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The audit had findings and most were agreed but one significant finding that i would like to discuss. Because of the value of this contract, approved by the board of supervisors. The contract has expired and sha has entered in a contract with the same vendor, requiring guards mart to provide for services. However as approved by the board, it does not require sha to pay guard marts for Security Services in other departments, and due to cancel of buildings closed for city holiday. As a result sha paid Security Services that it did not need or receive at cost of 600,000 for the contract fiveyear ...

Actually is a better rate . There is no comparison, for example, one rate against another outside of the department specifically. She worked on the audit form. The issue, their system has really excellent reporting tools. And as part of that system sorry, can you introduce yourself. I am kat skogin, the auditor that led this audit. In this system they had great reporting tools, and part of the contract had someone come in from the vendor that has their reporting structure to look at their pricing and to make sure they were maximizing the pricing tiers, and maximizing the leverage with the indi...

Board, it does not require sha to pay guard marts for Security Services in other departments, and due to cancel of buildings closed for city holiday. As a result sha paid Security Services that it did not need or receive at cost of 600,000 for the contract fiveyear term. And you see on the slide how sha came to that figure. Paying for 11 holidays for 12 guards for five years. Sha agreed in earlier negotiation meetings to pay for the holidays. However this agreement is not reflected in the contract approved by the board of supervisors, sha is here today to discuss this finding. Good morning, ch...

Were closed. Sorry, i am confused what you said. Let me explain a little further. So in this type of contract, you have a billing rate. A rate per hour that you are charged for Security Officers services. The holiday pay required by the ordinance was not paid in the billing rate accounted for the total hours in the contract. We accounted for straighttime hours for the guards for those 11 days. So the city was still charged for holiday pay. The city was still charged for holiday pay and we authorized each payment. We had a specific method of payment with the contractor of how to enforce it and ...

Those times. The holiday time was clearly not in the rate negotiated. We purposely decided on this term, to ensure that only Security Officers at that site would receive the holiday pay on the days that the city buildings were closed. Sorry, i am confused what you said. Let me explain a little further. So in this type of contract, you have a billing rate. A rate per hour that you are charged for Security Officers services. The holiday pay required by the ordinance was not paid in the billing rate accounted for the total hours in the contract. We accounted for straighttime hours for the guards ...