i just want to also acknowledge that we have, in the audience today, tom oconner and i see kevin from the black fire department. colleagues, are there any questions for the chief? >> supervisor cohen. >> i want to again, refer to back to the audit, to the key finding. chief, there's a recommendation that was made -- it's recommendation 1.3 and states the fire chief will insure that recruitment has been clarified within dhr and the fire department. and your response is that you guys are clear? micky has also indicated that. so i'm going to ask the same question, what does this policy outline? >> so -- supervisor cohen, we're looking forward to beginning recruiting. the last recruitment was around 2009. we're challenged financially. we have a zero budget for recruitment, so we would like to consider enhancing that, but short of that, we try to make it work. sometimes that does not work to our advantage. but we have full intentions to work closely with dhr and outreach to various groups and we would appreciate any input you have that was provided related to recruitment. in the past, we h