the staff of the district is executive director steve gibson who is here today to address the c.b.d.'s program attic achievements and the service areas are public rights of way and sidewalk operations, district identity and streetscape improvement and management and operations. there was the benchmarks for the c.b.d., and benchmark one, whether the variance for the budget amounts was within 10 percentage points from the management plan. and benchmark two, whether 5% f the actuals came from sources other than assessment revenue and been mark three, whether the amounts for each service category was within 10 pertentage points from the actual. and benchmark whether the c.b.d. is indicating the amount of funds carrying over and the projects to be spent in the upcoming fiscal year. for benchmark one we have a comparative since 2010 through 2011 and for fiscal year 2015-2016, the c.b.d. did meet this bench mark. and they have historically met that benchmark. and bench mark two, 2015-2016, the c.b.d. did supercede this benchmark with a 19.47% of revenue raised and they have been hitting it o

gibson. this is one hour and 40 minutes. [applause] >> i was about to say how special the slightest but you beat me to it. welcome. my name is steve, i'm the executive director and on behalf of all the collects in the foundation and jamie the collects in the library, were thrilled to could be here. all of our forms are great, but tonight is a tree. it's also the beginning of the john f. kennedy centennial weekend. we plan this months ago and we really thought would be the best speaker and moderator week again for this historic time. we're thrilled they're both here. before i introduce them, few brief announcements. first, want to thank our underwriters and sponsors. bank of america, the lowell institute including bill and andrea, i media sponsors. as i say, we're kicking off the centennial was information when you leave about what were doing over the next few days. over the next few days there are opportunities to see new exhibits with a hundred items on saturday will be doing a special peace corps day, on sunday we have an astronaut as part of our tribute to nassau. and on monday are having bands, music, and the navy and at 3:00

gibson as active in democratic politic, george. >> tom, moore and more signs tht the republican party is in on this. >> a poll showed more than 70% of republicans don't believe the women. you have steveannon who the campaign calls rocket fuel for this campaign and, of course, the president backing moore. >> tom llamas, thanks very much. >>> george, a new accuser has also now come out against john conyers. this morning conyers is expected to make an announcement about his future. our senior congressional correspondent mary bruce has the latest on capitol hill. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, robin. well, john conyers, the serving congressman is expected to announce he is retiring. the 88-year-old has been under mounting political pressure to step aside as the allegations against him have been piling up. now his nephew tells us this is not the congressman waving the white flag, he insists the congressman is retiring, not resigning. as first reported by "the new york times" conyers is expected to make the announcement on a local radio program later this morning. he is now the first member of congress to announce his departure as part of this recent wave of sexual miscondu