we called mel sas clugian. >> she blamed the legislature for not acting on the commission's recommendations. chick thinks the whole thing including clugian's salary has been a waste of taxpayer money. >> i know so many schools, so many senior meals programs, so many veteran crisis centers, that would do 96 anything to have an extra $120,000 a year to do their good, hands-on direct-services work. but it's being wasted in sacramento. >> reporter: becky denison couldn't agree more. >> those amounts in skid row could be used ten times over for bus benches, for restrooms, to help communities. >> helping l.a.'s homeless on skid row it recently lost $60,000 in funding that paid for a nutrition program that's now dead. >> it's incredibly frustrating. domestic violence providers, where these committees continue to get funded no matter what they do. >> we're talking about a symptom of what's wrong with california in a bigger picture. we spend a lot of money. we say we're big. what does $100,000 matter? well, 100,000 here, 100,000 there, soon you're talking millions and eventually you're talking about