first, i want it have a moment of silence for joe tatuey, who was murdered. he's a member of the street violence prevention program that provided out reach and connected our young folks to safety and he was gunned down a couple weeks ago. the last two days we've been spent remembering him and memorializing him. i want it ask for a brief moment of silence for him. thank you. with that said, there's -- there are things that we've done that have worked in the past that we have not had the same resources for to address truancy. let me give you an example. we had a program at daniel west elementary school. if we have a truancy program at an elementary school, that means there is something going on in the home that is causing the fact that our children are not going to school. so we put a program together with the department of youth and families where we called the children, we woke them up every day, we picked them up, we fed them breakfast and we took them to school. after school, we picked them up, brought them to the center. we provided meals and we did activi