three different meetings and i will call them separately. the meeting of january 9th, 2020, are there any additions or corrections to this meeting? any public comments on this meeting? may i have a motion? to approve. second. all those in favour? the motion carries. secondly, we have the approval of the minutes for januar january 14th. any additions or corrections. any public comment on the meeting of january 14th? may i have a motion, please? i move the item. all those in favour? any public comments on the meeting of january 16th. may i have a motion? so moved. all those in favour? approved. commissioners, you all know i attended budget meetings. and i thin take those matters vy seriously and one of the reasons why i come and attend those meetings personally is so that after i do my research, what i call empirical data, i can write about it. what is happening is with our resources, if you are not very serious in what we have, where we get our pristine water fro
any public comment on this item? no, mr. chair. nobody has turned in a speaker card. seeing none, we ll close public comment. is there a motion to approve these items a motion. second. item five, communications, i have none for you today. item six. board members, new or unfinished business. wow, a remarkably silent group. i ll volunteer one thing. i put myself out there on that one. i first of all want to direct director tomlin and all of the staff on the excellent workshop last tuesday. it was really rich and substantive. and you came to a lot of new conclusions. and i wanted to share i ve had several colleagues reach out to me to share stories of their commute. i ve had them express faster traveling times, and remark about the aspect they did not anticipate, which is how quiet it is on market street, and they could even hear birds churping on their walks. i just wanted to share that. i m sure all of you are hearing positive feedback as well. but i think
Have these contractors these contractors under the jok. I think thats a good point and having the 50,000. We had the safety valve. Yeah, so the obligation to the contractor is three years of 50,000 . Thats the minimum. The other thing we were trying to do which the contractors is saying okay if you use 50,000 but i am concerned about you tying up 3 million or 5 million in my bonding capacity for three years. Thats for them is a big thing because they cant pursue anything because we tie that up so we talked about ways of reducing that down so those are the things we have been working on. Would we get more bidders do you think if the catalog of biddable items was smaller . I think in this case the limit tends to be geographical because we use the same catalog for local work in the city and typically get three or four contractors interested in the same line of work. Its just the work as the director was saying its not only its up in hetch hetchy but if youre a contractor in that area and
One firm can have one at a time so when the capacity is reached i think 95 of the contract then theyre released to pursue another one so that is a limitation that others may would like to pursue are already in contracts. Then it goes to the question well bidding and someone knows that they may be the only one how do we take the gouging or inflating the price or Something Like that, so one of the things we have experience with are what are the factors or multipliers used previously to ensure to have someone to perform the work . Now, i think emilio is right in regards to once we get your multiplier then we know what the prices are because we have the prizes in the book. We have the multiplier so we can scope out the work and have a good idea of what the price would be, so in essence probably to answer your question is yes, we realize that it wasnt competitive, but i would imagine that multiplier that the contractor presented is sort of consistent with what the multipliers we were receiv
That up so we talked about ways of reducing that down so those are the things we have been working on. Would we get more bidders do you think if the catalog of biddable items was smaller . I think in this case the limit tends to be geographical because we use the same catalog for local work in the city and typically get three or four contractors interested in the same line of work. Its just the work as the director was saying its not only its up in hetch hetchy but if youre a contractor in that area and the work is at the reservoir its still an hour drive to the closest town to the reservoir before youre on the job site. But that is on their dime; right . Yes and thats why less are generally interested in the work. We generally see smaller contractors with smaller work and not what we do. The limit on our job programs is up to 400,000 and so thats per task. Per task order so thats a pretty big contractor to take that on at one time and the capacity of doing multiple ones and we have di