introduction i'm going to be giving an abbreviated version of what the mayor's budget director kate howard gave in december highlighting the findings of our 5-year financial plan published in december as well as a very cursory look to guide their budget proposals as they work through the budget season and they are in the thick of that right now as i'm sure joe will share with you. >> all right. the clicker is working okay so my agenda for the presentation this evening is just to give you a high level overview of the city's financial planning and policies generally and to dig a little deeper into the into the 5-year financial plan looking at the goals and the general fund base case that we've our findings on that as well as our proposed fiscal strategics and the first time ever did a recession scenario for the for the 5-year plan as a planning tool and i'll dig a little into budget instructions. so broadly the city has worked over the last several years to strengthen the long-term financial management in our budget process. that involves 2-year budging. every year the departments are requir

that are weathered to our budget and weathered onto the discussion we have with kelly and her boss kate howard about the general fund we took our comments and suggestions to heart and had a very hearty discussion we'll end on that not kelly was many the room she heard our discussion and i appreciate your vicinities of support too. >> very much so i'm sure you're aware of kate is amazing the city is in good hands with kate as the mowers before you get director public comments on the presentation all right. seeing none no speakers public comment is closed. any final comments clirgs all right. thank you thank you, kelly. >> next item is review and approval the department viable for the 2015-2016 that explanatory documents for the 2015-2016 sponsors are deborah reaping yell and accident project sponsor and finance administration this is a discussion and action item. >> oh, joe. >> good evening. i'm joe. >> before you starting i'm going to do a couple of introduceries the way we are going to industry this as 4 of the 5 you sat through a detailed discussion with the operations committee we'll go a a