about the opportunities we have going forward. we have a distinguished list of panel itses that panelisted that i would like to introduce to you. we have sarah from the trance bay joint power authority. thank you for being here. hold your applause because everyone deserves applause, and we have a lot of work to do and we can divorce ourselves from the pleasantries for just a moment. eddie phillips is here. he is up here. right here in the front. virginia harmon, where are you? she is with sfmta. then we have maria cordero. and sheila evans. are they here? they are representing the sfmta. next up, harbaugh alan kelly, jr., batting for the p.u.c. commission. following him, we have edgar lopez, future building manager in construction design. thank you. tiffany, i don t see her. she may be joining us later. she is the newly a.ed director of the san francisco redevelopment agency. for those who don t know her, she has a very intimate understanding of the portfolio that the redev
this is the physical manifestation of community partnership as well as private and public dollars coming together. it is no secret that when we talk about the southeast part of san francisco, we talk about the mantra of needing jobs. i am delighted to see so many small businesses here to learn about the opportunities we have going forward. we have a distinguished list of panel itses that panelisted that i would like to introduce to you. we have sarah from the trance bay joint power authority. thank you for being here. hold your applause because everyone deserves applause, and we have a lot of work to do and we can divorce ourselves from the pleasantries for just a moment. eddie phillips is here. he is up here. right here in the front. virginia harmon, where are you? she is with sfmta. then we have maria cordero. and sheila evans. are they here? they are representing the sfmta. next up, harbaugh alan kelly, jr., batting for the p.u.c. commission. following him, we have edgar
they are representing the sfmta. next up, harbaugh alan kelly, jr., batting for the p.u.c. commission. following him, we have edgar lopez, future building manager in construction design. thank you. tiffany, i don t see her. she may be joining us later. she is the newly a.ed director of the san francisco redevelopment agency. for those who don t know her, she has a very intimate understanding of the portfolio that the redevelopment agency has been managing. jeff newmeyer. did i say that correctly? good. he is with the san francisco international airport. next up we have barbara smith no, we actually have domenica henderson from the san francisco housing authority, one of our community leaders. we have rhonda simmons, who heads up the office of work force development. rhonda, give a wave to the people. thank you. do we have a representative from america s cup? the port authority, the port? [inaudible] maybe they will be joining us a little bit later. so, i think, if i a
make sure that we do our outreaches correctly, that we re connecting the small contractors with the larger firms, both in the construction side and also in the architectural engineering side. so george is a key person that you certainly want to have his number and his contact information. and he works very closely with all of the divisions that we have in the district, be it our construction, our maintenance, and our architectural engineering division, to make sure that in any contracting that we do, and we do a lot of contracts, not just construction contracts, but we do a lot of purchases. we have outreaches and we have workshop for purchases. he makes sure that we are making connection with the community and we re making connection with the small businesses and making sure that the small business knows and is aware of all the opportunities that are out there, and then it is upon the small business to make sure that they do make the contact, that they do show up in the purc
hold your applause because everyone deserves applause, and we have a lot of work to do and we can divorce ourselves from the pleasantries for just a moment. eddie phillips is here. he is up here. right here in the front. virginia harmon, where are you? she is with sfmta. then we have maria cordero. and sheila evans. are they here? they are representing the sfmta. next up, harbaugh alan kelly, jr., batting for the p.u.c. commission. following him, we have edgar lopez, future building manager in construction design. thank you. tiffany, i don t see her. she may be joining us later. she is the newly a.ed director of the san francisco redevelopment agency. for those who don t know her, she has a very intimate understanding of the portfolio that the redevelopment agency has been managing. jeff newmeyer. did i say that correctly? good. he is with the san francisco international airport. next up we have barbara smith no, we actually have domenica henderson from the san franci