i'm kate howard and i'm the managing deputy director in the city of human resources department. i appreciate the opportunity to be here with you today to review the commissions role in selecting a new director for the department of the environment. and i have a brief presentation for you. kyle, can we have the slide today, thank you. can we do the next slide? so, i'm happy to answer questions as we go and i'm happy to answer them at the end. as is noted here, the charter authorizes the mayor to select a new department head from among three or more candidates that are no, ma'am kneed by the commission on the environment. through your role is really an essential role in this process in that your responsibility as a commission is to conducts a recruitment process which will identify candidates for the director position and interview and evaluate those candidates and then recommend the best candidate to the mayor for her consideration. next slide, please. i have a high level slide here that provides an overview of the steps to get recruitment, d hr's role in the process is to suppor