i know kate hartley is here, hope sf and wells fargo. it takes a village to create something like this, and today is a day we celebrate affordable housing in san francisco, and thank you all so much for being a part of it. [applause] >> so the mayor made brief reference to it, and i just want to follow up on one of her points. so mercy housing has the good fortune to be working with the city and the housing authority and our partner related on the redevelopment and renovation of sunnydale and visitacion valley. i want to thank ocii and the mayor's office of housing and the mayor because we were able to do something extraordinary, we were able to provide residents of sunnydale a property that has been falling apart for a while because of just lack of funds, we're rebuilding it. it's going to take sometime, but as a consequence of the fact that we had housing opportunities here, ocii and the mayor's office stepped up and made 23 of those apartments available to the residents of sunnydale who decided they wanted to try living here in this n

. >> i would like to ask kate hartley to come up. i hope she is still here. >> she is right behind you. >> i just want to say to you, thank you. i have worked -- i know supervisor peskin has worked a lot with the housing authority over the years and i definitely feel there is a huge difference of working in the last five years with the housing authority and the responsiveness to the things that our district has needed and our residents. i definitely want to thank the housing authority for their responsiveness and for really moving forward. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. we have welcomed the supervisors wanting to work with us and wanting to have us be part of the challenges and meeting the challenges that we all face here with a low income residents. >> thank you, barbara. ms. miss hartley. i know my colleagues want to wrap up so i will ask you a few short questions if they don't have -- they may have questions as well. every year we go through the budget process and every year we think we know what financial policies we are se