my name is mahdi scott, i'm the co-founder of the healing circle for the soul support group.uman circle for the soul support group, families and survivors of violence and homicide. we want to thank you, our elected civil servants, suffers ross mirkarimi, supervisor john avalos and supervisor david chiu and our board president, for your dedicated service and commitment on sunday, this past sunday, on mother's day, standing with us on the steps of city hall honoring mothers who have lost children to senseless gun violence. we thank you, our supporters, from the san francisco police department, who also provided services and took time out of their busy schedules, inspector valerie matthews, captain john sanford and lieutenant julian hill of officers for justice who provided the beautiful roses for each and every mother that was present on the steps of city hall this past sunday. i stand before you because of a very concerned about the recent cut to the victims' services fund which is now at $5,000. i just left a funeral of this young man who was killed in oakland, as you know, t