day aids services will not be necessary because of the new prevention that is going on with the pharmacuticals, and maybe they want to eliminate that service and put the money some place else, and the contingency allows that to happen. what is being capped is the total dollar amount by the resolution by this board of service as to what the dollar amount of the agency contracts should be. and the department has incorporated this flexibility to be able to increase those dollars so long as those dollars are appropriated. supervisor mirkarimi: through the chair, is that practice then extended to say another department like h.s.a., who also has quite an extensive network of social service providers? >> no. one of the things that human services agency does for child care, for example, it does combine them, and it estimates some cost of living adjustments over the course of the 3-5-year period, which is another way of doing it. so when you approve the dollar amount for three years, the only thing the department has appropriateded is the first year, and they can only increase it the second and third y