my name is margaret moran. i'm a native of san francisco as well a nurse. i'm the charge nurse for the field public health nurses who are here today to say that we really, really cannot in good conscience not say anything when we're going to see our services disappear. if we only have 7 nurses in the field and i've been doing -- i was a field nurse for over 20 years. i know how it is to make home visits. we get to people where they live. we prevent hospitalizations. we bring people help when they need help. we get the link to services when we can do that. you know, i have a masters. it doesn't take a masters here to know if you have only 7 public health nurses you're not going to be able to take 2 to 300 requests for health services. you're not going to be able to do that. i'm not a person to say, no health care for you. you don't have enough problems. go away. we take all of san francisco general referrals. we try to follow-up and we do. right now we have a wait list because with 15 nurses we can't get all of them, all of our clients who are referred to. w