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Do work and amend big contracts. They wanted handsoff work underway which is why its about contract award, not amendments to the contract. The board will have another opportunity to look at how the policy is working shoe you shouf prove this. I understand it doesnt apply and im not saying that it does, im just saying that the commissioner, youll struggling a little bit because this is before under the circumstances, to issue before us. And while a company may have good intentions, thats flocking the whole point in the first place. That begs the question, what is jacobs policies . So im a lesbian and so this is an issue that is near and dear to my heart. So you looked at their policies and it is jacobs policies, not ch. This is a jacobs firm policy. The benefit and treatment of lesbian and gay policies was good, as well as the network and connections, but thats been the state of affairs for some time. What was especially notable was their policies toward the transgender community, suppo
Its a state issue, not a compancompany ush. Issue. If the they qualify, more powero them and if they dont, were given a company that doesnt qualify a 20 Million Contract to date. Im encouraging our body to not disrupt or process at all, coming up with a transition between contract a and b. None of the product is pr pro py tore. We by it and own it and get to use it. Ill just tell you where im at. I was here in 2017 and i owned it then and i will own it now. Once you sign off on something, you dont walk back. We had a discussion in 2017 and this would all come up and laid out. And i supported it then and i support it now. I appreciate what youre saying. Whatever, but we signed off on this as a commission. And everyone commission there, i was here, president brandon, commission kunalokis and commission katz, we had this discussion and it was tough. I cant see this putting this out to bid i mean, we have to own this. We signed off on it. Im going to vote in favour because i agreed to do t
Was in this form and with the board of supervisors, everybody was aware of this issue. Was there conversation at the commission . I mean, im not trying to dredge up and go back on something in 2017, but i need richer context. I didnt find that in the staff report and i actually, on a side note, just think when issues come up to possibly flag them earlier on in the report, also, would be helpful, because im concerned that my concern is that we are setting a precedent that sends a signal to the companies that if they have subsidiaries in other parts of the country, that we will turn a blind eye to the right essence of why San Francisco does this. If were going to ignore these provisions, whether its access to rights or issues, louisiana is on that list and im concerned that were set ag precedent with the commission of close not to engine exceed 6o mn the good news is the board of supervisors will have to make a decision when the contract was originally awarded. They were the preferred co
Disrupt or process at all, coming up with a transition between contract a and b. None of the product is pr pro py tore. We by it and own it and get to use it. Ill just tell you where im at. I was here in 2017 and i owned it then and i will own it now. Once you sign off on something, you dont walk back. We had a discussion in 2017 and this would all come up and laid out. And i supported it then and i support it now. I appreciate what youre saying. Whatever, but we signed off on this as a commission. And everyone commission there, i was here, president brandon, commission kunalokis and commission katz, we had this discussion and it was tough. I cant see this putting this out to bid i mean, we have to own this. We signed off on it. Im going to vote in favour because i agreed to do that. But to stop everything and then you want it back out to bid, i cant support that. We have to live with that and i hope weve learned something from this process. But i tell you where im at and if youre worr