thank you. >> stanley chan, followed by oren hellstrom [sounds like]. >> my name is stanley chan, president of value fire protection. we have been operating out of san francisco for 25 years. we have many projects in sfo, puc, parks and rec and so on. we are familiar with many agencies in san francisco. i want to share with you my very unpleasant and outrageous experience with mta in my experience. to summarize our company was poised to become a second-tier subcontractor to a first-tier subcontractor. upon learning that our first tier got the job, two hours later they called us back to say tutor found a way to satisfy the sbe requirements him or somewhere else so they don't need us more. six months of work went down the drain; years of contact with the prime contractor went down the drain. this project is huge, 840 million dollars. i urge not to move forward for the following reasons. it sets a dangerous precedent to ignore chapter 14 lbe ordinance which many supervisors have supported. all other supervisors support it. two, it ignores the impact of the local economy that could be generated

thank you. >> stanley chan, followed by oren hellstrom [sounds like]. >> my name is stanley chan, president of value fire protection. we have been operating out of san francisco for 25 years. we have many projects in sfo, puc, parks and rec and so on. we are familiar with many agencies in san francisco. i want to share with you my very unpleasant and outrageous experience with mta in my experience. to summarize our company was poised to become a second-tier subcontractor to a first-tier subcontractor. upon learning that our first tier got the job, two hours later they called us back to say tutor found a way to satisfy the sbe requireme

>> julie choy, stanley chan and -- last speaker. >> good afternoon. >> chair nolan, board, director reiskin. i am president of the asian american contractors association, local businesses and construction industry all lbes. i'm here today to talk about the point that chair nolan brought up, the lack of participation of

>> julie choy, stanley chan and -- last speaker. >> good afternoon. >> chair nolan, board, director reiskin. i am president of the asian american contractors association, local businesses and construction industry all lbes. i'm here today to talk about the point that chair nolan brought up, the lack of participation of local san francisco-based contractors. i went through my e-mail archives to see her respondents about this project. it goes back to 2008, there with me as i go through some of the e-mails that i found . in march 2008, sfmta started to reach local businesses and provide a network, in april 2008, the asian american architects and engineers, and the asian-american contractors association began to work with carter rohan and mr. fungi discuss this project to make sure local businesses get a part of this project. in september 2008, mr. fungi met with our association to discuss the opportunity to unbundling the project and our chance to participate .in 2008 there were more financial management seminars; in 2009, the former president of our association sent a letter to nathaniel ford