dan gonesure. harvey rose is the budget analyst, i don't want to take his position away from him.a brief presentation on the budget overview report, with -- released on monday. we started this report a year ago just to give the board kind of an overview of what we are seeing in the budget. so it's high level, details in the reports next week, growth, the fact that the budget growth overall is faster than the growth in population of the city as well as inflation rates in the local economy. table one, the budget has grown by 37.2% over the last five years, and the average annual growth rate expenditures was 8.2%. that compares to the population growth of 2% over that period. and the consumer price index for the san francisco metropolitan area was 3.4%. similarly, general fund growth is also faster than population growth and inflation. the annual growth rate and fund budget expenditures, 7.4% per year. position growth in the budget, and the average annual growth rate of positions overall during the five-year period, 1.9%. in the fiscal year 2019-20 proposed budget, positions are prop