it's a powerful message for our students to be ambitious to be the next jo jo ma, john legend or next jennifer lopez. >> but not miley cyrus. >> you notice i didn't mention here. there is a special place to be trained and mentored by ak accomplished artist. this project signals to the nation and the world that we as a community place a high premium on the public arts education and we recognize the universal benefits of promoting creative expressions among young people around the globe starting with our own. we recognize, we understand the school district is a state agency with independent decision making powers, but we hope that board of supervise will take an interest with the progress this school district makes with it's project. we strongly urge board of supervisors to take on a positive role to seek funds negative -- funding necessary to bring the project to its fruition. it raises the $235 million needed to construct this new campus. the challenge is daunting but not impossible. it's going to require an unpress department partnership in collaboration among all the major stake hol