there will be a dip before it goes up because the time the off as earticers spend in the acade, they are riding it for that amount of time. commissioner slaughter: thank you, president mazzucco, chief, captain goldberg. think you for your tremendous hard work on this issue. my understanding of the way this budget process works, per the charter, and correct me when i get this wrong, the budget gets submitted to us and we have the obligation to review it and approve or not approve it. as a matter of actual practice, the budget is presented by -- the budget for the city is presented by the mayor to the board of supervisors. the board considers its and they adopt a budget for the whole city. in my view, it makes this process a tad bit irrelevant. what i am suggesting here is that -- it is a long way to say that if the mayor's office and /or the board is looking for this commission horn by a vote on whether this is a good budget, i will vote no. i can support a budget that has no academy classes. the budget remains the most important issue facing this department and i am reasonably confid