my name is ben poole. i'm the director of workforce and economic program services here at the puc. and today i have the privilege of presenting with the chief people officer wendy massey. but before she presents i want i'm here to talk a little bit about some of the worker and small business outcomes that have been achieved on other projects and the ways in which these things are accomplished. before i dive into data which will be on the slides, i want to briefly contextualize that data and the work that the agency does in the contractors do to achieve it. >> first let me say that the work of the group that i manage is focused on workers. so small individuals jobs, right? which is the workforce in that title and then economic which is means small businesses or contractors and contracts, right? those are the sort of like two pieces of the title or the name of our group. and so that's really where we focus, right? we focus on the on workers that can be on our construction projects or professional services contracts and on and on small businesses that can be on those projects as well.