>> and commissioners, your my microphone should be a commissioner commissioners linda mason general counsel services are not passing the services contracts are through the mayor's office of housing and community development and they are continuing without any pause. they've been informed of this transition and all residents have also received a notice of this transition this week. and just a quick it's not a correction. this was the original chronology that you see in your staff report but worth mentioning is that because we did not receive any bids, we actually continue to extend the rfp over and over and over until we got to the last one where we got a bid on january the 16th i believe it was that friday. we immediately hosted a panel to make sure that the the bell properties was qualified and they did qualify as you can see they received a 74 in their ranking and then we immediately scheduled this meeting to ask commission for approval because ebc was scheduled to and their contract january 31st of 2025 were were any special exemptions or provisions needed to be provided for us to move f

exhibit 4-1 for definitions and exhibit 4-3 for site based wait list and this will be presented by linda mason, our general counsel. >> thank you. okay. thank you commissioners. good afternoon. this particular item came to us as a as an initial conversation with our partners at the mayor's office of housing community development oci and mercy because two buildings that for the interest of time i'll leave their descriptions within the staff reports but in particular 607th street and the hunters point shipyard block 56 building will be coming online shortly. these two buildings already had waitlists openings and they are already actually processing some individuals off of the waitlist in one of the buildings as a result. so the housing authority was asked to whether we could amend our policy since there are already pbs's committed to these properties in order to meet the commitments. the following changes would need to be made to the policy. what you see before you but i'm going to actually go through them individually right now. the first one is we would need to ensure that the referrals are pr