31st, that's what's recorded here. out of those work hours, approximately 8,000 hours were performed by local residents. this of course is a marginal change of about 3.4 percent from the prior quarter. what's also shown is the breakdown for the project areas. bayview hunters point showing a total agriculture debase of 46.8 percent. the candle stick point is 44 percent. mission bay at 25.7 percent. transbay at 24 percent and others comprised of about 25 percent. as you can see the additional resources that are lent to the specific areas does show an

improvement over other areas that are a bit more challenging in the particular respect when you are talking about transbay you are talking about large towers, skyscrapers, more challenging to bring small businesses onto those particular projects. and along with that, the workforce. this chart shows a bar trend of the work per hour performances over the project areas. as you can see the trend towards workforce is not on an up trend. it has been challenging. the demand for

workers are currently extremely high. we'll talk a bit about the workforce challenges as mentioned in the last quarter, workforce remains a challenge. there is an extremely high level of construction activity that is currently taking place within the city of san francisco. it's placed a tremendous demand on local construct labor. the local construction workers is limited as well. as i understand some of the apprenticeship classes such as electric ans are as local capacity. in terms of looking at corrective measures. of course we continue to work with the general contractors very closely. often times we look at the referrals and

submissions of jobs they are requesting. oftentimes there are instances where there is not a referral that can be provided by city build. nevertheless we'll continue to work with the contractors and assist the contractors with the referrals to the greatest extent possible and kicking off the construction of alice griffith. and city building conducting outreach and classes. they are also looking at holding spshlzed weekend courses that develop the workforce. similarly they are working with the industry and other community partners that build the pipeline. as an example, as i understand it the --

electricians with the apprenticeship. a bit about the changes to the city and county of san francisco ordinance. as some of you may have aware there have been amendments that have been approved by the board of supervisors back in december and signed by the mayor many these changes do become effective on july 1, 2015. with the exception i believe of two aspects that's currently implemented on an immediate basis with those having to do with studies of preference programs, the remainder of the ordinance will take effect july 1st. some of the significant changes that happened to be

taken into effect are an overall 40 percent contracts and these are overall basis with a 20 percent micro lbe subset to that 40 percent. but what impacts certainly ocii significantly are the proposed changed to the definition of a small business by the city and county of san francisco. the chart provided here is the industry classification followed with the oci standards with construction contractors. we have 14 million size standards. shown from the column there are the size standards, not proposed but will take effect july 1st by the city and county of san francisco. they do certify businesses under

three classification those being small be and micro be's and sba under federal standards. what will take effect on july 1st, the size standards for the small businesses for construction will go to $20 million. i believe it's at the 14 current. specialty construction contractors will go to 10, suppliers at 10, professional services will remain at 2.5 and trucking at 3.5. how we are dealing with discrepancies in terms of the professional services at least on a current basis, the way that we handle lbe certification in our program is we look at lbe's that are

certified and take the added level of scrutiny to ask for revenue figures to ensure that the lbe false -- falls below the current threshold. we are in with consistent contractors and with suppliers. but come july 1st because of these particular changes it will be a challenge to reconcile the size of a particular lbe for each and every category that is shown. what we are proposing as a potential next step is harmonizing the next standards to the city's small lbe classification and really this not only helps the agencies in terms of efficiency and administration but will also help the small businesses and the overall

contract community. first and foremost it will lessen the level of confusion and discrepancies that make take place in the marketplace and the harmonizing of the size standards will promote and affect more of a one stop shop certification in the sense that if you are certified by the city and don't of san francisco as a small business you are basic ally accepted by us, ocii without any further effort. we have asked to go back to the small business, if we harmonize that we won't add that added burden in that small business. what we are proposing is a workshop regarding amending the sbe policy and coming back before the commission for your approval and consideration likely in june of 2015. that concludes

my presentation. i'm be happy to answer any questions and also again have the director of city built miligan along with his manager >> thank you. madam secretary, do we have any speaker cards. city clerk: we have mr. ace washington. >> i might as well call this mr. ace show. there is nobody from the community. i have a couple of challenging questions but i want to say congratulations to your new compliance officer. he took time with me last week and we talked about some challenging things on the western edition. as i speak on the western edition. as a prime example, all of your paperwork

