 Hello, my name is Paul Marshall. I'm the leader of the West Sussex County Council. I'm here to talk to you about our preparation for the budget for next year. There are significant challenges ahead of these but those challenges are achievable and I need to really share that those challenges in particular around our adult social care and the complexity of needs around our children's and young people and particularly special educational needs and also around our infrastructure. We look after over 4,000 kilometres of highways in this county. Like all local authorities across the country, we are developing our budget in the context of significant financial pressures caused by both inflation and increasing service pressures, particularly across social care. We are working to develop a balance and sustainable budget, a budget that ensures that support and investment continues to benefit our residents and our communities. Currently we are looking at a combination of savings together with a possible increase in council tax to balance our budget. If we don't make these difficult decisions, our funding gap would remain at £44.9 million. A public consultation is underway and we are looking for your views of residents around what's important in us in preparing our budgets and I welcome all of your views and thank you very much for your involvement.