Very well attended [speaker not understood] and we also launch a one year Business Development program. The Business Development program that we launched about a year ago was designed to provide certified local business he with Technical Assistance and compete for city contracts. Most of the departments have assisted us with this and [speaker not understood] and the process [inaudible]. In contract tracking, the lbts, [speaker not understood], we are going to be the wbts was launched in july 1st and it will be reporting a Quarterly Report hopefully soon. We will be presenting this to the new lbe to the committee in the near future. On the certification slide im going to go a little faster. The certification slide standard is based on the ordinance. Its based on general construction of contractors licensed professional services, architects and engineers. We have three types of certification. The local business and [speaker not understood] certification, puc regional and nonprofit certif
Discussion about whether right now 30 years after 14b has gone into effect whether were really thinking aggressively enough in how we achieve our goals. There have been suggestions we ought to have citywide goals for lbe participation. So, for example, there have been some who have suggested a 40 goal of all City Contracting dollars staying with local business he. There has been other suggestions that we ought to set aside at least 10 of our contracting dollars exclusively for local competition and other businesses. Our ordinances should not apply to funded city contracts, but public lands that require approval. What are your thoughts on the various proposals that are floating around on how we can really put a little more teeth into our ordinance . Because i think for many years there is just frustration that were not making the progress we need to make. Thank you, president chiu. We also did discuss that at length with the Community Based organizations sorry. The presentation from the
Public comment because we do have a lot of folks here today. There has been a lot of discussion about whether right now 30 years after 14b has gone into effect whether were really thinking aggressively enough in how we achieve our goals. There have been suggestions we ought to have citywide goals for lbe participation. So, for example, there have been some who have suggested a 40 goal of all City Contracting dollars staying with local business he. There has been other suggestions that we ought to set aside at least 10 of our contracting dollars exclusively for local competition and other businesses. Our ordinances should not apply to funded city contracts, but public lands that require approval. What are your thoughts on the various proposals that are floating around on how we can really put a little more teeth into our ordinance . Because i think for many years there is just frustration that were not making the progress we need to make. Thank you, president chiu. We also did discuss t
Her department. So, i do under the concern. This is an area many people want to get transparency in this area. Im happy to work with you to hopefully work with mayor lee to get more transparency in this area because a lot of people want to know, again, how we spend our money, how the contract decisions are made. Let me make a couple other observations about this chart. It does look as supervisor avalos suggested, the ratios awarded to lbes seems high. When i read the report, this is looking at the ratio of contracts that are awarded, but not at the contract dollar awards. For example, for the airport, while it says that 65 of the contracts are awarded to lbes, if im reading correctly, the actual contract dollars is in my mind, it is the dollars out to the community that is more important than the actual contracts. Could you tell us why you didnt display percentage dollar amounts as opposed to just contract numbers . It seems to me that there are probably a lot of smaller contracts that