it was launched earlier from the leningrad and has now been extended, and now being continued. supervisor farrell, as you're aware, the playground initiative where we increased the amount of open space and see our schools as assets.

it was launched earlier from the leningrad and has now been extended, and now being continued. supervisor farrell, as you're aware, the playground initiative where we increased the amount of open space and see our schools as assets. supervisor farrell: all right, so thank you for the comments and slides. any questions? my only comment is, it is by all accounts, statistically, the public-school system is doing extremely well. from everything i hear from parents, they love that. maybe there is a perception problem if they continue to list the education system as a reason to leave. what can we do here in city hall? i think part of the issue of the board of supervisors is that there is a separate board of education, the what can we do to hell? -- to help? getting that message out there is a really big deal. maybe we aren't as engaged as we should be, but what can we be doing as supervisors to make that happen? >> supervisor farrell, you're starting it right today. the efforts we are seeing over the past five years have been instrumental. i don't think we have this level of partners

when he came back to leningrad, st. petersburg where i was born, we were born actually in the same block, mr. putin and i, well, he was never accepted back to work. well, the reasons are generally known, and i said again, if you read the files, and the fact that he was poisoned, he revealed on the internet, made it public, some of the ugly things from mr. putin's personal life. i'm not going to say about that. that's after all not the point. what is the point that gorbachev when he emerged from, you know, and he made first time an opening to the west, and he found common -- i mean, a friend, and probably kind of a mental or soul with president reagan. that was something of a great event of the history of the two countries and probably worldwide, and recall in the early '80s when president reagan publicly mentioned the so-called star war program, that's what it was called, the soviets were in dismay. this is a warmonger. we have to take everything to get rid of him, and, well, as it turns out, president reagan was a prac