and what i would like to say to mr. nuru is that i remember when he took over -- he he came on staff, his first plant was flowers down at the powell street station. everyone said it was crazy, it wasn't going to work. you put them outside city hall and everyone liked trees and flowers. and recently i've learned that you have your staff members to even get the oranges that fall on people's yard that people throw away, their lemons and pass them on to someone. i spoke to people in sacramento and oakland about that the way people just let the fruit fall but everybody with use something. i want to say my most important moment is all the day or either earth day we planted a tree for mandela here at the lao hutch. what a great day that was for me to join you all and then [speaker not understood]. ~ can use it was a california ivory coast tree. and thanks for planting more trees in this city so that we all have a healthy organic future, a lot like what sacramento does with all the trees and the oranges that fall. you can only eat t

mr. nuru, thanks for coming. >> thank you. good afternoon and thank you for having us another year to present our budget. i will begin [speaker not understood]. okay. joined with me today is staff from our budget and finance department [speaker not understood] has a handout. they will be passing out. okay, thank you. i will begin. the needle and thread that ties all the work that we do together at the department of public works is a strategic plan. and over the many years we have invested in a strategic plan where we work as a team in the department and set certain goals and -- set certain goals and objectives to guide the work that we do. it is a living document within our agency and every month our managers actually meet and me you're and report on how well we are doing in terms of reaching our goals that are set forth by the department. the strategic plan also translates into the fulfillments of all the employees at the department of public works. and, so, we are able to measure how we are doing on meeting some of the goals