i'm lainie, and i have two kids. i've also on the peef c.a.c., and one of the first recommendations that i'd like to make is to meet with you earlier in this practices. it's really difficult to have spent so many hours, heard from so many people who have taken the time out of their evening to meet with us, give us public comment. we take that to heart, put it in our recommendations, and it gets kind of she horned into this process. if we can meet with you, even earlier in the registration packet, suggesting we meet two or three times a year. we only meet with you once, and it's certainly not our intention to surprise the public and make the public come and spend more time and have more stress. i personally believe that the arts are an essential part of programming -- programming at our schools. i've benefited, my kids have benefited. i have great concerns, however, about equity and access at our schools throughout the district. k-12, all site. that came up quite a bit in our public comments in our conversations on th

appointee, lainie, who spoke to you earlier tonight was on the vapa subcommittee of the peef are c.a.c. and wrote -- peef c.a.c. and wrote the long memo that you saw about the program. i'm not in favor of the proposed amendment that the committee gave last night. i think we can have a conversation about how much is going to administration and what are the appropriate levels of -- what is spending that -- you know, what peef's -- what should peef go for versus should it be classroom spending, administration, what's an appropriate amount there? i would note that the all of rest of the plan has f.t.e.s. i'm not quite sure why vapa is being singled out other than there are people that have had some pick personal experiences with vapa, and that may be motivating some of this? i think that what i would -- what i would suggest is that we -- we should request an audit. we should request there be an independent look at how we spend our money. i'm concerned about some of the allegations made about do we provide instruments? we do yet no one seems to feel they have accessed those instruments. tha