. >> lastly, we do want to give special thanks to norman yee for putting this together and asking us, the district and the committee to come together on this, to look how we can work together and meet these goals in the end. also want to thank all the assistant sups, the board members to attend, and for the cbo's to see that this was not an initiative that stallone. it was the district wide initiative. we want to thank -- there were so many community members.

. >> lastly, we do want to give special thanks to norman yee for putting this together and asking us, the district and the committee to come together on this, to look how we can work together and meet these goals in the end. also want to thank all the assistant sups, the board members to attend, and for the cbo's to see that this was not an initiative that stallone. it was the district wide initiative. we want to thank -- there were so many community members. she mentioned dcyf. they played a critical role. this was not a district product. this was a committee project and we want to make sure everyone knows that and we want to say thank you to the board, to our assistant sups an members -- and members of the community who participated. thank you. >> ok, comments. >> we do have a clip of the symposium. what we plan to do is to put it on the early education district website for folks to see a as long as well as the report. >> ok, great. comments? commissioner mendozurase: i wano recognize you for your leadership. we have heard of the resounding endorsement of pre-k in tonight's public c

eloise joseph from the all-stars program and we will have our own commissioner norman yee for opening remarks and our student speakers are yu goma and also antonio cruz from the school of the arts high school. we will have some really awesome entertainment from the lol jazz team. and i hope you guys can go as well. >> additionally, the s.a.c. is involved with the free muni for use campaign and the campaign has had its ups and downs. right now it's on the up swing. last week, there were four hours of public comment at the sfmta meeting in support for free muni for use and the board as agreed to vote at an april 3rd meeting at 1:00. directly following the meeting the coalition for free muni for use will hold a rally at the steps of city hall with lots of youth from different schools from 4:00 to 5 p.m. we're also right in the mid of s.a.c. and there are currently seven candidates. and over 25 candidates at several different high school on the ballot for the s.a.c. representative election. both elections will take place during our on use vote the week pryier to spring break through march

i will talk a lot about that with the new president of our school board, norman yee and hydra mendoza. i will talk about how our schools can participate and make sure there are generations of kids who do not lose hope in the city. do not look elsewhere when the best jobs are created right here. all they have to do is do their part and when they do their part and complete that education, the education they need will be there for them. i want to say one thing about our infrastructure. something i want you to remember as you leave today's room. it is -- want to mention something about hetch hetchy. there is dialogue out there that some people are suggesting that we can tear down our hetch hetchy dam and still survive as a city. i want to let you know that as insane as that is, it is in fact, insane. [applause] there are going to be some leaders that approach you, suggests that tearing down the hetch hetchy is a good idea. they will grow pew into some discussion about water sustainability issues. but know this. not only do we have the cleanest water, not only have we spent serious amounts