kate hower the mayors budget director >> good morning kate hower mayors budget director. pleased to be here to give a high level summary of what is included in the mayors proposed 2 year budget. you will hear lots more specifics from departments as they come their their hearings oreb the next several days. i want to say a word of thanks to everyone who worked so hard on this budget. my staff and mayors office, controllers office budget and analicist division and the team at budget and legislative analyst working very hard right now. the mayors budget is a 2 year balanced budget again. it is this year 8.9 billion in the first year of the budget growing to nearly 9 billion in the second year. of that approximately 4.6 billion is within the cities general fund. the budget includes funding for approximately 30 thousand employees, this is a sliget increase from the number of positions funded in prior years largely due to opening the new san francisco general hospital, our public safety hiring plans and increase service level of the mta. the budget includes funding as i mention