department of public health needing help, the reason -- the recent examiner of the examiner, the help lieade says "broken system." inside, the article is titled long waits keep therapy patients hurting for care. that is the latest front page article for the department of public health. i think this measure would really come in handy, at least to help the hiv section of the department, and then hopefully they can devote more time and resources toward san francisco general hospital and laguna hospital. it has taken me five years to advocate for improvements to the department of public health, one of them being certain audit for san francisco general hospital. supervisor avalos: this item is referring to an application to the center for disease control. if you could keep your items to that, that would be great. >> i feel like any help the department could good, especially hiv, it will help avert a series that and funds to problem areas and the department. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. if there are no other comments by members of the public, we will close public comment. we