mr. herrera, thanks for being here. colleagues also member of the public, i've asked each city department to take no longer than 5 minutes to present their initial budget presentation and then we'll hear from harvey rose, our budget and legislative analyst if he does have comments or he has prepared a report and we can have discussion on that. >> thank you, supervisor farrell. very much appreciate the opportunity to come speak with members of this committee this morning. you'll notice from our budget that i propose fy 2014-2015 budget has increased by 3,035,0 98 largely due to salary and fringe benefit increases. we have had an opportunity to review the budget analyst recommendations. i'll start by saying i have no substantive disagreements with the budget analyst but i would like to take a couple minutes to offer some highlights of the work the city attorney does on behalf of the san franciscans that it serves. now, i'm sure that you know our mission is to provide first rate legal service to the board, the mayor, and a