. >> supervisor yee: sherreen, and this is where i'm seeing some issues, and not just your needs assessment, it's the timing of the needs assessment and what we're trying to do in this budget procedure. >> right. >> supervisor yee: as you know, there's quite a few asks to add back or increase for seniors or people with disabilities. so this makes it real awkward, i can't figure out whether in your needs assessment, whether or not some of these programs that are being asked to be funded would be part of that -- the result of the needs assessment or not, because then, we're faced with -- we decide to somehow get other funding for these programs or would they come out of, you know, whatever you have to allocate for -- for the needs assessment. >> okay. so two answers to that, supervisor. the first thing is that needs assessment is intended to inform our process going forward for the next four years, so we'll send the next year really looking at that needs assessment and using it to develop our service allocation for the full dignity fund $54 million -- approximately $54 million. that he had is