i am joyce armstrong, proud president of the public housing tenant association representing more than 5,000 residents under our jurisdiction. >> good evening, i am representing the housing commissioner. >> good evening, commissioners. i am with the public housing tenant association phta. we represent over 6,000 families throughout san francisco. i am here to speak about kippsf and bayview. these middle schools have been the centers of communities and i support the schools working with students demographically similar to the neighboring public schools lieu identified learning differences. kipp counselors help them on the journeys to high school and adulthood. education is central to all pathway of stabilization and health and happiness. i would like to say thank you for considering the renewal of kipp charters. >> . >> thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening. i am a proud parent of three successful children of san francisco unionfied school district. i have come to many of these meetings. i attended them for support for kipp, and then i presented my progress for my girls. i am

my name is joyce armstrong and i'm the president of the public housing tenant association city wide. yes, sir, we do have public housing in westlake. we have what is called the scattered site that is public housing along with the section 8. at the housing authority, if you need to talk to me. >> please address to the committee. >> sorry. a lot of people don't know that we have scattered sites. we have properties all over the city that don't fall directly in the name of a project, which i call developments or my home. i live there for the past 17 or 18 years. before that, i came at 1967 to have my first child at 18 and i've been working and supporting them ever since. i want to come along and support hope s.f. and the effort that the mayor and let this legislation go through. if you need me, you know where i am. just reach out. >> is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak on this idtem? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> supervisor walton. >> thank you chair ronen. i want to thank everybody for coming out and voicing how important this is to the commun