Lbe subcontracting goals. As needed contracts fell 2 below but we expect that to increase as the different scopes of work come online. This slide compares the awards and paymentses over the six months of the past three fiscal years. We awarded six contracts in the first half of each of the last three fiscal years. This time weve gone down a bit with 41 going to lbe firms but we did well in the last two fiscal years and were exceeding the mayors citywide aspirational lbe participation goal of 40 . In terms of local hire these are Construction Projects that are over a Million Dollars. Theyre subject to the local hire ordinance which is implemented by the office of economic and workforce development. Since the inception of the ordinance back in 2011 there have been 15 contracts at the port that have fallen under the ordinance and its requirements. They have all met the ordinance requirements. Currently we have one contract that falls under the threshold and that is the pier 31 roof repair
If not my favorite days at city hall because i look around and i see all my friends for so long and dont call you old friends, i called you long time friends. I dont why but you all dont look any older, so is that baillys irish cream or irish coffee . Ia know what i think it is . I think you all lead such a happy life in San Francisco, right . [applause] and i think the reason that you do is that you all give to San Francisco and through the years the Irish Americans have helped to make San Francisco what it is, so you are wonderful families sticking together and being friends with all your other families in the Irish Community as well as others. A good example of that is chief joanne hayeswhite, where are you . Alright. I danced with your fath er in cork. I think it was on top of a table. [laughter] and i remember last year that you and your sister patty and family gave a Wonderful Party for your mother at a really big birthday and took her all around the city to all the places wonder
Hopefully, youll read that those community are in radical decline due to mismanagement and in a crisis stage go few technologies to arrest the decline and indicia pebble tools used properly the herbicides are safe general public can buy them but the staff must jump through hoops novelist a game humans know how to create and a complex we can only save them preble were losing them by choice we can save them not if we dont change our priorities fewer a particular damaging leave is the cay a total on the diversity of this city and continuing to decimate that system of that in the automation b read it please important you understand lose have been improvise and the commission should doing everything we can to reserve the decline Public Comment people can be fooled into thinking their or their pets may suffer from supposed contact without producing evidence i know of none and the ad acids dont occur in the animals theyre doing a disservice thank you any other comments related to the reduced
Of public citizens global trade watch. Then, maui v. Monsanto. 87 to 1. That is the ratio agribusiness giants outspent supporters of a moratorium caps on hawaii, but they lost. In a victory for food safety advocates, voters on tuesday passed one of the strongest antigmo measures ever. If you want to have a conversation about gmo crops in maui, lets. But stop calling a suspension on gmo crops of farming ban. Please stop using us local farmers as pawns in your propaganda campaign. Campaigns claims are one more example of what this questionable Industry Needs more oversight. Well go to hawaii for an update and well speak with jerry greenfield, cofounder of ben jerrys ice cream. The company has campaigned heavily for gmo labeling, renaming one of its iconic flavors, food fight fudge brownie. Finally, tuesday saw a wave of victories for to criminalizing marijuana and reduced sentencing for drug offenses. Works are probably one million americans in the marijuana world that are growing it or
Damian shields is an engaging young scholar. Hes an archaeologist by trade. Hes an historian by emotion and2y he gets the way you have to do those things. Lets not decide objects and places dont matter, only the words someone wrote on a piece of oh paper. It all matters. Its all evidence of how history unfolded and its impact on us today. Yesterday was a great pleasure of mean. I picked pupup mr. Clay and we went over to Stones River National battlefield and i managed not to lose him totally in that battlefield. We kbolt over to franklin just in time it was sort of dusk. The perfect time to study a man. All of this together means we dm have a unique opportunity to have a perspective and learn from a perspective that sometimes we dont take in here in tennessee. We do have civil war historians aplenty. Sometimes you can shake a tree and a bunch fall down the. We dont get that International Perspective so often. I think we are all just blessed l < and honored to have damien among us today