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Very well attended [speaker not understood] and we also launch a one year Business Development program. The Business Development program that we launched about a year ago was designed to provide certified local business he with Technical Assistance and compete for city contracts. Most of the departments have assisted us with this and [speaker not understood] and the process [inaudible]. In contract tracking, the lbts, [speaker not understood], we are going to be the wbts was launched in july 1st and it will be reporting a Quarterly Report hopefully soon. We will be presenting this to the new l...

Discussion about whether right now 30 years after 14b has gone into effect whether were really thinking aggressively enough in how we achieve our goals. There have been suggestions we ought to have citywide goals for lbe participation. So, for example, there have been some who have suggested a 40 goal of all City Contracting dollars staying with local business he. There has been other suggestions that we ought to set aside at least 10 of our contracting dollars exclusively for local competition and other businesses. Our ordinances should not apply to funded city contracts, but public lands tha...

Public comment because we do have a lot of folks here today. There has been a lot of discussion about whether right now 30 years after 14b has gone into effect whether were really thinking aggressively enough in how we achieve our goals. There have been suggestions we ought to have citywide goals for lbe participation. So, for example, there have been some who have suggested a 40 goal of all City Contracting dollars staying with local business he. There has been other suggestions that we ought to set aside at least 10 of our contracting dollars exclusively for local competition and other busin...

Her department. So, i do under the concern. This is an area many people want to get transparency in this area. Im happy to work with you to hopefully work with mayor lee to get more transparency in this area because a lot of people want to know, again, how we spend our money, how the contract decisions are made. Let me make a couple other observations about this chart. It does look as supervisor avalos suggested, the ratios awarded to lbes seems high. When i read the report, this is looking at the ratio of contracts that are awarded, but not at the contract dollar awards. For example, for the ...

Planning principles should address the projects needs and be consistent with city plans and policies and include smart and sustainable transportation. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Approximately 1,000 jobs during construction, hopefully for San Francisco workers and suppliers big and small. When the project is finished, it is estimated we will have 11,000 permanent jobs with all the benefits that will bring to the general fund. The developers engaged in ongoing outreach to organize labor and community advocates. I would like to see more water transportation between piers up and down the bay front. Not onl...