the n.g.o.'s actually took its name from a tree in a bed a is the word for in the wall of language it's a versatile tree its leaves and food can be eaten or used for medicinal purposes. scientists have proven that trees bring rain by contributing to. they trigger precipitation in the clouds more trees. and the more we cut down the less rain that . they say deserts advance but they don't it's humans that make it possible so things must change we must plant. big cities are growing as a breath taking speed in senegal. in the past 60 years the country has lost around hof of its forests to urbanization. tens of thousands of hectares of woodlands continue to be destroyed every year. yet in fact there's a lot of pressure on urban centers the population is rising there's more construction and fewer green spaces and trees we're neglecting nature and that's why desertification is growing worse in our.

n.g.o. has done the audit the last few years, as well as recommendations. it's strange for us because they are just finishing up the final touches of the 2020 audit, which the city, i believe, will be issuing in november, no later than december, and hopefully, craig will be back early next year to present the 2020 results to the board, but we just needed to get this presented to the board, and so i will turn it over to craig at this point. >> all right. thank you. thank you, jay, and thank you, everyone, members of the committee and the board. i'll keep this kind of brief because as jay mentioned, there wasn't really anything in the audit. we did an audit for the years ended june 30, 2019 and june 30, 2018. we issued our independent auditor's important on june 30, 2019, and it's the highest level that an independent auditor can give a department. with the required communications, a few things that our professional standards require us to communicate to the state board of retirement. i'll go over those briefly. as i said, there wasn't anything -- we didn't h

the n.g.o.'s actually took its name from a tree in a bed a is the word for marring get in the wall of language it's a versatile tree its leaves and food can be eaten or used for medicinal purposes. scientists have proven that trees bring rain by contributing to the transpiration they trigger precipitation in the clouds more trees mean more rain and the more we cut down the less rain there is one that they say deserts advance but they don't it's humans that make it possible things must change we must plant. big cities are growing as a breath taking speed in senegal. in the past 60 years the country has lost around hof of its forests to urbanization. tens of thousands of hectares of woodlands continue to be destroyed every year. in fact that there's a lot of pressure on urban centers the population is rising there's more construction and fewer green spaces and trees we're neglecting nature and that's why desertification is growing worse in our country.

n.g.o. has done the audit the last few years, as well as recommendations. it's strange for us because they are just finishing up the final touches of the 2020 audit, which the city, i believe, will be issuing in november, no later than december, and hopefully, craig will be back early next year to present the 2020 results to the board, but we just needed to get this presented to the board, and so i will turn it over to craig at this point. >> all right. thank you. thank you, jay, and thank you, everyone, members of the committee and the board. i'll keep this kind of brief because as jay mentioned, there wasn't really anything in the audit. we did an audit for the years ended june 30, 2019 and june 30, 2018. we issued our independent auditor's important on june 30, 2019, and it's the highest level that an independent auditor can give a department. with the required communications, a few things that our professional standards require us to communicate to the state board of retirement. i'll go over those briefly. as i said, there wasn't anything -- we didn't h