Interest in keeping things together and myself, the previous project manager, and a consultant who was working with us literally begged the City Administrators Office to please give justice a home in the City Administrators Office. And if i may interrupt you, why did you not try to affiliate with department of technology . For two reasons. One reason was that when justis lived in the department of technology before the Mayors Office became the executive sponsor, it never got priority. We went through a rotating cast of heads of department of technology who saw their priorities and interests elsewhere. And so justis was always the last thing that they addressed. And the second reason has to do with governance. The department of technology was to provide technical support. Technical staff. Technical expertise. And when we thought about it, we thought it would be much better for d. T. To be treated as a vendor with the executive sponsor and justis as their client. So that we would have mo
Consultant who was working with us literally begged the City Administrators Office to please give justice a home in the City Administrators Office. And if i may interrupt you, why did you not try to affiliate with department of technology . For two reasons. One reason was that when justis lived in the department of technology before the Mayors Office became the executive sponsor, it never got priority. We went through a rotating cast of heads of department of technology who saw their priorities and interests elsewhere. And so justis was always the last thing that they addressed. And the second reason has to do with governance. The department of technology was to provide technical support. Technical staff. Technical expertise. And when we thought about it, we thought it would be much better for d. T. To be treated as a vendor with the executive sponsor and justis as their client. So that we would have more ability to work order money, demand that the money be spent the way that the just
Doesnt go into justis then . No, it goes through justis. The way it works, technically we are sending the data to justis and technically justis can share it with anybody. But procedurally we are requiring before justis shares it with any department, we want an agreement with that department so we know who is looking at it, what it will be used for, etc. So that he with the District Attorney we basically provided the entire dataset. Supervisor yee are you working on other agreements with different departments at this point . Not yet. As rob mentioned, some of the departments are changing to a new system, but as they do, and they want to receive like for example, the courts. So, we are in discussions with the courts about them receiving our citation data. And once we get a little bit further along well be writing an m. O. U. For that. Supervisor yee ok. Thank you very much for your presentation. And i may call you up again. Next person to present would be maria mcgee, principal analyst o
The committee will come to order. The Committee Welcomes mr. David norquist comptroller as our witness today. The topic is the audit of the department of defense, which by law begins this fiscal year. And i would just say its not by accident that the committee will start our year on this topic. Requiring that the Department Conduct an audit has been a bipartisan priority of this committee for some time. The chief Financial Office of 1990 required all federal departments conducted annual financial audit and partly out of frustration with a lack of progress toward that end that the department of defense. The 2010 required the Financial Statements of the department be ready for audit by september 30, 2017. This committees panel on defense Financial Management and reform put close scrutiny on the departments efforts and issued a number of recommendations that have been enabled us to arrive at this point. The 2014 required a full audit be conducted of the departments fy 18 Financial Stateme
Committee on the fullscale audit that began last month. The hearing runs one hour and 45 minutes. The committee will come to order. David norquest as our witness today. The topic is the audit of the department of defense which by law begins this fiscal year. I will just say it is not by accident that the committee will start our year on this topic. Been ang the audit has bipartisan priority for some time. The act of 1990 required all federal departments conduct an audit. The 2010 and eaa required that the the departments be ready for audit by 2017. This panel on defense Financial Management and reform put scrutiny on the departments efforts and issued a number of recommendations that enabled us to arrive at this point. Eaa ndaa results are to be delivered next year. I want to commend chairman conaway for his expertise and persistence on this issue as well as mr. Courtney who was also a member of the audit panel several years ago. They will both be glad to know that we have had addition