and i want to personally thank the sfcta and its staff for taking a bold stand in regard to setting a solid dbe goal. for this contract, and more importantly for sort of sticking to their principles and in their review of the good faith effort, put forth by the apparent initial low bidder on this important project. thank you to golden state bridge for understanding that there was more than enough dbe talent within san francisco and the bay area to exceed the goal. my hope is that cal transis watching and my belief is that they are watching the leadership of the sfcta on this project and let's get these dbe businesses to work on this project providing jobs. so, thank you again. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker? >> good morning, chair. president, and commissioner. my name is durk butler and i am the chair of the executive committee of the san francisco african american construction committee and i would like to say that we are excited to be here to support this project and the direction of the agency. we are tirelessly fighting the issue of low bidding, and at low bidding against

and in closing i believe that it is in the best interest of sfcta to award the contract to state bridge contractors for this particular project. as the lowest responsible bidder for this project as it was stated before me. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good morning. my name is louis and i am the president of municon consultants and this is a homecoming for me and we have been in business for 23 years and one of the notable projects is 850 rolls of film photographing the san francisco city hall retrofit. we have had a long and favorable relationship with many of the contractors in san francisco and in the bay area. we have over 20 years of association with our friends brian, and dave, at golden state. these are people who have taken the time to make relationships which is probably a real factor in why they were able to meet the goal of 13 percent. they believe in the system and they believe in the programs. you mentioned why were there only three bidders, there is a lot of work out there, people are busy. it really at this point in time ta

you'll recall on april 30, 2013 the commission authorized a personal services contract with the sfcta in an amount not to exceed $365,000 for the off ramp realignment. they have now submitted it to cal-trans. if the agreement is approved staff anticipated the start of construction in mid 2014. the off ramp realignment is a major implementation agreement between ocii and transbay powers authority. if we could get the projector going i seal i'll show you what it looks like today. staff is requesting authorization hard and soft costs for a turnkey delivery of the realigned off ramp and the total cost is estimated to be $2.833 million which includes hard cost, project reserves, construction management services and other construction support costs as detailed in the table attached to the staff memorandum. zip since the project will not bid until early 2014 is awarded contract price will not be known until the spring of 2014 and the staff will provide an update to the commission at the time, but we need an agreement now prior to the issuing of those bid documents. my staff is also proposing

authority, most small businesses and most businesses do not know that there is a san francisco sta, the sfcta the county transportation agency but they don't understand, the distinction between the two. and i think that one of the unfortunate things for the sfmta is that once the county transportation project plans are shifted over, to the sfmta staff, to and the department to implement, and your staff goes out and reaches out to the business community, and they end up getting, i think, some of the wrath of the lack of out reach that the cta has done in those business areas and so there is a great amount of frustration from the businesses because those are heavy and subnative projects that have said, why didn't we know about this a year ago? i could have made plans. you know? i just renewed my lease and maybe i would have moved. so that we need to, we want to work with you to work with the cta and i know that director reiskin has said that he in communication and talking to chang to improve communications. but i think that there is an opportunity for all of us to be working together to do the