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an overview -- week issued an unqualified opinion on the city financial statements -- we issued an unqualified opinion on the city financial statements. we did not identify any control decisions that we deem to be material weaknesses in internal control over financial recording, nor do we identify any reportable matters as a relates to compliances with laws and regulations that could have a material effect on the city's financial statements. we have before you also our report to the government audit and oversight committee, which includes are required communications and the current year recommendations we have for management and also a follow-up on the status of prior year recommendations which made in the prior year. we also have to present to you our single audit reports. these are the audits of your federal award programs. i should mention that the single audit report that mgo issues covers most of the city's award programs, however there are separate reports issued by kpmg for the airport and mta, and we issue a separate report for the redevelopment agency. that report we had on the single
an overview -- week issued an unqualified opinion on the city financial statements -- we issued an unqualified opinion on the city financial statements. we did not identify any control decisions that we deem to be material weaknesses in internal control over financial recording, nor do we identify any reportable matters as a relates to compliances with laws and regulations that could have a material effect on the city's financial statements. we have before you also our report to the government...
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for unqualified people to replace them, while they may be trying to do the right thing, you are going to end up with more and more of a hodgepodge, such as the door that was replaced there. the door is of inferior quality, though it looks like the original door. it was much heavier and larger and in the front of the plane of the building. it was not recessed back. qualified people need to determine how to put this together. one unqualified people do it, we end up with a standard that is not acceptable. >> where they replaced the door with the same kind, that is 735. the 731 commercial, that is the one that has already been replaced. >> thank you. >> the original door still read -- still exists. >> i was going to ask that question of the property owner. >> i read your brief twice. it was not that clear to me exactly what you are asking for. but me summarize -- let me summarize it nancy if these are your issues. you showed the door, which you said was flushed. the new door was added under which permit? >> under no permit that i am aware. it is claimed that that was done under a later pe
for unqualified people to replace them, while they may be trying to do the right thing, you are going to end up with more and more of a hodgepodge, such as the door that was replaced there. the door is of inferior quality, though it looks like the original door. it was much heavier and larger and in the front of the plane of the building. it was not recessed back. qualified people need to determine how to put this together. one unqualified people do it, we end up with a standard that is not...
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we issued the unqualified opinion on this, except for the control program. we had a major compliance finding, as it comes to the salary benefits. i will come back to that of that later. we edified three material witnesses in control of the compliance for the deficiency. and so, let me put these findings in context for you. the very first finding is related to the community development block grant program. this is a type a program, that means a large-dollar program. this is about $20 million for expenditures, and this is only about 871,000. and we have the smaller programs. items two, three, four, and five, are all under $1 million. because of the nature of the funding sources, we have to audit some of these programs. these are not large color programs. this actually ties into the compliance with the city policy, with respect of the rising and approving time sheets. we found that this is where we have the issue in the mayor's office. the other relates to the lead hazard. the amount of benefits for the grant program are based on the budget estimates. and the c
we issued the unqualified opinion on this, except for the control program. we had a major compliance finding, as it comes to the salary benefits. i will come back to that of that later. we edified three material witnesses in control of the compliance for the deficiency. and so, let me put these findings in context for you. the very first finding is related to the community development block grant program. this is a type a program, that means a large-dollar program. this is about $20 million for...
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we did complete the audit with the standard, unqualified opinions. there were no significant difficulties. i do want to comment on the deficiencies noted in a couple of the reports that were provided. on the financial statement, there was one statement of cash flows. this was not a huge concern. this is the first year doing the single audit, and we have three comments included. one of them had to do with cash management. there were amounts repaid from the contractors, with oversight in the cash-management area. under reporting, we look at the quarterly recovery act funds, and there were mistakes made in the way that these were filled out. it should be relatively easy to correct, and another comment that you heard earlier, this has to do with the opinion of the weekly payroll in a timely manner. this is a little bit, but also easy to address. this is related to the federal funds office, and the demand -- mass transit authority, we were also looking at the federal funds. there were a couple of comments relate to the financial statements reporting, and
we did complete the audit with the standard, unqualified opinions. there were no significant difficulties. i do want to comment on the deficiencies noted in a couple of the reports that were provided. on the financial statement, there was one statement of cash flows. this was not a huge concern. this is the first year doing the single audit, and we have three comments included. one of them had to do with cash management. there were amounts repaid from the contractors, with oversight in the...
