with that i'll introduce keith demartini martin irntioi who abo over the details. >> thank you. good afternoon. keith demartini martini, it's my pleasure to present an overview of this fiscal year's supplemental appropriation for our department and secretary iowna and i have copies. as director rahaim mentioned this is a supplemental budget appropriation for this currently four. under charter section 4.1024.3 the department is requesting -- will be requesting the planning commission's approval of our request, when we come back next week. they a an agenda idea for next week's agenda on this. so just before i get started with the details of the supplemental appropriation request i will have an overview of what we are projecting as far as revenues and expenditures which is the basis for our request. in this current year fiscal year budget we did assume overall volume projected growth of approximately 3% from last fiscal year and through about six months of actual data that we've been able to analyze so far through december, we are experiencing that 3% growth approximately, with som

with that, i'll turn it over to keith demartini who will go over the details. >> my name is keith demartini, i'm the finance manager for the planning department, i'm here to present the fiscal year 2013-2015 departmental budget, i have copies of the powerpoint presentation and there are copies for member of the public that would like to follow along with my presentation as well. i will just be giving you an overview of recent planning case and building volume trends that we've been experiencing, the expenditure budget as well as the proposed grants capital and other budget requests, and then just an update on the budget calendar going forward. so, let's just start with a recent planning case and building permit volume trends as director ram has already mentioned, i'm on slide three here, we had anticipated a 3% volume growth in this fiscal year which we are experiencing, approximately 80% of our case and building permit activity comes from the review, we'll see growth in permit building review and various multiple application ins this current year. we are at this time projecting that volume

keith demartini martini, finance manager for the planning department and secretary eye own-in and i havees forever the commissioner. before i begin the presentation, this work program is what we're calling the base budget or the status quo budget, as it stands today. so it basically assumes that there are no changes from what our adopted budget when we went through this process last fiscal year. department staff are currently working through various budget requests and initiative ideas. and we are working through those requests now. and when i come back to you in the next couple of weeks and in early february, i will be presenting a revised version of this work program for submittal to the mayor's office. so i thought i'd start with the calendar. again i delivered this same presentation to the historic preservation commission. i will come back to you on january 31 with draft revenue and expenditure detail budget including grants and capital projects and other financial items such as that. and then in mid-february, we your approval of the department's proposed fiscal year 13-14 and 14-15