my name is john soderstrom. neither have children nor am i involved in education as a career, but my topic that i was wanting to talk about was other funding resources, state funding models fail. cities like san francisco. only municipalities can correct this with city funding. i attended the emergency meeting at 9 a.m. on sunday morning, and it confirmed my impression that the inadequate state funding ignores local issues of cities as expensive as expensive cost of living. as san francisco child care has become unaffordable. but education is child care. sunday, the president of the board spoke about examining the future possibilities for education. when i started kindergarten in 1971 was the same year the courts decided the state should distribute funds, not keeping it in the district. so no matter how high you raised your school district taxes, it had no effect or benefit because the state decided how to dole it out. san francisco is an expensive city. i experienced the cutbacks in the 1970s and 1980s, and the