>> i at the end think it's a perfect example of a department i have with rebecca katz talked about private and public investment and i think you are right, animal owners and guardians, if you will, are things of great emotional attachments to the quality of life in our city. having said that, it is perfect to create public-private partnerships to sustain their shelters, their programs, they are retrieval processes, there are ways to make both guardians and animals safer and quality animal care. we're working out an ability to talk about the mission of the animal care and control department in the way that it attracts private investment. i think they have been doing well. all the food for the shelters right now is not general fund money. it's being paid for by companies that want to invest in our city and they think animal care is the right way to do it. we're going to have much more of that investment and match that with general fund. >> like a number of city agencies, there is the friends of animal care and control and people are invited to send small and large donations, all of them woul