here to present and this is an informational item on a roller . >> good morning commissioners i'm karen hill, human resources director for public works. happy black history month. i will be presenting the human resources update. i'll be providing the human resources update to share that we have done since the last commission report out which was in june of 2024. i'll be providing a position overview and to respond to your questions about recruitment, retention, attrition and retirements. as you're aware we went through it department report back in november 2024 and human resources now falls under the support services section of the new reorg structure. >> this slide shows the final results of our hiring goal for fiscal year 2324 as a last presentation was on june 10th of 2024. our goal was to fill 350 positions by june 30th which we exceeded our goal filling 495 positions as of june 30th 2024 we filled in an additional 166 positions between july 1st and december 31st 2024. i want to share some accomplishments we have for fiscal year 2425 which as of july first 2024 we hosted two mass hiring