[applause] as many of you know, captain ann mannix the captain of our police station, phil ginsburg, and another round of applause for our mayor, ed lee, greg sass is here, the cfo of our department of public health, and greg, the mayor's budget director. so, just to give you a quick rundown, we are going to start with the mayor talking about opening remarks about our budget and principles coming up this season. the budget director will spend 10 minutes giving you an overview of the budget process in city hall and telling you what we're doing in this stage of the game as we're getting prepared. then we will have an hour of questions from new. this is your chance to ask your questions to mayor li and the other members of staff who will be here tonight. you can talk to me at any point. i want to make sure we take advantage of having a dialogue with the mayor tonight and the of the department's staff went might not be able to talk with on a daily basis. with that, i will say thank you for being here and turn it over to the mayor. >> thank you, supervisor. the evening, everyone. i will b