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what if something happens with an unqualified user of firearm? i don't know the answer to that question. i think it falls within the hands of the police commission. i know what we need to do tonight. that falls into your lap, chief. i will let commissioner slaughter speak. while they are speaking, we need to discuss what we can do this evening about those. >> we can make recommendations. >> i won a footnote. i want to thank the officer for truly attempting on your direction to somewhat organized the men and women. they will comply with my necessity of supplying this information. what that on record that he did call me several times, wanted to know who he needed to pinch to get information. >> on the issue before us, this is a discussion item. these are rules that are in effect since 2008. have a clear which of told us, the individuals are in violation of those rules. how do we handle it? their conversations have you learned. they needed emergency lights to go from one end of the city to another to respond to a call. and remind them to take a look
what if something happens with an unqualified user of firearm? i don't know the answer to that question. i think it falls within the hands of the police commission. i know what we need to do tonight. that falls into your lap, chief. i will let commissioner slaughter speak. while they are speaking, we need to discuss what we can do this evening about those. >> we can make recommendations. >> i won a footnote. i want to thank the officer for truly attempting on your direction to...
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. >> unqualified success. >> in the 1950's, after the bridges were built, the port and the ferries stopped in the late 1950's. at the port was looking for new ways to build revenue. that is when they started to chop up the building on the second and third floor into small offices. that brought revenue, but also took away a lot of the historic elements. it was mostly restaurants beneath. then in 1972, the ferry started. in 1989, we had the earthquake that rendered the double decker freeway on safe. -- unsafe. >> in 1989, the ferry building was a symbol of the earthquake because the clock stopped and the flagpole on the top was tipped over at 10 degrees. this became a symbol of the earthquake. this is sort of the end product of finally taking care of all the damage that was brought by the earthquake. >> when the freeway was taken down, it provided this visual corridor and reconnected the city to the building and that opened up the dialogue. the original urban planning of san francisco, always wanted the ferry building to anchor bourbon st. it is amazing that the freeway up there has been cha
. >> unqualified success. >> in the 1950's, after the bridges were built, the port and the ferries stopped in the late 1950's. at the port was looking for new ways to build revenue. that is when they started to chop up the building on the second and third floor into small offices. that brought revenue, but also took away a lot of the historic elements. it was mostly restaurants beneath. then in 1972, the ferry started. in 1989, we had the earthquake that rendered the double decker...
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comply with title ix according to "the new york times" it put out a report saying they're putting unqualifiedlayers even in some cases men on the roster of female teams so it appears the teams have enough women on them. title ix was passed to open sport opportunities for women. schools are obligated to comply showing the ratio of female to male athletes is equal to the population of the school. >> three days to go. >> that's it. >> people are already camping out along the procession route for the royal wedding in london. last-minute preparations are in high gear. >> kristen dahlgren has a front row seat and joins us from trafalgar square with the latest. >> reporter: hey, jessica and garvin. exciting night here in london, we're told william and kate are now in town doing their last minute preparations. meantime, the flowers, including some 20-foot-tall trees being moved into westminster abbey overnight. those are going to be part of the decoration. and the die hard fans staking out the best spots so they can try to get a glimpse of the couple friday. that means they're going to be camping out
comply with title ix according to "the new york times" it put out a report saying they're putting unqualifiedlayers even in some cases men on the roster of female teams so it appears the teams have enough women on them. title ix was passed to open sport opportunities for women. schools are obligated to comply showing the ratio of female to male athletes is equal to the population of the school. >> three days to go. >> that's it. >> people are already camping out...
