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Organizations and companies youll enter an mou with . Well, cal transoached firms and in other cases theyve approached us but helping women owned or minority owned businesses. Thats just a plus if they are. Exactly. So on this team here we have four Small Businesses and zune is a small business, but not a dbe. How do you determine if your program is successful . What are the indicators for success besides some a few of them competing against you . To me i think theyve all stayed in business. Oka...

Restaurants that has been around more thahan 20 yeaears. We might recognize the names. Yoyou would think the ceo of alicart had a p plan all those yes onow to turn his restaurants into multimillion dollar success stories. Thatat is what they ar en i said della ffrey bank when i sasat down with jeffry bank, i found out he has a personality as large as the Portion Sizes of hisis restaurants. He did not have a plan. Instead, he had a passion. Tojeffrey bank, welcome washington business report. We a...

Environmental permitting. Okay. Mark from db, if you could come up. I have a couple questions. I want to talk about the protege re shraeugs relationship. Can you describe this program. Bart with parsons, im the project manager for pb on this project. The [inaudible] bay area district for cal trance, and they are a program where they want pwhrarpblg established firms such as ours to help small emerging firms get a head start and be successful so pbs been very involved in this program locally and ...

Particular type of outreach as well. Were looking at retention rate of 37 across the whole city. Is that what i read . Yeah 37 in the last survey. Across the whole city. What are we looking at as retention rates in the target areas to gain through the initial outreach effort, the initial enrollment effort . Yeah, i think the if memory serves me its in like 47 to 52 in the deepest green areas. More than half the folks in the areas which is close to the retention rate that we measured for the tier...

Getting close to a opt in program that would violate state law, and i assume that we have looked at what the limits are that the law imposes on us. Would you elaborate a little bit how what were doing has been shaped to fit within the state law or on the other hand where is there jeopardy for us . So the notification and Education Program survey and early notification portions are the sort of the new pieces that arent required by state law. We are using those outreach efforts, those outreach com...

Knows authority very well and they have history with a lot of the projects. And vice has done this type of work for the county [inaudible] we have on the other side of the bay and theyll work with doing Program Management and engineering services. So those are the two firms that we are recommending and what we are seeking here today is your recommendation to award the one year consultant contract to the two firms with an option to extend to two years for the amount of 1. 8 Million Dollars. You h...

With davis and associates. Thank you. Youre welcome. Commissioner vietor do you have another no, im done. Commissioner olague. Yes, i guess that is concerning to me actually. Okay. I just am not sure how much experience consulting groups have working directly with communities of color and low income communities and seniors and more disenfranchised groups so i think the social media works for a certain sector and even a certain generation and maybe a certain whats word . Demographic within a cert...

Will be able to share with customers the actual Price Premium that they would experience knowing how much they typically consume at their household each month. Its at this point that we will have signed the confirmation with shell. We will then be at this point financially obligated under this program. The opt out mailers then will begin to be sent with this detail. We will do multilanguage, english, chinese, spanish. We will have customers able to opt out respond to us via snail mail or email. ...

That the law imposes on us. Would you elaborate a little bit how what were doing has been shaped to fit within the state law or on the other hand where is there jeopardy for us . So the notification and Education Program survey and early notification portions are the sort of the new pieces that arent required by state law. We are using those outreach efforts, those outreach components to inform who we talk to in the actual statutory opt out phase. We are not suggesting that anyone who is going t...

On that for you. Okay item should be ten. It is the discussion and possible action regarding ongoing litigation. Item 11 a. Is Public Comment on all matters pertaining to the closed session. And item, is there any Public Comment before we go to the vote to go to closed session . And seeing none, item b, vote on whether to hold closed session with legal counsel. Is there a motion to go to closed session . I move. Second. Okay. Commissioners in favor . Aye any opposed . We are now in closed sessio...