that concludes my report. >> thank you very much chief nicoleson. at this point, before we turn it to the commissioners for questions or comments, is there any public comment on the chief's report? >> there is nobody on the public comment line. >> alright. public comment on the chief report is closed. at this point questions or comments? commissioner fraser, commissioner morgan. >> i don't have much. i'll start if that's okay. i want to say congratulations on the budget and i notice we had a lot of retirements. are we able to fill these positions pretty quickly? what are your prospects? >> it is my understanding over the past fiscal year we had approximately 87 retirements, one of which was a civilian so 86 uniform members and you know, pretty much members that we hired thus far. it is pretty much a wash in terms of the academies we had, so we do have another academy in right now of approximately 50 people and we were also granted in the budget two more academies for each year for the next 2 years. it is 2 year budget, so we have been granted that a