the goals today are to one keep city college open and tlifg and to make sure that the college is serving the most needy. it's great to be working with the trustees and staff to make the amendment better. i think their might be other things coming out of this meeting. i want to thank the faculty and students who are leading the campaign to this. i wonder if what information we have on what current charges the city levies on city colleges for the various services. and i know i just saw some of the information that's before us. and yeah. i'm sorry if this has come suddenly but there is this crisis within the excellently system and there's the charges for the south east facility and there's this charge from the budget committee the cost of the electorate system of ballot measures or the every two years the college board. >> members based on your request supervisor mar we did take a look at the varies information and the costs of the services. there are very few the elections department charges those entities that are not part of the city and county for the cost of those elections so the scho

guys say i support the president on changing cpi, i think we -- >> we need as accurate measure and tlifghat, we are in trouble. president is going to be proposing that in his budget and he has been there a long time. >> do you spour thaupport that? >> the president is out there proposing it and waiting to see if the republicans bring their idea reforms to the table and they have not silent. they haven't been that constructive. >> if you're protecting the oldest -- not the oldest. if you're protecting the poorest seniors you'll get democratic support. >> if i can offend my own party for a second. the republicans went on a retreat and they will start talking about this pretty soon, i'm confident. you're basically saying carve out -- you were talking about, for instance, blue collar workers. you have a carve-out for blue collar workers for raising the retirement age or some of these other areas where we are talking about changing benefits, you think that may be the key to moving forward with real entitlement reform? >> what we need is structural holistic reform in the health care system. >>