mr. corseau. >> good morning, commissioners, happy valentine's day. finance and planning here with the next item. which is continuation and potentially action on the department's budget submittal for this year. i have a short slide show and happy to answer any questions you may have. >> first want to highlight some of the documentation provided you in your packets. you should have received a budget book for the department, along with an outline of enhancement requests, i'll detail shortly later. in addition, a few pages paper clipped together an update to the book. they deal with some of the department revenues and i'll highlight those changes, a replacement to the corresponding pages previously provided. brief overview of the items i wanted to discuss. brief review of the instructions and timelines that we have highlighted at previous commission meetings. some of the assumptions and changes included in the budget before you, update on the department's budget committee that was reconvened in the current year at overview of what i guess technically the

thanks, director corseau. >> president cleaveland: thank you, mr. vice president, and for your leadership on the budget discussions. commissioner. >> commissioner veronese: thanks for coming. like you had a choice, right? i appreciate everything you do, really. the san francisco fiscal year operating budget that's in front of us, i want to just kind of go through that quickly if you don't mind. >> sure thing. >> commissioner veronese: on page 14, you talk about, 14 out of 86, you talk about the revenues, the ambulance billings, you have $139 million in ambulance billings. now, i'm assuming what that means to a layperson is that every time the ambulance goes out, they create a bill and they send that bill to the patient and the patient's insurance either covers it, doesn't cover it, and what's not covered the patient should cover, is that correct? >> yes, so the way it works, when our crews respond, they'll generate electronic patient care record for each encounter, which is mandated. and that record is then sent to the billing company where they run