i'm peg stevenson i'm the director of the performance section of the city services you a of auditor unit. this is my counterpart tonia lediju who is director of audit section of the city services auditor. we'll be speaking. our functions today and happy to answer any questions you have. we'll give you some background on our function especially for the new members and mid-year update on our activities. then there's a couple of things that we do specifically that are in service to the cgboc i'm sure you want to hear about. we are a creature of charter appendix f which was passed in 2003. it took the city's internal audit function together with our performance program and several other mandates and wrap them up into one charter section which is about the city's performance analysis it's reporting those things to the public, transparency, growing and expanding specifying the internal audit function. there's a number of specific charter mandates that our program is responsive to which we'll touch on. there's a specific mandate to a measure and report on the city's streets parks sidewalk stand

i think the controller did a fantastic job and i want to thank peg stevenson's team for the work they did. we were able to speak with our offices about the war report and walked through the details. i think what we learned is that it is a great model. it is definitely a trend around the country more and more. local governments are looking to ways to create independence in the way shootings and in custody deaths are handled. there's already smooth for -- room for improvement and we look forward to being good students and stewards of this work. we now have our managing attorney who is equally out in the field and learning from his peers as well as trying to being best practices back to san francisco if you're not already implementing them. we are equal or just eager to continue that dialogue. we will not be able to do that with you but with your successor and with the other officers here to make sure san francisco has the most independent and transparent investigation as possible. >> appreciate that. last year here is a very difficult and contentious conversation. i want to apologize fo