wagner and jen louie. >> good evening commissioners. briefly to remind us after hearing at the last commission, this is the second of our hearings and there will be more to come. our second hearing on the dph budget. as we have discussed and i think as jen louie will touch upon, things we'll need in a different fashion this year than in some years passed particularly because we have two large city wide initiatives, the covid and mental health sf budget. those are being developed through processes led by the mayor's and controller's office. you won't hear about those today. you will hear about the plan for meeting general fund instructions from the mayor's office and we will return to you with the other initiatives later in the spring for your discussion and input and approvals. today we'll talk about our baseline operating budget and our compliance with the mayor's budget instructions. with that, i'll turn it over to jen louie. >> we gave you the context of the budget the last time we were here. at this hearing, we have detailed proposa