mr. meal amelia cruz of the san francisco public utilities commission. >> thank you, commissioners, my name is emilio cruz for the public utilities commission. the puc thanks you for this tonight. project pool is established by two men robert kelly and robert mason. the idea of the program is to reach to some of the our less advantaged high schools and employment to high school students. the point was to give them employment to help themselves and families and exposures to careers throughout the city. 32 you that program it grew through the years and this year the public utilities commission under the general manager has hired 140 students from local high schools to participate in project pool and through its investment and our partners we hired a total of 640 youth this summer to give them exposure to units. [ to opportunities. [ applause ] the last thing i will say that there is so many other reasons to support diversity. as we bring these students into puc and as they commas high school students and college interns, they see the diversity within our organization. they see an african amer