and at this point i'd like to ask the director of human services agency, mr. rory to come forward. we want to thank you and your staff for helping us put this hearing together. i think it's good to have this public dialogue and i appreciate your willingness to do that. what i'd like to know is jus to simply -- /tkp you -- if you can talk a bit about the proposed changes and the reasoning behind those changes and we'll take it from there. i apologize, before we begin, i do want to acknowledge that we have in the audience the director of the mayor's office of housing opportunity partnership and engagement [inaudible]. >> thanks again chair campos, committee members. director of human services agency, pleased that you called the hearing today supervisors so we can get on the record in a public meeting the proposed changes and have that dialogue. i thought i'd start with just a brief overview of the family shelter system. we have a very robust system, probably the most robust in the state so i thought it'd be helpful to break that down so you can understand where these changes apply be

reaction from ecuador that tone is changing rory or at least as you say there are countries around the world that are rather reluctant to get involved with mr snowden so it's a what always challenges of asylum anywhere for that matter. well now it seems very little the consensus worldwide seems to be to avoid snowden that all crossed arts he conducted an exclusive interview with the ecuadorian president rafael correa in which he said that it was initially a mistake that his country made it possible for snowden to travel from hong kong to russia that he is now russia's problem this is a very different tone than we heard from korea just last week where he was very boldly stating that ecuador would not bend to any u.s. blackmail to even pressure that they would do what they believed was right but when artie asked him even if he would like to meet with snowden aside from asylum just to speak to muslim whistleblower as someone who is has revealed this these leaks to the world he said not particularly that snowden is a very complicated man that he was a spy for. a long time what's interesting is that we do know that korea did speak to us vice pre