go ahead commissioner mazzola. thank you for that report. definitely dire.although, you know i have been african-american awhile and every time the budget come out they give the wirfs case and my hope this number drops and we near a better position than we think we are now. but with this said, these are tough decisions no doubt. but thanks for laying them out for the board to see. question i have you know labor now is trying to meet with the mire regarding the hiring freeze and what it means the paper said until june 30. i don't know if this is true or not. trying to figure out what it means. my question to you guys would be what would mean to you in this department as far as back filling a position or -- more than that the position that has been a job offered to somebody. what are we doing in this instance? i will ask antonio the mayor made clear his first citywide department head meeting which i attends was last thursday. the day afternoon he was sworn in. and that's when he announced the hiring freeze and did more then and there that the mayor's budget of