first want to introduce mickey callahan she is the director of the department of human resources ted yamasaki who's one of the deputy director. carey cuz who works in client services john kraus who's over the exams. and then mini school while he works at the end he works for the mayor's budget office so they have a powerpoint presentation we put copies on your desk and. good morning commissioners mr president thanks for the opportunity to be here i mean callahan the human resources director for the city and we're here to talk to you about the city's hiring process and in fact and in particular how that relates to the. need to hire we have. as pamela said we've asked to key members of our team here to make sure that you have all the information that you need to understand our process. just by way of introduction i want to let you know about our role under the charter the human resources director and the department of human resources therefore is responsible for. for the to ensuring is responsible for ensuring that all selections and appointments are done pursuant to civil service system and me

so mr ted yamasaki department human resources i get the task of sort of wrapping everything up for you and then talking about where we are sort of currently in where we're going in the future before i do that that we wanted to mention for about the fast past five or so years the department of human resources has really been focusing on reforming the civil service system while we're very very fortunate to have absolute technical experts on our team i think our goal really has been to address the needs of departments in terms of identifying qualified individuals to come to work for the city and the transparency and merit based selection processes that we're beyond to follow as you heard from my colleagues the system is rigid in many respects in terms of ensuring that we provide open transparent opportunities for anyone who's interested in employment with the city on the other hand we understand the expectations that departments have in terms of identifying qualified individuals to fill vacant positions in the city. i wanted to address a couple of comments that were made as a question so