philip randolph institute san francisco. first i would like to thank you, supervisor chiu and supervisor cohen for bringing this item to the city's attention. the city has invested in efforts to create access to small businesses. most importantly, access for minority owned businesses and women owned bynesses through the lbe program. allowing access to city contract for successful small businesses to build capacity and really thrive. over the last three years i've seen changes that came with the lbe program. i think that came with the contract monitoring division. and i myself have seen them take individuals in and provide one on one services, so, i really applaud those efforts. they've also done a lot of outreach to engage small businesses in the programs. but the city can do more than just get lbes onto the lbe list. they should consider access to the actual contract. so, i think we sort of really actually touched on that with the data that came out. we really need to look at ensuring that these lbes, mbes, wbes receive con