mr. scheppach the, of the national governors association and today we are releasing our fiscal report which we do twice a year. we have been doing this report for well over 30 years now and unfortunately i have to report that these are some of the worst numbers we have ever seen. for example, the first time ever actual spending for the states is going to decline. this fiscal year 09 and fiscal year 102 years in a row. the last time this occurred and the only other time the state's actually had an actual outright decline in expenditures was in 1983 and ousted so little below the line of 7%, let me give you some numbers. state spending is estimated to decline 2.2% in this fiscal year 09 which i think everyone knows and for at most dates of the end of this month on june 30th. ratan we have projected the state expenditures will have and i'll write decline of 2.5% and again that a significant both because this is two years in a row for the first time and also because the numbers are much more significant in terms of decline in the only other to find which was 93. thirty states estimate that ther