and so we reached out to vince courtney and i think we came with something that will enhance our new employee training and orientation. so, cindy, can you review that, please. >> good afternoon. i'm the human resources director for the san francisco public utilities commission. in today's very brief update i would like to provide context and the outcome of the city why negotiation. as well as some of the changes and enhancements that we have made to our new employee orientation program. in late 2017, the city, through dhr, helps a meeting for negotiations with respect to labour unions under the recent state assembly bill 119. the outcome of those negotiations resulted in new employee orientation sessions allowing for 30 minutes union access. it is during that time we respect -- we invite our respected unions to come and talk about union membership, the privileges of membership, the provisions of the memorandum of understanding, and however, they unions see fit to use that time. respective of the existing practice, we allowed 30 minutes time. the existing practice has always been to a

i turn it over to president-elect vince courtney. >> commissioner courtney: counting votes already. thank you, president kwon. i asked ms. hood to place a couple of images on the screen, if you can do that by our friends at sfgov tv. thank you. so i wanted to just take an opportunity to thank the general manager for joining us last week, when we recognized that three individuals from c.d.d. -- and i know it's not easy to find the time sometimes to recognize the workers, especially the field workers. but this particular honor is in the name of brothers anthony montoya and anthony montoya jr., both with the department of public works and both who have since passed away. anthony montoya sr., former with 261, and montoya jr. passed away while working for public works. so we recognized some individuals at our 8th annual montoya recognition and the general manager was able to join us and the director was able to join us. and i wanted to share it with my colleagues, share it with the audience, and make a public thank you to you for showing up and recognizing the workers. thank you very muc