cofound san franciscans for public schools and i had the pleasure to recruit your former director, hydra mendoza. i was in the room when it happened when peef was dreamed up. i was in the room when we dreamt up and lobbied for the arts education master plan to be dreamed up and implemented. and one of the things i would like to remind you of when peef was first discussed, it was crucial of that discussion to have an arts education master plan. the city did not want to fund something until they had a master plan. i would ask you before you fund something, you wait for the 18 months of conversations with artists, art teachers, students, parents in the school district, to find out their 18 months of discussion. i think it's very underhanded to come up with an amendment that would gut vapa without any of the recommendations in that plan. a lot of the issues that came up with vapa, those issues are all laid out in the plan to build on the work that we've done with the arts education master plan to provide excellence, access and equity for arts education in all of our students in all of our schools. i