colleagues, what has happened is -- is the neutron bomb, in effect. that has nothing to do with anything we have done municipally. we have been divorced from the control influence we used to have. it was a hail mary pass two years ago to get some funding. comcast was agreeable to it. it was to on a short term put it on life-support and go from a $900,000 budget, where we were flushed in assets, to practically one-quarter of that for programmatic funding. that is what is before us, was that continued infusion. the fact that capital funding remains -- buildings can be made pretty, but with no programing for people to help serve the community, there go the neutron bomb effect. this gets us through the past year, based on expenses accrued, and maybe the upcoming year. this question is still not settled in the future, which i will ask that we return to, as to how the city should be held obligated to make sure public access is made to thrive. if we do not do this, we lose our position, a nationally speaking, in being a forward thinking city. today, this is

and it's sort of like the neutron bomb of politics. in other words, if we close our wallet to a company like riteaid and demand that our c.e.o. gives us a fix to the prescription drug benefit to put in medicare part d, what will they do? 50,000 people call riteaid or email them and say, you better do this or otherwise we won't step into your store, you know, that will work. guest: well, i think that a lot of groups are going towards consumer boycotts these days as an effective way to -- i know move-on has moved there. you know, i would personally like to see in the maul -- in the small business bill that congress may cut back and reconsider what the definition of small business is. by statute, 24% of all federal contracting is supposed to go to small businesses. but it's going to fortune 500 companies, you know, del, boeing, big corporations because of loopholes in the law. and there is, i believe, only about 4% going to small businesses, and small businesses are the engine of jobs. so, you know, that's something that i would really li