. >> so, next hep is our public defender jeff hadaji. >> do you want to see us next week or are we through? >> i believe we don't need to see you next week. >> okay, thank you so much. thank you, mr. hadaji. >> thank you, good afternoon, supervisors. going to the first slide here, it is very hard trial lawyer to contain himself to 10 slides, but i did so. the public defenders office mission is to provide effective and competent representation to people who cannot afford an attorney. this is a constitutional mandate. it's found in the u.s. constitution in the sixth amendment, the california constitution, as well as in the city charter. in terms of who we serve, we serve approximately 23,000 clients every year. in 2011 -- 2010-2011 we served 23,853 to be exact. the recent socioeconomic report noted the ethnic and geographic disparities within our cities. and if you look at the population that we serve, the demographics that we serve, it's almost identical to the disparities noted in that report. 51% for african-american, 24% white, 16% latino, 5% asian, and 4% others. in addition, 10% of our