[applause] >> commissioners, superintendent, my name is elizabeth connelly, vice president for substitutes at uesf. tonight i speak for dennis kelly, who is in washington d.c. doing business with the afg, working on matters such as these tonight. layoffs should not be employed as the district administrator uses it to lure more money into the district from city hall. it should not be part of the budgeting each year in. it means real pain for real people. laos disrupt the pain -- disrupt the lives of teachers and paraprofessionals. that disrupts the lives of our students. a smiling superintendent an easy lead service about social justice are not serviced by layoffs. [applause] putting one set of school against another. the celebration carried out by deputy superintendent and the principles he called down to testify in favor of skipping seniority is despicable. their celebration, when others are being laid off, is evidence of a callous heartlessness that we have not seen in san francisco before. in the demand by the president of the administrators union that the principals who testified be re