madam secretary, are there any more speaker cards? >> no other cards. >> seeing that there's no other public comment, i want to close public comment at this time. and i believe we will go into short recess and we will resume when commissioner rosales returns. >>please stand by; meeting in recess >> are we recording? >> just a moment. >> here we gi want to go ahead and reconvene and call the meet tog order at 2:29, commission on community investment and infrastructure. and i see that vice-chair morales is back -- rosales, sorry. looking here and talking here. >> you did very well. thank you. >> he's doing better than anybody. [laughter] >> carry on. >> so, i'm going to --

>> [speaker not understood]. through the chair, i think the bylaws provide now that the vice-chair has returned, you serve as chair. >> yes. without a vote, yes. >> [speaker not understood]. >> no, we just reconvened the meeting, so, i am going to transfer my duties back to vice-chair rosales. >> thank you. in the next order of business is item 7, report of the chair. >> madam acting chair, do you have a report? >> no report. >> thank you. >> the next order of business is item 8, report of the executive director. madam director? >> item 8b is what we're reporting on, and i'm pleased to report that just last week, in fact, last monday, i believe, both commissioner rosales as well as george bridges, who is a contract compliance specialist, a senior

contract compliance specialist, they both were recognized by fellow sister government agency, the city and county of san francisco, for their efforts in furtherance of small, minority women, or so-called lbe or dbe enterprises. vice-chair and acting chair rosales was recognized for her years of work, both in the public and private sector, and certainly you've seen mr. bridges' work over the course of your tenure here. i think it really speaks to the policy objectives that you have instilled in staff and the work, the collective worth, really, of the commission, and the great work that we have. this is the task, we believe, in developing these areas. so, just really, it's an announcement. congratulations not only to our acting chair and mr. bridges, but really to the work of the commission. >> thank you. >> congratulations. >> thank you.

thank you. you know what they say, you know you've been around the block long enough when the very agency you once were counsel to publicly recognizes your work on behalf of another agency. and staff and i did give credit to the entire commission and the staff because it was [speaker not understood] heart felt that everyone i believe is on board in advancing the public policies around small and local businesses in our contracts. thank you. >> that concludes my report. >> you should be two people, two commissioners in this, you know, public compliance, you know. why is there only one? >> commissioner singh, we since dissolution, we've had a number of staff did leave. we are in the process of, per your direction through the budget, of staffing and hiring

up both a supervisor and an additional contract compliance specialist. and we also have entered into very strategic memorandums of agreement with our fellow sister city agencies in order to provide the greatest depth of resource. so, recently we did enter into a memorandum of understanding with the office of economic and work force development who has their city build program, and to help us do our local hiring goal compliance. so, it's the full complement of both your staff as well as the best and the brightest from the city or other third parties that are at your disposal. >> we had everything, i guess, before, too. >> and we're in the process of staffing up for all of the important work that we're doing. >> okay, yeah. >> thank you. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> the next order of business is item 9, commissioners'

question and matters. madam acting chair in ? ~ >> in commissioners? >> i actually [speaker not understood] as a chair in your absence and i think that's my comments, he he did a good job. [laughter] ~ >> thank you. >> the next order of business is item 10, closed session. >> announce the closed session. the next item under -- we're going to go -- the commission will go into closed session under the california under government section 54956.9 subsection d1 to confer with legal counsel for existing litigation. ~ as identified on the agenda. do i need to read it out? okay.

so, obviously there is no one here, but we don't need to exclude members of the public. >> take a minute to set up here. >> we're back in open session. it is 3:07. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> the next item of business is 11, adjournment, madam chair. >> hearing no objections, we are adjourned. hey guys nona th

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