first and foremost i want to acknowledge annie chung. annie was on the naming committee.annie was the moral compass of this effort, but also i want to thank you for stepping out early. your leadership in this community and this effort really i think lent the credibility that we

first and foremost i want to acknowledge annie chung. annie was on the naming committee.ie was the moral compass of this effort, but also i want to thank you for stepping out early. your leadership in this community and this effort really i think lent the credibility that we needed to make sure that this is something that everybody got behind. thank you so much, annie. annie just got back from hong kong yesterday, so we're glad you're here. i want to call out and thank guretta louis. i want to thank you for getting this rolling. when she called us, we thought she was inviting us for a free lunch. it turns out she was setting out our work plan for the next 13 months. i also want to acknowledge walter wong. i know that losing ed was very important. your leadership also lent an incredible amount of effort to this and we want to thank you. your leadership to the chinese chamber of commerce, so many leaders from these organizations were there every step of the way. i see ringo in the back. pitman, eddie, everybody who showed up at hearing after hearing. and the same is true fo

also here joined by one of the members of the workforce committee advisory committee and that's annie chungthe executive director of self-help for the elderly, as well. just to give you some high-level components -- it's just this one, lisa? thank you. thank you, lisa. we've also got members of our workforce team to make sure we can answer any questions that you have. the committees we're going to talk about today were established in 2014 under an ordinance 84-2014 establishes what we called the workforce lines committee, and workforce c.a.c., and those committees were scheduled to run through july 2017. in 2019, there was a second ordinance there which extended the sunset dates of those committees to june 30, 2019. there's -- we've referred to this period as kind of the first period of extension. throughout this entire time, we've continued to meet and continued to work to perform the duties of these bodies as we've discussed because the work is just too important not to continue as we seek direction here from the board. and in the current year, the plan is to convene, and we've convened t