port staff continues to work closely with the contract monitoring division which used to be part of hrc. i work with them on a daily basis and in this quarter $5 million went to local businesses. i'm happy to answer any questions you might have? >> any public comment. i don't think there is any public left. commissioners, questions, comments? >> go ahead. >> i look forward to -- what is it? o e w d coming to talk to us and explaining the whole local hire thing. that's confusing and in america's cup it looks like they are meeting the goal, so why are they asking for waivers? >> we are looking at the snapshot in terms of their development in there, but i think they are looking at some of the waivers. one of the thing they have been doing is participating in the city build program as well there. so it can also be that they just know they might have some issues in terms of meeting the requirements for particular trades. >> actually i think there is more confusion about which of the trade are required to participate. they weren't required in the first place but you may recall as part of the

certain contracts we have had the monitoring division which used to be part of hrc established micro lbe. even throw isn't an lbe goal, we met that a hundred percent. more details on contract payments for this quarter for lbe. the overall payment reached 21 percent. these are payments made on all active contracts that had lbe requirements with all the existing contracts. the total payments in this quarter total 21 percent are $5 million. broken down between as needed, so as needed contracts, we had about 16 percent, with the total amount there of $105,000 and change which works out to all the as needed contract payments made 16 percent for the quarter. part of that is lower than we try do, we try aim for 20 percent goal. it's really based on what this initial contract sets a minimum goal for each of those contracts. but those can vary and they do vary, but we try to keep a port wide overall goal of 20 percent. that is our understanding of the commission's policy decision on that part of that was driven because are the lawyers project. the mayor's office asked us to bring in a subcont