james and members of the commission and miss mcspadden. i'm a member of the long-term care coordinating council and i want to give you highlights of the meeting that we had last month. we have several work groups that are basically spending energy and time on a specific subject-matter. so one of the work groups is the communications committee. we just hired a consultant, because we got a grant from the scan foundation, and we hired rick crane to work with us and the whole objective of the grant is to build capacity and sustainability of the long-term care coordinating council. so he will be conducting town hall meetings with external and internal stakeholders, and also start working on the updating of the website of the council. we also will be meeting with the board of supervisors, which we do every year, when it comes to budget time. we'll try to look at some of the priorities in terms of the seniors and aging and