i'm stanley chan. i'm speaking on behalf of asian american contractor association as well as value fire protection. i'd like the city -- i want to say the city needs to set consistent policies and goals to keep san francisco's construction dollars here in san francisco. we need to set policies and goals so that all city departments will strictly adhere to and make accountable -- be made accountable. i'd like to speak about my terrible experience with the sfmta, mta anyway. we teamed up with -- a first tier contractor to bid on the job on the subway, and we were successful bid to [speaker not understood]. but for some reason our contract was torn up. they kept the first tier prime and threw our bid out. we spent a lot of time working on the bid and it will take away a few years of work in the future from us. we need to regard the importance of benefits for the local economy that can be generated from participants [speaker not understood]. the way we let it go the way it stands, this mta is about to awar

chan, and let me call up other speakers. ~ [speaker not understood]. fred jordan. diana [speaker not understood]. stanley chu. [speaker not understood]. and [speaker not understood]. and each member of the public will have two minutes for public comment. mr. chan. >>> president chiu, members of the committee, thank you very much for this opportunity to address you. i'm here on behalf of the council of american asian byness associations it represents member asians and [speaker not understood] here in the bay area. today you're going to hear from diverse hard working byness owner how our city's contracting law serves as values, such as [speaker not understood] in procurement of goods and services and the promotion of smart economic development policies that not only keep our city's dollars closer to help but help to [speaker not understood]. 35 years ago when my unemployed father had some years before started an auto parts business with a loan from the very pregnant wife of $132, one day he asked me to tag along with him to deliver some parts after a city-owned vehicle yard at third street. upon arrival, my dad