my name is eric arguello, and i'm [speaker not understood] here in san francisco. first of all, we want to thank you for your continued support, board of supervisors, to the mayor's office. we do want to also propose an increase in funding for our population. there are a lot of cultural barriers that our population ha to face in order to receive culturally appropriate services. so, we just want to make sure that that's out there, that we looked at that, and make sure it's balanced appropriately to the barriers and to the population of san francisco also. i believe the population of san francisco latino is 14% and the increase in hiv is around 19, 20% for latinos. so, we need to look at those numbers, too. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> thank you, supervisors. i, too, want to express my appreciation on behalf of our clients for the work that you guys have done, again, to keep the funding stable. my name is lori thomas. i work at the alliance health project and our agency provides mental health and substance abuse services for 30 years. our primary popula