here to present and this is an informational item on a roller . >> good morning commissioners i'm karen hill, human resources director for public works. happy black history month. i will be presenting the human resources update. i'll be providing the human resources update to share that we have done since the last commission report out which was in june of 2024. i'll be providing a position overview and to respond to your questions about recruitment, retention, attrition and retirements. as you're aware we went through it department report back in november 2024 and human resources now falls under the support services section of the new reorg structure. >> this slide shows the final results of our hiring goal for fiscal year 2324 as a last presentation was on june 10th of 2024. our goal was to fill 350 positions by june 30th which we exceeded our goal filling 495 positions as of june 30th 2024 we filled in an additional 166 positions between july 1st and december 31st 2024. i want to share some accomplishments we have for fiscal year 2425 which as of july first 2024 we hosted two mass hiring

hill. brad todd, cnn political commentator and republican strategist and cnn political commentator. karen finney, also here as well. michael, let me turn to you, because the gop is pushing back on these doge cuts. are they upset or taking issue with the cuts themselves or the process to actually have these cuts? >> i think it's certainly a little bit of both, particularly in that senate gop meeting this morning. some of these republican senators had raised concerns about the communication process. a lot of folks felt like they were caught off guard by a number of these cuts. susan collins said that herself last week, saying it's something new every day. that's what led to that phone number being given out to those republican senators. so i think strategy on one end is the problem. but on the other end, some lawmakers are raising concerns about the substance. i spoke to congressman derrick van orden, who you just saw on your screen before a republican from wisconsin. he said that he raised concerns in the house gop meeting with elon musk tonight about the impact that some of these cuts cou