i am the executive director of adolf randall center in san francisco. after two years of applying the local hire the efforts of -- [inaudible] labor unions, community advocates and a strong network of providers we guaranteed outreach and engagement of qualified local workers training and support for success in trace career paths and supply the city with workers to perform thousands of work hours for projects. program partners such as the labor 261 are in full support of the efforts to prepare workers and restore opportunities for many of those that have lost their jobs during the difficult times. as we continue to recover it's important to restore and maintain the local work force. recently the conversation of local hire has been broadened to include the san francisco school board's adoption of the city local policy creating a huge potential for more local jobs. we must continue to project investments that the city has made for developing a work force for construction. i am asking for your support of the local hire policy and increase funding from $100,