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Advance payment practice to fund loans to subcontractors to address what we have often heard from some of our smaller subcontractors, it cleans up modernizes 14b and formalizes the transfer of chapter 14b implementation from the Human Rights Commission to the city administrator. It would keep the limit up which the city would guarantee as part of its Surety Bond Program as 750,000, it keeps the mayor as the official who resolves matters when the awarding authority and the director are unable to agree whether to divide a contract into smaller contracts to maximize the opportunity for lbes to participate. It changes 14b. 5 on puc regional projects that are 70 miles or more outside San Francisco or force the costs to be shared and it corrects a number of drafting issues that we have in the version that we had originally introduced. So, with that, what id like to do is ask bill barnes representing our city administrator to make a brief set of introductory comments and then we can move on t
Public comments. Good morning, bill barnes on behalf of city administrator kelly. First our thanks to president chiu and his staff working on whats been an extraordinarily complicated piece of legislation. Prop 9 does not allow us to use race and gender even though discrimination continues and were working hard to figure out how to help every local business to participate. We hope we can get this done before president chiu leaves the board and we are available if any members of the public are interested in discussing issues offline and look forward in seeing you again in maybe a week. Sorry, i just wanted to thank bill, naomi kelly and all the staff who have worked hard with us and all the community in moving this forward. This item is now open for Public Comment. You will have two minutes. Please come forward. Good morning, inaudible discrimination only exists legally woman team, man team. The sacred creation between woman team man team. They have differences. Also the inaudible nonco
Asked that we revisit two of the reports discussed in that recommendation and that was for payroll audits at the Police Department and the feptd. I will reissue those reports and then i will provide an overview of our quarterly work that we did for the last two quarters and i will highlight some of the work for the recent closed followups. So as it relates to im going to do a little skipping in my presentation due to time of one. Of our fire chiefs. So im going to talk about the Fire Department. And so that audit had 31 recommendations, that audit had 31 recommendations and it was around payroll and it was controls around retirement processes directed toward the Fire Department, the Controllers Office payroll tuition and Human Resources. We have two recommendations that have not been fully implemented and the Fire Department reports are issues that require a meet and confer with the union to change. So the first recommendation was regarding discontinue the unofficial practice of adjust
Sure that we cover. 14b3, size threshold, the base line used for the determination of 17 percent was 2005. Keep in mind that was when it was last sunseted. In fact, the last time that size thresholds were increased were 1988 so i think if were looking at size standards and the amount of increase using the base line of 1988 would be more appropriate. No. 2 would be 14b7, increasing the 5 sba goal to 5 percent from 2 percent would be instrumental for businesses that have grown out of the size standard and then enabling them to compete in Small Business, keep not guilty mind that the 2 percent goal with other sbas has never been used and no contractor has ever won a sba goal so 2 percent might now help them have a greater advantage. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Supervisors, president chiu, chair breed, i want to introduce myself. My name is julianna choice summer, i am president of the asian contractor association, also an own or of a microlbe i want to thankment ch