Advance payment practice to fund loans to subcontractors to address what we have often heard from some of our smaller subcontractors, it cleans up modernizes 14b and formalizes the transfer of chapter 14b implementation from the Human Rights Commission to the city administrator. It would keep the limit up which the city would guarantee as part of its Surety Bond Program as 750,000, it keeps the mayor as the official who resolves matters when the awarding authority and the director are unable to agree whether to divide a contract into smaller contracts to maximize the opportunity for lbes to participate. It changes 14b. 5 on puc regional projects that are 70 miles or more outside San Francisco or force the costs to be shared and it corrects a number of drafting issues that we have in the version that we had originally introduced. So, with that, what id like to do is ask bill barnes representing our city administrator to make a brief set of introductory comments and then we can move on t
Public comments. Good morning, bill barnes on behalf of city administrator kelly. First our thanks to president chiu and his staff working on whats been an extraordinarily complicated piece of legislation. Prop 9 does not allow us to use race and gender even though discrimination continues and were working hard to figure out how to help every local business to participate. We hope we can get this done before president chiu leaves the board and we are available if any members of the public are interested in discussing issues offline and look forward in seeing you again in maybe a week. Sorry, i just wanted to thank bill, naomi kelly and all the staff who have worked hard with us and all the community in moving this forward. This item is now open for Public Comment. You will have two minutes. Please come forward. Good morning, inaudible discrimination only exists legally woman team, man team. The sacred creation between woman team man team. They have differences. Also the inaudible nonco
Sure that we cover. 14b3, size threshold, the base line used for the determination of 17 percent was 2005. Keep in mind that was when it was last sunseted. In fact, the last time that size thresholds were increased were 1988 so i think if were looking at size standards and the amount of increase using the base line of 1988 would be more appropriate. No. 2 would be 14b7, increasing the 5 sba goal to 5 percent from 2 percent would be instrumental for businesses that have grown out of the size standard and then enabling them to compete in Small Business, keep not guilty mind that the 2 percent goal with other sbas has never been used and no contractor has ever won a sba goal so 2 percent might now help them have a greater advantage. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Supervisors, president chiu, chair breed, i want to introduce myself. My name is julianna choice summer, i am president of the asian contractor association, also an own or of a microlbe i want to thankment ch
We often say Small Businesses are the backbone of our economy. Small businesses that employ less than 50 workers comprise 95 percent of all San Franciscos businesses. Our local Small Businesses contribute billions of dollars to our economy every year. But we have not often been focused on how our citys contracting dollars which also constitute billions of dollars every year can be used to support our local and Small Businesses. Three decades ago this board of supervisors recognized that local governments passive and sometimes active practice of discrimination no longer had a place in our city and that millions of dollars that our city spends for goods and services could be a powerful tool to invest in helping disadvantaged minority and women owned businesses enter the economic mainstream. That first law represented our citys now longstanding commitment to Economic Development in this area. Chapter 14b has fostered an active network of small and very Small Businesses in our city. Chapte