Schools, where less than half of the kids that graduate. And those who graduate are nowhere near ready to go to college or go to work. We have seen across the state and across the country and in most states, Charter Schools public Charter Schools popping up. And giving parents hope, giving them a chance to get those kids out of failing schools. I said the other day in the rules committee, because it was so moving to me, i went to a Charter School in north minneapolis, 430 kids in that school, their parents are delighted with the education theyre getting now and thrilled to have gotten their kids out of failing schools and when i asked the principal and founder of the school if she could take more kids she said no, this is the right size for this school. They would like to replicate this school and thats what this bill allows and how successful is it . There are 1,000 kids 1,000 kids on the witnessing list to get into that Charter Schools because parents want to get out of failing schoo
They were not changed. [indiscernible] he read them, i did not see them. There were three basic points. There was a demonstration that grew into a larger violent attack. Very early, we are still trying to figure out what is going on. I forget what 0. 3 was. We did not know who did it. To. Point today we still do not know exactly who did it. It is not a peer it was preplanned. Truck bomb and fall that was clearly an al qaeda planned attack. This was a group of armed terrorists and libya who in a matter of hours there together and armed assault. But we are trying to figure out is what kind of terrorist attack it was. It is regrettable this has become so partisan and political when we have serious questions to answer. [indiscernible] time. We will get a chance to see it. Anyway, we had time. We just did not have enough time to show it. Apparently it takes half an hour. I think it was just for the chair and rankings on the key committees and subcommittees on Armed Services and pre tell. [i
Good morning, regarding the audits, we go through annual audits with the Controllers Office. And the emphasis of the audits have been taken a little bit of a interdepartmental emphasis and we would like to work with them to change the dynamics and so we are working with the csa unit. So you are saying that the audits did not happen . Yes, they have been happening every year. Okay, and what have you found through those audits. Different recommendations for one of the recommendations that happened last year was that we should have a tracking system that was not in place and that was implemented in july, with the lba and uts. Okay. And we are in transition right now, and they, and with the recommendations that we were working with the new recommendations. Okay, and the audits of the joint ventures have also happened. I am so sorry. The audits of the joint venture haves also happened . Yes, not at this year, but it has happened in the previous years. What have you found from the audits . F
Childrens. And we are going to conduct another one this summer with the puc at the Contractor Assistance Center and so i have been working with their team and also at public works we are going to conduct additional Public Management and other trainings targeting to bridge that gap between being sub, to becoming a prime and we are hoping to do that in the fall of this year and i wanted to point out one other metric on the last slide there, is out of 7 possible micro, lbe contract ordered during 2122, 7 of them did go to microlbe and that is great and we have a good trajectory and i wanted to point out that the director made a goal for us to award as a department 25 microlbe contracts and as of today, we ordered 34. So you will see that of those you have got 15, additional, and i mean, i am sorry, 8 additional contracts that are awarded in q3, to micros, lbe set aside and then we will see on the Veterans Building seismic upgrade which is right across the street and you probably see the c
And then if you look to the right on that, and is the monetary awards and the total amount was 51. 3 million or 2122 and of that 40 percent went to the lbe primes for 20. 4 million and nonlbes got 8. 5 and i broke it out to the right to give you an idea over all and then i went down and i specifically did lbe subs of 11. 6 million and so of the subof those prime contracts or nonprime or nonlbe contracts the subcontractors, the bles were 11. 6 million and nonlbe subs were 9. 1 and you will see the break out below again of the specific mbe and wbe categories. Now, that was awards, and so the distinction is awards verses payments. So me the money, so the next slide is the total payments of about 5. 4 Million Dollars. Of that, 4. 1 million was paid to prime and i mean, lbe primes and subs and so they combined those numbers and 1. , approximately, 1. 2 million were paid to nonlbe primes and subs and then again, i broke it out by different categories and mbe and wbe to break out the lbe prim