piano, singing and classes to people in the area and especially for those that cannot afford high pricing private lessons. since more musical instruments are available for children under third grade in public school our program has been acting as a breech filling the learning gap and providing lessons to the children from kindergarten to the second graders. since our location geary [inaudible] our success has incomed and registration doubled. however, with 60% budget cut we won t be able to accept the new students, but currently registered students and also teachers who has been working with us for the last 12 years. please let us continue our program and serve our community better and also consider our proposal. thank you. hello i am lata and here as a parent representing the various families that came out through the reach out program. i have two girls now nine and 11 that have beenful individual in the program over a period of seven years. what i love about the program i
will find out their opportunity to help them. i encourage you please reconsider. thank you. peace be with you. [applause] next speaker please. good afternoon supervisors. i am jacklyn zimmer jones and the director of next village san francisco and i want to thank you for the opportunity to speak today. i am speaking today on behalf of the board of directors, our volunteers and the members who benefit from their participation in next village san francisco, and quite honestly if our members account could drive themselves here and park and wait in the chambers to testify they probably wouldn t be our members. this is a national movement to provide alternatives to seniors as they want to age in place and we re one of five villages in the country and there are 20 in progress. we are located in district 3 with some of the highest density of population of seniors in the city and we try to provide them with the confidence to live safely and happily in their homes. we pride oursel