porschia benson i'm the diversity, inclusion and sorry.ng assistant director and on my left is julia ma >> i'm the dhr organizational development director. i wanted share apologies from kate howard or manage deputy director at dhr he and our h r director carroll are pulled with the new administration and demands that are under way now. so. we are porschia and i are ready and happy to present and share information with you and if there are questions we can not answer we'll check back with our dhr leadership and report back after. thank you. >> i wanted start off and say i have been in my role over a little over 9 years now. january ninth and -- this council as well as mod have been an amazing partnership a lot for supporting us with ace program a program we'll talk about today. access to city. am program. and addition to support with eeo equal employment opportunity, accommendation cord narrator and work with mod as well as council to be able to help us in making decisions and also giving us support when we need t. i want to say, thank you.

i have another question to you, porschia and to youa?ple. because i do i did apply 10 years i go -- for -- program and and i think and i people like myself. within your baptist department be good to which hearabout.!( i'm sorry. cochair hold on. control, captions are frozen would you please -- they are working now. >> of how do you mitigate that issue, in your department and going forward with alining and supporting applicants? >> i think i want to ask i'm asking you julie. thank you for the question. poshia was presenting on we recognize the ace program is not getting the number of place ams for people with disables as we would like to see. as she said we are exploring research and trying to find out what other jurisdictions are doing. like the preference points model. as an example of other strategies toute l t am. i know you gave your own example, thank you for sharing your example that like -- you applied for ace as well as roll route and challenging and your score was not as high as you would have liked. and i think that is why expl