. >> good morning, i am maria benjamin and i am the director of the home ownership and this is an accept and extend request for cal home grant from the tait of california. and that we were successful at receiving for 925,000 dollars. we used this grant and we have been receiving this grant since 2004. and we have been using this grant to help fund our down payment assistance programs for families under 80 percent, median income and purchasing a bmr, or for our rehab program to help only owners in that same income category to make repairs on their home, with this grant we will be able to provide eleven down payment assistance grants. and i am sorry, loans, and we will be able to rehab six homes, with this 925,000. and we will, and the way that the money is split up is that we will use 650,000 for the mortgage assistance and 265,000 for the rehab. >> okay. >> great >> thank you very much. >> any questions? >> okay, thanks for bringing this forward, and open this up for public comment, anybody wish to comment on eight. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> so i move a positive recomm

and i spoke to maria de jesus tlatempa bello and two other relatives of missing students who were in new york with the caravans -- cruz bautista salbador is a teacher and the uncle of benjamÍn bautista, and clemente rodriguez moreno is the father of christian alfonso rodriguez telumbre. we started by asking mario or she doesn't believe the government's conclusion that the students are dead. >> of course not come a because -- of course not, because we feel our children are alive. because it was police that took them. and they didn't take any more because no more fit in the police car. and the public feels our pain as parents. we need information for our children. and we have received information that we passed to the government. however, they have not helped us because they don't want to help us find our children. and because of this may 26 -- since the september 26 and 27 we have not stopped searching. we will continue searching for them until we find them. juan: what are you hoping to accomplish with this trip? >> we've been doing diverse activities in our travels through the united states. and we've met a lot of people who are misinformed. that is the reason why we're her