. >> again, i'm phil arnold, the finance director for the human services agency, the in-home supportive services is one of the programs that we offer under the department of aging and adult services. we have not proposed, nor do we intend to propose, any reduction in wages for the home care providers in home supportive services. there's something like 16,000 providers citywide. they are very low-income. they only affect -- there's been statewide efforts to reduce their hours, but not local efforts to reduce hours. the only impact that is in our budget that would affect those home care providers is a change in the premium for their healthcare. they purple pa currently pay $3h for healthcare services, and there's a proposal in our budget that that $3 a month be increased to $10 a month, but still way below the market rate for any other healthcare program that we're aware of. >> looks like we have one final speaker. tammy. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you for listening to our concerns today. we need to balance the budget. i know that it's hard to please everyone. we need to find wa

my name is phil arnold. i'm the deputy director for finance and administration for the human services agency. with me is denise chung, our manager of the office on aging, which provides services to seniors in san francisco. we are the agency that provides the social safety net for san francisco. what makes it's a more livable city. specifically what does that mean? we provide service to low-income families, to foster youth, to housing and homeless. we provide subsidized housing. we provide jobs for low-income residents. we have a summer youth employment program for the second year in a row where we will be employing 240 low-income youth. we provide general assistance, and of course we provide services to seniors and the disabled. our budget reduction target for this year was $18 million. the first half of that we achieved by basically belt-tightening and administrative efficiencies we could come up with. the second half was tougher. that really did eat into services. we're very grateful today that some of th