and has advertised bids for all the subcontracting opportunities and that is what that what was about. supervisor avalos: has that contractor also been subject to our local hire ordinance through other works projects in san francisco, to your knowledge? >> that is an interesting conversation. i am not sure if they have been subject to the local ordinance. they have been working with oewd on the export-oriented -- exploratorium pier project. one of the things that was impressive about this general contractor is the came in the door saying, we will meet all the 20% local hiring goals, including in the specialized trades and they had already hired 15 different city build academy graduates that are working on that project. they intend to move over to the pier 30-32 project and have included their numbers in their projects which they submitted. >>supervisor avalos: it is important to make a case. it looks like they could apply their services for other projects in san francisco. we would have a different standard for america's cup. it would be good if liquidated damages would apply to both.

than that is these hotel workers, they actually, the hyatt terminated the contract with their subcontractedkers and this happened 10 days after, as you said, a group of workers had filed a historic lawsuit that could be worth up to $10 million in back wages for these people and so we felt that it was important to take to the streets today and to let the hyatt know the community is angry about the recent decision to throw the workers outed. these are the women who clean the rooms, who cook the food t wash the dishes. we think that sends a bad message. >> i have stayed that hyatt, one of the most popular hotels. it doesn't have a cash flow problem. how has the hyatt justified what it's doing? >> the hyatt is one of the largest hotel corporations in the world, and yet part of the problem is that here in indianapolis there are currently no unionized hotels the largest american city without a unionized hotel and compared to other similar sized midwestern cities they make 2 3, find an hour and without any union rep presentation the hyatt is able to get away with quite a bit and so they have been

additionally, we want to be including in the least we are presenting back to you, a clause that any subcontracts with the pga or first tee of san francisco would not require the city's approval. just to make sure there is none of the conflict, we will review any contract for services provided or any other golf course operators and the city attorney has advised us that we can proceed. >> was it the city attorney's recommendation that you take the extra step of transparency? >> yes. they did not feel it was required, but thought it was advisable. >> we to have public comment. -- we do have public comment go ahead and start. >> my whole speech is on there. >> just start and they will. >> i am back again to bring to your attention the issues on the overhead having to do with conflicts and i would like to read what the issues are. the city attorney has not resolved the problems i brought up. we have a possible commingling of purchases that are going to go through the pga tour to tournament players. let me start with the beginning issue. they are romancing -- have contracted for a managing agreement.

additionally, we want to be including in the least we are presenting back to you, a clause that any subcontracts with the pga or first tee of san francisco would not require the city's approval. just to make

human rights commission to establish a minimum goal of 25% participation for construction at subcontracting, and it established a 30% for all event activities. all of the vendors and service providers and suppliers. the event authority is and will continue to complete very proactive steps to make sure that the san francisco business, in general, and small local businesses specifically know about, have access to, and actively participate in the event authorities contracting processes. the event authority is engaged in ongoing business outreach, and it is connecting with firms that reflect the entire makeup of the city. to date, they have met with over 40 different neighborhood merchants associations, the ethic -- ethnic chambers of commerce, stakeholders, and they have established an easy online portal, onto which over 800 businesses have already registered, so the event authority knows about them and their interest in working with the america's cup event. and moving forward, they are creating a procurement planting that is going to identify all of the contacting opportunities, and i am part

>> we had welton beckett subcontracted to italian contractors. we had the buck minister fuller was very generous, let one of his top colleagues come up with other ideas and they expanded his idea, and anodized the aluminum gold color, 75 feet high and could hold about 5000 people standing up watching the exhibits and things like that. it was, don't you think, tanya, enormous? >> wasn't jake macy involved? >> he was the usia, brilliant coordinator of this exhibition. and jack did a terrific job. >> did we get as much space from the soviets as we asked for? >> we gotten acre site and they got the coliseum in the heart of new york. it was easier for new yorkers to get but we had we had six months to build the exhibition, eisenhower was so interested in it that he arranged for mcclellan reporting to the secretary of commerce, to report to him. that gave it a lot of clout. and mcclellan was smart, he said at that time we're in the middle of the cold war, all the communications are highly encoded, he said to the state department i want no encoding of a

