mr. fuller. please call the first item. item one is general public comment, which is for topics under the commission's mandate but not related to a specific item on today's agenda. and members of the public who wish to make three minutes of general public comment in person may line up against the wall for this from the door. if you're commenting from outside the chamber, please press the raise your hand button in the webinar or star three. if you'd called in on your phone. okay, and it appears we do not have any commenters in person, and there is no one in the, calling in on the webinar as well, or on the phone. so that concludes general public comment. all right. that concludes general public comment, please call the next item. item two is the communications and directors report. and director of public works carla short is here to present. this is an informational item. thank you bob. good morning. commissioners carla short for the record director of public works. i hope you all had a great weekend. we've had a very busy s

the motion passes unanimously and secretary fuller will post the resolution to our website. thank you again, mr. kong, for your presentation. secretary fuller, please call the next item on the agenda. item six is the revised contract approval delegation policy. and, to provide some context, recently, commissioners requested revisions to the commissions contract delegation policy. given the need to hear frequently, items such as the last one administered cleanup items and this policy, the that currently exists was originally approved when the commission first began meeting, back in, in september of 2022. and it governs which contracts can be approved by the director of public works, which must be heard by the commission. and which of those, that must be heard, can be on the consent calendar and department staff and the city attorney's office formulated the following revisions to the policy in response to requests from the commission and manager of contract administration, alexander burns will present this item. and it is an action item. good morning, commissioners, alex burns, manager of contrac

fuller, i know has made a note of that. commissioner turner, good afternoon, morning. still almost eclipse time, i just i think that this is i just have two quick things. so, one, mr. hill, i believe, in my short time here, it was in june and july, june and august of this year that we've had workforce programs come to us. but i've never seen a cbd come to us. so it was a little different for me to understand. and i and i don't know if we have enough time today, how how a cbd is, kind of isolated our funding from its, tax assessment and, and really not being careful not to commingle. i guess that's the real concern i have. and trying to understand, given that i've not seen an example of a cbd doing this. so maybe that's something that you can help us as, i don't know about quarterly, but when you come back, i would just like to understand how did we accomplish this, given that i don't have an example of a cbd, engaging in this work, the second, and i think it's tied to, commissioner zoghbi's question, and i think it's a routine thing. when director robertson was here. debbie. director robertson was here, we did mention some of our nonprofits who have now started to