can you give us an example of how these goals will be incorporated in crane cove park? >> it's designed with ecological value in mind. all that you've heard today about the value of native plants is going to be incorporated in into the landscaping at crane cove park. crane cove park is going to have storm water gardens that are planted about native plants but that have design specifically to do that. water purification step that commissioner makras was asking about. those will be places are form water is funneled in certain locations and filtered into ground rather than being discharged to the bay where it would carry sediments. those are probably the two biggest things that an urban park like cran cove park can do. i think also we've her learned w important they are. they are very impactful. >> president brandon: commissior comments? all if favor? >> aye. >> president brandon: resolution has been approved. [agenda item read] >> good afternoon. i work if the port planning and environmental division. i'm here today to review with you the sediment investigation work and up

the crane cove park improvement projects and the. ninety-four back lands may have to come back to you for extensions. details on all the current contracts and their l.b.e. performance are included in attachments two, three and four of your report. the slide compares awards made in the first six months of each of the past five fiscal years. while we had a deaf in l.b.e. award amounts during the reporting period, it is important to note that payment amounts increase significantly from past reporting periods, but our overall l.b.e. payments have stayed in the 50% range. we had strong participation in the contracts that were awarded in previous reports. this is another view comparing dollars awarded and contract awards for the past five fiscal years, but we are always beholden to the type of work. required on any given project and the pull of firms are available to perform that work. large contracts like crane cove park and other contracts decrease our overall o.b.e. participation, but we have been able to stay over the 40% aspirational