to 5% in that we increase the local, and the local would be on top of, i guess 10% if you are local. right now, they are proposing 2%. perhaps that can be increased. i do not know. >> commissioner dooley? commissioner cooley: -- dooley: i am agreement commissioner declined. i think we need to raise this -- in agreement with commissioner acly -- clyde. we should raise the local to 13%. there has to be a balance, because we are already at a disadvantage, and i do not want to say. commissioner clyde: going back to the president o'brien's comment, i would go to 13% or so. it needs to be done. again, san francisco has a unique, and expensive, mandated employment and work environments. >> commissioner riley? commissioner riley: maybe we should ask them to take the health care and the issues, that they have to pay, to take that into consideration and come up with a recommendation of how much percentage. >> director? director: moving forward, in order to provide supervisor chiu in order to move forward, we may have to weigh in before the final vote on a piece of legislation. i just want to m

the first is the small local business inclusion portion, and the second is the local resident hiring portion. speaking first about the small local business inclusion, the event authority worked with the san francisco human rights commission to establish a minimum goal of 25% participation for construction at subcontracting, and it established a 30% for all event activities. all of the vendors and service providers and suppliers. the event authority is and will continue to complete very proactive steps to make sure that the san francisco business, in general, and small local businesses specifically know about, have access to, and actively participate in the event authorities contracting processes. the event authority is engaged in ongoing business outreach, and it is connecting with firms that reflect the entire makeup of the city. to date, they have met with over 40 different neighborhood merchants associations, the ethic -- ethnic chambers of commerce, stakeholders, and they have established an easy online portal, onto which over 800 businesses have already registered, so the event

local hire, prevailing wage. we have seen partners in a labor step up to say let's do this together. the laborers, carpenters, engineers. it looks like we're on the verge of winning prevailing wage, and then they have already been won across the board. but we have not come to terms with local hire. we still stand here saying we want prevailing wage, and we want local hire. if you look through the document of the jobs plan, it has good faith efforts on just about every single page. he may not have heard it today, but this thing is good faith efforts which has failed. we developed in law. all of us in this room. we came together with you, supervisor, the board, and we're working with mayor lee to aggressively implement this law. and whether you have a debate about public, quasi-public, clearly they're spending public money in different avenues and mechanisms, but when we talk about the spirit of local hire, supervisors, we want to go one step better. that is what we ask the andorra -- the authority. let's use the c

local hiring tends to help local businesses and local residents. they have helped to get them more business. well good faith efforts would drive down the actual participation. if you look at the actual figures in contrast to that we have, it tells you that the good faith effort is not really up the participation. we have projects, i saw the project in stockton, they applied 65%-75% local work force. they are not encouraged to use a local work force. thank you very much. >> thank you. anyone else who like to speak, you would line up on that side of the there? -- that side over there. >> i am basing a native san franciscan.

local hiring tends to help local businesses and local residents. they have helped to get them more business. well good faith efforts would drive down the actual participation. if you look at the actual figures in contrast to that we have, it tells you that the good faith effort is not really up the participation. we have projects, i saw the project in stockton, they project in stockton, they applied 65%-75% local work

this 20% local hire -- we're talking about the spirit of our construction and local hire ordinance, that 20% is actually going to be rising to 25% starting in march. soak if we initiate -- so if we initiate the construction work, we could be lower than the actual 25% mark, which is going to start this year. >> i believe that the reason is that the 20% was set was because they understood, because the project went out to bid, like the san francisco city-sponsored project that went out to bid in 2011, even if it begins in 2012, that the 2011 levels apply. however, i would say that the opportunities for pier 30/32, we estimate that it will generate a total of about 250 jobs, and that the local resident hiring goals better placed here are the minimum goals. in other words, at least 20% of the workers on a trade-by-trade bases will be san francisco residents that are economically disadvantaged, and san francisco residents with 25% being economically disadvantaged. supervisor avalos: i am holmby the authority is able to exceed these goals, but we're starting from a four this seems to be lower -

local hire, prevailing wage. we have seen partners in a labor step up to say let's do this together. the laborers, carpenters, engineers. it looks like we're on the verge of winning prevailing wage, and then they have already been won

local hire, prevailing wage. we have seen partners in a labor step up to say let's do this together. the laborers,

local hiring tends to help local businesses and local residents. they have helped to get them more business. well good faith efforts would drive down the actual participation. if you look at the actual figures in contrast to that we have, it tells you that the good faith effort is not really up the participation. we have projects, i saw the project in stockton, they applied 65%-75% local work force. they are not encouraged to use a local work force. thank you very much. >> thank you. anyone else who like to speak, you would line up on that side of the there? -- that side over there. >> i am basing a native san franciscan. -- i am a senior san franciscan. i went to two prestigious universities. i got into a trade and was able to work with the tools of the trade every day here in san francisco but i am now an anomaly. i never thought i would see a city, a place where black brothers and sisters were no longer welcome as a result of the fact that they cannot secure work. make no bones about it, private developers are all for local hire. the problem is

