sfgovtv that made it through the rain and everyone else in attendance and john stockhouse and jessie larsen the meetings available on line and the transcripts. let's take roll call please. >> i will note for the record that director lee will not be present. with that director nuru. >> present. >> director reiskin. >> here. >> director sartipi might be late too. director kim. >> here. >> you have a quorum. >> is there any old business today. seeing none. we can move to the director's report. >> happy holidays. i received some good news. we got a review of the train box grant of what they do annually on how we're doing with the report and it's a good report. i can share it with the board if they would like to see it. there are a number of best practices they will recommend and the recent survey we commissioned to have a better survey in the construction market, the mitigation measures in place including accelerating the payment cycle and having the [inaudible] in place and having us do outreach to smaller contractors. in addition we were commended for our job's net and employed over 8,000 peo