. >> thank you, vera sofment we are in the process -- many people know here that it's part of our budget reduction plan, we're needing to reduce some of the service areas and we presented tpwhalmt to our -- can you hear now? i saw somebody signaling. ok. we presented that budget to our commission and it's now with the mayor and his staff. we're just talking the other day about what that looks like and what the detail of it and what we might do with it. i would say that nutrition is a big negotiate our community. it's become bigger in the last couple of years because of the downturn and more people's s.s.i. checks being smaller and people not having the income. so should we determine that we can fund the meal program again, we may need to look at other ways in addition to that, those funds, to feed people. because the need is greater than we as a city are able to -- toe we provide at this point but those conversations are still going on at this point. >> and there's a coalition of senior organizations that's working with my office to try to do our best to find funding streams or protect c

. >> thank you, vera sofment we are in the process -- many people know here that it's part of our budget reduction plan, we're needing tdu