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Actually participate and make the changes. A lot of work ahead. I really want to thank the cochairs from a team point of view. When they added this last panel im thinking another facility, work behind us, my team is going to kill me what are we doing. Quite frankly this was brilliance at its best to be able to wrap it up put a bow on it as we go into deliberations, as we close this public part for the community, as far as the hearing listening session i think theres no better way to start the next chapter. So thank you for your leadership. With that, i think were ready to close. Madam chair an...

It also makes it really complicated because you have in any one grant year, 50, 60 different organizations receiving grants but thats the way we do it and i think that kind of patch quilt is a good thing in San Francisco and that covers a whole lot of work in housing for example, there is tenant counseling, theres first time Home Ownership, its done a lot to support the housing programs, the hope sf x the envisioning program, we have Small Business assistance, we have child care services, so its supporting a lot of different organize sashes doing different work and i hear some of the previous ...

Are bigger yet the federal Government Cut 16 of cdbg this year and 20 of our [inaudible] fund, we had to deal with that fact because some people are not going the get their grants. What we did this last month was to take a compelling argument to the mayor and it will come to you hopefully too to backfill that lost funding, its essential to Keep Community development stable because the other option is to cut those critical grants to the ground. I would say that its a critical time to do that because were seeing widening disparities in wealth and it is a time when the federal government is givin...

Turned down. Theyre socially and economically disadvantaged organizations and i would like the see more work witching the nonprofit environment as opposed to working with the Small Business community, theres some private and Nonprofit Organizations, they collect this money under the mckinney veto act and provide transitional housing but theyre only obligated to provide it for 12 years and then they can go private and turn it into a condominium so theyre telling their president s to get on the Public Housing waiting list because they want to convert. Then you have some thats just trying to say ...

They are not the same people dedicated to producing the light, sweet crude thats produced in the oil sector, for the most part. So if you offer discounts to asian consumers at large so that they become beholden to your type of oil and they build refineries specifically dedicated troo processing your type of oil its going to be harder for them to switch to somebody elses oil down the line. So it makes sense to keep the price a bit lower right now so that asian consumers build up refinery capacity for medium and heavy sour sulphur rich, saudi type oil, and you try and guarantee your market down ...