good morning, chair post commissioners, deputy city attorney tom and director carlos schwartz, edmund lee, public works project manager for the infrastructure design and construction division, it's been a while. glad to see everybody again, today i'm here to present on the various locations pavement renovation number 62 and sewer replacement project. i'm recommending to award this contract the various locations, pavement renovation number 62 and sewer replacement contract in the amount of $7,866,714.20, with the construction duration of 425 calendar days to the contractor s construction management. as this contract contributes to the overall goal of maintaining or increasing the overall average condition of streets maintained by public works. i mentioned many times, but san francisco public works maintains approximately 12,900 street segments, and this is one of several contracts that implements the public works street resurfacing programs goal of maintaining and improving the overall average condition of the streets maintained by public works in san francisco and along with geographi

schwartz . "tyranny of the status quo. " that was in 1984. carlosahead with your question or comment. >> thank you very much for taking my call, i am enjoying the show. you have been thinking a lot about government inefficiency, yes can exist to a point, even though i think it has gotten better. what about business or corporate inefficiency? what would be friedman's perspective on that . take the american car industry for that, or the american film industry, i would hardly consider them to be efficient. yet, they still exist. also, there's this philosophy of some of these corporations are too built big to fail and you have to bail them out, which is propaganda. >> thank you for that question. public policy isn't perfect. i don't think treatment would argue there's always a right solution at any point in time. in general, if a business is failing at a local level, or at a subnational level, it will go out of business or redirect its activity. the prophets mechanism is something that rewards efficiency. that is the virtue of it. whereas, with governme

in 1963 it was cowritten with ana schwartz trney and the status quo came out in 1984. again cowritten with rose freedman. carloson virginia please go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: hi thank you very much for taking my call, during the show. human speaking about government and inefficiency that can exist to the point of things got better but what about business or corporate inefficiency? will be freeman's perspective on that? are the american film industry. there is a philosophy of corporations too big to fail we have to build about. stuart carlos thank you for the question. >> guest: really good question. public policy is imperfect. but in general if the business is failing at a subnational level i would go out of business or redirect its activity. it rewards efficiency that is the virtue of it. there may not be that tendency to go out of business from freedman's perspective the private sector was more efficient than the private sector. that mean the private sector is always efficient? nope it is that the public sector is it efficient? no. you should bright try to privatize government function