[inaudible] following commissioner woo hoand katz comment. i'm happy we are doing more outreach to wem squn minorities and hopefully that will attract more firms to participate in the contracting and pure curement but i think it is absolutely wonderful so we are exceeding all our goal squz doing so well so congratulations and thank you very much. >> i have to say thank you too and appreciate the presentation and i know from the time i have been on the commission how near and dear this has been to commissioner brandon being on the commission for 18 years and i think that the port is really tried to reach out more to the community and have more diversity and have to keep pushing. i sauls say sometimes some the smaller firms have got to team up with the bigger firms and learn how the process happens and sometimes you don't get it the first time but got to keep trying and need to understand how the game works and keep coming and to me i believe that comp tense is above all. you have to be competent and do the thing and turn it in on time and have

[inaudible] following commissioner woo hoand katz comment. i'm happy we are doing more outreach to wem squn minorities and hopefully that will attract more firms to participate in the contracting and pure curement but i think it is absolutely wonderful so we are exceeding all our goal squz doing so well so congratulations and thank you very much. >> i have to say thank you too and appreciate the presentation and i know from the time i have been on the commission how near and dear this has been to commissioner brandon being on the commission for 18 years and i think that the port is really tried to reach out more to the community and have more diversity and have to keep pushing. i sauls say sometimes some the smaller firms have got to team up with the bigger firms and learn how the process happens and sometimes you don't get it the first time but got to keep trying and need to understand how the game works and keep coming and to me i believe that comp tense is above all. you have to be competent and do the thing and turn it in on time and have

[inaudible] following commissioner woo hoand katz comment. i'm happy we are doing more outreach to wem squn minorities and hopefully that will attract more firms to participate in the contracting and pure curement but i think it is absolutely wonderful so we are exceeding all our goal squz doing so well so congratulations and thank you very much. >> i have to say thank you too and appreciate the presentation and i know from the time i have been on the commission how near and dear this has been to commissioner brandon being on the commission for 18 years and i think that the port is really tried to reach out more to the community and have more diversity and have to keep pushing. i sauls say sometimes some the smaller firms have got to team up with the bigger firms and learn how the process happens and sometimes you don't get it the first time but got to keep trying and need to understand how the game works and keep coming and to me i believe that comp tense is above all. you have to be competent and do the thing and turn it in on time and have