state all the other cities and all the departments and different parts of the city, but it seems like somebody in the city erases them and western edition. nobody put it on the paperwork. i'm not an advocate but i show you what i see here. the thing about it is i'm not here advocating as an advocate anymore. i'm trying to be a diplomat. i can't be a consultant because they will call me a hus you will -- it's outstanding. we don't have that many people in this population. therefore these big giant contractors come to the city and they take all the money outside. we as individuals, african americans

i'm talking about city of san francisco, we do not reap the benefits of what they call the 50 percent hiring. we can't even afford to stay in this city let alone working as a city of san francisco. they weren't talking about people like me to benefit from this hiring. if you drag this down, you have some big big challenges. but let's not go into that. let's talk about how we can change that around. i have a solution to all of this pollution. let's look at local hiring again. i need to take out some of these people like city build, oewb, these got together because they came and filed a

lawsuit. there is plenty of jobs in the western edition. we are surrounding by buildings. it's too late now, most of them are built. we still got them but there was nobody monitoring. i have to go there. i don't get paid. what they tell me, go see city build. i go there and find out city build is revamping their leadership. i found out ms. simmons and autumn of those people, they are gone. we need to bring it back to the community. you have all of these agencies. the only thing missing is the community. we'll talk about that later. >> thank you, do you have a speaker card? that's okay. state your name for the record. >> my name is butler from butler enterprise. i work in workforce development. in 18 years i have

done this work, this agency that is best program. i have worked with quite a few agencies in san francisco agencies in the east bay and also some work in los angeles. this agency has been a model as far as small business work as well as workforce. everybody is always going to complain that you are no the doing enough. the fact of the matter is it's been an outstanding job and when i'm working with other agencies i refer this program as a model to get more participation, to get more workforce participation. the collaboration with your compliance department which are prince -- project managers. but you hear from other nay sayers. but the reality is the numbers they are putting out there, that is real and i see that everyday and i see other projects where you don't get those numbers. we

only hope that you continue to support the department. push them hard of course so we can keep reaching high but the reality is this is outstanding work and very excited about the suggested changes because the contract amount for the construction companies are too low. the contracts they are getting are so large they would get 2 or 3 contracts with the amount of work going on in this city. this makes it a much better situation for these contractors and these various companies to be able to continue to participate while they are growing their business so when they do graduate they are solid and capable of competing and capable of doing the work throughout the entire city in and throughout your area and outside the project area. thank you. >> any other speaker cards? do the commissioners have any

questions? >> i do have some questions? >> what's subcontinent asian? >> in the south region of asia namely india, bangladesh. >> okay.

>> i was attempted to say that. can you describe good methodology. >> we have contractors and developers to practice and it begins with breaking out components of work so small business can participate so unbundling contracts to the greatest extent possible. we look at the advertisements that are done by the awardee and that advertisement should stipulate a minimum period of advertisement, in our case 30 days. that's the minimum. not to say it couldn't be more than 30 days but to provide adequate notice

to the community. we provide a meeting no less than 2 weeks before bids are due and typically it stands at about a half way point of 2-3-day period and to ensure there is adequate notice, adequate time for a small business to attend. adequate notice and period of time to get questions they may need to be answered. have those swrz -- answered 2 weeks in advance prior to submissions is preferable and have the small business submit good solid bids at that point or proposals. we also look at assistance that a developer and a general contractor would offer to small business in often cases where small businesses insurance is an example as a barrier. oftentimes a developer

may simply impose a past due insurance requirement regardless of the level of risk so we work with the developer as well in terms f insuring that occi requires a liability of a developer. there is no reason for a developer to pass that due to a smaller architectural rendering firm that may be doing $100000 worth of business. it's not worth the potential cost for a policy of that nature. so we look at the efforts of the developer and contractor in those respects. that if they are sensitive to the small business needs and adjusting those insurances as an example to appropriate

levels. we consider those to be certainly good faith effort by the developer. those are efforts by the developer for good faith. >> the other question was the outreach. i'm looking at latino at 1 percent. i know you send out your advertisement to the current contracting community. what are the other efforts to reach to more latino contractors, for example.

but making sure that we are allowing other minority groups to respond. >> sure. the developers and the general contractors as part of the good faith efforts should be reaching out to small business. what we require them to do is to run those solicitations by us where we would in fact have the solicitations posted on the ocii website along with the city and county of san francisco oca website. the office of contract administration. to the extent that all

cities are advertised. along with that the efforts by the general contractors developers themselves in terms of advertising with the different databases. we always ask they use the cmd data base and we always ask the outreach to firms, relevant firms based on discipline to the cmd lbe data base and along with that are other efforts. i saw from lanar other efforts in terms of outreach.

