dylan snyder will continue from here. >> good evening, everyone. manager of policy and legislative affairs with h.s.h. i will take it from here. as abigail mentioned, we finished the community engagement process, and we then took the proposal for the vehicle triage center pilot program to the planning commission in august of 2019 where they approved the temporary usage of the site. this was followed closely by approval from the board of supervisors in september of 2019. and again recognizing and thanking supervisor safai for his leadership in stewarding the approval process. we then began construction on the site in october 2019. after that urban al kemy was selected as the nonprofit -- alchemy was selected as the nonprofit provider. they have been incredible partners. we feel very lucky to have them being the site provider and for jumping into this pilot feet-first with courage and tremendous expertise. and for running a program which you will hear shortly is going extremely well. the vehicle encampment resolution team began providing outreach for