. >>> good morning, i'm jonathan vernick, i'm the executive director of [speaker not understood] places, member of the human services network. san francisco has, has prided itself i think on a very educated board of supervisors and government in general. one of the reasons for that is that community based organizations play a role far beyond service. they are, in many cases, the first responders to issues that need to be brought out into the public and need to be responded to. we go all the way back to the movement of the dee institutionalization which freed people from institutional care who were mentally ill and allowed them to be in community based organizations and residential treatment and so forth. when we dial back to the aids crisis of the '70s and '80s in particular, programs like needle exchange, the treatment for chronically ill adults in a residential setting, all of those things were the result of this topography between thea first responders, these community-based agencies, and city government. it is a critical aspect of why we've been as successful as we are in san franci