and you know one of the things that is really obvious in working with director mcspadden so closely is that, you know, she's been dealing with fires, right? like she is just constantly dealing with the next site to open the next you know, crisis of, you know, a surge in her family homeless or whatever it is. right. and so she is in a responsive mode a lot of the time and i think this gives us a chance to really kind of have a space that is once a month that gives an opportunity to kind of digest what's going on but also keep a longer perspective, a more strategic perspective and kind of connect the dots for people between what they're seeing in these headlines the in the news to you know, the broader efforts to the longer term efforts that the department is making to improve and spend those funds. well to really try to make some real progress and reducing the number of people experiencing homelessness in our city. >> i am excited to have this conversation and i put together some advance notes ahead of time. but you know you can kind of evaluate our successes in so many ways but then i