Committee heard from the president of urdu and lane college, they talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. Hearing of the Senate Health Prevention Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about 5 minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We
[ ] 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
[inaudible] i might just wait for good afternoon, welcome to the committee of the 118th congress. I am pleased to welcome all of you here for this testimony on the military and civilian personnel programs at the department of defense, and the military services and review of the Administration Defense authorization request for fiscal 2024. All of my brothers served in the military, supporting the military, a military families means a lot to me. I am particularly pleased to be chair in my first hearing as an Armed Services subcommittee chair. I am honored to chair at the subcommittee, and i look forward to continuing its long history of bipartisanship and working as a partner with Ranking Member scott, and with all of our members, on both sides of the aisle, to improve the lives of our Service Members, of retirees, military families, and the civilian workforce. Our annual posture here provides the department the opportunity to discuss their personal priorities for the coming year. This y