. >> the next speaker is jennifer jonston the director of the civil service commission and thank you for being here. >> good morning, thank you very much for having me. i was only recently included in these conversations, so i apologize that i am not entirely up to speed on all of the issues. but, on behalf of the civil service commission, you know, miss simon gave a presentation on service rule 115, we have a policy of equal employment in all aspects of employment opportunities. and promotions. and we certainly encourage the use of and the advertisement as it were of rule 115. and i did also want to say that the authority for rule 115 however is in the charter and i believe that one of the recommendations is to amend rule 115 and i think that would be some of what is being suggested would be inconsistent with the will of the voters and violation of the charter in terms of the merit system requirements. but beyond that, i am also happy to join the conversation to brain storm on ways that we can improve upon a recruiting individuals and the commission also very much supports the reque