long term san francisco base sbe, mbe and lbe. i'm a broken record because people see what is happening in san francisco as another gold rush and they are coming in and setting up shop and say i'm a san francisco sbe but they just got here. when we have talented, dedicated people who have been here for decades investing in the city, investing in the communities hiring local people and taking care of local talent that is what i want us to capture. not the folks that just showed up yesterday and maybe it isn't good to say that but i dont care. i think it is important-it goes back to the fairness. these programs were put in place to be fair and help people and so i would love our agency to be the one to lead the way because in some cases the rest of the city is not getting it and us as a small nimble and in my opinion very creative agency i think we can do it. know that you have us because we are passionate about it and committed about it, so i really challenge us to think outside the box on that aspect. you know, i like the idea tha

there are photographic companies that a lbe. i don't have my notes in front of me . marketing brand service and special event services and niece there wruns hired directly by pcst. the managet of pcst said also what they don't get credit for is when the vendors come in for special events. they are not technically paid by pcst. there probably is large amount of lbe's employed by companies not directly involve would metro con tract wale. specialties event service janitorial, photography, market and brand are the 4 companies listed >> hopefully going forward we can list dollars or percentage of revenue and get a feeling what they are actually doing as a local business? >> absolutely >> the dredging cost and i think i heard the dredging cost is increase today all most double because of the [inaudible] >> correct >> [inaudible] they couldn't meet the lbe goal because there was no upland or [inaudible] >> what is upland or contaminated soil-i get what you are saying- >> [inaudible] >> it wasn't trucking it was barge-trucking would be the will ask be opportunity and the mod

tegories, small l berks e, microlbe and sba, lbe. the distinction of course is determined by the gross revenue, 3 year annual gross revenue of the firm and the sba is the u.s. small business administration and that is a federal standard for their size determination. the city does classify under also 5 separate categories under construction contractors especially constructors, suppliers, professional service and trucking so keep that in mind. what the state of california due to department of general services they have a size thresh holds under what is known as small business and that is generally across the board 14 million in 3 year gross revenue with a caveat that the firm must have no greater than 100 employees. they also classify a microbusiness category at 3.5 million with less than 25 employees or manufacturers. the state of california does certify small business that includes disabled veterans within the size thresh holds. what is recommended for this particular amendment is to really expand the ocii size standards by including

and really what we see as education and promotion of lbe certification with ocii no longer certifying firms we have been encouraging firms to seek certification in a particular lbe certification and will continue to do that along with of course reporting on a quarterly basis to the commissionism one thing i want to stress again, as i mentioned earlier in the presentation we are focusing on particular areas that can use improvement and will do so with particular group members of certain communities. with that said, that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer questions. as director [inaudible] the director of city build pat [inaudible] is here along with [inaudible] and will be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. okay, first do we have any speaker cards? >> i have one speaker card, mr. ace washington. >> good afternoon everybody. i am puzzled here but will try to make my presentation short and direct. i have a wonderful presentation right here. compliance specialist. as he mentioned he just came on board last year. let me give you a upidate on what i ga

and really what we see as education and promotion of lbe certification with ocii no longer certifying firms we have been encouraging firms to seek certification in a particular lbe certification and will continue to do that along with of course reporting on a quarterly basis to the commissionism one thing i want to stress again, as i mentioned earlier in the presentation we are focusing on particular areas that can use improvement and will do so with particular grou

long term san francisco base sbe, mbe and lbe. i'm a broken record because people see what is happening in san francisco as another gold rush and they are coming in and setting up shop and say i'm a san francisco sbe but they just got here. when we have talented, dedicated people who have been here for decades investing in the city, investing in the communities, hiring local people and taking care of local talent that is what i want us to capture. not the folks that just showed up yesterday and maybe it isn't good to say that but i dont care. i think it is important-it goes back to the fairness. these programs were put in place to be fair and help people and so i would love our agency to be the one to lead the way because in some cases the rest of the city is not getting it and us as a small nimble and in my opinion very creative agency i think we can do it. know that you have us because we are passionate about it and committed about it, so i really challenge us to think outside the box on that aspect. you know, i like the idea th

