Transcripts For SFGTV CCII 11916 Commission On Community Investment And Infrastructure 20160126

Elation system doesnt seem workable that the particular point. So what were looking at possibly check register printouts or preferably within textura. With that said, what has been provided in shslide are what has been awarded and committed to two projects based on what we heard from the commission at the end of 2014. We began collecting in the early part of 2015, two projects that were completed and award commitments for these two particular projects are shown. With respect to the percentage, for 1180 4th street, 24. 4 what was was actually reported within their payments. For block 50, it was 53 that was committed to at the onset. In the final payments were 58. 2 . There were substantial changes within that particular project in terms of the construction. One thing that has been asked of staff in the past also was our outreach activitis . What is shown here are outreach activities for the past six months really in terms of the particular numbers that you se first and foremost, each of our contractors and consultants do utilize direct notifications, email notifications to relevant Small Businesses, and again, we encourage specifically the use of the citys lbe database. Advertisements are made in general media and also in sbefocused media. A perfect example was the Small Business exchange. Each of the contracts that are publicly advertised and solicited on the office of Contract Administration and where ocii is essentially listed as if it was another city Agency Within the citys overall procurement system. What is good about that is that when con contractors do subscieed to the rss fee and im not technically savvy to know what rss means, but basically when contracts are advertised there is notification that its pushed to the corn tractors who subscribe to these particular fees to get timely notification of bid opportunities. We have attended 23 preed by preproposal meetings and each contractor is required to hold these meetings before accepting bids. Those are typically held two weeks before bids are accepted, to allow sufficient time for contractors to respond. On an ongoing basis we do and have met with a number of groups, and a number of bayview subcontractors and held some general contractor focus groups and the National Association of minority contractors we have been engaged with and the president is here today. So a number of steps that we have taken certainly to get our projects be made aware and known to the Contractors Community and specifically the Small Business community now ill go ahead and move on to the workforce program. And similar to the 50 sbe contracting goal, we also have a 50 goal for the workforce program. And there is a goodfaith effort to employ San Francisco residents. So 50 of the total workforce and this is on a contractbycontract basis should be San Francisco residents. First consideration is given to residents of the project area for Hunters Point shipyard. And we currently have three major project areas. That is the Hunters Point Shipyard Candlestick point, mission bay and transbay. Ocii actually has an agreement with oewd, who administering the program and handles referrals to San Francisco residents and deals with the daytoday compliance. And even though we do have this agreement in place, ocii compliance staff works very closely with oewd staff and city staff to make sure that the goodfaith efforts are being made and that compliance is being followed. The next slide details the ocii work performance for july 2015 through december 20 15. This gives a total work hours for local workers for San Francisco a 330,794 hours that is out of 1,206,107 hours. For a total of 27. 4 . And below that is a detail of the breakdown by project area. For the local hours, as well as a total hours in that project area with the percentage as well. The next slide gives a breakdown by ethnicity of the total work hours for local residents. That was performed from july 2015 to december 2015. That is a total of 1,206,107 hours. Next you will see information on all active projects with a total local workforce hours at 1,310,668 hours. That is out of a total of 4,884,003 hours and that say total of 26. 8 of total for active projects and that is a slighting increase of. 2 as the other slide detailed below this, you will see a breakdown on the active projects as well by project area. The next slide givess a breakdown of local resident by area. You will see the percentage of total hours by project. We should also just discuss some of the workforce challenges. Because some of the project areas had a slight decrease, even though others have remained pretty constant, and workforce challenges sounds bad, but its actually not a bad thing. Because that means that a lot of people are working, and that is what were hearing from city build and oewd is that were getting a lot of people to work on our projects. So i have heard from many of them that the halls are empty because people are working. There is a limited pool for local residents to perform the work and again, that is a good thing, mean interesting that meaning that the people are working and the city is also facing similar challenges to what ocii is facing. Some of the corrective measures to increase and get more people working is closely monitoring the contractors performance. And as ray mentioned earlier, ocii staff, the compliance staff, we attend a lot of pretty much all of the prebid meetings. And when the contractors are brought on, we are there to remind them and to make sure that they understand that this is something that we take very seriously. And that were looking at how they perform and that well continue throughout the life of the project to make sure that they are making these goodfaith efforts and assisting with contractors for referrals and work closely with city build and other Community Organizations that may be referring workers. We assist city build and conducting additional outreach. I know that city build i believe had added some additional classs to