gave us money to operate as well, and this is something we need toward pretrail. as we move toward getting rid of the bail system, pretrial release i believe will be the replacement. >> supervisor cohen: you heard supervisor stefani and supervisor yee, they both commented and said this should be in the mayor's budget. when you met with farrell, how did the conversation go? for what reason was it not included? was it a lack of understanding, a lack of empathy? what -- i don't understand why, so please, explain it to me. >> and i don't know either. >> supervisor cohen: i'm not looking to you for the answer. i'm looking at mr. patrick. >> it was purely a matter of limited resources. that 1.2 was a significant investment. it was just an ability to fund, given other competing priorities. >> supervisor cohen: so you asked for a 1.5. >> 1.7. >> you asked for 1.7, you got 1.2, whereas the police is asking for $21 million. >> i would add something else, it did not become as critical until humphrey took effect, and humphrey took effect in january . if you look at january in

investing in people that we want to improve their lives, so i am not going to support any cuts to pretrail diversion, and in fact i think it needs to be funded at $1.7 million. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. folks, do you have any comments that you'd like to add? okay. i appreciate your presentation. we're going to take the matter into our hands. so what would you like to do? we can -- we need to entertain a motion to provide direction to the controller's office so that they can continue to prepare their work sheet for us. >> supervisor yee: i'm inclined to not accept any of the b.l.a. recommendations except for the $8,000 reduction on supplies or something. >> they're professional services, i believe. >> supervisor cohen: i'm sorry, you're talking about 164,121 for materials and supplies? >> supervisor yee: there was a recommendation of 8,000-something where in your presentation -- >> 8,000 for memberships. it was in their second set of recommendations. there were, i believe, five specific line items, and the fourth one was memberships, from 8,000 to zero, which is actually 40,000 to 32,