claudia flores department staff. i'm here joined by mike martin from the office of economic and workforce development to give you an update on the public sites initiative that we presented back in january. as you might recall this is an interagency effort and joined by kate from the mayor's office of housing and jason and others to answer any questions that you might have for them. this is an overview of the presentation. first i will give some context on the programs a reminder and for the benefit of the public and then i will give you the highlights of what we heard at two community meetings that we held in october, as well as from individual stakeholder meetings. then mike martin will talk about how we have refined the program based on community meetings, as well as other discussions and then we'll talk about some next steps. this is a reminder of what the components are. first we have a set of guiding principles that will guide the development of each of these sites that go through this process. we want to have a