with that, i will turn it over to grace k. who has been spearheading and corralling the entire organization with a bunch of partners here in the room today around implementation of the strategic plan. >> thank you, julia. good afternoon, commissioners. i am excited to be here today to share the work that staff has performed over the past year. as we shift into planning and implementation, we need to translate the plan and to identify bile -- identifiable actions and involves more staff throughout the organization. to do so, we focused on the following activities. developing the performance measures, prioritizing and implementing a sick dose action plans. to implement these activities, we performed -- reformed a project team. one person per area. and we set the strategy for achieving each goal area. this group was chosen by the executive team for having some level of content expertise in their respective goal area and their ability to work cross functionally across the organization. i am joined by various groups in the audience