[gavel] the other underlying amendment, we can take that as amended . We can take it without objection. Gov madam clerk, please call item number 6. Item number 6 is hearing on the citys implementation of administrative code, chapter 14b, the local Business Enterprise and nondiscrimination in contracting ordinance. ~ okay, thank you. This is a hearing called by president chiu and also cosponsored by supervisor cohen. So, ill turn it over to president chiu. Thank you, mr. Chair, colleague, thank you for your patience as well as the patience of the members of the public that have been waiting for this item. Colleagues, i have asked for this hearing on the implementation of chapter 14b of administrative code otherwise known as local Business Enterprise and nondiscrimination and contracting ordinance. As some of you may know, three decades ago, this board of supervisors passed chapter 14b after acknowledging the history of passive and sometimes active discrimination in our citys contracting
Facebook, instagram, everything that can get, a youtube, we want to get this video rolling right away so we can use all the good publicity that we can get. So, keep that rolling. [laughter] anyway, so, im very happy to be here, very honored to be here. Some of you know my work at the city. Some of you are meeting me the first time. Were really honored to be here to get the recognition. We have a lot going on at bart so id love to talk to you guys afterwards about it. But we have a lot of different programs. As mentioned we have a nondiscrimination program, our dbe program, Small Business program, micro Small Business program, we have our Small Business entity program. We have a lot. Everybody is welcome to contract on bart construction and professional services contracts. We have a lot of support in our office for what we do, and youll hear about some of that in the future as well. So, just really happy to be here. Ive been at bart about a year and a half. And we had a paradigm shift.
Good morning and welcome. My name is Maria Cordero and i am the Contract Monitoring Division. Im serving in the capacity of the director. I would like to welcome you to the 2014 International Womens Day Celebration that is being given by our Business Development group, Contract Monitoring Division Business Development group. About you a year, a little over a year ago, am i jones came and pitched yea applause came and pitched a program to me and her idea was to take a group of local businesses ~ and train them, call them the Business Development group and train them at not only train them on the city bidding process, but expect them to participate at a high level and hopefully dedicate their business to city projects. That was a little bit over a year ago as i mentioned, and its been very successful. My question to her at the time was, how about resources . And she said, what resources . We have the whole city. And immediately we started making calls and you guys were amazing. The City
Showdown, i am joined by hans nichols. Was the decision to suspend russia from the g8 unexpected or business as usual at this point. Not blow it too much out of proportion. Summit inwas a g8 sochi that president clinton wanted to host. They have moved the summit to brussels. It will be a g7 summit. Impose realt really sanctions on industries. They have posed sanctions on i spokeals there at with the president of the European Commission then asked him what the effect was of taking the g8 and turning it into g7. Class we are very much in favor of a dialogue with everybody in the world and we keep our no sense ton, makes be discussing these issues in the g8 for him. Brussels, the same dates planned. The consensus we have out the summit is a threat. A threat to have additional sanctions, including banking, and other aspects. If russia changes the status quo and if russia moves troops from russia into you eastern ukraine, that also means russian been accepted as the status quo and there is
Accept president chius amendments. We can take that without objection. [gavel] the other underlying amendment, we can take that as amended . We can take it without objection. Gov madam clerk, please call item number 6. Item number 6 is hearing on the citys implementation of administrative code, chapter 14b, the local Business Enterprise and nondiscrimination in contracting ordinance. ~ okay, thank you. This is a hearing called by president chiu and also cosponsored by supervisor cohen. So, ill turn it over to president chiu. Thank you, mr. Chair, colleague, thank you for your patience as well as the patience of the members of the public that have been waiting for this item. Colleagues, i have asked for this hearing on the implementation of chapter 14b of administrative code otherwise known as local Business Enterprise and nondiscrimination and contracting ordinance. As some of you may know, three decades ago, this board of supervisors passed chapter 14b after acknowledging the history