Dramatically changing the world living. In the lives of piracy. Counting the cost on aljazeera. The clinic now looks to be. A lot richer gives birth in europe the listening post here are some of the media stories were covering this week you can add to the list of countries dealing with political upheaval on the streets amongst the issues on the airwaves journalism from behind bars in prisons across the u. S. Inmates are reporting on a hidden world to ban or not to ban the issue is political advertising social media sites are grappling with it and the Washington Post botches an obituary headline and the internet is not going to let the paper live it down. Over the past month or so weve covered mass protest movements and the way those stories have been reported from hong kong to baghdad to beirut this week were looking at chile and the largest demonstrations there since the end of the pinochet dictatorship almost 30 years ago the unrest was set off by a price hike on public transport but
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
Rally began tear gas was fired sending people scrambling protesters shut down main roads and took over Hong Kong Central district you can hear the sirens in the distance and the air is thick with tear gas and smoke but that isnt putting up any of these. Hundreds of them are gathered here in one khans main a Financial Center a place that is usually teeming at shoppers during the we can send tourists instead the protesters have taken over the street the building barricades set up public objects on fire and are waiting for the police to come here and they came in large numbers firing tear gas and pepper spray this person in the protesters in all directions they kept with their philosophy the water to recruit and disrupt other parts of the city protesters vandalized the offices of the state run shin one using agency why d. C. As the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist government. In an unusual move earlier this week chinese political leaders indicated that beijing is likely to intervene mo
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
Rehabilitative programs in the prison system. Later well talk to a victims rights advocate whose husband was murdered. Shell tell us what she learned while volunteering in san quentin. First well look atnmes participating in a unique program. One thats helping them tell their stories in their own wods. When a person decides to change, they want everyone to know that theyve changed. So its important to get tha out. Television portrays prison as is negative place where people are just ruing around being violent. But san quentin is actually totally opposite from that. These guys are going to college every day. Theyre going to selfhelp groups. Theyre going to religious services. Everyone here is trying to get out of prison, not stay in prison. I got to san quentin in 1984 via l. A. Countyl. J i was told since 2012 weve been worki a storytelling project and really the overarching idea is to tell theesidden sto of life inside told from the perspective of those who live it. I as soon got off