SFPUC continues small business partnership with 2nd Construction Contractors Breakfast

San Francisco- Today, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) will announce the appointment of a new Local Business Enterprise (LBE) Advisory Committee at a Constructions Contractors Breakfast on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007.  The LBE Advisory Committee will assist the agency in its efforts to provide meaningful business opportunities to small, locally based construction companies throughout the SFPUC’s water service territory.

“This seasoned advisory committee will enable our agency to attract the Bay Area’s best and brightest small and local businesses to join us in strengthening of our regional water system,” said SFPUC General Manager Susan Leal. “We must take responsibility for providing more opportunities to local businesses.  It’s good for our ratepayers. It’s good for our economy.  And it’s good for local small business.”

On Tuesday, May 22, 2007, the LBE Advisory Committee will be introduced at the SFPUC’s 2nd Annual Construction Contractors Breakfast to all of the City’s small business representatives.  The annual breakfast will take place in the Green Room of San Francisco’s War Memorial Building at 401 Van Ness Avenue from 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

The LBE Advisory Committee was formed through amendments to the City’s Administrative Code section 14B in 2006, and is comprised of knowledgeable professionals with construction industry experience in local business and job development.  They are broadly representative of the SFPUC’s service territory hailing from the Bay Area Peninsula to Yosemite.  Members include Estela Tarano, Manager, Organizational Development and Training Programs, Santa Clara Valley Water District; Marie McKenzie, Redevelopment Manager, City of East Palo Alto; Moses de los Reyes, Contract Compliance Administrator and Disadvantaged Business Liaison Officer, Alameda County Public Works Agency; Tom McGinley, Executive Director, Peninsula Builders’ Exchange; and Lucille Palmer Byrd, Secretary-Treasurer, Building and Construction Trades Council of Stanislaus, Merced, Tuolomne and Mariposa Counties.