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[roll call] item number 2, opportunity for the public to comment on any matter within the committees jurisdiction that is not on the agenda. Seeing none, were going to move on to item number 3, approval with possible modifications of the minutes of the august 26th, 2019, meeting. Minutes, any objections . I dont have objections, but i did note a lot of typos in there. I marked several of them up, and i can give them to you. I can go ahead and take them. Reporter they missed a bunch. Maybe you want to take a look in addition to what i wrote down. Okay. But its nothing too major. There are a cou...

Good morning Committee Members, im dr. Derek kerr, a whistleblower. An audit of the program is a good idea but it should not be a peer review audit. That would just buy into the biases and weaknesses that all Whistleblower Programs have. It would be important to get to an whistleblower advocacy organization, such as the Government Accountability project in washington d. C. One of the consultants could advise to the standards that a Whistleblower Program should have to meet the needs of the whistleblowers in the public. It needs to be an independent audit and not by the same folks. We heard a l...

Since the inception, the Whistleblower Program has been plagued by minor complaints. The 20102011 civil grand jury found that 36 were true whistleblower complaints alleging fraud, waste, and abuse. Then the Whistleblower Program developed a Risk Assessment policy that was designed to triage the complaints and sort them out into low, medium, or high risk complaints. For example, the medium risk cases involved potential losses of 10,000 to 50,000 or they implicate a mid level manager. The medium and high risk cases are not represented in the whistleblower reports. Instead, we get a preponder rem...

Class is bonds and taxes american cartoons and comics during world war ii. I can remember from my days in parochial chapel school, while our pastor gave us a sermon that has stuck with me ever since. The lesson of it draws from two parts. Two separate biblical texts. One is from second kings, if youre interested, chapter four, where the prophet elishah has somebody bring him 20 loaves of barley, and he has to feed 100 men. His children asked, how will we do that . And the prophet says, give them to the men so they may eat, so they shall eat and have some left. He said it before them, and they ...

Gave us a sermon that has stuck with me ever since. The lesson came from two parts. Two separate biblical texts. Kings, ifm second youre interested, chapter four, has a profit elisha somebody bring him 20 lows of any has to feed 100 men. His children asked, how will we do that . Ophet says, give them sothe men so they can eat, they shall eat and have some left. He said it before them and they ate and they had some left. Incident an incident from the new testament where jesus is confronted with a crowd of 5000 people, how will we feed all these people . One of the disciples says, here five barl...