bernie madoff's reports. he was very convincing, very convincing. so many people, affluent people, believe diane bernie madoff. hopefully we are not going to be misled like in the bernie madoff example. i would also like to remind all the old-timers, there used to be a card game in new york called 3-card monte. hopefully we are not being given a three-card monte by the department of public health. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. any other speakers? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have heard public comment in department presentations. item number six, the police department's request, can we take the budget analyst recommendations without objection? ok, we have a motion to approve the budget analyst recommended reduction of $474,532 to request of $2,525,468. we will do that without objection. on item number five, a request for a originally $8.5 million, the budget analyst recommended reducing that to a level of $5 .574094. and reflecting the seasonality that we would expect during the summer months. do we have thoughts about that? >> [inaudible] supervisor chu: ok. we have a motion