nancy and aaron. the whole team, um, for, you know, for the thorough presentation, i mean, this pretty much summarizes, you know, all the stuff that we've been looking at that you've been giving reports on every year. and it's pretty amazing that, um, um, the budget process, the mandated budget process, not just here but throughout the city is like the grand organizer of democracy. it seems here in city, because people are forced to sit down and let us know what we're going to do and what we're going to move forward and look at it. and again, without belaboring it, i mean, we're going to be doing this for four more meetings, but the foundation that you just set, you know, pretty much summarizes it. so thank you. i know there are a lot of questions and, and comments that are probably going to be had both by the commissioners and by the general public. and, um, but just thank you for that. a couple of comments that i, that i might say and the only thing i'm going to say before we open it up is, is that