All week. A greater percentage of efforts population followed their flight than any other event in human history. After their flights the astronauts toured. President nixon proclaimed them the best possible am baz dors america could have on the earth. Today were looking back and asking what was the political and Foreign Relations significance of the apollo program, and what is its enduring legacy. Were going to look forward questioning how apollo era space diplomacy should inform Foreign Relations today. Very shortly ill give you Historical Context on the role of project apollo in u. S. Foreign relations and its followed by a one on one conversation between me and Major General Michael Collins. Then well have a larger Panel Discussion that looks at apollo and then also how it can inform the future of space diplomacy. But first, i would like to say thank you for coming to recognize special guests we have here today. The Collins Family and friends. Thank you for joining us. And i would l
Committee member and board president london breed to my left. Our clerk is ms. Erica major. Ms. Major do you have any announcements. Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. All documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the clerk and items will be on the october 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Could you please read the first item. Item 1 is a hearing to receive presentations from the citys external auditor Macias Gini Oconnell and kpmg llp. Thank you. Do we have a representative from the Controllers Office. Ms. Frank. Yes, good morning supervisors i am here to introduce the external auditors. First you will hear from m go and kpmg senior manager. Great and what is the status of the consolidated annual Financial Report . Hows that coming along . Eer. Starting the final phase right now and putting in adjustments so we dont have the Financial Statements together yet but anticipated it will be completed in november around th
Commissioner bustos is absent commissioner singh is absent commissioner mondejar madam chair rosales supervisors commissioner bustos and commissioner singh are absences and all other members of the commission are present the first order of business is announcements a the next relaying r regularly scheduled meeting at one p. M. Room 416 b please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, and use of cell phones, Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. C announcement of time alignment please be advised a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to address the commission unless the commission the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. It is strongly recommended that any member of the public wishes to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit it to the commission
Also learn every day. I want to thank everybody who has been a part of making today possible. It is a dream come true. Thank you. [applause] [gavel] good morning and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee for today, october 6, 2016. I am the chair of the Committee Aaron peskin joined by Committee Member and board president london breed to my left. Our clerk is ms. Erica major. Ms. Major do you have any announcements. Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. All documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the clerk and items will be on the october 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Could you please read the first item. Item 1 is a hearing to receive presentations from the citys external auditor Macias Gini Oconnell and kpmg llp. Thank you. Do we have a representative from the Controllers Office. Ms. Frank. Yes, good morning supervisors i am here to introduce the external auditors. First you will hear from m go
Wonderful leadership with supervisor cohen and please join me in a big thank you to supervisor cohen. [ applause ] and the second reason why im here this is something that is deeply personal to me. My parents were Small Business owners and my husbands family shared the same story as howard and amanda, where they were immigrants, refugees from vietnam and they stayed in indonesia and they made it and struggled in San Francisco and eventually create a Bright Future for their families. So to howard to, your family, i want to say thank you for not only taking a chance on San Francisco, but also taking the opportunities you were given to invest back in our communities. This is what happens when we do it right. When we invest in our local merchants, when we support our local merchants, they in turn give back and they in turn hire back in the community and they in turn take a chance on communities that are overlooked by everybody else. So with that i just simply want to say thank you to all o