Joint Budget Committee

It's. It's. All right. The Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We have a number of things on the agenda today, but we are going to start with comebacks from the Department of Education. So whomever is doing that, come on up. All right, Commissioner, welcome. Good morning. Good morning. Chair Sirota, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. My name is Dr. Susana Cordova and I serve as the Commissioner, Commissioner of Education. I'm joined by our cfo, Wayne Peel, and I have fona friends in the audience as well. We recognize the incredibly challenging budget environment that you're navigating this year, and I appreciate deeply the care and discipline that you're bringing to these decisions. I'd like to just share really briefly a little bit of how CDE has really tried to embrace our role as fiscal stewards. We very early on implemented a hiring freeze before the state actually had the statewide hiring freeze. We have restricted out of state travel on an ongoing basis unless required through a grant. We've put in place an enhanced expenditure review process. We have continued to maintain that level of scrutiny in anticipation…