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Seniors cant donate. So when the projection is lower than projected that means they have to fill in with Additional Fund raising. Of course costs have gone up and with the the city has given all the providers some costs of doing business, a small percentage of 1. 5 percent, even that doesnt cover all the increases. Food costs has gone up quite a bit in the past year. So it is challenging but, you know, they are doing, they are very committed. Were really fortunate to have committed Service Providers and they are able to provide a service because they also use volunteers. A lot of the volunteer...

Pay. And you are correct, i mean, theres a lot of factors that we take into consideration in negotiating the rate based on, you know, the type of meal that will be provided, the organization structure, what type of meal, what the meal preparation situation is, are they getting it through a caterer because not all the centers have their own kitchen. Like project open hand has their own central kitchen and when they have a much higher volume of meals those costs generally are lower too so the size of the operation, all those things take into consideration. And, you know, we do have a cap that we...

Ann quinton with meals on wheels. We were able to hire a new rd and she actually speaks chinese as well shes bilingual, then we hired another rd that speaks french and a tiny bit of spanish so well see what happens with that. On staff we certainly have people that are speaking spanish and chinese and russian as well and our social work staff and drivers. So you do counseling, do you have materials in different languages that you give to the clients also . We do translate that into the languages that i mentioned. Thank you. You are welcome. Any other questions . Hearing none, i will call for th...

But i have to disagree with that, because if you look at the thing that you just mentioned, the statistics, andrea, they are disturbing. Were plateauing at around 40,000 cases a day. And the deaths are around a thousand. As we enter and, you know, we turn the corner after the labor day weekend. Im hoping that we do not see a surge in cases as weve seen following the fourth of july and memorial day. But when you have a baseline of infections that are 40,000 per day and you have threats of increased test positivity in certain regions of the country such as the dakotas, montana, places like that,...

Concerned with the coronavirus or the threat of it at this rally, right, john . Leland, good afternoon to you. It started the last half hour going inside the barricaded off areas so they can get into whats called the outdoor experience, there are bands playing and a lot of people who set up vending outlets and we found some people who have come as far away from oklahoma city, wichita, kansas. They want to be here when the president restarts his campaign and there will be another outside area the president will address the people before going inside the arena. We want to talk to a couple of peo...