comes in we'll be in terrible shape in terms of defending values that are appealed at the assessment appeals board and right now our appeals have gone way down. it's difficult in this economy for homeowners to be challenging assessments and we're still facing big office buildings and hotels that continue to appeal the values we arrive at and frankly they win more at the assessment appeals board than they should. part is the lack of data. when we have twice as many commercial appeals to do once we have one every three years and i don't know if that's going to make sense for the city, they'll massive amount of revenue at risk. at this point in time although it's true we don't have a wrong log to work up on we have regular work that's coming in. we need to focus the staff people on doing the research for what's coming next. it's the same people. it's appraisers doing market data research. >> supervisor: excuse me. it seems as though what i'm hearing from president yee is at one time the assessor's office requested more assistance, more ftes to address the backlog for so long and through diligent work

comes in we'll be in terrible shape in terms of defending values that are appealed at the assessment appeals board and right now our appeals have gone way down. it's difficult in this economy for homeowners to be challenging assessments and we're still facing big office buildings and hotels that continue to appeal the values we arrive at and frankly they win more at the assessment appeals board than they should. part is the lack of data. when we have twice as many commercial appeals to do once we have one every three years and i don't know if that's going to make sense for the city, they'll massive amount of revenue at risk. at this point in time although it's true we don't have a wrong log to work up on we have regular work that's coming in.

year, the budget year, and the changes from prior years we receive our revenue from the assessment appeals board, which is expected to remain at a low level for both the budget and the out here, on the expenditure side, the department budget will increase by $126 million, or seven-point 9% in fiscal year 2019 through 20, and a lower amount by $285,000 or 1.6% in fiscal year 2321. these increases are mostly from the salary and benefit we negotiated in the m.o.u. and now to the one item that is not included in our budget, a member of the board requested that we look into the cost of adding a fourth position in each board member's office, and present that information today. we identified and an appropriate class four and administrative position, at a 1364 special assistant number 5, in fact, 23 years ago, after volunteering for that, we offered up that this was the class that i was hired into before he hired me into the 1835 legislative aide position. this slide shows the salary and benefits of step one, and as a top step. each position requires some incidentals that will be associated with costs t