. >> commissioner motamedi and i have a comment--go ahead, commissioner alexander. >> motamedi alexander and then. >> first i do want to say thank you to a & m in the last several of weeks as a board member, i feel like that i'm finally getting updates that are cause oriented and scope and the timeline is being put forward. that said, i do share the on going concerns around accountability, clarity around the timeline and also about just a true of an audit to make sure that what we have going forward is working but also that our teachers and all those affected by the pay roll system have confidence that from the beginning, to the present that they have have been made whole and their paychecks have been corrected and reviewed. so i also want to echo concerns about noticing. you know, special meetings, they don't have to be noticed, we have 24 hours. that said as a courtesy to both members and public, i do agree that the presentation should be loaded and viewable and there be notice. i had not seen the presentation that you just saw. i saw it alongside you, i want to underscore the work tha

i share with commissioner motamedi, with ms. gordon and i'm sure with my cohort, kevin lazone, the concern about deficit spending. there are two kinds of deficit spendings. there's purposeful, where you're spending down some of the things, like, like the restricted funds ms. gordon was talking about. sometimes they come in big chunks in the years you don't want them so you spend them in other years but when spending down reserves because your budget is still more than your revenue on your ongoing operations, that still is a serious concern. you're meeting your fiscal obligations but sooner or later, that world ends and we don't like to see the budget eroded. there's things i would like to point back to the fiscal health analysis, a risk analysis, and one of them is the deficit spending. the other is the lack of controls and procedures, which we are all working on and hoping to get in place much clearer and much sooner. they are necessary. they are urgent, and i think it will be difficult to balance the budget in the end without