. >> and now i will call to public comment on this issue, trisha carlin, lori worth and jennifer bester and you have two minutes each, please. >> good evening commissioners. my name is lori word and i am a long time san francisco tax pay and her voter my daughter attends public school in san francisco. i became involved with educate our state when i learned that the state has been diverting half of our local taxes that should be going to our schools and using the money to pay the state debts, san francisco is not reporting this. this diversion of funds has been going on since 2004, and nobody has said anything about it. property taxes allocated for schools need to go to our schools. as a parent, this is very important to me. the educate our state ballot initiative will stop the strain on the local funds and return the property tax money to schools. on behalf of san francisco public school parents, i urge you to join other school districts throughout california, and support the goals of this initiative. thank you. >> hi. hello, everyone my name is trisha carlin and i am a life long san f

. >> hello, i am jennifer bester and i am also here to thank you for all of the good work that you do all of the problems that you listen to and all of the opportunities that you try to mine for san francisco school children. i do believe that it is hard to bring to you yet another problem or an opportunity. however, the concept of stable reliable and local funding for schools is a crucial one, we can't let san francisco unified school district and we can't let california school children serve the deep pockets for the state. jill, you described in the last meeting, the gut bunch, the punch in the gut of the may revised stir contribution, issue. as long as the state can create obligations that it can't actually meet, and then hoist the obligations on the backs of the school children, we are going to keep having these kinds of conversations and these kinds of problems. and there are three critical concepts that we have asked you to support, and the three are that a, the schools deserve the same protection of their local property taxes, that the legislature and enthusiastickly awarded fo