a san francisco citizen lived vaness and eddie for over 30 years. i consider the tenderloin my neighborhood. and i'm also a harm reduction activist and one thing i do as a citizen i go throughout my neighborhood and i take harm reduction supplies to used be encampments there are people using on the streets. i will take harm reduction supplies and wound care supplies to them. and my experience with harm reduction is this it -- saves lives. period. and while we have seen a decrease in over dose deaths, reasonable nationwide and in san francisco, we still are in the midst of an over dose epidemic and i want to urge you folks to stay the course. first, i applaud your measures you take with harm reduction and -- but i urge to you stay the course and not cut any funding from this. one aspect of -- harm reduction is -- that i hand out molook thin is the reason why we seen a decline in the over dose deaths because we inundated and informed and educated people on the streets using. and so and they made it accessible. i found as an individual and talking to p