i am here to ask for your acceptance of a grant of approximately $11,500 from helen hilton raiser to support free youth swimming lessons for children in diverse and underrepresented communities who otherwise might not be able to afford them. this grant directly aligns with the department's mission of providing imaging, educational activities and help the department to expand our already robust aquatics program. helen has proposed to provide a grant to the department to pay for the staff to implement the swim lessons. we will be offering them to about 180 san francisco public elementary school students during the fall, 2012. lessons will begin in september and end in november. we are calling this program the swim club pilot program. like i mentioned, lessons will take place at garfield pull in the mission district, and students will walk from their school site to the pool -- lessons will take place at garfield schoo -- garfield pool. the programs are designed for kids ages 6 and up, which is really when kids can master the stroke. we are targeting third graders, but we will accommodat