Board, im the chief operating officer for cypress security. I would like to point out the way this contract was handled. Contracts are put out on a cost and merit bases and not on coast alone. We have Transit Security in the local region and the west coast. To name a few local recent awarded contracts, ac transit and they are all awarded on a base of merit and cost as well. I believe that this is reflected in the fact that only three companies ended up bidding on this 30 Million Contract whereas you have 20 Companies Bidding on other contracts. The sf mta security contract following minimal requirements. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, chairman nolan and director. My name is cast nar abused budis, we have been providing services for the last eight 8 years and are familiar with the challenges in doing so. At the last Board Meeting you heard from both employees and Union Officials of their concern that their wages might be slashed because the contract was going to a low
So moved. Second. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none. I will call for a vote. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item is general comment. If you are interested in speaking on items not on todays agenda, please fill out a card. First card i have here is from francisco decost a. Good afternoon commissioners, jasmine and ms. Hood. I see you are going to have a new secretary or back up. Thats good. I want to bring today attention of the commissioners a number of things. First and foremost we all know that we had an earthquake. Of course we had this earthquake in napa, but what is happening now is the United States geological is survey, the maybe federal agency that invest a lot in earthquakes is pointing a finger in the direction of the hayward fault. So if you say the hayward fault, we should feel a little bit embarrassed because we were supposed to finish a project in that area in 2009 and its already 2014. You know , attorney, you know me for a long ti
Public Utilities Commission lets call this meeting to order 1 30. Tuesday august 26, 2014. Jasmine, please read the roll. City clerk commissioner courtney, veet or, moran, torres, caen is expected shortly. Next item, to prove the minutes of august 12th shgs , 2014. So moved. Second. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none. I will call for a vote. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item is general comment. If you are interested in speaking on items not on todays agenda, please fill out a card. First card i have here is from francisco decost a. Good afternoon commissioners, jasmine and ms. Hood. I see you are going to have a new secretary or back up. Thats good. I want to bring today attention of the commissioners a number of things. First and foremost we all know that we had an earthquake. Of course we had this earthquake in napa, but what is happening now is the United States geological is survey, the maybe federal agency that invest a lot in earthquakes i
Working with all the groups in San Francisco with the workforce are 911 and public works and mta and other groups that are receiving the alert and received them only supped morning whats next, we want to turn this into a public early alert system were working harder 80 hard to get even though Political Support i told us what it will cost theres a great deal of interest when we look at the alert japan installed theyre after 10 thousand people were killed and japan after 6 thousand people and china is building a system after 80 thousand people were killed in an kweerth i hope that this is the final kind of proof that is needed to show the value of earthquake Early Warning and get that necessary investment thank you very much. Im sorry one other thing this has been planned an International Conference on Early Warning at uc berkley next week focused on how to get the necessary funding the signs behind that people are welcome to attendee and im pleased the mayor is going to be joining us in
So moved. Second. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none. I will call for a vote. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item is general comment. If you are interested in speaking on items not on todays agenda, please fill out a card. First card i have here is from francisco decost a. Good afternoon commissioners, jasmine and ms. Hood. I see you are going to have a new secretary or back up. Thats good. I want to bring today attention of the commissioners a number of things. First and foremost we all know that we had an earthquake. Of course we had this earthquake in napa, but what is happening now is the United States geological is survey, the maybe federal agency that invest a lot in earthquakes is pointing a finger in the direction of the hayward fault. So if you say the hayward fault, we should feel a little bit embarrassed because we were supposed to finish a project in that area in 2009 and its already 2014. You know , attorney, you know me for a long ti