we do have public comment on this item, joseph adams and fernando aguilar, excuse me. >> all right. nice to see you guys again. good evening, commissioners and deputy superintendent lee. i'm fernando aguilar, director of charter arts school, and i want to thank you for the time and opportunity to speak this evening. while i know there may be only a slight chance that our item will be this evening, i feel like ioit to my teachers, family and my students to give it one more try because in my opinion, it makes so much sense. so creative arts chatter school has been preliminarily approved for a $7 million grant from the state of california under prop 51, along with a $5 million loan to our school. in order for our application to move forward, we need you to do three things tonight. first, approve the unhoused people certification that has been prepared by paul cardoni. second approved proposed resolution being nolg t resolution acknowledgings that we have a facilities use agreement for the golden gate site, and we are in agreement that we will work together on the construction project u

i'm fernando aguilar. i'm the director of creative arts charter school. i'm here tonight to speak about creative arts charter school for funding to rhenvate the golden gate campus that's currently occupied by creative arts. i'm here to request that our prop 51 application for funding be placed on the board meeting agenda. six years ago broadway middle school was moved across the campus. we have done our very best to maximize all available space at the golden gate campus and have developed a positive, strong and collaborative working relationship with gateway middle school. five years ago, i came into this very hall to ask for approval of our charter petition. the board voted unanimously. our charter stated that cac would grow from 256 students to our current enrollment of 440 students. and each year since then using the prop 39 process, creative arts has very clearly communicated to the district that we are simply running out of space. as the district has not offered additional space to us, we have been actively and creatively looking at ways we can stay