his script from which he has to decide his lines was written by germany germany has effectively subcontract of the and mr johnson in particular the task of imposing onto greece these days the measures the berlin example but the i.m.f. does not believe it is the measures so this is christine lagarde is making some quite notable and interesting speeches that are going against the kind of medicine the grease is applying to the patient and his mrs thompson is caught between those two. places the worse mindsets one is out of it of his bosses in washington and the other is the germany does it which is contracted mrs domes to affect policy is a bit of dom's nose are quite poisonous not only for greece but more generally poor of the global economy ok now this is eight are saying they are the bureaucrats in brussels have just found another fifteen billion euro black hole greece. there seems to be a recurring theme how many more black holes do you expect to be found in great financial universe before it's all over it really depends on whether germany is ready to let the eurozone go. germany has not.

they subcontracted to some italian contractors. we had the buck minister fuller dome. buck minister fuller, i think, was very generous. he let one of his top colleagues come up with other ideas, and they expanded his idea and anodized the aluminum gold color. and it was 75 feet high and could hold about 5,000 people standing up watching the exhibits and things like that. it was, don't you think, tanya, it was just enormous? >> wasn't jake macy involved? >> no. jack macy was the usia. and he was a brilliant coordinator of this exhibition. and jack did a really terrific job. >> did we get as much space from the soviets as we asked for? this looks like -- >> we got ten-acre site and they got the coliseum in the heart of new york. it was easier for new yorkers to get there. but sokolniki and mcclellan warned me, we had only six months to build this exhibition. one of the things that happened, eisenhower was so interested in it that he arranged for mcclellan, who was reporting to the secretary of commerce, to report to him. that gave it a lot of clout. and mcclellan was ver

provide adequate care, but have we looked at the cost comparisons for using our own facilities were subcontracted and private facilities? >> a lot of work contracts are with other -- we have a mix of private and public in that sense, not just federally operated facilities. we are always looking at cost and bad cost and availability as we make these determinations. >> the cox comparison between the contractor facilities? >> undoubtedly they are on a project by project basis because they compete for contracts. whether there is something overall that looks private versus public, that i do not know. >> i would appreciate that information. thank you. i yield back. >> i recognize the gentle lady from texas, ms. jackson lee for five minutes. >> that me thank the ranking member and secretary for visiting lone star college in houston. they expressed their appreciation. i am also very happy of the disaster aid increase in the president's budget and i would ask on the record for someone in the department for some issues that are still going on in houston, texas that are still going on. if i could get that,

to the cruise line simply because, while they sell the excursions to the passengers, then they subcontracto tour -- it rests with the local cruise line. i would be surprised if there wasn't one in each excursion, not just mexico, but italy and everywhere else. >> what does this mean for them and what can they do in mexico? >> believe it or not, they're expecting 52 million tourists this year. that number has not gone down. it's gone up. the only place it's gone down is -- keep in mind, if you look at the incidents, the number of incidents that are happening, the overwhelming statistics, the numbers are in passengers' favor. not a problem for most americans going to mexico. >> you would think the cruise lines would want to come together and figure out how to improve their public image. >> listen, they're probably in that meeting as we're speaking. bottom line, they are. they have to figure out a way around this. simply because it's a powerful image when someone takes a photograph of a gunman on a bus and they have to deal with that. once again, you have to put it in perspective about the nu

>> the man worked for a construction company subcontracted to toshiba. officials at toshiba have declined to comment. >>> japan has 54 nuclear power reactors. only two of them are running, and they're due to be stopped for inspections. the economy minister says electricity prices may rise nationwide unless more reactors are started. >>> he said continued dependence on thermal power plants could push up electricity bills because of rising fuel costs. >> translator: considering the supply and demand, i believe we need to restart nuclear plants once we have confirmed their >> tokyo electric has already said that it plans to raise electricity prices for corporate users. >>> an earthquake that jolted a nation. a tsunami that swallowed a coastline. a nuclear plant that spiralled out of control. japan marks the first anniversary of the march 11 disaster. what lessons have been learned? find out on "newsline." starting monday, march 5th, then sunday, join us at 2:00 p.m. japan time for lessons from march 11th, one year on. >>> there's been violence between pales