i also want to thank lamar at asian inc. doug parish. nick colina. miguel for their work on this. it has been a long road. this is a really good piece of legislation that is going to help a lot of folks. i do think there are some outstanding issues that need some study. that should be moved forward as well. i just want to point out that in looking at the way that we contract out in the city, we have to realize that during the pandemic we saw where the cracks are in our system. for communities of color, every contract, every dollar the city puts out through a minority business contractor or woman-owned contractor has a multiplier effect in the community. communities that have been traditionally left out of the economic development opportunities in our city. i am so glad that we are moving forward with these crucial issues like increasing the threshold. there are issues that i think we still need to work on, particularly knowing where we are in terms of the department. i do -- i have been working with supervisor chan to propose some amendments to require reporting by the departments

i stand here because asian inc. has been committed to the l.b.e. program before it was a known l.b.e. program, but because of proposition 209, we don't have a race or gender conscious program. we have the local enterprise program. and the local task force issued a report and indicated it was essential to the recovery of our city from covid-19. we are still in. i stand here as a latino and black. but certainly stand here with the latino and black businesses that have addressed you. including michael gregory and trisha gregory. we have addressed this issue to the supervisors and and i think we should invest more. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller, please. >> caller: hello. i just wanted to take the opportunity to champion what everyone else has said here. we feel the amendments are and we need more of a check and balance system. so we appreciate you looking at these amendments and just wanted to speak to that and let you know it's something we absolutely need. >> caller: hi. thank you to the supervisors who brought this forward. we are

i also want to thank lamar at asian inc. doug parish. nick colina. miguel for their work on this. is a really good piece of legislation that is going to help a lot of folks. i do think there are some outstanding issues that need some study. that should be moved forward as well. i just want to point out that in looking at the way that we contract out in the city, we have to realize that during the pandemic we saw where the cracks are in our system. for communities of color, every contract, every dollar the city puts out through a minority