nancy mcpherson, the state director of aarp california travelled up from los angeles. we were quite honoured to have all of those people speaking. this month's membership meeting had quite a lot on it, beginning with the office on aging. and we had some updates. we had an incredible presentation on intergenerational programming with the ucsf memory of aging centre and friends of the elderly. also turned peterson from sequoyah living. the presentation was enlightening. it was quite moving at times and very positive. really good stuff going on there. we also have had brett from the local census efforts and we will have him back again in the early spring before the census begins, with a very important, and then finally, we also continued our process for developing our annual budget advocacy ask that started in august with brainstorming where we solicited ideas, areas of funding from members, and then begin to winnow that down. we did some discussion of the meeting and followed that with a survey to all the member agencies asking them to select their top areas and compiled