Bumps along the road and working with oew and the team to keep the folks who are placed, we are talking about the workforce, the folks that are working keep them working. There is a lot of management happen with City Partners and City Builders to keep them working there. There is one thing about the numbers who we continue to train and train up but we want to keep them on the jobs to complete the contracts that they are awarded. Can i just do a follow up since you went into city build and the workforce challenges, what other groups aside from city build or oau are you working with . Other nonprofit groups, training groups. I will let them to respond for this. But city build is our own placement but they have their own cmu relationships that they work with, but city build is our access point. Thank you. Its the citywide access point and the director of city build. Thank you, commissioners and director bohee. City build works with cultural services, anders and chinese for affirmative act
And will provide that going forward. Im glad to hear the Electricians Union are doing more work in their apprenticeship entry requirement. Thats great. Yeah. Those are basically my overall, i think its a great report, thank you. The only other thing, i have it in my notes. I dont have any complaints that people arent getting paid. Im assuming people are getting paid. Every now and then. Even though we dont hear. Every now and then i hear. Every now and then are they getting paid . [ laughter ] every now and then i do hear. In terms of payments we are working on. I believe i mentioned when i first joined the agency what i feel was realistic was getting payment data what a contract was completed as opposed to the Administrative Burden of getting it on a monthly basis. At least a start thats where we are contemplating in terms of getting on track in terms of that payment analysis. Great. I just want to make a small announcement that we are going to have an open house in oakland college. W
Is it not properly advertised . I dont think im prepared to answer the specific reason for that. The bids do come in. We look at the bids and their representation but i dont have an answer for you. What kind of method was used to certify the new people . In terms of Small Business certification, we no longer certify but we look at certification by other governmental entities. If a firm represents itself to be a Small Business certified through cmd, we certainly have cmd data base to confirm that. We look at the state registry to see if they are certified and ask for revenue figures to ensure they meet that threshold. Im not certain if that answers your question. I just want to know what the conditions are to get the certification. What are the requirement . Yes. It depends on the certification programs, but in most instances its a review of a paper application package along with supporting documents. In some instances site visits are conducted by certifying entities. It really depends
Theyve been able to put together 50 million, so the republican employee unions have outstripped california businesses by tenfold in that case. Even in the indian casinos which are huge players of the special interest in the state have spent less than the Public Employees. The problem that we have in california is that the general public doesnt precede the Public Employee Union Control as a special interest. You have big tobacco, big oil, at T Telecommunications old trying to influence the system that none of them have the pervasive power that unions have and that unions have manifested power roast completely and electing democrats to office. Today in california every statewide office, all of the constitutional offices are held by liberal democrats. The Public Employee unions to spend 5 million to help elect him four years ago. They spent 4 million to elect superintendence of the instruction of professional constitution democrats of two thirds control of both houses of the legislature i
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