kathy davis, day view hunters point, senior services was at the table. and of course members of his own team were there and i think this is one of what's going to be probably many meetings moving toward a much larger convening of people to really look at what's happening to the population there. and i say old earler adults bewe're really talking about people in their 50s and up because many of the people coming into custody now in that age range have cognitive impairment so i think it will be a very interesting conversation with not such easy solutions, both to -- is resolutions to things while people are in custody may be easier to reach than to do when people are released but it's going to be interesting. and the last thing i wanted to talk about today is that linda lau, our nutritionist is going to join me for this part of my report. i'm going to send this around because i want you to have a chance to look at it. this was a gift from a group that was here from america samoa a couple months ago. i wanted linda to share with you what she has -- what she

we could have a presentation from kathy davis' staff who is on this group and has done work in this area for many years so we could do that as a presentation if you'd like. it'd be very interesting. >>thank you. president james. >>i had one question. not approving the older american act, what does this do to things? how does this slow us down cut us out? how does this affect the program? >>i think it's an enormous disappointment to have the act again for another year not move forward. it means next year if they want to do anything with it they'll have to start all over again. they could take mart parts of what they've worked on already, but as far as the funding area it seems stucks. they spoke to our entire congressional delegation about these issues and people are aware, but again, i think it -- they're really stuck on the funding formula and again, unless someone has some real creative way to address it and not do harm which is pretty impossible to do unless you finds new money, i think it will be difficult. >>did you get your question answered? >>i just wondered what will we be missi