in the audience is chief of staff, sarah hawkins, and tamara thompson, and senior investigator steve il case issues come up for the department to address during coeiond/or during public, ico have staff here to accommodate you. we are in the midst of hiring four senior investigators now. we are still down a lawyer from john alden, whooved into another department. i would like to announce finally at we have filled our i.t. director position. that's pretty significant for this department. we've had a lot of challenges with our i.t. dtm to grow and brin where weneed ourselves up to speed with the rest of the city, so this is going to be a big deal for us, the candidate is now in backgrounds, and i'll let everyone know as soon as they gome through, but we through a lot t t and get this candidate and in accepting the position. we've also made our first ever offer and accepted position to our professionally qualified bilingual candidate for our investigators. it's been a big deal, and one of the thgs we've been working on is trying to bring our sta upo a bilingual quota to accommodate the c