do we have a lessee that is a local business enterprise? are you aware? >> well, we have a lessee that does operate local businesses, absolutely. that is one of the businesses that the gentleman runs with his wife. also runs businesses in sonoma, previously ran [speaker not understood] imports in sonoma. you know, as far as subcontracting, the lessee is going to be the proprietor that will be hiring staff. we will work with them to make sure they are hiring local san francisco staff. these are positionses that can readily be filled with san francisco residents so we'll work with them to accomplish that. for subcontracting, i think it will be a great extent to that. >> okay, thank you. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you. i wanted to say it looks like the vendor that was chosen scored quite a bit higher than the other two vendors. and you had a 5% selection committee that included at least one community member. i know that had come up in some past leases, but it looks like thises was a really good process you already mentioned especially given how much communit

different question, which is i often am alerted by small local businesses that let me know about allegations of violations in our local business enterprise law. one of the issues that continue to arise is a lot of these small businesses really are concerned about retaliation when they bring up issues with the contract ining process. ~ contracting process. they're worried if they bring this up to the department they'll get blacklisted and not receive a contract or future contract. what is your perspective on whether we need to build in more protections for so-called whistle blowers that raise these issues? and by the way, i'm raising this because i don't know if contractors here would feel comfortable raising this so it's important for me to ask the question. >> president chiu, we have met with the community-based organizations and they have brought up that issue and we are aware of instances. going forward, we will address that, hopefully with your leadership. >> potentially with legislation or some policy changes? >> it may -- i'm not sure how the city attorney will rule or how we will work towards something that could work for everyone

[speaker not understood], chapter 14b local business enterprise, and 14 c [speaker not understood] under the 14 b ordinance. historical overview, we used to be in the san francisco -- under san francisco human rights commission. and in 1994, san francisco enacted a law to combat discrimination in contracting by increasing opportunities for minorities and women owned firms to secure city contracts. in 2006 because of proposition 209, 14 b was passed to make the law raise and [speaker not understood]. in 2010 the lbe was added to the ordinance. in 2012 the ordinance of 14b was transferred to the city administrator's office. in 2013 the contract monitoring division launched a new contract tracking system to track the payments on contracts and a new online certification program. and recently, about a month ago, the mayor appointed a new lbe advisor. [speaker not understood] from 2003 to the present time. the present cnd budget is about $4.6 million, and we are entirely work order funded. so, 16 departments funding this are cmd. approximately 45% of the dollars come from general fund departme

>> the city has a definition of local business enterprises. and it is, you know, the size of the business, which is usually a smaller business, and it is not a chain, and... >> it is usually based on gross revenue over a three year period with you have to be done and involved in san francisco are the two primary criteria and so we have to find out what the city what their definition is for retail. and i don't personally know it offhand, but, that is probably an area that we need to do a little more work around before we come back and make sure that we have a strong definition. >> okay. >> and then, are we doing this, and the lbe do they have to be certified? >> well, when that is your guidance. and i'm not sure that there are, or there is a list of lbe certified retail, vendors, since the city really typically, certifies lbes in the professional services space, rather than the retail space and so we have to check with the contract, monitoring division on that and we will recommend to you not certified but meet this following definition. >> you

local resident businesses, san francisco business owners struggling to stay in the city. it's not just about where your head corners. another good nonprofit housing, five set asides for local business enterprises. set asides are critical here, we need to look at agencies that haven't met their goals and data coming out of their hearing. supervisor avalos showed you can successfully move the needle from 20% local hiring to good faith to -- supervisor avalos's law went into effect, we now have 35%. i think i have five seconds and let's to that to construction. let's do it architecture, engineering. you can see the mandates work to help [speaker not understood]. >> thank you for keeping the two matts. >>> i have a letter here for the board. supervisors, my name is gary gee, president of asian american architects here in san francisco. we have approximately 120 members of lbes. i just wanted -- we solicit input from bev of our members. many of the points were given [speaker not understood] and protect from retaliation their generalizations and i just want to talk quickly on 5, 1, getting work doesn't mean you get the project. after the project is signed by the prime, many of our members express th

proposes a pilot program to expand the port's request for proposal or rsp opportunities to local business enterprises. and lbes. and historically, the port retail sites, that have come up for an rfp, have required large capitol injection to bring them to a habitable condition and that is a hurtle for most of our lbes. and the port is fortunate to have a retail site that has been renovated and here it is, it is the pier 33 and a half. and it is in a condition that would not require a large capitol injection. to assist the port in helping to identify candidates for this rfp, the port is proposing to out reach to cities community based organization, or cbos, and that are in the business of assisting small businesses to start and grow. the port is proposing a pilot program that would distribute this rfp on a targeted basis through the cbos. the port will require that the respondents to this retail opportunity be clients of within of the city's cbos and continue to reach ongoing technical assistance. the cbo, will not have any obligations for the lease other than providing the ongoing technical assistance

