Investigations, we did audits, and some folks even went to prison, as you know, because of that work. And, so, im all for financial responsibility, fiscal management. What i am having a hard time understanding is specifically what is it financially speaking, in terms of fiscal management, what is it that city college is not doing . I have yet to hear a clear articulation on that. applause and, so, i could have told you what was wrong with the School District before, right . I could have told you that it was because there what false information reported to the federal government on some grant applications, that there was an outside consultant that was actually running the, the capital programs and was actually the only check and balance on whether or not money was being spent properly. There were no basic financial controls. That the contracting officer was actually, you know, nonobjective in reviewing contracts that were being awarded. I could give you a very clear list, laundry list.
Auditors, and the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency was actually found to have a Material Weakness, which is as high a noncompliance of the audit as it gets. And it had to do, by the way, Material Weakness around finances. And, you know, what i im not happy that that happened, but instead of saying, lets close down the Successor Agency, i would simply say, lets figure out how we make it better, which was actually what we were trying to do here. applause and, so, i am not going to justify any fiscal financial mismanagement by anyone, but i do want to make sure that i know what it is but it is based on facts. [speaker not understood]. applause and thats why thats why the Mayors Office the matt report is important. If we can get reports from persons in various areas and thats exactly why we have bens office engaged and why we have kates office engaged. So, these are going to be ways in which, again, we look at it from a very different perspective, being mindful about the fiscal
Agency was actually found to have a Material Weakness, which is as high a noncompliance of the audit as it gets. And it had to do, by the way, Material Weakness around finances. And, you know, what i im not happy that that happened, but instead of saying, lets close down the successor agency, i would simply say, lets figure out how we make it better, which was actually what we were trying to do here. applause and, so, i am not going to justify any fiscal financial mismanagement by anyone, but i do want to make sure that i know what it is but it is based on facts. [speaker not understood]. applause and thats why thats why the Mayors Office the matt report is important. If we can get reports from persons in various areas and thats exactly why we have bens office engaged and why we have kates office engaged. So, these are going to be ways in which, again, we look at it from a very different perspective, being mindful about the fiscal responsibility that is put forward. And then having sai
Those things havent been addressed. And as the standards rise and things need to be met differently and the population changes and we have more students at the college, all of those things, you know, tighter structures are all thing i think we would all want in place. You know, San Francisco unified is a much better place for it. And were seeing now the School District actually is very focused on student achievement and youre starting to see those improvements. But we had to make some really hard decisions around how we were going to make sure that the places where theres some potential for our institution to fall on its knees were addressed and thats what this opportunity is. And its another 12 months to show significant improvement. And i do want to just quickly say that the improvements that the trustees that are elected trustees and the staff made over this last year was huge. applause and it should be acknowledged because they worked really hard to make sure that they were address