so what i have asked the budget legislative office to do, and i think nicolas menard is going to be doing this, is actually gives us a brief high-level overview, to preface our conversation about the police. some of us this will be very familiar. because we discussed it at length last year. for newer members, this will -- after reading i think this audit report and other things, it will make a connection or maybe a little bit more sense, when the police come and ask about their budget. so we are going to first hear a very brief high-level presentation from the b.l.a. around the police budget. and this again relates to actually the conversation we had last year, with some of the people on the budget committee were not here or didn't participate in that. >> okay. >> supervisor fewer: are we ready? >> i'm ready. >> supervisor fewer: okay. that's great. >> so i'm -- good good good morr fewer and members of the committee, i'm nick menard. i was the project manager for this audit and i'm going to be very high level, but feel free to ask questions. so slide 2. can they see it? okay. so the audit