we have greg wagner from the chief financial officer from public health to present. >> thank you very much, mr. chair. gregg wagner cfo department of public health. we are here today to request a supplemental appropriation based on our current year deficit for the department of public health. as you all know, we were here last week, and discussed in some depth the history behind our financial challenges, and some of the issues that we have been working with. so i won't revisit all of that. but i'm happy to discuss it further, if you would like. so we'll go through very briefly where we are on overview of the request to end the budget and legislative analyst recommendation. just as context, we have, in the department of public health, a 1.67 billion dollar annual operating budget. of that budget, about $1.2 billion is revenue brought in by the department through patient revenues, grants, other funding sources, and the remainder is general fund. our current year general fund deficit is $31.2 million. this is an updated projection, as also discussed last week, compared to the controller'