in the spirit of that process we did engage to dpa early on in the development of the plan and we came to them and asked them to essentially run the initial plan proposals through the hd hdmtmetrics to provide feedback how it would impact health. as jessica noted that is on our website for a number of years we are happy to provide you with that as well. >> supervisor year does that bring you -- super visor fewer does that bring you clarity. >> would you like to move to public comment? we are going to move to public comment at this time. please line up. if you would like to comment on this. >> can you clarify who can speak at this public comment? >> before we go to public comment i want to make sure there are no real party interests to present at this time. i don't see anyone moving to the microphone. >> well, if the supervisors wish planning staff was prepared to give a presentation as project sponsor on the plan. >> that wasn't your presentation? >> there was a presentation from environmental staff on the appeal. >> i think it is important to get that presentation actually. >> you wil

. >> clerk: item 3-b, dpa director's report, report on recent d.p.a. activities and announcements, presentation of 2017 annual report. >> good evening, director henderson. >> good evening. i have the numbers to go over again. so far for d.p.a., we are at 416 open cases. i will indicate and i started indicating that these numbers are starting to go up more now. this time last year, we were at 341 cases. i think a large part of that is because of the increased outreach that we're doing now and some of the partnerships, and i'll talk about that briefly. we are at 344 cases so far this year that have been closed, and we have an open caseload now of 303 cases. i'm -- reporting on our cases that are past 270 days, there are 34 of those cases, and of those, 18 of them are tolled, meaning that they are involved in criminal or civil litigation, as well. couple of things have happened since our last meeting. i've continued in the hiring process, and we've got conditional offers that have been made to two new attorneys joining. we've had a couple of people that h