This is right"?

Yeah.

I mean, even, even just up here in Baltimore, uh, uh, and, uh, something was started a few years ago called the Urban Life Center.

And they've positioned themselves in a, in a neighborhood.

They've got, you know, they've, they had, they started off with a juice bar, and just a, a, basically a neighborhood space where people can come in.

And they're running, like, 100 different programs for the community, th- seminars on this and that, making connections with people.

And I say, yeah, this is on the right path.

Where, we don't wanna mention countries or, or individuals obviously that are in that situation, but what do people do to get started in a place where it's virtually illegal if not illegal?

And now I'd like to welcome our speakers, and let's get started.

Thank you, Michael.

Sh- Thank you, Michael.

Thank you for the warm introduction.

We are very excited to be here.

Um, our firm was one of the first firms to work with the state bar to help, um, develop the pilot program.

Back in twenty twenty-three, the Supreme Court, uh, passed rules requiring the state bar to develop an audit program, and the state bar came to the CalCPA, uh, County and Auditing Technical Committee to help develop, you know, what does an audit program look like? Um, what is the framework for developing an audit program? And so we, uh, our firm and three other firms work hand in hand with the state bar to help kinda put together the, kinda the CPA framework of the accounting program.

All right, I'm gonna hand it off to Gary to talk about the expected costs.