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To reiterate a point that president chiu made earlier as well as a few other speakers. We know anecdotally there are many stories of lbes being put in awkward situations, possibly being, you know, not in favorable positions under larger gcs and anecdotally we know that there are many situations like that, but we couldnt get them here necessarily to speak or put their name to paper. So, you know, just as the previous speaker spoke about possible retaliation with a project that hes currently negotiating with, we need full protection. It is very important to all of us. As agencies are hope gli going to be held more accountable, hopefully as we begin to mold policy and further developed, theyre going to be outliers and they may not want to follow the rules and so these policy breaker need to be called out. Please remember we do need the board protection moving forward. Before the next speaker, i want to just take a moment and mention i just had a conversation with our deputy controller and ....
I want to be under time. Okay. Well, i might go a little quickly. Supervisor chiu, supervisor avalos, my name is josh chen, [speaker not understood], im president of [speaker not understood] lbe subcontractor that does do construction. I just have a few points to make. One is about the agency the Department Needs to be held accountable. Just to give you a state of the union what is going on on the ground, ive seen some 0 requirement, 10 , some like goals. If they dont meet the goals, hard requirements. If they dont immediate the hard requirements. Were asking for a stronger lbe program, some repercussion for agencies when they dont meet the requirement or goal. Weve done work and oakland in other locales. Their lbe requirement is a hard 50 lbe requirement for local lbes of oakland. That gives you a comparison to inconsistency in ag is. What eric said, it is a good ordinance. It definitely helps lbes, but some time the bigger con ....
Only been here since 1947, San Francisco beautiful. 40 years ago we helped lead the way in preserving lower height limits on our bay. And were really glad to see this program come along. I personally will be proposing to San Francisco beautiful we buy some of these bricks. The first brick will be to name in honor of cruise man, the founder of our organization in 1947. She kept the city from ripping out its cable car system. And in the last 15 years, more like 30 years, weve been one of the organizations taking a lead in fighting the excessive commercialization. It was oscar wild who said if the sen can knows the price of everything in the value if nothing. We know the Port Commission has worked so hard and endeavored so hard to maintain this jewel among San Francisco, ....
Im the administrative engineer there. I was the one who opened the bids and one of the things that i do is a bid summary which summarizes all the bids. So, the low contractor i did contact and asked them how sure are you about this bid. And they affirmed that they would want to continue with this and thats the price that they will honor. So, were willing to obligate the bid price that they put down. You know, weve had some problems with people not being able to perform the work that they signed for and we end up in lawsuits. Im a little worried about it personally. [speaker not understood]. We have a couple options. The citys bidding process is we accept a low bid unless there is a reason to reject the low bid. We could reject the bids and rebid it. Or you could i dont know, thinking on the fly here. Go ahead. Certainly we wouldnt we cant increase the contract without coming back to the commission. The two bids the other two bids are pretty even, then you have this bid thats 200,000 le ....
Is there any other Public Comment . Commissioners . Any questions, comments . I want to thank the staff and appreciate the effort thats gone into this as we probably heard this over and over again where were doing great things and trying to figure out how to pay for them often sometimes after the fact. But and ill say this. In this situation i think one thing echoed and im sure my colleagues all agree, this is not something we want to undermine any of the incredible hard work thats gone into creating a spectacular new facility in our new cruise ship terminal. Essential my sense has been that was never anything intended and its actually not naming rights nor is it a place taking. But i think we concur with those concerns, but i dont think that that is something that we have contemplated or anyone has contemplated, but this is really an opportunity to acknowledge the work that people have done to make so much happen in our city, to ....