my name is peggy stevenson, i am the director of the performance unit and the controller's office byay of background, we have been engaged and looked at police staffing and multiple analyses over the years including prior civilian analyses and just to refresh everybody's memory, there have been a series of studies of civilian over time. we engaged an expert consult with the police executive research -- research forum back in 2008 that produced -- the study was published in 2018 and then last year, we worked with the police department on a command staff review of civilianization in their department where we validated their work, compared it to the prior recommendations that had been lined up by all the prior expert studies that i just mentioned, and compared it to some industry best practices so that a new set of civilianization proposals could be made for your last year's budget process. that was done in response to the request by supervisor yee. a memo went out from our department to all of you that was published on our website well in advance of your budget hearings last may, on ma