if you are local and not b, you get x, and the criteria is only if you are local or not local or if you are b or non-b. that is my suggestion. director: if i understand, commissioner dwight, we have those inside san francisco, outside san francisco -- commissioner yee riley: so are we did with the 8%? director: know, something that it would aid like or less than six. director -- commissioner dwight: you get the other preference or being local or not local, and that the two are added, so whenever that percentage, not to exceed whatever percentage we decide it should be. that is sort of directing supervisor chiu that we believe there should be some sort of threshold but does not distort and where a local guy is getting 10 plus, and then we are starting to mess around with the local. commissioner: i this want to make sure that we are talking about this being based on the dollar threshold. where your business has to be registered here, but you could be in the oil business that is a non lbe which is a larger business. with the discussions that have been had about the higher cost of having yo

or not local. i move that whatever percentage, that we agree to give for being a b organization, that'd be the same for a local company as it is for a non local company. commissioner yee riley: i think that is the way it is written right now. it is just about the age%? director: it is not written that way. commissioner dwight: maybe i misread it. director: a benefit corporation regardless if you are in town or out of town, whether you are in san francisco-based company or not in san francisco-based company. if you are a certified lbe, and you are also a benefit corporation, then you get an additional 2% added to your bid discount. commissioner dwight: so it would be 10% plus 2%, and you would be competing -- but that is just in the same way, it has -- i do not know the right term for it, but it has the same effect that we just talked about. you can only get two extra points for being and local, and you can get eight extra points and narrow the gap for what would be two if you're an outsider, versus

i would like to see local higher on this agreement. thank you. >> i worked at mission hiring hall, south of market employment center. the areas that will be impacted by the production of the america's cup -- i am a person on it probably everyday basis who gets asked what is going on with those america's cup jobs. working in the construction referral programs, construction workers are concerned about those jobs. they will have an opportunity of looking at the workforce plan america's cup authority has put together. take another look at it. our organization has worked for 40 years to mend a local hiring. with the public works money being spent on this and they support of tom amiano, you need to revisit this and see if we can make it a local hire ordinance project. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am with a bright line. -- with brightline. i want to reiterate the importance of keeping this package in committee until everything is resolved. on local hire, i appreciate the assemblyman weighing in. it is clearly a public works project. i do n

that is the local hiring a law that passed the week prior. the community's local hire urlacher it is what we want and proposed in a change 24 hours ago. we got a change five minutes ago. 24 hours is a lifetime in this process but we proposed a community amendment to the development agreement. you may or may not have copies. i will provide them to the supervisors and the committee. this is what we want. this has support of community members. we have that it with our partners in labor. we feel strongly this is the way to go. there is the basic craft from a proposed by the unions that are doing the work that will incorporate the mandatory local hire. we called the city's policy. it is about results. this work force plan, i got the newest copy. it has commercially reasonable steps on page 20. it has a bunch of stuff. it doesn't make sense. we proposed an amendment. if we're not going forward, let's fix this. that put this on the list of something we fix, whatever we do. thank you. >> good afternoon. i worked as a program counselor at the mission

it is not enough to say it is a local hiring policy. you have to say veterans in the program itself. thank you very much. supervisor kim: thank you. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon. my name is the sap berkowitz. i live in the marina. we have been presented with a once-in-a-lifetime stimulus package, and opportunity to fix dilapidated piers, and present san francisco to the world on the grid is stage. as alaskan oil an athlete, i look at this differently. -- as a local and an athlete, a look at this different. all we have heard about is the risk and not the reward. the deal should be based on incentives for oracle to win the cup and stay here in san francisco. when that happens, it is win-win for everybody. it is a win for san francisco and it is a win for oracle. every time that oracle wins, san francisco wins better. we voted un to make san francisco a better and safer place. under your leadership, we have now lost the forty-niners. let's just hope that we don't lose the america's cup. supervisor kim: next speaker? >> thank you

businesses and non-local businesses. at land use today, the cost of employing people here in san francisco are 10%-25% higher than just employment costs 10%- 25% higher than other counties. we discussed that the appropriation differential for been preferences would be closer to 15%, and with the budget, it was not doable. at that time, 15% was not doable. i do want to call attention to that. i wouldn't be interested in lowering 1 and increasing the other because commissioner dwight did bring up the cost of administering these programs in addition to the many programs and record keeping mandates that are on small businesses already. maybe an increase for the local and a decrease, again, that is a discussion. it would be closer to 15%. >> i will say right now i would very much support an increase in the bid preference for local businesses. oftentimes, local businesses are not as competitive as they need to be in our own contracting practices. if the commission would prefer us and my legislation to reduce the out of city bi

