By the time i took this job in 2015, having come out of the private sector. All the loan funding had been obligated and my principle focus was to ensure we had the best possible oversight practices, one of the first things i did was hire an independent Consulting Firm to do a Risk Assessment of all the companies fresh. Our approach was driven by three unique challenges. First, the challenges coops have had should not be viewed as a co op problem. But as a Small Business startup problem in a very difficult industry. I hazard to say that all the Small Companies experience similar challenges. Co op and nonco op. While we were making loans with companies to 30 to 50 employees, they are competing with companies with multiple thousands of people and worth tens of billions of dollar s in capital. Trial and error is a part of creating success. In this situation, with the limited capital available, and competing against giants. The coops had very little room for error. Second, as mr. Cumaha the
Generating 46 million in proceeds. Beyond our brick and mortar infrastructure is our Information Technology infrastructure in which the government and the Global Economy depends. Reliable i. T. Is vital to all of the services the government provides. However, many agencies are not able to effectively have i. T. Infrastructure, emission writ call systems due to large upfront Capital Investment needs and increasing share of costs that maintaining these older systems occupy in technology budgets. To address these issues, the budget includes requests to establish a 3. 1 billion Information Technology fund, which would be used to retire and modernize legacy and Information Technology systems to improve Cyber Security and the delivery of services as well as reduce costs. In closing, gsa has made significant progress in fulfilling our mission to delivery the best value and Real Estate Acquisition and Technology Services to government and the American People. The president s fy2017 request wil
The words from time to time the president of the United States should give a message to congress on the state of the union and recommendations of programs that he thinks should be followed. George washington began that practice of giving a state of the Union Message to congress when the First Congress met, but washington went in person to the congress, went to the Senate Chamber and delivered a speech that had a series of recommendations, relatively short speech, but in those days before there were Standing Committees of congress they actually used to cut the state of the Union Message up into paragraphs and created a who can committees to address each one of the issues that the president suggested. Washington and adams, john adams, his Vice President who became president , followed that practice and so they created this sort of idea that the time to time was an annual message. In fact, for years it was known as the annual message. It didnt become known as the state of the Union Messag
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The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting of the San Francisco Transportation Authority occurring december 9, 2014, will begin shortly. Item number 9 was an additional appropriation of money to study, on the brt. And so, the project, and we again, were unanimous and of the dollars, 2009 million of that is still outstanding and in other words, they dont have any kind of a commitment for that yet and we understand that it is the early days in the project and it is a couple of years away and even at that, we think that there is something that they are watching and additionally we have an informational item that included an up date on the cal train electricification and the program that they will use and the new vehicles that the cal train is looking to buy and there are three stations where the high speed rail and cal train will share platform and we are sort of and the San Francisco and if they have, different requirements or the platform, heights, then that will be an operational front of