. >> thank you, president mendoza mcdonald. thank you, everyone. good evening, everyone. i'll try that again. good evening, everyone. i'd like to start this evening by acknowledging that tomorrow is administrative professionals day, and by saying thank you to all of our hard working administrative professionals at our school sites and central offices. you are the lifeline of our organization and administrative professionals day is celebrated to say thank you as you are the ones that make our schools and offices run like a family. let's give our administrative professionals a big round of applause. [applause]. >> it's that time of year again. it is frisco day. those of us born and raised in san francisco know that frisco does not stand for san francisco. it actually stands for friday, the first three letters, f-r-i, successful college opportunities. this'll be hosted at city college, the ocean campus on friday, may 4, 2018, from 9:00 to 2:30. we are expecting to host approximately 1,000 seniors. the goal of frisco day is to connect san francisco unified school district sen

>> thank you, president mendoza mcdonald. just a question, so i'm clear. which department is it taking the lead on this? is it communications? >> yes. >> any other questions or comments? commissioner sanchez? >> thank you. maybe it's self-evident, but what is the impetus for bringing this on? >> yes. so it's been -- it's been a long time coming for -- we've had -- we've had the desire to really look at how we -- how we deliver services to our school sites from central office and also to address that what we see is that continuous feedback that we get about different people having different experiences depending on even which schools, like, they go to in terms of parents and that sort of first interaction that they might have with an administrative person at the school or something like that. and so we wanted to do an initiative to really try to identify how we could reduce that variability. and we were able to get some funding to help move the process forward, so that's what is helping to make this happen now. >> yes. >> i would just add, i think we also h