>>> good afternoon, my time is tony rodriguez. we do work in online bay area counties. i've done this position for 11 years. for 11 years, i've dealt with project labor all over the bay area. they've worked for 11 years and people keep coming back to do them. when you all stood in front and said how great this was for the workers, we could haverr.nnnnns nezt::::::(vb we weren't fast tracking. the last thing i'll say is in union, contractors that are signatory to our union. i've been in my union for 35 yea years. 31 of those contractors were formal workers who decided to go into business for themselves. they were making a living, decided to stay union. when i hear about small contractors or small businesses, it all works. it's a protection for the workers is what the pla is about. anybody who is against the pla is really wanting to continue to abuse and take advantage of the workers. i think everyone here really said they were for protecting the workers when we presented this. thank you. >>> thank you for your comments. next speaker? >>> good afternoon, supervisors. happ

with us now is the mayor of brownsville, tony martinez, and the city's chief of police, orlando rodriguez that this enormous children's shelter was powerless to stop kids from just walking out the door? can you guys hear me? >> i can hear you. >> okay, so chief, let me ask you that same question. did you know that kids were allowed to just leave if they chose to do so? >> actually, no. this is kind of a surprise to me and to my department. that's not the information that we had. but we have it now, which was -- we found it to be a little bit interesting because we got a call yesterday and that of course started things in motion. but now we do know that that is the policy. >> what can you tell us about this boy who went missing from the shelter? >> well, we do know that he was a 15-year-old boy that was actually placed here pending establishing of relatives here in north texas. which apparently he was being held here in this holding facility. it's more -- we see it now as a placement facility where he was awaiting the outcome of his petition to be placed here. when that didn't work out, we