we also have the chair of the budget committee of the board of supervisors, supervisor carmen khu. --pplause] and after having chaired the budget committee two years in a row in 2009 and 2010, i can honestly say it's one of the most challenging jobs on the board of supervisors and with carmen, you have a great leader, someone who knows the ins and outs of this budget and really will be looking closely at neighborhoods like arson to make -- ours to make sure we can get out of this budget so carmen is a great person to have on our committee. i want to welcome all the seniors and the youths and the families and residents of district 11 and district 10. we have an incredible task before us on how to balance this budget. even though budget times are looking better, we have hard and difficult choices to make as we do the budget balancing work in the city county of san francisco. our budget is really a statement about our priorities as a city. we have lots of priorities as off our complement each other but sometimes compete against each other and we have to make hard decisions about what get