now i think we will hear from sherine. from the department of aging adult services. >> good afternoon supervisors, sherine, director of the department of ageing and adult services. i'm just going to go over some caseloads first. so, just want to start with in-home supportive services which sour biggest program at d.o.s. ih. we serve about 25,000 clients or we served about 25,000 clients last year alone unduplicated and we had about 22,400 independent providers serving that clientel. on average, clients get 98 hours a month, which on the private market if they had to pay for that it would be almost $3,000 a month. it's a really great benefit for those people who need it. i wanted to talk about integrated intake in referral. in 2016, with the support of mayor lee, we were able to open up our dos benefits and resource hub at the corner of goff and otus and we wanted to help streamline the intake process for people who need our services and make it easier for them to find us. we constantly are up against people not knowing whe

first president of the studies institute. 55 national review. 56, '60, the founding of yaf with the sherin statement. and on and on down through barry goldwater, what he did for barry goldwater was mentioned earlier, the unmaking of the mayor, his may yoral campaign where he not only proved that conservatism could be a vinyl force in the political arena, he actually used some people to come one new and sensible urban policies, things like urban enterprise zones, things like, hey, only collect the tolls on the bridges in and out of manhattan in one direction you'll get rid of half the toll takers and you'll be able to cut down the wait. you know, hey, only took them 30 years after that i think before they finally did it but that was one of his proposal way back then. he made conservatism respectable. he made it respectable for saint jim go on and become united states senator. he -- his reach was everywhere and the neat thing about it is he was -- he was a real human being and always an optimist. >> now my next question is this, when almost the first words i heard from you when i joined the

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