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All other members of the commission are present. The next order of business is item 2, announcements. The next regular scheduled meeting will be held on march 21 2017 at 1 pm room for 16 good item b announcement of prohibition of some Electronic Devices during the meeting. These, be advised the ringing and use of cell phones pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. These, be advised through chairman nehru ordered the removal from the meeting room of any sound producing Electronic Devices. C announcement of time allotment for comment. These be advised...

workforce windy. [applause] supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. we mostly serve people who come from chinatown, new immigrants and limited english proficiency. echoing previous statements, i would ask -- i am asking you to support union jobs that will serve prevailing wages and benefits, and also for the area of event staffing. at the same standards we have on local hiring for construction jobs will be applied. that the workers who will do the work will also be paid a living wages and also have benefits, and they will have also access t...

to give you an idea, but i do not have the breakdown per trade. any other questions? supervisor avalos: by the end of this month or and of next month, we expect that to be fleshed out in terms of the trade and what you expect the targets will be per trade? >> correct. the design team just finish the construction documents, and we're getting a cost estimate, and we want more information as we go along. >> great. thank you very much. stephanie martin up next? >> thank you. good morning, supervisors. thank you for inviting me to participate today. we know that this is all focussed on jo...

and when we put the project out to bid it was one of the major contracts. supervisor avalos: any specialized trades do not receive city contracts or do not typically work under city contracts? >> there might be a few. the majority of them should have the requirement. we tend to see specialty trade and something like elevators or escalators, but the rest of the major mechanical, electric, plumbing, is your basic type of work for you would expect to see high participation. supervisor avalos: local hiring is definitely a floor, so 20% would be the floor this year. do you expect some tra...

on some of the environmental issues. where as we should be speller on those. we are here to speak up and this hearing on behalf of the strongest possible local hire and high wages we can get from this project, not just a man among letter of the wall. getting back to the pride issue, if mr. ellison and the other participants in supporters want this city to be proud of this event, they need to be stellar and exceed in environmental standards to the greatest degree possible. that goes to the greatest local hiring and union hiring. 20 percent is just 20%. and we need the event sponsors t...