ved ♪ w m u iat yo♪ea we edr r ♪, areestest?ea♪ [pleasse stand by] [please stand by] supervisor chu: l.l.. welcome to the regular meeting of people budget and finance committee. i am joined by my colleagues. we will be joined shortly by supervisor mercury me and supervisor -- supervisor mirkarimi and supervisor kim. mr. young, do we have any announcements today? >> yes. please turn off all cellular phones and pagers. you wish to speak, please fill up a speaker card and return it to myself. items acted upon today will be on the board of supervisors agenda for march 29, 2011, unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you, mr. young. we do have a number of items today to consider. these are hearings to lay out the cost goes associated with the city budget. we have hearings on employee benefits, labor contracts and where we stand with those, and we also have a hearing for discussion surrouupcoming budge supervisor farrell:. we have the desire -- the upcoming budget year fy2011- 2012. we have the desire to have those proposals o