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Advance payment practice to fund loans to subcontractors to address what we have often heard from some of our smaller subcontractors, it cleans up modernizes 14b and formalizes the transfer of chapter 14b implementation from the Human Rights Commission to the city administrator. It would keep the limit up which the city would guarantee as part of its Surety Bond Program as 750,000, it keeps the mayor as the official who resolves matters when the awarding authority and the director are unable to agree whether to divide a contract into smaller contracts to maximize the opportunity for lbes to pa...

Public comments. Good morning, bill barnes on behalf of city administrator kelly. First our thanks to president chiu and his staff working on whats been an extraordinarily complicated piece of legislation. Prop 9 does not allow us to use race and gender even though discrimination continues and were working hard to figure out how to help every local business to participate. We hope we can get this done before president chiu leaves the board and we are available if any members of the public are interested in discussing issues offline and look forward in seeing you again in maybe a week. Sorry, i...

Sure that we cover. 14b3, size threshold, the base line used for the determination of 17 percent was 2005. Keep in mind that was when it was last sunseted. In fact, the last time that size thresholds were increased were 1988 so i think if were looking at size standards and the amount of increase using the base line of 1988 would be more appropriate. No. 2 would be 14b7, increasing the 5 sba goal to 5 percent from 2 percent would be instrumental for businesses that have grown out of the size standard and then enabling them to compete in Small Business, keep not guilty mind that the 2 percent go...

We often say Small Businesses are the backbone of our economy. Small businesses that employ less than 50 workers comprise 95 percent of all San Franciscos businesses. Our local Small Businesses contribute billions of dollars to our economy every year. But we have not often been focused on how our citys contracting dollars which also constitute billions of dollars every year can be used to support our local and Small Businesses. Three decades ago this board of supervisors recognized that local governments passive and sometimes active practice of discrimination no longer had a place in our city ...

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