and they have tirelessly taken a stand on behalf of dbe or the dbe community and we are proud to be able to come up and speak on behalf of them and we would love to see all of the city departments take the same stance because the same dbe businesses that are getting businesses they normally have their offices located here and buy their goods and services here and they hire from the city of san francisco and the people of the city which is very important, and so that five million is multiplied i am sure threefold and so we are here to argue and to support the project and hope that you move forward in a positive recommendation. thank you very much. >> next speaker? >> good morning, supervisors my name is kiransen and i am the owner of the prolocal and i represent a number of organizations and i am also a member of the... i am sorry. i am also a member of the golden gate business association, and i wanted to personally thank the sfcta for taking a bold stuff in supporting the goal on the project. my work that i have been doing for the past year i see a need for more like this, thank you ver

and of course, some of those contracts are still ongoing and it is not quite 127 million out to dbes and sbes and this slide show is on the professional services side, and well over half of our subconsultants are sbe firms as well as 12 of our primes, out of 48. and then on the construction activity, you can see that the lower tier subs, by far are a majority of the small businesses and as well as eight first tier subs are small businesses, and you will recall that we set aside our utility location and our logistics packages exclusively for small business participation. >> you have probably seen or remember seeing this slide before, and it shows our goals and awards for dbe and sbe over the years. and so life to date, we have awarded 13 percent of our contracts over all to disadvantaged business enterprises and eight percent on that to small business enterprises, and we continued to do everything that we can to out reach to those small businesses, and disadvantaged businesses and make sure that we know that our contracts are available, and making sure that the contracts are sized app

contractor, they did not realize that some of the firms that they had hired, that they believed to be dbe firms were not. and so the contractor then sells and initiated the effort to more carefully monitor the documentation. and to expand their out reach to disadvantaged businesses. and as i know that you all know that the transportation khor is or has an ex-expansive out reach for small businesses and disadvantaged businesses and other businesses within the community, that are locally based, to promote opportunities. and we can get the number of workshops and the number of open houses and the number of well, sometimes that we refer to as speed dating opportunities, where we bring in the larger contractor, the prime contractors, and engage in meet and greet sessions with the smaller businesses particularly those that are new to that particular type of contracting. and so we are doing that and we are continuing to do that. and we have a consultant on board. and who is one of whose primary goals is actually the marketing of this disadvantaged businesses to the contractors. and i think that

and shows some of the upcoming contracts to be awarded that mark has already mentioned and shows our dbe and sbe percentages. and the third report is our investment report, and we have not quite five and a half million in the city pool, as well as that, all of those land sales and proceeds in the trust account and you will see in the investment was coming due on december 31st, and that matured and was reinvested to the u.s. treasury notes as the rest of the portfolio is. the fourth report shows the program inception to date and the expenditures and the revenues and the fifth report is a newer report where we are showing the draw downs on the programmer reserve and it shows since the last report there was just over 600,000, for various change orders. and i am happy to answer any questions. >> just one small question. >> i noticed that we have one of the accounts where, the fees and zero interest, >> and i have a checking account and is that our own alternative is there not more of that we could put in the city pool. and we see it earning a little bit of, just enough in there that we can m