. >> hello, my name is julie berry and i am the owner of cal tonight pumping which is located here on treasure island where the project is actually taking place. i want to congratulate the sfcta and the new executive director, chang for the leadership on the dbe participation, pumping got one of the first major breaks on the project and because of that we have been working on major public projects throughout california. the sfcta must not under estimate the impact on the community when it comes to the dbe participation, its leadership is critically important to small business. and we are honored to a part of the golden state bridge and we have the privilege of working with one of golden state bridge's senior executives and it is because of the performance and relationships build on that project that golden state bridge asked for a competitive quote for their bid. without a doubt, golden state bridge was communityive with us even before the conference they were open to answering our bid related questions prior to the bid submission date and understood that because our business was loca