>> hello peter i am executive operating director at sfjazz. i want to respond to the comments regarding the outreach to the western addition, fillmore, and the jazz heritage area. we have been listening to and have been taking action on the request to reach out further and more closely to those areas. we held a community organization roundtable in may of this year. we invited members of community organizations in to talk about what they might want and what they might seek from the sfjazz and to see how we could benefit in partnerships. representation that that committee -- commended the session that we had, there were members of the jazz heritage center there in the jazz heritage district. and they all thank us for having that open forum, because they felt it was a good step to building the bridges across all the different organizations involved in jazz in music education. and we all promised together to continue that collaboration going forward. since then, we have established in committed to, with the jazz heritage center, a discover jazz se

i am very excited about the opening of sfjazz center. think it will complement what we have, celebrating the symphony, the opera, and the ballet here. jazz is america's classical music, and i think it deserves a center here in san francisco. i do want to be very sensitive to the concerns as supervisor mirkarimi has brought up, and he is much more familiar with the western addition fillmore community. i also want to be sensitive to that, acknowledging that the sfjazz center will be blocks away from the fillmore jazz district. so if we could -- if redevelopment could work with his office to ensure that the appropriate committee groups and schools and housing committees in the western addition maybe could be included as places of initial outrage for some of the matinees and the educational programs. i think that would be appropriate. i know in the meeting, i guess it is now six middle school programs that would be included. i believe that marina is on that list and francisco. the two schools. we can look back at that. we can look at zip cod

i am very excited about the opening of sfjazz center.hink it will complement what we have, celebrating the symphony, the opera, and the ballet here. jazz is america's classical music, and i think it deserves a center here in san francisco. i do want to be very sensitive to the concerns as supervisor mirkarimi has brought up,