you says aecom and aecom and parson have satisfy your needs, and that maybe so. why is it that we have so many people from the east coast, over here and making millions of dollars? i see a company making millions of dollars. the local people get nothing. if you look at yourselves, commissioners, i do not see it reflective of the diversity of san francisco. we have astute engineers who are black and asian, but they do not form part of the commission. what is happening here is business as usual. if you want to get a contract, all you have got to do is go downtown. there are consultants there. you pay them a certain feet and they give it to you. behind the scenes, right now, we have some consultants that have been formed to invade and be part of the process. i worked for the united states law enforcement and i am very deeply involved in the process. just give me half a minute. the grand jury brought out a statement on what happened at the shipyard. i think is right to initiate inquiry into what is going to happen here with billions of dollars. this nation of ours th

each of the teams were ranked with aecom technology. technical services for the highest. they provide engineering and printing services. as part of their team, they have brought on the several sub consultants, including architectural resource group, ags engineers, and martin lee corp. cost estimators. and with the negotiated scope and contract, we were able to elevate the participation to approximately 35%. again, the funding is through the 2008 clean and safe general- obligation bond. f the amountor -- the amount for phase one -- it is a total contract award of $709,000, and then we added 10% to deceive or not to exceed amount of $780,000. the staff requests commission approval to award the contract and we are available for any questions. thank you. >> motion? >> second. >> questions? the questions. any public comment on this item? ok, all of those in favor of the resolution? and he opposed? resolution 11-44 is approved. >> item 10 b., request authorization to award the contract for construction manager/general contractor services for the pier 27 james herman cruise term

francisco public utilities commission to negotiate and execute a professional services agreement with aecom. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am the director of the source system improvement program. it is an honor to be before you today in the southeast community facility that was billed as part of our last wastewater capital improvement program. especially in this program, with mr. alex fisher watching us, because he was part of our program from the 1970's to the 1990's and he is a very good man. as we begin the next chapter, it will be the source system improvement program. half of the $6.9 billion program will be invested in this community and invested in projects that occur in this community. we will be looking to the bayview hunters point community as we move forward to implement this program. in february, our cfo and i presented several different options for the summer system improvement -- for the sewer system improvement program. each of theses were involved, technical, and there are a lot of decisions that have to be made that would affect cost, schedule, and delivery options.

we have made many demands on his time and staff time and he has been most aecom dating in those. -- most accommodating in those. we have been glad to be included in many of the major undertakings this organization has gone through in the last 5 1/2 years, particularly the transit effectiveness project and as you may know, once a month, i and the vice chair of the c.a.c. and dan weaver sit down with mr. ford and give him a hard time about the signs on the subway platforms to the daily service report to, well, everything you can imagine. and that has always been a relationship i believe of mutual respect between the c.a.c. and mr. ford, and we wish him the very best in his future efforts. we feel the c.a.c. is more integrated into if agency now than it was before you arrived, and we would like to thank you for your efforts in that regard. we appreciate it very much. i do sincerely wish you well as you leave the agency. also want to express the c.a.c.'s best wishes to mr. roham, who i understand is departing, and who is somebody who has also given a lot of time to the c.a.c. also sometimes