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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. Exactly. So on this team here we have four Small Businesses and zune is a small business, but not a dbe. How do you determine if your program is successful . What are the indicators for success besides some a few of them competing against you . To me i think theyve all stayed in business. Okay. I think in this economy with the work not being as plentiful as in the past i think thats the bes...

Restaurants that has been around more thahan 20 yeaears. We might recognize the names. Yoyou would think the ceo of alicart had a p plan all those yes onow to turn his restaurants into multimillion dollar success stories. Thatat is what they ar en i said della ffrey bank when i sasat down with jeffry bank, i found out he has a personality as large as the Portion Sizes of hisis restaurants. He did not have a plan. Instead, he had a passion. Tojeffrey bank, welcome washington business report. We are at carmines. Every time i am here, it is busy. How do you keep people coming in the door . Very f...

Environmental permitting. Okay. Mark from db, if you could come up. I have a couple questions. I want to talk about the protege re shraeugs relationship. Can you describe this program. Bart with parsons, im the project manager for pb on this 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 ...

Particular type of outreach as well. Were looking at retention rate of 37 across the whole city. Is that what i read . Yeah 37 in the last survey. Across the whole city. What are we looking at as retention rates in the target areas to gain through the initial outreach effort, the initial enrollment effort . Yeah, i think the if memory serves me its in like 47 to 52 in the deepest green areas. More than half the folks in the areas which is close to the retention rate that we measured for the tier one customers . Yeah, right; right. And so by the Second Quarter by the end of june we will have co...

Getting close to a opt in program that would violate state law, and i assume that we have looked at what the limits are that the law imposes on us. Would you elaborate a little bit how what were doing has been shaped to fit within the state law or on the other hand where is there jeopardy for us . So the notification and Education Program survey and early notification portions are the sort of the new pieces that arent required by state law. We are using those outreach efforts, those outreach components to inform who we talk to in the actual statutory opt out phase. We are not suggesting that a...