Okay, thank you. We have kate howard, our mayors budget director to speak on this item. Good afternoon, chair farrell, members of the committee. Kate howard, the mayors budget director. The item before you today is a resolution adopting twoyear fixed budgets for several departments. I thought i would briefly remind the committee as well as members of the public about our twoyear budgeting process and background on that and then talk about the item in front of you. If you will recall, in 2009 the voters adopted proposition a, which focused on a number of budgetary reform items including allowing and encouraging the board to adopt financial policies, adopt fiveyear Financial Planning process, adopt twoyear budgeting and then also fixed our contract deadlines for which we have to submit labor contracts to the board. For fiscal year 2012 to 2014, the board adopted the first fixed twoyear budgets. Those included the puc, the airport and the puc. As you recall, the mta is fixed separately by
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Supervisor and others in the Fire Department that we are not fully meeting that 80 percent of call volume, and the mayor has asked the chief for her best recommendations about how to achieve that. As you know it is a policy decision for the city to continue with that exclusive operating agreement. Both the chief and the department of Emergency Management have advised the mayor about certain risks that might occur if the city were to open up the system to private providers and they have made strong recommendations that the city main that maintain that exclusivity. The mention that the Fire Department provided to the mayor that in order to provide this level of service, they believe it would cost approximately 9 million a year in addition to their current operating budget. The mayor asked that i go back and work with the fire chief, work with eem to sharpen the point on those numbers and look at what options existed in terms of either phasing that in or other options to kind of balance t
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