>> we also looked at what's key from past experience, we reduce the area of small business. rather that request for proposals from small businesses we ask developers and put this in the best practice and ask for requalification. it's must simpler to submit a requalification statement than a proposal. often it's a challenge for a small business to, small businesses are very small person shop. they don't have a full marketing department to develop glossy proposals or things of that nature. we question for those

statements and it's not as big a burden to submit those and we have short listing the firms ensuring there is a representation of diversity in terms of the population here in san francisco. so, those are components that we look at as well in terms of what you may view as being outreach targeted efforts at looking at specific populations in areas. in terms of whether there is a direct target currently with latinos, i have to say there hasn't been a discussion specifically looking at latinos per say. but that maybe an area that we will be looking at in the future with some of our partners. >> well, with the african american is 4.9 percent also which is quite

low. >> can you repeat that? >> i was saying with the african american the percentage is low. i know you put out your rfp or announcements to the current listing and those that are probably already certified with the city and i don't know the numbers that we have for the city based on minority groups but it was more about engaging other groups to apply to become certified, and participate and learn about it. that was the other portion of the effort marketing outreach that i was hoping that we are doing. so that we can at least spread our

contracts, the goodwill, so to speak, the contracting to other groups. >> right. we have met with some groups, the african american chamber of commerce as an example. >> there is an hispanic chamber of commerce. >> we haven't spoken with them yet as the specific target of latinos having been identified but that's an activity we can undertake in the future. in terms of overall outreach in terms of getting currently non-certified businesses certified. we can look at that. if a certain business not certified in this city but with other service as the california

department of services and data base, we encourage them to seek certification if they are based in san francisco. i believe law shan from lam ar is here as well. >> yes. i understand. >> good afternoon commissioners. i wanted to speak directly to your question, commissioner mondejar about outreach specifically and then also wanted to make a general statement about the report itself that was presented to us by ocii. let me refer to the outreach piece. we have a construction assistance program that is administration by butler enterprise group and you heard mr. butler speak amen ago. -- a minute ago. we are very proactive to firms who are not currently in our program and contracts on our project. as a developer we are very engaged with outreach

firms and providing technical assistance to those firms whether or not they are certified and helped them with the process to become certified. we are definitely prioritizing the firms that we are working subcontractors on projects but reaching out to many others. we do that on a regular basis. mr. butler can a test that when i refer firms to the team, if they don't get to the firm i'm on them to be sure they are being served by the technical assistants in the neighborhood. that's one. two, what's also not shown in the statistics. the report is good and i feel very proud of the report that you are seeing today but what's not reflected on the report is the effort and commitment we have made behind the scene not just to put them to work but

keep them working. we have that b role that is very important to provide support for the small contractors working on the project to keep them working if they are running bumps along the road and working with oew and the team to keep the folks who are placed, we are talking about the workforce, the folks that are working keep them working. there is a lot of management happen with city partners and city builders to keep them working there. there is one thing about the numbers who we continue to train and train up but we want to keep them on the jobs to complete the contracts that they are awarded. >> can i just do a follow up since you went into city build and the workforce challenges, what other groups aside from city build or oau are you

working with? >> other non-profit groups, training groups. >> i will let them to respond for this. but city build is our own placement but they have their own cmu relationships that they work with, but city build is our access point. >> thank you. >> it's the citywide access point and the director of city build. >> thank you, commissioners and director bohee. city build works with cultural services, anders and chinese for affirmative actionation neighborhood a and d. asian neighborhood design. i think that's about >> asian inc.? >> yes. ypc, brand institute. i think those are the main community

partners we work with in terms of outreach, recruitment and job readiness. that's just through our office. we also have mous in place with the san francisco district attorney's office, 5 keys and adult probation and san francisco unified school district. we also work with other city departments work independently with other local non-profit service providers as well. we'll interface others in that matter. >> thank you. >> okay. so now, do you have some questions. >> actually most of my questions have been answered. i also thought that 1 percent latino in the content. what is the