. >> i am the director of patient financial-services for the san francisco general laguna honda and community clinics for the department of public health. the two requests for your approval are two vendor contracts that we used primarily at san francisco general to have, in the past four years, assisted us in further collections from peers -- payers that may not have been identified at the time that we had the patience accounts processed -- the patient's accounts processed through our patient accounting area. for san francisco general, our department has been allotted about $287 million, and this is two vendors that help support the continuance of furthering our collection efforts. the apollo specialty aged accounts are identifying retro medi-cals. oftentimes patients come our way, and we processing them forbes medi-cal -- for medi-cal applications which can take over eight months. they are able to use the retro accounts and be processed. they have been successful in their collection efforts to approve a our bottom line as well as triage whose specialty is in managed care. in the initial port

will allow us to pay future debt service at the mehanna without having to use general funds to cover the -- at laguna honda without having to use general funds to cover those expenses. that is the summary. if you have questions, i am happy to try. supervisor chu: thank you. in terms of the two large swings in the sun, $67.6 million from senate bill 1128, which is a positive for us, a loss of funding or revenue. can you speak to whether we expect that these are going to be continuing trends? are these sort of changes we expect to continue through the next fiscal year, and are any of these pots of money just one- time? >> that is a good question. the answer is it is a combination of the two. on senate bill 1128, the bulk of that funding is one-time. there was a payment that is a retroactive payment for multiple years' worth of debt service expenditures, so that is a one- time cash-up payment. however, there will be some ongoing debt service funds, but those will not be available to balance. there will be used to pay down the debt service at laguna honda unless there is a surplus over what we projected. the o

. $6,555,007 of general fund reserves for losses to support additional expenditures in the department of public health. $13,090,000 at laguna hondaollars in -- a $27,077,609 for a debt service reserve in fiscal year 2011-2012. number nine, ordinance appropriating the money for nurses' salaries in the department of public health in its fiscal year 2011-2012. supervisor chu: thank you. we will probably continue number 9. we do not have a report. number five, six, and 7 are all de-appropriations of sellers or fringe benefits and re appropriations two overtimes to of those items do not require additional general fund support. item eight, the department of public health, however, does have a level of general fund reserve that would be required in order to make that action whole. i just wanted to note that. from the mayor's budget office, we have someone here. do want to provide opening comments or it would like to turn it over to departments? >> thank you, supervisor. i do not think we have any comments. we're happy to let the department's comment. supervisor chu: for item five, we have the fire department budget. >> did afternoon. i