thank you very much, mr. rohr, for your time today.at this point, i'd like to open it up to public comment, if there are any members of the public who wish to comment on this item, please step forward. >> my name is vera hale. i'm a member of the advisory council to the department of aging. and every year, i come up here about cuts, and it's such a joy to be here and to be able to talk about what the needs of the people are, and what some of the things we think are coming in the future. i want to mention three things. one is the difference between -- one difference between calworks and medi-cal. cal fresh -- not calworks, cal fresh, has no asset limit. and this means that people will be able to apply, regardless of whether they have excess money in the bank or not. medi-cal will still, unless the state changes it, have an asset limit of $2,000 for one person, and $3,000 for a couple. and that's going to make it harder to ever get everything going easily back and forth. but one of the things that we found, anne hinton held a hearing in

. >> chair farrell: mr. rohr, i want to make clear, and thank you, we've spoke in my office before this hearing. you know, in the context, so people understand the context of budget cuts and so forth, and reduction for the mayor's budget reductions, i think the bottom line is you're able to achieve those cuts but also the overall budget increase for your budget is basically coming from the state and feds almost on a dollar-for-dollar basis so we're in a fortunate situation with your agency. >> that's right. i'll talk about some of that expansion in a couple of slides. one piece i forgot to point out which is significant is the increase in medi-cal that you see from 24 -- a little under 25 million to over 31 million. our role in medi-cal delivery is to enroll families and individuals who are eligible. we process their applications. we do outreach to get them in. we provide ongoing case management to make sure they remain eligible and continue to receive medi-cal benefits. the increase is because of the affordable