try to get even more people involved and qualified to go ahead and begin working. Citybuild is our industry and Community Partners to work with them to build a pipeline that is stronger than the one we already have. So now well move on to next steps. And sbe participation in professional services is lower, but as i mentioned, we do expect some fluctuations. The continued efforts to increase sbe participation in construction with outgoing efforts to minority and women organizations and Ethnic Chamber of commerce and sbe networking events. Continuing efforts to continue local workforce participation, educating and promoting lbe certification, that is something that we do at all of the prebid preproposal conferences and we do ask and give information about becoming certified, if they qualify as an sbe. And then the semiannual reports that we provide and updates. I will turn it over to raymond, to add any comments. Pat mulligan from the oewd citybuild is here as well to answer any questions about the workforce. So wed be happy to answer any questions that you have. Well take Public Comment first. I do have one speaker card for mr. Oscar james. Good afternoon again. Oscar james. Two concerns. One is minority contractors and their pay, being paid within the 45days so they can pay their staff and what have you . If you want minority contractors to become selfsustaining, to pay their payrolls and build a good record, they have to pay ontime and they have to pay their employees ontime and their insurance and what have you. The other concern is that my brothers and sisters coming home from the penitentiaries and from the jails. We need to set a special project up for them. A lot of them come home and they have trades under their builts. Some of them are architects. Some of them are plumbers and they have other skills. And you need to have a special program set up for them to help them get in these unions. 261 operating engineers and what have you . Those are some of the programs that we found many, many years ago before we started Young Community developers and hiring hall to get these unions to help people pay their and what have you . I know manpower has a program, where they help people get in the unions, different unions different trades once they complete their projects. I would ask them to ask you to ask them to extend that to people who are coming home and cannot Pay Union Dues and get into the unions, even though they have these skills about they come when they come home . We need to help our brothers and sisters and basically im thinking of the africanamerican and mexicanamerican that the young kids 18, 19 beyond years old, standing on corners and will get off those corners when they see their mothers and fathers coming home and getting work and they can see a parent setting an example. They come home and go to work that will help those kid goes to work also. I see a lot of my people Still Standing on the corners, even though we have Young Community developers and commission hiring hall and different trades. They still need to have someone who has been away, come home and want to work and go to work. Okay . So help those brothers and sisters who are coming home from jail get into these programs and get into the unions. I ask for something separate to be said for them you have minority contractors and you have all of these other contractors and have a separate program for them. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, commissioners. Happy new year. Look forward to working with you folks this year again. First of all, i wanted to thank a couple of things. From last year i saw the reports of contracting for minority contractors im focusing on minority contractors especially based in San Francisco, as we call it lbe certified. And also, minority suppliers. We have quite a few of them in the bayview. But before i go there, first of all, i wanted to thank raymond and his team for collaborating. We had some success with minority contractors. So that is a good sign of things that are moving forward. In reference to one particular contractor presidio builders, whereby he was not able to win some of the projects in the bayview, come to find out that he had signed a contract with one of the general contractors. Thanks for the help for these folks meeting with the general contractors and utilizing local contractors and to continue to build on that success to reach those 50 goals that ocii has. 50 for minority contractors and suppliers. It would be great to separate them, because suppliers wear different hats. They are nonunion. They spend their money buying materials from manufacturers. They, in fact, act as a banker. They dont get paid in 30 days by contracts. Most of time contractors pay suppliers 4560 days and that category definitely needs to be separated. On the one hand, these are Union Contractors who pay their dues, based in San Francisco and hires workers. And we do, too and the suppliers as well. As it increases, suppliers will hire more workers for deliveries, for sourcing and procurement types of work. So there is balance in both ends to look into. I would definitely like to work with ocii staff to help them implement some of the programs that could benefit both sides, the general contractor, the suppliers and also the small minority contracts. Because its time for us to now bring it to another level. With that said, the percentages that i looked at still is smaller compared to a Small Business. Because when you are a Small Business, you are certified its a selfcertification. Sba. So anybody can be a Small Business. Whereas for minorityowned companies we need to pay to get certified as a minorityowned company to the entities. In selfcertification, anybody can be a Small Business and i would encourage ocii to look at these types of certification . Because we have to spend money. In order to be a supplier in San Francisco and have lbe certification, you have to have a warehouse with those materials in stock. Otherwise you wont get that certification. So there is a lot of investment done on behalf of the