we have a reserve fund which was removed from the peef funding formula. that was $4 million, which is a significant chunk. we had lsd cuts that were quite significant. students are concerned about losing the lsps at their school. the third thing is we had the violence prevention programs eliminated, which according to last year's statistics served 10,000 students. but that was eliminated, and the implementation of the replacement program, restorative justice -- i do not know well -- i do not know how well that has been. i will not go into that. but all those are decisions that were made, let us just put it that way. i think in the future we can be more specific in recommendations as to the overall budget. obviously, there are certain conduct restraints where the school district is $100 million in the hole. so i understand all that. but if we are going to be a community advisory committee, if we are going to participate in the process, we want to participate in the process. commissioner norton: just to make sure i understand, it sounds like what you're say

as a former member of peef as well, i really appreciate your dedication to this process. as we talk about potentially bring this to the ballot, i know there are a lot of different discussions as to how this is going to come back. it is important message to voters how this impacts our schools and benefits our communities. i think an important forum would be to go to the select committee on the board of supervisors before final approval of the budget. this is where the funding comes from. it comes from the city. the voters approve city funding to come to the school district to help us to enhance our programs, to build stronger leaders, to have a more well- grounded curriculum in our schools. the can continue to do that. thank you for your time, and thank you for being here. commissioner yee: i do not want to spend a whole lot of time, but this is an issue with the select committee. if we are going to have representation at the select committee, not only should we be talking about, you know, our two-thirds that go into the school district, but we should invite the people tha