long term san francisco base sbe, mbe and lbe. i'm a broken record because people see what is happening in san francisco as another gold rush and they are coming in and setting up shop and say i'm a san francisco sbe but they just got here. when we have talented, dedicated people who have been here for decades investing in the city, investing in the communities hiring local people and taking care of local talent that is what i want us to capture. not the folks that just showed up yesterday and maybe it isn't good to say that but i dont care. i think it is important-it goes back to the fairness. these programs were put in place to be fair and help people and so i would love our agency to be the one to lead the way because in some cases the rest of the city is not getting it and us as a small nimble and in my opinion very creative agency i think we can do it. know that you have us because we are passionate about it and committed about it, so i really challenge us to think outside the box on that aspect. you know, i like the idea tha

what i mean by that is because the city has a sba-lbe category that exceeds the ocii standards recommended here, in theory they were once sbe's that fell within the thresh hold and are now greater but the feds determine them to be small business. we are looking to provide incentive for those that graduated some way oof getting them involved in our particular projects. offering a incentive for them to partner with current sbe's in some manner allowing the firms to participate in some sense give back to the community by engaging with small businesses. we are not certain how that will take place but will continue to evaluate that. from what i heard earlier in comments, we may want to entertain other provisions with respect to dispute kwz complaints put into the particular policy. finally, the change to the policy are really just minor changes. those having to conform with state [inaudible] really just clarifying language for other areas such as changing the name from redevelopment agency to ocii. [inaudible] construction workforce provision language regarding submission of pay rom, thinks of

talk about the workforce performance and some of the recent update tooz the citys lbe program. first, i like to maybe just step back a little bit and talk about the sbe program in termoffs the overall policy of enforcing a 50 percent small business goal through the redevelopment commissioners. they saw fit to instill on aggressive 507 percent goal that requires developers and contractors to exercise really sincere good faith efforts to meet that goal and what those good faith effortss mean. it called for contractors and developers to engage more business 3 with a number of means. when there are solicitations they go out publicly. granted some of the projects are private in some sense but through the sbe policy solicitations that go out are publicly advertised and competitively competed for. we work with the gep developers to insure attempts to outreach to small business is conducted through both the city of san francisco contract mantering division, lb database and other databases they may retain. we look at the insureing efforts on [inaudible] give sufficient time for the soli

we looked at the lbes and what was on the current contract and we considered whether we should rebid it or put out another rfp? or whether we should do this amendment? so we do spend a lot of time on it. so i am happy to meet with commissioner courtney on this. >> okay. >> should we continue to the next meeting? i want to point out though that we only have three commissioners at the next meeting. >> i do really need that motion the next time. >> wasn't that item already -- ? >> yes it was on the calendar two weeks ago and we moved it to this time because we still had some follow-up questions with our consultant, mwh. >> noreen ambrose, city attorney, if it's heard today you could get it introduced by the board at at the end of the month and hear it the first week of september. if it's heard at the next meeting or the one after that in august, it's irrelevant. you won't be able to get it introduced until the first meeting in september to the board. so you will necessarily -- if you don't do it today, whether you do it on july 28th or august 11th, it won't make any difference. >> okay.

we have been working with the city to make more lbes. local business enterprises. we're having this -- the relevance that it has on small latino business in the area is very important. other areas are able to keep their cultural identities. we need to do the same. we need to have the time to consider to work like the bay view has done it. we need your support. we are here to support supervisor campos. we are here to tell you that it is about merging businesses. it is about bringing small businesses, but it's also more important to keep small businesses in the mission, to keep the cultural relevance. we celebrate calle 24 and we're here to convince you that you need to support this initiative from supervisor campos. thank you. >> hi. my name is toby seger and i live on 24th street and walk down it every day. i'm here with the group called open 24th and we advocate getting rid of empty storefronts on the streets. we have a strong request that the proposed prohibition be a conditional use, perhaps reducing the size required to trigger conditional use. there were alrea

we looked at the lbes and what was on the current contract and we considered whether we should rebidit or put out another rfp? or whether we should do this amendment? so we do spend a lot of time on it. so i am happy to meet with commissioner courtney on this. >> okay. >> should we continue to the next meeting? i want to point out though that we only have three commissioners at the next meeting. >> i do really need that motion the next time. >> wasn't that item already -- ? >> yes it was on the calendar two weeks ago and we moved it to this time because we still had some follow-up questions with our consultant, mwh. >> noreen ambrose, city attorney, if it's heard today you could get it introduced by the board at at the end of the month and hear it the first week of september. if it's heard at the next meeting or the one after that in august, it's irrelevant. you won't be able to get it introduced until the first meeting in september to the board. so you will necessarily -- if you don't do it today, whether you do it on july 28th or august 11th, it won't make any difference. >> okay.