i want call out pamela lebanon and her team who is putting together the budgets and audits and rates and benefits simultaneously. it's like magic. so thank you pamela and your team for the efforts that you have putting us all together here. as a reminder, we are still in the vendor blackout period. we are having our renewal meetings now with our vendors. you will hear the annual report shortly and we already spoke to the website going live, which was really quite exciting for us. we're continuing to work towards the development of a risk management policy for the department. we have many components if place. i have met with the director risk management services for the city and we will be scheduling an assessment of our department in order to form a plan and any activities that we may need to undertake. we are very optimistic about actually gettin getting this new telephone system. we continue to have an outstanding relationship the department of technology and our scheduling meetings and ordering equipment. it really does look like it's going to happen. we will have the challenge of