contractors and suppliers to be looked at. To solve some of these issues and problems, what we have done and i have been meeting with many minority contractors and suppliers, were just about to launch an organization that is going to consist of a large minority gec and a developer. To go after a lot of these projects under the ocii, its pretty much as oust outlined and consists of close to 100 minority contracts from the San Francisco market area. So were looking at Northern California. Because if we dont step up to the plate as a trade association and help minority contractors succeed, we still will be subcontractor, many of them for a number of years and go after smaller projects. Were looking into if we can manage large contracts, large projects under the ocii, we can hire all minority contractors. We will meet 100 goals. That is what the criteria is. Because we have been struggling and fighting against the general contractor, large contractors, its time that we decided that we should do this, and as soon as its all approved, and all our certification and license agreement well surely let you know. Thank you. Great. Thank you. No more cards . No. Okay, this is a workshop. Commissioner singh, you had a question . Thank you, madame president. Mr. Lee, page 7 of this presentation you have, i see the minority male and female is 25 million to only 480,000 . In slide 7, the figure that is shown is 43 million total sbes of which minority and female would be the difference between 43 and 25, roughly 18 million. Yes, why is there so much difference between male and female . Oh, no. I think i want to make a distinction. The nonminority female is 480,000 and you are saying that the vast difference between nonminority female and nonminority male, why is there such a vast difference . Why where the men getting 25 million more . That is the 9 million question. Thank you, commissioner singh for pointing that out. That is the big question, of course. This is specifically in construction. Getting female participation in construction has been a challenge. Its still a challenge and we foresee it still continues to be a challenge. Basically we need more women entering into the Union Workforce for construction trades and coming out of that as business owners. I wanted to make sure that we increase that from 430 , at least one percent if not more . As you can see from nonminority female professional services, those figures are different. Yes. There is a much higher participation of nonminority female in professional services. The other thing is who certified this . I do want to address the comment about certification . Yes. Ocii no longer certifies, but that doesnt mean we take selfcertification. We do require that the firm is certified through a governmental entity and that is important because with Certification Programs what you want to do, you want to weed out essentially fraud firms that are by appearance manage d by a figure head, but in actuality, being performed by someone else. We require certification through governmental entities because the programs look at control and do look at owner ship control and management of a firm before certification. So what we have basically done, we have basically for a lack of Staff Resources passed that onus to another governmental entities and im sure other governmental entities probably dont want to hear this, but we would accept their certification, provided that they certify the firm. As an example, we do accept certification that is certified by the California Public Utilities Commission wmbe Clearinghouse Program, a certification process that takes place there and we do accept certification through the department of general services, office of small disadvantaged disabled business and they go through a certification process in that respect. We certainly accept the california unified certification program, which is the u. S. Department of Transportation Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program certifications. And they undergo a rigorous certification process there. The one thing that we do look at among all of the Certification Programs is the caveat that the firms revenue meet the size and standards established by this commission. So with the Clearinghouse Program is an example, the California Public Utilities Commission program, there is not a size limit to that. So we confirm affirm size and standardss by looking at and requesting their threeyears tax returns, so we can take the average and ensure it meet ours size and standards. It used to be a long time ago, we used to be certified by the city and then we started our own. I dont know why we cant do that now . Certainly if i may, through the chair, its more than just a lack of resources. For the Small Business, whether professional services or construction, that Small Business or microlbe dbe would be certifying many, many times, producing tax returns for the city and county of San Francisco and producing that same set of certifications to get certify the feds. Same documentation to get certified with state and on top of it, we were asking for that. We have found also through the feedback, yes, we used to do certification and quite burdensome from owners, who said they just produced that information from the city and county and you. Some people that could a dont depreciates educated and kind of hard for the commission and there should be an easy way than we should initiate that. Well, certainly when we talk to businesses that are seeking certification we courage them to seek the city and certification permitted the services we try to answer the questions it is burdensome and unsewer mobile with the amount of paper but certainly something that you can that a Small Business owner puts if efficiently we have a certification background in any prior occupation do you know certainly converge folks to do a what they can to streamline the certification maintaining copies and director bohe mentioned having to produce the same documents for the certification is burdensome so certainly maintaining a current copy to be used by multi