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greater opportunity because you have a larger core base of journey workers that we can begin to prioritize apprentices. chairperson maxwell: what about doyle drive? >> that is federally funded. it is a project that is being managed out of caltrans and the san francisco transportation authority. they are the project manager on that side. what city build has been able to do is to work with them to find opportunities in the upcoming large contracts, again to be able to encourage using good faith to encourage those contractors to hire out of our local union halls here in san francisco, a...

do is to work with them to find opportunities in the upcoming large contracts, again to be able to encourage using good faith to encourage those contractors to hire out of our local union halls here in san francisco, and again to make requests of san francisco residents so the king of opportunities out on -- tso they can have opportunities out on doyle drive. the opportunities are limited given the scope and nature of federal funding requirements. chairperson maxwell: federal funding makes it difficult because we cannot do what? >> correct. certainly, funding dictates a lot of local ...

design flexibility, trying to make san francisco and is your place to do business. as the board finished that, we had the chapter 14 amendment with hrc increasing the participation and beefing up some of the tools for them to get more local lbes in the mix on city contracting. this legislation is in line with a lot of the activities the board has taken around chapter 6. chairperson maxwell: i know this is a little off, but as we go forward with our green academy and hour nurse academy, the information we are getting and some of the things we are doing with this legislation, d.c. that...

workers who are working our local construction projects. we would create incentives, non- financial incentives, for contractors and subcontractors to receive local hiring incentives, to ensure there will get a benefit from reaching the goals. we will make sure we have resources to meet the requirement. will require referral services identified by the office of economic and work force development if a pre-existing method of hiring does not allow a contractor to meet the local requirements. we want to assess the qualification of workers and clarify this does not harm the capacity to as...

>> that is federally funded. it is a project that is being managed out of caltrans and the san francisco transportation authority. they are the project manager on that side. what city build has been able to do is to work with them to find opportunities in the upcoming large contracts, again to be able to encourage using good faith to encourage those contractors to hire out of our local union halls here in san francisco, and again to make requests of san francisco residents so the king of opportunities out on -- tso they can have opportunities out on doyle drive. the opportunities are...