b, dpa director report, report on recent dpa activities and announcements h announcements help announcemen announcements. >> i'll be brief. >> for once. >> yeah. the department met with lieutenant melinger. all of the meetings that take place here in city hall, we will be participating in. we are starting to get some of knew sta new staff and personnel into the department, so starting this week is also danielle who is in the courtroom, in our room here, who's a project manager and she's going to be working on building on our training manual as well as working on our mediation division. we have an office-wide retreat for all of the new employees. we're trying to get as many of them together as possible. the investigators have finally been approved for background. i started that on day one, so we finally should be able to make offers. they were finally coming in next week for their final review and selection. i just want to acknowledge in the courtroom also are in the room today at the commission is my chief of staff, sarah, and our whole fleet of investigators here, and my legal team, john