economic workforce development. i think that's correct. we deal with the office of economic workforce and development on everything that we do. they're our contact. they are fully informed of our activities and what we are doing. i might mention the paschal why you time i was up here, the agreement was signed on the 14th of august last year. as i said, office of economic workforce and development had been fully informed about our activities and what we're doing. and i said this is a great story, again, and let me tell you why. i think the requirement is the same new entry level hires or local san francisco. earning more than 150 grand. i don't know any entry level people that will earn more than 150 grand. so, let's just strike that one, but let's still keep the 50%. we did some analysis of our hires and those sorts of things as of the end of last year.

and we were at 80% of new entry level hires regardless of salary. another requirement is 30% small business participation. what's small business? i mean, i profess not to really understand that. what have we done if we looked at all of our vendors? 41% of all authority [speaker not understood] is local. we go further. 31% of america's cup authority staff, skilled, unskilled, entry level or specialist, are all local. i think pretty importantly, 51% of all vendor staff are local. if i could add to that, i believe that percentage is actually going to get better because we've let a lot of the

larger contracts, the backfill will be smaller contracts that support the big ones. i expect those numbers to get even better than they currently are. so, in summary on the local hiring, i would suggest the following. firstly, as i said previously, we do not have any obligations. we are doing this voluntarily. secondly, in the spirit of our relationship with the city and what's trying to be achieved by these requirements, we've taken them on board. and thirdly, while the standard calls for good faith efforts, in actual fact at the edv of last year we were exceeding them. so, once again, i think this is a great story. it's nothing for us to hide behind. we should publicize these, we should review the neighboring months and we should hold them up as an example of how a private event is trying to support the [speaker not understood] of the city of san francisco.

>> so, mr. barkley, so, the prizemen is 50% and you're at 80%? >> correct. >> ~ requirement >> and the small business inclusion. you talk about vendors. can you maybe give a few examples of what you mean by vendors? i would like to understand from someone else what we mean by small business inclusion. how do you mean when you say vendors, the requirement is 30, what do you mean vendors? >> we contract with a company, say for example, -- i was going to say trivial, but that's not the right word. the cafeteria across the road where we get the meals, we would be spending potentially thousands of dollars per week and those sorts of things on that sort of stuff, et cetera. that would be a vendor. the sign that's contracted that we use, that would be a vendor, you know. kind of original company.

anyone we do business with in san francisco or anywhere for that matter is a vendor and we count a lot of them. >> okay. and have you -- the agreement said to notify first source. if that wasn't done, correct it going forward. have you given that data, however, to our oewd, this 80% and 41%, have you given that to our office of economic workforce development? >> i'm sure we haven't. i'd be -- i would be surprised if we haven't. the reason i say i'd be surprised if we haven't, the event authority fund to the tune of $90,000 to the san francisco chamber of commerce to provide a person to create the linkage between the event authority and business and those sorts of things. that person is responsible for the procurement, prices that we use, for example, putting the business connect, the companies that register business connect,

putting them on the contract list for the city, also for jobs that we have going for advertising the city process and doing those sorts of things. so, i would expect these percentages were compiled by the person who we fund through the chamber that worked on our premises. i would be surprised if those numbers weren't published >> if by chance they weren't, you wouldn't have any problem -- >> new york city i'll make them public today. >> all right. we'll follow-up. if that hasn't been done, i'll collect that data so our oewd, mr. mulligan, can have that data and hopefully even enhance that going forward. ~ >> thank you. >> mr. barkley, thank you very much. i think what you present here is very compelling in terms of the department participation. if what we have is right, the data is very strong. as well as your commitment to local business inclusion as well. i think on the city side we need to be doing a better job of informing and communicating

and end tracking that as well. and that's something that has fallen through the tracks. it helps us to make sure in the future we're doing the best we can in this regard. future folks like yourself who are doing work here would not be going through what you're going through now. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next up i'd like to call up solama jokunu from contract compliance. and she is going to be discussing how the city is that -- the authority and the americas' cup has made our subject seclusion qualities and make sure we're following and tracking that. >> good morning, members of the board. my name is salomay [speaker not understood].

