[ ] i am the supervisor of district one. I am sandra lee fewer. [ ] i moved to the Richmond District in 1950 mine. I was two years old. I moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [ ] when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. It seems so far away. For a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. The stress was storage of the birthplace of that. My father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. It just started to grow very organically. It is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the Richmond District. As russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. So parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the Russian Community and immigrant Russian Community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [ ] i think as l
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
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Meeting of february 13, 2024. So, we are calling the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Regular meeting of february 13, to order. Roll call, please. President paulson, present. Vice president rivera is excused. Commissioner ajami, here. Commissioner maxwell, here. Commissioner stacy, here. We have a quorum. Thank you. So, before we get to the first item, i like to announce that the San Francisco Public Utilities commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Meeting of february 13, 2024. So, we are calling the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Regular meeting of february 13, to order. Roll call, please. President paulson, present. Vice president rivera is excused. Commissioner ajami, here. Commissioner maxwell, here. Commissioner stacy, here. We have a quorum. Thank you. So, before we get to the first item, i like to announce that the San Francisco Public Utilities commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to