. >> citizens advisory committee that was chaired by glen davis and finally the transportation authority staff thank you very, very much for supporting our program and we look forward to the coming year thank you. >> happen to take questions. >> great. thank you very much ms. chang colleagues questions or comments on item 14 in this case we'll on it up for public comment. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed. >> supervisor campos commissioner christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell absent. >> supervisor kim absent supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor scott wiener supervisor yee this item passes. >> this item passes okay i'm wondering should we call items 15 and 16 before we go into closed session or anyway? so why call item 15 >> introduction of new items this is an information item. >> colleagues new items okay public comment oh any i'll see. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you, thank you mr. chair district 10 e 10 as a significant challenge i know my protective aid has been in touch with the staff while we've done a significant amateur of work my ielgdz i have a cold so i'm

glen white two respected consultant and holly the neighborhood program manager with the mayor's office of housing office of economic workforce development and ceo the hispanic chamber of commerce and myself and bob davis so to go through the proposals the port and a selection panel engaged in a comprehensive process in the packet of information we have the score sheet and the summer results so just to give the audience just a quick flavor of what some of the criteria were the swaeths evaluation was the creativity of the business plan and the history of the respondent and profit and

glen next, a republican in tallahassee, florida. >> caller: yes, thanks to c-span. just wanted to know what is the impact of the davis bacon act on the cost of infrastructure construction in the country? >> okay, robert? >> caller: and wouldn't it be a good idea for congress to just do away with that law? >> okay. glen? >> i don't think so. we're trying to make sure that workers are getting adequate wages in order to work on some of these projects. and this is a matter of public policy. it's a nice connection between money that's being spent from the policy level to getting the goals and be aabjectivesbe a objectives we want to achieve. how it's awe all commingles. it's very ripe right now. i wouldn't throw it overboard right now. we've got to make sure the workers who are getting paid for these projects are getting paid adequately. >> do you agree? >> davis bacon was a law that basically says if you're building a transportation project like a highway project with federal money, then you must pay essentially union pages, -- wages which are often higher. there has been a study a few years ago that showed this pushes u

glen white two respected consultant and holly the neighborhood program manager with the mayor's office of housing office of economic workforce development and ceo the hispanic chamber of commerce and myself and bob davis so to go through the proposals the port and a selection panel engaged in a comprehensive process in the packet of information we have the score sheet and the summer results so just to give the audience just a quick flavor of what some of the criteria were the swaeths evaluation was the creativity of the business plan and the history of the respondent and profit and loss and cashful loss and credit history the business plan and prior experience proposed use of the retail site based upon the desires that the port has for serving its mission a working relationship with the cd organization to assist the l d v and references to give you an example of one of the respondents proposals looked like in terms of sheer volume this is what we received so again, just a tremendous effort those are small businesses working and to do this and put this kind of proposal with that comprehensive knowledge we were delighted they know do this and show a professional level it made the selection difficult bec