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. >> i don't want cut rate service and unqualified personnel. >> reporter: the city of san carlos is also considering several other options including its own department without any partnership. they are looking at a partnership with redwood city. this meeting is still under way. we're not expecting an actual decision on this tonight. probably gonna occur sometime next week. a whole lot of controversy and a whole lot of interest in a concept of a fire department for this company at least it would be the very first time anywhere in the state of california for that company. back to you. >> it's a very complicated issue but let's say this does happen. are there not state standards that the fire department, whoever runs it, has to adhere to? >>> well the fire union did not actually speak but they sent a letter from the attorney trying to block this saying the city doesn't have the authority to contract with a private company so you can tell there is a lot of backroom dealing on this. the city attorney disputed the fire union contention and said "yes, inteed deed, they do have a authority
. >> i don't want cut rate service and unqualified personnel. >> reporter: the city of san carlos is also considering several other options including its own department without any partnership. they are looking at a partnership with redwood city. this meeting is still under way. we're not expecting an actual decision on this tonight. probably gonna occur sometime next week. a whole lot of controversy and a whole lot of interest in a concept of a fire department for this company at...
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i'm concerned about safety in my neighborhood, not only from criminals but also from unqualified officers so i definitely support you on that and thank you for your concern. i do like the distinguishing between very serious and immediate public safety issues such as lack of weapons, qualification and paperwork. there are two different kinds of offenses and i think they should be treated differently. thank you for recognizing that. i would like to say that my concern is not so much what happens with applicants who go into the background check division. that takes approximately a month. i have no reason to doubt that. what i'm concerned about is the initial application and the communication loop which is not being completed between the liaison officer back to the applicant. i have two examples. one wrote you commissioners yesterday and another is almost an ideal case. i spoke identical case. i spoke with him today. one was above level three. he submitted his pact two years ago. because of the change of liaison officers, there is a failure of continuity of records. there was by a former offi
i'm concerned about safety in my neighborhood, not only from criminals but also from unqualified officers so i definitely support you on that and thank you for your concern. i do like the distinguishing between very serious and immediate public safety issues such as lack of weapons, qualification and paperwork. there are two different kinds of offenses and i think they should be treated differently. thank you for recognizing that. i would like to say that my concern is not so much what happens...
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. >> i don't but want cut rate service and unqualified personnel. >> reporter: now the city of san carlos is also considering several other options including run its own department. it is also considering a partnership with the city of redwood city. both of those options would save the city $1 million a year in its firefighting costs, that is the goal here. it is to get a decision as early as next week. >> mark sayier in san carlos. thanks mark. >>> desperate to save the money at the pump and they are going the distance to do it. but are they going too far? why the risks don't end with running out of gas. >> you have heard of it happening for concert tickets and ball games but for national parks? how scalpers are making it hard to visit yosemite. >> it is a dark and the drizzly night around the bay area but that is going to change and change again. we'll have the entire forecast coming up in a minute or two. >>> thousands of jobs up for grabs. the restaurant chain promising to hire 20,000 new workers. have you ever run out of gas and been forced to ask for help? why that could cost you ea
. >> i don't but want cut rate service and unqualified personnel. >> reporter: now the city of san carlos is also considering several other options including run its own department. it is also considering a partnership with the city of redwood city. both of those options would save the city $1 million a year in its firefighting costs, that is the goal here. it is to get a decision as early as next week. >> mark sayier in san carlos. thanks mark. >>> desperate to save...
