as required by the city ordinances, we completed with the lao city ordinances, with city immigration affairs, that was completed on the chief desk for review to be signed. we are making good headway. that is more to be done and i look forward to working with the commission and do more, thank you. >> i understand that there is a line item in the mayor's budget for 500,000 for language access, can you tell me how that was utilized? >> i can bring you a breakdown. most of it was for the pay an officer uses for bilingual pay, paid $30 some odd dollars per pay period, that total comes up to if i'm not mistaken around $30,000 for just pay. and then translation services, language line, that is the bulk of it. telephonic services, around $32,000. and the budget for the officers, 258,000. >> than that is for -- >> bilingual pay. >> i thought you said 30,000. >> 30,000 for telephonic translation services. >> and then you have any kind of auditing or benchmark with the program to see how things are progressing, if improvements need to be made or things are going right? >> what was the question

laos. he was killed several years ago when his helicopter was shot down in afghanistan. you may remember the incident. we lost 30 service members. on memorial day,on ease family is gathering in south sioux city, nebraska, to erect a statue in his honor. i'm grateful, privileged, to be canned to join them on that day. like his fellow soldiers, john was an american. he was loyal. he was brave. and now he is free. his sacrifice and the sacrifice of all american veterans, brings to mind the seriousness of our time and memorial day is anest to terrible -- especially important time for the reflection from lawmakers. we carry a tremendous responsibility to recognize the real life consequences behind our policy deliberation, analysis --age cease, and votes. on that first decoration day in 1868, major general john logan offered his post these words as they he ordered them to decorate the graves of the war dead. he said this, mr. speaker. we should guard their graves .ith sacred vigilance let pleasant paths invite the going of reverend visitors and fond mourners. let no raveplgs of time testify that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic. mr. speaker, during a visit to