supervisors my name is chester young and i represent central computers and we are one of the intended awardees of the contract and i want to make a specific point and a general point, and one was in a response concerned raised by supervisors mar and avalos, regarding lbe and encouraging lbe participation in the tier one contracts and there is a specific goal that all tier goal one contractors commit to in terms of percentage of service work that must be fulfilled in partnership or through the lbe subcontractors and in that sense, it is very much parallel to the goals that were set aside in the previous contracts. and over all, my experience before and hopefully in the future is that it really does create a sort of community between the larger firms within the city as well as the smaller ones because there is also regular meetings and is there a lot of partnership in terms of trying to mentor smaller firms and to open up the opportunities that we are able to access for their benefit. and it is not easy. but that is certainly there. and so there is a hard numerical goal to which we need to adher

. >> next item is a resolution recognizing the 2014, cedaw woman's human rights awardees and these are just for the women commissioners. >> you can proceed. >> great. can we make a motion as approving it? >> so, i guess that i would just, i would just like to say that next monday we will, the friends of the commission on the status of women, will host a luncheon event where we will honor a group of women, who are giants. and in many different fields, and i would just like for the good of the order to read out their names, alicia kudrow who is the president of mill college and we are recognizing at&t and particularly ken mcneilly for their great work. and we are recognizing becca prowda and a former commissioner, and her work with levi, and we are recognizing another person that i considered giant among giants katherine dodd for her extraordinary work inside and outside of government. we are recognizing elizabeth avar tarchi an amazing city attorney. and for her work. and we are recognizing dr. nancy mulcan who is the director of the ucsf national center on excellence on woman's health.

. >> next item is a resolution recognizing the 2014, cedaw woman's human rights awardees and these are just for the women commissioners. >> you can proceed. >> great. can we make a motion as approving it? >> so, i guess that i would just, i would just like to say that next monday we will, the friends of the commission on the status of women, will host a luncheon event where we will honor a group of women, who are giants. and in many different fields, and i would just like for the good of the order to read out their names, alicia kudrow who is the president of mill college and we are recognizing at&t and particularly ken mcneilly for their great work. and we are recognizing becca prowda and a former commissioner, and her work with levi, and

we are honored to host president barack obama and recognize our accomplished awardees, starting withse villard and dr. juliet v. garcia. i want to think our moderator, as well as rita moreno, and all of this morning's panelists for sharing their knowledge and expertise on this important panel that follows, underrepresent underrepresented, where are the latinos. thank you for joining us and enjoy this conference. >> thank you so much, chairman hinojosa for those wonderful remarks. as you heard a moment ago, one of our sponsors for today's session is the society for human resource management, or shurm. representing them, mike akin. he joined shurm in 2003 and since then has been responsible for all of its governmental affairs endefenses. please welcome mike akin. >> good morning. thank you for having us here today. it's a privilege for shurm to partner with the institute and be part of these important discussions this week. we've been a proud sponsor of this program since 2009 and we look forward are to continuing to partner with chci. as the world's largest human resource organization

hand out medals of honor and when he steps in fronts of the awardee, he never shortly the guy. it's their one chance he can absolutely them first and he don't do it. host: eugene up next. eugene is from locust grove, virginia caller: hi. i am voeming democrat probably across the board. i am very disappointed we don't get to hear more about the house contests like i am in district 7, which is the one that cantor got kicked out of, and we really have an opportunity to make a difference with as many democrats as we can get in there. host: eugene, as you decide people to vote for, what determines who you will vote for? what are those issues passionats that you want to see expressed on election day? caller: i would like to see women's rights, e quality, pay, za care for the poor. those are the things that take care of the middle class and the lower class and one very, very, very important thing. if the person coming up is obstructionist, i don't want them in there. i want somebody in there who will negotiate so that we can get something done. host: from marion, massachusetts, here i

finally our third national award winner is our paul singer awardee. paul singer is deceased but he was a great leader in the corporate world, and our organization gives an award every year to a corporate executive that has gone above and beyond their general responsibilities to advocate for orphans, and this year our winner is debra stiger waller, who is president of jockey international and has founded an organization that really helps to provide support for postadoption services. because many of our adoptive parents are adopting children with special needs, many are adopting teenagers and there are all sorts of challenges. sometimes they have no place to turn. so she stepped up as a corporate leader and adoptee herself and is really leading that effort in our country, and we are so grateful for her leadership. i'm going to just mention two other angels, and then i see my colleague on the floor to speak, and i don't want to take more time. but i'd like to ask unanimous consent for just another five minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. m