speaker: good evening, commissioners, my name is kathy flemming. i am the supervisor for public education richmond fund. one of my responsibilities is to serve as the district liaison to our community on advisory committee and the community of advisory committee plays a vital role in advising and reviewing all documents and reports and provide critical feedback to staff and to the board of education. a number of our members were present last week and in fact, i think about 75 percent of our members were present last week and this week, i think some of them are on vacation. i know one is in the mountains snow boarding and one in fresno and one in texas. we have some members to recognize tonight. first i would like to thank the commissioners for making appointments to this committee and we do have two recently appointed members. i'm not sure if they are here tonight, but jenny lamb, are you here and we have fernando marquez has also been appointed. nice to meet you. thank you so much. and i would like to thank our student delegates, allege -- angela