. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm john alderling. first, i want to note the importance of funding for central soma fun, which has done great work. and the $10 billion of future development, there has to be a way to continue that worth with that funding source. second, as many note, there's an essential need for regular funding for the two heritage districts, so we can implement them and not be an empty shell. third, hasn't come up, but it's central to be a community participation process attached, with all of the programs, the hundreds of millions of dollars from all the sources. these neighborhoods set up a cac to do that, but it's failed. a, it's too big. for neighborhoods, you can't pay enough attention to any of them. second, its purview is too narrow. it looks like the childcare funds that come from the fees. they refuse to have any public input at all. it takes a community advisory board of some kind. the bureaucrats, the departments, all came to ask on every separate topic. and the members listened to each other. they were not