good morning i'm chief audit executive on the audit side and with me, i have civil investigator steve flaherty, responsible for the whistleblower program. today's presentation is an update on whistleblower program activities and initiatives through quarter one of fiscal year 2017/18. we last presented before you on may 2017 at which time we received fiscal year -- reviewed fiscal year 16/17 through quarter three. since our last presentation we issued quarter four annual report and two fraud bulletins on our web site and we anticipate fiscal year 17/18 in december. in advance of the presentation, staff supported quarterly meetings with our liaison, brenda kwee mcnulty, our chair who will keep aprized of the activities. for the benefit of new members, our first four slides provide an overview of the whistleblower program, authority, jurisdiction and role in ensuring a well run government. it is derived from three sources, california government code 53087.6, to maintain a whistleblower program to receive information regarding allegations of fraud, waste or abuse by local government employees. cam

steve: nice. very cool. firstna: she was the flaherty take action, did not wait for anyone. pulled out a chainsaw -- steve: had at it. all right. traveling anywhere for thanksgiving? adrianna: no. steve: so you will not have any problems. for those heading up and down these east coast are going to chicago or detroit, no problems. good news for a busy travel period. you do not want any bumps in the road or in the air. looking towards national harbor, not a cloud in the sky. it is a bit chilly. bundle up. 40 degrees at reagan national airport. wind out of the west-southwest 30 miles per hour. a little bit of a wind chill factor, but nothing that we cannot handle. 45, ma degrees. five degrees cooler in luray. satellite and radar, if you are looking for any cloud cover this afternoon, you will be hard-pressed, whether in garrett county or washington county, the panhandle of west virginia, in the beltway, all of southern maryland -- mainly cloud free. going out to lunch or maybe going to a food truck, temperatures in the mid to upper 40's around 50 degrees. it will be a little bre