Guide to FY 2010 spending pressure hearing

So you missed the February 19 public oversight hearing on FY 2010 spending pressures. . . .   Here is some information you can use to catch up, to navigate the day-long hearing:

• Watch the hearing via on-demand video on the Office of Cable Television website.   Select the 2/19/2010 COW public oversight hearing.
• The hearing starts off with opening statements from Councilmembers.   Interested in a particular CM?   Here are where to find them:   Vince Gray (Chair) - 4:35; Harry Thomas, Jr. (Ward 5) - 10:30; Jack Evans (Ward 2) - 15:25; Marion Barry (Ward 8) - 20:35; Kwame Brown (At-large) - 26:50; and Mary Cheh (Ward 3) - 30:25.

  Absent, then, from the beginning of the hearing were:   At-large CMs Michael Brown, David Catania, and Phil Mendelson; Ward 1 CM Jim Graham, Ward 4 CM Muriel Bowser, Ward 6 CM Tommy Wells, and Ward 7 CM Yvette Alexander.

• City Administrator Neil Albert and Deputy CFO in the Office of Budget and Planning Gordon McDonald kicked off the testimony and availability of the executive branch.   This part started at 32:54.   Mr. Albert's testimony is here.   More than 10 agency directors and other staff followed this first panel; here is the revised witness list.