microand small hbe's, it requires the city to make good faith efforts to obtain at least 3 accounts from microor small lbe's for contracts under a certain size. it establishes a mentor program between successful

microand small hbe's, it requires the city to make good faith efforts to obtain at least 3 accounts from microor small lbe's for contracts under a certain size. it establishes a mentor program between successful contractors and lbe's, implements a contractor advance payment practice to fund loans to subcontractors to address what we have often heard from some of our smaller subcontractors, it cleans up modernizes 14b and formalizes the transfer of chapter 14b implementation from the human rights commission to the city administrator. it would keep the limit up which the city would guarantee as part of its surety bond program as $750,000, it keeps the mayor as the official who resolves matters when the awarding authority and the director are unable to agree whether to divide a contract into smaller contracts to maximize the opportunity for lbe's to participate. it changes 14b.5 on puc regional projects that are 70 miles or more outside san francisco or force the costs to be shared and it corrects a number of drafting issues that we have in the version that we had originally introduced. so, with th