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Healthy neighborhood and creates jobs that keeps our jobs strong vvl in San Francisco from for more than more than 25 years and ready to deliver the project informs the next quarter ever a significant and beyond. Okay. Great very good nice video. Okay. Supervisor tang. Thank you supervisor avalos for your leadership of the agency i also want to welcome commissioner christensen to the Transportation Authority and also thanks supervisor mar and supervisor cohen for your leadership as well as and Supervisor Scott Wiener ill be for going the directors report addresses instead giving the annual rep...

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 we actually have more mous memorandum of understanding with small and emerging firms than any other firm in the program. Wanted to underscore what we have mous in place with and so basically what we do is we give them opportunities first of all to be on our teams and then doing this highway work can be pretty complicated if youve never done...

Specific projects, but what it does its an agreement between us and them that first of all, describes what the intent of the program is and that we are going to make an effort and theyre going to be receptive and that the idea though is theres in guarantees. They still have to perform and have to meet the scope thats in their contract. This kind of stuff. And. How to you identify which 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. Exac...

Number five. Its an important discussion. We. Let me bring up tita i have a couple questions for tiat before we move on to that. Thank you. Now on to the Construction Management pl discussion. The Transportation Authority went ahead and issued a request for proposals in january of 2013. We received six proposals in february, four firms were short listed and interviews were conducted in march of 2013. Unanimous Panel Selection [inaudible] with the best relevant experience. Wanna talk a little bit about the team memberer ship and the make up. We have db participation of 16 percent, made up of fi...

The coming months. I want to do one more thing. Hot off the press today is the Small Business exchanges periodical featuring Commission President leslie katz. The article goes on and on and on, which is fantastic. Its actually a really, really good article and gives great kudos to the work that the port is doing, meeting and exceeding our mandates for participation by local Business Enterprises and some of the novel ideas that we are piloting such as the pier 33 opportunity. So, thank you very much, president katz, for agreeing to appear so prominently on behalf of the port. And that concludes...