200,000 businesses and more than 325,000 business professionals, including industry associations, local and state chambers of commerce, microenterprises, social enterprises, green and steable sustainable businesses, local sustainable living economy groups, women and minority women business leaders and investors. and vester networks. while some -- investor networks. while some inside the beltway claim that regulations are holding back our economic recovery, the american sustainable business council has a different view. they, along with other small businesson organizations, re-- business organizations, released a february, 2012, poll of small business owners which found that small businesses don't see regulations as a major concern. our polling or their polling confirmed that small business owners value regulations if they are well constructed and fairly enforced. they found that small business owners believe certain governmental regulations play an important role,le 6% of them believe -- 86% of them believe some regulation is necessary for a modern economy and 93% of rerespondents believed their business can live with some regulation if it is fair and ma

local business audit report. i want to highlight 10. the 2010 audit looked at three factors in the enterprise provisions of their contracts and the audit findings indicate their contractors used non-lbe contractors or subcontract or that was possibly in eligible for lbe status. the contract monitoring division investigated sanctions against the contractors. in one instance the contracting monitoring division did not find the contract or at fault but the issue did not materially impacts it's compliance with lbe go. therefore cmbd did not impose any sanctions. however they did address weaknesses by the oversight by the department. they conducted training for the department staff so with hopes this would not occur again. in addition cmd implemented a web base monitoring tool to help track lbe compliance. for our follow ups, our office we use a risk base approach to select specific recommendations that the departments report for field testing. this is where we actually go out to the office and we go in to test. we gather evidence to determine if the department's implementation resolved the problem underlying the recommendation and issue a

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a friendly country for business with low tax rates including local tax rates vary is no reason we shouldn't see more companies coming back to britain. we have an anti enterprise and i business labor party. >> thank you, mr. speaker. once we issued a calling report on the report, will the prime minister have a historic process, disciplinary action and subsequent pay off used as a mechanism to bully stock and ensure the executive team and the board held to recount and actually make a huge statement that bullying is not acceptable in the nhl s. >> the hon. lady is right to raise this specific case but also the general lesson that it brings. of course we have more to do but the see q c is an improved organization. we have achieved inspector of hospitals. all of this gives much more transparency than in the past but happy to look at the specific concerns about bullying and make sure that the ctc deals with this. this week the anniversary of that dreadful report into the stafford hospital and my right hon. friend is committed to making sure there's a change of culture where we don't put out for practice and not afraid or ashamed to service them, not just talk about

the top and those habits to turn the business missions into tradition that has been delegation from costa nine visited their colleagues twice a year local enterprises organize a similar meeting in pentagon at the end of last year the company will provide services to find partners to find sales market opportunities to find emerging technologies for context of the company. with that. the latest news is that three got the dogs cuts out that stevie got kate said little or just financial institution such as expand the not so far and it stated that the cars expanding thanks to not feed its financial support and are able to finance the economy and the customers even in crisis situations. thus the experts are trying to reassure people and ask them not to believe that brought the two rivers of serious problems in the financial system of the country due to the recent valuation measures that were implemented wouldn't it be easy the yankees for this is the speech an emergency news but i have a high liquid experience and are not experiencing any difficulties with cash collateral a lot of provocations are taking place weekly. i would recommend those people were

enterprise. the company says the cost of crude in the local currency is forcing it to raise prices. >> the devaluation of argentina's currency increed inflation. the business sector is to blame for the hikes. working people are struggling the most. >> in a walking class neighbourhood outside of argentina's capital they are repairing a blackberry. fixing mobiles and smartphones is how he makes his living, or tries to. >> four months ago i paid 12 pesos. four or five months ago we are not talking that long. now it's 20. >> before the currency was devalued, annual inflation rates were 30%. now tolls are 20%, medicine 50%, petrol 12% and rising. then there's meat, the staple of the argentine diet. from last week to this week the price has gone up 20%. the government is pressuring producers and they say they are doing everything this their power to bring down prices. clearly they'll have to try harder. >> it's facing a toxic cocktail of uncertainty and speculation, which is driving prices flow the roof. people like cynthia, a mother of six, have no financial safety net. >> we are in bad shape with what my husband makes loading trucks at the market, we can't sur

the byness enterprise program, un[speaker not understood] public works construction and service contracts. when a nonlocal contractor is brought in without a true commitment to local businesses, he reluctantly and ungrudgingly unbundles those and can lead to a different experience. [speaker not understood] pier 27 cruise terminal, public safety building and san francisco general hospital. and a lot of time i've been in business, i have never encountered a company i've worked for a hostile as the one i've worked for on the project works currently. [speaker not understood] and troubleshoot on-site issues, misrepresented my company information on this, and taking [speaker not understood] over contracted to my company and try to impose back chargeses for the scope taken over without following proper procedures. these actions have been communicated to the cmd and we [speaker not understood] but this is a slow process. every step of the way this company has worked against us and not with us threatening my company's existence. i have never felt like we were a partner with them, but somehow we were just a competitor. what i'm saying is that i think 14b needs some teeth, some enforce