had it been presented at laguna honda's jcc meeting, someone would have noticed the remarkable decline in the funds allotted to the positive care aids program. if you just look at the budget, you will see that last year positive care was allocated $5500 from the gift fund and spent $4000 of it. so, how much is budgeted for this year? 3000. out of 15 programs, positive care is the only one that is receiving less than it spent last year. this unique and unprecedented anomaly should be explained before you approve the patient gift fund budget. thank you very much >> thank you. commissioner karshmer >> i just want to make sure i have this right. we have been guided by the city attorney that this gift fund comes to the full commission for approval? >> if i can expand on that is because budget decisions are made by the full commission and not by any committee. so the city attorney thought and guided us last year the second time this is happening it made sense to come to the full commission. >> thank you. any other questions? i had to. one, can you remind us the process that you go through to

the cap lain jcc on the par said confirmed the death this morning, the child had been pulled from the center's pool in tenafly on thursday and he was in cardiac arrest. a lifeguard performed cpr until ems arrived. the boy was being hackensack university medical center. his identity has not been released. >>> well, police are asking for the public east help in the search for a brazen burglar. investigators say he is linked to two incidents in brooklyn and cbs2's scott rapoport is live in bush rick for us this -- bushwick for us this noon with more. scott? >> reporter: police are calling it a burglary pattern here in bushwick and say that the building that you see here behind me was one of the surveillance video liberally helping himself to packages that are not his from an apartment building lobby is wanted in connection with a burglary pattern in bushwick. >> that's horrible. very bad. i hope they catch the guy. >> reporter: it happened here at this apartment building on loghton street on july 19th around 7:00 p.m. then immediately starts ripping off packages and parcels on the floor

we heard that in the jcc meeting street we brought to the full commission.we had-the committee, i mean, we discussed it and knew that it was going to cost the city and county more money because the state could not review the documents that we needed in 02 proceed on. it was one of the most frustrating things we ever did. but i mean again, we are on the same team. we discussed it was brought here. we were aware that the mayor was aware of it. the governor was aware of it and finally, it was approved after other hospitals in other counties had to write to the director public health to say, you're costing these counties millions of dollars. because we don't have approval on these rebuilds for these units pertaining to the requirements mandated by the state. any comment? >> right. i'll take one more comments and then have a commonsense over to mark as needed and obviously, we don't have to vote on september 20 as we try to take all these thoughts into consideration and work with city attorney also to try to bring about the ability to have the information that yo

we heard that in the jcc meeting street we brought to the full commission.we had-the committee, i mean, we discussed it and knew that it was going to cost the city and county more money because the state could not review the documents that we needed in 02 proceed on. it was one of the most frustrating things we ever did. but i mean again, we are on the same team. we discussed it was brought here. we were aware that the mayor was aware of it. the governor was aware of it and finally, it was approved after other hospitals in other counties had to write to the director public health to say, you're costing these counties millions of dollars. because we don't have approval on these rebuilds for these units pertaining to the requirements mandated by the state. any comment? >> right. i'll take one more comments and then have a commonsense over to mark as needed and obviously, we don't have to vote on september 20 as we try to take all these thoughts into consideration and work with city attorney also to try to bring about the ability to have the information that yo

he was pulled from the outdoor pool at the kaplan jcc on the palisades in tenafly last thursday and rushed to the hospital. >>> now to new details in a shooting involving a new jersey state trooper. a homeowner was shot in what appears to be a series of misunderstandings. the elderly victim is recovering in a hospital following the shooting inside his home in upper deerfield township. reporter walter perez with our sister station in philadelphia has the story. >> these are the three shots. y members showed us the bullet holes created by an exchange of gunfire that nearly took the life of 76-year-old gerald sykes of upper deerfield. she couldn't believe what she was hearing after receiving a phone call from her mother. >> jerry's been shot three times. please call 911. >> reporter: it all started late friday night when sykes and his wife margo woke up to the sound of their dogs barking. >> they both stepped in to the great room and saw two figures standing right at their french >> reporter: that's when sykes grabbed his shotgun. we're told one trooper was grazed either by flying glass or th