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 contractors will go right to the unions and to the local resi
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 members of the city family. So, thank you very much. Thank you. I have called up a number of names. If folks could line up on the righthand side of the chamber, and let me continue to call other names so that we can get the flow going. Mr. President , you have a copy of extended opening statement, id like to lodge with the clerk. Absolutely. Copies for you. Okay. Lets hear from our next speaker, mr.
Contractor and have a strong trim line above ip flation. It is not expanded, the economic real value has not increased and therefore is diminished. The screen before us is a screen shot from the bureau of labor statistics showing that there has been over a 124 [speaker not understood] since 184, ~ 1984. If you take the cap since public works, it would be 36. 3 million today [speaker not understood]. And i just wanted to show some major cost contributors to the area of public works construction. Oil is a major cost contributor and has increased over 32 3 or more than 2. 6 time inflation since 1984. Concrete another major cost contributor has increased over 287 . And pcc pavement or concrete pavement has increased over 1. 63 times inflation. Im not asking for change, but i want the same program that was in original real terms, maybe some indexing, you know, or just this issue being addressed and i never heard it addressed before so i want to bring it before you today. Of the original 14
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 that require approval. What are your thoughts on the various proposals that are floating around on how we can really put a little more teeth into our ordinance . Because i think for many years there is just frustration that were not making the progress we need to make. Thank you, president chiu. We also did discuss that at length with the Community Based organizations sorry. The presentation from the