abates entities works and certainly to provide them the combines as far as who to talk about to in the entities cuts through the mystery of the certification. Planning specialist i want to follow up with commissioner singhs question we working closely with ryan young the certification manager so we are constantly checking in with him to see if someone has submitted a certification or the certification it up with him and vice versa and Catholic Church owe on the thresholds for the size standards with wards to those outside this city well ask for tax returns if we are not sure of the program so the city and county of oakland very they have a pb program they may not necessarily meet the side so well get the textbook returned and the database that information is not in the database we have those tax returns and meet the certification sized standards. Thank you. Yes commission do but have any plans to try to reach for female contractors for example, like working with the organizations i know that local 261 have a group of women a construction group. We id like to context with the local units and attended the womens fairs so we the try the outreach to begin in the moment in construction. On the outreach slides what other teaches advisement do you do like the reporter or what kind of strategies are you doing to cast a wider net and do a Grassroots Outreach for participation and sure thats a good question the outreach that is certainly partial listening a lot of it depends on the general contracts and the developer in terms of the advisement but certainly when we do that on the contracts that is direct if ocii we do it is in ethic parishioners as i mentioned the sometimes, the bayview publication the world journey for chinese language, the spanish papers where respect to the developer and the general contracts lennar has been good with advertising it the paper but other contractors there is not a specific requirement they advertise with all the particular medias so with their discretion looking at the direct advisement to the relevant and Small Businesses through email as an example and also to you know the appropriate focus media Small Business exchange broadly focused. Do you have any questions. I mean theyve been asked and answered by the businesses how long theyve been around San Francisco and asked for biography information about the businesses ms. Wilson in here presentation earlier got up to speak talked about the number of years that the services have been around remember we said to make sure that San Francisco businesses get the benefit from those opportunities so i would highly encourage that you know we have gone this far as the commission pushed for the boundary we push for more information on those businesses we hope those opportunities go to San Francisco businesses that have been here a look at and survived you know theyre skilled and you know should be benefiting from there. And you know going back to what commissioner singh and everyone else is talking about we need to make sure we give equal opportunity for women to benefit from those opportunities as well thats why these programs are put in place to begin with to balance and bring equality to opportunities and so who thinks maybe by businesses participating in this program and getting a contract it may actually help them to take their businesses to the next level theyll hire more people more people from to so theres a tribal effect that happens we appreciate your just a comment about the biography not as the projects are up to considerations but to the extents we can aggregate it well certainly do that and provide additional column in those slides. And share with the project sponsor you know your desire for that. Oh. You know they know. Okay. Thank you. So i have some short questions the slide that i think interests me is slide 8 the one that is 6 months of activity got the availability information and want to make sure im understanding it correctly that is both professional services and construction combined. Thats correct it is explosion and in the sp e available numbers from the local business certification information from c m. D. Thats correct spell your last name for the record in the c m. D. Database with the contracted weve awarded but not very significant. Someone Certified Work on the jobs in the counts. Yes. I believe if any memory serves me about 50 in totality we added in the database. Okay. But thought c m. D. Database did i hear you correctly to say from the ones that the special dance germane to our contracts obviously not everyone in the databases it is one thou three hundred and 75 hundred from the database. Thats correct. And the nonrestricted minority female the white caucus women because there should be i presume a minority of women. Thats correct the minority womens are cross with the category. Okay. So i guess the two percentages that jump out at me needing attention when you look at the availability you know versus let me see if i understand the number of firms percentage where is the percentage of total really the sort of what you expect the market representatives of those groups 17. 1 of the sp are asianamerican. Thats correct. What we are looking is. Column 3 the distribution of the total dollar amounts. Column 3. Distribution so this is the total vertebral 17 are asians and 14 and a half in terms of receipts. Correct. Theres program for asians and a lot of rooms for africanamericans oh, africanamericans are available at 6. 