[applause] so, the next question is from bill hirsch. given the cuts in funding for hiv/aids services, do you promise to protect services for san francisco's most vulnerable residence? maybe you can state with the department's plans are and where we are? >> thank you. >> [unintelligible] >> in the chief finance officer for the health department. what i can tell you is we were given a fairly large budget target. be the largest city, the largest amount of discretionary funds. it is understandable we would have the largest general fund reduction target. we've met the majority of the target with the revenues, and we've also identified a number of deficiencies we can still at the end of the day to close the deficit. we have proposed some budget service reductions. we have made no reductions of any kind to aids prevention services at all. we made that decision in recognition of the fact that we may be facing reductions in care funding. that is an issue we view as certainly an important policy issue for the mayor and the board of supervisors, b

and eliza hirsch is the supervising attorney in the clean slate pride is at the east bay community lawter. welcome, panelists. i want to tell the audience that while we are having this session, if you have questions, feel free to write them down, and the ushers will get them some you. at the end of the discussion, we will have a question and answer session. dr. richards, it is my understanding you have some personal experience in this area. i would ask you to share your experiences with us and tell us about the barriers that exist for people who have a criminal record. >> i'm a convicted n.

and eliza hirsch is the supervising attorney in the clean slate pride is at the east bay community lawenter. welcome, panelists. i want to tell the audience that while we are having this session, if you have questions, feel free to write them down, and the ushers will get them some you. at the end of the discussion, we will have a question and answer session. dr. richards, it is my understanding you have some personal experience in this area. i would ask you to share your experiences with us and tell us about the barriers that exist for people who have a criminal record. >> i'm a convicted felon. i'm an ex-con. and i'm a professor. i'm the leader of the convert criminology group. if you just go to google and google convict criminology, you will find our website. our group was actually started many years ago by professor john irwin, who was at a san francisco state university for 30 years. john recently passed away. john, even after he retired in 1995, for nearly 15 years helps me to organize the convicts criminology group. there is now 30 of us. we are all ex cons, ph.d., and professor

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minus that, we're going to face the kind of disruptions that was forecast by the hirsch commission, the world has never faced a problem like this. i like challenges, they excite me. and this is a huge challenge, it's an exhilarating challenge. but i know with proper information, with proper knowledge, with proper leadership the united states is up to it. by the way, green technology will again make us an exporting country. people brag about we have this nice clean service-based economy. if you think about that, no matter how much you charge for cutting each other's hair and taking in each other's laundry, that is not going to be a viable economy, isn't it? only three things produce wealth and manufacturing is a major one with of those. that's now all moving offshore. we can again become a major manufacturing country, by focusing on this green technology and developing the alternatives that we must develop. we're going to continue to maintain our equality of life -- quality of life. mr. chairman, i look forward to a very challenging future, mr. speaker, and i yield back the balance of my

president, it didn't, and on december 22, 1974, investigative reporter seymore her hirsch detd the program on the front of the "new york times." the revelations and the huge public uproar that ensued led to the form a of the church committee. that committee spent nearly two years investigating questionable and illegal activity at the c.i.a. the church committee published 14 reports detailing various intelligence abuses which, in addition to illegal domestic surveillance, included programs designed to assassinate foreign leaders. the investigation led to executive orders reining in the authority of the c.i.a. and the congressional of the senate house anandhouse intelligence c. later, there was secretly approved a program named project sham rom. project shamrock authorized the arm forces security agency and its success, the n.s.a., to monitor telegraphs coming in and out of the united states. at the outset of the program, companies were told that government agents would only read -- quote -- "those telegrams related to foreign intelligence targets." but as the program grew, more telegrams we