applause thank you, thank you all very much for coming out this afternoon and let me think those who have already spoken, sylvia pallid reno, ally new sin and chris dickson, thank you very much for what you have said. What i want to do is for a little bit different than what i usually do because i want to involve you in the discussion, i dont want to give you a long speech element to three hours. Think laughs i want to touch on, theres so many issues but i want to touch on some of these essential issues and get your thoughts on. I want to start off with the issue of money in politics. If you run for president of the United States it is an expensive proposition. My concern right now it is that especially since Citizens United and what we have seen is a major corruption of our political process and the concept of democracy meaning one person, one vote. What most of us believe, and we were arguing about an issue people raise their hand a majority winds and everyone has the same thought. B
The onestop shop, as they call it. And the government above and beyond that is setting up a fund, a guarantee fund to assist these small and Mediumsized Enterprises of the private sector to get going and to grow strong this guarantee fund, we hope, that will help the young particularly who are entrepreneurs who have something to give, who are interested in doing something to get the necessary loans from lending institutions under the overall guarantee fund that the government is now offering to that end. Let me say a word about our external partners. The borders of republic of congo are wide open, and we have seen how Business Partners have come to us from very far away, as far away as australia, certainly europe, the United States and are active in various sectors of our economy, and we are all in favor of that. Were very pleased to see it because this will spur the development of our smes, but also, certainly, will redound to the benefit of our Larger Companies and the sectors of oil
Nations. The solution we have been things into, like all you have mentioned, designing an economy used to be thought of as a bad thing. Making industrial policy and all that. Ive been trying very hard in my travels in emerging nations to use singapore, thailand, a few other countries that have andnced their economies generations get. You will not have to go through the learning curve that the u. S. And industrialized nations of a hundred years ago. You can avoid the pollution and create supply chains. Instead of being a raw material exporter, which is where you start first, American Companies are the type that we, especially , we bring value chains, training, and technology through local partnerships. We preferred the local partial model. I am australia, i had a vision of doing it in asia. We have 86 joint ventures around the world. This whole notion of going local and then creating clusters around advanced manufacturing needs to be brought to a nationstate. If it never creates regiona
Okay, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] so, if no other questions, supervisor mar, could i have a motion to accept the budget analyst recommendation and accept the underlying item as amended . So moved. I just wanted to give a shout out to [speaker not understood] and the whole staff of the richmond area multiservices for really advancing communitybased culturally sensitive and Relevant Mental Health services to our communities. And i know that the children youth and families part of the contract, really the focus on improving the Wellness Centers throughout the schools, outpatient services, the [speaker not understood] project which is really an ip credible program to so many other Different Things in addition to the adult Mental Health services. So, im really proud to have been a former staffer 30 years ago there, but i know they continue this amazing work and great model. Based on the richmond district, but serving the whole city. Thank you. Im proud to move this. Okay.
~ 137,000 we do have a number of recommendations, supervisors, on page 25. We recommend that you amend the proposed resolution that is file 1405 86 to reduce the ton exceed contract amount by 2 million from 16 million to 14 million. We recommend you amend the proposed resolution 5 14 08 71 to specify the public work contract being approved is emergency contract, is a contract between the puc and monterey mechanical for Construction Management general Contractor Services for the subv water valley Treatment Plant project in the amount not to exceed 5,137,000. ~ sunol water valley lines 3 through 7 on page 1, it should be revise today state, quote, resolution approving emergency public work contract between the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and monthery mechanical under the San Francisco administrative code section 6. 60 to perform immediate work to repair sunol valley water Treatment Plant, san antonio pump station and infrastructure in an amount not to exceed 5,137,000. On l