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creating equal opportunity, thank you. last and definitely not least, to my lord and savior jesus christ for this is the reason it s possible. god bless you. thank you. i didn t know you were actually building an empire. can i get a loan? so, i just wanted to thank a few people that help put this together. first of all emilio cruz, where is he? he s back there somewhere. also i would like to thank ma sood. ben, where is ben? here he is in the back. leman abram who is a consultant that works with us on the sewer improvement program. martin lopez who is helping us, tyrone. i just wanted to thank everyone. the success of the center is not only with the city. it s with partnerships, the contractors and consultants and the community. we are going to make sure we have plenty of food. food will be in the back. so stick around. there is food all over the place. enjoy yourself and have a wonderful day. one last shout out, if you see the lights on third street which is other th ....
to receive them. so i m really excited about this opportunity to work with the local businesses. we work with quite a few businesses out this that really shaped the organization and the model of the center. so, i would like to have this great honor to really introduce the mayor. now, the mayor, i m telling you this mayor has experienced everything from hrc where he was really focused on local businesses and went to purchasing about providing opportunities to local businesses and i worked closely with him because he was my boss at the department of public works and now the city administrator and now the mayor. it s a great honor to look at all the things we ve been able to accomplish, the micro set aside program and job contracting and we look at ways to invest in local businesses, san francisco businesses because we feel with that will really help employee citizens of san francisco. with that i would like to introduce mayor ed lee. [ applause ] thank you, har land. ha ....
i would like to start the program. i just want to welcome everybody here at the circle. the new home of the contractor assistance center. my name is kelly. i m the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. i have been with the city for 32 years. one of the themes that i had a passion was to provide opportunities to san franciscans in participating in city contracts. so for 16 years, i have been working closely with the now mayor on how we can get that done. so, there has been a series of events that we ve been able to accomplish together. i think that this is really one of the major events to open up a center in this community to help local businesses to get opportunities on city projects. one of the things that i wanted to say about the center is that one of the themes when we are were looking for a spot for the center is available parking. you notice that you can actually park. the other thing is that given the fact that, the 49ers are lea ....
embedded in that conversation will be a conversation about how do we how are we actually engaging with customers or potential customers. opt out how proactive are we being and with which customer groups, and how more responsive mode we re in with customer groups. because there will be an element, i think, given the size of the program that we re envisioning. there will be an element of us actively engaging with customers, but there will also be customers who will call us up. in fact, we ve already had some potential customers call us already expressing an interest in participating in the program. so, we need to be ready to address sort of both levels of customer interest and that will help us shape our pre-enrollment and our statutory opt out portions of our roll out of our plan. i wonder if i may also respond to something you said, commissioner moran, about the solicitation and outreach. and that you were imagining we would need to make a determination as to the si ....
help us shape our pre-enrollment and our statutory opt out portions of our roll out of our plan. i wonder if i may also respond to something you said, commissioner moran, about the solicitation and outreach. and that you were imagining we would need to make a determination as to the size of the program before, if i heard you correctly, before solicitation and outreach. and i just wanted to say that from our perspective, part of the shaping of the program and the size of the program will be in response to some of the outreach we perform. so, you know, as those prior surveys informed us, we expect that we will need to be talking with potential customers to understand if they re still as interested in the program as they were at the prices we expressed when we last talked to them. now that the board has told us to incorporate the security costs into the rates, now that we re incorporating 20% discount for low-income customers and recovery of those costs from other customer ....