i have rita knewen, marlo simmons to answer your questions. as am i. >> chair haney: thank you so much. >> supervisor safai: thank you. director, i mean, i guess maybe this is not necessarily directed to you, but whoever wants to speak on behalf of d.p.h. my question is, d.p.h. has a lot of real estate. they're in a lot of different places. you know, was there an assessment done to look at their existing use? and see if they were fully utilizing those spaces before we went out and rented some additional space? the reason i ask that question because we had a very similar conversation on the same building a couple of years ago on the budget committee for h.s.h. i believe h.s.h. was trying to rent some space in this building and we pushed them to use turk, was a more appropriate location. it was centered in and around a lot of their services and work they do was provided. so i'm just curious, you know, i understand that there is a lot of expansion in this work. i know a lot of people were redeployed and some new-hires, but i just want to hear fro

i have rita knewen, marlo simmons to answer your questions.as am i. >> chair haney: thank you so much. >> supervisor safai: thank you. director, i mean, i guess maybe this is not necessarily directed to you, but whoever wants to speak on behalf of d.p.h. my question is, d.p.h. has a lot of real estate. they're in a lot of different places. you know, was there an assessment done to look at their existing use? and see if they were fully utilizing those spaces before we went out and rented some additional space? the reason i ask that question because we had a very similar conversation on the same building a couple of years ago on the budget committee for h.s.h. i believe h.s.h. was trying to rent some space in this building and we pushed them to use turk, was a more appropriate location. it was centered in and around a lot of their services and work they do was provided. so i'm just curious, you know, i understand that there is a lot of expansion in this work. i know a lot of people were redeployed and some new-hires, but i just want to hear from

i have rita knewen, marlo simmons to answer your questions.as am i. >> chair haney: thank you so much. >> supervisor safai: thank you. director, i mean, i guess maybe this is not necessarily directed to you, but whoever wants to speak on behalf of d.p.h. my question is, d.p.h. has a lot of real estate. they're in a lot of different places. you know, was there an assessment done to look at their existing use? and see if they were fully utilizing those spaces before we went out and rented some additional space? the reason i ask that question because we had a very similar conversation on the same building a couple of years ago on the budget committee for h.s.h. i believe h.s.h. was trying to rent some space in this building and we pushed them to use turk, was a more appropriate location. it was centered in and around a lot of their services and work they do was provided. so i'm just curious, you know, i understand that there is a lot of expansion in this work. i know a lot of people were redeployed and some new-hires, but i just want to hear from

i have rita knewen, marlo simmons to answer your questions.as am i. >> chair haney: thank you so much. >> supervisor safai: thank you. director, i mean, i guess maybe this is not necessarily directed to you, but whoever wants to speak on behalf of d.p.h. my question is, d.p.h. has a lot of real estate. they're in a lot of different places. you know, was there an assessment done to look at their existing use? and see if they were fully utilizing those spaces before we went out and rented some additional space? the reason i ask that question because we had a very similar conversation on the same building a couple of years ago on the budget committee for h.s.h. i believe h.s.h. was trying to rent some space in this building and we pushed them to use turk, was a more appropriate location. it was centered in and around a lot of their services and work they do was provided. so i'm just curious, you know, i understand that there is a lot of expansion in this work. i know a lot of people were redeployed and some new-hires, but i just want to hear from