director kronenberg will be here next week. i want to give you an overview of our hiring. we will be hiring level one emt's to come into the department july 9th. and in september, we're looking at a class of 42 coming in. it takes them are approximately seven weeks. that is a fairly quick turnaround. and the h2 academy, that is approximately 16 weeks. and with the holiday it could run into 17 weeks. and we're looking at the next fiscal year, hiring again a class of 42. like i said, we were thrilled with the mayor's proposal. anything we can do to compress that six years down would have a positive outcome on the over -- on the expenditure. at the very latest we would want to bring in the next class in july. like i said, if we could compress it even further, we would like to do so. the next slide talks about mayor the's proposal to fund the fire academy for the next six years. we have come before you many times -- and initially it was counterintuitive to me, but we have relied heavily on overtime in the last six years. it is more fiscally efficient because you're not looking