5 so yeah, so the africanamericans are participating well, it looks like. Theres a lot of effort in engaging the local businesses in the bayview Hunters Point for the particular projects. Okay latinos are almost on par it looks like yeah. I caution this provides a good picture at some point but i caution not a full disparity yeah. I know just a general idea a picture of when you got to the bottom line those are the wellness ones that nonminority males Small Business firms not large but Small Business companies owned by caucasian theyre receiving 51 percent but on 43 percent of marketed and thats correct. Id like to understand that dynamic how is it nancy people in the market the numbers route in a Small Business under a Small Business lens the white man continues to benefit almost disprorpts. I didnt do it broke down continue professional and construction i permitted some of the distribution of number of firms youll see that this the nonminority males is probable at the level in professional services what stands in construction and quite frankly a few construction firms that probable have been scooted this number and has to do with with the type of firm and where theyre based what im getting at it basically some of the more successful construction firms are not in San Francisco because of the cost of doing business and the cost of land and so forth in terms of of the nonminority male i looked at that briefly we have a few large nonminority all of San Francisco contracts. In construction. In construction specifically and thats with the 10 percent. Thats correct. Even with the 10 percent and correct. So we dont have time to talk about it but maybe an offline conversation like san mateo it says to me that i dont frankly understand i understand where san mateo is cheaper to do bills. I looked at the briefly in Alameda County oh. And also in the sonoma area but predominantly Alameda County id like to talk further and provide delays and i know were running out of time the only question on the contracting side from the elevation project didnt work for us what about asking our contracts requiring our developers slash general contractors to use the elevation. They used that there is no doubt. On the payment side. Yeah. Heres the tricky part you dont have to answer me i know they use it for the workforce so then the last thin again, i keep i mean, im not understanding that is interesting goes to the workforce issue that if we have folks stan on krrngz you know in the bayview and we got more latinos i think that exists in San Francisco on the i guess i dont understand that i dont understand that i dont understand we can have san franciscans on corners not working but. We have to. Central valley coming in or what. We have to get them into the unions. Into the unions. Do you have a response 40 percent latinos i dont know what percentage the latinos in San Francisco. 22 maybe. Okay. Yes. I got that. Heres what happens when we miss a meeting im sorry. First, i want to thank the support of ocii commission and all at staff around the Workforce Development something that was not noted but to acknowledge of all the city departments Workforce Data and replacement is more reversals in replacement think ocii and Construction Projects than by others chapter 6 department and the Mayors Office of housing for private investment in San Francisco i think that speaks to the supports from the commission as well as the staff for that success that is to be fair it is difficult to track the private investment in San Francisco we have data on visually all the new Construction Projects but not certified payroll we track new placements its a accurate to say that appendixes in the last fiscal year in 20142015 with regard to the placements of individuals that may seem like their suitable for gainful employment we can on this edging its people so much there are abashes or barriers for high School Dilemma or ged and did the those are industrial standards some expectations but most of pressure programs have those as requirements again through our program we have other places to assist people targeted receiving a geds or high School Dilemma but changes associated with that and california state drivers license we are working with other entities towards maximizing the amnesty period inform support individuals getting air can state drivers license the contractor require that for the need of popping into the say Service Truck or dump truck that is readily zabl that is requirement and large public works and Infrastructure Projects there is also a Drug Screening e skroen that is a barrier for employment for some individuals as much as we are supporting the outreach citywide were focused if d10 time to address the question bought up about formally incarcerated theyre a top prerequisite not a cycle for the formally incarcerated individuals well represented but challenges around the barriers mous in place with the San Francisco District Attorneys Office adult probation and 5 key Charter Schools the Charter School supporting high School Dilemma and ged completion in the San Francisco jail system and all the services for the folks we work with the sex offenders and their exclusively fronted by terry andersons that is the last years recipient of the awards but sometimes, people are facing multiply barriers towards employment we try to address the other barriers if not everybody is seeking this type of employments as well we have sometimes refusal for some Job Opportunities and job calls i think one of the challenges with construction as much as it is great for individuals and a Career Pathway it is hard work the hours are difficult, the fiscal challenges can be some challenges on that any other questions specifically to this . Okay. Great thank you thank you okay. Those are my questions. Just a working group. Yep just. Working group e workshop thank you for the followup on our questions and look forward to the photocopy on our new questions. Thank you okay oh, im sorry. Well go on to the next item and a a chance to sneak out to catch my flight. Ill say there is an opportunity Deputy Director is prepared to give a highlevel overview the slides talk about our property tax draw and should the Commission Want to continue the closed session there are not urgent matters. Thank you okay. We may lose when is your flight deadline. Should be out of here by 6 and okay. Well be done by then. Next item, please. Okay. The madam clerk, any other business before this is 5 G Working Group to recognize the payment schedule for 20152016 through 2017 discussion madam director. Certainly given the lateness sdubsz Deputy Director ill give you a highlevel overview the payment schedule and one drop