. >> gail reynolds will talk to you about the budget. >>> i am gail revels. you have budget instructions that were passed out as part of 7a. i want to give a brief overview. last week we had a meeting with the comptroller's office and mayor's office representative. this will be the first year we do a two year budget. the some of the big enterprise departments are going to be doing a fixed two-year budget, but they have to propose two years and cannot change it in the second year unless there plus or minus 5%. they're not going to do that with dbi. the second year has to be balanced, but we will reopen in revisit our budget every year. every year we have -- every year we what do propose a balanced budget. the mayor's office is projecting to be quite short in the general fund. next year they're saying $262.7 million short of the general fund. they are constructing the general fund departments to cut budgets by 1 percent signed. and we are lucky in that we are not general funds. we can be making a different type of argument, but just a you know those are the ins