he set up the bca when i was in rafiki house. i know what's not only should the money be put there, but we should make sure that hiv is wrapped around and works well in this country because we have russians, we have chinese, we have middle eastern, we have more than just black, white, asian pacific who has hiv in this country. and we know today sexual [speaker not understood] and rape [speaker not understood] no to me even if you're in the military. and i call upon you all to do the right thing for america. [inaudible]. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> hi, supervisors. my name is collene, i work at st. anthony's. i want to start off by talking about how grateful we are that we're coming in to the board's part of the budget season with some really great restorations to potential cuts to department of public health. and this is my eighth year doing this work and the shortest line i've ever seen at a bielenson hearing is a testament to the fact that we have started off on the right foot with the mayor's budget that, you know, that re

your thoughts on how this -- how do we ensure that the small are airports aren't getting hurt on the bca issue? >> thank you, senator ayotte. let me start by saying the vision of service to smaller and medium-size communities is a priority for the department of transportation, and in terms of whether or not justice decides that there should be a divestiture or should not be a dives sit tour, we think it shouldn't hurt small communities and the merged carrier would have a slot portfolio that would be sufficient to serve the needs of smaller communities as well. and if doj decides to require the -- some of the slots, -- is there a spelled-out procedure for distributing them? if so, what would you anticipate that being? and is it a competitive auction process for all carriers that operate at dca or will certain airlines get a preference, for example, carriers with the smaller presence, how would that process work? >> senator, that process is up to doj. i know it's frustrating not to be able to talk about the process. but that is something that would be up to doj. >> would you have input in