hollenbeck first of all, i'm glad that we're on this slide sort of separately a at a comment and that is that as someone who is a professor in design and associate the visual presentation of this whole budget is outstanding and i love the fact that whoever chose the color scheme for these bars for the elevations matched aleesha mccarthy's painting on the right in terms of the color block was that you think coma oh my god yeah we are just so lucky to have you. it's just been even though it's about a deficit it's not actually a pleasure to look at so so thank you for doing that. >> it's really just beautiful. >> my question was also about the galleries so i'm looking in terms of is it true that we actually don't support the galleries through the general fund but it looks like it's through grants and then inter departmental? >> can you explain that? thank you for raising that question. it's it's an important one and i, i, i neglected to mention it so i appreciate you asking it. >> the history historically the gallery's program was funded by the general fund last year after the department

and i am introducing the deputy director of administration and financearah hollenbeck to present this. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. good afternoon, president collins, vice president chioda and commissioner beltran and sara hallenbeck, deputy director of finance and administration. and it's a pleasure to be before you this afternoon. thank you for having us here today to present our budget proposal for fiscal year 2627. i will i would like to also thank kevin kline, the finance manager who is also in the audience today who has been instrumental in preparing the materials that you have in your packet today. without his help it would be impossible. >> so first i'm going to just go over a brief summary of our presentation. i'm going to provide an overview of the budget process and timeline. then we'll go over the budget instructions for this year's budget process and discuss briefly the budget climate. as you know, is challenging. and then we'll talk about the proposed revenues and expenses. >> both operating and capital with respect to the budget process, we're currently at the