what we have what mr. quinn said, a small business and a commission on status of women and a contract monitoring division and a contract administrator who believes in your business, so i think with that if we all start working together this is our time. i think it has come and we should cease it and cease it with happiness and enthusiasm. >> commissioner rodriquez. >> my very quick question is just we have this great data for the percents by service categories of the wbe's. does the obe and the other one mirror that? >> no. i would say that the obe's take up almost half of the 1110 businesses. >> right. but what i am wondering is what do they provide -- do they provide services in and mirror the 52% professional -- >> yes. >> 25 general. >> exactly. >> so that mirrors the city -- 14% is contracts -- construction sorry. i am just trying to understand what they're getting contracts for too. >> the non women businesses -- they somewhat mirror for some of the other offerings but they really, really provide a huge gr

that is mr. quinn bowyer. at this time i'm going to turn it over to chief howard jordan.i would like to ask you if you can reserve any questions until after the chief provides the information then we'll go into questions from the media. okay, thank you very much. >> thank you. first let me start out by offering my condolences to the family of 26 victims due to violence. in the last week of april two homicides occurred that caused community concerns one was mr. boywyer's murder and mr. flucker who took place on april 6. though unrelated both murders shared a similarity. both were outstanding citizens minding their business, carrying on their business and were met with violence that caused them to get killed. funerals of both men were attended by my staff and arrests were made and charges were filed against the person responsible for mr. flucker's funeral. that particular case the family got answered and they got answered very quickly. in this particular case it took us a little longer. today as i mentioned earlier we attended the funeral of mr. clint bowyer and we shared t

mr. higgins. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: presidents, members of european parliament, commissioner geoghegan quinn delighted and i'd like to thank you all for the opportunity to speak to this assembly today, where representatives of the citizens elected democratically and directly from the 27th, 728 member states, are present. >> commissioner geoghegan quinn, may i thank you for giving me the opportunity of addressing this assembly which brings together the democratically elected representatives of the citizens of the 27 member states, soon to be 28 of the european union. i dress you as president of ireland, and i even that is always been connected to matters european. i country that has always looked outward, people with a very strong connection with the cultures and learning of europe in all its diversity from ancient times. and a nation that has valued the european vocation through every century into the president when ireland holds, for the seventh , the roting presidency the cocil ofinisten our 40th year of membership of the union. be it in our ancient celtic connections, and our continuous c