chair greed, commissioner tang, i'm susan guard and this is my colleague peggy sugerman. >> thank you. >> would you like to address -- would you like us to address the issues in the report? >> yes, please. >> great. so one of the findings from the report states that more than 50 deputies are present ly out on disability and this results in overtime costs and additional workload for the staff. we agree with the findings and would like to make clarifications and like to specifically address recommendation 1c and recommendation 1d and then talk a little bit more about the parameters and the issues related to long-term disability and folks out on workers' compensation. >> okay. >> so recommendation 1c states that the sheriff's department should review its safety program with the workforce development division and analyze the cause of the worker injuris and update safety program for both staff and inmates. so instead of the workforce development division, the workers' compensation division which is peggy's department, is very well-suited to work ith with the sheriff's department on safety