good morning commissioners mark and chief mark corso.finance and planning here to give a little update on budget instructions that were received by all city departments last month. this is kind of the informal kickoff to the budget process at the commission level, even though obviously we seem to talk about budget in some capacity every meeting. but as far as the actual proposal for the department and that entire process that's been kicked off citywide, this is an overview, general overview, citywide, not really into the department. the next two meetings will go more in depth on specifically the fire department budget. but this is just a relaying of some of the recent updates the city has put out regarding overall economic health, as well as what the instructions are for individual departments. obviously, there is potential for some of the change in this. with the new administration coming on. we'll touch on that briefly a little bit, but just want to give a very brief overview. here's a brief review of the process over the next few mont

madam vice president, commissioners chief and madam secretary mark corso from finance and planning tond of pick up the budget conversation from the last meeting we had at our last meeting we kind of over went over did an overview of budget instructions and the process will get a little bit into what our budget and our structure is our view a few things we talked about before and always answer any questions that you may have. there should be an accompanying document to those presentation that gives you a very high level detail answering some of the questions that came up which we can get into and i will reference that later in my presentation. we touched on this at the last meeting so i'll briefly glide through it but this is the overall budget process timeline instructions and a five year financial plan released in december which was done in december of 24 the six month report we're currently working all city deptments are currently working with the comptroller's office currently on that. that will be issued probably early next month. our budget submittals from city departments are du