we also recommend closing out prior year unexpended general fund encumbrances which would amount to [speaker not understood]. together those recommendations result in 255,7 81 savedles to the city's general fund in 14-15. our recommended reductionses to the proposed budget total 199,340 in the 14-15-16. you will amendment, [speaker not understood] recommended reductions are ongoing savings. as the department has indicated as we understand it, they are in concurrence with our recommended reductions which are on page 7 of our report. >> thank you, mr. rose. actually 6 and 7. >> colleagues, any questions for mr. rose or for mr. cisneros? okay, thanks very much for being here. >> thank you. up next we have our public defenders office. >> thank you, supervisors. when we were last here, the only issue was the question of our salary savings. if you go to the first slide, you'll see here that last year we had 28 vacancies. these are also partial vacancies and leaves. this year we're projecting just 11. so, if you look at this year we had $23,000 surplus which is wonderful, but next year we're

we also recommend closing our prior year unexpended general fund encumbrances which would allow [speaker not understood]. together those recommendations will result in $392,9 23 saving to the city's general fund in 14-15 ~. i recommend reduction to the proposed budget total 341 18 in 14, 15 all that of are ongoing saving. these reduction would decrease the department's 15-16 budget by 2 million 578,6 14 or 6.4%. we're still working with the department and will report back to the committee next week. >> thank you, mr. cisneros. the next department is economic development and workforce development. oewd. and we have todd ruffo. thank you, mr. ruffo. whenever you're ready, mr. ruffo, go ahead. >> thank you, supervisors, chair farrell, members of the committee. thanks to the mayor's budget office as well as harvey rose's office for this year's budget. i'll provide a brief overview of our budget and discuss the current year outcome and our new initiative related to the year ahead. our fiscal 14-15 budget is 36.1 million dollars. that's down from a 13-14 budget of 39.2, a decrease of about 3.1