i'm everardo mora, and this is eddie orton. i'd like to share that six buildings have been completed at the pier with two other construction. our estimated completion date is first quarter 2020, which doesn't seem too far away, but it's coming. our local contracting hiring commitments, we have local business enterprise goals initially of 17%, currently at 18% -- our actual number's 18%. the local hire goal for the project was 25%, and our actual is 28%. this next slide details one of our previous apprentice carpenters named shawn zavala, and next to it is a letter i received from jewish vocational award for an employee of the year award that was given to him in 2016. shawn zavala was recommended by local 22 business representative peter garza has a new high school graduate, also graduate of their preapprentice carpentry program at one of arthur local high schools here. pete explained that in order for shawn to enter the workforce, he needed to be sponsored and nominated into a company, either a general contractor or current sig

orton does, juul doesn't. and i think, eddie, that there's some community work that needs to be done with the parents and those that are really concerned. i know as commissioners, we can't do anything, but i think some work needs to be done to assure them that -- that you could try to work with them to resolve this issue. might not be everything that everybody wants, but i think it needs to be dealt with. and this is just me as one commissioner talking. i feel the pain of the community. it's kind of like this country that we got right now, all these people that are going to work and not getting paid. they're feeling the pain right now. well, the parents that come out and the people of this community, these are the people, eddie, that's going to be bringing you money, going to be coming to your property, going to be coming to orton development. and i think whatever we do, we can't lose that human touch. so i just ask that you think about that, and whatever can be done, and to work with the concerned families and parents to try to