colored people and the naacp the san francisco chapter and recognize the leadership joseph bryant and david kenam and member leaders that will be here and have been folk val in bringing this matter to us today. lao colleagues, i'd colleagues, i'd like to first hear from the executive director of human resources, micky cal ahan. >> thank you, madame president. mickey cal ahan -- callahan. i'm focus on initiatives we've adopted pursuant to adopting the executive directives. as president cohen noted we'll hear from other departments an i'll talk about the department-specific initiatives adopted and ongoing. i think you know departments are responsible for hiring and initiativing discipline at the department level there's an appellate body in investigating and attempting to resolve e.l. complaints an establishing workforce programs to ensure diversity in the city among other and other policies as well. you'll likely hear from some other individuals who spoke at the g.a.o. and i too was disturbing and upset by -- disturbed and upset by some things we heard. some of the cases i and my staff are familia