Taxpayers and corporations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] are right. This joint hearing of the subcommittee on Government Operations and the federal workforce and healthcare and Financial Services committee will come to order. Welcome everyone. Without objection the chair may declare a recess at any time. Recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. First and foremost thank youst l for being here in this crazy but at times were in. Nevertheless, what were talking about is extremely important. The irs has been played really with dysfunction for decades. The dysfunction is across the board from data breaches complex, and didnt except to slow audits, backlogs, and really Terrific Customer Service got at least for my constituents. Despite years of congressional oversight and government watchdog warnings, not much has changed. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle believe that more money and more power is thee solution. In fact, the last year
We are grateful for the Transit Center projects. We were awarded a nine proint 2 Million Contract and hoist for the project and we pursued this project and built with other veterans at the outreach events of the tjpa. As an entrepreneur and veteran i cant tell you how important to get a meaningful opportunity for this project of this caliber. We grew from 10 employees to 50 now and we have other competitive contracts that we experienced here in the city and county of San Francisco meeting with other contractors large and small who are becoming our teammates and clients and i want to mention Webcor Obayashi and Turner Construction have been incredible mentors to our firm. Working with this program has help us overcome the challenge of working on large and complex projects and we were able to hire additional veterans to work in office of economic and Workforce Development and on the trances bay project. So i want to know the tjpa is making a difference to real people to veterans looking
Competitiveness of the bidding environment we need to get three or four bidders. You get one or two bids there is a margin of 10, 20, 30 above what the package should cost. I will note that the biggest contract here is the temporary facilities and there was only one bidder i believe and that recommended award is less than the estimate. Yeah. This is a timing materials contract. Director sartipi. If the highest risk is the number of bidders what do when we interview the contractors that picked up the package what is their responses to why theyre not bidding . Is it not value . Is it difficult . Is it complex . Or theyre busy someplace else . Theyre saying theyre busy someplace else but let me bring in webcore. They directly talk to the contractors. I could use a life line here. So mostly it is the fact they have other opportunities in the market place elsewhere that they find more attractive. For example, the metal stairs we had nine prequalified bidders and the first time we only had o
Citizen Advisory Committee is basically only responsible for the Transit Center, it also has an agenda and its also very large. Thanks. That concludes members of the public. I wanted to address you under that item, well go ahead and move under the consent calendar. All matters are considered to be reteen, will be no separate discussion of the items unless the board or the public requests, the item would be removed from the consent calendar. I have not received any indication that a member of the public or the board wants any items severed, 8. 1, approving the minutes of the march 12th meeting and 8. 2, authorizing the executive director to amend the professional Services Agreement for Community Benefit district formation Assistance Services with mjm management group. We have a motion and a second, without objection, it passes unanimously, or do you want to take the roll. Ewe unanimously, none opposed. Item number 89 is approving an amendment to the contract number 0804cmgc000 authorizi
Right and the right side of that. So, pretty much the same progress for the next 90 days, as you heard before, were going the continue the structural steel erection in the central heading east, theyre starting to head west with the second crane in the next 30, 40 days, youll see us crossing 4th street which needs to be done at night, that will be continual night closures to get that work completed. Coming online in the next 90 days is stairs and ladders as well as transitioning from just doing mep coordination to start doing lay out in the field and with luck and everything goes according to mrab, well start pouring train box lid decks and then upper level decks as we go forward on and in there the summer. Labor breakdown continues to be consistent, percentages weve seen for the project and same with the percentage of apprentices, and again just the ongoing continual count of number of people that have come on to the project as crafts people, 2500 alone just in the Transit Center. I wa