. >> good afternoon, commissioners, andre acevedo. i'm here this afternoon to present the latest quarterly report on contracting activity here at the port. this will be through october through december of 2012. the report toed today i'm going to present to you is four components. delegating authority, participation by local businesses enterprises and port contracts, as needed contracting in the use of cso or contract service order and our local hiring compliance effort. during the reporting period executive director authorized the approval of one professional service contract with the leadership for management coaching services. the amount of $10,000. during the same period of time we issued 2 contract service orders for existing as needed contracts. one with kaiser for pier 70 negotiation report for the $90,000 and baseline consulting for storm water monitoring services, a little over $50,000. local business enterprise contracting participation. so this is really for the first half of the fiscal year. during the first half of the fis

i name is andre acevedo. i'm going to be talking about the proposed contract with the san francisco conservation corpse for youth employment. i would like to start with a little bit of background of the youth and effort at the port. starting in 2005, the board of supervisors, the port entered into a variety of youth employment projects. they included paid internship which primarily served college and graduate students and partnered with our tenants and non-profit to entry level craft related job skill training, something we have been working with the shipyard with, sponsoring apprenticeship, that's an on going project, we have been working with the unions and moving along with that and finally partnering with local non-profit work experience to san francisco youth primarily economically disadvantaged or at risk youth. the current past contract expired in june of 2012 and in july of 2012 the port issued another rfp for another program to help maintain the port's property. just a few comments on the scope of wo