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Well, certainly if you look at that diagram you can see we are down more than 10 billion over where we would have expected to be if we had stayed on that dotted green line which is the trajectory for nih going back to 1970 so it will take quite a bit to make up that ground. The other thing the other thing i might show you a consequence of that for people trying to get Research Funded that is the success rate, an investigator who has sent there grant in is facing. You can see going back a couple of decades that has been in the range of 25 to 35 percent. More recently we are down in the zone of ...

To summarize programs that we have available through the office that focus on neighborhood stabilization. By way of overview, i am going to and i have a presentation, here. To come up. And i have provided hard copies to you and i believe for the public as well. I have provided hard copy to you and i think that there are some out for the public as well. And we have three broad categories of programs that i am going to reverse the order. And we have the programs that focus on preserving the rent controlled and the units for the existing residents and we fund the prevention programs and in the ev...

Before they hit the market or just when they hit the market. I am hope for any questions. I have one, so i understand is it the realtors that have been working with the mayor on the veterans housing . Are there other programs that you have that are attempting to help with the housing especially the Affordable Housing yeah so we have a project called the welcome home project which has been working with the Mayors Office and dufty from hope and successful in furnishing and we are successful and proud that have program and i also wanted to mention for a second and i know that she is mention combi...

Actually awarded for the grants and do you work with the cyber center at Homeland Security at the nddk to on how these grants are distributed or the technology that theyre developing there . Explain a little bit how that process works. Id have to go back and ask staff. Most of what we see with states using our funds ren hansment in their centers. Id have to go back and ask. I know we have work to expand eligibility on what grants can do but theres also within the cyber world still a lot to be determined, whats the best practices and how of this is an it investment versus Homeland Security gran...

Because it got wiped out. We need to move beyond that. We have to look at not just Building Back to what we always looked at cost benefit analysis and make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for d...