[speaker not understood] participation 30%. we have been with the event authority for 30% of our local participation. and part of that agreement was that the event authority by may 31st -- may 1st, 2004, give us what we call a procurement plan and that procurement plan would strategize how we were going to meet the 30% goal by the end of the event. [speaker not understood] we see the procurement plan. we have contacted them and they are willing to provide it. the mayor's office offer work for economic and workforce development is working with them to provide the procurement plan. also, one of the requirements of the agreement was that they

advertise their rfp [speaker not understood]. and in those advertisement, the cmd required -- the event authority lists the percentage of lbs that would be participating, the goal they have on each subtrait, the rfps and the [speaker not understood] advertise. as of now we have not seen any of the advertisements that have got local participation on the individual trades. also, we require that they have [speaker not understood] meetings [speaker not understood] and we have not been informed of any of those meetings.

two meetings [speaker not understood] local business enterprises are invited by the [speaker not understood] to network with prime contractors who tend to beat on the proposal [speaker not understood]. also, the human rights commission expected that the event authority will give us regular information on all the beat or the lbe participation. on normal city contracts we have what is called the local business enterprise participation form. when proposals submit bids or rfps, they give us better participation -- we contract

the percentage of lbe that have been included by the prime contractor. if you have any questions, sir, i'm available. >> one of the things you mentioned, the advertising hasn't been happening to the outreach to small businesses. mr. barkley talked about going orctiontion i think it what small business connect. is that one of the places where people are supposed to be going in terms of the small business inclusion process as typical for the city? >> that is in the agreement, but we also require that specifically advertised on the city's website that the office of [speaker not understood] website, that is where normally our local small businesses go to local business. but i don't believe that was done. >> so, mr. barkley talked about the participation rate has been rather high. so, i think that -- because the

fact he doesn't follow the letter of the law in advertising there is still high participation rate. i want to call up mr. martin to talk about how we make sure we actually put our standards in place for what entities are doing [speaker not understood]. it seem like that hasn't been the case. >> okay. what we've done is that the [speaker not understood] participation, we provided them with paperwork, what we call the form 2a, the participation form. all the forms of these proposals have gone out already. we have provided them with those forms, so they have a great staff to provide information to all contractors with whom they have contracted already. so, we go to [speaker not understood] and we can come up with an independent report of

our participation of local business participation a compared with the reports. so, we don't have that information from [speaker not understood]. but we met with them and the mayor's office of workforce development, they are willing to provide the information and the procurement plan. that is very crucial for us to measure, you know, to measure the lbe participation and to an advertise the work that is going to come out so we can help them outreach to local business enterprises. >> so, in looking back at what's been done in the past in this project, do you see that we're able to get data to understand how some participation level has been? >> no, we don't. we have absolutely no data yet. we have no data. >> thank you. mr. martin, just to call you up one last time and then we'll go on to the fund-raising part of

this hearing. it seems like we have a report from mr. barkley that there has been some meeting of the goals that we had around workforce, around local hire, around prevailing wage, that's not quite as much informed in a timely way it was actually possible to implement prevailing wage around what happened last year and small business inclusion, but it seems like we don't have any data to show that is actually happening or we can say as a city, this is what happened. so, how can we, looking back, make sure that we're actually not just saying it happened, but proveding that it happened. what do you see we can do to get that information out? >> supervisor, i guess i want to take a step back to some of the things that were mentioned by the prior speaker. i think i really want to express some really innovative

approaches that the american way has taken on the small business inclusion piece. as referenced earlier, the ac business connection site of people trying to keep their aye on these business he. many being local businesses. as we described earlier in the meeting, some of the issues put to the regular processes this not being a public works or something similar. we definitely better work with hit, with the event going forward, the previous speaker said it calls for a [speaker not understood] to be delivered in may of 2012. we didn't have a contract at that point. one way we can get ahead of that, we can work to post a clearer description of their procurement needs. there are sort of thing we'll need to work with in terms of their confidentiality and

