my name is perry lang and i'm the executive director of the black coalition on aids rafiki wellness. first, i want to acknowledge the support and hard work of director garcia. but i also want to be clear, bca's hiv prevention dollars were cut sometime ago, and they were never backfilled. yet we have managed through grace and community support to continue providing hiv services to our population. those folks coming through our doors. but i am here now because at this juncture these cuts threaten to derail, if you would, our 11-bed transitional house called the brandy morehouse in the western addition. they're only a few dollars when you compare them to others, but these are important dollars to an agency like ours that has been managing on very few dollars our transitional house in the western addition that is set aside for hiv positive, homeless, mentally challenged adults. we would love to keep this program alive and we need your help. there has been a steady erosion of funds and we need this board to do the socially just thing and to begin to stop this erosion. bca, rafiki wellness