ann hinton is the director of aging services. greg sas, chief financial officer of the department of public health. mayor edwin lee. john haley is the director of the municipal transportation agency. rhonda simmons, with the office of economic work force and development. chief jeff godown, the chief of the san francisco police department. phil ginsburg, general manager of the rec and park department. ed riskin, director for the department of public works is also here. thank you for your presence here. mayor edwin lee, without further -- adult probation is here, too. mayor kelllee, thank you for yor patience. the microphone is yours. [applause] >> thank you. as you all know, i am not going to have been long speeches. and i'm here to listen to you tonight. but i want to say a couple of things. it is my pleasure to be here with supervisor avalos, supervisor carmen chu, the other department heads, to make sure that i fulfill a promise. while i am occupied this great office of mayor, i will listen to everybody in the city. the matter

i will give this to ann hinton. >> thank you, vera sofment we are in the process -- many people know here that it's part of our budget reduction plan, we're needing to reduce some of the service areas and we presented tpwhalmt to our -- can you hear now? i saw somebody signaling. ok. we presented that budget to our commission and it's now with the mayor and his staff. we're just talking the other day about what that looks like and what the detail of it and what we might do with it. i would say that nutrition is a big negotiate our community. it's become bigger in the last couple of years because of the downturn and more people's s.s.i. checks being smaller and people not having the income. so should we determine that we can fund the meal program again, we may need to look at other ways in addition to that, those funds, to feed people. because the need is greater than we as a city are able to -- toe we provide at this point but those conversations are still going on at this point. >> and there's a coalition of senior organizations that's working with my office to try to do our best to