my name is jean robertson, and i am chief of special education in san francisco, and this is d.j. irvin, the senior statisticition in our department, and together we are going to share with you a brought overview of our plan, our annual budget and service plan that needs to be submits to the state of california by the end of this month. we have worked in concert with our partners in the community advisory council, and they are here with us tonight, as well. and i'm going to pass it over to d.j. to start us off. >> the special education commission as you all know is a commitment to innovative, effective services resulting in positive outcomes for lifelong success of students. to do this, we have to offer a range of services across the district, and the state requires us to follow a rather strict set of guidelines to report this. it begins in december, when we do the december 1 case pull, which is a snapshot of all of our students and the services that they're receiving, the schools that they're at. we then go through a process of meetings with our community advisory committee. this year,