Practices of the recent past are behind us. The overarching inquiry is whether or not the current law remains fit to assure not only equal opportunity and not the convenience of bureau cats, and also how you as supervisors can measure progress. How do you define progress . And what are the systems of public accountability to make sure that we dont have this big lapse that weve had . You know without data there is no accountability. So, what were trying to do here is make the law work for everybody. This is a collaborative process and we look forward to working with you as well as the other members of the city family. So, thank you very much. Thank you. I have called up a number of names. If folks could line up on the righthand side of the chamber, and let me continue to call other names so that we can get the flow going. Mr. President , you have a copy of extended opening statement, id like to lodge with the clerk. Absolutely. Copies for you. Okay. Lets hear from our next speaker, mr.
Discussion about whether right now 30 years after 14b has gone into effect whether were really thinking aggressively enough in how we achieve our goals. There have been suggestions we ought to have citywide goals for lbe participation. So, for example, there have been some who have suggested a 40 goal of all City Contracting dollars staying with local business he. There has been other suggestions that we ought to set aside at least 10 of our contracting dollars exclusively for local competition and other businesses. Our ordinances should not apply to funded city contracts, but public lands that require approval. What are your thoughts on the various proposals that are floating around on how we can really put a little more teeth into our ordinance . Because i think for many years there is just frustration that were not making the progress we need to make. Thank you, president chiu. We also did discuss that at length with the Community Based organizations sorry. The presentation from the
Public comment because we do have a lot of folks here today. There has been a lot of discussion about whether right now 30 years after 14b has gone into effect whether were really thinking aggressively enough in how we achieve our goals. There have been suggestions we ought to have citywide goals for lbe participation. So, for example, there have been some who have suggested a 40 goal of all City Contracting dollars staying with local business he. There has been other suggestions that we ought to set aside at least 10 of our contracting dollars exclusively for local competition and other businesses. Our ordinances should not apply to funded city contracts, but public lands that require approval. What are your thoughts on the various proposals that are floating around on how we can really put a little more teeth into our ordinance . Because i think for many years there is just frustration that were not making the progress we need to make. Thank you, president chiu. We also did discuss t
Her department. So, i do under the concern. This is an area many people want to get transparency in this area. Im happy to work with you to hopefully work with mayor lee to get more transparency in this area because a lot of people want to know, again, how we spend our money, how the contract decisions are made. Let me make a couple other observations about this chart. It does look as supervisor avalos suggested, the ratios awarded to lbes seems high. When i read the report, this is looking at the ratio of contracts that are awarded, but not at the contract dollar awards. For example, for the airport, while it says that 65 of the contracts are awarded to lbes, if im reading correctly, the actual contract dollars is in my mind, it is the dollars out to the community that is more important than the actual contracts. Could you tell us why you didnt display percentage dollar amounts as opposed to just contract numbers . It seems to me that there are probably a lot of smaller contracts that
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