ms. newman's statement, and she will correct me, even if the funding source is restricted, that the city attorney's office in essence has the authority to reassign its staff to that work, pulling them off of other general fund work to free a general fund money. i understand that to be the budget analysts statement. >> supervisors, it all sounds great in theory. just pull city attorney's office and do other things. i can tell you, that is easier said than done when you look at the fact that our general fund contribution has been reduced by over $5 million over the last five years and we are being asked to do more and more. now let me just say something else. and that is, in an attempt to recognize something, and i don't know if ms. howard is here -- she is here -- i'm sorry, the budget analysts report, and there was some discussion about how these conditions were not requested in the mayor's budget. i want to clarify things, because that's not true. if you go back and look at our february submission, we talked in very general terms about our desire to create this unit. we didn't going to