you know, if norman yee, london breed, maria su and phil halperin agree on something related to kids, you know it's got to go good. as another san francisco former kid myself, i know this is a really good ballot measure. i think this measure is a measured and reasonable response to some of the frankly chaos that we have seen coming out of the school district, and we have, as a city, a tremendous stake in what happens at the district. we don't run the district, but we fund it in significant measure, and this ballot recognizes that, as a condition of that funding, we should have some expectations around the quality of governance, and so i really appreciate that that is an important piece of this charter amendment. but i also really appreciate the thoughtful approach to the delivery to children and their families and the process that has gone on over many months. i have not been part of that process. i have checked in with folks along the way who have been part of it, and i have been really impressed to see folks digging in and helping kids in san francisco like they should. and plus, i

you know, if norman yee, london breed, maria su and phil halperin agree on something related to kids, you know it's got to go good. as another san francisco former kid myself, i know this is a really good ballot measure. i think this measure is a measured and reasonable response to some of the frankly chaos that we have seen coming out of the school district, and we have, as a city, a tremendous stake in what happens at the district. we don't run the district, but we fund it in significant measure, and this ballot recognizes that, as a condition of that funding, we should have some expectations around the quality of governance, and so i really appreciate that that is an important piece of this charter amendment. but i also really appreciate the thoughtful approach to the delivery to children and their families and the process that has gone on over many months. i have not been part of that process. i have checked in with folks along the way who have been part of it, and i have been really impressed to see folks digging in and helping kids in san francisco like they should. and plus, i

halperin created a website, and you can see that 85,000 that was put into that committee, you can see the next day that a poll for $20,000 was committed. you can see the campaign consultants and the campaign. it's all there. by the way, there's nothing untoward about this. we run campaigns, and it costs money. on february 7, we'll consider any number of initiative ordinances. recology, which -- or regulation of recology, which we have been talking about since the revolutions in the mohamed nuru scandal, and i think we are all landing on one, has not yet had a campaign committee opened. so this is all by way of saying that the cart has been before the horse for a long time. in the narrative or the competing narratives, it is very disconcerting that the mainstream media, while they want to focus on board of supervisors power grabs, and while political entities have every right to participate in public political discussions are bombarding us with other items on this agenda that we'll talk about, there has nary been a word in the media about this power grab, and even more shocking, and i