changed many of their li lives. we know people who have decided to come to san francisco to teach here because of prop g, so prouz because -- because of this, we were able to recruit more teachers to teach in this district than ever before. so uesf is committed to our students and our educators, which is why we will continue to work with the district and the school board just to find some solutions. and we know that we have to work as a partner in this because we want a school system that's th