kate howard is going to walk you through the latest from the state in terms of other upcoming news. you an update on the status of our balancing plan when the joint report is out. we expect that to come out sometime next week. that will update our deficit projection. we do know that we are still going to have a very substantial deficit right now. my office is working with departments to go through their budget submissions, including their contingency proposals, and as you will hear from kate how or from the mayor's office, there is additional significant uncertainty in the state budget, which we will have to see how that plays out over the next weeks and months before we decide how we are going to handle that in the budget submission on june 1. we will have a more thorough update about our balancing plan for you within the next week to two weeks, but today, we will focus on the latest information we have from the state. >> good afternoon, supervisors. kate howard, the mayor's office. thank you for having me here to talk about the state budget again. as you have no doubt heard, budge