ben rosenfeld who is our city controller. >> good afternoon. members of the chair. ben rosenfeld. similar to the review madame chair asked regarding other practices, you asked us for a qualitative survey regarding the local process. so we worked through the process this fall and issued a report about six weeks ago now, which is available on our website, regarding our findings. so i will briefly touch of these here. generally speaking, though, we administered a survey to multiple stakeholders, including board members themselves, members of the mayor's office, members of the budget legislative analysts office, and others who participate in the process, whether they represent advocacy processes and lastly surveyed a number of different department staff. we were fundamentally asking two different questions, which at a high level, which aspects of the board's approach from the budget process from your perspective is effective and what could be approved. it was broad across the responses, in terms of what was working well. for many respondents, schedule management was high on the list.