we're 52% participation, 36% of the project is wbe and another 16% is -- wbe. very significant goals and as you guys know from my work in city hall, it's something very near and deer to our heart so we're proud to be walking the walk on the development side of this issue. of course we have future phases of participation to focus on once we hire a contractor and get into the contracting side, but i think we've set the bar very high. i'm not going to introduce every member of the consultant team, but maybe they can all stand up so we can see we're represented here by a lot of our team. you can sit back down. the second thing i wanted to say, as mentioned, but katherine, we are not talking about the hotel today. we have sold the hotel to a developer called stanford hotels. they're going to be developing the design of that hotel consistent with the major phase approval that we received from you last year. we're excited about the comprehensive neighbor for the designs of our site and think there's lots of good synergy there. the third thing i'd r eel say is while we

paid to non-lbe primes and subs and then again, i broke it out by different categories and mbe and wbe to break out the lbe prime subcompliment, okay? and i talk a little bit about the dpw out reach to the community and we have been partnering and i know that you will hear from the puc about the contractor's assistance center and first of all we participated in the monitoring vendor fair in 2013 and we got a lot of interest and got to interact with a lot of local business enterprises and our focus this year is on microlbes and you will see that in the next slide and we were doing a lot of out reach and focus on educating micros, to be primes because that is a problem, especially in the construction realm a lot are used to be subs and i will talk about that in a second and we conducted that public works, microlbe town hall in november of 2013 and we had a great turn out for that and following up ever since with the microto get them in the mix for the contract awards and i worked with the puc staff on avoiding bidding pitfalls and we did a workshop back in i guess that it was in april, a

i guess my question is, wbe, mbe are those subsets of sbe numbers or are those reported differently? >> you're referring to the -- >> general. yeah. >> they're part of the sbe. they're subset of the sbes. >> okay. >> it's the same dollar threshold so the former agency and even the city had a program in diversity that was based on mbe and wbe post prop 209 it's been inclusive of mbe and wee and the city followed suit with their 14b. >> i was confused on that, but thanks for the clarification. the second question i had was i read something in the memo about qualifying for sbe and the agency is no longer doing that. can you talk about that? >> there used to be a certification staff that certifies small businesses and prior to that women and minority businesses because of staff reduction, what is currently practiced now because of terms that have been certified by other governmental entities. when you go through a verification process to ensure the threshold is still met. i'll give you an example. the state of california department of general services does certify small businesses for st

million and non-lbe subs were 9.1 and you will see the break out below again of the specific mbe and wbe categories. now, that was awards, and so the distinction is awards verses payments. so me the money, so the next slide is the total payments of about 5.4 million dollars. of that, 4.1 million was paid to prime and i mean, lbe primes and subs and so they combined those numbers and 1., approximately, 1.2 million were paid to non-lbe primes and subs and then again, i broke it out by different categories and mbe and wbe to break out the lbe prime subcompliment, okay? and i talk a little bit about the dpw out reach to the community and we have been partnering and i know that you will hear from the puc about the contractor's assistance center and first of all we participated in the monitoring vendor fair in 2013 and we got a lot of interest and got to interact with a lot of local business enterprises and our focus this year is on microlbes and you will see that in the next slide and we were doing a lot of out reach and focus on educating micros, to be primes because that is a problem, espec

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now total 90 business he that start ups, entrepreneurs, small businesses including mbes and wbes. along with our signature events like the treasure island music festival, the treasure island dragon day festival and treasure island flea market, thousands more people are drawn to treasure island annually as a recreation destination. visitors come from italy, football, rug by, soccer, [speaker not understood] tournaments as well as anchor and sail along clipper cove. when they come they patronize our restaurants and food trucks. you recall, supervisor breed, treasure island is indeed a food desert. now visitors and residents alike can enjoy dinner out on the island and purchase their groceries, too. the increase in commercial revenue has allowed tida to maintain its overall revenue constant over the years. in turn, we can continue to deliver services to the residents. in the past -- this past year we opened up a nurse intervention clinic. we improved our emergency program plans and we improved the viability of other utilities. the immediate focus of staff is the board of supervisors