for his allowing us to schedule this, and i would like to give a big thank you to our director, john rahaim, for supporting our initiative and standing behind it. we would not be at this milestone without his leadership. for the benefit of members of the public who may be tuning if for the first time, this is a presentation overview. we will give a little background for those members who have not heard about that and go over the initiative components. we will talk about implementation and i will turn it over to shelley for next steps. so for background, why is the planning department do a racial and social equity action plan? as you can see from the data included in the plan, disparities across measures, whether it's income, health, education, housing or either stagnant or increasing, particularly with the housing affordable crisis. this shows that the city stack can be better representing of our communities, particularly in management. and we know that government in the planning field historically played a significant role in racial and social equity wi. for these reasons, we have a reason