pursuant to the legislation signed by the governor last fall that will be our overall budget there the process the Oversight Board must act next week to get to the deadline. Thank you director bohe i want to say ive made a couple changes to the slides our deputy of the finance is out of town ive noticed a couple of things it if you see a difference follow along on the street director bohe mentioned sp is pass were in a rock world that is the biggest change were preceding as we have focusing on implementation of our obligations paying for staff and those kinds of things it is similar wrap structure we have an accelerate scheduled and director bohe mentions Oversight Board on onward make a deadline submission a template on this december 29th a compressed schedule the Funding Sources remain the same the organization eva 12 months periods 6 most in a and b period to help to estimate when the property tax well be estimated for the overall 12 months so highlevel 460 million you see it is breakdown a third and third between the bonds precedes procedures and others from our use again similar uses debt service as usual the largest portion of thirty percent of our usage for the pressure bonds and all of the project areas is nonhousing and Affordable Housing and asset uses along with the administrative and other obligation activities so when we go to the nonrestricted debt service uses this give us a highlevel view the Program Breakdown is the housing portion a robust Housing Program and this budget will continue into next week with the project areas mission bay was large were issuing bonds new bonds this year and the expenditure the proceeds for 20162017 will be ongoing again that Affordable Housing program this we have a larger Housing Program in terms of the expenditures then seen total one hundred Million Dollars on but the roths we will be showing about 70 million of that because we have Prior Authority when we go for a construction loan we spend it over two years only needs to show up once we said to highlight project but ill go through it it gives us a description of the projects in 2017 the Shipyard Program similar to past years implement the planning and prelims is underway in the shipyard and candle stick and you know again similar categories of expenditures in motorbike as i mentioned were issuing bonds in 2016 so the bonds will occur in 20162017 for reimbursement but day to day continue to be busy on the vertical projects approving the designs and work on Affordable Housing projects this didnt necessarily get rescued in the staffing line but the main rotting users the infrastructure reimbursement. For transbay we are ramping up on the open space obligations as you may know the master developer in transbay the infrastructure responsibility and the Streetscape Project in construction in 20162017 and again in predevelopment on some of the remaining open space such the block 3 park what is now referred to as the under ramp park and open space on ethics street on the notary republic housing does the Affordable Housing projects are listed on the Affordable Housing slide are for Asset Management our project sponsor project sponsor was approved and well begin to implement that is for a garage fillmore heritage garage and yerba buena gardens tariff weve include them in case it take longer than anticipated and continue the operations in other existing obligations so from Agency Operations you know this is sort of changes in finegrain detail we are statistic at fte count and from just looking at our f p on slide 16 the increment as you can see this is debt service and then using the rest of it across the project areas in smaller much smaller monuments. A more detailed account ill not look at but the tax increment from 20152016 and the 20162017 the highlevel trends that that is a more tax increment in mission bay our 20 percent pledge of allegiance more Affordable Housing gets higher that makes the numbers up higher and more costs with the issuance of bonds we included that and each individual per category has ups and downs and thats why you see negatives and positives overall the major trends and we have recarding some thought we used to limb together and administrative costs the d u f has true admin from staffing and others expenditures that are directly related to enforceable obligation prior to other instructions the management and direct xhulth staff and the assets to keep line one as pure admin and line 11 staffing and other costs that we can say direct management costs so this sort of a structural change to the spreadsheet the sp one 07 allows us to issue the bonds we are projecting 23 million in bonds this is the last we prolonged in the 20162017 we have a in lieu of fee that allows us to offset issue the new bones it is great we got in the fees more Affordable Housing but want to issue the bones and plan to do housing bonds in spring followed by transbay later in the fall so that gets. Us to the schedule to submit by february 1st as director bohe mentions that is really the first path well be coming back in the spring and our goal to create a reasonable outside number for property tax draw and other sources to give us ourselves the authority knowing well be coming back to refine our budget when we were in doubt will the costs we modest might have erred but that will be fine for our process with that, that concludes my presentation. Im available to answer any questions okay. Thank you for this succinct report any. No speaker cards. Any questions. No questions. So nope were good thank you. Okay. So lets see where are we. Number 6 and yes Public Comment next orders of business 3 speaker cards. Okay. Yes. Hello. Hi how you doing sxolz and the board im clyde miller i was here maybe what 5 months or three or four months ago the issue with the Hunters Point block 50 and 54 block i worked with a contractor and the developer a lennar we hope the project will be didnt get paid and ultimate got put off the project so i came here about 5 months ago asking you guys to help to get o b i to go into a emotion nothing has happened i wrote