Okay.
The commission approved the strategic plan. There was one thing on budgeting in there that specifically said they had to integrate gender into every city department to achieve full equality, but nothing has happened yet. The strategies to operationalize this goal have never been implemented. However, the city did begin to examine the incorporation of gender into its budget decisions in preparation for an anticipated budget cut.
In 2003, there was going to be a very large cut in the budget, and the board passed a resolution urging the city departments to analyze the impact of these cuts. Sixteen departments actually looked at this; most of them said there was no specific impact by gender. However, the budget cuts never really were put in place, so there was never any effort made to see what would happen because nothing happened.
My last comment is that the new mayor and the new board of supervisors in San Francisco are actually saying they would like to work on having an analysis done of the impacts of the cuts in state aid to the city. There are steps being taken to implement gender into the budget, but it's happening very slowly.