commissioner bittner, can you hear it now? >> yeah, actually just put it closer to the like if you could. closer. is that better, sasha? okay. sasha and i used to do stuff together during covid. i don't know if she remembers. >> so the director difference report was notable for us when she talked about her meeting with mayor elect loury who told her that the us was one of the best run departments. we knew that and thus congratulations to her. are and to the commission are an order i've worked for for 5 or 6 years and i heartily agree with the mayor who probably didn't even know it existed before he was elected. >> after the department head meeting however, the freeze was raised and we asked her if this would affect providers and we were reassured to learn that the job provider jobs in ihs which i asked about specifically as well as in conservatorships would probably not be frozen but it would rather be at the level of social workers and people who work directly for the department that that was reassuring but nonetheless conser