commissioners, mark corso finance and planning to present on the next item here in one moment. there we go. all right. there was one item last meeting that unfortunately we ran out of time on and so i've combined that into this item here. i have some slides on the overall city budget process as well as some departmental specific information that i'll get into in a moment. so just an update from seems awhile ago from when we were closing out last budget. but mayor breed signed off on the fiscal year 21-22 budget back in july of last year and that kind of marked the return to standard budget process and timeline for the city after being interrupted by covid so that kind of replicates the standard schedule which i'll get into in a moment and returns to the normal budget process time lines. for the department, budgets were loaded into the budget system. there are however many uncertainties as everyone knows that have remained during the current fiscal year mainly stemming from covid both operation alley for the departments as well as economically for the division. the fire departme

conversations internally and with the mayor's budget office, and i want to thank olivia scanlon and mark corso for all their work that they do on this. it takes a village, and we are also set to meet with the mayor's budget office next week for some further conversation and we will keep you in the loop about that. under our community paramedic division, street wellness team began at the end of january, and i am going on a road along with them in the next couple of weeks. i think it's really important that i get out there and see what's what and how they work, and i know that they are adding value to the city and to the department, and i appreciate their work and chief pang's work overseeing all of that. if you have questions about that i know that chief pang is happy to answer questions. we started an h-3 level class a paramedic class yesterday with 20 people and we have not done this -- i don't know the last time we had a level two class. it's been a while. typically, we've been hiring level ones as e.m.t.s and then they can go through a bump-up academy. the thing is we were actually going th

commissioners, mark corso finance and planning to present on the next item here in one moment. there we go. all right. there was one item last meeting that unfortunately we ran out of time on and so i've combined that into this item here. i have some slides on the overall city budget process as well as some departmental specific information that i'll get into in a moment. so just an update from seems awhile ago from when we were closing out last budget. but mayor breed signed off on the fiscal year 21-22 budget back in july of last year and that kind of marked the return to standard budget process and timeline for the city after being interrupted by covid so that kind of replicates the standard schedule which i'll get into in a moment and returns to the normal budget process time lines. for the department, budgets were loaded into the budget system. there are however many uncertainties as everyone knows that have remained during the current fiscal year mainly stemming from covid both operation alley for the departments as well as economically for the division. the fire departme