Aye. Hearing none, the meeting is adjourned. [ gavel ] welcome everyone to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee, regular meeting for wednesday, feb6th, 2013. My name is supervisor mark farrell, i am the chair of this committee and were joined by supervisor eric mar, the vicechair and supervisor avalos and joined by board president david chiu. I would like to thank the members of sfgovtv, who are covering this meeting and also the clerk of the board, victor young. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be include as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 12th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you, mr. Clerk, would you call item no. 1. Ordinance amending the San Francisco administrative code section 14b. 2 and related provisions to increase contracting
Would you call item no. 1. Ordinance amending the San Francisco administrative code section 14b. 2 and related provisions to increase contracting opportunities to certified Public Utilities commission local Business Enterprise and to make corresponding technical changes thank you very much, president chiu. Thank you, mr. Chair and colleagues, i appreciate your consideration of the legislation in us today to continue changes to our citys local Business Enterprise ordinance to increase contracting opportunities for socalled certified puc lbe, which are Small Businesses located within our Regional Water service area, but outside of the boundaries of San Francisco. The puc lbe program was created in 2006 to allow Small Business that operate within our puc Water Service area to compete for work on the Water System Improvement Program; as know the wisp program has twothirds of costs being paid by Regional Water customers of the sfpuc and so the thinking in 2006 it was appropriate for those c
[ gavel ] welcome everyone to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee, regular meeting for wednesday, feb6th, 2013. My name is supervisor mark farrell, i am the chair of this committee and were joined by supervisor eric mar, the vicechair and supervisor avalos and joined by board president david chiu. I would like to thank the members of sfgovtv, who are covering this meeting and also the clerk of the board, victor young. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be include as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 12th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you, mr. Clerk, would you call item no. 1. Ordinance amending the San Francisco administrative code section 14b. 2 and related provisions to increase contracting opportunities to certified Public Utilities
Colleagues, i appreciate your consideration of the legislation in us today to continue changes to our citys local Business Enterprise ordinance to increase contracting opportunities for socalled certified puc lbe, which are Small Businesses located within our Regional Water service area, but outside of the boundaries of San Francisco. The puc lbe program was created in 2006 to allow Small Business that operate within our puc Water Service area to compete for work on the Water System Improvement Program; as know the wisp program has twothirds of costs being paid by Regional Water customers of the sfpuc and so the thinking in 2006 it was appropriate for those communities that pay for our Water Systems improvement to also yield the local economic benefits that are certified puc lbe Contracting Program can provide. Since the wisp program is nearing completion, but the sfpuc has additional projects within the Water Service area that are not part of wisp construction, the changes in this leg