proprietary information. and, so, as you heard mr. barkley mentioned, i think they are open to us to coming to their offices and reviewing the actual documents to understand what has been done, what hasn't been done. certainly for the purposes of transparency, i would welcome the opportunity to take them up on that offer and be able to point out on a going forward basis how the performance is going. >> what i see as the biggest problems, we put these standards in place. and it's our economic workforce development department that is not actually able to followedth letter of the law. we put the authority in a situation where they're telling us, hey, we're doing everything we're supposed to be doing, i'm just not informed of all this happening. we believe there is a such a great deal of adobe receipts and i've asked that we actually have a measurable way of affirming that and we are living up to that to show we are actually specifically looking at a specific number of

jobs, that we're actually following the letter of the law in a measurable way. that i believe is responsible for the workforce of economic development, if not, that happened. >> supervisor, i think we were working through a number of issues to get to last year's events. i would add the workforce plan doesn't talk about reporting out on all jobs. it talks about good faith efforts and about showing what the city and the event authority are working together to do to bring these job opportunities to san francisco. i'm hearing loud and clear we want some measurable [speaker not understood] of that. i push back on the implication we are not trying to bring forward this part of the project in a successful way. >> i think you're looking forward to put on the event in a successful way whether you want to actually have a measurable outcome of jobs and unusual exclusion, that is not a strong priority.

in the future i this will be. thank you. let's go on to our fund-raising effort. if we can call up -- actually, we'd like to see if we can open up for public comment just on the workforce side. we have a lot of people that have been waiting here patiently to talk about that. so, if we could actually -- if it's okay with the chair to open up public comment on the workforce small business conclusion and prevailing wage side. i have a number of cards. perhaps that's checked off item number 4. marcus clark, marilyn cain,

chris marino, douglas home, [speaker not understood] and we'll stop right there. and anyone else who wants to talk about this side of the hearing on workforce small business inclusion, please come to the mic. good morning, my name is [speaker not understood] lee. i am one of the owners of the company called green living planet. green living planet is a janitorial company based in san francisco started in 2011. it's a very small business. [speaker not understood] america's cup a year now. america's cup has been a great income resource for us. a a company in san francisco,

we feel proud of this internationally known event. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is douglas h-o-m-e. i'm a partner with lock ton insurance [speaker not understood] in san francisco. we employ 70 people at our office in embarcadaro. we have our insurance for america's cup authority and three of the america's cup teams. i wanted to speak to you this morning about the ~ financial and employment impact with the america's cup event authority has had on us so far and going forward. so,v we have three people that are all local employees live in san francisco that work correctly on america's cup business every day. and the business that we have,

we place with insurance companies in san francisco, four different companies. and i know that they have staffed up to take this business, too. i have other clients on the waterfront that benefit greatly from the america cup and what aca, they purchased another yvesal -- vessel they're bringing around for tourists. i know all of their employees will be local hired and both the crew of the vessel and the service people will all be local hire. ~ finally knowing a lot about the america's cup and seeing what has happened in previous america's cup, in perth

australia, auckland, new zealand, spain, i see how this has extractionv expired this city to greater [speaker not understood]. all these racing boats sailing in the bay, the tower, the golden gate bridge -- >> thank you, your comments are up. >> we have to allow time for everyone else. we usually cut people off when the time comes. next speaker, please. good morning. my name is christine caplan and i operate gas house cove marina. i provide fuel for the san francisco police department, fire department, united states coast guard, department of fish and game, recreational fishing boats. and pleasure boats. thanks to the forward thinking of the city of san francisco now to the 24th america's cup

