many of the recommendations required action from other departments, department of human resources, ppsd. the status of each recommendation reflects whether the fire department has reported performing its role in implementing the recommendations that require actions by multiple departments. we will continue to follow up with those other departments as needed. this audit was presented to the committee in october of last year. since then, an additional 14 recommendations have been closed as they relate to the fire department's role in implementing the recommendations. the three contested recommendations to be addressed individually on the following slide. of the eight open recommendations come at the department reports been in process of implementing five of them. the remaining three would require changes to the labor unions in the you -- mou and ask that the department of human resources bring certain issues to the negotiating table. the current mou expires in fiscal year 2013. >> [inaudible] >> thank you for that. these recommendations were recommendation #three and four in the original