mr. cisneros? okay, thanks very much for being here. >> thank you. up next we have our public defenders office. >> thank you, supervisors. when we were last here, the only issue was the question of our salary savings. if you go to the first slide, you'll see here that last year we had 28 vacancies. these are also partial vacancies and leaves. this year we're projecting just 11. so, if you look at this year we had $23,000 surplus which is wonderful, but next year we're anticipating $217,000 vacancy. what we provided mr. rose and his office with are the actual detail for each of the positions. so, you see here our salary savings in 2013-2014 and how we arrived at the $6 23,000 surplus ~. and then we see in the next year, this is actually in the 2014-2015, it's mislabeled, the projected deficit is 217,000. if the committee takes the additional 40,000 plus the 15,000, it's going to put us in a further deficit position. i just want to point out just two thing. one, last year the district attorney's office received nine positions which were annual i'dx. we

mr. cisneros. thank you for being here. >> good morning, supervisors, jose cisneros, san francisco treasurer. we are still working with the budget analyst's office so, with respect to that i'll just express my gratitude to the office. the mayor's budget office and before coming back to you with hopefully a resolution next week. in recognition of your busy schedule today i'll not present a full presentation, but i would like to use the overhead projector if i could to give you an update on how we're doing with gross receipts, implementation. as you know, in november of 2012, the voters of san francisco passed a significant change, the largest change of the generation to the city's taxes. we are responsible for implementing those changes. i am pleased to be able to tell you we are already implementing a number of changes that have taken effect during this calendar year. quarterly installments, payments are being made right now for gross receipt taxes and payroll taxes. registration renewalses were ch

mr. cisneros. now we have a budget analyst report. mr. rose? >> yes, mr. chairman and members of the committee. on page 23 of our report, our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total 302,973 dollars in 14-15. all of that amount are ongoing savings. these reductions would still allow an increase of 4 million 6 23,245 dollars or 13.2% in the department's fiscal year 14-15 budget. we also recommend closing our prior year unexpended general fund encumbrances which would allow [speaker not understood]. together those recommendations will result in $392,9 23 saving to the city's general fund in 14-15 ~. i recommend reduction to the proposed budget total 341 18 in 14, 15 all that of are ongoing saving. these reduction would decrease the department's 15-16 budget by 2 million 578,6 14 or 6.4%. we're still working with the department and will report back to the committee next week. >> thank you, mr. cisneros. the next department is economic development and workforce development. oewd. and we have todd ruffo. thank you, mr. ruffo. whenever you're ready, m