event authority, i was stuck in traffic yesterday and listening to npr when supervisor avalos came on the radio. i said, i need to call this man because he needs to get a true picture of what is happening to small business. specifically, the marine industry and those of us that have any sort of enterprise from chrisy field all the way down to 2 80. i am the textbook case of small business. ~ i am a woman-owned enterprise. i am a certified vendor to the city of san francisco. i have doubled my workforce. we have doubled the number of employees that we had 12 months ago. this is not because fishing and crabing have gotten better. this is not because anything on the waterfront has improved. this is 100% because of this event which we are so lucky to

be hosting. the team art mist the [speaker not understood] they're all here and all functioning and the city is to be commended for hosting this event. it will be a success. we will meet all of our goals and i am textbook ka to prove that. >> thank you. next speaker, please? good morning. my name is janet again. i am the own r of a women's local catering and this gives you a scope of how [speaker not understood] the america's cup has affected our business on a going forward basis. we hired 16 people [speaker not understood]. was not involved in the cup

when the pier releases was issued. since then we have gotten involved with business connect. we have worked with oracle racing to see [speaker not understood], we're working with other racing teams and possibly hosting their hospitality events. that's just one aspect of it. also on the corporate side our corporate clients are all looking at doing large events to celebrate the events coming up as well as social clients that have great views and have great views to see the space. it protects not only our business, but what goes well with staff. we have laundry people, the convaerv [speaker not understood] around alliance, we can go on and on. we understand some of the larger rfps have to be done by the very large food service groups, but the ancillary

staff, the vip activities are coming our way and we're really excited about it. and thank you for the opportunity. >> thank you. next speaker, please. thank you. good afternoon, almost supervisors. i'm norman pierce. i serve on the san francisco bay for more than 50 years. i'm a past commenter [speaker not understood]. i've been in this body over my life supporting the america's cup. we are delving down our efforts to make this the most successful thing in san francisco. the presence of t-mobile on our waterfront has been enormous compared to any recent events over the past 75 years. we have a new cruise terminal, piers 23, 7 80, has been reactivated for more part.

passing by our and we ask, what is this? [speaker not understood]. recreational maritime, america's cup has set the course. the city that knows how has a new wing and needs to take -- learn how to get up and foil into the future of maritime history. just last month maserati broke the record for going around the horn in new york city. what does this mean to our residents? aside from being a san franciscan, it has brought an exciting challenge for our youth, the ac 45 program. the ac has broadened the awareness of our population. there is access for water events. the last two months generated interests from sailing here on the base. attendance of events baffled

local retailers. coming retailers across the golden gate bridge. [speaker not understood]. many customers are from around the world. when they say america's cup ha been here, i don't swap to back. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jamie, i'm a small business owner, [speaker not understood] special valet parking in san francisco. america's cup has been a boom for our business special last year and look forward to a busy three months this year. we have benefited from our work, not only aic, but other clients in their event associated with the america's cup. a majority of our workers live in san francisco and san francisco feel an economic benefit from how we receive

benefit of america's cup. it circulates of our employee and improved relationships. it has had a pxtive effect on torrey valet >> thank you. good afternoon. next speaker. my name is rex white, [speaker not understood], we have two retail stores and we specialize in servicing small and medium size businesses. we sell ink and toner print consumables. ~ we have five employees, four of them reside here in san francisco. our annual gross revenues are registered over 500,000. america's cup has been our customer since 2011. they purchased about $23,000 worth of products from us. they're one of our top 10 customers. we value their business thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. hi, i'm marcus clark and i do want to speak to this particular group. i'm with first [speaker not understood] maintenance company, a family business.

i like to think of the america's cup as people from janitorial service. they actually gave us a chance to be -- first we started off just doing offices. then we started and did -- the small event, then a second small event, then we presented ourselves with the team to go after the [speaker not understood]. it was very informative, supervisors. and i plan to use the first source so we'll contact them immediately. we found out they were going to get the larger part of the contract. we'd like to start off the process very good. so, again, i really appreciate what america's cup has given us the opportunity to do. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. thank you, mr. avalos, for convening this. thank you, supervisors. i'm owen murphy.