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Im the seniorsy advocate youve heard a great deal with the work that the organization has done in evaluating the program in the Oakland School district, i dont need to repeat that here, but we want to emphasize that our organization sees this initiative important enough that i made it here today. This is not actually my normal realm of work, i tend to work in sacramento, but we really believe the city of San Francisco could do something here to help california to make sure it meets with the rhetoric of being a global leader. We hope youll continue, thank you. Im a volunteer with food San Franc...

Thank you so much. Good morning, supervisors. My name is lia im a staff attorney with the justice center. We provide Free Immigration Services to courageous women and children who have suffered genderbased violence. I was the director of the antitrafficking and i want to tell you a story about my client, well call him adam. He is from indonesia, grew up in poverty. He was recruited to work as a seaman. They promised him good wages. They arranged his transportation and documentation from indonesia where he boarded a large fishing boat. Out in the middle of the sea, he was transferred to two oth...

But there is also a long history of workers and unions coming together to address the injustices. This policy will make sure we use dollars to employ companies that treat workers humanely. Thats why teamsters are strong spouters. Thank you. Supporters. Thank you. Good morning, my name is ruth. Im here on behalf of stop slavery, a Northern California coalition. Catholic sisters against Human Trafficking. As opponents of coerced labor we are in support for good purchasing of a valued workforce and its goal of achieving healthy working conditions and fair compensation for all workers and producer...

In their solicitation process. What is unique about the program under the ocii is what is gone as a first consideration for project area sbe and San Francisco sbes. The Small Business program through the agency evolved from a minority Business Program into a Small Business program in 2004, but it has always been not restricted to San Francisco but looking at San Francisco as first consideration. Under that prims what does first consideration mean in terms of enforcement . Staff auch participates on a professional Service Basis as a example in the rfg process being the request for qual fiicatio...

Submitted bids, whether they are San Francisco based businesses with the fees that are submitted or the bid prices and again, we ask that the contractors meet with us, run through the bid summaries. Intended selection before Actual Contractors are awarded and subcontracts. That is in a nut shul some of the process of what good faith effort means and what i would like to do is step back one step further to talk about what defines a Small Business. It is a topic that will come up in the next agenda item. This past 6 month jz prior to that, the existing pract is recognize Small Businesses based o...