a letter in november the 9 i said to the board when you guys can take into account this and help me. Thats fine i have a copy. In the letter it states that if the contractor and the has any kind of spit go to emotion or arbitration and that should have happened before we were put on the project that explicit happen we want that process to happen this is going on for a year and a half were a small firm not on the chance to bid on other projects because we been put in a position that impacted our firm come to a exclusion to get this ended to be further work in San Francisco as a minority firm we thought if in 2013 were a small firm but a 200 and 50 thousands of credit. After this project we are visually almost ready to close the doors we need help we didnt get paid and got put off the project thats why we are here i know you guys are public works you take this seriously whatever there is an issue when things are not going right we need help now we have the Redevelopment Agency no longer intact we have a gap a gap between what the contractor does to the small contractor and the contractor to get for the small minority to get the larger contractor it takes for money in between the time it happens and the smaller contractor the small contractor dont have the means to be able to do that thats why we have to come to ocii and different organizations to put pressure on the companies to do the right thing we ask we sit down with the emotion and not the general contract we say does have a case we have a case but if they felt it but a bias nonbias party to help to mediate this we can get it resolved. We are you think biased. We need your help we were waiting for two months since november and not heard anything if you guys can make that happen greatly appreciated for that a Small Company like ours were definitely needing our help. Thank you for coming. Sir. Cant see. Did you call my name so 0 these programs were dealing with the Small Business and Minority Companies and women owned businesses the Construction Industry right now is thriving and if you know eject has programs in place but i think it can be approved the outreach programs that i go to just about every one of them i represent the mirptd contractor they cant stop working in those events the challenge with these ocii representative introduced emphasized the use of local San Francisco first and suppliers it goes into the deaf ear theyre not hearing what their assessing they can emphasis San Francisco first but a little bit more than that more than just a conversation piece a clofks with the general contractor you know a trade Association Like ours we talk about the clorox that is the only way to win and move forward another approach we are taking is partnering if a smaller Downtown Company cant perform with a larger contractor but a Small Business out of San Francisco whether a woman owners so we dont lose the opportunity for minority contract given the option to grow but at the same time learn if the peers so were here in a moifrnt contract were serious about those issues and faced as you may know with the dbe programs nationally 85 percent goes to male contractors most of businesses and were just want to make a difference in Northern California especially San Francisco market were losing a lot of the diversity here and if we can continue to supply jobs and create wealth in a Minority Community they can stay here im here to help thank you. Thank you and ready. Oscar james i dont want to take up too much of your time happy new year and the best of the new year to each and everyone the director and legal and staff i wish you the best two things i want to bring up before i was a general contractor i had a Company Called double trucking this gentleman before me has problems with the companies it is important for the commission to get involved into this particular issue my company went to court i spent over 48,000 productive i was a minority and i decided to get out and work with the agency but i still working on with the minority contractors today the other thing i would like to bring up is about women contractors when i was a contractor it was minority contractor okay. The women contractor came into existence and they were making contractor with white womens you guys are lurking for a breakdown on the ethic breakdown of the women minority contracts if you look at it ill bet you a penny that the majority that will white women contractors and the other things i want to bring up is i know you know dr. Jackson dr. Espanola jackson right now on her death bed i ask you guys to pray for her theres things she used to fight forgive the project that is you asked for commissioner bustos in the shipyard make sure that that transpires those nativeamericans are recognized not just a piece of art but something people in the communities know that the that was their land and recognized regardless of what happens in the shipyard not only them but the africanamericans for the things theyve done in the community and the mexicanamericans there was their lands along with the ma loved ones so let that history of those races he named have a super, super vision and in the Hunters Point shipyard thank you very much and happy new year to you. Thank you. Okay well have enough time in closed session and adjourn . Were 6. We can. Yes. Okay. Lets yeah. Okay so lets can we do you have a report. I have no report. I dont have a report im assuming the commissions have no questions so straight to closed session. The the next order of business is closed session. Need a minute to do yes. Maybe. Okay. So were back if it closed session inform reportable items and i see no member of the public prepare for potential Public Comment so next item, please. The the next order of business is item 11 adjournment madam chair the meeting is madam chair the meeting is adjourned at 5 54 p. M. So you cant save money . Its easy as pie brown bag your lunch instead of going out. Six dollars saved timed 5 days a week times ten years is 21,000 bucks thats a lotta lettuce. Small changes today. Big bucks tomorrow. Feed the pig. Org