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Practices of the recent past are behind us. The overarching inquiry is whether or not the current law remains fit to assure not only equal opportunity and not the convenience of bureau cats, and also how you as supervisors can measure progress. How do you define progress . And what are the systems of public accountability to make sure that we dont have this big lapse that weve had . You know without data there is no accountability. So, what were trying to do here is make the law work for everybody. This is a collaborative process and we look forward to working with you as well as the other mem...

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 ...

The aim is to help firms comply with US withholding tax requirements on foreign persons and entities, as the total issuance for dim sum bonds in 2023 tallied $76 billion in Hong Kong.