Let me welcome everyone for coming out to this great kickoff event. Mayor lee, supervisor chiu, distinguished guests from the community, city family, all of us coming together. Last year we held a Pilot Project on stockton street to help the merchants and support the merchants in selling their merchandise. We were able we were very successful. We got a lot of great feedback from the pilot. So this year again, we are doing the second year of the pilot. All the agencies and the community and the merchants, we got together, and talked about how we can do better. And without further delay, i will ask the mayor to come and say a few words, who is a big supporter of this project. Mayor lee. Thank you mohammed. [ applause ] i am very happy to be here. Is this okay . All right. All right. [ laughter ] all right. First of all, happy new year to everyone. This is what im looking forward to every year and i know the merchants and residents and all the Small Businesses are excited. A year ago boar
Competition on our contracts, which should save us money and increase their capacity and successfully bid and complete city projects. The citys program has had a great deal of success in helping local businesses bid city contracts. Bid bonds have been obtained on more than 200 million during the life of the program. Unfortunately we cant tap in the program for federalfunded projects. Costs associated with establishing the program are relatively small. Including obtaining a letter of credit and consultant to administer the program. I want to emphasize that the bond fund reserve monies are only actually expended in the event of a default. The city has an excellent track record in that regard. Only one default has occurred in the course of the 15year program and costing approximately 125,000. This effort is particularly important to the Small Business community at this time as we have the central subways station contract and attempting to remove as many barriers apossible to ensure succes
I want to thank you for choosing mlb in this process as well. Thank you very much. Thanks ms. Fox, appreciate it. Obviously cca is something i did not support earlier last year. But outreach is a great thing. What youre doing is terrific. We will go to budget and legislative analyst report. I want to say thank you to the Daniel Webster school. Kids, you guys want to say hi . Hi. Thanks for coming by. Ms. Campbell . As you point out on page 43 of our report, when the board moving forward with c. C. A. In september 2012, they did amend a resolution requiring undertake extensive outreach of the program. These funds, the 1. 4 million is suppose to address that issue. We do provide a budget. The 1. 4 million will go to the Outreach Campaign contract with davis which is competitively selected. Anymore questions. Well do this in budget committee. Ill make a motion to thank you very much supervisor avalos. At this point, i like to open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public wish
And we would develop a much more refined work plan based on that, we would want to complete this by may, before the Budget Review in june. There is no benefit to dragging it longer than that. I am assuming that this will go to the board on tuesday, the following tuesday. We will be prepared to begin as soon as it is approved. We are already reviewing other documents. In terms of the overall audit program, we have to present to the gao shortly a work plan for 2013. I believe it will look similar to the work plan in 2012, allocating 5000 out of the 17,000 or contract to special projects in audit. Some of that a special requests from the supervisors; also perhaps 3000 hours, we would bring that shortly. This is one audit to be conducted during the course of the year. In terms of where we are now, we are completing today the final draft on the Public Safety realignment audit, submitting that to departments to get written comments. We hope to present up to the board of supervisors next week
Hey guys, the weekly buzz, like a blink of the eye the month of january is almost gone, but before we welcome february and tart making valentines day plans lets take advantage and enjoy all of the fun events that this week of january has to offer, here are the top six of the week. January 29th. The rocket raok in the interrichmond host as a free comedy show case, come laugh your socks off with the danny, he is a selfproclaimed make you laugh professional and get ready for serious fun and after all of that laughter, come and join the Janet Jackson class, come to the studio to learn a medley of the number one hits, you got to get the moves right if you want to join in on the fun the classes are free but a 3 donation will be asked to cover the studio costs. For details visit the flash mobs official website. Maybe you are not much of a dancer maybe like me and more of an observer if so come to china town this saturday and have yourself a visual feast at the 2013 mini parade and annual flow