on behalf of the grand jury, my colleague, sharon gadbury, chair of the investigative committee as wellhelen will be speaking on behalf of the grand jury. thank you. >> supervisor elsbernd: thank you. a quick question, is this our last one for the year? >> yes, it is. >> supervisor elsbernd: sorry. and i wrote good morning. good afternoon. my name's sharon gadbury, and i chaired the grand jury investigation of the investment policies and practices of the san francisco employees retirement system, which we're calling the pension fund. i want to respectfully acknowledge the board of supervisors audit and oversight committee who have read our report and are here today to consider adopting our findings and recommendations. i also want to acknowledge the board and staff of the pension fund, the san francisco controller's office and the mayor's office who responded to our findings and recommendatio recommendations. just a note, the amount of money we're talking about here, and saw all of the problems we had to say that this pension fund is $15 billion, and this is one of the reasons that the

i am sharon gadbury a member of the 2011-2012 grand jury and chair of the better muni service needed without sich backs report. i would like to thank chairman farrell and supervisor chiu and agencies for taking time to read and respond to our findings and recommendations. i want to thank you also the chemistry. we want to offer those to give the students that opportunity. we would like to partner with community organizations to take advantage of technology and some students using online options to have an option to work on their credit recovery online. that is web based for a lot of programs. at their community-based organization. we know that a lot of students like to hang out and give them a safe place to study. and they can do that off-site. we want to establish that infrastructure. and then we set another group of students that we want to be sure we provide extra support for. and an example of that, the last two summers we have been able to have summer school for the class of 2014. because dcyf has provided some funding for that. and we also at the same time worked with an organi

i am sharon gadbury a member of the 2011-2012 grand jury and chair of the better muni service needed without sich backs report. i would like to thank chairman farrell and supervisor chiu and agencies for taking time to read and respond to our findings and recommendations. i want to thank you also the presiding judge of the superior court and martin choy the acting foreperson and the grand juries that have worked so hard over the one year term. members were selected to be motivated competent and diverse but we all had one thing in common. we love san francisco and we want it to be the best city it can be. when the jury discussed and voted on this muni investigation we deliberately chose to focus on the practice of switchbacks rather than try to investigate the whole transportation system which i think will make you happy today. we in factually suspected and later convinced that the way muni was using and justifying switchbacks as a tool to regulate service -- that's in quotes, was a blatant breach of the public's trust. the schedules are a promise made by muni to the riders and switch