mark corso, finance and planning here to continue discussion on the department budget continuing from last commission meeting and as we move forward through this year's process. last meeting we reviewed the city's fiscal picture and the budget instructions given to departments from the mayor's office. this meeting we'll get into the department budget more from the structure and make up of the budget to also the challenges and priorities we have going forward. just a brief overview of highlights from the last meeting, as we discussed there, we received some of the information from the city joint report that outlined the city's fiscal outlook for the next few years. as part of that we do a 2 year rolling budget process and city is projecting $800 million deficit over the next 2 years of the budget process. the fiscal year 24-25 budget and 25-26. that will be the period we will be negotiating during the process. as a result of that large deficit, departments were requested to propose ongoing reductions to their reliance on the general fund equivalent to 10 percent in each year along with