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Bright. Well, its clear. So easy to see. Yes, but fog is getting its act together rapidly here as well get a pretty good cooldown here and the wind will pick up. Not too much. Right now, its rather calm, but its going to develop here as this system to the north begins to drop in. The wind will pick up low clouds will move in and increasing clouds by this evening. So temperatures coming down today 60s and 70s. All right, sal here, 4 00. Man, hes had a busy week. Lets hope todays friday light. I r...

Good morning. I want to welcome you to the regular scheduled budget and finance committee. Im chair of this committee malia cohen and to our left, our new member and joining us will be supervisor fewer. I want to thank our friends at sfgov and linda wong is our clerk assisting with todays meeting. Madam clerk, any announcements . Please silence cell phones and complete speaker cards and documents to be submitted to the clerk. Items will be on the february 13th board of supervisors agenda unless ...

Good morning. I want to welcome you to the regular scheduled budget and finance committee. Im chair of this committee malia cohen and to our left, our new member and joining us will be supervisor fewer. I want to thank our friends at sfgov and linda wong is our clerk assisting with todays meeting. Madam clerk, any announcements . Please silence cell phones and complete speaker cards and documents to be submitted to the clerk. Items will be on the february 13th board of supervisors agenda unless ...

Sfgov and linda wong is our clerk assisting with todays meeting. Madam clerk, any announcements . Please silence cell phones and complete speaker cards and documents to be submitted to the clerk. Items will be on the february 13th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor tang cone k you call item one . Calling item one. They will not have a contract done until june. This is a stop gap measure until the new bid and contract are in place. I believe we have mr. Vladimir ridic...

I want to thank our friends at sfgov and linda wong is our clerk assisting with todays meeting. Madam clerk, any announcements . Please silence cell phones and complete speaker cards and documents to be submitted to the clerk. Items will be on the february 13th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor tang cone k you call item one . Calling item one. They will not have a contract done until june. This is a stop gap measure until the new bid and contract are in place. I bel...

To say is somewhat limited in the sense that construction claims, construction disputes, there is construction law surrounding that and what we have done is advocate on behalf of the smaller subcontractors to the extent we facilitate a meeting between the developer and general contractor we are going to do that. Where we can facilitate a meeting to see if they cant come to terms with the disputes and try to find a resolution. Unfochinately it isnt a simple black and white in terms of the constru...

Yourself because you got us and i think that when we look at contracts and i complaints, you know, we dont want to say open pandoras box on that, but i think there could be a way we can say in our contracts that there is a certain number of days subs needs to get paid and provide that and if that doesnt happen then there are fines or something and we can do something. I think you know us enough to know that we are behind you and we seek your advice and creativity to figure this out. I welcome th...

Right . These are all front end mptd we are still looking at capturing payments mpt i know one ways we capture payments is when projects are completed for thus far since i have been here, one project has completed which is oddly number the robert [inaudible] contract for 1184 street so we do have payment for that. I included some of that information in the prior informational memo but that is the method we are engaging in. In the onset of getting fully integrated within the [inaudible] program i...

Come across firms on the networking sessions or through presubmitted meetings encourage them to seek certification whether they be in San Francisco if they are outside of San Francisco we tell them to look at the state certifications. In terms of trackingi think what are talking about is microbusiness. We dont have a particular microprogram in our program but in terms of tracking microbusinesses and newellly formed businesses, that is something well have to devise a mechanism to try to capture. ...

Policy and that is a matter for your consideration as commissioners. Discussion item. Im happy to. The item following this one is on the policy itself and you may be able to raise that we can bring that up as a item to be considered by this commission. Thank you. I just want to say you dont have to go through the by yourself because you got us and i think that when we look at contracts and i complaints, you know, we dont want to say open pandoras box on that, but i think there could be a way we ...