allocated more funding to high need neighborhoods, to target populations such as african-americans, latnos and pacific islanders in our city and we also identified that there are service areas that need additional support such as education support or culture identity development. so programs that we knew through best practices, through conversations with key leaders in the city that we needed to bolster those types of programs. so, for example, an educate-support-type program is a community-based program -- >> lets me interject here. it's a huge departure from the way you've been conducting business for years. i guess my question is has the need all of a sudden manifested or did you have a change of heart? what really provoked this departure from the way you were funding for a very, very long time. i've been here eight years so t's for at least eight years. could you talk to that? >> once again, when our legislation that we institute at our department was passed in 2016, 2014, i'm looking at supervisor yee who helped draft that legislation, there was language specific that required us to d