on this roller coaster during this last deadly -- sadecki, it is important that we end this decade with about the same size work force as we started with two we have grown enshrine fairly dramatically several times over the course of the decade. unfortunately, this chart also indicates that we're spending more as a city during this past decade. at moments in time where the demand for most of our services or less, because we tend to grow during times of economic prosperity and ensuring in harder economic times when demand and services for the city increases. we have errors alignment of expenses and demand. -- we have reversed alignment of expenses and a man. this is a challenge that the city has been working to improve in recent years. in 2009, the voters approved proposition a, which put a host of new planning procedures in place. a lot of us worked on that measure. my shop, president chiu, supervisor mirkarimi, supervisor avalos, several members of the prior board, and the prior mayor worked on that measure, which did a couple of things. and we are in the process of implementing differ