chief allen nance. i want to thank the mayor's budget office and the b.l.a. we are in agreement with the budget and legislative analyst recommendations for the juvenile probation department. >> supervisor ronen: i wanted to thank and apologize chief nance for being here for so long today. you're a trooper. thanks for staying outwith us. i wanted to suggest to my colleague and you and our budget staff some additional judgments to - -- adjustments to your budget. i believe it's very problematic that we've had two thirds reduction in number of youth in juvenile hall. we closed down log cabin ranch and yet we haven't had corresponding decrease in the budget. we spoke last week about cutting 23 positions over the past five years. but that represents only 7% reduction of your staff. this reduction clearly hasn't matched the significant decrease in young people under this supervision of the department. just last week, supervisors on this board made the decisioning to close down juvenile hall by december 2021. in order to do that effectively, we need to consistently