mr. maguire. any comments or questions from committee members? seeing none we'll open up for comments from the public please just come up to the front and we have 2 minutes. >> thank you very much my name is roger basley i worked for many years with eric mar and supervisor yee and many others i wrote legislative packages and sent to the board of supervisors for the policy section i have a piece i'll submit and my primary role as a transportation design and safety specialist and having spent time on regional state and calped committees and other things to tweak and get improvements in the programs being done and funded through prop k and other funding mechanisms and the design and engineering and light regulation and now what's missing here if we go we go to the main issue or the point of contact point of collision, the problem with visibility of pedestrians and motorists if we simply would legislate very simply and require from dawn to dusk to increase the visibility of bicyclists using commute er lanes and make sure they have working front refle

mr. maguire? >> before megan and tim come up to kick off our update we have a lot of exciting things to tell you today about the progress we're making on vision zero and it's a bit of a bitter sweet day and we've actually had 3 traffic fatalities in the city in the last week and i'll share with you certainly it's our day job to be working as hard as we can to produce the initiatives and materials and outcomes that we're talking about today in the in the staff presentation and also recognizing that every one of these fatalities is a tragedy regardless of who is legally to blame and we're not only try to reach vision zero but the whole city is trying to reach vision zero and that's not to disparage the work that we're going to show you today and i think it's all really exciting and i think it will be enthusiastic and upbeat as we present it and i do want to acknowledge that those tragedies happened and we share our condolences with the families and i want megan to come up and give an overview of the

mr maguire, let me start with you. the numbers are a little shocking, only because they so overstate the number of americans living in poverty, and the number of children living in poverty, why is the number of public schoolchildren so much higher than the other figures? >> ray i think the answers has do with the changing demographics in the country. the other kid that are in and will be in the public schools for the foreseeable future. >> does public education concentrate poor kids. is that number risen, in fact by the possibility of more middle class and upper class kids not using the system around the country? >> i think that we've had a complicated story about public schools leading scam to try to leave, but what is concentrated in the schools is where they live >>> have you seen this in your years of public schooling that the population in a school building is going up, and the rising. >> absolutely. in the school where i am currently we increased from 74 years. >> is that the trend in the economy or is it likely