my name is robin saunders. i come from a music background myself, run a 23 piece band for 25 years. have always been centered on music programs in our school district and the bay area at large and have known from a very early age that children listen more carefully when you deliver things in the form of music and art. i really believe in the power of san francisco. i've been so proud to be from san francisco. i also lived through the prop 13. i know for a fact that our city and state took a dive -- we used to be number one, number two, and what are we now? 49 in the entire united states? it's because the children are not being given always the opportunity for express themselves, feel comfortable about learning and listening. we need to make sure -- i had something else planned to say, but so many other people have said the things that i wanted to touch on. but i want to make sure that everybody remembers the power that the arts have on children's learning. it's a proven researched -- more and more research comes out. i went to a thing at sf jazz and watched someone go into a machine