s tthanks to our incredible leadership. [applause] >> thank you, rebecca. thank you for speaking on behalf of the constituents in district 8 and district 9. from the department of adult and aging services -- just showed up. great. excellent. many of the department and agencies are here. now the most important part of the program, the open mic, is coming up. before the start that, i wanted to review a few rules. we have a limit of two minutes per speaker. please make sure you are able to express yourself in a distinct wasuccint way. i have a set of names i will be calling out. please be ready to line up. we will be putting you on a timer. i apologize in advance that i might have to cut some of you off. we want to get to as many people as possible. again, it is important that everybody puts their thoughts and ideas on paper and submits it to the desk where they checked in. these ideas and thoughts will be compiled by the supervisors' offices, hopefully in order to be involved and engaged in the budget process. again, this is just the beginning of the budget p