pamela levin, department of building inspection. this is our second meeting on the budget for 2012-2 thir12013. we have responded to the issues you have brought up. i first want to tell you where we are in the budget process it's self and what the key dates are. we have to submit the budget to the mayor's office on february 21. this is a charter-driven date, and there is no leeway. any changes we make on the budget really need to have been prior to the time we submit them to the mayor's office. the reason is it makes it easier for us to make those changes, because after it gets to the mayor's office, it is their budget, and we have to negotiate any changes. our budget is considered by the board of supervisors on june thfirst. between february and june, there is negotiations with the mayor's office. negotiations with the unions for the open contracts, which will affect our budget. there will be changes that would be made for work orders based on what the department has submitted in the budget. we have not gotten most of our large wor