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so has his direct assault on the teacher's union about tenure, as he argues, why should unqualified teachers be protected? the teacher's union is running blistering ads against him. >> chris christie is making the wrong choices for new jersey. >> here's what i say to them. i believe the teachers in new jersey deserve a union as good as they are and they don't have one. and they should start demanding to get a union as good as they are, because i believe the teachers in new jersey are wonderful public servants and care deeply. but their union are a group of political thugs. >> reporter: i want to ask a question about tenure. many states, which have full tenure, have better education systems. proven better education outcome for the kids. >> listen, i don't want to get rid of tenure. i just want to make it better. in the last ten years, out of over 150,000 teachers in new jersey, 17 have been terminated for incompetence. now, do we really believe that there are only 17 incompetent teachers in new jersey? you can have tenure protections as long as you continue to be a competent teacher in the cl
so has his direct assault on the teacher's union about tenure, as he argues, why should unqualified teachers be protected? the teacher's union is running blistering ads against him. >> chris christie is making the wrong choices for new jersey. >> here's what i say to them. i believe the teachers in new jersey deserve a union as good as they are and they don't have one. and they should start demanding to get a union as good as they are, because i believe the teachers in new jersey...
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the cost of unqualified u.s.support for israel long has been measured only in dollars and political capital. and as such has been largely ignored by americans into a to washington's waste of both paper we're now in a situation where the cost of support for israel is or soon will be measured in the lives of american parents of children. that cause i think will quickly become obvious, at board, and utterly unacceptable to those parents. fourth, finally, and i think most important, the u.s. government and its european allies must stop trying to spread democracy abroad by military, financial, humanitarian, or political intervention. no young american man or woman should die for the insane goal of giving the people of iraq and afghanistan a possibility of embracing democracy. a phrase used ad infinitum by u.s. presidents and other western leaders. no small republican like our own has the right to spend the lives of its young and military crusade for patently unobtainable abstractions such as giving liberty, justice, g
the cost of unqualified u.s.support for israel long has been measured only in dollars and political capital. and as such has been largely ignored by americans into a to washington's waste of both paper we're now in a situation where the cost of support for israel is or soon will be measured in the lives of american parents of children. that cause i think will quickly become obvious, at board, and utterly unacceptable to those parents. fourth, finally, and i think most important, the u.s....
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second part of your question is regarding caps for orbit as a measure of merit, and the answer is an unqualified whole-hearted no. they are not the measure of or the best measure of effectiveness to determine isr sufficiency. just like what was shown on one of the charts. the soldier, marine, and airman don't care about how many orbits are flying about, but their situation being improved by what's going on in this enterprise, so, you know, we work very hard to try to get people to get off the notion of counting orbits. i'll give you a very good case in point. right now, the air force is fielding a system known as a wide area one surveillance pod set. everyone's focus has been focused on full-motion video. mq-1s mq-9s and ravens have a single data feed for motion video. well, today, this surveillance podset when put on an aircraft can automatically look over a very, very wide area about the size of a small village, and then transmit directly to users ten different video images and with a bit of processing, up to 65, the next variant sends out over 100 different images. they carry this on one mq-9
second part of your question is regarding caps for orbit as a measure of merit, and the answer is an unqualified whole-hearted no. they are not the measure of or the best measure of effectiveness to determine isr sufficiency. just like what was shown on one of the charts. the soldier, marine, and airman don't care about how many orbits are flying about, but their situation being improved by what's going on in this enterprise, so, you know, we work very hard to try to get people to get off the...
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in official reports back to state, urging that we torpedo our ally jiang kai-shek and stayed in unqualified terms adequate that communism is the only hope of china. later this man john service, and please remember that name, ladies and gentlemen, was picked up by the fbi for turning over to the time is secret information. strangely however he was never prosecuted. today ladies and gentlemen, this man service, is on his way to represent the state department in calcutta by fareway the most important post in the far east. john service and his family at that moment in time were on a freighter on the way to the new post in india, and on the way to japan there at dinner with the captain and the regiment comes in and says he joining john service? he says yes. he said well, you better come up to the radio them. there's some center talking about you. that's how he found out was going on through this scratchy shortwave radio. and from the ship when they landed them when they landed in yokohama he got a cable from the state department saying come back for consultations, beside what to do with the fami
in official reports back to state, urging that we torpedo our ally jiang kai-shek and stayed in unqualified terms adequate that communism is the only hope of china. later this man john service, and please remember that name, ladies and gentlemen, was picked up by the fbi for turning over to the time is secret information. strangely however he was never prosecuted. today ladies and gentlemen, this man service, is on his way to represent the state department in calcutta by fareway the most...
