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Government to expand and meet the demand that we have been talking about. We recently got a transit performance grant from mtc to improve service on some of the heavily traveled lines. We have 62 new buses. I think half of them are here and the entire bus fleet will be replaced within the next five years. Thanks to your leadership we got prop b passed and smoothing streets and pedestrian and bike infrastructure and also has funds for traffic signal infrastructure. But as you mentioned we have a ...

Budget and timeline so we can properly set the public expectations like the library and hospital projects and the rec and park projects. Thank you. And just a i guess we are tag teaming today and follow up on the issue of project delivery. I mean i will be the first to advocate that as important as our political process is that at times we allow the political process to go on with no end in sight and repeat itself and decisions never become public and shown with the major drama around a modest p...

Community engagement is effective but there is factors outside of what we can manage as an industry that impact the timelines but its something were focused on and want to make sure whatever resources we have whether from the federal government, the State Government or regionally or locally we put them into the ground and benefit the Transportation System directly. I appreciate your focus on this. We had so many transit related projects from Market Street to the subway and various other projects...

As well so were trying to be effective and smart in planning for the ceqa process and the Community Engagement is effective but there is factors outside of what we can manage as an industry that impact the timelines but its something were focused on and want to make sure whatever resources we have whether from the federal government, the State Government or regionally or locally we put them into the ground and benefit the Transportation System directly. I appreciate your focus on this. We had so...

And can take two years and the ceqa process can be in the way as well so were trying to be effective and smart in planning for the ceqa process and the Community Engagement is effective but there is factors outside of what we can manage as an industry that impact the timelines but its something were focused on and want to make sure whatever resources we have whether from the federal government, the State Government or regionally or locally we put them into the ground and benefit the Transportati...

Deadlines and budgets slip and i appreciate your focus on this. To the extent of all of the projects we can continue to publicly put our goals out, put our schedules out, and budgets out and when we slip know there is real accountability in the departments. Anything that you can do to provide more transparency and accountability would deal with the frustration that the public and many of us feel with the projects that dont meet the deadlines. Understood and with the Capital Improvement committee...

Wondering how do we evaluate, or measure the value, that they get from these, are there reports that come back . How do we know kind of that were that this is a good investment of project resources. Yeah, so they have been with us for a long time. And these are just extending their contracts, the way that we measure, any contract is based on performance. And have they delivered . And mannet and chamber and conoln were able to help us get the 400 million, through the reeninvestment act and helped...

Absolutely. And we can bring steve hump hreys up if he would like to join me, but in reality, the next great opportunity for picking up the float is once we get that particular contractor started on site, that is where we can use a judicious amount of over time and effect the Critical Path activity and the key right now is to get the decisions and the approvals made in the middle process, so we keep the mill order on track for the structural steel and that is the zero float. And we have meeting ...

Extended there is a small increase for the last two option years and it is a monthly retainer so that does not mean that we get a statement of the hours . And one of them, and just a trait line, although there is a weekly call and so we do know what they are doing on a weekly basis and the other one does detail out the hours to some extent. Okay. Thank you. And sorry. And director sartipi . Just to piggy back on the question and with respect to the advocacy. Do they do any analysis of any federa...

Month for the first three years and up to 12,500 for the next two option years and if it were extended there is a small increase for the last two option years and it is a monthly retainer so that does not mean that we get a statement of the hours . And one of them, and just a trait line, although there is a weekly call and so we do know what they are doing on a weekly basis and the other one does detail out the hours to some extent. Okay. Thank you. And sorry. And director sartipi . Just to pigg...