delling associates fulfills dbe and lbde requirements. supervisor cohen: these are people that qualified or people that have received the contract? >> received. and as far as how this will work in terms of awarding actual work, none of these are guaranteed anywhere. it is a matter of work being assigned on a task-order basis. they will need to maintain and week that 8% hiring goal of work being assigned to them with each task order. supervisor cohen: so, who manages the tasks and work orders? >> the authority. supervisor cohen: the authority. my friends over here. i guess my message to the authority is that, you know, i sit here, we pass contracts and have a lot of money. there are a lot of things happening. a lot of changes happening. but we have a lot of businesses. women, minorities. i need you to make sure that you are stepping up to the plate and making sure that people are getting a piece of the action. it is deplorable that this is such a straight white male- dominated field. as a city we need to make a commitment, a statement that

put their best foot forward, we need to understand that this sector is impacting a lot of lbe's and dbe's. you could play a leading role, and you could pull on the sleeves of your colleagues here who really know what is happening with contrasting, and do a better job. commissioner mirkarimi: is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have a different house. please read roll-call. >> [roll call] 11 ayes, the item passes. commissioner mirkarimi: next item please. >> item 6. authorize the executive director to negotiate and execute annual contract renewals with city and county of san francisco departments and exercise contract options for on-call modeling services, in an amount not to exceed $297,536. this is an action item. commissioner mirkarimi: comments? any public comment on this particular item? seeing none, public comment is closed. same house, same call. so moved. next item. >> item 7. authorize the executive director to exercise the second one-year option of the professional services contract with cordoba/zurina

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