Project. The [inaudible] bay area district for cal trance, and they are a program where they want pwhrarpblg established firms such as ours to help small emerging firms get a head start and be successful so pbs been very involved in this program locally and we actually have more mous memorandum of understanding with small and emerging firms than any other firm in the program. Wanted to underscore what we have mous in place with and so basically what we do is we give them opportunities first of all to be on our teams and then doing this highway work can be pretty complicated if youve never done it, the cost proposals, the audits, how the work is done in accordance with cal transstandards and things like that. Some of the firms weve had mous with in the past have moved on and are doing real well now. Are they competing against you. In some cases. I guess thats a determinant that the programs successful. Is it very specific that you will take them on projects and. It did you want list spe
Specific projects, but what it does its an agreement between us and them that first of all, describes what the intent of the program is and that we are going to make an effort and theyre going to be receptive and that the idea though is theres in guarantees. They still have to perform and have to meet the scope thats in their contract. This kind of stuff. And. How to you identify which organizations and companies youll enter an mou with . Well, cal transoached firms and in other cases theyve approached us but helping women owned or minority owned businesses. Thats just a plus if they are. Exactly. So on this team here we have four Small Businesses and zune is a small business, but not a dbe. How do you determine if your program is successful . What are the indicators for success besides some a few of them competing against you . To me i think theyve all stayed in business. Okay. I think in this economy with the work not being as plentiful as in the past i think thats the best indicator
Number five. Its an important discussion. We. Let me bring up tita i have a couple questions for tiat before we move on to that. Thank you. Now on to the Construction Management pl discussion. The Transportation Authority went ahead and issued a request for proposals in january of 2013. We received six proposals in february, four firms were short listed and interviews were conducted in march of 2013. Unanimous Panel Selection [inaudible] with the best relevant experience. Wanna talk a little bit about the team memberer ship and the make up. We have db participation of 16 percent, made up of firms from transamerican engineers and garcia associates. North American Engineering is handling the [inaudible] assisting on inspection work as well as some of the environmental permitting. Okay. Mark from db, if you could come up. I have a couple questions. I want to talk about the protege re shraeugs relationship. Can you describe this program. Bart with parsons, im the project manager for pb on
Youll enter an mou with . Well, cal transoached firms and in other cases theyve approached us but helping women owned or minority owned businesses. Thats just a plus if they are. Exactly. So on this team here we have four Small Businesses and zune is a small business, but not a dbe. How do you determine if your program is successful . What are the indicators for success besides some a few of them competing against you . To me i think theyve all stayed in business. Okay. I think in this economy with the work not being as plentiful as in the past i think thats the best indicator. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to go down the pathway. Oftentimes there are people watching at home that may have these types of questions. You can continue. Thank you. Almost wrapped up. Lets talk about schedule. Our intent is to execute the tita moa agreements and the Construction Management contracts this month and as i indicated before thats contingent on receiving the authorization from the feder
Its not being treated as such. It did pass the assembly and what it does is it saobgs to reduce the voter threshold for general local bonds and related taxes so it did pass the assembly, which is remarkable, but its in the senate and i think the out look in the senate is all such voter threshold related measures will likely be deferred til next year so they can sort out the various policy areas that are under consideration ranging from education parcel taxes to general bonds so therell be a lot of work done and we wanted to put this on the agenda so if we come back year were already on top of it. Couple other key bills i mentioned from time to time theyre both eye dent cal bills they deal with the [inaudible] program. The bills would extend those programs come pwhraoet with the fee authority and necessary fees to provide about 2 billion dollars worth of funding over the next decade for alternative fuel in the state and emission criteria reduction programs so those the reason i bring th