present commissioner wanda junge present and we have executive director kelly dearman present. we have a quorum. i just wanted to note that we have excuse absences for commissioner bittnerskylar and lum as i already noted. president spears, we have a quorum. >> thank you. thank you. >> commissioners, the next item item three is communications. >> we'd like to provide further instructions. >> bear with me, sir, for public comment process public comment will be available on each item on this agenda and during general public comment. both channel 78 and s.f. gov tv dawg are streaming the number across the the screen. each speaker will be allowed three minutes to speak. >> comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available via phone call during each public comment period. viewers and callers will be instructed to call (415) 655-0001. the access code is (266) 349-4584 1 pound and then pound again. when connected you will hear the meeting discussions but you will be muted and in listening mode only when your item of interest comes up. dial star three to

so kelly dearman mentioned before that there are some blanket exceptions for nurses and public safety folks. so we don't obviously qualify for those but there is a monthly process of bringing to the mayor's office requests to move forward on positions and we're in the first month of that so we're all kind of learning how that that will work. but but we as an agency will move forward and bring to the mayor's office's attention position things that we believe are very high priority to fill in the short run. so that's not exactly your question but it's sort of the context in which we are trying to answer the question. the longer term is really around looking at the way we will have to spend money on salaries next year and we have actually assumed a slight reduction from what our salary needs would have been because as previously we were on a track to fill positions more aggressively. the hiring freeze will although it won't totally stop our our filling of positions it will slow it down. certainly that's the purpose of it. and so we will be starting the next fiscal year with a lower headc

commissioners item five is the executive directors report presented by da executive director kelly dearman. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. first i'd like to wish everyone a happy black history month and happy lunar new year. i have a few things i want to report on. first, we continue our efforts to serve the disability community. first we added the a for accessibility to our office of diversity equity inclusion and belonging transforming it into dba. since then daas has been collaborating with dba to incorporate accessibility and disability programing for our employees. to that end we will be rolling out a two part disability awareness training this spring. part one will be a virtual disability awareness and etiquette training offered by the california department of rehabilitation and following that training part two will be structured conversations at the program level to discuss how we can integrate the lessons learned into our daily work. this two part training will be mandatory for the whole department. we are starting with the leadership team as they will be instrumental i