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it restores the unqualified " reasonable lead" standard established in the 1978 civil service act toualify for the protection. kathy is a republican, good morning. caller: i think the wikileaks are not -- they do not have very much wisdom. i think the endanger lives and that is terrible. but when i read the first time they put out their information, i read it and thought, this is stuff that should have been in the newspapers. and it should of been reported on by a journalist. but we do not have that going on in our country any more. they are pretty much all in the back pockets of the corporations and the government. so we do need whistleblowers in this country. i just read that the obama administration will spend $200 million in propaganda supporting and getting out their propaganda on obamacare to convince the public that it is the best thing since sliced bread. whether it is the bush administration or the obama administration, we need people out there that will tell us the truth and give us the facts instead of like the obama administration with libya saying, it was a connecticut -
it restores the unqualified " reasonable lead" standard established in the 1978 civil service act toualify for the protection. kathy is a republican, good morning. caller: i think the wikileaks are not -- they do not have very much wisdom. i think the endanger lives and that is terrible. but when i read the first time they put out their information, i read it and thought, this is stuff that should have been in the newspapers. and it should of been reported on by a journalist. but we...
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was an unqualified success. from a wall street perspective i think we'd agree.we revented a financial collapse. we put hundreds of billions of dollars in financial institutions and kept them for failing and that's a significant achievement for t.a.r.p. you can see that today. you can see how successful has been the return to record profitability the record bonuses are back bigger than ever. the federal reserve offered the reserve of capital to shareholders and indirectly through the same directors through increased derivatives and buyback. yes, t.a.r.p. has been very successful. there's another added benefit of this concept of too big to fail which is another concept of t.a.r.p. when i'm talking about too big to fail i'm not thinking of what immediately to comes to mind. a media that's so epic that failure is truly is not an option. i'm not talking about charlie sheen. [laughter] >> but like charlie, the largest banks are winning. and what i'm talking about is the largest financial institutions. the reason why t.a.r.p. had this impact is that when secretary paul
was an unqualified success. from a wall street perspective i think we'd agree.we revented a financial collapse. we put hundreds of billions of dollars in financial institutions and kept them for failing and that's a significant achievement for t.a.r.p. you can see that today. you can see how successful has been the return to record profitability the record bonuses are back bigger than ever. the federal reserve offered the reserve of capital to shareholders and indirectly through the same...
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your answer is an unqualified, whole hearted no. they are not the best measure of an effective test to determine isr sufficiency. just like we have shown on one of the charts. the soldier, sailor, their man who is interested in the output do not care how many orbits are being flown. their situation is being improved by what is going on in this enterprise. we worked very hard to try to get people to get off the notion of accounting orbits. i will give you a very good case in point. the air force is using a airborne surveillance pod set. mq9's have shadows. ravens have a single day the motion for surveillance video. when put on an aircraft, they can automatically look over a very wide area about the size of a small village and then transmit directly to users tend their friend and videos. the next variant will send out over 100 different images. you can carry this on one mq9. an orbit with an mq9 system on it is very different than a mq9 or aircraft that does not. we need to get focused on output as opposed to accounting input measures
your answer is an unqualified, whole hearted no. they are not the best measure of an effective test to determine isr sufficiency. just like we have shown on one of the charts. the soldier, sailor, their man who is interested in the output do not care how many orbits are being flown. their situation is being improved by what is going on in this enterprise. we worked very hard to try to get people to get off the notion of accounting orbits. i will give you a very good case in point. the air force...