lemonis: so there's a term that's called an rfp, request for proposal.anufacturing job, and it often happens in a bidding process, sometimes closed, sometimes open. at the end of the day, the decision is made by the company to take on one of those manufacturers based on quality, price and terms. you may send an rfp out to nine manufacturers and say, "give me a quote," and then you look at all of them, and you choose. florence may be one that will be selected for an rfp. lulu: i just don't want this to happen again. lemonis: florence, do you like working with lulu? florence: what do you mean? lemonis: do you like working with her? florence: i loved working with her before. lemonis: past tense? honestly, no bull[bleep] if this is not gonna work for you or for you, now is the time to know it. lulu: totally. lemonis: right now, and we can shake hands and move on. ♪♪ okay. thank you. ♪♪ after the fallout with florence, at this point, i'm just gonna find another alternative. so i've lined up a meeting at suuchi, a design and manufacturing company that has rela

it's whether we have partnerships with the city and whether we can turn around and rfp process in order to get contractors to come into schools and fit out the windows. so, i'm hearing differently. like i said, staff, you know, need support and getting the rfp process but i think this is -- i've spoken to folks in the private sector and this is physically and an easy fix. >> we have our -- >> i wasn't finished. >> sorry. >> so, my assessment and don, you can also come in, please, is that in order, as we're trying to meet these time lines, one of the responsibilities -- [please stand by] prestidents' if there's a good faith effort by staff and the city to provide this ventilation, and i think that there will be, we might not meet the 25th. so other commissioners, commissioner norton? >> commissioner norton: yeah, i'm in agreement with you, president sanchez. i think that this may be doable, it may not be doable. i mean, just -- i don't even know -- i mean, i'd actually be interested to hear from chief lawson, i mean, do you have any sense of what kind of retrofit would be needed to -- ju

we started not because there was an rfp out, but because there was a need in the community.wasn't our job. it was that african-americans, their lives were not being valued, and we decided collectively that we were going to change that and try to level a playing field that's never been leveled. so now we're faced with we're the operation with doctors, licensed nurses and practitioners, all who were asked to show their resume. we needed letters of recommendation before we could even start. it's unclear to me how this organization, if they were judged with the same scrutiny, was ever even able to get off the ground, quite honestly. so i think we have to look not just in philadelphia but the deep-rooted problem that allows you to look at an organization that has been doing the work even before you joined forces with them and overlooks them primarily for another group that's unestablished, younger, not led by a physician and white. >> it's remarkable. i've been to your testing site, as you know. i think that day i was there, you probably tested 900 people. it is the picture of ef

of congress we received $507 million for new equipment on the southern border but we had issued an rfpd contracts to new scanning equipment set will raise our scanning rates on southern border in the commercial environment from our current rates that 17 to 40%, to 70%. that is our major strategy is to try to harden our ports of entry to prevent fentanyl from crossing of the southern border. >> you didn't mention how that new wall down there is affecting all this. >> senator, what i will say is that we need, we should have a comprehensive approach to border management which includes technology, hardening the ports of entry, it is appropriate and were appropriate physical barriers between the ports of entry. >> thank you. i have a friend you asked him how doing. he says, compared to what? right after 9/11 i understand fedex, ups, dhl began requiring -- implement that within your after 9/11. that's about eight or nine years ago. i understand the difference in the mix of customers is quite different between, largely not entirely business customers. it's been nine years since they implement

and also have put in place the property of contract to maintain to be aware in the rfp active to seek the interim use proposal before the temporary terminal site is transformed into two housing sites, block four which you heard about today. block two which is an ocii100% affordable housing site and block 3 which will be a future city public park. so this is an incredibly important critical path and milestone to have achieved and excited to report that to you today. on the other interesting thing that occurred is that as of january 5, the ren con point south beach redevelopment plan expired after four years. it was initially adopted on january 5, 1981 and the 115-redevelopment project was proposed to two noncontinuous geographic areas and ren con point and south beach. at the time much of the area was characterized by dilapidated warehouses and with that time with the development. and with the revenue and tax increment financing by the former redevelopment agency. and over 2,000 residential units are constructed and with this project and land use jurisdiction has now expired and helped

and also have put in place the property of contract to maintain to be aware in the rfp active to seek the interim use proposal before the temporary terminal site is transformed into two housing sites, block four which you heard about today. block two which is an ocii100% affordable housing site and block 3 which will be a future city public park. so this is an incredibly important critical path and milestone to have achieved and excited to report that to you today. on the other interesting thing that occurred is that as of january 5, the ren con point south beach redevelopment plan expired after four years. it was initially adopted on january 5, 1981 and the 115-redevelopment project was proposed to two noncontinuous geographic areas and ren con point and south beach. at the time much of the area was characterized by dilapidated warehouses and with that time with the development. and with the revenue and tax increment financing by the former redevelopment agency. and over 2,000 residential units are constructed and with this project and land use jurisdiction has now expired and helped

we issued a mini rfp to a controllers office preapproved pool that was created and took the top rated proposals as part of this collection. we believe this team will provide broad market coverage if needed to secure a good price for the agency on our bonds. that brings us to today's approval which is authorizing the director of transportation to move forward with the transaction dependent on approval from the board of supervisors. i'll go into detail on our time line. we are planning on go to go the board assuming approval today next month. we will be taking it to the budget finance committee as well as the full board. what's included in the package today are draft legal documents and our dead indenture. all of these are in draft format because the information that's required to complete those is dependent on a transaction moving forward. what we'll be bringing you in january are the official statements which mark talked about prior to the presentation that will detail all of the different elements an investor should be aware of if they were going to invest in the mta. that brings us

we issued a mini rfp to a controllers office preapproved pool that was created and took the top rated proposals as part of this collection. we believe this team will provide broad market coverage if needed to secure a good price for the agency on our bonds. that brings us to today's approval which is authorizing the director of transportation to move forward with the transaction dependent on approval from the board of supervisors. i'll go into detail on our time line. we are planning on go to go the board assuming approval today next month. we will be taking it to the budget finance committee as well as the full board. what's included in the package today are draft legal documents and our dead indenture. all of these are in draft format because the information that's required to complete those is dependent on a transaction moving forward. what we'll be bringing you in january are the official statements which mark talked about prior to the presentation that will detail all of the different elements an investor should be aware of if they were going to invest in the mta. that brings us

and also have put in place the property of contract to maintain to be aware in the rfp active to seek proposal before the temporary terminal site is transformed into two housing sites, block four which you heard about today. block two which is an ocii100% affordable housing site and block 3 which will be a future city public park. so this is an incredibly important critical path and milestone to have achieved and excited to report that to you today. on the other interesting thing that occurred is that as of january 5, the ren con point south beach redevelopment plan expired after four years. it was initially adopted on january 5, 1981 and the 115-redevelopment project was proposed to two noncontinuous geographic areas and ren con point and south beach. at the time much of the area was characterized by dilapidated warehouses and with that time with the development. and with the revenue and tax increment financing by the former redevelopment agency. and over 2,000 residential units are constructed and with this project and land use jurisdiction has now expired and helped us complete the