my name is mollie steyn ert, and i'm with stepping stone, we run four day care centers in san francisco. and i'm representing all of our seven nonprofit adult day health centers who were affected by 10% rate cut about a year and a half ago. the proposal that you're seeing is a retroactive charge that was put on us to pay back about a half a year of that that wasn't collected. this came at a very extraordinary time for us last year when we were not only suffering the 10% rate cut, but an additional 5%, at a time when our centers were undergoing a transition to community-based adult services. and also transition last year to managed care. these two program changes put a tremendous amount of threat to our programs losing members of our program through that transition and just all the systems that needed to be changed with our newmanaged care providers. * this $400,000 request really, really make a huge difference in cash flow for our seven nonprofit adult day health centers, keeps us afloat while we get through this period. so, i really thank you for your consideration of supporting us on