mr. walton that it would be. a global question i had, and this is really also to the mayor's office, is i certainly appreciate and support the fact that the department technology's budget has been decreasing for the last few years. i think that is appropriate, given overall city budget cuts. could either of you give me a sense, though, of what is happening to the information technology budgets of other departments? as dt's budget has been increasing, and has put more pressure on your department, particularly at a time when we are trying to centralize i.t. i think it is important that other departments around the city are sharing in that cause inherited. >> absolutely. there are a number of things going on in the budget to reflect on, discussions that we and you have had. a couple of kind of immediate issues related to the data center consolidation, we have, as approved in the plan that was adopted by coit, budgeted some savings in the budget to reflect the projected savings associated with the data center consoli

mr. walton. >> thank you. director of the department of technology and chief information officer. a few brief slides. 10 slides perhaps. i know we distributed the report previously. to perhaps give you highlights from the report so we can have a conversation or you can ask some questions or make suggestions on how to improve this as we go forward into the future. as president chiu indicated, this is the first time we have published a five-year plan for technology in the city. i want to perhaps highlight the fact that this is not a technology plan. there is confusion at times, given the fact that we are highly decentralized. this is a citywide technology plan. we have taken a lot of care to get input from various departments. we have gone to a number of public hearings about this plan. this plan is really designed to be a structure that departments can look at and see how their day-to-day operations and long- term plans for technology in their apartment fit into where they want to go in the future. having said that, the place we are at in this plan is asking for your approval of th