my name is michael smith wick. i am the executive director of my tree compassionate care which is the only exclusively -- only hospice exclusively for people with advanced aids in the state of california. we're a 15 bed facility on cpuc's [speaker not understood] campus. i'm also speaking a aery dent, nearby resident of that came pus. i live just a few blocks away on scott for 23 years. in both respects what i've seen is that cpmc has been an excellent neighbor. from my tree they've been extremely generous for the majority years of our existence, at least 15 years. both with the financial support, but also with programmatic support. they offered their facility for use of our facility or staff for evacuation in the event of a local emergency, allowed our facility to be used for volunteer training and a number of different things that just demonstrates that they really do know they can support our facility and our mission. as i neighbor i was very involved in the process they established with the local neighbors for

my name is michael smith wick. i'm the executive director of my tree compassionate care. we are a 15-bed residential facility providing 24-hour nursing care to san franciscans with advanced aids. in need of hospice, end of life care, and encouraging them now, we're starting to bring in residents who have advanced aids with medical frailty where we can stabilize them over a period of months to send them back into the community for a second chance at life. we are -- have served over 1,000 san franciscans in our 26 years and have always had a waiting list. we've already absorbed at my tree cuts from last year-end of ryan white contract. so, this latest round of cuts would be in addition to that. we absorbed those cuts so far by -- without impacting our resident care by aggressively reducing our administrative overhead. in fact, we've reduced our total operating budget by more than 20% over the last few years. in essence, we've cut to the bone. additional cuts would almost certainly mean we'd need to leave beds empty since we'd be unable to afford the nursing care that licens