 the board of finance at 5.06 p.m. and I would take a motion on the on the agenda so moved second thank you as moved by President Paul second by Councillor McGee any discussion of the agenda go to a vote all those in favor of the motion please say aye. Aye. Are there any opposed to adopting the agenda? It carries unanimously we have adopted the agenda the next item is the public forum and Jordan can you help me out are there is anyone looking to recognize for the public forum? Is there if there's anyone who wants to speak on public forum please raise your hand via zoom okay I don't see anyone so we can move on from public forum okay I'm going to close the public forum and the only business on the agenda is 3.01 which is an item held over from last week which is the creation of three new water resources positions and the reclassification of three other positions we postponed this last week so there could be further discussions with one member the board and the department I know that meeting has taken place so the floor is is open and I don't think we I would take a new I'm not sure if we took a motion last week or not but I'd that one prepared to move this item at this time I'll move the item there as recommended by board docs great thank you President Paul do we have a second oh second thank you Councillor Yee are there any questions or discussion mayor here yeah go ahead given I would just say I had the pleasure of meeting with Councillor Jang after last board of finance meeting had a good conversation around questions around capacity the 2019 Raft-Hellis organizational report that we did and upcoming capital needs and I thought it was a good conversation and that was the work I've done between last meeting great thank you for for that report floor is still open for any discussion or questions please I can't see you so if you would like to be recognized let me know verbally mayor if I could just quickly go ahead chief and is this me I correct me if we talked about sorry at the last meeting did you all mention that you're planning additional pretty classifications for water resources or there this is a two-step process thank you Councillor McGee this what we decided that there was short-term needs that we had a high degree of confidence that one we're needed into that we're urgent working with HR and thank you Tony Berry for being here and director derpy as well we split it into the kind of half twos and the ones that we want to get further analysis done so we have a Raft-Hellis report underway that will give us further feedback on any second moves possible and we also thought that would give us time to weigh those against FY 24 budget realities given we were able to make this budget neutral for two years it's a immediate step we felt more comfortable moving ahead with this in advance of the 24 budget okay and that's the report that's coming in the way is of the full is the full analysis that would yes look at the full review of the water resources team they are evaluating restructure reclassification all the way from the division director down the organization and I have a high degree of confidence with this consulting team they know our water resources team while they've worked with them in the past and so I think we'll get a good product thank you that's all I have okay no other board members wish to be recognized we'll go to a vote on the motion all those in favor of motion please say aye are there any opposed leave the motion carries unanimously and with that thank you everyone for reconvening again on this item and allowing some further process before the vote and some important steps that concludes the board's agenda for tonight so if there's no objection I will adjourn the board of finance at 5 11 p.m.