Carroll, and i would like to thank corwin and calana at s. F. Gov. Tv for staffing the meeting as well. Please ensure you have silented your cell phone and other electronic devices, and your documents should be submitted to the court. Agenda item number one is a hearing to review external auditors Financial Report and single management letters for the fiscal year ending june 30th, 2018, and the audit plans for fiscal year 2018 2019. Chairman i would like to welcome controller ben rosenfeld. Good morning. Ill briefly introduce it and hand the floor over to our external auditor. As you know, the city has two key financial documents that we prepare each year. The first, at the beginning of the year, the adopted budget, which is the plan on how the city is going to spend funds in the year ahead. At the close of the year, we close the books and produce Financial Statements that disclose the citys actual Financial Condition at the end of the fiscal year. To ensure that those documents are fu
The year ahead. At the close of the year, we close the books and produce Financial Statements that disclose the citys actual Financial Condition at the end of the fiscal year. To ensure that those documents are full, complete, and tested, the board of supervisors retains an external financial auditor that reviews them and other things and then reports to you on their findings. The goal is to ensure that there is a reasonable assurance that what were representing in the comprehensive Financial Report is accurate. So what we have here today is the external auditors reporting to you on their audit work for last fiscal year, the 17 18 plan, and the cafer for the close that were working through now. Ill say briefly as a bit of backgroun back background fo, a bit of a challenge because it was the first time we were closing the books in decades. People cut over were cutting off the famous citys former system which was installed initially in 1980. So the first time in any close in a new system
Er this is to i drer chec out t e, tr dubli 40 minutes. Not too good. Jobina, thank you. A nation in shock this morning after two Mass Shootings. 29 People Killed, more than 50 hurt just hours apart. The most recent in dayton, ohio, where the shooter murdered his own sister and eight others. In a shooting in el paso, texas, a gunman killed 20 people at a busy walmart. Abc 7s meghan tevrizian is live in el paso with more. Good morning, megan. Good morning, reggie and kumasi. The victims include a grandmother who raised seven children, a mother and father who were killed while protecting their 2monthold son and also an army veteran who was a longtime bus driver here in el paso. Today two cities in mourning. Overnight hundreds in el paso gathering in prayer. In dayton, communities coming together to honor the victims. The horror started saturday trire atin el pa packed walmart, killing 20 people and injuring more than two dozen others in the deadliest mass shooting this year. Among those
That area. So because those fires there could threaten the neighbors. How the county said it is every Property Owners responsibility to maintain a Defensible Space around their home or business. And by weeds they mean all wild plants, brush, vegetation and litter and anything around your property. If you have not complied, you get two notices and if you ignore those, well it is going to cost you. We will quickly issue work orders with our contractor who covers the entire county. They will abate the weeds. Property owners will get a lien on their property for the cost of those that abatement work and theyll not be happy because it will be expensive. It will probably be at least 200 of what it might have cost them to do it themselves. Reporter and in the north bay nor additional efforts to prevent wildfires. Cal fire is suspending burn permits for counties meaning no residential outdoor burning of any kind ofrd leaves. And back here in contra costa county, if you are in the western part
Mr. Speaker, this week i have the honor of. Mr. Speaker, i have the honor of travelling to beaches of france with congressional delegation to commemorate the 75th anniversary of d day. Theyre working to give their last full measure of devotion. Several were in of the nearly 500 soldiers by the end of the war, seven mexican americans received a congressional medal of honor. And and among military units, which representation thats participate in this invasion with the army nick alvarez led a tank crew, helping to put allies on the defensive and help lead to the fall of nazi ferm many. Those forces included previt andrew ortega, one of the first to land on omaha beach part of a team of mjs cast with finding and neutralizing land mines. Private ortega diffused land mines and his effort no kout saved countless lives. Making ready to honor troops id like to make special mention of the private bued martin pictured in this Photo Provided in 1914 and moved to wilmington as a young adult. By the