oh, kate howard. hello there. >> good afternoon, supervisors. hate howard from the department of human resources. chair mandelman, members of the committee, it's my pleasure to be here with my colleague, as well as the director of employment servicesser steve ponder, the director of classification and compensation for the city. and dave johnson, who is the manager of our public safety recruitment team at d.h.r. i'm here to present briefly on the city's hiring process for critical public safety positions. and my understanding is that our colleagues from the police department, fire department, and public health department will present, in more detail, about the specific opportunities and challenges associated with rerouteing and retaining those positions. we use fair and equitable to practices to support and retain highly qualified organize -- workforce. we're unique in needing to hire and retain public safety and first responder, as part of our -- as part of that workforce. briefly before i go into detail on the public safety positions, i'd like

oh, kate howard. hello there. >> good afternoon, supervisors. hate howard from the department of human resources. chair mandelman, members of the committee, it's my pleasure to be here with my colleague, as well as the director of employment servicesser steve ponder, the director of classification and compensation for the city. and dave johnson, who is the manager of our public safety recruitment team at d.h.r. i'm here to present briefly on the city's hiring process for critical public safety positions. and my understanding is that our colleagues from the police department, fire department, and public health department will present, in more detail, about the specific opportunities and challenges associated with rerouteing and retaining those positions. we use fair and equitable to practices to support and retain highly qualified organize -- workforce. we're unique in needing to hire and retain public safety and first responder, as part of our -- as part of that workforce. briefly before i go into detail on the public safety positions, i'd like

oh, kate howard. hello there. >> good afternoon, supervisors. hate howard from the department of human resources. chair mandelman, members of the committee, it's my pleasure to be here with my colleague, as well as the director of employment servicesser steve ponder, the director of classification and compensation for the city. and dave johnson, who is the manager of our public safety recruitment team at d.h.r. i'm here to present briefly on the city's hiring process for critical public safety positions. and my understanding is that our colleagues from the police department, fire department, and public health department will present, in more detail, about the specific opportunities and challenges associated with rerouteing and retaining those positions. we use fair and equitable to practices to support and retain highly qualified organize -- workforce. we're unique in needing to hire and retain public safety and first responder, as part of our -- as part of that workforce. briefly before i go into detail on the public safety positions, i'd like

oh, kate howard. hello there. >> good afternoon, supervisors.e howard from the department of human resources. chair mandelman, members of the committee, it's my pleasure to be here with my colleague, as well as the director of employment servicesser steve ponder, the director of classification and compensation for the city. and dave johnson, who is the manager of our public safety recruitment team at d.h.r. i'm here to present briefly on the city's hiring process for critical public safety positions. and my understanding is that our colleagues from the police department, fire department, and public health department will present, in more detail, about the specific opportunities and challenges associated with rerouteing and retaining those positions. we use fair and equitable to practices to support and retain highly qualified organize -- workforce. we're unique in needing to hire and retain public safety and first responder, as part of our -- as part of that workforce. briefly before i go into detail on the public safety positions, i'd like to a

howard: look, the level of coverage in britain is almost unbelievable. we just picked out a few headlines. the mail on sunday, palace's warning on harry, millions. katesunday is mirror, they told elton john before they told the queen. and it was the sunday times that understood that prince harry -- excuse me, prince william has said i've tried to put my arm around my brother our whole lives, i can't do this anymore. this is not just a soap opera, it's gone global, right? >> it absolutely has. and, again, i mean, elton john versus the queen, i mean -- [laughter] howard: can't make it up. >> the press and the tabloids in the u.k. were very, very, very critical of this decision. and i certainly don't really understand it. i mean, even in the united states they were mocked a little bit on late night tv. i know jimmy kimmel had a joke, he said what does it mean they're limiting their duties? they're going to wave less? [laughter] colbert's saying, colbert's saying i didn't realize that there were, you know, senior royals s and what are the levels here? howard: yeah. >> again, it really is, i think, a smart move for them because it opens up the ability for