make no bones about it, private developers are all for local hire. the problem is that when it is down to the contractors, we know how to take care of a local hire. someone with a nod and a wink, they go about displacing folks. it is always a specially the communities of color. good faith does not work. as a member of the carpenters' union since 1967, having been an executive for close to 30 years, i can assure you that most of the contractors will not comply with good faith efforts. we have watched that fail time after time. we have had this challenge in town before. certainly, i need to talk to the city attorney, not the deputy city attorney, but we have taken the position on public lands where they require the payment of prevailing wages. it is the only way that we can maintain a presence, making sure that this city becomes a city where it is only the poor and the rich? let's keep putting our faith and trust in the folks to keep singing as the same song. i commend you, supervisor, for having moved the local legislation forward. i say that 50% is n

the will leverage the local dollar's into local economies, support small businesses, communities, howster greater community development and it seems like you're focused on that as well. it is important, especially in these times that we don't have the global financial meltdown, that we have a response now coming from the constituents around the country and perhaps around the world about looking at how we can make sure that the institutions are more accountable to us. that is the thrust behind today, to see how we can make sure we are getting as much bang for our buck, the banks want a partner with. i know we have other issues that are bigger than this as well. how we do our investments and build a pool of money is something we want to look at down the line. i think that there are measures you put in place here. it'll be helpful for us to be able to measure what these banks are doing in terms of supporting local homeowners. how we can be more effective than modifying loans, being able to protect ourselves against the economic situation we are all and the. i really want to thank you for

we volunteer locally. but to give an accounting of that in order to prove our view to -- virtue to take a preferential position on contracts should not be dismissed that it is not for you because you're not interested in proclaiming your virtue. i just think that it is something that bears some discussion and that we have a non-quantitative thing relating to a quantitative fang. i don't object to it at all, i think it is fantastic. we have companies that are already behaving virtuously and others that are doing the extra thing to be recognized, largely often for branding reasons, but they do extra effort. >> it is expensive as for small companies to do that. are there any other questions? president o'brien: the last interaction answered a lot of questions. right now, it is voluntary? >> it always will be. president o'brien: anybody forming a new llc -- >> no, companies that become corporations, people that were corporations and became benefit corporations. for example, giving something back, they were all

i am also a pile driver with local 34, 18-year member. local 34 has been building san francisco cents at 1877. i have personally been fitted with the local hiring initiative, at what to think personally mr. avalos and whoever supported that. thank you very much. i think it is really important, i really think we have a great opportunity with the america's cup here to benefit my family. i think it is a great opportunity for san francisco. i do appreciate your effort to try to protect the city and our budget, and also to make sure that we cut the bastille -- cut the best deal that we possibly can. the job that we do is very dangerous, but everybody who does it does it with pride and also with great safety. it is really nice we get to work in our city, that we did not have to travel so far. also, i think construction is a driving engine. i have heard it said before that construction drives the economy, and i believe that can really do so for san francisco. we're working on pier 15 and 17 for the exploratory on, which is a great opportunity, a

we encourage businesses to local from -- hire from local neighborhoods. i was wondering if you could touch on that. you do work with young people and if you could talk about how the small business commission could help. >> i know that since 1300 came about, it was -- i feel like we're in this community. it is our social responsibility to do something for the use in our community. i think the commission could put some program in place that has small businesses, work with youth organizations and -- in their neighborhoods. in my case i work with the kids -- we tried to do something with a entrepreneurship with them. summer programs with the farmers' market, working in our office and other businesses can do that as well. >supervisor kim: thank you. as much as we can work with our small businesses to make connections with our local residents and used to make sure we are employing them. thank you. next, mario west. >> thank you for giving me a chance to talk about my qualifications. i was born and raised here in san francisco. parmele the past president of loud

i am not sure if they have been subject to the local ordinance. they have been working with oewd on the export-oriented -- exploratorium pier project. one of the things that was impressive about this general contractor is the came in the door saying, we will meet all the 20% local hiring goals, including in the specialized trades and they had already hired 15 different city build academy graduates that are working on that project. they intend to move over to the pier 30-32 project and have included their numbers in their projects which they submitted. >>supervisor avalos: it is important to make a case. it looks like they could apply their services for other projects in san francisco. we would have a different standard for america's cup. it would be good if liquidated damages would apply to both. >> there is someone who will talk much more about liquidated damages than i can if we want to continue. i do want to say one of the things that america's cup wanted to do in this agreement is to get to the heart of making sure that citizens got opportunit

because there is a regional regulation that says that all our local authorities need to have a local mobility plan. i heard this morning about a problem like neighbors complaining when things have to be changed and the whole debate that is coming up then. but i think we have it similar because it's our local mayors who sometimes are hesitating to put into practice -- that's one of the reasons why those cycling routes sometimes get stuck, because you have a regional cycling route, but local authorities, we have 19 in brussels, local authorities do have to give permits for that. there is a lot of